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Nintendo Switch 2 Makes Sales History · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Welcome to the Fosters podcast. Great place to play games
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  better. I am I, I am your host.
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  The PC must race. Laurent Dawkins, welcome back to
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  the show. Glad you're here with us.
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  And I'm also glad for my Co host Mr. Patrick Klein.
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  What's up, PK Bauer? Yo I am back again and we are
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  already have a hot show I. Know.
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  Why? I mean, we got we got Eddie all
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  riled up. It's like it's coming in
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  smoking. Like, jeez.
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  Yeah. Like so without.
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  Yeah. So he doesn't need an
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  introduction. But hello Eddie.
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  I would love an introduction still.
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  I think the first, I think the first 6 minutes of the cast like
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  basically was your intro. Everybody, you know, it's your
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  pablok. Papa Eddie V, of course.
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  Gwyneth Council, Nintendo. I'm a big defender.
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  I'm a fan of it. And you know, that's me, that's
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  my company. Yeah, the power block, the power
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  block Papa was popping off. Oh yeah, he was jumping on that
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  grenade. Dare commercial name Shigaro
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  Miyamoto. He's got a shrine of Shigaro
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  Miyamoto back there somewhere. It was like, it was like man,
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  like what was was was his. Finger was was Miyamoto's.
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  Finger on your on your shoulder when you were saying all that.
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  If my I I wouldn't even know what to do.
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  If I met me a model in person, I'm I would I would like are
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  you? Keely with with EDA Kojima,
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  would you be like that? Not on that level, no.
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  Yeah, 'cause 'cause I, I swear Keely, like just humps that
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  man's leg every time. A. 100%.
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  Yeah. And I also want to, I also want
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  to welcome back to the The Boss Rush podcast.
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  A. A.
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  A. Excellent friend of the show and
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  All Star here. Boss Rush, my buddy from the
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  Crossroads podcast show, Mr. Storion Yovich.
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  Welcome back, man. It's good to be back, It's good
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  to be back hanging out with you guys, and it's good to be just
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  razzing Eddie again as just like the old days, getting them going
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  about like Nintendo messed up with those Switch game key
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  cards. What's up with that, Eddie?
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  Then talk about Super Mario 3D All Stars.
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  And then we we watched the we watched the MPD list or whatever
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  it is now and for Missu to show the sales that the ganky car
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  stuff still selling so. Well, I tell you, I tell you
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  what, for all listeners and viewers out there, we're going
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  to get a lot done here in two hours or less than tonight
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  because we're going to, we're going to rain that Eddie V guy
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  in tonight. Yes, yes.
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  Yeah, Yeah. You know what?
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  Yeah. Your right story.
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  More I'm just totally reading Corey right now, like even
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  though he hasn't said anything, he could just be like, what what
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  you're making decisions with me. Yeah, like, I mean, yeah, like
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  it it, it's redundant, doesn't put that way.
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  Just put it back. For one show, and now the whole
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  show's. I, I, I run the Nintendo stuff
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  and power block and I'm going to say that.
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  All right. Oh, Congrats on the milestone.
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  Congrats on the milestone. On your YouTube channel, you
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  have 666 subscribers. What's that about that?
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  That sounds like the work of the devil.
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  That's what that sounds like. OK, All right.
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  You know what? You know what, though?
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  Like if we have to like, if we have to like, you know, like go
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  Now. Yeah, right now do it.
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  We're at the crossroads right now.
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  We're about to make that deal. About to make Don't make that
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  deal. Did some Did somebody say
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  crossroads the. Old days.
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  You gentleman doing OK tonight? Yeah.
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  We're ready to have some fun, Eddie.
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  You good? Yeah, it's just been just been
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  working like 1516 hour days for the past week and a half.
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  A lot of stuff, you know. Yeah, a lot of stuff you.
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  Basically doing open the closes, is that what you're doing?
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  Yeah, what the heck? Yeah, man, There's a lot of
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  stuff happened at one of our stores and so their store
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  manager requested me to be there and help out.
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  It was a very serious incident and our store got pulled in
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  because it was stuff that we didn't know.
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  And so yeah, now that that's kind of like slowly passing
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  away, going away. I probably would have a regular
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  schedule in the coming weeks, but right now I'm just like
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  super, super busy. Like and and for like super busy
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  to give you all examples. I am going at 7:30 in the
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  morning and I'm not back to like 12 AM midnight.
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  You can't live like that, man. I know.
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  Not not for long. At least but these, but these
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  Nintendo Switch two games, it's not going to pay for themselves.
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  I suppose those game key cards aren't going to pay for
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  themselves. That and that PS5 Pro that's
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  still waiting for me along with Xbox games.
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  Yeah, that Xbox handheld coming out soon, Yeah.
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  I'm good with my Series XS Switch 2.
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  Yeah, that's fair. We.
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  Just can't take it to bed. Yeah, you can't sleep with your
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  PS5 Pro, Eddie. Or maybe you can, I don't know.
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  Maybe you can. I'm black.
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  I'm. Like I'm like this, I'm black.
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  We go fall asleep to a lot of things and he's.
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  Like I beg to differ. Right, Laurent goes to bed with
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  his PC every night. Who?
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  You go to bed with your PC every night.
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  You mean my ROG? Ally.
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  Yeah, there you go. Yeah, dude, I just picked up the
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  rogue Ally X. Yeah, that's what.
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  I. Have and that thing is.
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  That's how I'm playing. That's how I'm playing
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  Expedition 33 right now. You.
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  Playing with headphones, getting lost in the music.
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  No. No I haven't.
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  I have a blasting pretty loud. OK.
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  Or are you playing, are you like did you hook it up to the TV?
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  Have you? Do you have a dock for it?
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  I have a dock for it but I I've never hooked it up.
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  Oh you never OK? I was always curious if I should
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  get one and if it looks OK on ATV.
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  Like the like the dock, the main person for the dock is for me to
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  be able to like hook up peripherals or or like a thumb
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  drive to like transfer content and stuff like that.
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  OK. And also is it and also use and
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  also use the Ethernet Jack because I what I usually do is
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  I'll just turn it on and remote into it to do like whatever work
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  I need to do on it. Is it Bluetooth for hair foils?
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  The. Rugged it is.
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  Yeah, it is. Steam deck.
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  Also I wonder how many people actually do Bluetooth headphones
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  for like I do I do it I. Do.
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  It I do. Yeah, I do it for my switch.
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  Yeah, I have AI, have APS 5 Portal and I have the Elite
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  headset that comes with the dongle that you have to plug
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  into the PS5. So I use that, but I plug it, I
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  plug the dongle into my PS5 and I just mute the PlayStation
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  Portal and I'm still able to hear the sound like that's the
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  problem. My action, That's the five.
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  That's the PlayStation headphones, right?
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  Yeah, the PlayStation headphones.
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  They said that was that 1 is really really good the
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  headphones for. The Yeah, it's a good pair of
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  headphones. Yeah, that's that's on my list
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  to get. I I got to give it to Sony for
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  their headphones. Like I feel like they have some
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  of the best quality and sound for their headphones.
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  It's so. They got good tech, they got
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  good tech. Yeah.
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  On with the show. Yeah.
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  Cool, cool. Cool.
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  All right, well, we're going to go and break into our first
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  topic. I don't have any particular
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  order that we need to go in, so who wants to go first?
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  Oh God, well I think I will go first because my is not too long
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  and I kind of want to hear what you guys think.
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  My topic is summer video games you jam with.
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  The summer is almost upon us and with the Nintendo Switch to
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  release it's time to get out the snacks, fans, and most of all
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  some of our favorite games of the past that we like to play or
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  find in the summer. From NES to now, summer is
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  usually a slow time for new releases, which allows us to get
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  into our backlog or play some games that we have heard about
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  but not giving but not get given a chance yet.
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  So I kind of want to ask you guys, are there some like games
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  that you do enjoy in the summer? Or maybe it's your backlog and
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  stuff? Like for me, I love playing
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  Super Metroid and Street Fighter two because I remember, oh, in
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  NBA gym, because I remember being at my grandma house over
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  the summer and my cousin had the Super Nintendo there.
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  And so I would play Super Metroid and Street Fighter two
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  over there, learning the games and and like learning where to
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  go and exploring and stuff. And so when I think of like, you
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  know, games I love the gym with in the summer, those two come up
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  now that we have like in a Soul and the Street Fighter
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  collection, I could go back and play those games that I used to
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  play in the summer. So I kind of want to ask you
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  guys, are there any games that you guys like to gym with?
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  Like any games that that you particularly love to play in the
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  summer or anything? Oh yes, and some people are
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  probably going to be like. Oh, this guy is a sadist.
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  Ghouls and ghosts. You are a sadist.
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  I'm going to. I'm going to chill, kick back my
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  feet, relax and play some ghouls and ghosts.
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  Actually in my in my in my personal opinion, I think Ghouls
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  and Ghosts is the is actually the easiest out of the entire
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  like franchise. Which which version?
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  Which? Version.
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  In the arcade version. Arcade or Sega Dreamcast
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  version? I'm not, I'm sorry.
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  Sega's Genesis version. Sega Genesis version.
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  Oh, that's the one, isn't it? The.
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  Genesis. The Genesis version.
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  No Genesis version. It's easier.
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  Really, that was the hardest. One yeah, well, no, we're you're
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  thinking super ghouls and ghosts from the from the Super NES that
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  I think in my in my opinion, that is that was the hardest one
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  until we had watch Mccallick come out the the the one that
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  came out on the on the switch in the PC.
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  What resurrection? Ghosts and goblins?
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  Was it Ghosts and goblins resurrection or?
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  Was it? Yeah, Yeah.
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  Ghosts and goblins resurrection. Cause who?
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  That one's challenging. I tried to, I tried to play that
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  one and I was like what the? Hell.
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  Yeah. And I also include the Maximo
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  games in that because like they were, they were, they were
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  basically like, I'm not going to say tributes to to ghosts and
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  goblins, but there was a lot of ghosts and goblins in that, in
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  that games, in those two games. DNA.
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  Man, I picked up those. I picked up the the PS2 games
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  recently. I should.
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  That's on my stack of like games I want to get to, and that stack
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  is getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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  You got a backlog for your backlog.
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  Yeah, exactly. So that's what I do.
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  Actually. My summer is usually like, I'll
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  start pulling games from, you know, just like, Oh yeah, I
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  remember buying this like over the winter.
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  I remember buying this a few months ago.
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  Let me get into this again. So I I go back to the retro, I
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  go back to the classics, while also trying to fight the urge to
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  play Matt the Mass Effect series again and again.
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  Well, that's, that's another summertime like, like, like gym,
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  I mean. You know, you play comfort food
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  games, you know, you play these games.
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  That's just like, OK, all right, maybe it's summer.
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  It's time for relaxing, you know, chill vibes.
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  I want to play something that, you know, is like going to make
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  me feel good about that. I don't know.
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  Yeah, yeah. No, I'm.
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  I'm OK. All right, all right, all right.
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  Well another game I always catch myself playing from time to time
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  is the GBA Super Mario 2. Like I I just love that game for
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  some stranger. Well, I always like Super Mario
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  Brothers. 3 Isn't that the one? No, no, no, no.
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  No, no, no. Super Super Mario Brothers 2 the
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  one where you you actually pick up like plants and throw them.
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  That's the original Super Mario Advance.
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  Oh, this? Is that?
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  Mario Dance What's the Mario Brothers 3?
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  I just call it Super. I just call it Super Mario
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  Brothers 2 because that's the game it is.
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  I don't understand why they did that by the way.
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  It's through the order. Completely Oh, it was called
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  Okie Dokie Panic in Japan. Yeah, I know.
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  I yeah, I know. And it wasn't even like a Mario
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  game. No, it wasn't.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that.
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  I mean, if we're, if we're doing, if you're doing these
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  blasts, blasts to the to the past.
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  Let me see, from the NES era alone.
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  Yeah, from the era alone. Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man two and
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  three. What else?
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  Shoot Bonnie Commando. And PS3 and 360 version bio
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  commando. I do like the PS3 three 360
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  version of buying image code. It was, I think.
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  OK, OK, I'm not. It was.
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  Good. It was OK.
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  Let's let's let's make sure it's this, this no.
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  No. No, we're talking the PS3
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  version. We're talking about the actual
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  sequel. Not reloaded, are you?
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  Are you? Oh wait, were you talking about
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  Reloaded? I was I was talking about the 3D
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  the. Oh, real.
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  Wait, Yeah, yeah, the yeah, the one where, Yeah, the one where
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  he had the where maybe he basically.
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  Had the arm and then you know the there was the big they took
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  it Wheeler at the end they. Took it away from him, though.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one.
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  I'm I, I love that. I like you.
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  Like that one, Everybody didn't like that one.
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  Yeah. This is like you hit because
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  like you hit part of the gas and you lose health and that was
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  such. A genius mechanic, Eddie.
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  Yeah, yeah. No, that game I just wanted.
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  To make sure. That game was good that that.
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  That game's a classic in my opinion.
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  Yeah, I thought the swinging was about as fun as at the best, I
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  think up until that point. And plus you, you got to do so
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  much with that arm, like, I mean, like just grabbing like
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  like people and like slinging them off the freaking world and
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  all this to come on, man, Spider man.
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  Before Spider Man came out, Bionic Commando walked so Spider
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  Man for the PS4 and five could run.
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  Yeah. I will fight anybody on that.
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  Yeah, even way back in the day, like the NES version of buying
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  Commando. I mean, for real.
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  Like game was a classic. What?
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  Was what's yours? You know what, I got too many
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  new games coming out that I it's going to be hard to actually try
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  to hit the backlog this year. Like you got Death Stranding
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  coming out in 2 weeks. That game's going to take time.
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  Oh yeah. I'm, I'm tempering, I'm
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  tempering myself like, I mean, like right now, clear, obscure
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  Exhibition 33 is like, is like my current game, you know?
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  And then, and then I'll finally get back on the Final Fantasy 7
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  Remake train 'cause I do want to 'cause I do need to start a
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  rebirth sometime soon here. I I will say, Pat, that I love
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  that box art for Death Strata, too.
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  That box art is really, really nice.
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  That red and white. I'm like, Oh yeah.
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  All right, Kojima, the Gmail productions, I still need to
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  play the game my ex or Sirius X and beat it.
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  You know, Lauren, the nice thing is you can actually be clear
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  obscure in like 30 hours if you wanted to.
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  Oh, that's good you. Can make it last for like 80 to
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  100 hours if you you know. No, no, no, no, I don't.
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  I don't have the patience for that.
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  Like that. That's, that's my, that's my
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  turn off to like RPGs these days, like, like spending, like
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  spending more than 40 hours on them.
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  That's, that's my turn off. It's like.
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  Geeking to the choir right there.
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  Yeah, like, I don't like the, I don't like the idea of like,
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  like pouring my my life into a game.
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  So Persona and Shimmer, government say, are out the
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  window. Pretty much.
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  Well, I mean, I mean, I I'm trying to beat those games as
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  fast as possible. Like I'm going to be serious
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  with you. The longer I play the game, the
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  more likely I am to get to get tired of it.
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  You know, like if it's especially if you're my first
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  run through, you know, and, and it's, and it's not hooking me
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  like, for example, like a game that can play like hours upon
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  hours upon hours is porn fantasy Tactics.
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  You know, of course, Monster Hunter monster is a different
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  league. Monster Monster Hunter Monster
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  Hunter is basically like, I can't, I can't really call it
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  games of service because like the game ends like eventually,
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  eventually, eventually. Capcom's like we're done with
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  this one. Please play the next Monster
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  Hunter game. So you you talking about more
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  games that have the beginning middle, end like a?
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  Yes. Like, yeah, yeah.
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  OK. Yeah, you know, and not and not
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  games that pad their content. You know, I'm not saying Persona
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  does this, but you know, like games that pad their content
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  just for the sake of padding content.
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  Like I mean my my level of gaming.
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  ADD every Assassin's Creed game. Yes, yeah, yeah.
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  My gaming ADD is like to the point where I was like, I will
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  get bored of your game. So like, if your game is not, if
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  your game is not doing anything to push the story along for me,
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  like I'm probably gonna put it down and never beat it.
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  You know, story I I put down Assassin's Creed Shadow.
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  Oh geez, I didn't even get it. Yeah, I.
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  I That's a game that I got to freak out.
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  Work on it, but it's good. It's good, but it's like Lauren
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  says, it's it's padded. Yeah.
• 19:04
  Yeah. That's why clear obscure is such
• 19:08
  a good example of like having meaningful good content while
• 19:14
  also not padding it with junk. You know, just to make it
• 19:17
  longer. Yeah, yeah.
• 19:20
  Right now, right now with my playthrough of Clear Obscura,
• 19:23
  like I am like there's nothing. There's nothing that's saying
• 19:26
  this is wasting my time. The only thing that's wasting my
• 19:27
  time is that I'm getting turned around and lost because I'm one
• 19:31
  of those. I'm one of those gamers now.
• 19:32
  I need a mini map. Yeah, you don't have a mini map
• 19:35
  in this game. Yeah.
• 19:37
  The biggest complaint about the game is there's no mini maps.
• 19:41
  Oh, you know what? Oh, I can't wait.
• 19:42
  I can't wait when we get the stories topic because there's
• 19:44
  something I do want to mention when we get the stories topic
• 19:46
  and it kind of goes this whole mini map thing.
• 19:49
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 19:51
  That's a good one. Actually a good one.
• 19:53
  Yeah, the Gears of War series I did as because during the
• 19:57
  summers I do my backlog blowout. So what it is is that I take
• 20:03
  four games and each game gets two weeks for me to play and
• 20:07
  beat it. After the two weeks happen, I
• 20:10
  move on to the next game and so I did that with the Gears of War
• 20:14
  trilogy. I, I just spent like 6 weeks
• 20:18
  playing all three games and stuff 'cause I have to include
• 20:21
  work and stuff. And so I got through the whole
• 20:25
  Gear trilogy that way and kind of enjoyed the Gear strategy
• 20:28
  'cause I didn't like playing it on 360 with the 360 Sixty
• 20:31
  controller, but it felt good with the Xbox One controller
• 20:34
  when I played it. Yeah, the Xbox controller's a
• 20:37
  good controller. The you're, you're excited for a
• 20:44
  reload it. It's still like kind of
• 20:46
  dumbfounding to me that we're going to see Gears of War on a
• 20:49
  PlayStation coming up soon. Yeah, I I think about, I don't
• 20:56
  know. When you get the raw Galley X,
• 20:59
  you'll have a lot Last of Us on an Xbox system.
• 21:03
  Yeah, you're right, everything is an Xbox.
• 21:08
  Including your PlayStation game. Including your PlayStation.
• 21:11
  Yeah, yeah, Sony's gonna be like shit.
• 21:15
  That's more that's true. That's more according for Sony.
• 21:19
  I mean, everybody benefits. I mean, like, yeah, yeah, like
• 21:22
  Microsoft is making money like shipping Gears of War on the PS5
• 21:25
  and you know, they make money when more people are buying Call
• 21:29
  of Duty on PS5 than they do on Xbox.
• 21:31
  So yeah, but this is what we wanted though.
• 21:33
  We wanted, we wanted one a more cohesive ecosystem in gaming.
• 21:37
  This is what we wanted. Not the Xbox fans, Laurent.
• 21:40
  Yeah, not the Xbox. Fans.
• 21:42
  Yeah, honestly, if it was the if it was the other way around,
• 21:45
  Sony fanboys would be losing their their freaking YEAH 'cause
• 21:47
  Sony fanboys did lose their mind when all these games started
• 21:50
  going to PC. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:53
  Yeah, but you're now going to Xbox.
• 21:55
  And story, remember, remember story?
• 21:57
  You were on the episode of crossovers with me when I said
• 21:59
  Ratchet and Clank Rift apart, We'll be on the PC.
• 22:01
  Remember, you were on that episode with me.
• 22:03
  And somebody fought me in my YouTube comments about that.
• 22:07
  Yeah. But we knew that we knew that
• 22:09
  was happening because Sony said that was part of their strategy
• 22:12
  of bringing their First Friday gangs to PC.
• 22:15
  Yeah, but not Ratchet Clank, not not.
• 22:17
  Ratchet, that was, Yeah. That was too sacred at the time.
• 22:20
  Yeah, yeah. Ripped apart.
• 22:23
  I I had a feeling that it was going, it was going kind of PC
• 22:26
  because wasn't wasn't one of the PCPS fives get games on PC by
• 22:30
  that time or was that just no. The the first one was, I'm not
• 22:36
  saying the first, the very first one was God of War.
• 22:37
  God of War Yeah, yeah. 2018 version, Yeah.
• 22:40
  And I was like, what the hell? Yeah.
• 22:43
  And then Spider Man came out. Spider Man was next, Yeah, like
• 22:46
  Spider Man got, as a matter of fact, it was Spider Man God of
• 22:49
  War. And then they, and then they did
• 22:50
  something really crazy, put Returnal on PC and, and, and
• 22:54
  this is when I was like, OK, like there's a paradigm shift
• 22:56
  going on here because they put, they put a game out there that
• 22:59
  basically sold PS5 systems, you know, and.
• 23:02
  'Cause they're rising like 'cause they're rising and is if
• 23:06
  buffer rises on PC. Both are, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:11
  Horizon was the 4th game. Horizon came, came out after
• 23:14
  they put return on. And I remember there was a big
• 23:18
  promotion too, like you get, if you're building APC, you get you
• 23:20
  get Horizon 0 Dawn for free, like you bought certain AMD
• 23:23
  processors. Because Forbidden W was the next
• 23:26
  one. What is the motorcycle one with
• 23:29
  the zombies? Gone Days Gone was the most was
• 23:32
  the most recent one. Yeah.
• 23:36
  Yeah, actually Days Gone was the most recent one because Spider
• 23:37
  Man 2 came out on PC before. No, no, no, wait, wait, no,
• 23:41
  Spider Man 2 was the most recent one, I think.
• 23:42
  Yeah, it's the most recent one. Days Gone was before that.
• 23:45
  We just got the PS5 upgrade for days gone.
• 23:48
  Yeah. Yep.
• 23:50
  Yeah, because because when Death Strategy came out on PS4, it did
• 23:56
  OK. And I know folks was just like,
• 23:58
  what is this weird game? And then there was complaints
• 24:01
  because it came to PC and did numbers and they're just like,
• 24:05
  what the world? Yeah, I think that was that was
• 24:08
  going on because, uh, I got. People are, people are simple
• 24:11
  when it comes to that stuff, you know, it's all, it's like, it's
• 24:15
  like, OK, so you know, like these would have been the same
• 24:18
  people that are bitching about the fact that, you know, Spider
• 24:20
  Man, Miles Morales and Spider Man 2 are now on Xbox.
• 24:23
  These, these would be the same exact people, you know, Yeah.
• 24:26
  It's just, it's just wild, you know, no, why is God of War not
• 24:29
  on Xbox, you know, and all that stuff.
• 24:31
  Get a damn PC or, or, or save the money and buy a PlayStation.
• 24:35
  It's just that simple. That's why they was like, why
• 24:38
  hi-fi rush it all these other games not on PlayStation.
• 24:41
  It's just like Microsoft, Microsoft.
• 24:45
  Well hi-fi, well wait, hi-fi. Rush just got announced for
• 24:47
  PlayStation though. Didn't.
• 24:49
  It it did, but that time when you're.
• 24:50
  On PlayStation, Yeah. Yeah, but at the time when it
• 24:53
  came out, people was wondering why it wasn't coming to
• 24:56
  PlayStation, and it was. Oh yeah?
• 24:58
  Well, yeah, it was cuz. Hey, we're bringing hi-fi Rush
• 25:00
  to PlayStation. Yeah, we're shutting down the
• 25:02
  studio. Yeah, right.
• 25:04
  Yeah. Yeah, it did they.
• 25:08
  And Psych, we got brought, we're back together again.
• 25:11
  Yeah. Except for the director guy for
• 25:13
  the Eagle Within, We're not. We're not taking him.
• 25:17
  No. Hey Eddie, did you mention, did
• 25:18
  you mention your summer video games at all?
• 25:21
  Yeah, I said. Metroid Street Fighter 2.
• 25:25
  NK games, yeah. I have.
• 25:26
  I have really bad recall. My bad.
• 25:29
  Yeah. Did everybody, did everybody get
• 25:31
  their turn? Pat's got a backlog that has a
• 25:35
  backlog in it. So no, that's.
• 25:37
  You, I swear we've got. My back, Eddie and yeah.
• 25:42
  We've got Eddie and Pat on the same show.
• 25:45
  It was like the Battle of the backlogs.
• 25:49
  Oh, shoot me and Pat Me and Pat just got a long a long list of
• 25:53
  games. Oh my God, you guys have like
• 25:55
  the Library of Congress of Games when it comes to backlogs.
• 25:59
  Where the means that be like the backlog is drowning, maybe like
• 26:04
  a new game. You can't brag about the backlog
• 26:08
  if you don't have a backlog to brag about.
• 26:10
  Alright, so make it big. He has Eddie has Eddie has like,
• 26:15
  like like like Pickman that curate his backlog, like
• 26:17
  basically they make sure everything stays.
• 26:20
  Pretty much, yeah. It's not alphabetical order.
• 26:22
  It's, it's, it's, it's by percentage, percentage he played
• 26:26
  through so far. Color of the box art.
• 26:29
  He's got them all separated. You know what?
• 26:31
  I actually I actually. Window games aren't touching the
• 26:34
  PlayStation and the. Dirty PlayStation.
• 26:37
  I actually, I actually would love to do a survey to say what
• 26:41
  system do you think or hardware you think have the biggest
• 26:45
  backlog? Is it PC because of Steam and
• 26:48
  the Steam sales? Is it Nintendo, is it Microsoft
• 26:51
  or is it Xbox like? For me, it's my Nintendo Switch.
• 26:54
  For me, it's my Nintendo Switch because I've bought a lot of
• 26:56
  indie games on the Switch that had physical copies and that
• 27:00
  pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
• 27:03
  Yeah, I was just. Quantitatively speaking, like it
• 27:06
  probably is my Switch because I have so many games on the Switch
• 27:08
  that I bought that I just have never touched.
• 27:10
  Yeah. Like I like I like when I
• 27:12
  transferred my data from my switch to my switch to like it's
• 27:15
  show it like I've only played 13.4% of astral chain.
• 27:21
  Yeah, actually, same. That's man, that's been on my
• 27:23
  backlog for years. Oh my God, yeah.
• 27:25
  It's a good game, guys. It is a good game.
• 27:27
  It is a good game. Like it.
• 27:29
  I just Astro chain got hurt when when links when when links
• 27:34
  awakening came out like I was like oh.
• 27:36
  What is this? What happened?
• 27:38
  What is this? That's that that goodness that
• 27:42
  2019 was bunkers of people just getting top tier first fighter
• 27:47
  games from Nintendo. And it's just like, well, if you
• 27:49
  don't beat it this week, you might not beat it into the
• 27:51
  future. Exactly.
• 27:53
  I'm going another hot gay. Exactly And and and yeah like
• 27:58
  and and fireman 3 houses is like please pay me please please.
• 28:03
  Play me, I'm only 100 hours long.
• 28:06
  You can marry, you can fall in love with your students.
• 28:09
  That's not weird. Like it's a story when you when
• 28:12
  you mention when you mention Mass Effect.
• 28:15
  The first time I played those games, I paid their straight
• 28:19
  back-to-back to back. And because I I had the thing
• 28:22
  not against BioWare, but I just didn't get their gangs.
• 28:26
  And so I played Mass Effect one. I'm just like, OK, I I think I
• 28:29
  get it. I got the two.
• 28:30
  It was going back to work because my friend was like he
• 28:34
  was playing it too. I was just like, what is this
• 28:36
  drama? What is this story?
• 28:37
  I was wrapped into it. So when I got I was playing that
• 28:41
  game four to five hours per day. I was stuck with Mass Effect 2.
• 28:46
  22 did that for a lot of people. Yeah, Mass 2 had a good one.
• 28:50
  One was. Good.
• 28:51
  It was a good setup. It was a good, like introduction
• 28:53
  into the universe. And then two just hit the ground
• 28:56
  running and just like, great story, great all new characters
• 28:59
  'cause you're like, who are these new people?
• 29:01
  And then you just, man, fall in love with him right away.
• 29:03
  And just companion missions. I love stories with companion
• 29:08
  missions. Tell me more about this
• 29:10
  character. I want to know what makes them
• 29:12
  tick, what's bad about them, what skeletons in there are in
• 29:15
  their closet. You know, like, tell me all
• 29:17
  that. Like, I don't know how by word
• 29:20
  did it, but the characters were strong.
• 29:22
  Like you guys say the story was good.
• 29:25
  I. Was like everything.
• 29:27
  Except for Jacob. No one likes Jacob.
• 29:29
  Poor Jacob. No, you know what, You know
• 29:32
  what? Screw that guy.
• 29:33
  Because in three if you, if he was a romance option in two for
• 29:36
  you, in three, he just totally dusts you to the side.
• 29:39
  He's like, well, you were in jail and I'm a horny guy, so you
• 29:44
  know. Well, I mean, I did kind of, I
• 29:47
  did kind of curve Miranda in Mass Effect 3.
• 29:54
  That's. A tough one.
• 29:54
  That's a tough one, yeah. I did.
• 29:56
  Curve. I did curve her.
• 29:57
  Yeah, Miranda's the tough one. That's tough.
• 30:01
  That's 'cause I finally got the option to swing both ways, so I
• 30:03
  was like, here we go. Romance is going to do it this
• 30:05
  game. I was a tally all the way.
• 30:11
  Faithful worked for that, worked for that romance.
• 30:16
  Teddy is so good. Yep.
• 30:19
  Alright fellas. Digging now, I will need to play
• 30:21
  the Mass Effect trilogy again so I can just get 2 and 3.
• 30:25
  You and me, both kids. The summer of games like figure
• 30:28
  it out Yep alright, well, we're going to go ahead and wrap this
• 30:31
  one up. We're going to go ahead and move
• 30:32
  into our next topic, which which story I'm going to go ahead and
• 30:36
  I'm just going to go ahead and we're going to work right into
• 30:38
  your topic man. You want to go ahead and take
• 30:39
  this one away. Yeah, sure.
• 30:41
  I was thinking about this the other day because I I have a
• 30:44
  storied history of just playing video games since I was a kid.
• 30:46
  I'm in my mid 40s now. So I'm like, you know, I was, I
• 30:49
  was there when Nintendo first came out and just blew the pants
• 30:53
  off everybody because the jump from Atari to Nintendo was like
• 30:56
  legendary. Like, I didn't have an Atari
• 30:59
  growing up. I had friends that did, you
• 31:01
  know, and I'm like, these graphics are kind of bunk.
• 31:03
  They're kind of kind of garbage, whatever.
• 31:06
  But that was like when the, you know, when the crash hit and
• 31:09
  then Nintendo came in and just blew the pants off everybody.
• 31:12
  And, you know, now you can like, you know, you got games with
• 31:14
  actual storylines. You got, you know, graphics that
• 31:18
  you can see detail with. You know, you can actually like
• 31:20
  kind of forge a connection to a character because there's that
• 31:23
  visual connection. So and then like you started to
• 31:26
  see like changes in the environment, you know, all the
• 31:29
  next generations over. So my question was, you know,
• 31:33
  you guys have been playing games for a long time too.
• 31:35
  You guys are with me there too. What game mechanic or what game
• 31:38
  feature that came out that just blew the pants off you that you
• 31:44
  were? Just like, I can't live in
• 31:47
  another video game without this feature.
• 31:50
  Oh, this is like, oh, this is super easy.
• 31:53
  Yeah, no. And it's a, it's a good one
• 31:55
  because like obviously there's we could come up with 100
• 31:57
  different ones. Laron, you hinted to 1:00
• 32:00
  earlier. But like for me, the rewind
• 32:02
  feature in racing games, like I hate, I hated it at first.
• 32:07
  I hated it because I thought it was cheating.
• 32:09
  It's like you're either going to nail that turn or you're not,
• 32:11
  you know, or maybe you got to like restart the track over
• 32:14
  again. But when you think about it, and
• 32:16
  I thought about it a long time, that's training like, OK, you,
• 32:21
  you didn't nail that turn. OK, go back, try it again, go
• 32:25
  back, try it again and perfect it over and over and over again
• 32:28
  instead of, well, I'll just get it on the next lap and you know,
• 32:32
  you screwed up again. So like now if a racing game
• 32:36
  doesn't have that, I don't want to have anything to do with it.
• 32:41
  It's like, it's like train. And I think most most racing
• 32:43
  games nowadays, even most racing games have it now.
• 32:47
  Yeah, Forza, Forza Horizon 4. Yeah, when that saved me a lot.
• 32:52
  Yeah, I think. I don't think Gran Turis, I
• 32:56
  don't think Gran Turismo got it, still do, do they not?
• 33:01
  I thought they had something like that.
• 33:02
  Does Gran Turismo does a new one have it?
• 33:04
  I I don't remember, I know like obviously all the Forza's have
• 33:07
  it, you know, basically like I think Dirt Rally, like those
• 33:12
  racing games, they all have it, F1 has it and stuff, but.
• 33:15
  Mario Kart has it now. Mario Kart has it.
• 33:17
  That's weird. That's weird.
• 33:20
  I don't know. You can also use that to like
• 33:23
  dodge a blue shell. Oh, really?
• 33:25
  Yeah. Now that's.
• 33:27
  There's a second option. There's a second option.
• 33:30
  That is cheating. Yeah, but what are that's the
• 33:35
  big one for me. I don't know what you guys have.
• 33:39
  OK, so this is something that this is something that that that
• 33:43
  I have to thank the original Dead Space game for a freaking
• 33:47
  waypoint Finder like pressing, pressing the R3 button, like
• 33:51
  basically pressing in the right, the right stick, analog stick
• 33:55
  and actually seeing your path and actually seeing like a spot
• 33:58
  on the map that it's actually supposed to take you to like
• 34:01
  amazing, amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:04
  And I really feel like every. Game should have that.
• 34:07
  Yeah, I I really wish Exhibition 33 had something like that
• 34:10
  because I've gotten turned around a couple of times in that
• 34:12
  game and I'm like, what's happening?
• 34:14
  Why can't? I get to the next zone.
• 34:17
  You A Game has brought that to their remaster.
• 34:21
  What's that? Xenoblade Chronicles X has one
• 34:23
  of those now? Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah, you
• 34:27
  cannot. It sends this little ball out,
• 34:30
  creates a little path, and it's a godsend when you know you
• 34:34
  don't realize that your goal is like on a level way higher.
• 34:37
  Than where you know, can I say I, I, I play, I remember playing
• 34:42
  that game for the Wii U and I must have had like crazy amnesia
• 34:46
  after I played it because that bangin rap song that pops in
• 34:52
  when you go to the city. Like someone recorded that and
• 35:03
  like, listened back to it and be like, yeah, this is good track.
• 35:05
  Yeah, this is fire. This is fire.
• 35:07
  Send it. Yeah.
• 35:10
  This is how Yasandori Matsuda don't care.
• 35:13
  Put it in. Put it in the kids.
• 35:15
  Will love it. The American kids will love it.
• 35:19
  For me, New Game Plus, ever since I got introduced in Chrono
• 35:25
  Trigger, I don't care what anyone said, It's almost in
• 35:28
  every genre and a lot of games from today.
• 35:31
  There's there's so many games now that has used it.
• 35:34
  But back in the day when you was done with the RPG, you was done.
• 35:39
  But with Square Enix of the Dream Team did it in Chrono
• 35:42
  Trigger and just like, yeah, we could continue on.
• 35:44
  We start the game with with your previous stuff and go to the
• 35:49
  whole game if you want to fly. And that was the way to help you
• 35:52
  see the other endings in the game.
• 35:54
  So New Game Plus is definitely like that blew my mind because
• 35:58
  I've never played the RPG that offer that.
• 36:01
  And a lot of people at that time who weren't playing RPGs didn't
• 36:05
  know that was the feature that was going to be the evolution
• 36:08
  like of gaming, just in all genres.
• 36:11
  Yeah, especially when you can actually carry over your level
• 36:14
  and carry over your weapons and you can actually go after those
• 36:17
  optional bosses that you maybe skipped, because by the time I
• 36:20
  get there, I'll be a lot more powerful, so.
• 36:24
  Yeah, yeah. Now mine, mine's kind of in the
• 36:29
  same direction as stories. I like the rewind feature, but I
• 36:32
  like it on like the remasters of retro games and stuff.
• 36:37
  So when I'm playing like Slide 2 or just recently the Gex trilogy
• 36:42
  came out, has the rewind feature to it.
• 36:45
  You know, it it, it helps me because I don't want to go back
• 36:48
  and keep playing the same damn part over and over again.
• 36:51
  I don't have the time for that. Yeah, when you think about it,
• 36:54
  checkpoints now. Checkpoints.
• 36:57
  My God, can you play a game without a checkpoint system
• 37:00
  anymore? What were we doing for our lives
• 37:03
  back then? Oh my God.
• 37:04
  Like. We were writing down codes 10
• 37:06
  digit codes to. Put them in.
• 37:09
  Or better yet, walking back like 20 minutes just to get to the
• 37:12
  last save point. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:15
  Or you just put the game down and you said, well, I guess I'm
• 37:17
  done playing because I don't want to do any of that shit
• 37:20
  right now. And then expedition 33 is like,
• 37:22
  oh, you walk back to a save point, you just reset every
• 37:25
  every everything you you killed so you gotta fight them all.
• 37:28
  Over again. I mean you can thank Dark Souls
• 37:30
  for that crap like oh hey go save at this spot and now it
• 37:34
  just respawns all the enemies. And that's why.
• 37:38
  Me personally, I hate that mechanic.
• 37:40
  Yeah for us NES players who with do it Mega Man and niche guide
• 37:45
  in which is like those. Walking, We're walking, we're
• 37:51
  walking backwards meant everything respawned.
• 37:54
  Yeah, you had to deal with that Dang ego.
• 37:57
  Oh. God, that's still the worst
• 37:59
  enemy in video game history. I don't realize something, you
• 38:01
  know, you know NES game that did not do that.
• 38:04
  Metal Gear, if you killed something, the only way it would
• 38:08
  respawn is if you moved off the floor and came back out.
• 38:12
  Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:14
  Yeah, like if you, if you went inside a door or if you, or if
• 38:18
  you went down an elevator and came back to the floor, that's
• 38:20
  the only time they respawn. If you if you just walk back,
• 38:24
  like all the way back to the beginning of that area, they
• 38:26
  will not be there when you when you walk back again.
• 38:29
  Metal Gear. Kajima wasn't here.
• 38:32
  This he was ahead of his time way back then.
• 38:36
  Yeah, well, even like when you think about all the crazy things
• 38:40
  that you could do, like even just the Psychomantis scene in
• 38:44
  Metal Gear. Oh yeah, it kind of blew you
• 38:46
  away where it's like, I can read your memory card.
• 38:49
  You don't save very often. It's like, what?
• 38:52
  Get your. Controllers down.
• 38:56
  Did. You did you enjoy passing
• 38:58
  Pennsylvania Symphony of the Night?
• 39:00
  The what? Excuse me?
• 39:05
  And then all you had to do to beat him was take out the
• 39:07
  controller and. I'm just like.
• 39:11
  Yeah, yeah, I think I, I think I, I didn't know that when I
• 39:16
  first played it. But like, you know, back then
• 39:18
  you couldn't just look it up online.
• 39:20
  So I think I in one of the video game magazines I read at the
• 39:23
  time, they were like, yeah, put it in, yeah, you know,
• 39:26
  controller 4 too. I was like no the.
• 39:27
  First time I played. The first time I played Psycho
• 39:29
  man is I got clapped. Yeah, yeah, I think we all did.
• 39:33
  We all did. I got clapped and accidentally
• 39:35
  killed Meryl that. Was a rough time, yeah.
• 39:42
  What was that? If you if you went into first
• 39:45
  person mode, If you went into first person mode, you saw
• 39:49
  yourself. Yeah, right.
• 39:51
  You, you would hit, you would hit the first personal.
• 39:52
  And you could actually see from Meryl's eyes in that scene.
• 39:55
  Yeah. That was wild, that.
• 39:58
  Was wild, I think a a future that we haven't seen that have
• 40:02
  made a combat like but you had to have the money for this was
• 40:05
  the S&K gangs for the Neo Geo. When you was able to take your
• 40:10
  game to an arcade and play it and then bring all your same
• 40:14
  information and put into your Neo Geo and consider you a play
• 40:17
  for them you. Never remember that.
• 40:19
  Yeah. Yeah, they one.
• 40:21
  Someone other game series did NFL Blitz.
• 40:24
  NFL Blitz did that for the N64. I think if you brought your
• 40:27
  Nintendo 64 cart, your memory card, and then I think you put
• 40:32
  it into the arcade, then you can carry all your stats over.
• 40:37
  Yeah, Yeah, I think that. Wow.
• 40:39
  Yeah, man, even Mortal Kombat, I think Mortal Kombat 3 you used
• 40:43
  to put in codes in to get like secret levels and fight enemies.
• 40:47
  Like the RKC started doing the trick.
• 40:51
  Stuff like you was playing a console like better on in the
• 40:54
  90s and stuff. So now I thought that was kind.
• 40:57
  Of codes. Interesting codes, man, just
• 41:00
  like instead of just like oh, you know, you know, you want all
• 41:03
  these weapons skins, you'll put this DOC in, you know, pay $10,
• 41:07
  you know, now back then it would just be like a BACABB blood code
• 41:10
  for psychogenesis. You're ready to go.
• 41:15
  Remember the Nemesis system? Remember the nemesis system
• 41:20
  outbreaking that was, you know, Shadow of Shadow of Mordor and.
• 41:25
  That's. Oh, no, they didn't close their.
• 41:27
  They closed their doors, right? Yeah.
• 41:29
  On a lift, yeah. So what?
• 41:32
  Dad with the Wonder Woman game. So what happens now with their
• 41:37
  patent? Warner Brothers has it.
• 41:40
  Yep. Yep, and nothing can be done
• 41:42
  about it. Yep, OK, I've I've wondered
• 41:45
  about that. I'm just like, OK, can't, can
• 41:48
  now games use it if they wanted to because I don't think like no
• 41:54
  other company was interested in using that.
• 41:56
  It was. Like, because I couldn't.
• 42:00
  That was talk about one of the biggest boneheaded maneuvers in
• 42:03
  video game history. Yeah, I, I, I still think it,
• 42:08
  you know, besides checkpoints, just a save feature in general.
• 42:11
  Because I remember if I wanted to sit down to play Super Mario
• 42:17
  Brothers 3 and the Nintendo, I had to invest in the time.
• 42:21
  I couldn't just be like, I'm just going to play it maybe like
• 42:23
  20 minutes and then I'll save and go back to it later.
• 42:26
  You know? You had to, you had to be
• 42:27
  invested in the time. Depending if you knew where,
• 42:30
  where, where the. Oh yeah, you know, you could
• 42:34
  beat it in a, you know, decent amount of time, but.
• 42:38
  You can also record the code that they give you after every
• 42:40
  level, but you know, I didn't want to write all that down.
• 42:43
  Yeah, no kidding. You just have papers of codes
• 42:45
  everywhere and you're like, what's this one?
• 42:47
  And then you put it in. This one sucks.
• 42:49
  My Life of Mega Man 2 and 3. Yeah, the dots.
• 42:52
  Yeah, yeah. A modern gaming feature that I
• 42:56
  think we take for granted is being able to suspend our games.
• 42:59
  You know, like, is it particularly on console?
• 43:01
  Particularly on console, you know, like, like, I can't tell
• 43:04
  you, I can't tell you the amount of times that, you know, like
• 43:06
  being able to suspend my game and, you know, turn my system
• 43:08
  off, You know, for the PS4, like I, I think I took it for
• 43:12
  granted, you know, like I, I do appreciate it, but I know for
• 43:15
  sure I, I, once I figured it out, like I of course I wore
• 43:18
  that option out, but you know, also at the same time, it was
• 43:21
  like, man, like this is life right now.
• 43:24
  Yeah, I don't think I, I don't think I utilized that feature
• 43:26
  enough, but I don't I definitely feel the it's such a benefit.
• 43:31
  Geez, like there, there was sometimes when I was like when I
• 43:34
  was playing God of War, I was like, man, I, I, I can't.
• 43:37
  So I was just like, I'm not, I'm not walking.
• 43:39
  Well, actually, no, you could save at any point.
• 43:42
  But you know, it was just like, why would I save at any point?
• 43:44
  I can just pause the game, suspend the console, and just
• 43:47
  pick it back up tomorrow when I'm ready.
• 43:49
  That was my best friend for Xbox One, to steal Series X, that
• 43:53
  even when I hop between games, just it's said at a point when I
• 43:58
  get back to that game, it'll load me back.
• 44:00
  Yeah, that that was a life changer, A lifesaver for me.
• 44:05
  It's like, thank you, I. Struggle to trust those that
• 44:08
  struggle to trust those because if the PlayStation gets an
• 44:10
  update it shuts the game down. Oh yeah.
• 44:14
  That was the that was the only that was the only that was the
• 44:17
  only thing that that detracted against that.
• 44:19
  But but most, but for the most part, like it was, it was, it
• 44:22
  was a good enough feature that, you know, like I appreciated it.
• 44:27
  No, yeah, for sure. I what was this one randomly
• 44:31
  popped in my head. We talked about San Andreas
• 44:32
  earlier, but I I something I wish more games did.
• 44:36
  It blew me away at the time that you could just, you could get
• 44:39
  jacked in the game and you could get fat like if you decided to
• 44:44
  eat all the time, like your, your, your body habitus can
• 44:47
  change. So like if you wanted, if you
• 44:49
  were going to the gym like every day, every time you played, you
• 44:52
  know, like then you'd get muscular like, and then like,
• 44:55
  yeah, if you're eating that burger time like every day.
• 44:58
  That was, that was a cool feature.
• 44:59
  That was like pretty cool. And I I I just wish board games
• 45:03
  did but. Yeah, it affected which girl you
• 45:06
  could get because one of them liked the chubby CJ, other one
• 45:09
  did not. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:16
  I know one, one last one for me. They don't do it anymore, but
• 45:21
  eternal darkness and this might lead into your, your thing.
• 45:25
  Pat with eternal Darkness when they had to send it to the
• 45:28
  effects and one of the sandy effects was like erasing your
• 45:32
  memory card and then it comes back.
• 45:35
  That was so cool because I, I got it and I'm just, I, I heard,
• 45:40
  I read about it in EGM and I didn't know that it would ever
• 45:43
  happen to me, but it did happen to me.
• 45:45
  And it depends like all your health or something.
• 45:48
  And I'm just like, oh, they the sanity effects in eternal
• 45:52
  darkness. They were good at it.
• 45:55
  So good. At it, yeah.
• 45:56
  The only game that did anywhere close to that was Batman Arkham
• 46:00
  Asylum. Oh yeah.
• 46:02
  When this when the Scarecrow missions and then it rewound the
• 46:06
  game back to the intro and then you see like Joker's drive of
• 46:09
  the Batmobile and Batman's in the passenger seat.
• 46:12
  Oh my God. Those crackle levels were so fun
• 46:15
  to play. Yeah.
• 46:16
  Yeah, they were. What'd you go say, Alora?
• 46:22
  I was, I'm sorry I got distracted for a second.
• 46:24
  I was looking for something on my desk.
• 46:26
  Funny story about eternal darkness backgrounds are in
• 46:30
  GameStop. We, we had someone that
• 46:31
  basically wanted to trade their game in because like they're
• 46:34
  like the whole sandy meter thing, right?
• 46:36
  Like, like, like when your character started wigging out,
• 46:39
  like, like there's one time when like a giant cockroach starts
• 46:42
  walking on the screen and he actually whacked his, he
• 46:46
  actually whacked his screen with the, with the freak with a shoe
• 46:50
  and cracked his and cracked his damn television.
• 46:53
  And he was like, and he was like, wait, he was like, that
• 46:56
  was fake. And he was like, I'm done with
• 46:57
  this game. He told us the story.
• 47:00
  We're like, oh, wow, that's that's the first.
• 47:04
  I was like, man, what? What size TV was he planning on
• 47:07
  that? He thought that was actually a
• 47:08
  Roach. I mean, you know, if you have an
• 47:12
  affinity to roaches. Well, yeah, you're right, You're
• 47:16
  right, all right. Well, since since Ed kind of
• 47:21
  teed it out like like let's go ahead and move on to our next
• 47:23
  topic, which which which Pat's got got this one long lock.
• 47:29
  Yep, guys, there's one thing I noticed about the Summer Games
• 47:32
  Fest trailers is that there were a lot of horror games shown this
• 47:38
  year and I'm just. Are we gonna talk about I'll in
• 47:42
  this? Yes, we can talk about I'll, we,
• 47:45
  we can talk about I'll. We can talk about Cristo.
• 47:48
  We can talk about the blooms. What's the blooming 1, The
• 47:54
  fractured blooms Graves was grave grave seasons.
• 48:02
  I mean we horror games is like really has taken off.
• 48:06
  And I think a lot of it's definitely thanks to indie games
• 48:10
  and just being able to like recreate like these ideas again,
• 48:15
  because they're not all trying to be like super powerhouse and
• 48:18
  gory, even though I'll is and that's pretty pretty awesome.
• 48:23
  But it's like guys, horror's back.
• 48:25
  What do we think? Are we excited about this?
• 48:29
  I'm 100% in. I, I downloaded on Steam dead of
• 48:34
  I think it's like Dead of darkness or something or
• 48:37
  whatever, but it's like it's a retro styled Resident Evil game,
• 48:41
  you know, but just like top down, like, you know, you're
• 48:45
  holding L1 to shoot, you know, to aim and shoot and stuff like
• 48:47
  that. But I'm all in for all these
• 48:49
  indie games, even just like AA developers coming in and just,
• 48:53
  you know, just giving us something.
• 48:55
  Because with with horror games, it's not necessarily, you know,
• 48:59
  you have to have AAA style graphics, extremely realistic
• 49:02
  graphics. Like you could, you could do
• 49:05
  like low, low polygraphics to make it scary and terrifying.
• 49:09
  Because when I mean, when you think about it, like you look at
• 49:12
  Silent Hill one right now, I mean it, it looks awful.
• 49:16
  But you know, back then it was terrifying.
• 49:19
  And even for me going back to play, it's still terrifying.
• 49:24
  But boys, we're getting a remake of that, by the way.
• 49:28
  Yeah, Bob Bloomberg. You like Bloomberg?
• 49:30
  You did good here. Here's the.
• 49:31
  First one, I will say that Silent Hill one needs a remake
• 49:36
  because I don't like the first. I don't like the first Silent
• 49:40
  Hill. I'm like.
• 49:41
  Most people don't like the first Silent Hill.
• 49:43
  Yeah, you had to have been there.
• 49:44
  It's one of those things, and even that's important excuse.
• 49:48
  But yeah, then Silent Hill 2 came out and everyone's like,
• 49:52
  yeah, forget Silent Hill one. I would forever hate that piano
• 49:55
  puzzle in the high school for Sunny Hill One.
• 49:58
  Hate it. Yeah, the clunk.
• 50:00
  I hate it. The baby in the bathroom always
• 50:06
  gets me. The only that's like any horror
• 50:10
  game though. If you put in like a bloody
• 50:12
  fetus in some bathroom, it's like, OK, well, this is about
• 50:16
  weird. And exactly the reason why I
• 50:18
  stopped playing BT Exactly the reason.
• 50:21
  Yeah. But I will say I'm looking
• 50:23
  forward to solid hill elf that looks really, really good.
• 50:26
  I like this, of course, that Japanese aesthetic, but it looks
• 50:29
  like it's going to be somewhat of a not.
• 50:33
  I'm going to say a venture still looks like it's going to mental,
• 50:36
  some survival horror elements to it, but it's going to be really,
• 50:40
  really creepy. And it's going to be glory.
• 50:42
  I heard too. But I think going back to PT,
• 50:45
  I'm just, I'm just glad now we're past the post PT phase of
• 50:50
  horror games because it seems like every game that was coming
• 50:53
  out was trying to follow the same formula.
• 50:55
  PT, you know, you had some good games, like Visage was pretty
• 50:59
  good. But like all this other like
• 51:03
  slop of just like everyone trying to capture that PT vibe.
• 51:06
  It's like, OK, all right, you're you're trying too hard.
• 51:09
  And it's like, oh, psychological horror, you're you're really the
• 51:12
  bad guy throughout this whole game.
• 51:14
  It's like, oh wow. Surprising, you know?
• 51:16
  Yeah. Well, what I like about the
• 51:18
  horror genre is it's kind of like the new RPG genre.
• 51:21
  You can put horror into just about any kind of game play now.
• 51:26
  You got third person, you got first person, you got the
• 51:29
  narrative horror, You got what you just mentioned the the
• 51:33
  looping horror. There's multiplayer horror games
• 51:36
  out there that are still like, you know, doing amazing like
• 51:40
  Dead by Daylight and like, yeah, Fantasma.
• 51:45
  Fantasma The not Phantasmaphobia, that's the old
• 51:49
  one. Yeah.
• 51:51
  Phantasmaphobia. Is that it?
• 51:53
  I think so. I forget what it is, but it's
• 51:55
  that multiplayer one where you're like ghost investigators.
• 51:58
  Yep. And now even we're getting cozy
• 52:01
  horror games where you get games that are designed for the cozy
• 52:06
  thing. Like take Grave Seasons for
• 52:09
  example. It's a farming game.
• 52:11
  Yeah, that's weird. Night, night time, there's a
• 52:14
  supernatural serial killer on the loose and you have to figure
• 52:17
  out who in the town it is. And what's cool is that every
• 52:20
  time you replay the game, it's someone different.
• 52:24
  So you know, it's And then you also have the fractured
• 52:28
  Balloons, which was they described it as Doki Doki
• 52:33
  literature club meets Silent Hill.
• 52:36
  But it's in a farming, you know, you're farming.
• 52:40
  It's like, oh, all these weird, just like farming horror or even
• 52:46
  Dredge where it's a fishing game, but it's a Lovecraftian
• 52:51
  fishing game. Like there's something in the
• 52:53
  sea that's causing some weird shit to.
• 52:56
  Go. That was the one with the retro
• 52:58
  style graphics right? Where it's like 2.5 D or
• 53:01
  something like that. Yeah, you're, you're basically a
• 53:03
  boat, you know, going around and you're fishing.
• 53:05
  And while you're collecting your harvest, you're also
• 53:08
  investigating, you know, the weird paranormal stuff that's
• 53:11
  happening. Hell yeah.
• 53:13
  There's no ghost at the Grand that one from where you, you're,
• 53:21
  you're maintaining the hotel during the day, like doing
• 53:25
  cleaning and then at night you're busting and expecting
• 53:28
  ghosts and you have to use whatever you use during the day.
• 53:31
  And so not just like it's a cool trailer to watch at the Xbox
• 53:35
  showcase, but I was just like, I may have to buy this game 'cause
• 53:40
  it looks funny and it's wacky as ever.
• 53:43
  I'm like a SIM game where I'm cleaning or doing other stuff
• 53:48
  and using that thing to bust ghosts.
• 53:51
  Oh yeah, I'm. Yeah, it's wacky enough.
• 53:56
  That was the. Game man sorry, that was the
• 54:00
  game I was thinking of earlier. Unfortunately I didn't.
• 54:03
  I didn't check out enough of some of the most of the Summer
• 54:06
  Game Fest stuff that I don't that I don't really like.
• 54:09
  All this stuff is new to me. No, I was, I was just thinking
• 54:13
  of one demo that I downloaded. It was like about as it's like,
• 54:19
  I mean Resident Evil and Dino Crisis style graphics and
• 54:22
  gameplay, you know, with the stationary cinematic cameras and
• 54:26
  stuff like that. I'm trying to think of the name
• 54:27
  of it, but going through my Steam library and my Steam
• 54:31
  library is too big. Has anyone played Grow Country
• 54:36
  yet? Which ones?
• 54:38
  Which were? I played it for a little.
• 54:41
  Bit and that's one I want to get back into OK it was good.
• 54:45
  You know it definitely had that old Silent Hill like aesthetic,
• 54:50
  but it it I need to get back to it.
• 54:54
  I didn't give it enough good enough try and.
• 54:58
  I I do like like we play like Sabri work clothes, that kind of
• 55:06
  horror game at PAX East that's. The first person shooter.
• 55:12
  Yeah, and I like that was kind of cool that like you, you know,
• 55:17
  you said that, you know, or her, you know, indie games is like
• 55:21
  inspired horror games to come back.
• 55:23
  And this just have been so different, so many takes on it.
• 55:26
  It's just that, you know, horror now is way past the survival
• 55:32
  horror thing. There's more takes on it that
• 55:36
  people don't have. You can play horror games and
• 55:39
  not get scared. Or, you know, you could watch
• 55:43
  people play these games and even though you might be scared, it's
• 55:46
  engaging watching them play 'cause you, it's like to them,
• 55:50
  it's like actually watching a horror movie to them, but you.
• 55:54
  But you're watching someone being a hero of that game or
• 56:00
  Survivor. Of that game.
• 56:02
  I know plenty of people who say they can't play survival horror
• 56:05
  games, but they are totally fine watching someone else play it,
• 56:08
  you know, and that's, and they're almost jealous in a way,
• 56:12
  because they would love to. The horror games have got some
• 56:15
  really good stories to them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 56:19
  I think what, what, what really gets people engaged in horror
• 56:22
  games is the puzzle solving aspect.
• 56:26
  You know, if you are a trip streamer and stuff and you're
• 56:30
  playing this horror game, your community is going to be like,
• 56:32
  OK, go into this room. The key was right there.
• 56:35
  You could get this if you could run past that zombie and and
• 56:38
  that engagement kind of makes playing horror games satisfying.
• 56:44
  Yeah, it's a good couch, not couch Co-op, but it's like a
• 56:47
  good like armchair style game where it's like, you know, you
• 56:49
  could be sitting on the sideline.
• 56:51
  I mean, that's what I mean we did growing up, like, you know,
• 56:54
  before online multiplayer, like you would get to get, you go to
• 56:58
  Blockbuster, you'd rent this game, you're like, this looks
• 57:00
  really good. And then you're just shoulder to
• 57:03
  shoulder with your with your buddy, like playing games,
• 57:05
  passing the control back and forth.
• 57:06
  I don't know what to do here. You do it, you know, and it's
• 57:09
  like, yeah, that was always fun. Post trauma.
• 57:13
  Have you guys played that one? No.
• 57:15
  Not yet, no. No, that was that's, I mean, if
• 57:18
  you're into puzzle solving, like you got a puzzle to solve right
• 57:21
  in the first like 5 minutes of the game and it's a doozy.
• 57:24
  It's like you got to find a combination, but you have to
• 57:26
  look at the walls of the subway that you're in to decipher the
• 57:30
  combo to this padlock. Jeez.
• 57:35
  No, you told me about that one. That's one I do plan on checking
• 57:38
  out here. Yeah.
• 57:39
  It's, I mean, you know, if you're familiar with that style
• 57:43
  of like I said, if you want something that's got like
• 57:46
  better, I guess better quality, you know, you may be
• 57:50
  disappointed in that, but it's very PS2 era gameplay, I guess.
• 57:58
  It's. Nothing neat.
• 58:00
  No, honestly, like I, I, you know, going back to what you
• 58:03
  said, Pat, it's like I, I'm really excited because we're
• 58:05
  starting to get a wide variety of different types of horror
• 58:09
  games and, and I'm all here for it.
• 58:10
  Like I'm, I'm done with the transcending.
• 58:13
  I'm done with the whole like, hey, let's make everything a
• 58:15
  psychological horror game now. It's like, you know, I mean,
• 58:19
  Silent Hill to give them credit for revolutionizing the horror
• 58:23
  genre forever. But you know, it's time for
• 58:27
  developers and artists to kind of stand on their own footing
• 58:30
  and being like, hey, let's make something really cool.
• 58:33
  I I oh, go ahead man, go ahead, go ahead.
• 58:38
  I kind of miss like the game Deception from Tecmo where you
• 58:46
  had to build traps and trap. Hopefully someone would come in
• 58:51
  and fall into your trap and you kill them and you progress.
• 58:54
  Like those kind of horror games. I kind of miss and I wish they
• 58:57
  would come back. Trapped.
• 58:58
  Is that what you're thinking of? I know.
• 59:00
  That trapped was one of them, too.
• 59:02
  I think was another. One too.
• 59:04
  I think Draft was a sequel to Deception.
• 59:06
  Yeah, because it was. That was made by Koe Tecmo.
• 59:08
  Yeah, OK. I just picked that up at the
• 59:12
  Midwest gaming class this year. I'm so mad that she, I'm so mad
• 59:17
  that I missed it. I keep missing the I keep
• 59:20
  missing the Midwest Gaming Classic and I want to go
• 59:24
  somewhere that. Yeah, keeps this.
• 59:28
  This was a this was a good year to do it because it didn't fall
• 59:31
  on like the same weeks as PAX or the week after PAX.
• 59:34
  That is true which? Because.
• 59:36
  It's and you want to see my my my most favorite buy.
• 59:41
  Yes, yes. Yeah, let's see it.
• 59:43
  We I know what it is, but you know.
• 59:45
  What it is but mm hmm let me see if I can get it.
• 59:57
  Oh, I love that. Leon.
• 1:00:00
  Kennedy body pillow, son. Oh wow, yes.
• 1:00:06
  Sir, I. Think did Loron just totally
• 1:00:08
  miss that? No, no, because I had, I had my
• 1:00:11
  stream. I had the stream open.
• 1:00:12
  So I saw that I was like, Sir, I beg your pardon?
• 1:00:16
  There was the reason Loron had the camera off.
• 1:00:19
  Yeah, right. Yeah, hey, just because.
• 1:00:23
  Just because my camera is off doesn't mean I don't see.
• 1:00:26
  Oh, sure, yeah, whatever you're you're still leaving anyway,
• 1:00:29
  going back to. Step Steph had me get the
• 1:00:32
  hysterian body pillow for her. Oh yeah.
• 1:00:37
  She, she packed it full of pillows while we were at PAX
• 1:00:40
  East. Nice.
• 1:00:45
  Mm Hmm. OK.
• 1:00:47
  So yeah, kind of like what story mentioned that we have these
• 1:00:51
  developers and indie creators now they're just pushing.
• 1:00:54
  I just want to give a shout out to a couple different indie
• 1:00:56
  developers that if you are interested in the horror genre,
• 1:01:00
  give these developers like check them out, check out some of
• 1:01:04
  their game libraries 'cause they do have some very good ones out
• 1:01:06
  there. Bloom House Games is a
• 1:01:09
  relatively new one and right now a lot of their games have been
• 1:01:12
  really good. They have Fear of the Spotlight.
• 1:01:16
  They recently showed. I think they're doing the Grave
• 1:01:19
  Seasons as well. They recently showed Christo,
• 1:01:22
  what's it called? Christo Theatre of Idols, Sleep
• 1:01:25
  Awake. What a name.
• 1:01:28
  Sleep awake. Yeah, can't fall asleep
• 1:01:32
  otherwise shit will happen, but that creates your own
• 1:01:35
  psychological horrors. Other games.
• 1:01:38
  Can't. We Got Dread.
• 1:01:41
  XP is another indie developer that makes nothing but horror
• 1:01:44
  games. Wired Productions has some very
• 1:01:47
  interesting horror games out there, one that I'm going to
• 1:01:50
  talk about later today. Of course we have Bloomberg.
• 1:01:55
  They started out as Indy, but now they definitely reached the
• 1:01:57
  point where they're, they're pretty damn big.
• 1:02:00
  But they're they've, they're one of the ones credited for
• 1:02:03
  revolutionizing the horror genre, especially the looping
• 1:02:08
  slash hallway horrors. Fear the spotlight is out.
• 1:02:10
  How did I totally miss this? I, I kept this on my radar and I
• 1:02:14
  totally. Man, good game.
• 1:02:16
  Check it out OK, you'll like it. Yep, and also our friends over
• 1:02:21
  at Toge have a game coming out called Whisper Mount an
• 1:02:25
  Outbreak, which is like a Co-op isometric Resident Evil game, so
• 1:02:28
  check that one out too. Wait, didn't didn't Toge have
• 1:02:32
  something coming up that I told you to like?
• 1:02:34
  Keep me in the loop on. Yep, that was Krieg's front
• 1:02:38
  tactics. Yes, yes.
• 1:02:41
  Still supposed to be coming out later this year.
• 1:02:45
  Yeah, cuz I, yeah, cuz like if you like front mission, like
• 1:02:48
  Krieg's front tactics is your is going to be up your alley.
• 1:02:52
  And Speaking of front mission, you got from Mission 3 coming
• 1:02:54
  out, I think it's either this week or next week.
• 1:02:57
  Wait wait wait, they dated it 2. Weeks 2 weeks.
• 1:03:00
  Yeah, Oh yes, cuz I, I, I hope, I hope they did better with this
• 1:03:06
  port than they did with front mission 2.
• 1:03:09
  This is yeah, I think they had nothing.
• 1:03:12
  Well, yeah, it's a yeah, it's a, it's a remake.
• 1:03:14
  It's a remake. But yeah, like the The Front
• 1:03:17
  Mission 2 remake will have a lot to be desired.
• 1:03:20
  Yeah, I think they had enough to like last week that they got
• 1:03:24
  dated. For good 3.
• 1:03:26
  Good. And then I'm wondering, are they
• 1:03:27
  going to continue and go to this front mission 4 after this?
• 1:03:32
  Good question. Was there a four?
• 1:03:34
  Yeah, PS2. Oh my God was the mountain
• 1:03:37
  outbreak has a lock picking in the game in it.
• 1:03:40
  Sold. No, Steph and I played that.
• 1:03:43
  It was crazy because like we were literally playing this game
• 1:03:47
  and I like one of our said like the code for one for like a safe
• 1:03:52
  and like she had to say something and I could look it up
• 1:03:56
  and figure out what it tied to and then I could give her the
• 1:03:58
  number right back. Remember Dead Space 3 was like
• 1:04:00
  that. Got it.
• 1:04:02
  I mean it's cool that games do that.
• 1:04:04
  Dead Space 3 was. I mean, say what you want about
• 1:04:06
  the Co-op in it, it's it did it pretty well, just not a fit.
• 1:04:11
  I thought the car was fine As as as As someone who considers
• 1:04:14
  myself a Dead Space aficionado, I I literally did not have a
• 1:04:18
  problem with that game. No, I didn't either.
• 1:04:20
  I thought it was a good game. I just, you know, everybody
• 1:04:23
  liked the shit on EA. At the time, yeah, actually,
• 1:04:26
  actually Dead Space Three, I was actually able to get a whole
• 1:04:29
  bunch of new people into Dead Space using that game.
• 1:04:34
  My only complaint with Dead Space 3 was the reusing of the
• 1:04:37
  assets, like if the rooms all looked the same because they
• 1:04:41
  clearly were like the exact same template.
• 1:04:44
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I got.
• 1:04:45
  That's my issue. But yeah, that's horror games.
• 1:04:51
  What a great time to be a horror game fan.
• 1:04:53
  Man, yes. All right, I'm still trying to
• 1:04:59
  look for this three. I can't see anything on it.
• 1:05:02
  What? What the hell?
• 1:05:03
  Oh no, and it's it's just switch right now, but it's coming out
• 1:05:07
  June 26th, same day as Death Stranding.
• 1:05:20
  Why must you always make me get it on the switch?
• 1:05:22
  Feel like I restarted Death Stranding 3 times in my life.
• 1:05:27
  That's the Rogers just played on Switch too.
• 1:05:30
  Yeah, yeah, but I would really just like I I really just want
• 1:05:33
  to like skip the middle man and just go straight to playing on
• 1:05:36
  PC. Like it's like like it's going
• 1:05:38
  to it's it's going to be the game that I play on my ROG Ally.
• 1:05:42
  Oh well, it was on, it was on Switch 1st and that that
• 1:05:44
  guarantees I still have time to play freaking freaking clear
• 1:05:48
  Obskewer. The the switch to screen is
• 1:05:50
  bigger than the rogue ally screen.
• 1:05:52
  Oh yeah, it is. It is.
• 1:05:53
  I appreciate that. Yeah, that's kind of neat.
• 1:06:01
  Yeah, I'm hoping they did a good job on this one though.
• 1:06:05
  Graphically it looks good. It looks great.
• 1:06:07
  It looks great. I'm watching the preview right
• 1:06:08
  now. I'm watching the preview right
• 1:06:10
  now. Yeah.
• 1:06:11
  Yeah. So hey, good, good topic, Pat.
• 1:06:14
  Like, I mean, like, yeah, like I said, I didn't catch, I didn't
• 1:06:16
  catch enough of if I, if I'm going to be completely honest
• 1:06:19
  with you, I'll only watch the I'll if we include the the state
• 1:06:22
  of play. I'll only watch the state of
• 1:06:24
  play in the in the Xbox showcase like I missed all I missed all
• 1:06:29
  three days were for the other stuff.
• 1:06:31
  Pat, what was that horror game that I had that was really bad,
• 1:06:33
  that had a bunch of like, old dudes with their dongs hanging
• 1:06:36
  out at you? Agony.
• 1:06:39
  Was that it? I mean, there's a lot of dongs
• 1:06:42
  in agony. It was, yeah, I think that,
• 1:06:44
  yeah. I thought they were all like old
• 1:06:47
  Brinkley dudes and their dongs are hanging out and they're
• 1:06:49
  running at you it. Was agony.
• 1:06:51
  It was agony. God that game was so bad.
• 1:06:54
  Wow. Whoa.
• 1:06:58
  I don't know if the dongs made it worse or.
• 1:07:01
  I swear it probably didn't help. I I I blame scorn for all for
• 1:07:05
  for for all this phallic imagery and video games now, dude.
• 1:07:11
  The ending I still like that was a jump scare, man, that was 100%
• 1:07:16
  jump scare. I jumped out of my seat.
• 1:07:19
  I was like what the if ever, if you know, you know if you got to
• 1:07:24
  the end of the corn, but. They drained you of your fluids.
• 1:07:28
  I jumped out of my seat. I was like.
• 1:07:34
  Oh, oh boy. All right, well.
• 1:07:37
  The sound effect made it worse. Oh my God.
• 1:07:41
  Well, I guess. We can move on to our next.
• 1:07:43
  Topic right now let's keep talking about scoring oh oh, I'm
• 1:07:48
  just kidding I'm just. Kidding.
• 1:07:49
  Sorry, sorry. All right, well, well, just real
• 1:07:54
  quickly before we move on to our next topic, I want to go ahead
• 1:07:58
  and tell you, take this time right now to like, comment,
• 1:08:01
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• 1:08:03
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• 1:08:07
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• 1:08:09
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• 1:08:11
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• 1:08:16
  We talked about video game mechanics tonight.
• 1:08:18
  We've also talked about our summer video games that we jam
• 1:08:21
  out on and horror games are back, baby.
• 1:08:24
  But you know what it's you know what?
• 1:08:26
  Let's shift gears for a second here 'cause I want to talk about
• 1:08:30
  the good old Nintendo Switch to that's funny like that's funny
• 1:08:36
  like the like the anti Nintendo guys talked about Nintendo for
• 1:08:39
  three weeks now like. What's going on here?
• 1:08:42
  Can we just say Nintendo missed the opportunity by calling it a
• 1:08:45
  Super Nintendo Switch? I'm telling you.
• 1:08:48
  Everybody, everybody wanted it. I don't understand.
• 1:08:51
  I don't understand why, you know, because Nintendo loves
• 1:08:54
  these whimsical names. Why didn't that call the
• 1:08:56
  Switcheroo? Why?
• 1:08:59
  I wouldn't have bought it if it's if it was called
• 1:09:01
  switcheroo, I wouldn't have bought it.
• 1:09:02
  I mean like hard no. Like Nope.
• 1:09:07
  You're done. Like even if they said but we're
• 1:09:09
  launching a dudgeon of Zelda, new Legend of Zelda with it?
• 1:09:11
  Nope. Sorry like you Sir, have gone
• 1:09:16
  too far. Nintendo, you've gone too far.
• 1:09:19
  All right. All right, so if you haven't
• 1:09:22
  heard now Switch 2 is breaking all sorts of records for
• 1:09:25
  Nintendo. The biggest launch, the biggest
• 1:09:28
  launch of a Nintendo console in Japan, the US, the the US launch
• 1:09:33
  was looking pretty good, shattering previous records of
• 1:09:35
  over 1.1 million units sold in the first week, which is all
• 1:09:38
  time high for game hardware in in this country.
• 1:09:42
  It surpassed PS4's debut. Actually, there's a lot, there's
• 1:09:48
  a lot, there's a lot take in like, you know, first of all,
• 1:09:50
  like everybody give, everybody give Nintendo their flowers for
• 1:09:52
  a successful launch. You know, let's let's say that
• 1:09:57
  right now. And having a good stock like you
• 1:09:59
  can, even if you didn't pre-order it, you can sometimes
• 1:10:01
  walk into a store and find. Yeah, yeah, like I was in, Yeah,
• 1:10:05
  like I actually saw, I actually saw a couple on the shelves last
• 1:10:08
  time I was in Best Buy, which my Best Buy gets a lot of freaking
• 1:10:11
  foot traffic. And I was actually shocked that
• 1:10:14
  I actually saw some on the shelf.
• 1:10:16
  Like it was only three, but I saw them.
• 1:10:20
  Yeah. Yeah, So, you know, Nintendo has
• 1:10:23
  made history with the Switch too, selling, selling all these
• 1:10:25
  units and surpassing PS4's legendary launch numbers.
• 1:10:30
  I I can't remember what PS4's launch numbers were.
• 1:10:32
  And I guess I should have like, like already had this reference
• 1:10:36
  before. You know, we, we ran the show
• 1:10:37
  tonight. But yeah, according to reports,
• 1:10:43
  one of the biggest factors driving the Swiss 2's explosive
• 1:10:46
  launch was its killer lineup of games, with nearly 80% of buyers
• 1:10:50
  picking up Mario Kart World alongside with their new
• 1:10:52
  console. Let's talk about this real
• 1:10:53
  quickly. How many people actually have
• 1:10:56
  Mario Kart World 'cause I don't. OK, OK, good.
• 1:11:00
  You guys, you guys can. Have sorry Lorine, I tried.
• 1:11:02
  Yeah. No, no.
• 1:11:03
  No, no, no, no, no, no. It's it's all good.
• 1:11:05
  It's all good on on that one. Because I'm not I'm, I'm not a
• 1:11:08
  Mario Kart fan. So, you know, like.
• 1:11:11
  When Nintendo first released their survey, I chose that one
• 1:11:14
  because at first I'm like, oh, you know, I I'll probably just
• 1:11:18
  get physical. But then all the game card shit
• 1:11:20
  came out and it's like, OK, digital it is.
• 1:11:24
  Yeah, like a yeah, so they. Didn't give me a.
• 1:11:26
  Choice. Yeah, Mario Kart wasn't going to
• 1:11:28
  Mario Kart wasn't going to move mountains from me like, you
• 1:11:31
  know, but but yeah, like so. And honestly, like, all I did
• 1:11:36
  was I took my, my Breath of the Wild and, and, and did and, and
• 1:11:41
  spent $10 and updated that because, you know, I was one of
• 1:11:43
  those lucky people that got it for that.
• 1:11:45
  Got the original game for $30.00 because Best Buy had lost their
• 1:11:48
  mind one week. Oh.
• 1:11:49
  Man, the Nintendo put two surpassed 3D O in sales numbers.
• 1:11:54
  Dang. Yeah.
• 1:11:58
  Yeah, all right, so, All right, So guys, first impressions of
• 1:12:01
  Mario Kart World. First of all, what?
• 1:12:02
  What'd y'all think? Beautiful gay look.
• 1:12:08
  Rainbow Rd. made me cry tears of joy.
• 1:12:13
  Awesome. Beautiful.
• 1:12:15
  Yeah. Worth.
• 1:12:16
  For me it is. Yeah, Oh yeah, and and you can
• 1:12:20
  tell. The quality.
• 1:12:21
  And Nintendo, Nintendo could have physically licked the
• 1:12:24
  cartridge and it wouldn't be worth it, wouldn't be worth the
• 1:12:26
  money for you. So news just came out that they
• 1:12:29
  had 300 people working on this gang.
• 1:12:34
  Yeah, they stuff. Yeah, Steph 4K just posted some
• 1:12:41
  news myths about it. They Yeah.
• 1:12:44
  Mario Kart World has a development team of over 322
• 1:12:47
  game designers, 86 programmers and 192 artists.
• 1:12:52
  Runner Lift Soft had 30 people, Bandai Knuckle had 31 people and
• 1:12:56
  one of Studios 24 people also pitched.
• 1:12:58
  Wait, Bandai Namco chipped in on this?
• 1:13:01
  Yep. I'm not the first time they
• 1:13:03
  chipped in for a Mario Kart game.
• 1:13:05
  Oh, was that was that game? Yeah, yeah, because Ben and
• 1:13:08
  Merkel did their arcade games for a.
• 1:13:10
  Mario Kart. OK, OK, OK.
• 1:13:12
  I was not aware of that. Like I said, I'm not a, I'm not
• 1:13:15
  a, I'm not a Mario Kart person. So I didn't know that.
• 1:13:18
  You can play Spackman in the Arcade 1 true story.
• 1:13:25
  OK, actually, you know what? I think you.
• 1:13:29
  I have no idea. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:32
  Well, OK, so so how how important has a is a strong
• 1:13:36
  launch title to a console's early success?
• 1:13:38
  I mean, Nintendo kind of does this, you know, like they they
• 1:13:41
  always have like an it factor game like when they when they
• 1:13:45
  launch, you know, like if we go back to the Super NES days,
• 1:13:48
  like, you know, like the the pack end of Mario Kart, Mario
• 1:13:51
  Kart, Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt.
• 1:13:52
  You know, Super Nintendo. Did they have some?
• 1:13:55
  They didn't have anything, did they?
• 1:13:57
  Yeah, they had. Some vampire world.
• 1:13:59
  Mario wings Pilot Wings in pilot.
• 1:14:01
  OK, yeah, I remember Mario 64 and and and Wavery 64.
• 1:14:08
  Yeah. Yeah, I I would say ever since,
• 1:14:10
  yeah, I mean, game 264 had yeah. Yeah.
• 1:14:15
  But wait, that was that we. Mentioned some Mario fans.
• 1:14:18
  Yeah. We mentioned was Game 2.
• 1:14:20
  Yeah, GameCube. Yeah, I thought.
• 1:14:22
  Wait, when did so? When did the Mario Sunshine?
• 1:14:25
  That is, that came. About two years.
• 1:14:28
  Yeah. Really.
• 1:14:30
  Really. OK, OK.
• 1:14:31
  OK. Yeah, we we got a Mario Kart, a
• 1:14:35
  Smash Brothers before Mario. Can I?
• 1:14:39
  Can I, can I share something with you guys right now?
• 1:14:43
  I think, I think honestly, as far as the gaming lineup went
• 1:14:46
  for the, for the Switch to, I think it, I think it was a
• 1:14:50
  little lacking, you know? You think, You think.
• 1:14:54
  I think it is, yeah. OK, OK, OK.
• 1:14:57
  I was trying to explain why. Pat's going to explain why.
• 1:15:00
  OK, there's only one true switch to game.
• 1:15:03
  Everything else is a port of LRA.
• 1:15:05
  Upgrade which has been every more recent generation over the
• 1:15:10
  last like 1520 years. Yeah.
• 1:15:12
  PS 5 was the same, PS4 was the same.
• 1:15:15
  I apologize. There are three Switch two
• 1:15:17
  games, even though one's a remaster.
• 1:15:20
  One's a remaster. The Bravery default's only a
• 1:15:24
  Switch 2 Yeah, the Welcome Tour's only a switch to, and
• 1:15:28
  Mario Kart's only a switch to. Which I do, which I do have the
• 1:15:31
  welcome tour game. I was like, you know what I'm
• 1:15:33
  just going to I'm just going to spend the $10.
• 1:15:34
  Just check it out. Yeah.
• 1:15:35
  You can't even play it unless you buy it.
• 1:15:37
  Yeah, I can't yeah, I'm yeah, I'm like, I don't want to spend
• 1:15:39
  the money on these peripherals because like, I'm not going to
• 1:15:41
  play my Switch like that. You're.
• 1:15:43
  Not going to buy that webcam. No no, and I haven't even
• 1:15:47
  pressed C to chat yet. Oh wow.
• 1:15:53
  There's not the first thing to chat on, you know, in my, in my
• 1:15:55
  opinion, I'm not. But I'm also kind of hoping
• 1:15:57
  that, you know, like some of my, if some of my, if some of my
• 1:16:00
  existing Switch titles, you know, wind up getting some more
• 1:16:03
  of those enhancements. I'll spend the $10.00 for that
• 1:16:05
  because I spent the $10.00 for the for the Last of Us Part 2
• 1:16:08
  enhancement. When, when that?
• 1:16:09
  Some of them, some of them I think there's a list out of
• 1:16:13
  there. Some of them they don't have an
• 1:16:14
  uncapped frame rate so they just automatic get the update when
• 1:16:17
  you put it in for it. Oh, good.
• 1:16:21
  So maybe 511 Three Houses, like, you know, like the battle
• 1:16:24
  scenes, like they don't look, they won't look like they're
• 1:16:26
  going in 20 frames. Well, just the background.
• 1:16:30
  The background characters, Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:16:33
  Now Breath of the, I'm playing Breath of the Wild on my because
• 1:16:35
  I've been itching to go back to that game.
• 1:16:37
  And I was like, well, I'll just wait for the switch, shoot,
• 1:16:39
  because it's getting the upgrade and it it looks amazing.
• 1:16:41
  Just the the frame, the 60 frames a second and just sitting
• 1:16:45
  here watching the blades of grass kind of flow in and out.
• 1:16:47
  Oh man, yeah. Which is surprising because the
• 1:16:51
  Switch 2 versions of those games on cart, they're like on the MPD
• 1:16:55
  also they also so there's some numbers.
• 1:16:59
  Here we go. Yeah, maybe I'll finally play
• 1:17:01
  Final Fantasy 12 Zodiac Age, maybe because I have, I have
• 1:17:05
  that on Switch. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:17:08
  Yeah. OK, well.
• 1:17:13
  The I, I think it came out for the switch when that first came
• 1:17:17
  out, but it's like fast. It's like AF0 slash.
• 1:17:23
  Wipeout Fast RMX. Fast RMX yeah, yeah, but it it's
• 1:17:27
  not called it's it was fast RMX when the switch came out.
• 1:17:30
  Yeah, it's fast something. Or furious something.
• 1:17:35
  Yeah, probably. I'm about to look it up but it's
• 1:17:38
  really good. Yeah, they just like if you get
• 1:17:40
  a switch to that is a must have on the system.
• 1:17:43
  Fast Fusion. Fast Fusion.
• 1:17:45
  Yeah, 100%. I mean, Nintendo, I, I, I swear
• 1:17:49
  Nintendo's given up on F0 even though we're getting, we got it
• 1:17:52
  on the GameCube, you know, Switch Online thing, whatever.
• 1:17:56
  But I don't think we're going to see a new F0 in the near future
• 1:17:59
  so fast. Fusion is about as close as
• 1:18:02
  you're going to get. Oh, now I remember where I was
• 1:18:07
  going with this. OK, so so we got Mario Kart
• 1:18:10
  World, right? Do you think?
• 1:18:13
  Do you do you guys, I guess the question is do you guys think
• 1:18:18
  this is going to factor in and make, you know, make this one
• 1:18:20
  the strongest console launches ever because I don't.
• 1:18:26
  See. I'm, I'm not a Mario Kart fan,
• 1:18:29
  so like this didn't move this didn't move the needle for me
• 1:18:31
  that much. Like, I knew I was going to get
• 1:18:33
  the console, but I, you know, I, I, I was not getting Mario Kart.
• 1:18:36
  And truth be told, like, you know, like you know, 'cause
• 1:18:40
  isn't one of the Mario Party games getting like a getting
• 1:18:43
  like a, a refresh? Jamboree.
• 1:18:45
  Yeah, Jamboree getting getting new content.
• 1:18:48
  Yeah, that's the one I don't. That's the one I didn't care
• 1:18:49
  about either. I mean, if you're going to
• 1:18:53
  launch a game, a Nintendo console with one of your most
• 1:18:58
  popular games, Mario Kart's going to be it, you know, And I
• 1:19:02
  think that's definitely overshadowed.
• 1:19:03
  They're lacking release, you know, titles.
• 1:19:07
  I mean. It's great that you could play
• 1:19:09
  Cyberpunk on a Nintendo system. That's cool, yes.
• 1:19:12
  Yeah, that's cool. You know, if I didn't already
• 1:19:14
  have it for. Made-up if I didn't already have
• 1:19:16
  it for. Oh, go ahead.
• 1:19:18
  No, I was just going to say Mario Kart.
• 1:19:20
  Just basically, I mean, it's, it's a new Mario Kart.
• 1:19:23
  Everybody loves Mario Kart. So I mean.
• 1:19:25
  That's overshadowed everything else.
• 1:19:27
  And plus we have like 72 some million on the previous console.
• 1:19:31
  So that's like, if if we're going to have that high number,
• 1:19:35
  it's a possible chance that we could get that we could meet
• 1:19:38
  that same number as more sisters come out, because that just
• 1:19:41
  makes it a 1 to 1 ordeal for Nintendo, whether people get it
• 1:19:46
  digitally or physical, that's going to just like show how
• 1:19:49
  powerful Mario Kart is. You know if they get if they get
• 1:19:53
  for the switches at the end of I was going to.
• 1:19:57
  Say, I feel like the price tag is a little bit of a hindrance,
• 1:20:00
  though. Like, you know, people are
• 1:20:01
  really questioning, you know, why?
• 1:20:03
  Why $80, you know? But they're paying it.
• 1:20:06
  But still paying. But Lauren, they said the same
• 1:20:09
  thing for 10s of the Kingdom. It says the Kingdom did 10
• 1:20:11
  million in three days whenever it was released.
• 1:20:15
  Yeah, I mean, it was like it was $70.00, but I mean, well,
• 1:20:18
  here's. Well, here's well, here's the
• 1:20:19
  thing I can say about Tears of the Kingdom.
• 1:20:20
  Tears of the Kingdom was a was like.
• 1:20:23
  A true A true. Blue.
• 1:20:24
  Direct. Sequel to an existing Zelda
• 1:20:28
  game, so people were people were chomping at the bit for that
• 1:20:31
  same real. Asset from Breath of the Wild.
• 1:20:34
  I still won't forgive them. Yeah.
• 1:20:35
  Yeah, yeah. I I do remember people were like
• 1:20:38
  a $70 glorified DLC. Basically, yeah.
• 1:20:42
  It did it with something completely different and it's
• 1:20:44
  doing like it hit double digits. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:51
  I'm not. I mean, I'm not.
• 1:20:52
  I'm not. Really arguing?
• 1:20:54
  I'm just like, I'm just like being the devil's advocate here
• 1:20:56
  by saying, you know, like people, yeah.
• 1:20:58
  And stories, right, People, people are paying the price tag,
• 1:21:01
  but the same time they're like, this game is $80, you know,
• 1:21:05
  like, you know, this game is $80.00 for a base edition.
• 1:21:07
  It's not deluxe edition, you know, it's not a, you know, it's
• 1:21:10
  not a, it's not a premium edition or whatnot.
• 1:21:12
  Is this it's $80.00 for for a base edition you know?
• 1:21:17
  And I, I think people who just like hear, hear it don't never,
• 1:21:21
  they hear the price, but don't say how much content is in the
• 1:21:25
  game or speak about that, because of course some people
• 1:21:28
  want to do content by dollar and, and all of that.
• 1:21:31
  But I think a lot of people just like, they don't fetter in the
• 1:21:33
  content that's in the game, the replayability and you know what,
• 1:21:38
  what people going to be doing with their friends and family
• 1:21:41
  playing this game and stuff like there's much to it.
• 1:21:44
  That's just the price tag. And I think they're using the
• 1:21:46
  price. Some people use the price tag
• 1:21:48
  once again to get engaged. They don't care about the price.
• 1:21:54
  I'm. Glad you mentioned it.
• 1:21:55
  I'm glad you mentioned the dollar, the dollar, the dollar
• 1:21:58
  price tag on that, because I feel like that was one of the
• 1:22:02
  stupidest metrics that people had for like, you know, like
• 1:22:05
  getting value for their games and stuff like that.
• 1:22:07
  You know what I mean? Like, you know, it's a $60.00
• 1:22:09
  game. Was it worth $60 worth to play
• 1:22:11
  through or something? You know, some crap like that.
• 1:22:13
  You know, everybody gets their own.
• 1:22:14
  Everybody gets their own enjoyment in games a certain
• 1:22:16
  way, you know? You know differently, I mean.
• 1:22:19
  Clarif's gear came out, it was $50.00.
• 1:22:21
  I would have gladly paid $80. For it, I would, yeah, I would
• 1:22:25
  have paid. I would have paid the premium
• 1:22:26
  dollar for that. Yeah, it it's really up to the
• 1:22:28
  publisher and their subjective view of just like, yeah, this is
• 1:22:31
  going to be a game that has immense amount of replayability,
• 1:22:34
  so maybe they try to monetize that or they try to quantify.
• 1:22:37
  Like, so, yeah, you know, you could play this over and over
• 1:22:40
  and over again, you know, and it's like, OK, Can you imagine
• 1:22:43
  if Call of Duty started doing that or Fortnite started doing
• 1:22:46
  that? Jeez, yeah, they.
• 1:22:48
  They kind of do. What they'd?
• 1:22:50
  Be they. Kind of do it right?
• 1:22:52
  So check. So check this because this is
• 1:22:54
  one thing I definitely applaud Nintendo on.
• 1:22:56
  They managed to like to like hit the scalpers where it really
• 1:22:59
  hurt. By actually having a stock of
• 1:23:02
  systems. By having a stock of systems you
• 1:23:04
  know you know. Giving them to brick and mortar
• 1:23:07
  stores. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I so I
• 1:23:12
  applaud their proactive stance on on with the switch too by
• 1:23:15
  tightening pre-order rules. And actually I feel like the
• 1:23:17
  pre-order rules are a little wonky, but you know, hey, like
• 1:23:20
  thanks to pre ordering I was actually able to get one.
• 1:23:25
  Yeah, you had actually more success.
• 1:23:27
  I mean, I mean, I mean, I had help.
• 1:23:28
  I had help with one. Wow.
• 1:23:32
  I actually, I was, I actually went to my local target and when
• 1:23:38
  I got there it was only about four or five people in line.
• 1:23:42
  So and then they saw it, they, they was like, we got 50
• 1:23:44
  bundles, we got 50 regular ones. And I was.
• 1:23:49
  Able isn't that? Weird.
• 1:23:50
  We we had we had a console launched that didn't feel like
• 1:23:53
  an actual console launched. Isn't that weird?
• 1:23:56
  Yeah. Yeah, like people like people
• 1:23:58
  woke up. People woke up like 2 days
• 1:23:59
  before the switch to was dropping.
• 1:24:01
  I was like, hey, a new system's coming out.
• 1:24:04
  It wasn't like when the PS, when the PS5 and the Xbox Series X
• 1:24:07
  were coming out. Like everybody's like, Oh yes, I
• 1:24:09
  can't wait. I got to have one of these if
• 1:24:10
  you do it. I was like, I'm I was planning
• 1:24:14
  to get them. Oh, I'm sorry.
• 1:24:17
  Oh, I was planning on getting my.
• 1:24:19
  I was planning on getting my next.
• 1:24:21
  Month well, you're well, you're well, you're different, you're
• 1:24:24
  different. You're you're a Nintendo part.
• 1:24:26
  I was going to say, I don't. I don't believe that for a
• 1:24:28
  second. Eddie No, no, I, I, I literally
• 1:24:30
  it on pop like and I even told Corey I was just like, I'm going
• 1:24:33
  to get mines in July because I feel like everything is going to
• 1:24:37
  be sold out on day one with the pre-orders.
• 1:24:41
  I didn't know what the allocation would be in stores.
• 1:24:44
  I know that Nintendo said we'll have some in stores, but I'm
• 1:24:47
  thinking everybody's going to be at the stores from their
• 1:24:50
  midnight release and get in and get in the system.
• 1:24:53
  So I just said by have a chance have a stance.
• 1:24:57
  Let me try target that's close to us and see if they have one
• 1:25:01
  and they well. I mean, as gamers, as, as gamers
• 1:25:04
  in, in, in the current, in the current climate of gaming right
• 1:25:07
  now, like we kind of got burnt by a lot of like, by a lot of
• 1:25:09
  like, you know, stuff, you know. The PS5 especially, right?
• 1:25:13
  Yeah, the PS Five. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:25:16
  And like we got burnt. So like we were, we were really
• 1:25:18
  feeling like the the Astor, what do you want to call it, you
• 1:25:21
  know, behind like, am I actually going to be able to get one of
• 1:25:23
  these things? You know, I wound up in the hot.
• 1:25:25
  I wound up in the hot scramble. Like I was like, am I going to
• 1:25:27
  get one of these? Spy Wave did a news story about
• 1:25:32
  the scoffers Who try to buy as many as they can or whatever and
• 1:25:37
  throw them up and they were just like they got some like for 607
• 1:25:42
  hundred some dollars and no one's buying it because it was
• 1:25:45
  so available on the day that it came out.
• 1:25:50
  So I'm hoping Sony takes, I'm hoping Sony takes notes on this
• 1:25:53
  one because we don't know if Microsoft's going to make
• 1:25:55
  another console. No, they are actually.
• 1:25:58
  Yeah, I know. I was being OK.
• 1:26:00
  I was being. Alright, I was going to say you
• 1:26:02
  got the Xbox guy here. Like hey, hey, hey, I.
• 1:26:05
  Was being. Put out a video today.
• 1:26:07
  He has 10,000 units made of their PS six.
• 1:26:10
  It's scary be launch and yeah, then they'll just try and, you
• 1:26:14
  know, trickle in more systems as it comes along.
• 1:26:17
  Oh sure, yeah. But I feel like for PS Five in
• 1:26:21
  Series X&S to move on to their next system.
• 1:26:24
  I feel like is this a Wii U situation where it's just, it's
• 1:26:28
  just feel like a short lifespan for a system to be out, even
• 1:26:35
  though they got like numbers and stuff do it just feels like I
• 1:26:38
  don't. I feel like it's just too it's
• 1:26:40
  too quick for them to move on to making their next systems.
• 1:26:45
  I don't know who you. Talking about, I mean, I mean,
• 1:26:47
  we got. For Sony and Microsoft.
• 1:26:50
  Oh, OK. They're, well, they're, I mean,
• 1:26:51
  they're already, they're, they're already in the lab, like
• 1:26:53
  doing this stuff, though, 'cause they're I.
• 1:26:54
  Mean. Yeah, but I'm just like, what's
• 1:26:57
  to announce it? Like it just feels like, 'cause
• 1:27:00
  when did those systems come out? Was it 2000?
• 1:27:02
  Was it 19 or 20? 2020.
• 1:27:05
  It was 2000, yeah, 20/20/2020. 2012 so you would, so you would
• 1:27:09
  think around like 26 or 27 they were announced that they're
• 1:27:14
  working on their new system or something.
• 1:27:16
  Not this early. My, well, my theory is, my
• 1:27:19
  theory is, is that you know, like #1 like the, the overall
• 1:27:22
  console, the, the overall console sales post launch, you
• 1:27:25
  know, just did not hit the way they wanted to.
• 1:27:27
  You know, like I'm pretty sure there's still, there's still
• 1:27:29
  assholes out there with like, with like scout systems that are
• 1:27:32
  trying to still like built people for, you know, money and
• 1:27:34
  stuff like that. You know, you know, you know,
• 1:27:37
  and, and it hurts and it hurts Sony, Sony admitted it.
• 1:27:40
  Like it hurts. It hurts their overall they,
• 1:27:42
  they, they can't track their quantitative sales because like
• 1:27:45
  basically they know they sold the system, but what they don't
• 1:27:49
  know is did they sell? How many customers are actually
• 1:27:52
  playing it? Because they use like logins to
• 1:27:54
  the PlayStation ID to figure out like, you know, bona fide, like
• 1:27:58
  is this a true, like a true console in your hand type thing?
• 1:28:01
  Ain't no, so there's, there's, there's, there's hundreds of
• 1:28:04
  consoles sitting in someone's basement.
• 1:28:05
  Well, people's basements, you know, that are never getting
• 1:28:08
  turned on and stuff like that. And yeah, Sony got the money for
• 1:28:10
  it, but they're not getting, they're not getting the
• 1:28:12
  residuals for the fact that someone has a live system in
• 1:28:14
  their in their hand. And to be a scarper stuck with
• 1:28:18
  all of those systems. Hey, that's on there.
• 1:28:21
  And you got to sell for a loss at some point, so.
• 1:28:23
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, hey, you know, yeah.
• 1:28:25
  Like they're, they're actually, they're actually learning what
• 1:28:28
  the, what the, what the marketing and merchandising
• 1:28:31
  world has known for like the beginning of time.
• 1:28:33
  I wonder like their credit, I wonder what their credit card
• 1:28:36
  companies are saying like. They probably, they probably,
• 1:28:40
  they probably sent loans out just to fix their credit cards.
• 1:28:43
  Yeah. Now what the banks are saying
• 1:28:47
  about that, because that's like that's interest.
• 1:28:49
  I'm like so you still paying a lot of money and not making
• 1:28:52
  nothing? Yeah, yeah, but but, but staying
• 1:28:57
  with the same topic, but switching gears just a moment
• 1:28:59
  because we didn't invoke Sony's name.
• 1:29:02
  Shuhei Yoshi though, you know that guy right?
• 1:29:06
  He revealed he revealed in the recent interview that
• 1:29:08
  PlayStation has long seen Xbox, not Nintendo as the primary
• 1:29:12
  rival outside Japan, with Sony viewing Nintendo as a creator of
• 1:29:16
  family focused entry level gaming.
• 1:29:19
  Meanwhile, amid this whole thing with Nintendo's switch to
• 1:29:22
  shattering the US hardware sales does raise a question about
• 1:29:25
  whether Sony should start paying more attention to to Nintendo.
• 1:29:29
  Ed, I'm, I'm gonna lob this your way first because I know you got
• 1:29:32
  I know you got some stuff to say so.
• 1:29:34
  Yes. So go to that family friendly
• 1:29:38
  thing. It doesn't make sense that the
• 1:29:41
  family friendly thing is being used when it's something like
• 1:29:44
  Doom is selling a million while something like that actually.
• 1:29:48
  Hold on, hold on. Let me, let me just let me just
• 1:29:51
  just to just to clarify just a little bit run was back in PS4.
• 1:29:56
  So, so think of it from where he's thinking about during that
• 1:29:59
  time frame, you know? Yeah.
• 1:30:01
  Well, you got to think that you don't hit almost 150 systems and
• 1:30:07
  you think that that's 156,000,000 kids doing it.
• 1:30:11
  No, it's a lot of adults who were Brian these systems, Brian
• 1:30:14
  the collectors making a lot of games from all from every rating
• 1:30:19
  besides AO hit like a million plus sales, whether it's ND or
• 1:30:25
  or first party or third party. Like you can't still use that
• 1:30:30
  family friendly subject anymore when all of these different type
• 1:30:34
  of games for various ages of players are making numbers and
• 1:30:40
  stuff. Nintendo created a sister for
• 1:30:42
  everyone to play. It's not just family friended,
• 1:30:45
  everyone is playing it. Because if you look on social
• 1:30:48
  media, you and you see pictures of people posting games, it's a
• 1:30:52
  bunch of adults that are posting it.
• 1:30:55
  So where's that family friendly? If they'd be like, I can't wait
• 1:30:58
  to play Mario Kart with my friends and stuff.
• 1:31:01
  I can't wait to play Mario Party or I can't wait to talk about
• 1:31:05
  Bayonetta 3 or Fire Emblem 3 houses.
• 1:31:08
  Like what kid is playing Fire Emblem 3 houses?
• 1:31:12
  They got a Nintendo Switch, you know, and that deals with themes
• 1:31:16
  of death and, you know, problems and relationships and stuff.
• 1:31:22
  No 9 or 8 year old is thinking about that and stuff.
• 1:31:25
  And this is coming from Nintendo, you know, of of an 8
• 1:31:29
  or 9 year old is thinking about the game.
• 1:31:31
  It's Fortnite or it's Roblox or Minecraft.
• 1:31:35
  You're not going to buy Nintendo Switch like that.
• 1:31:37
  So I think using that term family friendly is it is it's
• 1:31:42
  something that it's going to hurt you in the long run.
• 1:31:45
  Just be like Nintendo may a competitive console that seems
• 1:31:49
  to a popular console or that's like his various ages and Sony
• 1:31:55
  needs to pay attention to that because.
• 1:31:59
  So you're telling me we need more astrobot?
• 1:32:02
  Even if you. Need more Astrobot?
• 1:32:05
  Even if we do need more astrobot, yes.
• 1:32:07
  We do. We do.
• 1:32:08
  You want you want to know why? Because when Spider Man 2 came
• 1:32:12
  out against Mario Wonder, Spider Man did.
• 1:32:16
  Spider Man 2 did do great in the sales, but Mario Wonder was
• 1:32:20
  selling every month and so if your biggest game is still AE
• 1:32:27
  rated gang like Astrobot and it's game of the year, yeah, you
• 1:32:31
  might want to start making a variety of games that is going
• 1:32:35
  to hit any age that people are going to love.
• 1:32:38
  People are mad at you because you're remastering The Last of
• 1:32:41
  Us Part 2. This is your third version of
• 1:32:43
  doing it. PlayStation players don't want
• 1:32:46
  to do that right now. For Nintendo players, we won't.
• 1:32:49
  We won't win Record HD to come support of a Wii U game.
• 1:32:53
  Yeah, yeah. But they wound up giving us the
• 1:32:56
  GameCube version was I'm like, we didn't ask for this.
• 1:32:59
  Actually, actually, actually the GameCube version, if you, if you
• 1:33:05
  played it LeBron, it's really good.
• 1:33:08
  I did. I did play.
• 1:33:09
  I did play. I, well, I mean, I haven't
• 1:33:12
  played on Switch too, but I did play it on, I did play the
• 1:33:14
  original one on the on the Wii on the GameCube.
• 1:33:19
  Jesus. Oh it that.
• 1:33:21
  Don't make any mad, Loran, no. No, no.
• 1:33:24
  But I I I just think that if. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, it
• 1:33:28
  plays. Oh, so wait, it it it's playing
• 1:33:30
  at 1:20 on on Swiss 2. I think it's 60 frames.
• 1:33:34
  I think it's 6 frames. OK, yeah, because it's really
• 1:33:38
  smooth, like there is no slow down at all.
• 1:33:41
  It may be some slow down. It's something to load in at
• 1:33:43
  some parts, but it's really smooth and you can see it in the
• 1:33:46
  animation. It's really, really good.
• 1:33:49
  So I, I just think that Microsoft learned to be like,
• 1:33:54
  you know what, we're not even going to compete with Nintendo.
• 1:33:56
  In fact, let's partner up with Nintendo and work with them and
• 1:34:00
  see what we could do. And it's been a great business
• 1:34:03
  from. I think, I think Microsoft, I
• 1:34:06
  think Microsoft had to do something I mean because like I
• 1:34:08
  mean you know, like some even eating Microsoft lunch for, for
• 1:34:11
  like for like 2 console generations.
• 1:34:14
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:34:16
  Because the. Because the.
• 1:34:17
  Because the PS4 and the Xbox One thing some people are still
• 1:34:22
  feeling, but I'm like Xbox got some really great games out
• 1:34:25
  there. They've been they've been like
• 1:34:28
  making moves this year from Microsoft has been a big year.
• 1:34:33
  And if you think I'm lying, just check out their first party
• 1:34:35
  games, check out their sales on PlayStation 4 and on PC like I
• 1:34:42
  think it would. Something was like #1
• 1:34:44
  pre-ordered on PlayStation 4 or five, I think it was a Sea of
• 1:34:48
  Thieves and stuff like that. Hit #1 on the pre-orders when
• 1:34:53
  Microsoft announced it that it was coming to PlayStation.
• 1:34:57
  That's Boyfriend that's big for Microsoft.
• 1:35:01
  So Microsoft would just like we don't care about competition,
• 1:35:03
  Nintendo don't care about competition.
• 1:35:05
  Everything is an Xbox, Eddie. Yeah.
• 1:35:08
  Right, everything is an Xbox. Story Pat, did you guys have
• 1:35:11
  anything you want to add on to this?
• 1:35:12
  What? Were we talking about?
• 1:35:16
  I I don't. About about, about, about about
• 1:35:19
  how Sony. About how Sony did not focus on
• 1:35:21
  Nintendo being a threat to them. I don't think so.
• 1:35:26
  Nintendo is in the league of its own.
• 1:35:28
  Like Nintendo's not even competing.
• 1:35:31
  And I think like Phil Spencer even said it himself, like
• 1:35:34
  Nintendo's doing its own thing. They're not looking over to see
• 1:35:38
  what Sony and Microsoft are doing, obviously, because Sony
• 1:35:41
  and Microsoft are similar and hardware is similar in
• 1:35:43
  competition, similar games and everything.
• 1:35:47
  You know, what makes PlayStation 5 successful is completely
• 1:35:50
  different than what makes the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo
• 1:35:52
  Switch 2 successful. So I mean, you know, are there
• 1:35:57
  family friendly games on the Sony systems?
• 1:35:59
  Yeah, there are. But I'm all about diversifying
• 1:36:04
  your content. I think for a while during the
• 1:36:07
  PS4 era we had a lot of like mature themed, you know, third
• 1:36:12
  person action adventure games, you know, from Sony First Party
• 1:36:17
  Studios that it's like, OK, it's the same old, same old, same
• 1:36:20
  old, you know, And then Astrobot comes out and just blows
• 1:36:24
  everybody out of the water. Yeah.
• 1:36:28
  No, I, I, I kind of agree in that respect as well that Sony
• 1:36:34
  didn't. Nintendo and Sony, they are two
• 1:36:37
  different markets in that sense that or at least their aim is
• 1:36:42
  two different groups. And instead of saying family
• 1:36:46
  friendly or family focus, I'm going to say Nintendo and more
• 1:36:49
  for the casual gamer. Not casual in a bad way, more
• 1:36:52
  casual as in I'm, you know, only have a couple hours a week to
• 1:36:57
  play a video game. You know, I'm going to pick up
• 1:37:00
  something that's easy to pick up.
• 1:37:03
  You know, relaxing to play where?
• 1:37:05
  You know, it doesn't take a lot, doesn't take a big investment
• 1:37:07
  from the gamer. Or do I have to know so much
• 1:37:11
  about previous series entries to be able to understand that
• 1:37:16
  Sony's market definitely was not that, and the reason Sony's
• 1:37:22
  struggling now is because they put the whole focus in the live
• 1:37:25
  service. Then now that that's not panning
• 1:37:30
  out, like most of their game library doesn't exist.
• 1:37:34
  So they're trying to restructure that.
• 1:37:39
  And Nintendo just is like Nintendo's got a good game plan.
• 1:37:43
  They they space their games out, have all their franchise not
• 1:37:47
  necessarily hit on the same year.
• 1:37:50
  And you know, they keep they keep a good rotation going,
• 1:37:54
  something that I think Microsoft is starting to pick up on now
• 1:37:58
  and do with their gaming studios.
• 1:38:01
  And something Sony needs to do a lot better on, especially after
• 1:38:04
  they just announced that they will focus on 110th pole, at
• 1:38:08
  least one tent pole game a year, several multiplayer games and
• 1:38:12
  other like service. Like they still want to focus on
• 1:38:15
  that live service and try and hit that golden goose.
• 1:38:18
  It's like don't do that. Yeah.
• 1:38:20
  I think I think what Sony Microsoft kind of well, I'm
• 1:38:24
  gonna say Sony Microsoft. I would say this more about
• 1:38:26
  Nintendo, Nintendo partnership and working with like way four
• 1:38:31
  and band and Nicole and Platinum games and now from Software with
• 1:38:36
  blood lust, blood blood dust, like, oh, dust bloods, I'm sorry
• 1:38:41
  about that. It said like Nintendo is willing
• 1:38:45
  to work with all of these part these partners and they and they
• 1:38:50
  make all of these great gangs. Mercury system is a good one.
• 1:38:53
  Like we are always say cast their Castlevania gang was hit
• 1:38:59
  or miss, depending on what you what you thinking.
• 1:39:01
  But then you go to Simmons returns, great gang, Metroid,
• 1:39:07
  Metroid Dread, hot game that everybody wish that that was
• 1:39:11
  game of the year and it's still so good.
• 1:39:13
  And that put them in good graces with a lot of people.
• 1:39:16
  Like, I think that even just with Nintendo's partnership
• 1:39:19
  makes people realize that Nintendo, you know, they had
• 1:39:25
  their their lows, you know, but they came back and they came
• 1:39:29
  back snappy, you know. And I think, I think Microsoft
• 1:39:34
  and Sony would love to have that.
• 1:39:37
  Not saying that they're failing in a lot of things, but they
• 1:39:39
  wish they had. They cut that combat that that
• 1:39:44
  Nintendo has where people was doubting them.
• 1:39:48
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:39:51
  All right, well, despite Nintendo's switch to smashing
• 1:39:53
  sales records and expanding the gaming audience, Sony continues
• 1:39:57
  to view Nintendo as more of an as more as an industry partner
• 1:39:59
  than a direct. Rival.
• 1:40:01
  Meaning, because I know people are like, wait, didn't you just
• 1:40:04
  say something completely different industry partner,
• 1:40:07
  meaning that, you know, like they're, they both have the same
• 1:40:10
  strategy and goal without actually being direct
• 1:40:12
  competition to each other. You know, right now Sony's in
• 1:40:16
  the more precarious position with that.
• 1:40:17
  So focusing on the focusing on the competitive energy with
• 1:40:20
  Microsoft instead has kind of been what their thing is.
• 1:40:23
  And you know, like Microsoft is not quite ready to roll over and
• 1:40:25
  show us, show us bellies just yet because there is a new
• 1:40:27
  console coming, you know, and of course, like we've got a new ROG
• 1:40:31
  Ally system coming that, you know, I cannot wait for
• 1:40:33
  personally. However, with Nintendo's growing
• 1:40:37
  global impact and evolving hybrid console markets, Sony may
• 1:40:40
  need to ultimately rethink the entire strategy and just to stay
• 1:40:43
  ahead. Or at least 2 Stay neck and neck
• 1:40:45
  with them. See Sony.
• 1:40:48
  Yeah, 'cause Sony is being sneaky.
• 1:40:51
  What they're doing is they're putting some of their gangs
• 1:40:54
  through Bandai Neko cause Pat's upon that's a, that's a first
• 1:41:01
  priority Sony gay and they're releasing it through Bandai
• 1:41:05
  Neko. And so Sony released a lot of
• 1:41:07
  their Vita and PSP gangs do Bandai Neko.
• 1:41:12
  That's good marketing for Sony and good money for them to be
• 1:41:16
  like, OK, we won't put out the even like the Lego Horizon game.
• 1:41:21
  Like Sony just like, oh, if Microsoft is getting that coin,
• 1:41:24
  we want a piece of that coin too.
• 1:41:27
  And so they're going to figure out a way to probably get some
• 1:41:32
  of those smarter games onto it. Can you think of Resistance?
• 1:41:36
  That was on I think PSP coming. It was on Nintendo ESP and PSP
• 1:41:41
  though. Oh, it was OK if if they could
• 1:41:44
  fix some some of that stuff and get it on switch to and then I
• 1:41:48
  never releases it and it does good.
• 1:41:51
  Don't you think Sony's going to not that's going to continue to
• 1:41:55
  port more stuff from the handheld games.
• 1:41:58
  Can you see that Uncharted game that came out but being on
• 1:42:02
  Switch to and? That.
• 1:42:06
  Does that would? Never, Yeah.
• 1:42:08
  Yeah. Yeah, I'm just talking about
• 1:42:11
  like their PSPPSV, the stuff, you know some of their first
• 1:42:14
  party stuff, if that end up on switch to and release the band
• 1:42:17
  and Echo and it's good and they get sales, they see a they just
• 1:42:23
  even see over 500,000 copies or whatever.
• 1:42:27
  So it's gonna be like, oh, let's move our strategy to this if our
• 1:42:31
  live service systems continues not to work.
• 1:42:34
  Yeah, yeah, alright. We're gonna go ahead and wrap
• 1:42:37
  that topic up because we need to talk about what we've been
• 1:42:41
  playing this past week. So Stoy, you go first because
• 1:42:47
  you're the you're the honored guest here tonight.
• 1:42:51
  I besides I I just be clear obscure.
• 1:42:55
  I feel like 2 weeks ago and that that was one of the first games
• 1:43:00
  in a long time that I was afraid to beat because I was like, it
• 1:43:04
  reminds me of when I was talking with Andre a lot when Andre
• 1:43:07
  would like talked about like how like he could never beat Legend
• 1:43:10
  of Dragoon 'cause he was like, I, he loved the game so much
• 1:43:14
  that he was like, I don't want to beat it.
• 1:43:15
  I just started over again. So I got to act 3 and I was
• 1:43:18
  like, I kind of want to like mop up some side quests and stuff.
• 1:43:21
  And then I was after a while I was just like, all right, I just
• 1:43:23
  got to peel the Band-Aid off. So, so far it's my game of the
• 1:43:27
  year, but I also like I Pat, maybe you'll, you would feel me
• 1:43:35
  on this one. I got a game in the mail last
• 1:43:38
  week and I, I was like, oh, I got a game.
• 1:43:41
  I guess I, I order things from like play Asia and limited run
• 1:43:44
  and stuff all the time. And it's like I forget until I
• 1:43:48
  open it, open the box. I'm like, Oh yeah, I remember
• 1:43:50
  this game. So this game I bought called the
• 1:43:52
  Steel Seed and I look at it, I'm like.
• 1:43:55
  OK, I'm like, it's a Metroidvania, right?
• 1:43:59
  It's it reminds me more like Recore if anything, but like
• 1:44:06
  Recore meets Metal Gear Solid, kind of.
• 1:44:10
  But yeah, I looked at it and I was like, I don't remember this
• 1:44:13
  game. I was like, what, what is this
• 1:44:15
  game? And like Sarah, my wife, she's
• 1:44:18
  like, how do you like buy a game and just not know what it is?
• 1:44:20
  I'm like, I don't know. I just, I must have watched a
• 1:44:22
  trailer and I was like, this is cool.
• 1:44:24
  There's got to be a physical copy of it.
• 1:44:25
  So I saw I watched a trailer and I was like, oh, yeah, I remember
• 1:44:28
  this game. But yeah, it's like a, it's a
• 1:44:31
  third person action adventure stealth game.
• 1:44:34
  I mean, you, you can I I think they want you to play stealthy.
• 1:44:38
  They want you to. It's like, basically like hide
• 1:44:41
  behind cover, Yeah. I do remember the previews for
• 1:44:44
  this one now OK. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:44:45
  I think it won like some like Joyce Golden Joystick Awards
• 1:44:48
  last year. You have like a drone with you,
• 1:44:49
  right? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:44:51
  And that drone can like you can use the drone to drop, like, you
• 1:44:54
  know, mines, you can use it to shoot and it it interacts with
• 1:44:58
  the environment and stuff and you can use it as a drone to tag
• 1:45:01
  enemies. That's the best part.
• 1:45:02
  But yeah, like it's actually like if you're if you're kind of
• 1:45:06
  itching for some like good, really like kind of easy to pick
• 1:45:09
  up stealth action game. Like this is a good solid game.
• 1:45:13
  It's like from a developer I've never heard of.
• 1:45:15
  And good solid AA title, like good voice acting, kind of
• 1:45:19
  interesting story. I mean, this is standard post
• 1:45:22
  apocalyptic. The world ended, and now you're
• 1:45:25
  a resurrected Cyborg that has to re, you know, connect humanity
• 1:45:29
  to the world kind of thing. Yeah.
• 1:45:33
  I would say like Metal Gear Solid, a Recore and Horizon 0
• 1:45:39
  Dawn had a baby. OK.
• 1:45:42
  That's basically this game. So otherwise I played the I
• 1:45:47
  played the Ninja Gaiden Ragebound demo.
• 1:45:50
  Oh my God guys, we're getting a Shinobi side scrolling action
• 1:45:54
  adventure game and a Ninja Gaiden side scrolling action
• 1:45:58
  adventure. Game in the same year.
• 1:46:01
  I'm saying. Yes, and you're getting a Ninja
• 1:46:04
  Gaiden. We're getting a Ninja Gaiden 3D
• 1:46:05
  game guys. By. 2020 yes by dude I cried.
• 1:46:11
  I cried when all of a sudden they were like Platinum's making
• 1:46:14
  the new Ninja Gaiden game. I was like Oh my God.
• 1:46:17
  Anyway, Ninja Gaiden Ragebound demo really good.
• 1:46:22
  It's dot may you they're they're going to knock it out of the
• 1:46:24
  park and just it it's got kind of like I I didn't realize that
• 1:46:31
  they remade they remastered a lot of the old music to like
• 1:46:35
  kind of like modernize it and stuff.
• 1:46:36
  Oh yeah, and I was. Like not listening to it.
• 1:46:39
  And I was like, wait a minute, this is like stage 11 and like,
• 1:46:42
  did you guide into holy shit, this song slaps and it's like
• 1:46:45
  you heard the other, you know, remake.
• 1:46:46
  I'm like, Oh my God, it's everything.
• 1:46:49
  It's really cool. If you have nostalgia for the
• 1:46:51
  old Ninja Gaiden, like you're you're going to love this.
• 1:46:53
  I mean, it's got new mechanics in it that makes the game fun
• 1:46:58
  and not so challenging. Combats not as challenging as I
• 1:47:04
  think the original game. So I think.
• 1:47:05
  Oh good, because the original game was the balls questionably
• 1:47:07
  hard. Yeah, it was.
• 1:47:09
  I mean, I mean, this one only tenderizes your balls a little
• 1:47:12
  bit. It just tickles them a little
• 1:47:14
  bit. It doesn't really.
• 1:47:15
  Crush them. We can.
• 1:47:16
  We can only hope. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:47:18
  So, at least from my experience with the demo so far.
• 1:47:21
  All right, well, well, real quickly.
• 1:47:23
  I've. I've been saying it all so long.
• 1:47:25
  I've. I'm playing clear, obscure
• 1:47:26
  Expedition 33. Yeah, like the game.
• 1:47:29
  The game officially has been hooked.
• 1:47:31
  I love the combat system and and of course the music, the overall
• 1:47:35
  sign of the game is just, is just amazing, you know, and, and
• 1:47:37
  I'm one of those people. I'm not really a big RPG gamer
• 1:47:40
  in my, in my older age now. So, you know, like the fact
• 1:47:43
  that, you know, like the game actually has me hooked.
• 1:47:45
  And then I'm actually, if I wasn't trying to go to bed as
• 1:47:48
  soon as we got the podcast tonight, I would actually go
• 1:47:50
  play at least 20 minutes of it. I might still play 20 minutes of
• 1:47:52
  it because I'm I'm a collective punishment, but you know, but I
• 1:47:55
  am also starting to understand why people are calling for it to
• 1:47:58
  be a contender for game of the year.
• 1:47:59
  So yeah, I will. I will keep you guys posted on
• 1:48:02
  my progress because I will have this game beaten sometime soon.
• 1:48:09
  Ed, what you been playing? So I am playing light pop
• 1:48:15
  chainsaw re pop. This is my first time playing
• 1:48:18
  the game. I never got to got to play it on
• 1:48:20
  PS3. Downloaded torchlight 2 so I'm
• 1:48:24
  playing that. I'm going to restart Disco
• 1:48:26
  Lesium switch to 'cause I had it on my switch, give it a try and
• 1:48:32
  then put it away 'cause I started playing Xbox playing
• 1:48:36
  cookie cutter which is a Metroid venia.
• 1:48:40
  And last but not least people show low in the cursed yo-yo.
• 1:48:43
  I am at the getting close to the end of it right now.
• 1:48:48
  I'm just searching for extra stuff, man.
• 1:48:51
  Pocket Trap and PM Studios, they snapped with this one and this
• 1:48:55
  one is definitely a game of the year contender from me.
• 1:48:59
  I played this demo at last year's PAX East and I keep
• 1:49:03
  talking about it. I got the met the one of the
• 1:49:05
  developers and they're from Brazil Pocket Trap and I told
• 1:49:09
  them that not only was that my game of the show for that PAX
• 1:49:14
  East, I was willing to pay him $20.00 right now to take home
• 1:49:18
  this demo and play it because it was that good right inside.
• 1:49:23
  And I was just like, they were supposed, they were supposed to
• 1:49:26
  release it last year in August for, for a Steam on PC, but they
• 1:49:33
  pushed it back and released it in May for everything.
• 1:49:36
  And I was just like, yeah, found out they was doing physical and
• 1:49:40
  ordered my copy from Canada. It was just like, yeah, got to
• 1:49:43
  play this. So it's, it's so good, so
• 1:49:46
  challenging, Eddie. We're going to have to interrupt
• 1:49:48
  you here just because we got like 2 minutes left, but.
• 1:49:53
  Yeah. I just want to say I was playing
• 1:49:55
  Karma, The Dark World. It is a psychological thriller,
• 1:49:59
  first person, first person psychological thriller made by
• 1:50:03
  Word Productions. Give it a shot.
• 1:50:05
  It is very creepy, very dark. I wish I had a better TV because
• 1:50:11
  my color scheme was very screwed up.
• 1:50:13
  Unfortunately, when I saw this and then I between the game I
• 1:50:18
  played and the previews I saw, but it's it's it's a very creepy
• 1:50:23
  dystopian world where you're kind of a police officer who can
• 1:50:26
  dive into people's minds to kind of pull the truths, but people's
• 1:50:30
  minds are also very distorted and, you know, twisted And it's
• 1:50:34
  a very, very sci-fi, but also like silent hilly kind of
• 1:50:41
  creepiness to it. So I really enjoyed it.
• 1:50:45
  Story. It's a game that's 100% up your
• 1:50:48
  alley. I wrote it down.
• 1:50:50
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• 1:50:52
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• 1:50:55
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• 1:50:57
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• 1:51:00
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