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Episode 212: Clair Obscur and GRAND THEFT AUTO 6... the delay. · WASD and Beyond

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None. The.
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Welcome to show everybody. My name is Nick.
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This is Brody Weir, host of WASD MB on podcast.
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Dear God, too fast. It was pretty quick, yeah.
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It wasn't a little, a little. Aggressive.
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Yeah. It's in your face, deeper in
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That's fine. Anything for anything for
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thanks. Oh man, well, I think see, like
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I already have very little eyes. I don't know, look at these
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dimples. What are what?
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It's like my face is getting fat and kind of going this way.
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Whoo, whee. Office jobs are different.
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I am out of one Brody's like we just get to it.
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What do you want from me? I don't.
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I don't know what to comment on. Here I feel like I feel like I'm
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talking like a coked out rabbit, but a little Brody.
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How has your week been and what have you been playing?
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My week has been pretty good. I'm I'm off work right now.
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Got a little bit of vacation in to go to kids baseball
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tournaments this weekend. So been working on a lot of
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stuff around the house, just trying to get a bunch of
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projects and stuff done. But when I have had time to
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play, I have mainly been playing Expedition 33.
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I'm I don't even think I've actually played anything else.
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I think that has been pretty much everything I've touched.
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I think maybe touched a little bit of Marvel Rivals because
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that's just kind of the the staple multiplayer if I'm just
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killing killing the evening type of thing yeah but yeah no, it a
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fucking dude. This game, this game is so good
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it it has for for what, a $50 game I think is what it is.
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I. Think yeah, I think it was 50
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bucks. $50 game. I, it's, it's incredible.
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I if it was a $70 game, I'd still be stoked on it like this.
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I have 22 hours into it right now.
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I am. I don't know how far into Act 2
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I am. But I'm 22 hours and you're only
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into act 2. Yeah, granted, I've, I've just
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been exploring doing a bunch of stuff, which is interesting,
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right? Because sometimes you'll walk
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into like this, this area and you're like, yeah, OK, I can get
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here. So surely everything will be
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fine, right? It's not fine.
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It's not fine at all. Sometimes it's hell.
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I, I after I walked in, did my attacks, realized the health bar
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didn't really move and I got 1 shotted by everything.
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I was like, hey, maybe we should go somewhere else.
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And I've done that a couple Times Now.
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So there's, there's some stuff that I've been taking notes on,
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which I don't typically do because, but I really want to
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see almost everything in this game and do as much as I
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possibly can. So I've been taking notes on
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areas I need to go back to once I get higher level.
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I obviously I'm going to try to keep it pretty spoiler free, so
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I won't say too much, but yeah, I mean, this, this story is
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wild. Like I read something the other
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day that the head writer for this actually was hired as a
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voice actress for the essentially like the proof of
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concept for this initially and then ended up getting brought in
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as a writer. And this is some of my favorite
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video game writing that I have probably ever experienced in the
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game. Crazy pivot.
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Yeah, it's wild. And she fucking killed it, for
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the record. Like, this is awesome.
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It's so good. A small studio.
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Like everything about this game is just so charming.
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Everything's fantastic. The character designs, like they
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they have this very unique, almost like steampunky type of
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look to them, while still being somewhat futuristic.
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It almost has there's like almost like a Fallout vibe
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without like the really like 1950s era type of thing, but
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that like mix of modern and retro and God, they just do such
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a really, really good job on it. I have I have unlocked a million
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costumes at this point, like costumes and hairstyles and all
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sorts of stuff. And half the time I keep them in
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their default just because it's the the the default was so well
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designed that it's almost hard to imagine them wearing anything
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else that's having even a different hairstyle.
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It all looks perfect. The gameplay is an incredible
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boy. I, I was talking with Steve,
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Steve is our resident JRPG guy or RPG guy, and I got me as
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well, right? And so a lot of times we'll be
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playing the same game except for he mainlines the OR he doesn't
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mainline, he just has more time to sit down and actually just
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fucking power through him. So we've been talking about it a
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lot as I go, which he doesn't spoil anything for me.
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And I just tell him where I'm at 'cause I know he's already
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finished the game. But yeah, man, as, as I come up
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on different things, he's like, yeah, man, this next part's
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really cool or whatever it is. And we get to have that like
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water cooler moment kind of 'cause I, there's a few other
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people in the server that I think have briefly checked it
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out. I know Evan, he taught Evans
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like 8th of the way through the first act maybe, and he was kind
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of talking about that a little bit earlier.
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And he's like, yeah, I really like this, this combat system.
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I'm like, yeah, this combat system is incredible.
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He's like, are there other games like this?
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Like I mean turn base, yes, there's a million turn base.
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Go play Final Fantasy Oven. Yeah, right.
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But I was like, what you probably like about this is the
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the pairing, the the dodging. Like there are some turn base
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games that do a little bit of that, but it's usually not like
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a complete negate of whatever that damage might have been.
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But in this case it is. And it's also vitally important
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to what you're doing. And, and all of the combat,
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everything's balanced around the idea of, hey, you know how to
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dodge or hey, you know how to parry.
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Boy, man, this this combat system is truly something
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special. And I really hope they continue
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to do this. And I also hope that this is,
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this puts a huge like, not necessarily a, I don't know.
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It's, it's kind of a conflicting thing where I'm like, I want
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these, this team to get their flowers and be able to continue
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to do this. But I also don't want too much
10:19
of a look at it because then it's somebody, some big exec is
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going to come in and try to change everything and that's
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going to fucking suck. But man, this, this game is
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truly, truly something special. I like I said, 2022 hours.
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I just checked before we started here and I will.
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I played for six hours straight today.
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Oh it's so sweet. I miss those days dude.
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Yeah, it it doesn't happen very often, but I was able to sit
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down and the wife was working, so I was like fuck it, I'm going
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to sit down. I'm going to just invest a bunch
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of time in this. It's not going to be the middle
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of the night type of thing like it usually is.
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And really got a solid chunk knocked out.
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Was mainly doing a lot of story stuff and then kind of circled
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back to some more side things and then found out I still
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wasn't quite where I wanted to be in order to access some of
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that. So I decided to go back to
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mainline stuff and then I'll. I'll swing back later on.
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But man. And I called you yeah.
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And then Nick called me in the middle of it and threw my groove
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off for the entire thing. It's fine.
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But man, I, I, I really this game, for it to not be my game
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of the year this year would be absolutely shocking to me.
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And I would not be surprised if this game has worked its way
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into one of my top games of all time.
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Like easily top ten, maybe even encroaching on that top five.
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It is that fucking good. I, I hope obviously I don't know
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where the story is going to end and, and how that all plays out,
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but I, I would love to see an expansion for this game
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eventually. Like it's going to be one of
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those games that I, I can already feel myself getting to
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the end of it and being upset that I'm at the end of it type
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of thing and not wanting to finish it, which I've done with
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a handful of different games, right?
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Like Breath of the Wild, I did that.
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I got all the way to the end. I'm like, yeah, no, I'm good.
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I don't want to finish it, but man, it's, it's truly, it's this
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perfect storm of just so many good decisions, so much good
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writing and characterization and every character in your party is
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likable that you you meet for different reasons.
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The even the one character that I, I'd, I won't say I'd never or
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I didn't like her. She just kind of wasn't the
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character I gravitated towards that I really don't use her in
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my party personally, but even she's kind of starting to get to
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that point where I'm like, OK, I see what's going on here, right?
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Because you have those when you go to your camp, you get to kind
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of interact with the different party members and kind of get a
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feel for, you know, learn more about them, learn more about
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your character and just kind of get that, that lower dump in a,
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in a way that feels very natural and actually works so much
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better than something like I'm, I'm, I'm thinking of like
13:17
persona, right? Or like those where you have
13:19
those, those interactions that are like, Oh yeah, you know, you
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furthered your friendship or whatever it is.
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This genuinely feels like you're furthering a friendship and like
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you're literally trauma bonding over the awful shit that has
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happened to everyone in this story.
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But it's the the only, only thing that I would change and
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it's such a minor thing and something I never really would
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have even thought of except for metaphor.
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Refantasio did it last year. When you got into combat, there
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was a button you could press to literally restart the combat.
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And it was such a nice quality of life thing that made instead
14:04
of having to like just OfferUp your characters to fucking die
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so you can start the battle over or something of that nature.
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It really allowed. Like if you got a bad start or
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you fucked up or you weren't paying attention or whatever it
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may be, you could just restart the combat real quick and start
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from the beginning and go right into it.
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This would really benefit from something like that.
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Granted, I also think it's kind of probably more of a decision
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that they actively made. One, it's not very common and in
14:37
most RPGs or anything of that nature, but they also kind of
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lean into some of those like Dark Souls Z type of things
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where you got to go back to your last save point.
14:47
Granted, like a lot of their levels have actually been
14:51
designed like if you're going to go fight a hard boss, there's
14:54
usually an item to pick up shortly before them or like one
14:58
of the flags that you can rest at right before them type of
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thing. So it is it is planned in such a
15:03
way that if when you pick up an item, it also saves the game.
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So if you die right after you pick up an item, you just go
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back to where you pick up that item, which is really nice.
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Same for the like the the flags that saves the game.
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That's also just like, it's like your bonfires, right?
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But so most of the time you don't have to do like a long
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trek to get back there or something.
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But every once in a while there's one that you're like,
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God, I got to go through this. I got to watch the cutscene
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again. It'd be awesome if I could just
15:30
hit like a fucking F2 or whatever and and restart the
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combat and and go at it again because this game is so like
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like I said earlier, they did the pairing.
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The the dodging is so important to this game that if you fuck it
15:47
up once, like depending on the enemy you're facing, that
15:49
character may be dead. So it it just kind of depends on
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the situation, how level? No, no.
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OK, but like you, you could be down a character for the rest of
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the fight type of thing. So which is?
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Yeah, Handicap, yeah. Oh yeah, So there, there's been
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a handful of times like I'll be in the groove, whatever,
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getting, getting into the fight and sometimes you fuck up and
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it's like, well, that attacked all three party members.
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They're all down to a sliver of life left and what do I do?
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So it would be awesome to have that button.
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But again, that's a quality of life thing that I didn't
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necessarily expect. But metaphor re Fantasio really
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like spoiled me with that and I really would love to have it
16:32
now. But other than that, man, I this
16:36
game is just truly such a treasure and I can't wait to
16:39
continue to play it. I want to see where the story's
16:41
going. It's starting to unravel.
16:43
You're starting to get those threads that you can pull and
16:45
kind of see where things are going.
16:46
But also, they may completely flip it on its head.
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I don't know, right. But yeah, I just, I had
16:54
something else I was going to say about it and it completely
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just slipped my mind as I was rambling there.
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But God, if you haven't checked this game out, especially if you
17:02
have a Game Pass, go check it out.
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It's so good, $50.00. I I have it through Game Pass
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and then I purchased like the the costume pack thing that I
17:12
don't even really use anything from.
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I just wanted to give something to like throw their way, but
17:18
also was like already paying for the service and Xbox, you know,
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put this together, they're getting their money, but at the
17:25
same time I was like, I I do want to throw some support,
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right, But man, it is cool. It's really cool.
17:32
It, it, it bridges that gap of turn based combat and action in
17:37
such a beautiful way that it appeals to such a larger
17:42
audience than what a typical turn based combat action game
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would be or whatever it may be. And I think it's I, I, I think
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this will become a template for games going forward.
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I think this will absolutely be like a, a style of, of RPG that
18:00
we see. And I'm fucking ready for it.
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Fantastic. If you had to give it any sort
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of rating right now, an obligatory rating.
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If you had to give it a rating, what would you give it?
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Oh boy, I don't, I don't. If you had to do a whole lot of
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number ratings right, I think I would give it like if we're
18:27
going out of 10, right? God I I I don't hand out 10s
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very often. Very, very rarely would I ever
18:36
hand out a 10. That's very true.
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That being said, I would probably put this at like a 9.5
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and not even really for I I don't know, man, I, I I am
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tempted to just be like it. It is a 10 for me personally
18:56
that I do see some some small little things here and there
18:59
like they they kind of force you into some platform or not even
19:02
force you. There's some platforming in the
19:04
game which is really, really clunky and can be very
19:06
frustrating, but it's it's usually side content that it's
19:10
like, yeah, whatever. Other than that, I, I, I mean
19:16
every character so interesting. I, I, I don't know man.
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I, I think I do lean towards that 10 and and if not, I'd give
19:23
it a 9.5 because it is truly such a special experience.
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And the story, unless something happens in the third act and the
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story, like, completely plummets and sucks really bad all of a
19:33
sudden, which is not the vibe that I got from talking to
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Steve. I mean, I not the vibe sounded
19:39
like this. Yeah.
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It sounded like the story kind of fucked him up for a little
19:42
bit. He was.
19:44
He was a certain way after he beat the game.
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Yeah, I is this. Yeah, I think this is a 10 man.
19:50
I I really do. Is this giving Baldersgate 3
19:54
cultural vibes? I don't know if it's quite that
19:59
big of a touchstone. Not yet, at least.
20:02
Not yet. I I do believe I saw something
20:04
about it selling 2 million so far.
20:07
And that's not including people who have played it on Game Pass.
20:11
I mean, that's, that's people who are like buying it on Steam
20:13
and and Xbox or I don't think it's on PlayStation yet.
20:17
I, I can't remember, but I can't yeah, I just, I mean, 2,000,000
20:22
is pretty good for a $50 game that from a studio game, a first
20:27
game, like, yeah, that's pretty fucking good.
20:30
And I, I imagine it's going to continue to gain steam, like I
20:33
think it will continue to I, I bet this ends up closer to like
20:38
5 maybe maybe that's too much of A stretch.
20:41
I don't know. I bet, but I bet it I bet it
20:43
hits 4, right. Especially as it goes on sale
20:46
and more people pick it up and, and things of that kind of
20:49
nature. But yeah, I Baldur's Gate was
20:54
such like perfect lightning in a bottle that I just don't know if
20:59
if this quite this isn't replicating that by any means.
21:05
God, Baldur's Gate was just such a special a special thing,
21:09
right? That was quite the moment in the
21:11
server when Baldur's Gate 3 came out and we all played it.
21:13
I wish I had finished it. But for those who have lived
21:17
listening to the show and seen me on streams, you know I am not
21:21
doing that right now. Because I'm still very mad that
21:25
a character of mine who I spent a lot of time with, had a lot of
21:29
hours with and did everything I wanted to do with that character
21:33
except my hair is getting out of place.
21:35
You know, because I'm getting frustrated.
21:37
Thinking about it. The save got corrupted, which
21:41
you don't hear that often sometimes in nowadays, but it
21:44
did so anyways. So that Russian porn you were
21:48
watching? Just cigarettes and vodka.
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Yeah, you know I don't, I don't kink shame.
21:55
I. Think the women hit you in that?
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Oh, for sure. It's like that family, like the
22:03
strong pig and Family Guy. Oink.
22:06
But that's like them in the we're not we're not going down
22:09
like the weird Russian porn thing.
22:12
I. Don't know, it kind of sounds
22:14
like we are. You did it.
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I didn't even do this. Oh, I'm sorry, my bad.
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Bernie, you want to talk? About this.
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So yeah, Expedition 33 is all I've been playing.
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It's a fucking perfect 10 for me.
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Nick watches weird fucking Russian porn.
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What have you been playing though?
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First and foremost, I don't watch Russian porn.
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I support Ukraine. It's OK.
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So we're we're boycotting. Out of you from Russian here.
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Just alienated an entire That's fine fuck them.
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I so I I got to play arc Raiders.
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Oh yeah. I don't know if there's an NDA.
23:00
Yeah, don't say too much while I look that up.
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I also obviously been playing Doom 1-2.
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I'm not playing 2016 or Eternal right now to be to get ready for
23:16
dark age, dark ages. So I'm waiting for that.
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That's really it, man. I haven't been playing a fucking
23:24
a lot of anything. I I haven't.
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Is there an NBA? No, it does not appear that way.
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OK Arc Raiders is better than marathon this game is.
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Oh they did. They denied us by the way.
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So fuck you Bungie, they denied us.
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I got in OH as creators. Yeah, I don't think you get to
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be choosy right now, Bungie. If I were you, I would actually,
23:53
I would calm it down. Not that I'm bitter because I'm
23:56
not. Anyways, no, our graders is
24:01
great. Marathon was also cool.
24:03
It just needs a lot of love. But that was something the
24:08
movement in that game, the sound design, the maps, the weapons,
24:13
the the, the teamwork, the playing with your friends, the
24:16
playing just with people on the map and having I played the last
24:20
day. So I think everybody was going
24:22
KOS. But from when I watched Evan,
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there were people chatting. There were people like, hey,
24:29
I'm, I'm just here like I do this.
24:32
I mean, you're in a in a world that the least scary thing is
24:37
another player like. Exactly.
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And that's, and you see, like for like Arc Raiders, that is
24:43
the difference between a game like this and Daisy.
24:46
Yeah. And that is the difference
24:47
between this and a game like Marathon.
24:48
At this point, Arc Raiders, I felt like the world was out to
24:52
get me. But the players, yeah, there's
24:54
some assholes, but the players were just like, I'm trying to
24:58
survive like you, man. We don't have to fight.
25:00
If you want to fucking fight, we'll go down that road.
25:02
We don't have to. Whereas in like Daisy and there
25:06
was urgency in Arc Raiders so that that this way I can go back
25:09
to both points. In Daisy, everyone's an asshole.
25:13
I'm an asshole. In Daisy, I'm a piece of shit.
25:16
In Daisy. I'll tell you, we're friends and
25:18
then I'll knock you out and handcuff you and then I'll just
25:21
teabag you for an hour. I don't care.
25:23
I'm an asshole. The most nick coded shit I've
25:27
ever fucking heard. I've done it.
25:29
I've done, I'm sure. But I don't know what that, but
25:35
oh, marathon. When I played marathon, there
25:39
was no urgency. There was no sense of urgency.
25:42
There was no sense of purpose. It looked cool and it played
25:46
fun. But Arc Raiders looked cool,
25:50
played fun, and I felt a reason to play it.
25:55
Every moment on the map was tense in a good way, Even when
25:59
you're with a party. Like I said, encountering
26:02
players felt really fucking fresh and new.
26:06
There was a couple players where they were trying to do
26:08
something. They looked at me and went just
26:12
passing through. And I went for sure they'd be
26:14
like, and you just see them like lead over, be like just passing
26:18
through. And then you'd be like, I got
26:20
it. And then you just hear them
26:21
going down the stairs be like, I've passed through and I'm
26:24
like, I guess you did. And it was just those moments
26:27
where I was like, this is cool. Like there's but but again, I
26:29
really go back to that sound design and the movement in the
26:31
maps, bar none, phenomenal work here.
26:36
Phenomenal work. These were class act sound
26:40
design, class act movements. You know, it's, it's fluid when
26:45
you're going up ladders or when you're zip lining or you're
26:49
climbing up like a hill or you're falling and sliding and
26:53
then just grab your gun and go. It is seamless.
26:56
It is fluid. It is a continuous motion.
27:00
And I just hadn't played anything like that in a long,
27:03
long, long time. So arc Raiders, I cannot wait
27:06
for the full release. And if this was on our NDA and I
27:09
broke it, I praised you. Don't sue me.
27:11
Don't be a Dick. So I I'm giving you like top
27:14
tier praise, right like because it was that impressive, but
27:19
really wow, all this like moving around is probably good for the
27:23
audio. Really that's all I've really
27:25
played. I'm gearing up for Doom, which
27:29
is on Monday actually, so by the time.
27:32
Monday does early access right if you pay for the premium.
27:37
Yeah, or if you paid for the collector's edition like I did.
27:40
Well, yeah, I it it the basic release for us regular people
27:48
that comes out Friday, Thursday, whatever it is, it's the day I
27:52
go back to work from my vacation.
27:54
He is not happy. 12 day vacation, it's fine.
27:57
I will say to top off Doom, I did get the Doom Xbox
28:04
controller. This thing feels nice.
28:08
It's like textured all around, which I actually didn't think I
28:10
was going to like. Is it the?
28:13
Is it a base or is it the? Base an elite.
28:16
I did not they they they made an elite.
28:18
I didn't really, but it was black and like didn't look like
28:22
the doom I was. Going to say that one.
28:24
Looks that looks like the armor, like Doom guy's armor.
28:28
It's got the sigil right there. It's like this is just like top
28:32
tier like I, I was like, that's the one I want and I think the
28:35
other one was like 200 bucks. I think those special edition
28:40
elites are usually pretty pricey.
28:42
I'm not, I'm not spending that on a controller.
28:44
I spent 70 bucks on this. I'm happy with it.
28:48
So to talk to me about Doom, I'm very obviously incredibly
28:52
excited for that. Like this is a game I've been
28:54
waiting for for a long time. I plan to cause from what I've
28:59
seen the 1st 9 levels are like 12 hours long and it's a 22
29:09
level game. This is a big doom.
29:14
Yeah, these are big maps, tons of enemy variety.
29:18
They just released a video earlier today of the BFC, the
29:23
big fucking crossbow. Big fucking crossbow.
29:27
That's not what is that well in lower.
29:30
I'll always refer to it as the BFC, the big fucking crossbow.
29:33
But like all the new enemy types, all returning enemy types
29:36
from old Doom games. It's all here man.
29:39
If you're a Doom fan, you are eating good if you purchased
29:43
early this Monday, and if you're getting it Thursday, you're
29:45
still eating good. Single player only chef's kiss.
29:49
We don't need it unless you're going to do a whole dedicated
29:52
multiplayer thing. I don't need a multiplayer.
29:54
In the doom the multiplayer in like the more recent dooms just
29:58
I mean it's been fine, but why dedicate the resources to it
30:02
when it's not there? Yeah, it's.
30:05
Focus on the story. You know, I and I like the
30:08
direction we're going in here where it's you're a walking
30:12
tank, you're a young Doom guy, you know that's going to be
30:16
fucking awesome. There's just a lot here that I'm
30:19
excited for. It looks gorgeous as well.
30:23
So Doom Dark Ages this Monday for me.
30:27
You guys will hear more about Doom from me when I because
30:32
you're working nights on Thursday.
30:33
No, I'll. Be out.
30:34
Oh, you just go back to work. You ain't going to record next
30:36
week. You ain't going to record next
30:38
week. So you'll be here, but you'll
30:40
are you. Why wouldn't I?
30:43
You'll hear more for About Doom for me on Thursday with Brody
30:46
Brody's Like What is your problem?
30:48
What you fucking on about man? Also, at what point does a big
30:51
fucking crossbow kind of teeter on that line of being a
30:54
ballista? You do the research.
30:57
I know that fucked me. I didn't like that.
31:01
Don't put fucking science in the show, I.
31:04
I mean, there's got to be like a fucking some point it, but just
31:07
it's, it's just a fucking. It's basically a it's basically
31:11
a fucking ballista. OK.
31:13
I was just curious. This.
31:14
Thanks for fucking not letting me cum bro.
31:17
Anyways, fuck man, I feel deflated.
31:24
Oh no, no, I was just curious. This is a question.
31:27
Stop. Talking like that?
31:29
Fucking yeah. Who's that science guy on
31:32
YouTube that you look like? Fuck you.
31:35
Yeah, fuck you. Anyways, Get ready for Doom.
31:38
Dark Ages got a little bit of news here.
31:43
Death Stranding, which 2 was showing off today.
31:46
This could be super quick. Showed off footage on a base
31:49
PS5, captured at 60 frames a second and it looks
31:55
photorealistic. This game looks insane.
32:00
So Kojima, whatever wizardry you're doing, very cool.
32:05
And then we also had GTA that was delayed till next year.
32:10
Shocker. No one here is shocked.
32:13
Me and Brody, actually, I think earlier on in the this year,
32:16
we're like, there's no way it's coming out in the fall, no.
32:19
No, we hadn't seen anything else since that initial trailer.
32:22
And but The funny thing was like, right up until that point,
32:26
they, they were doubling down like, Oh yeah, it's.
32:29
Hard as fuck. Yeah, it's going to maybe it's
32:32
it's going to release this year. Don't have to.
32:34
And it was like, I, I think they even had something in there like
32:37
quarterly report that was like, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Big game
32:40
coming out at the end of the year, year.
32:41
Well, it turns out that must be Borderlands 4 that they're
32:44
banking on. Or Max Payne cause remedy.
32:51
Rockstar's releasing Max Payne. I remedy.
32:54
'S working on it. I I don't think Max Payne is
32:57
probably what they're hanging their hat on, being their huge,
33:01
huge release. It's very popular, but I think
33:04
you get very skewed in what you think is popular because you're
33:07
in a weird little bubble. No, no you aren't.
33:10
And I'm not necessarily either. Right, But that is Borderlands
33:15
is probably going to make more money than a Max Payne release.
33:21
Can we agree that the Max Payne re releases are going to be way
33:26
more fun than Borderlands so it'll be cooler, better games?
33:29
Yeah. But the the they don't care
33:31
about that and they're quarterly.
33:33
I know. Anyways, Dang it.
33:37
But yeah, so they they released another trailer for GTA and at
33:42
the end of the we already knew it was delayed.
33:44
We didn't know when the next release date was and there was a
33:47
release date at the end of May 26th, 2026.
33:52
So we are over a year away from GTA6 and I feel like we have
33:58
been perpetually a year away for like what, 2 years now?
34:05
I don't want to talk about anybody having to wait for a
34:07
franchise that they like. Expect you.
34:14
I'll just do it really quick. We're going to end the show here
34:15
in a minute. We're going to put a little top
34:17
hat on it soon. The speculation is, and I don't
34:21
agree with it, I'm going to say it right here, right now.
34:23
I don't agree. People think because that got
34:27
delayed to expect a Half Life 3 announcement in the summer with
34:33
a winter release I rolled my. Tin foil hat I don't.
34:39
Think if that happens, first and foremost, if that were to
34:43
happen, I, I OK, fine. I'm, I'm, I'm a good little boy.
34:51
I'm taking, I'm, I'm taking time off my new job.
34:53
I'm not going into work. If my boss hears us, you already
34:56
knew that. I am pretty sure that Rockstar
35:00
would not be avoiding Half Life 3.
35:03
Not not because Half Life 3 is not going to do fucking
35:06
incredible, but they are entirely different.
35:10
Games, different games, neither of those companies fear each
35:12
other because they no, they're, they're the two biggest fish in
35:15
the sea. They don't care.
35:16
They're oh, you're releasing, you're releasing Half Life, I'm
35:19
going to release GTA. And then they go, OK, yeah, oh,
35:24
you're releasing GTA, we're going to release Half Life.
35:25
They go sick because they, the weird thing is because there are
35:30
people from Rockstar who do, who have worked at Valve to help
35:34
with the next Valve single player experience.
35:36
And there's Valve employers who were there.
35:38
So it's like that's where the speculation came from that there
35:42
was employee cannibalism almost. And it's like that that Gabe
35:48
Newell doesn't and the and Rockstar CEO isn't sitting there
35:52
going well. Why don't we just cause
35:54
discourse? That's not what's happening.
35:58
If if for whatever reason I'm wrong, I would love to be wrong,
36:04
but I don't. I don't see that.
36:06
Our fantasy critic did change the IT had Half Life 3 and it
36:12
changed it to just mainline half Life game.
36:16
Because people don't think it's going to be called Half Life.
36:18
People think it's going to be called like Half Life X or H
36:21
It's going. To be called because they're not
36:23
going to do 3, they're going to do 8I.
36:26
I don't doubt that they are going to do I, I, I don't doubt
36:31
they will continue doing Half Life games.
36:33
I just don't think it's going to be Half Life 3.
36:35
I don't think you will ever see Half Life.
36:37
It's going. Even if it is the that the
36:41
spiritual Half life 3, it will never be called Half Life.
36:45
Three it No, there's no way they're calling.
36:47
It not a fucking chance. There's no way.
36:49
And if they do there, it's going to be like the the number three
36:53
spray painted on a wall somewhere.
36:54
Yeah, in the game. And that's like there we did it.
36:57
We did it and it's like, OK, fine.
36:59
Well, yeah, no GTA being delayed is not shocking, but the trailer
37:03
they released looks pretty. It was captured on APS five.
37:08
That is incredibly impressive for the fidelity of detail that
37:12
you are able to see in this. The technology looks like it's
37:15
blooming and bursting. That's nothing new for Brody and
37:18
myself. We've always known this would be
37:20
a a technical marvel to look at. It's cool, man.
37:25
I I mean, but more time again, man, I would rather do this than
37:29
be cyberpunk, right? Cyberpunk when it was being
37:32
shown off was what GTA sticks being shown off like now, right?
37:36
You look at it, you're like, there's no way that's a game.
37:39
There's no way. And then it comes out it's like,
37:41
yeah, there was no way, you know, for then a year later it's
37:46
like, oh, hey, it's a game. Cool.
37:47
I like this game, but I mean time in the oven cool.
37:52
I'm I'm fine with it. Yeah, and what they're showing
37:54
off has been good, right? Like, it, it, it wasn't just
37:58
cutscene stuff. It looked like gameplay stuff
38:00
like. It was a mix.
38:01
Really. Yeah.
38:03
And there was, I mean, I, I like the character portrayals that
38:07
they have going on so far. It's like Bonnie and Clyde type
38:10
shit for sure. But yeah, it's man, I don't
38:15
know. It's it's I'm in a weird spot,
38:19
right? Like I want GTA6.
38:22
I'm disappointed that it's just going to be on PlayStation at
38:25
launch, which is not where I want to play at Xbox.
38:28
Well, yeah, but I mean, yeah, it's not coming to PC.
38:32
That sucks, right? That's a that's a boner kill,
38:34
yeah. Because I I if I have games on
38:37
PlayStation that I would love to go finish but I just can never
38:40
bring myself to go sit at my fucking PlayStation and play.
38:43
So I that that sucks for me personally, but the other side
38:49
of it is God, it just, it, it feels like Bigfoot at a certain
38:53
point. Like I feel like every time we
38:57
get closer to when this is supposed to release, it gets
38:59
pushed back another six months or another year or whatever it
39:02
may be. So it's just kind of hard for me
39:04
to get really excited for it until we actually get to play
39:08
it. And it is, you know, once it
39:09
once it fucking goes gold, like, OK, cool.
39:13
But up until that point, I'm just kind of honestly, I didn't
39:16
even watch the trailer until today when, when we were talking
39:20
about what this episode was going to be.
39:21
And I was like, yeah, I should probably go watch that fucking
39:23
trailer real quick. But it's just I, I, I find it
39:27
hard to get interested in it just 'cause it is so far off.
39:32
Especially when there's, there's a lot of interesting things that
39:35
are coming out this year, right? Like we're a couple weeks or
39:38
we're a week away from doom, We're a couple weeks away from
39:41
night rain. We're like, I have Expedition 33
39:45
right now, like. There's the Midnight Walk just
39:47
released. Yeah, there's, there's a lot of
39:50
good shit out there and so instead of just like fucking
39:54
cannibalizing everything to focus on a game that's still
39:57
over a year out, like I'd rather just focus on other shit type of
40:01
thing. But that being said, you can't
40:05
avoid it like it's GTA, it's fucking GTA is just this
40:11
juggernaut of of a game that never seems to die.
40:15
I mean even. Even GTA5 is still going strong
40:19
which is fucking wild to me, especially considering I it's
40:23
it's what, 1213 years old now it came out.
40:25
Yeah, just about. 20/12/2013 I can't remember exactly but my
40:30
God dude it it the staying power of that franchise especially
40:34
once they added that online mode like wild.
40:38
Wild. Absolutely.
40:39
But I am excited, this game looked fucking gorgeous and
40:44
watching like the breakdown from Digital Foundry on it and how
40:48
they were like hey this is incredible what they have.
40:52
Done here. And, and I don't doubt that it's
40:55
going to be right. Like they they showed off all of
40:57
these different character models and how like different kinds of
41:01
clothing hung off of them differently based on.
41:03
Their. The rig that they had for that
41:06
character model, like it's, it's fucking impressive.
41:09
You see the pores in their arms like the the.
41:12
Muscles like it's not just like bubble arm.
41:15
This is like actual like it's like a definition.
41:18
It's like, whoa, this. It actually looks like a person
41:21
like crazy, but man, it is cool. It is it is exciting in a sense,
41:29
but it I I just kind of do hate that it takes the air out of the
41:32
room anytime anyone mentions anything about GTA type of
41:36
thing. You know, it just kind of sucks
41:38
for everyone else because it's like there's so many good games
41:41
out there and there's so many good games coming out
41:45
constantly. And to focus on the, the
41:49
juggernaut that doesn't need the extra attention is kind of
41:52
crazy. But yeah, you, you, you can't
41:55
avoid it to a certain extent. But man, we're, we're eating
41:58
pretty good this year, if I do say so myself.
42:01
There's been some good shit. Xbox has been killing it with
42:05
their first party studios, like the Bolivian remaster, they got
42:10
Expedition 33, they got doom. Like it's, it's it's, it's
42:15
impressive to see them doing what they set out to do years
42:19
and years ago. And we're finally getting to the
42:21
point that they're, it's starting to pay off as they, you
42:26
know, start to transition into being essentially a software
42:30
company with a little bit of hardware.
42:32
That handheld is ugly as fuck. Yeah.
42:37
That was the ugliest pile of dog shit I've ever seen in my life.
42:42
I don't even. Look up the the ROG Xbox
42:47
handheld. Yeah, ROG doesn't really make a
42:51
good looking handheld, but they are pretty impressive for what
42:54
they are. I'm sure it's going to run
42:55
great, but I'm not walking around.
42:56
I'd rather my steam deck looks cool.
42:58
That looks like a guy with dog shit.
43:02
Yeah, that was just that looks almost identical to what the
43:05
original ROG looks like, except for gamer lights.
43:09
I'm so good on that. You guys will hear about GTA one
43:13
more time with myself and Evan when we do a full breakdown of
43:16
both trailers. Evan and I are going to do that.
43:19
But on that, we're not talking about GTA really.
43:21
Until there's a more news B, we get closer to the release, I'm
43:26
not going to waste my breath other than one more episode on
43:28
it 'cause there's no point. There's no point.
43:32
There's so many good things coming out right now.
43:33
We got Summer Game Fest right around the corner, so we got
43:36
even more shit to talk about. Sounds like Xbox is going to
43:40
have a hell of a showing too because they just announced the
43:42
Gears, whatever the fuck it is. Reloaded or whatever.
43:47
Reloaded, Yeah, which people were upset about, which I found
43:51
very strange. They're like, we don't need a
43:53
remaster of this. I'm like well nobody got mad
43:56
when they did it for The Last of Us like a fucking year later and
43:59
then remastered it again. We do need a remaster of Gears
44:02
of War. Yeah, absolutely.
44:04
They did the they, they did the like.
44:06
The Marcus Phoenix Collection, No.
44:09
Well, they did a a remaster that wasn't it was like a fresh coat
44:14
of paint on it, essentially. Like I had fucking.
44:16
I don't. Know better lighting?
44:18
Probably 7-8. Years ago, like yeah, no, it I
44:22
would love to get a trilogy like I get get yeah, even if it was
44:27
just like 1-2 and three remastered, that'd be fucking.
44:29
Fine with me. Well, dude, it's not even about
44:31
that. It's the biggest focus here is
44:33
it's on PlayStation. Which is wild having yours on
44:37
PlayStation. I still can't believe they
44:38
haven't released Halo Infinite on PlayStation.
44:42
Just the it's coming. Inside of it.
44:44
It's coming, seems like a no brainer.
44:46
That game needs the player base. It would be a huge boon to
44:50
everything there. Like I can't believe it hasn't
44:52
happened yet. Don't worry, PlayStation players
44:55
will be gentle in Gears. None of you know how to crab
44:58
walk I. I would maybe load up gears just
45:03
for that reason. That would be fun.
45:06
Oh, just a dude. My 14.
45:09
My 12. Year old age, motherfucker.
45:11
Yeah. Welcome.
45:12
I'm going to fucking. What is it we're going to cap
45:15
off here? I'm going to go to the truck on
45:17
gridlock, shoot up with my the boomer, fast perfect reload,
45:24
vault onto the bed of the truck under the map and then aim up
45:28
and shoot. That's how you win that on
45:31
Gridlock back in the day. Oh, you're a piece of shit.
45:34
Oh spider walk, do you remember that?
45:36
Oh yeah. You got you go on the fucking
45:39
one of those things called medians.
45:41
The median was it you perfect reload, hop over craps.
45:47
On a weird glitches, yeah. And then you just spider walk,
45:50
you fucking bang, bang. All right, that's where we're
45:54
capping off. Everybody.
45:55
Thanks for listening to this week's episode Again, Please,
45:58
please, please, please, please check out our episodes.
46:02
They're fun. We have good times.
46:04
A quick question, Brody, actually, are we recording your
46:10
next D&D campaign? Yes we will.
46:13
We are still a ways off. I am waiting to get back stories
46:18
from everyone so I can start building.
46:20
I turned mine in pretty fast. Yep, yeah, there's I'm still
46:24
waiting on probably half the players yet to get me
46:27
backstories so I can actually build the world around them.
46:30
I have an idea of where I'm going with it, but I want to
46:33
incorporate everybody into it a lot more than what I had in the
46:36
past where it's just kind of like shoehorn in there to hey,
46:38
look, you're here. So I I'm like building an
46:43
outline for what I have and then I'm going to go deeper into
46:47
details and getting more information.
46:49
So right now I'm waiting on more information from my players and
46:54
then I will get to building. And yeah, we we will be
47:00
recording it though. And the way this is going to be
47:03
set up is there's actually 2 individual parties running like
47:06
a simultaneous campaign essentially, because I didn't
47:09
want a party of fucking 19 people again.
47:13
So there's just two parties of four and it should be a lot of
47:16
fun. And they have no idea how it's
47:19
interconnected or anything of that nature.
47:21
They're literally starting on other ends of the continent.
47:23
So it it should be a good time. Roll for Deception returns
47:29
triumphantly very soon so be on look very soon ish so be on
47:33
lookout for that. Hopefully this summer sometime.
47:36
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a year for the endless amounts of horror that you can feast
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your eyes upon. And go see The Toxic Avenger in
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theaters this summer. He mops his way in the theaters.
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It's going to be a bloody fantastic event.
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Be there unrated, by the way. So.
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With that, everybody take it easy and be safe.
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This is the WASD and Beyond podcast.