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Episode 224: Top 5 Villains in gaming! · WASD and Beyond

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Yeah, but I'm a professional. Welcome back to another episode
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of the WASD and beyond Round Jesus Christ.
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I don't care. It's terrible, dude.
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Like my wife says that when men get sick, we are babies.
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Yeah, that's fine. I have a baby.
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I know. I'm a goddamn baby.
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That's fine. I accept that.
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I just don't like not being able to breathe.
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But yes, let's get right into it.
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Brody, have you been playing anything this week or have you?
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Not really at the time. Let's see, I played some hell
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divers this week, jump back in with the ODEST launch of like.
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I guess it's just not really a launch.
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It's armor, a war bond in there. Played.
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I'm looking over at the side of my screen here.
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I played a game called the Rift Breaker, which is like a base
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building simulation survival type of game.
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Pretty neat. I found that it was on sale.
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It might still be on sale. It was like $12.00.
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Well, well worth it. I picked it up right before I
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was going in on night, so I was staying up all night and had a
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ton of time to just kind of delve into it.
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I played all of 20 minutes of Silk Song.
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That's all I've had time for. Came out today.
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I got to play a little bit and then I was hoping to get maybe a
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little bit more in tonight, but I don't know if that's going to
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happen so. Well, let's see if it does.
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Other than that, I think that's pretty much about everything
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I've touched this week. How about you?
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Yeah, so a little bit of hell, divers action, getting back into
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the swing of it Had a weird kerfuffle where I thought I
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played with a controller. Everybody told me no, you
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didn't. I said maybe I did.
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They go, no, you didn't. You play with mouse keyboard.
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And I went, oh, OK, play with mouse keyboard.
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Had a way better time. I played with mouse keyboard.
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Well, a little bit of Space Marine too.
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I'm going to be hopping into that quite a bit this weekend
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due to the update that just released.
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I did finally beat that campaign.
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That was another thing I played. I'm sorry.
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It's great. It's a good time.
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It's a very good fucking. Time it's on like the last
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level. I was like, dude.
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I sat there for like a year and a half.
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It's fine. You finally beat it.
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Let's see, I did play 20 minutes Silk song as well.
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But you know, I just got a little busy and I had to do shit
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around my house, so I was like, I'll just play this one later.
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So I'll probably play some Silk Song after we record, but other
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than that, nothing. That's all I've had time for.
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There's a lot coming out though. I want to play Chronos, I want
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to play Hell Is US. I want to play Silk Song.
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I'm playing Borderlands next week.
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I'll be playing Borderlands 4 next week.
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Fucking it's too much. Goddamn too much.
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With that being said, you ready to get into it?
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Yeah, let's do it. This week's episode is our What
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What say. Oh, I was go ahead and introduce
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it. I'll I'll bring it up after.
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This week's episode we are doing our top five, top five, top five
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villains in gaming. It's going to be a good time.
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You could you could hear we're both sick.
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It's so stupid. Yeah, it's real dumb.
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We should probably record a podcast.
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Should we do our honourable mentions first or after?
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I feel like this could be an interesting one to do them first
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because I guarantee I'm going to knock two of them out out of the
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way and honorable mentions that you would have guessed would
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have been on my list. I might guess one of yours.
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So yeah, yeah, we, I have 12345. I have 6 honorable mentions.
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I think I have 7 so. OK, cool.
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Perfect. Same wavelength.
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And we won't, we won't go with these at AG nauseam here, but I
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I actually have 8:00 but they're tied together.
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So my first honorable mention is 2 bosses from Elden Ring solely
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because of their pure fucking difficulty and the zeitgeist
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that happened around these two figures at launch.
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I think only one of them has actually even gotten easier.
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The other one still remains a real fucking gut check in that
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game if you choose to go down that path.
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But Melania from Eldon Ring and Rodon from Eldon Ring pre the
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first patch that came out and made them easier.
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I beat Rodon pre patch. I did as well.
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That's Yep, there you go. That's all I was saying.
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Those were two, two nice little gut checks, but they're such
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memorable bosses that I I felt I needed to keep them here.
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But I also can't say I know the Laura of Eldon Ring enough to be
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like, yeah, This is why they're cool.
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Like, I know what a little bit, but God damn, they were fucking
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amazing fights. So you want to do 1?
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And then I'll sure Ganondorf and or Ganon.
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Hey, that's as well of honorable mentions.
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Ocarina Time was one of the first games I really as like a
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young kid played, played and I remember going through the Rose
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Garden part of Ocarina of Time where you're sneaking through
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the castle to go to Prince to meet Zelda and like he is like
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insight basically, I believe talking with her.
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I, I'm trying to remember exactly how the scene goes, but
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I just remember seeing that big green motherfucker and going
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something might rot. And then I finally, as an adult,
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beat the game and I went, yeah, he's, he's, he's a tough bitch.
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Like Ganon, Ganondorf is a tough bitch.
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Yeah, so he's I, I do, I, I'm a huge Zelda fan, but it was hard
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to throw him onto this list because I feel like there's more
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dynamic villains that really made more sense for me to put
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onto this list as a best villain.
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That being said, I do love me some Ganon and some Ganondorf
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and his whole fucking shebang that he's got going on there.
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But yeah, I, I agree. I, I feel like honorable mention
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was the right place for him. Yeah.
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Sephiroth from Final Fantasy. I knew that was going to be
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there. Yeah, I listen, I enjoy that
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game a lot. I enjoy the remakes that they've
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been doing. He is a honestly a pretty wild
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villain. That being said, I don't have
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necessarily the the same affinity that some people do for
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him. I do think he's a very good
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villain. I think he is absolutely
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intimidating as hell but just for me I'm not as well versed in
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his whole deal. I know quite a bit of it from
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just playing the games and such but I haven't caught in like a
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deep rabbit hole or anything. That being said some of mine on
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my list aren't necessarily like oh is this crazy lore thing but
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I I felt he needs to be mentioned in a list like this
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but he doesn't necessarily make my top five.
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There you go. In my honorable mentions I have
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Frau Angle from Wolfenstein. She is an evil fucking bitch.
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Fuck yeah she is. First and foremost, Nazi bitch,
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right? So like you're, you're, you're
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already gunning to try and RIP her face off the entire game.
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Like you want to fucking hatchet her in the face, Nazi, right?
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Like, you just want to kill her and then you think she's dead
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and she just ain't. And she has her fucking face
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mangled that she's like back with a vengeance toward, you
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know what I mean? It's like she the hate this
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character has in their heart is wild.
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It is wild, wild, wild. And it's it is at times when you
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see her on screen, it's like, damn dude, you're fucked up.
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Yeah, yeah. No, that's, that's a great call.
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That's another one. I just, I I've played some
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Wolfenstein here and there but never really gone super crazy,
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and I don't even know how many of them I've actually beat to be
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perfectly honest. So it absolutely deserves to be
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there, but it was not on my list at all.
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My next one is Majora from Majora's Mask.
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Very good pick. I I fucking love Majora.
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Majora or Skull Kid? Majora.
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OK. Specifically Majora.
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Yeah, yeah. That, that whole dynamic there
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is very fascinating. But I mean, it's, it almost
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equates to like possession in a way.
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Skull comes with a jerk off. Yeah, he he just a shitty,
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shitty kid, which tracks, but Majora wants to drop a moon on a
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city, so there's that. But God damn, yeah, Majora's
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awesome. But again, it was just.
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There's a couple better choices I thought, so we'll put it here.
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Yeah, I also Majora's Mask is my favorite Zelda, so that is a
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great pick. Even though I called it Majora
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for so long, it runs like it's Majora.
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And I went, OK, I'm going to this is this is because I was
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thinking about John and I'm like, yeah, you know what?
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This is a good villain, Handsome Jack.
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He's on my honorable mentions as well.
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Great, great villain. I I've always to be a great
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villain. I don't think you need to look
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scary. It's always the man in the suit.
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Sometimes I I appreciate that type of villain.
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It's the man in the suit. You know, it's the puppeteer.
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It's not the Braun, it's the brain, right?
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So like that is always scared me at times, right, because I'm a
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simple man. But no, I'm joking.
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But yeah, I know I I I liked the Borderlands series growing up.
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One through 3 or my jam. I fell off them for some reason
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and I'm really hoping to come back with Borderlands 4 and
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Handsome Jacks. Just felt fitting to be on this
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list. Yeah, yeah.
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Handsome Jacks on there for me too.
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He's he kind of reminds me of like a Bond villain that is also
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a goofball. He kind of has like this, yeah,
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Bond villain slash, like 80s action movie type of villain in
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some ways with like 1 liners and bullshit like that too.
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But to me he's, he's like, he's almost the quintessential bad
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guy, right? Like I, I think he just fits
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that role so well without being necessarily menacing.
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He does have his moments where you're like, oh fuck, this guy's
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entirely unhinged. But yeah, he, he's, he's a lot
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of a lot of fun. And there's a reason that
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Borderlands fans really enjoy his character.
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I, I technically have two more, but I'm going to save one of
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them because I assume we're going to talk about it later.
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But my last honorable mention, and I will, if if somehow it
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does not come up in your list, I will, I will give my last one
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later. But my last honorable mention is
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Balder from God of War. Balder was on my list.
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Yeah, God damn man, what a what a crazy villain to just show up
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at the beginning of the game and just go toe to toe with fucking
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Kratos. I such The performance from his
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voice actor was incredible for one, and he just like he's
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honestly a really tragic character and the way all of
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that plays out as tragic as well.
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And it's it was incredible to have a looming threat that can
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go up against fucking Kratos, especially after such a long
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time of not having a God of War game to come back and be like,
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yeah, now this guy can't fucking die.
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You're like, no, Oh no, that's what Kratos does.
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He kills people. Just the one thing I can't do to
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him. What the fuck?
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Yeah, so I I think that was a great introduction to coming
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back to that series. I I was half tempted to throw
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Thor on there also because him coming back and kicking the
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absolute shit out of Kratos in the second game, lore accurate,
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literally bringing him back to life and be like, we aren't done
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yet. You're like, what?
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But God damn it. But yeah, you kind of see the
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the puppet strings going on in the second one.
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So I, I didn't think he quite fit there.
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But I do think Balder was an excellent, excellent villain in
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the the 2018 God of War. Balder was great.
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It really put you in your place in that game.
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To start out the game pretty strong and heavy.
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It you get your tutorial done, then you meet Balder and it's
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like oh fuck, OK cool. And then you just get your ass
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whooped. You're like, ah, I see.
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Yeah. It's I have a lot to do before I
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talk to him again, right. And it's it's he's a great
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character. He's a great villain.
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And it's just done in such a way where it's tragic.
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You start to feel for Baldur, but he he doesn't feel for
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himself. It's a whole thing.
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If you know it's, it's the whole thing and it's great.
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My last two hours go quick. I have the master from Fallout.
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This body horror fucking big time boss in the original
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fallout freaked me out when I first saw it on my uncle's
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computer. I just remember seeing this like
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brain computer guy and it it gave me nightmares.
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I was like what the fuck dude. Like who would do this and
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playing it as an adult or a young teenager?
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You're actually a child. That was probably 11-12.
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It still freaked me out. So that's, you know, the
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consequences of what you do with the Master and your choices you
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make in that game when it comes to the Master is pretty
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impressive for the time, and I just think it's a timeless
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feeling. I'd like to see that reiterated
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in maybe a new Fallout. That'd be cool showing you know
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upon in the the Series A bit. Technically you can't because
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it's Canon but whatever. And then Shang sung.
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Shang sung. Fucking sick.
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Mortal Kombat. Hell yeah.
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This is 2 parts. Obviously the games is where I
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first saw him, but where I learned about him more was the
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first Mortal Kombat movie which grew my love for this villain in
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the games. Just ruthless.
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This dude is ruthless, fucking ruthless.
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Does not care. It's just he's just here to do
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one thing and one thing only. Fucking simple minded but also
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highly intelligent. They're single minded rather but
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highly intelligent. Shang Song can't not have him
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here. So hell yeah.
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Those are my honorable mentions. Yeah, I I would be surprised if
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we don't cover my last honorable mention.
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So I am going to hold on to it because I don't want you to
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spoil your list at all, but I am actually shocked that we had so
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many of the same honorable mentions there.
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Yes, because we, I mean realistically we play a lot of
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very different games most of the time, so.
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We do, but we experience a lot of the same things.
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That's true. That's true.
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Like we, we, we play differently, but we've
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experienced a lot of the same games as well.
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Like a lot of major games, even like smaller, weirder games.
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Like oh dude, that villain was just out of this fucking world,
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dude. Yeah, so holy shit, let's.
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Go on to the actual lists here. Do you want us or do you want me
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to? Start.
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I can go first if you want. Let's go, dude.
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Kick this off my #5 So this is 1.
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While I was like doing a little bit of research for this, this
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never came up anywhere. And I don't know if it's just
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because it is a newer game and I don't know if some of these
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publications and such have done done a, a newer list.
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But yeah, sometimes I gotta kick start the brain a little bit and
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go take a look at some other people's list and be like, Oh
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yeah, I did play that game. But in this case, my number 5 is
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Raven from Stellar Blade I. I feel like I am a huge fan of
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this game to be perfectly honest.
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Like I have played more of this game than most people I know and
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it is a game that the story isn't necessarily its strongest
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point. It's actually something that it
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suffers from quite a bit. It is pretty simple.
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It's pretty predictable for the most part.
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The that the voice acting is also something that really this
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game does not exception really or does not do exceptionally
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well. But Raven in particular is
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probably one of the most compelling performances from
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this game. She is absolutely batshit crazy.
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So she a little back story for those who haven't already played
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this game. And it's not really spoiling
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anything. It's been out long enough.
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I, I, I'm not too desperately worried about spoiling again.
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It's not, it's not storytelling on multiple levels.
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It's pretty straightforward. She essentially learns that
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she's not the chosen 1 and decided fuck this and I'm going
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to kill anyone that tries to become the chosen one for this
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right? And while that is a simple
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premise and nothing new for storytelling by any means, the
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way it is done and the way you were a drip fed information
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about her and her basically slowly starting to slip into
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this insanity is very interesting and honestly pretty
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well executed. Her characterization is really,
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really good and she just, again, the voice actress for her really
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did a great job. She is vicious, she is ruthless,
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and she is fully able to back it up.
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It is probably it is noted as being like one of the hardest
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boss fights in the game on hard mode in particular.
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And boy, oh boy, it is it is tough.
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It's like one of the things that people that play this game like
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are really proud about doing. You get a special costume for
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beating her type of thing, right?
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Like it it's just a very interesting story beat in a game
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that didn't do that exceptionally well.
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So maybe it stands out to me. Maybe it's recency bias, but God
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damn, she is fucking brutal and she is hard to beat.
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And it was I think one of the first times in the game and
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quite some time playing through my first time on PC that and it
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was actually my first time ever even getting to her.
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That was like the first fight that gave me trouble.
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It like it was that that first thing I'm like, Oh yeah, I've
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been breezing through everything, you know, and got
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there and I was like, what the fuck is this?
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What the? Hell, even is this.
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But yeah, she's, she's my #5I, I would love to see more of her
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and Stellar Blade 2 or however they end up doing Stellar Blade
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2. I think she's a very interesting
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character, far more interesting than Eve, right?
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Eva's your basic chosen 1 character with less
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characterization, but she's who you play as throughout the game.
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But I Raven is actually probably the most interesting out of all
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of the androids in this. So very, very cool character,
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Very, very good game. I still highly recommend it, but
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even with its downsides. But yeah.
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You love a good fucking Ying Yang situation, I suppose you
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know what I mean? Like it's always good for the
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the the past up for the promotion villain is always
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good. They they really are.
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They like they really, really fucking are.
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So I I I think I need to watch you play stellar blade more.
24:59
I think if I watch it, I might end up I like hack and slash
25:01
games. I don't think it's like a hack
25:03
and slash, but. It's it's like that, that
25:05
perfect mixture of like hack and slash with a little bit of souls
25:09
elements to it. Like it's, I mean.
25:12
So it's right up my alley. I don't know why I'm not played
25:14
it. So yeah.
25:15
Because it it got the reputation I got, and for good reason, to
25:19
be perfectly honest. I think I care about a gooning
25:22
sesh. Yeah, fair enough.
25:24
There you go. So my #5 Doctor Neocortex, Crash
25:33
Bandicoot. I just remember getting a
25:36
PlayStation for Christmas with my entire family.
25:39
It was me, my brother Mario, my dad, my my Jules and Luke were
25:42
very young, but my dad wanted to play Crash Bandicoot.
25:46
So it was my Christmas and Mario's Christmas.
25:50
Somehow he played first and I just remember, oh, what up TI
25:57
remember seeing doctor Neocortex like in the first Crash
26:01
Bandicoot and go. I don't know what he's doing.
26:07
Wait, hold up, wait. I'm all right.
26:11
I'm back. Quick dog take upstairs break.
26:16
Fucking he he's not supposed to be down here.
26:18
He gets into trouble anyways. Doctor Neocortex is my is 1 like
26:22
my favorite villains of all time because of nostalgia.
26:25
It plays on my my nostalgia when I see him.
26:28
The big ass head like Oh yeah, how he talks to Crash, all the
26:33
baddies that he tries to summit on Crash and then everything
26:36
fails for him and the masks are fucking working against him
26:40
'cause he's a fucking fool. He knows he's a fool.
26:43
The masks know he's a fool and nothing works for him.
26:46
And I, I just love that. I love the failed villain.
26:49
It's almost like the grew thing. Like for me, it's like Doctor
26:52
Neocortex is grew in video games, right?
26:55
Like nothing you do is going to ever be truly that evil.
26:58
Like you suck at your job or? Doofen Schmertz.
27:03
Yeah, he's like Doofen Schmertz or good, good call or you know,
27:07
and that's again. So you got the past up for the
27:10
promotion villain and then you have the never going to be good
27:13
at it anyway so you may as well just do it villain.
27:16
Yeah. You can't go wrong so right.
27:19
Yeah, he's like a the icon of what early 2000s villains like
27:25
shit late. 90s, yeah. Yeah, late 90s, early 2000s,
27:29
like when you think of that era of gaming and you think of
27:33
villains, you either think of him or someone that was not
27:37
necessarily modeled off of him, but modeled off of his like
27:39
archetype of villain, right. And.
27:42
King K Rule. Yeah, right.
27:45
It was done so often during that time period and God damn.
27:49
Yeah, he's good. I didn't even think of that.
27:51
That's a good one. It's a bad one.
27:53
Thank you. My #4 This should be relatively
27:59
short and sweet. General Shepherd from Modern
28:03
Warfare 2. Yeah, he's a piece of shit.
28:07
Yeah, real big. Piece of shit, man.
28:10
I am. That's good.
28:12
I am not a huge Call of Duty guy by any means, especially not
28:16
anymore. But back then it was, it was, it
28:18
was common to be, you know, big into Call of Duty, right?
28:22
I remember I was laid up from a knee surgery during this time
28:27
and I was sitting there. I don't know, I'd have to look
28:32
at when it came back A. Teenager or some shit?
28:34
Yeah. I think so.
28:36
Damn bro, I forgot that you you had.
28:40
Yeah, yeah, I spent, I spent most of high school on crutches.
28:50
Yeah, it was a good time. Yeah.
28:51
That came out in 2009. I would have been a sophomore,
28:53
so this would have been right around the same time that I
28:58
broke my knee for the first time, actually.
29:02
Maybe if I would have gotten like more bones broken other
29:05
than the one in my face, my nose because I have a very punchable
29:08
face, I would be as buff and jacked and not as hurt as I am
29:14
today like you are. But that's fine.
29:15
Cool, I'm projecting. The reason I bring up a Call of
29:23
Duty story, which is never something that gets brought up,
29:26
but that I mean what Modern Warfare 2 was probably the one
29:29
that gets brought up the most out of any of them, right?
29:32
You have it was probably the first time that we got to see
29:36
that many different types of missions, the, you know, going
29:40
dark moment and all of that shit.
29:43
But when General Shepard, you're getting ready to jump on the
29:47
back of that plane and he shoots you right in the fucking head
29:50
and then turns and shoots ghosts in the head and you're like.
29:54
What earthen shattering? Whatever it was not telegraphed
29:57
in any way, shape or form throughout the entire campaign.
30:00
It was all like there was never any of these moments like trying
30:04
to lead you in that direction or even red herrings or anything
30:07
that we're like pointing towards this or even against it.
30:11
Like you never even would have processed that.
30:13
And when that fucking happened, I, I literally set my controller
30:17
down. I go what the fuck?
30:18
You know what the fuck is this? Just such a a a rare W for Call
30:25
of Duty to have such a fantastic bait and switch and one of the
30:32
most brutal fucking betrayals in games that I think I have ever
30:36
ever seen. It was wild.
30:39
Especially for 2009. Right?
30:42
Like we, I feel like we have improved with storytelling since
30:46
then, but at that moment in time, that was insane.
30:51
So it was a gut punch, dude. Everybody was talking about it
30:53
at school. Everybody was talking about that
30:56
at school. Or it was your friend group,
30:58
Xbox Live at the time. Everybody was like, dude, God
31:02
damn, what the fuck? Great pick.
31:04
Wouldn't even. Wouldn't even thought about it.
31:06
Wouldn't even thought of it. That's great.
31:08
Thank you, that is a a gaming moment that has stuck with me
31:11
for a long time. God damn, I'm going to keep it
31:16
in the more friendly realm. I think Bowser is my #4 I'm
31:22
going to keep it friendly. I guess Bowser is just you can't
31:25
not have them on a list. I don't think, because it's just
31:28
that is like the villain. It is like the video game
31:32
villain. It's the one that you you ask
31:35
anybody who the bad guy is, you, you, you show a kid Bowser, it's
31:40
like that's the bad guy. Where is he from?
31:42
Super Mario, That's the guy who's mean Super anybody is
31:46
going to go. That's that is Super Mario's
31:48
arch nemesis and it's iconic. He the design is great.
31:54
The story is improving a lot with Bowser because it's it's
31:58
being told through act like way more representation now with the
32:02
movie with the game technology being as advanced as it is
32:06
nowadays, like you really get to get a feel for like what?
32:10
Obviously it's Bowser love speech understood.
32:13
There's more there. There's a power struggle.
32:15
There is so much more to Bowser nowadays, and I love that about
32:18
Bowser. I just love the character.
32:21
I think the character is so neat.
32:23
So it's it's such a good design too.
32:26
I mean, especially for yeah, right, like awesome.
32:30
Hell yeah. But to have that in, you know,
32:35
the the first Mario where you get to see him for the first
32:38
time and even with, you know, as many pixels as they were able to
32:42
use their you're just you you could paint a perfect picture of
32:46
what he look like, right. And.
32:48
You knew. Yeah, and it's just gotten
32:50
better, obviously. I mean, by the time we got to
32:53
like the fucking Super Mario 64, like, you get a full 3D render
32:59
of what he looks like and you're like, holy shit, this is crazy.
33:01
And one of the first things you do is throw him into bombs.
33:05
Yes, and he's imposing. He's huge.
33:08
Yeah, he's massive, but God, yeah, that that's I, I
33:12
considered putting him on here. It felt, it felt like an easy
33:17
pick, honestly, and I like was really trying to stay away from
33:21
Nintendo stuff just because I I guess not really right.
33:25
I, I didn't want to necessarily do that because I, I do tend to
33:29
be the more Nintendo focus guy. It's an.
33:32
Easy get, but for someone like me to pick it?
33:35
Yeah, I I feel like it means way more coming from you than it
33:38
does me so. But yeah, fantastic pick for
33:43
sure. My #3 The Joker from the Arkham
33:49
series. Mark Hamill.
33:53
Mark motherfucking Hamill killed it.
33:57
Killed it easily. Like it's it is probably my
34:04
second favorite Joker, right behind Heath Ledger.
34:06
I mean, how do you beat that though?
34:10
But Mark Hamill's Joker is always so good.
34:13
He does such a great job of capturing that frantic joy from
34:22
chaos to to pure insanity to to anger and all within like 10
34:28
seconds. And you're like, what the fuck
34:29
just happened? Like he he does it so well.
34:33
Specifically, I think of the Arkham Knight game, the with
34:38
Jason Todd and that whole shebang, right?
34:41
Fucking incredible how they did that.
34:44
Even if that game was one of the weaker of the series, right?
34:49
It was still a very fun game. And that moment of I was never a
34:54
big DC guy, so I didn't really know a ton about Jason Todd.
34:58
So I think the first time I actually really learned about
35:02
that was during that game via the performance of 1 Mark
35:07
Hamill. Holy shit, man, you just such an
35:11
incredible and menacing villain that shows up throughout that
35:15
entire series. I mean, you technically kill
35:18
him, right? Or you think you kill him in one
35:20
of the games. The the one of the first things
35:22
you see in the first game is the Joker, Like it's and rightfully
35:27
so, right. That is the villain for the
35:30
Batman, right? Yeah, there's a a whole host of
35:34
other villains, but when you think of the Batman's villain,
35:37
you think of the Joker, or at least now, right, like back and
35:41
they definitely would have thought like Bane or whatever.
35:44
And Bane shows up too, obviously.
35:45
But man, yeah, he's, he's he's so good as the Joker.
35:51
And I, it's one of those that it's, it's really hard to
35:55
picture anyone else doing an animated Joker and doing it to
35:59
that level because I don't, I don't know if you can.
36:01
And it's even crazier when you're like, wait, that's the
36:03
guy that played Luke Skywalker, the good guy.
36:07
And now he specializes in playing the fucking Joker.
36:11
It's it's so good. But yeah, he's Mark Hamill's
36:14
fucking incredible. No, that's that.
36:17
That's a great pick. That Joker is also just
36:20
phenomenal. You know, it's so chaotic, it's
36:23
so bipolar, it is in your face, it's disgusting looking.
36:28
It's a great Joker and a great video game villain.
36:31
I so happy we got to play against.
36:35
My number 3 is Glados from Portal.
36:38
That was the honorable mention that I figured would show up.
36:42
Glados is an insane villain. This computer is just so full of
36:50
hate and just so over it all. And I just remember playing Poro
36:56
for the first time and being faced with Glados and going, oh,
37:00
you're big. Oh, you're big.
37:02
I'm like, oh, shit. And it's like, you know, under
37:07
the guise of this is just a puzzle.
37:09
Like we're just testing you and then no, Glados is trying to
37:13
kill you. You're a you're a she's the
37:16
scientist and you are the lab rat.
37:18
And I love that dichotomy between character and computer
37:22
at that point, right. Actually, I have two computers
37:25
on this list and technically 3 because my earlier, I don't
37:32
know, whatever the master. But yeah, Glados is just is one
37:37
of those like iconic villains that will always be talked about
37:41
in gaming. It Portal is such a beloved
37:44
franchise. If you weren't a Half Life fan
37:47
and you like Valve, you were a Portal fan.
37:51
And if you love Half Life, you love Portal, right?
37:53
Like it's, it's a game. I think Portal is something
37:56
everybody could love. And I think Glados as a
37:58
character in both Portal and Portal 2, it's just amazing,
38:02
Especially when she becomes a potato and you're going down the
38:05
fucking, you're going down that hall and she goes, great, now
38:08
I'm a potato. And she's just so pissed and
38:11
she's so demeaning. And she really does make you
38:13
feel stupid and like shit when you're playing, you know, not to
38:17
say like Wheatley, because Wheatley, this could be A2
38:20
parter because Wheatley is a great villain too, because he's
38:22
so stupid, you know, that he stumbles into it basically.
38:27
And it's like, Oh my God. And, you know, you're working
38:29
with Glados, but then she goes, just go, go, you know, like this
38:35
is the villain. That's just like, I'm so done
38:37
with you. I don't want to fight you
38:38
anymore. I'm going to torture others.
38:41
You just fuck off. It is it is great.
38:44
I love the writing. I love the voice.
38:46
There's such an iconic voice as well.
38:48
It's been used in car commercials.
38:50
That voice has been used in the GEICO commercial that it's
38:53
iconic. And to, to, to know as a quick
38:57
side note, that Warner Brothers is possibly producing the movie
39:03
with JJ Abrams at the helm. Because like that was confirmed,
39:07
we just don't know where it's at to know that's a possibility and
39:11
we'll be able to see that on the big screen.
39:15
It's you know it. I would love to see that.
39:19
I would love to see it. Glados.
39:21
Yeah. I knew you would be able to
39:24
explain everything about Glados better than I could, but yeah,
39:29
the the first time you actually encounter and realize what's
39:32
actually happening and you hear her voice and see this huge
39:38
robot and also how she is so done with your shit.
39:42
The the sarcasm that they were able to put in there with a
39:46
robotic voice was just so fucking good.
39:50
But I I'm. A real voice actress, too.
39:52
Yeah, I remember making it to to the end of Portal for the first
39:56
time, which actually it wasn't all that terribly long ago.
39:58
I never really played through Portal back in the day.
40:02
And it was one of the games that I was like, I need to finally
40:05
play this one, especially once I started playing on PC.
40:08
But yeah, God, it's such a good game First off.
40:11
And Glados is truly like what everything hinges on and and
40:18
that reveal at the end is. While the puzzles and everything
40:21
are good, that that reveal at the end and everything is really
40:24
just makes it that much better so.
40:27
Yeah, no, fantastic. This is one that I figured you
40:32
would have guessed. My number 2 is Andrew Ryan from
40:36
Bioshock. I I figured he was coming.
40:40
Yeah, I'm, I'm a big Bioshock fan.
40:43
I haven't played the games for a very long time at this point,
40:46
but he was interesting. He was the intelligent swab
40:53
villain that plays as your friend throughout this entire
40:58
game until you get to a certain point and everything is revealed
41:02
and he says would you kindly. And I remember sitting there
41:07
that happened, set the controller down, had goosebumps
41:10
all down my arms like mother fucker got me again.
41:15
It was. You.
41:17
But yeah, the Woodley would you kindly thing was just Oh my God,
41:23
it such a simple voice line that meant so much more at the end of
41:29
the game because you realize like, hey, this guy fucking is
41:32
an asshole. It's been a very, very, very
41:36
long time since I've played through this series, but that is
41:39
a character that has stuck with me for a very long time and
41:44
would show up on this list for decades to come at this point.
41:49
But his his desire to protect his creation, even though it is
41:54
all gone to shit is just insane. We don't really talk about
42:01
infinite, so we're really just talking about 1:00 and 2:00
42:06
here, but yeah, cuz infinite is the whole other fucking ball
42:11
game. But God damn.
42:13
Yeah, the the the first two games and particularly the first
42:16
game, right? Just so good.
42:20
Just you go from loving this character that's supposedly
42:25
helping you out to just pure unadulterated anger and a
42:30
feeling of betrayal and everything else all in one
42:34
moment. It's it's just a mastercraft at
42:39
at that reveal a fantastic. Using one's own hubris as a
42:46
arch, as a villain, is always great.
42:48
Yeah, it's the inability to say I'm wrong and we can fix this.
42:53
It's no, this is right. You're doing it wrong.
42:56
And we're I'm going to make it right.
42:58
It's it's so good. Andrew Ryan is great.
43:01
It's great, Fucking great. Victoria to stay in the shock
43:04
realm. Show Dan System Shock, a game
43:10
that actually directly inspired Bioshock.
43:16
It's another robot that just absolutely makes you feel like
43:18
shit. If you have not played played
43:23
night dives latest system shock, I highly recommend you do.
43:26
It's a very hardcore single player experience.
43:29
It doesn't help you, it doesn't hold your hand.
43:31
It is old school FPSRPG style game.
43:35
Go play it, go pick it up. It's very cheap.
43:37
Very good. But show Dan.
43:40
Man, the first time I saw this again, I was at my grandmother's
43:44
house where my uncle was living there.
43:46
You've heard me talk about him a lot before, so I'll spare you
43:49
that. But I saw Chodan on this
43:51
computer. He was walking through a
43:53
corridor corridor and there were screens on the corridor.
43:57
And all of a sudden this freak AI computer thing pops up and
44:02
starts calling you like a worm and worthless and is trying to
44:07
like talk you into clicking a button.
44:10
If you click that button, you open up the Shields, which you
44:14
you let out a laser and that laser goes it hits something.
44:17
It's show Dan is a fantastic, formidable foe that is literally
44:23
trying to poison you and trap you and kill you and crush you
44:28
and hurt your feelings and she's in control of the entire base
44:32
and ship and you have nowhere to go.
44:35
You are in show Dan's world. The only way to stop her from
44:37
getting true control on each level of the ship is to destroy
44:42
the cameras that she's that she watches you through.
44:45
And you know each time you do that, she'll talk to you through
44:48
there and be like you piece of shit basically like you've
44:50
destroyed my camera that stopped breaking my ship.
44:53
So Dan is great. So Dan is conniving.
44:55
She is mean. She's downright evil.
44:58
Where is Glados is funny and just conniving and mean and not
45:05
super downright evil but just just mean spirited.
45:09
Chodan is evil and mean spirited and I love Chodan for that.
45:14
Hell yeah. Yeah.
45:15
System Shock is one that I have never actually gone back and
45:19
played. I mean, I've meant to for a
45:22
while, especially with the remake, but it's just something
45:25
that seems to always slip my mind when I'm have that free
45:29
time to play something that I'm not already invested in.
45:33
It's tough to get into though, man.
45:34
It's it's very, very tough. Yeah, yeah.
45:40
So yeah, that's I, I don't have anything to add to that, but it
45:44
sounds like an incredible villain.
45:46
And I, I knew I know of that villain, right?
45:50
But it's not something I have any, any attachment to.
45:56
The funny thing is when when we start going through this, these
45:59
lists, I sit here and you don't spend a bunch of time preparing
46:04
for this and trying to or not a bunch of time, but enough time
46:07
to make sure that my list is like well-rounded and
46:09
everything. I literally just thought of
46:10
somebody that I would put on here.
46:13
Throw them in. Like, yeah, they they don't
46:15
really fit into my list, so I guess they're going to go into
46:17
the honorable mention, but Louise Gila Burn from metaphor
46:22
Repantasia. OK, fantastic villain,
46:27
completely like shrouded and power and fucking just insane.
46:31
But that's neither here. Nor Albert Wesker.
46:33
I'll throw him in there too. Our.
46:36
Our last minute honorable mention that we thought of after
46:39
the fact. Son of a bitch.
46:42
So we are down to #1 and #1 is one that I can't say too much
46:48
about because a certain somebody is playing through this game
46:52
currently. This is going to be for No way
46:57
it's expedition 33. It absolutely is Expedition 30.
47:00
Three. Wow.
47:02
I don't even know if I want to say the name quite frankly,
47:05
because where you are at in this game, you have only experienced
47:10
this character once. Is it the old man?
47:14
Yes. I thought that was like future
47:16
me or like. I'm not saying shit, I'm just
47:21
saying that old man. So the OK, so you want to do
47:25
code name that old man from Expedition 33?
47:29
Sure. I don't want to injure you, no.
47:32
No, no, no, no, no. It's fine.
47:37
Anybody who's played through it will under stand I, I, I will
47:41
tiptoe around it. That man, that old man, is
47:47
fucking terrifying every single time you encounter.
47:52
Him the first, the first time I went, oh, it's just like an old
47:55
whoa. Oh yeah, that that initial beach
47:58
scene, I was sitting here playing it and I'm like, Oh
48:03
yeah, yeah, we're on our way to see, to go kill the painters.
48:06
And I was like what the fuck is happened?
48:09
Just in an instant. Chaos, chaos as soon as you step
48:13
onto that island and there will be more encounters that you will
48:20
have with this character and I, I, like I said, I am going to
48:26
tiptoe around it, but holy shit it is.
48:31
He's a big Batty. Yeah.
48:36
Fuck, wow. You're like sitting here going,
48:38
Oh, yeah, yeah. So did I can't it's it's a it's
48:48
a hard 1 to tiptoe around. I'm not going to say he's
48:51
necessarily the hardest boss in the game because he's not.
48:54
He's just simply is not what he is is I am referring more to his
49:03
character. OK, it is that being said, yeah,
49:11
I, I can't, I'm just it is a very it is one that I do not
49:18
want to spoil for you because it is a very special feeling.
49:20
And I also don't want to spoil it for other people that have
49:22
not finished it because this game is still relatively new and
49:25
it's a relatively long game. And if people have not beat it,
49:29
I don't want to spoil that. The rest of what we talked about
49:32
here has been out for a long time and and you, you if you
49:37
were going to beat it, you probably have this is probably.
49:39
Some of these games, yeah. This is the newest of of the
49:44
villains on this list and yeah, holy shit, man, I I almost said
49:51
his name initially, and I'm glad I tiptoed around it because I
49:54
don't even want to spoil that. I don't want to spoil a fucking
49:56
thing about this for you because I want you to continue this
49:58
game. I love it.
49:59
I want you to enjoy it and I want you to see the moments
50:03
unfold without being spoiled because I was talking about one
50:06
of my favorite villains from my game.
50:08
That being said, if anybody wants to hit me up, I'm more
50:12
than happy to talk about this person, this fucking old man
50:17
and, and we can absolutely have that conversation.
50:20
I hate to have my number one be a little lackluster as far as my
50:25
explanation of it, but you you find out motives and everything
50:29
else and it is a very humanizing look at, to or at a villain that
50:40
really gives you a lot of mixed feelings.
50:44
Let's just say that. I am so too too too clear the
50:49
air. I loved my initial play.
50:53
Two hour 2 1/2 hours of play with Expedition.
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It's been a couple busy weeks here and I intend to get right
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back into it because I loved playing what I was playing.
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I cannot wait to talk more about this character with Brody
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because I cannot wait to play more on stream.
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And I'm hoping to get live this weekend to play a little bit
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more and then in the next week because I really like to start
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diving in and playing more and more and more and being in this
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game because I, I do think what I am playing is very special.
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I think the game is beautiful and I cannot wait to learn more
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about this character. Yes, it's yeah, I, I, I hope
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that serves as motivation. It's fuel in a way.
51:35
It's definitely a fuel because I looked at him and I had my own
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thoughts, obviously. Yeah, yeah.
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And I, I, I yeah, I'm not going to say anything else.
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I I just can't. I simply cannot.
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Fuck. Well, shit.
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It's up to me. Eh?
51:53
All right. I don't know.
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Higgs. Death Stranding I had throw them
51:58
in there, God damn it. I it, it always happens that
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way, right? You get like right down to your
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number one and something just goes merp.
52:06
It's like, how did you, how did you, how did you not put Higgs
52:09
in there? He's like a bad baddie,
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Especially in two, Especially in two.
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Oh my God, it's like. Louise was that character from
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metaphor, right? Like that, That character was
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wild the whole time you're going through and you're like, oh
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shit. I can't believe.
52:24
Honestly. The reason I thought of it is
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the person I talked to the most about that game was Steve, and
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Steve sent me a message on Discord and it popped up and I
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go, motherfucker, I've failed him.
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Yes, my number one. Do you have any guesses?
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It'll. Probably be pretty obvious once
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I say it. Yeah, once you say it, I'm sure
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I it'll click, but. G man Half life.
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This is the elusive character. This is the elusive baddie who
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is not in your face. He's scary because he's in the
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background. You know, he's puppeteering, you
53:03
know he's the root cause and playing chess with the world and
53:08
playing chess with you in the Combine and the Vortigaunts and
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the resistance. And you know, there's not too
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much he's able to touch because of his, you know, his
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benefactors and all that stuff. But knowing that he is there,
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there are times in the game when you can look up at like a
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walkway and there's G man, you can look into a camera and he's
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just sitting there like this looking up at you and there you
53:35
just you know, and then it gets further into the series and then
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the vortigaunts are holding him off with the vortessence and
53:44
it's just like, holy shit, you're like he is powerful, but
53:49
out half of Alex cracks that egg because he's in the containment
53:53
zone and then you release him and then it sets off motion for
53:57
everything else to come. And it's like, wow, this is
54:00
insane, Like this is truly madding, like how just powerful
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this this character is like G man was always a scary figure to
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me. It is that that government
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official with the soulless eyes, the man in black.
54:15
It is the man in the background who you don't see calling the
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shots, but you look at him and you know he's calling the shots.
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G man is important. And I I think for gaming, G man
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is very important. That game is very important,
54:28
right? But this character itself is
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like, yes, Doctor Breen is the villain, but G Man is the
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villain. Yeah.
54:39
And it's like that is great. Yeah, that's a that's a great
54:42
pull. I should have known that.
54:43
I don't know, I'll blame it on the cold.
54:46
I don't know, a little bit of brain fog going on here.
54:49
But yeah, fantastic pick G man, even I'm not like a massive Half
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Life fan right now. And not saying I don't like it.
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I just, I really need to go back and play through it.
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But yeah, I mean, even if you have never played a Half Life
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game, you know who G Man is. If you saw a picture of G Man,
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you know who G Man is? Yeah, dude, yeah, that's a,
55:13
that's a, that's a good call for sure.
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And really on brand, if I do say so.
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Yeah, I'm very predictable. I did not predict Bowser to be
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in your list though, so I mean. Love Bowser.
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Yeah. Loves that kid.
55:27
Every chance I get to try to get land into like buy a Bowser
55:31
anything to eventually put on my shelf, I am always because I I
55:36
love that character. Same with neocortex.
55:38
Like I remember having a neocortex figure from KB toys,
55:42
KB toys and it's just like this neocortex figure, it was this
55:47
big and like the head was huge and I was so stoked and my dog
55:50
ate it. I was really fucking pissed.
55:54
Oh my God. Oh, cyber demon doom.
55:57
Yeah, Cyber Demon's a good one. Yeah, I'm sure I'm going to
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think of like 6 more after we hop off of this episode.
56:04
God damn well. It's the way it goes.
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Well, great picks though, Brody, fucking great picks.
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I love doing those top fives, dude, we are, we have, we have
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lists of top fives. We're going to do guys.
56:15
We are, we have, we have lists. We have so many episode topics
56:20
that you know when Brody can't do it, Evan's going to be
56:22
grabbing a topic. I'm talking to final boss while
56:24
hopping on for a very cool episode about Space Marine and
56:27
where we think, you know, Evan and final boss Eric, where where
56:31
where we think the series is going to go in three.
56:33
That's going to be a very fucking cool episode.
56:36
Brody and I have our top fives are fucking topics that me and
56:39
Brody get to rant about going to pull more people on spawn camp
56:42
on to do this. We should pull more people on
56:44
the top fives, honestly. And we have more time.
56:46
We're not sick. And I, as soon as I end this
56:48
call, I'm running upstairs and washing my face with cold water.
56:51
I'm fucking burning up right now.
56:53
Yeah, and me too. Fuck.
56:56
Is there anything else you want to add to to our lists or
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anything like that before I close this out?
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No, not really. Like I'm sick, let me go.
57:07
I, I think it's interesting that most of our villains are older
57:12
and some of that could be attributed to nostalgia.
57:15
But I really think that a lot of the area that we or the era that
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we covered is, was really a very pivotal point for gaming when we
57:27
were like, oh, hey, we can actually do better stories.
57:32
We can do things of that nature, right?
57:34
We can actually have a villain rather than just go over here
57:38
and make it to the end type of thing, right?
57:40
And so I, I think a lot of the reason that those villains stand
57:44
out so much is because they were so influential.
57:47
Not that we don't get good villains and games today, right?
57:51
We did, we absolutely do. But they are very coded and
57:54
influenced by a lot of these characters that came before,
57:58
right? There are a lot of villains I
58:02
think today that share the same DNA but don't quite hit the
58:06
mark. I think what we got, not to be
58:09
those old guys, but what we got in the early, late, early, late
58:12
90s, early late 2000s was really like 2005, man.
58:17
You want to talk about a year for gaming?
58:19
That is arguably the best year for gaming.
58:22
Yeah, like the best, the literal best.
58:25
And those villains from any and all games you can pick from in
58:29
that era of gaming, It's just like, holy shit.
58:32
Like the creativity was flowing, the games were fun and good and
58:35
didn't rely off don't microtransactions and things
58:39
like that Don't Let's not get there.
58:41
But like, yeah, dude, that's why these lists, if you look at a
58:45
lot of people's lists, it's going to be villains from 30
58:48
years ago, 20 years ago, 15 years ago.
58:51
It's not it's not a lot of courage.
58:52
You chose Clare UPS villain from Clare Obscure, but that's
58:54
because that game has the DNA of a game that was built and made
58:58
back then where the story mattered.
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It wasn't like, hey, let's sell a million copies.
59:03
It'd be great if we could, but let's make the game that we want
59:06
to make. Let's make the baddies.
59:08
Let's make a movie but a game and have the player experience
59:12
everything. And that's important.
59:15
Like when you get these villains, even like the cutesy
59:17
villains like Bowser and and Cortex, it's still something
59:21
about them where, you know, they're baddies, you know,
59:23
they're goofy. You just love that villain.
59:26
It's like, no, you're a bad guy, but I love you for it.
59:30
Yeah, you know, absolutely. So no.
59:33
Great picks all around. I love it.
59:34
I love the make up here. I love the differences and also
59:37
the similarities to our list. Yeah.
59:40
Because there's a lot of our games that piggybacked off each
59:41
other and it's like, yeah, no shit.
59:44
Like no shit. We're old guys now.
59:49
Thank you all so much for checking this episode out again.
59:52
We love doing our top fives. It's such a fucking fun time.
59:55
It's a good turn your brain off. We would like to know your top
59:58
five though, so please, please, please e-mail us at
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1:00:11
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