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Episode 216: Summer Damn Game Fest... and other stuff. · WASD and Beyond

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  None. You dildos where you start.
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  Yes, yeah, I I want to say that I'm responding yes to your
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  question, but not because you called me a dildo, you fucking
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  cunt on the show. Welcome back to the another
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  episode of the WASD and Beyond. I we are your hosts, Nick, Brody
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  Anyways, welcome to the show everybody.
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  WASD and beyond is back. Man, what a crazy couple weeks
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  in gaming. We had Summer Game Fest, we had
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  the Xbox Showcase, we had the PlayStation Direct.
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  Marathon might come out at some point.
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  Marathon is definitely shooting itself in the head right now.
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  What else? What else there's like?
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  There's tons, man. Mine's eye sucked.
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  Well, that's not that's not shocking.
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  Also, yeah, no shit Evan's suffering too because Evan
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  picked Marathon for his fantasy critic and now Evan has to drop
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  it for his. Fantasy Critic.
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  I chose FBC Firebreak. That's also bad.
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  Yeah, you're. Yeah, at least you get that
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  dropping it rough as if it doesn't come out before.
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  It's having, I mean, it's having a rough launch, but I I heard
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  it's fun. So does that.
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  I did not hear that. I mean.
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  I don't know, there's like no content.
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  Yeah, I have and. Also, the shooting is the
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  weakest part of Remedy games and that is what it is.
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  I don't know what I'm going to do.
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  I I will agree with Bertie on that.
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  They're really not games like made for that aspect, like the
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  shooting side of things, but. Yeah, no Ellen Wake.
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  Well, Max Payne. Yeah, that, I mean, that was
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  long enough ago that that's a whole different ball game,
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  right? I would agree.
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  Remedy, please just give us. Well, it's actually in
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  Rockstar's court. Rockstar has the ball for Max
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  Payne, so they're choosing winning.
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  If I were them, GTA is delayed. Just give us Max Payne remakes.
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  Yeah, you know, they're just making too much money from GTA5
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  Online still and they just. They'll see today.
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  Yeah, and they have huge dollar signs in their eyes for when GTA
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  6 comes out. I mean that they they could
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  never make another game again other than GTA like that
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  franchise and they'd be fine forever.
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  Bully manhunt GTAI mean. You're never seeing any of those
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  again, like. They're gone.
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  Obviously GTA they should sell off the bully.
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  They should sell off the bully and manhunt IP.
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  No they should they should. They should sell it because
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  manhunt would be a pretty cool title nowadays.
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  Like a survival Co-op. Survival like.
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  Yeah, we don't have any of those.
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  Yeah, but in the Manhunt universe and how disgustingly
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  violent anyways. Yeah, different, different
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  topic. But yeah, no, I think we should
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  be returned to that at some point.
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  But Bertie is right. I mean it's like the most like
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  what profitable entertainment product ever like.
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  All right, you Ron Burgundy looking motherfucker.
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  Be nice to me. Wow.
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  I don't actually take that as an insult.
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  I'm not. You're not.
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  Offended by. That it's the last thing.
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  It's not. Baxter.
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  Some people can pull off the mustache.
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  I am not. I'm Baxter.
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  Am I the dog? I'm.
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  Yeah, do you want to be Baxter? Yeah, at work I feel like Baxter
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  when you're mad at me. I'm not mad at you, I just feel.
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  More as a as a champ. He's a champ.
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  Me. Me no.
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  No, no, Nick. Oh, Nick.
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  Yeah, yeah. Why am I champ?
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  He's more like Brick. I'm not.
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  I don't love LAMP. I do.
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  Not, oh God, who would have thought in 2025, the year of our
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  Lord, we've been making references to Anchorman.
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  It's a classic. It's a good movie.
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  It is a good movie. It is a good.
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  Movie. Yeah, I'm going to let him do
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  this. What am I doing?
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  Amber, you're fucking wrong. Thank you Does.
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  She like step brothers. I think she does like step
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  brothers, yeah. OK, you're back in my good
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  graces for when I come when we come out for the Brody birthday
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  bash every year that we always do now.
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  It's coming up. It's coming up.
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  Hell yeah. When is that coming up?
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  When's your birthday? I I don't know if we're doing
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  anything big this year cuz we have baseball.
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  Can we still come over? Maybe we'll see.
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  It'd be nice if we invite us over.
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  OK, well, listen. Why are you doing that?
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  Dick Cheney face? What are you doing?
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  You're going to have to ask Christian.
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  Bale as Dick Cheney is what you look like.
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  You know, I was going to be like, I'll text your wife right
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  now. That doesn't sound good in any
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  universe. But it doesn't.
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  It doesn't. I'm harmless.
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  It's me, Nick. It's me.
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  Nick, it's Nick. It's fine.
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  Who are you texting, honey? Nick.
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  Oh. Genuinely, that's how it goes.
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  I don't ever ask her who she's texting.
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  She's like, Nick sent me a message today so.
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  You know. Like why do I care the?
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  Only time Amber pops up, I get a text is she going do you think
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  Brody would like this? And I go, yes, you should buy it
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  for him, OK. Thank you.
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  Holy fuck. Evan, you'll get a message after
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  after she listens to this. To me, oh, I'm in trouble.
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  I'm in trouble. Yeah.
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  I'm big. What am I?
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  Doing I like I like the new color of your hair amber.
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  It's pretty cool. Be nice to me, don't yell at me,
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  please. Just.
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  Say it. There you go.
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  You're back in good graces. Nick's not asking for much.
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  Don't yell at me, please. Just trying to walk a thin line
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  here. So Evan, I'll give you 30
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  seconds. Evan got to see 28 years later.
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  Oh, OK. I thought you were going to ask
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  me about all the stuff that happened 2 weeks ago.
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  All right, 30 seconds. I don't even know 28.
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  OK, don't countdown oh nice good movie 10 out of 10 brought me
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  right back to 28 days later. So really excited If you like
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  the first two films, go see it. It's it's really good, really
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  gory. I think my time's about up.
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  I got like 2 seconds come on. I don't, I don't really have a
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  whole lot. I don't really have a whole lot
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  to say on it because I don't want to spoil anything.
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  But like, it's really good. It's scary.
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  It's it's really intense. I don't, you don't get the sense
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  that it was shot on an iPhone. Yeah, like they do.
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  There's a lot of film effects. You know, there's a lot of
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  artificial grain, but it doesn't look artificial.
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  It actually looks like they did a really good job with it.
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  So it brought me right back into that really like cheap
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  camcorder, like, you know, kind of style that they did, which I
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  found footage. Type shit.
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  Yeah, yeah. And but you can also clearly
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  tell when they're using like that rig they showed of like the
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  iPhones all in like that rig and it's like moving down or
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  whatever. Like in some of those behind the
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  scenes photos where they have it like sort of swinging on a
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  pendulum. You could definitely tell those
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  scenes. But it's just, it's really good.
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  It's really cerebral. There's some really funny
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  moments. There's a lot of gory things
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  that happen. It's really gross.
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  Yeah. I recommend you go see it if you
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  like those types of movies. Excited for the second and third
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  one. Very good.
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  I went a little bit over, a little bit over my 30, but like
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  that's a minute. I mean, that's fine, that is.
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  Fine, all right. Games.
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  Games. What have we been playing?
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  Who wants to start? I know, Brody.
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  It's been sparse for you, buddy. Oh, sparse barely even describes
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  it. I have played maybe maybe an
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  hour, hour and a half of Stellar Blade on PC.
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  Still great game, still stand by.
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  That is a good game. Let's see.
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  I played, I play. It's been real rough.
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  Sorry. I played a little bit of Marvel
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  Rivals basically logged in yesterday to or two days ago to
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  finish up some quests and missions and shit that I had to
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  do the events and catch up on things that I hadn't been
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  playing for like a a whole week or so.
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  And fuck, I I don't even think I've actually gotten to talk
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  about night rain on here. So I've played a little bit of
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  night rain right when it came out.
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  Haven't had a chance to really get back into it.
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  I plan to actually play some games this weekend, hopefully.
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  So that is that is the goal. But we've been out of town for
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  baseball tournaments and by the time we get back to the hotel
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  and everything, I've just been tired.
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  So I didn't play anything on Steam Deck.
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  I downloaded Stellar Blade on Steam Deck, never even touched
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  it. So.
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  Really. That's.
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  I do want to try that though, because I supposedly runs fairly
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  well, so I bet I do want to give it a go.
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  I bet it would. They have a Steam Deck setting,
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  I think actually in one of the graphics options.
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  Yeah, for like environment or something like that.
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  Yeah, you can choose Steam Deck. Yeah, yeah.
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  But that, that's pretty much it. And like I, I have not really
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  had a whole lot of time to play much of anything recently.
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  So just been. Busy.
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  Yeah, You know, that's fucking life.
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  Unfortunately, when you get old like, oh come on.
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  You guys are old. Yeah, feeling it.
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  Don't be that crabs. To Segway perfectly and not
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  leave an awkward silence. I've played 17.2 hours of
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  stellar play. God damn it, very good.
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  Have you been getting all the the pop cans soda depending on
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  where you're at or Pepsi if you're in the South even though
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  it's not Pepsi or Coke? Coke, Coke, Coke, Pepsi I.
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  Haven't gotten a lot of them. I know that you get like a
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  special outfit. I think when you get all of them
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  or like you collect them all. This is going to be a game where
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  I think I'm going to have to go back and play through it like a
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  new Game Plus and collect everything or like do a new game
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  and then collect everything again.
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  I have not really been doing a lot of it.
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  I've kind of been just doing the main story cuz I've really
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  enjoyed it. Like I kind of get into that the
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  first time I play a game like that where I just I mainline the
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  story and then I go back later and do all the other side stuff
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  and it's like a whole new experience for me.
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  A lot of the stuff could be accessed later, like right
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  before you get to that point of no return, you can go back and
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  do a lot of that. So if you did want to.
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  But also it's one of those games that like you get a different
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  version. Like if you get an outfit or
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  whatever, you get right a different version of the outfit
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  in the next playthrough, which is kind of neat but also kind of
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  a pain in the ass. Yeah, 'cause if you think about
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  it, you know, how many places are you really going to do with
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  that? No problem.
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  YouTube heard it. But to be perfectly honest, I
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  love it like I I genuinely enjoy the game.
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  I think it's a lot of fun. The combat is great.
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  The it's just it's all around just a great title and I don't
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  really like when I stream it in the discord.
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  Obviously the guys are the way that they will be, but like, and
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  that's understandable and like it is hilarious.
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  But at the same time, it's also just good.
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  Like it's a good game. I don't really care that they
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  made like, OK, so they make the protagonist hot.
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  Who cares? Like, why is that a problem?
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  Like, you know, to anybody who really hasn't, Like I didn't to
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  just briefly mention I didn't like the PC Gamer headline about
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  like the Gooner Gamer or the Gooner game.
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  Stellar Blade is like all of the mods are smut.
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  It's like, well, yeah, obviously.
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  Well, that's every game, and that's every game has nothing
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  but. Resident Evil has.
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  Resident Evil has tons of smut mods but they don't make it.
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  Be a shame if Jill Valentine was naked here.
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  What's? Like before the game even came
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  out, I was getting like hour and a half playthroughs of Resident
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  Evil 3 remake with Jill Valentine wearing nothing but
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  like a string bikini. And it's like, but there's no
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  article about that. But there is about this because
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  like, the entire game is built this way.
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  It's kind of cool. It's not a problem.
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  It it's a it's a real brain dead take from PC Gamer and they're
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  just they're. Just trying to save me.
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  Oh no, you too, but I didn't feel like I needed to draw
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  attention to it. I kid, I kid.
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  But yeah, they're they're hitting that the low hanging
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  fruit to get the the it's obvious click bait bullshit.
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  Right, like whatever, but I I I agree.
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  I think honestly, like the you can tone it down if you want to.
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  Like there's different outfits that aren't skimpy or revealing
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  or tight or whatever it may be. Like you can play as a the whole
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  entire, well, once you get it, the whole game and like a giant
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  bear costume like if you wanted to.
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  So yes, yeah, it is one of those.
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  Things don't want to deal with it.
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  And while you're playing it like you really don't notice because
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  you're usually getting attacked by something and you're more
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  worried about dying. I will say that's been part of
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  the joy with the game is that the combat is not like it's not
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  something I can easily understand.
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  Like I still like even 17 hours in, I'm still missing.
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  I'm not getting perfect parries. I'm not getting, you know, like,
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  and that's what I that's what I like about it.
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  Like I'm not really good at it yet.
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  I need to keep playing and like do multiple playthroughs.
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  So that's just one of the games I've been playing.
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  Other than that, yes, I've been playing Night Rain.
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  I've played it with Birdie. I haven't played it with Nick
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  because he hates me. You played a played a night rain
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  twice with me, idiot. I looked at the camera for.
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  The two runs one night. 20. Similar to, you know, a famous
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  video on the Internet, but not. Quite something like that.
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  Oh that's a 2 girls 1 cup reference.
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  Nice. There you go, I.
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  Didn't think we were going to get there today, but here we
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  are. Here we are.
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  Not on my bingo card. That's been a blast.
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  Like I just beat, we beat Pest yesterday, Morgan myself and I
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  think Ethan and that was a blast.
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  Like I, I've really enjoyed just, I think the, the whole
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  concept of night Rain is a really good idea and I think
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  Promsoft really struck gold with it.
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  However, I would strike it down if it were nominated at the Game
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  Awards. That's fair.
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  You already got a game and DLC. You don't need another game, but
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  it is a, it is a really fun title.
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  And I like that there's a lot of, it's not hidden, but I like
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  that there are like quests and like a little bit of advancement
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  in each character's like story and stuff like that.
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  So that's been a, a good time. Other than that, I haven't
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  really been playing a whole lot of stuff.
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  Like I've been playing games with you guys and like party
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  games, things like that, but other like real games that I've
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  been genuinely interested in, Probably just Stellar Blade and
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  Light Rain. Hell yeah, Hell yeah.
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  Well, when I get this yacht out of my fucking mouth.
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  Not because you're boring. No, it's OK, I know I am.
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  I have a very nasally voice. Oh, don't say.
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  Well, you know that's going to give.
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  Me. Oh my God.
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  So in between painting Warhammer, watching a certain
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  Internet show that I watch, which I'm not going to name, and
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  then and then, you know, just life, I've been cracking down on
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  Dune and having an absolute blast with it.
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  There's it's kinks, it's got its kinks.
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  It's not perfect by any means, but boy oh boy does the is the
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  world of Iraqis really shown here.
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  It looks great. The game runs great for me it
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  it's crashed a few times right, But like the actual gameplay,
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  the open world aspect of it runs phenomenally.
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  I really like riding around the sand bike.
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  I've ridden with Noah in a ornithopter.
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  I've done so many cool shit. Like it is awesome to see Arakis
• 20:25
  imagined in such a way and with so many different things to do
• 20:30
  and just watching other like survivors, just like, you know,
• 20:34
  walk around or fly around or ride on the sand bikes and craft
• 20:38
  their bases and claim the land and pay taxes to Arakin to keep
• 20:43
  your base afloat. And just it's there's a lot with
• 20:47
  the economy and the politics in the game.
• 20:49
  And it's really cool how in depth and like the vision that
• 20:53
  they have for this game is actually being displayed, how
• 20:57
  they pretty much advertised it. There's a few things that need
• 21:02
  to be ironed out. Not being able to join, like
• 21:06
  leave ACH or a siege after you've joined it I think is
• 21:11
  egregious. I don't think that's it's, you
• 21:13
  need to fix that on the server side 'cause you know, people
• 21:16
  want to play with their friends, right?
• 21:17
  Like no one I can play together. We can kind of progress.
• 21:21
  But like I now cannot build on his server.
• 21:27
  I can't claim land on his server because I'm not a part of that
• 21:31
  siege. What?
• 21:32
  How is that fixed? So can wait?
• 21:34
  Can you? I know this is like not entirely
• 21:37
  the point of the this episode, but like can you explain what
• 21:40
  that means? Like so there's you got your
• 21:43
  main. Server Server.
• 21:45
  It's like a Subs, it's like a server within a server.
• 21:47
  So like the server name would be Odin and then within that server
• 21:52
  there are different, I would say instances of the game.
• 21:57
  OK, and you're on. I'm on like 1 and he's on one
• 22:02
  because when I first got the game and loaded into it, I
• 22:05
  created my character on his siege or Ch and everything was
• 22:12
  fine. I loaded up the next day and as
• 22:14
  everybody heard as I had a full blown meltdown, my character was
• 22:18
  gone. His server has a character.
• 22:23
  The servers have character creation limits.
• 22:26
  When X amount of characters are created, you cannot create on
• 22:31
  the server anymore any more characters.
• 22:35
  Therefore I can when I deleted my last character prior to this
• 22:39
  one, which will not be getting deleted.
• 22:41
  But when I deleted that character, I hopped in and I
• 22:45
  tried getting into Noah's Siege would not let me in there.
• 22:49
  It's locks I can visit, but I cannot create on it because we
• 22:54
  we can visit each other's sieges and he can help me gather
• 22:58
  resources. He can, he can, he can, he can
• 23:01
  he can like level farm and he can do quests and he can do shit
• 23:05
  with me, but he cannot build like claim land.
• 23:09
  He can build with me my like if on my sub thief, but he cannot
• 23:15
  claim land. So that that that is a yeah,
• 23:20
  it's a big thing. I need to be ironed out, but I
• 23:22
  am having a blast with the game. I love it.
• 23:23
  I love it. I love it doing awakenings.
• 23:25
  Great. Why did I say that?
• 23:28
  Like Caroline? Levitt it's great.
• 23:32
  That's like such a weird. Washington Post That girl on
• 23:37
  TikTok cracks me up. Washington Post, but that's
• 23:41
  really it. I've been playing Dune, I've
• 23:43
  been painting Warhammer, and I've been watching a silly
• 23:45
  little Internet show. We're not allowed to say the
• 23:49
  name of it for some legal reason.
• 23:52
  I just, I just don't think I want to say the name.
• 23:54
  OK, no, I'm not going to say it. I just wanted to know why, what
• 23:57
  your reasoning was, that's all. He's a shame.
• 23:59
  He should be, yeah. You're absolutely right, Brody.
• 24:03
  So, so the main topics today, boys, before we just have the
• 24:08
  roast of Nick on the show. So obviously with Summer Game
• 24:12
  Fest, Xbox Showcase, future Game show, and then at the end I'll
• 24:16
  sprinkle in the DS2 conference as like a quick little thing
• 24:20
  I'll talk about. These were all very good.
• 24:24
  And we're not going to go through it in depth because if
• 24:27
  you want to see our in depth takes, sorry, I have to stand
• 24:29
  up, fix my shorts. This is ridiculous.
• 24:32
  See the waistband, it flipped and it's choking my waist.
• 24:37
  Anyways, this is great. This is, this is, this is live,
• 24:40
  babe. We're raw.
• 24:41
  That's just it. Nick doesn't know how to wear
• 24:42
  pants. I gained some weight back and
• 24:47
  now I'm dealing with the repercussions.
• 24:49
  He hasn't stopped talking about it, really.
• 24:52
  I'm not happy with myself. Anyways, taking me outside at
• 24:55
  work and he's like man, I got to lose it and I'm like dude, just
• 24:58
  go to the damn. I don't know what to.
• 24:59
  Do I know I'm going anyways you. Anyways, you did great for like
• 25:03
  2 weeks. You have you have.
• 25:06
  You have three options, stop drinking, stop eating or go to
• 25:10
  the gym. I don't.
• 25:11
  Do you guys have much? I'm not boozing.
• 25:14
  So anyways, we're not going to go in depth Dick heads.
• 25:18
  I'm a dickhead that's fine. I deserve it.
• 25:20
  I deserve everything that comes to me.
• 25:21
  We're not going to go in depth today, but we are going to we're
• 25:24
  going to list off some of our the more notable things we saw
• 25:27
  at all the conferences right. So we'll start with summer game
• 25:30
  fest for me, obviously, I thought mortal shell 2 looked
• 25:33
  good. I I really thought that game
• 25:35
  looked phenomenal. I cannot wait to play that.
• 25:38
  I really wish well, I hope I get picked for the beta.
• 25:42
  I sign up for that Death stranding 2.
• 25:46
  It just looks crazy. It looks awesome.
• 25:49
  And just to think that what they're showing off is going to
• 25:53
  be on a base PS Five. That's that's wild.
• 25:57
  Yeah. So two things with this because
• 26:01
  just just to pause because it is DS2 I'm super excited for it as
• 26:04
  well. However, I will not be playing
• 26:06
  it next week at launch because I will wait for it.
• 26:07
  I'm PCI, don't care. I'm.
• 26:10
  I'm playing it. I understand so so I understand
• 26:13
  that you're going to get it on PlayStation.
• 26:15
  So you have just a base PS 5 though, right?
• 26:17
  Or like you have APS 5 digital. So it's the same thing without
• 26:20
  the without the tray. So I'm just curious.
• 26:23
  Let me like obviously I'm sure you'll let everybody on the
• 26:25
  podcast and just us and Discord now like if it funds that way.
• 26:29
  I'll set up the PS5 at work and log into my account.
• 26:32
  I don't care. Like I mean, personally, it
• 26:34
  looks like that's the type of game where you could make it a
• 26:36
  screensaver and it would look just as pretty as if you grabbed
• 26:39
  it off of like a website or something.
• 26:41
  Like genuinely, it looks that pretty.
• 26:43
  So I'm curious if it runs that way for you next week.
• 26:46
  Like I hope it does. I hope you get that performance.
• 26:49
  I'm very excited for it. However, it's like it's one of
• 26:52
  those games where I know I'm going to enjoy it so much, I'd
• 26:54
  rather just wait for it on my preferred platform.
• 26:56
  I'm going to play the fuck out of it more on the on the PC, but
• 26:59
  I'm going to definitely go through the story and do my
• 27:01
  thing like I did the first one on my PS5 is going to.
• 27:05
  Ban the the words like on Twitter and you know just to.
• 27:09
  You're going to have to. You're going to.
• 27:11
  Have to. Yeah, it's going to suck.
• 27:13
  Shit dude, fucking summer game fest.
• 27:16
  We had Chronicles Medieval. That game looked fucking really
• 27:19
  cool. Let's see, I was a big fan of
• 27:24
  Mouse Pi for Hire. Troy Baker is the lead of this.
• 27:27
  That's pretty neat. I like that.
• 27:30
  Is this? A fantasy critic game.
• 27:33
  That's my fantasy critic game, yeah.
• 27:34
  You have that on yours? Yeah, that's what I thought.
• 27:36
  OK. Atomic Heart 2.
• 27:41
  Yeah. I am shocked because the first
• 27:45
  one was such a whatever nothing burger Bioshock RIP off.
• 27:52
  I disagree it slightly just cause I've played it very
• 27:56
  recently. It's more doomed than I think
• 27:59
  you want to admit. Fucking Atomic Heart there's.
• 28:05
  No, like you have, you have the abilities and powers and things
• 28:08
  like that, but like the the movement feels more like a
• 28:12
  doomed sort of title or like there's no Sprint mechanic.
• 28:16
  I'll try it again. There's only dashing.
• 28:18
  You've. Said to him, and he's like,
• 28:19
  yeah, I know. I was going to say like, yeah,
• 28:21
  like that's First off. I have a real problem, fucker.
• 28:23
  Man. Like I will say.
• 28:25
  It was janky as fuck on Law. I played it on Law.
• 28:28
  It was, it was janky. It's it's, it can still be that
• 28:31
  way. How?
• 28:32
  Does that got that euro jank? I do recommend if anybody does
• 28:35
  play it on like APC, do not play, do not turn on like ray
• 28:40
  tracing at all. It's not.
• 28:42
  Good. It's all in beta.
• 28:44
  Like they like it's a very early test version, I guess of what
• 28:47
  they wanted to try and do and they never went further with it.
• 28:49
  So like don't do that. But no, like, I mean, I think
• 28:52
  it's honestly, I think it's it got a lot of like hate because
• 28:55
  it wasn't as big as or like as what's the term like remaking
• 29:03
  like it like it didn't remake the genre.
• 29:04
  It was very much just like another run-of-the-mill type of
• 29:07
  open world game. So like I'm excited.
• 29:09
  Successor, spiritual successor. Yeah.
• 29:11
  Thank you. It's basically ended the same
• 29:13
  way the first Bioshock ends. Whatever, Understood.
• 29:18
  Why are you? I'm happy.
• 29:19
  Now I'm now I'm spam. Would you kindly?
• 29:22
  Would you kindly? Oh, no.
• 29:25
  Now that you've done that. Oh no.
• 29:27
  Listen. Listen.
• 29:28
  For me to finish it. Here's my what they showed off.
• 29:33
  What they showed off for Atomic Heart 2 was incredible.
• 29:38
  It does look really cool. It was also incredible when they
• 29:40
  showed off Atomic. Heart that is my take on it.
• 29:43
  I and I the the thing that concerns me about Atomic Heart
• 29:48
  2. They showed a lot of like all
• 29:53
  over the place doing a bunch of different things and it seems.
• 29:56
  Global thing now, yeah, it's like a global story or whatever,
• 29:59
  they said. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:00
  I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
• 30:02
  Yeah. First off, what the fuck does
• 30:04
  that even mean? I don't know what that means.
• 30:06
  Second like it. It looks very cool, but I and I
• 30:10
  am excited. It was a fairly quick turn
• 30:13
  around for this as well. And I, I, I, I, I'm hesitant to
• 30:20
  get too excited for it, but it, it did look really good.
• 30:24
  It showed off exceptionally well during this.
• 30:26
  And it was one of those like we were watching it.
• 30:28
  We're like, what the fuck is this?
• 30:30
  And then eventually you start seeing like the the the bionic
• 30:34
  chicks. It's like all of that going.
• 30:36
  On you're like, no, you know, the atomic heart and then I mean
• 30:40
  just kind of bouncing off of that since we're already here,
• 30:43
  like awesome, the cube. The cube is like, so did you?
• 30:48
  So to go along with this, did you guys watch the like Mundfish
• 30:53
  or what is it? What's their studio called?
• 30:56
  Mundfish. Mundfish.
• 30:57
  OK, I want to make sure I was getting it right.
• 30:59
  So they did their own, like their own little conference, if
• 31:02
  you want to call it that. See it dude, I need.
• 31:03
  So it was only like the only way I saw it was through IG and it
• 31:06
  was like 20 minutes. It really showed a lot of the
• 31:08
  same stuff we saw at Summer Games Fest.
• 31:10
  And like the other things that they showed, the cube is the
• 31:13
  next game coming out. So we're going to get the cube
• 31:15
  before we get to. And it it appears to be some
• 31:19
  sort of like a a multiplayer. MMO.
• 31:23
  It's an MMO, it is an MMO. So I'm very curious how this
• 31:29
  works because it looks like an MMO but also an extraction
• 31:32
  shooter. Like in terms of the round based
• 31:35
  like or not round base, but it looks like that's how you would
• 31:37
  play it is through going out for like 45 minutes, getting all
• 31:43
  your shit coming back and like that's your like, that's the MMO
• 31:46
  or like that's the gameplay aspect, but there's an MMO
• 31:49
  component. I don't know.
• 31:50
  I was going to say to be fair, MMO doesn't mean what it used to
• 31:53
  mean where it that's true. When you think MMO, you used to
• 31:56
  think like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy 14, like shit like
• 32:00
  that. MMO these days is like there's a
• 32:04
  hub world like right there. The.
• 32:07
  First time, yeah. Or destiny it.
• 32:10
  It does look really good like that.
• 32:12
  I was honestly almost more interested in the cube than I
• 32:16
  was Atomic Heart to. Same here.
• 32:18
  To be frank. To be perfectly honest, I agree.
• 32:22
  I'm way more excited than that because one we can play
• 32:26
  together, obviously we can all get the the the fellas in to
• 32:29
  enjoy that type of game and also it looks like just off the
• 32:32
  screenshots on Steam looks really good, looks really
• 32:34
  exciting. There's a lot of pretty like.
• 32:36
  Areas, yeah, there's, it's really pretty.
• 32:37
  There's a lot of different like areas and biomes and enemy
• 32:40
  types, it looks like, And like some of it leans into more goofy
• 32:43
  style stuff like where you're fighting like robots on like a
• 32:47
  ice hockey field. And then there's others where
• 32:49
  it's like centipedes and a swamp and, you know, so like, that's
• 32:53
  really cool. So yeah, I'm really excited for
• 32:56
  the Cube as well. Like, I think that's going to be
• 32:58
  a huge, really fun game. And I like that that studio is
• 33:00
  making a lot more of their own stuff.
• 33:04
  Can I roll into the next one with Summer Games Fest?
• 33:06
  Because this is also a Munfish title.
• 33:08
  You know where I'm going with this?
• 33:09
  You know where I'm going. With this I have a lot to say
• 33:11
  about this. I'll fellas, I'll looks to be.
• 33:19
  This studio is doing a lot right.
• 33:22
  Now there's a lot of work being done here.
• 33:25
  That and all of their games look very pretty, very pretty.
• 33:31
  They like they look very realistic.
• 33:33
  They look gorgeous. The lighting is Immaculate like
• 33:36
  everything about what they're doing here is very incredible.
• 33:40
  That being said, some of the technical problems that we
• 33:43
  talked about with Atomic Heart, one I am concerned that it is
• 33:49
  going to plague some of these other games, especially as
• 33:51
  quickly as they seem to be churning these out it.
• 33:54
  Looks. Very, very good.
• 33:57
  It's. A different team doing it
• 33:58
  though. Yeah, I I assumed so.
• 34:01
  It's a whole. It's it's it's a.
• 34:02
  There's no way you have one team working on deals.
• 34:05
  Yeah. And this and that like it's.
• 34:07
  It's like an umbrella of. Munfish is just publishing the
• 34:10
  ILL project, but apparently so it's all Russian devs and
• 34:15
  they've all like a lot of these devs have had hands in other
• 34:19
  projects like not projects as in games, but like Hollywood horror
• 34:24
  movies, like they have done their own, like they're part of
• 34:28
  the technical team and like the the the crew essentially, not
• 34:33
  actors, obviously. And like when I was watching the
• 34:37
  the showcase from Mun Fish, like it was all translated, but they
• 34:42
  were all like, they were really praising for their game for for
• 34:46
  I'll, they were really talking about it is the goriest
• 34:51
  dismemberment system that some of the the devs have ever seen.
• 34:54
  And I believe that off of what we've seen, it looks very
• 34:58
  violent, very gory. They're very, it seems they're
• 35:02
  very proud of the physics aspect of it, which I think is very
• 35:05
  important. And I think a lot of people like
• 35:07
  overlook that. And I think that's only come
• 35:08
  into view for me really recently with a game like half sort, like
• 35:13
  Birdie knows that game and Nick knows that game.
• 35:15
  And that's that's a really goofy title.
• 35:17
  But like it uses physics in a way that is obviously it's it's
• 35:22
  how real life works. So like you're going to lose
• 35:25
  your balance, you're not going to step properly, you're not
• 35:27
  going to understand or like like the AI is going to trip over
• 35:31
  things or trip over themselves. Or if like they have a broken
• 35:34
  knee, they're not going to be able to walk on it properly,
• 35:36
  things like that. And I think I'll is really
• 35:39
  showing that with their their, their demo or like their little
• 35:42
  preview in Summer Games fest of like, yeah, if you shoot an
• 35:46
  enemy in the knee, they're not going to walk on that knee
• 35:47
  anymore. That's how it works, you know?
• 35:50
  And I think that as a sort of horror element that you're not
• 35:56
  expecting because you expect things to play like a video
• 35:58
  game. And inherently when you make
• 36:01
  things more like real life, people are going to react in a
• 36:03
  different way. You know, it's like, yeah,
• 36:05
  you're not going to kill him with a knee shot.
• 36:07
  You're just going to disable them.
• 36:08
  And like, now you're out of ammo.
• 36:10
  So what do you do? You know, like it's the next
• 36:12
  problem. So I I'm very excited for Ill.
• 36:15
  It's I don't really like horror games.
• 36:16
  I especially don't like horror games with body horror like.
• 36:19
  Dead Space. Dead Space.
• 36:21
  Fucking Resident Evil Silent Hill.
• 36:23
  I don't play, I don't play Silent Hill.
• 36:25
  I play Resident Evil. But that's, I think I consider
• 36:27
  that a little different. Dead Space.
• 36:29
  Resident Evil 7 was all body horror.
• 36:31
  Yeah, but Dead Space is more body horror than Resident Evil
• 36:33
  7. Yeah, it is.
• 36:35
  It's it's like fucking. That's as far as I've gone is
• 36:38
  Dead Space and and so like I'll looks to.
• 36:41
  Be pretty deep into the weed there bud in the.
• 36:43
  Water. That's pretty deep.
• 36:44
  OK, all right, I'm not going to disagree like that.
• 36:46
  That is true. I just think I'll is going for a
• 36:48
  different sort of horror. It is.
• 36:52
  It's going for a very visceral in your face.
• 36:56
  It's going to shock you, horror. It's.
• 36:58
  Almost like super large heads and the baby.
• 37:01
  It's, you know, things. Like that.
• 37:03
  Yeah. It's going to be like an
• 37:06
  exploitative horror flick come to a video game where they're
• 37:09
  taking aspects of life such as like babies and like pregnancy
• 37:15
  and like gang stalking and all that, and they're going to morph
• 37:18
  it into like, creatures, right. And it's it's going to be a.
• 37:21
  Body there's like the goat head monster.
• 37:24
  In that one trailer, everything you're afraid of, they're going
• 37:26
  to exploit, and that's what I love.
• 37:29
  So it's like a modern day Kojima horror game.
• 37:33
  There you go, I mean. We'll we'll see what OD does I
• 37:35
  guess. Yeah, I'm excited for it.
• 37:38
  I, it's very much not my game. Like just being straight up and
• 37:42
  honest. Like I don't play horror games.
• 37:45
  I I really just don't enjoy them.
• 37:48
  It's not even like I get fucking terrified or anything.
• 37:51
  I just really don't get into them.
• 37:54
  Sure, yeah. But I will say it looked
• 37:57
  gorgeous. I am very curious as to what is
• 38:00
  going on with the story. I didn't watch the the whole
• 38:03
  like presentation that you watched or if they even
• 38:07
  explained it there. They does, yeah.
• 38:09
  Right. Right now, what I have seen of
• 38:11
  it, it feels like a tech demo. Yeah, I'm just being really.
• 38:15
  Honest, yeah, no, I would agree. And they didn't really expound
• 38:19
  upon the story. It's really just that you're so
• 38:24
  it's it's in some sort of Russian territory and you're in
• 38:27
  a very large like Fort that has been used for some really bad
• 38:32
  like physical experiments. And like that's kind of all you
• 38:36
  go. That's kind of all we're going
• 38:37
  off of right now. We don't really know anything
• 38:39
  about the story other than that. So like clearly there's some
• 38:43
  sort of larger force at work. Like in the trailer we saw at
• 38:45
  Summer Games Fest, there's that like the choppers that drop
• 38:48
  those like heavily armored, like Russian guys that have like
• 38:52
  cannons on their wrists. And like you see that in the
• 38:55
  trailer when he blows 1 apart. But like that's it.
• 38:58
  Like we're not really sure of what else is going on in the
• 39:01
  story. So I would agree, it feels very
• 39:03
  much like a tech demo because of how impressive it looks, but
• 39:05
  also how it's like you feel like if you were to step it, like if
• 39:09
  you were to step just outside that room, you would go into
• 39:12
  like a grey box area. Yeah, grey box.
• 39:14
  It wouldn't be done. Exactly, I found all of the guns
• 39:17
  over. Here in this Yeah, yeah, I love
• 39:20
  that's exactly that's exactly how it feels right now.
• 39:22
  So like, I'm excited for it off of the trailer, but yeah, I I
• 39:25
  get that vibe. It'll it'll be interesting to
• 39:28
  see more from it for sure. Oh yeah, no, I'm.
• 39:30
  I'm pumped for I'll. It looks cool.
• 39:32
  I love the dismemberment that we've seen.
• 39:34
  I like the baby kicking. That was really funny and it
• 39:38
  just looked out. The game looks fucking sick, but
• 39:41
  got let's let's keep this train rolling.
• 39:42
  I got AI got a big list and we have a couple more games.
• 39:45
  I'm sure we're going to have to stop on fighter fighting game
• 39:49
  dudes, you're eating good with marvel cosmic invasion side
• 39:52
  scroll. Oh wait, that's not fighting.
• 39:54
  That's that's. The side scroll and beat.
• 39:56
  Him up. That's cool.
• 39:57
  You're going to have fun with that.
• 39:58
  There was a different Marvel game that.
• 39:59
  I it looks cool. That oh, that was shown at the
• 40:01
  Sony conference. Yeah, it was shown again.
• 40:06
  It was shown again here it. Wasn't OK cool cool cool, but
• 40:10
  Marvel Cosmic Invasion looked like an awesome like cabinet
• 40:13
  arcade game I would love to play.
• 40:14
  The the fighting game that you're thinking of, that one was
• 40:18
  shown at the Sony one. Yes, that's what I thought you
• 40:20
  were talking about, Cosmic invasion.
• 40:21
  Yeah. No, no, no.
• 40:22
  Cosmic, cosmic invasion ruled. I liked that.
• 40:24
  Yeah, whatever that I, I can't even.
• 40:26
  It's a four player. It's a four tag fighter.
• 40:29
  Yeah, yeah, we had Oni Musha Way of the Sword.
• 40:34
  Very fucking cool. That looked really good.
• 40:37
  We're gonna have to dead halt right here because this game
• 40:42
  felt that boxing. Hell yeah, this was.
• 40:46
  Looked wild. This was wild.
• 40:49
  It was like watching. It was like watching puppets,
• 40:53
  like a physical puppet. Watching that in almost like a
• 40:58
  what is it FMV Is that the? Term, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 41:01
  It was like watching that, but with like other shit going on, a
• 41:05
  crazy looking game. The way they in the technology
• 41:09
  they talked about, they're like, Oh yeah, it's something about
• 41:11
  puppets, some puppets something or another.
• 41:13
  I'm like, I don't know what the fuck that means, but I'm here
• 41:15
  for it. I don't, I don't let's do it.
• 41:17
  I'm here for punching someone, essentially playing punch out as
• 41:23
  a fucking puppet. Like it's crazy.
• 41:25
  It was like Noah's like wee wee. That was his radar.
• 41:29
  He's like this is after so felt that Boxing Day one we'll be
• 41:34
  playing that. Yeah, we got Arc Raiders coming
• 41:37
  out October 30th. That is on my fantasy critic.
• 41:46
  Fuck you man. That's fine.
• 41:48
  These kinds of games typically don't score super high, so.
• 41:51
  OK. I thought about picking it up,
• 41:53
  but I was like, you know what? I meant to pick.
• 41:56
  I meant to pick it up because I think it will be a really good
• 41:58
  hit and I think it will it will benefit Nick's fantasy critic
• 42:01
  late in the year. This is definitely.
• 42:03
  Like at this point nothing could hurt it so.
• 42:06
  That's true, right? Anyways, we got.
• 42:10
  Hold on a second, I. Just want.
• 42:11
  I just want. I just want to say check out Arc
• 42:15
  Raiders if you are listening to the podcast because yeah, it's
• 42:21
  that's obviously it's like as Nick said, it's on his fantasy
• 42:24
  critic, but I was able to play the beta.
• 42:27
  I was able to play, it was great.
• 42:29
  You didn't play very long. Also not good.
• 42:31
  Damn, sorry. Yeah, I didn't mean to talk
• 42:35
  shit. Like I didn't mean to talk shit
• 42:37
  like that. No, that's cool bro.
• 42:39
  He's going to beat me up tomorrow.
• 42:40
  I'm in so much trouble. You're going.
• 42:42
  To die. No, like that.
• 42:45
  That is, I think it's going to be a I, I was going to say
• 42:51
  something that's a little dramatic.
• 42:52
  So I'm going to take that back. But I I think it's going to sort
• 42:55
  of let people understand a different idea towards the
• 42:58
  extraction shooter genre, like where it's not hardcore in the
• 43:02
  way that Tarkov is and it's not like super urgent in the way
• 43:07
  that some other games might feel or even Tarkov it as well.
• 43:10
  Like it feels like it's very much trying to help you
• 43:13
  understand this world and extract from it as well as just
• 43:16
  giving you a good world to play in.
• 43:19
  Also, it's for what it is and the team that's doing it it it's
• 43:22
  wildly good with the attention to detail.
• 43:27
  The like the different footsteps, like climbing
• 43:30
  ladders, running, jumping, rolling, whatever.
• 43:33
  Like there's always an animation for everything.
• 43:35
  It's kind of odd where like you, you sort of, you sort of expect
• 43:39
  things to just not do that because you know that in other
• 43:42
  games they're not going to be that way.
• 43:43
  And then in Arc Raiders, it's like there's an animation for
• 43:46
  somebody running into a wall and putting their hands up.
• 43:48
  There's no animation for somebody falling from whatever
• 43:51
  height, whether it's 20 feet, 15 feet, 5 feet or 50 feet.
• 43:56
  There's some sort of animation for it.
• 43:58
  It's just, it's very strange. It's really cool what they're
• 44:02
  doing with ARC Raiders and we will get our hands on it October
• 44:05
  30th. That's crazy fucking awesome
• 44:11
  what else we got here. We're going to probably rifle
• 44:13
  through some of these. We got out of Words coming out
• 44:16
  soon. Mafia, the old world that was
• 44:19
  showing off a bit more here. No cool.
• 44:21
  Lego Voyagers looks like a very cute game.
• 44:24
  I cannot wait to play Lego Voyagers. 2 player Co-op
• 44:27
  adventure with friend pass where you get to play as a Lego and I
• 44:32
  am a stoked. We had Lies of P overture that
• 44:38
  we we already knew Ethan would hop in and be like, did you see
• 44:42
  that? Yes, we did.
• 44:45
  We have fractured blooms. This one boys.
• 44:50
  Deadpool VR coming out 2025 NP motherfuking H Neil Patrick
• 45:00
  Harris is dead. Yeah, that was I, I did not
• 45:04
  expect that at all. I, yeah, it, it is a weird thing
• 45:10
  and I, I understand why it is the way it is, right?
• 45:13
  But yeah, I hate that it is locked to, to VR3.
• 45:18
  No, Well, well, not even VR is in itself just Quest 3.
• 45:23
  Like I'm not buying a fucking Quest 3 to play this game, quite
• 45:25
  frankly, like it. No, there is no game that could
• 45:29
  sell me on buying a Quest 3. At this point I am just fully
• 45:32
  convinced I don't I'm not that interested in VR.
• 45:36
  If it was available on Quest two, I would probably pick it up
• 45:39
  and play it. We already have a Quest 2.
• 45:40
  My kids got one for Christmas last year.
• 45:42
  I could play it there. But yeah, I.
• 45:44
  Just a new a new headset for it is yeah, that's a yeah.
• 45:48
  That's a that's a big fucking ask yeah.
• 45:51
  And and there's just not VR games that are console sellers
• 45:54
  in that same way, right? Like a PlayStation has their
• 45:57
  games that sell consoles. Xbox has Game Pass like it's
• 46:02
  whatever, but there's just it's VR is not that same space and
• 46:08
  it's not taking off like people were hoping it was going to and
• 46:11
  this is where we're at. That being said, I think if VR
• 46:14
  Deadpool game is fucking great. It sounds like a lot of fun from
• 46:20
  what I did hear about this game from people that played it at
• 46:24
  Summer Games Fest, motions like this really, really bad because
• 46:29
  you are constantly moving around and and doing things in the
• 46:34
  world that people were getting motion sickness really, really
• 46:38
  bad, which I am very susceptible to that in VR.
• 46:41
  It fucks me up really, really bad.
• 46:44
  So that's unfortunate. But that being said, like a
• 46:48
  Deadpool VR game and that's cool.
• 46:51
  I would much rather have it to where I could just play it, you
• 46:53
  know, on PC, but fair. Enough.
• 46:56
  I agree. Yeah.
• 46:59
  Oh boys, sorry about that. My phone lit up and I I didn't
• 47:04
  know if I was going to say anything about Deadpool.
• 47:06
  No, I don't have anything like really to say about it.
• 47:08
  I'm just I'm excited for it. I have we have a quest 3 here,
• 47:11
  so I'd like I'll probably pick it up and try it.
• 47:13
  But like I agree with Brody and I I wish it was just like a
• 47:16
  regular PC game or like a just a game that anybody could play on
• 47:20
  a console PC, whatever. Like I would prefer that because
• 47:23
  it's more accessible to people, but like keep it the same, you
• 47:27
  know, have NPH voice him and you know, make a game around that,
• 47:30
  you know, like such. A good idea?
• 47:33
  Like he's he's great and I think I think that's really cool.
• 47:36
  But like I also understand Brody's point of like, I don't,
• 47:38
  I'm not really susceptible to motion sickness.
• 47:40
  It doesn't really bother me. But like, I don't know, man,
• 47:45
  there's just, it's not enjoyable to just stand in my fucking
• 47:48
  living room and just like, OK, I swing here.
• 47:51
  OK, I swing here. Oh, I shoot here.
• 47:53
  Oh, I shoot here. Yeah, Oh, my kid.
• 47:55
  Funny voice. Like, like, yeah, I'm sure.
• 47:56
  I'm, I'm sure. I'm no, I'm sure.
• 47:58
  And like, I do love playing certain VR games.
• 48:00
  Like I like playing Blade and Sorcerer.
• 48:02
  I like playing The Walking Dead games.
• 48:03
  I like. Half Life, Alex.
• 48:05
  I like, yeah, Half Life, like, yeah, no, that's a great VR
• 48:08
  game. But like I'd prefer if you just
• 48:12
  took that money you used to make it in VR and just put it into
• 48:16
  making it a regular PC slash, Xbox slash PlayStation game with
• 48:21
  collectibles or different outfits or whatever, you know
• 48:23
  what I mean? Like a like a Spider man sort
• 48:26
  of, you know, like a Marvel Spider Man.
• 48:27
  Like I would prefer that. Like why?
• 48:29
  Why do some niche VR title that only a handful of people are
• 48:33
  actually going to play when you could do something like a Marvel
• 48:36
  Spider Man and just do Deadpool and make it, you know, its own
• 48:40
  thing? Like they're doing that with
• 48:41
  Wolverine like. What the fuck?
• 48:43
  Yeah, yeah, I guess Deadpool is just that shit eating cousin
• 48:48
  that gets a. Give us another Deadpool game,
• 48:50
  because the Deadpool game that actually came out was amazing.
• 48:54
  It's I love that team anymore. I know it's fucking what it's.
• 48:57
  I have anybody wants to play. By thank you by physical.
• 49:01
  Invite family invite. I got you.
• 49:04
  We also had another Lego game, Lego Party.
• 49:06
  It's like it's. Like it's.
• 49:08
  What it is, it sounds like it's it's Mario Party with LEGO's.
• 49:12
  Blighted still looks amazing. I'm very much excited for
• 49:15
  Blighted It. Was cool, really good.
• 49:17
  That was that was just for anybody realistic that was like
• 49:22
  a medieval super realistic looking like very, very, very
• 49:26
  cool game. Definitely if you have not
• 49:28
  watched this trailer, which I I assume if you were listening to
• 49:31
  a gaming podcast, you probably already saw a lot of this, but
• 49:34
  go check out this trailer. It's it's very good.
• 49:37
  Yes, so it's blighted Mecca Break July 1st and Brody texted
• 49:41
  me today saying Mecca break looks like it's coming to mobile
• 49:45
  and. Yeah, yeah, I put that in the
• 49:48
  Discord. I saw that scrolling through
• 49:51
  Reddit today and. I would feel yucky.
• 49:54
  I I wanted to verify it so I went to the play store on my
• 49:58
  phone and sure is shit Mecca break is there and I don't like
• 50:03
  that don't know why. That we will see it.
• 50:07
  But I am glad that game's finally coming out at the same
• 50:10
  time. Like, yeah, I feel like it lost
• 50:13
  all of the steam that it had. We were all super excited for it
• 50:16
  when we played that beta. And now I don't know if anyone,
• 50:19
  even the big Mecca guys in our Discord like don't really seem
• 50:23
  to care. Nope, they don't give a fuck.
• 50:25
  It's not on App Store or Apple, but that means you fuck.
• 50:28
  Apple. OK, what?
• 50:30
  Do you say fuck us for? Cuz Apple fuck, fuck me for yeah
• 50:35
  no, it's. Not anyways.
• 50:39
  So yeah, July 1st we have Wu Tang, Rise of the Deceiver.
• 50:46
  I wasn't sure if you said Wu Tang or Wu Chang because there
• 50:51
  aren't that. There's both here.
• 50:52
  That's the next. List of games which the next
• 50:54
  list guys will be probably a little faster except for the big
• 50:57
  hitters because it's been a long day.
• 51:00
  But yeah, Wu Tang Rise to the Deceiver looks sweet.
• 51:06
  Split Gate 2 was released in a very cringy way.
• 51:11
  Yeah. It was cool when it happened.
• 51:12
  With that, I watched again. I went.
• 51:14
  Oh, that's. Nice.
• 51:15
  Yeah, We, we all reacted really positively in the moment.
• 51:18
  And then we watched it back and we went, oh shit.
• 51:20
  I was like. Oh no, I went this.
• 51:23
  I was not. It wasn't a good look.
• 51:24
  I don't think he meant it in the way people are insinuating, but.
• 51:28
  I might have. He.
• 51:30
  Could have, yeah. Maybe I'm not going to give him
• 51:33
  any excuses. I'm.
• 51:35
  Like, yeah, I, I mean, I get what he's talking about for like
• 51:39
  going back. To Haiti, we don't like yeah, we
• 51:42
  don't have to. We don't have to venture down
• 51:45
  there. I have a whole.
• 51:46
  But yes, I, I. Yes, it was cool.
• 51:48
  When he said Call of Duty, though, I went.
• 51:50
  Yeah, calling out Call of Duty, That's that's fine.
• 51:52
  But I think that was cool. Probably not great.
• 51:55
  The hat choice is not a good idea anyway.
• 51:58
  The hat choice. I listen.
• 52:02
  We all wanted to make a make this great again thing.
• 52:06
  It doesn't work. Yeah.
• 52:07
  You more than anybody else on this podcast, right, Nick?
• 52:10
  It's a It's attached to not good things, so yeah, just like.
• 52:16
  You guys want to talk about geopolitics for the.
• 52:18
  Next. I don't think so.
• 52:19
  Not really, that's an OBO topic. Yeah, Resident Evil 9, They did
• 52:28
  a bit of a Switcher. Rooney, bamboo looney on us.
• 52:31
  Oh, we're not going to show us. It was so corny.
• 52:33
  I was like. It was pretty fucking corny.
• 52:35
  It wasn't even, it was corny, but it was very obvious when the
• 52:39
  the translation came through and it was like just in the blink
• 52:42
  and then you'll see. And it was like, OK, it'll be
• 52:44
  later in the episode or later in this broadcast, like.
• 52:48
  I will say during the show, I, I didn't necessarily expect it to
• 52:51
  be there. Like after they said that, I I
• 52:54
  was kind of like, yeah, you know what?
• 52:56
  It'll probably come here in the like next month or two or
• 53:00
  something like that. I didn't expect it to be there,
• 53:02
  to be perfectly honest, but. So maybe I did expect it.
• 53:05
  It's no, I, no, I don't think you're dumb.
• 53:07
  I think like personally for me, I expected it to be there, but I
• 53:11
  expected it to either be at the beginning or the end because
• 53:14
  it's Resident Evil. So like.
• 53:16
  It's not. I expected it to be there, the
• 53:17
  middle before the the conversation in the middle where
• 53:21
  he's like, yeah, it's not who? Does I thought that was I
• 53:24
  thought that was saying right. I thought that was no and I
• 53:27
  agree. I thought that was weird because
• 53:29
  when I initially, so he saw it with you guys, I thought it was
• 53:31
  going to be like later in the month when we would get a
• 53:34
  trailer or something. But then he said like just wait
• 53:38
  in the blink of an eye and then you'll see.
• 53:40
  And I was like, OK, he's kind of like doing some sort of weird
• 53:43
  Riddle thing. It's probably going to be later
• 53:45
  in the broadcast or sometime during this weekend of gaming,
• 53:51
  you know, where we have Xbox and PC game show, you know, like
• 53:54
  it's going to be somewhere like whether it's announced
• 53:56
  independently or with a group. So like that's where I took it,
• 54:01
  but I don't know. I'm excited for it.
• 54:05
  I I'm curious to see more. I, I, I was kind of a for how
• 54:10
  soon it's coming out. I guess I just want to see more
• 54:12
  of it and I want to understand the direction they're going in.
• 54:15
  Are they going more Resident Evil 4 and village of like an
• 54:19
  action thing or they doing more of a 7?
• 54:22
  I would assume they're going to probably like stick more to the
• 54:25
  action type and then, you know, that seems to be their their.
• 54:29
  Thing lately right, like that's that's true and I guess. 7 was
• 54:32
  kind of more that way to village was more that way.
• 54:35
  I it seems to be what works more right as far as from a from a
• 54:41
  broad appeal, which is more games, which makes more money.
• 54:46
  You're right exactly. And that's and that's I'm sure
• 54:49
  why they would be doing it in that case.
• 54:50
  I was really a fan of Resident Evil 2 remake because I had not
• 54:55
  played the originals and I was, I, I, I liked the, the puzzles,
• 55:00
  you know, like, I, I like that aspect of it.
• 55:02
  I thought that was a really unique take.
• 55:04
  And I liked having to sort of double back to areas I'd already
• 55:08
  been to to get another key or something like that.
• 55:10
  Like it, it sounds repetitive and annoying and it is to a
• 55:12
  degree in certain games. But like this felt like in
• 55:16
  service of something like I was, I was actually trying to solve a
• 55:19
  problem so it it fit better I guess.
• 55:22
  And that's due to how they designed it and how it comes off
• 55:25
  of to the player. But like so I guess I'm kind of
• 55:29
  apprehensive because I don't want it to just be more action.
• 55:32
  I'd like it to be more of a horror.
• 55:34
  Game to its roots, almost. Yeah.
• 55:36
  Well, I'd like that. There's a very significant
• 55:38
  portion of the beginning of seven where you're at a
• 55:41
  disadvantage and I would like that to continue.
• 55:43
  I, I didn't like how in village Ethan is like, I've been through
• 55:49
  this shit before, man. And he's like, I'm just going to
• 55:51
  like, yeah, he just, he finds a gun.
• 55:54
  He, you know, checks the mag and he's good to go.
• 55:57
  He gets his hand cut off. He puts a little bit of like
• 56:00
  weird magic oil on it and then puts his hand back on.
• 56:03
  It's all good. Like it just got really campy I
• 56:07
  guess is probably the best way to.
• 56:08
  Describe. I mean, that's Resident Evil.
• 56:10
  It is. It is.
• 56:12
  No, I. Didn't nutshell really.
• 56:13
  That that's true like I. Especially the beloved 4 right?
• 56:17
  Like for his Borderline, one of the most campy games that have
• 56:21
  ever. Been made.
• 56:22
  I mean, yeah, 4/4 is campy, 5 is just outright of nonsense when
• 56:25
  you're punching that. Bowl older punch.
• 56:28
  Yeah, like either way, I'm excited.
• 56:32
  Ferrari 9. I have a handful of games that
• 56:36
  you guys did not mention that I'll just run through relatively
• 56:40
  quickly here, so I know this is not your guys's bag, but I
• 56:44
  thought Code Vein 2 look kind of cool.
• 56:46
  If they could improve on what that formula was in the first
• 56:49
  game, I think it could actually be a pretty fun game.
• 56:51
  That kind of souls like combat but with like an anime flare to
• 56:55
  it, right? Like, I dig it.
• 56:56
  Whatever the next game was killer in in Deception we trust.
• 57:01
  I thought this could be a cool party game or it could suck
• 57:03
  really bad. Square Enix kind of has a bad
• 57:05
  rap with trying to do some of these other game these these
• 57:09
  games outside of their wheelhouse.
• 57:12
  It looked janky as fuck even during this whole like
• 57:14
  presentation. But if it's fun to play, that's
• 57:17
  really what matters for a party game.
• 57:19
  Like jank is fine sometimes it adds to the experience.
• 57:23
  This could be cool or again, it couldn't be garbage.
• 57:27
  Chrono Odyssey. So this was a open world.
• 57:32
  They're touting it as an MMORPG, very souls like type of combat.
• 57:40
  It look like look really really neat.
• 57:42
  Look really gorgeous. Again, MMOMMORPG is kind of a
• 57:47
  weird thing in this day and age, so it might not be great, but I
• 57:51
  am going to keep my eye on this one for sure and if anybody
• 57:56
  needs wants to chime in, feel free.
• 57:57
  But Nina the hollower got Yacht Club games.
• 58:01
  It looks cool. It it definitely has a certain
• 58:04
  look to it right like it it has a very old school look, but
• 58:08
  that's what they're going for That's what they like.
• 58:09
  They like the pixel art type shit.
• 58:12
  I anything from Yacht Club games I will keep an eye on because I
• 58:16
  love how that studio has handled not only the, you know, the
• 58:21
  initial release of Shovel Knight, but how they supported
• 58:24
  it all the way through and just a really, really cool studio.
• 58:29
  So definitely keeping an eye on that.
• 58:30
  And it's also on my fantasy critics.
• 58:32
  So I needed to do exceptionally well.
• 58:37
  Acts of blood. This was that Sifu like type of.
• 58:40
  Yeah, the demo was really fun. Demo's still live on Steam by
• 58:44
  the way. So nice.
• 58:45
  Yeah, this one looked really cool.
• 58:47
  I I never really got into Sifu. I think I watched Nick play it.
• 58:51
  I technically have it, I think through Epic Games and I just
• 58:54
  never got around to playing it but.
• 58:55
  You have it through games. And also Game pass apparently.
• 58:59
  So through there for sure. Yeah, I have two ways to play it
• 59:02
  and I have still not touched it, but this did look really cool.
• 59:06
  I I think I actually dug the art style of this more than what I
• 59:09
  did on seafood personally, but we'll see how this comes out.
• 59:15
  These kinds of games are a little strange as far as like
• 59:19
  how they're received and what people feel about them.
• 59:22
  You have to get that combat almost just perfect or else it's
• 59:25
  going to feel really bad. Oh yeah.
• 59:28
  It feels more like Sleeping Dogs.
• 59:30
  I guess it's a way to describe it.
• 59:32
  Like, that's a good way of putting it.
• 59:33
  I think it's a bit more indie in terms of like, just just the
• 59:37
  feeling how everything works, but like, that's the general
• 59:40
  vibe I get from it, yeah. Double O 7 first light, we got
• 59:48
  essentially like another trailer of this.
• 59:50
  Also all of the tie in stuff that they're doing with Hitman
• 59:54
  currently. And didn't they have something
• 59:55
  with that fucking shitty game that just came out The the, the,
• 59:59
  the, the one that just came out and flopped and people were
• 1:00:02
  stoked on? And it sucks.
• 1:00:03
  Mine's eye. Mine's eye, yeah, there was a
• 1:00:05
  tie in with that as well. Like what are you doing?
• 1:00:09
  Yeah, I, I, we kind of briefly talked about this at some point,
• 1:00:13
  like the Double O Seven thing, I believe, or maybe we just talked
• 1:00:16
  about it in the Discord. But I'm excited for this.
• 1:00:18
  I like Hitman games. I just haven't gotten into them
• 1:00:21
  for a very long time. That being said, I do like the
• 1:00:24
  take on the younger James Bond and kind of the little bit more
• 1:00:28
  rowdy and not so like. Book accurate.
• 1:00:31
  Yeah, he's more book accurate, right, Which I can't say I've
• 1:00:34
  ever read a. I've never read a James Bond
• 1:00:37
  book, but yeah, I'm. But that's a good.
• 1:00:40
  This is a great jumping off point, right?
• 1:00:42
  Like we've never none of the movies have ever portrayed him
• 1:00:45
  as very book like they've always been.
• 1:00:47
  You know, they're older. They're just a lot different.
• 1:00:51
  Yeah. They're very swabbed.
• 1:00:52
  They're they're experienced, right.
• 1:00:53
  Like even Daniel Craig is like only for the beginning of Casino
• 1:00:57
  Royale. Is he like a rookie, you know,
• 1:00:59
  like, or, you know, like for the first half of it.
• 1:01:02
  So like, yeah, this is going to be really cool, I think.
• 1:01:05
  Wu Chang fallen feathers was another one that looks cool.
• 1:01:09
  Yeah, after you said Wu Tang, I was like, I didn't think you
• 1:01:11
  were interested in Wu Chang. Wu Chang looks cool.
• 1:01:14
  That's that's kind of your action RP, not even necessarily
• 1:01:19
  RPGI guess we don't really know, but in action combat game it
• 1:01:23
  looks vaguely souls like, but we also don't really know what that
• 1:01:27
  actually equates to. Looks neat though.
• 1:01:29
  It has more of like a Japanese inspiration.
• 1:01:31
  It it appears I could be entirely off on that, but some
• 1:01:35
  sort of inspiration that that really adds a neat flavor to it
• 1:01:40
  For me personally into the unwell.
• 1:01:44
  That was the game that looks a lot like Cuphead and really has
• 1:01:50
  a very unique feel to it. I think that was a a, a very
• 1:01:54
  standout started with the cat with like the, IT looks like
• 1:01:57
  paint coming out of his eyes, but has that like 1920s,
• 1:02:02
  thirties, 40s type of cartoon feel to it.
• 1:02:06
  And then the last one I wanted to mention was Stranger than
• 1:02:09
  Heaven, which was the studio that usually does the Yakuza
• 1:02:12
  games, but this was not Yakuza. So they're stepping out of that
• 1:02:17
  and doing something a little bit different.
• 1:02:19
  And I mean, Yakuza, Yakuza games are.
• 1:02:24
  Always received well. Yeah.
• 1:02:26
  And I having a, a different take on this from that same company
• 1:02:31
  is pretty interesting. I'm I'm curious to see what that
• 1:02:34
  ends up being so. Yeah, no, I'm pumped for, I have
• 1:02:41
  to interject real quick. Audience, we are an hour in.
• 1:02:44
  There's no way we're touching Xbox today.
• 1:02:47
  No. There's no way we owe you an
• 1:02:52
  Xbox episode with actual new content, just so you know, we're
• 1:03:00
  going to. We have to, Yeah, we have to.
• 1:03:02
  We have to, we have to. Boys.
• 1:03:06
  I know people, all 12 of you went, but listen here.
• 1:03:12
  Listen here, next. The next week's episode with
• 1:03:16
  Noah is going to be cool. And then the week after, well,
• 1:03:20
  me and Brody and Evan, if he wants to hop by, I'll do
• 1:03:22
  something kind of neat. We'll just, we'll plan
• 1:03:24
  something. We'll do something sweet.
• 1:03:25
  We'll do something sweet if Brody has the time next week in
• 1:03:27
  the next two weeks. Maybe I don't know, right?
• 1:03:32
  OK, we'll figure it out for me man, I would say this is one of
• 1:03:38
  the better summer game fests that I have watched in recent
• 1:03:41
  years. Give us a solid B plus I I think
• 1:03:44
  Jeff really had the pacing down here and it was a lot of just
• 1:03:47
  like game, game, game, game, game.
• 1:03:49
  However, it doesn't get the A because there's never enough
• 1:03:54
  gameplay. You never see enough gameplay of
• 1:03:57
  any of the games being. I understand what this is, but
• 1:04:01
  as a consumer, if I'm going to talk to everyone as we are, I
• 1:04:06
  really need to start seeing games in motion.
• 1:04:08
  I need to start seeing the bones be moved and like the day
• 1:04:13
  before, we got to see a little bit of the what The Witcher 4 is
• 1:04:16
  going to have to offer. And there's a lot of games out
• 1:04:18
  there that have some big shoes to walk behind.
• 1:04:21
  You got GTA6 coming out, you got The Witcher 4 coming out.
• 1:04:25
  You got the, you know, fucking next Borderlands.
• 1:04:28
  You possibly got a Half Life. You possibly got fucking Quake
• 1:04:33
  or Marathon, I guess, or something that might be in the
• 1:04:36
  wings. I don't know.
• 1:04:37
  Not till next. Year.
• 1:04:39
  Just fucking put it on ice and rethink it.
• 1:04:46
  What? I, I would, I would give this
• 1:04:52
  AB, maybe AB minus. And the only reason that I would
• 1:05:01
  say that is the only reason as I wag my finger at the camera,
• 1:05:06
  the, the big game, not my game, right?
• 1:05:11
  I, I'm not a Resident Evil guy, so that did very, very little
• 1:05:15
  for me. That's fair.
• 1:05:16
  There's a lot of people that are excited for it.
• 1:05:18
  I am not one of said people. So you know, when you wait for
• 1:05:21
  the end of the show and you're like, what's the big thing?
• 1:05:23
  What's the big one last thing type of deal?
• 1:05:26
  I, I personally was like, yeah, OK, fuck, especially after I,
• 1:05:30
  you know, they had the little thing in the middle and they're
• 1:05:31
  like, yeah, you'll see it soon. And, and I was like, oh, cool.
• 1:05:35
  So it's not Resident Evil. What's the big thing this time?
• 1:05:37
  It it was a little bit of a let down is a bit of a let down for
• 1:05:42
  me personally. Again, just not my game and I
• 1:05:45
  understand that. The only other reason I would
• 1:05:49
  give it probably approaching B -.
• 1:05:51
  I really liked a lot of the games that we saw here and a lot
• 1:05:54
  of and this reason is not Jeff Keeley's fault, but most of the
• 1:05:58
  games we saw here are still a long ways off.
• 1:06:01
  Like there was only a hand of full of them that even hadn't a
• 1:06:05
  release date. Most of them are probably going
• 1:06:10
  to be well into next year before we see them.
• 1:06:13
  There was a couple of them that are right around the corner,
• 1:06:15
  like Wu Chang is right around the corner.
• 1:06:18
  There's a couple other ones that were fairly close.
• 1:06:22
  But it's just, it feels like we're in a weird lull in the
• 1:06:25
  industry currently where we don't have much announced for
• 1:06:30
  the rest of this year as it stands right now.
• 1:06:32
  And it's, it's a weird place to be.
• 1:06:35
  I mean, we just had to switch to launch and there's like smartest
• 1:06:39
  games for this fucking game thing.
• 1:06:41
  Like we've got Mario Kart now the, the, the Donkey Kong game
• 1:06:46
  comes out here soon. I mean, in Metroid Prime 4 is
• 1:06:50
  supposed to come out later this year.
• 1:06:51
  And it's like that doesn't sell a console for me, especially not
• 1:06:54
  a $500.00. So I, it's a weird lull right
• 1:06:58
  now. And I, I know a lot of that was
• 1:07:01
  people, they expect it to be pending on GTA6, but there's
• 1:07:05
  only so much people can do to dodge around GTA 6 before they
• 1:07:09
  have to release this game because they have to make money.
• 1:07:11
  So it's like what? It feels weird, right?
• 1:07:16
  Do you guys feel like this is the natural order of things
• 1:07:19
  because the switch to is like in the same vein as like the Xbox
• 1:07:23
  Series X or S and the PS5 where they also did not have
• 1:07:26
  exclusives like really at launch.
• 1:07:29
  And like it's kind of going down that same rabbit hole of like it
• 1:07:32
  only has a handful and like the ones it does have coming out
• 1:07:36
  later this year. It's like that, like as you
• 1:07:37
  said, that doesn't sell it, you know, like.
• 1:07:40
  I'm. Just curious, I'm not trying to
• 1:07:42
  like. I don't think so necessarily,
• 1:07:45
  because I think the games that are there for Nintendo are going
• 1:07:49
  to sell to Nintendo fans. Like I, I think Doctor Kong's
• 1:07:52
  going to sell. Metroid's going to sell the
• 1:07:56
  weird thing. And I, somebody brought this up
• 1:07:58
  the other day on a podcast I was listening to.
• 1:08:02
  The PlayStation 5 has been out for almost five years now.
• 1:08:07
  The series has been out for almost five years now.
• 1:08:11
  Wait, we are. Five, we are closer to a
• 1:08:14
  PlayStation 6 than we are to the release of the PlayStation 5 at
• 1:08:19
  this point, and there is not much to show for it.
• 1:08:23
  I I just. Being entirely all no, you're
• 1:08:25
  right. Said Nintendo is not going to
• 1:08:27
  have that same problem because Nintendo is Nintendo and they
• 1:08:30
  will release games. This console.
• 1:08:32
  That's the next. 15 years so. Then like, then I got to give
• 1:08:36
  them props for that, right? Like, you know, fuck, like I'm
• 1:08:40
  not a fan of them and like, that's purely just because I
• 1:08:43
  don't play a lot of their games. Like that's all.
• 1:08:45
  It has nothing to do. Personally, I don't really care.
• 1:08:48
  You know, yeah, if you guys, like, if people like playing,
• 1:08:50
  you know, Mario Party, Mario Kart, any, any of the like
• 1:08:53
  popular Nintendo game lines products, whatever, it's your
• 1:08:57
  choice. I don't care.
• 1:08:58
  It's just not my thing. And and like, you know, more
• 1:09:01
  power to you. If if you know they're doing
• 1:09:03
  well and they're giving you what you want, that's great.
• 1:09:07
  Yeah. Wow, that really that really
• 1:09:09
  sucks for everybody else when you put in.
• 1:09:11
  Perspective. Yeah, when you put it into
• 1:09:13
  perspective, it's when you put it into perspective it looks
• 1:09:15
  like the Nintendo players are really enjoying their time.
• 1:09:18
  When I heard that the other day I was like, you've got to be
• 1:09:20
  fucking kidding me. It's been five years and I've
• 1:09:22
  played like 4 games on this fucking.
• 1:09:24
  Sony straight up that's it's Sony saves.
• 1:09:26
  How do I feel? They came out and said yeah, no,
• 1:09:29
  we're working on PS6. So is Xbox.
• 1:09:31
  They said yeah. They said like the the next plan
• 1:09:34
  is the yeah, next console. And it's like what?
• 1:09:39
  What a time to be alive, boys. Yeah, I mean like here's the
• 1:09:42
  thing, Fuck. Like we've OK, no, never mind.
• 1:09:46
  We have to talk about it later cuz like.
• 1:09:48
  I do I. No, I can't do.
• 1:09:50
  Not buy the next consoles that come out.
• 1:09:52
  I No, you're not. Going to be a part of the.
• 1:09:54
  Problem. I'll buy a Switch eventually
• 1:09:55
  once there's enough content there for me, but as it stands
• 1:10:00
  now there's just not. I will I will this when the when
• 1:10:04
  the new this comes out, Yes, I'll buy that.
• 1:10:07
  When he says. Next year, bud.
• 1:10:09
  When he says this for the audio listeners, he meant a Steam
• 1:10:12
  Deck. It it it is Steam Deck plus the
• 1:10:15
  Deckard supposedly in the. Pipeline plus the Deckard.
• 1:10:18
  So no, I can't. No, I can't.
• 1:10:21
  We can't. We can't.
• 1:10:23
  Evan, give it your rating. Rating.
• 1:10:26
  For Summer Games, just oh, I give it like a because of
• 1:10:29
  Resident Evil. I will give it a nine because
• 1:10:32
  it's just it it, it was a game that I.
• 1:10:34
  We we use letters. Oh, oh, letters, just letters.
• 1:10:39
  Then I would give it like you. Can give it.
• 1:10:42
  AII gave it AB because you have, I said.
• 1:10:44
  I said. BI didn't.
• 1:10:45
  Give it a fucking A. Yeah, because then you have a -,
• 1:10:49
  a plus. No, so I would give it an A
• 1:10:52
  minus. He said no.
• 1:10:54
  I would get. A 90 would be an A minus, yeah.
• 1:10:56
  Yeah, no, that would work. Yeah, I would give it an A minus
• 1:11:00
  because Ari was the final game. However, if it was not a game
• 1:11:04
  that I was interested in, it'd probably be like AB, like a flat
• 1:11:08
  B or B minus. So like that's kind of doing it
• 1:11:11
  at the end for me to give it that A rating so.
• 1:11:15
  Fan fucking tastic again audience we owe ya it's it's
• 1:11:22
  WASD and beyond fashion. We owe ya.
• 1:11:24
  We here's here's my personal IOU.
• 1:11:28
  We will do an Xbox thing because the Xbox showcase was massive
• 1:11:32
  and I know the news is late, but there's a lot of games to really
• 1:11:35
  dive deep in on Xbox. There really is there.
• 1:11:39
  They did a lot of cool stuff for Xbox.
• 1:11:41
  So expect that next week's episode we're going to talk
• 1:11:45
  about doing Awakening with Noah. That's what I'm doing.
• 1:11:47
  And there might be a cool surprise that Brody and I have
• 1:11:51
  up on Shweeves for the audience. Really doesn't.
• 1:11:55
  Yeah, this is the best type. Of you know what, you know what
• 1:11:58
  it is. We literally discussed it in our
• 1:12:01
  chat. OK, a familial A familial face
• 1:12:05
  might. OK, come.
• 1:12:07
  Back to the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:12:10
  Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, Matt.
• 1:12:12
  I wasn't sure where you were leaning with that.
• 1:12:14
  I understand now. Yes, copy.
• 1:12:16
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• 1:12:19
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