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["We Wish You a Merry

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Christmas"] Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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everybody, it's Tuesday! April

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30th, 2024! Welcome

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to the Giant Bomb Cast. I am

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your host, Jan O'Shoah. Also

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powered by NZXT. We're all powered by NZXT

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here. Joining me co-captain of

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the ship, as always, Jeff

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Brub. We were doing the clapped

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sync and the seconds felt really long. I

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think I've had too much sherve-emate. He

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is too tapped in to the grand

0:53

calculus of the universe. I see it

0:55

all, I see the music. Speaking about

0:57

calculus and seeing the music, he's feeling

1:00

the music, he's feeling the tones. Jeff

1:03

Backelor. Oh, hello. How are you?

1:05

I was just mixing up my yogurt, but I'm gonna

1:08

put it down and talk to you instead. How's it

1:10

going? I'm the one who's weird

1:12

for drinking a soda. You're mixing up

1:14

yogurt, pervert. Well, it settles,

1:16

Bailey. I mean, when

1:19

it's in the fridge, it settles. It needs to

1:21

be stirred. Talking

1:24

to us today are correspondent

1:26

on all things poison, the

1:28

morning variety, the afternoon variety,

1:30

and perhaps also talking

1:33

about poisonous animals today. We

1:35

have Bailey Meyers. Am I

1:37

talking about poisonous animals today? Yeah,

1:39

it's on the rundown. It's on the rundown. We

1:42

see you're lined up for it. Oh, shit,

1:44

I gotta read these things more. Yeah.

1:47

I mean, yeah, totally. And

1:50

a special guest today, special guest in

1:52

my heart and in your heart, it

1:55

is ever the season to

1:57

be a little bit more handsome. Our

2:00

boy Soon to

2:02

be or now IGN zone. Not

2:04

yet. Hey, what to do,

2:07

baby? Boy Thanks

2:10

for having me. I said listen, I

2:12

don't start till tomorrow So I'm still a free

2:14

agent or I'm still free to do whatever I

2:16

want. So I figured it's like

2:19

a bachelor party Sure, you know,

2:21

it's just crazy. I could I do I

2:23

actually have a lot of work to do today Wrapping

2:26

up my last freelance things so

2:28

I had no days off, you know what I'm saying? So

2:31

but I'm out what better way to spend it

2:33

than being on a two and a half to

2:35

three hour podcast So very good. Yeah my time

2:40

Good first impression. Yeah. Yeah my

2:42

my bank account is smiling at

2:44

me looking at Jeff Becklar saying

2:48

You know I'm saying my rates is gonna go up

2:50

now. So You

2:52

know from zero dollars to still zero

2:54

dollars Yeah,

2:58

it's all right, you know, maybe that'll include just

3:00

having Michael over I'll cook him dinner again Yeah,

3:02

what we'll do should I'll take it pay me

3:04

an exposure. That's what I'm getting paid in right

3:06

now Good old expose

3:08

and speaking about expose Hold

3:11

on. Let me do that again because I'm gonna record vertically now

3:15

Hey Jeff grub We have breaking

3:17

news at the top of the bomb cast here

3:20

at the tippity-toppity of the bomb cast here And

3:22

I'm going to toss to you the newsman to

3:24

talk about what's happening Yeah I definitely

3:26

have the what I helped me out with the where the

3:28

wind the why and the how and all that stuff here

3:30

in A second. We have a couch and

3:33

we have a stage in LA and we're gonna

3:35

put said couch on said stage on June

3:38

8th, is that right? That's

3:40

right. Jeff grub. Thank you. Hey, listen, we're

3:43

doing giant bomb at night in LA We're

3:45

gonna do Friday and Saturday as it normally

3:47

has been that's gonna be a ton of

3:49

fun Definitely watch but on Sunday if you

3:51

want to come be part of the live

3:53

show for yourself Tickets are going on

3:56

sale Friday. You can come hang out with us. We're

3:58

gonna try to get as cool of an all-star cast

4:00

to come up on stage and do a couple of

4:02

panels with us. It's gonna be a really good time.

4:05

What details am I forgetting Jeff Bakkilar? I've

4:07

been like so busy like getting these things

4:09

set up. I like barely know anything else.

4:12

No, that's you've covered all the main bases.

4:14

That's right Sunday, June 9th 2024

4:17

8 p.m. Pacific time giant bomb at night

4:20

colon capital L capital I capital

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V capital E exclamation point live

4:25

in Los Angeles We're gonna be at

4:28

the Bellwether, which is a music venue

4:30

in downtown LA It's gonna be very

4:32

exciting and even larger venue than we

4:35

did for game of the year back

4:37

in December Tickets are

4:39

gonna be going on sale. Like you said

4:41

this Friday We're also going to

4:43

be doing a special little VIP package as

4:46

well offering that to people who want to

4:48

have a enhanced

4:50

experience Which

4:53

feels really cool to say out loud

4:55

no very exciting. Uh, yeah, we're super

4:58

excited I can't wait for this to

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go down We I

5:02

want to thank everyone here at fandom who's

5:05

been on the ground very supportive putting this

5:07

together. What an amazing Flyer

5:09

we have here for the for the poster here

5:11

for the live event. So thank you to design

5:13

team Thank you to Emma and Zach people behind

5:15

the scenes doing all the heavy

5:18

lifting. Thank you so very much for the support This is

5:20

gonna kick ass. Yeah, it's the kind of

5:22

thing where I have been able to like just started

5:24

I still really started focusing in the last week or

5:26

so on actually getting people could to be on the

5:28

couches scheduling things If you're like wondering,

5:30

hey who or who's gonna be at the live show?

5:32

It's it's still mostly up in the air, but we

5:34

have some big names that are in the talks to

5:36

make that happen I will say maybe the most important

5:38

name Patrick Kleppig this that he will probably be able

5:41

to do the live show So there's there's a little

5:43

key Come on. Come out and

5:45

see everybody. It should be a good time. Um, but

5:47

yeah, like like back our said Thank you. Everybody who's

5:49

been helping with this. It's been very empowering

5:51

to think hey We can come up with this

5:53

idea and then everyone's gonna help and then hey

5:55

in a few weeks in Los Angeles

5:57

We're gonna be doing this thing. So definitely come by

6:00

Yeah, it's gonna kick ass like grub said

6:02

we're gonna do at night Friday

6:05

and Saturday. What's gonna be doing that from

6:07

a New venue

6:09

as well. So that'll be a lot of fun.

6:11

Yeah, but you can't come to that and

6:15

That's a no-no for you. But

6:17

yeah, it's gonna be a ton of fun. I

6:19

can't wait to be out there I missed last year's

6:21

sgf not gonna miss it this year not gonna allow

6:23

that to happen I don't know how many babies

6:25

are being born? Okay I'm

6:28

not week. Not this week. Not this

6:31

week. Wait, you were an sgf You

6:34

know, no, you were thinking of the game

6:36

award. Ah, yeah, I was at the game awards Yeah,

6:39

okay, Michelle the gamer award y'all are

6:41

we all are dragging people out 8 p.m. On

6:43

a Sunday Yes So

6:49

what It's a school night

6:52

So yeah, we will will blast off

6:54

on on all the accounts and whatnot

6:56

when we have a link for four

6:59

tickets on Friday And yeah, just just

7:01

stay tuned for that and thanks again to everyone

7:03

who's helping out here. It's gonna be awesome. I'm

7:05

excited Oh, yeah, I'm

7:07

very excited. I'm very I'm very

7:10

very it's it's also grub very

7:13

gratifying satisfying illuminating

7:16

to not worry about production

7:18

Because I know that

7:21

the production God the God

7:24

Emma 5 got got me on deck. She's

7:26

got she's got my back and she's working

7:28

on this longer than any of us at

7:30

this point Yeah, exactly. She's just like Jen.

7:32

Shut the fuck up She's so polite. She's

7:34

not gonna say that but I know there's

7:37

a thought back there of like I

7:39

got this talk I got this. Yep, chill chill

7:41

chill homie We

7:44

need like 12 more Emma emotes just to

7:46

fully encapsulate how we'll get there we are

7:48

we are of big

7:51

dog Emma And

7:55

literally constantly in awe of her she's

7:57

always in oh, yeah, I know how to do that

7:59

and then And she does know how to do that about

8:01

everything. It's crazy. Also,

8:05

I feel like Emma occupies like fudge.

8:09

What's his name in Alan Wake, the janitor?

8:14

She occupies that space in my

8:16

brain where it's like, oh, you just

8:18

have the keys to this whole place and then

8:20

this other place. And oh,

8:22

all right. Yeah. She's

8:25

got someone to trust with anyone else. Yeah.

8:28

So they kind of worry about it. Exactly. Exactly.

8:32

And just like, I'm not worrying about this

8:34

podcast because what comes next is, you know,

8:36

video games. That's what's

8:38

up. Actually

8:41

I have something to talk about, but it's not a video game. Okay.

8:45

Oh, it's Calum again. That's

8:50

your fault that you knocked that over.

8:52

Okay. He's like,

8:55

stay on topic. This. Okay.

8:58

Hold on. Scout accountability. Let's

9:00

go. Scout gets going. Deathly

9:02

does not stop. Yeah. Okay.

9:04

Scout, I swear. All

9:06

right. I'll move the way. Okay. All

9:09

right. Hold on. Someone else.

9:12

Yeah. I hope he talks about disc golf.

9:15

I am speaking the words of disc golf. What is the deal? Why

9:17

is disc golf on here? Who's been playing disc

9:20

golf? I think Jan's about to

9:22

come at us with disc golf on. You've

9:24

been playing disc golf for real for real?

9:26

I mean, I've been playing disc golf for

9:28

real for real. Let's walk and go. No

9:30

one's surprising. Let's walk and go. That's surprising.

9:32

No, I'm with Bailey. That's not surprising. No,

9:35

she's right up your alley. Doug, I've

9:37

been trying to go disc golfing with

9:40

Jake here in the Bay area for so long.

9:43

So now that you are in on it, we like,

9:45

Doug, you just get slammered, throw a bunch of frisbees

9:47

all over the place. Hopefully get in

9:49

the hole. If not, you got a

9:52

golf too. I just want you to know you can get blitz

9:54

and play golf. That's fine. I'm

9:56

voting you, I think. Clubs and

9:59

tee times. and fucking green or fees

10:01

for whatever the fuck. And then you just

10:03

have to get out of here. Is this

10:05

stuff free? Is it free? Yeah,

10:07

I think I got it right. It's just

10:09

at a park, right? You just walk into a

10:12

park and you can play. Yeah, yeah. Hey, have

10:14

you ever eaten at a restaurant? What do they

10:16

serve you on? A plate, that could be a

10:18

disc. Yo, you could fucking toss them shit. That's

10:20

true. Exactly. For free included. Back to our game,

10:23

the implication that golf is better because it has

10:25

a history of exclusionary practice. I was just asking.

10:28

I was asking. I

10:31

wanted to know just where the Venn

10:33

diagram didn't overlap. Maybe

10:36

purely on the name. It's

10:38

an open public park with disc golf. And a sign

10:40

that just says, no Jews is in my head. And

10:42

that's really funny to me. Like,

10:46

what's even happening here? OK,

10:49

game. Yeah,

10:54

yeah, pivot. I can't have coffee. Disc

10:56

golf is a game. Disc golf is

10:58

a game. So my

11:01

partner was doing a school event over the weekend. And

11:03

someone had set up a little disc golf course. The

11:07

more senior teachers, one

11:09

of the white teachers had a disc golf set. Lo

11:12

and behold. And I was like, whoa, I've never played

11:14

disc golf, but I love frisbee. And

11:18

I tried it out. Guess what? I'm

11:20

fucking amazing at disc golf. Yeah, I bet you can. I

11:22

knew it. Is

11:25

it 18 holes? How does it work? I

11:28

know it's like a big chain thing. That's

11:30

what the hole is, right? Yeah, I didn't

11:32

really ask for the rules. But then I

11:35

kept stepping away progressively further and further

11:37

and throwing the specific discs. And I'm

11:39

like, I'm getting this shit like nine

11:41

times out of 10. I

11:44

feel amazing. Question. Potential answer.

11:47

Are there different frisbees for different scenarios? There's

11:49

a driver and stuff right here. That's kind

11:51

of cool. Yes. Do you have a fanny

11:53

pack for all of these discs? Or how

11:55

does this work? Oh, you know, it's just

11:58

like a good, like, uh, uh. bow

12:00

and arrow fish. You have a quiver? No,

12:02

I don't have a quiver or a

12:04

caddy. That's what scouts for. He

12:06

just carries the other discs. This

12:09

is just like the Goosebumps book Ship of Ghouls

12:11

where it's a give yourself Goosebumps book so there's

12:13

like you can do the excursions and you can

12:15

choose this and if you choose to do mini

12:17

golf you get it turns out you're secretly so

12:20

good at mini golf that the villain who is

12:22

chasing you is like super impressed and wants to

12:24

be your sports agent and that's how the book

12:26

ends. Oh my goodness. That sounds incredible.

12:28

That's like the ending you chose but in real life

12:31

and that's really cool because there's another ending in

12:33

that book where you can starve to death in

12:35

a closet and it's really graphic. Oh

12:37

shit. That's crazy. The

12:39

duality of a man. Oh that's a book for me. Oh thank god I went to

12:41

the yeah. Dirty

12:43

Erty which is a great name in one of

12:46

our chats says I have a bag with 24

12:48

discs when I

12:50

play. Hey that's goddamn. That means like

12:52

too many because even a full golf

12:54

club bag is like I don't know

12:57

15 clubs? Yeah. One

12:59

for every day of the year. That's

13:01

wild. Y'all are wild. We

13:03

gotta go. Let's go. Because

13:05

there's a course a very famous infamous

13:08

course in Golden Gate Park but also I

13:10

hear from the East Bay homies that Free

13:12

Measy has also got a really good course

13:15

out there. Yeah. Deep East Bay's got

13:17

some shit going on there too. I

13:19

have been actually it's funny because I've been talking about

13:21

disc golf because I've been playing a lot of everybody's

13:23

golf. I just like download that shit and start playing.

13:26

I just had the urge to play golf and then

13:28

my golfer oh she she bad as hell too. You

13:30

know I'm saying like and then I just like

13:32

started playing golf and I remembered that I

13:35

was on my high school golf team and

13:37

I think I want to rekindle those like now

13:39

that I have a real job and can get

13:41

real money I could pay for two times and

13:44

I can maybe pay for a nice pack

13:47

of tailor made clubs and I can.

13:50

Nice. Taylor Swift makes clubs? Yeah.

13:53

Yeah. She can do anything huh? She

13:56

does it all. I don't want to know. I don't

13:58

want to know. I hit

14:00

him backstory then Michael Haim. Yeah. Like the

14:02

dude's like, oh yeah, I could just like

14:04

do the twirly stuff with guns and stuff

14:06

like that. Yeah. And

14:08

I play golf. Like, come on dude. What was your life

14:10

before I knew you? There's a lot more going on. I

14:13

don't know why. I know why he's a magic man. Eventually

14:15

when I run for office in Daily City, Michael's gonna be

14:18

my campaign man. Oh no, you don't want

14:20

that. Well, I know. I'm not gonna be your campaign. I'm

14:22

not gonna be your running man. I can be your campaign

14:24

manager because I used to do that. Yeah, you can't get

14:26

shit done. Yeah, I can't. You're tall enough for that. I'm

14:28

not your vice mayor or anything. He can

14:31

help fly for me where I can't reach. Right,

14:33

exactly. It's all about height in that game. Yeah,

14:36

exactly. So. I got you man.

14:38

Fantastic. Fantastic. Uh,

14:41

Michael, how did you describe your character in

14:43

that golf game again? Oh,

14:46

she bad. You know what I'm saying? Speaking

14:48

about she bad. Um,

14:51

I feel bad for saying that now. Oh

14:53

no, Chan. I

14:56

finished Stellar Blade. Oh, Amy. How long

14:58

did you clock in at with the

15:00

horny game there? Uh, how about...

15:02

I'm just gonna say this on the internet. It's

15:04

gonna hurt my mayoral campaign. It

15:07

took me eleven and a half

15:09

hours to beat it. That's why

15:11

you call gooning. Ooh, are you walking funny

15:13

now? What does that mean? I am

15:15

so sorry. No one call HR

15:17

after this. Do you need

15:19

a doctor? Do you need medical

15:21

attention? Sean, get that out of the sound

15:23

board please. If you... Oh, oh!

15:26

Okay. You finished the

15:28

game in eleven and a half hours. You beat the

15:30

game in eleven hours? Yes. I

15:33

didn't... How? I

15:35

didn't do any of the side stuff. You've only ever

15:37

beaten two games and this is one of them. That's crazy.

15:40

Congratulations. And they're both Korean

15:42

games! Wow. That's

15:44

fine. That's great. Um, what

15:46

was the other one? Maple

15:49

Story? Liza P. Oh, Liza P. Oh,

15:51

yeah, that's a very, very similar story. Equally sexy protagonist in

15:53

that one. Facts. Yeah. He

15:57

also changes his hair in that game. later

16:00

in the game. We chatted at

16:02

length with our homie Amron Khan, shoutouts

16:04

to pros and cons, last

16:07

Friday during BCR about Stellar

16:09

Blade and a lot of

16:12

my feelings echo Sean and Amron's

16:14

feelings from the from completing that

16:16

game and it

16:20

is a lot of flash in the pan and just like

16:23

not a lot of substance. Have you ever gone

16:25

to Benihana and they

16:27

do the flaming volcano, the onion

16:29

volcano? Every hibachi plays on earth.

16:32

Sure, every hibachi plays on earth.

16:34

In America. Right and then like

16:36

you think oh cool why'd you do

16:38

all that? Is there anything are

16:40

we gonna eat these onions now? Oh you just put

16:42

all those onions away. Yeah like oh okay cool this

16:45

is just for show. Well you don't need to eat

16:47

the onion. Any time

16:49

I've ever been to Benihana and they

16:51

do the volcano engine, they just put

16:53

them away. Just like a waste? Oh I think

16:55

they're using that in the thing. I think that's

16:58

part of the... Maybe I didn't order the thing.

17:00

You got paid for that. I have the analogy

17:02

still though Jan, I get it. Thank you for

17:04

yes-ending me Jeff Trump. It's so sense. I didn't

17:06

know I was with some hibachi enthusiasm today, alright?

17:10

Nick Hibachi's gonna be on your ass,

17:12

man. I'm gonna be honest every time but

17:14

Mike does or did believe that Disney

17:16

invented hibachi except for like my god.

17:18

No but you know what that like honestly

17:20

for all of Manani's bullshit that is

17:22

a decently okay suggestion. Right, right. So you're

17:24

the kid. Sure. That's the first time, yeah.

17:27

I respect that kid child like instead of

17:29

Wonder. Yeah that's a funny thing to say

17:31

in public. Oh like this is an adult.

17:33

I'll allow that in the heartbeat. Yeah. But

17:37

after completing the game I just didn't think

17:39

about it anymore and I think I stopped

17:41

thinking about how Eve was even

17:43

like scannily clad throughout the

17:45

game and it just stopped

17:48

being a thing in my brain about halfway through.

17:51

I took Sean's suggestion in gearing

17:53

up Eve in a specific way to have

17:56

her attack differently and just be a little

17:58

bit faster because... If

18:00

you play that demo you were going to go

18:03

in thinking that is a hardcore Souls

18:06

like game. Yeah by

18:08

the end of it walking away my

18:10

feelings were very similar to Sean's where

18:12

it started feeling like a Devil

18:15

May Cry game not quite to the levels at like

18:17

DMC 3 or even the

18:19

latest Devil May Cry but like something close

18:21

enough where Eve is kind of just Anime

18:24

like zippity zippity doo dying all over the place.

18:26

Oh god, but now he's infected my brain You're

18:30

just excited about Disney. I'm just excited

18:32

about Disney because you know, we're gonna you know The

18:34

crew's gonna try and go to Disneyland during all as

18:36

well Michael you

18:39

come to oh shit. Let me know hit

18:42

me up But

18:46

uh, I think my my my

18:48

general feelings still remain the same

18:50

word this is a completely okay

18:52

game I don't think this

18:54

is gonna be like a Barnburner

18:56

that is going to change a bunch of

18:59

things despite how Portions of the internet are

19:01

trying to rally or were trying to rally

19:03

behind this game. Yeah I

19:06

mean that stuff is like already like over because they

19:08

turned against the game because of all the stuff were

19:10

like Oh, they added more fabric to

19:12

these costumes. So it's like okay We're just losing their

19:14

mind to begin with and this is the proof. So

19:17

right I don't know more fabric They

19:20

are I know gooners rights. The owners

19:23

are goners Just like rally behind

19:25

something. It's just kind of mediocre

19:27

and inoffensive Like it kind of

19:29

reminds me of like when Alita battle angel came out

19:31

at the same time as Birds of Prey And they

19:33

were like, well, this has to be our oh,

19:35

yeah, because the other ones who feminine

19:38

Oh, they got her battle angels like am

19:40

fine, but it's not Now

19:45

they were so behind it and like

19:47

alright guys like good for you, I

19:50

guess I'm glad you got one Suppose

19:52

it's definitely more the worst of the

19:54

two movies but congrats I

20:00

kind of look at stellar blade I

20:05

don't know why these are the two like

20:07

pillars of like the range of these kinds

20:09

of games that I that surround this but

20:12

Hear me out for a second. It's not as

20:15

bad as like a bullet, which was

20:20

Again I'm going back a little bit More

20:24

than dark sector, oh Okay,

20:28

and I know they're different games and you're just

20:30

gonna have to like live with that and understand

20:32

that I guess I'm wet is also in the

20:34

conversation But

20:37

like that's what that's how and I

20:40

think there's something special about this type

20:42

of game where it's not this like

20:44

massive blockbuster thing But it's also current totally

20:47

serviceable and competent and just like fun to

20:49

play and there's a certain kind of game

20:51

we're like, I just want to go to

20:53

it and like Have

20:55

it be have it work have it look

20:57

pretty have it be fun and and to

20:59

the point where I haven't lost interest But

21:02

the second I turn off my PlayStation, I

21:04

have totally forgotten about it Like

21:06

what's out of doubt has no lasting

21:08

memory whatsoever. There's something special about this

21:10

type of game Oh, we haven't

21:13

been getting in a very long time. It's fast

21:15

food to a certain extent, right? That's

21:17

what I thought when Jan first said like, you know, it's flashing

21:19

the pan, but it's got no substance I'm like, yeah, I love

21:21

that kind of stuff Taco Bell. Give me a ton of it.

21:23

I'll eat that Are you are

21:26

you glad you spent 11 and a half hours on a

21:28

gin or do you regret it at all? cuz I'm like,

21:30

I'm still thinking about it. Um, I

21:32

feel like I'm You

21:35

may not have been the best use

21:37

of my time Considering

21:39

all bad well considering all the other

21:42

games out there because I I was

21:44

probably halfway through Tales

21:46

of Kinzara And

21:48

according to grub that's also like about 11 12

21:51

ish hours. That's right. I think so Yeah, and

21:53

that is a story that is like emotionally pulling

21:55

me through I had to put it

21:57

down because it was actually like kinda too

22:00

close to home at certain points for me. Yeah, that

22:02

stuff really hits. That I

22:04

was like, okay, well let's check out the game with

22:06

the Vagina Bones or lack of Vagina Bones. And

22:14

if this was not a $70 title, it

22:16

would be an easy recommend. If this was

22:18

something that was available on Game Pass, I

22:20

know it's not because it's published by Sony,

22:24

then easy, easy recommend to

22:26

just like blast

22:28

your way through the game. That

22:30

being said, I didn't explore any of the side content. I kind

22:32

of just main quest, main quest,

22:35

main quest. And after a while,

22:37

I kind of just tuned out of any and all

22:39

of the cutscenes

22:42

because I didn't

22:45

care for what was happening. Yeah, exactly.

22:47

Yeah. I just don't feel

22:49

like that, as much as they

22:51

want to compare to themself or the

22:53

comparison to Nier, that's just not what

22:55

that game is trying to do. Not

22:59

that I give it a pass for not having

23:01

interesting story content, whatever. Yeah, but if you're not

23:03

bothered by it, you're not bothered by it, right?

23:05

Yeah. I'm not bothered by that either. Yeah, so

23:07

it's just like the emphasis on different parts of the game. I

23:11

don't necessarily think it needs to be like

23:13

Nier or have a story like that. If

23:17

you are looking for that, you ain't going to find it here. Yeah,

23:20

yeah, you are not going to find that here. I

23:23

was also less

23:25

than impressed with the fishing

23:27

minigame in this. And then I was like, no, no,

23:29

no. There's a fishing minigame? And it's bad? It's

23:31

not that it's bad. It's

23:33

just like, OK,

23:36

like you guys are just going for

23:38

Nier here because of the fishing minigame

23:40

in Nier. I also thought

23:42

about this weekend, what have I got really into

23:44

fishing? Like in real

23:46

life? I see disc golf for you. I

23:48

don't see fishing for you. You don't see fishing? Where would

23:51

we go fishing? What's like the hot fishing spot out here?

23:54

Oh, well, actually, Grub, there

23:57

is a fly fishing place in. Golden

24:00

Gate Park Michael yo

24:02

we got to go to Pacifica yeah we

24:04

got to hang out with all the Titos

24:06

yeah and the teos out there yeah and

24:09

just cast our line and then we just

24:11

bicken back being bull you know yeah I've

24:13

been on some something on some brews listen

24:15

fishing fishing out in Pacifica sound like some

24:18

real uncle shit so yo yo yo it's

24:20

real shit it's some real uncle shit because

24:22

like that's what my pop yo let's fucking

24:24

let's go yeah yo I

24:27

look I have a fishing license from a year

24:29

ago I don't know why I got a license

24:31

yeah you need to get fishing I think it

24:33

might be a California thing but back

24:36

when I yeah when I worked at a sporting goods

24:38

store we sold a lot of fishing licenses like that

24:40

was like one of our pillars of our of

24:43

our business I remember why I

24:45

got the fishing license it's because I was

24:47

just grabbing a bunch of sea urchins from

24:50

the shore and you can keep them you

24:53

can keep them you can catch up to 30 sea

24:57

urchin they act they actively want people

25:00

to take the sea urchins away from the shore

25:02

because I like to control the population yeah are

25:04

they the edible kind like like uni type shit

25:06

oh yeah baby bad boys open

25:08

you get some free uni I don't know if I

25:10

want to eat anything out of the out of out

25:12

of the ocean down here I'd say don't know the

25:14

fishing license cost 30 bucks what could be doing some

25:16

math right

25:18

now and how much I paid for uni through

25:20

my life like okay 30 bucks Bailey

25:23

we live in the same state we

25:25

do Michael

25:28

it's also the good water cuz it's like

25:30

Foster City water so for sure like you

25:32

know South Bay water where we're less yeah

25:34

we got the the T Bell Cantina down

25:36

there too oh yeah oh

25:38

yeah speaking about fishing

25:41

and the sea and how dirty it is a game

25:43

that I also checked out and grub you check this

25:45

out for a little bit last week another

25:48

crab's treasure yeah this

25:51

is a complete surprise for me grub because this

25:53

is not the game I was expecting I was

25:55

expecting like a kind of mascot 3d platformer oh

25:58

right it's not No,

26:00

not at all They

26:02

weren't like I feel like they weren't hiding this though,

26:04

right? Like no. Yeah Yeah, that's how you put it

26:07

in that basket and then didn't think about it I'm

26:09

like, how did you not see this and be like,

26:11

oh, it's a spongebob platformer Like well because I just

26:13

never I never explored it other

26:15

than just seeing another crabs treasure. I'm like,

26:18

okay cool, right? I am

26:20

when I saw this last year I was like, okay

26:22

I get it and I think the thing for me

26:24

when I played it the little bit I did on

26:26

stream That really hit me is

26:28

oh they really understand the joke that they're

26:30

telling Everything really is is

26:32

quite funny in terms of the presentation of

26:35

hey You are a little

26:37

sea creature and there's so much human trash

26:39

in this ocean that it's become their currency

26:41

And now here's like seven different rifts on

26:43

that in a couple of minutes that all

26:45

are pretty well done jokes So

26:47

I'm like, okay But this is a good sign

26:49

for an indie dev when they have a good

26:51

handle on the thing that they're going for and

26:53

they're Not overdoing it. They're they're like deploying it

26:55

in a strategic way and it actually does it

26:57

and then the Souls born stuff

26:59

is pretty good as well Um, it's

27:02

one of those things where it's like, okay I could spend

27:04

some time with the game to fully understand the conversation that

27:06

it's trying to have with the player like When

27:08

do you want me to parry? When do you want

27:10

me to dodge whip and should I be like trying

27:13

to get up in that ass of every enemy or

27:15

should I be? Falling back. Should I be blocking more?

27:17

Should I be going for perfect parries? These are things

27:19

I have to feel out a little bit more at

27:21

this game But by all sort of

27:23

signs that I've seen from it so far, it seems

27:25

like it has a pretty good grasp on that as

27:27

well Well, how are you finding it? I find the

27:29

thing that's Appealing to

27:32

me the most is that the writing

27:34

is done very well and is very

27:36

easy to be

27:38

too jokey with with your dialogue and

27:40

any of your cutscenes and I feel like

27:42

it is Riding the line

27:45

very very well. It's riding the waves very

27:47

very well. It's surfing through it's cruising through

27:52

Where it is not Too

27:55

cheesy in terms of like haha. Look

27:57

at all this pollution the world's fucked. It's

27:59

kind of funny and

28:02

it is not like pushing that too much.

28:04

There's points where when you do fail like a boss

28:07

encounter, and we actually experienced this during

28:10

the stream last week Grub where unfortunately

28:12

this is just a byproduct of there being

28:14

only so much dialogue for boss characters, but

28:16

you are just hearing the same dialogue over

28:19

and over again as you're failing those missions

28:21

or those boss encounters that what I wound

28:23

up doing is that I just kept the

28:25

gun on me. Keep

28:27

that thing on you. I

28:29

kept that thing on me. The

28:32

gun just for people who are unaware is

28:34

an accessibility option. This is a

28:36

straight up Soulsborne. It wants you

28:39

to learn the very difficult fighting system,

28:41

being able to overcome these enemies, don't

28:44

get too greedy going there for two hits, then retreat,

28:46

that sort of game. Then if you

28:48

go to the accessibility options, if you click on

28:50

give me a gun, it just gives you a

28:52

gun that becomes the crab shell and then you

28:54

can shoot things and kill them in one hit

28:56

and it's incredible. It looks so

28:59

stupid. Fucking

29:01

big ass fucking M1911

29:03

strapped to its back. That's like

29:05

five times its size. It's very

29:07

cute. Whenever

29:10

I get frustrated with a boss encounter, I would

29:12

just put my controller down and just

29:16

pop them. Just

29:19

like any crab would do. I

29:23

don't know if you all have done this growing up,

29:25

but have you ever played with the crabs at a

29:27

grocery store? Those things are vicious. I'm

29:30

sorry, played with them? I don't know what played

29:32

with them, but I've observed them. You mean like

29:34

the ones in the tank with the rubber band?

29:37

No, they'll have blue crabs just

29:39

like in crates in

29:41

front of you, like in your life. Not

29:44

like the dungeon of stuff or the big

29:46

crabs. So like dead and you're making their

29:48

little clip. No, no, no, they're alive. They're

29:51

alive. Okay, I don't know. Okay, so yeah.

29:54

I can tell you what, in Ohio,

29:56

they aren't shipping in live crab. No,

29:58

no, I've not done this. Hey,

30:00

let's go to seafood city and go chill with

30:02

the crabs like hell Yeah, the thought of doing

30:04

is like so they didn't have that kind of

30:06

crab where I grow like where I grew up

30:08

It's lops. There's there's lobster. Yeah, there's lobster tanks.

30:10

Yeah, but you can't I can't go. Yeah Person

30:15

would start messing around with those. Well, they get

30:17

the rubber bands on their clothes. I did want

30:19

to play with them They just wouldn't let me.

30:21

Yeah. Yeah, okay But

30:23

I highly recommend another crabs treasure if you were

30:25

looking for a souls like game That

30:28

it apparently has optional bosses that you can

30:32

Face through certain certain circumstances. I have

30:35

no idea. I think I'm gonna stick with it because

30:38

I want to save the ocean speaking

30:40

about shooting things Jeff grub

30:43

mini shoot adventures Yeah, many

30:45

shoot adventures. We talked about this in a few places now.

30:47

It's the one the game that Dan told me about It

30:51

is a dual stick shooter Zelda

30:53

game and it is most

30:56

similar to the original Zelda and

30:58

that there's very minimal dialogue There's

31:02

a little bit of direction. They do kind of put

31:04

a waypoint on your map saying you're supposed to go

31:06

here I guess that's pretty similar like something like a

31:08

Metroid Prime where it's like Hey, your goal is here

31:10

figure out how to get there and

31:12

you're gonna get lost a lot and when you discover where

31:14

you're supposed To go or discover a secret. It feels

31:16

really cool like any good Zelda game. I Am

31:20

really digging this I think I'm getting pretty near

31:22

the end. I think they

31:24

just get everything right. So it

31:27

is like a dual stick shooter in that all

31:29

the combat scenarios end up feeling like bullet hell

31:31

and That like just dodging

31:33

around the the the bullets that as they

31:35

come at you and there's you know There's

31:37

various sizes and they're various speeds So you

31:39

have to like be really paying attention To

31:42

the point where it's like I'm almost always focused

31:44

on where my ship is at And

31:46

then I have the general idea of where the enemies

31:48

are at and I'm firing in that direction But I'm

31:50

just trying to stay alive because that's more

31:52

important if you take hits you're gonna die pretty quick in the game

31:55

and that feeling of Being

31:57

in the thick of it and and just barely

32:00

scraping by as like a giant enemy attack

32:02

comes by and you kind of just grace

32:04

along the side of it and then several

32:06

smaller bullets are coming and you dodge back

32:08

and forth between those and then as you're

32:10

doing that you can hear like the pop

32:12

of killing an enemy. That's a really cool

32:14

feeling and you add in like

32:16

a really good upgrade system

32:18

where as you're killing enemies you're getting these

32:21

little tokens that go into like

32:23

a diamond thing and as that fills up that gives you a

32:25

point to spend on your skill tree and

32:27

like the skills are like shoot

32:29

faster shoot farther do more damage you

32:32

make your ship faster make your boost go faster

32:34

and as you unlock new abilities from the dungeons

32:37

you can upgrade those as well and

32:39

all this stuff just like feeds into one another to

32:41

keep you wanting to wanting to explore in this world

32:43

that is really well thought out and it's just a

32:45

cute little like looking game it's not trying to be

32:48

gloomy or anything like that it's looks

32:50

a lot like linked to the past but you know

32:52

HD and with a ship instead of a person I

32:54

just I can't recommend this enough

32:56

it is really really good. Why is there

32:58

an apostrophe after that? Yeah

33:00

okay um so I

33:02

wonder if it's like there's like shoot they're shortening

33:05

the word but that doesn't make sense like mini

33:07

shooting adventures and they're like but

33:09

that doesn't really work so I don't I actually don't

33:11

know why there's an apostrophe at the end of the

33:13

people talking they made a mistake. They just decided to

33:15

commit to it. Yeah I

33:17

think so too. Sometimes I feel like a

33:19

typo. That

33:21

is weird. Is that from the

33:23

New Taylor Swift album? Got him bitch.

33:26

Her lyrics are just so good they could be anywhere that's

33:28

all it's just one. That's right yeah. Tell us how

33:30

you really feel Bailey. Oh

33:33

I couldn't possibly I'll get death

33:35

threats. I mean being a swifty is is

33:37

very a

33:42

very very hard serious business man.

33:44

Fuck. It's very hellish just like

33:47

the world of Shin Megami Tensei.

33:50

Five vengeance and

33:52

I believe you are allowed to talk about

33:55

this now Mike. I am. 15 minutes ago.

33:57

Yeah 15 minutes ago the embargo lifted for

34:00

SMT 5 vengeance, which is the

34:02

re-release of SMT 5. If

34:05

you know about like Persona 5 Royal,

34:07

Persona 3 Fest, or

34:09

like, Catherine Fullbody, Strange

34:11

Journey Redux, like all this, all these, Atlas

34:15

always does their re-releases, right? And so they're doing

34:17

that for SMT 5, which

34:19

I don't think they have, I mean, they did it

34:21

for Strange Journey, but it's,

34:23

mainline SMT has been, I

34:26

think this game came out in 2021, it was like the

34:28

first time we've seen SMT in a very long time. So

34:31

it's really cool that we're getting a Royal

34:33

Edition, essentially, for SMT 5. I like that

34:35

game a lot, but there's also a lot

34:37

of avenues in which it can, could have

34:39

improved or done more. And that's

34:41

exactly what this is doing. So I played

34:43

a short demo of it that was all

34:46

of the new content, like, the

34:48

first half of my playable demo went through a, like,

34:53

like an hour chunk that was the original

34:55

game, from the original game, but shows you

34:57

how the original game has been tweaked with

34:59

like a new character, new boss fights, new

35:01

story beats. And then the second half was

35:04

another hour of like, all completely like new

35:06

area, new demons, all this other shit. And

35:09

I like what they're doing with this. So

35:11

the way it works is that you could

35:13

still play through the game through its original

35:15

route. But there comes a point in which

35:17

you can choose a completely different route, which is called

35:19

the vengeance path. And it kind

35:21

of takes a pretty sharp

35:24

turn in different directions, and

35:26

starts to show you all kinds of new stuff.

35:28

I also did an interview with the with Atlas

35:31

the week prior, they said there's

35:33

75 hours worth of new content, that game was 75

35:35

hours already. I don't know if

35:37

I fully believe them. I think they're just be

35:39

like, well, much of that is like the same

35:41

game, but we've tweaked this. So technically, it's new.

35:45

But this is a significant chunk

35:47

of new content, because it's it's the story is

35:49

going in a very different direction. They have a

35:51

new character, her name is Yoko. And

35:54

she's part of the

35:56

party almost the entire time. So like

35:58

this, having this new character, They've done

36:00

this for other re-releases like in Royal where they

36:02

insert a new character But you can tell that

36:04

they are trying to be clever about You

36:07

know not having to rerecord other characters

36:09

voice lines by slotting them into this

36:12

conversation Having them say something

36:14

that isn't like too consequential to everything else

36:16

so they do a little bit of that,

36:19

but then they have this whole dedicated storyline

36:21

these dedicated cutscenes and Different

36:23

plot threads that revolve around her as a

36:25

new character in the party So I

36:28

think they are it seems like they're going

36:30

the extra mile to justify having a re-release

36:33

And I'm fascinated by the story. I love mainline

36:36

SMT. I think it's it's a good contrast to

36:38

persona I feel like a lot of people have

36:40

gotten on to Atlas's RPGs through persona and Haven't

36:44

necessarily thought of mainline SMT all that much

36:46

because there hasn't been I mean

36:48

unless you played the 3ds games or

36:50

the Re-release of 3 there just hasn't

36:52

been that much for SMT. So I'm glad that they

36:54

are kind of Investing more

36:57

in that in that series because it's cool

36:59

as fuck like SMT is metal as fuck

37:01

That shit is rad as hell man like

37:03

this ad It's

37:06

not sad It's more

37:08

like existentialism type shit because it's

37:10

all about like religion and theology

37:12

and the warring ideologies and how

37:14

that like fucks up the whole world and then

37:18

The like there's a certain attitude about

37:21

SMT like that I that

37:23

I like you know persona always like pulls

37:25

at your heartstrings really cares about character development

37:29

and has you live someone else's life and

37:32

Really experience what it's like to be in

37:34

that character shoes and it's very emotional as

37:36

if he's like now fuck that shit We're

37:38

going hard. We got like fucking hardcore metal

37:40

playing in the background. We're fighting demons We're

37:42

fighting other devils with their titties out and

37:44

shit Yo, if you

37:46

want to talk about like Like

37:49

hot character designs in a game SMT

37:51

5's new demons are on another

37:54

level dog Like I'm

37:56

I'm in love with some of these new

37:58

devils and demons in this game They're I

38:01

can fix them. I know I can pick Kill

38:04

me before anything else, but I damn

38:06

well yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, that's

38:08

the thing kill me. It's fine Yeah,

38:11

I'm it kind of How

38:13

are you feeling like are you glad that this is

38:15

the way that per of the atlas does these sort

38:17

of expansions as these big Standalone updates where you kind

38:19

of have to play through the whole game again. There's

38:22

clearly a benefit to it How do you feel about it? Listen?

38:24

I'm a mark Yeah, that's

38:26

okay. I'm fine. I think that's what I'm asking. Yeah.

38:28

Yeah Yeah, not and like someone a lot of people

38:31

have out like have bring that brought that up and

38:33

I think there's It's um

38:36

I think it's a fair thing to be like

38:38

what the fuck like oh two three years later

38:40

You're gonna release a new version of the game

38:42

that is that feels like the full version Of

38:45

a game and you're gonna charge me another $60 for it. I mean another $60

38:47

in a three-year span listen

38:53

Some broke boys out there listed get your get

38:55

your money up First

38:57

off now, I'm just kidding. I fucked up. But

39:00

what I think is you ever work

39:02

on a creative project and then

39:04

you have to hit a deadline like I need to

39:06

get this done on this day and Unfortunately,

39:09

we're gonna have to cut certain things that I

39:11

wish I could put in there I just don't

39:13

have time or the mental energy or the capacity

39:15

to include this in a way that makes sense

39:18

So Ellie I'm gonna cut it and I'm just

39:20

gonna this is the thing that I'm gonna

39:22

put out into the world Because I

39:24

have to and then you ever take a step back

39:26

and look at and be like damn I wish I

39:28

did this wish I did that If

39:30

I had more time I can incorporate this thing that I

39:32

had to cut and then so like yes

39:34

It is people can call it like a like

39:37

a cash grab or whatever But I think Atlas

39:40

has been good about justifying those

39:42

rereleases by the way they insert

39:44

that new content And

39:46

I like I play a game

39:48

once and then three years later I want to revisit it

39:50

But I think that's I think that for me at least

39:52

that's worth doing Because you know,

39:55

I my perspective changes things happen

39:57

in my life, especially with Atlas RPGs

40:00

are about like these big questions about life and

40:02

shit. It's like, it's nice to come back to

40:04

it and reflect on that experience and maybe have

40:06

a new perspective that you didn't have otherwise

40:08

and then you see the new content on top of

40:10

that that kind of like recontextualize what you thought you

40:12

knew about the game and some smart ways

40:14

and I think I mean, I have

40:17

very mixed feelings about Catherine full body. I

40:20

kind of respect they tried what they tried

40:22

to do with that but I think that

40:24

is one instance in which they maybe were

40:26

probably they were out of their

40:29

depth with Catherine full body. I that's

40:32

what I think but I think things like Royal

40:35

things like reload, which is a little

40:37

bit of a different case and then

40:40

now with SMT five vengeance and

40:42

like persona four golden before that too. I think these

40:44

are very smart additions and changes to the game because

40:46

there's quality of life things too and they port them

40:49

to different systems. It's no longer

40:51

a switch exclusive. So I don't have

40:53

to play this in fucking 240 P at 28

40:55

frames per second. I've this full full 4k 60

40:57

FPS and like yo, this is how I always

40:59

wanted it to be. So there

41:02

is that in addition to porting it, you know, quality

41:04

of life, new content and if you want to play

41:06

the original version of the game, well, yeah, now you

41:08

can too. So this

41:10

is a at least from what I seen so

41:13

far my hands on preview. This

41:15

is kind of what I want out

41:17

of an Atlas rerelease and I

41:21

fucking love SMT like I think I

41:23

wish they would put out four

41:25

and four apocalypse again. I know they did the

41:27

three remaster but man Shin

41:30

Megami Tensei is fucking hard. That

41:32

game is tough. I

41:34

may need to see a 4k 60 man

41:36

and on golf. Oh

41:38

yeah. So I

41:41

kind of need to see that I need to

41:43

see that half vampire half leg

41:45

lady. Yeah. Shout out to our team. Yeah.

41:47

Our Ate. What's the penis monster's name Mara.

41:50

I was going

41:52

to say Mike Menotti.

41:54

Yeah. Mike Mara naughty.

42:00

Yeah Yo,

42:03

I like it that dick is so

42:05

huge bro like It's

42:07

on a chair like if you played any of

42:09

the S&T or persona games You've seen this a

42:11

demon before but it is like a massive penis

42:14

on a cherry It's on legs. Yeah green penis

42:16

with a mouth on it. Yo, it's one

42:18

thing I will say like Like

42:21

top 1% of only fans right there earth master

42:23

got nothing on Mara You

42:26

know I'm saying like Speaking about

42:28

demons Michael. You've also been playing handful.

42:30

Oh, Sandman. I'm got the little penis

42:32

monsters though Oh

42:34

dang on nuts. Yeah, I'm not Toriyama

42:37

didn't want to draw those, huh? Well,

42:40

well he kept those rooms off sand

42:42

land. I reviewed sand land for IGN Give

42:45

it a six. I don't need to talk too much

42:48

about it The can I ask

42:50

you just real quick. I played the demo. Did you play

42:52

the demo before you play? Okay,

42:55

is it that much different than the demo the

42:57

full game is much much better than the demo

43:02

I was like this is boring as shit

43:04

is I do not enjoy myself. I have

43:06

never seen a worse Representation of

43:08

a game through a demo glad to hear that

43:11

at least it's like okay, but I mean Okay,

43:13

so what's different like what are you doing in the game? That

43:15

is fun? I mean

43:17

you you actually go through a store you have

43:20

Okay battles to fight there are things that actually happen

43:22

because you pop in the demo and they put

43:24

you in a small-ass Portion of the

43:26

open region with almost literally

43:28

nothing to do You can like

43:31

drive around and find enemies out in

43:33

the open But they literally do not have any story content

43:35

in the demo and it's like this is a very bad

43:37

Representation of the game because there are there's

43:39

sand land is charming and I I have

43:41

read the manga I started

43:43

watching the anime to after I played the game

43:46

The anime is really really good and the original

43:49

I love the original manga because it's a kiriyo

43:51

Toriyama R.I.P to the god That

43:53

was his one of his side projects and

43:56

he just was fascinated with designing vehicles. And

43:58

if you look back at a

44:00

lot of Dragon Ball art, they have

44:03

some wild ideas for vehicles, and that was

44:05

all Toriyama. They're awesome. Yeah.

44:08

And then so this was kind of his way to just

44:10

focus on that. And I think the story of Sandland

44:12

isn't necessarily complex, but I think it has, like

44:14

I say, it has its heart in the right

44:16

place because it does tell a story about corrupt

44:19

governments and the impacts it has on

44:22

the people living in society.

44:25

And there's a tension between demons because the

44:27

demons live in this world. They share the

44:29

same space. And then you have

44:31

humans who are struggling. And then Beelzebub,

44:33

who's the main character you play as, has this

44:35

heart of gold, even though he says, like, oh,

44:37

I'm a badass demon. I'm going to like fuck

44:39

shit up. No. Taylor

44:41

Swiftler. I

44:44

don't think Beelzebub would be a Swifty, but yeah,

44:47

it's a pretty by the numbers open

44:49

world action game. It focuses on vehicles.

44:51

And I think the vehicle system is

44:53

very good. I

44:56

think they control really well. It's

44:58

just interesting enough when you upgrade like your

45:00

tank, your hover bike or your motorbike, then

45:02

your hover bot and then your jump out.

45:04

Like there's so many different vehicles and they

45:06

all are pretty well thought out and fun

45:09

to use. I mean, but they don't

45:11

give you that many combat challenges. Like a lot of

45:13

the enemies you encounter, it's like, well, I'm going to

45:15

bust out my tank and circle around them and blast

45:17

shots. So it doesn't get creatively challenging, but

45:20

there is a good feel to just like blowing shit up.

45:23

I know the game is called Sand

45:25

Land, but are you primarily just in

45:27

like a desert or a wasteland all

45:29

the time? The second half

45:31

of this game takes place in what's called Forest

45:33

Land. And if you gather as much from the

45:35

name, it takes place in a forest. No spoilers

45:37

or anything. I think I have an idea what's in there.

45:41

Yeah. Because when you say this is like

45:43

kind of like pretty par for the

45:45

course for Bandai Namco and anime games.

45:47

God yeah. But you know, they did

45:49

that one piece game a couple of years

45:51

back and that was like, yeah, it's all right. Okay. Right.

45:55

Okay. That's what I'm getting from their efforts

45:57

in anime games. Yeah. If you've

45:59

played... a lot of DBZ Kakarot

46:01

in this as well. Like, sure, a

46:04

lot of the design ethos kind of

46:06

carries over and it almost has become

46:08

their template for anime adaptations, which is

46:11

I find like Sandland is I like Sandland

46:13

a lot. There's a lot of potential there, but

46:15

I feel like that format undersells what

46:17

Sandland as a game could have been.

46:20

So you can see that they like have to

46:23

phone it in on a lot of

46:25

cut scenes. And so it, it

46:27

feels like there's little to no impact when there

46:29

is like a big story event happening. I was

46:31

like, Oh, they don't really sell

46:33

you on the, like the importance of that event

46:36

in the game. It's like, Oh man, but the

46:38

manga panels were so good and they communicated

46:40

so much and the intensity of the

46:42

battles. And then, um, like the game

46:45

itself doesn't really capture that. And so it's unfortunate

46:47

as I had a fun time with it, but

46:49

it's not something I would recommend to

46:51

be like, yo, you need to play this shit right now. It makes

46:54

me very curious to how Dragon Ball

46:57

sparking zero is going to be. Whether

46:59

it's going to be like an evolution

47:01

of Kakarot or kind of

47:03

another. Is that mostly an arena

47:05

fighter? I honestly only pay half attention

47:07

when it's up. I, but I got

47:09

the, uh, the sense that it's just

47:11

like a fighting game, but behind the

47:13

back. Yeah. It's because, uh, folks got

47:15

super excited because the words 10 kaiichi

47:17

were getting invoked. Um,

47:20

so I think it easy behind the

47:22

back arena ish fighter.

47:25

Um, with hundreds of characters says a

47:27

gender generator in chat. And that's a

47:29

great name. Um, yeah, I,

47:31

I, spark at zero looks pretty promising, but

47:33

I'm like, I think for all these anime

47:35

game, anime games, I kind of like, I'm going to set my

47:38

expectation bar right in the middle and clear

47:40

that I'll be happy. Yeah. That's pretty

47:43

much where I feel like Sandland would fits

47:45

into that. So, well, from

47:48

Michael navigating, uh, the wastelands

47:50

of Sandland to Bailey checking

47:53

out the nuclear wasteland that

47:55

is fallout. Yeah. Are you've

47:57

been streaming this new Vegas,

47:59

right? a lot. Oh, New Vegas. I've been playing

48:02

nonstop. Yeah, I love New Vegas. And I

48:04

like have like a monthly fundraising goal on

48:06

my stream. And if I hit it, I

48:09

do a streamathon. And so this last time

48:11

I hit it and we did, it was

48:13

like a nine hour Fallout New Vegas

48:15

stream where I built a character based

48:18

on like the pardon me,

48:20

the special stats that Bethesda released for

48:22

Lucy, the main character from

48:24

the Fallout TV show. And so we

48:26

tried to like roleplay as her and make like

48:28

the decision she would make. And

48:30

I had to like go in

48:32

a lot of circles to justify randomly killing a couple

48:34

of people. But God, I just really wanted that bottle

48:37

cap necklace. You know, it's fine. I was

48:40

just mostly trying to just get to New

48:42

Vegas before the end of the stream so

48:44

I could play Blackjack because Lucy has a

48:46

seven luck stat, which I've never given a

48:48

character before. It was very exciting. I've never

48:50

played Blackjack as a lucky person in real

48:53

life or in a game. So it

48:55

was like really thrilling for me. But also

48:57

GameSpot has

48:59

been doing a lot of Fallout content and

49:01

I have been working on that. And also

49:04

Honest Trailer spoiler alert in one minute, the

49:06

Honest Trailer on Honest Trailer is proper not

49:08

Honest Game Trailers is for the Fallout TV

49:10

show. And I wrote on that. So like

49:12

my life has just been Fallout and the

49:15

next Honest Game Trailer is not going to

49:17

be Fallout, but the one after it. So

49:20

you know how Honest Game Trailer has been going on

49:23

for like a really long time and I've only been

49:25

in charge of it for like a year. So sometimes

49:27

I go through and I'm like, what classic games have

49:29

we not covered yet that we could just like have

49:31

as backup for months and nothing really to talk about.

49:35

So sometimes I

49:37

find an answer I don't want. And in

49:39

this kind of in this instance, it was

49:42

Fallout 76. So yeah, we

49:44

tried to play Fallout 76

49:47

on Friday. I say tried because Dan was

49:50

there and he wasn't having it. So it's

49:52

like, I don't have

49:54

a good sense of that game, but everyone else on

49:56

Earth seems to be enjoying it. I think the key

49:58

is to not play with other people. people, which is

50:00

weird for a multiplayer game. I hear it's better now

50:02

than when it came out. I did try playing it

50:04

when it came out and wasn't a fan. So

50:07

I bet I thought it was a hardcore New

50:09

Vegas fan. I bet it's not going to not

50:11

going to do what you want. It's very it's

50:14

very challenging when like that was my first impression of

50:16

the series. And like I went on to play like three

50:18

and four and like check all that shit out. And I

50:20

just never, you know, I couldn't I couldn't

50:22

get into 76. The storytelling

50:24

just isn't there the

50:26

way it was in New Vegas. And that's

50:29

like very important to me in an RPG. You

50:31

want good storytelling. That's kind of critical. So

50:33

the news is in 76 though. Yeah,

50:35

Jason uses there. So is it?

50:39

I don't know. The

50:44

NPCs that they added after you played

50:46

it, they're there and they have story.

50:50

And I'm just like, OK, I it's very hard for me

50:52

to gauge it in a quick play like that, like whether

50:54

or not I care about the story or not. But it

50:56

does give you stuff to do. And I think that I

50:58

like the the environment in Fallout 76. I'll

51:00

be interested to see how you feel after playing

51:02

it. Maybe you come back on here and tell

51:05

us the results. I'm going to go in with

51:07

as open a mind and as open a heart

51:09

as I can. I always try to with these

51:11

games like I really any time I play a

51:13

game for honest game trailers, I'm not going in

51:15

like I can't wait to fucking wreck this thing.

51:17

I want to have fun with it. I want

51:19

to meet it where it is. I'm not going

51:21

to like penalize it for not being a game,

51:24

the game that I want it to be when that's not

51:26

the game it's trying to be, because that's

51:28

bad criticism, frankly. But

51:31

if it keeps bad, it keeps bad, you know,

51:33

like just going to try my best and keep

51:35

hope in my heart. That's what I'm going to

51:37

do. Well, Bailey, if you

51:39

need multiplayer companions, perhaps we could pop

51:42

out of the vault one more time. Yeah, I

51:44

do. I do that. I think I'm going to

51:46

get it installed on my steam deck and play

51:48

it here and there after I finish many. So

51:50

I'll have a character going. It'll be fun. Um,

51:53

I tuned in for that stream as I was being

51:56

kicked out of my apartment last week. Grub, I

51:59

thought you guys. It seemed like you were having

52:01

fun. I think I think for the

52:03

most part we actually were and I know that Lucy

52:05

was it was Enjoying the game on her own before

52:07

that and then when we were playing together. She's like,

52:10

yeah, I could see how this is fun I Everyone

52:13

does seem to recommend playing most of it

52:15

on your own for the vast majority of

52:17

it Which is like true of

52:19

a lot of MMOs these days You kind of wait

52:21

until you're at the end of the available Single-player content

52:23

then you play the MMO stuff with other people and

52:25

do raids or whatever and that stuff was happening around

52:28

us And they gave us the option to go to

52:30

the public events But

52:32

but yeah, it was it was still like okay.

52:34

I need to do my story mission So I'll

52:36

go in I'll talk to the person you guys

52:38

can kind of stay by me and maybe hear

52:40

what we're talking about Or

52:43

do your own thing and that that just doesn't work

52:45

very well So yeah, I would I would play it

52:47

by yourself first and that's what I'm gonna do So

52:49

I'm gonna spend a little more time with it. Okay,

52:51

okay some very mature criticism here here

52:53

at giant bomb calm That

52:56

rules that's a good game we're

52:58

gonna play more of that this week Okay,

53:04

all right too bad, but I make promises

53:06

to other people at this company Send

53:10

a text message about something you want me to do and

53:12

I'll make poor decisions based on what you say. No problem.

53:14

Okay. All right Trust

53:16

me. He's right Michael

53:20

you also have another game here final

53:22

fantasy 16 the pricing tie. Yeah real

53:24

quick That is probably my last

53:26

review on game spot for a good long while I

53:29

reviewed the DLC for final fantasy 16, which

53:31

is kind of its send-off. Also. This is

53:33

like the last piece of content for 16

53:37

And I liked it a lot I mean, I

53:39

still have a lot of love for final fantasy

53:41

16 and it was nice to have a reason

53:43

to come back to it This is the second

53:45

part of their DLC package. The first

53:47

one echoes of the phone was fine It

53:50

was like a two-hour dungeon and it was I

53:52

had a really good boss fight against Omega Which

53:54

was like really dope, but it

53:56

didn't necessarily like push the game in

53:58

any particular direction It was just kind of

54:00

like, here's more content. Rising Tide

54:03

has its own separate storyline. So if

54:05

you play the original game, they allude

54:08

to Leviathan, but Leviathan never shows up

54:10

in the original game. That's not

54:12

really spoiler, that's public knowledge at this point.

54:14

But this is what that DLC is about. So it's

54:17

a little weird that if you,

54:20

the 16 ends on a fairly, like,

54:23

this game ends. So it's really

54:25

weird to go back to a game that

54:27

has a pretty definitive ending, and then, hey, we have

54:29

an extra chapter for you to play. And it's like,

54:31

all right, well, fine. I'll see what

54:33

you got. And it's really nice.

54:35

It's refreshing in a way because it takes

54:38

place in a completely different region, and

54:40

it has like a tropical vibe. So a lot of

54:42

16 was just so dark

54:45

and nasty, and that's the vibe

54:47

it was going for. So it worked for that

54:49

game. So it's nice to have

54:51

like this contrast where it's a lot more, feels

54:54

like a place where you would want to

54:56

be at. And there's like a new society

54:58

to learn about. And there's a new

55:00

dungeon, and there's a new icon fight. And all

55:02

this stuff is really well done. You get to

55:04

use Leviathan also as an icon power. And they

55:06

basically said, yo, what if we turn this shit

55:08

into a fucking shooter? Clive's

55:11

arm turns into like a Leviathan

55:13

mouth, and you shotgun blast enemies

55:15

with water. That mouth do. That

55:17

mouth do some wild shit. You

55:20

got like an SMG bubble blast type thing,

55:23

and then you have this other ability to

55:25

like clap. And it's gonna be extra for

55:27

that usually. What is Ben Starr saying when

55:29

he's shooting the cannon? Oh,

55:32

blast the bubbles. Like he's in the room with me.

55:35

Yeah. He

55:37

posted a clip of like his last line or

55:39

whatever. It's just him screaming into

55:41

the microphone. And that is what Clive does all the

55:43

time. So shouts out

55:45

to Ben Starr's vocal

55:47

cords, because I'm sure they're fried at

55:49

this point with all the screaming that

55:51

he did for Clive. But

55:54

yeah, it's really fun to use. You also get

55:56

Ultima as an ability too, which is like another

55:59

separate piece of content. comes with this DLC

56:01

that's kind of a like a run-based like

56:04

roguelike dungeon or a

56:06

roguelike like battle challenge

56:08

or whatever so that's fun

56:10

because I like the combat interest peak

56:15

it's just like a run it's like a run-based combat challenge

56:17

that's uh if you want to get if you want to

56:19

get more challenge out of the combat system that's where you'll

56:21

find it um yeah I think

56:23

the dungeon is great the music that accompanies the

56:26

dungeon is absolutely incredible it

56:28

is up there with Masayoshi Soken's best

56:30

work to be honest um

56:33

the icon fight is pretty frustrating but I think it's

56:35

still a ton of fun once you kind of like

56:37

get past it uh got like

56:39

this a wild dps check and a bunch of like

56:42

mechanics you need to learn but

56:45

I liked it overall and I think the

56:47

thing the last thing to say about it is

56:49

it has its own

56:51

storyline and it's pretty different from the the

56:53

tone of the rest of the game and

56:55

I think it's really sweet actually what it

56:58

has to say about breaking generational curses so

57:01

it feels like it is like a warm side to

57:03

16 that it didn't fully explore in the base game

57:05

that they kind of show a little bit more here

57:08

and even though it's like oh okay now we

57:10

need to go back to the main game and

57:12

finish the final fight of the story like it

57:14

still feels like in a way the game was

57:16

trying to communicate something about you know

57:18

moving on from this

57:20

story and these characters so I think it's

57:22

a it's a really nice way to cap

57:24

off 16 so yeah I think it's

57:27

worth it if you liked 16 fantastic

57:29

fantastic and the final thing we have here

57:32

in the rundown is not a game but

57:34

can be precarious enough Jeff

57:36

grub you fixed the switch light yeah

57:39

I uh my kids are finally getting to

57:41

the point where we need two switches at

57:43

all times and um the plan for a

57:46

long time was to fix

57:48

this switch light which had the right stick it

57:50

wouldn't click in anymore the left stick the um

57:52

rubber rubbed off and I'm like I could

57:54

just put something on there but that always comes off as well

57:56

so I'm like I'm going to um take

57:58

this thing open replace both it was was a lot

58:00

more screws I was expecting. By the time

58:03

you get that thing fully open so you

58:05

can replace the right stick specifically I believe,

58:08

you've got like 30 screws you have to account for.

58:10

And I was worried about that because I'm like following

58:12

a video guide and I'm working backward taking all these

58:14

things out and I'm like I'm gonna forget where some

58:16

of these go. But you know, I did

58:19

my best to keep them separated, got through there. I

58:22

got the sticks replaced. It wasn't too hard, all things

58:24

considered. And now I'm like at a point where I'm

58:26

like I was already in

58:28

there. I kind of wish I would have replaced

58:30

that LCD screen with an OLED. So I started

58:32

looking into OLED mods for my Switch Lite. And

58:35

I really like the Switch Lite form factor. I

58:37

think it is my favorite

58:40

overall design for a Nintendo handheld ever. At least

58:42

as an adult. Like when I was younger I

58:44

really liked the Game Boy Advance SP. But when

58:46

I had a younger man's hands who could handle

58:48

that but today my hands would explode if I

58:50

tried to do that. So

58:53

I'm like I really like that. Maybe I'll put

58:55

an OLED screen in there and it doesn't seem

58:57

like that's too difficult either. So I'm looking at

58:59

that. But in the meantime, I do have a

59:01

project. I forgot I bought

59:03

this. I got one of those

59:06

FPGA Game Boy and Game Boy

59:08

Color things. And it's basically

59:11

just the same thing. It's an analog pocket. I don't

59:13

know why I got it. You just wanted to build

59:15

your own at this time. Yeah, I mean I know

59:17

why I got it. It's because the shell is the

59:19

exact shape of a Game Boy Color.

59:21

And that's my favorite looking design of

59:24

a Game Boy. And I just love this thing. So I'm

59:27

going to piece this together. Now that's my life. I mean

59:30

we're approaching the point

59:32

where like you got to count

59:34

your knockoff little handheld

59:37

devices and I got to count my

59:39

keyboards. I literally did forget

59:41

that I ordered this. So when it showed up

59:43

there was like this level of shame. That's about

59:46

it. Oh my gosh. That's like the seven step.

59:48

So you're definitely

59:51

tracking. You're playing the I Have a

59:53

Problem playbook page

59:55

by page. Uh huh. Yeah,

59:58

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our Superdome hobbies. I yeah you're right it

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it in it's definitely problem but menacing was

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fun. I can we to put it married

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hours and you back in that will will

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put something up on the website about this

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some point. I can always. You

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from Stellar Blade for each of the

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letters, man on always way. he streamed

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and I don't even realize he streamed

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it. I thought he just set

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up as he semi a video. but enough

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he was. So it's like it's it's a

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great case and it's got like I'm. Like.

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a slug legend underneath each. ah

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you know letter. That's.

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a knob. You know Alexander's

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knobs he's got as. Guys

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and that's great. Known as awesome He

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missed and sending me all these photos

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of like his words per minute scores

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on monkey type and I'm surprised. If

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ideology les mis awesome. My kids I do

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have their own accord started reading I tasted

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the Zaps. Hell Air is a is a

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good book for kids. I and they really

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love that book so was very scary. But

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yeah move will start doing are more

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giant bomb keyboard commissions are in the

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near future. And.

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that about does it for the first part

1:01:37

of the bomb test with anyone else Has

1:01:39

anything they want to talk about? any games

1:01:41

and he misleads spots. I play nine or

1:01:43

ten minutes of that tennis game or two

1:01:45

K twenty five. I'll play more of it

1:01:47

if you're pretty good. Oh yeah, mechanics like

1:01:49

Catholic active reload for hitting tennis balls is.

1:01:52

And Dan the game. We. Have

1:01:54

a free man. It. Put.

1:01:56

is happening we kind of whenever my

1:01:58

son is there a threesome is Zidane

1:02:00

in the game is that what you

1:02:02

went? Zidane! I asked the only real

1:02:04

question. Listen, I'm 41. I've

1:02:06

been in the movies in like a half a year guys.

1:02:08

I'm not up on this. The file fasting hungry makes it

1:02:10

crazy. You saw it, you too! Didn't you? I've

1:02:14

not seen Challengers now. Hold on. No, Zune 2.

1:02:16

Oh, Zune 2. I'm going on. Old

1:02:18

man, are you okay? Well Zendaya's in it. Yeah,

1:02:22

but that has nothing to do with tennis. Did you say

1:02:24

Zidane? Yeah, Challengers is about tennis. Well I didn't hear right.

1:02:27

But it's also a little bit about worms.

1:02:30

Oh, okay. Yes, why Challengers?

1:02:32

Really big worms. Are

1:02:34

gaming leaks and rumors Jeff Grubb confirms

1:02:36

that Final Fantasy IX remake includes a

1:02:39

threesome? No, once you search it, you're

1:02:41

putting it out there, Michael. Have we

1:02:43

taught you nothing? A.O. A.O.

1:02:46

A.O. Folks, we're gonna break

1:02:49

fake news continuously throughout the rest of

1:02:51

this podcast, but the next segment will just

1:02:53

be regular good old news. I

1:02:56

wanna play the tennis game. How

1:02:58

was the tennis game, Grubb? We

1:03:01

should play it. We should be at Top Spin.

1:03:03

We should play it on the site. Top Spin, man.

1:03:05

Top Spin? Where you been? Alright, I'm

1:03:08

also gonna pick up another hobby and that hobby

1:03:10

will just be tennis because everyone said I wouldn't

1:03:12

be good at fishing. So

1:03:14

I'm gonna go. You just want bad threesomes.

1:03:17

That's what I want. You give off like,

1:03:20

you know, inept fishing energy. What can I tell

1:03:22

you? Okay, I'm thankful that you're

1:03:24

this one. Wow. We'll

1:03:26

see you right after this quick bricky break. Jeff

1:03:31

Backlar, can I be an inept fisherman if

1:03:33

I have a fishing vest ready to go

1:03:35

right now? Oh my god,

1:03:38

you're wearing a fishing vest. What

1:03:40

in the hell? When

1:03:42

did you put that on? Is

1:03:45

this your next Blight Club game? There's

1:03:48

no bad fishing games. Yeah,

1:03:51

no. Um, yeah. Okay. I

1:03:54

reversed everything I said in the previous

1:03:57

segment. I'm now all in on this

1:03:59

Jan Fisherman I couldn't find

1:04:01

my bucket hat. Otherwise, I think

1:04:04

full of couperment. I would have I

1:04:06

would have been good to go if

1:04:08

you could get like thigh-high galoshes and

1:04:10

some like You

1:04:17

knew me Jeff come on and then those

1:04:20

like I don't know the sort of accoutrement

1:04:22

These these freaks have with like the flies

1:04:24

on their vests and stuff like don't make

1:04:26

me get the overalls out We already know

1:04:28

I got though. Oh, man. I just don't

1:04:30

see this for you, but I'm willing to

1:04:32

support it Let's let's let's

1:04:34

plan a date Jen. We'll go disc

1:04:37

golfing. We'll go fishing. That's a long

1:04:39

day Bumper cars bumper cars do bumper

1:04:41

cars. Yeah, you guys are gonna be

1:04:43

you're gonna be sleepies by Cold

1:04:46

hand hunker down at the Taco Bell

1:04:48

Cantina Look

1:04:51

forward to I know look forward to my

1:04:53

newsletter, but Jeff grub delivering

1:04:55

the news I

1:05:01

Personally feel like a disc

1:05:03

golfing vlog or a fishing vlog with

1:05:06

Michael and I would would just do

1:05:08

numbers That's all that we realize go

1:05:10

off. You've set forth a chain of

1:05:12

events that will lead us to hosting

1:05:15

game of the year at a Bass Pro

1:05:17

Shop, right like Can

1:05:20

we go to the pyramid the pyramid? Yeah

1:05:23

That is what is and they're gonna go back like

1:05:25

where was it? What was the episode? Oh, right? When

1:05:27

he wore the vest. Yeah Let's

1:05:30

do it. I remember why I got this, you

1:05:33

know, I think it what's the other

1:05:35

one Cabela's Cabela's Are they the same thing now

1:05:37

Cabela's and Bass Pro Shop? He was a hunting

1:05:39

more like hunting centric type shit Well, either way,

1:05:41

that's where I take my kids to see Santa

1:05:43

and the Easter For

1:05:50

that Santa am I not caught up

1:05:52

with the sort of social discussion here

1:05:54

where I sort of Continued to hold

1:05:57

those brands and not a great regard

1:05:59

is that Oh, I mean, you

1:06:01

know, I'm not like doing my shop in there. I'm going to

1:06:03

see Santa They're

1:06:05

free. I just don't know what to

1:06:07

think anymore and I need the internet to know me Jeff

1:06:12

dude BPS hell had a

1:06:14

chokehold on like

1:06:16

Gen Z and younger Brian I know they have

1:06:18

like trucker hats that were like very popular like

1:06:21

who cares can I get my can I get

1:06:23

my car heart? at BPS No,

1:06:29

no, are they competing like if things that feel like

1:06:31

they can't okay. No, right. Yeah. Yeah, we got our

1:06:33

yeah All right, so fuck I have hot I

1:06:36

have headlines for y'all Let's get into it

1:06:38

despite hardware decline Xbox reports record q3.

1:06:40

Thanks to the Activision boost

1:06:43

Activision Blizzard's acquisition by Microsoft has positively

1:06:45

impacted the company's gaming division during the

1:06:47

third quarter gaming revenue increased by 51%

1:06:49

year-over-year Thanks largely

1:06:51

to activisions contributions X-men

1:06:54

Xbox content and services revenue rose

1:06:56

as well, but hardware sales declined

1:06:58

by 31% CEO

1:07:00

Satya Nadella highlighted the impact of

1:07:03

Activision Blizzard games which set records

1:07:05

for game streaming hours console usage

1:07:07

and monthly active users Diablo

1:07:10

4's launch on game pass was good blah blah blah,

1:07:12

but mostly here the story is Xbox

1:07:15

overall doing very well because they have made

1:07:17

some very strong acquisitions that's going to help

1:07:19

their brand Console sales have died a dive

1:07:21

and if you take The

1:07:24

Activision acquisition out of the numbers

1:07:27

sales for Xbox content and services was down

1:07:29

5% So they

1:07:32

needed those acquisitions. I think that

1:07:34

kind of goes hand-in-hand with the second story So

1:07:36

I'm just gonna go that real quick and then

1:07:38

we can have a conversation Xbox games showcase and

1:07:41

Redacted direct are announced for June 9th.

1:07:43

Just this morning Microsoft has announced two

1:07:45

upcoming events the Xbox game showcase and

1:07:48

a redacted direct The Xbox

1:07:50

game showcase will occur on June 9th 2024

1:07:54

and will include games from Activision Blizzard

1:07:56

Bethesda and Xbox game studios It will

1:07:58

be followed by the redacted direct Which

1:08:00

is rumored to be related to the next Call

1:08:02

of Duty game very likely a black ops game

1:08:04

because what other thing? Has anything

1:08:06

to do with being redacted? Um,

1:08:08

okay Xbox hardware kind

1:08:10

of on the decline and I think that's two years

1:08:12

in a row where they saw pretty heavy declines in

1:08:15

terms of the Number number of xbox consoles sold or

1:08:17

at least the amount of money they're making from that

1:08:20

um And yet they're making more money

1:08:22

from selling games largely because something like Call of

1:08:24

Duty that is everywhere How are you

1:08:26

guys feeling about where xbox is as a

1:08:28

console platform and as a publisher of video

1:08:30

games? Especially going into the what seems like

1:08:32

is going to be a very big show

1:08:34

in june I

1:08:37

think the uh the publisher side

1:08:39

they look very appealing

1:08:41

where uh from the hardware

1:08:43

front I think if I

1:08:46

had only invested in the

1:08:48

xbox ecosystem i'd be a little bit

1:08:50

disappointed because suddenly Uh,

1:08:53

it turns out that the console war was

1:08:55

fake guys Hold

1:08:57

on this whole time Because

1:09:03

you know now now my peers that

1:09:05

have uh playstation can play Some

1:09:08

of the titles like sea of thieves launches today,

1:09:10

right? All right, that sounds right.

1:09:12

Yeah, um, so I I think

1:09:14

i'd be a little bit disappointed because then Not

1:09:17

only can playstation console owners

1:09:20

partake in all their existing console exclusives But

1:09:22

now that they can get their hooks into

1:09:24

the games that I could boast and

1:09:26

brag about But if I am

1:09:29

just sitting on the periphery like most of us are

1:09:32

With this the publishing side. All

1:09:34

right, cool. Go ahead. Keep keep pumping

1:09:36

money into these devs The

1:09:38

the thing I think I don't think this

1:09:40

is surprising considering what? Microsoft's

1:09:43

priorities are with xbox. Right because

1:09:45

I mean Their their primary concern

1:09:48

was always to get as many users

1:09:50

on whatever device It doesn't matter what

1:09:52

device you use if you are on

1:09:54

game pass or if you're using cloud

1:09:56

stream, whatever the case is They

1:09:59

got your ass That's their primary goal.

1:10:01

So seeing hardware sales

1:10:03

declining, one, we're four years deep

1:10:05

into a console generation. So yeah,

1:10:07

okay, you're gonna see some decline.

1:10:10

Fairly steep, I guess, in this case. But

1:10:13

I always feel like slinging

1:10:15

hardware is

1:10:19

secondary to everything else. So the fact

1:10:21

that they're rising on the publishing

1:10:23

side, that's their priority, is to be a

1:10:25

publisher of games because that's where the money

1:10:27

is. Rarely,

1:10:29

if ever, do companies make money

1:10:31

off of selling hardware for game

1:10:33

consoles. So this

1:10:36

tracks with what I think their priorities

1:10:38

are. But some people will

1:10:40

see this, be like, oh yeah, Xbox is

1:10:42

taking mad Ls again. It's like, oh, I'm

1:10:44

right. Not really. You're

1:10:49

right, the hardware is gonna be, it was always gonna

1:10:51

be a challenging place for them to grow. I think

1:10:53

that has been proven at this

1:10:55

point. And so where are they gonna get the

1:10:57

growth from? Well, they are getting it from selling

1:10:59

a bunch of games like Friggin Call of Duty

1:11:01

and Minecraft. And those games

1:11:03

necessitate them to think bigger than the

1:11:06

Xbox because both those franchises are already

1:11:08

on other platforms and they've promised to

1:11:10

continue keeping that the case. I

1:11:14

suppose, okay, so then as fans of playing

1:11:16

video games, are there things like, oh man,

1:11:18

the Xbox games showcase. They're promising big stuff.

1:11:21

We're gonna get updates from Bethesda

1:11:23

and all these other studios. Are

1:11:26

there things you're looking forward to hearing about? about

1:11:29

Perfect Dark or is this kind of a wait and see for

1:11:31

y'all? I think it's

1:11:33

been a wait and see with Microsoft in

1:11:35

terms of games that they themselves are putting

1:11:37

out rather than partnering up

1:11:39

with. I

1:11:42

think it's been the wait and see camp

1:11:44

for a while. I think eventually Microsoft

1:11:46

is eventually gonna have to pony up and show

1:11:48

us what else they got. I mean, we could

1:11:50

potentially see more of Fable this year, right? I

1:11:54

hope so. Like we, yeah.

1:11:56

I don't know about

1:11:58

Perfect Dark though, Grapp. Yeah,

1:12:00

I mean, I, my hope is,

1:12:02

and this has been my hope for this showcase for

1:12:04

a long time, we get updates on all of the

1:12:06

franchises that they've talked about before, at least the ones

1:12:09

that were announced, you know, four years ago, or something

1:12:11

like that, anything that was announced near the launch of

1:12:13

the Xbox Series X and F. I

1:12:15

want updates on those and Perfect Dark would be among

1:12:17

those, it can't be that much further off as supposed

1:12:19

to be another two years. And at that point, maybe

1:12:22

they aren't ready to show it. And

1:12:24

creating these assets, as we know, we've talked

1:12:26

about a bunch does take time, you know,

1:12:29

anywhere from two months to six months to create

1:12:31

something, whether even if it's a, like

1:12:33

a CGI trailer, that stuff does take

1:12:35

time, even when it's made externally. Okay,

1:12:38

so this redacted showcase, it's

1:12:40

Call of Duty Black Ops, right? Is there

1:12:42

any other theory you guys are harboring? I

1:12:46

don't know if I could do this again, guys. How

1:12:49

are you feeling, Mr. Call of Duty? As

1:12:52

the premier expert of

1:12:55

Call of Duty, all things Call of Duty,

1:12:57

right? Just follow subscribe to my YouTube channel.

1:12:59

I think like, it

1:13:02

feels time like I have to put myself into

1:13:04

like Call of Duty brain and say

1:13:07

that like, black ops. It's

1:13:10

a fine line, my friend. I

1:13:13

know it stands for Call of Duty. Right.

1:13:16

I have to keep one foot on

1:13:19

the floor while I do this while

1:13:21

I attempt to drift. Yeah,

1:13:23

it seems like from that perspective, it

1:13:25

is time for another black ops. So

1:13:27

that probably feels okay. That sounds so

1:13:29

obligatory. It's like, I guess we're doing

1:13:32

this again. I guess we have to.

1:13:34

Is there any excitement for it? I

1:13:37

don't think there's any more excitement in

1:13:39

Call of Duty. I do honestly think

1:13:41

it is this like expected pull

1:13:44

the lever get the thing. It is

1:13:47

very much the crane

1:13:49

game where it's a cost a dollar

1:13:51

but you don't lose until you win

1:13:53

something. Right. Do you know

1:13:55

what I mean? You're gonna get a piece of

1:13:58

shit little bouncy ball when it's the brand the

1:14:00

maze, right? They hit the button and they only get

1:14:02

stuff sometimes but one of those things eventually is 100%

1:14:05

going to be Call of Duty Black Ops 5. Yeah,

1:14:08

I mean the you know, the

1:14:10

playability for that thing I just think has

1:14:13

been on such a negative

1:14:15

trajectory for a couple years

1:14:18

now where I

1:14:20

do think it's finally poisoned the well enough

1:14:22

that there's a substantial sort of shift in

1:14:24

the excitement over that. Okay,

1:14:27

so that's what they're doing this

1:14:30

summer. I guess that I was going to do a little

1:14:32

wrap up like what we know about what's happening this

1:14:34

summer for big announcements and showcases. The

1:14:36

word still is PlayStation is probably going to do something

1:14:39

likely a showcase in May. So

1:14:42

PlayStation will have something, Microsoft

1:14:44

is going all out, Nintendo

1:14:46

who knows, they could

1:14:48

have a direct or they could completely skip this

1:14:51

summer, no one really knows what they're going to

1:14:53

do and then everyone

1:14:55

else is probably going to have some stuff going

1:14:57

on at Summer Game Fest. It doesn't feel like

1:14:59

too many of these other companies are looking at

1:15:01

doing their own specific like hey, let's

1:15:03

get everyone out. Let's just if we're if we're going to

1:15:05

do it, we're just going to go with Jeff Keeley and

1:15:08

I don't know. I'm overall I'm pretty fine with

1:15:10

that. How are you guys feeling about the summer

1:15:12

a game showcase announcement season? Let me tell you

1:15:14

all about IGN live baby. Get

1:15:17

your motherfucking tickets now them shits is

1:15:20

selling bro. Yeah, this

1:15:22

is what I've become. Are you going to

1:15:24

have to take down that GameSpot logo behind you when you're

1:15:27

on your question? Oh, actually, Michael, here's

1:15:30

what you do. You just put you get two more

1:15:33

logos. You just put an I and then it's really

1:15:38

good. Yeah, I'll do it. I like that. Yeah,

1:15:40

I can get away with that. It's really funny.

1:15:44

Man, I am fucking the

1:15:46

hype to see video games. This summer. Yeah,

1:15:48

me too. I think it's gonna be a

1:15:50

good time. We'll see how it goes. All

1:15:52

right. So my friends to come visit me.

1:15:54

We're gonna be in

1:15:56

LA. Let's go get meat

1:15:58

wasted again. We

1:16:02

had some of the Korean barbecue again.

1:16:04

Oh yeah, the KBBQ was hitting that

1:16:07

night. It really... I can still

1:16:09

taste it. Not to fully brag about

1:16:11

that, but when I found out it was Mike Minotti's

1:16:13

birthday when you guys were going to be in town

1:16:15

and I thought to myself, what's the best restaurant I

1:16:17

could take Mike Minotti to? I was like, one more

1:16:20

is just meat. You nailed

1:16:22

it for Mike. I'm

1:16:25

also very glad that Mike did not see

1:16:27

that some of the meat was resting on

1:16:29

a bed of lettuce. Oh my

1:16:31

God. No, I'm glad. You tricked him. You

1:16:34

tricked him. And he didn't notice why

1:16:36

because he was sitting right next to the voice

1:16:38

actor for Ashley. What was that?

1:16:40

Ashley, thank you for birthday to the evil

1:16:42

four. Literally, perfect Minotti

1:16:44

birthday. It was a perfect Minotti

1:16:47

birthday. Here's the thing. Do you have to trick

1:16:49

him into eating vegetables? Is that what you're talking

1:16:51

about? Yeah, God. Yes,

1:16:56

indeed Mike, grow up. Here's the thing.

1:16:58

You know, Susie, Sphere Hunter, very

1:17:01

popular person, right? Anytime I

1:17:03

see the homegirl, it's great. But

1:17:05

the thing is, she's so well connected that like anytime she's

1:17:07

like, oh, I got a friend with me. And

1:17:10

I'm like, all right, cool. I'm just chilling in the

1:17:12

back of the Uber. And then like, I'm

1:17:14

just making casual small talk. I'm like, oh, hey,

1:17:17

what do you do? Like, oh, I'm the voice

1:17:19

actress for Ashley from Resident Evil Four. Have you

1:17:21

played it? Motherfucker, you can't just drop that shit

1:17:23

on me. Some warnings

1:17:26

here, dog. It was

1:17:28

very, like Mike didn't know. He was sitting there for like quite some time.

1:17:30

And then I mentioned that and he's like, oh my God. So, yeah, we

1:17:32

got a picture. Oh my God. That's

1:17:34

very good. There, that was a good one.

1:17:36

All right, moving along here. Todd Howard says

1:17:38

Bethesda is focused on finding ways to increase

1:17:40

its output. Todd Howard, game

1:17:42

director at Bethesda, acknowledges the long wait between

1:17:45

the studio's game releases and expresses a commitment

1:17:47

to finding ways to increase their output while

1:17:50

maintaining a high quality. Bethesda

1:17:52

is currently focused on the Elder Scrolls 6 and does

1:17:54

not have plans for a sequel to Fallout 4 in

1:17:56

the near future. Howard also discussed the possibility of collaborating

1:17:58

with the studio. with external

1:18:00

developers on Fallout projects like mobile spin-offs

1:18:03

or non-numbered series entries as Bethesda has

1:18:05

done in the past. He

1:18:07

emphasized the importance of delivering high-quality games

1:18:09

and mentioned upcoming content for Fallout 76,

1:18:12

including a major map expansion called

1:18:14

Skyline Valley. Is that

1:18:16

a Cincinnati reference? Oh my

1:18:18

god. Bethesda previously, that would be

1:18:20

right in the right area, Bethesda previously turned

1:18:22

down proposals from Obsidian. I'm like, I love

1:18:24

Skyline. Chilly. You know me.

1:18:27

It turned out proposals from Obsidian to

1:18:29

develop more Fallout and Elder Scrolls games,

1:18:31

but the acquisition of both studios by

1:18:33

Microsoft may open up new opportunities for

1:18:35

collaborations. Of course, we've heard the rumors

1:18:37

that they are maybe discussing that. And

1:18:41

then he also took time to say, I love New

1:18:43

Vegas. And we love New Vegas

1:18:45

to Bethesda. Wait, are we talking about Todd

1:18:47

Howard, the television show producer? Yeah,

1:18:50

the television show producer. That's how we'd like you to refer

1:18:52

him. Yes, that's right. Okay,

1:18:55

so like more Fallout. This

1:18:57

is a conversation we've had a bunch of times now. Do

1:19:00

you think after this conversation where he's like, yeah,

1:19:02

maybe things could happen, and we've heard

1:19:04

these rumors that they want to have more stuff happen.

1:19:07

What do you guys think is the likeliest

1:19:09

scenario for getting more Fallout as quickly as

1:19:11

possible? I

1:19:14

mean, if anyone wanted to work with

1:19:16

Obsidian, again, this is exactly the right set

1:19:18

of circumstances that Fallout New Vegas came in

1:19:20

last time. It's because all their main developers

1:19:22

were busy working on Skyrim. Yep,

1:19:25

and now Obsidian is right there and it wouldn't be

1:19:27

some like external deal. It would just be knocking

1:19:30

on our neighbor store and we all live

1:19:32

in the same community. Yeah, the thing is

1:19:34

like these things take so long to get

1:19:37

rolling. Like if they're

1:19:39

considering the idea now, you're not going to see that

1:19:41

shit for another two, three, four

1:19:44

years. I mean, five years. And I'm

1:19:46

assuming the Fallout TV show is like

1:19:48

going to have its major

1:19:50

success. It's going to be probably

1:19:53

going to have more seasons and

1:19:55

already. Yeah, season two is just

1:19:57

now excited. So the. The

1:20:00

Fallout tale is going to be long. Of

1:20:02

course you want to strike when the iron's

1:20:04

hot. Fallout is reaching a critical mass that,

1:20:07

for me, I think of Fallout as like, oh,

1:20:09

my fun little silly RPG game where I hang

1:20:11

out with robots and have

1:20:14

Matthew Perry shoot me in the head at the

1:20:16

start of New Vegas and shit. So it's

1:20:19

really wild to see it explode in this way,

1:20:21

but in terms of what they can do with

1:20:23

games, in the immediate future,

1:20:25

they could probably

1:20:28

invest in 76 with like, events

1:20:31

and extra content and things like that,

1:20:34

because that's the thing that they can probably insert

1:20:36

the easiest to coincide with the

1:20:38

TV show at this point. But

1:20:40

in terms of like, new projects, it's going to be

1:20:43

a while. Yeah,

1:20:46

I think that Fallout

1:20:48

has permanently changed though, right? Like, I agree

1:20:50

with everything you just said, Hyam, it's going

1:20:52

to take a while no matter what, even

1:20:54

if they are like, let's do a smaller

1:20:56

project with a smaller scope focus, let's say

1:20:58

in exile, do a top down Fallout RPG

1:21:01

that's like a sequel to two. Those

1:21:03

things could really work. That would also

1:21:05

take two, three, four years. But

1:21:08

I think regardless, when they announce, hey,

1:21:10

here's a new Fallout project, if it

1:21:12

is three, four years from now, and

1:21:15

it's after season two, the excitement for that

1:21:17

is going to be off the charts no matter

1:21:19

what. I think this is now a franchise that

1:21:21

is in people's minds forever. Is that correct? What

1:21:23

do you guys think?

1:21:25

Yeah, I think it's like on the

1:21:27

precipice of entering like cultural canon where

1:21:29

you're getting your normal person talking about

1:21:32

Fallout and you're also getting that

1:21:34

normal person kind of disappointed when they go

1:21:36

check out the games of like, oh,

1:21:39

this is different than the show. I

1:21:41

don't know if I'm

1:21:43

100% there yet. Yeah, well, you're not a huge fan of the show, right?

1:21:48

You guys found it kind of boring. You and your wife. Well,

1:21:50

no, she did. She's

1:21:52

a bad person. I

1:21:56

like I'm in job watching it

1:21:58

alone because I see value and

1:22:03

Yeah, I'm into it But I don't

1:22:05

know if it's like I realized it

1:22:07

is doing very well as far as

1:22:09

Amazon shows go I feel like it's

1:22:11

kind of amazing that the Mount Rushmore

1:22:13

of Amazon shows is now like mrs

1:22:16

Maisel and like the gods as a

1:22:18

good thing best cool as hell

1:22:22

It's I think it's good I

1:22:24

don't I I don't know if it's on the

1:22:26

same level of like other recent stuff I

1:22:29

think it in terms of like video

1:22:31

game adaptations. I think that's The

1:22:33

cache they're running with of like this is a really

1:22:35

good one of these Breakout

1:22:39

is a cool look to like the last of us,

1:22:41

right? I think less of us has a bigger footprint

1:22:44

footprint, but if I'm gonna be honest like

1:22:46

even though that one don't are even

1:22:48

though that one was more prestige that

1:22:51

one was more like serious in tone

1:22:53

and blah blah blah I Vibed

1:22:56

a fallout more. Yeah, I think fallout has

1:22:59

like a more fun kind of relationship with

1:23:01

its content that the last of us Is

1:23:03

sort of just like you kind of can't

1:23:05

always watch this because it's yeah much, right?

1:23:09

Prime and I don't think everyone has HBO so

1:23:12

I like 65 million viewers for this fallout show

1:23:14

can't watch it on HBO group I'm

1:23:17

sorry max the one to watch for HBO. Yeah, you

1:23:19

go get it right or pay the price Yeah,

1:23:22

I mean I think that this is going to

1:23:25

have a cultural footprint but Abaco,

1:23:27

I think I get where you're coming from

1:23:29

because even something like you know Game of

1:23:31

Thrones There's that rumor that embark is working

1:23:33

on a Game of Thrones game and

1:23:35

people don't really care And Game of Thrones was a

1:23:37

big show in the world Yeah years and years and

1:23:39

years and sure it was like a bad

1:23:41

season there at the end really turned most people off And I

1:23:44

think a lot of people are like well that's going in the

1:23:46

brain basket I'm not gonna think about that anymore But

1:23:48

that can happen with fallout and you know these things do

1:23:50

have their moment and then they come and go like Walking

1:23:52

Dead was Really popular way more popular

1:23:54

than even fallout is And those

1:23:56

games You know I think they do pretty well, but they're not

1:23:58

like the biggest thing in the world. It just feels

1:24:00

like followed is the right mix of. The.

1:24:03

Games have already had a lot of

1:24:05

cache are among people care about that

1:24:07

sort of thing and then the Tv

1:24:09

show is amplifying. That's so I think

1:24:11

if they announced here's a Fall Off

1:24:13

Lived there will be way more people

1:24:15

who care about that than ever did.

1:24:17

before the go away I think the

1:24:19

thing to his that's Fall Out The

1:24:21

Game is uniquely benefiting from the show

1:24:23

in a way that and I don't

1:24:25

think other annotations have on terms of

1:24:27

like their relationship just because of the

1:24:29

sort of library of stuff that is

1:24:31

available in the fall Out. Franchise be

1:24:34

uniqueness to sort of personal story

1:24:36

telling kind of element to that

1:24:38

I think has found a way

1:24:40

to kind of be. You.

1:24:43

Know and it's own category in terms

1:24:45

of like were that's lending success And

1:24:47

as someone who kind of only. Singularly,

1:24:50

Enjoys Fallout Three I don't really have

1:24:52

much the same for me on that.

1:24:54

I will say that like a kind

1:24:56

of made me want to go back

1:24:58

and see if that's what pliable. You

1:25:01

know Now in the of that's now.

1:25:03

It's like with with that it sort of like

1:25:05

thinking about it now honestly like it's sort of

1:25:07

very unique in like I think of other good

1:25:09

video game and annotations on I think it might

1:25:11

have three it would be this line obviously last

1:25:13

of us and then. I. Think Arcane almost certainly.

1:25:15

er han har kow. yeah you and

1:25:18

of those are Silent Hill the first

1:25:20

Somehow markets are like to have any

1:25:22

Netflix and under. Three things I said,

1:25:24

which for real. Ah. Like

1:25:27

usually from Fidelity like I do think

1:25:29

that for some the looks sort look

1:25:31

cool is that the of a the

1:25:33

satellite as the. Other things that I

1:25:36

just said i'm I will say that followed kind

1:25:38

is the only one where or like and now

1:25:40

I'm going to go play the game is a

1:25:42

glass device you don't have to play the game

1:25:44

the so it's. For people who don't

1:25:46

wanna play at the runway yeah,

1:25:48

theory That story arc seen. The.

1:25:51

game is league of legends you're not gonna

1:25:53

get the quality of storytelling from fucking league

1:25:55

of legends it's fine but it's not it's

1:25:57

not our kane is doing oh follow getting

1:26:00

that storytelling in

1:26:02

the game but it's not exactly what you know

1:26:04

you didn't just play around in this cool

1:26:07

new world you just learned about like that

1:26:09

to me is the most like the funnel

1:26:11

is so easy there it's it makes total

1:26:13

sense that people are like obsessed with it

1:26:15

now and the through line here

1:26:17

is Ella Purnell because she's also in

1:26:19

arcane she's right so yeah she thinks she's so

1:26:21

good in it oh sure that's

1:26:23

right and I didn't know that yeah that's

1:26:25

a Hailey Steinfeld a fellow cobbabine yeah Hailey

1:26:27

Steinfeld plays her sister Vi um

1:26:31

okay this is seeing the

1:26:33

success of the fallout show

1:26:35

really makes me he I guess

1:26:39

nervous for future adaptations to really

1:26:41

hit the mark not fallout specifically

1:26:43

but like yeah I

1:26:45

think that having a mass-effect

1:26:48

show would have been a no-brainer

1:26:51

but now I don't know if

1:26:54

they could deliver on a mass-effect show yeah but

1:26:56

I think I think it this

1:26:58

proves that it's worth getting like a

1:27:00

Jonathan Nolan on board to sort of

1:27:02

dictate like the level of quality that

1:27:04

you're aiming for and the

1:27:07

belief can can be there that's like everyone involved

1:27:09

is gonna benefit you're gonna have the second biggest

1:27:12

show ever on Amazon Prime video and you're gonna

1:27:14

sell a ton of video games even though they

1:27:16

are between eight and fifteen years old or something

1:27:18

like that so it's like everyone

1:27:20

involved is benefiting and this is

1:27:22

what can happen if everything hits so it encourages

1:27:24

everyone to be like no let's invest a little

1:27:27

bit more time let's actually do these shows right

1:27:29

where before it was always like the the twisted

1:27:31

metal show what where I know people really like

1:27:33

it it's like the the effort seemed to be

1:27:35

like let's make a good comedy show in and

1:27:37

that's what we're going for but

1:27:40

I think if they had a world where they had a

1:27:42

game ready to go it probably could have benefited and if

1:27:44

the lore was a little bit you know more important

1:27:46

something like that those these things could pay off in a

1:27:48

way that they haven't before last

1:27:52

thing this interview with Todd Howard happened over on

1:27:54

on kind of funny there they talked about a

1:27:56

bunch of stuff he also said that star fields

1:27:58

a shattered space story expansion is launching

1:28:00

this fall. So hey, hooray.

1:28:03

Do you think we ever get a starfield

1:28:05

show everybody? That's

1:28:08

about right. All right. Let's play a game. Okay.

1:28:11

Funko fusion. If you're

1:28:13

in the doc, don't look. They announced

1:28:15

this. Funko fusion is a, I don't

1:28:18

know if that's something. Let me get

1:28:20

the old. I say what this game

1:28:22

is. Are you okay? Fusion arrives on

1:28:24

console on TC September 13th pre-orders open

1:28:26

start starting today. Uh, 10 10

1:28:29

games in collaboration with Funko and

1:28:32

universal products and experiences alongside physical

1:28:34

distribution partner Skybound games today

1:28:37

revealed a brand new look at Funko

1:28:39

fusion and release dates on the upcoming

1:28:41

co-op action extravaganza built around some of

1:28:43

the biggest brands and characters in pop

1:28:46

and Funko pop culture. Okay. What

1:28:48

brands do you guys think are in Funko

1:28:51

fusion? The

1:28:53

impossible part of this grub is that everything

1:28:55

is a Funko pop. Exactly. That's why it's

1:28:58

an impossible question. Right. But I'm what you

1:29:00

get to start guessing. Um,

1:29:05

that is not one of the listed games. A

1:29:08

bender from Futurama. No

1:29:10

Futurama or Simpsons in the

1:29:13

list. Some kind of, some

1:29:15

kind of, uh, cryptocurrency brand.

1:29:18

Uh, ooh, ooh, ooh, close

1:29:20

Pennywise the clown. Uh,

1:29:23

it's not listed here, but movies are

1:29:25

simply well represented. Okay. I'll give you,

1:29:28

I'll give you Chuckies in there. Oh,

1:29:30

we were, Bailey said Rick

1:29:34

and Morty. I did. Oh, ninja. I

1:29:37

don't see Rick and Morty. No,

1:29:40

okay. Here's when you won't

1:29:42

get umbrella academy. Um, sorry.

1:29:44

I didn't mean to say it like

1:29:46

that. I meant umbrella academy. Hey, I

1:29:49

watched all three seasons of that. I

1:29:51

bet you did. Have you know, I'll

1:29:53

have you know, I really like my

1:29:55

chemical romance. Yeah. I like, I like

1:29:57

New Jersey's own my chemical romance and

1:29:59

all of Also season three

1:30:02

was very bad, but they made a fourth

1:30:04

one. I think All

1:30:06

right, there are several other movies and

1:30:08

cartoons and they're pretty old like Oh,

1:30:11

it's not a hold on hold on. Hold on a

1:30:14

dog. Oh, what's his name? What's his name? Rugrats.

1:30:16

No, no, no, no, no, no the bear had No,

1:30:20

the bear there we were bears not

1:30:23

we bear bears the bear We don't do camera. We

1:30:25

don't know You'll

1:30:27

be the bear five nights

1:30:29

at Freddy's No,

1:30:32

that's not 90s. Are you talking about? It's

1:30:35

not pretty just 90 five nights. Yeah, right

1:30:37

five nights. This ready's is not listed here,

1:30:39

but that is dark Galactica is Jack Wellington

1:30:42

in it. We know but

1:30:44

jaws is Shark

1:30:49

The shark Not

1:30:51

the giant man from James Bond. No Okay,

1:30:55

one of your favorite movies back a lard fifth

1:30:58

element no crew lies

1:31:00

no good movies Hugh

1:31:03

Jackman is a great chairman That

1:31:06

would be credible. Thank you. Thank you.

1:31:08

Jim Bridget Jones's diary Bridget Jones's diary

1:31:10

or Tracy Amy future Marty

1:31:13

McFly Yeah, but

1:31:15

back to the future in Jurassic World

1:31:17

a hoverboard Jurassic Park Jurassic World. Oh

1:31:19

my god, okay Masters of the

1:31:21

universe. So he man will be in there

1:31:23

as well as the Walking Dead and Invincible,

1:31:26

I guess we could have guessed that from Scott about

1:31:28

oh, it's Shaun of the dead for some reason man

1:31:30

I was going to say Marty McFly at the top

1:31:33

of this but felt it was too stupid of an

1:31:35

answer I wanted to be like who is this

1:31:37

for but like I think I know and my

1:31:39

next my follow-up question is who drops the ball

1:31:41

I'm getting Rick and Morty in here Rick

1:31:45

and Morty are they already in fortnight? Are these

1:31:47

like leftovers from from for tonight? No,

1:31:50

you don't want to be that Battle

1:31:55

sort of like this it kind of such a

1:31:57

fucked up pic did they watch the show?

1:32:01

They don't care about any of that.

1:32:03

That's never gonna be what they care

1:32:05

about. Thank you, Kevin Data. What are

1:32:07

they doing? Question for

1:32:09

you. What

1:32:12

kind of game is this? Oh,

1:32:15

you didn't hear it. It's the upcoming co-op

1:32:17

action extravaganza built around some of the biggest

1:32:19

brands and characters in pop and Funko Pop

1:32:22

culture. So this sounds

1:32:24

amazing. The fuck out

1:32:26

of here. I

1:32:28

think this game will stream very well, though. I

1:32:31

think it'll be hilarious. It pays tribute to... Oh my God.

1:32:33

Okay, this is the line. Funko Fusion

1:32:35

is an action-adventure single-player and

1:32:38

online co-op experience that pays

1:32:40

tribute to NBC Universal's Deep

1:32:42

Roster, a beloved world and

1:32:44

irreverent Funko Pop interpretations of

1:32:46

the figures who inhabit that.

1:32:48

Wait, does that mean we

1:32:50

may potentially get WWE superstars

1:32:53

because of Geek-Hawk? We could,

1:32:55

yeah. I think if anything that's had a Funko, it seems like it

1:32:57

could be on the table. Are we gonna get

1:32:59

this possibly owned from Poker Face? No.

1:33:02

No, that's not a lot.

1:33:04

That'd be fantastic too. I mean, Kenneth from 30

1:33:07

Rock would crush. That'd

1:33:12

be really good. Jack McBrayer? I

1:33:14

just recapped the things that

1:33:16

they've announced so far. Jurassic World, Jaws,

1:33:19

Back to the Future, The Thing, Shaun

1:33:21

of the Dead, Chucky, Umbrella

1:33:25

Academy, The Walking Dead, Invincible, I'm repeating

1:33:27

myself. I mean, yes. And Lil Sebastian

1:33:29

from Parks and Rec. I'm your guy.

1:33:31

Really? Will Sebastian? I

1:33:33

wish. That would be great. We'll play this.

1:33:35

I don't give a shit. Whatever. Give me

1:33:37

the little areas. Is there another Bring

1:33:39

Your Div to Work Day scheduled in the school year?

1:33:41

Yeah. To help us understand this.

1:33:44

We'll do it during the summer. We'll make it work. Actually,

1:33:46

I would prefer us to go

1:33:48

through these, showing Dylan these pop

1:33:50

vinyls and asking him, what is

1:33:52

this from? All that fun.

1:33:54

I mean, look, he's still riding high from

1:33:56

last week. Oh, sure. He'll probably

1:33:58

be coming down around November. September? December?

1:34:01

I'm going to get another one on the books. It's September, so...

1:34:04

Oh man, sorry the next school year is

1:34:06

strong. Yeah. This will be

1:34:08

September 13th is when it hits consoles and PC.

1:34:11

Alright, also that Star Wars Hunters game from

1:34:13

Zing, I think got a release date. That's

1:34:15

June 4th. So there you

1:34:17

go. Alright, moving on with the news.

1:34:19

Square Enix has suggested it's canceled or

1:34:22

re-scoped unannounced game projects as it continues

1:34:24

to reassess its overall development strategy. Square

1:34:26

Enix has decided to revise its

1:34:28

approach to the development of high

1:34:30

definition games, so big console releases.

1:34:33

The publisher expects to report content abandonment

1:34:35

losses of approximately 22.1 billion yen, which

1:34:40

is around 141 million dollars due

1:34:42

to this evaluation, suggesting that

1:34:44

several projects have been canceled or re-scoped.

1:34:47

The decision follows the appointment of Takashi

1:34:49

Kiryu as the new president last year

1:34:51

and the subsequent review of the development

1:34:53

process to improve game quality. The

1:34:56

publisher aims to reduce outsourcing and focus

1:34:58

on in-house development for high-profile titles to

1:35:00

increase quality and profit margins. Final

1:35:02

Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square's biggest release of

1:35:04

the year, is reportedly underperforming, selling

1:35:07

half of what Remake sold in the same time

1:35:09

frame. We've had that conversation, there's caveats there of

1:35:11

course, but... Yeah,

1:35:13

this was something they talked about a couple months back,

1:35:15

where they're like, we're gonna stop making shitty games, we're

1:35:18

just gonna make good games. Oh! Oh,

1:35:20

cool. Weird. That's crazy.

1:35:22

That's a cool strategy. More people should try

1:35:24

that. That's a good response. Yeah. Wait,

1:35:27

you mean this switch was flipped onto shitty

1:35:29

games? Yeah, it was set to evil and

1:35:31

shitty. You had to do that with like

1:35:33

a million subscribers, why don't we do that?

1:35:35

Yeah, exactly, just whip it on. We're gonna

1:35:38

make only viral videos now. Nicky

1:35:41

has changed all the

1:35:43

plans. That's

1:35:46

my strategy. We don't know

1:35:48

what games they are talking about here. People

1:35:51

are worried that this means like, oh, Final Fantasy IX

1:35:53

Remake is not gonna happen now. I

1:35:55

bet that's one of the ones they're gonna keep making. If it has

1:35:57

Final Fantasy in the name, that seems like the thing they're doing.

1:36:00

doubling down on. But

1:36:02

I don't know. It's probably several other

1:36:04

projects that we haven't heard about. The

1:36:07

sequel to Quiet Man. No. No,

1:36:11

I was actually genuinely upset that

1:36:13

I almost burped. We're

1:36:15

joking, but there was a

1:36:19

period where Square Enix put

1:36:21

out Quiet Man, that really bad

1:36:23

banger after banger. That's

1:36:26

exactly the game I was thinking of. Left Alive, Michael

1:36:28

Hyam. There was a couple others. Oh, Balan

1:36:30

Wonder World. Fucking Babylon's

1:36:32

Fall. I am. Babylon's Fall.

1:36:34

Michael Hyam's Babylon's Fall. That

1:36:37

is my burden to bear. But

1:36:41

like year after year after year, they would have

1:36:43

one of these like games that were in the

1:36:45

conversation for worst game of the year. And yeah,

1:36:48

it's the kind of thing where hey, maybe it

1:36:51

would be a good idea to not do that

1:36:53

anymore. And a lot of those projects were like

1:36:55

given off to a third party studio to like

1:36:57

just make these things that they then wasted resources

1:37:00

promoting. Like they had a demo for Balan's Wonder

1:37:02

World. Whatever they would do

1:37:04

that. How are

1:37:06

you feeling? Hyam, how are you feeling about

1:37:08

Square Enix's future as an RPG fan? I

1:37:13

hope this doesn't mean...

1:37:15

This could mean many, many things.

1:37:17

But this doesn't mean like

1:37:19

they're... I guess, I don't know

1:37:21

how I put it, but the smaller

1:37:24

RPG projects where they do get

1:37:26

experimental when they do interesting things

1:37:28

like Octopath Traveler 2. Like one

1:37:31

step below the prestige Final Fantasies.

1:37:34

Those I think are where I find

1:37:36

the most enjoyment and or like there's

1:37:39

something very memorable about those styles of

1:37:41

games where they're not going

1:37:44

for these... As much as

1:37:46

I love Sixteen and like Seven Remake and Rebirth, those

1:37:49

games are like they have like a prestige

1:37:51

level to them. But the

1:37:53

way in which they explore different mechanics, different

1:37:55

themes, they try and do things like 2D

1:37:58

HD. That's the area that I hope... is

1:38:01

still being invested in because that those

1:38:03

are the things that have knock-on effects

1:38:05

for other like they influence

1:38:07

other companies or other developers to do interesting

1:38:09

things with their RPGs so and they have

1:38:11

a lot of they have a lot of

1:38:14

good brands still under you know they still

1:38:16

have the bravely IP octopath

1:38:18

I hope

1:38:20

it has more stuff in the future

1:38:22

saga there's so many square

1:38:26

nix has like sitting on a treasure trove

1:38:28

of RPG

1:38:30

brands like I know they're putting out visions

1:38:32

of monolators I'm not the biggest monofan but

1:38:35

I do like that they are still investing

1:38:37

in the monoceries in a way so

1:38:40

that's what I hope doesn't get lost in the

1:38:42

sauce is like the the lower

1:38:45

end of their projects as the out like

1:38:47

I said that those are those are some

1:38:49

of my most memorable games for

1:38:52

as much as we were goofing on square a

1:38:54

couple minutes ago with Ballon Wonderworld and stuff they

1:38:56

did release like a lot of I want

1:38:58

to say it like experimental RPGs that

1:39:00

were surprises coming from them like dale

1:39:02

field chronicles was

1:39:04

a pleasant memory didn't quite stick

1:39:07

the landing but also games like

1:39:09

dungeon dungeon encounters was

1:39:11

a very neat idea and then they

1:39:13

had a card game voice

1:39:16

of cards voice of cards that I

1:39:18

really enjoyed I I think

1:39:20

it just needed a little bit of editing so I hope you

1:39:23

know to Michael's point that they

1:39:25

don't shy away

1:39:27

from those smaller ideas and

1:39:30

that they just stop making the bad games like they said

1:39:32

yeah stop making bad games man um

1:39:37

all right let's move along here

1:39:39

peripheral firm claim switch to joy

1:39:41

cons use electromagnetic suction you have

1:39:43

extra button there it is moba

1:39:46

pad a company that specializes in making

1:39:48

switch controllers claims to have new information

1:39:50

about the upcoming switch to console they

1:39:52

report that the new joy cons will

1:39:54

be larger and attached to consoles attention

1:39:56

the console using magnetic suction instead of

1:39:58

the current sliding rail technology Wait,

1:40:00

yeah, go ahead, please. Magnetic

1:40:03

suction? Yeah, electromagnetic

1:40:06

suction. How does that work? Ask

1:40:08

your mother. Why am I

1:40:10

casting a tree? That

1:40:13

just came out. I'm gonna go for a

1:40:15

walk. Why'd you do it? This

1:40:20

is your fault. I

1:40:22

was referencing the hit song from a

1:40:24

couple years ago. Yeah, okay. Man had

1:40:27

it right. Oh, that's right, magnets,

1:40:29