0:00

Did you ever go by crispy to do a crispy face? Oh

0:04

He's over your your tag. That was

0:06

kind of my Intro

0:08

to Chris plant funny name, you know because

0:10

like Chris plant crispy. That's pretty funny. No,

0:13

I know that's why we said it Yeah,

0:15

well, yeah If

0:17

your point is that it's obvious then that's hurtful

0:20

but gone. I it is I'm taking you on

0:22

a journey because my

0:25

full name is Chris Thomas plant

0:27

or Christmas

0:29

plant Which is okay

0:31

way more impressive than crispy in my

0:33

opinion. Okay, you know I disagree I

0:36

think crispy sounds cooler and again, like

0:38

when you're putting up your tag Then

0:41

you can't like crispy is just such

0:43

a better name than Christmas plant. Oh, you

0:45

mean like crispy Yeah

0:48

like that. Yeah, Griffin. It's

0:50

Griffin. It's What

0:52

was your tag? It was a good good Try griff,

0:54

but it's just it's just not as fun to

0:57

bully Chris plant It's

1:00

not the same he doesn't do it right Chris

1:02

you're not doing it right I'm too pedantic Whatever

1:05

it is. I don't know you're just it's

1:07

not as fun. It's not the same I don't

1:09

I don't want to burn this entire thing down

1:11

But can I tell you that I had a

1:13

dream last night and I woke up? I'm this

1:15

is not a joke I wrote this down. I

1:17

had an idea for a cold open and You'll

1:21

see why it's not a joke because Okay,

1:23

I woke up and I'm like, oh my god.

1:25

This is gonna be so fucking funny What

1:28

if like I came in and like

1:32

all of you were like characters in the Wizard of

1:34

Oz? Oh cool And

1:36

I and in my dream you I

1:38

was like oh and they're like they each need

1:40

like a different thing for me And

1:42

I and I I scrolled it down and

1:44

I was like, this is a fucking funniest that

1:47

they can't believe that they need these things

1:49

Okay, so I this is really important Chris Did

1:52

you write this cold open down in the dream because

1:54

you thought was such a good idea? Or did you

1:56

wait for the dream and think I got it and

1:58

you went wrote it down in your actual life?

2:01

The dream happened, and in the dream

2:03

I could see the three of you

2:05

as these characters, like it was black

2:07

and white turned color, and each of

2:09

you were like, I need this thing.

2:11

And then, but I was kind of

2:13

above myself like, holy

2:15

shit, this would be such a funny cold

2:17

open if this were real. And

2:20

then I woke up to

2:22

piss, and then I did piss. And

2:26

then I grabbed my notebook and I was like,

2:29

I gotta write this down before I forget. That's

2:31

so funny. I'm down

2:34

to try bullying him again if you

2:38

think you have the insurance

2:41

for that. My

3:00

name is Justin McElroy, and I know the best game

3:02

of the week. My name is Griffin McElroy, and I

3:04

know the best game of the week. My name is

3:06

Christopher Thomas-Plant, and I'm the best games of the week.

3:10

Did you say you are the best games of the

3:12

week? I know the best games of the week.

3:15

That's amazing. Welcome

3:17

to Besties, where we talk about the latest in

3:20

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3:22

It is a video game club, but just

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3:27

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3:31

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3:33

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3:35

asking people if they made a game. If

3:38

they're making a game. Yeah, he's not had a lot of

3:40

luck yet. This week we're talking about

3:43

our rainy day games, maybe

3:45

our comfort games, our video

3:48

games for the human soul, chicken

3:50

soup for the gamer's soul. That's

3:54

the name of this episode for sure. Yeah,

3:56

it's definitely called Chicken Soup for the Gamer's Soul.

3:58

Chris, what do we mean by rainy? We

4:01

have a rubric for this which is

4:03

these are the games you dig out

4:05

when you're feeling a little blue and

4:07

you need something that provides that quick

4:09

dose of comfort and and I know

4:11

I know that there are gonna

4:13

be people who write off say That's

4:16

not what a rainy day game is a rainy day

4:18

game is for like a day that you have nothing

4:20

else to do Mmm, and we can

4:22

we can give you an answer to that, too

4:24

I think there's gonna be overlap, but our

4:27

rubric is our rubric and we are sticking

4:29

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soon No.

6:03

I mean, I have a lot and I,

6:05

this has been really interesting to think about

6:07

because I

6:10

don't think I realized that these games were this

6:12

for me. But then when I think

6:14

about the games that I have played a lot of it

6:16

is, I mean, it's

6:18

pretty consistent. I mean, I'll kick

6:20

things off with what I believe is

6:22

probably one that is true for most,

6:25

if not all of us, which is

6:28

Slay the Spire on

6:31

my phone specifically is

6:33

always there for me when I need it. And in

6:36

that sense, it is my best friend. I

6:40

have always wanted this, Griffin.

6:42

Slay the Spire and Vampire

6:44

Survivors are my two, like,

6:47

I really, really wish I could play those

6:49

on mobile. I wish that I could. I've

6:51

just sunk so much

6:54

time into the other ones. I don't think

6:56

I could get there. But it's fun to

6:58

play games. It's fun to play games and

7:00

always, but I love games. I love games.

7:02

And so if you start them over again,

7:04

it's like the game is new to you.

7:07

And so I would encourage you to do

7:09

that. I think

7:11

that this is an interesting sort of

7:13

topic of discussion because I think that

7:16

the idea of like a rainy day game, a

7:19

game you play when you're not when you're feeling kind

7:21

of down in the dumps can

7:24

be a bad thing, right? Like

7:26

there is a level of, there

7:29

is a level of escapism that

7:32

is, I think, detrimental

7:34

to, that makes it harder

7:36

to get that sunshine to

7:38

come back out into

7:41

the life of you. Because for me, like,

7:44

I think WoW used to be this for

7:47

me. I think that

7:50

like a big juicy MMO when

7:53

I was having a rainy

7:55

day, by which I mean like a

7:58

long lasting depression. episode. Yeah.

8:01

Yeah. You know, I'm on a

8:03

rainy day. A real rainy month

8:05

or two. You

8:07

know, I would get up in WOW and then it

8:09

would, and I'm not saying this is true for everyone,

8:11

I'm not saying that this is inherently the nature of

8:14

MMOs but just sort of the nature of my addictive

8:16

kind of personality, I

8:18

would turn to WOW and it would get me, you

8:21

know, get me through the days but it wouldn't

8:23

make me feel particularly bad. I

8:26

would almost put that as part of

8:28

the rubric here is that it's something

8:30

that can be satisfying in and

8:33

of itself, right? Yeah. Like there's

8:35

a difference between, you know,

8:39

getting hooked on something in a moment

8:41

of weakness, getting re-hooked on something that's

8:43

maybe not a great fit

8:45

for how you want to live your life and being

8:48

able to sit down and have like a

8:50

one-off experience that is going

8:52

to feel satisfying. An edge case for

8:54

me is like Destiny or Destiny 2

8:57

because that game is, I mean

8:59

that game is fun to play. That game is

9:01

fun to kind of like dip into and I

9:04

have had times where I've, you know, not had

9:06

anything else to play and you

9:09

know, just wanted something that I could just

9:11

sort of vibe out to and Destiny has,

9:13

you know, at times it has been

9:15

that and then it also has been the other thing

9:17

where it is a less sort

9:19

of healthy kind of option.

9:22

I would honestly are you the

9:24

stop-start nature of Destiny 2 development?

9:27

Although maybe not the best from like a

9:29

business sense, I have no idea, but

9:31

it's honestly I found it to be kind

9:33

of a more humane release schedule. Like I

9:36

liked being done with Destiny for a while

9:38

and then getting back into it. I will

9:41

say that that

9:43

did eventually lead to me just sort of like

9:45

not coming back so I understand why they don't

9:47

want to have to like bring people back constantly.

9:49

But I did enjoy that pace where it was

9:51

like, oh I've seen the new stuff, I'll check

9:54

it back out later. They released an update yesterday

9:56

that Is like the prep for the

9:58

final shave, the big last. Expansion from Like this

10:01

whole story arc and in this update

10:03

they have like released and remastered and

10:05

ten most popular weapons that have ever

10:07

been in a game and that is

10:09

diabolical to make like a grip. Remember

10:11

ah the good times you how with

10:13

your friends Mountaintop and Reckless and Blast

10:15

Furnace and Falling he had seen or

10:17

my itinerary that arise if I come

10:19

down com get it. Can. We get

10:21

it, you're ready. Com. Which

10:24

one? The. Soldering rapier. I

10:26

remember that one else Go a man

10:28

cool as I like the games rival

10:31

game merely that Friends is on this

10:33

episode and all of them are either

10:35

and Weapons and Destiny or Slave Aspire

10:37

Yeah, exactly And precisely smiled at a

10:39

wedding party. Ah

10:42

I will also say ah and I

10:44

think this one is probably going to

10:46

hit home for a lot of folks.

10:48

Started Valley is very much this for

10:50

me. I have been play now a

10:52

lot lately with the one point six

10:54

updates and. I. Can't think of a

10:56

better. Like. Certain, I can't think

10:58

of a more assertive. Positive.

11:01

Game that has continued

11:04

to evolve. Over

11:06

time like it it it is A

11:09

it is a huge gains that is

11:11

the standard bearer for like this cozy

11:13

kind of vibe right? Ah, and it

11:16

is also an incredible game and also

11:18

it has been the most sort of

11:20

generous. Ah, one of the most

11:23

generous days this side of like no man's sky,

11:25

which honestly I would probably also put on this

11:27

list. Ah, That. That you can

11:29

just gonna keep up keep coming back to

11:31

and it's got new stuff for yeah it's

11:33

it feels it just feels good to play.

11:35

it says definitely a huge on the list

11:37

for me or answers people and the comments

11:40

mention that to. Weirdly, For

11:42

me that is that the even

11:44

though. Thing. You're talking about like

11:46

out and die of. I have that problem

11:49

with cozy games in general were like especially

11:51

something as addictive as Darzi where. I.

11:53

Always feel like the first day I feel

11:56

like this is exactly what I needed. And.

11:58

Then like a week as fast. I have

12:00

put all my energy and decide yeah, and

12:03

I don't really think I've I've made any

12:05

progress on whatever was wrong in my brain.

12:09

But but then it says the obviously different

12:11

for everybody like what puts you out of

12:13

a funky is. Yeah that

12:16

sort this sometimes I need. Something.

12:19

That is. Very.

12:22

Like he's numbered addictive because

12:24

is what were. They have

12:26

such connotations but like something

12:28

that like at the The

12:30

one that always brings to

12:32

my mind is I'm. You.

12:34

Misspelled both. Oh yeah, me

12:36

and us build a boat I have

12:38

installed and played through more times than

12:40

probably any other game and terms of

12:43

like I've played it, I finished it.

12:45

I'll play it again and a year

12:47

like us all about. I do consulate

12:49

and I need it when like. I'm

12:52

going to be complete like a loss has

12:54

my brain is kind of be imposed in

12:56

the thousand different directions and it seems like

12:58

nothing can get him in order. There.

13:00

Is one corporal. It's game game and

13:02

order is Capitan. You must build a

13:04

boat. Has that gets everybody in line.

13:07

There is no time to fixate on

13:09

your many failings. When you've got to

13:11

build a boat, they're still out there.

13:13

Said that. To worry about finances or

13:15

your family relations or your he mortality

13:17

each year. Fix it. I have a

13:19

baby cause you gotta build gallows. That

13:22

boat bill. It's not going to build

13:24

itself as a go into because once

13:26

you're done you know habits as you

13:28

build the boat. Jack. Shit

13:30

happens after the film has a half

13:32

hours a whole poised to bilbo as

13:34

like Justin do you feel better is

13:36

like why feel different like find goods

13:38

at one of the game will cost

13:41

three dollars What he what I think

13:43

that there is a. I

13:45

think there's a type of game. I think it's

13:47

the games we've discussed so far that like. Your

13:50

kids. your brain is so busy all

13:52

the time, like it's always thinking so

13:55

much and assorted of them. The fundamental

13:57

principle behind like you know, all meditation

13:59

and stuff like that which is like

14:01

give your brain something to do. Something.

14:04

The nine to kind of

14:06

like really focus on so

14:08

that you can. Get.

14:11

Past the just like chatter to

14:13

pass than the noise of it

14:15

and I think games like you

14:17

Must Build a boat ah or.

14:19

Ah, you know. As destiny

14:21

honestly I meant can be that and it's

14:23

our I think that you can get lost

14:26

in that to a degree that is not

14:28

particularly you know great for you, but I

14:30

think there's something incredibly powerful. About

14:32

these games that require. Kind.

14:34

Of like. Complete. Focus Ah, fund

14:37

and how that can help you

14:39

kind of. ah, you know, reset

14:41

the. Reset. The in of

14:43

you're you're thinking missing. On

14:46

that know I kind of broke mine

14:48

and ted three categories and I think

14:50

Harris to are or what your saying

14:52

and. The. Three are.

14:55

Zen games like yet games where

14:57

you are in our first date

14:59

effectively on the second is Fall

15:01

Focus games in the third one

15:03

is Lightness Dodger games. For two

15:05

separate things like that I think

15:07

I might accuse bucket yeah yeah

15:09

then game smear like steep. For.

15:11

Me or just cause two like steep you

15:13

are on a mountain in there is there

15:16

can be no goal and you are just

15:18

flowing in going wherever you want. A lot

15:20

of open world games with this once you

15:22

get away from the story mode. yeah I'm

15:24

weirdly Grand Theft Auto can be this in

15:26

some ways my you know my a big

15:28

one for me in this in this vein

15:30

as. I. Always have the

15:32

newest Spiderman game in so yeah I'm on

15:34

my system because that's a great it's a

15:36

great weather is nice echoed harm mobo like

15:39

it's a great when a pile of kids

15:41

they have the is always fun than I

15:43

can also than find like an aha yeah

15:45

I have ten minutes and be fun decide

15:48

on a scale swing around and as be

15:50

in that world for I will bet is

15:52

is great. Yeah, I'm the

15:54

flight for focus games. For me

15:57

that is like. Old.

15:59

Hardcore. Not. I'm.

16:01

Like the game that Apple or

16:03

a Cave released a long long

16:05

time ago on arcade machines. There

16:08

is a game called com Meu

16:10

she muthama Hurl A was called

16:12

Bug Princess and it was released

16:14

on I us in like two

16:16

thousand and eleven which is wild

16:18

the think that there is a

16:20

hard question of on a smartphone

16:22

that long ago and then it

16:25

controlled really well but after I

16:27

downloaded that immunities stayed on my

16:29

devices ever since and that is.

16:31

So the game of the highest

16:34

when snobs. Extremely meditative

16:36

because you learn about

16:38

patterns and once you've

16:40

like, kind of learned

16:42

it. It. Is

16:45

like her know like a rosary is a weird

16:47

comparison but. He likes

16:49

is really weird. the viruses meet your like your

16:51

you kind of like already is all muscle memory

16:53

and you yeah and of art in it they

16:56

make but you can't stop thinking about it for

16:58

even half a second even though it is muscle

17:00

memory citing I think and a similar vein and

17:02

I gotta wrap this because rest is here. Adding

17:04

Binding of Isaac as as from eyes are you

17:07

to play the same infinitely. There is a lot

17:09

of shit in it that if you have not

17:11

played in a little while. Ah,

17:14

And it is. I mean is it

17:17

requires kind of falls for focus in

17:19

order to survive. This is one I've

17:21

definitely return to over and over again.

17:23

I'm Susannah Solves The games are for

17:25

each of you and so for me

17:28

is this is tried and true. For

17:30

me, it's like. D Rpgs

17:32

for mean it is. Final

17:35

Fantasy. I mean, I just just.

17:38

Just powered. Through front of Nc

17:40

Seven and like a few hours with as

17:42

crazy do since it turned on. Ah, I

17:44

mean there's a lot like some of his

17:47

he six five as he nine is up

17:49

there. Ah, I feel like I did this

17:51

with the Dragon Quest games when I went

17:53

on sort of the last year odyssey to

17:56

play to those despite the fact that it

17:58

wasn't you know, inherently nostalgic. Played

18:00

them before they were. They. Were I mean

18:02

rainy day games in the truest sense? Ah,

18:04

Crennel Trigger Or the fact that all of

18:06

these are on my phone now is like

18:08

a perfect kind of sit for. For this

18:11

it is. It is always the stuff I

18:13

go back to operate in time. used to

18:15

used to be that I don't go back

18:17

to that well, quite as often as I

18:19

used to. but I mean I've beaten again

18:21

more tense and I can count. And.

18:24

And it it is still bat purpose for me several

18:26

times throughout my. Family. Have

18:29

a You Hoops. I.

18:32

Don't go back from the own, you

18:34

know. I really do enjoy Gone Back

18:36

and Do and like old point and

18:39

click games. that's definitely one of those

18:41

are fun to play with the kids.

18:43

I think our talks unless upset about.

18:46

Doing. Pot Pot and soon as other

18:48

human this entertainment games com with with

18:50

the kids are but those are really

18:52

funder of visit a lot of the

18:55

the. Scum Games had

18:57

gotten updated, brand great on

18:59

on modern Ah Pcs and

19:01

is really fun to return

19:03

to. The. I we might

19:05

talk about Herald Halibut a little

19:07

and then he reads and have

19:09

you everything that's that's gonna bring

19:12

in all the clear. Buckled down.

19:14

I already got my friggin. A

19:16

preorder with hundred dollar one where the

19:18

with the talking halibut that comes with

19:20

it and home like I had his

19:22

i'm like Double Xp weekend codes and

19:24

stuff. You think it was a mistake

19:27

to get the full back tattoo before

19:29

he played the game. I. Don't know

19:31

that what this game is. I've never heard of this

19:33

game. Yeah. I'll

19:35

just go to joking to the how beside

19:37

it. wasn't aware either. I had a fish

19:39

thing herald Harold How the it? It's like

19:42

of olds who point and click and they

19:44

made our claymation and then known as shit.

19:46

You gotta disagree and immediately be like oh.

19:49

Look. A plant health and me given me

19:51

game lead early and is that so go

19:53

first my first j peg i click.as I

19:55

go yeah this is a this will be

19:57

at the as it was greatly me question

19:59

my take on you will give you good

20:01

game and inside out of a prophecies I

20:03

wonder if I know anybody who could help

20:05

you. I wonder I wonder some funny

20:08

shit help you out you bird dogging me. Right

20:10

now I feel like he's bring us as I

20:12

got your i'm. Trying. To do you

20:14

favor us as I hear someone's. Gotta bring

20:16

the big dog energy and it's right now is

20:18

Chris Plant. My name is

20:21

just not. I know that they're

20:23

serial. The Weeds Downs. Okay, I

20:25

like that. I'd say a new

20:27

one that is has been serving

20:29

this purpose for me actually just

20:31

this week. Ah, it's

20:33

called Lodger Art grew more. Wow

20:35

has her heart. how do you

20:37

do it For him War Art

20:39

grew More studies a first word

20:41

I suspect cross Man yes it

20:43

is that has picked that like

20:45

a magic so it's a really

20:47

good pick cross that has a

20:49

lot of really great information. when

20:51

you're solving pick cross puzzle like

20:53

it highlights Rose where there is

20:55

a clue that you could derive

20:57

the divine from it. So like

20:59

those of. The. Rose you should

21:01

look at to like ah that you might

21:03

actually be able to sell something and say

21:05

like you don't have to waste your time

21:07

will heal Rows and columns the you. That

21:10

are have no helps you and there's come amid

21:12

a puzzle layer. Were. After you

21:14

solve the individual puzzles, you

21:16

have defined more by combining

21:19

the elements like the shapes

21:21

that you're finding, like combining.

21:24

The a water shape and a tree shape

21:26

to make a forest. And. Amd is

21:29

a larger puzzle the of dissolves your

21:31

last name, your fusing the puzzles together

21:33

and having to like solve what you

21:35

need to the mind. To. Make

21:37

the large class On seemed eggs with

21:40

this ah yes, gray on seem deck

21:42

mouse or. Controller. Is

21:44

great I give you a is got

21:46

a bajillion puzzles and it's odd. Hey

21:48

the fun thing about about a Cross

21:50

for me is like a don't. Discuss.

21:53

On So weird. I

21:55

don't think it's that fun. But

21:58

I bought like he can do it.

22:00

Yeah, and there's something satisfying to be

22:02

about the work know, like the as

22:05

about the nature of white. And it's

22:07

not that I'm not smart enough for

22:09

this. Is. Just I have to slow

22:11

down enough to actually do at some kind of like.

22:14

Bonsai. Tree about a man like

22:16

workmen like like i'm gonna go through

22:18

this and there's not gonna be the

22:20

like fund swishy aha moments that you

22:22

get with as a crossword read like

22:24

I it's all coming together now I'm

22:26

just gonna sit here and fuckin' civil

22:28

and hammer and of like pick it

22:30

apart until to done Ag I like

22:32

I dig that and I don't find

22:34

it like. It's a

22:36

very different sensation. A don't find

22:39

that like. Addictive right? Yeah, Bill

22:41

Latrobe. When I finish run of Mike our

22:43

pop one more and this is just like

22:45

wire. I've done this for a certain amount

22:47

of time and I'm done doing this accident.

22:49

I don't need to do this more. Who

22:51

the I mean it sounds exactly did have

22:53

meditative thing that we are talking about. Riot

22:56

the make. A can do

22:58

it. It. Doesn't require that much

23:00

for me but I do have to

23:02

pay enough attention to focus just on

23:04

as not whatever else could be rock'n'roll

23:06

my brain The Rain guys ever consider

23:08

in this have you ever have the

23:10

as the thought of like. Wanting.

23:13

To place your game to not

23:15

for the experience of doing it

23:17

but to. Keep. A

23:20

skill set or knowledge base that

23:22

you worked hard to. Sort of

23:24

a crew sometimes. Yeah, My

23:26

it's is that is not my guiding

23:28

him impulse I think. But ah I

23:31

got pretty into Sydow to for a

23:33

while because of. It's

23:36

called good sudoku. they i

23:38

like delegates version of that.

23:40

Are. I would feel I owe Enchant Like Chess

23:42

absolutely The chess app with like all of the

23:45

puzzles and said no air b time for I

23:47

kind of like the graduate school he would be

23:49

like well. I gotta

23:51

I gotta get back in the a guy

23:53

keep this sharp as if I don't you

23:55

know if you'd certainly I would say says

23:57

is a fair. I mean. They're. Adding.

24:00

Here when I definitely do

24:02

that Obama I I think

24:04

the most effective kind of

24:06

game experience for shaken off.

24:09

Does. Does Tuesday Blues is any anything

24:11

that is kind of not multiplayer for me

24:13

that is always going on. In fact it's

24:15

because for me like eyes of the when

24:18

I get bummed out. Most of the time

24:20

it is because I am not. You

24:23

know I have not been socialized recently.

24:25

Ah, that's a that's a really good

24:27

point griff and then say something that.

24:29

That. If you're working in

24:31

a home environment, you bull frequently

24:33

go. Like. For five

24:36

days And to say have I left

24:38

this building today? yeah have I have

24:40

I s and left this building this

24:42

company yeah that that's why I love

24:45

like a you know hell diverse see

24:47

as easy as a huge one. ah

24:49

like any anything that is fun and

24:52

multiplayer up a it and now that

24:54

you know. We've. All we've

24:56

all got kids henry seven like.

24:58

I. Feel like this is also kind of

25:01

minecraft from for me he or man

25:03

Smash Brothers Ultimate is one that I

25:05

could play with Henry any time and

25:07

we will have a really good time

25:09

and it is enough to kind of

25:11

like. You know boost my

25:13

mood. I always feel like better after

25:15

playing after playing that game Own with

25:18

him and that is a really a

25:20

special thing. Yeah they love for trying

25:22

to like the Lego games with that

25:25

is one that we we duck back

25:27

in on. i'm from from time to

25:29

time we keep then install. Com.

25:34

Skyn Desk A James Any any any

25:37

other last little name's you wanna drop

25:39

Now I mean I I wish I

25:41

mean I I wish I had work

25:44

or I wish I had more are

25:46

you must build a boat type experiences

25:48

A specially I will say this a

25:51

lot more. These used to be Iowa

25:53

space for me and that's really I

25:55

feel like has gotten hard to have

25:57

an experience. With. I.

26:00

o It doesn't feel like. It's

26:03

trying to keep you playing it forever constantly.

26:05

The you know the does invite you to

26:07

sort of like return to It Arms progressed

26:09

and Ninety Nine is one that I have

26:12

gone through. Several times

26:14

I'll also I'm ah, there

26:16

is no game. Than. Than

26:18

that's one that I like to do every

26:20

every year so it's lot of fun yet?

26:22

Yeah, the only other thing I can mention

26:24

is going to help. Like a local video

26:27

game shop. Is.

26:29

Very pull me out of the fuck. Am.

26:32

I on the I think maybe because when

26:34

I was a kid I didn't own a

26:36

lot of games but like going to Blockbuster,

26:38

going anywhere like that and just like averages

26:41

and looking around I another something about the

26:43

sense memory there that really does it for

26:45

me and I am I want I really

26:47

admire my game solves all forgive my hero

26:50

academia crock pot No no no not not

26:52

not not like. Do

26:54

you have any like a local? Wow Wow.

26:56

So funny. A

26:59

Geiger have to have a local game shop. I

27:02

got like a local are going game sought

27:04

know like a local like an outside Dame

27:07

Dame stop. Assists in town

27:09

arenas. it's local. Now there is the

27:11

i don't think there's an indie game

27:13

store in in. Not as bad as

27:15

far as and local cinema. Well no

27:17

grass because it down the milk flea

27:19

market is okay. I

27:21

mean I guess the I guess that counts. Inside

27:24

the Milton Flea Markets you are less

27:27

You add the Milton Flea Market please?

27:29

Okay, got it, Got it. You know

27:31

Griff? I should say there's like I'm.

27:35

A. Time Warp and Iceland.

27:37

They do feel that the Aslan.

27:39

I mean, Aslan is where it's

27:41

fucking man. Yeah, man is. Is

27:43

great, were really narrow casting we need

27:46

to work, have varied or whatever and

27:48

all that milton flea markets just. Ah,

27:52

look at the break and then let's. Skip

27:56

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30:06

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30:09

much time to skip forward if they do not

30:11

once? Boy, when are they want to hear that?

30:13

What have they not been served? You know, mean,

30:15

like. The. In part we get to

30:17

impart now say I mean, I bet there is

30:19

sit We have avoided discussing this game that I

30:22

think we're all kind of wild about. Did.

30:24

You finish a plant. Is at war on

30:26

our have twelve hit the in part done for

30:28

their with and get into the game. Okay I'm

30:30

in a set a timer my phone for ten

30:33

minutes. No. No no like does that leave

30:35

us that restrain there for to say last against

30:37

it it's Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo! And

30:39

to see under the episodes. You care about what

30:41

happens is a game to listen. To this am

30:44

very played it and do listen to okay

30:46

that's good that's fine to thank you. I'll

30:50

get to answer your question Garson. I've.

30:52

Not beaten this game because

30:54

I that to the very

30:56

final boss and I did

30:58

not get all of my

31:00

jobs corrupt and despite blasting

31:02

through this area into the

31:04

game the final bosses effectively

31:06

impossible for me and I

31:08

mean to go back to Old

31:11

Save and. Respect.

31:13

Affect our tax which is a bummer how that is

31:15

that the biggest down or I'm gonna say about this

31:17

whole game. Which. Had do that We

31:19

can't be. The Eiger can spoil a free

31:21

them are now we don't have. talk about

31:24

the ending. Uma you really can because I've

31:26

our our why why everything ironed out I've

31:28

I watched it. Are you Ah Sanders is

31:30

good right? It's like a video. A video

31:32

game that is good that has blasted it's

31:34

yeah I will. I think that this is

31:36

still my favorite team of the year and

31:38

I think said it's one of those games

31:40

that the further I get from it the

31:42

more I. Appreciate it! I this

31:45

this year it had such say like

31:47

line up of they Are Pcs that

31:49

I was like this is gimme. Gimme

31:51

my your mom be eaten good and

31:53

this is the only one that I

31:55

think has really actually. Ah,

31:57

and an hour for Filberts. It's

32:00

promise and will. I figured I think there

32:02

is some people who are probably listening who

32:04

may be did not play the game because

32:07

at the a massive time commitment of like

32:09

what was the game for you what what

32:11

what worked. On. The

32:13

writing and the sort of

32:15

characterization of of of everyone

32:18

in this game is next

32:20

level good. Ah, and I

32:22

don't think I even really appreciated that

32:25

as much until I played. In.

32:27

A Persona three reload which can left me

32:29

in the cold and some fancy seven read

32:32

birth which also less certain left me in

32:34

the colds. Ah those games had lots of

32:36

characters in them and you know at least

32:38

in the case of front of his is

32:41

only characters that I love. but it I

32:43

don't know that I was. My

32:45

relationship to those characters is changing and

32:47

the way that. It

32:50

it made that happen with

32:52

like a dragon and well

32:54

I'm just really really really

32:56

sympathetic characters making like release

32:58

some choices that they I

33:00

think explain incredibly well and

33:02

ah it's it. Really It

33:04

really just tells a story

33:06

where you are rooting for

33:09

everyone in it. ah like

33:11

a lot and that makes

33:13

everything that happens in the

33:15

story at that point like

33:17

hit ten times harder. It

33:19

is. The fast and furious as video

33:21

game to zaps even maggie yeah but even

33:23

that I feel like hundred although as know

33:25

why it at all levels of like human

33:27

connection that they are able to get to

33:30

I feel like. Would not be

33:32

sustainable. The Me: I'm Back be as I'd

33:34

like. I really liked the fast and furious

33:36

movies. Up until a point that they've they've

33:38

come obviously spiraled off. They've gotten too fast

33:40

too serious. But

33:43

it is a game and which.

33:45

The the heroes are the

33:47

even just feel a tremendous

33:50

love by the authors or

33:52

of. For all these years

33:54

they've been. Love these people. They want them

33:56

to succeed and do well in a once

33:58

of villains too be for. The heroes

34:00

and then also be rich characters

34:02

in there comes a point for

34:04

almost every character in this game

34:06

where it's like wow, okay it's

34:08

time to love them to let

34:10

let's bring him into the fold

34:12

and now they're part of the

34:14

family and even even the most

34:16

despicable person can be loved and

34:19

daring the very end. And I

34:21

think that approach just storytelling. It

34:24

does allow at every character to feel

34:26

warm, really fleshed out and off. opposite.

34:29

they have what sixty seventy hours to

34:31

a flesh out these characters. In a

34:33

lot of the time that you're in

34:35

the open world, you are still learning

34:38

about the characters. It's not, there's a

34:40

dearth Duncan wrong there a lot of

34:42

cut scenes in this game, but there

34:45

are also these on little triggers that

34:47

you find throughout the open world that

34:49

just have constant conversations between your characters

34:52

and where we're leaders at the. Time

34:54

so you need Sure you get

34:56

like the bigger conversations about like

34:58

oh I feel I'm indebted to

35:00

this young woman on because I've

35:02

failed to prevent a robbery at

35:04

her family's store. but then that

35:07

same character like I like comic

35:09

books but I don't like comic

35:11

books that are about combat. I

35:13

just like romance and suddenly it's

35:15

like wow was that You. Didn't

35:18

know I would learn that about you, but now you

35:20

are getting more and more fleshed out. Yeah.

35:22

It has a inability to give

35:24

you information about As and it's

35:26

weird how few games actually do

35:29

do this. Ah, and I think

35:31

you see it more in. Japanese

35:34

games and Japanese game storytelling is

35:36

that adding care details that have

35:38

nothing to do. With. The

35:40

actual experience, right? So when you're

35:43

reading a book, You. Are

35:45

all the information that is given to

35:47

you typically is in service of the

35:49

story that has been told in the

35:51

book right? So like it's probably something

35:54

is going to help you. Imagine the

35:56

burger help you be on the same

35:58

levels. The author. The game

36:00

storytelling has learned a lot of lessons

36:02

from that were a lot of the

36:04

info that you're getting has is specific

36:06

to. Whatever. The story as as

36:08

being told about the character. And. I

36:11

sagging Games like this where you

36:13

are getting information about characters. that

36:15

is. In no way

36:17

relevant. To. The main

36:19

plot. Point. Because it's

36:21

a world that you're living in, it

36:24

helps to build that realism. Yeah, I

36:26

think that there's a discordant saying in

36:28

American videogame storytelling where it's like a

36:30

view is a character has anything about

36:33

them that is not actually related to

36:35

the story that has been told. That

36:37

it feels very weird. Like I feel

36:39

like discordant kind of out of nowhere,

36:42

right? But. Is as elegant Japanese

36:44

game storytelling and the and the way that fizzled

36:46

that more lived in an organic like you can.

36:49

Get more in tune with who they is

36:51

people rather than just you know, six years

36:53

in a in a narrative. This this game

36:55

also is so that the width of the

36:58

story that it tells is so. Vast

37:01

that ah he it very so bopper

37:03

a where it has like a ton

37:05

of characters, all of whom have their

37:07

own shit going on. Yeah and I

37:09

think at times it doesn't do the

37:11

best job of like fine all that

37:14

stuff back to gather. but I think

37:16

by the you know by the time

37:18

the two thirds. Mark of the game or

37:20

sell like it hits have full full tilt. Like.

37:23

Buggy to to the and that is just

37:25

really fucking good. Like really really really really

37:27

satisfied and I'm a to care about characters

37:30

that you did not really anticipate caring about

37:32

and a new care about them a lot.

37:34

I think this does a great. Rival

37:38

to buddy Arc with your my

37:40

be sort of perpetually cold yappy

37:42

like a low level yakuza. Boss

37:44

is just kind of like passers

37:46

you throughout the whole game and

37:48

then at the end I you

37:50

learn his kind of like tragic

37:52

origin and are there for like

37:54

the. Conclusion of that

37:56

which like genuinely brought a tear to

37:58

my i would. Video Games. At

38:01

the historically have not really been successful

38:03

at doing to me on unless so

38:05

I have a list of awards taiwan

38:07

and as so sit yeah go ahead

38:09

of so I'm of one that I

38:12

have is out of the award for

38:14

best supporting character and y se supporting

38:16

character. I mean somebody who actually fights

38:18

alongside you have how com who who

38:20

who is gonna be your winner. I

38:24

mean can I give it to you my there are

38:26

times where you fight alongside him. He's only get Yemen

38:28

technically. yeah you can. I was. I was hooked, eat

38:30

and this fucking do was on screen I was like

38:32

yeah I'm down for whatever you say very cold You

38:34

mean literally who he wears a very viewers a jacket

38:36

he talks about how cool the A solid them yeah

38:39

yeah he's also he is also. Emotionally

38:41

cold and dad and I like

38:43

a bat boy something yeah series

38:45

of the people who become somewhat

38:47

friends. He is the bad as

38:49

dude. Yep for sure for some

38:52

I just didn't have as you. Are

39:01

at were saying other than like

39:03

easy bond or or. Syria.

39:06

I'm sure you use that way which we have

39:08

that said, yet there are effectively to. Like.

39:10

A dragon games in this one like

39:12

a graph dragon name yeah that's weird

39:14

as and I had to guess so

39:16

how does your so but the Ama

39:18

returned to this this answered yet address

39:20

of attacks ah I'm I I've by

39:22

the end I was fully on board.

39:24

Ah I think that I struggled a

39:26

bit once the game and of by

39:28

for Kate's around the would you say

39:30

like the halfway point maybe even a

39:32

little bit before that more now than

39:34

you have to parties one led by

39:36

carry one led by ah you to

39:38

bond because I I. Didn't

39:40

know care you that well. I've not

39:42

played all the other yakuza games. I

39:45

didn't have this kind of like connection

39:47

that you could tell the game was

39:49

counting on you to have with them.

39:51

His there his entire story line is

39:53

him kind of making amends with his

39:55

pass and coming to terms with his

39:57

his mortality were like cancer diagnosis. Which

40:00

is a heavy fog and thing for a game. Did.

40:03

To throw at you. But I I

40:05

think this game does it. Really

40:07

really well. And even though I didn't know

40:09

this dude from Adam you know when the

40:11

when the game started I was. I was

40:13

fully bought in. My Aunt. I.

40:15

Did like Okay for sell off a

40:17

I decided on Sow. Ah he's

40:20

out. Why he has like the assess do

40:22

that is just like a fun. Energy.

40:25

I think to have around and I like all this

40:27

talk about cooking. When you're

40:29

at run around town. I liked him as a

40:31

person more than like a player will character just

40:33

go as high and site was interesting about ahead

40:35

and stuff that's Wild Azalea. Eyes

40:38

I feel like the the. I.

40:42

Was a little frustrated with the cancer thing.

40:45

Because. I feel like it

40:47

is a little bit cheap. For.

40:50

The solution to that that swiss

40:52

a leave you like feeling positive

40:55

about it The dissolution of it

40:57

is. He's. Going to try to

40:59

fight having cancer. To. Me, I

41:01

understand why that says to be of

41:04

listing but up on the other hand

41:06

it's like is such a real thing

41:08

to summon up and that's not really

41:10

real representative of the. I

41:12

think the struggle that most people who

41:14

would be in that situation would have

41:16

right like that would almost be a

41:18

a given. Yeah so it it is

41:20

seals a little bit sketchy to me

41:23

to like bring something that real into

41:25

the story and for it not to

41:27

be a story about like processing that

41:29

but rather about like the decision to.

41:31

Take. Action: a guy at my maybe

41:34

a cultural difference. Rather, Than anything

41:36

else. Yeah, and I'm I'm I'm wondering

41:38

about the cultural difference there, because I

41:40

think how often I come across this

41:43

in Japanese art. Make it

41:45

just in recent memory. I mean, the

41:47

Wind Rises This. The entire theme of

41:49

that movie is like. The. Choice

41:51

to live even when you feel

41:53

like tremendous kilter sorrow. I'm the

41:55

most recent Godzilla Minus one is

41:57

her in higher? really? about that?

42:00

And I don't know I would be

42:02

a great thing to be able to

42:04

talk with somebody about elisa Japanese culture

42:06

critic I I but yeah I do

42:08

think and is pretty big spoiler. Ah,

42:12

I feel like it was beach for

42:14

the these. The power of this story

42:16

line is betrayed by the fact that

42:18

it's all about him. The

42:20

basically it's literally a bucket less likelihood to

42:23

be you i your quest last six. it's

42:25

called theories bucket lists and it's like him

42:27

doing all that. but then at the into

42:29

the game he does not die. Somehow.

42:32

Feels yeah I feel a felt like a

42:34

pretty huge fucking cop out. And then there's

42:36

a lot of baggage associate with like games

42:38

and game franchises especially once had been a

42:41

long for around for this long were like.

42:44

You. Know the whole game you're playing missing like wow

42:46

they're really going to kill off to are you like

42:48

they're really going to tell really the way and I

42:50

get felt real Seattle brave and cool and then it

42:52

doesn't and that was. That

42:54

that was dead by was disappointing from as hear

42:57

the tone of the game was a bit betrayed

42:59

by that. For people who are are gonna play

43:01

this in the haven't played on a lot of

43:03

the. Lock is the games. I.

43:06

Think secure you story still works

43:08

really well despite it being a

43:10

literally you mention the bucket list

43:12

one. You're going and doing things

43:14

you've always wanted to do that

43:16

to you are collecting memories right

43:18

from across the entire series. I

43:20

love and I I think it

43:23

is so beautiful if you play

43:25

these games is great because it's

43:27

a trip down memory lane. but

43:29

if you haven't. It's

43:31

talking about like literature. It

43:33

feels like you are just

43:35

learning more about this character.

43:38

It. Doesn't feel like I'm will. you

43:40

remember every little detail here so we're

43:42

not gonna say anything. It know it

43:44

it. It really really tries to bring

43:47

in every person playing the game and

43:49

I just felt like I was learning

43:51

more about. This. Person rather

43:53

than learning more about this video games

43:55

here with our been so satisfying. United

43:58

to place as if you are somebody the

44:00

world's end of the whole frame Iowa jealous

44:02

of people who I kept thinking like our

44:04

but that was in I would say the

44:06

as a guy kept thinking that to like

44:08

kind of frustrating degree like I felt a

44:10

lot of the time like. And.

44:12

This is good so you be really good

44:14

if I like got of I, I, I,

44:17

I, I mean violent. I played quite a

44:19

bit of these games and I don't think

44:21

you miss out. I feel bad the you

44:23

I'd had that nagging feeling. it's because whenever

44:25

I thought I'd yeah most to have like

44:27

a oh yeah. You never

44:30

met like I've I have the ice. I

44:32

felt that constantly with each month storyline know

44:34

cause I always I did play all of

44:36

like a drag air yeah the original Yakuza

44:38

like a dream the first yeah Rpg games

44:40

as with each bonds and like seen centers

44:43

roll up. From. That game was

44:45

always like really really exciting. Ah

44:47

and I've I mean I started

44:49

this game out like fully fucking

44:51

bought in on this dude. which

44:53

I you know, There. Aren't

44:55

a lot of good an. Rpg.

44:58

Sequels True sequels right? like new Fancy Aid

45:00

is not a single. Finally he seven really

45:02

ah far as the X to I guess

45:04

as far as he ted's sequel but like

45:06

you don't get that traditionally and pharmacy tend

45:09

to was not a very good game right?

45:11

and so like. I've already

45:13

spent seventy hours with this guy and

45:15

so I'm I'm picking up where I

45:18

left off with him and I'm like

45:20

so so deep into it and man

45:22

alive to they reward that like. By.

45:25

The end of this game. The last cut

45:27

scene of this game. I guess it's one

45:29

of the last cut scenes of eg. Bon.

45:31

Ah, walking. I

45:34

think easy was his name who was

45:36

like this little kind of crony to

45:38

sit head who was just this kind

45:41

of and a nasty do the whole

45:43

game not a fun way like am

45:45

I but as like as a vindictive

45:47

little prick the whole game like each

45:49

bongos to him and like. Talk

45:52

to him about redemption in a way that. Is

45:54

a bit heavy handed but totally fitting with the

45:56

character in the don't Have the Game Yeah and

45:59

then picks him. Because he a

46:01

basically this guy sacrificed his legs

46:03

in order to get this ruse

46:06

working ah and carries him through

46:08

the streets of com A roach.

46:10

A while people throw garbage at.

46:13

Can in a cut scene that last.

46:15

So. Five minutes cigarette minute. it's

46:17

it is a long have you set

46:20

to a song. ah and it's just

46:22

just a crisis like my hurts amazing

46:24

through the streets of of Camarota as

46:26

as he just gets pelted with garbage

46:28

and beat the fuck up. There's.

46:30

A scene where he sets a you down and

46:32

like this guy just punches him over and over

46:34

and over again and then. Each. Bunch

46:36

of stands up and picks the guy.

46:39

ever get a sense walking and everybody

46:41

just kind of like steps back like

46:43

in in wonderment. like watching their own

46:45

kind of impression of this dude shifting

46:48

silently and real to like that is

46:50

a red, a bleak, incredibly rich sit

46:52

the I don't know I have ever

46:54

seen. As hit any video game

46:57

pull off before. I will also say

46:59

that it's really cool. To.

47:01

Have a main character see and on

47:03

the house with this has and it's

47:06

really cool play a main character who

47:08

you feel like as a good influence

47:10

on the world around them. My allies.

47:13

And I as hell yeah, I love

47:15

a lotta open world Rpg ease. Arm

47:18

and I am sorry Gees is horribly

47:20

and a lotta times eat how you

47:22

roll into a situation it feels like

47:24

the subtext is here comes trouble here

47:26

I come and of wreck shit uncommon

47:28

in your base to wreck your shit.

47:30

I'm coming in the you know all

47:32

of a high rise hill all the

47:34

bag I am and it's like. Each

47:38

of our really enters into situations

47:40

to be a help and like.

47:42

That. Is the overarching and which is so

47:45

cool about it is that. He

47:47

is see seals unique in that. But.

47:50

Then what you see is that.

47:52

Light. Refracted through all these

47:54

other characters that enter into

47:57

a video game. In. Any

47:59

other video games that they would be

48:01

dispatched as mid level bosses. Tommy's our

48:03

whole arc through that as starting as

48:05

like at a low level York as

48:08

a con man who robs eg. bon

48:10

and then by the end is like

48:12

his fucking best friend and a good

48:14

dude. Who. Have attained closer on

48:16

this like really heavy shit that he's dealt

48:18

with his whole like like that and that's

48:21

fucking amazing man. So zawahri my favorite actually

48:23

i'm i'm like to was Albus but ah

48:25

the the fact that like you see all

48:27

these characters that are. At

48:29

at the end of the fight. Each

48:32

one is like okay, so what's gone on?

48:34

Like what are we doing here? We are

48:36

happening without Right now, what is happening And

48:38

then there's an actual covered. even tighter. It

48:40

definitely does that feel like they're going to

48:42

be able to flips a buddy. It's like

48:44

I'll be damned. I buy it and it's

48:47

just because you buy easy by being such

48:49

an absolute mins all the time what nana

48:51

at. I think there's two reasons for that

48:53

one is it's not. you're not like a

48:55

therapist. And not right that money

48:57

be from Texas because he's the hero

48:59

of the hims they are behind and

49:02

have sex. Here it goes that it

49:04

is as their therapists characters tend to

49:06

be like. And here's why you're feeling.

49:08

this is your bonds trick is T

49:10

is just naturally curious about other people

49:12

and evil as is coming And I'm

49:14

like I actually cares about people. Yes,

49:16

it's not like how can I fix

49:18

you, It's like he's like what's I'm

49:20

genuinely curious. what's wrong. Yeah. And

49:23

like having somebody says that out loud street

49:25

even saying that some like as someone saying

49:27

that to me that would it would be

49:29

arresting to save and something like that. He

49:31

also has an attitude a lot of the

49:33

time this like ah now this is fucking

49:35

door go to my dumb sir and my

49:37

stupid haircut like where I can't be that

49:39

great so what are you got gonna was

49:41

he with your general that the best part

49:43

about this like to part like to have

49:46

story line is see like. Clear.

49:48

You the ultimate fucking God

49:50

of. A deep as

49:52

you know Japanese organized crime

49:54

world. Ah, get rubbed off

49:56

on faith by this fucking

49:59

dorks. He didn't. really

50:01

really really really good and interesting

50:03

like character development that. Ah,

50:06

That this this is white like talking about this

50:08

game gets me emotional which is like yeah lot

50:10

which is plucking while in my head I'm thinking

50:12

like how many going to justify playing a heads

50:14

up all right I'm thinking god I want to

50:17

hang out with he to panic to they pleased

50:19

as make a new another one of these a

50:21

sap there's this is one other half of the

50:23

each ship. I'm puzzled that. Our. Discuss

50:25

To. Which. Is the

50:28

game itself has complex

50:30

views on what good

50:32

is. Not I think that

50:34

helps you have faith in it and

50:36

listen to wherever the game and each

50:39

one has to say. Like the this

50:41

game is largely about criminal reform and

50:43

the idea that like. Sure

50:46

you'd use you will be punished

50:48

for what your the crimes you

50:50

commits but then we need of

50:52

have a reasonable and productive way

50:54

to bring you back and society

50:56

otherwise we are just perpetuating a

50:59

a cycle of of crime and

51:01

at the gas at ferrite you

51:03

the public In that period of

51:05

people who have committed a crime

51:07

like people want to grow and

51:09

change and the game. This has

51:11

such a a compassionate view that

51:13

few few games and few honestly

51:15

people. Have found a villain. He

51:17

is systemic guys with a villain.

51:19

He is Japan. A Benefits Japan

51:22

to work with these criminals and

51:24

the benefits. The. This religion

51:26

because it's tight, like all of those

51:28

forces are a line. It's not distinguishing

51:30

necessarily between the government and the crime

51:32

bosses and the religious people as com

51:35

like letting them be all sir systemically

51:37

a problem and that is only address

51:39

by like individual good people working with

51:41

in that system and car outside of

51:43

it in which is why he always

51:45

wants to reform whoever is coming out

51:48

of it because again it's like i

51:50

i don't want to blame you for

51:52

being apart yeah I get how you

51:54

got pulled an. Reply think

51:56

they're playing be the first game. I

51:58

also again like. Really?

52:01

Selfish because you get to see like.

52:04

That each been as someone

52:06

who had doors open for

52:08

him. To. Redemption through

52:11

acts of like kindness and

52:13

sacrifice. And he just

52:15

becomes all about like paying it

52:18

forward and and that is. That.

52:20

Is just an incredibly effect

52:22

is like storytelling tool. Real.

52:25

Quick before you move on, because I know that

52:27

we probably need to at a certain point. Isn't

52:30

it weird that we contact about how

52:33

this is to games and then they

52:35

put a third better game inside these

52:37

two. Pretty good. ah yes yeah about

52:39

that. yeah that I could have buried

52:41

creme egg with but there are stories

52:43

being on the outside and then the

52:46

creamy good be center in Iraq island

52:48

the aperture. Ah, The i

52:50

never remember names of some video games as

52:52

like this whole thing as front of my

52:54

for me and like I can recall this

52:56

yeah agreed yeah I've yeah stunt other and

52:58

poker might like it fears to creams inside

53:00

hear that it ever do to my mind

53:03

at all. Ah man a sushi bar cream

53:05

is so it's an acquired taste and I

53:07

just that was a system that was a

53:09

whole part of the game where it's like

53:11

as I'm going to get scissors or gonna

53:13

have to make some cuts he and I

53:15

target of my life if I see those

53:17

fucking weirdos out. Know that

53:19

that? That's wild though right? as I had

53:22

the same issue where it is actually too

53:24

much good stuff most games you play and

53:26

like man I can really added this down.

53:28

Yeah in sheer I was like man this

53:30

sucks with i really want to go finish

53:33

that thing. But. I I

53:35

I gotta keep going unlike was real at

53:37

Orly I made at a certain point you

53:39

have to start lobby and stuff off or

53:41

you're just not gonna get for at length.

53:43

Other games come out you to move on

53:45

Hit before he raps and well I have

53:48

a little less of the awards I want

53:50

to give. I want to pay a price

53:52

I'm I also my a supporting character tito

53:54

say as it has a cell site him

53:56

says so fucking good so fucking good arm

53:58

all earning a rebel twisted. The other end

54:00

in the back. Like the tail end

54:02

of this game when you find out if

54:04

she's this the horrible V to bird that

54:07

like the inciting incident for the game and

54:09

then like as to kind of redeem herself

54:11

for that like Miriam the scary all all

54:13

the arts of all the other characters in

54:15

some rentable award for best job. Oh

54:19

ah, I'm. The. Desperadoes

54:21

to for well whatever reason you get your

54:23

now. Boy dang that's really good. Yeah I

54:25

love the Desperado the those moves are great

54:28

to yeah Cloudburst with this shit. The Bottles

54:30

of Yale series or of drama of Dragon

54:32

of their Jima is really great. yeah gives

54:34

over in the game into a fuckin beat

54:37

him up for yeah thirty seconds if you

54:39

want to. ah I like I got a

54:41

big to I pods year the answer was

54:44

actually tower wilde idea of. They had some

54:46

interesting interesting the have people in those roles,

54:48

they mess of saboteurs for every cut scene.

54:50

Of every job unlock or you see

54:53

people like you know surfing and then

54:55

you're like and they used You go

54:57

into the sunken place inside their mind

54:59

and the they realize like oh wait

55:01

I can use this kick ass. A

55:04

dolphin of that whole the whole lot

55:06

that trainer that home like job class

55:08

that has the surfer i think as

55:10

down at the dolphin right behind us

55:12

as the big business or ford attacker

55:15

to say spends a surfboard around them.

55:17

As good as a god. I love

55:19

this fucking com. Really I was worried.

55:21

I mean there's a whole job of

55:23

people make curry and them blow fire

55:25

at people and homes. Award for best

55:27

ending Which there to endings to the

55:29

same there is the i mean why

55:31

are you clear waste island and there's

55:33

the Japanese skyscraper. Fuck. Man.

55:36

I. Mean. I had

55:38

to. Skyscraper showdown is pretty fucking tight. It's

55:40

pretty cool. I know it probably put the

55:42

bad taste as your mouth risk of I

55:44

think that's probably the Va site that you

55:46

honestly it doesn't even bother that me much.

55:48

I I know what I did rhine and

55:50

I am. I'm excited to go. I will

55:52

say that that is basically also how the

55:54

first like a dragon game ends and that

55:56

when I actually think it's way harder I

55:58

think that be I think indo the lot

56:00

of stuff really well. I think that the.

56:03

Like. Arch enemy that they set

56:05

up in the first. like a dragon

56:08

it hits so it's cel mai charts

56:10

like everything is focused. To. A

56:12

new don't like? yeah we domicile Nine hundred and he's

56:14

a bad guy. like even going into the end of

56:16

it like and I that was her. the big by

56:18

as their. Vote

56:21

related to that award for best boss fight.

56:23

We didn't actually actually did. Did you have

56:25

a preference on the endings? I didn't even

56:27

get that from now. Ah,

56:29

I'm. Now.

56:32

I will now. Now. Yeah. I'm

56:35

our best phosphorite and this could

56:37

have include any any many bosses.

56:40

Return that to Rains or you

56:42

you're fine analyzers with other bulldozers.

56:45

That's all the great through the card taped for

56:47

be through the context of that is also boss

56:49

fights the first games and so when one of

56:52

these crane so up and people like what the

56:54

fuck are like the i don't worry we got

56:56

we got this one one is the get ahead

56:58

and get a better that that guy frame rolls

57:00

up and they're like oh wait oh see a.secular

57:02

sphere of oh now that could possibly happen. In

57:04

a video game is that they thought of one crane

57:06

and last game in a fight to in the second

57:09

half that they are sounds awesome powers or old it's

57:11

really really as good. Ah ah yeah

57:13

I'd that The shark is solid. The

57:15

imagine this isn't the first day of

57:17

his or her to as good as

57:19

shark but the I'm the giant ah

57:21

vacuum our robot vacuum or three an

57:24

hour. Always right when it shows up.

57:26

Ah hang on for you Chris Flat

57:28

Biggest mechanic that you didn't engage with.

57:30

Our. Audience and Susie

57:32

on. More. I opened it. Tied

57:34

to that the Cg Mansour. With.

57:37

A job plaster I was so

57:39

excited about. But because I didn't

57:41

go hard on Cg, mine are

57:43

not worth Cg man. Huge disappointment.

57:45

I did all the pseudo yasser.

57:47

I did the whole Susie Months'

57:49

story line unlock the Cg mansour

57:51

and it was docs It it

57:53

was okay. good, so disappointed. Arms:

57:55

yeah I mean other mechanics they

57:57

use. I always forgot to use

57:59

the. Yeah, mean that a segway

58:01

that you can ride around on

58:03

as I kept forgetting about it.

58:05

Now I never have those kinds

58:07

of ring I never called anybody

58:09

into a fight. white you didn't

58:11

use power Mates stylized how made

58:13

out really good at this game

58:15

I'm really good as yeah no

58:17

I didn't need I help but

58:19

I loved him in the one

58:21

of the first ones you get.

58:23

ah is there from the Crazy

58:25

Taxi Bite game. You.

58:28

Either the guy like. Soon. As

58:31

you extra health and it's so

58:33

helpful. I'm in and tough fights

58:35

but he had damn and I'm

58:37

I'm I'm genuinely surprised. Ah, Ah

58:41

best over the last one. Best

58:43

side mission so like or side

58:46

quests. Man the fuckin'

58:48

one of the the dude

58:50

making overeager of reality so

58:52

obsessed with the modern Saver

58:54

I was really good is

58:57

just a it's just a

58:59

series. Of lawlessly executed

59:01

jokes. Sure that with flawless

59:03

timing that they keep building

59:06

the site. You know

59:08

it's easy bon are reacting to like

59:10

will do i want to eat this

59:12

dope hawaiian food or just as flame

59:14

this plain rice in the samurai style

59:16

and like wow I guess this guy

59:18

wants me to do the dumb samurai

59:20

sit but then like the guy breaks

59:22

down it's like yeah you know I

59:24

struggle with feelings as self doubt an

59:26

impostor syndrome and maybe this whole says

59:28

is dumb idea and an easy bomb

59:31

like you know does his thing and

59:33

supports him and he feel like this

59:35

moment of connection and growth he's like

59:37

okay great. So now you

59:39

can chop off your finger in

59:41

the samurai style at it's like

59:43

right back into this really really

59:45

some said ah it is it

59:47

is so so good. Also the

59:49

whole diaper man for feel like

59:51

this Simply Gibbs I'd visit as

59:53

the with our big. Business.

59:55

Thousand Nine hundred safe for Mayor

59:57

Ah man. in the first game.

1:00:00

You. Find his underground club of.

1:00:03

Basically. Adult babies who play like dude

1:00:05

like big burly due to wear diapers and

1:00:07

he just like like this lifestyle. They'd like

1:00:09

to be baby select, be treated by babes

1:00:12

and escape. you find a man who's very

1:00:14

sad on the street or you're older man

1:00:16

of his wife is dying and else he

1:00:18

wants to see a snow again and you're

1:00:20

like oh okay well it's hawaii so I

1:00:22

don't really know what I could it's but

1:00:24

the rents these diaper men again and the

1:00:26

so if you see if is that they

1:00:29

get up at the diapers and they go

1:00:31

about top of the hospital to tear the

1:00:33

diapers open. Because they realize that the flop

1:00:35

inside the diapers would like to know

1:00:37

speak to see where this man says

1:00:39

goodbye to his wife as he passes

1:00:41

away peacefully looking out the window. It's

1:00:43

Dell added you cut through the roof

1:00:45

with didn't see it puts a diaper

1:00:47

meds three their diaper fluff around like

1:00:49

we're doing a big important thing tonight.

1:00:51

It's so fucking god it's Zelda such

1:00:53

a permit any a little A said

1:00:55

yeah of this like of the vibe

1:00:57

in tone of this game. My god

1:00:59

that yeah that but for me it

1:01:01

was I'm Gollum Gun Wolf the ukulele

1:01:03

player. Who. Yeah, I'm Ah

1:01:06

is of it's current

1:01:08

ukulele player former experimental

1:01:10

heavy metal environmentalists. Who

1:01:13

learns? Had a been out the both

1:01:16

types of musicians and I also ah

1:01:18

Sakara. The. Yeah, that dude who

1:01:20

just loves to fight. And

1:01:22

ah, hate states you tube or

1:01:24

culture. Great. Very reliable

1:01:27

yes I I. I feel like

1:01:29

they took screenshots of every single

1:01:31

thing he said. Yep, Pay.

1:01:34

My. Name. Is what a fucking game?

1:01:37

On at so we get an honorable

1:01:39

mentions. Jealous to it. Yeah.

1:01:42

I'm. I'm gonna give the hard

1:01:44

sell for see if these again. the crack of

1:01:46

for it does get back into a day

1:01:48

to ah. Released. A new see

1:01:50

a Season Eleven I believe like a month or

1:01:52

so ago, a new seasons coming out soon. Season

1:01:54

Eleven. Ah, the amount of this was included in

1:01:57

that of last season, but there's new mode called

1:01:59

say for Sees. That. Where you get

1:02:01

like reduced rewards but it disables the

1:02:03

Pdp element of this game on which

1:02:05

I think will be appealing for a

1:02:07

lot of people who like think see

1:02:09

if these and don't like getting fucking

1:02:11

jumped. By. Sweaty.

1:02:14

Try hards who then like negate all of

1:02:16

the worth it they just did over the

1:02:19

last hour and a half. ah I'm they

1:02:21

have also made it so that ah we

1:02:23

started the game. You hop in your ship

1:02:25

and you can launch any like voyage request

1:02:27

or mission or whatever from the little quest

1:02:29

table in your ship. You want to run

1:02:31

around the island for a while like a

1:02:34

hunting for the right job that you pick

1:02:36

from a really small less like it's all

1:02:38

right there in your ship waiting for you

1:02:40

ready to go and then you can also

1:02:42

fast travel basically. To the start

1:02:44

of that. Voyage which basically

1:02:46

cuts that kind of like time.

1:02:50

Required for each of these a each

1:02:52

of the like different sort of missions

1:02:54

of this game in in half. Ah

1:02:56

and I have been having a fucking

1:02:59

great time playing this game either. So

1:03:01

Dina solo sleep in it up our

1:03:03

our with haven't played with a buddy

1:03:06

last night and ah this this game

1:03:08

just kicks ass and is so much

1:03:10

wanna play and they continue to kind

1:03:13

of sand the rough edges off of

1:03:15

it. I am shocked at how much

1:03:17

I'm not mans that slabs of from

1:03:19

Microsoft. First party slate I think is

1:03:22

really been seen seizes gain right? There's

1:03:24

this one thing that's work. guess I

1:03:26

don't know. Do we keep investing in

1:03:28

Sea of thieves? It sounds crazy, but

1:03:30

know what else? The halo we met.

1:03:34

The yeah ah I encourage you again

1:03:36

insect back dame out If you have

1:03:38

not played it it is. It is

1:03:40

such a fun weird. Exciting.

1:03:44

Game. Or yeah

1:03:46

I have a a a cool

1:03:48

so the my family's and watching

1:03:50

on that does the plus. Is

1:03:53

called renegade now isn't heard of it. Yes,

1:03:56

See that they have a daddy. Advertising

1:04:00

at a time they have not

1:04:02

provided us with of the ballot.

1:04:04

Renegade Now Analysis Congruent Renegade Now

1:04:07

It is a show about a

1:04:09

woman in the eighteenth century England

1:04:11

who sort of accidentally becomes a

1:04:13

high Women are highly robber. Ah,

1:04:16

And is the interesting thing about now

1:04:18

who is a widow? Is.

1:04:20

That she is. Joined

1:04:24

by a ferry. That.

1:04:26

Can inhabit her, her body

1:04:28

and give her superhuman. Strength.

1:04:31

And speed base like superpowers.

1:04:34

Said it is very that is

1:04:36

appears and is helping now. Ah,

1:04:39

Who doesn't know why they are? They are. They

1:04:41

only know that they have to protect Now. Ah,

1:04:44

and now basically becomes accidentally a

1:04:47

highway robber. Ah, Who becomes

1:04:49

wanted for murder? A murder that

1:04:51

she didn't commit. As. He basically

1:04:53

has a turn the entire town on

1:04:55

against her and there's other magic forces

1:04:57

trying to get at her and it's

1:04:59

all set against it. The the Jacobite

1:05:02

Rebellion I would soar. the backdrop of

1:05:04

the whole thinks there's like there is

1:05:06

a historical. Ah, Element to this.

1:05:08

Oh, it's like I was a loosely historical. Ah,

1:05:11

Louisa Harland is the is the

1:05:13

lead in the show abolishes in

1:05:15

Derry Girls. Ah, with

1:05:17

was her either. Big credit, but

1:05:19

it's like it's just like really

1:05:21

exciting. Like. Fun! Adventure

1:05:24

that isn't like. too gruesome for

1:05:26

for kids to watch. The fight

1:05:28

scenes are like so well choreographed.

1:05:30

You watch a trailer you can

1:05:32

see so the ah. Now.

1:05:35

Beating Up ah the the Bad Guys

1:05:37

and a C eventually become sort of

1:05:39

a robin hood type figure. I'm. But.

1:05:42

It's really fun, exciting, cool. Called

1:05:44

Renegade now on December. I.

1:05:46

Started watching Survivor. Yeah yeah, baby

1:05:49

did it. I did it. even

1:05:51

pulled me back on. I'm an

1:05:53

ad for the online Hi. Imagine

1:05:55

how you feel and crisp why

1:05:58

I'm feeling good. Anyone alive. I

1:06:01

have been out from probably I don't

1:06:03

know. five or six years you have.

1:06:05

Any man wants the new era, new

1:06:07

era I know and. They

1:06:09

keep sailings. I don't know what they

1:06:11

mean. They're like I got a last

1:06:13

ditch shot or something. None like sure

1:06:16

yeah my dark baby. Okay

1:06:18

so saw the dark Chris Foy it is

1:06:20

it's they're all souls for problems with the

1:06:22

Met a game and that are hysterical. The

1:06:24

saw the dog is. At. The

1:06:26

at the of though, you can

1:06:29

sacrifice your vote. For. A

1:06:31

one in six hands of at immunity

1:06:33

as it. And you know we don't know

1:06:35

in our per season. Yes, So.

1:06:39

Ah, ok okay. That's.

1:06:41

That's clever, yet there's I am

1:06:43

impressed by how they both seem

1:06:45

to have made the game. I'm

1:06:47

more humane and terms of things

1:06:49

that they're providing the people ah

1:06:51

up front and yet not where

1:06:53

they are sense away from be

1:06:56

worth my time is for a

1:06:58

month yeah it is. it is.

1:07:00

It's is a while Dame Arm

1:07:02

I am. Four episodes and

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and one of the most annoying players

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I've ever watched as now been voted

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surnames nirvana be yes. Yes,

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1:07:17

I ah about holy moly. I

1:07:19

mean this. They. Know

1:07:21

how to make reality tv show

1:07:23

really? Survivor also just continues to

1:07:25

be very be ready to look

1:07:27

at like out potter happy of

1:07:29

a Survivor is just legit great.

1:07:31

Ah what a show that they're

1:07:33

all maniacs. I mean this they

1:07:35

did. it feels like they're They're

1:07:37

dry and have run a marathon

1:07:40

at the speed of a sprint

1:07:42

by is correct. Good luck to

1:07:44

him I said Wednesday Rico's. Oh.

1:07:47

And you guys are great and you're there for listening!

1:07:49

Thank. You so much for joining us! Chris

1:07:52

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we don't know, but we do

1:08:26

know that by the time you're

1:08:28

hearing this, there is a new

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episode up on The Patriarch of

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