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Let's Talk About Our Spider-Man 2 Review, Kinda
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Here it is, the ninety-third episode of Unqualified Game Chat! This is where two friends, Azario and Spencer, talk about the games they’re playing and the most requested gaming news.
This week, the two talk about Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and online gaming discourse.
Unqualified Game Chat is posted across podcast services for your entertainment.
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Transcript
The Pressure of Online Opinions
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey Spencer, there's something that's been on my mind lately. Tell me. I think it's exhausting to have an opinion on everything and I feel like that's how people expect us to be. Yeah, it's the worst. It's the internet.
00:00:21
Speaker
something happens in the game industry, let's tell our opinions on it. I'll tell you that the Twitter algorithm is fueling this because I'll get on and I'll be like, oh, layoffs happened at Bungie. Then I'll just see every fucking person that I follow in the industry just talking about the Bungie layoffs.
00:00:45
Speaker
all the bungee stuff and then this other preview we'll have layoffs and then it's weird because it's like I feel like you can just kind of assume that everyone who doesn't work at bungee who's like in the industry is like um that's I'm sorry to hear that that sucks like that's yeah
00:01:00
Speaker
It's one of those things where like, I don't know, I feel like it doesn't... I mean, it must be nice to be honest with you when you see this, or it, but it does feel like a thing where, like, I wouldn't tweet about it, because it's just... It's not super relevant to me at all, so I don't... Yeah. If you can't give me a job, then... No, more like, more like it's like, I don't know, there's some things where it's like...
00:01:22
Speaker
I feel like you can pretty safely assume how I feel about it. You can be like, Spencer and most people would be like, oh, that sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. I don't need to go, you guys.
00:01:35
Speaker
I'm sorry that that happened to you. I don't care. I heard in the comedy world, I heard a term used on a podcast, I forgot which one, but it was called the clap pause.
Social Media Authenticity and Personal Growth
00:01:49
Speaker
It's like just saying something for the clap, for the, yeah, like fuck bungee, like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, sure. They laid off a bunch of people, fuck them, sure, yeah. Like a cat brings me a sitcom, really.
00:02:04
Speaker
Did I do that? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, okay. Um, I like, sometimes I want to talk about music or sometimes I want to talk about like TV shows or something on my Twitter and I will write out a tweet and I'm like, none of the people that follow me will give a
00:02:26
Speaker
about what I am talking about right now. That's the best stuff to post, though. That's the most honest to you stuff. Like, there's a lot of people online who their entire online persona is just, look how much I care, look how good I am, all these opinions I have to have publicly. But, I mean, like, the stuff where you're like, no one really cares what I think about this DS game from 15, but that's you. That's, that is you. Like, that kind of stuff. So yeah, that's the best stuff to,
00:02:55
Speaker
Post I do lots of I post my Twitter is almost only that it's just shit that only I care about Yeah, what is Twitter for if not that?
00:03:04
Speaker
I was gonna write on your Instagram the other day, but I will tell you that your Instagram is the most circa 2011 Instagram, and you're just, you have like no shame. You're fucking Spencer. You're posting food pictures on your main timeline still? I mean, hey, I don't do it that often and be like,
00:03:32
Speaker
okay i only bullshit that i cook well let me preface the amount of confidence that that took to post that in my eyes i like fuck this guy is a fucking this guy's a king he doesn't give a fuck i was like i made a big meal today like i'm not well everybody's like
00:03:50
Speaker
macaroni and shit that I had one of my many crises recently where I was like, I'm 27. I'm nobody. I'm nothing. I need to A, learn how to cook things that aren't little baby meals and B, I need to be an adult adult. Well, everyone's posting like, how to homeless man today or
00:04:15
Speaker
Look, look, look what I did, you know? Look at me and my, look at me and my happy fucking family. And Spencer's just like fucking made curry today.
00:04:39
Speaker
Hello everyone.
Unqualified Game Chat Episode 93 Introduction
00:04:40
Speaker
Welcome to episode, what is it? 93? Who cares? It's unqualified game chat. It's not even, we didn't even start yet. Yeah. It's already been like what, like seven minutes of talking and now we're here in the, in the beginning. I am your host Azara Lopez. And with me today is the ever so bright, the ever so brilliant, the ever so beautiful.
00:05:04
Speaker
You flowery. Spencer, the legacy. Hello. How's it cooking, fellas and fellettes. And we're both wearing our white sweaters today. Sure. I think I've worn this probably 50% of our episodes. This Mandalorian season one hoodie my parents got me in like 2020. Is it official?
00:05:24
Speaker
Yeah, it's from like Old Navy. Wow. Did it always have like that old style, like, oh, it's worn, you know, it's like kind of a little rustic? I saw it, dude. It's literally- Now it's winter-fady. So, I err and heat don't work because of his render life. And I write, ladies and gentlemen, I wear a hoodie, and this is like my most comfortable hoodie. So, when I record, I don't...
00:05:53
Speaker
I'm sorry, guys. I don't dress up for you. I'm over the... You know, as I've gotten older, I don't like the zip-ups anymore, man. I'm not a fan of the zip-ups. I'm fine with the zip-up jackets. I'm fine with going out of the house. Yes, it's like a jacket, but I'm talking about sweaters. I feel like that's exposing the most crucial area that I need warmth.
00:06:14
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. I had- And I want a stupid zipper where it flares up and it looks like you have a boner at the bottom because it scrunches up at the- No, not a fan. It's never an impressive one. Not a fan. Yeah, when I was really depressed, when I was 18 or 19- Yesterday.
00:06:32
Speaker
No, that's just regular depressed. Wow, that was real depressed. When I was 19 in college, I had a red hoodie from Old Navy, I think, again. I went between a Fatal Fury cap and an Ash cap. It was really badass. It's beautiful. Every day at school, when I was horribly depressed, all I would wear is the red hoodie and the cap to the point where people, I didn't know anyone in my dorm, and they'd be like, oh, that's hoodie hat guy.
00:06:58
Speaker
so that was my college experience it was really cool so i'm glad i'm i'm glad i'm glad i've gone to know hoodie hat guy over the years
Gaming and Relationship Dynamics
00:07:08
Speaker
pill those pill those layers to get to see more
00:07:15
Speaker
Think back on how he evolved into a Grogu sweater. You know, where the most food pictures where I'm just like, huh, I made a bail. Like Forrest Gump. So it wrongs. I'll tell you something. October kicked my ass. It was a busy month for games. October, he bent me over and took advantage of everything.
00:07:41
Speaker
Stole it from me. Stole it? Damn. Didn't even ask. That's really rude. Yeah, tell me about it. You know, at the beginning of every month, I always say, oh, look at all the releases, easy month. And then they just start saying, oh, this game's coming out at the end of the month now.
00:07:57
Speaker
it's like cool indie games that I've been looking forward to for like years you know and they're like oh yeah we're gonna release it next week yeah I've been waiting for this for a very long time and now you guys are just throwing it up one surprising game that I played but let's let's
00:08:17
Speaker
This podcast is tried to record every week on Thursday, and now we talk about games, so this is the game section. Maybe. Gamers? Sometimes. A power glove on. Gamers? Yes. Tell your parents to get the fuck out of the room, because gamers are talking now. You're playing all along. If you're listening to this in the car, tell your girlfriend or your boyfriend, get out. You're not a gamer. Thomas, shut up. Thomas, shut up. Thomas, shut up.
00:08:46
Speaker
It's gamer time. If they say pause it, no, you're playing online. You can't just pause it. Yeah. Life doesn't have a pause button. It doesn't have a pause button. For people who want us to live in the real world and game less, they should know that. Yeah. Now get the fuck out of my room. I'm playing Final Fantasy 14.
Challenges in Video Game Reviews
00:09:07
Speaker
I played some video games, but I do want to talk about something that a lot of people want us to talk about, but not in a way that I want that they want us to talk about it because expectations. Yeah. A lot of people have been asking us to talk about this, but I'm not the person to talk about it, but I am going to bring it up anyway. I'm going to be the mean show today, huh?
00:09:32
Speaker
Like, when I only did that one video for the Trails series or whatever, I was like, I've never played any of these. I've never played it. I'm going to give you the top 10 Trails games, and it's like the most controversial shit. I'm like, bro, I haven't even played it. He just asked if I could do it with favorite. I said, yeah, I don't know. They're fucking sending you death threats properly. I'm like, I looked it up on Merriam Webster. What the fuck do you want me to do? I tried to say Valkyria Chronicles correctly, man.
00:10:00
Speaker
They're like, you didn't say this. It's Einhinder, not Einhinder. It is made up country properly. I'm like, I went through like three Reddit threads and that was the consensus. I'm not doing more work than that. I'm sorry. Dude, these fucking nerds. Okay. Speaking of nerds, our Spider-Man 2 review went out. I heard it was scandalous as the Ashleys would say in recess. We gave it a seven out of 10. What?
00:10:28
Speaker
Not a bad score. I have not played it. Look it. I do. I do own it. I bought this game too. I bought this game too, but I have not played it. I want to play it. Everyone says it's the cats pie jamas.
00:10:44
Speaker
I'm still doing this thing. I'm 34, but I'm still doing this thing where I feel like I've, I forget that I don't have friends and I'll buy like fun games. And then I'll be like, Oh yeah, that's right. Nobody wants to come over and play video games with me. Really cringy, Spencer.
00:11:00
Speaker
You thought of what? Did you have a birthday party that didn't go as expected? That's way worse. I was like 17 and I was like, I'm going to college soon. I need to buy like all the DLC into the JoJo fighting game and stuff so that when I have cool friends, we'll all play that didn't happen. But I was like, I need to have all the DLC characters in all these anime fighting games. So when I go to college and people are like, we want to play these with you.
00:11:25
Speaker
I'll be ready." Oh my God. You can guess how that probably went. That reminds me, my first real year of college was when I was 24. I was working before that, but I decided to go back to school. My first real year of college was in 24, and I found my way. I sought out.
00:11:47
Speaker
the cool anime kids where where are these cool i have my psp go in hand ready cool anime college kids because yeah community college schools anime clubs and they were always rough yeah so i didn't know that but maybe i invited them
00:12:06
Speaker
Maybe I met them. Maybe I invited them all over to my house. Yeah, and You know, it was okay. So they sucked as people after a while after I got to know them They sucked as people but their taste in video games
00:12:20
Speaker
Very cool. It's true. Sometimes the funniest and people are awful, which sucks. Like I had, I had Persona 4, Ultimax or Persona 4, the fighter. And they played it with me. And they're the only people that have ever played that game with me IRL. And I was like, holy shit, I'm having the time of my life.
00:12:44
Speaker
And never have it again. Do you think we prefer single player games because we got so disappointed by never playing multiplayer games people that we like shielded ourselves? 100%. I barely even played fighting game shit online ever. I'm just like, I don't care. I tried to play two player games with my girlfriend. It ends up with me just saying, okay, it's your turn. Okay, give me the controller.
00:13:09
Speaker
I'll do it for you. It's quite great for you. It's kind of hard. It's like a platformer going it takes to you have like both control Yeah, she's okay. She's got tick tock going about about my girlfriend I was playing I was reviewing a plague's tail and the new one the record and
00:13:33
Speaker
And all this shit's going on. These rats are like eating the kids and I'm like going through all this dark shit. And she's sitting next to me and I look next to her and I'm sitting next to this big screen on this couch right here. And she has... She does not give a shit.
00:13:52
Speaker
about what is going on on screen. She has no, she, I think it was, I thought it was funny. I was laughing because like these kids are, she had no questions. She had no, no concerns. She's just like, oh, he's playing a game. This is normal.
00:14:10
Speaker
It was my, that experience opened up my eyes to be like, okay. I was really nervous. People think I really love because of that because I know they're looking at their phone. That's like pretty normal now to do that. It's not like offended, but I 100% am offended, but not mad at them. I'm just like, Oh, they're like, Oh, I expose the thing that I like and they hate. Oh.
00:14:36
Speaker
That's the worst. Okay, 17 minutes, 17 minutes in, yeah, 17 minutes in. We're gonna talk about Spider-Man 2, the Noisy Pixel review. Yeah. Um, Bailey, Bailey played it. He was commenting on everything with death threats. You're really cool. Keep it up. That's a good thing to do.
00:14:54
Speaker
you're not a psycho at all there's yeah there's been some there's been some crazy messages that we've gotten over this we gave it a seven out of ten uh we can barely experience bugs while playing it and it's fairly buggy i will say i will say here's here's the thing about rating a triple-a game it's that
00:15:17
Speaker
It's a triple A fucking publisher. There's so much money that goes into these games. As someone who gave Redfall a four out of 10, let me tell you, it happens. But we have to, it sucks because in your head you do as a reviewer, and I have not played Spider-Man 2, but I will say that you have to also take budget into consideration on these kinds of projects. Spider-Man 2 could have been delayed,
00:15:48
Speaker
to you.
00:16:09
Speaker
to patch out some arachnids, I mean, bugs. And we'll be- Oh, you should be a community manager. Wow, you're hired. I mean, yeah. Please hire me in some chat GBT planes. Chat GBT's free. So, I will say that like, as you review video games and people were like, you guys gave Starfield an eight.
00:16:36
Speaker
And that's the same thing people don't comprehend that there's different people with different tastes all that's insane to me Yeah, I think it's like wanna live like well noisy pixel rated this six years ago a different score than that. Yeah First of all the person who rated it six years ago a isn't here and B is probably dead this way That's a long time. Yeah, be like two vastly different games Yeah, it's insane to me that no one has that why me it's not insane because you look at Twitter you see
00:17:00
Speaker
I also attributed to just the experience of the person reviewing it. I've seen, I've read reviews where some, some reviewers just had the game crash on them over and over and over again, and they have to review it like that. Maybe that's not the experience that everyone has. Maybe that's not the experience that you're going to have, but it is an experience that happened. And it would be dishonest to review it as though that's not what happened to them.
00:17:24
Speaker
I will say that Nintendo, we gave Zelda an eight out of 10 and Nintendo had hundreds of 10 out of 10s for Zelda, but they did decide to put us on their advertisements as eight out of 10 noisy pixel. That's good. I think that's rad because it does show that across the board,
00:17:51
Speaker
I think, I think as Noisy Pixel becomes more, it becomes bigger in the eyes of gamers. I want our scores to be like celebrated, you know? Yeah. We don't give a lot of tens out. Although we did give like two the other week. Maybe one, one Slay the Princess, which is a fun indie game. That's gonna be a lot of games though. So like- We also, yeah.
00:18:15
Speaker
You review a lot of games for probably daily on weekdays, there's reviews, and also all different people, and also all different budgets, genres. Yeah, genres. It's so weird.
00:18:28
Speaker
It's really hard. So there we go. Spider-Man 2. It's in the past now. You don't have to comment on every video. We get it. You didn't agree with us. Thank you. You don't have to send me messages. You don't have to send Bailey messages.
00:18:46
Speaker
I really don't have to send Mark messages because that guy doesn't have a damn thing about what's going on. Stop talking to him. I gave it an 8 out of 10 and I thought that Act 2 Onward was rushed and I had my own thing with it, but I had a lot of fun. I don't know why they still do stuff. No one wants stealth. No one wants to play as not powered people. I don't know.
00:19:11
Speaker
I've noticed a lot because one of the websites I write for under my main job is PlayStation Lifestyle, and a lot of the comments and tweets on that, because it's more the gaming side, are unhinged. I get more exposed to...
00:19:31
Speaker
constantly ongoing console wars still on social media. That's insane to me. Who fucking cares? PS lifestyle of the day has that, it's a PlayStation fanboy ecosystem. So if Xbox players know exactly where to go to, and there's not a lot of people- There's an equal amount of both
00:19:51
Speaker
That's incredible. Fighting in the comments of a PlayStation. Obviously, if you go to PlayStation Lifestyle, it's more PlayStation-centric because it's a PlayStation website. But there's still people fighting in the comment sections of every single article or like on the tweets about consoles and like, oh, Spider-Man 2 is mid, this is the Xbox one. I can't fathom caring.
00:20:13
Speaker
These people cannot have jobs and lives and families like there's so much happening in life all the time for most people.
The Console Wars and Reviewers' Dilemmas
00:20:22
Speaker
I can't imagine like tweeting all day just trying to say the games you like are not as good as you think they are.
00:20:29
Speaker
That's insane. And the opposite with the review where they're like, you gave this a slightly lower but still positive score, you're evil. What breeds that mindset? That's insane to me. I don't understand that. People were saying they were doing it for clout and stuff, and I can tell you they didn't even give us a code. We had to buy that game to review it.
00:20:50
Speaker
There's no, and then because you said that people be like, oh, then you're trying to get back on them for not giving you your free code. No, no. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing is like, no. Yeah. Life's not a fictional story. It's not three acts. It's not, there's not character motivations that are like,
00:21:08
Speaker
That's not how that works. I mean, and in the big schema thing, it's basically free because we write it off as a tax write off. That's true too. So I mean, that theory disproven. Disproven. Yeah, it's insane. I don't get it.
00:21:22
Speaker
Yeah, it's- Look, Curry, in most pictures of it, that's so much more satisfying than being annoying on Twitter. I was on a drive the other day and I really appreciate that my friend group, my closest friend group right now doesn't give a damn about video games because it does allow me to check out. And I fear that a lot of people, a lot of the people in my community, a lot of people that work for Noisy Pixel, they don't have that outlet.
00:21:48
Speaker
They live and breathe video games 24 seven all the time. They're in discord communities. They're in a reset era chats. They're in other discus chats. They're in Twitter. They're constantly
00:22:06
Speaker
curating more and more opinions just only about video games. And I enjoy the approach of getting knowledge just from all these stupid people who have, my friends, they go to work and then they're done with the day.
00:22:23
Speaker
Yeah, my brother beats maybe two games a year at most. Yeah. And he's completely happy playing. That's fine. My brother has 890 hours in Fallout 76. Yeah. And he is happy. Happy as can be. He's fucking happy. Because he's disconnected from all of it. He's able to... You know how much I want to put into the end game of Remnant 2, the post game?
00:22:52
Speaker
how much I want to return to that game and play more, and I can't. But my brother, he calls me and just tells me about everything that's going on in it, and I'm so jealous. It's incredible. I really wish I was more disconnected. It's impossible now for either of us because not only do we do this, but even when you're done doing that, you always think like that now and check out online in that way.
00:23:17
Speaker
But that's like such a, it seems like such an enviable life to just be like, oh, I saw a commercial for this game and it looks badass. So I'm going to buy it and play it for two months and put in 25 hours and then have a great time and then watch a movie. By the time I play next, but yeah, by the time I play whatever's next, it'll probably be like 30 bucks.
00:23:39
Speaker
Yeah. Like I climbed up Spiderman 2 in like five days. Five days. Four or five days. And I wish I wasn't like, like, because I was like, I wish I played it over like a month, but I'm just like, that's not who I am anymore. Because like,
00:23:56
Speaker
Once you've done this, you play games different and you think about games different. I'm not saying that like we're elevated. It's the opposite. I wish I was like that. It's where you really just like you play differently and you think differently. You do it differently. Again, not better, but differently. So it's it's very much is like.
00:24:14
Speaker
You know what, Frodo gets back at the end of Lord of the Rings, he's like, I can't go back to my regular night, so I have to go on the boat with the end. It's like, you can't go back to play games like when you were 12 and be like, aw, man, I've been saving up for Arkham City, and I can't wait to play it over three months and 100%. It's not like that anymore. You beat Spider-Man in two days and a half, and you platinum it in three or four, and then you're ready for the next fucking games of the month.
00:24:43
Speaker
That you know you that is a pretty good point that you bring up When you when you want to compare? Like game length to price I usually don't like to do that But I guess there is an argument to where if this is the one game I'm gonna buy for the next three months at least give me some postgame stuff to to do It's like a dollar
00:25:11
Speaker
Yeah. The middle crown is getting good at photo mode. I mean, there's a middle ground and the criticism of dollars per like amount of time and the opposite of like, I'll pay $70 for a two hour game if it's good.
00:25:32
Speaker
I want it to be long enough that I'm like, I'm like, OK, yeah, that was a satisfying experience. But at the same time, I don't want to be patted like 80 hours when it doesn't need to be. I don't want there is a middle ground, I think, where it's like I don't want to pay 70 dollars for a game that's two hours long. But I like I'll pay 40 dollars for a five hour game if it rocks 100 percent. But like there is, I think, a middle where it's where it's like I don't want every game to be 120 hours, but I also
00:26:01
Speaker
don't want it to be a movie. I don't know. Maybe that's contradictory, but I think there is something to be said for that. I just don't know if there's really a concrete ratio or anything like that necessarily. What did I pay? I paid $70 for Final Fantasy 16.
00:26:19
Speaker
You know, even that was a little long for me for me, you know, but I'm sure like other people are like, Oh, I want it. But I couldn't imagine playing Spider-Man for 40 hours. I'm sorry. I don't think love to do that. If I think, I think Spider-Man should have been a 15, 20 hour experience. Somehow that somehow they could have
00:26:42
Speaker
put in a couple other stealth missions, you know, the best part about the game. I would've just done more side content. I would've just done more... Well, they're gonna sell you on that DLC in a couple months, so... I don't know. I don't know. I find...
00:26:57
Speaker
Games are a weird spot, more so than other media.
Game Length vs. Price Debate
00:27:00
Speaker
They're very exhausting to talk about with other people outside, like your friends, the people online and stuff like that. So it's an interesting thing where any debate about price versus length or anything like that just kind of gets railroaded.
00:27:12
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. And honestly, I don't, I can see both ends of that. I generally try and stay to where. I mean, bro, I totally understand like one of the most tight. For me, a 10 hour experience is fine.
00:27:32
Speaker
I was fine with Assassin's Creed Mirage being 20 hours and they charged $50.
00:27:47
Speaker
It can feel that way when you're trying to shove a 140-hour game into a month. It takes an incredible game to earn 100-plus hours, I think. That's zenable territory. That's got to earn it. Yeah. Yeah. No kidding.
00:28:07
Speaker
I don't like the argument, but there is an argument to be made on both ends of the pricing. Yeah, because I played Indie Gear. One game that I was surprised that I played was RoboCop, Rogue City. I can't wait. I can't wait.
00:28:24
Speaker
I, so when I launched the game for review, it crashed and I was like, Oh, I got so giddy. I'm like, Oh, I'm going to fucking tear this game up. Can't wait to give it a two out of 10. You know, just being a little bitch, be a little boy mindset. Sometimes I don't know. I'm so, I'm so ready to just like write a fun review and, um,
00:28:49
Speaker
Have you ever watched Radizario? The movie Radiz? No. I've played the... Kingdom Hearts 3. There's a beautiful speech at the end by the antagonist of the movie. He's a critic. And it's a very genuinely moving speech, and he's like... I don't even want to bastardize it, but he essentially says like, we love...
00:29:10
Speaker
terrible reviews because they're fun to read and to write, but even the worst piece of garbage made by a person is more culturally valuable than the greatest review, so we must balance ourselves. Like, it's a really beautiful speech about what it is to be a critic. You should watch, A, Ratutee, Buck and Rocks. It's a really good movie. Hey, no one's saying it, no one's saying otherwise. No one's arguing with you, man. My friend would like to override the key. Whoa, hey, whoa. Fun at the same time. I think you should watch that speech because it touches kind of what you're talking, like it's really
00:29:40
Speaker
It's a very interesting thing that we specifically as people who criticize stuff online could probably get like would probably enjoy. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. A bunch of people that King Kong game came out. Everyone should.
00:29:56
Speaker
They were offering review codes where no one took them and then one person posted something about it that it's really bad and then you get IGN and everybody covering it. It's like you're just covering it to shit on it and make fun of it. Yeah, it sucks. It's funny. I guess that was the approach of this one, but man.
00:30:19
Speaker
It is so good. Every trailer, I was like, this just looks like what I want a Robocop game to be. Dude, it's better. The trailers, I felt they were hiding some shit from me. But I have not played a game where I'm playing it, and my opinion's already been made. I could probably write the review. I could probably, I'm 10 hours in, it's probably like nothing's changing.
00:30:45
Speaker
I kept playing. I just couldn't stop. I was having so much... I wrote the review, and then I wrote the review, and then I continued to... Then I was like, I want to beat it tonight, so I didn't even like... That's a much more good game for reviewers. You've already put out the content, and you're like, I want to go back. No, like I wrote it. The embargo hadn't come yet, so I could have put... I was like, okay, like wrapped up. Yeah, move on to the next, but I booted it back up, and I wanted to beat it.
00:31:14
Speaker
Does it play the song? Dude, yes. But it's like they play it, they don't even overdo it. Yeah. When that music does ramp up, it's like... I can't wait. I love RoboCop. Dude. And then there's like... It's a good game. If anyone wants... It's kind of RPG-y. It just feels like a really good AA game.
RoboCop Game Experience
00:31:41
Speaker
Oh, it's so good. It's so good. More games like that. And I hope that also encourages writing franchises to not be symmetrical. It's better than it's better than Robocop three Robocop three fucking sucks. It's way better than Robocop three. I can't wait. I feel like.
00:31:59
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It is a good game. I was just thinking about all the stupid fucking things that happened in it. And I'm like, this is... Robocop? Okay. Robocop is a gory fucking movie. We get it. But it's also campy, deadpan. It's in that way. It is created in the... It knows what it is. It's about a fucking robot cop.
00:32:19
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It's a goofy, morey, snarky capitalism. It's so goofy. They invented this robot antagonist, and then he falls down the stairs. That's how he's seen so much. Yeah, it's like- So good. Do you have a scene where he's really scary and murders the guy in the boardroom, and then he just trips down the stairs later? Yeah, it's so- What is it called? E-9, whenever you want to- E-D-1-D-D, yeah.
00:32:46
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ED-1 or ED-01. Big guns here. It's a great game. Do you know what my hope for this game is? Because this game in my nightmares could have been the reverse asymmetrical multiplayer. Three criminals versus Rebel. I'm tired of asymmetrical.
00:33:07
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Yeah, 80s movies and horror movies in a symmetrical mission Bay mission based so you have to select the mission from a menu and then you go to the mission That rocks. I want that. I want an action RPG evil dead. I don't want a special multiplayer. You know that one action that was
00:33:29
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You're absolutely right. That was kind of a cheap, cheap, uh, evil Ted. I'm tired of it. Hey, because like we said before, I don't even like multiplayer. I want to play these cool games of characters. I love not with people because that's annoying. You know, the best part about, um,
00:33:46
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Robocop what is when you're playing it you feel so much like Robocop Yeah, don't you like not use cover because you are the cover because you're a giant Robocop you fucking think about your health You don't you have no like your body when you get shot you kind of like can tell like it Yeah, and I'm like, holy shit. I feel like a fucking robot. I can't wait. I can't wait to play it tonight It's gonna be so cool
00:34:12
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yeah it's a game it's a fucking video game finally it doesn't it doesn't try to change the world it doesn't try to like put in unnecessary systems or weird features you know what i think another game although they even they nailed the writing and nailed the atmosphere half life i think half life is a good example of a bit of a video game
00:34:36
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Yeah, I played most of the Half-Life games for the first time like four or five years ago. Like I played two and the two expansions. 2.1 or whatever it was. But for most of them I played for the first time like five years ago when Alex was coming out just to try. Like I was like, oh yeah, I played like a hundred hours G-mod. Let's do it. And they fucking rocked to this day. Like they're incredible at storytelling. They're incredible without being overbearing. They're incredible at being incredibly like fun games.
00:35:03
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You pick up the can and you throw it and it's like rocks. I don't want to tell you. I don't know. Yeah, it's just a video game It's it's just a fucking video game and you could take it as seriously as you want and you could have as much fun as you want The writing knows what it is the story the the characters know who they are It's didn't these guys make a terminator again before the people like to go back try that dude term that terminator resistance game is really fucking good, too. I
00:35:29
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That's cool. And I think they got a little more, they got a little more leeway to be, uh, to write because resistance was already based off of a storyline in the Terminator universe. This Robocop is based between two and three movies. So pretty good. Um, I can't wait.
Winter Joys and 50K Subscriber Celebration
00:35:49
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Other than that, that's all I had to talk about this week. It's November now. It is. There's snowing outside. You can't see because it's dark here now, but it was a big snowstorm earlier and it was very... I was very happy because I love winter and I don't have a driveway anymore because I'm in the apartment, so I don't got to shovel. No one's going to make little Spencer shovel. It's true. I've shoveled most of my life and it's very nice to have a year where I'm just chilling. The snow is literally primarily aesthetic for me this year and that's my favorite kind.
00:36:20
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Oh, you just enjoy it, get a little nice cup of hot cocoa. Just stare outside, play cool video games. I like that we both called it hot cocoa. Hot cocoa? It's way more fun to say. Way more fun. But yeah.
00:36:32
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All right. Let's, let's, let's put a pin in this podcast. Get out of here, everybody. Gamer time's over. We got shit to do. I am right now. Ooh, I'm going to have pizza and some wings. Vegetarian wings. I know. I just said like, I need to learn to make real meals, but tonight, cause it's getting late. I am just going to make macaroni or pizza. I don't know which one though. You know, you don't have Thanksgiving, do you? We have in October.
00:37:02
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You already had it. Lucky. I love Thanksgiving. That's my favorite holiday. I love Thanksgiving. I was sick for this Thanksgiving though. That was right around when I had my sick voice on here. I don't like that. I don't want that for you. But I'm all good now. My dad loves American Thanksgiving. I don't know why. We don't. So we have a little American Thanksgiving. A Renaissance man, that guy. That's a real...
00:37:26
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All right. Well, have a good week, everyone. Um, also, oh, we got 50,000 subscribers. Congratulations. That's very exciting. I forgot to talk about it, but I'm talking about it now at the end. All 50,000 of you tell five of your friends. If you don't, you're on the Zara's hit list. You're his enemy. We found what we prosecuted. Thank you. I think it's, I think it's really incredible that, um, 50,000 people even give a shit.
00:37:52
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You know, to click, to click that button, you know, it's like, it's so stupid and so silly, such a silly action, such a silly, like modern thing. Um, but it isn't, it's, it's, it is cool. It's cool. 15,000 people want to hear when those pixels say, that's pretty incredible. And it's only going to get a better, you know what I, you know what I bought? What? A teleprompter.
00:38:21
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Oh, that's such a good idea. Teleprompters rock. That was my favorite thing in journalism school. Teleprompters are so easy to use and cool. Yeah, Elgato put out ones, and I was looking at it, and it's really fucking good. It doesn't need an iPad or anything like that, so that makes it even better. That's really handy. Yeah. Anyway, so for the people who listen to this long, news is coming back. I'm going to be doing a lot more on camera crap and hanging out. Yeah, I'm going to make it a lot easier. Oh, yeah, dude.
00:38:51
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also found new ways to put together new scripts and stuff like that.
00:39:00
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It's, it's all about streamlining. I think at this point, it's all about like, because we are very small, but we do so much. Um, I envy the people who that they, the websites who just do written, you know, and then they could just focus on that versus the websites that are the ballots that just do a video. So they only have to focus on that. And the fact that we do both.
00:39:23
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Plus podcasts, plus events. It's like, and we're only really, honestly, five people. Like the day to day. There's people who do freelance reviews for us, but the core, the core five people and even three of them are part time. So it doesn't. Anyway, thank you everyone for the 50,000 and see you next week. Hopefully. Bye everybody.
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