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We're Back! Let's Yay or Nay August
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Here it is, the eighty-eighth 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 Final Fantasy XVI and do Yay or Nay for August 2023. Unqualified Game Chat is posted across podcast services for your entertainment.
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Unexpected Booster Pack Discovery
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Speaker
I wanted to show you that I found while I was cleaning my room, I found a packet of an open limited run booster cards. I don't know what it is. I guess they threw this in a bag of some, of some sort. And I thought, and I thought to myself, you know, who would like to open this with me?
00:00:22
Speaker
me. My best friend. Spencer. Gotcha, baby. He loves he loves the the the anticipation, the the anxiety.
Draft Night Tradition
00:00:34
Speaker
Have you ever had a draft night? Like, no. Well, you need friends for it. But it's like you each buy like five booster packs and you take one card and you pass it around and you make a deck then you play with the deck that you made. So okay, my brother's done that with magic.
00:00:51
Speaker
But yeah, I did that with magic. That's the day. I never got into magic. I was a Yu-Gi-Oh boy. Well, there's still time. Still time. You see. All right. So booster cards out. Let's see what games these are. Let's see what games we got.
Mystery Games in Booster Packs
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Speaker
Holy moly. I don't know what game this is. Trucktopia. Yeah. Looks like.
00:01:18
Speaker
There's like a beast or something. In fact, I don't know what game this is. If you know, let us know. Let us know. Lozy, let us know. What game is this? Curse and chaos. Curse is in chaos. I feel like I've covered this game before. Are you a curse guy or a chaos guy? I'm a little bit of chaos, you know? Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I'm like, you know what this day needs?
00:01:47
Speaker
A little more chaos. Yeah. And I'm a curse guy. I wake up and I go, fuck. He just started cursing, bang your toe on the door. Yeah, exactly. Uh, this one looks like a marble with, uh, Oh, marble shooter,
Classic Game Reflections
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Speaker
marble and hell. Hell marble. Hell marble. Whoa. I remember everyone knows that one. That old classic. Um,
00:02:16
Speaker
Actually, a kind of cool one.
Salt and Sanctuary Sequel Discussion
00:02:18
Speaker
Salt and Sanctuary. Oh, I know that. You know, it's kind of recent. Yeah. Salt and Sanctuary was literally four fucking years ago, dude. What are you talking about? Oh, two. Two came out recently. What was the second one? Wasn't there a sequel? It's Salt and Sanctuary. During the internship.
00:02:38
Speaker
Like a trailer. Oh, there is a second one. It's all pictured too. See, I'm not completely fucking. Yeah. The first solid sanctuary is 2016. Yeah. True. Mm. Oh, it's seven years ago. Try to catch you riding dirty. It's true. So there is a, there is a second one. Yeah.
00:02:56
Speaker
Um, and then lastly, but not leastly, uh, that, uh, game paradise. Whoa. It's a schmup acute them up. Oh, that's sweet. That's nice. Um, I do. I do actually like this game.
Episode Introduction
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Speaker
Hello and welcome to episode 88 of unqualified game chat back once again in your ear on your screen. I am a Zara Lopez. Oh, inception in your dreams. Dreams. Love the boy with me today. As always, the illustrious, the so blank Google doc.
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Speaker
Spencer, the legacy. Hello, everybody. It's been a long time. I'm sorry. Some people might say we stopped being friends. No, I come to you with one less organ.
Health Update and Canadian Healthcare Humor
00:04:12
Speaker
That is why.
00:04:13
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Yeah, that is why he got his, uh, his heart removed because my whole heart, because it's so, you know, I don't need it no more. He said, this is a really elaborate thing that you're doing. All right. Yeah.
00:04:32
Speaker
No, I, uh, on that Canadian free, uh, health insurance, you're really, you're really milking it over there. I need that metaphor done. No, I woke up one day.
Spencer's Medical Adventure
00:04:48
Speaker
I felt fine that far. I woke up one day, my tummy was rumbling. And I said, maybe I just have to pee really bad. I peed. I went, no, it's still like that. I couldn't go to the bathroom all day. And I said, I guess I better go to the hospital. And then I waited for seven hours at the hospital overnight. And then they said, we're going to do a CAT scan. And then they put a bunch of fluids in me that all did different things. That was the weirdest part. They were like, this one, it tastes like Metro and it makes you feel like you're peeing, but you're not. And I was like, Oh, I've taken that before.
00:05:16
Speaker
Yeah. And then they'll do another one and they'll be like, this one tastes like Gatorade and it might make you feel warm. And I was like, are they so peppy? What are these Harry Potter potions? But you're the doc, so go for it. And then they were like, yeah, your appendix is no good. So we got to get it the hell out of there. And then
00:05:36
Speaker
I texted Azario, I said, Hey, can't record this week, having a little bit of a scuffle with my innards. They're always letting you down. Yeah, so when went under the knife, they pulled it out, recovered for a few weeks. And now I'm, I just had a point with my doctor today, because it's been about a month. And I was like, he was like, Are you all good? I said, I'm all good. So now we're back. That could kill that could have killed you.
00:06:02
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Yeah, you have to let it go a while for it to really because mine didn't rupture. Luckily, if it ruptures, it's like spilling and then you're in trouble. Mine was just I got it as early as I could have, which is good because that makes it way easier and makes you way less unhealthy. It was it just hurt a lot. So if any of our viewers have pain in like their belly button area, it feels like there's like a bowling ball on your stomach and you can't be a little gross. You can't poop.
00:06:30
Speaker
Uh, Oh, the worst. I love poop. I want to go to the hospital.
00:06:34
Speaker
and just see what's up. Pooping is my favorite thing to
Musings on Solitude and Joy
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do. No one can bug you. It's five-ish minutes per poop where you're just like, no one can be like, hurry up, poop. Everyone has to. It's a shared experience. It's my office away from office. I sit in that. Two or three manga chapters done. Oh, easy, easy. Watch a couple Shark Tank episodes. Yeah.
00:07:01
Speaker
Be a JRPG or two? I remember this famous game facts post where someone was like, I take my DS when I shit all the time because that's when I get the best drops in Final Fantasy 3. And I was like, I'm never buying a used DS again.
00:07:16
Speaker
Yeah, they don't really clean those games. I can only assume like the cartridges that are in there and all these little grimy kid hands on it. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes when I go over to my friend's houses with kids, I will not sit on their couch. I'll sit on like their, I don't know, like any type of other.
00:07:41
Speaker
I'll stand, I'll lean and stuff because in my head I've convinced myself that their kids have like touched their ass and stuff and just like wiped it on the couch. Yeah. But on the other side you go to a, you go to a single person's house and you know that they've had sex naked on the couch. Yeah. And that's something to keep in mind. If they haven't had sex and they're a virgin, they've definitely jacked off on everything.
00:08:05
Speaker
It's true, although I can't, maybe I was just raised different, but I can't picture jacking off on the public furniture, you know, that's fine. Oh, that's, yeah, there's, yeah, you, you do, you have rules in Canada. I want my friend to say word, no, no, no. Oh, that's off the table in America. You're, you're jacking off on everything. You feel ashamed and you pray after, okay?
00:08:33
Speaker
There was a
The Nature of Unqualified Game Chat
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point in my life where I got too lazy to jack off standing up. Oh my God. Oh my God. What a sentence. What a sentence. I just laid out everywhere. Just laid out naked everywhere. Oh, well, this is what you guys missed. This is unqualified game chat. Um, yeah, let's, let's, in terms of video games,
00:09:03
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We got a lot of cool stuff coming up. Um, some really cool press events coming up that I can't talk about, but last year I went to last year, last month I did the armored core, um, president and they had like one of those actual mix there. Oh, that's cool. It was, it is cool in theory, but actually like controlling it. Yeah. Really hard.
00:09:28
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We're not there. We're not a mobile suit. Got them yet. We're not. It got so hard that like the influencers, there was a few influencers there. Um, one of them got just like, they just said, and it took their picture and then got out. Yeah. Um, but it was a, it was a great event. Um, being able to play armored core and.
00:09:51
Speaker
There was a couple non-press people there that were from like forums, like fan forums. And they're like, yeah, we've been keeping the Armored Core forum alive since like 2008. And I was like, so for the past 10 years, what have you guys been doing? Bro, they've been hosting
00:10:15
Speaker
Yearly little competitions of armored core in like hotel rooms and stuff like so cool dudes rock Yeah, I was like that's so cool. I was like so you've been waiting for this day for a very long time. They're like, yeah like It's all fan ran and stuff like that. So it's cool that they were there. They had their little t-shirts really cute. It's really awesome That's cool to see like cuz forums aren't
00:10:38
Speaker
nearly is probably now. So it's nice to see the ones that are still sticking around get their due. Yeah, yeah. So I had a lot of fun meeting them. I don't, I don't know about you, but I always find it hard, um, conversating with, um,
00:10:54
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actual other journalists. Yeah, that's true. I haven't in a long time. I haven't, I haven't left with Canada since pre COVID. So it's been a long time, but it's, I remember I was granted, you know, that's like five years, four years. That's a lot of time to like grow as an individual, three to four, three to four years. So maybe it was more like, I was more socially anxious then, but I remember I definitely struggled with like, I was like, man, I don't know how to like start talking. Like, you know, you can't just be like, whoa, isn't armor core cool?
00:11:25
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all there. But it's also a matter of overthinking. You know what I think I fear is that their ideas aren't gonna, like their way of talking. I do have to tone myself down a little bit.
00:11:42
Speaker
Not for you. That sounded really mean. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. I'm a lot. I agree that I have to. But on saying that, it's like I am a lot, but when I meet people like you, where I do act myself in front of you, we, from our first meeting, you and I just like... We just kind of meshed, yeah. Yeah, we really connected. And so I think I do enjoy
00:12:08
Speaker
Sometimes you just know. Yeah, putting myself out there a little bit and being like, Oh, this guy gets it. Because I'll like say jokes around the people and they're just like, Oh, yeah. And I was like, you can tell this person and I are not going to mesh. Yeah, we're in different worlds. Yeah, they'll go out to dinner and stuff and like, they won't invite me. Yeah, it's a hard knocks life when you're
00:12:36
Speaker
When you're riding that noisy pixel high, you know? Man, press fence rear. What a time. It is true. You'll meet someone who you get along with. You'll meet someone who's, even if you and I are a lot, but every single con or event or meeting you go to, there's always another journalist or fan and you're like, no, they are a lot.
00:12:58
Speaker
There a lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like you and I, you know how to turn it down and up, depending on what, where you are. There's some people who cannot. And I, because I, I've been there. You know, I don't like talking about video games all the time too. Um, because in, and, and in that sense, they're like, Oh, we're here about video games. Let's only talk about video games. Hate that shit. I am way better talks about like anime and shit. And they'll be like, yo, you guys watch Megalo box. I'd be like, no, tell me about it. And then.
00:13:27
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, they better watch Megalobox. I gotta watch it. Why aren't you watching Megalobox? Uh, yeah. And, and on that, it's like, it's like, I'm, I'm in a Twitter, I'm in like a Twitter discussion. It's, it, it flows like, I mean, like, yeah, like, Oh, did you see that on Twitter where Wario 64 shared this? And then this person said that. And I was like, yeah, everybody saw.
00:13:54
Speaker
Yeah, everybody saw it. Everybody knows that headline. We've already meshed over the, I just don't want to talk about it right now because that's kind of like the work. And then if you do get in with them, I hate the conversation. And this has a lot to do with me owning a website where they'll start talking about money and how much they get. And I just don't like talking about that. Yeah. Talking about money is always weird. It's always,
00:14:23
Speaker
It's like even no matter whether you have a ton or like none, it's never fun or comfortable. Yeah. Oh, about a year ago or something, I was at an event and the guy was like, wait, you've been a website for three years and you haven't gotten any money out of it. Um.
00:14:41
Speaker
and you're still volunteering at your own site or something like that, that's ridiculous. And I was like, well, no, I do other things, but the money that I could be making, I just put it back on the website. But because he was judging me, he initiated the conversation and
00:15:05
Speaker
kind of put me down for the way that I do things. You know, it's like, it's like, well, if you already knew the answer to your question and how you navigate, like why, why even bring this up to me? It's literally, he doesn't know how to say like how much he makes comparatively, but he wants to. So he's like, let's start talking about you. And then he really, really injects them. So yeah, no,
00:15:29
Speaker
There's been a lot of layoffs and I feel bad for those people because if you're a journalist and that's all you do, that's all you do. There's no backup.
00:15:47
Speaker
It's hard to even apply to other things if you get laid off right now because everyone's. I feel like you living on your own already puts you in the top 10% of journalists. 100%. The only reason I come up on my own is I got an insane deal. I barely spend any of my money on
00:16:07
Speaker
I always make sure to have like three or so months of rent in savings at all times, three months, something like that. So that there's always time to like every, I don't know, even like, even then a lot of why I have my own place is luck and being way more frugal than
00:16:24
Speaker
Someone our age like 50 years ago. Oh, yeah In this industry too. It's all it's always like you're trying to flex because it's definitely a fake it till you make it industry and It's a lot like hot. It's a lot like high school man, like who's cool. What's what's hot right now? They're very blatantly like in groups in games
00:16:47
Speaker
Yeah, so I tend to hang out more with the publishers and PR people. I hang out with whoever will take me. Yeah, just invite me to dinner. I'm up there. Yeah, please.
00:17:01
Speaker
Oh, with that said, since this is our first episode back in about a month, we're just going to do yay or nay for August. It's not a big month by any means, but, uh, it is a month. It is a month. So let's do this. Yay or nay. Let's do it, baby. August 3rd. That's today. A game that so many people have been waiting for. Mm-hmm.
00:17:28
Speaker
It's a little indie RPG known as Baldur's Gate 3. And that wasn't the early access before, right? It's been early access for like... So I can swear I've been playing it for years. It's been in early access for about three years now. And finally, it's getting its full release on PC. I don't... I think it's on console too. I think so. But yeah, so...
00:17:57
Speaker
There's been, there's been jokes about the game, but from, from my perspective and from the perspective of fans, um, I think it's great. I think it looks great. I, I kind of want to play it. I kind of want to write something on it as like, I've never played a Baldur's gate game. This is how I, this is how I approached others. Yeah. That's good idea. Is Baldur's gate three newcomer friendly?
00:18:23
Speaker
I don't know about it. I don't know very much about it at all. My friend really likes it. It seems very D&D adjacent. Yeah, it's D&D, basically. I don't know. Western medieval fantasy setting has never been
00:18:39
Speaker
Super interesting to me. I think I got corrupted at a young age by like Final Fantasy 7 being, whoa, future fantasy and like Kingdom Hearts just being insane. Like every genre under the sun or like every setting. So I was always kind of, I don't know. I will, if I check out Baldur's Gate, it will probably not be for a long time because there's so much.
00:19:02
Speaker
Oh, if it's not now, then yeah, you're never gonna, you're never gonna get. I think it looks really good. Wait for Baldur's Gate 4. How about that? Yeah, exactly. It'll include, it'll be like Evil Dead 2. I'll tell you the best. Baldur's Gate 3 and 4. The best fantasy action RPG I could think of is that Lord of the Rings game.
00:19:21
Speaker
I think the Return of the King. Oh man, Return of the King game rocked. Oh, so good. Rock. So good. Spoiled. Spoiled. License games. Back then it was either complete shit or insanely good. And there was very few in the middle. But when it hit, oh baby. That's the one where you start off as
00:19:42
Speaker
Gandalf and you're like protecting the wall, right? Okay. Yeah. That's the one I'm talking about. That's the first stage. And then you get, oh, sometimes you're Frodo and Sam. Sometimes you're Pippin and Mary. Sometimes you're Kim Lee. Oh, and then you're the next levels, the, the tomb with all the ghosts. Oh man. What a game. I think I have that somewhere still. I think I had it on game cube.
00:20:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, me too. What a title. Um, so it's a yay from me on Baldur's Gate three. It's a meh from me. It looks really good, but I don't know if it's for me. Yeah. Just go back to Lord of the Rings, Return of the King. Yeah. They're just going to play Return of the King. It's totally fine. August 4th, a visual novel comes out that is an actual visual novel.
00:20:30
Speaker
It's an Aqua Plus developed game getting, I think it's a remastered release for the English version, but it's called White Album Memories Like Fallen Snow. I can read you, you want me to read you the description? I'd love to hear that.
00:20:49
Speaker
The classic visual novel from Aqua Plus that launched one of Japan's most beloved franchises, White Album is a story of love in many forms. Toya Fuji is an ordinary college student, but for one thing,
00:21:04
Speaker
But for one thing, oh, I see his connection to the popular singer, Yuki Morikawa, that popular singer you see is his girlfriend. Whoa. And the more popular she gets, the less time the two can spend together. Sounds like Taylor Swift's last relationship. Whoa.
00:21:23
Speaker
Will they stay a couple or will their ways part? As winter falls and the air grows colder, the two lay down new tracks in the album of their love. This album will be as white as snow and as poignant, poignant, poignant. I hate that word. Ever since I made a dumb ass Ace Manans video when I was like 20 where I said Poignan and everybody fucking
00:21:48
Speaker
I hate that word. It does not look what it could be at all. It just haunts you. So annoying to me that I said Poignant. Poignant. Still up there if you want to go see. I love Poignant Spencer. A very Poignant story. Wow.
00:22:08
Speaker
I find it so fun that they could turn such a concept into a 20-hour game. I'm going to say yay because it's Aqua Plus and they usually put out good games.
00:22:30
Speaker
I want to see how they feel in 20 hours. I want to see how that love lasts. Do you have any ties to Evo? Evo is happening.
00:22:42
Speaker
I like watching Evo sometimes. Me too. Me too. I love, I don't play Smash, but I love watching the Smash tournament. That's fun. Anytime Marvel vs. Capcom is present, I will watch it anytime. Blaze Blue. That's a fun one, Guilty Gear. They don't always show the Blaze, they don't always air the Blaze Blue. It's always rotating stuff, but it's always normally like,
00:23:07
Speaker
I'll, I'll forget that he was happening and then I'll just watch like cool parts on YouTube and be like, Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm excited about the, uh, the new street fighter just to see how people have been taking on, taking on, uh, the meta and stuff. I loved watching Dragon Ball fighters too. That was so good. The Goichi and Sonic Fox. That's good times.
00:23:30
Speaker
So, so that's going to be happening this weekend. If you, if you catch that, maybe we'll, maybe we'll talk about the winners next week. Who knows sky sky's the limit. Really? We're back, baby. Uh, um, there's a lot of like indie games releasing in the early part of this month. One of them is coming out of early access. And I feel like this game has been in early access for the past five years, dude, 30 XX.
00:23:57
Speaker
It's the Mega Man clone. Oh, I do know that one. It's the sequel to 20XX. But it's getting a final release date. I feel like I've played this game already. I feel like I've seen it on sale. Yeah. That's crazy. It's very strange. It has a character creator, or not a character stage creator element to it now.
00:24:23
Speaker
very big Mega Man like game. I'll say I love Mega Man X. Yeah, I'll say yay. Yeah, I'll give it a yay. I'll give it a yay, maybe. And if you like Mega Man games, I think you can pretty much anticipate what this game is going to be. On August 10th, a small indie studio, Deck 13,
00:24:52
Speaker
developed Atlas Fallen. It's an action game. I guess there's co-op elements in it. Rise from the dust and liberate mankind from the oppression of corrupted gods. Glide the sands of the timeless land filled with ancient dangers, mysteries, and fragments of the past. Hunt legendary monsters using powerful shape-shifting weapons and devastating sand-powered abilities in spectacular superpowered combat.
00:25:19
Speaker
Targeting gathered the essence of your enemies to shape your own custom play style Forging a new era for humanity in a fully cooperative or solo story campaign Wow Sounds like it's a fast action game. I don't know. Yeah It reminds me of it reminds me of a good version of What's that Square Enix game that released that wasn't that good recently?
00:25:46
Speaker
You know with the girl and she's in she's has a dragon For spoken. It looks like unspoken. Yeah Yeah, it looks like that. It looks like it kind of reminds me of like a good version of That without the whole writing thing. Yeah, and maybe the writing is better. No the action looks good I didn't know it was a co-op game. That's exciting. I love I love co-op experiences and
00:26:12
Speaker
I'll say, I'll say meh. I'll say meh. You know, I'm finishing Final Fantasy 16 and that's very actiony, even more than something I thought. So I think I want to play something a little less actiony after that, you know? Do you think Final Fantasy 16 is an RPG?
00:26:29
Speaker
Technically, I guess. It's very, I was, my experience at 16 has been very weird. A, because I started like a month and a half ago and then all this life shit happened. So I've had a very disjointed time playing it. But at the same time, I was, I think I've talked on the podcast before, I avoided because I didn't do as much games journalism since getting my other job.
00:26:51
Speaker
I managed to like, I didn't watch any trailers for 16. I didn't watch anything. I was like, I, since I was like 14, I haven't been able to play a Final Fantasy on with no knowledge at all. So I was like, that'll be fun. It'll be, I'll experience it. It's going to rock. And it was, I didn't, I didn't know it was basically Devil May Cry. Like I was like,
00:27:11
Speaker
This is insane. This is like, this is not at all what I thought. So I had a hard time getting over that hump. Um, and I have some issues with it and I like some things about it a lot, but I think is to me right now, like the strangest final fantasy, it feels very different, which obviously is, but it feels very like,
00:27:37
Speaker
I know even Final Fantasy 13 came out felt like Final Fantasy to me. Same with 15 that felt like Final Fantasy. And in some ways 16 does, but in other ways it feels very, I don't know. I think it'll take time for it to set in my brain that it's a Final Fantasy. Cause I was so surprised cause I didn't have any knowledge of the game that I was just like, Oh, this is very different. This is a character action. I honestly think the next Final Fantasy should feature other characters. Um,
00:28:07
Speaker
I think the core of a Final Fantasy adventure to me is the inclusion of two to three protagonists. You had 15, which was Noctis, but it was also some other characters too. This one you follow Clive and Clive's inner struggles.
00:28:28
Speaker
but it kind of forgets about the others and they do include it in the story. They do wrap up. I think Final Fantasy 16 does a great job of wrapping up everybody's individual plot lines, but that is experienced through the story and not through anything that you have to do. The levels happen, the
00:28:51
Speaker
The crafting happens, the equipment happens, but it all happens at a pace. Like you hit this marker, you get all this stuff. So I can see why people are like, oh, this is not like a normal RPG. Because everything's kind of just handed to you as you go through the game. Everyone's going to have the same experience.
00:29:10
Speaker
Or a similar experience. I think our image of an RPG is like, this is my story. I'm role-playing in this world. I'm Cloud, I'm TS, I'm Lightning.
00:29:25
Speaker
But I think this game is Clive is Clive and your experience. And he's a very individual character. And I think that's what kind of I think that's what kind of like is tricking us even even with even with Noctis. I feel like Noctis was such a blank slate character in his approach to like situations and stuff that you could see yourself as him. He had he has this one goal, but
00:29:51
Speaker
There's like ways that you can be like, oh, he can be, he can fish, you know, I want to fish. I'll, I'll spend time, you know, it's playful like that where you can put your own personal, um, self into the character, but with Clive, I feel like he's just so independent. Hmm.
00:30:09
Speaker
That I do not I don't I don't feel that with him. I don't think the length is odd It doesn't it feels like if since it feels more like a character action game. Mm-hmm. It's very strange. That's like 40 plus I'm like, this is weird Yeah, that will make rise like 15 maybe at most. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like man I'm once you hit our 40 you're like, this is true. I don't know. This is a lot to yeah once the like once like I
00:30:37
Speaker
once the filler hits in the story, you kind of see it like, oh, that's why this game is longer. Cause it's like, and I don't think it's a bad game at all. I'm enjoying a lot of parts of it. I'm just, it's not at all what I expected. And it takes time to figure out where I am with that.
00:30:54
Speaker
Yeah, they, it just, it, it feels like I'm, it feels like Final Fantasy Clive, like Final Fantasy colon. It feels more like a Final Fantasy spinoff than a Final Fantasy to me. It feels more like a Strangers of Paradise, even though that's based in one of the games or a Crystal Chronicles where it's like Final Fantasy adjacent, but not a mainline. And I, I think that's just where I'm tripping up with it. And that's just me. I totally get it. Other people don't feel that way.
00:31:21
Speaker
I don't know. It's weird. So for Final Fantasy 17, I would like to go back to the party. Yeah. I want the as as as like shitty as I say, the party of Final Fantasy 13. Yeah. Pretty, pretty fucking dope. You got a whole.
00:31:44
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And the fact that I remember their names should say something. That's O'Neill, Fang, Snow, Lightning. Yeah, because you only do that with your favorite Shrells games, where you know all the characters' names. So Thirteen says a lot about how to properly put out a party, but yeah.
00:32:07
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Random Final Fantasy adjacent thing. I found some weird like town has like a local auction site so you can get like random shit from like Amazon stuff super cheap. I'm at a sealed copy of Revenant Wings.
00:32:19
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And I was like, okay, I'll pay 20 bucks for it. And they were like, sure. So I just got a sealed copy of Final Fantasy 12. Grab it away because I never played it. I was like, that's cool. Yeah. The strangest DS Final Fantasy. It's an actual part of that story too. It's a sequel. Yeah, it is. It is a sequel. I got it. I was like, okay, that's cool. That's awesome. It happened this week. Do you have a DS to play it on?
00:32:49
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Yeah, I got to find it from the move, but I have a new 2DS. That's what it's called. I didn't buy it recently. It's just the stupid name. The new 2DS, I have like the white and orange one. Oh, I love the new 2DS is really nice. It rocks. It's like everything you need from a 3DS. And I bought all the things I wanted off the eShop before it shut down. So it's full of shit. So once I find it, I'm going to play it on that. I also have a hacked 2DS. I don't do anything on there.
00:33:16
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I don't play Japanese-only games on there. But yeah, and then I'll probably play that, because I like 12 a lot. You know, 12's a weird one, but I like it a lot.
00:33:26
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I like 12 too. I think during its time, it's like World of Warcraft was big and 11 was big. It was very nostalgic for the voice acting, how all the judges sound like they're behind glass. Oh my God, you sounded just like them. Yeah, it's great. They'll all be like, oh, we must go to Rapid Aster. I'm like, man.
00:33:50
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This is the worst the worst dungeon in that game happens way too soon where you're on like the the ship the judges ships and like you're just running around and I just once you get like It's too early for you to really fuck with the gamut system and have like a fun system Yeah, so you're like man. This is I Couple dungeons later. You'd be like I can walk around with the bubble belt. I got double HP my people kill everybody fuck off. I
00:34:14
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But it's a bit too early for that. It's it's a very hard game to replay. Yeah. Cause it's a big one. Yeah. It's just an offline MMO. I've, I've replayed most final fantasies. Um, but I, 12, I did one. Yeah, I did. I, I ended up re I ended up playing through it for the first time actually. Cause I played there on PS2, but I stopped cause I got to a boss that I just couldn't beat. It was like, it was that part where.
00:34:42
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you're running away from, you're in a canyon and you're running away from, uh, the, those guys, like the, the enemy guys are our guys and they, and they, they summon like that bird boss and you have to, and you fight it out. But then when you get inside the dungeon, the bridge is closing in and the walls closing in on you. Well, I, I didn't approach that part, uh, very well. And I would just always die by the wall closing. It's tough to go back to.
00:35:10
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PS2 and 3 era RPGs because they still have the PS1 you die title screen thing. Yeah, which is so harsh to look at nowadays where we're all way softer.
00:35:21
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Oh yeah. It's also really hard a lot of them. So it's like, man, I recently played through, uh, Arcadia Atlas and, uh, it's a final fantasy tactics like game and they don't have auto save. So I'm, I'm saving before every, every battle and stuff like that, because I did die after like four or five main story missions. It's like, fuck.
00:35:46
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I played I also played 12 on the ps2 I bought I bought it with my I good gift card I got for being paper boy of the month nice You're still you're still beer paper for the year every boy the world in my heart But and then I played on the ps2 so I never got the zodiac one. So like one day Optimistically when I'm like retired and an old man and I have nothing to do. Maybe I'll play the zodiac edition remember those fond days and
00:36:12
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Yeah, that's actually a good one because you have access to all of the systems in the game that they kind of missed out on later. It's crazy how there was such an era where like international and zodiac and final mixes were like
00:36:27
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not accessible at all. Everyone I knew who liked Kingdom Hearts, none of them had ever played the terror, the lingering will fight. Everyone saw it on YouTube because it was only in Japan, so we were just like, that's crazy. And that's as much about localization. Back then,
00:36:44
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It wasn't beneficial for these studios to release their Japanese games. I think Zelia took like three years to come West. It was not on their radar. Once there was an online shop, a digital shop, it was like, oh, so everybody can just have it. And then that changed everything. Yeah.
00:37:07
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I do attribute like Nino Cooney as like the shift around that time when Zelia Nino Cooney came out.
00:37:17
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in the West, that's when we started seeing an uptick in Japanese games. And when the PS4 released and no one was buying it and everyone was still playing PS3, a lot of Japanese games were still being published as the PS4 was released. So I was still playing my PS3 long into the PS4's life.
00:37:37
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I didn't get PS4 for probably two or three years after it came out, also because I was broke. But I remember when Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and later 2.5 came out, I was like, it was like getting new games because we'd never played Final Mix. I was so excited. I had no, I wasn't like, I don't know if I want to buy the remaster, I played it, but I was so excited because I was like, I could point Xemnas in the Hollow Bastion for the first time, and I could point Monstro in Birth by Sleep, but I could see all the different colorings and all the HD cuts.
00:38:07
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What a weird era yeah, and I don't like just assumed it's like it was and the ps4 was out when that came out Yeah, when that is she collection came out so that's yeah Okay back to this year nay August 10th stray gods kind comes out. It's a role-playing musical
00:38:29
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Oh, I've heard of that. I like musicals a lot. It's by one of the writers of, um, Bioware Games, um, this is Dragon Age. Um, it's by one of those that it's by, I know he's in there. He wrote it or something. Anyway, there's dating, there's singing. It's a meh.
00:38:48
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Yeah, I like musicals a lot, and I'd be interested, but it's got to be very specific. That's the last musical you watched. Like a very specific kind of musical lot. I watched musical yesterday. I watched Chicago. Oh. Never saw it. So I was like, and I was watching my parents' house. So I was like, all right.
00:39:05
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I watch a lot of musicals. You might not know that about me. I don't know. Maybe. I'll say yay because I'm interested. Troy Baker's in it, your boy. It'd be easier to list what Troy Baker is not in.
00:39:24
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August 16th on unguard comes out. It's a, um, it's like a funny action game with like comedic stuff. I don't know. People are excited about it. So beat them up. It's beat them up. They ragdoll. They, I think the enemy's ragdoll. That's fun. I like ragdoll. It looks like, it looks like, uh, like a ratcheting clank. Um,
00:39:54
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I don't know. Shrek. Whoa, what a combo. Ratchet and clank meets Shrek. I don't know. I'll say yeah, because that sounds incredible. 3D action game. Yeah. That sounds amazing. August 17th, we have Shadow Gambit, the Curse crew. Now Shadow Gambit, the name. That's a name I've been hearing for a very long time. Yeah. I feel like maybe it's just not, maybe it's like,
00:40:24
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It's also two very marketable terms. Yeah, I feel like there's so many games called Shadow Gambit. But there is only one game called Shadow Gambit, and it's the Cursed Crew. But I feel like I've heard Gambit in a name before. It's weird. Anyway, it's by the developers of that one.
00:40:54
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Oh, you know. It's like an old West game. Desperado. Oh, I've heard of that. Yeah. Yeah. It's by that series. So it's a lot like that, like over the top isometric action game. I'm going to say nay because I have a, I have a, I don't know why. Isometric very rarely does it for me.
00:41:21
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You're over isometric like though. I don't know. Something about that angle just feels. I just don't like it immediately puts me off. Like I've played and enjoyed a lot of it. Like I love final fantasy tactics, that kind of thing. But like, and maybe tactics is part of it is like, I'm not running around. Yeah. But I don't know. Yeah. Adventure games in that. It's a map for me.
00:41:50
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The Chainsaw Massacre releases finally. It's like one of those dead by daylight games, I'm assuming. I'm going to say nay. I was never really hit with me, the asymmetrical. The only one I had fun with was Friday the 13th, and even then, I didn't really like playing with people. I just liked murdering teenagers. I know a game that you'll probably be excited about its release.
00:42:20
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Uh, on August 18th, we have bomb rush cyber funk. Oh, hell yeah. That's the jet set one. The jet set radio, uh, looking game. I think there's, there's like skateboards in and everything too, right? I think so. I love the radio and it looks like, I mean, we've all been burned by spiritual successors before. Some would say mighty number nine times, but.
00:42:48
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I wasn't very good. Was it really not that good? I think it was also a victim of its own hype where it was like, this can be the best game ever. It's Mega Man, Baby Mega Man. And it was during the period where Mega Man was not back yet. So everyone was like, this is the Mega Man we're waiting for. It's Mega Man time. And then it came out and it was short and all right and not amazing. And everyone was like, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
00:43:16
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It's recapture my feeling when I played Mega Man 4 for the first time. It's one of those cases of the developers not keeping up with the genres. It's also an early crowd fun game. That was Kickstarter launched its own Kickstarter and here comes a game and then he had all these other developers like, holy shit, I can use this.
00:43:43
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It's tough because like there weren't really, I mean, even now people, a lot of people struggle with how to manage that. I'll say bloodstained is the best kick-started game. If you kick-started that game, ooh, it's, oh yeah, you just, you're just, oh, you're getting continuously paid with those games. You're just wreaking the benefits of, of those games. Yeah. Cyber rush, sire bomb, funk, bomb rush, cyber funk.
00:44:11
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The shitty name. Legally not Jet Set Radio. Yeah. I will call it. But I'm going to say yay. I'll say yay. I'm excited. I can see him.
00:44:20
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Gamescom probably why the the month is so light It's cuz games like games comes happening in Germany on the 22nd got any gate We'll go over a gate. We'll have a games caught episode again calm episode. Yeah. Yeah, so so so wait that On August 22nd EA is putting out one of their originals called immortals of avium and it's a first-person action game where you do magic and stuff and
00:44:50
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i actually had the chance to play it and it's actually it's really fun magic is very appealing to me it reminded me a lot of uh uh the game works are this tangle game works uh game um tokyo
00:45:13
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Yeah, Ghostwire Tokyo. It's like that, but more action. We were the Ghostwire Defender Chads when that came out. Oh yeah, still to this day. That's a game that everyone should play. It's a game that in like 10 years people will be like, why didn't anybody
00:45:34
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like this when it came out fucking rocks this is aged amazingly i think you don't even i would say evil within is a game i feel that people really need especially the second one um especially the second one the first one's okay but the second one really narrows it down but no one the fact that no one played the first one kind of limited the second the ability so immortals of avium i'll say yeah
00:46:01
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Yeah, I'm gonna say yay. Dear Villagers, a publisher is releasing Fort Solace on August 22nd as well. You're kind of like a space man. I don't know, it looks like a walking game. I'm gonna say meh. It has a lot of hype around it, but I'm gonna still say meh. Because that's just what I do.
00:46:28
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Gotta be in a specific mood for a walk-in game. August 24th.
00:46:33
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Blasphemous 2 comes out. Happy birthday, baby boy. Thank you. Blasphemous 2 comes out on your birthday. Whoa. Do you like Blasphemous the first one? I didn't play it. I had the opportunity to play it. I played through it, but Blasphemous 1 is a lot of fun. It's very hard. It's one of those Souls-like 2D games, I guess you can call it, where you dodge and you
00:46:59
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There's like bloody pixelated monsters and it's kind of spooky. Um, I think the game kitchen is a very good developer and, uh, I'm going to give it a birthday. Yay. I'm going to say, yeah, I'm going to say I'll play it on, uh, I'll play it on Spencer's birthday. Yeah.
00:47:17
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Cause why not? August 25th, everyone's been waiting for this one. We have armored core six fires. It's, it's very interesting. The approach to this release, um, not a lot of time. I feel like there's like five months. I mean, you had Elden ring, which was like years of like updates, small, like little tidbits of information, but this one was like announced like six months ago. And yeah.
00:47:48
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And now we're here. I think it's going to sell well. I don't think a lot of people are going to like it. I think I don't think people really understand what they're getting themselves into. I think they're just getting Oh, it's like Elden Ring. It's a souls game. Yeah, it'll be a little different. Yeah. And and that's it.
00:48:15
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But on the flip side of that, I'm happy that we can kind of get From Software away from the Souls-like brand because honestly, it's getting a little old for me. That thing Robert Downey Jr. said about Oppenheimer where he was like, and I love Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, but he was like, you kind of worry when you do the same thing for like 10 years if your other muscles
00:48:38
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are out of practice or kind of rusty. So it's good for them to do something a little different, step outside, flex a new muscle for a while. It's good. It's good for everyone, I think. Because then when they go back to doing what they're doing, they'll have a renewed interest, reinvigorated things. Do you like Armored Core series? I never played them. I watched videos of them. You ever play Zone of the Enders? Yes. There's nothing like that. It's a weird game, but it's a lot of fun.
00:49:09
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It's nothing like zone of the enders has both have robots. Yeah, they both have robots. Uh, yeah, this one is VR a lot. That was fun. This one is more methodical. I found when I played it.
00:49:22
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like slowly over time. I loved the, the fact that you, you get used to the, the, your fuel and your, your ammo and you start, you start feeling one with the game. And I love that feeling of like,
00:49:39
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I'm playing it. You're watching it. But in your head, you're like, how the fuck is he doing this? And my act because my actions on the controller and I'm pushing everything I am there. There's a rhythm to it. It feels so good. It's so nice. It's so nice to watch because
00:49:59
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The skills that you're putting, it's not, oh, I'm mashing X to do this huge combo Final Fantasy 16, you know, which is also a fun game to watch someone play. Um, this one is more like, holy shit, that looks beautiful on the screen. You look at the person's hands and they're, they are actively controlling every action that that, that, uh, character is doing.
00:50:21
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paying attention to cooldowns, uh, ammo, um, strategy, dodging. Um, it's all stuff that you have to, yo, you really have to keep in mind, um, with these, with these games, especially your gear. Um, I saw a guy who just completely lowered his defenses, but had the fastest mech and he's like, you know what? I job I'm going to choose this. I'm just not going to get hit.
00:50:47
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And that's how he approached gameplay. He just didn't, it's, it's, it's harder, but that's the way he liked to play. And, and on the flip side of that, he had access to some of the stronger loadouts because he didn't have armor. So you, you, you can play around with stuff like that. And I think, I think armor core six is, is going to definitely surprise a lot of people.
00:51:13
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Uh, August 29th doesn't stop. We have a sea of stars and from, hi, I'm so stoked. Yeah, I'm interested in that. I don't know who's going to be reviewing this for Noisy Pixel, but I may have to, I may have to take it just cause it's something I want to play.
00:51:34
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Yeah. Yeah. Yay for me. That's- Oh, yeah. Yay for both of them. Yay for both. See, it's an armored Corsics. Yay for both. Same day, NIS America is putting out Rhapsody 2 and 3 on releasing those. Finally in the West, they've never been released in the West before. If you like old classic RPGs with some cool songs and some cute girls, Rhapsody is a pretty good story.
00:52:05
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I don't remember what happened, but I do. I think I spoiled myself. Yeah. When I was younger at the ending of Rhapsody three, I'll try to forget it though. While I play. Yeah. Cause I never thought it would come last. So maybe I misread that or that was speculation. Yeah.
00:52:29
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Especially with these old games coming West, I ruined a lot of them for me and my teens because there was no hope.
00:52:37
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There's never anything else. It was a different time. Yeah. And then at the end of the month, we head to Seattle for PAX. PAX. PAX Adobe. Yeah. Sadly, Spencer won't be with us. I will not be with their buds. In spirit. Hoping next year to do stuff. We'll see. I don't know. Now that I'm a grown up and I have grown up costs, it's tough.
00:53:00
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Yeah. Yeah. I think this is the longest unqualified game chat episode we've had in a very long time. The big special, the comeback special for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. That's, this is it. This is, this is for you. Uh, this is our, I'm sorry. Yeah. Todd B. Todd B. This is for you. It's having fire and Justin anime and.
00:53:23
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Lazy, you were all there when I woke up. I haven't seen Justin anime in a while. I haven't either. Justin might have given up on us. Justin. I don't blame you. Have you seen this? Justin. When you see your favorite group getting a little more popular, you don't want to support them anymore. I get it Justin anime. You guys are successful now. Not the same. Not the same. Not very punk. That's our episode.
00:53:51
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I hope everyone is happy and safe and we'll see you next week. See you guys later.