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Podcast Introduction and Halloween Season Discussion
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello, you are listening to the all-new Anti-Famboy Podcast for the week of September 29, 2024. You're so close, I can taste the bones of the skeletons rising from the grave. We're not quite yes from y'all gray wow's from your old grave so we're not quite there yet, but we're so close.
00:00:23
Speaker
I'm getting ready for Spooky Town. I'm already, I've already cheated on some September. I've already sent the DMs to October. I said, I'm ready. Send me your location, ASL. I don't know if that's a thing that still happens anymore. But anyway, hi, hello, how are you?
Host Introductions
00:00:39
Speaker
My name is Devin Kopeck and with me is Steve Oteri. I'm ready for Spooky Town. I've got the whole heckin' U-Haul packed up, driving it full force across the bridge. We're going.
00:00:53
Speaker
And one Jonathan Soiree. Rise from your grave. Chris Galani is so into it that he's a beast, right? It's all the beast. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm. Fucking go to the game. That thing stinks. Like that's a fucking stick. No, dude, that's a that's a game. That's a game that's elevated by its means. It's iconic. Let's look it up. Let's look it up, dude. All these reviews.
Exploration of Altered Beast and Monster Games for October
00:01:18
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Like, listen, I I have a lot of love for Altered Beasts. It was the very first Sega game I ever played.
00:01:24
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But i stay correct reviews reviews are real bad. Well, except for Sega nerds, they gave it a 4.5 out of 5. It might be a little biased. IGN, who literally hands out nines.
00:01:37
Speaker
like candy as we talking about like 1994 altered beast 5.3 out of 10 from IQ. That's like 94 altered beast. And this is I'm talking like the the so the Sega version, which apparently is not the only version. Well, there's like an arcade Genesis. There's the arcade. There was a master system version. Yeah. But I mean, like the I my I'm talking about You know, the wise from your grave is very much. Wise from your grave. Wise from your grave. Wise from your grave. That's very much the genesis. Marriage. You're going to get queen in your beard.
00:02:17
Speaker
But yeah, and again, Chris is so into it. He's already in the ground. Yeah, right. So Chris is Chris. No, Chris is into the the porn version. Altered breast. Oh, is that what he's doing right now? yeah That's that's the game that he likes to play. He's on the hunt for that mythical third titty. Yeah. And we said, dude, just put on Total Recall. He's like, it's not the same. It's not the same. Just play Dragon's Dogma. Play Dragon's Dogma. Get that mind. Get that mind. Get that mind. No, no. No, you don't even need the mind. You just got to go to the Sphinx.
00:02:48
Speaker
And then others I forgot about you guys. I can't make it. I'm who's the who's the best altered beast for. Oh, the dragon's pretty good. But I do just like the wolf man being able to zip back and forth. ah' like that two so So I've always found it very funny, like when they get on their They get like on their hands and knees when they crouch fight like crouch. pun Yeah. And they're in their wolf form. And I was like, this has definitely been like this activated some some king where you're like a tiger man and you're just like, oh, you're on your hands and knees and you're just in that position. Dude, there is definitely like a timeline of someone who played alter beast and they were like, OK, well, I can hold that one back.
00:03:46
Speaker
And then they saw a space jam and they were like, fuck, damn it. Well, we've talked about that before. Like this jam is like a space jams on another level. You're like, bro, you were actively trying to get me a bone right now.
00:04:05
Speaker
Like, I like i liked what they did in Space Jam, too. You know what? I appreciated that. Look at one of his hands and knees and like, dude, honestly. Oh, come on. Altered bees. That's activated somebody. Altered bees could possibly make the list we were talking about. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah. What list is that, Steve? ah That is the great games to play in October because it features monsters. list Exactly. Scary, dude.
00:04:34
Speaker
Mm hmm. Because it is October. We're talking about some of the scariest and best monster games. Yeah. Castlevania. You didn't even mention that one. i Idiot. Yeah, I didn't tell the Alucard. Yeah, we were talking about. what but You're right. Never mind. Yeah. What's that game? um The sides from beat them up. That's like the monster thing. You're like fighting monsters.
00:05:00
Speaker
Okay, no nice. Oh, is that out like did that was that in one of those collections that I didn't You know, what you guys know I'm talking about Yeah, I know you're talking about I just didn't know if you like play as kaiju's Like Godzilla and King Kong and shit no, no, no, no night slashers is like ah it's a size. I don't know. Yes We're just fighting zombies and shit. It's like a Capcom game. You're talking about night breed. That shit is I ain't talking about night breed yeah i'll talk about night three home talk about you talk about Saturday night slam jam Saturday night slam masters and master that's what ive been that's the sequel but the unknown sequel dude let me tell you I used every once in a while I fall down a slam masters like YouTube because like watching gameplay like watching I watch gameplay and I look up the lore because
00:05:58
Speaker
I don't. Steve, you played that game, right? Like the lore of the pro scene. You showed players. Yeah. So so when you beat the game, right? These two other characters show up to like challenge you and they're not in the game. And you're like, who are these guys? And then as somebody who's only ever played like the Sega and Super NES versions, like you just never see them ever. Yeah. And then it's like I thought there's a sequel, but the sequels much more like a fighting game.
00:06:28
Speaker
I would love to. And there's like a monster. There's like a zombie character and stuff like that. And it's. Yeah, I don't know. It's it's. Are you aware of Suda 51's very first game?
00:06:42
Speaker
He made a fire pro wrestling game for the Super Nintendo. It only released in Japan. And in it, it has a story mode. And in the story mode, you go up a gun against a guy who is just basically Ric Flair. He's just Ric Flair. And he is you know he's a cartoon bad guy. But keep in mind, this is 2-51. That guy is not right in the head. So the end the end of that game is you beat Ric Flair you're the champion but Ric Flair like apparently like steals your like wife and like does all this stuff and the end of the game is literally like just like your house and you just hear a shotgun
00:07:24
Speaker
well Yeah. Yeah, dude. That's the end of that game. And I was like, dude, suit of 51. What are
Suda51's First Game and Silent Hill 2 Excitement
00:07:30
Speaker
you doing? My guy? This is your first game. That's your dude that's the guy. I have a take. Let him go. He basically made the wrestler for super Nintendo. That's what he did. that's su So, um, so real quick, uh, night slashers remake.
00:07:49
Speaker
Uh, is, is a real game. Uh, and it's, it's out like you can play it now. It's, uh, nine bucks or 10 bucks. It's on switch. Oh, this came out recent. This came like a couple of days ago. Well, a couple of days ago, I thought this came out for steam. It was 26. Okay. Well then maybe I, I stand corrected because that is a little bit better than June.
00:08:17
Speaker
Yeah, the initial release dates is June 10th. Hmm. Which is like, what are we doing here, guys? But. Yeah, when's that? Jason or Halloween and Evil Dead? Side scroll coming out. You know, that that's a good question, because I remember trying to look that up and I just could not find anything on it. And I kind of forget the name of that. Yeah, I know it was Lee. That that that that.
00:08:47
Speaker
Because we're I'm like we're I'm ready. Yeah. ah All right. Well, you can buy it. So there's got to be a early release date, right? um was home eighteen October October 18. Oh, dude, that's like right around the corner. Yeah. I mean, listen, no retro months, no month like Halloween gets me in the mood to like watch very specific like holidays. Actually, Halloween is in a month.
00:09:15
Speaker
Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. No month like October gets me like I just everything needs to be screwed. I want to play spooky things. I want to watch spooky things. Do you want to do? Yeah. What's on there? What's on the docket then for this month? Like what are you planning on spooking yourself out? like ah Well, I think I'm going to play his night slashes first and foremost. Play silo to silo to action. Maybe. Yeah, it.
00:09:45
Speaker
Maybe, maybe. Is that PS5 Pro ready? Is it PS5 Pro ready? I think it is, dude. Stop it, man. um I'm weak. No, because I saw that. I mean, I don't mean to fucking gas up the fucking fire, though, but I saw that they increased the list of games. They increased the list of games that are like enhanced for PS5 Pro or some shit. I didn't see it. Well, I mean, it's.
00:10:15
Speaker
ah Cyberpunk 2077 was not on that list. sevenin So, OK. You know, still. But yeah, but again, as we were discussing before the show, I so I have the physical version. So you have to buy an 80 dollar disk drive. Yeah, so like, why is that? You might as well just buy the digital one. It's cheaper to buy the price. I know. Not buying the digital version of that game.
00:10:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's cheaper than buying. the Yeah. But then, but then, you know, there's other games and I do have a a little bit of a physical collection of Blu-rays, 4K specifically Blu-rays. But that's neither here nor there. Honestly, I feel like, yeah, I feel like they all these games. Apparently, yeah, there's 30 minutes of gameplay that happened at TGS.
00:11:08
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that is apparently on PS5 Pro. I don't know if that's just the title. Or what, but I feel like every game coming out like from now, feel like Astrobot isn't even on that list. So that's kind of weird. Like it's not PS5 Pro. According to Digital family Foundry, that's the most that's the best performing game ever made. They're like, yes, five, bro. No, no, like in general.
00:11:37
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Like they're like, we can't find anything wrong with like the performance of this game, which is kind of interesting. I don't know how, you know, how crazy we're getting with all that stuff, but they're like, there's literally no place where it dips. It all looks good. I know. But like, what's the point if the game is just soulless? It's just it's just carried by the crutch of like fucking Games that somebody played on ps1 one day like come on. Yeah, you know, yeah, I mean, yeah, why why bother having fun? You know, but yeah, I gotta to buy that game at some point i haven't even I haven't even played I haven't really even played dead rising yet. Is it? Maybe I'll wait till dead rising is um Another I'll wait till it's like steam deck verified and then I'll just play it on that. Yeah is yeah
00:12:34
Speaker
That's a good I feel like that's a good game to play on a steam deck. Well, that's kind of a a surprise to hear that it's not steam deck. They're still unknown. It's so yeah I mean, it's a little dicey in certain sections. I've but i've noticed when I was i see I was doing the I was playing a little bit. I was doing the thing where you like drive around in like the parking garage and there's like thousands of zombies down there. Is that where is that where it gets choppy when there's a lot of shopping down there? Yeah. Because I was going to say like mostly every R.E. Engine game like works fine on Steam Deck. Like it's not like distracting me. It's just like, oh, this is like, you know, not as smooth. Yeah, it should be. But also it's because, you know, it is the R.E. Engine and it looks good like as opposed to like the other engine. It's still new. i'm Sure. I'm sure they'll optimize it. Right. They have they've got a ton of updates they can probably do.
00:13:28
Speaker
Wait. So, uh, so I'm looking at the 8th October 8th. Silent Hill to remake. Yep. But if you buy it, is anyone getting it? Oh, I told I told John when you stepped away. I already got it. You piece of shit. I bought the deluxe edition, too. So I'm going to be playing it on October 6th. Oh, my. Tell Tim. Yeah. Wait. Do you want to tell Tim? Well, do you talk to you anymore? Dude, I did this before the podcast. Oh, you played early. If we preorder it, we can play it early.
00:13:57
Speaker
You can play two days early.
00:14:02
Speaker
What's Sunday? though That's fucking that's stupid. That's just like at least fucking Space Marine like was like here. You're having a Friday. Have it on the fucking weekend. Not fucking football. Not NFL Sunday. Yeah, that's stupid. Here's the thing. NFL Sunday slash fucking.
00:14:17
Speaker
Baseball playoffs first day of baseball play yeahoffs John Devon or Tim is not wrong Tim is not wrong about blooper team They don't make the best decisions. Yeah, but is that a blue routine decision? Is that codon? We're is it weird like and again, um this is not me bashing Tim by any means We bash him all the time regardless, right? some of like sir is it Yeah, but is it like is it weird that like I'm starting to just, you know, Tim is very harsh on games in general. So like, like, I don't really. Is it weird that I'm like, oh, maybe Silent Hill 2 might be good, but Tim will never say it's good. so Like Tim being so hard on it is making you more. interested It's making me kind of like be a little bit more open to it. i that whatever I think that's the natural trollness that we all kind of share, though, in terms of personality.
00:15:18
Speaker
Mm hmm. We're like, yeah, I want it to be. I want it to be good. No, and that's the thing. Like, I want to play. I really want to play Red Dead Redemption, too, because you guys fucking hated it. That's why I want to play it. Right. Understandable. I want it. I want to see Devin Lyche. That's the thing I want to point out. Devin. did Yeah, but Devin, Devin doesn't say it's the it's one of the best games ever made. That's what the general public says that it's one of the best games ever made.
00:15:43
Speaker
hands down it's like weird because it it kind of remember when I was never when I was about never when I bought it so clever when I Devin, remember when I bought Red Dead Redemption 1 and I was going to play it like that, like a couple of days from when we oh yeah and Galani spoiled the ending for me and I just fucking returned it the next day. Well, that was like, that was like his streak. He was on ah on a hot streak. What? I forgot. Do you think Chris actually felt bad? Do you think actually felt bad? Dude, he moved to New York to New York that year.
00:16:15
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, he fucking gave he fucked he fucked up that and then maybe he knew though He knew and he's like he's like, you know, I know I'm out. I'm spoiling everything by the way Darth Vader Luke's father. I'm gone I Don't mean I don't think he meant that I think that's the thing I think there's a lot of times like the things that you're excited to talk about are the big twists and things so I That was it was almost like a great like I guess we could talk about his Red Dead one, right? It doesn't even matter if we spoil. Yeah. But like yeah we were talking about the game and he was just like, yeah, my biggest disappointment with the game was that John Marsden dies at the end. And I was like, what? I was like, what? I was like, dude, I was going to start this game tomorrow. Like I was ready. Like, nah, dawg. Well, now you don't have to. No, no, you get side.
00:17:10
Speaker
I say I saved all that time for you, John. Yeah, he was doing you a favor. So, wait, so do you guys think Red Dead 1 is better than Red Dead 2?
Debating Fun in Red Dead Series
00:17:23
Speaker
ah You know what? It's more fun to play. I agree with that. I think it is definitely more fun. Red Dead 1 is more free and it's like go play in its world. Yeah, um it's just like
00:17:41
Speaker
I don't know. Uh, like two's infinitely more impressive. Yeah. I think the story's better in two though. Like, As somebody who replayed one, like, just because I really like that game, and I walked away being like, dude, the story of this game is kind of bad. Like, I don't think it's and it's not nearly as it's got like the GT. It's got the rock star sensibility of like these quirky, weird characters and stuff like that. But like the main plot is like. You're chasing Dutch, who's just like this kind of mythical character at the time.
00:18:21
Speaker
And then he just like doesn't do much the first guy you're chasing, you know, you catch him then you're in Mexico, which is like It's kind of vice of and then you get out of Mexico and then you're in the mountains and then you just kill him in the snow and then I'm not saying it's like terrible, but I It's like it's it's not the base plot. It's just like the little things that may always kind of makes it really good. And then two, I think overall, like has a much more engaging story because there's so much and because the game kind of forces you because you can follow an NPC home and they have they live a life they live like an actual real life. um I'll never get over that. Yeah, I'll never get over that. The crazy stuff, too, is like just the stuff you when you're traveling and then
00:19:10
Speaker
You know, you'll just run into this guy and he's like, hey, why don't you come down and ah eat dinner with us? And then all of a sudden, this is random, random. You're just around. And then they're like, come eat dinner with us. And then they drug you and then rob you and then throw you in a pit. And then you can choose to just like escape and go back to camp or find them.
00:19:29
Speaker
Get your shit back and then it's like a side quest or is this like the main it's just something that can happen. Yeah, there's it like there's just like how is this not the best game ever made that I mean, that's amazing. This sounds amazing. Listen, no, because that's the thing. It's the things that aren't like the primary. You can't run a camp and then we're all like, yeah, but like I feel like there's this balancing act when it comes to games like that, where like the stuff where it's going to shine in.
00:19:58
Speaker
Yeah, it'll it'll like, you know, there's there's a balancing act like you you can't you can't excel at everything. There's always going to be a disappointment factor on it from on a different pillar. And then like, but that, you know, like. I don't even know. I don't even know what to say. Like there there's like like Zelda, for instance, they can't make like fucking Last of Us type storytelling in I mean, they, you know, it kind of does. where But like, you you know, you know, what I'm talking about like, it's not like it's not like a perfect game. That's like, you you know, Super Mario Odyssey, for instance, like you can't have like a riveting fucking like story told game in Super Mario Odyssey for it to be considered perfect or one of the best games ever made. Right. Like Super Mario 64 like shit like that. So like, I don't know, like
00:20:53
Speaker
What you're just the thing that can, quote unquote, happened to you in Red Dead Redemption, too, is like seems like something that you don't really see in another game. And yeah, well, you know, what I think you know how there's like the term emergent gameplay, right? Like, which is what like Breath of the Wild and what we thought Shadows of Mordor was going to be. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, like there's there's that right, which what everybody really likes about those games.
00:21:19
Speaker
Yeah, I would say there's not really that, but there's like emergent storytelling because like there's just red. Yeah. So it's like kind of tackles. OK. It's how you want to tackle it. So, yeah, there is the viable complaint that you're like, well, I want to do this mission this way. And the game's like, no, you can't do it that way. Like you yeah have to do X, Y and Z. You know, so is it or is it an aspect? It's an X. Is it an expectation thing? Like the game is so free that you It's you feel like you should be able to do stuff that you that it doesn't let you. Yeah. But it's like i think it's when you're in the open, world the main stuff. Yeah, the open world is where it kind of shines because that is emerging gameplay and emerging storytelling. Like you're just on your horse and random shit will just happen. And like one of my favorite things ever in any a game is the
00:22:13
Speaker
um the Red Dead one zombie DLC. Oh, my God. Because there's a nightmare. So good. yeah But there's stuff like because in the original game, you would just drive by and people would be like, I got bit by a snake. And you can just keep going by or give them, you know, medicine and stuff like that. It's just something that could happen while you're just going by. But in the zombie one, they could just like.
00:22:38
Speaker
shoot like you'll be like, oh, I got it. And then they just shoot themselves in the face or they ask you to shoot them. Or if you don't, they turn into a zombie and we're shooting shit. And I don't know. I just always found that stuff like so, so fun and just like really. Really? Well, a lot of people, a lot of people is like are like, oh, that's that's my Red Dead is yeah my Red Dead one was undead nightmare. Yeah, it's just like.
00:23:06
Speaker
I don't know. It's a standalone to you, right? Like you don't want even know. You could play that game on its own now, I think. I think. but also Well, the it's it's kind of tricky because like you can only play them on like 360 still, I believe. right You can play it on the PS3. However, the PS3 version is very janky, like for whatever reason. I remember reading story like like a Jason Schreier story. I remember when there was the whole drama about the That guy the Benz was suing them and he was like this guy something Benz was weren't he worked at Rock star one of the voice actors. or No, no, he was like this he He was kind of like just seen as like what they would call a closer like okay this was the guy that like
00:23:53
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the game would just be this glitchy mess. And then he involved. And then it just kind of. Oh, I remember you talking to the lesson into a game. And then and then like he left the company and then there's like emails and stuff. I think it's because he wanted it. He wanted money for like, you know, you thought he was owed money. ah But there's emails where the guy's like, I need the Benz. He's like, we need to help put this game back together like. And, you know, there's all the stories about how like Red Dead one is like Barely held together with like fucking glue and tape like on the in the mechanical side of it. They're like, it's like a miracle. This thing's like spaghetti code. Yeah. Yeah. And there and just like with the PS3 and in the the cell processor, whatever, just like it. There's issues there. So and I don't is it out on PC? Was there ever a PC Red Dead? I don't think no. Red Dead one. No, there's not. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like.
00:24:51
Speaker
The 360 version of that is is the best version. And again, as somebody when I replay it, I played it played on Nintendo Switch. That is true. I forgot. that snap Yeah. Well, listen, as somebody who played it when I replayed it, I played it on my PS3 playing the Red Dead or the zombie.
00:25:11
Speaker
ah DLC was a fucking challenge. Yeah, not work at all. And it took me a lot to like just get through like the beginning, like the beginning of that DLC is just broken. Like I barely got through it. Anyway, point being is. Red Dead 2 is really good. It's just it's not fun. It's not fun to play is the price.
00:25:36
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of just like the missions, especially the main missions, where it makes you like, it holds you by the hand and like makes you go to each point on the minimap. And if you don't stand on that exact point and do the things on those exact points, it like fails the whole mission for you. And I remember there being one mission where it's like, you're, you're in like a Gulch. And there's a bunch of guys running down the Gulch to like fight you.
00:26:02
Speaker
And I remember being like, Oh, I have a sniper rifle. And so I took out my sniper rifle and I was just like plunking all these dudes as they were running down the Gulch. And it was like, mission failed. You didn't meet at the fight point and fight. And I was like, the fuck? Like, no, like I was doing it the rock star way where it's like you threw a thousand guys at me and I just started shooting. Like, why why are you making me march up the hill? Yeah.
00:26:26
Speaker
But that's the thing, like on the counter side of that, that open world, because of all that free stuff where a serial killer will like come out of nowhere and try and kill you, ah like the the free world stuff and like the story structure of the missions is very like counterintuitive.
00:26:45
Speaker
So, you know maybe if I replayed it again, You know, I think maybe if you replay it with like, ah yeah, with like a more open mind, just knowing what to expect. Right. Because I think that was how I played it. Like I read that, all too. Yeah, I think I played it after hearing like Steve and Chris kind of poopoo it a little bit. And I was like, oh it's not that bad. What are you guys talking about? And then it's like.
00:27:09
Speaker
I know naked. Jakey did a a new video on Red Dead, too, because his original Red Dead, too. He kind of like lambasted as well. And he was like, I played it again. I threw some mods on to make it a little bit nicer. Oh, that's right. Yeah. It was like the like be able to run in camp mod and stuff like that. And he was like, it was like a way better experience in his head. So. Yeah. Yeah. Do maybe play it. I would. Yeah. Why not play with mods, dude? You know?
00:27:38
Speaker
If you can, because it's just got to. I guarantee you, there's there's somebody out there that just has like a list of like the the best mods to like have to play during that game. Like we're not it just like is like slight slight enhancements like.
00:27:56
Speaker
Wasn't that just like what the galaxy mods website does anyway? So here's the best mods. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I tried downloading like two mods off that website and neither of them worked. And I was like, I don't know what I'm doing. This is harder than it should be. Look, as long as it has a Shrek mod, I mean, I got I used a mod in Dragon's Dogma to to find this thing that I forgot what it was.
00:28:23
Speaker
Oh, oh, it's like the leftover things, it' the the tokens, right? The token. Yeah, you have to like, yeah, one of the riddles for the Sphinx was like, go to the, go to where you found the first one. what And I Yeah. And the spot that I thought I could have sworn was the first one wasn't, it was like the one right before that, some random area.
00:28:46
Speaker
So I downloaded a mod that, like, marks off where it was. I fucking cheated. I don't care. Sue me. Sue me. I ain't got shit to prove to anyone. I was going to say, yeah. Fuck that game. Fuck that game, too, by the way. That came out this year. Do you? You scared me out of that one. You know, appropriately. Yeah, because like I that's the thing is like I feel I felt like I like wasted my time. The beginning was a real high high. And my I felt like I wasted my time and my energy like really like like loving it and gassing it up because it was a lot of fun and then and then just the way the game is like constructed like that the way the quests are constructed is just like fucking ass but yeah that that one took a 180 right we the stuff yeah is that is like being like revolutionary game stuff and i guess may maybe it is but
00:29:39
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No, that was a game where I was like, this is cool. And then like the more and more I played of it, I was like falling out of like my interest. You know, it's a precursor for like how most monster hunters, the new monster hunters going to be. Well, I'll be honest, like there's something interesting about the. I guess we could maybe just talk about this for a little bit, but like.
00:30:06
Speaker
The state of play happened. I like the state of play. I think there's more good stuff than I was frankly expecting. But I was watching the Monster Hunter trailer and I was like, why is this so bad? Like, why don't I care about it? And then I was like. This and Dragon's Dogma, like. Because I'm like, dude, I love like there's a lot of trailers by Capcom that I love. And I was like, it's just like I don't care about um this.
00:30:36
Speaker
Like the narrative is not important in Monster Hunter games, so I don't know why they keep showing me narrative trailers. Yeah, I do not care. It's about fighting a fucking monster and then wearing its skin like that is what those games are about. Well, I mean, that's not true. Like you kind of have to have the backbone, like because that's how Destiny was to where it's like it's not they would show the the cinematic.
00:31:02
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lore stuff and like you don't really see it unless you look forward in those games. But like you still kind of need it. People do get excited about it, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. But it's like it's like that and and dragons, about which I feel like are mechanics like gameplay wise, pretty similar. Like at the very least, watching dragons dogma gameplay, like to gameplay, remind me of Monster Hunter, where you're just like,
00:31:29
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That's kind of farting around doing goofy stuff and climbing on things and shooting shit with big guns and and big swords and stuff like that. And I don't know, but it's like the gameplay right over the story where. I'm not saying that story rules in things like, you know, Resident Evil, but it's definitely more important than it is in like Monster Hunter.
00:31:53
Speaker
in my opinion. And I don't know. I don't know. I was just like, dude, I do not like these fucking monster trailers. And maybe it's just because like i as salty that I bounced off the first monster on the world. It was just cope. It might be just a weird way to like how do you sell those games to like people who aren't already playing those. like They already have the like the Monster Hunter audience locked in. you don't You don't need to sell them a story or like anything. So maybe they throw their stories in there to try and interest people who like have never been like involved with the franchise. Yeah, but I guess i guess this is your big bro. You play Monster Hunter World. Just play this.
00:32:36
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They should just have a commercial like, give me like an old school nineties commercial where it's just some cool kid. He comes up to a place and he's like, give me your skin. Yeah. I don't know, man. But yeah, so.
00:32:53
Speaker
There was that next year too, right? That was that's 20, 25. Yeah. What else do they got? Because this thing, this was like the big thing we were allic anticipating. Speaking of Resident Evil, why? Because I'm looking now, Steve, I'm intrigued. Why the fuck is Silent Hill to remake $70?
00:33:13
Speaker
when Resident Evil 4 remake was $60 at launch. Like that doesn't make any fun sense to me. Because it was the PS4 era and now we're in the PlayStation 5 era where games are all all it took seven years. Oh, did Resident Evil 4 come out on PS4 too? I don't think so. I don't think it did it. me sir Yeah, this is going to be awkward for now that you mentioned that, John, you're right.
00:33:41
Speaker
You know, I think it was still like. Wait, no, resume. Oh, wait, that's not remake. That's. Yeah, that's a risk. It's going to be so confusing that you can still buy it, though. You can still buy it. Yeah, let me. I'm looking. I'm looking now. Wait, wait. a halt How's the overall experience? No, no, it's not. It's p s oh, yeah, it's PS4, PS5. OK. Windows Xbox Series S. OK. All right. So it wasn't it wasn't even Xbox one, but it was PS4.
00:34:10
Speaker
I believe that makes sense. You Xbox one could barely run a screen saver. Come on. Yeah. What's this look like? Yeah, I'm kind of curious how this. I'm curious
Resident Evil Series Analysis and Speculations
00:34:20
Speaker
now. Yeah, I'm curious. Dude, you have to own every version of that game. Day one. P.S. Stop. Stop. No, no, no, no, no. I can't. P.S. for you before.
00:34:31
Speaker
All right. All right. So then I'm not I am not playing this fucking game on PS4. You might technically already own it, John, because if you own it digitally, you might have like the flip flop version where you get both versions. Oh, you know what? I think it did maybe or or asked me if it wanted to install the PS4 version to. I'm not doing that, though. Did you laugh? You're right. I just played the same. Finish the fight, John. Come on. You got to play all of them.
00:35:00
Speaker
I mean, well, I mean, if anything, I do I do plan on like when I'm ready, when I'm ready, you know, next year, maybe some sometime I have it on Steam. So I'm going to play it on PC when I'm ready. That's going to try. and I'm going to try and beat my so my times on PC. Oh, dude, dude, your brain's going to melt at like the the jump in frame rate. You know, it's funny. So I'm watching. I'm watching a video. How does PS4 remake run on a base PS4?
00:35:31
Speaker
And I'm looking at it and I'm like, you know, this looks like shit, but also I can't. I'm probably. Lying to myself. I mean, that's the thing that we played. We played Resident Evil seven on the PS4. We played Resident Evil two on the PS4. Yeah, we played Resident Evil three on the PS2. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We played Resident Evil three remake on PS4.
00:35:54
Speaker
I think so. Because that was 20, 20. that's right. Because they they just they just gave us the fucking PS5 update for that game for free, for free. And I haven't touched it. Well, there's nothing else we can do. Yeah, I was like, yeah, we murder that game we did everything that we could in that game. But all right. Well, I guess so much fun, man. Well, I really hate when people trash that game. I really, I really, it really makes grinds my ears. Some people trash RE3 remaking. I know.
00:36:24
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I tried to explain that. I tried to explain the the the fact that that game's got like so much replayability in it. But and it's like, all right. Yeah, they cut out the worst boss in the game. Sorry. The stupid worm. You know, yeah so wo it Love it. And they made the hospital part a lot more fun. Sorry. I got lost. Yeah, sorry. That's the one. Sorry. They may. They may feel like.
00:36:48
Speaker
They made Jill Ripley. Sorry. i I just wish I wish they made that door and yeah just a little bit brighter. Have a little blinking sign to let you know that that's the door you're supposed to go in. My dumb ass was too stupid.
00:37:04
Speaker
I'm sorry they made Jill into into Ripley from aliens. Sorry. Sorry. um Sorry they made this game like aliens. The worst movie ever made. But speaking of Resident Evil, I was promised a Resident Evil thing this week, guys. Dude, dude, dude. All right. There was two things. One,
00:37:25
Speaker
Like all of a sudden, I start seeing screenshots of fucking Krauser and Leon in the jungle. And I was like, what? Yeah, dude, I would have fucking threw up. I would have thrown up if that if that was real out of anger or happiness. No, I had a fucking happiness. I would have been like, oh, PS, PlayStation is fucking safe, dude. Are you kidding me? Yeah, dude. Fucking serious. I was like, oh, shit. Operation Javier. Yeah, give me that. I want to play that.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah, I want to play. I want to play. I want to play as a fucking Leon and Krauser in Operation Javier. This is what I want. So this means we have the keelys. We have the keelys for a Resinuel 9 or Code Veronica. There's no way this is real, though, right? Like somebody just fucking. I'll be honest. I kind of hope not like it kind of was like, oh, I want to see
00:38:22
Speaker
Like, I don't want to see like a side story. Like, I want to see them just either. No, I thought this was going to be Resident Evil for DLC. That's what I thought this was going to be. Yeah. But even then, I kind of want to be like, oh, I don't want it to be DLC. I want them to use because like, just give us give us another game. Yeah. Give it. i'd write I want another game. I don't you want to go to Veronica. I would go to Veronica or I want Ari nine.
00:38:48
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a Because I thought that no like my theory was like they're gonna give us do the Capcom thing be like Resident Evil 9 is coming January 26 2025 you know the fucking the goat shit that Capcom's been doing the last few years and then they're just like oh and then coming this holiday Resident Evil 4 DLC operation Javier Yeah, I guess they already did a quote-unquote gold edition with the separate ways stuff unfortunately yeah
00:39:18
Speaker
Yeah, they might not still great deal. It's fine. You'll see it's separate ways. Yeah. Yeah. It was so good. Yeah. But no, you're right. Like there wasn't that many people. Everyone complete all the everything. All the purists complained about missing in in resume for remake was it separate ways? That's like a smart. Got it. They They're like, hold your head. Hold your hats. Hold your hats. We got them. But even like and, you know, I know we hate Resident Evil five, Devin, but.
00:39:50
Speaker
How much fun would Resident Evil 5 be in like in like with this type of gameplay you know like imagine if we could play through Resident Evil 5 but like you know I think it'd be fun as fuck dude yeah to That's where they deal same deal they know. Same deal is fucking. You know, same deal is 2005, Devin. You can be crazy. I'll let you be crazy. I'll be Shiva. You know, it'll be fine. It's like it didn't feel like I was having fun, but didn't feel good because I think we even then we all knew we were like, yeah. No, but I'm just saying, like, if they if they the remake team did Resident Evil five, I think it would be really fun in this.
00:40:34
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in this day and age of gaming now. It's like because a lot of a lot of things people want wanted in Resident Evil 4 remake was they just saying, like, how much fun would it be if we could play mercenaries with a friend and multiplayer? And I feel like that's kind of what Resident Evil 5 could be. Right. Just fucking just mindless action.
00:40:57
Speaker
But, you know, I guess I get I am torn. Because like it's just five was such like. Barely it was it was the best selling Resident Evil of all time. I know, but like it's not the way. What is it? What is it on? But like, like, all right, where was where does five rank in your personal list, though? If I were to rank the originals, I didn't know like all of them. Right. Like does. OK, let me ask you this. I mean, does five rank above seven?
00:41:31
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No, there's five rank above eight. No, I don't think so. No. So it doesn't rank. So it believe would be. Yeah. For for remake and for OG are one A, one B. Right. And then probably Resident Evil two remake is number two. And then.
00:41:52
Speaker
re evil one remi wow all the remakes are the best no but like yeah I don't know i don't sound I don't I sound like I sound like a zoomer. I don't sound like a resident You know, maybe Resident Evil 5 would be amazing. I don't know I just like to me It's like five is above six, but if six is the bottom I think five is six is so bad I know but like five is that right above six is Maybe it's above Code Veronica. I don't know. Like that. I never played personally. No, it's only one. It's the only like so's quote unquote main for for for slash remake to. Resident Evil 2 remake, Resident Evil 1 remake, then. Resident Evil 2 original. And then Resident Evil 1. And then.
00:42:46
Speaker
Resident Evil 3 remake. And then Resident Evil 3. Well, no, no. Code Veronica, maybe. I mean, I don't know. Deadly Silence. Where's that one, Rex? No, that was fun. We got to talk about Resident Evil. Gun survivor. Resident Evil Revelations. ah Yeah, because I mean, man, this is hard. You know, give me it. Give me a minute. I'll wrackle. Yeah. yeah Yeah, you can sit on that. Don't forget the PS2 online games. No, no, we're not coming with the garbos. We're not counting the Mudblood games, dude. um But that's the thing, like you asked somebody like, what what remake do you want now? You have a multitude of answers. Yeah, I mean, it's just like I just kind of it's just because five is such the gateway to six, which is like we don't
00:43:42
Speaker
The whole point and why I love the remake so much is because this is like a lovely opportunity to reset and avoid that. And I just don't want to go. This is like watching you relapse. All right. It's like watching a friend relapse. You're like, no, don't do that. You're heading right at it. that Yeah. Like, let's not do that, please. Like, this is a terrible idea. So that's kind of my vibe when it comes to five. I just you know, five is like good.
00:44:11
Speaker
It's not, you know, it's it's just not it's not what I want. So I I would either code Veronica or nine or plus. And I think the rumor is it's not. I think there's yeah nice like an open world. Right. That would be the way is the way. Yeah. the The way the way things go is non should be the next game. Yeah. Because we've got remake cycle now. And then, yeah. And then Veronica.
00:44:41
Speaker
And then Resident Evil one remake remake. And then. re Yeah. So when you say that I thought I thought about it Steve like that would be a really like I think that would be like a short game.
00:44:54
Speaker
if they just redid resident evil one, but with over the shoulder controls. What if you threw it? What if you threw in zero? Like they would have to put zero in there as well at the same time. So we'd be forced to play zero. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I guess zeros. Five's better than zero. I'll give it that. If that's it. Yeah. What do you don't like leaving things on the floor and having to come back to it?
00:45:23
Speaker
You know, I just I don't need that in my life. Sorry. This garbo, dude. Yeah, I'm having a hard time ranking these because. Like the the first person once I just feel like are different games, like they just feel like I can't rank them with these like, you know. Yeah. No, like i I acknowledge them as actual Resident Evil games, but like it's hard for me to place because like right now this is my ranking right now.
00:45:53
Speaker
Okay, is RE4 original, then RE4 remake, and then RE2 remake, and then RE remake, and then OG RE2, and then Resident Evil 3 remake, and then Resident Evil original, and then Resident Evil 3. So i like, I'm sure 7 is probably better. You know, maybe Resident Evil 7 is better than Resident Evil 3 remake, I guess.
00:46:22
Speaker
Right. Yeah, I would say so. I like it hurts. It hurts me to say that, though, because like I feel like I had a lot of fun. But yeah, it's a different game, you know, it is. It is very much a different game. Well, seven seven to me is is so much sharp goodwill for like fucking bringing that series from the brink. Getting that ship back into the horror. Yeah, but yeah, but is it top five in the series?
00:46:50
Speaker
No top five for you, Devin. Yeah. Oh, man. All right. So purists like Steve and I it definitely is not. But shit dude hold on for ah for a scrub lord like edgelord fucking goon or like yourself, like where where's. I know that top five is a top five for you because, yeah, it did save the series. OK, so I like. Also, yeah yeah, here's another question. Like, did seven save the series? Like,
00:47:19
Speaker
at the with the same scale that Resident Evil 4 saved the series? argue you that You could argue did. I think 7. Are we talking about classic Resident Evil 4? Resident Evil was still in like a pretty good place. It's just Resident Evil 4 was like so drastically like unique and like just well crafted. it like um yeah like if you if you look at this like If you look at the sales numbers, like 3.
00:47:47
Speaker
I mean, I don't know. Three. I mean, that was definitely the pump in the arm. Three in Code Veronica was what was when the game, the gameplay was starting to get stale, I would say. You're right. Like you the tank, the tanky like fixed camera controls. Code Veronica and Code Veronica X were. but Yeah, I would. Yeah, it wasn't really like a seller it's it's really it's not like the series was like.
00:48:09
Speaker
going to die if resume for seven might be seven might be five if I'm looking at this right because it's so seven might be top five for you okay so it's to remake for remake resume to resume for Is that like is that always gonna be the top four four and two and their remakes are gonna be the yeah Yes, I mean yeah it's like tough because it's kind of artificially inflating in the list. It's stupid It's stupid to make this list because of the read the remakes are are just as good if not better Did you just could you just say Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil 4?
00:48:48
Speaker
for like brevity's sake if we could like steve but is that is that is that being disingenuous all right well yeah like if we're cheating a little bit but like it's those games do capture the magic that their their originals did yeah i agree with you yeah two and two remake is number one four and four remake is number two i think but like so like by if my son grows if my son grows up to be like a sicko like I mean he already like if he grows up to be a sicko like me and like you know you know loves Resident Evil 4 you know becomes Resident Evil 4 nerd like me like you know cosplays is Leon at school and shit like that like that would be cool like I'll be all about it you think I let him you think I'd let him cosplay is Leon
00:49:34
Speaker
without playing the original. Dude, I think you'd be scared to let your son play Resident Evil 2. What would you do if he was like, I want to be Ethan Winters? Oh, dude. What would he do if he was a New York Mets fan? You might as well just ask me that question. I want to be Steve Burnside. Yeah, dude.
00:49:58
Speaker
I'd rather him be Steve Burnside than Ethan Williams. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I said I fucking said it. You know, the controversy. um Yeah, you know, if we're combining the remakes for brevity, yeah, if we're but brevity this yeah <unk> doing the disingenuous, that's the thing, though, like each one of those games kind of captures where they existed in the Resident Evil, like zeitgeist back then to where like four was like considered a masterpiece, like at the time for like action games and like just the series two ah was like, you know, the same thing, three kind of the same thing, where it's like
00:50:35
Speaker
It's it was like kind of like sevens, eight. All right. So in that case, it's two, four, seven. Oh, see, you say that I I three in my mouth, two, four, seven, three, eight. Did you not even put in one? No, no, no. Wow. That's fucking trash. No, did you even play remake the original? Never played remake.
00:51:01
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well i never wait for the reremake you know so the problem was is um that was one of many games that i've like i watched my brother just play
00:51:14
Speaker
that and like Castlevania and some other games. I'll mention a little bit later. ah We're just like on this list of games. So I watched him the hell out of that game ah like multiple times. So I'm like, I basically played it like I know I didn't. But so you're just saying like you watched someone eat gourmet food. So in your mind, you've already eaten the gourmet food. Yeah, yeah, it's not fair. It's not fair. Right.
00:51:42
Speaker
I mean, that's kind of the same thing with. All right. all lets Let's say. so So let's just say for brevity sake, one and one remake will combine that and then that will be above village. Then village. That's right. And five, then six. I've never played co veronica, so I can't rank that. Then zero. No, maybe. And never zero, never zero zero worse than six.
00:52:11
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John, only you can answer that. It's a question is the is the fact. Right. Yeah, that's. Yeah, it's like zero is such a no, because here this is this is the this is my this is my like mind. This is how my mind is is is looking at both games. Zero. I mean, six came out. It was trash.
00:52:32
Speaker
Right. Like in soccer. There's a lot. There's a lot in that. There's a lot. like Yeah. And I play. I played. I played the whole fucking thing. And I hated every second of smoke the whole pack. Yeah. But that was like, what? That's, you know, after I've played the best games in the series. Right. Yeah. Did Resident Evil zero. Resident Evil zero came out before four, I believe. So zero was 2002. Four was 2005. Yeah. 2003, 2004.
00:53:02
Speaker
um Yeah, yeah, or two dozen. Yeah. Yeah. So I remember I bought. A GameCube at Best Buy. That year in January, I think. When when did it was zero come out? What month and day? What was the launch day? whoa was January or something, I think. That's probably right, because that was before. Yeah, yeah. that that that The.
00:53:28
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Oh, November 12th. OK, when did Metro Prime come out?
00:53:34
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Metroid Prime was November 18th. Same fucking. Yeah, OK. So my mind is my mind remembered correctly, Steve. So I bought GameCube at Best Buy because they had a bundle where you pick a game for GameCube and it comes with the system. OK. It was around Christmas, so it wasn't the launch. Was it? Oh, no, maybe I maybe I did get it like the the day it came out, maybe. But it was around. Yeah, I guess it was around November.
00:54:05
Speaker
And I bought a GameCube excited because Resident Evil Zero was going to be my game with the system. And that's when I bought the system. And I picked that over Metroid Prime. And that's the thing. I wasn't really, you know, and um I wasn't really a Metroid like nerd at that point and in my life. So I was a Resident Evil nerd. That's the game that made people Metroid nerds.
00:54:28
Speaker
Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. um I would you could you could all you could say that I that was my first actual. Yeah, because I don't think I played Super Metroid when I was a kid. I mean, Metro Prime was my first Metroid proper. But yeah, like I bought a GameCube for I bought a console to play Resident Evil zero. Yeah. And that was the only that's the game that I got with the system. And that's the game that I played. And it was so bad. Like you I was so disappointed in it that.
00:54:58
Speaker
um That I got Metroid Prime and I played Metroid Prime and it was also in Metroid Prime rules But yeah, like like that's the thing like I was more disappointed in zero because I bought a system Specifically to play that game because it was all it was only it was exclusive for that for a GameCube Yo, I was more disappointed. Is it a worse game than six? You know what's funny? You know what? Yeah, it is. It was. It was probably a worse. game You know what? i What I disliked about zero more than the the gameplay mechanics is like that. It kind of broke the continuity. Oh, when I got like, so you're telling me zero. I was like, so you're telling me Rebecca beats a tyrant.
00:55:39
Speaker
yeah there's three death by yourself or yeah and then like i get it as ah As a year old biology phenom. magically just gets accepted to a fucking elite fucking police yeah tactics, tactical squad. But then is like too scared to leave a health room when she has like. And that. Yeah. And then and then let's let's a fucking prisoner just fucking walk free after. That's the part that really. offends you But yeah, I don't know. I just ah maybe yeah maybe that's why they put the the basketball picture of her.
00:56:17
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On Wesker's desk. Maybe that maybe that's to explain like how she was able even to get on stars. Wesker was a fucking pedo like for each shithead. Yeah. And what if you find out that Wesker's sons, because that goes son to. Oh, God, Mary. Oh, man. Maybe you know why they never touch. Maybe this basketball skills are why she could survive in Resident Evil zero.
00:56:45
Speaker
ah Yeah, do you remember when she dunks on ah the Tyrant? Dude, if that was a scene in that game, that would be the best Resident Evil. Jesus. Dude, she took her to the hole and just dunked on that Tyrant, man. But no, I yeah i just remember being like, wait, like that doesn't make sense. Excuse me, she was 18 on 16. But it's like, why would she become a fucking cop? like If she's a fucking child prodigy genius that graduated college at the age of 18 to biology, why is she not working for Umbrella? Like, well, not for nothing. But like, why? So she's gifted, right? So she's on stars. ah But like, yeah, why is she even OK? Why would she care? I need to stop. We need to stop as here. Here's the thing. As millennials, we need to realize that back in the day,
00:57:39
Speaker
These people were just walking into like comfy ass jobs, like at age 18. Yeah. She walked in. Yeah. Wesker gave Wesker a firm handshake and a basketball photo. He hired her on this. At least at least Leon at least Leon's Resident Evil 2 like story is is kind of believable. Right. He's starting from like the ground up. He got drunk, you know, fucking woke up, woke up late and he was late to his first day like.
00:58:07
Speaker
That's believable, then. Oh, I'm 18, child prodigy, super genius in biology. do Should I work in a lab? doing research like I should be. No, I'm going to be a fucking cop. Like that doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not going to lie. but The Leon getting in a fight with his girlfriend and getting drunk story. I don't buy it. Leon is too baby faced 100 percent for that kind of behavior. What they should have done was not even like in the. You got to really read deep into that right now. I know ahction manual they do. They what they should have done was be like.
00:58:41
Speaker
They called Leon and were like, hey buddy, we might have to postpone like a week. Like you're supposed to start like a week ahead, but we're going to make you, we're going to make you start. And then when he like called back, he was like, Hey, they didn't call me back. So I'm just going to show up on like the day I'm suspected to. It's fine.
Anticipation for The Last of Us Part II TV Adaptation
00:58:59
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And then he gets there and you know, I'm just saying, uh, by the way, today is the Resident Evil two day.
00:59:07
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Oh, January 29th, September 29th. Dude, wasn't it just last of us day to like last week? I think so. When they worked. Yeah. Yeah. Segue. That's a good segue. When they released the trailer that made me cry at work. Yeah, they released a trailer that made you go. Oh, yeah. This is this is going to be the game. Fuck. Fuck. I think so. I think we're getting.
00:59:32
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What like chosen for you, Joel's dying and Joel's dying in the first episode. Yeah, we got an ad. I don't do. It's either the first day. Yeah, he's dying for his episode. And then they do the flashbacks and stuff. Think about it throughout the series, throughout the season. Unless they just go in order. But then we only get a little bit of Abby. Hmm. Yeah, but Abby's pretty. You know, how's that? how I mean, like.
01:00:01
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That's not Burrito Abbey yet. And that we saw in the trailer. I mean, you see a split second. I know. But like, how is she going to take how is that going to take out a racking solo that solo? How's that going to solo world's first world record of racking? Yeah. Yo, I can't see it. You know, I'm not going to lie, dude. Not going to lie. It's basic. It is. But I was like, yo, this is the PS5 Pro. This will be my excuse to replay to.
01:00:32
Speaker
There you go. Locked in. Terrible. Oh, yeah. Terrible. I have. I have. the I have the update. I just I tried. I tried playing it when it came out and I'm like, I can't. I can' ah can't. I can't. I was the shriveled Wojak meme like the shriveled Wojak guy. I'm just like, I can't do this. And I think a part of that is just like like playing like when you have to play through the cut scenes, like ride your horses and shit everywhere. Like, yeah.
01:01:01
Speaker
Like, that stuff's just kind of a drag, you know? Especially, you know, after Joel dies and you have to, like, walk through his house and smells jacket and shit. Like, that shit's tough. And then the flashbacks to him giving you a wonderful birthday gift. Oh, God, stop. Yeah, that's going to... And I do kiddo. And you do kiddo. We're getting that, right? We're getting the museum this season, you think? Yeah, we should. Like, I don't...
01:01:27
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They were showing the cult stuff. They were showing all of that stuff. Dude, like there's a lot of like one for one from the game in in that trailer. Yeah. Like IGN or somebody did like a like the fence falling down and you like having to like crawl through it and stuff. Yeah. That's crazy. Fuck. Fuck. Yeah. that game And my cover the game game. It did. Whoo. They need to hire the government to protect heck in the actress who plays Abby.
01:01:57
Speaker
like I think they did. My girlfriend was like, how is that girl going to take out Joel? I'm like, you know, I could take out Joel. with I could take out. I could take out soft fucking old Joel with a with a golf club. I think I could do. And he's yeah and he's got his hands tied and on the ground mounted. I think I'm excited for that. That.
01:02:20
Speaker
There's five people that ah are going to be surprised by this, because I feel like as soon as season one got big, everybody's like, Oh, she doesn't know. She has. Bro, I don't think Jenny knows. Should I like? Did she watch it? Did Jenny watch it with you?
01:02:37
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, that was like the one one the dude. Should I just record her when it's happening like tick tock? No. Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing that could backfire in a sense where she's just likes laughing. She might get really mad at you for knowing and not mentioning it.
01:02:56
Speaker
I know. No, but that's good. No, it could be like I'm not. You knew you knew this was going to happen. You knew I liked him. You couldn't give me a heads up. You'd be like, well, I got to cut. Well, listen, I will say, I will say as someone who now I didn't go as far as record. It's not even like, you know, real talk, though, like it's not even the fact that he dies is the most heartbreaking thing. It's the fact that they have to deal with him lying to Ellie and then her ex is your existential crisis.
01:03:26
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because of it is like that's the most heartbreaking thing about it, is that their relationship crumbling before our eyes is the most hard part. Right. Because it's like they're not there. You know, they have their problems like.
01:03:39
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they And they're unresolved. And they shoot him on the porch. And I was like, oh god. With the guitar? With the guitar? I know. Yeah, I was like, no. That's the end of the game. The show is the end of the fucking game. That happens like halfway through in the full timeline. No, no, no. John, John, John, there's no California here. There's no California scenes. Yeah, I'm and i'm interested in the Wait, there's no Dog the Bounty Hunter in Punching, that 12-year-old? Yeah.
01:04:08
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I also can't wait. Like, this is like just a personal thing, but I can't wait to see. And I hope they keep this shit in it. I can't wait to see if fucking Uncle Tommy send back thousands of body bags back to the W.L.F. like that's his nickname is body bags because that's body bags. Yeah, you know, what I never I never posted it, but like.
01:04:31
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I was when I was playing space wearing two, there's just a pot. There's a section where you're just walking through a pile of body bags and I was like, oh, like got yeah, toy but oh I guess I guess Tommy just came through your blood. So many bags. Yeah, he's still bad. But I will say this as somebody who I didn't record, but as somebody who knew a sad thing was happening when I put on a. Inside.
01:05:00
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and then I was waiting for that scene to happen and I watched Jenny and then she fucking full blown ugly cried like I felt terrible. I felt like I was an ugly cry for inside. Dude, that's it. It hit harder than I remembered. I'll just say that. Well, when you when you played it again, because I don't remember it hitting that hard. I remember being sad about it. Bing bong. Oh, inside out, I thought you meant the game. Yeah, I was like, are you talking about the scene where you become a big meatball?
01:05:29
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Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I remember it being like, you know, pretty like kind of emotional, but like, I don't remember it being like, yeah dude. Yeah. dude I made it. First of all, I made her watch all six hours of me. play i thought That's what I thought you guys did. That's what yeah oh that's right. That's why she was an ugly crying. Yeah. like I'm sorry. Bing bong. Yeah. then know Bing bong. That is a hard hitter. I felt bad, dude. I was like, oh.
01:05:55
Speaker
Oh, sorry. What have I done? She puts she fucking punches a hole in the wall like crap, like screaming, crying. Well, that's what that's all. That's what Sam's going to do when you lie to her. And Sam's just going to be like, Uncle Tom, you better freak the fuck out and kill the thousand people told me. Oh, my yeah kills uncle told me to go. How did you know that? Did she fucking loves Joel? Like every decision she makes, she's like, yup.
01:06:25
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but Would have done the same thing. but Would have said the same thing like that. I could tell because like the first episode is when the outbreak happens and they're in the car and there's that family likes to help. And so keep going. She's like, yeah, keep going. Like, you don't know. You don't know if those guys are going to be. I'm like, oh, my God. oh like Oh, my God. I'm married to Joel Miller. This is this is probably not going to be. It's not going to end well for me. I'm actually married to Joel. Yeah, you're in trouble, dude.
01:06:53
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Yeah, dude. And then like she let you know, she she cried when like when this is how I know she's she's going to be a wreck because she cried. She cried when Joel and Tommy reunited at. um Yeah. For the first time. And we didn't even know Tommy, you know, she's just like she just like resonates with Joel, I think. So like she feels everything he feels in the in the show. So.
01:07:17
Speaker
Man, she is. She is in for it, dude. I can't wait. Can't wait for this. I can't wait for this to record. I will see it. I'm just it's going to be so bad. I'm just going to she's going to notice that I'm just staring at her the whole time when they're in the fucking cabin. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Are you watching? You pay. What if she's a joke joke joke? Don't get up. Don't get up. Don't get up. Don't use check. You don't get up. You can say that. I just. Yeah, I'm here. I'm curious. I'm really.
01:07:47
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Man, we might get in some fights, dude, because like, because like, I actually like love Abby. I love Abby's character. And she might be one of those internet incels that like ah she might she might be sending that she might be sending the actor death threats after that's how much she wants.
01:08:07
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She might be, she might be DMing fucking definite to Caitlyn Devers ah Instagram afterwards. Like I'm married to Joel slash an incel.
01:08:19
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She's been radical. Love it. Shit. Yeah. No, no, that trailer looks so real good. Oh, man. It looks good. Looks good, dude. Yeah. Um, she. Oh, yeah. How many episodes? How many episodes did they say? Do we know? I don't know, dude. Well, that's the thing is like we don't know. I'd imagine it's going to be similar to one, which is what, eight, nine, eight, eight to 10. Yeah. Yeah. but like And like two. That's like tough because it's like it really kind of should be like. A little bit more. Like I still do feel like they're going to split that season in the two.
01:08:59
Speaker
Like it should be two seasons for two games, but then it's like the show it's so much. I don't know. It's kind of I'm on I'm on the fence first. Well, I mean, like you have two seasons because like you're going to have Ellie's season and then you're going to have Abby's season, right? Yeah, but then it's like it's weird because they're shown so much. I already seen it. Yeah, yeah they no, I don't. yeah Yeah, maybe they don't. Maybe they don't. um Maybe they don't get to Seattle. In this season, you know, just but here's the thing, right? It's like if they do do that, right? So you get a bunch. Did they even did did they even cast Lev? They didn't even cast Lev or they didn't say who that is. Yeah. Lev Lev casting. I don't think they have Lev. So if they if Lev's not in this season, then they're definitely not in Seattle to see.
01:09:58
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there There's an actor. um but I don't know. That's just the voice actor that's trying. Yeah, I don't know. That's what I'm trying to find out. um
01:10:07
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Just says Lev. All right. All right. So let's. Yeah, I don't think he's been cast officially. So let's let's think about this, right? You get season one or, you know, to see. Let's just say it's two seasons, right, dude? And let's say it works. Let's say by the time fucking Abby gets to the movie theater or whatever. And then is fucking Ellie's a serial killer knife fight boss fight shit. ah Who whose team are you on?
01:10:40
Speaker
Wait, what are you talking about? Like remember after. No, I'm saying I'm saying you you get all of that stuff. You get all of that stuff. And when you're playing, then you're like, as it yeah. Yeah. And Abby, and then you fight fucking Ellie and the boss is right after right after Jesse gets shot or. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see. Yeah. I think it's Jesse dies and then. Well, no, no. So that's like that's like the the splitting point, right? It's like Jesse dies.
01:11:10
Speaker
And then, then it's like. So this one, oh this one, to this one told me gets shot in the eye and survives somehow. Yeah, yeah but but I'm saying, yeah, but I'm saying like, remember whose team was I on? yessie who's Yeah, but it's Jesse dies. Right. And then it's like, I was i was team Abby. I was team Abby at that point. So you're when you're trying when fucking.
01:11:30
Speaker
Ellie's trying to murder you in that like movie wherever it was right when she's still stabbing you. But I'm just saying as like a viewer, right? If it works, that's going to be the dopest shit. That's going to be the craziest shit. yeah You know, because it's the zeitgeist will be like, who, what team are you on? Who do you side with? You know. And then because you love Ellie. Yeah, but also, Ellie was a mother. And also, I mean, yeah, also, Ellie kills. ah dog that loved its owners in that game. Yeah. Killed a pregnant woman as well. Like Ellie, Ellie is not. Hey, but Abby slept with Neil Druckmann in the video game, according to me. Oh, man, he's going to play. You know what? mate You know what? Maybe maybe Sam will will be soft a little bit to have because because of Owen and his name is Owen. The character. Oh, yeah. Oh, and one might suck.
01:12:27
Speaker
I'm kind of sucked. I felt bad for me. He's he got bad. He got a bad, you know, he got a bad beat every time. That dude made a lot of bad calls, though. Fuck, dude, I want to replay this game now. It's been so long. I remember like this is me. I don't look at it. I'm looking at set of photos happens, though. And I'm looking at set photos right now from the show. or Like, look at this.
01:12:55
Speaker
No, no, no, just it's just like of the setting here. Look at this. This is so cool. People look at this photo and they have no idea what goes on in that fucking in that store. The fucking bloater in there. That's going to be. Javier, that's what. Yeah, that's not for sure. Yeah. Plus ah Jackson looks just like the game dog like it. Yeah.
01:13:25
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They really spent a lot of money on the production of the of the show. Yeah. And it's crazy that like, like, i you know, I don't know where we're going with it, but it seems like half the actors are just recast as the as them is Jesse's Jesse. The Firefly's military guy is that actor. Why am I blanking on his name? So i'm gonna try Baker.
01:13:55
Speaker
No, no, no. Oh, fuck. What's his name? Right. His name is right. Right. Yeah. Fuck. The fuck is his name? Jeffrey Wright. Yeah, Jeffrey. Like Jeffrey writes Jeffrey Wright in that. Dude, it's going to be good. I'm excited. Mm hmm. I think I think I kind of like always. I'm interested. Yeah, I'm interested to see how the public Reacts like the the TV show viewers react to what happens in the show as opposed to fucking net beer pieces of shit in cell gooners That reacted to that reacted to it being spoiled on fucking 4chan, you know like i'm ah See how how people react to the show? this Yeah Fucking dude interested. Yeah, it's gonna be so good. All right, let's uh
01:14:53
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All right, let's go. Let me go back to this. The state of play, because there was we're still in the PlayStation realm. Yeah, we're still talking. Yeah, yeah, we're still talking about Astro Bot. This can call the midnight walk. It looks pretty cool. There was this thing called Hell is Us, which is kind of interesting.
Game DLC and Legacy of Kain Series
01:15:16
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Yeah, yeah but come on. I don't know. we give People keep trying to hype me up on it and I'm like, I'm not buying it.
01:15:21
Speaker
We talk about the re the real one that ah ah flung the doors. Oh, how world? Not and I'm talking about the Shredder's Revenge DLC. with Mondo Gecko. Yeah, I'm a gecko gecko bag. Sonic. What about the Sonic ah movie back?
01:15:38
Speaker
Dude, does that have the the voice of John Wick himself? That's it. That's the one with Keanu Reeves. They got him. They did it. He's in it. He's pretty. It's cute. That's cute. All right. I don't wait to DLC come in for Halloween. I'm actually very excited for this because like. There's just something about when you buy the deluxe edition of a game,
01:16:04
Speaker
This is this is me just fucking this is she'll she'll cope over here. But like, I just like it when I have the season pass for a single player game and I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm getting that. You're like, oh, I already you got that. yeah I already have that. I already don't pay for it. And it looks great. And it it's a the lake house expansion. It seems like you're going to play as what's her name from control. My blanket on her name. I want to say it's Caitlin, but it's it's.
01:16:35
Speaker
What is her name for the troll? Dude, I'm I'm spacing. But yeah, no, I'm I'm so excited that we are getting more control stuff. um Yeah. Jesse Faden. Jesse. Yeah. Yeah. So um was great I don't know whether it's that, but because it's. They are different games and you can't really put her in and gra like they tease it a little bit with the other DLC. Yeah. Which.
01:17:05
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I don't know if Steve, did you ever end up playing that? Not yet. I am. I am still waiting, but I'm worth your time. I want to. I really want to. um But yeah,
01:17:16
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it's going to be good. It's going to be real good. This one's a weird one. They announced it kind of like the morning of the state of play. but they announced that they're making Soul Reaver Legacy of Cain's Soul Reaver 1 and 2 remastered collection. Yeah, this got me worked up, dude. So so I was mentioning how like my brother played a bunch of games. Soul Reaver 1 and 2 was probably one of the main one of those examples of games where I just I never played a second of it myself. But I watched my brother play it and this was like
01:17:53
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Maybe a year after Metal Gear Solid had come out. Yeah. And this is like the only other game I can think of that's on par when it comes to like narrative. Like not only quality voice acting is awesome and just like a really deep story. And it's um um why am I blanking? It's not a Metroidvania, but it's like You know, you get a power and then you can go here. Now, this area is unlocked. Is that just a Metroidvania? Am I just making that a Metroidvania collect? All right. Zelda Zelda. All right. Well, like, you know how Arkham Asylum was? Yeah. Is that is that like a Metroidvania? I would I would say I would say light. Yeah. Yeah. But it had that right. And I'll be honest, like, that's what
01:18:42
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Arkham Asylum reminded me it reminded me of Soul Reaver where I was like, Oh, I can I got the thing that allows me to swim in water without dying immediately. So now I can go in this area. Right. And um it has a nice little upres. It's not crazy, which.
01:19:00
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I don't, you know, we don't, everyone doesn't need the crazy uplift, right? And I hope that means the budget's in check, which means like not everyone's betting the fucking house and the farm on this, like selling five million copies. The thing is didn't even expect it. Like Soul Reaver is weird in the sense where when those games were coming out,
01:19:23
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They were kind of everywhere. they Their marketing budget was like crazy. Like the I forget the character's name. Raziel. Raziel was everywhere. Like Raziel was in like the same conversations as Lara Croft. A solid snake. Raziel.
01:19:45
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Like, it was like, he was a video game character who existed in the PlayStation realm, and then after the PlayStation 1 ceased to be, he just vanished.
01:19:56
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Yeah, um it was, I think, a mix of there was no PlayStation 2 Soul Reaver game, right? ah There kind of was. It was Legacy of Kane Defiance. And that's the other tricky thing, right, is Soul Reaver is a sequel to technically a different franchise.
01:20:15
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There was Legacy of Cain's Legacy of Cain. And that was like a PC like it was. It was like a PC, PS1 game that basically imagined Diablo like it played like Diablo kind of. um And then this game called Legacy of Cain's Soul Reaver, which is like now the main character. That's, you know, the canonical ending of that game is you chose the bad ending where you become a vampire and rule the world. And then it starts with your this guy, Raziel, who then, you know, all this stuff happens. And then there was Legacy of Cain Blood Omen 2.
01:20:55
Speaker
Which is kind of like to the first, right? Yeah. And that came after that either came in between Soul Reaver one and two or after Soul Reaver two. ah But that's kind of like a budget game that I it's one of those games that kind of like a guilty pleasure. It's like not super good, but.
01:21:12
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I don't know. It fills in some so some spots. And it's just kind of like it's a good it's a good it's a good game. It's good. And then there is legacy of Kane Defiance, which is where you played as Kane and Raziel. And it was kind of a lot more action focused. And I think as a it was kind of like an OK action game.
01:21:36
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And then it ended. But at that point, it was like the series really asked a lot of you. And then it was like a next gen game, quote unquote, next gen game. And then it was kind of like I think the fan base was pretty splintered by that point. And then it sold like, OK, or not well.
01:21:55
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as in the story kind of it does have an end but it's very much like an open-ended story so people have been begging for this series to just get another shot so anyway I saw it and I was like fuck yes this is almost an immediate bye it's just You know, I don't really know who's behind this remaster. And, you know, let's just I don't want this thing to be a GTA remaster situation. So if this comes out and if it's not like a glitchy, shitty garbage mess, like I will definitely buy this. So, yeah, that game is going to be dope. I really hope so.
01:22:34
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Um, the dinosaur origin monster in the wilds that done <unk> played in here, you'll see. But yeah, the biggest one, um. Actually, we before I mentioned that, uh, there's this game we were talking about like spooky game vibes. Another game that's on my radar pretty hard is fear the spotlight, which is this is a PS one era like survival horror game.
Spotlight on Horror Games and Upcoming Reveals
01:23:08
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It seems kind of like a this was on one of those games where, not Annapurna, but Blumhouse, remember when Blumhouse announced they were making a bunch of horror games? Yeah. This is one of them. I think this is the one that's like the furthest along. It's made by two people. It's just like a husband and a wife, I think, or a married couple, not really fully sure. but
01:23:31
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It looks like an old school PS one game ah that is very spooky. And it's what is it called? Here comes the year. Fear of the spotlight. OK. Yeah. Dude. Yeah. It looks good. it A lot of people like podcasts and stuff that I listen to. They're like the vibes are good. Almost. Yeah. This is this looks really good. So.
01:23:54
Speaker
I mean, man, I think maybe there was like a really, really like indie, like a really kind of indie version of this game. And I think this is almost like. It's either like a remake of this game or it's just like the console version. OK. But yeah, check it out. um But outside of that, the biggest reveal of the show, which is the ghost of Yotei, I think is the Yotei Yotei Yotei is ah or Yotei. Something right. ah We will. We will learn how to say this very. You know what? When the game tells me how to say it, that's all. We did not say Shoshima until, you know. Yeah. Well, well, technically they didn't know how to say it either because he would go between gin in English because they didn't have native
01:24:50
Speaker
Japanese fucking voice animation for some fucking reason even though they had Kurosawa mode I Would say ghost of to Tsushima. That's what he would say and I'm just like, oh my god is that you say it And then the next time you'd say oh goes to he would say Tsushima Tsushima Tsushima. He would he would he would go back and forth Quite annoying in my opinion. Oh I'd say enough to cancel to cancel the cancelled game.
01:25:17
Speaker
cancel the piece i cancel the fucking game. Send it all. Send it all back. You know what? But I make the sequel until until they finish that. yeah So ah this was a legit surprise. I don't think I think people knew they were making a sequel, but I don't think anyone knew this was like coming up to get leaked as far as I know. Fun facts. I mother stuff. and so Yeah, I was at the dog park ah and I had like You know, so we're going to walk the dog and I the excuse can't be. I want to watch this commercial where they show a bunch of trailers for games I'm not going to buy. That wasn't allowed. So I kind of fired it up like 20, 30 minutes in and I saw this and I was like, I thought this was like in the middle of the show. I was like, yeah, it's fucking dope. And then it ended and I was like, oh, OK. This was like the big surprise of the of the state of play. But
01:26:13
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Not dude. in ah So it takes place three hundred years or something like that after the first one. And this takes place in Yotei, which is I think in Hokkaido, which is basically northern Japan. I think Tsushima. Yeah, Hokkaido. Yeah, Hokkaido. So this and this takes place, I think like it's going to snow.
01:26:36
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Yeah, know and they go around the mountain, dude. And this takes place but during this era. Apparently, you're outside of Japan. This is kind of like a lawless land. Like this is very much cowboy vibes like Wild West vibes just again with sunrise. And you play as a new character, a lady samurai that seems like she has a wolf companion and she do wield swords.
01:27:04
Speaker
And that's sick. She's if I can look sick, dude, like I think the common complaint that I've been hearing, which is like, it looks exactly like that, too. ah let's let's Let's take out the brain deads. And I'll say people are saying it like graphically. It doesn't look that much better. And I'm like, well, dude, you're watching this on a YouTube compression like.
01:27:29
Speaker
Let me fucking wait. Does it look as bad as Rise of the Rune in this microwave? No, it does not. It does not. Yeah, this looks. It looks really good. She has a change, a chain little weapon. She got a gun. She got a little guitar. Ghost of Tsushima was a beautiful game. So being like, oh, this doesn't look as good. It's like you did. The other game looked incredible, too. Like, yeah.
01:27:56
Speaker
or not. It didn't look as good, but it looks the same like it's like, Oh, high praise. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Right. and And that was one. That was one of those games that where they just nobody could quite understand how it loaded so quickly. And they're like, I don't. It doesn't make sense. Dude, for the PlayStation four, like a like a day of launch PlayStation four, that game handled itself so well.
01:28:20
Speaker
Yeah, this game is going to and it's twenty twenty five, you know, you' twenty twenty five. And this is kind of what they need it. They needed to show something new. That was the problem. A lot of people are getting antsy. I was starting to get pretty antsy. um I mean, you know, twenty twenty five could mean December. Right. It just is what it is. But I don't know, man. For some reason, I'm getting a vibe that we're going to get this in like May.
01:28:49
Speaker
at the latest one next year. Yeah, do they I think they have a date. It just says 2025. But I feel like for whatever reason, the vibe that I'm getting is that this is not going to be like a winter 2025. This is going to be or first, they're going to play it safe and they're going to wait to see what happens with GTA six and then release it like before or after that date is finally a million miles away from GTA six.
01:29:17
Speaker
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, because GTA six is slated for next year, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's my theory of like why there's no games that have been announced. People are just fucking afraid. People have been like hovering. I know. But it's annoying because like they can move it. Like, I mean, shit Ubisoft literally moved. You know, they moved their other game, their other samurai game is that we don't want any piece of this.
01:29:44
Speaker
So, yeah, those are the big ones. I don't know. I thought this is a. A good one. I'll be honest, there was like there's a lot of stuff I was I was vibing with. So. Yeah, game of the PS5 is p fives best console of all time. It might might take away what take away from this one. ah but um probably yeah I'm probably going to play this. I'm curious to see if they actually put Japanese language in there to begin with. What was the reason? They're like, we just couldn't they couldn't have the lip syncing. They needed the PS5. Yeah. it's like So it should definitely be there from the start. I was just like, what the fuck are you doing? There's no excuse. Like, I mean, I know it's not like historically accurate, like the the game. I mean, even though people, you even though the fucking dumbasses that smooth the brains that we're complaining about, Assassin's Creed, we're using Ghost of Tsushima as like
01:30:44
Speaker
as the like a good game that is historically accurate or whatever, even though even though it wasn't. Right. But. Like, give us fucking Japanese language, dude. It's a fucking samurai game. Yeah, I don't know. Well, I guess maybe because sucker punches Western right there from here at the state. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think they're from Seattle, Seattle based. Maybe. Yeah, because I was I was going to say like Sekiro had is just like that's the default is Japanese. Yes. But again, that's a Japanese company. So it's probably easier for them to do Japanese language in their games. I remember I think some guy, some dev from Capcom was like shook when this game came out. He's like, dude, no Japanese studio would have ever made a game like this. They're like, they would have gave him crazy hair and they would have animated the fuck out of it.
01:31:42
Speaker
But he was literally like he was like bemoaning the fact that like. A Japanese studio, a modern Japanese studio, like would not have made it, not have been like as respectful as like this western western dev was. Yeah, he would it would have just been cloud cloud and Tifa like, yeah, on here, blue eyed dude and fucking big booby girl. Yeah. And he's like, you know, they wouldn't use. Yeah, he was just like, I'm just literally shocked. I was like, all right, all right, that all right, that.
01:32:12
Speaker
But, yeah, this game's gonna rule, I think.
Speculations on DC Movies and Retro Game Influences
01:32:17
Speaker
I know. It just feels good to have something to look forward to that is- You need it to rule. You need it to rule. I don't need it to rule, dude. I don't need it. Sony does. What do I need? Like, Spacewearn 2 came out, right? So it's like, I don't know what game I'm like being- What game needs to be good? What game needs to be good?
01:32:41
Speaker
Call me maybe. For my fantasy critic, it does. Yeah, also needs to be the opposite. it needs to be Also, the fucking Assassin's Creed shadows getting delayed in next year drops. It drops my fucking my fancy critic to second place.
01:33:02
Speaker
Oh, that's not come out. Was that supposed to come out this year? Yeah, it was supposed to come out in like November or October. I do remember that. Yeah. And then all of a sudden, previews got canceled. And all of a sudden, I'm not going to get any points, so I had to drop it. And now I got fine. I got to fill it, dude. I got to fill that spot. I'm telling you, man. Oh, that asked. Yeah. Well, I took I took Planet Coaster, too, so you can't. Damn.
01:33:31
Speaker
ah I don't do it. I'm fucking cooked. I don't know, dude, somehow it might be amazing for 70 dollars. It's literally maybe I'm like literally looking up my. Oh, I don't know. Anyway, um call do that. Do that. That one might. I might.
01:33:53
Speaker
drop my fucking anti-steve counter pick and counter pick called duty so you can't drop it. I don't think you can at this point. Yeah, I think it's locked. It's locked. Yeah, yeah you're locked. It's sorry. Actually, know there's a I think you can experiment with multiple counter picks. Which for next year. Yeah, I'm I'm just kicking around the idea because it's it's fun, but it can also just absolutely murder you like.
01:34:22
Speaker
Do crux has like he just can not his second year in a row he's lost early Yeah, terrible choice. What was his counter pick this year unicorn overlord Oh, bro, he you negative 18 points. Oh fuck, bro. Yeah Counterpics 18 that's tough, dude. that's tough yeah That's what I mean. Is that the worst one?
01:34:48
Speaker
Um, I think in terms of counterli space yeah Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, why did you kind of pick space route? I didn't think it was going to come out this year. Space Marine two and vampire the masquerade two were like the games that were given like a thousand like like they just had a thousand chances to come out in the past. And they never did. They never did. I should have. You know what? I should have just been smart. I should have been like, yo, uh, Silent Hill two remake.
01:35:17
Speaker
Yeah. Actually, yeah, Duke Crux is last year. His ah his his was it dead space remake. The loss of 19 points, dude. We didn't break last year's record. me know He didn't. But this is still rough. um makes very How about you just don't you just you won't be allowed to make a. Just so he has a shot. But anyway,
01:35:44
Speaker
I know you're a solid trailer. It's TGS. A lot of dope shit came out. um The one game that does tickle tickle me in quite the spot is this trailer for a game called Threads of Time, which is like if Sea of Stars is very Chrono Trigger based. If that was like number one, like Threads of Time seems like 1A, right? OK. Like this is Like you're literally time traveling. You know, ah the animation is beautiful. Yeah, it's and it just looks. I don't know when this is coming out. It's got that. um What is that square game? ah Octopath Traveler. It's got that like yeah two point five D sort of thing going on, which I love.
01:36:34
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Yeah, like the only thing that isn't like completely chrono trigger base, it looks like is the combat, at least from a standpoint, like it seems like you're definitely able to do like dual tax and triple tax and stuff like that. But just, you know. Shit, this game was good, though. That looks cool. Yeah. um Let's see. Let's let's see what else we got. There is a what we talked about.
01:37:02
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That trailer, if the last of us sinners is the new. Man, that that movie looks crazy, dog. So you think they're vampires? Am I the only one? No, I think that's no, that's I think that's what they what it says, right? I thought they were fighting vampires. But maybe, yeah, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Let me see. It's kind of odd because like.
01:37:25
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If you if you weren't thinking vampires, they don't really. They don't really say vampire show. Yeah, exactly. Right. So technically, did Galani spoil it for everybody but or or he just read it? I don't know. But it's the new Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, which is kind of like. That's chocolate peanut butter to these two.
01:37:51
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And he's fucking Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. Playing playing twins. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, is he he's playing twin brothers? Is it really? He's playing. I thought it was just their brothers that are twin. No. And then if you look at um if you look at his Instagram. Michael B. Jordan's Instagram. The poster shows here, I'll take a screenshot for you.
01:38:19
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Yeah, it's actually kind of sick because it looks like the one brother might be like unhinged. Oh, shit. Dude. All right. If this is dust till dawn, just with. Yeah, look at this. post Look at this poster. So cool. This looks awesome. Yeah. Yeah, this really does look. Look at this poster, dude. Well, oh.
01:38:48
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but bro Brother. le That's your vampire right there.
Excitement for Upcoming Vampire Movie
01:39:00
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This is all saying is, uh, or the devil, literally the devil based on the tagline, dance with the devil. Yeah. yeah Oh, wait, when does this come out? I'm March 7th. All right. Man, that's so far. G6 might be out by then. No, we don't know.
01:39:20
Speaker
Nobody's going to go to the movies after GTA six comes out. Yeah. All right. Cool, man. This is good. Yeah. Well, it's real good. Let's see. There's a John Wick. I actually I posted it. I didn't watch it. I watch on the ballerina trailer. Not really that into it. I interested. Well, listen, I I think she was hotter and fucking. um She was hotter in the in the James Bond movie. Yeah, she's in tomorrow. And ah to tomorrow never dies. I always said no time to die. I mean, yeah, I'll just say she was she was better than that. I'll just say this. If we're talking about eye candy, that is like a big badass. I think if we have to there's a few actresses that you can kind of put in that role, I think
01:40:09
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She is far and away the best actor of that group. Like she's so much better than like Gal Gadot. You know, and Gal Gadot. Yeah. Apologies. Good job. Did she sing? Did she sing? Imagine like Gal Gadot. Thank God. No. Yeah. You know, I like job. She got it. Did she go to Diddy's freak off parties like Gal Gadot did? Probably. Probably. Definitely. that's it Uh, let's see. Also, rest in peace, Chris Christofferson. Dude, Blade's going to miss a piece that was Maggie. Yeah, dude, dude. i So I got it all. Yeah, I made a comment, but like I was i said, I rewatch like the first Harry Potter movie a few weeks ago. Now, if you had mention that, if you mention that you were you saw something that said Harry Potter on it in our discord, then you get fucking shit. I i was brave. I was brave. I put it on discord.
01:41:09
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ah No, but dude it was that movies fucking morbid just in the sense of like 90% of those Yeah, I mean is that ah is that a Christmas movie? Do you consider that a Christmas movie first Harry Potter? It's got Christmas in it Yeah, not really. No and know There's a part in the movie where the season is Christmas. Yeah, that's the thing. There's like a Halloween part. But then there's a part where they're like at the quidditch field and it's like spring. Yeah. And I'm not saying the contact, the contact of the movie. Snape Yeah, Snape, Maggie, that Dumbledore.
01:41:44
Speaker
Oh, yeah. but The better the superior Dumbledore in my. Yeah. Yeah. Hagrid. Are we saying that? Oh, fuck all these. guyss Harry Potter movies. People alive or in the movies are fucking the children. Dude, this might be like the the cursed movie where it's like, ah what was that with? um Well, I mean, coach. Well, they're all old now, dude. Yeah. yeah I mean, the thing is, dude, and again.
01:42:07
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Did you see that, um, Gary Oldman said he's, he's willing to, to be in the Harry pot, the new Harry Potter series, but he wants to be a good Dumbledore. He doesn't want to be serious. Oh, dude. Fuck you. Give it to him. I was talking to some Dumbledore. You think he'd be a good Dumbledore. Yeah, dude. I was talking to a coworker and I was like, Gary Oldman might be like what the underrated like best like the most underrated ever best actor ever yeah yeah he's like most bang for your buck yeah dude I can't dude to this day I can't find him at hook like I can't see Dustin Hoffman in hook I just see hook
01:42:42
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Wait, I'm sorry. Are we talking about Gary? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm Gary arrow, but I was he's not in hook. No, you're right. You're right. I you jump down let me let me rephrase because I fell back in the conversation. I was talking with my my coworker about these types of actors. But I was like Gary Oldman's another one where like he's like, I got to get me one in the role sometimes. Yeah, sorry. That's his best line that his best line ever. wi Which which lies?
01:43:13
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Gotta get me one of these or whatever it says Yeah There's gotta be a sequence right like where's the supercut of I gotta get me one of these or those in Movies you have brought me no stones Well, I want not to know three enough. Oh, I need five dogs I've Yeah, but seriously, like the beginning, the first like five minutes of Harry Potter one, done I was like, is this movie from the eighties? Like that's how old it looks. Dude, that's because it was. And I Googled when it came out and I was like, oh, that's the Matt Damon gift, dude. 2000, 2001. 2001. Yeah. It was made by Christopher Columbus, who. That's a good movie, dude. Like. Almost like 10 years earlier, last movie was Home Alone.
01:44:05
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Yeah, which is kind of crazy to think that that was just only a 10 year gap between those two. And like, listen, I'm the guy that like I've always said, like, you know, if you're going to like rewatch the Harry Potter, like you could probably skip the first two. I wouldn't say that anymore. I'd say at least watch one. I think because he does really good. He does such a good job at world building. Yeah. In that movie. And obviously that's like the job.
01:44:32
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Dude, I'm not going to lie to you. That movie was the reason I understood the setting, because when I read the book as in middle school, my brain didn't comprehend it. I would like put it down. I was like, I don't understand this. Like, this doesn't feel like a school to me, because keep in mind, you know, I went to public school and I went to some fancy ass English ah university. um I think I watched the movie first before reading the books.
01:45:03
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So you kind of had it like established in your head. Yeah, yeah, I kind of had it established. Yeah, because I remember our friend Dave, he read it before the movie and he like initially hated Alan Rickman Snape. He's like, that is not at all who I visualize as Snape. But like, fuck me, I guess. And then whatever. Right. It's like one of one of the greatest characters ever.
Actor Career Choices and Comic Character Adaptations
01:45:28
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That's probably too much. But But also rest in peace, Zachary Levi's career career. Yeah, his future work is some guy broke it down. They're like, yeah, listen, he's like after that, he's like.
01:45:43
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Now he's just got it. He's in the grift mode because his career like after Shazam to kind of flop and he was in like the purple crayon or whatever a kids movie, which also for everyone. Everyone said like they're like his this guy's career is basically in the toilet. So this actually, if you want to look at it from like a financial kind of like how what can I do to just keep making money? They're like, this actually makes a lot of sense.
01:46:10
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Whether or not he does believe it, he will be making a movie with Gina Carano for Ben Shapiro very soon, I imagine. Yeah, exactly. Right. So. Yeah.
01:46:24
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It's kind of like when Shazam endorsed Lex Luthor, right? Basically the same thing that happened. It is basically the same thing. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. And then that that di dip the is working on a main and a deathstroke movie.
01:46:42
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Uh, I tried to not be immediately negative about it because I had to keep reminding myself that it's not a Snyder thing anymore. Like it's not Snyder first. Yeah. You have to like, you have to be like, all right, this might be something. But even then I'm still like, yeah, we'll see. It's just like, hey, they're working on it. Okay. Wait, is this a combined movie? Is this like Bane and Deathstroke? You know what?
01:47:05
Speaker
Because it sounds like it's a script. I think you're right. I think I just kind of Matthew Orton, Randy Orton's brother. that's I made that up. ah no but like i well Matthew Orton is a real man, but I don't think he's related to Randy Orton. You know what?
01:47:21
Speaker
That means Randy Orton isn't a real person. You're right, you're right, you're right. Develop a new movie involving classic Gotham villains, Bane and Deathstroke. This is going to be like the Hobbs and Shaw. Bro, never mind, I'm in. I am Yes, please. You open the movie with them having to break out of prison and they're like cuffed together or some shit. If this movie is just these two guys fucking ripping people in half, like I'm in.
01:47:50
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That'd be kind of sick. I don't need anything else. I imagine it's like a stroke would rule so hard. It's just I don't know if you can do it because Deadpool kind of took that shine a little bit.
01:48:05
Speaker
Deathstroke seems so cool. Well, this is how you bring that shine back. You're right. make him You make him the tactical guy. You make Bane the bit. Well, no, what that's funny because Bane's kind of the tactical guy. Yeah. I mean, they're both they're both smart guys. Yeah. They're just Hobbs and Shaw. Fuck. you get Yeah, I'm in. They're both the same guys. Nevermind. All right. I went from like to like, no, I really hope this happens and I hope it's.
01:48:30
Speaker
I'm going to get fucking Bane and stroke tattooed on the fucking going to stroke my pain. Hell, yeah, brother. Fucking rule. ah Man, there was something else I was going to mention that I didn't list here, but then got me. You completely sidetracked me with my excitement. It had something to do with DC um shit. Well, is it the absolute Batman thing? No.
01:48:59
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these Did you see the Akira cover of Absolute Batman? No, I did not get a cover like on yeah let see I don't know if this is a variant, but this was the. So we posted the cover of number of absolute Batman number one. It's actually sick.
01:49:25
Speaker
Oh, my God. How cool is why do I like this so much? I don't get it. I should. We should have man. Right. Yeah, this is Zack Snyder's wet. Yeah, this has to it has to be a variant because look at this. Here's the actual way. Yeah, it's yeah. Well, it's definitely not like look at that. Look at the cover. Yeah, like that's they know.
01:49:46
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We all know. Yeah, to be fair, it is a Snyder, Scott Snyder. It's just and there's a Frank in there, not Frank Miller, dude. Never mind. Look at the look at the cow on the back like that's all shredded up. Like what is going on there? It's like as big as this guy is like Superman would still just fucking flick him across the world. And so it's a kind of like, why does he have to be so big?
01:50:12
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I don't know. He's a unit. He's an absolute unit. He's big because he's got it. You know, of it he's fighting just like some like, you know, crazy. But dude, like literally like John, John and I were like fucking creaming ourselves because there's like a clip where he has a battle axe that looks like a bat. So fucking cool. And then he chops a guy's arm off and we're like, this is the best. We're like, come on.
01:50:37
Speaker
Come on. Like if that was it a fucking Zack Steiner movie, we were like, this is pathetic. This cringe. I don't know. I feel like one day we will have to come to the conclusion that we might owe that guy an apology. No, here's the thing. The Batman kind of started leaning into that. And I think it's like if you establish that. Yeah.
01:51:01
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Like it's like kind of all right. Maybe I don't
TV Series Adaptations and Vince McMahon Documentary
01:51:05
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know. Like make him a big stompy Frankenstein. Yeah. By the way, I I I watched Penguin. I watched the first episode. What do you think? It's very good. yeah So this is I'm still like kind of on guard about it. And I don't know if I should because it's like, listen, it's getting the HBO fucking.
01:51:27
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pat Like it's getting the treatment. It's like here's the episode. They come out on Sundays. Then there's like the the post episode where like the writer and the director like talk about like what happened in it and like, you know, like what the last was or like Game of Thrones and all all that stuff. And it's getting all that. But I'm still kind of like waiting for it to go be bad. And agree it's only been one episode. I think episode two drops tonight. But Yeah, it's just he's this is why this whole conversation started is because Colin Farrell, you can't he's not there. Like it's almost insane to think like why why they casted him and whose call was it? Was it Colin Farrell that said I want to play the penguin or were they like Colin Farrell? Can you play the penguin with an accent that makes you non recognizable and a suit that makes you not recognizable like
01:52:24
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And yet, despite all that, it's an insanely good performance and it's it's really good so far. And I'm just ah waiting. I'm hoping I'm just not hurt by trashy trashy, you know, a CW of it all or like the Gotham of it all. Right. I get that. Yeah. I don't want that to show up and fucking disappoint me. But so far, so good.
01:52:51
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But yeah, I mean, outside of that, I didn't really watch a lot. I watched a watch the McMahon documentary series. I've not done it, but I'm um almost done. I finished it and it is essentially we were talking about this. It is one of those documentaries where if you already know a lot of these things, like you're going to just you're getting a lot of that. You're not getting much new.
01:53:15
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So yeah, if you're if you're kind of a tertiary fan, there's definitely some good stuff. And even as a as a what I'm gleaning from it when I'm enjoying from it really is that. up
01:53:28
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This most of these documentaries that you've seen are kind of produced by w WWE. Yeah. So there's like never pushback and he gets a little bit of pushback and Vince does in this. And then there's a lot of Clear examples of him being a complete hypocrite, dude. That's the thing I love like the opening part where he's like you're I'm gonna give it to you I'm gonna give you all of it and then like five minutes later it cuts to him being like well I'm not gonna give you all of it. Yeah, a pretty fucked up shit in there and youre like oh Okay, all right dude, and then ah what was it it was like a When so there's a sequence right and
01:54:14
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where he's talking about like when WCW was coming up and they were buying out all their talent the and Vince immediately kind of goes into like the poor me shtick. Oh God, this billionaire trying to take food off my table. And then Eric Bischoff Everybody from WCW and like the and the documentary crew were like, wait, isn't this exactly what you did to like the old territories? And he's like, it's not. But they're like, but it's competition, isn't it? And he's like, well, it is. And then he just proceeds to say just fucking word salad. Yeah, he flustered. Yeah. And because he's caught in such a. I don't know. He's like.
01:55:01
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It's Trump ask, right? Where he just talks and like none of it made sense. And it's just like, or you could just fucking admit that it is the same thing. And it's just the guy which, you know, impressive or not is just kind of like, I don't really apologize. Or even if it was a bad idea, he's like, I don't feel bad about it. You know, which is.
01:55:24
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is what it is right he's he's a fascinating dude like but it's all said and done it yeah it is like completely riveting like i literally was just like you know like going next on every one yeah you just group in um But yeah, like it is. It is interesting to see how they are kind of they're not afraid to make, you know, the guy who used to be in charge look like, you know, who he actually is. So, yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's pretty solid. Oh, and I watched um and watching Agatha along all along. and How's that been? That's good, dude. It's a.
01:56:05
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there it's it's There's a formula there, and it's not a bad one. um they're on like It's about finding the witch's road, and now they're on the witch's road, and they have their first like trial. um Stuff like that. And it's um it's enjoyable. like I don't really have a bad thing to say about it. I want a tier list of where the Agathol long belongs, and the Marvel television Um, yeah, it's tough and may because I think it's like we all kind of know how these can fall off a cliff a little bit. Mm hmm. So I don't want to just be like, yes, it's the best one. But it's in the top. Like right now, I'm enjoying it more than I did like Falcon and Winter Soldier. And it's not even like I hate that series. Like I do kind of like it. It's just.
01:56:59
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just kind of feels like it's there after a few episodes right where Agatha is, there's like a clear path forward and it's with non, quote unquote, main characters. So, you know, we don't really know where they're going to end up to to an extent.
01:57:16
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So that's kind of the interesting part and it's just like, you know, it's an enjoyable plot as of now ah You know what? I realized I've realized I never watched echo.
Marvel Shows Ranking and Indie Film Review
01:57:26
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That's the only MCU show I haven't watched and I tried watching it and It's not like I just was like this is terrible, but i I turned it on and Echo if you don't know is like a very daredevil grungy type street character who's has she's. the
01:57:53
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Disabled in the sense she has like one leg. ah Like she has a a prosthetic leg and she's deaf and she you know she fucking fights thugs and things like that. ah The first step is the first like five minutes of the episode are like aliens on Earth.
01:58:11
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that turn into like what we now know as the Native Americans or something like that. And I was like, what? And then I just kind of paused it and I was like, I need to just get to this later. I don't know. I need to unpack a little bit of this. So I'm not saying the whole show is like that. I definitely don't think it is, but it's just like I literally like paused it. I was like, am I watching the right thing? Like what am I watching? But.
01:58:39
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Yeah, so far, Agatha's it's ah it's up there. I. I still think despite how it ended, I think WandaVision still like my favorite of those shows. I think so, too, because it's just like the swings it was taking. um Yeah, it was so weird at the end. Yeah, I mean, yes, the Ralph Boner thing. Like, I don't mean to sound like a fucking prissy.
01:59:04
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fan, but like that really that irked me still to this day. So I don't know. But yeah, it's it's definitely in like top three. I'll give a top three right now. There's three episodes in top three. OK. Yeah. And I beat bulk on the line. Nice. Was our conversation from last week shook you. It did. It did. And it was like, like of all people, like how the fuck did I not beat that? Right.
01:59:34
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Uh, that came, got me stacked a sweaty game, dude near the end. Like the best, what makes doom so great? Like kind of the essence of doom, right? yeah Is where you're just running around the map going like 90 miles per hour jumping and you're just constantly picking up health and armor and then just shooting and then just kind of continuing that. Uh, it's all there. Right. And, uh, there's DLC that's like 10 bucks and I was tempted to buy it, but I was like,
02:00:04
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I just beat it and I just it was a sweaty situation. So I was like, let me go beat plucky squire and then let me go start cyberpunk.
02:00:15
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For John and me when you start, did you start? No, I'm i'm playing plucky squire and I want to beat it. because It's like a plucky squire is so fun, but it's like it's very much like if I don't keep this up, I will stop and never. Yeah, you'll never. And I kind of want to. Yeah, I want to stick with it.
02:00:33
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ah But yeah, that's I watched a a shitty rom with what ro-com my old ass. Which is in that one. Who's in that one? So that is a out of Sandler. No, that's Audrey Plaza and what? So this is a movie. Yeah, this. All right. Trying to.
02:01:00
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It's a movie starring Maisie Stella, who I don't really know an Aubrey Audrey Plaza Aubrey or ah Aubrey Plaza Aubrey Aubrey. Yeah. Yeah. um So I think it's based off a book. I could be wrong. It very much has like the notebook vibes to this, though.
02:01:26
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And it's basically like this this team she's she lives in like the wilderness not she lives on a grape farm or a cranberry farm in Canada. And it's like she just turned 18 or she's 18 and she's about to go to the city. She's about to escape her life and.
02:01:49
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She takes a bunch of mushrooms and then meets on Aubrey Plaza, who is her in the future. And it's kind of weird because they don't look alike like at all. And they make some jokes about it. But then, like, basically the thing is, is I was like, this is interesting, right? Like, that's the hook. And then they kind of just don't really it doesn't maintain that.
02:02:17
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And I was like, no, this is the interesting part. And then it just turns into a fucking. You know, a rom com, because she's like, tell me something about the future, right? Should I? And she's like, avoid some guy named Chad, which seems easy because the character is a lesbian. And she's like, all right. Like, I don't care. And then she meets this guy, Chad. And then she's like, well, he seems really nice and really great. Why should I avoid Chad? And then You know, it just it turns into the fucking notebook. Right. And it's just not good. um It's fine. But I actually don't think Audre Plaza does a good job in this movie because she she has to go for a little bit of drama there. And it's just not it's not a strong suit. ah In my opinion, it's just not really something she's super good at still. And it was is not good. And really, the only reason I fucking saw it is because I got snaked by AMC stops.
02:03:17
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You're a fucking snake, dude.
02:03:21
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And I won't go into details about that. OK, well, with that, you think we should ah wrap up? Yeah, there's nothing else. I don't let's know. OK, do you guys see any movies? Do you guys see any fucking rom coms by accident? Nope, nope, nope, nope. I know every rom com I see, Devin. I sniff them out. I go, yeah, that's a rom com. I'll say ah this is the last thing I'll say. I saw a clip.
02:03:47
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of Megaopolis or whatever. And God damn it, I do not want to see this movie. It looks so bad, so unbelievably. And I'm waiting. I'm waiting on the Galani date night. I'm still waiting. I'm the dude. That's going to be so much fun that like if it's going to be like a big train wreck, that might be. It's just like it. It's screaming all of these like just I'm just talking about as movie like as things in movies that I generally dislike personally. It's like a lot of that included, like it's like like even if this is good, I don't think I'd like it, you know. And on top of it being really fucking bad, apparently.
02:04:27
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I don't know, man, but yeah, that's that's all I got. Yeah, I don't really have anything else either. Just been playing Bellatro again. Yeah, Bellatro taken over. i've Been playing Zelda. echo Oh, how is is that good? That's great. It's it's ah it's a great classic style Zelda game. and Better than Breath of the Wild, like that Reddit post. No. Is it better than a link between worlds?
02:04:57
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I would say it is as good or better. It does it does some things where I have been playing it and it is it it gives you a lot of choices to solve puzzles and like take on fights, which I kind of love.
02:05:14
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It lets you express creativity in those battles. um I'm just going to say it now, sand crabs are so good. they You just spit them out. They only cost one point, and you can just keep spitting them out. And um I've been using them a lot. ah But I find myself, so the game, I'm going to just kind of tell you something that happens in the game. and At some point in the game,
02:05:37
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Zelda unlocks a sword master form where you kind of take on Link's sword fighting abilities for a short time. You have like an energy bar. So when you do that, you kind of become like a spirit form of Link and you like, you know, you just play the game as if you're Link, but you're like a spirit form of Link. And in my head, I'm like, nah, dog.
02:06:02
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I bought this to be Zelda. I'm not here to be Link. So whenever I take on bosses, i'm I have not been using the power. I have been solving them with just Zelda's abilities. And the fun thing that I've been i've been seeing is, yeah, that is more than acceptable. So like there have been boss battles where I'm like, shit, this is tough. Like I could just hit that sword fighter form and go into like whoop ass mode.
02:06:29
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or I can figure out like what to do. And that's the thing. There was a boss where like early on it kind of shows you like some of the stuff where like it'll charge into things and kind of get knocked out. But then it fills the room with quicksand. So all the stuff it was like kind of like knocking out. It was is's like gone. But I'm like, oh shit, I can just like put those things that it was like running to up and then just immediately spawn sand crabs into its ass.
02:06:55
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So it's so odd like have context dude, I spot a bunch of sand crabs in his ass and I beat him um No, but I did and like that's the thing I felt I felt so good cuz like in the middle of that fight I was like, I'm not becoming link. I am NOT relying on his ass. I'll be honest, man That's uh, it feels kind of like a cop-out What do you mean that like they that's even an option like Oh basically play it as as link be like, and it's like, Oh, whoa what? No, but it's like, it is like very short and like you do have to, um, you do have to get like special meter for it. ah So like it is very much just like kind of like, uh, like, like a supersonic mode or something. No, it's not a supersonic mode. It's just like, um,
02:07:44
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They want you to use it when you like knock out a boss and he's kind of like in a stun state. So it's like, switch over to Link so you can just like get a bunch of like sword hits in real quick. But I'm like, nah, I'm going to spit 1,000 crabs at you. Instead, yeah. Yeah. And it's like, I love the silliness that it lets you do that. But also, like if I wanted to like replay it, I could be like, let me go like straight up, focus on the sword stuff if I wanted to. Yeah. And I'm kind of curious if I unlock more stuff, because I would say that I'm probably at the halfway point, maybe not even but I'm having a ton of fun with it. I'm really enjoying exploring the world. um That's one of the the things I'm very much enjoying because they're hiding like high level enemies that after you beat them, you can like put them in your kit. um I went up into a snow mountain and I shouldn't have been there. I shouldn't have been there.
02:08:37
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but I found a level three um moblin, a sword moblin, and it was blue and it took it took so much. Like if it hit me once, it did like most of my hearts. And I'm like, oh shit. um But I'm like, I want this guy in my kit. All right.
02:08:54
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So, you know, I spit my thousand sand crabs out, I dodged, I weaved, I beat them, I put them in my kit, and I can't use them because I don't have enough pips yet. And I think at some point when I, you know, as I progress through the game, I will get that final pip, but like... He is just hidden somewhere in, like, the top corner of the map that I was just exploring. So it it has kind of those, like, tears of the kingdom-esque, like, go explore, find some neat stuff, and you, you know, you'll just, like, come across, like, weird enemies that aren't, like, anywhere else in the world that you can just, like, throw into, like, your fighting arsenal, which is, like, super cool. Yeah. I like it. Yeah, it's sad. According to how long the beats...
02:09:35
Speaker
17 and a half hours. It's pretty meaty. It's got some meat on it. Yeah, i'm I'm very much enjoying it. It's got some story. I don't think it's like anything revolutionary, but like, you know, it's like seven hours longer than Astrobot. Get rekt, Sony. Sorry, Sony. Hang it up. warny ah The legend Astrobot coming 2025. So would you say it it earns its what's its metacritic?
02:10:02
Speaker
Mighty. Might. I think. I don't know. I don't know, man.
02:10:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's mighty. It's seven it's an 87. That's great. You think it's an 87? I think so. Okay. You know. It's ah it's better than Link's Awakening. It does get a little crunchier ah frame rate wise. Like, you know, how kind of people had problems with Link's Awakening having some frame rate issue. They say they say this game's looking a little switchy. is the Yeah, but that's also analogy. I've been hearing a lot of a lot of the reason I'm facing those issues is I am spitting out a lot of crabs on the screen. Yeah. So when somebody says this game's looking a little switch, it just means like it's running like garbage because it's on the switch. Oh, framey. It's a little honestly, though. Oh, like, yeah, like the was a lot. Why am I blanking on the fucking the Mario Breath of the Wild sequel? Tears of King. Yeah, they're like tears of King is looking a little switchy. Like it's just a little framey. It's no ghost. What if this ran on? Yeah. Oh, imagine how not shitty this would run on ah on a console like the switch to
02:11:14
Speaker
Yeah, I believe those leaks do. But how does an undead nightmare run on it? yeah Pretty switch to find out. That's the only way to play it on modern consoles. Yeah. All right. I think we're packing it up here, though. Right. That's it. Yeah. Go go by Bellattro. It's it's out on everything. Don't do that. No. If you have things that you need to do, don't buy that game. Or buy a PS5. Or me a PS5.
02:11:42
Speaker
They go. You know what? Devin is going to stay in trouble. A donation link to buy Devin a PS five pro charity. I need something to drown my sorrows, my sorrows, my sorrows. It sounded like a heart. I know, dude. It's not like Bret Hart.
02:12:03
Speaker
Uh, all right. that old That's bread heart. All right. Yeah, I'm out. That's it. All right. Bye. We'll be back next week with Chris Galani. Hopefully. Bye.