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Characters Who Deserve Their Own Game | Windbreaker Podcast
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Marty, and JM8 chat about characters who deserve the spotlight of their own video games.
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Hello, everyone, again. Yeah, it's a great job here on the the Legend of Zelda Break Into the Wind. And I'm joined by Marty. Hello. And here's Jay as well. Hello. And this week, because Marty's been playing so much ah Zelda, whatever it is. That goes with wisdom.
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hey Well, whatever it is. Yeah. I haven't been started on it yet. Cause I've got to, I'm playing that fucking metaphor. We fantasy all week. We thought we'd talk about.
Underrated Game Characters
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yeah characters in games who've been relegated to the sidelines up till now who deserve their own game. Yeah. The Zelda finally got one. And as I said before, that'll finally justify all those elderly relatives who think that Link is Zelda. that basic point You could point them to this game or that terrible CDI game and be like, look, that's right. I'd rather a point them here, honestly.
00:01:25
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We'll point them here. We'll point them here to the discussion. Hello. Hello, Gammy in Pop-Up. So I'm thinking about candidates for this. It struck me how many of the obvious sidekick characters have already had their own games. I mean, I'm a big fan of Second Fiddles. Probably comes from being a younger brother. But, you know, Luigi, he's had his own games. He's had multiple of his own games. He had a whole year at one point. Remember the year of Luigi?
00:01:52
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she was the no ah was twenty fifteen or someset It was like I think it was before the switch and Nintendo didn't have anything going on and they were like, we got to do something. They're like, fuck, it's the year of Luigi. Yeah, what was games? What games came out? I think the two came out. yeah And there was a Luigi centric version of New Super Mario Brothers came out. Yeah.
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Also, this year is the year of Shadow the Hedgehog. I don't know how you guys have been celebrating, but it's been great for me so far. I think every Mario, like, canon characters had their own game. Princess Peach had one, Toads had one. Yeah, Nintendo specifically does this a lot. They like, yeah. Yeah, you mentioned Toad, Yoshi, Wario.
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Waluigi, noteworthy absence there, although there is a fan game called Psycho Waluigi that tries to redress that balance. Oh, no, that it's actually surprisingly well put together. If you look into it, what what kind of a game is it? It's a it's a platformer where you're Waluigi with psychic powers. Okay. Tails the fox had his own game, although it's kind of relegated to the dustbin of history now. Yeah. Shadow has his own game.
00:02:59
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Yes, yes. Very, very quickly. He had his own game. I think about that shadow game. Yeah. So I have to think about it.
Spinoff Game Ideas and Mechanics
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And I've hit upon a sidekick character who's a very ah a strident presence in their ah respective franchise, and who really deserves to have their own game. Who's that? Are you ready? I am. Otacon. Oh, that's a good one.
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Yes. He like is basically a Solid Snake's hetero husband by the end of the run drive. But he's never had his own game. Yeah. And i'm attracted I'm attracted to the idea of a game where you play as the support character. I made a whole game in my dev diary for this project called Casey joint, where you play as the hacker who helps the hero as they're like, prowling through the the the environment. I like that. I like that.
00:03:52
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doing little mini games to open doors for them and shut off cameras and stuff. And that would that would be Otacon's game, I think. Would you, like, where would you place it? Would this be like after all the adventures of Metal Gear Solid 4? Would you try to like slide it in there, like some random shit him and Snake were getting into during their years where they're kind of off the grid and living in their dash with that helicopter?
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I want to fill in the background between MGS1 and MGS2 because in MGS2, it starts with Solid Snake and Otacon who've become a bro team up to do like off the grid assignments to sort of undermine Metal Gears throughout the world. I want to know how that started. Because ah because by the time this Metal Gear Solid 2 starts, it sounds like business as usual for the pair of them. They've been doing this for a while.
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Do you reckon it would be a drastic change? Like in these spin-off games, do you want to see drastic change changes in gameplay? Or do you want to see just an explosion of like the narrative of those characters? I think it's a good excuse for a drastic change in gameplay. Agreed. Yeah, it feels like if you're just gonna palette swap, what's the point? Which is why I'm... yeah kind of glad like Echoes of Wisdom but plays very differently than Zelda just traditional Zelda just by virtue of the fact that you kind of have to use a bunch of the shit you collect in the environment to solve puzzles and combat scenarios and everything. Yeah. I mean all the Mario spinoffs ah sort of spin off to explore completely different gameplay styles.
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Yeah, yeah. Luigi's Mansion, Toad, Treasure Trackers, even the Peach game from earlier this year. Yeah, completely agree. That's what I want to see. I listed a couple of them, and just one of them was a Metal Gear Solid 1. And while I feel like that series in particular can kind of have a lot of directions you can go, I was always thinking of a prequel to MGS3 starring the boss.
00:05:42
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um her Her life in the fiction is is pretty interesting from from starting her Cobra unit. They fought in the Battle of Normandy. She was the first woman in space. um Yeah, it's kind of weird it's kind of dumb, actually. like this This one woman is just this magnet for all of twenty mid-20th century history and also getting shot on the whole time in a slightly cartoonishly way. It just has to has to sacrifice herself because there's no one else around to do it.
00:06:11
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Yeah. live there Yeah. I want to see her, uh, how she met that horse. She has a cool horse. I want to see how she met the horse. I'd want to see it be incredibly over the top, like Bayonetta, like just doing all these historical events, just hopefully over the top. Forest gumping her way through history. yeah But while beating the shit out of everyone, hurt her horse. Yeah, meta may
Emotional Depth in Sidekicks
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Metal Gear ah as as a whole seems like a series that's kind of kind of built for that. And I mean, we already kind of got that with Revengence, where it was obviously Raiden was already the main character of two, but it felt like they were like, well, people always wanted to play as a cyborg ninja.
00:06:48
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But he's dead. So let's just think as I was playing thinking that I was playing through Metal Gear Solid one boy, this would be so much better if I was a cyborg ninja. Not like you know, just a dude who's really good at being a dude.
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Yeah. You know what? because goods were good of being a dude because What I like about Otacon and with a lot of second fiddle characters is that because they're like the the main fiddle character is the one who's like the face of the thing and has to be like the politician who isn't allowed to dislike anything less they alienate fans of that thing. The second fiddle is the one who's actually allowed to have emotions and feelings about things.
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Yeah, you get that with sidekicks and in movie and books and movies and TV shows as well. Like they they kind of, yeah they don't have to be like the engine for the audience avatar or for the plot. Like they could just be there to kind of supply. Yeah. You can make a whole game mechanic out of Otacon crying his eyes out like a big girl. I bet Kojima would create a mechanic of them. Maybe his eyes fill up with tears and make things harder to see every now and again. It's like a state of salesman.
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surprised Kajima hasn't made a crying minigame yeah yeah seems like zero of straight keyword yet. He showed off the new photo mode in Death Stranding 2 where all the characters pose like models. um Weird man. but what ah What a legend. Genuine legend. You already did that in MGS 4 if you point the camera at the Beauty and the Beast ladies while they're walking up to you in like the end of their boss fight.
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Oh, so it's in a symbiote as well. Yeah. Age waves at the, if you point the camera at page, he waves at the camera. Oh, that's great. I love that. Yeah. That's really good. Uh, Jay, did you have any, yeah, I've got a few, one of them, speaking of building an evil, um, I just like you guys, my, I feel like I needed to ask, I'm like, let's shake up the mechanics. Um, and a lot of these are just also characters that I want to see more explorations of.
00:08:42
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page from beyond your navel. I love like a mechanic based, maybe more of a racing um hovercraft focused but experience with page from navel. Um, by your ability to break wind. Exactly. Right. Um, DaVinci from specifically from ass ass in screens. Um, I'd love like, as lear da vinci yeah, I'd love to play as DaVinci making crazy contraptions and, and stuff kind of like Kerbal space program, but Right. Yeah. they You just italy but building shop re yeah just play the incredible machine or something. Yeah. um What else? ah Well, Hornet is youre getting a game. so if silk yeah comes out yeah indie Yeah. In theory, if Silksong ever comes out, indie games have been pretty, pretty good with this. um We even have like Shovel Knight released a bunch of expansions and stuff where you got to play as a bunch of the different nights. And yeah, in, in theory, we'll be playing as Hornet someday.
00:09:39
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Yeah, I'm hoping the mechanics all... Uh, a lot different than as much as I would love just Hollow Knight too. I think there's a lot of interesting you could do with a whole, uh, with, you know, hornets move set. And I'm looking forward to actually. I'm getting that. Uh, and my last one for me, I guess would be, I don't know how to pronounce his name. Uh, East wind, the ice and the sidekick from Okami. ah Oh yeah. I'd love a painting where you just paint smart. Yeah. Like you just paid spot.
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Cause he loves his smart. So ah just a mini game where you play as that little, little cockroach dude and you just paint smart. Just horn it, horn it up a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The game needs to be a little more horn dog. Yeah.
00:10:27
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um The I had a bunch that that came to mind, and mostly it was like me looking at a list of my favorite games and being like, what element of this would I want to see somewhere else? Chrono Trigger, one of my favorite games of all time. Obviously, all six characters, main main playable characters get their own like side quests at the end of the game, which are really cool. One of the reasons I love the game is because they all get these like really deep character centric side quests. And probably my favorite side quest is where you need to plant a forest.
00:10:56
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um but it's going to take centuries to do it. And so you go to the past and you leave your robo friend in the past and he'll be like, and he's like, I will plant until this forest um for 600 years. You want to ah remake ah Rusty's retirement but in the Chrono Trigger universe? In the Chrono Trigger universe, but with the pathos of robo making friends with all the humans in those 600 years and needing to be with them as they all die.
00:11:21
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So he experiences like the saddest 600 years. He's like, I know I'm going to meet my buddies in the future and and I'll have completed the mission. But all the friends I meet along the way are going to die and I will just keep tilling these fields. That would be like a game version of the last shots of the film, Silent Running. the one The one remaining little robot continues tending the garden while everyone else dies. Oh, it's so sad.
00:11:46
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Yes, it'll be that. um And yeah, 100% Rusty's retirement is kind of what I had in mind of like, oh, I have this automaton and maybe he has other robot friends, like he builds a robot friends. Can a robot build a robot? Is that illegal? Is that weird? ah Well, that would, it would be a weird philosophical situation because then the robot would be reproducing. So we'd have to open up the question of if it's a living thing and all that. oh my god Like in that one episode of Star Trek, where Data made a daughter.
00:12:13
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Data made a daughter, a data daughter? Data made a daughter, yes. Oh my God. classic data making a data daughter. Also sticking with Super Nintendo RPGs, I was looking at Chrono Trigger, or not Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, excuse me. And I was like, well, I don't know if I want like a century, like all four of the characters seem to have their own, ah they have their own time in the spotlight. I'm like, who else in this game would be interesting? And this got me thinking, I really like photography games. And I want to play a game where you play as the fuzzy pickles photographer who shows up at random. yeah
00:12:45
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Yeah, who shows up at random key moments and takes pictures of the crew. But I kind of want a photography game where you are chasing the main character of another game. And well like there was like a war photography game where you're chasing the hero of a Call of Duty game, trying to like take the best pictures of the action to tell the story back to the people at home.
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I like Dead Rising, but where you don't have to take to do the actions as well as taking the pictures. Yeah. Well, you're not looking at them. Right. You're like running after him. Like, and you're like, I don't have any weapons. Like I'm not. I'm kind of staying out of this conflict, but I want to I want to think it's a great idea. I play the show that just like get dropped into different scenes and just be like, you have to find the newsworthy or like the the journalistic. Yeah. where The image. yeah Yeah. And it feels like it's happening.
00:13:34
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Like photography tools are becoming so prevalent in games, not only as like an actual in-game mechanic like in Bianca Nivo or the Zelda games of ad photography or Pokemon Snap or Alba's Wildlife Adventure or anything, but like just photography tools in game. Like all those first party Sony games have all the things where it's like, oh, I can freeze the shot and I can move the camera and I can change the time of day and I can take the picture I want. It like feels like we're getting there to like really empowering um Even minding me off the Crush House as well. Crush House, yeah, absolutely. um That would be, yes, a game where you film other characters.
Narrative Potential of Lesser-known Characters
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Yeah. And where we'll find out that that's actually kind of boring.
00:14:12
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for um Take it about Rezzy. Obviously, a lot of Rezzy characters have had spinoffs, right? Oh, yeah. like for Like, I think when they make Resident Evil games, like from like Resident Evil 2 onwards, the the formula was just, let's get all the characters from the existing two games, put them on a big dartboard.
00:14:35
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Throw two darts. There you go. That's the protagonist of the new Resident Evil game. Yeah. And maybe for some DLC, you'll play as this. And they spin it and it's like, oh, Ada this time. Or here's a game in the train and you play as Rebecca. You know who we've met? We got the players. Yeah. Ethan Winters was like the first new Resident Evil protagonist since like the series began. And even that, like very quickly by the end of the games, I go, no, this is a Chris game. Sorry. Like you're not yeah you're not the important one here. What's going on with the merchant?
00:15:03
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I want to know what you're buying.
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Yeah, so i kind of I want a game where you need to be in the
Unique Game Concepts
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right place at the right time with the right goods. i you know go suck up Yeah, like one of those shop management games like Moonlighter.
00:15:23
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Yeah. Yeah. Shop management. Also, obviously some like resi-based inventory management a little bit there, but also being like, shit, I need to trek across this place. There's a bunch of LG Gantes here. But again, like the war photography, he's a pacifist. He doesn't engage. He's just a merchant.
00:15:39
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You do like a farming crafting game, but so you can, but, uh, the environments are all the environments that the hero is going to go through at some point. You just go around all the monsters that are waiting for their cue. Yeah. and Like, uh, I don't mind me just going to pick up some wood from these things, going to make it into like a stock to sell from my store later. Then you get some, then you like talk to them and you get hot tips, like say, Oh, I hear the boss of the next dungeon is weak to shotgun bullets. So if you get some shotgun shells, you can charge a premium for them when the hero comes around. Oh my God.
00:16:10
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I just like this concept in general of the idea of you not being the protagonist of this world and you are supplying or following the the protagonist and having to do stuff for them. He has the Michael Jordan mentality where they ask Michael Jordan why he never spoke up about politics and he said it's because Republicans buy shoes too. and so this is The merchant is like, you know what? Well, zombies and infected villagers need weapons too. so I don't want to get rid of all of this, yeah. Yeah. Who's supplying all these sniper rifles? Yes. Yeah, who's the one the one slipping bullets into all the vases? Yeah, who's making that Mad Max crazy armor in the arena? You have the sprinkle armor around, so they actually make it to the next checkpoint and don't die. Yeah. I'm going to take this necklace, and I'm going to throw it up here in the tree, and hopefully it gets caught on a branch. At some point, you steal someone's diary, and then you just ripple the pages out and distribute the pages randomly around the environment to be picked up. Yeah. Let's see.
00:17:04
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But it that would that would explain that. Yeah. Yeah, I also yeah, I kind of like the idea of being like the architect of everything. I guess what was that game? Dungeon keeper, dungeon master. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Where you kind of create the dungeon for the that the that the hero has to go through. That's old school. I was like 90s. 90s PC game, the original dungeon keeper. Then they made a city mobile port.
00:17:31
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Oh, that's right. Yeah. That was the most recent dungeon keeper game and nobody liked it. I never played it. I just remember the cover of the scary devil man. um Yeah. Scary devil man. Yeah. Big ups. I have a bunch of other random ones, but did you, did you guys have any others? did You normally just keep Kevin. No, but we seem to have all of our ideas seem to be how to ah ah support the hero. Do we think there's anyone who would do a good job as the hero in themselves?
00:18:03
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it It would have to be someone that needs to be supplied. Like, Mario, for me, isn't a good idea for for that kind of role because they're extremely self-sufficient. You'd need someone, a protagonist who is, you know, going to a shop all the time, needs to be supplied, needs to be supported, um but is still strong. um So yeah, who would that be? Wait, do you mean... Wait, no, yeah, I see he was asking for just a character that would make a good, like, legit main character, right?
00:18:31
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Like who's ready to graduate from being a second fiddle? there's Not who would own work in one of these supporting games? I think so, right? What game again could do with it like a Rogue One style prequel where someone does the busy work to it in order to set up the heroics of the next story? Okay.
00:18:51
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If we're talking about, we talked about obviously Zelda's in the key art here. Two other, and and they've already had like weirdos like Tingle has gotten his own games. We've never gotten a Ganondorf game to be like, that's I guess that's a whole like other bag of worms. It's like what villain would make an interesting like. oh Yeah. the again There's a couple of chapters in Hyrule Warriors where you play as Ganon.
00:19:12
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That is right, yeah. Yeah, the Musou games, you can play as any any beasties. um There's also in I'm not crazy about Twilight Princess, but one thing I really do like is the the kind of the spirit of the it's like the hero spirit I think it's called is that skeleton warrior who teaches you all the wolf stuff and canonically that is the spirit of Um, the, the link from Ocarina time who just lives a worse life. Like it's just, it's just a complete fucking bummer. He loses his childhood. He loses his friends. And then he ends up growing up to be a fucking skeleton knight who has to teach an ancestor. So like, what happened? Like what happened in that midlife to get you there? Like, did you have any happiness in his life? Nothing good. Nothing good. No.
00:19:54
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Oh, how do you know he doesn't really like being a skeleton? I mean, I'm sure there's advantages. Sure. All of us are currently call skeletons. So it's fun i like it it's bong rip. Yeah, all of us are currently the prisons of skeletons. There's a skeleton imprisoned inside of all of us. Only tiny little brains in a flesh mech. We're just a big old skeleton dungeon.
00:20:19
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um I'm trying to think who would, did you have any examples of like, who would be interesting to play as like, this is the person, the first domino that ends up at like yeah the story of the game? Chrono's mum.
00:20:33
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Oh right, what was Chrono's mom up to? What kind of life did she live? Yeah. I mean, she seemed fairly unfazed by all the shit Chrono did. She must have seen some shit in her time. She traveled through time herself, so she knows, uh, she, she knows where this is all going. She's seen the end of this yeah i house full of cats. Yeah. I want to play a game where you play as the wolf who nursed Ramus and Romulus.
00:20:59
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to make, to start Rome. So it's mostly just a wolf simulator, but also you've got to go home and feed your tiny baby children. That was just, how was that game? A really depressing apocalyptic game where you were a Fox mum. Oh yeah. That was a sad one from a few years ago. We stream that. I think that might've been like the first game.
00:21:21
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ah yeah really Early on we streamed, yeah. I forgot what that was called. Fox Mom. Yeah. Well, let's just call it Fox Mom. Depressive Fox Mom. Depressive Fox Mom. I like that a lot. In terms of of games going afterwards. thank you Thank you, Jacob Kitty. Endling Extinction is forever. That's why you we didn't remember it because it was a shit title. A bad name.
00:21:44
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uh in terms of someone who could be a main character kind of continuing on uh it feels like at the end of Red Dead Redemption 2 the person who makes the most sense to continue on with was Sadie Adler who's your one whose husband gets killed at the beginning and she joins the gang and is like yeah goes from just being like a wife on the homestead to like a crazy bounty hunter over the course of the decades. I really felt like they were sitting her up for a DLC or a spinoff or something. Yeah. I honestly think that was the case. And then at my, my gut says that like in a post GTA five world, Rockstar pivoted from story DLCs to online, online, online. And obviously Red Dead 2 never really took off online in the same way GTA did. But no, yeah it tried, but
00:22:27
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Yeah, yeah. um Yeah, she seems like she had undead nightmare, which was yeah, which I love that kind of DLC. I love the one where it's like you can just do something kind of batshit crazy. That isn't really canonical to what we are doing here. The the horses of the apocalypse in that DLC is like a core gaming memory for me. Yeah, like stumbling across those horses. It's so cool. um Yeah. And it's a bummer that they didn't do a similar thing with either GTA five or, I mean, I don't know. I guess GTA five probably has like, whenever anyone's like, it doesn't have a campaign afterwards, they're like, but the DLC has a hundred campaigns. And I'm like, well, I don't want to play online. I don't want people to yell at me. I really liked GTA online and all of its accompanying story stuff. I think it's really, really good.
00:23:11
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You're going to be such a bigger person. I feel like you can you can swallow online better than I can. Um, just, you've, you've played them the most for so long that like, I've, you know, I i played GTA online. It was basically b loading screen, the game, as I recall, not wrong.
00:23:27
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not wrong I played a lot of mobile games playing that, just waiting for the fucking loading to finish. I could skip my fucking phone out. yeah say professor if any If any game would have benefited from a loading screen minigame, like in but Like I seem to be anyone remembers in the first platoon game while you were waiting for a ah server you could play a little bouncy platformer on your screen controller I don't understand why every game doesn't do that. Yeah. Why why have we stopped doing that? I guess because we're getting better and better using like the hardware is using SSDs So we're trying to move towards seamless loading screens and stuff like that Yeah, there's still a lot of PC games that utilize them. Why aren't we doing mini games in them?
00:24:12
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That is a good point. Because it's not difficult. Just something to fidget with at least. Yeah. I like it. Doesn't Okami have the thing where you could just jam on the button and you put a bunch of paw prints and like, if you get a certain amount of paw prints, you yeah and don't you get like ah some energy. And of course, famously Namco Bandai patented.
00:24:30
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ah loading screen minigames. ah So people didn't want to try. wire by now It has the pattern retired quite a few years ago. There was like a game jam on it. But still, we have to make the best loading screen game.
00:24:45
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Yeah, we haven't had a loading screen minigame renaissance since then. And that should be about you for one. yeah yeah ah Do you think anyone from, there's just's two groups of franchises I want to throw out. ah One is the FromSoft world. Is there anyone in the FromSoft world who you think could could make for a good spin-off journey? My joking one was Patches.
00:25:06
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a Patches game where Patches goes through the multiverse just to kick assorted heroes in the ass down various paths. Patches is all follow the protagonist around NPC. This is the game. You play as Patches. I was going to say, I was going to say Siglin from Dark Souls 1, Sigmeyers' daughter. Ooh, yeah. Because she has a whole off-screen adventure looking for her father who's being a big silly.
00:25:31
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Yeah. I remember ah what really stands out for me is that there's one line of dialogue where Sigmar then mentions that Siglind isn't a Hollow. Like everyone else in Dark Souls that you meet is a Hollow on their Hollow's pilgrimage or whatever. ah intriguly And for some reason they just so said, hey, she isn't Hollow. She's just looking for her dad and ah is worried that she might have to kill him again. ah So you could make a non-Souls-like spin-off out of Siglind.
00:26:00
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I like that. It's all like the run up to having to go to the cursed land where all the hollows hang out. Yeah. I want to play a city management game where you play as Gwyn and you just got to manage yeah the lands between.
00:26:20
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about Gavlan. Gavlan merchant game. Oh, yes. Gavlan wheel, Gavlan deal. That's the title. Oh my God. We got it here. Miyazaki pick up the phone. And then the second series was obviously we've gotten Alex in terms and we've gotten a a Barney game. Does Barney count? Is Barney like canonically the main character of that game or did they retcon that or? Yeah, no, that's the same Barney. Okay. Oh, they retcon the fact that Barney was in Didn't they retcon some stuff in Half-Life 1 that certain characters you meet were more important than they actually were? Well, in Half-Life 1, they didn't really have characters, per se. Every every scientist you meet is like one of four generic scientists, and every security guard is the same generic security guard. Yeah. And in Half-Life 2, they retconned that one of the security guards was Barney Calhoun, who's like the model of every security guard in the game. Last name's Calhoun. And one of the spectacle-wearing scientists was Dr. Isaac Kleiner.
00:27:16
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One of the black scientists was Dr. um What's his name? i Yeah. Yeah. um So Alex got her own game. Barney got his own game. Is there anyone else in the Half-Life and or portal universe? Do you think ah a GLaDOS or a Wheatley game could work? Maybe in terms of the dungeon management, like try to fuck over a random ass people who are entering the experiment.
00:27:41
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I see Wheatley having a sort of side puzzle game along the lines of your Captain Toad treasure tracker where Wheatley has to figure out how to navigate the environment using only the rods that he's attached to. Oh god. Or like a trap game like you were alluding to, like a game where you have to make sure that this, you know, portal wielding little character in this game dies and you have to place enough traps and twists and turns. Yeah.
00:28:10
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Man, Portal's great. What if they made another one? What if they just went in there? They'd need more gameplay gimmicks. Is it wrong for me to say just do more of the same? I know that's like that, and we don't want that. But if it's the same quality as two, what if you make more of it? Just download fan missions if that's what you want. I don't want fans. What if they see Porto's in there, and there's someone playing Porto's in my living room, and I don't realize it.
00:28:40
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I'm always worried about sneaky pornos. ah Well, you should learn to welcome the sneaky porno into your life. Tweet it like a nice surprise party. Oh, now that you've mentioned it, I would like to have a wank.
00:28:54
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No. Sneaky pornos out of here. Open your arms to it, Marty. I mean, open one of your arms to embrace embrace the sneaky porno. Unfold your palm for this. knee folder Oh no. i like you i don't like that and all Sounds like a poor verb. I don't like that. Yeah. Let's start on them. Super chance. And let's get all the old ideas. We got a nice, a nice,
00:29:18
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Well, I think with cure 37, who gives 50 Danish crew and just says, hi, peeps. Daddy from RDR2 could be interesting. There you go. Well, I continued adventures after leaving or Carlak, BG3 on her hunt for a cure for her heart in Avernus. Yeah. When I was playing BG3, I never ran into that character. I think. I like to bat out of the way. here it is I found vampire of half-elf dude. I found ah emo wizardy dude. I found the laid shadow heart, the lady ah with the weird name. I didn't even realize just my characters were missable. I just assumed you had to find all the characters. No, they're missable.
00:30:03
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Yeah, there was a big blind spot for me were Western RPGs in this prompt, obviously stuff like Mass Effect or ah Skyrim, you know, any Elder Scrolls starting a Fallout thing, Dragon Age, Witcher, um you know, I'm sure there's character because Witchers had, because you're I guess in Witcher four, you're not playing as Geralt, right? They said you're playing as, is it Siri? Is she a person? So really AI voice. Yeah. She was introduced as like, uh, Geralt's successor yeah throughout the games. Did you play as her at all in like three or some of the DLC? I think so. There are small sections. Yeah. place yeah Yeah. You know, i like I've never, I've never played Fallout, but you know, I like, there's a one guy who talks like an old detective in like new Vegas. I want to play with him.
00:30:50
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Yeah. Who's that guy? He's like the dead guy who talks to the detective. man i see What's his name? Is that four? I don't know. Is it four? I think it's four now. And that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Nick Valentine. I think it was my mistake. he's all joy Yeah. Uh, Doran Grossman Naples gives five dollars and says, I want to play as the swinging axes in sends fortress, just swinging back and forth, making players miserable. So relaxing. See,
00:31:19
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That's a good answer. Like that yeah i like but playing one of those mobile games where you just have to get the ball down the infinite tower. If I move rotating the tower doesn't like that. crazying together but send fortress Yeah. Well, you're a swinging pendulum.
00:31:37
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on players neato and most of the games you sat in the dark and then it's you doing one boss fight and then you die players one of the secret arrow shooters that are activated by floor plates just the anticipation though oh my god please step on this floor plate it's an idle game i guess and you put your experience points into uh subtlety That's we'll see. Okay, yeah, more more grindlandder adventurous, less likely to notice the touch plate. I love that. Just a casual spectator gives for 99 and says off topic. Do you prefer plot holes lamp shading or over explanation in game stories?
00:32:21
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Man, if I talk about a tangent curveball. Yeah, I'm fine with plot holes. I would rather have plot holes and overexplanation. Agreed. What are you a TV tropes editor? I don't know. And what is lampshading? Is lampshading like?
00:32:42
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Lapshading is the sort of thing where, you know, in Uncharted games, where you're having a gunfight in a burning building and Nathan Drake yells out, why are we still shooting when we're all going to die in this burning building? That's why I hate that. So attention to the fact that things something surreal or or crazy or dumb. Or is it like the character is complaining like The Last of Us when you're like, oh, another ladder puzzle? You know, like, yeah, I also don't want to do the ladder puzzle.
00:33:09
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Is that pointing out something that doesn't make sense to sort of pre like preempt the preempt the angry commenters? Yeah, like this can't be a complaint because we also know that it's bad. We're aware of women wasting your time. yes and still like Yeah, And everything doesn't have to be a fucking math equation. Dr. Theo gives five dollars and says, I think having an outlast type of game for the original DVD killers could be fun. Maybe an anthology series. Each killer gets their own bite sized game.
00:33:41
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That can be interesting. Well, they don't just be the same though, right? They'd be very, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Like what do you, how would you make like a single player game where you're the equivalent of like a Freddy Krueger or ah or a Jason or around like,
00:34:00
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Michael Myers, like, what is that? Well, there was a game a while back on PS3 called Naughty Bear, where you were a sort of slash a slasher villain teddy bear and your job was to kill all the other teddy bears. And you got points based on like creativity and how scared you made a person before you killed them. And ah yeah so you could set up something like a slasher movie thing where you have to rig up a bunch of bodies so that when someone walks in, all the bodies fall from the ceiling and it's like that bit at the end.
00:34:29
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of the horror film when the final girl is finally getting targeted. So it's almost like Hitman almost, like creativity is a part of it. Yeah, sort of, but gruesome creativity. A nightmare on Elm Street, even just an actual nightmare on Elm Street game where you're like dream hopping between different dream scenarios and stuff could seem really cool as a horror serial killer. yeah Yeah. Or even just a victim that you're trying to just, your job in the game is to escape with the dream world and defeat Freddy and stuff. Well, the job, your job in, especially the job of the victims in Nightmare on Elm Street films was just to not fall asleep.
00:35:06
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but Yeah, right. I guess maybe there's complete control there. You know, like the dream warriors, you can, you can make up some bullshit that they have a specific amount of power. So we can actually have some gameplay rather than drink this coffee. The Nightborne Elm Street game for the Commodore 64 was specifically based on dream warriors. You could pick which of the dream warriors you got to play as and you got a different special power depending on which one you picked. And I feel like that could be Yahtzee and I, for Yahtzee tries last week played, was that 10 bells? Was that what it was called? Oh, yes. We rather liked that. Yeah. So it was ah kind of this like loop, ah small looping horror game where you keep making a loop through an environment and you have to see if something's weird. You got to turn around and leave the way you came. But if everything's normal, you continue on. And so you got to
00:35:52
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It's the same premise as, what do they call those, the anomaly games? It's like there's the train station one that knocked it off. That sounds fun. I didn't realize this was a new genre, but the first one I played is Ten Bells, and I like how it's finally found a way to gamify the PT experience in a way that makes sense.
00:36:11
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But, and I like that the pairing that with the idea of the dream, like the dream world where you're in an environment, you don't know what's going to happen. And like even, it's not even maybe necessari necessarily scripted. Maybe it pulls from a bunch of different things to where but get to you have to figure out if you're dreaming or if you're still, if you're awake.
00:36:28
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Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. that's you get of that yeah with the last so I want to play that. I'm putting out my wish list. If you're awake, go to work and have a normal day. And if you're asleep, if you go to work, then the boss turns into like ah your mum and tries to eat you with her vagina. bless of god Classic mum vagina. Vintage.
00:36:48
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ah And Mia, remember for eight months in the green gang, says, Marta, you should watch Happy! exclamation mark if you haven't already. I don't think I know what Happy is. Is it an anime? I don't know what that is. I typed in Happy with an exclamation point and the only thing that comes up is the Pharrell Williams video. A minion's birthday card.
00:37:10
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That's tough to Google, isn't it? that's That's a mistake people often make when naming their games and stuff. Oh wait, is this the Grant Morrison show? An injured hitman befriends his kidnapped daughter's imaginary friend, a pesky, a perky blue flying unicorn. I've never even heard of this. That sounds lame. Starring, ah voiced by Patton Oswalt, starring Christopher Maloney,
00:37:35
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The hit Law and Order man, I think it's Law and Order. I see him on my screen now. No, Oswald just never says no to anything. Shout out to Patton. Cash that check.
00:37:45
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ah
00:37:48
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ah ah Someone called Yahtzee will wear a green hat in 10 weeks, gives 2 euros, and says name a funny word combo like graveyard shenanigans. Uh, graveyard shenanigans.
00:38:06
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Um, he called lonious, felonious psycho pump. I go pump a word. I think corn dogs funny corn dog, corn dog, corn dog, corn dog. Yeah. I have one right now. I'll, I'll do on that and I'll scream out. that random moment Yeah. What have us to tell like it was a painful story about our our childhood and like,
00:38:35
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I'm like, poor dog, have a nattery. Your 37 gives 20 Danish kroner and says, by the way, i just wanted to say, I love your work. All three. Thank you. Thank you very much. And then Alexander Strong gives five dollars and says some characters sound like good ideas for their own games, but then end up just okay. Like Captain Toad or that neon girl from In From a Second Son. Well, I like Captain Toad.
00:39:00
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No, it's not like a, it's not a fucking 10 out of 10, but I think it's a fun little puzzle game. It's a nice little puzzle game. No. Yeah. I forgot that. Yeah. I guess Sony does that a lot with like DLCs and spinoffs where they'll take a character. Cause there was the like uncharted lost legacy that had the two different characters. There was first light, which is I think what the second son thing. Uh, Ellie obviously took a main, main seat in glass was part two. Um,
00:39:27
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um ah I'm expecting we get an Atreus game at some point, right? Like Kratos had to leave for them. Well, I guess the question is if that dynamic really works ah without Kratos, as opposed. Yeah. Yeah. I thought some of the some of the Atreus-only stuff was was kind of dragon. ah Yeah. The whole chapter where- You walk around the forest with- Yeah, you walk around the forest basically helping the lady with her shopping.
00:39:54
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And it's like, I'm glad you're having fun on this date. I'm not having fun on this date. The narrative framing of that encourages it to feel like a drag because Atreus is being a petulant, like teenager.
00:40:08
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Yeah. Rather than like, Oh, you're getting to explore a fun thing. And this is something I was going to talk about earlier. I hate it in games when they try and add the same kind of gameplay with a different character, like with Mary Jane or Mars Morales in, yeah you know, Spider-Man PS4.
00:40:25
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like give me the character I want to play. Stop making me play this this other character. I don't want to play them in a spinoff when they've got their own mechanics and their own like they're fully fleshed out. That's great. But yeah just as a little spinoff, it missed me with that. I mean, it's weird that in the games where they're introduced, Tails and Luigi both control identically to the main character in some cases with better skills like Tails can fly as well. Yeah. Send Sonic home. Tails has this in the bag.
00:40:58
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Uh, Alex Armstrong gives $2 and says starstruck vagabonds. Sarge, pretty please Yahtzee. Well, I ain't going to do that. Uh, yes, there's a character in starstruck vagabond where the whole joke is that he's the protagonist of a first person shooter that's happening off screen. And you're like the dude who comes to save him in the helicopter at the end. i mean So if you made a game about him, that would kind of kill the joke.
00:41:29
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Uh, Stan Tobias? Yes, that was the in- that was the intent. Uh, Stan Tobias gives five dollars and says, off-topic, will there be a review of Soul Rev- Reva 1 and 2 remastered when they come out? You know, I never played the Soul Reva games. Me neither. Perhaps I'll give them a bash. Oh my god. Yeah, those got dated for, uh, the end of the year, I believe. Well, now they've been re-introduced to a new audience by appearing in Astro Bot. The time is right, perhaps.
00:41:59
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Yeah, but so is Mr. Mosquito and all of that bollocks. And Mr. Mosquito just got released on PlayStation Plus, I'm just saying. The problem with Astro Bot is it introduced people to so much old shit, but they don't fucking tell you what game they're from. so yeah i As I said in my review, I wonder if that was a legal thing.
00:42:17
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I wonder if it actually named the character what they were supposed to be called and like the IP owner is my good god and stroppy. Like how can you have the the visual and in some cases audio rights to a character?
00:42:30
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Um, and to be able to allude to it, but not be able to write the name. It's think in my video on Astro bot, which is coming out later this week. Um, I talk about dead by daylight because they have a stupid way of naming all their characters. They don't use, they don't call things like people like ghostface or Jason. They call them the something because of their shitty naming convention. I just, I hate it. It's, I think it's, it was a choice they made. Well,
00:42:56
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Well, the interesting thing is, you know how they refer to Michael Myers as the shape? Yeah, that's how he is in the credits. Yes, that is how Michael Myers was credited in the credits of the original Halloween film. They just call him the shape. But everyone they do have a link, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's not like they're trying to pretend that it's not Pyramid Head. They just say, hey, this is the executioner, but it's Pyramid Head. You all know that.
00:43:23
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Yeah, it was, the yeah, Astrobot, I thought was a little, ah I was a little bummed out by that this in the same way, just because I'd like, like Smash has that sort of like museum to where you can go into every character. And I think it says their first, any, any, anything that appears in the game, their first appearance in Nintendo history. It's like a paragraph. um My gut says it's because everything in Astro is in Astrobot.
00:43:46
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is like presented as if it's in the fiction of the world. like It doesn't acknowledge that video games are real, despite the fact that you're on a spaceship that's a fucking controller and everything, um which doesn't isn't a good excuse, but I think that's probably the excuse rather than a legal issue.
00:44:05
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I don't know. If it's not a legal issue, I hate it. Yeah. Oh, no, I agree. If it's an artistic choice, I don't think it's a good artistic choice. Maybe they just didn't want to have to describe all the games you can't actually buy anymore because they'd have to have admitted that at the end. They'd have to like sort characters by can I purchase them on PS5? Oh, no. yeah Hey, this character was in a really exciting game. Anyway. Yeah. Anyway, never mind that. Here's some more particle effects.
00:44:35
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Red442 gives 4.99 and says, yeah, so he wants to have a video game version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. you Well, you misunderstood something I've said before in that I believe we already have a video game version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and it's the Stanley Parable.
00:44:50
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oh
00:44:53
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There's just no core text that it is commenting on. Yeah, it's ah a satire on the concept of the ah linear video game narrative.
00:45:06
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Yeah. and sounds terrible really good Did you ever play the beginner's guide? Yes, I really like that. Yeah. sort of I mean, it's not a game, but it's a fun ah narrative experience. That's the po no right the yeah point That's the whole point. Yeah. On a little Disney ride. it's It's a weird one. I did a marathon. I did a stream of playing Stanley Powerball and then playing the beginners guide afterwards. And it was extremely surreal, especially like as a game dev, because it's all about people obsessively looking into your work and and stuff like that. like It was
00:45:38
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very therapeutic in a way. Why do you only do marathon st streams of games with very deep and meta? ah I don't know Marty, it's because people request I do these. but Did you did you ah at any point in the course of playing a beginner's guide like think, is this real?
00:45:57
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Is this like from the beginning? A little bit, yeah. like to the end that There was a big debate I had with my audience and the person I was playing it with, who's a fellow game dev friend of mine, um who wanted me to play it. I was going through thinking it was real. but yeah At the very beginning, yeah, because Davey Reed introduces himself as himself and the initial thing he shows you from this like, this code of person's work is like a dodgy counter strike map. Yeah.
00:46:25
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and that it lent it an air of authenticity. So I thought for a certain amount of time that maybe, like, this was a true story. And it genuinely was like a tribute to some kind of lost friend. As it got, as it got to the end of like, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who who hasn't played it. Cause it is, it is a really interesting narrative. When it got towards the end, I was like, eh, it also made me, I can never look at like a street lamp the same ever again. Like if I see, especially see one in a game, I'm like, yeah, let's go. Oh, he's at it again. Yep.
00:46:59
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What does this mean? Humane Shield gives 9.99 and says a Fallout game where you play as the Overseer and do you have to keep the populace under control while continuing whatever unethical project Vault-Tec assigned you. Isn't there like mobile games along those lines where you like run a Vault? Yeah, there's a Fallout. well What is that game called? What's the Fallout mobile game called? Vault? Vault? Fallout what boys? Fallout Shelter. Fallout Shelter, yeah. all up Fallout Shelter, yes.
00:47:28
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That's what that is. There you go. Yeah. And they just, I think we also released Elder Scrolls, like a game called the Elder Scrolls castles, where it's the same thing, but Elder Scrolls.
00:47:39
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Uh, sounds awful. Yeah. James Morgan. James Morgan goes for 99 says like to make a game as Q making gadgets for James Bond. Failure that states being gadget blows up or is noticed before use. I like that. and Like just picking what gadgets. Oh, this is the brief for James Bond's mission. What gadgets would he need to complete his mission? And then maybe you get a little super cut of him doing it if he succeeds or fails. Oh no, he's dead. He drowned.
00:48:06
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yeah You didn't spy him with any form of oxygen for his underwater mission. yeah Sounds great fun. but Quite simple to make as well, especially if you don't do like a preview afterwards. Yeah. And it's just effectively picking the right things. That's a great little puzzle game. Snake in the Garden gives two euros and says patches could be like a goose game mechanically. Oh my God. Going around making people's days worse and being an asshole.
00:48:32
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I like that for the goose. It's just like, Oh, you're being kind of a nuisance, but for patches, it would be like, I'm going to fucking kill this guy. I'm going to kick this dude into a up pit. Yes. Yeah. I love when you, you can summon patches into the, uh, uh, redan fight in, uh, Elden ring and he'll just be like, Nope. And then with zoom right out of there. He's like, I'm not fighting this man. I want, um,
00:48:56
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Do you know, like weird multi-player games? I want to have the normal multiplayer of the souls games, but um there's a new feature, which is you can load in someone's game as patches. And your only goal is to just sneak around following them and then find a way to kick them off a ledge. And if you succeed, you get a load of points and then you go back to your life i doesn play. That's the only invader I want to be. Yeah. Like, um,
00:49:20
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Uh, unique. Uh, what are they called? Those like religions you can join in dark souls. Oh, covenant. Oh, like covenant. Yes. yeah Like every you unique patches if you've had the patches covenant where you have people off ledges. Yeah.
00:49:35
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I love it. Uh, Alex, Alex Armstrong gives $2 and says, why not Sasha from psychonauts having an origin game? Ooh. How would it be different to psychonauts? I like Sam strong dresses, but with a different dude, but in the sixties. Okay. Yeah. So kind of like an awesome powers game.
00:49:57
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Did you know that there was an Austin Powers game for Game Boy Color developed by DMA Designs who would go on to be Rockstar just a few years later? What? I knew there was an Austin Powers Game Boy game. I didn't know DMA did it, although DMA were already a well-known game designer in England because they made lemmings. They were the developer of lemmings. And Space Station Silicon Valley, which is one of my favorite 64 games.
00:50:22
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We need a big budget. They should pivot. They should cancel. Grand Theft Auto six and just make a big budget Austin Bauer scheme. Agreed. I'd play this shit out of that. Well, they'd have to cast Mike Myers in it and apparently he's a bit of a prat. Yeah. Lost powers is great. It's an old guys. They do get like that.
00:50:41
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ah The rapper gives five R dollars and says, mentions Chrono Trigger but not Magus. I want to know his story after the extra time devourer ending and if he really turns into Guile from Cross or no. Okay, that's going over my head a bit. Yeah, there's in the ah in the ah fronno Yeah, there's a character in Chrono Cross named Guile who's this like kind of, he's like a thief magician who wears a, like one of those little party masks. What do you call those? Masquerade masquerade masks. He has the same hair as Magus and there's like fan theories that he is, Magus sort of being unstuck through time trying to figure shit out how to ah to save his sister.
00:51:28
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DM Bilan for 99 gives $5 and says the first episode with Data's daughter was amazing representation. Data specifically says he wants his child to choose their own gender and species. You obviously got very, very excited when we brought that up. Daddy Data's, what did we call it? Daddy Data's Dumpers? Daddy Data's Daycare? Daddy Data's Daughter Daycare? Yeah.
00:51:56
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If only he'd called her Deirdre. But he didn't. He called her Lao. Wow. that is ah Yeah. But he was bad at names, I guess. Yeah. Lao. Dr. Theo gives $5 and says Marty's photography game idea reminded me of content warning. Maybe we can get a more realised game like that. Maybe both photos and videos.
00:52:20
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Yeah, we stream that a little bit earlier this year, right? ah Like making game mechanics out of filming is like exponentially more complicated than making game mechanics out of taking still photographs. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool to be curious to see if they if people do continue with that.
00:52:39
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Brawl the man gives $2 and says Venom from Spider-Man would be great. Now I'm sure there's like a ton of games where you can play as Venom. Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man on the PS2 I believe. You can play as him. Yeah, Max and Carnage. You can play as Venom for Spider-Man 2. Yeah, in Spider-Man 2 you have the final boss fight against Kraven playing as Venom.
00:53:03
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I never, there was from some of those Sony leaks last year or whenever, I think they had said that there at some point was plans to make like a a Venom standalone DLC or whatever. Like the same way there was Spider-Man Miles Morales have the equivalent but with Venom as a standalone game. This is a shot of the hedgehog thing for me. I don't really ah get the appeal of Venom. I'm just like, Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like it's it's the edgy version of the character. You know, I guess I'm just I've never really liked that. See, like I get it when it's the complete opposite, like Bizarro Superman. I kind of get because he's such like an ideal and it is the complete opposite of him.
00:53:49
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in so many ways but when it's just like it's the main character but they're a bit sad or like a bit more violent I'm just like and you know got to have a black suit on Well, this will be something that I cover in my semi-ramblamatic that's coming up the week after this week. But it comes down to aging with the audience, I suppose. Yes. That's what that's I mean, Sonic was like for edgy teens. Originally, he was like the edgy version of Mario. He had a frowny face and everything. But then those teens got a bit older and they had to have an even edgier hedgehog. Edgehog. They had to have an even edgier hedgehog is a sentence. Yes.
00:54:30
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Hence Shadow with a Gun. They were trying to like pursue the same audience by being more grown up with the edgy hedgehog with a gun and the bat with tits, and that was probably an error on their part.
00:54:45
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I like that Nintendo did that similarly with Wario, but then just pivoted and Wario was just like a ah ah big ol' pervert, like a big ol' pervert weirdo. I'm like, good. and Yeah, I found his own niche as well. Wario were games. Somehow he has his own games. Yeah. Look at that shirtless Wario. One of my fantasy football teams is just called Shirtless Wario. Nice. Great. And it's a picture of him.
00:55:11
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Tommy Salty, maybe for 10 months in Tipture. Thank you very much. And then Tommy Salty comes up with 10 PLNs and says, Buka de Beppo deserves their own game. Like, guy um, Tapper? remember Tapper? One of the early arcade games? Well, Buka de Beppo appears in the upcoming Adventurer's Nigh cardboard game where yeah based on Red Dragon Inn. I've seen some of the art they've done for it and it's very special.
00:55:38
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It is incredibly special. It is extremely good, yeah. There's not, are there games where you play as like a bartender in the same way that there's like- Besides Tapper. Besides Tapper, like- It must be. Isn't that one game? There's like an indie, like- kind of horny future noir game where you're a bartender? Was it Valhalla? The ages and the ones? Why is it with these bloody sim games? Are we only playing like industrial like truck drivers or farm? like Why can't I have a sim game where it's like barmaid or like pub owner? I spent a huge part of my childhood in a pub. I grew up in need to be playing more mum games is what you want to do. There's tons of like, ah rest of waiting tables games that that the audience that traditionally likes mum games like hidden object j games seem to gravitate to in a big way. i so I just want to explore more jobs. I want to have like a blacksmith sim game or like did you play um ravenous devils? No, that was that was a combination restaurant management murder simulator.
00:56:44
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Okay. Well, you basically played Sweeney Todd and his wife. Yeah, you streamed that, right? Yeah, I reviewed it in like a double bill or something. Okay, yeah. I rather liked it at the end of the day. Yeah. Just a bit short.
00:56:59
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ah James Morgan, you saw 99 and says game as Riddler leaving question marks about man while avoiding him and other villains thugs. i play very much mark didn't Doesn't Riddler like delegate all his question mark placing? And that's why you interrogate like a million different thugs throughout the course of Arkham City to find out where they are. Oh, sure. He assigns like, okay, you got to get these five question marks.
00:57:21
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How long do you get to the roof of this building? It doesn't matter. He's a big guy, either. You should play as the Batman from the... Play as the Riddler from the new Batman, where he's like a creepy incel who sneaks into people's houses and then beats them to death. It'd be like Hitman, but where you're really bad at it. Yeah, and putting question marks into your latte, aren't you? Yeah. Murderer simulator. Yeah, but you're bad at it. Yeah. Your bad at it is just like the... That's the wet bandits from Home Alone. Home Alone, yeah.
00:57:51
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ah DMBilan99 gives side dollars and says, pet peeve time, it's decident. Ancestor is a past relative. Decident is a future one. All right. What's wrong with descendant as a word? I don't know. But also you can't say it's pet peeve time and then spell pet peeve wrong. Yeah. Well, maybe he was shortening it for like the zoomers in the audience. I don't know. Pet peeve. Pet peeve. Pet peeve le pew.
00:58:21
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butv you now hit There's a character you don't see much of these days, do you, Mr. Sexual Assault, the character? Probably good. um I mean, you you can get away with Speedy Gonzales, you put a disclaimer at the front, but not the sexual assault skunk. Yeah. yeah oh
00:58:43
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That's the name of one of my fantasy football teams. You know, I've been, I've, there's like, uh, there's a children's book that my kids like called the pout, pout fish. Have you heard of this? No, like a whole series of now it's like the first one was a bestseller. It's about a very sad fish because he pouts all the time. Uh, but then he realizes that, uh, he's actually a kiss kiss fish because another fish comes along and forcibly kisses him. Oh no. And I'm like, wait, isn't this legitimizing sexual assault?
00:59:10
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yeah changes think Oh, if I see someone who's sad, I should rush over to them and kiss them on the mouth. Just run over and kiss them full on the mouth and make them realize that a pout can also be a kiss. oh Yeah. If you go to a, if anyone as a pro tip, you go to a funeral soon, just start kissing everyone. Makes everyone feel bad. A lot of sad people at funerals. Oh, blimey, there's still quite a lot of these. Ryan Petron, you saw on Eighty-Nine, he says, how do I feel about a gritty, grounded Halo prequel where you play as Sergeant Jotz and fighting the Covenant, waiting for Master Chief to wake up? It's the same game, isn't it? That does sound very Rogue One-y. Yeah, you are playing as a human, though. You don't have your cool Mjolnir armor. I like that. You got some armor, I guess, but no Mjolnir.
01:00:00
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Uh, John Brooks gives 10 pounds and says a fallout game playing as Conrad Kellogg, the first boss stroke villain in Fallout 4 as his backstory seen through flashback story was way more interesting than most of the stories you did. His name was Conrad Kellogg. Yeah. Like the creator of cereal.
01:00:20
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know Instead the creator of crime. Wasn't he the guy who stole your baby? Um, no, you, I think you think he is the guy who stole your baby, but actually isn't and no h me if I'm wrong. Yeah. I can't remember. I just remember that's the first bossy fight talks to you about stealing your baby. I'm going to start saying the opposite instead of correct me if you're wrong, say, uh, uh, I don't want to hear, I don't want anyone. I just want to live in ignorance. Okay. like to limit
01:00:56
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um Alex Armstrong gives $2 and says, friend of mine says Captain Falcon is a bounty hunter. Ooh, it is weird. Captain Falcon might be one of the rare OG, I guess him and Ganondorf, OG Smash characters who haven't had their own game yet. Yeah, I mean, there hasn't been an F-Zero game the longest time.
01:01:19
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yeah Because he has had his own game, well like F-zeros technically. Yeah, if you like players, any character you want, there's no, as far as I know. no yeah Don't correct me if I'm wrong, I want to live in ignorance chat. There's no game where Captain Falcon is like the main character. But yeah, it could be one where he's just going around in different spaces, bars, beating the shit out of people. Well, there's plenty of characters in Smash who are never the main character in games, like um that lady who's Pitt's friend in Kid Icarus, the god lady.
01:01:47
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Oh, yeah. Paul, Paul. Yeah. God lady. ive been say that She's never had her own game. Yeah. But those were like later smash characters. Like Kevin felt it's been there since the original, which is odd. Honestly. No, I guess ji all much we haven't had any jigglypuff games. For sake. Are you sure about that? and I have a couple fan games, but every time I try to publish them, uh, the police call me and say, please don't.
01:02:15
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Oh, okay. Then it's where it's like sort of the main crux of the games. Right? Yeah. Well, what else are you going to do? now goes He's got one of those weird little like twirly, twirly dongs, like a duck. Wait, jiggly puffs. Power is putting people to sleep. Oh no. Oh I can smell him. <unk>o but puff Oh, no. Uh, witticism will give side dollars and says hornage from Hollow Knight would make an interesting protagonist. Team Cherry should get on that. I bet people would be excited. I think they were doing this. They're making a sort of a witty thing there. Uh, a witticism, if you will. I want to know what's going on with this game. like How long have we been hearing about this thing? Just four or five years. That's way too long for a game like what it is.
01:03:14
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Well it started as a DLC, three DLC and then they'd spun off into its own game. I don't think their team size has grown much larger than what it originally was, which was like three people. I think there must be something terribly wrong going on with management. Or they're just trying to make it. Hollow Knight was one of the biggest indie games ever released. I'm sure they just have a lot of pressure on them.
01:03:35
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There's been like 90,000 games like Hollow Knight in the intervening years. I don't know why it would take so long. I'm sure they just want to live up to that. I mean, that's the worry, right? It's like it's been so long that like a sequel that is just seemingly more of the same can't like how do you how do you match that, right? Yeah, I think they're just trying to make it longer. I think they just want to put more and more and more stuff in it. Yeah. I feel for them, honestly, like the amount of pressure we cannot fathom The amount of pressure team Jerry are on, like, under right now. They've got enough money, though. Hell, we're all under pressure to produce work for the money we're paid. That's just very true. but
01:04:15
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It's interesting when like, I'm always like, if you are a small team who makes an indie game that is like that beloved, like it must be kind of of terrifying of like what you do next. Like what do the what is Lucas Pope do after Return of the Obra 10? What does what is the Outer Wilds team do after that? Lucas Pope makes whatever the fuck he wants because he's a creative author and that's why I love him. He's cranking. He's out there cranking.
01:04:43
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Yeah, he's cranking away. Like Pepe Le Crank? No. Make him the gardener and gives two euros and says, Tom Nook, turnip stock exchange plus loan shark game. Now if it feels like, if any idea feels like something Nintendo might actually do at some point, it's a Tom Nook spinoff. Yeah, that just seems like a lot of math. You're like a bad dude, you're predatory.
01:05:05
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You're a predatory lender. I don't like it. i Well, I think ah he has that reputation, but I think Nintendo has probably crossed their mind to maybe, you know, try to unassassinate his character at some point.
01:05:17
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Well, yes, it seems like, you know, it's the type of thing that I feel like ah an an outside of Nintendo games year would start making. And then they'd come and just say, hey, we want to do this thing. And they go, yeah, we could make money off that. Here's a bunch of money as long as you don't swear. I got it. And then they go, he's got his two kids here. It is Tom Nook is getting ready to retire and it's just succession.
01:05:40
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who takes over Nook Industries. Nice. How about his two kids that both have terminal illnesses, and that's why he has to sting everyone for cash everywhere he goes. He saw us. There you go. It's like breaking down with Tom Nook. Animal Crossing Island? Animal Crossing Island is just part of the marathon. Oh, God. What do you think's in those turnips that makes him so valuable? That's how he's transporting the myth. Insulin. Oh, no. Insulin.
01:06:10
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Kill the cancer. Stephen Bell, speaking of Animal Crossing, Stephen Bell gives two pounds and says Ashley from Resident Evil 4. Well, there was a second after Resident Evil 4. There was a segment of Resident Evil 4 where you do play as Ashley and one from armor it it was kind of shit. I remember playing Resident Evil 6 and you run into like that one, like you're playing Leon's campaign and he runs into that one character who's like Shelly from Resident Evil 2.
01:06:40
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Oh yeah. For a moment, I was really excited. I was like, is that Ashley? Yeah. Because I was because I'd only need played Resident Evil 4 at that point. Oh, it's like, no, it's as actually actually joined the Secret Service as well. Yeah. But now it was just Sherry fucking Birkin. I guess, yeah, they've done. I like Ada. I feel like Ada could have her own game. She had the separate ways DLC. Again, that's already been spun off. You can just play the separate ways DLC.
01:07:11
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Yeah. Will Cooling gives two pounds and says Knuckles would better fit a 3d platformer than Sonic. there knuckles the Knuckles levels in Sonic Adventure one and two are rough in my mind. You would think cause he's got the cool gliding ability and you can climb shit, but yeah. Yeah. So making a good 3d platformer would depend on the developer not being crap. And that's Sonic team out, I'm afraid. Shout out to Sonic Frontiers. That gave me start on Sonic.
01:07:39
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Also, Sonic's coming to Topgolf. That's all that matters. I'm very excited for Sonic Topgolf. Okay. Yeah. Alex Armstrong gives $2. It says, more of Bowser. We've only got Bowser's Inside Story. You could play Super Mario
Paper Mario 2 and Bowser Jr. Discussion
01:07:51
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RPG. He's a party member in that. Yeah.
01:07:56
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Yeah, I don't know. What would you do with it mechanically? Stomp, punch, fire. Well, those bits, there's those bits in so in like Paper Mario 2 where you play as him playing through one of Mario's traditional platforming levels and he just sort of barges through everything, destroying it as he goes. Yeah.
01:08:16
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I feel like a baby baby Bowser would be more a more interesting, or Bowser Jr., whatever the fuck his name is, would be a more interesting character, because he rides around in that cool little cool little ah yeah floater floating thing, and he's got that paintbrush. Let me paint things. Hey, Bowser's dying. It's succession with the Koopa kids. That's our idea for everyone. yeah Well, maybe Bowser's kind of your sidekick in the ah ah Bowser's Fury thing.
01:08:44
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Yeah, when what if your Bowser, but it's like a cross between Pikmin and Overlord to where you're not doing the combat, you're just like controlling a bunch of your minions to do the combat for you? Just flinging Goombas at dudes. Yeah, flinging Goombas. Stop saying Goomba. It makes me feel uncomfortable every time you say it like that.
01:09:07
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I call gumbo gumbo. The etymology of this. What about gumbo makes you feel? would I don't know. But it's goomba. It's like an Italian American term for a foolish person or a thug who works for ah my crime lord. Goomba. Goomba. Gumby.
Red Dwarf References and Time Loop Games
01:09:29
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Math mass Demigod gives $10 and says for yachts to sing if he's up for it. Oh, Christ.
01:09:35
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He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer, without him life would be much grimmer He's handsome, some trim, and no one slimmer He will never need a Zimmer There, are you happy? What is that song? It's Red Dwarf. It's a Red Dwarf reference.
01:09:57
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Oh, Red Dwarf. Watch Red Dwarf, mate. It's pretty good. Too busy to watch Evil Season 2. It seems to come up a lot. I have Red Dwarf references. I don't think I'd like it. It's fine. There's a lot of stuff I don't like. Alex Armstrong gives $5 and says, bit of a bum lick, but why not make your one day of warlock idea with James Fowler following in Trilby's footsteps? Don't even have to make a point and click. Because I don't wanna, Alex Armstrong. It'll be too much work.
01:10:24
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But yes, he's referencing an idea I pitched in an old dev diary video once ah that I thought about doing before time loop games became really popular because it was a time loop game. But then it felt like a lost cause because it had already everyone had already been already done the time loop thing. A lot of time loop games.
01:10:43
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Ezra Clarke gives $2. It says the referee from Punch Out. Wasn't that just Mario? That's just Mario. I see what you can do in here. You're being a little goof, a little scamp. Wow, it was very quick on that comparison. Holy shit. He had it ready. He had it ready. You can see the code.
Ubisoft's Future and Assassin's Creed Shadows
01:11:02
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BK Griller gives side dollars and says, forget Sarge, I want a prequel about Dripburg and Sun, space lawyers, better dial Dripburg. Now, I believe that's a reference to Starstruck Vogue Vagabond, which is a very, very good indie game that you should all buy. It's the best game of the year. I heard it is the best game of the year and that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth can go to hell.
01:11:24
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Well, apparently that's what the buying public have said. That's what I said. Square apparently been a bit of dire straits. Actually, it sounds like quite a lot of big money developers are kind of in dire straits right now. Every time they say it didn't meet our expectations, my thought is always just lower your expectations. It exceeded your expectations and everyone's still real.
01:11:46
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Unfortunately, they need to pay their for their CEO's $100 million dollar yacht. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I'm hoping for a AAA Renaissance. I'm hoping they're all going to die out. AA and Indie rise up. There's stirrings on the grapevine that if Assassin's Creed Shadows doesn't do well, then Ubisoft's kind of fucked. Yeah, I think that's why they they delayed it to the next year. a Make a belt. Got to make it extra overly polished.
01:12:16
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ah Ah gives 199 and says difference between a gobshite and a wanker. Well gobshite I would associate more with Gaelic stroke Celtic accents and wanker feels like it's more at home with the South London derived accents like the Australian and South African accents.
01:12:37
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isn't like a wanker you call someone a wanker whereas gobshite isn't that like a situation like bullshit no no no you call someone a gobshite so a gobshite is someone who they're kind of full of shit and they just go around
Humor in English Slang and Fantasy Farming
01:12:49
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saying the wrong stuff that is lying right they're just talking shit someone who makes shite come out of their gob. Yeah, but a wanker is someone who's just a dick. Like you're a wanker. Yes. I mean, literally like someone who is someone who masturbates, but yeah, in general terms, it's used to mean a contemptible person. Yeah, like in British slang terms. Yes. but yeah If you were trying to fit in as a Scottish person in Scotland, you'd be more advised to call people gobshites.
01:13:20
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But if you were trying to fit in as like an Australian person in Australia, you might be better off calling them wankers. Gotcha. And if you're in the States, I recommend calling people gumbos. Don't do that. It will upset me.
01:13:35
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uh dm belan 99 comes back with $5 and says there is a blacksmith sim it's called fantasy blacksmith it has some jank but it's very satisfying yeah sounds great i didn't know there's probably some other games i'm sure there's bartending sims yeah there's fucking there's a surprisingly point them out in the comments there's a surprisingly large sub genre of games where you play a potion shop man sending potions to adventures Yeah, it's equivalent of like, you know, a farming game in a fantasy world. Obviously fantasy is needed in in ah farming is still needed in fantasy worlds, but like an equivalent fantasy job in a fantasy world. too The fuck is this? You just got a little skull in front of you. Oh, you dropped into your little monkey.
01:14:17
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I mean, farming is probably a lot easier in fantasy worlds because you can conjure water into the soil. Yeah, but can you tell? Like, do you think there's like certain produce that is more expensive? That's like magic free? Like, that's the produce. That's the turnips from Animal Crossing. Yeah. Organic. Non-magically grown produce. It's natural. It's better for you. And all the, and all the wizards are like, there's absolutely nothing chemically different between organic and magically produced produce.
01:14:47
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and It's like you just literally conjured this from nothing. I don't trust this. Just artificially inflating prices. I'm very curious when when you guys start to play Echoes of Wisdom, ah because there's one side quest where you have to like bring a fish that a mom cooked to a son across the map. I created an echo of the fish, got to the son, and I just echoed it. And he's like, oh, this isn't the same. I could tell this isn't my mom's fish. You need to literally bring the one she put.
01:15:14
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But then it got me thinking about like, I keep summoning all these beings into existence to fight with me. Like, do they have, do they have souls? Am I creating things with like souls and consciousness and like, like what happens when you die? I don't think it was occasionally like was going to be brought up in Star Trek that some people were a bit snobby about eating replicated food. ah Yeah. yeah it end corrupt Yeah, you can taste the atoms if you don't grow it yourself.
01:15:43
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It tastes a bit too molecule-y. Yeah. You're making corrupted versions, Marty. You're like Morgoth. Yeah. You can hear corrupted versions of elves. Like photocopying a photocopy. Have you been, have you been watching Lord of the Rings? Lord of the Rings of Power. Yeah. I've been. Oh, okay. Mate, have I gotten notes? Have I got notes? Cause it's wrapping up the end of this week, right? Uh, either that or one more. I'm not sure. Okay. So we're going to get you Markie Calendar, the 15th.
01:16:11
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time
01:16:14
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DMBLAR99 comes back with another $5 and says, Lowell, stop making fun of my poor spelling. I pay your wages, Lowell. Okay. First off, if you Johnny come actually us, you better know that you've opened yourself up to show your full ass. If you Johnny come actually anyone on the internet, you best not miss because my Lord is anything to reflect. My Lordy.
01:16:33
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and You only pay our wages if you join the Patreon, I'm afraid, which is one of the many good reasons to join the Patreon. We can say that like the money we get from Superchats goes into the void.
01:16:48
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It's for Gazy, Fugazi. I feel like the MB line is also part of the Patreon, but you know what? We're still going to have Johnny come actually. Nick just takes all the Superchat money to pay for his Halo merch. Pay for his Cortana.
01:17:05
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Yeah, he's got a lot of cool titles that boy. Do you think corton i could be the main character of a game plays a little AI? No, that's a stupid idea. And you're stupid for bringing it up. My apologies. See yourself to the bin, mate. My apologies.
01:17:21
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Moving on. Longshanks gives five pounds and says Jim Gordon detective game pre Batman. That just be the Gotham TV series, wouldn't it? PSA yards will there be a physical copy of will leave the galaxy for good? Yes, there will always they just have to be ah an audio book first because that's the deal we have with audible. ah They've got to be an audio book for at least six months before we can get the physical version out. Is it a big palava getting a book published and then made physically? Is that like a whole bunch of steps?
Internet Fame and Book Deals
01:17:50
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Not really. I leave it to my agents and the publishers to work it out between themselves. I just go off and make the genius happen. <unk> I imagine it's probably tough to get your first one out there, right? But once you've had... Oh yeah, once you're established, you just go to a publisher or an agent and say, hey, i've here's my 15 other published books. Publish me. And they go, yes, sir.
01:18:13
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Uh, my advice would be to use the internet these days. If you can make, if you can get popular on the internet, the world will beat a path to your door. aren't you That's what I did. I was using the metaverse. It's sad to say, but the best way to get a book deal these days is to already be famous for something else. and so They use word of mouth, just got on the streets and ask everyone you say, if you can have a book deal.
01:18:41
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Yeah. One out of a hundred people are agents so they can make it happen. Okay. The matrix. It's more than one out of a hundred. Am I right? A little agent Smith. I don't know what that noise was. It made a VRAM noise. Like that was a matrix. notice That was a matrix reference.
01:18:58
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Don Brooks, maybe for 10 months in the Green Gang says, Jermaine's Tavern Keeper and the like are out there. Yeah, yeah, there's a few. yeah I'll check them out. I want a game where I play as the bartender from Catherine, who may or may not be Satan. I want that game. Oh yeah, that guy. Even little fun facts to people as they sit down at the bar.
01:19:17
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All the games gives to one 99 and says Yahtzee TF2 animation source ST black ST I recommend starting with extraordinary weekend and exploring from there fights musicals and more he got time to explore random YouTube channels. What does that mean? I assume it's someone who makes TF2 source filmmaker animations. I see which I've expressed an enjoyment for back in the day.
01:19:45
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almost got a million followers. They got to be good. Ooh. Now I've been mostly been watching true crime shit lately, like, uh, videos of, uh, police, uh, interviews where the guy finally cracks and admits that he murdered his wife. and um watch fun watch a channel right way I'll remember it. No.
01:20:12
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I've been watching this ah one dude with a really dorky voice. He did a big video on John Bonet Ramsey, a bunch of other people. A really dorky voice. I'll find the one I watch and I'll send you a link because I think you dig it. ah He's got a fun video about someone who was like trying to be the real life gone girl but fucked it up. Oh fuck. Was just very bad at being gone girl.
01:20:37
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Anyway, uh, long shanks gives five
Critique of Early Access in Gaming
01:20:42
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pounds and says off topic. What are your thoughts on advanced access? Example of an extra 25 pounds. You can play the first two chapters of life is strange two weeks early. It's useful for me as a reviewer. I did that when a fucking star Wars Outlaws came out, bought the, bought the super edition, invoiced it back to the company.
01:21:03
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and could just play the game three days early and because the fucking publishers obviously wouldn't give us a review code. <unk>s It's a bad practice that I feel like needs to go away. And hopefully Star Wars Outlaws might be the thing that makes it go away because it launched, at least on pia on PlayStation, with a ton of bugs that they patched before the official launch of the game. yeah And one of the things was, oh, if you've started playing early, you might want to just ah delete your save file and restart so that yeah like so it' like I paid to play this early. And now I have to do that. but It's like pre-orders. They would have made so much money off of it. Extra money.
01:21:38
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and Aren't they doing this on Silent Hill 2 next week? Silent Hill's 48 hours. I think you could start playing Silent Hill 2 if you have the deluxe edition on Sunday the 6th as opposed to Tuesday the 8th.
01:21:50
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I don't agree with this practice in any case, but I think it's more forgivable in like multiplayer settings. what like Wow did the same thing, right? Wow did the same thing. And I bought the version to have early access, but that's because I wanted to make a video on it. And because of my job, I'm busy a lot of the time. So I wanted to have that extra time to be able to keep pace with my friends when they started playing.
01:22:11
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So I can kind of see situations where you might want to use it in multiplayer settings. But the remake of Silent Hill 2 having a fucking early access period that just seems very dystopian to me. I hate that. Get an extra $10 out of your most passionate fans. Does it have early access periods on PlayStation 5 only or is it both versions? Usually they're all versions. that well like hill I don't think it's coming to Xbox. I think it's just PlayStation and PC.
01:22:42
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It's on, it's gonna be on Steam, is it? I actually don't know to remake Steam. I assume so. Pre-purchase on Steam. Yes. Yep. There it is. Uh, but is that have the, I guess it doesn't matter cause I don't really, I don't work Sundays anyways. The $79.99 one is, is the one you need to buy. Advanced access starts October 5th.
01:23:07
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Oh, there you I guess I could just blow off my kids for Sunday. Maybe we'll play Silent Hill 2 with them. Oh yeah, they'd love that. Well then, if you're bad, if you don't eat your vegetables, this is where you're going to go. Yes, and i'm and I'm going to murder you with a pillow. Not to traumatize your children and make them scared of fog.
01:23:30
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Fog is naturally scary, you should be afraid of it. It is naturally scary. Yes, especially when driving. You shouldn't be scared of fog. Agreed. That would be dangerous. ah Well, Alex Armstrong gives $2 and says Resident and Evil monsters with their own campaigns.
Transformation Game Idea and Tips for Silent Hill 2
01:23:44
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Well, that's just silly, Alex Armstrong. Although you can play the Dead Rising Deluxe remaster in a liquor costume. And it looks very weird. That's pretty funny.
01:23:54
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Um, I wonder if, what about a game where you've been infected and as you go on, you are like slowly turning. So it's almost like the Sifu aging thing. You're like a gaining some abilities, but loony losing some of your own humanity and you think some other time. I like that. It makes me think of that one chapter internal darkness in medieval times where you play as a dude who's slowly turning into a zombie. Yeah. Yeah. I think I just stole the idea from that from now. I'm not realizing. Yeah.
01:24:22
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Oh, well, they don't get extra powers from yeah being a zombie. Yeah.
01:24:28
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ah but but but but boom Hunter Road gives five dollars. There's not much to add this week because every character that pops to mind already has a spinoff. Zelda, Peach, Zero from MMX. Here's five bucks anyway. There are a lot. There's a lot more. A lot more characters have spinoffs that I was that I was thinking of, it's especially in big games, obviously go deeper in other things. But do you think every character in video games named Zero gets together and has a convention?
01:24:52
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Oh, yeah we have zero from, uh, from mega man, zero from here. command might command majors dangerous yeah Yeah. I'm sure there's some others that so spring to mind right now. They have meetings at like zeros, not so anonymous zeros, not so anonymous. I like it.
01:25:19
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ah Zero from Borderlands, thank you the 14. Zero from Borderlands. EeroLang gives two euros and says two euros for two adorable dogs of the team. One euro each.
01:25:32
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I just get a dog and then have an asthma attack on a daily basis. We could be, we could have gotten three euros. Does it affect your asthma? Oh yeah. I'm like deathly allergic to Cats affect my asthma as well. Just get a dog that doesn't shed. People have always said that. People have always said that. And I think it's like, I'm like, I'm like allergic to their saliva, their dander. There are different things with cats. yeah I'm allergic to their dandruff, like their dander.
01:25:59
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Yeah. Ludo is hypoallergenic. So when I come over to the States, my, when I come see you, I'll secretly bring Aaron, just like chuck her through your window and say, I wish I, if you respond, no. Yeah. Nope. Okay. I believe in doo doo man gives $2 and says getting glizzy gumbers, gulping, gooey, gaga gummies.
01:26:27
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I also believe that 10 times fast. I i totally believe in doo doo men. Getting Lizzie Gumpers, Gulping Gooey Gaga gummies. That was really impressive. That was really impressive.
01:26:39
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a Fungus Wyndiff gives $2 and says, a fire at a sea parks, which is a reference to a British comedy series, the IT crowd. Oh, I thought that was going to be a red dwarf. I was worried it would be a red dwarf.
01:26:54
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No different British comedy reference there. I'm sick. Holding out for a Father Ted reference for the end of the stream. You've seen, you've seen Black Books, you know? Yeah. I love Black Books. I mean, anyone who says they like British comedy always cites Black Books as a thing they like, in my experience. It's good. It's got Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey in it. Well, it's not Dylan Moran. Who are both very good standups in their own right.
01:27:23
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I saw Bill Bailey live once in Brisbane. my My best mate seen him live like six times. He loves him. He's a a live show is Bill Bailey. He did like, he did like three encores when I was one i was there. Half of us had left the auditorium. We saw him come on on the monitors and we went to sprint back in. That's a lot of encores legend. Love him.
01:27:45
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ah Collide 618 gives $2 and says, Collide 618 gives $2 and says, Oh, you cheeky boy, Collide 618. Oh, it's happening in absolute gumbo. And I suppose I should mix it up a bit. $2 comes to us from Alex Armstrong, who proceeds to utter the phrase, speaking of Silent Hill 2, gave OG PS2 game a try. I'm lost AF. Of course you are. You're supposed to be.
01:28:12
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It's a game about feeling lost and scared and downtrodden in an oppressive horror horrific atmosphere of dread. It's very useful, though, because every time you open something or try to open something, you get a little mark. So it does a good job. yeah Know what you've tried, what you haven't tried. Try everything. I've never fully gone through it. I know a lot about the story because I watch a lot of videos. But when I was young, when I tried to play it over my cousin's house, like I just It was too much for me. It is easy for a new player to get lost in like the starting area with all the streets. just world Yeah. Just go to the mobile home, go inside, find the map, go to Bar Neeley's, get the key for the apartment building. And it's pretty plain sailing from there. Yeah. Yeah. I will remember that when I do my next paper. You're absolutely not going to remember that. I've forgotten already. I've already forgotten it. There was a bar at some point. yeah
01:29:07
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The apartment building's a bit labyrinthine, but I think if you can just get through the apartment building segment, the game will grab you. You'll be hooked. Which Silent Hill game has the one late game area where you keep teleporting? You keep like yeah you enter like a door and you go to somewhere else in the building? Is that Silent Hill 2? Yeah. Well, that's when yeah i that very near the end, so you're really hooked, and it's just a just messing with you at that point. I remember at that point, i kind of just that was like the one area where I just kind of Strong arm my way through, and I'm like, oh, I guess I found the end here. i I don't know what I'm actually doing, but I found it out. Great game. KC Jones gives $10 and says, what's your thoughts on the sidekick spin-off genre, where the sidekicks gets their own non-canon game and the me mechanics are completely different, Daxter, Secret Agent, Clank, Last of Us 2, et cetera. Last of Us 2 is a non-canon. I think you that's that was just a silly on your part, I fear.
01:30:03
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Yeah. thank you new for Being a little cheeky. I like that. That's like when we, when we went through our big list, I feel like there's, you can almost put things in different, in different categories where it's like, uh, cheeky little spinoff that, that, uh, pursues other mechanics or let's fill in the backstory of this character or this person could just take the mantle and and become ostensibly what the first character was. like He's been off, sorry. Cheeky little spinoff.
01:30:33
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ah causing the shirt Someone says cheeky, I think of bottoms. and Which makes sense. Because if you show someone your bottom, you go, gosh, that was cheeky of you. Yes. And your bottom consists of cheeks. This is true. Yeah, a couple of them couple of cheek all completely understood your thought process the moment you said it. Yeah, yeah. yeah
01:30:58
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Well, that's the end of the super chat, so what a note to end on. Talking about bottoms, my favorite subject. You guys are being a couple of couple of cheek holes, am I right? A couple of cheeky bottoms is what we're being. because i hate you less an asshole i'm i'm upset right ah Cheek holes. just a mouth, isn't it?
01:31:20
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ah Oh my god. Isn't a butthold just a butt mouth though when you think about it? You guys think about it.
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I leave you to contemplate that as we start plugging stuff. I'm Yahtzee Croshaw. I do weekly videos on Wednesday called Fully Ramblabatic where I review games.
01:31:38
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Can you tell us what you're going to do this week? Well, this week I'm covering the Dead Rising remaster. And speaking of the Dead Rising remaster, we're going to have another video on that subject coming out today. ah in which and Yes, topical punch in which me and Jesse Galina ah from the opposite perspectives of never having played Dead Rising and having played quite a bit of Dead Rising discuss the remastered edition. Beautiful. So that'll be this afternoon, I think.
01:32:08
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I've also got Yahtzee Tries, my Wednesday stream, in which I play indie games for a laugh, and then do we do like an edited recut of those streams that goes out Sundays, that'll be this Sunday. And well that's about it for me. i Remember Adventure is Nigh Every Saturday, where I play Mortimer, who is the coolest character and the best at everything.
01:32:32
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yeah legal la vo u's character that's my stuff ah jama smarty plug everything else what you go on um Yeah, just had an episode of ah the dev heads podcast who with have a good friend of mine Feral Pony from Riot Games. It was our longest episode yet because we were just having so much just fun chatting about the industry and You know what it's like being in AAA and where that's headed. So check that out if you, if you want to see more of that. And I have an episode of design delve coming out this Friday, which is going to be me covering my perspective on Astro bot. And if it basically just plays itself in a good way. Um, so yeah, if you want to see some more Astro bot stuff, um, I picked this topic because I've been moving house, as you guys can probably tell. So I wanted something a little bit lighter and this is what I wanted to do. So deal with it.
01:33:23
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And that's me. okay Love it. ah Later tonight, we have hidden gems, 6 p.m. Central. ah The crew is going to be playing a very cool looking a new indie racing game called ah Parking Garage Rally.
01:33:40
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It looks like a PS1 game, but you're doing just sick drifts in parking garages. So so the crew we match for that. Tomorrow we have the Rewind, Normal Time, 12 PM Central. um We'll be chatting about a couple of interesting new movies, including The Substance, with which Darren and I loved, and then Megalopolis. And so our main topic will be sort of big swings throughout the entertainment industry. They've connected. The Substance in any way related to the blob or the stuff.
01:34:07
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Uh, no, it is body horror, much like the blob. Uh, is the substance in any way, shape, or form related to dead by daylight characters? As far as I know, no, I don't know all the dead by daylight characters, but as far as I know, the substance, give them some time. I'm sure dead by daylight will fucking license them. Demi Moore's fucking substance up in dead by daylight. I would love nothing more than Demi Moore getting in that dead by daylight.
01:34:33
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Uh, but yeah, we'll be chatting about that tomorrow. And then, yeah, probably two weeks from now, we'll have, we'll have Jan to chat about, uh, the rings of power, which, uh, some people have said is the greatest television series of all time. I still haven't watched any season of this season. So I feel like I need to watch the entire thing. I was waiting for it to end and I'll do a big old Benji. Yeah, that's fair. I, yeah, because I won't talk about this now. I'll wait because I've got so much to say.
01:34:56
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Got some thoughts. ah ah Yeah, let's buy a new backdrop tomorrow as well. All sorts of good stuff for you guys. Alright, well that's it. No last minute super chats. I was hoping someone would put in a Father Ted reference like I asked. Wow. In that which case I guess I'll just say, drink feck our skulls. See you next time.