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Summer Game Fest, Anime Expo Prep, and Bad Movie Takes
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After a short break, Unqualified Game Chat is back with Episode 139, and Spencer Legacy joins me to catch up on everything that happened while we were buried under Summer Game Fest coverage, Anime Expo planning, reviews, and the usual Noisy Pixel chaos.
This episode starts with a detour into movies, including our thoughts on the new Scary Movie, why some comedy already feels dated by the time it hits theaters, and how legacy sequels can fall into the trap of chasing nostalgia without earning it. We also talk about recent theatrical releases, Weapons, Naked Gun, Austin Powers, and whether some comedy franchises can survive being dragged into 2026.
From there, we get into Summer Game Fest, including the games that stood out the most to us. Spencer talks about Tomb Raider and Star Wars Galactic Racer, while I explain why Phantom Blade Zero ended up becoming my game of the show. We also discuss how some action games still struggle with basic combat feel, why Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy left me concerned, and why games like Banishers and Immortals of Aveum deserve more attention.
Spencer also shares early thoughts on The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, including its HD-2D style, its fairy companion Faye, and why new IP adventures still feel special. We somehow end up talking about Star Fox, Toy Story, Pixar’s sequel problem, and why nostalgia can make some games or movies harder to judge honestly.
To close things out, I talk about reviewing Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, why the lack of rollback netcode is frustrating, and my plans for Noisy Pixel’s upcoming after-hours show as we continue the road to 100,000 subscribers. Episode 139 is available to everyone, but starting with Episode 140, new episodes will return to Patreon first before going public.
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Introduction and Episode Availability
00:00:21
Speaker
Hello and welcome to episode 139 of Unqualified Game Chat. I'm your host, Azara Lopez, and with me is my wanted friend, Spencer, the Legacy.
00:00:37
Speaker
How's it going, everybody? how It's been so busy. it's It was SGF. When it's not SGF, it's me planning for Anime Expo. It's just one thing after another. But you know what?
00:00:50
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we're starting this We're starting this clean slate. this This episode is going to go on Patreon and on YouTube. And on YouTube for all you poor people. Yes. But if you want the episodes a week early, yeah subscribe to our Patreon and prove to us one that you're not poor and two that you want Spencer as much as his shirt wants him. Yeah. As much as that you want me for.
00:01:15
Speaker
What is it? Three billion dollars. Put that much into the Patreon.
Watching and Analyzing 'Bad' Movies
00:01:21
Speaker
I, uh, not to get off topic right at the right in the beginning, but I, I watched two really bad movies the last weekend and, uh, they were very different, but equally one out of fives, but one of them deserved to be a one out of five. One of them wanted to be a one out of five, one of them, one of them wanted to be a five out of five.
00:01:45
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Can you guess? That's a big, Like, I think i know what you mean by wanted to be one of like those movies that they're like trying to be like the room.
00:01:56
Speaker
But they're like, but the the thing about the room is that it wasn't trying to be the room. So with the movies, with the movies out now, what movies? It's a current one. Yes. Okay. That. Okay. I thought you meant any movie ever. And i was like, fuck. um What is it now? Did you see?
00:02:13
Speaker
ah He-Man? That seems like it could be like. should have. I should have watched He-Man. You seem like someone who might have grown up with He-Man.
00:02:23
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my my My finger hovered over. Hovered over the the button there. What are the other big things are now? Backrooms, Obsession. I haven't seen those. God, you're naming the movies I should have saw.
00:02:34
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I haven't seen those yet. Mandalorian is still there, I think. Okay, so I did watch Mandalorian a couple weeks ago. Yeah. my Not good.
00:02:46
Speaker
It just felt like a show. I love Grogu. Let's get, let's get, well, let's put thing on the, we all love Grogu. I love Grogu. We all love baby Yoda. like it was just like three, two hours of so Pedro Pascal getting his ass kicked.
00:03:01
Speaker
He did get beaten up a lot. He got beat up. I was like, where's the dialogue? 80% of this movie is just him getting his ass kicked. Getting his ass spanked. Um, And then he's like, at one point he's like trapped.
Critiquing Scary Movie and Comedy Styles
00:03:15
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Is that what happened? Oh, no, that's. Yeah, no, he gets poisoned or something. and then so he's like, he's like out of commission. He's like laying down on the ground for like half the movie.
00:03:24
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And then Grogu makes a little mud hut around his head. oh that did happen. OK, I remember that. I remember that. Yeah, that is true. yeah But not so. Not that.
00:03:35
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Did you see scary movie? Because that. Yes. lot of time this weekend, too. It was a one out of five. And I would say that it wanted to be a one out of five.
00:03:45
Speaker
Yeah, I would say so too. Okay. Because I saw this weekend too and I was like, oof. that was I thought it was going be better because the Wayans were back. Wayans, yeah. ah but But that's what it felt like. It felt like them just...
00:04:00
Speaker
finding jokes on how to relate it to the last ones. It felt like it was written five or six years. Like the whole movie is a parody of Scream 5 and we're going into Scream 8.
00:04:11
Speaker
So it's like, that was the first thing where i was like, that's kind of weird, but okay. It it was written a long time ago. And like, yeah, a lot of the movies they parodied, it was like, these are also not that recent. um Wait, we have to pause.
00:04:24
Speaker
We have to pause. All right. Well, I had to pause it because I promised a friend that I would watch take him to the... Yeah, we'd go watch Scary Movie again. So now with a fresh... ah Now with the movie freshly played in my brain... I'm ready to talk.
00:04:44
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ah
00:04:49
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Take my good hand. That guy was barely in it. I thought he was going to be in it more. He's on the poster. That's why I think you're right when you're telling me that it was it felt like it was written a long time ago because those segmented parts are the exact reason why I hated the most recent um season of... ah uh arrested development because yeah they were all like doing things on their own yeah and and you're like goy like get together come together the overall comedy felt like dated like when in the the subway scene is there a trailer where he's like he stabbed her he's like uh he stabbed they them i was like this is like 2019 humor yeah there's a few of those old as shit
00:05:35
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Well, I think Damon, because his ah son is trans. And so i do think his comedy...
00:05:48
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he believes is highbrow trans. gofo I don't even think it's like, yeah, hateful. I love the Mark Maron approach to that, to that comedy, to trans and just general like comedy is that it's been done so much now that like, yeah if you do it now, it's kind of hacky.
00:06:06
Speaker
It's gotta really be something hilarious. It's gotta to be fucking funny. You gotta do it right. ah then like outs This wasn't that. It was just like, it was it was like one step away from like, identify as an attack helicopter where it's like, yeah it's like this is shit people were saying on Twitter like eight years ago. It's not or like funny. Yeah, the joke's old. Yeah.
00:06:29
Speaker
I left like twice, but what do you think the second movie A lot of the best part, the funniest things to me were in the background. Like i see in the opening where it's like a final destination theme park. Did you see like Ferris wheels falling over and shit or like, oh yeah, someone followed in the background or something. Yeah. or like when the, the, the Jenna Ortega stand-ins in the hospital and she's on a bunch of meds and you can like see them in the back one of them just says fucking crack.
00:06:51
Speaker
And it's like, that's goofy. Like back, like naked. kind of Ferris was very funny. Yeah, she was. And you know what? The person that got to play her daughter was like really good at being an uncanny Anna Faris. Like the way she said things was really like, was like, this is strange. That does sound like Anna Faris. Yeah.
00:07:09
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Yeah. She had the same facial. ah Yeah. And you know, I think the ending was kind of funny too. It was pretty clever in terms of just. The ending was good. You can tell all legacy sequels do just want to be like, oh, it's the old characters. They're the thing Yeah. I think the ending. Yeah.
00:07:24
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If you watched it, if you got that far, you're rewarded with some great cameos. Yeah. The ending is better than the best movie. But yeah. Okay. So then your five out of five.
00:07:36
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My one out of five. movie. That was your one out five. So what's your five out of five? No, no. I have two one out of five. This was one
Summer Games Fest Experiences and Game Discussions
00:07:42
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out of five. But it was trying one out of five. That wants to a five out of five.
00:07:48
Speaker
What else is in theaters? And the fact that you can't even think about it is telling this movie is huge. This movie is bigger. Yes. I was like, oh yeah, Steven, Stevie Fableman. One out of five, dude. That was the worst fucking movie. It was like, it was like Emily Blunt applies for an Oscar, the movie or some shit, you know, like Oscar bait.
00:08:10
Speaker
Yeah. It's not, but the writing is so terrible. They did. Fuck. It sucks. Cause. sinemaar If you look at the cinematography of the movie, really good. Really good, like, long takes. Really good, really good like, framing.
00:08:27
Speaker
Terrible pacing. Terrible story. Terrible... I don't know, man i don't know what do I don't know what they were thinking with this. i don don't When I first saw the trailer, I thought it looked like signs. I was like, that's never a good sign. Yeah, and signs that's not even touched upon. like once once Once that is, and like they're saying, like stupid. I love aliens, man. but I love silly aliens the most. i want to see like little grays. That'd be funny. but yeah yeah i' That's a movie I'll probably wait until it's on, like,
00:09:01
Speaker
Netflix or Disney. You're never going to watch the movie. I watch a lot in the background while I do. Why? Right. So like that's not watching. That's true. But I can be like, okay. I mean, sometimes it is it it's good enough. It distracts me enough that I don't do any writing and I just watch it. That's that's the true mark of a good film.
00:09:21
Speaker
And to that point, I can only like watch shounen anime and feel like I... But they repeat so much that you can't miss it. if you That's like the original second screen writing to be like. ever After every commercial break, it's like, Aaron, are you turning into the Titan? And it's like, oh, that's what... Okay, yeah. That's, yeah.
00:09:38
Speaker
um So enough about movies. Yeah. A few weeks have passed. Summer Games Fest happened. It was very stressful. We're still getting stuff out, I feel like. um We'll have our um our video content starting to go out next week. It's really good. It came together pretty nice. Yeah, Mark's been working his little buttocks off.
00:10:00
Speaker
Yeah. I think... Every time I come back with feedback on on like myself, but it's always just my appearance. No, I got it. Then no one else notices everyone like that. No one is it like, yeah, dude, I can hate it. Fucking bad. There's some moments in the there's some moments throughout the where I say the name of the game wrong. Like pedal runner is pedal runner. But I say pedal runners with an ass. did that in the PAX videos. So you're you're you're I did that on the Poland day.
00:10:29
Speaker
I called it mold washing a bunch or it said mold washer back. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It happens. You're on the floor. You're, like, I don't people to think that I'm, like, being a little shitty shithead or something. I mean, you're not saying it like, I'm here with fucking, what was Pedal runners? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. You're not clearly, like, fucking brushing them off. Yeah, like, uh, petal runners. You're like fucking Tim Heidecker on something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Peril dump. Peril hunters? Peril hunters? peril runner is a game from um heido heido kajami kajama kajama
00:11:13
Speaker
uh you're not i think i feel like they must especially because they're also on the show floors they're like yeah is busy and shit like they're also tired and yeah i don't know hope people i hope I hope grace is given when we're a little five, ten minutes late to a meeting ah because I'll give grace wherever i understand stuff. Stuff goes, but I, most meetings don't start on time anyway.
00:11:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I want them to. So badly. but I always wonder, I'm like, what caused this chain? like Yeah. Who's the motherfucker? What motherfucker from GameSpot did this? big dick Everybody walked in late. So now Tomb Raider is 15 minutes behind. Yeah.
00:11:58
Speaker
So Summer Games has happened. Do you have a game of the show from Summer Game Fest that kind of stood out to you. i was i've i My go-to answer for a lot of that was ah Tomb Raider, because I never played the first Tomb Raider, except for like seeing an older noob play it. So I played that and I was like, oh, this is like, this is okay, I can see why Uncharted's a thing.
00:12:22
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like it the Very clearly, took that DNA and evolved it in one way. And this game feels like it also evolves that DNA in a similar way. So it doesn't feel like it's like a fossil.
00:12:34
Speaker
um But also, what else? Star Wars Galactic Race there was a lot of fun. Very pretty game, huh? Very pretty game. um Also very like, it's the kind of game where like, you know, you're tired at the end of it. So you're like playing in the chair that they give you. But then with Star Wars, you're like leaning forward because you're like, there's tight turns and shit and you're like, oh shit. Yeah. And the TVs that they have set up, they're only like three feet away from you. So yeah.
00:13:00
Speaker
So like when you're looking at it, you're like, you have this 50 inch right in front of your face and it's like you are the pod racer. Exactly. um Yeah, and then Control. Control is really great, too. that's a I want to replay the first one because I haven't played it since launch. But good i think a good game.
00:13:19
Speaker
I think my it's changed because Resident Evil Veronica was my favorite reveal. but i yeah Yeah, that's my favorite reveal. yeah the From the games I played, dude, Phantom Blade Zero is is actually like starting to impress me a little more in terms of like
00:13:41
Speaker
Cinematic action is such a thing now, you know, like. What started that? what What was the like? It's got to be a Chinese game. Ask like.
00:13:55
Speaker
It's like i to describe it as hard because when you watch it when you're watching it, it looks like the player is doing a lot. You know, it looks like you're, you have these inputs and stuff, but realistically it's tied to just two buttons maybe.
00:14:12
Speaker
and then ah you have your dash and your, your, um, But I think they did it so smart in this game where like they tie different weapons in and you can really while the automation is there and it's very clearly there and it's like, I'm not this good at this game. I know that I need to make me look good.
00:14:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. There's a. There's just this rhythm that makes it really fun and like Once you find it, it's, I don't know. And then it was just one like, I think back to like the games that I played and that was the one that I was like, kind of like, whoa, this is totally different from what I played last year. They've like almost completely,
00:14:58
Speaker
ah rebalanced and like fine tune this game and that doesn't always happen sometimes you play games a year out and it's the same fucking game yeah I that sucks I think they just had me play ah they just had me play the uh resonance a plague tale legacy and it's coming out in like October or August or something and I'm like you guys you guys have like six or eight months here. Like this is not you. You can't.
00:15:29
Speaker
Fuck. I just you can't expect people to care about your shit when you don't care about your shit when it doesn't look like you don't care about your shit. And like. That's why I think indie teams, even though it's a little rough in terms of like some areas of the game, the passion that goes into these games from these smaller teams makes it more focused than some of like these double a games.
00:15:56
Speaker
You could just see that there's a lot of cooks in this kitchen. Nothing is really like, like who thought it was a great idea to when an enemy is near to auto, ah shift into a, uh, a strafe, uh, thing that you can't break out of. You can't exit out of it. So you're just like strafing once an enemy is near. So if an enemy is like in, in above you, you're still strafing up the stairs. yeah le it Auto permanent lock on.
00:16:24
Speaker
Yes. a but And you can't run out of it. So I was like jumping and I was like, that's, that's like, if you're going to make an action game, find an action director, find someone who knows how to, how to do an action game. Don't just jump in and and do like the, the, the surface level action ship, because I promise you, whoever was going to play that game has already played a game like this.
00:16:47
Speaker
If someone wanted, if I feel like if this game really wanted to be smart resonance, I mean, They would have looked at that last Prince of Persia game with um Noah. or what's What's his name? um The rogue one? or the Yeah. No, not the rogue one. The Prince of Persia with what's his name as the voice? Nolan North. Oh, from like 2009. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah ah That was game.
00:17:15
Speaker
Man, what a great, what a fucking great pull. Good job. That was a good pull. I usually don't get this. But they should really just look at that game. they should really just look at that game Yeah, 100%. You they're important now.
00:17:32
Speaker
They're on their way. It's right there. It's it's just like the combat. is it Oh, my God. The forced combat. Why take a stealth series and then put bill bring it into a forced combat genre? Why would you do that?
00:17:48
Speaker
Yeah. I remember seeing that game being like, isn't that a horror stealth game? No rats. ah I saw no rats. I saw no rats. That's the whole thing. Isn't that why it's plague?
00:17:59
Speaker
Like it's because of the rats. but's I don't know. You know, what sucks is that gay games like this are why games like banishers who focus put out last, last year, I believe, maybe years ago.
00:18:13
Speaker
Um, people like pass on because it looks too similar to games like this. And banishers is a great fucking game that I don't, that, that not enough people played same, same with like a said EA game with the magic motherfucker with the white guy. And, uh immortals of yeah or something like that sick ass game sick ass game i' been that it was a ps plus game and i've been like that looks people said it was cool and totally forgotten but yeah yeah it's it's a great video game and so games like this come and and go in in my life and i get it i get it it's like we've been burned a before type of thing um
00:18:59
Speaker
So i guess I guess that leads me to say play Banishers and maybe sit this. Yeah. Resonance in a year when it's gotten like obscene amount of patches. Yeah. I don't even think they have the budget for the patches, dude. They're not Ubisoft. Yeah, they're not Star Wars at a loss. They're not Assassin's Creed. You know, I was thinking recently where I was like playing a game after like a year is good because it has all the patches. and then i was like...
00:19:24
Speaker
i have All my experience with that is Ubisoft. Maybe that's just the Ubisoft thing. yeah like yeah like way later Yeah. That's interesting. just The shitty thing about Ubisoft games is they're they're they are they're they're fine. You can beat them beginning to end. There's just these small things that need to be like... They build up. But then if you play it a year after, o it's all fixed. You're like, this game was getting sixes. This is great. yeah like Yeah,
Anime Expo Plans and Reflections
00:19:51
Speaker
this is... Yeah, that's... yeah um But yeah, from there, ah Phantom phom Blade Zero was my game, Summer Games Fest. um
00:20:01
Speaker
And since then, dude, I've been booking for Anime Expo. That's happening next week. Are you excited? Yes.
00:20:12
Speaker
The cool thing about Anime Expo is that all all the journalists get all winded from SGF and stuff. Yeah. And then they don't they don't show up to they don't get sent out to anime. So because it's too close.
00:20:27
Speaker
But the the guests that go are arguably better than the guests for us, at least yeah you got persona, the persona developers you got. ah You have um way forwards there. You have Sakai Project, Manga Gamer.
00:20:42
Speaker
You have net ease like a lot of the pixels bread and butter, right? the the the though The ones that pay the bills, the the games that actually get traffic. um I say that knowing that like.
00:20:55
Speaker
When I write about Marvel's rival, Marvel, Marvel's rivals, ah Marvel rivals, it's a lot of traffic. I've never it. Because that game is like Goonertopia. I've never played that fucking game in my life, but I'll write, I'll write, have the RSS of the fucking update log just because anytime I cover, it'll be boom, huge numbers. Yeah, you get so he is so much traffic. um But I've never played it.
00:21:22
Speaker
um It's Overwatch or Marvel. I also like the panels. I like i like the panels at Anime Expo that go on to like 11pm and you're kind of just in there in a room full of like Nerds.
00:21:34
Speaker
Nerds. Vibing. There's a nice feeling to, like, I haven't been, used to go to Anime North a lot here in Toronto every May. i haven't been in a few years. I should do that again. But, like, it is just a nice feeling. You're like, oh, all these people have similar interests. Like, they're all fucking nerds. Like, like especially when you're, like, a teenager. Especially back then, nobody fucking liked anime. It was fucking weird to like. you be like, wow, all these people are, like,
00:22:00
Speaker
They all like the same thing. There's like a ah communal feeling to that. It's like Anime Expo and and whatnot. where We were like, yeah, everyone here is on the same page. This is a that's what it's like to go to church. don't remember. It's been a long time, but yeah, it is like, it it is almost like energy. It is like, because you are, i mean, especially in the hentai panels when they put up like a, a naked girl on the screen and everyone's just kind of, yeah, no one's like, yeah,
00:22:30
Speaker
i should do it I should do a panel one of these days. You should do me a panel. I don't know I have so much to talk about. The noisy panel. The noisy panel. The noisy panel panel.
00:22:41
Speaker
Yeah, that'd be good. You should. i have so much to talk about. that's That's all the more reason that you got to get it out there. Yeah. word um But with that, are are there any games that you've been reviewing past couple weeks? Yeah, I've been reviewing Adventures of Elliot.
00:23:00
Speaker
the millennium tail tails, whatever that is. Um, do you, do you know the, if you, if it had a theme song, how would it go? Uh,
00:23:12
Speaker
Elliot, he come to town. He come to save the princess. she huria that's I remember the rest of that. Do you remember that Zelda song that was on? Oh, Was that for the animated one?
00:23:27
Speaker
No, that was for that was in the internet. That was like a Flash oh flash cartoon where people would go would put that on. My head my head goes to that commercial that's like,
00:23:39
Speaker
Something like, Zelda's really rad. Yeah. The nerd and the cool guy, and they're playing together. It's like, Legend of Zelda is really rad. Those guys with Ganon are really bad. And he's like, wow, this is so cool. We're playing Zelda. That's good commercial. love that one.
00:23:57
Speaker
But I mean, that's fair. That's adequate accurate because it is very much like a 2D Zelda. Yeah. um And I like that because I've always liked 2D Zelda better than three d um did you did you turn down the fairies uh talk track it's not that i didn't either dude i fucking i love bad i fucking love that fairy dude yeah i fucking who are three lines she says what's her name fairy just our fay or something very yeah function it's really not bad like i i think they could have had a couple extra lines for when you open treasure chest and shit because she only has one but that's such a minor like
00:24:32
Speaker
I everyone is talking online like it was like
Narrative and Visual Styles in Gaming
00:24:36
Speaker
N64 era like Navi where they're like, like oh, she'll never ah did you ever play demon ah or the the Chronicles, the Demon Slayer? ah But every time he picked up something, he said, got it, got it. I got it. Yeah.
00:24:55
Speaker
Got it. It's one thing that you pick up a lot. And then if you pick up three at the same time, got it. Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it. I think it was Double Dash, Mario Kart Double Dash, where Daisy only had one line. So anything she does, she goes, hi, I'm Daisy.
00:25:10
Speaker
So you get an item. She goes, hi, I'm Daisy. And then cuts it off. Hi, I'm Daisy. Fucking Daisy. I'm like, yeah, I don't think she's that bad. Everyone's talking about her. It's horrible.
00:25:24
Speaker
is Really not? like I wish that you spoke back to her in gameplay. She'd be like, Elliot, what do you think of this? And then you just like fucking... I'm telling you, dude, maybe I'm wanting to be a dad because like there maybe you like madta this this Fae girl, they're all like make me want to be a dad. I don't know what it is. Those paternal feelings rising. Yeah, exactly. gay baby fever from these kids.
00:25:49
Speaker
See, and I'm going to be a teacher, so I'm like, oh, kids aren't that annoying. Whatever. No. So like maybe we're yeah maybe we're like evolved. We're more... ah yeah because i truly it's such a It's such an interesting design choice because during development, you know, somewhere along the line, there was a developer that was like high up. high up developer on this project was just like...
00:26:12
Speaker
I'm lonely. Yeah. On this adventure, I need something. Gotta throw someone in there to wake up the, yeah. And it's interesting because like- I think using a character that can't be seen by others is also such a smart, that's like the inner monologue.
00:26:29
Speaker
Yeah, you're you're you're creating it. dude. And then so Elliot is the adventurer. Faye is the newcomer. You're essentially the player and Faye are on even even grounds. Elliot is the one with all the knowledge, you know, and I think that's so fucking smart.
00:26:45
Speaker
always have a newbie character who can be like what is that so that in universe yeah this is this um yeah maybe they have two long time friends but don't not not a whole group yeah or memory loss memory loss also just be like yeah very awesome yeah um and it's weird because like similar things like i remember when i was playing god of war uh Fuck, my brain just collapsed. What was Ragnarok? Yeah, it was Ragnarok.
00:27:14
Speaker
I do remember like being like, okay, maybe Atreus can simmer down. I know how to do the puzzle. So I don't know why that bugged me more than Fae, but maybe maybe I've grown more patient. But...
00:27:25
Speaker
um no yeah i don't think because 13 year old 12 year old boys suck dude but we were we were them at one point too that's fair yeah maybe see too much we just annoy ourselves i know i fucking know shut the fuck up boy that was your age
00:27:45
Speaker
That might be it. It might, it might truly be like, a it's you projecting. It's you fucking projecting, dude. That's me as a kid being like, we should go over here.
00:27:56
Speaker
um but yeah, no, I don't think she's that bad. I'm glad you played. I'm the i'm glad you're playing dude that game though. Cause we all need in an adventure yeah once in a while. A little adventure. there and then it Especially a new IP adventure. Oh my god. that's that yeah and like You can tell they want it to be a series because The Adventures of Elliot is already closed. Yeah. so I hope that they can do It's no fucking triangle strategy. What are you going to
00:28:33
Speaker
Sexagon strategy. Rombus. Rombus strategy. Project Rombus strategy. um Project Parallelogram strategy. The naming conventions.
00:28:43
Speaker
um And yeah, I love the h d two d i love like I love that style. I wish that they would remake the early Pokemon games in that. Fucking Dragon Quest 456. would love that the The shitty thing is is that it's been perfected so much that I don't think Nintendo is down to copy.
00:29:02
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Yeah, I agree. Nintendo fucking hates being accused of copying shit. Yeah, and I mean, like the death they're never going to do it. like They just put Leaf Green on the Switch shop just as is, so why would they do a a remake of... a yeah but know, it looked nice. I don't think Pokemon's ah thrived in 3D. So I think if they went went for that, it would have... It's but yeah know so not it's not doing well in 3D at all.
Nostalgia in Movies and Character Evolution
00:29:29
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It's rough out there. But you know what? Maybe Wind and Waves will change my mind because they're doing it for more than a year of of time. Yeah. but then let Let them cook. Yeah, I'm playing that and then Star Fox is tomorrow. So I'm excited for that.
00:29:42
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It's a little Star Fox. Oh, you're going to review Star Fox? I'm a big Yeah. I think we have somebody, i think either Bailey or someone else wanted to review it.
00:29:54
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I'm not sure. It's the what third remake of 64, which I mean, it's a good game. I said, but I'm going to say the opposite. I don't think Star Fox is that good. I don't know what I like about it.
00:30:06
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Like I are 64. and yeah Yeah, I I've played all them, but adventure adventures, the rare one. It's just I think I like that's kind of weird. Like it is just a weird thing.
00:30:19
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You know, you know, my problem with it, though, is a guy that hung out in our group that I didn't really vibe with. negative it was his favorite game negative associate i feel that it's i've had yeah that's that's maybe if i returned to it with like not remembering him it would make me yeah i just remember how stoked he was when i would choose a certain route and stuff and i used to get pissed don't fucking get stoked at things i'm doing get excited about me um That's fair. I mean, hey, you never know it when you're younger, like, what'll be aggravating. um But yeah, no, i'm I'm excited. I like, I'm curious, because it seems like like it's all redone and it has new voices and stuff, but like part of the fun is how like cheesy the voice lines and the shit were. So like...
00:31:05
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don't how it's going to be if if they would say, like, let you do that Star Fox. What was that Star Fox on Switch that got announced at, like, one of the one of the last E3s? Oh, the on Switch? Because the Wii U had zero.
00:31:19
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Was it... was it was its Was it an E3? Wasn't announced at an One of the Star Foxes. The most recent game was Star Fox Zero on Wii U. Zero. Is that the one where you can transform and like have the chicken legs? and yeah and you had to use like the gamepad as the cockpit. And it was ah it was a whole... ah I remember so many like web like journalists praising that game when it was revealed. And it's just like that. It's the nintendo it's that Nintendo fucking hype where when you're at the event...
00:31:48
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You'll love it, but take a step back. The game's not good. It's like when you come out of the theater for a movie and as long as it's not abysmal, you're like, that was pretty good. Because you're like the majesty of the cinema and yeah watching this project. And then like two days later, you're like, that was like a 2.5 out of 5. That was not great.
00:32:05
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like I saw the new Toy Story. and oh Oh, was that? Yeah, okay. How was that? was like a 3 out of 5. That's what it looks like to me. but But I will say it was telling because in the theater when I sat down in the first like 10-15 minutes yeah I heard four kids say... ah where's woody and that's all that's only telling that you didn't fucking watch toy story four dude yeah yeah uh well it's just telling of the success of that film you know like no one fucking watched it it was an okay movie also like i three out of five yeah it was a really high though watching it that's fair and a little drunk
00:32:48
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Wow. Perfect kids movie. ah I had to get in the mindset. Got got get i had to dumb my yeah down bit gotta give me a little loopy. Hell yeah. ah Yeah, I definitely sneak in a few drinks to every theater that I'm going to.
00:33:01
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I'm pretty content with like Toy Story 1 3. I don't even need three like three is good but he's really good I love to the most I don't know yeah two too super good because you got Zerg you got them you got two fucking sick because you got bloopers where the fuck are the bloopers I miss bloopers so much I know it costs money to animate bloopers, but it's so charming. like How much money do you fucking need, Disney?
00:33:30
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I agree. Especially when this is going to make like $12 trillion because it's Toy Story. Not even. I think there's an interesting through line to be had for the three good Toy Story movies followed the progression of time. So like Andy got older the way we got older.
00:33:46
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And it was like, okay. And then ever since those movies ended... ah that child in the new movies has been a child that whole time. She's not progressed at all. She's been like five years old since yeah i like 20 what? They the progression of the films there but the characters, their voices sound like they're all like 70 and 80. I think that's an interesting representation of like the creativity of this series. is like Even Joan Cusack as Jesse just like, dude,
00:34:18
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Come on, bullseye. Let's get out of here. Yeah, dude. Chill, dude. Go take a nap, Jesse. fucking take a nap. Anyway. I'll see that eventually because it's toy story, but... ah I wish i remember when like a Pixar movie was like, yo, pick new Pixar, new Pixar joint. Doesn't have that. Yeah. And i was like, oh, cool.
00:34:44
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Zootopia two and Toy Story two. I heard was I watched on the plane to SGF. It was fucking. Yeah. Everyone's jacking off to bad guys now. No one's jacking off to Zootopia. Everyone's jacking off to bad guys. i was just I'm pretty sure people are still jacking off to Zootopia.
00:35:03
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i I definitely think guilty. Guilty. Yeah, I watched on the flight test, Jeff, and I was like, oh, that was like a yeah boner. You got a plane boner. You got a 10,000 foot in the air boner.
00:35:17
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Yeah, let's just say I was halfway to the Mile High Club. You bought the ticket. Yeah. I bought the ticket, but there was no one there. But yeah, so it was just okay. And then on the way home, I watched Weapons, and that was a much better movie. Oh, sick movie.
00:35:32
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Great movie. I'm probably not meant to be viewed on a plane, but... No, uh... Lisa Renna from Bravo. She's a housewife. She dressed up as Gladys in the recent so culture awards. is she just awesome So they had this fucking millionaire Lisa Renna dressing up. And she did such a good job. It was very funny. You know what? That was one of the things that made Scary Movie Feel dated is you can tell the weapons, the two times they did weapons was based off the trailer.
00:35:59
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Because yeah it's just the running. That's the only thing. like Not even Gladys, because she wasn't in any of the trailers. yeah So you can tell that they truly were just like, oh shit, we're like we were're almost done writing but we need something new. And then the weapons trailer came out, and they were like, oh, kids running like this.
00:36:14
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And then that's it. like Yeah. yeah I was like, i see fucking through you, white Waynes Brothers. It was a move full circle. Scary movie is not a good movie. Not great.
00:36:27
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But nostalgic. install it Yeah. I think the first three are a lot of fun.
00:36:33
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I don't know if people not alive when they came out would enjoy coming back to them, but I sure do. I think scary movie three. was that the one where that starts off and they're singing a mystical?
00:36:45
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I walk in with my dick in my hand. Oh, the exorcist thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Young players have been right. And a joke pisses on the floor. I think yes right that's two or three. yeah like that's a that's my bear priest That's great. yeah Yeah, that's the best one.
00:37:01
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That's a good one. I like three because Leslie Nielsen is the president and every scene he's in is really funny. Like the rest of three is kind of give or take, but every scene he's in is so funny. Did you watch Naked Gun?
00:37:12
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I only watched them for the first time like last year. And they're really, did you watch the new one? with That's yeah. it's funny watch them so i get It was good. It's funny. It was weird to see like a modern parody movie. That was like good. Cause yeah. How many years did we get from two of the six writers of scary movie? And they were all shit, like Epic movie.
00:37:31
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All that. It was, ah it was written by the lonely Island guy. Yeah. Kiva. One of them. Yeah. I think it was a Kiva. Okay. I think it was. Yeah. But that was, yeah, that was good. And i you know, they, Mike Myers said this week, can make a new Austin. I don't know if Austin powers can survive,
00:37:50
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ah I don't know if Austin Powers' concept can like exist past 2000 because it's so like ingrained in that early 2000s, 90s. I thought the commercial was AI and I got kind of mad and then I go on his Instagram and no, they all came and they all dressed up.
00:38:09
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um I don't think Austin Powers can
Game Reviews and Community Interaction Plans
00:38:12
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survive. I don't think he can. And I i say that as someone who fucking loves Austin Powers because it was like growing up the funniest shit in the world. Because it's going to be the Yeah, it's going to be that shit where they're like walking on eggshells, but they've been offended. You get COVID, Scotty? And it's like, what? Like, I don't need to see doctor people talk about COVID and me too and shit. Like, they're just trying to catch up on all the shit they've missed.
00:38:36
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Well, let's let's try and give Mike Myers the benefit of the doubt. I don't think he would personally put out anything that would ruin that brand.
00:38:49
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That's true. He must have learned his lesson from fucking love guru by now. in that and i don' Yeah. And I don't think Seth green would sign onto anything that would ruin anything because he hasn't been on screen for a long time and he's not going to return for a shitty script. Right.
00:39:03
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Right. Yeah. so Right. wouldn't return to be Scotty if it was bad. Right. Seth.
00:39:14
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Um, Yeah, it's yeah like I'm not even saying like they couldn't make Austin Powers. It's just such like a... I can't picture Austin Powers in 2026. It's just a weird thing to be. yeah That's literally like the amount of time since he was fucking frozen originally. Do I make you Randy, baby? I make you Randy, baby? Yeah, Groovy. It's like, wow. the Groovy, baby.
00:39:37
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I love Austin Powers. just don't. i I just it's such a 2000s thing in my brain that it's like i I hope they I hope they captured in film. i hope they have all the the practical effects. Don't make it. Don't try too hard. i do the big fat suit for Fat Bastard. You got to have Mike Myers play eight characters.
00:39:55
Speaker
No, Fat Bastard is going to be on Ozemp, dude. Oh, yeah, he is. Because at the end of Goldmember, he was on Jenny Craig. So he'll be on Ozempic this time because it's 2026. That's so true. They should have you in the writing room.
00:40:07
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is it very funny That's pretty good. um With that... it was going to get shot by Luigi Manjio. Sorry. That would be funny
00:40:19
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be funny. ah ah With that, ah yeah, I reviewed Dead or Alive last round. um ah played as Hanako a lot and I looked at her boobs more than I probably should have. You didn't play as He's the dude.
00:40:31
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Yeah, played as Ryu. You know who like more is that other ninja guy in there. I forget his name. The big buff Huh? The big buff one? No, the guy who he has a hood on all the time.
00:40:44
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He's like Ryu, but he's not. Anyway, him. um How'd you like it? Or ah or what's her name? Ayani. Oh, yeah. OK, yeah.
00:40:56
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It
00:40:59
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it was OK. No netcode update. Just stupid. Koei Techno being stupid. it's really It's just weird to release this game and not update and have no cross network play. yeah and have no like They fucked themselves with all the DLC. That's what they did. And now they don't know how to like say, hey, yeah, you bought $1,000 worth of DLC, but it's all included here. They said they scrapped that idea.
00:41:23
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But i thought that was that that's such a shitty thing to do because you want people to play your game. Who gives a fuck about who? That's my capitalistic. No, no, no. They did the right thing. They did. the They did the only thing that they could have done without pissing off 900,000 people that bought it already.
00:41:42
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And they're selling it for $40. It's an upgrade. Rollback would have been cool. But yeah, rollback would have been cool. It's delay based net code. It's like no one's going to play online with your shit, dude. No one no one no one's going to do that.
00:41:55
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No one's going to take it seriously. that's no um And then ah and then to to close out the show, after Anime Expo, um I'm going to be working out a weekly after-hours show in our road to 10,000.
00:42:11
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A road to 100,000 because we're at 90,000 right now subscribers. um I want to get to know our viewers and I want our viewers viewers to get to know are writers and me and developers and stuff. It's probably going to be on Thursday from 5 to 7 PM PT, I'm hoping, but it'll happen after Anime Expo.
00:42:33
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Very casual. very lot of lot of this is going to be. Yeah. Chill, laid back. Yeah. I want to want it want it to be like.
00:42:45
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I want to make friends. Does that make sense? Yeah, like a collaborative hangout or it's like, yeah, but I don't but i don't want them to think that I'm like any more knowledgeable about games than they are. And I think we'll be on the same level.
00:43:01
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I think that's where i see a lot of commentators come at it where they think that they need to have more knowledge than the viewer. I don't think i need to have more knowledge than than than the viewer. And I and i think that because we cover a variety of games, we're allowed that grace. you know like the And you're not like educating them.
00:43:16
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You're just playing like you're entertaining them with your like, yeah. Yeah. that's this there there is a There is a game I do want to put in a I play a game during this section element.
00:43:28
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And that's another thing I'm scared of is sometimes when i'm I can't do two things at once. It's hard to play a game and talk. And talk. Yeah. especially to make the talk like engaging for like an audience. Yeah. And I'm all about that. That's all I think about. Yeah.
00:43:42
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But I mean, I'm not funny. I'm not funny. I'm not funny. I'm not funny. But then once, once those super chats roll in, maybe like I am funny. I suck.
00:43:54
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Thank you for the $3. Suck my balls. You suck. I will gladly. There's a lot of slurs, but I will gladly. um But that's the episode, guys.
00:44:09
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It's a pretty good one. It was a good one. It was a good comeback. now All the scary movie heads in our audience. They're thrilled. Sound off. Yeah. um With that said, this episode will be available to everyone.
00:44:20
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But starting next episode, 140, it will go back to Patreon first. so if you want the the episode a week early, head over to our Patreon. Subscribe for a dollar or three dollars. Whatever you want. um And you'll get this show a week early and have a chance to be a part of it.
00:44:40
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Yeah.
00:44:43
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Bye. Bye.