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PAX, Video Games, Panels
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Here it is, the eighty-third episode of Unqualified Game Chat! This is where two friends, Azario and Spencer, talk about the games they’re playing and the most requested gaming news.
This week, the two talk about PAX, movies, Dead Space, and more!
Unqualified Game Chat is posted across podcast services for your entertainment.
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Introductions & Subscriber Growth
00:00:21
Speaker
Hello and welcome to episode 83 of Unqualified Game Chat. I'm your host, Azara Lopez, and with me today is no other than the beautiful, the bold, the brash. Yeah, bold and brash. The brave. The bold and the trash. That's the SpongeBob joke. I like to think so, but depends on who you ask. Spencer, the legacy.
00:00:51
Speaker
Hi everyone. How's what's cooking? You know, you know, what's strange is how many new subscribers to this podcast happen in the time that we don't record any episodes. Yeah. We're active. We're the weighted clothing of noisy pixel. You know, we actively hold it down. I just imagine that there's so many people waiting on us and I feel bad
00:01:19
Speaker
because it's totally not our fault most of the time why the episodes don't come out. Occasionally it is. Occasionally it is this time. Oh man. I was, uh, I was out of town both weeks. I think I had, um,
00:01:37
Speaker
We had pack. I mean, I had packs. We couldn't do it that week, but we did put out a packs podcast. It was not an unqualified game chat. I'll tell you what didn't even come close. It ain't an unqualified. I will say that.
PAX Reflections & Panel Ideas
00:01:57
Speaker
I did a panel at PAX and the whole time in the back of my head, I was thinking how much better an unqualified game check panel would have been. Just because they had me moderating with a bunch of people I've never met before, two of them were okay. One of them was really good on the panel, just like in terms of keeping up conversation and not really, I don't know,
00:02:28
Speaker
No dead air, no fat, no space. Yeah. And in my head, I was like, these people would really enjoy just a conversation of you and I, and then us like throwing out free shit. Everyone loves free shit. Everyone loves free shit. We were literally just talking about that like three minutes before we started recording. It's so true. Everyone loves free shit.
00:02:51
Speaker
When I was doing PR years ago now, it's been years. It was a, it was a, it was one year of not getting free shit. I was depressed. I gained 60 pounds.
Movies & Emotional Impact
00:03:09
Speaker
It gained 600 pounds. You became Brendan Fraser's whale and you were sending out codes to send Ron Cogra as Brendan Fraser as the whale. Great movie. Great movie. I haven't seen it. Oh my gosh. I'm in this spot where I've been so busy and stressed lately that I'm like, I know that movie's going to make me cry. I don't know if I have it in me to be emotional right now. I got too much going on. Well, it sounds like
00:03:36
Speaker
as an update to your life. It sounds like things are, are coming up Spencer. Things are, yeah, I got my goulash is on like mill house. Things are coming up Spencer. Um, I should within the next two months, less than two months, a month and a bit. I should be back in a different place than a guest room. And then, um, hopefully you don't move for another year.
00:04:01
Speaker
Yeah, moving sucks. Moving's the worst. Honestly, it's good that I haven't unpacked anything because I figured I'd be back out. Yeah. But yeah, it's moving.
00:04:13
Speaker
Moving is like it's the most deceptive thing in the world because it sounds so simple. It's like you take thing and put thing somewhere else, but it's so stressful and so busy and so time consuming and so draining. I had a suitcase from PAX and from the Star Wars survivor press event, but those were back to back. So I just had a suitcase and when I came home,
00:04:39
Speaker
I literally just laid the suitcase on the ground. It didn't, it was just open in my room for until like yesterday. I think I decided to put the clothes. Yeah, it was just there. All the stuff inside of it. I don't know. I think when you're gone for that long of a time, you start remembering the smaller things that you need to do around your place of living in terms of like training or.
00:05:07
Speaker
or small projects that you have to do, or are you just too lazy to do it? Have you seen any good movies lately?
Critiquing Animated Films
00:05:16
Speaker
I saw Mario on the weekend. And you know what? I thought it was going to be a lot worse. I had a lot of fun watching it. It was only an hour long, wasn't it? Hour and a half. I've not seen it. It's fine. It's totally fine. That's how I would describe it.
00:05:33
Speaker
I had no faith because illumination kind of blows chunks. I can't do the minions, man. It's just not good stuff. I thought we all liked the minions ironically, but then I realized that there's people that like the minions. There's a whole theme park of their shit.
00:05:51
Speaker
But so I was like, man, this is going to suck. It's going to be all pop culture references. It's going to have a big dance party at the end. I'm going to kill myself. And then I went to the movie and it was fine. And like, there was a couple of the license songs I don't think were like necessary, but for the most part, like the score was really nice. It was like all tastefully adapted Mario songs.
00:06:12
Speaker
Rihanna songs on there and stuff. No, there's one scene, and I only know this from Twitter, where they play Take On Me when they're driving around in Kong City, which is really not fitting. And then they posted on Twitter that there was a cut song that was a really, really nice remix of the Donkey Kong Country theme.
00:06:32
Speaker
That was gonna be supposed to be in a yeah they replaced it with the license song and i was like that sucks cuz did they not they didn't they not credit the dude who made a poor grand kirk hope they every song every song with lyrics has like five lines saying who made it and stuff in the credits and then donkey kong rap is donkey kong rap from dk 64.
00:06:53
Speaker
No. That's all it says. It's so fucked up. It's so fucked up, that poor guy. And it's surrounded by all these song titles that have all these names. And for the score and stuff, Koji Kondo was credited. So it's really strange that
00:07:12
Speaker
You know, the problem is, is that it's not like a hidden secret that he's the one who wrote it. Like everybody talks about it. It's, it's, it's something that you kind of know. So he's very outspoken and he wrote it. You didn't have to dig very deep to be like, Oh, this guy wrote it.
00:07:31
Speaker
Yeah. He's joked about it all the time. He's like, I made like the worst rap ever and everybody loves that. I don't know what happened. Like he jokes about it all the time. So it's very, very obvious that he made it. And, uh, I heard it's like, I heard it's like Mario references every five seconds. And it's like, there are a lot, there's a lot of just Nintendo ones in the background. They're not, they're done pretty tastefully though. They're not annoying. I heard princess peach is pretty hot. And then I guess, uh, sure.
00:07:58
Speaker
I don't know. I'll be the judge. Yeah. I think I'll be able to tell for myself. Thank you. Um, but yeah, no, it was a, it was a fun movie. I saw John Wick also was great. John Wick is like, you know what you're getting and you, they give it to you as good as possible. So it's just always fun. A popcorn classic. A popcorn, a five.
00:08:19
Speaker
Two bags of soda and a little, a little pistol that just shoots the noise. It just makes the noise. No bullets. Yeah. And it has like a little dog tag on it. Yeah. So you can pretend to be your own pocket size John Wick, Jonathan Wick. Um, yeah, no, those are good. And, uh, I,
00:08:43
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's it. I haven't seen Dungeons and Dragons.
Charming Adventures & Gaming Excellence
00:08:46
Speaker
Everyone says that that's fun. I watched it. I didn't watch Mario. I watched that one. It's charming. It's fun. Okay. Maybe I'll check that out soon. It's Dungeons and Dragons.
00:08:56
Speaker
I only played Dungeons and Dragons, I think once or twice with the group. And it was because I didn't I didn't take it seriously, but not in the way that like I was like above it. It was that everything I do, I make stupid. I can't help it. I am stupid. Yeah, I'm always like a chaotic neutral. All I did was the bungle spell because it made everybody trip and die. And they got mad at me. I always if ever we saved a woman, I always rolled to like hold her hand.
00:09:24
Speaker
Aww, that's so sweet and chivalrous of you. She never wanted to. I would just always be like, you can summon a familiar and I'd be like, I summon Crash Bandicoot and they'd be like, you can't do that. And I'd be like, I summon Crazy Frog and they'd be like, you can't do that. The song? The crazy song? That's the frog. From the- From the- From the song, yeah.
00:09:48
Speaker
I hate that frog. Don't don't fucking talk shit about crazy frog. He's epic. And then like I really enjoyed the bungle spell because like it would just make people trip and drop shit and be stupid. So every time an enemy would attack us, I would bungle them. It was awesome. But, you know, that that's a very specific personality that you're working with with me. So I understand. But I had a lot of fun, but I've just I never got super into it. So
00:10:18
Speaker
I don't know. Good update. And I played Dead Space Remake. Finally. It was excellent. Did you beat it twice? To quote a really cool internet meme, ain't nobody got time for that. You have to get the secret ending from the new game plus. I was a YouTuber.
00:10:43
Speaker
That's a long game. It's like 10 hours or something. You're bumming me out, man. I got so many games I want to play right now. I thought this month of absence would have changed you a little bit. I played it once. What, 10 minutes in? 10 minutes in and you're already bumming me out. 10 minutes, 37 seconds. And for your information, I played it once. There's so many games to play.
00:11:05
Speaker
I'm sure I'll revisit it one day, but I have so many dang games that I want to get to, and Battle Network Collection's coming out this month, Star Wars, Jedi Survivors coming out this month. Yeah, the noisy pixel review of the Battle Network Collection. It went up today, or yesterday? Today, yesterday. This morning. Yeah, I saw that on YouTube. I was like, whoa.
00:11:28
Speaker
Um, yeah. So you actually like those games? I love battle network. Yeah. I've never played them. They rock. They also like one of my favorite art styles ever. My very favorite art style ever. I love the man's design in them. He's like kind of slim, kinda. I love how they took.
00:11:48
Speaker
all the robot masters and shit and gave them completely different redesigns that are still really cool. Like none of them are like, it's, it's, it's, it's like, um, it's sort of like how Marvel had the ultimate universe for a while. I don't know if you've ever read comics, but they'd have the main universe and then the ultimate universe where it'd be like a different universe's version of this character. So they'd have a slightly more 2000s redesign, like X unlimited X man, or,
00:12:16
Speaker
Yeah, like how a lot of the costumes in the Marvel movies are based off the ultimate costumes because they are more, it was basically like a modern reboot that takes place in a different universe, so they're not actually rebooting. So that starts in the 2000s. So it was a cool modernish look at combined with the internet motif of Battle Network that I love. So yeah, I love those games. They also have really nice soundtracks.
00:12:44
Speaker
Also, they've inspired a lot of indie games. There's a lot of like Battle Network-esque indie games. It's quite impressive. There's that one last Eden or something like that. I forgot what it's called. It's a more recent one. People love those GBA games. Yeah. With that said, intro's over.
00:13:05
Speaker
It goes up sometimes. Hopefully this goes up on Thursday. Come on, Azario, get your shit together. Get your shit together. It's absolutely my fault. I'll tell you that we recorded a episode not too long ago and I'm just not, I haven't posted it yet. Yeah, we do. There's a prequel episode.
The Evolution of E3
00:13:29
Speaker
Yeah. So this is episode 83, but there's an episode 82 and it'll, it'll come. It's a good one to come out when you deserve it. Let's say the problem is, is that it's a good one. It's not a scrappable one. It's a good one. Yeah. It's like one that I like to remember it. Oh, it's good. Cause it was like a month ago. Well, that's happened since then. E three died. Yeah.
00:13:57
Speaker
That's crazy. I was planning to go. I'm like, well, now you can, now you can go to anime expo. Yeah, but anime expo is way cooler than E3. Let's just be honest. Yeah, but it's expensive to not go with everybody.
00:14:16
Speaker
Hmm. I do want to go to Mario topia, whatever your fucking universal is called. Yeah. Wait. So you already planned your trip and everything? No, I didn't buy anything. I was starting. I was in the preliminary, you know, setting off dates and setting off places. And I think ultimately what killed E3 was the people who ran it. Yeah. They were not, they were there. They say they, um,
00:14:44
Speaker
like I it's funny it's funny how like press media like to like put shit on the shit on e3 and like oh it's work blah blah blah I'm glad it's over ether needs and I get it that's fun but they weren't the ones that
00:15:02
Speaker
had to deal with the logistics of the show where to buy a booth space is so much money. Like they were charging, they were charging these people so much fucking money. Thousands of dollars. Oh, like, whew. Like depending on the size, that's why you had companies like going, like doing like both of them in one, in one. Yeah. Um, yeah, it was ridiculous. Uh,
00:15:31
Speaker
And so I'm like, I'm in the camp where it's sad that E3 couldn't adapt to this new approach because companies just found it easier. Well, I could talk directly to my audience. It's true. It loses all the charm, but it's effective. So it's the, I try, I was trying to phrase it to someone, but I couldn't like,
00:15:57
Speaker
I think I was talking a little, but I couldn't like phrase it in my head, but you know how everything went from like the weird logos they had in the nineties and two thousands that were like blocky and colorful and shit to like apple round white, maybe gray, maybe black, like one color, smooth, sterile logos. Like that's, that's what the transition from E3 to a summer game fest and, and when I, when I was like,
00:16:27
Speaker
When I was like 12 and 13, 14, I remember, um, every day I would, I would bring up a stream and I would watch these, these, uh, E3 videos that came out because usually on G4 on my TV.
00:16:46
Speaker
Well, yeah, back then you would have to wait for one of those places. And then once I hit like the age of like 20, 21, they were like live streaming them. And it was, but it was very, it was very bad resolution. And you had to like find a place that was actually showing it. Like IGN's stream of it or like on their website or like YouTube wasn't as centralized of a thing.
00:17:10
Speaker
No, it was like, oh, you just type E3 stream and like five show up. Yeah. You had to go like Justin TV and try to find Justin to some type of person that paid for the E3 stream or E3 access or something. It was a very weird time, but I love doing it and bowl of cereal, watching the reveals, crying a little bit. It's true.
00:17:36
Speaker
So it sucks that that magic's gone. It does. It was going for a long time, but at least it was still, there was still some. It, you know, it's, it does suck that the, that all we have is, um, Keely. Yeah, it does. It's like I said, it's more like business-y, sterile, like, I don't know.
00:18:01
Speaker
I don't know. It's, it's really, everything feels like Apple now where it's just like, Oh, that shirt is smooth looking, but it's not really characteristic. Were you at the E3 that Bethesda had like the chain smokers there and they had like a Ferris wheel and.
00:18:18
Speaker
Oh, I remember the Ferris wheel. Yeah. Yeah. And there was like Evil Within 2 or whatever was shown. Yeah. I remember that. It was in like a weird like hedge. Yeah. Not maze, but like a weird hedged off area. Those things are insane, dude. They gave out like beer cozies.
00:18:36
Speaker
Yeah, Ubisoft had some fun like events. They don't see we don't get the parking lot. We don't get that anymore. There's not these huge like parties like that anymore. It's true. I am. I'm it's I'm in that I'm in the weird spot where it's like I want to complain too much because most people who wanted.
00:18:53
Speaker
Have attended me three couldn't ever well, fuck that because that event that event in general There was so many people who were in there who shouldn't have been there just like random like girls and they're fucking like business-y Boyfriends like like they and they're dressed for like a cocktail party and i'm like you guys this you guys are not fitting in to this Uh, they're not gamers
00:19:18
Speaker
Well, they were clearly just like the upper, the elite like chair people. Stockholders. Yeah, just like random stockholders and then their shitty coquette friends, you know? Man, that's it. E3 parties are as close as I would get in my entire life to living Succession. That's so depressing. That's so fucked up. I love Succession. That's my favorite TV show. I'm almost done season two. I just started this week and I fucked last week and I fucking love it.
00:19:47
Speaker
You're for such a wild ride. And I keep watching and I know that it's the opposite message the show is sending. And I just keep being like, fuck, I wish I was rich. God, I wish I was rich. Damn. Because they have rich people problems. That's like... It's true. And listen, money cannot buy happiness. Okay. But it can remove the negative parts. No, it absolutely can't. If you worry about paying rent or mortgage or food or any of that, God,
00:20:15
Speaker
That's so cool. I was like that rocks. That's enough to be like, wow. Money absolutely can buy happiness. It's not even, it's not even, maybe it couldn't before, but we live in a society where it a hundred percent canon does now. So yeah, maybe your, maybe your grandma's world money. But now E3 is dead and money runs rampant.
00:20:38
Speaker
So what, so what events do you have your eyes set on Pax West? What do we do with Spencer? Where are we going? Where is it? Where's unqualified game chat panel going to take place?
00:20:50
Speaker
I don't know. I got to figure it out. I got to figure that out. I got to figure finances out because the first couple of months after you move, you're like, you're screwed because that's an expensive life.
Challenges of Moving & Gaming for Review
00:21:02
Speaker
Yeah, because you're like, oh shit, I don't have this spatula. Yeah. Like me, I'm like, oh, I don't have a coffee table, so that's a couple of hundred dollars. You don't need a coffee table. But my replace is so small that it would also be a dinner table. I need a table of some kind.
00:21:19
Speaker
one of those Japanese like the tape with a blanket on them. No, it's a persona four. Is it kotatsu?
00:21:32
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. It's a good boy. No, it's because again, Tom knows or no, I might get one of those ones. They're like 150 bucks on Amazon. And it's like you lift the top part so you have storage and you can put it like over you for like dinner. If you're eating on a couch, I might get that because that's probably more practical.
00:21:57
Speaker
Yeah. So I'm not for a while, unfortunately, but I'm, um, looking, I'll figure out. Yeah. I'm planning on going to New York pretty soon. Maybe I'll take a trip to Canada and see this stuff. Come to Toronto. Come to Toronto. Maybe Mark and I will come see ya. Say hi. We'll all go get some prescription pills and then back to, uh,
00:22:24
Speaker
Exactly. North America. You can go to Toronto, which the best description I've ever seen for Toronto is from 30 Rock, and they say it's like New York, but without all this stuff. That's literally what Toronto is. Come see that. Come see our CN Tower and stuff. CN it. CN it. Come see our scary streets. I swear we talk about video games on this podcast. I said Dead Space earlier. That's a video. We did it. We filled it.
00:22:54
Speaker
I've been playing so many games that I've been reviewing a lot of games lately. When I'm happier, I review more games just so you know. I needed, with everything that happened in my life, I was like, I need a break from a lot of things. So I took a bit of a review break after Resident Evil 4. Yeah, dude. You know what? And that's fair. That is fair because
00:23:21
Speaker
How games really require you to be checked in.
00:23:29
Speaker
Yeah. Playing games for review is different than playing games for fun because. Yeah, because you're not paying attention. You can't check out your, your, your, it's not a distraction because you're working. So you can't really use it as a distraction. And then if you try to do something else while you have a game for review, you feel like you're fucking wasting people's time because you should be working on the game that you're supposed to review. So why are you putting time into this game? Like you started. Yeah.
00:23:57
Speaker
you start beating up yourself even more. It's a, it's a shitty, like weird situation. Um, when people say they're playing games for, for fun, I'm like, I scoff. It's easy to forget what that's like to be like, Oh yeah. I'm jealous. That's why I was like, I was like, man, I don't have, I can't think of deadlines right now outside of like my daily work hours. So I need to like,
00:24:23
Speaker
So I played God of War Ragnarok was good. Really enjoyed that played, you know, you know what I got through again, uh, ghost wire on that, but I played on serious sex yesterday.
Game Updates & Reviews
00:24:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's a.
00:24:37
Speaker
That update, they really fucked. They really held back the best parts of that game for a year just to get out of that exclusivity deal. What? Oh, dude. So the second half of the story is almost completely like fixed. Wow. It's not.
00:24:58
Speaker
You don't have to do side quests to understand some of the other nuances of the main story. They rearranged some of the story elements and added story elements to make it more clear as to what happened at the end.
00:25:13
Speaker
Super cool super cool. There's also a like new school that you can explore And it's like a haunted house style thing very scary Counter attack parries are in so if you do a perfect block You can follow it up with an attack. So your skill tree is advanced and then you have a 30 level like Like kind of like a rogue like
00:25:42
Speaker
thing that you go through. If you die, you start back at level one, but you, you retain a lot of the stuff that you got. That's cool. That's more like testing your skills and that kind of, that, that kind of resets all your skills too. But what I like about it is they didn't just reuse the old skill tree from the main game for this. They created a whole new skill tree for this new mode, a spider's thread mode. That's sick.
00:26:08
Speaker
Yeah, and there's a story. There's a story to it. That game didn't get its flowers, you know? That's what I'm saying, dude. I agree. It should have had more powers because you run out pretty quick of just like new things.
00:26:23
Speaker
I, everything else, but like, man, it was just so aesthetically unique and so fun to just run around and like, uh, find a random laptop and just read like new texts that you look on it. It's just somebody looking up crap. It's a great game. It's a great game. Um,
00:26:47
Speaker
Yeah, I played that. I played Hunt the Night. I put that review out and that's more of an indie.
00:26:54
Speaker
action game, but super, super hard. And I wasn't expecting it to be, I wasn't expecting to play such a hard game. And I ended up having fun, but it's one of those games where it's, it's not like an RPG where you can just grind and get stronger and then face the boss again. You're kind of just stuck with your own skills and they give you the toolbox. You use it or you don't, but you got to use it to get through, uh, these fights and you can just die as many times as you want. And just like,
00:27:22
Speaker
Try again, but that's like your your best bet. You know, games that games that kind of do that, though, are like, what's that one like boss rush kind of game? It's like an indie game. I forget what it's called. But I think those games are are are needed, you know, like, yeah.
00:27:43
Speaker
Even Dark Souls games can be kind of cheesed through if you have enough time to just farm souls. It's true. It's like the RPG mindset of like, you can get to level 99 in this starting town if you
00:27:59
Speaker
you're insane if you're willing to spend like 50 hours just doing random battles there's a there's an old game facts guide of a guy who did Final Fantasy 7 and got to level 99 in the first area where cloud oh my god gets off the off the train off the train yeah that's one of those things where it's like it's cool that I know now that that's possible but God
00:28:23
Speaker
Why did you do that? You poor, you poor S.O.B. Yeah.
Gaming Strategies & Anticipation
00:28:28
Speaker
Damn. Yeah. It's like the one I always looked at was Roxas getting to level 99 in KH2 because you don't even play as him after the first like three hours. So not only was that like, not only were you insane, but you don't even benefit the rest of the game from that. You can benefit for like an hour.
00:28:46
Speaker
What's what's crazy is like nothing unlocks at that point. Yeah. It's not like you get anything after a certain level. There's crazy. It's crazy. Crazy people. So what are we looking forward to? We're looking forward to Star Wars. Survivor. Star Wars. I love Star Wars. I love the Jedi Fallen Order. Battle Network. Love Battle Network. Advanced Wars.
00:29:14
Speaker
who advanced wars finally called lights for that one finally advanced wars what else is there i'm checking out about trying to do it but i didn't play yet why did you buy it did you buy because you like to run your trunk yeah i love to run on trial and then ever since i was a boy was a boy i watch
00:29:38
Speaker
only animated movies because I thought real people movies were boring. That's verbatim what I would say. I would watch Tron. The Final Fantasy pixel remastered games are coming out. Yeah, I saw that. That's cool. The only physical is the limited one, right? There was a standard, but it sold out pretty quick. It was only on the Square Enix shop, too. Yeah, I bought the limited because the standard was sold out. So I'll do an unboxing of it.
00:30:09
Speaker
Um, it really sucked seeing that apply to my, apply to my, uh, my credit card or I think it's like the worst feeling. Yeah, it wasn't ready. Uh, so it's like on PSVR too, went on my credit card. I was like, Trinity triggers cool from X seed. Um, yeah, a few good games, few good games are coming. Few good games.
00:30:37
Speaker
My birthday is next month, so get ready for me to continuously update you on that.
Podcast Future & Friendship
00:30:45
Speaker
I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully we'll have an episode up by next month. We'll have a couple more episodes to remind people of your birthday, I think. Yeah. And I also take this time to remind you that we have a Patreon. It's true.
00:30:59
Speaker
I also take this time to remind you, I like money also, um, Sunday in the mail. Cause I don't, I don't have it. I think my, I don't even think I have anything online where people can donate money because I don't do anything. So yeah, I'm not going to give up my fucking PayPal. The people will be like, Hey, give me buddy. Yeah. Don't do that. Well, that's the episode. Yeah.
00:31:22
Speaker
A welcome reunion. A welcome reunion. We're not fighting. We're still friends. We're still friends. We'll see you all next week. See you all next week. See you all next week.