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Is Shadow of the Erdtree the Best Expansion Ever? | Firelink Podcast
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This week on Firelink, Marty, Nick, and KC discuss their thoughts on Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.
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Podcast Introduction & Support
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Hosts & Episode Overview
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Hello everyone, welcome back to Firelink Podcast, episode number 26 for Wednesday, June 26, 2024. My name is Marty Sleev, and as always, I am joined by Nick Calandra and Casey Wosu, and of course, producer Eric. ah We have a wonderful show for you. I feel like it's been eons since we did this episode. I think it was two weeks. It feels like it's been years. Well, yeah, I guess we didn't do one for. No, we didn't. We didn't need three a post summer game fest episode two weeks ago. We didn't do one last week. um But yeah, welcome, everyone. we we're We're thrilled to have you here. As you see, we we got a great show for you today. We're going to be talking about the the Nintendo Direct, which was like 10 days ago, almost two weeks ago. But we didn't get a chance to talk about on the show. So we'll we'll go over some of the highlights of that ah news this morning broke about ah Capcom bringing back another one of their old franchises. Is it Mega Man Legends? tune in to find out. It's not. It's dead rising.
Capcom's Dead Rising & DLC Discussion
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We're going to talk about that. And then our main topic, Nick and I, I don't, I don't know if you, you, you, you haven't gotten into retreat yet. Have you Casey? Not the DLC. I have been playing elmen ring.
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You're looking for the hagga tree. You gotta differ, the halo tree. You look at another tree on in mind. I have an entirely different mission right now. Yeah, you gotta steam that about a tree. ah But Nick can i and I have been playing a lot of air tree, so we're gonna gab about that, but also on a sort of a more macro level, um talk about DLCs and expansions in general, which ones really stand out to us where this might rank in the pantheon of the beloved ones and how like, it ah up for a little while, it felt like it was gonna be a dying art, just because like lives are like, do we count like destiny things as expansions? I don't know how that works. I guess I think I would, I would count destiny things as expansions. Yeah. And then the most, I really didn't think this title through before I posted it. So the chat's already arguing about it means I did my job right. Oh yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't have done this title, but people have already given us money. So yeah and' out well done.
Viewer Support & Game Expansion Jokes
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Yeah, and ah remember, ah this this show and all all the other shenanigans we do over here at Second Wind are ah funded by your incredible support, your viewership, your listenership, your patronage over on Patreon, and live via Super Chats that folks like Onyxia with a $5 dono sent in. The best expansion is clearly The Doctor Who Cloned Me for Duke Nukem Forever. That can't be real. Is it Duke Nukem Forever? They didn't allow it to have more, did they? There, there was more Duke Nukem for her. They like legally, they had to do an expansion and it was like, well, we got it. We just got to put it out there. couldn We just got to send it out there. Um, maybe it was just that much better than the base game. Man. What if it turned out it was like an incredible game that everyone just somehow, I really want to know how Gearbox survived both that game and aliens, colonial Marines within like the same four year period. ah Two words, border lands. Yeah. Yeah. yeah borderline just cook That's one word.
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Is it? They do spell it all together. Two words. Money laundering. As she's grew with a five-year-old don't know. Thank you so much. Probably the reason she buys my money is on Phantom Liberty. That'll definitely get brought up as well as probably some other CD Projekt Red ones in the main topic. Look at that. That was teasing. ah Red Dwarf with a five-dollar don't know. Thank you so much. The best expansion is the Louisiana Purchase Manifest Destiny, baby. I mean those are all the states everybody says are
Nintendo Announcements & Strategy
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fly over country. Not Louisiana. Louisiana purges. Yeah, that's everything. Those are all haters. Wait till they come here and see glorious things like Indianapolis. That wasn't part of the Louisiana Purchase, but let me tell you, Indianapolis, big things come in there. Super Bowl? WrestleMania? Was it free? No, it was not free. Not free.
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Uh, and then, uh, couldn't help a with a $20 don't know. Thank you so much. Welcome back, Nick. You did it, Nick. I'm proud of you. Um, yeah, I forgot. Yeah. I forgot you because this is your first stream since you've been back. Yeah. So you've been back as you've been in a lot of meetings. Yeah. Do you remember how to stream? No. do it. He's currently not streaming right now. So like there's a good chance he may have to make a real bad joke. And I was like, you know what? Maybe I don't know. That's not how you stream. That's not how you stream. Don't do that. I am pattern Pike with a $2 don't know. Thank you so much. What do y'all think of the border lanes? A movie being PG 13. I'm going to be honest. This is the first I've heard of that. And I think that was bad for a lot of different reasons is one of
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bad because PG-13 is too kid focused or bad because it yeah PG-13 is too mature. No, I assume too kid focused. Cause I think the game is rated M, right? Cause there's like a lot of cussing. There's not even a lot of cussing. There's just a lot of like gore. Yeah, it is pretty gory like head. list of it Yeah, the the cursing is like
New Mario & Luigi Games Excitement
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pretty limited to like badass or jackass. and I think they even bleep themselves when they get like real early drop in F bombs everywhere. and Yeah. Well, there you go. we learned and Yeah, that preview clip they showed off a couple weeks ago did not look good. I still haven't seen that. Like the first trailer they showed, I was actually kind of like, oh, maybe this might be fun.
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but I did not see the preview clip that people are now down on. But I will say Borderlands in general has always been kind of immature, like it was of its time. I think PG-13 might be right. Like you don't want this aimed at proper adults. You want like forming brains to get there. Sort of trying to wrap their heads around this. And it's like sort of like a pastiche take on like a Mad Max thing. So it shit doesn't need to be as like intense as like a Mad Max. Sure. It could be a little goofy or it could be like Zombieland, which was also R I guess, but. um You know, we don't make the rules. Only Randy Pitchford and his money laundering make the rules. and is is It is. Yeah, it is. to Make this money disappear. ah ah You know, it's something something that didn't disappoint us. And that was the old Nintendo Direct, which seems like it was ages ago. ah But since, ah you know, we obviously waited on the last episode, we waited on all the other conferences and we streamed all the other conferences and stuff, but we haven't had a chance to just gab
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about the Nintendo Direct, so i guess I live streamed it and I feel like I talk about it on every single stream, but um I guess what did what did you guys think of sort of Nintendo's, ah the Switch's seemingly last ah last great volley um and what Nintendo had to show off? I was impressed that we're actually getting new games. Yeah, very much so. I'm in that same boat. I for sure thought this was going to be a dud. You could have just remade and remastered like a bunch of games with the last direct. And I also, I got a laugh when I was watching it because you're still not getting WinWaker HD. It's common to say, switch to launch. You got to have a Zelda game on launch and that's it. WinWaker Twilight Princess, two Zelda games on launch.
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They could have announced that if it was on the way, even if it was on Switch 2, because, you know, they're going to split the difference anyway. Like, oh, here it is for Switch and Switch 2. Buy it twice. Yeah. I mean, 60 on Switch, 70 on Switch 2. Yep, exactly. Pay for it. Pay for it both times. Switch 2. ah Yeah, I thought it was really it was a really impressive. ah It was a really impressive direct first party wise. it was It was cool to see Mario and Luigi. It's crazy that like it felt like for a while, we just weren't getting a lot of Mario RPG games. And then in the last year, we got three of them. We got Mario RPG. We got Thousand Year Door remake. And now we're getting the brother ship, which is a dumb name. But I think the game looks delightful. So I'm excited for that. too Like looks in particular like that game looks gorgeous. Yeah, the animation is like really impressive. like We're the.
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I have not ever played any of the Mario and Luigi games, but I do know they did have a unique art style, which was different from Paper Mario, which is different from regular 2D Mario, different from 3D Mario, right? the Is this matching that original art style or is this a new art style? Yes. And this is the first Mario and Luigi game that is ah not on like a handheld. So that's why I mean, you know, switches are being handled. You know, I mean like a console as opposed to a football. So it it does it feels like- And it's just 3D, whereas those were all 2D, like kind of top downy. Yeah. I think by the 3DS ones, I think there was some faux 3DS-y ones or faux 3D-y ones. There's one where you go inside of zel na Zelda's body. Bowser. Oh, no.
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um Yeah, Bowser's an inside story. a different thing That I would also be interested in. So if Nintendo ever wanted to make
Metroid Prime 4 & Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
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that. But ah yeah, the other two big first party Nintendo things obviously were Metroid Prime 4 and Speaking of Zelda, the Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom. Being a game where you play as Zelda herself and very much finally like, yeah, taking this kind of creative, creative freedoms of ah of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, but marrying them with the ah sort of classic top-down overworld, which seems really cool. I don't know, I just thought the Nintendo stuff looked really good.
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no yeah my eyes are Yeah, like ah no one was really expecting much from them. like We know, we know, we feel in our hearts that the Switch 2 is right around the corner, so like there's really not that much life left in the Switch, and Nintendo was like, you don't know anything, as usual, and showed us a bunch of new shit that I'm honestly excited for. And like most often, Nintendo will show stuff that I do not care about, except for like maybe one big first party thing. Like everything they showed almost was of some interest to me. Like I'd be super interested to try the new brother ship game. It was awesome. The Zelda game I must play in Metro Prime 4. I've not caught up with any other ones, but yes, please give me more of that.
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Do we fact dragon still exist? My God. Yeah, right that's that's kind of impressive. i don't I wonder if this point is going to be like one of the most expensive Nintendo games ever made just by virtue of they've spent this many years of salary on, you know, obviously the game had to be rebooted multiple times, but like. Yeah, I don't know. I'd be curious. I don't think they'll ever actually say how much this game costs, but otherwise I do. I'm sorry. Did you were trying move on? Could I have one more thought? on but you No. Yeah. Because I wanted to say, like, from what they showed, like, it does look very gameplay like, but I'm a little skeptical as to whether this was actually gameplay, like running on a on like and hardware and vegetable almost as good.
Nintendo's Future Plans & Switch 2 Speculation
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Yeah. So that's what I was going to say is some people saw it and were like, Oh, this has to be switched to. That being said, I feel like we said the same thing with when we first saw like there's the kingdom and when we first saw Mario and rabbits too. ah Yeah. Yeah. I think Nintendo should be running on a switch too, because they run like crap. I mean, yeah, but like Nintendo has, ah you know, they've ah first off to the kingdom does not run like crap. I think Metro Prime 4 is going to be a ah is going to be a cross-gen game. I think it will be coming out on Switch, but I can also see it. ah Probably won't, I don't know, maybe it's going to be a launch game for Switch. Like, yeah, again, like ah Breath of the Wild or like a Twilight Princess, like a cross-gen launch game. Yeah, i I'd imagine so. Especially they didn't put it, they didn't, it's like the one big game from their showcase they didn't put a date on.
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Yeah, I think they just said 2025. Yeah, you don't think that's a risk using this as a big launch game as opposed to like a like cause for the last two they've done a cross gen. Zelda. Mm hmm. But I guess prior to that first one, that was kind of a risk, right? Because like I don't I don't think it's a real something. They just want to for the amount of time they need to sell copies as possible. This game would benefit greatly from the massive reach of the switch. So the 150 million people who own a Switch, um if they have a 3D Mario game plan for launch, I do not think that needs to launch on Switch. I think that can launch on the Switch successor and be fine. like That could be a true system seller. Like this doesn't feel like a game that's a system seller. Whereas I think a Mario game, people people will buy it for you know whatever the 3D Mario team has been working on since Odyssey. I want to say about the Nintendo Showcase. is ah
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Man. How many Mario games have we gotten in the past two years? Like 10. Yeah. If you look at all, like all of Mario's different, uh, give me a Yoshi, give me something that's not marketing donkey ko returns. It's coming back. Yeah. The same don't recon is returning, right? Yeah. a hit we game Which became the hit 3DS game. And it's just now that I want to see them do more with their other properties and Zelda Mario. I mean, that's their, so I know. everything Yeah. But I mean, we, we've been getting fire emblem or see, we see Metroid coming. Yeah. they they They do. Definitely. Like there's a few things they've left by the wayside. Um, and don'll see but our o yeah, it's more like what I was kind of saying about, um, way back when on breakout about, you know, modernizing their IPS, you know, we got the modernization of Kirby and that was great.
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Yeah. So just kind of want to see the same thing for for Donkey Kong and all that kind of stuff. I want Donkey Kong to have to but put a whole car in his mouth like Kirby. Have you you will ever seen another fully 3D Donkey Kong? maybe there was some scuttlebutt that that's that or some rumors that uh i don't know why i changed scuttlebutt to rumors i don't know those are the same in my mind yeah like went saying like no no no sorry you can't don't quote me on scuttlebutts it was rumors that uh the 3d mario team was actually working on a mario and donkey kong game like a 3d
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Like, I don't know, Mari, you don't come and hang out in the jungle. I don't know what they do there. Get high. You bananas. Less bananas. likeana Yeah. yeah let Throw their own feces. That'd be great.
Capcom's Deluxe Remaster Strategy
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Uh, Jewel Rao with a five-year-old donor. Thank you so much. Some monies for the second Wendy's. Mwah! Can't wait for the documentary. Nick didn't disappoint ever in his promises. I'm sure Nick's disappointed you at some point. No, just my tweets. You can't leave after anyone if they haven't disappointed you at least once. There you go. Um, the other big, uh, you know, there was some, some big third party reveals there as well with, um, that fantasy end game coming to, uh, that was the apple arcade Sakaguchi game that is, is now coming to consoles, uh, dragon quest, uh, three eight 2d HD as well as one. Yeah, that one looks great. out i will agree and like I love that art style, but like, i chose the h yeah, I just could not stick with octopath traveler too.
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I really wanted to like it. I just, much felt like everyone, everyone else. I know who's played it. Really loved it. I haven't played it. So it just, I don't know. It just felt too obtuse to me. Yeah. Too obtuse. And then the last big one, was ah which I know a lot ah lot of folks online got excited for, was, um which I guess kind of transitions into our Dead Rising Capcom topic, but ah Capcom bringing back the Marvel vs. Capcom X-Men vs. Street Fighter fighting collection, um which includes like seven different games, including the original X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, some ah beat-em-ups like the Punisher game and Children of the Atom. but um
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Yeah, obviously, this is coming to Switch, PS4 and PC, not coming to Xbox. We're seeing more and more third-party things like this. like Capcom specifically, and there's like a... People think it might be because of a certain engine. like the whatever whatever There's an engine for certain Capcom games, and they said it might just like straight up not work on... ah
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on Xbox or like they haven't figured it out. So that is why certain Capcom games are like, and they found like the similarity between all those Capcom games not being on Xbox is the certain engine. And it's not like they already anything with. Yeah. So some some legacy tech that they've used, you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. Um, that for some reason just doesn't play well with the X-Box architecture. Um, but, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm really excited for this. I know Casey, you said you're not like a hardcore Marvel versus Capcom fan, but, uh, Marvel Capcom two might be my most played fighting game ever besides smash. Like it's, it's super cool, but yeah, I just haven't had a ton of time with it. Yeah. But um it yeah, it's super flashy. Uh, it's, it's where, uh, what is it? Moment, uh, 42 comes from. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. there's like the gate The game almost has like a life of its own outside of the game itself, the everything, the model baby, like, you know, um,
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That thing, and yeah, it was unavailable legally to buy on modern hardware for almost 10 years. And so the fact that it's coming back now is pretty dang cool. And maybe if it does well, maybe they'll make a Marvel's Capcom. Well, we could just get rid of Infinite and just make a new one. Don't do that. Yeah, just make it like these 3D ones. Just make it like these old 3D ones and just put in a bunch of our characters. That'd be cool. But they haven't put a Monster Hunter person in here. You gotta put a Monster Hunter into these games, right? I mean, they haven't yet. yeah Those games the games were kind of a... I mean, they've put much more of your characters in Monster Hunter characters. So yeah, I don't know. that That's a purposeful choice, I guess. Is there... Wasn't there a fighting game where you had to fight Arathalos? Oh, was that Smash? Yeah, Smash put Arathalos in there. Yeah, it was like a boss and like ah like a stage hazard. Yeah, yeah. I remember that, man.
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Um, but yeah, sticking with Capcom, uh, like we mentioned earlier, uh, dead rising, uh, Capcom has announced the dead rising deluxe remaster. Um, they didn't really give a whole lot of details of what it is other than, uh, first of all, it's called the deluxe remaster, which seems strange. like what you both those were Yeah, that seems to be, girder DRDR. And they say, just a short teaser, and it says, coming to the newest generation of platforms, and it's an updated release with a brand new look. It's interesting to say newest generation of platforms, because I wonder if part of them were like, it's got, wherere we're aiming for the Switch 2 for this, but we can't say that yet. So we're just going to say the newest generation of platforms. Or PlayStation 5 Pro. Yeah. But not Xbox. it's on that same engine as those other games.
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These should probably fix that. Did you did you guys play that rising? I feel like we don't really talk about that rising. so I played that rising one and two a fan three I had when the Xbox came out, but I didn't really like and for everybody hated it. And then kecom Vancouver got shut down for it. Oh, I have a helmet. ah Yeah, it's a series i I like, but it's not a series like I have to have in my library. It's it's very much ah it's very much a game that i like I'll play for a little bit.
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And then I'll go, you know, I'll like put it down and then I'll go back and then I'll go put it down again. Remember playing the demo a fuck ton when it came out? The first one came out. I played around in that demo. I tried to play the game like way back when and really just fell off of it. Like I i don't like its loop much at all. Like as it as a novelty, especially like the way it was used was usually as like a showcase piece for Xbox in particular. Like look at all these NPCs and enemies on screen at once. Like that's how the is kind of like a bit of a proof of concept for the power of the console. um And so like it being a fun game was kind of secondary in my mind to that goal.
Capcom vs Konami in Game Re-Releases
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um And yeah, I don't think it's very fun in my opinion. was yeah I bounced off it.
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It was like a surprisingly risky game in terms of that whole like kind of everything's moving in real time. You got it. If you don't do shit, some unique things will die. Like it was kind of hardcore. um I was still a kid when that came out. I didn't like being stressed. There was like a ton of pressure behind it. And so I'm curious if they'll, um you know, with this version, I don't even know, maybe in in later versions, they ended up stripping that away. Like, it just has more seen by the the belows Yeah, I think had the time mode, but that also just had a free mode. Yeah, which I would imagine this would have, but yeah, it's a quality of life thing. Yeah. via The other thing, it just kind of like brought like, does anyone treat their library of classic games like as well as Capcom does their own? like It just feels like people, like their ports are good, they're constantly...
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release in collections, whether it's Mega Man games or old Street Fighter games or or their arcade classics, their fighting games. um I don't know. It's just like it' it feels like they're constantly cycling in. Like, like they, if a franchise feels like it's getting stagnant, they're willing to change things like Resident Evil or they're willing to double down on things like a monster hunter. Um, yeah, they can get older things, back but yeah even so genuinely really smart about their IP.
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Yeah. Someone and is really good about it. You think Sony is good? No. Oh, yeah, I was going to say, because like Sony, and they won't bring back infamous or resistance. Like, I mean, if OK, we want to talk about some true Scuttle, but it sounds like SOTY is like serious on working on ah that. they're They're working towards PS3 emulation on PS5. So people think like native PS3 games will be able to so then I don't know if they'll add on PlayStation Plus or whatever. But that would probably include things like your kill zones, your infamuses, your um
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in PlayStation all stars battle braille infam infamy infamy. That's already a different word. That's, that's its own word. Um, yeah, obviously like, yeah, Capcom's certainly not perfect. There's still like, I keep banging the drum wanting my, my power stone or my mega man legends, but, um, I don't know. It's it's cool. while Well, mean while you have like Konami over here not knowing what the fuck they're doing with their library and releasing these collections of games that are kind of bunk and just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what I mean, they've had a couple of not by the middle of your collection. I don't know if your one wasn't great, but like, didn't they have ah like a Castlevania one a while ago? Those ones are good. They had a Ninja Turtles one. Yeah. Not too long ago, which I think was fairly OK. Yeah.
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I think they also had a Contra one. I don't know. They don't have as wide zone. Yeah. Like like they don't have as wide a catalog as Capcom, which I think maybe. doesn't do them justice when they do go back and try to do stuff. yeah ah But if we're if we're going to compare other ah publishers like Capcom in terms of how to treat the IRP, then Nintendo is kind of on par with them, honestly. It's as annoyed as you get with them not giving us stuff. like The stuff they have given us has even been stuff that we've wanted and didn't know we wanted. it Like whatever whatever the reasons are, both Nintendo and Capcom, like they hold certain things to the chest, but they'll they'll give you almost everything else. Yeah, yeah. You know what's, you know what's weird when it comes to their past, which I guess can dovetail us into the main topic of Shadow of the Retreat is FromSoft.
FromSoft's Past Games & Elden Ring Media Expansions
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Because FromSoft has this like long and weird past of games in the 90s and the aughts, like before Demon's Souls.
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And they do not like there are games that came out after Demon's Souls of Dark Souls. They're like, they made an Ace Combat game and and like a shitty steel battalion game after Dark Souls that people just do not count as from soft games. We're like, we just don't eat those Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro and Elden Ring. And they just, and I guess Armored Core now. And there's just like parts of their history that are just ignored and like It's almost like they just came out like fully formed in 2009 instead of being like, well, no, there was there was there was like decades where they were making weird PS1 games and PS2 games and a bunch of strange experimental shit.
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but What these combat game did they make assault horizon? Oh, at ease combat. I meant to armor core. The other AC. I was like, what? The other AC. That's right. other one Yeah. and There was an armored core game that came out and like, I think like for the 360 PS3. That was five. yeah Yeah. I think. Yeah. They make chrome yeah. Chromehounds too. Yeah. they Oh, Togi on the original Xbox. The Adventures of of Cookie and Cream that I bring up a lot. in Ninja Blade. um Yeah. It's just interesting. Not good. No, I agree. But I think a lot of their games just weren't good until Demon's Souls. I completely agree. But it's just really like I would just love to see like them announce here's like an old collection of a bunch of our old games, but they wouldn't because I don't think like they were bad. They were kind of bad. It was like pre Nizaki, pre pre Nizaki. Yeah. and freehe is up boat Yeah. We want to talk about post Nizaki. But on on that note, on re-releasing the possibility of releasing bad games, didn't Nintendo re-release a bunch of virtual boy games?
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Like that happened, right? There was like a virtual boy collection. No, I don't think so. And what? No. I mean, those games are not playable anywhere. ah As far as I know, tennis or. No, as far as I don't you mind I would love that. Could you imagine putting that in a lab? Oh, no, they probably don't want you to do that. You can lab. all You can lab all that whole thing up. um Yeah, I don't know. Just just just an interesting thing about FromSoft. They're just a they're a real strange cat to follow, like to see like what's what's what's going on with these guys. um So always always fascinating. I wonder what's going to that company is right. I don't know. Maybe they've retained enough talent, but he says he's done. What does From Software do? Wait, he didn't say he was done. did he No, no, no. When and if he says he's done, it's like.
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i'm I'm curious. I mean, all the dynasties must come to an end. Yeah. Yeah. And he he didn't direct all the games. I mean, the director says to which I guess and he didn't direct the armored corps. And of course, people like that was great. Yeah. Six. Of course, six is great. Yeah. would think I would hope enough talent over the years to just keep it going. Yeah. And I would hope that he has um you know, sort of lieutenants who book are are are are in the position to step up and and start doing things, especially as it's like my boss. Yeah. I mean, pretty much. Yeah. I was trying to think of like, I was like assistance, but I'm like, you know, underlings the small phone.
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um But ah it's yeah, it's from so from sauce. Strange and that and he also was talking about how he was he's interested in the idea of expanding Elden Ring into other media. um You know, they've they've done comics before, but ah i I don't think it would be out of the realm of possibility to see an Elden Ring movie, um what that would look like. I i don't know. I feel like Elden Ring as a story makes the most sense for a movie like it has the most like yeah I don't know. It's like, it's, it's shitty, rich people in power, uh, squabbling with each other over a throne is just very like game of thrones house of the dragon. except george george r martin And his name is already attached to it. So half the work is done. Um, which I feel like, yeah, if you have a series that you say from the hit video game from the mind of Georgia or Martin or something, they will definitely,
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whatever the TV series is, they will definitely, uh, uh, sort of like and over, uh, oversell George RR Barton's role. and i'll say me zaki Just in case you think of the other one, the one who does make movies.
00:27:50
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This doesn't look like Totoro at all. um Yeah, I saw Nick, you you you tweeted out how the perfect thing would be something like the Green Knight, like keep it sort of story-slash-dialogue minimum and just have it look sick as hell and have cool ass fights. Yeah. and you Have it just follow Artorias. Get us a little sif, little dog. Folks love dogs.
00:28:12
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Folks who love dogs, except you know who's especially who? Christian Bale in equilibrium. He's the largest lover of dogs. um Okay, let's let's now that we've now that we've kind of circled the drain on Trumpsoft, let's talk a little bit about Shadow of the Year Tree. This will not be a spoiler discussion. I haven't finished it yet. ah bit I haven't started it yet. What do we consider spoilers, like locations? or Yeah, just be vague. Okay. I'd be surprised you, I guess. It also is in the trailer. So it didn't surprise me. Yeah. I didn't watch any of them. I didn't watch the launch trailer or anything. I went on completely blind.
00:28:50
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So I beat, the the last night I beat the Shadowkeep and a man named Mesmer. Let me tell you, he's he's just a sloppy bitch. Oh my God. Oh, his second phase. What is going on there? Beat him and then I got to the next area. And it was probably, ah it was the first, I think it was that my my complaints on Monday were that the world feels a little like, eh, to me. um Visually, like it feels a little, Unimpressive compared to the lands lands between in my mind I got to this next area after mesmer and I was like, oh damn this looks cool And so that was like the first thing that really like wowed me in terms of it Yeah,
00:29:29
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ah yeah that's why I got last night yeah, I haven't played something Oh man, you are for a tree Oh, mean, I hope so. Yeah. ah Yeah, it's ah and I actually the farther I've gotten into it, ah it's more visually varied than the lines in between by a long shot. Like there's lots of different colored areas. ah But the the thing that's like as much as I love like the lands between map, the map in this is like almost feels like Dark Souls one ish where there's a lot of rote like
00:30:03
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weird paths to take to get to new areas.
Elden Ring DLC Exploration & Challenges
00:30:06
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So, i've i've i've yeah, I've just absolutely fallen in love with the deal scene. Like, I think I tweeted about it last night. Like, I've been looking for this map fragment for a day. I spent like six hours fucking running through the map. Like, where is this fucking thing? And I knew, like, you know, when you place a marker on the map, you can see where it is. Yeah, it's like, yeah, we down in this ravine. I'm like, how the fuck do I get down there? And I just kept running and running and running, going everywhere. And then I go back to this area that I was in and all of a sudden I'm like,
00:30:37
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Is that a letter? I was like, Oh, it is. And I go down the ladder and then I go through a dungeon and then oh my God, I'm in this whole new area. And I'm like, What? Look, how do I? And I still haven't found that stupid fragment. Him him saying that it's only as big as the opening area of Elden Ring is like such a lie. Like that is such like, like, yeah, such a lie. The the thing about this map is is like, it's not as. It's not as expansive, but that the verticality and depth of it is crazy.
00:31:08
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yeah there's There's areas where you go like above the clouds and then down into like the darkest depths of the ravines and it's like, whoa, like the scale of this map is incredible. Yeah, I still haven't. Like I said, maybe um I just got to a place last night when I stopped to where it was like ah the for not the first because I don't want to say that because like the opening the opening view when you get into the to the graveyard field or whatever is like really pretty. That's like a great like, you know, ah the Breath of the Wild or Elton Ring moment where you see see everything in front of you, which is really cool.
00:31:42
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um It just it was sort of like after that, like nothing really wowed me until I got to that view there. ah But i'm I'm excited to keep playing, especially if I am enjoying it and be to see what else is there. Where where do you stand on the on the game too hard? um Well, i I don't know if I have the best answer because I was dumb and I'm playing it on New Game Plus. Foolish. It's not easy. But i'm I'm making it through. I think my biggest frustration with it is like.
00:32:15
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and wish I wish at least for the DLC, they would make it easier to respect your character. and i like Even on New Game Plus, I got to go back and get this the yeah the bell bearings again, which is how you get all those extra items to buy and everything, right um which I really don't want to do again. um But also, like you have to get the, I forget what they're called, but you have to take them to learn a castle or whatever it is right to respect your character. the witch lady. Oh, the larval tears. Yeah, the larval tears. And i like, I wish that you could just go. Maybe you can't. I don't remember. But I don't think you can just go buy those. You have to go get them and farm them. Yeah, I I did not. I purposely did not beat the game in this playthrough because I was like, I don't want it to the old new game plus. So I got like right up to horror or God trick Godwin.
00:33:07
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Goodwin got some god whenever one of those fuckers was named right at the end of the game And that's what I that's what I jumped into DLC. Um, but yeah, so like it so far the bosses. Um I mean, oh, I guess, yeah, you weren't talking like what do you how do you feel about the difficulty of like the bosses? Well, yeah, like about the one thing I've found is like right now I'm using like a great sword build, which I've never used before in a Souls game. um But it feels like the only thing that does enough damage on like some of the harder enemies to like make a dent. Yeah. You know, I think I would like your shadow, your shadow tree level. I'm 11.
00:33:41
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Okay. Yeah. I'm at 11 as well. um Yeah. But I feel like that's the big thing. Like I spent quite a bit of time when I was like bashing my head up against a couple of bosses. I was like, I'm just going to do a big old exploration and try to find these. And I found a bunch of them. And then when I got back to the bosses, I was like, Oh, look at that. I'm stronger. I could take more damage. Isn't that the formula? That's what they taught you with the base game, right? That was in base Elden Ring, too. But it's in base Elden Ring, it was like, oh, I'm just going to level up, whereas like leveling up feels less important, like traditional levels up feels less important here than those actual shadow tree fragments that you split together off the map. I would argue that the base game is also like that, that just leveling up isn't necessarily enough. You got to roll up your weapons and everything, dude.
00:34:26
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Yeah and they and also like you gotta use stuff like Elden Ring is so chock full of like shit like stuff you can craft stuff you can use stuff you can make use of like enemies all have weaknesses and blah blah blah like I yeah like me coming back to it like I wanted to get jumped to DLC but like I know I didn't get as far as I wanted to when I ah left it sitting there like I was I was wrong. I thought I was close to Melania, i was and I was getting ready to to deal with her and then jump to the DLC. Not only did was I in the wrong location, um i had not like I had the stuff to get to where she was, I just never went there. So I was an entirely different location. And on top of that, I could have sworn that I had killed ah the Lord of Blood, Moog. I didn't do that either.
00:35:12
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That's what you need to do in order to get into that. Yeah, that's what I need to do if I'm going to get into the DLC. So I did buy the DLC. So right now, I had one mission, which was to kill Melania. Now I have another mission, which is to kill Moog, Lord of Blood, which I think I'm just outside his area, hopefully. And I'm being reminded that even the base game, people are complaining about how hard the DLC and stuff is. The base game does not pull any punches. And it it requires of you to interact with the world. Like you need to not only make use of everything you have in your inventory, know what it does, especially know what it does to the enemies you're fighting, but refer to the community because like some of this shit.
00:35:51
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I just never, I, in my own free time, I would never have discovered like part of the path to get to just the DLC before you get to any of the new stuff has a sat like those bloodhound assassin enemies who are just invisible. Like they're just invisible and they will one-shot you unless you have a specific torch that will light the way and you have to fight them one-handed because the torch has to stay in your hand otherwise they go back invisible. Is that in like the snowy village? Is that the place? Yeah, like you get in the snowy village because there's a great town there. Consecurities. Consecurities, airplanes. Yeah. So I got there and was like, I was very perturbed so I had to go online.
00:36:29
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And thinking back on it, like it would have been stupid of me to like forcibly be like, no, I'm going to figure this out solo. Because that's just not how the game is designed. like They 100% know that they make this stuff super obscure because part of the fun is people you know talking about it and figuring out how to get around the challenge. Oh yeah. And, uh, like, and also like the, the game is there. It has plenty of tools for you to use to, to kind of scale your difficulty, like not only in terms of leveling up your character, but in like, there are some bosses that I go in and I can i'll always try a boss just clean the first time a couple of times. I'll give it a couple of runs. And then i found I'm like, okay, maybe I, if I summon in my boys, my rat boys or my black knife boys, maybe we can do it.
00:37:11
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And if that doesn't work, and I'm like, well, fuck it. I'm going to summon a human who's better at the game. And the two of us are going to do it. If I get to a boss and I die like 10 times, I'm like, fuck it. I'll just I'll find some man who's better at the game than me. The first was I summoned a guy in his name. I assume there's a lot of players goofing on this, but it was let me solo him. And I got him in there and he we got in there and he was naked. He had a pot on his head. He got fucking crushed in like 10 seconds. And I'm like, God damn it. Now I'm like fighting this dude whose health is higher because I brought someone in there. So I'm like, I don't want to do it. If you're too braggadocious with your name, I'm not summoning you. I'm looking at your what your character looks like. And if it's cool looking, there's like one guy who looked like a bear and I was like, yes, bear, you can come with me. We'll get this boss together because you look very cool.
00:37:55
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Yeah, I use my mimic terror and if they give me a ah summon, I'll use that, but I don't summon other players because it scales the boss up and it's annoying. It does scale the boss up and if if the player dies quickly, you're like, well, now I'm fighting a harder boss by myself. Yeah, yeah it's a catch-22. Oh, you want some help? Well, they better be able to do it all for you because if not, you're fucked. exactly I mean, sometimes that split attention is all you need, but yeah. Yeah. The split attention does. If the person's like kind of understands, oh, when to like, okay, I'll take attention of them so you could back off and heal or vice versa. Um, you know, it's, it's interesting kind of the, the, uh, nonverbal communication you can have with a, with a complete stranger online. Um, I think, uh,
00:38:36
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I think like as much as I like the discovery aspect of even just getting to the DLC, I think it's a bit much to ask people to remember that like two years after the game came out where you might have to go. yeah right Yeah, there was no way. I was like, wait, how do I get to this DLC? I even had to use a guide because I had... I hadn't even found Mogg's location yet when I played the base game and I put 60 hours into it. Super out of the way. Yeah. it really I do think that's intentional. Like it they want it that way because they want you to ask someone. They want you to refer. Well, maybe not a guide per se, but like they want you to look outside of just your time playing the game to get that information. Yeah. i You know, like I said, of if if I hadn't played the game and.
00:39:23
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If I'd played the game every day for two years, I probably would've been older like, Oh, I know where to go. But yeah, sure. It's not happening. ah But as far as yes, far as the expansion goes, like, you know, I guess the title of the discussion is this the best expansion ever?
Great Game Expansions Discussion
00:39:37
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I i like personally, I'm not being able to put it down since I i got my hands on it. like Just the scale of the world is astounding to me and the amount of content in there. I know there's some people in chat saying some of the some of the locations are empty, like the abyssal woods. Like, yeah. I think that's kind of the point of it, though, it's a that's a that's a weird section of the game. ah Well, spoiling anything directly, it's like a almost you play the game differently in that area without saying anything. for shooter
00:40:08
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um No, but it does become like another genre of game. Yes, actually And it's very interesting i former with a twist kind of maybe cozy game. He's trying to get me to spoil it Definitely got a big world. I assume you just have to go quietly probably you just got a sneak. This is just Does it just for you? youre trying to Quit trying to get me to spoil it. That's the only other mechanic if the games can't hold other mechanics other than well, you could crowd should go quiet turns in a view pinata like My my guess is you get on a torrent and then you just raise a bunch of other horsemen. Yeah. Oh, I agree with that. And you go and do it. People fandoms can put money on it. You can buy schools for it. Yeah. Jeez, looks like my heads can work right in my belongings. Nick Nick is sharing a blanket with the lady. That's what this looks like. There you go.
00:40:59
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Yeah, i you know I think in terms of like the value for my money, I would definitely like put this with the right alongside like Phantom of Liberty in terms of like feeling like almost a 1.5 version of the main game. and um I also love like Blood and Wine when that came out. um Definitely didn't feel like the scale that this feels like it's on. ah But in general, like I don't know. For the amount of content I've already gotten out of it, and I'm still not i not even like halfway done with it. Feels like I got a whole new game out of it. I'm completely good with that.
00:41:35
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Yeah, that's when when I went back thinking of this, a lot of the a lot of my favorite expansions feel like they um take kind of what I loved about the original game, ah distill it into like a much more kind of concise, let's let's let's trim the fat and let's give you something that's real lean and then throw in another wrinkle. So do something interesting with it. And so a couple that came to mind were Minerva's Den, for Bioshock 2, which is like ah pretty much a standalone DLC, like a completely its own story. um but i for But I think Power Pound, that's my favorite Bioshock story in the entire series. And it's a DLC for kind of the the the forgotten sequel that people don't really talk about in the same way they talk about the original game or ah or Infinite.
00:42:22
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um The Last of Us Left Behind, which I really loved from the first game, which was kind of the Ellie and Riley featured expansion in the mall, and you get Ellie's backstory and how she was bitten, everything. Undead Nightmare, which does the thing for resident for Red Dead, which I has i forgot love. to more I like when DLC is willing to be kind of goofy and can be like, we can just do something. We can just completely zag. And so we could turn we could take this ah you know, open world cowboy game and turn it into a zombie horror game. Or we can take, ah you know, something like Blood Dragon, we could take Far Cry 3 and we could turn it into ah this kind of like, you know, nostalgic, super hyper vulgar, neon drenched 80s homage.
00:43:06
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Fun. Yes. we're thats a ah you're You know, like I said, I'm not don't know for the chat. I don't focus too much on the title. I think we're just talking about DLC. We like because like you want to make the title like you can't be like, Chad, Chad, you got to stop believing the title. You agreed with me. You said it was ready to go. ah But like, I don't even know what the title was. Follow for is Far Harbor. It was really good. That's a joke on Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor is is a place in Maine. Shout out to Bar Harbor. Shout out to george George. George just got a shout out. George george knows who George is. Gotta shout out. All right. Did he drop the T?
00:43:47
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It is George L, just not our George Lucas. And then I really liked Echoes of the Eye, ah the Outer Wilds. Did you play that music? I keep forgetting that that is a thing. I say i keep consistently forgetting that there's more Outer Wilds. I should go back. I will go back. That's what you said a year ago. And I'll probably forget. We'll forget again. i forgot i We'll see. Sakurai added more spirits in case he must defeat the spirits and cleanse the land. Oh, man. Yeah. Did any any stand out to you, Casey? ah Yeah. Like you said, a couple of that are really high on my list, ah but I just weren't thinking of because like ah weirdly, I don't actually.
00:44:26
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jump into a lot of game DLC. Like I'm usually fine with whatever my experience was to jump into the next thing every now and then. But all right I just I just need more of whatever this game has to offer. So I don't have any like, like the biggest ones are probably like GTA four, like their three story expansions were phenomenal. Yeah, the Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost in the Damned. Lost in the Damned. Oh, wait, did I say three? what Yeah, I think it was just do and he just two. I think it was announced as three and then only two came up. Okay, it only did two. But yeah, those were great. Like, it was, and they didn't...
00:44:59
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They did sort of what you're saying, like they added more to the base game and then the wrinkle was you're a different character. You're seeing the world, that that society from a slightly different perspective, right? um And what was extra cool about that was that they took place in the same timeline as the first story. And then after the second one, I mean, after the third one came out, that also took place at the same time as the first and second story. So you were seeing how each of their stories intersected at different points. So it was a really fun way to just look at, to one, get more story in that world, and then two, kind of get more perspective on the original story, which I liked a lot from that game. So that was really good. These are much smaller. The DLC for Sifu.
00:45:45
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Because again, like the thing that hooks me is like a game that I don't want to stop playing, but like it has an end. So it's like, all right, well, I i should probably move on now. Sifu did exactly what I wanted it to do, which was just give me more, like give me, give me a way to keep playing this whenever, like with no strings attached. And this DLC was just sort of like, scenario themed like fight rooms. So like they they added like challenges. Yeah, like costumes and like, and like, like honestly, cool stuff. And they did the exact same thing where like, yes, I love the base mechanics, I'm gonna get to play
Historical Game Expansions & Evolution
00:46:17
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around with it. But here's a wrinkle. Every time you dodge an attack, you get matrix like slow mo and like and then they make a scenario be where you're Neo and fighting all the agents from ah matrix reloaded.
00:46:27
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Yeah, yeah. So like they they just dialing up the Hey, this is an homage to action movies to 11. And it's like, naturally, we're just gonna make an homage using these weird mechanics and just have fun with the the gameplay that you like so much in the base game. Yeah. So like, that was really fun. um And another one that springs to mind again, not like a major expansion, but sunbreak for Monster Hunter rise. Oh, yeah. Like as like once I got the hang of that game's core mechanic, which was the wire bug, they immediately seized on the fact that.
00:47:02
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this is good, people like this, and then they just doubled it. Like, whatever you were able to do with that game, they just gave you the same amount again. and it And like, they allowed you to switch between like preset loadouts in the middle of fighting. So like, you just felt like a straight badass. And like, it felt like a reward for like mastering, like those skills in the base game. Now it's like, hey, now do it again, and do it and now do them together. It was so fun. So satisfying. Yeah, these ah it was funny when I looked up of so a lot of those were on lists when I looked up, ah you know, just to refresh myself, I was like best whatever best DLC expansions ever. I was looking at various websites lists and a lot of them I completely miss because I grew up a console player and like these expansions and stuff that was just the realm of PC gaming. Right. That's where you'd get you'd get Starcraft and Warcraft expansions. you'd get all the Half-Life expansions and then going on to Diablo and, and, uh, you know, onto Bethesda games and everything. Uh, and so it was stuff that I just didn't, it like just wasn't a thing in my games until, um, I mean, Nick, you goofed about it, but like the Halo 2 map pack was like one of the first things I remember being like, Oh shit, like, yeah, well yeah there's more, like, oh, there's more and I gotta buy this disc and I got more.
00:48:14
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Man, I was young young and dumb at the time. I'm still young and dumb, but when that... the When that when that was released as like a disc, I was like, oh, man, there's more Halo 2 content. Not realizing that I got home. It's just like maps for the game. And I'm like, I remember it like just assumed it was gonna be like more story stuff. yeah I don't remember what what I assumed it was, but I kept like putting it in the console. I'm like, where's the game? like Where? Yeah. Where's the more game? yeah is game like This is like a cool like you got a whole new case for it and everything. Yeah. Bamboozled.
00:48:50
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That's when I knew the games industry was going to shit. Yep. Yeah. You really, really just say destroyed your ah destroyed your hope. So, so early. I genuinely liked how Halo handled their expansions because you, yeah, you could pay to get into all the map packs, but after a set amount of time, they would just release them so that the community wouldn't be fragmented anymore. Yeah. Yeah. So you would just get them. It was like, what, like early access. That's basically what they were doing. Yeah. Yeah, I think the first expansion I ever remember really paying money for it was Rum Total War, like the Barbarian expansion. They they had a you guys wouldn't play any of that shit. But then ah the first like real big one was Shivering Isles, Shivering Isles for Oblivion. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was the one I remember, like big expansions or consoles kind of taking off was after that. Yeah.
00:49:48
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Yeah, that because they had multiple, they had multiple expansions for oblivion, right? Wasn't just shivering out. I think they had a couple others, smaller ones. Skyrim never had an expansion, did it? Might be right. No, Skyrim added something like, yeah, they added something with like werewolves and vampires or something. And there was something with like a house. I remember Skyrim. Yeah, Skyrim. No, they added, they made it spooky Skyrim, werewolves and like Frankenstein's and stuff. I mean, you could already do vampires and werewolves in Skyrim, but they had like, they added some stuff that was more specific to those quest lines. Gotcha. But none of them were like a big beefy like had Dragonborn, Dawnguard and Hearthfire. I guess none of them are really talked about in the same way that like a blood and wine or. Yeah, they were they were pretty small. they were They were. Yeah. There's the Mass Effect ones. People like don't people like the Citadel or Mass Effect Citadel.
00:50:41
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That was the one that was like ah you got your crew back together for like a party was. Oh, that's nice. Oh, yeah. I do you remember that. And there was there was one. The Shadow Broker, that was in Mass Effect two, I think. OK, apparently that had like a really good story, but I never I never touched that. Yeah. You know with yeah then you what the best expansions really are though? What's that? Sim expansions with pets and babies and pools. I mean, that's how how they've made their fortune is by by just selling that shit to people. um
00:51:18
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Yeah, it's funny because the it feels like the age of expansion is kind of like, that like we were mentioned earlier, the definition's like a little wobbly um just because so many games are ongoing now. And it's not just like, oh, you get, you know, for something like Destiny 2, like we mentioned, you do get the, or Final Fantasy 14, you get those um every couple of years, like a major a major drop that's like ostensibly a new release. But in the meantime, you get these other small updates. Like, yeah, I don't know. Like it's, do you count like the, all the post release, like smash characters or all the post release? Like, uh, definitely. They're definitely DLC. Yeah. just differently I guess.
00:51:56
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I mean, that's, that's the thing for a fighting game. Like, yes, like what a lot of something like Street Fighter six, which now has this big story mode thing attached to it, which they have yeah on top of characters added news. Cause I think every new character they get also has like a branch in the, in that open world story. Yeah. Yeah. So like conventional fighting games. Yeah. Like that's the game. Like a new character opens up new shit for everyone because how does that character act and react to everyone else on the roster? Like, so like it makes sense in that world. So yes, yeah that still counts. Because it used to be an expansion at this point. If you're going to ask people to buy extra content for your game, it's got to be
00:52:39
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It's got to be meaty to say like, Hey, we want 20 or $40 for it. Yes. That's wrong because they buy people buy skins for $20 because they're idiots. I'm feeling me. It's not like you're the best with your money. There's a lot of dumb shit you buy. Don't judge us idiots. I don't know why it's us. It is. I don't even buy skins. What am I defending right now? Uh, when you were fighting, it's a dog in the sea of thieves. bought it not forget and fuck it I bought it for entertainment, s sorry for trying to make a fucking 10 hours of streaming entertaining. Sorry. if you If you bought a skin for that dog that made a cat, then you'd you'd have ah a dog a dog in his fight. Get out of town, nonsense. It's interesting how the fighting games used to, like in the old 90s Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat days, you would just get stuff like Super Street Fighter II Turbo or Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. It would just be like, oh, here's the
00:53:29
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a year later here's the version of the game with extra characters and shit and some tweaks and stuff and now it's almost just like I guess how like atlas does there like persona 4 golden persona 5 royal kind of things even now with shimigami 5 vengeance where it's like this is just been now the new version of the original game with its new stuff kind of woven into it Yeah, it's the game of the year edition but before. dish
Elden Ring 2 Speculation
00:53:56
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Yeah, honestly. Yeah. It's come to is war of the chosen that like basically fix the game for everybody. That's that's. I like when I like when DLC does that, like when it makes the base game better and also introduces a bunch of new stuff like Aubrey. Well, they stop the game from ending. Yeah. Like you can say that game and like you can't play it anymore.
00:54:20
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They're like, alright, the DLC now opens the rest, opens the world up. You just finish the game and they're like, you're done. You don't have to go back and do the stuff you need to do. I'll do something better with your life. So in conclusion, is Elden Ring the greatest deal? Is Shadow of the Year tree the greatest DLC of all time? Who knows? Probably not. I think it's wild claim. I think for me, like, it... it elevates a game that I already love to even higher, higher heights. Whereas something like Phantom Liberty took a game that I liked after they fixed it ah to a game that I really liked because that storyline was like way better than the main storyline. no So, yeah, I don't I don't know. I like, ah you know, I think.
00:55:09
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Marty brought up earlier about expansions. He didn't want any expansions to do something different or be kind of zany and kind of weird. For me, it was like, I just wanted more Elden Ring. I wanted more of that world to explore, more bosses to fight, and I got exactly that. And it's like, I think the exploration, while there's not as much to find, I would agree with that. There's not as many dungeons and all that. I didn't go into expecting that. I'm kind of glad there isn't, because there's like, And too many in the base game, I would argue, because a a lot of them became very similar. And this one started the expansion. Yeah. And the expansion like the dungeons are all relatively pretty unique with different visual styles and stuff like that. They definitely took some of that feedback to heart. and Yeah. And also like the jar dungeon that Jack and I did on on stream last week was an excellent little dungeon to stumble across. Yeah. The dungeons in this one aren't just
00:56:02
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You know, and in the but in the base game, a lot of the dungeons, unless they were like ah a key dungeon to get to the next place, not the castles, but like the actual like underground stuff, they would usually just you would do the boss and then go transport back to the beginning. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And this DLC, a lot of those dungeons take you to entirely new areas when you're done with it as a big change is your elevation or gets you through like an impassable mountain or whatever. Yeah. Or entire regions. when i read So yeah, we're putting to you some stuff I guess they learned from the designs they chose in the first game, which is which is always nice. and And I think that's interesting that stuff positioned as expansions, they're usually considered good when they're just more of the same thing. Whereas if it was a full on sequel and it was more of the same thing, folks might be like, well, this is just the same game.
00:56:52
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Yeah, I guess like expansion packs and DLC is almost considered like a victory lap, I guess. Like, oh, you made such a cool game. Just run it back. Run it back a little bit tighter and and everyone will be fine. Whereas, um you know, if they do make an Elden Ring 2, which I'm ah sure they will because this gets hold so many fucking millions of copies, um I feel like they have to go. They have to, do you know, figure out how to one up themselves, which seems difficult. yeah yeah that's like no combat but with all the weapons option that they really they really need the like I can't believe they haven't used that weapon system for more things. It's so good.
00:57:31
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ah monolith ah monolith copyright it Well, if it was able to look at, they trademarked it, they looked at the combat system and, and security trademark. That is good. We're going to put alongside the nemesis. You guys can't do that. Oh, I was thinking, I was thinking model of like the people that made a bayonet. yeah Xenoblade. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We have, uh, we have a lot of superchats before we get into stuff we've been playing. I'm going to start reading them with my mouth. Uh, quintuple A with a $2 don't know. Thank you so much. Dammit, Eric. Do it before the message is read. I'm going to be honest.
00:58:09
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That was a eat long time ago, and I don't remember. Chief on my face. Oh, congrats. It's actually the Mjolnir armor, Nick. Master Chief is the man who wears it. It's like Frankenstein and Frankenstein's son. Frankenstein's doctor. Son son of Frankenstein. Frankenstein's pediatrician. ah Red Dwarf for the $10 don't know. Thank you so much. Speaking of Marvel versus Capcom, what are your favorite? Voiced? What's your favorite voice song in a game? Mine is the Snake Eater song. That was going to be mine. take Kind of taking for a ride is also a very good one. um Also, a lot of the tunes that are in Jet Set Radio that were written for Jet Set Radio are really hot jams. That's a really good question. Yeah, I don't think I have an answer at the top of my head. like like Thank you, you're so good. I'm voiced like a vocalist in it. Yeah, but that was written for a game, not like a Neil Drop.
00:59:02
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You know, and i really like I want people to remember it because Splinter's still conviction when he finds out the truth about his daughter and he's going on a rampage. It's great. Does he sing it? No, that'd be fucking hilarious. Guys, you killed my daughter. Like he just brings it to suck.
00:59:22
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Straight gods. That whole game is singing. Great, mighty poo. That's the song about the great. I really like the Mario Odyssey song. Jump. Oh, jump up superstar superstar. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good song. And it has a, it has such a good moment in the game where it's played. Yeah. Yeah. It's just all celebratory and like nostalgia. Exactly. basic And it's such a cool because when you first enter that city, it's all dark and like it's like under siege by like Bowser shit. And it's like a terrible like yeah it's raining and it's like, fuck, this place is awful. And then you have that celebration and then this the sun comes out and like the city is bright. It's like a really fun open world level. And yeah, that's that's that's really good stuff. Yeah, yeah you're mentioning good ones. Obviously, the persona games. Incredible, incredible songs. And it's not going to soundtrack. Yeah. Pumpkin Hill. I have I have the whole soundtrack. Not even just Pumpkin Hill. Pumpkin Hill is great, but the whole fucking Sonic 2 soundtrack. I've had ah I had a headline in my back pocket that Pumpkin Hill is an A plus song in a D plus game. ah he that I really want to write because I did not enjoy Sonic, Sonic Adventure 2 as much as Sonic Adventure 1, but that Pumpkin Hill. Ooh.
01:00:41
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this how we We're playing Pumpkin Hill on Halloween. Nope. I have the best one. Alright. Your turn. This song from Robo Warrior. We just heard. so I wasn't allowed to be on that stream, even though I was the victor. That wasn't even a song. Like they, they, they stole words from Mickey Rourke's mouth to cut that rap song together yeah it's was yeah the ah near the robot village. Yeah. Pascal's village is really good. Still alive from, from portal. I'm also shocked. We that's fantastic. Yeah. Oh, the, uh,
01:01:16
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not just Red Dead Redemption, but all almost all of, anytime they played music with lyrics of Red Dead Redemption 2, like the, like near the end of the game and then like in the D'Angelo song, the D'Angelo song. Yeah, there's a D'Angelo song in Red Dead 2 that sounds like I made this up. Unshaken. Yeah. D'Angelo sings that? Yeah, it's literally D'Angelo. Because Okay. They performed unshaken at the game awards when that ah was, went like D'Angelo didn't sing that. Yes. That's the song in the game. Okay. Are we thinking of two different D'Angelo's? No D'Angelo D'Angelo. The music video where the whole time. you're like oh yeah where how does it feel Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's got it up on screen to prove you right. I mean, that's just the video that just says his name. i I don't know if that proves me right.
01:02:09
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so
01:02:12
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There's no context for that information. Yes, R&B D'Angelo. I feel like we're, this is, that's, that Conan O'Brien skit with the other guy where he's like, oh, the fine and seer? Is that who we're talking about? But yeah, shout out to D'Angelo. Wow. D'Angelo looks different now. Red Dwarf, that, Red Dwarf, that might be the record for the Super Chat that has elicited the most conversation. So congrats Red Dwarf. ah Blue Lagoon with a $10 donor, thank you so much. I think part of why it feels so hard is because of the Shadow Ashes system. Depending on how many boss fights, how many you find, boss fights are either overtuned or one shot you and one shoty you or difficult but fair. RNGesus indeed. ah Yeah, it is very much... um
01:02:55
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we have kind of like Where on the stats sheet does it even show you those are doing anything? Because I wouldn't have known unless I would have known. It's the gold ones. when you open up your If you go to like ah your status, you'll see your numbers in gold and it shows like how much... Oh, your your stats are actually this much higher because of... um because of that. do you mean like what The game does not explicitly tell you, hey, and this is the new version of leveling up. You really need to pay attention to this. um yeah
01:03:27
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Yeah, they're going to handle it slightly better. I mean, it's from soft. They're not going to legitimately does not have any effect on the base game. Those are the shadow realm. It just takes that away from you. So but the base games, soul mechanic and leveling up your soul levels still happens. Yeah, that's so good. So what you beat a lost you get two hundred thousand runes. You can level up. So you can finish all of Urtree per se, like get like 30, 40 levels fucking around over there and then go back to the base game and then be overleveled for the base game. Yeah. It just your shadow stuff will count towards it. Right. Okay. Yeah. yeah But your core level. Yeah. Keep going up. All right.
01:04:09
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um Thank you, blue looking. Superb owner, been a member of the tip jar for seven months. Thank you so much, superb owner. And oh, two two down, you had a super chat with a $2 Dono Hellblade II spoiler discussion when, yes, so I've already forgot a lot. but Is there anything to spoil in that game, really?
Dream Symbolism & Meaning
01:04:28
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i yeah Literally, I would have a hard time telling you things about the story that feel like a spoiler. Um, yeah. Like I don't, I kept things kept happening. And as I was dreaming, I was like, I don't know why I'm doing any of this and I don't know who these people are, but I'm glad I'm helping them. I think, um, a lot of symbolism in the story. Sure. Yeah. The metaphors and whatnot. Yeah.
PC Gaming Frustrations & Console Preference
01:04:53
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Simile. is allegory
01:04:55
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Damn, no, that aphi the game is coming on october eleventh Metaphor coming this fall from the creators of Persona 3, 4, and 5, and and a new member. Five pound down, oh thank you so much, Montequilla. People are all riled up buttered trees difficulty because of the Steam reviews when lots of those are also about PC performance, which Fromm never fixed. Guys, is it time for us to admit playing games on personal computers is stupid and we should play video games on consoles as God himself demanded. That sucks. That really fucking sucks that these games are huge and they get released on PC and they are shitty more. can I can't figure it out. They've been doing this since fucking Dark Souls one when like the community had to fix this. What are we doing here? Yeah. Yeah. You know, people have kind of been making the point, like, you know, they they say games, journalism, mode and all that kind of stuff. It's like,
01:05:46
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How many did these people really don't realize like we go in with code early? We didn't get code early for this one. I don't know why from software or Namco looking at you. ah But a like you need to request code. That's just how it works. No, they sent me out the door without asking. whatever you You worked at the escapist, you don't work there anymore. We're bigger than the escapist was. Just ask for code. that's Anyways. excited to Send a goddamn email. We play the game before there's any guides, before there's any help, before there's anything. You got a mouse in your pocket, you didn't play this game before.
01:06:21
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I'm definitely, yeah I'm definitely not using help. Oh, I know I am using help. The royally. Yeah. The, the, the, the, the larger games. Uh, whatever. I'm mad now. I don't want to talk about this anymore. Listen, I wrote the guide for Dark Souls one. So I don't have anything to prove to anyone. Was it a good guide? No. Did it get completely rewritten? It did. Do I care? I don't. Ridiculous. With a $5 donor. Thank you so much, Ridiculous. ah If the enemy's weakness isn't a great sword to the face, then the game's wrong and not for me. Can't wait to play DLC just to have to beat ah half the game again. ah It's good. I feel like anyone who liked Elden Ring is going to like this. it v It's just more Elden Ring, honestly. if You have to change your like entire build to be... No.
01:07:12
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before um Before the DLC came out last week, I tinkered. I had a shit ton of larval tears, and I tinkered with a couple builds. So I was like, oh, maybe I'll go like a real real high dex bleed build, or maybe I'll be a big chunky big chunky beefster. um But I just kept being like, no, I like being a magician because I like being a coward and being afraid of everything and staying far back. And then also having a cool blade and a katana and slicing fools if they get too close. Yeah, I did the whole. I did the whole decks build that everybody's complaint about where you have the katana and the decks build. And it's like, yeah, if you have that build, then you're you're screwed for a lot of these bosses. So I've had to like retool my whole life. Good luck. Good luck. When you get to the harder bosses, it doesn't really do a whole lot.
01:07:58
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The thing is, I dual wheel Katana's specifically for bosses right now, like most of the regular enemies. Yeah, I got. Yeah, I'll use two for most of
Game Reviews & Clickbait Tactics
01:08:08
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the regular enemies. I actually do have like a big ass Morningstar mace with like juiced up with electricity. Oh, yeah. So that gets the job done for the regular boyos. I actually got a regular boy with the bosses. I have like the plus ten moon veil sword and the plus ten. I use. Yeah, and I have the another one that's plus 10, but then I couldn't like and beat some of the bosses with that. So then I found this new ah great sword that's got like prongs on the end of it, and it's got this ah this ghost of ale, like, sheath to it, and it just destroys.
01:08:46
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I feel like everyone should get a pen and paper and try to draw the great sword with, with prongs at the end in a ghost sheet. I just feel like a weird sex toy. I just got, uh, the martial arts set and I really want to level that open use it. So how does that work? Is that like a thing you wear gloves or something? Yeah. I'm just curious. It's like, it's like a weapon you equip, but it's like, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
01:09:17
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a Yes, I think it's elephant steep people just stuck. I think that's I think that's right. Let me look up that weapon Elstin steeple that sounds like an anime. I did not watch It's not under it. Yeah, it's that weapon elephant. I don't know. Thank you so much Stalin drip Well, I don't think it's a bad DLC calling it the best ever is really tall ask I feel too many of its mechanics are divisive or feel bad if you or make you feel bad if you don't perfectly click with you to call it that I I mean, it was I'm going to be honest. This title was clickbait. We didn't talk about it. feel that sort of Nick went rogue to get people to watch. And I'm going to be honest, it worked. i know You simpletons clicked on the link and welcome. and Thank you for being great. And I apologize for calling you simpletons.
Preferred DLCs & Star Wars TV Critique
01:10:02
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I don't think you call anything the best. I think everything needs like a buffer. I don't think you can rank things until um a certain amount of time has passed. I don't know what that time is. We need like a question mark.
01:10:14
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I didn't make a definitive statement. I made a question mark. Okay. Yeah. That'll, that'll hold up in court. that honor i put a question mark The Beagle boy nerd with a $2 Dono. Thank you so much. The new Vegas expansions also come to mind. People really like new Vegas. Don't they? I didn't know they had expansions. Yeah. There's an old, it's old cold, old Vegas. What if there was an Oceans 11 expansion? but you just probably you know Oceans, the one with Sandra Bullock and Rihanna. That's an expansion to the Oceans trilogy. They just did it again and made them all girls.
01:10:53
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Glorbus. Welcome to the Green Gang. Thank you so much, Glorbus. Elise T. with a $5 donor. I always really liked the Borderlands 2 and 3 DLCs. Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep was good enough to get its own spinoff game. Yeah, it's another big one. Yeah, the Borderlands 2 DLCs were fantastic. I don't remember. yeah I don't remember what Borderlands 3 had. don I've never finished three years. Three was super boring to me. Yeah. I just I just played Tiny Tina's Wonderlands a couple of weeks ago and I was i had a pretty good time with it, actually. oh Yeah, that's one. That's OK. I yeahll reviewed that. It was fine. Yeah, it was fine. Yeah, it was fine. It's good to turn my brain off game for a few hours.
01:11:34
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If I'm just finding it with a $2 donor, brood war, brood war, brood war, brood war. I think that's a star craft. Nerd, nerd, nerd. You can't say that. You can't say that. You just kept mumbling about a fucking thorny great sword that you found. yeah If what Eric was putting up was the sword Nick has, I think I also have that. And I thought this is great this is very strange looking. I've not used it. There's a lot of weapons I've not used. Any time. Yeah. Any time we get it. Look at that weapon. Get out of town. I don't like that one. All the barbs on it rips that sweet barbs. Looks like it belongs on a church. It does. It probably came off a one. He's ripped it off. of Right. If Ben Cassidy, you don't know two bucks to say I hate that damn hippo. Oh, yeah. That ah that boss is an asshole.
01:12:22
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You know, I like, oh, I like anytime I see something, it's like a cool critter. Like I'm a big fan of cool critters and we saw a cool critter there and oh my God, what has happened? Okay. I didn't, I didn't see what was going on with our faces. but I looked in case you were like mumbling, but you were like, ring in your mouth i what fuck is wrong I was playing with the hippo filter. Yeah, I noticed. How come my hippo was looking down and your hippo was looking forward and I'm looking forward. Get the, did you just have a fat head? Yeah, your hippo head is fat as hell. Get the fuck out of here. Jim Machete. Thank you so much. In the tip chart for seven months. In quintuple A with a file or don't know. Damn it. Eric Lowe. I don't know when that was, but it couldn't pertain to any of this. Guys, it's time to talk about what we've been playing. What we've been watching. Can we start? Have you been watching the acolyte? Can we start there?
01:13:13
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we can We can start on the echolite. Let's do spoilers on the echolite. New spoilers on the echolite. All right. We're surprisingly... We're going to talk about it in two weeks, so I want to know what you're thinking.
Disney's Star Wars Pacing Issues
01:13:21
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Surprisingly. Thumbs up on the echolite. Okay. That's surprising. That's very cool. Yeah, but I hate most Star Wars.
01:13:32
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It wasn't very high. at By the end of Ahsoka, it wasn't very high on it. It wasn't high very high on Obi-Wan by the end of it. It wasn't very high on Mando 3. But I'm really digging this. um And I think last night's episode I thought was a a great visual showpiece with some of the coolest Star Wars action I've ever seen. I can't fully... It's all gonna depend on how they how they land the plane in terms of the story. um I've liked... the reveals so far. um So we'll we'll see if they ah you know manage to stick a landing or if they shit the bed. Does the show feel like to you like we started in the middle of a story? and it just Very much so. Very much feels like you're dropping this world in media res. I want to know why Disney doesn't let their shows breathe. Like why are they 30 minutes? I don't get it.
01:14:22
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Like, oh, the last week's episode was like 24 minutes. It was crazy. How short that episode so was. Yeah. this This whole episode could have been 50 minutes and I'm like, it would have been great. Yeah. It feels like last week of this week should have been the same, the same length. Um, probably. I don't know. I mean. It's because all these things they kind of view as mini series and not like long for like, they're never like, oh, this is going to be the first season of 10 seasons or something like that. um And so they kind of just are just like, well, fuck, we have a budget for six episodes and we got a six hours or whatever. And we got to just we got to get to it right away. I i just don't get it like.
01:14:59
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you want to be prestige TV or not like they're they're in this weird middle ground where they're they like the set designs look great now between and or Ahsoka and now this like they've stopped using the volume all the time it looks good the The effects and everything, if you're really taking a big step up, like it feels like cinema levels. Star Wars to me, eagle he was in the effects department at this point. yeah It was great. I already forgot his name. Who's that little critter who's who's sniffing out the finale? He's like, no, Basil. He's this little dude. He's like this little like like fucking aardvark man that they they go down to a planet and they have him like smell those girls clothes and like go find this girl for. us. That's how they found his little hard barks, man. Let me tell you, he's great. As someone who likes the weird little dudes in star wars, big things happen in the avatar TV show.
01:15:49
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and the hello yeah would show that ah I go between like, man, I really, I really dig this. And then they get into some of the dialogue and it just falls real quick. Like even the the main villain guy's dialogue, I'm like, this just doesn't feel like it fits. Something feels off. Yeah, yeah it's sta it's definitely not as well written as Andor. Yeah. I think I just went in with really low expectations and it's been exceeding them. And so that's just kind of where I where i am. Not our Andor level, but certainly not. um
01:16:22
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Obi-Wan level. Few things are Obi-Wan level. is definitely that book of mo flight level sorry There's Book of Boba Fett, which is like at the bottom of the ground. And then Obi-Wan a little bit above that. And then you get Mando one, two. Well, that was above that. Then Mando one, two. I don't know. I like I said, I love, I love the Soka for what it was. But yeah, this shows like, I think the frustrating part to me is like, I have read the High Republic books. And I've kind of been tweeting about that. I'm like, there's a lot of interesting shit they could use there. And I guess this is set after the events of those books, like way after, which is weird, too, because like.
Star Wars Technology & Jedi Hubris
01:17:00
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There's so much good like morally gray drama in in the books and there's so much material they could use like I don't understand what Disney's thing is with not adapting what they have that works like even the of even the Star Wars fans that are like kind of against Star Wars a lot of them like the books They're good. Yeah, so I just I just don't understand why they keep doing this where it's like That could honestly be the reason why they start staying away from them. Because if if they know that fan base, I'm sure they do, and they like a thing, as soon as the new stuff touches it, then that becomes the, like, you didn't do it exactly how yeah I remember it from my childhood. And you know what I mean? yeah Make something new is always the better option. Like, I think I'll stick to that. well But in that in that regard, um I'm curious if this paints a picture of that High Republic universe as something bigger and more interesting that you want to see more stories in. or is it kind of like Well, that's my that's my problem with the show. It's like, oh, it's set during the High Republic.
01:18:04
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but If you haven't read the books or anything, like you, you, you wouldn't know the difference between this and so this doesn't do anything to really like explain or set it apart from other than like, they're just still being a shit ton of Jedis and, and everything in like Jedi academies on different planets and everything. Um, yeah just i always forget that it takes place then. Yeah, yeah. Hasn't like it it hasn't set the stage for the universe and being like in this or the galaxy, whatever Star Wars in like this different time period and different realm. And it almost like if you go back and watch the prequels and all that, even like the dialogue just feels too modern, even though it's back in time. like This is a hundred over 100 years before the prequels. You know, how does ah tech
01:18:50
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like do they don't Do they do nothing with like the robots and technology as well? like It's like this is the same shit that they have that we're going to have thousands and thousands of years from now. I know. I mean, they good they do a good job like with the spaceships and the droids and whatnot. No, like and I don't see the creation of like the first act like sentient droid or something like that. and so I don't know. I wasn't around for. Yeah, for I like to make it a little like almost like a little like the the Robo companion and Jedi survivor and Jedi. So don't forget as like.
01:19:23
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He's a little guy. Yeah, he's like smaller though. He looks like a little like almost like a tablet. Don't go for it. Like nice that they were public takes place like thousands of years before even this. And they already had all this technology and jewelry. And so his timelines are weird. So don't try to even try to even piece it. It's like they're stuck in stasis then. Right. Because like no matter how many thousand years forwards or backwards, like fucking none of the tech changes. Like why is it like why is it still like this is still Well, you can you can travel when you can travel in hyperspace. How much tech do you need? But I guess there's a limit to tech. Yeah. Yeah. There's a there's a the thing the show does. Well, I think it's like showing the hubris of the Jedi is like, oh, you know, these people won't be that bad. They won't do this. They won't do that. They fight. They don't fight dirty. Oh, God, they stab my face off. Like, yes, they do fight dirty. They don't have any morals or justifications for things.
01:20:19
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Um, so I like, I like that aspect of it. They're like, it really is showing like the Jedi and like, and that's what the higher public is all about. It's like basically the Jedi, like just this. the police of the galaxy, but also like just way overconfident, not ready for the threats coming their way because they haven't fought a threat in a long time kind of thing. Sounds like regular police. next twenty before but So yeah, I mean, there's, yeah, there's definitely aspects of the show I like. I just, it's like with every Star Wars show that they've done, I'm just
01:20:51
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frustrated, they're all 20 or 30 minutes. And it's like, there's not no time for anything to breathe. There's no time for me to get used to know these characters, to care about them. Anything, you know, that's my big problem. Yeah. terrible Yeah. um Yeah, I think like the writing goes from like being OK to very weak in the show. Yeah, i mean some of it, like Darren darrren wrote about how it's very much, and his last week's backdrop very much ah feels like in conversation with... ah
01:21:25
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the prequels. And I feel like some of that, some of that stilted writing can, can feel very prequels. It's like, you don't need to do that. You just make it, you just make it sound better. That's what they they needed. Like even Marvel seems to be figuring out because of what that story just came out today about fantastic for being set in the 1960s. And it seems to make a different timeline, its own universe and all that. Like just let Star Wars do that. Stop trying to canonize everything. Just tell interesting, good stories. But haven't you heard all the universes are canon. and Oh, doesn't know I have to connect. It doesn't have to all feed together. Like, stop, stop with this shit. Just don't be a good Star Wars story. I don't give a fuck about the Death Star anymore. Except if it's Endor season two, in which case, please tell me more about the Star. I'm fine with that. Ben Mendelssohn coming back for Endor season two. Hell yeah. Krennic. Y'all, where were my Krennic heads at?
01:22:21
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i don't know what that word is so creditite kid's name of a man played by ben anddelson in the movie you rogue won that boy' also on that he's the bad guy he's kind of like the the guy that vader keeps like treating like a little bitch in rogue one There does that to a lot of people so that doesn't truly it doesn't really true yeah The options yeah, he's a he's yeah, he's he's just a he's a real well He's a shit. He's a shit dude. He gets killed at the end I think Diego Luna kills him maybe or doesn't I don't remember. I don't know what's going on in Rogue One. That's nice ah Shout out to Rogue One Reapers grim with a five Canadian dollar down. Oh, thank you so much The origin story of the force is super messed up. So I doubt they'll ever cover it Oh
01:23:02
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I mean, yeah it has something to do with that stupid like planet and like the father, brother, sister. Oh, yeah, like in the Clone Wars, right? Yeah, I hated that. I was like, this is so up its own ass. Get me off this sweat the Yeah. I don't want to be in your weird realm. The high republic books are like actually dark as shit. Like there's like brain eating aliens and oh yeah, they're like torture and all this kinds of stuff like Jedi get fucked up in those books. i want I just want Star Wars horror, so I'll make a Star Wars horror movie. Sounds like I was saying a Star Wars horror. A Star Wars horror film. A scary film. A Star Wars Star A Star Wars horror. The High Republic book Into the Dark is basically a horror book. Yeah, but I don't want to read. I want to read with my eyes. well that' they've left Like I said, they have so much cool material. They could expand the TV and movies and they just don't.
01:23:58
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which we look You
House of the Dragon & Andor Reception
01:23:59
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know what? You know what? Show is really good as House of the Dragon. girl Yeah, i'm I'm still I'm still really enjoying it. There's no energy on that show. No energy. It's bad. Everybody's bad. One nice character. the light scar Even the five minutes you get of the whatchamacallit. What? The Starks, even their assholes. Yeah, well, yeah, like the old school starks. They just living on the wall. It's all cold as shit up there. he's like He's like, I got this wall to defend. What? do you Why do you think you built 700 feet to wall? You idiot for fish people.
01:24:37
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Yeah, good. Good. I haven't I haven't watched the new boys yet. I got to like any of the new season of the boys. And then the bear comes out like i now. I think the bear is available now the entire season. Why is so much air coming out so fast? Do it once a year. Once a year. There's no special effects. There's no CGI robots. yeah There's no special effects. What do you mean? That freezer was totally CGI generated. It was on the volume. No restaurants on the volume. Yeah, I think it's like a small writer's room and they like they they break the story. ah they They film in Chicago like early in the year and I don't know. I guess they know what it is and and editing doesn't take that long. and sounds been though's He's been in the freezer for six months now.
01:25:21
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You know, like when something adds, the character that you can kind of assume they all got out of it, right? No, they didn't let him out. He's still in there. Oh, no. Armie. Armie's dead. ah But yes, very excited to watch the bear. ah Stalin Drip, thank you so much for their $5 download. Star Wars just needs good writers. The issue is it keeps having poor writers and it kills the show and feeds the trolls. I said it before and I'll say it again. You got to hire people like they did for ah for Andor, you got to hire people who do not like Star Wars. And then they will write some creating fucking Star Wars. It'll be great. People split on Andor too, though. Anyone who doesn't like Andor can go to hell. Well, the hardcore Star Wars fans were kind of split on it because it was boring.
01:26:11
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You're like, it's not what they wanted. But then again, what is, right? This is what I wanted. yeah And that's all that really matters. Orange Kitty. Been in the Green Gang for seven months, thank you so much. Where's my Abiloth stands at? Is Abiloth a Star Wars man? What's the deal with Abiloth? I don't know who that is. but I don't know. What the going on in Abiloth? Stealth styled as the beloved Queen of the Stars is also known as the Bringer of Chaos or the Destructor. She sounds like an Elden Ring villain. Yeah, she sounds like an Elden Ring villain though.
Cat Simulation Games & Nine Souls Interest
01:26:44
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Abiloth beloved queen of the stars sounds like someone that I would summon someone better than me to help me beat in Elden Ring that's what That's what that's what that sounds like um King dad, thank you so much for the $2 don't know is no one gonna point out read with my eyes Well, what are you gonna read with? You can read with your ears if you're listening to a man to like another human Narrate it technically does that count as reading? Well, you can technically read with your fingers if you're blind. I That's true. Braille. Book of Eli. Book of Eli. Denzel learned it. Boilers. Accessibility. That's a spoiler. I think that's just the movie. He's blind. Yeah, he's blind. I said it first, Joe. Get out of chat. You can't just yell at people in chat for saying the same Braille joke as you. America fear. the dollar deno Thank you so much. He's reading with his mouth right now. Get your mouth out of my words.
01:27:37
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um is anyone what ah well What else have you been playing? What have you been playing, Casey? Tell us, tell us. Tell us. I dabbled a little in Little Kitty, Big City, been playing it. Well, and I say playing it. My son's been playing it. ah Me and my fiance were watching him for our wedding streams of this past Friday. That game is delightful. It's just fun writing. Yeah. It's really good. Like ah like funny, like uh, objectives in the, the little, uh, what's that term you like to use? Like kind of like mini open world, a micro micro open world. Yeah. Micro open world. You were so close, Casey. I was, I was, I was very close. You can call him mini. That's fine. Same thing. And, uh, yeah, like it just, it just had a lighter tone. Um, and the fact that you are in control of the cat makes a world of difference. Like,
01:28:30
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Yes. I'm talking about, I'm talking about stray once again. I apologize. that it'sation here we talking aboutre Straight. cuts and straight because here Here's the thing. like I really liked the world building in stray, but like it, It was a little too focused on that and like leading you by the hand through like it's you know its story beats and sections. So like I never really felt like I was getting an interactive like and a truly interactive experience. I guess I was making a cat do certain things, but like it was via a predetermined path. There's room for experimentation in little kitty big city. Like you can like you have an objective, which is one of the first ones is collect 25 shinies. And you can go in like one of many different directions and talk with different characters and do different things in order to collect enough stuff to then come back and get to the next story beat.
01:29:23
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which then gives you a, an ability that gives you a, like you get the ability to climb Ivy. So now the world, like you'd be seeing Ivy all over the place. You couldn't interact with it. Now the world has gotten a little bigger for you and that's really satisfying. That feels like a game, right? It feels like I am a cat exploring this city where I straight did not. why we gotta wow you You don't got to put one cat down to prop another cat up. Black cats always been better than orange cats. Everybody knows it. You don't got to drown one cat in order in order to to raise it another cat. I do really like Little Kitty Big C. I like these little playful... I like it more than Untitled Goose Game because Untitled Goose Game almost felt too um yeah's a little not structured enough. Yeah, it's a little flat. Whereas this structure I think works really well. Yeah.
01:30:11
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Like this is a nice happy medium between those two sorts of ah plays and animal simulators. Yeah. um But I've i've also ah I finished this last week, but we didn't get to talk about it. I went back to nine souls. Like after I finished it for review, um I like just I've been obsessed with it. Like I'm in the the nine souls ah Reddit. And so I'm just seeing what other people are saying and talking about. And I learned that apparently the final boss has a third phase that I just didn't see because I didn't do the requisite whatever. um And the requisite whatever essentially is nearly 100% in the game. So I went back into my save, which luckily they let you do. You start before like the point of no return. And I just went back, collected all the things I need to do, found rather large sections of the game that I just had not touched.
01:30:57
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Like they weren't they were like massive like things but like they were like little mini bosses that I skipped over. There's like a big platforming challenge that I never got to see and just collected all the remaining whatever got some new interactions with the characters that I hadn't seen yet. And then unlock that final phase for the last boss. And she's honestly one of the my favorite boss I've ever played in the game. Like it was it was absolutely worth it. Um, and that game desperately needs DLC. Like it needs a boss rush mode or something. Cause like not even just the final boss, many of the bosses in that game are just fantastic feeling fights. And like, I, I really, like I.
01:31:35
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I've gotten enough of the exploration like that wasn't a strong suit, but I could fight some of those bosses forever, like just as a. Oh, I'm feeling like I got some a little free time to go jump in and do a couple of runs against like let me perfect what I already know about this boss's style. Like it's so fun to play. If you're not if you're not started playing night souls, give it a shot. It is so worth it. Did you? Yeah, he was complaining about some boss he was stuck at. um He just said he beat her. Oh, that's great. Yeah, we he mentioned it ah earlier today. That's great. Yeah, I'm excited. That um that that boss he was talking about is my favorite boss. like That is my favorite boss in the game. And then my second favorite boss is the last boss. Hell yeah. um And outside of that, I haven't been watching anything current, really.
DuckTales Reboot & Movie Reviews
01:32:22
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um I did start and finish solo leveling. I was not aware that was only 13 episodes, so I'm really mad. Oh, yeah. Because that show is fucking good. Yeah.
01:32:33
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like people have been hyping the show. So I was, I was almost hoping I wasn't going in and thinking like, damn, everybody's talking about it being really, really good. I hope it's as good. Cause that has happened to me several times before where it's just not that good. Everyone was right. So leveling is phenomenal. Like it hits all the marks. Like it has, it has a great. I mean, the premise is like mostly what you've seen in lots of other isekai like anime. Yeah. Or a a fantasy themed anime, whatever. um But it's strong. This one in particular is strong. And like his motivation matters to me. And the way that they make his motivation and mission change and adapt over the course of the season, I thought was really cool. Because like, he's doing it for one reason, which is just
01:33:15
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like it's Anyone in his position would do what he's doing, yeah given the circumstances. But then he gets another more um more personal reason, and then he gets another kind of dire reason. He was on his path already, but like they just keep reinforcing the fact that, like no, this is your life now, sir. yeah yeah yeah really I really like that. Yeah. And they do a good job of making him very likable at the start. And then but but I haven't obviously read anything about it, but I'm assuming he will become much less likable down the road. Yeah. Clearly something's happening to him. And like, it it makes sense, right? Like, um, yeah, I really enjoyed it. Oh, I also, I'm only three episodes until the end of, uh, delicious and dungeon.
01:33:59
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And I've liked this back half the season so far. It feels very different. It feels like a very different, uh, obviously, uh, introducing various new party members for them and sort of introduce new, uh, it's like a pace resetter. theres Yeah. Yeah. But when you get to the the the one episode where you find out kind of when they reunite once again with the main guy's sister and you're like, Oh no, what happened to you? This isn't good. Maybe black magic. we Maybe we shouldn't be doing black magic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That that's intense. That that particular episode. Yeah. I still I love every time a meal gets cooked and then there's that little like Taiko drum noise and they show the food like and it's almost like taken with like ah a YouTuber camera angle of a meal. um Yeah. Like an Instagram. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. That that is the draw. Yeah. Trigger trigger's so good.
01:34:46
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They deserve more shows. give give them Give them additional shows to take care of. yeah um And outside of that, um I finished the new DuckTales series ah with the kid. um Eric had this one queued up. what is Am I tripping? Did the old DuckTales show have a through line? Did it have like mysteries and stuff? Like from like that carried over throughout the... Because I know this fan stuff, like like kind of meta questions where it's like, how come the three, uh, brothers, like where are their parents? Right? Like, like they're either being taken care of by Donald, who apparently in the original show, Donald had to go to the Navy and that's why they ended up with screwdriver to fight in a war. I guess like, what? That's what the description says. Donald had to go to the Navy. So he left his three nephews with his other uncle.
01:35:41
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But no, this this show takes all of like any, it takes all the pieces of that as well as several other kind of duck centric and just Disney ah channel shows in general and mashes them together in this show in such a satisfying way. Like you get answers to a lot of questions. um you get um yeah You get like certain things remixed in a way that just makes sense now. Like for example, like Donald, like Uncle Scrooge, Scrooge McDuck is Donald's uncle, like directly, which means that, ah you know, one of his mother, father, whatever, is a brother, sister to Scrooge. Yeah. But his nephews are his sister's kids. And that's why he was with them, because his sister went missing. And so they're telling you like, oh, this this is why these kids are in this predicament, because something bad happened to their mom. And then that's a that's a big mystery that you get a payoff to at some point. And then that payoff.
01:36:38
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um like introduces a bunch of other weird shit into that universe. um And like the picture Eric has here, like they introduce you to Darkwing Duck, who is a character that you know shares the same universe as this one because they had a character in common, Launchpad. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, I don't think those shows ever explained why Launchpad was here and there, but this gives you that bridge. Like this tells you why that was a thing. Deep Duck lore. Yeah, like it's fantastic. there's There's nods to Chippendale, Rescue Rangers in this. There's nods to Gargoyles of all things. That won't that would seem more fan service-y. Like not not like a Gargoyles existence universe type of thing. But it was like the sort of thing where when you see it and they had the musical cue play, like yeah you jump up. Like you do the DiCaprio theme, whatever.
01:37:24
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Yeah, they even have deep cuts for like just straight up ah Fans of just DuckTales like the game in particular like there's there are fight sequences where Scrooge will do that pogo stick attack. on Oh, that's great Yeah, and there's a there's a scene where like they play music from the game and like the captions clued me in it cause I've never played the game, but it says theme from the SNES Yeah, moon team whatever yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's got a really good voice cast too. Yeah, a bunch of A-list actors and stuff. Everyone pulls their weight It's a really, really fun show. Like yeah if you have any affinity at all for any of the old Disney shows, not like if you skip DuckTales and watched anything else, this will still hit for you. It's like done, right? It's not ongoing. Yeah, it it did finish. um And you know what? That's not of a good show. Do you know how many episodes? Oh, crap. It's like three seasons. I think about 30 episodes. Yeah, 30 or so episodes a season.
01:38:22
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But it's good. cool It's great. that's um my and yeah i've I've heard nothing but good things about it. So it's been on my been on my long list. ah Nick, you watching or playing anything else? No, I obviously was home last week dealing with stuff. So ah pretty much just got caught up in a bunch of movies. ah Very like two second reviews for each one. ah The Gray Man enjoyed. ah And Seven Kings Must Die. ah was okay. and what that that ah so Seven Kings Must Die is like an extended movie from ah
01:39:00
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The name of the show must die. That's what we're calling a TV series now, extended movies.
Modern Planet of the Apes & Dune 2
01:39:08
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Well, it was I mean, basically, but it was all chopped up movies based on the Netflix series, The Last Kingdom. And basically after the show ended, they made a movie, wrapped everything up. Gotcha. Kind of like Netflix sometimes. So they're serious. I'm waiting on a Peaky Blinders one for that. Yeah. So I watched that. I watched Extraction 2 with Chris Hemsworth, which is basically a two hour just action scene. The entire movie really, he really liked it, actually. yeah That doesn't sound bad the way you just described it. yeah actually The actions and the action scenes in Extraction 1 are very good.
01:39:41
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Yeah, yep. I wrapped up out of range season two, which is I still really enjoy that show. It's kind of hard to follow, but no spoilers because I know people are still watching it. And then I finally, finally, finally, finally watch doing two. And I loved it. Forgot about the movie. You didn't watch that one. I still don't watch that one. I still don't watch that one. I still haven't watched that one. I still haven't watched Into the Spider-Verse. I still haven't watched Atlanta. You know what, but you watched Seven Kings Must Die and you watched Extraction 2. Yeah, and I rewatched the Planet of the Apes movies. You rewatched them. Modern ones? Yeah, yeah. The modern ones. Did you watch King of the Planet of the Apes? I didn't watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes because for some reason Dawn to me just seems like the starting movie title and I did that. Yeah, they flipped.
01:40:35
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Yeah, and then I watched the third movie and I was like, wait a second, there's a third movie, but this was the finale. What the fuck happened? And then I go back and read the chronological order. I was like, oh, I missed an entire movie. Yeah. So yeah, I don't I don't I don't ever direct that one. So. Yeah, I don't remember really enjoying. lies It's got Draco Malfoy ah inviting a bunch of babes to the zoo. And any he hurt any tortures the monkeys to like as like a so ah way of hitting on the babes. And I watch it. I'm like, no babes are going to be interested in this.
01:41:09
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like Where did you get these girls that you thought torturing this animal in front of them would get you cool plates? Let's get a six pack, sneak into the zoo, and I'm going to lecture you with some monkeys. Yeah, I do want to watch the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes now. I enjoyed it. I got to get 100 years later, so don't worry. There's no characters. You don't really have to follow any of the characters between them, honestly, other than Caesar. Yeah. And I didn't feel like I really missed any of the things skipping the first movie. No, you get a, you get a whole, uh, yeah, almost like they rebooted the trilogy halfway through. I mean, there's one scene you should see and it's when Caesar says no. And that's it. That seems great. Yeah. When Draco Malfoy tries to woo babes with monkey torture.
01:41:58
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Um, and then he started. Did you wait, you just said you liked doing right. You didn't say you didn't like, yeah, I didn't like to, uh, yeah.
01:42:09
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I and I really liked it. I also don't know if I got all the hype behind it because like even the big battle action scene is like not that incredible. I don't want to sound like one of them people, but seeing it in theaters felt like a religious experience. The whole battle scene, and then they just suddenly show up on the doorstep of the Emperor. I was like, did I miss a whole action scene somewhere here?
01:42:42
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That's just, they just, they got it done. Sometimes stuff happens off screen. Is Doon 2 the end of Doon? Or is there going to be a Doon 3? No, no. It's going to be a Doon 3 and it's going to get weird. It's going to get weird. Those books get real weird. One character turns into a very large worm with a man face and I'm excited to see what they do with a large worm with a man face. Let me tell you, he's a pivotal character you cannot take away from the movie. it's Yeah, guys I still I still really loved it. I just yeah, those movies are sometimes a little weird to me, but at least two is much easier to follow than one. All right. Did you give Nick spice eyes? and How did you do that? Incredible. That's really silly.
01:43:32
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I would say he prepared it, but we didn't even know it because we talked about it.
The Boys Season 4 & Game Nostalgia
01:43:36
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Well, then, yep, sort of the boys season four last night. I like I've been putting it off. I don't know why I just didn't. It didn't like calling me to watch it. And then as soon as I started watching and all those people were back on screen, I was like, OK, what was I doing? Why am I not watching this day today? So I get that. As as Carl Irving Irving gets on screen and and Anthony, I'm just like, I'm in Anthony Starr. I'm just like, I'm in. He's truly an Anthony star who gets hate and who gets people mad. People scream at him because they think he's a bad man and say thing so evidence like chris that's cool people like like fucking abuse the actor who plays Kristen Cole on his Instagram a account. I'm like, do you understand what actors mean like? They can't turn it off. Who is like, yeah, Joffrey, like quit acting because people hate him so much. Yeah, that sucks. Bunch of dopes. Um,
01:44:30
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I've been jamming through a couple games with my Switch, new games, including the new Monkey Ball, which, let me say, as someone who's been a fan of Monkey Ball since it launched on the GameCube back in 2001, it was the best Monkey Ball since Monkey Ball 1. No, best Monkey Ball since Monkey Ball 2, because Monkey Ball 2 had much better multiplayer party modes. This game's multiplayer party modes are kind of bad, but it's single player. the multiplayer party modes are bad. And it's like, it's online multiplayer um in in this in this economy. And the but they should have just taken the multiplayer modes from two. The best one was the one where you roll your ball down a ramp and then you have to glide and land on like a bullseye target and you get like a certain amount depending on stuff. um But that's not important because the actual monkey balling is so good. This is the best feeling monkey ball. I think the best feeling monkey ball ever. Courses are really inventive. ah And I just continue to love that they, ah
01:45:20
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RKG studios, or our GK studios, RGG studios. What's their name? It can be Yakuza developers. Yakuza developers make a shit ton of money off of like a dragon Yakuza games. And then they ah use that money and they ah fund their actual passion projects, which are the monkey ball games, which is great. That's why you get like a lot of little Kiryu outfits for your monkeys and stuff. do i So I've been really enjoying that. It is stupid that, um, It is really dumb that it is a Switch exclusive, like at this point. It that surprised me. I mean, I get it that that's like, you know, where it launched on GameCube. It was a GameCube exclusive and this is probably where they assume their audience is going to be. But I don't know. This just fucking put the monkeys everywhere. What do we do? It seems like Capcom is is what this is. the cap I'm sorry. This is Sega. My bad. Yeah. Disregard. I'm going to the bus. No, I i was going to pose a theory, but this is Sega. So this doesn't make this sense. Yeah.
01:46:18
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Um, and then, uh, I'm a little bit into, uh, Frogan Encore, which, um, I know Yahtzee played, uh, earlier with Jamaite on Yahtzee Tries. I don't know. I didn't watch. So I don't know what they thought of it. I'm assuming he said something. All right. It's fine. That was my Yahtzee impression. This is pretty bad. Not a good Yahtzee impression. You'd think that after streaming Eric says he was in a band two hours a week with him, that I would, I would do something better. But, um, Yeah, i'm i'm I'm really enjoying it. ah I think it's delightful. I think it's a huge improvement on the first Fro-Gun as if you like little sort of puzzle 3D character platformers collect-a-thons with a nice aesthetic that takes you back to like the PS1 and 64 era. Cannot recommend it enough. I think it is very good. Give it a thumbs up. You hated the camera. All right.
01:47:12
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Sounds like a skill issue. That's what it sounds like. Yeah. I wasn't a fan of the first one either. Like I played it for a hidden gem once, but you said this, this improves on that. like yeah if for I don't know if I just think the, I think the level design is much more interesting. I think like these ages themselves feel like each one brings new ideas to the table. Um, and so it's very much feels like they, they made this first game and then they were like, okay, we have our, we have our base, we have our footing. Now let's like really get creative with stuff. um just So yeah, big, ah big fan of that. And then I've been replaying ah Parasite Eve on my personal channel, because that's going to be one of the upcoming episodes of the archive. And that's just a great game. I don't know why why we as a society don't make more horror JRPGs, horror JRPGs. or scary, spooky JRPGs, ah but we should. And also Square, speaking of ah developers bringing back old franchises, but what are we doing with Parasite Eve? Put that on consoles. Let people play Parasite Eve. Let them see, there's a great scene where a cop is being racist, and then seconds later he just starts on fire and dies. And that is the game we need. That is the game we need that says, if you are racist, you will start on fire and die.
01:48:27
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hey more those twitter is a parasite you because I might need to play this game. No, it just happened to this one dude. it's like everyone It's all about your mitochondria. Man, your mitochondria, they are mutating. And let me tell you, we all got mitochondria in us and we don't realize it. But if they started to mutate, bad very bad shit would happen. So let's just all be thankful ah as we approach this 4th of July ah that our mitochondria are in check, unlike the folks of Parasite Eve. And Fungus Finder, ah as he's watching me play, does not like the science in the game.
01:48:57
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The science does not check out, apparently, and I had to keep reminding him these are fictional characters and monsters and it's not real. And it's fine. I mean, it can be distracting if it's like especially bad science or just bad fiction. Like you like you give your character a conceit for like a magical ability and they're falling over themselves trying to explain it to you and it's like it still doesn't make any sense. My feeling about Jiu Jitsu Kaisen, which I've started watching as well. Star Wars, Star Wars, Gunkata Gunkata Gunkata makes sense. Gunkata makes sense. Star Wars and whatever causes the force into the chat. Metachlorian. Metachlorian. Metachlorian. It is so weird. Metachlorian. It is so weird. Metachlorian. Because this is mitochondria and metachlorians and this came out like a year before episode one. And I'm like, what a weird year for being like, I think I'll enjoy this thing. And I'm being bombarded with large scientific and the sounding words.
01:49:50
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ah So yeah, you know i've I've always like had that thought about like science fiction books is like, do these people actually know like how these things work? Are they just making shit up? So this is like parents that he was based on a Japanese novel. So maybe that person did some research. They were on the other side of the book. It doesn't mean you did research, but it doesn't. Yeah. no Yeah. It's all fiction anyway. It doesn't matter. Just like question marks on the title. po You just got to make it sound much like like it makes sense. This is a fiction. This is real. This that is real. No, this right here. this this This is this is real. This is real. The rat has a great look how gross this looks. Let's get this demonetized. We're going to get our channel taken off. That's what happens. It's real guys. That rat has too many mitochondria. i don't like Let's stop. Let's stop this. The fly when I watch that for the first time in life.
01:50:46
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Yeah, the teleporter fucking disgusting. Yeah, but the scenes where he doesn't have a shirt. Ooh, he looks fine. but Let me tell you, let me tell you, Jeff Goldblum. Not too much. Onyxia with a $5 don't know. Thank you so much. as ah as As someone who owned an orange cat and a black cat at the same time, I will say orange cats are goaded. So sorry. Orange cats are black cats. I don't know. How is years later that game catching strays from you? he yeah know it's his It's his Last of Us Part 2.
01:51:21
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i just i I'll forgive Strayed when gets the recognition it deserves, I will forgive Strayed. Like Strayed caused a crime that has yet to be righted.
01:51:38
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I'm crying. A murder mystery. And I didn't see another $5 donor. I think it's so much. Donald Duck is a war veteran and took place on D-Day. That's why he's so angry. This is just a silly personality trait. It's PTSD. That'd be gnarly. There's a fun episode in the new series where somebody gives him like some sort of vocals. ah tech, uh, some, he swallowed some sort of vocal pill thingy and then it has a normal voice and he sounds like the coolest fucking guy. Like he's, he had all these cool ass one-liners, like he's doing cool ass actor shit. And it's like, he was saying stuff like this the whole time. That's incredible. I love that. Like it's so freaking hilarious. That's good shit. Uh, cool. I think that's, I think we did it. I think we're done. I think we can go to bed now.
01:52:24
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Yay. I'm proud of us. ah Yeah, thanks. Thanks everyone for for tuning in to another another episode of Firelink. Nick, what ah what do you have going on? What should folks check out? I'm going to drive exotic race cars at a bachelor part of this weekend. Shit, I want to do that. Yeah, I didn't even tell you that. You see, I get to go drive a Nissan GTR this week on a racetrack. Thank you for that idea. I'm going to do that. Yeah, 250, 250 in Vegas. Go do it. I'll go to Vegas, though. hopeful i don't either it's too hot out there but but yeah I don't have a no unpacked video for me this week. Cause I was at home last week, uh, dealing with family emergency, uh, which first of all, uh, my mom specifically wanted me to say, uh, thank you to everybody. Uh, if you're listening to the podcast for, uh, signing the get well soon card, it has made her feel, uh, very happy and hopeful. yeah really nice Thanks guys. Yeah. There was a hundred pages, a hundred pages for her to read through.
01:53:23
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and Now I feel bad that I insulted everyone several times throughout this episode. ah But yeah, she knows she she has called me multiple times to make sure I told the community. Thank you for that. So thanks. Thanks for the support and and doing a really nice thing for her. She really appreciates it. But yeah, no, and no impact episode for me tomorrow because I just couldn't get one written last week. So next one will be on the fear of missing out that permeates games and not this Thursday, but next Thursday. And then, ah yeah, obviously we'll be pushing the patron a lot in July. Post about that in the Discord and the YouTube community tab today. Now we've got cool things launching soon, like the rewind podcast with Marty, Darren and Jack and as well as a rotating cast of co-hosts. So be sure to look up for that if you like our movie TV coverage. That's starting to wait. That's not another two weeks. Yeah, I got to start watching films. Marty's got his new show, The Archive coming. We're going there.
01:54:22
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film our animal oil documentary in August. We're going to PAX West now to do some cool stuff in August. So o that's ah that's a fun stuff. So a Western PAX. I can't believe it our next quarterly financial report will be in your. posts within the next two weeks. And you get to see how big our tax bill was for last year. Cause it turns out I'm filing money and getting, and not paying any expenses. Big tax bill. That's why I go off the grid. I burned my social security card and never refuse pay taxes. and Everything's been fine. So I don't know. You know, uh, government, he's right here.
01:54:58
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Try to find me, Joe Biden. That's good for me. Oh, and ah since we pretty much got the plans figured out today, it sounds like we will be doing our first community meetup at PEX. So John was there for that. You should do that the seef at the fish market. Yeah, we'll do it with the original Starbucks. The original Starbucks, the fish market, or the gum wall. The gum wall. There's a wall where people put all their gum. i don't see why that Too bad. Seems unsanitary. Too bad. Every video needs to be shot in front of the gum wall. Our sponsor is gum. So we need to shoot all of our videos in front of the gum wall. And it's a way away from the convention center's like away from thevege center. not
01:55:43
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yeah red dwarf is asking what the hell i happened to my glasses so the one of the arms broke off and i've had it taped and then while i was on stream today it fell off so i'm like wearing half glass wow you got some new glasses yeah i do you know what i need to do that though is insurance no you could use regular money you i feel like you just need glasses you need to Interest doesn't pay that much for glasses. But here's the thing, I'm going to go drive a race car out of them, so I'll be fine. That seems incredibly dangerous. Everyone's saying, I don't know who that is this weekend. Don't tell my mom. Fung is finding out what the $2 donor said. Casey, colon, PTSD is fun. speak about Speaking about ah Scrooge McDuck in his PTSD. ah What else do you got going on, Casey?
01:56:28
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Uh, real quick on that note, a bunch of folks in chat as well as Eric said that Donald Duck's like regular voice was Don Cheadle. That can't be true. which is ah It must be true because it checks out. I believe it. They they got some good at like freaking Lance Reddick has a character on that show. Oh, yeah. Like they they they went all in for the voice cast. But yeah, as for me, you can find me all over the Internet at Sigma Gears 9. Like I mentioned earlier, ah the wedding streams are are currently back in in style. and They're back in rotation every Friday, 7 p.m. on my personal Twitch channel. We're probably going to finish a little kitty big city and move on to something else afterwards. So ah be there. find out what we're what we're doing. ah Once we hit 60% of the goal, we are doing a karaoke stream though. So that's going to be fun. It will probably be nuked from Twitch afterwards. So you're going to need to be there if you want to see this karaoke stream. Outside of that, tomorrow we have a Devil May Cry. um I don't have any videos pending right now, um but
01:57:37
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I don't know, follow me on Twitter. Maybe I'll tweet a thing. Who knows? Don't do it. Don't do it. Yeah. And then, uh, yeah, don't make me cry tomorrow night. Same time, uh, normal time, 7 PM. Uh, we're getting close ish to the end. I don't think we'll probably finish it this week, but maybe we'll finish it next week. And then we have two we have two bonus streams tomorrow, and I'm on both of them. I'm on three streams tomorrow. First, at 10 a.m. Central, this is going to be only on Twitch. ah Jack and I are going to be playing killer Killer Clowns from Outer Space with Jesse Galina because jet we we took we took Jesse's pilot license away because when he streams, it's been crashing lately. And so he thinks he may have fixed it. And so we're using the Twitch channel as sort of an experimental way.
01:58:21
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to see if we fixed it. So that'll be a Twitch only thing. So if anything goes wrong, then it's it's fine. We don't have to worry about anything on YouTube. And we kind of had the whole time we've been wanting Twitch to kind of have a little ah bit of a different flavor than YouTube. So that'll be 10 AM m on Twitch. And then at 1 PM central tomorrow on both channels, Jack and I will be back with more Elden Ring. Yeah. He's played a little bit since Friday. He hasn't played a lot. um Yeah, we'll be we'll be going. He says that and he's going to run through it because he knows where everything is because he's a liar. It seems like he could absolutely do that. ah Excellent. That is about it for us. So for Nick, for Casey and for Eric, this was Marty. Thank you all so much for tuning in to Firelink, episode number 26. I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your evenings and hopefully we'll see you all tomorrow. Hi, everyone. Thanks, y'all. Bye. No more duty on Friday either, because I'll be called duty.
01:59:15
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sports what well I will start Call of Duty 2 at some point in my life. Sounds like a lie. Bye everyone.