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The Subathon Special with MFNoah
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For the first time in a while Tony was Live on Twitch to record a special episode of the podcast with MFNoah who was 26 days into a Subathon! The two of them talked about the subathon before covering all the news in the past 2 weeks for video games, the life cycles of MMO's and a whole bunch of other things! Catch the Live Version over on Tony's YouTube!
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Introduction and Disclaimer
00:00:00
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Disclaimer, all views expressed on this podcast represent the host and his guest and not the companies or agencies they are associated with. Welcome to Tony's Game Lounge, a biweekly podcast that covers everything in the world of video games, TCG, tabletop and more. Here's your host, Tony Fourteen.
Special Live Episode Announcement
00:00:22
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Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Tony's Game Lounge, a very special episode of Tony's Game Lounge. I'm your host, Tony14, and today,
00:00:33
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Well, it's a bit unconventional. We're live on Twitch right now for those who are listening to the audio version of this later.
Guest Introduction: MF Noah
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This was happening live on Twitch. And the reason that's happening is because our guest is stuck in a sub-a-thon of their own making. And that guest is MF Noah, Twitch partner in Final Fantasy XIV streamer, a bit of a variety streamer during the sub-a-thon though. Noah, hello, welcome to the podcast.
00:01:01
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Hey, thanks, man. What's up, dude? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing today versus how are you doing subathon mentally?
00:01:16
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How am I doing? Okay, so since, like, the beginning of the sub-a-thon? Yeah, how are you doing compared to the beginning? We're, like, probably 28 days in. I can't remember what I ate this morning, and my brain is a big pile of mush. That's great. That's great. But we play Terraria, if that's... Yeah, hell yeah, dude. Terraria is fun.
00:01:37
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I've never played Terraria never played it. I well. No I shouldn't say never I played it when it was free when they had the free trial version on Xbox arcade on the 360 when it just came out There were some good ones there were some really good ones I remember playing a lot of peggle as a kid or bro. Hey girl. Oh my dude Don't get me started with peggle man
00:02:04
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Were you a PEGGLE master? Well, here's the thing. See, I never played the real PEGGLE. What I played was the add-on in World of Warcraft, PEGGLE. World of Warcraft had a PEGGLE? It's literally just PEGGLE within the actual PEGGLE game within WoW. And sometimes I play more PEGGLE than WoW.
00:02:24
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Well, I'll be. I did not know that. All right.
Loading Screen Segment
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Well, because you're brand new here now, we get to start off with the loading screen, a classic segment here in the game lounge where you get to give us your favorite video game, favorite game character and favorite game soundtrack. Oh, man. Loaded question. But I feel like it's always the best way to know. Get into the game of mine.
00:02:49
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Okay. All right. Again, I can't remember what I ate for breakfast this morning. Okay, so let's start with what? What was it again? Favorite video game. Favorite video game of all time. Favorite video game of all time? Well, okay. So does MMOs count? Yeah, MMOs do count. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, it has to be well. I played 20 years of World of Warcraft. It's like...
00:03:13
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I don't know. I mean, even though it's had so much turbulence over the past, like, what, 10 years? Yeah, that sounds wrong with it. I it's just the game that I personally love and will always come back to. Like, it's just it is what it is. OK. OK. Favorite video game character? Favorite video game character. Oh, man. Favorite game character across everything. Yeah.
00:03:39
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like MCs and stuff, man, what is, dude, I can't think of that. Favorite video game character? What's your favorite video game character? Maybe I can think of it. Oh God, that's a, oh God, who is my video, favorite video game character? Well, you can't even think about it. You know what? It's probably like one of my favorites is, oh, what's his name?
00:04:01
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Oh, I'm blanking on his name, but he, uh, Jackie is Jackie from Sleeping Dogs. Yeah. Yeah. He's your best friend. He's your, it's, it's, it's basically GTA, but instead of guns, it's a kung fu and it takes place in Singapore. Okay. Is this Singapore? It takes place. I don't know if it's Singapore that takes place in or if it was some, if it's, it takes place in Asia.
00:04:27
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Yeah. Oh, Hong Kong. It is Hong Kong. Yeah, Hong Kong. Hong Kong is where it takes place. OK, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I think my you know, the main problem is is that since I've played a mainly World of Warcraft for the past, you know, 20 years, it's hard for me to like zero in on like, what, like a single player game? Because I definitely like all the characters in WoW, like kind of the lore is second to the game. So I don't really like pay attention to the characters, really.
00:04:57
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In terms of characters, I don't know. I really don't know. I like, I have a favorite monster and monster hunter. I have like, you know, it's, you know what? I would have, I would have, if
00:05:10
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If before the sub-a-thon, you asked me, I would have said Titus. Okay. But then I recently replayed Final Fantasy X because of the sub-a-thon. And you know, all those rose-colored glasses, that's all gone. The game is kind of terrible in terms of characters. It's so stupid. Wow. Titus is such a dumb character. Wait till you play Kingdom Hearts and see Titus in that.
00:05:38
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He's in the first Kingdom Hearts, yes. Right at the start of the game and only at the start of the game. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You fight him? Yeah. Oh man. You fight Titus and you fight Waka as well.
00:05:55
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm also thinking about I also played a lot of League of Legends I have a favorite champion illegal legends that count dude. I'm boring Single player games that avoid doesn't have to be a single player game. It could be a just any game I mean, we'll like like okay. I just it feels so such a combat will say wrath. Okay League of Legends. I'm Like thousands of hours of zerath And lastly favorite game soundtrack
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It has to be the Rajang OST, and I think it changes in world, but I'm not sure, because I know it's like a recurring monster, but the world specifically OST. Okay. All righty. Good choice. Okay. It's pretty good, dude. And now we get to this season's brand new intro segment, Hot Takes, where you get to give us your hottest game take.
Hot Takes: Super Mario 64 Controversy
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if you'd like i will share mine because i'm gonna need yours dude okay so i i'm not a very opinionated person i think you'll find you know what i mean my game take and i'm going to apologize to people now because i know how impactful this game was on platforming and everything but super mario 64 is a bad game
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Thank you! Wow! Am I thinking of the same game? Super Mario 64, the one that came out on the N64, you go into Princess Princess Castle, all the paintings. Oh, maybe it was Super Mario 1, actually. No, no, no. 64? No, I know. I think I played 64 one time, and that's it. Actually, I have to play 64. I'm talking about Super Mario. I don't like Super Mario. The original Super Mario, bro. I don't like that. I mean, that's fair. Honestly, I've played it. I've beaten it. It's all right.
00:07:42
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fundamental game that impacted the way of platformers. It paved the way for platformers. I will not deny the impact these games had. But casually, the legacy titles, right? Yeah, exactly. But casually, Mario 64 is a bad game. You know what? I really can't say because I've never I don't think I've ever really touched 64 outside of being like five years old.
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But I mean, the speedrunning community seems to like it. Oh, yeah, you see. And that's why I say that's why I say casually, because if you play it casually, it's janky, hard to control movement does kind of suck. But when you see a speedrunner do it, they know the angles, the inputs, everything to make this game like it's like a speedrunner's paradise of like the tech you can do and all that stuff. And that's why I say casually. It is an awful game. Speedrunner wise, it is probably one of the best games a speedrunner could play.
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Now compare that to like Super Mario Sunshine because I didn't play that. You see, I grew up on Sunshine. I grew up playing Sunshine without a memory card because we didn't get a memory card until we got Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004. Oh wait, dude, okay. So you're talking about memory cards. Oh my god, dude, that's right. I used to not play with memory cards too. It was kind of like a...
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Kind of like a run. Yeah, it was basically just like me and my brother played Smash Brothers melee. We would probably unlock Julie Puff Ganondorf and maybe Marth. But sometimes Luigi on like a good run before it's like, well, we got to turn off the game now. And it wasn't until we got a memory card for the golf game that when we played it again, had to turn it off after a lot of those characters, we came back and the characters are still there that were like,
00:09:29
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What is this? What just happened? And we have the technology. We have the technology. That's how we learned there's more characters in this game. That's so funny, man. It's wild. I had the same feeling with Jack, the original Jack, Jack and Daxter. Oh, yeah. So that was like one of the first games that I went out and I was like, Mom, I want that game. I want to play this game. And I was was a kid. I didn't have an older brother. My mom didn't know anything about video games. So I didn't know what a memory card was.
00:09:59
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Right. And so I would just play and then sometimes I would leave my P was a PS1 or PS2. I think it was PS2. I would just leave it on. I think both of them had memory cards, but I think it was around that era. Yeah, I just like left it on for like all day in school and I would get so mad if my mom plugged it because it's like everything. It's like all gone.
00:10:21
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I thought that's how you're supposed to do it. I thought you just had to leave it on the whole time. Just keep it running. Keep it running. But what is your hot take? Is the hot take the original Mario Bros. is that or is it something else? I mean, you know, to be honest, my hot take would probably be the Super Mario thing because everyone likes Super Mario. I hate it.
00:10:44
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The first one is I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I did enjoy playing it. You know, OK, here's my hot take. All right. Actually, I do. I have a hot take. All right. Nobody. A lot of people seem to not like this. I think older games are not enjoyable to play if you don't have any nostalgic attention to it. That's not actually you know what? I kind of agree with that.
00:11:09
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It's hard, it's like for me specifically, I go into a game, if it looks older, it's going to just feel worse to play, I don't know. If I have no nostalgic attachment, if I don't like the game series, it's not gonna make me feel like I wanna play it.
00:11:25
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No, that's that's pretty valid. That's pretty valid. That's what's kind of what's deterred me a little bit from playing the earlier Final Fantasy game specifically. Obviously, I want to like fix that with the crystal remakes remasters that they put out is like, OK, I can do that now. They'll at least look nice that I can do that. But no, I definitely feel that. Yeah.
00:11:48
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Yeah. And, you know, I'd like to be more specific. I think in terms of like stories, single player progression games, like I would assume like maybe some of the the older Mario karts play really well and stuff like that. You know what I mean? Like some some games mechanically might play better. Yes. Older. But like in terms of like.
00:12:07
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Like, people are trying to get me to play Metal Gear, right? The only Metal Gear I played was Preventions. And that is a completely different game. Yeah, that is very different from what the series is.
00:12:19
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So to go back and play Metal Gear Solid 1, it's going to be hard. It's going to be really hard, I think. I want to play the games. I'm glad that Konami put out the collection for the first three games, because it's like, well, I want to play the new Snake Eater when that one comes out. So I should play the first trilogy. And then I think there's...
00:12:40
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I don't think it's been confirmed yet, but there are rumors like the second pack will be the fourth. The fourth game, Rising Revengeance and something else. OK, I can't remember what it was, but it's not going to be five because five is accessible everywhere. So you're not going to put that in the collection. I will say, though, I think there is a a cut off, though, for that in my head, because eventually, like these modern games that come out today will be
00:13:06
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you know, Holter games. And I feel like that won't be the case. I probably won't feel the same way in 20 years about the games that we play today. No, definitely. And we'll be getting more into that a little bit later in the podcast as well. A good little teaser right there, folks.
Tekken 8 Meme and Upcoming Topics
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But before we get into that, of course, we have a bunch of news to cover, starting with our headline of the week, which I don't know if you heard.
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But Tekken right now, Tekken 8 is a little, I don't know, I wouldn't call it a mess, but it's become a bit of a meme fest because there is a bot that is taken over the Tekken ranks. A bot? Well, a bot, a human-made bot. Basically the guy made basically a macro where it's like, hey, you're just going to push this button over and over and over again. And this thing has ranked up exponentially. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:13:56
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hold on hold on hold on you're telling me this is not some sort of artificial no this is a guy like no a guy made this made this macro just one button over again on twitch right now on the twitch channel gin moshima they're currently streaming ranked fights a tech innate using eddie gordo as his fighter
00:14:19
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The script that they made spams the three button which is basically or the left the glut to kick button and it just costly attacks their opponents and They've they're winning. They've made it up to eliminator rank, which I don't know the Tekken rank system But it's pretty high to my knowledge It's like I would say hi the fact that it could just beat anybody by pressing one button cuz like
00:14:44
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you know you should be able even like a bad player should be able to know okay he's gonna press one button i'm i'm gonna be able to that's the thing bad players don't know how to counter this because if you knock it if you knock him down well that free button does something else that that that changes it up a little bit and then it's just it's an auto combo that just
00:15:04
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Oh, it's an auto combo. It's sort of a sort of an auto combo. It's basically by pressing. It is basically an auto combo. I really dislike the way fighting games are going and the way they're approaching the newer consumer base of today's fighting game players. It's essentially what they've done is they've added auto combos to a lot of newer fighting games just to get people in the door to try to learn the game because it's like it works for me.
00:15:32
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It worked for me because that's how I got on the Street Fighter. I mean, well, to be fair, the character customization in the world tour is what got me into Street Fighter 6. But them having auto combos, because I am bad at fighting games. Without an auto combo, I am bad. But what Street Fighter did with auto combos is you do less damage with an auto combo than if you were to actually do the inputs, which I think is a fair balance for that.
00:15:54
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I think there is an argument to be made with the lesser damage thing. In my opinion, even if someone catches you, it's really difficult to punish people with
00:16:11
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with the combo as soon as you can. Right. And the fact that you have an access to a combo that just literally press one button and it works out of any kind of baby out of any kind of punish, it seems a little bit like, you know, I don't know. It seems a little bit weird.
00:16:27
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Yeah, it just seems a little bit weird to me. I played a lot of fighting games, actually. I've never been let me be perfectly clear. I've never really been good at a fighting game. I've never truly been good at a fighting game. But I have dabbled and I've had, you know, some success with some games, but that's what makes it makes you feel good in a fighting game. It's like learning, getting better at the game. But I can understand where the industry is going and how there's so many
00:16:57
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Gamers are just becoming more casual, in my opinion. I think it's just they don't want to learn anything. It's the same thing in WoW and a lot of things. Just people don't care as much to get better at games, I feel. But I think that's not the case with some games. For me personally, I think Apex Legends
00:17:20
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It's such a high skill ceiling and I can't even fathom how to get that game We've talked a good fair share of apex on this podcast with our boy Nick rule Just shout outs to Nick because he has put in a lot of hours into apex And he has complained about that game so much that it's always just a great time
00:17:42
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What is this specific complaint about it? A lot of the things like I think it's mostly about how the game about game balances mostly. Yeah.
00:17:51
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Okay, I have no idea in terms of game balance or anything like that. I just know that my boomer brain cannot handle movement shooters on top of actually being good at aiming. Oh, God. Yeah, I know. I play shooters on controller, so it's like I could never reach a certain threshold that you would even need to go top to your place.
00:18:13
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Yeah, yeah, I can barely aim to begin with. And then I have to like run off the wall and like do some weird. Do once they started finding out tech in Apex, I was like, OK, this is done. This is I can't do this anymore. There's like different strafe methods. There's different key binds. I give up. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, with that, that's our headline of the week taken care of. We have a bunch more to cover. It's time for us to dive in to the week in review.
Video Game Releases Review
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recapping the major stories of video games and the world of tabletop. Looking over recent releases and reports from the Game Lounge crew, it's the Week in Review.
00:19:00
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Tales of Kinzera Zhao, which was shown off at the Game Awards last year. It's a Metroid-type, video-type game. Looks really good. It was last week's Game of the Week. Another Crab's Treasure released, which is Dark Souls but Crab. Stellar Blade, which came out on PlayStation 5, where everybody's enjoying the physics of that game.
00:19:21
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Yeah, the physics. See if he's out for PlayStation five. Oh, wow. And Sandland, the Akira Toriyama work game is out as well.
00:19:33
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Oh cool. So those are some of the big games. Those are just some of the big games that came out. In the world of video game
Helldivers' PSN Requirement Discussion
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news, starting off with Helldivers news that came out kind of last minute when I was prepping this, Helldivers on Steam will now require players to have a PlayStation Network account to continue to play the game. The mandatory login begins on May 30th and players will need to have their accounts linked by June 4th.
00:20:01
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Wait, okay. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Even if you don't have a place, you need to create a PlayStation account. Why? I don't know. I think that this is a Sony move and not a game dev move because I think Sony wants more people to create accounts with this because it's like now that you have this, we can kind of advertise a few other PS exclusives to you or just like stuff.
00:20:26
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I think it's mostly just, it's a dumb move. It's such a dumb move. It's a corporate move, right? This is a very corporate move. It's a corporate move. I don't think the Helldivers devs want this. And I think if there's enough backlash, Sony will back off and redact this. We have a month to fix this, so that's the good thing at least. It's only the start of the month. We have a month to throw a hissy fit to have Sony back off.
00:20:56
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I think consoles, I mean, this could also be a hot take. I think consoles are becoming more and more, I don't know, what's the word?
00:21:08
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out the door. I don't know. It just feels like in my head that these, these exclusives and these like, you know, Sony and Xbox are becoming more and more, um, forward with their corporate shit, the corporate things that they want to do, right? They want to like, like, like, I feel like that kind of thing just wouldn't happen.
00:21:28
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10 years ago when everybody was playing PS5 or was it what, PS3, PS4, and stuff in Xbox 360? They wouldn't need to do it. Who cares? They would never need to do it, but now they feel like they need to, and they don't care. They just don't care. Why would I need to make a PSN count? Beyond that too,
00:21:49
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My, if you don't play like on your PS4 or your Xbox for an X amount of time, uh, either your account gets closed or do you get hacked? Like almost, it's weird. I haven't played on my PSN accounts, completely gone hacked, closed everything. Can't access anything that I bought. I tried, I tried recently.
00:22:09
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because I was thinking about getting a PS5 for sure. I mean, it's just I'm not deal with that. Yeah, I have a I have a PS5. I do have a PS5. I also have a switch. But I feel like Nintendo consoles are like the exception to the console rule because Nintendo is so stingy with their properties that this does like, no, only play our stuff on like our new stuff on here. Obviously, emulators, you can play the dolphin emulator. You can play any game keeping game on your
00:22:37
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uh computer obviously you still need like a wee boat to like connect to it to do like some of the wee game stuff but it's like if you want to play modern switch hardware you've got to get the switch yeah well yeah i mean that's the yeah that's the switch is something completely different i think
00:22:55
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I think with the PS5 and the PS4 or PS5 and Xbox, what is the Xbox? I don't even know what to do. The Xbox, the Series X. Series X. It's like, I don't know. I mean, I mean, the Series X is almost like with how Xbox is now and Microsoft are doing things, it's almost like not even worth it to get Series X because they put all their stuff onto PC as well.
00:23:18
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No, that's what I'm saying. It feels like it's out. It feels like it's out the door. Xbox is kind of like thrown in the towel a little bit. Xbox has definitely done that. It's more or less PlayStation's turn. And like, while they do bring stuff to PC, it's not at the rate that Xbox does. Yeah. Back to more headlines. Oh, no.
00:23:46
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Back to more headlines take two interactive the publishers for Grand Theft Auto They're closing two game studios as part of a layoff plan for five percent of their staff roll seven who did all the ollie ollie series and Intercept games who did Kerbal space program
00:24:04
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I've heard good things about Kerbal Space Program. Yeah, but those two game studios are being shut down. Oh, whoa! Workers being laid off, yep. Very sad to see more of this happen.
00:24:18
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In Escape from Tarkov news, this was a headline and a half. They announced a brand new bundle for a special edition of the game, the Unheard Edition. This comes with a lot of exclusive features and content, including an offline co-op PvE mode for a total of $250.
00:24:37
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However, this has led to controversy as Tarkov des removed the former big bundle and said that all future DLC would be accessible through a season pass But this apparently doesn't count as DLC
00:24:50
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Yeah, I heard that that was the big hurrah, right? Is that they're trying to claim it's not DLC, but it's 100% DLC. This is DLC. And this is an outrageous price, too. Like, holy fuck. It's disgusting. It's crazy. I don't know why...
00:25:14
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I don't know why I for me personally, I really like the skin model, the skin like monetization model, right? You buy skins. Yes. That's how you support the game. Right. I like that. It's optional. I want to look cool. Sure. It doesn't impact the gameplay anyway. It's just, oh, hey, I can look cool. My gun could look cool. And I have this little key charm that's got a ripoff pokeball, but it's not a pokeball.
00:25:42
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Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. I think with all this DLC nonsense and buying it and stuff like that, so I don't know. I feel like that kind of stuff shouldn't be that expensive anymore to play these shooters. And one of the big reasons why I don't play Tarkov is because of the price, right? Don't you have to buy it, too? It's not just like... I think so. I appreciate you have to purchase Tarkov as well.
00:26:07
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Oh hey, you can get this version though. Which is like ridiculous, like because like special editions nowadays like sure it's like it's still expensive but it's like half that price of like $110 bucks or $130 at most for like a special edition.
00:26:22
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Yeah. I'm trying to think of other shooters that you have to pay for. I can't think of any off the top of my head. Like what other shooter multiplayer experience do you need to pay for? Nowadays. Because you don't need to buy Call of Duty to play Warzone. Yeah. Don't need to pay for Valorant. Do you need to buy CSGO too? CSGO is free I'm pretty sure.
00:26:45
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Yeah. Apex is free. Apex is free. Like, like they're making there. I think it's like any, like any new mainline Call of Duties you would pay for. Yeah. Like you have to pay for it to play the multiplayer, right? Yeah. I guess. Yeah. But that's really about it. That's really about it.
00:27:03
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Yeah, I think like Halo Infinite's multiplayer is free. But I guess Halo MCC you got to pay for, but you're getting like five games for a really good deal there. Yeah. Yeah, it just seems to me I could understand where like how it'd be hard to add skins like again, like Tarkov, because it's supposed to be realistic, right? So like skins would make it weird, I guess. I want to be an anime girl in Tarkov.
00:27:34
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I think I think it would be fun to do that too. But I think a lot of people would not like that. I think I incorrectly if I'm wrong or if you don't know anything about it, you don't have to comment on it. But I think there was something pay to win about the unheard. Yes, that is the big thing about like a lot of people are calling this one a pay to win because of all the other things that like are available in this pack as well. Yeah, it's it's it's it's it's not good, Chief.
00:28:04
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I don't understand how, how developers still release pay to win stuff. And like, like for years, nobody has liked pay to win for years. Nobody like this is not like a new thing. I thought it was very like apparent from everybody's side. Cause who, who likes that? You know, nobody's like rich. You know what I mean? A lot of people aren't rich. No one wants to feel like they, they can't, uh, they can't do well because someone else is dropping credit cards on them. You know, it just feels weird.
00:28:34
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Uh, back to the headlines, Blizzard, they've canceled Blizzcon 2024, but they said they will bring it back in future years.
BlizzCon 2024 Cancellation
00:28:41
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So it's not the end of Blizzcon, they're just canceling it again. Have you heard about the catastrophe of Cataclysm launch? No. I can understand why. What kind of stuff happened?
00:28:54
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Oof. In some t-shirt news, Uniqlo has teamed up with the Legend of Zelda for six t-shirts inspired by Tears of the Kingdom. That's cool. They look pretty cool. They're available now as well, I believe. Yeah, my wife really likes Zelda, so. Hell yeah. Might actually look into that. In Epic Games News, Fortnite News, Epic Games is giving Fortnite players more control over which emotes they see.
00:29:21
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The new update released on the 23rd allows players to mute a short list of animations that developers said could be used by players in confrontational ways and will mute their appearance to random players by default. However, however, have you heard of tea bagging?
00:29:38
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I think this this is about to bring teabagging back into the forefront. And I'm all for this epic games. Thank you for letting me teabag on my enemies once again, because they censored me giving them the L. I don't understand what what emotes in Fortnite would warrant. I don't know. I think is I think one of them. I think there's an emote that you hold the L to your forehead and you do like the fucking jig on the spot of like
00:30:07
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like i think that i think that's an emote i don't want someone really get that upset over that i feel like we're epic games i really see that's the question i don't actually know i don't really don't know i don't i can't get into the
00:30:22
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the mindset of someone that plays Fortnite as their mainstay game, right? Because I don't do that. So maybe if that's like all they do all day, and then you have some like 14 year old kid, you know, L dancing on your face that might frustrate you, but I don't know, it seems crazy to me. Yeah. I wouldn't really get upset with that.
00:30:44
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I think it's like if you want to stay savvy, I think somebody's needed an email. Just give them the good old tea bag. It's a classic. The classic. Just bring it back. It's always it's always the classic. I do it. I do it. Wow. All the time. Still a tea bag. And that's that's World of Warcraft. Oh, that's great. That's great. Yoshi P needs to add crouching to FFXIV so we can do that in FFXIV. Oh, not the emote, not just the emote, because there is a emote of squads.
00:31:09
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But, like, we need, like, a proper crouch button to properly teabag any time. Well, have you seen mail row using the Grovel email? No. That's probably the closest you can get to a teabag in 14. Okay, good to know. In some really cool zombie game news, seven days to die after 12 years is leaving Early Access.
00:31:37
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There will be an experimental release sometime this month and a stable 1.0 launch in June. Now, although no specific dates are available just yet, the game will be launching on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X with the 1.0 version. They actually teased this a bit at TwitchCon as I got to go over to the Funpimp's booth when I was at TwitchCon and they said, yeah, it's coming to console soon. I'm like, oh, when? But I can't give that info out now and I see why.
00:32:06
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That's pretty cool. This is really good in early access for 12 years. Oh, my God. Yes. 12 years, 12 years. And if you want to see like what the game was like back then, I believe that the achievement hunter videos of their first time playing seven days to die are still up on that on their channel. Rest in peace. Rooster Teeth and achievement hunter. But they I believe there still exists there. You can see how much this game has changed.
00:32:34
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Yeah, it's crazy. No, that's that is that is kind of insane. What makes a game stay in early access for so long, though? It's I think sometimes it's like if it's a smaller team, it could be like, well, we want to make sure that we have all of our all the kinks worked out and we want to have a version of the game that we're happy with that we can release fully everywhere else. Yeah. Yeah. OK. All right. Makes sense.
00:33:01
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But yeah, I'm excited about that. I've I've played seven days to die a lot and I've never played it I played it for the first time back on the ps4 because it used to be on ps4 and 360 and then the publisher that they had on the console side Stopped giving support to the game and the servers went down for it on the console side But when I got my PC, I got seven days to die and every December I tried to do a seven days to die sember
00:33:32
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Barathon where I just play Seven Days to Die all month.
00:33:35
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That seems really awesome. This is big news for you then. This is huge. This is huge news. This is big news. I am happy about this. I am so happy about this. That's really cool. That's really cool. Ian, I guess on the other side of Zombie's alien news, Earth Defense Force 6 has announced its release date for July 25th.
Earth Defense Force 6 Release Date
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Earth Defense Force. If you like Helldivers, you'll like Earth Defense Force.
00:34:04
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Was that the game that Helldivers was inspired of? I believe it's like with Helldivers 2 going the third person way, Earth Defense Force has been doing that for quite a bit of time now. Oh, yeah, never played Earth Defense. I still have yet to touch Helldivers to be honest with you. Yeah, same. I haven't touched the Helldivers. But you haven't touched either. No, I haven't. It just looks so good, but I...
00:34:27
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Seems like a game that you play that game, that's the game you end up playing for a long time, right? And I just don't think I can devote that time right now. No, I know I can. Looks really good. Oh, yeah. In, I guess, funny funky game news as a play on words, some ex-Lego devs have released the trailer for their brand new game, Funko Fusion.
00:34:55
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This will be out in the fall, and it'll feature over 60 characters from movies like Jurassic World, Hot Fuzz, and Back to the Future, as well as a bunch of other properties that Funko Pops have been a part of.
00:35:06
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It's actually kind of cool. And the fact that is being developed by X LEGO game devs is perfect because it's like that's how you do like these merchandise games is you take the formula of a LEGO game and you apply it to whatever your toy or goodie you're putting it towards. It's kind of insane how LEGO has kind of just
00:35:30
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like, made the perfect IP to include other IPs into it. It's just perfect. You can do anything with LEGO. Anything there. And now Funko's about to do the same, and if it goes well, it might get a sequel or spawn a few games, which we'll see. We'll see where that goes. That's pretty cool. In competition for The Sims news,
00:35:53
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The Sims is about to see some big competition as PUBG publisher Krafton has announced and showed off its brand new game, Enzoi. This is going to feature essentially a Sims-like game that's going to feature drivable cars, difficulty on relationships. Like if you want to, you can set your progression on how you level up relationships and difficulty scale for that. You'll have city editing that your Sims can sleepwalk and there's a whole bunch more.
00:36:20
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But he showed off like from the same developers as pub G. Yes publisher publisher. Oh for the same publisher. Okay. Yeah Yeah, I like yeah. Yes pub G is stepping out of their comfort zone and they are releasing a Like what? Okay, publisher publisher. That's cool. That's cool So
00:36:45
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I played a little bit of Sims, Sims 4 specifically. I've played it a little bit on PlayStation and on PC. Basically, it's like, you know what, I want to just build a house and see what happens. And it's like maybe like a week I'll play it for you. It's like, OK, I'm satisfied.
00:37:02
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Yeah, and yeah, that's about it. I've never touched it once. It's all right. But like I don't like how like if I think like the total price of like all the Sims 4 expansions exceeds over four hundred dollars. Oh my God. It seems for the patience. There's a yeah. What is the expansion? So they're one of the newest expansions gets you horses.
00:37:29
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Oh hell yeah. Horses. Hell yeah. I believe there's a college life. There's a Star Wars expansion. There is actually a Star Wars expansion. There is. There is a Star Wars expansion for The Sims 4.
00:37:43
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You know what, uh, I don't know why I'm thinking about this now. It just sounds ridiculous that Sims has a Star Wars expansion. I was, I have to do power sim power, power wash simulator is a fantastic game. And like the fact that also the tomb Raider DLC and the final fantasy seven DLC are free with it is great.
00:38:06
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Wait, wait, free, wait, Final Fantasy DLC in the game? Yeah, so there are six Final Fantasy VII locations that you clean in Power Watch them.
00:38:15
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I had no idea. No, I was better. I was better freak out about the war hammer. Oh, yeah. Now there's the war hammer. There's also Back to the Future. There's SpongeBob SquarePants. I did SpongeBob when I saw war hammer. I was like, wait, what? Yeah. Yeah. There's Final Fantasy 7, though. I had no idea. It's actually so crazy. The motorcycle, the truck, the scorpion tank, the air buster tank, seventh heaven. And there's I think there's another one that I'm forgetting.
00:38:45
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And I think it's just a museum exhibit of the Buster Sword and a few other iconic items. Yeah. That's cool. That's really cool, actually. Yeah. It's a cool one. And then with the Tomb Raider one, you clean the entire Lara Croft mansion. That's so cool. It's a big one. That one's a big one of that one.
00:39:07
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It's well, the reason why I brought it up, it's just so funny to see these games that you never think have like. It's because Square Enix published Powerwash Sim. Wait, what? Really? Yeah. How do you think they got both Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy in that? They're the publisher. I don't know. They got SpongeBob somehow at war. Yeah, the SpongeBob one still surprises me to this day. But yeah, Square's publishing.
00:39:41
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In Twitch cool mod news, but you won't have access to the mod blurbs who is a twitch streamer created a mod for Skyrim that allows his chat to input custom voice lines for all the NPCs and if the NPC dies in the game the chatter gets banned or
00:39:58
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Oh, that's so sick. Now, sadly, this mod isn't available on Nexus or anything. It was kind of just a one time thing. But there is that slight possibility that maybe in the future this will get put on. But it's a really cool thing. I saw the TikTok of this and it was insane. I can totally understand why he wouldn't release that. That is a very unique content idea that is like.
00:40:20
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That's insane, that's insane. Wait, so you're telling me, so if a chatter types, that NPC will then say whatever it types? I don't know, I think it's, I don't know the exact, like, how, how, how, like, what you have to type for that NPC to say the thing. But it's basically, your chatter could target, I think it's like, they target, like, one of the child NPCs, and they could go, yo, dog, this chat's pretty poggers.
00:40:44
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And the child will say it? Yeah, the child will say that. Oh, my God. And then. Oh, OK. That's insane. That's really cool. Yeah, it's really cool. And what feels like it should have happened by now, but is just about to happen.
Jackbox Naughty Pack Release
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Jackbox Games is making its very first M rated Jackbox Party Pack.
00:41:07
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M rated. Yes. You know, it's funny. Whenever I play Jackbox, it always becomes M rated. It always becomes M rated. Yes. This one is designed specifically to be M rated. It's the Jackbox Naughty Pack, a collection of three adult themed experiences that promise laughter, wit and a touch of irreverence. I'm I'm a little bit concerned that they call it the naughty pack.
00:41:37
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I don't. Are they going to lean into the dicks or like what are they going to do? We're about to. I don't know exactly. You don't know what the three games are yet, but I'm excited to see what this is. I have every party pack. I've played every party pack. Oh, you played every single one. I have played every single one. I even played. Did you know, Jack, when it was still a single game like its own, like their first game that they ever released. OK, so yeah.
00:42:06
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In cancellation news, Project Dagger, which was a new action-adventure IP that had been in development at People Can Fly, the people who brought us Bulletstorm, since 2020, that's been officially cancelled. The studio said in a report that the decision to halt development was made following an unsatisfactory evaluation of the current state of the game. Sad to hear, but this thing does happen. So they cancelled the project entirely? Yes.
00:42:32
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Sadly, no use. Cut your losses kind of scenario. It's always it's always difficult for me to wrap my hand around a cancellation because you've already put like money into the development of it, right? But it must have been really bad for them to say to pull out a tire. That's insane. Yeah, definitely.
00:42:52
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Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 in partnership with IBM. This isn't the first time Microsoft has open-sourced MS-DOS, as its GitHub repository has versions 1.25 and 2.0, which were originally shared at the Computer History Museum back in 2014.
00:43:12
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Yeah, I don't know where it is, but it's somewhere in the world I think it's in America. I think it's it's somewhere in the US. I'm pretty sure Yeah, or in Germany because usually if there's like there's a video there's like a really like old-school video game museum in Germany as well that has That's so crazy to think about there's a torture like no pain pong in Germany. I
00:43:37
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So what, a pain pong? Pain pong. What does that mean? Basically, so it's pong, but you and your opponent are both holding a shot, like attached to the table is like a shock device. And if you get scored on it, it sends the zaps. And where was it made? In Germany, you said? Yeah.
00:43:59
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Yeah, that sounds about right. What's it called? No, I was thinking about how crazy it is to think that the technology that we're using today, like the cutting edge stuff will be like,
00:44:13
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in his museum eventually. How weird is that? How weird is that the thing about? I might be in a museum one day. If either of us get big enough, we could end up as a wax figure in Madame Tussauds. Standing next to LeBron James and Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Yeah, I think that's where I'd need to be situated, right? Under LeBron James, right there. Right in front. Front and center.
00:44:41
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Hey, I wouldn't say no to getting waxed in a museum. Getting waxed in a museum. Have you ever been to a wax museum? I've been to the, I've been to the medansusodes. I've been to the one in San Fran. Okay. Is that the same one that's in New York? I feel like, I feel like they're all the same because I know there's one in Vegas as well. Yeah. I want to, I've only been to the one in New York city. It's, it's,
00:45:06
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I think it was cool then. I think it's a little freaky now for some reason. Like the thought of going back in would kind of unsettle me. Yeah, no, definitely. That's what my old you get the creepier wax figures become. Yeah, yeah.
Nintendo's Request on Gary's Mod
00:45:23
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In Gary's mod news, Gary's mod is removing 20 years worth of Nintendo related items from his Steam Workshop following a request takedown from guess who? Nintendo.
00:45:37
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Like why like why like why? Why why do they need to take things off of Gary's mod? It's so crazy when you think about it Yeah, it is crazy. But at the end of the day it is that it is Nintendo's properties so they can do what they want They can do what they want. It just seems so like Like who even talks about Gary's mod nowadays, right? Like yeah, it was the first time I've heard about Gary's mod in like five years Like yeah, it doesn't really matter if it stays up like come on
00:46:06
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Not saying yeah, uh in a matter in a lawsuit news the tattoo artist who inks LeBron James and tried to sue take two interactive for his work making it over to the NBA 2k games has lost his case
00:46:21
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He filed the suit against the developer back in 2017 before amending it in 2019 He claimed that his work on James being replicated across six iterations of the 2k games was a copyright infringement However, the jury unanimously sided with take two on April 19th. That's so insane. That's so insane. I mean like Trying to get your bag, I guess but like at the same time it's so ridiculous a claim It's it's
00:46:51
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What? No, no, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. It's just it's just ridiculous. You know, I don't know in my head. It's short. It's your art. But you're like, it's on LeBron. Yeah. Body. True. We're never going to put LeBron James anywhere. Yeah. It's your art. He's like a walking copyright for you. So. Yeah, exactly. You should be grateful that your artwork is in this game because someone might be like, oh, where do I get LeBron's tattoo artist? Where can I get that work?
00:47:20
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Yeah. It always surprises me when people try to like go along with really ridiculous lawsuits. Yeah. How far, how does it get that far to where it like, it becomes real? I still think one of the... No continue, sorry. I think one of the funniest lawsuits that we've seen is Nintendo suing Bowser.
00:47:43
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Nintendo suing Bowser. What happened? Well, you didn't hear about this. So there was a there was a guy called Gary Bowser who was illegally part of a pirating scheme where they would modify switches and put pirated games on them and sell them and distribute them.
00:48:02
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And he got caught and got arrested, put in jail. And he basically all the rest of the money that he earns is going to Nintendo with how much Nintendo sued him for. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, that makes sense. But his name is Gary. His name is Gary Bowser, which is hilarious. I was going to bring up the the guy that tried to sue Twitch because the Twitch was recommending hot tub streamers to him and he
00:48:32
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his lawsuit read that he spent too much time. Too much time pleasuring himself. And so that was grounds for for a $20 million lawsuit or something like that. That's right. Wow. Wow. Unbelievable. Like imagine like just having a thought process that that is a valid reason to sue.
00:49:03
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That's great that's Wow Unbelievable the nerve of some people how dance which show me hot tub streamers I demand 20 million of your finest dollars. It was insane. It's insane
00:49:22
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In Xbox news Xbox they're holding its game showcase on June 9th at 10 a.m. Pacific time with a Redacted direct afterwards now it's currently redacted but people believe and people have been decoding what this game
Xbox Game Showcase Speculation
00:49:38
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could be that we believe people are believing and assuming and theorizing that it's the next Call of Duty game which they believe black ops 5 since Treyarch are the lead devs for the next Call of Duty and
00:49:52
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Yeah. Even though this would technically be Black Ops 6 because the fifth Black Ops game is Cold War. So Black Ops is about to go. At least like a Black Ops game. Within modern warfare or something. Within the modern Call of Duty. Am I crazy? No. Cold War was the last Black Ops game.
00:50:17
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Okay, Cold War, but that was like within like Warzone or something, right? No, I think it had Warzone and I honestly don't. I'm so confused when it comes to anything Call of Duty nowadays. It used to be so easy to think about it. Now it's not at all. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. In recollection news, recall news, Jax Pacific, which is a California toy-based company,
00:50:45
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recalled 17,500 units of its Mario Kart 24 volt ride-on racer cars on April 25th because of a crash hazard related to its battery-powered acceleration pedal. Basically the pedal could get jammed by just like a rock and it would just continue to accelerate and
00:51:07
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Well, what does a toy car do but crash? And it's a Mario Kart car. So I think it goes faster than I think it's a little faster than those other toy cars. Oh, that's funny. Oh, that's really funny. So they had to recall those for child safety because, of course, a child is the only one that can really drive that. Yeah.
00:51:29
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Oh, oh like you like those side of it like those like you meant like a little RC car No, no, no, I'm talking about those like bigger cars that like children can drive Yeah, yeah, not like a toy car I'm talking about like the ones that you can see out on so much driveway. You see the kid driving around in a circle Oh my god, did anyone get hurt or something? I'm assuming one or two people got hurt considering this maybe a few more got hurt and
00:51:54
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Imagine being a kid, and you just keep accelerating, and you don't know how to stop. Jesus Christ. Apparently, I'll just hit the brakes, honey. I don't know how. I can't. This thing got no brakes, Bob. Yeah, that's how it's done. It's literally real life Mario Kart. Real life Mario Kart, yeah. There is no stopping. There's no stopping. Unless you throw a blue shell at them, then they might stop. But even then, but even then, I think they got that infinite mushroom glitch going on.
00:52:23
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I think the blue shell. Well, I have two opinions. One, if I'm in first place, I think the blue shell is the most bullshit thing ever invented and it should ever exist. But if I'm in any other place, I think it's the best thing ever added to Mario Kart. Fair enough. I think everybody shares that viewpoint.
00:52:44
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In Street Fighter news, Akuma has his release date for Street Fighter 6 as the last year one DLC character, May 22nd. I personally think it upset me that Akuma wasn't a mainline character and they made him DLC. I think it's because... I think it's because the last time we saw Akuma was Tekken. Yeah.
00:53:09
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And I think that's why also they also I I'm not Capcom. So I'm not in there. But I'm not the ones in their minds so hard to say why. But at least he's coming back. Yeah, at least he'll be there. At least he'll be there. Yeah, I think it was one of the coolest fighting and characters to ever exist. He really has asked him. He really is. Yeah. And Bison and Bison. So crazy.
00:53:36
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Rest in peace to M. Bison. I really like the Street Fighter universe. I even like the movie, even though it was so silly. The live action one. The live action one. You see, I know that... Didn't they come out with a newer one? Or am I crazy? I think there was like an animated one, but I might be wrong. But I know the original one, when Chun-Li is confronting Bison of, you killed my whole family, my village!
00:54:02
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To you, that was probably the worst day of your life, but to me, it was just a Tuesday. I like Street Fighter's lore. I like the whole, like the psycho energy from invites and all that shit. I think it's so cool. It's cool stuff. It's really cool stuff.
00:54:22
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In old N64 news that's a secret has been uncovered So Castlevania legacy of darkness that released 25 years ago But a brand new Konami code has just been discovered for it And for those who don't know the Konami code up up down down left right left right a B start
00:54:42
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or BA start, whichever one it is. Oh, like a cheat code. Well, you know, the original Konami code that you could enter, like in every can I never played Castlevania. Oh, so. Well, the classic Konami code will be for some. Well, YouTube or Jupiter Climb has uploaded a video revealing that there was a hidden Konami code that nobody knew about.
00:55:00
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25 years later, like right now. That's so insane. So the code is the Konami code doubled. So it's up, up, up, up, down, down, down, down, left, left, right, right, left, left, right, right, L, R and Z twice in the main menu. This gives players access to create a brand new save file and see all four characters unlocked.
00:55:24
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So Reinhardt, Schneider, Kerry Fernandez, and Henry Oldry are all available from the beginning of the game. You know, I wish games still did that. I wish games still did.
00:55:39
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I don't know. That is insane for a secret to go. And someone figured it out, right? It wasn't like a developer kind of was like, hey, guys, this exists, right? That was like figured out 25 years later. That could have never been found out. Well, you see, the game devs put this in there because that's what usually give them access to their debug mode. And that's how they would test things back in the day. It's like, OK, hey, we need to test this one thing. So we don't want to progress the whole game. We just need to get access to this section.
00:56:06
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enter the code, go into debug mode, get to where you need to go. That's insane. Yeah. And the Konami code, the Konami code specifically is very famous. It's like the most iconic cheat code there is. Yeah. Yeah. I think they should keep cheat codes and games though. Yeah. Like I think like multiplayer games, but of like modern, of like modern games. I know that still have cheat codes. I think GTA five is the one that comes to mind recently.
00:56:34
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GTA 5 as she kids. I mean, that was like always a classic, right? GTA always said she kids. Yeah. But yeah, but I think that's like the only ones that still does to my knowledge at least. And lastly, in the world of gaming news stuff, there are talks of a Kingdom Hearts movie. I don't know where about some talks. Yeah. So what we know is that these talks are it's good. They want to combine 3D animation with live action.
00:57:02
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OK, so it's either going to be Sora, Riku and Kairi are the live action and Donald Goofy, Mickey are animated or the main cast of Sora like Donald Goofy are the animated and they go into the live action Disney worlds. It would have to be it would have to be done by Disney, though, right? Yes, that's why there's that's why it's like it's only talks and rumors about this with Disney currently.
00:57:28
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That's actually kind of insane now. That means there's a lot of money behind it, right? Well, again, it's still just talks. We don't know where any of this is going. If these are also could just be rumors like we don't know like how true this is or if there's going to be anything from this. I'd love to see a Kingdom Hearts live action movie because it's just going to confuse the more of everybody so much more. Thanks to Tetsuya Nomura. You know, I've never played a Kingdom Hearts game, so I don't.
00:57:56
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I really have no opinions on it. I personally did not like it, at least as a kid. I'll see what I, I'll give a good first impression of it when I play it. But the first game is the first game is janky. I will say that as a kid. Yeah. I mean, I shouldn't like the Disney characters in it. It threw me out of like the fantasy of it all. But like, I got to see the game. I got to play it to understand it, I guess.
00:58:20
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Yeah, I like the franchise. It's probably my favorite game franchise to this day. Yeah, because I have I platinum to the main three and I platinum chain of memories, which gave me a deep, honestly, platinum chain of memories gave me a deeper appreciation for chain of memories. It.
00:58:38
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Is it tied in well the the Disney characters? Some are some are like obviously your main cast of Donald Goofy Mickey like that cast. They're tied in perfectly well. It's your side characters that you like for worlds that are like it varies on the world. I think Aladdin is done well. Pirates of the Caribbean is done well. And.
00:59:04
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What else are other worlds? I'm trying to wait. You're totally part of the Caribbean. Is it? Yeah, that's in the second and third game. Pirates of the Caribbean is in there. Took me a second. I was like, oh, yeah, parts of the Caribbean. Yeah, yeah. That was that's like the most surreal one, especially. It's like when they made the third game, they use like live action, like the live action like villain actors for the Pirates world. Wait, what? It's.
00:59:34
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Like, when you look at the art style of, like, in Kingdom Hearts 3 and see Donald and Goofy and Sora compared to the rest of the cast, they feel more animated and the rest of them feel like it's actually the movie.
00:59:45
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Oh, that's weird. It's weird at times, yes. I might like it. I don't know. I got to say, what game do you suggest for me to play first? OK, so to all newcomers coming into Kingdom Hearts, you should always just start with the first game, even though it is probably very janky and whatnot and movement is better and so much stuff is better than two. Start with the first one because you won't understand the ending or the start of two at all.
01:00:11
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Yeah, if you go into really think about that, too. Yeah, because it's it's the story. It's not like Final Fantasy, right? The story actually carries over. Yeah, the story carries over. The timeline of Kingdom Hearts is nuts because you start with the first game that you play two spinoffs of.
01:00:27
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Re-chain of memories which is basically I consider chain of memories the proper epilogue of the first Kingdom Hearts game Because it's still Sora you still it's like it could it's it happens directly after the first game ends okay, and then you play that and then you watch a five-hour movie of 358 358 over two days
01:00:50
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You watch that to understand who a certain character is. And then you play Kingdom Hearts 2 because that certain character is 358 over two days is who you start the game as in Kingdom Hearts 2. Hold on. It's a five hour movie. Yeah. I say five hours. I think it's less than that. But basically it's what they did because 358 over two days was a DS game.
01:01:16
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And so because people don't have access to that much anymore, because of the 1.5, 2.5 HD trilogies, they turned 358 over two days and coded into movies where basically they took all the key points and all the other cutscenes and made them into essentially a game movie where you just watch it and you understand the lore.
01:01:37
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They're fun, they're good watches. It might be interesting, but five hours. Five hours. I think that's stretching it. I think it's more like between like two, three, four. I honestly don't remember because it's been so long. It's a watch. You do that, then you can play Kingdom Hearts 2, and then you play Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, which is a prequel to the first two, the entire series so far. Isn't there another Kingdom Hearts game supposed to release?
01:02:04
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Yes, so there's the mobile game Kingdom Hearts. Oh, what's it called? But there's a mobile game that's currently in the works. That's been in the works for a while that were like, oh, hey, when's the beta coming out soon? And then they're like, oh, yeah, we're about to release it. Ha psych, we're not releasing it yet because it's not quite ready yet. I can't remember what it's called. But that's supposed to be, I think, to my knowledge, this one's a tie into the other mobile game, which also takes place like hundreds of years before the franchise technically starts.
01:02:34
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Okay. All right. But yeah, that's a lot. But yeah, after birth by sleep, you then watch the the Kingdom Hearts coded movie. Then you play Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance, which was the game for the 3DS, but they put it in the 2.8 HD collection.
01:02:51
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And then you'll watch Kingdom Hearts Union Cross, which is a one-hour movie giving you basically the simple lore of the Union Cross video game, which is basically, here's how the Keyblade War started.
01:03:09
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And why not? That's that's kind of crazy. And then you play Kingdom Hearts and then you play Kingdom Hearts zero point two, which was a tech demo for Kingdom Hearts three, where, yep, which basically goes in, which is basically how the the prequel to Kingdom Hearts three. And then you play Kingdom Hearts three. And that's the timeline. Kind of like it kind of like that. You you laying it out for me like that makes it a lot bigger. I thought it was only 30 games.
01:03:36
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No, it's a three. It's a three game franchise divided into ten games. Oh my God. Oh, it's sorry. I forgot. After Kingdom Hearts 3, you have to you have to play the rhythm game Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory.
01:03:52
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Because the ending of the game is what cues you into Kingdom Hearts 4. Oh my god. All right Which is like I love rhythm games like the game is was great, but it's like yeah, this is a mandatory game, isn't it? Huh? So silly and this is why even though he has done cool things with file fancy I despise Tetsuya Nomura
01:04:18
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It's actually kind of fun. Okay. All right. All right. Well, I guess let's start with one then. Yes. Okay. Uh, that's it for the world of videos. That's it for the world of video game news in the live service game news updates with file fantasy 14.
Final Fantasy XIV Updates
01:04:32
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Don trail July 2nd, the official release June 28th, early access. If you pre-ordered it.
01:04:38
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And also, a lot of events happening. The Yo-kai Watch event is on now until June 25th. You have lots of time to get your weapons. I got all of mine. That was painful. You grinded it. I grinded it. You grinded it. I've been slacking, dude. I only have seven weapons. I've been slacking. It's something that's not that bad. You're only ten away.
01:05:03
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Only 10 away. Yeah, I mean, it's really not that bad of a grind though. It's really not, no. To be honest, I think if you do it all in like one day, it's a bad grind. Yeah. But it's definitely, you have enough time. Yeah. And it's also dying. It's also slowly, you can see people slowly starting to die down on the fates. So it's time to, it's easy to just pull out the blue mage now. Cause people, there's not as many people running them now. So yeah. Head to dynamist or Oceania and pop the blue mage and just go fate farming. You'll get everything.
01:05:31
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That's what I did. I went over to Dynamis. And I'm like, you know, there's like barely anybody here. And I blue mage the fuck out of it. So what what spells the blue mage spells? I don't know how much Final Fantasy want to make this, but OK, so recommended, recommended. You're obviously you're going to need your vibe check. So that's Rams breath and ultralight. Yeah, you need your vibe check as many AOE spells as you can or as many primal spells as you can. So like, yeah.
01:06:00
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your earthen fury or your ramu titan your efric garuda your shiva leviathan preferably the shiva one because i think the leviathan was just a buff but i don't know for sure because i have it yeah shiva one's like the the konal the arc yeah uh you're gonna want uh ravanas you're gonna want sophias and you're gonna want
01:06:21
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Uh, there's like a suck one, right? Oh, yes, you're gonna want you want uh, you're you're good suck, which I can't remember the name of you want the good suck and you're also going to want Um, the one you get from metoya is relict. Yeah, okay All right. All right. Well, maybe it's just your basic. I was afraid to bloomage because a lot of people were
01:06:44
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Annoyed at Blue Mages, they were upset at Blue Mages. If there's a lot of people around like Fate Farm and whatnot, I understand the gripes, but if you're like one of the only few people there and you get to one and no one else is there, I say just Blue Mage. Just do it. Just do it. No one's there to judge you. In my head you should just do it anyway because like...
01:07:04
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The game lets you do it, so you just do it. Like, the only thing that would stop you is people that don't blue mage. Exactly. So they should level up your blue. They should level up your blue mage. Do the blue carnival. It's all fun. I finished. I finally finished my blue carnival. I did the last one recently. It's a cool, cool fight.
01:07:25
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Have you gotten the perfect blue? No, God, no, I am not. I have to I have to do it. I'm not going to go for those achievements. I mean, my perfect blue for that's for what? As a magia, the first boss of the blue carnival. You got to use every elemental, every physical and like not take damage from his alleys. Yeah, it's honestly not that bad. Like legit, my channel I'd recommend for you is Blue Academy.
01:07:54
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Cause they have full water blue Academy. He has a walkthrough for every single blue carnival, how to use each stop optimally. Uh, he has a build load up for like, here's how you build a tank. Here's how you build a DPS. Here's how you build a healer here. And he also gives you a guide on like how to do your weekly blue challenges as well.
01:08:14
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Okay. Yeah. Great YouTube channel. That's a highly recommended people doing blue. I'm going to need that for the perfect blue. Yeah. Um, as to the other events, the Google tombstone event, the Genesis two event, may 14th to June 24th. Have you seen the rewards that they are giving us for this?
01:08:32
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No, they are not great. They are. I mean, that's the most recent. They're not great. This is the Mughal event. That's that's been spread out. It's supposed to be two, right? Yes. OK, I'm pulling up the what they are again because I got to double check what they are. So I only care about mounts. So mount wise, you can get the the Uffiti, the gorilla.
01:08:57
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OK, for fifth. Oh, I already have that. All right. So do I. You can get Gabriel Gabriel a from for 50, which is from the Baja Southern Front Lockboxes. Oh, oh, Gabriel. Yeah, that you get Gabriel. That's so for that might be something good to farm. No. I mean, I guess I mean, how do you sell Gabriel sells for under a mill? I know that much.
01:09:24
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Yeah, never mind, probably not that worth it. Other mounts, you can get the Direwolf, which you usually get from the Ixol vendor by completing the Ixol Beast tribes. Oh, I'm definitely getting that. I'm avoiding Beast tribes like the plague. You get the Titan Horse, the Thordon Bird, and the Bianco Dog. And that's it for mounts. Those are the mounts.
01:09:49
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I think did the Titan horse. That's so ridiculous. They should have put any air amounts. Oh, no, they use this is usually how they do it. They usually they'll usually do like one of the one trial per expansion mount reward as this. That's usual. That's normal for them.
01:10:06
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It just seems so silly because the AR mounts have no difficulty in farming, I guess. Yeah, no, absolutely. Especially when you get to low levels. Yeah. Yeah. Like why would you ever want to Mughal farm the Titan mount? You can just go in there and get it. Minion wise, the big minion, and this is kind of a big deal, the Dormakin. The Dormakin is like the top minion that's worth 50 of these tombstones. The only way to get the Dormakin is by submarine exploration.
01:10:35
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which is only a thing you can get if you own a medium or larger house, because that's how you get access to the workshop. Okay. Okay. So the DOMA kit is worth it. What about an FC house? Or I think it's an FC house. I think it's an FC house because I have a workshop in an FC. Yeah. As long as you have access to a workshop, that's the only way you can get this medium.
01:10:58
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or you buy it on the market board for up. I think the lowest it's going for right now is like 800,000, but it's usually up there in the millions. Damn. So this one's definitely worth it to grind out for. If you want a koi fish, that's all it is. A koi fish. It's literally just a koi fish. Yes. That's the big mini. And the other two minions that you can get for seven a pop are the petite, pteranodon and the behemoth hair.
01:11:26
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What is the behemoth hair the behemoth? It's a small behemoth. That's all it is. It's a small tiny behemoth Lieutenant behemoth boy the What are they called? Orchestrian rolls are blinding indigo, which you get from Eden 3
01:11:46
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Uh, on windy battles show like, yeah, I'm so lost with roles and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, on windy battles, which is a treasure dungeon, uh, orchestrian role and keepers of the lock, which is gotten through the Ananta beast tribe. Okay. Uh, those are that the Alamegan bar, a barding is your barding for, uh, this, uh, two thousand event, which is usually obtained through the peaks, fate, rattle and Humbaba.
01:12:16
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Yeah, this seems very weak in comparison to some of the other events. Yeah, no, it is. It's very weak. And the last thing that people would care about is your accessory that isn't the Emerald Carbuckle earring, which is the big worth 100 reward. The Cheerful Checkered Parasol is the fashion accessory that you can get. Cheerful Checkered, which is the checkered umbrella. Cheerful is a checkered umbrella, yeah.
01:12:43
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And then, of course, triple triad cards you can get. You can get the paisa, the doll, Mel Innocence and nine s. OK, OK. Of this entire thing, do you know how many rewards I need that are like us that are not the 100 point earring? Do you know how many of these I need? How many? Four, four, four. So Doma Kin is the big one. That's the thing I'm going to be farming for because I have over like 410 minions.
01:13:11
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I think it's silly to put these mounts that are super easily obtained at even 80.
Mounts and Fashion Accessories Discussion
01:13:18
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I mean, the Uffiti costs like 8400 sky builder scripts normally. So that's how you would normally obtain it is through crafting. And Gabriel is through lock boxes in the southern front. So it's like you've got a you got a it's RNG based on Gabriel, but Gabriel is not a super expensive. Gabriel is really not that hard to get. I got it within like
01:13:41
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I won't, I won't, I won't doubt plan. I didn't open a lot of lock boxes for it, but I did want like a week of Baja, two weeks of Baja and I got it. It just seems like adding the Baja man is weird to me because wouldn't they want people to do the Baja content? I mean, it's a good way for people to want to do Baja because like there's maybe some people who aren't even in Baja yet that can grind this out and get that mount now.
01:14:08
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Yeah, but like it's Eh, they use like I wish that they brought they put in some amounts that haven't been seen in a long while Like that's what I'd like. Give us the chocolate car parker. Give us the butterfingers exclusivity core parker mount again
01:14:26
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Wait, there's butterfingers. Yeah, okay. So back in the day, this was, well, I don't even remember how many years ago. They did a collaboration with Butterfingers in North America where he bought a Butterfingers code for the chocolate co-porker. Okay. It wasn't available. It was not available in Canada because of Quebec.
01:14:46
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Because Quebec has a stupid law that prevents in-game codes on that kind of stuff. Oh, and you're in Canada? I'm in Canada. So you couldn't get it? I couldn't get it because of Quebec! And you wonder why Western Canada dislikes Quebec so much. It's actually more political, but that's my joke.
01:15:07
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That's so funny, man. You got mount locked from your country. Yeah, it's because of Quebec. Any like tie-ins that have happened in the past like that, Quebec has basically prevents Canada from having that. It's insane. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy, huh? Yeah, no, it definitely feels like the mounts this time around though are not. Yeah, it's a pretty, it's not, the Google Genesis 2, not as great.
01:15:29
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Make it rain that starts in the day 15th to 31st That's the gold saucer event where all MGP is doubled or there's like there's a modern multiplier on all the MGP you make Plus a quest line. So with the with the with the Google event coming back. Can you still? Trade in the terms for MGP. Yes, that is all their classic stuff like there's some
01:15:57
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There's some housing items, armor items. I don't know if like opening the envelopes doubles it, but if it does or like as the modifier to it, but if it does. That's insane. If it does.
01:16:10
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then it's time to stockpile your MGP, because that's what I'll, essentially, I'm gonna get the minion and then stockpile MGP, because one, I've spent a lot of MGP on some triple triad cards, and I also need the cloud strife card still. But my next mount that I need from the gold saucer is the two million mount. The two million, I need all the mounts. Now as such, I have a couple of mounts, but like,
01:16:38
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that one of the first that was like my first introduction to like cool mounts in the game was the gold saucer. Right. So it's always been like a thing to like to farm for me. And I kind of miss the first Mughal event for the recent one for the MGP stuff. And it felt bad. But now they're bringing it back. That makes me feel better. Yeah. You see, the big thing that got me into the MGP mount specifically.
Wondrous Tales and MGP Strategies
01:17:01
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So I was doing my wondrous tales one week.
01:17:04
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Before I was in like current patch because if you didn't know you cannot get a gold certificate if you're not in current patch Instead if you get three lines instead you would get three so you would get like five silver certificates instead they
01:17:23
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Yeah, so if you're not if you're sorry if your character isn't level 90 you cannot get if you don't have a level 90 character You cannot get a gold certificate from Chloe
01:17:36
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Uh, okay. But like, but like, if you, you don't have to, because, okay, hold on, hold on. Cause I've been using the wonder of sales level, my characters. Yes. Yes. You just need to have a level 90 level. That's a point. Yes. I do have a level 90 character. You can get, you get a gold certificate, but if you don't have any level 90 characters, you don't get a good certificate yet. Okay. I got three lines when I didn't have a level 90 character.
01:18:02
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And I'm like, well, I don't, I don't want five silver. That's insane. That's a scam. That's a scam. But the, but the other award is like, is basically a million MGP. Oh, that's basically the other award.
01:18:17
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Oh, that works out. I got a million MGP and that's what let me buy essentially every minion at the gold saucer, a majority of the triple triad cards and all the mounts that were like under a million. Yeah, that's how I got all of those, like I'm a good chunk of those mounts. Yeah, that's insane. You know, you're making me we're talking about this now. You're making me realize I don't think I got my jumbo jackpot last week.
01:18:47
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I forgot again. Oh god. Yeah, I know with me being on the triple triad grind recently I've been like in the gold saucer a lot Yeah, I'm six cards away from the mount from the met your sick. Well, what cards do you need? So I need three from completing baja two of them you get from an NPC that you get that you get access to after completing Zadnor and One of them you get for six clusters. I
01:19:12
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I have the clusters ready to go. I'm two ranks away from finishing Baja. And then I just got to do the ship. So all of the triad cards you're missing are from Baja? No, that's half of them. Half of them are from Baja. The other three I need, I need to do Eden, just regular Eden, Eden 12. I got to do that to get that card. And then I got to get Lunar Bahamut from Bagelthon. Oh, I actually think I have that card.
01:19:39
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And I need to get the pork sequin from a toy is relict. Those are the last three I need because last night I grinded and I got two of them. I got who did I get last night? I got Filia from. Was the whole Mr. Switch and I got. What's the other one unknown from? And I need this editor. Yeah, you know, I think I need to also get every triple try card now that I'm thinking about it. Yeah.
01:20:06
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That's gonna be a grind. How long did it take you just by comparison? How long have I been hard- I've been doing this hardcore now for about three-ish weeks?
01:20:15
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Maybe four, I would say about a month. But again, to get every card, you are required to at least reach Eureka Hydatos. That is required because all, as long as you reach Hydatos, you have access to every card that you can get because you just battle them, the NPC them. You're required to finish Baja and you're required to max out your fates in both Lakeland and Kalusha.
01:20:42
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OK, I believe less like the best of things. I think that there's a little bit. Oh, you also have to reach the floor 30 on heaven on high. Oh, I haven't done any deep dungeon. Yeah, you know, four thirty is required for one of the NPCs to drop you some cards. OK, I don't know if there's any. What's your favorite deep dungeon? I've really only done like I've done each one up to level.
01:21:09
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So, uh, I would say palace is my favorite deep dungeon only because like we did a, we did a run to get to level 100. Uh, and we were going to go beyond, but we wiped on floor 90. So if you'll wipe, you can't go until four is what I wanted beyond.
01:21:25
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Oh, yeah. Oh, it's not. But we we got the floor 100 clear, which is bad. We got the floor 100, which was good enough for me at the time because doing the other floors doesn't really get you anything aside, aside from like the pot shards that you're farming for and the rare minions mounts, because it's the only way to really get the night peg assist without spending millions of gil. Yeah.
01:21:50
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Have it on high and Eureka Orthos. I've only gone to floor 30 which is because there was quests high behind it because I've done every side quest I possibly can do at this point Okay
01:22:03
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Yeah. You've done every side quest. Every side. Like the ones I've worked on. The ones that are still tied to Eureka are the ones that got to finish. The few, the one that's left with Baja. There's one that is tied to getting to floor 100 with Eureka Orthos that I got to do eventually. And then there's like 10 behind Island Sanctuary, which I'm working on right now. Damn. Damn.
01:22:27
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Yeah. You know, I was like this with WoW for many years, which is getting everything and collecting everything. I'm trying to hold back in 14, but like the content is just so much fun to grind. It is. It really is. Like, honestly, I also have beats in every NPC in Triple Triad and collected all their cards if they were an overworld NPC.
01:22:52
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In every area, like there is no triple triad icons on any of my mini maps. I think there's a couple triple triad guys that cheat too. Like when you just got to know the decks, really, you got to know your rule set. Like I would say if you're going to do triple triad card hunting, you should have a deck for reverse and you should have a deck for ascension.
01:23:14
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And a deck for one and a deck for plus if there's because like there's a really good for everything right not really those three are your big ones really because Plus and same this one deck can cover both of them if you have a bunch of eights like yeah like eight eight corner eight eight corner cards into like a triple eight
01:23:34
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in like one direction is really, really good. Like it's solid. Like it's got to be a top. It got to be like a top. I held like first place in like last week's triple trial tournament for like until like the very last day. Yeah. Okay. Word on the street is there's a loper named cheating way.
01:23:52
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Yes, that is, I believe the cheating way is the triple triad card person that you have to fight when you max out, or you get, yeah, you have to max out the lopperets to unlock that beast tribe card. Okay, all right.
FFXIV Challenges and Rare Items
01:24:08
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I've got a lot of work to do then. And lastly, with Final Fantasy XIV events, the Dragon Quest X event returns June 5th to 20th.
01:24:18
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Dragon. Okay. So can you get anything? What do you get from the train? I never did. You can get, okay. You get a minion of the stone golem. Okay. And you get the slime King crown. Oh, the slime. Okay. I've seen that crowd before. No amount though, right? No amount. There is no amount tied to this. The big thing is the minion. Okay. And the crown, the crown's like people want the crown. Like, but I care more about the big member. Yeah.
01:24:46
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Like that's what got me really into the grind of Final Fantasy was minion grinding way back when I started you really like the minions I really have hold on let me look at my FF 14 collect again Because okay, so last night as well, which I'm gonna share this as I was doing an anisis editor I got the minion from that the ancient one Which goes for like a million plus Gil and I got that on the drop and I'm like holy fuck I never thought I'd get this I
01:25:15
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Dude, the ancient one sells for a lot too, right? Yeah, it's a couple mil. Yeah, a couple mil is pretty good. Yeah, it's a good one. Okay, come on minions, load. I know you're on my seventh tower here. So I think, personally, what they could do with Final Fantasy, they should just steal WoW's idea with minions.
01:25:33
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Which is which is Pokemon, which is what they still Should make it Pokemon. I really hate what is the thing you can do with minions in the old saucer Lord of Verminion, which is I really hate that So I did verminion like right off the bat because if you do all the verminion challenges you get it's with Tanya many
01:25:55
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Okay, I'll leave the challenges. I don't play like proper for being against players I did once in a tournament, but and the reward was pretty good I think I got like three four hundred thousand MGP from the tournament just by competing in it I didn't get a great placement, but I got a lot of MGP have have you ever played? pet battles and well
01:26:16
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No, I've never played WoW. No, never played WoW. It's literally, I think, you know, out of all the modern things they've done to the game, I think Pet Battles was like probably one of the coolest things they've done.
01:26:27
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And it like still is one of the coolest things. They just made like literally every minion in the world. Like, you know, have critters in the game. Like, oh, do they, does, do they kind of have that in Final Fantasy though? So critters, right? There's only like level one mobs at Rome. Maybe there are. I mean, there's little buddy bugs and squirrels at the entrance to each location, but like. Yeah. Like essentially in wow, you could just challenge those and capture them and they become a minion. Oh, it's literally Pokemon. It's actually just Pokemon.
01:26:58
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And I think if they did that in 14, that'd be so cool. Super cool. You can just challenge like friends out in the wild to like pet battles. And, you know, it's just, it's just, it would be interesting. A reason outside of that, there would be no reason for me to really care about minions in my head. But I think, I think minions are so cool. And I think they look cool. I think that's the big difference. They look way better than minions in WoW. Of the 494 minions, I have 411.
01:27:29
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411? Yeah. Which ones are you missing? Are they exclusive or can they be obtained? How many of them are through? Because there's not that much stuff in Final Fantasy that's... Yeah, so the ones that I'm missing are the ones that are included with like merchandise, which there are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
01:27:57
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There are 22 of them that I most likely will not get unless I purchase that exclusive merchandise. So yeah. So does that count towards any achievements though? No, they don't count towards achievements or anything like that.
01:28:14
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But you'd have to buy, you'd have to buy like the statue. Yeah, the Omega statue has stuff tied to it and the Heideland Zodiac statue. Plus there's like a Shiva statue. There's like a Shiva statue, some stuffed carbuncles, other things too. Bro, just spend like $3,000 and you can have all the meetings, bro. I mean, I could. I could. And then now why is I have 159 mounts of the 274.
01:28:41
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And there's only 274 mounts in the game. That's so crazy to me to think about. I guess it makes more sense because the mounts in Final Fantasy are a lot more polished and unique. The mounts in WoW are a lot more samey and so they can make more.
01:29:01
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Weightless polish I think too that makes sense though But that's it forever 14 news in battle royale live service free-to-play game news cod data miners have unearthed evidence of some future collaborations coming up for modern warfare
Call of Duty and Fortnite Collaborations
01:29:14
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Modern warfare 3 season 4 including fallout Gundam and the crow dude, okay
01:29:22
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This goes back to the Tarkov skin stuff that we talked about earlier. Kaldun is getting crazy with the skins. Insane with the skins. It's cool though. It looks cool. I don't know. I think I tried to play Kaldun here recently and I got killed and it was Nicki Minaj or something. Oh yeah. I think Nicki Minaj and Snoop Dogg are both skins in the game. Yeah. I was like, did Nicki Minaj? Is that Nicki Minaj?
01:29:51
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Is that Snoop Dogg that just shot me in the head? What the fuck? It is funny. It is funny. So would getting teabags by her be the reasonable thing for most gamers? Like are her proportions like accurate? I don't really know.
01:30:17
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I don't know. I don't know. Oh, you know what we're talking about? Gundam. Oh, yeah. The Gundam. Obviously, they're going to put massive mechs into Call of Duty. It's just massive. Obviously, Call of Duty is going to become Titanfall for a brief part of the season. Yeah, that's obviously where it's going to go. That has to be word. That's the next step. I mean, listen, if they could do it in Final Fantasy, right? Exactly. Exactly.
01:30:47
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That was the kid I imagine They don't do anything in terms of like powers and stuff though. It's just the skins right? Yeah, it's not like how for night does Yeah, it's all four night ads like do you see the the recent fortnight with avatar? Oh, yeah, did they add like water bending to that? Oh
01:31:07
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Dude, I stopped at my friend's stream for like a second to watch him play Fortnite. And I was like, I don't understand what's happening right now. Now I can water bend, swing like Spider-Man and go Super Saiyan at the same time. And fucking command man into like a fucking- Oh yeah, that too. Ninjutsu Karama thing. And then he like did earth bending. I was like, okay. Yeah.
01:31:32
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uh-huh it's cool it's really cool to watch but like at the same time it's like your jaw is just on the floor the entire time I bet oh I bet uh well that's it for gaming news it's the world of TCG with upcoming releases there in Pokemon Twilight masquerade drops May 24th
01:31:50
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In Yu-Gi-Oh, the 25th anniversary, Rarity Collection 2 drops May 22nd, Battles of Legend, Terminal Revenge, June 21st, The Infinite Forbidden, July 19th, and the 25th anniversary, Ten Dueling Mirrors, September 20th. In Magic the Gathering, Modern Horizons 3 drops June 14th, Universes Beyond,
Magic the Gathering Crossovers
01:32:10
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Assassin's Creed, July 5th, Balloon Burrow, August 2nd, and also they announced that Hatsune Miku is getting a secret lair.
01:32:21
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Six cards. It's magic. Yep. Hot City Meek, we imagine gathering six cards that you can pre-order starting May 13th.
01:32:29
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Okay. And in Disney's Lorkana's Ursula's Return releases on May 31st. Dude, have you played Lorkana? I want to. It looks- It's actually good. It looks really good. I want to get into it, but it's just like, I need to see if there's like an online version of it. So I do have like an online thing that I have played with my friend. Um, it's really jank and not official. Okay. But it's, it's fun. It's cool. I ran a Cusco control deck.
01:32:56
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go control. That's just a funny study. I read a Q scale control that I did. I I love I love TCG. Wait. So hold on. Hatsune Miku and magic together. Yep. Six cards that you can pre-order part of the secret lair productions that they do every so often. Hatsune Miku. That's insane. To my cat is really not Tuesday. I think she's OK.
01:33:25
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Maybe just a hairball. She eats too fast, I think it is. She's been thrown up. My old cat whiskers used to do that. It's just old cat stuff, right? They just don't.
01:33:37
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It becomes a struggle to know if it's like a sickness or they're just old. Usually just old. But anyway, okay, so it's your name, Miku. I recently, the most recent thing I bought for Magic. Dude, Magic, there's so many cool crossovers happening. There is. And like the follow one just happened is, follow was like supposed to be like really good with commander format too. That's cool. Yeah, I did, I bought the Doctor Who. Dick.
01:34:04
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I thought that was really sick that they, uh, the collab with doctor who I completely forgot about the doctor who collab dude, I, my wife freaked out. I freaked out. We immediately bought it. Like we never buy anything. Right. And we usually go into stores or like, Oh, we don't need that. Oh, we don't need that. And we went into like Newberry comics and we saw that and it was like the fastest purchase we've ever done. We bought an immediate late. Nice. It's pretty cool.
01:34:28
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And lastly, in tabletop news, Roll20 is coming as an activity to Discord. Roll20 Pro subscribers will get to test the beta, which is happening right now. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah. It's going to make D&D so much more. Oh, my God. Less alt-tabbing into Roll20 from Discord. That's like
01:34:51
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What are the best ideas for activities? It absolutely is. Activities like the games that you can play within Discord, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's perfect. Because like, I mean, that's how you play D&D nowadays. You do Discord. Yeah. It's how I've played D&D for the past years when I DM'd three campaigns for my friends. And I'm working on a fourth one now after taking about a year-long hiatus from D&D because I got burned out.
01:35:17
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Yeah. Yeah. I one of the one of my old goals actually is to is to do a D&D campaign, like make one. So I might I might hit you up on how to do that. Hell yeah. I've never done that. Hell yeah. I've done. I've done a lot. I mean, the one I'm building right now is loosely based off around a very popular MMORPG critically acclaimed. Hold on. Critically acclaimed. Critically acclaimed. Critically acclaimed. RuneScape original.
01:35:48
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Toontown critically. Yeah. Yeah. You're either a the races that you got duck mouth elongated dog.
01:35:59
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Have you seen, I recently went to, like, to see if Toontown's still live. It is. It is. With, like, private servers. Yeah. It's weird. It's like a private official thing. Yeah, because they shut... Disney shut down the original one. Yeah. But it's, uh... Yeah, it's crazy to see that still going. I'm like, wow. They still do conventions for Toontown. That's crazy.
01:36:22
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Here's everything that should be on your radar from May 6th to 19th. A bunch of games coming out. I'm about to rapid fire them. And what I've been doing with this season is I see how many I can get within one breath.
01:36:43
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Okay. Because there's a lot. Just a lot, okay. So hold on to your seats, folks, because I'm about to list off everything coming out of the next two weeks that you might be interested in. Starting off on Monday, May 6, plushie from the sky releases on the PC. On the 7th, Prison Architect 2 comes to PS5, Series X, and PC. Seat of Life comes to every console, and Nancy Drew Mystery of the Seven Keys comes to the PC. On the 8th, V Rising releases on the PC.
01:37:13
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On the 9th, Animal Well comes to PS5, Switch, and PC. Crow Country comes to the PS5 Series X and PC. Little Kitty, Big City releases onto both Xboxes, the Switch and PC. And the Bridge, Curse 2, the Extrication comes to the PC.
01:37:29
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On the 13th, Homeworld 3 finally releases on PC. On the 14th, Biomutant comes to the Switch and Braid Anniversary Edition comes to both playstations, the Switch, PC, and Netflix. On the 15th, Balladins comes to the PC, Braid Anniversary Edition comes to both Xboxes, Men of War 2 comes to the PC, as well as Mullet Mad Jack. And on the 16th, Ghost of Tsushima, Director's Cut makes his way to the PC, Lorelei in the Laser Eyes comes to the Switch and PC,
01:37:59
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read-only memories, neurodivers comes to the PS5, Xbox One, PC, and Switch, and Arcadia Colony comes to the PC and Switch. Wow. Wow. Did you say, did you say, what was it, prison architect? Yeah, prison architect. Did you design prisons? Yeah. Have you not heard of the original prison architects? I've never seen, I've never heard of prison architect. You just like design,
01:38:29
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It's like a prison, you're running a prison simulator. That's prison sim, dude. Prison Architects 2 releases on the 7th of May. I think people have their eyes on that one.
01:38:44
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That one's a big one. I'm keeping an eye out for Little Kitty Big City coming out on Thursday the 9th of May 9th. Yeah. So this is basically, basically you're a cat, a little cat whose owners moved and they forgot you.
01:39:03
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They forgot you. But it wasn't intentional, obviously, because this is a wholesome cute game. So obviously it was accidental. You play as this cat and you get to roam around the big city to get to your new home and also do a bunch of things like trip people, make a deal with a crow, give the crow your currency, drink milk, chase the grasshopper and a bunch of other things.
01:39:29
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That's cool. You know what's funny? That's what my dad told me when he gave away my cat. When we moved, he said that he forgot it. And I accepted that as an excuse. I was like, oh, well, I guess he forgot the cat.
01:39:49
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But, like, he totally gave it away, right? He didn't just, like, leave it there, but, like, I don't know why that would, like, in his head, like, why is it a better thing? Yeah. That he forgot it. Yeah, the better thing, the better thing is, oh, I took him to the farm.
01:40:03
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Yeah, we just took him to the farm. Yeah. Yeah. Homeworld 3 on the 13th. That's a massive one because if you remember the Gearbox E3 showcase or yeah, E3 showcase when E3 was last held, whatever that was, they're like, oh, during the entire show, they're like, oh, it was like a bunch of just like facts about Homeworld. And it's like Homeworld 3 coming.
01:40:28
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X day or X year and they made a big deal on it because it's been like a massive gap between the home world games, but What is home world? What is it? I believe it's an RTS. I Really? I really don't know much about it other than space Space space got it space. I think it's an RTS. I think it's an RTS. I
01:40:53
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I think. It's actually kinda cool. Yeah. It's kinda cool. And then... Hold on, what was the other game? I'm trying to remember what you just listed off there. The last of the... Go for it. Oh, no, I was thinking, VRising, that's not already on PC, or is it coming out of Early Access? I think it might be coming out of Early Access, because I'm like, I recognize this title, so it's probably coming out of Early Access. Yeah, because I definitely played a lot of VRising.
01:41:18
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That's a game I want to finish, to be honest. Have you ever played it? No. Do you like craft games? What is it called? Survival craft? I enjoy them. I dabble a little.
01:41:30
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I'm telling you, that's a pretty good survival graph game. I'll definitely take a look at it. If I get the itch whenever I finish FF7 Rebirth, because I've been grinding at that for how long? Oh, Rebirth, yeah. Well, it's going to take forever, right? Oh, I haven't even finished the game yet. I haven't even done the story yet.
01:41:51
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Like we have enough story. No, because it's like it's like days when I want to go play. It's like, oh, let me do my dailies in 14. Oh, it's nine o'clock now. Whoops. Yeah. Where's the time, dude? Where's the time? One of the last big ones goes to Sushima directors cut on the 16th coming to PC. Goes to Sushima. I heard that was a good game. It's a good game. It's a great game. OK. It's a great game.
01:42:20
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For me, I've like I saw how it was played and the gameplay didn't look that. Interesting to me, but I've heard so many good things about it. If you liked it, if you like the old school Assassin Creed games and you like Samurai, this is the game for you. This is like the perfect game for you. OK. It's old school Assassin's Creed, like up to up to AC three. If you like how they are up to Black Flag, if you like how that combat was and not how modern combat became,
01:42:50
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You know, I stopped playing Assassin's Creed after Three, I feel like Ezio was like the best character. It was great. I played up to four I played up to black flag cuz like that was like I feel like that's like the last Like that was the last good Assassin's Creed game in my opinion. Mm-hmm So what is your favorite Assassin's Creed game? Probably two
01:43:16
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Same. Same, dude. I think a sascrete 2 was an amazing game. I think it was great. I played it for fun. I didn't spend a dime on it either because it was free with Xbox gold on the 360 when I got it.
01:43:30
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Yeah. Yeah. It did Assassin's Creed 2. That's how I passed. It was so funny how it lined up with like my world history class at school. Nice. All the Italian stuff, like literally learned everything. Because you learn a lot in that game. You do. You just take the time to read it. Yeah.
01:43:49
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Crazy you generally do like that like that's what I do like about the Assassin's Creed games. It's like with the first one you're learning about Oh God, what was the what at what time? I what where was the first one? Hell, I think you were in like You were in the Middle East somewhere. Yeah, it was the middle. It was the Middle East I did like it and then the second one in Brotherhood It's Italy and the radiance the third one you're back in Constantinople Istanbul
01:44:17
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And it's you still in three, right? Well, no, it feels in revelations in revelations. Yeah. And then three is Connor in America during the civil, the British war, the liberation war, whatever it's called, the Boston Tea Party. Yeah. Throw in the tea in the hours, throw the tea in the out the tea in the harbor.
01:44:45
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Uh, I I yeah, I kind of want to get into like the other assassin's creatures to see what it's been like And then four is the caribbean with the pirate era five. How was black flag? Black flag is great Like is it if if you if you were disappointed with skull and bones play assassin's creed four because guess what? That's what skull and bones wanted to be as a full base game based off of that. Nah, nah, they failed with that They failed miserably with that
01:45:09
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Play it like assassinate off the like off like ships. Well, you're in like the the Jamaica slash like like the Caribbean areas. But where was where was it? There was like a specific area. I watched a fucking show about it recently, but there's a specific area in the Caribbean that was like the pirate land.
01:45:30
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Yeah, that's basically that's basically like where it's basically where it was. What was it? What's that place called? I don't know. It's not called that anymore. But like back then it was called like something. Yeah. For pirates. Yeah. But that's basically where it where it takes place. And then what was it? Unity was the French Revolution.
01:45:49
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The one after that syndicate. Yeah, syndicate was in London. I don't during the industrial era, I think. Yeah. And then origins was Egypt. Odyssey was. Greece, Rome, somewhere. Something like that. I know the recent one. Valhalla is like Viking stuff. And Valhalla was Viking. Yeah.
01:46:14
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Yeah, it interested me. And then there was there was the one that was on the Xbox arcade that took place around the same time as three that took place in the bayou. Mm hmm. I can't remember what it's called. But have you have you? I'm sorry if I'm going to create no worries. OK, I'm thinking it's got me thinking.
01:46:35
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Then there's a new Prince of Persia game, isn't there? Yes, the side scroller platformer one. Yeah, I always tied the two in my head together. I don't know why, but as a kid, we played it. I have not played it because I have not played. I've never played a Prince of Persia game. I own the original. The original. I own the trilogy that the GameCube trilogy. I own that one. I own the original. Like you're actually living by GameCube shelf is like right beside me.
01:47:05
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Yeah, okay, I see it. Yeah, that's pretty badass The classic dude I had my phone Yeah, it's getting kind of it's kind of hard to hear you yeah, okay It's like it's my collection. It's my baby. Yeah. Yeah. It's the one thing I spend money on is by GameCube games every year I'll spend like 400 500 bucks on games and
01:47:35
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You know what's insane is that I thought the GameCube was like... It was my first console. One of my more favorite consoles. But like I... I have more PS2 games than anything. Like I'm a PS2 game collector. I have a giant, actually a giant collection of PS2 games. They're not kept well. They're like a box or something. They're definitely not kept well. I have a shelf of all my... I have every...
01:48:01
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I think I have like every first party game aside from like maybe one or two that Nintendo produced. And then it's just getting all the shovelware and all the rare ones and expensive ones. I still got to get Path of Radiance because that's that's a $400 game. Yeah.
01:48:25
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But yeah, well that's what should be on your radar. It's now time for us to finally dive into the main focus of the podcast. The main things that we'll be talking about this week in the Game Lounge. Conversations of past and future games, the state of the gaming industry, how big decisions affect gamers and anything else that's important to us. Here's what's going down this week in the Game Lounge. And we're starting off with our first topic, the life cycle of MMOs.
01:48:55
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is the stuff I. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So you already answered the first question, which I was going to ask, which is how long have you been playing? But you've been playing for over 20 years with Wow. Yeah. I started playing when I was like seven. Wow. That is I like I got, I was very anti-MMO a lot like for most of my life until I started at the 14 two years ago now. Yeah.
01:49:23
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And it's, I only, I did it in spite because my mod, TC, who I will shout out here, he's like, Hey, can you make a sub goal of, if you get X subs, you'll play FF14. And I'm like, dude, that's so funny. That's exactly why I started playing Final Fantasy 14. I'm like, sure. And then my birthday stream comes around and he's like, Hey Tony, what gives me the amount of subs I needed, which was like a hundred something that Jesus did Jesus. That's so awesome, man.
01:49:54
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Yeah, MMOs are a big part of my life, to be honest with you. I still play WoW. I still play Final Fantasy. I play two MMOs right now. It's so bad. I don't recommend it. I don't recommend it, man. I don't have a life.
01:50:06
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God yeah, I've Like FF 14 has been nice like I kind of had that small experience with destiny because I played destiny on launch and I played like the shit out of destiny and then out of destiny too as well up until like the first the second DLC came out for it and I'm like I'm done with destiny and I quit and cold turkey and it was good it was I'm like I have my life back and now I know if a 14 is like You wanted a life
01:50:33
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I think that's a cool game to bring up when we talk about the life cycle of MMOs. Yeah, it is. Because Destiny is kind of a game that like deleted its old content, from what I've heard. I haven't really delved into it, but people have said,
01:50:47
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to me that they delete their content, which is so crazy to me. With Destiny, the funny thing about Destiny is everything in the first game is still accessible within the first game. Obviously, the servers are... I don't even know if you can play the first game anymore because servers are shut down or I don't know how that even goes about anymore. But with Destiny 2, when the game came out and it was, I think, called the Red War or the...
01:51:16
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The Red Warrior or whatever with the gall and the cabal. I'm surprised I still remember these terms, by the way. I do. I do this because on our podcast, we usually have we sometimes have our destiny insider, Jackson, who has over 3000 hours in destiny to. Yeah. Like it's it's a ridiculous number. He know he know life's that game like how you and me know life are MMOs. Yeah.
01:51:44
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He says, basically, it's vaulting. They vaulted the content.
01:51:48
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like how there's the Disney vault. Well, you can't really play the older content. No, you can't. The original base game of Destiny 2 is entirely, aside from like a tutorial mission to get you acquainted with everything, is essentially vaulted up. The game now starts on one of the expansions. And that's insane to me. Yeah. It's insane to me. And it makes me worry about the lifecycle of that game, because how are you going to get into the game if you
01:52:17
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if you literally can't even know some of the stuff that happened in the previous version of the game. Well, that's because they turn you to their website for all the lore.
01:52:25
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That's so fancy, that's not how it is. That's why Final Fantasy XIV so much is that it feels like none of the content gets old. It feels like the life cycle of XIV is fresh. Like I'm excited for Dawn Trail and that's it. I'm not like, I'm just excited because there's more story, there's more game. You know what I mean? I've experienced all of what the original game has so far. Now I'm looking forward to the next version of the game, right? Yeah, exactly.
01:52:55
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Yeah, and it feels like in WoW specifically, right? WoW was attempting with what I got from WoW's announcement of when they announced all their next expansions and what they're trying to do in Endwalker is what I'm understanding right now.
01:53:13
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it. It's they I've been listening to a lot of old classic Wow lore videos. I've been watching I think it's called the kerosen kerosen library YouTube channel or something close to that. And
01:53:28
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old classic WoW lore was told in such a good way, in my opinion. It's more Dark Souls style. You kind of like just get given the lore. And if you want to learn more, you find it elsewhere from like a book or something, right? But then they kind of like tried to take the Final Fantasy approach by making it more centralized and learning the lore within the game. But then they just had shit lore, I don't understand. And because of that, we don't care about the lore anymore. No one cares about the lore in World of Warcraft.
01:53:55
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And I feel like nobody's really excited for the war with it. And that's like the lifecycle of that MMO is coming to an end. Wow. It's coming to an end when they have like three more, like two more expansions after this one that they have planned.
01:54:11
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I just I don't know just like whenever you you get the vibe from wild players just like no one's excited No one's excited and everyone's excited for 14 right? Oh, yeah, like I'm gonna say this I say this a lot I'm very anti-blizzard because of how Blizzard has treated their communities in the past with certain things Yeah
01:54:31
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I've never been a fan of Blizzard and it's also why I won't go anywhere near WoW and whatnot. And it's just like, I see how they're doing this. It's completely fair. Yeah. And it's completely fair criticism. And I don't think anybody can really defend that. Yeah. My whole thing is that I enjoy the IP. I enjoy the game. I enjoy, you know, WoW in itself, enjoy everything about it. But
01:54:56
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There's just nothing really to look forward to outside of what I've been playing, which is Season of Discovery. But even then, like, it's not that great. It's not that great. Yeah. I feel like that's why I wanted to talk about the life cycle of Omos, because I feel like some are just out the door, right? Yeah. I mean, hell, remember New World? Some people don't.
01:55:19
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Um, yeah, yeah. Like I think, I think MMOs in general are dying. I just, I just think gamers are not MMO gamers anymore. They are. And it's like every MMO is dying. And then you have wow, which is like kind of hanging on somewhat. It's, while it was like a roller coaster with how many dips and rises it has. I think wow is hanging on solely because people have spent 20 years playing the game. Yeah.
01:55:46
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They recently made a change to Season of Discovery, which is really concerning for a lot because
01:55:58
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their way of combating bots is that new players, a new account, cannot access, cannot trade, cannot mail, and cannot access the auction house, so like the market board. Even if you pay for the game, you buy the game, you buy your subscription, whatever, you can't trade with another player for like a month, right? But like, it scared everyone, like, why are you doing that such a stupid change? And then like, you kind of come to the realization, oh, there's no new accounts being made, they don't care.
01:56:27
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Yeah. They were like, they made that decision because they know that everyone playing this game right now is because they've been playing you for 20 years. You know what I mean? It's very rare to come into contact with someone that's new to WoW.
01:56:43
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And I think WoW's getting carried by its older player base. Destiny 2 is... I really can't speak on Destiny 2, but I think the whole idea, it just seems already hard to get into Destiny. If there's a dying MMO community base, right? Less people wanting to get into MMOs.
01:57:05
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I don't know how you're gonna get into Destiny. You see, Destiny is, I would say, the shooter's MMO. Because if you like first-person shooters, then, yeah, Destiny 2 is free to play. And, like, most times now, like, if you're lucky, like, some of the expansions will be free, like, through sales or whatnot. So it's like, great time to nab those.
01:57:24
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And then you just play, do the raise, do the other things, and then just wait for the next story thing to come out. Obviously, if you're a diehard who does all the PvP and everything for titles and everything, it's like, sure, there's that too. But then you're getting into the toxic side of Destiny, which is everybody complaining about balancing weapon issues, everything and them complaining, when's the final shape coming out again? Because when that got delayed, everyone was in an uproar.
01:57:51
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and everything. The only good thing about Destiny 2 is they can fill in. Yeah. Well, these are all things that people that already play know about, right? Yeah. But someone going in green doesn't know anything about the game. I played Destiny 1, but if I go into Destiny 2, I don't know what the hell's going on. I don't know the systems that are in place. I don't know the lore.
01:58:14
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It's like so much like when they when they vaulted all the original content So much has changed like with the base of destiny 2 as well Like if you just came from destiny 1 and you didn't play this e2 like on launch where it was very similar It's like yeah completely different experience now Yeah, yeah, I'm it's
01:58:33
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It just seems, it seems crazy to me, but you know, that's why I like Final Fantasy 14. I was against playing Final Fantasy 14 for so long, for so long. I was too, I was too, I was too, but that wasn't because I was like, I was anti-MMO, I had come off of Destiny, I had come off of Destiny. I'm like, I know what this shit does to me. I gotta come in and I'm like, this is the best thing ever.
01:58:56
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Yeah, I it's you know, I I'm going to I'm going to I'm not going to say it's the best thing I've ever played. And, you know, I think it's a great game. Oh, yeah. And I love playing it. But it's it's a little bit insane that I think that they're the only MMO that has a grasp on the new MMO player base. They do. It's very new friendly. Like you have new players playing the game constantly. Right. I feel like I have a higher chance
01:59:25
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of getting someone to like and enjoy and play Final Fantasy 14 than literally any other MMO I play. And the best thing is you can get these new players in with the free trial too. They don't have to send a dime either to do it. Yeah, it's huge.
01:59:40
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Yeah, I mean, it's insane. I mean, like, I like OSRS, I'll play OSRS, but like, again, that comes back to the whole thing that's like older, no nostalgia, it's gonna be hard to get in play. I don't know how I'm gonna convince a friend of mine to play OSRS that's never even seen Rinscape or heard about Rinscape, right? Like he plays Call of Duty, and he's used to like Call of Duty graphics, hey, you want to play this like,
02:00:02
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old game OSRS, right? It's like, it just seems that like no other MMO has the grasp on what an MMO should be and how to get new players into the game. I'm not saying OSRS is a bad game. I'm not saying Destiny 2 is a bad game, but in terms of like the life cycle of an MMO, there needs to be new players, right? There needs to be a new community coming in and it's hard to
02:00:26
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It's hard to think of at least another MMO off the top of my head that does that, really. Yeah, it's hard to get it. It definitely is like having a having an intro that's free to play is is a great is the great draw. And it's like, oh, I've heard of this. Oh, it's free. Sure. I'll give it a shot. And then they're hoping that something within that starting thing hooks you. Now, I think FFXIV downside of that intro is that you're starting with ARR, which
02:00:54
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To some people, it is tough. It's tough, but I think the game does a great way of getting you into the game, like teaching you the game mechanics, teaching you how to play the game. They don't, they don't, it is tough. I mean, but I think that's with every MMO, right?
02:01:30
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Yeah, it's a modern shooter you run and gun like it's pretty easy to get I would say like I would say Destiny 2 has the benefit of like Easiest gameplay wise to get into because it might be something that if you've played shooters in the past. It's just like those
02:01:38
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I'm trying to get my friend to level to 20 in World of Warcraft.
02:01:44
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Yeah, you're into it, right? Yeah. Easy to get like right in the zone. Whereas FF 14. Wow. It's like, it's a completely different. Completely. It's slower paced too. I feel like a lot of gamers these days are not slower paced gamers. And that's completely fun. It's just where it's moving. And I think anyone new interested in 10. I was like, like, I want to get my little brother in 10 Mo, for example, I think I would start up with Final Fantasy, right? It's just, it's just one of those things.
02:02:12
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It is. It absolutely is. It absolutely is. And then you have the retention afterwards. It's like, OK, let's say you do get that that hook of the new player in after post ARR and what they've done all the story and whatnot. How do you keep them in afterwards with their sub? Is the daily content good, the weekly content good, the side content raids? Yeah, you got that's where the quality is now. Like, where's where does the game of the quality?
02:02:41
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Yeah, well, I have a friend. Yeah, he's also a mod that is still in heaven's ward. He's got 500 hours on the game. He's in heaven's ward.
02:02:53
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never progress past heaven's word. You know what I mean? That's how much optional content is. Oh, yeah. He's doing every beast tribe. He's doing everything. He's got the kettle, the the kettle, the kettle. Let's go. He's got the kettles. He's not even out of heaven's word. He has the kettles. You know what I mean? You know, I'm like, kettle is sitting right outside my house. But it's outdoor for missing. It's it's badass. Like there's so much shit you can do before you even think about progressing to the next stage of the game.
02:03:22
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Right? And that's all free content too. That's all free content. So when I finished Shadowbringers, I waited like three months before I started Endwalker because I was doing side content. I wanted to do so much. I wanted to, it was like, I want to finish all these quests. I wanted to finish all the studium, Christarium quests.
02:03:44
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I wanted to do X things do the deep dungeon all that stuff and before dawn trail hits I still want to kind of finish like the big ones now It's like I want to fish Baja. I want to finish Eureka and I'm close to both Baja I'm closer to I still have like nine levels I have to hit in Eureka, but it's like I want to get this stuff done
02:04:04
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Baja was really cool. I'm enjoying it. I like Zadnor, I think is my favorite area of the three over Southern Front. Deliberate Reginae was cool. It's going to suck when I had to do the savage of that for the Cerberus Mount. I did the savage of it for the Cerberus Mount.
02:04:24
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I got dragged through it, for sure. That's probably gonna be my case. I was a walking corpse. That's probably gonna be, I'll switch to your goons so I can fit the floor tank description.
02:04:34
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But I think the idea of that, I feel like Final Fantasy is not scared to do things. Yeah, they're definitely, I mean, hell. You go first, go first. I was thinking, right? They're not afraid to do things because they just make it optional. They just make it so optional that it's like, if you don't like it, well, don't do it. If it's not good, like DRS is completely optional.
02:05:01
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And it's suffering, but it's cool that you can do that. And there's like an entire player base that just does DRS. There's an entire community, the LEGO Stepers Discord, right? Entire community. I get in there and there are people that have done it a million, they don't need anything from it. They just, their whole focus is to get new people to do DRS. It's insane. It's cool.
02:05:25
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Yes, I'm looking like I've I recently joined a discord about Island Sanctuary. Like I had held us so long on Island Sanctuary because all it is is like essentially animal crossing in Final Fantasy 14. The sense of like it's just gathering, crafting, farming and pet your animals. Yeah. And you and then and then it's just but they're like, that's why at least that's why I thought it was.
02:05:52
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You get into it. It's spreadsheet management. That's what it is. It's knowing how supply and demand work. There's a lot of there's a lot more intricacies to it to get your calories, which is the main currency. And it's like, holy fuck, this is actually deeper than I thought the rabbit hole went with this.
02:06:10
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It's super cool. And there's a lot of mounts to it, especially there's that. Well, that's that's what's funny. It's like that content normally does not appeal to me in any type of way to share form. The way they appeal it. Hey, there's like 50 mounts. OK, now I want to do I don't say. Yeah, there's you get you have all of the the what are they called? The men men men gora mounts are tied to this. There's the motors, the garland motorcycle. Flat Fuck Friday.
02:06:40
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That's that's about that's what I call the was alligator You know, I didn't even know I don't even know that there's that mountain that game. Yeah, I know you said a flat fuck Friday I'm like, so it's an alligator mouth. Yes. Yeah. Yes The second they announced that that was happening like oh
02:07:00
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And then there's like one other one that's like a hundred thousand calories to get I can't remember. Well, I think it's like a better motorcycle. I can't remember There's like a red motorcycle. I think yeah, I think you're right. You can like people can ride on Yeah, it's got like a little back. Yeah tractor. Yeah, that's uh, so I'm working towards all of those currently And it's a daily grind like you are on there daily to do everything that you need to to maximize
02:07:25
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Now there is like a lazy man's spreadsheet that they make for it too, which is like, you can play how you want to play, but like, it does, it does require a time sink daily.
02:07:37
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Which is crazy. Yeah, it's yeah, it's it is. It is insane. I think that it's it's crazy that there's so much to that. And that's only one little tiny specific part of the game that will forever be relevant. Yeah. Right. Forever be relevant. I think that's the main takeaway from a lot of that, you know,
02:08:00
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material and content. I just can't wait. Everything stays relevant. I can't wait. Yeah, they do. I still need to clear the rest of my Eden savages. I've done, uh, what is it? Eight and 12 and the first four. I need to do all the other odd number ones in there. I'm like, and I can say finally I'm done with Eden.
02:08:20
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Yeah. Sounds cool to me too. You know what I mean? You see, okay. I understand why people do them synced. I could never do them synced because I know I am not good enough to do that shit synced. I think it's more like it's
02:08:38
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I think you are, though. I think a lot of people are. I think they're just like, I think the most like unreal is a lot to do. Well, it is. I think the most like I'll do like ever on a race, a raid wide scale is the unreals because I see a party wants to clear it on real and play for hollows because I've never played for hollows yet because I've never cleared it on real. Yeah. But I never cleared it on real. Never. Never cleared one. No.
02:09:04
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Well, have you done an extreme synced? No, no. I haven't done an extreme synced. Oh, yeah. Oh wait, yes, sorry. Yes, I have. I did Mughalmog synced. Mughalmog synced, yeah. Fuck that trial. Mughalmog was stupid. Yeah, no, I did Thordon synced, and apparently that's like the same as what the Unreal is.
02:09:29
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Yeah, I mean, with you, we attempted the Unreal like during the subathon as well, like a little bit. And I'm like, oh, this is actually, I'm like, wow, we're actually making some good prog here. Like I felt, afterwards, I felt more confident in myself afterwards. I will say that. Yeah, yeah.
02:09:46
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Yeah, no, I mean, it's it's cool. I mean, all the I don't know. I think it's cool. The thing about 14 is that a lot of the mechanics are like just repetition and learning. And some of them are kind of more like abstracting kind of to think about more like I've been looking at mechanics in top. Oh, God. And like there's it just requires like a really different way of thinking. It doesn't mean that I'm just not. I think that's cool. I think that's the cool thing about it is like
02:10:16
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to think differently about a fight is it's I'm so used to like the same slop that I've been rating and wow for like fucking 20. Yeah. Goes goes differently about a fight like that. It's like, oh, OK, that's cool. Oh, OK. It goes at the top. Wait, why are why am I seeing all these PlayStation icons? I thought I was playing on PC. Which is that's the funnier thing is like, you got to remember, F 14 was originally for PlayStation three.
02:10:46
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Really? Yeah. Like only like exclusively. Well, I didn't know. Wait, really? Yeah. I didn't know that at all. Yeah. That's actually so fun. It started off as a point. Did it go to PC? I believe it was around 2.0 that they put it on PC as well.
02:11:07
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That's or maybe it was I might be misremembered. I might be Bullshitting this but I honestly don't remember but I believe like 1.0. It was all right. No, it was in tandem. It was ps3 and PC, which is why I think I think I think What you're trying to remember is the the fact that the game was built built for ps4 ps3. Yeah Yeah, so the game still played clunky or something like yeah All the way kind of trying to go away from the ps3 stuff, right?
02:11:37
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Yeah. And now it's on PS4, 5 and Xbox as well. Yeah. It's crazy. Like that's done that. Maybe that's what World of Warcraft needs is to just put it on console.
02:11:52
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I don't know how many people, I think it would be cool to see WoW on console, but I don't. I mean, yeah, I don't know how many console players would enjoy WoW, to be honest with you. I just, I don't know. I don't know, man, retail. You know what? I could be completely proven wrong.
02:12:10
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with the war within and they get to completely change the game and make it amazing. But I will just have to say every time every time I hold out hope for that game, it disappoints me in the worst way possible. Oh, no. After like the sixth time, you got to just kind of be like. And we'll see. Well, we will see, because if the war with the war within, that's what it's called, right?
02:12:38
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If it does good with what Blizzard says, this is essentially their storm blood that they're about to enter. And then the next two are their Shadowbringers and Endwalker from what I understood of their road map. The problem with WoW lore and WoW stuff is that they're retcaught a lot of things too. Just to fit the narrative.
02:13:02
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Yeah, it's if you if you go through like classic WoW lore, and without all that shit, some stuff doesn't make sense. But it goes really deep, really, really, like unnecessarily deep with a lot of things. I listened to a whole thing on Duskwood, which is like one zone. And it's like going into different characters that I've never even heard of.
02:13:22
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but they're just like random like mobs that you encounter in the woods and you kill it, you just go on with your day. You don't fucking care about anything about it, right? But like, apparently that character has like a whole backstory lore that spans like hundreds of years in the game lore. And it's insane, but that stuff never really gets told to you. You gotta find out in the books or reading elsewhere and stuff like that. I think of WoW
02:13:47
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like the way Final Fantasy does, it might actually save the game in a lot of ways. Make it interesting and make it concise. Make an MSQ that you can do and make the raids optional. They should just copy. Dude, honestly, WoW made their whole game off of just copying other games. They should just copy Final Fantasy 14. They should copy them. I don't care. Make it better. Yeah. That might be a solution they need.
02:14:13
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Is there anything else you wanted to add on the MMO cycle? No, I will say this I do have to go in like 20 minutes. Okay, in that case then we'll start in that case We'll start wrapping it up. Then we'll skip on the second topic of the day and get right into the bonus level Crazy lists great deals and recapping gaming history. It's all here in the bonus level. Oh
02:14:37
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where we kick it off with this week in gaming history. From May 6th to 19th, here's what happened in the past. Starting off May 6th, 1998, Sony released the DualShock controller for the PlayStation.
02:14:49
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Okay. On the 10th of 2000, Nintendo released the funtastic series of Nintendo 64 consoles and semi-transparent cases. Watermelon, ice, jungle, fire, smoke, and grape. That's when stuff was fun. It was. It was. On May 12th of 2005 in a televised special on the MTV network in the US, Microsoft revealed the Xbox 360.
02:15:14
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Dude. Dude, the 360 was so good. The 360. I think that's peak console. It really is. It really is. I think that was peak console. On May 14th in 2005, Nintendo opened the Nintendo World in Manhattan's Rockefeller Square Center. Rockefeller Center in New York.
02:15:32
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Nintendo World. Oh, yeah. I actually used to work near that. Oh, wow. Yeah, because I used to do construction, right? So I did a lot of work in Rockefeller. I just hang out in the Nintendo store. As for some game birthdays, Mario Party 3 is turning 23 on May 7th.
02:15:51
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Donkey Kong 23, the third iteration of Mario Party. Yes. Holy moly. Donkey Kong 2 turns 19 on May 9th. Super Mario RPG turns 28 on the 23rd or on the 13th. Sorry. That's as old as me. I'm as old as that game. The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages turns 23 on May 14th.
02:16:21
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Nice. Max Payne three turns 12 on May 15th and L.A. noir turns 13 on May 17th. Wait, Max Payne is 12? Yeah. Max Payne is the early axis of diss. It is. On May 18th, both Red Dead Redemption and Alan Wake turn 14.
02:16:43
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Red Dead Redemption. Yeah. The first one. You know, this is just making me feel really old. It is. That's what the segment is all about. It's making us feel old. It's old as fuck. On May 19th, Wii Fit turns to 16. Wow. And also on May 19th, Fire Emblem Echoes Shadows of Valentia, my personal favorite Fire Emblem game, turns seven.
02:17:14
Speaker
What number Fire Emblem game is that or is that as well? So, Fire Emblem Echoes, Shadows of Valentia is the proper remake that they give to Fire Emblem Guided, which was the second game. Oh, okay. It's a great game. I've never played a single Fire Emblem game. I have to play one now though. You should put that on the wheel.
02:17:33
Speaker
No, it's already, but I have to. Okay. Oh, you have to. Okay. I'm going to let chat shoes. Okay. Is it, is it like kingdom hearts though, where I have to play the first one? No, this is, um, this is an entire, this is a game. It's like file a fantasy where like each game is its own story. Okay. Aside from path of radiance and radiant dawn. Those are like, that's the first one in a sequel.
02:17:55
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. That's like the only one that's like that. What do you recommend for Fire Eye? I'd recommend either the first one or Sacred Stone. Sacred Stone? Sacred Stone. Okay. And by the first one, I mean the one for the GBA, which is Burning Blade or Blazing Blade. I can't remember which one exactly. But those are the ones, any of the Game Boy ones, I would say is a good first one to get into it. Sounds very Roy.
02:18:19
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Yeah, that's the for the burning. It's it's actually the one though. God, whichever one it is, the Blazing Sword or the Burning Sword. It's actually his father, Ellawood. That's the main character and Lynn. Yeah, it's I only know Fire Emblem characters from Smash exclusively. Yeah, I guess it's like it's kind of weird to think about that.
02:18:43
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We're gonna pass on top five today because it'll take a bit long there But we're gonna go right to head-to-head two games enter one game leaves Two games that I've given to you Noah our Final Fantasy 10 versus Final Fantasy 14
02:18:59
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Wait, which one? One leaves? Which one? Which one? Which one wins? Who loses this fight? Oh, in your opinion. Ted. Ted. Ted loses. Ted loses. Ted is... Ted, I really like that game a lot. I have a fucking wall scroll of it right over there. Like, I love Final Fantasy X, but... 14. And, you know, I don't want to be too much of like a... 14 Andy, but I think the game is really just good. Just good. Objectively good.
02:19:27
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There's very, very little wrong with it, whereas 10, I think desperately needs a remake. Playing it now, it's... Well, it got the remake. It got the 10-10-2 HD remake. Okay, all right. No, that's the remaster. Oh, fair enough. Potato potato. That's not a remake. 10 I feel doesn't need a remake. No, no, I mean like a remake like how they're done with like 7, yeah. Okay.
02:19:50
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There's so many moments in that game that you relive now that would feel so much more impactful if it didn't come out in 2001. The PNG straight faces, you know what I mean? You have moments. Titus is just like this Nickelodeon character that just fits randomly throughout the story. He's just like, oh, man, wow, what's happening over there? Oh, my God, everyone's dying. Wow. I think
02:20:19
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remade that game would be top tier top tier immaculate, but they need to keep the battle system because I love the way the game plays. I think it's I think it's amazing. Fair enough. Moving on to Tony's game poll. This is a seasonal poll that we do going forward every season now. One question. And we at the very end of the season, we're going to see what won the poll. If Kingdom Hearts four was to add any Disney Pixar world, what world would you add?
02:20:51
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Daisy Pixar World Disney Kingdom Hearts port added a Disney. Sorry Disney Pixar World Like what Disney property would you like to see in Kingdom Hearts 4? Huh I Think about that one Damn well I The problem is I don't know what's already in the game. I mean you could say something I'll let you know if it's been in the franchise before I
02:21:16
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Moana? Moana has not been in the franchise. That would be a good one to see. Is that Disney? It is. It is. I really like Moana. I like Moana a lot. I'll take that. That would be a cool one to see. It'd be cool, right? I think that the lore of Moana and everything, I think would be sick. It would be really cool. Moving on, our upcoming deals of the week. Gamers, I'm here to save you money now.
02:21:40
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Yes, that's right. Here's what you can get for free on Epic Games this week. Cat Quest 2 and Orcs Must Die 3 are free until May 9th on the Epic Games Store. And then... Cat Quest. Cat Quest. Have you not heard of Cat Quest? What the hell is Cat Quest? It's an RPG where you play as some cats on an adventure.
02:22:00
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The first one takes place in a medieval fantasy. The second one takes place in... I think it's space. But no, or the third one is space. And then there's a third one coming out soon. There's a third one that's about to come out soon as well. Okay, all right. Interesting. Those are retailed May 9th, and then from May 9th to 16th, you can pick up circus, electric, and firestone for free on the Epic Games Store.
02:22:24
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As for other stale other sales the steam Golden Week sales are on until May 8th Capcom's like should soft Bandai Namco Koi Tecmo Square Enix Konami Sega in East America They've all got Golden Week sales that you can take advantage of on steam also where Enix yeah Yeah, they got some stuff and also the EA publisher sale on steam is going on till May 13th And there's a may the 4th sale on steam and epic until May 9th for some Star Wars games
02:22:53
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Oh, yeah, I made the fourth this happen. Yeah, it's tomorrow. They have recording tomorrow. It's tomorrow. So that's tomorrow. Yeah. Live, log in, prosper. Star Wars. What? What Star Wars game would you suggest for something that we're going for? So we're certainly if it's the best one, it is the best one by far aside from Lego Star Wars, because objectively, they are the best ones for unleashed is the next best one in my opinion.
02:23:21
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OK, hold on. Force Unleashed. I'm trying to remember, because I'm not a big Star Wars fan, right? That was the one where. Force Unleashed on is the guy they the character did a crossover or Soul Calibur. I'm I played a lot of. You know, Yoda and Vader were the two who came over for Soul Calibur. No, they did another one. They did another one. Another crossover. Yeah. And I think it was the Force Unleashed guy.
Miscellaneous Discussion
02:23:45
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What was his name? I can't remember what his name was. A star killer.
02:23:49
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I think so. Let me just Google it real quick. Continue, though. Continue. Yes. But those are all the sales of the week. The achievements of the week is in Tales of Kinzera Zao Quickdraw, which is the perfect recharge 10 times.
Game of the Week Announcement
02:24:03
Speaker
And the game of the week is Little Kitty, Big City. And lastly, the guest game recommendation, Noah, if there is one game, old or new, that you would recommend to the people listening to this podcast, what game would that be?
Game Recommendations and Social Media
02:24:17
Speaker
Monster Hunter World. Ooh, good choice. Monster Hunter World is a good game. Good choice. It's just a bad one. It's a good game. It's in my backlog. It should be in your front log, my friend. I'm relating too much Final Fantasy. And I want to play Stardew's new update too. They have a Final Fantasy XIV collab. I know. It's a game. Oh wait, actually? Yes. Oh, so that's the equivalent of how they got... Okay.
02:24:44
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Fuck now. I gotta play it for the lore. No, you need to they actually have like lore in it What do you want? What do you even hunch from 14? Cuz I'm assuming it's oh That makes sense. It's crazy and and they have the extremeth for the hard mode the Extremis it's called the extremis. I love I love that damn. That is great. I
02:25:11
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It's sick, dude. I love World. Honestly, I'm a big World simp. It's one of my favorite games of all time, and I think it's just, it's so good. It's so good. It's like the perfect mix of modern and old. Not old, it's just like a modern Monster Hunter that's done right. I don't know how to explain it. It's good. It's really good. I would definitely try it. All righty. Well, with that, Noah, that's it.
02:25:41
Speaker
We've made it to the end. Sounds good, dude. I do. That was that was great. Where? No, no. Before we fully wrap, where can we find you on the Internet? Oh, the Internet. I just stream on Twitch, honestly.
02:25:54
Speaker
I would like to say that I'm like on other socials, which I am, but I am a very inclusive individual that only goes live on Twitch. And of course, you can find me, Tony's Game Lounge at Tony's Game Lounge on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and YouTube. That is where you can find me.
02:26:13
Speaker
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Conclusion and Engagement Reminder
02:26:25
Speaker
And we will see you guys back here next time in the game lounge. Bye. Bye bye.
02:26:36
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