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The Greatest Board Game of All Time with DruskIsAlsoHere
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Tony is joined in the Game Lounge this week by Streamer and VTuber DruskIsAlsoHere. The two go off topic and talk some Jingdom Hearts and Yugioh, and also cover The Kirby Air Riders Direct 2, talk all things Board Games and also discuss some obscure PS2 RPG's. They also recap the gaming news and headlines of the last 2 weeks, and cover all the upcoming games coming out!
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Introduction and Guest Welcome
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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.
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Welcome to Tony's Game Lounge, a bi-weekly podcast that covers everything in the world of video games, TCG, tabletop and more. Here's your host, Tony 14. Hello everybody and welcome back to another brand new episode of Tony's Game Lounge. I'm your host as always, Tony14.
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And joining us this week is a Twitch streamer, VTuber, and literally his whole Twitch name works as the introduction for introducing them.
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Drusk is also here. Hi, everybody. My name is Drusk. I'm also here. Welcome to the show. ha ah Drusk, welcome.
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ah Welcome to the podcast. How are you doing today? I'm doing very well. very I'm very excited to get to to join in on the um the
Favorite Video Games and Characters
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game lounge stuff. This has been this has been fun to kind of kind of reach into and and in experience.
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Yeah, no, and this is I think this makes you the third person where we've done something together on stream before I've brought you onto the podcast.
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mean I think you're the third person now that is this has happened to. hey i'm old i'm all for it excellent uh well because you're brand new here drusk we get to start with the loading screen uh where you get to give us your favorite video game video game character and video game soundtrack okay all right so favorite video game character ah That makes things pretty and makes things pretty difficult because it makes me think of a bunch of different characters. But i like I like different characters because of different things.
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um I tried to think ahead of time of something that was unique in its own way. Maybe not one you would necessarily think of. um I'm going to say for my favorite character, it's probably going to have to be the character Jade from the game Beyond Good and Evil.
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Okay, okay. Solid choice. I actually recently just acquired a copy of Beyond Good and Evil. for Oh, it's such a good game. ah It is, and it's a really, really good speedrunning game, I feel.
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oh okay. id be Okay, because you've brought this up, I now have to ask, are you still awake one of the hopefuls awaiting news for something for Beyond Good and Evil 2? Yeah.
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No, no, i i think that I think that ship is pretty sailed. I think we're getting more into ah Duke Nukem at this point, where if something were to happen, it would just be a massive letdown.
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just let it just Just let it be. It's good where it is. They gave us a remaster. I'm okay with it. Okay, that's fair. That's fair. What about video game and video game soundtrack?
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So, oh yeah, I meant to start with video games. When I think of my favorite video game, I think of when I am feeling down the dumps, when I'm not feeling good, what is something that I just go back to when I just want something that is just going to heal my soul? this is going to sound really weird after just prefacing it like that.
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My favorite game would probably have to be Fable. all the The original Fable game. That has a lot of nostalgia for me.
Game Mechanics and Celebrity Involvement
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It's also just I'm really into adventure games.
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And it's just the epitome of an adventure game to me. Okay. I mean, yeah, yeah you're not you're not wrong there. that That is Fable. I've still... The only Fable game I've played is Fable 3.
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um Oh, so ah so real estate tycoon got it. Yeah. yeah but yeah but Basically, if you want the good ending and you want to save everybody, that's basically what the game is. Just play the real estate. Play the real estate game.
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Buy every piece of property that you see and you'll win. And that started from the original Fable, too. It's just Fable 3 blew it way out of proportion. They made it way too strong.
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Yeah, no, they absolutely did. Hey, at least they gave us ah George Cleese and Michael Fassbender. Yeah, no, it's very true. Very true. And it it was also, I read an article of that said Fable 3 was essentially the first game that really went, that really, that like still getting celebrity roles in games. That was kind of like the the the first push for it.
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That's fair. only ah If I think of another game that has a lot of celebrity pull for it, it would have to be Brutal Legend, but I don't remember that came before or after Fable 3. I mean, to be fair, that's just Jack Black, the game.
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True, true. But I just, you know, I'm thinking of Ozzy Osbourne and all the other star-studded, you know, musical talent. But was Ozzy Osbourne playing himself, or was it just like someone... Oh, wait, actually? Oh, So they they don't they don't give him an actual name. They call him...
Game Soundtracks and Community Experiences
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I think they call him just... The Wizard of Oz. No, no, So Ozzy ends up becoming the character that runs the shop in-game.
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And so what it is is that you find you find these openings that go deep down into the under underreaches of the world that Jack Black's character gets thrown into. And down here where it just, it just looks like hell you're driving down and just this demon forms himself out of a pillar of lava.
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And it's just, it's just Ozzy. It's just Ozzy with his actual accent. And he's like about fucking time. You got here. I'm sorry. I do not know if I'm, if I can swear. Sorry. I forgot to say before this fuck words are allowed.
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Okay. Okay. But that was just for the context of the, you know, he literally says about bloody time. You got here. Huh. I did not know that. They don't acknowledge him by name, but it's literally, it's a model of his face.
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Oh, that's even funnier. it's It's so good. That's funny. That's great, actually. Okay. i So, okay, that's the... Okay, yeah, okay, I can see it. i can It's probably one of those two games that really, like, ah maybe both of them combined, really, that were the push for celebrities.
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Well, and like I said, too, if ah if if um if Brutal Legend came out after Fable 3, then that would make all that would make more sense, too. I just wasn't sure. i haven't looked at the the release dates of those recently. so no Yeah, absolutely.
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And lastly, video game soundtrack. ah This is also going to be a little bit of ah just going off, going off in a weird direction you probably weren't expecting. I would actually probably say if I really need something to listen to, I almost inevitably always get drawn to the song Waterfall from Undertale.
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Okay. ah Which is not, you know, it's not one of the ones that everyone knows of. It's just, it it speaks to me on just a very calming level. I love the song. have still, another game I've yet to play Undertale still.
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I still have not played Undertale. Now granted, granted the community has kind of is scares me. Uh, yeah, that's fair. I have legit played the game twice.
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i have done the normal route, which is like, you cannot do a different route. You have to do a normal route first. So the game knows that you've played through it the first time I've done a pacifist route. And then I uninstalled the game.
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Oh. I will um be i want not be doing... with no i go You don't want to kill everybody and then fight Stance? No. but But you can fight Sans. You'll play Megalovania.
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I want to be a good boy. don't want to do evil. I say that, but my favorite game is Fable, and I don't mind being evil. Yeah, exactly. yeah yeah yeah i game about being good or evil.
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oh That's quite a duality there, Drusk. Here, hey, hey, Undertale makes you feel for everyone that you kill. Fable laughs at it and then farts.
Underrated Games Discussion
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i mean, okay, i actually, you know what? Fair. Valid. That's actually very fair. All right, well, ah with that, we now get to go into hot takes. Drusk, what is your hottest video game take?
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I had to think about this one for a while, and I wanted to be prepared for this one. i I'm easily very opinionated. ah However, a lot of my opinions kind of are similar to what a lot of other people feel, especially about the gaming you know community that we have now and all the publishing you know stuff going on.
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i had I wanted to do something a little bit lighthearted. My gaming hot take... The game Super Paper Mario for the Wii is a fantastic Mario RPG game and should receive a lot more praise than it does.
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Yes, 100%. It is. it is like i know that people have Super Mario RPG and you know are ah you know Super Paper Mario, Thousand Year Door, all that stuff.
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those are Those are great. ah My personal favorite is actually Super Paper Mario, though. yeah okay now Super Paper Mario is the only Paper Mario game I've ever played, even though I own GameCube copy of Thousand Year Door.
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ah I can play it any time. yeah I love Super Paper Mario because i mean like well it's not like a traditional RPG. It is like an ARPG.
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um yeah It's still a great game. it's gave It gave us one of the best villains ever. with dementia yeah yeah it gave us the the tragic tale of black and uh tp dude i love like black is a villain like is so well like he he's got the humanity to him as you learn more about him he is just he's such a good character dementia can die in a fire yeah no it's great and then you also have uh
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You also have Mimi who turns into a spider. Oh, I love Mimi. and i And I am 100% behind the best level is't is in ah Marlene's Manor.
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The best level is obviously the hamster wheel. Oh, right. The fucking... I forgot about this. I forgot about that. There's no arguing. It's the best level. but fuck this Yo, Super Paper Mario introduced the world to simps before simp was a term.
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It was a common term, yeah. So, ah you know what? The game is great. Honestly, I would love to go back and play it and do like a full 100% run of the game. Yeah. Because I remember doing like the 100 dungeon underground thing, and it's like, oh, but you can flip, and there's another one of it. And I'm like, oh!
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But i don't remember if I ever did that one as a kid. here's the Here's the best part. so So you have the flip side 100 dungeon pit, right? Yeah. In order to get... the best ending out of a flip side 100, uh, like the best prize at a flip side, 100, uh, floors.
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Yeah. You have to do it twice. What's the best prize out of it? There is a secret boss that you can fight only after you do it twice. ah And I will not spoil it for you.
00:12:04
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Oh shit. Okay. Well, when I'm done playing through Digimon Dime, Stranger, Donetskai, and the entire Final Fantasy franchise, on top of other things that I know that are going to come out, ill I'll get around to it.
Game Hesitations and Passions
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Right? Oh, trust me. I know. I know. god i haven't technically finished it either i just i ended up accidentally spoiling myself on the on the on what happens i'm like oh it's so good i remember when uh because i was growing up i watched a lot of shaggy conroy um okay i remember watch uh him playing through super paper mario and i was like you yeah, let's go.
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ah and because yeah I will say that Shugger Conroy is one of the best Let's Players out there with how in-depth he gets with all the games. ah And I'm scared for him when he does Xenoblade 3.
00:12:58
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fair fair you know he's gonna do it because he's done and two and those took years of his life and he's gonna do the third one and the dlc for it we know he's gonna do it i really need to give those xenoblade chronicles a try it's just one of those i just i haven't gotten into it purely because i've not had the time or the openness to get to it yet you know I think if I was more open, like the gameplay for the Xenoblade games, I look at it, and I try to be like, I i could i just can't. I don't.
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its Maybe it's because I'm closed-minded to it. I don't like the way the combat looks. i i i But then again... Maybe if I play it, i'll I would change my mind, but combat does not look that appealing to me.
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And it looks very confusing and very wild, wacky JRPG. we Yeah. No, that's that's fair. That's fair. I'm very much of a... ah I love hack and slash style you know adventure games because I'm a diehard Kingdom Hearts fan myself. Oh, hell yeah, brother.
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oh yeah. And people are like, the story sucks. And I'm like, yeah, I don't care about the story. does scar up the grave I like the story of Kingdom Hearts. it's a While it is convoluted and I have to yell Tetsuya Nomura's name in vain more times than I want to. He's such a bad story writer.
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he look Look, here's the thing about Nomura. He's not a bad story writer because he did he's just an interesting... He a lot like Hideo Kojima with weird shit that he likes to do. because Just to remind people, he's also behind the 7 Remake Trilogy.
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ah the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy Nomura's behind that as well oh yeah which is why it's like oh fucking Nomura
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ah but recently i actually have a deck of cards that's designed around the Chain of Memories ah cards um I recently got that it's really cool I also have like every Kingdom Hearts Funko Pop in existence aside from like like ahs some of the special edition ones um i I have a lot of Kingdom Hearts merchandise. Everything but a real Keyblade.
00:15:24
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i need to I need to look into this chain of ah ah chainer memories playing cards. They're Japan only from what I understand with the guy who I bought them from. i was it was just like at a local game sale that like a bunch of our but local game sellers get all together and they put it on and whatnot and uh it was there 30 bucks i'm like hell yeah i'm getting this right there's no way i'm not getting this well and i also i actually collect uh playing cards as like a little side hobby of mine nice and so i have a whole bunch of uh you know eat
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If they're weird and generic and not bicycle, it like makes it more appealing for me. like I love bicycle, don't get me wrong. It's just, they they own everything, so. yeah no i just totally get here hold on um let me let me send a picture of this to you so that way you can like yes oh yeah they're like really sick and i know that this is a little off topic for the for audio listeners i mean well which is which is all the listeners because hey hey i know of a great way to do it once you send it to me i will actively describe what i'm saying oh excellent and bop and bop there we go just sent it your way sir
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Oh, that's so cool. Okay, okay. So it's in a glass case and you're showing me the backing of the of the deck itself and the cards are actually cut into the exact shape of the of the Chain of Memories cards from the game. So they even have like the crown crest cut out of the top of them.
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And oh, that's just beautiful, man. Oh, I need that. Oh, I need that for my collection. And I just sent you the front of the cards as well.
00:17:13
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That's a really cool way of doing it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So each. So it's in batches of threes. So the first three cards of a suite are Key of Blades.
00:17:26
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Yes. So the one, two, three. The four, five, and sixes are enemies and bosses. was going to say, because I noticed that they're black. So I'm like, they must be the enemies. Okay. yep The sevens are summons.
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Okay, that's why they're blue. The eight is your Mickey, Donald, Goofy, your green cards. Yep. The next one is your item, it looks like. Your nines ah ten and tens are room variations.
00:17:52
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Oh, okay. Okay, room variations. Okay. Your jacks and queens are worlds. And your kings are golden treasure cards.
00:18:04
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Okay, that makes sense. And the Joker, ah there are two Jokers. ah One of them is the green Mickey Mouse, um like bike Mickey icon.
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And the other one is, i think, a blank card. if Oh, that's so cool. Oh, I'm going to have to figure out... I'm have to figure out how to get my own hands on ah on a deck like that. Oh, that's so cool. it is It is one of the coolest things that I can say that I own, and it only cost me like
Kingdom Hearts Achievements and Special Cards
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$30.
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like do but But I also just love the fact that they've taken the the artwork as it would be in the game, yeah and they've added the Mickey symbol on the on the bottom right side to show what number the card is, and also in that...
00:18:49
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in that the very tip corner what suit it's from and then they also just do the the number in the suit on the top left as well as if it was a regular playing card yes like i just i love i because i'm i'm like those are it's cool that it has the circles in the bottom right i'm like wait that's a that's a mickey that's a mickey print uh-huh that's it get is that that's how they get you that's like that's That's good. It's so it's so well done.
00:19:18
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i love Kingdom Hearts. I have platinumed all but two of the games that can be platinumed. um I still need to platinum Birth by Sleep and 3D. you have actually You have actually far surpassed how much I've been able to do. like i will have I will say I'm an avid Kingdom Hearts fan.
00:19:37
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I'm not saying I'm good at it. Yeah, no, I've beaten every secret boss aside from the ones in Birth by Sleep and 3D. I've done Data Org in both 2 and 3. have done half of Data Org in 2 and...
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i have done half of data org in who And I think I've done almost half of data or in three, but I always have to give myself breaks because I just I i get i get gamer rage.
00:20:04
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Oh, yeah. no I got step away. Got step away. Yeah, no, that's it's is like that's the one the only boss fights I've ever raised that. But it's like, I'm going to come back to this. I'm not just going to give up because I want to fucking beat them.
00:20:17
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It's so a lot of data org. A lot of times what I'll do is the rage fuels me to keep going, and then the second it's done, then I walk away. Yeah. Because it's like my mind is like, I got to finish it. I got to least finish then I finish it, and I'm like, okay, duh, duh, duh. I feel that. Yeah, no, it's great. Okay, before we get off topic with too much Kingdom Hearts, you know what, we'll do a Kingdom Hearts special.
00:20:41
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Yeah. Because, like, I love... Oh, this is like two two episodes in a row where it's like, oh my God, one of my trigger words was said. Let's go. because it was Yakuza with Flavorful. And now it's Kingdom of Hearts with you, which is great. um But we've got so much to do. We've we're all right we've already been talking for 20 minutes.
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ah Let's dive into our headline of the week.
Upcoming Game Releases and Features
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Kirby Air Riders. ah Kirby Air Riders had its second direct with Sakurai at the helm. And oh my God, Sakurai, you fit so much in into a single hour of showing us this game. ah We are also, as of record as of release of this day, we are only 17 days away from Kirby Air Riders 2, or Kirby Air Riders.
00:21:29
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uh we are only 17 days away which means i have that much time to try to get my butt in gear to finish pokemon legends za i i am so far behind i own like i don't even think i'm halfway through za i'm in what what rank are you at uh ah k I want to say is story or like online? No, no, only in story. No, no, no. I can't, I can't do ranked. I can't know. Oh, you're no, I mean, you should do, here's the thing. Come the 6th of November, which is when the season transfers over. Yeah. If you do like a couple matches of ranked, you're guaranteed to get the Greninja, Greninja night.
00:22:11
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And because that's going to be a rank Y reward. And then rank S is what you'll be able to get to the Delphox sites. Yeah, I think I was able, like, in ranked, like, the little bit I tried it, I think I was able to get in W pretty easily.
00:22:27
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i think that's where I'm sitting there. It's just, it's just, I, there are so many other little projects I have going on, I just legit have not been able to really sit down and, like, fully enjoy ZA and get through it all.
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So you said rank K, but, like, so you've beaten Vinny then? Yes. Okay, so you're ranked F. That's what it is. F. okay f Yeah, I'm assuming you meant F because we don't go to... Spoiler!
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yeah don't there's ah There's a thing for story progression reasons that you skip a bunch of ranks. But honestly... skip You skip like half the ranks. You skip like half the ranks, but ah you know, post-game thing, because I've learned about stuff in post-game, that you do 15 more ZA Royales, and that's how many ranks that you skip.
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is 15 and the reward i learned you actually do you want to hear the reward or should just leave it at that no just just leave it for now ah let people find it on their own time the reward is is worth it for collectors of Pokemon I will say that much No, yeah, and and I definitely need to get into that because I also am slowly progressing towards a full shiny deck, so.
00:23:40
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Oh, good luck with that. i'm I'm already, you know, I'm already gonna just do my best and then just stop whenever, you know, I get to Legends. I just need Hoopa. and That's all I need for my living decks. A Deansy.
00:23:52
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I require a shiny Deansy. I just need this shiny Deansy in my life. A Deansy I already have. A Vulcania and a Hoopa I already have.
00:24:05
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just need a shiny Deansy. I know that we can obtain Deansy in this game. I just don't know if it's shiny locked or not. It probably is. You know them. They shine. I know. Yeah.
00:24:16
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ah Okay. Anyway, Kirby Air Riders 2. Back to Kirby Air Riders. Back to Kirby. Woo! Sakurai! ah Yeah. ah So they start off by announcing, hey, the third game mode top ride, it's back.
00:24:32
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Good. It wouldn't be the same without it. would not be the same without it. um um Unlike the previous top rider, you only had a choice of the free star or the steer star. You get to pick any star and then pick that type of control of either free steering or steer steering.
00:24:49
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Okay. Which is a sentence. Um... top ride can now go up to eight players uh the court all the courses are inspired by the air ride courses the uh so the ones they showed off flower flow air crystal steven mountain there's probably three more in there because there's nine tracks ah in air ride mode, so nine tracks in top ride mode.
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ah They also showed off a couple top ride exclusive items like the Kaboomb, Drift Flames, the Drill Driver, Seeker Missiles, the Course Quaker, and a Chicky. And top ride will have an online mode as well.
00:25:26
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um He also went to say that controller support, all previous Switch 1 and 2 controllers work, and you can use the Switch-compatible GameCube controller.
00:25:37
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As they should. mean, it's just Sakurai is... i love Sakurai. He's great. He do does all this stuff. um We got to see the new game mode, to the fourth game mode, Road Trip.
00:25:52
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This seems, the best way I can describe this, is like an arcade mode, classic mode, challenge mode, story mode, all put into one. ah You basically go down route, select one of three challenges to do that's ahead of you.
00:26:06
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You do that, you win, you progress, and you carry on with that. um There are to be many events that can occur, and depending on what items and characters you collect and interact with will determine how these events play out.
00:26:18
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um And there's a bunch of exclusive characters to this mode that you'll encounter, in like Magman, Aline, Latour Tilding, Twister, King Golem, and the Computer Virus. Yeah. So I didn't necessarily get a chance to actually watch this direct in full. When it comes to this road trip, is that done like ah when you do the selection of the races? I'm assuming that's done as like a GY menu kind of thing? like ah So like basically picture Kirby riding ahead on his warp star and in front of him are three enemies. On top of each enemy is a screen saying what it is you'll do if you run into that enemy.
00:26:54
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okay okay yeah okay so you're so you're in control of kirby as if it was like in yeah as if it's like as if it's like kirby's on a rail and you can only move him left to right once you select that once you select said game thing then you have full control of kirby to do whatever it is that you're doing or not whichever character you're playing as because you can play as any character for this mode okay um We then went into some online functionality stuff.
00:27:21
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ah He showed off the licenses, your fully customizable online profile, basically. ah The paddock, which is the online lobby hub, and this looks absolutely stunning and incredible.
00:27:32
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ah You get free roam with your character. You can jump ah interact with stuff, do things. There's emotes and stuff like that. ah The ranking system is your license class.
00:27:43
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ah Global wind power is also back from Super Smash Brothers, but that's just a stat here that doesn't affect anything else. Good. Okay. but I like, I love the idea of having, you know, having the global wind power, but I,
00:28:00
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i I like that just for like, hey, look at the power that I've got, but that doesn't affect who you are. It's just your number. ah And then ranking your classes are all color based, which seems to be a a page taken out of the Guilty Gear online mode because they they do color ah color ranks.
00:28:21
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um And each mode, top ride, air ride, city trial all have their own different class rank. And they don't seem to affect much. Sakurai did said the higher rank you are with City Trial specifically, ah the more random events can happen online.
00:28:39
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ah In those movies. That's about the only like major difference that you'll probably see. We got to see a couple more copy abilities. Needle Freeze and Sleep are returning. Sleep is back! Oh yeah, you gotta.
00:28:52
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And then some new copy abilities. Fighter, Drill, Flash, and Missile are getting added into the game. um We then go into air ride where he shows off more air ride courses. The airtopia ruins crystalline Fisher steam dust forge and a question mark stage.
00:29:09
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But because of people very crafting and taking a look at things, it's likely to be the interior of Nova, the giant clock, big thing that you fight in Kirby superstar.
00:29:24
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When it's going to be a wild ride, if it really is Nova. and then uh and then sakura's like oh hey you guys missed like all the old music from the first game well uh spoiler alert we didn't we we haven't just put all that music in here we've remastered the original nine courses fantasy medals celestial valley sky stands frozen hillside magma flows beanstalk park machine passage checkered nights and nebula belt are all returning eight 18 air ride courses total.
00:29:56
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So basically what we know, all 18 courses, nine top ride courses for the new courses in air ride. We are now unsure if the OG nine top ride courses have also been like remastered in some way, shape or form.
00:30:11
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He didn't say. So we'll have, we'll learn more when the game comes out. They also showed off swap relay mode for air ride, which basically every lap you take a different machine. um which is cool.
00:30:24
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we That actually would be really cool. We then go into more City Trial details. They show off some more City Trial exclusive items. Speed Up, Dizzy Beam Special Up, Item Catcher, Fireworks, Laser Swiper, Multi-Missile Size Up, and the Mega Cannon, which is very scary and very big and a very big laser.
00:30:44
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is that the Is that the same canon that like shows up in pieces in Smash Brothers? i know that's from Kid Icarus. Oh, okay. that's That's a kid. Oh, never mind. A lot of people said that of like, is that the thing from Smash? No, that's from Kid Icarus, folks.
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ah Just ah as that. More City Child stuff that they showed off. The boxes all have redesigns, but they work about the same. Blue boxes are stat items. Green boxes, attack items. Red boxes, copybillies. And the new rare box gives you just a variety of items.
00:31:16
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And also, Sandbag is back from Smash Bros. And he is in this game as well. You can beat him up and he'll give you items. good good and of course legendary machine parts are back as well both the dragoon and hydra uh and there's tease for a potential third new legendary machine as well um which we don't cannot confirm or or deny well here's a question then if the first one was called the dragoon and then we have the hydra if you were to name the third machine without even knowing what it is what would you name it
00:31:52
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ah the Cerberus. Yeah. Nope. Yep. Nope. Makes sense. Makes sense. We going got the team battle mode that they showed off eight v eight for city trial. And we learned that if ah in this team mode with legendary machine parts, they're shared. So whichever team gets all three, whoever collects the third piece gets the machine.
00:32:11
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Okay. Uh, we then got some, uh, some details to Skaia, the city trial map. There's a floating Island that, uh, Sakurai teased. It's like, Oh, it's really hard to reach. I wonder what's there.
00:32:23
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And I'm like, Oh, Sakurai, what the fuck did you put there? Um, the other areas they showed off the highlands, building interior, maroon ship, volcano, mysterious dimension, floating garden and spider nest.
00:32:36
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Um, Free run mode is also returning to the city trial, giving players free roam access to the whole map. And the flight warp star is returning as an exclusive to this mode as it was in the first game.
00:32:47
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And then also some more field events that can happen. Rare boxes spawn and there's fakes there. Treasure chests appear. ah Giant wheelies, reward wings scattered. Gordo's falling from the sky.
00:32:59
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Everybody gets the UFO power up. Wild legendary machines um can appear. And the fucking halberd. Good, good. With stadium stadium mode news, you can filter what stadiums appear at the end of City Trials.
00:33:15
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ah They showed off some more stadium game modes like Biting Rush, High Jump, Big Battle, Oval Circuit, Rail Panic, and Beam Gauntlet. And also, Versus Boss is returning with a glow-up, where you fight Robo DDD, who can transform himself into a car.
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ah There's a lock-on ability for this mode, and they also teased two other bosses, ah Nightmare and Zero Two. ah So, yeah. And for those who do not know Kirby, but know Darling in the Franks, not that Zero Two.
00:33:47
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yeah Fair. Fair. ah We then got more riders confirmed for the game. Taranza, Lolo, Lolo, and lala La La La. DeRoach, Rocky, Rick, Scarfy, Marks, and Original Waddle Dee.
00:34:03
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um We also got more machines confirmed. The Transform Star, The Formula Star, Hop Star, Jet Star, Wheelie Scooter, and Bull Tank. 21 machines have now been confirmed for all modes.
00:34:16
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Three exclusive to City Trial, and all of the original stars are back from the first game. Good, good. Also in this game, our voice options. There's multiple options that you can pick as the announcer for the game.
00:34:30
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They didn't go into who the English voices are, but but the female Japanese voice act ah voice actor is Makiko Omoto, who is the voice of Kirby.
00:34:43
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That sounds amazing. And then the male Japanese voice actor is Banjo Jenga, who has done some work with Kirby. He's the voice of one of the Nightmares. ah But also, you most likely recognize him as Heihachi Mishima of Tekken, and also the voice of Liquid Snake and Zero in Metal Gear.
00:35:04
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We then go into time attack mode. It will not have global online leaderboards. All times are going to be local to the game. um Both normal time attack and free run mode are back.
00:35:14
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ah There's a photo mode available in every mode. The checklist returns with five checklist boards for air ride, top ride, city trial, road trip, and online. There's vehicle customization called My Machine.
00:35:26
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Good. Oh, my God. Oh, good. Design and all your stars to whatever you want. You can purchase other people's designs online for with the in-game currency, which you just earned by doing races and shit.
00:35:39
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um The more a machine design is bought, the more expensive it becomes. um There's also a garage to put all your vehicles on display and show them off. And characters can wear hats.
00:35:52
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There's a bunch of hats you can earn and you could all your characters can wear them. Oh, it's so good. i love oh I love customizations like this. ah There's gummies.
00:36:03
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This is probably the weirdest thing that they put where you collect gummy versions of all the air ride vehicles. Uh, where you beat people online and you just get some from playing the game normally as well.
00:36:14
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You don't do much with them, but they're there So it's not like the in-game currency. It's just its own, like, it's almost like statues. They're not even statues. Like, they're just gummy. You can't even eat. Like, the they're weird.
00:36:29
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This is, like, the weirdest thing. Like, they just exist. um Maybe they they'll play a bigger play somewhere else. We don't know. ah The My Music feature from Smash Bros. is returning to set how often music tracks play in each stage in game mode.
00:36:43
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ah The music is composed by Shogo Sakai and Noriyuki Iwodare. We got to see the main menu reveal. It's very poggers. It's extremely well done. It looks absolutely stunning.
00:36:55
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ah We got to see more fucking Amiibo. Meta Knight on the Shadow Star, King Dedede on the Tank Star, and Chef Kawasaki on the Hop Star. They're all big. They're all interchangeable. And they're gonna make you bankrupt.
00:37:09
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Ha ha ha. I'm already bankrupt. We got to see the opening movie, ah which is, which people are theorizing, is ah voiced over by Todd Habercorn, because it sounds like Todd Habercorn, and I'm like, what the fuck is he doing here?
00:37:26
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But because it sounds like his voice. It sounds like fucking Natsu, and the character he played in Full Metal Alchemist, and that's the kid, and all the other voices he's done. Yeah. Then we got to see, then like the big after the show was ended the final scene. We get to see the Thousand of Dreams and we also see Nova awakening, meaning Nova has some play in this game as well.
00:37:50
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And also there will be an online demo event coming November 8th, 12 a.m. to 16 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. November 9th, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then the 15th and 16th, same times as the previous two.
00:38:03
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ah So but if you want to play the game early online, ah the next two weekends are when you'll be able to do it. Interesting. And that was the Air Riders Direct 2.
00:38:14
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Woo! I'm so looking forward to this. i In fact, I have a friend that's like, I hope you're ready because I'm taking a week off just to play this game. My God.
00:38:26
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Yeah, no, this game is going to be great. um this People are saying, people are like Mario vs. Sonic with the cart games. Nah, man, Kirby's here for the fucking knockout. Right. Yeah.
00:38:38
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right and Honestly, I don't blame them. Mario Kart World, it's alright. It's just Mario Kart. It feels a little empty. ah Sonic Racing Crossroads is great.
00:38:50
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Don't get the Platinum Trophy. It'll ruin you. ah Because it ruins... God, I platinum to the game recently. i never want to touch that game again with how many stupid fucking graces I had to do.
00:39:04
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I love the game, but I never want to play it again. and not even all the characters are out yet. I haven't even gotten to play the SpongeBob DLC yet.
00:39:16
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um But Kirby looks great. Kirby looks absolutely fantastic. Stunning. um We love to see it. I should definitely probably get that prep to be something I can do once it comes out for stream.
00:39:29
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Cause I would, I would love to have, have a nights on stream where I just have, you know, if I can like start my own lobby and just have, you know, strict you know, chatters come in and we all, all play together. Yeah, no, it'll, I'm looking forward to this.
00:39:45
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It'll be a fun and dandy time. With that, it's now time to get into everything
Recent Game Releases and Industry News
00:39:52
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else that happened. Here is the week in review.
00:39:57
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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. Starting off with some of the major releases within the last two weeks, ah you had Ninja Gaiden 4, Jurassic World Evolution 3, Dispatch, Power Watch Simulator 2, the Jackbox Party Pack 11, and Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D Remake.
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as some of the games that came out in these last two weeks. I can speak on one of two of those. ah Powerwatch Sim 2 is great. I platinumed Good time. ah And Jackbox Party Pack 11, it's a great set of games.
00:40:35
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All original, ah but some of them definitely have ah those ah old school Jackbox vibes. um So definitely go give it ah give those a shot
00:40:48
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As for the world of video game news, starting off, Amazon's MMO New World has celebrated its fourth anniversary, but will no longer be getting new content going forward. It sounds like some servers will be shutting down, too. you uh yeah that's sad yeah uh but makes sense um yeah think in mcdonald's news because of the government shutdown in north in the usa the mcdonald's monopoly is making people desperate for free food uh specifically people are honing in on the fact that you don't have to purchase anything to get monopoly pieces
00:41:25
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Thanks to the McDonald's app, you get a few pieces a few times a day straight from the app, and sometimes it's free food, and people are and really cashing in on that. If I remember correctly, I think you get...
00:41:39
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I think you get either three or five ah free Monopoly pieces per day once you do, you know, go through the hoops. And yeah, like you like you said, there's a chance for it to be be free food. So like, you know, free side of fries and stuff like that. And yeah, no, I've actually been included in like a group message for a bunch of people that are like, hey, if you need to, while while we're having this government shut down, abuse this because McDonald's is not doing any effort to stop it Yeah, I feel like you can't really stop it. with
00:42:10
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I feel like if they stop it, people will riot. And I think a lot of McDonald's will get ah but essentially just robbed of their burgers. Yep. yeah Hey, it what you got to do, right?
00:42:23
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Do what you got to do, and that's Play Monopoly. Yeah. Play Monopoly, get free food. Yep. Nintendo will be releasing the soundtrack to The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild on vinyl next year, both in a ah double LP and a deluxe 8 LP box set that features 130 tracks from the game, ah specifically mastered for vinyl.
00:42:48
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Pre-orders for both of them are live now, ah with collections arriving on June 19th, 2022. by by sex ah Halo revealed a brand new game.
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Halo campaign evolved a full remake of the first game's campaign only. It's coming out on PC, Xbox and PlayStation 5.
00:43:11
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PlayStation 5! Yes, according to the devs the remake i also according to the devs, the remake will also feature the most skulls than any previous Halo game ever. Interesting.
00:43:23
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interesting um But yeah, you can play the for the first time ever Halo on PlayStation. Yep. Yeah. it's It's an interesting time for Xbox right now.
00:43:39
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Yeah, like like i like we know that they were like giving like a couple games to PlayStation and like Switch as well that were like exclusive, but like they made sense because it's like, oh yeah, these games could go everywhere.
00:43:50
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Like they don't have to just be on Xbox. Yeah. hey Halo? That's your flagship! Yeah. Well, it was your flagship. let's be It's been a roller coaster for Halo.
00:44:03
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It has been a roller coaster for several of Xbox's ips Yeah. First Gears of war And now this. Now this. Wow.
00:44:16
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Well, I'm going to play but Halo on PlayStation because it's going to be funny. Yeah. i gotta I gotta do it. I have to do it. So I've wishlisted the game already.
00:44:28
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um Very nice. In PUBG news, the first game from PlayerUnknown Productions, an emergent survival game called Prologue Go Way Back, will be getting an early access release later this month as PlayerUnknown announced ah earlier earlier in the week.
00:44:44
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ah The game is currently in open data right now, though. But it will be in early access very soon. ah In some Sims news, in the wake of EA's decision to go private, multiple Sims 4 content creators have announced that they are leaving the EA creator network due to the reputation of EA's soon-to-be owners, Saudi Arabia's public investment fund, Jared Kushner's affinity partners, and Silver Lake.
00:45:09
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um i I actually didn't hear this, and I know how scary that sounds. Good on these people. Yeah. Oh, no. you I feel like if you stayed in the partner program, you're just after the Saudi money at that point. In which case, bank is bank. I will say bank is bank. Yeah, but... like but like But, like, morals are another thing. Oh, oh that's oh that's actually really scary. Yeah.
00:45:35
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Um... But yeah, that's... ah Also, The Sims Mobile is being sunset early next year, EA announced. ah EA says the game will continue you to receive updates until January.
00:45:48
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It's going to be delisted from the App Store and Google Play as of October 21st. It will shut down on January 20th. So the game is shut... The game you can no longer permit get. um And then come January 20th, the game will be shut down for good.
00:46:01
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So... ah Yeah, not a great time for the Sims. Oh, and I actually know, I know few diehard Sims players. This, oh, I need to go check up on them after this. I can't wait when the Sims 5 comes out.
00:46:17
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oh Trans options are no longer there because of Saudi Arabia. Oh my God. doubt granted. I don't think that would happen.
00:46:28
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I hope that won't happen. But if it does, I mean, that's like half of your... A quarter of your fucking player base gone? Yeah.
00:46:44
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Well, in most of them... I don't know statistics that well. Well, in most of people that I know that are diehard Sims fans, they fall the demographic. I think that demographic's bigger than even they realize. Oh, Oh, no.
00:46:58
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Also, have you played a Sims game within the last year? I mean, within the last year? Maybe last couple of years. Yeah, I played like Sims 4 for like a couple hours.
00:47:11
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It is so incredibly hard to get in and start a new play session without... submitting to all of this new privacy releasing and having your account and downloading all the it's it's it's a it is jumping through hoops just to play anymore ol ya yeah yeah in good news netflix is reportedly developing a crash bandicoot animated series Ooh, okay, okay. Now you have my answer. People are hoping that Crash is voiced by the Australian guy who voiced him in the Skylanders cartoon. Oh, that would be really good, actually.
00:47:49
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oh yeah. No, no, no i love no. I love his voice in Skylanders, actually. um And Thanksgiving news, Mario will be at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as a big-ass balloon. Are we going to have another instance like Pikachu? Maybe. Who knows? yeah ah ah In indie game news, P.I. Mouse for Hire, the black and white old cartoon first person shooter where you're a detective mouse finally has a release date.
00:48:20
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March 19th, 2026. P.I. Mouse for Hire. Okay, hang on. You keep going. I'm just going to wish this something was good. It's a very cool looking game. ah In ah game dev news, the annual game developer conference in San Francisco is getting a new name and new direction for 2026.
00:48:40
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Organizers are now calling the conference the GDC Festival of Gaming. And while it's still designed as a place for industry professionals to gather, make deals, and learn from their peers, the show is adapted to face current challenges facing people who make games.
00:48:53
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And also, ticket prices are going down in price ah to make it more affordable. ah for people to just attend. Very nice. Very poggers.
00:49:05
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Yeah. ah Elden Ring Tarnished Edition for the Switch 2 has been delayed to sometime next year, and all I gotta say to that is, a
00:49:18
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sorry, I despise FromSoft. i ah Fair enough. I do not like them. i I legit cannot get into Souls-like games. I tried.
00:49:31
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I like Lies of P because it has difficulty options. Fair. Fair. I would probably be more into trying another one if there was a difficulty option. yeah Yeah. FromSoft can realize that they can have a lot more money if they just put a difficulty slider in the game.
00:49:52
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Yeah. Like, I would try the games. I would try the games. I play the games. I'd probably like them. Who knows? I'm not going to bash anybody who enjoys how difficult those games are. And yeah, knowing that there is a rhythm aspect to it that makes it very difficult and also very satisfying, I'm all for it.
00:50:09
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I don't have the time for that kind of stuff. I need i need something that's going to help me chill and, you know, feel accomplished regardless. You know? so Yes. Give me a difficulty slider. Let me enjoy it my way.
00:50:20
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That way they can enjoy their way. Yes. Pikmin 4 is receiving a new update later this month, adding photo mode, decor Pikmin to find, and difficulty options. A new very easy difficulty and a new hardcore difficulty.
00:50:36
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never really got a chance to give Pikmin a shot I feel like I would adore it though I still haven't had a chance to play Pikmin myself yeah and i feel I feel like I would adore it because i and I understand the base concept of it it's you know it's ah it's um it's managing a team kind of thing you know yeah Yeah. ah Theories are going wild, but there's a very strong chance that Lana Del Rey will be doing a new Bond song for 007 First Light.
00:51:09
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Interesting. People digging into some leaks that came out that she's recording a new song and it's very titled like First Light or something like that. It's like, yeah.
00:51:21
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Since Lana Del Rey has done a Bond song in the past as well, um people are like, oh so very good chance that that'll happen.
00:51:33
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ah In Atari news, Atari just unveiled its latest gaming console, the Intellivision Sprint. Atari will be launching the console to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Intellivision, calling the Intellivision Sprint a modern revival of the original console.
00:51:47
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It features 45 built-in games, including popular titles like Astro Smash, Shark Shark, Star Strike, Thin Ice, and Boulder Dash, along with a variety of sports games like Baseball, Chip Shot,
00:51:59
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super pro golf, soccer, super pro skiing, tennis, and super pro football. And some strategy games like B-17 Bomber, Sea Battle, Space Battle, and Utopia. i i still I still reference B-17 Bomber all the time because it is like a vocal stem of mine. Just B-17 Bomber. who Wait, whoa.
00:52:27
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oh it's just it's such a wildly way like wild way to so say it and it's also even referenced uh a bunch of uh my monster hunter friends uh there is a there's a uh there's a monster in there that likes to fly above and uh its scales will fall off and they explode on impact and so we all just dub it the b seventeen bomber but Nice.
00:52:54
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It'll cost $149.99. It is available for pre-order via Atari.com. Orders will be shipped out to December fifth ah On the quick topic of Monster Hunter, are you playing Wilds? Have you played Wilds? I am. i haven't touched it in ah couple of weeks now with everything else going on, but I've been trying to manage my own um squad in it.
00:53:17
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So whenever i whenever I go live on Twitch, I have a bunch of people that hop on immediately and we just go hunt stuff. I've not been keeping up with the latest events, but I want to get back into it at some point. Yeah, i was because I was going to ask, have you fought Omega yet? Yeah.
00:53:31
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Not yet. Not yet. But a lot of my lot of my other squad members are already getting practiced on it, so I can at least look like I no know what I'm doing.
00:53:42
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but Nice. ah I mean, it's it's hard to go it's it's hard to go hard when ah when I refuse to do anything but the hunting horn, so... Fair enough. ah Fred Slop alert. Fred Slop alert. A brand new multiplayer game hit over concurrent players on its first weekend on Steam.
00:54:02
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It's a game that we've both played RV there yet. Dude, it's such a good game. It's a good game until you get to the cave and realize it's rage bait. ah So we are almost, a Dragon and I have been playing it together on stream.
00:54:16
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We are almost out of the cave. We're on the final section. We've actually made it through the cave. Jeez. Yeah, no, we're, like, the very the very last section to get out of the cave, it is, um I don't know if you or your viewers have have played Peak before, but whenever you get to the final climb, when you're inside the volcano,
00:54:38
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ah You have to climb up the inside of the volcano to get to get to the final peak. ah Do that, but with an RV. No! That's what the challenge is. No!
00:54:49
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I am so looking forward to it. Dude, you do' you need to watch some of my gameplay. I am wild on that RV. I've been going over obstacles the first time as if I practiced it ian Me and Mel, so me, Melo, Vault, and fuck.
00:55:08
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Like, you know, the fourth name. um But a group of us played ah and we got we got to the cave and the cave started kicking our ass and we got to the cave very much was kick was kicking our asses until we finally got things down.
00:55:24
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And we are at the section where you got to go like underneath platforms and like turn a crank to get some platforms going. Okay, I actually have something that will help you.
00:55:36
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ah You'll notice very quickly that there are crates lying around under that bridge section. Use those crates to hold the buttons down. Oh, we got through we got through that section already. We're on the sex like the one or two sections after that.
00:55:51
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Yeah, okay, so you're you're almost at the end of the cave then. You're almost at the end. um But yeah, for people that reach that part, use the boxes to hold down every single button, just have it all raised up.
00:56:03
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And then ah if you if you've not figured out yet, your RV can hold planks of wood. there are There are two hooks that are on the sides of the RV. Those are for holding large planks of wood.
00:56:17
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ah use those to ramp over the the pieces of the bridge that are way too high for your RV to crawl over. So, that's all going say on that. hold wood. You hold wood.
00:56:28
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You hold wood. You hold wood. It can hold! Okay. The game never explains this to you. Dragon I came across it by accident and have been holding the two longest pieces of wood we can hold ever since.
00:56:40
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Wow. Because it can only hold two. But the longer they are, the more useful they are. so ah Also, um you can use the um the toe ah the tow ropes.
00:56:54
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yeah You can actually use those to suspend the RV in midair. we've We've done that ah unintentionally and yeah we're trying to like free ourselves from predicaments and then we're just... ah we've We've actually used it twice just to just to go over a gap we're not supposed to be able to go over that way. it was very funny.
00:57:16
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we We literally just have it tied to a tree behind the RV and then one across the gap on another tree. And we literally just tighten them so they lift the truck up. And then one of us presses the release the back rope.
00:57:29
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And then one of them presses up pull on the front rope. And it just pushes it across the the gap midair. It's so cool. ah ah Okay, then.
00:57:41
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ah The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas is bringing the post-apocalypse in the form of an exhibit all about the venerable post-nuclear role-playing game series. So, if you want to go see Fallout at a museum, go do that.
00:57:56
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If you live near Las Vegas. no but that also give me give me an excuse to go back to las vegas trust me i don't have a lot of reason to go there so yeah fair steve leo has announced the draft of the sleeping dogs movie script has been completed okay the first draft at i don't know if it's the first chapter the final draft it didn't say uh but yay sleeping dogs news dude sleeping dogs sleeping dogs is really good Remaster the game, please.
00:58:25
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Please. Please. Please, Square Enix, remaster it. Please. We know you want to. i mean i mean, they have Definitive Edition, but that's still not remaster, though. But I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs.
00:58:39
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It's good. yeah ah Steam is now officially bigger than Canada, as Steam now has 41 million. ah has reached a 41 million concurrent user record.
00:58:52
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Oh, so so like more users on Steam than like the population of Canada? Is that where we're going with? Okay, okay. That's a cool statistic, though. No, actually, sorry. No, it just has enough servers that can cover the entirety of Canada.
00:59:07
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no oh Oh, that's different. Oh, that's terrifying. Yeah, that would be terrifying. ah The L.S. Trials has rolled out its invasion update, which brings a PvP mode to the game and puts you under a new kind of pressure.
00:59:22
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Although the game is already multiplayer, this update will pit you and your friends against each other instead of Trials rather than teaming up against the ghastly terrors in the facilities. um The multiplayer update for Vampire Survivors is out now, and a bonus Bellantro-themed expansion came along with it called the Anti-Chamber.
00:59:41
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ah This adds Jimbo and a trio of rare Jokers as playable characters for Bellantro-themed weapons, including a burning score counter and banana barrage, and the titular Anti-Chamber stage.
00:59:54
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Good. Good. and I love how Bellatro just leeches into all of these different ah smaller franchises and just shares shares shares in the fun. Yeah.
01:00:06
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After spending the year talking about the need to overhaul Runescape's much-baligned microtransaction system, Jagex is putting the matter in the hands of the people. The company has opened a poll on the Runescape website, and if at least 100,000 players vote on but to scrap Treasure Hunter, the game's major microtransaction layer, it will be re-eventing.
01:00:27
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moved i think that this is a great thing that the company is doing um i've not been i've not been playing runescape a lot lately but i still have at least three friends i can name right now that still like daily will hop on runescape you know at least to do quick things and just you know they they love the game And I can confirm that the threshold has passed 115,548 votes have come in to remove it.
01:01:00
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Good. Good. Good. for As a time of recording this, and the poll is still open. So if you still want to go vote, even if you don't play the game, just go get rid
Controversies and Leadership Changes in Gaming
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of it. Just like like that just go vote. Yep. TwitchCon has wrapped up amongst other things.
01:01:17
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And man, this was a TwitchCon for the ages, celebrating 10 whole years. ah Okay. like
01:01:27
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Let's dive into this, because I almost went to TwitchCon this year, but I chose not to because of a certain orange man in the White House. Yeah. First off, Emmy Roo was assaulted. Event security did not do its job correctly.
01:01:41
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If you were a VTuber who received gifts at a meetup event and the fan brought them a gift, staff threw it out, except the people at the gamers' booth. Those people are fucking goaded. ah In response to the assault of streamer Emmy Roo at last weekend's SwitchCon, Dan Glancy, the CEO, issued an apology from the streaming platform's official account on X. He apologized for security lapses and promised improvements at future events and also expressed her regret for his prior comments on the incident because he did not make great comments initially about that whole fucking thing.
01:02:12
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No, I didn't. I hadn't realized that he he made a follow up because I was like the apology I heard was not an apology. But OK, so this has happened after that.
01:02:23
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Yes. ah With all of this and however, with all of this and also current issues with lurkers not being counters as viewers amongst other things.
01:02:35
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The talk has come up. Should Dan Clancy announce retirement and GTFO? And should Twitch get a new CEO?
01:02:47
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I... I don't agree with the lurker. I don't agree with the lurker thing. I think I think lurkers are absolutely just as valuable to the streamers as the active members are.
01:03:00
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And it's really hard to, you know, keep so many viewers like, you know, encoded right at that moment. That's just that's just an unnat like a it's this the whole thing stupid.
01:03:11
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Yes, the whole thing should be and the whole reason that this is happening in the first place is because they want to obviously there is a bot problem on Twitch and they are trying to fix it. I like that they are actively trying to fix it, but and some of the ways and the tools that they have done haven't helped. And no one is they're not helping and to their they're creating a problem of the community that did not need to be affected.
01:03:35
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Yes. Yeah. My worry about Dan Clancy retiring and GTFOing is who is going to come in and is it going to be another case of um orange jade Mr. Orange Jade coming in? You know what i mean?
01:03:54
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Yeah, no. I just i worryable i worry about it getting worse because I feel like, yes, he's done some questionable things. he I wouldn't necessarily know if he's done bad things.
01:04:08
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And I'm worried about bad things happening. no Here's the thing. I will say this about Dan. ah for Everything I've read about him, everything that I've seen him do, the the worst thing he's done is make some bad comments here and there.
01:04:20
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nothing great nothing Nothing stupid. I mean, like, the worst thing I've heard him comment on, it was the whole, this whole Emoryu situation with the TwitchCon assault. Yeah, that was bad.
01:04:30
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Not the current Emoryu situation involving Mizkif, because hashtag fuck Mizkif. Yeah. Not that whole thing. The TwitchCon thing.
01:04:41
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Just so that people are we're on the same page, folks. If you don't know about the other thing, go read about it. Go look do your own fucking research into it. Because, oh boy, is that a lot of a fucking can of worms that was opened up.
01:04:55
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And honestly, should just spell the downfall of fucking OTK and just go independent. Just get rid of OTK. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. ah or if you know if you you know if you're gonna go against us and not read it i mean i'm not your dad not gonna force you yeah like ah if you want to be informed go get informed yeah that's anyway regardless i look like look i don't if they can fix this whole lurker thing like all from what i understand it's a program that they put in like to just to stop bots undo the program tweak it
01:05:30
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So that way it doesn't affect the lurkers. I don't know what you got to do to tweak it, but tweak it, fix it. There's got, there's obviously there's a hundred things you can do to probably fix this. Do that.
01:05:41
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You know, i actually made ah um made a comment about a change to something that I do with my work, which I, you know, I don't want to disclose what I do for work, but there was a change to the pro the main program that we use.
01:05:53
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And I really hate it. And i've I've expressed it to other coworkers. And this is the words that I've used and I think really apply to what's going on here. the I love the concept.
01:06:04
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I am all for the concept. The execution is awful. That needs to be fixed. Yes. No, absolutely. 100%. I am all for it if it works appropriately.
01:06:17
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Until then, i ain't touching this with a 10-foot pole. Yeah. And a lot of people, I think, are in that same mindset. Yeah. is We love the theory. We love what you're trying to do, but god damn, you gotta fix it. You gotta get it working. Yeah.
01:06:34
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No, I think that's a very good way to put that. yeah ah Back to some more gaming news. Remedy CEO Taro Vertala has announced that he's stepping down after nine years in the role.
01:06:46
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This is after the disastrous launch of FBC Firebreak and just other ah financial issues that the company has been facing.
01:06:54
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At least it's not Sam Lake. So you know what? I'm fine with that. Right. Dear Automata creator, Yoko Taro's back in the news. ah He says that nearly half of his autographs that are being resold are actually fake because he puts small, unnoted features in all of his autographs.
01:07:12
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So ah if you have a Yoko Taro autograph, analyze it? Question mark.
Game Upgrades and Modding Enhancements
01:07:19
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Hmm. ah Animal Crossing New Horizons is in the news as it's getting a Switch 2 upgrade and a free update to both versions on January 15th.
01:07:31
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this was too very The Switch 2 version will be adding higher resolution visuals, mouse controls, an in-game megaphone that uses the built-in ne microphone, online play for up to 12 players instead of 8, and camera play.
01:07:45
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ah The upgrade pack only costs $7 as well if you have the Switch 1 version. so wait So if if you're trying to play it on Switch 2, if you're only going it for the for the higher resolution, do you have to get the upgrade pack?
01:08:03
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So if you want higher rent so so the Switch 2 version, that's everything you get. If you have the Switch 1 version and want to upgrade, it's only going to cost you $7 to get all of that stuff. Okay. Okay. How do you think that works if you own the cartridge for New Horizons? So good, good question.
01:08:21
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So I have a cartridge for Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Yep. Because with Nintendo NSO, you get the upgrades for those for free. Just have the cartridge in. It upgrades them.
01:08:32
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Okay, ah because I have the cartridge for both Scarlet and Violet as well, and I noticed that ah as soon as I plugged it in, it downloaded an update, and then it was done. um Okay, all right.
01:08:44
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So that's where I was kind of getting around. Just make sure the game is installed game is in there when you're installing the getting the upgrade pack. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. And then the new free update that's getting added to both versions, regardless of if you upgraded or not.
01:09:02
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We're getting a hotel for the island, the Capit Hotel. Playable retro games are back as furniture rewards from that. More storage, like 2,000 more things to storage.
01:09:14
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a new dream island. That's basically like a free creative mode. Uh, collaborations with Lego, uh, Zelda and Splatoon Amigo Amiibo collabs with two villagers, uh, being added with both of those Amiibo sets, uh, Mineru and Tulin for Zelda. And then two Splatoon swirls, um, to represent the Splatoon three squid announcers.
01:09:40
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Dude, that, that's sick. Actually. And a whole bunch of new furniture and stuff like that as well. um Yeah. And yeah yeah, it's coming. It's coming next year, January 15th.
01:09:55
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So it timed it time to refresh the old island. It sounds like. yeah Oh, and Resetti is coming back. Resetti has a ah role to like help you reset your island of like, oh, you want to redo this area? Yeah, here you go. It's all blank now. Everything that you had there is now in storage.
01:10:12
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Trees and flowers could also be put in storage as well. i'm trying to be really quiet for you i'm just like mr reset he's back yes it's my favorite character from this franchise but yeah there's a lot a lot happening so that there you can go uh in minecraft news mojang is removing code um obfuscation in minecraft java version making modding the game even easier and greater for java version good Good. That has been the best thing that Mojang has been doing over the years is they've been getting they've been becoming more and more open to the modding community because they know for a fact that that keeps ah player retention.
01:10:54
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And I'm so for this. Yes. Because they because their updates are way too safe and I know why they do it. And so I love how they're just being like, you know what?
01:11:04
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We can't officially make this really cool feature that would really make the game better. But if we let the modders do it, then we all win. Yeah, no, exactly.
01:11:16
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And lastly, Peak, getting a brand new update November 5th. The Roots Biome, Giant Ass Trees, Spiders, new badges and achievements all coming November 5th.
01:11:28
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And also Repo got a new update as well, adding like 10 new monsters. I've been trying to keep my eyes off of the peak update because ah usually whenever I'm sold on a project, I try not to look at it so I can get fresh.
01:11:41
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I have heard about spiders that hang in the trees and become like ceiling traps if if a player walks under them. um Do you happen to know if this roots biome is like... Is it taking over the rainforest? I do not know if...
01:12:00
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my best bet is that this is going to be another rotation between this and the tropics, right? Possibly. Or it'll be just a whole new thing that they put in.
01:12:10
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I don't actually know. My best bet is that this is going to be a rotation between tropics. And that's, that's what I would think. I think it'd be a rotation between tropics. Cause we already have, you know, a forested type yeah you know thing being the tropics.
01:12:22
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And I'm to be entirely honest with, I hate the tropics. i ah The tropics aren't that bad. I hate the tropics. I'm so much for more for the Alpine. However, since trying the Mesa update...
01:12:38
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I haven't done enough Mesa runs to really get a sense of, do I, do I like this? Do I hate it? It is brutal though. Mesa is a lot more brutal than Alpine. I find that. I find that. I, I, I agree. I agree. I, I don't think Alpine is that bad.
01:12:58
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That's when people, you know, cause everyone was like, Oh, Alpine so hard. I'm like, honestly, i just call it a win. If I can get past the, um, what what what do we call it the uh the the the rainforest i can never think of the tropics thank you i don't like the tropics i think the tropics tropics are just it takes too much time because there's there's too much leading you away from a main path i don't know i don't like it i just go to that the game i'm like the best climber in my friend group in the game oh yeah no i am not i am not
01:13:31
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I am also too, I'm, I'm a very proud, uh, uh, very prideful climber. So I'm like, uh, no, I think this is the way we should go. And I just go, even though, you know, in the back of my mind, I'm like, this isn't going to go anywhere. You're wasting your time.
01:13:48
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You see, that's why whenever, whenever me and TC are in the same fucking lobby for the game, uh, TC is the, essentially the leader. Cause he, I don't know how he does it he's able to route out where to go just by looking at at the whole thing it's like okay here's where we go it's like how the fuck did you do that you have ADHD not autism what the fuck my person for that is ah Silver but Silver also plays solo runs just for fun And so, yeah, there's always a good chance that he may have he may have done a run prior to joining my stream for it.
01:14:26
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ah But he's also just like, even if he hasn't, he's just got a six cents for the game because he's played it so much. Gotcha. Gotcha. Alright, moving on to ongoing game news.
01:14:37
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Final Fantasy XIV stuff. Live letter from the producer. 89 just happened. ah First, ah we're getting patch 7.38 on November 11th. This is ah essentially the weekly limit removal for the Arcadian Savage raids for the Cruiserweight tier.
01:14:55
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um We're getting a new piece of loot in the Evil East Alliance raids. The poster of ah the Tactics remake. essentially just getting added to the loot pile there.
01:15:06
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um and also And also just like eie any weekly removal, any weekly stuff, weekly limits getting removed. I think on everything but the yeah the current Alliance raid.
01:15:22
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up We also got our first details for patch 7.4 into the mist coming out to December 16th included will be the Arcadian heavyweight tier, the new elegant tones of monomics, new craftable gear, and the Arcadian heavyweight savage will be available January 6th, which means if your national holiday was starting the capital, you're going to have to go raid instead.
01:15:47
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all right all right i okay i was hoping that joke would land uh oh no so i i i am very slowly making my way through final fantasy uh 14 i didn't i did did i didn't quite get it so sorry i mean january 6 is when the update comes out and what happened on january 6 they stormed the capital so yeah that i right over my head so instead of doing the savage tear at christmas we got to do the savage tear during the other holiday yeah but that that yeah that totally went right over my head
01:16:26
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Oh, we got some new images for the MSQ. We're getting more Hilda brand. We saw a Cactar riding a motorcycle. ah Good, good, and as you should. As you should. ah The new dungeon is the Mistwake.
01:16:39
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The new trial is Hell on Rails, both Normal and EX. The Unreal will be Tsukuyomi's Pain. Duty support will be available for the Dismale Darkhold in the Aurum Veil, which means those dungeons will probably get changed up a little bit.
01:16:55
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Uh, PvP Series 10 will be starting. We're going to get a new frontline map called Warcore Chirte. chite ah wonder if they have trouble coming up with these names sometimes.
01:17:07
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Yeah. ah Also, of according to some things for the PvP, old rewards from the Feast will also be available. And for those who do not know what the fuck the Feast is, this was the old PvP, what like what the PvP was called, that lasted for like...
01:17:26
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20-ish seasons, I want to say. I'm double-checking that right now because I can go to mounts in my FF14 collect, go to PvP, search it,
01:17:38
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Yeah, there are 20 seasons of the feast. um And it looks like all 20 of those seasons, they are implementing those old rewards to be obtainable through, I'm assuming, the PvP merchants.
01:17:49
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We know that there's going to be the glam gear that you can get. As for the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 mounts that were released as feast rewards Those might be available.
01:18:02
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They might not. We don't know yet at this time. We'll probably know more come live letter from the producer 90. which will be in a couple weeks.
01:18:14
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Okay. Okay. ah Air Force One at the Gold Saucer is getting a new map that you can play on that will actually take you outside of the Gold Saucer and in like the La Nosha Wild area.
01:18:27
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ah that'd be sweet, actually. That's cool. Uh, the Occult Crescent update. Phantom weapons are going to get item level 775. Three new Occult Crescent phantom jobs are coming. The Mystic Knight, Dancer, and Gladiator.
01:18:41
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And new accessories that benefit the Occult Crescent stats, sort of like the ones that we have for Eureka and Baja, are going to be released as well. Cosmic Exploration is getting getting the third planet, Oasis, which means new rewards and further upgrades to your cosmic tools.
01:18:58
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A brand Variant Dungeon is coming called The Merchant's Tale, where we get to go inside a book. ah They're also changing the difficulties of ah Variant Dungeons.
01:19:12
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So there's now the regular Variant Dungeon, which has the 12 paths that you want to collect to get a Mount Reward at the end of it. Then there's Variant's Dungeon Advanced Mode, which is just the bosses of the Variant Dungeon.
01:19:25
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This can be... ah So, regular mode can be done with one to four players. This Advanced Mode has to have at least two players up to four. Then it goes Criterion, and which is, I think, the bosses and I think some adds, but I don't know for sure. Oh, yeah. No, sorry.
01:19:40
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No, Advanced Mode, you can pick any of the free bosses in any order. uh criterion is you do the bosses in a set order with you should have four people i think you can only do it with four people actually and then there's criterion savage which has rewards to it too that are i think just glamour furniture related i can't fully remember uh it looks like one of the mount rewards for this will be a flying magic carpet
01:20:07
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We're getting new UI color themes, the strategy board will be implemented, and the new command panel, which is essentially ah you click it and like a panel of more things will appear for you to like ease up your hotbars to make them cleaner.
01:20:24
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And, holy shit, the biggest thing that they fucking announced, unrestricted job gear. Any gear that you have for any job can be used for any fucking class that you want.
01:20:40
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you can have a white mage looking gladiator you want. The only thing that cannot be altered is the weapon that you hold has to be for that said class, which makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah.
01:20:55
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No, that's going to be really trippy to see. So glam artists aren't going to go are going to go nuts once December 16th rolls around.
01:21:07
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yeah ah We will have more details once a live letter from the producer 90 does drop as well.
Limited Events and New Game Releases
01:21:14
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um In Fortnite Epic Games news, the Simpsons have taken over Fortnite and for a special limited event, ah Springfield is the Fortnite map.
01:21:24
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Interesting. Yeah. In TCG news, ah for Pokemon, Mega Evolution Phantasmal Flames drops November 14th. In Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Chronicles deck Fallen and Virtuous is out now.
01:21:37
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The Legendary Deez decks drop November 7th and Fancy Revenge on December 3rd. In Magic, Avatar the Last Airbender November 21st. In Lorcan, Whispers of the Well November 14th and Winter Spell in Quarter 1.
01:21:50
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of 2026 and in Digimon TCG Hacker Slumber is out now and the starter deck Amethyst Mandala on December 5th in tabletop news the new Forgotten Realms books for the D&D release ah later this month and they'll be adding eight new subclasses um And 13 months after Cards Against Humanity initiated a $15 million dollars lawsuit against SpaceX for trespassing on land owned by the card game's creator, the two companies have reached a settlement ah that did not pay them ah that...
01:22:24
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well or it like it did nothing for them but they stopped they got off the land um because of this and the events that transpired which included a crowdfunding goal to help them out with stuff they are releasing an entirely new pack made up of cars related to Elon Musk and it's set to ship sometime early next year oh my god
01:22:45
Speaker
Talk about being the pettiest company ever. I love it I mean, did you hear that ah they're making an educational pat that explains the jokes to get around the tariffs?
01:23:01
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Yeah, they're doing that as well. They're doing that too. Oh my God, that's amazing. and that is everything that happened in these past two weeks. Any final comments on anything there, Drusk?
01:23:13
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No, no. that Oh, wow. that That one. Oh, I was not expecting but that one. That one threw me for a loop. ah Well, in that case, it's now time for us to take a look ahead. ah Here are all the games coming out that should be on your radar from November 3rd 14th.
01:23:30
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From AAA titles, indie hits, hidden gems, and hot pieces of garbage, here are the games coming out that should be on your radar. ah For November releases, ah starting off, no games on the third, but the fourth, 1000X Resist comes the PS5 and Series x Age of Empires 4 Anniversary Edition comes to the PS5. Football Manager 26, the PS5, Series X, and PC.
01:23:53
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Let's Sing 2026, PS5, Series X, and Switch. Master Lemon, the Quest for Ice-Led. PS5, Series X, Switch, and PC. And Satisfactory comes to the PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
01:24:04
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On the fifth, iPad 2 comes to everything but the Switch 2 and Dinkum comes to the Switch. On the sixth, Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment comes to the Switch 2. Pools comes out on iOS.
01:24:16
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Siberia Remastered comes to the PS5 Series X and PC. The Last Caretaker comes to PC Early Access. Tiny Lands 2 comes to the Switch and PC. And Unbeatable comes to the PS5 Series X and PC.
01:24:27
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On the 7th, Anima, Gate of Memories 1 and 2 Remaster, PS5 Series X PC, Thrasher on the PC, and Void Train on the Series X PC. On the 10th, Ambrosia Sky for the PC, Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition comes out on everything but the Switch systems.
01:24:42
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Into the Grid comes the PC Early Access and Surviving Mars Relaunched, PS5 Series X PC. On the 11th, Goodnight Universe, PS5, Series X, both Switches and the PC.
01:24:54
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Lumines Arise, PS5, PSVR 2 in PC. NASCAR 25, PC. Possessors, PS5 PC. Rue Valley, PS5, Series X, Switch in PC.
01:25:06
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Sacred 2 Remaster, PS5, Series X, PC. On the 12th, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor, Mobile Devices, and Winterboro, Series X, Xbox One, Switch in PC.
01:25:18
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On the 13th, Anna 117, Pax Romana, PS5, Series X, and PC. Atelier Ryza, Everdarkest of the Secret Hideout DX.
01:25:30
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Atelier Ryza 2, Lost Legends of the Secret Fairy DX. And Atelier Ryza 3, Alchemist of the End of the Secret Key DX, come out on everything but the Xbox. Giga Sword comes to everything but the Switch 2.
01:25:44
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Inazuma 11, Victory Road, everything but the Xbox One. Rensport, PS5 Series X PC. i be Siberia Remastered for the Quest 3. And Yakuza Kawabi 1 and 2 for the Switch 2.
01:25:55
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And lastly, on the 14th, Call of Duty Black Ops 7, everything but the Switches. Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, Switch 1 and Switch 2. Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories 2, Rings of Ruin on the Xbox One.
01:26:06
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And Where Wins Meet on the PS5 and PC. Very nice. Very nice. ah ah I was about to, I but was going to interrupt at one point. was like, you want me to read some of these? There's so much going on for November as well.
01:26:26
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who um As for your big games, um for fans of 1000X Resist, I mean, Flavorful talked a lot about the game last week. So definitely go give that a check out if you have a PlayStation or Series X.
01:26:40
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Um, what I'm surprised. Let's think it's still a thing.
01:26:45
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to be honest, um, wasn't expecting to see that here, again, ever. So cool. Um, Hyrule Warriors, Age of Imprisonment.
01:26:56
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That's a big one. That's the yeah that's that is a big one. Yeah. And I actually, I, I really enjoyed the first Hyrule Warriors, but I'm also a big fan of um the games they're based off of. Dynasty Warriors.
01:27:11
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Thank you. Thank you. Dynasty Warriors. um I also, that, that one's just, that's good. Like turn brain off and have fun, you know? Yeah, turn right off, hit button a bunch. but So just see that there was a Zelda inspired one. i'm like Oh, yeah, no, I'm all for this.
01:27:29
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So this is this is the third Hyrule Warriors game. but ah The first one was just an original story storyline. The second one was the events that led up to Breath of the Wild.
01:27:41
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ah But with like time travel shit in there. Now we got this. Yeah, which are the events that lead up to Tears of the Kingdom. Yeah, Hyrule Warriors seems to follow a very similar theme that Dynasty Warriors seems to follow, which is a timey-wimey.
01:27:55
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Oh, boy. they They really like to play with time stuff. oh Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition because ah we don't have enough versions of Fallout 4 apparently.
01:28:08
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Well, I mean, it's the new Skyrim, right? I thought Skyrim was the new Skyrim.
01:28:17
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that's the ah ah What else is there? Goodnight Universe. I think this is that game where you're the psychic baby. i think. I've not heard about that. No.
01:28:29
Speaker
Um... yeah you're a psychic Yeah, you're a psychic baby. Yeah, but that's definitely one to check go check out. Okay, okay. And i in you when you mentioned Satisfactory, I'm kind of glad to see that that is getting its console release finally.
01:28:45
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Yeah. The the the developers of Satisfactory, I know that they feel really proud about this game, and they should be really proud because this is this is a very, like... very polished game from everything that I know about it.
01:28:59
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Um, because there are, there are so many, there are, there are YouTube channels that are just dedicated to just playing satisfactory. And it's just, it's just a delight seeing the chaos that people bring.
01:29:12
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Um, ah they should be very proud of themselves for being able to get this far with it. so No, absolutely. The Atelier Ryza trilogy, DX.
01:29:26
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I've seen trailers for these games. i have no clue what the fuck they're about. I don't either. So those are there. um And obviously if you have a switch to the Kiwami games on switch to the first their English dubs for the game available on these versions, which will be cool.
01:29:47
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um And then obviously black ops seven, the big one for the casual gamer, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. um and I was very surprised to see Deep Rock Galactic Survivor. I mean, I don't super follow Deep Rock Galactic like other stuff going on.
01:30:06
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um But yeah, I guess it's a mobile game. That's very interesting. Well, no, it's it's been out on Steam and I think a couple other places for a while now. It's just coming to Google now. Okay. and but well Yeah, it's basically like Vampire Survivor, but Deep Rock Galactic.
01:30:22
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Oh, Yeah. Oh, is it in a top-down perspective? I'm looking at it right now. I think it is. Oh, okay. Okay. So it looks like top-down RTS strategy.
01:30:37
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That's what it looks like to me. Okay. Okay. Yeah. All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. And that those are a bunch of the games are coming out these next two weeks.
01:30:50
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That's only two weeks of releases. Two weeks of releases. well I mean, I think like i think that's like the bulk of it. I think there's maybe like a couple more things in November, but then we're on the low. Because not a lot of stuff comes out in December.
01:31:02
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Yeah, fair. Because everyone's trying to get out before the winter holidays. Yes. yeah
01:31:10
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Exactly. ah Well, with that, it's time for us now dive into our main focus that we're talking about this week. ah Here's what we're discussing this week in the Game Lounge.
Board Games and Personal Experiences
01:31:22
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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. We're talking board games!
01:31:35
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Board games! Woo! ah So I'll start with this question for you, Drusk. What was the board game slash tabletop game that really got you into board games?
01:31:49
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If you really wanted to say what, especially if if we're talking about like what was the first games I remember playing that really made me enjoy tabletop games. This going to sound really funny, but it's a game called Kings in the Corner.
01:32:02
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a card game that my family had. And we would have family game night where we would play games like that. That and like ah there was a dice game that we like to play. There was also a card game that we did ah that was... ah It was it's it's a card game called golf and it'd be really hard to explain the instructions on that. But um if you wanted to talk about like an actual like game like Monopoly or whatever Monopoly is great. ah Life was great.
01:32:30
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You want to talk about a board game that I spend way too much mental energy on. ah It's called Red Dragon Inn. And I've heard that you're familiar with this game. Yeah, so I was introduced to Red Dragon Inn back when Achievement Hunter was still a thing, and they had their ah their board game series that they did, and they played Red Dragon Inn, and I'm like, yo, this game looks incredible, and I have the our the base game.
01:33:00
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I own the base game. ah So there are nine current base games. I own the first base game. Yes. ah So um I own seven seven of them.
01:33:15
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ah I am missing Red Dragon in ah sixth edition and 7th edition. No, 7th and 8th edition. Those are the two I'm missing. But I have ah i have red Dragon 9th edition.
01:33:29
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And I've also already prepaid on their Kickstarter page for Red Dragon in 10th edition, which is going to add six new characters to the game.
01:33:41
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uh i also own from their allies section uh the the allies are their add-ons that are just one or two characters there's no there's no base game attached to it uh i own six of those and i think there's like 14 of them right now my god i have spent way too much money on this game and i don't play it enough and i'm so sad about it because i love this game Oh my God.
01:34:09
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I think, I don't know. and don't know if you've ever explained how the, how essentially the game plays on this, on this ah podcast. So to those, so so those wondering, it's um not take yourself, take yourself as like a D and d party.
01:34:23
Speaker
And you just got back from an epic quest and you're enjoying your time at the tavern. And your goal is to be the last one standing, drinking at the tavern. Basically, you have health and you have your drunkness.
01:34:36
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If they cross at any time, you've passed out. And your goal to be the last one standing and don't get girked by Gerky. Yeah.
01:34:48
Speaker
No, no. Gherky's not the one. Gherky's not the one to worry about. who i's the one to that I don't know. Have you ever seen the Achievement Hunter play Red Dragon it in I don't think I have, actually. i If you ever do you'll worry about Gherky.
01:35:07
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ah But yeah no like ah yeah, if you grab any of the base editions and you read, ah there is the um the how to play you know pamphlet that comes with each of them.
01:35:19
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And the first the first two sentences really put into perspective. And it's essentially... you and your mates have just finished your epic adventure. This game is the after party where you're drinking each other under the table.
01:35:32
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yeah Yeah. Yeah. That's basically it. Each character has their own unique deck. Uh, and, uh, you play a card every turn, basically. Yeah. You, you, you're, You have action cards, which action cards can be played once per your turn.
01:35:48
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ah There are sometimes cards which are dependent on what your other players are doing. Anytime cards can be played anytime. And there is a mini game within the game called gambling. And that's where you win and lose money.
01:36:01
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ah You have three things you have to keep track of your health, how much alcohol is in your character's body and your money. And if any of those go off the deep end, then you're out of the game. yeah it's It's so good. It's a very... it's it can seem ah overwhelming because it's like... I know like a lot of casual board gamers see like those za unique deck character games like this one.
01:36:27
Speaker
But this one's honestly like very fucking simple. It is very simple. I... i I think Monopoly is more complex than this game. It's intimidating to look at, but once you actually try it, and like at least the bit the base format of the game, it is so simple. It's just yeah getting a feel for your character and just playing.
01:36:50
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it's yeah there's no like There's no real... like S tier like decks, like each deck has their own. i was That is, that is one thing that i praise slugfest for. This is the, these are the creators of, of the game slugfest created red dragon in, but, um, they, uh, they have built this game so that every new character will add some new gimmick or some new bell and whistle to add to the game.
01:37:17
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But these characters are no stronger than the, than the, the, uh, characters. from Red Dragon in one. They're all built to be the same. It's just, it's wacky. The things that they can do.
01:37:29
Speaker
Yep. Yeah. no they Yeah. That's, that's basically it. Like, it's a great thing about Red Dragon. And honestly, it's, I would say it's probably one of the top 10 tabletop games of all time.
01:37:42
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Yeah, no. like I give a lot of praise to what the game ah has done for the tabletop world. And as the game has gone on, like their rule, their rule book has been getting longer and longer. And it's only because they have been figuring out that because of how they made this game all modular. So every character has their own deck. Every character has their own tokens. They track and all that stuff.
01:38:08
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um There's different formats you can play this in. There's a team format where you and a buddy are against another team of two. There's also a format that they've just come up with recently with, I think it was Red Dragon seven that adds a boss mode where certain characters have certain characters have additional cards that they can throw into their deck and they're considered a boss character.
01:38:34
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And everyone else, like everyone else at the table is in a team and they're all fighting against the boss and the boss can easily just wipe everyone out. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, no, it's it's really cool. um The big reason I really wanted to get Red Dragon in nine and I skipped over seven and eight, though, is ah they added a new format, which is called the pub crawl mechanic.
01:38:58
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Oh yes, I vaguely saw something about that. So they've added new, ah these new like event cards that are um different pubs that your that your party will end up like walking to throughout the game, getting the specialized drinks and then closing them down before you go back to the Red Dragon Inn.
01:39:18
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It's so funny. Yeah, i be I forgot about, I forgot that was a thing. Like, like, fuck, this How long has Red Dragon it in been around now? That is a good question.
01:39:31
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i don't remember. All I know is that I have been playing Red Dragon Inn since high school. and And that was... I graduated 2010. So that's been 15 years at least.
01:39:46
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God damn! yeah You're older than me? What the fuck? news sound I need this as a compliment, Dresk. You sound young. um Oh, thank you.
01:39:59
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But you're like five years older than me, I think. Oh, God. Oh, no.
01:40:06
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My God. Yeah. Yeah, because I remember it was right when we were when we were exiting high school. We were in our senior year.
01:40:17
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We got to the point because we i had a group of friends that on the weekends we would come over to my house. we I actually had a like a very janky but custom table I set up to put up in the garage where...
01:40:32
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where there was a nice big area so there was like a dozen of us could fit in there in the at the same time. And we would all sit down and we would have the collection because everyone would pitch in by getting an addition to add to our collection.
01:40:46
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um And there was a point where we started having someone bring D20 with them so that we could roll to pick a random character because we had 20 characters to pick from at that point. Wow.
01:40:58
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God. That's so yeah. No, they, they, they release a new main edition, maybe once every year, once every other year, something like that. But yeah, no, they've, they're going strong.
01:41:09
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My God. That's so looking. Okay. I found their, their wiki. ah Oh no, that's just characters. I don't want characters. I yeah i want the initial, the game was first published in 2007. Yeah.
01:41:24
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seven That makes sense. That makes sense. Yep. Wow.
01:41:30
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That's wow. Good for them for the longevity. ah Yeah. And not just to not just to plug them, but ah they do. Slugfest does, in fact, run a Twitch channel. I think they stream every week and it's the the developers testing new stuff.
01:41:51
Speaker
Oh, that's cool. That's really cool. Yeah, I think it's just a way for them to connect to their community. If you guys ever want to play it and you don't want to spend the money, I get it. Trust me, I do.
01:42:03
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Slugfest themselves have put the entirety of the game on Tabletop Simulator. In fact, if you join their streams, they're playing it on Tabletop Simulator.
01:42:14
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They made their own ah workshop item for their entire game. It is scripted and every edition is on there. Wait, there the I didn't know that it was ah officially made by them because I think I have it.
01:42:27
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I didn't know that it was officially made. That's wow. Holy shit. Because that also includes the URL to their Kickstarter page as well as all of their promotional stuff is like linked with ah ah with QR codes and stuff. like They promote from that workshop item.
01:42:46
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um yeah no it is no it's insane and that's and it's it's like I want to I want to throw these guys the world because they they they're really doing something amazing here I think Yeah, no absolutely. Wow.
01:43:01
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That's fucking wow. um yes no Another question. Since you've talked about you have like all of these copies of Red Dragon Inn and everything. How many physical board games do you think you own like on top of those Red Dragon? How many? million Give me an estimate here, Zrusk.
01:43:18
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you know Maybe about two dozen. that not Okay, that's actually not that bad. No, no, it's not that bad. I only have so much room. Okay, so I have a custom bed frame for my bedroom, right?
01:43:32
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This bed frame, instead of having like stuff I just shove under the bed itself, this frame... actually has hidden shelving compartments in it that pull out.
01:43:45
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And I have the foot of the bed has this very, very large drawer that takes up the entire foot of the bed. And it is full to the brim of all, all the board games I own. ah That's awesome.
01:43:58
Speaker
And it's kind of been my way to tell me, okay, I think there's enough, but I do have Pokemon master edition in that collection. oh my God. That game is trash. Yeah.
01:44:12
Speaker
That game, you can play for six hours. You can play the game for six hours and get nowhere. yeah you can.
01:44:23
Speaker
Damn, that's funny. What are some of your other favorite games that you've played that you own? but What are some of your other favorites? So another one of my favorites that I don't hear a lot of people talk about, it's actually called, I think it's like, I think it's Zombies with Three Exclamations.
01:44:40
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So, you know, zombies! And what it is, is you're playing, um you're playing survivors in a zombie, you know, zombie apocalypse situation. The thing that makes this board,
01:44:52
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interesting is that you do keep you do keep track of your own character's life so you know like you know how much health they have how many bullets they have that sort of thing you don't really keep track of the weapon that you're using just how many bullets you use which makes it simplified but what's cool is every turn that you take you actually pull a map uh a map piece from the pile and you add it to the map that's not finished yet ah And so you're you're actively discovering the city map as you expand it.
01:45:27
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And the only way to actually like survive and get out of this city is to find the helipad map piece that's hidden somewhere in the pile.
01:45:38
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And so you are exploring, you're trying to gather materials, you're trying to fend off zombies, all until the helipad shows up. And then it's a race to be the first person to the helipad.
01:45:51
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okay. And so, and since, you know, because you never play the game by yourself, you're playing with like at least three or four people. No one knows who's going to pull the helipad piece.
01:46:02
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And the whole structure behind the map system is, you know, like it's all, it's all with the idea of you're on a street, you're walking a street. And so the map pieces have to line up where the streets match.
01:46:16
Speaker
You know, it's like, know, One would be like an alleyway where it's a street and then there's buildings on either side of the card. Well, you can't have a road connecting to where a building is. It has to, you know, either dead end or it has to, you know, the road has to connect to another road piece, that sort of system. And so you end up making yourself this kind of maze structure as you're going around exploring.
01:46:40
Speaker
And then the person will pull the helipad piece. Well, they got to put it in a position that gives them the best chance of survival, So obviously, you know, it's a question of, do you guys split up? do you guys stay together? What do you do You know, it's a really cool concept. I like it.
01:46:56
Speaker
That's that's cool. That's cool. ah what What else? you you used seem to be a but like, I like my board games. I've got a couple good ones that I like. You seem to be the aficionado here, and I like that a lot. What is the name? King of Tokyo.
01:47:12
Speaker
Oh, that's the... I've heard of that one. That's one of your kaijus. get out and be the this is the epiny This is the epitome of what you would call a King of the Hill style game.
01:47:24
Speaker
And it's it's literally how that how the game functions. ah Yeah, King of Tokyo. So you get to play as a kaiju. You get to select from certain kaijus. The different kaijus don't usually mean anything. It's just dependent on...
01:47:39
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keeping track of which kaiju you are and rooting for yourself, essentially. yeah Yeah! you have actions where you can destroy buildings ah to... Essentially what you're doing is you're trying to gain fame of saying, ha ha, I destroyed the most stuff.
01:47:57
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you know yeah I took down the most tanks. I destroyed the most buildings. I caused the most ah military advantage against everyone else.
01:48:08
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um And so you can roam around different different cities. But the thing is, is you you want to enter Tokyo. when you enter When you take control of Tokyo by destroying it, you are actively gaining what are called Wind Stars.
01:48:24
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And if you manage to get capture 20 Wind Stars by you know like taking taking out other kaiju while you're standing in Tokyo or just surviving against the onslaught of the kaijus and the the military and stuff, you win the game.
01:48:42
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and that's it so it's wow it's get on that hill plant yourself and survive as long as possible dang and that one that one's got a bunch of bunch of additions i think i only have like the base game and one one edition that's another one that tabletop simulator also has a very good workshop item for if you're ever looking for something like that um Those are really like the the the main four that can think of with Pokemon Masters there as well.
01:49:14
Speaker
Yeah. ah No. So but during that, because I'm like, I want i wanted to remember what the series was called. that she but did Let's roll. ah yeah Because they, you know, but ah if people who know Achievement Hunter know, let's play.
01:49:28
Speaker
ah They made let's roll a board game series. yeah They have 198 videos spanning across seven years. um Their last video is Pokemon Master Trainer the movie, which is a three and a half hour game.
01:49:42
Speaker
yep yep uh but uh their and their first video is king of tokyo um but they've played games they did gloom they've done uh world championship russian roulette uh cash and guns monopoly deal ah trail at the house on the hill a game that i love but have never played I would love to play ah Betrayal House on the Hill. I have not played it yet.
01:50:11
Speaker
It looks like a lot of fun. um despite note like Despite me getting to finally show how much I love about tabletop games, I've never gotten a chance to learn how to play Catan or actually play it.
01:50:26
Speaker
i had played a single game Catan in college. That's it. yeah ah And then you know another one that people are like, you know well, you've clearly played Ticket to Ride. i'm like, nope.
01:50:38
Speaker
Never got around to it. I've seen a game play to take it to ride. It looks all right. Yeah. i've heard I've heard from a lot of people that um it's a really hard game to unlearn the rules. So like forget how the rules work.
01:50:52
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And so when you're trying, when you're trying to decide on a new game to play and no one comes with consensus, it's usually take it to ride is the one that comes out for like game game tabletop aficionados. I'm like, okay, fair. I've never gotten a chance to play it. So, yeah,
01:51:08
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um Yeah, no, Koo and One Night Ultimate Werewolf are two of my favorites. e And Love Letter as well. Because they're just easy setup, easy rules. Yeah. um There was one on Tabletop ah Simulator that I finally got to learn how to play. and whats it's ah It's a tile-based game. It's Azul? Is that what it is? That sounds familiar.
01:51:35
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um Yes, Azul. Azul. I finally learned how to play Azul. I don't own Azul, but it's quite an interesting game. i Essentially, it it is. it's a oh it the The game centers around you...
01:51:52
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being presented with a grouping of different tile combinations, you know, some red, some blue, some greens, and you're trying to come up with patterns with these, with these tiles, with very defined rule sets for them.
01:52:07
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Uh, and you gain points based off of how you design your tiles from the collection that you and your opponents are all trying to snatch at. So it's very interesting.
01:52:19
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I'm very bad at it, especially because i I've only been going up against computers and computers for Azul are amazingly just. yeah Why are you gaining so many points?
01:52:33
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ah Slow down. uh but the last one that i'm gonna bring up that i absolutely enjoyed and i think i don't know if you've played it uh there's a game out there that i saw a bunch of my uh board game uh stores that i picked up like years ago and i'm like you know what this seems like a fun game to go try out especially because you know the theme is kingdom hearts talisman kingdom hearts edition tasman talisman talisman Oh, okay.
01:53:04
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Drusk, I'm proposing a thing right here. Okay. Give me a time, a date, and like two or three other people. We're going to play fucking Kingdom of Hearts Talisman. I just looked. There it is. It is in the Steam Workshop for Tabletop Sim. Okay.
01:53:19
Speaker
Okay. I did download a workshop for this game because I was like, oh, Kingdom Hearts, what is this? I looked at the board. I'm like... What is this? This is a game where you're working, believe it or not, to get to the door to darkness.
01:53:35
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Yeah, no. Yeah, that. Yeah, it's quite a game. I've played it once with my family. Bad choice because my family are casuals. ah And this is not a game for casuals.
01:53:48
Speaker
But it's it's fun. Getting to the core of it is kind of fun. And I would definitely recommend this game to... The character selection confuses me for this game. Okay, so okay so yeah. The character selection.
01:54:03
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You have, obviously, you have Sora, Riku, Kairi. You have Aqua, Terra, Ventus. Yep. You you have King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Makes sense. Yep. Shion, Roxas, and Axel.
01:54:17
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uh no no you do not you do not have roxas you do not have uh okay well sorry you you have shion normally yeah no shion's in there shion's in there yeah shion's in there uh with thankfully with the tabletop sim version they added axel and roxas uh okay and then there's mulan and there's mulan yeah that's that's the one that's full One of these things is not like the other. Like the other. Mulan.
01:54:46
Speaker
but Why is there? she here? Why is Mulan an option? but it's The funnier thing is like it's a majority though of the worlds are worlds in the game.
01:54:57
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So it's like, you're not even the right game. She's just here. She's just here. She's vibing. Why is Axel not an option? Not an option. The base original. Because like, could like, like in all in all honesty,
01:55:16
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uh ventus tara and aqua that makes sense because ventus is there not having roxas makes sense why is axel not here shion's here yeah
01:55:32
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yeah why is it mulan did they just think they needed another female Maybe? I don't know. I don't with the ah with the ah the tabletop sim version, because I was looking at the images, there are character character profiles for Axel and Roxas that they made.
01:55:51
Speaker
Hey, I'll take it. Yeah, no, no. I am down. I am down. We need to find the time. I'm so down. Yeah, i give me, ah like because my my schedule is pretty decent most of the time. You need Give me a time. Give me a day. i Give me get get me some other people. i say i say i i i say we drag Mellow in just so we have one person.
01:56:15
Speaker
God, Mellow's brain explode. i need more I need more reason to hang out more with Mellow. I love getting to play with Mellow. Mellow is just... It's because of Mellow that i meet like ah I'm meeting a bunch of you guys on the VTU-ing side of things.
01:56:30
Speaker
Well, and i'm still I'm still fairly new on the V-tubing side of things, too, so i'm I'm also, like, getting thrown down the rabbit hole here, and like oh, okay. No, this this is working. This makes sense.
01:56:41
Speaker
This is working. Carrots just said what?
01:56:47
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but That's what I find the interactions have become. Right. Like, are. It's like, la-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee, huh? Huh?
01:56:56
Speaker
You what? Yeah. Yeah, that's but that's a typical typical time in the game. Right. ah sure um okay what go Shifting gears a bit, ah what are some tabletop games, board games that you've tried but you could not get into?
01:57:18
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Hmm.
01:57:21
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That is a hard say. Um... I guess I will say, like, i have played ah the game of life several times. It's kind of a weird game, and I don't...
01:57:35
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i don't really care for it, if that makes sense. but I don't really know the life. I don't think of it's hard for me to remember because I know that there have been times where I've tried a game and I'm like, OK, either I'm not into the game or no one at the table is into the game because it's very hard for me to not be into the game in some regard just because, OK, I get to play a game.
01:58:00
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um without the table just being like, okay, this is too complex for us. And and I'm like, it's not complex. You just don't want to read. Yeah. It's like Yu-Gi-Oh!
01:58:11
Speaker
It's not complex. No one fucking reads. No one reads. That's why we don't know what Pot of Greed does. No one does. We don't fucking read.
01:58:22
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and anyone who says they do is a liar.
01:58:26
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No one knows what Pot of Greed does. It's true! They have to explain it every time in the anime! It's used.
01:58:37
Speaker
Do you even know what the lore the Pot of Greed is? Just just not you know fully side tangent here? oh ah well, you see, there is this ah thing in ancient Egypt, because obviously all Yu-Gi-Oh cards are from ancient Egypt. Yeah. Yeah.
01:58:52
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yeah There is this pot and, you know, some guy was greedy, wanted to stuck his hand in it and his hand was gone. That's the pot of greed. It's not necessarily that his hand... Don't fact check me.
01:59:03
Speaker
That's definitely how the pot... It's not necessarily that his hand is gone. It's that the pot ate his hand. Yeah, no, exactly. Yeah, so... um But yeah, it's it kind of plays with the ideas that the the pot is actually alive and it's actually... it will It will show your greatest desire in it, but... I mean, there is a...
01:59:24
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By putting your hand in, you just sacrifice your hand. I mean, there is a card called Spirit Gin of the Pot or whatever. Spirit of the Pot. There is a monster card that is just the Spirit of the Pot of Greed.
01:59:35
Speaker
And its head is the Pot of Greed. are you like Okay, so be yeah have you played Yu-Gi-Oh? are you ah Oh, shit. Like avidly? Like ah like how how much?
01:59:46
Speaker
I fell off... i got I finally got to the point where I started to understand the 5Ds rule set with ah the synchro summons. Oh, synchro summons.
01:59:57
Speaker
Since then, i have fallen off the XZs and the Lynx. XZs, Link, and Pendulum. no what No one plays Pendulum. Come on. Hey, I'll tell you who plays Pendulum.
02:00:13
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Mellow played Pendulum because I made him play Pendulum. LAUGHTER Of course you did. i Look, okay, so story time. So Yu-Gi-Oh! ah Master Duel came out years ago when it did come out.
02:00:26
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Avidly, I got into it instantly. Like within that first season, I got Platinum Rank, which was the highest rank of the time. Very nice. Very nice. You know, I'm like, yeah, I built a ah Time Thieves deck. ah Time Thieves love the shenanigans that they caused.
02:00:43
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um eventually went on to build hero deck um with with ah plasma at the core that eventually evolved to be um malicious bait at the core, but plasma still has massive support for the deck because plasma went out on the field, negates all monster effects.
02:00:59
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And when you have D force on the field, it's bell card that corresponds with it. It can't, it's basically makes him like and a pretty, pretty invincible. And then it's just like your opponent it can't do shit unless they have hand traps or shit like that.
02:01:13
Speaker
It was great. Loved it. ah Then it was the fun part of Yu-Gi-Oh boot camp. ah Legit, if you want to see the experience that the Yu-Gi-Oh put us through, ah so the audience out there, ah in the Game Lounge Cinematic Universe playlist that I have built, which is essentially all of the content that we have ever been in together,
02:01:34
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uh like essentially one of the first sets there's four yugioh videos that sums up our yugioh experience in a nutshell fair enough ah for like the year or so that all of us played it i went on to play a bit longer than everyone else after everyone else kind of dropped it and then i dropped it because ranked was actually starting to get fucking like yugioh uh unbalanced and everyone's playing the same goddamn shit uh which is still the biggest issue with yugioh i when When Master Duel came out, I tried to get into it, and I very quickly was just like, this is no.
02:02:10
Speaker
This is going back into the community of the reason why I left Yu-Gi-Oh! in the first place. I would still, if it wasn't for the fact that I have not played it in a very long time, and I'm very worried of what the state of the game is in now...
02:02:22
Speaker
I would love to go back into dual links because I did like the speed format. I mean, the state of the game now, Yu-Gi-Oh actually still in a good spot. They introduced the new Genesis format, actually, which removes pendulums and links from the game. Interesting.
02:02:41
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No pendulum and link monsters allowed. ah Everything up to Xyz is still allowed. ah There are no banned cards. Except every card has a point value. That point value cannot exceed 100.
02:02:54
Speaker
Okay, got it. had actually It's actually, it's not that bad. Not that many cards have point values, and they have a site that has all the cards that do. Okay, okay. so um you it's it's I would say Genesis format might be what what what they need. They just gotta make a video game for it now. Right, right. Yeah, so when I was at the height of when I played last, ah there were two archetypes that I built decks around. ah One was the Shiranui archetype.
02:03:24
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Oh, no, Shiranui, let's go. I love Shiranui archetype. Now, I played a little bit dumb. I know it was not in a meta sense, but I also am a huge diehard fan of Summon Skull.
02:03:38
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And there is a Summon Skull fusion card that actually works with this deck. So I threw it in. It doesn't necessarily help the deck at all. It's just a couple of... It's just kind of there, but it's kind of cool to just be able to be like, all right, I sacrificed all these Samurais and now summon skulls on the field.
02:03:57
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Oh, by the way, those Samurais that had just I just ah removed from the field, I removed them from playing and summoned another summoned skull. Oh, by the way, because those were removed, one of them it immediately is put back on the field. you know yeah Yeah. Yeah, I actually do know how Shirinui worked, because in Master Duel, I don't know if it was added eventually, but there was a Shirinui training duels that they had. They had a single player like option. like Here's a bunch of lore decks that you can learn about and then duel against them. and but right
02:04:32
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The other deck that i was I really got into, that I really enjoyed, ah is actually the Triamids. I don't know if you even recognize that name. Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. wait That sounds extremely familiar because i think I ran one of those back in YGO Pro. ah there They're an Egyptian like textile deck. Oh, yeah. those are Aren't those the ones that were used in the Dark Side of Dimensions movie?
02:05:05
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I don't know. Never watched it. Hold on. Try a minute.
02:05:11
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ah Try a minute. Here we go. yeah ah Oh, no. These are not the ones I thought of. okay i actually Okay, sorry. No, I thought this was very a different archetype. I do not know archetype. archetype actually revolves around field spells, which is something no archetype follows anymore.
02:05:31
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I mean... i mean
02:05:36
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If you're running an Earthbound Immortal. True, true. But no one runs an Earthbound Immortal. Yeah, exactly. Because why you run an Earthbound Immortal? would you run an Earthbound Immortal? Yeah, yeah. so this archetype actually focuses around three specific field spells.
02:05:53
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Triamid Fortress, Triamid King Golem, and then Triamid, what is the name of it? ah Cruiser. And the whole deal is is that the this this archetype of Triamid monsters all live in this pyramid ah that is so technologically advanced that the pyramid actually transforms for the need of the duel.
02:06:17
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So it's different field spells, but it's the same building, just in different states. So the trim trimid fortress is the, the base pyramid as it just sits on the ground.
02:06:29
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It's got turrets coming out of it and it just defends everything on the field. Uh, when, uh, and that is for when the game state is the opponent's turn, which essentially makes it so that the, the, the opponent can't do anything to my monsters, essentially. Unless they wanted it to have Harpy's feather duster.
02:06:50
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There's actually, there's ways in this, there is, there's a trap combo that make even Harpy's Feather Duster null. oh Oh. But there's yeah, there's a whole thing about that. ah But yeah the during during my turn, um I change it out into Tri-Mid Cruiser. Also, all of them have a floating effect of whenever needed.
02:07:16
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ah If I have a different spell card or a different field spell in my hand or in the deck, I can just get rid of the field spell and put the put the one from my hand or deck onto the field.
02:07:29
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Okay. And the that switching it to the cruiser lets me ah search for a monster that I want to put on the field. And then during my attack phase, I transform into the Tri-Mid King Golem, which makes a huge buff to all of the monsters on the field.
02:07:46
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And then it also comes with its own boss monster, which is the Tri-Mid Sphinx, which also has its own turn of ah as long as he's on the field, all effects only affect him.
02:07:59
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Oh, he's terrifying to have out. he The best part is he's not even that strong, but it doesn't matter because of how the all the other cards interact with each other.
02:08:12
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Damn. Okay, then. Yeah, it's like, if you if you get this like actually set up, it's kind of terrifying. Wow. Yeah. so yeah those were Those are the two I really, really enjoyed. And of course, there was always the ah the sushi boats and all of that stuff. and that was Yeah, I remember the sushi boats. god Oh my god. yeah no I ran Heroes and Time Themes.
02:08:41
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Our Trashman ran... gimmick decks out the wazoo bellow was running perform a pals uh tc oh yeah you made him run bench i was like perform pal oh yeah right you see red skull servant uh skull servant i haven't heard skull servant in a while ah The Gangun ran Vampires fucking Gustav, Max, and there was a third deck he ran that can't remember. ah that's a
02:09:23
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Who else is there? Ryan was running, I think, just Classic Blue Eyes. Ninja Frog was running. We gave Ninja Frog six Sam, Rai, and Wiggles DD triple triple D's nuts I think that's everybody that played Yugi oh and then Bust he was running Super Heavy Samurai dude Super Heavy Samurais are so fun to play with though Super Heavy Samurai flute what was the one I came into it's a terrible archetype but I love the gimmick so much what is it called it's um
02:10:08
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It's around synchros, and it's all around these, like, BMX bikers that are doing stunts. BMX bikers doing stunts?
02:10:19
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Well, it's like, I guess it i guess there's also, like... I guess there's also like four wheelers and cars in it, but I remember it like they all revolve around these like stunt athletes doing, you know, doing crap. And like their synchro summon monster is the hauler truck that they, that they all come from.
02:10:40
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And I'm just like, this is so stupid. I love it. Yeah, their their whole gimmick is like a momentum thing too. It's just like the more the more they get to play, the higher their momentum and the scarier there are. Like, it's terrible.
02:10:54
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uh i guess final question before we move on to our second topic uh for those who are look want to branch out into more tabletop games that like play but like very casual games but want to branch out into the more unique games what are some advice uh that you would give them like what where would you tell them to start as well like what what would be a good starter board game for them and what advice would you give them I still think the best advice if you're really wanting to start getting into tabletop is probably going to be Tabletop Simulator.
02:11:27
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ah If you're, you know, especially if you're wanting to look for games ah where you play with people and you're not sure where to reach out for new people i wish i had a great answer for you i still struggle with that myself even for the expanding number of people i know trying to trying to herd uh three or four cats into the same lobby at the same day ah is is bad enough as it is Um, but there's enough, there's, there's always an argument said to just look for your local game store, just going in and just asking like, Hey, uh, I'm interested in playing more board games. And you know, that those, any place you go into, they're going to be like, come here on this day at this time. There's a whole group of them that come in get to know them. You know, that's, that's what they're there for.
02:12:23
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Yeah. No. Yeah. That's definitely good advice. Uh, I would also say if it looks cool and it has simple rules, go for that. Uh, that is our that actually, that's actually perfect. Cause I know you said how you came across red dragon in the way I came across red dragon in is because I thought the box looked cool. of The game store.
02:12:44
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That's honestly what started it. yeah And that's, ah and that's honestly where a lot of good things, uh, start. Uh, yeah. ah it pays It pays to have good box art.
02:12:56
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It does. It does. I think with that, we will quickly dive into our second topic of the day,
02:13:05
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You're getting ready for another night of adventuring with your friends and you realize, wow, I haven't leveled up and it's been two whole sessions. Well, I have the solution for you. Just ask your game master again.
02:13:17
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Your GM will understand that after a straight RP session and one encounter with a bunch of CR1 goblins, your level 8 character needs to be crowned. Forget about experience point counting or preset milestones the GM had already established.
02:13:33
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Asking your GM again is the tried and true solution that does not come across as annoying at all. So did you level up? Just ask your GM again. Which is some obscure games that we grew up with.
02:13:46
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The other thing that I'm notable for finding the weird stuff. All right. All right. drk but When I sent you, when I sent you the stuff, you said you have two games that you played that were, you, you set up your, what, what are these games? Let me hear about them. All right. All right. wine I'm more inclined to believe you might have heard of before rogue galaxy.
02:14:10
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This is a JRPG that was ah that was made for the PlayStation 2. Both of these are for the PlayStation 2, as a matter of fact. But ah Rogue Galaxy ah follows ah follows the story of ah of a man named Jaster Rogue.
02:14:28
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um The beginning prologue ah plays a... It kind of feels like the starting of Star Wars, and I'm going entirely honest, with Anakin on the desert planet because Jaster Rogue...
02:14:40
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lives as a slave on a desert planet. hu yeah But the you. he he's.
02:14:53
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he's living in a time where planetary travel is a common thing. You have different, different races that are moving across the galaxies, getting to know one another. Um, there is an all out war going on, you know, but, uh, but instead of, instead of, um, instead of Jaster becoming a Jedi or anything like that, he actually turns into piracy.
02:15:16
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Yay. pirac spacera Piracy. Okay, so I'm looking at the game right now. I think I've seen the box art before. Okay. That's about probably about it. ah It is ah To get through the entire game, it's probably an easy 100-hour RPG.
02:15:35
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ah There are times where just you know it just keeps going and going, but the dungeons are very... you know I find a lot of the dungeons are very memorable. ah There are some hard sections, mainly because...
02:15:46
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There are some story beats where you literally leave one dungeon or are just thrown into another with no way to get out of the dungeon. Like the exit is the end of the dungeon. Um, but it's got a wonderful cast of characters.
02:16:01
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Um, and every character has a very deep backstory and you get to like learn each of them and cry with them on their own paths. But, um, what, what set this game for being one of my favorite, like from, you know, from just a really good RPG to one of my actual favorites is how the story ends,
02:16:24
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And I don't know if you would want me to try and spoil that. It's a very long game and it's an old game and I don't ever see a remake cut happening. um So I wouldn't mind spoiling it, but it's going to be dependent on if you ever think you're going to play it.
02:16:37
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You see, hard to say if I ever will. Like, this is stuck on the PS2. There's a Direction Cut version also stuck on the PlayStation 2 that I just looked up. ah So you know what?
02:16:48
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Spoiler warning, folks. Here it is. All right. So... the The first female character, part of the pirate crew that Jaster ah ends up getting to know, her name is Kisala, and she is set up to be the romance partner for Jaster by the end of the game.
02:17:07
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um She is also the pirate captain's daughter. And there's a very unique reason for that. And that is because you don't really get to know her mother until the very end. Well, her mother is a queen of a distant planet that's not part of the Galactic Federation.
02:17:25
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um She was also kidnapped by the Pirate King himself. And instead of turning her over, he fled with her and married her.
02:17:39
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And had a daughter with her. Named Kisala.
02:17:44
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Okay. So yeah. no So she is the daughter of both royalty. And pirate royalty. Which is amazing combo. um But what happens at the end of the game. When you learn all of this.
02:17:58
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her The kingdom that her mother is from. Finds her. They kidnap her back. To put her back on the royal pace. To become the queen. And Jaster does the most the the most heroic thing or the very most RPG thing I could ever think of.
02:18:16
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He makes history repeat itself. He bands together with tap Captain Dorgangola to go steal her back. but and And roll credits right there is them blasting off into space to go back to the planet to steal her.
02:18:32
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Oh, wait, that's where the game ends? It doesn't have like a... So, ah there there is not a story there's not a story step that shows you actually stealing her back.
02:18:44
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ah But the game does have post-story stuff to do, and she shows back up in the party. ah So there's no there's no mission that you run to get her back, which is a little bit of a shame.
02:19:01
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But you do get to continue playing with her post game. Oh, OK. So the game technically ends on a cliffhanger. Kind of.
02:19:12
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But I mean, like the cliffhanger being they they successfully steal her back for the post game. Well, I mean, but here but here's the thing with JRPGs and postgames.
02:19:23
Speaker
Just because they're still at the party for the postgame doesn't mean shit. No, fair. Unless there's postgame story stuff and not
Postgame Content and Unique Game Themes
02:19:33
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just... Oh, yeah, just some side quests. Unless there's postgame proper story that is...
02:19:40
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important there kind of is and there kind of isn't a lot of it is sectioned into side quests but there's only but there are side quests that only appear post game so if you would consider that story which some of them i would consider that still canon story and they do involve her so yeah i would still consider it as story
02:20:02
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Oh, here we go. I'm looking at it. The game ends with a narration saying the crew made off with their ultimate treasure. Yeah. What was their last time? Implying they succeeded getting Kisala better on the run.
02:20:14
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yep Yep, that's it. Why not show it then? Why not? Why you mean you? What? I'm mad. Why would you?
02:20:25
Speaker
No, I'm not. I'm not worried about it because the whole the whole scene leading up to him turning to Dorgan Gola because Dorgan Gola is like, I have made my peace with the fact of the the the sins that I have committed and I am leaving it all to you, Jaster. And Jaster's like,
02:20:44
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Captain, turn this vessel around. He's like, you got it!
02:20:50
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No, like, the scene plays so well. I don't mind that they just kind of cut through it. It's the high! It's the high! It's the high!
02:21:02
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It's the high! It's the high! History could have repeated himself! He could have saved her and then married her! Boom! It's just like it happened in the first time!
02:21:13
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Yeah!
02:21:16
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the I mean, I didn't even tell you the fact that ah Jaster's um Jaster was an orphan at the beginning of the game and we actually meet his dad throughout the story and it turns out he is ah he is the galaxy's best hunter, which is why he went into hiding.
02:21:34
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da but So he's kind of got royalty in him as well, just a completely different kind. yeah but It's a really good game. It's so good. And ah just Toadie is one of the best support items ever.
02:21:52
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i love that frog. um This game features a system of there is level ups, but the level ups really just affect like how much health you have and stuff like that.
02:22:03
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to really out To really change your damage output, you have to constantly switch at weapons. And when you're when the weapons you have you've used, but they're kind of like, they're not good enough anymore for where you're at, give them to Toadie.
02:22:19
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Toadie literally will eat two of your weapons and then spit out a new one. He's a he's a weapon fusion specialist. Ribbit. And he is a talking he's a talking purple toad that sits in your inventory. Huh?
02:22:36
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Yeah. That's okay. It's so good. There's so much character in it. And that's just one of the two games I wanted to bring up. Yeah. Hit me with the second one. Hit me with the second one. Maybe I won't get it.
02:22:50
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So the second one, it's it's a series of three games and it's known as the Shadow Hearts ah series. um Shadow Hearts. ah These are all PS2 games.
02:23:05
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ah it's a v I'm going to warn you and the listeners right now, this is a very strange game. This is the very epitome of a weird JRPG.
02:23:16
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I love this game. Do not take it seriously because of some of the themes that it goes across. But ah you have Shadow Hearts 1, which most of the segments kind of cover like Japan territory. I think there's a little bit of like you go ah go into Russia. Oh, this also game is also considered.
02:23:36
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Sorry, try to practice with this. This game treats itself historical fiction. OK, OK. um It takes semi-real-time events that happened in the past um with some notable names, but ah in a different reality where monsters are real and there are class systems like hunters and vampires and stuff like that.
02:24:02
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Right. Okay. Again, weird JRPG. Uh-huh. Shadow Hearts 1... roams around the you know japan continent again i think think there's one or two times you enter russia stuff like that uh shadow hearts 2 covenant which was the game that got me into the series uh because i actually rented it from a blockbuster weirdly enough Uh, yeah. And just fell in love with the series. I was way too young to be playing these games, playing this game, but I played it anyway and I loved it.
02:24:36
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Um, that one follows, uh, follows the group going through the Eastern or sorry, not the Eastern continent, um, the European continent. And then shadow hearts three, uh, shadow hearts three from the new world follows a new cast of characters as they traverse through the American countryside.
02:24:56
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ah And it's very strange. All the characters are very strange looking. I don't know if you're looking up anything on the on these games. i'm I'm on the Wikipedia page. There's also a predecessor game for the trilogy called Koudelka.
02:25:12
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ah That was for the PlayStation in ah that came out in 2000 Western territories. Interesting. Interesting. I've not actually heard of... It takes place in the same setting as the other three, which is why it's a predecessor.
02:25:29
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Okay, okay. Oh, yeah, and the the... It looks like the art style really... Yeah, the art style really does kind of match. Oh, this is a gif of the weapon system.
02:25:41
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Oh, yep, yep. the ah The action system looks very similar too, yeah. um ah This is kind of one of those games where... when the characters are in the dungeon, you, you control one character as you roam around in like this, like resident evil style space. Like all the rooms are more open than resident evil, but that's kind of the, the camera stuck in one position, but it's tracking the care. Yeah. It's a fixed camera, but it's tracking the character as it moves across the screen. And, you know, it goes through different openings and stuff.
02:26:18
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Um, But every step is a chance for a monster encounter. And when the monster encounter happens, it does like, you know, it makes an effect like the screen shatters and it falls off. And then it shows all the characters loaded into a battle scene where you ah where you control each character as it fights the monsters that spawned or whatever. Okay.
02:26:43
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For those wondering, these monsters are based off Lovecraftian horror shit. so yeah like Yes, they are. of craft Fucking... What? ah The Shadow Hearts also takes the route of some biblically accurate style shit as well.
02:26:58
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So demons, angels, and... very I mean, what I'm saying, weird JRPG. just you know We're talking weird JRPG. We're talking weird JRPG. Gotcha.
02:27:10
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Shadow Hearts 1 takes itself semi-seriously. I've not been able to finish ah Shadow Hearts 1, but Shadow Hearts 1 is hilariously hard to get a hold of. ah but I own it.
02:27:24
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but And how much did that set you back? that's not also traded ah and at the same time um I got more stuff than just the game, but it was it was at a time where I was trying to get rid of a whole bunch of stuff. I just my room had been looking the same for the last 15 years, and i'm I'm tired of it looking like I was I was a I was a sophomore in high school. You know what I mean?
02:27:56
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but Yeah. And so I finally like went through a whole bunch of stuff. I sold a whole bunch of stuff at the same time at at this at this, you know, ah not pawn shop, but it was, you know, specifically for game sales, you know, so I sold him a whole bunch of old game stuff.
02:28:12
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And i I know he lowballed me, but I just want to get rid of all of it. And he's like, All right, well, you get you know so much in-store credit, and I'll give you you know this much in cash. And I was like, if you don't mind, I'm going to look around. And I said, I might just spend it all here. And he's like, go for it, man.
02:28:28
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And so I looked around, and I saw that he had one copy. And he said, I just got that in two days ago. I don't know what it is, but I'm also baffled by how much it is on eBay. And I was like, i was like yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:28:41
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yeah I was like, with everything I'm holding, it'd be hard for me to get all of this and that, he said, tell you what, if you want to use If you want to use everything I'm about to pay you right now, I will let you have the stuff you're holding for free if you just buy that game.
02:28:57
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I'm like, done! Done! That game on eBay easily goes for about $200 because of how rare the copies are.
02:29:08
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And wow the fact that he didn't know what it was, and I was picking up amiibos from him as well. He was like, dude, you can have those. I don't care. Yeah. So it was it was well worth it. But ah I've still not finished that one yet, but I have very much finished Shadow Hearts Covenant, which Shadow Hearts Covenant really takes more of a humorous angle to it.
02:29:32
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Um... It still plays the the fictional... Or the historical fantasy fiction. ah But it really does not take itself too seriously.
02:29:44
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ah One of the primary villains you meet throughout the game is literally a bumbling buffoon. and it's so funny. And there's so many cringe points because of the the era that it's from.
02:29:57
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It's so funny. And then from ah Shadow Arts from the New World... ah To put it lightly, whoever whoever came up with the story concept was just horny at the time.
02:30:11
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oh I don't know how to feel about it. there's a lot of There's a lot of tension going on in that game, and I don't i don't i don't know. I couldn't finish that one. But they could. Ayo.
02:30:22
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Yeah. Yeah, they could. Yes, my name um my name is generic ah indian like you know American Indian girl name here.
02:30:35
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ah And my power is that I can shapeshift into a primordial... ah ah primordial beings and the only way that I can transform is is become becoming stark naked but prior to the ritual like okay sure sure if you really want to just look up the opening credits scene for Shadow Hearts from the New World and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about it's the opening credits to the game
02:31:11
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no you will not see actual nudity it's a lot of suggested nudity though it's very weird hd opening two minutes let's see here let's just uh put this on like fucking five times speed uh let's go four times speed uh let's see what oh there's a towel there's a There's a tower. yep yeah There's a tower. There's a, there's an, um thep I can, I can visualize it as you're watching it. Oh, oh there's the suggested unity right there. Oh, is she jumping off the building yet?
02:31:48
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She jumps from the building too. Yeah. Oh,
02:31:54
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ah ah What the? I mean, watching that at four times speed does not help whatsoever. But for the sake of this, I... Huh?
02:32:09
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Huh? The fuck? The fuck did I just look at?
02:32:16
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Okay, cool. Uh... Not to say that that that there's times in Shadow Hearts 2 Covenant that don't have very weird behavior in it, but Shadow Hearts 3 is just horny, and I cannot explain it further than that.
02:32:33
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Well, you know what? I think that's a great place to just leave it right there. Yep, that's fair. that's i think I think we just leave it there. never bring it up again. it yeah we We move on to the final segment of the show.
02:32:47
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ah let let's di Let's dive into the bonus level.
02:32:52
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Crazy lists, great deals, and recapping gaming history. It's all here in the bonus level. We've got game clash. And since ah we've both been playing legends, EA, I figured ah it's time to pit the legends, EA megas against each other.
02:33:07
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Rusk. Are you ready? You get to decide the winner of this whole tournament ah round by round. Are you ready? I feel like I should be prepared for what each of the megas look like. So there we go. Okay. All right.
02:33:21
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Here we go. Starting off match one mega victory bell versus mega star me. Mega Victory Belt. Easily. All right. Starmie. That is a disgrace on humankind. that ah They gave him legs.
02:33:39
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Why did they give him legs? ah That's two Mega Malamar versus Mega Scrafty. Mega Malamar. Where's Mega Malamar? Because I don't know what Mega Malamar looks like.
02:33:52
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uh okay there's two uh okay mega malamar oh okay oh god okay and then mega scrafty where's scrafty on this list scrafty all the way oh no uh-uh that is drip right there he's dripped out he's so drift out oh god uh we got mega dragonite versus mega drompa for match three Mega Dragon Knight. Yeah, Mega Dragon Knight. I remember seeing Mega Dragon Knight. Mega Drompa. I feel like I've seen Mega Drompa. Yeah, Vinny uses the Mega Drompa.
02:34:31
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I would have to go with Mega Drompa. Just for looks alone. Yeah, no, I agree with you there. And lastly, Mega Frostlast versus Mega Hawlucha. Oh, I've not seen Mega Frost. Yeah, yeah, I've seen it right now.
02:34:47
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That's really cool, actually. Uh, Halucha, Halucha. The one I'm so excited about because I want Mega Halucha on my team. Ooh. Ooh.
02:35:01
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I might be biased here, but I'm going with Halucha. Mega Halucha. All right. We now move on to the semifinals. um Mega Victory Vela versus Mega Scrafty.
02:35:12
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Mega Scrafty. And Mega Drampa versus Mega Halucha.
02:35:24
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Mega Hawlucha.
02:35:27
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All right. Grand finals. Mega Scrafty versus Mega Hawlucha. Mega Scrafty. Mega Scrafty takes it. The drip cannot be beaten. You can't beat that drip.
02:35:39
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You cannot beat that drip to cast Mega Scrafty for that. ah And obviously, ah the trainer that will be using Mega Scrafty is Naveen, because he has a Scraggy as a partner current with where I'm at in the game.
02:35:55
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So it's like, oh, yeah, he has he's getting the Scrafty. Very nice. um go Moving on to this week in gaming history. ah Here are your major events and game birthdays that happened between November 3rd 16th.
02:36:07
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Starting with some major events, November 3rd, 2004, Nintendo begins taking orders for the Nintendo DS on internet shopping sites. After receiving 2 million orders during the day, most sites are closed to taking any further orders.
02:36:20
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Oh, God. November 4th, 2010, Microsoft releases the Kinect motion sensing system for the Xbox 360 in North America. $150 US, s including the Kinect sensor, Kinect adventure video game, and cables. A bundle of 4 gigabyte Xbox 360 with Kinect is priced at $299.99.
02:36:44
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Oh wait, no, that's right. That was what I got. I actually did get the the four gigabyte. No, no, I thought I, no, I got the four gigabyte add on. That's what it was. I got it separately. And November 8th, oh god, I forgot to grab the gear. Sega of America releases the Sega CD Multimedia Entertainment System with a CD player for $299 US s dollars.
02:37:07
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The unit is an add-on product for Genesis system. It features an MC6-8000 processor, two music CDs, and two game discs, including Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, Columns, Golden Axe, Revenge of Shinobi, and Streets of Rage and Super Monaco GT1.
02:37:25
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1992. There's your year. 1992, November 8th. ah Your game birthdays. ah On November fourth Dance Central and Sonic Free Riders both turn 15 years old.
02:37:36
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On November 5th, Crash Bandicoot 2 turns 28. the Hey You turns 8th, Guitar turns 20. ah the saath mario party seven turns twenty and on the eighth guitar hero turns twenty On the 11th, Elite Beat Agents turns 19. On the 12th, Mirror's Edge turns 17.
02:37:56
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On the 13th, Super Mario 3D Land turns 14. On the 14th, Sonic Shuffle turns 25. And on the 16th, Sonic Colors turns 15. God, now i just feel old.
02:38:09
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Yeah, you do. Yeah, I do Moving on to Tony's game poll. This is ah our seasonal poll that changes every season. You ask what franchise deserves a new game in 2025 slash 2026 that hasn't been announced yet.
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but hasn't been announced yet may have this We may have to circle back on this one because I'm trying think right now. Circle back. We will then. ah Your deals of the week coming up. First off, your Epic Free Games, October 30th to November 6th.
02:38:35
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You have FNAF into the pit and Bendy and the ink machine as Halloween did just happen. And from the 6th to 13th of November, Felix the Reaper will be free on the Epic Games Store.
02:38:46
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On Steam, your Steam sale is going on from until November 10th, you have the Necrodancer franchise sale and the Team 17 Halloween sale. Until the 11th, you have the Capcom Halloween deals.
02:38:57
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Until the 12th, you have crab the game Grab the Games publisher sale. And until the 14th, you have the NIS America publisher sale. Your PlayStation Plus games of November that will be free are Stray, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator in EA Sports 24.
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Your achievement of the week is in Power Watch Simulator 2. It all comes out of the wash, which is to complete all the jobs in career mode. And the game of the week is Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment.
02:39:27
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Wrapping back around to the game poll, Drusk, what do you got? I think a series that I would like to see a another sequel to. I think seeing a sequel to Bully would be a good sequel to have come out.
02:39:44
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All right. That's a good choice.
Final Recommendations and Podcast Wrap-up
02:39:46
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Yeah. ah Good choice. They're always, they're always so fixated on a GTA and like, I get it, but bully was also just a great game for its time.
02:39:57
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I haven't played bully, so I can't say I just heard a lot of good things about it. Oh yeah. That's fair. And lastly, dress. If there's a game old or new that you would recommend to our audience right now, what game would that be?
02:40:12
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Honestly, I would probably say Rogue Galaxy. I think it's worth going out and legally finding and not... uh partying the seven seas to play just hey look it's a game about pirates i mean just just do a little bit of yarhar fiddle dd on your end yeah exactly i think it is totally worth the plunge to go out and play shadow hearts lives in my heart in its own special way mainly because two and three were at blockbuster yes shadow hearts three was at blockbuster i digress
02:40:49
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i I don't think that game is for everybody. Rogue Galaxy, though, I think is for everybody. All right. Well, with that then, Drusk, that does it. We are at the end of the podcast.
02:41:03
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This was so much fun. And next time we get you on, we'll be sure to yap about Kingdom Hearts for three hours. Hell yeah. Oh, I'm so down. I'm so down.
02:41:13
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ah Drusk, where can we find you on the internet? So I am not a big social media person. ah So... You mostly can catch me on ah Twitch. I run by the Twitch tag. Drusk is also here.
02:41:29
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I do streams four four days a week. That kind of works around my work schedule. ah If you ever want to get in touch with me closer than that, on my Twitch page, it does provide a link to my Discord channel.
02:41:42
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I do ah most of my updates through my Discord channel. So if you ever want updates there, that's where to reach out to me. All right. And of course, you can find me at Tony's Game Lounge everywhere. Twitter, Blue Sky, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, YouTube as well.
02:41:58
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ah Be sure to check out the YouTube channel as shorts from this episode highlights, if you may, will be uploaded for the next two weeks. ah So be sure to go check all of those out.
02:42:09
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ah Drusk, thank you once again for coming on. Tony, thank you so much for having me a guest on this. This is, this has been, this has been new, exciting, and just a wonderful time.
02:42:22
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Excellent. i Thank you, the listener for tuning in Be sure to like, share, and follow this podcast on whatever platform you're listening to it on. We will be back in two weeks time for third to last episode of the season. Yes.
02:42:34
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Only three episodes remain two more this month. One in December, and that last one in December is us recapping the Game Awards. You will not want to miss any of those. Be sure to tune into those, and we will see you right back here next time in the Game Lounge.
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Bye! Bye-bye now!
02:42:55
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