Castle Super Beast - CSB 207: Capcom Cup X: Millionaire Fighting 2023
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May members of the community serve!
May them realize who they are
I've decided to become a pro fighting game
player have you has anything huh
interesting what pray tell oh is it is
it just because you've found you've
discovered your your nascent love of
the genre that's oh is it is it the
the competitive spirit and camaraderie
that comes with the journey of the
fighter fuck no is it a life-changing
amount of money is it a life-changing
amount of money promised to first place
of Street Fighter 6 Capcom Cup yeah
yeah dollars well do you think you can
beat men are D you think you can beat
item I saw a tweet earlier today that
made me laugh really hard which was hey
guys everyone's getting excited for the
million dollar but it's going to be some
queer 18 year old who has unlimited time
or to keto yes and yes money yes and
yes absolutely that is you make no
mistake you are debuffed if you're not
already yes if you're already won a
championship no fuck me then are you are
you to keto no you're not okay I hope
you like fursuits you should start wearing
one now it's your best shot I'm sure I
can find one in the house but I don't
want to wear it if you if you can get
yourself a fursuit and then modify it
so that you can play on stick you will
be good yeah no this is this is so
here's the thing about that a lot of
speculation and such but there's what's
here's what's notable right one if you
look at the prize pool for one million
dollars for first place it's not the
thing where games have announced big
numbers and said that's the total amount
to be split by top eight right because
you'll see sometimes they'll be like
here's like you know 500k or something
crazy and then it'll are less than that
usually much less but and then it'll be
split across the entire top eight this
is one million to the winner and one
point two million to be split first
second through seventh place that is
seventh place is walking home with a new
car walking home with what would be the
wins of a major in any other
circumstances right it's like huh should
I should I grind to get number one at
Grandblue or should I hope to just get
seven through five yeah Street Fighter
six so you know why all this noise about
millions now well if you well for one
thing again a life-changing amount of
money probably you know post-tax you'll
see what that those numbers turn into
but still is that is fucking exciting for
people to just be like you're buying the
interest of the highest skilled players
when you put that kind of like money out
right other genres do this and of course
you know anything league or or Dota
related or FPS is like you will buy the
interest of teams that like will play
for the payout regardless of how they
feel about the game
the best part about this is the joke
about the first suit right so page and I
saw that last night I was scrolling
through Twitter on on the on the TV
right and I went a million dollars and
she went a million dollars and I went
wow that's that's enough that people who
don't give a shit about Street Fighter
gonna jump in like Sonic Fox and then
she pulled out her phone and went three
minutes ago Sonic Fox a million dollars
exactly exactly right like just that's
that's the goal right but the other thing
is if you're playing proper Capcom fucking
chess right here it's real
straightforward see who's about to enter
the market fucking project L is riot is
about to drop their fighting game
they're about to drop all the characters
that people know and love and
recognize and all that all that is going
to be disruptive as fuck and like the
the current mantle is held by strife
strife is is carrying the FGC right now
and we just said goodbye to Street
Fighter 5 last night right so it's gonna
be up for grabs and six is looking like
a contender but you never know how
fucking sick project L might be they it
might be like pretty fucking good but
then riot will come in and just put
riot money on top of that and go well
we're gonna buy your interests right
with the prize pools because riot prize
pools usually they're used to those
kinds of numbers if they go that way
Capcom doesn't want their thunder
getting stolen so why not head it off
at the pass and immediately say no no
no no our new game is gonna be hyping
all but we're already gonna put out
numbers that are gonna match whatever
riot is probably gonna do you know on
top of that of course six is big six is
gonna be it's gonna be the big impact
but they need to like step it to this
level before riot gets a chance to so
I did some quick digging league of
legends worlds 2002 the 12th annual
World Champ ran from September to
November prize pool started at 2.23
million however it was topped up from a
percentage of in-game sales so like
riot runs multi-million dollar
tournaments for league yep and they
have a really really good I think Dota
has a very similar like idea for cash
in where they go hey motherfuckers you
want to buy the the fancy championship
bullshit you know like like Capcom would
have had the the stages like they did
yeah they sold the stages and all
efforts percentage of this goes
straight into the pool mm-hmm and that
makes the pool bigger and bigger and
bigger yeah in this case though I mean I
imagine project L is gonna come out and
still have to prove itself so they might
not give it like that starting amount
certainly but it's it's it's again it's
buying the interest you know
um now has a guaranteed foot in the
door of like the games free and you can
win things by playing right mom if I get
really good at Darius anti-airs I could
win a new us a new house you can you can
um yeah man that's a fucking crazy
exciting thing also um I have to I just
saw a little tweet about it I didn't read
the full details but this is an
excellent time for Tokido momochi and a
number of notable Japanese players to
form the players association in Japan
which is hopefully a group that will
fight back against the garbage Japanese
e-sports Jezu sort of clauses and all
that stuff for those who don't remember
last time I didn't hear about it
basically e-sports was not a thing in
Japan for a long time and it was kind of
held back by like government rules about
like gambling in competition yada yada
you can't win prize money unless someone
gets to wet their beaks so a private
company out of nowhere not a government
organization just funneled money together
and said we are going to be the ones who
will pay out the players and we will be
the ones who determine are what cut we
get of every prize that's won and
everyone that wants to win money has to
register and be a part of us as we're
the company that that pays out players
it's always been a very interesting
situation where you're like that's weird
all these Japanese players are like
non-stop traveling to the US for major
tournaments like over and over and over
and over and over like I don't I hear
less about like Japanese players in
Japanese tournaments than I do American
ones well wonder it's because they can't
win any money at home I mean so that
that is certainly a part of it that has
become emergent as the the numbers have
grown over the years but also it's
definitely too about the fact that like
Japanese players for a long time just
were on another level and it was like
free pickings you know every time
someone flew over I mean classic that
one of the classic moments is like
Fudo who like basically comes along
fucking starts dominating and can easily
just say I don't even play this game I
play virtual fighter you know like like
it just kind of looked like North
America was free easy money for it's
definitely no money in virtual yeah you
know this but it's just like yeah get on
a plane come get it come come get a pay
out and and and you're good you know so
anyways Japan has some bullshit laws
that make it hard for players to win
money over there competitively and there
they they just kind of announced that
there's a player association because
Momoshi held out for a long time I
remember too because of like like it's
a key if you win a tournament but you're
not part of this fucking scam group then
technically you can't get paid and uh
oh what's going to happen with the money
you know and he stood on principle for a
while there so I don't know what the
outcome is but I hope that this is
perfect in time for the the massive
announcements like this because you bet
that scam companies like jesu are gonna
want to steal as much as they can of a
big pot price like that you know yeah
also shout outs to Momoshi as well on
another level for recently attempting to
compete as 11 in Street Fighter 5 who I
don't know if you remember but 11 was
announced as one of the the newer
characters that is essentially everybody
it's a random select exactly so there
were like a number of like streams or
it's like oh get first to 11 with with
11 and whatnot and and yeah I think
counterpick this I think he did a 41
win streak with just straight up random
select level so crazy anyways um yeah
one million dollars finger pinky up to
get to get top top placement at six so
I so maybe I'm crazy because I don't run
tournaments and I don't have a lot of
experience with tournaments but like so
the the million the two million or two
point two minute whatever it happens to
be right that's going to be divided
nearly entirely among what the top eight
top 10 top 16 it got top eight top eight
you know okay I think they should they
should keep a million dollars at number
one I think they should shave off a
little bit just a little bit from guys
two through eight and I think they should
in they should expand the bottom small
payouts massively okay yeah so you're
talking like top 32 payouts for example
I say every did you get top 128 here's
50 bucks some events do things like that
I've heard of this before um I don't know
that they go as far as 128 but I do know
there are events that are dead that do
things like top 16 payout or top 32
play out it's a payout and so that's not
unheard of rules here's cab fare mm-hmm
mm-hmm a lot of the time fair yeah
fair but here's your cab back to your
hotel I mean the drowning in pools
shouldn't earn a payout I'm gonna put my
foot down on that drowning in pools
doesn't should not earn a payout but
that drowning in pools should earn a pay
in are you pay extra for losing you
yeah okay okay okay I see yeah so um you
know usually when you do top three
payouts you do there's people that break
it down like 70 20 10 you know some
that's a typical standard if you're
going top eight payouts you're probably
gonna go 50 20 13 7 3 2 that makes sense
yeah yeah so you can expect half a
mill to go to second place based on
these numbers and then you just scale it
down from there I I I the idea of like
top 32 payouts and shit like that is
fucking it's that's a super cool idea
I'm super down with that it's way more
encouraging it's just positive overall
top-heavy stacks are like hype for
people that are competing in that way
but it's also like more community
oriented and friendly if people are just
like okay you got in the money you got
something you worked fucking hard you
know just I feel for the person there's
always a cutoff right mm-hmm that let's
say 10 or 20 oh yeah yeah we're like one
more match you would have walked away
with 10 grand but instead you walk away
with your balls right yeah what I think
is you they should do the community pool
as well right have that running alongside
and that though none of that money goes
to any of the competitors there the
community pool money goes towards the
meme fund for the winner of the
Kronenberg freak pic story mode tournament
which which should run alongside the
main event take your weirdo fucking
create a character fighters and make
them as busted as possible and jump into
a bracket and you get to win the stupid
meme bucks get your bison dollars
that's what I want
um yeah that's that's that's the that's a
big one a million dollars that's a
big hope they have so this is gonna be
Capcom Cup specifically right yes Capcom
Cup 10 how so the seating for Capcom Cup
is resultant of other tournaments right
other tournament placement for the other
tournaments become Capcom CPT qualifiers
and then there's usually two or one
last chance qualifier that occurs the
week of the final bracket where you can
get in at the last second
yes there's an open bracket last chance
everybody running a capcom seating point
qualification eligible tournament as well
as capcom themselves running the last
chance qualifier are ready for a big
motherfucking influx of people they have
been because I so Capcom Cup stepping
in to kind of like be its own major
final street fighter event for the
longest while it's always been evo so
when I remember when that happened I
was like okay I guess you know other
games have done this before let's see
how it goes they've the seat the capcom
finals have been week-long events this
like it ended yesterday it's been
running all week yeah you know they'll
do two days of last chance qualifiers
and then start the bracket and it'll be
ours and it is so much street fighter
more than I'm you know gonna follow or
keep up with was this five days this
time it was five days of fucking
street fire it was crazy ready for so
for six to eight next year it's a it's
a lot it's more than I than I'd like you
know and I say this as you you know I
went to a tournament this weekend like I
went you know and and yeah these capcom
cup things are they're just there's more
street fighter than you could ever want
to watch but it's gonna be big it's gonna
be big yes this weekend there might be
one issue with this the the popular
there must at some point there must be
some change to the way these tournaments
work because you can't have people given
the chance of listen you need to fly
down to what is Vegas I mean I mean
capcom cup uh it was not LA and I forget
what ever right whatever it's fly down
America major American city that'll
take a day right fight in the tournament
for a full calendar week fly back it's
like I hope you have like the assumption
can't be unless you're willing to quit
your job you cannot fight in this
tournament yeah it like there needs to be
some kind of time or stipend or or
something it's like it's it's it is
tricky but I there's not much else way
to really do it I guess unless you just
run it faster
Evo is kind of miraculous in that the
level of organization that goes in
makes it so that no matter how the
numbers scale up in terms of
participation you will still be at top
eight on Sunday right no matter what
we're gonna start on Friday we're gonna
end on Sunday and every time there's
been a maybe we can start on Thursday
nope they keep it to a weekend and they
just run and expand horizontally as
needed you know we need to go do we need
to go till tomorrow yes now it definitely
has resulted in like yo you might have
8 a.m. pools right this is the trade-off
when we have like thousands of people
entering an open bracket but there is a
day that the fact that you get it done
in a weekend no matter what is fucking
sick I love that impressive so I would
want to see something like that
maintained I don't I don't want to see
more days added on to the the pools you
know if needed or so but people who are
kind of committing to that life of
traveling and or you know participating
like you're in a way you're talking to
a there's a there's an FGC that is like
a local FGC for every city and area and
then there's a backpacking FGC you know
and they just like yo see you next
weekend here or there right you know
this weekend like Lord night is like a
top player that's you know been around
and comes up to Montreal usually was in
town for for the event this weekend as
well like backpacking players are just
going to make it out one way or the
other and at that point they usually
have situations set up where it's like
okay and I'm working a job where it
might be understandable if time to time
I have to go disappear because there's a
fucking European stunfest event that I
got to go check out that's going to pay
out sick money so I'm going to that you
know it's it's it's a part of the
sacrifice of the life I'm just oh my
brain just I can just imagine somebody
being handed a gigantic novelty check
on stage and I mean it's still the FGC
who knows what you behind the novelty
check just it just rips open and the
ghost of Marvel rises again yeah I mean
God just that moment there was discussion
about it as like what are like the most
iconic photos of the FGC and like that
one was was highly was talked about
because it's like like even no man like
mental illness aside there's something
really fucking just real like real
street about it yeah you're nice at
Marvel that ain't bad but see me first
to fucking five if you really want to
be the champ you know there's something
like some guy can just be like yeah
okay that's cool but I just put the
money on top the TV sit your ass down
let's play literally who are you how
did you get through security there's a
romantic appeal yes the romantic in the
classical sense of the word aspect of
that some rando walks out of the crowd
and challenges you and you and you know
like no I don't know that um any other
sport anywhere has that I don't think
there's any other game or or sporting
event where it's like I just walk out
of the crowd and I'm like nah I'm
coming for you though champ yeah the
Super Bowl winners are parading around
with their rings and like ten guys just
a bird from the stands go you guys are
so good right boys could take you so
you know what that is that's that's
actually old wrestling right like
professional wrestling back in the day
the kind that like fucking Abe Lincoln
was doing you know where it's like yeah
I'm I'm a do a big show match but before
that anyone in the crowd that wants some
come get it I'll beat you down for real
and then we'll go back to our spots and
do some k-fabe you know this reminds me
somebody mentions pool and darts I have
a story from this weekend so I text my
father hey dad just checking want to be
sure because mom's birthday is tomorrow
right and my dad text back why e s no
period nothing just flat right okay that
was easy is he like see like upset that
like I had to ask but I want to make sure
right mm-hmm so I'm streaming later in
the day and he texts me again hey sorry
for the short message earlier was busy
winning the pool tournament and then I
call him afterwards and go I you told me
they don't let you play and he goes no I
just can't win any money anymore I still
go down there they just give the money
to the guy in second place they just
they just banned him from winning cash
money that's amazing wow okay okay
that's the level interesting interesting
as he goes down there every week and
does the tournament every week and he
wins about 50 percent of them and then
the other 50 percent it's you know 10
other guys that's fucking they said you
can play here but you can't win any more
money that's it we're done we're done
paying out yeah yeah that's hilarious
because I was just talking about how the
hometown heroes in the games that we
that we play there's always a moment
where they win one too many locals and
everyone kind of turns on them right and
the person who leave there's you need to
go right town there's a moment where you
know it's like oh yo Henry is so sick
shoutouts chai rithy right and then at
a certain point it's like we just show
up every Tuesday and put money in his
pocket and that's all we're doing here
right what the fuck and then it kind of
have a job we're just subsidizing his
income literally and then it just
becomes a like okay now we're cheering
for second place right and then like it
becomes and then like that's where like
all the hype goes and when and when like
the usual when the usual player wins
you kind of everyone just kind of goes
ah you know and it's just inverts the
instant the show goes on the road yes
yes the moment you are representing your
location versus America for example you
scream MTL to your to your fucking
throat is rat horse yeah hey I think
Sonic Fox is fucking great I think
they're fucking cool and hilarious if
I'm gonna you know waste my life watching
a Mortal Kombat tournament I'm not gonna
root for Sonic Fox it's like rooting for
the sun to come up in the fucking
morning I don't know who the second guy
is but maybe maybe at the same time too
though like the the landscape has changed
because a lot of what I'm describing is
the way things used to be nowadays
there's a lot more online warriors that
are just coming out of nowhere on their
own and like the best in the world like
showing up that okay so for example one
of the best one of the best Guilty Gear
Strive players is test your luck who
plays Naggo and yeah really and just
happens to be some dude from Montreal
just hanging around coming from online
and you know just like you you you're
able to get that momentum going and then
you can just be like without like you're
not coming from the the the local scene
necessarily you're just you do your
online events you play enough and then
you get your experience that way a lot
of the best players recently have been
like coming from that and so it kind of
creates a more like individualized kind
of culture you know so the the the vibes
of like Toronto versus Montreal for
example from back in the day those are
more or less gone it's now it's kind of
like are you a fan of this player or
that player or that player individually
you know a really great example that
actually made its way to me was a
unknown gentleman named Zen coming
abroad from China to play his first
tournament abroad in the last chance
qualifier and sweeping everyone all the
way through in winners bracket
hmm I mean heard of this guy and no one
else has because he's a new guy
there's dude so there's always the
unknown the unknown god killers that show
up the unknown like secret players that
like are always a random threat and they
become the most hype right gamer be
started out as that one fucking random
a add-on player what where did that come
from why is it so good yeah yeah you know
like there's always that little that
little that little story man of course
we talked about Pakistan you know but
it's super fucking cleaned when you get
the complete unknown story yeah ending
Walker ed fucking ed players coming out
like that is it's super hyped you know
with the the unexplored not just of the
unknown player but like the unknown tech
of like an obscure character pick you
know which is why I always go back we
whenever me and read your laugh about it
we just go back to like jury from Alaska
it's like yo did you know that there's an
Alaskan jury that's fucking sick you
know who beat you in pools yeah Alaskan
jury really damn what are they doing up
there grind it out fucking the Tandon
engines apparently um yeah no man it's
it's always a fucking it's always a trip
when you get the little backstory of
someone who I think is a new name there's
by the way to my wife if she's watching
the podcast stop watching the podcast for
five minutes because I'm gonna spoil the
movie will he ever seen Rocky to not yet
not yet oh well shit never mind I was
gonna use an example of that but I've
heard I've heard everything about it
mimetically so I probably already know
but you know so we live so that get that
movie came out in 79 and the crux of the
plan to beat Apollo Creed is hey man
this guy's a better boxer than you but
you're a southpaw and he's expecting to
fight a southpaw so we're gonna teach you
to box right-handed so that in the middle
of the boxing match you can go back to
switch it out yeah beat his ass and that
is 79 boxing analogy for like pick an
unconventional character surprise them
there you go can unpopular loser
character save really good because save
that's it the match up to hot con or
eight on save that shit for nationals
exactly exactly so off that I mean I
like like shit just again this weekend
I'm thinking about the one of the most
popular anime fighters that's still
going competitively with the community
of courses blaze blue because it's got
rollback now and and like a lot of
people that have been playing blaze blue
like if you've been playing since
calamity trigger 2008 it's still that
game just with more shit stacked on top
of it and it's still it hasn't been
directly replaced by anything yeah nor
will I mean so guilty gear team red is
is one side and then team blue was the
other the director left archsys so I
don't know that we're gonna see a proper
like blaze blue sequel but what they've
done is develop this game over the course
of like fucking yeah 15 years and it's
because they just built on it over all
these versions people always have a fall
back like like imagine if today the
competitive game still being played with
Street Fighter 4 the latest edition
right you can go back to a decade of
memories of matchups and just be like
yeah I've been playing this forever I
can still enter and play the problem is
of course is if you're trying to get
into it for the first time so I read
she's been playing it for a bit for
example you're gonna have to learn 55
fucking matchups and the intricacies of
those are so like encyclopedic that
they're not impenetrable like unless you
want to dedicate your entire like fucking
work week to learning every character
every matchup every interaction you're
just not getting in at this point right
good luck but some people do some people
do get get to that point some people are
freaks but it can just do it yes but
it's hilarious because when a new
character gets announced in a game like
that or like smash ultimate instead of
watching the crowd pop off you watch
some of the crowd pop off and and some
of the crowd go fuck me not another
matchup I have to learn eighty nine
hundred new interactions what do you
mean this stupid jubey cat is now
playable fuck this I don't want to learn
another one is a yo he's bad enough
and the character is an uncommon size so none of the bread and butters will work out whatever
yeah yeah yeah it's it's crazy when the
roster gets like to that route you know
it's interesting because project L has a
defecto built-in advantage on this that
has been seen in League of Legends and
Dota which is infinite matchups like
functionally infinite matchups is okay
if you didn't have to pay for it
hmm right right right right yeah like
yeah I can I can spend all the time I
want on this I want because it's it's
freed I'm literally the only thing I'm
losing is my time and you're a young
person boy you're drowning in time yeah
I play video games for a living and I
somehow don't have enough time to go to
the fucking post office yeah and
horizontal growth in a free-to-play game
is just like well more more stepping
stones for anybody on the outside who's
like ooh what's that so that makes sense
it still does become nightmarish if
you're like living that competitive life
though you know if you're trying to stay
like sharp you're and you're you're still
gonna have to spend all that time
learning everything you can about every
piece of information in the game and
then you get then you get to where
league is apparently at where there are
so many interactions that you can't learn
all of them before they get patched
right right right okay just you just
can't there there are too many
interactions to learn I mean I'm already
talking about how Street Fighter 6 is
gonna have every matchup and then
there's gonna be three variations of
frame data if you want to start thinking
about that because when you're in
burnout you got to add plus four and
when you're in drive rush you're gonna
add another plus four so what I'm gonna
do I'm gonna take all that frame data
I'm gonna look at it and my brain is
gonna turn it into more safe yes or less
safe this is how games actually want you
to think about it really like just know
that this is a time where it's your turn
or my turn that's it that's all they
really want you to think about your turn
or my turn I blocked that now it's my
turn I blocked that actually it's still
your turn that's it the only frame data
I need is I cannot reversal SPD no I am
gray no you cannot but when I am blue I
can reversal SPD this is this is the
correct way to go for now yes there will
be it just there's just gonna be that one
moment where it's like god damn it what
the fuck just happened I don't understand
and it was like oh that was a perfect
frame trap that was set up to be you were
you were plus eight on that and you
pressed a button a button and you got
hit by something that had a 10 frame
startup okay I don't know I don't know if
I love it or hate the idea of like wait
why did I lose and a man appears from
the shadows with a jeweler's monocle and
slows down the YouTube video well you
see here you were you were four pixels
over and one frame behind due to the blue
spark and that's what did you as they're
adjusting their jeweler's monocle you're
correct that is true that is some wild
ass shit and that sucks but that's why
you will never win a million dollars
no but I want you will never win a
million dollars and that right there is
exactly why that little fucking monocle
asshole the difference between those two
is a million dollars and then you take
it into set two and you go he's gonna do
it again but this time I already know
what he wants to do because he did that
last time that's how you do it that you
know that he wants to do that last time
exactly so you go to step three in your
brain which is actually do the same
fuck up you did the first time but it'll
work now but now it works because he
expects the adjustment and now he knows
that you're expecting to expect what
he's expecting and you move on to tier
five which is unga just hit buttons just
hit the buttons unga won't win you a
million dollars but it'll get you real
close it'll get you in the money yeah
preem primo unga will get you in the
money I want to see the interview with
let's say to keto hey to keto hey how'd
you beat him oh I was doing this I was
doing that oh you know he really like
this move blah blah blah and then they
talked to number two in three and hey
guys what was your plan and they just
look at directly into the camera I'm just
pressing buttons mm-hmm I'm just pressing
buttons out here yeah well dude it's
give me 400 grand it's competitive
Mount stupid lol pressing buttons lol
pressing buttons player in the middle
calculating every possible interaction
every possible state I did this wrong I
should do I should correct this way
yadda yadda you know absolutely the
the looseness to which you have to
honestly like when you watch a tournament
player that is like on the final stage
where the monitor you're standing on is
your face and your character and you
watch some people sit down plug their
sticker controller in and then don't
even put the headphones on yeah they
just listen to the sounds of it's
screaming or the music or they or pull
out an iPod a fucking playlist or was
whatever on Spotify like the like some
people are such beasts and it's such in
their blood that they don't need the
audio cues of the game they don't need
any of that shit they just need to stare
at it and just feel their way through
the whole thing that is absolutely
you're just right you're just pressing
buttons and you're winning and and and
there's no real way around that you know
you can't nerf you can't nerf aga that's
it yeah um anyways yeah it'll be really
really really interesting to see what
happens next year I wonder how if I
wonder if any of the open qualifier will
be dealt with online hmm I mean right
yeah that's that's gonna be a question
yeah that'll be a question men are one
with Anga no men are one with Anga
Bunga you see Anga Bunga can win you
money Anga on its own will not
reminds me of my most hated my most
hated phrase I've ever heard my life
when streaming I think was when I was
playing Runeterra which was like Pat
go face I went what's face and somebody
replied with face is Anga and I
understood it and it was like gross oh
I hate this stop thinking just react
I mean some of some of the like the
matches them fucking getting in Yomi
hustle that are like the hardest ones I
have to win by switching on the fucking
monkey mode I just I'm like okay I see
you're defensive you're smart you're
reading my reads time to just be an
eight rocks together and shit my hand
time to be an eight that's how it is you
and just put some YOLO plays out there
you know anyways remember I'll never
forget ever who the fuck would ever do
had a burst from full screen twice and he
won he won that match because who the
fuck
best had a burst from full screen twice
yeah insanity yep your rocky earned it
um all right so as aforementioned I'll
I'll go in a little bit yes this weekend
there was a local tournament we mad so
what we mad so the the the group
Montreal air dashers right runs a
tournament often called you mad which is
ultimate Montreal air dashers that was
the last one that ran right I remember
now now remember yeah and this is the
second one they usually that that
they're doing so this is the winter
edition of Montreal air dashers so we
mad I love it yeah good times went in
just just a real a real just like send
off and and and like you sometimes you
go in here like I'm gonna show my
support I'm gonna make my pot donations
I'm gonna see what happens but really
I'm here to just fucking stand behind
some friends and watch some cool some
cool fights and shit go down and I
pretty much did that but hey I got my
I got my my top four in cyberbots so
there and there's there's that and I
got I got I got at least top eight in
Fuzi's so there's that not too bad not
too shabby the we've said we're saying
goodbye to Street Fighter 5 right now
right like that it is that's it that's
the rap just this is the last round
that it will be the big deal I kind of
feel sad for it it I don't I don't
because if okay to ask five to have
launched in the state it's in now would
have been impossible but if isn't gonna
launch in the state that five is in now
but six is launching in the best state
Street Fighter's ever been in yeah this
is the best launch version of a game
they've ever had here's hoping five if
five wasn't fucking sabotaged for that's
the word really what do you mean do you
mean that metaphorically do you mean
that literally what could you be
talking about I mean quite literally if
five wasn't fucking knee-capped what
what do you what do you mean and and
sent out to fucking be executed in a
field it could have launched in a state
that was at least like if five launched
like championship edition holy fuck
that game would have been hype right
holy fuck people would have been so
excited about it but the the the season
one blues into season two like what is
going on like this the trajectory of
confusion and unhypening that occurred
and then by the point that you know at
least for me like you know some of the
other characters came around and I'm
like okay what's happening with the
Cali fucking nothing cool he's just the
most boring character in the entire
game sick love that right on a personal
level but if that game launched in the
state that it kind of got to when hands
switched and when the new team took over
it would have been a real different
story but it wasn't and that that whole
kerfuffle in the middle about like we
fix the online no stop don't fix it was
like just a whole like another blemish
that thing didn't need it it unfortunately
just it kills a lot it kills the hype
it kills the excitement there's a bit of
it to where at optimal play it is kind
of a solved game it feels like you know
when you watch rounds of it play out
there is a correct way to play the mate
the top tier characters and the way
that's going to play out is going to be
using the meter in the exact same method
each time so it's it's in a solved state
which is also not super exciting for
for just a spectator six is adding
enough that there's variability that's
going to keep it really fucking die
yeah I just like I just said three sets
of frame data but this is a like for me
the fact that the only reason why five
is like if you're feeling like oh farewell
it's kind of sad it's like no but the
only reason why you're feeling good
about where five is that is because of
the guys heading up six it's just
excitement for what's to come because
that fucking crew it did such a good
job they lifted that game up out of its
fucking shambles and ended it in a
state where people are like ah yeah
street fighter five ain't so bad
that's alright no that final version of
the game was pretty cool that was a
miracle and those guys are now heading
up the new direction that is the way to
look at it it's crazy like a lot of
people aren't aware dude Street Fighter
6 has been in development for so long
it has been in development for so much
longer than you would expect and it
seems like it's paying dividends I'm
just thinking Capcom so when Street
Fighter 6 is is done and dusted and we've
gone through championship edition and
and you know super and you know all
that and it's time to make a new Street
Fighter I suggest that they start
making Street Fighter 8 because they
should just not make odd numbered
Street Fighter games anymore I see I see
so we just skip the numbers entirely
just just just don't but what about
three what about three well there was
three then there was three two and then
there was three three I don't know if
your rule really works there skipped
three and gone to three two and three
three and called it four but three three
is now double this completely falls
apart I was trying to follow along but
it completely and utterly falls apart
I'm saying the new generation is really
bad yeah that's that's fine I'd rather
play that than one I think everyone
would rather play that than one
um I can't believe like most of the
people listening to this have not played
Street Fighter one go go figure out how
to track down and play Street Fighter 1
and marvel in fucking awe don't even
ever got to a sequel at all don't even
try to like win a round just try to do
a hood ok just touch it
attempt to do one fireball yeah
us astonishing um indeed but yeah fun
tournament good stuff um always always
a chill vibe with the with the anime
crew there they're there like I said the
anime the anime boys are a little less
thuggery you know a little more
inviting and that's why I think they're
thriving a little bit better as a
community it's well I mean they're
well rested because they bring their
pillows everywhere well I mean at this
point grumpy at this point a lot of
those a lot of those anime pillow kids
you're describing have gone on to just
work like fucking high paying tech jobs
and they're now actually coming off of
their like big salary fucking work
taking a weekend to come play some anime
games to go right back into that world
because they're getting that fucking
nerdy little lives at the office so they
can pull something like that something
like that
uh yeah no no no it was it was cool
um other notable thing for me this week
was I spent some time with Wild Hearts
sponsored time of course hell yeah
sponsored time I contacted that gentleman
you referred me to and he was like too
late loser and I'm like ah better let
next time
but um I will say this I enjoyed it
enough that after sponsored time I went
back and kept playing so I had some fun
with that now note of course that through
sheer luck I decided to just grab the
PS5 edition not the PC port I think
first of all I want to congratulate you
and now the the streaming nonsense that
you're dealing with with the times makes
a lot more sense because sure enough
there you were on the Wild Hearts steam
page that was yeah now that thing though
is the the all I all I can tell is that
the PC port is falling ass over balls
and it seems to be because of an audio
setting that is forcing the game to run
on a single core I have done more
research on this because what me not
being sponsored I went through the
process of like I really like to mess
with Monster Hunter clones I think it's
I think it's a really cool fascinating
thing but I saw people talking about the
PC version right I wanted to know like
well what's what's going on so it's not
that the audio is making it run on a
single core it's that the game itself
runs on a single core and that by
switching from regular audio to
surround sound audio you're offloading
your audio processing onto a different
part of your computer probably the
graphics card which is freeing up CPU
cycles to use for everything else okay
it is also not the best on the consoles
because I was hanging out on that Wild
Hearts subreddit it's one of those games
that will not let you connect online if
you have like a certain amount of friends
or a certain amount of blocked people on
your on your consoles list yeah so I saw
that there's that bug as well where like
if you have too many blocked people you
might have connection issues getting on
the servers I had some server disconnects
that were like just random while playing
and backing out to main menu and going
online didn't fix it I had to do a quit
and restart right to get to get back on
so then there was also while I was
streaming there's a whole area on the
mountain that the collision for this
tree mountain is just not where the
graphics are for it and the model is
just often like there's some weird
running on invisible things so like this
thing needs some time in the oven to
fix up some of those problems there's
another bug that happens on the
consoles at least I think skill up
talked about it also happens on PC but
consoles which otherwise look like
mostly fine are encountering it
once you get to high rank or the high
rank equivalent where you know the
areas change a little bit it loads up a
slightly different version of the map
you know like oh the river is flowing
again okay spring instead of winter
um and the game slows down
by like by like 40 percent
and like the frame rate isn't necessarily
dropping but the game is is running in
like an ironic slow motion
oh all the time what yeah I was watching
uh some videos of it where like it is
it is just like it at like half speed
does like the updated state not unload
all the previous it appears that something
to do with the new map
is just yeah okay just doubling the
resources so so this is this feels like
you know I mean so unfortunately I again
I dodged most of what we're hearing
about uh but it sounds like yeah time in
the oven would be you know the right
the right thing because I don't know how
koay tecmo games launch usually um
but I'm seeing people make reference to
the fact that it's not to be unexpected
that they're coming out in a state that
needs heavy patching right there's a
reason why when neo2 came out on pc
they made a really really huge deal that
they worked really hard on it
because because koay tecmo games on the
personal computer don't buy them on the
personal computer
so don't but does that count as
as them like because that's team ninja as
opposed to omega force though I would say
do not buy any koay tecmo game on the
computer except for maybe neo2
okay because I'm like I'm yeah I'm
seeing team ninja and and and omega force
as the main
like they're that's the difference right
you're looking it's muso games versus the
the other stuff so um but but all things
to say like uh what worked and what was
there was pretty fucking sick man
um seems to be everyone that is playing
it's like core like upsetness which is
like I'm watching the skill up review and
he's like this game seems tons of fun
it's on fire yeah um so I think and I
think with that like you when you play
it and you get like uh when yeah when
you're in that when you're in that when
you're flowing through it and kind of
getting what it's doing there's you can
see that what's sick about it and you're
like okay
this needs to get patched up right
because once it does it's gonna be
fucking sick um as it is now you can
still have a pretty fun experience with
it I know I did on on on the console at
the very least PC coming in like mostly
negative based on how bad let port is
yeah so be it like if you fucking drop
money on a game that's not gonna work
then that's that's that's shit um but
uh what they what they're going for with
like just yeah the way the combat feels
and stuff
is really fun um yeah right get there
okay um so the defaults kind of sword
you swing around and stuff kate takes
you through like you know the basics of
you're gonna swing your skatana do this
do that jump and yadda yadda um but the
the gimmick they kind of showed off in
all the promotional material and and
the stuff that you know I was talking
about on stream was the the karakuri
right the little construction wooden
engineering tools you make on the the
fortnight a little bit um and I was
like okay it's a gimmick you know we'll
we'll we'll see how that plays out um
you really just want to kind of fight
and probably need to just be good at
that but they implement the gimmick
really well like every time you use one
it makes the fight more hype in some way
like none of them ever felt like oh i
got to go set up a turret over here and
then like you know waste some time
slowing down the pace of battle every
time you use it it speeds up the pace of
battle and um and the the whole like
yeah fortnight process of building is
like being done in a way where it's not
this giant tower it's just a couple
things and most it'll be a second or
two and it'll either result in you
putting up a super fucking gate that
blocks a charge or you can climb the
gate and do a mounting attack or you
can get a speed boost to the left or to
the right and do a sick ass boost based
thing because your weapons also react to
aerial state or bounce state and and
mobility uh amplifying things off of
the tools you're dropping
um the fact that you're doing that with
a group of people as well um yeah i mean
again i can and i can't speak for where
the like best versions of monster hunter
got to but when you're working in with
with a team synergistically i should
say uh you're filling roles and doing
things and you know there's the guy who's
running the great sword that's going to
just wait for the right moment to bam
and everyone else is doing the other
stuff someone's putting the traps down
um the cool fights i had in this were
ones where um one player dropped a bunch
of bounce pads and um uh walls around
and was kind of just you know dealing
with the monster and putting traps that
exploded around it and then me and a
second person with the umbrellas were
just in midair dancing and spinning and
parrying off of the attacks and coming
back in and landing on the bounce and
getting back into the air and just like
it was it was wild shit yeah it sounds
like it's doing tons of interesting
shit that makes it like meaningfully
different from monster hunter
like it's not a derivative it's like
its own thing and it seems really cool
and i'm very interested in it as long as
a version of the game is pointed to as
like this one isn't broken yep
yeah i did hear something funny though
that the game's text goes wildly out of
its way to never ever say the word
monster or hunt in any context
kimono hunt is said often hunt hunt is
said often monsters are kimono
kimono this is this is what we call them
it's not a monster it's a kimono yes
and uh you know i mean for what it's
worth that didn't necessarily apply to
me but in game at the very least like
don't well in general don't put these
words together don't do that don't do it
but you are going on hunts for kimono
all the time and people ask you to go
hunt things
um all right but um yeah i know so i
know the uh the insect glaive well whatever
i saw it it was like yeah midair crazy
airy like wild spinning and attacking
and shit um so i guess that becomes
sort of the a comparison point
the thing with um the umbrella that
obviously you know no surprise there the
parry system on it just fucking felt so
good you know and i like the window i
like the timing of it um and like on
stream i was trying to parry so often
that like i just took a bunch of hits
and was like you don't you could have
just rolled out of the way of that
you could have just rolled out of the
way of that you didn't need to deal with
that but the rewards you get for landing
the parry is your your umbrella heats up
and does more damage so every time you're
doing one one one one one one one it
becomes ten ten ten ten ten you know
um one of the things i'm looking at
footage now uh for context and it's like
much like almost every other not monster
hunter game it's way faster than monster
hunter
mm like your average like to the point
where when i was watching the video of
the guy complaining about it moving and
slow motion i was waiting for him to cut
to it in slow motion because it looked
like the game in slow motion looks like
monster hunter interesting yeah okay
um even the heavy weapons like i so you
go check out the hammer and um so i
remember how like great sword and monster
hunter would be like like five second
commitments to like some swings or so
right um the pacing of like how you
time things is actually hard because
things are slower than you expect them
to be um that's still the case here but
there's little things where it's like uh
if you use the hammer every time you
slam it down you can do basically um
honestly it's it's uh it's a fucking uh
um x-act right every time you slam the
hammer down you press r2 and then you
extend its stat its handle to get more
damage and then you can do further
combos using those extensions so you're
kind of doing a little x-act on every
swing um the final swings you're
sometimes doing at some points are like
doing lunar phase in the air with a
hammer but you're doing you're doing
swing immediately into like you know uh
r2 it's into swing into r2 into swing
into r2 with like really tight timing
and it gets pretty fast you know um
the overall i guess um i i can't again
speak for the depth of building armor
and weapons and stuff and in the you know
let's say rise or so but when you look
at the fucking skill tree in this thing
you pull out and you see a sphere grid
for every weapon um a sphere grid
yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna weapon upgrade
tree it's a great well it's a weapon
upgrade tree but you can go sideways
to get one thing keep those properties
and keep going down another path as long
as you're touching are you like upgrade
like you have a umbrella and you're
like upgrading your skill with the
umbrella and that gets you different
stuff or you up making a new umbrella
or you're making a new umbrella like
neo style and you're choosing what
skills to keep as if you were fusing
demons and smt right and then you hear
about this game is interesting yeah and
so you can stack up the like if you want
extra crit and you know extra whatever
specific savage state you know then you
keep those skills and you discard the
other ones that you could have gotten
um and then as you're going down the
sphere grid you might see something off
to another branch that's like oh but i
want that though it's like that's cool
just go touch it get that one thing and
then continue down this path and keep
that one thing as you uh passed up the
the skills on um armor was there's a
whole system with that too that i don't
fully understand but it seems as if at
the very least you can put armor on you
have all your pieces and then there's
um human aspect and beast aspect so you
can upgrade your regular stuff or you
can start leaning towards like more
kimono oriented features and then it
gives you beast skill points versus like
human skill points so you can go more
tech or more raw um and that affects the
design too so like every piece seems to
have like that like five point variation
on it and then you could also just go
drop full on glamour over everything so
if you wanted like a particular set like
there's a ninja outfit that it'll carry
the stats of what you're wearing but
just drop you in that aesthetic no
matter what so glamour is already there
um so i'm looking i'm looking at this
apparently the uh they are aware of a
quote cpu threading issue and we'll be
releasing a patch to fix that this week
okay so here's hoping yeah um no a couple
of fucking again a little some more time
in the oven and i think uh you're gonna
i think you're gonna really enjoy uh
what's going on here the only thing is of
course is i'm i'm not comparing it
fully to anything besides monster hunter
world which i know you know i mean that
hey woolly monster hunter's fucking monster
yeah like the the one the one thing that
i will say that is like kind of not
tiring or bad but just kind of not very
exciting monster hunter is monster hunter
is monster hunter
like those games are incremental
improvements and a lot of that strength
of that series is because it's incremental
you can just take all that old shit and
drag it forward right one of the
complaints i saw for wild hearts is like
that the total monster list is like 20
or oh yeah okay okay yeah that i well
yeah well they're making brand new shit
from they're starting a new system
exactly you can't compare it to sunbreak
which has like fucking 15 years to like
and in some cases drag ps2 models out of
retirement um something about it that's
really actually uh notable and and cool
is the entire campfire system um which is
there are wells of resources that you find
and um there are like water trees that
are basically like you know estus trees
whatever uh and uh these will be located
around key environments and such but
anytime you go and you find one of these
wells you can put a campfire down
wherever you want and that will be a
sitting point where you can put your
shit together upgrade some stuff or go
travel to another you know um um to a
city or whatever and then if you want
you can spend some more resources and
put up a tent and that will become a
fast travel point right and then um you
also so all the um karakuri that you're
building those are the the the uh the
all your fortnights yeah all your
fortnights that includes um that includes
utility things like the camp and the
the tent and so on which are when you
look at the full list an extensive
basically every room you every place
you would go visit in a monster hunter
village can become a thing you drop at
a camp so you can create a whole base
camp with like there's a blacksmith over
here uh here is a training dummy
um here is a wind thing to lift me above
to see what's going on here is a tower
that detects nearby monsters here is a
grappling hook um zipline that i can
shoot way across the map yeah i saw
people very happy with the zipline
stuff you can zipline the whole fucking
map as if it were death stranding and
okay and as long as you spend your
rego collect enough resources you can
create quick access to multiple places
and teleporters for the for the stuff
that's further away uh you can zipline
into a series of like across a valley
land on the other side ignore the area
in between and then drop onto a bunch
of sonic speed boosts to just get to the
monster you know and and and you can
kind of put it together in such a way
where you're like oh shit when i learn
this map and i know where the monsters
like to run after each phase i can beat
it there with all my tech and just be
ready and waiting fully fed fully healed
up and just fucking destroy it as it
runs up to the location
that's it's cool i i really i really
want them to to fix this thing up
because if they do in the near future
i'll start streaming and i i fucking
love monster hunter clones i think
they're all really interesting they all
try at least something weird i really
liked to keyton too as well the the
last one that they made
um i just like the the tech yeah fucking
yeah it can it can get there it can get
there if they're working on it it can
get there people in the chat are
mentioning not dauntless dauntless is a
pile of shit um but yeah i imagine to
the uh you know as japan loves the
fucking monster hunter uh franchise
the the freedom to kind of like you know
do your own version of that with these
clones is i mean obviously there's the
can we cash in on some of this money
because there's a whole lot of people
that are down with it
but um there's room for other games like
that you know i they're all that that
genre is so fucking weird because like
it's been though there's the gold standard
game
you're like all right who's number two
and like number two has never crystallized
that's so weird there usually is often a
thing you know but like there's been no
exodus of x capcom monster hunter devs
to make their own monster hunter with
blackjack and hookers god eaters fun
but yeah god eater is fun but it's not
like a like a smash hit or anything
like that
also doesn't really help when it ends up
being a
plum
which we call it a vita only release
you know
um so yeah uh this is this is the one
with the fucking
it's got the big big ea bucks behind it
and it's got the big yula that you have
to agree to and the whole no man don't
bug me bucks don't
big ea buck says man this should run
better it should it should
how do let me ask you let's say they got
a performance patch out like
fucking thursday right and it's like
very very market improvement
right as somebody who used to work
tons in qa how do you feel about games
that like
they're like because i'm gonna assume
and you can correct me if i'm wrong but
if they're able to get a performance
patch out next week
it had to have been known last week
a million was a surprise long before
submission
right long before submission yes really
these were all these are all things that
people testing the release candidate
build of the game
um saw and bugged and knew about some of
them were deprioritized as
um fixed ease in a later update some of
them were considered not submission
risks
there's no chance that this stuff is like
oh we just found out about it now
because like how do you feel about games
that come out
and then like a vital update
drops within 10 days
yeah so it's release well it's simple
it's ea looks at it and says
um
we can delay this and let the vital drop
happen and then
um you know take that that take that
little bit but it'll come out cleaner
and and do better in reviews or whatever
or you can send out your early embargoes
you can tell everybody hey
um when you're reviewing please note
that there'll be a day one patch yadda
yadda
and you can go uh we don't want
you can you can basically look at it and
go we don't want our investors to hear
to hear that a major release is getting
delayed
so we're not budging this no matter what
under any circumstances
we need this to drop in quarter one 2023
um
and there is no version of however long
it takes to get it right it's like no
no no whatever state it's in it must
come out at this point
and if you make it better then you make
it better
but
if it comes out in flops
that's what what what the what the
what the fuck do they care all right
well that's just another flop
right cool
looks like we'll we'll be less willing to
trust you guys on future projects
we'll continue to be the monolith that we
are
um it it's entirely
you can you can bet your ass is a
probably a huge amount of discussion
happening
with um
omega force like going like yo can we
fucking
get some extra yeah can we get some
you know and and you can bet your ass
that there's an a-wrap going no you
can't
no you can't
prepare whatever you can for for the
end of february
and that's all you're getting
you know
um
day one patches are now they're they
used to be like these kind of like
exceptional sort of things
now they're absolutely factored into
development as well
so
um
there would be agreements between
developer and publisher about like
what
can be fixed by day one
and now the hardware manufacturer is
included in that too
so you'll actively go and tell sony
like
okay conditional
let us get through this pass
as long as we promise this really
really bad one
will be in a day one patch right
and
the only people that are ever going to
see this bug
are people who are loading up their game
on disc ps5 in the woods with no internet
okay fine we'll let you release it like
that
yeah
uh because like it's it's it's a
balancing act where like these these
hunting games that they come out right
and it's like this this early release
period isn't actually like
super vital
because they all have long tails and
they all last right
but it's like these are always like
God Eater and to Keaton were the same
way
like the first one
is there to put the foot in the door
and go
we know we're not gonna beat the monster
hunter that you can buy right now
but it's cool and it's different
and the next one we can focus on just
adding more stuff
but if that foot doesn't get in the
fucking door
this is what i'm saying
it like it like if you're talking about
like oh yeah okay that game came out
it was interesting
did some new stuff
yeah let's keep an eye on that
that's one thing
the time it's not vital that it
blows monster hunter rise
or sunbreak away
with with its fucking
you know a debut
what it is vital
is for the screenshot to not be
hey look it's woolly versus on the
stream tab
on the steam tab
check it out
we're playing the game
and then immediately under it
mostly negative
on pc
because people are like
i can't fucking get past these issues
oh yeah no that screenshot's hilarious
you know
that like it's
that's not helping
i want to i want to like
raise my hands to the sky
and be like yo steam
why do you even like good for you
for getting on the steam front page
why does steam allow streaming
the fucking console versions on the
store page
i think that's fucking weird
i think they just pre
i think they just kind of pre um
uh approved like
company can run
whatever list of streamers
during this time block
and then they control the feed
you know
um
i think that's how that goes
because
that also probably explains why
i had to do two two-hour streams
as opposed to yeah
absolutely a longer one
but the second stream i did
i ran longer because
i really wanted to fucking take out
that that that the bore
that thing had my number
and i was like i can i feel it
so we ran for like an extra
to third hour there
at which point i assumed
they would cut away because
you know
also
running my 10-minute outro
with hentai in it is probably not
great for
like
EA front page purposes
but we ran it anyway
we ran it anyway
so i don't know
ran your fucking
disgusting outro
on the steam front page
you fucking bet i did
come buy wild hearts
what is that
bible black
i don't know
can't do that
so yeah
that's how we roll
but
all this to say that um
i uh
no i'm
it is
what i see of this game is
is is actually fucking sick
and i really do
i think once
you get to that patch
or if that patch
if it gets
you know
again within the week
or by next
or whatever the case is
you guys
we're probably gonna like it
for sure
so i've got a
a screenshot
i've been trying to get from somebody
this whole time
in the
audio output method screen
um
at the bottom
in in bright orange
it just goes
audio output
is not currently functioning
correctly
like the game
seems like it's
sub final
like it's
like it's not the
like
you know what i mean
like it's not the
release candidate
got got pushed out the door
i mean
publishing
you know what it is
i do
says so right there
in the fucking corner of my video
like
you know what it is man
yeah
that being said though
omega force
so besides muso
what
what else
dynasty warriors
muso
muso
the
that's their jam right there
yeah
because
because
the neo comparison
is interesting
because i'm like
neo
neo 2
um
strangers of paradise
right
like that's a
a particular team ninja kick
oh strangers of paradise
runs like trash on pc
does it
yeah okay
because if neo 2
was better
the lessons
you would hope would carry over
fuck
it ran so badly on pc
that people
modded out all the hair in the game
ew
fuck
because that made it run better
okay all right
well no guarantees then
i guess it's yeah
it's a it's a toss up
um
what the fuck was the game that
got ported
i was just hearing about a pc port of a game
that like
is
not the original pc port
but like a different companies
like there was like a place
oh we were talking about that last week
that was um
fuck and no more hairs
right right yeah
yeah that type of shit
i just um
pc ports big being bad
is like i know you'd be like for a while
it was like oh nether realm's always
going to make a bad pc port
they're just not the wbs
not paying attention to that shit
they don't care
and you can kind of see like which
companies do and don't and stuff
japan also for a long time
in general there was a lot of games
that i if i remember just like
it was just an afterthought as well
and uh
yeah like
it i think it's a new version of that
right now
so i think version of that is
unreal engine four
in directx 12 does not
they just go okay here it is
and then they don't do the pre
pregame shading compilation
and so then you stutter
every time you run into something new
elden ring did it
and then they fixed it after launch
yakuza ishian
sorry like a dragon ishian does that
on pc there's stutters
every time you see a new effect
and in cutscenes they could freak out
when blood shows up
because blood's like an alpha effect
or something
um
to hold back to unreal engine four games
they're just going
in directx 12
yeah see i guess it just it comes down
to like
is this a lead platform
is this in test with all the others
simultaneously
or is this being
handed off to someone else
right
and if it's being handed off to someone
else because you guys don't know
anything about it and don't want to
have anything to do with it
nice roll man
who the fuck are those people
yeah you know
is it budcat
is budcat handling your port
is it uh nix's
i think it they are
nix's yeah yeah yeah
you know you just never fucking know man
the stuff that was um
usually all right
i mean at least based on my test
you know time
was when it would be like
yeah we've got all the xbox
testing going on here
playstations over here
and pc's right behind
and like
same people are fixing the same bugs
on same platforms
at the same time
the workflow is united
everything that we're cross checking
is happening
in tandem and parallel
even if the playstation is the lead
build
like
everything is getting mirrored
you know
it's just a simultaneous correction
process
that allows for a lot of that
and then obviously you know
pc permutations have to be
factored in and so on
but you don't end up with these like
ridiculous glaring
one audio issue
turns into a massive like
performance thing for the whole game
you don't run into shit like that
you know
but um
step one to that is of course
creating
a dev environment
where pc is present
and taken seriously
as a platform to begin with
yeah it depends
so like uh
ishin the pc port is
otherwise excellent
other than the stutter
but they also put out a demo
so that people could
mess with their systems
and it's where the stutter was
discovered
which is why i'm playing ishin on
on the ps5 instead
hmm okay
yeah um
not much else you know
about it but uh
the
i want to see what the other weapon
types are the only ones that uh
there's like eight right
uh i the list is
i think the list was like 10
i think you get like six
right off the bat
and then like four question marks
um let's take a look here
wild hearts weapon and armor
because there's uh there's uh
katana no dachi hammer
um fan
bow and arrow
bow
katana uh umbrella
i'm gonna call it an umbrella
it's not called an umbrella
wagasa
dachi yeah
mall which is a big hammer
kurokuri staff
so it looks like eight
okay yeah so you get
so you see five of them off the bat
and then like yeah three
it's a good start
if they're all have to
if they're all gonna be in-depth
things that like you know
in a monster hunter kind of way
you can really branch out on
and do a bunch of shit uh yeah
and um again the the
the stuff where monster hunter
would do a like
oh charge blade switch to axe form
switch to shield form
switch to uh amplified discharge
you know um
this in this case it's kind of like
hit that spring
mount that wall
do this like aerial
uh uh a karakuri based amplifier
to your move
um or in the the umbrella's case
it's like do parry stance
and then do a follow-up attack
and if you
whiff and follow-up
you get one sequence of moves
or if you land a parry
and follow-up you get another
you know so like
little little depth
beyond the shallow
I I think I've said three times
I really really really want them
to clean this game up this week
so that I can dive into it
but like
I don't want to get into the situation
that people are encountering
where you're getting to the really
good stuff in the end game
and the game turns into soup
because that's like the
biggest downer I can imagine
in fact if there is a significant
performance patch coming out
this week
I can imagine the decision was made
because like
oh don't worry most people won't get to
well most people won't get to the soup
before we patch it
uh okay weekend
right if you don't hit end game until
the patch you'll be fine
yeah
that's that's publisher excuses
bullshit yeah
yeah anyways
I gotta actually really use the bathroom
so I'm gonna do that
have fun
okay
yeah so anyways
Wild Hearts
a
a sponsored stream
some videos are gonna be coming out for that
this week over on Woolly versus
stay tuned
uh they're gonna be
I'm gonna be they're gonna be the full streams
in their entirety
so we're just gonna be basically putting up full
the two and then the three hour VOD
as the two episodes
and uh
that kind of has to come out
so
those are gonna take a little bit of precedence
but around that of course
hi-fi rush and
mass effect three are gonna continue
also got some fun clips coming over on
woolly versus the algorithm
so go go peep those
there's there's uh one currently being
rendered I believe is the uh
the the the trial of punch mom
um she's been she's been called
to the bench over her takes on 80s music
so uh
what takes could anyone have on 80s music
other than 80s music was pretty good
this is that this is
this is the trial
this is exactly the problem
yes no no no
you're you're correct
and this is why
we have to go further
um so that you haven't been married that long
you can't you can't
you can't have the divorce the topsoil
got to kick the tires see what happens
when you don't kick the tires
um yeah you should have checked
this so uh yeah that's that's a fun
clip uh coming soon over there
um of course as well
for those who have been
tuning in uh yeah please just
uh uh some some some fun clips coming
from from some old dumb shit
gone at 60 seconds persists
the less said about it the better
um just for those of you who are
watching that you just watch that and
that's all we just watch it
that's it the less said the better
not much to say
um and then uh yeah so this week uh
gonna be off uh so just a heads up in
advance uh we're gonna be back next
week to the normal schedule
so um gonna be out of town for a bit
cool um yeah that's pretty much me
all right so i mentioned i might as
well start with ishain right i mentioned
it earlier so like a dragon ishain i
should mention i'm having the hardest
time in the world calling them like a
dragon games
like that that is that is gonna take
some some psychological grunt work
how about rgg
rgg is also something i never really
called them so i might as well just
move over to lad to the lad games
i don't think anyone's gonna blame you
if you say yakuza i know but but but
anyone who doesn't know what the
franchise is that then tries to google
it will probably get confused
yeah so i had that problem dude i was
typing in yakuza ishain into fucking
twitch and going why isn't the game
popping up
oh cuz it's not fucking called that
that's yeah yeah um so like a dragon or
rgg ishain uh first of all i want to
say it has the funniest title i can
think of
i was informed that the title of the
game is actually ishin uh kawami in
japanese so it's a kawami game
and as we all know okay so as we all
know kawami means extreme
what does ishin mean it means renewal
so what with this game taking place
in 1867 during the meiji restoration
this game is called meiji restoration
extreme extreme renewal
no it's it's like having like civil war
extreme wow featuring all your favorites
from like it's it's it's ridiculous
okay um yeah so this is a playstation
5 remake of a game that never came out
here the battle van titum extreme
that came out in between uh yakuza 5
yakuza 0 um and they did not think
they would ever release it in the west
until they saw ghost of sushi and they
were like hey westerners will buy a
japanese game that takes place an old
time in japan okay i guess we can bring
that out here right they sure will
and i'm playing it and i'm looking at
it and i'm starting to understand
why they were like maybe this is too
japanese for a western audience
because the game has not translation
issues or localization issues but it has
the assumption of knowledge issues that i
was not aware of oh no so it takes place
in uh 1860 1867 and i believe 1868
during the lead up to the meiji
restoration which is a very popular
historical era in japan kenshin takes
place during it gintama takes place
during it there's lots and lots of anime
and manga shinsen gumi hanging around
yeah the shinsen gumi shit right well
they have they have cast the actors and
voice actors and face models who played
like a dragon characters as famous
members of the shinsen gumi right so
that's not a majima that's iso the guy
with tuberculosis that i remember from
samurai showdown oh right yes ukyo
yes um for example this creates a very
okita oh i can't so i can't so okay
that's okita sure perfect tashibana i
can't keep their names straight and i
can't keep their names straight for a
very specific reason and that's because
i have already played the games in which
i'm familiar with these actors because
majima comes out and i go oh that's
majima and the game goes no it's not
that's okita and i go cool and then as
soon as the camera pans away they go
oh they're talking about okita and then
they then they pan back and then i'm
like oh majima's back good
they have a character name um oh
fuck i can't even remember but your
sworn brother and it's the final villain
from yakuza zero and i'm like oh cool
it's that guy but it's not that guy
it's a historical figure that is being
named a different guy and i feel like i
have dementia so are they doing the
thing that they wanted to do with final
fantasy the spirits within where they
want the same 3d models to be dressed
up in different ways and then that's a
full actor and as a different character
so when you see majima it's like the
3d model for majima but he's in old
school clothing and you're supposed to
right and then do they play their
character like traits for bits that you
should recognize no it's the weirdest
thing they're not playing the historical
figures they're just being themselves
but now they're named the historical
figures and like it feels it feels like
the cast of like a dragon all got
together to put on a play okay and it's
so fucking weird and i can't so here's
the issue i know who the people in like
a dragon are i don't know who any of the
people that took place in the shinsengumi
meiji restoration is okay i exist in a
strange weaboo venn diagram in which i
love the yakuza games but i'm not
enough of a weaboo to know who these
characters are right the game is
violently confusing you have it like
hmm i can't keep track of it at all
um yeah no if you haven't brushed up on
your nobu naga um wrong wrong era sure
but i just but i mean to say if you
haven't brushed up on your nobu naga
and you go play a game that is dropping
all the mitzuhide references and all
these things that are played for not
shock but like you're supposed to kind
of know this yeah so i i'm sitting there
it's gonna be a fucking wild time and
nishiki shows up right
uh for your your buddy your brother yes
yeah nishiki yeah yeah yeah yeah except
he's not nishiki he's some asshole named
iso and they he says my name is iso and
it does the buh buh buh like name card
and he stands there for a second to be
like hey i'm iso and people in my chat
are going oh cool nishiki is iso and i'm
like i don't know what the fuck this is
and my brain just call it keeps calling
him nishiki and then i moved to a
different conversation and we're talking
about him and i'm like are they talking
about the guy that i was just was that
that guy or was that
well name maybe me so fucking bad go
me so fucking bad go go find like a
quick like history video that it you
can't do that
spoils the whole you're gonna spoil you're
gonna spoil the events of history
uh that's so weird but
i know what you mean i was gonna bring
i was gonna bring this there's something
yeah i was gonna bring this up afterwards
because i was i was going through
something recently that's like real
history and it's an interesting listen
and like there were i was trying to find
a certain place and i was like oh fuck
i i like saw some spoilers and was like
these are real history spoilers these
are just events that occurred
there's a there's a great podcast
i've been listening to that it was uh
covering the history of the Haitian
revolution
and it's pretty sick because it's just
like hey yo do you want to know about
like the the the one country that like
had a successful slave uprising there's
a whole fucking breakdown of the events
um and yeah and there's a lot of steps
along the way to how it got to that point
it's yeah it's called revolutions season
four
and uh it was and like it was really
it's a really interesting story
and just going through it i'm like
like uh uh i i lost my place and i'll
try to find an episode or whatever and i
saw some names and some things pop up
and i was like oh no wait fuck hold on
i don't want to know yet you know
there's a yes you don't want to know you
want to spoilers for ancient ancient
history that is like literally how we
got here and how the nation was
established like okay dude
sure yeah well i mean so
depends on how much of a problem it is i
suppose
which may only be just me i don't know
i i feel like i'm not the only one who
is violently confused by the double
naming
situation um the game's really cool it
is fascinating to play like with the
like a dragon game that takes place in
like 1860 in japan
which is the era of i am a samurai but
i'll also shoot you with this gun i
found
um sorry he just uh i was just sorry no
just have you ever seen that nor mcdonald
bit
where he's like have you uh you you
heard about you're this hitler guy
yeah i heard about this uh this is a
now i tell you the more i read about this
guy the more i don't like him
yeah you know i'm just i'm just
hey
he had some
he has some not great things to say and
i just you know and just like oh god
it's just like it just goes on and the
guy he's talking to was just like yeah
well you know he's he's dead so it's
like really i didn't even know he was
sick
it just and it just it's it's the whole
bit of just finding out history uh uh
as if it were spoilers is hilarious
all right anyways rip norm uh yeah it's
fascinating to play through this
particular historical era uh especially
since like this era is the same as the
wild west just on the other side of the
planet
um and it has all the the resident
goofiness which is like weirdo
scientists shooting cannons at you to
recreate the baseball minigame
uh all that all that stuff uh one of the
dlc things that you can get is just
play the game is curio
like just the model and the model swap
looks goddamn awful and it's hilarious
because like he'll be sitting in a boat
and he'll be fucking a posing because
his fucking regular clothes are a lot
puffier
uh yeah but it also it's clear that it
takes place between five and zero because
there are some there are some things in
that system that did not get updated
along for the ride like any side quests
showing up on the map at all
which is a fucking major bummer
that sounds awful it it fucking is
is there any continuity between the uh
uh ishin games or is it just like time
period fuckery and no it's just ishin
yeah okay just that one it exists as
itself it doesn't matter yeah okay
uh seems cool pc version has stutters
i can't i don't know who i don't know who
some famous historical figures in japan
are i'm confused
that that's what's going on with that game
seems good oh wait i was what's kenzan
completely new characters and weren't
based off of any of the existing actors
that would make it completely trivial
for me to understand
it'd be easy what is kenzan then kenzan is
an older much older i think it came out
after yakuza 3 uh and you're playing as
miyamoto misashi okay uh and that game
is never coming out ito period yeah
okay okay one it's really old two the
characters have been reimagined to be
like
very very screwed up versions of themselves
like majima is like a serial killer i
think uh harika is like a gen geisha in
training that murders people like that's
that's not coming out okay that's not
happening but it's also like just a
completely different period and a
completely different bit and like now
they're just doing another period piece
but they just picked a different period
yet okay right right right uh i also
played uh theater rhythm this week lots
of theater rhythm that'd be final fantasy
theater rhythm the uh word i can't spell
the most yep i have misspelled it every
time i have ever attempted to type it i
have get up on typing it correctly
i will just wing it uh final bar line uh
that is amplitude but final fantasy songs
and boy there are a lot of fucking final
fantasy songs in that game it's great
and sure your little your little funko pop
final fantasy characters fight a boss in
the background who gives a shit so you
can play a rhythm game and listen to
final fantasy three tracks that's it
that's the game does it have tracks from
uh seven r no dude it has tracks in if i
can remember this correctly in order
from one two three four five six seven
seven series which is crisis core last
order etc advent children seven remake
eight nine ten ten two eleven twelve
thirteen thirteen two fourteen fifteen
record keeper mobius tactics
theater rhythm series in general which
includes medleys from the older games
romancing saga mystic quest type zero
uh exvious um
uh fucking chocobo's dungeon with dlc
coming for twi more romancing saga
near xeno gears chrono cross chrono
trigger ff 16 legend amana
automata oh there's also desidia i forgot
the city is in there as well so yeah
there's a lot strange of paradise
yes your paradise crystal chronicles
record keeper tactics yeah if if you can
name it if you can name a game that is
is even tangentially related to final
fantasy got it there is a megalomania
from live alive is coming to this game
in a couple months
jesus like uh somebody in the chat says
that fall fancy sixteen is not in the
plans for dlc that is not true there are
two games in the dlc list that are
currently marked as unknown the bull will
be releasing this winter sag which is
assuredly going to be ff 16 saga in the
second saga pack four different saga
frontier
manna octopath jesus it's a dude it's
fucking ridiculous well i see collapsed
expressway i'm good yeah so the the only
downside is you'll get to a game and
you're like this game this has 10 to 32
tracks from this game in particular
and you'll be going through them you're
like well that's that that's an obvious
pick yeah that that's a good one yeah
gotta have that and then you get to the
end and you're like oh there's like
three that they're missing like there's
there's like none of the song lists are
perfect
they're they're all like oh you missed out
on that one or all this one or you
didn't really need to include 40 versions
of the chocobo theme right yeah i see
i'm i'm seeing i mean they're god they're
doing every genova because you know
that's that's what you do you do it
correctly but i would not expect anyone
to notice and or care about the theme
that plays when you're in the locker
room before the coliseum fights
because that random one forgettable
thing for in most cases is one of my
favorite fucking tracks on the goddamn
thing
um but yeah no they got they yeah okay
this is this is all of it though
otherwise it's it's a it's a crazy list
um and it's a ton of fun
and it's great and i don't really have
much else to say it's exactly what it
purports to be and it's exactly what
you expect it to be
and the only downside to it at all is
that it's it may be missing this track
or that that you were excited to see
what it has been funny though is going
through people's impressions or reviews
and i a consistent refrain is yo why
does final fantasy 14 have double the
size of the second largest like game
why does it have 32 tracks compared to
no sorry 33 tracks compared to everything
else is like 18 max it's like well
because it's actually five games right
they're including every expansion i would
own thing
i would assume that ff 13 one two and
three would have more than even seven
collection
but uh i don't know i mean how's the uh
two i mean they're split if i remember
right but i can't remember is the actual
rhythm game itself pretty fun yeah it's
amplitude okay right now and then you do
an analog stick it taps holds multiples
um it is it is uh there's
four difficulties not every song has the
fourth difficulty which is called supreme
um but the only issue there is that
there's normal or easy whatever you call
it the first one then there's expert
then there's ultimate uh the jump between
expert and ultimate is fucking gargantuan
it is it is like the difference between
guitar hero on easy and guitar hero on
expert it is it is a chasm
hmm yeah and supreme is extra stupid
and supreme is for ddr balani freaks
well i was gonna say like in the the
the world of balani exists we are now in
a world where extra stupid is actually
viable
and you're allowed to program for like
just absolute robot freaks um and assume
that a human can do it because yeah the
the shit that that they got up to and beat
mania the final level of where rhythm
games are at in in japanese arcades is
just it's like again i don't know that
anyone in the office is actually
completing these but it's like
theoretically a human can do this
therefore ship it
mm-hmm
uh cool no it's it's a it's a great
is a great little rhythm game
um and it's probably a more affordable
way to own all that music than to buy an
ost collection officially well i'm sure
there's a i'm sure there's a more
affordable way to get that music and all
things considered yeah especially
considering none of the soundtracks are
complete
like not a single soundtrack on that is
is complete though it is a little it'll
is a little troubling some of the dlc
tracks for older games are like 10
second loops
because that's what those tracks are
from the nests or the super nests
oops and that's been pretty much it for
me
um unless i remember something at a
later date uh this week if you go down a
pat stares at you'll be seeing
more page may cry we're probably gonna
try and finish don't make cry two this
week
don't make cry two uh hey woolly i
don't know how much you remember about
dmc2 i bet you forgot that game
has the most amounts of lock on of any
game i've ever played it has three lock
on states
soft hard and off
none yes because we discovered
we discovered in the oil refinery you
know you fight the you know fight the
the menatar guy sure when you escape
from that every enemy in the game you
get a soft lock on right like it
automatically soft locks and you can
maintain that soft lock on an enemy by
holding r1 but sometimes you have to
hit things in the environment and because
soft lock is permanent you have to hold
down right trigger to lock off so that
you can actually aim your sword where
you want it to hit like levers
so you have to hold lock on and then
free no no you have to hold there's
r1 is lock on yes r2 is lock off lock
on okay yes okay so that you don't get
soft locked so you need to soft lock
to so like soft lock modifying buttons
so like the bit where page is trying to
like get through a door where you have
to hit three levers and she's like
standing next to it and swinging her
sword and her sword's going behind her
because there's a bat in the sky she
can't see can't even see the lock on
symbol but daught they's trying to hit
it with his sword and we're having a
yell at her no honey lock off lock off
so you can hit the or you could stick
around and find out the hard way
it's really interesting because the
first time she sat down to play it was
oh that's not so bad and then the
second time she sat down to play it
she fought the fucking moth boss
that never fucking lands she we had to
do this lock off shit we fight the
minotaur and the oil refinery that
fucking can't close the distance to you
so you just shoot it and she got up from
that going yo this game sucks and so
it's like there was this moment of love
like her playing through the first
couple of levels i'm like did i am i
remembering it wrong is it not actually
is it not as bad as i thought and it's
like no it's not no one element is
outrageous or broken
it's all it's all the little things
it's death by a thousand cuts it's her
asking at mission 12 so what's happening
in the game and i don't know what to
tell her because i don't think anything
is happening well i mean look a demon
infested tank is just a piece of shit
garbage ass thing to do no matter what
time of day it is
well she had she had her moments with
that she had her her her waking up to
justice the holding the lock on shoot
button while eating cheerios there you
go gave it the respect it deserved
similarly face out of a skyscraper doing
its shitty fucking orb 3d thing
yeah there is that games
yeah wild there is the dead silence
there's the there's the parts where
dante just kind of stands around and
looks at everybody
but uh yeah okay and we're going to be
playing more of that hopefully beating
that out
uh i was sent to code uh by an indie
dev uh for a horror rpg that takes place
in a supermarket
ah a spooky supermarket called sorry
we're open
which i'll be checking out uh and i'll
also be checking out octo path 2 which
drops this week and a sponsor stream
for company of heroes 3 a series i
really like
and hopefully it's better than uh
donal war 3 definitely put on the
apron and get the get the outfit and
get a couple bags near you and turn the
lights out or pussy no balls
i don't have an apron in my house
hey let me ask you ever you ever
oh my fucking dad i realized i just i
just realized i just realized that like
i'm starting to just become my dad in
little tiny ways that i would never have
expected because the decision making
process is the same don't own an apron
right you would wear an apron so that
when you're cooking beef when if the
beef spits at you because the pan's too
hot
you got your apron to protect your shirt
right i was cooking beef for for uh
nachos last week and i was oh it spit at
me i'm like oh i don't want my shirt to
get stained just take my shirt off
ow ow it's burning my skin and then my
brain flashes to my dad cooking beef with
his shirt off and i go dad why are you
complaining about it burning you
put your shirt on and he's like nah it's
fine
and i'm like oh my god this is the exact
sequence of thoughts that led to that to
that memory it's it's a particularly
easy solution um aprons aren't hard to
acquire nor are they to come by but uh
that's the other way of doing it and uh
if if i know the end of that path it's
my old roommate's dad who uh was that
took that to the next level he works as
a cook at a chinese restaurant and he
was uh welding shirtlessly in the
backyard on the fence just keep the
thing the mask on but the sparks hitting
the body who cares i feel nothing the
oil and grease over the years have
created a layer of immunity and dead
fucking nerves well they do you ever
you're you're living as an adult man now
yes
mm-hmm do you ever have this feeling
where you think back to like your mom
or your your you know any relative that
was older than you that you saw as a
child
and you're like why does everyone seem
way tougher in my memories than i am
right now
like are we all just pussies
i mean i'm within two feet of a little
Kirby plushy and i'm i'm i'm talking
into a microphone about what video games
i played
the fuck are you talking about all right
yeah okay yeah good what what me i i
slept do you see any dirt on these
hands do you like what the fuck are you
asking like earlier this week
i slept funny and my back and my butt
hurt a little bit and i was walking
around going
oh my back and i'm like
i'm like embarrassed because i'm like
wait a second
my dad came home when his heart exploded
with sciatica and he just
grumbled
i should i should i should start
grumbling
and then i just tried to start grumbling
instead i tried to pick something up and
i went
ah i'm like ah fuck come on
come on
yeah man no the the brief moments i get
when i was like
you know making a stick or uh putting
together a pc
or doing some shit where you're just like
you're in there working it for real
reels
you need those little like yeah i can do
this i'm a man i can
i can i got the i'm handy i can i can
solve the problems it's like no you
can't you can solve them when they're
preferably related to nerd shit
but if it has nothing to do with that
you're not you have no fucking clue
what's going on
you know
but um
and
last but not least for my week
i need to put my wife on blast here
she's discovered a new move sleeping
so woolly
long ago we discussed the wife move
of the roll over with the arms out
so arms sleeping on the side
roll over just right right in the face
just right
there's a new move
the new move was me lying on my back
with my arm up
and all of a sudden i get two fingers
just poking poking
i don't know about you
but that's the symbol of like hey man
wake up
something something there's a there's a
there's a man outside or there's a
there's an animal or a bear
right
huh what is it what
oh nothing
this was this was followed
this was followed by
three other occasions of the roll over
and then the just the
just right right in the face
i don't understand what's happening
the wife is rolling over
and her arms are just slapping me
right in the mouth
okay
just slapping me right in the face
and i go what what is something wrong
and then i look over and just
i'm just asleep
but these are new you haven't gotten
used to these by now these are new
discoveries
they're not consistent
they're not consistent
it's only on a toss and turner
and then my favorite part my favorite
part
was i got my oh my god i'm exhausted
oh
oh no why
oh you kept slapping me in the face at
night honey
and she and she looks at me and goes well
why didn't she just get out of bed
and go sleep somewhere else
you're right
you're right that what that isn't
that's my mistake wasn't that your solution
already
i i'm okay because like yeah i thought
that was
i thought that was expressly like the deal
was it it needs to be perfect in the middle
of the night and unplug the fucking
sleep robot
and fucking and trudge to like a
fucking couch or a guest bedroom
i just don't want to get elbowed
i should just kick her on the floor next time
check in next week
when we'll see the aftermath of me
kicking my wife on to the floor in the
middle of the night
should have parried it
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let's jump to the news
everything is good this week
right
well so we already talked
about the million dollar
a million dollars
2.2 million dollar
price pool actually
1 million for the winner
of the capcom
capcom pro tour 2023
capcom cup 10
uh yeah
million dollars to the first place
winner
big big competitive numbers
they also had some other announcements
for one thing
now it makes sense
why there was no character announced
right
for six
because that
announcement deserves its own
yeah
oomph right
you don't want to be like
yo here's a
fucking
uh girl fong
and and also a million dollars
to top yeah
the one would bury the other
and probably the million dollars
to bury whatever their character
announcement is
maybe
unless it was cammy
in which case
you know
yeah
and i would bury it
working who care
what million to who gives a
shit
let me see that cammy footage
so there you go
so they write
they they smartly
kind of
set every
set in advance
no announcement
and this is why
but they also announced some other
stuff
including some
spinoff products
there's like the
street fighter mobile game there
dual that we've been hearing
about which is like
yeah it seems to just be
some gacha
whatever
but they showed off
street fighter vr
which is gonna be
an arcade
game
that is basically
watching street fighter
five models
attacking you
in first person
and sounds like shit
it doesn't
seem like the exact
the whole problem
with the idea of
street fighter
in in any other angle
is that their moves
and attacks
are designed to look
amazing
from profile view
and insanely confusing
when someone standing in front
of you doing it
well they're
hot they're hyper thin
if they're right at you
they're gonna
you're gonna block this
tatsu
and you're still gonna
vomit
because it looked
really confusing
and disorienting
watching a foot fly
by your face
that quickly
and then occasionally
there's these little punch
points that you're gonna
like crack open
you know
but you see Zangief
doing the larry it at you
from
first person view
and it's just taking
street fighter five assets
and you know
rotating the camera
really is all that's happening
here
they did this a bit
before with like an
AR game too
and it
it was similarly just like
it doesn't
it's not made for this
the animation's not made
for this it's not
it's not great
like you'd have to
design this from the ground up
and not just reuse assets
if you wanted it to be good
you have to design it
from the ground up
with characters
that haven't been designed
to be viewed
from a certain
angle for their entire
life cycle ever
and what that means is
converting all of these
street fighter characters
to punch out characters
which are made to be seen
from the front head on
so that you can dodge left
dodge right
back up
block and counter
you know
but that would require
more than just
here's the assets of five
go make something quick
so
yeah
you know
whatever
it's it's gonna be a
Japanese arcade game
and then
it might get ported to
like a headset
but you know
if you want to
fucking feel sick
maybe consider
giving it a shot
I think they're also
like announcing
psvr2 stuff
so
seems like it might
go hand-in-hand with that
eventually
alongside that
as well
there was
some psvr2
stuff for
tetris effect connected
which
don't gotta get too in-depth
with that
it's they just basically
added a bunch of really
competitive
cool modes for like
people that do
worlds grandmaster
challenge stuff
oh cool
and they added
like tatte mode for
switch
so you can play it
vertically
but
the the biggest
and coolest
announcement
tetris related
was the fucking
trailer
for the goddamn
movie
which we
heard about last year
as there was going to be
a tetris movie
but it was not going to be
a movie about
the game tetris
as much as it was
the crazy story of its creation
and it being smuggled
over to nintendo
out of russia
during
the soviet era
and
everything to do with that
so
the trailer came out
and there's like
an apple tv
i think it's an
apple tv movie
or exclusive
or whatever
but yeah
like car chases
and explosions
and spy infiltration
and yadda yadda
to which
my understanding is
there's been
some videos that have
broken down the history
of tetris before
bless you
excuse me
there's some weird shit
and some crazy shit
i don't know that
the dramatization
of the exploding
car chases
is going to be
particularly accurate
probably not
but
one detail
that was not there
is one of the co-creators
of tetris
that helped
the main guy
make the game
i believe
like
also then
went on to like
murder his entire
family and himself
cool
and that seems to be
not part of
that's omitted
what we've seen
there
might be a little bit
dark for
a
a romp
about tetris
that's played for gags
um
so yeah
that seems to be omitted
seems to be like
the angle is like
you won't like
tetris is
fucking real
you won't even believe
how fucking real
this shit got
but then
not too real
because
that's just
that's just dark
but uh
either way
sure
tetris the movie
it's happening
the only part
of that whole
trailer
that i was like
huh cool
is the idea
of they have
fucking yamauchi
at the end
of the trailer
is it yamauchi
yeah yamauchi
yeah they have
yamauchi there
being old
and evil
yep
got the shades on
with the color
just not bad
like yeah
that's about right
that's the second time
i've seen yamauchi
in a couple years
in a video
and that's way more
than i would thought
he just got off the phone
telling
balmer to lick his balls
uh
the old nintendo
had was a fucking
a caricature of a man
yeah
he's a fucking gangster
that happened to run
a playing card company
that then made video games
it easily
it easily could have been
a warlord
in feudal times
yeah
it's really weird
how nintendo and sega
just came from
like
direct crime adjacent
like
fucking businesses of like
playing cards
equals gambling
equals crime
hana fuda
arcades
equal gambling
equals crime
like it's
it's right there
but right next to it
equals
arcade games
equal video games
equals children
equals
crime
childhood entertainment
so you know
innocent
fun happy go lucky
built on
fucking
cut off fingers
and
people yelling
yeah
big crime
those like a dragon
games are documentaries
they're just not about
the people you think they are
well i mean
the the guy
the the real yak
is that watched
yak is uh
did pretty much say
hey this is how it used
to be back in the day but
yeah that article is fake
actually
oh no
that article has been found out
to be completely
manufactured
oh
the part where they're like
i could see someone
having an orphanage
as a front for
for money laundering
why not
100%
god
pulled out of the
dammit
yeah it's a bummer
because it was great
that thing
fucking traveled
that got legs
well now someone
actually needs to do this
someone actually needs to go
find some real fucking
yaks with the
with the finger cut
well that
the problem is
is like you know
who'd be the best person
in the world
to do it
whoever's running
the like a dragon
franchise
negotiate
no he's gone remember
right right
he went to Tencent
but
they can't do that
because then they'll
out the fact
that they're
that's like
their cousins
and their brothers
yeah
and that
that half the characters
in these games
are based off of
real gangsters
it would have to be done
either in the documentary style
of like
we're anonymizing
the people who are
still in the life
or we're talking to you
from behind bars
yeah
where what the fuck
else are you
going to be doing back there
eating delicious bread
anyways
so
some
hey can we get a yakuza
a member
to get into
react content
can this
cause there's an
I know there's a bank robber
who does react content
on like
bank robbery
scenes
and oh yeah
sure sure sure
and and um
I want to say
Sammy the bull
Gravano
also has been doing
like podcasts
and talking about
that life
and everything
a bunch of
honestly
a bunch of
just like
full on
Long Island
slash New York
mobster era
like
get like
mafiosos
that came out of jail
recently
have been just jumping
on the podcast world
and doing their whole
like
you know
route rounds
talking to people
and doing
shit so
an actual
yakuza
reacting to content
is
gangbusters
fucking success
brilliant
within 60 seconds
of saying this
I have been linked
to x mob boss
reacts to yakuza 0
perfect
michael franzese
or franzese
former capo regime
in the colombo family
is back on a
special episode
of experts react to
yakuza 0
but it needs to be
specifically yakuza though
because that's
that's a culture of
of of
gangster that's
unlike any other
an italian guy to
to be react
a new york italian guy
to react to
grand mafia
or
or whatever
I want like a guy from
Osaka
to be reacting to
exactly
exactly
no that that LP
needs to be done
covered in a room of
of smoke
yeah
somebody somebody
just put in the chat
what a real thugs
think of the wire
that's stupid
they're all
they're on the set
they're in the show
a number of the people
in the show
we're literally
just straight off
the fucking projects
like hey
do you want a job
here
do this
the the scariest person
in the wire
the little girl
snoop
that is
the scariest lady
I've ever seen in my life
that's real
right
back to crime
as soon as
she finished filming
that was
that was a
that was a gig
and then
yeah she's in jail
right now
she continued
being snoop
when the cameras turned off
yes
a hundred percent
it's fucking crazy
um
ah man
you know
this just
this just flashed
like a
a perfect moment
in my asian stream
earlier earlier in the week
where
somebody who is
tangentially familiar
played a couple yuku's games
or watched my streams
comes into the stream
and goes
ha ha
is one of the characters
on screen
a secret Korean
to which
I responded
actually
yes
when you said that
one of the characters
on screen
is a secret Korean
like you just
you have to wonder
if it's just is
was there
because I want to hear
if someone who actually
again
ran for the yakuza
back in the day
could tell you
oh no
secret Koreans
were a real problem
we were always concerned
about whether one of us
was a secret Korean
and who it might be
you know
last time we talked about this
but like part of
the Italian mafia
is a
labyrinthine
exhaustive process
to determine that you are
in fact Italian
well
and so that's why
so much fucking
noise is made
about the Irishmen
that that
that was treated
as one of the fam
you know
because it's like
oh you're an outsider
you usually
shouldn't get this
level of treatment
but
you're kind of crazy
and you know
apparently you
quote unquote
paint houses for relevance
so
we'll use you
but that's exactly it
yeah
it's uh
I want to hear
someone say
yeah actually
I remember the time
we found out
there was a secret Korean
you know
when
it's just
every once in a while
you gotta keep your
keep your eyes peeled
you know
what happens to my
Google search history
if I type in the phrase
secret Korean
um
hopefully
oh it's a pop group
okay
is it either that
or like a gif
of a number of bow and arrows
sticking out of the bushes
like a number of crossbows
rather
just from the rooftops
god
anyway
um
all right
all right
other shits going on
for example
one of the ways
there are many ways
in which
dead Titanfall games
can no longer hurt us
yeah
there are many ways
one of the ways
is when
a number of apex
and
Titanfall veterans
decide
fuck this
and they leave
respawn
and they form a new studio
called wild light entertainment
so
I don't hear about this
specifically
um
the
uh
game director
and uh
studio head
as well as
a number of vets
that were on
both apex legends
and titanfall
are joining
are up to make a team
that's a remote first studio
called wild light
and they've already
got a project
that they've been working on
for a while
unnamed single player adventure
so
let's see what happens
it's
it's fascinating because
for my personal experience
I can think of Bethesda
and I can think of capcom
in situations
of which
people are working at these companies
and they go
so when are we going to get to do that
project
that you've been telling us
we're going to get to do
later
and there's only so many years
you can do that
to people who are really really
just working there
so they can get to the cool project
they want to make
before they leave
and they go we're going to make
our own fucking shit
so the thing is
considering the name of the company
was respawn
right
this company
should have been called dropship
it should have been
just
you know
absolutely
just get on the dropship
and fucking
boost the fuck out
whatever they make
doesn't necessarily
have to involve
super cool awesome
robots dropping out of the sky
that you can pilot
that's fine
what I would expect
of their DNA
is that these are people
that probably care a lot about
first-person games
that let you run on the walls
real fast
and do cool shit
it is
it is interesting that we
that this is
like
usually you don't hear
what happened
to make
people leave
en masse
and it's like
no these people
pretty clearly
were working on
a cool project
that they were excited for
that got sick and
and probably told that
they're never going to get to work
on a cool thing
like that ever again
and they would rather leave
yeah
do maintenance updates
on apex
no it
quite literally says
that they were working on
the canned titanfall apex project
that just was
that was just announced
or rather that
we found out about right
so
yes
the people that were working on
that project
that sounded like
it would have been a cool
that's never coming out
are leaving
and making their own studio
so yeah
yeah
wall running
priority number one
and
we'll see what else comes
you know
I would like a robot
yeah I would too
but it's fine if they don't
it's an
you know
they're allowed to do
whatever they want
new new group can
take it in any direction
but
they've done some cool
shit involving robots in the past
hopefully they do it in the future
I'm not going to tie them to it
that's it
can't hurt us huh
nope
nope
but you know who
is actually good news so
yeah
I'll tell you
speaking of good news with robots
I don't know if you remember
that sick ass
mecha game called
metal warriors
for the super nintendo
that we do
we played some time ago
right
so that thing is awesome
I was about to type it in
and then you said
super nintendo
and it locked into place
split screen
really cool
like a set of different mechs
you can use
versus mode
single player mode
that's really awesome
like anime cutscenes
for the snes
fire
so that game was actually
part of a series
called cybernator
cybernator was the
longer
the bigger
single player game
that came out before that
the snes port
was kind of simplified
and dumbed down
but
still pretty alright
there was a much
sicker version
called assault suit
valken
so that version
is now being released
on the switch
as assault suits
valken declassified
and again
if you know metal warriors
and or cybernator
like this game is
fucking sick
just a really cool
platforming mecha game
that also has a pretty
intense like
a story and
and shit
that got censored
when released in america
that has been since
uncensored for this game
because war stuff happens
so
yeah
this is a notable
re
release
plus extra
almost
I don't you know
whatever you'd call it
not a remake certainly
but uh
whatever a
re
re thing
reloaded
but yeah
want to
definitely want to point that out as
anyone who might
enjoy the robots
as we were just discussing
um
I like robot
it's good
it's good
it has a real cool thing to it as well
where
like you can walk around
side scrolly
and aim it up and down
and shoot
but then you can like
hit like a
dash button
and then like you just kind of skate
you know
and you just become like a little
like roving
like a little skate robot
and then you can
switch between the two and like
jump while skating
and then boost in the air
hold your position
aim down
it's fucking cool
man there are
I can't think of more than
fucking two games
that incorporate skating
the way you just described
one of them is tribes obviously
and one of them is the one you just mentioned
and I'm like that is a
fucking cool
style of movement
that nobody does
yeah
you get a little bit of it
with virtual on
but they're really just boosting
everywhere
but it kind of feels like it
but no
I've always wanted a
video game equivalent of
Raide the Blade from Trigun
which is the samurai
enemy that he fights
that has skates
and a sword
and between those two
keeps up with the guns
you know
yeah
anyway
other stuff going on
big old fun at blizzard
oh boy
oh yeah
yeah
blizzard's going good
finally good
good news for blizzard
they need it
they've been having a rough time
well it turns out
because last time we talked about it
the stack ranking that was
being discussed was
this the thing where basically
you were forced to tell employees
that we're doing fine
that they were actually not doing fine
this was the system that
that metrics needed you
to have some people in development
even though they were doing quite okay
and people left the studio
over that
because they didn't want a
shit on their team
well
blizzard has spoken out about that
they've come back
particularly the president
Mikey Barra
did an open Q&A at the company
to address a lot of the stuff
that's been going on
and apparently the Q&A
went so poorly
that immediately after it
everyone that was there
privy to the meeting
which was a private company meeting
just started yelling online
about how fucking stupid it went
and uh
all the pre-screened questions
that were answered on all the topics
including stack ranking
and remote work network
remote work practices
getting rolled back
and people getting profit sharing
bonuses reduced
all of the shit that was uh
you know
hot button
was just given either
the most hand-wavy non-answers
or doubling down
and people are just kind of
leaking that
it was a complete shit show
yeah
it's been
it's been
my understanding
go like digging through all this crap
over the past year
Blizzard had a fucked up culture
that was determined by
all the guys who started the company
most of them being like total assholes
and that filtering down
and a bunch of people
who still work there are like
fucking normal
and every time something bad happens
that is directly the fault
of all the people running the company
they somehow just
piss downwards
all over the remaining employees
that are trying to do
their job normally
and people are quitting and quitting
and when people quit
more piss
comes down to fix
the problems caused by the earlier piss
yeah
well it seems like
anytime
like this type of shit is in place
it's probably been that way for a long time
but
if there's potential mergers on the horizon
there's gonna be extra piss to
to reach to get
there's extra piss chambers
in reserves for the excited merger
merger release you know
the merger stuff is getting super funny
because
the FCC is like really putting a hold on it
and examining them
and the UK or
or European trade commission
just literally said
nah the companies are too big
you have to
you can merge
but you have to divest yourself
of call of duty
or Activision
or Blizzard
in order to go through with the merger
and so as a result
I don't know if you saw this
but like
fucking Microsoft came out
and was like
yeah Game Pass actually sucks
and we lose tons of money on it
um
and it's
and it's a big mistake
and it's actually very unsuccessful
um
and they're all kind of trying to like
peacock themselves
and roll around in a pile of shit
in order to like
make the merger look like better
like it's not a bunch of successful super companies
we're all actually falling the fuck apart over here
so it wouldn't be that big of a deal if we merged
so let's just let's just rub some dirt on our faces
and walk around barefoot for a bit
so like this may actually be part of that
to intentionally
anything negative that comes from these companies
in the next couple months
is is is on purpose
like intentionally piss all the employees off
yes no
so the merger looks better
now I know what you're thinking
did I just shit myself
why yes
but little did you know
that's actually a plan
to increase my profits by the end of the quarter
find out how
wild
also from what I can tell
the turnover at blizzard right now is really bad
oh yeah I mean well
so that the first guy walked
and then like
a number of people are kind of following suit
and that they're just like
if the if the if the meeting here
leads to
the official company statements
that are backing up the things he says
the people are like yeah okay well
fuck this I don't want to be here
this is not
what I signed up for
and blizzard is one of those companies
that's always been
very campus culture
sort of like
part of the tribe
you know as as as we say there
like
it's it's a thing
it's a thing man
that's that's the silicone valley way of doing it
they're one of them companies
and so if you feel as if you're
you know
not welcome
and they're not a family anymore
and all of that
like
pseudo cultish behavior
is not quite kicking in
then yeah
it's an easy thing to be like
well I'm gonna take my 10-year resume
and go to another company
and fuck that
oh my god
there's no time
it's breaking news
shut up
your guide to the
Diablo 4 open beta
guys
so we're gonna have a
Diablo 4 open beta
this news broke coincidentally on friday
wow
breaking
right in the middle of
some of these quotes
it is
it is
it is like
they're they are the kings
right like there's no other company ever
that just times
every single
like they hold off on announcements
for when bad things will happen
like they're sitting on them
and they know something bad's gonna come out
and so they just
they just hit a button it's like
breaking news
overwatch 2
yes what about it
yeah
yeah
remember
remember overwatch 2
look at you
look over here
so some of the quotes
that have been coming in are
yeah when people were asking about the
people were talking about the
58% profit sharing
is the fact that only 58
blah
employees were told that
oh they'd only receive 58%
of their profit sharing bonus
and things like that
and the the money fuckery
to which Mikey Barrow said
if you think the executives are
making a lot of money
and you aren't
you're living in a myth
fucking Bobby Connick still works there
like all right
so
just drop a leaderboard then
drop a leaderboard
keep it simple
right
show the lowest
and show the highest
and then
what are there
what's the
what's the rate
is it a 10 to 1
is it a 300 to 1
because sometimes you know
they go CEOs can be in the
300 to 1
range of the lowest to highest paid
employees
what's your ratio
where the receipts
oh man
so i didn't see that
i didn't see that response
you had no wonder people came out of
that fucking meeting
just going crazy
if you think the executives are
making a lot of money
and you aren't you're living in a myth
in regards to
uh
yeah then there's stuff about
returning to office plans
and stuff like that
yeah that was a big one
everybody's got to return to the
office
why we've been working
out of office for like
three years
nah well you got to
at the end of the day
we want uh
we want people to be happy
and if decisions about being happy
don't align with where we're going
and you won't be happy
then you have to do what will make you happy
in other words
get fucked
say really
wordy way of saying
nah get fucked though
so it obviously depends on the company
it depends on the industry
but i feel like with the pandemic
and i guess we're in post pandemic now
i'm not sure i'm not a doctor
i'm not even gonna make that distinction
but uh work from home
was always been
work work work from home was told
to most as impossible
right
i have a friend of mine he worked in
in uh
call stuff like telecom stuff
and every time somebody would be told
you gotta
hey man i'm horribly ill
i'm disabled you gotta
i can can i work from home
nah it's impossible you gotta be in the office
yep um
and then it was like very obviously
completely possible
yep like
doing telecom calls on your fucking
cell phone
like no but no but i don't
no but i don't like it though
but it just makes me
it makes me nervous that i don't
i don't like it i can't
i can't see you and stare down in the
back of your neck
yeah uh i can't i can't control you as
adequately even though you're actually
working better
and then and then we ran into the issue
of like it seems very obvious
that these companies have these like
shit zillion dollar leases
on some of the best real estate
in downtown zones
in major cities
and those leases are going to waste
if there's nobody in the office
and there's a bunch of tax
fuckery with that
also a lot of
hardcore type a businessman
hate their family
sure and and and want an office to go
to
sure um but all of that
and now we're in the return to return
to office
and um there's hard line and then
there's soft and the hard lines
well hey everybody's gotta come back
so a lot of people like to discover
that
they suddenly have staffing shortages
because people would rather fucking
quit
then go back to the office
so here's the thing too
a lot of uh so i know people as well
that are in situations where
um their home set up is not ideal
like they're in a situation where
like they have like children on top of
them as they're working
and they're also or they're in like a
one-room apartment and it fucking sucks
and they they are like no i actually
want to get out of this situation
i don't want to be there right
and the uh solution in many cases
for where my friends are working is
cool
the office is open if you want to come
to the office
it's not if you it you can stay at home
too
and you give people the option to do
whatever works best for their situation
that's great
it is not affecting product productivity
you're totally fine
to take whatever comforts you prefer
in this case it's not about giving the
option it's about again forcing a
certain way of doing it even though
it's been proven to be completely
worthless
listen guys i listen
i person who is totally not pretending
to be mike yabara or any senior staff
left at blizzard
when there's no one in the office
there's no one i can inappropriately
pull my penis out and do a dance
and piss on them
and have the power over their employment
to make them not tell anyone when
there's no one actually in this office
so
oh
come on back to your chairs
slots
yeah i suppose you can make that leap pat
i suppose you could
i suppose there's some way to to string
that twine to that other
cork on the cork board
is that possibly
exaggerated conceivably
however
i'm gonna go ahead and say however i'm
gonna go ahead and say uh there possibly
was like a person who thought ah i want
to get back in the office with x so that
i can get close at some point
and and probably was like oh i missed the
company parties where
this is the way that it works i go up here
and then you just soften the edges off that
that's realistic that's what actually
probably exists yes that's probably the
real the real version for sure
that said uh much like every other place
that i've heard about this i feel like
blizzard is going to lose more staff
than they are expecting
yeah um and allow that to uh you know hey
it's all deliberate whatever goes wrong
the hey merger what's the problem
look how shit we are all the companies
in shambles dude oh it doesn't even
matter if we merge come on look how
terrible we're doing come on yeah
um anyway so uh uh that continues
and uh people are very upset they're
not they're not okay they're not okay
with it um speaking of quitting i want
to see i storm the indy company please
yeah i mean it'd be too big in scope but
sub teams probably with a more hard edge
focus sure would make sense uh speaking
of quitting um i was just kind of i
caught wind of this and i have no idea
i had no idea what the deal was but um
there's a recent uh hold up hold up i'm
being told that two different companies
already exist using that naming convention
wonderful yeti and frost giant
there you go um yeah so there's this
manga called uh cipher academy and it's a
new shonen jump series and uh basically
the news was that the translator uh
fucking quit yeah i saw this and then i
was like how bad could it how bad could
it be i went and looked at some of the
panels i'd fucking quit too
holy shit like i was like what's the
why is this a story what happened what
is the cipher academy and you go and you
look at what the translation is and it's
actual nonsense because we laugh at the
dumb like kojima puns and the english
word play that a lot of japanese games
and visual novel style stories love to
just lean into and how a bunch of that
doesn't work when you go into english
but you're gonna try because i the
somnium files needs to be about ai but
also the i but also i the name but also
i the love and and you're just like oh
my like can we is it just really is this
everything is this all of the depth is
that everyone that has a name made out
of hiragana or katakana or kanji can be
read in multiple ways and then those
multiple things readings mean different
personality trait like is that it and
it's like yeah
that's a thing and some people are so
obsessed with that that it goes to the
level of cipher academy where this
appears to be the whole deal of the most
recent chapters in particular
the last three have had disclaimers on
them where the translator was like yeah
this shit's fucking crazy and i tried
but fuck and then you click it's wild
you see a translator note that basically
reads i gave up here's what's happening
and you see the wordplay battle that's
taking place and basically you have to
give answers that are only half
syllables from the kana syllable
syllabary and then draw from cards that
are like half syllables of kana and then
create a list of answers to trivia and
then the positioning of said trivia
needs to be stacked in a
most verbose to least like most letters
to least letters like reverse pyramid
at which and that's like the first step
of whatever the word cipher battle is
happening here
and so like the there's on the left side
you're looking at mad libs style
fill in the blanks for your questions
and then you have to create answers and
then match them over into the
fucking madness absolute complete utter
insanity that is never to contextualize
just how confusing it is all i can come
up with
is it is attempting to translate into
a non uh latin or german based language
what the phrase buffalo buffalo buffalo
buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
means despite all of those words
retaining different like meanings yes
keeping the meanings the same keeping it
but keeping the repetition the same in
jab it like it's impossible it doesn't
work yeah it just doesn't go
uh uh yeah it's and it's and it's but it's
also again just predicated on the fact
that the depth of these buffalo buffalo
buffalo buffalo buffalo or
tantan tantan tantan you know like it's
going into that creating a whole fucking
series out of it and just puns and jerking
off to the puns and and and switch ups
and you're looking at it and it's like
it's completely this is not something
that english speakers can read like you
can't actually get it
because the results don't transfer over
the questions double meanings don't fit
the the puzzle questions don't make any
sense to you and then the answers have
no connection with the questions to
begin with
um and it's just two characters staring
at these cards freaking out over the
choices and the results and like at
certain pages you scroll down and you
just see like um so half the page
vertically is the art of the character
and the other half is just the text
flying syllables that are transliterated
like a newspaper almost i don't know what it means
um so yeah no uh no fucking uh no shame
in quitting on this fucking garbage
um and i'm really impressive apparently
apparently it's incredibly smart and cool
but i don't know and i never will and like
the gibberish of like someone like the
after the big insane breakout moments
where characters are sweating freaking out
and difficulty level is at six and you're
seeing english text of like why don't
wxrs go xwxy how long wxll pxoplx xxpxlxngxxchothxr
you and me both man it's fooling crazy why
not and it's your brain is supposed to
do the thing where you can see the
beginning and the end of the letters and
go why don't why how long will people
keep killing each other
anyways um good luck godspeed god bless
no one will no one will blame you no one
will will look at this and and think
uh you fucking ran away uh kumar
hats off i have an example i have an
example i just saw somebody in chat
um mention it and i went and checked on
the steam forums to see if people were
talking about it and they are people
asking if baba is you could ever be
translated into japanese and the answer
is no
it doesn't work absolutely it'll pause
no hold on pause uh i'm gonna disagree
because how does are we would have to
first talk to a japanese programmer and
ask if there's any coding that takes
place in native japanese and how that
functions right if coders are obviously
just using english functions i don't i
don't mean that i mean are there any
net languages of code that are native
if so it would be possible but you we
need to know how that is structured
because the idea of baba's you is a
puzzle game but it's actually teaching
you how programming works
you know i'm being told by multiple
people that later levels are highly
specific to english syntax is there okay
okay because my my my my thought
immediately in from what i've seen is
that this is a parallel programming
game so like if you want to learn um if
you want to translate this you would
have to do so in a way that other
languages uh teach programming you know
i'm also being told over and over and
over that english is the language of
code
yeah if you're doing fuck if you're
doing anything standard they you know
c plus plus on beyond whatever fuck all
of that stuff
i yeah i'm that's why i'm specifically
going like are there people that have
developed languages that are specifically
not you know um but uh anyway
hey if you want to talk about japanese
wordplay being fucking translated into
english and missing the point
you want to talk about joe dio
uh so part nine has started
it's called jojo lands and the
protagonist's name is joe dio joestar
that's that's about all i know so here's
the thing the translation on the page
says this is joe dio joestar
but it's actually kono joe dio da oh
yeah there you go yeah for sure so it
is yeah it is referencing good old
good old dio's entrance of course well
make make no mistake like when giorno
giovanna showed up the text uh uh in the
um thing said uh gio gio's bizarre
adventure so like it's absolutely
intentional with that um yeah uh we'll
see i don't i don't gen z joestar
um i know there's a big long opening
chapter and i know there's some stuff
going on but a lot of it seems
predicated on you know this is in fact a
sequel to part eight so um just uh i'm
i'm i'm i'm dodging it for now okay
all right uh let's take some letters hey if
you want to send in a letter go in and
send it to castle super beast mail at
gmail dot com that's castle super beast
mail gmail dot com
oh did oh do you know what his goddamn
stand name is the hustle it's the hustle
god it's so good that is so good
i fucking that is the best stand name
ever so like done the hustle is the best
goddamn stand name yes is that not it
then who's not it's november rain shut up
it's november rain so it belongs to
someone else then whoever's a different
whoever has that stand has the best
stand name in all of judjo history i
don't care that's done
that is the goddamn sickest the hustle
oh that's strong all right all right what
do we got for letters
all right here's one coming in from
danko says hello sold on sale pat and
full priced woolly um first time writing
to the podcast but i had a weird
discussion with someone about the idea
that games should be priced on quality
the whole point they were making was
games should start at a base price of
twenty five dollars and the price would
go higher or lower depending on the
amount of positive or negative reviews
the game gets only people who actually
paid for the game can review it
um in my case though that would be a
terrible idea because a long number of
reasons like people bombing a game to
lower the price on purpose or people
cheerleading studios uh specifically as
their fans and um i thought it would be
an interesting topic for you guys to
talk about keep up the good work from
danko um in a fair world in which robots
don't exist and people are objective
this would be a really cool idea but this
is an insanely stupid idea in the real
world we live in because it directly
implies that the best video games become
immensely unaffordable also what no no
no that's not what would happen in this
system what incentive is there for any
human to rate any game other than
straight zero garbage all video games
become free providing that though this
providing that there is not a baked in
well if the game flops were not making
another one right so perish i get free
video game now then there's that but the
idea that there is a game that it would
ever be treated and reviewed highly and
respected it means oh like this the later
you get to it the more fucking expensive
it is and that's just a stupid system to
have there's no benefit to that the idea
of like oh your bad game should cost
less and yadda yadda is like you that's
layer one of the economic thought uh
the the reality of that kind of situation
this is a really dumb idea a version of
this idea does exist currently there is
a version and that version is buying in
early access game the day it hits early
access when it is way way worse than the
version that will eventually come out
you will assuredly get it for much much
cheaper there's that as far as it can be
pushed there's the other version of that
in reality is after a certain amount of
time games go on discount unless they're
nintendo games and if the game is
particularly bad you might catch it in
the bargain bin sooner than others
because they're trying to get rid of their
stock for example this weekend i was
considering buying uh midnight suns the
marvel xcom game because it was 40
percent off despite coming out last
month and i was like should i get it and
then i was informed i'll just wait till
the dlc is out and then it'll go 50
percent off and i was like you're right
i could do that
however that is not a nintendo game
yeah um never go on sale ever and then
there's just the absolute batshit pay
structure that would become like
um working on a game like in any capacity
as a team like you don't know whether
you can keep the lights on or not
because you just it's it's at the whims
and you know there could be a system of
like you know well here's your salary
versus the profits it makes or doesn't
make but there's just every like once you
think about it beyond that first step of
good gay like bad games should cost less
and like that that's the first and then
everything after that completely falls
apart uh so no dumb idea terrible it's a
fun thought experiment
yeah i suppose but it just it just it's
divorced from the reality of the world
we live in and how people
like make money and survive and fucking
get paid
yeah there's a there's an old there's an
old like world war two era uh uh military
saying that may that reminds me of the
situation which is no plan ever succeed
it survives contact with the enemy
but in this case enemy is reality right
the instant this idea even brushes up
against how anything actually works it
would fall apart into a million pieces
yeah and i would i would go i would say
that in fact i'm sure there's a ton of
schools of uh of economic thought that
you know are fantastic on paper
and when placed in the real world
uh fall apart like a stack of cards
uh you know and and it's it's fun to
think about and hypothesize about but
like you know until you're seeing it in
a real situation where people have real
incentives or disincentives um keep it
on paper
uh all right here is
one from steve who says um hey pat and
woolly uh the recent dead space and
Metroid Prime releases have me baffling
my battling my brain worms and i hope
you can help what qualifies a title as
a remake versus a remaster versus a
re-release versus a reboot it's starting
to become a serious concern like Shadow
the Colossus, FF1, RE4 all these games
have multiple versions and varying
degrees of fidelity and content with as
in popular classics um they're probably
doomed to receive further releases even
in the years to come should the industry
standardize these terms and label them
accordingly or do we need to forever
remember the year uh of the game's release
as a part of the title like Doom 2016
okay just saw somebody in the chat just
yell out soft seaboo and i'm like yeah
perfect what a perfect so yes it's
marketing and yes like there are people
who lie and or misuse these things but
to me when they're not being misused
there are clear definitions for what
i would say that's right yeah
uh i'll take it away fuck it so your
re-release is hey it is relatively
unchanged it's a port it has been ported
so a re-release would be for example
every version of Resident Evil 4 to date
right yeah the end goal was to recreate
the experience played elsewhere if
anything changed it was unintentional
because fidelity is the number one
priority
right your remaster is uh it's also a
port however they have gone in and they
have actually fussed with the guts
they want it to run faster they're gonna
clean up some textures they're gonna
widescreen it they're gonna you know do
all the things to clean it up and and
have it pretend to be a video game
released in the year that you are
actually going to purchase it
a remake is more than that i would say
remake is the point in which large scale
assets are being completely replaced
yeah the overall game is still doing
the same thing and the events are more
and the there might be extras and things
changed about you know the combat and so
on but for the most part it's the same
game
redone um a reboot can just be a
completely different game that has
nothing beyond like the titular like
names of people and or things but there
doesn't have to be any common threads
whatsoever
right so if you want if you want the
series that you can look at that has
all of these look at resident evil and
we'll take resident evil one
resident evil one director's cut is a
re-release that has slightly slightly
different music or the Saturn port would
be a re-release of resident evil one
however then you have resident evil
remake which is a ground up complete
asset
like brand new game a hundred percent
new asset
new sound effect new mechanic everything
but it's built on the old blueprint
then you have the re-release of resident
evil remake
that is actually a remaster on the pc
and modern platforms many years later
in that it is the resident evil remake
but it's actually just being cleaned up
and had widescreen added to it and
modern graphics options
yeah i think a lot of these ants i think
a lot of these names also get a little
bit more clarified if you think about
them in context of film
right if a film gets re-released
they grabbed the old 16 millimeter or so
they hit the real and then they're putting
that back out so that you can see it
in the state that it was released in
in the same aspect ratio
if you're seeing a remaster
you're probably seeing something that
either is adjusting the
the the quality of the of the actual
film you know they could be
they could be using music that's like a
better recording of the same music
better clearer audio for at the time
and they're taking the same pieces
and using better quality versions of
the same pieces
and putting them back together
in some cases they'll upscale go to 4k
or whatever hey man it's in technicolor now
can you fucking believe that exactly
and that's the the mastering process
remastering refers to like yeah the
mastering process of bringing all the
assets together
the assets are now sharper than they
could have been
when we first combined them back in the
70s
a remake will be we hired new actors
and built new sets
and filmed a new version of the same
events unfolding the way they did
in that last movie
and then the reboot is
uh this is a brand new movie
and the main character
and the place the story takes place in
are the same
but everything else is different
and then a soft reboot is mostly the
same events but it somehow contains the
old continuity
and then a soft sea boot
is a sequel to the old continuity
that still technically retains it
while mimicking the old events
but still technically remaining within
canon
shout out Star Trek
like the new halloween movies
are actually soft sea boots
as Star Trek as well
yeah and i'm stupid
and that but it didn't exist until
as far as i know i might be wrong on
this
i don't think that existed until the
Star Trek moment happens
and you go oh fuck
they're connected
right
yeah that was that what that is a soft
sea boot you're right yeah
that's where that concept even even
came along
um
that as far as i know
um yeah so anyways
is like the worst term of the world
oh when you when you but when you when
you put these in in in that kind of
context it kind of lines it up a little
bit more
but that doesn't mean people are going
to use them
honestly or not irresponsibly
especially since we're in a world where
people also
start like just copying other things
so like oh the matrix reloaded comes
out and now
fucking 18 other things are using
reloaded
as a word for sequel
you know
or similarly revelations
you know as as you throwing that after
the end of your
franchise as a word for like the big one
this time
like people still do that it's still
super weird to see reloaded
used outside of
like matrix context because it's like
what's about to say outside of the
pirate copies of film
because it's it's also like
you know
directly referencing the like
the code nature of the thing they're
discussing
and then
you know well yeah there's a Metallica
albums but
anyway
all this to say that you go you re
and then marketing word
can can barely be trusted
these days
to go to the heart of this person's
question
Metroid primes remaster
is the most confusing
because the title of that game is wrong
that is a Metroid Prime remake
that is not a remaster
it is a total asset redo
like
it's called it's called remastered
it is called Metroid Prime remastered
yes it is not it should it should be
called remake yes yeah
okay
uh yeah no if they no if it's if it's new
code it's a remake if it's old code
but be run in a
you know environment that can
run it natively
then that's a remaster
all right
let's take one more coming in from
brisbee who says
dear
kite flyer and
pie floor eater
a few weeks ago
Hitman 3
got a free update
that added one and two to it
changed the game's name
to hitman world of assassination
and added a roguelike mode
a roguelite mode called freelancer
which is supposed to be end game content
and features maps
and added randomness and complications
not seen in the main game
yeah i was i was talking about that the other day
the new mode is great yeah so i've heard
i've heard the new hitman
freelancer is is super sick
i've enjoyed it
and i've had fun watching people stream it
i've caught a couple people
however a couple streamers
diving straight into freelancer
with zero hitman experience
just smashing their face into a wall
repeatedly because it's the new thing
a few of the people i watched doing this
eventually picked it up
but mostly just failed and then shelved it
have you either of you done
something considerable like this
for content creation purposes
or in your own time
just trying to get into the new hotness
without any foreign knowledge of the game
has it ever happened accidentally
in this case
it was the new mode
the second option
when you started the game
i could see someone easily starting it
on accident if not
all right
do i ever get into stuff
that i don't know anything about
for content creation purposes
literally every single week
yeah i would say
i try to avoid it
as much as possible
because i fucking do find that shit to be
pretty lame most of the time
or hilarious
see dmc5 guy
bro what the fuck is this even game
it's down to dancing
i don't i don't have an issue with that
just go into it with the fucking open mind
no yeah yeah yeah
well this is this is the thing
right if if
so if paul marketing looks at you and says
this is the perfect time
to get into the mass effect franchise
right
and you hold to that
then you're gonna have a whole lot of people
that are just like
yeah new hotness jump on it
this is what we do
who cares what's happening or why
if you have like not
if you have a kind of like
not respect
but if you just don't really give a fuck
about the narrative of the things you're playing
really in general
because usually it's like
i don't know
usually it's background noise
it's sports or something other
something you just generally ignore
you're not really paying attention to it
that much it's meant to just
serve a purpose as fluff on your stream
or so
then yeah
like i that type of person
i can see just like
not giving a fucking going
what's popular what's trending
let's go into that
i'm gonna try to avoid it
when i can sometimes
if i can't avoid it
i'll usually like
either embrace the fact that i
i know that i don't know a lot
and or there's a chaotic reason
why this is happening
so
yakuza obviously is a franchise
i want to start playing
and i have
but every but it's been very clear and open
about like how
uh
playing that game
beginning to end and ever
and doing each one of them is like
a prohibitive thing to do
so
there's an explanation behind like how
we're uh i'm going about it
you know
i'm trying to think of it
any other other examples like that
like for example with nir
i went into automata
knowing that there was
loose connections at best
but not really important ones
initially
and then
i was like well i'm still
going to go do my homework
and
caught up on
all of the original nir
and all of the draken guard stuff
and all of the
which we call it
yeah all of the
all of the draken guard stuff
and the summaries
so i i felt like
okay i did
i'm gonna do some prep work
i'm not gonna go and sit down
and get through them
but clems did a pretty good job
with those videos
priming the situation
so sometimes you can kind of go into it
doing your best at it
but i have to say
i disagree with everything you just said
extremely strongly
okay
i get i get it
and i used to think that way very
very much
i used to be like
i can't start this tv show
because i haven't watched
all of the tv shows
leading up to it in the 60s
right
i
i have done
so much research
and so much playing up to the thing
and so much
like prep for the game
that i really want to play
which leads to me just
fucking
how do i put this
just abandoning it
i think back to
there was
an excellent take by
now chris wolfhart
formerly mr feels
which is
when you're looking at something
that you're like
i would like
oh that video game looks really cool
do i have to
do
do i have to play the prequels
to understand it
and people go
yeah there's a there's a lot
that you you would get out of it
by playing the prequels
and then they go
but i don't want to play the
prequels
i want to play the new game
anything other
than just playing the thing
you actually want to play
will result in you just
completely abandoning it
for the vast majority of cases
let's take which are three is an example
is there an enormous amount of
like continuation
and depreciation
for playing which are three
if you've played which are one and two
absolutely
if i were to tell you
hey man before playing which are three
you should play which are one and two
it's really important
people play which are one for about 10 minutes
and then fucking quit
yes leave
so i am currently engaged in that
exact mentality
with xeno blade
i don't really like xeno blade one
two and the way they play
i played xeno blade three
and really liked the way it plays
however
i know that events from one and two
are going to be tangentially
or somewhat involved in that storyline
and i'm trying to work past the way
my brain works
to just fucking go ahead and do it
yakuza which you mentioned
is a really great example
yakuza now has three
has three starting points
it will soon
have
four
zero
seven
judgment
or lost judgment
ishin because it's completely separate
and then later with
kiryu's side story
which is like a renewal of his character
right
as somebody who went through one two three four five
six
and then to seven
the amount of like
stuff
that i got
from going through all those games
and then going into seven
oh and zero also
was like
relatively minor
compared to
the fact that i knew that kiryu existed
okay so i'm gonna forget things
as this goes because
i was making notes and i kind of forgot
so some some of the stuff but
the the main thing so okay
the stuff like witcher for example
is absolutely a great example
because from everything you're
you've described about that over
over these years
the impressions poison
the the impression i got is like
you don't have to right
now when somebody asks
so that so that kind of tells me
some some series
some games
some franchises
are going to be easier
to go back to than others
if it's very difficult to do so
you might have a hard time with it right
but when somebody asks like
do i have to go back to x
to get into y
that question is very open
and that can be
like two things i can think of
that can be a
will i be lost completely in y
if i don't know anything about x
or
there can be a
will x enhance y
and its highlights
but y on its own is still fine
yeah those are the two main questions
that's what you're trying to get out of it
three is like nonsensical
if you do not play one and two
right
um like it is baffling
like who is who the fuck is garris
why do you love my cock so much
so when you're describing
the cases for yourself
and how you've gotten
into those and what
and the amount that you're
looking into it
and then like bouncing off of the thing
even though you did all that prep and such
this is not a jojo part skipping discussion
it's not a jojo part skipping discussion
however
my
thing with that is
i know myself
enough to know how i want those
questions answered
i know what i enjoy right
so the i like when i see that thing of
like oh you know statistically
if you read the last page of a book
it actually
amplifies and makes your experience
better and whatever
i say
fuck you
i know myself
i know that i hate that
i know that i experience the thing less
enjoyably every
goose bump i ever read
right
i i
if that applies to you then that's nice
but i know myself to know that that
makes my experience worse
furthermore
i know that
like i'm someone who's willing to
put myself out in terms of context
by going into something a little older
and more
something that you don't necessarily
have to get into
i'm willing to go do that in some cases
because i know that i enjoy
the little tie-ins
the little links and stuff
they're minor in some cases
for me though
i really enjoy those things
so i put
an emphasis where personally
i'm going to try to maximize
what i would enjoy out of this
right
going into the witcher three
is something i'd i want to do
and i you know
can say i would plan to do in the future
at some point
but
like
i know that like
based on what i'm hearing about that
i would not go through
and try to play one
or two
but i would definitely try to go
and like
watch them
i would try to go in
somebody's youtube
yeah i would try to get as much context
as i could
going into it
like with nir
so that i could fully enjoy
when i get to that point
and i know that like
if i had not known
about the
tie-ins
in nir's case
it would have still been a very good game
but
the little bit of flavoring that it added
was enough for me
to really emotionally love
the returning
characters
the returning elements
those were the strongest bits
that i'm like
oh fuck
the history of what that means
is something that is
more important to me
than it might be to someone else
that's like
eh
it's not worth my time
as somebody who
played through the original nir
and all four endings
right
and
watched every Clems video
repeatedly
for all the dragon guard information
i needed
and then went into automata
i was overwhelmed
with the feeling
that in terms of
foreign knowledge
i had completely wasted my time
and
that everything that i care about
in your automata
has absolutely
fucking
shit
all
to do with dragon guard or nir
okay
see
that's where i just
that's where we're different
i was super happy that i did that
i was super happy that i did the backstory
and that i have a
understanding of like
the
through line of this universe
and even at the places
where
it's just a single thread
and then we connect to this whole
other world
i still find that kind of fascinating
you know
see here's the thing though
like let's take automata
for example
nihilistic giant robot asses
were not featured
in nir
or dragon guard
and in fact
none of that led to
giant sad robot butts
therefore
what was i did
like Clems's videos are great
and i'm glad that i watched them
and it is nice to learn about an old
obscure
uh
franchise that i don't want to play
yet at the same time
you know
okay accord as a reference to a character
that it's
gonna be around
that's still around at this point
oh
shit that's nuts
she's still around
devil and popola
needs nothing
no
very little
but it's still like
it's it was still something that i was
like oh that's cool
like i i
if you for me when i saw that i was
like oh fuck i liked her
and the role she played in the past
that's cool that there's a little
little thing there
this is a plus
this is a plus to me right
hold on i want to i want to
somebody mentioned pat
that apparently
i said that this was vital
back in the day
i have changed my mind
i am starting to change my mind on a
lot of this
xeno blade is the one that's doing it
to me
because my desire to know everything
about xeno blade
before i play xeno blade 3
is resulting in me not playing xeno
blade 3
at all ever
because i keep going back to start xeno
blade 1
and going
i don't really want to play this
so
if you are running into this problem in
that way
then that is
you making a value judgment of your
time feeling wasted
for something that is effectively not a
payoff
because
you're going
well if i'm putting in all this pre
work
there should be a direct relation that
is going to matter
um
i'm not going in with that
i'm going in with the simple thing of
like
i'm just kind of like
what is the setting
this is being built on
and in nears case
i was i i knew it was going to be
tangential
but i'd like
i just want to know
where the thread leads right
um
and in the same way that there's that
kind of fucked up aspect of like
oh like
the entire virus could have come from
that initial first corruption of
the draken guard ending
where you know the
above tokyo
this is where that outbreak came from
it was actually
your first
uh uh uh
your it was the
the red eyes thing came from that
draken guard ending right
that same sort of like through through
line
was one where
um
when devola and popola
uh
are doing what they do
i
that should hit
and it
well i i
and it hit really clear
in a way
not saying
that there is no value
no no no no
it's the difference between
is it worth it or not
for the effort of
going through it
right
and the
the amount of time it would have taken
to go back and fully and get devola
and popola
is asking
more of people than their time
then schedule should
probably would probably have it's
it's
you know if you want respect for your
time again i super understand it
which is why
i would not necessarily
give it unconditionally as a
recommendation but i would say for me
i fucking
loved that part
and thinking about that idea of
this is where they got to
after everything from when we last
saw them
and this like suffering journey of like
repentance
over time
was a massive quality add
and i and i felt like
man
i'm happy for that payoff
but that's
how i'm gonna consume a story
you know i'm gonna put out
extra time on that
for this little thing
because a little bit like that
might make me like it that much more
what do you know about
the trails of cold steel series
nothing
so let me tell you
i saw the trails of cold sea
steel series and went
oh that seems like a fun series of rpgs
there's four of them
okay
well should i start at one
to which the answer is no
start eight games earlier
at trails of heroes
in the sky
i'm like why well because it's
it's a continuous story
happening simultaneously in multiple
countries
to which i then discover
that their trilogies
and the ending of each trilogy
spoils the endings
of the other trilogies
because they're on the same timeline
only to find out that three and four
are being treated
like the avengers end game of that series
which includes every character
that's ever been in it
that you won't know who any of them are
because you didn't do it
only then be told
yeah dude i started at three
i don't know who these people are
it's fine the story is totally clear
at which point leads to the situation of
i will never play
any of these
10 games
yeah
because i don't know where to start
i don't know where the fuck
is meant like it's so fucking confusing
it is and what you're describing
sounds like somebody showing someone
playing phantom pain going okay guys
who's big boss
and phantom pain at the very least
has the decency to start
and far backwards in time
and the insanity of franchises
that are told over the course of
fucking with a timeline back and forward
in 12 13 14 games
is one that is like
there's no way
to just summarize
the journey in a
and give you everything you need to know
there'll be things where they'll be like
hey
we put in a fucking timeline
in the game
you can read that for your best summary
hey
we hired a youtuber
to fucking put together an explanation of our lore
over the course of six or seven episodes
go watch that if you want to catch up
to figure out what the fuck the backyard is
but in the meantime
you're probably you can go in and read all this
if you want to but you if you don't okay
all right that's fine
every
some series are way better about it than others
and that's okay
I just know that every time that question comes up
like the answer is really just
what kind of person are you
like are you somebody who gets frustrated
over the the the time wasted
or is it like
are you someone that like
will you like the little things
even if they're very slight
you know what my favorite version of this question is
and I know you like it as well
because I've seen you answer it
hey man I've been looking to start to get into
Final Fantasy
where do I start
doesn't matter
fucking
fucking throw a dart at a fucking wall
that's a great answer
that's a great answer for a franchise to have
you know what I'll slightly lesser known
that I appreciate
the fucking east series
do you know what happens in east
well there was a shipwreck
and now Adoles on a fucking new island
that has problems
I'm sure there's other shit
Zelda
I want to get into Zelda
where should I start
play a Zelda game
it doesn't matter which one
yeah who gives a shit
they're designed with that exact same idea in mind
as you just play them
and they're they're gonna be a thing
and whatever connects them barely matters
it's more about
what you recognize as enemies
and weapons and you know
man
that's great when a franchise has that ability
of course
the continuing narrative
over time
is a unique type of thing
that can be really awesome
with a massive payoff
when it's a long journey
you know
that not every story can
nor should be that
but
yeah you just need
you need a you need a real
clarifier though on that question
which is just
are you asking
if you're going to completely be lost
or are you asking if
this will be fine
but this will sprinkle
some seasoning
on your experience
you know it's a
you know it's a really good
like a topical
timely thing to this discussion
so I was looking
a co-carnage was tweeting about it
because destiny
lightfall is coming out next week
which is the new destiny expansion
and he described that
hey I would really be able to get into destiny
but there's currently no
main quest in that game
that will tell you
what is happening in the game
at all
it's been seasonal content
and expansion content
for like
three four years
and like the original
shit is like gone
it's in the vault
there's no way to get into it now
like you must be okay
with jumping in
fucking knee deep into
shit you don't know about
to
right the bad man
right
one of the fucking great ones
that uh
yeah everyone clearly
wants an answer on
is when it comes to
fucking Kirby
where do I start
right
oh dude
Kirby it's a marshmallow
man
the best part about
the where do I start
Kirby flowchart
is
you start at Kirby Superstar
but the reason why
it has nothing to do with lore
it's because that's
the funnest one
with the most game in it
and it has all the
different modes
and styles of game
that are going to be
used in every other
Kirby game
so it's like
if you
no one has ever
said
other than
where do I start with Kirby
who is asking that
I
if you go look at
getting into Kirby
as as a flowchart
there is literally
a graphic out there
that's
that describes
what I'm talking about
this is already established
always start with Kirby Superstar
is kind of a little meme
and now
you got a deluxe
for that matter
but
the point
of this has nothing
to do with the lore
or the story
or any of that
dumb shit posting
shit
because
the bits
with the story
are always
these little background
when you're
like like
like they're just
they're so
fucking over there
while you're going
hiiii
in the foreground
but if you want to play
Kirby games
and enjoy them
the one thing
you probably want to
figure out is
what part
Kirby has a lot
of things
in its gameplay
which part
do you find the most fun
you know
and Kirby Superstar
lets you find out
which part of the gameplay
of Kirby
you like the most
and then you can play
games that are more
about that thing
you liked
as opposed to
the other things
you didn't
as much
it's a gameplay
teaser
I just saw in the chat
the most
insane take
I've ever seen
about this discussion
we have a guy in here
I am playing Baldur's Gate 2
right now
never played the first one
that's
legitimately
so
crazy
because that is like
part
those are one
that's one game
split into two games
that's literally
like
like the first chapter
and the second chapter
and they just went
now
fuck it Baldur's Gate 2
is better
which it is
it is
I'll play that one
and I
I'm so
fucking jealous
of that
the amount of shit
that I haven't watched
or read
or gotten into
it's like
well I gotta do the research
for all I gotta know
everything that's about like
the people that go
hey fuck it
I'll just
that Marvel end game
is happening
I guess I'll see what that's about
yeah
and just wandering into the theater
those fucking saints
it's not
it's not a goblin for me
it's me
knowing myself
and knowing how I like media
and I know the times where
I watch it
and then I read something afterwards
and I go
oh
that makes me
like this a bit more now
I realize kind of
I'm like
oh I would like
I know I would enjoy it more
knowing it beforehand
that being said
there's another aspect to this question
and we don't have to fucking
go too much further on it
but
the part where
we're talking about
people who jump on the hot thing
because it's hot
right
this has been
this has been
the entirety of
yeah
our discussion
over fucking
the last decade
has been that
and I'm
I represent
the antithesis of that
to my detriment
right
when you play the hot thing
yes
it's more
yes it's
it's more of a shallow decision
but it's also an economic one
in which people
will tune in
eyeballs will check out
the new thing
because they too are curious
about the hot thing
so
like you can
choose to stand on the
like no
I'm gonna play
like
not just because it's hot
but it's because
it's a
a better play through
and or a good thing
or a thing I want
or care about
whatever the reasons are
and
all of that
will fly in the face of cool
good luck
growing
your
your
channel
your base
your
your whole thing
right
there's a part of it
where if you don't do that
to some degree
you're just being
bad at your job
you're being a bad youtuber
you're being a bad touch
touch streamer
to some degree
if we lived in a world where
the attention economy
was not built in this way
I would love to
just stand on that
aspect of it
and keep it
pure quote unquote
but
every once in a while
when the stars align
guess what
the hot new shit
is also
hi-fi rush
yeah
so there's no problem
jumping on that
and that's what I guess I try to
aim for whenever possible
you know
so for
for me
the most recent example
that I can come up with
is dark and darker
a game that I went to the steam page
looked at it
went
I don't get it
people won't stop talking about it though
everybody's talking about it
people in my discord
people my friends
are playing it right
the fuck now
fucking
I don't
I don't fucking know
but
I don't get this
fucking shit
all right let's install
let's fucking roll
let's give it
let's give it
the
the
the
the old college try
and
as long as I feel like I gave it
like a
like a
like
fair shot
I feel satisfied
even if I bounce
right the
fuck off it
which I totally did
see I
in this particular instance
I
I
I feel less satisfied
simply because like
if I'm
I'd rather do the research in advance
and then if it turns out the game is what I'm going to bounce off of
I'll just never start it
right
and if it is something I would consider
then I want to go all the way through
because for the
in the future
I know how it would feel if I was going through something
and then it just stopped abruptly
and I really hate that feeling
I know as well that
if I were to start and stop things all the time constantly
it would be objectively
like
the quote unquote healthiest thing to do for the channel
but it would bother me personally
you know
so
I just don't see
myself ever really fully going that way on it
but I see like
trying to come up with compromising ways to like
play games that are
capable of being you know
played in short bursts or things like that
but yeah
I'm not running things the right quote unquote way
I know that you know
hey woolly
um
how far are you in hi-fi rush
um
we
the the verse the chapter after um
Corsica
okay
I just saw
I just saw a fucking
I just saw like
how much of xeno gears do I need to play to understand hi-fi rush
which is
which is like the absolute most fringe extreme variation
of this discussion
right right right
yeah
yeah
and you know
this also doesn't take into account to the modifier
that is
I have somebody that comes over
and our mutual schedules being free
is what
is when
I can play games
as opposed to
literally
just hit the button any time
you know
um
like yeah
like me
all fucking all stream
and then I locked myself out my
fucking front door
fucking two in the morning
one person can do
woke everybody up
trying to get back in
one person can do a whole lot more than multiple people can
in terms of just
the the scheduling ability and logistics
which is why
like the joke from back in the day about um
dsp outlives us all
dsp outlives the old channel
dsp like you know continues
and it's like
yes that is true
however if you think about it for more than two seconds
he's also one person who
has to hit a button
and
then
then he's
there
it's like
it's like
it's like
describe like dsp outlives us all
it's like as long as he doesn't literally
die
like that's the
you know
like
for us it's like
okay yeah
we're not recording anymore
you know
but
like
a single individual
just needs to wake up in the morning
and continue to exist
and therefore
that will be
you know
like succeeding
so
it's it's just a bit of a different thing
and i'm like
right
this comes up here
with
whenever
i'm like
what is the fastest i can get through a game
that has a lot going on
super long sessions
twice a week
okay
what's that going to amount to
a fraction of what you can get through
by doing
eight hours a day
for
a solid five days straight
you know
like there's just
there's a hard cap
on the amount of progress i can make
and in a thing
um
with somebody else
so
all of that
keeps bubbling in my mind
and
it will continue to do so
and
it will always be in an anxiety-inducing
thought
or
as i continue to do this gig
but
um
i
guess
my willingness
to jump in
in the middle of it
without doing
without knowing fully
what's going on
is like
if i can go back and watch a video
or watch
a
a long play of it
i'll at least try to get that done
and
you know
i'll do some do-jail
do
due diligence if possible
you know
um
and i think that's
hopefully that's reasonable
i think
you should just
fucking load up
witcher three
and fucking go
absolutely
no foreign knowledge at all
right
see now
if i did that
and then
three sessions later
i just stopped
and then nobody knows why
or what's going to happen to it
how does everyone feel about that
like
don't get hype over the
oh shit
woolly versus witcher three
get hype over
where did witcher three go
what happened to it
right
yeah
that's
they're like
like tell me see me then
see me on the other side of this
right
no
no
you're
you're
you're
you want to know that
it's a
it's a thing that
at the very least
i can see it
i want to know it's a thing
i can see it through
so i can
for real though
for coverage thing
don't
don't play
witcher three
the game is
the game is
like 180 hours long
yeah
well
and that
and that
and that's for me
yeah
um
a lot of really good games
are also
very difficult to lp
because they're long
and
i'm still figuring that out
still figuring that out
sometimes i just
i really really want it though
you know
sometimes it's like
a front mission three
where i'm just like
damn
i really really want it
and some people will be like
no
it's
fucking big
dude
i'm like i know
maybe there
it's
fuck
yeah
and then
that's where
i start to go
like maybe
there's a hybrid system
maybe i
do some offline
and summarize
sessions for people
maybe i do
some way to split it
you know
i did the
the
death stranding
catch up sessions
before each one
or elden ring
i did the last time
on elden ring session
so that like
red you could see
what i did in the meantime
and it was
mainly not
too much map expansion
just trying to get
you know
stuff done
like maybe
there's ways to go
about it
to minimize
mitigate it
but
when i really
really want to
you know
that's
that's
that overrides
the other stuff
anyways
i'm fine with that
as long as you give it
an honest take
honest
honest chance
like i remember
hopping into league
of legends
despite not being
up to date on the league
of legends lore
yeah i think
i think my run
terror run
was um
you know
i think it was okay
i don't think i
hit any lore
walls on that
oh that girl's a pirate
that's
that's what you need
to know
that's
yep
all right
take it easy folks
have a good week everybody
if you're
ok
ok