Castle Super Beast - CSB 267: FOXDEI

Starting point is 00:00:00 ["Sailor Moon Theme"] Big news. Big news. Many things. Oh, I gotta move my fucking camera. I'm too tall. You're currently too tall. That's... yeah. Oh, that's too much now.

Starting point is 00:00:44 Oh no. You don't want to give off the wrong impression I don't that would be a lie. Don't lie. There we go. All right Oh, no, ah, oh I can't oh I can't reach you buddy Distance I'm back home. There you are Buddy. Distance. I'm back home. There you are. Tell you what, man, getting back in your own setup after using literally anyone else's setup ever is just like, get your fucking ass into it. Well, it's either, it's either like get your ass back in and go, damn,

Starting point is 00:01:22 it's good to be back in my own shit or it's Damn, I need to do something about this garbage Yeah, it's one or the other you know I remember Distinctly feeling the latter after game grumps right Just getting back getting back to Canada and being like Wow, look at this garbage. I call a setup We gotta get some fucking mixers and cameras and shit in here, but um yeah, yeah Yeah, are you are you are you chomping at the bit? uh

Starting point is 00:01:57 I kind of am I I you know I showed up I did the podcast as as normal air quotes quotes and then we did that devil may cry video But it's I'm at that point in my adulthood in which after like five days away from my fucking office setup. I'm like Yeah, I gotta fucking I gotta fucking do something of value for the family or else. I'm just a useless fat piece of shit Gotta play some fucking garbage phone games Hell yeah, and then do some some pulls. Oh man. I got some fuck. I got a fuck. I got a tweet today from friend of the show mom

Starting point is 00:02:36 That just fucking blasted my fucking hair back About Nikkei what the fuck was it? It's like apparently the $60 the new $60 Nikkei skin removes the character talking in a mentally age regressed quote I pissed my pants oogoo end quote voice and I'm now enticed to get it just because of that yeah yeah yeah right right what the fuck like never mind valuable like real IRL quality time and establishing bonds it's time to get back to this shit oh man this is what you need to be reporting on boy look I logged in and I got my robot. So did I miss that? I haven't done that. I logged in, I got my robot. I logged. Well,

Starting point is 00:03:32 first I logged in and then I sat there and watched the three gig download take its time as the music, the music video just loops. Boy. Yeah. The first time that thing loads in, you're like, oh, wow, look at this budget anime, it's going. And then like the fourth time you've got to update and watch this. We fight survive. Just AMV going on my phone. I'm like, time to edge out to your goon before you start playing. Can I just can I maybe like minimize this while I downloads in the back? Nope, you gotta keep it active. And it's gotta be, it's gotta be the loudest song, the loudest thing on your phone ever.

Starting point is 00:04:13 I uh, I fucking spent last week, I did that phone game stream I talked about, but one of the things I did not talk about was how weirdly long it took me to install four phone games on my PC. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It was a strangely long process. None of them will tolerate being downloaded at the same time as any of the other ones. Like they all do that thing where you start downloading one and you're like, oh, I'm going to start a second download.

Starting point is 00:04:44 And then they both just crash down to nothing and go, how could you download a different phone game than me? And is this blue stacks or is this like with official clients? No, no, this is the official fucking PC launchers. Weird. And there are, and like some of them only will download if the fucking thing is maximized and some download faster on Wi-Fi than on faster than on wire connections. I forget which one it was. I think it was

Starting point is 00:05:09 Punishing Grey Raven. It was faster to download it on my phone over Wi-Fi even like megabyte per second than it was to download it over wired. I don't know what kind of nonsense that is. It's so weird because I'm like this experience of a like an ongoing download installation process that's just like perpetually stretching out. The last time I experienced that was installing I think like Black Desert like MMO installations, you know, are the only times I've experienced that. Like it just it feels like that stuff has gone by the wayside, you know. Yeah, meanwhile, hey, I want to download a game on steam and you're like I didn't know my internet connection could go that fucking fast it's crazy what oh wow

Starting point is 00:05:53 you know I just yeah there's these standout moments of like really long loading stairs obviously at MGS 4 is a like fucking flag in the timeline of like that is the most insane loading process I've ever experienced. But listen, we've brought the worst feature of PC games to you now Here on your phone live start smoking. I guess you know and here's the thing too like I was I Thought I was actually done the onboarding process and it turns out I wasn't. Like, they let you go a couple more missions feeling kind of normal, but they still haven't introduced everything to you.

Starting point is 00:06:33 So I was like, oh, I still haven't unlocked all the features and I can't do everything yet. And it's like, yeah, because you're still actually in the onboarding thing. You gotta, you gotta get introduced to your little camp where you're gonna hang out with all your Nikkeis. Jokes on you. You're gonna be onboarded until that game dies. This is where you spend time giving them gifts and talking and chilling and stuff. I didn't know that was even fucking in that game. It comes later. You gotta keep playing a bit more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the outpost is uh, you know the Tutorial after you've gotten a little more comfortable with the regular

Starting point is 00:07:09 shooting But regardless, hey, I got the robot and you know what? When you when you aim to shoot with it its entire body blocks the entire bottom half of the fucking I saw people saying the robot sucks because it actually blocks your whole screen You cannot see anything on the front line you could only see mid and up and sky like that I mean the life bars are still there so you can target the life bars but still it is it's quite goofy that they made it like like have a an actual nerf to its ability which is yeah visibility goes

Starting point is 00:07:43 horribly down. But it's cool to be shooting a robot around, I guess. Well, they're all robots, Wully. Yeah, but this one is the robot inside the robot, and the little girl pops out and she hits her head and goes, oh no, and I'm like, ah, it's like, it's like Kum-Hae-Hyun, you know? From Exord.

Starting point is 00:08:02 Guilty Gear, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the big old spiky beard guy. Yeah, yeah. And then it opens up. That was a cool character. Yeah, she was really cool. Once it cuts to the inside and you're seeing the Iron Man cockpit view, it was actually pretty well done, I gotta say.

Starting point is 00:08:16 And then in the story mode, that big hug that she gives Johnny is pretty cool too. But yeah, no, I got that taken care of. Um, and I guess, uh, yeah, I mean, let's just quickly go through weeks cause there's, there's a lot of shit going on. All right. Where are we starting? You started with you, Willie? Yeah, I'll start with me because mine was fairly simple and quick. Okay. The, obviously, hey, Soul Devil May Cry 3, that took place after. I did not think that we were going to go in a fucking split screen for those fucking boss fights. That's the big takeaway.

Starting point is 00:08:58 I was so impressed. That's the big takeaway is, in addition to the special edition on Switch introducing a full weapon switching wheel for both guns and for swords, you have, and then quick weapons, even quicker weapon switching, which is hold the wheel and then press the stick in the direction for instantly going to the weapon you want. You also now get co-op mode and in co-op mode when you get to boss fights it's split it switches to split screen so that the camera doesn't completely fuck you over because for some get from bosses right like like imagine fighting the cameras really low kind of behind the back sometimes like Beowulf is what I'm

Starting point is 00:09:37 thinking of right now yeah so Beowulf right or just even fucking you know the the centipede like you know gigapede gigapede You're you're like its camera is cutting back and forth to wherever the hole It's coming out of is so that would you can't always have both players there So it makes perfect sense, and it just works And it's like this is really the definitive edition of DMC 3 like no questions asked. It's It's it makes me like I was like, man, we really, you know, Devil May Cry 5 was so excellent.

Starting point is 00:10:09 I think we can let Devil May Cry rest for a little while. No, no, not anymore, no, no, no, no, no. Devil May Cry 6 now, incorporate this shit into it. Functional, functional co-op. I want the, I want the Resident Evil 5 of Devil May Cry, you know, the online test was done with the like cameo system in five, you know Oh look, there's someone else running over there. Sure, and then we can even have a stage where they play together and then All the modders hitchhiker and such like took that to the next level of like, they're like, here you go with the crazy modded version.

Starting point is 00:10:45 But officially now, yeah, this thing just works on the same screen. Fighting for the camera is not that bad, really. You give two different colored lock-ons, you know? And yeah, I feel... Every part of it was considered and careful and detailed and worked. Yeah, so in as much as, you know, we were like, why does this have to be trapped on the Switch? At the same time, it's like, at least the fact that there's

Starting point is 00:11:10 the Switch Pro Controller is a decent controller to play with. Yeah, so I'm like, at least I can go back to this and not have an issue with what I have to use to play it with. Yeah, it's not like it's trapped on the fucking PlayStation 2. No, and because it's an older game, it's going to run at its fucking frame rate and then take the hit and then go back. So it's not like we're taking a newer game which is going to be really affected by its Switch port and then it'll feel awful the whole time.

Starting point is 00:11:39 At least it's an older game, so like fine, I don't mind that. But it's not like we're sitting here playing God what was age of calamity and going wow this is one of the the craziest best modes ever added to a Dynasty Warriors game and you can only play it at eight frames a second you know if there's gonna be something out there that that you want this to happen to let it be an older generation game that it can handle. So yeah, no, just the report is that this fucking DMC 3 edition on Switch, thumbs up for all of that new shit.

Starting point is 00:12:12 Incredible. And Matt Walker was right to get very, very hype about all of that. Beyond that, yes, I also last this week, last week, played the first of the two FF16 DLCs, Echoes of the Fallen. Now that's Omega's DLC, right? Yes. So I saw that Rising Tide dropped and I was like, okay, now's the time, let me jump back. And so, yeah, Echoes of the Fallen, one tight stream, going back to it, rewarming up with that system

Starting point is 00:12:52 and getting some of the new stuff. Holy fuck, man. That thing was really good. For what it was, I was like, okay, what am I paying for here and You get you know, you get yourself a little almost like bloody palace if in comparison just like you go you go up through a tower It's ups. There was a mother crystal that we forgot about right over there We didn't turn our heads in that direction and you go Oh my god, it was just right there. I can't believe it. We didn't turn our heads in that direction.

Starting point is 00:13:33 And you go, yeah, you kind of go take on some, you know, some new enemy types and stuff that pertains to the Fallen, which is like the mysterious, you know, precursor race in the story. And yeah, the whole- Not the Allergans. They're not called the Alligans. 14? Totally different. 14? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:53 Okay. Their architecture is fairly similar. So when you pull up to the building that it takes place in, everyone was shouting something and it was like- Oh yeah? And I was like, what are you shouting? And then I Googled that thing and it was like, oh God, that is very much it. Alan, Alex, A-L-Y, what the fuck was it called? The architecture just resembles-

Starting point is 00:14:20 As is law. As is law, as is law. Ah, that's really funny. And I just did a quick Google image and I was like, oh yeah, those colors and shapes and architectural calls are all happening right here. Did you have to deal with a starboard or larboard at any point? I don't think I did. Okay.

Starting point is 00:14:39 Yes, Alex Ley. Exactly. That's where we went. And he told us we looked kind of huge. No and so you just kind of get in there and, you know, it's going through its entire like... Oh, I'm being informed that the actual FF14 battle music plays during the first part of that quest. Ah, interesting.

Starting point is 00:15:01 Okay. Like directs the same. Okay. Ah, interesting. OK. Direct the same. OK. Well, yeah, certainly it seemed to be the when we were previewing the DLC and stuff. And I was like, oh, is this where the 14 stuff gets worked in? And Firx were like, yeah, probably.

Starting point is 00:15:17 And it's like, yeah, so it seems. It seems like the 14 gets juiced up quite a bit here. But that aside, what I really found interesting was the accessories you get as you progress through this tower. And it's a very short DLC. You can do it in two to four hours, I'd say, depending on how warmed up you are on the game. When you start going through

Starting point is 00:15:47 some of these bosses, which are, there's some cool, there's some bad asses, they do some rad shit, you know? You fight some enemies that walk up to you and do some big old fucking rider kicks and you've gotta work your magic. And you get these accessories that fundamentally change the way you fight. And like, there are things that are like,

Starting point is 00:16:13 here is an accessory that lets you do enemy step, like up to seven times in a row, and increases your air to air damage. Oh, cause that thing that I would like to do is I would like to do enemy step into the hold square button into the rising. Sure. You could just enemy step straight up into the air.

Starting point is 00:16:34 Into the relaunch. But now I can do it more. Into Helm Splitter to end your combo, you know? Here's an accessory that makes it so that you get a better reward on your parry timing. So when you land a parry attack, right, you get a better, I think you get a better like heal back off of that or so. But also there's a red flash on the enemy's life bar when they're parryable So you can swing your sword to get the oh?

Starting point is 00:17:09 Clash time that and it's a and you get a clash timing trainer baked in With if you want to do that style of play right um No, not Titan pack block, but specifically sword regular clash, so you don't have to have tight not Titan block, but specifically sword regular clash. So you don't have to have Titan equipped. That should have... Okay. Yes, right? And then you get one that's like, here's something that makes it so that your,

Starting point is 00:17:35 your healing, your gray life healing goes up faster, and so on. And you're just like, oh fuck, like this should have been in the base game Okay, cuz that's that's what I'm sitting here literally thinking as you're describing this and I'm like cuz Omega's DLC is is like mandatorily in the final sequence, right? Like it's it's part of the end game Sprint right when all the side stuff opens up or does it show up earlier in the story this it shows up right right at the end You guys there's okay. You have to you have to get you have to complete a bunch of stuff

Starting point is 00:18:12 That's basically the right before the final boss to get it Hmm that would have that would have a lot more If you could get these changes in the middle. Yeah, the basis of the story relies around the state change occurring towards the end of the game. Right. So, yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:18:39 Now, I guess this makes a big difference for New Game Plusing it, but you're like, fuck, these things are huge and would have been really nice to have, especially, yeah, if you're looking for just a completely different way to play the game, man. This is almost like, it's almost nostalgic in its existence of like, congrats, Sora, you got the best keyblade or congrats cloud here's nights of the round cool what can I use it on nothing right nothing free right right you can just um turn the final boss fight into a cutscene yeah if you want yeah I mean the you know like yeah I remember when I got the like Super Dodge accessory

Starting point is 00:19:27 and I'm like, that's never coming off. Oh yeah, you mean like every single person who ever got the Berserk ring in FF16 and you're like, this is so good and it's so obvious and it's optional, you're sitting there going like, they should have just made it part of your base kit like a level up or something It's fucking witch time into an amazing stinger and you're just like i'm always gonna do this and then you get um The other one which I get more optional but auto color up on your on your charge of web magic shot, right?

Starting point is 00:20:00 Like I don't it was it's so berserk ring was so strange to me because it's like, well, it's optional, so you don't have to use it. You didn't even have to get it. But like every single person I know who played the game had it and never took it off. So you got into situations like all the Clive, like level fights were just like, I don't this guy just can't deal with this berserk ring. Oh my God. They should have just given you the berserk ring as like a default ability. It's just, yeah, like these are massive ways that, and there's a couple others as well.

Starting point is 00:20:34 They're all, I think you get like four or five of them, like in a row, and they're just like, hey, do you want to play the game completely differently? Go nuts, have fun, here you go. We're going to reward different aspects of your gameplay and focus you in on them. I love that shit. Let's take a second to make an emphasis towards air combat because it's there, but it's just, you don't really have to do it.

Starting point is 00:20:59 By the time you have these screen deleting moves, you've got Odin just fucking blowing shit up. You're like, yeah, I guess I can do an air combo for funsies. But this is a better incentives, you know? So that's all really cool. And then yeah, second big quality of life change is You can now cycle through five preset groupings of icon and skill abilities on the icon screen right away. R1 to cycle through five presets. That's great, because that was annoying. Yep. You get your loadout ready and then you switch to it. Yeah, that's great. Because there's some shit I'm never gonna get rid of.

Starting point is 00:21:45 I always want the little, the crystal. I always want my Titan block. I always want the beam, you know, and Shiva dodge, but it's like, there's other things I wanna play around with in Cycle. Like if I don't always want Odin, let me put Phoenix back on or whatever else. And so yeah, you can just make that loadout

Starting point is 00:22:05 and you can't switch in battle, of course, the game's not built for that, but you can just switch it out of battle right away to load out two or three. Downside, you don't switch your accessories as well, so if you're wearing an accessory made for a certain icon, that's not gonna change. Ah, that can be a little goofy, yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:24 But still, big quality of life to add more variety for fun. Because yeah, once you get an icon in that game that is better than the others, you're just gonna kinda stick with it. And even if you wanted to go back and mess around with the others for fun, it's like yeah, but the time it takes to refund everything to install Bahamut,

Starting point is 00:22:43 when I'm like, I don't really like what Bahamut's doing, eh, this isn't worth it, you're just gonna sit in the back, you know? Also, there was a tweak that made it so that activation of Bahamut counts as like a dodge as well, I think, so you can. Like it needed it, oh my God! You know, so there's like things like that as well.

Starting point is 00:23:02 Why would you, why would you buff Bahamut? I mean, I agree with it because it just felt too passive for me. But it's so strong. It is. It is. But even for how strong it is, I just wish you did more with it. But yeah, in any case, they really just, they added some good shit there, you know? And then you progress until you get to Omega, which I didn't realize.

Starting point is 00:23:34 I thought that the, I mean, so hey, well, I guess like little spoiler alert for the DLC, but like when you beat it, you get the ability to go create the Omega weapon, which I was like, ah, there it is, of course. There's the thing. But I didn't realize that that Omega weapon reference name started out as just Omega in the earlier FFs before it even became that, right? Oh, yeah. No. In V, it's just Omega, I think. yeah, no. In five it's just omega, I think. Okay, right. I think?

Starting point is 00:24:10 Am I wrong? I can't remember. Something like that. So you deal with it, and you realize when that fight starts that you're like, ah, I paid for Soken. Oh yeah. And Soken delivers Oh, yeah. And Soken delivers.

Starting point is 00:24:25 Holy fucking shit. That fight and that theme, it goes into an amen breakbeat and then it just starts escalating from there. And you're like, oh, OK, I see what we're doing. And like the fight is just like, yeah, you obviously switch realms into an insane color dimension of just beauty and wonder. And it's fucking going it's going hard as hell. And you know, a lot of folks are properly saying like, yeah,

Starting point is 00:25:00 man, this is what 14 is like, you know, And I'm like, okay, okay, gotcha. And one of the like sickest things is just... Is it actually the... Hold on a second, I'm seeing people talk about the track that you're talking about right now. Is it actually Escape or Escape from 14? No, it's called Iconoclasm. As far as I understand, it's a new track. Is it not a remix of a new thing?

Starting point is 00:25:25 Hold on, let's find out. I'll be able to tell this in five seconds. It's a remix, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay, yeah, no, it's the same fucking song. Yeah, so there's- That's a good song.

Starting point is 00:25:39 It's amazing. And yeah, but a lot of folks were kind of like saying like, Yeah, this is kind of the vibe of what it's like when you know, 14 flying on all cylinders and shit. I'm like, okay, 14 visuals because of its MMO and its tab target nature like off and suffer compared to an action game. So like soaking has to like is responsible for like the mood percent of right, right, right, right, right given encounter

Starting point is 00:26:05 It's every time a phase change occurs every time you get a little further in these cues are blowing shit up And I mean that shit's happening here. Um, and just one of the hypest Perfect and I don't know I but I'm like I have to assume it was designed this way but we just I had the perfect climactic buildup because as the music is swelling, it's going into its final phase. And you know those moments when it's like, uh-oh, a big bad thing is being cast.

Starting point is 00:26:36 You need to do a, you need a DPS check here to stop it from casting, right? Yes, Wully, I am highly familiar with a DPS check. The purple bar comes up and says, Hey, you got to stop this thing, right? Fuck that. It's doing a thing that sounds like it's going to murder you, but there is no DPS check bar that pops up.

Starting point is 00:26:54 The fight is just going for real real. Right? There's nothing. Yeah, it's called an enrage. So it's like, it's this, yeah, it's this final little bit. It's fine. And I'm like, previously in 16, there would be- I was watching it and it looks visually identical to Proto Ultima weapon in Dunskayth. It even has the start of the enrage, it's like the beams outward in a circle.

Starting point is 00:27:21 So yes, the you're going to die, you're going to die vibe is very, very clear. But it doesn't fall within the purview of the usual, uh oh, stop it now. It's just this is going to happen and you better do the right amount of damage. So you are describing a specific type of DPS check called an enrage. Okay. So an enrage is super common in 14 and other things. And it is you have taken too long or the boss has hit a final threshold. Okay.

Starting point is 00:27:58 And it is a race to the finish. Yes, yes, yes. Right. Okay. So in 14, when you do a boss boss fight the boss usually has a strict timer And so you're like when you hit eleven and a half minutes It's going and the boss isn't dead. It will start a final cast and if that final cast finishes at all Okay, it's just over it gives you infinity damage. It doesn't even it just fades to black. Yeah

Starting point is 00:28:26 So I mean the way this felt it didn't feel like it was like taking too long It felt like it was like we got to that part of the music which is I mean, which is not it But that's the right feeling and yeah with iconoclasm building up at that point You're like use everything make everything go and I'm just like wailing in on to like what feels like the magic pixel moment finish, perfect clear, you know? And it's, man, it's wild. You're describing what I think is called a hard enrage,

Starting point is 00:28:58 which is like, okay, they're doing, they're charging the spirit bomb, right? There's also something called a soft enrage, which I don't think would ever work in an action game like this. A soft enrage is the boss will buff itself and it will just buff itself infinite times on a schedule and there hits a point in which there is no numerical way

Starting point is 00:29:22 you could ever possibly survive. Okay. I guess, I mean, what 16 does do is the purple bar. That's like, I'm- Yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah, I'm casting my strongest spell, but the fight will continue after you stop this. I'm casting destroy the universe. Yes, yes. But like, there's's just something there's something even more intimidating about like, not getting that little like warning. It's just like, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, the purple bar is like a mechanical like, ah, hey, yeah. And this is just like you die,

Starting point is 00:29:56 I guess. Pretty much. Yeah. So that thing is just it was what an incredible fucking feeling and finish on that. And I felt like, yeah, you know what? I spent my 10 Canadian on that DLC and then the for the remaining 14 Canadian on Soken. Like, yeah, I guess that's what that was. So really awesome so far. And, you know, but everyone has been saying as well that like, yeah, the next is also really good. And there was a little track that you can play in the jukebox, which is the not new,

Starting point is 00:30:37 the 14 version of, I guess, the Levi song, the Leviathan song. Oh, really? So that thing was there. And I was like, okay. Is it just going Leviathan, Leviathan song. Oh really? So that thing was there. And I was like, okay. Is it just going Leviathan, Leviathan, over and over? Yes, Leviathan, Leviathan. Fuck yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, Leviathan, that thing.

Starting point is 00:30:53 I fucking love that song! So that thing was in there too. But I'll find out more of that when I get into Rising Tide. But just like, that was a sick little fucking, little burst, a little challenge with some good shit in it. You put on a glamour, so you got a Buster Sword now, so you got Clive swinging around. Just the Buster Sword, shut up.

Starting point is 00:31:16 You know, it is what it is. FF7 R2 available now. And yeah, I hear that this all the second one is also Pretty fucking cool, but what's it called? The the first one is echoes of the falling yeah, and the second one is the rising tide the rising tide, okay? Soken this is gonna sound strange because we talked up Soken so much when 16 came out. It feels like him being put out into a wider audience that's not playing MMOs. But it's so weird because he's basically just worked on 14.

Starting point is 00:31:59 He also did Mario Hoops 3 on 3. But 14 has so much fucking music. I think he has made more music than like Mitsuda ever did in like their entire career at Square. Because like every single two years it's plus the patches is like here's 180 new fucking tracks. Also, because time moves faster as we go on, the feeling of all the classic composers from the fourth and fifth generation and shit, going from one game to another, like Uematsu and shit like that, that timeline of amazing shit they made is-

Starting point is 00:32:41 It feels like it was so long. It was actually only like five years. But it's like a five year period of all the classics, exactly classics exactly and then you're like how long has he been working on? This thing more than that. Oh, well, then yeah, I guess it stands to reason that the you know, the numbers Fucking gonna compare to each other when you play theater rhythm and you get to the ff14 one it has like 40 songs and which is like triple all the other games and You get through it and you're like, wow, they

Starting point is 00:33:10 had to really fucking probably argue over what songs got in here because This is like one one hundredth of the total track list. It's ridiculous And not only is it like over over you know the same periods of time now but it's also like each game is calling for more and more of them right look at look how many tracks ff7r has like fucking a billion discs it's crazy and they're incredible so yeah i i understand you know how like the the the new school is just competing with like just the sheer volume of it. But no, FF7R has a fucking bizarre amount of music.

Starting point is 00:33:52 And that's the thing is I kind of asked the chat, I was like, so guys, like, you know, if this is kind of how peak 14 tends to like feel when it's going off, right? A big part of what's firing the neurons and synapses in my brain and making me go, oh, is the actioning that I'm doing, right? I'm doing action things, and the boss is getting hit by them, and it's responding, and it's timing, and it's happening, which in an MMO, it's more about the group cohesion,

Starting point is 00:34:20 and then the boss kind of running through its preset thing. It doesn't respond to you directly in that way. But what is that feeling like? and then the boss kind of running through its preset thing, it doesn't respond to you directly in that way. But what is that feeling like? And so they kind of are like, it's the music that's carrying you through these phases and everyone working together feels good. So that's how you kind of translate it over

Starting point is 00:34:40 from you doing it yourself, but every time you press a button, you're making things happen. I've thought about this and I've thought about this and I've thought about this because there is an analogy. There is a way to at least emulate the understanding of the appeal. Because starting an MMO when you are tab targeting at level fucking four feels very basic because it literally is basic. The beginning of any MMO is very basic because you have this big wide open chasm of super game to dig through. group. And the closest I can come up with is that you're trading fighting game. It's

Starting point is 00:35:29 like fighting game to action game. Like they all kind of live in like combat genre of action hit buttons. You are trading that for rhythm game. Because if I were to describe FF16 as boxing, I would describe FF14 as like group square dancing. Literally on squares. So you are playing an eight man rhythm game. Yeah, that makes sense. And, like doing it together, you know, must feel good until- With your bros. Well, at least until you're in a world of like, this is just who fucked up, why'd you fuck up?

Starting point is 00:36:14 God damn it, and it's not, and the reward is not really a reward anymore. It's just kind of like- I have like, fuck it. Clearing the bar. Waves signed it so far through every variation on this. And we are now at the like, I'm going to say, ah, I fucked it. I fucked it.

Starting point is 00:36:33 And then the comes back. Oh, you always fuck it, Pat. And I don't know that I will ever feel in my heart that level. There's no always be a gap, right, to me. But I think I think I can probably appreciate it at its finest, especially when everything else is, again, firing creatively on all cylinders. I can super enjoy that idea of a coordinated rhythm thing

Starting point is 00:37:00 happening, but there is just that distance that I think will never fully, you know, lock in. And that's okay. It's a different genre. That's fine. Of course. There's this really intense desire of, not parasocial even but like I like this thing Woolies cool. Maybe wooly will like the thing that I like right and that that applies to everything like I would think it was really Cool, if you liked 14, but I know you fairly well enough and you've been extremely clear about like your specific Like missteps not my steps difficulties in like jumping past like game feel. But I think like the happy medium is like, no, there is something there. And as you get slower and older, part of that feeling starts to feel a little bit like the other thing. The new creator of Homogeneous, Eerie, one of my mods, just started playing 14 out of nowhere. I'm like,

Starting point is 00:38:14 ah, another one! You were making goddamn patched Street Fighter 6 fucking frame data videos two weeks ago. And look at you now, you're arguing about the Beast Tribes. And something that these games do have that is a massive credit to what you're describing is that the widest net possible can be cast when you're like, okay, well, maybe if the baseline thing we're asking you to do in most missions doesn't appeal,

Starting point is 00:38:48 there's a character that might, that has a specific thing you're looking for, right? In Overwatch, Reinhardt was there at the beginning to have me go, ooh, I like that guy and what he's gotta do and his role fits right into what I like doing in games a lot more than everyone else in that game. You got my attention, you know? So I think this is kind of an accident. I don't think this was like a metaphor or intentional analogy when people started calling FF14 the fighting game retirement home. But it does

Starting point is 00:39:21 kind of zoom in on something. I recently been to a retirement home a couple of times. I take the baby there to make the old people happy. Yeah. And one of the benefits of a retirement home is that it takes people that have been isolated in their lives and forcibly gives them a community that at least has something in common, being their oldest fuck and Like when I think back to like ah good moments in ff14, I think back to two types of things I think about I think about finishing shadow bringers. I think about

Starting point is 00:40:01 The I'm gonna talk around this I think about the QTE in the Susanoo trial, I think about stuff like that, big moments, storyline things. But I also think of like, pfft, man, it was kind of sad and cringe that every single one of my friends was hanging out at like 4.30 in the morning trying to get through Raubahn's wall when Stormblood launched and it was so fucked up You couldn't get through that quest But then Darius got through and then we all started freaking out because we had been up for 25 hours And we all got in and we're just shooting the shit for like 12 hours on discord. Yeah that talking about bullshit That's a particular unique experience that not everyone's gonna have with this game

Starting point is 00:40:45 But that's that's your version of it, and that's one of those things when I see when I see oh Hold on a second. I need To be right back okay, baby Right, I don't know what the fuck. I was just talking about Okay, but yeah, it's anyway. It's uh it's interesting seeing a a game that um Is is soft advertising for another genre? I would not consider it a soft advertisement. I it's

Starting point is 00:41:15 It I don't Okay. Well, then it's made by the same people. So there's enough similarity that you get their flavor Like it feels like you know, like like the way that Dissidia is a soft advertisement for Final Fantasy in general. OK. Or or the way that Castlevania judgment is a soft advertisement for Death Note. Oh, you know what? I never talked about this. So

Starting point is 00:41:46 alongside the like two weeks ago I have a 14 put the Final Fantasy 16 quest in Where Clive yes ends up in Eorzea? Mm-hmm And I don't know if I mentioned it but there is a part at the end of the quest in which a character that is literally Yoshi P looks straight at the camera and goes, I guess we'll never find out what happened to Clive. But maybe you will someday somewhere else. And just like it's stairs. It's like Jesus Christ. Nice.

Starting point is 00:42:30 Did he fall into a livestream? Is that what's going on? So FF14 crossovers are such, you find the character and they are unconscious on the ground and you're like, how'd you get there? And they're like, I don't know. All right. Cool, cool, cool, cool. And they're like, I don't know Yeah, all right Cool cool cool cool. The the weird thing is that when you you with Clive you do the fight against ifrit, but it's his ifrit Okay, and you get his

Starting point is 00:42:59 You get the dodge You get the berserk ring dodge As part of your your your mechanics for just that fight Interesting okay in 14 system and it rules and I walked away from it going I would like more Encounters that you said dog and it's locked into that quest yeah damn okay uses a unique button combination Oh fuck that's To that quest? Yeah. Damn. Okay. It uses a unique button combination. Oh, fuck.

Starting point is 00:43:26 That's... Damn. Okay. You can dodge a bunch of AOEs that you would not be able to in 14 system usually. Would it break the rest of the game if you had it outside of that context? Oh, ruin the rest of the game. Yeah, okay. Oh, it's so fucking broken.

Starting point is 00:43:39 Yeah. All right. All right. Fair. Okay. Yeah. So no, that was hot shit. So I'm going to be, yeah, that's pretty much it for me. I'll be back.

Starting point is 00:43:54 So tomorrow I'll do Rising Tides. I'll do the Levi stuff, as folks are saying. And I think, yeah, there's a bit more to that as well because I think not only is there like the Leviathan stuff but you get the full new icon plus you unlock a bloody palace as well. So when you were talking about, hey, you get these accessories that change how the game is played, I was sitting around being dumbstruck when people are like, I beat the Leviathan DLC, the second DLC, and unlocked a new icon. And like, for what?

Starting point is 00:44:37 For who? It's fucking weird. For the last fight, I guess. And then then again new game plusing it, you know But yes, no, so I'm just gonna be so I'm gonna be doing that and Then I'll be gone for the rest of the week Gonna be out of town. So I'll be back around Next Tuesday, so when we'll do the pod So I'll be back around next Tuesday. So we'll do the pod.

Starting point is 00:45:08 So yeah. Oh, hey, I have a piece of advice you will likely never use. If you ever do decide to do a 14 stream for realsies, everyone in the world is going to be like, dude, I will carry you, don't worry about it. Don't, don't do that. That is like the worst thing you could possibly fucking do. Like the way that people try and get people in a monster hunter or whatever,

Starting point is 00:45:39 and like, no, no, no, don't worry, I'll get you the good stuff, I'll get you the good stuff right now. And just like dragging somebody to the, it's like, don't worry. I'll get you to the good stuff. I'll get you the good stuff right now. And just like dragging somebody to the it's like it's the worst. Yeah. I mean, look, I'll say this much the temptation if I ever were to pete my head in to just do so not live is high. So Paige started to do some 14 streams and people really liked it But like she encountered a very reasonable problem Which is the menu nightmare that is mature MMO is

Starting point is 00:46:15 Really hard to understand with an audience looking at you to get to the cool thing because you're like the to the cool thing because you're like, I gotta equip my gear, I don't know how to equip my fucking gear. No, I gotta move, you know? Yeah, there's a part of me that is aware that it's just like, you will never have a normal experience. It's just what it is, right?

Starting point is 00:46:39 Oh, you could have a normal experience, anonymously. I suppose so, yes. Or the ultimate, which is the play it like a solo, it's like a single player game. That's what I was talking about. That's what I was gonna say before I got sidetracked by bees, there was a bee problem I had to go solve it. That's a real problem.

Starting point is 00:46:59 It was outside of the house, but it was hovering around the door. Well, how dare he? So the wife and the baby couldn't get in because there was a pee The whole thing is a lockdown situation. Of course go on. So now that now that The game is like it's been single-player FIDE as much as it possibly could. Mm-hmm, right? And you could you can get through like

Starting point is 00:47:31 90 plus percent of the content. I would not recommend that to anyone. I think that the whole deck of cards only really works on the assumption that you are kind of hanging out with people who are like-minded simultaneous to at least some of the tasks. Well, I'm sure I can appreciate the deep racism cuts that everyone says I'll appreciate about the story, but- You'll never get there if you don't make MMO friends or have MMO friends or have friends that you already have that kind of play MMOs Are there are there are there folks who? Make it there not offline or not single-player, but essentially always queuing with randoms surely there must be oh

Starting point is 00:48:22 I in general you're gonna queue with randoms. Mm hmm. Like, you know, like I have, I have what 12 friends that play FF14 regularly. Mm hmm. But like somebody has to be on like literally online. And even the smallest group content requires four people. Yeah, like, but I'm but I, but I'm definitely aware of the difference in enjoyment between queuing up with even one person

Starting point is 00:48:48 you know versus like just- Oh, well that's the difference. Versus none, right? There's queuing up for normal shit. It's even listed in game as normal with randoms to be assumed, to be assumed with generics or randoms and oh hey well, right? But if you want to be doing real shit, then you probably don't want random people because that'll probably end in tears.

Starting point is 00:49:19 Right. Helldiver, ooh! Somebody says Helldivers! Helldivers is a great example. Playing difficulty four or five with randoms? Ah, who cares? Playing difficulty eight or nine with randoms? Maybe you would want people that will listen to you on voice chat. Right, right, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Though actually, Helldivers is actually a really bad example for this, because I found that the game is easier on difficulty 7 and 8 than it is on 5 and 6. Because the people that live in difficulty 7, 8, and 9 are really good. They're really, really good. There is that too. Or if anything, you are holding them back, more likely.

Starting point is 00:49:59 Yeah. Do your dailies with randoms. I'm not doing fucking dailies. I'm not that. I ain't that dude. I will do the daily that has the thing that I want behind it, but I will ignore 9.99% of those fucking whatever. Same, same. I mean, as I scroll through the goddamn Nikkei shit, I'm just like, I don't like that. I don't care about that. Get that notification out of my whatever. Ooh. You know? So, uh, so, uh, Dailies in, um, Dailies in 14 exists for only two reasons.

Starting point is 00:50:33 They only exist in two reasons. One, you're at level cap, and you want currency for gearing up. Or you're not at level cap, and this will give you a bunch of levels. But they have tuned the XP so that on your first character, you will easily hit level cap long before you get to the end of the game. And they'll just give you the gear required to get to the end of the game. So you would, you would, if you started playing today, you would hit fucking Dawn Trail before you had to do one daily Which would probably take you like a year I

Starting point is 00:51:13 Know that the more I speak in this situation the more incriminating it'll be but it's just picture if you will a world where I the moment I look sideways at a task that looks kind of monotonous to me, and I just alt F4 the whole thing. I'm just like, nah, I'm here for the shit that's the meat and potatoes that draws me in, and barely a second more. I know that's annoying, but I'm just, I am who I am. You know? You want a cake made entirely out of frosting, and that's fine. But only, only if everyone knows that I'm actually a pie person who's trying out a cake.

Starting point is 00:51:57 Yeah, exactly. Who's not, who didn't want a cake to begin with. You know? I didn't walk in here looking for a cake. I'm a pie guy, but if I'm gonna have it, I'm gonna have it I'm like yeah well alright you know what I'm looking for anyways anyways there is so solidus actually does do one it mentions one thing that is is very interesting there's a daily called crystal tower well it's not a daily but whatever there's a there's a There's a daily called Crystal Tower. Well, it's not a daily, but whatever.

Starting point is 00:52:26 There's an easy raid that you do all the time, leveling up your characters called Crystal Tower. It's from A Realm Reborn, so it was there right away. It just happens to pop up a lot when you run your roulettes. It happens a lot. I have probably run Crystal Tower like 2,000 fucking times. The music's really good. It's pretty easy gives you good rewards blah blah blah They take the assumption that you have done Crystal Tower like literally a thousand times To sprinkle it later. Uh-huh in later stuff That they don't even have to point they're just like everybody fucking knows Crystal Tower Yeah So they don't even have to point. They're just like, everybody fucking knows Crystal Tower. Yeah, and that's cool, especially when you can like fuck

Starting point is 00:53:07 with expectations and things that are like based on your knowledge of it. It's really cool when you make it to that next level of Tartarus and the music layer adds on and you're like, oh shit, ba ba da da da da da, oh shit, oh cool. I had to go through some boring ass Tartarus to get there. But we got there and there was a nice little thing for it. There is a late game boss fight that you can only know what to do if you remembered how to complete it in the Realm Reborn version.

Starting point is 00:53:37 Which for some people was like nine years ago or this past weekend. Okay. Okay. Depending. Someone says a very simple, short sentence and I guess it really just some, like, Wooly plays video games for fun. Like I just. It's true! I just, I deep, in my soul I don't lose sight of that.

Starting point is 00:53:58 Sometimes I do, but not for very long. You can. Well sometimes when you get older. You can flashlights and you can distract me for a little while, but it won't last too long. There'll eventually be a moment where I go like, wait, am I having fun? And that just snaps every once in a while. And if the answer is yes, then I'm like, okay, cool.

Starting point is 00:54:14 Just checking. That's it. So like for me, MMO shit, like a huge part of the appeal, which is like endemic to the genre and it carries a wildly varying amount of weight I Like big areas in games that feel like a real location that I am teleporting my brain inside that carries

Starting point is 00:54:39 Really far, okay, I see it carries a lot Yeah, like entering into a new zone and like seeing a horizon and be like, oh, it's like enormous big deal But for those of those who debt doesn't kick in that good chemical. Oh, it's actually really annoying to traverse the long distances sometimes Yeah, so I get that. I definitely do get that, but like to keep it active, I kind of, what I like alongside that is like, well, just good, strong lore that has me thinking about it

Starting point is 00:55:19 as I'm moving into that space. So, automata is buildings that are dilapidated, post-apocalyptic, desert. It's gray. It's, yeah. Like green. But knowing the context of what all this means and when it's taking place and thinking

Starting point is 00:55:37 about what all of that means takes the elements you're looking at and has you thinking about them so much more than that shitty little stupid garbage can robot. You're thinking so much more about why it exists and how it's behaving because of what Yoko Taro has told you about how it got here. You know? Well, in that case, if you were ever to play FF14, you would need to start into Gridania so that people could explain to you that the spirit of the forest is canonically racist. Yes. Yes to all of this. Yes. I approve. Yeah. So anyways, that's me in a nutshell. I'm a simple creature.

Starting point is 00:56:26 But an amazing song will pull me right back in. So yeah, FF16 tomorrow, probably not going to get through that bloody palace. But at the very least, I'll see if I can get through the. Do you know how many floors it is? No idea about it. All I know is you unlock it at the end. You unlock it at the end of the rising tide is all I know.

Starting point is 00:56:46 So, that's pretty much me. What's going on with you? Well, I visited you and I visited my mom and pops and my sister and my brother-in-law and hang out with my nephew and brought my tiny pet junior baby on an aeroplane over to see y'all. And I will ask you a question. Isn't he just the cutest little guy? Isn't he just so adorable? I mean, we had a moment where it was just talking about how it's like, oh shit, you are currently watching over perfection. Yeah. Good luck.

Starting point is 00:57:28 Like, just completely untainted, just like that, just idyllic. Like, idyllic? All right, just can we hold this state? All smiles and giggles. Joy, pure joy. Can we just, can we hold this state? Can we lock it in? Oh, it's gonna be hard.

Starting point is 00:57:50 It's gonna be tough. As reality encroaches, can we just? But yeah, traveled to Montreal, took a couple of planes. Baby laughed and giggled and slept on the plane on the way over and on the way back so here's the thing like early signs indicate that Baby likes people. Oh

Starting point is 00:58:16 Oh my which is not a you thing, but no it's But it's in there It's it's it just hey, here's a baby. Smile. Goo goo gaga. Ah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Got really lucky.

Starting point is 00:58:32 Got really lucky with that. Oh my god. Just don't fuck it up, don't fuck it up. Don't fuck it up. Don't fuck it up. Like me and Paige went out and we had lunch right before the podcast, and the baby was in a high chair, like laughing and smiling at the waitress and she's like, oh, what a sweet little guy.

Starting point is 00:58:50 And like I looked to Paige and I'm like, this temperament is a gift and it can be ruined by life events. We just have to be ready to kill anyone who will fuck with this. Like oh my God. It's a lot of pressure. It's a lot of pressure. It was nice being able to hand Pat Jr. to like my mom and dad. They got all emotional and shit. And then commenced, then commenced the now that I am a parent, it's time to hear the remainder of that crazy shit I wondered about that I didn't understand when I was a kid. Like, how my mom would be like, ah, these fucking kids, and would just change all the clocks in the house until I was talking for bed.

Starting point is 00:59:39 Time to squeeze the last little bit of juice out of this fucking dry ass Out of this stone the last drop of blood. Oh My god listing at home. This was the 90s. There were no automated clocks There were all personally set So mom and dad could totally go around the house and be like yeah, it's 9 p.m. Right now whatever go around the house and be like, yeah, it's 9 PM right now. Whatever. And that's, this is not the first time I've heard of this. This is, I actually like, yeah, going like, oh, it's actually later. Yeah. It's time for bed when it's super night. I was like, Oh my God, I can't, I can't believe it. Oh, I got,

Starting point is 01:00:19 cause I, I never know. I never caught on. I never caught on. My sister caught on. Of course she did because she's the genius of the family, but like I never caught on. I never caught on. My sister caught on. Of course she did because she's the genius of the family But like I never caught on so I'm sitting in their mouth agape just going oh What? Dad I'm like hey mom get this Did you ever notice that I stole cookies every single day out of your cookie bag? For like ten years. She's like no. I thought the kids that I babysat did that. Oh, mom, it was me.

Starting point is 01:00:48 You took a nap from three to four p.m. every single day and I went, you know what, if I take a random amount of cookies, if I take two today or three tomorrow or whatever, you'll never figure it out. And she didn't. Okay. Got her. But the consistency is there.

Starting point is 01:01:05 You just never, you can never predict the amount. Yeah, gaslighting is the ultimate babysitter. So my mother actually admitted to me, oh you know what was really funny when Patrick was a baby? What's that? Well we would tell him things that were wrong, like brown cows give chocolate milk, but then we'd forget to correct him until he got into an argument at school.

Starting point is 01:01:32 Oh my god! Really? Yeah, no, we'd forget all the time. We couldn't remember what we told you. Fuck. Cool, cool, that's good. That's set up for victory right there. And my personal favorite, you ever have, well, I don't know if you've felt this in your life where somebody older than you, usually a family member, maybe a family friend or something, they tell you a story when you're like 15 or 20

Starting point is 01:02:06 or something, and then later they tell like your spouse or girlfriend the same story, but you're older now. And the story they tell them is the real story, and the one that you got when it happened was complete bullshit. Okay, I feel like you've mentioned this before, but I forgot what it was pertaining to. My dad starts to tell Paige, oh, you know, when I had the heart attack, right? You know, I had quit smoking, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 01:02:37 And he had a heart attack when he was driving, right? My mom's like, yeah, we were driving to the in-laws house. And here's a detail that never got to Patrick up until this visit. My dad gets out of the car to do a little walk around, like we're pulled off on the side of the road, and he looks at my mom and says, give me a cigarette. And she's like, well, you quit smoking. He's like, I think I'm going to die Just let me have one last cigarette Meanwhile, I'm in the car playing fucking game gear going. I wonder if dad's okay

Starting point is 01:03:20 Jesus Christ he had his smoke and Then got back in the car and then they went to the hospital. They're like, sir, you're having a heart attack. He's like, yeah, I know. Oh my God. Yeah. Okay. Man. I mean, I guess that you kind of last cigarette ever had in his life

Starting point is 01:03:46 Yeah, I guess you cut that one you kind of get a bit more. It's like that's you might want to save that for later No, there were there were a couple of those but usually Those were just like Not not like the real version comes out later, but it's more just like, oh, when you get older and the story comes back up again, there's details about like, hey, what happened to this person that used to be around? Oh, they're dead. Or no, just like, oh, they weren't around anymore originally.

Starting point is 01:04:21 Oh yeah, they moved away or whatever. And not like, you know, there were, later on you find out that it's not that they moved away, but there were allegations of criminal nature. Oh, that one, yeah, okay. That, you know, that were not brought up at the time. Where you're like, oh, oh, cool, okay, right. That was actually, mm-hmm, yes. There was that was actually... Mm-hmm. Yes, there was, got it.

Starting point is 01:04:49 But yeah, no, it's, Paige and I were sweating the whole trip over, just like, oh my God, we're traveling with an eight, nine month old baby. Oh my God, oh, is he gonna freak out? Is he gonna freak out? No, he's being such a cute baby, that on the way back to to Vancouver, the flight attendant wanted to hold him. And we're like, Okay. And she's like, Oh, my God. You know, I'm at that

Starting point is 01:05:18 time in my life where everything in my body is telling me I want need to have kids. But you know, it's just not time yet and I'm like this is kind of personal. You don't have to tell me that my child is activating your ovaries on the plane. No, you are like just emitting an 80 field destroyer of just truth is being uttered without being asked for yet, uh Wow, he's so cute, you know, I never thought but here we are I'm about that I'm about it's about that time and I just can't get him to really commit to it And I don't you know, I just I don't know what I wanted anyway. Here you go Yeah, yeah to it and I don't, you know, I just, I don't know what I wanted anyway. Here you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's basically been my week. I saw you, I saw some friends,

Starting point is 01:06:11 I saw family babies, amazing, best baby ever. Um, I don't know if I talked about Quebec last week. Did I on the podcast? I talked to you about it. Yeah, there. The the a little bit of it was touched on I think the the upon reentering. Did I talk about the the fucking rental car on the podcast? I want to say so. Yeah. Yeah. So this feeling of like, ah, did we make the right decision to move? Right? There was that. And then there was upon leaving. I'm like, inside Quebec, a disproportionately low amount of people smiled at my baby. Bad sign. Like we

Starting point is 01:06:57 went from 90% of passersby smile and wave at the baby to like, I don't know, 40%? Like really is that, that's not, there's no, that's not a bias, that's not a bias, that's a, you feel that's a real... Oh absolutely and same thing with the dog actually. We didn't bring the dog but when we lived in Montreal I'd walk the dog and like most people wouldn't even glance at him. Move out to Vancouver, people were like, Oh, what a cute doggy. Like every person on the street. I mean, I'm look like that.

Starting point is 01:07:33 There's, there's stuff that I can, that I can echo and underline here about our different experiences. I don't feel like I've gotten a, the world I'm in hates babies. Why I think that sounds the single most important descriptor of any location is do they smile at my admittedly by you perfect child. That this sounds very extreme based on the experiences you've had this. I don't know man I'll take your word but grain of salt. That's crazy Like is crazy that somebody wouldn't smile at that adorable baby

Starting point is 01:08:18 Crazy Anyway, alright. Baby's still getting cuter every day. I love him so much. But that's pretty much it for me. If you want to go see me play FF7 Rebirth as well as backlog and some phone shit, go down to twitch.tv slash PatStairsHat. There you go.

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Starting point is 01:11:58 Thank you, Shopify. Thanks, Shopify. Yo, it's 2024 and we're near our 40s you want to talk about Akuma? And and what Akuma can do Did you know that Akuma has a fucking air fireball holy shit he does the raging demon has a fucking air fireball holy shit he does the raging demon oh it's I feel so old I have been talking about the new thing that Akuma can do since Christ ninety fucking six seven what like since I was literally a child like we are actually as that last generation pre-internet into internet as that generation of like You know

Starting point is 01:12:51 8-bit into photorealistic games where we've really experienced this full breadth and Expansion at an exponential pace and fuck do things really barely ever change do they? Right we've done this so many times that I remember us joking about like I'll walk new what new Stupid nonsense. They're gonna give a kuma. They're gonna just give him They're just gonna go to Tokito's house and just hand him the metal now Right just all this nonsense. So oh here comes the trailer What could they possibly give him that is more busted than we imagined? Oh

Starting point is 01:13:42 Man I just you know on this note of Wherever you go there you are You know is the vibe I saw the other day like JJ Abrams is apparently gonna be directing a back to the future reboot and there's a tweet that was just like this dude has been making movies for like half his life and The only thing he wants to do is just, yo, my childhood though. Like that's, that's the entirety of it, right? It's pathetic. It's so embarrassing. And it's just like, man, like that, but this is really just, we just want the thing we

Starting point is 01:14:18 know. That's all we want. We're, we're just these creatures of comfort and habit. Give me my blankie. No matter listen. No, no, listen We have we have we have alluded to this we have said something similar to this But Akuma is not oh, I just want my blankie right Akuma is a tax Akuma is a tax on people who play fighting games the way the lottery is a tax on stupid people Okay, Akuma should be there. He should be there He's he's more mandatory than some of the fucking original eight and he will be there Look at you Honda

Starting point is 01:15:02 God damn it. He's back. He's old. He's angry They fixed the lion mane by turning it into a beard. They put barbarian fur on him and He's evil and he's mad that that shot of him with the back with his arms out He just kind of looks like a fucking anthropomorphized penis I mean, yes like the veins and the skin textured rough course course, you know and Yeah, and you're gonna fight him on Akuma Island and fucking you know generic What is it John world tour walks up to him and

Starting point is 01:15:43 What is it? John world tour walks up to him and What we're calling it. I believe that's what that's what he's been being called And then yeah, he jumps down and sure you can the shit out of you and you land on the ground and you survive And he next to the statue of the sure you can the head off the statue that he also did and you're like motherfucker He's still cool. There he is It's interesting like the intros for the other characters is all like, the character's doing something really cool, and they'll have a little standoff with your guy, and they'll obviously be better than John World Tour. But, you know, ah, you know, the new guy's got some things.

Starting point is 01:16:17 Here, it's like, hey, you survived getting rocked by Akuma. That's worth something. Now, Loreheads, take note. This is so funny to me. This is so funny to me. He doesn't just do a Shoryuken to you. He does a fucking Metsu Shoryuken wholeheartedly stolen from Ryu. He ate that shit in third strike and went, Oh, that's good Oh, you got some of that and he hits you in the chin and holds it and does the same level of pressure Into explosion and X copies it and so now he's got a fucking evil

Starting point is 01:16:59 You know call it a mess at so sure you can whatever you want Oh, but we look over at someone in the chat chillaxing Jayceeing, Akuma kill count is zero. Oh, not so fast! Because the description of his stage describes that Akuma sits around making statues all day of the hundreds of opponents he has destroyed. Uh-huh, uh-huh, the new stage, Enma's Hollow, which is essentially Akuma's Island from, you know, the old, from Third Strike and Street Fighter Alpha 3 and so on. So yeah, off-screen, off-screen bodies, don't worry about it.

Starting point is 01:17:39 He killed like 500 guys! He killed the whole bunch, you know, and again, until until old man go tetsu shows back up You know so fucking funny um Would be like a hundred and fifty years old at this point. I mean propped up by True Satsui nohado and psycho perhaps, who knows, but regardless, regardless. Yeah, no, so he's there. And we got to see the actual gameplay style.

Starting point is 01:18:11 So for one, it looks like they've taken not just all the Akuma stuff that you got used to in Street Fighter V, but they're taking all the evil boys and putting a little bit of them into him too. They sprinkled in, so Evil Ryu, Oni and Kage all have particular target combo things that each of them has. And he has a little bit of those as well worked in. He has the V trigger stuff that he had in Street Fighter V as his EX or OD moves now. So when he does the Shoryuken, he does the chop afterwards.

Starting point is 01:18:48 Having those BEX moves instead of V trigger seems way better. Yeah, it's all there. It's all there. He gets it all. Air Fireball, I got you covered. Ground Fireball, yep. You wanna charge it up further.

Starting point is 01:19:00 Red Fireball. That lava shit from Tekken. So yeah, he's got the new punch, right? He's got a new move. It's a big old lava punch. And it is his equivalent of reuse, you know? Gohado, like the, right? So he charges it up.

Starting point is 01:19:23 And the same thing for the level 2. It lands and it hits you into a crumple state where you tumble and hit the wall. Hachogeki rather. And yeah, looks cool in combos, he's extending with it. And then the big thing has always been his demon flip and how annoying he's going to be with it. So before, you know, he could dive kick, he can slide, he can throw you, but he always had to commit to something, right? Here he can do Demon Flip into overhead, which he couldn't do before, then he can dive kick,

Starting point is 01:19:58 he can do a low, so he gets a high low mid, or he can just land in front of you. So he can actually do it to nothing, which is really, really good because... Oh, what if you wanted to use an EX meter? Then you get your extra fireball, then you get your... Yeah, yeah, he gets extra shit. Then you get Tatsu in the air off of Demonflip! Off of Demonflip. That's so gross!

Starting point is 01:20:17 As long as you spend your meter for it, right? So he loses the command grab out of Demonfl Flip, but that's because they put it on the fucking teleport moving forward. Of course, with that, they mentioned that the teleport going forward no longer has invulnerability, so he can get hit out of it. But still, it's a fucking- Yeah, whatever. Whatever.

Starting point is 01:20:40 It's a command grab on the ground dashing up to you, catching you sleeping. So Akuma's got one of those now. He gets everything and then some forever, because that's Akuma. Akuma's job is to have more and then some. Four supers, the only character with four supers? Fuck that, give him five. Right? He's got Fireball level one, he's got Airfireball level one, he's got his...

Starting point is 01:21:02 Lava Punch level two. Lava Punch level 2 also. All level 1s have that invulnerability moment, but the others tend not to. Fuck that. His level 2 gets invulnerability as well. Yeah, why not? Fuck you.

Starting point is 01:21:13 Eat shit. And then his level 3, which I like it. I know some people are saying it's kind of underwhelming, because it's like that. I really like it. I like it, because it's like that. It's the chop from third strike. But it's point blank straight to the face hit. And it's like that. I really like I like it because it's like that. It's the chop from third strike But it's point blank straight to the face hit

Starting point is 01:21:27 And it's just it's great because it's like in five they were going for a kind of simple effective brutal feeling with GEEFS Super and they failed completely because the animation just it was the worst ever it just no sells it right But here they want to get to the point of like this is just brutal. He has no qualms about hitting a downed opponent Drop you down fuck off right so it's a big murder punch to the point of like, this is just brutal. He has no qualms about hitting a downed opponent. Drop you down, fuck off, right? So it's a big murder punch to the ground. It's just death. And then you get your raging demon, which, okay, I always didn't like seeing what was going on because when we started to see it, it didn't look as cool as just- Yeah, when you started to see it, it was just like, oh, it's dark. The magic.

Starting point is 01:22:06 He's hitting you a bunch from different directions. Exactly. That's not anywhere near as cool as the idea of like, your soul is being dragged to hell and your sins and a demon is feasting on it. All the lore implications of your instant hell murder were your sins and the guilt you feel and all of that, the ghost rider aspect of it, you know. You lose a little of that when you see the flashes

Starting point is 01:22:30 of him just punching you a bunch of shit. So it's like, ah, okay. It's a glorified Ryakuranbu, which is like the Ryo and Takuma style big rush combo hit, sure. But this version now, it's like, okay, no, let's take that a step further. You get warped into a

Starting point is 01:22:46 Genjutsu ass itachi dimension Yeah, that's some Naruto shit and an infinite sky of Akuma's is all flying in at you That's see that's great and each one of them is doing a hit and you're like, oh, yeah. Okay No, that works again, and you can you can even like headcanon it to like in in Four four or five or whatever when you saw, oh, it's completely dark and it's like one, two, three, and it's just really fast. Those were all different Akumas. So when he goes die a thousand deaths, it's because a thousand different Akumas are coming at you.

Starting point is 01:23:18 And then the full expanse of it. And it only lasts a second too, but it's just enough to register a holy shit You get a lot of a cool. Where am I what's going on? You know and then like yeah, they I'm being told by chat to say the word domain Expansion domain expansion sure get your JJK going they'd win and And then he does it. I'm like you know what what? You sold me on it then. That's fine. That works.

Starting point is 01:23:47 It's cool to see as well on his old costume. They have the throwback, of course. But I'm glad they included just a hint of the gray on the sides. So it's like, it's the younger Akuma, but like right before Third strike looking where he's getting a little gray on the on the the bit there. So so unlike Street Fighter V where I saw the new Akuma design and I'm like this is a secondary tax on you buying the old Akuma design. I look at the

Starting point is 01:24:21 Street Fighter VI one and I go, that's great! But I also like old Akuma. But I'd flip flop between them if I could, or if I want to. And everyone figured it out back with the old lion sunflower look where it was like, just make it so that it's a beard and his hair is growing out wildly and that's fine. No one hates the beard, it's just the fact that it's a perfect sunflower circle. You look like a Shih Tzu. You know? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:24:49 You look like a tiny little poofy dog. And the whole time the effect is to try and look like, you know, an old Buddhist statue, an old, you know... Or like a lion. To look like a lion, but, and to give off the... God god what's the fucking word anyway whatever you know the deal the the shit he's he's killing all the time though from the temples but yeah this kind of no a particular type of demon for the only they did that yeah I've done only exactly an only oh man I just looked at the trailer again. I can't believe colorblind volcano island is way

Starting point is 01:25:27 In the back there. Yes, and ash ashura. That's what I was trying to remember. Yes, so he he he does all of that But yeah, you didn't lose any of it and then you built on it and fixed it. So here he is Also, like the text appearing and shit is like now there's like a whole ton of it to read I'm sure it's all, you know, it's all violence translation. It's all like, I'll kill you. You're dead. Punching heaven, earth, violence, tree, soul, spirit, kill, murder, hell, death, kill. And on top of Akuma showing up, here comes the balance patch alongside him. As we begin season two, officially.

Starting point is 01:26:06 So we can live in a world in which every single character has been specifically balanced to job to Akuma. Well, so this game has been one where most characters have had fairly even amounts of life. Gif and Marisa get a little bit more, but they're not really fucking around with low and high health values. Akuma is usually a glass cannon. He has all those things.

Starting point is 01:26:31 Akuma's usually got 800 instead of a thousand. He's got all those moves, but the trade off is he dies easier. I imagine they're going to do the same thing around this time. There's got to be a downside, right? There's got to be a downside. All right, here, hey, Jamie's coming in with only three drinks there's no fourth drink anymore. Drink number one's where you start, come on yeah. Pre-drunk yeah.

Starting point is 01:26:55 That would be like the most insane buff that's ever happened to anybody. I mean you can, there's a lot of wild shit you could do with with again like the idea of Jamie Installing permanently or starting with one or keeping them across rounds. Fuck it. Jamie has the target combo at zero drinks done Character goes up a full letter grade If you let the intro rock, he takes an extra sip. Yeah. Yeah, no. So we'll see whatever they do. But I just I am I imagine Akuma is going to have something to him that is going to be fucking just, you know, the balancing can't be so insane that he gets all of that plus five supers and

Starting point is 01:27:42 his turn on the Xbox, you know, all of that plus five supers and his turn on the Xbox. You don't even know that. Akuma's come out and been fucked. That has happened. Yes, yes, but we're trapped in it. Every game he's ever released in? But we've never released a game that's been this tight from day one, so fingers are crossed.

Starting point is 01:28:04 Yeah, we'll see. Um, he and yeah, he also gets to hold his his punches to get his extra fireballs as well. So he gets regular and, um, yeah, so you know what? Right. So all those extra fireballs and just hold the button for a second. I make sense. Those Masatsu fireballs always took longer anyway. They don't need a different motion.

Starting point is 01:28:23 Just have you hold the button and Yeah, and if it clashes it eats the hits from whatever clashes with and gives you the remainder so Yeah, anyway, I Yeah, he's dropping on March, they're sorry May 22nd with Enma's hollow and the balance patch cool They're sorry May 22nd with Enma's hollow and the balance patch cool And all the DLC costumes yes for the extra characters as well, which are all Most all better than everybody's existing costumes like they're all slam-dunks

Starting point is 01:29:02 They they didn't show off any of the new missing ones yet for three But but for the new characters at the very least. But yeah, we'll see what they are. So far they've been fucking great. Oh yeah. So a raging demon only when he's about to die now only in CA. And you can combo into it. Yes. So which means it's probably not like a zero frame grab or anything like that. Yeah. Might be a hit. Making it conditional. I get it. Like by, you know, you can combo into it, but you can only have it during a certain moment. Plus it costs all your resources. Because in five, it was also conditional, right?

Starting point is 01:29:35 You have to do V trigger one to access it. So yeah, I get that idea as well. I was kind of wondering, I was like, what if it's like only when you're in burnout or something, you know, like that, or the opponent that is, like to say. But yeah, when you're about to die, he's going to get it. You know, I feel like I'm just thinking about that because I had forgotten about burnout while we were talking about this. Like if Akuma has lower health than anyone else, and you want to do all this fancy shit, then

Starting point is 01:30:07 him getting into burnout, you might as well just put the controller down. Oh man. Oh man. Maybe. Because when you look- Because that makes him more glass than usual. Yeah. Because you see what in the video he does.

Starting point is 01:30:21 I think he does like air fireball lands, it, and then does drive rush in and as the air fireballs are hitting, he's converting it into a launch with the with his up kick into and then continue extending it to like all the way to the wall and or into like a level one super. And so you're just like, oh, yeah, with drive rush, he can air fireball into fucking get covering his bases which Typically would be again that would be like a V trigger thing You know from before so I can easily see like in a lot of players in like gold and below just being like

Starting point is 01:30:55 Check out this Akuma combo. I did okay, so you've burnt out ten seconds into the round Because you did your cool Akuma combo. Shaked my head. Blew every possible fucking resource you had. Here comes. And it was really cool. Yeah, and and and we all saw it, but here comes my loyal fans. Bye. Maybe, maybe. We'll see what they do.

Starting point is 01:31:21 I want I'm excited to see round three Akuma versus Manon. Oh Boy, I am excited to see two throws equals death So if they didn't fuck with his like life, they could fuck with his drive You know like lost. Oh, yeah, they could do do shit like they could balance it around him losing drive more frequently. They could they could find other ways if they didn't want him to take more more damage. You know, not that I think that would probably be worse, actually.

Starting point is 01:31:56 I think it'd be better to stay alive. Prefer the lower line. Yeah. To get forced into burnout more often. That'd be insane. Probably. But anyway be insane, probably. But anyway, we'll see. All right, and then, that's not the only big, exciting returning character coming back.

Starting point is 01:32:15 Aw shit, Evil Japan, what's going on? Ah, Lydia is returning to Tekken 8. Did you see? Which one's Lydia? She's the president. Oh, Poland. Yes, Lydia. So be a scar. She's cool. And she did the she broke. She did the chops. And she did the punches and she did the Poland. Hold on, Willie, we need to stop talking about

Starting point is 01:32:40 the Evo Japan announcements for approximately 40 minutes while we wait for Twitch to unban those channels. Oh God, poor Grand Blue Fantasy versus Rising. In the middle of the finals, Twitch banned all the Evo channels and everyone was like, what the fuck happened? And yeah, like 40 minutes later, they came back. At least the Japanese channel stayed up so people were able to switch over. I am in love with the way that I found that out, which was somebody making a little joke tweet about like, the Twitch robot saw like Street Fighter 6 grand finals with Cami, Ken, JP, and Blanca and thought it was a rebroadcast. And so banned it. People were trying to figure out, they're like, is it because of the unmoderated chat,

Starting point is 01:33:37 what was going on? The Evo account tweeted out later that apparently there was like a login issue. So someone, maybe one too many people or someone logged in some way that they weren't supposed to and it seemed suspicious and it caused an auto-ban. Oh, like people setting up the streams and logging in on like 40 different fucking setups. Something like that. There was something suspicious happened with the login and it triggered an auto an auto ban or whatever So yeah, they that happened, but yeah, no so Tekken they they revealed that of course we all know that the true winner of

Starting point is 01:34:18 Evo Japan in our hearts was Jin Mashima Who if anyone hasn't tuned in. Great name, great name. You know when I was talking about how good Eddie is as a piece of DLC, you know, what comes to mind for a lot of people, like I go, you make the joke, oh, Eddie Tekken is three, three, three, three, three.

Starting point is 01:34:43 Tekken is three. Yeah, and then some people get to work with their mods and their AIs and their shit, and they put together a goddamn controller mesh bot that just streams Eddie mashing three, which is the X button. Exclusively. And playing online against people. And fucking winning. And moving moving a higher ranked in me moving up the ranks moving up the ranks Generally and seeing and get like a couple people catch on a whole lot of people don't and some people that do catch on

Starting point is 01:35:20 Still eat it and you know Those are the worst ones because he's doing one combo, and depending on when you press three, it's going to like he's going to pop you up, go into a full wall convert, get that install into banana stand, you know. His Mandingo point, he's going to get it. It's crazy that you could just have that one mashed button do so much and carry you so far. One mashed button do so much and carry you so far Everyone's type called typing 3 d d y you know so thready It's um is doing it

Starting point is 01:35:51 It's probably did you just say fucking mandingo point. That's what I said correct Okay, sorry. I just my brain just kind of yeah, you go back on itself for a second when you get to level Two mandingo it buffs his banana stand we've been over this we talked about this this is a perfect it's a perfect actual visual visualization that you can show people and you're like, this is the bell curve of I'm just pushing buttons in real life. This is what happened. This is the difference between complete amateur or in this case, literal non-human robot that doesn't do anything and beginner player.

Starting point is 01:36:44 Yeah. And like Tekken feels extra bad. Yeah. This. Yeah. Tekken has always felt the worst of I'm learning how to play. Fuck. I'm getting beaten up by five year olds. Juggled, juggled, juggled right over. And it's because it's doing a bunch of mids and then there's eventually a low. And it ended. But it also is like it's a filter's doing a bunch of mids and then there's eventually a low. And it, but it also is like,

Starting point is 01:37:07 it's a filter that is a very early beginning filter, which is, are you fighting while paying attention to what your opponent is doing at all? At all! At all! No! Or are you just focused on doing your thing that you practiced and trying to land it?

Starting point is 01:37:22 I wanna do my thing! Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanna do my big Akuma combo. I don't care if I burn out afterwards. Well then good luck. If you are paying attention at all to what is happening, then you can do that. You can figure it out. Some people, again, you do start to see them blocking.

Starting point is 01:37:39 I saw some folks switch over to the modern button toggle, you know, once they kind of saw what was going on. But the whole time the chat is just getting mad at anyone who figures it out and fights back. Oh yeah. The level of venom at anyone who's like, oh fuck you, you try hard, you think you're so good, blocking the low.

Starting point is 01:38:00 Just block stupid. You know. Just block. And it's just like yeah, block the mid, block the mid, block the mid, crouch. You're gonna see the sequence and then after the third one comes in, block the low and punish. And people are so upset when people start blocking it.

Starting point is 01:38:14 Oh God, it's great, it's great. So yeah, Jin Mashima on Twitch is streaming that eddy bot for now. You can go check that out But enough of that shit Here comes slayer man They know how to look at that. Look at that lineup, right Abba Elfelt

Starting point is 01:38:44 Johnny Abba, Elfelt, Johnny, Slayer, all the fan favorites, save Dizzy who they're gonna sell you later. If Hakann was a Guilty Gear character, I would have hope in my heart that he may one day return. Because Guilty Gear is willing to go. Way in the back and rummage around and pick something like Abba is is obscure. It's fucking weird.

Starting point is 01:39:15 But a fan favorite obscure character. That's the thing. Came about in Isuka stuck around after she got ported over. And as just a weirdo dead girl, you know Yeah, whereas Slayer is like everybody fucking loves. I mean, he's just the fucking god of dandyism and daddyism now Right. I mean I okay so Slayer coming back to strive. You're like everyone gets the glow up but Slayer was kuma and Slayer are back now. But like Slayer's original

Starting point is 01:39:49 design in my opinion is like perfection. I agree. So I'm like how do you... And so do they because they barely changed it. How do you build on that? You give that fucker a jacket? Just have him wear the coat. Just give him a jacket. With his arms not in the sleeves. And just make him a little bit older and he's amazing. There's a character in Infinite Wealth named Yamai who wears his fucking suit and he wears a coat

Starting point is 01:40:19 but he doesn't put his arms in his sleeves. And when he showed up I was just like, I wish I was the kind of person that was cool enough in my life to ever rock this look even once, but I'm not. He's so clean. He's so clean. And I'm just like, please give me a crumb, just a crumb of the interaction. And yes, him and Nagoriyuki just both being like, hey, dandyism, right?

Starting point is 01:40:42 This vampire shit, how about it? It's so good. Yes, or according to the lore, nightless. That's the name, right? He's a nightless. Fuck man, English VA killing it. Sounding exactly the way you want him to. Sharon's there, she's doing her thing, she's a lot of Sharon being shown,

Starting point is 01:41:09 which is what you want more, more, more of her. Sharon's great, I love Sharon. And just like, all right, what's he got, what's going on? Sharon's responsible for my favorite guilty gear ending ever, where at the end of Eddie in X2, he's like, ah, now I can take over your body and touches Sharon good luck with that bro yeah you want a piece of her okay how's that gonna work out for you oh fuck yeah bye just don't do it don't

Starting point is 01:41:38 do it you can't handle it only he can incredible right So she's coming out of the coat. You know, they're tangoing all over your fucking corpse. And then you're like, yeah, what's he about? What's he doing? He's got his fucking dandy step. He's got his Mappa. He's got all the big pile bunking you ever wanted. All of that's back and looking great.

Starting point is 01:42:00 You know, new shit. He lives in that archetype of character who is not trying. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Who's like overtly taking it easy on you with every strike. Just lazily enjoying the fight as well he can. But again, a little bit older this time around, right? And then he does his blood-sucking universe,

Starting point is 01:42:22 which for Nagori Ukiuki that is life and death He's got to suck your blood to get that shit under control. It's the only way to you know stop him from dying and for Slayer he bites you so that he can fucking universe counter You know, so blood sucking universe you'll see right after he does it He lands a normal or he lands a special on a non acting

Starting point is 01:42:51 Axel and it does a big counter, but it's not counter. It says universe Because that's what he gets after blood sucking universe as he gets a counter hit state for a couple seconds And then yeah before he'd get a little bit of a healing buff as well So that's cool And then charging up his fucking super pile bunker till the point where he's punching out of his clothes Just naked you know whatever the fuck that is Is like if if Um, is like if if um grand blue had old man naked on buff

Starting point is 01:43:33 You know, are we going to stay this way or are we going to teleport back into clothes dandyism? Probably Dictates that you should teleport back into your clothes. So probably I imagine he's gonna just warp at the end of that super back into it um, but then the second super we see him going for a super bite, which gets in does a nice big suck and sucks enough blood for him to become young slayer. No, for him to become Hildebrand Manderville, a character you don't know, but he looks exactly like. Okay. It's fucking weird. Okay. But you're like, oh, that's the fucker that fought Freddie,

Starting point is 01:44:12 like, and had one of the sickest battles of all time during the Crusades. That's the guy that fought Flemeth Nagel, who then becomes Paracelsus later, and then they're like, oh, you're pretty fucking good. I'll see you in a hundred years You know something really there's something really smart about his like age decrease move because Everything about everything about Slayer's character ever has been I'm not trying and you can't even hurt me

Starting point is 01:44:40 Right, but let's have fun. You loss poses him just chillin on the ground, going, ha ha ha. Right. So he's pulling all of his punches. And then like when you play, you know, he get his instant kill. It's like, oh, well, here's the one punch. He's not pulling. Right. But now we've gone past that. Not only is he not going to pull his punch, he's going to become younger to the peak of his life and not pull his punch. Yeah. You know, it's great. It's great.

Starting point is 01:45:09 I mean, look, I like seeing a glimpse of young Cliff back in the day when he made him when he de-aged was always super sick because you're like, oh, that's the fucker that fought seven days and nights to kill the fucking Hydra. Got it. Right. That's the that's the stories were written about this anime character here, and you can totally translate that over to Slayer as well. Where you're like, that's the dude that named Sol bad guy.

Starting point is 01:45:36 He invented, you know the fucking napalm death, the big original instant kill that Sol does? Like yeah, he inspired that move with his giant uppercut version like special as well. The same thing, you know, it's all in there. So the lore God is here and looking as stylish as ever. And in his strivification, it seems like, yeah, this de-aging mechanic, maybe it's gonna stick with him after the super, I don't know. de-aging mechanic. Maybe it's gonna stick with him after the super, I don't know. But he's also got like, yeah, Dandy step into a low, so a nice little mix there as well. You know, I mean, if he builds, if they build the entire character around, I'm going to backdash and come back in and fuck you up. Great. You know, the rest is in there for

Starting point is 01:46:20 fun. But like, he's got everything he needs and and the feeling of landing a pile bunker is as someone who doesn't play Slayer, like that's I've dabbled a little bit. It feels good. That's peak fighting game fucking like synapses firing. You know, when you you make you make someone with something big and stupid and you come flying back in with an explosive about pile bunker that flattens them against the wall immediately as it should Damn that looks and feels good So yeah, that's great all of his flailing things and multi-hitting goofy things are there Let's see if they find a way to have him write a haiku. Maybe as a part of his wind pose

Starting point is 01:47:02 Yeah, that sounds like that would be the place for it Mm-hmm. They're very elaborate animations I feel like it would be you know, like the time to whip out a little a little quill and Start right, you know writing something out. We'll see where they go, but Slayer looks fucking incredible And yeah him to marks the end of this season and then the beginning of the next. So Strive is fucking doing it. It's going great, man. Glad that that's coming along as well. I'm glad that everybody's happy with their character. Like all three games that we've

Starting point is 01:47:39 talked about, like, oh yeah, like Akuma and Slayer or like Lydia is not Akuma or Slayer. But Lydia's great. I really like Lydia. Apparently she's I have to watch the trailer again. But they said that her muscles got nerfed. So she's a little less buff. I did. I have to watch it again. I think she's cool. But yeah, I don't want to see less muscle. Don't do that. So yeah, I mean, you know, at this rate, I think a perfect next season that would make like most people happy if not everybody would be Robo Kai, Jam, something like Gabriel, right? For some fun new shit. and then close it out with dizzy is probably what people would expect And if not them here's here's where here's where I say the phrase does anyone even like jam Yeah, I'm like spontaneous. Yeah. Yeah, they yeah. Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do jams cool jams always cool

Starting point is 01:48:40 She's she's honestly like the the fucking the hand-to-hand or martial art dragon kick shit is is cool Absolutely, I don't I don't like that. She a girl from persona Yes, and as someone who doesn't really play as her at all watching her fight is awesome her her martial arts Her Bruce her being the Bruce Lee of the guilty-gear world is sick like it's fucking rad watching her do all of her her stances and then and installs into the Dragon Kick. I don't know. I don't know if anybody really likes Jam. And then yeah, you can follow up that popularity list with Venom certainly is another big choice

Starting point is 01:49:21 for some of the shows. If they bring back Venom and they don't have a cut scene where him and Eddie kiss, then people are going to be mad. I mean, he's currently making out with Robokai. So I don't think that time is coming just yet. But it'd be cool as well. I don't see it ever happening, but it'd be cool if like I mentioned Dr. Paradigm as another lore background character that would be nice to see. Or Zappa getting possessed again somehow,

Starting point is 01:49:52 even though he's heavily featured in the story. Yeah, I'll be honest, as somebody who is unlikely to go back to Strive, the only character I want to see is Zappa because I want to see how far they can push Strive's engine to its limits with random models popping out of each other. That would be nuts. I know Order Soul is a big thing too, and Order Soul's cool, but I guess it would just have to be

Starting point is 01:50:19 like a nice old what if fucking not story related character just in it for the sake of having it in it. Yeah, fuck it. Order Soul, I fucking love, and I think he just got a lot of cool shit, but I wouldn't want him over any of the previous ones I mentioned. Yeah, it was different back in the day when you could just sprite swap that shit to some degree instead of building a whole new fucking model. I think order soul felt like a bonus. You'd have to, I think, I think that would be like something to come around the season afterwards or so,

Starting point is 01:50:52 but there's still some essentials people want plus some new characters that should show up. So, um, good shit on that. I just saw somebody say pure gorilla soul is peak soul and it made me think of what if there was a fucking character that was just literally a gorilla in soul's clothes that thought he was soul bad guy, I mean You say that like Baba Mualimu is not a thing in Street Fighter 6

Starting point is 01:51:25 That's getting pushed for SummerSlime currently. You know too much about fighting games. And I granted we talked about that maybe a month or two ago, so it's relatively recent, but that's, come on. Hey man, when there was nothing to do and it was a dry test day I'd be reading through TMX plot guide and reading those udon comics. It is what it is, you know There's only so much you time you can spend thinking about frame data before you start thinking about you're probably right Well before you go what but why frame data? Like getting agent is cool. But why is Ginegen? But why Ginegen?

Starting point is 01:52:05 What is Ginegen? What is happening? Who is Ginegen? You know? I wanna know about the cool refreshing blast of getting hit with a Sho-Oken or a Sakura's Hadoken. So yeah, Evo. I don't understand how that can even hurt you

Starting point is 01:52:24 if it's cool and refreshing. Yeah Because you still take damage, but you feel their spirits inside of it So instead of burn is that like somebody chucking a Baja blast at your face? It's yeah, it's well because it's like I guess the idea is just like it's not it's an instead of feel They're not all fire. They don't all burn you sometimes they you get Well, most don't burn you. Um, yeah, like a sonic boom is like a like an impact like like for example It's you know what it is. It's like how when um in x-men They kind of specify that like when you get hit by Cyclops concussive blast. It's not like a laser

Starting point is 01:53:02 It's not it's a punch. It's a hit exactly. It's a punch. It's a hit. Exactly. It's a force. That's like, brr. So just, you know, um, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and then we got to see a whole lot more of a city of the warves. Thank you. Thank you. So, uh, big opening fucking big warves. Yeah. But Yeah, but you know what? Big wharves, no more Kushnud. But is dead. Marco Rodriguez lives forever. I still thought it was really strange that his whole name would get changed between regions.

Starting point is 01:53:40 So when they released Marco, the Marco Rodriguez trailer for Garo city of the wolves The first thing is you go over to the Japanese channel and you see What the fuck the name is and it's Marco Rodriguez in English and in Japanese are like, yeah Locked in Kushnud, but no more and Not only that but a spelling change too. Which I think, I mean, so it first popped up in the, in Art of Fighting story in King of Fighters 15,

Starting point is 01:54:13 they mentioned him and they spelled his name with an S instead of a Z. So that's a particular thing where it's like, oh, so they're going for Brazilian Portuguese and not like Spanish, you know? So yeah, I guess that's the confirm, you know, that being his name is the Portuguese spelling. But he looks fucking awesome. Doing all the shit that you want to see. And then some big shoryu into big slam down. And right before he charges all of his specials the pop art is exploding behind him

Starting point is 01:54:50 Honestly like it's just yeah, he looks fucking great with the big 3d pompadour and everything is great He looks fantastic in 3d the thing about it the only thing about the trailer I would say that like didn't look fantastic. I guess is his background Seems like some of the characters look a little like under Developed or a little stiff ish or so I can but the bears there the bears chillin So Kyoku and bear is there Kyoku and bear is there and they both do the fucking You know there would they do the clash with each other in his intro? So I'm glad that bears hanging out man. I really love that fighting games have decided that you could teach Bear Karate.

Starting point is 01:55:28 Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like fighting games in general have decided that you could teach Bear Karate. But that's because reality has decided you can teach a Bear Karate. There's obviously the original reference footage of, god damn it, I forgot the dude, there's footage of black martial artists going and sparring with a bear that they kind of based that on And then there's all the Khabib and footage of him wrestling bears as a kid as well. And so there's like the idea of martial artists training with bears is just, that's reality. That's a thing.

Starting point is 01:56:18 It's fucking crazy. You know? Yeah, there's, I want to say there was was like so like Khabib fighting a bear is like the new era of that. But like, there's old shit there's old video of Marco's inspiration dude plus like Jim Kelly style character running into the forest and messing with a bear for a bit, you know. Crazy. So he looks good. And then they also showed off some footage with the special third secret moves that were not seen. Oh yeah?

Starting point is 01:56:54 So yeah, we got to see some new, some secret specials from a bunch of the characters that are like alternate level 3s it seems. One Terry does a big ass fucking slant punch to the ground and a tornado fucks you up and it's like oh are they going for Lost Power? No, they're going for the other Fatal Fury the movie only move where he does a big tornado thing you know so they reference the Obari movies again by getting the other Terry shit in there, which is great. They fixed Buster Wolf. Oh, they did.

Starting point is 01:57:31 So an updated version of Buster Wolf, you see him hit it and it goes like brrrrraaah. And like, it's a, the impact is, is, you see it hit differently. And then he can combo afterwards and do shit. And then he can combo afterwards and do shit. And Tzok as well does a crazy level three air submission thing that slams down into like a bridge arc pose. So yeah. I'm trying to find this footage. It's what do I look for?

Starting point is 01:58:01 Yeah, it's in loose cam footage on Twitter. Unfortunately, it wasn't like cam footage on Twitter, unfortunately. It wasn't like, yeah, people were just kind of recording over the shoulder shit. Back to the good old days. Yeah, I wanna say there's an Event Hubs link that has a bunch of it plus some newer stuff. You know, I'm watching some of it right

Starting point is 01:58:25 now okay there's a real like specific beauty to bad angled location test fighting game camera footage it brings me right back it has it has a certain appeal we're like even though it's LCD screens Because the angle is so shit. It looks curved. Yeah, I Know we saw Akuma's trailer and I know we saw his story mode aspect But I want some over-the-shoulder People's heads getting in the way footed match footage to alongside the announcement footage match footage to alongside the announcement officially release some blurry location test footage You know of some Japanese players doing some wild shit and everyone going

Starting point is 01:59:14 You can do that now Yeah, so at least Garo is sticking to the roots and a lot of can't believe I'm watching that fire tornado movie described I can't I can't believe of any fucking move they pulled from one of the movies, it would be that one. They already did lost power. They already did lost power, so it's time to go pull even further. And again, shout outs to Oda, the producer, who's like, yep, that's exactly what we did. We went right back to the movies. And Obari saw that, retweeted it and commented that it's like,

Starting point is 01:59:45 oh, yo, thank you, honor that you guys are shouting out my old Fatal Fury shit. It's cool to see Fatal Fury coming back. And it's like, yes, yes it is, man. I'm really excited that they're, you know, like they can just stick to KOF, but I like that they went out and brought back Sam Show and that they're going back and grabbing this now.

Starting point is 02:00:05 It's cool that they're doing that. Some of these announcements though are kind of wild because we also got to see a bunch of like old old MVS style Neo Geo arcade games getting updated versions for EXA, which is like we saw, the first one I think announced was Breakers Revenge Chicago. Oh, really? Which is so weird.

Starting point is 02:00:36 Really? It's called Breakers Revenge Chicago. Oh, that's fucking weird. Yeah, and you're like, wait, wait, like, like, oh, block? Like, what are we like, hold on, what are we doing? Is there a mechanic that involves Lori Lightfoot? What what's like, what's happening? And it's like, yeah, Chicago is literally

Starting point is 02:01:01 the name of the thing. And I think it's like, it's because there's a word in Japanese that's like, you know, S-H-I, like Shikagoku, or something like that, but it just happens to overlap enough that they just called it Fuck It. It's the Chicago version of the game.

Starting point is 02:01:23 So now officially Chicago punishes are real. Because before now, Chicago punish would just be, you can go look at the FGC glossary on that. But it is a single hit, unofficial, inefficient, but easy to do punish. And now, yeah, you got that. And then they went on to announce an updated version of Rage of the Dragons.

Starting point is 02:01:49 Rage of the Dragons W is getting new modes and some new shit is going. Where are these going? Straight to modern platforms? No, straight to EX arcade only platforms that no one will have access to. They're going straight to an arcade release that is not ported. So it actually, it kinda sucks because no one can play these

Starting point is 02:02:19 except for I think if you live near, like I think like, what is it, Galloping Ghost might be getting some? Or LA? You know what's great? You know what I really like to do, Woolie? You know what I like to do? I like to get a big fucking ice cream cone

Starting point is 02:02:36 and go, hey, look at this, and then just mash it into the pavement in front of you. I really like to do that. That feels really good. It sucks, dude. And yeah, it costs a lot of money to make that ice cream cone, but fuck it. So yeah, there are enhanced versions of these old games only for EXA arcade systems that are going to be released in Japan and to any arcades that feel like importing it, which

Starting point is 02:02:58 in America, you might have two or three that have some true believers that do it. You know what I saw in fucking Montreal? have two or three that like have some true believers that do it. Yeah, Van- You know what I saw in fucking Montreal? Chaos Code, ASCA 120%, Vanguard Princess, R, a whole bunch of them are getting updated. Speaking of not willing to fucking import cabs, I walked by the closed down Amusement 2000 downtown. Yeah, you did. 2000 downtown. Yeah, you did. I Feel like I'm standing there looking at that going I

Starting point is 02:03:32 remember the exact Moment that place died and it was when that guy told me and you separately. Oh, that's fucking stupid I'm not importing a fucking Street Fighter 4 cabinet I'm not importing a fucking Street Fighter 4 cabinet Only to after the console release Like a year later this jury rigged piece of shit with Korean buttons and crown parts on it. Just yeah He ended up spending way more money on that than it would have been to just import a fucking view licks I mean it was it was over it in spirit at that point like that You know, it was just go in spend your money on the crane game That's gonna rip you off and call it because that was the moment that people stopped even bothering to go to an arcade and

Starting point is 02:04:13 The FGC in Montreal started getting its own spaces and running its own events and having setups for themselves that started happening while the you know City Hall and shit were all shutting down the undesirable elements in the neighborhood, except for the movie theaters, which were allowed because if you pay enough money, you can do whatever the fuck you want. You're not going to tell Cinema Guzzo they can't have arcade machines. You should tell Cinema Guzzo to go fuck themselves because that theater sucks. Well, yeah. Those are the only places that arcades are left. Ifaguzzo to go fuck themselves because that theater sucks. Well, but yeah. But those are the only places that arcades are left.

Starting point is 02:04:49 And if you want to go enjoy a time crisis machine where the pedal doesn't work, you can go enjoy over there. Man, there is like a uniquely awful feeling of being like, oh my God, is that a fucking House of the Dead 2 machine? Pull the trigger and it's like, oh, the elastic's just completely broken. This thing is a fucking- Don't do it. This is a money trap. It's kind of really just for the aesthetic of standing around before the movie starts

Starting point is 02:05:18 and buying popcorn. It's just to have that in the background. That's all it is. It's barely really for the money. You're really like, you know, you're really like, it's like, you're going to go play some air hockey or some pool and you want some of these fucking cruising USA machines around in the background while you wait for you. Yeah, no, the whole thing exists so that two or three guys will be in the background of the movie theater having a good time playing air hockey or some shit and you'll be like yeah go into the movies is a good time it doesn't matter that it took a fucking nine-hour shift to buy a single popcorn yeah she means death cargo cage so chicago is the death

Starting point is 02:06:00 cage match edition oh that is that why they named the city that? In retrospect? Damn. Damn. Maybe. Someone said Lightfootseize, that's crazy. Lori Lightfootseize is pretty good. That's pretty good. Alright. Yeah, so this is a cool but ultimately fruitless and useless update announcement. Hey, yo! I'm watching Hunter Hunter Nen Impact first gameplay trailer here. Is there a specific reason that this looks like shit? Yeah! I mean, it probably doesn't have a huge budget.

Starting point is 02:07:00 It looks... you know what it is? So, it reminds me a lot of Power Rangers, right? Where there's a look that an inexpensive, mid-range budget fighting game will get. And it is a look where everyone snaps back to their idle stance a lot faster than modern games do. Like, I was watching, like, I was just watching some footage of Nago cleaning up

Starting point is 02:07:29 at Evo Japan, and I was just like, I kind of like stopped paying attention to the gameplay for a while, and I was just looking at how beautiful the game looked. And we started seeing and noticing this in like season three of Street Fighter V. A lot of the I talk about the extra animations, right? Cody will do something and then tighten up his tie or

Starting point is 02:07:51 like do a little arm thing and all the extra characters got these little extra flourishes and so they're always moving, always doing things. Or you know, the the history of characters that if you just stand there, they'll do a bunch of shit. Yes, K dash with the fucking standing checking you out leaning back going back into the fist up stance crouching. All right, you don't want to fight What do what are we doing? You know all of that shit, right? Um That way wait, hold on. Hold on. Someone in the chat says the bomber is making it in Do you mean the fucking loser from Greed Island?

Starting point is 02:08:23 Cuz if that character made it in on this roster, I don't know what the fuck they're doing. That character sucks. Oh man, that dude sucks. So oh, that roster is gonna be dumb. So there's about 16 characters. This looks like slot for 16 on the roster. Pretty small, but like that's what the shape of the character select screen looks like. And yeah, Max apparently confirmed the budget was around $600k, so aiding doesn't have a ton to go off of here. But everyone snapping back to their idle stances immediately after their specials is the mark

Starting point is 02:08:57 of a lower budget fighting game, right? That being said, in the comparison to Power Rangers is also the awesomeness of a good 3v3 with sauce. Because guess what? There's some assists going, there's some fucking team shenanigans happening and DHCs, etc. And welcome back X Factor. There's a fucking X Factor that you pop that makes you stronger depending on how many characters are left on your team So hey if the game is fucking good Let's go no no listen listen, okay? That this this is this is like this fucking motherfucker Again through or against through whatever is fucking name. Uh-huh

Starting point is 02:09:43 This bomber. Okay. There are 16 characters in this game. Right. That it's a flat 16. Hunter Hunter has so many fucking characters that deserve to be in a fighting game. And I see this dude is in. I'm like, that game is going to be in a fighting game, and I see this dude is in, I'm like, that game is going to be bad.

Starting point is 02:10:08 What is, is it like seeing like Yajirobe or something? Cause I mean, I like, I'd love that. You know what? I'd love that. You know what? Actually, it kinda is. Cause I, that's my number one pick for fighters. It's like, we didn't, we didn't have enough time to put a fucking

Starting point is 02:10:26 Vegeta in. So here's Yajirobe Like oh Well, hold on. I mean clearly what's his name is right there, right? There's that that that show has a lot of Vegeta. Okay, cuz the first Vegeta at the very least I can see I think you could make a whole 16 cast of Vegeta's. Okay. Well, you know, I guess the question is like, do you go for the... So I think the Dragon Ball approach, right, of like, you know, main warriors and then

Starting point is 02:10:58 major arch villains up first is like the healthy selection in many cases. But if you plan on something being a repeat return franchise over time, then the Naruto way is here's everyone from arc one. So here's the kids. Here's the team. There's the one or two other teams you got to see for a bit. Then Kakashi, Zabuza and Haku Call it a day. First 16 episodes thrown in. Ninja Taisen 1 was literally just like the cast of the Haku arc plus Rock Lee. I don't know. Hold on, I'm trying to look.

Starting point is 02:11:40 There's a fucking villain gang in the second arc called the Phantom Troupe yeah that is like how many fucking characters is it one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve there's like ten of them it's all eight it's all whatever half the roster could be these fucking people it's all the people that What's their name has to get revenge on? Kerpica. Yeah, crap. Or Keropica And the blonde kid that looked like a freak in in the jump game. Yeah

Starting point is 02:12:19 Yeah, so Anyways, most importantly is sauce? The answer appears to be yes. Bless it. Bless it. Let's go. I will never forget, man. Power Rangers was the shit. It was so much fun to play, you know? And people are always down for some Marvel.

Starting point is 02:12:42 Everyone's down for some Marvel. If Marvel ain't gonna give us Marvel Let's we'll get it from Power Rangers. We'll get it from Dragon Ball. We'll get it wherever we can find it Let's get it from Hunter Hunter, you know and This is also I remembering There's a woolly's huffingium, I have no dog in this fight. I don't care.

Starting point is 02:13:07 My point is that a lot of people would have dogs in this fight, and so the character list is super important and seeing like a actual wasted spot gives me a lot of like lack of faith. Okay. It's got big, where's Magneto in Marvel infinite energy. Gotcha. Inside voices have told me to keep an eye on this game

Starting point is 02:13:30 and gameplay wise, shit's legit. I've been, I've gotten- Okay, so. I've gotten reports. I believe you. On that being super fun. I believe you. But do you remember how much shit Max got for going, man, Marvel Infinite is incredible incredible and people going, where's Wolverine? And him going, no, but it plays incredible.

Starting point is 02:13:50 Mm-hmm. And, but where's Iron, where's Magneto? Yeah. Just like, you can't beat, the whole point of the licensed game is to have the fucking characters you want in it. Well, I guess let's see who's gonna be in that cast of 16 then. I don't know, nor do I. Like again, no dog. But they've revealed five so far?

Starting point is 02:14:15 Four? Um, uh, Gon, Killua, Netero, Hisoka, Kurpica and that that bomber guy. Yeah, I can write seven already I can understand that like some cool characters people want to see not showing up would be a bummer Especially if they're not confirmed to be coming later or if there's no budget or we already for that Yeah, Hunter Hunter has a problem. Just before you scream. Where's the characters? But before you scream? Where's the one? I want? Let's just see the roster there There's there are more that I want then can even fit on the remaining slots So it will be a disappointment no matter what

Starting point is 02:14:56 Kind of 16 is too low also 16 is really low for a 3v3 well Then I guess it's destined to disappoint. Like, I don't know, you know? But 16 is really low for 3v3, right? It is. Like, I'm not crazy. It is low for 3v3, and it is right on point for $600,000. You know what I mean? They should have got more money.

Starting point is 02:15:21 That sounds about right on point. $600,000 is not going to make Dragon Ball fighters, that's like one skull girls character it's You know it's just it's like you're you're you're Yeah, you're just you're not gonna get you're not gonna get that like perfect Fully realized holy fuck it looks exactly like the animated thing. I would argue, genuinely, that the game would be better off looking way shittier than having more characters.

Starting point is 02:16:00 I suspect, I suspect, with something like this, and Aiding, again, knows what the fuck they've doing, they've always known that. I would imagine that the idea would be to start here and then with some success build it out and then a couple seasons of extras, with a generous season of over five joining each time. I gotta take a quick break. BRB. So, yeah, the last part I was going to say is like for every badass Zoldyck family member or Chimera ant arc villain that you want to see included on that roster, I'm going to be over here cheering on the

Starting point is 02:16:42 inclusion of someone like Ton uh, Tonpa who will just be a dedicated character whose job is to make sure that we both lose. Yeah. Tonpa is a good pick. Right. And especially in a team based game where you can be like, okay, it's two characters that, uh, we have three. One of these is going to take out someone on your team and tonpah's no No, here's the thing right like you're like. Ah ha ha weird pick no top. Top would be great. Oh, yes Okay, I want I want him to be like in the way that you know like like the guineou kind of weirdo pick that fucks up a character on your team or

Starting point is 02:17:23 Android 16 I have no other options. We're both going to go, give me one of those, right? Like he's there to fuck someone on your team up and he's useless on his own, but he can eliminate somebody and just watch you lose. It's strange because like I think about like Dragon Ball, right? And Dragon Ball has obviously like a million characters, right? But the standouts are so obvious in a Dragon Ball game that everybody could put together a list of people that need to be there. And then there's like everyone could put together even like the secondary ring of characters that need to be there.

Starting point is 02:18:05 And Hunter x Hunter like goes so fucking fast and characters like kind of only exist for their own arcs. Okay. Like it's like there's there's the guys you've seen already. The those that's that's the cast. But like each art you could make a whole fighting game out of each arc. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which Naruto kind of functions that way as well

Starting point is 02:18:26 As long as we don't waste any slots on secondary versions of characters Then I think we're in a good That would be Holy as long as it's not just a yeah, you know like it like it's this mid- yeah, Super Saiyan Blue fucking stop. Hey, you wanna play as, uh, Fishing Rod Gone or Nen Gone? And you're like, oh my god. So yeah, um, we're- we're- you're in a good state otherwise, I imagine. Um, yep, that's- that's the, uh, the new one coming down.

Starting point is 02:19:06 And then... Fighting Games. Wait, did we get a release date on that? Nen Impact? No, but there's 13 minutes of footage, so you can go diving through that if you'd like. Well anyway, that was yeah, pretty much all the major announcements. But you know, all of those fighting game announcements, as cool as they were, they pale in comparison to the other accomplishments that were happening this week. I just wanna say, it's pretty amazing.

Starting point is 02:19:47 Congratulations to MapleStory for Nieru, who's gonna be getting that world's first level 300. Two. Level 300 in RuneScape, that's crazy. Level 300 in MapleStory. MapleStory, whatever. to 300 and runescape that's crazy level 300 and maple story maple story whatever don't don't don't forget to tune in and celebrate celebrate oh for a world first near legendary accomplishment right everybody tune in official account get hype let's go wait what do you mean he's not at level 300 oh he's at 2 9 299 point 99 okay well he'll I'm gonna walk I'm gonna see it

Starting point is 02:20:33 I'm gonna see it cross over what wait why it's not crossing over what's happening wait he's just sitting there explaining why the game fucking sucks. Oh no, he's using this officially sanctioned and celebrated moment as a platform to blow up how shitty and grindy and bad the drop rates are and all the things that are. I fucking love it. Oh man. And I mean. Every time this happens. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:21:02 So when we talked about how they got fined for lying about the drop rates before, you know, it's like that's, yeah, that's, that's one level of scumbaggery that the game had out there. But now on another level, one of its big, like the biggest player that's gotten the furthest stops during the big moment at 299.99 and refuses to level up to 300 and just rails against MapleStory. I'm madly in love. People have done this at Madden tournaments. I know there was a Call of Duty tournament this happened at. I know it famously happened with Street Fighter V. it was it was it was a dev sponsorship that like yeah as well, right? So but every time somebody gets the money happened with for honor. I remember that right, right? I don't even play this game sucks. I don't even play it. Oh, you won the tournament. What do you think?

Starting point is 02:21:59 I think this game is trash But you see like there's like the little the little that's a hilarious like moment every time you get that I don't even play this game lol kind of thing but he instead went off on a manifesto you know where he like planned it out to get to that point and then went off so and then left his account forever to be uncompleted that's a mic drop that's's a mic drop. So I mean I didn't catch but like Did was there any kind of like like cut to? technical difficulty screen

Starting point is 02:22:38 Like whoa the cameraman's drunk, what do we do like but you know Was it just? I think he was streaming it himself and he was being like, host it and restreamed, I assume. Which means like, even if you did do that, you could still just go to his fucking stream. Man. Well, you know, you earned it.

Starting point is 02:22:59 I love it. You worked hard, no one's allowed to say you can't do that. You can do whatever you want with your account. Yeah, so that's a new level. That's a new level of spite coming through. And in one of the grindiest games ever, taking it to the furthest level too. Oh yeah, because each percentage point is, sorry, each level Exponential increase over the last one which that's so the weirdest part was hearing about how he stopped at 0.01 percent away. I'm like, how did he do that? So precisely? Oh Cuz cuz that was still probably

Starting point is 02:23:38 Half hour to go Right, like that's the fact that the percentage stops right there and you can control it that much shows you how bad it must be. You know, so yeah, that's pretty incredible. Shout outs to that and the big official Twitter account with his character being like, yeah, world's first. 20,000 people caught that shit. All right. And now we're talking about it, so out it goes.

Starting point is 02:24:18 And while that's happening, hey man, when the devs treat you like shit and are ripping you off, you know, just stop playing the game and switch over to a game that you can trust. Like Tarkov. Yeah, I knew it! I knew you were gonna say it! Oh man! Oh man, this is like one of the most feel-good dumb shit stories in a while. Oh my god Like I just I love how for me catching it at the end of it was

Starting point is 02:24:56 Just reading a paragraph of the jerk that the twists and turns in the paragraph describing what happens and turns in the paragraph describing what happens. Such a bad idea. Helldivers is making fun of them in their goddamn battle pass descriptions. What was what would what did it say? Oh, it was like, you can buy this armor set for like 250 super credits. It's not free for super citizens and you don't get extra blah blah blah. It was like directly it was like directly aping the wording. So Escape from Tarkov announced its new UnHerd Edition, which is a special $250 version of

Starting point is 02:25:37 the game. Wow, that's crazy. Bet it's got a lot of stuff in it. Yeah, and they announced a PvE mode that allowed players versus environments so they could fight against AI and no other players in the lobby. However, it is only available to people who buy the $250 edition. That seems insane. And if anybody bought the battle pass or the old edge of darkness edition, fuck you too bad. But wooly I thought that the $150 version that was on sale before literally had one of its value ads being all future DLC is free promised access to all futures so fuck you each shit no are you telling me that this this PvE mode is not DLC so you know

Starting point is 02:26:35 after lies people were very upset and then eventually they came out and said okay, they made a statement saying that if you did buy the Edge of Darkness expensive mode that was promised all future DLC for free you would be able to try the new mode but then you would have to purchase the $250 edition to unlock it permanently. Give us another hundred. Yeah, so the money you've spent allows you to preview the premium $250 content. To which people were surprisingly still upset. Oh, why? Really? What about the part where the $250 DLC has like a bunch of like game breaking advantages

Starting point is 02:27:30 for those players? Oh, the pay to win aspect. Oh, yeah. Right. Very extreme pay to win shit. Some bonuses that came alongside that as well. Well, hey, if you paid for your Unheard Edition, then you're entitled to it, right? That's what you bought.

Starting point is 02:27:49 So did you look into what those advantages are? I didn't. So I don't understand most of them, right? Because I don't play Escape from Tarkov. But I knew that Tarkov is an extraction game, right? It's like, hey, you go in, you permadeath, Is an extraction game right? It's like hey you go in you'd permadeath Right and you can only leave you can only keep the items that you you know you extract with right you managed to escape with Well Paul one of the things that this fucking thing gives you is a bag you can put items into that stay with your character Even if you die Thus giving you an insanely huge advantage

Starting point is 02:28:25 over everyone else. This deleting the fucking whole concept of the game. Of losing your shit. It's pretty good. So people were upset, and then continued to be upset, and then they went, okay, and then they eventually updated recently

Starting point is 02:28:42 to say that actually, no, now you can get it. So even if you have the Edge of Darkness edition, you will be able to play. However, you won't get it until it hits 1.0. Oh! Oh. So, it seems that there is still some discrepancy, but there you go. Right? Because, I mean, what are you going to do? Take away the reason for people to spend $250?

Starting point is 02:29:20 There's no win on this for anyone. Literally anyone. I mean, you could not make an addition that costs $250. Now, hey, I saw people saying, wow, this seems like a false advertising lawsuit. Okay, go and have fun suing a commercial Russian. Have fun with that, dumb shits. Good luck. Why don't you tell China to stop copyright infringing your OCs while you're at it?

Starting point is 02:29:54 Yeah, so, you know, that's fucking insane and the I the the thing that is the only thing more embarrassing than the we tried a fast one and then relented is We tried a fast one and then we backed up halfway And then we backed up a little bit more and then you really keep pushing us because we Let me fuck you over a little bit come on let me get something out of this Now let me fuck you over a little bit. Come on, let me get something out of this. Oh hey, I'm mistaken. Apparently the team that we're talking about is based in the United Kingdom.

Starting point is 02:30:31 They pretend to have laws? You could try and sue them. Oh, is it? Yeah, apparently. Oh, I didn't know. I thought, okay, well, all right. Good stuff, good stuff. Yeah, a lot of people saying they're done with the game.

Starting point is 02:30:51 And well, whatever. Yeah, that would that would kill it for me. That would be I mean, if there if there are direct analogs that can be picked up and played, then. Oh, get ready for Marathon. Here we go. Yeah, I bet that's gonna be good Although I just again as an outsider I have to look over in question I'm like is this what's happening with this genre with it are there are like so multi hundred dollar extraction things

Starting point is 02:31:21 I'm gonna stop you right now Tarkov does not have enough games that are like it to even be considered a genre yet Okay Like games are being made to ape Tarkov right now, right? But it's just it's just it. Okay, okay So they're they're salting the earth as they plant in At the same time cool cool cool. That's good. That's good So

Starting point is 02:31:56 You didn't I mention this I mentioned this before we started and I was like Willie do you hear about that new? As Mo D shit? No, so what's going on? Okay, so this is great. I'm gonna send you this article. This is wild, because remember last week when Embracer Group turned into three fucking different companies? Yeah, they-

Starting point is 02:32:20 It was like Asmo D and Middle Earth and Friends and all that shit? They got hit like Garnet, yeah. Yeah, so where's, here we go. I'm gonna send you this article It was like Asmo D and Middle Earth and Friends and all that shit. They got hit like Garnet, yeah. Yeah, so where's, here we go, I'm gonna send you this article and you can probably just read it yourself. Embracer saddles Asmo D with a 900 million pound debt. Cuts it loose.

Starting point is 02:32:41 So basically, when they split the three companies, they decided to just give one of those companies all of their debts. You saddled up the donkey. You put you blindfolded him and put him on the set and the horse and put him on the set. The donkey just slapped its ass and ran it out of town. put him on the set, the donkey just slapped its ass and ran it out of town. Oh my God. So like, Asmo D is... Wow! This is the final layoff.

Starting point is 02:33:16 They made an entire division of their company to die. The sacrificial lamb. Oh My god, you would see you split into three and then you picked And you Kurt and you cut and bled all the sins onto the onto the cursed one and it was never it was never meant to be So like yeah, they've read a company ran their real company into the dirt Then dumped all the poison into this, split it off and said, I guess that's your problem now. You know what, man? I got like, now I were turning it around. Like now I'm starting to

Starting point is 02:33:56 respect it. Like now, like this whole level of dancing, failing with the Saudi deal, buying out video games, and then fucking it all over, a million layoffs, it's all going to shit, hold on, we can split it all up, hold on, it's not so bad, all gone, okay, and then putting it all on one, and just letting that one die, and going, we have nothing to do with that, I've never seen that man before in my life.

Starting point is 02:34:22 That's kind of incredible. That company was actually a secret. I've never seen that man before in my life. That's kind of incredible that that company was Actually a secret mass layoff. Oh my god. Oh Shit, okay. No. No everyone's keeping your jobs. Everyone's keeping their jobs. You're all just you just have to make Four times the entire company's yearly income. You're just going into three different rooms. You know, like everyone's, yes, your jobs are in there now.

Starting point is 02:34:55 And one of those rooms is just a fucking pit. This has likely killed dozens of board games, including Catan. Incredible. Incredible. Well, I mean, anytime there's a license that's worth something and then someone that was an original holder of that license, there's always the possibility of like the buyout, the buyout, the buyback at some point as things burn and crash and explode. Maybe you can get your beloved property and dive out of a window before the whole thing comes tumbling down. in March of 2022. And in April of 2020, so two years later, they just split it off to

Starting point is 02:35:52 eat all of their debts. Amazing. I didn't know that was possible. This feels like having kids to split your like family debt. But you somehow gave it all to one child. Yeah, no, you just, you put the bait, you put the bait on one and just again, you run that way and we'll run this way. And then just, oh man.

Starting point is 02:36:28 Okay, well, that's a fun update. That's a great, that's good to see that that's working out. 900 million pounds. So I saw that and I saw 900 million, I'm like that's pretty bad. And then I saw that it was fucking pounds? What is that like one point? Yeah? Do the opposite of the yen conversion in your brain over a billion dollars? It's insane. It's insane. It's insane. It's Yeah, good guy like Finding new ways to destroy video games with every step of the story. It's incredible. That's amazing so they're pulling down

Starting point is 02:37:04 board games with it and whatever the and friends. Suck it board games! Yeah, just- 1.5 billion Canadian. 1.13 billion USD. 9.58 million. Pay it off by February of next year by the way that's when that's due paid off in fucking ten months every press release from Embracer Group is like a new arc.

Starting point is 02:37:45 Like a new arc begins and ends with every one of these. Jesus fucking Christ, what a goddamn stupid fucking- Just start polishing your resume. Piece of shit mess. Just start fucking, just look for a new job immediately. Everyone. Yeah, I'm looking for a list of what else besides Catan is in there, but it's like,

Starting point is 02:38:09 yeah, this isn't. They apparently handle international distribution of like most board games. Oh, okay, Wargamer, Retro Warhammer. Mm-hmm. Some other shit. Okay, all right. Good stuff, guys. I still think the darkest thing about this whole thing is that it's called

Starting point is 02:38:29 Embracer group Like the idea of the like It's like a poisonous embrace it is like it's a death that yeah, come on. Mm-hmm The deathbed companions embrace Yeah, come on. The Deathbed Companions embrace. That's fine. That's great. This whole thing reminds me of that era where it was like, hey, don't sell your company

Starting point is 02:38:55 to Microsoft. Just don't. Because they'll tell you to make a game and then fire all of you before you get halfway done Yeah, well, that's fine. Speaking of Microsoft we can turn to but you know, just like what are so hey look That's that sucks. There's got to be some new shit coming out. What's going on a Blizzcon this year? Let's uh, I don't know Actually, what is going on Blizzcon this year? What is going on at Blizzcon? Nothing. It is this year. It is cancelled. Oh fuck

Starting point is 02:39:33 Apparently not even by the fucking company. I don't understand Apparently Not a Microsoft decision was the first thing they said. That's nonsense. When a company gets bought and is subsumed into the larger whole, even if no one from Microsoft corporate said, hey man, cancel BlizzCon, the pressure to perform in certain ways trickles down onto the people running Blizzard now that leads to these decisions.

Starting point is 02:40:08 Yeah, you know, there's always... Look, I am definitely always in favor of like, if you got nothing to show, then don't force anything. You know, if they said they got nothing this year that makes sense, they're going to wait till next year and line it up and so on. You know, for almost any other game developer, I would say, oh, that makes sense. We are talking about Blizzard Entertainment, long made fun of as the company with the longest

Starting point is 02:40:38 development times of any Western studio, where they would go year after year after year of year of yeah we're still working on it. It's just and they would have Blizzcon. I mean I guess to be fair when I first heard the story I assumed that the reason why it was cancelled is because they fired the organizers but forgot to tell anybody so when the time that might be when the time came around there might not be anybody left to run Blizzcon. Wait where's the con is it not happening who was on the oh no yeah yeah all right um that's that's fine that's fine. Hey, you see these fucking Japanese reviews for Godzilla versus Kong?

Starting point is 02:41:28 I have not. Good times. So Godzilla versus Kong is out in Japan. Oh man, I like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got some translations of people in Japan's reactions to it. Ooh, Godzilla X-Kong is a movie that seems like it was made by some idiots drinking and getting excited late at night and I was laughing the whole time.

Starting point is 02:42:01 It's the best, the best, the best. Everybody's stupid. I Watched Godzilla versus Kong to it's a silly. It was a silly movie made by an idiot and it was very good. I Love this I saw I love I saw of Godzilla versus Kong the new Empire and it was so crazy About half of the story is in a language other than human so it tests your imagination. It's about five times dumber than I thought it would be and I was forced to cheer up. Thank you. It's not like I'm crazy." This is great. And then my favorite one. The Reiwa Toho Champion Festival. My IQ, which had risen with minus one, has plummeted. This is what a festival movie should be like punch punch punch with Godzilla and Kong

Starting point is 02:42:52 This is great I love this oh, that's wonderful Good stuff good stuff. I uh Look, it's always been one of those fun little things like what do people from different parts of the world think about whatever? And it's always eye-opening and usually pretty funny. Yeah. No, I like I like I like seeing yes, cuz so gay cinema Is that that's the right attitude, you know or seeing what what different parts of the world? You know, what kind of graffiti gets sprayed on the walls, you know, what is uh? What's going on? good graffiti yeah what kind of shop

Starting point is 02:43:29 should we go to and in stellar we should go to the our shop well what kind of what kind of shop because oh stellar blade has a couple of those I mean like this just feels like kismet, really. There, there's a screenshot that made the rounds and something regularly that occurs in Stellar Blade is there's the R shop, which, you know, you can go to and I guess it's where you buy shit. It's where you buy ours. But regularly, there's also another piece of graffiti that pops up very often and It just says hard. You know it's hard

Starting point is 02:44:10 So they're saying there's a nice little corner where there is the hard hard our shop I forget who was I think it was I think it might have been Lance McDonald Yeah, and was like how long until this gets patched out immediately was a single day immediately And they can they explained they're like yeah, we didn't we didn't we didn't know that Two separate assets right next to each other in Korea, right? Yeah, why would that why would why would that land it? There's no reason to think that's a thing So yeah, that let that's that's that's that's a thing. So yeah, that's great. Big fan. You see that petition? You see the petition?

Starting point is 02:45:05 It's not about the petition though, is it? Yeah, no, is it? It's about the videos attached to the petition. Listen, listen, listen. I'm... Listen. I Listen sit down and listen to this Discrimination against gooners with aphantasia Okay

Starting point is 02:45:36 They can't just make a picture in their mind It is of dire importance their mind. It is of dire importance that they actually see everything they need to see to go. Is that what it's called? Aphantasia? Where you can't- Aphantasia is when you cannot make a picture in your mind. Okay. Okay. This is a disability.

Starting point is 02:45:59 There's just these sobering moments. We've talked- I've talked to you about this many times in the past where you kind of just like you wonder what you when you see internet happening and it takes you a back and you go, really? That doesn't line up with the reality that I know. And then you kind of just you take a look at the videos and you get the self report that that the click play and you go. Oh, and then you watch a mega 64 video about DOA extreme not coming out in the West. So there's a really specific phenomenon that can happen to you in your life in which you encounter people who disagree with you or who seem to hold an opinion that you would find to be ridiculous and Because everyone's a little judgmental and nobody's perfect You think up an image of the kind of person that you would expect to hold this view and

Starting point is 02:47:25 Then you go that's not fair. That's probably not what they look and sound like. And here, you're given the opportunity to move that mouse and go, and go, wow, I fucking nailed it. Oh my god. I fucking nailed it. Oh my God. I fucking nailed it. Oh my God.

Starting point is 02:47:45 That is somehow exactly, exactly what I thought I was gonna see. The, the problem, the problem with the internet is you read words and you hear them in your own voice. You know, you read text and you, it echoes back to you in your own voice. You know, you read text and you, it echoes back to you in your own voice and, and, and not, and not what happens when you click the play button. So yeah, that, that, that checks out pretty, pretty, like sometimes you sometimes you read a post and you're like, I bet this motherfucker's

Starting point is 02:48:21 wearing a cowboy hat. Sometimes you read a post and bet and you're like, I bet I could scroll for 45 seconds and see a picture of a GameCube controller on their timeline. Yeah. And other times you're like, I bet this guy's mom is yelling at him to go to the bathroom. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. I gotta write the government about these vagina bones. Anyway, man, you know me. I'm a fan of clarifying information, you know. I'm a fan of... You're a fan of perfect information. Perfect information. I love Into the Breach. I love Into the Breach. I love knowing exactly what's up, you know? I love knowing that like we can, I love knowing that we can do-si-do and dance around and spin your partner to the music all day, but you know when that JRPG has box art, and there's two JRPG characters standing

Starting point is 02:49:29 on it, and then there's a black girl, and that black girl, you just draw a big red circle on it because of how mad you are at the existence of the person just existing. I love knowing that that's where we are because if that's where the discourse is I don't have to guess. I don't have to figure anything out. I just know where you are and it's amazing to know where you are. It feels great. I needed to sit down and get a good look at what it looks like for someone to have dodged the infection of the woke mind virus free of its taint. It's FoxDie.

Starting point is 02:50:13 And let me tell you, the effects are dramatic. It's FoxDie, man, I'm telling you. The existence of black anywhere in a JRPG is just, oh, oh, it's so pure. Yeah, so that's great. There's something really wild to me of like seeing that, that could the petition come up with videos and there were and I saw and I saw like people going like this one's my favorite this one's my favorite Oh, man. Ah, I knew there was a reason I woke up today

Starting point is 02:51:31 Hey if you If you I mean, how do I if you are the kind of person that cares a lot about a topic that people React to with derision and mockery. I'm going to advise you to literally never show your face or voice ever. I just- Just don't. I disagree.

Starting point is 02:51:58 I'm, you can hear what he's saying and fuck that. I say you get on the 4K camera with the crispiest, most detailed audio and you upload that shit to the world. You let us know exactly how you're feeling. Multiple angles if you can, in fact. Get a full room shot, establishing shot. Let's see the apartment. Let's see

Starting point is 02:52:27 Everything let's establish who you are. What's going on interior shot get right to it Talk to the lens, you know, let us know how you feel Directly we need more Information we need to hear you and your voice. I Information we need to hear you and your voice. I Something really magical happened where I watched I watched four of these these petition videos and I Felt that was a fair amount and they all appeared to be like the same person

Starting point is 02:53:09 Like like evolutions of a Pokemon And I'm like, oh, okay. So there's no point in me watching more of you get it you get it that wow Yeah, it's fucking crazy. You you get it. Yeah There's a couple of variants, you know, but for the most part, like, yeah, that's the energy is understood. So, you know- Oh yeah, you know what we didn't even talk about? What's the petition for, Wooly?

Starting point is 02:53:35 Oh, um, um, uh, Stellar Blade's getting censored. And so you gotta, you gotta- One of the costumes has like a, like a like a thigh like thigh goes a little Lower, so you got to get your voice out there and let us know you know, what's What's going on and again just get the camera just get it right there again if possible Why does my god? There's there there there is there's Like six minutes ago 26 minutes ago 30 minutes ago? Yeah, man, it's important. Yeah. Hey, bro. Don't hold your fucking waifu pillow in the in the no

Starting point is 02:54:15 We will never know how much of a fan you are if you don't so quite frankly fuck no that don't listen to him Don't listen to him. Dude. It's like all of these guys are in the same house with your chest Say it with your chest Full-throated let's go. Let me hear it and send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com I'll read it. I'll find out. I want to know. We need to know. All right. Well, if you if we had had this conversation 15, 20 years ago, I would never have possibly

Starting point is 02:54:51 assumed that I would be the angel on people's shoulder and you would be the devil. I mean, I would have always figured that it would have gone the other way around, but I guess time is silly. It sounds like someone's pro censorship and they want to censor people's truths. Sounds like you want people to censor their opinions instead of letting the world know how they feel. I'm just trying to protect people from embarrassment. Also, I don't want to see them. Okay, in a way. Like I laugh but then there's a part in my chest that goes, oh, the truth

Starting point is 02:55:29 has been censored long enough. We need them to reveal everything about how they feel to the world. I don't I don't think that's true. If you've got a lender letter you can send it. That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com. That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com. All right, we got one coming in from Yours in nerddom from rich says

Starting point is 02:56:12 Dear evil wooly and violent pat Yo, I like that. I feel like you must have received this question before but I can't remember So fuck it with Akuma becoming a mentor in Street Fighter 6 What Street Fighter characters would you most want to learn from and which would you most like to have as a friend for just hanging out or the text interactions? Shout outs by the way to that fan art where Akuma pulls out his phone and the only contact in it is Elena. That's fucking great. What? Why? Because they're friends.

Starting point is 02:56:42 In her ending in Street Fighter 4, she makes friends with everybody, and there's her hanging out with Akuma, giving him a hug on his back. And he's like, oh, alright, that's true, yeah. And she's like, yeah, and Akuma's legitimately taking the hug like, okay, I guess. Legit, the only contact on his phone. So, personally, I feel like Rose would be a solid mentor all around, relatively strong, has an interesting fighting style with IRL applications and she'd probably be gentle with you. For friends, DJ or Elena, they have great vibes. One's rich and the other one I'd shoot my shot with.

Starting point is 02:57:20 Either way, choose your fighter. Yeah, who would be a good mentor? Okay, so wait, are they a fighting mentor or just a mentor mentor? I think I think the idea is kind of like who checks the right boxes for like They're they're gonna teach you some cool shit And they'll be good at teaching you some cool shit while being chill because there's a lot of badasses in Street Fighter that would watch you Die attempting and be like oh whoops oops you tiger uppercutted off the bridge, sorry.

Starting point is 02:57:49 Oh, okay. JP. Oh, free power, right off the bat. Free power, okay. Oh yeah, it's psycho power, great, bye. I'm out. But then there's the part where you lose your mind and start freaking the fuck out if you can't handle it.

Starting point is 02:58:08 I can handle it. Interestingly, like... Rosh is a bitch. I am built different than Rosh. Built different. There you go. Interestingly, like, so you see Geef when he starts teaching you and he's throwing fucking dumbbells behind him without looking like a madman. And it's like, someone's gonna get killed. He's also like- Nah, they're tough, man.

Starting point is 02:58:29 Overstraining having you lift these insane things that are just gonna murder your body. It's crazy. Yeah, I feel like Luke turned into a great teacher. Yeah. I would actually wanna just hang out with Luke because Alex Lee seems really nice. Yeah, they legit turned him into the guy they're like a friendly chill

Starting point is 02:58:49 You know dude who can teach you some shit and knows how to fight because Ryu is an awful teacher He's barely paying attention to your existence. He's kind of just you know, it's like a reuse terrible He's awful, you know, it's it's this it's the the same issue that Musashi has trying to teach you where you're like, you're so strong, teach me. And he's like, I don't fucking know. Hey, Ryu, whatever happened to your old student, Sakura? How's she doing?

Starting point is 02:59:13 I don't know. Go swing your sword. Oh, wait, I forgot. Pretend, do it as if you had no arms. Bye. What? Yeah, man. No.

Starting point is 02:59:24 So, Luke, Luke is chill and he's at an MMA gym and he's showing you the ropes and he gives a fuck. Legit. I think that's probably solid. Again, don't trust Ken. Look at Sean. Don't. You know what? Just don't even talk to Ken. Sean had all the potential of his big sister to learn from and everything and Ken Just fucked him up Yeah lightning shit, you don't need that you need to throw the shittiest fireball known to man Jamie's cool, too

Starting point is 02:59:56 But he's gonna get you fucked up and and probably arrested because he you know it's just it's family herb Is what he says until the cop smells it and makes you pour it out I don't want to hang out with Jamie. Yeah, I don't want to hang out with Jamie at all Because like the whole time it'll be just drinking and being like dude take your shirt off, and he's gonna be like no I'm like well. I don't want to be here then let me show you how to get the guy liner on straight Hey, Jamie's cool when you hang with him. Yeah, like- I don't think you understand what I'm telling you,

Starting point is 03:00:31 but that's fine. Have a few more. Pat, in his world, we're all feeling it. Yeah, yeah, mm-hmm. Marissa's gonna throw a lion at you, vice versa. Yeah, no, you would just die Good would just die hanging out more and that's the problem with I think probably like 70% of the cast is yeah It's like being a being like a regular human being on the set of jackass, right? You would just die and they would be like, oh whoops shit

Starting point is 03:01:03 I thought I thought you could handle it or and they while not paying attention or the or they'd be like the worst and you Don't want to learn from them. You know you get dad him be keyed Yeah, I just see like Sagat teaching someone how to do a move and you're like Sagat. I Can't I can't do that fucking move. I'm not eight feet tall and he's like you can do it like it's a got My legs aren't three and a half fucking feet long. So God Pick the tree up and kick it. What's the problem? Follow the instructions. What are we? What are we doing here? Yeah No, that's exactly it. So they nailed it

Starting point is 03:01:51 We got one coming in Matthew from Australia. Hello Pooley and what? Due to the popularity of the show. I started playing Fallout New Vegas. Despite being cobbled together from the skeleton of Fallout 3 over an extremely short 18-month dev cycle, it manages to improve on its predecessor in almost every way. Not stability! What's your favorite asset flip games where the dev takes an existing engine, assets, or framework and use that to create a great game in a short amount of time? That is a great question.

Starting point is 03:02:27 The ultimate answer to this, to me, is Majora's Mask. Majora's Mask is peak asset flip fucking game. So a lot of people are saying Yakuza, but those are all direct sequels. It's a little different. Made by the same people. I see some people saying Elden Ring, which is actually more true than Yakuza. Like the more Elden Ring you play, the more you're like, oh man, a lot of these characters are just like animation rigs stolen for shit.

Starting point is 03:03:10 So I want to say New Vegas is my personal favorite. Persona 4 is coming up there, but like, I mean, having played them, I feel like, you know, Inaba is a fairly unique location compared to, you know, P3, and like the actual personas are are reused but Tartarus is not the the the TV world and Like I I you know, I wouldn't necessarily like I don't think that's enough for it to just cuz the Pokemon I mean the Pokemon are there but there's enough news going on outside of that. I wouldn't call it there, you know a hundred percent of flip there

Starting point is 03:03:49 Yeah, I'd probably say New Vegas. It's It's the same guts and it's just much better than three Though to be clear before we walk away from this statement, I think Fallout 3 is pretty good. I just don't think it's as good as New Vegas. Because every time you mention anything about one of the other ones, people start to lose their fucking minds. Fallout 3 has good stuff in it.

Starting point is 03:04:17 Oh, P3 and 4 being flips of Nocturne How I can't think of anything better than the how accurate is this Hmm not really. Oh, I don't see it. I mean yeah Yeah, I guess I couldn't say but um By the way the fallout show is it might have the the best Return on show to game ever okay We didn't cover it this week, but the fucking Nexus went down this past week popularity

Starting point is 03:05:04 Because people are installing so many fallout for. Incredible. Okay. And it's like the fallout show is so aggressively hyper faithful that it just feels like a direct in. People are coming back. Because a bunch of people who don't play video games get to go, oh, I love fallout. I guess I love fallout cool cool cool

Starting point is 03:05:29 Marvel to Marvel to happy accident That thing is just cobbled together on fucking string and existing assets, but it in the chaos came something beautiful mm-hmm All right, and one more here. Okay, neo geo battle call us. Yeah Yeah, hey, man sucks. I hate I there are things to love if you if there are things to love It's fall 76 good now place this where we're at Is this what people are gonna to try and tell me? Playable Metal Slug characters in KOF style.

Starting point is 03:06:10 Oh, did we cover what happened to Fallout New London? No, but... So Fallout London is a big-ass supermod, like full total total conversion like brand new complete game right it got some it got some some attention because they put out this massive video showing off how big it is it'd be about the size of fallout 4 it was gonna have a bunch of voice actors in it of that you would know like Neil Astarian Nubon signed on to play a character in it. That's his name, etc. And then right before it came out, Bethesda was like, we're going to put out the next gen update for fallout four, make it next gen 15 gigs. And that shit doesn't do anything. Other than break mod support And all modded saves.

Starting point is 03:07:06 So what happens is, is that now the Fallout London devs have to wait for the script extender to get updated. So it is delayed indefinitely until the people who make Fallout 4 script extender update their mod. And this is, which it and this is where I raise an eyebrow I guess and I ask is there some kind of like unappreciated element of fallout and it's heavy modding being a part of that games like community that is unofficially like that they officially don't like

Starting point is 03:07:47 like no no no Bethesda is loves mod yeah so because the idea of this mod of this update coming out that doesn't change much but then sabotages and fucks up it improved the console versions somewhat broke every mod on PC. Okay. So, but like every single one. But this being a deliberate fuck the mod over update is not a thing. So it must have been in dev for a while,

Starting point is 03:08:13 but they're like, ah, whatever, they'll just update it, whatever. It's not. Bethesda enjoys a. It's not sabotage then. No, it's not sabotage, it's they enjoy a massive amount of free labor from their community and they don't care

Starting point is 03:08:26 They just assume that free labor will continue I Mean that oh it also fucked the game up on Steam Deck hilarious. I Mean if it's if if it can happen like look, you know Fans will mod a game into its best state. So it was probably supposed to tie in with the show. So they can go, hey the show is out, but also noon improved fall four. But the fact that it broke the thing that people actually gave a shit about

Starting point is 03:09:08 Okay, okay cash in on the show But everyone is get is getting all the mods ready to get while they watch the show and yeah, yeah, yeah that makes sense, okay I love I love it when I look into the chat and I see Pat's knowledge on this is so out of date and then Scroll down like two lines Pat is also a hundred percent Correct. I'm like, I don't know Are you amongst yourselves? Fight just fight it. Just slap each other's dicks in there. I don't I don't give a shit anymore Um, I mentioned this before but like when the when the Mass Effect mod stuff was being installed for the LP I was really impressed with how like organized and like

Starting point is 03:09:43 for the LP, I was really impressed with how organized and established all of that was with the launcher that could. Yeah, so. Like it just, it could check the Nexus mods, see what was new, what was updated. So let me tell you something. Manage it, it was incredibly. You know what fucking rules for mods? A game coming out and being beloved

Starting point is 03:10:01 and running kind of modern, and then never getting an update ever again. That is the best thing that can happen to it. Because everyone knows and can keep it in a state that will be modded forever. So like Legendary Edition for Mass Effect came out and like the people ported the mods from like two and three on forward right and made legendary versions of those Mass Effect mods. And then I don't think that fucking game has ever gotten patched. So, great. They'll just work. Yeah. I mean, if they officially support it, of course, and whatnot, then that's cool. But yeah, rolling forward something that just destroys 10 years plus of a community is kind of fucking insane.

Starting point is 03:10:46 And it's like, and it's really, it's a weird thing because like most mods use the script extender which basically allows you to do more complex stuff. So almost all of them depend on the script extender. So all the person who's behind the script extender has to do is fix it and everything will go back to working and The impression I get is that every single Bethesda release It goes hand-in-hand with a giant robust insane mod community. Yeah. Yeah, that's just except for Starfield Starfield didn't get one There are there is a modding community for Starfield, but a lot of them gave up because they didn't they didn't feel

Starting point is 03:11:26 That the bones of the game were worth it to build on to huh? Interesting Yeah, okay, I played 70 hours of Starfield I cannot remember anything Where the fuck was I? Oh, yes, okay. So yeah, there was one last one that was here from Professor Sups. Just says a report about the return of arcades. Dear Pat and Woolly, I recently had the opportunity to talk to a team creating a new arcade game. Throwback, Highly Heroes was pretty much what it sounds like. I recently had the opportunity to talk to a team creating a new arcade game throwback Highly heroes was pretty much what it sounds like. Yeah, I actually saw this game

Starting point is 03:12:12 And I talked to those about it, too A new arcade game threw me off because arcade seemed to be slowly dying off in the aughts According to the team arcades are due for a comeback if a slow one. So basically this is a So high lie is a game that is played in is it Seattle is where it's popular. I think that was the right state. There was a state where it's popular. And it's basically where you throw a ball or a racket ball, but you have like a different kind of like thing that you hook the ball and throw it off with. And you know, it's kind of like squash as well. And Florida? Florida, right. Okay. So and then it goes really high speeds and it's crazy. And everyone that plays it is like, yeah,

Starting point is 03:12:59 kind of wild and nuts. But they're making this new game and it's pretty fun. And they're releasing it straight to arcades and as a specific arcade release. And that's what it is. It's not necessarily for port to consoles or anything like that or Steam. And yeah, basically, in asking them a lot of the questions that came up in this email, I was kind of like, yeah, so what's up with that? Why is this your plan? and it basically seems that like barcades in certain areas are Steady business and popular enough that it can be with limited release to make arcade machines like Killer Queen, you know, and you can grab a drink, play some DDR, etc. and go play with

Starting point is 03:13:51 your friends. And like if the places will keep the machines operating and up to date, then they'll always, you know, that'll be popular enough. And machines can also, yeah, the machines can also be more affordable these days as well. Rising costs of console gaming has gone up and machines, especially ones that I guess that can run a game that looks as simple as this and it's not that complex in terms of the computer inside, can, you know, be bought by like a Barcade so, or other cheaper places around the world, and space as well if you have... Yeah, anyway, it kinda goes on long, but the idea is...

Starting point is 03:14:32 Okay, yeah, I get it. Arcades can't... There's a cost-effective way. There's a cost-effective way and a space for arcades to continue existing, and this game releasing this way is they kinda believe in this as a possible thing. Though, it is worth noting that like after asking them about the same stuff, they kind of were, I was like,

Starting point is 03:14:51 okay, but like, there's always the possibility of porting it in the future. And they're like, yeah, of course. You know, so releasing something again, Killer Queen was very popular as a cabinet that was existed for a while. And then they eventually, years later, made the Switch Edition that they ported and had a game, a version of it dropped so that it could be accessed elsewhere and stuff. So... There's something strange to me about thinking about a game or an arcade game as a boutique piece of furniture for a bar.

Starting point is 03:15:24 I mean, it's cool When you have you know, yeah, like yeah, oh we made this fancy table tan carved for your bar But instead it's like a video game and a lot of people are people are doing that There's the arcade one-ups that keep that that you know people can buy from Walmart's now and then every fucking month There's someone someone's uncle buys ten of them and thinks they're gonna open up an arcade at the mall and then every fucking month there's someone someone's uncle buys 10 of them and thinks they're going to open up an arcade at the mall and then gets fucking shut down.

Starting point is 03:15:50 Do you fucking love losing money? But every time it's no but barcade wise that's a that's a business that yeah certain states are able to you know survive and those are things are getting popular. Obviously not here and not in places where they stomp on that shit. But if you are in a depending on what state you're in or what country you're in, if barcades are a thing that like are thriving and exist, then you can actually sell an arcade operator or a barcade, a machine that's going to be cheaper than

Starting point is 03:16:21 it was back in the day because back you'd have to spend close to 1000 on a big expensive machine, and it would have to make it back its returns in fairly quick enough time before something new came out that was worth it instead. And you know what I mean? Whereas here people want retro games so the novelty can last longer. You can keep something that looks retro in that place as long as you want to versus when, you know, second impact was released between new generation and third strike and it had a couple months time to make back all that money for the space it's taking up next to the fucking bowling, you know?

Starting point is 03:16:54 You know, when we were kids, our parents didn't want us to go to arcades, why? Because there were drugs there. Don't want the kids to get addicted to drugs because everyone at the arcades is selling drugs. But now I can go buy drugs at the store. True. So I'm thinking what we should do is have places you can go get addicted to drugs and put arcade machines in there.

Starting point is 03:17:25 That's crazy. Oh, shit. That's just a there. That's crazy. Oh shit, that's just a bark. That's nuts. You can't. What putting no more, but like more drugs. No, that's crazy. Your drugs is bad. Keep them away from the kids like it. Like instead of now, let's get fucked up and play some video games instead of like,

Starting point is 03:17:43 you know, the the pedal doesn't work at the movie theater for Time Crisis, you could be like, the pedal doesn't work at the heroin den. You know, opium dens would probably have not been so frowned upon if DDR was happening in the background. Nobody high on opium wants to play DDR.

Starting point is 03:18:05 People high on cocaine want to play DDR. I mean, you got your bases covered. You have DDR and then you can have some, you know, I don't know. Um, anyway. Let's just get a new fucking new fucking thing of winners must use winners must use drugs. Exactly. And just just have have super slow paced nice and easy DDR, you know, it's just you take your time and you just you roll through it. It's good. Um, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 03:18:44 Um, uh, uh, uh, William session. through it it's good yeah yeah William Sessions where's the cozy games at the Shisha bar William Sessions is doing a rail right now all right bye bye everybody Alright. Bye. Bye everybody.

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