Castle Super Beast - SBFC 002: The Feel of a Podcast

Episode Date: August 20, 2013

We're in it now boys! The Best Friend Zaibatsu weighs in on Divekick, Child of Light, Barkley 2, Killer is Dead, Games for Windows dying, Persona 4 Arena, Guilty Gear Xrd, and Killer Instinct. We get our Gamescom predictions on, and talk some Space Dandy! Got a question? Send it to [e-mail]

What is that? Is that nuts? Are you getting nuts? Is that cereal? She's like, whatever. Like, why would you do your job, Matt? How would you do your job? I was the one playing that feature. That's pretty much your comeback also. Well, I'm doing play-through with William. It's really casual. Like, back at fun. Not like this. Like, this work. It's a great moment.

It should go on a highlight reel. Excellent. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the podcast episode 2. What's this one called? It's All Downhill From Here. We figure it out later. The second part can't be It's All Downhill From Here. No, we're starting with that.

Do you not know how to do this? Do it organically. And then you pick the choice line later. You picked the first one first. The first episode is called This Is Going To Be Terrible. The second one has... Still terrible. Still terrible. Okay, fair enough.

But working on it. Alright. Watch I go and not use any of those just for spy. You're not. Anyway. The feel of a podcast. Yes. Yes, I like that. That's actually pretty good.

Yeah, I know. We're here. We're back. And we're going to be covering a bunch of different topics this time. We also have Dork Girl sitting in on the background. Hey, Dork Girl. Shut the fuck up. No, you. Alright. And, you know, a bunch of stuff's been happening in the news recently.

We're going to, of course, go down the list. See what everyone's up to and stuff. And see what's happening in the fighting game community. See what's going on with Matt's recent obsessions. Obsessions. Yes. You know. Of course.

Matt watches. They're varied and then passionate. And then we're going to answer some of your questions as usual. We have real questions this week. Holy shit. Do we have questions? That were asked by humans. Oh my God.

At least half of them aren't staged. Yeah. Like, you've looked into that inbox. So, we put the question thing up and said, Hey guys, send us your questions. And then I checked it a couple days ago and said, Fuck that. I'm not reading that.

Back out. How many did we get in the end? Like, 900. 900. Hey, so guess how many entries we had in our buy, get a copy of DMC. DMC contest. I think maybe a dozen.

And I remember there were only two that were like even worth looking at. And the guy never replied back to me whether he got the game or not. I sent it and everything but he's like, Nothing. I thought they meant HD collection. You killed him, man. You killed him. Sorry, dead kid.

All right. So, we're going to do what's the haps. What's everybody been up to? I was with Liam. Let's go around. We're going to go around again. Yeah. We're going to go counterclockwise.

I went to an anime convention this weekend. No shit. Shit. Yeah. Anime conventions. Yeah. There's something all right. I played through moochie moochie pork.

Watched and wrote a game. Okay. Back up. What is moochie moochie pork? Moochie moochie pork is a schmup by cave, right? Okay. Cave is legit. Oh, yeah.

It's about all these cute girls. Yeah. Bladding on their neck bicycles. They're 18. And shooting stuff like cave games. They're 18? Years old? I don't know.

Oh, okay. Maybe. Okay. Two of them are at least 18. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Is it kind of like pink sweets?

Pink sweets is the one I didn't play that's on the disc as well. That's the one with some of the girls too. I actually don't even know anything about these sweets. Was there like a schmup thing going on? No. I bought a copy of it because I'm like, I want to play this game. That's what you bought at the convention? Yes.

What's that on? 360. Okay. Yeah, it's an arcade port. Okay, schmups on 360 are the weirdest thing ever. They're like all of it. It's the one Japanese company that refuses to let go. They will support the 360.

Absolutely. Well, it's because it happened that thing. You saw it with Tales of Sperry and shit like that where I said, hey, we're making an exclusive game for the 360, right? There's another reason for Cave though. And they make it. And then he would go, okay, I'll buy a 360 for your exclusive. And then they say, and it's coming to PS3 a year later and people go nuts.

People go fucking crazy. For Cave, I remember reading this. I'm not sure if it's actually true because I don't really look into Cave stuff. Probably. I'm reading that Sony had a thing that your game had to be widescreen. You know what? Which botched all of Cave's games are verticals. After all those PS1 years of you can't do 2D games.

2D fighting games. 2D fighting games. I'm inclined to believe that. Exactly. So supposedly that's why Cave went that way. So it would leave you. Right. So that was at the con.

Yeah. You should play Pig Sweets because the Barra is fucking awesome. Pig Sweets is pretty good. Yeah. It's on the disc. Watched Rose and Maiden like a weeb. Took some pictures of free cosplayers and their apps. You mean the cosplayers were free?

Well, in certain senses, no. They were poor at fighting games. Yeah. And best buddy Liam over here this morning presented me with a really high-pass Shingeki poster. It was really sick. Thank you, Liam. Stop saying Shingeki.

Shingeki. Come on. Attack on time. Shingeki no pull it down a little bit. If you're gonna do that, at least do SNK. Oh. But that doesn't work either. SNK is the better SNK.

You can have our own SNK already. For example, Matt, what does FF stand for? Final Fantasy. Come on. That's the first thing that popped in my head. That's what I'm supposed to say. Oh. You're supposed to say Fatal Fury.

No, no, no. Would I not say Final Fantasy? Oh, Final Fantasy. Yeah. That's why it turned to you. I was going for B or C and you failed on it. I know. Okay, cut that.

Cut that. What's up? I messed up. What's G.O.W. stand for? Oh. Exactly. Nobody knows. Yeah.

Is it God of War or Gears of War? God of War is the one. That's actually the one I always go to. Yeah. Because I always call Gears Gears. Right. Like that's it. Gears of Gods.

Gears of Gods. And I always call God of War Disappointing. War of War. Oh. It is. Yeah. And I read this. So it was Gears Judgment.

You know. What are you going to do without Jaffy? What are you going to do without Jaffy? They did good. God of War 2. I guess. The one that's better than God of War 1. Yeah.

I bought this sick fan comic called Shepard's Pie. A fan comic for Fire Emblem Awakening. No. It's fucking good. By this girl called like Painting Hippos or something. It's really good. It's really good comic. Anyway.

On to you Matt. So you had a good time. I had a great time. Did you enjoy hanging out with your weeb people? With my weeb people and other weeb people. Not like me. Also. This is the first con I've ever been to in like 7 years.

Where I have not heard someone say like the game. As a phrase. I've never been to a con. What do you mean? Okay. Do we like triple A? No, no. Like you lost the game.

Fuck. Wow. This is the first con I've been to in 7 years. I haven't heard anyone. And this is the first person I hear give a shit about it in years. I can't stop. But did you see or witness a glom? Or was it?

No. I didn't see. They're banter starters. But I didn't see or witness. See witness is the same thing by the way. I didn't do anything. Fucking got glomped by some kikashi chick. Of course.

A couple years ago. Yeah. What the fuck. You know what? You know what? That's what you get for going. Yeah I suppose. I wanted my Vagabond art books.

Wally you were asking for it. It was worth it. You were asking for it. Take your address. Dude I do for you anyways. Man. It wasn't good. I'm like all you nerd bombers.

This weekend my lady friend took me out to a surprise. I'm taking you somewhere. And I was like oh god I'm going to be gutted and thrown into a dumpster somewhere. I know it. I know it. But it actually turned out she took me to a zoo. And there's a very specific reason for that. Because all over our subway system it just says fucking red pandas go.

And there's all these red panda things. The red panda is just getting super hyped. Just hella hyped. And I was like I really want to see red pandas. So we wound up going. I take shitloads of videos of this red panda just yucking it up. I got like Jaguar footage. I got footage of Rhinox, Cheetor, Optimus.

The entire cast of Beast of Ice was. So that was super hyped. And she doesn't listen to this podcast because I told her that Liam talks about anime on it. So she's like well I'm done. No thanks. Unsubscribe. I think I have not subscribed yet.

Twice. And so that was really awesome. And also since last podcast I played in Beats. DuckTales remastered. How is that? It's actually pretty fun. It's really really short. I played on normal.

But it was fun. Like I was a Chip and Dale kid. Watched DuckTales sometimes. But and that was. Fuck Tailspin right? Well no. No don't fuck Tailspin. Also because Tailspin had shitty games.

Darkwing DuckTales. Darkwing DuckTales. Darkwing Duck came out way later. It's not so much fuck Tailspin as it is Darkwing fucking Duck. Chip and fucking Dale. Aladdin. Aladdin. That Aladdin show had no business being any good.

And it was super good. Super good. And then let's not even get into it because that's another episode with Gargoyle. That's a totally different podcast. Gargoyle confirmed that there is a Genesis Gargoyle game. Yeah. I looked for it. Can you find a copy locally?

Maybe it's a rom. Rom or something. No I'm sure it exists but I look locally nothing but ordering that. We gotta play that. We gotta do Disney Old School Disney. I really didn't have a childhood. Old school Disney games that shouldn't have been good but turned out amazing. Little Mermaid on the NES is awesome.

Lion King is fucking fine. Both versions of the Lion King are amazing. Both versions of Aladdin are amazing. It's been a really long time but I remember really liking Hercules. I never played one. I really liked that game. Are you talking about actual Disney? There was our Hercules game that was a platformer brawler.

LucasArts. That's the one. That's not Disney Hercules. I don't care. It's pretty good. Wait. No sorry. Disney Hercules.

Okay. Tarzan games are really good too. Disney Tarzan. It looks good. I remember that. Okay. Cool. What's going on Pat?

Okay so aside from stuff that I played for the channel such as Russell's and Last of Us. This is just Russell's now. No it's not Russell's. Pretty much all I've done the past weeks for this podcast is watched the entirety of the wire. Yes. And I don't really have anything to say other than boy you should watch the wire.

You finished it? I finished it. We're going to fucking talk later. We're going to fucking talk about it. Boy I feel like I know more about racial problems and in the reality of the wire. The reality of the world. Okay. Here's my pitch for the wire to everybody.

Whatever I describe it and I tell people go out and watch it they go why. I go because your first pitch is always fucking go watch the wire. Right. But here's the deal. Spike Lee, Alan Moore and Obama all say this is my favorite show of our most famous crazy warlocks. Right. Like you can Spike Lee give it like hate it or love it.

You can toss that one out. But Alan Moore. And Spike Lee, Alan Moore and Obama are like this cabal of warlocks. The cage. Surrounding the DVD box set just staring at you like shadow lords. Right. Oh my god. That's they all love it as the best show.

They say this is the hypershit. It's the best. The thing about the wire now is that like I've tried like forever and I just I just want it. It's a little hard to get into. And no I mean like it's hard to find it's not on Netflix at all. It wasn't popular. It wasn't popular.

It wasn't super popular. The other thing about it is that once you're finished it Pat I lor you go and try and watch any other cop show. Bruins. Law and order. The original series. The first eleven seasons. Yes.

I remember clearly enough in my head to be like this is a pretty decent cop show still. Yeah. SVU is horrifying. Yes. Because of the way that it treats like rape and all that stuff. Sure. As like mystery of the week. Yeah.

And CSI get the fuck out of here. Like my friends. I saw an episode of NCIS while I was watching Glowayer. Oh yeah. I hate NCIS. And I saw. But it's got Agent Jethro Gibbs. And my friend tried to send me down to go watch Castle and like I love Dude.

But I'm sorry. The wire. You love cop shows. They can do it the best. And why PD Blue does not hold up. I remember watching a couple episodes a few years ago and I was like this is. I tried to watch Homicide Life on the street a couple years ago. And I was like no I can't do it.

I can't do it. It's sub law and order. But like you got to give it up for the fucking law and order. Like super slutty saxophone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I need to put that on. I need to put that on in a room. It's because the show dates back to the fucking 80s. Yeah. Bam. Bam. Yeah. Me and a dude at work used to just walk by each other and do the ending part of that.

Like bam. You didn't know what it is. It's Seinfeldian. Oh anyways definitely. Like it's like law and order and Seinfeld take place in the same universe. Yeah. Yeah. Just on the different parts of town.

That's amazing. What have you been up to? I have been up to quite a bit. I sat down a lady friend of mine. Oh jeez. Had her go through Journey and like just. You were like bitch play Journey. You need to see this in your eye stems.

So what did you do after that one hour? Yeah. It's more like an hour and a half. Yeah. And honestly in this case it was about two. Because there was a lot of like what's over here. What's over here. Yeah.

Which I encourage. You know. Like that's really cool. But at the end of the day it's just sand. Yes. Beautiful sand. Beautiful sand. I encourage everyone to check it out.

Wait what are we talking about journey. Oh man. That's an alternate title. I encourage you to explore this beautiful sand. Yeah. Yo. That's a keeper. Exactly.

And by the end of it it was one of those situations where it was like wait what do you mean these names were people I was playing with. I thought that was a lie. Did she play with smoke blunt 420? Smoke for blunt 420. Yeah. And when I talked about that in my top 10 when I beat journey. Yeah.

I got seven names. And they were all like XX DBZ master. Yeah. And there was a guy that was some variant of 420 smoke blunt every day. Except for off 911. Except for off 911. And I was like how did I have such a weird emotional experience with this guy. Yeah.

I'm an asshole. I judge people too harshly. It's a really interesting game to watch though because like they didn't do the language creation thing that I did when I was playing it with my partner. Yeah. But they found other areas and it was just it's a great watch. The journey. The journey becomes a totally different game once you've beaten the entire game.

Yeah. And being it several times. Yeah. And gotten all of the talismans or the artifacts. I forget the glyphs. Glyphs. And get the white cape. Yeah.

Again. And you see your partner does not have the white cape. And you become that person. That's showing them everything. It's really it's really different. And seeing how they react. You should go back and do it again. Okay.

It's seven times. No I encourage you to. Yeah. Fucking Genova Chen. Hey. That game company man. They went broke making that game. Yep.

They looked the fucking studio went bankrupt. It's another George Tammy Tammy. It's another fucking like we're going to just break the bank here. Make the game we want. We're going to break the smallest bank in the world. They're basically 50 cent. No they're not. They'll get rich or die trying.

They'll get rich. Shoot Genova Chen seven times with flowers. I saw him at Genova Chen. It's like where's my skull? Genova hit that ramp. Stay tuned for 50 cent blood on the cent. You're coming from that game. I implore you to explore this blood on the same.

Beyond that and getting some high pass Pacific Rim posters. Yes. Oh my God. Oh Manda we love you. No I was catching up on my attack on Titan. You're still not caught up man. No because I'm watching it with someone else so you know. Catching up to one.

Just think it. Just think it. I was explaining it. But I was explaining before to Liam that the fact that like I've been out of the anime game for a while because I came in for Grim, got out of the game and then attacked me back in. Game man. I don't know why he saved the game because I'm watching the wire. It's the game man.

It's the fucking game. You gotta play the game. Anyways. The game's the game man. But no the thing about it is that what I forgot about entirely was shitty subs and the idea that like you gotta know to pick the right group and if you're anxious one week or some shit you might get a shitty group. Yeah.

I found some garbage ass group that didn't subtitle the second intro. Nice. And then there were some shitty subs and like three lines in instead of saying recon group they said like. Survey core. Survey core or whatever. Survey core is the right one. No.

Recon core is the one I'm going with. I don't care. It's too late now. And then another line after that you just saw the glitch of like his bad subcode appearing in the video. Fuck this. This brings me back. It brings you back to that time where you remember that every like hey you should watch

this show and it's not cool I'll watch this show. It's a fucking process. Yeah. Okay. I gotta find the show. Who's subbing it well? Like you look at Jojo. Jojo was a nightmare for me finding good subs because there were like three subgroups that

were doing it timely. It was Nutbladder, Gigi and MMM. Gigi. And you were like Gigi seems great and then somebody tells you they're actually garbage. Like what do you mean they're garbage? And then you're like look at these guys and you're like I have to, here's the fuck. You're fighting. Was it only one group that would use all the old timey in with firsts?

That was Gigi. Yeah. That was the best one. That was the one. But it's actually the most inaccurate. I went with that one because like if you can actually still like understand what they're saying you can be like okay I see why you did that in actual. I flip flop and move away.

You find the group that does the one second like info blast positive if you want to know more about this little thing. No fuck that group. Fuck that group. Also if your intro has three kinds of writing, you've got your English translation going, you've got your fucking Japanese and your Romaji all going along with the karaoke thing. You know what I'm talking about. You're sick.

Yeah. That's when you know that's the right group. No that's the worst group. No. That's the best. You want all that info in your brain. I want to know that that intro to attack on Titan is German. You know what?

I want to know that shit. You know what? I want to, like the problem I have is that those groups always have the highest quality of translation. But I don't want that. I want the cleanest image possible. Turn off the sound. I just, I don't fucking speak Japanese.

Man, just hit the V key on your keyboard and turn off the V key. No. Assuming you're not baking. I binge this shit. Yeah. I don't have time. Have we moved? Have we moved?

I don't know. Have they stopped baking? Yeah. Absolutely. All things are matroska video and that's it. Yeah. By the way, Liam speaking of hitting V in stable sub, I saw, I did skim those questions and one of the things I saw was, yo Liam, what the fuck, why do you use VLC?

Because it works. Because it works. Like, look, okay. I actually want to talk about that. The most juvenile fucking fights about which player you use and which subber you go with. As far as subber, go with one that's all right and it just depends on how much Japanese you understand from that point. As far as video player, when it's full screen, you can't tell the fucking difference.

The only reason I go for VLC is because they have better scroll volume controls. Yes. Actually, their volume controls are great because my speakers are ass. I put it up to 100 and then, guess what, on Windows Media Classic, I can't put any higher. On VLC, I can fucking double that volume. On VLC, my speakers are so shit, I put it up to like 180 and it sounds like it's higher. Yeah. I'm fucking tired of codecs and fucking crappy shit in my start menu corner, just filling

up like crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just destroying everything. I'm done. So over. So over. So over is the best thing that can happen to anybody to code it. Yeah.

It's fantastic. Yeah. But like, VLC works. I don't think anyone should ever get criticized for a video player. No, what are you doing using VLC? Fuck you. All right. Moving on.

That's what we've been up to. Yeah. Video players. Yeah. I like Attack on Titan. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Show of hands who watch it.

No, Matt. Everyone's with a man. Everyone's with a man. I'm busy working inside. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Sorry. Oh. Me and all the rest of the bed base screams at you to watch it because it's fucking great. Oh, when I'm not busy working on it. Just don't sleep. Hey. You know what's awesome?

No. Dive kick. Yeah. Coming up. Coming out on the 20th. Tomorrow. Today. Today.

It's out right now. Don't play it. What are you doing? I'm listening. I've done this podcast. Oh, wait. Let's go into the future and play it. I'm just saying enough good things about it.

I'm really glad that something that made it in right at the last second was the fighter pedia logo is on the bassist chest. It was not really a last minute thing because it was not on his chest when we played it at E3. And it was not there in the first demo thing. Right. But I did tell Keith something like, hey, you know, since we want to put something on there to replace what was there before.

Yeah. You know, and like it's there now and it's clear. It looks great and I'm super hyped. You can go to the dive kit website actually. And there's a pretty cool sprite pack that has like arts and it has stages, a couple of other things. And it actually has the asset spaces. It has the fraud stamp and the fraud and choke.

Yeah. So actually, no, it's cool that they altered Baz's costume. But like, what's fighter pedia? I don't know what fighter pedia is. I don't know. Yeah. You know what? The more the more you fucking like disparage it and shut it down, the more the fans clamor.

Oh, you know what? You know what? Holy shit. You say that? You say that? There's like 40,000 people listening to this right now. They're going, what the fuck are they talking about? What the fuck is fighter pedia?

I don't care. Your hate and ignorance only makes it stick harder. Fighter pedia just loves and thrives. Even playing a gripes is like fuck fighter pedia in that comment. No. That's there. That's live. I think few snacks like fighter pedia.

Okay. Just a recap. In case you haven't heard before, one at night played at E3. Yeah. You played it at Evo. Yeah. I pretended to play it. You played it in your mind.

It's fucking great. If you think it's like, oh, flash game, dive kicks. No, it's awesome. Just get it. Trust me. Trust me. What if I don't understand the fighting game references? Don't worry.

Someone you know will explain them to you. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. If you don't understand, we'll eventually tell you what all of them are. What's common though for a casual person for a dive kick is that you see Mr. N on the screen. Yeah.

A person goes, I don't want to play this. Look at this dumb character. Yeah. Or they have them or like Sensei or whatever, or Baz. And someone sees these characters just visually. A casual person that just all plays something fun is that the characters are kind of a problem. It could be you touch it. Yeah.

But then that's the way. That they break through the fear barrier. No. Or they break through the $10 barrier. The AT field. The AT field. I understand exactly what you mean. There is a very specific art sensibility from dive kick.

Yeah. And it is like kind of riffing on itself with like the flash game stuff. Yes. I personally really, really like that. I think that's hilarious. I understand. Because we all spent way too much time on the mid 90s flash internet. Yeah.

Oh my God. Right? So when we see that, we go, that's the funniest fucking joke ever. But for shitty old newgrounds. For people that are like 12 to 15 who don't know what the fuck the mid 90s internet was, they're like, I don't get it. Now the games are on Facebook. And I find that weird for some reason.

Yeah, that's right. I really want. I've never played a Facebook game. I don't even know how. Yeah, you have. You probably played some Assassin's Creed Facebook game. No. I played one game.

No, I played one game. Cow clicker. Oh yeah. Cow clicker. Cow clicker. Cow clicker. Yeah. Cow clicker is.

Cow clicker is legit. There's a matter of contestant's magic in your own free time. Free time. Okay. No, I never did. Okay. You know what? I really want, now that you mentioned rock.com, I really want a booty call game made by Telltale.

Damn. Oh my God. Damn. The Wolf Among Us cancels. It cancels. Jake coming back. Season two, The Walking Dead. Fuck that.

No, booty call. There's no money there. All right. So apparently, in an interesting. The weird. In an interesting. There for the best. Unexpected twist today.

Ubisoft who continue to actually slowly gain my respect. Again. They're making some. Right after they fucking did all that dirt on Patrice Dissolet. I mean, right after they put out shit like Outworld. You mean development. Yeah. As far as titles go.

Right. As far as the video games go that we want to play with our hands and enjoy. What do you mean shit like Outworld? Well. No, he's saying it's good. You mean. This went, this phrasing got really weird, but he meant to say it's good. None of us finished Outworld.

No. But it's great. Outworld. Wow. Man. It's the, it's the. The Icaruga, Icaruga, Rez and like Prince of Persia. Altogether.

2D platformer. It's Metroid. It's sick. How the fuck did I never heard of it? You know this. It's a guy that's orange and you can switch polarities. It's just the blue. Oh shit.

That game. Yeah. And you fight giant bosses. Wow. That game's so good. Yeah. No one finished it. Like completely.

Yeah. It's. Man. The point is that Ubisoft and specifically a Patrick Plurge. Plurge. Who? Use your words. Patrick Plurge.

Name's Plurge. Plurge. What has he worked on? I'm a primary director. Oh, okay. Sorry. I'm a primary three creative director. Said I want to work on a JRPG type game that doesn't look like JRPGs as much as it looks

like their concept art. Mm-hmm. And he announced Child of Light today. That sounds pretty interesting. That sounds pretty interesting. Apparently super painting. Man, I wish I was doing all the bullshit I was doing today. So I could hear about that.

No. It looks like it's inspired by Miyazaki was the main thing. Yeah. It's a 2D platform on the UB art engine. Oh, shit. That didn't know that. It's running on the UB art engine. So it's also super portable to every platform in the universe.

So many screenshots. And the combat. Okay. The combat is turn-based. Like FF6. Yeah. Wait a second. Let's just slow down.

There's no screens. Let's just slow down. FF6 does not have turn-based combat. That's what it said in the thing. And I read it. And now that I think about it, that's dumb. Yeah. FF6.

FF6 uses the active time battle system. Now that I think about what I said. Yeah. But it's inspired by FF6. So I said turn-based. Well, that's a good fucking place to start. Yeah. But yeah.

The only thing is like an 8 second clip on Vine. And that's it. And it looks really pretty. Shut up. I was like, when are they going to use the UB art engine and something? Phrenoling. Yeah. Because it's clearly a very awesome capable engine.

Oh my god. Yeah. And the interesting thing is that he straight up said, he's like, I'm so done with AAA projects. I'm done with shit. After like a new software project. We're paraphrasing a little bit. Yeah. We're paraphrasing.

But he said, he's like, I don't want to put out a game where I have to compete. For Shelf Space at Best Buy. Yeah. I don't want to care about how well it's going to sell with certain types of people or whatever. I want no marketing. The color of the audience. I want to just make it. He's like, it doesn't even have to be good.

He literally said, I just want to get away from Best Buy. Yeah. I don't want to compete with Assassin's Creed, the company I work for. I don't want to do that. Those kinds of statements really go into, I forget where it was, but I read an interview about Blood Dragon after Far Cry 3 came out. And whoever it was they were interviewing, man, I really wish I could remember, but basically just said that once they finished Far Cry 3, and Far Cry 3 was a AAA title that sold really

well, Ubisoft said, you can do whatever the fuck you want. And then they decided to make Blood Dragon, which is why Blood Dragon is so fucking weird. And it makes me feel that Ubisoft has this weird corporate culture where they're going to be weird and corporate and evil, and then you're going to pump out an Assassin's Creed that does well, or a Far Cry that does well, and they're going to be like, you can fuck off and do whatever. The tyranny of the game. Tell them for like two, three years, man.

You're good. And then wouldn't it mean to come back and make money? They'd grind the gears again. No, when you come back and make money. But like after Blood Dragon and even Call of Juarez, Gunslinger, they were both successful. That's so fucking weird. Yeah, it's hold a couple hundred K, which is more than enough for that kind of game. I'm not surprised to see them like going for digital stuff.

And like UBR, yeah, like I said, portable across fucking every platform. Except for the video. Except for the video. No, including the video. No, no, it'll be canceled. It'll be canceled. Oh, okay. Well, I will buy it on my video.

Bravo to them for that. And he says that like, you know, he wants it to basically be interesting and different with no buzzwords. The fact that a third of the development team are all women apparently is something that he also mentioned. Which is just kind of like, hey, is that like this happens because of that? Or did he ask? I think that was probably luck.

It just happened. He just mentioned that as a point, like it could have been. Well, okay. But the point is that the point is that like for whatever that means, like it. I don't think it means anything. How did he phrase it? He's like, it's also actually, I'm going to read it. It's a funny way.

Yeah. Like it's a funny accident that a third of the team is women or was he like, there's tons of broads on this thing. He said, okay, it's one of the smallest projects going on in the studio right now. More than one third of the development team is female, which is 12 women working on the game at the time, which means there's about 36 on the project. That's, yeah. And just basically it's been a positive experience because despite the fact that there's a lot

of big game culture, his team is different and unique. And so people are kind of respecting that. It's kind of weird because at moments you have to go through like, oh, well, we have to check in and make sure that this is a UB game with UB standards and whatever. You got to hit that outsourcing milestone. And it's like, it's not there for this type of game. Yeah. But still like they're respecting it as something different and interesting and niche and giving

it, you know, the space it needs to breathe. They have what? Like two dozen people roughly? 36. 36. Every person is their own company. So when they list every person, it would be soft. Yeah.

One person from every UB soft. 17 companies that UB soft owns. This game will still have 48 minutes on credits. Kind of like what the game itself. It's what the credits of Dragon's Crown should be. Just a million artist portfolios. Yeah. Yeah.

But so looking out for that, everyone keep an eye on it. Yeah. I am going to look at it. I almost like this for like for UB soft or just. Yeah. It's a UB soft game. It's a UB soft game. It's a UB soft.

It's the same. We'll let you hear it. It's just when I hear something like that, my first like, oh yeah. It's Kickstarter. Yeah. Absolutely. Who would green light such a thing? Internal Kickstarter.

You'll be good. UB soft, UB art engine with Blood Dragon, but make a Contra. Yeah. Yeah. What's my check, UB? We should go down there ASAP and just bring it to their door. If they make that, you're going to be fucking pissed. I'm going to be super pissed.

Speaking of Contra. You know what game looks a lot like Contra? Good segue. Good segue. Good segue. Barclay 2. Barclay 2. Right.

It looks like the top down view missions from Contra. That trailer that came out. In the last parts of Contra. Well, but this looks really nice. Contra none the less. Moving around in like kind of like a Secret of Mana slash Zelda environment. It's becoming a real game. Yeah.

Honestly, for anyone who doesn't know the first Barclay, Charles Barclay's Shut Up and Jam Guided is a JRP chaos dunks. Yeah. Exactly. I don't remember the plot exactly because I played it such a long time ago. Okay. Here's the basketball. Charles Barclay.

Basketball is outlawed. Yes. Because Charles Barclay did a chaos dunk and drove the world into the Neo, Neo apocalypse. Another Neo Manhattan or some such. And Michael Jordan is an enforcer making sure that no one's playing basketball. And Michael Jordan uses Michael Jackson's Moonwalker sprite with Michael Jordan's face on it. Exactly.

It's like I thought I heard some dribbling around here. I didn't hear nothing. So Barclay 2 is the sequel to that. It doesn't have the name Charles in it because guess why? It's a commercial game now. When you get money for these sorts of things, it starts to get a little weird when you start using also the famous people. Yeah.

And famous game titles that exist. There's so much like ridiculous like self referential and just like silly stupid humor in it. Like it's great. The title goes on for days. Yeah. When I was playing, I got a question for you. Because I haven't seen the footage and I didn't back the extrovert.

Because I didn't know about Barclay shut up and jam guidance until this. When I'm playing shut up and jam guidance, I haven't beaten it yet, but I'm getting there. It really feels like if I grew up in the 90s. So there's a lot of stuff that like hits me deep. I'm like, wow, wow, that's targeted. It does shut up and jam guidance. Barclay 2. Barclay 2.

Is it looking to be like that level of targeted referential stuff or is it a different decade? I mean, well, the big thing is of course, like if you watch like the one trailer that exists for the first Barclay, you know, like you definitely get that impression a lot more than Barclay 2. Barclay 2 is really like, you know, there's no Michael Jordan. They're trying to break off and become their own story. Exactly. Exactly. So it's still really closely related to Cyber Dwarves are still there.

They're still basketball skin. It's not like intensely, remember this? What else to 90s era basketball? That's what I was going to say. Yeah, exactly. It kind of seems to have dropped out a little bit, though it's still really silly in its own way. Because there was stuff in the first one that had me laughing my shit off. Like zombie Kimbe Mutombo being a boss.

And I'm like, man, I think it's a lot like dive kick. Yeah. Like I think this is the funniest thing ever because I'm pretty familiar with every part of this joke. Yeah. But if you're like, who the fuck is Kimbe Mutombo? Why is he a basketball? I'm really glad he saved us from that apocalypse. Based on all the stuff for the second game, I think they're sacrificing some of that.

But that's good. It still looks great. It needs a little mainstream. It's actually RPG now. You've got gunsmithing. Yeah. They had a word for that. It was really good.

I can't remember. But no, it's smithing? No. But like it looks like a legit title that people are excited for. Yeah. Tales of Games. Tales of Games. Tales of Games.

Does that have a release date? Later. It's pretty good. Later in the world. Here we go. The magical realms of Tirna Noog escaped from Necron 7. Yeah. The revenge of Kukulin.

Kukulin. Yeah. The official game of the movie. Is that Kukulin? Is that Kukulin? Oh, the Kukulin Sparkly Saga. Yeah. This is the title of the game.

The SMT guy? Well, he's Irish. But yes, the SMT guy called him Kukulin. Dude's awesome in the SMT form. He's so cool. I can't wait for him to not be in this game. Kukulin Sparkly, you know. That's great.

He was a character, you know. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, it still looks great. So right on. High enough, you got a hugged pillow with the Cyber Dwarf on it. Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. I got it.

Yeah, you did. Yeah. High enough. Yeah. So, everyone in about a year from now, hold your lighters up and pour us them out for Games for Windows. Oh. Because guess what?

It's finally actually closing day. So, I think I'm the one who's done the most research on this. And I'm the one who found this title right before we went up. Yeah, no, no. So, people, I think it was dudes on Neogath. I don't, like, that's where I caught it from. Yeah. Just looking at the Age of Empires system requirements.

And it just says, yo, by the way, Games for Windows Live is gonna fucking shut down in July of 2014. And this segues really nicely into the fact that 2K and, who the fuck does Batman? Warner Brothers have been monkeying around with the background integration of the Ark of the Island games and Bioshock 2. And people who have been watching the Steam Registry have noticed, like, they're doing a lot of weird stuff to these games, like adding DLC support for Nervous Den from Bioshock 2, which because of Games for Windows Live never came to the PC and stuff like that.

And everyone was going, yeah, yeah, Batman's gonna be so much better. And like, for me, I'm gonna buy Arkham City on the next Steam Sale because it's not gonna fucking Games for Windows. You don't even like Arkham City. Yeah, I don't. But you just want to buy it. I'll buy it for three fucking dollars. You see, but Games for Windows is just that relic that refused to die, basically.

And it was the worst. And like, I feel similarly about Origin, honestly. Origin's pretty fucking bad. It's like these two things that are not Steam that are really just like, well, we want to, like, okay, we talked about this, Liam. And like, if you have a thing where you say you're like, I'm a company, I want to get 100% of the profits from my game that I sell to you digitally, right? Well, I understand that.

Sure. I don't like when your implementation of this concept damages your game garbage. No, like if you're like, I remember for both Bioshock 2 and Batman Arkham Silo, I had fucking crippling save bugs because of patch updates. You'll start a game for Windows and I was like, it's not up to date, but it'll download it and the installation will fail and then your game will boot and your save is gone now. Right.

It's like, fuck. So it's just, they finally went, all right, all right, let's put the mail in this coffin. So here's the question, what happens to Dark Souls? Because there there's been no talk of like, thank you Durante. There's been no talk. Yes. Thank you Durante. Praise the sun.

Thank you. A minute for Durante. Praise the sun, Durante. It's the greatest, but like, there's been no talk about it being removed from Dark Souls. Well, Dark Souls just break on July 1st, 2014. Like, yeah, I hope not. Who knows? I like that game a lot.

Yeah. It'll be the day that Dark Souls 2 is available on peace. No, that's coming earlier. Yeah. But I still want to play the whole thing. But yeah, fuck games, Windows. Goodbye games, Windows. Bye.

I will not pour one out for you. Nah, nah, nah. Hey, nah, nah, nah. Good riddles. No, you can't do the whole song. No, I'm tapping out. I'm tapping out. You're tapping out at the thing you started?

Happy birthday. No, no, no. Happy birthday. No, shut up. No, seriously. Happy birthday. Okay. We can't even joke about that stuff.

So how about a bummer note? Yeah. We didn't get into this last time. A love being said. A killer is dead launches two, and I quote, tepid sales in Japan. Not even lukewarm. I looked at a little bit of that. It's like the worst selling one in Japan, like more like, no, like the toilet paper

stuff. I was going to say cut back to the toilet paper. It's worse than that. Yeah. What do you do, man? What do you do? I think it was like about 20K, both platforms. And I don't understand why.

That is worse than Bionic Commando. Bionic Commando did 24 at the very least. The main judge is like, ha, like I saw that. You're talking U.S. versus Japan there, right there. So Bionic Commando is still Garth. Still the king of shit, man. So I don't get it. I played that game at E3.

It plays really well. It's a lot of fun. No, the problem is that the publisher in Japan, I think it's Katakawa, they just dumped it. They're the D3 of Japan. When you look at D3, I could D3 label in America. Sorry, I want to say 505 games. Yeah, that's true.

It's funny you say that because Katakawa is actually a really big publisher of manga in Japan. Yeah. And they try to branch out. Really prevalent in that. Yeah. And so like I'm actually kind of surprised they couldn't do a bit more for Killers Dead.

Well, you have to wonder, like, is it just the publishing and marketing or is it just for people who are not animating with the material? Part of the appeal of the game. I mean, they did the whole jiggle of, hey, Japan, you should like this stuff. Does anyone know how well Lollipop did with Japan? I did. It's like the best Venni Grasshopper game in Japan. Are they sated on Lollipop?

What do you mean sated? Have they gotten their, like, creep out on Lollipop? Does this mean Japan likes James Gunn? No, honestly, like, on there. I don't know. I'd love to play the Japanese version of Lollipop just to see what the script was like. Yeah, as far as Killer is Dead goes, I want to just say it didn't get the publicity it needed.

Like, jiggle mode, whatever, like, it's such an insignificant thing, nobody's going to buy it for that. But besides that, the only people who know about jiggle mode in the first place are people who care about Killer is Dead. Yeah. Like, I just don't think it had a really good, I played it a little bit at E3. That mode is dumb. Sure.

It was broken when we played it. It was still dumb. It was dumb. But that mode is stupid. So what it is, it's really great that you got to look at a girl, you know, you're a jiggle mode. So I don't know why you have to do this. But when she looks at you and notices that you're staring at her, you have to turn away.

That sounds like some sort of a wrathful shit. Oh, why? Yeah. And you have to then, once you do that, and successfully like make sure that she didn't stare at you. Nobody can see you fucking looking around. Yeah. You build up your guts meter.

And that's turning his head. You build up your guts meter, and then after your guts meters build up, you then give her a presence. And you do this at nausea. And the controversy comes from the fact that one of the presence is money. No, it's not. It's a ceremonial coin. Oh, really?

Yeah. It's a ceremonial coin. Take that. Take that. I was like that. I was like you by the media. Wow. I was doing, you did Phoenix Rise.

Yeah. That just shows. That shows a lot. Man. That shows the racial difference. A little bit better if you have rehearsed it. Hey, if you guys can't tell, Liam is white. Oh.

Well, we can just, we can go listen, we can go listen to Chumi B.O. X Kendrick Lamar. So good. And we'll all be on the same page. Yeah. That song is great. Who's that identity? Does it not deserve to be that good? It's so great it makes me pissed off.

And when I went, I can listen to like the actual Kendrick Lamar song and it's garbage by comparison. Yeah. So what's the name of the song for people that are like, what the fuck? Poolside Identity. Poolside Identity. Um, he also did a black and yellow. A song of his career today. I walk up to Woolly and he's, he's got his headphones on and he turns to me and I'm trying

to tell him something important. And he hands me his headphones. He says, listen. And I listen. And he's listening to fucking black and yellow Hitamari sketch. And I'm like, Woolly, I love this song. Why are you listening? Why are you listening to it?

I just got upset. I'm like, I am so mad. You know what? That I want to listen to this because it's good. And I fucking hate myself for liking it, but it's really good. It's that attack on Titan, man. It's poisoning me. Oh my God, it's coming back.

Shout outs to Garda Kuno. Your days from the animation club are coming back to haunt me. No. You're in the anime club. You're in the anime club. I was in the comic book club. Yeah. Well, I was in both.

Except that. Oh yeah. But except that fucking asshole stole all my comics. He did steal all your comics. I hate that guy. I know who you are. Is he dead? Yeah.

He's not dead. Awesome. Remember the same guy the fucking stalked you to the subway. Oh my God. Fuck that guy. But yeah, like it's kind of like the anime club comic that, uh, done by JC Green. I believe. But yeah.

Sports. Anyway. Yeah. We should talk about it. You know that Killer's Dead gets the best. Yeah. Let's get back on topic. Yeah.

Killer's Dead. Killer's Dead looks great. I'm sure that Exceed will have the right amount of copies to sell. I think Exceed's going to sell more than Keddo Coway. Exceed seems to be really on top of what they're doing. Dude, they're so on the game. They seem to know the exact numbers people will buy. For them, they, they, last of us, they were like, last of us was the most successful thing

we ever put out by turns. The last story, right? The last story. I'm sorry. Wow. I was thinking about last of us like right before. So yeah. The last story, they sold the, like, the most successful thing, but that, that we made profit

on it. So I'm sure for Killer's Dead, they'll know how many copies it needs to sell. They must have some awesome metrics and statistics. Dude. And if they don't know, they just put it on Steam. Well, don't you remember like it was such a surprise that like Killer's Dead was announced. Everyone was like, oh, I hope we get it. And then like right there, Exceed just like, got this already.

Well, you know what that comes from. That comes from when Exceed said, let's take a risk. Yeah. Yeah. And then they recently came out and said, holy shit, those games sold like fucking crazy. This has been popular forever. Yeah. But they'd never been widely available in any format.

Yeah. No, exactly. I remember Dude from the anime club. Dude from the anime club. Would just bring me CDs and just be like, play these fucking games. Yeah. And we both played East because of them. And he'd follow up on you and be like, now file in a book report on your, on your playing

piece. And also go check out my translations of SNES games. But anyway, man, you knew some nerds. Dude. This was a nerd. Yeah. No, you might have met this guy. What was his name?

Well, I'm not going to say his name. Of course. What did we do? No. But like this is the dude that would like, you'd meet him and he'd go on and on about the proper Ava dubs and proper Ava dubs. Oh, I remember that fucking guy. And one time someone was talking about like, they just said like Ega and reference to Castlevania.

That was me fucking. That was me. I remember the guy you're talking about. Yeah, that dude. I knew that dude's little brother in high school and he would always talk shit about his older brother. Then I go to, go to college and I meet him like, whoop, this fucking freak is so it's a real nut job.

It was like, oh, that's my brother. Yeah. I will say this. Fuck that guy. He introduced us to multi-blood though. So hey. No, he's so screwed. I like that guy forever.

I like the guy. He's cool. But like, yeah. He's not cool. Hey guys, he's a lot of things, but he's not cool. What are your, what are your gamescom predictions? What are you thinking? Okay, so here's the thing.

Well, before we even actually get into it. You need to be more specific. Yeah. Well, no, here's the deal. Like obviously that's happening tomorrow. Yeah, today. Today. Oh, it's already the gamescom news.

That's what we haven't seen. It's technically like a sealed envelope style. Yeah. But Moe, what's happening is like, we're going to come back next week and review the shit that actually happens. Yeah. But now, more or less, but for now we're like, okay, what do we think is going to happen? Can I just take a first stab at this?

Yeah, go for it. So like Nintendo out Microsoft, we can't really predict anything because they could just do any wild card. I'm going to say that they are not going to announce a connect list skew. Okay. So just like a crazy announcement. Okay. Yeah.

Well, they're back in the game this year. Like they're going to be doing something. But like we can't really guess their game. Sure. No, but this obviously you have some titles, you know. The one MS thing is that rumor. Well, there's that rumor. Well, there's going to be new titles.

There's going to be new titles. There's no way we can guess what they are. They just put out that list today saying, here's everything we have. No, they said there's going to be new ones. Man, they confirm that. But there's no way we can guess them. The only MS one is like the rumor that they're going to bundle it with FIFA 14 in Europe, which is crazy on like so many levels.

It would be crazier if my prediction doesn't come true. And my prediction is that Sony is going to come out and they're going to say that the PS4 is going to launch on October 21st in most regions, which is tier one regions, tier one regions, which includes Europe, which means they'll still be like a month before Microsoft, which means at least people who really, really want FIFA are still going to get the PS4 because it'll be a hundred bucks cheaper. And the cost of FIFA will not be absorbed. Well, now I was talking about this and the only differential here is like obviously

the PS4 is coming out first, so it has that advantage overall. If they were to come out at the same time, regardless of that differential. Still a hundred dollar price difference and FIFA and the PS4 has still been cheaper. Except you have to pay for PlayStation Plus. And a lot of people are like, no, I don't have to pay for Xbox Live. But it comes with three months free. Now this brings me to what I was going to say was like, why is the PS4 a problem? It's a weird PR thing, honestly, but yeah, PS4 will be fine.

So far Microsoft has been responding to a lot of people's feedback in terms of just like you want to feel out how people are upset about these things. Why are you guys so upset? Why do you hate us? Yeah. So the idea of why is the idea of a Kinectless SKU that costs less money? So absolutely. Here's why.

Here's why. Because all the boxes that currently exist have Kinects in them. And they're not going to run out of those until the second batch of shipments, which is going to be the next year, which means if they come out and say there'll be a Kinectless SKU in a year for a hundred bucks less, they're saying don't buy it this season. Well, I mean, there's another reason because like obviously they believe in Kinects. Like obviously that's a belief.

Oh yeah, they believe that they're so strong. But like seriously, obviously they believe in Kinects. Like the Starth Park Spider God. Regardless, games stopped getting developed for Kinect because people didn't have Kinects and the people who did wanted exercise games. Now everyone has to have a Kinect. Except they don't. Except to make games for them.

Except they do right now. Except they don't. No, no, they have to have it. I didn't say plug it in. It has to be there. Yeah, but here's the thing. It might just be voice commands. Matt owns a Kinect.

Yeah. Where is it right now? But what I'm saying is when Crimson Dragon comes out. It's under my snake tank. But what I'm saying is when Crimson Dragon comes out. Dude, Crimson Dragon sucks. He's here me out. The 10,000 people who are interested in it won't have to pull out 120 bucks to buy a Kinect on top of it.

Dude, I played that game with a controller and it sucks. What I'm saying is when making a Kinect game becomes safe. It doesn't become suicide anymore. It does. Optional features. Yeah, that's true. The concept of optional features that don't have to destroy the tiles. Mass Effect had good optional features.

And now everyone has them. I agree that it becomes safer to put optional features in. But if you're still putting out Kinect software. Look at the 360. There are 70-ish million 360s. The last I counted was 72 million. I think it's a bit high anyway. But whatever. The numbers don't matter.

It's over 70 million. And there are about 24 million Kinects. That's a lot of fucking people. You look at that and some people go, wow, that's a lot of Kinects you guys sold. I look at that and see, boy is there a lot of 360 owners that don't want the fucking Kinect. Absolutely.

And will not buy Kinect games. To be fair, the Kinect came out way after the long-term risks. I'm inclined to agree, except obviously we know a lot of people didn't buy it. It just didn't work. Whereas Kinect 2 actually does work. Oh, there was like very few games you would want to buy. Yeah, exactly.

So I mean, I'm not saying there's going to be a big outcry at the same time. But at the same time, it's like, Kinect is supposed to be a big push for Microsoft. We went to E3. We didn't see a single game. It was Kinect focused. And like that's really damning. If they were trying to push it super hard.

No, for sure. I'm just trying to justify their decision. Like I'm not necessarily saying they're going to make a billion zillion games for it. Just like there is reason to have it. I understood that the whole like, no, you have to plug it in because look, we'll be able to guarantee all this interface stuff.

That stuff's cool. But like then the NSA stuff broke and everyone's like, I don't want the cameras taking pictures of my dick. That was like a whole other weird thing. Because it's like, it doesn't record video. No, that's why you got the Xbox Live vision camera. Yeah, so you can play Uno.

I was about to say that. Yeah, that's that guy on Uno. Just here's my junk. The other reason was so that if you got wiped out in Burnout Paradise, you can take your pants off and show people your dick. I love the concept of like someone's junk being really good at Uno.

Just clearing out and you're getting, you're double salty because he's fucking, it's his dick. Or you know in the N64, the camera, you're theoretically going to be able to put your face with boys. Just have a big dick face right around the game too. But what are the, okay, Sony though.

So Sony, of course, is interesting. More PS4 games, PS4 release details. A mountain of indie shit. Yeah. So PS4 is of course the big thing. Vita is kind of a little tiny hot topic. I don't know if they're going to have Vita stuff at all. They're going to have Vita stuff.

Wasn't it you that said there is going to be Vita stuff confirmed? And they're going to say there's absolutely nothing? No, they said there's going to be Vita focus and then they were like, oh, but PS4 is actually a big thing. The actual quote. Well, that's just because they never said. Shahid from Sony said it's going to be a big show for Vita. Yeah.

And everyone who owns the Vita went, oh, it's going to be a big Vita show. Yeah. And that's me, by the way. Yeah, me too. And then they came out saying it's going to be a PS4 focus show. And you go, well, okay, no shit. But the naysayers like me were like, please give me a Vita game. Or like, no, that means the Vita is dead.

It's like, no, it doesn't mean anything. They could have three big Vita games. And it would still be a big show for the Vita. Exactly. And regardless of that, it's still going to have like every game required remote place support. Yeah. On PS4.

No matter what. It's that crazy rumor that that Japanese newspaper is reporting that there's a fucking new Vita version coming out. So like, I don't really buy it. I think that's nuts. Where it stems from is Samsung's making a phone call. Well, the Vita that's purported to come out has a 6.3 inch screen. Which is enormous.

Samsung's making a phone called the Samsung Galaxy Mega, which is a 6.3 inch screen. However, the resolution is 720p whereas the Vita is 544p. Right. So it just, like, I don't really, I don't buy it. It's a little fuzzy. They kind of probably made it because of that phone coming out and they were like, we can get away with this rumor,

but I don't really buy it. The last thing I remember like that, like tie-ins that work that way was like the Panasonic Q with the game Q. Yeah, and it just worked out. Doesn't someone we know have that? He all has one. Exactly. And he showed me like he was going to sell it or something like that.

He was, he was. Yeah. It was so beautiful. It's gorgeous. It's Q with lights and all. Yeah. And he liked it. It could just be a disco ball.

Just hand made your... So good. As far as Sony, like, of course Vita price dropped in Japan to like, I think, 210 US dollars. It's going to come here. In China, the price just dropped to 165 US dollars with like a shitty game. Nice. It's going to happen in North America.

I, I don't see it not happening. The fucking thing needs a price drop and two more killer apps. At least two. Yeah. I mean, it's got two on the horizon and Ben's game is probably a Vita game, but whatever. Okay. Well, we'll, we'll come back next week.

Yeah. A games console review next week. Next week. Gamescom. Let's do a really quick FGC wrap up. I like, there's a fucking ton of shit going on. And we, and we didn't... I thought it was literally only dive kits.

And we, and we didn't talk about shit last week. I thought we were going to talk about watching SaltyBit for three hours. No, we did that. We did that. Okay. So we're going to just fucking ram these bitches off. Here we go. Wow.

Wow. Okay. Give me the ram. I want to hit the bitches. Let us. Persona for Arena update. Yeah. Let's go.

The game that everyone forgot. The game that time ignored. I should not have gotten this. It is currently any kind of update. It is currently only an arcade location test, but our system works. We'll port everything. Because we're going to say,

because we made this beautiful hide update and all these amazing screens. Oh yeah. So that a bunch of Japanese people in an arcade. What is sold super great on content. Oh my God. The story mode in Persona for Arena nudged at the idea that Junpei and Yukari would be the next characters.

And they were, which leads me to believe that this game, when it comes to consoles, will also have a story mode. And it will probably also have two more characters. Hey, you know what matters? There's slots on the edges. You know what matters more in fighting games than story mode?

Gameplay. Shadow characters. I don't know about that. Hide it there. No. You know what's sold better than Persona? Mortal Kombat 9 story mode. MK9 is the perfect example of how stories

more suck at game play. I have a really serious question. Now that we're talking about our system works, how is it that our system works is able to make like a new fighting game last year, make a brand new fighting game in guilty gear? X. X.

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It didn't get announced. Dyskate disappears into the shadows. What's Dyskate doing? Where's he been? Guilty Gear 2 Overture. I'm talking about Dyskate Ishtowari, by the way. The Guilty Gear series creator. The craziest, hardest-working, man-in-finding game.

Slash voice actor. Slash guitar player. He did the art. He did the stories. He did the guitar. He did the music. He did the story. Oh, man, he's so nuts.

It's his fan gases. How many people are out there? Like, how big is art? Is anyone though? They must be fairly sizable. Like, for them to work on four-plus projects at the same time. I would be surprised if they're like 100 people. But maybe a while ago, they were like just a bunch of rag-tag knock-around guys.

I feel weird. But now, it's definitely weird at how art system works, a company that, like, I have made fun of in the past, like, dumb anime fighters, like, is fucking stealing Capcom's crown. As, like, there's a bunch of games that art is making that I really care about. And Capcom is not. And they have it for a while. But the thing is, they're not really stealing Capcom's crown as much as they're carving

their own out. You see? I'm just being the general crown of, like, look what's fucking hot in fighting games. Sure. But here's the thing. They came out, and they invented their own genre of anime fighters. They took that, and they said, this is what you specialize in. It's like Dust Loops.

Yeah. What's a Dust Loops? And the thing with New Persona 4 Arena is that, like, this should have been just like the Fist of the North Star game. Sindan no Soso say Kengo Retsudan. Like, it should have been forgotten on a one-off that you just kind of go, oh, man, remember that awesome game. I just want to point out, anybody who doesn't know that Fist of the North Star fighter is

fucking awesome. He's fucking great. There's a video that I'm going to link. I'm going to link really awful at the same time. Yeah. I'm going to try to dig it up if it's still on YouTube. The best match of a fighting game I have ever seen is this amazing high match. It is the worst quality we've ever seen.

William and I had to go through Hell in High Water to get that accepted on episode. To get that accepted on episode. Thrown into that fighting game show we used to do. Yes. I can't remember. What's it called? I can't remember the name. Oh, okay.

You fucking... So, it was Scrub Lords? Yeah. It's Scrub Lords. It's the hypers. It's the hypers video. You know? Like, you've got dudes fighting to survive down to the wire if he doesn't beat this guy

in the next five seconds. Hey, we got too much FGC stuff to go. All right. All right. All right. You've got to talk about things that Matt likes. Yeah. Killer Instinct.

Chief Thunder confirmed. Oh, yeah. Killer Instinct. But we didn't even talk about Killer Instinct. K.I. confirmed. Let's start there. But, yeah. I don't have much to say other than that other than I fucking called it.

And so did Max because we're both... He was like... Yeah. The only character... The only one you say Max, you mean Maximilian. Maximilian. Yeah. The only character...

They're like, oh, we're going to have a grappler character for sure. There was like... There was like... There was like... Rappler in like a Killer Instinct. How do you do that? And like, it's not going to be a new character. And there's only two choices.

It was T.J. Combo. Boom. Or Thunder. Boom. Now, my idea immediately went towards chain grapples like King or Kevin Ryan from Mark of the Lost. Oh, fuck you, Kevin Ryan.

Hey. He turned out to be... Even I. I'm like, fuck you with Kevin Ryan. He turned out to be God Tier and none of us knew it or wanted to accept it. And you can't make him God Tier. No one knows how. No one...

What this Japanese guy does. Shut the fuck up. Rolling on the ground. But, uh, yeah, like, what was his Instinct mode? Let's get an Invincible Snap. Invincible Snap. You're a grappler and you're just like, fuck everything. I'm in your face.

So you become mech-a-zanky with no damage. Plus a little bit of T.Hawks mobility going on there as well. Yeah. So that's really good and the design was actually good. I like the idea of the war paint bleeding over him. I couldn't believe they found a good way to make a character like that and not just be Capcom lazy and just make T.Hawks again. And not just go like, hey, super native, almost sketchy racists design.

Killer Instinct looks so good. It looks legit. Shit. And you have to... Like, any boots would be really good. Whatever, man. And the FGC has spoken as far as its credibility goes. It feels legit as well.

Emulator's Goddard is on that. Filthy Rich is on that. The guy that invented Super Smash Land for the Game Boy emulators is on that. I don't know what he's talking about now. Some guy made a Game Boy Smash Bros. project and he's now on the Killer Instinct team. I don't think it's actually a Game Boy game though. No, no, it's an Emulator PC thing. Fuckin' Klopp is on it.

Yeah. We saw Deny the Klopp. We saw Klopp. We took rare footage of Ken Law. Ken Law is terrible. He's on it. Like, this looks solid and we're gonna give it a chance. And honestly, like, as far as X-Bone goes, yeah.

That's the most exciting title for me. Well, for me, the most exciting title is Sweary's Game D4. Oh my God, I forgot. Okay, so we beat Deadly Premonition, right? So Sweary's thing, I didn't watch Twin Peaks. Okay? And then you look at D4 and he's like, what's D1 and 2? I've never heard of Kenji Eno.

Like, Sweary, I believe you. But there's only, it was never D3. No, there wasn't. That's how he spooled us. Oh, wow. Okay, so moving in really quickly, let's just talk about some anime news. One second. We got, finally, Shinichiro Watanabe.

We kind of talked about this in one of the things briefly, I think, but we didn't really go into it. He's come back, finally, with... Yo, let me skip part today. The dude what made Cowboy Bebop is making another space cowboy thing. Samurai Shampoo, etc. He doesn't do much, but when he shows up, he fucking ruins everything with his amazing shit.

He ruins everything. He ruins what's left of the canvas. He ruined Xbox Assholes with his awesomeness. He's the best. Space Dandy, go check out the trailer for that. It looks hilarious. He's the deadliest man in the universe. The deadliest man in the space.

In the space. In the space. In the space. Watanabe cashed in the money in the bank and took the guy's title at summer school. You look at him and you get shades of red light. It looks like red light. Shades of red light.

Yeah. So one of the things I actually want to talk about with that, I don't know if you caught this bit. Shut up, shut up. I don't know if you caught this bit about it, but they're really pushing to get Western support on it. They really want to localize it. They really want it to come to play.

Really? Yes. They do. And I think that's great. I think that's fantastic. All anime companies, regardless of what you're making, should try to push for the West. Sure.

But Space Dandy, like you saw the trailer, there's a couple distinct shots where it's just like tits. And it's like an anime fan service. The word is in fact a trailer. A giant zoom in of the word boobies. Yes. Exactly. Followed by a bunch of tit shots.

And I think we need money. I really feel like Space Dandy could be on that level of you know, cowboy bebop and stuff. You know what? I really feel like this is going to devalue it. I bet you that's playing for Blast. I bet you that's playing for Satire. Because I love him so much.

I think so too. But it's there. You know? You defrost Yoko Kano and you set her to work. Is she dead? No, she's just cryogenically frozen. That's it. No, but what I mean is like,

they're trying to bring it to the West, but if you show, you wouldn't show this to your mom or your dad because hey, I would. I would. Okay. Well. Yo dad, you like tits?

Yeah. I hope so. You've got this one. But you get what I mean. Like it's not something that's approachable for everyone because of its silence. No, it's, it all goes down to like, how like,

for a 16 year old guy who's like, no mom, I'm not wasting my life watching my girl cartoons. Yeah. And then she walks like, yeah. Yeah. She does the Marge Grown. And then she's like,

that's Japan again. And she's like, that stuff is filthy. Then she goes home and watches her subs of free. No, what she does is she goes upstairs and starts reading her copy of Fifty Shades of Grey. Yeah. Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a way better point. It's letter time. It's letter time. Let's get into some more of that. I forget the rest of that song. Let's hear,

wasn't there more of it? There was two more parts. There was two more parts. Hey. If you have questions, where would you send us those questions? Before we get into the questions, we want to send the questions to

superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. Wally, what's that again? I forgot. Superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. And you might get your question read on the air like we are going to do now. Hey Pablo, I forgive you.

Forgive me if I fuck your name. Don't use their full names. Well, hey Pablo. He writes it. Is that his full name? No. Like hey Arnold. Hey Pablo.

Oh, right. I like this guy. Let's just, for once and for all, why is the channel called The Switcher? I don't know. That's a good question. The channel is called that because my original original channel

where I had all the cartoon flop house stuff and street fighter things, it was just called The Switcher. Regularly. Because that was the nickname I got in high school. So that's why you called. Okay.

Why was that your nickname? Why was that your nickname? Bring this back. I don't know. I don't know. We want to know why the fuck the name is that. It's just going to take forever. We'll fucking say it.

Just the short version. I took the subway later after a friend, like I missed the original one. A friend took the one before it. My friend walks to school the rest of the way. I catch a bus. I get ahead of him. I get into school before he does.

Yeah. And he looks at me. He opened up my locker. He goes, what the fuck? How'd you do that? How'd you do that? You switched it on me. Oh, God.

He's a switcher. He's a switcher. I've based my entire economic fortunes around this dungeon. You surely did. You surely did. Look, my life. With a one in the middle.

And the reason why it's called The Switcher now for one is that the original channel got shut down by Disney. I thought it was Studio Ghibli. No. Disney put Studio Ghibli for you to hate Ghibli and not Studio Ghibli. Oh, what a dick.

Kay asks, hey guys, I'm a pretty big fan from Portugal and my question is, what game do you think had the best soundtrack? Ever? Oh, my God. Kay, can we have a second one? Now here's the thing. Now that's a really obviously hard one

to just peg down at whatever. Like ever? Like ever? No. Let's make this realistic. Just pick a soundtrack you really like. Can we go with Favorite and then we'll try to work on like Bestie?

Well, no. I am going that I want to say, but I know he'll say it. I'm going to. So we'll just go around. That's all same at the same time. No. Well, we'll just go around very quickly.

I'm going to say one of my favorite soundtracks of all time is Catamari Damashii and I love Catamari. I didn't think you were going to say that. I know a difference. I knew I thought I was going to say go different. I'm super predictable, but like tell me it's not fantastic.

Streets of Rage. No, no. Like seriously? No. That's Yuzo Koshiro music? Go Right is fantastic. Go Right is amazing. That's the only song anyone needs

and that carries the Streets of Rage soundtrack into the heavens by itself. No, the Streets of Rage soundtrack, Sega still produces the CD because people still buy it for $50. It's pretty good. That was, that kickstarted Yuzo Koshiro's career.

Matt Mario Galaxy one. Yo. That's a good one. Yeah. Well, since Willie didn't say it, I can't, anything by Simon Vickland, the third strike online edition soundtrack

and the Bayonet Commando re-armed soundtrack are fucking gone. He also did the Final Fight Double Impact remission. Yeah, no thank you. They were awesome, they weren't up to the standstill. No, I wanted to go a little different. I've been on that kick,

I can't leave those on the table, they're so good. We can talk about platinum. I was going to say objectively, I think we can make your solid music is really up there. All what music? Metal Gear Solid music.

Right up until Gujima pussied out and stopped using the theme. But then just skip back and over to Rising. Right. Yeah, we can say all Metal Gear's and all platinum. Yeah, but thanks Maniac Agenda.

Biggest surprise of 2020. Such a surprise. Liam asks, well will he ever get a haircut? Hey Liam, no, not till I like die. It's not him. No, not you.

It's a different Liam. It's a different Liam. Or get like really bored, but probably not. Or if comic book girl 19 tells you to. Oh my god, dude's not even a joke. It's all a joke.

But no, no, no, but like honestly, I have friends that I had like in school that you made elementary that are like, I forgot what you looked like before you opened up. Yo, I saw pictures of you.

I saw a picture of you once without your dreads. I was like, oh, that's a fucking weirdo. There you go. Your head's got a weird shape. Now this one's, William asks,

what anime expert Liam thinks of RWBY, Rooster Teeth's anime style show. Okay. Now, the room can kind of take this a little bit too. Yeah. I've never seen it.

I've never seen it. I saw this for the first, I haven't actually watched it, but I saw it for the first time last night on Crunchyroll. I saw it by Monty Oum. Okay, yeah, I saw it right away.

So, I haven't seen anything about it. Monty Oum's really good at what he does. I never liked most of his stuff, because it's all just like, oh, let's use X character in Y fighting situation. Yeah. But he's really good at doing it.

So, it's probably good, but I haven't actually seen it. The thing with Monty Oum, and like, we were having this conversation, it's like, Monty Oum,

he just kind of does a lot of derivative shit with Haloid and Dead Fantasy. He just wants to do 3D model versions of Flash animation, Hyperfan, and yeah. But here's the thing,

while he's just doing that, you have to give it up, because he's one of the few people out there that understands how to do a high pass, like, over the top action scene, and not just over blow it, and you do it.

And he knows what effects to use, where, sparingly. What to follow it up. Like, I described, it was like a moment in anything where someone gets slammed against the wall,

and then the guy that's attacking follows it up with another crazy thing. Or it's the difference between one punch, and the punch that hits, and then you hold it, and the second one goes down. The only problem, he knows how to do it,

maybe he's improved since. I stopped watching him after his Dead Fantasy series. Yeah, same as me. But his fight animations are top notch, but any time a character has to do anything other than punch or gang, like,

you're like, wow, he doesn't practice this at all. It falls apart, yeah. Because they're like, just trying to wave, and their arm is so stiff. Yeah, totally. It's like a 3D zow-zow.

Yeah. Wow. Do you know what would be good? A plague or someone can make an anime version of a joke of something of ours? Just anime it super hard. Yeah, like a plague.

Eagle Raptor, if you're out there, get on that. Oh, he's on the payroll, yeah. He's not doing anything. No, but I'm actually going to watch it later tonight or something. Motherfucker. I'm actually going to watch it

later tonight or something, so I couldn't recommend it, but all of this stuff's good, so it's probably good. Listen, I have watched it. Oh, you have watched it? Oh, wait, tell us. Let's get an opinion.

Story-wise, it seemed really interesting, and it hooked me. It's got a good premise. What's the premise? Red, white, blue, black, yellow. Yeah, it's like, I'm fucking forgetting it now. It's been a while.

It's been a while. There was dust, and it's got a very classic anime. Oh, I'm the protagonist, and I'm going to be kind of cool, and I want to go into this school. Oh, it's that. It's Tenjo Tenge.

But it definitely kind of has room for curveballs. All right. This animation was really smooth. Is it 3D or 2D? 3D. Okay, then good. Yeah, it was really well done for 3D.

Cool. Jeff asks, Jesus Christ, what will you nerds talk about JoJo All-Star Battle? Not this episode. Yo, okay. Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay. I ordered it last week. Yeah! I bit the bullet. I don't know if it'll ever come out in English. Thank you. I'll re-buy it. We were all holding it.

I was hoping for the boys. Because I just didn't know. I was literally just going to ask, are you going to get it? Because I don't know. When we get it, when we get it, we'll do something with it.

That's it. We are playing. But, but, like, it's going to take a while to come over from Asia. So where'd you get it from? I got it from play Asia, and I got the cheap shipping.

Oh, well, that's like, that's a week and a half. Yeah. So it depends on the weekend. Unless it gets lost, we won't be going to duty fast. Yeah.

And you are going to duty fast. But then the beams are going to be in there. It is coming. It is coming. Yeah. But later. Yeah. So, wait.

I hope that's a good answer for you. You're bad, JoJo! All right. Dio! No, you got to do it. You got to do it. You got to do the ewe. You got to eweee.

There you go. Much better. Okay. Well, yeah. That's that. We're good for now. We ran over a little bit, but, you know,

we'll be playing with the lengths anyways. But anyway, You'll be playing with the length? That's what she said. Oh, that's what she said. Oh, but I'm tish. There's nothing better than a week. That's what she said.

Not a confident one. Like, like, like a bad high five. The loser high five. Oh, that's what she said. It's about dicks! So, that's about all the time we have for this week. I think we can have a brief

what's going on with our channel, because I don't think we do. We didn't do that last night. I was going to segue. I was going to segue. That's about all the time we have for today. But here's another thing. Be sure to check out the channel.

We've got some stuff going on. Man, what's going on? What's going on is probably WrestleMania until the end of August, and we're going to be doing two new playthroughs that will start probably September 1st. So keep your ears and eyes peeled

to that. And get ready to rustle, I suppose. Perhaps. More, more rustling. Also, if I have time, Matt's bomb-ass zoo adventure. You're going to make time. I'll make time.

It's on the fucking thing now. Yeah. People get super mad if you don't do it. Yeah, the Bondathon, like, goes straight into the zoo adventures. Exactly. It's totally becoming one. I live together.

There we go. So yeah, tune in next week, and we'll be back with my shit. Everybody, good work, guys. Yeah. Thanks, Dork Girl. You're welcome. To go out.

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