Castle Super Beast - SBFC 033: Everybody's Yawning
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Cause one of these days we're gonna get that hiccup on the 5th
It's gonna happen
It's gonna happen
You've always done it just before we start recording
But it's gonna happen dude
But right now he's working on getting
He's trying to hold it in
He's focusing his energy
And now he's giggling like a little baby
That's getting pumped
Everyone
What's that status effect?
Like when a character in an RPG like hunkers down
They're ready to attack
Well I was just doing Pokemon
Well I was just charging his attack
Like something like that
Pat uses focus energy
Yeah more or less
And Leer
No
No it's not gonna happen
And then he does a karate chop and he kills Jay-Z
Oh no
They're just talking about my dreams bro
You wish you could karate chop Jay-Z
I wish I could karate chop anyone to death
That'd be fucking cool
What chop though?
Chops always seemed less efficient
Also if it's a dream chop
Then they're chopped in half
Is it one or is it many?
To me there's no point in chopping
Unless there's a bunch of people that go
Woooo
Every time you do it
And that's a bad chop
Cause you're getting the backhand
It's not a proper cut chop
Well it's a knife edge chop
When you actually do it on
It makes a nice clear slap sometimes
If you do it right
Rio from King of Fighters says that move
Where he jumps across the screen and does a big
Big dumb chop
And it's like why would that hurt?
It would be better if you just used a fist
Exactly
No that's not regulation
It can only be open-fist
Just use your dumb fist
Yeah but it's cool so it's okay
I guess
But it's not cool
That's the whole problem
Yeah but his whole shtick is making someone else look bad
What Rio's shtick is putting people over
No Rio's supposed to be the serious tiger
No he's supposed to probably be
Make fun of Rio
No
No
He's a serious fighter
No, Rio's dragon Roberts Tiger
Are you sure?
Yeah
Rio is a ripple
I always mix it up
Of Rio
Yeah
He's not meant to make him look bad
Dan is supposed to make
Rio look great
And Rio
And Yuri
Robert
And Robert look bad
And Yuri is supposed to make
Rio and Dan look bad
Right
Yeah but Rio is an actual serious fighter
Oh sure, just half my note
But he's so serious
All my crazy knowledge comes from Game Center CX
And the EVO finals last year
So Art of Fighting is just way the fuck out there
But Rio's so serious that he's almost a joke
Yeah
He's so sweet like
Yeah
His Neo Max is just a straight raw punch
That's a good Neo Max
Whatever that is
His opening intro against his sisters
Like she does a crazy big like
Ah I'm gonna beat the shit out of you
And he just smacks his face
He does a face palm, it's great
Yeah
Anyway
It's cute
It is cute
Episode 33 everybody's yawning
We're also
We're also tired of the podcast
Jesus
We haven't gone yet
Should I even go on here?
This is
This is sad to me
Throwing the whole schedule out
This script is going
What's the point?
Only I did my part
I drank a whole thing of coffee
You scared Zach throwing the taper at him
You super scared him
You are such a jackass
This podcast is now ruining lives
You guys shouldn't be yawning
That's another Thanksgiving Day podcast ruined
No
This was recorded on Thanksgiving Day
And localized to you
Time travel on this day
When the fuck is Canadian Thanksgiving then?
In October
October?
I know
Whenever we call it right?
It depends on the solstice
Yeah so does American Thanksgiving I think
It flips around
It's like the last Thursday of whatever
I thought it had to do with the Groundhog on Groundhog
No Groundhogs are like February
But I thought like if it came out but upwards
Thanksgiving would be in August instead of October
So if the ass sees its shadow
Exactly
Then we don't get Thanksgiving
Until later
Gotcha
When I was a babby I would always go by
When Survivor Series was
Survivor Series is always Thanksgiving night
Back in the day
That was ridiculous
That was so ridiculous
Survivor Series
The Thanksgiving night tradition
Oh
That's really the night
It's really annoying
You know the Groundhog
Puxitani Phil
The one that they look at
For the next day
No
He has a name
Yeah Puxitani Phil
No I didn't know
He's the star of Groundhog Day
Because I wanted you to get in real close
And I was going to tell you a secret
That he died many years ago
What?
They keep replacing him with new Groundhogs
Oh that's so cool
You're the new Phil now
That's terrible but that's great
Yeah and like they just pretend it's the same guy
The old Phil kept seeing his shadow
I hope you don't make mistakes
Every year
Yeah
How was the week guys?
How was the week?
Uh sure like I spent most of the last couple days
Alright pause let's do some jumping jacks
Okay
No Pat
Come on one and two and come on
Maybe fuck off I'm sleepy
I'm good
We're all sleepy
I'm alert but sleepy if that makes any sense
Like if it was bad noise
What was that noise?
Oh it was probably nothing
Probably nothing
It's just a box
For myself I built Ikea shit all weekend
That's a task
That's a task but you play you put adventure time
You have a loved one helping you
It goes by way faster
And we built like a stupid
That's a primary objective
We built a dresser that has metal
And tracks and wheels and mechanisms
It's very intimidating when you've only
Really made like all wooden things
They didn't have latches?
Were there latches involved?
There was pulleys
There were systems
There was little gnomes running around
On the piece of furniture
It's like an elaborate wire stunt gone nuts
It's a little elaborate
In terms of games like I played South Park a bit more
I played a bunch more K.I.
Just I was like kind of getting out of practice
I gotta ask and I don't mean to be a dick about this
But like
Every time you say that
Yeah
No like how are you at K.I.
Like are you going online and being like
I stopped playing fighting games too long
Or are you like decent
Every time I get back in rank 7
Which is hungry
Which is like the first rank where you're like
Okay I'm making progress
Because you can tell by the color
If you get red
If you're red and you're like
Okay and then Max is at Rainmaker now
Yeah
So that one's silver and gold
And I haven't
I go maybe one rank below that
And one rank above it
And I always stay around there
And I go
I think it's contender and trial horse
Trial horse and I think contender's after hungry
Yeah
Yeah
But yeah
Like I mean
I'm playing less than I used to
But it's mostly because I'm like
Waiting for full gore
Waiting for full gore
So yeah
Me and Liam watched a bunch of Queensblade
That went well I think
That was entertaining
That was a whole
What?
You fuckers kept going
What?
You kept going
No I couldn't put myself through
Jesus Christ
That was a joke
That was another thing that happened
Because you would
No I wouldn't
Queensblade is awful
Now remember when we looked up Queensblade
I told you the first episode has this dumb thing that happens
And you guys kind of didn't really say anything
And then when the dumb thing that happens
And you went
You weren't even lying
Yeah
Funny girl shoot stuff out of some stuff
Spoilers
God damn it
I figured it out
And I'm like
Did you?
I'm not sure if you did
I think I figured it out
Well what's the first blank in this mad libs of
Shoot stuff?
Yeah
That one I don't know
The second one I can ballpark
She's gonna touch with a
Coming out of her boobs
Oh god no
The acid
Acid
Whatever
Is this like that Katy Perry music video with Snoop Dogg
Yes exactly
But hey it's on Netflix so it's alright
It's on Netflix for kids
It was not on Netflix for kids
It should be but it's not
You got Arthur
You got your Queensblade
And then you got your
A staple of a healthy childhood
The thumbnail is just an asshole
It's just a straight asshole
Right next to Arthur
Not even the butt
Just the hole
Other than that
Get in there
I wasn't talking about this now
Cause you brought it up
You literally brought it up man
And it got attacked by my apartment
Who's next
You got attacked by
Wait hold on what
Oh yeah you didn't see it
What? No
Dude we recorded a whole video about it
It was fucking nice
It's almost as if you should be aware
What's going on at the channel
Go watch the videos that go up
Yeah go watch the videos that go up
To be fair I understand you might not want to see
25 minutes about a place that you've been
Every day
Every day
But
But David Cage's apartment attacked me
I hit my head
I almost fell down
There were boxes and everything
You got ready though
I got ready though
And I hit all the QTEs
Fantastic
Oh everybody's looking at me
Yeah take the floor
I'm making sure you fucking stay up
Shut up
I had a really really nice weekend
The girlfriend made me watch Totoro
Which I had never seen
And I fell in my neighbor Totoro
Yeah my neighbor Totoro
And I feel really stupid
I waited this long to watch any Miyazaki
That's the one
I thought he said like Totoro or something like that
No
No it's about the magic bunny thing
Right yes
Why did I wait so long to watch a Miyazaki movie
Cause every time you get to watch one
That's the first Miyazaki movie you've seen
I saw Hell's Moving Castle
In a theater
Oh my god it's magical
Everything's magical
Every time he told you to watch one you went
Eh
Yeah well she has
She has more sway of my opinions
Than you guys do
Well now you gotta go watch
No no watch
Now you gotta go play Waku Waku 7
Because you can basically use Totoro
Waku Waku 7 what the fuck is that
It's a fighting game isn't it
It's a fighting game that he keeps trying to push
No it's a good game
But it's an actually good game
Sure but you keep trying to push it
Why would I push a bad game
It's a good game
Why would I not push a good game
Cause we don't think highly of your opinions
I don't know
Pat continue
And I also feel really proud of myself
Cause I made my first omelet in like 10 years
And it was good and I didn't poison anyone
Hey
It tasted really good
That's nice
That's good
I know right
If you like eggs
I didn't fuck you
Fuck you
You're gonna start this shit right now aren't you
Not really
I have you just did
It's actually
It really doesn't like eggs
Yeah it really hates eggs
It actually hates freedom
It's super simple really
When you're a kid and you have a bad experience with food
It's been scientifically proven
It's true I can't
It's the hardest thing to break out of
I can't eat lamb for this reason
Dude it's all it takes
See how it diffuses
What did a lamb should a lamb bite you
No I cooked lamb
I was fed poorly prepared lamb
Exactly
And it was a disaster
I got sick off of some really bad eggs
I had some really bad potato salad
I had bad
Potato salad can get really bad
I had bad egg salad
And I just fucking
That'll do it
I tapped out forever
Okay
Yeah that makes sense
And in terms of games
I played a lot of Infamous
Which is really really really good
How much of Infamous did you play
I want to say like two thirds
On the way through it
It's fucking great
It's pretty good
It's very pretty
Very it's
I have a good breakdown of it forever
It's the very first game I've played
This generation that I've looked at
It's like
Yup
That's it
That's a new video game
Yeah
I think it's the first exclusive I've played
Did you play Shadowfall
Yeah
Because Shadowfall is pretty
It's pretty
But it's also like
It's not great
It's also like ahhh
And I also beat Dark Souls
Which
That last boss is terrible
That last boss is terrible
Terrible terrible terrible
Games like the bosses in general
Are kind of a downgrade to Dark Souls
And the second
Yeah totally
And the second and last boss
Is even worse
It is so large
And you have to be so close
That you can't see
Like 70% of the boss
Because it's so tall
And it swings a sword
But you can't see
It's entire arm
If you're going to want to
Be close enough to hit it
So is the rest of the game
Still Dark Souls
Rest of the game is fucking awesome
But like right at the end
Like those two last bosses
Are really disappointing
And it sucks because
Like the
Like the lead up
Gauntlet and lead up
To the two last bosses
Are the best that have ever been
In that series
Like it's this really atmospheric
Like cool setting
That you're trudging along
It's like there's the door
Like super far in the distance
You can see it
It's like ohhhh
I'm going to do it
I'm going to do it
And then it's like
The easiest boss in Souls history
And it's just bad
Easier than the last boss of demons
Yeah way
Like the real last boss
The real last boss
And like it's
So the ending of Dark Souls 1
Was like nothing
And the ending of Dark Souls 2
Is even more nothing
And no one believed you
Like I feel like I know
Less about the game now
Subtracted knowledge
It literally comes to the point
Where in Dark Souls 1
You got to the end
And you're like
That's the final boss
Oh shit
And in Dark Souls 2
You get to the end
And the final boss
Looks at you
It says ha ha it's me
And you go
Who are you?
Vince McMahon
I don't know who you are
Well I kind of know who you are
But why are you
I guess we'll fight now
Do you know what I
That strikes me
That strikes me as
Who is the final boss of Okami
Clearly it's this guy
Oh it's you
Thing that I never was told about
Well that
Yeah yeah exactly
It's you you haven't
It reminds me too
Like of that situation
Or Bioshock 1
Where you're just like
Why
Why
Why
Why that whole last level
Of Bioshock 1
Is so awesome
Yes but as you
Distance yourself from it
You still look back
And go man that game was awesome
Right
But why
So I think once you
Get past these two
Negative experiences
Oh yeah on the whole
The game is fucking radical
And as soon as the PC version
Comes out
I'm gonna go right back
Into it
Yeah so I mean
Not to hunker down
On those two things
But that is unfortunate
Considering I guess
The first game had an amazing one
I mean
Final boss
Yeah
Okay the final boss of
Demon souls
Final boss of demons
Was awesome
No no the
Wow
Sorry I'm talking about
The thing at the very very end
Which I assume
You're not even counting
We're gonna talk about
Demon souls's ending here
At the end of the game
You find a dude
Yeah
This guy's name is
Old King Allent
And he's a dude with a sword
And it's a duel
And he's awesome
And he's awesome
And then you
Go into the ending sequence
And like a pile of goo
Attacks you
And it's a total
Nice
Like it's a victory lap
It's nothing
Bioslide
And I don't count that
As the final boss
Okay
And the final boss of dark one
Was kinda easy
But he was fine
He was fine
But he was kinda easy
And like now
It's just like
Nothing
But what I did find out
Is that new game plus
Has new enemies
Like new enemy locations
And they totally rebalance
The game like a platinum
Or an old capcom game would
And there are items
You can only get a new game plus
Which give you more plots
Or might be a new ending
At the end of new game plus
Or at least more context
For the ending
Are you gonna
Respect anything?
You're just gonna continue
With your back?
No, I'm gonna start over on PC
And you can respect
You can respect like
I think there's
I found four of the respect items
Yeah, I've got like
In the game
So
And then once you beat the game
There's like straight up
At a bonfire
There's like a new game plus option
So you can
There's a bunch
So probably the most disappointing thing
About Dark Souls 2
Is that the final bosses
Are so disappointing
But the optional bosses
Are so cool
There are two
That's almost always the
Oh, I saw one of them
And he looks fucking
There are two optional bosses
That are really fucking radical
And one of them requires
Special requirements
To beat in the game
That you are never told
That there are specific
As per the usual
Like what
Okay, so
It's like why would you not
Fight a weapon?
Yeah
The coolest boss
In the game probably
Is an enemy that appears
Not aggressive to you
And you have to do
Tons of damage
To a non-aggressive character
For them to turn on you
And only then
Do they get a health bar
And then you realize
I've been whaling on them
For 20 minutes
And the health bar comes up
And you've taken maybe
1% of the health bar off
And you go
What?
How?
How are you supposed to do that?
But there are
Pre-requisites
That you can do
To do damage to
Right
I looked it up in the guide
And without any
Of the prerequisites
There are five
He's at 32 times
His base defense
And if you have
One of the things
He's at 16
And if he's at 2
The things he's at 8
And if you get
All of them
They become a real boss fight
But before that
They just become
Uninvincible
They appear to be
An invincible god character
Which would fit
With their place
In the game
Okay
And the other ones
Just really cool
And awesome
That's a plus
Yeah
It's like
A great game
But
Like that
Ending
Like that last
Almost an hour and a half
It's like
Really
Okay
Really weak
Well I'll see what's up
With the new game plus
I will
But that means
You're going to have to
I'll be waiting
It'll be Waffner
Because I'm waiting for the PC
So you're going to put it down
And wait for that
Yeah
I'll play other stuff
So this week
I sacrificed
All my Dark Souls
Two time
Oh no
For Queensblade
No
Not playing
We're going to play it together
But I played
Three games this week
Three
Three count
Exactly
It's more than two
So the first one
I played with Matt
Yaiba, Ninja Gaiden Z
Yeah, he played
Is
I played it
And you watched
Well no
Even for you
Played as a very generous
Term
But is it though
Because that's not what I'm hearing
Instead of being endured
Yeah
No, not even endured
Because I played it
Let's hear it
That's not what I heard
So the reviews came out that morning
And the first thing I thought was
Damn it, fuck
Pat can fucking gloat about it
That game's bad
Yeah
And so I was like
Oh man, I hope it's not just shit
I hope there's
Summer deeming quality
Exactly
So I played it with Matt
And
Matt put it the best
Where he said
Well now I'm even more disappointed
Because
It could have been something
It's not God terrible
It's not shit like
I'd rather it be shit
Or I'd rather it be
I'd rather it be whatever it's not
Yeah
Whatever it is
Yeah, exactly
Like the game is polished
And it works
It's not polished
Polished is not the term
No, it was polished
It's functional
We didn't get like
Ridiculous hiccups
No, that's
I wouldn't call that polishing either
No
I would call polishing like
Mechanics that work properly
And mesh well together
I would consider
Polished like good menu flow
And the menu flow was good
Oh, it was terrible
It was fucking fine
Are you joking?
I made that point that
There's so many different fonts
And things coming in
It was busy
And it's just so busy
And like it doesn't make sense to me
It was busy
It's not giving me the information I want
That's besides the point
Anyway, what I was going to say
Is like the game feels like
Yeah, you were so on the right track
Like time was put into it
Like actual real time
Exactly
And I can see where like
Tecmo was following the development
And they were like
Yeah, this is right
This is right
And then right at the end
At the end lap
Everything just fucking
Didn't come together
So when I hear this about games
A lot of times when you read developer stuff
They say the game's a complete fucking mess
Until the month before we ship it out
Yes, yes
And it sounds like
They just didn't do that part
This feels like the opposite
There's a magic build
That comes together often
Consistently
Yeah
It's like this is the fun version
Yeah
Liam, what I want you to do though
Is report back in when you fought Hayabusa
Oh, I'm gonna
And tell us what that's like
Yeah
Cause that might be interesting
One thing I want to chime in is that visually
It looked way better than the trailers
Yeah
Yeah, I saw that
The colors and everything
They looked way better than the trailers
Gave it credit for
Yeah
Also, I understand that
His attitude is no where near as ridiculous
As the trailers imply
Well, that's only because
The trailers put all of it in
They sliced up the trailers
It sliced it up
But like
There was still like
I'd say every
Fourth line he has with his
With decent frequency
With the decent frequency
With the girl
The Miss Monday mentions like something
And you go
Why don't you fucking suck my thick dick
I
Like
Actually, no, that's funny
Cause I only remember him saying two things
During the hour and a half we played
Which still isn't great
But it wasn't every 45
But he wasn't screaming
Fuck you
Everywhere
He didn't say fuck you
He didn't say take a suck yet
I was making this point when we were playing
Mad World has great writing
Because they hired two comedians
To do the commentary
And that shit was funny
And this is not funny in any instance at all
The writing was tremendously uninteresting
If anything, it was so bland
Really?
Like even with all that preview coverage
Trailers
They cut it up
They cut it up
But it's supposed to be
But like it's not even offensive
It's just boring
Yeah
That's weird
God, that's
You're right, that's way worse
Because they advertise it as
Ninja Gaiden with some flavor
And it does have that
Just not enough
It's like when you eat something
Like something billed as Mexican food
And there's no spice
And there's a little tinge
A little bit of curry
You know it's just big
You know it's just flavoring
That's like spice
It's not actually spice
Okay
You know
The one thing I took from it
And I think we both agreed on
Is that like it's not even character action
It's not
It's down there with
It's a button masher
It's down there with Rykar
And the others
Killer is dead
Right?
Oh no
Not quite killer is dead
Because killer is dead
Eh
It's still
I'm really doing
I would consider killer is dead
To be the actual
Like the actual
The actual line
The actual line
Oh
Barely
Barely
No
But think about it
All of ya
There's moves or moves that kill
Multiple guys
Yeah
It's like on a war school
It's
Yeah
Well only when you use this chain
Because you've got the chain, the fist
And the sword all at the same time
And they're all different buttons
But you're presented with so many
Zombies
Yeah
It doesn't have
Does it have waves?
Yeah
In a sense
And it scores you at the end of the wave
Yeah
Okay
Yeah totally
Okay
It does a lot of things right
But it doesn't execute everything
And you've got defensive actions
Yeah
Dodge
Yeah
You remember the huge zip across the screen
Yeah
Okay I'm thinking about jumping
Because there's no jumping
Yeah you've got parry blocking
There's a couple of different mechanisms
Parry blocking
Yeah
Okay yeah that's a
That's a thorough
You know set
Like it leapt through the air
And you look at it
And it's kind of cool
But it completely botches the landing
And gets a four from the destructoid judge
You know
Like
So that was Yaiba
I'm going to play through it
Because apparently it's short
And I just want to see Momiji and Ryu
Do stuff
Yeah
Get dropped
I hate it
I hate it
On that game so bad
And then that
Where Hayabusa boss fight trailer came out
Yeah
Where the
Infinity Hayabusa draw
Where I specifically fast forwarded
To that exact time stamp
And sent it to you
That's funny
I sent it to you time stamp there
You said
Oh don't send it to me time stamp
There
And then
But for them
That looks really cool
It looks really cool
And like I looked at that
And then like
Went back and looked at the previous stuff
I was like
Why couldn't the whole game be that
I know it
Like
Well that's kind of
What I'm saying is it feels like that
Where there's flashes of
Like yeah
You know
I feel like they could have
Made an Asura's Wrath out of that
Rather than
Fail at doing an action game
But why are you just making a ninja guy
Like
Well I was gonna
Didn't I say that to you
I'd actually prefer
If this didn't have
Ninja Gaiden on the title at all
Well
Because it adds nothing
Because I was gonna go the other way
With it and say
Not sorry
Just that
Like
I think we all agree
That the concept of
An enemy that
You defeated at some point
Coming back
And being like
Fuck that
I want a finish
And it's almost the same
Concept as the core draw
Behind the
Devil May Cry 4 plot
Of the former hero
Yeah
That you played as
In many games
Is a crazy badass
Now you're boss fight
Yeah
No definitely
And I mean
As a counterpoint to that
Like everyone loves
A good spinoff
And had this been good
It would be like
Yeah it's a good spinoff
But it's not
Everyone likes the
Concept of a good spinoff
That it very rarely happens
No of course
But when it does
It's like okay
When people heard of
Durger's cerebrus
I was like hey
That should be good
Well crisis core ended up
Being good
Crisis core ended up
Being the one good one
You need to
Specifically get us
Some footage of
His zuna dropping back
Yeah
If that's possible
Xbox record that
So yeah that game
That game's pretty short
Which game number two
I was gonna say
That game's pretty short
And doesn't have a lot of content
Unlike Ground Zeroes
Which has a lot of content
But it's also short
Weirdly
Liam played the shit
Out of Ground Zeroes
I played like
Seven hours
And I'm still looking
For the XOF badges
To unlock deja vu
So I'm still doing shit
In that game
You should just give up
And use a guide
I don't want to
What we did in them
I wanted it immediately
I don't care
I need writing in my life
I feel no satisfaction
For scouring
For collectibles anymore
Yeah
I still do
That's besides the point
I played the game
The campaign
As reported is fairly short
It took me
66 minutes to beat
The first time
I heard that there's
A weirdly low amount
Of cutscenes in this
Yeah there's not many
There's a couple
Of key points
But like very few
There's also
A dialogue
You can miss
Okay
There's things
You can miss
There's a lot more
Your team are reined at the fucking
For this one at least
Yes
There's events
That you can miss
Yeah
There's a lot of stuff
It's really fun
And when you beat it
You unlock four other missions
And there's a fifth one
You can unlock after that
Plus all the hard modes
You were telling me
How there was one mission
That's so dumb
But it's amazing
It's so dumb silly
I love it
You rescue that
Oh I know that mission
Rescue the guy
Yeah you rescue the guy
Yeah the man
I saw a picture
And I could
Like I saw that picture
Without any context
That was from my stream
I could not figure out
What I was looking at
Right
That was like the first spoiler
To hit them
Yeah
I'm looking at it
I was like
I know who that is
But I don't know what's going on
In this photograph
Yeah no I got that wrong
It was a good experience
But yeah
Rise of good experience
Rise of good experience
For video games
But yeah
Really good game
Definitely the next big step
For Metal Gear
Like outside of linear stuff
The open world
Really makes a difference
And it's not like say
Oblivion or Far Cry
Where you go in an open world
And like every weapon
Is more or less interchangeable
Because they all just kill
In different shootbang-y ways
Whereas like
If you start the mission
With a sniper rifle
You unlock what you can do
It drastically changes how
You are going to want
To play it
I think that's why
The difference between
You get a military advisor
To tell you how weapons
Should work
Versus some game design
And it's like
Kill
Yeah maybe
We want this one to be
The one that shoots
Lots of bullets
We want this one to be
The one that shoots
Lots of bullets fast
We can do that
Well the opening cutscene
Shows you that guard
Pulling the stabilizer
Off of the submachine gun
And it's just like
Okay
That serious attention to detail
Yeah the game looks gorgeous too
Did you catch that bit where
The VIP that you rescue
Afterwards
On the title screen
Messes with your shit
Totally
I fucking love it
Yeah that was really fun too
It's really cool
A really good game
And I wanted to say
I've been thinking about it
Not that
I want to say I have expectations
For this
But to say I have expectations
Would imply that I have any faith
In game journalism
So I am deeply disappointed
In game journalism
Because over the past week
It has been everybody
Look at our 10 minute run
Of ground zeroes
And it has been a big
Circular
Issue of
People saying
It's a 10 minute demo
Well he's literally
Closing his eyes
And he's like
Teach it
Exactly
And the very fact
That these reviewers
Who own review copies
And who have review copies
Never came out
To any capacity that I saw
And I see quite a bit
And said
Hey wait
There's actually
A lot of content in this game
Like I'm fucking
Six and a half, seven hours in
And I've got like
30 something percent
Unlocked
I totally agree with you
But I think this
I think that really stems from
The fact that I'm a reviewer
I completed the game
And now I have to move on
To the next game
And review it
But there's something
And are you telling me
That their review
Was simply playing
Ground Zeroes
The story and
Dropping it
I think so
Because I don't think
That's even a good review
Of the game
Oh no it's terrible
No I'm just explaining
Why
Like I
Game is not great
And I think that's
Like
I can't devote
Getting every single
Collectible
Fuck this
I beat the game
I have to go review
This fucking
That's the base
That's the base mentality
Combined with
Let's create a story
Where there's nothing
And what you get
Is this bullshit
Where
Let's not tell you that
After you beat the main mission
And do nothing else
You get back to the main menu
And it goes
Good job
Eight percent
You did nothing
Hold that
Liam
Liam beat the game
And then it says
Something like
23
New things along
The main mission alone
Ground Zeroes
There's 23 unlockables
Every mission has
Like something like
15 plus unlockables in it
There's a lot of shit in that game
You know, this
This game in a lot of ways
Reminds me of
Case Zero
Dead Rising to Case Zero
Yeah
In which Capcom
Was saved from this controversy
By having a
Gameplay system
Which literally requires
The game to last
Two hours
And they totally dodge it
Yeah
Because of the
Dead Rising timing system
It makes sense
Even though it was
I'm going to imagine
A similar percentage
Of the content
Versus the main game
They get to avoid
The fucking
Speedrun freakouts
So the thing is
They do exactly that though
In terms of like
Events occur in a certain time
And you can be in the right place
To interact with it
And do things
But instead of having it
On that set
Two hour timer
It's based on
When you do this event
Now the next sequence
In this area begins
For the next thing
Yeah
So they
Took that two hour formula
And made it like
You have control over it
Yeah
I kind of feel like
Phantom Pain will
Can't work like that
With the
Huge amount of world
And then since
Ground Zeroes is just
One little area
They're able to really
Play with all that
Like all those variables
We'll certainly see
Yeah
I mean I just
It depends
With the structure
Of Phantom Pain
If it's a bunch
Of huge
If it's Peace Walker
But with huge
Areas
Yeah
Then like that
Would work
But if it's straight up
Like
More like
Just fucking go
Yeah
Then
I don't know
And we've seen
A mixture of
Indoors and Outdoors
Things going on there
And the Phantom Pain stuff
But in Ground Zeroes
There's almost no
Indoors at all
You kind of have
Like
I want to say you have
Probably a lot more
Going on in Ground Zeroes
Than you will end up
With in Phantom Pain
In terms of replay value
Because they looked at it
I think they kind of went
Like I feel like
Ground Zeroes was
Because all Metal Gears
Were replayed
Of course
I don't know
But I think that
In Ground Zeroes
They went out of their way
To make a package
Maybe
But I mean
And I don't know
Like we're going to see
Like five or six
Replay variants
Daytime, nighttime, etc
For Phantom Pain
We might
But I feel like
They really
Put the extra work
Into making
Ground Zeroes a whole thing
Because they showed off
The whole clock thing
Yeah, they did
And the whole day
Night
It wouldn't be
Daytime and nighttime
Mission except for
It would instead be
Like as in Ground Zeroes
Like it's straight up
This is a daytime mission
This is a nighttime mission
Right
But in Phantom Pain
They showed off the fact
That you go sit somewhere
You could wait
And you take your Walkman
And you fast forward
Like eight hours
Well then perhaps
We'll see something where
It's like
You know what?
All of these missions
Are in the main campaign
Yeah
You just go do that
Exactly
And that will be cool
For sure
And I can easily see a situation
I want it to be
That you can
Do story missions
In any time of day
That's what I really, really want
Of course
But what I'm afraid
It's going to be
Is you're going to go to
Like a mission start area
And it's literally
Going to like pan out to the sky
And then it's going to become
The time of day the mission needs
Right
But weather conditions
Matter in the Fox Engine, man
That's why I want
It to be user controlled
Because I want a situation
So you choose
This mission is super hard
During the day
Yeah
Okay
You go at night
This part is
Is more heavily
You know what I mean?
Yeah
And you'll probably go to
Code Talker or whatever
And be like
Y'all want it to rain at this time
God, I forgot about Code Talker
And then he'll be like
I'll make it rain at this time
Yeah, Code Talker
Did anyone remember Code Talker?
Well, clearly I did
I mean
The character?
It's the old guy
The old guy?
Like whenever we talk
About the Phantom Pain Trailer
We talk about
Oh, jeez
See
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Another guy
Or Skull Face
Skull Face
But nobody talks about
Or liquid
Or liquid
Yeah
Anyway
Yeah
I'm also pretty bummed about reviews
That take into account the price
Because I don't really stand by that idea
Of like
I totally disagree with you
Well, because my ideal for that
Is when I look at Metacritic in 10 years
And I say
I want to play the Phantom Pain
Yeah
And it has a Metacritic that is hurt
By its original launch price
When it is currently $5
Sure
I think that is
But Liam
Metacritic is not made for 10 years
Metacritic is made for buying advice to date
Yeah
And that is an inherent flaw in the system
Do you not disagree with that?
No, reviews are for
Are buying advice
They are buying advice
But why not for the future?
When I
Because I
Because their expensive
Movie reviews are
But not all of us spend as much money
As we do on games
But then you're asking for reviewers
10 years from now
To re-review the game
That's not what I'm saying
That's the only way that would get fixed
Who are you to tell me
What I should spend my money on?
Movie reviews
No, it's not
It's job is to tell me how good it is
Movie reviews
Movie reviews don't take the price of the movie into account
Because the price of the movie is always the same
No
When we went to see The Hobbit
It was a lot more expensive
But those
Those reviews did take the price into account
Because of the 3D shit
I still don't agree with it
But it's still a real flaw
Theater to theater
Country to country
Who are you
Who are you
What did you say?
Who are you to tell me
What I should spend my money on
What is worth my money on
But that's a reviewer's job
That's why you're reading the review
No
If you don't want that
Then don't read reviews
No, their job is to tell us how good something is
No, their job is to tell you how valuable
The item is to the consumer
Then they get a shill
I expect them to tell me how good something is
How are they shilling
They're telling the consumer
Sorry, sorry
Not a shill
But what are they
Just like someone there
To just tell you
Hey, this is a bad price
I don't give a fuck about the price
I don't give a fuck
It is the difference between a car review
And a movie review
Okay
Like games are functioned
Like a movie is never going to not work
Sure
And a game has tons of different components
When I look at a review
Or when I used to look at reviews
I don't really anymore
Like stuff like the amount of content
The amount of modes
How well put together the game is
It's overall quality
These are all factors
And it comes into a product
Reviewers are not supposed to
Well, this is a personal
I guess, philosophical
Because the decision
Yeah
Games should be reviewed as products
Not as art
Now that's exactly where you guys are totally
You're both correct in that
There are two types of reviews
Like you said
One's like for a car
One's like for a movie
You don't want game reviews
You want games criticism
Game criticism
Absolutely
Which is really the standard
They should be held to
And honestly
But what we get nowadays
Is we get the car sale
Because if we get the car reviews
I do agree in that
I would prefer more focus
On the quality of the product itself
Without taking into account
How it was marketed
Or how the pricing affects
What you're getting
Because the Kotaku thing
For example, should you buy this game?
Yes or no
There's no way to misinterpret that
It's very clearly telling you
Purchase or don't purchase
I think we make fun of that review
Maybe sometimes it's not
But I generally think
It comes down to preference
To me it's like
I don't care if this game
Has better mileage
If it's not as good at the top
But tons and tons of people do care
Because they are very price limited
Which is why I prefaced this with
I'm pretty bummed about
Oh, I am similarly bummed the fuck out
About the total lack of
Games criticism that exists
I think that's depressing
I just think in particular
For Ground Zero's where the reviews boil down to
There's little content
And you're paying that way too much
In that case, I would say
That the Metacritic reviews
Like two months out
Literally don't matter
Because they serve their purpose
I mean, look, if Little Timmy
Is reading a review for Steel Battalion
And it doesn't give him
Some information that he needs to know
It's gonna be like
Uh, wait, what?
This costs how much?
That's definitely gonna be a factor
So there's a time and place for that
But personally, I'd love to see
Much more games criticism
Than reviews that focus on
What's his purchasing?
Tim Rogers?
The best reviewer ever?
Yes?
Yeah
The one thing that the white price
Gets mentioned I think is
Because I don't know
How many times have you seen
A game comes out and goes
Looks great, but I'm not spending
60 dollars on this
Yeah
Looks great, but I'm not
Spending 40 dollars on this
Maybe I'll pick it up when it's
5 bucks
Or maybe it's a rental
It's such a video game themed thing
Because like the
You're madden buyers
And you're halo buyers
Don't fucking care about the prices
They are not price sensitive
I'll buy it every year
Same thing with Call of Duty
Exactly
Fans
For movies it's like
I have to take all my kids
This week on the movies
It doesn't matter how much it costs
I won't go see the expensive 3D thing
Other than that
What?
Oh god
Is it any cool news that
Rates movies depending on their
Like their rating system is
Like Friday night or matinee or
No, that's the stupid thing
That our mutual friend
Like swears by
The spill?
Yeah, spill
It's a rental, matinee, bus buy
And better than sex
That's the kind of rating system
That I would actually
I would believe to many consumers
Would be more valuable
And the types of reviews
That you're asking for, Liam
To people like us
Way more satisfying
What I like is
When I look at a review for a food place
And they tell me how good the food is
And then how expensive it is
With a separate metric
Where it'll be like
Three dollar signs
Four dollar signs
I like that
As a part of the review
Tell me how good the product is
And then the value for it
Give me them separately
Now you guys
Have your price here
About the price
Your points are not mutually exclusive
They're not
They're both right
But the difference is that
What you want is good for now
And in the long run
It has no value
No lasting value
Whereas the critic
Tim Rogers will be good forever
Because this talks about
The game in its package
Without anything exclusive
What I would say
Is that they're the same value
But one is spread out
And one is right now
Because if I have 30
If I'm a kid
They have 30 bucks
Of course
And the choices
Between ground zeroes
And like
Three or four PS1 games
On PS3 or whatever
You get the PS1 games
Because you can't buy ground zeroes
Because you're a kid
Also, no
But I mean like
The value of opposition
Are hugely important
Also, yours are limited
To the region that
The game is released in
For its placement
You know what I mean
Like everything that affects
The cost
Means you need a different
Set of reviews
But also like
In theory
But also like in Japan
Ground zeroes is 20 bucks
For everybody
Yeah
And if they look at our reviews
And say what it got a four
That's horseshit
And Liam, I think
There are extremes
On both of our examples
Yeah
Which both of our points
Become total nonsense
I think that you're mostly right
About the ground zeroes thing
And I think that
I personally think that
Is a reasonable price
But many others wouldn't
Yeah
But I personally think
It falls more on your thing
But if you were say
Putting out a fucking game
Like Super Hexicon
For $30
Yeah
At that point
Like the review should be zero
Because like
Fuck everything about it
But Super Hexicon
Is like a buck and it's awesome
I agree that there's extremes
Where you're paying
An extraneous amount
But for this game
Where like just to finish
All the mainline content
Minimum five, six hours
30 bucks is not
Remember like two or three podcasts
ago
When we heard that
Ground zeroes could be completed
In like an hour
And I think me and
I think maybe it was
Pattered really
I was making fun of it
We were both going
That's ridiculous
Like that's the $40
That's for two hours
But that was before
They dropped the price
Yeah
And they dropped the price
And it was elaborated
On how much
Yeah, there was more
If there's something
That allows you to
I guess like
Categorize
Your expectations
That you know
We're talking about
Dollar games here
We're talking about apps
Yeah
Now that we've established this
This one's really good
Right
You can then
Categorize
And you can
Compartmentalize
And make a better decision
But
I've been listening
A lot of podcasts
For a lot of time
Has a lot of game reviewers
On it
And one of the problems
That has been
Plaguing the whole review
Industry
Is this exact issue
And the ideas
Come up on numerous
Occasions from different
Publications
And games
And we're only referenced
Ones that were the same
Review $40 games
Against $40 games
In the $40 games bracket
And that completely falls
Apart
Right away
I still maintain
Who's $40
Are we talking about
What region
What time
I still maintain
That the only way to do it
Is to separate
The quality of the game
And the value proposition
Into two different scores
You know what
I would be very happy
If you got a
Very critical
And I don't mean like
Negative
I mean like
Critical
Absorbent
This is the game
This is how good it is
And then
You have at the bottom
You have a separate
Like two paragraphs
About its value proposition
How much am I getting
And how good is the month
I have a question for you
Would you like to see
Your reviews
Also talk about
And rate
The pre-order
Things you get
And or limited edition
Things you get
Absolutely
Things that are not
On the disc
Absolutely
I would love
To see a Dark Souls 2 review
That takes into account
Those fucking
Pre-order weapons
Your art books
And all that stuff
I would love to see
A Call of Duty review
From Modern Warfare 2
That had a full paragraph
Devoted to a product review
Of the Night Vision Goggles
Like it was
This week
Where someone sent
A solo link
Or I don't think
They sent it to you
Will it be saying
Hey all of the
Pre-order weapons
For EDF
Are now free
For who
Which weapons
I had no idea
But they're free now
Can you send me that
I didn't see it
The guy that sent it
Doesn't like you
So I guess that's why
You didn't
Billy leaked it to us
No wait he did
I did see it
But I didn't do it
So please send to me
No but that's exactly it
Like different strokes
Different folks
Different times
What's the third game
The third game
Was Infamous Second Sun
Yeah
That game's good
And I have some critiques
On Infamous Second Sun
What are your critiques
So for reference
I finished it last night
Oh okay
So I planted it last night
Oh
I finished both sides of the game
Collected everything
Oh that feels like a game
That'd be easy to get
100% in
It was very easy to get
100% in
So I played it a lot
How many hours did it take you
It doesn't have a
I was going to say
It's all about the feel
It was going to be funny
It was less than
Ground Zeroes
That you put in
The first night
I played for
Four hours straight
And I got to
After the neon
A bit after the neon
Yeah
And it must have been another
Four hours to complete the game
I think it was 10 hours
200%
You blew through that
I think it was 10 hours
200%
And then
Four hours for
A second play through
Maybe three quarters through
And I've already spent
More time than that
Right
Well
I like to
Puts around
And look at stuff
So I played through it
And as much as it
Like I've never been a huge
Fan of Infamous at all
But I jumped on this one
Okay
How much of the first two
Did you play?
I played Festival of Blood
To 100%
And I beat the first one
Didn't touch two
That's kind of weird
Actually
Yeah I know
So I jumped on this one
And I got to say
My biggest criticism
With the game
Is an unfortunate one
And it's that
You can feel
That Sucker Punch
Isn't a big enough team
To pull this off
That's the weird thing
They're about 100
They're under 100 people
What hearts
Well I'm going to elaborate
I'm going to elaborate
So they're about 100 people
That isn't huge
For an open world game
And it's impressive
That they can make a game
This good
And this polished
Because it's polished
It's really fucking polished
But it's got some problems
We're like
It's only got six enemy types
And three of them
Aren't fun to fight
Because they're just
Damage sponges
Yeah
You're totally right about that
I'm assuming
One of the types
You're going to list
Is the heavy
I'm not even going to list them
But yeah
Two of the heavies
Because I saw your tries
Against the heavies
Not fun to fight
They didn't go so well
While I was streaming
And it's to the point
Where I kill all the minor enemies
To build up my super attack
And then use the super attack
To take out all the heavy
It's not a bad strategy
So there's that
And then there's
The difference between good and evil
Is really my youth
It's the most binary shit ever
It's so fake
So that feels like
What you said
Just about they can't pull it off
So they're like
Well we've done this
In all the other games
Let's just do it
Do we have enough time
To make it different?
No
You go to the star on the map
You go to the star on the map
You go to the star on the map
And then when you get to
A good evil split mission
You go to the star on the map
But there's two right next to each other
And one's good and one's evil
And one is like
Ruined this
And the other is like
Kill everyone there
But they're ultimately
Almost identical
I have a worse problem with that
And it's the fact that
The infamous gameplay system
Locks powers behind good
And evil levels
Into the point of like
There is absolutely no value
In doing anything
But a pure good
And a pure evil playthrough
To the point
Where the first decision in the game
And would make the game a lot better
Is if you just said
I want to be a hero
Or I want to be infamous
And because
Neon's a good example
Of this problem
Because Neon
If you do a headshot
The guy becomes obliterated
And you get evil karma
And it can cause chain reactions
If you shoot him in the legs
It incapacitates him
And it's easier to get
Your super move
But both are available
All the time
Since I'm already four
Levels deep in a good
There's no point to
Ever headshot those dudes
And in fact
Doing so is a mistake
And is a failure
Yeah
In between they're hard
So they don't bother
My big issue with that
Is when you get to those mission splits
And you're like good evil
You can't even go on the one
That you're not aligned with
Oh, wow
If you're bad
You can't go on the good one
You're stuck on the past
What you can do is
You can grind
And you will fucking have to grind
And it's a lot easier
To go from good to bad
Than it is the other way
Maybe, I'm not sure
I'll need two purists
Because you can kill civis
You're right, you can kill
Yeah, that's true
Killing civis makes you bad
But to be good
You need to do drugs
There's no endless line
Of old ladies
To help cross the street
No, no
Or there are
But they're really far apart
Yeah, exactly
So you get super locked on
And that's clearly the intent
Is to lock you on the one
And I think that really isn't
The best
Because then
There's never a gray zone
Where you're like
I agree with this guy this time
No, tough
You're the wrong color
And yeah, it goes so weird
Because I just
Found the third conduit
And it gets no point
Where it's like
I am 95% good
And then it's
Be good or evil
Like, why the fuck
Would I pick evil now?
Yeah
And fuck my playthrough
It's not the right point
To pick there
Yeah, exactly
So the game's just got
Tons of little things
Like that
And one of the other things
Is all the powers
Are not as developed
As any of the powers
Yeah, you're saying that to me
And that's really the trade-off
I think was
You got one in the first
I think three in the second
And
You got two in the second
Two in the second
There were three
But you could have two
But there was three developed
Yeah
And in this one
There are
The problem with two
More than three
I don't want to spoil it
But there's quite a few
The problem with two
Is that one of those
Extra powers you got
Was way better
Oh, I see it
But in exchange
These current ones
Are way more interesting
Than fucking fire electricity
Oh, they are
This is a typical element
Played out
They are super weird
They are, but they're not as developed
I got the third one
And I was baffled at how it works
So they're more interesting
But they're less developed
Yeah, like Liam
They're more varied
But like in the first game
And I'm a bit rusty on this
But I'm pretty sure if you went good
You could get a cluster bomb
For your grenade
Yeah
And if you went bad
It was a different thing
That your grenade would do
Yeah
Like they would change
Radically based on that
No, in the first one
Good
Your grenade
Would subdue people
Without killing them
And the red one
The cluster grenade
Anyway, like they changed
In this one it's less of that
And it's more like
Oh, just enjoy
These different things
Which is still fun
When the reader died
DLC comes out
I'm coming to your house
Dude, it's already out
It just does
Can you help me go road
And read my powers
They're releasing the missions
Over six weeks
And guess what
It's already out
And it doesn't work
It works today
It works today
It works now
I beat the mission
It says upload your fucking
Gameplay
To the internet
Paper powers
In the instant I did it
It's like not
It fucked up
It was overloaded
Then I went and signed on
On the website
And here's how to link it
To PSN
Hit the PSN button on this page
And there's no
PSN button on the page
But it's working today
It's working
I saw it
Great
It's gonna take weeks
To get that power
But it is super that
Because you see the character
In the first mission
And she looks cool
Yeah, she looks really cool
Wait, it's a specific
You see her
With the power
In the first mission
It's not like
Actually
A lookalike
Of Yomi Komeiman
No, it's not
She's wearing a schoolgirl
The uniform
But they're going for it
Oh, they're going for it
Yeah, they're super going for it
I'm so excited
But yeah, no paper power
Until six weeks from now
Which sucks
Because I finished the game already
Right, did there
An actual reader die game
That came out
For such a system?
I don't think so
Maybe
That campaign is so confusing
Because you're like
I can
It's fine
I can 100% this game
In a weekend
If I really went for it
In two days
And you're gonna have
This week long
DLC thing
No, whatever
They gotta retain those copies
The other thing was
I did my streams
Metal Gear Solid 5
Infamous Second Son
They were super fun
They went really well
Thanks to everyone for tuning in
The next one's gonna be in April
And it's gonna be for the outlast
Whistleblower DLC
Too spooky for me
Dude, it's too spooky for Liam
It is
Gotta get those blinds open
Turn the lights on
Do your thing
No, no, if you're gonna be streaming
You close all that shit up
No, that's his method
That's my thing
The only reason why he streams it is
Because he views other people
It's too scary
Are you serious?
You big babies
Yeah, yeah
At least I've finished the games
I've finished the games
Yeah, so I don't know if I should
Show my Twitch channel again
But I won't
To be F Liam
To be F Liam on Twitch
There you go
Oh shit, my phone's already going on
Right
Why?
And I'll preemptively answer
Like a bunch of emails
Excuse me, I'm sorry
Excuse you
That came in about like
Oh, right
Streams in general and us
And to the channel
And I think that
The answer is like in terms of
Will we ever do a stream type thing
Probably once we have the website
Going and we have
And once we have a clear plan
We have a clear plan
For that type of thing
Because it's a bit different
From videos and stuff
But like we definitely
Want to have fun with the website
And put out different types of videos
On it
So I think streaming
I'm thinking about it
I think streaming could be a thing
You know
What have you done with your life?
Oh, my life has been interesting
In general, I mean
Yeah, I did a bunch of things this week
But I'm going to narrow it down to three
One
Go get yourself some water, sir
Are you dying?
I'm dying here
Oh, finally
Oh, that's not great
Just die on the podcast
Three best friends play
No worry about it
What's up, guys?
Viewership skyrocket
Instantly
Phone's already going off
Because everyone hopes it was Matt
Or Willie or the Oms
Stop the press inside
Like, okay
Because that's the thing
I was going to say it's like
If he quits, no
But if he dies, yes
If YouTube lets players die
It's not good
But if you die, it's still fun
It's amazing
Oh, it's better
It's better
We should have a hoax death
No, we shouldn't
Even if you're joking
No, we shouldn't
Why hoax it?
Of course not
Because then we don't actually have to kill someone
Yeah, I should get Willie
Pat looks like he has a feeling of calm
On his face tonight
Yeah, it does
He gets in the limbo
And just have this skeleton
With a red hair on it
Just flying to the air
Yeah, perfect
A red fright wig
This week
Perfect
The three things I did
Well, I'll start it with the first
I too went through a lot of ground zeroes
Ah, how much ground zeroes?
About five and a bit hours in
Are you done?
I'm not 100% no
Are you still playing it?
I'm going to go back
For one or two little things
But interestingly enough
You have a higher percentage than Liam
Who's played longer
Because he used the guide
To get the clock
I got the XOF badge
Just looking at a guide
And that's the only thing I did with that
Well, no, and then you did
Deja Vu
Oh, of course
I walked a bunch of stuff
Of course
Yeah, you're right
But then I immediately reverted
To doing things the old fashioned way
But there is no way in goddamn hell
I'm going to deny myself
My ride in mission
I don't care
You understand
So I did
I got that
And
I think a really important thing
To mention too as well
I put the fucking
Facebook status update
On my thing
Yesterday was by God
Get those Chico tapes
Yes, they changed the game
They changed the games fundamentally
Did they make Chico not shit?
Yes
Good, that's amazing
And Chico's going to be even better
In the Phantom Pain
And any and every other question
You have
If the answer is going to be yes
Because
They really
Like you play through the game
You get the story
You go, oh, okay
Wow
And then you get those
And everyone you get
Is just more like
Holy fucking shit
Skullface
The most cartoony fucking like
Saturday morning
Skelaminia
The most cartoony villain in a Metal Gear game
Yeah
In terms of overall attitude
And you're like
What were they thinking with this guy
And then you get to hear
More out of him
And you go, oh my god
This is
Probably the most devious villain
In this universe
You get to know what I said
I don't think it's Galvez
No, you're super right
Like when you were saying
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You played it
I was just like
No, this is not
This is not a character
Different personality
Speaking of Galvez
I did not play Peace Walker
I played very little
How is the synopsis
That is in Ground Zero's
For Peace Walker
Okay
If you just need
Or if you feel comfortable
With getting a summarized version
Of the events that occurred
It's eight pages of text
More than that
Well, it's eight pages of text
Summarizing it
And then more additional stuff
You've got eight pages of text
Right
You've got the loading screens
That give you a bit more detail
On the world of Brawl
The pre-mission briefing pretty much
You've got a pre-mission briefing
That is a series of tapes
With you talking at Kaz
Breaking down the events going on
In between Peace Walker
Is this one?
No, it's more of a catalog
The Peace Walker
It adds on and it connects the two
And then you've got
All of Paz's tapes
From Peace Walker
From Peace Walker
Which bring her
Which basically
I can listen to
Every single one of Paz's tapes
That were in Peace Walker
In this
It brings you up to speed with the character
It brings you up to speed with the character
Exactly
And it gets you a lot of the backstory
So you get more than enough
If you just need a primer
Yeah
Man, I'm a Peace Walker
Now personally
I wanted more than a primer
So I went back
And I watched all the cut scenes
Because I wanted to see the shit
Hear the shit
No one, you know
Did you watch it? Good one
Where it puts in gameplay
Yeah, that's probably the same one I watched
Okay, can you send me that?
Yeah, sure
Because I prefer that
But it's like
I've tried on four occasions
To get into Peace Walker
And it never goes
Those boss fights are fucking terrible
They're awful
They're not Metal Gear boss fights
It's definitely
It's the weird one out
Of the series
And it has
Is it?
No, poops it
Is it?
Can you imagine?
Is it a different thing?
But not in terms of
Not just so much gameplay
But in terms of the singing
And the music and stuff
It's so far out there
From every other game
That's mostly because
Henry Gregson Williams had nothing to do with it
Whereas he did every other game
The last couple of games
That would probably make sense
I was gonna say though
You were talking about
How you watched the whole thing
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I was telling you how
My interpretation of all of that
Was like it seems like
They're shitting on the boss
And then you looked at it
And then you said
I think it might be this
And I'm like
Maybe you're right
That is more interesting
Yeah
But imagine if they actually did
Wind up calling that game
Metal Gear Solid 5
Like originally intended
That would have been bad
That would have been a nightmare
And if it was a handheld
Version of the title
With the number on it
What's wrong with that?
The last wouldn't have done that
But that's just your bias
No, but that's the entire west
No, it wouldn't
Everyone in the world
I would be totally fine with it
Also, I would say Peace Walker
Isn't good enough to be called
Metal Gear Solid 5
It's not good enough
Okay, okay
Let's not get into
This is another 10 minutes
We can save right now
And just say
It's comfortable for you
The rest of the world
Would totally not be good enough
That's a gross generalization
The rest of North America
If you bring a series like MGS
Onto a handheld
Drop the number on it there
And just go like
Kingdom Hearts-style
Like play it or don't
It's fine
Castlevania starts at Symphony of the Night
Well, Liam
I'm saying
If you don't think
That would be a problem for people
You're nuts
I disagree with you
In every single situation
In regards to this numbering scheme
Except for SMT-4
Which was fine
There you go, exactly
Which was fine
That SMT-4 is not known
For its lavishly long
And highly produced cut scenes
No, for sure
But all I'm saying is
There's a bias
That's all
That's all
I'm not saying
It should be a bias
And I would also say
That you have the opposite bias
Yeah, you love handhelds
So you're okay with it
But again, that's all I'm saying
I'm not saying it should be even fun
You're right
There is a bias everywhere
On everyone's side
I could imagine
MGS 6 comes out
And it's like last time
MGS 5
And some guy goes
When did that come out?
What?
I need to buy a fucking handheld?
What?
No, for sure
And like
Even beside the bias argument
Like let's all not forget
How Kingdom Hearts destroyed itself
Destroyed itself
That's why I think drama
That's why I said it
It's the worst ever
It's unfathomable
You know, you can't
You need it to own
Every console
And handheld
For the past six years
Except a PS3
Except a PS3
And I think it's an MGS
Is one of the few Japanese AAA franchises left
There's no way they do that
But anyway
Put in a ton of time on that
So do you think it has value?
I think it has
For $30
I think it has a fuck ton of value
I think
Considering my percentage is at
Like, yeah, 40-something
And I did
Hard playthroughs of the missions
I went for my
I tried to do an S-rank run
And stuff like that
It's tough
It's not easy
But it was interesting though
Because I was playing it
And my girlfriend was there watching at the same time
Going through the
Just the main mission
And so she saw the events unfold
And then we listened to the Chico tapes afterwards
And like
It's one of those things where
Again, not going to get into spoilers or anything
But I was surprised
Where her reaction to it was
She was actually unfazed by some of that stuff
Because she was like
This is war
Horrible things happen
Exactly, it's fiction and it's war
Like, whatever
So I was like
That's interesting
Because you are not exposed to enough
Like, media in that
Like, you would come to the conclusion
That, oh no, this is a line you should never cross
In books or movies or whatever
It's like, no, fuck that
This is war
Horrible things go down
Unfortunately, anything goes
It's war
And it's very clear to you
You can see it in the trailer as well
Like, the game is a very heavy commentary
On Guantanamo Bay
Yeah
Over the top
And like, there's a final
There's a final sort of like line
That more or less cements that
Like, it's a really big statement on that whole thing
The other thing I did
This weekend was
Beat, quote unquote, Titanfall
Both campaigns
They're like single player campaigns
The single player that's actually just multiplayer
With audio dial-ons
Yeah, exactly
So
I admire that they actually did it
Yeah, no, so I sat down
And I played a whole bunch of Titanfall
And like, the moment you press start
On that game, it's like
Oh boy, oh boy
What do you mean?
Oh boy
These, okay
The menus, the production
Everything that
Is bringing you to gameplay
Is so bare-bones dry, dude
Like, rushed
Demo-style menus
Like, nothing
Like, some of the HUD elements look like
A 1995 game
Like, creature shock or something
You know, like when you're making a multiplayer thing
It's like, get the person to the game now
And they make
Platinum did that with Wonderful 101 as well
That's true
Like, it happens
And some devs just don't
But even in terms of like
Trying to get your story across
And trying to put
Like, there was no money spent
All the focus was put into
Outside of the game
Yo, you're getting a robot and shoot guns
Yeah, exactly
So how's getting into a robot and shooting
You get in the robot, you shoot the guys
It's fun
It's really, the gameplay itself
Is totally fun and fun
The rodeo system is
Genius, it's really smart
Really good minute-to-minute gameplay
Yeah, and you're generally having a blast with it
I think
How's the gameplay loop?
Loop?
The core loop
Is there a lot of grounds for that?
Kill, die, respawn
Kill, die, respawn
In general, I think
The problem, the main problem with the gameplay
Is lack of content
There is one, there is
Your weapons, we counted them off today
With my friend at work
There's eleven, I think, in total
And that's counting the four Titan weapons
Four Titan weapons
I was just gonna ask, is that counting fucking
You've got the shotgun
The sniper
The smart gun
The machine gun
The rail gun
Like, you've got the thing
And then that's it
You know, there's like
Sound like really interesting weapons to me
But when you're, I mean, and again
You can only do so much, man
You're
Interacted a lot
You can customize
Interact wasn't multiplayer
There was
What?
There's two, there's three
Interact games
There was, there was
I don't know
I don't know, I've been super wrong
Yeah, they didn't just make those crazy guns for nothing
I thought it was a single-player manly
Bore your friend's brains out
Oh, shut up
But yeah
They really just went for like
The core, basic thing
They, I don't know if they didn't have time or money
Or what, but
They didn't have money
No money
And small teams
Small teams
Putting their feet in the water
Trying it out, you know
I think it'll be very clear that Titanfall 2
Will definitely be
Much more bombastic
Because they know what they're doing
And you'll probably have cutscenes
And story, like
Delivered to you
I feel like most of the weapon was spent on the giant statue
We saw at E3
Made of real Titan eggs
And the other thing too was like
You jump into Titan
And it feels cool
It feels good
You're like, yeah, cool, I'm in a mech
I've got four screens, it's nice
And you feel great
And then you see some footage though
Of like Hawkin, for example
Where you go, oh, that's what being in a mech
Should feel like
Let me ask you a question
How do you feel about the fact that
So many of the actors
In a multiplayer match are bots
It's made so that
People can get a slow start
And then work their way up
Into the actual fight
So it really is just
Like Dota creeping
If you can't handle the player players
Go shoot the bots for a while
And you can do that
And you can do that
But you're gonna be on the bottom of the list
You're not gonna get anything
But you can at least feel
Like you did a thing
Because to be fair
You get your training module
And then after that
If you've never touched any kind of game like this
And you have only multiplayer
Time to get smoked
How could you possibly get into the game?
So that's why that's there
And there's no way to turn them off
So I get turned off the cloud
But the proper battle is always happening
In a very clear area on the map
Where the players are fucking going at it
Rodeoing and tightening and going nuts
And you jump in that mess
If you want to get into it
The thing about Titanfall though
So I went through both campaigns
I unlocked about half the content in the game
I did all this in the span
Of about four and a half hours
I spent one night
Basically unlocking 50% of that game
It has less in it than Ground Zeroes does
But no one mentioned anything about that
That's the fucking thing
That's what you said before
That's why I said hold that thought
Middle Gear Ground Zeroes has more guns in it
Than Titanfall Tots
And granted you're supposed to play multiplayer
So that's the deal
That's how it gets away
Absolutely, apples and oranges
The campaign on both sides is roughly the same
With different skins
You know what I mean?
You can't make a direct comparison
The fact that people are getting up in arms
About Metal Gear's value
And Titanfall really has less content than that
Well Titanfall's entire raison d'etre
Is intrinsic desire to play more Titanfall
To get good at it
Which could be other people
The same could be said for Ground Zeroes
But I can totally feel though
That if it took me less than half a day
To get half the content
It's going to take a week tops to get all of it
And then you're going to cap out
And then you're going to prestige
Which I think is in the game
I don't know
And that value proposition gets even weirder
Because of how you play the single player
There are a huge amount of people
There are huge groups of people
Myself included
When I played Call of Duty
I got home
And for Call of Duty 4
I played the single player
For Black Ops
I played the single player
For Black Ops 2
I don't care anymore
I made it boot to multiplayer
And never touched it
They know who they're selling it to
After a certain amount of time
Those campaigns evaporate into nothing
And so this not having a campaign
Is almost like
Not like who cares
Almost in a way
It's weird
It wouldn't be the first game to do it either
But like yeah
But I wish they did that with Battlefield
I was Battlefield had no campaign
And it came out working
Now being pushed online
Into multiplayer matches for my story mode
Is not necessarily the problem at all
It's more just that what story you do get
Is so piecemeal
It's so like
This is all we got for you
It's almost like why do they even bother?
Why do they bother?
Because the most dramatic moment
Of the story happens
In a little vid window
PNP at the top of your screen
And you don't even look at it
Because you're trying not to fucking get killed
Call of Duty Battlefield
Need no context for what the
The situation is
But a fantastical world with fucking robots
Need some sort of context as to why
You're doing this
You need a type to really disagree
But no
And no respawn felt that they needed to be
There's also giant monsters
There's dragons
There'll be dragons
Like for Battlefield
What was it?
2142
I didn't give a shit
Why there were like flying fortresses
With generators that I had to blow up
Okay here's what it is
You know what I just thought of it
This is like
This is the equivalent of like gameplay
To story mode
Is like in
Street Fighter single player
You get to your rival battle
And then the rival battle has a couple moments
Where Gile goes
This will be over in 10 seconds
During the fight
And you have a little back and forth dialogue
And you're like
Yeah that was a cool thing
But you're still playing fighting game
And then at the end it's the same thing
And that's what the story is
It's a little bit of audio
And a little bit of video
Dropped over your HUD
As you're trying to play multiplayer
So it's like the story mode of a fighting game
Transposed into a shooter
It's totally disposable
And there's nothing there
I feel like they could have done something for the story
Like take those little bits out of the multiplayer
But put some sort of briefing
Option little like
Like a slideshow
No there is a briefing
Where you're waiting for people to join the game
And then the next dialogue
Like exchange plays out
And then on your dropship
There's a little cutscene
That leads into like a little bit of fun stuff with NPCs
Yeah I think that's cool
There's some fun NPC moments
Going in and coming out of the missions
But again
Really bare bones
Really pushed out the door
Is it weird to me that like the robots are cool
But the thing that I find way way way cooler
In that games game play
More than the bots
And more than the titans
Is the dropship stuff
Near the end of the map
Escaping at the end
The fact that like when it's like
Well you lost
Yeah
Now fucking run
Yeah yeah yeah
Don't respawn
And apparently you can blow the dropship up
Yes totally did
I've blown up a dropship
I've been in a dropship that got blown up
That sounds awesome
Yeah so everyone escapes into it
Or they try to
You crush them on the way to it
And the few who are about to get away
Get killed anyway
Because you blow up the dropship
And it's just for fun
Yeah but that's really good
But you get XP for it
I forget what multiplayer game it was
But I was playing something where
Basically you would win
And the team that won
Would still respawn
For a full minute
But the team that lost would not
And so you would literally just
Exterminate them from the map
The one I always think of is TF2
Where all the gates just open up
And like the losers can't shoot anymore
Yeah
Blowing up the dropship
Seems like the fighting game
Equivalent of taunting
Before the round fades away
Yeah it's the third strike ending hit
Into a taunt
Yeah a taunt look
The super taunt after the animation
Yes yes yes keep it going
For the whole time
The other thing too is that
I don't play a ton of FPSs obviously
No you don't
But I'm
Did you get ill?
I didn't
Oh good
I didn't
Weird because that game is like fast
No I had a blast
Like ejecting and landing on the next Titan
And taking it out is super sick
And the one thing though
Is that you're looking at the multiplayer modes
And stuff
And it seems to be it's missing some things
That have become essential core
Like multiplayer options
Like if you're going into
A playlist of maps
That you want to play
You can't really customize it too much
You can't
When you customize your loadouts
And name them
That's weird
I can't veto
When there's maps
No you know
If there's no maps
So I can't do anything
And you know what
That's awesome
Matt vetoing is the fucking worst
It is so bad
I agree with you just
It's a standard
Some surprise that it got
The ability to choose maps
And like console shooters
Is the fucking worst
Because I want to play all the maps
But guess what
It wasn't a conscious choice
It was
We were not putting that feature
You don't have time for it
You know
I have 60 people to work with here
Yeah
That being said
I do think you guys
All should come give it a spin
Yeah
I'll definitely give it a shot myself
I will wait for Titanfall 2
Oh
I will also
Well
If you happen to be over
And the controller's there
You should probably
I'll give it a shot
I'll give it a shot
I'll give it a shot
Your place
But I'd much rather
Just wait for Titanfall 2
Hopefully
Cool
On PS4
Or maybe on Steam
And
Who am I kidding
And just before I would
Roll out with this longest intro
To the podcast ever
Yeah
We had stuff to talk about
Man
As for Honorary 33rd
32nd
33rd
I blasted through my section
Because I wanted to get to the news
But you're such a good guy
You're such
You're the best guy now
Well Liam
Maybe I can talk to you about this
I watched
The first couple episodes
Of
Watamote
Oh yeah
No kidding
What do you think of that
It's pretty funny
Yeah it is
Because I asked you
Like what is this show
That I keep seeing screenshots of
Yeah
Where she's saying
This girl's saying some fucked up shit
She's saying some fucked up shit
And like it's totally
I think I just told you
Just she's a loser
And she knows it
Yeah
It's your fault
That I'm not popular
Or whatever
It's not my fault
That I'm not popular
What is this
What the fuck are you talking about
It's anime
Where a girl is not popular
And it's not her fault
That she's not popular
So imagine if there was
Another member
Imagine if there was another member
Of the Azumaga Diotroop
Except she was the reject
That no one liked
Yeah
And they didn't hang out with her
And they didn't hang out with her
And she can't
She can barely talk
And she's having the worst
High school experience of her life
And she's a super like
Not he Kokimori
But
She's just a super stupid
Huge nerd
Yeah and she has
Like the hardest
No like us
She has the hardest
And social
Social
Personalities
And so you just
Go through the journey of
Her brain
Like
Processing life
Dude did you get to the bit
Where she gets the soda
All over her
And there's just ants
All over her
No I didn't
Oh man
That cracks me up every time
I didn't
Did they get to the make up bit
Yeah yeah yeah
I got to that
You just
And it's just
It's really funny
Because you get to see
Like the thought process
Of someone who is again
Super anti-social
Can't deal with people
In crowds and everything
And you laugh at them
And going into like
A store being like
Oh what should I be doing now
What's the right thing
To be doing on my own
And
Oh no the cashier
Just asked me
You know
And like
Everything is
Wacking me a little too close to home
I know
I know
You're getting a little uncomfortable
But it's funny
And I think you should
Check it out
You might enjoy it
Watch me watch it
And get super pissed next week
For sure
I like when she's like
Oh what do the popular kids do
I should do this
But fails to understand
Why she can't succeed at that
I'm clearly so popular
Look I had
Three people talk to me last month
Yeah
I am the queen
I'm the shit
Well
You know
I was telling you that
Over the weekend
I watched
Me Girls
With some friends
And then
There was no place to sit
In the cafeteria
So the person
Went into the bathroom
To start eating
And it reminded me
Of that weird thing about
In Japanese schools
Like 90% of all kids
Eat in the bathroom
That sounds like
A pretty inflated thing
It was a high number
60% of the statistics
Are made up
You know that
It was a high percentage
Of kids saying
I'm too socially
I don't want to be
In the cafeteria
I'm going to eat
In the bathroom
I can believe that
There's a high percentage
Of that
The eating thing
Just reminds me of a bit
In the show where
She's like
Maybe I'll be popular
If I'm that girl
That eats too much
In class
I'll just
I'll start eating lunch
Before it's lunchtime
And they'll be like
Oh there she is
Getting all hungry
And then she just
Ends up being like
That freak
That fucking smells like
Food
And everyone just looking
They're like
What the fuck is wrong with this girl
She's like
And she's scarving it down
Is it cute?
She's just like
Oh they don't know
The character archetype
They don't understand it
It's not my fault
I'm not popular
That's funny
Yeah I'm enjoying it
As soon as we're just in
And her friend
Do she's super jealous
Yeah yeah
There's stuff
Yeah
And oh god
In a parody's anime
So hard
There's that death note
Moment where she starts
She's playing
Does she eat a chip?
She doesn't eat a chip
But she's playing
Like a dating sim
On a computer
Stop talking about that one scene
And death note
No
No
Stop talking
Because I'm talking about
The scene right now
She's playing a dating sim
On her computer
And like
She's clicking the mouse
As if she's writing
Doing the
Dramatically
The swerves
And it's the chip eating scene
Basically
So I don't know if you caught
That it was super popularized
On 4chan
On A
Of course it would be
No but it really was
To the point where
Of course
When the first volume
Of it came out in Japan
It had a label on the front
Like popular
On foreign
Image cards
What?
Yeah for real
You can look it up
That's too meta
Yeah
That's insane
And the Japanese one
Sold well
Internationally
Cheese
Yeah
And that's why
It got brought over here
Well
There's a lot of
International grounds
Well behind this
No
What is
What is the artist
Of Yatsuba
Think about
The use of his character
Fuck if I know
He must know
At this point
I guess
Fuck if I know
Yeah
Anyway
Ask him on Twitter
Is he that easy to get to?
I don't know
Next week in game magazines
We'll find out
It doesn't apply
It applies to everything
Every time you say that
I want to punch Kamiya
And then apologize
Sorry
And let him punch you back
Yeah
Don't worry though
He's okay
Yeah he's okay
That's okay
That's good
I know
I know
I know
Anyway
We might as well get into
Game news I suppose
I suppose
You mean the news
Yeah we have
Any this week
We had some
We're not going to get to
All of it at this rate
But
Let's start off
With something
We need to address
Oh
Last week
We talked about
Project Wrestling X
When
Kickstarter's still on going
Right
Kickstarter's still on going
It's the game that
We
We saw and mentioned that
It is inspired by
The Aki Wrestling games
Yeah
And you know
All that stuff
So apparently there's a
Troubled history behind the
Projects
The instant that
Hardcast came up
I had people messaging me
Going what the fuck
Are you guys doing
Yeah
So there's a lot of
I looked some stuff up
And I got worried
We got a bunch of messages
From both sides
Of the
Of the fence
Of it
Yeah
And that
Like there's totally a history
Where this game was around
For many years prior
To this Kickstarter
I want to say like
Eight years
They've been working on it
For
I think it was
Four
Later
Well I think it was
But it's been around forever
I don't want to throw a number
Out if it's wrong
But ultimately they've been
Working on it for
Over five six years
You know
And
It had
Before Kickstarter
Gone through other
Like fundraising sorts of
Campaigns
Before Kickstarter
Existing
Yeah
So there were a lot of people
That backed in
Where is it
Where is it
Where is it coming along
And stuff
Ultimately
As new people
Like
I don't know
All the details in history
But the
One of the guys
Showed up on
The Reddit
Yeah
And he posted a big
Response to
Everyone who was
Making claims about
Like what was going wrong
With it and stuff
And he responded to them
I can't make a judgment call
I don't know
I looked at a bunch of stuff
And it's like
There's a
Whatever
Whatever the side
That this falls on
This project is
Like kind of a mess
And has
It's shady
Like even if it's
Even if it's not
Like
Even if it's not true
Yeah
Like there is
Like there's some worry
To me
Behind it
I wouldn't even go that far
To me I would just say
Yeah it's probably too far
I would just honestly say
That like
There's a troubled history
And
Apparently there was like
One programmer that
Just left and
Kind of fucked him over
And started a lot of this
Trouble
But regardless of that
I just
I would like to see a build
I'd like to hope that
This comes out
And is a playable cool game
Because cool games are fun
Yes
Of course
And like
It sucks that
It's not just a clean
Six-star event
It sucks that
It sucks that when I went
To look at it
And like
Was getting it super hype
Like instead I found out
Yeah
It's really unfortunate
That like a bunch of people
Were like
Ah no I do this thing
You know and stuff
And it's like
Ah man I really
Like I was almost like
Is it too good to be true
Can we really get that
Acky feeling again
Maybe
Maybe
But the answers
Really that's what I wanted
To say is
It's not no
It's who knows
So
So attentive listener
Please be warned
That I don't know
Go read
Go read
Back in at your own
At your own
What's the word
Discretion
Well
Even that's a bit intense
I'd say go read
I read it
And I pulled out
Okay
You want me to be honest
Like back at your own
Discretion
Yeah
I was going to
I was going to give money
And then I was like
This is too weird
Okay well let me
You know
The developers the most
Of course
Out of all you guys
Sure
And I put money in
Yeah
After I heard
Everything they had to say
And I was
I was speaking to someone
That
Is possibly
Working with the artist
Or something along those
Lines as well
That
Was kind of
Clarifying a few things
I'm
I'm
Looking to see
Footage in a build
That's why I'm that
And if I
If I see that
And if I see something
That looks like
Awesome that I can play
A very small
Playable
Bit of the game
And you know
Like again
I spoke to them a bunch
And the guy clarified
To me
Like in
Very huge amount of detail
About the whole
Genesis of the thing
It's like
We know we made mistakes
Before
Because Kickstarter
Wasn't even exist
We didn't have a way
To contact
Everyone that
Through us some money
And like
Maybe if we had started
This
When Kickstarter started
We would have avoided
All these problems
And miscommunication
Contacted us back
That programmer
For example
And everything
That he said to me
And I looked
And to that
Big reddit post
Of a guy
Claiming all this stuff
I was
You know
Inclined to like
I think I have enough information
To think this
So after that
After I decide
I'm like
Well I put money
Into it after that point
And I find that
The amount that they wanted
To finish the project
$6,000
Fair
To be a very
Non-shady amount
Of money
To want
I was also wondering
That seems like
This is what we need
To finish this
This is what we need
To pay the guys
But that's also why
I was wondering
Like how come that's so low
Because this game looks
Way
So hard because
The original Kickstarter
Was way too high
And they were like
There's not enough
People that want this
So instead of
Making 30 playable characters
Let's make two
And just give people
A suite of options
To make their own
And now that I know about history
It makes a bit more sense
That there was stuff before this
But when I went in
Going like
They're gonna start this
From the ground up for 6K
Hell
But now we know
I am totally
Like just over the line
On caution
If a build and footage comes out
Then that'll
And it's good
Then it'll kick me back
Over to the other side
I'll go back to being hype
But at this point
It's like
Yeah, no
I at this point
Like having read this stuff
I'm like
Okay, I'm on the side
I'm not wasting you
But like
You spent $200,000
On that
That was not true
But
How much money was it?
It was zero
The grant was from Canada
And when that grant was given
They give it to you in increments
And then Canada was like
Let's support indie game developers
They cancelled it
Let's not support them
And they took the money back
That sucks
That's good
And this was years ago
That sucks and is good
Yeah
It makes any sense
And it's good
Because it was telefun
Canada or whatever
But it's also telefilm
Telefilm
Thank you
I also kind of wonder
Why they'd be backing this
In the first place
But anyway, that's besides the point
I really want my caution
To look misguided
Given that that didn't happen
Then like
Yeah, I'll wait and see
What happens
Yeah
Even if you decide
After the project
They still have a paypal
Up for the
Like if anyone wants to
Throw us something
After
Like there's a paypal
So that if I turn out
To be stupid and wrong
Which I hope I am
I can
Oh, of course
And that's exactly it
I mean, for me
I just
I want to let the bill speak for itself
And that's what I'll base my opinion on
I'm not to the point of saying
Like, oh no, pull out, pull out
But I just
I want to play and see it
Pull out though
Because my dreams are all
I'm hoping
I'm just hoping, you know
But
And that being said
Yeah, like
We all are different people
We can have different opinions
We don't need to come at a topic
And go
There's like bats who says
Like, no
Like, this is what's up
Why?
So
Exactly
We have real thoughts
And things that
I don't have real thoughts
Well, maybe not
I'm being told what to do by a script
You'd need a sold
For having real thoughts
Oh, you bastard
So, you know
So, yeah
Why you do this
Now that the elephant's out of the room
Let's go
Yeah, we kicked the elephant out
He fell down the stairs
He hit his head
Poor thing
Yeah, let's
Stuck in your staircase right now
How are we gonna leave
Yeah, the windows
The windows, I guess
Two floor
Well, maybe
Or you're here forever
To write on him in Far Cry 4
What?
You can ride elephants
In Far Cry 4
What is that?
I'm gonna buy Far Cry 4
There's something about that
Because the setting
Is being changed to the Himalayas
I really like that
Nice
Yeah
Like, I never thought
A random sentence like that
Would suddenly be like
Oh, whoa, that's interesting
Snowy setting
This Far Cry's been like
Like, you know
Tropical
Or kind of desert-like
Tropical
Forest
Well, Africa
Trees
Yo
Like, there is
I feel like now
With Assassin's Creed
And Far Cry
And who knows
Whatever else is out there
In the works
There's an arms race
For interesting locations
Around the world
And haven't been
Competing against itself
Yeah, that haven't been
Done to death
I bet
That there was a guy
On the fucking
Assassin's Creed team
That he comes in
And he's like
Hey, how's Far Cry doing?
And he sees that some of the Himalayas
Fuck
God damn it
But you know what?
That must have happened to them
So many times
Oh, totally
That they're just like
Up, okay
But Far Cry 2 is going to be
Putting Renaissance Italy
I'm going to say, what do you mean
We can't put Far Cry 2 in Acre
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
It probably happened to them
So much that they started
Option selecting their games
Yeah
Like the leaked
Assassin's Creed Unity
What is that?
That's so confusing
Leaked
And then announced
Leaked and then announced
Because Obsturgo forced their hand
Oh, Obsturgo
Assassin's Creed Unity
Is the next gen
Oh, current gen only
It's going to be like
A full year before
We stop making that mistake
For reference, there's two
Assassin's Creed's coming out
Yes
Although it's a latter one
We have no information on
Well, let's take it
Piece by piece
We have Assassin's Creed Unity
It is on PS4 and X-Bone
And PC
And PC
It is the game
That takes place
During the French Revolution
You see some very beautiful
Video and screenshots
Of that it looks
Very pretty
Climbing Eiffel Tower
It didn't exist back then
So why are you based in this country?
Dude, that's like that
Well, France is a nice country
I knew that's what your answer was
It's a real Eiffel Paris
Having actually been to France
Like it's a really nice
Interesting place
Let's make a game in New York
Let's not have to
The Statue of Liberty
Liam, you're totally right
But at the same time
It's like
I feel if you're going to
Get a specific city
Sure
And a game about
Climbing on shit
Like not having the coolest
One of the coolest
No, fuck it
The coolest climbable thing in the world
Not in the game
Hey man, I played the Saboteur
I think it's got
I'm good
Did you climb that entire time?
I climbed the whole thing
Notre Dame should be there
The playoff is cool
Liam, did you climb the
The
Notre Dame?
No, the Eiffel Tower
In the Saboteur
Yeah
No, I just went to
The fucking Bar
Oh, yeah
Went to the Cavalry Clubs
Climbing the school
You know
The end of the game
Leachy there anyway
Alright, fair enough
I didn't actually
Can you blow it up?
You cannot blow it up
Good
But you can jump off the top
It's the ultimate leap of faith
Can you survive?
You landed
You could jump into the river
You landed a cart of straw
And you're totally fine
I was going to say
You could probably jump into the river
But it's pretty far
No, you got a parachute
Did anyone find it weird
That the trailer for Unity
Is the exact same trailer
For Assassin's Creed 1?
Dude, the trailer
That they were forced to make
In 48 hours
Yeah
They literally cobbled that together
Because they're like
Fuck, we got leaked
No, the trailer is the exact same
Comfort for Assassin's Creed 1
It's empty streets
And then people
Sound effects
Clamoring for someone to get killed
Either via hanging
Or by a guillotine
Then an assassin
Staring down
And that's it
Well, because they're restarting the franchise
It is unfortunately
The simplest way to show your engine
Like, unfortunately
Yeah, that is true
And it looks damn good
But no, I agree with you
The composition is really fucking silly
Now, it's nowhere near
The drastic change I was hoping for
I wanted a complete setting change
No
We'll wait for Comet
Well, that's the hope
The hope is that Comet
Goes somewhere more interesting
But Comet's last gen, right?
Comet's last gen
And I'm hoping that Comet
Is either going to be in Japan
Or in...
Russia
No, no, no
I don't think they would do
Such a drastic split
Where one of them is like
The one
You know what I mean?
But here's the thing
The reason why
I say this is because
AC4, there's an email
That straight up...
That email is fantastic
We're all arguing about
Where to put the next
Exactly
And they straight up give you
Desmond's matriarch
His mother's line
Matriarchal past
Matriarchal past
Or matriarchal line, I'd call it
And the patriarchal line
And
You see
Going down from
AC4
And
Italy
And so on and so forth
All the different viable settings
And we've used all of them
With the exception of
The cowboys in the old west
Yeah, of course that one
Because that's where he ended up
The mother was in the summer of love
On the east coast
Can you imagine
Assassin's Creed game
In the old west
Where it's like
The shit armadillo town
From Red Dead Redemption
And you climb up
The one general store
And you're like
Oh, yeah
Synchronized
Don't look at...
It's one street
You would be climbing mountains
And something like that, hopefully
But they would dive off it
Yeah, sure
Into like the Apache territory
Instead of...
It comes out that
The next gen
Or the current gen game
Is
Paris
In the French Revolution
And the fucking last gen game
Is in Japan
I'm gonna be fucking pissed off
Well, you know why they're doing it
At that point
Because the next gen one's guaranteed to sell
It's the last gen one
That needs the crutch
Oh, fuck
And that is totally
You're right
I'm starving so bad
Because they...
I don't think they're gonna do it
If it's Russia in last gen
I'm gonna be double mad
Because where I was going with that
Is amongst the settings listed
They list a Japanese shogunate
And Russia is not that Desmond line
But it totally works into the fall
So it's viable as well
Well, I think they're not gonna do something
So extreme as that
I think they're just gonna have another spin-off
Another Avalyne to Grand Prix?
No, maybe not
Well, not her
But something else
And she's in where?
She's in New Orleans
Okay
Now you play as Ezio's skeleton
Yeah
They can bring it back
But he still gets hot chicks
One more final
A management sim
Hey, girl, look at all this bone I got for you
We got so many to spare
We put new attachments onto your hook, blade, arm, hand
Bone claw
That was the weirdest advancement
Because it was nice to have that extra little bit of reach
And that shit's never coming back, ever
No
Also, I'm sorry
But the Ottoman Empire, not that interesting
It should have been
But the writing and the plot
Just totally failed that
It was so, like, whatever
Either way, according to AC4
We're never gonna get a setting with cars
Yeah, I love that even though
They made that joke where they're just like
Look, guys, we are not rewriting the Obstergo engine
To add cars so that it can be boring
Because, guess what?
Memories from ancestors who drove cars don't work
When you sit in a car for too long, it doesn't sink properly
I love how, like, on the nose
Like, this is actually the real example
Of, like, guess what?
Driving cars in this kind of game would suck
We don't want to spend the time, we don't want to do it
We barely got horses and boats off the ground
Yeah
Well, boats don't get off the ground
What do you mean planes, right?
You know what I mean
Just give me a fucking, like...
Got a hand glider?
Give me a hand glider
Give me that
And you have a weird, like, um...
Michelangelo Leonardo...
Not Milan, sorry, Leonardo Tank
In A.C. 2 Brotherhood?
Brotherhood
You know, so like...
Assassin's Creed for the current gen comic
Don't you have the Ornithopter as well?
You got a bunch of shit
Assassin's Creed comic will be Assassin's Creed Skycrime
And it's all Assassin's Creed
Nice
What, you have, like, 30-second long missions in the sky, constantly?
Yeah
And your play is, like, the Wright brothers?
You can assassinate anyone you want as long as it's in the sky
As long as it's in the sky
So you have to kill the Wright brothers
No, exactly
That's it, that's the only time
Kitty Hawk
Yeah
Man, I wonder what the boat...
Oh, no, you have to kill what surface
Who just disappeared in the sky
Amelia Earhart
Yeah
I wonder what the wrong century
I wonder what...
Whatever, man
The boat contents of Unity is gonna be
Like, for the French Revolution
Was there a lot of boat shit there?
There probably isn't gonna be as much boat content at all
That's gonna be super weird
We're probably gonna go back to climbing
And they're gonna find something
I was gonna show you
That screenshot had parkour up and parkour down
They had the river that told us
I have to assume that you're doing all the Paris sewer shit
Because Paris...
Fucking ginormous, crazy sewer
That's true
Filmed with dead dudes
Filmed with skeletons
What a good point
True, but it's still not quite sailing
Like, you need a gameplay...
They'll probably have a different thing that fills that
Boy
What's your theory?
Tell them your theory about the summer of love
The summer of love
Because that's one of the settings that they bring up
The summer of love is only, like, four years off
I'm like, what are you gonna do with...
A assassin' hippies
And I'm like, are you gonna assassinate JFK?
Cause you're gonna be cool
Your bad black ops beat you to it
I know, but fuck
But here's why it's not gonna happen
Where did JFK get assassinated?
I know where he got assassinated
Where?
At the fucking knoll
There's cars
What?
In a car
Yeah, that's a weird
Yeah
There's already a perfect simulation game for that anyway
So...
Yeah
Yeah
I guess
Anyway, the other bit going on
Was GDC happening
GDC was great slash terrible
Yeah
There was some stuff
You're totally right, Liam
It was great and terrible
One of the best GDC talks I've listened to
And some of the worst I've heard about
So there's three things that I pulled out
From the GDC thing that I guess we're talking about
Okay, let's talk about it
We already talked about the first one
Assassin's Creed Unity trailer
Bam
Oh, that was...
Consider a GDC thing
That's where they released it
Okay
The second bit would be
Morpheus is a thing
Yep
Project Morpheus
Sony's VR
Oh, right, right
It's all in the ground
I haven't talked about Lawrence Fishburne
No
For fuck's sake, that VR shit came out
And I thought we talked about it last week
Because it was so obvious
This week was so long
Yeah, no
I remember PlayStation Oculus
I was streaming Ground Zeroes at the time
And someone was just like, oh, Morpheus announced
And I'm like, tell me things about it
I can't use my internet or I'll kill the stream
What do we know?
It's a Sony Oculus Rift
Yeah, it looks like the future glowy thing
On your head that you want
Totally, yeah
It's got the blue lights and everything
I saw people saying, man, that looks dumb
And I'm like, that looks so, like, dumb cool
Yeah, it's what you want
Like, to me, I...
Looks like dumb future Jets and shit
Well, my thing is more like, I want the Google Glass
You know, I want that kind of like
Power Reader, like...
You want a scouter
I want a scouter
You can see through it, and that's a problem
You have to have a backing to it
I want augmented reality more than virtual reality
Oh, really?
Yeah, I do
That's awkward
But, uh, isn't it?
It could lead to awkward things happening
I want cooler things in real life than
Totally fake things
Yeah, totally
I just want my Sword Art MMO, or Dot Hack, or whatever
I want that so bad
I was complaining to Leon
So that you could finally shut them all out forever
I was complaining to Leon
He was trying to give up on everything
He was playing Ground Zeroes, and I'm like
I really love how in 1985
Big Boss just takes out his fucking holograms
Yeah, yeah, yeah
But that's aren't even in Metal Gear Solid 2
And they make such a point to go like
Look at these cassette tapes
And he puts out his holograms
His cassette player
And then fucking holograms
And then XOF thing coming off the helicopter like
What?
It's been a fucking year
Technology!
They established in Deja and Jame Vue that it could be any universe
Yeah, yeah, the little pre-mission
Jame Vue has a great opening
The little pre-mission thing is fantastic
The world is broken into different possibilities
They're talking about Schrodinger's cat, man
Yeah
Anyway, yeah, Morpheus is a thing
The big sticking point with a lot of people
Apparently everyone that tried it was impressed
Yeah
It works well
The testing has been done
Very, very impressive even compared to the Oculus
Especially since this came out of nowhere
Could be a big, big move for like where this generation goes
Sure
Or it could be a huge dead end
Depending on the price point and how people respond to that
That being said, I'm much more interested in this than I ever was in Kinect
How interested, I say, as I do the money gesture
$300
It depends
$150?
It's the software that counts
$100 would be better
You're not gonna get that
Well, then, fuck it
Then no one's gonna get games for it either
No one's gonna make games for something that costs as much as another console
Ubisoft said they would if it sold a million units
Well, it won't
Ubisoft is there for launch of every device ever
As they should be
As they should be
They know the deal
If and when the server comes out
Ubisoft will be there with fighters unsold
Well, for something
I'm occasionally zombie you
I know you
I'm talking about how like for Kinect 1, fighters on cage
For Kinect 2 fighters
Yeah, for Kinect
I know that you like strung that one out
But I like to think of it as like it didn't sell
Fighters unsold
They didn't sell, they're unsold
Anyway, for every one of these
We lost money
The consumer buys
We lose $60
And the other bit is
Of course, Iga did this little chat
He did this little talk
How to make a Metroidvania
How to make a Metroidvania
Is the word Metroidvania actually in that talk?
Yes, the part that I was going to bring up
He's super psyched about it
That means that shit's canon now
Because Liam, you watched it
I caught some cliff notes about it
Can you watch that whole thing online?
I listened to the whole thing
You can?
Cool
Can you watch it now?
You need a GDC Volt account
I'll listen to it then
I'm sure people have things
There might be, I don't know if there's a way
If you don't have a GDC Volt account
I don't know
Either way, the interesting parts were
That he did not know about the name or word
Metroidvania
He didn't know at all about the portmanteau
Until two years ago
What?
It was very clearly a Western thing
That he caught some kids using it on Facebook
And he was like, what?
What the fuck is that?
Yeah, he had no idea
Because up until then he was calling them
2D Exploration Action Games
Yeah, it's such a...
Which is nowhere near as sweet
Metroidvania sub
That is awesome
It sounds really cool
Yeah, and then he went on to describe
How it's interesting that people are saying this
And surprising because
They were influenced by Zelda
More than anything in terms of the exploration aspects
And they thought about like
When Zelda goes 2D
Because of the perspective
Exactly
That needs to look like Metroid
More so than Zelda
But in their heads going into it
They were thinking of that
That's really weird
Because Zelda was way...
But that's how Zelda works
You go to place, you get X-Weapon
And then X-Weapon does stuff in other places
And Metroid does that too
It does, it does
But at the same time
But on your GD
Japan knows what Metroid is
Exactly, that's what I was about to go
And I was about to say
It totally makes sense when you think about it
Japan doesn't get influenced by Metroid
They get influenced by Zelda
Barely
Barely
That's just super weird
More so than Metroid
So yeah
Like if on your GD
Before the game even starts
It's like
Zelda 2D
Then you can see that
And then when it forms
That's a bit Metroid
But if they had Zelda as the mind frame
Then yeah, Zelda's the answer
This feels like I've traveled back in time
To see the invention of a hamburger
And the guy hands it to me
And I go, oh cool
And he's like, enjoy your ham sandwich
Like what?
No, no, it's a hamburger
Well, either way
If it makes it any better for you
He said that he loves the term
Metroid game
Yeah
He's honored by it
Because he likes that people have associated
His game with Metroid
And he loves the fact that
Those two represent the genre
And he even said if Nintendo asked him
To be on board for a Metroid game
He totally did
So what's the countdown to
Like
Mighty Dracula
Well, he has a team together
But there was no announcement or anything
So it's probably not anything
Dude, that's gonna be so weird
Because Dracula's totally public domain
Sure
I don't think he's gonna go for Dracula
Yeah, we were reading way too far into it
Expecting like some kind of crazy megaton
Like bomb at his GDC talk
Yeah
I don't think it was reading
Like he quit during the same week
That's not a huge coincidence
But he's not gonna drop like the new project
At a thing that's not publicly accessible
Maybe in six months
Yeah
Fucking Azure
Fucking gun vault
Sure
Announced at Bit Summit in Japan
I guess
Bit Summit
Okay, you know what?
How about this?
It would be like Sonic Boom
Where they show off the levels
And don't tell you what it is
Sure
But I mean like
It wasn't too far to reach to say
Oh, he might have a Kickstarter
Because he quit
And he's having a talk on Metroid Vanias
During the same week
Where he quit the Metroid game
I would not have been surprised
And I was hoping
I was really hoping too
But
I hope he makes
I hope he fuck that
He just makes judgment too
God damn it
I was just gonna say
I just rather he takes his time
And makes a good game
So, yeah, not unlike in judgment
But
Did he work on judgment?
Yeah, he was the director
Oh, fuck
God damn it
Just fucking
Just call it Death Note Fighter
Death Note Fighter
Yeah, I like the one bit
Where he said that
One day he wants to try taking a stab
At 3D again
Because it's the thing he feels
Like he can never get right
But he really
Is sure as hell
Is right about that
It's good that he knows
It's like
Dude, it is so good that he knows
Yeah
Like if I saw quotes
Like, man, I want to make 3D games
I feel like I'm really
Coming into my own on 3D games
I'm like, oh, fuck
Did you guys play Nano Breaker?
It's not blood, it's cyborg juice
It's cyborg juice
And the other
It's Bio Slime
The other big
It really is
Bio Slime
He went into
Making Symphony of the Night with his team
Basically throwing the entire formula out
And saying we want to start from scratch
Make a whole new thing
Do we even need a whip?
Do we even need a human being
As your playable character?
No, no, no
But let's put one in as a bonus
Yeah
What did you guys hate?
We fucking hated pits
Pits are shit
Pits are pits
Pits are out
They got rid of pits
So what happens now?
You fall into a boss fight
Or just a really shitty room
No traditional pits at the time
A death room, if you would
But no pits, you know
And he just kind of talks about some of their thoughts
And philosophies going into it
And it's really interesting
Because, damn, they threw everything out
And made such a sick game from it
It's like, if you are a good designer
You can do that
You can reinvent a franchise
Because of the time
What was it?
They give you a $5 million budget
And you've got like 10 guys in a room
And you're just like drawing
And doing and making fucking
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Whatever the fuck
You've got 10 months
And then everyone just slaps that shit together
And then, boom, you got Symphony of the Night
It's just what we said before
That's exactly how it happens
You just say, oh, let's just scrap everything
We're just talking about Assassin's Creed Unity
You just said I was hoping
They would kind of scrap everything
And start over with something new and fresh
And said it's just another hooded assassin
I mean, you can't do this type of stuff
You can't go, fuck it
Let's just not do whatever we did
You say that
But at the same time, Ubisoft
The guys who've been making the same Assassin's Creed game
Remember what happened to Splinter Cell?
Like, they completely changed the game
Like, twice with conviction
And now there's rumors that Rainbow Six
Has been completely turned into three different games
No surprises there
What conviction was gonna...
No, the hobo Sam was gonna be something new and crazy
No, no, just make the whole thing
But they still scrapped it
It still scrapped it
And now they're back to exactly the same as before
Which is new now
Oh, fuck it
Now, speaking about Rainbow Six and Tom Clancy
Did you guys happen to catch that little trailer
For the Division's engine?
The snow drop engine
Looks hot
Wasn't that sick?
Looks good
I was really impressed
We saw most of that in a trailer a few months back
Not most of it
They showed bits and pieces of
This is what we're doing
This is what it's called
But this was the best open look at
People directly working in it
That we've seen of all next-gen engines
These kinds of like, featurettes
Where a guy just goes through an engine
For ten minutes
Like, you remember the fucking...
I don't wanna see
Eight years ago for GDC
Where Cliff B showed off the fucking meet-cues
Like, I love that shit
That shit is porn
It's crap
And just show me all the tessellations
So you can handle it
I watched this and then I went back
And I was just thinking
And I'm like, what have we seen
As far as next-gen stuff goes?
We've got the Fox engine
We've got Disrupt, CryEngine, UE4
Frostbite
And these things are all being worked on
And they have some very pretty things going on
But like, I want that inside look
And the Snowdrop engine trailer was fantastic
I bet we're gonna see one for Frostbite
The next time a big EA game comes out
And the fact that UE4 is not even gonna be out
Until next year available
It kind of makes me think
With all these other engines
Like chomping at the like, oh, look at ours
Look at ours, look at ours
I don't think UE is gonna have the chokehold
It did last-gen
I don't think
I think you're totally right
When I looked at this trailer
And then at the end of it
It says like, join massive
Or something along those lines
It seems to imply licensing will be possible
It seems like all
I go, yes, please
Whatever like Unity's been the one
On the up-and-counter for a year
Oh, totally, of course
It's just streaking ahead
For anyone who's like starting
I don't know, Unity's super viable
Unity's everything
Unity's been streaking ahead
Did you see the fucking new prices for Unreal
And what was it, CryEngine?
Yeah, for CryEngine
It's like they fucking cut the price
Of the engines to nothing
Because they know they're working
Or like, our Nintendo goes like
We have 50 Unity games just sitting there
Waiting to release
Yeah, it's like
That's a bit of a paraphrase
But like
Unity's 50
In the lineup
If 50 games come in
Line up
Yeah, exactly
I don't know
I don't get too excited
Over like 3D engine stuff
Because like, you go look at Square Enix
And it's like, well, theirs is way more impressive
One engine
One engine
Which one?
The one we're using for Final Fantasy XV
But I don't know anything about that engine
It runs the game at like really good
But show me everything about the engine
No, but like, that's what I'm saying
Like, at the end of the day
Like, an engine doesn't even matter
Because you look at Guilty Gear
And it's like, does it matter
That it's on Unreal 3?
No, but I want to see it
I'm not interested by this
And that is why I am saying
It's I
I don't get particularly excited by engines
Because it's just like
You can make whatever and whatever engine
I was like, fine
Well, not whatever
Whatever
To certainly make Guilty Gear in Unreal 3
Would you have said that was a good idea
Five years ago?
No
I would
Well, if we
Which it's probably
Probably totally fine
As long as we don't turn it on
And see the textures waiting to load
Oh
No, you know what?
When you're a fighter
That shouldn't be a problem
Because of the pre-fight versus thing
Sure, and it's cell shaded
But the point I'm getting at
Is that the only time it sort of matters
I don't think it's actually cell shaded, dude
It's textures
Pretty sure it's not real
Yeah
There's a black outline on them
At the very least
Yeah
So, yeah
It's probably textures with a black outline
That's like
It filters
It's irrelevant
What do you mean?
I think that's the only place where like
As a consumer
You sort of notice and feel that
Is like
The bugs that keep happening
Over and over and over
How many final kills in a big
Assassin's Creed fight
Are going to end with no sound effects
But what I mean is that
All these next shed engines
They just don't have these issues
And more so
We haven't touched any of them really
So we don't even know
So I look at them all
And I'm like, I don't fucking know
Which one's going to be the best
Let's wait and see
Yeah, well I
I don't care which one's looked
Like whichever one's
You're totally right
That I look at that
In terms of like
Oh, I want the shiny now
That being said
Oh, me too, definitely
Like whenever the fucking CD Projekt guys
Would do their fucking
Witcher 2
Like engine discussions
It's just like
Oh my god, this is
Poor
There's tons of games
That just have undisclosed engines
Sure
Where they just make their own engine
And they turn out great
But all really
I'm trying to get at is
This trailer's cool
But I love seeing shit like this
I wish more people do it
And it is very cool
I want to watch like a show
That is like
Here's an hour a week
And we just show off the engine
In nitty gritty
I want to know
Why Unity is so killer
Like I know it's good
For porting everything
But I want to see Unity
Because this like
Download it
Why
This type of look
Is just
It's more informative
And you get more out of it
Of course
Then you do with like
Say the Samaritan trailer
Or the Elementals trailer
You know
That was
Every time you say Samaritan
It gets super hyped
And then I realize
It's not a game
It's not a thing though
Yeah, what a weird mistake
But that's what it always is
Is check out these awesome particles
No, but
Are you checking them out?
But for Unreal 3
No, but check them out though
But for Unreal 3
You had the Unreal Tournament guys
And you had the Berserker
From Gears of War
And both of those
Actually became things
And they looked like they did
In the footage
With Samaritan
For them to come out
And be like
No, you're never going to see that shit
Like, come on
That shit look cool
The most
Interesting world you've ever made
Ever made
Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, totally
But
Cyberpunk's got us covered
Man, all these enemies are shit
When you think about the sunburn engine
It's the most common XBLA
Indie game engine
And we've seen it
Like a zillion times
And it's the worst fucking thing
Mark of quality
XBLA or Indie games?
Indie games, sorry
I meant to say Indie games
Oh, wow, okay
That's even worse
I would say
What uses it?
The most
Trick or...
Remember that one
Where you're having that guy?
The one that's all kind of porn
But not really porn
Oh, I could be one
Yeah, I know the one
Yeah, you do
It's pretty good
We all do
We all do
It's the Ghost and Goblins one
I think so
No
Blizzard faithful
Hold your hands up
No
Do it
Wait, are any of us
Blizzard faithful?
I used to be
Me too
I remember
When I started my old job
at THQ
The guy I sat down next to
He said, I have faith in three game companies
The three B's
Bethesda, Bioware, and Blizzard
When was this?
2012 or 11
What? That's too late
That's too late
I had to physically
Turn my head away from him
And have a huge grin
Come across my face
As I pretended to look at something
And say
Yeah, those are pretty strong companies
Without laughing my ass off
That's where you just breathe
Just...
Oh, it was hard
That's way too late
He called it
Three B's
And if you're listening
I'm so sorry
But fuck
What a killer punchline
That's amazing
It has to have been him troubling you
No
He was in there on
Old Republic
Day one
Day zero
Day negative
Every day was a day negative on Old Republic
Go to the annoying guy
And drop that line on him
And see what happens
This is going to be way off topic
Did you guys see the reactions
The Elder Scrolls Online
Nondisclosure Agreement lifted?
Like every single place on the internet
I saw
It's like
The NDA is lifted
People can talk about the Elder Scrolls Online
Every comment on every page
Of every form is just like
Oh, I can talk about it now
Yeah, it sucked
That game sucks
That game looks like garbage
The most backwards ass MMO ever
Ever
When I first saw Oblivion for the 360
I assumed it had multiplayer
And you could play with your friends
In this open world
Yeah
I assumed that
I was baffled when it was in the case
And then when they come and make a multiplayer one
It's a traditional MMO
Instead of being
People want co-op
That's all they want
Make slaughterlings
In your fucking Elder Scrolls
In your fucking Elder Scrolls
Too far the other direction
But what's Blizzard doing
Right, what's Blizzard doing
Anything
Diablo III's now working hard
You would never guess
Why someone like me
Would be excited about it
I know exactly
Why you don't know this
A Vikings is coming back
Oh shit
Let's do it
This is one of the first things
I remember you talking to me about
When we met
You were like
I'm so hyped for that
Yeah
Everyone was
I played Starcraft
I got off of Rude Wars
Really?
Yeah, I did
And one of the fucking
My personal Kirby's air ride
Yeah
Was Starcraft Ghost, man
I couldn't wait
Dude, me too
And when they canned it
Like five times
I was really excited for that game
Every time they canned it
I was like
Oh, but maybe
I like it
It's too good
But maybe
Every single version of that
That they showed
And the fact that they said
No, I'm not good enough
I just went
Oh, I
Oh, your standards are so high
I love you
But fuck
You know, I can't hate you
For that exactly
But I was happy
With what you were going to do
But now after Diablo III
Their standards are way lower
So it'll come out tomorrow
So they straight up
Xbox Live indie games only
So yesterday
They straight up
Just came out and said
Just
It's not off the table
Sorry
Just right before you get to that
I remember like
It was never Blizzard
That was developing Ghost
It was Blizzard
Overseeing
Two different developers
And they switched them
And the first one
Was the developer
That made Marvel Nemesis
Oh
And then when they switched
They switched to
Swinging Abe Studios
Which made
Metal Arms
Glitch in the system
And that's when I was
Like unhyped
And then I was like
Oh, they made Metal Arms
That game's really cool
Awesome
And then when they canceled
That
I was like
I said
We made it ourselves
And then it's been
Going ever since
And did Fusion
Ever work on it?
Sorry?
And Fusion
Did they ever work on it?
I don't recall that name
They made Geist
And Heroes of Ruin
I don't
Think so
Basically
They did
But I don't think
They worked on it
Basically a producer
At Blizzard
Alex Mayberry
Was like
We still
Would like to do this
And it still
Is like
Something that we think
Is viable
It's an idea that can work
And internally
Sometimes
It could have worked
Reboot's coming back
Well, hey
Exactly
Fucking take your wads of money
And hire platinum
Just do it
Well
Do it
They're a person's shooter
But so is Vanquish
Exactly
And fucking
These guys can sell anything
Yeah
Their audience is so hardcore
That we're losing subscribers
I could see
A lot of Blizzard faithful
Saying
Fuck this Japanese company
Ruin
Like, you know what I mean?
I don't know
Maybe
Like Western
Blizzard fans
I could see
A large percentage going
I don't want Japanese
Companies messing up
My beloved Starcraft
And my beloved
Because
Because Blizzard's just done
A bang-up job
Like
Her with the voice filter
Just going ghost reporting
I'm like
Ah, shippers man
The thing is though
Is that like
I look at
You look at the first version
Of the game
Your hair was too long
You look at the first version
Of the game
And you're like
That's probably
EDF level jank
Right
The second version
And you're like
Okay, they're at least
Gears 1 right now
At least
And then it disappears forever
And you're like
Well fuck
What?
How good do they need it?
You know?
And I'm like
I know you want it to be perfect
But just give it
Just give it
I don't care
Normally
It's the kind of thing
Like
Oh, they said
It's not enough
At the table
So who cares
So what?
But Blizzard like
Cancelled
Fuckin'
Clash of Clans
Or whatever the
Adventure
That shit just got
Raw cancelled
Like after it was done
They never mentioned it again
It's not this
Oh, the animated one
Yeah
Yeah, the animated
Warcraft Adventures
Yeah, and they just
Rolled that into the back
Absolutely
Tons of frames of animation
For not burned
It's burned
Yeah, they don't give a fuck
Because I feel like it's like
They go
Hey, unless we can reinvent
This shit
When we drop it
Why bother?
No, and I agree with that
Because like
I have been burned
Ironically by a
Off-to-a-Sci-Fi game
Featuring Space Marines
Which was
Warhammer 40K
Fire Squad
Oh, that game is
I'm so excited for
Fire Squad
Just the Tau
Yeah, you get to play as the Tau
You don't get to
You don't play as Space Marines
You play as the Tau
And I believe the Space Marines
Are antagonistic in that game
And it sucks
Oh
It's no good
So I hope Ghost comes out good
Did you play
Space Marine?
Of course
I worked on Space Marine
Oh, did you?
Yeah
Space Marine's awesome
That's what you wanted though, right?
It's really fun
And it's really good
And I'm really happy that it exists
Yeah
Because I have played
A good many Warhammer 40K games
I love the variety more than anything
Yeah
I wish you could have played as more
Characters than just the Space Marine
The complete opposite problem
I got to play as Orcs one time
In one of them
What was the rest of that code?
I want to bring that up
About the Blizzard
Ghost
Oh, yeah
Just because I thought it was
Hilarious
It is fun
I still think the idea is perfectly viable
I don't know if we'll ever do it
But I think it's something we'd like to do
When we set out to do it originally
On the GameCube PS2 and Xbox
After we shelved it
I used to say that
At the time
We were very ready to make
A Blizzard game on consoles
But those consoles
Weren't ready for a Blizzard game
We just couldn't quite get
What we wanted it to do
Now that
Because of those machines at the time
The processing wasn't
Blast enough
That sounds like a total
Hunk of shit
Until you remember how
Fucking bad Diablo and
Ourcraft War 1
PS1 and 64
Those were atrocious
Those games ruined
This goes back to also
The fact that Blizzard weren't
Again, the ones that were
The programmers on Ghost
They're still advising it
But I get you though
The statement that
Consoles were not ready for us
Especially when Blizzard
Started as a console
What the fuck is Titan?
Now you will
If you know
Your life is forfeit
What the fuck is Titan?
How it
Pregnant wives are not allowed
To know
Their husbands will not tell them
Like I have never seen
Anything in this industry
Be so well known
Oh yeah
Secret
Like for fucking
They have the sickest NDAs ever
We knew it was a development for
Five years
And then we're like
Oh it's two years off
And then they announce
That they're going to
Completely restart development
On a game they never announced
Yeah
What the fuck
Please get excited
Oh man
That
We don't care
We have vows
That shit
Upon barrels
If you don't get excited
Your eventual kids will be
Yeah sure
And they'll give us
The wheelbarrows of money
Like I feel like
Whatever
What else man
I feel like the time
We can lame you out
Exactly
And as you can see
Like Warhammer doesn't have
That luxury
That's a license
That needs everybody
Who bit it can get
Well only because
The Codex and Stardust
Is not going to survive
The only cause
Game's workshop's a fucking
Dick with the license
I swear
Dick's workshop is the fucking worst
The length of
The length of time that
Titan's been in secret development
They have set up a situation
In which if that thing
Is any less successful than
World of Warcraft
They have failed
Yeah
Yeah
Which is why they canceled it
I guess
Yeah
They're like
What will this take over
Only ten percent
Two continents
I don't know
It would be really awesome
If all these projects
Had synced up in the same year
If A
Attack on Titan
Debuted this year
Titanfall
Debuted this year
And Titan
Debuted this year
That would be like
The year of the bow
It's the year of the Titan
Attack on Titan
Fall
Titan
Titan
Like suffix
And it happens on the Titanic
Oh yeah
Oh
My heart will go on man
The tower fall would review higher
Oh
That's great
That strip
That one of
My favorite
Panorakate strip of all time
When
Tycho just
Rips Gabe apart
For shitting on
What is it
It's like Warhammer
We're like
World of Warhammer
You shut your mouth
You shut your filthy mouth
I swear to God
The next words out of your mouth
Will result in me killing myself
I really like like
The Warcraft stuff
But like at the same time
Like I look at that
Like this is like the saddest
Like clear rip off ever
Ever
Like ever
By far
Like because the Warhammer 40k stuff
Is so much more interesting
He's going to open one of his six mouths
And sing the song
For Starcraft onto Warhammer
What is the
Both
Both rip off
Each version
Okay
Because the old stuff
Is just like the old stuff
And the new stuff
It's because Warhammer
It has bits of work
Like Warcraft
And space
And space
And space
Warcraft rips off Warhammer 4
Warhammer and
Starcraft rips off 40k
Also Starcraft rips off
Aliens and Predators
Also, yeah
Like the old Marines
Predators and Protoss
And they all rip off Tolkien
And he rips off
No one
No one
Who knows
It came out from his brain hole
Because the Dark Ages
Were nowhere near that exciting
He probably killed a man for his story
Man, poor Tolkien
I remember reading up
When he was putting out
The very first, like, editions
Of Lord of the Rings
How him and his editor
Like fucking hated each other so much
And how it was actually
Like a nightmare
For like 50 years
To get it properly edited
Lord of the Rings
Because Elven
Didn't exist as a word
Yeah
And he would
Write the whole draft
And then the editor would correct
Every single time
To Elven
And Tolkien would go
No, fuck you, I'm reading a word
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
He's a professor of language
I don't do it
He invents words all the time
Also, don't forget that
Tolkien wanted the whole book
Like this
In one giant
He forced him to split it into three
And he's like
This is fucking bullshit
He wanted a phone book
Slash Beyond Two Souls
Yeah, you know what
The copy Lord of the Rings
I have is one book
And it's too intimate
It sucks to read
It physically sucks to read
Yeah, yeah
No wonder you're dead, Tolkien
The only gigantic book that I have like that
And it's fairly tiny in comparison
But I have like a Narnia
All of them in one
Yeah
And it's the sickest like huge book
With Aslan on the front
And it's punchy
You mean Lion Jesus?
Lion Jesus
Just although you never meant to read it, I suppose
I read it
Oh, you actually opened those pages
And I read every one of them
Okay
Cover to cover
Damn
I keep thinking of that image of 60s Spider-Man
Punching out like a closet and saying
Fuck you, Narnia
Apparently, I didn't see the first one
So I'm not too sure
But it seems like
Beanox's new amazing Spider-Man 2
Has the good swinging
I've heard this
This left, left trigger
Shoots your left arm out
To shoot a web
Right trigger does the exact thing
You have to be near a building
This has been confirmed for a little while
But now people have seen it
Now there's footage of it
Time to care
Yeah
Time to care
I took a look
My Spider-Man alarm's going off
If you bitch long and hard enough
Eventually they will retrofit old engines
No, they didn't take the old engines
But then there's a bunch of combat footage
And it's totally Arkham
Yeah, it was Arkham in the last amazing Spider-Man
Not that it was good
But whatever, if it's Arkham
That's fine
And it has good swinging
That's great
But you know, like as I said before
Arkham slash Assassin's Creed fighting
Like hero versus group
Every superhero's going to be doing that type of fighting
From now on
Sure, it makes sense though
Except for Superman
It doesn't make sense
Like Hulk shouldn't fight like that
No, he shouldn't
Hulk should fight like Dynasty Warriors
Yeah
Hulk should fight
I thought you were going to say dinosaurs
No, like Dynasty Warriors
Yeah, but dinosaurs though
I swing my arm and 50 dudes go that way
Yeah, that makes sense
Yeah
They don't have footage of it
But there's missions in that game
That you apparently play as Peter Parker
And have to do dumb Jonah shit
Oh, I'm sure that's fun
I'm sure it will be
No, I'm just kidding
I'm sure it actually is
Being the cat shit
What?
You have to do dumb
Like you have to
Peter Parker goes
Peter, let's go on a date
Let's go fishing
No, Peter Parker goes like
Oh god, I really want to
Get back into the costume
Like he knows like
Like it makes you appreciate
The Spider-Man bits more
Like it's not bad
That they're like we try to
Make you feel both sides of Peter's body
Well, we'll see how it goes
A little variety, dude
Variety
I know that
Down time
Games is usually what we complain about
When you're like god
I seriously doubt it could ever be
As bad as Big The Cat
Yeah, I think that's cool
Big The Cat was an incredible
Fishing simulation
You need to shut your mouth
You need to die
You will
Go back to England, James
No
Have you heard of the Dreamcast?
Yeah, that's okay
Let's pick a game franchise you like
Where they force you to play as character
You don't want to be for a while
Yeah, but dude, I just mean
That there might be cool photography missions
That Ashley section was sick
What are you talking about?
Yeah
That Ashley section is way more
Interesting in the Japanese release
I just found out
That's different
That in the Japanese release of RE4
The Ashley section has all pre-
Static cameras from old
Rezeval angles
Oh, whoa
Yeah
That's different
And for us
We just get the standard camera
But if you haven't done suplexes
If you haven't done suplexes
As Ashley, you missed the whole section
I guess
You know you can do that, right?
Oh, shit
Yeah
Go back to that
Damn
It's good again
Apparently, Binoss is going to do
Like a 10 minute demo
Of the game to show off everything
Yeah
In the next couple of weeks
I really hope because
I really enjoy
Like when a good Spider-Man game
Is good
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it too
I wish
I wasn't so much my own ass
That I couldn't enjoy
Any of the newer Spider-Man games
Because it didn't have the swinging
I liked
No, you're not even wrong
You are super allowed
And justified
But Matt would be playing one
And he'd be like
This Spider-Man game is actually really good
And I'd say
But does it have the good swinging though?
And he'd go
And I'd go
Oh, get out of my face
Here's the difference
If you're playing Web of Shadows
Which was an open world Spider-Man game
And had shitty swinging
Great combat
But
Shitty swinging
And terrible the rest of the game
Like the game
If you saw this game running
You would punch the TV
Because it had frame drops
It had
Like no v-sync
Like it was just the poor thing
No v-sync
And frame drops
Is unacceptable
It was
And it
Like
It was just so bad
But with Shadow Dimensions
Shadow Dimensions
Was a completely different game
Where it was level based
And you had
Interesting different Spider-Man to play
One was stealth
One was
Dynasty Warriors
And one was like
Like fun swinging mechanics
In closed environments
But if I play this for 20 minutes
And like
I just fucking
Look at the controller
Then pop it out
And pop in Spider-Man 2
Or buy on a commando
Then
No
Or Ultimate for that matter
But I'd rather have
A game that's different
Than rather a game that's similar
To where you want
But bad
Sure
Yeah
Okay I get you
Totally
Like you got the one thing right
And everything else
I guess my big problem
Is like
Man that genre
Has two games in it
Yeah
Like
And I love that genre
Of swinging mechanic
Cool game
Well now there's
It's Biocom
The new Biocom
And Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 2
It's like the only one
And it's awesome
And now Energy Hook's coming in
To clean up
Well
No
Energy Hook is by
It's an independent game
For Vita PS4 and PC
By the guy who did
The web swinging alone
For Spider-Man 2
That's actually coming out
It was on Kickstarter
And it succeeded
Yeah
It looked not great
It looked terrible
Visually
Has it picked up
It's gonna be fun
Has it picked up
What do you mean has it picked up
Does it look any better now
Okay me and Woolly
We saw like Kickstarter
And we're like
We're really hyped
But it's so visually ugly
I can't play
Dude I was holding wads
Wads of cash
And I was like
Of cash
I can't drop this cash
Distractingly
I can't pour out the champagne
I can't do it
This doesn't look good enough
Are you saying there's new stuff about it
Or are you just referencing that
It still looks like
It's gonna be a fun game to play
Have the visuals changed at all
Not particularly
Like the style is still the same
Oh
I'll have to look that up
Yeah I know
But probably
I know there's at least
A new trailer though
For when they announced the PS4
Okay well
Either way
Because games like Lost Planet
And Freedom Wars and stuff
Don't count
Because it's a zip hook
Yeah it's a
Freedom Wars is doing it really well though
But it's not a swing
Yeah it's a tether
It's like a
I agree
But like did you see the new
Freedom Wars footage
Where he's all over the place
It looks cool
But it's not hitting the right spot
No
Because it's different
I have
I want Freedom Wars
Momentum to be the primary variable
Exactly
I have
There's a G-spot
For swing
That's
Sure
But I know
Freedom Wars like
Exactly that angle
What are you talking about again
I'm saying
I want to latch on to a thing in the distance
Jump
And like
Pull myself around
Create
A rotation
Let go
And go flying
It's the same
Like child like joy moment
Of when you would get on to a swing
And fucking like
Push it
And then be like
Let's see how far it can get
By jumping off at the exact right
Point
Yeah
Whereas the other ones
Are like attack on Titan style
Which is another type of fun
Yeah
I like how
Well Freedom Wars is the specific one
Because it's the only one doing this
Where you can tether to a point
And shoot while you're on that point
Yeah
So like
You swing around the opponent a bunch
And cut him up
And then when he starts attacking
You swing away
While your buddy pulls his leg out from under him
There's some
I think the core difference
Seeing the two
They're just different
Parabolic versus direct
Yeah
One swinging
That's the one I want to use
Point to point
Yeah
Hey Matt
Do you like contents?
Do I like what?
Contents
Contents
Like a table of contents
Contents under pressure
Do you prefer contents
When they're under pressure level?
I always prefer it
When they're under pressure
Would you
I especially like
When I have to get up
In the morning to go do that
Wow
We all get up again
Because they're working on
Getting up to
Already banned in Australia
Re-banned
So I popped in
Getting up
Like a few weeks ago
Just to see
Wow
Because I played a little bit
When I came out
But I completely forgot
Everything about it
And I was like
Wow
This is a unique type of game
But I kind of feel
That this announcement
Of getting up to
Is a lot like
Shaq saying that
Exactly like Shaq
Yes
I don't believe you
I didn't know this got announced
So when I said
Contents under pressure
It's a total joke
No, it's real
Damn it
Psychically
This was today
This was announced
And when I think of total
I still feel it
Like even though I know
What the game is
When I think of a
Mark Echo game
I want like
A cool like cartoon rhino
Doing like graffiti
You know
Like cheater
Like Chester Cheetah
Kind of thing
But it's a rhino
Mark Echo
No
I want the rhino
Do you want to play that
At some point?
Yeah
If you look at it
And you're like
Well I told you
I didn't get to play the other one
Because I think my disc
Was scratched or something
But I couldn't get past the
Tutorial
And I was like
The combat's really unique
I forgot how weird it is
I'd love to see
What was going on
Because I never got to
Really
Yeah
He just
Dropped that
They're working on a new one
Even though
There's no details
Or anything
It was totally a shack situation
So expect an Indiegogo
Any time soon
Alright sure
Indiegogo
Will they have
Puffgatti producing
The game again?
Yeah
Take that
Don't worry if I write rams
I write checks
Don't worry
If I'm a talented rapper or not
I write the checks
Other bits of interesting games
Are
The Hong Kong Massacre
Sorry?
The Hong Kong Massacre
Oh yes
I thought this looked
Really awesome
What is this?
Let's take
Hotline Miami
Yes
Let's put it in
John Woo world
Okay
And re-skin
The whole thing
With awesome John Woo visuals
Is it 2D or 3D?
2D
It's exactly
Hotline Miami
View
Realistic visuals
Just blowing dudes
Tons of
Gun smoke everywhere
Have you played it yet by the way?
Hotline Miami
Yeah
I've played a bit of it
Oh you should really beat it
I can't kill her
Dude just download on your PS3
Yeah I know
I don't know
Sure
I just got this new PS
Wait
I bought it
Yeah I bought it
I just had enough
We're gonna play through it again
Yeah
No so this thing though
Is just one guy
Working on this thing himself
And he says he may go to crowdfunding
But he's not sure yet
Well I may not need to
Like yeah cause he's like one way or another
It's coming out
Well like what's his face
Like a cactus or whatever his handle is
Made in Hotline Miami on his own
So yeah you can totally do it
Yeah
There's a lot of animated gifts to this game
That looks like it's
Well cause that's all
Cause that's all he's put out
Like the
Just gifts
Yeah the guy himself
There's no gameplay footage
Like in video form
He put out gifts
And they're high quality gifts
Gifts are better
Dude
Cause they loop the hype moment
Cause on NeoGaff people like
I was doubtful then I saw the gifts
There was a guy in a NeoGaff thread
For Assassin's Creed Unity
Who made a 1080p gift
Of a sequence of it
And everyone's like
How did you fucking
Wizard a 1080p gift that looks this good
And why is my internet okay with it
Yeah
Gifts are the best these days
Like on the PlayStation blog
New game announced
Here's five gifts of it
Yo watch like real player come back
And be the sickest shit ever
Gifts are amazing
Because they
The person who wants you to watch it
Forces you to watch the video
And the part that he wants you to watch
The part that he wants you to watch
One of the best examples I can think of
Is that really good informative
Sleeping dogs trailer
Like the super long one
That had all the comments
Sequences in
And people
Gift that moment
Where he kicks the guy into the phone
Boom
And beats him with the phone
But then you just see that gift
And you see how detailed it's like
Yeah I wanna be dudes with phones
WrestleGun.Gift
Yeah
Drift that one to me
These games are sold in gift format
That being said
Hong Kong Massacre
Horribly generic title
Yeah
Terrible title
Awesome little like
Like promo banner thing
Yeah that's right
But yeah it's not
Like even cutting out the
Even just calling it
Hong Kong Massacre
Is a little bit of a step
I don't know anything about it
Is it rip off level
Or is it
Gameplay identical
Clone
So
Clone but it's all guns
Yeah
And you have
The main feature of the game
Is you have permanent bullet time
That you can use as much as you want
And in some situations
It's the only way to get out
And you see him like running
Through corridors
Spinning around bullets
Just whizzing by
Right
And stuff to take out
Three guys
So it's got bullet hell elements
Basically because if you
Don't turn on the bullet time
You can't not die
Yeah
You know
So yeah play out your
Oh god
John Woo game
Stringle Hold
Stringle Hold
Play out your Stringle Hold
What the fuck
Shut up
Shut up
John Woo
Stringle Hold was so awesome
Just play out Stringle Hold
But talk to you
It's so awesome
It destroyed a company
Have you played it
Yeah but it's so awesome
It destroyed a company
I know but it's super fun
It's fine
It's pretty good
It's pretty good
It's fine
Diving on to fucking like
Carts
And driving them across the room
As you gun people down
Rinding down a tyrannosaurus
Spying
So satisfying
Yeah
It did punch lasers
Before punch lasers
Yeah it's true
I remember the design
For Stringle Hold
It's like we're gonna make
This environment
With tons of bullshit
All over the place
But we want it to control
Like you're moving forward
In an empty room
Go
Yeah
That's probably really hard
Yeah it worked really well
It's surprisingly good
Is that like the first
Outrageously over budget
Game of last generation
I think so
First first first
It was like 30 million dollars
And it was supposed to hit it
It was supposed to hit it
Launch
Advent Rising was what?
PS2
Xbox
Was it even on PS2 in the end?
Yeah
I thought it only launched on
Xbox in the end
Okay
Okay
Yeah
The first like
Whoa you spent too much money
On this shit guys
Oh your bankrupt
Well that explains it
Yeah
Hey guys
Which money number is your favorite?
Commando
I forget what number it is
The gallon gun guy
Oh
Green one
I like the electric girl
Yeah
I think
I like all the designs
Dude
I think they're all really cool
I don't know
The way I approach Kickstarter games
Is I give them my money
I sign up on the website
And then I wait till they send me a
So there's a trailer
There's a trailer
And it used the opening footage of
Inifuna
Inifuna is sitting down
To play the first demo
And then you cut to the
Direct feed
As they go
They walk you through mighty numbers
One through nine
And you get to see what they are
What their gimmick is
Just the art of them
Oh I tried to watch that
And YouTube freaked out
And wouldn't let me watch it
I just want to say
The quantity of people
I am seeing saying
Those graphics suck
Is baffling
Yeah
It is ridiculous
Oh the graphics suck
Of Beck running in an empty
Test environment
The placeholder checkerboard floor
With black background
Looks final to you
Are you joking?
People don't understand
I know
It's like
Mighty number nine
Brought in tons of people
That don't know what
Kickstarter is
That makes me sad
So I'm just going to pretend
You didn't say it
Because it's just like
How do you think a game is made?
No
Do you think they just
Build everything at once?
And guess what?
If you don't show stuff
About your game
Every step of the way
People are like
Where the fuck's the game at
If you start showing stuff
They go
This isn't finished
When people were like
The difference is
You can ignore those people
Four months later
I think you're totally right
I think the appeal of Mega Man
Was way broader
Than
Than we thought
And it included people
Who don't even know
What video games are
Whereas Project Eternity
They showed a little bit
So that had anyone that wanted
That game knew
That that's what
They're always going to get
And not be like
What the fuck
There are parts of
Oh man
I could talk about
That weird lighting engine all day
They have a 2D mesh
Isometric engine
That incorporates full lighting
And I don't understand
How it works
They're probably the same
My king of fighters
13 works
Because they do
The exact same thing
On KOF sprites
But it's like a 2D mesh
And then they push
A fucking son around the map
And it's
Lights
It's so confusing
Because
Because like
Effectively the sprites
Are being rendered
In a 3D engine
And you're looking at them
In a 3D engine
Magic
So they can be lit
Magic
I kind of get
What you're saying
But when I look at that
My brain explodes
Because my brain
Says sprites are droids
No, it's just magic
And so when you go
And you see
Ash creams
And doing
Vendemère
And like
A giant green spark
Is being blocked
And you see the lighting
Talking about face off
Face off is way better
Than ash
Okay, whatever
Fine, fuck it
You see iron trigger
From K-dash
It's a big flaming kick
Sure
And Yuri's Fireball
And like
The flame color
Is shining on the guy
It's because
That's an actual
Particle lighting
The sprite
That's so weird
It's awesome
Like
2D sprites
Were dead
For years and years and years
And now they're coming back
And they're like
Mad
They look like magic
Well, if you
Yeah, well, fuck it
How do you think vanillaware
Makes its money
With magic
And some godlike
Certainly not
Some godlike
Sprite stretching tool
That apparently no one else
In the industry has
Vectorization
Except for the one
That totally exists
And is public
And you can totally
License
That super robot wars
Uses every single year
That's not the one
But it's one
That's totally compatible
With like
Fucking
Construct 2
All I want
And it super does the exact same thing
I want more
Of that
But it's more
Hard
Okay, well that's why
Art's expensive
Is the issue
I feel like
When Blizzard said
The consoles weren't ready
Was another way of saying
This is hard
Yeah
But this is really
Hard guys
But like
In Japan
Vanillaware and SRW
Have been doing that
Vectorized look
For a while
That's a solid thing
That works for you
If only they could
Super robot wars games
Like you saw those
Those fucking
Amazing
It's unbelievable
What they're doing
Are they still chibi?
No
Ah
No no
Okay
They are
But then
As soon as the cool shit
Starts
They stop being shit
No
You're thinking of the wrong one
For
Maso Kishi
Well for OG
Which is a different
Spin-off series of them
The third one came out
Like last year
And I bought it
It was extremely high quality
And they made sprites from those
Yeah
And they manipulate them
In the same way
You'd
But are they still
Like a chibi
No
Good
Fucking thank god
I can finally care
About super robot wars
It is sick
Yeah well
I mean
FromSoftware did a non-chibi
One a while ago as well
That
What?
No one bothered with
FromSoftware did an
SRW game
That was non-chibi
You mean monolith soft?
Ah
FromSoftware has never made
They make armored core
And dark souls
In Kingsfield
What's in Monolith?
Bantresto
Yeah
Bantresto is really the one
Okay
Monolith
Yeah
Possibly fucking
That up
But they did make one
There was a non-chibi one
Well shit
Metal Wolf should be in
Fucking
Super robot wars
Be nice
Dude they got
Metal Wolf
Oh and there
They got
Fucking
Virtual on
They got
Metal Wolf should be
In fucking dark souls
Metal Wolf should be
In fucking dark souls
He's so sick
Michael Wilson comes out
He said it's dark in here
He said
I was so lair
The plot all loops around to this
Or just the metal gear
Just give me a ray
You know
Like
I don't think metal gears
Or whatever have that much
Personality be
Put into
You know what I mean
Like
Metal gears always seem to be
Like mass produced death machines
And that's about it
And they occasionally
Roar like dinosaurs
Yeah I guess
Metal Wolf's ridiculous
Yeah
It's got so many guns
Another century episode
From software
Super robot wars game
Oh
Okay
There we go
When was that made
This was old
This was
Well that explains it
But
Yeah it was before Liam was born
2005
Yeah that's what I said
Okay so they made one
Ever
Sure
But the point is
I was trying to remember
They made one
Okay congrats
I'm like
Liam's getting assertive
And
Jesus Christ dude
Like I just
I'm like
I know I'm not crazy
Let me just double check this
They made one
So snip okay
Much sarcasm
No
Much salt right here
Yeah clearly
I am
Since last week
I've been telling everyone
About that time
Where Woolie's like
Really sucks when you're playing
Something online
And you hear on the other side
You hear the baby crying
And then Liam goes
Oh did you call child services
And Woolie's like
No
And you're like
Oh what a hero
Fuck man
Like you said no
They never did anything
And I was like
Maybe I'm wrong
And I was doubting myself
I know and I told you
I'm salty now
I told you that
Let's shake Liam over our fries
I thought I was right on that
Hey Liam
It's a good day man
Rhythm of Fighters is coming out
I know it looks cool
We don't even really know
Where they're going with that
I know but it's cool
All you can know
Is that it's going to be
Better than Sky stage
Sky stage
SNK has trademarked
The term rhythm of fighters
Which is I guess
It's gonna be a fucking rhythm game
That has
King of Fighters dance
In the background
That has
Athena, Keo and
Terry
I can't wait for a new
Dosis of racism in my rhythm game
I can work with that
Dude that fucking right up
By who was it again
Uh, Ben
Polygon
Polygon
Racism
Racism
I remember this
No, it was
Ben Kuchera
I think it was
Ben Kuchera
It was
It was
King of Fighters
It was all of them
Everything
Keo F is the worst game
And you should never buy it
Let's talk about everything
But the gameplay
Let's know
But I can't wait
Let's save video games
Rhythm games are great
So I can't
It's gonna be for mobile devices
I'm assuming in Japan
And we'll never get this
The shit thing is like
I really don't dig rhythm on touch
Unless it's a resistive screen
Because resistive screens
Are so much more responsive
Than capacitive
That's like
Almost objectively true
Unless you have a
Really expensive capacitive screen
So like a when done
It totally works
Because it's a very, very responsive screen
But if you're telling me to play
Fucking
Tap tap
On my fuck
Tap tap revenge
On my phone
Tap tap revenge
Like fuck that shit
It's not responsive enough
Like
You're losing frames
In a game that is
Like that is specifically that
You know
If Project Diva
Like every button
Was a touch
I wouldn't play it
Just buttons
You can say phone games
That never happen or whatever
In my head
I'm just like
If I ever do make it to Japan
I gotta just track down a phone
With Before Crisis on it
Just go
Just track it down
Just track it down
Every other time
You're trying to start an accio bar
To find that phone
Yeah
No one actually has that phone
It's like
Will this old ass phone
Run Before Crisis
They'll be like
What's Before Crisis
It doesn't exist anymore
You have to hope the phone
Has it on it already
Yeah
Sure
The other piece of news
Cause that's SNK's news
Yeah
In a bit of Capcom news
There was a Japanese stream
On Niconico
Where people are checking out
With random Capcom news
Or whatever
They covered
Ultra
They covered the new announcements
Yeah
And they took some character poll votes
And apparently
It's not a huge
It doesn't represent the FGC in Japan
Yeah
But it represents
Just a couple thousand people
That are watching
A generalized Capcom stream
But they voted on
Character choices
And how they thought
And
What of the new
Ultra
Ultra
And Japan
Totally has no problem
With decap rate
According to this small
Niconico stream
Yeah
They told their lecture
Cause they like Kami
And they like
Another Kami
But also after
Like a day of
Thinking on decap rate
Existing
It's like
Yeah
That original point
Of hype
Is so
The question I have
The build up
And the deflection
Is were all of Ono's
Like troll teasing comments
About the new character
Like exclusively in English
Well maybe
And also Japan
Gets hyped
Maybe we were asking
All over things
In a very different way
You know what
That's totally possible
Cause on the other hand
They had builds to play
Every fucking other one
There's a long history
Of
North Americans
And Europeans
Asking way more questions
About Street Fighter
Than Japan
Yeah
I'm just gonna call him
Yoshinori
Fucking
Malinu
From now on
Why
He's making good games
Yeah
But he's
Hyping them up too much
And are you disappointed
With Street Fighter 4?
Not in the slightest
I think that
Yeah
I think that's a little
Like that's a bit extreme
Yeah Malinu says
Things that are gonna be
In the game
That are never in any game
Like deep down
Still looks like a really good game
Like
It just
Don't get people that hype
You know
Cause in the end
You got yourself that hype
He said
There's a fifth character
That's
And then he said
No it's a girl
No
Like
Do you remember me
Like last week
I'm totally
I'm like
I'm fine with the cap right
I know
But
I'm just saying
For the purpose of
Not having like
These guys
Going nuts about it
And having like
Everyone in general
On the internet
Just hate on it
Also
Like
You can deliver this news
Better
Remember when I went to
I say this
Things
And he would not
Check with the US branch
If it was okay
To say these things
And they'd be like
Fucking dude
Did it again
Like
I almost kind of feel like
He should
Maybe he shouldn't have
Ever said anything
About a fifth character
Cause he can't help himself
But it's like
Dark Stocks news
Aw
You know
Like
When you really get down to it
Like
And I mean
Jim Sterling
Who I used to hate
Has been really on the
On the ball
With a lot of topics these days
Because people
Hyping themselves up too much
Right
For Street Fighter 4
With the fifth character
It was really like
He said
There's another character
And you know
He said
Oh it'll be a girl
Oh it'll be a girl
But everyone was like
Aw
But the fact that
You tell people
There's a fifth character
And you're not telling them
Who it is
Inherently
Is a thing
To generate hype
Well
I mean
Maybe not
In Japan
Maybe not
Oh
Maybe that's
That you
Wait till you guys see
How we're going to announce her
Yeah
But I'm assuming
And he meant by that funny
Little animation
Yeah
Which was cute
Yeah
And also trolling
I think it's definitely a combination
Of like
Yeah
Early announcement
And people getting like
Way too hyped
Yeah
Totally the combination of those two
I don't know
Those two weren't there
It wouldn't have been a problem
Both combined
Shitstorm
It was pretty well known
That Ultra
And pretty much all
Subsequent
Street Fighter 4
Exactly what I was going to say
And the thing is that
You and I
And we know this
Right
So we know generally
Like you're not going to get
A brand new set of assets
Like crazy
Because they don't have the money
For that
Right
But a lot of people out there
Don't know that
And they're the ones who
Probably got hurt the most
Because they're thinking
Like anything brand new
And crazy out there
My expectations
But a clone
Super low
And I was still disappointed
And Ducapri
Still took many hours of work
For the artist who did it
You know
Like it's not cheap
To make anything like that
But it's
It looks really cheap
But
But again
You can objectively say though
That like
If they didn't
Push it that way
The reception wouldn't
Have been as negative
We already covered this topic
Last time
We did
But it's a big combination
Of bullshit
You know Matt
Tell the people about the raid
Tell them
What's about the raid guy
What is the raid
Well first of all
The raid to
Burandal
A fucking
96% positive rating
On rotten tomatoes
Oh shit
Really
Fucking straight
And it's two hours
And 30 minutes this time
Yes
And
We can't see it this Friday
Like we're all planning to
Oh that sucks
I made an event called
The Raid 2
The Raidening on Facebook
And
We're all crushed to know
Like today
That it's been delayed
Further two weeks
For no reason
And I'm kind of
Fucking soft
Movie studios
Thanks
Movie studios
Plus I guess
Maybe
Quebec maybe
I don't know who's to blame
But I'm fucking pissed
But it looks fucking sick
Blame someone
More importantly
The fucking raid 2 is coming out
Go see that shit
And if you didn't see the raid 1
It's fucking 150 minutes long
Go see that shit
It's the best new action
Fucking series out there
Also don't forget
That the raid 1 remake
Is coming out
What
They're making an American remake
Which I believe
I can't
I'm not going to say who stars in it
But they're throwing around
Some English actor
That's kind of well known
And I was like oh really
That can't do sick ass martial arts
Why would you remake this
They're, it's fine
They're probably going to be like
We'll get you a new young Wu Ping
And he'll teach them how to do it
I understand remaking something
That's like
Let the right one in
And then he made it into let me in
And it's an easy thing to remake
Don't say it, boy
How do you
Well they're going to remake it
Because it's going to have
Like it's going to have
A strong word of mouth
I guess so
But they already Americanized
They called it the raid redemption
They had Lincoln Park do the music for it
They did as much as they could
It was a huge success
Can you imagine
Can you imagine if they announced
That we're making
We're doing an American remake
Of Ong Back
Like what the fuck do you
Do you know what I mean
Of course
And I feel like it's that
It's like you hired the guy
To do the cool action shit
What are you doing remaking it
Without cool action guy
No definitely
And they're really
I feel like that's always like
Banking on word of mouth
Where it's like
Hey we're talking about it
Now half a million podcast listeners
Are going to hear it
Speaking of remakes
You're ballparking pretty fucking high there buddy
Speaking of remakes
Sam Raimi announced
We are that great
We're just not that popular
Sam Raimi announced
That he's going to remake
The grunge
No he's not
Yeah
No
Again
Okay
We're all bored of Sam Raimi
His company Ghost House
Is the one that released
All the American grudges
They're called Ghost House
They're a horror branch
Like his little studio that he owns
Like decided hey
Let's make the grudge
For American audiences
Let's hire the original Japanese director
To direct Buffy
To do this shit
And now he's like
Oh my god
We've made no horror movies
In the last little while
Let's remake the grudge
Like that I already remade
Get the wheels rolling again
That's so retarded
Sam Raimi stopped
He's going to take the original reel
And he'll flip it vertically
So that nobody notices
That it's not a remake
It's a three make now
Yeah
What do you like
I feel like this stuff has been done before
For Japanese horror movies too
Can they get remakes again?
There's probably three makes out there
For sure
Franchises that just me juice
Put it to them every 13 years
Movie juice
Ugh
Film juice
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Turn is
That's short for something
I think it implies like turn coats
I think that's sort of the idea
There wasn't enough time to say the whole thing
I guess
It's Turn
And it's the story of like
The first spy ring in America
The guys that went undercover
And pretended to be red coats
And like helped George Washington
Win the war
Dude the red coats were dicks
Yeah
They were straight dicks
That's why this feed proposition
That's a risky job
Right and they
They got caught
The queen's gonna be after you
They formed the queen's gonna be after you
Oh no
The worst
And they formed the Culper Ring
Which are those cool badasses
From like Why the Last Man
They're the really cool group
That does all the secret shit
So these were the original guys
That did it
Cool
Yeah
So they put on like red coats
And just act like dicks
And then the British look bad
Well if you put on a red coat
Then you're that guy
You put on the blue coat
You're the other guy
Who knows which guy that guy was
The spy must have been simpler
Back in the day
Oh my God
Who knows
You walk into the bathroom
You reverse your jacket
You come back out
Hey
You're like anti Superman
No
He reverses the jacket
Comes out and goes
Hey
And everyone's like
Oh yeah my lord
Of course
So when we get attacked
Yeah
I hate the lodge penises
And definitely handsome women
Right
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At 9, 8 central
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On AMC
I looked at the cast
I checked out the trailer
And I recognized two faces
Jamie Bell
Jamie Bell
You should know
He was the guy that
Voice acted in
I think he did the motion capture
For Tintin
He was Tintin
He was Grazing King Kong as well
Jamie Bell is awesome
And
Byrne Gorman
Who I don't think you guys know
He's a good actor from
Torchwood
A show I really like as well
Oh Torchwood
So yeah
It's got some people in it
AMC is known for good stuff
It's about spies and shit
Absolutely
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Check that shit out
It should be good
It should be cool
Bye
Thanks a lot AMC
Thank you
Thank you
Oh my God
Wow
We took a long time to get here
We did
Where are we
I believe we're at a place
That's a time
A place before time
Where letters exist
Oh
There's letters here
There's letters here
Here be letters
Guys Woolly
Where would you send letters
For letter time
You can probably send them
To superbestfriendcastatgmail.com
Wait what
What
Your letters
It's crazy
Emails go through time
And end up in our time
Our letter time
In the future
Yes
To superbestfriendcastatgmail.com
I don't even have words
To describe my enthusiasm
Towards time travel
You are pissing yourself with excitement
Oh don't tell that on the public
Who does have words
For us
Words are going to come
This is so awkward
But let's write it out
Because that's what we do
Write out all
Yeah write out all awkwardness
Okay write out
Most stilted time travel future dialogue
I went in
Wants to know
How time travel works
I don't know
Best friends
If you could choose
One sea list
Or lower level superhero
From DC or Marvel
To get rock steady
To make a game for them
Which would it be
Plastic man
Jubilee
Go
You just played that
It's called infamous
It's true
I got one but go
You say yours first
Squirrel girl
Squirrel girl is pretty good
Yeah it's true
Squirrel girl is adventurous
Rage
Fuck off
Is that you live guy with a ski mask
No be that
You honor him too much
By calling him a sea lister
Think how creepy a plastic man is
Oh god
It would look like every other game
Like he's turning into women's coats and shit
Plastic man's not a sea lister though
Oh he's not
He's not he's not
He's like an F lister
Plastic man and the question
What sea lister are for low
Yeah yeah yeah
So I'm going to still
No
Squirrel girl fucking up the Marvel Universe
Would be amazing
The spot
You remember the spot he would throw
Little portals
Wasn't he just Spider-Man
It's like doing him
Yeah the fall of Spider-Man
I remember that one
Yeah
Awesome
Spider-Man's like oh it was bullshit
Or um
This is hard
Um maggot
That character from X-Men
And the new X-Men kids
Well they're not new anymore
M
Where it knows maggot
Where like
This kid is his only power
Is that he has no stomach
And he has two indestructible
Um like maggots
Shut up
That just eats
Oh my god
Anything and all things
And that's how he gets fed
That's so stupid
And they're completely indestructible
I'd love to have one where you play as Nell
And your whole thing is just being a dick
And stopping superpowers from working
The right place at the right time
No I want to
I want to
A character action game
Where you play as that one mutant kid
Who the entire comic
Is about Wolverine
Having to find him
And murder him
Because his fun
His power
Is that he causes everyone
Within like
Three or four kilometers of him
To spontaneously combust
Oh my god
Okay
That's weird
That's a good power
Not bad
That's handy
Uh Milo
Uh Milosh
Milosh
Hey there
Milosh
Uh wants to know
Uh
I'm not going to wear the puffy shirt
Sure you will ginger buns
I wonder
If there was ever a game that you played
And loved in your childhood
Uh
Except for Pat
Who didn't have one
Oh fuck you
But then discovered that you hated it
Later on in life
For whatever reason
I knew that this was going to be fun
Games you used to enjoy
But no longer do
I need a
A little bit
A little thank you
For me
I was
I was goddamn obsessed
With bubble bubble
I would run
I'd run to the store down the street
And buy
Freezies for everybody
And come back
And they'd allow me to play bubble bubble
And I went back
And I played it again
And I was like
This is alright
But goddamn
This is nothing special
Compared to what it used to be in my head
I remember
My puzzle bubble is way better
I remember
And recently
I picked it up
And I played it again
And I was like
This isn't as good as I remember
Uh
Cobra Triangle
Oh Cobra Triangle
Yeah it's a cool game
Is it not
No
It's still cool
Cobra Triangle
Terminator 2
On NES
Uh
Trojan
On NES
Terminator 2
On NES
Sorry not Terminator 2
The first one then
Yeah
No they're all terrible
Like then and now
Okay well
But I liked it as a kid
So I was a kid
That's what I'm saying
Like I guess it was Terminator 2
What
Uh
Trojan
For the NES by Kat
Kat Trojan
That one was cool when I was a kid
But it
Yeah it went downhill
I got mine
And it's gonna hurt woolly
I'll hurt him
Fucking Jet Force Gemini
Is on woolly
That's a good one
I thought that's a good one
I probably right
I played it
Like a year ago
It was like
I'm like
None of this works
It's a third person shooter
I know
It doesn't work
But it's the cool rare game
No
What do you call it 64
He thought it was cool
It's not cool
No
Shut up
Sorry
I think my turnaround time on this
Is probably the shortest
Cause yours were all like
Childhood to adults
But mine was like
Early childhood to later childhood
Where I immediately noticed that
I had been crazy
When I was really little
And I first got a NES
I remember really enjoying Urban Champion
You told me this
I remember playing it with my brother
I was like
This game is awesome
And then when I was like
Seven
I went back and played
It's like
What the hell this is terrible
It's the worst
I played that game a bunch once
And like
It was fun for a bit
It's fun for a bit
It dries up
You know what
Two games didn't dry up though
Burger time
And elevator action
Elevator action
Did you play the new elevator action
Tetris
It's terrible
Joust
Weird
I didn't play Joust
Joust is awesome
That shit's forever
I'm not even a big fan of Joust
Balloon fight
Take your pick
Whatever
I'm not that big of a fan of balloon fight
Actually
One of the ones I played
When I was younger
Was Jules of the Oracle
And that game
Got really shit
When I was a teenager
And now I'm like
No that's fucking awesome
That's it
That's it
Again
The same thing for Spectre VR
Was like
When I was like 13
I was fed up with Spectre VR
And then I was like
No it's cool again now
It's a PC game
You wouldn't
None of you guys play on PC
What
None of you mattered
What
I was playing Realms of Arcania
You shit
And I was playing Spectre VR
I have another one
A trespasser
I fucking played that
And I was like
Oh my god
You played trespasser
Yeah
Back in the day
And I was like
Oh my god
Trespasser is the worst garbage
You have her
You have full hand controls
You can do all this shit
You pick up the phone
You don't want an arm
Motherfucker
And all this stuff
And I was like
I couldn't believe the amount
Of detail
They put into like
Control
It looks like shit
And then I realized
How awful that was
And you were a floating torso
With an arm
And you couldn't do anything
Your health were your tits
It was the worst
You would have done it
Your tits
And then I watched
My research indicates
Research indicates
And I was like
Oh my god
This is amazing
I loved it again
I know none of us played it
When we were little
But we all thought it was cool
Um
Fucking dragon force
Oh
He told me this shit
I got so mad
I bought dragon force for the Saturn last year
I did play this when I was a kid
Oh you did?
Yeah
It was awesome
Liam told me he had dragon force
One day
And I said I'm coming over
Let's check it out
Like
The tasteful streamlining
Of JRPGs
There's a lot of tasteful streamlining
In JRPGs
Yeah
Is completely thrown out the window
For the archaic gameplay
That is dragon force
Because in the trailers
It has a 50 page manual
For a reason
In the trailers
So archaic
The reason why everyone gets hype
Is because you see
That 100 man battles
Yeah
And you go nuts
Like sprites everywhere
I would see in the back of magazines
And it still looks great
But we just got lost
In the menu
It's so archaic
For what 40 minutes
Dude
In the back of the manual
There's a page for translation notes
And changes to the American version
Which is awesome
Thank you working designs
Rest your soul
And it says
That they streamline
Some of the menus
For the American version
And I'm like shit
Like the Japanese one
I'd hate to have played the Japanese one
Fuck that shit
I would have hated playing
The Japanese Bravely default
For example
Oh yeah totally
That would have been
Significantly worse
She's popping battlefight revenge
The bang
That'll end it
Kenani asks
Who?
Kenani
Kenani
Uh asks
That's the name
How do you pronounce Kenani?
Love you guys
I've been watching since I was 12
And I'm now 19
What?
No you haven't
That doesn't
The math doesn't add up there
But you've been on it
That must have been literally
Since the very first
Maybe
You ever
Is that possible?
No she got into a rocket
And then flew around
So that she aged faster
No is that possible?
That's 7
Maybe I
First put some in 2007
It's possible
Wow
You're the diehardest fan
Budman
It's not Budman
It's Kenani
Oh
But she asks
That's a bit weird
What do you think
Well she's just top 5
But let's just go for it
You appreciate your patronage
Kino
Right
What is the laziest
Monster design
The laziest monster design
The laziest monster design
Anything
Anything that's just
Ripped straight out of
Greek myth with no alteration
Yeah anything that's just
Tolkien
Like oh we made an orc
Yeah
I know
Like a cool warhammer orc
Unless you start
The ultimate boss of Devil May Cry
Oh my god
Giant fire guy made out of rocks
Yeah that's really bad too
Mine's similar
It's giant guy made out of trash
We fought it in Lords of Shadow 2
Remember it was just
A bunch of stones and garbage
Like it's just so lazy
Fish enemy
Yeah I guess
If you're gaming with water
And your water enemy is
A character that's the same size
Of you and that just walks forward
It's just so lazy
Zombie
Zombie's pretty bad
I was about to say
I was about to say zombie
You're already 6th
They're green but
But also not just zombie
But like it's Yaiba right
Yeah
The fucking
What's the thing that looks
Like a beholder
But it's in Final Fantasy
Okay sir
No in Final Fantasy
It's the big mouth
Yeah
You fought that all the time
In Crystal Chronicles
Yeah I didn't like it
I like the Marlboro
I'm like it's like a beholder
But it's not
But it's a mouth
It's a mouth
It's not poison
Not about eyeballs
I think the beholder's like
A fucking awful design
It's a fucking eyeball with eyeballs
But I think it's proper creepy
But I guess
But it looks really lazy
On certain like printed copies
Of Dungeons & Dragons shit
Like sometimes it's printed in a certain way
Now that fucking bad guy
From the first episode
Of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
The eyeball man
That is the laziest enemy
Well the one that really gets me nowadays
And I don't really think about it anymore
Is an enemy guy from Middle East to Sten
Because I feel like nobody
I feel like nobody ever draws art for them
The model just makes it awesome
Also that guy's cousin
Nondescript Russian paramilitary
Yeah
I'm fed up with those
Nicky wants to know
What is a character that you hate
So much that you also enjoy?
Titus
Titus
I'm not correcting him
I'm agreeing
Titus is hilarious
That's phrased
You guys interpreted that differently from me
Because like
So you interpreted it as
So bad it's good
But I'm going for like
No I'm not going so bad it's good
I'm shaking my fist at him so hard
That I can't hate him
For me it's Harry McDowell from
Gundrave
The bad guy in Gundrave
He's your fucking
He's your bro man
And you fucking hate him
Ocelot's another good one
That's a good one too
Well I'm not saying that
Fuck you Ocelot
I love you
I'm not saying Titus is so bad it's good
But if he wasn't there
The game wouldn't even
The game would be missing something
If we could add non-games
Like my current like favorite
I hate this character so much
But I'm so glad they exist
It's a newie from
Kill the kill
Yeah yeah yeah
Like I had a talk
But I don't like her
I had a talk with Molly
Where he was getting so visibly mad
That the character is alive
And I was like
Man now I like this character so much
Why is she not a stain of blood
On the bottom of a fucking shoe somewhere
Well we got one week to go
Oh god
Zero the third from Virtue's last reward
I hate him so the rabbit
Yeah that's great
I hate him so much but he's great
Don't elaborate
No he's the rabbit
He's tons of personality
Tons of really great dialogue
You cannot believe how good it is
Oh horrible puns constantly
The best puns
Tyler asks a question
That has to do with something
You just said
They're super best friends
I have a request
Please spoil something
Like you guys have a lot of cool conversations
On the channel
But it seems like you guys stop
For spoilers right before things would get interesting
So to you Tyler I'll say
Once we finish Kill the kill
We will stop and have a spoiler cast
We will have a kill the kill cast
We'll have a moment where we stop
And we go into pure spoilers
Do you want us to spoil something now each?
No don't do that
No I think the main problem is that like
Usually the stuff that we talk about
That would be applicable
Is usually came out like
Too recently
Like shows that are ongoing
Or still going
Games that people
Well games
We're talking about games that in a month
Of their release time
What people that are going to get it
Are still going to get it like tomorrow
But we also rubber banded a little bit
Extra hard when we're all not there
Yeah
There was some video or something that I put out
And I saw a fan made a comment saying
I never finished Girl and Log
And thanks for the spoil
I'm like it's like
Like 2007
Yeah
Statute of limitations
But um
It's tough cause a lot of people ask us
Not to spoil stuff
Yeah it's more people ask not to spoil
It's not that we don't want to
I'm a guy that hates them so I told him
Doing it for non-spoiler purposes
I think this is an interesting question
I want to hear your thoughts on it
What should be for all media
But for games particularly
The absolute limit
Statute of limitations on spoilers
In time
Full blown spoilers
Should it be a month, two months, a year
Like what
A year
A year
A year
I'd say two years
What game takes you more than a year to beat
Cause I would say like two months
Yeah you know sure
Like if you
But if a guy works
Has a family
And works 40 hours, 50 hours a week
And only gets to play
Maybe an hour a night
If he's lucky
He's not going to finish Persona 4 in two months
Then I would say three months
Like that's why I say a year
Cause sometimes you have to stretch
Yeah
Three months all the cons would be like
Fuck you
I could see that
I'm just saying
Also if you just started getting around
To Revengeance now
Like
We're still playing
Then I remarked
You didn't care enough about revenge
To bother
We're all still
I think you just finished a game
That came out last year
AC4
Yes
Yeah
Maybe this has something to do with
As I've over the past like two years
I've cared less and less
About being spoiled
Yeah
For most things
Yeah
I still care
Although I swear to God
If you motherfuckers tell me anything
About Ground Zero
I'm going to stab you
Hey
Did you know that Chico's cool?
I heard that Chico's cool
Big Boss pulls off his face
And it actually
And it's David Hader
Big Boss loses his other eye
He's just got two double eye patches
Double eye patches
Not a blindfold
Two eye patches
Two patches
You would look super cool
With a blindfold though
Like fucking blind Kenshi
Uh...
Kuan wants to know
Yo, is Matt still watching Ebo?
Because the current arc
Is super fucking good
Yeah, I just had a guy say
Oh my God
I just saw the latest fight
Holy shit
The fucking hype
It was counter
After counter
After counter
No, I'm not super up to date
I'm like three episodes away
But yeah
I'm going to try to catch up to that
Really excited to see that fight
Jacob asks
Guys, what's your favorite
Like old timey story or fable?
Fairy tale
What's your favorite fairy tale?
Fairy tale
That's a tricksy one
What's your favorite fairy tale?
That's tough as shit
Can we include like crazy shit
Like the Golden Fleece?
Yeah, it's good
Golden Fleece
Fucking sick
Yeah, no
Super legit
Totally
Jason getting on that boat
Yeah
Hercules is just a guy
Hercules just tags along
He's not the main character
I'm a fan of Romulus and Remus
The founding of Rome
To their twin brothers
That were just fucking
Instant awesome badass babies
That got abandoned
And then like a wolf was like
No, you're too sick
I gotta raise you
And then they were born warriors
That basically just commanded all men
That they came across
And then they got into a fight
About where to do a thing
And then they killed each other
And well, Romulus killed Remus
And then he made Rome
Romulus
Nailed it
History
That didn't really
Quote-unquote history
What are you talking about?
It's super real
That sounds enhanced
It's canon, fucker
It's canon
We talked about this a little while ago
But the way that the god of everything
Above dipped his katana into the sword
Yeah
When he pulled it out
The drops made the islands of Japan
Oh, oh, Japan
He's an eggy
He's an eggy
You should play Persona 4
The Archie
I have stuff to do
I have a life
The eight wine cups
To get the dragon drunk
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Stuff like that
Man, I don't know
I really don't know
I've always been fascinated
By like the minotaur
And his labyrinth
Cause I think labyrinth
That's Jason in the arc
Cause no one's been exactly
Like that's just a part of what past said
Golden fleece is super long
It fits right into that
That's a completely different hero
That does that
No, that's Jason, man
No, it's not
It's not
It's the easiest
I believe
The origins of the minotaur
My shit will get mixed up together
The origins of the minotaur
Was like King's wife goes in
Like fucks a bull
No, but the labyrinth
Is what fastly
Yeah, the labyrinth is cool
The labyrinth is cool
Leigh knows everything
About fucking
And if we want to go super classic
We'll make stuff
I remember to not ask
If we're going to go super classic
I really like Jack
With the beanstalk
Because Jack's fucking idiot
Yeah, a lot of fairy tales
If you don't know
There's no fables
You're training the ghosts
Go mags
Where's the magic beads
In Wolf Among Us
In Wolf Among Us
There's a character named Jack
But he's every Jack
Yeah
Jack and the beanstalk
Jack and the giant killer
But that applies
That applies to fables though
Because every Jack
That has ever been in a story
Is that Jack
That's all
Every wolf has been bigby
Okay
It's sick
There's more than one Snow White
Historically
Okay
And like
They're all the same ones
So they just kind of wrap it all
In together
And it's pretty cool
So Jack just ends up being this
Hey
Yeah, yeah
He jumped over the candle
He wants some beans
He jumped over the candlestick
He hangs out with Jill
He got the beans
He did it all
He killed the giant
I really like, I guess
All the ones that are featured
In Fate Stay Night
But only because of Fate Stay Night
Like
It retroactively makes me enjoy them
It's not a game
You better actively constantly
Make fun of
Fate Stay Night
No, the anime
Steven
Steven
The game's great
Steven asks
Liam
Do you have some kind of grudge
Against Fate Stay Night?
I hear you talk about it
And complain about it
Constantly
Nail on the head
I can't wait
The shit
I think the game's great
I think the anime
Got it aged
Was that picked out before?
Super picked out
Oh man
I think
The emails are coming in
As you record
I think the anime
Was like
It was alright when it came out
But it wasn't as good
As the game in the first place
And
Since Fate Zero came out
It has retroactively made
Fate Stay Night so bad
Because Fate Stay Night is so
Jokey
And whatever
And Fate Zero is so deathly serious
And much better
Animated and such
So I can't wait
For the Fate Stay Night remake
Which is coming
Because it's made by
The same guys who get zero
Stop remaking everything else
But in this case
It's like a remake
Super warranted
But I like it
Just
The anime has aged
Really badly
To the point where
I tried to watch it last year
And I was like
I'm really pushing myself
To get through this
I played that fucking Capcom
Fighter
And I thought it was going to be a Capcom
Fighter
And it turned out to not be
Was that the game?
It was the end of Capcom
Fighters coming out
Or am I thinking of a
Sengoku Basara fighting game?
No you're thinking of
Sengoku Basara X
Yeah you are
It was an anime game
It was a 3D anime dumb thing
It was cool
But like it wasn't
That feels like another video series
Also I don't like Fate Extra
Actually if we're going to go there
Because it's fucking wrong
We're not going there
We didn't go there
We didn't go there
Last question
Sean wants to know
Hey Sean
Hey Budman
Sean here
We are Budman now
We are Budman now
It's been flipped around
In our Budmans
Yeah
Budman if you're listening to this
This got out of control
But thanks
I love it
So I'm going to modify his
This thing a little bit here though
Matt explain why Final Fight
Is better than Streets of Rage
Liam do the same and opposite
Do so
I'm going to tell you guys
To do so in one sentence
In one sentence
Why is Final Fight
Better than Streets
So the first games
The first games right
Before we answer this
Like we joke about it
But I don't think
Like we're actually trying to
We prefer games
But I don't really think
It's better
What a dehyper
What a dehyper
But now I will explain
For reference though
The first game of each
We're talking about
Now I'll explain why
It's better though
Do you want to do franchise
Or do you want to do
Yeah
Franchise or franchise
Or single or first
I don't mind
Do you feel like
You've got a better point
Franchise I guess then
It's one sentence
So I don't give a fuck
Okay because
When someone says one sentence
To me I'm like
I'm unaware
If I'm saying it in one sentence
Or not
Find your best point
And do it
Okay
I feel Final Fight
Is better because
It's a very interesting world
With many more interesting characters
That can do other things
And star in other games
Or as I feel
Streets of Rage
Has a good gameplay system
But blah
Everything else aside
From music
Done
Next
And what I want to say
Is that fucking
Grappling system is amazing
And the music
Got people jobs
And music
Is still amazing to this day
That's it
Okay
Grappling music
Is the only soundtrack
To usher in complaints from my neighbors
Pat and Woolly get to decide
Who was right
What the hell
That's not fair
They're both right
Yeah
Cause we presented
But you have to make a dumb choice
Well
I think you agree with
Although not
I'm going to judge your statements
And not the actual games
And say that Final Fight
For me has both memorable music
And grappling
So
That didn't reach for me
I would say
That the Streets of Rage
Soundtrack beats both games
And even not just the soundtrack
Just goes
Go straight
Yeah
Just goes straight alone
But the whole soundtrack's amazing
Yeah
Well that didn't do anything
But that went better than expected
Accomplished nothing
But the club's down boys
Boys what's happening on the channel
We don't have time for the Zybats to watch
No I guess we don't
What's happening on the channel is like
Unless you can blurt it out really quickly
We're getting close to the end of Yakuza
It feels like it
And I think after that
Me and Pat might take a vote
On what we're going to play
We're thinking about it
We'll give you guys like a
A smoother score
When we're getting close
Cause you know we have to have like
A week to decide
Yeah
Other than that
Nuzlocke's still going on
Don't forget
You guys can't lose
Me and Pat
Don't forget to like
Make the poll
So that like
You pick some choices that you have
And you don't end up with that
You can't write in
You don't have that ridiculous list
You got last time
Yeah
Drink in the 99 Dragons
Full let's play
Let's go
Yo we got that game for a reason
Um
This vote if we do it
We'll have no write in component
Pat and I for sure will record
Left behind this week
And it will be
Tomorrow
Today
Tomorrow
It's tomorrow
It's almost like
Left behind keeps getting left behind
I know
It's cause every time we go to record it
Matt's like
But we don't have any Yakuza
Shouldn't we do that
And I go
Yeah you're probably right
And then I'm like
But we did that like twice now
And then one other time
You were like
I bought it
Oh wait the game lied to you
Oh we were going to do it
And it was like
On the main menu
And I hit the button
And it's like downloading
8 gigs
Like f**king
Progressive download
That's about it
That's about it
That's about it
That's about it
We got to teach these guys
About the TimTam slam
The TimTam
Oh my god this is so dumb
We got those TimTam chocolates
We got these TimTam cookies
And they were shared with us
And they're delicious
You destroyed two packages on your own
You did two
I destroyed one
Yeah
And then
And then
You basically
You take these chocolate things
It's like a little chocolate wafer thing
They're pretty good on their own
And our Aussie friend
Was like
No you're not doing it properly
No you gotta learn
But with an accent and sh**
Yeah and she's like
Okay what you gotta do is
You gotta bite the end
Diagonally
From each other
The f**k angles
I know right
But you gotta
You need to
You gotta do it
And then you stick it in a cup of coffee
Right
What?
A cup of coffee
And then you suck
The coffee in
Through the wafer
As if it were a straw
Jesus who would figure this out
And then the moment
The moment
The moment
The moment
The moment
You taste the coffee
You eat the whole wafer
And it
It f**king
Melts
It's so sick
Delicious
You still haven't eaten Sam's left
Yes
Well you'll have to ask
The nerd girls to share
Who?
The nerd girls
The dark girls
They're nerds sometimes though
No
Anyway
So we don't have to stare
They die eating those
One of them will
One of them will
The other one will survive
God damn it
Hopefully
Yes
I've screened already
God damn it
So don't girl
Don't girl 2 will die
But don't girl 1 will be 5
How did you screen this?
Did you go to their door?
Leave the Tim Tams?
Ring the bell
And run away
Then kind of look around
You see
I just have a little
I just have a little label on it
It says this will kill one of you
And one of them just
Heels over
And you're like
I got it
You want to play a Tim Tams game?
Tim Tams
Slam your allergies
I guess that's about it for us
See you again next week
Every morning
Tomorrow
Or now
If you want to go to the channel
Yeah
You can listen to us all day
The internet has no time or place
Let's cut this
What's up
Yeah
I think your
The internet has no place
Let's cut this
I just have a little label on it
That's about it
You want to play a Tim Tams game?
Let's cut this
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