Castle Super Beast - SBFC 037: The Man-Train Needs to be Tightly Knit
Episode Date: April 22, 2014We try out Boss Coffee and take the Haribo challenge! We also discuss quitting Naughty Dog employees, development hell, and an amazing looking game called HOVER. Email us at superbestfriendcast at gma...il dot com.
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Why, why do you know so much about Encino Man?
I was forced to watch it in class a couple of times, drinks.
Because Encino Man, an ad for, is on the back of every fucking comic book.
It was.
You're right.
You're right.
I know about it, because I was forced to watch it in class when substitute teachers
were being like, what is that?
This is way more interesting than, like, why does man know about it, like, why would the
school force you to watch Encino Man, because the teacher was lazy and just wanted Pauly
Shore in our heads.
They wanted to spice Pauly Shore.
I thought you were talking about your history class, like, hey kids, you're going to learn
history, talking about you.
Brendan Frazier and Pauly Shore are going to teach you about how the world was made.
We kept watching Dante's peak in geography, and it's like, okay, but like, that seems
like even more of a reach.
The only one that I can think of of note in the whole trip through school is that, like,
snow day, but we're stuck here, so watch whatever until we can send you home.
So we saw Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation, no, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
God, my brain still autocompletes that.
But none of the teachers had actually seen it, so when the chick starts getting naked
on the pool, they were sitting at the back, and we're in, like, fifth grade, and there's
this mad dash to get in front of TV.
So class today, we're going to be watching Porky's, you know?
What, like?
No.
No, and we actually...
It's awesome to me.
And that was not the end of my Pauly Shore elementary school experience.
What else?
Because we had another class with another sub that played Bayadot.
Oh, fuck, I knew it was going to be Bayadot.
You fucking watched Bayadot in class.
It was...
How was Bayadot, buddy?
It was enriching.
It was an experience.
I bet it was.
You learned to love life so much more.
You know, it was bullshit.
You'd get, like, they'd show you a movie, but it wouldn't, it'd be way longer than the
period they had to film, and they would never come back to it ever again.
So I only saw, like, the first hour of Waterworld for a good long time.
And that's the bad hour.
Even that's more than you need to see.
Oh, it's way too more.
Way too more.
Just start watching.
Way too much.
It's the best.
You're in drinking fun.
It's not your destination, it's your destiny.
I was just talking to Matt about this the other day.
Why didn't Kevin Costner make a whole bunch of movies in a row that were exactly the same?
If it ain't broke.
If it ain't broke.
Like, Dancers of the World and Waterworld and The Postman were all pretty much the exact
same movie.
In different settings.
Just do what you're getting paid for.
But they turned bad, like, right away.
Like, right away they became too deep.
Remember that time in Waterworld where Roxy Richter from Scott Pilgrim had the map written
on her back?
Why do you have to bring Scott Pilgrim into this?
Because Roxy Richter was the girl with the map on her back in Waterworld.
That's a smart idea.
You could get anything and you had to fucking...
Don't drag Brian Leo Malley into Waterworld.
He didn't cast the lady.
Don't drag Edward Norton.
Not Edward Norton.
Edward Collins.
Snowden.
Whatever.
Fucking...
What are you saying?
What are you talking about?
The director of Scott Pilgrim that's awesome.
Edward Wright.
Edgar Wright.
Sorry.
It took us a little while.
Don't drag Edgar Wright's name through the mud.
I can remember it.
Since I was the only one that did, yeah.
Wully, we're clearly not on top of our game.
Nope.
We need to be pepped up.
We do need to be pepped up.
Welcome to episode 37 of the podcast.
So, luckily, we are going to be...
Some nice fans sent us in some boss coffee.
Straight from Japan.
We had a cool Japanese fan that wrote and delivered a whole bunch of cool treats and whatever
and included some coffee.
That's boss coffee.
There are a bunch of these and only me and Wully are going to drink these so they'll be here
next week.
Yep.
I'm drinking the Suntory, I guess, boss is the boss of them all blend of boss coffee.
Well, there's a bunch of extra on there but you can't read it.
You can't read it.
You can't read it.
Let's see.
I got the boss gran aroma.
A new experience in coffee.
The gran aroma.
Coffee in a can makes me think of Shenmue every time, all the time.
It makes me think of Yakuza because these exact things are sponsored in Yakuza.
There are scenes in which characters are drinking these.
They have a lot of products in there.
They're doing that bullshit with a logo spacing out and they're just doing the...
Oh!
Oh!
This coffee is so good in my mouth.
There's some tech programmed into the engine that makes the logo auto-face the view.
There's a lot of time to can turns.
Alright, so I'm going to pop this gran aroma.
Let's see what it's like.
I don't even like coffee so this will be an interesting experience.
That's a good way to go into coffee.
I don't like it, but...
This is actually not bad.
It smells like coffee.
Yep.
And it tastes like coffee without the bitter edge on it.
So they've softened it.
Really?
Can I have a sip of that?
They put a bunch of sugar in it.
They've softened it down.
They've absolutely softened it the fuck down.
Wow, that's good.
Yeah.
Alright.
I can actually drink it here.
Here, wooly, have my gran aroma.
Here, let me try it with...
Oh, just swapping.
This is a weird spot between milk tea and coffee.
Yeah, try this one.
Where it gets comfortable.
Just indirect kisses all over the place.
Oh, my God.
Oh, yeah, this is way milder.
Yeah.
Yo, this one's sick.
That one's got more flavor.
Wow, boss coffee.
Boss coffee?
The only way to go.
Doing it pretty good.
I like the boss coffee.
Didn't even get sponsored by boss coffee.
I was just going to say...
Oh, man.
Boss coffee.
If we tell them that we're a zybotsy, they might listen to the air.
Oh, yeah.
Do you want this back?
Yeah, leverage.
These are good.
I don't know if that's a good idea.
I don't think the idea of an energy drink-style coffee situation where we're drinking it constantly
for money is a good idea.
Hell, I don't even know if it's a great idea for one episode, but we'll see where this
goes.
I can already feel it.
Yeah.
Would you like to raise the stakes, however?
Gentlemen.
Gentlemen, I'm proposing something.
This has been sitting here on the table since you walked in.
Oh!
Man, you have not noticed it.
Stop.
But these are Haribo gummy bears.
Those are weird.
The sugar-free ones.
These are...
Are they sugar-free?
Wasn't it just the sugar-free ones that do the thing?
I'm pretty sure it was just the sugar-free ones that do the thing.
I don't know.
Wait, it says...
It says super.
They're super.
But Haribo gummy bears...
Oh, I have a legacy on the internet that you may or may not be aware of.
I've heard a little bit about it.
I am not.
Amazon Review for Haribo gummy bears.
You will read some of the funniest fucking tales from the toilet that men are writing
on the bowl as they're dumping the hardest ass they've ever dumped in their life.
Their butt explodes.
So why do you have it?
A fan sent us these in the mail.
This podcast occasionally goes to three and a half hours.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to advise against a situation in which we have diuretic coffee from a foreign land
topped off with butt-exploders.
Violent ruptures of uranus.
Well, that reaction may occur within the sound of this microphone.
Too late because it's already open.
I'm not eating it.
You can't eat it.
I'll take a few, but I'm pretty sure it's only the sugar-free ones that do anything.
Let's gamble.
I'm gonna gamble.
Okay.
I counted.
Split it.
Actually, I think this will give the podcast a real shot in the arm.
It's been looking.
Right.
A little bit of pep.
So there are exactly nine of these.
Who's got the balls in their dick?
I'll take five.
To go in.
The balls in my dick?
Yeah.
The balls in your dick.
Who's got them?
No.
My tummy already hurts.
Oh, no.
Totally.
I'll go.
So we're going 50-50 on this Liam.
I'll take five, yeah.
All right.
Here we go.
You guys are idiots.
Let's do it.
Let's see where this takes us.
Dude, I hope my bum goes nuts.
We're like sending and testing and drink testing to straight up.
Let's just poison ourselves on camera and see how long we can do the work.
Again, I bet that's the sugar-free one.
Next week, just take a bunch of cinnamon.
Just throw it in your face.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you one shot them all?
Yeah.
Okay.
You're right, man.
That's what we'll do.
Next week, we'll do an audio cinnamon challenge.
Yeah.
The Harry Bogambit is on.
I want to see how long it takes before anything, if anything, that's happened.
I suspect about an hour, maybe two...
Well, you're...
Hopefully five is enough.
Before the end of the five.
There are so many dumb decisions that have been made here.
So many.
The first big decision is to do it.
The second one is to do it at a time in which you're drinking coffee.
And the third one is to do it.
I don't wash it down with some boss coffee.
The third one is to do it in which, if the worst case scenario occurs, there is one bathroom
and two of you.
Yeah.
Yep.
But before we got here, Willie was like, oh, why don't I have all that beer and coffee
and watermelon?
Which means it's like you'll use your house, you'll get to the bathroom, and so then
you have to start yelling at Liam not to take a dump out your window.
But it's open already.
Exactly.
It's right there.
And it's three stories.
Nobody will ever figure out it was us.
This is how men podcast, all right?
No.
No.
This is...
No.
It's a real man podcasting right now.
High stakes.
No.
Literally high tension podcasts.
No.
It's not children podcasts.
Okay?
Oh, yeah.
You think it's how men do it?
It's no.
This is how children do it.
This is our podcast from the show.
You can't do it.
Dare you.
You fucking idiot.
The Harry bow gambit is on.
I don't do shit your pants.
I know.
I didn't know that you almost do that like a month ago.
I maybe almost did that a month ago, but crisis was averted.
But he didn't know that might have happened, whereas he is in...
We got to do something that we might have willingly taking it in.
Was there a just frame incident?
Was there a moment where you were a few frames away?
It was a moment where I just pulled it back.
It was a moment where I was, I made it to the public restroom and it was in the situation
of like if all of these stalls are taken, it's game over.
Because I have 45 seconds and it's like, I'm walking into the bathroom and like honestly
considering like, oh, so this is how you find shit in a urinal.
Like that's how this is how it happened.
It's also, if it does become game over, it's that situation in life where you go down to
city hall and you just resign from being a person.
Because that's that it's not inevitable, but like you've got a plan, right?
Do you have a friend that can be the guy?
Yo, so here's the problem.
The problem was this one emergency dial.
This problem happened when I was on my way here to do the podcast.
And Matt was with me at the time.
I was like, Matt, my stomach's bad.
You excuse me for a second and I wander off.
So if I had called and said I can't come to the podcast, everyone would have known.
All of the listeners would have known.
You can't trust us.
My life would be over.
So luckily, luckily nothing happened and everything was fine.
Well, there are no stories.
No stories.
That we know of.
It's like that's how dire it is.
If there's a situation in which the story in which nothing happens is still a story.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And this fucking group over here, all of us, all us shit lords are so hungry for any new
material we can get our hands on.
Mind at all, right?
We've resorted to creating new stuff out of nowhere.
Dude posts on my Facebook wall.
Fuck you, Woolly.
You ate my chili and patched up.
Oh, that was so good.
This is the new lore.
We're going to work this into something.
Why'd you eat that guy's chili?
Because Matt's girlfriend made it for me and it was tasty.
But why was it that way?
How was it?
Oh my God.
Yes, it happened.
Matt's girlfriend made it for you.
How did you eat that guy's chili?
She made a bunch of chili.
I have lots of extra chili.
She then tells her coworker that Woolly knows, hey, I made a bunch of chili.
Do you want me to bring some?
Yeah.
Woolly shows up, eats all the chili and then she has no chili to bring and then she goes
I have no chili.
And the guy goes, what the fuck, Woolly, why'd you eat all my chili?
And you write that on my wall and I just posted the Spider-Man 3.
So good.
Oh, God damn it.
It wasn't his chili to begin with.
It wasn't really.
It was chili being prepared communally and I happened to meet her first.
Just try and tell that to the chili theft artists.
It's hard at work right now.
It's not an easy living.
Nobody buys chili these days from chili theft artists.
It's true.
No, I meant like people drawing.
Drawing.
Oh, good.
Drawing it.
Oh, like artists, does it not feed?
Yes, in artists.
Ah.
Like people who make art.
Ah.
Yeah.
Come on, Liam.
Come on.
Please get to it.
You said theft artists.
I'm like, that's like a picture.
We got two hours and 45 minutes podcast to go.
Come on.
Matt.
Yeah.
The real Matt.
Yes.
How's it going?
Pretty good.
How's your week?
Well, how was my last two weeks, really?
Since I wasn't here, but you found a very nice replacement to take my spot.
I was busy with some family matters, but not the car wins low type.
Ah, shit.
Like I was going to take a sip and then say it, but it was too late.
It was way too late.
As soon as I said family matters, I better cut everyone off at the past to get to family
matters.
I saw two films over the last two weeks.
One, which was the Grand Budapest Hotel, which is by our friend, Wes Anderson.
Ah, our personal friend.
Yes.
Old high school buddy.
Yeah.
You like Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzo.
Yeah, I saw Life Aquatic.
We love Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Sure.
Go see Grand Budapest Hotel.
It's the exact same film that he always likes to make.
Okay.
It was pretty fucking hilarious.
I love Ray Fiennes and we all like Ray Fiennes in Bruges, right?
Bruges.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because of the way he screams and swears.
But in this, he's like this really amazing concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel and
he constantly goes into prose and poems in critical moments of life and he's hanging
off the edge of a cliff and this assassin that's played by William Defoe.
Nice.
Who constantly cracks his knuckles and never says anything and he's hanging off the edge.
I can see this.
He's hanging off the edge.
He goes, oh, if life is to give me but a fleeting chance, I would just and then his friend who's
been behind the killer knocks the killer off the cliff and he goes, oh shit, you got him
in the middle of his poem.
It was and there's a scene where William Defoe throws.
Oh, geez.
What's the actor's name?
Jurassic Park guy, Malcolm.
Steve Goldblum.
Jeff Goldblum.
Jeff Goldblum.
He's talking to Malcolm and he's like, no, no deal.
I'm not making a deal with you.
And Malcolm and William Defoe happens to be stroking his cat like you do.
Yeah, stroking his cat and he throws it out the window all of a sudden.
The cat.
And then he goes, did you just throw my cat out and he looks outside the window and there's
just this red spot.
Oh no.
Yeah.
So it was really charming and funny and like it goes in all these crazy directions.
Everyone's in it.
Between, okay.
Well, I noticed you were listing off like names.
But that's, that's, that's Wes Anderson, right?
Yeah.
So between the movies you listed and I'm going to throw on as well the Royal Tenant Bombs.
Which is it more like?
It's a mix of Royal Tenant Bombs because there's so many kooky weird characters and they all
they're looking for money.
But it's a lot like Fantastic Mr. Fox as well.
Like the, like an Owen brother is in it.
George Clooney has a role.
Bill Murray is in it.
I know.
He has to be.
The girl that played Hannah and Hannah, she's got a great little role in it too.
Like everyone's in it.
Where's Bill Murray's Oscar?
Not in his house.
It should be.
He should retroactively win one for Groundhog Day.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
He's, he's, he's gone off the indie cliff now, man.
Groundhog Day is so awesome.
I also saw Oculus.
I'm not sure.
Not The Rift.
I know, I know the name of the film, but I don't want anything about it.
It's called Oculus.
I don't replace TVs.
It did, it did not.
Maybe in a few decades.
The Zuckerberg was like, oh shit, that's the one I wanted.
Fuck.
Why didn't you guys tell me?
Because you yelling at us.
It was a really good movie that had, that had no one really in it.
Just a little random horror movie.
And it's about this mirror.
Oh, that one.
That's, that's from Scotland.
And everyone that's ever owned it has died.
This is just one.
Straight up old time, he cursed items.
This is one where under his breath, Pat was like, fuck.
They always get me.
In the movie theater that you freaked out about.
Oh, yeah.
But you knew, we both knew the jump scare is coming.
I've already been sitting there and I'm like, jump scare in four, three, two, one.
And we both knew.
Jump.
Wait, wait, every time.
God, is this the one that we saw?
What was the last movie we saw?
The Raid.
No, no, no.
It wasn't Before the Raid.
Oh shit.
Because there was one with a mirror before the raid.
There were two horror movies we saw before the raid.
But this one's about this cursed mirror that this brother and sister have in their family.
Their father and their mother slowly go nuts.
Then the movie just goes jumps forward and then they're like, we have to destroy that mirror.
They both went to the same asylums and they got halfway houses.
Mirror troubles.
And they go back and the girl, she got on her feet faster than the brother.
And she's like, I've set everything up to destroy the mirror.
But you can't just destroy the mirror.
If you try to destroy it, the mirror's influence just makes you not destroy it.
You always find some way.
And nature finds a way.
Like that sponge from Goosebumps.
Exactly.
And she sets up all this stuff to try to destroy it.
And she goes, we have to be hydrated because the mirror also makes you forget to hydrate.
And there's all that stuff.
That's so hard.
That's so much sad of Goosebumps.
Because she's tracked the history of the mirror.
And people that try to have showdowns with the mirror die by locking themselves in rooms and never getting out.
Because it changes reality around you.
So it makes you think you're drinking water and you're actually drinking a thing of nails.
That's not good.
That's fucked up.
So it makes you think.
So in the movie.
So you want to have like, you want to be sloshing around.
You want to drink so much water.
So there's all this stuff.
But it was actually peak.
The mirror has an area of influence and it's making things die.
Like plants.
And they have plants every couple of seasons to see where the influence is.
So the entire movie is the one showdowns.
And then there's just jumping back in the past to show you what happened to the van.
I got to ask it.
It was a really clever and smart.
Yes.
It was an awesome movie.
The ending out could have gone another way.
I would have liked it.
But it was really good.
It was really good.
That sounds really neat.
So is it the type of movie that we're going to see a Silent Hill influence the game by in the future?
No.
Silent Hill The Mirror.
Silent Hill's gone.
Yeah.
Plus Silent Hill The Room was already kind of that.
But that's what I mean.
That's where I was going with that.
Just play Book of Memories and cry.
That shit is gone.
They already did the mirror thing in zero.
Yeah.
That's an interesting premise though.
Yeah.
It reminded me of like an 80's movie in that sense.
As long as it's scary because of the situation and not because of the jump.
Yeah.
There wasn't really any jumps.
It was like there's jumps in the past where it's like the father's going nuts.
But like it's jumps and it's horror.
It's like the girl going like we have to also eat and she's eating an apple and she looks
and it's a bulb.
Oh shit.
And her mouth is like all cut up.
And then she starts freaking out and her brother runs in and goes what?
And then she looks and she had nothing in her hand.
She's like what the fuck?
That's a mirror.
Dude that's awesome.
That's a dick.
That's a dick.
And then my grandmother asked me like why but I would have liked some story.
Why was the mirror so evil?
And I'm like no.
The cursed items background doesn't matter.
No.
No.
It doesn't matter but I said they did explain.
I said it's from Scotland.
It's from an old manner.
And more importantly they're banking that part six would be where the explanation comes
in.
Yeah.
Because we know how horror movies work.
Was that your week Matt?
That's how horror movies work now.
I did lots of other stuff at Hookers.
So I read a horror manga called Portis.
It's about a cursed item as well.
What's up with the curse this week?
That's why I'm taking this.
Is this podcast cursed?
Possibly if you listen to it backwards.
No this podcast is not cursed.
It might be in about an hour's time.
We'll see.
We'll see exactly.
I read this manga called Portis.
It's a standalone manga about a cursed video game called Portis.
Okay.
I wrote it off as Woolly can attest because I told them I got scared reading it on the
Metro in the morning.
People around.
Cool.
That's good.
It was right at the beginning and I'm not great with horror stuff anyway.
It was really scary.
You big baby.
But about a third to a half way through.
Yeah they tough guy like that is.
I'm not.
I'm not a big short tough guy like him.
It just trips all over everything and just botches everything.
So like you just said they should never explain the backstory.
Well that's the key thing that happens.
Why is it evil?
You know what's way more satisfying than a bad explanation?
I don't know.
It's just so evil.
Let's just keep seeing it do evil things.
So like they go into the explanation.
It becomes such like a bland Japanese horror movie where it's like oh it was cursed because
a man in a backwater town in the country went and killed everyone and the kid who he killed
was so anguished.
It is.
Oh my god.
The curse explanation and in a lot of cases the fantasy or sci-fi explanation for bad
thing is never as interesting as the one you came up with in your head.
Well the only like decent example I can really think of in recent memory is probably American
Horror Story where a lot of fucked up shit happens but then they slowly explain what's
going on and the explanation is actually as interesting as you'd hope it would be.
Sure.
That's so easy to fuck that up.
Yeah very easy.
That's what happens.
When the whole crux of the thing is one book, one house, one mirror.
See I think it can work if you made the story and that's part of the story as you were writing
it but if you write your story and the cursed item is a contrivance.
Yes.
And then you later go back it's like we need more stuff.
It's not a contrivance anymore and what's the reason.
You better have the best stand explanation ever.
Yeah exactly.
But yeah and like the cursed item did the generic thing of just like psychologically haunting
the person and they would see stuff around them.
But it was still really scary.
And were there Sadako types running around?
No.
Well not quite.
It was a little boy but he didn't appear and run around and anything.
You'd see visions of like a floating circular head and like some really freaky stuff.
I showed you the art was really detailed and nice.
Yeah yeah yeah.
He's always here.
Because usually the scariest thing in Japan is a girl with really long hair and white
ropes.
Yeah.
That's what ghosts look like 90% of the time out east.
The scariest thing in Japan is a game made in America.
Oh snap.
But yeah the first third of it was really good.
Man that thing botched it up.
Otherwise this week I played a lot of Soul Sacrifice because Delta's coming out next month and I
wanted to remember.
Is that a transfer?
There's a transfer but it's not a super like one to one direct thing.
You keep tons of stuff and I'm not.
But it's bonuses it's not like you get to keep your character.
You get like massive experience bonuses depending on how far your character was.
So it's really good transfer but not like one to one.
I'm excited for that game so I'm playing through that.
I went up to the countryside for Easter and I saw my family.
I haven't seen them since Christmas.
Happy Easter everybody.
Yeah happy Easter everyone.
Festival of orgies and rabbit humping.
I thought it was Esther.
Esther or Yostar.
Bunny's fuck like.
Bunny's.
And you should too.
Then take shits on the floor.
Oh wait no that's also when Jesus was.
Damn it.
We walked ourselves into a corner.
There's that too.
They all happened on the same day.
It's a coincidence really.
Yeah and I didn't do a whole lot while I was there but I did get to play some more J-Stars
and boy that game just grinds to a halt.
The music doesn't save it?
There's only so many times.
So don't you know Sadame can only bring it back so many times.
Exactly like there's like 24 really great songs in that game.
There's only so many times that those can be the saving grace of a game.
Yeah okay.
Yeah so I can't really recommend that game.
For the 70 Japanese dollars they're selling it for.
Wonderful.
Please wait for the localization and sale where it's $10.
Yeah.
It's not great.
That's probably it.
It means the localization will never happen.
It might.
Just because there's so many characters.
Oh yeah just they copyright like Ultimate Something Superstars.
Whatever.
And it's like what other game would that be and they just did JoJo as well.
So maybe.
Maybe that rights fiasco is getting easier.
Well now that you've got cross boring and.
Okay let's.
Which cross.
People don't know what you mean when you say cross boring.
Now that you've got project cross zone.
Because that could have been cross Tekken.
You're right.
You're right.
But cross Tekken is just cross Tekken.
You're right.
We say cross Tekken.
Exactly.
So no you got project cross zone.
You've got.
JoJo.
JoJo's All Star Battle as well.
And you've got Tatsunoko versus Capcom that got localized here.
That was yeah.
It's like you go whoa these crazy impossible casts are suddenly they're finding a way.
Well because guess what it's actually not that absurd.
Like you just write some emails and people will be like yeah we want to we want to.
Do you want some money.
It already exists.
And I mean like anime is booming here.
So like whatever.
Yeah.
Cool.
Not bad.
Yeah.
And the last thing I did in the country.
I mentioned it to Matt earlier.
Would you kill anything.
No.
Not this time.
It was Easter.
We were busy eating things.
Matt we killed.
Matt we killed at one point.
I gave my brother a couple odd Xbox games.
Oh yeah.
One of the games I gave him was Vanquish.
Yeah.
And I was like I don't have a copy of Call of Duty or Battlefield to give you because
you know he's a 13 year old boy.
That's what they're into these days.
But I'm like Vanquish is the best shooter that came out this generation.
Yeah.
Opinions.
He's like what is this dumb robot shit.
So he played the tutorial and he's like man this tutorial sucks and I'm like it sucks.
And he played the game and he's like wow this is really fun.
And I'm like yeah.
And he's like I want to tell my friends about this.
Yeah.
I was like yeah do that.
You're doing good work.
You're doing good work.
And I was just like man man I hope none of them want to play multiplayer because then
it's over.
Because that's the first place it goes.
Exactly.
You're like awesome.
Okay jump online.
Yeah.
Vanquish with multiplayer would be unplayable but boy would I love to watch it.
But you know we said Max Payne multiplayer is was it would be impossible.
Guess what.
It sucks.
Yeah.
It sucks.
Yeah.
And it sucks.
I'd rather have the perfect single player alone.
But like were you confirmed to do more marketing for Vanquish than Sega did.
Were you guys like me where back in the day you were trying to think of how to make bullet
time work in a multiplayer environment.
Yeah.
Of course.
But it's like there's a point you get to where you realize you're better off thinking
of anything else.
Well that's to me that's when I came up with the time stop bubble.
Like the area of effect.
And then you factor in netcode and hit detection and go fuck off sacrifice everything.
Because you think of like the matrix online and you go oh my god that sounds terrible.
Because you you go can you actually slow down a server to dodge a bullet.
I am I am aware of two games that use time shenanigans like that that are multiplayer
online games.
One is Eve online with the time dilation stuff when huge battles happen where time slows
down in zones in which there are tons of people.
But that's just a stop gap to get enough servers up so that Eve doesn't just die.
And the second one is a killing floor which is a arena based survival wave based thing
left for death.
And they basically just ran like on the server the server just randomly prox bullet time
for 10 seconds.
And since it's all players versus AI like it's co-op like it's all of a sudden bam okay
bullet time go do good do good and take as many headshots as you possibly can.
I hope you're not running down a staircase yeah yeah yeah I'm sure there's games out
there that like we don't we don't know that probably have solutions for this of course
yeah stranglehold try to have multiplayer I can't remember I don't remember either.
Because the holy grail of that is that like the one player could do it while the other
players do not.
And then you have stuff like dragons crown and like D&D where one player is being a
shit yeah well like I said if you have the bubble where it's like if you're within my
area then we are slow but everyone else is like the only way I could think it could happen
in something like a shooter it would have to use a controller and the aiming speed would
have to be locked to a certain like turn speed so that when you say you pop bullet time my
aim speed drops by 90% so even if I can see you there I cannot physically turn and shoot
you in time while you move at regular speed.
I think stranglehold tried to do something like that and I'd never heard of it because
I guess it didn't work very well.
Or like that server wide I like that server wide thing random slowdown if there was like
a map where it's like a certain area of the map you all know this is the area where this
happens that it doesn't end up being like a power that is player controlled it's map
controlled or whatever but anyway yeah you're weak.
So Matt you watched good things did you watch bad things Liam you read a thing about a cursed
video game.
Oh is this where we're going?
I did both of those and I watched a bad thing.
I watched a bad thing in its entirely watched all 25 episodes and then went why why did I
watch all of it it was terrible it was so awful do don't do to watch log horizon.
Oh okay okay thank you thank you Matt thank you because I also want to say don't watch
log I don't want to thank you Pat.
The reason why you're responding this way is because okay log horizon is the other MMO
trapped in an MMO.
In recent times.
So me and Liam in recent days I think was last podcast we bitched about Sword Art online
turning to the utter garbage so people said you know what you should do you should watch
the other one.
I brought it up to you Liam a while ago because I remember I said I saw someone saying like
fucking best friends will never talk about really good shit like log horizon.
What happened with me I was like so what's the deal with this show?
I struggled to get through the first episode and then struggled to get through the second
episode.
First of all the first 10 minutes of this show is some of the most embarrassing tropey
garbage I've ever seen and the OP is this awful Japanese rapper singing the dumbest
crap it is so bad it's bad it is so bad and I go okay I was warned that the first episode
is god awful I will watch the second and the second is not quite as god awful but it's
not marginally better either.
Then the first arc is terrible and I'm like okay maybe the second and I just ended up
watching the whole thing waiting for it to get good and I've never seen so many episodes
wasted on nothing on nothing nothing happens in that show.
The premise is the whole we got trapped in an MMO you don't die when you die you just
respawn and NPCs have personalities sure but it's like the primary antagonist for 25 episodes
is that they're bored they're just bored they don't know what to do with their time so like
the whole first season is like why don't we build an economy like I don't give a shit
there are no stakes there's a huge huge huge why don't they want to escape the MMO the
end of the first season the main character literally says I could probably figure out
a way to get leave but it's fun here so then so then so then well they've made it less
boring before complete dismissal but fuck before complete dismissal no no complete dismissal
but I'm just saying like um therefore a story like that would rely on the strength of interpersonal
character relationships right right right so they're fine they're okay at best okay they're
okay at best but not worth carrying the entire no god in the first episode they reveal the
main character has glasses and he does the stupid I push up my glasses thing so often
that it becomes a joke and and the second late characters actively mock him for doing
it and because it happens so often and the secondary male characters huge fucking pervert
interesting and then in the first episode there's a girl who willingly takes a potion to assume
a more like a form could be a physical form and she becomes like a stupid lolly whatever girl
okay and it's come on they spend four episodes on a huge fight scene and treat it as if it has
huge personal stakes when the worst that will happen is they will respawn and then they add
stakes in and only lasts for 11 minutes before being hand waved away it is it is so bad when is
it so generally gonna catch an anime where someone is doing the glasses thing and everyone's like
dude just fix your fucking glasses like if they fit right that won't happen maybe it's already
happened I don't know if you have good fitting glasses because cool guys love to do it yeah if
you want to watch a good anime go watch captain earth it's a cool new mecha show about mechas
and don't watch log horizon jesus i would log horizon i would rather watch the first arc of
sword art twice than watch that shit again and sword art's terrible and well this comes with
the caveat that you guys that both of you are really into the trapped in an mmo
i can't wait till it happens super hard yeah it's the whole reason i was able to get through
sword art go read a shitty book called kilobyte it's better sword art is aggressively awful but
i was so in love with the concept yeah that every time the plot wasn't happening i could get it up
but this crap doesn't even oh and that's and that's the thing that i was again discussing with you
Liam is that i think right um this i don't want to call it a genre but this sub-genre sub-genre like
it's not inherently interesting to me so like i need a lot more than just the premise and it's
the premise that makes it good though unfortunately that's and that's all there is like no but i mean
sorry i mean not just the premise of that but the premise of the show specifically where like
in sword art you die and it's like oh we gotta it there's they they lay out the objective and the
writers are so mistakes the writers are so aware of their own bastardization of the premise
that in the first episode a guy says in these kinds of stories don't you usually die in the game and
die in real life guess not oh well and then they walk off camera and you're like fuck hand wave well i
mean you know that that could be them trying to be doing something to try to do something different
but if it ends up not working and even worse than that
fucking show still managed to like trigger that crack addiction that i've been fighting since wow
came out and i'm now uh resubbed to Final Fantasy 14 and played all weekend your your realm has been
reborn yes the realm of your of your loins i i'm glad we got to talk about log arising i'm i'm back in
ff 14 there you go and i well that gaff guild's pretty doesn't even matter if you're i was gonna
say like are you enjoying it but it doesn't matter i i am that question is irrelevant i'm enjoying it
a lot but i'm fully aware that it's like just fulfilling this debt like i have an hour why not
just throw it away and and 14 is not bad at all it's good so that's the problem yeah all i've
tried a bunch of mmo since wow came out and i've always quit immediately because they're all kind
of awful like guild wars had problems and terror was embarrassing uh but 14 is actually like really
really good like there's nothing wrong with it at all they fixed it so there's there's there's no
like i can't like with terror i could see the pedophile shit driving me away and it did ha
and with guild wars like the the the weird mechanic changes drove me but this one i'm not
sitting there getting in and going like oh this is one i'm gonna quit like i can't see it
ahead of me it's just fun when the addiction meets like some awful part of the experience
it's just really well put together and i'm like oh shit shit everything's good like from the
presentation to to the gameplay everything's just good yo Liam can we like go to korea and just play
that fucking ridiculous game played in Seoul with the best character creator ever black black sand
and then the best gameplay ever please don't be a disappointment i think it's black sand like
that's what's really frustrating it's like you look at uh that would you would play the black sand
blades black sand like you mentioned that it's like that's korean mmo and it you look at it like
it looks like it plays super well yeah right but it's likely rife with other problems that
exactly uh that's been this weird issue with all the different countries style the korean ones
now play like action games and they play like decent action and i really liked uh what's that
fucking one that's just dungeon raids and it's an action game through and through i don't remember
ah fuck but like that's what why i play taric's play with controller it plays like an action game
the japanese ones are all party based and now there's only 14 dude i tried and then the western
ones are all free to play i tried playing onigiri which is a japanese uh mmorpg uh oh my god is the
blandest most nothing like super shit jrpg i've played in a long time i mean mmorpg that i've played
in a long time it's just super weird it's like every country or region has the one thing that they're
good at and you look at it like can't you can't one of you get it just steal the the the thing from
the other games or form a company of the best of all of you can't can't like i hope that's what titan
is just wait i hope that's just like wow stole everything just wait for canadian mmo's man they're
so they've stilled it fuck well you yeah hey how was your week well thanks for asking guys
we're getting i was winding down i was winding down well i had to hate on mmo's are ruining my
life again yeah cool fuck log please consult a doctor if you're still thinking about log
horizon after a day uh doctor will prescribe you more so i have no like what's your week
well i'll just be grateful it was like well no really but there's a couple things that's worth
covering one um walk like an egyptian who saw it coming i didn't i didn't and i feel stupid jojo's
ending is walk like an egyptian that's so great it's so perfect and now we look dumb because last
week we were like oh no it wasn't in this episode of course it's not you don't know where they're
going yet but now you know and now we know and they did it and they had the jojo man train shot
it was so dynamic there's there's there's two man train shots right there's that one and there's the
full one and then there's the first one yeah the full one has yet is icky in the second man train
no no because he's not a man he's a big egg then you need the vertical yeah but well he's a male dog
isn't he yeah he can do it but the man train needs to be tightly knit it needs to be very tightly knit
fair enough um love that those visuals on the ending um beautiful yeah fucking just jojo going
hard nothing else to say there yeah um you know what else is going hard game of thrones it's really
good that's that's all that's it more followed up emotions of like holy shit holy shit things are
happening um it's just just to say that like the last episode of beast name you see the title of it
um uh the i don't remember but it was the breaker of chains the breaker of chains yes yes no uh this
season is like a season of eventful things and it's really cool to see like pace moving although i
said on my twitter is why i put one like little comment saying why does the editor feel the need
to cut to sam at all and people said sully sam does some things you like sam probably no no
like sam because uh tyrian squire is kind of the sam character and he's way better no here's why
because they have you read the books i haven't there's probably a payoff there so someone said
he does stuff later and the other thing is i've been talking to somebody who's uh who knows what
has been added and what's been changed and stuff and like the stuff that they're changing and the
stuff they're adding in really seamless works well makes sense you know um except for the hbo mandated
things well sure right you gotta have some tna in there and now but now you've got to you gotta have
some t and d all over the place at the same time my game of thrones going hard love it um
um also this week uh this weekend in particular or last weekend i should say uh someone just
messaged me and was like yo um maximillion is streaming k i he's doing one of his room things
and he mentioned you on the stream and to be down to play some games if you're down and i'm like
to get my ass beat in front of everybody let's let's go did you watch one like uh was it wednesday
night this week no no no it was this weekend it was literally like two days ago oh yeah i watched it
all man yeah um i bet max feels real confident challenging us yeah no but it was because somebody
somebody took my name and then like subscribed and started like a woolly name and i went yo
fuck that i'm here too and i said i'm the real woolly you know and then it was like and then a
baby needs attention and then a third woolly showed up and it was like okay but we all subscribed
so it's here sportacus we're helping him out and stuff it was fun and i was like shit let me let me
boot up like my the game and my console and i was like oh crap i need to download this xbox update
because i haven't turned it on in so long oh no and i'm just supposed to do that automatically
well now it does this update i feel like every single piece of hardware that does that i run into
the same thing yeah where i like oh just does automatically and then because you buy it brand
new yeah and then you don't turn it on for walk because you're waiting for stuff and it's like
you have four updates to go the Wii U one was the worst that was awful i think the ps4 is the
only one that did it out of the box i think so which is great but but you definitely had this like
now it'll do it in the background but until but before now sitting there waiting so i'm looking
at it i'm watching the stream like come on come on come on and then i load up ki and it's like you
have a 6.8 gig download i'm like ah that full gore yeah because i just haven't touched it in a while
so you know what it just didn't happen i was loading up the game the entire you were describing
what PlayStation 3 owners have been dealing with for years yeah but i was on a clock because i was
like let me see if i can just get in and get exactly and i couldn't dude there are times matt
came over to record and i mean let's pop this shit in it's like 48 minutes to download it's like
we're not recording this shit yeah pretty much um you know so but but that was that was a cool
thing shout outs to max's stream for like doing a little um i guess get make he makes lobbies and
then people fight each other and he commentates over them and then occasionally gets a few matches
in right and then makes another lobby and like it's just a fun little show okay we see see now
it was a good time for max to put this challenge out there because he got to see friday night
fisticuffs no and just be like yeah yep yep they're ass yeah there was a comment on the
vanilla episode that said man i wish i was good street fighter like these guys and i was just like
no like because not only are we not good at street fighter but like this is a street fighter that
we haven't played in years and there's rust on top of us not every episode of fisticuffs will come
with with your established rust and for somebody to watch that footage and go like man i wish i was
good at fighting like actually you let it out of the bag though oh you're blushing furiously
beyond that uh i also spent some time this week uh just jumping back on the cabin rider going
through where i left off i'm still we're still working on cabuto still cabuto yeah because i
stopped yeah like five years ago because um i was like because at work there was a friend of ours
that's like a guitar player and he's like super yeah so i showed him cabin rider sabaki and he
like flipped his shit dude i had a conversation with him about this kind of stuff like a week ago
it is nuts he has like an encyclopedic knowledge and he does not strike me is that no at all so
it was really surprising and i was like okay you like this stuff you like power rangers let me show
you what cabin rider is and like and i showed him sabaki with the guitar and all the cool shit he was
like okay i need to learn about what japan has been doing with this thing that i like you know um
then i would just went home and i was like fuck i need i need to keep i need to keep going i need to
keep a pace you know so i jump back i'm gonna get ahead of me yeah you know um so i'm going through
that as well cabuto is just such a perfect mix of cabin rider and weird drama like super asian
drama like j-drama j-drama k-drama they take like a five so break to have a cooking fight
in that show there's cooking fights like every couple of episodes there's like a huge stretch
where like nobody turns into a cabin rider no worms showing up cooking let's just turn into
fucking gto drama version gto is so good in every gto is so good in every version okay i
on crunchy roll i noticed that um um gto uh shanghai is it sure or one of them's up there
or gto something i think it's that prequel where he's a biker no no no no no no no this is live
action okay and this is this is live action with him is it like the 2012 like the recent ish one
it must be because it's it's a current run on crunchy roll and i was like i haven't heard of this
does anyone know if it's good i didn't because i was gonna watch jojo oh okay i'm like i will find
out later but i want to watch start us crusaders radio i want to stand proud yeah um and the last
thing was um stand proud again i don't know yeah no well uh just like play some dark souls and uh
like i kind of was you know trying to show my girlfriend some games and she was getting into
them and stuff and um like she was getting kind of like she was having a really hard time playing
tomb raider for example she's like oh no the guys are rushing me down and i can't handle all the
stuff going on and she's watching this you want to protect her probably i think um that comes with
playing too but yeah and she was just getting nervous of what was happening and it was just funny
because uh she's watching dark souls and was kind of like hey so this game seems a bit more quiet
and you know like it's slower pay yeah do you think this is the kind of thing that and i was like
i i i answer is maybe just let her play it i don't want to be the guy is it maybe yeah yeah
is it slower pays but but like this is like like that is a video game wall with no explanation
and she really needs guiding kind of things so guide her yeah well that would that would be
an incident instead of leaving her to her own devices i suppose but i just i was kind of looking
at the harm and letting her try i just to me i looked at it and i went i i hate being that guy
but i just don't think you're possibly ready for this if you haven't made it through any third
person games ever because my girlfriend was like yo i want to play toky then and i'm like yeah play
toky then and we played toky then okay and it's just like yeah my fives all around i guess i guess
maybe a lot of plans dark so maybe but i'm just like like maybe you just need to grasp third person
camera movement a bit first and the the you know games that won't you don't even know a third person
camera movement yeah no shut up i mean i mean like if you've never gone through any of these
types of no i get you you need some kind of primer maybe this is not the best thing to break
your teeth on i don't know that's all i don't know maybe we started on nes hard i guess whatever
anyway you were a fetus i was i playing nes games i still grew up with an nes pretty impressive
i'm surprised i wasn't expecting you guys to be like fuck it throw everyone in the deep end like
it's not even really the deep end it's there there's like there are certain attributes of your
modern game that can be just as difficult or more difficult than the parts and dark souls
than you find um troubling like dual analog control trips up a lot of new players and the
overall speed of most current games is super fast but but what i'm trying to establish
is the difference between someone who like is not as experienced or like not uh a frequent player
of this stuff versus someone who is new to games you know what i mean like the only there's a huge
the only difference between the only variable for something like the soul series is whether or
not somebody can bang their head against something until the wall breaks right and that that has no
bearing on how long you've been playing games or how familiar you are with games it's just like
do you have patience i i guess man but like i like i paused it to look at my my stat screen or
the like you're looking at the level up screen and then just this graph of numbers comes up and i'm
like her eyes would just glaze over yeah but you don't even look at that graph of numbers i don't
look at that graph i look at the ones that are relevant to my magic just just when when when she
pulls that up and she's like whoa it's a lot of numbers bill yeah ignore that you only need like
only need these four no i think you're giving bad advice i think it's not a good to game to
break your teeth i don't know because at the same time like twitter is kind of an uninteresting game
but and a terrible like 90 percent of western shifu leh games are just uninteresting so she's
interesting right i disagree and i think that like the part that she got up to which was like
around shantytown right um she was enjoying what was happening but just couldn't handle the the
gauntlet of combat that that showed up shantytown's really like unfun like gauntlet i didn't know that
so like so like she would basically hit the breaking point of every battle by the time it was done
and at this point it was like okay this is now three times as long of a battle and you couldn't
i can't handle it man this this discussion really makes me hate tomb raider now sure because
like i i'm not a big fan of the new tomb raider i think it does a lot of things fucked up
but when you're talking about the new tomb raider and every single moment that you discussed
was about the combat yeah and i'm like but that's the uh fuck like no in any case i'm usually talking
about the puzzles or the exploration yeah um but no i'm just i'm just picturing like again someone
brand new at games trying to beat the loss center and it's like no man you're just afraid she'll do
it easier even better than me which is better than you guys she'll show you up and she'll only
use a crossbow oh god i just watched a 50 on the way over here i watched a 50 minute review by a guy
named uh yeah matthew mitosis something like that on youtube on why dark souls 2 is not as good as
the other ones just like he's great you know irish he sounds like he's gonna i don't recall i watch
but just basically and he also did a bio shock one about a review that's like
fucking exhaustive breakdown of every single thing truly and oh man but the thing like i've been
seeing like but besides you guys opinions there's i've been catching more people kind of feeling
like yeah that we kissed one in the series and such but this is all no i'm not dismissing whatever
i'm saying this is always just be like that this is all the perfect angsty look away um
but this is all relative to the same series itself and not like yeah so established so he
spends 50 plus minutes dumping on dark souls 2 for every flaw and but you have to go back and
look at like one of the very first things he says is that i would way rather play dark souls 2 than
almost everything else that currently exists on the market right right right but compared to its
immediate predecessor it's just not all that it's like when street fighter 2 came out all those
really shitty fighting game clones came out a lot afterwards it's like you know and then
you went from hyper fighting to super and you're like oh super is not hyper fighting but it's
better than that well yeah over there literally right like before we started recording we were
dumping on super yeah because it's a bad version of street fighter but within the versions that we
have within that era i'd still rather play super than anything else perfect same thing for i think
i think why is it you or is it liam they're like yo shut up about mario sunshine it's good
mario sunshine is good i have i have it's terrible mario but but compared to every other mascot
platform especially the mascot platformers that came out in that time yeah even the era of vex
how much you like how the kangaroo and scaler shut up let me go get you ninja bread man yeah yeah
so all this really is not even a game what this means for you is that you have like the world is at
your feet yeah i don't know this exactly because you'll go through dark 2 and you're like that was
awesome i but i just only gets better from here but i just need to always verify with with the people
that are saying these negative things because i'm enjoying the game yeah like like you're really
only just comparing the rest of the series the game is a nine the way i just the way i described it
is that the game is a nine in a world in which most great games are eights and the the prequels were
elevens okay okay to me the game is a nine in a world where a tomb raider is a six okay you know
like yeah we're pretty much saying the same thing yeah it's tomb raiders a great game i'd give it all
like a five did you see all the rpg elements it's because it's kind of like you know something i
noticed like walking through like evil for example yeah it's like there's different games happening
in different corners right and the clicks are all together so you've got like your anime fighter
crowd you got your anime fighters and specifically the blazeball guys and the guilty gear guys and
you know they stay away and you've got the mortal combat guys and like as you walk around the one
thing you notice is besides the hype everyone really the parts of the game they don't like they
dump on them hard yeah hard because they're the best equipped to jump and the thing is is that so
you're you're dumping out of love like because you're like i'm super into the scene it's a it's a
given that we all care about this to therefore when i say that this is shit yeah i'm really saying
with the baseline of we all love this thing probably the best example of that for the souls
series is the the matthew brings up in his video he says the the fight against the great gray wolf
syph in dark souls one is one of the best boss fights ever it's amazing the fight against the
royal rat authority in dark souls two is the same boss fight but worse in every way it's exactly the
same just worse and you can point here here here here the size of the enemies the scale the arena
the mechanics everything i had very little trouble making it through that but it's not the
trouble authority not the royal rat vanguard okay also it's not the trouble that's the point all
right it's the fact that this exact idea was executed better yeah prior and and it's the same
it's it's it dark souls two is is made by from software's b team like and their b team is better
than almost everybody else's a team but it's still clearly the b team and i just hope that their a
team is working on demon souls i would love for their a team to be working on demons or something
new to make something original like nothing would depress me more than to hear that like me a zaki
got kicked back to make an armored core expansion well before you even got kicked up to making metal
wolf two yeah sure is it possible and i'm just throwing this in like as my brain's just juggling
ideas because from softwares made a ton of shit is it possible to make a game like dark souls in
its execution that's not high fantasy a hot yeah totally sure but there's a there's a really specific
place that that genre comes from and it comes from me a zaki as a kid reading english fantasy novels
but his english was not great so he was never able to get all of the details so he would make
shit up to fill the blocks and that's the the the core design element behind everything the
souls there's there's a game by from software called like the the shadow tower the dark tower
or something and it is that it is fantasy but there are guns in that game and like you can shoot
the wings off of harpies and shit and like yeah totally interesting uh they can do it because i'm
just like you know the setting of a bunch of big horrible mindless monsters standing around waiting
for you want to grow them you want to you you want cybersouls but you but i don't think you
i don't really know why would a big thing just be standing there waiting to be aggro do you know
i like it would i think you can do it would have to be in like the post post apocalypse yeah yeah yeah
like smt does it really well thematically like dds and stuff c3 and 4 basically yeah or basically
dark souls but in an rpg form like tonally as well let's see what um below ends up being like
i i got i didn't saw some footage of that after we talked about it last week
your character is so small yes yeah no when i said the environment is the main character i know but
like this is the ultimate example of that makes me really upset because i everything about it
draws me in and then i see something like that i go deal breaker like how i can't stand beautiful
joe because of the baby punches oh like tiny ass character on the screen i just don't care anymore
shouldn't you relate to that i have that's why man no to me like the because the reason is
we want to show you this world sure it's super acceptable i i get it and i'll still i'll still
like take a look i didn't give it a shot i was fucking metroid vanias man that's why we love this
part of why we love your character and metroid vania is huge what i like about metroid vanias
is the degree of control like sure yeah but i like a big part of like uh my enjoyment is always
that the room you're in is a character sure yes not always i feel like you go into the clock tower
for the first time and like you get the background the music everything going and you it's just
wide open sprawling area and you're just a little sprite on the screen it's like this
woolly this is this is a nitpicky thing that i am the person who in every jrpg up until like
the fuck in 2006 i would bitch and scream and moan when your weapon didn't change when you
equipped it yeah the visual okay like these kinds of character oriented things drive me insane
sure i mean you know and yes it's totally a big baby complaint because i'm like being a big baby
i i i enjoy when i see nice big detailed sprites but again if there's a good reason for it you know
anyway um what's new in the world man uh well let's start off with uh probably the biggest
typist announcement maybe for liam if he caught it maybe you're out of town i possibly did final
fantasy agito announced you know this game got announced like three months as a free to play
game you know this game got announced like three months ago for ios so let's you already really
let's in japan let's back up let's back up to second this news hit today apparently no the trailer
the the the announcement the release date and stuff yeah oh and it's coming to the west as well
that's why lily's bringing it up let's back up just a little bit there was this thing called
fabula nova cristalis in fabula nova cristalis ff 13 ff 13 versus or versus 13 and final fantasy
13 agito agito 13 agito was it were announced yeah 13 versus disappeared forever and resurfaced as
15 13 became 13 13 2 and lightning returns yeah and agito agito became type zero and then a
different game was then also named agito which is the one we are talking about exactly which then
got turned into a cell phone game that is free to play there's always a cell phone oh okay so it's
what an amazing business so the agito that is announced here is not type zero no for anyone
who doesn't know type zero is fucking excellent so it is a it is the best final fantasy sure you
regularly bother people i would i would say i know i would do on a level on a level nobody
understands i would say that 14 is the only thing that even is like can argue there with it yeah
and that's a genre argument but it like so we're not going to get the original agito which is
type zero because square annex hates us give it time uh and they're like no english speakers
go die no one owns a psp speculation speculation yeah bcc bcc sure i'm making that's a time man
that's how i feel you want to make a bet sure what what year is is type zero coming out you
want to say before the end of 2015 how about no more bets no but work out the current bet what are
the don't we have two current beds i think the ps02 ps02 is the only one okay um i'm gonna win that
so but anyway so so type zero is a fantastic wonderful game that will come to america on a
blue moon eventually okay hopefully i don't and then agito is the like tablet free to play mobile
game that bastardizes it oh great we're gonna get that one real soon we're gonna get that one
real soon yeah um and like this game from like the art direction to everything just totally shits on
it the the free to play different battle system and everything uh and it just takes away from all
the greatness that was the original i don't know about the story maybe that'll be something because
they at least have writers at square annex is it this to me is it is it the same i i'm under the
impression it's the same setting okay uh one of us rub the salt even deeper one of the things that
gets me the most about is i saw some screenshot comparisons where you see like an environment
and you see creatures clearly designed for that environment right in type zero yeah and like
it's beautiful and there's nice filters and everything looks artistic sure and in this one
it's just like look it's the same setting with a different creature that looks totally out of place
we ripped it from uh the other thing the level designer just shoved them together in a in a
fit hey it's a free to play game who gives a shit um boy am i maximum unhyped for this game
maximum maximum unhyped the meter what does that mean how's that manifest the meter is full empty
oh boy and i saw this this morning and it said final fantasy agito come into
and uh oh no the article said type zero come into whatever because it's like yeah i just described
no one knows what this game is and i was like yeah and i clicked through it and i'm like oh you
meant ag oh okay well fuck me then not the same subscribe from this website forever thank you
good day sir you know at least when you go to neo gaff and somebody does that they're doing it on
purpose to troll you exactly when the website fucks up there's a fuck up oh your type zero is my
before crisis man oh totally you know what we for actually forgot to bring up as we're discovering
square um which this week uh the funnest hit man game came out in those last years we're gonna get
some shit for this one did you plan um hit man go hit man go yeah is now when i hear that my brain
thinks card game it's so guess what it's an ios game that's a pure puzzle game and it's hit man
and i know i wish i see i wish the listener could hear my face right i see your face i have this
shitty i have this little smirk and i'm just nodding one one eyebrow slightly raised right
yep okay so here's the deal though hit man go it's a puzzle game and it's basically like yeah and it's
set up in the in the way that like imagine if you're pulling out a board game yeah setting up pieces
and you're moving hit man each turn sure you have to hit kill enemies and get to your your mark so
metal gear acid but with hit man it's no no because there's no rpg elements no nothing it's a
puzzle pure puzzle okay okay but the idea of grid and you're moving on it you can keep that part of it
not a bad game and in fact it's quite good yeah i played it a bunch it's okay it just has very little
to do with hit man well no it actually has a lot to do with it because it doesn't play like a hit man
game but the theme is totally correct you are it's the perfect spin on age of 47 you're moving
through the environment getting through the guards and and assassinating your mark sure and then
getting your briefcase and escape whatever this but it's just it's just a way of like i guess re this
game's relative quality i don't know like we didn't have like stung less if absolution wasn't just like
well i mean you remember i o had their thing recently where they were like okay we know we
fucked up absolution you fucked it up so you know if no if absolution was better and did better than
this would have not have been a sour you're right um but that being said salty dude and like i you
look at this new the announcement for it comes out and i see the original like footage and like
yeah trailer and stuff i'm like this is an interesting possible thing but you know what
liam and i looked at the atb trailer and said hey maybe this is a thing and then right so this
time around the amount of like goodwill lost based on atb this has got to be like unrivaled
unreasonable amount so so with no reasonable amount and so with those and with those expectations
where they are surprise surprise it turns out this is actually it's good pretty good one
one of that so video game businesses if you want a game that people would ignore
on in other circumstances make sure to drive expectations through the floor well what i want
to say actually was really weird because this should never have even been a thing so one of the
things where i was like oh maybe this will be a thing is where i got into this ios store and i saw
that it wasn't free yeah that was one of the first five bucks okay that's not okay that's not 20
there's no microtransaction grind everywhere anyway you can skip you can choose to skip ahead
way far in the game by paying or you can just progress to it and there's no shit where it's
like oh like if you are no energy meter no and i saw play and it's and i think this is a fan of
the older hitman games like you know i saw the thing where there's like a blood money pack of
levels level set that redes some some old levels in this puzzle style and i went oh you mentioned
you mentioned that and i'm like thinking about like how absolution was like kind of fucked up
and i'm thinking backs like i when i see you and i love hitman would you say yeah leon you love hitman
i've played only like the recent ones and okay so the old ones so i think you like hitman but i
love the theme of like classy infiltration and get out sure but i'm talking in like series history
so well you love hitman i love hitman when you think about it like half or more of all hitman
games are awful like hitman one is like it's got some playable by modern standards experiment
well it's got some levels that are that are rough i would say half of the levels in that game are just
fucked up like just super super fun but when hitman is on point though hitman two it's super
amazing that's uh silent assassin right yeah i played that hitman two super awesome hitman three
oh my god fuck contracts hitman four blood money amazing yeah yeah but it's like
like i feel like even i did this when absolution came out and was just kind of okay it was fine
like it was fine like somehow it being okay was worse than if it had been terrible right
modern expectations like that's five games with two good ones and yet i still think in my head
that i love hitman because because you do though because at the end of the day if one came out
and was like looking pretty solid you'd be like yeah here's my money when it man's good it's so good
that's what i'm saying when it's on point it's fucking on point when was the last time it was good
uh blood money blood money like seven years ago okay there's i mean now hitmen go so it came out
it came out like 2007 2004 as we've been discussing for five minutes i don't know you don't know for good
reason but anyway um yeah no um surprising like fun from the hitman game can we take a second to
talk about spinoffs if that's okay yeah what spinoffs you want to discuss no just like general
like i think the way to yeah but you need you need an example okay hitmen go i think the way to do a
spinoff is nail the theme and that and do it totally and as long as it's a good game and the theme is
dead right yeah and you're not trying to like change the the whole direction of the series
on i will i will agree with you 100 under one condition that the spinoff doesn't exist in a
place in which it actively threatens the old gay old game to not exist as long as it doesn't
like veer the whole series off and it stays a spin off and i don't want to say like keep it it has to
stay pure but it's like respect the genre you're going into yeah you know and in the case of like
this one it's like yeah this is pure puzzle uh kingdom hearts chain of memories wait actually
that's mainline it's mainline is that a good game though um it's a mainline spinoff all of the
fucking uh dancing all night and the dancing all night persona persona q's a spinoff yeah
a spinoff that i'm really i don't but dancing all night you're sure nothing about q entices me
and there are some parts about it that make me actively like oh god your room's falling apart
don't drop my sticks there are parts about that persona q that i look at it goes no yeah no but
dancing all night you're sure about yeah well dancing all night at very least doesn't shit on
characters yeah you haven't played it yet you're right but i can you but in q you can tell just
from the trailer um it's like someone should be standing there's everywhere else for all of eternity
shouldn't if if you watch if you watch this uh for star wars episode 10 or whatever that took
play or whatever yeah star wars episode seven right that's the new one that's coming yeah yeah
and it's like hey here's darth vader you'd be like wait wait what what yeah shouldn't darth vader
not be there god i want an f zero spinoff so bad you had one yeah smash bros no for real though
it would don't we all don't we all spin off yeah just hey because there's lore man only when it comes
out by gp legend on the we you i guess like if there's there's a way to put money into f zero
just do it okay yeah mm-hmm there is not a way to put money in it gp legend it's a perfectly
moving along moving right along uh the dog the naughty dog is thinning out what the fuck is
going on it's losing weight the dog i had so many message me just an hour ago or however when
i was on my way here just going a lot of people leaving dot naughty dog yeah well yeah and not
like nobody's um like high level staff yeah so in this in this case nat wells uh the art director
for last of us uh left to join um the guys that did unfinished swan um sparrows sparrows
something sparrow yeah so amy henig their primary writer uh nat wells who was the art director on
last of us yep and another and another i forgot to do his name but like uh the he enjoyed it for
director yeah it was just like left and a voice actor i think just was like they recast me or
drachma drachma that's it drachma no no he's the one who's there still all right and everyone's
like oh it's him i'm bad with these things like it's not him what the fuck is going on in that studio
maybe that all your high level like super high level staff are going i'm out of here maybe something
maybe nothing exactly right maybe they just are taking career opportunities it's like all of them
at the same time i see well no but what better time localized in your kitchen when you're riding
high on the biggest thing i see i see two possibilities here they're riding high and the
next thing they see they go or maybe i don't want to be here forever yeah now it'd be a really good
time after uncharted three and last of us to go job hunting or they're rock stars and people are like
yo how people are actively like hey you we need we need the last of us over here maybe like who
knows we'll let you make what you're right but i think i think that's it it's like maybe something
is up i can see i can see a meeting in which uh who the fuck's running ea now i don't even remember
i uh uh pasta ronnie but what i can tell you where no no oh yeah he's gone you're right he's super
good anyway but they're just like is he i'm yeah no he's that was like a year i was like a while
a long while ago we burned through the bio-ware doctors we need somebody in here knows what they're
doing yeah get amy henig just get her i don't care um meanwhile like as we're talking about exodus
is exodai exodai um the uh the music guy behind every halo game tweets i got fired for no reason
for no reason like i don't know who knows who knows because that one that one's straight because he
got fired so that one's really weird you don't want to renew his contract because he's asking
too much but who knows something and he said he just he tweeted i got fired for no reason and then
later uh the story updated with the official word from uh bungee which we're very confident with
destiny going forward despite the lack of it basically basically it was about that voice
basically it was 200 words of man the music in destiny is gonna be so great by the way we're not
working with this guy anymore and we left as friends don't the music destiny is gonna be great
it's gonna be his music though i just want to say because there was a lot of people doing this and
you were all laugh worthy all the people saying is destiny all right like the music guy left like
yes it's all right well the music guy got fired but like yes it's all right the music's not going
to stop it from shipping as as as storm of ruin you know i don't think it's i don't think it's in
a concept of life is destiny not going to let no it's just people who are like the music he's
seriously yeah god oh because those those are the people that are just like yeah hey let the music
halo is like a very important part of this and they're right about that that the music is a big
part of it but it's just like those are the people who every time someone leaves they say what the
fuck is going on at just hire and really it's not a conspiracy just hire just for kids or jeremy
soul and you're done just for kids of god sure or one of our coffman you know sure everyone out there
i know you have around that will just do they're around hey i need a like it's sold they just said
hey we need the music for this fucking mmo for guild wars two make it and do it for the whole mmo
yeah you know it's a soundtrack i know you haven't listened to darksiders too what by kid
i listen i listen to roughly half of that sound and it's fantastic progression bugs stop my
playthrough ah well do shame on those so fuck everyone who tested that game yep i see him me i
still have the um the uh jesper kids like assassin's creed one enter the animus track the 11 minute
theme of like the bells ringing in shaman awesome um when you want it but it's like yeah don't go
crying like conspiracies things are half blowing up behind the scenes if nothing's actually happening
that being said unless you see signs of it such as amazing spider-man two for the x-bone getting
canceled on um indefinitely postponed that one's really close to release this is that coming out
this month or next month well no like in a week and a half oh it's coming out like so it's coming
out now and um they're like you know what the x-bone version guys you're just okay it's not coming
so and i know a little bit about game development matt you know a little about game development so
do you guys we know a lot about game development a whole of a lot of development what the fuck
can possibly happen well we have a pretty good answer because everybody like every
there are probably a lot of listeners that don't understand um like uh compliance and stuff like
that but every time you see a game get randomly delayed for a week or two weeks or a month it's
like they failed their certification they fucked up they didn't cross their t on something yeah so
microsoft or sony and nintendo push it back yeah and say re-certify this yes that happens but
fucking canceling the game this is entirely indefinitely postponing or canceling this close
to release and i struggle to come up with also there's a statement that came out afterwards
saying we're working with microsoft to see if it's still happening right and then a part of that
is that someone asked i think major nelson or someone what's the deal and they go that's a
publisher issue we have nothing to do with it and it absolutely is yeah but but they're working
with microsoft so pat you're going well what can possibly like crash bug that you can't fix
like that that that certification failure that you described this would have to be a list of them
multiple in a row right that it's like this would take six months to fix well basically that would
require restructuring the engine or something deep drastic deep in the code so also also probably
a really unstable build oh sure yeah that probably just ties right into it i'm just gonna but but
that doesn't that like that slows you down it doesn't hold you back so i'm gonna last minute
i'm gonna make up an issue for like exemplar things and you tell me if this is like not this
specific one because we don't know this game but this could cause like this a little problem said
you write your your um your save game a certain way it's like this goes in this folder this goes
in that folder and that's your save game that's rock that's your bedrock right and then you get
all the way to the end and because of the cloud integration was saved microsoft said oh yeah you
can't do that you gotta you gotta change it to be like this that's a possible but then they're like
but every single mission in the game has been tested to saving to this location yes you i can't
just change it we have to retest the whole thing no exactly so uh that's and that's an example
that totally has happened on games i've worked on where uh you get to the finish line and it's
like your save structure is fundamentally busted you need to change the way the player saves his
progress that's the problem is and this is something i think i can talk about we've talked
about this before like like testers ship a bunch of games a year developers ship one game every two
years so these mistakes aren't and nearly as obvious to them until they don't see these whereas
like we see them all the time in front of our face we have a thing is that every time the
time it's our job is shown they've been showed they've showed the ps3 the 360 and the ps4 version
every single version was never shown right and the other thing is that i saw some people in gaff
saying microsoft has a if it doesn't show up on like the same day as the other versions it's not
showing up you have a day-in-date clause the feature parody clause also yeah so one of the
theories is it's not going to make it fuck it maybe re-release it with all the dlc or an extra
mission or an extra mission or something maybe when european extreme yeah exactly or you know like
being like we don't know what the fuck's happening that's the reasonable one it could do it could be
way crazier than that it could be like we made the game on this now put it into the port program
oh no it doesn't work it doesn't port over it could shit it could be absolutely i don't i don't
for a second think the bean ox is that incompetent no of course but like but but could be any you
know but but it's it's not always like oh shit it crashes at boot yeah it's like it gets sometimes
it's things that are just insidious way way deeper and way that being said it's still gonna look very
good for anybody no it doesn't know i don't mean the game looks bad i mean like this situation
makes no one look good no it doesn't you know bean ox looks incompetent despite whatever the problem
actually is or whether it's probably a super legitimate problem and microsoft console looks
suspiciously like bad when this stuff happens and and and and microsoft both saying the opposite
thing well no i mean microsoft says you have to ask the publisher about this and activision's like
we're trying to make it work with them you know like the major nelson should know he's not allowed
but it's not just really not his job what he should really say is i don't know yeah i know exactly
yeah and you know like the the honest truth is is if he's being straight um everything is a publisher
issue because your entire game is a publisher yeah you made it not what they wanted so weird so
i bet there's a lot of hannery and going on at various different offices and let's go down and
find out oh um so weird i are we gonna see more of that and then and then speak and then continuing
uh not with any level of consistency yeah but i can feel like we've got for the next year we got
like three more of those no and not and i don't mean on the xbox either just like in general because
the era of putting stuff out on five skews is clearly not working out one try ten skews for some
companies like but there's no there's no predictable way to do that like at all like that's a complete
guess this this next example of guessing three okay this next example of shit on fire in the
development studio um it's not on fire it's not on fire where there's no need for any speculation
because we have it in depth written up by jeff kealy got the receipts is the titanfall uh last
hours of titanfall that was interesting did you did you listen we have no money we have to do this
and so in a year uh i i read i read the the highlight notes right that i pointed out um jeff
kealy put together a sort of like behind the scenes documentary look at like what was happening within
respawn while titanfall is being developed yeah and actually oh man journalists so so if i can
remember like tell me if any of these are wrong because you're more familiar it's like brand
new studio like setting up the studio yep like lack of money and having that like beg for more money
which is a long standing issue with a lot of developers it's just like when they start uh we
went over budget um ask for more money ask for more money now do we have the money i don't know
where is it um uh new system brand new system changing from an old engine that was supposed
to be multi-plat for different systems there's a couple steps before that that you're even missing
oh really so one of the other ones was huge internal conflict all the way throughout the
awesome and that's yeah that's one of the big cruxes um but the other thing was the new console
thing there was an interesting twist to how that went down if you didn't catch it i did not where
they first went to sony and sony was like it's too early we're not talking with anyone
but we'll help you make it into a vita game and they turned around and left right so i bet they
did the three big so the three the three uh most interesting tidbits that's like gill is in that
office with a vita oh come on come on we'll pay for it moves around old sony's door um no the the
three most interesting tidbits maybe you would have had single player with development like that
what the hell was the internal conflict about uh well you can guess it you can guess it um active
activision suing them because the dudes the the hedges studio left yeah they walked right so that
led to um people were basically everyone's got fire extinguishers under their desks because
like in the middle of working on the game at any time a google alert would pop up and go you're being
summoned into the lawyer room go to the lawyer room and when you go in the lawyer room you're
there for the rest of the day oh yeah so like possibly into the next day as well to the point
where lawyers don't sleep quote unquote unquote half the studio was in legal battles nice during
the entire development process that makes a short development time way shorter literally half you
know not no more than half because lost time is not equivalent to no time that's true it's actually
like losing half a bunch of work in the middle is way more disruptive than just not coming in the
word the next day yeah no it's true um it was rough man yeah that shit going on um there was that
bit about yes they proposed uh not titanfall but the project they were working on initially was called
r1 which is totally a code name for titanfall but like but like it was before they knew what
titanfall was gonna be of course we're gonna make a sci-fi shooter of course but i mean it's the same
game like no it actually wasn't that's what that's what i'm saying is like r1 went to xbox one and
then just became titanfall like it's the same game like it just was a different thing at conception
sort of but it really was not the same game though that's the thing is like r1 was um
it was like they're like we want to start a new project we have these ideas and we're
throwing them all down on the table and people started working on it right yeah and then the
concept for what titanfall would become was like a whole separate discussion that that like morphed
and then dropped on top of r1 and turned it into this thing so like uh basically r1 was like yeah
there were being pictures of you the thing like you covered and eventually that fell through it
didn't work out they got titanfall out of it um and one of the coolest little tidbits about uh
some of the designs on how they made the titans was they didn't have the money as a new studio to
even like have to get the computers and like rendering software altogether to mock up like
mech designs fuck so they fucking started kit bashing they started grabbing model kits plastic
model kits and merging pieces together that's like like they should come up with concepts that's the
coolest ever because people that's like miyamoto swimming on his desk to illustrate how you should
swim Mario right that's that's kajima blocking out the mgs1 levels in lego like the like that's the
olden day because you know kit kit bashing is like a super old school thing that like dudes who are
way into like model kits and stuff do just for fun and they're like okay grab the arm from this
and put the legs from that together yeah that looks but they're but they're not mecha to the point
where they made a game about it but let's let's remember despite the designs literally being
hashed together from mecha parts they're not mecha they're tight they're tight they're tight boy some
of those old titan designs aren't great either but hey that's not what they shipped with this pretty
cool and no but they shipped with this great that game like i hear all of that and the thing that i
take away from that is that that game got fucked by its place in the release schedule that game
should have come out in fall but it can't because ea is publishing it and there will be a different
ea shooter of some kind this fall it'll probably be metal of honor and they don't want them to
compete i mean there definitely could have been a lot of better circumstances about its release
sounds like it just needed more time in the oven um time in the oven is that's the key that's the
key one and that's why like i think and a bunch of people uh believe that one time of all two
happens it's that's going to be the good fantastic game yeah you know because the ground man one
of mega man two the groundwork here i work on the groundwork here is totally fine we're just
missing concepts awesome nuts and bolts you know hopefully it's not exclusive this time um well yeah
by that time it'll be two to one it's not actually exclusive because it's on the pc too uh you know
what i mean i want to say one of the most uh in uh what's what i'm looking for uh the illegitimate
ads i've seen recently was at future shop i saw yeah misleading i guess um was there was a titan
fall ad and it said exclusively on xbox one and pc and i'm like are you joking like are you that
version is are you fucking serious where's the 360 like no shut up though like are you serious just
don't even pretend it doesn't exist don't look at him i know it's it's the relative that comes to
the table and you just don't make eye contact it's very interesting to me that that like push did
not stop even after the 360 version came out yeah like no marketing at zero and blue point
fucking killed it and he did wizardry on that version yeah because it looks great marched out
into the desert and left to die the fucking 360 version has the same maps and runs at 46 frames a
second but you know what blue point got their money so it's fine yeah that's all they care about
exactly we'll do it i want to castle vid cons about it i want to see like you know the 360 being
abandoned that'd be great um head scratcher of the week of the week
arcsis now blood rain yeah what finally arc system working on a franchise people care about
people care about the rcx blood rain is always care about plays blue blood rain what
people care about blood rain what is the shift um counter strike um what what i just want to say
blood rain not confirmed it looks a lot like blood rain and probably is but we do not have a 100
percent this is blood rain we will find out tomorrow because it's a countdown i mean today no tomorrow
i i always correct not in japan today no tomorrow okay well find out i forgot what today
you was probably would yeah uh no i mean i forgot i hilariously forgot what today is today is day
oh even i knew that i completely forgot are you fucking kidding me are you serious yeah
yeah happy birthday i'm 28 you're 40 years old oh why you do this yeah 28 you bastard
you're over now you're from boston i i'm old now it's been 40 it's been four years since you've
been at the peak of your gaming skill is that on here your birthday no the fucking no article
matt and i aren't talking about i'll get there so some reason 24 your gaming will only yeah so
some researchers basically they did some stats you you're terrible and they wanted to look at
reaction time okay over multitasking sure so the best way to do it is have competitive
starcraft players and graph them over their ages and there is a obvious difference as you get older
to 24 in terms of reaction time and then as soon as you pass over 24 the chart just starts to fall
like no right away i brought this up a while ago but this was actually done with just fighting
game players a long as time ago yeah um and in the early 2000s looking at japanese players and
looking at american players and everyone else at the peak of their game we pretty much nailed down
that you are at your best at 19 at 19 and everything after that is garbage so the hilarious thing is
is that your brain only really stops growing into its adult state at 25 so by the time you're an adult
it's too late of course you have already started down the path to being an old person and that
just goes to show you that like vae back when he was in his uh godlike base compared back when he
was in his wife beater do you understand how sick that power level what is at his peak lame you're
22 right not yet okay so you haven't felt it yet you guys are both older than me i believe you you
too matt woolly but a little bit i think you you've totally we played character action games
you've totally felt it haven't you god oh god it's so obvious it is so obvious on on back when
we were in college you were playing don't make cry three go back and play it now you can feel
yourself being old three to four i felt it god damn it you know like the i felt it for the first
time in revengeance and it was just like yeah especially because in revengeance the parry thing
is so like reactive yeah and like i can see it and i didn't do it fast enough and it's
oh it feels bad it feels bad i don't like it yeah i'm old you know old and those those
those one frame links are getting a lot harder to do uh yeah i you know i feel like if i put myself
to it back when we were in street fighter college i could have done it and it's just gone now i can't
even learn to do it now there used to be a gamer here now it's just log horizon you feel it too
don't yeah so now i've switched over to slow s m m o's and and or dark souls where you can take
enjoy your like 70 millisecond lag played dark souls sitting on a rocking chair you know i can
see that yeah plagues probably doing it right now yeah yeah well not yet on friday but no fuck off
by the way it's blood rain i don't care what anyone says look at her read the text it says something
about her staring into your you know what it's probably blood rain if there was if there was
there's ton for blades on her arm i mentioned it to matt and all i have to say to that is good on
you majesco uh that if there was a company that could actually do a interesting game with like a
redheaded like nazi vampire lady with an awful name it would be arksis yeah because that character
already exists in their fighting days um the resilience of the ip holder is like just go at
this point if they will not let it die and like wow wow probably they're bigger because there's
because there's something there i will leave vampires are hot right now but it's kind of like
it's kind of like um how the guy who owns the warriors is just he won't let it go you know what
it means some brands some brands just won't die because they're like we paid for this money
the difference here is that when i when you say the warriors like i think everyone around and most
of the people listening go yeah warriors that movie is fucking awesome where is when you hear blood
rain you're like blood rain fuck um when i hear that when i hear the word hover i go
as a scene hover can i just ask was this because matt mentioned it earlier was this the one i
showed you like this is the one we saw a while ago yeah okay yeah and the reason why it's news today
is because the kickstarter exactly i was out of town and i was like is this the same game like my
internet's nothing like everybody um continue to listen to this podcast and open up another
browser window and check out hover uh click the link in this description or go to the kickstarter
whatever this is everything me yes it is you want to describe it um furry characters yeah a bunch of
no
no it's it's take take the visuals of jet of jetground radio take the music of it as well
and make it third person and first person mix it with mirrors edge and then open world city map
yeah with like eight ten playable characters something that you recruit to your crew yeah through
stylish trick missions and then you go on real serious missions to take down the man take down
the right colors future city rails to grind on like oh my god oh my god this is everything i need
it's everything i need and then you see the big black bullet point third or first person switch
on the fly yeah fuck you man i need this what's it coming out on every what's it coming out on
fucking everything every console then we use a stretch goal and they straight up said we have
to make the game over from scratch more or less now because we can't port it like we can't everything
else we so it's the furthest stretch goal but um we are planning to put this on everything we are
getting the guy who did the music in jetground radio as a stretch goal as well um oh my god
everything is lining up perfectly i just really hope that the um the story and presentation of
that is really good because jetground radio has like a style that some people have tried to imitate
but it's really goofy but it's also like it's got a certain like japanese sense it's super hard to
imitate yeah and like a lot of people almost feel a lot of designers in north america almost feel
as though that's parody but it's not it's just a really weird feel and it's it's really hard to
imitate um one of the other games that got it down was the world ends with you yeah they got
that in a way yeah absolutely um i wouldn't say it's the same style but it's like a cousin it has
it has yeah it has a relation and in this case the character design so far i'm looking at that
cast like yeah that's the robot i want to play that's the cool girl i want to use like they've
got a really wide what what's that face okay well you're you will you want to play the robot you
want to use the girl it cracks me up well whatever i was just using different words to make dialogue
interesting sorry the english language works that way but anyway there's a giant like character
board of like look at all these fucking characters we've designed and uh if we hit our goals we're
going to make all of them playable stats that change with each one like oh oh just give it in my face
what are you doing you're rubbing your face you are doing everything you can to shit your pants on
this podcast speaking of which still no signs of that still no signs of oh no um it'd be great if
we could get one of those uh like um japanese stomach rumbling noises oh oh oh oh oh i feel one
being edited in right now the samurai shampoo hunger noise that's pretty good that um yeah check out
hover um also uh rumors going around uh this was a bit earlier but i guess like we didn't get to
cover it here ubi art prince of persia might be a thing it might be the best thing ever prince
persia seems like it would be perfect for that new really fancy 2d and considering where pop
zero went with it like just introducing more artist hopefully it's gorgeous hopefully it is not a
gorgeous pile of shit like pop zero is oh it's fun no it's not it's not fun it's terrible it is but
anyway it's awesome for the first hour then when you realize you're gonna do that first hour 10 more
times you're like it's great yeah i like i like the value of the ending afterwards i like the fact
that uh the ubi art engine is actually getting all this play yeah on it's it only they've only put
out two games on it before well right there's the remand stuff that exists there's the rayman stuff
there's child of light well but what i'm saying child of light is like we don't have we don't we
haven't seen how that's gone gone yet right child like comes out like a week it does and we'll see
how it goes but i'm saying they have faith in this already and they're like more like an assumption
it's cheap and it's it's beautiful and it has a distinct like look to it that well actually i think
it doesn't have a distinct look to it and i think that's what the advantage is in what way well valiant
hearts looks tremendously different from either of the other three games oh yeah i know i see what
you mean no i think i think the versatility relative to the cost of making anything versus
unreal three which looks always to me the unique or the distinctness is the fact that
hand-drawn art becomes the asset you're using in the game that's the strongest thing with it you
know um you don't have he's one of them artist guys you don't have to you don't have to do the
the wind waker thing where you're like i want to finally design a game where link looks like his
artwork you can just you can just draw him yeah and he is now your character yeah have you seen
a lot of the old uh demo stuff for that engine i haven't actually you should go look at it there's
this one with this knight and this giant like woman coming out of a lake and it's beautiful and you'll
wish it was a game where it never will be it is the best engine porn ever i love engine porn it's
awesome and you'll never get it um um samaritan he never gets samaritan samaritan engine porn man
the only engine porn i can ever think of that actually came out was the keras of war 2 me q
that me q actually we actually use that exact thing in a game pretty much uh but all other
engine porns you know they're always demos that don't exist um well there was well there was that
there there was that uh question about like um would you like to see agnes philosophy as a thing
yeah realized into a title yeah sure so there's some engine porn that could go somewhere maybe
i yeah so that's all pre-rendered so no it was no it wasn't the whole point of that
it just the demonstration that was my pride the first one was pre-rendered the second one was
real time and i remember being disappointed because like i understand the distinction but i was like
but i already saw this though so yeah i fooled myself okay either way you're totally right it was
it was not the second one was totally real time yeah um and actually i want to say the first one
wasn't pre-rendered they gave they put out the specs for it and it was it's an absurd machine
but it's not like a pixar animation the second one was a place as loud as this the second one was
a ps4 okay yeah i still look good uh yeah in fact that the second one was was to show that we're
running this on current gender hardware exactly we're like mystery box down uh it's in it's where's
that shit should have been out like four months ago okay well they showed off a lot of gameplay
there's a lot of gameplay you can go watch i know the beta is catching it sitting on it and
he's warming it up yep the beta got pushed back to the end of summer uh and they said we can't wait
for you to see it because there's a surprise thing that you don't know about that's a really big
aspect of this game that we had to work on harder it's probably the monetization there's something
obviously that they're holding back this you can play as gyle considering how little we know about
one song plays the entire time you play game looks really good i wanted to be that the dungeon
crawling is one aspect and then there's a shot there's the trailer shot of them dungeon crawling
and it comes to the end and here's like a you know a cave opening and he walks out and is like
actually it's just dragon's dogma too that's just what it is it's recheck you all the letters the
letters is what made me think they have to be related oh yeah right why would you say it's not
deep down it's an awkward name very awkward so why would you go with that yeah if dragon's
dogma is no less awkward exactly no it's less awkward but it states its purpose and says yo
dragons well deep down that way when it was announced no i still no no i still don't like it
okay no i told you it still sucks i don't like boring fantasy names you know but what are you
gonna do like the reckoning yeah amalur kingdoms of all the reckoning is gotta be like the worst title
in the past oh it's our sub-fair um i was like the fact that they put reckoning at the end of it was
just like resonance resonance of fate i'm always gonna be butthurt about that end of eternity
end of eternity such a better name infinite undiscovery yeah releasing a game as project
sylphied white knight chronicle that one's a weird one folks souls folks souls is one of
the ones where i'm like that can only fly in japan and it did yeah yeah you can't say
folk was a good title it's fine but you can't say folks souls well demon in english souls
in english conversation demon souls is one of the worst too because nobody actually says the
real title of that game everyone says the title of that game is demons souls it's in the possessive
fuck that demon soul yeah geez and we're english speakers like imagine how shitty that must be
if you're speaking japanese and you have to make that dumb distinction but the point is they don't
because they just leave the end of the word open they leave the end of the word no everybody says
des if you type it des you uh and hey there's peace at last between at least between candy swipe
and candy crush oh okay just did they kill the little guy yeah well um if they did then like
they reanimated his corpse and got it to say that we have come to an agreement and it is and um we
have been able to work out our differences whatever and also i have discovered that and i don't know
if this was him being forced to say it or whatever in the settlement but he said i have also discovered
that um their name was was planned before i came up with my name so despite the fact that's that's
my product feels so legally it feels like legal was pushed into the interview he then drove off in
a maserati yeah right in a in a um durango who knows who knows but no he's so in a canyon there
so much for one of these settlements to come up and then just he pulls out a second piece of paper
and he says i have been instructed as part of this agreement to read this i am dumb and my butt
smells and i like to smell my own butt thank you
so that that imagine if you like somebody suit us yeah well you could pass all your money or
go read this or you have to change your name to pat matt william lame yeah no it's like and then
they plant they plant a guy in the front of the press conference like custom question how much does
your butt smell it smells a lot there are stink lines around my butt oh you got the stink lines and
everything
so that's one peaceful resolution quoted quotes to king that was of trouble that was a vicious
battle behind the scenes there's no peace to that well i mean fuck like the fact that he
had to say in his statement that oh look hey uh my game came out first but they did have their name
whatever lawyers are hyper scum um but that does scum all over yeah and now and now we tune
into part four where the guys that made cut the rope are getting involved that i mentioned that
last week but i don't remember who brought the lawsuit the guys who made cut the rope yeah had
taken up the cause and said we're big fuck these guys because they're suing them because candy is a
really big important item in our game it's a key item it is the crux and cut the rope is a huge yeah
be old yeah relatively speaking yeah that was one of the first twos i want to get away with this
although it is worth noting that uh king did um what is it uh they did cancel the filing for candy
yes you know in the end so good because they couldn't deal yeah the literal hit to their stocks
yeah well it's because they wanted to have the monopoly and then they get the monopoly and they're
like yeah and then they're like wow a lot of lawsuits hitting us right now oh the stock is bad
is probably despite the monopoly because of all these lawsuits and and they filed for the trademark
i don't know if it went through ever because of the shit storm that followed but they filed for it
so yeah it i don't think it ever actually got enforced you know they were they did the filing
and then they started sending out the letters blowback was a little too strong yeah it was a
little too egregious um how many lawyers got fired i i really hope a lot no tons of lawyers got hired
uh lots of money in the lawyer industry around king they're lining up out the door more lawsuit
chasing ambulances king's the real money yeah yeah um so that's the equivalent of like hey king
why don't you step into the street oh no he's in an ambulance yeah exactly better get in with you
lawyers please queue here you know i mean it's really if when you think about it it's it's it's
actually great timing because like the industry needed like a villain oh yeah they needed a dark
night a target and here it is activisions calm down for a while excuse me so we need a new villain
now that they bought themselves yeah they bought themselves how cool was that yeah well we talked
about that i know it's like Darth Maul and the emperor right the one time you're a vader the one
the one time yeah sorry you're like you know what you go big triple a company yeah saving yourself
from fight the man the bigger man is is is that to get the little amazing hero yeah well they they
say there was genome in the antispirals right totally totally like yeah bobby codic is not lord
gino he could be i could see a developer that takes his head and puts it in a super computer and
tell me how to take the fun out of making video i've invented a planet where all fun is removed
from the games because i have to save you because if we have fun we all get destroyed exactly that's
an algae that's really well the guys above me are gonna come down and make it worse for you so i have
to remove the fun so that we can show them a profit oh fuck but i'm like lord genome codic actually
succeeded this is a great narrative it's working and i worked up the fun out of call of duty and i
wish i could name four generals from activision to like but those those are so mender and those would
be those would be guitar hero and call of duty guitar hero call of duty starcraft and wow and
skyland okay wow uh yeah well you had removed one of those is the one that survived no skylanders
is cathedral terror you know it's a great analogy it's been there all along why does this work so
well this is so stupid activision lag and but you're totally right we needed a new villain
and boy did we get one gurren vision with no face condition it's king not king dot com it's just king
dot com like i remember when activision was being evil bobby codic's dumb mug shot popped up right
away with the guitar hero guitar and no the one where he's just sitting in his office being a scumbag
he's got his arms up yeah and you're and you're just like oh my god fuck this fucking business man
holy shit but king dot com smartly did not do that now i still think of king dot com i don't think
fuck there's no name no there's no god yeah but at the same time you do that as a move so that you
can kill him yeah and like ricketello exactly and he's the sacrificial lamb by ricketello
so there's a pro and a con to doing that you know good job running your the company into the ground
um despite getting the score was less evented ground running speaking of unprecedented ground
running oh who's excited for a potential director's cut to sucker pun i am really happy really with
your segue on this really best ones you've ever done because boy is that some ground running
and it is unprecedented really that back you all right fuck you anyway anyway i'm not sure about
liam but the three of us and another friend or two we all were went into sucker punch going i hope
this is good it looked cool and trailers i guess stunned at how bad it was like unwatchable that
girl had a short skirt like like we were sitting in the theater watching with our food and we all
just went into like a guard break animation like oh my god it's so bad and then and then like
nowadays when zack snider gets credited it never says from the director of sucker punch no three
i was such a huge disaster like and my sam alone you gotta hide that yeah yeah and the fact that
zack snider like has the gall to say like yeah there's like the real version i love the super
uncut so the studio made me leave all the good bits on the good no there's no same my theory on how
you quote unquote save sucker punch like removing 95 percent removing everything that's not one of
the sequences yes one one of the music videos and put the music videos out as music videos and just
go i'm a music video director from even the one that they stole from final fantasy 13 even though
he used to be one yeah i'm going back to it and here are my four videos that is that is the that
i'm that is one of the only movies i can ever think of in my life that we're sitting there and
we're watching that and we're watching the sequence and i go this is stolen this entire sequence you
know what i feel that stolen is not even a strong enough it like you need like clones okay
people that don't know what we're talking about because smart people didn't go see sucker punch
but go track it's the train sequence they're fighting on a train right yep against robots or
some shit and they infiltrate from the back right so it is it is that one and it is also the final
fantasy 13 like intro sequence where you first where they are fighting on a train lighting jumping
into the train it is lifted it is unapologetic it's blatantly copying control c control it is
unbelievable and i thought i was nuts when i saw like i must be imagining it it can't be
as egregious as i think it is like the only other example i can think of is uh the some of the
resident evil movies steal scenes from the games which makes it which is totally fair now the thing
is is that i feel that from the way zack talks about that movie um to him it's just all homage and
so he's okay with the idea of like yeah i know you know where this came from yeah because you look
at like the first uh one where you had the samurai girl and it's like yeah that's a blood the last
vampire character right fighting against a giant hell gas general type but with the like how far
can you go samurai it's a straight right when you take the premise and then shoot your own scene
fine but he just took the scene just took it and the premise so so here we have it
basically being put out there that what you saw was the studio's edit the studio's cut and they made
me do you see kingdom of heaven yeah so how that was coming out of it really happens to me all the
time yeah we're on the same level scott nine basically he gets extra like internal justification
because that happened to him on watchmen where the the studio said you're not putting out a
four-hour movie at your they said you're not putting out a four-hour movie and you're not
putting a giant fucking squid in it i don't care yeah so sorry um correct me if i'm wrong i don't
follow movies super carefully or directors or anything he did do man of steel right he yes no
he didn't direct it he didn't direct it he produced it okay well regardless he touched heavily
and that makes me believe him even less yeah well his fingers turn it into a snyder movie he made uh
he made um 300 that first one was all right it was like the only difference the only difference
between him directing and in producing is that you don't get the actual musical lyrics yeah dropped
into the movie to explain emotions as they're actually when like you hear 99 love balloons come
in and then you hear the lyrics come in yeah and you're just like what are you doing or what are you
doing and adria invades office where like literally everybody wants to rule the world
just playing in the background and it's not the instrumental it's the whole track fucking like
no in that case it was instrumental but it's still like no i'm still halloween tell don't show tell
don't show i'm still mad over the the the love balloon one because it feels like you're in the
theater and like zack drives up and winds his window down and leans his hand out with some nuts
and greens and at your face and goes huh come on come on you know the song you know you like it you
like this song it makes you feel like you're sitting in a theater with a bunch of gray 35 year olds
who don't know anything say gray 35 as in they're like gray amorphous blonde yes okay and they just
don't know anything they thought you meant like getting old hey guys can you tell that this character
is feeling sad no all right we'll listen to the words about how sad she is right now drop big
old anime tear on her anyway uh with that being said may that never come to light it's gonna come
to light it's gonna come to light it's gonna come to light why is there who wants to get cancelled
for the xbox one in the last second what grounds well is there for sucker punch directors cut i bet
there's a lot of 14 year old boys that love that movie i'm willing to think it was one of those things
that became a really like something that sold well on dvd and blu-ray at 10 bucks probably
maybe there's like an evil zone style fan base that's out there totally absolutely you're gonna
have to deal with right it's like i mean we were all kids once kids like oh the hot girls got sword
it's like that's probably all it takes for a certain audience i can't remember being that dumb
but i'm pretty sure i was at one point kiddie pool shallow yeah i'm sure on the visuals alone it's
probably sold a lot of dvds and blu-rays like because it's been 10 bucks forever i feel you know what
fuck it i used to say i had my theory originally was like make it for music videos
i'm changing that again sucker punch would have been amazing as an art book
right nothing but an art book yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna stand by that statement uh with that being
said let's take a word from our sponsors yo did you guys ever actually end up finishing off misfits
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that's one of those shows you're like you should watch this and i said yeah like a bunch of other
things and then just like well here's the thing right there's this whole other land across the
ocean called england no no they have no i refuse they have programs sometimes that are just like
hours and are also good and worth checking out so they don't have tv shows they have programs
programs on the telly yes okay on the telly but it doesn't necessarily have to be on the telly because
if you've got we do plus who loo plus can do that who loo plus can do that oh my god you don't need
a telly you can use your consoles you could use your phones you can use anything some of those
will require a television though might might but it's not a prerequisite for everything i'm pretty
sure the console would still require a tv some of them but not all of them no not the ones that
already have screens exactly so oh did you say phone got your phone there's a call up for nokia
get it going so yeah um misfits in particular a really cool show that i ended up finishing off
and like it's one that i'd recommend because it's a british version of heroes i'm gonna say so it's
fancy there but all the main characters are like gumbags they're all scumbag they're asbo's
they're anti-social behavior kids they get sent to like uh the that new community community service
for being shit right right so they and turns out they've got powers now right so you've got like
this this group of so is it a bunch of chavs with superpowers yes yes not some of them are chavs
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programs yeah she grew 50 feet tall and decided to destroy her own kingdom oh yes that should be a
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it's letter time what it's it's letter time speak up a little i'm glad i'm here for a letter
time because my tummy's going nuts on me because we noticed yeah i think i'm feeling better though
i'm feeling better for letters you got all the you got all the evil out all the haribo got me
bears you got the poison out oh it's that fucking mirror movie oh there you go when we ended up with
the mirror sippy sippy on the water if you want to send letters in where would you send them liam
uh super best friendcast at gmail.com that's right it's super best friendcast at gmail.com
to send your letters in it's true if they're good we'll read them all your e-letters well
directly we'll read them regardless but yeah i mean on the air i mean on the air but we'll
tell sometimes you probably even read a bad letter or two for funsies so you never know
i got sent a really good letter just as an aside it said yeah my name is dylan and i'm 13 years old
and i know that seems young but i think i still get most of your jokes anyway the teacher asked us
who inspires us the most and i think it's probably you guys also uh tell my stupid friend jacob that
he's a liar jacob also the other thing he asked was is it cold up here because it's cold down there
because it's cold down here it's getting better it's not so bad now it is awesome it was a really
sweet like sincere letter it was great thanks dylan that sounds really sincere jacob you know who's
not sincere jacob because he lies you just stop it and i'm telling you that yeah king of lies
good work dylan uh i can't not hear dylan that way anymore
there you go uh corridan asks if we can water down salty liam because every time he gets into a
fight with salty pat it's like mommy and daddy or pat and i talked about we like me and hit like
was it after the podcast after the podcast yeah exactly where it's basically we discussed like
liam's blind optimism really pisses off my blind negativity which of course
sit back around the other way cynicism yeah uh and uh we were thinking about having like a long
term bet of like optimism versus cynicism but that's not fair because optimism's better to have
but cynicism is usually right yeah but yeah we will we will try and tone it down and one of the ones
we will try and avoid the personal insults in the future that would be nice the mega man one
got a bit extreme because obviously i was getting really close to actually hitting it but what i was
gonna say was obviously off camera we've been talking about mega man for us since we knew each
other uh two weeks ago i want to say i'm being an idiot because i remember you guys arguing a
lot of this bickering extends to off camera oh yeah we immediately jumped to 11 it's because we've
already brought it up so yeah so here's the deal we have a really nice civil conversation about it
where we disagree yeah exactly for like two hours then we start the podcast the topic comes up
and i say the strongest worded statement i can say on the topic and liam does the same and then we
both get all pissy yeah so apologies and we go by each other ice cream afterwards we do there you go
i hate that feeling when mommy and dad are finally me too it's really awkward although i'm not your
parents kids but we could be no no no we can't i take that back we both had looser years uh
tony starks tony starks uh sends in a question saying hey zibatsu i have a question um i love you
liam uh pat i remember you saying uh when you went on a during a nintendo reveal or something that
the presenter um had a game that was running in 1080p and and the uh it was asked about whether
the game was running in 1080p and the guy said he had no idea um how do you differentiate i remember
this yeah how do you differentiate between a game running in 720p 30 fps and 720p 60 versus 1080p
30 and 1080p 60 because they all look the same to me yeah you look at it with your eyeballs
well that's and you can just count the pixels it's basically like i i i talked to i i've seen a
lot of these comments and i've talked to a bunch of them it's like how do you tell the nervous
between this and this and my initial reaction to that is you look at it in blind thought yeah
but that's not helpful so for 30 30 frames per second versus 60 frames per second is like
does it look super duper smooth then it's 60 frames per second and it's really hard to have this
discussion on the internet in terms of how everyone's everyone's first go to is like we'll
look at a youtube video but youtube videos aren't in 60 frames a second i know a really good example
of 60 frames per second is on me and my friends all rented sega soccer slam and went why is that's
a cool game yeah can you think of a download 60 frames but we didn't know what 60 frames was
can you think of a demo on like the 360 or ps3 wipeout hd wipeout hd is a demo i'm 99
okay well then or just go load up a web and look up like a thing that says like 60 frames
the second game see if you can find a demo just look at it like bayonetta on the 360 is a good
example now now sorry i think the key thing is when you're accustomed to 60 fps games or you
like have a certain affinity for that and then you just go to a 30 fps thing you instantly notice
yeah but for me it's not even that like i can i feel very confident that ever i can get
your frame rate correct within five to seven frames wherever it is and the other and the lower
it goes the more exact so like when castlevania um lord's shadow came out like i looked at it
i was like that is 23 frames a second and that's the ballpark exactly that is exactly what that is
that is low and another thing is you just you might just never like because it's a brain and i thing
you just might never be able to now to me though like the way the the the the more difficult side of
this is how do you get somebody to know notice the difference between 720 and 1080p and have a look
at them side by side uh really truly the easiest the easiest thing to do is what's it called stair
casing hair stepping uh yeah where you look at yeah i know basically the the way to tell it the easiest
way to do it is to find an old-ass pc game that your pc can run in both and find a long straight
object like stairs is the best uh and it's the more you the higher the resolution the less
jaggy and shitty it looks on the edges yeah it's it's yeah that's the easiest way to tell but when
you're running it on it when you're looking at a console on your tv that's oh for sure in whatever
yeah um it does get a bit harder but yeah at eight feet it gets way hard well i was gonna say if
they've got 720 and a a it starts to look good too like like rise looks great so so i think like um
yeah but i know but it looks great yeah it's not 900 to 1080 so it's much more but that's what i'm
saying like no so to an untrained eye like you might not be able to just see your console in 720
versus 1080 yeah notice the difference i wouldn't even say it's an easy thing at all like it's not
it's an acquired thing if that well i mean well now like i think you and i just buy from through work
can stare at 720 versus 1080 i yeah but we're zero point one exactly i can you catch it immediately
the way i would the way i would put it is say there is a song that you like that has a relatively
complex orchestration of different instruments right the first time you listen to that song you
just hear the cacophony right you just hear song you listen to that song enough times you can pick
out every single different instrument yes and once you do you will never not be able to do that
and it starts to extend to other music and it will start to send other music when i played
fucking first person shooters in high school and i was playing day of the feet
every single night with a monitor three inches from my face
yeah i got a real good look at 1080 pixels yeah right um but no and so that's totally it but frames
per second or is way more obvious way more noticeable uh you can you can definitely frames
per second is the kind of thing that it's easier to feel than it is to see because you can you can
it's really hard now because there are so few games well actually in the next gen it's getting a
lot better but there in the last gen there were very few games that ran at 60 one of my favorite
things that i noticed at work is when someone who's not so super into this goes from one skew of a
game to another skew and is like whoa what happened what happened yeah yeah yeah yeah they they see
it and they're like i don't know what happened but it's better yeah better yeah okay i know the
example on the 360 the bioshock one demo still exists correct i don't know man okay in the box
the bioshock one demo lets you lock the frame rate because yeah it usually hovers around 50 frames
a second but you can get screen tearing so you can choose to lock it at 30 so what you do is you go
into that bioshock one demo and you can lock it to 30 so you lock it to 30 and you don't get the
screen tearing anymore but the frame rate drops like 20 frames so by going in flipping that back
and forth and seeing how it looks seeing how it feels you can tell just take a lot of screen tearing
i would never ever ever advise anyone to actively look for these differences because once you see
them you will never not see them yeah screen tearing i saw the very first game i saw i had screen
tearing with jack two on the ps2 it has atrocious screen tearing and screen tearing is so ugly and
some people don't see it and they are so lucky they are so lucky screen tearing is the absolute worst
there's a little bit of an ignorance is bliss there's totally an ignorance i totally think so yeah
because if someone that doesn't into this stuff and they play a lot of games with screen tearing
they'll start to think that's how games are that's just the norm exactly probably the the best casual
example that i could see for the frame rate one is when people that would only play like military
first person shooters would go man call of duty just controls better it's just way smoother way
faster than battlefield it's running a double the frame rate it is twice as responsive it's
strange how when you go back to like your 16 and 8 bit equivalents of this where there's slowdown on
the screen we feel good about slowdown yeah we enjoy it i've used the phrase break it like a
super nintendo game break it um and you go back to the playstation 1 and n64 era and fuck those
games run at garbage frame 14 fps everywhere wow we always use the shining example of armored
armadillo as like the best feeling slowdown ever as ocarina of time is one of the ones where you're
like woof woof i i don't remember this that has moments where the slowdown makes it cool but in
general yeah on playstation 1 there's an awesome awesome game called silent bomber that i think
runs at 60 frames and it was it's awesome all that games read um don't look forward it'll ruin your
life see mckelvey uh says if you could turn any landmark into a human embodiment would you want
to do it and would you hang out would you kick it would you kick it with mount everest i'd kick it
with a statue of liberty she seems cool i kick it with mount rushmore mount rushmore as one person
those guys would have a lot more to say you know what i'm gonna remove my voice a boat and
think of something better because picking a statue seems plain i just want to play around
i just want to play around with hachiko oh i was gonna say negoya gundum damn it dammit
dammit no we're it's not a real warm we're picking things that are things okay okay okay we should
yeah we have to anthropomorphize things that are slightly more abstract landmark a landmark
okay the aurora borealis as a person would be sick not a landmark well fine eat shit woolly
okay uh man this question really went all over oh man the space needle i'd like to hang out the
the arc de triomphe that'd be cool you know who's a shitbag that's not invited to anything what the
big o you're right oh the olympic stadium oh fuck that thing yeah not the big o because he's
overweight and in debt because nobody wants sorry sorry fine the big o the anime is awesome
and amazing and we were not talking about that i'm at the montreal olympic stadium because that's
what we all call it that pile of shit it's the worst no we just caught the pile it's all monster
truck rally though one time was good who invited him that guy's a cunt um get out of here you have
finished piece of shit the olympics it's it continually approaches finished and then like
goes back they're never gonna finish it no the whole top part of that fucking tower it's never
going to turn into a swimming pool i think tower of pieces all weird and creepy hey guys getting
all close to you standing way too close to your face hey hey yeah you'd be a weirdo
i got nothing that's that's that's all the coliseum's probably a pretty cool guy i wish i knew more
the coliseum would be like yo i've seen some shit the coliseum would be a huge bro ptsp
he's the original hbo he's the tightest pullo basically yeah or like the grand canyon is just
like this giant cowboy that'd be sick that'd be awesome it's pretty good anyway thanks mcelfie
uh we got one from uh morgan and his email is uh something we tried to push but we forgot about
called now that's pre-alpha oh yeah we totally dropped that yeah so um i was wondering what do
you think the hardest struggle that an indie developer has to get past is other than um other
than having money to and have other than having money to eat uh getting seen i would say yeah two
things and that's getting development anywhere off the ground because people will flake the fuck out
if they don't know how hard it is to make a game right out of money i don't mean that i mean when
you get when you get the young guy who just graduated from x-place and you're like he's a
programmer he knows what he's gonna do yes we're gonna do it we're gonna do it the fuck out oh wait
by by through experience we are speaking the reliable programmer is the hardest thing
i see a programmer reliable programmer oh like 45 percent of the time that's always the problem
that's all yep and and the pro the projects that do end up at not even working out but just
seeing the light of day are usually the programmer is the guy who started it and he's got an artist
buddy yeah if you're starting from zero that's one of the hardest things now does the game exist
i would say the hardest thing is getting exposure does anyone know about your game no i i that's
the that's one of the hardest things but it's easier now than say five years oh yeah absolutely
totally um yeah one of those two issues i'd say yeah totally and then third is money depending
on your what you're making yeah of course but he said besides money because because money is
obviously the biggest surprise like yeah um good question though yeah uh ryan wants to know
if there are any games that you guys played with your parents or siblings on a regular basis
streets and it's an lpa hockey 93 i play with my dad all time yeah siblings is obvious for me i
told the story about street fighter and black people that's how we work yeah but um for parents
yoshi's island played with my mom and fuck my brother is cheating ass and fucking street fighter
you're never gonna never let it go bullshit he would tell me he's four years older than me
and he would tell me the wrong special inputs so he could beat me more easily never let me
i've played streets of rage with my dad all the time uh did you play with him or did you play
and force him to watch no with him absolutely okay yeah he played his plays always you want to hear
how hard i never let it go like three years ago at christmas it's like hey man let's play some
street fighter and i kicked the fucking shit out of him it felt really big i was like yeah
yeah you suck and he's like it's yeah i've never played it yeah you suck jeez really pathetic the
other one i guess is uh my cousin and i we both really like handhelds and we always used to play
like a handheld game quote in quote like at the same time together over summer vacation so like
fire emblem was a big one that we played and sacred stones as well even though they don't
have much in the way of interconnectivity just playing it simultaneously and like the
chronicles of did your guy die or not yeah it was a super fun experience there was like there was
a time when i used to like go over to my cousin's place and do arts and crafts and make little things
after watching the original arts and crafts yeah we'd watch like take part in some of those like
craft shows and then make stuff and uh for a while we played mario paint and had fun just doing all
that stuff with the house yeah exactly yes totally and there was and then there's a point it was
specifically when uh my cousin i think she turned 14 or 15 and it was just like not interested in
any of that shit anymore time to be cool and i got super buffed out and i was like you don't
want to make stuff you don't want to play and no it's like no i was like okay i'll just go play
it for a moment and then fuck that and then it lost his appeal that moment immediately immediately
in 94 me and my sister would always try to co-op donkey kong country and maybe that's where some of
the the impended uh what's the word impetitus the impetus of best friends is that we would always
scream at each other whenever the other one would die since that co-op was i died whoops now you're
now you're dead too and we don't and like she would die in a pit i'm like oh and like back then
my 13 year old mind would just go oh i try surviving and she'd be like no you try surviving or
whatever you sound just like that sounds just like yeah yeah no that with that that amount of force
in my voice and my mom was actually good enough to to play like dr mario and tetris and like original
like pacman really much oh man and then i would get my mad at my mom whenever she'd lose and would
you be better mom and then that kind of scared her off like yeah you become a different person
that reminds me that i used to play tetris with my sister and that stopped real early i bet because
she is fucking kick ass to tetris she beat tetris on the nest nice she hit a thousand lines and then
just went uh i had to play her someday yeah played this shit out of tetris ds so yeah she's old now
so that's not gonna happen yeah she's way past 24 it's it's not nearly so far back it's only eight
years but like um i was still living at home at the time and i played uh we sports a lot with my
family uh my dad would often stay up way past when i decided to go to sleep drinking with his friends
playing bowling yeah and i'd get up in the morning and it was just left on and you know whatever but
like that was like a really fun experience i at one point woke up and my dad had bowled a perfect
game and i didn't even know i didn't even know that he knew how to turn it on did you get super
butter because you couldn't beat that score i could never come close to that shit um sorry i was
gonna say a neat little thing was like after i said my parents stop playing video stop playing
video games or wasting your time it'll you'll never get any back to anything video game yeah
suck it yeah face parents the first qa place i worked at had a slogan that was your parents were
wrong that's wrong that's charming but uh remember there's all those old mini games on
new super mario brothers like the first one on the ds yeah there's a little section of mini games
absolutely because i remember when i first got that like the week i had that ds in that game
i showed my parents the mini games and my dad and mom were like oh my god this is so much fun i told
me mario 64 no mario new super mario brothers ds had like four mini okay no i don't know why
does all the remember all luigi's card games no i just i remember the slingshot one that's mario
64 a new super mario brothers had them too they both had it yeah absolutely anyway when i passed
my parents they're like oh my god i'm totally doing this i'm playing a game my mind is blown
i'm the blue ocean yeah and at that time i was like oh my god wow what a great strategy there's
gonna get everyone back just follow through with it just follow through with it anyway thanks obama
thanks obama erin wants to know uh i love your show erin thanks erin besides uh the awesomeness of
zack uh if you could have any animal as a pet what would it be and why any animal as a pet yeah
is this the fantasy world in which there are no problems resulting from this pet because that's
two very different answers okay so you can pick an animal that exists in this time frame in this world
um but if i say a tiger am i gonna run into tiger related issues no the difficulty of owning
the animal is waived okay okay okay uh a giraffe i want a i want a leiger dude they're cool okay
leigers are fucking big leigers would dominate the entire i want to ride around on it yeah okay
yeah i can see that that's sick i want like a Siberian husky oh cool i want an arctic prince
oh like a big dog because the i know someone that owned like i know a guy in my in my old working
qa that had a dog sled team wow he had them and owned all of them and they're like they're the
you cannot handle one most people can't handle one i've got 12 and they wreck everything and their
fur is just fuck right so he's like but i love them so much and i was like i wish i could just have
one because it's just fucking gorgeous but it's just like but the payoff is just for that like
couple hours that you go out sledding yeah and the rest of the time it's just fuck wrecking
shit and cleaning up fur oh i got another one uh you don't you don't want to go first no i was
gonna say mine is absolutely a peregrine falcon um what are you gonna do with that i want to be a
falconer i want to have it fucking you can actually be a falconer you know i want to be you just want
to be neckeruru i can have my mama i can have my you want to be the snl character the falcon
the falconer yeah yeah no i want the peregrine falcon as the fastest fucking bird besides the
swift that when it's diving but peregrine falcon has just the ultimate hawk thing that
perches and is badass and can fly out yes totally a pet shop oh did you tell him what you got in
there was a really cool um little thing called um uh it was like a my little pet shop um like
it was like my little pet shop toy it's the packaging and inside of it was pet shop from
juju it's really well done um but yeah i want that falcon i could point it a thing and it just
goes and gets it i don't think that's how that animal works no but also like this is fantasy
there's no problem i guess you said the logistics shut up but like i meant to the problems you're
riding a liger okay you seriously shut up those those things that are not allowed anywhere near
nature if i had to pick a realistic scenario i would want a new fee dog um there's a little
like it's a newfoundland newfoundland dog yeah they're they're cool they're poofy um there's a
little like species of deer or gazelle or something shut up with your deer dude they're like can i
tiny they're like too many tall and they're anything is good and they're called dick dicks
dik dik dik they're fucking adorable dick and dick yes wow dude they're so huge they're they're
totally a thing i'd love to have one if that's legal is that street legal no no but the problem
doesn't exist in this fantasy world oh yay a realistic animal is just i want a puggle yeah i
really want to i like a welsh corgi yeah i will score you too i i'd love to i i almost got a hedgehog
but the mother ate all the babies yeah i may have told this story i guess they weren't fast enough
oh poor babies well we're not gonna top that what's the next question
that's fucking dark and dude i was disappointed oh to say the least yeah so are the babies uh
zack uh zack zacka or zasha it's hard to say cool either um both of these are cool
says if you could do any job that did not involve gaming any job what would it be
zasha from melbourne be an astronaut i couldn't answer this question when i was three years old
and i sure as hell can't answer it now okay well it's like saying i want to be an adventurer that's
fun well i i'd say like um well because maybe if you said specifically like i guess like spaceship
engineer whatever i need to be to get to the space because there's a lot of stuff to do i just
want to get into space no matter what i've never heard you say this you're totally right let's go
to space thank you would you be one of the mario i hope you both find a marker that's not a job
no that's that's but that's a thing no what like they're gonna the proposition to send people
no to send people to mars forever and to live there forever that's a raw deal man i won't be
because there's still people and things that i love on earth and they say don't do and they say
don't do this if there's still people and things you love on earth but you gotta find really i just
want to go to the moon man that's good enough but like the type of people even just in space yeah
fuck it that's good enough low earth orbit's good enough the type of people you have to find for
that mission it's like awesome because you have to be the perfect specimen you have to be mentally
stable super like captain america solid snake but you have to have zero attachments to anything on
this planet yeah or at the very least love space that much i'm pretty sure that doesn't exist
it's it they have seven billion people there's probably a couple hundred that they're interviewing
right now and they'll be doing something next they'll find one they're gonna toss them and then
they're gonna be like oh right remember that part where we asked them if they were cool with being
in space forever and they said they totally were yeah they were lying because they're going crazy
destroying the space they didn't know you saw gravity fuck that i'm not going to space
my it's a little bit go to space a little bit yeah like not excluding the ones that i'm currently
trying to accomplish uh dream job would be which is jiggaloo yeah makes it you know working on it
uh condom which ones are you currently trying to accomplish that aren't gaming related that oh
not gaming related yeah exactly i was like which like yeah i know the ones i want uh they're all
because we're all doing like you and i are doing gaming related exactly uh uh besides that stuff
i want to be the guy that tests out vacation packages for different i said like like secret
shopper chocolate tester no they literally like the oprah did a thing on this it's like the person
whose job is to try out the vacation package and see if it's good enough fuck anyone that has that
job yeah i don't know because imagine like because you imagine you had you had a family and everything
but five days a week you got to be out of town oh no but still well it's not it's more like i feel
like it's not no but it's not like it's more like there are a there's a stretch of time okay that
you've got to do this for and then you come back home can you bring your family no probably not
shit maybe people who take vacations in packages to our families i always really wanted to be a
voice actor and then i realized how hard it actually is it sucks this is hard it's the worst
i can't keep writing out my barney impression forever wow you've been doing good so far it's a tough one
pretty good it's pretty good i thought you meant barney the dinosaur for some reason
no i don't know i don't know i don't know oh first someone um a name that cannot be pronounced
because it's s h d w r n r that's schwerner schwerner we're sorry we're asked all about your name
schwerer um it's actually just commenting on something that we brought up a while ago which is uh
silently in walking day yes yeah if people sent me that yes play through is weird if you play
lee silently it's really interesting because you get to see what type of person he is um he was he's
like in a lot of situations he ends up not coming off as shitty but just as a bad leader
yeah because he's indecisive and in uh there's some really good moments that happen which don't
make any decisions and i showed leon one like is it specific yeah there's a great one because the
game is gonna have to pick for you to do something yeah yeah and silently is a different person from
like dick lee and dick lee and family and exactly and silently uh it's that for example when you're in
season one and you are uh jumping and you have to jump and hit um omid off of the bridge right
right to land on the thing if you don't pick anything when omid goes oh man this looks scary
fucking omid pushes you interesting and he pushes lee first and you go lee goes oh and then omid
still falls off and he still jumps and fucks up oh in the end nothing changes but it's funny yeah
that's pretty good yeah he like he has a really good line like he looks and goes like oh man this
is the scariest thing ever isn't it and lee's just like uh isn't he like and lee means like
nothing's scarier than that though whoop that's even dumber the fact that he pushes you and then
it's such a putz that he falls like i imagine in real life i'm going to be good have a nice trip
and then he falls like it's the equivalent of the dude that kicks your ankle so that you fall
you lift your foot up and he and he falls yeah yeah um one from ben coming in hey ben hey ben see you
see you um i was wondering how much time you guys uh have well oh rather considering how much time
you guys spend editing and publishing videos per weekends and such recording uh how much time does
that leave for you to play personal games for fun not a lot not as much as you would think not a lot
it's a problem we're all having yeah and when you do it you're like i can't keep
doing this i gotta do the other thing yeah then you don't enjoy it as much as you feel guilty yeah
you feel guilty uh this past weekend is the first time in a while that i for ff14 i just said yeah
fuck it bye weekend gotta make up for and then like late last night i like did work
yeah before i went to bed so no i played i played trials uh fusion for an hour and i was like oh
fuck it yeah no and that's why i always like i break i break my my games up into like natural
progression sessions like dark souls it's like okay beat the boss and now i turn it off even
if i want to keep playing right you know because i know what that one more one more one more feels
like so yeah since i got tales of a zilia which are tales expert is like this is the best one
in a while i'm going to try to make that a long-term project here and do stuff play in there yeah i've
been doing it the totally unhealthy way i'm not breaking it up at all i'm just binging in huge huge
chunks i'm like i don't have anything to do today fuck it yeah it's going now i i do the least of
any work for the channel and even me it's like oh you do the most in other ways well we don't
talk about those ones like what with our dicks no oh there was a little bit of subtlety going on
there who realized that you ruined it mean where he does the thing with our dicks yeah that's fine
yeah the nothing but like me and woolly have like 50 hour weeks like barring the channel uh you know
well yeah okay i mean cat well you know including the channel it's like no that's why i said barring
the channel we have 50 hour weeks yeah bar like as as in work outside of yeah absolutely you already
have limited time i recently tried to figure out how many hours of uh of work i do a week and i
couldn't figure it out it's different every week yeah it's somewhere between 20 and 100 hours um
it changes a lot but i mean based on like taking the 40 to 50 hour work week somewhere between zero
and all the hours yeah no seriously it's sometime between it's some part between a minor part time
job when everything goes smooth and when it doesn't it's literally every day all day uh i calculated
a minimum of like weekly channel like just work is a minimum of 25 hours sure uh in a given including
going to record i recording going to record and editing everything recording can be more of like
a wash sometimes you spend like an hour talking before and after we do anything yeah so like it's
it's like like matt has mentioned it a lot where it's hard to keep track of your time i've i've
been like the last couple times matt has come to my place i've set up all the gear beforehand
and we still talk for an hour before we start recording yeah it's the it's the foreplay to
recording yeah you have to build up to it if we had an office we would do all that from nine to
ten in the morning we go to the office and bullshit around it's just like we did in school
uh and we'll take one more from adam jensen uh i thought it was adam i never asked for this email
he apparently did miss him what genre would you have disappear in order to blow up another genre
oh oh oh when you say oh you sacrifice one to destroy one didn't elaborate going to assume
this means sacrifice one genre destroy a genre and vampire its power yeah into something else i'm
going to say something that's going to paint a target on my back oh i would replace first person
shooters with first person adventure games okay sure and first person first person adventure
that's pretty niche that's pretty describe any game because if you want 20 more elder scrolls
i disagree with you uh metroid crime and portal okay okay i will kill um creepy sex dojin games
yep uh to blow up fighting games i feel this is a very easy decision yeah okay i guess there is no
loss to humanity here porn games oh fuck it all really just standing out on a live here just
fuck zoned just make zoned moments zones animations still grown can animate skull girl's
character but it's not it's being a lot of zones content is just animations don't forget all
you know what you know what i love about this i say creepy dojin sex game or whatever and everyone's
fine but i say all porn games and everyone goes whoa so clearly there's there's a fan i'm rid of
like there's creepy but when it's not creepy don't get rid of not creepy because there's nothing
creepy whatever man porn will continue to exist if i destroy porn games i would also say like
porn games but i think they want you to sacrifice a genre that you like that is a legitimate genre
and not something like it's not some weird ass fringe thing that's easy to throw away yeah um
fine so i would probably sacrifice first person shooters and i would use that to blow up uh four
x games because they need something what four x games four x games are doing just fine man no they
need to be bigger man they're fucking tiny there's sieve and there's gal sieve it needs to be bigger
than that that's as much as it contains not good enough gal sieve's not good enough for you i want
more um you're crazy no they need something similarly i would i would uh i would like to
not maybe not just completely blow up but like i'd sacrifice part of rts to get um sacrifice part
part of rts to get turn based you can't do part that's cheap enough fine i'd sacrifice rtss to
get turn based here's don't know can you go sub genre can you say like heavy micro based
but then but then you get very little i'm trying to find a way to push stealth games i didn't get
to mine i didn't mind eliminate all sim sports games eliminate anything that has a manager
in the world i think i think you have to say sports not just no it's because arcade sports games
are completely different but there are subgenre i don't i disagree but that's what i think i want
all racers to go versus i want all arcade but what i mean by that is is when you say sports that
includes sega soccer slam but it also includes fifa i think those are two different genres now
those are subgenres under i don't know i think you're i think you're splitting hairs there
i think that nba street volume two has more in common with a fucking action game that it has
to do with basketball anyway i still think there's something i didn't get to what i wanted to put it
into put it in then i want to put it into in-depth beat them ups like sen goku 3 and a vp okay when
i i didn't want to just say beat them ups because some are basic but to four beat them ups to get
it to a new level of like i also want to say beat them ups but i have so little faith in people
delivering on beat them ups nowadays like probably hard like scott pilgrim was such a disappointment
i'd sacrifice rhythm games for schmups wow you sacrifice what for rhythm games for schmups
really now to be fair rhythm games themselves aren't really much of a thing anymore there's like
occasionally i'd love i'd love to see awesome would you go back in time when rock band and
guitar hero and then eliminate that for schmups i feel like me yeah that's that's the tough one
right um so no then i guess not if you take it that's okay woolly
rock band was a lot of fun ikaruga is a lot of fun i can't make them fight each other mix them
i'd get rid of sports games for adventure games though as a pretty general rule like
rid of all sports what kind of adventure is in like traditional adventure games i don't care adventure
don't stick me don't give me uncharted that's a shooter no no no adventure games but like because
because an adventure game an adventure game can be a point of click dude it doesn't matter give
it a fucking role to explore i don't want to hallway with guns anymore is what i'm saying okay but you
have to pick a genre that's not dude i don't i'll take a point and click i'll take an oblivion
i'll take anything that oblivion's not an adventure it's an rpg it's an rpg it's a western
okay well i'll take point and click i'll take puzzle whatever sub things fit in that
i'll dump the entire moba genre without a second thought because fuck mobas although i understand
people like them i think that's like a just a subgenre of rts though no mobas are totally
there's like seven mobas that are like relevant yeah and they're all bigger than everything else
come on like i think under rts like uh but i'll toss those to get uh like western first person
rpg's like new vegas or skyrim that aren't total garbage because boy there are a lot of those that
are total garbage yeah i mean western rpg's is one that needs a shot in the arm like i think like
like a bit of a pseudo common denominator to a lot of our examples has been we want old arcade
games to come back yeah but um i think you mean good games we want good yeah well you know but uh
can we sacrifice bad for good but but i somehow use magic to bring back to know what's good can i
somehow use the magic to bring back the light gun shooter despite it the technology not working
with a came back in the form of gunslinger strato so no one was listening what about the gun con that
come they came with time crisis four for the ps3 i think it used like a life bar i think i asked
you this before you said no there's all of them have been like motion sensing or i i think that
one had like a uh sensor bar style yeah i think it's like it's never going to be the same as
looking at the reflection off the crt but but but we definitely are in agreement that there's
way more interesting things you can do with first person besides shooting i am i'd like to see that
more if you guys really got certainly but i mean like as a focus yeah like if you guys ever gotten
like way into the first person shooting multiplayer like golden i a little bit yeah no but i mean i
mean like this year next year the next year the next year of like the new game no the new game
oh there's a key to that one like like the avp the avp multiplayer i played for three months with
rocky and another friend okay like that a lot but never because like you you say that there's a lot
of interesting stuff that you could do with like first person shooter multiplayer and i played like
half of all the shooters that came out in less generation boy are you right like boy am i tired
of that exact game and i got worse after call of duty four because everyone just made call of duty
four with their own skin on well before we even hit the modern warfare era when we were all doing
the world war two or two fucking shooter like oh my like we forget how that was now because it seems
like it was worse because it was so many places that and there were so many other clones that there
are so many clones of just fucking don't get me wrong i love storming the beaches of normandy
but not for the like the brown shooters i just i just looked over beside me here and like i just
saw uncharted uncharted two uncharted three tomb raider on my stack all right there in your stack
of games those are the same game that is the order that i would put them in in terms of my interest
and like golden abyss uncharted one two three tomb raider the order of your interest should be
uncharted order of your interest should be uncharted two of where it came out and i was like oh
and uncharted two was amazing and better than the first but like better than the third and better
than the third it says something when that order was chronological yeah well and what i was gonna
say is the new mega had golden abyss been right there between two and three that would have been
accurate still like yeah but like i'm really fed up of third person linear shooter that with
uninteresting setting i mean and it was fine in 2007 but like we had a really really four
we had a really interesting uh discussion the other day about how uh back in the day uh
the default genre was the platformer yeah and then it more and merged and more sorry into the
first person shooter what i wouldn't even say first versus shooter i'd say i'd say open world
open world gta game then first person shooter i hope yeah a lot of people tried i mean i mean
yeah 25 to life no it's it's debatable as to whether that became the default game that people make
when they say make video game but what i'd like to know is like do you see there being a possible
future where no new genre takes over no or is it all the benefits to first person are enormous
i i what i was what i was gonna say is that like it's i feel like first person's too strong that
it'll ever get replaced but we're gonna see we can see it go from 70 to 40 percent of the market
things are things like destiny come along that blur the lines the elder scroll series where it's
first person but there's more happening it's not a shooter yeah yeah totally but it's like the benefit
of the first but like from a development standpoint and also from like people like games that are in
first person the one that's like really been like kind of trudging along for me is the ubisoft open
world game where it's like they've made 14 times let's make an open world game let's pattern the
story missions around and let's fill her out the middle of the world to be fair they can't
they have to keep making it so people stuff generates generates city block that theme and to
be fair we got really excited about that uh far cry for that was oh and i'm gonna play watchdogs and
the division assassin's creed brotherhood was the first one to do that and every single game
ubisoft has made since then is that game again well two two even it's interesting because yeah
my brotherhood brotherhood was the one that had the the the strongholds sure but i mean and now
every single ubisoft game has you beat the stronghold then you climb the tower every single one no
just like like one was the definitive start of the ub open world thing sure it's interesting
because even before the gameplay itself got tiring the um the the story is what disappointed me first
in terms of i'm sad that we're sticking with etio and not moving on to new guy in every number but
then they moved on to new guy not i'm sorry not in every number in every in every version oh no this
new guy's worse like i'm like even if it became like uh like annual not annualized but you like
do you get a new ac game every two years i was really hoping every game would be a totally
different setting you know now shut up enjoy color but then they realized we can't make a new setting
every year too expensive too hard you know right under the there's there's logistics that i understand
like imagine how it sounds like you could be forgot one every two three years and it'd be a
fantastic probably almost really consistent quality then they wouldn't make as much money and it's
not as profitable i mean you know but the promise felt good at the time of like you can go i totally
agree i i really hope sorry i really hope gta five would have turned some heads into that you can
make way more money in one shot but that's that's the gta way yeah yeah well nothing's ever gonna be
gta no but like someone would try like if like if they after assassin's creed two they waited
gta is the weirdest because you see called duty blew up and everyone went nuts and tried to copy
it and gta blew up with four and five and nobody's trying to copy it i wonder if they're same throw
and even then yeah colors out a completely different look i'm looking at it and i'm wondering if
they're ever going to do something like vice city ever again or are they eventually or are they just
going to keep it modern day but find new ways to tell the story until there's a problem and they
don't get fundamentally better every time like vice city needed to happen because they couldn't
actually change anything and it had to come out like a year and a half later yeah and also the
thing with vice city is like let's take the three cities that you were in the original gta let's do
that i'm sure they started that they're like hey you're in miami why don't we just make it like a
throwback like yeah do whatever you want i wish at least and this is never gonna happen but i wish
at least you'd be soft would alternate years with watchdogs and assassin's creed well maybe we'll
see but now we're getting two assassin's creeds and a watch assassin's creed is now the new prince
of persia and watchdogs will become the new there's enough employees to handle both being worked on
simultaneously so they're not going to do that see that thing where uvsoft is probably the largest
game publisher right now yeah some like some like 10 000 employees yeah really yeah yeah because all
those studios are the 92 when you beat the game and you're sitting in the credits for 45 minutes to
an hour 45 minutes you did but like even just the Montreal studio is fucking ginormous yeah and it's
like not even the quantity building is nice on the inside yeah i know but like that neighborhood
the uvsoft like area i was with people drinking i saw it i was like that looks like a pile of shit
threw your beer at it yeah so maybe maybe i did what are we throwing on the watch this week
what is on the watch what the fuck comes out this week demon's gaze uh there's good jrpg for the
vda that i'm looking forward to something holy shit i don't know well just on the watch i was just
like oh dark souls 2pc version comes out i'll definitely be looking at it yeah i was i mentioned
a little before but like if anyone is interested now is the and you haven't played before like
play trials fusion because it's real good it's real good it's a great like sort of you know
like it's not like it's uh you have to go back and i'm gonna miss the story no like play trials
fusion trials so fucked up like i was like dumping on that game was like man i've beaten
every single track at no false gold first try this game's too easy and then soon as soon as i said
that i hit a track that not only could i not know fault and not go on the first try that i struggled
to even complete for over an hour nice uh yeah for me demon gaze said jrpg on the vda by experience
and we don't get games by experience fucking ever in north america so i'm quite looking forward to
that because the quality is apparently really high like it's just a straight up good game and i'm
really burned by conception too which i bet you are no no which is on your dick which is terrible
shocker it no no but i mean i looked at it and i said okay this is gonna be a seven it's a four
the game about knocking up girls no but i mean i can i can put no but i can put aside the story
and say okay whatever the gameplay is gonna be fine it's terrible yeah it's the mini game for
getting them pregnant there's no mini game oh well just clearly it's terrible now no no but like it's
terrible like i can't believe that even got fucking like fuck i'm uh terrible i'm gonna put the watch
on hover as you could have guessed i was i was thinking of saying that as well uh Jesus christ
man just right out of my brain it also really shows the difference between when you have a kick
starter that like isn't doing well and they had nothing to show like unfortunately uh called county
by running yeah and they like i think it might be over but they're they're they're it's not gonna
versus something that has so much content already and a very realistic goal how much was it i don't
even know i haven't looked at it yet um i'd have to pull up but but and just the fact that you've
got gameplay right away the gameplay looks great you know like for me jet set radio is like a dormant
fanaticism inside of me that i don't bring it up a ton it doesn't come up a ton but like when
something related to it pops up i fucking i lose my shit i lose it i love it so much did you watch
those like recent 20 minute deconstructions of naganuma's music in it like finding out where all
his samples come from and stuff what awesome it's so shaking again i need to know because i had a
giant conversation about super brother with a guy at work one time just because it was like oh yeah
you got to see that band live not knowing what the game was at the time and then later i was like
wait hold on i sat through a concert that had a bunch of jet set radio music performed live in
front of me before i knew and now i'm like i hate myself for not knowing not having no what they
were you know i mean it was a really funny conversation um man who the fuck am i kidding
i'm just gonna be watching meters build yeah there you go dear 14 realm reborn um what is
coming up on the channel gentlemen uh let's see uh the what did we put up anything today i don't
think we actually did i'm oh let's let's talk about that yeah so on saturday shit yeah really and i
it's 9 30 p.m both of us go shit well my thing was i looked at what's your thing i looked at 7 30
and i said okay video didn't go up yet i'm sure man pad have got it because specific time yeah yeah
but if we hit 9 30 and nothing goes up i'm gonna throw up a nuzlocke okay so i'm hanging out with
people and i it's a friend says to me you didn't put up anything that and oh fuck you're right i didn't
so i go to the facebook's like okay nobody put up nothing i'm gonna put up yeah because of 37
at 30 what no five seconds later you do what you just did and put up nuzlocke um
18 18 and then we both post them to the facebook to only immediately reload the page and go
oh shit we're morons i was i was out having a meal out all the way in laval because also that
earlier that day i had to go see a baby for a friend that was the baby the baby was a little
baby was breathtaking it was like unfortunately it was a very cute baby but anyway i'm in the car
and i get all i get i get pat on the phone i'm like what is this oh whatever i'm not answering it
and then when he started doing the text and i'm looking at them i'm like what the fuck's going on
and i see both of you going oh no i did it oh i did it i just write your both grind yeah
which well everyone got a double treat that so if nothing's going up if we didn't put up anything
else today i mean yesterday then yeah because it is finished as of now as of yeah as of now
as of now because it went up yesterday man as of today uh there will be more nuzlocke obviously
yes uh friday night fisticuffs will happen on friday i think the new playthrough might be
starting this play through might be good might be good wait why are we even maybe koi we took a
vote on it no but those who really won yeah everyone those views are public we can't look at it votes
but we can still veto yeah cherrymandering we could still we could still veto yeah i think we
might have one or two quick looks at something so quick looks so quick looks coming so yeah new
play through end of an old play through continuation of a continuing play through friday night fisticuffs
which i hope people like people seem like people seem to like it a lot i like doing it so i'm
glad people like it busy enough i do have to say that um to those of you who are like
not used to the clicking clicking sound of sticks oh it's loud but that is what fighting game sounds
like yeah like if you listen to a stream a tournament things like that that's that's just an authentic
sound and we could stand and talk a little louder sometimes but you can't get rid of that to be
clear could we click the sticks and then take that out no no no it's because it's true it's
and all over the but and that is the sound of fighting games and to be perfectly clear we want
the fighting game audience like i know that's happening it's weird but that's what we're going
for i know that that sound makes me comfortable yeah so it's me to sleep so for example if i watch
like one of max's killer instinct videos if you were to somehow magically remove the button taps
i would feel just really bored half the game audio is i would just feel really bored it's like
the arcade stick because chatter is just it's especially if you're watching someone really
good knows what they're doing and you see them doing some cool thing when you hear those clicking
buttons you're like yeah like and you can halt that you did it and you hear the confidence and
non-mashing single in there i don't think we got to it quite yet but there's gonna be some times
where you just hear yeah like oh that's nobody's desperate listening to a video where sanford
kelly's playing without it you're missing half the mind oh man yeah because he's mashing buttons
that don't do anything to put people on new york scumbag players dude will do dirtbag shit big
ass gestures that do nothing i was just about to mention you remember when you were playing fighters
on sticks and you got to the point where you could feel the person's super coming out yes not because
of their character's movement yeah you can literally hear the fourth directional input start
you're like far ball coming i hear the roll yeah eventually we'll get into maybe playing a game
or two that's an older system that sticks aren't compatible but not yeah we're gonna go for the
easy stuff first um i do that all the time at the local place when i'm playing a con uh you think
i'm gonna wake up grab like that well it's gonna sound like yeah you roll it and do the motion
like five frames before it would actually work and a friend of mine got me super fucking good
where he did a raging demon input but with like empty buttons and i jumped back yes and then he
inputted it while i was in the air exactly well here's both the honest deal is like doing the crazy
like scumbag thing all the time it's hilarious it's my games but when you play uh a piano input
character like honda or blank or whatever you have to do that yeah if i don't do face you will know
every time there's electricity surprise electricity you're going back to what i said i mean there's
you can't play stick on evil zones so when we yeah to friday as it as it deserves to be
yeah um yeah man so like last week at the at the outro like again i got another question about
like oh what's the song you guys are using kushi's ride i used giving kushanata a ride from akami
my favorite track on all fucking 50 of those it's the series yeah that is my favorite akami song i
love it and i'm like it is buried so deep that you would never ever ever find that's why some people
because it doesn't sound exactly like it belongs it's a bit different yeah so what's your music are
you gonna use this week we'll have to find out see you guys later bye