Castle Super Beast - SBFC 155: God Confirmed for Real
Episode Date: July 26, 2016The boys run a thought experiment on what the games industry would have been like if Nintendo stayed in power. Also, with SDCC wrapping up, there's a ton of movie and TV announcements to fawn over. Go...! Go! Zaibatsu! Â
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We can all breathe easy right we can all like clearly my doctor says I can't
well the point is is now that we have confirmation that the persona for the
results screen is in fact going to sequence right back into the dungeon
just run right back into the dungeon looks really nice it's as awesome as it
seems as it promised it would be God confirmed real yep I'm gonna grind
all worthwhile best friends convert to religion I'm gonna grind like crazy in
that game so I'm really glad to see that because you know low times and battles
is the poops I don't like it hey guys what's up how much not much okay I guess
we don't need to have a podcast yeah well you know Matt's kind of out Matt Matt
is both sleepless and wrecked and had like fucking messed up appointments for
shit so he's not here yeah just acts a little under the weather so just feed him
bacon sometimes you got to be it's you've been doing that to the internet told me
yeah oh maybe that's what shit down anyway Matt's gotta be a daddy so in the
meantime we'll hold it down and you know 154 5154 okay now that now that
we're a whole week ahead with the word where you get guns instead of the edge
now that we're a whole week ahead what was your hidden 154 truth fact in the
beginning that I missed did you did you catch it Liam I know I pretended I did
worse I know I know he would do that it was when we were discussing the number
of units sold of what was it now of some whatever we discussed yeah yeah and
like I think it's no DS is DS is the DS family oh yeah you said like we're a
hundred fifty four million units of the DS family so yeah that's what it was
exactly and then so like I just like how many was that was like 154 anyway we
moved on and then I was like yeah that's good that's good that's good that's good
can you fit in now that I started with that can you fit in the 155 one so
slyly he already did that would be really impressive yeah that'd be really
yes so Terry fact is when I asked you hey woolly when I'm when I'm saving the
add to the laptop it's 155 right you know yeah that's that's attack it's a
turk back to the 150 baby come less and less mind-blowing and more and more
inside well I mean this one's actually pretty it's pretty easy in that it's
like if you take that digit up by one same number of million units no what
console would that be so the hundred and fifty five million yeah I don't know the
PS2 yeah exactly okay that close that close the PS2 and the DS family yeah
are like the eternal battle so yeah you see I remember you when the GameCube and
in the Xbox you know they're coming out you always had the feeling like oh PS2
is totally totally killing it it's not it's not even fucking close but I
remember seeing a couple years ago like here the lifetime sales of every console
from that generation and that used bar graphs and it was yeah here's the Xbox
it's a 17 million and here's the GameCube 24 million here's the PS2 155
million so oh more than 10 times like more than five times their competitors
come no three times the their competitors a bunch a lot times and it's
like wow they whoo not even it not even a contest PS3 fuck the pooch on that
wow wow wow good job so yeah yeah they did it you made enough money so you could
do one big fuck up yeah and Microsoft made enough money with the 360 to do one
big fuck up no wait they didn't they didn't make any money actually oh wait
that's fine and the Xbox you know everyone says the Xbox one selling
shit it's not no no that's not what I mean it's doing I'm not saying you're
saying that sorry what I I want to make it clear because a lot of people are
actually gonna misinterpret that because they know where it's like you
whenever you talk about the financials of these companies like Nintendo made a
lot of money with the Wii Nintendo had war chests that hundreds of billions
hundred years um Sony made a lot of money with the PS2 and is making it with
the PS4 but Xbox that division yeah has never made a goddamn penny because the
cost has always been really over it and they were gonna make money in the last
generation and then they had to pay a billion dollars to replace all those
broken Xboxes and they didn't make any money and there's been a dick trip
moment for every one of the companies and I said that like four years ago and
I'm so happy to be like who's gonna be who's gonna dick trip next yeah I would
love to see an alternate reality where they were able to correct those
mistakes and we got the highest per most perfect version of every company's
console yeah every time and see who would still win what would and like but
the limit to how far you can go back would have to be the Final Fantasy 7
split yeah because the generation would not exist it says something to me
when whenever I look at console output I always go man I wish they could be
Dreamcast Sega so like Dreamcast Sega output is just the first thing that I
thought of it's like well what if the Dreamcast had adequate copy protection
hmm like like the Saturn like that alone like the Dreamcast had a lot of
problems yeah but that alone that would have made a difference yeah for sure
not maybe not the biggest difference a difference but maybe Sega would have a
console out on on the market instead of some kind of nightmarish press conference
it would have it would have contributed but there's other you know yeah and I
mean we do but what's now that we know that this the Saturn copy protection was
way stronger it's so baffling that they went out against that when they
added you know but but yeah or like you know obviously X-Bone not announcing
itself the way it did oh ps3 pricing on launch well not just the pricing the
just the entire top-to-bottom design and specs and that skew split remember when
remember when Crazy Ken got up there it's like this is gonna have two HDMI ports
for both of your 1080p TVs and everyone in the audience said what what who well
you look at the old shots of all the ports on the back of a ps3 pre-launch
yeah and it's bath it's like a fucking stereo system it's baffling yeah I
remember and even even vanilla ps3s have a lot more ports than why does it have a
micro SD slot do you remember do you remember that screenshot by the UK
resistance or is this like all the ports it is like lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
and like even though they cut so much out you remember on the the original ps3s
you could open the side thing yeah it had an SD it had a memory stick pro duo and
a fucking compact compact flash flash why for who well for someone whenever I
look at the ps3 it's a it is actually incredible how many features it has well
because they're you can connect it to your printers the idea they had photos you
can watch move like what this you can do so much that the ps4 can they said this
will do everything and it pretty damn well does and it conceivably could but
why would you want to putting a flash thing in there and not putting it's
putting that in there instead of a ps1 ps2 memory card slot was the dumb what
would the Wii U look like if it just had a far more accurate and better better
feeling we remote yeah like no but I mean I know but not that though so the
Nintendo decision to not keep up with the hardware what if Nintendo is where
like a lot of third party like a GameCube GameCube is where they was was
pretty much the final stop you know because at the same time GameCube was
more powerful than ps2 but it but game but yeah and you saw you saw multiple
you saw ports to both yeah and game you stopped seeing that game was
significant yeah the Wii the Wii was the split for sure so like I know this is
objectively not true but their back down on hardware was so strong that in my
mind the Wii is weaker than a GameCube I know I know that's absolutely not the
case because of the relative strength but I but I net like because of the the
world that existed around them I remember a bunch of GameCube was coming out
we're like oh that game looks awesome and I remember saying that about like I
don't remember saying that about any Wii games I'm sure there were I'm sure
there were I know O'Connor was a good looking game but I thought but I still
think that we you can only have this discussion again like once you have the
hindsight's 20 20 you have the Panasonic brand or not the whatever the
I'm not Panasonic the the Sony branch from when the Final Fantasy 7 disc
fiasco happen yeah because that invented CDs that version of the timeline where
they continue to work together and Nintendo crew made a CD based console
mm-hmm is one where Nintendo come out the world didn't that come out in Japan
the DD no no not the DD drive that not the DD that's the disc system yeah that
that was different this is something else entirely and this was basically what
FF7 was gonna saw somebody recently I think it was them in that universe the
fucking Sega CD is like a Genesis Club sandwich hmm yeah I saw that too just
just like did anyone actually own that club sandwich and god do you think do
you think in that reality where Nintendo hands down rules the console market
with an iron fist yeah that the only like mature games would get would be
like PC also like so you would get like the Nintendo PlayStation thing that
we've recently seen the prototype surface like that kind of thing would
have appeared and it would have been like the the Sega CD but for the Super
Nintendo and everyone would be working on it the but yeah just just to bear it
in mind the capabilities would be relatively similar and then so you
still have Sega and then the question would be yeah does this Microsoft dip
their feet without without PlayStation existing does the Dreamcast stand a
chance against that because the PlayStation division wouldn't exist they
would only make the hardware and Nintendo would continue doing Nintendo
Sega was rivaling Nintendo at the time so they would have continued yeah their
research but that's what I mean with no PlayStation division getting tech in and
Final Fantasy and Bridge Racer and stuff at the time and with Nintendo still
being Nintendo yeah I guess and Sega would have rivaled them until they hit
their loss but wait but would it would it turn out the same right without a PS1
in terms of Microsoft's getting in had Microsoft still decided to get in and
then someone Nintendo dominated console market I believe that Nintendo would have
put like thresholds on really hardcore mature games if they own the market I
think but that would have made the Xbox's original unchanged marketing way
stronger powered as a console for adults it would have had mature games
because they would get a shitload of PC games that would never been able to get
on a console space because they'd blood in them or fucking whatever yeah I
think I think the one surefire bet is that you would have a PC market at the
in that world you would have a much stronger one you'd have a you'd have a
really intense PC still get the era of piracy where that was a big problem but
who knows yeah that's the only guarantee because you have like things like be
weird everything throughout the entire PS1 PS2 era is now a Nintendo property or
at least on a Nintendo console well no cuz that's not a game would exist around
and a lot of those games exactly wouldn't exist and a bunch of different
games would exist yeah but I guess what what I kind of mean is that era when
first-person shooters took over was you're looking at a PC based yeah but
I mean like but I mean you don't get like Shadow the Colossus doesn't exist on
Nintendo system it doesn't exist no you know what I mean and I don't see how
that seeds way to PC instantly because at the time like those consoles were
still relatively toe-to-toe I mean not actually but on the relative scale of
things well a bunch of games on PC would have been relatively unaffected half
life still would have existed because our craft would have still existed come
out you know we're talking about like the follow-up to that first console with
FF7 that would have been an again a Nintendo Sony project that would have
been like about PS2 level power but it might not have been in the same FF7
yeah it might have been one of the more original pitches for it where they
tried working with N64 tech and stuff you know might not have turned out to be
the same game like what if it was closer to Parasite Eve right or like or like you
know the tech demo for Final Fantasy on N64 yeah like what if it was like that
thing looks like shit I hate that thing because the CD drive would just be
attached to the thought experiments going on what we got you know yeah I'm
following I'm following like I don't follow how it goes to PC though I don't
I don't get that leap the PC would have had a stronger market because it would
have been a larger source of competition for different kinds of games earlier I
feel like hardware rivaling the Nintendo owned world would have had a much
harder time like actually reaching the level and taking over or competing or
even winning I feel like it would have continued to Nintendo would have continued
to dominate and then PC now would have been something that could actually
challenge so here's what I like things like the equivalent of your Dreamcast
or things like the equivalent of your Xbox would come along and be an
alternative but I don't think they would ever actually take the mantle away
well you know but I just I just don't see where PC jumps in like I don't see
the the well it would have been a larger potential source of games that would
not show up on Nintendo's platform that would have alternatively showed up on
say the PS2 or the Xbox and the steam we have now could could exist but like
Japanese developers wouldn't have done that yeah but American ones would have
and so would Western ones to a degree but remember but piracy was a big problem
back then piracy is always a big problem but but it was way worse then than it
was now and that was actually a big fact and I'm not saying whether it's true or
not but that was a big fact and yeah and not to make PC stuff you know yeah yeah
I think like any you go through all the different errors of DRM but I mean I'm
kind of like fast-forwarding to 2016 you know sure fast-forwarding 2016 I think
the landscape would likely end up being Nintendo some other companies with some
failed consoles and then like steam because I think steams development could
happen probably more of independent PC stores than we have now hmm probably like
they would have done it earlier like yeah and what I do know for sure is that we
would not have as many good games as we have now yeah would suck the dick
tripping phenomenon leads to a shitload of games like we still need as many big
companies trying to get their consoles to look as good because the dick tripping
phenomenon leads to a market leader not being able to completely crush out their
competition and their competition having a shot which leads to more games and a
longer fight quote-unquote even getting rid of companies that feel like
relatively unimportant like you get rid of Microsoft right then you lose like
you lose lost Odyssey you lose phantom dust that's interesting Halo you lose
mecha saw no you're right can of war and and that influence on third-person
shooters well because I'm even thinking back to back when everyone's relevant
back when the fucking Xbox is like that's cute right back like right when it
came out it's like Halo came out I launched that games awesome mecha
salt one of two are fucking great games we the you're right because I'm like I
remember feeling super bummed by the Nintendo situation back then but the
three company competition now here here's it's prosperous here's a a much
more here's a for considering here's a much well I I I wish steam would actually
or valve would actually act like one of those companies yes I agree because I
don't think they even touch them in terms of making stuff happen no they have
it and I just mean in terms of a place where games are at you know so here's
the question I have to ask and this is a lot let this more speculative and less
speculative because we're not going off of what ifs we're going off what would
you want Sega Nintendo Sony Microsoft and let's say valve but I really mean
steam but it's about right if we went towards any timeline in which one of
them became dominant like de facto video games level dominant like they
actually playing playing on the Nintendo right yeah which one of those would you
have preferred like take the wheel for the the the foreseeable future for 10
years or whatever okay if from today or from no from history onwards well
PlayStation wouldn't existed so I'm not talking like don't use realism here
I'm like oh sorry I just don't know I'm talking in terms of like management and
what they would do yeah you know so if it was Sony what you would see is you'd
see a a media like monopoly yeah of like this is our type of disk so I'll I'll go
right out right now I don't know I would know Sony's evil Sony has always shown
themselves to be evil and DRM loving I format they're all about I think I
think yeah Sony pre PS3 would have been not a good choice yeah and I would say
the same for Microsoft I'm not a big fan of how they handle any other stuff yeah
I'm not a big fan of how valve handles any other stuff probably wants to be
Nintendo like it's like it's basically it's like it's like who's trying to like
force feed you something yeah honestly hey who's been the most hands off with
you know that Windows thing is gonna become full screen who's who's who's
the most hands off when it comes to well it's valve but there are two hands off
valve is way too hands off valve is so hands off that game legitimate games
can't get on the steam and pieces of shit easily find their way on there yeah
so where's your happy medium your happy medium is Sega well I guess modern
Microsoft and Sony are fine much better than they as far as their games and by
learning learning from them again I would not pick pre PS4 and Xbox one and
even then for Xbox one I would not pick pre last year Xbox one pre pre met
metric like today's today's Sony today's Microsoft and for the most part
Nintendo all times for the most I actually I actually really particularly
like how Sony's being run right now because it's got Kaz there and he's like
okay TV's and the movies and the fucking CDs and all that it's all in a
fucking toilet let's make some good let's make some video games people like
that they buy them the only the only like benefit to that kind of like format
monopoly in a way is the possibility of having that like one console future
one well not one console one format multiple console right so different
companies can put in whatever they want but they're all good but like yeah the
developer only has to worry about 3DO or yeah the developer only has to worry
about they're making their game what am I gonna get my phillips porn box right
think of an arcade when you walk in and like everyone's got their own think of
an arcade yeah I know right but like you know and everyone's everyone's
walking around and at some point you kind of standardized on a jama board you
know and like shit's running on it yeah make your shit run on this and you'll
title yeah whatever the fuck it was like like steam boxes like that you know
that didn't go great that it's still not going great because now I see too high
yeah yeah we don't have the climate for it a steam box can't be a PC but
replaceable but it has to be a console I don't agree that the format wars is
still an issue because like the next generation will be digital if there are
even discs yeah we're we're certainly beyond that in our like reality we're
adults but but I kind of just mean I kind of just mean like thinking about a
place where you know porting is not an issue ever because it's like the
developer is always an issue forever but what I'm what I mean what I'm talking
about is something where the consoles would all be running the same format so
they wouldn't like yeah well PC runs the same format and even then you mean a
computer and that the compatibility is never perfect you know like you get you
get a wide array you got a wide devices right oh not hold on let me play
whatever I can't doesn't work on the phone work like it's always gonna be an
issue and like we're never gonna have everything working all perfectly it
fucking sucks but but considering the the the best version of that I think we
will get honestly is the Xbox and PlayStation going forward where they
seem to not intend to ever cut off the old stuff you know yeah and always keep
the same architecture and framework well now they're PCs well but I even mean
like it seems like the actual Xbox to PS5 if they were to exist would be the
same architecture and use ever and just be fully backwards compatible seeing the
neo or seeing the neo I mean talking about the neo and talking about the
Scorpio right yeah it frustrates me because like I look at that and go
that's what a steam box should be yeah yeah yeah because a steam box said we're
gonna have we're gonna have PCs you just buy no one steam and and this and it's
like yeah but they're still like component built there's still fragmented yeah
which means that you're paying for like even if you're buying in a bulk they're
still gonna be like a fucking 40% yeah boost over an equivalent you know
whatever eventually it's like though they should all those steam boxes should
be consoles and they should be dumb console like you'd not not upgradeable
not whatever and then they then you could say here's a really really strong PS4
like a year ago for $600 and people would buy that yeah but but it runs all
the PC games or whatever and you mean the steam box and I mean the steam box I
mean the steam box but it's like it's like a ps4 and it has control you know
but instead yeah anyway we're talking a lot about what we what could be or
whatever what is happening now I guess our weeks yeah I guess so okay
woolly ask Liam about his week weekly I did I did a little bit you did this you
pulled the rug Ghostbusters you saw Ghostbusters I haven't seen it yet gonna
go see it Ghostbusters I downloaded the PSP version of the 2009 Ghostbusters
game which is based on the Wii version of the Ghostbusters game and so it's
it's got all the voice acting from the fancy HD one but it's not it's on my
Vita that games not terrible it's actually like I heard that it was a mediocre yeah it's
alright well I heard it's worse than the 360 one no the Wii versions the better
one really that that one I do know that makes sense proton packs and the Wii
remote the 360 one I hear is kind of long and drawn out and the Wii one is a
bit more concise and also that the controls were kind of just better
granted that does not apply to the PS2 and the and then the fucking PSP one
they cut more and more and so I'm sure the PS2 and PSP ones are inferior
experiences to the that one but like going off of review scores and hearsay I
hear the Wii version is actually better than the 360 okay PS3 that being said
even though they look super different they both have the same story and voice
acting and stuff yeah and it's and it serves as Ghostbusters 3 more or less
yeah more or less the writing quality is not 100% as good as that obviously it
didn't have as many passes as a film what or anything like that but you can
still see that it's written by the people who count and all the what well
most of the voices that matter there so that's a pretty enjoyable game I'm
having a fun time with it although yeah one other issue I have with it is it
really just feels like hey remember all these cool Ghostbusters things I do I
remember all of them so like the first thing you do is you go to the the
Sedgwick right yeah you go to the hotel yeah and you fight Slimer in the hotel
wow never done that before and the second thing you do they do the second thing
you do a steak pot stay puffs back yeah yeah and so and yeah I like the painting
I'm so relatively early but do the paintings in the basement it's just
sitting there of course and I'm just hey Vigo but the environments are all
really authentic and everything feels really nice so hey if you're feeling
Ghostbusters go play any one of those 2009 games because if this is the worst
one the PS it must be the PSP version like it's the lowest in terms of specs
and content the lowest the lowest quality version of the game it must be the
worst one but it's still fun so go check out one of those games if you're
feeling Ghostbusters I don't anymore you you got your fill oh yeah I'm done the
movie was enough oh it's plenty now you're just back to not being a I always
thought Ghostbusters was overrated that's fair I like it and now I don't care
anymore sure that's that's that's fine now I know I'm not gonna fight anyone it
doesn't like to do Ghostbusters well you have to see it first I'm gonna then you
have to decide to fight them yeah yeah you're right or whether or not you want
to I know I always cared more about the cartoon than the movie the real Ghostbusters
then I heard that if you really like the real Ghostbusters then there is a part
of this new film that you will get a real kick out of oh yeah weird okay it's
really really weird like I know I'm in the minority where where my age well no
it's like there's a part of the film which which I don't think it's
particularly good or bad but it's like is that from the real Ghostbusters people
on this movie know about okay that's cool it's it's bizarre it's very I'm
still keen to see it whether it's good or bad probably bad but I'm still keen
to see it I played I am setsuna a little bit did you have a chance to play that
at all Pat no it's sitting it's sitting on my see the icon on my desktop but I
did not get to play oh yeah no kidding yeah it's like a it's like a new very
snowy very relaxing Chrono Trigger it has a full piano orchestrated soundtrack I
believe piano is the only instrument that plays unless I'm crazy I haven't
listened to it in three days so maybe I am so how much better than Chrono Trigger
relaxing way better fuck Chrono Trigger no it's just it has the same battle
system more or less it has the text it has everything in there in the trailer
there's a fucking X cut there yeah that's the first there's a first major tech
you get is that now now is this setsuna cooler or less cool than the last play
to set sooner well that's the blonde girl right no that's that's the white haired
guy oh that's the white haired guy different she's cool in her own way she
is thinking she has a lot of integrity no I'm not I actually just played last
played to so but the game's really solid it's it feels a lot shorter I'm six
hours in and I can yeah I'm not at the ending but I can see where it's going
from here and I hear it clocks in around 14 15 hours and I can definitely see
that being a thing but it's really enjoyable and it has the same mechanics
you would expect from Chrono Trigger on a serious and not shitty notes because
unlike my original question like the game kind of sets itself up to kind of be
disappointing by saying this was made by a bunch of people who love Chrono Trigger
that's a really hard comparison to make yeah to your own game yeah can you allow
you've been playing it a bunch can you elaborate on how how fair that is to
themselves like is it pretty much it can't be as good as Chrono Trigger so
that's not I feel like an asshole saying that because it's dismissive yeah
shouldn't even be judged on that metric for four reasons square can't make a
new Chrono Trigger right we know that and this is known this is known and this
is more or less Chrono Break new Chrono Trigger no no well it's it's a new thing
it's not Chrono you know it's it is different characters different universe
actually totally unrelated it's um oh god what would I call it but theme and
combat feel similar it oh the combat's the same it's the combat the same it's
Dark Souls to Demon's Souls yeah and you get all your characters who have very
clear analogs with Chrono Trigger characters and you find the bad guy
with the scythe and stuff you know so it's it's there it's it knows what it's
being which is not Chrono Trigger but Chrono Trigger at the same time so yeah
okay but it's really really fun it's pretty it's nice it's is it one of the
greatest games of all time I haven't finished it yeah okay probably now
honestly probably not yeah but then again if Chrono Trigger were reviewed
today as a new game would it be scored as the greatest game of all time so no
would be scored as an indie darling like braid or possibly or Bastion yeah
possibly I feel like it would have gotten that reception yeah but it is
really really good and one of the cool things about it that I really do
appreciate is the developers have constantly been talking about how it's
made for people who liked RPGs and who don't necessarily have a time commitment
or the time to commit is it short it's 15 hours long so it's have you beaten it
yeah no I like I said I played like five six hours okay but it is intended to be
short by design so now now that we've gotten the Chrono Trigger question out
of the way my other comparison which I if you recall I brought this up last time
is how does it compare to the other Chrono Trigger alike black sigil blade of
the exiled for the Nintendo DS made in Montreal made in Montreal come back
Canada was you know what was that company's name oh god they were there
were there from here I was just like I've never played that game so I couldn't
I will always commend any any developer who goes out and or every and any team
not rather not developer right who goes out in front of their game and says
we're trying to make a game evokes the feeding evokes the feelings and emotions
and whatnot of and then it's blank and then it's like some ultra beloved super
classic well that's my favorite thing on Kickstarter from the people who played
Dark Souls you know and and it and it it takes balls to go out there and try
that you don't know what I'm talking about go look up a trailer for this
game black sigil blade of DS now that game looks a lot like Chrono Trigger you
want to talk about fucking reaching in and almost pulling assets out of
Chrono Trigger no this game is really not trying to be Chrono Trigger but it's
there for people who liked Chrono Trigger sets in a yeah yeah exactly I
really watch the launch trailer that's a really good launch trailer it's very
nice what sets a nose monologue in the in the music and and the stuff that like
it's really fantastic that's the quality of the people talking about it came out
and I completely forgot what the fuck it was and I went watch that trailer I was
like bye just to meet like if this is what the RPG factory is gonna be
churning out yeah then that's fucking great it really makes me feel good about
Tokyo RPG factory as a company there's there's there's a place in my life for
that exact brand genre and type yeah of game that went and length yeah yeah I
know I definitely think when you start playing it'll be right up your alley
actually well you know we have a mutual friend who's who's bananas about
Chrono Trigger and he he replays it on a whim because he can blow through the
whole game in like two afternoons at this point and not because he's speed
running it with fucking sequence breaking it's like he just knows when you
know what you're doing in Chrono Trigger that game is short yeah yeah for
sure and the other game I played was uppers which came out and I got my
copy I came out on the nipon yes exactly so this is a copy I imported was
there a was there like a statue working on the back that says one of 700 yeah
okay so I was I was wondering I was wondering if I could work it in at the
beginning when we were talking about sales but it wasn't a chance five but
uppers came out in Japan and debuted to just under 7,000 units sold which is
really bad especially considering there were two other comparable Vita
exclusives that came out the month before that sold like 50k plus so really
really poor sales despite the huge delay it boy the numbers they must have been
looking at to call that delay is fucking ridiculous because these can't
possibly be worse than that yeah I know after announcing like the Senran Kagura
crossover and stuff it's nuts does feel a bit tighter than the first demo combat
gets a little repetitive and definitely the main thing of the game is doing the
the quests for the girls mid mid mission so like you'll be fighting and there'll
be a gaggle of girls in the corner and you'll go close to them a little bit like
yo can you go like suplex four guys in front of them they gotta be
watching right and then they'll start cheering you on for the fight and if
you're lucky they'll give you their number yeah so like it's are you getting
knocked into their cleavage yeah so you they do a thing where they like beckon
you and your character does that stupid like whoo walk towards them and an
enemy knocks you into your your support character there you go so you don't get
that but it's it's charming it reminds me of like the yakuza games a lot in
terms of like how it's trying to be a that kind of beat them up it's by bullet
who made kankabancho I was gonna say it's like this is a new version of kankabancho
from from what you're showing me yeah kind of yeah who knows if they'll I
think they'll come back to kankabancho especially after these sales but it's
cool it feels like its own thing and it's it's kind of fun it is repetitive for
sure and if you if you can't read even a little bit of Japanese it'll be a real
struggle to do some of the quests for the girls and that will impact your
enjoyment because that's probably the most fun thing is when you're fighting
and you're trying to work in the quest at the same time because that is really
enjoyable but it's it's it's cool I've actually played a lot of it I played
like seven or eight hours and I'm I'm I think I'm very close to the end okay so
I'm yeah I'm having a blast of that actually I hope it comes out in English
that'd be nice but we we will do a video for that at some point we will for
sure we collectively and I'm not saying we were like hype out of our skin but we
were collectively all somewhat looking forward to it which is probably the most
you could say of any North American group dude hero Aki hero Aki yeah his
art's good so I think that was pretty much everything cool well there was one
other thing what any of you guys watched the excellent Netflix show stranger
things no Matt did me and Matt watched it from start to finish yeah we both
together like separately separately we both adored it we both thought it was
fucking fantastic and I guess I will not talk about it this week it's one of
those it's one of those just just get on it do yourself a favor if you have
Netflix just try the first step so let me let me ask you is it is it like oh
daredevil came out pop the chips sit down all right I'm done so one of those
yeah I watched I watched the first three episodes and then and binge the last
five eight episodes oh eight oh that we're doing well how many have forty four
episodes give or take yeah yeah we ought to it's quite well we're traveling
this week it might be a little hard when I won't know we can do it at night when
we're not the one night there's always one night at a con you're doing nothing
yeah it'll be that shows really really good yeah don't even don't even look up
anything I will I mean a bunch of emails came into talking about so yeah and if
you're out there don't look up anything just look up the first episode and watch
it cool that'll tell you everything you need to know okay hey Pat yeah ask me to
ask you about your week hey woolly yeah did you please ask me about my week did
you have a week I had a week but I'm I'm in this I'm in this weird place in
terms of talking about my week and that place is do shut up do I talk about
Monster Hunter for 40 minutes or not well not even know like there's a bonus I
like hold on hold on what is your back okay it's it's not great
wrong with you Patrick man I got my CPAP machine and it feeds me air when I
sleep and I went to sleep for like seven eight hours last night and I still feel
tired wait your pap smear machine's not doing yeah my past year machine it's not
doing it's not smear my pap enough well what time did you go to bed I want to
better I don't like to well you must have woke up I won't know I woke up at
like 10 11 it's like I should have gotten a good night's sleep and I don't know
why I haven't been great even have a special robot that fucks my face mm-hmm
and like it's supposed to help me sleep and it does but I didn't get a good night
sleep what kind of mattress are you sleeping on I actually have no idea what
kind I bought it from like that's your problem sir is it American made I got
it from that is it memory foam I don't know what it's made does it have a huge
warranty maybe is it a Casper mattress I know it's not it's then you ask you
fucked up you fucked up couldn't possibly be a Casper mattress if you're
getting sleep like that how dare you sleep wait what out of their eyes okay
how dare you sleep without a Casper master the audacity to think you could
get a good night's sleep on anything it make you less upset if I slept on the
couch I mean that is you might as well be sleeping on a couch because it makes
no difference your bats your backs getting fucked up anyway yep unless you
get a Casper mattress that's what I'm saying today I know why I'm this short
because I didn't sleep on a Casper mattress I'm saying that the combination
of 10 out of 10 back specialists say yes I'm saying the combination of spring
latex and supportive memory foam is what you need to get a good night's sleep you
want that special soft kind of bed that remembers your body shape mm it's a bed
that's made for you as you're made for it all right you're talking at you're
talking a fair price for a Casper mattress yeah we are now we're talking
like most mattresses you don't even know what you're sleeping on but you
probably paid over 1500 bucks for it I know it's a big bed $4,000 for a mattress
it could be dead orphans that I paid for I don't know that is ridiculous you're
getting super duper fair prices on your Casper mattresses you're in a mattress
that you got you didn't even get to try it out to see if you liked it you had to
commit right there in the store Casper gives you a hundred night home trial you
take it you see if you like it you see if your body like a hundred nights yeah
hundred nights hundred of them that's like more than four weeks count them it's
crazy it's risk-free you don't like it they take it back man they come to your
house they take it back you get to try it out and you know what even though
there you have that trial it doesn't even matter because science the science
says your back is gonna feel better is my bag feel better don't sleep on shit
don't sleep on hardwood don't sleep on the garbage that you have sleep on a
Casper mattress that's what I'm saying and even though their prices are already
cheap and fair you get 50 bucks off if you use the promo code super best 50 bucks
yeah that's 50 American bucks all that's like 70 it's a lot of money that's a
lot of money brah okay so we're talking Casper com slash super best you get in
there you get your free shipping and returns to us for a mattress the things
are huge right named one of the best inventions of 2015 by Time magazine what
are you gonna what are you gonna argue with made in America memory foam Casper
mattresses pick your size comes in a box right to your door it's magic now don't
you fucking dare sleep on this offer Pat I sleep on a Casper mattress tonight
yeah yeah that's right that's the shocked look of savings surprise and
comfort that I want to yeah fuck it up woolly thanks Casper thanks Casper
mattress anyway you were saying about your week um I'm in this weird place
where I know that I know there's a larger audience that listens to this
podcast but when I when we do the podcast there's the two or three of us in
this room and I'm in this place it's like how long do you guys want to listen
to me talk about Monster Hunter and Final Fantasy yeah cuz a new patch came
out you know like what like I'll go through it and okay well Monster Hunter
is new Monster Hunter is so you got that one so what are the five best things
in the new Final Fantasy patch what five best things I like this I like this
no I'm not I like this I like start with the new birds I like there are there
aren't five best things there's only like two easy then what's the two best
things they added a deep dungeon or they keep calling it it's so fucking
confusing the name of the the feature is Palace of the Dead but in every single
developer blog they call it deep dungeon huh because that's what it actually is
it's okay it is a randomized 50 floor dungeon that will eventually have two
floors 200 repeated after that you can repeat it over and over and over and you
get a material rewards and you get some glamour rewards and you can get cool
glowy weapons out of it and that's cool but the best thing about it is that it's
a solution to a problem that games had a long time and that it's like say I'm
super high level Sam's 60 and I'm doing any game shit all the time there is
nothing that I can do with you Liam the new player yeah that has any actual real
value to me we can play together as much as we want but you'll get in old
dungeons tiny amounts of stuff there's nothing I won't actually get anything
because I'll on my proper character I won't get any gear that I can use I won't
get any XP well I'll get trivial amounts of money so it's like it's always been so
this is has a independent leveling system further from the rest of the MMO you
can pick any class you currently have access to which is all of them if you
have the expansion and you go into the deep dungeon at level one you start
completely the fuck over your gear is unique to this area and you level up by
getting chests and your pat your shit just gears up and the interesting thing
is is that there's 50 floors and it takes about three and a half hours to go
through the whole so a brand new player who just started and you have to get to
level 17 first but whatever level 17 player if they played one round of the
deepest dungeon and leveled up a little bit they would level up a little bit they
would be stronger than a player who has 400 hours and just came in like that's
how that's how equalizing it is well no it's it you're getting weapon upgrade so
I ran through it three times with my weapon and armor it only goes up to plus
there oh but I mean sorry if you played with like a level 17 guy who finished the
deepest dungeon three times yeah and you've played the game for thousands of
hours and you were on your first run he would have a stronger well what what
happens is is that when you get to level fit when you beat the deep dungeon you
have to erase your save it has fucking old-school savings so it resets each time
it resets every time but you the only thing you keep everyone's really the
only thing you keep is your your weapon and armor's progress from zero to plus
30 that's very cool and what happens is if you completely max them out you can
trade them in for a really strong level 60 weapon which is the current cap so
that's useful for people at cap it's a universal missing link yeah it's it's
yeah kind of so you can get that weapon at cap or you can use it to the same
items to get material awards but what's interesting is that say the the deep
dungeon goes from floor one to 50 currently the XP that you get for your
character in the dungeon is severely scaled you go through the entire one to
60 progression of that class in three hours you like fun so you so I don't like
I leveled a summoner by playing its alternate class the scholar and wanted
to play a summoner and didn't know how because I had not actually leveled it I
had gotten it as a bonus and got to level 50 whatever I was like oh I'm gonna
play a summoner and could not figure it out right I didn't know how any of my
fucking abilities work but I went into deep dungeon and over a three-hour
period and you gain your skills at the same rate I was able to go oh this is
how this class works I can play this and it's also really useful for us like I
want to play machinist or I want to play black mage or I want to play a healer
classes that you're not familiar with in any form at all but you don't want to
put in a 300 hour investment into leveling them up to cap to play an end
game you can see every ability they can do you can see how they play you can see
how they work in three hours and also gain experience and some material rewards
I think it's a really fantastic addition to the game and like you can play with
anybody and you'll always get something of value by the time you get to the end
of it the to any players out there right now look up what the mount looks like
it's terrible it looks awful there's a special amount you can pay in a bunch of
tokens to get it's hideous it's really bad don't get it use your shards on
materia instead hmm it's it's it ends up like because of the cost you can trade
in these shards for either materia yeah or the thing you need 10 to get the head
or the mount rather and you could get 10 materia it's essentially means that the
the mount costs 10 million gill in in opportunity cost which is terrible not
worth it I it's I think it's a really fantastic
addition with only one major problem and they're gonna address that in the next
update and that is because the upgrades to your gear is completely RNG and
because later floors get locked out if your gear isn't good enough boy you can
get really really unlucky I ran with people who got like every single chest
we open upgraded their armor so they were going into like floors 21 through 30
with a plus 12 armor and plus two weapon and then you get to the next set and they
go you can't go forward your gear isn't strong enough and they do the the entire
run again and they get nothing and they do the whole run again and they get
nothing so they're gonna make like some of it like pseudo guaranteed and there's
also a problem where because you have to restart your progress after you beat
the 50th floor if and the only upgrades you can get from like I think 25 to 30
are from those last floors if people were getting like bad rolls they were
like intentionally wiping groups so that you would fail out and have to do it
again so they're gonna change it so that there's guaranteed upgrades but I think
it's a fantastic addition and the other thing they added is about the birds
Liam cool and they they made it so that you can finally just buy them wow that
seems not with money really trivializes all you know not with money so they were
in tokens from those bosses you every every time you you kill those bosses
you get a token that you could otherwise trade in for weapons but now you can buy
the birds they've decided that the old ones and they'll they'll rotate it
forward as it goes if you have 99 of those tokens if you've bought if you
fought the boss a hundred times haven't got the drop and still haven't got the
drop just go and fucking buy it because but the newer ones will never have that
only the older ones and as new ones come out that'll shift forward etc etc so
that's f of 14 that games really good thanks for the periodic reminder that
we're still not playing deep down because those words yeah guess what people
fuck that up all the time yeah I go oh you were you know play deep dungeon no
you know path and because it's POTD I keep calling it path of the damned like
that fucking Diablo thing yeah and it's basically deep dungeon sorry it's
basically down deep down you see you fucking see but I want I want that
spear combat I feel that I just want to feel that that's your combat all right
trash before I die oh no but I like the the ability to poke the body in
yourself it's cool I also played monster hunter which is a really good
monster hunter game monster hunter had good games it's fucking great fuck you
suck my dick the changes they've made are really really fantastic with only
one right now I only see one major problem and that major problem is the
little cats that you get the Palakos is that there's this massive subsystem that
like you can train them this way you can give them skills you can give them
moves you can equip them with this and this and that but because the game was
out in Japan for eight months the Palakos that are good have been known
identified and the whole system is pointless because all you want to do is
re-roll the cats until you get one with these skills and speck them in this way
because that is the most effective way and I don't know if that's a problem of
the system leaning itself way too hard to min-maxing like because the difference
between one of these min-max ones and what a regular one that you would make
yourself is massive or if it's probably games just been out for months and months
and months and months but it sucks because I was I was doing quests over and
over just to re-roll the fucking hiring of these stupid cats to get the cats that
had the right skills yeah and then I did and then there's a feature you can just
give those to people once you have the ones with the right skills you can just
say okay everybody on my friends list if you get this better if it was like the
world ends with you where you could just keep grinding up their stats and stuff
yeah so you don't have to worry about thresholds well they have caps but it's
the it's the skill that's the passive skills primarily that skills are what
really counts yeah it's like does this one have like the boomerang attack cat is
the strongest attack cat does the cat needs to have boomerang pro period cuz
that much better the cat needs to have earplugs the cat needs to have critical
s you know your plugs like this shouts don't work on them yeah cuz that lets
that's a bunch of free that's super strong yeah that's really good and the
more that I've been playing with the the subsystems and the various hunter arts
and all that all the adept styles like man I want a unified system that
incorporates all the best elements of this so bad the hunter arts which are
basically super moves only those are the ones you probably saw in the trailer
where they're doing big big flashing thing that's a huge addition of the game
it actually makes it it's a lot of generations big thing is the combat is
getting it gets a vast vast overhaul there's a there's a perfect dodge system
there's a perfect parry system everything can jump now there's a
style that gets a bunch of extra hunter arts which are super moves and then
there's the old system which has nothing changed and there's a couple weapons
that's the best in bright I remember I was looking on the reddit the monster
reddit and the two the aerial style where everyone can jump and the adept
style where you get perfect parries and perfect dodges those are vastly more
popular than the other two like make sense most people are using a version of
those because they're just more dynamic and faster and fun and it makes me think
like can't we just have can't monster her five just changes controls enough that
all weapons have access to all of these that work wouldn't that be cool it'd be
really cool I guess the other complaint I would say is that I think that there's
a lot of stages in this game I don't think the selection is that great stages in
this one is it's a collection of it's a mismatch it's like it's like a dream
match yeah it's a dream match in terms of a monster picks and every game gets
owned like a little flagship and it's a dream match in terms of stages which are
bigger deal even and there's a lot of dick sucking for one and two there's a
lot of stages from one and two can you attack using the right stick no because
there isn't a right stick is right now use your circle pad all all the stages
from four back which is fine because those are the most updated they didn't
have to go to the best one and they're the best ones yeah there's a lot of
stages from two and are they updated enough because they are a lot they are
updated so that there's little ridges on flat ground so that you can jump and a
couple of things but I'm really really disappointed because I got in with three
and there is one stage from there are 21 stages in the game and there is one
from three it seems a bit low and it's the first one which is cool and that game
like and you know every game has a volcano area yeah every single one has a
volcano area in some of them have multiple volcano areas the volcano area
from two socks it and the one from one socks but as are those the ones that are
in there yes great though it's the one from two and the one from four that are
in there that's a bummer because you would really need to do a lot to get any
of those levels to be even close to four's level of complexity and verticality
yeah and the one from three is the best volcano stage I don't think I'm crazy to
say that because it's the only one where you get to look up the mountain and see
the volcano exploding it's the only one and I don't know it's that I'm not I'm
not happy with the there's one new stage and it's really boring there's only one
I didn't know there's only one genuine well there's there's a there's a there's
a stage where you fight the new final boss and it's a circular arena that has
bones everywhere but it's one of those types of stages that doesn't actually
matter and I don't know that new stage Jurassic Frontier it's really boring
it is rolling hills and there's a part where it's a little foresty and it's
bigger and wider I think it's it's so you played enough of each of the games
that you would understand what I'm talking about I didn't play any of the
first generation the four games are the stages are really colorful they're
really really outlandish four stages are such a huge step up from anything and
in this game Jurassic Frontier looks like it's from two it doesn't look like it's
from three it doesn't look like it's from four it looks like it's from two it's
nice and safe and bland and dinosaurs yeah okay and and it's and it's weird and
then probably the weirdest thing with the stages is that all of the boring
shitty stages are all you get to use for the entirety of low-rank the four
that's a long time it's a long time it's about 35 hours by my account I've been
playing this this series for a while so it could be a lot longer for others all
of the four you stages are locked behind high-rank that's that's something I
really like that really irks me about hunting games is that they don't fucking
balance their content super well and usually like you have to get to a
certain point and until you can get to the new stuff and that fucking sucks so
we'll like like Tokidin Kiwami I really wish they had mixed in like if you were
playing Kiwami from the start I wish they had mixed in some of the Kiwami
contents in the Age of Demons story at the beginning so well let me let me put
it to you this way because you haven't played these games and I assume you only
have a cursory knowledge in for you you had ancestral step which was a cool big
cool stage with lots of red maces you had you had the the frozen tundra which
was cool and was nighttime a daytime and you had a couple others right and they
were cool stages and then you got to high-rank and then you got to go to those
stages either at night or the Sunken Hollow became volcanic or they would
remix them in some way right just means you beat enough missions to get there
yeah and you would keep the old ones but in addition you would have their
variant and the variant would be different in a couple ways in this game
a bunch of all the stages have their variants right away but all the shitty
stages are in the first half of the game and all of the good stages are in the
second half of the game because instead of locking the variants because they have
more stages they instead keep the variants for everybody and just put all
the shitty ones at the beginning and all of the good ones at the end seems like
they should it's really weird it's really weird I don't like well I'm there
now it's like they should have spread it better honestly yeah there's no
volcano like they have a good volcano and high rank but you have to get that
it's fucking weird and I haven't played with the deviant system but that's cool
I'll talk about that a little bit next week I guess but I mean I think that's
my whole week I've been watching a lot of Law and Order I've been playing a lot
of I've been playing a lot of Monster Hunter both games I've been playing are
games that I can play while also watching Law and Order that's handy and
Christopher Muloney and Marissa Haddard Haddard that's right that's correct
Olivia Benson yes they are they're the best I love them and Dan Flore can beat
Ewan and Ice-T and I didn't know Ice-T whoever the fuck what seriously yeah
Ice-T's in that show a lot never watched it it's it's a big running you can when
you watch all the seasons in a row you can clearly see like hey we're gonna
get we're gonna bring Ice-T on and we're gonna give him really really small
roles up until the point where we can tell that he can actually act right
because the Ice-T quotient in season two is low it's like an average of five
sentences per episode and he's never the he's never the he's only the main
detective in like four or five episodes from what I've seen so far right so you
know where there wasn't any law nor order was down on the block on the corner
collecting your pokeman so woolly lives within ten blocks of the poke-op ellipse
the the poke the like four blocks the poke apocalypse the scenes on the corner
getting the point where you if you if you if you're building moved over a little
of a couple like a block or two you'd be able to see the pilgrimage like I just
like I can't go get groceries without stepping through yeah you know what I
mean so it's interesting on my first time when I went to go investigate the
ruckus the hubbub you know the hullabaloo what are you roused about doing
out here and I was like oh okay they're doing the pokemongo thing cool I
saw familiar face and I was like hey yeah man what's pretty nuts yeah and I was
like damn so what time did everyone get here and he's like time I'm like what
is time when did the concept of time do you mean did I get here no and I was
like I was like when like you know did like everyone start coming out to
collect today and he's like dude it's been this way 24 7 since before the game
came out no before yeah it was the day in America said the game launched in
America the day that me and the girlfriend went down to that to that spot
was still like multiple days before the game came out yeah all people who would
put a hack on their right so now it's like I was out and the things I was out
there looking at was like 3 a.m. or so almost 2 3 a.m. and it was like okay
we're looking at about 70 people yeah take so we hang out in the middle of
downtown at 3 a.m. on the fucking on the corner like fiends now if you do that
during the day that number goes to 200 easy simple so when we went and it was
before the game came out the children's hospital corner was stacked and packed
but Cabot Square was mostly empty mm-hmm yeah now I think it's still like that
yeah basically it was like that yesterday when I went to Willie's place yeah
the the the the the main thing though is that what you're seeing is a crowd that
sticks around forever forever and then at 12 o'clock when it hits midnight the
police come by and whoop whoop right hey fuckers team rocket chases everybody
away yeah and then about 20 minutes later they all come back well about half of
them come back well it's it's goofy because that park is consistently
watched by the police and has been for over a year because they beautified the
park and completely rebuilt it yeah but it was a known hobo hype it was the
crack then and the ever since it got beautified the cops have like they've
had a car sitting on that park nearly all day to keep this the undesirables out
right but the undesirables got pushed out by the other group of undesirables
which is Pokemon go players basically but anyway all that to say I'm level 15
well yeah okay that's that's you're cheating basically I mean but I'm not
but actually cheating geographic not really yeah not really cuz like sure
there's a benefit there but I've done a lot of like just on the go yeah I haven't
a leveling and I slingshot of 13 within a couple days and then it slowed down
considerably the real cheating is with pokevision.com yeah yeah where you look
at the Google map and you see oh there's a there's a jigglypuff over there let me
go walk over there now right oh did you not know about this here we go take a
look oh the drill okay I see what you're doing you're looking up the drone yeah
the drone is another way to cheat as well the drone is the way to cheat yeah
fucking GPS drone that you can fly all over but for for all intents and
purposes I've been basically able I've been around for some crushes as they're
being called mobbing right I saw one only one the mobbing gets fierce and
that's when you start to go okay here's where the public danger is happening
because there's a Charizard over there because you pretty much are looking at
like you know most people are there like they're just sitting peacefully doing
their thing ignoring everybody playing the game and it's like whatever O'Cop so
it's the problem right get off our balls just hanging out peacefully playing with
their phones but then a dragonite appears and people start to crush and you
basically end up seeing one or two start running this way yeah and then
someone yells like aridactyl and then run into traffic as a mob and cars are
like what the fuck are you trying to find it on fucking that somebody has sent
me an image of people walking into the ocean for yeah so I I was there for the
you are walking into traffic you are literally asking to be hit by a car like
fuck off dude don't what you cannot load the app without the app telling you to
fucking watch yeah so I was there for the aridactyl yeah it was scary it got
like it stopped being fun and it got scary so here's my question somebody
calls out an aridactyl and the mob starts moving and it's running and it's a
big crowd of people that if somebody would fall down could get bad right yeah
and you're thinking black Friday and you're thinking like well this this is
really bad this is scary people could die but are you thinking that from within
the middle of the crowd as you are also running to catch the aridactyl I walked
calmly at a brisk pace okay to catch see that that's the thing and I didn't
catch it because you see yeah yeah see that's the that's the thing I think that
if people catch it before it pops up on your shit that's why it's gone because
me and the girlfriend walking around all over the place and we would always see
the same Pokemon we could both catch it but if I would see it so far ahead of
her that she had to pull out her phone and and like load up the app it would
not appear in my in my experience it's been like it's been no it's on this
spot and it's for this time frame but it just seems like certain ones like have
a different lifespan yeah that they'll spawn for and the aridactyl was there
for about one minute yeah so so so so walking calmly and going okay fucking
let's not be ridiculous well guess what you're losing me not getting it yeah
yeah so what are you gonna do next time you're gonna run so it happened when
there was another like the buzz it happened with the lick of tongue and I
got both of those but they just those weren't aridactyls in terms of how rare
they were well so I was able to run walk briskly to get there you gotta run I'm
not running I'm not running for for well a the only way you're gonna be the very
best is if you become part of the problem and that brings down and that
brings me to like I guess my sort of conclusion where I'm like I have no
problem you know do playing the game in general as long as it's what I'm
experiencing and what I'm what I'm playing is in my path and I'll diverge by
about a block or two I'll diverge a couple blocks because I'm fat and I need
to exercise but I will not go extremely out of my way so I can see I came to
that conclusion for a different reason and it was there there are a couple of
gyms near my house like I'm gonna take these gyms over and then fucking freak
beasts as soon as I touched those gyms yeah freak beasts just came up and made
the gyms twice as strong yeah you take the gym you grab your coins and you walk
and I realized like I like I cannot compete with these people I had the
people who are like taking gyms and dominating like high 1000 they are
crazy I 1000 yeah they are they are they are level 25 they're level you know
like they are nuts and I I had one experience with a gym just to see what
was going on and I saw what what felt like an attainable I think it was just
it was a two-pokemon one was like mid-thousands it was like whatever it
was a Snorlax and like a sure Pidgey or something like that or whatever and so
I was like okay and so I came in and I and I was fighting it and while I was
fighting it I was pretty much alone and then a dude walks up behind me with his
friends and is like it's like a bro you team blue you know I was like no and he
is like okay and then he just says to his friends you'll get on that shit get
on that shit get on that shit right he's like you need to level up let's go and
so like and I didn't really as my first time doing this I didn't really know
how it was so I beat the gym and I was like okay cool and I was looking at the
platform I was like okay place your things down now and I was looking through
my list to pick what to drop and then I like weirdly froze up a bit and then
kicked me out and then before I knew it those two guys walking by had put their
shit down yeah after I beat it and I had no idea that that's how the mechanic
liked like I didn't know those like okay once it's done whoever's there can just
rush the point so actually beating it is not really I play an MMO and I play
monster drop to take it over I don't need this yeah 99% of cases it is though
is it yeah dude it like I have like if you're at a crowded point I have well
the 99% of cases okay it's not a crowded the problem is that you're closer to the
city center so all the gyms in your vicinity are crowded if um like I have
like 250 of them Pikachu coins that I've earned yeah I've never like I think
there's been three of those where there have been other people around okay
like people are busting down my my local gyms for instinct right now okay
getting getting one in like a gaggle of people just seems just seems fucking
pointless to me cuz like what's the hey bro your Pokemon are fucking weak see
yeah see unit team mystic they're like that I see I see team mystic's the best
team well they you know anyway they shut off the gym leaders today and I saw
me can we can we can we verify something Willie what team are you on
doesn't matter yes why does it matter it matters why does it matter I'll just
out you if you don't say it you don't know what team I'm on you said it yesterday
oh did I yeah okay team instinct yeah that's right I like I like Zapdos said I
knew I was I remember that was the beginning and I remember I remember two
weeks before the game came out my oh well he's gonna pick team instinct like I
didn't realize was just color I when I saw the icons and it was like oh you're
asking me which legendary yeah I like Zapdos kind of we'll see who knows I
think Zapdos looks the coolest yeah he's sharp yeah you know that's it they
recently revealed the team leaders yeah I saw Koska's the Valor team leader and
that's that's a cool thing that's awesome that's a cool thing but I like people
are saying that our team leader looks like Guy Fieri okay but yeah he's a cool
guy so whatever but hold on a minute now what is Casca gonna get in a Pokeball
in my decks or is Zapdos that alliteration or Koska getting inside of
Pokeball is a fanfiction that I don't want to read so it's not that's what
I'm saying so it's like the fact that she's leading that gym is cool but that
doesn't matter because I'm not getting Casca we don't actually know how getting
the legendaries work yeah maybe you have to take your gym leader out on a day
that's nice and all but we don't actually know how they work I'm gonna I'm
probably all you're probably able to get all three I'm gonna give them out in
Wheaties box I'm guessing that the team you're on will allow you to get that one
somehow and that trading is gonna be needed for the others I'm guessing so
if I had to pick or you'll get that your legendary for free and you'll have to
catch the others that would be fucking stupid why getting it for free wanna
fuck dad what's the point well how'd you get your starter it's a starter who
gives a shit well it's a difference it's a regular-ass Pokemon no man I like
the starters better than all the legendary sure but I mean the
legendaries are supposed to be special ah that's why they're called legendaries
yeah there's yeah otherwise you want to join team fuck it'll like to buzz yeah
I'll join team elective us right now buzz or team odd ish I'd pick team
oddish over it's probably like like like own a gym forever do some cool
shit accolades but be it's probably has to do with being a member of the team
yeah you know oh I would hope so it's something like that in which case I'm
totally secure in my choices yeah Pokemon go remains cool yeah just you
know what's not cool that Marie won the thing or whatever do you guys are mad
about oh no I'm cool I'm not talking about that Pat you look you're sweating
you're sweating bro you okay be cool everything explain this be cool you've
been doing this for days so anyway we don't talk about our Splatfest decisions
here all right we simply announced the fact that Mary won and that's the new
isn't Mary I thought it was Marie Marie yeah but ultimately it isn't we don't
give opinions on this news for that you're glancing around all over the place
are you okay anyway what who are these characters this guy's sweating is these
the two characters yeah yeah yeah so that's the purple one and the pink one
and the green one and the green one one that's correct green one's better okay
whatever you say that's your opinion you know that's fine you're allowed to have
that is there like a gun pointed at your head we don't know we just know what's
wrong with you dude you got a comment neutrality man fuck so anyway it's just
dumb stupid octopus chick so really yeah anyway so you know what's not cool
besides Pat what's not cool is the cast so far entirely of JoJo part 8 so far
they're all dweebs and losers and it feels super deliberate and it's like oh
my god I can't root for anybody you guys are all such fucking like there's no
like I like I can't put my my my I can't like back any horse in this race
right now you know like the coolest thing is that one panel you guys you must
have seen it where like Josuke for a Higashika Kata from part 8 is like he's
just like doing the fucking gangsta walk and the chapter title is just swerve on
a nigga it's the fucking sickest but ultimately it's so weird because you're
just saying these buck tooth main your buck tooth main JoJo right and you his
and then the other guys Josue who's like this really like just all like super
pathetic loser guy with like a so who are you rooting for nothing yeah he like
eats his own vomit in the first chapter and he's got like a bowl while you
really jumped ahead there and it's just everyone's so lame and I was gross I'm
like goddamn it's it's like what the fuck is this chapter going for or is this
this entire arc going for remember how everyone in part 4 was cool and in this
new universe they're fucking losers well here's the thing every part has a cool
person or three that you can go not never to the you go yeah right I can I like
that guy or like I like that girl or I like what you're about right and even
if it's not like hype or cool or whatever the generic sort of like if it's
just like your character motivation is interesting you're not a fighter even but
I like what you're doing or whatever that there's always been something like
that and right now in part 8 it just feels like everyone's just kind of like
wandering around there I don't know I'm going to continue because I'm part 8
terrible I'm told that it picks up a lot yeah and you got out of that weird
panel where they're eating an ice cream no I haven't okay I'm waiting for the
equivalent of the true man's world moment okay right where shit just turns
around what is the name of the character in Jojo Leon what is the name of the
Jojo and Jojo Leon Josuke Higashikata okay straight up all right and if
like like you want to have your fucking confusing roundabouts you literally
have Josuke Higashikata and you have Kira Yoshigake Kira is a character as
well is he like name dropped see just a guy there's a person oh that's yeah
that's by the name of Yoshigake Kira did you watch did you watch the last
week's anime I did I love how they they they did that that big that that ending
sequence yeah I thought that was really fantastic so interesting note here is
you've gotten we've gotten the first lines from Kira in Jojo and he's voiced
by the guy who plays a diavolo in the games okay so that's weird yeah yeah it
is and going back to it now Josuke also has a different voice yeah you know you
went and checked yeah it's just hearing it all right and I mean I'll take this
right into like I've been playing quite a bit more of the game without
progressing yeah you know pro playing it punch and dudes and now that I've
spent some decent time in a Jojo all-star bout not all-star battle sorry
that's right all-star battle eyes heaven eyes heaven the cracks are starting to
show oh no the cracks are well leave that to Wednesday yeah yeah but one of
the one of the weirdest things I encountered because I was doing all
these side missions and extras and there's these little like for fun bonus
missions including like what if what if the loo the vomit eating loser I'm
talking about and Speedwagon yeah had to fight Dio and Pucci yeah okay also your
level 4 and their level 45 enjoy that's applicable that's real so I and why
does he eat the vomit is that a stand or is he just hungry it's not do you want
to know why and not on myself is his stand fucking brown note not only not
only does he eat the vomit but the line is oh yes oh yes yum my own vomit great
he's he's so happy to eat his own vomit so anyway in Jojo eyes of heaven
you're there's some weird shit and doing some of those side missions you
pay you basically get to preview or play a bunch of the extra characters and I'm
playing as weather report in one of them and I'm running into this weird problem
where the main bread and butter combo that I'm doing is unsafe on hit on hit
on hit but not a lot right you hit the guy no you're on block as well yeah but
you hit the guy and in the process of hitting him you eventually do an unsafe
move that allows him allows the character to hit you while you're doing your
combo I'm like this makes no sense at the end of the combo at the end of the
combo like this is ridiculous what's the point of this right yeah um so then I
doing some research talking to a few people and looking online it's like it
seems like it's a result of the easy beat system being on okay which the game
has which is the just mash square to do a square to do a thing right and that's a
carryover from the all-star battle exactly right so I was like oh right they
did they pulled a persona and they have it so that you mash square you do an
auto combo fine right so you turn that off but then it's like it's a two-button
fighter one is a heavy punch that can never string into anything barely so
you're turning off easy beat but the only combo you have when easy beat is off
is still square square square square square okay yeah so you're like you
carried over the easy beat system but the reasons for easy beat existing are
not in this game which is a six-button or four-button fighter yeah that wants you
to simplify it since it already is so simplified yeah so it's like you're
missing the entire idea of why easy beat exists makes me think of J stars and
stuff yeah you know and like an even in a game where like Bayonetta has the
auto combo system right or like King of Fighters 14 at the very least you're
like well you're alternate but I say Bayonetta because you have a punch in a
kick button that's right so you're alternating between them for strength
different strings and in this case you really only have one string outside of
this easy beat we'll just alternate it no there is no I'm saying there is no
yeah you know so yeah that's a weird thing and there's other issues that I'll
bring up you know once we start to play it in the L actual P proper but you hate
Jojo no it's fun and you get to unlock poses and you can spend all of your
earned money on poses and quotes that's which that's great well I was like
this is stupid and then I saw and you realize no and then I saw yeah zero
Zappelli's pose and I was like that's wrong I want a better one so I went to
the shop and I bought a better pose for him and I was like oh fuck damn it I'm
in they validated this totally did and then I went and while I was browsing for
a better zero pose I saw that you could replace Joseph's with the one he does
from the the Stan Proud intro where they are the three of them rotate you
got these got the hand out cool fuck yeah so I spent my money on that too so
I'm in on the pose buying so yeah it's a overwatch redeemed it's a thing oh
shit I forgot to talk about overwatch did you play overwatch I didn't know
yo Anna's awesome I hear I hear things fucking great everything about her is
great her her costumes her quotes but more importantly her gameplay and there
is one big thing that was not like it was not clearly visible from the videos
that they were showing off and the breakdowns and that is she's a sniping
healer and that's weird right when she scoped her shots are instant when she's
unscoped from the hip her shots are not hit scan and they have to travel yeah
they fire real project up but on top of that when you aim at allies their hit
boxes are very much enlarged well that's how it should be yeah like it is way
easier to hit your allies with the heel beam than it is to shoot enemies so off
the hip you could just get their vague area well the the main things that when
you zoom in and you see that you know she zooms in with this big triangle yeah
anything in that triangle counts as a hit oh wow on on on your allies okay okay um and
that's awesome because it sounds fine it's a sniping character that you don't need to be good
with you don't want it to be ridiculously finicky yeah you know it shouldn't be widow maker yeah
and the other no that's what widow makers and the other is the other thing that keeps
widow makers niche intact and it's why I'm always going to be bad with the little maker but I like
Anna is that Anna can't hit headshots yeah at all period they're always the they're always static
damage or out yeah um her abilities seem busted they seem too good the the net her alts in particular
yeah seems unbeatable like it combined with any other alt is a win like it turned it changes
characters into different characters hanzo's alt becomes a touch of death
roadhog becomes invincible Reinhardt becomes invincible like all the all the tanks become
completely invincible more or less because they have like more than twice as much health and do
extra damage like all all that it's fucking weird it's super weird and it also like exacerbates
the play of the game problem like for assist characters because if Anna's in your team whoever
she whoever juice upgrades is going to get play of the game okay period there is no
chance like I got my best game I've ever done in Overwatch where I played hanzo where it was like
44 and 3 or something and the the payload didn't move because every time Anna got the juice she
hit me with the juice and when hanzo's hit with the juice anybody he touches just dies
it's it's it's nuts the other thing is that diva is the best now she's so good she's so good
she's like changing that uh that uh that uh shield to act to to active
completely like you feel you feel totally invincible all the time right as long as you
always got it as long as you're looking at someone they can't do anything to you right
and by the time the the the the shield pops and you run out of it nine times out of 10 your dash
is back so you can just run away and uh it I didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal
when I saw it in the patch notes I knew it was going to be nice removing one second off of
her self-destruct makes a huge difference it's not I didn't I didn't think I well I I brought
I mentioned it it's the that plus the kill being gone from four to three I thought wouldn't be that
big of a deal that nine that one second is the difference between killing someone a couple times
as they got used to it and people being in situations in which they realize there's no cover
I'm done there's nowhere I can run to that's safe well because like it takes a second that when you
notice it just to be like okay time to go the other way takes a full second for you to to hear
the sound and go okay I and then it takes you most people a full second to understand what they
need to do and think about where they need to run to and that leaves you maybe a second and
a half to get to safety which is not enough time and the ability that of diva to shoot you while
you're making that decision yeah now diva doesn't even have to worry about running away yeah it's
man she's great she she went from like my hate most hated character in the game to one of my
favorite it's fucking awesome it seems like a huge buff the the the changes they made across the
board are stellar the only thing I think is Anna needs maybe a little more balancing because
that that alt is so like will he go go play a game yeah I will I got a rank I got a rank
myself go go play a game in which you either play as Anna or there's somebody in there as Anna and
get juiced once with you played mostly right heart I now I'm about 50 50 right hearts area okay
you'll feel it Reinhardt can kill all the weeks with one swing in the juiced form it's seems legit
it's it's fucking so nice um yeah so what I was gonna get into was uh KOF I played
spend some time on that demo I did too actually did you guys yeah yeah I keep I keep having this
feeling of like I should download that guy I want it to have the best impression on me possible
so you know well uh yeah I guess having a giant cast will will help you know but I'll say this
I I got KOF um and I spent some time with it more specifically I spent some time with Nelson
and um someone tweeted his move list at me before that demo came out and that really made me happy
because his move list is identical to the move list they gave Guy Tendo in KOF 11
so he's just Guy Tendo he's basically a Guy Tendo that's one of your favorite characters
that's awesome you got really love the design that you liked right off the bat well he's a boxer
but I hate his actual whatever you like him and he turns out he's secretly a character that you
really like so I got really lucky with that um what you have uh because I remember Matt came over
and he's like he's like dude I played Nelson he sucks he's got two moves and I was like no I
would not say that too and I found that strange but I didn't go back and play yeah and I was like
no Matt you completely misunderstand this character he has two command he has two special moves
and he has a billion command normals 50 command normal no it's not 50 it's more like a billion
a lot though but it's basic and and they're all progressive string so I hate you with one of three
normals and then I press any tilt and a medium kick I'd like kick and I can get a low a different
thing and then I do the same thing for hard and then I do the same thing for hard kick
heavy every punch then heavy kick um his color B is uh yellow and green so are you serious yep
so you got lucky I really appreciate what they're doing there uh he's got um Dudley's ducking to get
in yeah uh and like he's got his his confirms he doesn't have easy confirms into his supers
because like there's none of the normals that you do are really cancelable you have to juggle
the guy into his specials basically so you have to work for it but the tradeoff that's the type
of character the tradeoff is that you can do uh uh jab into overhead into low into overhead into
cross a through and I'll like just keep the pressure going yeah constantly right no any cool
character any major ender you can just tap for a reset and go crazy as you're seeing here it's
it's really cool um and only mentions as you're seeing here because I'm watching a Nelson combo
video on my tv to understand what's happening exactly so uh I'm a huge fan of the ability to
just go to town with a boxer so Liam you played it too right yeah I did so let me ask what I'm
going to attempt is an unbiased question how shitty and bad does it feel it doesn't it feels great
because I remember there were concerns feeling over the field the feeling feels like k o f which
one did you have a specific one in mind it feels like older 2002 okay feels like a little bit of
13 so a little looser than the older game what you have to get used to is the fact that the animations
especially when you jump are tweening more than they should so feel visual feel versus like speed
of input game feel game feel are different right and the game feel is identical to the way it used
to be the visual the visual feel is a little bit of a uh um what do you want to uh dissonance there
I guess you can say that um because jumps and in k o f feel sharp and in this car yeah and in this
game you know you have you mean there's more frames of animation I think you're using the wrong word
there because tween is when you like move something without animating it that's what I mean that's
exactly what I mean what I mean is that what you see in uh certain in certain cases uh something
that should be a sharp kick that would have less frames they actually and like say them like my
doing her roundhouse or something like that they would the way it would snap back to her let to
her normal idle stance uh in other games they add tweening to that moment in this game that makes
it look a little weirder are you sure it's not just the animation because tweening is like when
you take a picture and you spin it around and you don't animate it what you end up seeing an
animation is an animation well I didn't know what I am sure because like when you go look at uh say
Kim Kapwan right and you go look at him doing his flip kicks uh Kim doing his flip kicks to me
and a couple of his other moves you end up seeing the him going back into his idle states and you
see end up seeing him going back into uh into positions where like you usually wouldn't see
that much animation and in a way adding that adding more to it just feels or rather it looks
I'm just saying I'm just saying that's not what tweening is like you're gonna confuse people
okay when I'm the reason why I'm using tweening is because you have the idle state right and then
you have the state that his kick would end in and then you have the uh you have the what you
call it the key frame that's in between those and then the and then there's an automatic process
that's pulling his leg back yeah but that's an animation yeah that's not that's the design
animation tweening is when you make the computer complete it for you that's but you I'm referring
to that I'm referring to when you see the leg completes a certain a certain but you don't
know that's hand animated though that they're not they're not they're like when he does a kick
they're not saying his leg needs to be there because what would happen if you tweened it
is the leg would just go wham it would just it would swing up and around it wouldn't do a kick
you know having more yeah no I'm looking at this there's there's more frames there's there's frames
of of of body placement that didn't used to exist and that feels odd like having in between
isn't the same thing as tweening because in between this is like oh god damn it uh eory just showed
up on the video I'm watching to see what we were talking about for Kim yeah and I hate eory's new
costume with the coat but the white but the white one's awesome it's cool and now I've completely
changed my mind I hadn't seen the white coat yet either yeah yeah eory's white coat as as I was
gonna say because like his color B is his default colors from the old games yeah with the black
coat in the white and red and then uh the uh the white coat eory now looks like white coat kio
almost that looks great it's really cool shit um anyway I guess yeah the point that I was I'm
getting at is that you would see an animated kick and then at the end of that kick the return to
idle can be left to be generated by the computer tweened because it kind of snaps it doesn't snap
backs rather it slides back into place and that happens not for the beginning of the animation
but the moment at the end and that's the place where a sprite would just snap back you know so in
any case um the feel though is definitely all there so I'm watching I'm watching some of this
footage and I haven't played it but especially compared to the early stuff it looks looks more
like king fighters like it looks no that that's for sure it is a king of I still think these models
look like crap with a few exceptions like kula I think looks really good but dandy looks like a
train wreck still there's something that there's something that it might just be me but I find it
harder to short hop in this game um it's possible they altered it slightly I you know it might just
be not me not being used to it but I find like the input to short hop like you know just to tap
up for whatever reason you're not getting it as much stricter right I was playing on a on a pad so
I even then I was like okay I need to get a stick to actually have the experience here but uh yeah
and I mean I played it on both you know I noticed on a pad I was having a hard time but I chalked it
up to being on a pad yeah you can actually grab the thumbstick and do it and you'll have an easy
yeah I did notice that oh that's for sure you know I'm in this weird place where it's like this roster
is one of the coolest most varied rosters they've ever done and it looks and the systems are going
back to something that I appreciate which is kind of a simpler thing I'm not the biggest fan of KOF
14's fucking combo pornography yeah but I hope I can get past the fact that like now at the point
that it's at now I would say it looks fine yeah like it looks it sucks but it always
does have to be bare to mind this is a completely new right it looks okay this is their first game
I don't love it I still think kyo looks really bad actually kyo's uh his super his main uh
arochi nagi not the arochi nagi the other the other one the hand wave uh yeah the the double punch
I don't remember what it's called because it's not the 188 cheeky uh he does it and the impact on
that compared to the way it used to look in KOF 2000 for example is unbelievably weak it looks
like he waves his hand at you and kind of brush it brushes you on the chest it looks so soft you
know yeah and there's a couple other things in the game where I'm like that attack has no impact on
it it feels like it's a little touch and I really wish they had like you know if not some screen
shake something in the animation to um not it's not squash and stretch but it's it's uh
god I forgot the term for it but it's like when you when you um you take all those frames of an
something going from point A to point B and then you pull the last half of them uh you front load
them so that the end of the animation it speeds up and you splat against a wall faster right
and that and that feeling is is is kind of missing here so when kiosk fist is coming towards you
you have a mathematical breakdown of like this is the distance but there's there's six or seven
frames between where he starts and where he ends and what you want to see is three at the beginning
and then like one at the end you don't want an even distribution for sure for a better feel
so anyway like my love of king of fighters is inextricably linked with my love of 2d sprite
animation and separating them feels weird and it's like well like I'm in a point where it's
like I'm going to play this game and I like a bunch of the characters in it but I'm going to hit
this point it's like how much of me caring about king of fighters is me caring about sprite animation
I bet it's a lot actually yeah I bet it's more than I think it is you know I think we got lucky
with street fighter and with guilty gear and I can't think of any other I think everyone got lucky
with guilty gear that I can't think of any other franchise at the moment but I made the jump really
well but they just made the jump exception I'm marvel 3 yeah you're right marvel 3 marvel yeah games
that made the jump really well and we just kind of took it for granted that like you know what
yeah 3d's fine yeah 3d's perfect we why not and we never really saw anything not hit with the
exception I guess in my head right now of the fates day night game you know there's stuff like
samurai showdown send and there's always guilty gear overture yeah you know yeah they were misses
for sure but we just got we got so lucky we got all the all the important ones were good so and we
just kind of we think fondly about the transition to 3d and then like you know now meanwhile at the
same time the fact that this game exists at all in any form is a miracle yeah definitely I suppose so
man I suppose so um does he have a follow-up to that big stupid kick super you can you can go
out you can do any you can do any super into almost any other super of a higher priority
like it's the max cancel system okay looks cool um yeah so anyway can we get a sprite based
virtual fighter please there's only been one do you remember which didn't get keep on co fighting
climax you can play as akira with sprites and pie jumps in as an assist yeah anyway did you play
as sylvie paul paul I played as everybody in the end to get their moves down I really dig her
animations like her walk back where she's like waving and stuff how many people learn that demo
six that's good that's yori my uh sylvie nelson and king of dinosaurs and there's shanae as well
I'm glad I'm glad they aren't teams yeah yeah no that would be bad that would be really bad of two
anywhere so shanae is all right what a main character from something else yeah no that's my only thing
about him is like okay you're you're a like generic protag but yeah I kind of like how it's him
and the other kid and they're like tongue furus students right you know I kind of like that dynamic
but you say yeah you got tongue furu right tongue furu yeah okay yeah I I mean whatever you know
it's each their own I absolutely cannot stand everything about sylvie and especially upon
playing her she's not for me that's fair um I like her yoga catastrophe from a move set
point of view it's really neat I think you have a lot of choices and applications you're telling me
you're not in the japanese pop stars um and I did notice something fun where you can send out the
yoga catastrophe and then do her her grapple not her electric other super that throws you into it
yeah which is cool but outside of that I really just got a lot of cool options um king of dinosaurs
not as good as teesock and it feels like if he was then he would have been too strong it's the same
way how uh the garo character is coming into KOF 11 all they were had to be nerfed oh yeah they had
to be nerfed uh you know it was too crazy like gato they gave him a whole other heavenwalk like
faint system but sorry not heavenwalk uh the stomp in the internet thing but like they got rid of
his fucking original heavenwalk and it's like okay yeah so you have to nerf these garo characters
teesock it's like you've got these slashes and that's a cool thing but you don't have the back
dash anymore you don't have the larry eight you know you don't have the uh you've got the justice
hurricane and you've got the air that you got the jump throw and his grapple walks forward which is
nice well see here's the thing woolly he's not teesock he's king of dinosaurs he's the king of
dinosaur at all teesaw and one of his one of his one quotes is one of the best things I've ever
seen i've really fun to that one you too can become a dinosaur like fuck yeah it's great um it's
teesaw it's canonically teesaw yeah and i and i believe bro it's teesaw it's the same voice actor
too right and other characters are like oh hey teesaw yeah terry terry just calls him out on
being teesaw if i'm not mistaken but i just think his moves are not as good as teesawks were so you're
gonna have to learn up to him to play him differently oh he's got a little bit of a freeman
claw thing he's got you so they're automatic they're not wreckers you got you do three slashes
or two slashes but you can cancel them by pressing roll input and then you do one or you do two and
then stop so it's a bit of a pressure thing plus it oh that's just big ball exactly in 3d for fuck's
sake also the second claw otg's so there you go i did anyway that's cool yeah uh there you go see
oh that's cool but it looks really cool yes but but we need to not have visual things while we're
talking because that's bad for podcasting so can you please stop this so um the only other thing i
think dude i think you should grab the demo and play it for pat please what can you turn off the
video it's really distracting it is unlike you it sounds terrible on podcast so um yeah i think
try the demo out man um it's good it is king of fighters without a doubt and um very briefly i saw
a fantasy movie called if cats disappeared from the world oh nothing would happen the world would
get better everything would be fine fuck cats man they don't give a shit about you what you give a
shit about then ask matt he's not here today because of cats no i know i'm probably gonna get a cat
soon i know cats ain't so bad so the movie is called if cats disappeared from the world and it's
basically just a normal movie would nothing happens you know what almost almost because uh it's it's
basically uh japan's attempt at making a movie that the genre of it is depression so it is just like
here's a dude living his life and he's living a pretty happy go lucky life and then he finds out
he's got terminal brain cancer you're gonna say he finds out he's living in japan and then he gets
back to the real yeah no and so he's dying and then the devil's like hey i can like extend your life
if you make things just if i make things just like yes like but it doesn't look like satan it's just
okay well there's always a devil analog it's just the same it's just the same mr satan whatever you
know yeah like like like trickster yeah i always like the idea that smt puts forth and there's a
couple others it's like every god is real all they're all different every culture has their
own things but the devil's one person in all of them because the bad man is bad but lucifer is not
satan yeah whatever anyway um that gets confusing in smt too so the premise is that i extend your life
for uh one day but i have to erase a concept from the world and it's like it never existed
it's not like it's been removed it's like it never existed you went through time an alternate
but reality where it never was and so he starts with cats the first one no no no that it's actually
the last like though they go through other things like phones and watches and movies and stuff wait
wait phones was before cats yeah he misses seinfeld episodes where phones are a problem
and you get to see how this person's life is affected by a phone never existed in all in all
reality if you said cats never existed we might all be dead from the black plague possibly yeah
there's a lot of because ratting was the thing but anyway i thought this was going to be like a
british comedy yeah well that was like ricketyer face goes to work oh you hear well the problem
there's no cats in the world anymore oh isn't that funny the issue the issue ultimately was that this
premise was like stronger than what they actually executed on every time man because
they clearly only had like this thought and they don't there was no real follow through on it
it was just kind of like we need an excuse to make an emotional movie that's going to be
pretty tacky and try to put you with feels great as much as possible the sad piano music
literally never stops why is japan so good at fucking up those things right we have because
they're the number one country at fucking up good concepts because kid in high school
class is like hey imagine if cool thing and everyone's like yeah cool thing that it's like
here's some money go do it and it's like but i didn't think of an ending or why it happened
i bet they don't even have that bit where they say but i didn't you know they just go yeah cool
thing yeah cool thing no exactly and they sit back and they're like yeah cool thing so it's another
one of those situations and you just walk out of it going like alright yeah you know
once again i'm like actually kind of fed up of like watching asian film at fantasia festival
like nine times out of ten i feel like i wasted my money oh really yeah dude the last the last fatal
frame movie was shit yeah i remember you guys so fucking bad yeah i've gotten a lot more selective
this year um so hopefully that'll help honestly like i always forget about fantasia film festival
and it's not i'll go to a couple ones the ones that you mentioned like oh there's he has a turn
movie or whatever but like i feel like over time you guys have come to me with less like oh man
you totally missed out on this movies i feel like that number has been going down every year so far
this year the only major disappointment there's two that i've had that i couldn't see because i was
out was a creature maker movie where Guillermo del Toro was here and he was introducing this
thing about like how they design creatures in movies that's cool and kill zone two
what's kills for anyone who doesn't know that's not oh shapo lang two is shapo lang two shut up
because you kept saying kill zone two over and over like that what the fuck is that is that some
fucking sony thing oh not the video game that's starring wu jing and toni ja i feel like i was
lied to by the world i feel no seriously i'm super pissed off that everyone calls that movie
kill zone two because that's what the dvd is that's not his fucking name that's not the name of the
movie it was this is you know i would have fucking seen that if i didn't fucking know geckino kyojin
where you know what are you so yeah shapo legs geckino kyojin on the fucking man gets his attack
on titan doesn't it the ones here not the japanese one doesn't no it's it's it's kind of it says it
in the anime it says right on top screen did you see in europe because i guess they don't have the
rights uh tecmo koei has to call the game aot oh yeah yeah that's garbage that's really shitty
for ailtons no no for aot no no reason though oh boy that doesn't stand for anything a on t
yeah anyway so no um um shapo line two exists and everything i need to do everything in my power
to get my hands on that because they took the best part of the first movie and they brought in a new
thing stretch it out to the and i don't expect donnie and and um uh sam ohung to return so that's
hundred percent on rotten tomato as it should that's goddamn subtitles the best thing i've ever
seen a time for consequences that's fuck this came out in 2015 i totally missed this so that
well this is the debut over here what because it because this yeah yeah these things don't get
subtitled until like a fan so tony jock came back from his self-imposed exile yeah and and did
shapo lang too like how amazing is this concurrence uh confluence of events like super cool i'm
i'm fucking confluence i should say so you did miss out on this confluence of events i missed out
it's good word it's confluence it's good aptu it is it what's the what's gets you organized it's
it's for offices uh yeah it got it got us organized sometimes and then it got taken away and then
it got taken away very yeah didn't last that's unfortunate google drive's really good what else
is in the world this week well a lot of unfortunate things a lot of unfortunate things well no not
those what about the world of video games well today we're not even going to talk that much about
video games oh because why would we movies because san diego comic con happened and there's way more
movie news than there is video game news that dr strange trailer looks really good do you have the
sonic anywhere near that docket yeah that was that was that was technically within this just
want to make sure that's within the san diego comic con confines cool so uh let's go down the list
all right well we can just hit up the trailers and straight up uh talk about like everything
that they dropped so you got your you just started with dr strange it looks really good so we can
talk about marvel dr strange looks really good man i watched like 30 seconds of the trailer i said
that's enough yep that's i can stop here yep yep yep i'm i'm i mean i was already on board but
looks like a winner yeah and uh you know benadryl cumber button yeah that's i'm really glad i get
to find out who dr strange is finally yeah uh he is doing his thickest american accent it's weird
it's fine it's really odd do it all right i you know he's an actor right a real actor he's a proper
one might say a thespian uh we had our first look at the upcoming netflix shows so iron fists
luke cage and the defenders did they show iron fists they did they showed the iron fists man i
missed that to look good it looks all right looks right it's very teaser not yeah very little of
substances the most because i mean it's in the it's it's probably not like a done right now yeah
the most they showed off was luke cage uh yeah okay i heard there was a new luke cage trailer
well i have a question you would know a lot more about luke cage than me if luke cage can get shot
by a hundred guys and not even care at all why would he pick up a car door to block bullets with
yeah no reason is it because it looks fucking cool to incapacitate somebody with okay to wrap
around that guy yeah that that yeah because of that because that shot is really cool because he
doesn't he doesn't really need it no at all he's fine um i love the idea of luke cage's costume
being like regular clothes in a hoodie because they get fucking wrecked every time every time he
comes out power man and you know power man i'd fake it the fuck out of here he needs goku's
taylor we got our look at the defenders which is the most teasery nothing because defenders is luke
cage uh daredevil jessica jones and iron fists all the buddies on a team so all the netflix buddy so
i'm really excited not for that show but to see how they're going to possibly all of those properties
have wildly different tones yep well at least daredevil and jessica jones do and i it's a little
from luke cage like from his bits you like there's it's gonna be i feel like the word i'm looking
for is laid back it'll almost those because luke is invincible those trailers have been dropping
fucking gnaws tracks on us and and i'm sure it'll all normalize in like the dark grunge that is
somewhere between but i like that will be a thought i like the idea of i really love the idea of the
defenders hanging out and like daredevil okay matt murdoch's daredevil in daredevil works and it's
very dark and brooding and and batman e right but in the in the presence of the other characters
he's like a fucking brooding weirdo yeah right when when you have like jessica drinking and like
luke just sitting around hanging out and he's justice yeah the gods and they're like what
that's but yeah do the job matt and appropriately uh it's stick whose voice in the trailer is like
you kids are all shitty you're full of shit you can't do anything fuck off marvel's defenders
coming soon that's pretty cool the actor who plays stick is so old he's melting on camera man so old
so across the pond on the dc side of things you get to watch the justice league trailer
we demand to be taken seriously now the whole thing about justice league in that trailer is
you're getting that vibe that you got when samuel l jackson was walking around recruiting
the avengers because it's that bit again it's that bit as a movie but then it's also i mean
this is the first look so there's i'm sure there's more to it but it's that bit but you also combine
that with tony stark uh recruiting spider man and so on and you just kind of do like yeah it's the
recruitment thing right so you get the gag with barry ellen you get the gag with um uh doc uh
whatever guy with cal drogo whatever his name is and and water man yeah and you know and it's like
no superman there as well and not much to really judge so far i yeah i didn't like it much but it
is pretty early yeah i hope superman stays dead oh dude you know they're gonna lose and superman's
gonna save the day thus negating the entire film i like barry ellen i think uh he's one of the coolest
that the flash part of that trailer was the only part that i i like looked at is like i like that
yeah no flash was cool yeah just like he was cool in uh in superman versus batman and um it looks
like that the flash bit was really cool oh yeah it was awesome yeah that scene was like the best
part and and it looks like i know i bring it up every time but i like the fact that he can remember
what he reads and so he looks like they're going with that version of him which is fun uh and he
slows down time sees the batarang and figures out what's going on yeah so that's that's interesting
i just like i made the joke just now but i'm like really worried that superman is going to nullify
that movie uh if they have if they have balls they'll keep him out and say and bring him back for
the end but no by him coming in at the end and saving the day the movie's premise is nullified
like because he's he's like 10 steps above everybody else he's a walking deus ex macho
right well and all the christ references are now becoming like this is what it'll be out for three
movies and then he'll come back because if they're fighting fucking dooms whatever it's dark whatever
man on easter sunday and and they're they're gonna lose and then superman comes in and he punches
him so hard and then then they're like oh thanks superman now we're the justice league and they
win because of that that means that like the entire film you just watched had like could have been
solved with a 10 minute like extra fight scene at the end of superman versus batman or whatever
i don't know it's weird anyway uh we got man should stay dead forever uh yeah well yeah
yeah just bury all that money put it right on the table and leave it there forever if you
want to have some dignity yeah farewell third place suicide squad got a new trailer uh i didn't
watch it but i still think that suicide squad has the best chance of all these dc movies that being
totally agree yeah totally agree i think so i still love my company but i think so you know
you should check out though uh they put out an adverb game for suicide squad on pc ios and android
it's a first person shooter it is free it has no micro transactions it's like a little horde mode
very enjoyable so it's like um it's like uh what the fuck did gearbox put out it was cold duty calls
duty calls but it's a good game but it's actually it's fun it's well duty calls is hell a lot of
fun duty calls duty calls is fucking sick i still think we should do is duty calls the best adverb
game of all time i still think we should do a video for that or is it checks quest checks quest is
a better game but checks was the fucking awesome yeah but anyway the suicide squad one ios android
pc you know what it's called very enjoyable which is called suicide it's on my phone so if i turn
my phone back on i'll find it pretty quick but it's good so if you're keen on suicide squad and you
want to get in there it's very fun so uh so what i said about the suicide squad having the best chance
at being yes uh the best movie uh i lied because the best movie oh because this is aquaman no no no
lego batman yeah of course yeah no you're right you're right this is a trailer for lego batman
i didn't know this is a new trailer for lego batman and i love will our net so much will our net
it's the best he demands to be taken seriously i love will our net lego batman trailer on point
uh go watch it there is no chance of that movie being bad see i want them to make a lego batman
game based on that based on this which which they probably might but i want will our nets
yes oh no they probably might they yeah they yes i do it so if they actually made a lego batman
game with will our net and they said he fully voiced it i well it's better than arkham aside
buy it in a heartbeat so this trailer introduces robin aka michael sarah
oh that's so good oh i had no idea oh it's so is he michael sarahing it he's super awkward
oh that's so good oh that's super good i actually didn't know that and i'm really happy apparently
that uh this movie is gonna rule that is so good apparently that animated killing joke is a
fucking train wreck so that's on the docket as well and um we'll get to that on us as its own
point if i was like hey did you hear about this i'm like yeah he's like that sucks i'm like boy
does it uh so it's uh susan squad special ops pad i just thank you thank you um we got to look
at wonder woman and that looks like uh very similar to captain america first avenger
um back in the old timies back in the old timies honestly her and batman and flash
strike me as the most interesting of the bunch that are on screen right now so yep thumbs up
i'll see that i mean i was gonna see him all night but the only way they could figure out how to
fix aquaman is to turn him into completely one note cool badass so he's de facto not like super
interesting he also should have been michael sarah yeah he should have been like dude if
he was michael sarah as well yeah i'll call my fishes on you know you never see aquaman and uh
robin in the same room at the same time illuminati michael sarah illuminati skull island oh man that
looks great that trailer is fucking good because i saw people i saw matt on twitter say oh i saw the
kong is it by legendary skull island that looks fucking great and i went that's stupid king kong
oh yes sam jackson and john goodman is it by legendary yes oh fucking sick is that going
across over with godzilla yes fucking sick because king kong is stupid massive yeah it is like
pretty more ridiculous like he is godzilla i i missed all these trailers yeah um they're in
this time around like basically it's like they go so far no snow shots that seem to imply back in the
city no so far it seems like we're on we're on his turf cool uh sam jackson and john goodman
are the kind of human okay so the big problem in all these monster movies is i don't care about the
humans you don't care about jack black if no i used to in school rocks school rocks good and uh and
pick a destiny is good brutal legend and brutal legends okay yeah he acted good he acted well in
it um but like if they never found king kong i would still want to watch the movie with sam jackson
and john goodman arguing with john goodman's a strong one right there right yeah like even
like if the if the end of the movie is they never found king kong at all but you got like
two hours of good people a couple other faces in that trailer too yeah but those are the two
that really like those are the fans but there's definitely a collection of uh big names so which
i didn't expect uh and what else was there a star trek discovery is the new cbs show slash netflix
show i didn't watch this because like did they did they show anything did they what they showed all
they showed was the ship taking off and the logo so it's i need to i need cbc right cbs cbs pardon me
this yeah of course it's not canada what am i talking about uh because plague was talking about
how the design that they they went with was an old rejected ship design and here's why oh that is an
old rejected ship design yeah i've seen that one so so the the uss discovery happens during the old
timeline yeah okay i i i've been i'd said this when the first movie came out i know i said to
somebody i said i bet the next tv series will totally still take place in what's known as the
prime timeline so this is going to be a bit more like old-fashioned yes either that's the intent i
think because the new universe fits film better and the old universe fits tv better yeah totally
when what year like what era i guess i mean like oh what era is this taking place and we did no
information on that because that's they have way more important than they have not given that
information yet between tng and the original series right right you know like that'd be cool
there's interesting stuff there some people are saying it has a bit of a battle star galactica
vibe well if it's if it's in that time period which i would guess yeah they're at the war they're at
war with the clans it's hard to ignore so you can have that be the background of the thing and that
would explain why the ship looks military e also happening up in space kurt russell confirmed his
ego the motherfucking living planet yeah you can't cast it any better than that even if you tried
so pat you like kurt russell and you like ego the living planet
it's the best of both worlds
no fuck you for that one that one's just the worst that our kelly and jz best of both worlds
coming together two great tastes why not both
guardians of the galaxy too can't wait this is the kind of thing that when you say hey
this character this person will be playing this character that you hate maybe you'll like that
character more right no instead the opposite is occurring now you don't like her now i like her
russell slightly less like a symbiote he's been corrupted over time start ripping kurt russell
posters off your walls off my walls more like off my ceiling yeah oh man they'll never come off
they're too stuck there kurt russell is the fucking best seeming the thing with his big beard
yeah how hard he is oh yeah oh i seen it shit mccready anyone could be the thing thanks so good
so oh it's when i first found out what could do a whole fucking podcast on how good we should do
a let's watch with the thing that's public domain hell no it's not when i first found out that um
there's going to be an x-men spinoff show for ff fx and it was it was going to be taking place in
the days of future past universe and so on and so forth i was like ah right in the future of the
days of future past universe for the past of the days of future past universe uh unclear but it was
going to be related to that timeline okay i was like if you might recall yeah yeah no i'm feeling
and um you know as you kind of go forward with this you're like is it just going to be like
daily hijinks of at the mansion what what are you going to fucking what are you going to do
and then they dropped the trailer for it today and it's called legion and the then the story
or rather the show is about legion who you might or might not recall is professor x's son who is
a really important pivotal character that led to the death of professor x the creation of onslaught
the creation of x-men so a lot of stuff to happen apocalypse now if i get south if i can
remember correctly i'm really rusty on this because most my shit comes from the cartoon
long spiky haired skinny kid isn't legion one of those characters that can just do anything omega
s class mutant that can just like when you look at under power lists it's a paragraph of single
words his his mutant ability uh evolves to create new mutant abilities all the time okay that's just
not fair subconsciously and what he does what and what his brain does is since he he absorbs his
original ability was absorbing people's um consciousness he gets a fractured mind with
tons of people's different consciousness yeah yeah so he's like rogue on steroids legion and each of
his powers that he that he evolves is given to a different personality he has to govern it so he
can't do them all at the same time he has to govern them with different personalities that he switches
between uh and he's batshit crazy and he's like one of the biggest problems that the well yeah well
this guy can do anything and he can't control his actions yeah and he's got the biggest daddy issues
in the world well his dad's professor x yeah and when you make it it's really when you make a villain
like that you know you know like i didn't read x-men but i always thought as a background like
casual x-men fan that one of my problems was like most of the villains that they end up going against
professor could if he was if he wasn't so like morally righteous he could just deal with yeah
like hey saber tooth's being a dick okay saber tooth's a good guy now yeah because i made him
a good guy so so a person like that who absorbed like who's on a level with the mind stuff that
okay professor x can't solve that now the ability for these guys to botch this whole thing is high
super high standingly high super who do you know who they caught as legion because a character
that slips between different personalities would have to be a good actor michael sarah
and michael sarah i don't recognize you put a mustache on him michael sarah cast as everyone
like youth and revolt um i don't recognize the actress face but um he's a dude and i'm excited
at the premise because you know what when you take a character whose timeline includes things like i
said such as death of professor x on slot creation of age of apocalypse and the bringing in of
nate summers the x-man that's a couple of the most significant events in x will you can you
can you have seasons worth of build up tv series be able to bridge the gap where red skull steals
professor x's brain it might bridge the gap where cap becomes cap wolf anyway i'm like you know what
is there ever a chance of like a x file style marvel show where it's just all the dumbest
storylines they ever did yeah it was called agents of so that's hilarious you know what
good on ufx you you just you picked a smart thing got one you picked a smart boy is it
smarter than ambitious both okay and spam bishes at least and you know you went with an x-man
you went with an x-man related character that has enough material to have its own series yeah
so that should also not one of the a-listers also like yeah uh we've got the fact that nv
adams has been cast as captain marvel so that's a good that's a good job to them for the movie right
for for um um guardians as well yeah no no no no no sorry for civil uh it's either for civil war
or for no or um you mean not sorry i mean i mean infinity war okay either for infinity or guardians
captain marvel was one of the ones slated to have her own movie yes captain marvel she's
going to be in a bunch of them for sure but captain marvel is going to be nv adams from uh
scott pilgrim sure that's it's dude that song is black sheep is in my head forever turn his
mic down you talk about nv adams uh we are gonna be yes brie larson um godzilla resurgence is being
called shin godzilla in north america yes this is the japanese funimation is taking care of this one
oh good get for them that that suits them godzilla's sign looks fucking stupid his tail's cool
his scary face and his scary face looks awesome yeah but his tiny little arms and huge penis tail
also do not also his melted skin yeah i like the skin part uh that matt pointed out it resembles
the flesh of what victims of uh Hiroshima and Nagasaki they were able to find yeah awesome
so doesn't change his stupid looking arms yeah that's that's i mean proportional problems but i've
always had those i like i like american godzilla's design better i i like i think yeah i think you
just the old one not the new one yeah the one that's like a dinosaur i hope that's a good one
other big monster in the movie instead of it being x-movie feat godzilla but the poster for it
seems to be well there's there's the the newer posters but there's an up poster that's basically
omaging the first godzilla movie so it seems like hayakiyano might be going for the people of
earth versus god yeah that's a lot that feels like what anna would do that would still be a cool
thing but i would love to see gedora in that in this new style and gedora doesn't have arms so he
can't be ruined like i don't see ados take on jet jaguar showing up anytime soon oh god but that
would be like jet jaguar would be the most meta thing and it would know all about all the other
godzilla movies and it could talk to all of them yeah and it would hate its existence yes and it
could reprogram itself to like its existence and then there'd be a really weird elevator scene where
godzilla and jet jaguar and this weird giant space elevator standing there and they don't move for
four minutes yeah you just listen to classical music it matters though it does significant
scene so tells you a lot tells you a lot of everything you need to know about the character
significant scenes that matter are important in the long run jesus christ what are you going for
you can see the ball up in the air just oh it's you just gonna catch it it's coming is what's it
a decision to change or insert things into significant moments in history for important
characters shouldn't be done lightly so when you tell me that bruce wane is gonna start
fucking barbara gordon oh yeah here we go you better have a fucking good reason for it well she
became bat girl to get that penis well apparently uh since alan more doesn't like his work anymore
does alan more like anything no he likes snake god no he doesn't he hates it oh he's done with
that he was done with it already it's hard to keep up he hated it he's if you don't remember he said
i'm worshiping some you can snake god it's probably bullshit that's what i always think of but i didn't
know he was fully off at this point so anyway alan more is 40 steps ahead of everyone else right
and so uh the the idea that bruce tim uh justifies this by because i'm the story is the killing joke
being animated coming out yesterday there's a bunch of extra stuff and um they're putting in some
stuff like uh the intro to the movie is bruce and barbara having a relationship um he's describing
bruce tim is saying that this is in there because they barbara felt a little bit 2d in the original
story and they didn't want her to just be a damsel for bruce they wanted her to have her own agency
to some degree so they wanted to like flesh her character out i understand those motivations
however you're inserting a romantic relationship that didn't exist that not only did not exist
but was used to be a father daughter dynamic yeah that's fucked man yeah i think that's kind of the
point no it's stupid no like the thing that everyone's getting like creeped out by yeah that's
intended for you to get creeped out by that he said that she didn't always make good decisions
these are people that make bad decisions sometimes and i guess that is one thing that could defend
what you mean but i know i mean like the only way i can understand this is that this creepy feeling
that we all feel is intentional is that that's what we're supposed to feel about this i don't
like it though because not creepy i'm cool i'm cool i don't you look a little freaked out though
i don't like it because i'm not only was that dynamic like pretty strong but ultimately i'm
i'm a big fan of killing jokes so well see in my head canon in some circles it's a good comic
batman just fucks all the robins period uh-huh so this this is fine okay in the canon batman
or rather Bruce Wayne stumps all the a-list hollywood starlets that he wants yeah those are
fancy beards and batman's got a thing for catwoman but that's about it really yeah
i'm never gonna get over the wait no there was the huntress show with that was slide down my bat
pole this is a bat cave anyway uh there's there's a couple of moments that happen over the years
and they throw in at the fucking sun heading now and then and whatnot but the point remains that
barber gordon is not that and in general like when you think of the commissioner gordon angle
too as well it's like like hey old buddy of mine like we're two war vets gone through the
shit and now you're you're like you know plon my daughter really that's what that's what we're
going for here that's awkward right yeah work it work the awkwardness so no but like i like
if you if the awkwardness i feel like adding this wrinkle like if if roost hems comes out and
it's like we really thought it would really deepen the whatever and it's it'd be cool you know or
that and like thinking it's cool or deep or whatever that's one thing but on its face i see that and
it's like yeah no their relationship is screwed up and it's stupid and it was never good and like in
most continuities or or whatever like commissioner gordon doesn't fuck doesn't know right that that
back girls is yeah yeah okay so he'd be pissed if he found out right yeah well he'd be super pissed now
i mean i'm looking at it like a casket type situation yeah and um well i can't judge it until i see
it but right now it it feels oh i'm not saying it's i'm not saying it's good i think it's intentionally
i think they think it's good but the the the goal is like i want to make a like a painting that's
mostly blue and then they make a shit painting that happens to be mostly yeah like you then
like you'll succeed in weirding us out but it might make it worse yeah so that's that's what i think
i think it's intentional but if it it i think it's doomed to fail like i haven't seen it myself but
like most people's reactions are like oh what i mean outside of that it sounds like hamels giving
some of his best performances ever well he just gets better he better it's the killing joke like
exactly he gave what other comic like the first time i saw that trailer and he dropped the all
it takes is one bad day i fucking got chills man we're talking about a man who gave one of the
best performances of his life in a film in which he didn't speak and only showed up for 20 seconds
that's true too yeah him turning around in star wars was an amazing like thing where it's like he
looks really tired speaking of tired things turning around how about that sonic the hedgehog
hey that's a good one so they had really they had a like two or three hour i can't remember
i hate to watch this it feels like a weird fever dream of like nineties totino's shit well i recently
watched the gym position in which jim describes a toppling konami's press conference oh yeah yeah
so konamis is well konamis is dense and the level of like cringe is way higher sonic no i wouldn't
say it's better sonics just has more problems like that's one way to put it like the audio is
there's a buzz on the audio from start to finish there's a clip of a guy holding out a microphone
and it's clipping out and cutting out is you hear that that's the sound 25 years sonic and then the
audio goes brrrrr so we the gym position compilation edited those together and and they're right there
in the dock if you want to see that they're not an order or anything oh okay so he did like rig
those in that order that one guy as he as he said at the beginning of the video the guy that's
trying to talk and he just keeps getting interrupted or when they're singing uh sonic boom it's like
sonic boom sonic sonic and then one grab grabs the mic and is like yeah um there was a bit where
they brought out all the voice actors from the show sonic boom right and they were just about to
have them do a thing and it just cuts to one of the sega reps on the floor and he's like okay we're
gonna check out sonic boom fire nice and it's like okay what no i wanted to see the voice actors do
that thing but whatever man okay we're gonna check out sonic boom fire nice so they walk over to one
of the 3ds display booths right and he picks it up and and they're recording it with the camera
you know they don't have direct feed or anything you can't hear it obviously and they're watching
the opening cutscene and after after like 10 15 seconds of the opening cutscene he like sheepishly
goes okay i'm gonna i'm gonna skip this guys sorry sorry if you purists gonna get to the gameplay
then he skips to the gameplay and it almost immediately cuts right back to the stage where
those guys have finished the thing they were just doing on the stage yeah and we just completely
missed it there was a bit where this same sega employee had to taste test multiple totino's products
and tell the camera how good they are and like was he a scream lord for totino's oh god it was so
and they talked about the couch at packs do you remember that one scream lord totino's scream
lord couch they talked about it that was talked about how it was a wild ride and super fun there
was a lot of totino's talk um the thing was a mess but all the stuff they showed was good they
showed like good update for their mobile game they showed uh sonic and lego dimensions who looks
really good they showed sonic mania sonic mania looks really special they showed a teaser for the
new modern sonic coming in 2017 project sonic 2017 yeah uh the live music was good unfortunately the
buzzing kind of hampered that a lot uh mascot sonic dancing on stage was not oh dude and he had to
get walked off by someone sonic mania man that's all i wanted for here so pretty much make a man nine
it you know but the content was super good the show is a fucking disaster hopefully it was really fun
to watch hopefully they have a worse show next year yeah uh 26th anniversary that's right yeah so you
were pointing out that the trailer for the sonic uh project sonic 2017 with the destroyed apocalyptic
world and the giant mech was actually the end of chaotix it looks exactly like the end of knuckles
chaotix like huh not maybe not exactly but figuratively with that giant mech like the end of knuckles
chaotix so i don't know they said they said it's not a sequel so i don't expect it to be called
generations too but it might be like in terms of content because that's what's that's what's on
display like old sonic is there and they seem to be in knuckles chaotix world so we'll see maybe it's
knuckles chaotix two and they lied it's not it is a sequel knuckles chaotix generation yeah
shadow comes out from behind the shadows and puts a gun and so on it just blows them away you need
to get a ps4 or xbox 132x to play it i wish it was shadow two dude if it was shadow two i think
people would turn around and buy shadow two nowadays so i think it has looped around and people love
that out of irony out of irony i think okay okay if it was shadow two shadow and big
why not then you'd have something people would buy in where big gets edge and guns big with guns
and frog and john saint john yep yeah then you do it then you do it so i was just thinking
like sonic mania should boot up and it should go like synchronizing your 32x
synchronizing your sonic dreams collective spinning cd the whole time i was wishing they
would announce dreams collection is like official dude official products dude there is the event was
mc'd by the guy who does the twitter by the way oh we got to see him yeah uh allen weber i think
okay yeah there's unbirthing in that in that game it's so good uh there was a better sonic
camps yeah there was some other game news i mean dead rising is getting ported to current gen
cool marvel ultimate alliance is getting ported to current gen cool one of the cool things about
dead rising not not to dwell on it but this is the first time that dead rising will be on pc or a
non xbox 360 so i still think that's the best game in the dead rising franchise it's my favorite one
yeah i like k zero a lot but that's my favorite one i really like k zero um and well that just
mainly depends on how much dead rising you actually want to play right i guess yeah i wanted i wanted
a bite sized adventure you got it yep um speaking of adventure fucking koji pro with their logo
that shit is elaborate trailer for their logo fuck yeah i wonder if that's gonna play before every
game yeah i bet it i bet it will the money was spent it's almost too elaborate for it to play
in front of every game you know the money was spent i was watching this and and my girlfriend
was sitting next to me she was just piling around on her laptop or whatever and she i'm like oh
check out this new kajima production season oh sick and we're watching it and it's super long
yeah well you know what it makes me 40 seconds it makes me think of a film company and she goes
oh what game is this it's their logo like the full logo for spot free yeah it's so stupid uh i feel
like if they do this and they decide to commit to it then you need to change it up to tell
luden's story across multiple every game has a bit more that just the next chapter a little bit
more a little bit more what's luden's up to this time i want to know he's not a skeleton he's a
man in a skeleton costume in an astronaut outfit he thought it would be funny jokes on him can we
just talk for about one second about konami's statement that they're gonna try and win us back
what is there to say fuck off all right yeah it was one of the u.s employees so
those guys those guys are doing good that's all i wanted to say i feel bad for the u.s employees
i also do like they actually are still doing positive things can i actually can i can i
expand that too i feel bad for what is likely most konami employees yeah yeah um but the statement of
like we try to win you back i get it i i've heard somewhere between fuck off and a sarcastic
good luck it makes me hopeful honestly because don't get me wrong they did awful stuff but you
would not say that unless something existed yeah and it's like i i will play a new contra or castle
vane yeah i'll play a new middle gear i mean they would not say that unless there was a project
that did exist something yeah but what could it be it's not on the hills without any of the people
you want to working on it honestly there's so many names they could announce and i would just be like
i'll buy that song but like okay what like where what where's the frat take of the franchise
and then go where is it at now right so is it a castlevania well we got bloodstained
there well they're gonna metal gear well that's not gonna be not touchy they're gonna announce
castlevania stained with blood and then they're gonna sue igorashi for trademark infringement
of their game you know if it's not castlevania or battle gear um contra contra would that be
enough to win back no well i mean but that but that's the thing like castlevania changed holders
to igorashi you know who's to say if it changes holders again it won't be i'm sure they'll announce
i'm sure they'll announce um a psp sound hell game
i'm optimistic that it'll mean good games too i mean i have nothing bad to say about one of
American employees saying we hope to win you back you know like if it was the CEO of the Japanese
side i would feel a little more like okay fuck you guy because you're you're part of the problem
directly but yeah yeah like my last memory of the western team is hey they put portable ops on
the vita a few weeks ago that was good that was a plus in my book so do acid next make acid three
that would make me feel good if you did acid three or you should just do i don't even need kujima
to do acid three just do acid no do acid three that's a lot more acid i think we're having
different conversations if you want to have a conversation you can send the letter to super
best friendcast at gmail.com that's right you can send it to super best friendcast to gmail.com
don't do acid if you want yeah but we didn't say that i mean acid is one of those ones that
won't kill you right unless you jump out a window because you think gnomes are after you
okay asking a question i don't even know i don't know don't do drugs unless you're sure that you
want to okay and even then pat didn't say that uh so let's assume that you did a
fuck ton of drugs yeah and then you started like i don't know selling them or something let's just
assume yeah right you're in the shit yeah i'm in this situation right yeah to get and your operation
like eventually like bodies are found and like you you just you're bad yeah right you're in trouble
with the law gotta tell chris and snoop to fall on their swords natasha wants to know
if you had done if you did something illegal yes what defense attorney from any media would you
want to defend you it cannot be phoenix right because you are guilty oh that's great but phoenix
right did defend a guilty client that being said that's a really good yeah um uh by a footnote
to to disqualify that's one of the best disqualifications i've ever heard that's really
good and the person has to be a lawyer or a defense attorney has to be a lawyer or a defense attorney
in anything in anything oh my god do you have do you have one ready that i can stall for so
my brain was jumping around between she hulk but then i was like no i'm not a mutant you don't
want sol good she wouldn't take my case you're not a mutant you don't want all sol goodman's really
strong also all sol goodman's really strong i also went to ali mcbill um but i yeah it's hard
it's hard you don't want do you want matt murdoch i've been watching a lot of orders so hard do you
want matt murdoch on your fucking team i don't know do you want foggy i'm struggling to to figure out
like i don't know enough lawyers in media
i feel like my limited pool has already been exhausted by this discussion okay here's here
we go no you know what if i'm guilty because that's the crux you have to be guilty you are guilty i
am guilty you are guilty i'm calling sol yeah sol goodman i'm calling i'm calling that's why i
named him first yeah because he seems like the right pick to me i'm calling sol because he don't
give a shit right and he's gonna be in the in the at the urinal well fuck with you he's in
he's at the urinal working for a plea deal so uh yeah that's my that's my vote that's my vote i
know who to call who levi from sorry a wire the wire okay oh my god uh he's not super powered
he's not magical but he is a fantastic defense lawyer who defends criminals tells them how to
not get caught even though he knows they're breaking law which is a violation of the law
and he also cheats and bribes people to get court information stringers stringers lawyer yeah
stringers lawyer stringers lawyer yeah yeah yeah okay yeah or levy sorry levy levy yeah sorry my
bet um levy's a good god damn lawyer when you're guilty when you did it because he cheats yeah
okay i'll take that seems like a good pick i want a lawyer willing to go to jail with you
uh i'm good good good no pat you know nothing fancy like a really good pick yeah yeah yeah it's a cool
question though a very cool question i'll probably think of a much better pick yeah i i wish i knew
more about lawyer media there's there's a lawyer from an early season of uh it's a mob lawyer from
an early season of law and order who ends up getting indicted with uh uh with his clients
because he plays cards with the mob bosses because he's the lawyer and they talk about all the people
that they're gonna whack and he tells them how to avoid scrutiny yeah and that's super against the law
yeah yeah yeah for sure um that guy maybe because you know what i'm gonna save this one for when
matt gets back okay good email uh we got feel free to to write in next week with other good picks
for fictional defense attorneys because there's a lot there's a there's so many that i'm being
crippled by choice they're super salt trio featuring leon oh and wants to know oh you're not the salty
one good for you leon uh with my limited exposure to anime and manga there's been a weird slat towards
bad guys being blonde of course you've got fifth dio kira valentine uh shin from fist of the north
star uh char viral char's not a villain uh yeah char's char's an evil hero um liquid antagonist
you got liquid and and all these other david bowie looking motherfuckers uh what is the deal
with uh blonde people in anime well the number one reason is mentioned in that evil and that's
japan thanks david bowie's fucking cool in the right i think a part of it too is it makes for a
striking design i that's i honestly and it's the same reason why a rival that's not a bad guy like
ken or um um what's his name um god fucking damn it anyway uh you will see i think just you'll see
the blonde character with the red on them as the contrast to the black character with the blue
it's just design any character in in japanese fiction that's supposed to have any form of
self insert will have black hair and if you want yeah and if you want the opposite of that the
other character will have blonde hair yeah um i think it's just it's as simple as aesthetics
yeah that definitely and if there is anything else it's because they're they're guaranteed a foreigner
but that's it because yeah you have to dye your hair evil foreigner japanese guy who's blonde
really so yeah well not literally but 99 99.9 yeah but if your skin gets dark then you gotta get
white hair because black hair is for japanese yep uh we've got one from alexander who's just
says yeah yo woolly don't be bad don't feel bad about your strawberry picking job and how about
you get how you got kicked out by shitty asian kids i saw a good response to that the jokes on
them because they had to keep picking strawberries it's a rough job yeah fair enough um we got one
manual labor in a field no matter what the fuck you're doing is rough twan says hey besties i thought
it'd be fun uh which of these titles would you add or remove a future to make them competitive
power stone two evil zone uh resident evil five versus
zone of the enders two versus and smash four zoey zoey no question he says he's without any
question zoey too as a competitive game would be the fucking absolute shit yeah uh what i would
do is i'd make a cabinet and uh i'd switch up the fight for the camera system to just have a
two two two screens exactly that's it i well that and and change the horrific game balance
you all make the characters like resident evil five is it's close but like it needs needs more
and also the only game on that list that's objectively fucking trash is evil zone yeah
so that's my second pick because it would make it a good game maybe yeah resident evil five
i so you're it's by score right which is by killing enemies and stuff and killing the other
player well i think resident evil five is honestly good to go as a competitive game but nobody wants
to watch it you know what like you know i just remembered i'm sorry to cut you off but uh the
hd collection of zoey two is the anubis version and the anubis version rebalances the versus
mode to be fairer have you ever played the anubis version yeah we did we actually recorded a video
on that one yeah i remember what was it that version yeah okay yeah because uh that that one
had was significantly rebalanced so yeah yeah um i want to i want another game that just plays
like fucking so like so bad yeah i don't even care if it's max go play fucking steel whatever
no 3ds it's a download no it's kind of like zoey they're trying to be zoey there's only two games
to control like that and they're both the same game go play zone of the enders the fists of mars
no that's an anime no that's a gba game it's good too
hey scrub club four yeah jack is asking what's your favorite walking forward animation and fighting
games we've done an idle before so i thought this would be very fitting my vote is makoto
yeah makoto's walk is so good it's a really strong one i really like k dash i was gonna
say i was gonna say k dash has a really fucking good because it looks like he's not in a fighting
game yeah he doesn't yeah i like virgil's a lot because it's just virgil's walk like um i i think
i think k dash is definitely up there uh walking back is a lot easier for me to a lot yeah walk
there's more personality yeah there's a more personality in the walk back i'm gonna put my
shenwoo's walk back is fantastic yeah that's right i'm gonna put my current number one favorite
walking forward animation to be street fighter five and bison wait because it's just a really
slow walk with his arms crossed it's so slow it's very nice the boss walk the slower they walk the
cooler they are the boss walk i really like shumagorath's walk yeah well that's just marbles
warath it's just this animation i really dig shumagorath because yeah it's beautiful 12 right
12 has a similar kind of thing yeah i gotta put it up to that makoto's is very strong yeah but i feel
like makoto's walk animation wouldn't be as good as she like if her dash animation wasn't so like it
has the contrast the old joseph from waku waku seven that character you know the guy who looks
like old joseph he has a really cool he has a really cool gait to him and while we're there
idle animations nobody beats oswald from king of fighters 11 everyone in dive kick
the the fencer from nidhog is strong walking forward dive kick would you get out of here
the fencer from nidhog has a good one so our single character in dive kick can walk forward
no i know marne can run back i'm sorry mr n can go backwards i mean and you know oh parasol
and skullgirls has a really cool walk she has like a like fast slow big step yeah exactly i really
like that yeah yeah that one's good too um yeah no i'd say that that's a good list that's a good
list uh isn't it i'm trying to remember if there's a character that because i feel like i'm thinking
of a big heavy thing that like walks and goes clunk and then stops and goes come on big band
big band big band big band sentinel there you go yeah hulk has a good walk with the way he moves
his arms around yeah but definitely tons of personality off of uh k dash and mikoto yep
what's coming up uh eyes of heaven eyes of heaven's coming up more jojo uh more mistakes inside comes
to a conclusion or is that already it comes to a start and a conclusion start and yeah it started
and it's gonna end the near we'll continue that game's weird near's got a ways left uh we recorded
a let's watch but i don't think that's this week no it's gotta be next uh yeah me and matt recorded
other it's a good last week so um yeah i almost fell asleep on on eyes of heaven like i wrote a
post on it but i just like i'm gonna say it here that like basically uh for i read i'm sorry i am
such a stupid idiot i basically because i read them a while ago and there's details i'm gonna forget
and well the fact that i forgot a certain details well you're fucked because it's users it's a
locations places so on you're dealing with the same people that i'm going on memory if we play
at a star trek game matt and i we would talk all sorts of mess about like oh remember that episode
and people go well actually yeah it's nc 17 oh one or like well actually that episode doesn't exist
that happens that one's the bad one yeah where you remember a thing that didn't happen that's way
worse than misremembering in detail or whatever it's like remember when that happened and somebody
who doesn't know but thinks that that sounds familiar says oh yeah and like not that didn't
happen it's tough because you need an encyclopedia for jojo it it is there's a jojo opedia so you
know what they're like i'm probably gonna throw a couple mistakes out there i i'm trying to refresh
myself but if so if i make a mistake i'm sorry so moving forward we're gonna play where's the
apologize you know if you're uh if you're playing if you're watching our jojo lp and you're familiar
about jojo that's great because you should be because it's fuck it's we're talking a lot about it in
there here's the fun game you get to play in the future hmm how many of these did we get wrong for
real and how many of them did we get wrong on purpose out of spite oh god anyway some of them
anyway woolly i talked about this game it was woolly's idea he's gonna be getting a lot of
things wrong in the future out of spite to you there you go specifically for you so look look all
i'm trying to say is that because there's there's someone that wrote a big response i understand
that to some degree like the it's it's not even about like oh you got it wrong it's more like you
guys are gonna spread misinformation and i only got into jojo because of you and now i know more
about it than you and i'm like that's valid i hear that i'm doing my best don't worry about it i'm
doing my best and if i made a mistake i'm sorry that's it you know i'll annotate what i can but
there's a lot of jojo out there yeah also it's like jojo is not and has never been our number one
you know like we're not encyclopedias for for but it's just but it's just it's like we turned a
lot of people on to it for sure that ended up like laughing us in terms of how much they got into it
because all we did is look at it when that was fucking awesome it's not our one thing now if mad
mad and i do an lp about a residential lp yeah and we start getting and this starts happening
come at me because i should know better yeah like straight up that's kind of one of my things i should
know better sure yeah like i even know all the stupid weird stuff like in the in the fucking
umbrella chronicles guidebook that was a companion those those encyclopedia books in in the first
one they when they copy pasted the fucking translation from japanese they copy pasted
change every time it says biohazard to resident evil which leads to when they're talking about re3
umbrella sent in the umbrella resident evil countermeasure squad which is stupid which is
fucking stupid but because they control f control replaced that happened uh so the other thing is
there's been some minor but still existing feedback of people who uh went in saw the spoiler
warning kind of assumed that the spoilers would be happening in chronological order oh no the game
isn't happening in chronological order and and basically assuming that it would be safe to watch
up until a cutoff point no and that our conversation would be safe to hear that's not how that works
big apologies to those guys you i'm sorry you made that assumption but that warning is very clear
the moment you press play all parts of jojo are going to be spoiled it's like if it went when
when matt and leon did uh that berserk game and uh that berserk game takes place in between
certain chapters yeah that doesn't mean you're safe up until x chapter all right berserk's 30
years old it's impossible to not because some people just didn't click play and they didn't see
the warning so i understand those questions that's fine but for those who did and kind of went oh
fuck it was like yeah no the it's the what i wrote in the warning is literal now to those people
who are not mad but they're upset that they got spoiled on jojo stuff don't worry jojo is one of
the least spoilable fucking shows ever and we talked about that lp in which will he is telling me
all sorts of shit about magic turtles and fucking alternate dimensions and shit i don't know what
he's talking about and i can't even just like i i can't even see the path i can't see the
fucking path forward and he's telling me specific fights this happened this happened this happened
i barely know what i'm talking about and it's like i get i'm gonna get there and it's i'm gonna be
three quarters through the fight like oh that's the one he was talking about and the one thing
happens jojo is so complex and there's so many different variables of things that like ah you
got spoiled so what it's not matter like i i think at some point i go i i mentioned how a villain
dies right yeah a villain in part whatever gets shot in the face that's not what happens i'm just
making up a different version for conversation site and it's like oh no now i got spoiled that
that character gets shot in the face it's like that is one panel out of five issues
and and that and that that final panel means nothing compared to the the hundred before it
he got shot it wasn't a bullet no and you and you can't even begin to understand how that
object got it was a magic cat man out of air like what do you you know what i mean you got nothing
you got nothing so anyway jojo continues inside continues catheter continues and near continues
everything continues yep all right except this part and we'll uh and we'll uh and we'll see you
guys down in hamilton this weekend we're going down to con bravo yep see you there i'm gonna
meet some old friends they haven't seen in a long time not those old friends different old friends
that would do you don't know what um that hopefully we'll see at the q and a at our panel
great did we finish the podcast do you like liam had a good ending okay we'll just cut my whole
thing off tagged it for nothing just cut my whole thing what's the song this week will they i don't
know oh okay hey by the way if you hear the uh
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