The Besties - The Besties Podcast XXII (archive)

Episode Date: July 28, 2012

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Free of fair use Parody TM One minute Fair use Use My name is Justin McElroy And I know the best game of the week

My name is Griffin McElroy And I believe I know the best game of the week My name is Christopher Plant And I showed up with a game this week Okay My name is Russ Froschik and I know the best game of the week. That sound guy just fell down dead. He killed him.

Sorry, buddy. He fell dead to the floor. Killed him. You know his name. Justin. You're a monster. Justin. As soon as somebody goes in a booth, they're completely inhuman to you.

They become an attack. You're like a half robot, half human cyborg. Can you tell us what we're here to do? This is the besties, where every week the four of us, sometimes me, sometimes not me, the four of us gather together to compare the new games of the week. We make them fight each other in sort of a battle royale, Mortal Kombat, if you will.

Once a winner is chosen, we pit that winner against our reigning chump win. Now, I've not been here last week. I was not here. Who is our... You missed a real crummy week. Oh, boy. It was a real...

It was a bunch of stinkers. Yeah. Hey, Shellraiser was a good game. Yeah. Shellraiser, did you see? Did you hear about Shellraiser? I saw. Shellraiser has been getting a

lot of attention that's true a lot of positive reviews i was flipping through it i was like maybe i should download this game so i i boot up my itunes app store i'm reading some reviews from destructoid and then who do i find but our good friend texarkana Tumbleweed, quoted by the Astro. What was the exact quote? The quote was, better than a frog doing something on another frog. Yeah. It was Russ's worst character yet. Now, I do not understand Russ's character.

Sorry, Russ's worst friend that exists. He's friendly. But we were going to retire Spelunky at the beginning of the episode, but then at the end of the episode we decided it was just irresponsible. So it's still Spelunky standing strong. All right. Yeah. Russ, now this week you will serve as our commissioner.

Maybe you can tell us who will be pitching first. Did you play nothing this week that you could? I pretty much played nothing this week. I just played more Spelunky, but I know you guys don't want to hear about that. God, I cannot express. You guys are sick and tired of Spunky. So, well, I'll be honest. I don't know that I am really qualified to judge, per se. I don't think I'm the person.

You know, I happen to know someone more qualified. You are bringing a friend. You can't do a character if there's... Oh, no. Please, just don't be racist. He's coming in to fill fish. Hello, besties. Oh, no.

It is I, your favorite indie developer, Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Baptiste. Hello. Jean-Baptiste. You made the trip. It has been many, many days since I have seen you. The illusion doesn't play when we see you put on the prosthetics. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, guys, I think we can agree.

I think we can all agree that Jean-Baptiste is not Russ Prescott. Let's really submerge ourselves. Let's keep the improv going. Hey, where did Russ go? It's like he vanished. The only hint that it's Russ is that he doesn't know how to put on a scarf. His Starbucks 64 3D scarf. Hello.

I flew in from France for you. To be here for the C-Besties. Does that explain why your mustache is so frazzled right now? Yes, in costumes they were very... You had to check your mustache. They checked it. They're handy. Yes, they thought I had a sandwich in my hand.

Well, your mustache has to clock in under two ounces or else you have to check it. Yes, it was over. But I thought maybe I could pick the best, because I make the best games, so I know the best. Monsieur Baptiste, are you working on anything right now? Oh, yes, I am working on many games. Many, many games.

Any specifically that you could tell us about? Well, let me see. He said with terror in his voice. Yes, there is one where there are pieces that fall from the sky. Oh. Oh. Okay. And you make lines from them.

Oh, so. Can you elaborate a little bit more on the mechanics? Because once it fills up, is the, like, once you can't put any more bricks in. You die when you. Well, how does it not fill up uh like instantly yeah because it is time that falls time is constant you you never know when time so the game goes you put the bricks down yes they fill up and the game stops yes is there no way to get rid of lines no No. This is what life is.

Life is like the bricks that fall, but you cannot deal with them. Oh, that's great. I don't know. I feel like maybe there's a piece missing. Yeah. You're still workshopping it, I assume? No, it is out. Okay.

What is it called so people can find it? Tetris. Oh, like the tree. Okay. It is named after it? Tetris. Oh, that's Petris. It is named after my friend Tetris. Tetris. French. That's fair.

His last name is French? Yes. He's the famous monster manufacturer. Honey. Monsieur Baptiste, could you tell us who's going to be pitching for us this week? Yes, I think Griffon should

pitch first. Your mustache is getting worse. It's actually from the studio lights. It's shedding. My game this week is an iOS game called 10 Million, which is one followed by a lot of zeros not spelled out it's very difficult to search for unless you're good at numbers good job any

developers yeah done it again um it's an appropriate title because i haven't even come close but you beat the game by getting 10 million points and uh it plays out sort of peel-a-john comparisons between like like puzzle quest and dungeon raid because it's a puzzle action rpg sort of. So the basic premise is you're running down a tunnel, and that's represented on the screen in the top part, and the bottom part is all gems that you have to match up. I can't take you seriously.

I can't. I'm going to pitch to Chris Plant now. I'm a serious developer in the indie games community. So you match gems to solve, to negotiate issues that happen in the tunnel. Like if you run into a monster, you can match sword icons to do physical attacks or staff icons to do magical attacks. And there are chests that you have to match keys and doors that you have to match keys. And so that part is relatively straightforward. You lose the game when you get pushed off the back of the screen.

It's constantly pushing you backwards as time moves. Time. This is what I'm saying. Time, it's relentless. This is never stopped. But if an enemy attacks you, you get pushed back even further. So you're just trying to stay on the screen for as long as you possibly can. So that's the game.

But there are a ton of unlocks and upgrade mechanics that you can do when you're at your home base between levels um and you can build up your home base you can upgrade certain sections like a blacksmith that lets you increase your melee attack um and you can gather resources while you're matching tiles to upgrade those those places and earn experience and gold to buy new weapons and and staves staves, staves? Staffs? Staffies. Staffies. Staffroses. And so it's really addicting. There's different ranks that you can move up through. There's challenges that you can move through,

which unlock the new ranks. And every rank that you earn earns you a new score multiplier, so it's sort of Angry Birds-esque in that way. And the whole point of the game is to get 10 million points. I think I've put a few hours into it, and I think I've gotten up to like 580,000 I'm not even close is it resets every time you play it resets every time you die no but it doesn't no it does the score doesn't reset you you you're just building on to the time the score no you're not oh no no no no your your ability doesn't reset then no your ability doesn't reset no your ability doesn't reset you're like the things that you the the resources you earn and the experience and gold you bring all that back

home when you die um now this this game doesn't sound difficult to me it sounds like a grind like well here's what's here's what's difficult uh and it it's a subtle thing but it really does make a huge difference is it's not like dungeon raid and that you have to like draw lines through the things and it's not like bejeweled or puzzle quest where you slide things to make matches every row and column moves uh as one unit sort of like a rubix cube and you have to move it to make matches and you can't move it to not make a match to like set up really sweet combos sort of like in tetris attack i guess or tetris attack uh you have to move things to make combos so there are certain you'll you'll notice patterns and you get good at that when you play a lot

of Puzzle Quest or Bejeweled, of noticing patterns and then capitalizing on those. The things you know about those types of games don't apply here. Did you get him? Got him. Bug in the studio. Justin executed it. I didn't get him. I didn't get him.

Oh, no, he's still right here. So if you have two pieces next to each other, and then a piece you don't want, and then another one, all in the same row, you can't do anything with it, because you can's still right here. So, like, if you have two pieces next to each other, and then a piece you don't want, and then another one, all in the same row, you can't do anything with it because you can't move it up. It's all one solid row. Here's why it doesn't sound like a game to me. Let's name this game How to Build a House, okay?

Just house. Not the Dr. MD, just a house, right? Sure, I don't think we would. The ultimate goal, you win if you build a house. Yeah. The first time you play it, all you get is a nail. And then you just kind of bash that nail in some dirt for a while, and it's like, good job.

You've now gained the power of hammer. And then you bash that hammer for a while, and it just gives you new tools. You're not getting better. You're just bashing things. And then at a certain point, you get the house-making machine, and then you make the house, and it's like, great job. With the house-making machine,

you have accomplished the goal of making a house you you do get better um you do because i mean okay the score don't even think about the score um just think about like your survival time like staying on the screen like that doesn't really that's not really affected because the challenges get harder and harder and harder so So staying on the screen, all that matters there is how good you are, and you get better at that by just playing the game. It really is a really clever puzzle game with a lot of really clever mechanics, and if you get hooked on upgrade mechanics in games... And people like grinds.

People love grinds, yeah. I personally don't get hooked on grinds because I can see myself wasting time because I can't tell if I'm actually getting better or if it's just tricking me into thinking I'm getting better. That drives me insane once I start thinking about it. Splunk is the opposite

because you have to get better. I like this game. I like how you describe it. Thank you. It sounds a lot like a game that I made. Which is? 10 million and two. Okay.

So what's the, can you really quickly synopsize? Really quickly. Yes. So you're matching keys and doors and style fees. So did you, I want right now your complete undivided attention and honesty. So did you be, I want right now your complete undivided attention and honesty. Did you just listen to the things I say and then design the game in your brain? Like as I was saying then, was it going in your ears, into your brain, through some sort of filter, and then into another part of your brain?

The design filter. The design, the repurposing engine. The creativity box, if you will. And you turned it into your own thing by adding two to it. Well, no, because I added two. So it's different. I do not know. It's not 10,000,000.

This sounds a lot like the time Jean-Baptiste got in trouble for releasing Angry Birds 2 on the iTunes app store. It sounds an awful lot like that lawsuit all over again. It was Angry Birds. Oh, you're right. Do you remember when you put Pokemon Fuchsia on the iOS App Store? Do you remember when you did that? It sold really well. It sold great, yeah.

People loved it. And I was really happy for you. I do not know why they're angry. Why Nintendo was so upset. Can I pitch my game? I wish you would. My game is probably old. I don't know when it came out.

It's called Ticket to Ride. That's like a hundred years old. It's also, yeah, like a billion. I don't have any game. He didn't play anything. You didn't play anything? He fell down the stairs. Tell us about Ticket to Ride. Tell us about this game that came out. You didn't play anything? He fell down the stairs. No, let's talk about... Tell us about Ticket to Ride.

Tell us about this game that came out. Tell us about your Ticket to Ride down the stairs. Yeah, I remember it won Board Game of the Year in, like, 2004. I don't want to talk about it now because I didn't know it was that old. No, I'd love to hear it. I'm bored with it, I guess. No, there is new DLC. Did you play the DLC?

I think they just did a Retina Display update. Yeah, I'll talk about the new Retina. And now it's got Retsin. So it makes your breath fresher. I didn't know. Okay, so let me give my... The reason I want to give my endorsement a ticket to ride, and maybe it is old, it's probably old.

No, it's not a baby. We know it is old. I know it's an old game. You can't do that with facts. Hey, listen. You can keep your trap shut. It is old. So I've never played Ticket to Ride.

I didn't know how complex the game itself would be. And honestly, to hear people talk about it, it sounds like a game that only... Nerdos. Nerdos. But like Warhammer or Axis and Allies. Oh, wow. But with trains. But with trains.

That's why I always assumed. But it turns out it's wicked easy to learn. I got it on the iPad, and my sister-in-law, Riley, who's 11, she and I learned it in about five minutes and literally went on to play 20 games of it during vacation last week. It's great to pass back between two people, and the way they've built it is actually really well let me talk about a little bit about the game first because i can actually describe

the mechanics um pretty easily um at the beginning of the game you select tickets you select two tickets and they're between uh each ticket shows two different cities um and a point value and basically the goal of the game is to connect those two cities via trains that you purchase and you get points for making a route between these two. The tickets you keep secret. No one knows if you've completed your goals or not. And if you complete your two ticket goals, you can draw more tickets. Catch being that if you don't complete your two ticket goals, you can draw more tickets. Catch being that if

you don't complete your path by the end of the game, you're penalized the number of points on... How did you say that word? Penalized. That's how you say it. Like a penal colony. What happened? This is how you say the word. Penalized. You're penalized

that amount. So basic flow of the game is you draw cards that have pictures of different color trains on them. And the routes connecting cities are different lengths and different colors. So you try to get the number of this certain color of car that you need to buy a pathway between two cities. the number of this certain color of car that you need to buy a pathway between two cities.

And it starts out as kind of a race to snatch up the sections that you need. And if you recognize that someone else is trying to complete a path or you suspect they are, you can block it by buying it, buying them out or buying the section that you think that they're going for next or that they will need to complete the path. Which is a huge gamble yeah which is a big bet because it's buying a a section is no small thing that's your whole turn um and you can really put yourself in the lurch that way so it's a lot about it's a game that really scales i mean at the very basic level you're you're drawing the cards you need and weighing that versus, you know, should I hold off and try to get a different route or should I just buy it now? But as it scales, you're weighing the risks of buying a section, trying to stop other players, while at the same time, any turn you use to block a player is a turn that you could have used to extend yourself.

that you could have used to extend yourself. In the iPad game, oh, you also get points at the end for having the longest continuous path. You get a 10-point bonus for that. And in the iPad app, there's a built-in ranking system that's very much like the one used for chess. So there's a lot of depth,

and I imagine that as you play it a lot of depth and I imagine that as you play it a lot, you would eventually get so you know all the tickets and know all the different paths people could be going for and weigh that. The iPad app itself is built really nicely so it's easy to see train sections and they

recently released the Retin update, like you said. That may not be true that may not be true they released i think the european expansion the expansions are really neat actually because you go into a there's a separate menu the whole thing is like fully voiced with great music that sounds like the uh like the river town sections of like disney world is that old-timey, like, or like Amelie. I did some work for them. For the European train section? Yes, yes.

Okay. Here comes the train. Okay, so you did Vox, you mean. You did vocal. Tickets, please. Okay. Okay. And you can buy different countries.

Thank you for that addition. Thank you, that was good. $12.50, please. Different countries have different sizes that are actually better for certain players. So if you buy the mat for Switzerland, then it's better for two to three players. And it is not ideal for four to six. You can do pass and play. You can also do local wireless or Wi-Fi.

So it would actually be really good to get a group of people. It's $4.99? Yeah. I think two quick things that I'd like to add. And I know it didn't come out recently, but I wanted to share. Someone says it came out a week ago in the comments. No, not even close. Because I bought it when it came out for an absurd amount of money,

and it was totally featureless. It was on the iPhone. It's been out on both for a while. Are you sure? Yes, it came out on iPhone first, and then it was released on iPad, then the DLC came. Okay.

I mean, maybe? I don't know. I'm almost positive. I just remember the first version I bought was like $10 and had no features, and that's why it was so annoying because now you can buy it for like what? $299? I thought it was $ for, like, what? $2.99?

I thought it was $5, but it might be... Oh, yeah. It's gone down significantly. So it's great. If you haven't played it, now would be the time to try it. Yeah, it's really... I was surprised at how it's a simple game

that scales and it's easy to learn. The board game is more difficult. I mean, they're the same game, but that's why the iPad version is so great because doing the math for you and doing it quickly... It's the same way that RISC is. And also, yeah that's why the iPad version is so great, because doing the math for you and doing it quickly. It's the same way that RISC is. And also, there are so many tiny pieces, not losing them on the board.

I mean, the board game is great, but being able to play it on an iPad is. We should give this game the Besties Award this week just because I want more people to download it so that other board game makers will. Well, and do good jobs. If Flying Frog Productions, the people who made Last Night on Earth and all those other cool adventure games, if they got into iPad development... I know. There are a lot of crap board games.

I mean, like, really terrible ports. Yeah. Which is exactly why this deserves credit. Thumb-down ports, too. I feel like Small World is a good example of something that I dug, but it seemed really scaled back from the board game version.

You could get Pandemic. Pandemic would actually be really good on iPad. Pandemic's not on iPad. There's a game called Pandemic, but it's different. It's still pretty good. I have a board game. It is about gondolas.

Gondolas. You might take it to the gondola and take it to another city. You did the same thing that you did to me. You did the same thing that you did to me. No, it is... Are you not cognizant of the fact that you did the same thing to me like five minutes ago? Now you're doing it again. It's a boat.

These are boats. These are not trains. What's the name of the game? Trains. Okay. Okay. Now that's What's the name of the game? Trains. Okay. Okay. Now that's, is that like an artistic choice? It's too bad that the people who are only going to hear this didn't get to see his face.

Just go from a big old smile, just like the puppy that got beat. That just had its nose put in the pee-pee. It's halftime. Has anybody had anything interesting happen? I think you did. I want to hear about your hospital. So, right. So it was on Sunday night.

I was returning from vacation. Beautiful Tybee Island, Georgia, just outside of Savannah. And it was about 1230 or so. And I'm walking up the stairs outside my house carrying my 360. I'm in a little bit of a hurry because I'm happy to be home. And I'm walking up the stairs outside my house, carrying my 360. I'm in a little bit of a hurry because I'm happy to be home. And I'm an introvert. And I... Push my right there.

So I'm walking up the stairs, and I trip on the stair and catch my ankle on it, and my whole leg just goes... See, it doesn't seem like... and catch my ankle on it, and my whole leg just goes... See, it doesn't seem like... It seems like gravity shifted. Yeah, it seems like... The gravity turned on you, and then you fell upstairs.

I fell up. The momentum of me hurtling up the stairs was turned against me as I fell and projected myself forward. The best part was the 360, which catapulted from my hand, slammed into the wall, spun out, and landed in my yard. I have not turned it on yet. I'm not sure. What if you turned it on and then Steel Battalion was a good game?

What if I turned it on and I had like 8,000 Microsoft points and I found a hack? It's like, you've got to do it exactly right. You've got to get a 30-foot running start towards your stairs. Yeah, and you've got to bound up them. Now, with the hospital bills, it's all kind of a wash, financially speaking. So my leg starts, like, swelling. And my wife said he's a doctor.

She looked at it and said, oh, that's probably broken. But she doesn't care. You've never broken a bone before, right? No, I drink a lot of milk. And I live, I'm an indoor kid. Yeah, and you never, more importantly, you never leave the house and have never climbed rocks or jumped off of water.

She looked at it and it looked broken and it hurt quite a lot. I can show, we have video, I won't show you my injuries. Oh, it's so gnar. It's totally gnar. Did you take advantage off?

Just on the bottom there. That's the impact site. Can we get a zoom on that? That's good stuff. We can't get a zoom. If we just got a zoom on that. I can describe it like really artistically. You can see the bruise of the impact site here.

That's what we love. That's where that. Please don't zoom. Yeah, we don't need to zoom, but if you can't really see it... I'll describe it. It's sort of mottled. It's a mottled and purple. There's a noticeable divot from the side profile.

Otherwise, it's a great-looking leg. I believe the leg needs to go. Yeah, I think so, too. Court scams. What are they going to do with the leg? I will find it and use it for future endeavors. So that happened to me on Sunday at about, at this point

it was, by the time I stopped crying, it was about 1 in the morning. Wait, is that when you started crying or you stopped? No, I started crying at 12.30. I stopped crying at 1-ish. So 30 minutes of crying. Just bawling. I think that's a respectable window for a big boy. I think a big boy of crying. Just bawling. No, I think that's a respectable window for a big boy. I think a big boy stops crying.

All the time. Yeah. So, yes. There's like one hair just sort of floating off your mustache. Do you mind if I? There's actually one right here that's just on your cheek that I got. I touched your mouth. I touched his mouth.

I touched his mouth. That is where happiness comes from. It's not. Do you know what is actually a fun alternative to do with him? What's that? Is this. Wait, wait, wait. And then that. Kind of a goatee one. I dig that.

Can you be a different guy now? No. Oh, you really let me down just now. Fix your mustache, you doofus. Is it time for me to talk about my game? I would like that. Ah, fix your mustache, you doofus. That's it. Is it time for me to talk about my game? I would like that. Okay.

I want to keep this moving a little briskly, because I don't know how much time Dumb-A-Dub over there is going to need. I don't know if you know this, but there is a sport competition going on in the world right now called the Olympics. Did you watch? TM. Wow. going on in the world right now, called the Olympics. Did you watch TM? Wow.

You can literally feel the money being sucked out of our company. Oh, wow. We had a good run, didn't we? Parody. My game, not called the Olympics, they carefully avoid it, is called Flick Champions World Edition. And Flick Champions is already a game that is popular? Popular?

Yeah? No. I've never heard of it. Yes. Yeah. But not the one you think of. Oh. You are thinking of mine.

Oh, okay. Well, I'm going to ignore that setup for whatever you're going to say next. I will tell you later. No, no, no. Yeah, you'll tell me later. My game has eight sports, eight games. 99 cents. Can you be honest with me right now and tell me... How many of them are good?

Nope. When did you download this game? Be honest with me right now. Do you want it in hours or minutes? Don't kid a kidder. 52 minutes ago. 52. I have played all eight games. Okay. Which will give you an idea of how quickly you can play them. How many medals have you brought home? Gold in every event. 52. I have played all eight games.

Which will give you an idea of how quickly you can play them. How many medals have you brought home? Gold in every event. Okay, so that was 52 minutes is usually how long it takes for a person. I set it on easy difficulty, and I've only played one of the hundreds of countries who are identical. I can tell you

right now, of the eight games, you do, well, I don't know. Maybe I could get better at these. There's running, volleyball, swimming, kayak, handball, hammer throw, javelin, and sink swimming. Oh, like synchronized swimming. I thought it was like where they sink their phones, and then they also swim at the same time. I am good at sinking while swimming. I wish you would. I've never told a person that I wish they would die to their face.

And I'm doing that right now to you on the internet. No, not like that. Like, maybe he just got in the bathtub and he never came out. Yeah. Can I make you a promise, John Matthews? If you were to die, I would go to your office and find all your dreams that you've sketched out, and I would make them reality. They're already reality.

That's not hard. They already exist. I would take your dreams onto a hill, and I would tie them each onto birds, and I would do a Tabishan sky burial for your dreams. What is Tabisha? Is it fun? So, yeah, some of the games are fun. What are the highlights?

Handball is pretty great. I don't know if we can... This is going to be super good television. So this is how good it looks. This is what handball looks like if you can see it. They obviously can. You pulled it further from the camera. Bad job, dog.

You flick the ball to pass it to your... Come on! You threw it right down the court, passed three defenders, and passed the goalie. Yeah, you flick the ball, and that's how you throw it to one of your guys, and then I score it again. Yeah, that's what you do. This is not a sport.

And then you can move your goalie around. No, team handball is a sport in the Olympics. What's it really called? I don't know. John, what country are you rooting for in the Olympics? Because you have the dual citizenship, I'm assuming. I have many citizenship. I am independent.

I do not belong to any country. I am a true independent game designer. Yeah, like Madonna. Because my dreams are my country. A true independent game designer. Yeah, like Madonna. Because my dreams are my country, so they determine how good I am at YOLF. That sentence really got

away from you. Did you say YOLF? YOLF. Before we get too deep down this path. YOLF is my game. Can you show us another of those games? Yeah, yeah. Here's another game. Can you show us another of those games? Yeah, yeah. Here's another game. This time, can you face it towards you so that nobody can see it?

Hold it as close to the camera. I guarantee this isn't working. No, no. There's actually one of these I can play while looking at the camera. It's called running. Okay, so then I tap to start. I would like to run away. And then I just shake it like that. And that's all I do then I tap to start. I would like to run away. And then I just I just shake it like that

And that's all I do. I'm probably winning. This sounds horrible. Is he winning? Oh, I'm winning. I'm winning. I'm winning You're winning. I win? Wait not yet. You know it's a good game Yeah, oh crap. I almost lost. Okay, so that's what you do. You just play it like this. Like a small instrument. Did I win? It's getting close. You are not. Right now, you are just hurting the case. Please stop.

All right, so can we... Flick champions. I wanted to ask for a decision, but I know that by saying that, I'm inviting him to talk so much. It's the only problem'm inviting him to talk so much. It's the only problem. I would like to say...

He wants to talk about floss. We haven't worked out an impeachment scenario. I would like to say that Fleek Champions is very similar to my other game, Flock Champions. It is about sheep that you flick. What do they do? Do they play sports? Tell me more about this game right now, without thinking about it. Right flick. What do they do? Do they play sports? Tell me more about this game right now without thinking about it. Right now.

Go, go, go. No, no, no. Three paragraphs right now. So first you are a sheep. Okay. But the sheep does not allow you to have a farm because you flick him more, more. Quick. You flick him and he is mad at you. Okay, this sounds absolutely nothing like flick champions

first off. That's great, though. That's what we want from him, right? But then you flick the sheep into the pigs. And the pigs... Yep. You are ripping off a rip-off that you did already. You're ripping yourself off.

It's sheep. It is not birds. You know which one you're talking about. You just... You know it. You reference it. Because I... It's sheep. Can we just find out?

I just want it to be over. I will tell you who is winning. Okay. The winner is... Griffon. Yeah, I know. Griffon is the winner. I don't even remember what game you brought.

10 million. Because his game did not come out in 1987. True. True. Also, your game was terrible, Christopher. So Griffon is the winner. I got to tell you, it's an empty victory. Congratulations.

It's empty because... Because we still can't get rid of Spelunky? I don't think it's going to get rid of Spelunky, and also it was given to me by literally the worst person I've ever met in my life. Congratulations, Grifo. Thanks. You know, I think he's right outside. Yeah.

Oh, he's knocking on the door. Yeah, look who it is. Wait, wait, here it is. Oh. outside. Oh, he's knocking on the door. Yeah, look who it is. Wait, wait, here it is. Ow. Yay, he's back. Oh, thank God. Ow. Yeah.

How'd it go, guys? It's good. Chris went and heard the facial hair. Yeah, that's great. That is offensive to the French people. Je veux un steak frites. Oui, un manteau, too. Russ, do you agree with John Baptiste's assessment?

I would agree because the options were not exactly robust. Sure. We were a little limited. Although, based on what you're describing, Ticket to Ride does sound quite good. It's good. I just know it's old. It's old, unfortunately.

And I think it lacks the freshness that we demand here at the Besties podcast. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to check out your little 110. 10 million. Here's the only bummer about it. How many zeros is that? Now that it's already won, I'll tell you what's bad about it.

Oh, boy. There's, as far as I can tell, no leaderboards and no Game Center support. Yeah, that is cray. That's a deal breaker. It's a score-based game without leaderboards. And also, I think it's like 99 cents or a buck 99. How many zeros is in it so people remember?

100,000, 10,000, 100,000, million, seven zeros. Okay. So one and a seven zeros. One and then press the zero button seven times. Okay. It's not a universal app either. There's an iPhone and iPad version. And you have to buy both of them i need

an adult that is dreadful that's gonna do it for us here on someone get a teacher or a parent besties make sure to tune in next friday when we'll again pit our favorite and least favorite games against each other um can we end end on like a high note? I feel like we're really, I mean, that's sort of the besties arc is. Dungunch. Reveal us on iTunes. Dungunch.

Nope, nope, nope, nope, no. Dungunch. Dungunch. I tried to discover Wait, that might be That one's definitely licensed Oh, these are all licensed Okay

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