Castle Super Beast - CSB 031: Reedus Peedus: Let Us Grow Piss-shrooms Together

Episode Date: August 20, 2019

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Okay everybody, check it out, Wally's a fuckin' weeaboo. Welcome to this all audio version of the podcast. You don't have to worry about the stream annoying you this week. Um, yeah, we don't have to start anyone's bag or the cans were in their balls. Um, that's back to what it should be. Uh, and, and, and it's coming in with the perfect possible timing because not only is this a, uh, I'm in Japan and we're making do with what we can situation, but we're on a time limit and Gamescom is happening. And just happen.

So fuck yeah. Fuck yeah, everything going down with this timing. This is awesome. All right. Hey, let's, let's, hey, hey, we're on a time limit. Okay. Here's, hey, Wally, how are you? That's good.

That's great. My week, I didn't do much interesting. I play destiny. Destiny seems cool. Gambit's a fun mode. That was a cool week. If you want to see more of that, check me out at twitch.tv slash angriest pat. How was your week in Japan?

Um, well, I haven't had a week in Japan. I've had like two days in Japan because I just fucking landed. That's cool. That's great. I lost the day. I was actually very worried that you were going to get fucked because the day before you went, the, all the customs computers in the United States all died. All the customs computers died, a typhoon and a heat wave hit Japan simultaneously.

Um, and a million other stupid little things happened. So there's all kinds of stuff that could have went wrong. But I, I left, I lost, of course, Saturday. It didn't exist. Gone like King, King crimson and, um, landed in Osaka and then immediately jumped back on a plane and now I'm in Okinawa, uh, specifically ishigaki island. And I came out here to try and see the side of Japan. I didn't get to see last time, which is like tropical sort of beaches and that side, that

type of thing. I was here. Cool stuff about that. Um, and we land and it's been gray ass downpour the entire time. So fucking rad. That's super cool. Rolling dice. Yeah.

Dice roll vacation. I love it. It's good stuff. Love that. RNG, you really want to put your RNG in your vacation so that you can get surprise mechanics out of it. You know, um, booking, uh, booking a specific local flight, hoping that you'll get there and have

a decent enough outdoor activity to spend your time doing. And if anything happens, like, oh, it's no bad weather today. We got to do it tomorrow. There is no tomorrow because I'm back on the plane out of here because it's a super tight schedule. So fuck. Yeah. Loot boxes in real life.

Let's go. I love it. Both of the times that I went, uh, I was with a page and second time I was with my pal fuckins and it was mainly to Osaka, but it was also with this like, Hey, fuck it. What do you guys want to do today? Attitude, which yeah, and having a less broad scope, but we were able to alter one or two plans because of Ty again, Typhoon.

Yeah. No, the scope of this, this time compared to last time is way looser and it's very much about what the fuck do you want to do today plan as we just are in general areas. It's really about cleanup. It's about this is side quest cleanup, you know, like that all the mains completed the mainline story back in 2014 just coming in to do some extra grinding. And it's funny because I'm here with my friend, Rach and Austin there. Of course, he's hanging out and they are.

Um, well, I mean, like seeing them go through it, they're not here yet or I'm here in advance of that, but in the planning phases of this, them going super hard on like how to plan things out and whatnot is kind of like, Oh, that's cute. It's, I remember my first enthusiastic over planning. All right. So we're going to spend two hours here, then we're going to hit the aquarium. Okay. So the aquarium, how long does it take?

I don't know, like 90 minutes. All right. Okay. There's a really good place we got to go eat. We got to get some amazing sushi over here. And as soon as we're done that sushi, we have to shit it out and land in the museum. I remember you just. I remember at one point me and me and Fuggins had gone to, uh, we'd wandered off and gotten

some food and then we just like a wandered back into, uh, we wandered through, um, we went to the Osaka castle and then we walked all over the place and up getting, uh, back to, uh, electric town and we passed people. We passed what looked like, like a fucking joke of a postcard, which was like, look like my mom and dad, like with a fucking itinerary and the kids, like staring at it and just being like, but okay, where, where's this one? Oh, we're late. Oh, and the kids are bored and it's like, fuck that seems.

Can't do it. Can't do it. Huge mistake. Anyway, um, I mean, this where I'm at, like, it's also a huge mistake to assume you can fucking master the weather, but we'll see how this works out. There might be sunshine before the end of the day, but it's kind of fucking miserable right now. In any case, um, the other thing to put out there is last time around, remember how it's like, hey, remember, you know the part where you go to Japan and you film some funny shit and

put it together and make a fun little video. I do. Well, what everyone, what everyone doesn't remember is remember those times when you really were annoying the person you were with slash didn't really want to film, but you kind of had to make some content. Yes. Remember how that impacted your fucking enjoyment of your day? Yes.

Yeah. So we're trying to lighten that fucking load just to break the fourth wall a little bit here, but to enjoy my, our time here a little bit more, I'm not going to be walking around with that camera and basically planning out woolly versus Japan as the priority one and me being here as priority two, you know, that shit sucks. That shit sucks. Not to say that it wasn't worth it and it's still a super fun memory that we have, but I definitely feel bad annoying staff a bunch of times and annoying myself with that camera,

pulling it out and being like, okay, let's try not to bother anybody. Let's do my dumb embarrassing thing really quickly and then run away, you know. So I do have a couple of things I plan to shoot, but really minimal this time. And it's not going to be a major emphasis compared to like what it was last time. It's more going to be like, you want to just kick your feet up and chill out in a nice park underneath the perfect sky? Well, that'll be tomorrow. But you know what I mean? Yeah. And if there happens to be a quick, reasonable thing to film, then that will happen. But otherwise, I'm not hunting for content, you know, in a country with people like it's like,

fuck off, man. Anyway, it's been nice in the meantime. And thanks to terrace house, I've sharpened up a bunch of my basic ass bitch Japanese skills and had a couple of cute conversations with some people. So all good, all fun. But anyway, well, I'll have more to report next week, because for now, I just fucking landed, you know. In terms of the week I've had, I just want to talk about two games, I guess, real brief before we get into the news. Are these airplane games? These are not airplane games. The airplane was mostly just passed the fuck out because this was a top. Yeah, well, because this was

a double stretch because we did for through we went by a Vancouver. So five hours to Vancouver and then the nine from across the Pacific, you know. But if I can be fully honest and fully disclosed the truth, I kind of decided to treat Steph and kind of go a little nuts. And I got her business class. So so that the nine hour flight isn't going to leave you a husk of a human being at the end of it. So that's the hardest part nine isn't like that bad, I feel. But the one I took from fucking 13 from LA, I took it from Toronto. Okay, now is 14 ish. That was I fell sleep for three, four hours woke up and still had 10 hours to go. Yeah, yeah, you have a day you have a full pass out wake up sleep and then go I'm still here. But but in any case,

you know, a lot of that gets mitigated with the ability to lie down. So like that is kind of magical. And it's quite nice to eliminate the hardest part of the journey. So that's that's super duper cool. And yeah, like just chilling and whatnot. Shout outs to my friend Michelle for hooking us up with a spot in Osaka. That's very cool. And but what I was going to say is yeah, I'll have more more Japan next week. But I didn't play any games or anything. It's more so I just kind of I restarted Joe Jolion on the plane actually started from scratch again, because it's been so long since I since I kind of left off in the middle of it. And it's so fucking impenetrable and like confusing. And you can barely understand it. So I kind of realized, you know what, like

I'm just going to start from scratch. So I kind of just did that. But yeah, two games I played this week, one kill a kill if came out. That is you sure you want to talk about that you're not allowed to stream any of the fucking anything. Well, that's that is a walking anime game through true true and true through and through. It is like the full on narrative ultimate in just storm style arena circling my hero academia fighter. Yeah, you know, to attack buttons, jump dash button block sidestep pressure supers, you know, it's really nothing you haven't seen before. The most interesting about it is the insult weapon triangle. Yeah, where you have to to get your power up form to get to your your your life fiber unlocked and one limited mode or

whatever. You have to win three verbal exchanges. And by doing that, you kind of do the rock, paper, scissors clash of like taunt, taunt, I forget what they are, but it's it's it's like to provoke taunt and then something else, you know. And then by so that's that's like, okay, you have a fun little thing where like the characters kind of talk to each other and talk shit as a game mechanic. But that is a full priced game with eight characters in it. And nice. You start out with like a locked you start out with locked everything you can't even do versus mode, you have to do a little bit of story to unlock any mode basically. And then you get,

you know, you get Matt toy, you get curiouine, you get the four generals. And then there's raggyo and then what's her name? Annoying girl. Yeah. That's it. That's it. Like that's your whole Ross. I'll be I'll be real, man. I saw that game and I was like, oh, cool anime game. And then I saw the roster. And then I saw the are you super familiar with what the actual streaming conditions they put forward were? I'm guessing it's no story mode. It was no story mode. And then people went, yeah, okay, whatever. And then started the game up only to see that the game locks every single thing. And I think you said you couldn't even play versus mode till you beat story mode. Can't even play versus mode until you start story. You have to

beat the first chapter. And then on top of that, they put out an even weirder statement, I think it was where it's like, do not show gameplay abuses in basically like, don't show yourself like breaking it down, turny level super hard. Which like all that whole thing, like there were a bunch of guys that were like, oh, yeah, stream it. You know, anime streamers or what? You know, guys who do it dumped on it. I was like, man, this game seems like garbage. Like the idea that they might as well just fucking said just don't stream it. It's it's it's such a weird thing because like the game itself is it's just it's not flipping the table. It's not doing anything crazy. It's just very basic anime fighting. It's fine,

you know, at that. But like, it is absolutely not something you can go like crying from the mountaintops to go buy and pick up. I mean, visually, it looks accurate to kill a kill and the the deliberately limited frame rate movement is kind of is interesting. But yeah, man, you're paying a full ass price for eight characters. And like, you want to talk about streaming like literally the title screen starts up playing the main intro theme song. Awesome. And then it puts the recording block on. Nice. And it literally, you know, and then the moment you press start, it puts it takes off the recording blocker. Like the you know, like it's super duper weird. It feels like a game that got treated as an extension of like the anime Blu-rays.

Yeah. Yeah. No, definitely. I mean, like the title screen and whatnot are very stylistic and everything. But it really is treated like this hyper licensed extended thing. And main characters only. You think about a game like killer kill, right? And it's like, you don't have to stretch to pull out. It's a huge run. So you don't have to stretch to pull out those characters. You know what I mean? We're all talking about some game where there was like, like, oh, God, who are we going to put it next? God, let's make someone that's not a fighter or a fighter like everyone she fought on the way up to the floor and then everyone like in the nude beach, like second sections and then like the whole fucking you could easily have two different versions of almost

every character as well. Like for go through multiple complete uniform nude beach version. Yeah. 100%. Like this is this is like you think about killer kill and I think about like 30 characters that could get a move set out of that, you know, including a couple of duplicates. Yeah. Like no question, you know, and the fact that you just got nothing like that. And even to my hero game had a pretty big roster, right? Like I remember that character select screen thing like most is pretty much the entire class. And then some of the other class, you know, plus some of the adults, like they didn't even have to go that far. So yeah, this really, really disappointing in that regard. And you know, whatever it's we take a look at it,

we play it for a bit. So that's going to come up on Willy versus at some point. Stick around and check that out if you want to see how it goes down. But yeah, man, you know, that's that's about the state that's in like really overpriced for what you're getting, unfortunately. And it's got Arches on the label, you know, but, but it's not. It's not, but it's not. Tarantino presents. Yeah, sure. Sure. Elmo, please. Sorry. Elmo. Elmo is technically on the podcast and he is screaming because he is a dumb, dumb cat. Stop poking his bag. It needs to be shook, man. I mean, you can't hear it,

but I'm basically shaking Elmo's bag right now. So the second thing I did is I never actually got around to this until this week, but for years, enough years for a very long time, I've heard big recommends on the game crawl. You ever touched it? Yeah, I remember that. That's a dungeon crawler, but your friends play the enemies. Yes. How is it? It's fucking incredible. How is it with two people? Like did it with three? And I felt like three was the perfect number because, like, you're just enough of, like, there's a team that's out to fuck you over as the main character, you know? I misunderstood what that game was. When I heard this description, I thought it was, like, four

players gauntlet-legensing as a team and then one asymmetrical player is the stage slash boss. Yeah. It is not that. It is one human fighting against the ghosts of the rest of the cast and every other player is possessing enemies, summoning them and picking their own, like, race of enemies to attack you with. And you can level them up in specific ways. And then, like, there and then when it comes to boss fights, you're becoming ads for the boss slash controlling parts of the boss, but it's still doing its main pattern. It's fucking great, man. And, like, it's also just got presentation oozing through the fucking pores. Like, voice acting is, like, darkest dungeon quality. Straight up. Like, narration is that strong on just, you know,

getting through the premise of how the game works and what's going on. The art style, of course, is, like, lower than 8-bit, whatever you want to call that. I don't know what to call it. I know exactly what you're talking about, too. Yeah. Like, really low resolution. I'd say grimy. Is that, like, pixel grime? It's just, it's, but it's like, it's like, the size of the pixels are, again, it's like, it feels lower than 8-bit. It feels like you're playing an old, old ass PC game, you know, DOS running shit or earlier. But anyway, yeah, man, like, it's one of those things where I was playing that at the end of a long ass day, because I did some extra recording for before we left. And, like, that game revitalized and just

put energy into my soul. Like, I couldn't believe how much fun I was having within seconds. So, like, it's old late to the party, but holy fuck, man. Crawl is incredible. Big, big, big push for that. And, yeah, like, that's going to be coming up on Wally versus Well. So, check that out when it comes out. It's going to be really fun. And I look at that, like, I'm definitely 1000% going to go back to that. Like, I can see that popping that in, like, any time, any place for some, some fun, you know, with a group of three or more, like, really cool. So, I gotta say, you mentioned you had two games to talk about. I'm kind of shocked one of them was in The Outer Wilds. Yeah. Which is why I kind of left it out of my thing,

because I beat it last week. Oh, okay. I didn't go back to it. Fucking go back to it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You know, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the, the speed run promise the game gives you at the very beginning. Yeah. That's accurate. Okay. So, once you, once you know, you just do it, you line it. And it is terrifying. It is difficult. And then it gives you an ending that's about as good as insides. Oh, shit. Okay. Okay. Which threw me for a loop. It is incredible, top to bottom, with one, one small issue that I will not hold against it, but I think some people will.

There has never been a game with less replay value than this game. Never. Never. Because I can't unknown how to beat the game. But that's, that's the strength of its premise. Right. The strength of its premise is they took all their chips and put them into discovery. And it's constant when you put time. Yeah. So, once you put all of your chips on discovery, that means that like you've taken them away from core, you know. So, and that's fine. Like, not every game needs to be that. That sounds fine to me. But yeah, incredible. You should definitely go back to it. Yeah. I mean, it was just obviously like in the time up to

jumping on a fucking plane, I've been, I focused more on like what I had to get done versus like, yeah, obviously, you know, shit for myself. But yeah, that's okay. Okay. Yeah. That's the final, the final recommend on that for sure. I'm surprised that like each time you've come back with like equally strong things about the beginning, middle and now ending. So it never stopped getting cooler. Like every set, every time I sat down with that game, there was a new thing of like, just revelatory like, oh, that's how it works. That's what that is. Like, the very first, for those of you who played the game, you'll get it for those who haven't. But the, you know, remember the revelation of looking at the probe and noticing the probe's

trajectory? Yeah. That is constant once an hour, every hour, the entire time I played the game. What was your final count? Oh, I don't know. I did it over three, four streams, maybe let's say 12 to 18, depending on your exploratory knowledge. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. I'm amazed as well as at how many circles we can talk around the game without actually saying anything about it. Yeah. So this is like fourth week in a row. I saw some people going like, would just talk about the fucking thing. It's like, I don't want us take that pop away from people. You're robbing it. You're robbing it totally. And I mean, of course, you know, at this point,

it's like being built up. But at the end of the day, hopefully the personal just get around to it. Like, I hope I can shortly. Yes. All right. And yeah, so that's pretty much a call and kill a kill. Check that shit out. There's some wildly varying quality in the two games you played this week. Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, what honestly, kill a kill was like, I took a look at it and I'm like, I'm not going to play this on getting to fighting games. Let's be real. So let's just get this out of the way. You know, I care enough about kill a kill to want to see how they did it. And my hero got it way better. Yeah. And Naruto has gotten it way better. And like any random jump game has done it way better. But you know, like, and it's not even because of the gameplay, it's because

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item, which means we should all team up and piss on the same spot. I watched all the footage that came out, and despite the fact that one of them is a character literally standing in front of Sam and explaining to him how the babies work, I am still totally baffled. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So at the Gamescom, what is it, First Night Live? Opening Night with Jeff Keely. Gamescom, yeah. Opening Night Live, there you go, Jeff Keely. They came out, they showed a bunch of stuff, I scrubbed past it, and I got to Death Stranding because Kojima walked out and was like, yep, take a look. After we saw the last character introduction, I want to see all of these now. And if he feels confident enough to show them to you before the game is in your hand, I trust him. I trust him on that. There's a nice

little moment that happens with Mama, where she looks down at the ghost baby and then looks back up at you and the camera frames her and her stance and her face perfectly for just two seconds too long. And yeah, all I can think of is that before this video, we got Mama in the name of the actress. So, but in the game, you will walk in and then that's the moment that the character gets their title card like they always do. Yeah, and she poses for it. Basically, yeah. Yeah, yeah, no, for sure. So yeah, she had a child that was born on the other side and is straight up like stuck where she is. It's a BT. Yeah. Yeah. And your radar machine shit is going fucking crazy because it's right there. But that shows you then that like, anyway, I don't know. I mean,

whatever the speculation is on that, it's like, okay, so they're not inherently hostile. So step one, right? Get ready for your your high narrative game. I won't spoil the ones that do this, but get ready for the game where the horrible monstrous threat might not even be that sinister in its intentions. Apologies, a tiny bit of music just played over what you were saying. I was saying, ready for the possibility of your there's two games I can think of where, hey, guess what? It turns out that the horrible, scary, frightening thing might not be insinister in its intentions. Yeah. Despite the fact that it presents a horrible threat to you the whole time. You know, we see her nursing one and cradling one before we're even playing

the game in our in our hands. So whatever the fuck implications are there, we can we can take. And then you get introduced to Guillermo. And like, they he basically, yeah, he sits there and explains the baby tech to you. And it sounds horrifying. Like it sounds like some evil. It sounds inhumane. And they're talking about it, like, yeah, that's what we got to do. So here's why we do them. And then we're supposed to these babies because they have a time limit, naturally. But don't worry about that. Anyway, we've got a new one with their coma, mom. You're just like, we're the good guys, right? Right? With this baby that has to be tricked into thinking it's still connected to its mom. Still mom was the term.

Yes. Still mom. And and not still born, mind you, still mother. And it's like, oh, if you wait too long, or whatever, the baby gets stressed and starts to maybe realize that things are wrong. So you have to connect it to its still mother. And it has to update its firmware just to read to kind of feel like it's still in the womb properly. Like what the fuck is happening? This seems like I don't put this. Okay, things are bad, right? Got it. All right. Listen, Gendo, how do you want to fix this? You got some science? That seems bad to do, Mr. Ikari. Yeah, but the situation's bad, right? It seems like that. There's like a real Evangelion vibe to

me of or, you know, I'm sure there's a million other examples. That's just the first one that came to mind of just like, yeah, this is like evil, horrible science that is is inhumane and affront to God and nature. But fuck it, got to do it. And we're going to hand wave it in casual conversation, because by the time you fully understand what's happening, you'll be accepting of the horrors. What are you going to not use the stolen weird still mom, baby? What are you going to do? You know, of course we had to rip it out of her womb. What choice did we have? What are we supposed to do? All die? You know, it's going to be like, okay. And I can already see the plot starting

to happen where it's like, okay, so Norman is going to not want to let you know. And like, with all the promo material of the baby being held by him outside of its actual container and stuff, yeah, you can you can full on fast track to the end game of like, oh, Norman won't let the baby go. Norman is trying to keep his baby. Stop it, Norman. We need a baby. Excuse me, we need to you have to give up your baby. You know. Yeah, so I want to see like swap in a new baby for perks. Sure, like an inventory, although I like these. But I think the whole point is that the one in the game is a character.

Yeah, probably. Like I don't think it's an item. I think the one you have that we've been seeing is a specific character with a specific like origin point and so on that we'll find out as it goes. You know, and then obviously like the whole connection thing is that the big theme and there was one part that was really fucking hamfisted, though, which I guess is appropriate. But when he's talking to Ludens fan, he's like, yeah, Ludens fans like, Hey, man, you're going to do more jobs for me, right? I know it's weird, but I feel like we share our connection. I'm like, come on. Yeah, come on. Really? Like fuck off.

But Koji Koji has always been on that level. Like he's never going to be just highbrow about it. It's like, you know, like, what are our themes? Can we like shove them down your throat? Okay, well, good. Right. But you're still going to probably enjoy it by the end of it, regardless. So, yeah, yeah, no, that's, it didn't show much. But like, yeah, and then I guess I'll it's pretty clear that a huge amount of that game is just traversing the environment. Yes, 100%. Like the fact that the more of all the tools we've seen, we've seen like two weapons and 15 different ways to climb a wall, ladder, different ladder, rope, et cetera, bridge, ring rope bridge. You know what I mean? And like, like teeter tottering,

like balancing high blocks is gameplay, you know, but they don't get chased by these things, you know? So I think it's a more, it might be a more pacifist game than we might be thinking as well. Like it feels like, like combat options might be limited, you know? Listen, I made that, I made that solid snake game that was anti-war, but it had cool shooting in it. None of you understood that. You were all just like, man, what a badass. Okay, no, seriously. Time to take those. Your weapons away. It's bad. Now you push. And also he made a joke about the fact that like peeing on things might be a

have a function. But don't worry, you can't pee on other people. The most important thing is that you absolutely cannot see Norman's penis. You can't see Norman's penis. The Reedus penis cannot be seen. And Greedon, the Reedus. Fuck off. The Reedus, the Reedus penis didn't agree to any sort of golden shower. No, sir. Despic depictions in his contract. So he agreed to, you know, be seen

urinating, providing that it is only on enemies and object and not on people or friendly NPCs. Never. And most certainly, most certainly never on babies. No. Don't do it. Uh, been a highly anticipated gameplay footage with any way. He's fucking with us, man, for real, like. It's fucking 45 seconds of the of the the six minutes they showed total was just

oh, yeah, taking a pee. No, mm-hmm. Is there like a second button option there where he just drops trow? Oh, yeah. And a whole lot of fungus grows all of a sudden. What are we doing? I don't know, man. More than anything, I'm like baffled as to what the beginning of that game could possibly be. Walking out of the White House.

Do you think it's going to hit us with the usual, you know, back in the day, there was a cold war between East and West, or it's just going to be like we're we're so beyond that. We're so beyond that. Excuse me. Honestly, it's like the fact that this is about rebuilding America. It's like fuck the entire nation. Like no, no, no, no, presentation wise, if we're going to get like a prologue like

man talking to us about how shit got fucked. Hmm. It might, but I would rather if we got that later, I'd rather we just got dropped into the narrative that way and then worked your way back to that information. I've been thinking about it, and there's only two things that I'd want. I would actually be really disappointed with the prologue of like back in the day, monsters and shit, right? That'd be lame.

Exposition, yeah. But you know what would be cool is, yeah, just doing a little mission with no exposition at all. Exposition at all and just like go on it. Or what would really be the coolest is Norman Reedus. He's a young guy and he's going to his CIA job, whatever the fuck he was doing, you know, in Washington and he's driving on the highway. In normal world. In normal world.

Yeah. Yeah. And then oh shit, ghosts. Yeah. That feels. Here's the problem with that. The step to get to the level of Metroid bullshit technology we see. We talked about this last time a little bit, but it's like you can't just like time jump.

That's not five. Six months later. Yeah. You know, like fuck off. That's not Joel. That's not Joel and his daughter, you know, walking through the fucking city. And then suddenly oh, and then we jump, you know, you can't do that, man. They have fucking they have environment scanning bullshit machines and hologram people.

And like at one point Guillermo del Toro is like walking through the wall. As a hologram. And you're just like, don't fuck off. Like, no, man, you're not you're not in a time jump and saying, yeah, we got here while you weren't watching. You were like, no, no, you know, there has to be something before that. But anyway, yep. So that's what I saw.

And then there's going to be other games, calm stuff that we should probably get into like at a later date when it's more relevant and stuff. But a couple of other things happened. I'm particular looking at this awesome Forbes article. I'm going to send it to you into Discord. Just sent it to you. It is my favorite. Oh, God.

From today. Oh, God. Okay. It is my favorite thing from today. Okay. Okay. So I'm going to send you. So this is you.

This is you can read the headline of that Stadia article and send you the one that I found. Oh, you found a different one. Okay. That's good. That's good. I'm glad we were both on the same fucking page. I'm so glad we can trade. We can trade.

All right. So the one that I found was on Forbes and it was there's a bitter irony in every single Google Stadia YouTube stream so far. And you found. Okay. So this one, like the lead in or the other byline, excuse me, is on Eurogamer Google Stadia concert is Google Stadia connect gamescom live report byline. It was nothing.

You click on the article. You go to it inside. There's a link to the video and then underneath that it says seriously. It was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Don't bother reading this. Just move on. Holy shit.

Holy shit. I'm like, and then it's just like a coverage. It's like a live blog and the and the live blog as well. That's absolutely nothing. One of the most pointless shows, briefings I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Eurogamer just fucking like straight up was like, guys, we have to link this video to you. Otherwise, we're not doing our jobs, but. So the conference is literally just them saying this game is coming to the Stadia

and then they show a trailer that you've already seen. Yes. That's and then it was like, that's it. That was the whole thing. Yep. There was the and then they showed a bunch of games and they went look at these games that you have slash. These are yep.

That's a trailer for it. The thing might get their samurai showdown. That's for the. So what's really funny is like a ton of fighting games got announced for it. Yeah. And K 11 and Sam Cho and some others, I'm sure. But the Forbes article makes a slightly more substantial point. And the Forbes article is about every single time Google has streamed a YouTube stream of

Stadia of like a show or conference. It has run like shit. Like my Twitter was blowing up of people laughing because the frame rate of the stream was in like single digits. The stream would crash. And it's like, this is the same thing. It's literally the same fucking thing. I mean, like I was just going to laugh at the fact that like there was a tweet they

put out for like Samurai showdown that was like, practice your combos for samurai showdown on the Stadia. And everyone in the sound show discord is like, right, practice our combos. Got it. Yeah. Fuck off, man. It is, you know, but it is. Oh my god.

Like so the funniest. So I went back and was looking at part of the stream earlier. That's what that little piece of music that you guys heard on my end. And like the streams archive shows the games looking fine because they're just trailers, right? But the funniest thing is that when people contacted me that I was missing the stream, they were telling me that all the games ran like shit and had bad frame rates. But that's not what was happening because they were just playing existing trailers.

But the video feed was so bad that it made the games look like they had terrible frame rates in pre-cut trailers. Oh, the stream itself was choppy. Yeah. That's fucking weird. Okay. Well, don't worry. Google doesn't know anything about streaming video.

You, you, you take a look at Google. They know something about streaming video, but that Google, they don't know anything. This Google. It's a fucking joke. It's a fucking joke. I mean, it'll never in a million years happen. However, like, you know, there's, you know, the times when we talk about how it's like, when I play a game online, I want to see the latency number so that I know what I'm getting,

right? And like, there's something about that where it's so it's, it's honest and it's unpleasant, right? But it's the point at which the game developer acknowledges that, look, your internet connection is not going to create a perfect local couch co-op experience here. We acknowledge this and understand this and we know that there's Wi-Fi bars or we know that there's, you know, wired connections that'll improve it. But here's the number because for those who need to know, for those who like that matters,

it helps to see how bad this connection is to know whether it's you or whether it's the game. Tell me, right now, under ideal conditions, Stadia adds approximately 34 milliseconds of lag in these cities. That's it. That's it. You'd be, you'd be able to go, oh, okay. That's exactly, that's 100% where I was going is just, it's not pleasant and it's not for, you know, casual user interface purposes.

But if you would know that where you are with your connection, you are approximately this fucked versus being somewhere else in the country that's different, that has it better, that rating would make a difference. And it's just like, I hope that they, they don't try to just pretend it's all the same thing and hide that information. Like, well, they're going to, because you remember at GDC, where they were showing off Assassin's Creed Odyssey running on it. Now Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the best game you could possibly show this for,

because that game has like four or five frames of input lag already. Right. And the video came out right away of like somebody moving the controller with the screen visible and it took like a second and a half for the person to move. And that was at GDC in, I think it's in San Francisco or Vegas or what, it's a major American city on a kiosk, on a kiosk. That's like, come touch it. That was built to show it off in ideal conditions.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, again, it's just if not you, not you get fucked, but just like, it's going to be so bad. So there you go. I can only imagine it's about 45 minutes of their conference was. And like while I was scrubbing, because I just need, I needed to know. And in between all the trailers for the games that were already at them,

the things you'd already seen was just a lady on a white background. And it was just the most disconnected feeling thing. And I was like, okay, like we're off to a raw looking good start here. Like if you think, because basically it's like, they seem to be under the impression that like this kind of distance from, I don't want to say power users, but like this distance from people who understand what streaming is fully is going to help them or save them somehow. And I don't really get why they're, you know, doubling down on that.

Like it's like, you have to be honest about this technology. You can't just hide it and pretend it's going to be okay guys. So, you know, I think there's something that we've been ignoring in that because we've mean you were power or big power users. I, yeah, I also am not a big fan of that term. But I mean, it's accurate in this particular case, right? But then there's also people who, man, they play their PS4, they play Call of Duty every year, Madden, right?

We're forgetting that people bitch when Netflix is slow to work. Yeah, yeah. They fucking bitch in the right tube. And that's the same technology. And that the kids who play the games on their phones, those games don't have latency issues, not in the vast majority of them because, you know, and I foresee a situation where the thought is that people who aren't big video game people, whatever, are, yeah, they won't even notice, right?

I feel that it's actually closer to everyone notices. Everyone will notice. The difference is whether or not people like you and me and most of the people listening to this podcast are going to be able to go, man, this is laggiest fuck, right? Instead of just going, I don't know what it is, but this thing feels like shit. Right, right, right, right. Articulating it. Like, I remember I was on a couple of focus tests for things.

I remember I focused tested Army of Two, the sequel to that, I think. And I was talking to the guy that had running in it and like, man, this is early, but the frame rate is really fucking bad. Why are you even bringing us in here to take a look at this? Like, it's not even hitting 25. And then the other guy, Bro Man, the person they actually wanted to focus test it, was just like, man, this feels slow. So it feels bad.

It doesn't feel like gears, you know? I don't know why, but yeah. I'm like, giddy and nervous and immensely curious to know it's not a matter of if it's just a matter of when. Who will be the first exclusive to Stadia? That was now stirring that stream. What is it? Orcs must die three.

Exclusive to the lag. For a time. Okay, okay, okay. For a time. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. I'm talking full on. No, never.

Yes, never. Because what do you develop at that point? Right? Like, you just, you decide that your game is now permanently underwater. Like, this is how it exists forever for everyone. Like, how much money is worth that? Well, because Google doesn't have any internal game developers, right? Like, they don't.

No, yeah. So, but like, if you go the epic route and just go like, look, we want Stadia to compete, therefore, competition means exclusives, therefore, we're buying off some exclusives, right? How much money do you pay? Not for a store that is a problem, but for a platform that's a problem. Like, how much is that worth? You know, oh man, yeah, I was funny.

All right. Orcs must die three would not be possible today without Google support. They're behind the game in a big way. We've hired more developers to bring it to life. It's the Orcs must die game that the first two games have been, fans of the first two games have been wanting, and we're thrilled that we have the opportunity to make it. They will translate that for everyone.

We were kind of broke. And Google offered us a shit ton of money to make it a timed exclusive for a year. So Orcs must die will come out as it's supposed to be, but in a year. I've never played it. What genre is it? I'm not super sure. I think it's like a behind the back or something. Because check this out, exclusive to Stadia,

some big ass turn based game where active response time doesn't matter. Like Civ, right? Civ would be a fucking sound game where who gives a fuck what the lag is. It's about your decision. So then you're all good. Trying to find a list of games that are actually exclusive to it. And I'm having a lot of fucking trouble. A lot of trouble.

I mean, I haven't heard of a single thing until you until today's announcement. So I'm looking at an article at TechRadar about Google Stadia exclusives, and it does not mention one outside of the fucking Jesus Christ. Yeah. Some of these are hilarious. Like Destiny 2 and fucking Elder Scrolls Online and fucking like, yeah, let's play fucking MMOs on a fucking distributed service.

You know, this the fucking genre that I was talking about three, four weeks ago, how people set up bullshit fake VPNs to trick the games and having less latency. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, yeah. Yeah, I'm doing it quick. Yeah, it seems like there's like almost nothing listed in that and that. But like, but at the same time, it's like, fuck man, like again, if Epic spends the amount it does to get people under store, how much would Google have to spend?

Like, that's not even, it's not even like it can be purchased. It's a possible send it out to die. It's also a port. Like the Epic thing is, it's, it's, and you take the existing PC version and drag and drop it into our shit instead of Steam's, right? Yeah. I can't even imagine. I mean, you're the one who explained to me that like,

once you add latency into the mix, bug testing becomes nightmarish. Unbelievable. At least if you're doing it properly, you could always just do it lazy, not care, not do your stress test and just put it out and hope for the best. You know, but if you're doing it properly, it's fucking the cost become ghoulish. I think I don't know what the fuck the idea of the stadium is going to do because like word of math is more powerful than like the word on high, like say reviews.

But let's take reviews, for example, right? Let's take, uh, take the, let's take a game that I'm playing right now, Destiny 2 Forsaken, not Forsaken, um, fucking Shadow Keeps coming out in October on the stadium, right? Review for it goes up and they go PC versions, obviously the best place to pay it, but you needed a juicy PC, same as always. Xbox and PS4 versions are pretty much exactly the same as you would expect, say for this feature or that feature, right?

Don't play it on the stadium. And that will probably be the same for every single fucking game and outlet to come out. I like the review for game on the stadium is going to be like, it's not so bad on the stadium. This one, some, some people, some people might just be like, um, if you absolutely must play this on the go and you have no portable options and you want to use it on your phone, then here you can play this on their water. You know, but it'll just be like, like by default, it'll just be like,

this is your review score, stadium version minus two. You know, oh my God. Yeah. Well, no, but that's not even true because it's like how much does like lag affect the game play like them, but that's, you can't even put a hard number on that. Well, wait, wait, hold on. Let's, let's back it up. Let's back it up.

Let's, let's take a look at something on the stadium. What is the minimum connection speed required for requirements in order to hit Google's stadium minimum speed requirements for 720p? You need 10 megabits a second. So where the fuck are you playing this on the go? Sorry, was that? Yeah. Yeah.

No, I mean, I'm not on a plain internet connection. You get a fucking connected to your phone and blow your entire month's worth of data in like three hours. Or are you going to use it on the office's shitty Wi-Fi? McDonald's. I'm excited. I am excited to see this shit work with Wi-Fi. Like, oh my God, dude, like a game like Sam's show, Mortal Kombat 11 get announced and you go online. It's not in, you know, those things are, it's like, oh fuck, I see a character,

I see a player who's got a Wi-Fi connection symbol disconnect. I don't want to play him like good luck finding anyone on anything decent. There was a, there was a term I heard skill up use once where he described red bar warriors. And they're everywhere. It doesn't matter the genre, right? As long as it's competitive, you'll fought a red bar warrior like an entire platform of nothing but. So, you know how they talk about features where people can connect and join and do

stuff and play with you or whatever, right? Yeah. Like in a case specifically like Mortal Kombat, I'm trying to think about like a version of the game where if you were to just do this like, let's say Parsec works now, where you're sitting at home, I'm sitting at home, our controllers connect to the same game and are playing it locally off the same system. You can cut yourself some latency issues. But in a stadia situation where I'm connecting to my own copy of the game and you're connecting

to your own copy of the game and those two copies are now connecting to each other. And have to send the information back to the two copies and then back to each, like there are five points of failure there. The fucking nonsense that is the two stadia servers within the same location, of course, still having to talk to each other plus your own bullshit with your controllers, you're fucking, you're like, how, how can that possibly go smoothly? Like on what planet is that going to work? I'm really excited.

I'm really excited. React to this fucking, you know, the startup of this move. Like, anyway, all right, look. You know what I love about the stadia? This is going to be the last thing I say about it. We're like, holy shit, so much news this week. Let's take a good 15, 20 minutes to just dunk on it because fuck it. Holy shit.

Because it's coming so fast. It's coming so fast, you know, like the name dropped and everyone went, what is this? And then they didn't tell you what it was. And the whole thing was for like a solid week or two. What is it? And then they told you what it was and you're like, no, go back. I want to go back to not knowing. Oh, no.

I know it's just like we're moving forward, but you don't seem to be acknowledging reality. So good luck, Google. As far as I'm concerned when like there's there's three nails in the stadia coffin that we've hit and then there's a fourth one. Step one. Wait, no, you're not getting games for free. What are you talking about? Of course you'll have to buy them full price.

Good chunk. Right. Number two. Yeah. Wait, well, if stadia failed, why, you know, what we'll do our best with your games or whatever that bullshit was. You'll get your purchases. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. Step three was no, don't touch it. No, don't look at it like there's like no hands on actual review. Like, shouldn't this thing be out in kiosks like a fucking VR sets were? So people go, oh, wow, look, it's cool. Roll that together with what little we saw had that massive lag on it. Yeah.

Every single piece of footage has looked like shit. Roll that. Roll that together with like, like you did like the fears that everyone has are real. Yeah. Like if all of those first two things existed, but then you touched it and it was like no lag, they fixed that problem. Yeah. Right.

You know, this would be a very different conversation. And then, hey, you want a fourth one? The fourth one is, oh, I'm really excited for the Google Stadia. I really believe in Google's ability to run an amazing, cool, distributed streaming network. They run YouTube, right? Oh, the stream, the stream crashed. Yeah. The stream is lagging.

Yeah. And the Forbes article points out that the YouTube stream requires zero input from you. That's an easier job than the one that Stadia will ostensibly be managing. I really wish this were a conference, like Stadia's existence was a conversation about like strictly fear of digital data. And that's it, right? Because if everything else was like, no, there's a normal console in the sense that

we don't have lag issues to worry about. We don't have anything to think about. And like this whole conversation was just, yeah, but what about the fear of digital, right? It would be a much more like interesting topic to get into because some things are just going to go that way permanently back, you know, and it's not that. Like instead, it just ends up not having the conversation at all because it's never been a contender. You know, so we get to like not have this conversation for another X amount of years until something serious comes along and actually boasts like, no, no, no, hold on.

Actually consider digital games for real, though. You know, you might not get to own them anymore. That's going to happen eventually. But right now, this is like, this is not that talk, you know. Anyway. What a fucking joke. Insomniac. Yeah.

Sony bought Insomniac. I mean, like who the fuck didn't see it coming. But at the same time, who saw it coming, you know, like. I'm shocked they didn't buy them 15 fucking years ago. That's that's what I'm like. You see them doing basically the equivalent of like first party work for all this time. And I guess they kind of just looked at it and went like, man, we don't want you guys pulling that sunset overdrive shit anymore.

Like, stop with that. Just stay here. No more nonsense. We'll let you keep the Spider-Man license. We'll make more Spider-Man. Yeah. We all did it. So, yeah.

Please don't try that sunset overdrive shit anymore. Stay with us. Stay home. Make more Spider-Man. Spider-Man, good. We'll feed you. We'll feed you Spider-Man. Just come back, baby.

Come back. Yeah. Sure. Plus, they probably want like some fat fucking exclusives for PS5. Yeah, why not? Like, they probably have some crazy PS5, like, you know, launch planning and they want these guys on. So they're just like, you work for us now.

That's the end of it. And like, no, never, man. Fucking Spider-Man was a choice. So you get on you. That's currently like now easily one of Sony's best fucking first party companies now. You know? Yeah, absolutely. We're never going to see any numbers on that.

But interesting. Interesting. Oh, definitely not. Okay. So you've paid attention to any of this seed shit? I did not. Okay. So I got rainbow six seeds.

Yes. I have the cliff notes on it, but basically sounds like people are pretty fucking upset. You can now report siege players with a negative attitude. No, they added a they added a fortnight style battle. And basically, you know, battle passes are cash money. Um, so they're they announced their their new year four season. And they're putting a mini battle pass up front where you can unlock a character for completing it. And of course, there's a paid tier that'll be coming later or whatever.

And yeah, my friend basically sent me an announcement and she explained that like community is pretty pissed off right now because it's a paid game with confusing multiple versions loot boxes that drop from a roulette wheel first loot boxes that cost the whole price of the game, MTX store premium skins that are 20 each and a season pass now and now a new battle pass. All right, so four season passes. Right. Let me let me talk to you.

I played siege for about a month. I mean, me and my buddy Val got into it. It's a fucking fantastic game. Every single part of you getting a character or putting money into the game is a confused losing fucking mess. There are like gold skins like master whatever the fuck they're called. Right. For this character that costs like 609 and for this character costs 720.

Why? I don't fucking know. Legendaries are all different prices. Everything in the game is a different price and they want you to buy like a like a full price expansion pass or whatever the fuck for the characters every new season. And if you don't, you get fucked because it's a counterpick system. And as a result, the new characters are always crazy strong for months because nobody knows what the fuck to do with them.

It is like it's for honor was going to go this way and they fucking reeled it. The fucking parts of the you remember for honor got like a like a store overhaul and all sorts of shit. Yes. All the changes that were made to that store were the result of problems with siege because they cleaned up Siege's store and then went they transferred those ideas over to for honor to clean that thing up before for honor like so fucked up and confusing. Right, right, right.

So I want to point out the single most fucked up thing about Rainbow Six Siege and how to buy it. Right. So I'm going to type in siege. I'm on steam right now. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. It's currently $30. Right.

So we have regular 30 deluxe for 40 gold for 80 ultimate for 140. What does that actually include the fuck is that? I don't know. Let's fucking click on it. Oh, it doesn't tell you right off the fucking back. Oh, here we go. Edition comparison. All right.

So you know how Ubisoft loves their little charts. Sure. Okay. Here's what you get in order. $30 is the base game. Right. $40. The deluxe edition gets you the base game and the DLC operators they added in the first year.

That's pretty simple. Right. Rainbow Six Siege gold, which cost $80 gets you the base game, the year one operators, which is the DLC, the year four pass, which will include the operators and whatnot coming forward. And nothing else. I know what you're thinking. One and four. Yeah, that's weird, huh?

The ultimate edition, the one that costs 140, costs 140 because it also includes the year two and three operators. Which the previous one didn't. Yeah. The season passes are full price and they never went down in price once. Oh my god. Wow. And the cost within game currency to unlock a single operator is insanely long.

It's great. You're better off going to work for an extra shift than trying to fucking. So my biggest question and the thing I fucking wonder about this is like looking at this list of like a billion different types of micro added to this game and whatnot. And I'm assuming they weren't there from the get go, right? I'm assuming things are a lot simpler. In the first batch, I think they were like, we'll do an expansion pass like a season pass for operators, which are the characters.

Yeah. And then it had the potential for all the other things that got bolted in. But I'm not super sure. I wasn't there at the beginning. Because basically what I'm wondering is like, are we seeing what happens when Ubisoft strikes goals with a game or the gameplay is really fun? They hit success on it and then you start sticking on little pieces to this thing. They build all their shit with potential to monetize it now.

Like I'm sure Siege always had the plans, even if it didn't launch with it. But it's just like Siege is a fantastic game that I find difficult to recommend because it costs so much fucking money to play it. Like what you're describing when you like with all this loot box stuff, premium skins, season passes, battle passes, it sounds like you're describing a free-to-play game. Except. But you're not. Pony it up.

In fact, you're describing a full and not a fuller rather, you're describing a game with versions and price points that then begin with that free-to-play stuff that gets added onto it so they don't have it anymore. But it used to be much worse because there used to be a version of the game that cost $20 called the trial version. And the trial version came with a lower amount of characters. Like it didn't come with the full roster, even of year one, but it was 20 bucks, right? The trial trial.

Yeah. No, what was it called? The base, whatever the fuck it was called. It was the baby version. I forget what it was called, right? Sure, sure, sure. Starter pack, whatever. Starter version, I think it was a trick.

That version of the game was a literal fucking trick because you would load in and you would start with, let's say, six of the 10 operators for year one. Now, normally in-game, I'm making these numbers up, so pardon me, normally in-game it costs like, I don't know, 5,000 rainbow in-game bucks to buy a character, right? Now, you can earn those or you can buy them, right? That'd take like 10 hours of good ass play, maybe 15 hours, right? If you bought the $20 version of the game, though, those were all like five times as high to get them with the in-game currency.

So if you bought the $160 version at release, it would cost you like 100 times longer in time to unlock characters the freeway. Oh my god. Forever, forever. Wow. So it was this thing where people would be like, oh, Siege is on sale, and that version of the game would go down, like, you know, if it was 75% off, the $60 version would go down to like 20 bucks or whatever.

And then the 20 version goes up to like five. Yeah, and then it would be on the fucking Rainbow Six Siege subreddit. Like, don't buy that version. Oh my god. The trap. It's fucked. Oh my god. That game is fucked, man.

And it sucks because it's great. Like, it is legitimately fantastic. It is also a really good eSport because of the nature of like, it's essentially like more brutal Counter Strike, but it's fucked. So hearing that they're adding a battle pass to it is just like great. This game is Ubisoft's like test bed for every type of monetization they have. Yeah, because the game is good enough that they can survive the impact. Like, remember when Assassin's Creed was the fucking prototype for every bullshit

idea they ever came up with? Yeah. Like, if you know your game is a fucking winner, if you know the baseline is going to have people on it, let's just try it all out and see what shit sticks, you know, like, wow, man. I remember watching, I forget his name because it was like a year ago, but I watched a YouTuber's like, you know, like 30 minute breakdown of like review of siege, like two, three years in kind of thing.

And it was like, you know, he was very frustrated as somebody who built like parts of the channel around the game and love the game. He's like, this could be the biggest game. This could be Fortnite. This could be Counter Strike. But it's so fucking hard to get people in because buying it is so confusing and difficult that you talk to them and they go, I don't know. So if you just go to that Battle Pass announcement YouTube video right now and you

just look at the fucking ratio, like it is like there's like you're looking at fucking an overwhelming amount of people thumbing down that this fucking thing. People are fucking pissed. There's like twice as many dislikes as there are likes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, no, it's, it's, uh, it's really interesting though, because like again,

the fact that it's like, but underneath all of this is a very fun hero based game, right? It's fantastic. Yeah. So that means like we are willing to stir in just as much shit as you're willing to swallow. Say, this is going to be a ridiculous example. But like say, like Third Strike had all this shit in it and was getting a Battle Pass and it had been four years of like the most aggressive disgusting monetization possible. But it's Third Strike, man.

But it's Third Strike. And there's tournaments all the time. And like, yeah. And what are you going to do? Not play Third Strike? You're not going to find something else? Really? What are you going to find?

Yeah. Yeah. It's fucking awful. Uh, so like Ubi will change when people yell loud enough, they've shown and demonstrated that they're willing to, but like the willingness to come back. Those version changes to match it up with the Chinese version like within a week. Do you remember that? They did the aggressive for honor like fucking pricing restructure, you know, on the loop.

So like they will, but like keep being annoying and loud. Yeah. But when it's the crown jewel baby, like will they come next season with a little bit of shit in your yogurt? You know? Yes. Um, anyway, all right, let's move on. Uh, so one, there's this thing that got announced called ghost runner.

Have you seen it? I saw a few clips of it. Give me a second. Okay. So Uli, I'm going to need you to not talk for just one second as I quickly press the video and turn the YouTube volume down. All right. I did it.

I'm now looking at ghost runner. This looks very relevant to my interests. It sure does. There's a whole lot of wall running. There's a whole lot of like death from above and you got a sword and it seems like it's a one hit one kill bullet time park or futuristic first person action game. So talk to me, you know, um, in Blade Runner town, it's coming to everything announced for everything right now and yeah, no, it doesn't look like it's announced for

the stadium. You can't say that it's announced for everything, man. We got to, we got to include the stadium in these conversations. Okay. Well, anyway, PS4, Expo and Steam. Um, and, uh, yeah, people are saying a mixture of Dishonored and Mirror's Edge. I don't know enough about Dishonored. The way he holds the sword makes the first person perspective look just like Dishonored.

Okay. Well, the wall running makes me think of Titanfall. Yeah. So also the, the ability to jump forward and stuff like that is, and, you know, dodge, but, and also go in a bullet time is very similar. Yeah. Anyway, it's, it's quite a ways away because it's literally, this is like next year. Looks hot.

But it looks fucking hot. It looks fucking hot. Yeah. Yeah. Probably the most interesting thing to, oh, sorry, after you. No, I hope it's going to be a set of linear levels that you have to play from beginning to end in a certain way that you get better as you go. Yeah.

I hope it's like super hot. I think the weirdest thing is that it's coming on PC later, which means that the, the game will have to be very much designed controller in mind, which is weird because they're clearly not using a controller in the trailer. Yeah, we'll see. So there's that. There's this other thing here called Blasphemous. And this appears to be like, actually, like pretty wild narrative, kind of like

gory pixel based action 2D. I don't want to say souls like it. I don't want to say Vanilla like or literally says, prepare for a descent in a dark and punishing Metroidvania world. Okay, well, they say it. All right. And I suppose it is the character design is so weird. It's very weird.

There's a giant spike head thing. And yeah, you look like just a weird, punished, tortured individual. This looks like a high end like Sega arcade game, the way the pixels move. Yeah, the parts of it also remind me of Death's Gambit, but like nicer in terms of like how the sprite quality is coming together, a little less slidey. But yeah, man, this is some weirdo shit from, it's called the game kitchen Spanish. It's a Spanish game, and this is coming out next month, actually. So really September 10th.

Yeah, damn. Yep. Damn. It's everything including Switch. So yeah, seems interesting. Seems interesting. Team 17 is publishing. Oh, might have actually had its release date bumped up from the 26th to the 10th.

Huh. So yeah, that just got it now. Looks cool. Then a couple of just little scraps here and there. Again, let's just, you know, in the interest of time, P5 Royale is like literally, just forget about it because you're gonna get Spring 2020. Yep. Pretend it's not real.

Just literally ignore everything that you're seeing because we're seeing like, like there's a season reveal trailer. There's all these trailers for characters and content and stuff. They're wrapping up, but like, are they going to continue this pace of trailer dropping through the rest of the year into Spring 2020? Of course not. What are we doing? They'll do a couple English ones, but you know.

I mean, the game's coming out in October for Japan. But yeah, but for English, it's like, that's like a month's delay. Anyway, there's that. Then a bunch of wacky shit got announced like, hey, Monster Rancher 1 is getting ported to the Switch because of frothing demand, apparently. I saw that and double took because that makes no fucking sense. Well, how do you actually run the mechanic of putting CDs in and getting monsters? So we should mention because Monster Rancher 1 is an obscure game from like 20 years ago.

Monster Rancher 1 was like a Pokemon thing, but you would put your music in other game CDs. You would take the Monster Rancher disc out, put a different CD in, it would read it and it would give you a weird fucked up monster based on it's like UPC code or some shit. Yeah. How the fuck does that work on the Switch? You're completely right.

No word. Is there were in game monsters you could use? Yes. I'm complete if you had no CDs. He wouldn't ditch that feature entirely. That would kill a bunch of what the game is supposed to be as far as I'm concerned. Like I feel like maybe having some sort of like spoofing system put into the port where you enter like a seed number and then it randomly generates seed.

A lot of this fun than grabbing your parents' gospel CDs and sticking them in and seeing what you get. But. And we're playing the demo on that and got and put in my RE2 disc and it didn't give me a zombie and I was like this game's bullshit. And that was my entire experience with the Monster Rancher franchise. Well, it can honestly just be any random input, right? So like like even if it's like, hey, this game supports.

Wait, is there a camera on the Switch? Yes. Are you sure? Does anything use it? Is there a camera on the Switch? Sure. I have to Google this really quickly right now. Does the Switch have a camera?

I have no idea. The Nintendo Switch camera. Where is it and how does it work? Some games need a camera and you've got one you probably didn't know about. Each infrared. They're on the Joy-Cons. Oh, Joy-Con camera has it's on the bottom. Yeah.

Oh, but they're only infrared cameras. They're not actual cameras. They're not cameras. There is no camera on the on the Switch. Well, weird moment. Fuck. What a walk back. Okay.

Well, because it's like why would it's one of those why wouldn't it? And then you're like, wait, it hasn't not a single thing has ever used it if it would. So because I was going to say like, I'll take a QR code picture or some shit like that, you know, but fuck it. Well, anyway, get transported to a faraway land or to a World War monster rule. Like what does it say? Yeah, 29 likes right up later this year. I don't know who the fuck this like, why, why all this noise now?

And I need to know how they're going to do that. I need to know how you can your your random disc. It's probably just going to suck shit, man. They're just going to leave it in and then it's going to tell you to insert disc and then you can't and then they'll just say press triangle to cancel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Fuck it. Fuck. Hey, did you know that Adam Hunter had a daughter? Who the fuck's Adam Hunter? Streets of Rage 4. Oh, the fucking no. The yellow shirt man, Adam. Streets of Rage.

His daughter, Cherry Hunter, is now playable in Streets of Rage 4. That's stupid. She's got a guitar. Okay. And she does. She does Streets of Rage stuff. All right. Well, it just like me some shit.

Yeah, I like her. The design is nice. I like her design. It's fun. And you know, it's not quite, it's not Blaze Fielding, but I think she's pretty dope. I dig it. Yeah, that does look cool.

Adam didn't have a robot arm. Adam didn't have a robot arm. I don't know. Streets of Rage that well. I'm a Final Fight boy. I don't know nothing about that. No, I'm thinking of the other guy. So Dr.

Adam is bald and he had a robot arm. Yellow shirt black guy. That's all I really remember. But yeah, from trying this out back at PAX, like I still maintain it's fucking solid as a new beat-em-up. And even though, again, it's not the franchise I'm the most into, I think people are not going to be too disappointed if you're a fan of Streets of Rage shit.

So tight, tight, tight. So we got that. Fucking Breakers collection from out of nowhere for no reason. Is there only one game? Due to there's Breakers and Breakers Revenge. Due to one person asking about this, probably my friend Jimmy Bones, they appear to be collecting Breakers and Breakers Revenge.

Did we talk about this last week? This seems really familiar. We did not. This is brand new. This is wacky new shit. Neo Geo game that like, quite frankly, got forgotten and came and went. Like I said, it was like an 80K thing.

Is this the one in the hurl? This is the one with the claw girl. Breakers is hot shit. It's terrible, right? Hold on. It's amazing. No, no, no, no. It's Breakers Revenge is fucking amazing.

It's the one with like Dao and the guy and then the Native American. There's the moonlight shake and show. Yeah, it is. It's got my hurl and it has the fucking belly stump. That's complete fucking shit. Games awesome. That game sucks, man. Condor.

It's super good. That game is garbage. What are you talking about? Leela is amazing. Hell yeah. You're fucking. No. This is your love of trash.

This is legit poverty. People go fucking ham on breakers. Post tournament shenanigans. Breakers tournaments are wild. They're great. So fucking stupid. So that shit's coming. Is that game a fucking ton of broken hitboxes?

Oh yeah, fuck yeah. But everyone's got them. So we just go in. Go nuts. I remember seeing like the ninja can't kick you if he's too close. It's it's I don't even know why it's not just breakers revenge. Like fuck the original as far as I'm concerned. So they can call the collection and charge $40.

Well, anyway, that is that shit's getting ported. And it's like I can only hope that this is the breakers test to see if a new breakers revenge should come soon. Fucking fucking awesome. That is wild. I love it. And then some fun stuff. New characters announced for a couple of games.

One new character is announced for Windjammers 2. So a new trailer for that actually. Windjammers 2 is kind of just like in the background, you know, coming along much like Streets of Rage 4. You know, obviously same developers, but or rather publishers. But fucking new trailer showing off. Biagi is back as and and Jaura Posa, the new Brazilian Windjammer. And like there's some fucking bullshit disc throws in this man.

Like the supers are completely nonsense now. Like it is pure. Okay. If you're super good, you're probably a to react. But looking at the new trailer for Windjammers 2, it feels like if you're not in the right place, you're just fucked when a super comes out. Like that's kind of like Tennyson and Ping Pong, honestly.

Like if you put yourself in the wrong spot, you're fucked. Yeah, but there's like like like the new character does like, you know that, you know, the Windjammer is the super that like shoots you at a 90 degree angle to the wall and then straight forward. Yeah. Right. So it does that. But then after traveling about halfway towards the goal,

it does a full parabolic curve around you into the net. So it basically draws like a sign sign in a way. It's fucking nonsense. That's fucking stupid. Well, you just described to me as stupid as shit. I love it. I can't fucking wait. And there's of course a new mechanic,

which is like holding down the catch button and letting it go. It does like a slap that returns whatever came at you at the exact same speed that it came at. Oh, I like that. So it's like a parry type of like, fuck the catch and throw. I'm just slapping it back at you if I'm super godlike. And then we can have like the difference between the catch and throw. Okay.

The catch and throw is how you took a game like Paul, like like Windjammer's that was crazy and made it like a little bit more sane. Right. The little cat, the little pause between the bounces, but now that turns it into full on speed pong. So very cool. And lethal league blaze announcing new characters, including dust and ashes, which is the name of one character actually.

And I like that this game is still still putting stuff out. I love that it's still putting this stuff out. Shout out to Team Reptile for keeping that going. Because like design wise, I like it's been a lot of fun DLC. So this appears to be a like bag head, like a dude with a like noose around his neck. And he has a weird stand cape. That looks a bit like the stuff that floats around Ramlethal in a way slash

Samson. That's weird. Skull girls. I don't like that. I like it. I like it. It's pretty interesting. And I'm from seeing one of the shots.

It looks like it'll disconnect from his body and he'll have a disjointed hitbox. So it might even be like a like a setup character that can like bounce the ball in two directions or rather like bounce it off of itself or some shit like that. Who knows? It's a character with a secondary. So lethal league continues to get fucking wild. That's dope.

That's dope. And that's about it. So with a couple minutes left on that clock, let's grab some emails. And let's do it. Let's do it. All right. And if I don't know what else is going on, I'm not really to Gamescom slash TGTS is going down.

Right. I don't know when that's going to. I think that's happening. Super size. Usually September. It's yeah. Maybe like or is it before that? Is it August?

I don't know. Anyway, if anything else comes up, I don't know if I can tweet at me or something because I would but let's see what we got. All right. We've got one coming in. If you have an email, send it into super best. Right. Oh, wow.

Hey, autopilot. That's not the right email. That'll go to the wrong place and will not be read. No, no. If you've got an email, where should I send? Send this to castlesuperbeastmail at gmail.com. That's castle. That's castle beast mail at gmail.com.

At gmail. That's correct. Yes. All right. Character loyalty. So but face says you guys talked about how it feels to be the guy that stays loyal to a character that's not good but gets top eight with them. This year at EVO, I got third in Ultimax with Mary.

Really? A character that's that's around bottom seven, but also someone on a plate since she came out and I pretty much had to invent her myself because no one else plays her. Couldn't have done it without you guys talking about persona and fighting games in general, which caught me into them in the first place. Give the good shit and stay loyal with your character. That's awesome. That's fucking cool.

You put enough time into it. You too. Annie Mary Sue can make it. She really is the most. It doesn't get it doesn't get much more clearer than that. Oh, but I'm really that's that's fucking awesome. And hey, like seconds after that discussion. Stommer I showed on patch day happened and that was wild.

Happy patch giving everybody. Darling became a real. All they had to do was give her one or two little adjustments and make that heavy slash combo into a combo out of its jumping version. And we got a real girl. She's all grown up. I love it though, because when that stuff happens and you jump online, you get to see a bunch of frauds trying to play characters that they never would have

looked at twice before that. And it's like, you don't know you haven't lived in these ghettos. Get the fuck out. This is not your hood. Yeah. Oh, no. That's that must feel good for you, though. Oh, yeah.

I thought a bunch of darling mirrors and they were hilarious because these are highly people with high points like people that like points don't matter as much in this game because you can just rematch forever and farm so who cares. But people that are clearly like good ratio of wins where it's like, yeah, you won most of your matches, but you don't know what the fuck you're doing with this character. You know, and you're trying to see something, but like, I ain't trying to show it to you, motherfucker. This is my time.

So anyway, God bless. God bless. We got one coming in from Jer as hay scream words of the Super Beast Castle. Not a question, just a link to share. Remember the discussion about how human shape is inefficient for robots doing good murder? My girlfriend sent me this fictional film by some artificial intelligence nerds. TLDR Skynet would already win with now tech.

There's no fight warning. This is definitely some nightmare fuel about and then he sends a YouTube link and you can look this up quite simply. Just if you go to YouTube, I watched it a little bit earlier. It is called Slotterbots. So the Future of Life Institute on YouTube has a video called Slotterbots and I watched it. And what it basically amounts to is a seven minute Black Mirror episode in which a military company is doing a TED Talk advertising their new drug.

And it's a drone that has facial recognition that can avoid being touched or detected, that has AI that can learn from the situation. And basically it just ends up being this thing that is like, well, that's a really cool little drone, but also it pilots itself and also because of the facial recognition technology, it can find and approach anybody that it's looking for with the camera. But then also it has a small trace amount of a fairly inexpensive explosive in it. And what this basically does is it flies into your face and blows it off. And this is a great way to replace drone strikes and wars because now we can just target the

evil people and get them instead. And then the TED Talk more or less just gets intercut with fast forward to, uh-oh, the bad people have hijacked a shipment of them, have programmed them to do what they want. And now people with the wrong ideologies in the wrong places are getting like face cam recognized and like targeted and just, and the whole thing is like pretty horrifying. Like I said, a Black Mirror episode. But the gist of it and what they're getting at is like, because they cut to a message at the end, I do it as like, hi, I'm a real engineer,

person who's been studying and working in the field of robotics at AI for the last 20 years. What we showed you right now is like a short film, but everything in it is existing current technology could be made right now. I like that. I like this. I'm careful with this discussion. That's the actual fun thing. So you get through the short and you're like, oh yeah, that's a crazy fucking scary thing.

And then the guy goes, yeah, guess what? We can make this. We haven't yet, but yeah. So join me in trying to stop this type of thing by putting in the right regulations to make sure this can never happen. And that's the point, you know, slaughterbots. Um, no. Yep.

Yep. Yeah. What if your mum ran on D batteries? What if your mum ran on D batteries ran into your face and shot you with the explosives? Okay, um, and we'll take one last one here, kind of lengthy, but I think it's interesting. Here we go. Joseph says, uh, I apologize. It's a little long, but here we go.

My Kotel con is a supersonic interceptor. Hail honored castellans of the 1997 Toyota super beast. Killed alive here. I'd like to tell you about my respective Kotel con, not in a fighting game, but in a digital combat simulator, one of the big PC combat flight simulators out there. The aircraft in question is a MIG 21 biz and, and it is categorically bad, but I love it with all my heart. You may have seen the MIG 21 buys or biz.

Anyway, I'll assume it's buys. In Ace Combat 7, and I'm, I'd have to say that it's a fine interior and exterior model, but like many things that make Ace Combat great, it skips the really weird quirks of the aircraft that you fly, while DCS lovingly puts it back into a premium. So the MIG 21 model in DCS was introduced in 1972, when the Magnavox Odyssey was released, and the F-14 Tomcat was well into development in test flights. This is no space age air flight superiority fighter. Instead, it's a late 1950s interceptor shoved into a jack of all trades role nearly 30 years later.

Low speed performance is inferior to almost any aircraft in game, even against Korean war fighter jets. It's radar blows chunks. It can only detect aircraft almost directly in front of and above you to a questionable limit of 15 to 20 kilometers. Air-to-air missiles have a range of rental. The radar warning receiver is four lights blinking in the general direction of where you've been detected, and all floor all four lights turn on when you've been locked on,

so it denies you the ability to know the direction of where it was coming from. By that point, someone in a fancy modern aircraft will found who will found you, and that missile is probably effortlessly about to end your existence from 30 kilometers away. Other aircraft of its era have this disadvantage, but how close the MiG-21 is to something modern is impressive. In addition to its pathetic radar, the cockpit is a confusing mess that has a field of switches, some of which are important that you shouldn't switch off, like an automatic aileron limiter, one that you really need in a pinch,

like the emergency engine relight. There's no heads up display, just a gun sight that occasionally to attack ground targets. Considering its flight characteristics, the aircraft has a delta wing that works great going fast, but becomes a dangerous liability at low speeds, mark making landings deadly. Its unique nose cone intake snuffs the engine out at sea level a little past Mach 1, and its engine starves the fuel for seconds if you pull the stick downwards.

It's a beautiful blue tinted mess. This may all seem like a bunch of reasons why you shouldn't fly this rescue pile of rivets, but for me it's the reason why I use it. I got over the mess of switches, figured out how to land the beast without crunching the landing gear, launched missiles at its embarrassingly close ranges, and squeezed every bit out of its mid-school strengths to my favor. Soon I proved myself to be a force to be reckoned with, but in my way, in DCS multiplayer, in a way that they didn't expect.

After being slaughtered countless times on YouTuber growling, sidelander set of servers, I wanted revenge, brought my mid-sized bombs, and basically snuck his way into the enemy airbase, and used what this plane could do to its best, which is defeat ground defenses, not put in anything for dealing with air to air, and through mastery of this one specific thing that this one shit plane could do, became a force to be reckoned with that nobody could deal with. That made it way, and basically said, through my own mastery of the specific mode of attack, I overcame the deficiencies, and that kind of improvisation made overcoming challenges,

made the flight some community excellent, and held a lot of fun. Just in terms of sticking with your guns and character loyalty and all that stuff, it applies to flight simulators as well. Would you ever consider playing a flight simulator in the future? That level of detail and robust community and aircraft is something that can't be found anywhere else, so that's fucking interesting. Most importantly, it's like, listen, there's garbage everywhere, and for some reason, some people will attach to it.

Yeah, I think the fact that you had enough passion to know all of those details and memorize that to that loving degree is like, you have enough of an interest in that category of games slash planes for that to be something amazing you can discover, but you can't get there without that knowledge. You have to know about all of those things and what they should not be in order to appreciate what you did there. That is a very cool story that is applicable to a high level of mastery in these types of games, but I fucking respect it. That's awesome. If Ace Combat was any example, I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing, but I think that flight simulators, the last thing I remember as a friend of mine, we used to take them on

actual full-length flights from location to location as practice for trying to be a pilot, and in my head, at that point, it stopped being a video game and started being about pilot training. It became the air version of Truck Simulator. Yeah, I don't fucking know. I mean, if there is a multiplayer combat thing to that, I stopped hearing about it a while ago. Anyway, yeah, so that's fine for now. That's a good... Probably more shit going on next week. Yeah, exactly. Honestly, I did a quick little browse when I was putting together this docket, and besides the stuff that was just coming in, I started seeing the updates where it's just like

10 minutes ago, 10 minutes ago, 5 minutes ago, 2 minutes ago. It's like, all right, there's a lot of Gamescom shit coming out, but I will have to parse it later. Plus, I'll be also having a proper Japan thing to talk about, I suppose, maybe. For now, that'll have to do. All right. Obligations, Matt. Well, you have a good rest of your day, but over in the Japan, I'm going to scrape these audio sessions together and send them to you. Yeah. Lovely. Perfect.

Yeah, over the course of this discussion, the rain has stopped and the sun has come out, so it might not be a completely worthless time yet. Looks like it might be salvaged. That's actually pretty dope. I'm glad. All right. All right. Everybody else have a good day? Wally, I'll see you later. Goodbye. All right.

All right.