Castle Super Beast - CSB 077: Bitch I Can See Your Missionaries

Episode Date: July 15, 2020

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Put it back on! I'll tell you what first good afternoon. Well, how are you today? Okay Second of all, I'll tell you what Everybody argued about cake versus pie many years ago when giant bomb did that shit But I never saw a fucking pie pretend to be Anything I never saw that shit Okay, so you're I'm saying so that means you're staunchly defending

Cake fortress Yeah, absolutely, okay So did pita kind of kill it Yeah, I heard about that I doubt that Well, I mean besides literally killing it, which of course they did that's always the answer but They the the entire The entire momentum of that I feel like was combo broken immediately by the biggest Worst bummer in the room in the form of the people for the ethical treatment of animals

Yeah, as they are often wants to do Yeah, I Think my um, I think my comparison was apt. I think that's pretty accurate. I'm pretty happy with that analogy Like mirror being said I think it's still fun to think of things and what if they were cakes, yeah Merely looking up at at what they have to say immediately you go Why did I even look at what they have to say? Which is the exact I have done such a stupid thing. Yeah, which is the exact same It is the exact same

Reaction you get from the Westboro Baptist Church. It is it is 100% that energy So hey, I wonder I wonder what's going down good down a good old Westboro Let me just make my oh, let me turn my head slightly and and put my gaze in this direction. Why did I look oh? Hey, how's how's the hey? Hey, how's the old poopy poopy butthole filled trash fire? Filled with tires going This is still smell bad. Let's let's go over take away. Oh Mmm

Mmm smelly still good good good to know not a little little less smelly ever since the biggest tire melted away Yeah, but that's in the ground now. That's probably bad. That's not good for the environment Yeah Where did where did where did where did cake start? Where did cake start? Yeah, I? Was gonna ask where the um where the cake With a cake meme started, but fuck it. Let's get more interesting than that. All right Let's see history

Viking origin cap old Norse word kaka Which means poop ironically Derived from the word for flat Flour mixed with eggs milk nuts and honey They also had a cake called satura, which was a flat but heavy cake flour mixed with eggs nuts and honey During the Roman period the name for cake became placenta. No shit No shit, which was derived from the Greek word a placenta was baked on a pastry base or inside a pastry case That is the top of the list of the least appetizing things you could call a cake

The Greeks invented beer as cake leavener frying fritters and olive oil and cheese cakes using goat milk God man, all right fuck history. So let's let's modify learning learning things sucks Let's modify learning is the worst It was me a placenta all along placenta cake. There you go. Yep. There it is. Yep It's not it's just history Those weirdo hippies that decide to cannibalize themselves post birth. They they knew what they were talking

Alternatively could possibly just be Greek my favorite part is when you have enough like of a Fucking fancy posh life that you can have the placenta Delivered to a service which will convert it into pill form which event with I can't and then the mother can How would you know of this and then the mother can consume the pill? converted placenta so that you can follow the bullshit tradition in Two easy steps The bullshit tradition that's existed for like eight years

Two easy steps. Well, that's how traditions start man You ever actually encounter somebody where they could tell you that they're doing something stupid because it's a tradition And you're like how old is it and they're like, oh, I started doing it in high school And you're like that's not a tradition. Yeah, well, and they go. Well, that's how all traditions start and no No, it's not traditions start as totally normal things that people do that they just don't stop doing like for example Early cakes in England are essentially bread With the most obvious difference between cake and bread being the shape

And the cooking method because you could turn over a cake once Meaning that the cake versus bread slash cupcake muffin argument goes back to like the early form of the English aisles Well, I won't be turning to the Englishman for Food advice and or recipes and history I think as we all know we shan't be doing that Was cut off from the mainland of Europe due to food arguments You know, I could have I could have done that better, but fuck it so

Basically a bunch of people came in Sat down at some restaurants had a bite and went fuck this and marched out and then the borders were drawn No, then the island started to quake But it wasn't an island. It was just a peninsula Do you think that's why? The Empire has to never have the Sun set on it so that they can force everybody to have their awful food Yes Okay, I feel like the history of British colonialism always started with somebody eating like

the bangers and mash and Going the fuck is this and they go we'll show you what the fuck it is pip and shit the Yeah, the Endless Empire is really just about Forcing people to eat Marmite It's still don't okay now now it's time you need is we're looking all right. All right. So here we go I know what Marmite. All right. So this is always a three-tier discussion. All right

There's always three steps to this the first step is Marmite All right Now you're like what the fuck it's the food spread as I know made from yeast Australians It's a and it and it's a spread that you put on things and it's it's fucking trash It's a it's a nasty yeast spread other similar products now the step two is Vegemite Vegemite is always step two and you go all right

What the fuck is Vegemite and it's guess what it's a fucking dark nasty spread as well It's a different kind this one is made from the the the leftover brewer yeast extract So you you same idea you just you spread the bullshit on your bread and then it fucking It's just like why are you putting tire oil on your food? And it's like okay Sure, the wiki the wiki description of Marmite is unintentionally hilarious Marmite is a sticky dark brown food paste with a distinctive powerful flavor that is extremely salty The distinctive taste is represented in the marketing slogan quote love it or hate it. Yeah So how is that your marketing slogan if it turns out that these are not my tastes like shit

People can just can debate where these originator come from but they are definitely mentally associated with England And if they're not from there then I feel bad for England because like that's not going away anytime soon That's a bad food item third on the list and always third in the same discussion is Bovril you got to talk about Bovril after you talk about Vegemite and Marmite and good old Bovril what is Bovril guess what it's a spread you spread it on the meat spread this time though It actually predates Marmite Yeah, the big now the big black goopy thick salty paste this time the ingredients are meat extract with the yeast So it's similar to the yeast

Oh, but it's meat paste Thick and salty extract paste that you just you spread on your breads and then you eat it I've got some I've got some fucking dank Bovril tips for you Bovril can be made into a drink by diluting it with hot water. Yeah, it can that's commonly with milk. Yeah, it can absolutely so Yeah No, no, so you have to understand that holy shit all of this seems to just be dancing around the

apparent innate desire that folks have to just eat tar apparently Apparently just apparently also from the UK just spreading tar on on bread is a thing that people want to do and they keep Dancing around the topic just get right to it. It's delicious bread. You know what we should put on some Meat and yeast tar paste Yeah, yeah So I'm shocked that all three of these are like yeast based tar products

That's the thing about it, right is if if we had Different colors and types and things and you know if there was a if they all had a different consistency or something to that Then you'd be like, okay, there's some sort of Attempted like a well, I don't know what I don't know what but the fact that they're all the same black goopy paste and the difference is what you used To make the goop It kind of it kind of makes me just like wonder if it's one of those bits where like this was from the dark times when this paste would come out of the factories our children work in and We need to save as much as we can by dipping any real food dip your bread in the factory paste

For didn't for dinner. I Swear to God dude like what I was just talking about this on the other this is a bit of a side I was talking about this on the other day on the other day of the stream but I was like I think one of my favorite things about everybody doing the social media is that I I have heard almost every person of every Like walk of life other than my boomer parents refer to anything funny or any conversation as a bit and It just feels more honest because it's all a bit It's all it's all it's all a fucking set up for a punch line. You've heard other people do that

mm-hmm and Refer to refer to things that art bits as bits Like if I'm saying something stupid people are like Pat. Is this a bit? I'm like no that language Not a bit okay that language like I feel like I brought that into the parlance of the group in a way That kept to me coming from like radio bits When whenever a lot of sense. Yeah, we're always very into comedy radio and stand up exactly so whenever I saw I feel like I brought in the other the terms of like chomping at the bit and You know like oh, yeah, that's a different bit

But but either way the the that's for horses. Yes, but the but the idea being that like you're going into Bits on the radio, which is a a a a a term that was regularly used with You know all the big comedy shows back in the day. Oh Man, but what if you were a horse on like at open mic night and You came out with a bit and the bit was that you were biting into your bit That's a good bit and then somebody goes is this a bit and then the horse Takes off its hoof to pull the bit from its with its horse hand and goes. Yes It's a bit and then someone donates a lot of twitch bits at that exact moment

Which people don't know what those are. Yeah Language is stupid language is so stupid it makes me upset Have you seen those? Memes where Yes, yes, you have have you seen Have you seen the ones where like they go and they like with French they just kind of take I think what word was it? There's one word that they just say over and over again to make a sentence No, oh pure

So I'm here Yeah Yeah You can just throw a bunch of luzz in there Because Lula is stalling for time but Tom can be like your but Tom can also be tuna and There's a bunch of other versions of it. Yeah, I think so I want to explain something to people that don't speak French or know anybody who speaks French or anything Because you'll probably have heard people who either speak French or no Frenchies

They'll make the joke where they go la la la la la and it's like ha ha They're just saying that love is basically the right. It's just saying the over and over you're like, why would that? Oh, that's they sound they sound so silly and it's like well No, French is such a stupid fucked up language That's so stupid complicated to speak that every person I have ever known That is a francophone has to stall for time in the middle of their fucking sentences in order to think up what bullshit Conjugation they need to use so there's like ten luzz in every single sentence. Yeah, you got us. You got to do my ums On it on a on a yeah, it's um. It's your arms on. Yeah. Um. Yeah

in in France, it's it's You know and yeah, it's a stall for time noise for sure There um, there it is see I remember I was talking a bit earlier to Reggie about the About the term Did you did you hear Jean-Guy when you're back in your day? Jean-Guy Pepper for example? Was that a John?

No, I've not heard John-Guy Pepper, but I can fucking ballpark. Yeah, so I back when I was younger I remember hearing that and I remember everyone would say it so quickly and it was just like it was just a super fucking Derogatory like a random French person is my dad used the term Joe bin and I'm like who's Joe bin dad He's like oh is some guy so I didn't what I remember like people used to say it so fast when I When I was younger and like specifically around the time when I when I was getting back from Grenada That that would get thrown out a lot and I just remember not understanding that there was a hyphen anywhere there And I just thought the whole thing was one word You know oh the that is that has been one of the most enjoyable experiences

so peaches page of course has been learning how to speak French here and there over and over and the most Consistent frustration on her part and laugh on my part is the French language is like vicious hatred of the space between words And how every if you're speaking French color correctly there is Sentences is a you know word made of 35 letters in a row. Yeah, it's because In French you can't it's not allowed in the speaking of the French to have two vowels touch You may not so if two vowels in the language would touch You must remove the first vowel and combine the words into a larger word shout out to and it's like shout out to

aujourd'hui Yeah, which is four words five words how many Like oh sure do we oh sure the words yeah, oh sure Louise today You know and like it just kind of it's like I refuse to have these vowels touch goddammit. Yeah, no Oh somebody in the chat just nailed it the ultimate the six word single word, which Okay, yes, sir. Okay, sir. Hey. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah Guess say what

And and if you put the Y at the end because you want to that's seven words as one word Do you know how you abbreviate that on like chat and in text form? Is it just QST KKC? KKC that's stupid stupid The Q the fucking the yeah Keska say it turns into KKC Yeah, it's terrible. It's it's that everyone's got their own You know you got to figure out how to how to abbreviate it mal

Erasmus all you and to all you monolingual English folks out there. Don't worry People learning English get to enjoy the 35 million English homophones that all mean completely different things despite being the same word It's not as bad as German though when it comes to fuck spaces. I Was not aware of anything about German So German words will just keep going They'll just and when you have to make a concept or a or a specific item or thing You can just honestly slap the extra word at the beginning or end of the word you were continuing to build Okay, so

Here you go the Danube steamship company captain is Is here we I'm just gonna read it in English sounding the vowels here pronunciation Don now damn shift heart gel chef to

captain Scapped oh, I oh dude. I can tell all the different little words Yeah, and they've decided to turn it into one big word. I see captain at the end there. You're right, but yeah, that's it You just throw it all together when you have to specify You know whatever specific thing if you're like the guy from this place that does this job that over here You can just fuck the spaces in between all of that and yes, that is the newb. So shout out to doc upon A legend a legendary city in doc upon kingdom that was taken over by Every player and monsters on a week-to-week basis, which then always created the lore of the people no longer

caring who was ruling And it was just a depressing city to be to live in but anyway Yeah, German fucks you up man Supposedly But off about all that shit We've fulfilled our our banter quota Before the podcast. Well, they what what the hell's up with you, man. I heard you're an anime girl now That's correct

Here's the you know what the funniest thing is what there was a moment last week Where I had a I had I had a twinkle in my eye and I said is really going to be an anime girl soon Because I went and on a goof went and got Real what the fuck's it called live since real love what the fuck is it? live Face rig, that's a call When bought face rig is like six dollars And I look in the upper right care corner of the screen on the face rig thing and it goes people

You know who already owned this And I go mm-hmm And then I go wait will these background is in like its school background is in creating 3d models Mmm. Well, that's not that's not That that's not what came into play here, but Okay, what you are seeing is essentially, I did absolutely notice that

There has been a sudden uptick in a lot of this discussion It's been popping up some folks have been Experimenting with their models going down that path, you know, I mean Cranky has gone full v-tube and as The discussion has been kind of like just for some reason like this like it wasn't at the beginning of the lockdown It kind of was like in the last couple weeks, you know Insidious has been has been picking up. I'd say it's a little longer than a couple weeks But yeah, I hang out with plague of gripes quite often plague told you guys about the world's biggest

Coronetan mean sorry. Yeah mark. So plague brought it to you guys outside of that Circle in general though an increase has been has been happening, you know, I mean There's there's the the the the management groups and all that that are that are popping up and you know Hololive English and all this stuff is going on I Have been working on this project to To this v-tube woolly project to become anime to become anime. I've been working on this since last year. Oh

Well fucking hurry up. Yeah. Well, that's exactly what it was I've literally been working on this since last year It's been taking a while and I wanted to get things as tight as I possibly could the timing on everything just like it was really interesting how things shaped up because Like we this has been months and I wanted to drop this and this whole idea and everything way ahead of the curve way streets ahead one might say and Just like jump on in there and just kind of you know, take the piss out of the whole situation

Well shit. Well, you'll never catch up to Coronetan now. Now, of course You know, no as if you've heard me talk about creative projects on Willie will figure it out You will know that one of my things that I say all the time is pull the fucking trigger see how it goes and then just error Correct, right? Yeah, don't sit on the thing forever and like in trying to iron out the janks and get things because the model quality Shoutouts the dash euro is fucking godlike Right. Yeah, I'm sure it's it's much better than like something you would have you would slap together in like 10 seconds You know bringing in bringing in the the the 2d version for the our the rule 63

one as well like fucking Perfect, right? again, shoutouts the dash on that like just killing it when I Was putting this together. I definitely wanted to have a like startling Anyway, and my goal my goal was was to have it be like a a a ridiculous like why is this quality high? Why is this working out so well type of thing the the process of figuring that out? Involving like actually like talking with friends in mo cap and getting into different. I've been trying out different configurations

I've been I have a Both connects sitting here that I've been trying out. I have hand trackers. I have the things where I was looking into Literally the perception neuron body suit. I was looking into all kinds of shit, right? So what you're saying to me? Well, yeah, if I'm if I'm listening to you correctly with my open ears Is that? five or six days ago You saw me retweet

Corona Chan growling like an adorable person while playing doom 2016 and Said shit. Why aren't I on that? No and quickly commissioned somebody? To bang out a model in a day and you're like, I'm gonna rip off this anime girl trend I didn't I didn't I didn't see I didn't see that tweet until after the fact to be perfectly honest What I did see that was I was having I was talking to I was talking with cranky for about for a bit about this thing Dash dash and I were like in the background kind of like Theorizing how to best the best way to play this from some time ago

And I saw some other folks doing some tests and things I saw like mom doing some tests I saw some other people that are like just mutuals looking into getting a Live 2d stuff done and I remember just sorry Willie But your your your status as a dirtbag trends chaser has been discovered. Yeah, that's the point, right? So how could we ever know that you didn't so I just went holy holy shit, dude Holy shit, dude fucking go just go and embrace the jank and pull the trigger on it Yeah, and then I saw just that I you know called Reggie over He's you know, I told he's known about it for a while and we just I'm like just fucking go just do it

And like I'm like, yeah, okay, we'll do it and then like whatever else plan B was we'll figure out later You know, but I just needed to go all right throw this shit out there like it was Something that I was like I was taking way too long to get a result that I Can probably still achieve with time but pulling the trigger now at the very least creates a first dot on the timeline So what are you gonna be using your anime self to do I don't know I knew it. I knew it. I fucking knew it cuz Paige First and she sent it to me and she's like, oh cool. Look at this and I'm looking at it

I'm going like what the fuck is Willie gonna use this for he records all his LPs with like Reggie or v your men And you can't have a fucking dual like I've got okay That's not it's not entirely true that there's no plan, but it's there's there's there's there's there's multiple ideas I can follow through on and there's one that I really like but it's nothing I'm gonna just say out here on the podcast now because yeah, I like to surprise people with my content is Willie So when you ask me out gonna become a anime girl when you ask me what the fuck you're gonna do with this I can't give you a straight answer because the answer is it'll mean you could you could if you weren't a coward Yeah, I do it well do it coward well like like hey the the clip that happens at the end the GTA 5 thing

We can steer in that direction. Oh, that's okay Yeah, so you're gonna use it for shitposting and of course like you like you should yeah like that's what it's yeah 100% Using one of the most incredible miraculous future technologies ever to make silly jokes. Yeah, totally It's the only way it's just it's just funnier when it just happens out of nowhere. So that's it That's it. It's just it's it is a more it's another detailed elaborate Expensive addition to the shitpost library. I mean, it's it's essentially just like of much more complex

Green screen with your Naruto run. I mean, there's more to it There's more to it going on than that you can go places. Well, it's you can do that. Yeah, I know it but it's it's I Mean for your purposes for for end use of hey, hey guys look at me I'm I'm an airplane or some or wait actually. No, it's it's whatever Reggie forces me to do with the gun to my head Yeah, oh cool You should you should get a model that's just a foot remember that that bit we talked about where what if there was a girl that was Just a foot with like lipstick on it You should make that a character. I'm giving you the fucking free pass to use the foot character

That for him little little earrings on it on the I like an earring on the pinky and an earring on the big toe and Then you make then you make a verdict then you make a Version of Reggie. That's a that's an anime girl and then you force them to kiss. You know what they're calling them now Kick daddy Calling If you got punched daddy over here and you got punched mom over there, then you got you got kicked daddy Yeah, I'm good stuff stuff stuff stuff's moving we're moving that's disgusting feeder hideous

Feeder the most disgusting part of the human body that is not true Have you seen Like somebody people's fucked up toes They look deformed they look like they we didn't fully finish coming out onto the out of the ocean onto land I challenge you to stare into the depths of someone's belly button. Oh Yeah, I do all time. Oh, yeah all the time buttons are cute all the time Yeah, just get all up inside the innie Yeah, and see and see what you find

Now I will say one thing to smell it. I think a belly button can be cute, but If if you got an Audi then I am out cuz that you are you are like a God you are a mistake by the Lord Audi's don't really exist anymore because doctors stopped to stop doctor stopped fucking up But but like it is true that the innie Can be another pseudo orifice that just collects and dampens and gets moist and gross Oh, no you clean that clean it You should I mean I clean I clean my belly button every day at the end of the day before I go in the shower Do you do you yes trapped itself inside my belly button? Do you if do you is that a daily occurrence for you?

A lot of people don't do that. I don't do it that frequently sometimes when Paige slaps my orb the the lint shoots out Okay, that's not true, but man. What a horrible image. Oh my god. Yeah well, I'll just Just to let you know there's some there's some things that I'd rather That's that's that's not great But I'd rather I'd rather deal with feet than deal with Anything that oh you're you're because the thing about it is that like it's just like the foot is entirely External right but anything that starts to go inside or anything that's can be covered with and moisture can develop like gross things

ears so here's the thing here's get super nasty of Of the of your of your external body parts like that are totally external the feet are the ones most likely to become horribly disgusting with moisture Because they touch the ground they do touch the ground Which is disgusting you have your socks on in your shoes You know and in between your toes is not getting as much aeration as as Between your toes can be the most nasty part of a human

You know that's where athletes foot lives. It is it is where athletes foot lives. Yeah, dude. I'm just like nah, man Like like there's there's put a put a sock on that You know foot Foot's bad, but it's not coming in with the energy of like a really a really raw Wait, hold on. Hold on. I think we I think we mean you are talking about something very different, which is important You seem to be discussing this in terms of worst-case scenario. I'm talking about best-case scenario all overall

In in their optimal states Okay, what is the loser? Okay in their worst state? Okay? I mean any orifice is gonna be dead last because there's there's boom come. Yeah No, no, that's that's the thing is like like like foot in the worst case Yeah, I was absolutely worst-case scenario in it because yeah because to me in the worst case the foot is not The foot is producing odors. It's not really producing any form of What's the word, you know, there's no Residue somebody hasn't stayed up late watching diabetic foot ulcer debridement video. No, but there's no there's no there's no

God, what's the word for it? when something has secretions or or yeah, yeah extra shit, you know Well, let me tell you that that extra worst-case foot can get real bad Anything that has a discharge is absolutely gonna be the feet can have discharge if it's bad, of course But but worst-case scenario, it's it's you know, it's not great man Yeah, no, I'm talking best-case scenario a regular human being's foot looks like a deformed flipper Hmm

Like it looks like humans did not fully transition to the land as we should have so fresh out of the shower is What you're judging right now or I'm judging and I'm judging like end of a end of shift hard days work. Oh That's that's that's what I was thinking about in the conversation But we can end of the end of the day hard shifts work at the human body is a repulsive Like bacteria colony that should never exist Yeah, anywhere that the like and honestly anywhere that the light doesn't touch You know has potential to become a disaster zone

Well, see that doesn't see that's not a good one because people walk around their house naked and light touches all of it Anything Mufasa does not rule over is a problem. Okay We don't want to go there Well, anyway Yes, and that's why God invented anime vTubers They are so that we don't have to think about any of this 3d pig shit. Nope. They're they are 2d pure pristine incorruptible incorruptible, excuse me

and Yeah, that's that's exactly it. So that um, there's there's obviously a continuing to work in the background on things but This is this is something that I'm glad I can finally just throw the fuck out there and then we'll see what happened and Everyone's like. Oh my god. Does woolly know what he's unleashed on the? Yes Shut the fuck up Breaking news. This is the sh this is the word. This is the dumbest funniest news. I've seen it forever 11 minutes ago, there was an exclusive

video game announcement from Stadia Stadia has joined up with uppercut games supermassive games and harmonics to make Exclusive games for the Stadia. That's right Exclusive rhythm games

for your internet-based fucking As I was saying full credit to dash zero because what you have to understand is the the the the idea of behind creating the ultimate 2d thirst trap is Is something that I think he knows very well and and today a fucking bang-up job on So I am very very pleased with that. Hey, good job there. Yeah So What else happened this week? Well, yeah, what up, man?

Yep, we we pulled the trigger on some on some v-tube shit and on a related note in that same direction I Happened to acquire my copy or my my my Device my Oculus Quest Your Oculus Quest. Yes. How is the quest sir? Well, I plugged it in I booted it up I had to log into my Facebook account because that's how that goes That's that's weird when we got our Oculus Rift s So we could have just we you can have an Oculus account as it did it did it did after if you cancel it say like

Oh, well, you could just make an Oculus account and I was like, yeah, whatever I went through that count is defunct right now. Hmm but Started it up got some games tried stuff out. I Was pretty busy, but like punch mom got to I got to try out a bunch more stuff and Had a pretty good time all in all like Yeah, the ability to not be tethered down is something I super appreciate like That is cool. It is it is not that heavy. It's nice to see how far the tech has come since

The earliest VR incarnations I've used or the psvr, which I which I bought so like I had the show I was lucky enough to have a chance at the different trade shows early on to try out the psvr the Rift and the What you might call it the other one which lips the other one yeah slips my mind right There's two other ones now. There's the vibe in the index the vibe the index is new I haven't tried the index yet the vibe at the time And got to see what each with each of these was like in its like earliest forms, you know kind of thing and then Eventually the one yeah

I went it on was the psvr when it came out and that like, you know improved the process a bit Cheapest by far, but it was still a real like a cumbersome thing to set up You have to get your your multiple HDMI wires out yet to get your converter box You have to get your ps camera out it's the like even though it's tethered in the Rift s the fact that we there's no room Sensors is like oh my god that room sensor shits always like the point of failure for me It really was just a cumbersome thing and I and to this to this day. I have the the PSVR sort of sitting over there with all these, you know wires associated with it and everything that I was like man This is yeah, it reminds me of like the early light gun setups where you had to fucking put the

You know the or like the power glove setups or get to drop drape the the fucking nunchuck over your TV, you know not great so Excuse me just a lot of congestion this morning so the the Quests you just yeah, you pop it on and you go and like to me that was the thing I wanted the most like I I understand that like the power is limited and that and it does come with some Features that the the the Rift proper has that this does not have although, you know There's something you can do about that. We'll get I'll get to it a second

But but to me the ability to walk anywhere in the house is The most important part of it and now how do you walk around anywhere in the house with this thing on and not die? Well for starters you draw you draw a cage, right? So when you put it on you draw a little a cage. Yeah, it's what's it called guardian guardian exactly, right? Yeah, and then if you're staying seated it can do it can make a static guardian for like, okay Well, this is the area you're sitting in so make sure you stay here, right? However, there are cat, I don't know if you're of the Rift has I mean I assume they all would at this point because it's just it's such a useful thing to have

There's cameras that show you the outside world Yeah so the way that it's set up with our Rift is that I have like basically this this couch area which is like eight by nine feet or whatever and At like the back part of where like, you know I'm sitting on a pillow with the couch and the back part like the backbone of the The the couch is the thing and if I were to tilt my head and poke out the real world would come exactly kind of Infrared nightmare exactly so you can use that to sort of like actually not trip and die

And it even has the ability to like identify like objects like a table or a chair in the way and like and like a lot of the You see like a bunch of vertices kind of laid out over a plane and the vertices light up red when there's an When there's an Potential hazard in the way, so, you know the tech don't move over there It's so they again they figured that part out right the tech is there on that They they the earlier VR's didn't have that that thing the ability to just see the outside world and get your bearings Huge huge huge awesome improvement there controllers are great. I I'm happy with like the way they feel I prefer

the way these controllers Massively to let's say the the PlayStation move lollipops That you would have to play with for example in some cases They just you know the sticks are pretty solid and all in all you're like, yeah, okay I can just does what it does, you know the little rings are up on it, but I Had a really good time with Wander it's just the it's the Google Maps

App Essentially, yes, cool, right things great that things great. It's like going outside. Yep. I Went back to Japan. I you know took some trips around the areas. I visited Kind of you know like revisited some spots and just kind of had a cool time with that punch mom was jumping all around the world with it and Something that was really handy was the fact that like yeah The quest because it's you know not hooked up to anything The app on your phone can just have the quest stream to devices

So she streamed to my phone and then I could just see what she was seeing at the same time Or then you could stream it to any other like you know like a thing that can take Screen mirroring basically So that's a really cool feature. I don't know if does the rift s have speakers built in It does okay, so I remember the psvr had to plug it headphones into the little headphone jack on the wire You have to feel somewhere for it, and then it had the little also as a microphone built in in this case You're like yeah, the speakers are right there. So when you're playing, you know beat Saber or whatever It's like oh shit built-in speakers fantastic. I don't have to completely go over or under the headset like harness

To to I will say the combination of having installed face rig and having an Oculus plugged in Means that my playback like slash input device list has now gone insane As I now have like eight or nine audio sources and most of them are virtual now hmm and Like what what happens is like if I if I'm listening to people on discord in my headphones and turn it off For some reason the fucking PC wants to start outputting their audio through the fucking Oculus Which is across the room so they all become very small Well, it's already annoying that the quiet comforts take up two spots, right?

They have the hands-free and then there's just a regular You know just like a piece of shit. It's like please I wish I could just stop that other one But but yeah in terms of the the speaker included that that Simplifies the process as we didn't have that earlier on and they're good. Yeah, they're good quality. They sound great There's also the Cameras that track your face so that there's mouth. I Well eye tracking was already there But like the fact that they can get the rest of your face together and like actually let you do like you know

Face tracking and stuff gives me some like okay. I can look at this potential tech idea, you know, so again when I was doing a lot of research into the best way to To do mocap like I saw that there was definitely the VR option and I kind of like I Chose not to go that way because there was some stuff I'd bought the fidelity of it that I didn't like but you know I mean It's definitely gonna have better tracking than some of the problems you get off of face rig with like a leap motion controller or something

You know, oh man Like when I loaded up face rig and I'm just using my webcam like my character's eyeballs are just constantly twitching like an insane person There's stuff you can do to improve it but Looking at an index now and I'm like that thing is apparently kick-ass but all I can think of is like man Be really nice if we could get that size down by 50% right The thing about Yeah, the so the index is also like super unobtainable right now, right like yes

Can't get it hmm So yeah, we'll see what we'll see how that shapes up, you know and in this VR market three just came out Yeah came out early apparently I'm just I just happened to I just happened to load up steam because I want to see the death stranding user reviews and Like yeah, Halo 3 came out early. That's fucking weird But put a pin in that because I'll hit that in a second but the all in all just like the

The quality of life improvements with yeah, these these newer VR products make me really happy to see that like They've you know gotten things closer to that sort of give-up box ideal that I think everyone here understands I Want to give up you just it's never been a better time to give up the give-up box And you want to make sure the give-up box has everything self-contained And allows you to go wherever Find whatever corner of your apartment and give up in that corner and when you need a change of pace you give up in the other corner

you know and Then I was very very pleased because I Got a heads up from a couple people that hey if you do find yourself like hitting the limitations of like the The the quest which is like a you know if you go to like VR chat you can't use as much You can't use as many models. There's other programs that just don't work. Oh really? Yeah There's literally there's limitations to the quest versions of things because it's just it's a less powerful, you know device You can use the Oculus link, which is basically just taking the wire and as long as the USB C wire Going into your computer is like, you know a good quality like high-fidelity wire like an anchor cable or something like that

It can actually replicate the Rift S So I'm like oh shit best of both worlds get a good wire and we can absolutely get the the plugged-in PC strength of whatever we need to as long as that as long as Yeah, everything is as As long as the cables good so That was the like the fucking I'm like perfect So walking around is possible when needed and when and when we need higher quality when we need everything to be at its best

we can just go right into a computer and That that to me was fantastic about it. So like yeah, I'm really happy with the quest We might end up like getting an index and like converting a room into like a VR route. Oh wow Because we have we we have a room that is like a spare bedroom that we don't use Okay, so you're looking for an excuse for it so like we we take the fucking boxes we got in there and Fucking just turn that into a fucking and it's like a you know, it's 12 by 12 feet or whatever

No, not you got it. You know, it's like a regular ass small bedroom for like a kid or whatever. You have a spare computer Just put a computer in there Mm-hmm Yeah, you can make a little playroom Get tarps on the walls just in case Just in case and then you can get all the The props and accessories, you know, like the the plank of wood for example. Mm-hmm. I Don't what that is. I actually oh

Well, there's a there's a plane. There's a there's a plank walking game where like you walk like on a skyscrapers like gap and Then you pretend to walk all the way out on the plank and then by standing on an actual plank of wood Your brain extra can't figure out that it's not real because you feel the wood beneath your feet So the only problem I could think of is how to get an internet up there But I think I could probably get a big long cable to get an internet up there Um Yeah, it's my house. I can tape it to the wall if I want I Can tape myself an internet

There you go get one of them get it get one of them sex swings I'm sorry. What get one of them sex swings talking about virtual reality here. Well, yeah Hang it from the ceiling Make sure it's really loud and creaky like that one from how to be a player I Feel like there's an entire series of jokes and references that are just going right over my head Just get a bunch of get a bunch of sex dungeon toys and make sure that when you when you use them They're allowed and everyone in a nine block radius can hear them turning on

All right, I Can do that, so I'm not going to but I could So Halo 3 just dropped secretly surprisingly ahead of schedule Which is good for you because as we all know you now love Halo Hey, guess what? What? Halo 2 fucking rules man Halo 2 fucking rules that came sick. I'm we've I've played the first

I don't know whatever it is. I guess seven missions. I think Um So far basically the the entire beginning master chief section then switched over and did like I think one or two as the Arbiter and First of all the quality of these cutscenes in the remake by blur studio is Unparalleled like They're so well done that it makes everything that isn't those cutscenes

Like frustratingly like damn. Why isn't everything else like this? Even the non even the few to the minimal amount of cutscenes there were in the first game Like why couldn't we just get blurred to do all of this, you know? and Obviously the answer is the money But I never thought money being low would be a problem for a franchise like Halo because I'm used to shlubbing it up in in the fucking Fighting game slash

Visual novel world, you know Yeah So so I'm looking I'm looking at your footage of the halo right now. That looks a lot better than I remember Dude, it's so good. It's really Better than what I remember You know, they they just kind of replaced the in-game cutscenes with these just like gorgeous rendered Scenes that were like perfectly lit very like they have to Jay Brim's lens flares flying all over the place and they have a really nice Hand camera simulation going on so that like it feels as if it's like someone like an actual cinematographer is operating a camera

Oh, I found I found one of these cutscenes. Yeah, this looks stellar So as someone who had no idea what the Covenant like workings looked like Upon starting that being greeted with like a giant sort of like cutscene introduction to the Coliseum of them and You know the leadership the hierarchies the profits all that stuff it was like oh, but it's like right into hard fantasy living world and Within seconds of that first cutscene. I'm like, okay. I get it. I understand why and where The desire to go into all this lore that people keep trying to send me ahead of time

I understand where it comes from right because the the first game, you know again like cute little trip around the ring fun stuff Like a lot of little wow You know and it Was kind of the deal and then you you run into a your cheeky AI has a Has a squawky battle with the other cheeky AI and then you get the fuck out of there, but in this case like they build a very interesting world with like the the the ships and the the You know the designs of these aliens and like you want to know more about the hierarchy of them

and I'm like you're like, okay, so you know like you're getting these little terminals and each terminal shows you a little bit of the past and With each little bit of the past you're kind of seeing like and I know these are added for the remake, right? Definitely, but like you're seeing a little bit. Yeah, I apparently some of those you mentioned for halo one are like massive massive crazy fuck spoilers In halo one I didn't watch the terminals Okay, hello to they're not like a spoiler in halo to they're more in line with the content happening in the game at the moment So for example, pretty much all of the ones I've been watching have been Like this is what vanity of amity was doing and here's how cool he was Here's how badass he he's kill count is but he had big big honor look at him being cigar with that big honor

Okay, but he's super cool. They'll look at this kill count the number go up see that planet. Here's reach get fucked reach Like well, that's that's like There's literally that's literally a video game for that, of course, but I just mean that like the The terminals and in two are like like they don't feel as bad because we're learning at the same time, you know But all of that so yeah blurred did an incredible job with those cutscenes and then you get into the game And it's like yeah, yo dual wielding super sick Like duh, you know master chief holding two guns on the box, you know, what's coming really fun to the mechanic And especially since you can mix and match, you know

Mixing and matching for some reason I thought you would always be dual wielding the same guns I didn't think mixing and matching would be the thing that that is how it's gonna be going for They take that away Odious, yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and the reason why is because of the dual spike right a dual Because that's not spike. What are the purple? Needlers? Needlers the needler. Yeah, that thing It fucks hard absolutely it goes in And yeah, you just hold those buttons down It I know it's in 3b. You can't do a wheeled it in 3 you dumb shit

So the the the I can I can feel that something special is happening as while I'm playing this game I'm like, yeah, there's there's the production value on these cuts. He's is incredible. The missions are Really fun like the fact that like after this introduction were dropped into I think it's new Mozambique or Right and you are having urban warfare With the Covenant and they're peeking out of alleyways and like I'm like wait a new Mombasa. Excuse me new Mombasa And I'm like, this is a gray dusty

like Like military shooter looking environment But we're having alien battles with our big dumb shiny guns with them, you know, and I was like that's Super unexpected from what we came off of it's kind of silly. I thought it was really rad as a change of pace goes though Well, no, I don't mean that disparaging like there's parts of of halo that if you were to look at a screenshot It's like It's kind of silly like grunts are. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. And like the hunters are worms, man you know, but

the fact that we Like I guess I just yeah, like you drop down to earth and then that means um, yeah, you're gonna have urban Battles with like big old shiny alien guns as a part of it and I was like, I didn't see that coming So I had a lot of fun with that um, also I learned the truth the light and the way in the form of the battle rifle, which is Like of all these first person shooters. I've been using there's always the guns where you're like, this just feels good to use

Right the feedback the animation the tightness the re the recoil every little bit The reload like the feel of a good gun is a thing that I'm able to appreciate now Especially after using stuff where you're like, well, this service is function You've hit like a bunch of these like bam bam bam Not accidentally and I'm I'm starting to definitely see like, you know Um, what yeah, you can pick out in a lineup of like multiple guns that I'm like this fucking battle rifle is Man, it's good Battle rifle is the burst shot. Uh, yes, and it's and it's and it has the scope congrats

You've discovered the space m16. It has a mid but I mean we had we had uh, we had uh, uh, uh the automatic in the first game Right with the big number counter on it, but it the automatic is just yeah No, no nothing it didn't it didn't have that pop, right? And so this thing immediately had that pop It's got a mid-range scope and then you just like Like it you know appropriately br is the noise it makes as well um First shot rifles are fun to use in many video game. It was halo has

A good one and then you just watch the thing go down and you're like, yeah That's a really satisfying gun Um, I don't want to leave home without it So walking around with one of those and whatever else we can find is great. Don't dual needlers, of course is just Hold button melt enemy, you know um, it also introduces Uh, uh, johnson is back with a vengeance. He's coming in with his heavy his big ass lines And you're just like, all right right out of right out of every creditor and or aliens movie. All right carl

I fucking love it. Let's do it. Uh, raw and uh The warthog gets a near Bayonetta level entrance as it it literally hops a ramp In mid-air onto the screen and like you're waiting for the camera to zoom in and have the words warthog displayed over everything because it's like look it's back there it is and this time it's got a Um a pulse rifle on the back of it or is a burst rifle or whatever it was the the second type of warthog That's not um, it's not a uh, uh, it's not a like a giant fucking gatling gun. It's a different type of gun

Anyway, there's different. There's a different warthog. Man, you're gonna love halo three's fucking uh friendly Cousin to the warthog. Oh cool There's there's a there's a warthog variant That's much smaller that you will very much enjoy riding around the guy the ghost is back and not only is it as Great to control as ever, but now you've got a fucking boost button so

that's great and humongous big set piece Battle craw walker where you jump on the 8080 And then you take it down and then big sequence goes and pops off and you're just like this is fucking This is wild. You know, um in particular the Uh introduction as well of the arbiter he gets in he gets his origin you go and then you fucking take control And you get a completely different mechanic where now

I can like Rush in go ham hit that stealth button and get the fuck out And uh or do it the other way around to stealth in go ham kill everything Um, but like it it is a different feel to things that is like something that I can appreciate Because even though like you're trading off what I thought was ultimately not that like you're trading off a flashlight Which how often do you need it? Well, it turns out you're going to be in dark areas and you're probably going to need that flashlight

So look at that. So it's legitimately a trade-off between the two. Um But that's where I kind of stopped right now And um, yeah, like the little bits and details the nicely done things the the fact that master chief is getting decorated while um The arbiter is getting disgraced You know like these these little these little like Nice parts of like how the story is being told are things I really enjoy and So far man, this game is fucking just banging like I am really really impressed with it

I feel like listening to you get so into it and seeing everybody so excited I have been hit with a very bizarre emotion that I don't know how to place which is I played halo 2 back in And that and why didn't I enjoy it the way you are enjoying it? And this isn't the the usual thing that I would do of like I don't get to explain it's like I'm thinking back It's like I think I might have gone about it in a way that specifically ruined it for myself

because You you mentioned that uh master chief is getting Like a metal in the beginning in the very first bit and arbiter is getting disgraced and my experience with that was Who the fuck are these aliens? What is that? Why does that alien get why are they mad at that alien? What is a halo?

Because I never played halo. Oh you played this first I I I picked I picked up halo 2 for 12 dollars And played it xbox backwards compatible because everyone was going insane about halo before one coming out the following year Before one Yeah, I've never I've never played well. Yeah, that would explain Uh part of it and everyone's like oh halo 2 is one of the greatest. Oh my god. I'm like, okay And like I remember starting it up and I'm like who master chief is there who is it and they're just like no I don't I don't tell and

Is it possible that that because you skipped like all these sequences that I think back like I guess they were pretty cool I guess but the whole time All I could think of is who is that you skipped Dante's awakening and now you're asking who nero is Wait that kind of doesn't make any sense Because nero is actually set up and explained in four well, I mean I haven't gone through the entirety of of of 2 yet, but I mean the introduction of a new character Where you're just kind of following

This new I dis new person introduced into The lore ice there's a reason why you're following this person eventually you take control of them You know so Like the answer to who is this is well, I should keep playing to find out No, actually what I asked who is this I meant like the covenant Oh, well then because when you start You don't have

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no no the first thing that happens in halo 2 is why did you fuck up so hard in the last game? and Here's the hero of the last game being super awesome. Look at you. You're so cool guy So, yeah, it's a direct fucking sequel like Yeah You were yeah, you were you were you were set up to fail on that one man So the the answer a lot of people are like, why would you skip parts? And the answer to that is actually frankly when I looked at master chief on the box

I figured I wouldn't need to care about the game's story because he was a dumb space marine Well, congratulations because he looks particularly the halo one version looks like a generic ass space marine. You played yourself But i'm sure all these years later you could understand How silly that sequence of events was I Mean I liked halo 3 a considerably more Because I had played halo 2 and then you knew what happened Yeah, like there's a there's a moment like there's a moment where the flood shows up in halo 2 shocker

And they literally just go. Oh shit. It's the flood and I go the what? And that is it That is literally that is literally it Dude, yeah, this I mean it's and then I'm shooting them and and I'm like, but what are they? Yeah, it's It's are they goo? That's it's your fault. It's an amazing game and it's your fault Like you you did set yourself up for failure there, unfortunately That's that Was halo one backwards compatible for the 360 back in the day?

It should have it definitely was because in the classic section. I remember combat evolved box staring at me constantly I remember the combat evolved box always available in the classics on the 360 and then On the on the bone as well. It was one of the first ones. They let you grab Like they they pointed to the that franchise the entire time. It was one of the the big ones Well, here's the thing right and I'm seeing a lot of people going like oh my god, that's like playing mgs2 yada yada But here's the thing The only the people that I spoke to about halo would never talk about anything other than the multi right and I assumed It was a multi franchise

You were not given and you were not given a word of mouth reasons to care about the soldier man story Yeah, and and it was like it was like I can't believe you played modern warfare 2 before modern warfare 1 It's like well who cares who gives a shit about and it the story of modern? Well, it just and it turns out the story is fucking rad like it turns out that was a huge mistake idiots No shit morons. I was in high school. Yeah, no it turns out that it turns out that was a huge mistake and like The story is great and it's it's it's you know like there's nothing else to say about it Like it's it's it's the exact same as any other like narrative driven franchise where we would look at it and go like Oh, yeah, this thing is cool to see what happens from part to part to part

And in this case just you know seven missions in again not done But boy does it require you to know what happened you know like by by that metric I enjoyed reach by far the most of the ones that I played because Reaches a prequel right and so they have to set up a bunch of shit Because it's like the first covenant, you know, whatever and it has a completely self-contained story that doesn't go anywhere Now if anything I would say that your story Is probably an indicator of the way millions of people that just kind of jumped in on the the big thing

kind of That would probably be their experience as well where People you know people that don't care that much either way jumped on played it when I don't know what the fuck's happening here Whatever. Oh cool. I can play as a the arbiter and then like let's just go play multiplayer with the boys Because that's what we're doing and that was the end of the thought process. So you that was everyone I ever knew that I ever spoke to halo about halo until I started playing destiny And people started to complain to me that halo was so much better. Yeah, so y'all were a bunch of dumb kids and you fucked up

shit's rad so um I I can see every way that Uh, this is it happens so often in video game franchises where you just get that second release where you're like We figured it out. We have the direction. We know the mechanics. We have the tone We've you know what I mean? Like we got our foot in the door and now we know how to take that next step with confidence um You know a v made the the street fighter 2 comparison. I said mega man 2 I said sonic 2

You know that that moment where you're like we've we've figured it out and now we can just focus on the experience feeling as fucking great as possible and um At because like there's a little itty bitty pieces of this that that added to the confusion Because the thing that got me to start playing halo 2 If by a backwards compatibility Was this was the sequence of events, right? It was the halo 3 Like the halo 3 trailer comes out that is master chief in a cloak in the desert. I'm sure you remember that Yeah, where he jumps and he makes the big shield

And it was almost silly because it is a robot like if you're totally devoid is like robot man Under the the the cloak that what is it protecting him from the same whatever um, but Uh, and then everyone starts going insane and they start up that ad campaign that is like the the war veterans But staring at the incredible diorama staring at the diorama. Yep Right the diorama thing was super cool and it's like wow this is really super serious and uh

Like kind of crazy incredible ad campaign Everyone's going crazy for this. Okay. I guess I ought to play one talk to people. Hey Which of the halos are good? Oh, yeah. Halo multiplayer is so so good. Oh my god. You should play halo 2 But I have no desire to play the multiplayer of like a backwards compatible See like multiple-year-old xbox original game So then I hop in and I'm confused and then I think the one person that I spoke to

When I'm like, I don't understand what's going on Told me. Oh, yeah, if you read all the books, it's way better And I had the assumption That halo one also had nothing in it And then it was all in the books And went that's stupid Yeah, well, you weren't talking to real gamers pat. That's the problem I think I really was talking to real gamers. I think that might have been the problem

You uh, you're likely I would imagine that the the individuals in question likely feel the exact same way about all of that right now Uh as opposed to like having since Figured it out, you know so Um, yeah Yes, chat. I'm aware. I listen to the worst people. That's why I got into this business so that I could be the worst person you could all this

Hey, hey, hey, you were led astray, but you still fucked up, right? And then that's that's what's up, you know Well, now I'm in an even weirder place because now I'm jealous of the experience you're having but I can't go back because I hate bungee now well Yeah, I have no attachment like I I fucking I hate bungee with like All the sweat off I have no attachment to destiny whatsoever. Um, you know, they got my money the first time and I that was sky was done with that but

Um, this is this is fucking incredible. Um and you know, um Yeah, it it definitely is like You know, it certainly does help too that like yeah I know like v knows what the fuck is going on with this franchise and is kind of like talking and giving the bits and pieces that that help But I think that in general the The yeah the procession of events here is such that this you know The new mcc collection is there and like what you were playing

Or what or rather what was around back when you first were looking at this was the original anyway, right? That's what you played like if you did go take a look at You know, uh any of these like you can now play them with the redone Visuals and like that super quality graphics the most interesting thing about that is that halo 3 does not have like a A rematch it doesn't it didn't get the anniversary because it's it's too new. Yeah but Does this create a bizarre situation? Where you go like one two or like

2016 looking level games and then halo 3 looks like a high res 2007 game and then Reach is like 2011 like I've heard I've heard people saying that 3 is clearly not as Like polished as some of the remade stuff, but it's still it's still all right. It's still good um So But I don't know okay. I'm looking at footage of it now. It's clearly like, you know, you know trimmed up

But it it's not like the the anniversary ship that you you've been going through But yeah, no it it you could just it looks something important to note about anniversary as well as that Whereas one had There were like I told you about the parts of one where like the remade environment was too much It was actually too it was too much you couldn't see what you needed to see Or or it like it kind of obfuscated really awesome art design details Um two doesn't I don't find two has that problem. I find two is just an out-and-out improvement Um, but then again like you know, I'm only glancing at the classic every now and then to sort of just see how it stacks up

Oh my god. I just remembered how I played most of three Oh my god, I just I took every step possible to ruin the series for myself I played more than half of the halo three campaign in the Eaton center game buzz Like talking to the guy that Like I would later on trick into selling a street fighter standing at the at the tv at the on the counter

With the shitty little tv in the corner hanging from you stood there for hours Yeah And they didn't no one Well, no, he was just like talking He was we were just chatting because like I bought tons of shit from there. So you didn't give a fuck. Did you even hear the game? No Yeah, you're a moron Of course you fucking well because I I had played halo two and I had got I had stopped halfway through

And been like oh, whatever and I was waiting for a movie finish the fight at a kiosk with the sound off And I'm like while talking to an attendant behind a desk I'll play some some some of this the halo thing. Uh Uh While I'm waiting for my movie and then I he just never deleted the file. So every time I would go wait for Something in that area or wait for somebody I would just play like an extra half hour hour of it fight finished Done and done

And then I then later was like, oh, okay, and then I bought it at home And then I I played through it at home and then The way major nelson intended I had only yeah, I got halfway through just Like on that tv On that shitty like crt hanging off the ceiling So like I thought it was a dumb game and that I was smart by thinking it was dumb, excuse me. So like Can we just get like the Pat writing the bike and then with his shiva arms

He puts like eight pegs into the spokes at the same time And then it's a halo sucks. I don't get it when I'm on the floor Oh, that is that is can I beat halo before mcdonald's kicks me out, isn't it, you know If your neck didn't break on the way down Just oh my god somebody in the chat said halos just maddened with guns. I thought that's what it was I thought it was the dude bro shooter for dude bros Turns out that was actually call of duty Okay, now now can I beat can I beat halo before mcdonald's closes is real because

That I I haven't heard that before but I remember when uh ocarina of time was at the mcdonald's they're my place as a kid and Wait, how they had a play place with some kiosks and okay, um they They had they had a set up there and I remember Uh

Like it was the small window of time when my my uh my fucking money got stolen So I didn't buy I didn't get to buy mine right away And then going home and they had they had it set up there and like people were just fucking playing it It was just like hey, do you want to start in the middle of jaboo jaboo's belly and Yeah, you know, oh, I'd rather not personally, you know, um, but Yeah, I mean that was that was a thing and people would just line up and go for it because they didn't give a fuck Okay, who's this was gonna You know you go finish the game if you want who gives a shit, you know, this is it's mcdonald's

um That's that's an incredibly Incredibly self sabotaging history. Did you ever even look at one? At all Or did it just completely evade the the radar entirely? I I watched the original first two season I watched The first couple seasons of red versus. Oh, yeah, so you're you finished. Yeah, you're done. You're good No, you're you're covered

And and then when they switched to the when they switched to making it with the halo 2 engine I went I don't like how kaboose looks now and stopped watching Yeah, no, you're good. You if you finished if you watched red versus blue Season one then like yeah, you've played halo one. You're good Just checking. All right, cool. Cool. Cool. Cool I know sidewinders the ice map because that's where tex went to get the thing in that episode Anyway, um Keith david continues to be the best part of every project he's associated with Yeah, that's not fair

Every time he's shown up I go Like He's the best It's actually kind of impressive that The guy in killer instinct is apparently not Keith david But he just does a fucking 10 on 10 job impersonating him Wild

Uh, which guy? Um, so let me let me take a look here, but the arbiter in ki. Uh, someone Told me that that's oh, that's that's really apparently Apparently that's crazy. Apparently Uh, uh It's not him So That's that's yeah um

So that's really cool But yes, anyway, so I was uh, I was you know fucking Enjoying the shit out of that and yeah, he spawned as well. So halo's good Halo's halo's good halo two is excellent Oh, man, you want you want to hear you want to hear the the the the pinnacle the absolute pinnacle Of how fucking like horrible I ruined this shit for myself Was getting like getting I I'm sure you I don't think you fought the flood yet, but I'm getting in one I'm fighting I did which I think is like

Oh, you did okay, so I'm halfway through the game I think it was anyway, and I'm I'm fighting big flood monster and I go and like I'm I'm at the point Where I'm looking around like an insane person And going when the fuck are they gonna explain to me what what a halo is Why is this shit called halo I don't get it Did um at any point I'm trying to remember because

Yeah, no, it was only in the terminals in the terminals. You see A bit of that, but yeah, well There you go And then by the time I got to three something like guilty spark just literally sits you down Okay, well you can say you can you can stop there. You can actually stop there. I'm enjoying this like No, no, no, it's just like halo three It clearly has someone there on the team that was like dumbasses don't know what the story is Which makes sense because this is a flagship franchise with super bowl commercials

And and there's like a real concerted effort in three to go like That's what a halo. Yeah, I feel as if um, there's a I feel as if there's a very clear I have like I'm playing this whole series in mind Like again, you don't need to elaborate, but I'm playing this whole series in mind knowing that It's continuing to Be Microsoft's major Like it's it's their mario, right? It's the it's sega sonic. It is the flagship

so um I'm expecting That as each game gets bigger and crazier and and larger there's going to be a very clear like listen, man About 70 percent of the people buying this this time did not touch any previous games They just want something exciting to play on their xbox. So we're probably going to need to have it Be explained somewhat because they're not stand alone. You know, like I think probably the the I think I'm thinking about it was like is halo three my favorite because there's a moment where somebody looks at the camera and goes This is what the covenant may be

Because I had gotten all the way to 2007 thinking they were like generic space aliens. Yeah Um It you know, maybe at the same time Uh anyone who's coming into the third game of a franchise going like oh, yo, you guys are all talking about this thing Okay, yeah, let's check it out and the thing the Nate the whole marketing campaign is Finish the fight and if it never occurs to you that I didn't start it So I might not fully know what's going on right now Then yeah, you kind of deserve what you get, man

You know, I think but we laugh at we laugh at and mock mercilessly Those who enter into any any franchise mid to late way Just on a hype train and then get frustrated as they're confused One of my favorite tweets we just talked about was the guy streaming dmc 5 Dante starts dancing and he just fucking taps out. I love that. It's the best shit ever because you are a fool You are a fool for going about things the way you do So it's here's I I feel like yes, I was a fool but

I was dramatically failed by everyone within 20 miles of me Because I literally never in the only person I ever knew that mentioned anything about halo story said Oh, the story in the games is whatever you got to read all the books I'm like, I'm not gonna do that and everyone else didn't know what the story was Yeah, no, you're explicit because they literally just played multi you're you're explaining the reasons why you fucked up and trust me That's my thing. I I get it I get it. I totally understand how and why this fuck up came to be Do you remember

Right before met like the week before mass effect 3 came out And it was having like even bigger like The end of the end of a saga the end it was not it was not it was not bigger than halo It was not bigger than halo. I no, no, that's not what I'm saying I'm saying the energy of like Of like the finale of a trilogy like specifically this will be the last mass effect stuff And every interview that came out for that week period Was oh, yeah, you could totally start on this one. Yeah, you don't need those other two at all

From like every developer they talked to and the reaction was what? But did they say that? Oh, yeah, I remember laughing my ass off that is they're like, oh, we think mass effect Places this series it's never been a time to start playing mass effect disingenuous marketing that sucks Because that's you're lying to people to get them to buy the game and then eventually get frustrated when they don't understand and and like the But the people who were interested in the game got these big red flags like wait a second if the first two games don't matter The whole point is that the choices would carry forward through multiple games. Yeah, of course

It's like but if they don't matter Don't they not matter like Did they give it some sort of asterisk where they're like well because you can read the codex? No, because the codex will tell you will then fucking yeah, they that's that's just lies. That's just big lies That's it was it was that's terrible I mass effect is extra crazy because like the the start of mass effect 3 is invasion on earth From the reapers and the new player will go. What are those? Like

What is that? And the whole game is about that okay, okay, okay Oh, man Oh, I hate people I knew back in 2003 and four and five Oh I'm glad I'm glad that um I have the ability to You know put myself in

like Like last decade mode I can run compatibility on my brain when I play old games To be like yeah, okay. I see what was happening at the time You know, I've been like I guess I didn't have that back in the day or the problem was that I decided to get in in the middle instead of Because every big franchise that I do now I either go back from the start no matter how old it is or I already was there I'm trying to think of like franchise where I jumped in in the middle and

I'm three fighter two right there. Um Where I'm like I know that like whenever it's something that it's like Especially like it unless like I feel uncomfortable doing it unless I kind of get the okay That it's like no, this is all right. This is standalone, right? Um In a sense that uh when it comes to like doom 2016 for example, um when it comes to Uh, yeah persona is a big one um

Where I was like, okay The the the the the friends that I spoke to about this are all like you'll be okay. This is this is a standalone You'll be fine to might as well be a completely different franchise when you jump from two three near. I definitely Like I felt like uh, this is I don't want it. I can't I'm not I don't want to just start this and and I went back and Uh watched the entire game For I watched the entirety of gestalt, you know, so Like that was one of those cases where just like the I I would feel like I'm like, but what if though

I don't want to be in that situation and then it turns out like yeah, that was that was that was correct. Um There's there's a bunch of cases where I I do end up jumping in the middle, but like I usually feel like I want to check with Uh friends to make sure that they're like it. Do you think this is okay or what you know? You know what is actually a decent one that I would actually say you can jump into with like a two hour youtube session prior is witcher You you could totally Go and and watch like a video breakdown of the basic outline of events for the first two games And you'd be pretty so I mean that's that that's the thing is like near kind of was the the the proof of of like

concept in a way because like watched the watched entirety of gestalt and then Watched the full breakdowns of all the dracon guards, you know, like I I I made sure to do as much homework as Uh, I could within the time frame um before before going into uh, uh, uh, tomata and uh It paid off Even in the small bits it paid off, you know Uh, there's a lot of stuff that pays off with the witcher series But the problem is is that the witch witcher three is the first one that's like a real video game for human beings

um and uh witcher two is like a fucked up polish game and uh, Witcher one is like a fucked up polish game made by space aliens for space aliens um, I love witcher one But witcher one is a fucked up game made for crazy people I was going to say that every once in a while there's a franchise where

People that are into the franchise actively discourage you from catching up like No one no one will tell you to go play zone of the enders one. No It's zone of the enders one is is wild because there is literally Nothing in that game of value other than like the basic story events compared to the second one And the intro of the second one just sums it up in like a 45 second cutscene when you mean as does the button on the main menu that goes like here's what happened in zoe one You know And and it's like a minute. So it's like it's like nothing. Yeah

um And the length of it as well, but it's it's also so short that you might as well just do it In a way, there are three enemies in with in in zoning and yeah, so that's it like the like it's so Incredibly digestible in such a short period of time that it's almost like you might as well But yeah, uh, you know, that that's that's that's a that's a bit of a weird one That's a bit of a weird one like the franchises where they're like no stay away from the first game, please It'll fuck up. It'll dmc2 is a good example Hey, I'm gonna play through the double night cry series

Okay, here's the order One three four five done Wait, what about two? What is what are you talking about? Are you watch watch the live action commercial for two? And you're done. Yeah, that's the whole thing Um, so yeah, that was me Okay I have my I should give halo another shot I feel very stupid

That's probably the worst I've ever done to myself in terms of like a medium I mean considering the scope that the franchise went to Yeah, probably Especially considering I then went on and later played the shittier follow-up series By the same company and and keep in mind which like I'm not touching multiplayer at all I'm just doing the campaigns Oh By the way, so one of the confusions that I'm seeing from folks is that

Um pat how how is halo three your favorite if you played like half of it on like a tv inside a game stop And that's because I actually played a shitload of the multiplayer and became that person That was like I don't get what story the halo or whatever, but this this This fucking mongoose custom map with rocket launchers is fucking awesome Yeah That's cool. I mean The multiplayer pretty much allows you to just judge it mechanically for what it is Yeah, so and and I know that three months and then and then and then call of duty four came out and was like wait

Why do people care about halo when this hotness is around? Well, I like and forgot about the series. I like big dameleon guns Yeah Uh, let's see what I do this week I did uh to be fair. I've never really given real guns a chance Well, there's your clip Okay, wait Real video game. Yes real video game guns like for the most part I I I watched my brother play a sum and I had to test a few but I never really went down that

Real video game guns. They don't have the flash of a big sci-fi. You know plasma whatever But the the games they're associated with usually have some gimmick to like some aspect of them that will Lock it in so for me it was I thought real ass video game guns were lame as shit Until the day that I was playing bad company two battlefield bad company two and I Picked a sniper rifle and fired at some guy and because of bullet drop I had to fire like

Half the screen above where the dude was And I hit him in the face And I got a headshot And I was like You know And then I'm like, okay, maybe real video. Maybe real guns can have some cool value here. That sounds dope Yeah, um, and it happened it happened the one time and I've been trying to recreate it Ever since snapshot king

Yeah, well, that's a that's a different that's a does it hits can't I Well, I mean look if the if the theme of woolly's 2020 Uh gaming career is challenging assumptions Like I have to be real in that like, you know, like, yeah the the Those those those games are the the realistic guns are a thing that like I kind of you know Never gave a fair shake out of disinterest you know, so like

I'm real. I'm definitely in the process of learning that like that is a thing that I might be Convinced otherwise on because feeling is believing, you know Yeah, oh, I like that You just think that up now That's good. I like that feeling is believing Because seeing in enough What'd you do

All right, so there's three games I want to talk about okay, let me go hit my live barbie And uh, actually no shit four games. Jesus lord. Okay Uh one is devolverland expo Did you play that? No, is that something that came out with the show? Did you watch I watched no, I just saw the announcements afterwards my okay So the devolver the devolver thing was about how everybody stole our Everyone stole devolver's idea to steal the idea of lives from nintendo

Um So fuck them and fucked out we got to go next level And in the middle of the fucking thing they announced devolverland expo which hit steam Which is a full like hour long game where you go to the e3 convention center Which is now completely taken over by devolver And you have to shoot security bots with a tv cannon as you go through the booths for carrion and serious sam

And shadow war you go to a virtual a virtual trade show And the objectives are watch trailer for fall guys trailer complete And then you go uh and have to dodge lasers and fight a boss that is pretty brilliant and it's it's like a giant ad That's pretty brilliant And it's the fucking best thing because the everybody who's streaming the devolver thing Immediately downloaded and played through the whole thing which included watching multiple of those trailers again They announced that at the end of the show walk into the booth and like

Point your camera at like the screen where the trailer is and it full screens the trailer And locks you in for most of it And gives you big like marketing objective complete symbols and it's It's great That's brilliant really really cool impressive um the other

Game number two i played yesterday, which is why the podcast was delayed until today pardon for live and uh non-live viewers Was a super hot mind control delay which For confusion purposes. I'm gonna say they should have just named super hot two Even though it's actually super hot three what but whatever Well, did you play super hot? Yeah Okay, how long did it take you to beat it? Uh I don't remember but it wasn't that long. It's like 90 minutes. No, it's it's it's super is the VR game actually a different game The VR game is a completely different game. Oh

fuck Damn Okay, okay. Oh christ super hot mind control is actually super hot four Because there was the original like browser version. Oh, well sure. All right Anyway, so the thing that I remember the most about super hot original was that it was It was like the perfect encapsulation of that era's indie games which was Like every single level is meticulously detailed and they all start with like, uh, uh wrong place asshole as like a

Big text thing and then you're behind a bar and you have to grab the gun and it's a very meticulously based level and that game's biggest problem was that Once you got like you oh, I got the katana. Oh now I got good at throwing things at guys What oh, I can't wait for the game to open up and then games over right like the games mechanically they Mechanically though, they do bleed the the features out to you like over the course of that journey, you know, but yeah And then you get to the point where you're like cool. I've unlocked all the store I know how to do all the mechanics. How many levels am I going to get to play like yeah? Yeah

Um, and then just all the challenge rooms where you you know, whatever but in terms of just the main the main missions I just just sorry small interrupt. Um, dear god please can you just There is a a humongous mistake in the form of just saying like super hot vr Makes everyone think that's a vr version of super hot Oh, yeah, it's a complete. It's a secret. Don't do that with your name. That's that's completely that's a bad I don't do that

Yeah, isn't it a terrible idea. Isn't that a stupid thing to do? I immediately just assumed it was and I and I trying the demo. Yeah, why trying the demo Uh at at at packs. It was the first level again It was the first level of regular super hot in vr and I was like, oh my god This hallway is really cool. No, it's vr exclusive You know, so I didn't know that the rest of the game turned out to yeah god. That's bad. Okay. All right. Well, anyway That's a it's it's a vr exclusive sequel. Don't do that. That's bad. I bought it anyway It's a it's it's the chain of memories. I bought it. It's sitting on my fucking oculus

I just didn't bother to look at it yet because I just assumed it was that um, all right, so a startup super hot mind control alt-delete And the it has a really good first impression just like the first game Where the it loads into a completely black crt screen and all it says is press e to super And then you hit it and it goes super and then it says press e to hot and um The structure of the game is completely different. So the first game it was you had a fake um, like dosprom And you would talk to your friend about the fake super hot game that you guys cracked into

And there was a weird little narrative here. It's super weird and way way more abstract But after you do the little tutorial, they just dump you into a level select And the way that it works is that you have health instead of like single death But you have to do like eight levels in a row. Well before dying the original game Dropped you back on a level select in between every mission too No, it didn't I just I just I just replayed it like didn't you always it dropped you back to the main menu and it just said and you would have to go Select the next levels we're leading. Yeah

Like this this drops you to like a mario 3 like Stage one stage 1a stage Okay, okay understood and when you click on them, it gives you a random selection of like 30 to 50 different types of rooms like gas station or subway And they'll drop you in a random spot with random enemies and you have to fight your ass off and Every two or three rooms you can choose a buff so you can choose move faster or

When you deflect a bullet with a katana all bullets in your area reflect or guns have more bullets or And it's almost like a roguelike now um And the best part about it is that like I did a four and a half hour stream and Four hours of that was just playing non-stop uninterrupted super hot levels Like over and over and over and over and over Um, are you are you from the jump using all the mechanics that you play at you have at the end of one?

so Let me tell you From the jump the tutorial teaches you every single mechanic that super hot one had Like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam And then as you start exploring around you'll uh, eventually if you do all the levels you'll unlock Oh, here's a node and the node will uh do things like add modifiers that you could select So one of the modifiers that I unlocked was the ability to get like five hearts instead of four if as an upgrade or the ability to

Have any throwable bottle explode like a grenade Right and these are the random modifiers that you could choose But then you also unlock the uh a different like loadouts that you would load in with and uh, There were three that I ended up getting when I was playing the one was you usually have two health You can start with three Which considering how hard the game is is a big deal The second one is you get uh, you will on a timer You will unlock the ability to hit e when pointing at somebody and do a rush punch

And just instantly dash towards them and punch them in the hiatus Okay, and you will clip through the environment to do so You will also like dash up for us It's it's basically instant transmission more than like a dash punch Um, and then the the last one that I unlocked right at the end of the stream is start every single level with the katana And you recharge the ability to recall the katana to your hand after throwing it So, um, you throw the katana into a guy and hit e and it spins back to your hand like a jedi Jedi toss

And uh in the level that I was playing it functioned as like a one person summon sort like a one sword I have a very important question If you throw the sword out And then rush punch over to someone and then you can't okay. They're usually okay If you throw the sword out so you you are you are picking between health and charge and okay If you throw the sword out and then you switch bodies To someone else Switch bodies that has not been introduced reintroduced. That's probably one of the unlocks. Okay

Does the sword then follow the the switched body? Well, what happens that I was doing is I would throw into a guy and then move to the left So that the guy with the sword in him Was on the other side of me and someone else and then recall it and it would kill on the way back because it spins Round trip. Okay. The other thing That really changes it up is they add the addition of red guns So it is dudes that come in with like a red bat or like a red gun And it's part of their body, which means they can't be disarmed ever

Like if you throw like a bottle at them that usually the gun fly at you No, not gonna happen And the other thing is there are dudes that are armored and have a single body parts that can be killed So you have to shoot them in their right leg or their chest or their left accuracy accuracy tests And and uh kill you kill all of these things are are being mixed together and there's like a pool of levels And you're just playing just a shit ton of levels over and over and over and over. I may be a third Through the game and I played for four straight hours, which would have been enough time to beat the original game like three times in a row

It's great. It's fucking great. Is there um still do you still have a bunch of challenge rooms as well for after? Currently, I don't know the menu is When you load the game up the main menu is the word more and at the bottom is the the text hit f1 for options I see, okay It's not that it's it's yeah, it's it's minimal Yeah, all right, all right games great and uh, I uh, I appreciate the you know the code or whatever they sent me I'm also confused because their business model seems terrible. Wait, didn't the original game have a vr

executable on that main menu list I I believe it does, but I think that loads up super hot vr if you have both It doesn't load up super hot one in vr I yeah, because super hot one has a lot of movement So here here's the thing that I don't understand about super hot uh mind control uh delete Uh, and if you are listening to this podcast on July 14th or 15th This is of much more interest to you

because uh everyone who owns the first game gets super hot Mind control delete for stuff with that Including people who buy it today or tomorrow What's up with all the way up until the while why would you but I I they they have a big FAQ and one of the questions is why And they're and they're like we are really thankful To all of our fans who supported us over the years, but it's a really good game that deserves money Especially since the first game is 10 bucks and the second game is 20. I don't support this campaign

It makes I don't support this campaign. I do not I don't want super hot like two for free I want to pay for it. It's that good. I see in the chat I think I thought it was a free dlc for the original. Well, if you own the original it might as well be That's that's that's that's bullshit It's super tough guys. No, like I I I super duper love the game and need them to have some money. That's that's that's garbage. Fuck off I refuse I don't get it. I don't get it. Get out of here with this. It makes no sense. Fuckin hollow night shit, but hey

The game is super hot. It it retains being super hot You will you will probably enjoy it a lot. Well, oh my god, if you enjoyed the first one at all Uh That's I mean, it's also super simple. So I don't really have that all that much left to say Uh, I also played this was on a recommendation from a friend and I've been playing this a lot more than I thought I would be Late at night and waking poor page up because I've been yelling Have you ever even heard of the game project winter? No It came out may of last year

So it is it's been a bit it's been around And a friend of mine got it and it was like And I came into like the the ff 14 discord where all my raid buddies hang out and they're like you got to get in on this I'm like, okay. What is it? Well, did you watch john carpenter's the thing not yet? Unfortunately Really? Holy shit. I know. Okay. Do you like for plague sake? I'm I'm going to Did you do you remember playing deceit with the rooster two games? Yes It's that but really blown out into a big giant thing

So this was your description of the astronaut game last week Yeah, it is very similar to unfortunate spacemen. Right. Um, it is a five to eight person game Uh, you could play with less, but christ it's gonna the the numbers just don't make a lot of sense And it is uh, mostly survivors And it is it is a couple traders And it is a top down. It looks like diablo kind of thing Uh, a little survival game where you get 30 minutes to an hour for your group of survivors to repair a generator here And then cross the the map and find a helipad and repair that and there's all different objectives, right?

And you're doing stuff like chopping down trees to get, uh, you know the materials to make repair parts Meanwhile, there is uh, you know, you're random blizzard where you can't find your way and you're the view zooms in super deep On your character and then you're dying of of hunger and and warmth And while this is happening a couple people are traders and are Given radios to talk to each other privately in voice chat in their own personal voice chat between them And they're walking around secretly sabotaging shit icing people when they're alone

Um Stealing all the resources and then dumping them down a pit Uh poisoning people's food, etc Uh, and it's a fucking when did this come out? This came out may have last year Haven't heard of it at all Yeah me either And uh, yeah, so people are saying so like so like space station 13. Yes like a specific game mode of space station 13

Um It has proximity voice when you hit push to talk And so you end up in this these cool little situations where you hear somebody like screaming for help Over voice chat and you go, where are you and they go? I don't know nice And so you have to you have to use the proximity voice chat to kind of Figure out where the fuck they actually are. Okay fun. That's um Uh situations where I'm playing I'm playing with a A bunch of friends of mine that I've been playing with ff 14 for like four or five years

and one guy in particular a good friend of mine from Louisiana who Is I have played a lot of civilization games with this man And he constantly religion rushes like an asshole and then tells you that he's not and you're like bitch I can see your missionaries I can see them He's like, no this man is the worst collection of words right there in my life. All right He is he is the worst liar I've ever met in my life To the point where when he was a trader he he goes no guys. I'm not the trader and we iced him instantly

And sure enough and in the next guy He started pointing fingers at a guy who would later end up actually be the trader and we're like, oh You're doing that shit again and we iced him immediately and he was not the trader He was just unfortunate that we always think And there's a real like paranoid turn on your friend's element to it Um, it's great. It's great. It's just great Um, the matches are really long So what they've done for the people that are dead

Is that once you have died you gain global chat Like you can understand everybody you can hear everybody everywhere And you do have the ability as a ghost To like, oh, I'll feed these guys or I'll warm these guys up or all Uh Or all these guys are the traders and I'm a survivor I'll try and like sap their heat so that you have like some input to remain in the game I've seen I haven't played secret hitler

That is definitely describe it as as secret hitler in in so everything you're describing is yeah I'm thinking about I'm just thinking about secret hitler as you're talking about all this. Yeah Yeah, um, there are uh, there are situations where You know the map teleports everybody away, right? and Like out of the eight people only five come back total And you go, well, what happened to Justin? And then someone goes, oh, they attacked me

So I killed them, right, right, right, right. That's not yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right um There's a really specific way to play this game And it is with push to talk in the game. I was a voice literally I was just about to say you can't play this in discord people Play this in discord in open mic, and I think there was that sounds that sounds ridiculous That sounds stupid in open mic and

That is the ruinest way you could ever play this like the game is limited information And it's the same as when you play secret hitler And then you need to have a silence on the dead rule silence of the dead rule Right, the most interesting thing that ever happens Is when some people leave and other people don't come back and you go what happened and the answer is I don't know And You don't know if they don't know Yeah, that is always the most interesting thing. No, you need you need you need the absolute like, you know

Dead men tell no tales what like I had a game in which I horribly the same episode nine and was Was One of the most interesting games I played despite not getting to play at all or I spawned in as a trader And a friend of mine who's much more familiar with the game also spawned in as a trailer trader and we decided to go Um what his he calls it? You can play two sheep two wolves or one sheep one wolf, right, which is One person fucks off and just grabs a bunch of resources to mine everything And one person stays behind and pretends to be helpful, but is actually sabotaging the whole time

And the instant I walked out of line of sight. I got killed by a bear Um And I got killed by a bear at some ass end of the map that no one would ever find And so I'm dead and I can't affect almost anything and I Can only just watch for the remainder of the 40 minutes That these guys are so there are threats besides the traders Oh, yeah, no cold food animals

Yeah, okay, so that makes it complicated then. Yeah, okay fair, right It's very easy to actually just lose your way and to die And then people assume you got killed and nothing happened. You just fucked up and then you can't tell anybody anything. That sounds good So my friend goes for a play and at the 35 minute mark gets killed And now both traders are dead and the and the survivors have the full squad of five And have 35 minutes to complete an objective, which is With this situation kind of easy, right? And I get to sit in voice chat

listening to all of them talk For almost like, you know, half hour hearing them worry about where I am And whether or not I have damaged things that they've already repaired and whether or not I'm sneaking in to steal things from them and I'm like, I'm a I'm a corpse at the ass end of the map And they're all freaking out As to whether or not I'm behind them with a gun I and then they and then they fucking

Uh, finally win and I go, oh my god, Pat. What were you doing? And I go nothing. I was dead the whole And it was still an enjoyable experience for everybody the art style of this game I don't we need a word for this like rhyme Devolver gamey style I I tend to call it like almost untextured. There's there's a a couple of these now. Yeah It's like it looks super. It's definitely flat. It's it's it is it is uh Somewhat it is like flat shaded

you know, um low poly but Like high but still crisp higher, you know high res low poly like Yeah, it there needs to be an exact term for this that I don't know what to call it. Um There's uh, it's also like, you know, it's one of those games that it's it's it's secretly been out for a while So it has like it's it's polished It has a dlc out that it's that's basically a zombie mode where there's one trader and you're slowly turning other people into traders

Stuff like that And on top of all that shit There's a roll system. So there's trader and you have survivor, right? But you also have oh, this guy's a medic or this guy's a scientist and shit like that but there's a Hidden roll which is identity thief Which is steal the roll of a dead person Which creates a weird situation where so you have eight people

And three traders and five survivors, but one's a defector, right? Say they figure out. Oh man, jimmy was the one of the traders. We killed them Well, when people aren't looking you steal jimmy's trader roll off his corpse And now you're back up to three traders But you were not a trader You were not a trader if initially You you basically are supposed to weight out the game and then steal an identity off a corpse that you think Will be the one that wins, uh, okay

So yeah, so betray if you want to type of such so I had a situation where I thought we had it in the bag I thought like I was a defector and we were all like the survivors were crushing it I'm like I got this so when me and my pal Justin were alone I tried to kill him to take the survivor roll and then I was going to blame it on a bear And sure enough I picked the wrong time and my other two friends came around a corner and went pat. What the fuck are you doing? And I got killed but I'm not very good at it but

It's a blast sounds it's great I mean it sounds like one of those games where like The more you know the people you're playing with the more you can just crush it So they do one thing in the game that is specifically to combat that and it is Something that unfortunate spaceman also does If you're playing with people that you know No amount of obfuscation is going to hide my voice or your voice, right? We're going to know But if you're playing with randoms

You don't Just have the ability to kill people you have the ability to take their steam name and their character's appearance Okay, and if it's people that you don't know Yeah, you can totally pass it off like no, I was voice wise though. Yeah. Yeah But I mean if you hear someone talk and then clearly someone else comes in and then it's not them Like I you know, I'm playing with a little friend of mine named stride And it's like I would like the idea that I would not know who that guy is Yeah, like if striden walks in with justin's body on i'm like dude

Yeah, yeah, right there's no The other thing if anybody does pick this game up and play it There is the option for proximity voice. Sorry for voice activation like discord, you know Instead of push to talk Don't use it. Oh my god. Don't use it Because what happens is if an ambient noise like, you know, your cat or you know fan Trips your your microphone When you see somebody talking like when you hear somebody talking it shows x is talking in the bottom left

And if you have a fan on you can find out. Oh dude, that dude's around He's like near me I mean they can see on their screen one sound is being output though, right so Yeah, you should you should be able to uh, no, you don't you don't see you don't see your sensitivity No, you don't see When it's open when you're oh god, okay Yeah, so yeah turn on push to talk That's a really fun game that requires people to follow these rules

It because it's spoiled everyone has to has to agree to not spoil the fun You need to have at least five four friends that are all going to take it seriously And again, yeah, the name of this game is go it almost like project winter is the game you're talking about. Yeah, it's great It's immaculate. It runs really well. It looks really good. There's a weirdly in-depth steam marketplace option to buy hats, of course there is Uh stuff like that Do you want to guess what game does not run immaculately? That's deadly premonition too So that came out

And so far I say I really like it What I'll also say is that I have never played a game in which I am expecting the game to crash more And it has not it has not crashed on me yet But the first time I got on my skateboard I thought the game crashed because it stuttered for like four seconds. I've seen people celebrating the the frame rate drops I have fought uh, I have fought

Alligators with my rubber pistol At what must be 10 frames a second Now the original game Did the didn't drop that bad did it? This is where it gets really confusing So the original game on 360 actually ran Okay, it ran between

25 and uh, so he's so he's he's winking at you the entire time so bad but Normal for the time, right the 360 version, right? It did have like insanely long load times though Right, just crazy However, the game got like a a lot of people who played the game seem to have played it on the ps3 Where the game runs like complete garbage. Hmm

Like the game is falling apart At all times and then um The pc port that came out Was a one of the train wrecks that doronte took a hand like took a hand too, right? Um So there's a lot of weird confusion where I played the 360 version and i'm like Yeah, that game never ran like this

And then i'm running into people who played the ps3 or the pc version going no no The fact that it runs terrible is part of the people who came to the ports are all about like remembering that Okay, gotcha. Um, I will say That your particular tolerance To bad performance as a meme Will dramatically affect how much you enjoy the game Because the game is like Like the game is

Thominating after a marathon In turn like that's how I would describe our their pc settings What pc it's a switch game oh, it's oh, oh, oh, okay, okay All right, yeah Like out of the loop. All right Because I was good I was gonna say like if you could go into those settings and like if it actually lets you play with options Then they're kind of like no, you know showing the hand. There's not even a subtitle. Gotcha. Wow. Wow

Okay The the sound effects are about 300 percent louder than everything else So for my first stream if I was on the skateboard Not only was everything else in the game in audible, but so was I Um, so turn down sound effects to like 50 percent or lower for sure um I ran the last time I streamed it. I ran into I played bowling which was mandatory and then I uh walked over and then it started to load a cutscene and

It just faded to a complete black screen And it was stuck on that black screen for over three minutes And I was sure the game crashed And I'm arguing with chat where people are going. Oh, it totally crashed and other people going no This is normal That would literally that would literally fail lot check Oh, yeah, there's nothing on the screen by the way. There's no I know animation whatsoever That would 100 fail lot check back nothing black just total black screen and then it loaded in

A shitty cutscene in the same environment that I was already in so I don't know what the fuck it was loading and And then I was told that there was a there is a cutscene later that will take Maybe six or seven minutes to load christ on a similar. Okay, so so the game is sweating so no, but like all of like now All of these performance fucking knowing Bullshit all those bullshit aside There's still content happening here that fans of the game right and so this is this is where it gets really bizarre, right?

because How much you're able to enjoy that content and it's bizarre tone is obviously Based on whether or not you are actually getting physically ill from the frame rate right it is So deadly premonition one I would call the room of video games, right? It's it's like it was made very sincerely And it's terrible and it's amazing, right?

deadly premonition two is I've never played a game in which I can never hold hold on a moment. Hold on a moment. I'm sorry. Hold on a moment I gotta take a break. Oh, what's happening? Hey, sorry about that deliveries at the door. I think it's it I think it's absolutely incredible that when I'm in the middle of talking about load screens that go nowhere and take forever Before you can get to the cutscene We put the the goddamn podcast into a load screen. That's correct that Uh, what the hell was I talking about? Oh, right?

I I am never able to tell something about deadly premonition two and that is is this broken Fucked up because it was designed wrong or on purpose It is impossible. I can't tell the fact that um The fact that the the fucking um killer bees side quest that you have to punch 30 bees for 20 minutes To get like 10 dollars is terrible

I assume that's intentional the fact that When you have done all three of those quests And they give you a quest that's kill 30 bees gators and dogs But when you kill any of them the number updates for all of them and then You can't tell how many you've killed so you have to count them manually. I think that might be a bug Um I I'm not sure Does it have any of the problem that like

Self-awareness kind of ruins things No the plot is Flip-flopping between incredibly interesting and genuinely fascinating and complete train wreck But it's managing to stay consistent. So do you remember uh, uh me and matt making jokes about how sweary never watched twin peaks And how ridiculous that is

Well sweary never watched true detective season one. Oh my god That's oh wow That's where we're going now place in a it's a two It's a two timeline story in which you're talking to Uh, uh york who now is uh losing his hair and has gray hair and is smoking And has a handlebar mustache in an interview. Oh my god And it's flashing back to the deep south when these weird murders around an altar happened

In the bayou, right? Um and Jesus It's it's the same. It's the same plot. So the slight but he just turned he turned the world into true detective now right and um, you have this like super fascinating back and forth between uh, uh, york and and you know the new fbi agent that suspicious of him and all that shit just like true detective

and then you'll cut to York screaming about a triangle That someone shouldn't have touched and the voice acting is like his line reads are wrong And like he's supposed to be screaming incoherently, but he's just going Don't touch Yelling and it's like what the fuck it's like it's it's a madhouse and You'll be you'll you'll you'll have a fucking sequence where

Uh, york is talking to a painting that he thinks is a voodoo ghost And then he starts like imitating him and doing like a southern black accent and you're like, uh Oh, okay Then you'll go to the diner and this nice to completely normal lady will explain to you at like for 10 minutes The difference between uh cajun and creole food Okay, it's super in depth and legitimate And what like it's it's a fucking trip Does it have a mouth?

A gape the whole time staring at the screen. Does it have a banger opening theme like true detective did in homage? It does you can you can watch it. It is a ripoff of the true detective. Oh, yeah Uh When the last light warms the rocks and the rattlesnakes on fold Like woolly. Fuck. Yeah, I have to fucking listen to it But i'm gonna send you the link in in discord. That's great and like skim like just look at the goddamn thumbnail That's that's that's important too And like there's even a shot at like 45 seconds of like I think it's the same oil refinery in Louisiana

That is in the true detective opening. Okay The deep south Yeah, like it is Obvious nice nice nice. Okay. Um, that was a good that was a good season So, uh, the game is Like if you if you were the kind of person who liked deadly premonition Won for the feeling of what the fuck why? What like that permeated the whole game

In addition to a actually really great story underneath it This is totally doing that but it is just More busted and more weird and like Well, I'm sure you've seen like a single screenshot of of york riding a skateboard He rides a skateboard. Okay, right and you do tricks The reason he rides a skateboard

Is because that's the only way to move around in the game at all. You don't have a car anymore At all and Okay Uh, the reason is because when york was at a restaurant someone stole his car Okay, and left a skateboard. So he's gonna use a skateboard And you're playing the game and are you like Do you use a skateboard because if you had a car the game would crash?

Because the draw distance would fucking kill everything because you're when you hit top speed at the on the skateboard the game runs at Like eight frames a second Yep But then there's like a really in-depth skateboard maintenance and customization right mini game Oh, yeah, and if you're playing the game with joycons the skateboard will mimic the color of your joycons Yeah, you've got you got to lean in work in it. You have to lean into your limitations and spend your time dressing up The the patch on your crotch instead of actually making the the material reinforced

So hell, yeah It is the weirdest Weirdest thing it is much weirder than the first game. Okay Um, so if you're into that cool um The most interesting thing about it aside from all of that shit Is that I don't know if you put it in the news, but swerry went on

Twitter yesterday or like late last night. Mm-hmm. And basically there's a trans character in the game Who is apparently like treated like fucking garbage. I saw a way that There's a translation thing going on here Okay, and swerry went on twitter is like, yeah, I talked to some people and I was not aware that this shit was so fucked We are rewriting it right now Okay, and we are gonna patch like an updated story Because um, uh jim sterling talked about it and it's really bizarre

Because york himself personally Is extremely pro gay pro trans pro everything And in fact gives like this very big impassioned speech About like how it doesn't matter how you are who you love and all that, you know the the the the kind of um Like uh, what are you virtuous speech kind of thing? Mm-hmm But then the game and the world Are like are not that are not that yeah, yeah This is what I

Mean when I guess I like there's times when I get shit for talking about quote-unquote the camera Um in the sense that what I really just mean is like there's a character and then there's the world around that character and then there's like the um The the goofy trombone that will play As a sound effect in the air that is not coming from anybody. It's just You know in the air it's the tone. So yeah, these are separate things entirely and they're separate concepts That can behave differently

There's I personally haven't experienced that part of the story yet So I can't talk about it, but I have experienced the part where you the the the voodoo man called hungan Is papachango like he's just straight up papachango and he talks to you through pictures. Okay, and um york loves him And then I'm like is that Like weird it racy race it Until york starts going on for almost 10 minutes on a skateboard about the magical minority trope

And you're like, oh cool. They're in they're in on it Except he's not Because he's talking about how hungan reminds him Of a specific actor That showed up in like a dozen movies So he and I'm like are they in on it? Or swery accidentally Like I legitimately can't tell it's fucking fascinating. He accidentally the magical negro

Well, no because he's literally like oh, who's that actor who usually plays like a wise magical black man in these movies And you're like ha ha he's doing the trope and then he refers to the actual actor scat man Mm-hmm, and then you're like wait is the whole character and the bit based off the actor Does he say the word magical? Yes, okay well And like I'm I'm constantly going like And then he then he starts talking like, you know, who was you know, who might be better than scat man force winnaker

when's he gonna win his oscar and You said you haven't you haven't so you haven't but you haven't gotten far enough in the game to see Uh, what's not any of the trans stuff. No, okay Um, but at the same time you have the character talking about how everyone calls Our swerts and nigger movies are an old s movies and they he starts talking about how amazing the sixth day and the island were And like it's so Sincere that I can't tell

What's the okay, you know when kajima talks to you? In a game And it's literally like kajima might as well be puppeting the the character and flapping their mouth. Yeah heart man emails Okay, this is constant in in dp2, but I can't tell if it's a gag I can't tell if it's a bit When when york is going on about how incredible the sixth day was And a character goes yeah, but they made the clones too fast and he's like no that'll be how it is in the future You just don't know what you're talking about. I'm like is this

Swery being legit Is this swery being legit, but acknowledging he sounds silly or is this him taking the piss entirely? I have no way to tell it's impossible Well like the phrase michael bay is a true auteur. I think is in the game You should win an oscar every year and there will be a genre of movies called the island movies And i'm like is that a joke I don't know I legitimately don't know it sounds like his response was pretty quick

Which makes me think that there's a chance like You might the game might get patched before you even get there It might be uh, they've also There's also a weird thing where I'm not super sure how good swery's english is Because he kept retweeting articles that say the the game is unplayable because of the frame rate And then a few days later he was like yeah, we might be working on a patch for the frame rate So it's possible. He was just retweeting any article that had the words deadly premonition in it

Mm-hmm So even the the director of the game as a human I don't know if it's a bit Like Yeah, the experience of playing deadly premonition two is every 15 seconds you go is this a bit You you just succinctly described my feeling for the entire franchise Like Um, and if the answer

To you and then here's we're gonna get philosophical is If the answer to you is I don't care if it's a bit or not. I'm more interested in asking the question Then this is the game for you But if you actually want to know whether or not it's a bit. Oh man, you're gonna have a horrible time It's like a fucking Andy Kauffman skit turned into a video game Director of last blade two Yeah, isn't that crazy wild isn't that So and and it gets even weirder when you see the launch trailer for the game

the launch trailer for the game when everyone's making fun of the frame rate is Swery sitting in a bowling alley polishing a bowling ball obsessively next to a stuffed monkey for like four minutes Getting up and throwing a hard gutter ball and then walking away and then the name of the game comes up Is there a lot of whistling Yes, all right There's even there's even a jake that I feel is a trick

He didn't he didn't direct last blade. He wrote it. He was a scenario writer. Okay. I think I think part of the game's jank is a straight-up trick In the first game york would talk for minutes about movies and dumb shit. You didn't care about And he does that too here when he's skateboarding But I kept having this problem where he would talk about uh scat man And I would like enter a building and the conversation wouldn't completely finish And then I would go back outside and he would start talking about it again And I was like, oh my god. Do I really have to let these conversations completely finish?

Before they stop better than I've heard this shit about scat man and the sixth day Over and over and over and over for hours. Let's see that that are you are you miss them entirely? And it moves on right so right so what I did is I When he talked about the sixth day and when he talked about scat man and when you talk There's a clip of me on stream Just like try not to fall asleep as he's talking about the scat man crothers scat man, bro I forget his name scat man brothers ironically Uh for for like six minutes and then he finishes it and he's done

And I start skateboarding away and he starts again because no it doesn't matter how many times you've heard it They will repeat. They're only like 10 per chapter They change per chapter. He will be talking about it the whole game There is no escape from this from this discussion And I'm like I literally sat there and listened to it multiple times to remove this dialogue and now I'm I did that for nothing So it's just and like that that has to be on purpose that absolutely has to be on purpose Does it add the new one or does it replace?

The the the current one apparently I saw a clip of of of somebody playing I was looking how to do a quest where he had he was talking about something different So I only imagine that when you progress certain ones get added and certain ones get removed But it's um It's just fucking crazy the only thing I will say that I am a hundred percent sure is a bit and is A fantastic addition to the game is there is a child character that hangs out with you for the whole game uh patty is uh like a 10 11 year old girl who is smart and uh like like kind of a kind of a shit kid

and she functions As the character that I didn't know this game needed, but it does and it is York is talking to a painting that no one can see About how he has to knock over 10 pins at the bowling alley in order to solve the case And patty looks at him and goes what the fuck is wrong with you? What are you talking about? Why and he goes oh you stupid kid You just don't know how the fbi works And she goes I don't think no

That so she's shut up. She's the straight man to his weirdness. She is the straight man And she is dead on and she is smarter than york But york exists in a universe in which random chance just dictates fbi investigations So he ends up always being right and it's infuriating Like uh you go to a voodoo store That's a staffed by an albino guy doing a fake southern accent And he he's like you need to buy this gator doll And she goes why why are we why are we here? Why do you need to buy this gator doll? It's junk. He's ripping you off

And and york goes no it's so important. Don't you see it's destiny and she's like that's stupid. You're stupid Because it is And then you drive across town. Sorry you Skateboard across town to leave the tiny gator doll in front of the bowling obsessed old lady's house So that she's too scared to leave the house So that you can go to the bowling alley knock down 10 pins for a strike And then she'll show up late and see your strike and tell you a piece of detail about the investigation Which is that the murder victim was a drug addict to the secret super red seed drug that is in the south

And he looks at patty and goes see see i told you that gator was important And she just like is Like it's great It's great Feels like putting a normal i was gonna say it feels like a yeah the receptacle for everyone's Normal thoughts being existing in the world is probably a good idea for a world like this And it gets to have a money, you know like oh silly patty nobody calls him schwarzenegger everybody says arnold s I don't know what kind of dumb ass

non film Film student you are not film lover that you would call him anything but arnold s It's a whole genre called arnold s movies patty you stupid child and she's like i've never heard anyone call Those movies on arnold s movie in my life. What are you talking about? Mmm, and then york just wanders away Oh, oh, it's the best shittiest game i've ever played Like i feel i feel gaslit by the game It's great it's terrible

Oh my god I feel like nintendo gave him a pass because of the reputation of the first game Because it is flying apart at all times The the compliance thing you mentioned isn't even like the the tip of the iceberg Uh Yeah, i that's deadly premonition is just forever a question mark man i i you know It's just it's it's an it's an It's a permanent question mark and i get i get the feeling that even hitting the credits on that

It just changes the color of the question mark Sure, i i guess I don't know Because it it doesn't it doesn't sound like definitive answers of any kind whatsoever will ever be a part of the discussion Well, no because because you don't really want them. Yeah, I guess I guess because if if the answer came back No, the team is just incompetent. That's not fun What's fun is Who would do this on purpose?

Followed by the question of would anyone do this on purpose? Followed by the question of this must obviously be broken followed by no weight. It's totally on purpose. I think Uh, do you know anything like so apparently, uh The swerves had trans characters in all of his games I don't know about that, but I know I did not play the missing Okay, uh, all I know is that everyone Talks about how amazing the missing is Well, I played played. I played played played the first half an hour or so of it. Yeah, I played it

I didn't like the gameplay, but uh everyone talks about how incredible the missing is and To the point where apparently the missing is like so positive That whereas you might have thought ill of swery on the deadly premonition to stuff Everyone who played the missing is giving him a free pass and going no, we know you're cool, man Because it's like it's I've never seen ever It's although it's a weird thing if it's a weird thing for that to happen After the fact then if if things were done, okay in the missing you know, yeah, well the the the the state of

Japanese trans discussion is probably really fucking weird and not great Because japan is like super not on board with a lot of stuff like I don't know Tom pornography is really bad guys You know, I was like, oh, we just don't talk about it. Just don't talk about it, you know Boxes and boxes and boxes We're pulled from the Kenshin creator's house, um a cool. Okay, so, uh, let's Unless you had Another no, that's it for me if you want to see more deadly premonition and uh

What else am I doing this week? I'm gonna play katana zero on stream this week No reason just I'm like I never streamed it. So that game deserves it because it's great Yeah, you should that game is incredible And then on friday, I'm gonna play a ghost of sushima sushima Which I asked a sony for a code. I asked the same person that sent me the last of us code Like hey, you guys got ghost of sushima codes and they replied very fast being like the codes are very limited We are very sorry and I'm like, mm-hmm Mm-hmm

I bet uh, but I'll play ghost of sushima on uh friday And I'm planning on doing a thing where I play deadly premonition one day and then ghost of sushima the next day To really just get the maximum disparity Um between open world genres I will be playing uh ghost of sushima on friday and I would like to uh

Thank playstation for providing a code And uh, we'll take a look at the game And we'll see how it goes Oh my god, that's so good. Oh, that's really funny That's really funny. Oh man Oh, all right. So I'll be at twitch.tv slash pat stairs that this usually starts at 4 p.m I'll be over it woolly versus On twitch, um, probably at 1 p.m

That's okay. Perfect. And um, let me ask you when do you when do you uh ask the guy for the code? I didn't I was approached. Oh, they just sent it to you. Uh In fact, uh, one of the one of the packages is something to do with that. So There's some some stuff to take a look at. Yeah One of the packages, uh, thank you physical. Yeah, there's some exactly Um, okay, that's what happened to me with last of us. They just came out of nowhere and said, hey, do you want this? I'm like, I'll take it. I'll fucking take this Excuse me. Um, yeah, so

It was literally just out of nowhere out of the blue, you know cold cold Cold approach. So that's hilarious. Oh christ. I I forgot. I also play two other games, but I'll do it in two seconds I played ori in the blind forest the first one Um, beautiful game. Uh, I think I hate it. I think I hate it. It it was so miserable and frustrating to me to play Um, why? Um, I was just constantly I kept running up situations where they wanted me to do something and I Misunderstood what it was and hated it Like I got like every of the every single one of the dungeons drove me crazy

Because I kept going like it should work like this. The game is wrong. I hate this fucking gravity puzzle I fucking hate that games combat That games combat is terrible um Uh wow Okay, and I got about I got more than halfway through it before I just I I was like fucking I'm not playing this anymore. I don't care um

I also played a mid evil Which is uh from new blood It's the heretic to dusk's quake Mid evil it's not sorry. Ah mid evil. Okay, not not inside evil a mid. Okay. Okay, not sure dan Um, and it's uh very heretic and it's incredible it's uh It's very different from dusk whereas Dusk had better level design. This game has much better and weirder weapons

Uh, and I only have one complaint at it about it at all, which is that it is really hard to get outside of water In that game, you know, I have some shooters or first person games. It's actually weirdly difficult to get out of water Uh, yeah, I had that recently with uh had that in dube eternal. I had that in um half life Yes Water kind of sucks playing a level in a medieval in which uh, there were a lot of sections with water and I kept Like struggling to exit it and then near the end of my stream I I could not exit it at all and got shot to death by enemies because I could not get out of a little pool

Uh, that is my only complaint about that game aside from that water sucks It is a first person shooter where your default weapon is a big battle axe And it is the best default melee weapon I can think of in a first person shooter Because it does tons of damage and when you swing it at an enemy it will suck them in to get hit by it That's pretty cool So it solves all the problems associated with like, you know depth and you know melee weapons in first person I am awesome. I am a fan though of the

Uh, you described it in super hot just now. I've described it in um Bio shock 2 and now the arbiter is blade lock on and fly in that direction. Yeah, that's for for better and for worse yeah Where you end up that energy plane It's a dad where you end up. Nobody knows but you're going in that direction um Also, you know, it's rad, uh better than water under under first person shooters underwater is first person shooters in low gravity You jump outside the ship for a moment in in the first mission in halo 2 and you're in your space jumping

Yeah It's good shit If you want to if you want to do stuff like that just like don't don't make it underwater Make make a space jump make it in space. Yeah, space is fun All right, that's it for me. That's a lot this week. Okay um So yeah Before we go to the next sequence, uh, can we uh take a break? I gotta get some uh packages that are sitting outside right now

Myself actually. All right, go do it Be our bait. All right, so I'll see y'all in uh a minute or two. All right All right, we're back. I got cat hair on me Deliveries are done Excellent This week We'll take a word from our sponsors real quick this week. Yeah, let's do it the podcast Is sponsored. Oh by

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To which is to uh, just check out the list of announcements after things are done um, and I saw Uh, some interesting stuff number one and something I've been excited about for a long time Is carrion Finally has a date which is awesome Um Carrion is that it's soon carrion is is is on the 23rd of june july rather

Uh, so yeah, that's right around the corner And is actually uh carrion you might recognize as the game that was Just shown as random tweets because I remember but I don't think there was a name for it yet I don't think the monster was fully finally designed, but there was just visuals of a like world a flesh beast a flesh beast consuming a bunch of Things on a on a metroidvania map, you know, and uh Nowadays it looks like it's fully it's fully uh become

uh It's fully gotten to where where it's gonna launch with this this this flesh beast that you just Reach your tentacles out and grab things in and absorb them and Um, shit's rad. You are a horrible. You're a creature that just fucking Crows and comes flesh. Mm-hmm That's nothing but tentacles mouths and eyes So yeah carrion dropping on uh Not playstation

Yeah, everything but right yeah expo and pc and switch on july 23rd So someone uh someone got a little deal hook up there So when I was watching this trailer and like carrion was doing all its carrion like things All I could think of is uh, katamari And like I hope There is a level near the end of the game Where you become the big carrion inside?

Yeah, just the the really big carrion Uh, there was a Trailer for shadow warrior 3 Which looks like doom eternal shocker way more colorful Yeah What is like there's the the the the fucking boss that's sorry the enemy that's like a accordion with a like a fake face Yeah, there's like that series is weird

Yeah, it looks like you're fighting in the middle of a festival. Um So that is dropping Uh, there was fall guys ultimate knockout Fall did you ever watch mxc most extreme elimination challenge? Yep. Yep. Fall guys seems like that that basically right cultured and shit sasuke challenge. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah all that Um, but this is 60 players in an mmo context So that's pretty cool Knock those bitches off the platform Uh

oligah Which is uh that game's weird classic, uh 2d pixel And you are shipwrecked Yeah, not not sure what magic harpoon Um Probably the weirdest thing about that is that when you play Uh when you play devolver land

you get to see a like Developer version of like oh, this is what olia is kind of thing and like they show off the game's world map Which I was like what? Like that seems like a a it's a small game But it seems like a bigger game than I thought it was because there's a world map that you you float around to these different islands And the islands are where the levels are Olia olia, okay Uh serious sam 4

Yeah never played serious sam Not surprising. Yeah, you're good, but That's a franchise that's better than how we've talked about all these shooter franchises That yeah, you're good on that one. You're good Okay The best thing about serious sam is the guys that have the bombs in their hands and yell and and they have no heads But when they run at you they scream

Yeah, okay well Yeah, and then there's the devolver land expo and uh, that's that's pretty much the list Which is cool Fucking carrion man, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm so excited for that. That's that's my big So what I'm excited for is the control scheme of this game I want to know what that's gonna be. Is it just the analog stick? Is there even anything to do? Is there even a button? You know, this is the question. Is it is it just it might just be a stick

Is it dual analog? Is it like this part controls the flesh beast and this part controls the tentacles? I mean eventually there probably is going to be like a like. Oh, no, they're trying to stop the flesh beast. How do we how do we Flesh meat in such a way that we stop that problem over there. Oh, there's demo So Yeah, I'd like to I'd like to find out Yeah, cool demo flesh beast right now. Fantastic. Good to know Uh, looks awesome. I'm I'm definitely most excited of that of the games that uh, we're we're shut off

Um So that is the the dd to the devolver direct 2020 and Uh, ubi soft had a had a week Ubi soft had a week You could say that. Yeah, so hey, they announced some stuff some of which included far cry 6 with Uh, I believe it's Juan Carlo Esposito And oh and uh That is that is

A very okay. Well, so I can tell you how carrion controls. Oh, how does it control? Uh, you're uh, you're the the the carrion beast is a living grappling hook. Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, you move by moving the mouse and clicking on walls and then the tentacles attached to the walls And then the the the the core moves to that spot. That is fantastic Good good Good good. Good. Probably the best news you could have possibly gotten for that That is in fact the best version of the news I could have gotten indeed indeed indeed. That's great. There you go

All done with that. So far cry cyst six. Yeah, so so far cry cyst hook baited. It's very gross. Yeah Um, so hey, he's a good actor. He's been pretty solid and everything. That's cool There's a cinematic trailer to introduce the villain as far cry does and they you know, they they do a Nice job setting up what this is going to be about you are in Uh, what appears to be a dictatorship of a small, uh, latin nation And I would call it not cuba. It is apparently not cuba and uh

Yeah, you got a You got a you're a kid and your dad's a fucking monster and uh, you got to do the thing That kid's probably voss from far cry three. Yeah Because he's got the little eye scar. Ah But uh, uh, yeah, and it shows that whole thing and it's like, okay, there that's the new far cry Cool. Yep. Cool. Um, grenade metaphors Sure I do

How do I put this While I both totally get it and it is very exciting to me. I am also very big sad about Dude, we got this fucking killer actor that you know from Breaking Bad that is playing the same character He was in Breaking Bad. Hey. Hey, he is also now from the Mandalorian You but you know what I mean Good old Gus Uh, yeah, that's that's remember what I said last week about like remember like you're the guy that directed this thing That's kind of like our franchise now do it again except do it with our franchise

And you're like, but I'm a the whole reason that thing was successful is because I'm like a guy who wants to do all different shit Do it again Now do it again Can I have a money you could have a money this time? All right Yeah, same same energy. Um And of course alongside, uh The various announcements. I think there was a watchdog in there somewhere or some something like that

There was a an m m not an mmo. There was um, what should we call it? Uh, one of them one of them there battle royales There was I didn't even catch that I literally didn't even there was a battle royale in there. Yeah What is it even it's it's like watch dogs for escape. What the fuck is that it's watch dogsie without being watch dogs I'm gonna look at it It's like a fucking overwatch br Yeah, our uh, yeah, they had that they had that um

And of course the biggest announcement, uh, ubisoft had was their uh massive massive list of sexual misconduct cases Which oh whoops led to three senior heads resigning And probably a lot more that they're not gonna spell out for us. Mm-hmm Um, so ubisoft's like hey new video games. Please let this uh distract you from the fact that we uh Just had to fire or fire in air quotes a bunch of sex perverts. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm I've uh, I've spoken to people who have relayed uh, some of the horror stories about basically the the

the practices that the toronto and munch y'all offices have had in some cases of like, uh just Ending nothing happened because it's almost like you're such a giant that like Like every single instance of anything going wrong needs to be just like smothered entirely and Like this is the corporate arm that comes in to just you know protect protect the company nothing happened here What's going on in here looks like nothing

You know looks like there's nothing going on in here the the the multimillion dollar hand wave is is is is a very uh Standard tactic. So yeah, uh, turns out a lot of employees got together and said hey, what what did you? And oh wait were you and over there you too? Uh, and then a gigantic list of people went. Yeah, fucked up shit went down um, so Looks like uh, and they they had to have a comment on this saying that the you know, we know what's going on and this uh this announcement happened Rather we pre-recorded

The ubisoft forward announcements While this investigation is going down. So we're not going to be talking about that stuff on it and it's like well. Yeah, no shit you know um but uh It is a fucking bad look for them And it sounds like a lot a lot of the people that uh were involved including these executives We're hyper aware of these things and we're just like yeah, no keep it going. Keep it going. You know, there's a there's a fun bit uh, I didn't watch the ubi thing, but apparently right before the um

The ubisoft thing on sunday. They had this like like uh announcement thing that's like This was recorded before Changes to that's what I just said. Yeah Yeah, it's like oh, how many of these people are sex perverts? Is it all of them? I mean it's is it is it you It's it means it's it's like

There's that but then there's the part where like because like it's a it's a company of fucking thousands upon thousands of employees spread across france Uh, uh, montreal, toronto every other office around and wherever in the states, you know um But it's one of those things we're like. Yeah, there's there's the initial thing we're like. Yeah, someone fucking acts like a piece of shit at some point and then there's the infrastructure that steps in to wall off

said turd and slide them around in and and protect them in a in a catholic church-esque way uh And it's like that thing was a well well organized machine That was ready to step in and very very quickly make sure all all problems were Isolated and and and smothered, you know

It's it's a lot more fun when you're playing this game and it's like ha ha it was a cake Instead of aha this person's uh a sex freak that abuses people It's not it's not a good one. I don't like this version Definitely not. Um, but again iterating that even worse when There is armor the person has now now has armor that you know, well, yeah So It's it's bad enough without the armor

Um I have a sneaking suspicion. We're gonna see a shit ton of studios Uh clean up in the near future And they're all gonna clean up right after a bunch of people come up and be like how come you guys aren't cleaning up You all knew about this for years Quite likely like, uh, it's it's it's the reverse of

What about ism Where what about ism is like well those guys are dirtbags. So it's not so bad that I'm a dirtbag It's these people are scum. So I'm just gonna start looking around under the assumption that 40 percent of you are also scum And you just didn't get caught yet Yeah, you know the thing about these uh, these nd8 secrets is that they're kind of like a grenade You gotta gotta keep your hand on them, you know what I just thought of You know how you know how when somebody ends up being like like a like a horrible sex abuser Like like it's it's quite common

to see Like them being like one of those people that's like fights so hard like publicly against the very behavior that they're engaging in What's the message you get every time you turn on an ubi soft game? That's the one isn't it? I don't I met this game was created this game was created by a A collection of people of diverse faiths cultural backgrounds and whatever else it was. Yeah, and morals Mm-hmm

Originally originally popping up with the context that hey, we made Assassin's Creed this takes place in um, the ancient in in the york, you know, uh, uh, Middle East and cradle of civil civilization cradle of civilization area and uh, Believe me, we're going into these cultures doing cultural research We didn't just pull it out of our ass was the con was the original context for that message And then it got carried over into everything else to just basically imply that like, yeah No, we're we're we're checking in and making sure the things are going to be okay with the content You know, but like that doesn't really

Speak about like the studio itself now. It speaks about the the content of the game. You know, mm-hmm It's still just really funny um This is made up by a diverse group of criminals and non criminals Yeah, there's always there's always something you can point to this is this is the equivalent of core values You know, there's always a little There's always there's always a version of core values you can there's always the like oh man. That's like Oh

Um So a couple other couple of the things were dropped. Uh, you already talked about super hot mcd Um way forward says more river city girls on the way I No details But shit's coming Yeah That game was good. I like that's a nice little just like oh, yeah. Hey, we know we like like people liked it

There's gonna be some stuff. What about a bakuman or I don't know what that game is called The bakugan without Yeah, that one Don't know that everyone was happy to see don't know um

If i'm not mistaken hold on a second. Let me let me do a quick little Is Yeah, these things these toys were sitting These toys were on shelves. I remember that logo. I remember that logo Right on. Yeah, that that's a proper get into this as your 12 years old franchise right there Um That's coming we got some more information about near a reincarnation Uh, not a ton, but uh, they showed off some more they showed off some character renders and they kind of explained

Uh, a little bit about who and what is up and there's also a date Uh for a uh closed beta test. So july 29th Uh to august 5th japan is going to get to actually test the game out Uh, you have to register now. I think only yeah, it's like 10 000 users are getting in and From the description You know mysterious girl wakes up on a cold stone floor

Uh Lots of towers around but we don't know anything about what's going on There little thing following her calls itself mama and she's the girl in white and There is a dark monster that is an armored Night-looking beast thing that lurks in the in the area and uh, that's about all we're getting for now Which you know, it's a fucking near game. So the less details you get the better

There's some screenshots that show off what looked to be like some of the um It looks almost like the story Uh, what should we call it the flashbacks like the weapon flashbacks in a way It almost looks like they're kind of giving you that sort of style of like a classic japanese Uh, uh, like you know sort of wood block style cut scenes. There's there's combat and I still don't know what this this game no idea no idea but

It clearly is going to matter in The the grand narrative in some way shape or form Unless it doesn't But the but the near timeline has a lot of space For random weird things like this big old empty blocks In fact, I would probably say it has the most space Of all fictional timelines what this one or two to play with actually take place at the beginning or the end

And create an even bigger block Like they put the bottom of the sandwich bread on the floor And then they took the top of the sandwich and they got in an elevator Man one of those party members looks a lot like a two Just hold that hold that sandwich at the top at the penthouse And then and then we can figure out what goes in here later Uh, yeah near reincarnation

No, and it's it's In is in brackets. So Start carrying start start assuming what you would based on that I don't I don't know. It could mean it could mean anything. You see a carnation is a flower and and I feel I feel like How do I put this Uh title

Goofens like that Have been ruined for me forever Ever since I saw People talking about that kingdom hearts game the the the rhythm game coming out Right that one with that one's gonna Which one was the rhythm game? I don't know. It's the new one the fucking sequel to kingdom hearts 3 is going to be like a mobile rhythm game sick And um the kingdom hearts fans were going over the logo

And just and people pointed out that did you know that if the k and the yeah h Or are touching that means that sore is in it, but if not, they're not or some shit I'm like, I'm gonna vomit everywhere. That's that's super different though because that's just like the graphic of the logo Whereas this is like the the text itself You know what I mean? I kind of yeah, I see it as different things where it's like This is is the way the word is written out or like strange capitalizations and things, you know that uh That a lot of japanese games like to do

Which is now leading to me looking at my steam library to see if I can see any other fucked up titles that have like Like Like a thing going on. We just gonna sleep on under night in berth exe latest clr, but but woolly What is what does it mean that the r in near automata is capitalized? It means reincarnation No, it means replicant Gestalt does it guess what about the what about gestalt? The r stands for gestalt. There it is. You figured it out Perfect. Yep

um Anyway, so This one is not We don't we I don't know what to make Of this because I don't really can't can't really tell what it is but there was a trailer Called mega man vr

targeted virtual world And it that sounds awful. I need to look at it But here's the thing the trailer is just a cg trailer of cute little mega man fighting a bunch of like robots And it looks cool, but I but it's just it's no there's no gameplay It's just a hint at a mega man vr thing that's coming and like The trailer looks great for just a cute 3d mega man blowing up robots Um, it it seems to be an arcade game

But It you know, it's like it's coming. It's an attraction coming to capcom plaza ik bukuro vrx virtual reality corner and it's like Like why Why this why this way? Why why like this not like this? I'm looking at this trailer and I'm not like it doesn't I don't I still don't know

How it'll be that's what I'm saying, but imagine it'll be first person mega buster shooting the things that are coming at you And then then there'll be a boss. Ah, we'll see Depends. I don't know. You know, I might not be like First like I fucking love the shit out of res dude. That's a great game. You can make You know, you can make a vr shoot shooty shoot be fun Yeah, but res is res res is res, but you don't know you don't know What I can say is I feel like this should be something that comes out that we can all buy and play instead of being

I want to be In uk bukuro man VR game where you play his role and you have to clean the house That's fine, too I want to play a mega man game that doesn't require me to be out in a public location using a device that other people will be using That's smart That is smart You Anyway, I don't want to touch the thing that if a human has touched it

Ever They're building a life-sized freedom Gundam in china and that's what we get because that's what we deserve They're Which Gundam Gundam freedom the one from seed they're building the Gundam seed They're building a giant Gundam seed in china And that's exactly what we all deserve. So there you go. Gundam even big in china have that It's being it's going to be made in shanghai They're going to unveil it next year

And fucking yeah And you see they're going to have some kind of fucking Hot spring in japan or they're going to die the Water red like third impact. What what is the? It's a in vangelion hot spring. Yeah, why not? Sure. I mean they already have I don't know That's supposed to be blood that seems awful. It is it does But they oh it's in hakone. Yeah, they hakone already had they already have the the wine glass Uh hot spring where it looks like you're all sitting in a giant like wine pool

So You know we've they've done goofy shit Well, I'm gonna send you a photo Why would you ever want to fucking relax in this thing? It is like a blood red rock room. That's all fake rocks with harsh red lighting It seems awful it actually looks identical to the thing you sent right above that which is the deadly premonition opening That's all red. It sure does actually. That's funny. Here's what I will say Hot springs and hakone are the best part of fucking japan to me

So like you can do whatever you want to that if it feels the same It's still gonna be god tier Do they sell tang They don't they don't but they sell other tang like drinks With a vending machine and pen pen is on that vending machine That's fucked everything about the way evan kelly and has been merchandised is so fucking dissonant. I can't handle it. Yeah Also because you can take private baths. They don't give a fuck if you have tattoos Oh, that's nice. So that's nice

Why would you have tattoos because they're awesome So, uh Yeah, yeah, that's about it. We'll just accept a life-sized freedom Gundam statue You'll accept it. We'll just we just have to take this. We just have to take it. All right. I hope it doesn't fall over That would be hilarious Like on the unveiling like pulling the curtain off causes it to fall over It'll it was literally never standing correctly once just

Built like one of those knockoff Gunplaf like things where like the joints are all shit on the giant one-to-one scale model It's like like the bendy bendy Gundams Oh Like the sticker on the decal is just Furlied up and like floating in the wind and just smack someone and knock them out because it's poorly stuck Hell, yeah

Absolutely, we need it to have all the telltale signs of the shit plastic cuts So you use like a you cut the plastic so shit that the sticky little Nubs are are still you can see them you can still see them on every single part the holes don't fit together That's what that's what this I I want it to be made out of gunpla grade plastic do it China Do it save money save fucking money And just make it one-to-one

Shit to your knockoff bendy gunpla Oh, no, no, you know it would be better if they advertise it as one-to-one But like they they screw up the funding so they're like, uh crap and then they yank it off and it's like four feet tall They they pull back the big one-to-one curtain And it's like up like the size of a person and the camera has to like pan down and zoom in One of the bottom of one of the feet has the plastic nub line on it So it can't it can't stand flush It's constantly teetering because the plastic is sticking out and protruding from the bottom of the foot

It is to like stand there and and like prop it up with like just push on it hell. Yeah Absolutely the stupid mold lines This is what we deserve take that shit do it china absolutely do it Man like That's the kind of sobering thing that hits you and you just go. Oh, thank fucking god We got unicorn and then and then a walking rx 78 You know thank god Uh, let's take some letters

Hey, if you want to send in a letter you can send it into castle super beast mail at gmail.com That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com Letter number one Hey castle super beast coming in from demo In your opinion, what is a movie tv or video game series where the backstory gets worse the more you research it Now there's Hey, no, there is a couple of there's like the the there's some that come to mind in particular

I can say that in like In my estimation, I started diving down that blaze blue hole and it kind of Got really nutty in a confusing way but It's the exact same shit going down with guilty gear Where the more you go into guilty gear lore The more things are just like there's some real confusing nonsense in there Why don't you tell the school about the backyard you're gonna do a presentation on the backyard? I am

Um, all right, and there's also some really cool shit in there too, but it's a mixed bag You're getting all of it at the same time. You're getting the worst and you're getting the best as you expand and dig um Yeah, yeah I am gonna say Well, I see people saying and it's very funny to say harry potter because that's that's been funnier and funnier every day um

I'm tempted to say dark souls actually okay, because For dark souls one it didn't apply But for dark souls two onwards It was like the farther and farther you got in The more you got the feeling that it wasn't some big Complete history that was written and had pieces taken out So much as a bunch of random bullshit with big holes in it to make it look deep

I'm the I'm under the impression that it is incomprehensible at first because you've just given nothing And then you go through the item descriptions and the inferences and then you get a nice satisfying chunk of depth from that And then you go further than that and then you try to make it all make sense together And then then you start to struggle it was absolutely perfect for one game And then dark souls two shows up and it's just got a million holes That seem to be have made just so you wonder and then dark souls three comes in and Somehow doesn't provide

The answers it provides one answer that you didn't want and then you get a bunch of extra details and you're like Why are there like why are we getting answers? But there's still holes either don't give us any answers or and where like it is I I I can I can see that because I I'm seeing this as like the individual mysteries of each game have Answers that you can you can infer Um you can drag out a little, you know and like a smarter people that have access to you know, like

Published materials and things like that can put together a narrative and go This is what's happening in this world But like yeah the moment you have to like stick these Legos together in the in the across the entire franchise It gets a lot harder. Yeah, so it's like each individual game works fine on its own But then when you look at that, there's all three of them. They don't the answers that they don't mesh well I can see that I can see that which is why like bloodborne Doesn't have that problem And its own type of story is fine because it's a lot of it's supposed to be unknowable

But it makes me think like well if they made bloodborne too and they just told you what the deal with the old ones is Would that like Would that be shit? Probably I But then what if ah, you know what? I'm yeah, I do. I do I mean I think everybody like the fact that so many that so many like Have to pretty much precursor like no just don't think about triangliac though

and Like where is it? Well that but it's like but you realize that by putting that rule down that already kind of is inferring the issue a little bit Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean Bloodborne might be it's not like it's It's not like a situation where they have like just ignore dmc too Yeah, because there's a bunch of stuff from two in three. Also. There's some cool stuff in two Yeah, there is um

Bloodborne two might serve the same Purpose and cause the same issue You know, it's possible that if bloodborne two were to Expand further expand upon the the area or location and and themes that we saw um in a way that is like Let me rephrase that I think a bloodborne two might benefit from creating some distance between itself and What it's set up in a way while still keeping what's core and awesome about bloodborne

and I think of uh, I think that's all that's another world that can Kind of collapse beneath the mystery if you're trying to lego these pieces together at the end of the day yeah Like I guess the way I would explain it is that when you had like 20 pieces out of say a hundred of a of a picture like a you know Puzzle picture you could like oh, well, maybe that's like a big dog or you know, whatever But with dark souls two and three you end up in a situation in which you have like 80 pictures out of the hundred

But none of them fit right So the the image is just kind of a mess And the and at any time you ask a question you just tap the time is convoluted sign Yeah, it's very convoluted Uh, yeah, good question. Thank you This cat is pissed off. I don't get this problem All right, dear angriest versus and woolly stares at I was playing gta online recently

And one of the podium cars available to win in the games casino was a scam a scramjet Missile shooting rocket boosting leaping roadster. Basically the mock five After winning it I felt as though I had no desire to play and grind out money because it had been gifted a high tier I had been gifted a high tier reward for free and well, what was I going to spend the money on? This made me lose interest in gta on for the time being Have you ever quit games because of an end game reward being given to you sooner than you wanted regards from buick 100 percent

There are so Dead by daylight is a really good example of this not for me personally But they used to have it at some point Where it was pretty easy to unlock all the perks for everybody Right, like you wouldn't have to play all that long and you would have unlocked every perk for every character and whatever, right? and the data that came back to Um What do you uh to the devs is that there is a significant amount of people that the instant they unlock that shit

They just fucking never play that game again Which is funny because what would ostensibly be the goal to start playing the game technically right of like Now I have everything unlocked. I can play every version the way that I want right Good I can do it right um warframe has that problem too where um When I I did my warframe stream and somebody gifted me a titania And that's a really hard frame to get Uh, but then I went on and like if they'd gifted me in noros instead I would have leveled up in oros and been like cool. I'm done

Because it's the best frame ever What what frame am I going to go work for that's not in oros? I'm reminded of it's soon as gdc talk where He explained that you know in most games you hit peak power Halfway through the game and then the back half you just stay where you are and nothing else changes You get to enjoy that peak power you get to basically you get to enjoy that peak power But but like nothing stimulates you anymore because you hit peak halfway through and you

You know you just kind of like the the hype factor gets kind of cut off at a point It's it's why there's a lot of games Like one of the things that we like about vanquish and there are other games to do this is you heat You hit peak power in that game with 10 minutes to go. Yeah, um and That's what he designs dmc 5 after as well

Uh, which is why you know That is to say like as earlier we were talking about a similar issue with super hot Right, but super hot does again provide at least i found that like they do provide the the post game content and challenges for you to kind of go in and use all your abilities on and stuff but um Oh man. Yeah dmc 5 you get peak power at the That's the point. Yeah, once you beat in the game. Yeah, that's that's like like literally he is the the the gdc

Talk is like yeah, this is our dmc 5 power ramp and it's the the the top of the triangle is the fucking credits You know it's after the credits When you go into the options and find out there's moves you didn't know that came along with your power out so Uh, yes, that was a great moment in that game. Wasn't it? It was really good I have moves. I don't even know I just got Also your hands have to learn how to do something entirely like yeah Because i'm like oh the way i've been playing is not going to work with these buttons find a new way to use your hands Nero requires it. I ended up putting them in such a way that I would just plank every input

Yeah, that's correct because And lastly we'll take one coming in uh here from mega fang says dear john super beast I recently bought and i'm currently going through black mesa. I've recently gotten to zen Shortly after arriving on the beautiful alien world. I eventually entered one of the science teams labs or the h e v suit encounter uh was kind of like Excuse me a new type zombie wearing one of the suit one of the suits

With the familiar voice glitch repeating and the messages Uh repeating the messages of the wearers imminent demise Despite being armed to the teeth at that point these enemies stuck to me for being effectively creepy as an encounter because Uh, I was hearing the h e v suit voice that I'd grown familiar with hearing it throughout the entire game Uh, if you have one, what's your favorite detail like that sound visual or mechanic that gets turned against you later on in the game after familiarity The absolute best one that I can ever think of is the uh, I think it's like the eighth or ninth level in dead space two Uh, where dead space one takes place entirely on the usg ishimura, which is a spaceship it's a mining ship

and in Uh, dead space two you're on a separate space station and it turns out that The usg ishimura was recovered after dead space one And you are you have to go through it to get to the other side of the loading dock and as a result you go through like three or four very signature areas from the first game In which the the ship has been cleaned up and repaired like there's white plastic everywhere And you will hear noises of jump scares that used to be in dead space one but are no longer there

And you will expect them in the same location only to get sidelined You get attacked by like hallucinatory versions of dead space one scares that no longer exist Like it's incredible Like it constantly fucks with your expectation of how things work. That's awesome. That's pretty good It's it's the best part of the whole franchise um so Yeah, the also if i'm not mistaken, that's also the one where I think you told me about like there's a save room

That fucks with you Dead space one has a has a bench That like the instant you go into the menu it it spawns an enemy behind you that will attack you when you come out of the bench And it's like it feels so unfair. So a really good one is uh Yeah, the press turn system in smt-4 The press turn system in smt-4 which is You're learning the ropes of how to keep the combo going in battle and how to fuck up enemies as you encounter them

and then The fucking boss starts doing it to you and you're like, oh no Oh dear god, wait the enemies can use it too That is a really fucking sobering ass moment where yeah You get fucking rocked By a mechanic that is like yeah, this is universal This is how minotaur is so for real. This is this is how combat works in the world. This is not special to you You ain't special

That one's great. That one's great Undertale has one Undertale has a lot actually but undertale in particular Has the boss that you attack and you miss and it is the first time and only time you can miss A mechanic that did not appear to exist and they go well, why why not? Why not? Yeah, I under I mean undertale as a whole is all about this exact discussion to be honest, right? Undertale does a whole lot of like

Subverting your expectations essentially. Oh, I have one Um, there is a ds rpg and there's a 3ds port called radiant historia, which is Fantastic, it's incredible It's very back to the future time traveling where you're you're hopping between two timelines in order to You know like, ah, we can't we can't get to this area because it's flooded in this timeline and you guys go to the other one Right, uh, but you are able to change things you are able to travel Two and fourth any time on that timeline to do side quests

So, you know lady will be sad that her husband died in the war So you go back in time a couple days to make sure her husband doesn't die that kind of thing, right? And then as you're going through the main quest the plot starts to kind of fall apart and events start to not have a logical sequence And it turns out that there is another character with the exact same timeline shenanigans that you have And the back half of the game is consistently back to the future doing in front of each other To cause the right sequence of events to happen Okay, so what you're describing like

That exact feeling Transistor Oh, yeah I have I have transistor and So good sitting on my desktop right now because they're both games that I didn't finish and pyre I barely played that I should really really really really go back and finish man. Yo shout outs. I just I got uh the the super giant uh collection of vinyl

The box that came with like all their soundtracks across like I want to say maybe 12 Uh vinyl fucking records like just beautiful beautiful thing They never stop crushing it man transistor dude. Oh, yeah You know, uh, the the less said the better, but that game fucking crushes it. It crushes it Um, yeah, I like that I like that and and and I think um This is this is something that the longer the

Like what you described with like for example, it's like over the course of different games, you know in a way like you kind of Uh Playing with those expectations is something that you can only do when a franchise has been with you for a long time You know, uh, yeah the dead space one in particular It's like you go back to the ishimura and you go back to the the areas where it got really bad And they're completely empty and nothing ever attacks you And then you go into areas that were formerly harmless and they give you like a jump scare And you're like ha ha got me and then like a hundred dudes attack you and you're you shit yourself

So could you imagine how completely pointless? The shadow moses section of mgs4 is if you never played I sure can one it's like a minute Like the entire magic of that moment is worthless if you never played that game Yeah Ha ha my head was my head was a ps1 man No, not not even that not even that like that's a joke that that whatever I'm talking about walking through the snow And getting to the lookout point

Right where you're like wait, where is this go? What's happening here? Okay? I know what we're doing, but oh shit Because we set you a little further back and then it hits you all at once and I really you know Man, that's a I fucking hate that sequence of that entire part is just nostalgia. There's nothing else going on All that stuff was great. I just wish there were soldiers instead of those fucking horrible ball creatures Like I hated sneaking around those things I was I was I was high on on fucking member berries when I was playing that section so You know

I I I was liking it I don't know if this counts Uh for the like, you know the system inverting on itself and and weird details But uh the new pray game the recent one Uh the one that looks just like system shock Has a really cool mechanic in which the station is being inhabited by mimics And the station security is obviously like attacking them because they're weird alien pieces of shit um

And the upgrade materials are some kind of bullshit science that you have like basically Figured out how to mine the the pieces of shit to give yourself like new memories. So how to learn skills, right? but uh if you uh use it to give yourself New powers like new mimic powers There's a threshold that you pass at which point station security views you as less than human and all the security on the ship Turns on you. Hmm

And it's like so you hey, do you want these cool mimic powers cool? Do you know you're close enough? Are you are you given that turrets? Yeah, I was gonna say like that. Are you given a warning or does it just happen? Uh, I don't remember okay, but like there's a situation that I had where I had like I went and got a ton of turrets and dragged them to my office So that my office was just like impenetrable with turrets and had I stacked up Uh, like the wrong upgrades and became like a typhon essentially to security I would have walked back to my office and gotten lit up by my own turrets

I'm thinking about how in halo There's just all kinds of rampant irresponsible osp going on And it's like could you imagine a world where like Soldiers are just picking up these alien fucking guns and using them like no questions asked and then like You know like and why stop there? Why not put on some of their armor? Maybe maybe their shields will be effective because hey

Master chief has shields. We don't Right and like at what point are you just going to be like oh like friendly fire? I kind of shot in the direction of the alien weapons and didn't realize one of our boys picked him up Irresponsible levels of osp going on What is that is that does that shoot gimme? I'll never does that truck have a gun gimme the gimme the truck Well, which is why I've also never forget an mgs4 when there's the uh, you know, there's the the fucking automatic on the ground and

Snake fucking crawls up to it grabs his knife and has this really elaborate check for Traps and trip wires before picking the gun up off the ground Because at the end of the day, we've just gotten used to video games shoot the guy take his gun reload but That little cutscene shows you actually snake is checking every single weapon that he picks up off the ground for For traps or whatever the case is every single time you're just not seeing it

So, you know what I just thought of another one because I mean I mentioned vanquish just a little bit ago because vanquish is incredible Uh, but vanquish gives you a guy who can move super super fast and can slow down time to almost nothing and aim and shoot And then you get to like what the first third and you see bogey And you slow down time to shoot him and he moves And you're like oh Jesus Come on And he really moves too

It's like it's like oh, yeah, he reversed jotaro's you start to move and the yeah, he reversed jotaro's you like near instantly Yeah, absolutely, and then it's like well figure it out fucker And he can fly That seems and there's two of them. Oh my god that game that seems unfair How that seems really unfair. Yeah, so did you know that they're red white and blue? No that who is sam's white bogeys red and blue What does that mean? I don't know

I just assumed that was like a Like a color skeet like, you know color theory thing What a mystery All right, man, we're never gonna get a follow-up on those those dropped plot lines Do you want one? Do you I don't want it more vanquish. I don't watch shit I want sam. Oh, I want sam fell into a portal I have one last one

In evil within two there is a monster that can that will try and attack you And it will drag you to a series of levels that take place inside your memories of evil within oh strong as such their letterbox strong Very strong. Fuck. Yeah video games Absolutely, right isn't that isn't that fun shit that only video games can do man Beautiful absolutely beautiful um I mean like oh god near automata as a as a

A staging ground for that with the with the hacking mechanic You know takes you to some fucking awesome places, man um Yeah Only video games can do that type of stuff. It's it's it's really it's really satisfying to see these these moments I also remember a different one. Okay, which was always fun and this is from like 94 If you put like doom it cheats into heretic you often just die Because you're a goddamn heretic

How dare you and also I think they were made by different companies. I'm not super sure though Nice, um Hey mega fang good question Good question Thank you It's so nice that we get one of those email questions And we can actually come up with the examples other than going like oh crap. That's a really good question, but I got nothing Yeah, you can sit here and think about them forever, but uh, let's let's let's get out of here

um So yeah, I haven't posted it yet, but I'm gonna drop the schedule down Um this week. I'm gonna have a friday on a friday stream as I mentioned Gonna be taking a look at uh goes to sushima. You know while you like stepped out I just kind of cut the box open and took a peek. This is a fucking big elaborate thing I'm like what the what there's a lot going on there. So Is there a game in there? I would hope there is Uh

We will we will let you guys know more you can now that I have kept it too real for sony You can go ahead and get those sony codes We will uh, let you all know Uh over on friday hashtag sponsored hashtag ad hashtag Everything else Hashtag not real Hashtag fake So you're doing that at a right around one, right? Oh, yeah

Okay, so you so guys so that works out perfectly you guys can go watch uh willy stream at one I'll be starting much later at four But I usually fuck around for a while. So you'll probably be done by the time I get to the game Right, and then like you guys can watch willy's Uh stream and then uh, if you want the unsponsored non shill stream, you can come watch man Afterwards the where I you know, I tell you how I really you keep it real Yes, because I'm out here keeping it real you keep it 100 I sure

All right, so pro tip whenever someone Uses the little 100 Emoji it's it's a sign of it's the sign of saying you're you're telling the truth. You're keeping it 100 accurate and real Oh, that's what that is 100 percent I thought that was a reference to jeff gerstman back in like 2002 saying you can't beat 100 percent Yes, random black twitter is all referencing jeff gerstman How would I know what this emote is and how would I know that that's part of black that's I'm not on black That's why I you're part of black. That's why I decided to tell you

Right now in the form of this information Wait, there are two different 100 emotes The underlined red one Is when there's an underlined red one. There's an underlined orange. Okay. The underlined red one is when you're telling the truth Okay, is the orange one for lies. I don't know what what what the orange one's about But that's what's up It doesn't even show up as an emote. How are you guys doing that? Anyway, all right

That was a podcast this week and the red B Is because it's because no crypts are allowed There you go Uh Goodbye everybody I get it Oh Oh

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