Castle Super Beast - CSB 083: Press Nothing To Let The CIA Ravage The Hood With Crack
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Just because daddy runs shit doesn't mean I don't know how to also run shit too.
In fact...
Alright now, let's put out the trailer for this game. Oh God.
In fact, France is a big fan of letting the family continue to run shit. Are they not?
They are. There's a real long history of the French familial meritocracy system.
Good word. Good word.
Yeah, I'm proud of how I came up with it on the spot because I sure didn't want to use the real word.
Stronger.
Okay. Well...
You know what the funniest thing about that though? You know Ryuji Sugimoto.
He's the monster hunter man.
He's the son of CEO of Capcom.
Kenzo Sugimoto.
Yeah, how's Monhun doing?
Great.
Yeah? How about that?
Literally the most profitable thing ever.
Interesting.
Cool.
Ask me about Colin Hanks.
I don't know who that is. Who's Colin Hanks?
Pretty good actor.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Cool.
So we talked about Press Nothing to let the CIA ravage the hood with crack to fund the foreign wars.
Press F to sell nukes to Iran.
So that's fine. Here's what we can talk about.
I had a question this week. I think I got my answer, but if you've got a take on it, by all means, fill me in.
What the fuck is Sirius Sam?
It's a throwback shooter.
Okay.
Because I've heard about Sirius Sam...
It's not the best throwback shooter.
I've heard about Sirius Sam for years, but I've never looked at it twice.
I would recommend Dusk or a medieval over it.
I love Dusk.
Well, I mean, you know, the Sirius Sam people were like, yo, hey, check it out.
You can find out for yourself.
And I was like, oh, thank you.
So, you know, I'm curious because what's clear is whatever it was, it's definitely not what that trailer is now in which Sirius Sam gets into the Pope Mobile.
That's right.
Which can only be described as a mech warrior 2 style battle tech mecha.
Traditional American, almost.
And then he just starts shooting the monsters and you're piloting the mecha.
And I was like, hey, that's...
Like the Pope would have done.
Yeah.
And then the cockpit opens and there's a cross in the way that the cockpit opens and they've got a little rosary hanging up top.
And I believe the line is let God sort them out.
So I like playing robot games.
It's kind of hilarious that you put like an irreverent religious reference in something like your head just tilts on the swivel.
Super.
Way in.
Way in.
Cast in the name of God.
Ye not guilty.
Big O.
We have come to terms.
Get the fuck in.
That shit rules.
I unironically love that big dumb religious energy when used to juxtapose a giant robot.
Yeah, you know, that's only going to be like one level, right?
Most of it's going to be shooting those guys that yell at you even though they don't have any heads.
I certainly hope it'll be more than that.
But if it is, then I'll check out that one level.
Yeah, you want to make me love the Bible?
This is how you do it.
But it's the same reason why little, little Pat Jr. got into fucking Xenogears.
No, that's not why.
Okay.
The reason I got into Xenogears is because it had a four out of five on an official PlayStation magazine and was a new, uh, Squaresoft RPG and I was going to buy all of those.
Okay, but you told me the reason why you loved Xenogears was the similar reason why you loved Ava in that it went into the rad remix of Christian mythology.
Oh, it also went away into psychology, which is like embarrassing to admit that a lot of my started going to psych is because I played Xenogears when I was 11 years old.
You're right.
That is embarrassing.
But yeah, no, it was cool.
Attack and dethrone God, Willie.
It's the nature of our generation.
So, you know, that flavor is going to do it.
Yeah, that flavor is going to work for me.
But it's also going to work when you, you go a pro God in a ridiculous super tech way or, or, you know, beyond the grave, whatever. Cowboy zombie.
Also, that that game had a bitchy redhead in it.
It was like cool.
Either way, I remember specifically walking downtown as you were describing the parts of that game that were like Japan fucking with the Bible for cool points as some of the strongest stuff that you thought was good in it.
All the stuff about the Zohars, the crazy shit.
So you talk to God in that game, like actual real ass God.
It's fucking, it's crazy.
That's sick.
Well, I mean, no one's going to outdo SMT, but, you know, I will say that's not fair.
You have to punch God.
He's a big head in part one.
How do you live that down?
How do you?
That was part one.
Part two.
Part two is a big head.
Well, one was the build up to it.
Because one was the final boss was Michael, the angel, right?
And then in two, it's Yahweh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
All right.
Fair enough.
Sorry.
My mistake.
Okay.
Walking back and shooting against ridiculous crowds.
Yeah, pretty much.
Okay.
In big open areas.
Okay.
Yeah, that's pretty much.
There's going to be guys that have bombs on their hands.
They have no heads and they run at you and they go, ah, as you can see from the chat,
just spamming, ah, I mean, that's, that's, I mean, yeah, that's the serious Sam.
Okay.
The whole point about serious Sam is that you're fighting like a shit zillion enemies.
Oh, God damn it, Eli.
You just put up a sexy drawing of Tao Kaka with the title of his YouTube video being
I know nothing about Tao Kaka.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They designed Tao Kaka to be that way on purpose.
It's, it's, it's like, um, the, the shy gal thing.
You know, I don't think they designed Tao Kaka to look like this on purpose.
Wolves.
Okay.
Well, other trailers, other trailers include.
Bushiden.
It's a pretty cool SNES looking, uh, ninja platformer.
And I remember seeing this somewhere.
I think I saw a booth for it.
It might have been at a PAX or so.
Uh, but it looks fucking rad and it looks like it's got Contra, uh, Alien Wars energy.
So much like a fucking Super Nintendo game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hagane, Contra, uh, a lot of just all that animation though.
Um, but it's, it's, it's, it looks sick.
It looks sick and lots of abilities on display and it's just like, yeah, yeah.
The time is right for that.
Always, always got space to check out a SNES throw up ninja game.
Um, so Bushiden looks pretty rad.
Check that out.
They showed off, uh, transient, which is, hey, careful.
Um, transient was being pitched as a cyber Lovecraftian game.
Not much to make out from just the kind of theme trailer, but from the creators of Conarium
comes the big spooky that is.
Yeah.
Uh, they're saying cyber Lovecraftian.
Okay.
I'm in on that.
It's a, it's a tone.
It's a tone teaser more than anything.
So you just lots of key visuals to kind of like, um, just do whatever, uh, set up what's going on.
But, uh, it looked, it looked interesting.
Transient game adventure.
Uh, let's see.
Let's take a look at this trailer.
Come on.
Move.
No, I don't care about your fucking HP Lovecraft quote.
Just show me your video game.
God damn it.
The fucking screenshots won't even load up.
This is a, ah, well, anyway, you can check the trailer.
But it's, it's, yeah, I'd like to see where you're going with this.
Uh, it's Cthulhu with, with wires.
You know, I mean, yeah, there's no reason Cthulhu can't live in the cyberpunk future.
He is a noble.
Uh, we got to take a look at, uh, a little bit more of doom eternal.
The trailer for the ancient gods dropped and, uh, well, or rather, I think it was a follow-up trailer.
And, um, yeah, it's, it's, uh, it's, you know, Sam's talking.
He's, he's, he's, you're seeing some new enemies.
You're seeing stuff.
Doom looks like more doom.
Seems cool.
I want to find out.
I want to talk more with Sam.
Yep.
And the person who, uh, made the music in dusk, I believe is making the music here.
Good choice.
Extremely good choice.
So we'll see.
We'll see.
Also, the DLC is playable without the main game.
Oh, like it's standalone game.
Oh, interesting.
Interesting.
Huh.
So they're selling it as a mini purge, a mini mini buy.
It's a mini buy.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I have a history of being very okay with those.
I like, I like when they do standalone separate things.
That's okay.
Uh, it worked out cool with case zero and, uh, uh, case zero is a different thing because
case zero is better than the game.
I was advertising.
Uh, but then also there was, um, uh, what you call it, the ask read one.
Uh, fuck.
Uh, my friend, no, no, my friend voice acted the main guy in it.
Oh God.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, freedom.
It was cry.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tristan, he did that.
He's the voice.
Okay.
Exactly.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, um, straight up, like you got these little mini games that are like, yeah, it's a, it's
a micro, you know, whatever.
I'm cool with that.
That's fine.
That's, uh, that's pretty neat.
I'm down with the, the self-contained.
Yeah.
Shout outs to Tristan.
Tristan applies that.
I don't know why he's a good character.
Um.
I also liked boats.
You check out, uh, you see any, you see the, uh, Scarlet Nexus stuff.
It did.
Tristan is definitely not code veins.
No, it ain't.
Uh, second trailer.
Very pretty visuals.
Um, definitely more like more going on there.
Still same, the same general, uh, feeling about it, which is this looks interesting.
Um, it feels like they put anime faces on some, some crazy ass, uh, Tron shit and we'll,
we'll, we'll have to see, you know, the only thing we're missing is like the, you know,
the, the 45 minute first hour of gameplay or whatever the case is, you know, just to
kind of see what the flow of it is like, but visually very interesting and, uh, pretty.
And hope it plays a little chunkier than, than code vein.
One would hope.
Because code vein was cool, but, but it was like a little flaccid, low, newly.
And if you're talking ropey, if you're talking about big old anime games, you definitely
can't ignore, uh, Genshin impact, which we've been hearing about for a while now from,
uh, Shanghai studio.
Uh, I forget the name, uh, but Genshin impact is the way I feel like I've been seeing that
forever.
And so Genshin impact is the one that's been auto compared to breath of the wild every time
it comes up.
It's the one because it, it shares some similarities.
It's mainly visual and the cooking, uh, the world, the, the bright colors of the world
in the cooking do have that similarity to it.
The grass kind of looks, there's, there's some, there's stuff there.
It's not a warrantless, uh, comparison.
However, it does seem like this is unlike breath of the wild.
It's, it's anime.
It's full RPG, uh, at the very least is, uh, or rather no, that's not true.
It's action RPG.
Um, but, uh, yeah, there's, there's, we got to see another look at that.
And, uh, there's multiple party members and other stuff going on with it.
I know that, uh, when it first dropped, there was like pictures of people holding up their
switch with a middle finger to the display of the game with, with just with breath of
the wild running, just being like, fuck you, you ripoffs.
Um, and like, I think the, I think a big part of that is that the first screen shot,
was main character overlooking the bright world.
That was similar to link overlooking the, the, the, the ledge, you know, it's like,
it's, it's superficially similar.
I'm looking at it now.
Like the palette they're using for the, like the bricks and shit.
I get it.
And the angle you fire a bow and arrow at, but like, superficially similar,
inspired by it best, you know, like, I don't know.
Like I also watched, like, I think one of the devs put out like a combo video for it
and it was like hilarious.
Like it looks like an anime game.
Yeah.
Um, and I, and I like, there was, there was other, other more superficial like comparisons
in the sense of like, uh, like the, the, the meter, the bar, the circular kind of bar,
you know, um, and again, the cooking comes up and a couple other little things.
Although this game has like full towns and cities and other environments that, you
know, otherwise are its own thing.
But yeah, the, the, that first screenshot and that art style and the colors, like,
it's the thing that, that the brain jumps to right away.
Um, but then the rest of it seems like it's doing its own thing.
But also let's, like, all right, let's, let's be real.
Let's say, let's just assume it's a fucking huge breath of the wild ripoff.
Right.
I could go for a couple of breath of the wild ripoffs.
It's a good thing to rip off.
Like there haven't been any yet.
It's not a bad, it's not a bad thing to rip off.
Like I could go for a couple.
Um, although this is also, uh, on phones, it's not just a console game.
Oh, is this made by the Honkai third impact people?
That would explain the anime.
Honkai impact, Genshin impact.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
This is not the Honkai's.
This is the, oh my goodness.
I drive poor DK.
I try him so crazy because I always get the Honkai fucking ads on my goddamn, uh, on my thing.
And it always looks like a character action game with the anime.
And I, I DM him and I go, dude, what's the deal with Honkai third impact?
And he tells me every time and I go, maybe I'll try that.
And then he loses his shit because I think that's the fourth time I asked him last time.
And I just never try it.
Cause it's like a gotcha game for anime.
Know nothing about it.
It's up with it though.
MiHoYo, MiHoYo is the name of the company.
And if we pull them up real quick, they are responsible for Honkai impact third.
Uh, gun girls and collapse Gakuen.
Oh man.
I bet gun girls is big anime.
It's girls with a Z.
Oh, of course it is.
How stupid of me.
Oh yeah.
All chapter of memories.
Is this a visual fucking novel?
What is this?
Well, you know what the funniest thing is?
Are we in the gotcha hole?
You know what?
What's that?
Are we in the gotcha hole?
Yeah, maybe.
I was about to say like, we know what anime is.
I've seen an anime.
And every time I think I know what anime is, I find out that there are literally 100 million more
animes that I haven't seen.
And that this thing, it looks like anime right?
Holy shit.
I saw what the game looks like.
Holy crap.
That's hilarious.
Here's how many animes there are.
Do you remember back in college when we were keeping up with the seasons and we were just about...
Screenshot of gun girls.
Remember when we were just about on top of everything that was coming out?
Whoa.
Okay.
Well, yep.
That's a game on the phone.
And there's Taukaka.
Wow, Plague.
All right.
Yeah, she's drawn like that on purpose, right, Wolves?
I mean...
Huh.
There's a little bit of hair in places I didn't expect it.
But she's a cat.
She is.
All right.
Cheers.
Well, anyway, I noticed that the abs were also inserted into the equation, which I have
no complaints about.
But back to anime, there was a time when the seasons were coming out and staying afloat
took a lot of effort, but it was a thing that could be done.
Every year since those college days has been another season of anime, and it has been about
17 years since those college days.
But I don't even mean just the anime that's actually an anime.
I mean, like the phone thing and the car and the Hatsune Miku's anime as a movement.
They're all anime.
Anime as a movement.
I turn around and there's an anime behind me right now waiting to anime at me.
Steve?
Yeah.
Steve Busami's there.
He could be anime.
He's got the eyes for it.
He sure does.
Hey, so Honker Impact right on.
Genshin Impact?
Yes.
Yes.
There's your anime.
They showed off the fucking, so there's this Lord of the Rings Golem thing going on as well,
the trailer for that.
Oh yeah, the stealth game, yeah.
What?
Why would, for what reason?
Like I understand.
The line cinema still holds the license.
And I understand that clearly after we went all the ways we went with the Lord of the Rings
franchise and video games, that they really want to hold on to that, keep the IP going,
and keep the games hot and out of the oven.
Lord of the Rings is a video game franchise.
It's kind of some goofy shit.
But really, is Golem going to be the story to follow through on a video game with?
Is that actually interesting enough to go through on?
No.
I don't get it.
Of course not.
They fucked up the Shadow of War series, so they gotta try something new.
Like you might as well go make a fucking ant game about forest management, and just hang
out with the ants.
Yeah, okay.
That'd be pretty good.
I mean, I think there was an end to faction in one of them, Lord of the Rings, like RTS
games.
Sure.
Or you could actually just play the fucking Tree Guy in Warhammer.
Yeah, you could play the Tree Guy.
I think everyone would be more excited to play as a Tree Guy than as Golem.
I think that is a 100% on the poll.
I think you're not wrong.
I think you're dead on.
Yeah.
I would rather play as Tree Guy Durthu than Golem.
I mean, it's either go that way, or follow down, or triple down on sexy Shelob.
If you know what I'm saying.
Never forget.
Yeah.
That was weird.
Yeah, it certainly was, but we got past it.
Because there was just a sentence that was uttered like, what if Shelob was actually super
hot, and people went, yeah, fuck it.
Well, because all spiders have to be spider ladies, right?
Yeah, but she's not even spider-ish in her human lady looking form.
She's just hot.
All spiders have to be spider ladies.
Is there?
Wait.
Itsy bitsy goth gf?
Is that what we're going with?
Yeah, I don't know if that's a thing yet.
Itsy bitsy spider, but she's also evil.
Does this joke work?
I don't think so.
But you have to work it.
You've got to put the legwork in.
Well, you know who has a lot of legs for legwork, spiders.
I'm literally bumping the ball.
I'm bunting it at you.
Ragnarra.
All I can think of right now is all I can think of right now is Eric Andre making fun of.
I forget who the fuck it was.
It's like, what's up with her on the beach?
She's got like eight tits, like a dog, and then just turning the Hannibal.
I'm just like, nah, man.
What do you say?
Have you seen Eric Andre's new stand-up special?
I haven't.
Because I really hope it's literally just an hour and a half of that.
Like just total bomb failure stand-up.
I would kill for that.
Best spider lady, the stalk from Saga.
End of discussion.
So, how do I write that?
How do I find a picture that's the...
T-H-E space S-T-A-L-K.
Saga.
Okay, let's take a look at this.
Eh.
I'm not down with that.
I don't know what kind of image results you're going to get.
That's a no thanks for me.
Oh, yeah.
No, she wins.
She wins.
Nah, I'm good, bro.
Yeah, you got to see all of it.
You got to scroll down a little bit more to see all of it.
What about Poilag?
What about her?
What about good old Kellogg's?
I'm going stalk ten out of ten times.
All right.
That's a...
Okay.
She's also fucking awesome, but...
Uh, yeah.
Okay, so we got Scarlet Nexus.
We got Genshin Impact.
There was a...
trailer for, again, Quantum Error.
Not much to go on, just a tone trailer again.
Big Spookies.
Big Spookies, gun shooting at the Spookies.
Dude, I watched almost all of these and I can't remember a single one.
It was the one...
Well, Quantum Error is the one that I thought was legitimately Doom 3 for a while.
It's the one in all the shadows where you're shooting the gun and then there's the lady
and then the helicopter men.
It literally looks just like Doom 3.
It's fucking weird.
Yeah, big horror lighting.
FPS Dead Space?
Yeah, I guess.
Sure.
It just looks like Doom 3.
Like a Doom 3 knockoff from like 15 years ago.
Although there's one section that cuts to what might be the main character, I assume,
because he looks like fucking Shave Head Soldier Man.
Yeah, from back in the day.
And I'm like, hey, you are the protagonist of this era, so sure.
Yeah, I don't know if that scratches your...
It does not.
Space horror itch, but...
No, no, sir.
Okay.
Did you see the Ratchet and Clank new gameplay?
I didn't watch it.
I saw the trailer available, but I didn't click the button.
It wasn't new, it was the same demo.
Oh, well, hey, thank you.
And then it ended with the same...
It ended with the same exact reveal of the Lady Ratchet.
And then Jeff Keely was like, so we gonna get a name?
And they're like, no.
And then the gamescom ended.
I'm glad I didn't click the button.
That's literally how it ended.
I already saw that.
He's like, hey, do we have something to tell people?
No.
Show over.
Damn.
Get owned at your own show, dude.
Yeah, dude, for real.
Okay, here's what's cool.
Here's what's cool.
I...
Tell me something that's cool.
I like the fact that Age of Empires is back.
People are playing...
Yeah, Age of Empires is cool.
Competitive Age of Empires again.
And I think it's really cool that they're playing to...
And the trailer for Three dropped here.
And I'm like, fuck, yeah.
Bringing back Age of Empires.
Hell, yeah.
I don't know how this kind of got started again.
I guess it was just the HD Re-Releases, right?
The HD Re-Releases was really popular.
I just...
The fact that people went, fuck it.
We're gonna play some proper competitive Age of Empires
in this day and age.
And the game still rules.
We're not making new RTSs.
They're not.
We're not supposed to go play old ones.
And you know what?
It's still fucking rules.
Age of Empires is the shit.
When are we gonna get a Rise of Nations Re-Release?
Do you remember that one?
Didn't play it.
Ah, it's cool.
It's like Age of Empires, but much faster.
I only played Age 1 and 2 the most.
And I played Age 3 a little bit.
And that's it.
Yeah, I only played a little bit Age 3.
But this trailer looks fucking sick.
And there's two new races.
Which we can, you know, like, it's factions races.
They're races.
The Inca and the Swedes.
Oh, the Swedes.
The Swedes.
Ah, Bork your way around the world.
Take that, Swedes.
Woo!
Listen, I'm friends with a Swedish person.
And he told me that when we're not looking,
all they say is Bork.
It's true.
It's basically Swedish chef time.
Thanks, Ludvig.
Hold on.
What does this mean on the secret?
And now I'm letting you all in on it.
What does the trailer call them?
Does it say races or cultures?
I bet it says factions, cultures.
Shit.
Hold on.
I got to scrub for it.
Cross platform as well.
Fuck yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
Awesome.
That's nice.
Naval warfare.
Building wonders is the shit.
And I don't feel like I've had that excitement
in, like, other games for a long time.
Did you ever get into Civ ever?
Not that much.
My cousin had it, and I did play it on my cousin's computer.
But I didn't get into it.
Civilizations, they're called.
Civilizations.
Not races.
Because I always was more into Civ than I was into Age of Empires,
because the RTS aspect of the game always made me nervous.
Like, having to do it fast rather than doing it per turn.
Yeah.
Yeah.
High APM destroyed me on these games.
I always got very nervous and scared.
In particular, I always talk about World of Warcraft 3 just destroying me.
I was able to keep up with Starcraft.
I was able to play.
I want to kill myself over what you just said.
Hey, I played.
Did you hear what you just said?
What did I say?
You said World of Warcraft 3.
Oh, that's bad.
That's not good.
Blizzard won.
They super won.
They won.
Oh, my God.
Guys, I'm sorry.
Successfully erased that old franchise.
They did it.
They wiped it out.
It's gone.
How long were we talking about Warcraft when WoW came out?
10 years?
Maybe?
Oh, yeah.
How long have we been talking about World of Warcraft?
15.
2004.
So coming up on 16.
Successfully erased.
Damn.
And then Reforged came out and fully buried that shit.
Well, yeah, Warcraft 3 is where they lost me in my ability to keep up.
Oh, yeah, the micro on the heroes, right?
Couldn't do it.
The hero system was too much for me.
But I was able to keep up with Red Alert and Starcraft and Brutal War is just fine, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, Age was the shit.
Shout outs to the fucking car.
The car sheet ruled.
Oh, it's the car sheet.
You could fucking bring a car in and drive it around.
And it was a million times faster and better than horses.
It was one of the best units in the world.
And you're fucking, you're driving and then a bunch of fucking priests are like,
Hi-yo.
Whoa.
Oh.
Just run them over.
And you just fucking like, who gives a shit?
I got a car.
It was great.
Konodio da Volkswagen.
Nailed it.
You know what?
Like, I mean, we've talked about the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of fighting games.
Fuck did RTS rise and fucking fall.
It evolved into MOBA.
Yeah, but like that, that old style is dead.
It is, but there's at least a butterfly from the cocoon.
Yeah.
If MOBA's killed it.
If like, I don't know, man, I would be less like, I would be a little less salty if there was a successor genre that came directly from the thing.
So team fortress call and team based shooters and counter strike and shit, right?
Replacing a lot of the old giant FPS campaigns is a direct follow up on the genre.
You know, I mean, I get it fighting games came from brawlers.
No, wait, brawlers came from fighters and then character action came from brawlers.
Yeah, character action came from from beat them ups and fighting games also came from beat them ups.
But whatever if fighting games were to take on another form, I don't know.
I'd have to decide to see if I have fun with it or not.
But you know, smash is it's going its own fucking direction, certainly.
And now smash clones are a thing and they're, you know, they're definitely like derived from fight fighting games, but they're doing their own thing.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it just it feels it feels like a natural progression.
That being said, if I was way, way into the RTS genre, I would probably be like pretty upset that they died off though.
Yeah, I was in to like, you know, a couple, a couple of really good ones.
I was around enough to enjoy command and conquer, Starcraft, little bit of Warcraft.
And that was the goal, you know, and that was it.
I didn't I didn't I didn't play Warcraft one and two.
I got nothing on.
I got nothing on one is like a bad game.
Like Warcraft one is like bad.
Hmm.
Warcraft two.
Warcraft two kicks ass.
But then Starcraft is like, OK, shut up.
Well, yeah, it's time for Starcraft.
Here comes Jim Rainer.
This is Jimmy.
I remember playing the Dawn of War games.
I know, but I worked next to a competitive Dawn of War player who told me ad nauseam about them.
Because there's like it's that series is really depressing because there's like eight or nine really great ones.
And then Dawn of War three is so bad that the franchise might as well be dead.
I I have Dawn of War knowledge like a girlfriend watching their boyfriend play for a while.
Like I've heard so much about it and on a deep competitive level.
And I've heard about the most interesting things with it, but I've never touched it.
And what you mean?
Yeah.
And I was sharing third strike knowledge with with him and he was getting really into Makoto.
So it was it was like that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I like the fact that there's a whole lot of races in it.
Civilizations.
Civilizations.
Yeah.
Age of Empires three is back and that's fucking sick.
Super dope there.
That's some good news.
Override two.
There's a trailer for the sequel to that mecha game.
Unfortunately, no gameplay.
It's just a cinematic robot trailer.
But hey, modus, good stuff.
I'm I'm surprised it's getting a direct sequel.
I guess it did OK and people enjoyed it.
So that's rad.
I'm all about fucking getting some some robot games in there.
I await gameplay.
They teased something called chorus, which is a Star Fox third person.
It has a really unclear title.
Is it a V or a U?
It's a U.
I think it's a U.
It's a U on the I thought it was a V.
Yeah.
It definitely the font choice makes it look like it's going to be Corvus.
But yeah, it reminds me actually a lot of Aces of the Galaxy.
Also if anybody remembers Project Sylphied, it's a lot like Project Sylphied.
Man, that's a long time since I heard anybody talk about Project Sylphied.
You remember the last time they brought one of those out?
They brought it during E3 week so that it couldn't be reviewed in time because it was
such trash and reset the clock on references to Project Sylphied.
No one cares about that clock.
No one gives a, oh my god.
Square couldn't get further away from it.
Get the fuck out of here, Project Sylphied.
I don't want to talk to you.
Yeah, but churches with the V, similar energy, chorus with the V.
There was a short tease for something called 12 Minutes.
Oh yeah, that's more or less the same tease we saw, I want to say the E3, well not E3,
but whatever the fuck the E3 equivalent was.
To me, this is a reveal.
I didn't know what this was.
Oh no, it was almost the same trailer.
It's a 12 minute time loop in your apartment which seems to get home invaded.
Yeah, and it seems like it's got James McAvoy, Dizzly Rady, Daisy Ridley, Dizzly Rady,
Dizzly Rady Skywalker.
And Willem Dafoe, our cast.
And the shot is like straight above perfect perspective, looking down on the room.
If I did see this in the stream, I don't remember it.
Yeah, people, this is the weirdest thing ever that exists in our life,
which is you don't remember it, but other people remember you seeing it.
Dude, I played a fucking fighting game called Umi Neko,
and I'm like, what is this game?
And everyone's like, you literally played it on Fisticuffs.
We watched you pick these characters and play, and I'm like, it's gone.
It's completely gone.
It's just gone.
So if I saw this 12 minutes thing, it's gone.
It looks cool.
I like that Smash TV, perfect top-down, three-point perspective look.
All the walls are vanishing into a perfect point.
So that game, if it maintains that perspective for the whole game,
I feel like there's a real big moment they could do where all they have to do is move the camera like a little.
Yeah, yeah.
And you're going to go, oh, shit, you know.
It's really interesting, and no one uses this camera much because usually it's like static,
and it's the most static and bland way to kind of tell a story, right?
But something about this that's particular when you do architectural design is,
so if you look at the rooms, every room you're looking at a perfect top-down,
if you were to take the corners of the walls in every room and line them up,
they all create a line that is a perfect X to the middle of the screen.
So your eye unconsciously will be always drawn to the center of the room,
and it will be the tension point.
So it's where the action happens or not.
Yeah, it's a very interesting and cool choice if you do play with that.
And yeah, you can't see faces really clearly.
You can just see bodies and people and heads moving, you know?
Yeah.
12 minutes.
I bet that game's going to be longer than 12 minutes.
Well, yeah, it's a 12-minute loop.
Yeah.
Very few games use that gimmick.
I'm very interested in games that use that gimmick.
There was a game that I liked that used that gimmick, and I'm sad because I can never play it again.
Time loops are really good for video games.
You can...
I like time loops.
Time loops are good.
Time loops are good.
Oh yeah, there's minute.
That's true.
Minute.
Majora's Mask.
Why use big word when small word good too?
Do trick.
Small word do trick.
I was scrolling past my Twitter the other day, and I saw some research article that says that using big words that make you look smart when normal words will do
is actually a sign of low intelligence.
And by correlation, I'm saying that if you use small words when you probably should use big words, that means you're actually high intelligent, smart.
I have talked about this before, but one of the funniest things about Jamaican culture is when someone is an idiot, but they're trying to sound sophisticated,
and they will suddenly start speaking like this, sir.
I need to let you know and understand that I comprehend the information which you are trying to give me.
However, it is Jamaican trying to sound like American or like proper, and then it's using large words to say nothing.
And you're just making a verbose argument, and it's fucking hilarious because my aunts do it, and I've watched all members of my family go into that shit.
And it's like, you said nothing there.
You've communicated no point, but you think that that tone sounds very official.
And if you sound very official, then people will have to take your word as authority.
So I can definitely confirm that while that particular accent is probably almost certainly specific to Jamaicans, that that attitude is not specific to that,
because I have heard that from my French relatives.
Of course.
I've heard that from, like, I'm sure everybody has heard that.
So just, but like, whatever the fuck, the fanciest language you can get around smart, but you're actually dumb.
You know how Patois is like a novelty to you guys, and how you're like, oh, that's like a funky person from Jamaica that's got some flavor to them, right?
There's a little bit of spice in this otherwise, you know, whatever.
That when you live on an island where everybody sounds that way, that's not special at all anymore.
That's just the way language is.
I think the funniest thing ever is like Americans, they see our Yankee viewers will see off French girls.
Oh my God, French is so hot.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's just whatever.
So when everybody's women sound when everybody sounds that light like that and everyone's got that accent and you don't have any of that novelty that you currently feel,
the only way to sound, you know, above is to like suddenly code switch your voice into something more official and more colonial as it were, you know.
Yeah, like when when pages like I'm a Anglophone kibbaker.
So when I'm talking a page and her fucking southern Illinois like bullshit language comes out, I'm like, oh, that's cute, even though it's like, you know, trash language.
That was the perfect distance.
I know, right?
Was that not the perfect distance?
There you go.
Love you, darling.
Shit, there was another thing about language that.
What was the you brought up?
What did you I was talking about?
Yankees think French sounds hot.
Before that.
Before that, what led me into bringing up that.
The accents that you're describing is definitely specific to Jamaicans, but like the attitude of just, you know, go for the the classiest, smartest sounding thing you can sound like because you're actually dumb is definitely universal.
Before that.
Shit, it's gone.
Yeah, there was another thing.
Anyway.
Fuck.
Okay, whatever.
I got it.
Language is hilarious and wonderful.
And it's an easy way to tease the British because have you heard them?
Oh my God, they sound like fucking cartoons.
Yes, but we still spell.
Oh, ours with Oh, you are.
Well, yeah, that's because the Americans don't know how to spell those words.
That's Webster's fault, apparently.
Yeah.
Center.
Center.
Okay, I actually disagree with the center.
The center thing is upsetting.
I mean, it's just.
There's some shit.
Every language has its messes.
It was apparently Webster who who changed everything up when making the American dictionary.
And from that point forward, color had no you.
So this was this was this was brought on by the fact, by the way, that last week.
The spelling of the word paycheck was with a Q U E and that fucked some people up.
Yeah, because a check is C H E Q U E.
It's a check, not a checkmark, dumbass.
But it's in America.
It's a C H E C K.
Yeah.
Well, they say drive through without a without a Oh, right?
Right.
Yeah.
So what we're listening to Americans know how to spell.
Come on, guys.
Y'all, y'all don't even know how to spell.
Check.
Check.
There's a Q U E is is in check.
That's how you spell check.
You know, so.
Yeah.
All right, let's take some letters.
All right, let's send some letters.
If if you are sending in a letter, you can send it to Castle Super Beast Mail at gmail.com.
That's Castle Super Beast Mail at gmail.com.
If you are a British person sending in a mail, please attach one scone.
I'd appreciate it.
I mock you, but scones are delicious.
Would you?
Would you take one pence?
I would not take one pence.
Gotta go for scone.
Not known for their food there.
No, they're not.
Every now and then you see a struggle tweet that's like, big canned bread is the shit.
You're in front of like a Union Jack and you're like, I'm going to throw up.
Yeah.
Hey, look, not much to say about Chadwick Boseman, except that is the most shocking and shitty
news that fucking hit out of nowhere.
Yeah, that's rough, man.
Apparently it was like there was there was one website a couple months ago that reported
it in like a tabloid way, but otherwise they kept the news on the down low and they didn't
want to really put it out there.
And I think he just wanted to keep that to himself.
And, you know, there's a lot of there's nothing that there's to say that hasn't been already
said by people who rightfully pointed out that he filmed all those movies while he was already
diagnosed and you never know what the fuck someone's going through.
So keep that in mind, you know, at all times, because people sometimes are just holding
things to themselves and they've got their own struggles that they're going through.
That was, yeah, pretty, pretty surprising.
And I guess the thing that dawned on me a couple days later was he was also slated to do Yasuke.
So seriously?
Yeah, he was supposed to do the Yasuke movie.
Looks like that everybody.
He did that fucking everybody.
Like Black Panther was absolutely the most Black Panther, you know, that was the most
popular.
But like, yeah, it's kind of nuts how much he did within that last couple of years.
Like, and it was all through the diagnosis as well, you know, it also like people definitely
have their, their, if everyone goes through things differently, right?
Some people like to just, some people prefer to keep things as private as possible.
And if it's no one's business, it's no one's fucking business.
Others handle it in a way to like, for example, Alex Trebek who came out and just kind of
said, hey, I'm pretty sick, but I'm still going to be, I still got some work to do,
you know, and thankfully he wasn't, he went into remission.
So things were okay there.
The not saying anything part where it just kind of comes in and hits.
Like that, that's one of those things where I'm like, man, like that's kind of how it
went down with my sister.
So it really is like, I mean, this is, this is, there's a difference obviously between
what's personal and, and, and what is a celebrity.
I'm not trying that, that type of parallel, but I am saying that.
No, but the distinction between the ability to see it coming and not is significant.
Massive change to the impact, you know, and.
Not, not to, not to take like a two personal track, but like let's take me and my dad.
Yeah.
My dad's old.
My dad has had many, many heart attacks.
He's got a pacemaker.
Uh, his, his organs are in shambles.
Right.
He's been in the hospital and we've had the talk with the family like a couple times
now.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So when I eventually get the phone call, I will be somewhat prepared.
Yeah.
Because I've had to deal with it in the past.
Right.
And it is such on a, not, I don't want to say non personal, but like a cultural level.
Right.
With people who are open about their illness.
Right.
Or you're at least aware.
But if my dad was the peak of physical health and then one day.
Poof.
Right.
Oh my goodness.
Right.
And that is the cultural thing here where I thought it was the thing that I didn't
pay attention.
So that's why I didn't know that he had been diagnosed with cancer many years is like,
no, he had been quiet and private.
Yep.
So it's unsurprising that it would be as shocking as like say an accident.
One obscure tabloid and some, some Instagram photos where people were calling him out on
the weight loss apparently and the, and it was just like, you know, deleted or whatever.
But yeah, no, you know, in my sister's case, it was completely kept silent.
Didn't want any like weird calls or weird energy brought into the situation.
You know, so it was a similar kind of like you're going to find out when you find out,
you know, and I also know that like part of that was kind of like as a result of wanting
to focus on just like the mental state required to get better.
So, you know, everybody goes through their journeys in their own way.
But yeah, like it, it is absolutely the difference between turning up the pot with the frog in
it and just shooting the frog point blank with a shotgun.
Yeah.
Well, on that note, let's take some letters.
Let's take some zany emails.
We got one coming in over here from Quaid who says, Hey, castle super guys, my brother
and I were taking a trip down memory lane watching clips from the 2008 film speed racer.
While watching my brother raised the question, did you know there's a better racing movie
than speed racer?
I promptly told him he was full of shit.
But then I quickly ate my words when he put on red line.
I can't believe I've never heard of this masterpiece.
Have you ever been experienced?
Have you ever experienced something where you said, where has this been all my life?
How have I not known about it?
Yeah, definitely.
For me, that happens all the time with a lot of games that I'm discovering.
But I remember front mission three just being like, what the fuck this game is insanely good.
And I couldn't believe and it was buried at that time.
That one off, I can't believe how fucking good it was.
And prior to that, my only time seeing front mission was there was a comic shop where my
friend would just he'd make his gunpla and he'd sell manga and comics.
And if you walked in at any random time, the TV on the counter would probably be watching
anime or playing front mission.
So I just knew it in passing form from walking through the shop.
And I was like, oh, yeah, that's that cool.
That's that cool mecha, tactical RPG.
All right.
But I had no idea.
And then upon touch, it was like, oh, my God.
Wow.
Yeah, this thing.
I can't think of anything.
The only thing I can think of right now is probably when Pace started playing dead by
daylight a year or two ago.
And I had remembered she started it out.
Yeah, absolutely.
That wasn't you.
Okay.
No, no, she she was playing it for like a fucking six months, like super hardcore before I
looked over and went, that game looks stupid.
And then I was like jealous that she was having so much fun.
So I played it myself, but I played killer instead.
And I was like, oh, this is the fun.
Killing is the fun part.
But we had covered that game back on shitstorm back when it was early access.
And it was not just rough, but it was all we played was the survivor.
And I fucking hate the survivor gameplay.
So Paige is playing this game all the time.
And I'm like, what the fuck did by daylight sucks?
What the hell is going on?
And it's it's been out for years and years and years.
And I'm like, oh, no, wait, it's awesome.
It's actually fantastic.
What the fuck?
I just didn't.
I literally just didn't hit the button to go over to the fun part of the game.
It probably would have still got you when pyramid had dropped.
Oh, it would have.
Like you would have curiosity peaked for sure.
But if it had only gotten me when pyramid had dropped, then I wouldn't have had so many
blood points that I could max out triple prestige pH and earn every perk in the game for him.
Hmm.
Pyramid head is like my pyramid head is leveled up enough that whenever new killers come out,
I can just unlock their perks instantly and add them to him.
So hooray.
I like pH a lot.
What about fun, fun character?
What about 14?
What about 14?
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but every Sunday night or Monday, I post a
screenshot of my level progress as I get every single class to 80.
Yeah.
So wouldn't that game count on this list as well?
Well, I actually played that on it's like, uh, no.
You weren't into 11.
14.1.0 was goddamn trash.
And then I actually played 14 around my born, like in its beta.
I just didn't get super into it.
But I realized it was good.
Because I remember when 14 was dropping and the people I knew that were super into 11 were the most excited.
Yeah.
I still hate 11.
11 is a weird game for crazy people.
So yeah, then 14 was one of those games for you.
No, it wasn't.
What are you talking about?
I never like 14.1.0 and 14.2.0 are totally different games.
And 14.1.0 is trash straight up.
Okay.
So you were curious enough when realm reborn dropped to go take a look.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So I played the third closed beta and then I played it day one.
And then I fell off of it because I didn't make any new pals.
And then I played it again a couple of years later and did make some new pals.
And then I've been with it ever since from April of 2015.
Here's one from Brent from Kansas City.
Pat and Woolley on episode 82.
Woolley read out an email that neither of you really reacted to.
So that was all fine, but I needed to write in and correct the disingenuousness.
Someone wrote in and said that NISS America stole the rights to publish Falcom's game
in the West from X seed.
And this, and because of this, there's now microtransactions.
This is blatantly false.
NISS America got the rights because they have more money and resources.
They outbid X seed was outbid by NISS America for the publishing rights and to give the
games a greater marketing budget in the West and fund outsourcing ports to both the switch
and PC for their games.
The rights weren't stolen.
The emailer also tried to say that they put microtransactions in themselves.
Microtransactions in the games when Falcom themselves are the ones that did it with
and they're doing it with Cold Steel one and two, which were published by X seed, had
costumes and items and so on.
So correction to the correction.
I understand not liking a publisher, but Falcom fans going around and blatantly lying
about the stuff doesn't help.
NISS has been getting better with their Falcom releases and even had Durante go back and
complete the fix of East eight recently.
Thanks for reading.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Dear Table Lord woolly and pat a table.
Being wrong changes.
Olive.
Changes everything.
The spouse and I watched the table lords betrayal at House on the Hill had a great time.
It was fun, but I found it funny that not all the rules were well known.
So how the game played out was hugely different than it could have been.
Everyone had fun, but are there any rules that you ignore or change in a game personally
to maximize fun?
I think from Peppa monopoly is the worst anti version of this.
Nobody plays monopoly by its actual rules.
House rules everywhere.
Yeah.
And monopoly sucks on house rules.
You have to play with the real rules.
The first example that often comes to mind is consumables in a character action game.
That feels like.
What are those?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Don't know what the animation looks like.
I don't know what agree.
I don't know what a holy water looks like or or the rocket ship in 101.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
So I don't know what that is.
That just become the norm 100%.
And in a lot of cases with fighting games, at least, I don't know the ins and outs of
how the stylish mode works.
You know, sometimes they'll be, they'll be one of those in and like, I discovered how
it worked when I was in Japan and I sat at an excerpt machine and accidentally picked
it because I couldn't tell the language difference between the two.
Right.
And I was like, oh, fuck.
And then like the guy I was playing against just kind of got up and walked away.
And I was like, well, oh, sorry.
Oh, no.
Um, and last.
So sad.
Yeah.
What are you going to do?
Lastly, Josh says, dear Willie and Pat, I was in a weird class called undergrad in game
studies and it ended up writing about all the different ways games approach the self.
Two ways scholars describe this as either playing a character or an avatar.
Characters when you're given an identity to occupy in the game separate from your own,
like the last of us, an avatar is when you're meant to place your own identity in the game's
world, like Minecraft.
I pitched the idea that a game can bridge the two where you're able to build your own
character's identity so that it aligns with your own.
Something I found in my playthrough of life is strange.
For example, what do you think is one method better than the other is that universal across
genres?
Sincerely, Josh.
This is known as the, what I was talking about last week as dude versus guy alternatively
dude being silent protagonists versus real person.
Yeah, dude being the avatar and guy being the character.
I think I tend towards character.
I like, I really like the way Mass Effect 1 and 2 did it, where you're playing a character
but you're influencing, you're influencing a range of possibilities but in that would
be consistent for that character, right?
So in Mass Effect 1, Shepard's a career shoulder, Commander Shepard is a career soldier, right?
So you have the Renegade and the, the Renegade and the, what do you call it, Paragon options
are a range of reasonable possibilities between that character's, you know, reactions.
The Pure Avatar, unless it's written extremely well and has just a million lines of dialogue
I don't usually care for.
So like the Nameless one in Torment, yeah, okay, that's a good avatar and you know, stuff
like that with RPGs where you can just determine millions of things about your character.
I think probably the best one that I've seen is the attempt to split the difference, which
is the Courier in New Vegas in which it is 100% player controlled.
Every single thing that you do and say and think and believe and everything.
And then in the final piece of DLC, once you've completely done everything that you could
possibly do in the Mojave Desert, you go to a new area in which they describe events that
took place before the start of the game and the events are rock solid, right?
Like it is, the Courier went here and delivered this yada yada, right?
But you are given the ability to choose the reasons why you did these.
And then that informs the overall backstory of your character before they became an avatar.
And it's really, really good and satisfying.
Yep.
It's the only one I can think of that totally nails it.
Revan in the Exile.
They're great.
Splitting the difference reminds me of D&D campaigns where on pen and paper, you're
going to sit down and you're going to behave as you would in the shoes of this person from
this race, from this setting, from this civilization, whatever the case may be.
Personally, I absolutely lean towards the existing character.
And I do that because for the longest while in video games as a medium, the tradition
has been to do the avatar instead.
Yeah, Silent Protagonist is a little dull to me.
But it's a legacy of technology, right?
If you're playing a video game where all you're going to do is jump on platforms to
make it to the end of the stage, that's an avatar by default, not for lack of a narrative,
but because it was what the technology could do at the time.
And if there was a booklet story...
The most you're going to get is a Paizanos, it's time for the Super Show.
Yeah.
If there's a booklet telling you the story, it's not going to give you the moment to
moment personality of the character, you know?
I mean, shit, Sonic the Hedgehog was that until the games could bring out a personality,
but you could see him being impatient and being like, what the fuck, let's go, let's
hurry.
So I definitely want characters to behave like people, and I prefer those games more
because I also think they tell more natural stories.
I think it's very hard for any other medium to insert a self-insert, a Mary Sue or a template
character, Silent Protagonist, whatever you want to call it, into their story and not
have it come across as extremely weird or just shitty storytelling.
Yeah, so take New Vegas again.
If you choose, you have the ability to play your character and many people accidentally
do this, play their character as if they're a total crazy person because they have wildly
inconsistent morals and just do whatever based on whatever, right?
So I usually tend to like a more, not guided or not even narrow, but it's like, I want
a nudge in a direction that I can move in a 90 degree angle down the path.
You know?
I want to be able to go left and right, but I don't want to be able to go behind, if
that makes any sense.
Cole Phelps, people are saying, Cole Phelps is a perfect example.
Cole Phelps, Cole is a very well-defined character.
I was going to say Cole Phelps, no, no, sorry, Cole Phelps, sorry, I was going to say Big
B, Lee, right?
These are people where you're like, oh, if I was playing anyone else in the cast, I
know what you would be like.
I understand you.
Yes, absolutely.
From another camera perspective, from another point of view, I still understand your character.
That to me is more interesting.
Despite the astronomical amount of dialogue choices you can make in The Witcher that range
every emotional state and moral view possible, Geralt couldn't be more well-defined by the
end of that and what Geralt's into and what Geralt thinks is bullshit and what have you.
Yeah, it tells a more interesting story in almost every circumstance unless you've written
the game to play with that element of the story as a plot point, which many games do.
See Bioshock, see FF7, see anything where you need the main character to be quiet for
a reason, you know?
Or the character you wrote sucks.
Undertale, that's another one, yeah.
That's the problem.
I love a good character that I have some agency over unless they suck, at which point I'll
take the avatar, please.
Now, at the same time, if the goal is a visual novel where you're supposed to just go and
date some people in the harem, then your character's existing in any way, you can have no face
and a transparent penis.
Any version of your character being a real person gets in the way of your boner, so that's
a no-no.
That's just disruptive.
I'm trying to be that role.
I don't want anything besides...
I don't want to see your dick.
I want the Phantom Dicks so that I can pretend it's my penis.
I need to load my JPEG into the texture engine and stretch it over a fucking face model like
Perfect Dark.
And what happens when you take that video game habit and put it into other mediums is
Bella from Twilight.
Oh, man.
That's the last character I thought I'd be talking to you about today.
Holy shit.
That's what happens when it leaves the video game format and becomes something else.
All right.
What'll do her?
We have a sudden guest on the podcast.
He's snorting.
He chewing.
He snorts.
Gonna fuck up your pop filter, though.
That's fine.
What?
He smells really nice, actually.
He does.
He smells nice.
Yeah.
Where could the people see more?
You can see more of this nice smelling dog over at twitch.tv.
And also twitch.tv.
Here you go.
And yeah, I'll be over at Woolly versus on YouTube and Twitch, everybody, take care.