Castle Super Beast - CSB 088: Your Buyfus Will Never Hit Armour Class Zero

Episode Date: October 6, 2020

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I Hello, hello, good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening to those of you in a dumb time zones and Watching it, you know later Yeah, there's a good what's up somewhere not too much, you know just Putting it all together had a Had a little walk yesterday Checked out Some some nice nature

Got a little cold Saw did you enjoy your nature? I did Took note of like, you know what businesses were closing down. What was opening up, you know, what was Like new and yeah, lots of lots of shifts lots of changes lots of new and old things Coming and going in the neighborhood. I had I had an interesting experience along those lines just a few days ago Where Paige and I

Ordered takeout steaks from a pretty good steakhouse. Yeah, that was one of the just Dead last restaurants to actually allow their shit to be taken out It's been really funny watching these restaurants go. No the prestige of sitting down and having The bid the debate Takeout and then it's like well, do you want to have a restaurant or do you want to have a takeout restaurant? I've been doing I've been doing takeout steaks for a while now There's a couple places actually and you know, there's some options what I was what I was

Was funny to see was the places that are like the most legendary Montreal locations like Schwartz for example, which is a It is the premier smoked meat joint in Montreal when anyone visits That's where you're supposed to go and down the Swartz They would they would always be above a delivery Service on their food, you know, they've had for they've they're infamous for letting people line up around the block and then like they opened Up a second location. That was just to sell merch Right next to it. Yeah Schwartz was always it's not a large location and only seats like I want to say like 40 people tops and

There's always like 100 people standing outside and it's always like super packed and kind of horrible Um, yeah, and now that they're no longer above takeout because they want to continue to exist Yeah, wow Schwartz is such a better takeout restaurant than it is a sit-down restaurant. It's great, isn't it? They because yeah now they're uh, you know, I mean They should they always should have been about the takeout But now like they had okay Well, they did have the second place I talked about like right next door was a place where they then put a counter in and they said alright

You can come in and get shit to go if you don't want to sit down, but It's definitely a product of its own popularity where they make the best damn smoke meat But like they they just like yeah, you can't get in and if you do it's it's rough. So Now that they you can get it To deliver to you like it's like oh, that's perfect. You know, especially considering that type of like restaurant location is What I can only describe as a conceivable COVID explosion site

Like the the proximity of the booths and everybody's filing in you can't can't eat through your mask And all that crap. It's like man that that thing is fucked outside of takeout for the foreseeable future I also noticed that on their on their delivery menu at that Schwartz They've they've added the fuck it do it yourself option Which is basically like Give us 50 bucks and we'll give you a loaf of bread in the bag and a Container of Mayo not Mayo of mustard a jar of pickles a Fuck ton of coleslaw and like two pounds of meat

Two pounds of the smoke meat and they just they just throw you the ingredients and go make a fucking picnic get out of here you know Yeah, so hey, that's uh The way the way Schwartz is meant to be experienced in the comfort of your own fucking home, you know, how about that? It's pretty nice Yeah, no, we're lining people silver linings But it was it was interesting, you know, just Again like observing and seeing how things are going and you know, I think I told you about like, you know

Though the wedding procession back then. Oh, yeah The well, obviously since then we've been put back on to high alert and Now the streets are quiet again And now I don't have to feel a little bit like weird about like just Kind of crazy looking around going like what is what is wrong with? All these places and people where they just don't give a fuck like what's that? You know, it's like no, it's kind of like okay. This is what this is what's to be expected So a lot of basically a lot of the behavior I was seeing beforehand

Then led to what we have now and because there was some sort of conclusion. It's like, okay Well, this this does make sense. I suppose this is this is what would follow what I saw. So Yep Yep, yep New restrictions coming to the city in a couple hours. Oh today. Yeah, that's a day 5 p.m They're gonna be like this shit is closed. This shit is closed. You're closed Any any anticipation and about any reveals?

They're likely going to ban all group gatherings everywhere. Okay Because there's nothing like a good reveal trailer Unexpected, you know, it's basically I'm expecting basically it'll be as much lockdown as they can possibly get away with without closing retail stores Okay Well, um Whatever, you know, we'll see what we got to do But yeah, I'll just keep being in here. Oh Man, this dog is getting fatter every day. Holy shit. Okay, so I had a week of stuff

Hit me with your week of stuff That you had on on woolly versus One Sushima is now done. Hey, congratulations Got the con That uh, that was that was nothing like a vocal trigger, but anyway The Yes, so Sushima done the finale of that game is fucking strong

Fucking strong really really really enjoyed the final play on that and I Feel as if like some of those like Like there's there's I don't want to spoil it in case, you know, anyone is going through but like right before the final fight There's a game mechanic that gets used in the best possible way. Do you know what I'm talking about? No, I don't I got to the winter area and then put it on the shelf for whatever reason got you I think something else Got my attention Okay, well, you know, you're you're you're gonna be you're an act three

So you got some you got some place to go but There is a there is a moment Around the final fight that they just kind of throw in a little extra something in there and it was Really really cool. I Really appreciate like how Yeah, it kind of comes together in a really beautiful way I think and and overall in the end you're like this is this is great and this is paying homage to to

Kurosawa, but it's also going its own direction and doing its own thing and and You know, I think Yeah, it really does kind of It doesn't overplay its hand when it comes to some of the relationships with the characters, you know It doesn't like push things over the top for the sake of being Movie-like, you know, I think some of the people that you kind of work with and they have everyone's got their grievances But overall like you're left with a pretty

Realistic depiction of relationships, I think and you know, I think the way I think that's probably true with only one possible exception Yeah, I've not personally seen myself But when I when I heard somebody talking about it, I I couldn't believe it And it's my number one reason to go back to the game is to finish the Ishikawa sensei fucking Mmm-hmm and be like it can it really possibly be that bad can it get any worse You're halfway through it and you're like can I hate him anymore and sucker punch is like that was an ordeal You know Yeah, yeah, you can find more ways to hate him. You'd be surprised. It's kind of amazing

It is he's so the worst but I do appreciate that they make him a douche from the jump and Like it digs further in and it's like your first impression where you're like, ah, he's a little rough around the edges But I'm sure you know No, I first impression was very negative Very negative and then furthermore they continue to bury him by every time you go for the first couple of legendary Missions that you go on with the scroll painting stuff There's at least two or three of them where they're like the best and most legendary Amazing archer in the world. That's not Ishikawa is is a cool badass and you can get his stuff over here and

They tell you the tale of like these super archers that we used to that that lived and you basically Frame the world of archery in in Tsushima as one where Ishikawa Kind of gets the mantle of best archer by happen by being alive He's being alive in the right time by being alive in the right time and tripping over your dick You managed to land first place. Good job You know the legendary archers that were able to shoot electric ghost dogs are gone and The legendary archers that will define like the Sengoku era are coming but we're here in

the middle and Also just in historical context once again Mongols The thing they do good is knock and shoot the arrow From horseback from super far away and fuck you up every time With super-duper heavy bows Like it's just this is what they are known for, you know, so In any case do show I say to Ishikawa do show

We had a couple of moments of oh No, Ishikawa has been jumped by you know a bad a pack of Mongols that are all coming after him and they're gonna be like Surrounding him. Whatever will he do and it's like let's just see what happened Why don't we just Chill for a second hide in a bush and and most of your buddies can actually handle themselves In fact, I sat and watched lady. No chill handle herself quite fine Is she just fine as well. Oh, he does more than fine fucking crushes

But is she cow is the only little punk that can't get shit done until you crawl up behind him and start helping him out So, yeah You're way of the bow It's the way of the bow. Well, you gotta if you're in act three You know, I'd say just press press ahead, you know, and I don't know how your cleanup feelings are but like Considering you can always clean up after the fact You know, yeah, I'd say yeah, I'd say just wrap that wrap that story up. See how you feel

So that that comes to a conclusion that is very satisfactory and then With that opening I Was able to then sit down and play through MK 11 aftermath story mode Okay, to finally catch up on what happened. So Shang Tsung shows up. That's what happened. Yes and I'm gonna assume that's what the Like 95% of what matters. That's that is 100% of what matters. Yeah, okay

It is it is in effect of 100% of what matters Everything else mattering is just a layer on top of that that, you know Bedrock if you would Shang Tsung existing is the bedrock and then from there you're like, hey, look, it's Sindel, right? And then we get all kinds of fun things. So You know step one is Sindel shows up and obviously With that we get the newfound interaction of Sindel and Shao Kahn power couple We're like Shao Kahn is like

Why? It is good to see you. Oh Seriously, have you been are you super impressed by the skulls that I crush wife? And It's it's it's pretty fun It's pretty fun to watch them hanging out and just yeah, they're trying to They're trying to do their best, I don't know. Maybe not maybe not not Jay-Z and Beyonce Maybe not maybe not yay and card and Kim. I don't know. I don't know who what about Triple H and Stephanie McMahon

Perhaps Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. That's a good one. That's a good one. Yep. There you go. Thank you and And and he and he definitely yells it and she's she's super down So that's a fun interaction Of course this dog smells. Yeah, he he would he should oh Pretty sure just farted into my elbow It traveled up the finger You get to check out

Fujin who I don't know if you know much about Fujin. Why would you? But that's the right when God he's got a ponytail. That's the Raiden brother. He showed up in MK mythologies and then in MK4 and Yeah, exactly. So he walks out and then you're like, what's up with this? What's going on Raiden's brother? What's your deal and where have you been and what's going on and then? Guess what turns out? He's the not dick Raiden. He's just better He's just chill Raiden. He's chill Raiden and everyone's like, oh my god

Yeah, we'll take more of that, please Because the dude whose entire plot always revolves around him losing his cool and attacking Liu Kang Because he's holding the the fucking thing and getting all uppity. It's like yeah, his brother is way more chill and Raiden has like over time become a complete failure Mmm and the plot has revolved around it the plot has lead and to be and it's and you know The whole aspect of him being like mind-controlled and shit like that is always a part of it, of course But it doesn't change the fact that like, you know from the jump ever since we we saw like the dark Raiden days and stuff It's like, okay. Yeah, he's his whole deal as as the mystical mentor like

Connected to the gods that can you know? Give All the combatants like the will of the elder gods and tell them the way. It's like yeah, you've just gotten more and more like rigid and and as holy and sort of like Untrustworthy, you know as a it's source of divine information It's still like why did you send the shittiest message you could back to yourself? That could have meant anything Yeah, when like yeah, you're stupid, Raiden. I mean there's that you know, but then there's the

The overall just like I am the mentor here, right? This is me teaching you but then power levels get called into question and There are times when you are not the strongest person in the room Raiden and Also, you've made mistakes and you've been tricked and you've been proven to be just as gullible as everyone else but you still demand all the authority of a Mentor Remember when all the shadows were just pushing his shoulders around in that little circle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

Just give it to myself Like that's right in his whole life now from West outworld born and raised like just getting just getting fresh Prince the round in a little circle Uh-huh Waiting for him to get picked up and spun around on his shoulders. You know, I remember when we saw that We lost our minds was the funniest thing in the world Yeah, it is it is a it is a sorry state of affairs made even worse by the fact that His brother shows up and he's cooler. He's chiller and like he even has

You know a moment of like, you know breaking it down for Jax and just being like Hey, dude, I get it. I understand. I remember when I was a kid and Like Raiden was a huge douche to me, too, and it sucked so I can feel what you're feeling The wind why would Raiden be a huge douche to you? They had they had a whole thing they had it like what you know, it's it's it's a it's so they have they have whole thing with their relationship, but in the end Fujin is just way better overall and yeah Everybody should be like where's Fujin whenever he's not on screen. I

Would like to also note as I have to That there has never and I mean like not even second place not even remotely close ever been a character as universally Diarrheed upon as Kotal Khan in any fighting game plot

that is a Definitive statement, it's the most I was waiting to see how bad it would be and We have hard confirmed as of aftermath That no one gets it any we're near as Disrespectfully and as badly as he does because other people lose fights and he loses fights But he's the only one that also not only loses fights but he gets shit talked about him when he's not on screen by other characters and Like he gets shown to be like

Extra incapacitated when he's in his little healing tube and everyone's like dude get the fuck out We got to heal more important characters than you And he's serious. He's just like he can't get an ounce of respect You know like from the fucking being pilloried up to to get in just the shit talked off screen and then you know Losing the fight that that that a bunch of other characters fight and and clearly, you know, there's dire consequences But in his case they camera big zoom in on Look at how rough Kotal gets it

You know the back break was the one thing back in the old game And then the first part of am aftermath is everyone talking about how fucking broken his back is Okay, and then I was I was there for the jobbing in nine and not nine And and I and I was there for the jobbing in eleven with his back broke But the fact they're like making fun of him in his tube and now we're at a point and now we're at a point Where it's just like, you know, he can like he flops out of the tube and he still tries to fight with dignity But he's all weak and drunk so he can't so he flops over and gets wrecked What's the point of him bringing him out of tube because they had to put Sindel in the tube

But but anyway, and then and then Yeah, but she's more plot important You know now to be fair he gets completely dunked on by none other than Shiva who I Don't know if you've seen her in this game, but she is a cute and She makes the heart go doki-doki and she needs to be protected Shiva

Eleven Shiva is great and needs to be protected, but not really cuz she can do it herself I I fucking world of Warcraft orc now. She's great She's great She's just straight up a world of Warcraft orc. That's really funny I saw her as I saw her as like a Bowser's daughter kind of look Where you get the horns in the Mohawk and you're like, yeah, you can't unsee it. It's right in there But yes Considering old Shiva to new Shiva

The glow-up has never been more powerful and I'm all about it. I'm very very happy with new Shiva She's great and Yeah, anyway, Kodle gets fucking wasted and Then the cat and then the camera like zooms in on it and it's big big like 3d hold it up for everybody to see it fail Kodle moment which only him you know Only him and people that like our cameo deaths like the heads that get tossed by Aaron Black's intro or like the crypt keeper, you know, like a bunch of our crypt guy rather

It's just it is a level of of fucking pain being a Kodle con fan and That's all there is to it. Is it like this I made the mistake of liking a mezzo-american Osh-tech warrior who seems pretty cool and Why did they make this cool character just to horribly stomp his nuts? Well, cuz he's the key gives you the energy that you get off of characters like sagat or Wammu, right? big evil, but big honor and My god, they kick his head down the fucking and big evil and big honor

Like often go for the strong second in command that gets betrayed and it goes how it goes But I like those characters. I'm down with that. That's fine to me But like it's one thing for them to get like, you know Betrayed in the show or in the story and then like everyone goes. Oh you asshole, you know Like that guy was he was actually he had his own dignity or whatever But in this game like the world and the camera are just like teaming up to dunk on him And just pee all over his grave so

anyway Someone says it's kind of like wharf It is very very very much kind of like wharf Okay wharf wharf and so you're not super familiar with TNG But I mean I've seen random episodes on on on back when I was a kid, you know Yeah, but you got to see the whole picture to really feel the what I would call the wharf problem Wharf is established. He's a Klingon. He's fucking gigantic. He's super strong. He's a great warrior. He's incredible right so

When we have a big scary monster or a person who's particularly good at fighting or whatever We show that wharf is beaten by them or can't do it or whatever, right? It's a show Oh man, this guy this guy's so strong, right? Mm-hmm except they do that like actually a hundred times To prove how strong the threat is right they can't brute force it like wharf gets to show off in TNG I I Want to say like four times ever Wow Wow, okay, like ever and twice are in one episode

He exists to be if they measure a measure of physical power To show that the threat cannot be surmounted by just beefing it And on top of that he has the problem named data Which is data the robot. He's the smartest guy on the ship, right? Yeah data is great data is orders of magnitudes stronger than wharf and Can do all sorts of crazy robot shit Okay, so you have these scenes where wharf is now being shown

To like job to the robot because oh my god like look how fucking strong data is But if data is so fucking strong and he's smart when what the fuck is the point of wharf? Yeah, okay, so you've designed a heavy to be big and beefy Like like a Napa and then an Android shows up and it's like well, I'm gonna I'm a robot I have robot strength so I'm also sending you a video right now, which you don't have to watch You just have to note the time stamp Okay, and it's a 15-minute montage of

Every suggestion wharf has ever made on the bridge getting shot down Okay, because they're explorers and they're like hey guys Hey, look at that probe that probes scanning us. What should we we should shoot it captain? No wharf fucking So the wharf problem is not wharf's fault Okay, and so then he comes on to DS9 and they they're like okay Well, we're not gonna do that shit again Okay, well, but the the codal problem is partially codal's fault because there's a couple times where he picks fights He shouldn't be picking but then there's the times when he's totally like no, that's fair

That's the time to go for it, especially when you got yo, he's got Jade, right? Yeah, and I and I don't if you remember Jade, but Jade was hot. She's great. Jade's Jade's great and And you know why he's got Jade? Hmm? Cuz he's green. Yeah Totally, that's the a total actual reason and I won't fight anyone That's correct. That's correct and and Jade and codal are a power couple too You know I suppose Power bottom couple. I mean listen they they they do their best and I just say it's cool

But at the end of the day You know this is the world itself has something out fork codal and They make it known they make it known You know, I feel like there if there was a cutting room floor of like outtakes. It would have been him stubbing his toe and You know like like getting his breakfast pushed in his face or just you know like having that awkward trip Like on the step going into your kitchen and he takes that awkward fall and hits his temple on the corner of a sharp table

You know how Tekken treats Lee or how Street Fighter treats Dan Yeah, it's kind of like that, but it's not a joke in this case It's just that humor to there's no humor to it at all You know at least Nikali has the decency to show up and get punched and then call it a day Right, they don't continue to shit on him off screen He basically disappears from Street Fighter after for you throws that one fireball at him Essentially he punches him he punches It's not just a fireball

That would be really bad if it was but it was it's here's the one fireball Okay, but actually Then then like it does bear where it is absolutely worth noting that like shout shanks song fucking kills it he's super great in aftermath and easily the best part like steals the show with his performance and Yeah, the fact that they went through the trouble to like go back and get you know All the movie references in there and get get the actor and everything like that like it pays off really nicely That dude's the best part of that movie. They do a great job like bringing the yeah

He's the best part of the movie and then so that when they bring him into this He's the best part of this too, you know, does he say the line and he says all of them. Yeah He says every single one of the lines like like non-stop. He can't stop saying them So yeah, it is it is really really great and Overall, I was like fuck. Yeah aftermath. That was good. The only thing I was a bit You know disappointed with was I was sitting there with Reggie waiting to see the portal open and just see the and hear the But it never happened I wanted to see who can we call in this time of need and Robocop and Joker come walking out and then spawn

flips in behind them staying You know, I wanted comes in too I wanted to see them all standing there ready to defend Against Kronika, but we never got there Yeah, I imagine the rights holders are like no, I'm fuck. No, we're not doing that portal out of the ground Arnold has the thumb up and he reverses his way out of the portal because I am here too No, they have no route they have no role whatsoever, you know, so Um, oh well, and and and here's the bit right I get it. That's some goofy shit

But to that I say look at Tekken they got a kuma in there canonically and it was great Probably the weirdest thing I've seen a crossover doing a fighting game is that yeah kuma's just here the whole time But it's weird in a way that you have to respect its balls because they basically went no This is a guest character, but we're committing to his importance Yeah, it's like Street Fighter Tekken. They're just happening Side-to-side like the Street Fighter characters just aren't interested in the King of Iron Fist tournament Yeah, that city is over there doing its own thing We don't care about the Devil Jean we've got the set so we know how to worry about we got a way out our own magic evil crap to

Deal with yeah, it's kind of like how like in the Street Fighter world Like as long as you're an adult you're dealing with adult problems But if you happen to be in high school then the rival school story is happening Yeah, your principal is like a lightsaber ninja monster Like or or fucking grappler back. He's dad and you've just got to deal with that But once you get out of high school, then you're like, oh, yeah Street Fighter. Let's just go do that Oh, okay, or final fight if you live in New York or final fight if you live in Metro City Yeah, yeah, all of these worlds just hanging out and it's like where are you that's their problems and like you do have to

Wonder if like any time one of the bad guys gets to global catastrophe level power-up threat If like everyone just kind of looks up and sees the skies darkening and then like they're just like oh, yeah No, but that's a high school problem. They those kids got it. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hey Youth will handle it Kids today. They're all right No, if it's not if it's not a my world's problem or if it's not a my city problem Then it's fine and cause you it turns to Ryu and he goes all right. So we're gonna go fuck up Wolverine or not. He's like So so

Yeah, I don't mind after Akuma. I don't mind the commitment to a guest in the plot Except for the part where if the future requires that guest to be referenced, but the legal has not been worked out then photo Because what happens if you have to talk about what happened Tekken 7's events, but Capcom ain't on board anymore. You know, I don't know man So they're cool Some games have just done things like make reference to

The character but like they just refer to him as like oh the Oni You know, they would or they would just say like oh, yes the the demon that was summoned by What's her name, you know, yes, the dim Like like yeah, like I would there's a point where Kaz fucking whatever. Hey hashi's wife Kazumi, yeah What? Yeah, so They would just refer to it like that or something

Yeah, now that dizzy gets referred to as like the maiden of the grove at one point just to avoid legal issues So, you know, that's how they figure it out It's good after math is cool and it ends on a very fun Okay, I had predictions about where MK11 story was gonna go based on its ending So to be like big reboot time humongous reboot time let's go back and rewrite the universe and We can do anything with any time and bring in an all-star cast or not or new people what old people just reboot the whole series, right?

Field like felt like that was what was gonna happen Then after math kind of goes maybe not but then it does end on a little on a cool little stinger Where like, you know, well whatever slight spoilers if you didn't go back and see it But like you get to actually see the great Kung Lao Oh That's fun, and we can see where that goes because that dude's strong

Yeah, so caught up a little late on that, but it was a good time. Is he really big? No Okay, then I'm looking at the wrong thing He's just a he's just a cool Shaolin Monk Okay, and then maybe we can get Shaolin Monks, too What oh man, what if the next Mortal Kombat is like the ancient one and there's Scorpions great great great great great great grandfather Scorpion

And it Just these fucking these ninja clans have no originality whatsoever. It's gonna be reverse Tekken. Yeah It's it's going to be Like look, it's me do old man the Shari Ryu and the Lin Kuei Absolutely are gonna have those same names just going back in time, and it'll be like nah shut up though It's whatever there's a slight there's a scar on a different eye. Oh Don't worry about it So that happened

Tepin got a big update some some did it. Yeah, they added some new shit They brought in a whole bunch of Sen Goku Basara. Oh Yeah Which is interesting to see like the implementation of some of these characters and it's like how does Oda Nobunaga fit in to this crazy chaotic card crossover world Well, he's ambitious. He's very ambitious and that ambition shows in the way his card is is used, but They also dropped Amaterasu Into the great playable character. So I'm like, oh fuck

That's a fun one to put in that makes perfect sense and should have been there earlier to be perfectly honest but Ami's in the game and Ami's pretty fun I've been playing like a little and Amaterasu deck that's got a lot of like Like self referencing cards in a way like a lot of like you're a son got you're all good son God you you can heal an attack at the same time and Like there's some cool abilities in there where let's say you're playing a black deck, which is all about like Death and resurrection, you know like Wesker

For example, we'll be like, oh, I'll eat one of my own cards and then resurrect it or shit like that Amaterasu has things where it's like it'll kill it has like a super that'll kill Whatever cards and make sure that they can never be resurrected again Like it's a purifying kill of evil. No So anything with revenge anything that's gonna like be resurrected from the dead can just be outright snuffed Which means like you got some hard counters to some bullshit decks If you can set up the the the play, you know So that's pretty cool. I like the fact that you can

Well, again, everything sort of has a hard counter to it But yeah, and then of course with the art style of teppen Amaterasu existing in that form is very beautiful What's I can imagine. Yeah, what's crazy though is do you remember the art style of all the other characters in Okami? Yeah, I do. Yeah, they got the moving I Don't even know how to scribe the bouncing heads the bouncing heads and shit, right like that So now that doesn't work for this art style because it's too realistic and and detailed So the all the characters that you've seen in Okami exist in card art form as real people

With faces and and lighting and like detail So you get to see all those characters as if they were like just like anime characters like And they didn't fuck it up They didn't fuck it up. It actually like so weird. It is weird, but it works. I didn't mind it like You can go see some of the card art For how they made it fit in because there's a lot of that Because Morrigan and Dante are hanging out next to these people and so they kind of have to figure out a way to make it like

What are you? Are you a little Pokemon character? Like, you know, and it's like no no They're they're people so you get to see what they look like in in that form and yeah at first I thought it was it definitely is weird. You don't expect it, but it's beautiful I'm getting to see the the Dante like guy With the Tengu mask. Wow. He looks yeah, that is a realistic version of what he would look like I forgot the rival with the What's his name with the the feather hares? Yeah, that's that's what I'm talking about. Okay So yeah, you can see like a portrait of him for example. You're just like yeah, you looked like a bishi

That's about right. You were a golden locked Beautiful creature that would stand there with your sword Waka. No, but not to shoot fight with a fucking shotgun No, but Naga does what he wants and and Hideyoshi's in there and all the rest of the Senkoku's you know But yeah It's it's kind of weird to go and see Okami characters Like depicted in this art style law form. Yeah, but again, it doesn't it it wasn't bad

Like I was I was kind of worried we'd be seeing American Naruto cover If you've seen that like in American You know chub face Naruto and it's not what we got we didn't get we didn't get that so Yeah, the or the art in Tepin continues to be very beautiful New character lots of fun there I'm going to keep it extremely brief But I started 13 Sentinels and so far it's a perfect video game

It's good. It's a perfect video game so far. It's pretty good. Yeah That's it Did you beat the prologue? No, I'm midway through it Okay, so you understand what I was talking about last week about yes. Hey you want a hundred threads Yeah, yeah everything starts so far so good incredible and you know that's going down and You know cross talk is being stomped out to a complete non-existent factor and Yeah, I have chipping away at it, but there's a lot like me and

Reggie walked away from that like crazy excited and going like I can't wait for the next session Because you're just thinking about it for the next couple days like where's it going? How's it going? What's good? What's happening? Yeah, that's it. That's all I want to say not a single thing to complain about not a single flaw so far a fucking perfect game excellent video game Got to revisit I talked about the old Marvel games Marvel superheroes and children of the atom good times those came out as well On get into fighting games Which yeah, should be going up on woolly versus sometimes shortly and if you happen to be a fan of

Yee Lee old botcha mania Check out the latest episode of it My catch a little woolly in the wild Yeah, you taught you you're reading stories reading stories catching Catching some Jericho vibes letting the people know weird story The good times man Yeah, shout-outs to Matthew and botcha mania. It's it's great. So fun to just like you know

to see the the power of that show continuing and That's it's it's it's like there is nothing like his sense of humor because Like everyone knows Matthew and his sense of humor through his editing Yeah, his editing is his delivery You know, that's a that's that's a fucking that's a skill and I respect it. So Tons of fun tons of fun. So yeah, all of that Leads to a whole new schedule come into woolly versus starting some new games and obviously includes 13 sentinels 13 sentinels is now started halo

Odst is now started But there are more new LPs to start and this week will be a week of new shit Lots of morning shit more new shit much much more new shit. So Yeah, how much more new can you get? New across the board, baby whole thing So everybody please. Yeah, I look forward to this week. We're gonna be starting new things everywhere and I got some fun picks I think some things will be cool. Tell me what the new shit is in the discord

I want to know what the new shit is and there's a bunch of shit It's it's a it's a it's a there's a slight convoluted nature to the plan. So I Will I will Okay, okay, hold on Tell me what the new shit is in the discord. Okay. Well, I want to know what it is Yeah, it's it's it's gonna be it's gonna be once I get to wine and throw my baby tantrum So I can know things. That's how it works That's how I go up to video game man on the street and I go tell me secrets

If you don't tell me a secret, I will start to cry. Okay. I'm gonna select a bunch of these And they're desperate to get away from me. I'm just gonna drop like a bunch of these things here And then these will these will be in short order All right, what do we got? Okay, I'm gonna read these out now. Hey, fuck you There's some fun stuff in there, that's a bunch of new shit Some fun stuff. That's a bunch of new shit. So there's a couple of those that are good. Yeah There's one or two. I don't even know about okay Anyway, now I know the secret

So that's pretty much me and that's pretty much Willie versus tune in twitch.tv slash Willie versus Oh, pardon. Sorry. Willie. Don't mean to cut you off with this coffee noise. I asked for that coffee No worries. That's my bad. No worries. So we are gonna be Doing all that Where's that? So in case the coffee destroyed your channel name over at Willie versus Twitch and YouTube also if you got a chance to you can check out the latest WWF IO where we talk about the QA stories and Some people are like, oh man, you guys talk some shit about some real people in there like

Is that okay? And it's like well if the person was fired for sexual harassment. I don't feel bad talking shit about them. So Yeah That's how we do it So check that out too What's going on? What's going on with me? Willie Do you want to talk about Genshin impact? I would love to talk about Genshin impact because I

peripherally For a second you had me in the first half Thinking that you were about to go down the gacha hole But then it seems like you pulled up after doing the math Mm-hmm, but you did the math which implies that you were about to Because you need that math to feel good about your purchase. It's actually the opposite, but let me let me Let me go down the narrative here. Let's go down the story. So I'm gonna get me some caffeine while you go Yeah, you go ahead and do that. All right, so

Last week Sorry two weeks ago We did an ad read for Genshin impact, which I went, huh, isn't that that Chinese thing with the Fucking breath of the wild thing. What the fuck is that? But so then I went. Oh, thank you darling. It's very appreciated. So then I went and took a look at it. Oh That's a fantastic coffee made by a loved one. Thank you darling. Oh, that's my girl. All right, so And I said to myself I should check this out because Everybody on my timeline

Will not stop talking about Genshin impact my friend emin won't stop talking about Genshin impact Buttons won't stop talking about Genshin impact even people that like like it's just it's all over the timeline, right? I'm sure it's even been all over your timeline non-stop It's crazy, right? So I was excited So then everybody's downloading and it takes forever to download my affine fucking should I down download it after they removed the thing Well, no, no, wait, wait, wait. It's okay. Okay. Okay. So here's the part Here's the part that really made it extra ridiculous for me

Everybody that plays warframe got in on this. Hmm. Hmm. Because of course they did free to play because of course There's a there's a direct Link here, right? So I got and and fucking Sarah Tseng and Mia bite and all these people So on my on my timeline go all can't wait to hit those fat rolls like okay Well, I gotta check this game out So I start to download it and in the middle of downloading it somebody's like hey, bitch. This is a Sunday night

That shit has that kernel anti-cheat that stays on your computer forever And I'm like fuck and then I mentioned that on the podcast last Monday and then within minutes of me saying that They patched it out Due to complaints. Yeah, I feel like it was either later that night slash the next morning I started seeing news of the The patch to remove so what happened was is they they announced it like Monday morning and said we in the patch Tuesday

We'll patch it out and then they just patched it out at like 5 p.m. Early like super early I'm like, okay. Well, that's a good. That's a good start. All right. Let's download Genshin impact and check out what this game actually is So would you like to know what Genshin impact actually is? Hit me it's a really really good breath of the wild styled action RPG with considerably more in-depth Combat mechanics and considerably less in-depth puzzle mechanics and Waifu buying and

Chinese gambling by foos By foos, that's right by foos by foos There it is. You did it so The question then becomes This is a free-to-play game. It's actually incredibly impressive. I've been having a blast with it But what about the by foos? Mm-hmm, right? How many by foo? Do you need to buy for your life?

Well the answer is Technically nothing Right, you can grind it out No So here's the game structure in a totality, right? And if this is confusing, it's because it's meant to be confusing So when you play the game and

Open chests do dailies run dungeons, etc. Right? You have the chance or guarantee of getting a certain amount of Primogenes, sorry primogenes. I think it might actually supposed to be primo gems But whatever, right? Well, they say you had your party of four which they give you by the way They do actually give you a full party and it's a four-person game Then the characters in this game work like weapons and DMC hit the pad to switch them kind of thing Are they all fighting you switch between them or you switch into them? You switch into them. Okay, so you'll do stuff like you'll have

Zing Lang and you'll throw out like a a little bear that shoots fire and then you will switch to venti so they can fire like a Wind attack through the fire so it becomes a fire wind attack that kind of thing And other than that it has like a five hit combo a hold button combo an element button and like a super essentially But the the it's the combinations between the party members and the uniqueness that actually makes a combat system It's no devil may cry, but it's a hell of a lot more in depth than something like breath of the wild It's it's it splits the difference on that I would say

So say okay, I'm gonna play my game I'm gonna do my main story quest and I'm gonna explore and find all the teleport locations and Then I'm gonna do my dailies right so the dailies give you 60 of the primo gems or Primo gems or whatever And then you get a couple from the chest here and let's say you ended up earning a hundred premium fucking gems, you know Yes Yes, the chinko balls Pachinko balls, right So let's say you earned 160 of those well if you take a hundred and sixty of those Primo gems

To the shop You can roll a banner Now what does that mean well There are a couple banners One's limited time one's not limited time and if you roll on that banner You can get a weapon or a character and you can get a four or five star of each well The four star items have about a 10% chance of dropping and

the five star characters and items have a 0.6% chance of dropping and Everything else you're getting is three and below You will you there are no three-star characters. Oh, okay All right, so then They go okay, well that would mean you'd need to spend almost six hundred dollars to probably guarantee getting

The the character on the banner that's five stars point points point six you said point six Point six, okay, so what we're gonna do is We're gonna introduce what is colloquially known in the gatchas as I've been learning talking to people of the pity The way the gacha people talk about this shit is so poisonous it hurts But don't worry We're gonna work on the pity All right, so what is the pity the pity is

Every ten rolls you're guaranteed a four-star something. Okay, that sounds about every every 90 You're guaranteed a five-star something and if you're rolling on the banner that doesn't have five-star weapons That means you'll get the character what this means and Here's where it gets really fun. Willy is That say you didn't earn your 160 Primo gems say you wanted to buy 160 Primo gems, right which is equal to one roll or one pull, right? How much do you think one? Pull costs well, can you buy it with straight funds then?

No, you buy Genesis crystals the in-between currency which turn into Primo gems at a one-to-one rate Yep Yep and What kind of discounts are on the purchase of Genesis crystals at high numbers by The biggest Genesis crystal which is 6480 crystals how oh man you you can guess 1600 extra crystals, okay, okay, so is it a picture of a giant pile of them

No, it's it's not even it's actually just a picture of the regular thing with a bigger number So let's just say that totals out to 8,000 and 80 crystals right Now you divide that By 160 you can have any rolls you get 50 rolls So when I when I go to YouTube and I look at a youtuber I've been following called a demon Kim Who says who puts up a YouTube video that says just a quick 50 roll?

That's actually him Spending the highest amount of cash conceivable and just blowing it out instantly now here's the question woolly for you What do you think a quick 50 costs? If you're getting all of those Genesis crystals, they're probably bundling them up at like Low low amount bought probably like five bucks Then somewhere like 20 and then like I guess like 49 99 59 99 for like the fuck ton of crystals

So you think it's 50 bucks for for 50 rolls 49 99 All right, it's a hundred and thirty nine Canadian. Oh, okay Wow each roll Get that money. Hold on. Let's take it. Let's take a look each roll. Yeah, that's fair 140 divided by fair Each roll costs two dollars and 80 cents. Okay. Yeah Secure the bag Genshin impact you do it

That's that sounds totally reasonable So here's the thing and this is where it gets really really really weird Genshin impact Does do a couple of like first of all, I'm just gonna like let's let's put it aside woolly the game's really good Like if you want to play the game and actually Steven spend no money. It's actually a really fantastic game I'm super impressed. I just want to talk about the gambling The gambling on this the one thing that they did really smart which is in

Grandblue and fate and Fire Emblem heroes and all these things When you're rolling for your SSRs or whatever the fuck it is You are essentially rolling for a JPEG Right. Mm-hmm. The JPEG the card has stats, right? Mm-hmm, but it's a JPEG When you are rolling for your bifus in Genshin They are fully 3d modeled Like character action RPG characters with movesets and you play as them have movesets and various

differentiations and passive skills and a bunch of really good idle animations and Etc right so the smart thing is is that like okay? These are obviously more but then they got to go Hey, look look it's a fail. Wow. It's pretty right The I know other gacha games have gameplay guys, but they're still mainly just pictures. They're not 3d models moving on I Went and took a look at some of the other gacha rates

This one is The worst one zero point six is the lowest rarity rate. I've ever heard I think Woolly it's worse than zero point six Because if you're going on the standard banner That's zero point six for a character is actually zero point three Because you could get a five-star weapon instead if there's two to choose from you'll get one of the two. Okay Yeah So it's actually zero point three. That's why when people roll they tell you to only roll on the limited banner because the limited banner has

50% chance of any five-star character percent chance of This of the character on the banner Right so Here's where it gets even weirder the gacha money part is

Probably the worst that exists It might be that Actual worst that I am personally have ever even encountered or heard about now again, you're talking Canadian prices Yeah, I'm talking Canadian prices in the US. I believe it's a hundred bucks for the 50 rolls But you know Canada right so Like just just the worst on the gambling side When you look at the stuff that is not the worst you look at the stuff that you actually get in-game

It's actually one of the most generous so it's this confusing mix of Considering it's like the most aggressive money-grubbing gambling ones, right you would expect the game to Horribly punish you if you don't pay But it's actually kind of fine. Hmm like the the free-to-play experience on this game is Much better than the last game they made That also had these mechanics, but with better rates

Honkai impact. Yeah, that would be honkai Okay so they're basically Like they're they're They're doing they're they're absolutely feeding the shit out of all the the the minnows and They're tossing more food than anyone could really complain about to the biggest fattest whales But the whales are getting murdered and slaughtered big Big massive kills, but there's a whale meats, but all the guppies are getting fed at the same time pretty much

Okay, all right It's kind of weird like the the the people are talking about honkai third impact honkai third impact had weird shit in that the Gacha was required to be able to get like super far into the game because you needed specific like builds and specific characters to Essentially beat it But this game doesn't do that so Christ now now now to go back in the story Right, there is a direct link between war framers and this game based on the type of game. It is Warframe people

from my understanding are used to getting a pretty fair bargain on how they're treated so my guess is that warframe folks would be very upset with the bullshit Providing you care about what it's offering you for that. It's insane price well, here's the thing warframe people and Warframe youtubers and warframe content creators tend to buy the prime frames when they come out so that they can cover them and

The prime frames when they come out are like Christ, what's what's the prime right now? I Was it an aros? Cuz I guess some Yeah, right right now it's an aros and if you want to buy an aros in the prime thing that's a hundred forty five dollars MMO players are not rational actors willy They're not all right

You know what? Thank you. I'm sorry. It's okay. So yeah, all right, okay got it Warframe player that every two to three months you spend 150 bucks on the prime accessories the prime frame, etc, right? There's an obvious corollary here to Playing a free-to-play gotcha game where you kick in 50 bucks a month to go. Haha So that's all the gatcha shit, right? There's more this game has like nine types of monetization All right, there's a battle pass

Of oh, there is okay. Yeah now what the battle pass gives you items cosmetics not Rolls it does not give you rolls. It gives you like four or five rolls total Most of what it gives you is in-game currency Experience etc. The battle pass is not good But no one wants rolls with a battle pass. Don't you want guaranteed shit that you can see? With fortnight the big reason that it's battle pass is so successful is that if you actually Complete the battle pass it pays for itself

Yes, if yes, I understand that that's the final cost benefit, right when you wet when you weigh it all out But what I mean is though, don't you isn't the entire thing to be like not a role here is a guaranteed rare thing Here's another guaranteed rare thing. You'll get a guaranteed rare weapon. No characters, which is like Okay, so that battle pass is terrible It's kind of awful and I ran the math on the battle pass. Holy shit. Do you have to play that game? You so with the battle pass you have to play that game twice a day to max it out because there are Battle pass dailies that give you experience for it that can't be completed in one sitting. Does it pay for itself?

If you complete it Yes But if you could if you complete it that means that the only wait don't if you pay the $10 one Do you get more than three rolls? Okay It pays for itself in rolls. Well, how much is it barely? It's like ten bucks. Okay Because here's the thing right I also don't like that like statement in the terms of I understand how it works and what it means

But you're playing under a different mindset almost So it's not I get if you're playing hard anyway, then it ends up like just being what it is if you have to like commit to further Then comfortable amounts of play Then it ends up kind of not being a great experience that you're paying and so and so this is where I come to the actual final part of the monetization Which is a daily login bonus and the daily login bonus is really simple It's for us. It's seven bucks and for everybody in the States is five bucks and

What you get for that is if you log in every day for 30 days They give you the Primo gem equivalent of 20 rolls, which is about $60 okay and That one If you were to buy anything is The only thing to buy Because that actually Works out so that if you do your dailies and log in you get enough for one roll every day

Okay So I haven't done the math on on teppen Mainly because I haven't had to Right probably not nearly as bad When I pop in to play a couple games while like like I'm you know listening to like a podcast eating some dinner I'll jump on mess around with my deck play a couple games do some some practice and then try to set things up, right? And I'm getting so I'm getting like a daily thing on that and for the most part Just based on the nature of the game, I suppose right

I think I've explained this before but I see a lot of the the pay scheme that you're describing in the shop I see the crystals and I see the the cards and the tickets to get Packs and all this stuff and and it has a it has the pity system bar Where it says like when you fill when this bar fills up you're guaranteed a rare when this bar. Oh, I like that It's a bar, you know, it's yeah You see a bar fill up and it's like oh you're and then or or an epic or a hidden card or whatever the case is right but Like I've been

Overall my experience has been I have too much shit That I don't really care about because I'm not playing those decks or using those packs So what I often end up doing is just I'm sitting on way more currency than I need and Then I will make a deck and when I need to switch out a card and forge a new one I'll just go spend a bunch of these free packs. I've been sitting on and Then turn all of those duplicate cards into the currency and then forge it But I'm basically way too rich and I've been that way for a while because the way I play is to not have a Large collection, but just to pick a specific build and try to work it and tweak it, you know

So I haven't had any of this kind of issue so It's it's this really interesting thing where they give you your main character an archer an ice guy and an electric witch milf lady and You can easily play through the whole game with those characters Free to play with absolutely no payment. Mmm, but you know what they do They go. Hey, man You're gonna go on this mission

You got to infiltrate the you know the abyss mages You're gonna you know do a bunch of combat and you know what for this mission You get to play as dialogue the guy who looks like red-headed Dante and has a giant greatsword than combos And is the probably the best character in the game right now You can just play as him for this mission for free. Hmm And Then you play him and you're like fuck dialogue's busted. Holy shit, and he's cool And then you hang out with them in the story and you're your character and other characters like man dialogue

You're so cool. I Wish I could play as you dialogue God didn't like mm-hmm, and it's all PvE, right? It is all PvE, which is one of the as of when I was doing my gacha research I would call it a sampling a gacha research PvP gatchas are Like an infinity nightmare worse Because you're being directly squared up against the the the whales in in battles. Mm-hmm, which is horrible

Genshin impacts Nightmare is not that Genshin impacts nightmare is my timeline scrolling down and Seeing oh cool. I got a gene on my first pull or Oh, man fixles really cool. Oh, I love this character from my friends Okay, and I go damn I want a fixle and And like is there any like so is there any like

Is there enough I guess playable characters offered that like You and the game the version of the game you're playing is effectively like different from other people's and you know, you know I mean like like yeah, so the the basic reality is that there's a tier list and that there is Characters run the gamut of all sorts of quality The characters they give you are good enough, but they're not the best by any means the five-star characters are all busted

They're all busted as shit The four-star characters run from excellent to okay, okay So if you ended up with multiple five-star characters You're gonna have certain Certain fucking instances are going to be chokes so for example when I did my Demonstration of bad gotcha for my chat to show them the perils of gambling

Did you know you can go through $140 in that game in 13 minutes Now you do, you know, that is a really I took the hit you that's a really generous move honestly I took the hit you spent the money to show how bad it can get and it's real bad That's a pretty noble move. I gotta say like so $140 is a ridiculous ripoff when a game comes at you with a digital deluxe version to say Get all the extra skins and shit, but here in this case you took that hit What if you got double venti pog champ?

So I you want to hear Like I'm gonna sidetrack my own point for a second. Do you want to hear how fucked gacha mentality is? I mean, I'm kind of staring at it. If you look at the chat a lot of people are Looking at me spending that hundred and forty and Going this motherfuckers complaining and he got a double venti Yeah, dude That's still ridiculous

That's still fucked Yeah, like like I mean I do like like Like the the reaction from some people's like look you got double venti was totally worth it like no it was it I I mean that's the thing is like like touch your touch your finger and hold it to the wind and like overall There's a just yeah, this shit is horrible But that same person then comes in and says I got Merlin on my first roll or whatever the fuck that means and it's just like deep down this is This is touching something uncomfortable inside of people that that is

Probably better left untouched and yeah Yeah, I just when you're looking at a thing like this where you're like, okay, so Genshin impact is is it's doing Numbers it is quite successful for its law is it is huge blowing up And it's one of those things where nobody paid attention to it because it was a it's a Chinese gambling machine and Why would you pay attention for a Chinese gambling machine and the answer is oh? Because the lights on it are actually really pretty and it makes really fun noises when you pull the lever

It's a foot if it's a fun enough game. Yeah, if it's a good enough game on within what's going on So my buddy I Have a friend of mine who hates gotcha Got in paid the five dollars for the log in and he's like and I will not spend any more money until the game either stops me and then I will probably stop playing or It has convinced me that it is worth essentially an MMO subscription of $15 if you are a person that wants to get into this game I can only recommend playing it free to play the gotcha is such a rip-off

Just robot it sorry oh Said if you are looking into getting into this game I can only recommend getting into free to play or Getting that log in blessing thing Because if you get that log in blessing thing, that's the only thing on the menu. That's not a rip-off basically So the way I see this is that it's been introduced into an already like there is a there is a a row of MMOs vying for your attention and look man

I'm just gonna put schluders in there like they want you to get in there It's much time as possible So I'm throwing them in and they're all gonna be vying for your attention and when one is either Releases new content which you catch up on and then you've got you're done with things to do or another thing disappoints you Then you just kind of jump over and be like hey, I'm holding onto some money It's burning a hole in my pocket. Where am I gonna dump it and it'll be jumping between You know this and Warframe and and FF and and yeah You know so that shit destiny what one of the things that I actually really want to point out

And this is going to sound odd the version of the game without the battle pass is A genuinely more enjoyable game than the version with the battle pass Interesting because the instant I got that battle pass. I suddenly was hit with timer anxiety What turned from Hey, I'm gonna explore around and try and get these chests and Oh, what's that over there became became well, I got to kill 20 of these in a week I got to do these and you know Fuck it. No, don't don't get the battle pass

at the end of the 50-day period or whatever the battle pass runs for If you have earned a shit ton of it Yeah, it's been the ten bucks and get all your your rewards, right? Are you playing through an offline story by the way or like? Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah, this is an offline story, right? This is a Like there is a progression. It's a normal game that you're going through isn't there? So here here here's where okay, so let's so I feel like I've made my case for like don't don't spend the gotcha. Don't do it

Unless you're making content, which means that it's a write-off for your taxes Because it's a business expense. You whatever you need Unless you unless that is the reason Definitely don't but let's talk about the game. Yeah. No, it's it's a it is always online because it has to make sure you don't cheat your gadgets But the servers are rock solid I haven't had any problems Yeah, it's a I would call it an offline story so far. I have enjoyed it a hell of a lot It is it is very breath of the wild inspired There is a lot of wandering

The main quest is actually pretty pretty good and interesting and at some point it's gonna be beaten and done and Then they'll put out like I guess a new country sure. Yeah, okay That's how that's how they're they're doing it the there they have their There are two countries in the game right now, which are their two maps essentially and then they'll put out a third map and then a fourth map, etc Okay Yeah, I just Yeah, it's just it's hard to also like in some cases right you're Sometimes the gameplay is like you're in an online environment like destiny

You're doing your picking missions to go on but you're otherwise kind of like, you know running into other people and sort of like Missions are kind of popping up in this big map kind of way and then there's like games where it's a much more like Single-player narrative experience, which I got that impression from this Except the back end is all gacha No, the it's a single-player Narrative experience along with an exploration experience and then your end game is like essentially running bloody palace Okay, and it also has co-op cool. Okay Yeah, I mean, this is something that like when I when I do take a peek at it like you know, I

fully intend to just test out whatever it's got going without the Getting into any of the the the rules or any of that shit. Yeah, that's that's kind of how I would want to play it If I were to get into it, you know so I Would like to talk about other weird things about the game Because it's Chinese and I've discovered China jank and holy shit. Is it a weird variation of jank?

It is a new form that I've not encountered I've encountered some kind of jank All right, there's a couple of games. There's a There's the God, what's it was a called? There's them. There's a mecha fighting game that has a little bit in it There is that heterotopious Kind of like ruiner style top-down view game. I played that has a little bit of it as well. It is a

In a lot of cases, it's really interesting because there will be a lot of moments I find that are like Things are are are working but Or there'll be like a moment where like there's a particularly beautiful piece of animation and you you do kind of go like Have I seen that before? I might have seen that before and that feeling of I think I've seen that before happens a lot. Oh Oh That's Genshin's rife to the gills with that. There's a million characters that are just like is that supposed to be yes

the Android maid that uses a great sword that shares a suspicious amount of 2b's animations and also has white hair. Yes, that is that is a Chinese homage to 2b the light-haired blue jacket wearing devil-armed katana user Coming in a couple months Yes, that is supposed to be Nero PSO to went harder, right? It's this dog. All right

also Hey, well, you know how you you would have like a friend code or something like that You know like, you know in a game. You're like, I had your friends lists. Sure, right? You know what's you know where you need that friend code? In the bottom right of the screen Literally 100% of the time Unhideable in every on the main menu in the loading screens During story cutscenes

I have no idea why it is there It also shows up in your character menu Underneath your your your you know you name your custom character. It It it's underneath your characters portrait because we live in a social world and people are sharing their footage and screenshots all the time Yeah, so people need a little extra thing in there to be like, oh, you can you can join in and play with this person have fun Mm-hmm. So I went and learned how to use a stream effects in OBS and Discovered how to use the dual filtering blur filter. Okay, and masked

Those areas of the screen. Yeah, and that problem is now solved It's just for a wrecking Yeah, yeah, but this looks a lot nicer because the the background changes and also like the menu that shows it is like Kind of in the middle upper left called quadrant. Mm-hmm. So like a black rectangle there would look hideous What hey woolly when you turn on your controller and load up in your video game Do you think that you should go to the control section? And change it from keyboard to controller

Every single time you boot the game It's early, huh? Yeah, okay, it's early. It's early Do you do you think You got an Xbox controller near you. No All right, you have one in your mind. Mm-hmm All right, here's the button layout. Are you ready? Mm-hmm Confirm is B Mm-hmm

Cancel is a Right, so that's for menus Here's what your actions are Jump is a X is examine Triangle is use elemental burst B is attack R

B is dodge And right trigger is secondary heavy attack So B is on attack and the game does not currently allow you to rebind controls Even on keyboard Doesn't let you rebind This is one of those things that people contact customer service and they go, please let us rebind controls There's literally a button that says key bind controls That you click it and it makes the I'm a menu option that you click to noise

But doesn't do anything Yeah, okay early shit. Oh wait, woolly now hold on a second. What's going on on console? It's on ps4. Yeah, that's that's that's the version that I was gonna grab. Yeah Okay, so here's the thing about the ps4 version If you play it on ps4 Everybody has cross play. There's cross play between all versions right But if you play on ps4 your account becomes locked to Sony forever

You won't be able to play it on your oh god. It's the all be able to play it on your PC. It's the fortnight thing Okay, yeah, okay, if you play it on the PC You can load it up on your phone And here's where it's crazy. It legit runs better on most people's phones than it does on the ps4. Wow Wow See I wanted to just jump on that because I didn't feel like trusting that that PC installation Just yet, I would feel much more comfortable on a console than I would installing it on my PC I will tell you to trust the PC installation if only because if you get fucked you'll at least have a lot of company

Because everybody you know is playing this fucking thing Hey, will they do you want your v-sync open or closed? So wait The ps4 version is the worst-running version of the game it is easily the worst-running version of the game It runs way better on my phone than it does on the ps4 Okay, but also will they know answer my question do you want your v-sync open or closed? as In having the option

No, the option is v-sync open or closed in the menu Yeah, sure on No I Don't know Like the the games translation and localization is dead on in a lot of ways and Other ways you run into in the graphics settings. There's like shadow distance and like whatever And then there's one that's just overall graphics settings

At the bottom, but it's not like the the slider that changes the other ones All right, they pushed the shit out a little bit. They pushed the shit out There's a it feel it feels like this was kicked out a little early Okay People are telling me that in Chinese on and open off Are actually the same click characters? So it the options are actually identical Confirm or yes

Yeah, yes Resolution yes Yeah, yeah, I that sucks man because I feel again I feel safest playing something like that on console, but if If the sitch is what you can do right you can play the game on console for a couple hours for a stream or what have you and then If you feel like it you can jump on to the the the PC But cross play like yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep playing this and just start over there a crown cock There is for you spend any money then there needs to be a word for like yes

There is a count cross play, but like it is one way. Oh There is it's cross play, but it's not cross save with the PlayStation version Okay, not cross save right, okay It's a really weird thing because you remember that login thing that I said where you log in you get your 90 gems or whatever PC players have a ways your time getting those because if you don't log in you don't get it So you're paying five bucks to get a login bonus that goes away if you don't redeem it right That sucks on ps4 it sucks worse because you can't just pull open your phone and log in in 10 seconds And then put your phone down

For ps4 players you actually have to go to your console sit down turn it on hit the lever Man Like that sucks that Sony is still playing hard on shit like this because The gates should have been opened by now, and it's like it's inconsistent. Some games have it some don't I jumped over from the PC version of Fantasy strike the other day over to ps4 to try it out and Upon booting it up. I had all my shit like One-to-one save, you know, yeah, isn't that nice and I was it was very very pleasant the cross play between this and the

Android version that I've been playing is actually really impressive it puts you in the exact same physical fucking spot and The the save file or whatever it is is instantaneous like I logged in on my phone while I was playing up here and Within seconds I had loaded in on the same spot So what's the phone version like that? Are you just tapping screen buttons digital buttons? Pushing around the fat is our pushing the idea that maybe this game got pushed out two months early Is that the phone versions have no controller support? Oh? You can't Bluetooth it okay, which is really weird

So I've been talking to DK. That's a DK diamond ease. He's a he's a warframe man, but also he's doing variety now He's a good guy. I Talk a lot of shit about him, but he's a good guy But he's very familiar with honkai third impact and the honkai third impact client does not have any this shit It has native controller support with a bunch of shit the phone versions rock solid the PC versions all spruced up and has no problems you know, so it's like This this feels like it got kicked out the door a little early because they felt that it was like stable enough um

In this current state it feels very early, but good The last thing that I want to say about this is Pat's buying tips I'm only gonna say it once because I only need to say it once. I was taught this by buttons, you know buttons Takes a video of himself every time we mentioned on the podcast He's making the face that he makes so all right So the trick is Get the login thing right mm-hmm don't roll on anything don't roll on anything just stockpile points

right and The idea is that you stockpile points and don't spend any money aside from the login thing, which is just five dollars until a character that you Absolutely have to have Shows up mm-hmm so for example The current banner is venti and then the next banner is gonna be some geoguy and then the banner after that is Gonna be this small Chinese guy with like a green hair and like arm tattoos

right Buttons has already decided that he's gonna get that kid with the arm tattoos So he is going to stockpile rolls for essentially five months, I think Until bam can guarantee it though There's a really important part of this that has not been talked about yet at all and that is If you're not getting all these extra characters and stuff like what is There in terms of like are you not taking a character you have? Leveling them up a lot as you play with them a lot and then getting access to new moves and abilities

Yes, you are so is the move and cons and combat variety with the cast that you have Not interesting enough over the leveling up experience that you'd be fine sticking with them If you are you are but if you want the other ones you want the other ones, okay, right? But it doesn't dry up real quick To get you moving on you know You get I wouldn't say you get new moves you get alternate like properties to your moves So like the the main character you start with has a five hit combo But once you ascend him, which is get to level 21

The fifth hit of the combo shoots out like a wind blade projectile Like stuff like that gets added to them But if you get a character like I got I need somebody who I knew somebody who got fixle who is As electric girl who is V from double-made, you know double-made cry. Yeah She's she's V. Okay. She has the electric bird. Okay, and it's it's it's very clear That character's busted but the person who pulled them hates them it hates the way they play So the fact that they got a good rare character

Was wasted because they're like I but I hate them and I hate their style and I hate their face Right duplicate All right You want to hear about duplicates? I mean we go we do have to move on but like hit me Let's hear about duplicates. All right, so here's the duplicate system. What if I told you? There was a talent system in the game that unlocks passive abilities for your character. What's a talent system only? What's that? What's a talent system? talent system such as hey this this move can now be leveled up to level 15 instead of level 12 or

when you hit a charge to attack you were J and energy or Your when you summon a little bear that breathes fire it breathes more fire and does more damage, right? Passives modifiers stuff like that. Yeah, okay, right? What if I told you there were seven of those? per character and What if I told you that the only way you can unlock it is by feeding a character their duplicate? So anytime you get extras of shit You so for example in my demonstration of gotcha bad. I got four Barbra's This meant I could level up Barbara to constellation level three

Which makes that a very strong Barbara So this This is the absolute like whale like gold harpoon Because what if you want what if you know, what if that five-star character that has a point six percent drop rate? What if they're seventh constellations really good? Well, you have to get seven duplicates which at bad luck time would be

630 poles So the rarest characters have duplicate feeding all of them do oh Fuck that which comes out to if you want a seven constellation. That's disgusting You need to spend Maximum 1764 that's that's fucking disgusting. I Understand where games use?

Duplication as a means of saying hey, we didn't waste what you got here. So let's convert it into money or Let's let you like okay Overwatch converts duplicates into extra money teppen converts duplicates into Extra money for reaping cards. I understand that process where it's like, hey If you already have a lot of this library, we can give you a benefit for that or whatever the case is Putting something on a character that you you do particularly want or or like that is locked in whatever way like on the Rarist of the rare saying you have to get that more than once and if you're trying oh fuck that that's fucking so

That's super gross dude. The constellation stuff is all the weakest thing you can do to your character Okay, like For example, if you go it sounds so gross if you go to Genshin impact dot gg There's a tier list and the tier list assumes You have a rank one character You're fighting against PvE who cares about that stuff like perfect It's not gonna make a competitive advantage against another player that's using it

It's pointless. Why does it exist so that the whale piggies can whale piggy up? That is why You can probably kill there's absolute justice fire. There's absolutely no Hiding the fact that this is a really good game with what might be the devil inside of it And it's all in your willpower Or not It's why when I did a stream of it I spent about 40 minutes describing this awful gatcha shit because if I do stream it I don't want to

Be telling people hey everybody this cool gacha game You should catch it up because I know that people have gambling stuff make no mistake the funnest Games in the future will come with Satan in the box Oh No, not Satan they will find like like I mean they if they realized like they absolutely realized that like hey Making the gameplay really good is the biggest most addictive thing you can do for making your big fucking lever puller, you know your cow clicker your whatever the case and The way we're heading

You better believe that they're absolutely they're gonna do it. They're making shit that is like yeah This is all the things you want to play. This is the gameplay you want This is a very you know, and there's probably a fun loop to it But it will have the devil in the box and it's up to your willpower to resist and and hey man like Just just don't bother. It's no big deal. I think the biggest example, right of I think the biggest biggest Red flag and the whole thing was that you have to spend real dollars to get Genesis crystals to get Primogems to get Wishes to get rolls

But if you're actually on the screen where you want to roll If you just hit X enough times it will eventually put you to the credit card screen and just Mat all for you. Yeah. Yeah, which is at which at which point becomes well Then why are you bothering to obfuscate it? Is it to confuse how much the shit is worth and the fucking things Yeah, out for less than a month. It's been out for like two seconds. So we're not for Eight days So it's it's not even at the level where you will see the

The cosmetics which are usually incentive enough for people if it's just like hey It's the same character, but here's a really cool Halloween version costume Or here's a really cool cosplay of something else or whatever the fuck and like that on its own is more than enough incentive for a lot of people They haven't even put that shit in yet Yeah, skins are a big deal and skins I Care about skin and ready for Halloween the new the new the new update with amateur a zoo has a more again like

Geisha kind of outfit and like it changes all of her animations and things and whatever knows like oh, that's very cool That's that's a really nice job with the with this aesthetic, you know like you know, and I remember an overwatch too like I'd be like Yo, I want that skin. That's a really cool skin. I care I you know, I'm down to try and get that stuff for characters what you're describing doesn't even have that level applied to it yet yet, oh my god that duplication thing so I was I was sitting I was sitting here playing it and It was it was before I did the stream. I hadn't spent any money and Because the game is new and it's been so popular and there's 20 million players now

They're just throwing out there. They're just giving you tons of free currency in your in-game mail, right? They're doing that thing like you remember how Monster Hunter did it Like ah 5 million player, you know that kind of thing sure and I'm sitting there And I rolled a bunch and I got a couple things then I was playing the game It's having a great time and I meant and then I just like kind of stopped and I looked over a page like this game is dangerous This this one is Gonna get a lot of people mm-hmm It's got the art style really

really good It's got the art style really really nefarious And it's like it's the it's the combination of the two mm-hmm And it's got the bifus. It's they're they're baked in they're all there Yeah, so you know on a on a simple like I just like to look at the pretty things level It still gets you oh, it's killing it. These characters are great. Mm-hmm Well anyway pull the lever if you want to see me pull the lever on various video games You can check me out at twitch.tv slash Pat stairs that we're gonna be checking out Baldur's Gate 3 tomorrow

Then wasteland 3 more Genshin impact in which I probably will pull the lever Because I've talked with a bunch people and I could totally write that shit off on my taxes as business expense and what else was the other one? Rogue legacy 2 Also spelunky 2 is the most infuriating game I've ever played I completely understand why people play it best game ever incredible incredible I hate it. I hate it I Hate spelunky 2 what a great game And where is that again twitch.tv slash Pat stairs that All right

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before we do I'd like to Help you out with something woolly. I just sent you a thing. I put up a poll on Twitter on the Spelling of bifu. Oh People seem to enjoy B. A. I. F. U More than B. U. Y. F. U So for your possible uses in writing that down in the future for some reason, that's not See I thought that I was gonna go with B. U. Y. Because right that indicates the the word a bit more

Right, clearly the intent of the word is masked by B. A. I. F. U But the pronunciation does still work if you say it out loud It does but I'm worried that the the message is lost in communication Well, you'll you'll just have to make a decision as you are the creator of the term you get to decide what What's the what's the Limit on that poll time about a day Okay, you can just you need to check it whenever man. It's a fucking Twitter poll. They don't mean anything Okay, well, you know, we'll have to figure them up for fun and then do whatever I want

We'll have to figure that out. We'll have to figure that out Yeah, sorry, so we hit in the button here what this button I Thought you were saying you wanted to take a bathroom break for a second my mistake. What? When you said both I'm so you know man around that time you going like oh hold up a second that I kind of Was getting ready to do it and then you're like no actually you just got some poll data. I'm good. Okay, let's take one later Cool, cool. If you want I'm good Let's pull up

The no, we're not at the adult diapers phase of the podcast not yet. We're not Trust me if I start wearing diapers, you'll know I Mean We just talked about sitting down and how great that is How much do you really love sitting down is the question cuz like because when I start wearing diapers the only way I'm gonna be able to like Justify it is by somehow spinning it to myself. It's like a power move Okay, oh you have to get up to go to the bathroom. I just shit right here then my carer cleans my butt All right, well it's a good thing I lost my arms in the war

Really throw it up there and It did not land so I Guess then the only thing left to do is talk about Steve Err Steve Did you see the clip somebody found of us going please God not Steve? Oh God Steve God damn it, you know, you know, I think I Think I'm over it. I

think I've gone through the full gamut of emotions and I at this point. I'm just like yeah, whatever. It's you know, I Will love it at Smash Brothers. It's a popular so I don't care about Steve I totally however understand the immense popularity and impact the fortnight has our fucking Jesus Christ Yes, fuck. Yeah, my brain Nope was completing that game that the kids play. That's correct and said fortnight God damn you are in there. That is you've nailed it. Holy shit. Yep. All right

The young minecraft or whatever the young's the young's this is what they do the young's play the Steve I will say one thing in defense of Steve Him being put in like in a hyper accurate looking way is Like Freakishly dissonant with every other Smish character. I hate his face texture. I fucking like his face texture is so gross Because I think they're going for a goatee around his mouth That is apparently what I think they are going for but it looks like a fucking mess of acne

It looks like bad acne just breaking out around his jaw and I hate it It looks super gross if he was just looks super weird It's it just does and it looks if they wanted it to be a beard It looks way too much the same color as his flesh So it just it's badly Defined, you know and if I'm not mistaken like didn't the The telltale

Verge character That Pat and Oswald played I Feel like not Steve. It was not Steve and his face looked a little more like normal Right, so he gives yeah, he had the hair and then the line where the mouth is you're like, oh, yeah It's there to go. It's just a normal guy, but the Steve in particular model is so gross I fucking hate that mouth. Anyway, whatever. Yeah, Steve looks like horrific and he looks He looks more out of place than Game and Watch does

which I'm gonna say actually Kind of great Because he's this kid friendly You know hyper popular You know mascot character, I guess the generic avatar But when he's put into smash He looks like a fucking creepy freak azoid. Yeah, I'm looking at the picture now of

the patent character and By comparison, and then there's the the Steve Emotes and it really is the beard the beard is just the weird like color discoloration on this face That doesn't read as a beard, you know, I Also do want to give him him the devs Props his final smash is actually kind of like nightmare fuel. Mm-hmm It's really really messed up He throws you in the trap room and then you eat the the food. Yeah

It's like it's fucking weird well for what it's worth You know like I said Immediately upon seeing it. It's like, ah, all right. Well, what are you gonna? It's it's a big popular It makes the sense it does the thing more popular than any of the care games we care about Yep made a lot of people happy with that announcement. So it is what it is Um watching Max watch it is my favorite thing about it though. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm because When

When Mario gets thrown into the dark room with the blocks, mm-hmm, I'm like, oh, it's fucking Steve I can't believe it because the blocks the way he broke in Yeah, and Max is like It's Travis is it am I all gone? Yeah so Mom mom rightfully pointed out that like some people figured it out from the way the blocks broke Some people figured it out from the eyeballs You know, so there was like different seconds of realization some people. It's like well

Right so it's like You know, there was the the Terry one right the instant you saw that invitation. Yeah You pretty much knew who it was Even then when they were dancing around all the characters, you still knew it was gonna be Terry. Mm-hmm. Yeah square Kerbo is a good time That's fun everyone I like the fact that Every new character showing up also as important as their announcement is what is Kirby gonna look like they've learned Early on I maybe ever since snake

We've learned that like, okay, you can't just reveal the character you have to show us when Kirby eats them and So that that that gave us big old square Kerbo fun times I Yeah, I'm looking at I'm looking at the way and of course he's like pains takingly faithful in his Implementation to the point where like you can see the stuff that is like He's worse than other characters at a lot of things but then crazy at some other things So it looks like they're going for a little Mac style Character thing where he's able to make cubes in front of people's recovery so that they can't recover Yeah, looks like the filthiest thing smash has literally ever had. Yeah, but a stubby ass jump

Which if it's like KOF and you can do like short hop pressure then that's good But like otherwise stubby ass jump high second jump questionable Use of material where they're keys constantly gonna have to be digging and Wasting time picking shit up off the ground, which is like Phoenix right or you know other sort of weird characters that have secondary mechanics on them So But all habits have shown that like what a new character comes out if they're gonna be busted right off the jump So assume he's gonna be insane. I assume it's gonna be absolutely ridiculous

You know, I think yeah, it just Nintendo got it in there It's a very important like Like point in video games to include that represents the new shit So better than tracer or fortnight, man Tracer right No, come on no Well, it's just even though the rules say they don't have to have been on a Nintendo console, they've never broken that rule

Is overwatched on a switch is it I don't know I don't think it is I didn't think it was it did. Oh well never mind Excuse me, but also get overwatched out of my face the The thing though that I you know, I said earlier earlier too is that like There is a little game that we're all playing and we need to be a little bit more honest about that game I think and I feel like I've repeated this a little bit before in the past, but When it comes to smash announcements and when it comes to inclusions It's less about the character being in the game and it's more about this being the Oscars of video games

so the the the entire excitement and or Disappointment and the people that are like staring at their cameras going if you're excited about this something is fucking Wrong with you you have mental damage or whatever it was that person was saying I mean that's true But I mean you're not supposed to say it But it's like that level of going in where it's just like listen listen if we're all being perfectly honest You don't care you like the announcement hype you're getting into it But you're also going to play this for maybe two seconds You're gonna pot you're gonna try it out in training mode go online for a minute and realize the online is terrible

Dick around events versus CPU maybe play it once with your friends and go back to not playing Smash Brothers Ultimate There's a lot. I mean when when when you don't care as much as you make it sound when Joker came out I was like, oh fuck. It's sick Joker and I played him in training mode And I went to try to play online. It was terrible. I played online with my friends for about an hour And I was like wait a second. I don't want to get on that that FBI list all the Smash players are on and then I stop Hey, they put a creeper in the game. Oh Do you see the one guy selling his Smash copy? No, I did. Oh man. It's it might be the funniest shade. I've ever seen was a guy in eBay selling his copy of melee

And he was like ever since this game turned 18. I hear the top players aren't interested in it anymore. Wow Well, anyway Shots fired, but here's what it is You know as well as I do deep down that you just it's just about the profile of the announcement It has nothing to do with you actually sitting down and playing the game and spending time with it And this is not speaking to those who actually do actively play because of course there are people that are still playing the game They're just gonna be like hey new character cool and you're in there and you're in there, right? People who are out there labbing piranha plant tech when that got dropped

Early in it with it with the new season those people are still playing but a Large majority of the people throwing their opinions out there give no fucks about this for real You're gonna care for two seconds and continue not playing it and then get excited when the next character gets announced So just be real about it. It doesn't actually matter to you During that whole thing. I thought there was something that was really funny, which was Talked about it a bit on Twitter, but it's like we okay. Well, they were cable warriors as opposed to the Wi-Fi warriors, right? We love playing internet games on a cable. Mm-hmm and Sakurai also says hey, man You should play your video games using the sold separately for switch ethernet cable and

Like the there's the screenshot of like please use an ethernet connection And then it shows the LAN cable and then at the bottom it says sold separately and it's like fuck off Really really fuck off. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's just It's not I Really really do feel like Nintendo at the very least if you gave a fuck here You would have if you're not gonna make a dock that has it included then fucking put one in the box for smash ultimate You know, yeah, sure sell it with the game to go. Hey. Yeah, you know what let's help you out here a little bit Anyway

The other thing of course is the the conformation of Travis as a me fighter, which made some people sad, but You know who probably wasn't sad about that Travis touchdown Travis fucking touchdown so full credit to Tech fuzz on Twitter for the comic where Sylvia is like hey better luck next time cowboy and Travis is just like Holy fuck. I'm in fucking smash and he's excited for it He's a loser. He shouldn't he wouldn't expect otherwise

Travis touchdown is like a Fucking loser and the in universe of him getting in is like miraculous. Yeah, I Didn't realize but it was weird when they popped up with the Smash Brothers logo cross Travis because I was like why wouldn't they put the no more heroes logo there? Because that's a weird one and it turns out that It's because any game that's rated M in North America is not allowed to be displayed on a stream for not rated M games So silly Peggy doesn't have this rule and

Saro doesn't have this rule, but the ESRB does so they had to hide the names Or hide the the brand or the game it comes from and just say the name of the character Super strange But when you do that you get the confusion of Smash Brothers cross Travis Which leads to people thinking that there's going to be a crossover with the Travis Scott McDonald's meal What is Travis Scott meal the Travis Scott McDonald's meal is available now What is it for a limited time at McDonald's you can go in and get yourself a Travis Scott burger Who's Travis Scott Travis Scott's a rapper?

Okay What's your problem? Do you have a problem? With a quarter pounder 100% beef topped with onions pickles two slices of melted cheese ketchup and mustard What's your problem? That's a it's a very normal sounding burger What's that a special menu item Because Travis Scott That's I don't know It's his favorite McDonald's burger. Is he a popular rapper? He's out there. Yeah

What's the issue don't So that's the stupid shit that's been on my timeline all week listen dude, I don't know if you know that I don't know if you know this But according to McDonald's comm The Travis Scott burger the Travis Scott meal it slaps Does it slaps it slaps according to McDonald's comm Does McDonald's comm also say that it is lit it doesn't imply that it's lit, but it does imply that it slaps What is cactus Jackson involvement in this I Mean I don't think you need to worry about it being McFauley. That's not what that's not what's happening. Yeah, that's why I'm super double confused

You're okay, and no no answer it The house cactus jack-and-fall Your is McFauley a rapper now McFauley is not a rapper. He's not a rapper No, but he does go on stage and do pseudo stand-up Really? Yeah, he's been doing these gigs at comedy stores and a comedy. That's kind of cute Honestly, he just tells he just he just tells the stories of his wrestling career It's a nickname. It's a rapper nickname relax anyway rapper nickname. Yes. Yes. It's Travis Scott It's like Jigga Jigga, man. Oh, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Ho Veto

I've never been able to actually get Biggie an answer as to why I hope What is hove? I know it's Jay-Z, but why hove Jay Hova? What Jehovah Jay-Z's religious You know Jehovah. I Where okay? Yeah, Jay Z. Uh-huh Jay Hova Uh-huh a K a

Hove It's a religious. He's a Christian rapper. No, he's saying he's God because he's like that good at rapping The word the Z go it gets hidden inside of Jay Hova Because you take Jehovah and you put Jay from Jay Z in it to mix the two together And you imply that he is so good at rap that he is like a deity Kind of like Jesus You know Jesus and you know Kanye this this is why people shouldn't be allowed to nickname themselves Hold on. Did you seriously did is this not are people not aware that hove just comes from Jay Hova?

I thought it was some neighborhood thing or like a That's all it is It's just just just hove. It's Jay Hova. That's it Anyway, rappers have nicknames They have they should not be allowed to give themselves a nickname That's how we got sting and that was just as bad Did you know wait sting sting was given that nickname did you know that M&M is M and M

Mm-hmm and That the two is he likes the candy stand for Marshall Mathers Now did he give himself that name or did somebody else call on that? Ah, I don't know I wouldn't be surprised if he gave it to himself. He had he give him. He has the all the then he should stop Well, that's that's unfortunately not the way it works friend. No, it's the way it works for everyone else rappers are not exempt from the nickname rules Well, you can't give yourself a nickname It's against the rules

I've I've I've You've you've you've you've said you've made it you've made your proclamation I've made the proclamation. Everyone must stop giving themselves nicknames now. Okay, but what if Okay, were you aware that dr. Dre? Are you aware of what Dre comes from I? Thought you were gonna say, you know, he's not a real doctor. I thought that's That seems way more obvious. Are you familiar? No, I don't know what Dre comes from Dre is the shortening of his name Andre oh we'll see as an Andre young

Mm-hmm Do you take issue with this nickname? No, it's a shortening of his existing name That's like me saying cuz I was a Patrick Well, that's that's what I'm going with here is I'm like that's not a nickname Because if you're because I'm like if you're willing to die on this hill then your name is gonna be Patrick There's no hove in whatever Jay-Z's name is no not in not in that certainly, but It's it's it's if you if you mix your name with

The name of a God because you're trying to flex Then you will then say it so often that it then gets turned into another thing, you know You can't give yourself a nickname so against the law it's against nickname law I don't generally disagree if you're kind of doing it in real life Chances are you gave yourself a nickname in a lot of cases it's lame if you're doing it and being called it But if you're a successful rapper you kind of break through that rule and it doesn't even matter anymore You get to be whatever the fuck you want. That's for people who have important nicknames

It's even more important that they follow the rules I promise you that none of his friends relatives or loved ones gave him the name Tekashi six six nine nine Mm-hmm. I'm pretty sure that wasn't given to him by anybody at by at birth So, you know it is what it is yeah Little bow-wow on the other hand who is now just bow-wow was given that nickname because when he met Snoop dog backstage at a concert and he started like freestyling for him Snoop dog went damn use little bow-wow, and then he's like that's me now

Yep, you know what that means mm-hmm Little bow-wow is better than every rapper. You just named that gave themselves their own He also hates the low and he dropped it Because he is because he is the realer of the rapper Yeah, he's so real that he tweeted out a photo of him Boarding a private jet going yep, this is how I stay hustling You know how it is and then the person sitting next to him tweeted out a photo of him in fucking coach Sitting next to him tweeting out that he was not on the private plane that he just applied

He was on That's so brutal! The realest Oh my god The realest this bow-wow you describe That is so oh my god Yeah, he's so real Pat Oh, I'm so glad I said that stupid thing so I can keep this story

He keeps it 100 That's so awful! That's so embarrassing! Oh my god Just... Oh man Oh man, what do you do? What do you do? You perish

You perish Oh my god Absolutely Instagram motivator levels Of fucking cringe on the call out there Clout annihilated Clout slaughtered You posted cringe, you're gonna lose subscribers

Oh man So hey some people in Japan got their hands on the PS5 I heard that one of them VTuber ladies was playing the PS5 on the stream There was a couple of impression videos and so on And there's some reports on how it feels, what it's like, what's going on And overall some of the decisions they've made with the way The menus and such will be presented Of note is they have finally made a decision to completely universalize X as confirmed

I'm of two minds on this One of which is good, that's the right decision The second of which is that it's too late to make this decision at all Because they should have made this decision either in 94 or 2001 Way too late Way too late They stuck with it long enough that it got awkward Because in PS3 era they put the option in the cross media bar to change it system wide

Which to be fair was then enforced through compliance To make sure that you had to have every game that was American or Japanese Comply with what the user wanted confirmed to be more than what the game set it to be But they're now going America's way first X is confirmed, the way of the old is gone And if I'm not mistaken that's a tradition that started with the NES That's what they were just doing They're carrying forward the confirmation prompts from the Nintendo days

Yeah I like X better personally That's me, right? Probably because I've been playing it forever When you go back and play old PlayStation games in PS1 era where it wasn't standardized in any way whatsoever It's really constantly confusing I would be so pissed off If I was a Japanese game player

And now you have to switch Yeah Because the West has won the battle Like I'm 34? I'm 34 Like it would have been like since I was fucking 8 years old It's been circled and now you're going to change it? Yeah Fuck off

Right? Like come on How the West has won This is how they did it They took the control over it More importantly, what's even worse than this is that I'm going to see somebody talk about this from Sony And they're going to be like, yes, we're going to use cross as confirm And I'm going to just struggle not to vomit up all my blood because it's the letter X Yeah, but the others are not letters

Therefore the convention matches the entire set I don't care what stupid British Japanese speaking shit for the symbol It's an X It's not a cross It's Namco X Capcom I don't care Too bad, cross knots Too bad

Cross media bar And by the way, cross media bar, abbreviated as XMB in letter form Was a part of the official platform documentation that had to be adhered to It was legal language X media bar? The cross media bar, the XMB X media bar That's right and you're going to watch Hunter X Hunter

Yep, well, you know You can Hunter Hunter is the worst because the X is just not pronounced And you're like, well, then why would you put it in the title at all? Dumbass You can shake your coffin to get the dust off of it as it lowers into the grave But this is where the end of the confirmation on the right button comes to an end Now the thing about Japan though, and I think we've talked about this before

Is that, I think we've talked about fucking everything before Here we have The actual circle and cross represent to Japanese people a very different meaning in the West Because you have the way that your shit is corrected in Japan versus in America Where circle and X have the exact opposite meaning of you nailed it, good job Versus that's bad you failed So yes and no have opposite meanings from X marks the spot This is what I want to do, yes, I'm confirming with this

X on the dotted line versus X is a failure is bad And circle representing ding ding ding That's it, good job, you got it That's a or a deconformation, you know So it's on a linguistic level It actually translates into something that makes sense if you're a Japanese speaker And so that that goes into the controller But yeah, that tradition is dying with the PS5

I think it is way too late to make this decision I don't know why they're even bothering to standardize it after all this time To not have to do it to pull the Band-Aid off now Well then they, pulling the Band-Aid off now doesn't make any sense when the Band-Aid's been slowly being peeled off over 25 years I imagine the option that we had to test for was almost never used by anybody Because no one that I ever spoke of it are really acknowledged that it existed The only time people started fucking around with buttons on game defaults was When people on controller with fighting games were trying to find some sneaky shit

By mapping controller buttons to places that they otherwise shouldn't go But I don't know anybody that actually remapped the confirm to circle or not Or even really acknowledge the feature It's still stupid I mean look I feel for our Japanese gamer brethren Well the question now is Nintendo going to be What is Nintendo going to do with it? Are they going to change or not?

Because currently you see what they've been doing right? Nintendo's been doing this fucking thing of press ZL and ZR to start Terrible They're getting into this weird like hit the triggers or fucking shake the control Do some weird shit, you know I still think it's outrageous that Nintendo has all their buttons in the wrong places Confuses me endlessly whenever I play a Switch game B on the left and A on the right though is consistency

Whatever, shut up But you too late No, but hold on a second though Shut up Nintendo If you're arguing for consistency, Nintendo's been the most consistent I don't care It goes against what you know you're being hypocritical then I don't care

See when I say it when somebody says I don't care You can say that they're a hypocrite and they're like that's fine I don't care Change them It's better It's better the Microsoft way Change it Change it Nintendo Fix it

Nintendo Well as long as we all know Anyway I played more Xbox games than Nintendo games and that means the Xbox way is the best way Sound reasonable Rational argument That's that's why Cause I did it that way

Moderator can I get my time back? No, no, absolutely not, no No That part of your life is gone Alright Seriously though it sucks if you're like a Japanese hardcore gamer cause that's gonna be really confusing for a while Unless you play Xbox games Right

Even though it's been done before I do have to say shout outs to Eli and his particular delivery of Oh he loves them It's his me though It's his best joke It's been done before but he does it the best Me I love Eli so much

He's great That's Mike of Grypes check out his stuff he's good Did you see his VTuber? I did It's cute It's a cute little purple cat It's a little cat With a hat

For Farman So other things they indicated is that they are, oh yeah the launch titles Which, where the fuck did that go? Well Shit Sorry I just lost it I had them open Um Godfall was in there and they noted that

Godfall's in there yeah They noted that it was surprisingly quiet from multiple people It better be Much quieter than expected Have you seen the size of that fucking thing? Uh It's fucking gigantic I know we're going to hit a point in a couple years where the shape will just be normal to look at

But God is this going to be a weird thing sitting in your living room I had to god damn take a tape measure to my entertainment system To see if the thing would fucking fit And it has like two millimeters of clearance It's fucking huge You know what I'd be okay with? I would be okay with platforms being just black boxes

That when you press the power button on them the logo of what they are comes on on the side You mean like the Xbox one series XS But I mean of the same dimensions so that they can all nicely fit into a shelf together Stack them on top of each other And then you just have the three logos be there when you're turning that one on Of similar dimensions I would be okay with that Yeah

But anyway Man the PS5 looks so dumb next to the Xbox Like the Xbox is like a fridge and that's kind of dumb But it's like respectable I guess And the PS5 is this dumb future exhale Oh my god it's a fucking exhale God damn it It's a fucking exhale again

That's why it looks so fucking stupid The breathe in breathe out man Breathe in breathe out Now to be fair to be fair that was Microsoft's idea Yeah it was Oh it's a crosshale Oh my god go fuck yourselves Oh my god

For those of you who missed it or were too young When the Xbox 360 was designed The shape of it was convex or concave excuse me Because they wanted it to design imply A person going When they looked at it So by that logic the PlayStation 3 Which was a fat boy with someone going

Yeah and the Xbox original convex design Was designed that it was bursting with power within That it could barely contain itself Yeah so fat boy PS3 style We're now returning to that where the curves are back These PS5 controllers look like a good improvement I want to feel it I want to feel it

I want to feel what the white part actually you know It looks like it's a shell but I don't think it is How smooth is it? I bet it's smooth So yeah apparently the fan was not too bad Exhaust port was gentle And uh And yeah implications are right now

That at the very least as far as the shit that they touched With the high speed SSD loading screens Are just kind of becoming a thing of the past Yeah so It will be a while before even the PC catches up to that Because you're going to need like a new motherboard And all sorts of shit But also like

But loading and masking you're loading Is still sort of like mostly in developer optimization Right so this is something where it'll help you And from the jump when you're using whatever new consoles Libraries you see an overall like improvement But you're going to have games that don't do it as good as others And games that fuck it up and are still going to you know Still going to have some moments

That you got to wait on What I want to actually see And I know that this is again this is developer side So it doesn't really often get talked about But the bloat in game data And the efficient use of compression Is a very important topic I think because Is it?

I mean we're getting giant hard drives right Would you like to talk to Infinity Ward about that? What's going on with Infinity Ward What's going on? You know Call of Duty Warsaw? It will no longer fit On a 250 gigabyte SSD You can't even

Wow It's too big Wow Base model no good Wow See like It's like 300 gigs now If the rate of storage increase is not proportional

With the bloat of game data We run into a fucking problem And I'm someone who I'm doing something that most of you have not done Right I'm using my same PS4 My launch PS4 I'm still using it

Right So I've been paying attention to The size of games a lot because You know I have a channel that plays a lot of games So I have to delete and install a lot of things I've never been More conscientious of and thus thankful

For Shit like ArcSys Where all of their games fall under 10 Maybe with the accept I think Dragon Ball might be at 10 Or like 9 or something like that But You look at

Crosstack Battle, Excerd BlazBlue All these games Coming in so much smaller Than Like everything ArcSys is sitting there Taking up less than Reinstalling Mortal Kombat to do Aftermath

Yeah I was kind of shocked Like Genshin's 12 And that's like a giant open world RPG Gotcha thing and it's like The fuck is What are all these other games doing What are they doing I mean

What are they doing Like Mortal Kombat is coming in And then Pre-Apthermath content Is coming in Sitting there for like fucking Whatever the 50 or 60 Like something crazy

You know big And then you throw that on And it just bloats and bloats Street Fighter is as awful as it's always been You know They really just like They're unabashed with it They don't even

It seems like they're not even trying at times And you've seen examples of other games That are just doing it better Yeah it sucks When I played The disc version of Tsushima And the disc still had to install 40 gigs

Of course it did You know So Yeah No ArcSys please Please teach everyone How to fucking do it properly

Because I'm becoming more and more convinced That the Call of Duty thing is on purpose To crowd out Other games off your hard drive Oh you think that's a Really Really

That's fucking I've Every game wants all of your money And all of your time What better way Than to make sure it also takes up all of your hard drive It's not something that people really talk about Right

The size of a game on your hard drive It just It never gets discussed It's never part of like The launch details drop that info But it's not anything that really Ends up being a discussion point You know

It gets talked about with Warzone Because it's so ridiculous with Warzone And it gets talked about on PC Right Because a lot I feel like people bring that up on PC more But on consoles It doesn't really often come up as like a problem of sorts

And once we kind of find out Like oh yeah This is what they're doing with their textures Or whatever the case is Then you're just gonna like Have to fucking deal with it But I mean

Think about it this way Right New Warzone updates coming out right Mm-hmm You playing Warzone? You know what that update is? It's 30 gigs For almost no change

They're gonna add like a gun Whatever Say you have a data cap And that means you can't download other games this week Or this month You just can't Yeah That's

This fucking That is a disgusting size An absolutely disgusting size I can't imagine Again Like if you're going with The rate at which we are getting Access to more and more storage

On these platforms It's not one to one With the bloat of games You know And Like I understand that it's like These are

You know Big companies with a lot of people working for them That are doing whatever Level Compression that they're professionally hired to do But when you see And so you can't easily just make Comparisons by going

Look everybody It's ArcSys They're doing it good Different games have different fucking You know Architectures to them But you can't tell me that You cannot do better

Than 200 and fucking 50 You know what I mean? Like that's just That's just That's insane It's ridiculous to think that when you're that Sure is When you go by comparison

To what everyone else is doing at the time And this is entirely sitting here Is not a fucking Compression specialist You know It's not my job When you look at what everyone else is doing With the games they have

And the relative Like You know How nice the games look How effective they are At loading and not loading And things like that That's

Way, way, way out of the fucking ballpark I'm just gonna fucking Run a goddamn scan On my games hard drive Just to check Witcher 3 Wild Hunt 35 gigs

Wow Wow Okay What else we got in here Final Fantasy 14 An MMO that's been out for Almost a decade 46 gigs

Phantom Pain 31 gigs FF7 was a fatty Resident Evil 2 26 gigs FF7 was a fucking fatty Where's the The

I got a million things in here But yeah It's just like What the fuck What the fuck guys Yeah FF7 deserved to be a fatty It was a fatty game

That's people Yeah, okay Some people have some strong opinions about me Continuing to use my My launch console And my PC Which, you know I guess I'm sorry for offending you

By using the console that I bought And sticking with it You should be Yeah, it's pretty disgusting Get that fatty console out of here Gross I know Kill it, shoot it with a gun

Well Tell you one thing Didn't have to go through multiple of them Like The 360 days It's quite nice that the 1PS4 Did work the entire time I do appreciate that

I ran into Two points where the firmware fucked up And then I did a hard reset On it And had to re-update But Over the years, otherwise it's been It's continued to work for me, so

You know Oh, I forgot to mention I got a 3080 Hey, okay Did you I don't know how I actually got it How'd you get it? I had to join a Discord

That was only guys trying to get 3080s And the Discord was running a bot And the bot was using a program called Distillo Which would monitor websites For any changes to their code And would monitor the NVIDIA website And the Amazon website And it would go, hey, the out-of-stock

HTML file Was edited Oh, wow And Here's the problem with that Those websites get edited all the time All the time Which means

That 95% of the time It's a false positive Oh, is this what you were doing last week? I think you mentioned, but I just didn't describe the actual methodology Okay Of the Distillo, because now that I have it I can say how

And Here's the new part of the story Right So I got to the NVIDIA website And sure enough It was It was Add to Cart was there

So I added it to Cart And here's the trick Alright, everybody want to know the NVIDIA website trick? The NVIDIA website Has a lot of trouble Getting from Add to Cart To the Cart For whatever reason

The actual gateway Between Add to Cart and the link to the Cart Fucks up constantly Like it'll time out Right But it will add to the Cart You just can't get to the Cart Which means the only people that are able

To buy it are the people Who went to the website Added a Cart they didn't want to buy to their Cart And then bookmarked their Cart But then what about the cookies? You keep the cookies But doesn't it, will it stay the entire time? Yes

Okay So what you do is you add the 3080 to the Cart Then you go to your Cart bookmark Your Cart load up You skip the line Then you can buy it It lets you add it to the Cart When it's sold out

But then it fails to get to the Cart Unless you use the direct link to the Cart Which you won't know what it is Unless you add something to the Cart When the website isn't dying But then you don't have But to make the bookmark to the Cart With it in your Cart

You have to have gotten it in your Cart prior That's why two weeks before You add some random video card You don't care about to your Cart So you can get the Cart link Okay, so then you add it in another window And then go to the Cart link and refresh No

Woolly, listen to me Listen to me You go to the Nvidia website two weeks ago Yes You add any video card that is in stock Random, yes To your Cart Yes

It will then, because it works Bring you to your Cart You then bookmark that webpage Then when you go to buy the 3080 And you hit add to Cart It will add to your Cart But you can't get to Cart So then you go to the bookmark

That's the step that I was missing In what you were saying So you're still going and adding And clicking the button to add it to your Cart Okay Fine Well, it's like you just can't make the jump For some reason

Ends up skipping the line To the people trying to do it the normal Non-insane way Because I was just like How are you getting it in your Cart If you're staring at your Cart page But not going to the add to Cart page And then

Which you did do Yes Then you wait until your processing is done And you get shipping confirmation And then you talk about it on social media Because God, would you look stupid If you're one of the people that said Hey, I got it

And then they cancel your order Well I'm planning to get one on my Versus Beast is what I'm calling it Oh, yeah Via, yeah, thanks to sponsor Artesian builds Who are making a new PC

And If you want to check out The Woolly versus Twitch You can go down below And click on the button To get some discounts on your PCs But yeah I'm just going to kind of wait for that to arrive

And handle it that way, I think Because Don't want to think about it Yeah, your way is better Your way is better Yeah I am Peace of mind

Peace of mind Yeah And everyone is fucking coming in going Dude What the fuck would you get Like you got that sponsor Like too late for Reggie And I'm like

I don't decide How the winds blow You know It would like It just It happened to work out that way That Reggie had You know

Got his boat and sailed down Listen The path to the waterfall And then Artesian builds was like Hey yo What's up Let's talk What's important is that

Sorry Get it You're a You're a physically big guy You're a strong guy, right So What's important Is that

When the PC arrives And you do your first stream with Reggie That you pick up the PC And physically rub the case On his face Going On him I'll ask

I'll ask them to send me the box For the 3080 So that I can use it To just you know Like newspaper him With it Yeah, that's good That's good

That's good Put things in there And then as you're rubbing the PC on his face You can go Me Well So yeah There's that stuff going on with the PS5

A couple other things Not too much in terms of Crazy news this week but Super Mario Bros. 35 dropped And I don't know if you've taken a look at it But They basically took the infrastructure Of Tetris 99

And applied it to Super Mario Bros And You can play with 35 people In honor of the 35th anniversary Wow And you can Basically compete to Make it as far as you can

While other people's games Are affecting yours And attacking you and filling it with shit That sounds like a nightmare I've seen Min Get his win I've seen Who else? A couple people

I saw Min get fucking put to jail What happened? Oh you didn't see that? He got locked in FF14 jail? Oh, no I didn't see that How do you get put in jail? He grieved a 24 man What does that mean?

I mean he means he let himself die And stayed on the floor to prove a point Oh yeah Yeah, that's a Min That's a move It was basically like hey They didn't kick the other guy When he was dead

But when I died on purpose And refused to get up They kicked me That's bullshit They were all together And it's like Okay man Alright

Anybody who's watched Dokapon Knows that voice You know the sounds that were being made At that point Oh shit Yeah Dying on the hill Actually actual dying on the hill

Literally Yeah You know Can't say he's not a man of his convictions Can't say it It's true Well In Mario Brothers 35

Basically Yeah they took the same similar infrastructure So every time someone That is targeting you Kills an enemy on their screen It gets sent to your screen As Fireballs

Or as lackey twos And as other bullshit Depending on the levels So I'm gonna send you a link over here Because Yeah send me a link I need to see what it looks like Well I'm not

You don't just need to see what it looks like If this is the first time you're seeing it You need to see what it looks like At the highest possible level Yeah just the fucking nightmare fuel Shit Because High level

Is Very very important And let me pull it up here The state the game can get to When two really good players Are The last people left Is fucking nuts

There we go I would like to see this crap Because I'm looking at generic random footage And I'm seeing some crap So I'm linking to Here's how crazy Super Mario Brothers 35 becomes When it gets played at its highest level And you just get to see

What's gonna Oh Jesus shit What's happening What's happening Is essentially The game becomes Fucking Bullet hell

Like bullet hell It becomes bullet hell Mario And If you survive that You fucking deserve the win People that are really good at Mario Are really really good at it And they will not lose

Yeah clear To other people's bullshit Where can you even jump Like Absolute nightmare fuel Of Platformer progression That's too much

And you have items You have access to stars And fireballs And things that can clear the screen But for the most part You're meant to just fucking die So There is no meme die kind of thing

The lack to like Procession Is yeah If you're looking bad The link is in the The link is in the podcast docket But it's Nintendo life

Mario 35 at its highest level You have to collect coins And you have to kill enemies And fucking survive Personally I prefer my Tetris 99 thank you I prefer the comfortable skills I already had Being applied to a competitive situation

I don't like this fucking bullet hell Mario world Mario Mario maker was bad enough Yeah so That's crazy And I kind of want to see If this is what we're setting up here There might just be a continuing trend of like

Here's Zelda 99 Here's Metroid 99 Like they might go down a road of NES classics Remixed with multiplayer on them There's a couple There's a couple in there that like Metroid 99 Sounds like it The game's short enough

You know In fact like if they wanted to They could even probably make like A package like a full sized game That is just Battle Royale versions Of NES classics because the infrastructure is there Mega Man 99

Mega Man 99 would be good Like Nintendo currently has that set up right now They can drop anything they want to And make sure that you can fill the other person's screen with bullshit And just go for it That would be really interesting Any game that you can think of where You can affect the amount of

Shit piling up Balloon fight I do a lot I love the fact that Nintendo is taking these games And it's like hey it's that cool little game You remember from your whatever is installed And it's like what if we turned it into A fucking nightmare

Like an anxiety Shit fest I mean I kind of like I'm kind of sad that they didn't go the route of that one Awful video of Mario Maker Where you're getting through all the fire The lava rods there Like we kind of need a little bit more of that going on

But um But yeah, yeah Only the best are allowed to survive And you know Fall Guys is showing Nintendo that Hey people aren't done with this Battle Royale thing So why not just like Apply it to the games you already have

It's a good game mode It's a great game mode It's a great remix of something that Everybody claims to be really good at All these classics Everyone has played them for a really long time So prove that you're better than a hundred other people At the same time

You know I'm better And the targeting system is again It's like a bit of a thing where you can just Only you can choose between fighting back against Those who are targeting you People who are random Or people who are doing really really well

You know Anyone who's crushing it You can be like yeah kill them first So There's a little bit of a There's a nice little Angle to like how you Competitively target people in these games

And I liked it with Tetris the most so Yeah so that's what's going on With Mario 35 Now you mentioned it earlier But like Baldur's Gate 3 Was supposed to be out in early access And it got pushed back to tomorrow It is tomorrow

And This early access is Saying that it's got 16 races And 6 classes Is that comparable to previous games? I need you to be way more specific About what you mean by previous games Baldur's Gate in the past has had that many races?

Yes, no? Way less races Way more classes So Baldur's Gate 2 Had your D&D 2.0 classic races Human Elf, Half Elf I think it had Half Orc in there

And a couple others right But it definitely had more classes And it had subclasses You didn't just have Paladin You also had Cavalier Paladin Magic Breaker Paladin The other one The other one

And so on and so forth What with this being Divinity Because this is also a sequel to Divinity 2 Divinity 2 didn't have classes? What do you mean by that? I mean it doesn't have classes What do you mean it's also a sequel to Divinity?

It's made by the Divinity Desk Okay, so like engines This is for all intents and purposes Divinity 3 as well Spiritual successor wise because of the mechanics of Divinity resembling Baldur's Gate? Yeah Okay, got it Like the verticality, the way it's going to work, etc Developer sequel, not actual sequel guys

It's the next RPG by the Divinity Devs Okay Anyway That game didn't have classes MP3 people are happy with less acknowledgment So don't worry about it No, I know That game didn't have any classes

It had all like skill points And then you can like put points into fire And then you can learn fire skills Okay Which Divinity 2 is one of those games that I absolutely adore And all of my pals that we all play 14 together have all played at Nausium No one ever gets past Act 2 because the story is kind of weak And the, and I'll be honest, I don't like

I usually don't like do whatever skill systems I like classes Do whatever skill systems As in you have a giant tree that you can build into your own thing No, it's not even trees It's just like put points into this and you can use these types of abilities And build your own class Because in Divinity 2

It's really easy to make terrible characters Like terrible characters So you have abilities but you don't have the stats to make those abilities work for you? Yeah, you have this giant variety of custom builds that you can make Most of which are bad Do you like that you can make bad builds in Souls games? No It's why Dark Souls 1 is my most hated of all the stats

Because it has a trap stat In resistance Which I think sucks Okay, so you think there should always be a bit of a safety net to catch people from I like classes The only exception that I have to this is like a Fallout RPG But that's slightly different because you only have one character You're only making one character

Right? It's a little different In Divinity you're trying to build 4 man custom parties of completely user created things With every skill you get It's a mess So hearing that Baldur's Gate 3 will have classes Very excited Isn't the failure of that open system more so just badly implementing their stats As opposed to making sure that

They're actually very simple and easy to understand The problem is that there is just There is a wide distance between good and bad in that game and the game is kind of hard So a lot of games that have like huge wide open build possibilities Have a difficulty level that means like most builds will muddle through When I played Divinity 2 the first time and was like trying to make my own builds And was building my character how I thought I would want to build them I ended up in situations where just like I couldn't progress

And originally the respect was after the first act which is after a really tough boss So this is not a goblin, this is actually running into walls No, no, I'm not the only person to have this problem definitely It's a combination of the game is actually difficult And building your character is complex So it's pretty easy to fuck up Whereas when you're talking about Baldur's Gate There are decades worth of resources on hey

Is your character a wizard? Jam as much intelligence as you can into him Because it's a wizard Okay, but here's the thing I guess How much of that though needs to remain faithful to Dungeons and Dragons In a Baldur's Gate game? A lot

It's using the 5th edition Exactly, so they don't get to really free ball it If D&D matters here Yeah, Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be taking place in Forgotten Realms And it's going to be using 5th edition rules So they can't just do what's best by genre If they have a prior rule set to adhere to Yeah, and hearing that is actually very exciting to me

Because I like a little more structure Thacko8 coming back-o? No, Thacko's gone, Thacko's been gone for like 15, 20 years I'm excited man, that's a good... That developer has made great games And the problems that I have with their games is directly in opposition To the type of game they have to make under this license You will never hit Armor Class Zero

In brackets, you will not In brackets, hit Armor Class Zero Thacko's so stupid, oh my god So, this is being made by the people you trust And it's a franchise that you like So there's no reason to look at this And have the same, let's say, I don't know, Diablo 3 energy About the situation

They did early access for... I want to say they did early access for Divinity 2 as well And that worked out very well Because it's only going to be like one third of the game And it will be in various states of completely fucked up and broken For quite some time The other thing is that Because this is a Larian game

I fully expect six months after it comes out They will announce Baldur's Gate 3 Enhanced Edition Which fixes every nitpick you ever had with it But your saves won't be compatible, so start over There's a really weird thing with their games Where if you want to play them at all Buy them and beat them day one immediately Or when the Enhanced Edition comes out

If you get in a couple months in You're going to be halfway through their game And they're going to announce the Enhanced version And you're going to be like, fuck Is your save fucked? No, it's not fucked, it's just there on the old one That doesn't have any of the new stuff So I haven't been paying attention

But what I know of Baldur's Gate Is that the camera is way, way, way out here It's isometric as shit, it's way out So when I'm looking at this character creator That looks insanely detailed Like approaching black desert levels Of detail What are we doing?

So here's what they're doing Divinity 2 is actually way more faithful To Baldur's Gate than this Because Divinity 2, it would like You'd be way up, right, looking down But when you talk to somebody You would just kind of zoom down a little bit Okay

In this gameplay You're going to be way up, looking down But when you talk to people It's going to mass effect you Oh, cool, okay Alright, that makes perfect sense That's awesome, nice And you can also like zoom in the camera

And move it around to your liking That makes a lot of sense, yeah, cool That's that Also, you remember last week or whatever That I was talking about They shouldn't make sequels to decades old games This is a really good example The story of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2

Is about the god of murder And that story is done And this shit The whole, like It's called Baldur's Gate But that is a location In Forgotten Realms And it is basically just saying

Hey guys, it's another one of those That does take place in Forgotten Realms You'll probably meet Drizzt Has nothing to do with that shit You will not meet the god of murder That is an old thing Drizzt, though Yeah

You could hang out with Drizzt in Baldur's Gate 2 And it was the fucking craziest thing in the world Because I didn't know it was in the game And then I just turned a corner and Drizzt was there It's that fucking Drizzt, Joe Erdan Are you serious? For me, it's just that book cover Of him jumping off of the fucking castle top

With the blades and then the two wolves Or whatever his sub-pays and familiars are The Panthers, whatever He's jumping down and he's like Fucking action hero D&D action man He's doing it The D&D edge-board

He's a dark elf drow that woke up to justice Man Hope you have a good time naming your character A variation of that He is responsible for ruining every single elf Character creator in every MMO ever I just, so okay Do you remember the game

Gotham Impostors? Do you remember the roster in that game? No, fuck no So the roster of Gotham Impostors Is a bunch of weirdo cosplayers That are cosplaying as Joker Or Batman And remember the chubby guy

At the beginning of Batman Begins Yeah, not Batman Begins, sorry Exactly, Dark Knight He's like, what do you, we can do it too That guy, it's a game full of those people Alright, so point of this is That's the feeling I get Watching all of these drizzed

Drizzed character creators Arrow, line, tilde, drizzed Line, tilde, arrow And I almost want to see a gallery Of all their weird faces and variations Of everyone trying to make their own With the spelling It's fucking crazy

It's the best When I played WoW The amount of drizzed like Named variations Nah, I'm drizzed though That were hunt, donite elf hunters With a panther and double swords It was a fucking abomination

It was a plague on the land It was so out of control Drizzy baby People don't know how fucking How over that character was I love it, I love it So anyway, that's a pretty cool thing I think to have like, yeah

I want character creators with that level of detail And if they're having their conversations Mass effect, that's a fucking sick thing That I think quality of life wise Should just be in as many things Like this going forward This genre has had a lot of ups and downs And there's been a lot of good ones

But there's not been one to come along That hits that mass effect You know that just Hoping this is the one That would be cool Seeing your creative character It's pretty good, doesn't it? It's almost like everything should do that

It's almost like if you spend a lot of time Customizing your pubes You should be able to see them Especially in non-combat conversational moments Especially, yes Okay, well You see how that goes With your

Halflings in your Teflings I don't know what the fuck Teflings are weird, man They're like demons, man That's crazy I'm gonna look it up Descended

I'm gonna look up the races Descended from You even play as a fucking Githyanki? Holy shit That's a fucking pull Devil Bloodlines, man Nobody gives a shit about the fucking Githyanki Okay, hold on a second

Humans Githyaki Peerless Warriors from the Astral Plane Elves Trow Half Elves Dwarves Halflings

Teflings And then the subdivisions therein Yes Githyaki are like fucking not orcs They're weird They hate mind flayers They hate them Are you a gold dwarf or a shield dwarf?

Yeah That character creator looks very impressive And I would like to see more of what that can do Looks pretty Looks pretty And you know what? They have clean faces They do have clean faces

It's important So, uh, Tsushima, they announced there's that multiplayer coming But they dropped a trailer just to show off some of the other stuff they're adding into it With 1.1 version of the game And the trailer includes loadouts Which is nice Because that's kind of something I was running into Towards the end of the game was

Oh yeah, I want to switch to the traveling set to get the item Now I want to switch to this Exactly, and you had to put It takes fucking forever You had to do it one by one every time And like, not only that, but when you switch to that set There are different, um, charms that are good for what you're doing You know, if you're picking a traveling set or a stealth-focused set

Then you might want your stealth-focused badges And, uh, yeah, it seems like you finally can save and lock those in But only once you've earned your badges Of course, never, never not earn your badge Never not earn your badges I goddamn, dude, that thing is so dumb Because I hear it forever And every time a badge comes up in any video game

I say it But no one, no one knows No one gets it, you care There's no reason they should It's only for us There's no reason anyone would get it But it's here forever Earn your badges

Earn your badges with the crisis to a fucking whatever the fuck it was Anyway, so what we get here is, like, yeah You want to talk about, like, playing something a little too late or whatever Uh, yeah, this is, I'm getting, I just finished the game before this drops But, like, there's, I, once I set my charms in Tsushima I never touch them again Too much time wasting, can't be bothered Just, I'll deal

And there's so many So, like, the scrolling takes a long time I'll deal with the mismatch of the set And the abilities, and it'll just have to do And it's not that hard either, you know what I mean Like, at the end of the day, that extra, like, buff to your stats Or your, um, stealth Or your this or your that

It's like, yeah, you can kind of just, like, skill it through It ain't too bad The ghost shit where you kind of rebuild ghost dance Over and over and over again Where you just, like, nullify the gameplay You can do, you can build to that if you want, so Um, and then, yeah, they showed off a bit more of the multiplayer Including a shot of you and some wolves walking next to you

Some big old ghost wolves And I don't know if that was just cinematic for the cinema Or if that was actually gameplay mechanic But they might be hinting At a battle pupper thing Maybe I'm good with that Maybe those ghost powers are on your side, yeah

I mean, we already saw them in the scrolls But are they electric ghost dogs? They're not electric, they're just kind of ghosty But hey, their ghost dogs were good enough in Doom That's true So they dropped the trailer for that They announced a remaster of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit And I thought I would take a moment to, while announcing this

Also try to figure out which game specifically this is That could be like four different games Because I don't think, I don't know You may need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit with PS1 We're doing the bit once again And I'd like to figure out just which specific version this is remastering Because, yeah There's a lot of different options here

Yeah, which one? There are three games that have that exact same title To Wikipedia The 2010 one? Not the last one? To Wikipedia We'll figure this out We'll do it live So, Need for Speed

Need for Speed 2 Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit 1998 Need for Speed High Stakes Porsche Unleashed Hot Pursuit 2 2002 Underground, Underground 2 2004 Most Wanted, Carbon, Pro Street, Undercover, Shift, Nitro, World Hot Pursuit 2010

Shift to Unleashed Oh boy, they're getting into the dark forces shit The Run Most Wanted Hold on, Most Wanted before that 2005 Okay So, Most Wanted 2012 Is just the exact same title as Most Wanted 2005 Okay

Rivals, No Limits Need for Speed 2015, No Subtitle Payback, Heat V-Rally, V-Rally 2 And then Edge was cancelled I got super butt hurt going to the Verge to try and find this out faster Because It says a remaster is coming, blah blah blah

And it says the original COPS vs Racing game came out in 2010 No it didn't The original one came out on the PS1 in like 97 98 98 The original Hot Pursuit Yeah Hot Pursuit Mode

Shut up, Verge Yeah Yo shit Can't you just call it Hotter Pursuit? Can't you just add fucking numbers? Hottest Hottest Pursuit I don't know

I don't know It's so awful, I hate it I hate it Looking right here at the franchise page for Need for Speed In which it says Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit added Hot Pursuit Mode Where the player either attempted to outrun the police or be the cop arresting speeders Right here It was way easier to

Right here Escape Way easier to escape than to arrest speeders Also that fucking those games, those old ones Had some fucking wild cop AI Fucking no self-preservation at all So like those cars might as well be bullets fired from God Yeah but it was the first game that ever did that

That ever put in speeding and shit so we were like oh man that's cool Cause like that's not quite the point of GTA 1 and 2 right? So that mechanic was like oh fuck Yeah let's do it Right so the 2010 version was just like a new game that focused on It was a burnout game That aspect of it again It was a secret burnout game

So now when we're getting the remake or the remaster of that You're essentially getting the Halloween A secret burnout remaster Yeah Cool Alright what we figured it out Dude Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit is a legitimately incredible racing game Oh my god

Need for Speed Relentless Pursuit Unending Pursuit Unyielding Pursuit Infinite Pursuit There's so many better places they could have gone Pursuit after death Extreme and ultimate pursuit They could have gone so much better with this

It sucks There's a lot that could have been done Fuck These cowards Wait hold on a second What's up? Okay wait You were reading out the whole

Run of games Yes And it didn't quite click in my head That the naming convention for this series Is Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 Hot Pursuit Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2

And then Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Like it literally goes 3 2 1 Yeah okay the list The list according The list according to Wikipedia just puts Need for Speed as the As the Initial title As the proper title

Except for Shift 2 Unleashed Yeah Hot Pursuit 2 came out in 2002 Shift 2 Unleashed didn't have the word Need for Speed on the box Or it did but it was not the official title The word Need for Speed was actually a bottom subtitle on the box So if you're looking at the box for Shift 2 Unleashed Need for Speed is the subtitle to the game

I hate this Because you gotta know what you're looking at What is the Obsession with just naming things the same thing It's really simple It's really simple It is the core of what Paul Marketing loves Which is

Brand and name recognition equals power And the only thing more powerful Than implying that yours is the next in a line of a great memory that someone has Is implying that it's the exact same thing Numbers going up is embarrassing Something being around for too long looks bad However I disagree

Well that's not how Paul Marketing sees it But when it's taken as the exact same name of the thing You go Oh man I loved thing This is just thing Thing is the purest version of thing in your head You didn't even have to add a number or subtitle to it

Final Fantasy and like Dragon Quest have hit like dynastic reputation Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest are not being cowards about it They're being acknowledged and like Everyone is blown away by the level of like Unflinching courage That they are advancing with that number And they don't give a shit how big it gets That's an unseen thing in video games and in movies

Everyone cowards out after five Pat shut up companies don't pay thousands of dollars to tell them how to market They fucking should I'd get that marketing up I know what the kids like The kids like the anime dogs To tell them To buy games and make a bunch of adorable chainsaw noises

Movies with too many sequels became known as shit That's because they were shit Yes Thus establishing the too many sequels is a bad thing Idea They put it out there Too many books in a series wasn't ever that much of a thing It really started and came from too many fucking movies

Because what are you gonna go watch Fucking Elf Not elf Whatever fucking elf in the hood Leprechaun in the hood Leprechaun in the hood Whatever the case is

Yeah but that Here's the thing Let's take like Jason and Halloween and all that shit Sure It's like ah right it's like oh the horror movies have to get away from the numbers Cause all those horror movies had dozens of sequels and they were all terrible The fact that you don't have the number doesn't make those sequels like better No they're still bad

Yes And then you associate the bad not with sequels but with the property itself Yes But for the moment that they need you to pay for that ticket That's all they care about and if you bought the ticket and walked in Then they got you Because they convinced you this isn't too much of the same old bad thing It's a brand new thing

Yeah but then you get people going like oh I guess Halloween is terrible and always has been But it's not based on long term thinking It's based on get your ticket money now You know who's the bravest movie makers in the world Whoever the fuck is behind the Saw movies Saw Yeah That's absolutely it

But the other thing They really went for it Not only that but according to what I hear word on the street is that when you get to the end of the Saw journey There's actually a coherent like reason for the whole series to be this long ongoing connected thing I don't believe that at all I can't speak more to it because I couldn't tell you But someone who saw all of them told me dude it's fucking stupid and crazy But you get through it and there's a point to the whole journey

And I was like wow I saw Saw 4 And that's it I was very confused Well whatever that is I was told this from friends so I don't you know take that opinion for what it is It ain't mine I haven't seen them That is absolutely the reasoning why It's just we need you to remember how much you love Need for Speed hot pursuit

Without actually thinking about how many other games of Need for Speed are out there that you weren't paying attention to This is a fresh start It reminds me of this whole conversation always makes me think of an old bomb cast with Gershman and Ryan Davis Talking about how they started the giant bomb wiki you know that incredibly comprehensive bomb wiki or whatever And back in like 2008 or 2009 or whatever when giant bomb started Like they would have these arguments about what were essentially disambiguation pages Where these games would come out and no one would know how to title them And then the answer ended up being game title with the year

But that screws up all sorts of fucking database shit Because it's fucking stupid Well too late Terrible Now if you don't subtitle your game properly a year will be applied to it You know what I'm gonna do you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna make a spiked game and it's gonna be called two It's gonna be called spiked two

Oh like what about like 13 No fuck that Yeah Did you know and the subtitle will be called the sequel Did you know that every King of Fighters game was just called King of Fighters I do know that Yeah it's crazy Well it's pretty crazy it was like Madden

The official name on the box is just the King of Fighters And that's all SNK put out so those years just got inserted with the brackets Because otherwise how else would we figure it out How else would you know Officially What happened to Killers 1 through 6 Oh god What were those games like

When the game automatically has a number already in it Yeah I mean it's like that's not as bad if it's like a part of it without being the last digit But like Killer 7 does have it in there as if it were yeah Whatever happened to King of Fighters 15 through 97 Sorry 93 What happened to those games That's a lot of King of Fighters games we missed out on

Yeah Remember folks When you give up putting any effort in and you just want to achieve absolute brand recognition purity You don't even bother implying that it's not the same thing the person's thinking of Remember God of War yeah well look it's God of War Yeah Bye Didn't even have the decency to call it the God of War

No no it's look my memory is a God of War Bye money here yes that's the name I remember liking name And clearly I'm not 12 anymore so it can't be the same thing I'm an adult I like the God of War I bought God of War And now when I say hey man did you play God of War They'll be like yeah because it's played it back in 2004 Because whatever year because the importance of my language is time locked to this moment And when we go into the future what reason would I ever have to discuss that old game

Yeah because games are tertiary so in five years when they ask hey man I really like God of War And then every conversation has to go oh yeah which one I mean is it making me money anymore then why do I care Fucking asshole Hey which is bravely default to the worst one Bravely second is a different game Yeah is that the worst one No it's bravely second is not bravely default two

I know is that the worst one Which one Yeah What about bravely second two Please tell me that's real No unfortunately it's not But it might be I hope it will

That'd be really great Bravely second two who's on first It's so it's so bad like There is so much in this industry from stock to supply to naming to marketing That is so warped and I've been following it for so long that and so have you Willie We can obviously the pet we can see the path a lot of things took to get here And it's so frustrating because I remember I remember when games started to do in movies where the first ones do it right

Drop the subtitle drop the number Remember complaining then being that it would become a confusing mess And now holy shit it's such a confusing fucking mess All that matters is you spend the money while the marketing team is getting you to pay attention to the thing And whatever you do after that doesn't fucking matter It's just that's like I feel like business people can't see Any more than one minute into the future

I look forward for the game Assassin's Creed coming sometime in the next 10 You're right You're right DMC DMC is not the worst one but it's the most upsetting I also can't stand the way that it has to be spelled with the upper and the lower case Yeah and very annoying What is the beginning of the what is the what is DMC stand for Devil may cry

No but what is the DMC before devil may cry stand for Devil may cry Is it just devil may cry devil may cry What's the point DMC stands for strand Like letters are used to communicate language What is the what is the does the DMC stand for DMC What it stands for DMC to best game that's what it stands for there you go everyone

It stands for my name is Dante fuck you I think I think shoutouts to Susie Is that the hardest we laughed in that whole video series I mean I can't think of any toppers Cuz like I I completely forgot about that Yeah, that's probably top It was oh man, holy shit Either that or skateboard

Yeah, skate skateboard skateboard Oh man Middle finger Yeah Either that or Savior let's date mother father And then How do you feel about that photo of Virgil sitting on one of those white plastic lawn chairs

It's just I didn't see it On the top of the Clifont I didn't see it And just like oh you didn't That's pretty good It's just this photo of him sitting on one of those like big open white plastic lawn chairs And it's like Dante if you want to take it from me and then it's just

As he gets up Well, let me grab one Sure Oh they modded it into the game Is he sitting in a dad chair Yeah I found the tweet Here will they enjoy this tweet

Enjoy it It's so stupid If you want it chair scraping loudly against the Clifont You'll have to take it Because everyone knows the sound of a lawn chair Of those specifically those arched white plastic ones It's the worst noise Sound of lawn chair vibrating

Yep Yep In fact like that is a like in your fucking dreams You can out you can peg that sound out Blind Yeah, I just I found it and I retweeted it if you guys want It's pretty good It's stupid

Well anyway, no it's just two last little things here that were pretty cool and unexpected We got some some robot games with the robots in them Override to the Super Mecha League It's the sequel to override that Mecha game that took a look at some time ago And they've now announced that they're crossing over with Ultraman And Ultraman is now in the game And it's just the biggest wait what How did you fucking get that license

How'd you get a hold of Ultraman I have no idea Arguably the greatest of the Japanese superheroes It's it's makes no sense because I mean look modus games making some cool stuff But this is like you know it was kind of a smaller like not that popular pretty fun robot game Kind of a wild inclusion to suddenly show up specifically the Netflix Ultraman Holy shit he looks great Yeah no it's super cool and it doesn't

I'm like by all means you know bless this game with your presence No offense override too but Ultraman kind of outclasses your cast of original characters pretty thoroughly Well I mean that's a Override It's like Skullgirls getting Superman Yeah oh no that's over you know override had some cool robots in it But for some reason they just got access to that So Ultraman, Bermular, Black King and Dan Momoroshi from the Netflix Ultraman series are coming in playable

And other cosmetics are going to be applicable too That's crazy Yeah it's an extra addition though so I think it's one of those bits where the Ultraman money is probably going into the Additional into either the extra cost or the DLC content Good So there's that and in a similar fashion the game Hardcore Mecha which looks like I compare it really closely to Super Robot Wars because it looks like you're That's a cool game that has a giant problem

You're controlling what looks like Super Robot Wars characters in an action game oriented way And they're getting Gurren Lagann Gurren Lagann is just now a guest DLC character that you can fucking play as and it's animated quite cool nicely And he can get a drill breaker and spin on and you can jump out of Simon and run around and use your fucking Drill or Lagann impact And it's just like yeah okay So again another smaller Mecha game just getting blessed with like some cool crossover shit And everyone sits up in their chairs Hardcore Mecha is getting Gurren Lagann and Override 2 is getting Ultraman

Uh huh In case you missed it the first time Wait what? I gotta pay attention Doing a gig a drill breaker through a bunch of enemies Very cool It's crazy Yeah it's the game that looks like uh again

Oh you can play as Lagann by himself too Or as Simon by himself That's crazy Shimon Um yeah so it's just I don't know how and why they secured that license deal but they fucking did And I can only imagine it's the kind of situation where a lot of these deals would go through more often But people assume they won't so they just don't ask Well Gurren Lagann shows up in some Super Robot Wars games but not all of them right

There's some franchises that are always gonna be there like everything related to Gundam is always gonna be there Everything related to Ava Everything Gynax is gonna be there You know Bandai plays along Gun Buster the Die Buster all those people All of these the companies as a whole play along you know But um then you get your special little like oh that one game has big oh Oh that one has virtual on you know they get these slight moments of crossover that are not applicable across the board

You're always gonna have Mazinger Z. You're always gonna have a getter you know But you might not always have um fucking a giant robo you know so um or Tekkaman or Overman King Geiner So Gurren is Tekkaman's the shit Uh Gurren is especially like uh rare because it's like you don't get um there's that one Gurren game and no one talks about it Uh and then there was supposed to be an MMO and that thing got fucking silent cancelled right quick It went the same I have a fucking I have a copy of that fucking DS game so

Wow The MMO went the same place that the Trigun MMO went The Planet Gun Smoke never forget Geez I completely didn't know about that at all They announced the Gun Grave and they announced the Trigun the Planet Gun Smoke MMO coming soon And I was like what And then fucking nothing So you know if you want to check out these these these robots you can check them out

I'm gonna check out these robots Nah I already checked them out I already did that Would a Gurren lag endgame be really cool I don't care anymore I mean it's been a while times past I don't need it it'd be nice if a good developer took it and and and had a really good idea for it But I it doesn't need to exist it's fine If it's not gonna be amazing I kind of don't want it

Yeah At the time certainly there was big excitement for that idea you know but hey We eventually got a kill the kill game you know like fucking years later And it was pretty but not much else to say about it Exactly No I'm saying Well let's take some letters and do the thing Yeah let's take some letters because I'm gonna piss myself

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The weirdest thing about his leaving speech was Wild AKA Ubisoft's Deep Down is apparently still in development If you don't remember Wild was announced in 2014 as a PS4 title Is that with a Y? W-I-L-D Lowercase-I Announced in 2014 as a PS4 title Excuse me before the PS4 even came out It was shown off at Paris Games Week the following year

And then it vanished off the face of the earth There's some singular screenshots that were posted to his Instagram But like Deep Down, the game was never officially cancelled It just went the entire lifespan of the PS4 without any news So there was no hope left Last week he said many of you might want to know what happened to it No worries, the teams are autonomous They're going super well, beautiful things to see soon

No they're not It doesn't get worked on for ten years with nothing about it and goes super well Well these flowery words are flowery Big lies I just wanted to bring attention to this as people As this game has, I've been thinking about it for some time And I've never expected it to be acknowledged again I completely forgot about that game

I still don't even know which one it is I just watched the trailer for it and remembered that I had seen the trailer And that was the extent of my interaction with it How many thousands of days are we since the last Bayonetta News? Probably 900 December 7th, 2017 You know a game I thought of yesterday, just out of the blue out of nowhere I was sitting there, sitting there twirling my thumbs

And then suddenly I thought about Faith in a 45 And I got sad Yeah Still one of the coolest names to never go anywhere Yeah You see that article about Elden Ring? No It's made up, it was never real, stop tweeting about it

The article? The article was Elden Ring isn't real, you made it up Stop tweeting about it We all had a collective Mandela moment Yeah We buy the game and as soon as it finishes down As soon as you get the physical copy and you open it up It just disappears

It's from nerfwire.com September 26th Elden Ring never existed, you made it up, stop tweeting about it In 2019, the fans of Game of Thrones and Ozylite got something to be excited about And it's not because the studio is uncommunicative The truth is that Elden Ring doesn't exist, it never did, you made it up, stop tweeting about it Reportedly, development began in 2017 But of course that can't be true, because if it's development for three years already Why do we know basically nothing? It's because there's nothing to show, Daniel

There's not such thing as Elden Ring That's fiction, that one's fake, we made it up Her writers made it up Complete fabrication, it's not true, didn't happen I feel like this batch of games is by far the worst Like this is the time period that we've had the most games that we've been told Like it's super coming and everyone's like nah, I don't believe you I feel like there's always a couple, I don't know

I feel like there's always been a couple And when they come and they go We spent a long time in that area where Duke Nukem, FF7, Trico There was a long period of time where those things just didn't exist Metroid Prime, Half-Life 3 You know, like I think actually There's always, it's always a persistent thing

The all-time winner has to go to the Phantom The console that never came The Phantom, yes, yes, by um, oh, Infinium Labs Yeah, that was it, that was totally it Fucking A What a perfect name for that fucking goddamn scam The goddamn Phantom Man, back when like

People were getting reports and sending them in to Penny Arcade Because Penny Arcade was like the hub of Phantom News reporting So they found the storefront of Infinium Labs And it was just an empty strip mall joint Where you can look inside the glass windows and see nothing inside at the address Oh, shit Yep, yep, yep I still think the craziest thing about the Phantom is that Alienware

Actually fucking put out a goddamn series of Phantom Lapboards For the Phantom Amazing Like the Lapboards came out Yeah And all the branding on it And they were by all means apparently pretty good Lapboards So, like, I want to say the final burn on it was that the name of the console has never been more appropriate

Oh, yeah The It was a ghost Vaporware usually implies software, so that's not good enough This was hard vapor This was a I'm going back in and I remember now Do you remember Infinium Labs fucking sued hard OCP?

They sued everybody They sued hard OCP because hard OCP did a bunch of digging And we're like, we think this company doesn't exist It appears to be entirely manufactured and has nothing to do with shit And they threaten them with a lawsuit Defamation Now the only mercy that we were saved from is a world where that entire campaign existed alongside Kickstarter Oh

Oh, man Kickstarter did not exist back then Oh, man Yeah, if you, for all you kids out there that you've never heard of Infinium Labs and the Phantom Go down that rabbit hole tonight, have a good time, look that up I got I remember like a news report Catch the penny arcades about it

I remember there being like a news report where they like, we went to like The fucking offices listed on their business information They went It was like an empty lot That's what I'm talking about They have a photo of a strip mall And they went, I remember the exact picture of the strip mall parking lot And they walk up to it and it's an empty ass room

And you can look through it because it's front facing And see Yeah, it's like at those windows like a car dealership And you can see the nothing that is happening inside It's like this is your business address for your console, huh? And the voice on the trailer video Infinium Labs presents the Phantom Coming soon

Over 100 AAA developers Hard at work on bringing you Every single person that was ever asked about it I was like, yeah, I haven't gotten a dev kit I don't know what you're talking about I mean, dude, honestly When you have a lot of money And you don't give a fuck about what comes out of your mouth

You can get pretty far You can get pretty far out there into the The conscious, you know, the collective consciousness All you need is a little bit of cash And like no shame whatsoever In saying things that aren't real It's kind of nuts, you know And then eventually reality always catches up

Because this is the rules of the world we live in But until then, anyone can say anything You know, and like in many cases They never quite stop And then a judge has to go, ah shit, right Sorry for assuming that we could play along with you And trust that you were saying Go stand over there now, please

And they oftentimes go stand over there While still saying, nah, but what I'm saying is real, though You know, it's like, alright, well Something happened in your life That made you unable to process what you say With the realm of that which is physical and corporeal Anyway, we got one over here Saying, ah, dear opposite ends of the hair selection screen

Stove here I like that Been playing fighting games as long as I can remember Started somewhere unusual My love came from fighter's destiny And flying dragon for the N64 People have often said these are odd ones to start a love with But they clicked so right with me

And they still get my blood going to this day My question is have you gotten into anything Based on a bad representation of said genre Thank you Hard to say I don't think for me that it's necessarily bad But I've gotten into stuff through unpopular routes I've mentioned that one of the first RTS is

But it's not RTS It's turn based One of the first turn based strategy games I ever played Was Fallen Haven on the PC Which was not very popular, I think It kind of just existed as a thing that I think it came free with a video card I want to say it came free with a video card back in the day

Probably an ATI rage And, ah, it was a lot of fun It was a really good turn based strategy game that I enjoyed But I never heard anyone ever talk about it again in the future There's some fucking piece of shit RTS game for the PlayStation 1 that I played That I genuinely cannot remember the name of That I think was the first RTS game I ever played

It was like on a gray, it was like a fucking brown background You made a bunch of green tanks and that is all I can remember Jesus, what the fuck was the name of that shit? Was it Warzone? It was Warzone That's the first RTS game I played It was Warzone Before like Worms and Worms style games

Which includes, I guess, like What's that other one? Was it Maple Story? No Anyway, there was a game called Gorilla Where it's a super basic ass PC Insert disc to load up a game Type in the angle that you want to throw your bomb boomerang at And two gorillas on two sides of the screen Had to shoot a thing and then the trajectory would fall

And then you'd whiff and then you'd have to correct And the whole game was just angle correction Until you nailed it Sounds like Angry Birds Cubasic shit, like super duper basic And that was like, yeah That was my first exposure to physics game I got into fighting games playing the fucking

Genesis version of Street Fighter 2 hyper-fighting Keep that shit to yourself That version is terrible Keep that shit to your fucking self Gun bound, that's what I'm talking about I remember talking to a friend of mine Who was convinced that it was fine No, no, no, you just hit start real fast

It's just between punches and kicks It's fine You're fucking crazy You're fucking crazy Also, this is pretty late And a lot of them were out by then But Advance Wars was also where I played A lot of turn-based strat

Yeah, those games are great Yeah, they are They're just not really brought up in the pantheon That's because they're dead, but they're great If you like those, you should try to check out Wargroove Well, Advance Wars turned into the... Like, was it...

We, or GameCube, there was a platformer That came out in the same franchise afterwards And it wasn't called Advance anymore It was called Something Else Wars But technically, it did continue Just not in the same thing Battalion Wars, yeah Yeah, fuck that

You wanna play Advance Wars? Check out Wargroove That is just straight up Advance Wars But it's got dogs Also, the fact that we got the stupid fist of the North Star game For launch at Game Boy And that we didn't get the Beast Wars game Is tragic, because the Beast Wars game that came out later, of course

Shows you a way better version of what you can do with a fighting game And two buttons I've talked to Paige about this Because, of course, she's played it But have you ever played the PS1 Beast Wars game? Yeah Yeah It's fucking unbelievable

It's probably... It's appropriate Yeah, it hurt But it's probably right there with fucking reboot Yeah, no, it hurt It's... oh, shit That thing is terrible It might be worse

No, no, no Yeah, see The fact that you have to even think No, reboot's worse I need to go look at it I need to go look at it Reboot's worse I think we did a mystery box on it

Because... I'm pretty sure we did a mystery box on it But reboot is worse Because reboot's basic movement system Completely fails you The thing you have to spend the entire video game doing Is floating around on a zip board Really badly

You're on slidey ice controls For the entire platforming of the game Oh, I'm looking at this Beast Wars game And it's pretty rough, man At the very least, Beast Wars, from what I recall You moved in directions that you wanted to All of reboot 100% of reboot

Involved sliding on shitty ice controls Where you'd fall off the edge of every platform Three times die, get a game over, lose your save Yeah, but you were willing to do a reboot LP But you didn't do a Beast Wars LP That makes Beast Wars better by the fall Well, I mean Beast Wars doesn't mean as much to me as reboot does

That's stupid Beast Wars has animals in it I'm so mad I was watching So reboot revival is a website And he's been working on this thing Where he does 4K versions of mainframe shows So he's done a 4K version of reboots

Like first episodes and stuff like that And then he also did 4K Beast Wars And I was checking it out I bet that looks fucking great Unbelievable Gorgeous, right? And it's the perfect type of graph Perfect visuals for 4K

Like 4K machine What should we call it? Rasterization Because it's like that exact level of shiny and flat That work for it That looks great You see that? Now that looks fucking great

Incredible, right? Basic 3D Works so well When upscaled to 4K So looking at it It's very, very pretty And I was watching it And it's the beginning of the fight

Where the Decepticons and the... Or rather the Maximals and the Predacons Are in space chasing each other in the first fight And I'm just remembering God fucking damn it I always wanted to see what their forms were like Before the animals were attacked Yeah, dude

And they had them They are there They're just in the shadows Right? Rattrap, Rhinox, Cheetor, Optimus Primal Are all there in the ship And you just... And they're in the same colors, sort of

But they just don't have the animal parts attached And I wanted to see exactly what they look like And they never showed it I'm like, fuck I still want to know Same thing for the... Megatron and Dino Bot And everyone else that was over there

I don't know about you, but I prefer Beast Wars Megatron Way more than Classic Megatron Beast Wars Megatron is the best Megatron Shut up, fight can fight me He's so fucking good Fucking fight me I will die on that hill And turn it into Everest

Remember that time? With my rage Remember that time they were defending Optimus Who was coming back to life And they'd sell Rattrap, Dino Bot And Cheetor went out in front to defend it And then fucking Tarantulas was like Ha, look at them, the fool, the Maximals

They're so fucking stupid Ah, they're dumb, they're coming out to fight us And then Megatron goes, the Maximals are many things But fools, they are not And starts to zoom in And he's like, ah, that's what they're doing And I'm like, oh, that's the best! And you, Optimus Primal

You no longer exist! It's so... Oh, shit! Fuck me, that show ruled Shut up Yeah, no Airazer, you're so cool But your toy died early

No, Airazer, but no And then Tigertron And then they fuse And then they're like We're not selling this fucking toy We're not selling this shit Kill that thing Goodbye

Kill it You rose out of the pit and now you die Plot, plot beats tied to toy lines Or a trap For your show My two favorite characters Fused into one Goodbye

And got killed Goodbye Hey kids, do you like Dinobot? Yes, all of us do Well, here's Code of Hero Enjoy it Enjoy Dinobot going on a fucking monologue In his final episode

All right All right, that's it Podcast's over I'm gonna go pee Think about I hope everybody enjoyed the podcast Think about the old mainframe chosen Be responsible with your bifus

Yeah Yeah You don't need them in your life, who? But why? Foo That's terrible Yeah, I know I don't

Whatever, man How about this? Genshin Impact It's exactly as sketchy and scummy As you were worried about Because, hey, the Chinese gacha's out there It's here to steal your money But also the game's really good

So But her boobs are really big Asking people to be responsible about this shit It's not gonna end well, man Be responsible In mortal temptation It takes over my mind Come home

Follow me Come on in These are some of the best things Of the day I am the storm that is approaching The fog came from the dead of isolation I am the claimer of my name You're born in flames

I am the worst Right now the crust is a tree that I tear For sake and I am awakened I've been obsessed with dark and far Genshin is the reason That's the reason we take same time Genshin Impact Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact Genshin Impact In herald of light There's a crown that by fate Can't run away She walked in the light Between the light And her heart's pain

We're breaking walls of our surrender Trapped in shielded eyes of anger Under fire and ice forever Someone's lost and now they remain I am the storm that is approaching A falcon that calls an isolation I am a climber of my age On his face, I am a horse

My deadly cross with a train and a gun For a second, I am waiting I'll be next as you don't depart Disappearing isn't the way Destiny chasing time Disappearing to the night Laws show us what we find Our sessions bullying me

Saving and conducting was fine Breaking in the shadows under thin night Constellations of blood, pure red dancing through the graves of those who stand at my feet Dreams of the black flag keep on repeat A derelict of dark sunlight from the ashes The puppet master conquers all the masses Pulling strings, twisting minds, explaining You want this power to come and try to take it

Beyond the tree Fire burns Secret life Bloodline, yes Dark lines A dim race Easy crimson and joy Does your divine

Heal or destroy Carrying the lightning within Just a sign that's no common bone We're banked out in the wind Drifting in the ocean all along Drifting in the ocean Drifting in the ocean Drifting in the ocean

Drifting in the ocean Drifting in the ocean Drifting in the ocean