Castle Super Beast - CSB 089: Fishtwinks: The Sun Never Sets on Sozzled Bonking
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I feel like confused as to whether or not this thing is on it is on it is on we are
going
what's up
I
much I mean I think the the the
first quarter of business to discover actually this was a little bit last week but it didn't
quite come up is
would you consider yourself a plonker
are you a plonker
because you give me plonker vibes
I don't feel like I'm a plonker
is this about sozzling
not sozzling but sozzled bonking specifically
I was sozzled bonkling
no sozzled is the is the state in which you bonk
okay if you're a plonker
if you're a plonker
then you can bonk in a sozzled state
if you
bonk in a non-sozzled state
then it's actually
unsozzled
it's it's it's intentional you see
why are the british like this
I'm going to say
thousands of years of monarchy
and crumpets
inbreeding
I blame marmite
is is where I'm going with it
you blame marmite is that isn't that the
is that the Australian one
what's also a british
no the Australian one's vegemite
there's there's bovril, vegemite and marmite
they're all they're all over there
then they all spread them
and I think that's part of the reason why
but this is the world we live in
and they might have sozzled them
as well
they might have
they might have
the fact
that that headline gets
broken down into a
like real
actual
like legible
phrase
blows my mind
and it's also it's also like a topic
of some serious nature
it's a it's a drunkenness
sexual consent
article what no
it's about eggs
it's about eggs
it's about
wait what
what
what are you talking about
whoever translated that to me
was a liar yeah that's
that's about eggs you idiot
are you
are you
is this the Arby's situation
I was about to say are you going Arby's
on the
on the fucking
I'm gonna go
oh it's
it's a fucking
article that we can't see
okay well because it's
the times UK
let me break it down for you
as far as I've been told
a plonker
is one who prefers their eggs
hard boiled as opposed
to soft you see
and
the act of bonking
is when one accidentally
hard boils their eggs
but intended soft
boiled eggs
now sozzling
is being sozzled is
basically being drunk
but it's also used as a term to describe
botching something
or fucking it up
I don't
I think this is about
I think this article is about drunk sex
is it
I'm pretty sure
it's about only a
dumbass would call a time out
on drunk sex
I thought it was about eggs
I think you
were Arby's today I got
Arby's
I got Arby's
that doesn't
feel good
it is
I mean
sex can be about eggs
but I think that's somewhat rare
it shouldn't
there are egg that
sex is egg based
you know I'm the whole topic
can equally just
the whole topic can just stay out of my periphery
because
once it came down to being
a discussion of hard
or soft boiled eggs
I was like great and I moved on with my life
and just wonderfully
accepted that this continues to be
a silly egg based thing
which I want to go
back in time in this conversation
like 2-3 minutes ago
in which you describe this
as translatable
into a legible
sentence only
to jump into
utter confusion
which I feel
might be the most undercut
you've made your own point ever
because you said it was
legible but then we had an entire
argument about what we were talking about
which I would say means it's
not legible
the British have gone too far
the English have won again
they've won again
here I thought I had them
back against the wall
it turns out it was
my back
the sun never sets on
sozzled bonking
ah
fuck
okay well
yeah is that
yeah is that made worse
by the fact that like no it's
not a stupid ass
article about eggs
but it's actually about a rather serious topic
then
yes it's a serious topic
and the statement
in it is troubling
I mean I was able to
are
is England okay?
I don't think they are
now that Prince Andrew's merchandise
is no longer for sale
at Buckingham Palace
they removed all of his merchandise
so I think England might not
be okay
I feel really stupid that I had
never even considered there was a royal family
merch store it seems like warped
there's a royal family merch
store the business makes its money
and the characters
are all there and you can buy merch for
each of the characters but this character's
merch line has been discontinued
no real reason
of course but
I guess it's just not selling
as high as it used to
while we're on the topic
of the British royal family
and before swerving into the
rabid distaste I have
for the British royal family
there is a somewhat wholesome way
we can take this topic
and I need your opinion
on something woolly
okay well I was gonna just say
oh okay
no the last thing I was gonna say
was the one thing I did identify
in that headline sentence
was calling time
cause calling time is a sports term
that's a sports ball
there you go so that works
but anyway what do you need
you mentioned Prince Andrew
but who cares
have you seen
photos of Prince Philip
lately?
not lately no
okay would you
could you google Prince Philip
and describe
whether or not
that man is
clearly dead
and being puppeted by
a form of homunculi
oh you
oh yes okay yes
no we are referring to Conra
you mean
you mean Conra of Buckingham Palace
yes the Duke of Edinburgh
like
I have never
in my life
seen someone
embody lichdom
more profoundly
than Prince Philip
yeah no the
it is I mean listen
for 99
I gotta say
he's hanging in there
he's hanging in there at 99
but it's quite clear
that the soul transfer needs to occur
they're like
it's the shot of him driving
and he's like
in the eyes
oh my goodness
I mean
yeah no you don't get the
gara like the gara sunken lines
like that like you don't get that
in real life until you've claimed
at least five or six
fresh souls
like
I don't know how old the queen is
but like
she looks like
my grandma
she looks like
a person
so she must be getting the good
like rejuvenation stuff
but like
it appears that
Philip is either getting a lot more of it
or
or not enough of it
or
something
he's preparing for his return to Corabon
I'm just
saying that it is incredibly
amusing to me to watch the British family
literally become
ghouls before our eyes
yeah yeah
like Jesus Christ
I mean that is all
that is all I have to say on this topic
like now consider though
the lineage of a class
of lich king rulers
in real life
who better than the actual monarchy
you know how fucking sick would that be
who better
than the monarchy
of a nation that invented
using mummies as a
renewable resource
are you familiar with that? no
that little tidbit of history? no
okay so you know
the Egyptians they had mummies
that was a thing
mummification
mummification was not just
for the rich
everybody could get mummified
and when the Brits
were going through Egypt
and doing their British empire thing
they discovered
mummies
a lot of mummies
like
can't believe how many fucking mummies
are buried in this country
this was also
during the industrial era
in the industrial revolution
in which it was discovered hey
you know how dinosaurs
eventually turn into petrol? yes
did you know
that the mummification process
and the way that it dries out
human body renders
a mummified person
excellent train
solar room fuel
and they would
ship out
mummies
from Egypt
to be used as train coal
in the UK
what?
you didn't know that huh?
uh
England mummy train fuel
the surprising historical use
of ancient mummies yeah mummies
to burn
during the railway expansion
in Egypt in the 19th century
they unearthed so many mummies
that they used them as locomotive fuel
holy fuck dude
wow
now
so yeah what better nation
to engage
in
new age mummification richness
wow
fuck your entire process
and your culture
also wow man
fuck it to god damn hell
we got
oh lit boy
we got places to be
how many ancestors
did that trip cost
only a couple
wow
so I imagine there is some form
of documentation
at some point in Egypt of
referring to the steam engine
train as like a devil
infernal creature
it burns your ancestors
it burns your ancestors
to move
what is that if not for some form
of lich dragon
okay well originally
I was just
putting forth the visual
of a bunch of undead wearing
royal gowns and jewellery
and accoutrements but uh
that's a whole other
fucking level okay
yep
that was a thing
that was a thing that as I
described it I was 100%
sure everyone
who heard my voice was going oh he's
making that up that's bullshit
because why would
that be true
god save the queen
which god
well you know
take your pick
imagine if the brits died
and they go to whatever and raw is there
just tapping his foot
raw is there
uh huh
uh huh yeah
yeah
what's up word
or it'd be a new
biss or whoever
oh boy
what's up man um well anyway
uh that's a good time
that's a good time
um did you have any good
times this week I did
I played 13 sentinels some more
uh that game's great
isn't it like nigh perfect
it's fucking it is nigh perfect
I saw a clip from your stream
in which you told reggie
to chill
because he remarked on his
desire to be a
dead cow turned into clothing
yeah that happened
I now have a much better
knowledge of exactly how much
uh clothing
not clothing how much
it's a rather distracting
topic it's stuck in my head
and I just and he's
dropping lines on the level of
fucking a poly shore
asking to die and come back as a leotard
literally yeah anyway
um
of exactly how long the combat
is in that game
uh and it's there's not a lot
I think there's like 30 stages well there's a number
you know you can look you can look at it
or
or 35 stages
because I did the prologue and I did the
which is 7 right and that I did the first 10
and then I did two more
and I'm at 50%
so that's 19 stages
so there's 40 or 38 or
whatever um and I was in this
it was in this moment of like
I hit a wall
in the in multiple character
stories and they're like go do more battles
and I'm like okay and then I just sat
down and was doing battles and I'm like I'm going
to do battles until the game tells me to stop
right and
if you do it like that I think you only
have to like I think there's only
like four sections of
playing the battle sequences if you if you
just go until it stops you
okay
uh so like
uh that I originally thought it was
like 60 40
maybe 70 30 it looks like it's more like
80 20 I was choosing
to investigate more so because it's
plot and interesting um
yeah but like looking
at the battles the way it's laid out it doesn't yet
I don't see any stopping point
besides the section that you're staring
at
uh the other thing is that like
the they're really smart and at the further
you go into the battle sequence
almost every single battle
ends with going a character going
hey man that thing's
crazy just like that time
you and I were hanging out in that story
sequence you obviously couldn't have
seen yet
okay like I think in the first
level there's like
the punk guy
and the girl with the red glasses like oh
that monster we saw together I'm like when
did you two hang out when did that happen
you probably already noticed as well
that the uh
points you spend for events
do not reveal anything that you don't already
know so yeah
it's so fucking goofy
it's so goofy because they're like you can
earn a mystery point to find out who the mysterious
cat is and I go
really I can find out who fluffy is
and then you unlock it and it goes fluffy
a cat that Magumi met that day
so I fucking
I flew to the to the entry point
uh uh well anyway
I don't want to say too much but there's an entry
point that is literally the
tech that is making this story possible
the entire premise of it
as an entry spend the point
yes please click on it
and it's like oh yeah this is the thing
that does that two sentences
you know so don't
expect those points to really be anything
yeah it's it's funny yeah the game's incredible
nothing more safe it's it's perfect
the music has really started to kick
itself up the further I get into the battle sequences
because you have boss stages
instead of boss battles and the it's very
it feels like
a super robot wars contender
yeah like like this
this could be the end of a show
and it's only the the third level or
whatever uh what else I do
I played you know before I talk
about what I played I'll tell you a story from this morning
that I want to add because it's funny
so those of you watching the audio
feed and perhaps even those listening can
tell that I have a fat pig dog in my lap
because I love him uh
we've been letting him have a lot more house
freedom uh because
he's getting better about potty training
he's almost done so that's great
he's you know barking to be let out to poo
uh but we've discovered the problem
is that uh with
Elmo the cat we have let
uh we just keep his
food down because the cat can
just go eat whenever he wants
right well if the cat food
is down
this piece of shit
will
find it
and he will eat it
um the dog has learned how to go up and down
the stairs explicitly so
that he can beat us to
the cat food
uh so we've had to like
you know we take the cat food and we put it up on
a table so that we put it down for the cat
and we're playing that that game
and
this morning
I did not realize that I had left the cat
food down
so I you know uh the dog was
on my lap and I decided to let him down
and he jumped to run towards
the cat food I said no that's not
for you I run to get
the cat food and sure enough I picked it up
I got there before him
and then stood out
and almost knocked myself
out on the bottom of the counter
by standing
straight up into it with the back
of my head just slamming into
the bottom of our kitchen island
Jesus which
dropped my ass like
a ton of bricks
as I was splayed out
on the floor going
uh
this fat boy
sensing that I was in
danger ran to my side
to eat the rest of the cat food
and then wander away that's correct
so thanks buddy
I appreciate
I appreciate your help
um
the food has now been
lowered to the floor
I've never seen
a more voracious
uh food based animal
in my life I've had dogs my whole life
uh he
we let him out and we're like okay guy
you can you can wander around
the house to your leisure as
long as you don't wreck anything chew any cables
or you know pee right
what does he do
with like the entirety
of yesterday evening
sniff and lick every single
part of the kitchen floor
for like three and a half hours
desperate
for even the most
flakiest of micro crumb
mm-hmm
just hours
sniff sniff sniff snort snort snort
just lick the floor
that little floor is immaculate
now that video I saw
of uh someone going to pour
some food for their
pomeranian and then they only put
two or three crumbs down and then it
looks at them with the intent
to murder satsui nohado
and uh
yeah and it's just uh
there's literally nothing else in life except
for that moment and to
betray in that moment
is to wish death upon you and your and your
loved ones so
I worry that I am um but a food delivery
service for my boy
and that it is all a game to him but oh well
he's still soft and fat and I love him
it's not a fucking game
it's life and life is food
and there's nothing else
as your almost near death
experience proved
like uh
I told the story before but you know
you got to give your dogs the heartworm medication
right so they because they got their
worms they got to get those worms out
the heartworm medication I got for him
you know it's the big tablet
look like a usb stick
like in size
I made his food
and then I just showed him the
pill and he just gobbled it down
he didn't even chew it
mm-hmm
like
uh I see
in people like
Pat is flabbergasted that he's
Pat says he's had a dog for years
uh can't believe
he's shocked by a dog
I've had like eight dogs
in my life and none of them acted
like food beasts
they all like wandered over to their
food and then we fed them and then they
wandered off well they have personalities
but there's a
personality type that is
fucking feed
mid or feed food
and that's it and that's all there
is to it there's no other personality there
so
well I'm
glad that he will protect what
really matters
the trick if I am
injured the trick is to
make sure that you are permanently
associated with the food delivery process
and then he will defend it
to the death
yeah as long as he understands where
you are in the chain
yeah the dog the dog associates
food quite eagerly
so like there was a
two week period that we had
to stop using spoons
because we were using
spoons to mash up his food
and the sound of a spoon
would then make him go totally
nuts and think he was getting
food time nice nice
Pavlov's nothing
yeah like Pavlov
had it easy is what I'm saying
alright so moving on from
Puppo's story of the day
love you buddy you're fat
fat shaming
your dog is hilarious by the way
and flipping them the bird
and just mashing it in his dumb face
it's really funny
I played Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 is by
Larian so the people who did
Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2
it is
in early access
and despite being
in early access it costs full
price
which right away is
kind of weird
and I mean like
60 USD
full price like no discount
are they listing future promises
with that purchase
the future promise
is you'll get
the game as it's made
and
the game will come out and you'll own it
okay so
like buy it for retail right away
the promise is we're making it
you want to fuck around with this
and do bug reports sure
and
boy
is it early access
it is
um I've been playing
it on stream
and the game just
constantly feels like
it is sweating
and grunting
and it is just
struggling to not fly to pieces
early access is usually reserved
for something a little more indie though
Baldur's Gate being a
like you know a known franchise
feels like a bit of a strange choice
to go that route on it
because yeah I could see them not necessarily wanting
to break it up into different price points
but the plan is to just make a final game
and release it for sale on everything later
so that's
it appears that that is going to be
the way Larry and makes games
the first two Divinity Original Sins
were Kickstarter games
and thus hit early access
and
they did
they took a lot of feedback
and they
dramatically improved
those games
due to a lot of feedback
so
this seems to be the way they just
want to make these games
is like
they want a giant play testing group
that can tell them what sucks ass
and they were working on
Divinity 2 up until
like two months ago
three months ago
they were still putting out updates
well if the development style
ends up resembling something like Neo
then that's for the better
and that would be worth the price of entry
yeah
it's
it's actually pretty impressive
what is
extra weird though
because they are an indie company
right
is that
there's clearly
a lot more
money
and time that's gone into this
already
as a quote unquote real big boy game
that's not a Kickstarter game
like it starts with this
massive like six and a half
minutes super fancy CGI intro
okay and
that character creator looks like Black Desert level
like it looks really impressive
so it's really impressive
on
everything but faces
they give you faces to choose
they don't let you do the slider shit
they don't let you choose eyebrows or whatever
but they do let you choose a million
hairstyles a million skin colors
a million makeups you know
that kind of thing
and
it is surprising that Wizards of the Coast
is just letting them do this kind of
development with a D&D game because
more than anything
else about this game
this is attempting to be
the most accurate
representation of
tabletop I've ever seen
in a digital
digital format to the point
where I don't know if this will ever hit
a console because it has
so many goddamn
buttons and functions
it is the isometric
RPG equivalent of a
flight simulator
hmm
so you have your movement
you have your attack you have your classes you have your stats
you have your you know all the all the usual that you would see
in pillars or divinity
but then you have your eight actions
which are
like jump help up
knock unconscious
stealth
throw
etc
which apply to every conceivable object
in the world is this because it's trying
to represent
like a fifth edition character sheet
yes and converted
into gameplay
yes so like there's a shove button
and shove
is a type of action
that you can roll
it's
very very intense
it's also
a game that realizes
that so I have some
very strong disagreements with some folks
that have complained I'm sure you'll talk to them in the future
but there are some
things that the game does that I think are genuinely cool
usually
in a in a game like
say a fallout right
you want to use the doctor text option
because you're a medicine man
and it goes is your medicine
80
then you can do the medicine option
right in D&D
wouldn't work like that in D&D you'd say
do you want to persuade this person with your charisma
or do you want to break down the store
with your strength fucking roll
right
one always misses 20 always
succeeds
and then rolling the you know
the bonuses and all that crap
that is for everything
that is
like
there was a weird situation
early on where I wanted to get a brain
out of someone's head
and I could roll a dexterity and a strength check
which I failed both
and then had to just
leave because there was nothing else to do
everything's a roll and the most
ever the most interesting thing about that
is that when
I wanted to
roll that strength check
it goes okay
and it goes roll to beat 13
and a fucking D20
appears in the middle of the screen
and says hit left click
to roll
and the dice rolls it
you live by the number you get
and well it's
okay so one
for that D&D experience
if you're a fan and you're looking for that
tabletop vibe
seeing the dice roll on everything
is cool and satisfying
it's a part of what makes that fun
come to life
however
and this is where D&D
kind of like
the fact that I've never been
I've tried being a DM once
and I don't think I was very good at it
I was trying to QA my world
and see if he could break it instead of play the game
and I was like
you motherfucker I know what you're trying to do
you son of a bitch stop it
but
I don't know
what
always constitutes a roll and what always doesn't
and there are definitely
moments that I've played a campaign
where the DM will be like
okay yeah so you just do that thing
they don't even do a check for it
certain actions
certain things are just like
yeah you're fine
it appears to be a gut call
but I don't know
how that gut call applies to
something like this where the game has to have a logic
to it
anything important
in game is
your surface dice roll
and in combat
it'll give you a raw percentage instead
unless the behind the scenes
dice roll takes
hits a 1 or a 20
yeah the moments that are always like
ooh are when you do
a basic bitch nothing action
and then DM goes hold on a second
rolls the dice and goes
yeah nothing happens and you're like
what the fuck was that
that's a feeling that can't be
captured in other formats
you know
the game seems particularly obsessed
with
showing you
that dice rolls are happening
there's a really good talk by Josh Sawyer
a million years ago when he was working on pillars
the first one
and he was talking about how
while dungeons and dragons and stuff like that
have to
make the math
on hitting things and stuff like that as quick as possible
and as simple as possible because you're going to be physically rolling
with essentially mental math
right
but if you're making a video game
you can have more complex or maybe more balanced systems
because
the computer gets to do all the math really fast
for you and then you just have to surface the result
there is definitely an argument
to be made for that however there is
there's something lost
when you do that and I didn't really realize
that it was lost until I started
playing
BG3 and
the big complaint is that save scumming
obviously negates dice rolls
and
then it becomes an argument of
whether or not you can
trust slash incentivize
the player to just
play it through
right to play through
disasters
and
that's really hard
you need to have
a million variations of an event
for playing it through
a disaster to be valuable
well that's
disco elysium does it perfectly
I was about to bring up disco elysium as an example
where there's more than enough
strong consistent narrative
around those rolls
for you to fail forward
into the story
and
the QA
on a game like this
where let's say you fail every single
check possible
what does that story look like
is it even entertaining or interesting
answers yes
you need to make sure
that's the case and disco elysium
is wonderful with its fail checks
there was
a situation
that I think sums it up
really well because
I saved scummed it about 10 times
and saw
what I believed to be almost every permutation
of events
that led me to the decision to play it through
unless
I ruin the game
if you make everybody at a camp angry with you
and the game is impassable
you run
into a situation
in which three dudes are digging up
a mind flare that is hurt in a crash
and they appear to be
enthralled
the first thing that happens
is there is a under the hood
invisible to the player perception check
to see whether or not
you can see the mind flare between them
which you can influence by casting
a priest spell
on the character that encounters it
which increases their next dice roll
then you have the ability
to try and talk the people down
or try and persuade the people down
which results in a charisma check
a successful charisma check has you talking to them
and then they leave a failed charisma check
or a bad dialogue option
ends up with a fight
once you kill one of them
the other two will snap out of it
unless you knock them unconscious
with the knocked unconscious bonus action
which I forgot
was there for most of my playtime
because that is a
weird thing to include in a game like this
even though it makes perfect sense
if you're trying to actually
not be a piece of shit
right
they ran off
after I killed their friend
I then thought I probably should have knocked them off
you can then either talk to the mind flare
and run away from it
talk to it and try and pass
an intelligence check to mind probe it
then you have to pass a wisdom check
and if you fail that wisdom check
it eats your main character
and kills them outright
gets up with almost its health completely full
and then you have a boss battle
seems correct
or
you can shoot it on the floor
and kill it
interesting
and if you shoot it on the floor
and kill it
at the start of the encounter
those people become
unenthralled
you set
all of your
your stats prior to this right
your sheet was completely in your control
yeah this was long
after I finalized my sheet
that's a fucking good ass
set of choices
and this was a single
encounter
there is a
disguised self spell in the game
that when you click it I thought would just disguise you
as some amorphous whatever
it then listed every
race that is humanoid in the game
and goes do you want to
turn into a goblin
do you want to turn into a half-delf
do you want to turn into
a githyanki like whatever
it pulls up a giant bar
of things you want to turn into
did balder's gate prior
have choices like that
and no
but did divinity
no
there were obviously situations
in those games where it's like
do you pass the check
possible
to talk this guy out of it
but they were based on your stats
usually pass fail
so this is new shit
this
I have played through the introduction
and I feel like it may be a third of the way
through the first act
I can't
wait to play through it
again with a different character
in addition
because the game supports four-person
multiplayer with each person
as their own person independent of one another
there's the permutation
of events like
when you talk to somebody
and you enter into a mass effect style
like zoom in cutscene angle dialogue
there's a change
character button in the bottom left
that brings you out of the conversation
into one of your other controllable characters
who can then wander around
the environment and it
set up for an ambush or rob people
as they're talking
and you continue to hear the conversation
no it freezes time
until you
talk to somebody
until you go back to the person who's handling the conversation
on top of that
one of the things that was always awkward
in these old games was stuff like stealth
because it was real time
even paused it was still real time
so you'd have vision cones
and stuff like that
in this game if you want
to activate turn based
at any time
which then causes rounds to progress
in six second increments
in which you can plan
every six seconds
of go here hide, go here hide
go here make a distraction
you go here talk etc
to actually be able to do
stealthy things
and tricky things
like pick up this dead
it
and pick up this imp corpse
and toss it so this guy can
go over there and all this shit
there's like
the game feels like it's about to fly
apart but you play it for a couple
hours and you're like oh no wonder
it feels like it's just
fucking breaking apart at the seams
there are
millions of interactions
it feels like happening every single
second that
like the game
seems at least
to be smart enough to want to show
you that those reactions are happening
even if they fail
so early access because
the ambitions are fucking
stratospheric gigantic yeah okay
so probably the best example
of the game telling me that
something's happening even if it's an
even if it means nothing to me so that
I feel like oh cool game
or I think about it is that I walk
into a dark ass crypt
and I walk forward one foot
and
every person in my party
starts rolling
a perception check and eyeball
appears above their heads and a little
timer starts going and the
perception check finishes and all
four fail
and I go what the
fuck is in this room
that every single member
of my party just failed to see
mm-hmm
and upon scrounging the room
for long enough eventually
one of them passed a check
that let me see that there were grates
in the floor that meant that
the chest in the middle of the room
was trapped okay but
that's exactly so that I could that
is the game in game engine
version of what I just described
where you walk into
a room DM goes hold on
a second yeah you guys are fine
for now and you're like oh
that's absolutely one
perfect perfect and
this also applies
to what I'm going to call
non-combat or social statistics
so one of the
you know proficiencies you can get is in religion
or metaphysics or whatever right yeah
I go up to some alien
contraption that the mindflayers use
I look at it I can't read it
it rolls a metaphysics check I fail
it I still can't read it
in an area I went
by a mostly smashed
religious statue
in which only the cleric passed
the religious test at which point
she uttered oh that so and so
I didn't know many people
worshipped him this must be one of
his only sanctuaries or something
like that so the game is just
constantly
just reaching out
against the environment and touching it
and rolling against your party stats
just on a
on a curiosity like so
impressive I on a curiosity level
I if you can save scum
like obviously you play
in a way that doesn't ruin your
experience but
in times where I'd want to be like how would
this have gone I like
the ability to be able to jump back and do that
if I'm not necessarily going to do an entirely
different run you know so
that's pretty good well
I think the main way that they're going to
fight save scumming
is not by seeding outcomes
because that would be terrible that would be the
worst right like the reload
and XCOM save and it's always the same because
the shot was actually determined before
your turn started
it would be like so I'm thinking
about it if I were to have saved
scummed every choice that I would have
failed I would have not
even left the tutorial
like
it is
it is constantly
constantly doing that shit
to the point of
just
like the progress would be slow
but also sometimes when you fail roles
you're failing a role that like
you just don't even have a possibility
of hitting anyway you can't assume that you always
nailed it you know you have to let
go of those failures
I mean there was one that I attempted that like the
past state was like 17 and it's like
I'm not going to get that
like there's no fucking way
so all that
the game plays like Divinity
like you know combat wise it's good
but
the game is currently flying to pieces
like
there's been times where I talk to people
and their own clone starts
A-posing and floating behind them
shit just breaks
certain interactions seem
bugged
performance
varies wildly
etc
and it's only the first act of the game
so it is a
profoundly
unfinished
product right now
but it's really cool
and boy is it going to be really cool
the game does support multiplayer right now
and multiplayer is
fucked
I imagine because it's so much more complex
and we meet each other in a network environment
but yeah it's
really really cool
they say that it
will be out in one year
I don't know man
well considering
I really don't know
considering the size of this company
and what they made before
and then also saying that this is early access
and these are the ambitions
clearly the price they're putting on this
is not only final ticket price
they fucking need some cash
so
that sounds like a fair proposition
get in early
see what's going on if the thing is good
it's the price you're going to pay at the end anyway
and if you like what you got
that sounds more than fair
I also have something
of note
of big note to myself
and possible big note
to yourself
is that this has twitch integration
and it has
the best twitch integration
of any game I've seen so far
it's pretty simple
do
when you load up the twitch integration
little docket
on the game
people watching your stream
can go through every one of your
characters sheets
what do they have equipped
what do they have
what are their stats, what are their levels
what are their spells, what are their equipped items
everything
right
in addition
when you enable twitch integration
and you talk to anyone about anything
a little bar graph icon appears
above the dialogue options
and when you push on it
you see the votes
of the chat talking
about what they want you to pick
it doesn't pick for you
but it does tell you
82% of your chat would like
to see this dialogue option
the prior
point you mentioned they can go through your sheet
as in they can just see
what your character sheet is
on their own at any time
they have no control
they have no control over anything
so it leads to the situations
where you're like
you would usually go I don't know chat
should I go left or right
and instead of just looking at chat
doing one or two
just click the little button
and actually see
what people actually want
you to do
but you have to click a button to make it appear
it's not always there
no they'll probably put
a feature that will put it always there
but I think it's always there so that
you can choose whether or not chat has any
even implicit control
it needs to not always be there
because then you're obviously peer pressured
to make a decision in the video game
which is not fun
I've been playing
mostly peer pressure
and
it led me to
an interesting conclusion
that Larian also
ran into themselves
which was chat
actually wanted to pick the option
that I would
most of the time
like 90% of the time
chat picks
whatever option is
give me more information
and then
whatever is
the nice
slash chill
option
the reasonable main character
Larian
put out a
statement where they
dove into the metadata
of people's character creators
did you see that?
so they dove into the
character creator data and they're like
alright we made
the character that our community
has communally made
the one that is made out of all
the most commonly chosen options
and congratulations
players
you made
player one Nathan Drake
human
you boring fucks
there are like
11 races in the game
including
space people
there are
there are demon people
with tails and big horns and
fire eyes
there's a bunch of different elves and dwarves
and all sorts of shit
and you got
human ass Nathan Drake
looking guy
just got hard
and they're like
god damn it
Paul is fucking chubbin' up
he's chubbin' up
the data is the data is the data
yeah
it's like
because
people don't like to make
monster races
I like to make monster races
I always pick a monster race
but look at World of Warcraft
one of the two most popular races
humans and the elves
that look like anime characters
when I think of
people I know
playing games and making these decisions
there's the way you play
there's the way I play
I'm also looking at Steph
who's playing games now
I'm sort of seeing some of her decision making
and it's interesting to see
how like
if you
have to look at a choice of four or five options
just put the words
I don't know I guess this one
before the actual pick
and I think that'll spell out
what they
ended up seeing as their high demographic choices
you know
like yeah I guess that
you know, protagonist
he'll do the thing, he's got a sword and board
he's probably charming
I'm not even
I'm not even
in a particular place
to complain because even though
I made a tiefling
which is like a quarter demon person with big horns
what I made
was a balding
ginger tiefling
that would be me
if I was a demon boy
yeah right
but no
but you know then you get
the discussion of like what do you want
to role play or do you play these games
to be hot
to make a waifu
everyone's got their different quotes
about that woolly
the character creator in
BG3
has a waifu character
creator
in it
I don't know what it actually affects
but after you create your character
it then goes
what attracts you
and it demands you make a second character
that is really strong
you haven't seen it yet
and yeah it's
you haven't seen it's effect yet
yeah I don't know what it is
but it just says what attracts you
and it loads in and you can make
anything
you can make a dwarf
bro
you can make a
elf lady
that's the waifu
creator
that's you literally fixed
part of what I was in the middle of saying
which is a character creator
represents different things to different people
for some people it's make what you want
for others it's make what you want to be
you know
and then for others it's make yourself
as is
that divides a clean line
between at least one of those categories
brilliant
the games only got half the classes
it doesn't have all the races
it's probably
one of the races that I hope
would be in
it's called warforged but the robots
the story doesn't make any sense
for them because the whole plot
is that mind flayers put a brain parasite
in your head and that wouldn't work very well
for robots
so
I'm just
I'm on that point because I'm like
here's why I love that right
not just for the obvious reasons of
yo hey what do you like and what gets you going
but I love that
data in the hands of a dev
that's willing to fucking use it
against you
I want so if you are
filling out hey what are you into
and let's say you're like oh I don't know
I like me a good little twink
and you know I want some cute
hair and life kind of
I've been playing some genshin impact lately
so bring on the cute boys
bring on the cute the cute boys
right I want that kind of little attitude and you go
and you put that in as you're like yeah
give me more of that oh game goes
talk about the character creator honey don't worry about it
game goes
alright you want some of that
cool keep it in mind
and then like 30 hours
later you go to like
fish people kingdom
and the half fish people
are a bunch of twinks
with gills and you're like
oh look it's your fish people
are you interested
it's what you wanted did you want did you not want
your fish
twinks I got them right here
you know and just start fucking
just doing little things like
that just playing with it oh this kind
of haircut yeah let's throw that out let
you know just absolutely
let's have every piece of shit
character in the game have that haircut
use it use it against you
I love that idea
dastardly yeah
game's cool man
one last thing that I want to mention
that's I think is interesting
is that not all the party members are available
in the current version
but all the
complete piece of shit party
members are available because
apparently Larry and discovered
that fewer
people use the overtly
evil characters
so they want data on that
so the overtly evil
horrible characters
are going to fill up most
of your party in the current
version of the game
and the
result of that is that like
everyone either hates your guts
or you're playing a scumbag
party
like there are people
that you run into and you discover them
and they go oh hey man what's up they go
kill everyone in here
okay or the rogue
that joins your party
you meet him when he tries to slit your throat
and rob you
doesn't seem like that'll work well with the
Nathan Drake agreeable
man
it does not
but yeah games cool
like
if I was not
streaming it
and having the fun of
playing it with a huge audience
and being excited
for it to fly apart
I would definitely not be playing this at all
because
like my criteria
for
stopping the Baldur's Gate 3
on stream is
the content that's there which is maybe
15% of the game
the game becomes
unplayably broken
or
Larry in puts out a patch that just
deletes everyone's saved files which is
part of the agreement is that
hey guys from day to day
all of your save files might just disappear
because you know we might have to change
something that wrecks them
and these are fat fucking saves
by the end of your file
I can imagine
yeah okay
also the games UI is terrible
and desperately needs another
like 3 passes
um
fucking
organizing a cleric's
entire school of spells on a hot bar
took me no shit
15 minutes
hmm
like
yeah so I guess and that's
this really here is the game
is not out
if you want
you can fuck with it if you want to go see what's
happening right now with it
you can pay to get in and see what's happening
with it but the game is not
actually out yeah
losing your save is a huge
caveat
to enter into
it is to be guaranteed that if you play this
early access version they will likely
wipe saves at
the very least every time
they add new content to it
what um
Dead Cells did was it kept your save
in the slot and basically if you
if you loaded that save up
you were getting the unupdated patched
version of the game
essentially for a while
um but then
there was a wipe wipe you know when it just became
like completely
impractical to keep it
yeah okay yeah it's
not out you are you are checking out
what's going on makes sense that sounds incredible
totally that sounds really good it's
it's it's so impressive
and then you it's because they did
an interview where they were asked like hey is this
coming to consoles they're like no
no way
you can't just mount there's no way
we could do this on my second keyboarding
and I'm like oh that's
ridiculous and then you see
like the key binds thing
the the key binds
could
almost every button on the fucking keyboard
does something
like there are four different
modifiers for the movement
like if you hold shift that's the jump
movement if you hold control that's the damage
movement and it is coming
to Stadia I know thanks for
paying for some of this game Stadia
well
if you can set the game to be turn
based I suppose
uh that that remains fine
because you can just look at your keyboard and figure out what you need to do
without the panic
of oh no shift
F
question mark
alright well games crazy cool
and you said that it actually
is um
it is uh
Baldur's Gate because it happens to be taking
place in the same location
but it's not in fact
actually
directly so what
yeah it is it is some time after the others
and in the opening cut
scene it has um
a not to Lloyd
mind flayer ship attacking a city
that you then later find out
oh that city was Baldur's Gate
and that's why almost every person that you run into
in the beginning of the game that is from the
crashed ship is actually
from Baldur's Gate
and the the the
the ostensible goal of the game
is yo you want to we let's go
back home let's get back to Baldur's Gate
and also get these these
mind parasites out of our head
I have an important question
going into this new generation
how would you feel
if um
Sony and Microsoft
and then eventually Nintendo down the line
got to a point
where they said hey look
we're porting some games
or we're getting some game support
for games that are on PC
plug in a fucking keyboard and mouse
and you can play it on our console
I think that would be completely fine
now
Sony has already jumped on that
bandwagon kind of
it supports it for right and 14 optional
things
now if you went down that road
you are now putting the wall up
for
people that are like I just bought it I have a
controller and I don't want to do anything else
right
it's a little bit of that arcade stick
um problem
originally when arcade sticks were
you know becoming more and more popular
it's hard to get people to budge on that
I'm torn if it's the decision
whether or not like
a game like this comes to those consoles at all
bring that game to the consoles
and just put the keyboard in
right that being said
I really really really like
Divinity's controller
implementation and I hope
to fuck
that Baldur's Gate 3 even if it doesn't
get console support does get
controller support
like moving things in the inventory
right now with a mouse is
terrible
it's fucking shit
so I really hope that
they do put controller support and then
they put it on next gen consoles because then of course
you have all the power in the world to run
all these stat checks in the background
yada yada
but if it's the difference
between it coming out or not
it coming out or not
ends up being the whole argument though
because it's like throw it out there
and for those who want to play it
that way or those who are willing to do it then you do it
and that is a like
open system that lets people do what they want
however make no mistake
you now enter into a
simultaneous world of
super upset people that don't
have a mouse and keyboard to plug in
that will be very very very angry
that they cannot play without those things
and they would constantly
it would become a
controversy online
for people that don't own
a mouse and keyboard to plug in that are like
fuck you I can't play your game
or I bought your game but I can't play it
so
that enters into a strange
dynamic where you have to make sure that
people are like aware
of and okay with
not being able to play everything
that the console supports with what came in the box
I mean
that already exists
with peripheral style
games
right? so I don't
see a problem honestly
I think in the end it would be fantastic because
it would just allow more people to play more games
it would just open
up a situation where
incredible things that otherwise couldn't be touched
on a console now could
obviously this does lead to
a possible problem in which games that
would have gotten controller support
will no longer
because they can go oh just use a fucking
keyboard sure and it can even allow the
you know it can give
fucking Sony an excuse to sell you a $40
keyboard and mouse combo
oh they will
in fact I think they might hold it
it's white it has white on the fucking
box you know but
yeah that
feels like a win in the
not that last example but
if they started
getting games to just like
you know
port games that are like you need a mouse and keyboard to play this
but you know that you pop it in
it works and you don't necessarily
have to suffer if
let's say you don't have a great computer or something that can handle
you know some of the stuff going on in the
PC only world brings it all together
I think it would be really cool if things went that way
yeah
yeah I think that would be
valuable
I guess the last thing I want to say is like
this this game gives me a feeling
I have not felt
playing an RPG of this type
since
I want to say
Dragon Age 1
Mass Effect 2 slash Baldur's Gate 2
like it's got that
certain
something
that some games have and other games don't
mm-hmm that I can't
quite describe where you
start playing it you go you just start like nodding
your head and you're like mm-hmm yeah this is a good one
this is this is gonna be a good one
mm-hmm and
you're in the middle of saying how much
we're missing out on by not knowing
one and two
nothing okay
it's 100 years later and it's
in the same universe cool all right
it's actually it's apparently
a sequel to an adventure model
for 5th
edition
called Descent Into Avernus
so in fact
do you want to know
what
the prequel to this story
is go check out that
adventure model an actual campaign okay
yeah yeah all right
where can I buy Descent Into Avernus
at D&D
nerd stores and Amazon near you
that's pretty funny okay
couldn't be less connected
module not adventure my bad
might be I don't know what these nerd
things are called
nerds
yeah yeah you can check more of that crap out
over twitch.tv slash pat stairs at
I'm also gonna be playing Fall Guys this week
because they got that season too have you
played any of that not season
too but I see Sonic the Hedgehog costumes
yeah that's cool
and
tomorrow I'm gonna be hanging out with my
friend's creepy porpoise and Justinian Knight
and we're gonna be playing that new FF14
stuff which is like an
FF11 style expansion
so that'll be fun okay
check it out at twitch.tv slash pat stairs at
cool cool
uh
over on this side of things it's funny because
you talked about
shit that just didn't fucking work
that you could see falling apart
well uh I'll tell you what's been falling
apart is
uh
Halo games
fresh
out the oven
onto that Master Chief collection
have been oh this is the first time
that you've played it right away huh
no it's not because
three came out right when I
played it too oh yeah I kid you did
right but each have had little bits of
issues people have brought up and I want to say
that with three
a lot of what I was being warned about I
was being warned heavily about problems with three
but um it was
mainly multiplayer stuff because
in the end we only had like
one issue throughout
the whole run I think we had like one moment of like a
disconnect you know where we had to like
go back and re-sync up but
oh boy um
odst
uh
yeah
it just
doesn't it doesn't like it
I don't know what it is I can't tell if it's
a connection issue or if it's
a hardware issue or what but
like first session
I played it had a disconnect
host ended up freezing
and uh you know
V was able to continue and then
eventually hard kick
and just reconnected and kept going
second session
three fucking drops
and each one
like
each one is happening
faster than the last time so at first
they were an hour apart
and then they were like 20 minutes apart
and I'm like fuck off
I like
you know this is like
day I guess it's like
our week one of the game coming out
but shit was just not
having it and like after the third time
it destroys the recording
it destroys the sync
you know what I mean like the momentum
uh yeah personal momentum
well of course there's that but just on a level
where it's like your video capturing
and then the resolution switches
because it drops back to the desktop
most capture devices
have no idea what to do with that
that's a head most capture devices
hate it when you switch resolution
yeah we're to the wise if you can run
something without any
uh issues in
desktop full screen
do that
because the switch between resolutions
can easily botch
an entire recording session
especially if the format has no ability to
preserve what's been recorded
without a closed state
you know I empathize with you
greatly and I feel so bad
that you are having this kind of
this issue every time it has occurred
to me
and us in the past it is just like
like
bury the full strength
scream into the mental pillow
yeah so
ugh
and so then basically I had to
kill the stream
prematurely and just like
alright everybody go home
can't do anything about that
and then as like off the fucking
you know set up
I then get to stare over into
the corner and my eyes
settle on the dusty X bone
of which I have
a physical copy of MCC
and then it's like
well I guess it's plan B then
so
thus begins the adventure
of A
undusting the X box
um for the second
time first time was to play the devil may cry
cry 5 demo
second time was to
use it as a pass through port for
my dream cast stream
now
we undust it yet again
arise X bone
link the flame
um
we X bone arise
and so it we plug it in
and it makes it's you know do do do
I'm back alive I'm online
here I am do do do
and uh
alright so
step one for some reason
I don't know when and I don't know why
or how but um
it just
takes extra long
getting the video feed
to the television
and it's longer than I'm used to
you have to stare at black for a while
before it then goes
hey look it's an X box and I'm like
oh my god man
I don't know if I just forgot
that or if it was always
if something's going wrong whatever
anyway I've never used
an X bone actually oh just
so I have no I have no answers
for you and then you're like alright
so step one
pop in the disk and it goes hey
alright I'm gonna start installing
uh boy you're
gonna need to delete some stuff to make space
I'm pretty full
I've got a hundred gigs
and you've
you've got a lot you've got
shit to clear so
please make space and I'm like alright let's make space
what would you like to delete would you like
to delete destiny one
would you like to delete
cameo from rare replay
how about
ground zero's and phantom
pain
what is destiny one doing on your
xbox dude
I'm staring at this thing and I'm just
I'm having a trip
I'm like whoa
no no wait do we want
to delete assassins creed black flag
nah hold on a second
we can do better
let's delete dead rising
three
that'll clear some space up
why do you have dead rising
three
so that one
I'm looking at it and I'm
staring at it going why do I have
dead rising three and then I vaguely
remember that I think
oh we did
you had to have it installed to do
the bonus game
where you play as all the capcom cameo
characters together that's totally what it was
super dead rising plus turbo
ex crazy extreme
matching service thing
like that little fun little mini
game you had to have
the full copy of dead rising installed
so it was an add-on
that booted on its own I think
but the main
game had to be sitting on your hard drive right
tell you what I am ready
for new consoles yeah yeah
there was
no disc inside the x-bone
but so then
I clear that shit out and then
it installs master chief collection and I'm like
great and then I booted up
and it's like here's halo
one two
and I think
was it
like I think it was like one
two and like one other thing
and it's a completely
different layout and menu
and I'm like oh boy
okay yeah no
what we've been playing is a game that's been patched
into a different game this disc launch
version of this thing is not at all
a completely different
yeah so all right
let's throw it online okay now you're
online
like that process the installation
took a while I just turned I just walked away
from it oh I bet that was the end of that
day okay came back the next day
saw that things were missing
so I'm like all right now what
let's connect it we connect it
Xbox hasn't been updated in
fucking since the Bronze Age
would you like to yes all right please
let's do that set it to go all right
we're downloading
many many whatever it was
it was a it was a large
like multi-gig patch
might have been like 20 gigs or
24 gigs or something like that
downloading at a glacial pace
I'm like oh this is like PlayStation
pause it reconnect and then it'll be
faster no it just downloads
at a glacial pace
oh oh what really
no because
my my experience with
PlayStation is that you restart it until
you get the good server yeah no
in this case that goes really fast
pause on pause pause on pause nope
it still sucks all right I guess
I'm putting it down that's the
end of that day
I'll come back to this later
all right we update the thing
all right now update your
your master chief collection
that's a hundred gigs you got
to clear off everything on your fucking
like it's all got to go
whatever else you thought you were holding on to
oh you wanted to keep
some of the things on rare replay fuck you
clear that shit off
and it is what it is
I'm like yeah fine let that
all go
apologies to you
Woolly and to everyone at home
who is annoyed by the
sounds of life occurring
but it appears that it is coffee time
that's okay there may or may not be coffee
noises
pardon
no
it's okay
then thank you woman
so anyway
right so anyway
destiny gets deleted
and then
fucking master chief
collection gets installed and everything gets
updated and game can
run now but it's just
it is a very very
annoying plan B
and and now I get
the fun of like working my way back up to
where we were progress wise
on heroic which is
not an easy task for
someone nice
how far how far did you get before this all
happened
six missions
oh that's
decent progress significant
yeah that's significant
so now we can now we go right now
and now we continue and and it's just
not fucking great
man but but it is what it is we've
already started gotta continue it and
this is this is this is what what
what some time was fucking spent doing
this week so
thank you 343
appreciate it please make your game work
guys all you know
it's really stupid because
I mean these slowly been coming out on the
PC and that's great because everybody
hello whoa on the piece right
but
like you must remember
the fucking kerfuffle
that occurred when that
shit came out originally
where like the
master chief collection particularly the
multiplayer was just turbo
fucked for like two years
hmm I wasn't paying attention
at the time oh you weren't paying
attention okay
really like you weren't paying
attention what I said you were paying
attention one master chief no no when it
when it came out borked I was not I was
okay
no yeah no it was a massive scandal it was
it was constantly broken
and then they were like hey we're fixing
Halo one
Halo ones almost fixed
yeah it was it was one of those
games that came out that was like
the pre anthem
like in terms of
disastrous launch
I remember you talking about
oh man I remember you talking
the chat just pointed out that if you
tried to play a multiplayer game it would throw
you into somebody's campaign co-op
oh fuck yeah
sick
I mean
I remember when you were talking about the
Silent Hill collection back in the day
and
I can only imagine that there's a
special feeling for
uh
games that
are botched on launch that are
remakes of things that you love
that you have nostalgia memories for
the worked
yeah because
it's a feeling of like this the whole
point of this experience
the whole point of this exercise
is you're doing the old thing
but better because the future has better
things and then the future better
things are clearly inferior
on the first second
or in the case of the Halo
it's like it's great to be able to get
like all these games on the PC
so that you can have them and and just
you know play them at higher frame rates and
higher resolutions as time goes on
and you just have them sitting there right
unless they're fucked
yeah yeah
Marvel 2
Warcraft
Marvel 2 players
not happy with the state of affairs on that
game sports either
um yeah
no that sucks so anyway that was happening
um alongside that
putting it out of my brain
happier memories and times playing later
alligator have you seen or heard of this
thing
I've heard that uh two mellow worked on it
two mellow made the soundtrack
it is cute
it is an adorable little
uh adventure game
where you play as
a fixer of sorts
and you are in alligator New York City
the animation is incredible
it is all hand drawn
it is incredibly charming
the music two mellow made
is like absolutely perfect
for the vibe and
you are basically walking
around
on behalf of your little buddy
uh pat the
tiny nervous alligator
who's afraid
that his family is trying to kill him
and
he is having constant
nervous freakouts and panic attacks
and he is unable
to deal with
everyday life in a functional manner
and you basically have to
go out and investigate
what's gonna happen to him
because he's super scared
about how it's all gonna go down
and I should probably
check this out it's uh
it's quite interesting because I can
I can definitely
empathize with a
anxious alligator named pat
yeah and a lot of people
don't know this but I actually have
part alligator on my grandfather's side
well
you'll be happy to know that
pat the anxious alligator
can be incredibly
frustrating to deal with at times
but you have to
you have to hold his hand
and lead him around and help him
overcome his bullshit
uh and you do so
and it's great and it's fun
and it's cute and it's a good time
there's many many games that you can enjoy
and there's many
many family members you can meet
and they kind of
they sort of explain what life is like
in
with the alligator in New York City
and uh yeah every mini game
is a completely different kind of game
and it's just uh you know three hours maybe
short sweet so I'm on the
steam page for this
and probably the most shocking thing
is that you've been referring to alligator in New York City
and I just I thought you were describing
New York City that just happened to have
alligators in it the steam description
literally says literally alligator
New York City that's correct
in it alligator is capitalized
yes okay
you have cousins
from alligator New Jersey
okay all right
that that basically explains
what the game feels like
perfectly
in a single sentence
it's wonderful it's a it's a
it's a wonderful time and uh
it's it's really funny and cute writing
and yeah it's just one of these things that deserves
more attention on it because
I mean a team of animators lovingly
put this together and uh
I feel like you know I caught a couple
recommendations here and there but
it's not something that I saw you know
put pushed
too aggressively uh on launch so
uh really happy really fun
it's really fun time and um
oh it's a year old and it's got
that little fun thing I like where
um it's a bit
it's like I like I like animation that
like tries extra hard
to look like
unlabored and bad
and childlike on purpose
um so
uh uh
Brendon Small did it with uh home movies
right but there's other
things like sticking around did it
and it's a thing where you just draw every
figure in a way where even if it's
someone's idol they're always
moving the outlines are always moving
because it looks like a child's drawing
and it's like and it's an attempt to make
things seem like they were hastily
done but it actually takes so much more effort
to do that it's incredible
um
so uh
yeah uh our
later alligator is
absolutely worth your time
and uh your attention
um
also decided to
mix things up go a couple of different ways
so uh
I wanted to
see what the deal was
with starfox 2
what's the deal with starfox 2 then
starfox 2 is the game
that never officially came out
because it was made
and completed
or at least 95% completed
but it never uh
never shipped because around the time that it was
about to come out uh 1996
was
when it was going to be competing with the likes
of 32 bit games
and things like ridge racer
the f ridge racer
yes the fx
chip is
way less impressive when it
stands next to uh
the competition at the time of 1996
yeah
it's not even close
aka like
1996 being like one of the first
fucking holy shit
killer years you know
now to be fair in historical
hindsight
the fx chip working on a cartridge
is fucking magic
absolutely and you know
starfox 1 stunt race
fx and uh
all the other stuff was pretty wild at the time
to see because you know
I mean I'm still impressed by mode 7
but yeah that shit
is great you know like it was really really cool
but uh
it then got included on the SNES mini
which uh was a little bonus
game where if you go and play a little bit
of starfox 1 you can unlock starfox 2
they've localized it they finished it
and you can go find out you know and they said
hey yeah it just it wasn't
gonna be uh it wasn't
gonna be competitive enough against
all the other games that were like prettier
at the time and stuff cool alright
you boot that shit up and it's like
oh that is a very
kind excuse
for a oh
no that is a very
very nice excuse
that makes nobody who worked on the
game feel bad about the job
they did
because the job they did
was not very good
oh no
and
I thought hey let me take an hour
play through this whole thing because it's not very long
takes about an hour to do and then figure
out how to and then and then just
see what the deal is I'm like yeah I love me some
fucking classic starfox let's get some more
of that I expected
this to play as
if I expected that I expected
lost levels member mario lost
levels I do yeah
that was actually super mario brothers too yeah
right I expected that just like oh
more the same on the same engine more
stages that we didn't play more bosses we didn't
fight and you know maybe maybe
some rough edges here and there but all
and all just they continued the formula
and they did not they
attempted to completely
upend it into something else
which
ends up making some
of the other dissensions in the franchise
make a bit more sense because right off
the bat it is
not a rail
shooter it is an open map
where there are different
objective points and as
you move towards one enemy
movements are
coming towards cornyria as well
and when you touch
an enemy on the map you then go
into an all range mode
battle but it's a really
rough early version of all range mode
where flying
and tracking and turning
does it feel anywhere near
as good as it does on 64
and it's really rough to keep
anything in your sights and
it's over sensitive
and there's not many options you can do you can
change the deal with that sounds like shit
it was a laborious
affair
and
by the time we went
through a couple of stages of destroying
some missiles and on the way to cornyria
fighting a member
of star wing who shows up it's like hey look
it's Leon and then Pigma so like they
made a cameo
and as and there's some new characters
that never showed up anywhere else is
a lynx and a rat and a dog
you
then go to like one of these boss fights
on like Venom or one of these starship
carriers and andros is attacking
but each of these things is again
just an all range mode mission
and I'm like can I just get like a single
one
that is on the rails moving
forward to a boss like
everything that I really liked
in starfox 1 and
the answer is no you can't
get that because
you're just gonna get a really rough
playing all range mode mission and at
some point you have you you race
towards the end of an area make it inside
and you get like two seconds of a
pathway inside of like death star
then you go fight a boss inside of it
and blow it up and get out and it's just
it wasn't satisfying
when you die you have
permadeath so you and a
partner that you choose
fly in and if you die
your character is dead
and you can continue as the partner
or just game over or if your partner
dies and of course again you game over there too
so it's starfox bad playing
with permadeath on it
I mean
the default control scheme changed
that you can go back to the starfox
one control scheme but like they
they pitched a different one by default that just was
inferior and I was like why would you do that anyway
but it introduces different kinds
of ships but in the end it doesn't make much
difference because like it feels as if the
turning is just rough
no matter what sounds like you just had
the best time with this
so after a
45 minute struggle and I really
really wanted to enjoy
what starfox 2 had
I just
needed to find out and I
went back to starfox one and I
you know did it did it did it did it
and then
you do mission one and you're like oh yeah
no it's still
perfect it's still glorious
starfox one is still incredible
this game was a bad
sequel and we dodged a bullet
it was the right
move to cancel it
and then let starfox 64 come out
it was 100% the right move
I feel so bad
for starfox as a franchise
I need to pull up
a list here of how
starfox because people are mentioning command
mission there's a ds assaults
yes all of that shit and that's
like how many starfox games do we got
here we got and the
problem right in a way
is what you see in starfox
2 is a
fucking curse that begins to haunt
every other game afterwards
because what did you want
starfox and more
of it okay starfox 64
is starfox and more of it
it gives you
all range mode that works
it gives you the transformations
and a really great battle mode
but there was still a fundamental
starfox game in there
and then the games afterwards
all tried remixing
the formula a lot
I didn't really play assault
but I know a lot of people love assault
because you can jump out of on foot
into tank mode into
I've not and see it's funny
I haven't heard anything good about assault ever
I heard a lot of people
kept talking about how much they love the assault to me
okay but
like when you get
command mission going and you get like the remake
the other day and you just kind of get these weird
things where you're like
they keep trying and I think it's shiggy
specifically I think someone made
a comment to the effect of like shiggy
did not want to just make more starfox
he deliberately wanted things
to be like a reinvention
of the game every time
and it just ends up being something where you're like
man like
what you had was great
and you keep trying to turn it into some weird
tactical thing
or some other thing and I'm like I just fly the plane
do the barrel roll and shoot the bomb
like that's fun nothing wrong with that
I've got the list in front of me
right
so we've got starfox
64
adventures assault command
0 and 2
yep we've got starfox
for the virtual boy
arcade and starfox warriors which were all
cancelled so that's 3 cancelled games
and then we've got the game and watch
version of starfox
and starfox guard
so that's like I think a total of 9
games total
that actually came out
starfox even though
I don't like starfox one
I'm not going to be crazy enough to say it's anything
classic
but everybody's going to agree that starfox 64
is down there with like one of the all
time greatest games of all time ever
yep easy it's unbelievable
free and that's
it
since 93
in terms of like great games
like
jesus christ
164 unquestionable
assault
good things
also here mixed
but mostly good
and that's all we're talking about
and I and even if you like starfox
adventures I'm not saying you I'm talking the royal
you but even if you like that game that's not a starfox
game that's dinosaur planet
dinosaur planet is dinosaur planet that doesn't count
and you can go play dinosaur
planet and fly between planets
to get your
your space missions if you want
but yeah
the core of this
feels like it's based on the idea
that they want to do everything
but let you just fly the plane
and shoot
they're trying to do everything else
with it and it's like please
just like
if mario is run
and jump man
starfox is fly
and pew
in the hallway
fly and pew in the hallway
I have it's not that hard
what might be the most
direct
um
what do you call it direct
like comparison point to starfox
in a series
because starfox you
I feel like you have very
profoundly made the point
that all they need to do is make a starfox
game and they're just desperate to not make
starfox games
for whatever reason
right
there is another
just fly the plane game
that came out
in 1993
and has been a franchise
the whole time
that is a game an arcade game called air combat
it was
followed up by the 1995
console game air combat
at which point they changed
the name in 97
to ace combat
there are
way
more ace combat games
than seven
there's one
two three the arcade one two three four
five
advanced zero x
six x i
joint assault assault horizon
assault horizon legacy
assault horizon trigger finger northern wings
infinity
legacy plus
which i think is just ace combat two on the 3ds
and seven
and the thing that has
maintained through almost
every single one of those games
is hey motherfucker
do you want to fly in the plane
and get behind the other plane
until your missiles lock and then hit the circle
button twice
and then the plane explodes
and the music is good
i mean the pedic
you want to just fly the plane
the pedigree of starfox
is you're a nintendo character
like that
on its own
should be a very
successful franchise that carries you
many games deep into the future
and now we're in a state
where people still love
starfox characters
and people are very happy
with them in smash brothers
and are like hey look it's all the boys
oh star wolves in
but when it comes to the actual source games
the fact that
the only thing anyone can talk about recently
is
the cameo in an entirely different game
starlink
and everyone's like oh yeah starlink
is a lot of fun
and when you get to starfox dlc for starlink
that's a really fun starfox adventure
it feels like
yeah it's a different game with starfox in it
i feel like the ace combat connection
and yes there are obviously different games
it's just planes are the similarity
and sticking to their formula
but the ace combat connection does have one
perfect gem for us
do you remember you must remember
ace combat assault horizon
which was the realistic one
the one that took place in real countries
that games
big claim
was not even that it was the
realistic one that took place in real countries
it was hey
we heard you
and how much
flying the plane
is not enough for you
wouldn't you love a helicopter mission
that's terrible
right right right
what about ac130 missions
that are
terrible
and it makes me think
of every starfox
trailer or fucking showoff
that i'm like now you can be
on foot who gives a shit
i just want to fly the r-wing
so
this whole thing
is made even more sour
when you consider that of this list of things
that are trying to do other things
besides fly the plane in pew
there's a game on here
that is very much clearly
fly the plane in pew
starfox zero is just
starfox
the problem is that
they forced a stupid control scheme
on everybody and they made it
mandatory
like
if you just let people play
with a controller and be fine
that would have been
fine starfox zero
would have been a fine new
starfox game
but it fucking forces the stupid
uh
gyro shit on you
oh man there was an interview
with a developer
of that game that accidentally
exposed the problem
with like the we use controls
which was like we're having trouble balancing
the aiming because it's awkward
for people to look between
their tv and the screen back and forth
over and over
and it's like oh
yeah you mean to think everyone
said
what's the problem
and it's just like
the game was partially
like assets were created by platinum
like they had this whole thing where
like the game that
is happening is
what you've been looking for
but now you've taken away the steering wheel
and handed me
a bag of spaghetti
and just said here
use this
find a way you know you're just like
but I can see it I can see the game
I want to play on the tv right now
I just can't
interface with it
in any way I just let me
it's also really
weird because even if they're trying to go through
it's like flying a space plane
like you don't hold up a different
piece of equipment in your plane
to look at to aim
you just have the
screen underneath the view
window
and I pretty much always within your frame of vision
that you flick your eyes down to
and so when I think I actually said this
some time ago but it's like
and now we enter the world
where hey
you know all these dumb gimmicks you've been trying to run
with this thing okay well guess
what exists now
VR this is the one
actual gimmick that would
go perfectly hand in hand
with this franchise if you want
to run all your gimmicks all day
and do you have anything
to do for VR no
you don't of course we got to grab
some cardboard and
put it on our heads all right
well
thanks
like thanks
the one time where it's right for the picking
yeah you know what
you know why there's no VR
for Nintendo and definitely not
for Star Fox
I'll tell you why because
Miyamoto and the teams
they were all talking about it
and they were like hey should we do a VR
Star Fox game
and then
Shinji-san a character I just made up
goes yeah man
we should totally
we should totally do a VR Star Fox game
Miyamoto-san and Miyamoto's like why
and then Shinji-san is like
imagine how close you could get to Star Fox's
fur
it's almost like you could smell it
and they're like we're not doing that
Star Fox is cancelled
true story
yep that I made up
no just gather all the
papers off the desk and into
the furnace they go
back to your desks everybody we're doing
cardboard back to your desks
like think about res VR
and how magical that experience was
now think about an R-wing
flying in front of you
like fuck off man it's so
you know you know what would need
to be like required for
Star Fox
it would need to be like
everything's in VR and everything's immaculate
and then like a text prompt
comes up and peppy's going to talk to you
but instead of peppy talking it's still
yep and you have to read it
and when you press the back button
select button and you go into cockpit mode
where you're flying in the cockpit
if you look around you need to see the fur
and feathers
or the slippy skin
you need to see it
oh right that's enough
that's enough
and every once in a while you get a little frog blink
going over your vision
sideways oh yeah you gotta look down
at where slippy has the
the pile of
sluffed off skin that he uses
all the bolts put ottoman
yeah
yes then you press the back button
to
I just saw somebody go
why does woolly always do this
and it's right
yeah you always do this
right before you leave a topic
that has anything to do with animals
or anything you always go hey
what if
you prompted
shinji sans
creepiness in the board room
that's not creepy
that's wholesome wouldn't you want a pet of fox
and I just yes and did it
okay
what we do here wouldn't you want a pet of fox
yes they are in fact
I've gone on what might be
at least a half an hour long
rant across the entirety of
Tsushima getting super mad
at every shrine that didn't
let you pet the fox
fuck those shrines they're a horseshit
and they need to be removed from the fucking game
but some of them don't
and then suddenly for no
fucking reason in the every
time I'm playing on my
own time off camera
I get a good shrine where I get the pet
in and I get good pets and I took some fucking
pictures of it and it was great
and he jumps and his tail flips up
and he loves it and then whenever I get
a fox shrine on camera it's
some stupid mountainside
where you squeeze through a path
and you honor the shrine and you turn
around and the fox is like yeah I'm out of here
because I'm gonna die if we both stand on this thing
and I'm like I don't get my fucking
pets going
it sucks I hate those shrines
anyway um that's that sucks
shit it's it's
it's so lame there's some
really good ones where it's like open
beautiful field of red roses
there's a shrine in the middle of it
and then you go in and you honor it
and then he's like hey what's up buddy
and you walk over and you give him a little
shuka shuka and he's like yeah
catch you next time
and then you have another one where you
climb a fucking stupid tree branch
and fall your ass off
and then honor a shrine and then he's
like I gotta go man I can't fucking
reminds me of
when I was playing yakuza 0 off camera
and I would there would
be some side quests that I just couldn't avoid because
I'd walk into them and like I might as well do them
and then I would go online
and see the comments on the newest episode
and be like can't wait to see the side quest
that I don't know that Pat just completed
off camera on camera
that's like the best one in the game
oh yeah yeah that's always great
that's always great
for what it's worth
I completed a mission
where
fucking
side quest spoiler alert but
you come across the side quest
moment where there's a bunch of
fox carcasses
just strewn about
and you're like this is not cool at all
and then the Mongols are like
absolutely wrecking foxes left
and right and just tossing them around
because they're like yeah fuck these things
I don't know maybe we can use them maybe not
and you just go
into full on ghost stance rage
and you slaughter them all
and then
I get my armor
set and I dye it white
and orange and then I
rock an armor set that is the fox set
and then you complete another quest and you get the fox mask
and I'm like this is my set
for the rest of the game
it's fox time now
it's fox time forever
for the rest of the fucking game
yeah it was great
anyway
I
firmly
went away from that
put the SNES mini back in its box
and back on the shelf
that's a killer list by the way
just in case you forget
on the SNES mini
it has fucking everything
they chose the right games
I ended up getting the Famicom mini
because there was a different
I forgot what the name what it was
it might have been like a Mega Man or something on the Famicom mini
that I wanted that was not on the
SNES mini but for the SNES
they got it all in there they got Contra and F-Zero
and Castlevania
and Kirby Superstar punch out
imagine if they could get all those great games
onto a Final Fantasy
digital service or
something
but yeah no Chrono Trigger that's true
they had FF instead
yeah well anyway
back on the shelf that went
and then I
checked out
Mario Galaxy 2
and
the reason why it's a weird pick
but it's because
when they announced the All-Star pack
and everyone was quick to point out
how Mario Galaxy 2
was fucking missing
and it's a crime
and they were pointing out
how criminal it was
that it was missing because
that was like the best Mario game
and I'm like
it's my favorite Mario game
so fucking everyone was saying that
and I'm like hold on a minute
my favorite Mario game
is Mario Galaxy 1
I thought Mario Galaxy 1
was the greatest thing they've ever made
and it's like yeah
it's better than that
I'm like what
so it's Mario Galaxy 2 time
because I need to find out
what the fuck I missed
because that's insane
I liked Odyssey a lot
but Galaxy to me is just
that's the peak
Odyssey felt like it had tons of filler
I thought it was fun
I thought it was fun
I enjoyed
the refreshing take that was
Galaxy way more
I enjoyed the Le Petit Prince
the kind of small planets
the physics, the change in style
we had never played a platformer like that
and I was like
fucking kudos to
Mario for being a franchise that
found a brand new way
to enter a new
thing like the naming convention
because you're going from land to world to galaxy
and then
the style change works because we've already been 3D
but we've never been 3D like this
so it really did feel like an amazing step up
and it ended up being like glorious
and the music and all of that
so I'm just like yeah what the fuck
I didn't know
so I'm finding out now what's going on with Mario Galaxy 2
and seems great
seems great
what are you playing it on
I'm playing it with a Wiimote
and Nunchuck
so you know the way it was intended
and
and I've got
Reggie's on the co-op
with the co-op mode
so you can do the whole thing
so that's in there too
and yeah it's great
I'm like oh man I remember
how much fun I had and why I loved
like a big part of this
going from planet to planet
in this big old beautiful flying moment
where you can like sometimes interrupt it
with a spin to go somewhere else
and I'm like the same reason why I love jet packs
and swinging is because of this aerial
momentum feeling which Mario
gets to do multiple times per
stage in this franchise
like I got Galaxy's wonderful
it's so so good
it's great and yes this is all
made especially interesting
because this is Reggie's first 3D Mario
game period
wow
okay yeah alright
nuts
completely
you know what this makes me think of
I'm actually super excited for 3D World
for the re-release of that
because that's probably my second favorite Mario
it is the second best one
that I've played
that game is incredible and it doesn't have
any of the Wii U stuff
instead of the gamepad stuff
but the gamepad stuff will be gone
so fucking hooray
3D World was the second best game
in my opinion yeah it was beautiful
I think it's like it's very clear
like these are the standouts you know
so yeah
no Reggie had dodged
a lot of games and didn't have
access to many things so
we're increasing his exposure
slowly but surely
so yeah Galaxy 2 is currently
being played on the docket
and that's all going down at Woolly
versus
alongside
you know ODST now on X-Bone format
and 13 Sentinels which we mentioned
earlier
which also has an interesting thing too
that I didn't really realize I thought it was going to be entirely
turn based but it's not
it's real time with pause
you have to actually
manage
your
placement intelligently
there's only
one thing in the entire game that I think
is somewhat awkward from a control period
and that is the first
second of a battle
where if you don't hit that
fucking
d-pad to pick a character
they'll just sit there so I was about to bring up the fact that there is
actually if you're a passive player
who thinks that the game is
turn based you'll sit and wait and waste
time
while nothing happens and then the game
will pick somebody right
it doesn't let you go too long
without automatically selecting someone
once they're ready but
like there are times when someone
is available and
you will not be and
time will be moving forward and you're like
what's happening and then the game goes oh yeah now do something here
but you could have manually interrupted
and done something before that
what I end up doing is
I
give every single person something to do
even if it's just movement
and then I play them as their turns come up
save for the characters
that have really really
expensive skills
like there's
the
Shinonome
has the bandage girl
she ends up getting the ability to throw down two
sentry guns at once
but it costs a ton
so I end up just being
like throw down the sentries now
sit there defend
until I can throw down two more sentries
that's all you need to do
that's all you do armor piercer
fucking expensive as well
the armor piercing melee attack
you know and like that game has
so many upgrade potentials
oh I have a really good
piece of advice for you that's very important
that I found out this morning
when you get the ability to
upgrade the mechs
like not the moves but the mechs themselves
the bottom option
is called neuro link
if you upgrade that to level two
people can go three
battles without going into brain overload
instead of just two
okay that's a mechanic I haven't encountered yet
so I don't know what you're talking about
just remember
neuro link to level two
you can go three battles instead of two
okay uh yeah
I don't know what that means yet but sure
um
something something
Elon Musk
pretty much actually
anyway so yeah
also that game's title
I have some issues with
I'm like
hmm 13
sentinels you say
man
oh I hate it
the first battle in the game
sentinels 16
reporting it like what
I was yeah yeah
no they have no chill
it's it's it's 13
remaining exactly that's the vibe
I'm getting but
the level of god damn it
and it and it goes it keeps
going upwards progressively
in a way that's like
fuck you if you thought you understood what this
number was you know
Jesus Christ
yeah yeah exactly anyway
um
the um
this week is also special
because uh
there's only a couple days left but I talked
about it code mystics updated
their um
KOF 2002
uh
ultimate match I keep fucking it up
it's KOF 2002
unlimited match there we go
oh okay with netcode
with the good netcode
and
um when
you go to your copy of the game
you go on steam go to properties switch it to
beta mode and when you go into beta you can play
online with everybody playing rollback
uh rollback is perfect it's fucking
flawless I played against
someone in Denmark and had
not a hint of a problem
I played against someone in Brazil
and had not a hint of a problem
um other than the fact
you were playing somebody from Brazil
ha ha ha ha ha ha
laughs in Portuguese
I think
that um
yeah it's this is one of those
times where it's getting
a huge resurgence right now because of this
right it's a good game people already
loved it it's got everything in it
but it is two is 2002
unlimited a good
yes yes okay it's
hard to tell there yeah it's a good one
because it's a dream match that puts
fucking everyone back into it
okay oh that's the one with nightmare
geese right it's got literally it's probably
the biggest roster of any KOF game actually
all right um
because 98
uh uh ultimate match
added in everybody pre
and then like added a bunch of modes
and fun stuff and I love me some 98
it's the one that I first started on it's
where a lot of my um
uh uh uh love for
KOF comes from but
um yeah the
actual by the time you get
through the full roster of
2002 um
it's up in the
Marvel category like it's it's
oh yeah gotta be over
40 you know I don't
know the full count but it's gotta be over
40 characters does it have
Vanessa of course it does
okay
um
so yeah and it's got flawless rollback and it's
got a lot of great shit in it and uh
66 characters there you go right
that's the end that is in the marvel
territory yeah you can go press start on a
bunch of them to get alternate versions of them
you know like it's just one of these things that
just keeps it going um
so anyway uh uh uh that's going
through a resurgence and and and was a good
time we had a lot of fun with that uh
and shoutouts to Kaiser wave and s and k
for giving some codes out to the people
we got to kind of you know
get some more people to jump on it and yeah
it's just one of these times where you're like
man um
I sure do hope
that KOF 15
doesn't uses this
doesn't make the mistake of not using
this but
you have to remember that this is
code mystics doing this not
s and k
wouldn't
wouldn't
it be funny
if KOF 15
went back to sprites
I mean
I can and and they were
new sprites and they're like well
that's why the rosters all the 10 characters
this time because we're doing the new
sprites
and that
it's
listen don't play with me
don't fuck with me Tony
okay
don't fuck with me
I don't need that in my life I've already
accepted that we're in a world
of 3D that is subpar but functional
and that's what they can afford
because they got bought
by that company
and that company said this is
your budget now so it is what it is
Samurai showdown
was fine
KOF 14 in the end
got improved but still looks
the way it does
dear god I would kill to fucking have
a
slashed roster that returns
to what we had in 13
because it like the beauty of 13
is a statement
for sprites
and
like it actually
was one of those things where
excerpt comes out and challenges
that aesthetic by going
into an incredible 3D direction
that like you're like oh my god that looks like anime
of course but sprites
were
held up by KOF 13
up until 13 sentinels
mind you
they don't like in
KOF 13
they doesn't need to look like anime
because it is anime
sure
it is 2D animation
that looks incredible
and perfect like
that being said of course vanillaware
is dropping the most beautiful sprite
based game ever made right now
like yeah it's out of control
it's number one it's just number one
and that's the end of that
but it's also doing their vector style
and it's a different thing but it's just
there's nothing competing
whatever 15 is
at the very least
I will take
3D with dramatic
lighting change
like Sam's show now
at least as good as Sam's
dramatic lighting change
I'll take that
there's a side by side
of like Naka Ruru from 14
and Naka Ruru from Sam's show
and it's just like oh my god it's embarrassing
but anyway
that's all stuff that we were doing this week
and that was over on Woolly Versus
you can tune in
on Woolly Versus on YouTube and on Twitch
if you want to see more of the games
that we talked about we got some fun stuff
continuing really exciting
all these new games going on new season
it's refreshing to sit down and
it's a new season it's a new day
I've been in a
like a kind of like variety
thing for quite a bit
it's a new day
where like
I haven't had a long running thing for quite some time
and I guess that makes sense because
the long running games are coming
Woolly
that November
is gonna be
fucking crazy
with desks and cyberpunk
and there's another one
Yakuza 7
coming
all in the same fucking week
I am the stubborn shore
that like
occasionally moves according
to the tides
when something new comes out
but my preference is to pick something
that I'm excited about over something that's just
hot right now
but there's a lot of good shit coming
in November you're not lying
I'll see how things are
shaken up but like
yeah
it's
to me it's like hey man they're not going anywhere
you know they'll be here
so
with that
and now two
hours into the podcast that we both agreed
we would try and keep shorter this week
yes
let's hit up on that
news yes
I mean
I noticed that the pacing
of the discussion while you're talking
about
Baldur's Gate
was
faster and like I was cutting you off a bit more
but I'm trying
we are trying but there's a lot to say
this is the best
you can get we're trying very hard
yeah
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uh huh
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alright
before we move into the news
I have a quick statement that I have to make
a correction of my earlier words
okay
despite
mummies being used for medicinal purposes
party favors
paint, interior decor, paper
staged props, fertilizer
fake relics and fundraising expenses
they apparently were not
burned for train fuel
as it was Mark Twain the son of a bitch
who invented that as an urban legend
fuck you Mark Twain
Mark Twain rules
Mark Twain
pumped me
from hundreds of years beyond the grave
that's awesome
you got fucking twain'd bro
you got twain'd
the original stand-up comedian himself
if I could
hang out with Picard
on the enterprise
and fucking go back in time
in that fucking season 5 clip
hangar where they hang out with
Mark Twain
I would punch him in the dick
how does it feel to get rocked
from 200 years in the past
weird
because there's nothing I can do
there's like
guys skeleton probably isn't even around anymore
that's incredible man
with all the information and technology
and things we have right now
we are having a live discussion
with no wires attached to our bodies
in the comforts of our own homes
with an audience watching us
thanks audience hello
and you just got rocked
from 200 years ago
fuck that
you wanna talk about kick Vanessa?
I do
but you can also double down and reiterate that
just because that was a lie
doesn't mean that the British family
gets off any slack
oh no no they're ghouls
they're literally ghouls
they eat flesh
okay so
Guilty Gear Strive announced a new character
with their stream
event yesterday
Giovanna is now
also named
kick Vanessa
sure she is not a punch girl
she is a kick girl
she is
a member of the secret
service
and she is a defender
and protector of the president
of the United States of America
who is not CHIP
for people not anymore
for those who are
not up to date on the lore
CHIP is not the president of the US
he is the president of the CHIP territories
which are located somewhere
in Africa but that is not
Guilty Gear is
so stupid
it's got a lot going on
so what do we know about
Giovanna
well one I'm gonna say
and this is just
this is like
I'm hard locking this rule
because
we've seen
C Viper show up as an SNK design
in Street Fighter
an SNK design
in Guilty Gear
and this now underlines
and like chisels and stone
the fact that
business casual
is the best
design
choice for fighting games
it's really crazy
at like the similarities
between all three of them
two of them are dark skinned
all three of them are red heads
business casual
is the absolute peak
of character designs
in fighting games straight up
this is going in the books
and I'm locking it down
no one has any complaints about it
it's wonderful
I'm just thinking like the best king costume
is where she has the coat off
the best KOF costumes are where they're
dressed down
where you've got Eoree's wearing his shirt
his dress shirt, his nice pants
Kyo's just chilling
everyone is looking
business casual
and they have all that artwork
of them just hanging out in the backgrounds
when you're watching some shit like Bleach
what are you checking out and going
oh shit too, not the Bleach episodes itself
you're checking out that ending
where they're hanging out at the bar
all dressed in business casual
Bruegel looks great
in his original outfit
not in his
boss tank top
whatever the fuck that thing is
what else do we know about Giovanna
she is a kick girl, she does kicks
she is from Brazil
but she is not doing capoeira
necessarily
she is simply fighting with her feet
and she also has
a big ol' doggo that appears to be
a magic dog
like a stand of sorts
and there are speculations as to
what this might be
in fact it might be a forbidden beast
I think
there is a possibility
that she will join Eddie and Angra
as one of the forbidden beasts
which means we don't know what sacrificed
for that to
be the case
the doggo's name is Rey
and Rey of course means zero
in Japanese
but in
Portuguese
it means king
oh yeah
so
there is something interesting
about that
furthermore you want to take a look
at the design and you've got
this cool color contrast
with the green
blue energy dog color
and it's got a fucking little symbol
on its head and it looks like a
recycling symbol with a heart in the
middle of it
which we now know means
that this magic dog
loves recycling
well here's the thing
you might not recall this
because why would you
but I described that when I went to Japan
the first time
we went to an Airbnb
and the person who was there
pointed out to us that the recycling was divided
into different
sections
and one of those sections that it's divided into
was for plastic bottles
we had a hard time figuring out
what the fuck he was talking about
because he didn't call them plastic bottles
he called them
the acronym
PET
PETTO
and I was like
what the fuck is PETTO
what do you want me to do with this
and
PET as it turns out
is what they call plastic bottles there
the reason why they call plastic bottles
PET is because it stands for
polyurethane
whatever whatever
it's a long specific term
for the type of plastic
the symbol with the triangles on its forehead
looks identical to the
recycling PET symbol
that you see on PET bottle
things in Japan
therefore the icon is a pun
for the word PET
that's stupid
yeah well too late
oh shit
and guess what
she pets the pet the dog
oh man
literally
pet the dog
what if it's the pet
what if the dog recycles hearts
it might be that
but as far as we can tell
it's simply a pun
based on
ethylene terephelethate
aka
listen I
I just want
Giovanna's character
to just be obsessed with recycling
that's what I want
I want her
to talk about the environment
and for her to be like
I'll recycle you
into
a nice
biodegradable chair
she looks like the type that's no nonsense
and probably very serious about her job
but there's definitely going to be more of a quirk
than just that
if answer is any clue
answer is very serious about his job too
but as a bodyguard to the president
he's also very
particular and weird about managerial things
so she probably has some quirks
that we have to find out
yeah
looks fucking solid
ripped to anybody
who saw that silhouette
and saw the length of the hair
because
you know fans on Suicide Watch
oh yeah
cause that's the exact cut
like you know what fans aren't on Suicide Watch
Angi Mito
so
Angi Mito is weird
cause it's a character that I never liked
and never met anyone who liked
I hate Angi Mito
I also hate Angi Mito
but
every time there's a new character slot
there's this wailing from the distance
which
it's Angi Mito
I love him he's the prettiest of fans
yeah
the lady
that was
announcing the event was that girl
the lady at the Arxis event
like after they cut back to the end of the trailer
she just had her hands on her mouth
and was like
because she was all about
that Angi fuckboy look
which he is a supreme Japanese fuckboy
make no mistake
I
had no concern for Angi Mito
in general as a member of the cast
but upon realizing
that he was being shipped with
biken I turned that
complete disinterest
into disdain because
listen she can do so much better
yeah like you
no like is that is that where this is going
no but someone did say
I was not going there at all
I'm like biken can do so much better than
fuckboy Angi Mito
and they keep shoving him together
and I'm like god damn it that ain't the case
right and then someone was like
okay but what about biken
Nagoriyuki though and I'm like stop it
the world is not ready
the world is not ready
the world ain't ready for that
that's not the place to take it
and what if he had green hair
no not at all let him be
let him be the vampire that he is
that's fine that's okay
it doesn't need to be that
tell you what I say this
as someone who this is so obvious
motherfucker let's listen
do you let's go back for a second
here because remember I'm the person
who says I
like Mitsuru
she's the best girl in that game
but I think
that she's paired off with
the other senpai let that be its thing
so I'm more than I look at it
like main character or whoever the case is
in some cases I look at it and go
that relationship with someone else
in the cast is more important
than whatever personal ones
you want to take from the benefit
and you're saying that Mitsuru's relationship
with Akihiko is more important
than Baiken's relationship to you
it's very obvious
I would
gladly take just
it's different because it's Baiken
I would gladly take literally anyone else
on the cast being paired with her
including
like people that are not even around
anymore
and including her
and her just walking around solo
just being chill on her own
even Batman
even Batman
really
I don't like Anjimito
he's a fuck boy
Anjimito is a fuck boy
and how
dare he go after
your pure Baiken
oh my god listen
the weird
thing of
no my idols need to be
available to me
to keep the illusion going
is some dumb shit because
this is one of those cases
of look at Baiken's personality
look at the no-nonsense type
she is
he's not the kind
he can't handle it
you're right Woolie
this is totally different
you don't have to be with me
but don't be with him
he's the worst
you're better than him
even though you got the one arm
well Baiken outside of the equation
Anjimito sucks
Anjimito sucks
Anjimito's lame
Anjimito sucks
I'm in favor
of a good ass pairing
between my two fictional characters
and Anjimito sucks
I want a better pair
I want someone else
or no one
give me something
how could be saved
if you turned him into not Anjimito
yeah, sure
that's good, yes
even his
his existence is
I'm a bored guy that lives in the colonies
I'm a go just wander around
and ask people stuff
it's like
you know what I'm just thinking
do you know why Anjimito
has to be the one for Baiken
because they're Japanese
yes, exactly
you didn't realize that
I just realized
no, that's the plot point
that's the reason why they're pushed
they're together
but they're not together
they have to keep the
strong Japanese pure
exactly to save the world from the gear
yes, that's the plot and it sucks
that's not what I want
that's not what I want to be the case
it is totally because
you're like, we need to mix it up
you know
he can go hang out with Mei
she's Japanese
they can have whatever pure lines
they need
and then fucking
fuckboy Johnny who's also a fuckboy
he could get it
I got no problems with that
wait a
second
you wait just a
goddamn minute
sure
fuckboy Anjimito
is not good enough for Baiken
but Johnny
pedo airship
flashman
is good enough for Baiken
Johnny is on the level
that is
above everything
that represents
what Anjimito is because Anjimito sucks
I
will echo
a statement I just saw
scroll past me
which is in all caps
I don't think Baiken is
Johnny's type
you know
officially Mei is an adult
her age
is officially
whatever it needs to be
whatever your country
whatever it is in York
whatever your country needs
that age to be
it's above that
anyway
this is getting off the rails
that might have been the first time
I ever looked at a character description
and said fuck off
was when I was reading the Guilty Gear X
X manual
on PS2 and it said Mei was
18 years old
fuck off
yeah Johnny wrote that
I don't know where
this yes end is gonna go
and it's getting
a bit wild
but
the point remains the point
there's a simple thought
Anjimito sucks Giovanna rules
and we're done with that
Anjimito sucks
that's the extent of why
that's it that's the end of it
it's like Anjimito sucks therefore
anything being attached to him also
sucks and Baiken doesn't
suck so don't attach Baiken to him
it drives me crazy that he has
one of the outrages
yeah sorry
too bad Zessen
like that
immediately puts him like way up there
on the in universe tier list
he took it too bad
bullshit
yeah so
so it's just like
you know
I don't
feel like if you were to throw
and whoever was going to get
dragged down with Anji
I was going to be I was going to have
strong words for them too
so it is what it is
anyway
he's coming back and he'll probably
you know be
he put a shirt on did he
it looks like it's still revealing shoulders
there yeah but
there is a shirt also
there is a model of him in Exord
in the story
that is just he's off camera
making a phone call at one
point so but there is
a model
don't worry guys I'm still hot
anyway we don't know how this is
going to go but that leaves
one remaining character
we don't know
who or what it'll be
I hope it's someone new but
if I hope it's Leo Paul
if they bring back Leo Paul done that would be
really cool that would be great I have no problems
with that same thing goes
for Abba same thing goes
for Zappa yeah I was just thinking Abba
yeah Abba is weird and great
Zappa is in the
story he exists he has a modern
incarnation
you can see him
unpossessed
and kind of normal and trying to live his
life in a way that
it is
ghost free so
yeah who knows but this is off the
point
if they're going like
plot wise and stuff like that like it'd be cool to just
yeah someone else new that's cool so
far these new characters are great they
also of course there's going to be a season of DLC
to come with it so expect
you know the roster to keep expanding
and
we got to see some gameplay of
get Bridget in there
no
no that's alright come on
no we're good
it's time for Bridget no it's not
the world is finally
ready for Bridget we can leave
Bridget behind
now that Genshin Impact is popular
there is
time and room for Bridget
now that
Femboy Hooters is a real
location I didn't check that that's probably
not true we can
have Bridget
come on Pat
you were
just going in on Johnny
yeah
I don't know if you're aware of this
but not that much time
has passed between
Double X and
Strive it's only been a couple
years
alright
believe me what I say
let Bridget chill in the background
for now
okay unless you want to go hang out
with your boy Johnny
in the van I don't want to hang out with
it sounds like you want to hang out with Johnny
I don't want to hang out with
well then put down the
the Bridget signs
and
walk away
because you're not in good company
trying to get Bridget going
anyway
people are saying Bridget would be in her 20s
Bridget at this point
I
don't think that math is true
is does that add up
because now you look stupid
well first of all yeah
Bridget in
his 20s if anything
is the statement there
did you never catch
that part of it
pardon?
you're aware that Bridget's a boy right
yeah I'm more
because it sounds like you got baited
no
dumbass
Giovanna
has some cool kick moves
and so far that's all we can infer
from her design
I think
we're probably gonna see
you know a season of DLC
pretty much right off the bat
which this is just what fighting games are now
and like
I don't like that
the launch roster
is immediately to be
not taken seriously
in fighting games
it's just become a standard affair
to
you know you drop it and then right away
you go here season one here's another four
or five or whatever the case is
I think
apparently the season pass is gonna have more storyline
I mean if they handle it the way like
Mortal Kombat did then I could see that happening
I mean
yeah I don't know
like they can throw in some
like the way
Revelator came out it added to the story
as well and then Rev2 added
some extra scenes so
like as long as it's separate
these are chunks that you can just watch on their own
and the way the way
Guilty Gear handled its story was you just sat and watched it
mind you you click the play button and then it just went
so
if they put another chunk into the story you can
it doesn't really
it doesn't affect whatever they're putting out on launch
but yeah
it is
you know gonna be the doing the season thing
and it's just again it's the state of affairs
it's become what it is and
I really wish that fighting games
weren't that these days but
it seems like it's not going away anytime soon
we'll see how many
they'll they'll announce we'll see what it is
and you know and I guess it's one of those
things two words like get the game out
here and then like we'll keep working on stuff
and as it comes and it's ready to
drop it'll just
it'll be included but you know
it feels way
less rough for people
when they get to buy a game enjoy it
and then like
you talk about DLC a little bit down the
line at the very least instead of
right away let's start
looking at extra purchases you know
yeah well that's kind of the way things now
like the
the the the rosters
a rolling roster
right off the bat
yeah bb tag in particular being
obviously one of the grossest ones
where it was half of the game
and it was 20 characters and
you're like
these are sprites
and characters that are pre
existing assets that are being ported over
and converted into this games engine
these are not original drawings
in the case of non ruby characters
well obviously
and for other guests like blitz tank and stuff
but most of the what they're reporting over
were just existing persona
or existing blaze blues characters and
what the fuck
is this all going towards you know so
blah
but yeah
that is
what they announced alongside
the date which is going to be
April 9th
so
middle of next spring the time for fighting games
once again every year well not
February April
yeah well April spring
yeah but but like it was
it was fighting games February was the
thing
and now fighting game February is
maybe not as much the thing
it's it's it's kind of
it's in the same window though
and they did push it back
considering the whole
netcode thing too
it was on track to be released much earlier
but I believe the decision to go roll back
has increased
development time
can we get a good interface
hope so
there were did you see the changes
to the to the UI
I did
I don't mind it I think
the in game changes
like I never I've never been
like okay so there's two
there's always been two things right one
there's not enough rock and roll
and then there's the function
of what these things are and where they're
placed is not
indicating what it needs to and this is bad
it's not serving its purpose
the hearts
as a as a kind of like a stock
replacement for rounds going up or like to
try and try and improve clarity but
yeah and I guess the people that are unfamiliar
it might but then things like
the guts meter and all that shit were just
they were not indicating what they needed
to they've moved out of that stuff
around they've changed it so that like
positive bonus and
danger and such
all kind of come in from the top corners
now
the burst meter is a set meter the life bar
is a set life bar the portrait doesn't
move alongside it and
it is an improvement over
what we got in that
earliest version of it that much is clear
I much I per I definitely prefer that
but yeah it's not as rock and roll as it
could be and I and as somebody
who like I don't mind clean designs
like I like that
like KOF 11 minimalist shit
oh you're so crazy
that it you guys
I know I know I know that like other people
hate it but I don't I'm just telling you what I like
whatever that's what I like I think it's
cool I like clean graphic designy looking things
I also love Tron
and I love Tron aesthetics I like
when simple clean graphic design
is effective so that's a personal taste
I can't speak for others but I know
that in the case of Guilty Gear
rock and roll should definitely be
and metal should definitely be more of a
repeating theme so
you know even though like
I would
in other cases in a non
Guilty Gear type game I'd be like yeah
that that's a fine that hud's fine
to me
I'd like them to continue going further with it
but it seems that
the design choices are
not just
like the part of the
they seem to think that clarity
is linked to
not being too marred
in I guess like
the the
metal t-shirt look
but the metal t-shirt look is kind of what
the franchise has been identified with for years
Guilty Gear xx thing with all the chains
and and fucking pieces of
metal stapled to it look fucking great
yes I agree shit was the best I agree
and
I mean I can sit here and lie to you
and say oh yeah no like
uh uh
you know I don't like these things
but I'm being honest I I have a certain
design type of thing that I enjoy and
you know fine whatever persecute me
for it it's it's okay wrong a woolly
okay he said go for it
yeah time to persecute there it is
ah you know
I like what I like
you know anyway
microphone is in front of me not
you fuck off um hey anyway
I think that uh the
uh the the
the main character select
screen as well has changed around
and um
that too is
not sure where they're
going there you know it's it's it looks
it's it definitely
looks a bit more like the HUD
in uh Guilty Gear x
1.5
it goes it's and and and the original
um missing link it's
starting to look a little bit more like that design
but um
I just wish that it
was like more clear
why they were doing what they were doing
because when I saw the way it looked
in the demo the classification
of characters into
balanced trickster
you know uh grappler whatever
the case would be kind of made it like
okay you want people to know
like what these are in the way
that they look at woolly I
I don't mean to interrupt you
but I've been waiting for a time to say this for like
10 minutes I very much need
to use the restroom so badly
no problem no problem
I'm going to pee all right let's
hit a break it's gonna happen let's hit a break
can we please go on break for a sec
we can hit a break all right be right back
everybody all right look
uh we can sit here and discuss
my horrible opinions all day
and get everybody upset isn't that what we do
every monday yeah but that's but that's not yeah
yeah well uh you know
but that is that really why we're here
or are we not here
to uh get on with other
events okay just assume
that we talked about Guilty Gear
for another 20 minutes
and I upset you at least three more
times with my opinions all right
can everybody can everybody do that
all right cool yeah we can do that all right
hey despite me saying
we should hurry it up I have a story to tell
won't take long to tell well when you
go take a piss in your house how far
down your legs do your pants go
balls
knees or ankles
balls
okay so I usually
hit the ankles but sometimes they hit the
knees if I'm in a hurry
and what I've discovered
is that when you're trying to put a fat pig
dog
into the bathroom so he quiets down and
stops throwing a tantrum and you hit
the the knees on your
pants it's really hard
not to piss all over the toilet
when the dog decides to jump
into your pants
while you're pissing
and rummaging
around upside down
that's so when
when you have a fat pig
dog in the bathroom
and you're taking a piss
either go ankles
or balls only no knees
how about I continue
doing what I was doing
and I pee like a normal person
and then we don't have to
ever reconsider I did not pee on the dog
I didn't pee
on the floor or the toilet either all in
the toilet it was impressive
you'd be proud
oh bye woolly
oh
okay this this is
the point where he can't
deal
I was eating mold at the time
as well
I'll just keep peeing the way
I've been doing it for my entire life
okay that's
that's nice
have you ever been at a urinal
and forgot and then you like take your pants
all the way down and then you're like wait what the fuck
am I doing and then you hold it back up
okay me either
so anyway
that's the question that was purely academic
Mortal Kombat 11 announced
the return of Milena
which got a whole bunch of weirdos
excited
oh
oh
that's like the fastest burn
I've heard in a while
oh man
oh man
and Rambo
hi Kenny
Rambo's in the game now
he was talking about how much she liked Milena too
did I invent that tweet in my mind
so Milena fans
all
four of them
hey weirdos
to me personally
Rain was my second
favorite ninja so Rain
makes a comeback
that's cool but
like
I guess I don't I like
old Rain more than
what Rain become
what Rain become
less cool but also
old Rain was just purple
ninjas so I don't know
I purple Rain
yes exactly I
both purple characters
yes
that's true
um yes
I liked as far as all the
colors went Nubin Rain
were my favorites back in the original
Ultimate MK3 and then
um when it came time to
make them unique and stuff like that
most of the most of the changes were cool
you know I think Ermac was
a massive improvement
um
becoming a fucking
just collection of souls
but uh yeah
Rain's just I don't know I felt it was kind of
lame unfortunately I but I still do
like Rain though his moves are cool
and I like the bubble effect and the lightning
you know anyway so he's back and that's great
Rain for me was the was the moment
that the ninja thing had gone too far
oh it went too
it went too far at fucking reptile
but no
shut up shut up shut up
step shut your fucking mouth
shut your fucking mouth that is
bullshit step three
was already the point at which
it was like okay guys
so you didn't want to record
another outfit got it
like they could have had
the the the actor
just take the hood off
for a different sprite
or even change the do
something else but they just went now
let's just color it up again
and it was like alright
we're doing the swaps
but we're not even doing the head swaps that Ryu
and Ken had it's just the color swap
like the baseline
they changed Juri and
Juni and Julie's heads
off of Kami
created at least a somewhat visual
difference back then
this is some blasphemous
shit
I'm hearing from you
and I reptile the original
super secret
fucking cool ass hidden character
I mean it's
as far as the existence
of secret characters goes that's fine
I'm just saying
design effort wise with fighting games
you kind of just got to go yeah
they really went they just kind of threw it in there
it is what it is
you change the colors a bit
and it was better than the other two
I can't believe you of all people
are saying this about the green one
you
well I'm saying you were green for a while
are you green right now
no you're purple now
no I'm green but I mean it
my shirt is green
that's not the point
you keep doing this
you've been doing it all episode
and all life
you keep thinking that something
that I'm talking about has to do with
my tastes what I'm describing
something else entirely
I don't care what color he is I'm saying
it's a lazy port
it's a lazy swap and his moves are cool
I have no problem with him as a unique character
I like that there's a bunch of
characters you can play as and I get that
the Joker and the error macro
and they wanted secrets to become real
there's no problem with any of that
I'm just saying that when it comes to the effort level
it was low even if it was
my favorite colors I don't give a fuck
but he's green
that means you have to like him
that's how things work
I can judge something outside of my own
tastes for the thing
believe it or not
I can make a statement
no
no
because I like viking
we go down the Angie Meadow
route and it's like
okay but
we agree that Angie sucks
so it's just
I don't care
okay hold on does anyone even like Angie at all
like anybody
there's like four including there's
have you met a person
she was on the stream
she was on the stream
anyway here's the thing
right
reptile
as a character
is a character that has a bunch of cool shit
and
as a part of the ninja roster
is unique and does some stuff
I'm just saying
that as a
jumping of the shark idea
of it going too far
thing where it's like yeah they just
didn't put any effort into how they made him
it was a lazy thing to do
and then fighting games were like oh shit
that let's do that
and beat him up so we're also like
yeah let's do that and then
unfortunately
palette swaps became associated
with the genre forever
because it was just the easier way to go about things
it's just that it's by that
it's just that he represents
a lazy effort I have no problem with his character
but by that
but
sub zero lazy
more
I love
green
Sean
I think Sean is one of the coolest
things in Street Fighter
he's a dork, he sucks
he's a shodo, he's not
anywhere near as good as the other two
he's not Dan
he's something else entirely
he's a shodo
it's I'm saying like it doesn't matter
I'm just saying
echo fighters are stealing spots
echo fighters are stealing spots
dark pit sucks
I get out of here dark pit
because of you we don't have
Travis or whatever the fuck it was
and you know what Pat
what? I played
and completed
and fucking loved Kid Icarus
uprising and you know what
dark pit
hold up your hands to see if you still
have them they're here they're fine
Kid Icarus uprising
is a fucking amazing game
and in it
dark pit is hilarious
as is most of the game
dark pit is legitimately a fun
part of that game that pit
fucking deals with in the whole thing
right as a character
in his context
he was more than fine
it's a fucking great game
but me liking dark pit
is different from me looking at him and going
that's a wasted fucking slot
fuck that guy
that lazy shit
you know
by the way Kid Icarus uprising really good
it's really good
I can divorce my own tastes
from the effort
it would take
this content into the game
that's all I can tell you
I fucking like
dark pit and I'm like
fuck dark pit do you see
it's not the straight
forward I like thing or I don't
like thing I'm saying
something here
I don't understand
I like dark pit I can't understand
anything more in depth than I like
thing good
no I like thing
thing bad
do you remember
do you remember
the game of the year
argument that we had like
six years ago
with everybody
and it went nowhere
probably because
it was the argument of we're gonna do the
top ten games and I wanted to call it
the top ten best games
yes yes yes yes
and then the argument came back
no they're not the best games that
they're just our favorites
well if they're our favorites that means
they're the best because the most
favoritist game you like is obviously
the best and everyone else is stupid
this is that that was
a painful discussion
that lasted hours
it was excruciating
it was excruciating
because exactly
right like as somebody
who comes out
who's used to saying things like
I like clean graphic design
and I thought KOF 11 was a cool
UI
and then everyone goes fuck you
you suck your taste of shit
I'm very much
the internet has made me
very aware
that I put forth my opinions
as my favorites
and not objective
see that's weird
because I
spent my entire internet life
being told
by I want to say
99.9%
of people that the thing
that I'm doing is objectively
insane
like
you know
pooping in the dark
or peeing with your pants around
your ankles or taking off all your clothes
whenever you walk into the bathroom
and all I can feel
is what's wrong with all you people
you're gonna poop with your clothes
on like an animal
like a barbarian
animals don't poop with their clothes on
animals don't wear clothes
but like
Pat, you live in the house built on goblins
you
it's a goblin house
you're not
it's not just that goblins are possessing
you
it is that you have built
a house out of them
their corpses line the walls
so you're describing
that the unfortunate
thing for you is that you are at least
attempting to live in the real world
I attempt to live in the real world which gets me
well there's your mistake
you're a content creator
leave that shit behind
it's way more hostile
when you attempt to live in the real world
and people have
outright said
what will he has to say so much
because
he thinks he's making sense
slash
at least Pat lives in his
ridiculous dream fantasy
and is content living in a
non real world
it's very clear
you know
it is what it is
now that being said
I mean shit like the latest
I played BPM the other day
and I tried to play it on mouse
and keyboard just for shits
to see if I could like you know actually handle it
and it turns out I couldn't
and then you know and I
kind of went harder and further in to be like
no I'm not going to give up just yet I'm going to really
really try and
like you know
in my mind I have one thought
but I'm just like don't I'm not going to bring that up
I'm just going to keep trying this
and seeing how this feels
and how I get accustomed to it in general
but I know how I truly feel
and I know that how I truly feel
is the most upsetting thing for anyone to hear
and it is
absolutely sacrilegious to say
and no one will understand it
and like
so I just kept trying
and then it was awful and then I went alright
I'm going to grab the controller and it is what it is
you need to embrace
how wrong
all of your opinions are
I am well aware
oh yeah oh we're super aware
but the thing is just
that when I'm deep down
right
having a feeling
of I play
and have taught people
how to use arcade sticks
I understand
very well
what it's like to be in a
foreign controller environment
and be frustrated by not being
able to do what you want to do
I've learned
a hitbox for example
which is foreign again and then had to
reinvent a little bit of understanding
I know that I understand that
the feeling of not being able to play
on a stick properly
is a very different
thing where I could tell them like
okay I understand and I get this
and it is absolutely
something that would click
with me if I put more time in
and it's there
I know that like
mouse and keyboard being the default for years
for a ton of people has sort of just kind of
become like the standard
in this way and I'm saying it and I'm getting
ready for the arrows because the shadows
have already blotted out the sun
and I get it
and when it comes to the mouse
I've absolutely
become converted and clear
from the overwatch weird controls
over through apex and now
with the other
like FPS's and stuff that I've touched
come to understand that the mouse is
like you cannot replace
that, that is a device that will pinpoint
accuracy on anything
How many times are you going to defend
your controller weirdness
use before just
throwing your arms back and letting all the
arrows hit you? I'm
getting it really clear
I'm making it clear
that I know a lot about
the topic of being uncomfortable with the controller
I know a lot about myself
I know a lot about
what I'm feeling in this moment
and I'm trying to describe that what I'm feeling
when I use the keyboard
to move and do things
revolces me
it's not about discomfort
I fucking
hate it
everyone gets it
sorry
it came up again recently
and people didn't believe me
when I was trying they're like
you just don't know though
and I'm like wow
right?
I will take an argument that you and I had
as a perfect example
because I remember the exact phrase that I used
that really set you off
and you were right to be set off
where we were in Dark Souls part
whatever
I mentioned that the GameCube was blue
and I lost it
and I was like what are you crazy
it's obviously purple
and you went I'm so fucking sick
of having this argument
to which I yelled out
then stop saying the wrong thing
ahhh
and that's the trap
as long as you continue to be
in this manner
this torrent of
ahhh
stop
therefore the only thing you can do
is tattoo
I love the blue GameCube on your nipples
and start up in only fans
it's the only way
you need to start
deep-throating the controller
arrows
part of the
a bigger part of the problem is that
the person who's yelling
has only heard half the conversation
and those who have heard the entire thing
are like god dude
so
that's where that goes
but it's just one of those things where I'm like
man I hate when people think I don't know me
I know me
I get it
if you want a good time
you should
have these controller conversations
with Dave of New Blood
cause it drives him crazy
when I was playing
Dusk on a controller
those guys were
losing their shit
well that's the thing is when I fucking jumped in
to play
a
Ultra Kill the other day
Hequita jumped
Hequita showed up and was talking in the chat
and I was wondering if the other
New Blood dude would show up
but it was just Hequita
so I was
I remember
your controller dunking
and I just spared that
because Hequita was very nice
and just gave tips about how to improve playing
and that was it
so I did not get dunked on by New Blood people
hey I want to give a shout out
to New Blood however
they
they put out I think
1.2 of Unfortunate Spacemen
which is that game
that seems to be inspired by Among Us
and they said that they added
their support just for me
so give that it's free on Steam
so give that a shout out
it's kind of embarrassing how it only
came out after Among Us got really popular
really but
you know how it is
but yeah
I'm obviously going to have to cut this
entire fucking stupid redundant topic off
but the only place I was going to go with it
is that I'm never going to try to
champion or convert people
to what I do
or imply that
that WASDA
is inferior in any way
or try to tell people that that's the way to go with it
or teach them that that's
I'm entirely in my own world
on it I don't want you
to follow my path I get it
but I'm fine in my world
that's what it is
you know what the trap you've fallen into is
you are both stubborn
and want to be reasonable
that's probably true
it's much easier
to be stubborn and just
give up on being reasonable
just fucking give up
see but if you go the other route
where you go full reasonable without any stubbornness
then who are you in the end I suppose
do you have an identity
do you have an identity
and I don't know
I hope I'm interesting to listen to
and I hope that the reason why people like tuning into what I do
is because I'm kind of interesting to listen to
you ever have a friend
if I wasn't then why would anyone be here
maybe you know
you ever have a friend of yours that becomes
their significant other
is that the weirdest fucking thing in the world
yeah it is
it is
like oh I'm really into rock climbing now
really oh yeah
my boyfriend or my girlfriend is into it
and it's like and they just become
a separate version
yes yes yes yes
weird you know
yeah
but that's what it is
is like
there's a
two I have to in the same way that I can be
like dark pits great fuck dark pit
in the same way that I can be like
you know I have to
in the same way that I can have two minds
about the thing and have like
the way it ought to be
slash the way I prefer it
right
and there's many honestly in life
I honestly have two levels
of thought on things
I often have here's what I personally feel
and then I have here's what
no you're done that's it
no no it's not that's the end
no it's not it's not
it can't be because
like that's the
end like
as someone
who came from a realm
a world dominion
of bullshit that was
my fucking upbringing
I had to break out of a mindset
that I still have to look back on and go
well everyone that's choosing
to live that way is choosing to live that way
and that has to be fine
the world has to be able to run
in such a way where
I think you're all stupid for thinking that
but I also
need to let you have the ability
to live and let live in the world
that you want to live in
that I decided to leave behind
so I have to have two minds about things
I have to have my personal opinion
that works for me and then I have to have
what the society needs to function
if I had to spend
every day yelling at
the people that I
walked out on
and trying to pull everybody with me
fuck that
that life sucks
that life sucks and is exhausting
if I spent every day trying to convert
my fucking religious family
into following me mentally
that's ridiculous I can't do that
that's not my burden
I'm not carrying that weight
let them do it
put the little x in your head
yeah but there's no give up x
but now we create a thing
the part of me that goes
I need to live and let live
is I don't fucking
no you don't!
you have to
you have to
we live in a society
listen woolly
your family is hyper religious
all my dead grandparents
except for my grandfather
and my french grandparents were great
actually but my english grandparents
they're horrible
and evil and racist
and I wasn't gonna convince them
to stop being horrible
and evil and racist so I just put
the little x next to their name in my mind
and when they started to get sick
and old and decrepit I just stopped
listening to them until they died
so what are you gonna do you're gonna try to change society
nah just let them
mankind knew
that they could not change society
so instead
they blamed the beasts
but they found beauty in the beasts
and they couldn't lie to themselves about it
what's up with chicks wanting to fuck monsters
what's up with that
why is beauty in the beast like
like such a
like a fucking blueprint
to
beast man romance
well one because beasts are
large they're powerful
they exert a
strength that can probably
mammoru really effectively
that's true that's true they can be protective
second
there's something primal about it
which also is more like
implying that they'll just
give in to their urges
like ravishment
they can't control themselves they're just so in love
and they're so obsessed so it's
a combination of these two factors
applied to a fictional
world that doesn't exist so it's
safe to go there
that was way off topic you mentioned
beauty in the beast and I was like what's up with that
having her hell
anyway
so hey
we got some fucking
we got some shutdowns
and we got some teardowns
the shutdowns
are level 5
no more north america
all operations in north america are shuttered
goodbye
I guess to what is that
nino cooney
leighton
and
the other one
yokei watch thank you
congrats everyone now the easiest
way to get yokei watch shit
in north america will be
on the final fantasy 14
crossover event that will probably come back
one day
that was a really fun game that's a shame
also leighton I thought
looked cool I never played any of them but I thought
it was an interesting world
I like that art style
um
so goodbye to level 5
similarly
and just continuing
the rolling shit downhill
though predictably let's be real
505 games says hey man
we're done
indivisible we're cutting it we're cutting it short
lab zero situation continues
to be a shit show
505 is a publisher they're going to
release what is currently in submission
so that is the
port the patches for the switch version of the game
um and some of the new features
that they teased in that last
um trailer but as far as
the new content goes as far as the
guest characters go uh
indivisible development is currently
ceased
at the end of the day so
lab zero where the world is making
those characters
there is a silver lining
to that
which was
uh I think it was the
indivisible
or maybe 505 discord
where the exact
moment
that Mike Z
gave up
were captured via
screenshot
and
they are
fucking hilarious
I didn't see any of that
it is the equivalent
of
like a group of like
40 people
standing around you
screaming yo you suck yo
when's my when's the update man
just
fucking brutal
oh
it's on twitter so people got to
get hilarious
um it's the exact
moment
that Mike just went I'm
gone goodbye everyone
and hopefully has disappeared
what's really
tragic is
you know that the
team working on a lot of those
uh the
guest characters and such have
uh yeah they basically were
explaining how you know
progress on shantay and shovel night
and uh you know
Juan and all these guests that were gonna
come up like existed they had
they had work put in
um I think they're saying
like literally yeah like
15 characters with 100%
completed art animations and UI
elements waiting to be implemented
that people spent hundreds of hours
creating is uh
is what's being dropped on the cutting room floor
so uh that shit is
fucking just awful considering
you know they had it already
and waiting to go from
an art perspective
I don't know I don't imagine
that you know
uh the dream come true
scenario in which it's like hey look
future club could do something
if they want it you know like
I think there's probably too much legal
shit happening for them to ever be able
to even you know
do that no all that shit's tainted it's
not a telltale situation it's not a telltale
situation that's never gonna happen
um you know but
15 characters completed
uh art wise that just
didn't didn't have
their day in the spotlight and that sucks
505 put the statement out
and basically said yep that's the end of production
there's nothing much we can do but they will
honor what they can
and uh the last
remaining uh backer reward
being the statue
and they'll still honor the statue
the ajna and heruka
statues are
uh gonna still go out to backers
but uh as far as
indivisible goes as a game that's a wrap
so
by the way walls I found
the uh
screen grabs of
of the of the near
final state of the indivisible
discord if you want to take a gander
at the
uh
general tolerance of mic z
going on
uh it's pretty funny
so that was the shutdowns
uh and then there was the teardown
which was the ps5 getting opened up
and screwed open which I fucking thought was
awesome I love that kind of video
and I wonder why
we didn't see it before and then I realized
it's because we didn't live in a world where
like opening up your hardware
and showing it off really meant as much
to the consumer as it does now
so um
like
that thing was awesome but also
like as a as a person who's
you've you've moved around
shit in your pc you've added
parts you've removed parts I've built
pieces I've repaired dreamcasts
and I've built arcade sticks from scratch
perfect so as
somebody who has a technical inside knowledge
and anybody else has ever dug around inside
their pc man
that's a big fucking heat sink
that heat sink is a motherfucker that's a
chungus that's a big
holy it's the whole thing it's the whole
thing the whole the reason
why the reason why the box
is so big is because the heat sink
is taking up 75% of it
yeah
holy shit it's all
thing will not overheat it is
all for cooling it is all for cooling
and this is anticipating
where this the generation
goes you know
this is anticipating
4k
60
hard locked
in the in the foreseeable future
you know
apparently the machine
is quite quiet
yes on in operation
that's that's what all those those
the Japanese impressions were
and yeah that makes it now
it all makes sense
because you open it up you get your standard parts
everywhere else they show you the
the the the liquid cooling system
they show you you know
although um
look I get it I understand
we're not gonna get the world
that the world of two
ports in front of the thing in front of your
your console is just about over
we're now in this realm of
one port because wireless controller
can just go in between all the multiple
controllers that are fine and then we have
an extra usb-c for your devices
but go fuck yourself
arcade sticks for you know
plugging in the front
just non annoying
purposes I suppose well well I mean
luckily you would never actually play
a fighting game with two
arcade sticks locally yeah
that would never happen
you know what it's fine because
stick extensions allow you
to just put a
a USB extender facing front anyway
but like
any standard USB extender is not
good enough it needs to be a high
speed good extender because
regular extenders for a lot of the
better quality sticks do not
conduct enough power so if you just
grab your your if you
grab the little extender that came with your
your wi-fi
signal booster or your like
little or your dongle and
stick it in that shit's not gonna do anything
you know no you need a real
actual fucking extender
um that teardown though
uh yeah check that he'd sink out
that thing is fucking fat
it's actually a really simply built
machine as you know
and and I mean I
I had the thought at the end where
I was like I bet you someone's looking at this
going that's it that's all
I'm paying for but
yeah at the end of the day open up a console
see what you get you know like when
you're there's actually not a whole lot in there
if you want to be super unimpressed
with your console
strip all the shit out of it and just hold
the flimsy plastic left over at the end
that feels like
trash it feels like it's meant for the
garbage you know um
but yeah anyway uh
I also got the impression
because he did say that
once you go beyond the fan layer
that's where you have to start on screwing
but the two white covers
are meant to be user-removable
yeah and then you
can just pop a new hard drive in
if you like or like
all you need is a standard Phillips head
to screw it in and that's it
or some custom faceplates
uh yeah faceplates
whatever
I'm just gonna jam that thing in my entertainment center
and forget it exists
they can do it though and if they don't make them
officially someone's gonna do them third party
but those big old white things
are gonna get customized and sold for sure
oh yeah
um
yeah Sony teardown video pretty cool
overall that's the take away
um
apple versus
epic continues
and yeah um
badly for epic
we got an update very badly
they have failed
another attempt to try
and get it back on during the
process so
uh the fortnight
will not go back on the
app store during the legal challenge
uh the outcome of the
case might still allow it to come back
but for now it is not
but essentially the ruling was
um apple
cannot block unreal engine games
fortnight however can
continue to be blocked for the ruling
and then forever
depending on the outcome of the trial
it might be seven months or more
before um
it's back
so essentially
um
fuck around and find out
yeah 100%
like I'll slap your
shit
level of like NHL slap shits
going on here that joke makes no sense
but
that joke makes no sense
wait why are you laughing that joke is terrible
horrible
because I'm just seeing a
badly photoshopped logo
oh it exists I created it
okay well then sure
and like
just like I'm just a really horrible
logo with like brett hall
underneath it
oh it's gone it's gone now
but yeah it was david the gnome with like
a hockey stick on his head
okay it couldn't be
gretzky or patrick it had to be
someone like brett hall
yeah yeah I found it
I found it I can send it to you
put it up put it up put it up
that's great
uh uh
hold on how do I
that was created by somebody in the comments
a million years ago during what
I want to say the right to hell playthrough
now this is not gonna work okay there we go
alright whatever just type in
NHL slap shits and you'll find it
there it is yeah alright
you'll find it there you go
so whatever that's a visual gag thanks
for listening to the mp3 hey
um
you can find it
we have uh
follow me on twitter that'll happen that'll work too
yeah uh
fucking out of nowhere
for no reason all of a sudden
noise made now
about uppers
the game which
uppers which I was pushing
back in the day
a vita exclusive beat em up
that uh looked pretty
sick and
namely
I was interested in because
uh SNK artist hero
ackee was doing all the character
designs and uh
I fucking love his art and
uh uppers is now getting ported to steam
and yeah
back from the dead
on the vita it's
gonna be out on October 21st
so
whatever I don't know why or how
but we're allowed to play uppers now
that game's gonna be like shit
oh yeah probably know it
like we're gonna play it and be like wow
dude you get punched
into the into the crowd
and you fall into some girls cleavage
and then you get guts up
and then she like slaps you and kicks you away
but you get buffed and then you go back
to the fight with your buffs yeah that's
yeah uppers
uh good uppers
as in uppercuts
yeah man
not as in
pills
oh yeah
I prefer downers
personally
as in like
Debbie downers
or no as in alcohol
as in alcohol okay
yeah well not anymore though
I like the idea that some and
and the idea that somebody would like
hey man this thing will make you really excited
you know what I'm good
I have plenty
excitement in my brains
yeah
it all depends
should I start doing heroin
on during the podcast
maybe ayahuasca shoot up
maybe shoot up not heroin
but maybe ayahuasca
maybe you go on a journey
to the innermost recesses of your mind
and you discover what
makes you you and you come out
forever changed
alright calm down Joe
hahaha
find that little homer fox
and follow it
with Johnny Cash's voice
uh huh
are we getting
okay we're
okay we're doing a podcast right
I came back to where we were
there
there's more news
I know it there's
there's a little bit more
but it's I mean
as far as I have it's just a little
bits and pieces one
random thing we'll find out a little bit more about it later but
some
Slovakian company
is announcing a game called
die by the blade
which is not die by the sword mind you
it'll be coming to Kickstarter in a
second I think it's gonna be a couple days
maybe tomorrow or so
but one hit kill fighting
game inspired by Bushido blade
we'll see what's up
the world could use a couple more of those
not much else to say
there's a quick little like
you know maybe like five or six second clip
of like some swords being swung around
on Twitter
the fighter's generation Twitter
linked it out but yeah
that's that's that's always fun
and then
there's a fucking hilarious
screenshot
of a goddamn Rathalos in the
Monster Hunter movie
and
some basic
basic
some basic math here
indicates that
apparently we're looking at
a Rathalos that is
the width of a football field
or 55
meter or
170 foot Rathalos
it is
the width of a football field
and that is
what we're doing now
like
giant Kaiju monster
I can't
nothing
like
Monster Hunter is already
silly
and dumb
but at least the monsters
are maximum
on average the size of an elephant
well right so I
went to check actually
and Rathalos on average
I mean because there's the growth sizes that are the crowns
but the actual measurements
is from head to tail a Rathalos
should be about 20 feet
yeah so this thing is
like
8 and a half times
larger
right like
what are you gonna do with your knives
yeah and then
when you have to kill Zora Magdaros
that's a big cinematic moment
and yes Zora is there
Dallamurder is there
Jen Moran
etc etc etc
there are Kaiju sized
monsters god fuck Dallamurder
but
card
wipes the board and tepid
come on it's supposed to be
a T-Rex
that's what Monster Hunter really is
guys it's
what if you had a big sword and fought a T-Rex
dinosaur hunter
sure
like
most fights are fighting something that you can jump
on and kind of
battle and stab right
that's the impression
I got is everything is at a
size where you can kind of
get on its head or its neck and do some damage
but it's not like
you are fighting a
colossus of nonsense
with the exception of those ones you've mentioned yes
right so yeah
yeah that's funny that picture
is really funny it's like
there's a human being
standing next to it is like
a dot
like what is
a fight scene going to look like
just stabbing its
fucking toes
Godzilla sized Jagras
rolling through
let's get it
also remember that movie is made by
Immoral Scumbags that horribly
maimed one of their stunt people and then
ripped her off on the
reparations for her did she lose a limb
she lost her arm
and her face
was degloved right okay yeah that's
due to Paul W.S. Anderson
changing a stunt at the last second
and not telling anyone
but the cameraman which led
to her crashing her motorcycle class act
Paul W.S. Anderson is just
shy of a murderer
and only by circumstance
you know
Capcom's got that CG
movie studio sitting right over there
making all those resident evils
making those
terrible
resident evil movies it's right there
somebody who's watched almost
all of them
let me tell you
bad
yeah
but that's about all I was going to talk about
you got something else before
I have two more stories one is
breath
Capcom is making another
resident evil movie
not the Netflix
out without Paul W.S. Anderson
live action movie
yes
they put out the cast list
which seems fine
and it is apparently going to be
a reboot of a more grounded
straight adaptation
of Resident Evil 1
of course that's what you do
with a horror movie director
who directed a mediocre
movie about killer sharks
call 47 feet below
I could see this landing
and not really upsetting too many people
but ultimately not making a ton of waves
like say Silent Hill
I'm just going to say man
it would be really
difficult to disappoint
me at this point
like the
the fucking
the fucking Resident Evil series
of movies on both ends of it
have been so terrible
that even
a kind of bad one
would be a godsend
I mean in fact if it's directed
well but the acting is terrible
great honestly
that would be just great
that would be accurate
I've been going off on this
a little bit recently and it comes up
every now and then and I kind of have to
refresh the subject matter
but like
do you even care about adaptations
of that franchise though
I
still care
does it matter to you
here's the problem
with Resident Evil movies
the answer
would obviously be
no
except
the fact that the
script for the
Romero directed Resident Evil
1 got out
and it looked pretty decent
and the only problem kafcom
had with it was that it
focused too much on the zombies
not enough on the monsters
so
there was a sequence
of events that happened
that could have been
at least
possibly good
right
cause it's just you know
so that like
dangling thing
we've already I already
talked about how
movies don't have to be the peak of
medium and we don't have to treat them as the
fucking the ultimate
like oh thank god the silver screen
has descended from on high
Mount Olympus to adapt
my favorite thing and show it to the
world oh yay like fuck that
I don't care right
it is
you ever seen the
Resident Evil 1 cutscene where like
Chris laughs at Wesker and says that he's
pitiful no
so let me let me find
that Chris you're
so it's terrible the acting in it
is terrible
hmm and it's
it's literally the ultimate life
form haha Wesker you're
pitiful and Wesker goes like
Chris come on like stop
it stop it like
for real it's so embarrassing
that's what I wanted
that's what I always wanted
I wanted a B
movie but because
it's a big property we'll never get a B
movie
yeah so I think
that basically if we end up
with a like
and you have this
the sort of feeling and it is true that
if it's a franchise you care about
you might not care about the spin about
the adaptation but you might care
about the world
is now watching because
the medium of movies is more popular
so people are going to see
this and you want people to have a good impression
of it right that's how
I felt about Watchmen for example
when Zack Snyder was directing Watchmen
I was like ahh
this already doesn't bode well
but I
want the world to have a good
impression of this because I know
people aren't going to read this comic so
I hope it does it enough
justice because
well whatever right so that sort of
feeling it's just
I feel like I've gotten past
it and I feel like I'm generally
like able to look at something
and I'll just be like yeah that shit's stupid
whatever but
bad adaptations
are easier for me to
it's easier for me to not get as upset
mainly because I just
I don't think the movie coming in
late to adapt something that's already good
that exists is a big deal
because the thing that exists that is good
can be experienced
by anyone who wants to experience it
I mean providing it's a game that hasn't
like been non-ported or some shit
like that you know like
the fact that the superior medium for this thing
is here means I don't have to
give a fuck about some shitty adaptation
I don't have to respect it or be
worried about it so
the way that I look at it a lot is that
in Resident Evil the first film
there was
a part that was actually pretty cool
and that was the laser hallway
and that was
that was cool enough that it
actually got put into multiple
games because
that part where the guy gets cut into
diagonals and then falls into a bunch of chunks
of meat yeah that was pretty awesome
right
in the Silent Hill adaptation
by Kristoff Gans
there's
stuff in that movie that is pretty
cool
there are
some camera shots there are a couple scenes
there's that part where Pyramid head
rips the skin off that lady
that
you're like yeah hey
there's
this movie wasn't a wash
like I got to get something
out of it
there's something that
mattered here that I'm like oh that's a good scene
when it comes to the
Resident Evil films
like everything past that first
one it's just like there is
like nothing of value
to them at all
there's nothing
that I've gained just like the second
Silent Hill movie there's
nothing
no wait in the second Silent Hill movie there is a genuinely
cool new mannequin monster
so that's cool
like you know like I'm like I'm looking
at something I would like
a piece of this film
associated with the property
that I like to have at least one
thing that I go oh that's cool
like there's a part in that terrible Resident Evil CG
movie where
Leon has to fight
Mr. X again
and it's cool
I'm like okay cool I'll watch Leon
find another Mr. X that's radical
look man
movies have sucked
at adapting things I love
for my entire life
I'm past the point of hopeful
wishful thinking
I'm more just going to take it for what it is
and go yeah the world is going to see a
shittier version of this thing
I hope if anything I can be like
well at least now
the book or game will be on the
front shelf of chapters
or
your game shop
and people will be like oh as adapted
into that thing and then you can go look
at the better version
that's about it
whatever turns into a movie
is going to be at the front of the bookstore
and maybe you'll take a look at it that way
the more that I think about it
the more that I think about how
Resident Evil might be
unadaptable
because
the single highest point
of attention in a Resident Evil game
is often relegated
to at
best
a total of 40 frames
in a film
and that is the part when a character looks at their
gun and a handful of bullets
and shoves them into their pockets
in the games
that is the most stressful part
of the entire experience
but in a film that plays like
shit
and then you get across
oh my inventory
yeah
you know
we can always point out the exceptions
to the adaptation curse
but the point remains is that
just about everything
it sucks
there's a couple things that don't
but most things suck
no reason to fucking
yeah
there's a part
where a character's gun runs out of ammo
is ruined
by the movie's editing
because they cut
scenes in which that character
shot people
therefore the gun runs out of bullets
way too early
shit like that
shit like that exactly
it's so stupid
I think the handgun
runs out of bullets in like six rounds
like what fucking
handgun is at whatever
I do have one
it's amazing how much movies make sense
when they're allowed to include all the shit
that was written for them
and not just butchered into crap
and again
the shit removed from Prometheus
that made it make sense
is just
ridiculous
I've been so bummed out about that Silent Hill movie
by that first one
because it might be good
I don't know
there is over an hour
of that movie on the cutting room floor
mmm
that is 40%
of the movie's runtime is just
gone
wow so they actually got to the point of production
yeah it was filmed
it wasn't in post-production but it got cut
and you know what it is
it's them wandering around the town lost
the stuff that is the most
like the game
what's the other story
so that last
news story that I wanted to send to you
is do you remember Crucible
the game that released
and then got pulled back into closed beta
Crucible
Amazon games
Amazon games
it was a free to play shooter
that was so bad upon its official release
that in July it got
they unreleased it
into closed beta
cancelled
alright
I do
it has been fully time
aborted it never happened
shut up boy Amazon
Luna's gonna be lit
wait what if you bought it
did you get your money back
it was free
okay
well
Amazon on Luna's gonna be great
here's the thing
I was gonna
I didn't mention it earlier but when we were talking about MK11
they announced the ultimate
pack with all the new characters and shit
and whatever is coming
to PS5
Xbox Series, PS4
Xbox One, Switch, PC
and Stadia
so
a game that's coming to just about
everything it can
that's what the limit of that
list means it's now a
7 point list
and Stadia is the end of it
Luna's not even a thing
Baldur's Gate 3's
only other skew is the Stadia
after PC
I really wonder
if the people working on the Stadia version of that game
are like should we even bother
to do this or will the thing die
before the game really comes out
ask the Stadians
say some letters
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hello there south town woolly and metro city pat
you have discussed video games
and series titles
that have become stupid once they drop
numbers and add nonsense titles
but what about another problem that has occurred
more prevalent recently
with one word titles that make it so much
harder to search for information about the game
I remember this being an issue
when googling info on control
but most recently
the game moon
that just got ported to the switch
makes it incredibly hard to look up
anything about that title
thanks from josh
usually you can get around it
by putting game
so to me
the
the end of the discussion
is the classic joint
wet
oh man
do you remember wet
I very very vividly remember wet
wet is the
end of that discussion
you're done I remember somebody who went in
to play that game early
and came back going I don't know man
that game looks terrible
good luck
searching for and finding
the 2009 third person
shooter by behavior interactive
and Bethesda
wet game type it in
yeah
and yeah sure rage is pretty
pretty generic too but
I'm gonna say wet
yeah that's pretty fucking bad
uhhhh
we got one
coming in from
that was from josh thank you josh
coming in from Cyrus
who says did you ever hear
the tragedy of advance wars
in an interview
Hitoshi Yamagami
of Nintendo said he would like to
continue making new advance wars games
but following an immense
success of the fire emblem
awakening franchise
and its relationship system
he said he does not know how to
character relationship systems into
advance wars so the series was
left to slowly rot and silently die
so you're telling me that
waifus killed advance wars
waifus killed advance wars
that's a bummer
but also waifus though
no one gives a fuck
about character relationships in
advance wars games it's always been
about fun strategy tanks copters
and property capturing
to echo what you said last week war
groove does a great job of scratching
the advance wars itch
that is a fucking
stupid ass reason
to not have anymore of those games
sure is
those characters were cool
Sam
and eagle
and all that fun stuff is great
but that's not the point
the little portraits are not the point
back when it was
GB wars
there were no characters
it was just a bunch of little tank men
anyway
yeah that's a tragedy
dude this cat smells
this old busted cat I got
smells
gross
and let's take one here
from another
josh who says
dear fortress ultra creature
listening to last week's podcast
and the end you started talking about
transformers beast wars and reboot
which triggered an ancient memory
I was in sixth grade and I went to an
indoor amusement park at Las Vegas
called adventure dome
I remember getting on one of those 40 rides
with the moving chairs in front of a big
movie screen and at the time I had never seen
or heard of reboot but the ride itself
was a reboot ride and it was unlike anything I
experienced before and I thought it was hype
I must have gotten back in line 3 or more
4 more times
I was wondering if Wally had seen or heard of this reboot ride
film
and yeah
talking about
another subject of 40 rides what kind of 40 experiences
would you guys like to see
yes I have seen and I know
about the reboot ride
in fact I featured a couple of frames of it
in my reboot
video that I made
where
the character
in that was her a guest appearance
of a search engine that shows up in the
actual episode with no name later on
yeah
as far as those things go
I kind of feel like
after going to USJ
and getting on that harry potter ride
I feel like
amusement parks
can replace
rides with that
like
the harry potter ride at universal studios
Japan and I guess it's also in
like America too
I talked about it
about how amazing it was where you just get on
this chair and it moves you around
in a space and it brings you by screens
and it rotates and it's
so convincing
with the combination of practical effects
and screens that you really do feel
like you're going through like a roller coaster
like thing but it's a very small
space by comparison to the amount of real
estate roller coaster actually takes up
I feel like amusement parks should
just be tons and tons
of those things
to have an amazing experience that fits
into small spaces
and I think that should absolutely be the future
of 4D ride technology
I mean
if the cost is a prohibitive
I think it's pretty
ironic rules that you're describing
the harry potter ride is not
taking up a lot of space when the actual
harry potter ride
section is like an entire castle
yes it's an entire
fucking castle and it's one of the most popular
things and they need that giant
it's the largest thing on the entire
part hogwarts is sitting there
taking up a motherfucker
of space but
the ride itself
is a whole ass hogwarts
indeed but the ride itself
like
when you get in and it rolls you around in that
space you don't need
as much room as you would need
for like
the monster you know
yeah it's like half a hockey rink it feels like
yeah you don't need roller coaster
level space
you know
it would be cool and I'm never gonna forget
that you went on the pterodactyl
Jurassic Park one there right
no I don't think I did
oh man there's the part where it goes
loop to loop and it hits the max speed
right as you go into like a tunnel
that's like perpendicular to the ground
and it
feels like you are going to die
yeah I don't think
JP was available when we were there
we got all the Ava
Sailor Moon and
Attack on Titan stuff but
hmm
okay well
um
hey look at that we came in under four
the P is silent
pterodactyl
yeah
in pterodactyl
yeah
wait is it just
pterodactyl
Pat do you remember
Beast Wars? Pat look at me no look at me
look at me do you remember Beast Wars
yeah
do you remember the red guy
yeah what was his name
what was his name
I forget his name
pterosaur
pterosaur right pterosaur
not pterosaur
but why no
what was he what was his animal
I thought he was just named pterosaur
because sore is the end of
dinosaur names
pterosaur and he likes terror
but he turns into a
pterodactyl
yeah but you see the naming pun
alright good bit
wait what no that's not no
good bit that's not
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he doesn't really enter
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ey look at this
pterodactyl
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the radio constant
droop this the way it seems
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