Castle Super Beast - CSB 094: WhaleQuotes: New Monkey Species Extinction Any% Speedrun

Episode Date: November 17, 2020

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It's so cool. All right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the CSP podcast. Oh, wait, I've jumped the gun, didn't I? I'd say we're at good night territory, full on. Wait, you said there's the music. Is it starting that way? No, the music, no, the music, the music has played and faded in. We faded in. Oh, when you say there's the music, you mean the music is yeah, it's faded out. There you go. That sounds fucked. Okay. Why sound fucked? I think I know why. I think I know why. Hold up a second. Am I coming through on the wrong thing? I think hands free is plaguing us again. Oh, because okay, I always check to make sure I'm

not doing hands free because hands free can suck my ass. Hands free is ass. All right, let me fix that in a second, folks. It's legitimately the worst part about these headphones that I love. I'm gonna have to kill our screen. You know what we need to do? We just need to just pretend that this part of the podcast didn't happen. Yeah, we can do that. That's fine. Just pretend. All right, so now we're now we're all a dark screen, but we're still audio live. And let me see here. I believe it shouldn't be too hard to change this over to this video proof of the old of the podcast happening. Why would you deep fake my ass like this? And then I do this over here. And now you should sound good. Do I sound good? Or

is the voice quality of my voice better? I mean, the real question. I think I sound great. That's what I think. Yeah, so there we go. All right. Congratulations on fixing this microphone based problem that will probably plague us until we die. At least as long as we're both using this type of headphones. I really like them. They're super comfortable. They're fantastic. They do a weird thing when you are sleeping or lying down. And if you're noise canceling and you push them too hard against your ear, you might hear a high pitch noise that kind of hurts. Yeah, because that's I mean, you're getting the the equalizer juice too close to your your your knobs. Yeah, so that's not good. But beyond that, they're fantastic. But

they do have this hands free secondary microphone shit that is no good. For which I could just this purpose disable it forever. I really do too. And you know, turn telling Windows to ignore it doesn't actually make it ignore it. So I've told Windows to ignore many things and they've decided it has decided to ignore none of them. In this particular instance, though, it's it's not that hard to fix. We just switched devices. So there we go. All right, so we're going to just pretend that none of that happened. We're going to do a podcast now. Hey, good afternoon. Good morning, everyone. How's everyone doing on this wonderful podcast Monday? It's Monday, the November 16th. I'm Pat. That's woolly. Hey, talk about

bugs next. All right, bugs next is a game that despite the fact that you walk around in a 3D world, throw traps down, etc. The game that I can compare it the most to by far is Pokemon Snap. Oh, really? You're just observing. No, you are capturing. You are setting traps. You are using like a, you know, like a sauce slingshot to hit and hit bugs next with ranch or chocolate sauce in order to manipulate their behavior. But because so much of the game is classifying all the different bugs next and walking around different areas and trying to figure out what sequence of events you need to do to get bugs next to be catchable. It feels like you remember in Pokemon Snap where you'd be like, well,

you have to hit this, the fucking Snorlax with the clam into the water so that it becomes a slow bro. That that kind of like mental shit. Yeah, sure. Feels like that. Combined with maybe Ape Escape. And does it not actually, but does it not actually ever go into any sort of secret, horrible scp place? All right. So I played bug snacks for three hours on my stream. And I don't want to spoil or ruin any part of bug snacks for anybody. But I will say there's something. What's that? There's stuff to spoil. There is stuff to spoil. Even if it's not the stuff that I met, I'd have thought it was. There is stuff going on in bug snacks. Good. The base, the base premise of like a cutesy little world and like them

presenting a concept to you in a happy little way. But the concept is just innately horrific is very strong. It's really, really strong. Like everyone's like, oh, you know, you'll go eat a bunger, right? And then you can make a bunger arm. And they're like, haha, and they look at their arm and the arm is now like a curly fry. And they're like, haha, cool. But like that concept by itself is just so fucking creepy. Yeah, the appeal of the appeal of happy tree friends and fight five nights at Freddy's still continues to exist. There is a perfect way to mesh together. Children's entertainment and horrible creepy shit. I just I feel like, you know, the the former example is really just like full on cartooning wild

itchy and scratchy shit. And Fnaf, I get the impression that it's like not actually that spooky. It's just kind of like meme spooky. So I like something that gets actually sinister beneath the fucking skin horror would be interesting with that kind of still cutesy art style. So I got to a point where there are a couple suspicious things popping up. The number one of which is the person you're you're supposed to meet is consistently inconsistently referred to with both passive and present pronouns, such as Oh, she was I mean, she is and you can't find her. Okay, so don't know what happened there. It's a mystery. But I would if I wanted to compare it to any particular children's entertainment nightmare

emotional state, I would say that it feels like what if a don't hug me I'm scared episode was actually a film and followed the same formula along the same percentage time beats. Right. I forgot about that. You know how in don't hug me I'm scared they're like 11 minutes long or something and like the first two minutes is totally normal. And then there's like an edge. There's like a weird background element. What if that was like, you know, hours? Right. Okay. And it did throw me for a loop in that the first like this is a minor spoiler for the first two hours of the game. The first big twist to its tone, due to it being rated E for everyone or whatever, is not body horror and not, you know, nightmare creatures. It's

the Muppet characters that inhabit the world with you are complete pieces of shit. And like there is a screaming match about why someone's wife left them because they're a bitch. Okay, got it. Got it. Like in the first 90 minutes of the game. Nice. Like if you had if you had allowed us to eat your pets, we would all still be together. Don't you mean your wife would still be here? I think she left because you in fact suck ass and are a terrible husband. Yeah, that is which has nothing to do with bug snacks. That is that is definitely Avenue Q vibes. Yeah, that's that's a the other comparison. Like one of the things that like both takes the edge off the bug snacks but also increases the confusion is that they're

all like Muppets, right? So one of the first questions that I had in the universe was a person you meet gets their entire everything but their torso turned into a food item. And I'm like, how do you fucking live your life when your hands are strawberry? But under Muppet rules, their appendages are in fact like magnetic or some shit, because like they can still pick things up and they can still like like, you know, right? They remain in. Yeah, even though their arms and legs are like fucking curly fries and a pickle. But I got to say, huge, huge like clap. Amazing. I ran into two bug snacks types that their very nature terrified me. Because like, it's like, okay, you remember that was a big thing this week of like bloodborne Mario renditions. Shout out to Alex

Mucala who did the mix that kind of kicked that off. Yeah, Mario bloodborne, because he did an amazing mix of both together. Right. And so like, there's like peaches, evil, she's raising mushrooms and stuff like that. So that's like a happy thing turned into like a dark thing. Bog snacks feels like it went through that process and then got turned back into the family friendly Mario thing. Okay, because I ran into a sandwich peed, which is a segmented subway sandwich with like fries coming out on each segmentation with legs that when I saw in game I physically recoiled. And there is a turtle equivalent, I forget its name, that is a jar of pickles. And it is the most confusing thing I've seen in the game because even the characters don't know what bug snacks are, because

it's a jar. It is a glass jar that the pickles come out of and attached to the jar like legs. It's an innocent world that got corrupted and then re converted to innocence, but they didn't empty the recycling bin. Yeah, it's still kind of there. Okay, there's a tiny little bit where they're like, well, let's try burying bugs next in the dirt and see if they grow like plants. And you take a strappy, which is just a strawberry with googly eyes on it, and bury it in the dirt. And it becomes like a grave with gigantic googly eyes sticking out of the dirt. It's just like, it's just, it's, there, there, it feels like an experiment and how, how, how messed you can go while maintaining an E rating. Pushing that limit. It sounds like first of all, some of those

creatures would be horrifying in VR. So it's almost like, thankful that you don't have to deal with that. But yeah, it isn't, it's an E rating. So like they, they can't actually ever really cross that line then it has to stay at implication. Hey, man, I don't know about you, but I went to see Robocop remake with you. It's a weird way to phrase the sentence because you were actually there with me. When we walked into that, God, what was that rated PG 13 or PG? Well, yeah, but Montreal's fucked with that. Yeah, never. And we saw that man become a throat and a lung and a hand. Yes. But never forget that in Quebec, striptease was rated G. Well, of course it was. So that like, they got to have the kids be able to see Demi Moore's titties. It doesn't fucking work when it comes to

French Canada. However, outside of that. Yeah, no, I mean, you can, as long as you dance that line properly, and then if you go too far, you could just point at Austin Powers, right? Because that's the, that's your limiter. That's your, your, your canary in the cold mind for going too far is whatever your rating is, you could just go, Hey, Austin Powers had someone drinking liquid diarrhea that they thought was coffee. So I remember that we can, if you can drink shit in a movie that's for, that allows families and kids to tune in, then we can't go farther than that. You know, we can, we can push it up to that line. So that's, that's, yeah. So yeah, Bugsnax is cool. I will beat Bugsnax in my, in my personal time. But it's cool. I'm

hopeful, like, I don't want to play it for more than two hours at a time. Okay, like it's, there's, like there's a Bugsnax that's just ribs walking around like a rack of ribs. Food. Yeah, it's, I don't like it. Like, I like, I like it. I don't like it. And how was, how was your, your launch week in general? This has been one of my busiest video-garm weeks in many years, actually. So let's talk about the non-PS5 stuff first, in that Yakuza 7, which is not actually Yakuza 7 in this region, like a dragon came out. Dude, that game is incredible. It would. It's the latest in a series of what I've been told are bangers. So that would make sense.

I'm deep enough into it to say, unless it shits its ass, it is my favorite one. And a big part of that, a big part of that is the change in genre, which I was initially, I don't know if you remember, I was very reticent. I was very like, kind of down on. It's great. I like, it is a mix of Persona Dragon Quest system. That's just great. Pat confirmed for humongous Dragon Quest fan. This is my favorite Dragon Quest, for sure. It's also like, because it's a Sega game, and because they took, let's just say, inspiration from a certain Sega RPG series, Atlas RPG series, I would genuinely say that this is more than 50% of the way towards like a Persona 6.

In what way? In what way? It feels like a goddamn Persona game. Because RPGing around downtown Japan? No, because they steal interface elements from Persona. Okay, because you hit a button and you have a tag team attack, which is an all out attack, because you level up your party's drink link, and then you go to the bar to have a heart to heart with them about their personal problem to level up their stats and give them special abilities. Okay.

And I saw the summons. Some of the summons are wild. Yeah, it is really, really a RPG. So the first half is like, I'm shocked at how much fun of an RPG it is. And the second thing is that I am blown away at how much I like Ichiban Kasega, which is your new main character, which I can imagine was a terrifying decision after seven, eight, nine, I want to say 10 games with Kiryu. But the longer analogs, but the more that the bigger that number is, the less terrifying it

should be, because I mean, Kiryu's had or stubborn Kiryu's had a good ass set of games, hasn't he? Isn't it? He's had a great ass set of games. And like, I don't, you know, I don't need to know if they wrap his story up in any way, but they wrap his story up twice. So yeah, so I what's what's the problem with bringing a little Nero to the juice, you know, like, because do you remember how you felt about Nero when he was first unveiled?

I was a little worried. I was, I was like, let's see it. I wasn't, I wasn't, I didn't hate the idea. I don't know. I like Jojo. I like new things that continue the story in a different way. So I'm down. So the reason why Ichiban works so well is that he is, I don't know, what's up with like

Japanese creatives that they love doing this. He is not just different and his own man from Kiryu. He is literally the opposite of Kiryu. I mean, we've talked about his design. He is a literal inverted Kiryu with his hair and his, his color palette and all that. But whereas Kiryu would be the cold, cool, your Johto Rowe or even, you know, what have you, Ichiban is your hot. He's your, uh, he's, if I would compare it's Johto Rowe and Joseph Joestar.

Right. So we're not going snake. We're not going snake to write in here. No, no, he is a highly active protagonist. Whereas one of the biggest problems that Yakuza series had from one all the way in was that you could write, I could write a new Kiryu situation to you, which is Kiryu walks into a guy, the guy says, Hey, how could you bump into me? Kiryu goes, nah, man, I didn't.

God goes, oh, my arm broke. You need to pay the hospital bill. Kiryu goes, no, I didn't, or in most cases stands there totally silently thug then goes, Oh yeah, I'll kill you in Sioux fight. After the fight, they go on and they run away. Ichiban will get up and become pissed and stupid about the injustice and moron. Like how, how horrible. Like, yeah, I didn't bring you this ridiculous, or he'll jump into other

people's conversations to yell stupid shit. And when I say stupid shit, I mean this Ichiban Kasega or Kasega Ichiban rather might be the dumbest motherfucker I have ever played in a video game. He is the most aggressive himbo of all time. Himbo, himbo has completely taken off and landed. I like how it's just in there cemented now. Everyone knows it and gets it. It's a good term.

He is crap. He is crafty. He is cunning and he occasionally has great insight into how things actually work, but his profound lack of real common sense is like the basis of maybe half of the game's humor. Okay. There was even a cutscene in the game in which we had broken into a retirement home to save an old man's life because they were going to murder him to steal

his pension payments. And upon seeing the doctor with the needle, he goes, was he really going to kill him? And I feel like the party like looks at him like, dude, why did, yeah, that, that's why we, that's why we came in here. Are, is it like there's all, is it like handing the, the, the series? Is it like handing Epo the series over to like Alki? Like a little bit, honestly, like full on slapstick smarter than Alki was in terms of like, he's, um, like he's crafty.

Like he knows a lot about sex work. He knows a lot about the, how the, who's a business is actually run and he loves dragon quest, I believe, like canonically. So the reason why the game is called like a dragon is one. And then a great pun on Yuruga Gotoku, which is the Japanese name, which literally means like a dragon. Yep. But in Japan, I think it's actually called Yakuza seven dragon quest.

Oh, wow. Okay. Because he fucking loves dragon quest. So he liked your, you go to jail for 20 years. And when he gets out, he's like, bruh, what if I, what if we like went on a quest and we solved all this shit like they do in dragon quest? I want to be a hero. And they're like, okay, you're kind of like a weird loser gamer nerd idiot.

But fine. Let's, let's do a dragon quest. Ichiban, you're, you're stupid. Oh, it's not called dragon quest. Okay. My bad. Um, this manifests in what I can only describe as imaginative brain damage. Very early on in the game, you find a bat with barbed wire wrapped around it that

has been plunged into the concrete, which only Ichiban can pull out of the stone. Nice. Upon doing so, a blast of light hits the, the, the fucking heavens. And it's like the, it's like the chrono trigger cutscene cutscene. Okay. Well, wait, wait, wait, but is that in his head though? And then he transforms into the same outfit with the bat, but wearing black gloves. And he's got like a, like a red scarf underneath his, his shirt.

And the three punk ass dudes that come up on you immediately after this transform into scarier dudes. Nice. This is the first time in the game that you get a. Persona style dialogue box where like the talking head shows up with the stylish, like undercut subtitles and no one else can see it. And just like that, the video game can do whatever it wants. Everyone's like, dude, are you okay?

That's brilliant. Okay, cool. Whatever. That's brilliant. Great device. And attacks that you had before that looked kind of normal, gained spell effects. Um, he internalizes, uh, literally texting friends to come help as summons. There are, uh, mimics in the game, which are dudes hiding in trash bags.

The golden slime is a flashers. Um, and like it is a consistent, like everyone around him is like, yeah, whatever, dude. That's not really happening. This must be like bonds, like incredible. If you're a dragon quest fan as well, like this must be so much better. If you know, when people gain the party, it has like an eight bit, like jingle. Of course. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Like it's, it's top to bottom. And because all of your, your party members are broke out of work, unemployed losers. Uh, most of which are older than 40. Um, like you're all, you're almost all broke and possibly homeless. So early parts of the game are about getting odd jobs from like a local community center, which then becomes the, the location for the job change system as non buck can choose to

spend his job experience changing from homeless person to break dancer or, uh, rock star or a host. I did see a screenshot of homeless break dancer stat screen. Yeah, it was pretty good. Um, it is one of the best RPGs I've ever played. Like it is so, it's so consistently inventive. The battle system is actually really great. It's like a classic style battle system, but it has the real time elements of the Yakuza system in it as well. Whereas like if, cause all the characters are kind of shuffling back and forth in the environment, like on the city street.

And if a guy is next to a car and you hit him, he can get run over by the car. If the guy happens to be next to a table in between you two and you do a regular attack, you can expect your character to pick up that table and smash on them. Nice. Or if you cause, uh, an attack that does a knockdown, they'll stay on the floor until about five, 10 seconds have passed. And if you attack somebody with a normal attack before they stand up, you'll do a downed attack like you would in Yakuza. And just heat moves have just been turned into magic spells and magic spells such as I will throw a can of beans at you and pigeons will attack you or, um, psycho, who's a barmaid will get down on the street and plead for the enemy not to hurt them, which lowers their attack.

Man, I gotta say, just like as an outsider here, you know, uh, I really enjoy and I feel good about, um, like when a franchise is able to reinvent itself successfully and kill it and everyone loves the new thing that they do, I, I, that makes me really happy. I love that because I've talked forever about how much new things are, are, are good. And, and I like when, you know, a successful like carry through of like, we know what you love, let's try something else. And then the thing they do works and everyone's super on board for it. Like I'm so happy to hear that that works out. It makes me really, really, uh, uh, you know, I'm enjoying vicariously the fact that, that people are into what Yakuza has become now. That's really cool.

So on top of all of that, Yakuza series has a lot of mini games, right? So far, the ones that I have encountered are all like incredible, which is a rarity for that series. Usually there's some stinkers. There's a Pac-Man game where you have to, you have to steal cans from the other homeless and like you have to get energy drinks in order to boost. So you can knock the other homeless off the carts and steal their cans. There's also dragon cart, which is a fully realized cart racer in which I was talking to somebody, they unlocked Daytona USA music in it. Because of course you can, of course, of course. Um, like they're, they're great.

Keep using that franchise as a means of keeping Sega alive. Just do it. Uh, but the most, so the fact that the game's incredible is one thing. The fact that the game's incredible, and I should mention this to everyone, had requires zero knowledge of the prior series at all. Like when, when characters eventually do show up as little references, you'll be like, oh, cool. It's Majima, right? But you absolutely don't need to have played any of the prior ones at all. Even just your osmosis memory of who these characters are will do, right? Uh, the most shocking thing about it is that I have been playing with the dub.

I decided to play with the dub. Uh, and the dub knows what they are doing. The dub knows what they are doing. So, um, I talked, I talked about how, um, Ichiban is a huge ass himbo. You have experience with Ichiban already, because I unfortunately forget the gentleman's name. I'm sure somebody will repeat it in the chat for me soon. He also plays a character in the 13 Sentinels Dumb, the Dumb, as the 13 Sentinels dub as, uh, the, uh, World War Two dumbass, uh... Oh, uh, Mura.

Uh, no, Hijiyama. Oh, yeah, okay. And the gentleman's name is Kaiji Tang. Yeah, he kills it. He's killing it. Yeah, so he is becoming the absolute man to go for, for himbo energy. Nice. Myyaki Sobopan. Do you want half of it?

Oh, he's big himbo. Big, big himbo. Yeah. The dub is, uh, incredibly localized. Um, so the, the performances are all fantastic. That, that's without saying. But the, the writing changes, because this has enemy names where it didn't have before, right? It was just random thugs, or it was like Yakuza, Grunt, Hijimoto, or whatever, right?

Sure. But now I'm going up against the drunk office man, the beer-zerker, or the hungry, hungry homeless, or any number of genuinely hilarious puns off of every single thing in the entire game. Nice. Nice. And you need to fight as many of you as you can so that you can fill up your Suji decks with all of your Suji Mon, which is what the in-game enemies are called. I'm reminded slightly of how, um, uh, part of No More Heroes' presentation is because Travis is in a video game in his head. Yeah.

You know, but like taking that to the extremes. That's one of the weirder ones, because the Suji Mon quest line is actually a real guy that is a Professor Oak joke that is like, we need to, we need, it's, they're super jittery monster bad man, so I call them Suji Mon. You have to go out and, and fight them all. And then he has you fight a guy in a red suit, a blue suit, and a green suit that have like, one has like a champagne bottle. One has like a lighter and one has like a pink lipstick. Oh, it's fantastic. That's great.

It's just, it just hasn't missed once. And even within the casting, there are moments where I'm like, oh man, they knew. There is a character who is a naive young woman with short black hair voiced by Persona 5's English voice actress for Makoto. You then later encounter her sister, who is the older bitchier one. Oh boy. Voiced by the English voice actress for Sai. Wow. Okay.

Like super intentional. It is on point, dead on nice, nice, nice, nice. Well done. Okay. Yeah. And the character's name is Psycho. Like, yeah. Okay.

Wait, psycho or psycho? Psycho, I guess. Psycho. I don't know how to pronounce that shit, but it's, it is a winner. Like everything about the game is just clicking. I have zero complaints. It's also on the PC. It came out day and date on the PC, which is incredible.

Okay. Okay. How, how? Actually, I have one complaint. It absolutely sucks ass that the game is delayed on PlayStation 5. Oh wait, is it not out yet? No, remember this is the game that Microsoft bought the bizarre ass. Exclusivity, exclusivity, right, right, right.

Yes, true, true, true. Okay, okay. Oh, look, yeah. David Hader is in this dub. Nice. And like you're sitting there going, is that, is that fucking David Hader? Oh my God, it's David Hader. So yeah, like last thing, one last thing.

They dubbed all the karaoke as well. Because each character gets a karaoke song. And so in Japan, the Yakuza voice actors tend to be like movie stars and TV actors, in which case being able to sing is a, is a must have, right? So everybody in that, in those situations just kills it. Even Majima's voice actors are a good singer, right? A bunch of the, of the voice actors for this game in English are not very good singers.

And Ichiban's song in English is like legitimately awful and his voice cracks during the song, but they're forced to do it nonetheless. And, and it's, and it's great. And it's like, it's absolutely great because Ichiban is not a good singer. And in the background of other people's songs, when you hit the buttons, you can hear him go, yeah, you're killing it, man. During like a, like a sad song. Like it's, it is fantastic.

Okay. So all in all, like dub is, is certified in this, in this case, yeah, very nice. Yeah, I mean, you know, all I can say is that, like, it's, it's, it's like probably the worst kept secret for a minute now has been that, like, yeah, the next long LP is absolutely going to be Yakuza Zero for me. Like that's going to be, that's going to happen. That's a good one. You know, the question is just like, it was, it was actually a matter of like

seeing whether it could fit in before or after a couple of things we're doing. And I didn't want to put too long things right back to back, but like, that's been floating around for a minute. So that, that's like pretty much slated to come really, really soon. But, and there's the smartest thing. So there's, no, just going to say, like, and like, there's one other possibility that might be involved there that I'll get into a little bit later when we're talking about what else is going on this week.

But yeah, yeah, that's something that I've, that's, that's on the list. So like, I look forward to getting to what you're describing because that sounds fucking great. One of the smarter things that I'm thinking about the way the Yakuza series has actually gone over the past couple of years is it is legitimately one of the most confusing games series to get into. We have always made fun of people where you go, Hey, how should I play this series? And you always go release order.

And like Yakuza one is bad. I will just like Yakuza one is not a good game. I fortunately have sat around for enough discussions to have gotten a consensus on how to approach this. So I've, I've, I've, you know, there's been many, uh, how, what, how do you even handle this, this series as a new visitor to it? And like, I've, I feel like I've gotten a pretty good idea at this point. It's even weirder because like they also remade one and two.

Yeah. The kawamis are remade in different engines and they came out after different games and Yakuza ones remake kawami is also bad. So like the start of this discussion is like, don't play Yakuza one. And then, well, which version of two do you want to play the one from 2005, the one from 2019? Okay. So you play the one from 2019, then you're going to go to Yakuza three,

which came out in 2009. And, and so like it's, it's, it's a fucking, it's, it's so, it's weird. It's so fucking weird. However, now literally you just say zero, just play zero. Yep. That's exactly it. No, that's. Did you like zero?

Then you can go and play three, four, five, six, whatever, or play judgment. Yeah. Judgments, judgments there too. But no, it would definitely be like, you know, zero, kawami one, kawami two, three, four, five, possibly judgment. And then like, you know, six, seven and so on. Like that's, and now it, now it becomes or play seven. Because you can just, you could just do it.

Yes. Um, but that fist of the North Star one's not that great. It's fuck. I forgot that existed. That's sure. Um, now, uh, yeah, I guess, uh, uh, so there's that. Um, any, any, any troubles with, uh, console acquisition? No, in fact, I acquired both of my PlayStation five consoles and I would

like to give a big thumbs up to the Canada postman that came and brought me my first console because I think he knew it was inside it and was afraid people were going to steal it because you'd knocked on my door, waited until I arrived at my door, saw me said, cool, wait a second, then ran to the truck, then got the PS five and then dropped it at my door. Like was not going to attempt to drop it at the door because it was the day. It was Thursday. Congrats to me by for going through Radio Shack.

Thanks Radio Shack. Now called the source. I don't care. It's a Radio Shack for somehow actually getting me a launch day. PlayStation five. I was shocked, but yeah, that Canada postman. I really appreciated it because, man, I assume lots of people shit got ganked on Thursday.

So that's a really good dude and, uh, that's, that's awesome that that happened. Um, despite my best efforts, I was not able to acquire one. Um, and, uh, but what I did do was I got lucky jumping on Amazon in terms of like, I saw an X, but an XX, which is what we'll just go with. That was sex. Yeah. I jumped on. I jumped on and looked at Amazon during the window when one was available.

So I just, I grabbed it. Um, and I got that and, uh, the delivery person who brought it the next day. Mm hmm. Left it outside. What? Outside, not even out, outside, outside the door, like street level. Oh my God. And like it was wild because that's far from your real door.

It's quite a fucking journey. Um, and, you know, basically, uh, yeah, like there's a, there is a there is a, um, a bit of a doorbell situation happening that led to like some packages having to be like, you know, put down in like, at least it's like a safer area, right? From where I, where I live. And, uh, this person just did the bare minimum, no attempt to, uh, contact call or say or anything was, was, was made.

They put it on the fucking street. And basically, um, a neighbor walking in saw that and called us and we got lucky. And they basically said, Hey, there's a box outside here on the street for you. Um, gonna bring it inside and we're just like, Oh my God, thank you. And then I ran down and got it. So I literally had the exact opposite experience. That is, man, you're lucky. Cause the instant that touches the, like the street, you're, you're running a timer.

100% before, before somebody comes by, just goes, Oh, I guess this is mine now. I can't believe how little of a shit the delivery person gave by comparison. You know, um, fucking wild. So yeah, uh, that's what happened with me on my end. As for my two PS fives, I got one and my first one works great. And upon receiving my second one, I did my good deed for the week and have shipped it off to America because friend of the channel, Susie, aka sphere hunter could not get one and was like, please give me.

And I was like, okay. Yay, Susie. So if Susie covers any PS five games in the next year, get your credit. He has to be like, well, Pat, send me his PS five. He's the best. Hey, yeah. So, um, you got to buy these things in September. If you don't buy them in September, by the way, I didn't like send it to

like she's paying me for it. Like it's not free. Fuck that. That's stupid. Fuck that. I'm not that nice. Yeah. Um, I, so, I mean, you know, getting, getting the, the Xbox was like, okay.

So I can at least just play devil may cry, you know, um, but, uh, the, which version of devil may cry? Did you play, uh, the non-spite edition, the, uh, non-spite edition. Yeah. I, we, uh, we have to talk about that because that's, that's a thing. Yeah. Um, but, uh, no, the, so right. So the, the, but like what I want to do.

I mean, I'm going to see what's possible. You know, uh, basically, I mean, if I can, well, yeah, my, my, uh, attempt was like, you know, I got up, I jumped on the, the various sites for the various drops and, uh, I got cart fucked more than a couple of times. Oh, it's bad. You know, um, I believe, uh, yeah. Cart fucked Walmart, cart fucked Best Buy, uh, cart fucked Amazon and then I would describe it as probably impossible to get one over the next couple

of weeks if you're trying to buy it as a regular human being. Likely so, you know, the, and then, um, Strangely, like bizarrely cart fucked with Walmart because like, uh, ended up adding it. And then later I didn't know this, but like Walmart, like also stocks, um, resellers. So then scalper prices were available on Walmart because I'm used to them being on Amazon, but then it's like, no, they're on that too. So then it goes up and I'm like, what the fuck, where did, what, like, why is this? Where did these extra digits come from?

Um, yeah. Yeah. When I say cart fucked, I just mean like you are trying to get one at the same time as everyone else and no one is able to get them because the bots acquire them all. So you end up favorite is when you getting the one in the cart to cart. Yeah. You get it in the cart.

Cart fucked means you get it in the cart and then you can't check out because it's gone because it's not there anymore. Exactly. Yeah. Um, so, you know, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll see. I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try my best to, you know, do whatever I can. Um, because, uh, yeah, I like, there's, we're currently playing what we're playing on the channel with like, you know, 13 Sentinels and Mario Galaxy and stuff.

Uh, but like what I definitely want to do, what would be a lot of fun. Uh, there's, there's, there's Yakuza zero, which I want to play. And I absolutely want to sit him down and have some Reggie versus demon souls and see how that was like in the other chair. I want to see what it's like in the other chair. And I'm no fucking, you know, I'm no pro, but I at least played that game. So I want to see how he handles that. So like, this is another thing I'm looking forward to, but it's like, if I

can get one, then we can make it happen. Yeah. You know, um, Oh man, there's, there's a lot to talk about this week because you want to talk about the console or do you want to talk about devil may cry? Uh, well, let's go with the console first. It's a new console generation and you we can start. All right.

You can, you can talk about that and I'll talk about the, what the Xbox is doing. All right. So, hey, it's new console. Guess what? Games look nice. Yep. Uh, the backwards compatibility is very impressive, particularly if you load in a Sony game into it because they were all updated to, uh, fuck with their

resolution or performance modes. So now ghost of sashima looks like an X gen title because it runs at 60 FPS 4k. Nice. God of war has now a like a fucking 60 FPS mode. Shit's crazy. Bloodborne still looks like shit. Like it looks like shit. It's so bad in comparison now.

They got to be doing some setting. They got to be doing anything. No, they don't, but that's a, that's a really sad thing. It's not even touched where so many other things are. That's, that's pretty bad. It is very sad. Um, loading time no longer exists. Uh, they do.

They're just really fast. I, I mean, the 13 cents it'lls video I saw was like select the same file and then the thumbnail becomes gameplay. Well, yeah, sure. But that's floating like 2d assets. Of course, but it's just like, um, you know, people have been asking me, Hey man, how's demon souls, which might be the most bizarre sequence of questions ever because it's literally just demon souls.

Except for those, those, those monster changes. Yeah. Except for the monster changes. So, uh, visually, let's talk about it technically. It's absolutely incredible. It's like astonishing. It looks so good. Um, the monster changes.

I'm iffy on, um, I would say overall from a visual presentation, it is a win. However, there are a lot more design changes than expected. Mm hmm. I am indifferent on about 75% of them. They just look different. About 15% of the remaining are like. That's not as good. And the remaining after that, which is 10% are like horrible.

Are like, fuck every side-by-side tweet I've seen has been a pretty bad step down. Um, I still don't like, it's very excited for, for this game. But some of those decisions kind of did, um, there's a quote where like Miyazaki is talking about how, um, just gross things don't get by him on the design team. It's got to be dignity. It's got to have dignity to it. And that completely, I feel like is what is being called into question here where, you know, fat official, for example, like you just kind of put the fact that

official is the absolute worst change with the boils and the sores. And you just kind of go like, well, that's not really a trade up. It's a different thing. You know, so I know I, yeah, I'm going to mentally mind palace, uh, theory craft, why the black official was changed, fat official and I, or the fat minister, whatever the fuck you were, you were thinking, uh, his face, maybe. I literally found out during this process. Did I say black official?

You sure did. Oh wow. Were you thinking of his head? Yes, I was. I thought, so here's the thing. I found out during this process that it's not a mask. I for this entire time thought it was a mask. Right.

And then in the concept art, you can see in the, the, the skin between his, uh, wrist and his glove, uh, the bottom part of his shirt is actually his skin is just super black. And I imagine when they were going to make that new character, they were like, Hey, and that's why he's no longer black because he used to be really, really black and it might have looked weird. Yeah. But they could have gone.

They could have, they could have gone. It doesn't, it's not a humongous deal, but it definitely is something where they could have kept the energy in a different way. Um, more importantly, where's his smile? That's what I'm saying. The sinister smile was a big part of what I felt was lost. And then, um, if you're going to go with like, okay, we're not going to do a weird black face because we don't really know what's going on there.

Then you don't, it doesn't have to be black. It can be like a weird shade of another color that's inhuman, you know? Um, because like, he's not like, like, you know, African American black. He's like dark, weird obsidian, you know, onyx or obsidian or something. Yeah. Yeah. So you can go into another strange non-human color and, and actually keep that gray or, or weird blue.

Like you can go into places that are like, oh, something's off about that and keep the same, his entire face, including his teeth, for some reason, are all the same color. And then yeah, he's got that sinister smile, you know? The one thing I will say, I don't like the way people are comparing these things, which is in screenshot form with like a cropped, right? Because the biggest actual improvement to the game is the animations. Okay.

The weapon animations in particular are incredible, particularly the unique and custom backstabs and parry animations for everything. As well as the game running at 60 frames a second with a better camera makes all the difference in the world. Um, so it's, it is not the slam dunk it needed to be. It is in fact, actually a mostly positive mixed bag. I would like, I mean, I don't know that Blue Point comes out to like talk about their process in these moments.

I know that they show off things about like what they did with Shadow of the Colossus and like they kind of walk you through, um, there was an interview where they walked through some of that, but in this particular case, when it comes to like, you know, changing the design of characters, I don't think any of the Colossus is like what through design changes, right? So when you're, when you're doing that with enemies in this kind of case, you have to kind of wonder like, okay, what was the artist going for and what was the thought process because, uh, yeah, like if it, if it loses some of its

dignity, uh, you kind of want to hear what they were thinking, you know? Yeah, it's, it's tough. Like I've seen a lot of people saying that they didn't play the original and thus can't understand the problem. Oh yeah. And I, that I could, I could imagine. Um, there's also they, they, uh, they fixed the man-eater fog door bug. You can't shoot man-eater with arrows through his father.

Through the door anymore. Well, which means you have to actually fight man-eater legit, which is, that's going to be real cause fuck, um, overall, yeah, it's really good, but probably the most interesting thing about demon souls, and I don't mean the best, I mean the most interesting thing actually segues perfectly into the discussion of the dual sense controller. That is the PlayStation five dual sense controller. I did manage to acquire two of those.

Guess what? They're fantastic. They're pretty good. They're, they feel much God. Do they feel better than the goddamn PlayStation four controller? It's so one. That's not hard, but so I bought one and Amazon sent me two fucking sick. I don't know.

That's great. Um, the dual sense is like, let's, as a controller, it is very similar to the PS four. It just has a better feel. That's better shape. Um, the weights good on the, the light on the front can be seen from the front, which led to a really funny article where people are like, did you know that Resident Evil three on PS five has a secret feature where your, your, your, the,

the light turns red when you're damaged. I'm like, yeah, there are actually hundreds of PS four games that had that, including Resident Evil three that nobody knew because the goddamn light on the fucking front of the fucking thing would only face away from the player for some goddamn reason, super dumb. Um, but, uh, the, the feature that I've been messing around with the most interestingly, which I don't think you would have had a chance to fuck around with yet is the haptic rumble slash haptic feedback.

Um, no, no, I mean, uh, I wouldn't be able to. So like, yeah, what, how is that? All right. This is remarkably difficult to explain via words, but I'm going to give it a shot. So the PS five, I'm actually not doing it. I'm holding it by the way, video audience. I'm holding it not to give you a video demonstration, but to look at it so that I can try and explain this, the rumble in this thing is a, I would, how do I put

this? I think that the jump from a regular rumble to this rumble is a bigger deal than the jump from literally nothing to the N64 rumble pack. Okay. Um, that's a, that's high praise. Your classic rumble as used in a Xbox controller or a PlayStation controller is, uh, caused by two spinning pieces of metal in the bottom of either side that spins one for week rumble, one for strong rumble and both for extra strong rumble.

This does not use that at all. This has, uh, what I think are lo-fi speakers in the, in the handles and those speakers appear to run the entire length all the way to the top of the, of the goddamn controller and the rumble that is being transmitted to you is not like a spinning actuator. It is actually, uh, the game's audio mix being pumped into the speakers and it's different pieces of the game's audio mix being put into the speakers. Okay.

So what this means is that in the olden times, like demon souls, you would say, grab a rapier and you would stab, uh, an enemy, right? And it would go, because of course it did, right? It would usually use the middle rumble, uh, uh, like the strength and it would almost always do that for almost everything, right? So you would, uh, stab it and you go, and that would be it. And I ended up turning rumble off on almost all games because I actually hate it. Right.

In demons souls, when you go and stab a man, first of all, the speaker is using a lot more, uh, play time. So character centric sounds tend to have a mix specific to the, uh, controller. Uh, so like the roll noise actually has, uh, an audio component that comes out of the controller when you hit the floor, because I assume it assumes your character hit the floor, right? You're playing with headphones though, right? No, no, absolutely not.

Oh, okay. Um, so when you go to stab a man, you know, the, the, like the, the, the shink noise of like stabbing a guy and, um, you can feel the rumble travel from the top of the controller down to your palms. And it's uneven so that it feels like a scrape. If that makes any sense, okay. Like it feels like something was off. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. It feels like you are hitting an object and it is an uneven like stab. Uh, when you cast soul arrow, you can feel the rumble begin in your palm near the bottom, build up towards the trigger, then pulse down. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Okay. It is really, really nuts. So it's really, really nuts. Now that feature is like kind of what I think the switch was trying to say it had where like you had HD rumble, essentially being, being sold. But like, I don't think anything I played, like we had that, you have that little slight bump than the little bit of feedback you get when like highlighting things sometimes, you know, so there's a, I don't think I've felt anything

like that detailed. There's a, there is a, um, uh, there's a demo that comes with the PlayStation five called a Astros playroom and Astros playroom is dedicated to just show like really flexing on HD rumble and being like, mm-hmm. Yeah. So one of the things I could tell you with my eyes closed, if I was on grass, white tile, blue tile or glass, walking around, um, easily. Like it's just, it's very distinctive in feel.

Is now, is now how many games are doing this though? Not that many. There's also, um, the, it was specific enough that they combined it with the joy car, the, sorry, the gyro that they, they do the, a little thing where they put a little, uh, you know, a bunch of little goober mascots into your controller. And then they say, shake the controller around and it actively and pretty successfully imitates the feeling of when I turn it down, it feels like they're sitting in the bottom gravity wise.

And when I shake it, it feels like they're hitting the sides. Wow. Okay. Um, it's so crazy. It is so nuts. And that is half of it. The other half is the triggers. So when you just have a regular PlayStation four trigger, if they're a little

mushy, I like them. I really like the PS four triggers. These are most of the time, the exactly the same as the PS four triggers. However, when they decide to kick it up, it is the craziest thing ever. So there are, so what the trigger actually has is a gear and coil inside of it that can, uh, determine level of resistance at certain distances. So what happens is, is, um, the trigger itself can rumble separate from the rest of the controller.

Um, so they can, it can also fight you at varying levels of, uh, strength at different parts. So in bug snacks, when you go to take a photograph of something, the first 10% of the trigger pole is normal. And then you hit a hard block, it feels like, uh, a real camera. No, it feels like a camera, but it also feels like you ever use one of those three 60 or Xbox controllers where you can lock the controller to a, yeah, totally, totally all the time.

It feels like that. But if you push past it, yes, it will snap past it and then rumble. So a real camera like, uh, that you use, uh, will have a soft touch that stops halfway through and that'll be your focus and then it'll get whatever info if you're using like a DSLR and then you can push past it to click and that'll be the shot, you know, those of you have not used a real camera. If you ever played a Gamecube game, it is like the Gamecubes, uh, our button times a thousand that can be modified per per button, per instance, per game.

So bug snacks had that for the camera, but never had it for anything else. There was a laser pointer thing that would rumble more as I pushed it down. And if I pushed it down lightly and I got it to 50 percent, the rumble was so strong, it would actually push my finger off the button. Okay. Um, I have not played Call of Duty Cold War yet, but people are telling me that every single gun in Call of Duty Cold War has a slightly different trigger pull feel.

Wow. So if a game wanted to, let's say, minimize that trigger pull length entirely and make it as shallow as possible with a clean input for, I don't know, let's say a hard kick button. Uh, yeah, it can be game specific for that. That's fucking sick. Yep. No need to say it off a modding.

Tempted to get Call of Duty just to shoot guns in it. Um, yeah, it can, it can go anywhere between like a squish, a hard squish, a trigger pull, multiple lovers. It's, it's really crazy. Okay. Um, it's, it's so, so cool. Yeah, just has made, it has made the feeling of like testing out what new things do in a game about as exciting as, well, did you ever play Ape Escape

one? No. Okay. Cause when Ape Escape one came out, that was crazy with the dual analog and the rumble. I did play the demo. That was nuts. So I did get the impression a little.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's like that again, but for every game. Mm hmm. Okay. Uh, it's nuts. Um, yeah.

Again, I just like the, the pulling it out of the box size, weight overall, you know, heft to it, um, is, is all pretty much like the best you're going to get of the PlayStation configuration. I was pretty satisfied with everything on it. And, uh, the, I, I feel like, um, blah, like this is a, it's a random tweet that kind of came out, but like just as an aside with, while we're talking about these types of features, the fact that the PS five has a turnoff all Bluetooth devices feature, thank fucking Christ.

That is a beautiful thing for tournament purposes that just saved everybody's lives. Oh, there's actually a lot of incredible features on this thing that are, some of them are part of the PS five. Some of them are not, uh, it has a microphone in it that seems a lot better than almost any other controller microphone that I've used. Uh, if you hit the tiny little button that is at the bottom of the controller that is otherwise invisible, it mutes you, it mutes you instantly. You can also set it to, uh, start muted.

You can also hold the button down to mute the game's, uh, uh, audio. Hmm. Uh, I'm also seeing people in chat talking about Nero in DMC five S E on the PS five, you can feel the red queen exceed like a motorcycle handle. It makes it easier to max act. That sounds, that sounds fun. If it doesn't fuck it up though, if you have like, let's be real, like if you, if you are used to the timing and everything with that, a little bit of extra

feedback might actually fuck you up a little bit. So, uh, let's, however, so, uh, Astro playroom uses it great. Demon souls uses it great. Um, DMC five apparently does well with it. Call of duty apparently does well with it. Valhalla, which I've also been playing, don't have much to say. It's fine, uh, cool game, uh, one of the creative directors left on it because he was cheating on his wife with tons of women.

Good, good for you, buddy. Dumbass. Um, and then it would be soft fired him for other investigative reasons that they won't share, uh, every time I play an Ubisoft game, I feel necessary to point out that, uh, many of the senior staffer scum, um, the hell is good. Uh, the haptic feedback on it sucks ass. Uh, I thought they weren't using it until I felt like a weak ass little scrape on my boat and I'm like, oh, wow, okay, they, they are using it.

They're just, they're being lazy about it. Um, so it will vary wildly. Sony first party shit will obviously kill as most new features that come out on any, in any generation are, it's up to the developer effort. I would very much, uh, so this is getting steam support probably by the end of the week. It's already in the beta client and that includes being able to set the triggers yourself, uh, and all that rumble shit. I really, really hope that any multi-plat games that have PS or, you know, PS

five controller support stuff that come to PC will also have those exact same features come to the PC as it currently is. And the fact that PS five games have tended to actually go for a better frame rate than anything, right? Like almost everything is 60 right now and there are games that have lots of performance modes as long as the PS five keeps trying to do the performance mode thing, I would be very interested in buying nearly everything on that PlayStation machine because this HD rumble shit, if I mean, sorry, a haptic

feedback shit, if it is in the game is nuts. It is crazy. How about the, uh, I like it. How about the system itself? That's fine. It's fucking PS four with a slightly different interface. Have you used any cards? Uh, cards, the new card system where they, oh no, fuck that.

I don't know about that. That's okay. I turn on the video game fair enough and the video game. Uh, yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's good. Have you, so I have you killed the battery yet? Uh, yeah, it's about 13 hours, 14 hours. It's about twice as long as the regular PS four battery, which is fucking sick. Um, I saw somebody in the chat point out and I guess I should point out as well.

Uh, anybody who's been following me or this podcast for a long time, I hate almost every gimmick. I don't like VR. I hate motion controls. Uh, I don't even really like the wee pointer. I really, really, really like this goddamn haptic feedback shit. I, I think it's, I think it is super. I think it is just super.

That's pretty sick. That's, uh, I didn't, they didn't sell it as a humongous deal. They kind of went like, we got some new cool feelings on it. And I was like, yeah, it's rumble. You know, I didn't, I didn't look twice over it when I was reading it on the list. I don't blame them because I read every article about this feature before it came out and went, yeah, whatever. And then I, then I stabbed one guy in demon souls and went, oh, you know,

like, okay, it is, it is very similar to the wee remote. Original like thing of like you, you probably have to actually get hands on, on this to care at all. And once you do get hands on, you'll be like, oh, you know who I am? I'm the captain from flapjack. Looking at that little dog do a backflip. Y'all have to do more than that to impress. Right.

Uh, but like I, the mind races with obvious implementations like racing games, right? Or any game that has a gun fishing, fishing, fishing would be a gyro on actually really sensitive if you could feel it traveling from left to right, north to south, totally like that would be beautiful. Fishing would be great. It is, it is a shame that COVID is happening. And I, and I, you know, or else I would hop over to your house and, and, and

show it to you, but, uh, that's not going to happen. Sorry, dude. Uh, but, uh, you'll get a PS five one day, one day, but, but for the time being, you'll have to be all like, darn, I wish I could feel the haptics. Well, I mean, hope, I don't know if those drivers are going to come out and allow similar things to happen on steam. But if they do, I would, I'd be very happy about that. I assume within a couple of weeks, you'll be able to plug it into your PC and

at least feel something, right? And be like, Hey, look, I fucked around with this and you can do the, you can trigger it manually and just run through all the different permutations. You want to hear about the X bone controller? The, excuse me, the XX controller. It's the XXXXXXXXXXX controller. It's the same fucking thing. All right.

Before we, before I ask you to continue, uh, they sent you the correct X box, right? They did send me the correct X box. I did get the tower. Um, it's a big black box and it's, I don't know how, I don't know how the PS five comes out of the case, but the box for the X sex is made for unboxing. It's the PS five one is not. Yeah. It's the X sex box is presented in a way where, so first of all, uh, the

box opens diagonally like a treasure chest and then, and then it's centered in the green packaging is your, your black, uh, uh, tower and it's wrapped up in a like, you know, a soft, uh, plastic and then there is a ribbon like thing around that with like some extra branding on it. And it's, and it says like, you know, your, your journey starts here or some shit like that. And it's, it's very like, um, Silicon Valley because the way that like iPhones are sold and a lot of new devices are sold in a way where they kind of want the

packaging to be light recyclable and to reflect an experience when you open it up and I can't help but feel all of that bullshit when I open this thing. That really feels consistent with like the naming convention and the way they're, they're portraying it and how confusing it is. Like, is it a new machine even? I don't know kind of thing. Oh man, that reminds me. The PS five has a legitimately bizarre issue because of the backwards

compatibility. When I bought Assassin's Creed Valhalla, it started to download both versions of the game because the way that a lot of games have actually been put onto the store is that it's the PS four version that you buy and then you get a $10 upgrade or whatever. And I saw people talking about how like, yeah, bugs next doesn't look very good. And it's like, well, actually you've been playing the PS four. So you could run the wrong version of these games and it doesn't give you a

little warning. It's super weird. It doesn't give you a little thing going, hey, by the way, what the fuck are you doing? Oh, because it's backwards compatible. They got to do something. You got to, you got to get the big blue heads up that. Well, maybe not because that will pass very quickly.

Hmm. That that is the old white is the new. Yeah, there's a PS four version of bucks next. Yes. And ironically enough, it's not free with PlayStation Plus. The PS four version of bucks next you pay for. Um, so, so you fucking you get this shit, right? And then you, you, you, uh, what do you do?

You pop it open and it's got this. Yeah, this big old, you know, tech fetish jerk off kind of packaging. Um, and then, um, you see the setup instructions and the setup instructions are as follows. Step one, uh, plug in your XX step two, download the Xbox app on your phone and continue the setup instructions from there. No, that's. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

That's legitimately bad. What if you don't have a smartphone and I'm like word on God Xbox and Xbox is like, uh-huh. And then me and Xbox have a little stair down like Sean Puffy combs and that dude in that gift just staring at each other. And they're like, and I know I'm reading it on the paper, right? And I'm like, yeah, okay. And I plug it in and then I put in the ethernet and then I turn it on ethernet.

Excuse me. And I, you know, connect the controller and then Xbox is like, Hey, bro, download that Xbox app and set up the console. And I'm like, bitch, you thought, right? This is a wild world. And I'm like, are we actually at this point? Because anytime, let's be real, right? Take a second.

Anytime a company has thought that we're at that place where it's like, fuck you. We know you have a phone. You piece of shit. We know you have a phone. You better use it. Let us get in there. And, and, and they try to fight that battle. They lose.

It never fucking works, right? So Xbox is like, what you going to do, bro? You want to set this up or not? And it's like, okay, no, hold on a second. I am a child without the internet in a cabin in fucking the Yukon. All right. Well, I guess you can go die. What the fuck?

And then it's like, no, okay, there is a skip option. There is a skip option. Yeah, it is, it is there. It is, uh, and it's like, all right, fine, you don't want to do it. So I'm like, yeah, fuck you. Let's get past this shit. And then you, you go through the setup and then it's like, okay, I log in to, you know, whatever my previous account start and it, and it brings all the settings forward.

And then it's like, all right, we're going to update the system and we're going to update the controller and set up everything in the meantime. There's some other settings you're going to need to set up. If you'd like, while this progress bar loads, you should download that Xbox app and get in on this and we can set your settings up in the meantime. So that when this progress bar is done, you don't have to do anything. And I'm like, what part about Yukon did you not understand? What, what are you missing here?

You know, they are trying their best. Someone is really working it. They want you in there. They want that app on your fucking phone. So I think the funniest part about this is that PlayStation also wants you to get their app, right? And I feel like it's they actually did a better job tricking you into using their app because I actually had the PlayStation app on my phone prior to

installing my PS5, right? And the reason why I had it on my phone is because buying games through the PlayStation website is so horrible that I would rather use the app. The new the new store that is. No, the old one, too. OK, because it's just easier to buy it through the goddamn phone. All right. And when you turn on the PS5, one of the first options is, hey, man,

log in or just point your phone at this QR code, QR code. Yeah. And you do that and it just logs in everything for you. See, that's beautiful. That's the actual reason, right? Discord, same thing that like the little QR code thing. Like, yes, that is how you actually sell that. OK, and then when I was downloading games, I noticed that the app actually has a decent feature where I got notifications

when Demon's Souls start stopped at and to be fair, that is what that is what Microsoft was pushing with it. But like, I just I'm like, I see that at any time. Some fucking piece of technology comes out of the box going, I smell a phone. I smell a phone. I'm like, I'm going to fight in that fucking room. I'm going to fight it to the death every time. And it's like, oh, yeah.

Well, how come I'm feeling some internet up my ass right now? Plug it out. You what internet? There is no internet. You don't know shit. I will fight that every time that it may not be a problem currently. But the PS5 did have a very real growing pain. The week of its launch that luckily I dodged. But are you familiar with ACG Angry Centaur Gaming? No, it's a bizarre name for a guy who does great work

and is actually incredibly calm, must be one of those situations where you make the name and then you, you know, you're stuck with it forever. But ACG does great reviews. I love his stuff. He got a PS5 early. I'm not sure if he got it through legit channels or, you know, like a preview copy or whatever. But he was playing Miles Morales.

And Miles Morales prior to its day one patch had a tiny little bug where if you put the system into rest mode without turning the game off like everybody does, because that's a feature of the console, it's possible that when you turn it back on, it says, hey, man, why did you disconnect the PS5's hard drive like that?

Oh, and you go, no, I didn't. And it goes, don't worry, we'll we'll we'll do a system rebuild. You're like, wait, hold on. And then it bricks you. Oh, compliance. So on launch day, ACG got his goddamn fucking shit bricked. Oh, Jesus.

And he was not the only one. There were other people. TCR twelve point one point six point fluff. Oh, man, don't fucking do that. Oof. Apparently that was a bit of a day zero bug that has been since fixed. But God damn it.

Well, I heard the PS5 off and turned it back on to have it tell me that I didn't disconnect my external hard drive correctly. And I'm like, bitch, I didn't, you just powered down. See, I thought you were going to bring up the other bug in Miles Morales that involves bricking in which somebody has video of the apparently they slammed into a wall of a building so hard that Spider-Man became a brick. And there's video of a brick swinging through New York City.

It's great. It's super good. So you can get bricked in that way, too. Looks great. Spider-Man looks great. Miles Morales looks really cool, but that's a fucking bad one. Yeah, that's a bad one. Apparently that has been fixed. But beware when you get new consoles. Be aware.

I don't think I ever got over that. R.R.O.D. fear. The Red Ring of Death Age is a permanently traumatizing one in terms of like, OK, that's a misuse of the word. But in terms of like buying a new console, the fear that it might just be non-functional is a humongous one. And I still have that with New Tech, especially New Tech. That's putting a lot of like cutting edge

expensive shit into an affordable box. Yeah, especially when you're getting it for work, especially when you're getting it for work and you might not be able to get another one for work if this one dies in a timely manner. I was talking to some friends like two, three nights ago over how fucking bad Red Ring was that it is now the word for your console dying. Like we still say bricks, but you know, yeah, you say brick, but like you could easily say, yeah, my PlayStation 5 Red Ring

and everyone would know exactly what you're talking about. Got 100 percent of first generation Xbox 360s would die. I think I've told the story before, but, you know, what's fun is trying to run a tournament for Street Fighter 4 with multiple 360s, all of which just decide to take shits at different points in time and there's nothing you can do about it. Yeah. How many Xboxes did you go through? I went through three.

Personally, I went through three. I went through like a standard white and then I went through a gray and then I went through the small like mini at the end. But the elite is the only one that didn't die on me. Yeah. But but for tournament purposes, I had way more than that. I had a pile of them for tournaments. Oh, man. I want. Hey, let's talk about fighting

games for a second because I need to ask you a real question about online tournaments and in person tournaments. And it's about BlazBlue. What's it called again? Not BlazBlue, the Grand The Grand Blue versus versus Grand Blue Vansy Vansy versus. Yeah. So you've played that game on the on the current consoles. I have the old ones.

That's a previous gen fighting game. Yeah, previous gen. That's a 30 FPS one, right? Yeah, it's not 60. Guess what it is on PS5? A word. Wait, it provides a dramatic advantage. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, wait, wait, wait. It runs at a higher frame rate on PS5. Oh, yeah, it runs at lock 60. OK, that's not good. I didn't hear about that. Oh, that's yeah. Hmm. Hmm. OK.

I did not hear about that. Huh. That's a weird problem to have. Grand Blue is 60 on PS4. Then why does everybody tell me it ran 30? I need to do more research. Was it? You will even confirmed it with me.

I thought it was. I'm going to go look at footage and use my eyeballs. Let's take a look. I'm going to use my eyeballs. Oh, yeah, I know. Uh, 60. Who should I blame for this? Who should I go through my Twitter timeline and find a blame for this?

Let's see, you don't need to run this game at 60 FPS. You don't absolutely need to know. OK, there's a post. All right, OK. I want someone to blame. Well, I could use my eyeballs. Well, I could never have made this mistake by my own. I had to have been enabled.

Yeah, it runs at locked 60. This is a discussion from earlier this year. Fair enough. Now, when this reminds me that I got a series of texts from a friend regarding the Watch Dogs coding conversation. Mm hmm. Who basically got a lot of people telling me that my friends don't know what they're talking about.

Yeah, essentially. The scratch looking editor is just a rule editor for the AI. Any AAA studio uses that and it's used so that game designers can quickly make changes. It looks that way because it's not handling drawing code and Unreal Unity and Godot have similar editors. And yeah, that's why it looked that way. Hey, if you guys know who's fault it is that I was dumb earlier, you send me a

message on Twitter, I'd appreciate it. Don't just send me messages saying you're dumb, though. That's at Pat Starr's at. That's don't send me messages that I'm stupid. Don't do that. All right. Yes, five school. And yeah, well, yeah, I guess, yeah, you just you're just going to boot it up

and like hit the button and play the game. I yeah, grab that controller. The controller for the XX is same thing, except it's an elite with the D pad replaced with the circular elite, the circular D pad. You OK? I'm getting a lot of messages that I'm stupid. Well, I didn't correct you, so I'll share some of that blame. It's OK there.

No worries. Thanks, man. Yeah. So the the D pad, right, is just the circular one that you get with the elite. That's kind of locked in at this point. And then you you get into the actual fucking system. And it's just the exact same as the Xbox one.

So nothing like it is. Yeah, I saw people talking about that. I think I saw your tweets about like feels kind of a bummer. It doesn't feel like any there's anything new. Someone then sent me like a link to like here's a history of the changes that the exponent has gone through and it's true that like there's been different iterations that Microsoft has been pushing every two years or so. They've been updating things in this way.

But like in terms of like the last update they made on the X bone to now, the idea being that perhaps it was getting people ready for what was going to come with this, but it definitely just feels like you got a new system and it's it's running Windows or it's like got a new iPhone and it's running iOS and it's just it's not like it it's it's it works. I don't like the I don't like the Xbox experience in its in its current iteration that much. I don't have a hard I haven't liked any Xbox UI called the experience.

Yeah, I blades all of these metro light versions of UIs are not things I'm a fan of. I don't like the metro style like it's just, you know, I appreciate something like the cross media bar and I appreciate something like the switch where it's just it's a row of content, you know, and then a row of options. Like I I think that is elegant and simple in a way that tells you what you need, where you and shows you where it is at all times. There's but it's not again.

It's not like the worst it's ever been, but it just, you know, it is what it is. And so in this case, you boot it up and you're like, oh, it's just it's exactly like my last system. So you don't really feel like it's a new thing, you know, and I feel like they kind of want that. Yeah, the series, they want this to be. I don't want that consoles as as a PC sort of box, you know, and then we can make tech upgrades so that they can do things like the Xbox One X.

They can release new series midway through a generation and basically go, well, the hardware is different, but it's still running the same games. And that'll be their method of like, you know, getting the getting them the half generations as a regular thing. There is a definite feeling when you look at the PlayStation five UI that they changed it, the absolute minimum they needed to to make it feel different. But it is like they they repositioned the the cross media bar, right? They made it a little higher, a little higher.

Yeah, yeah. But then when you go to settings, it's really obvious that it's actually the same one. OK. Because the settings option is identical all the way down. And, you know, when you go back to the PS3 or you go back to your PSP, you you're like, but it's it's but they're all versions of the same cross media bar idea, except for the Vita, which went for that fucking bubble thing that was just. The I'm going to say the worst.

I'm going to say the worst interface, I think, of all consoles that come to mind right now is the Vita bubble system is number one most track. It was awful and ripping the pages off. And I'm like, where's my where did my options go? Is it on a folder behind the page with a ripped bubble tab? Do I have to grab the corner or do I have to pop the bubble? What am I doing here? Oh, boy.

Anyway, it it feels the same. And, you know, that's not a big deal because you're here for what the system can do in the games you're going to play. But it is interesting that mentally you don't get that little like bookmark to say like new new new new UI smell. Shut the book, open the new one, you know, didn't really feel like that. But, you know, a loaded up five SE and put on LDK, put on the ray tracing.

And I couldn't change. I couldn't fuck with the frame rate, which I think might be because of LDK, but I got to go back and play around and see. So I couldn't do any of the like extreme frame rate stuff that that they were pitching. But, you know, started an LDK play through with Virgil. Played it. Felt good, felt as Virgil feels nice, feels like you got to earn those

just frame judgment cuts and what more do you need? You know, you got to you got to you got to fucking time them. They're not free. I tweeted out a little thing from the the footage they put out where you hear him saying jackpot all the time. All the time. Well, it's not all the time. It's when you can get three just frames in a row.

It's all the time for me because I'm great at just frame inputs. And yeah, he's got like more than a couple screen clears. He's got a super with each each stance now, each weapon style. So, you know, obviously the world of V is his screen clear for having just concentration, but if you fill up SDT as well, you can do the judgment cut end or you can do the cycle crusher or you can do the big ground punch and

just fucking melt anything and everything. Everything still die like crazy. Virgil was always like really, really strong and would just melt bosses faster than other game modes. That continues to be a thing. I believe there's a video of the big ground punch. Almost one shotting illusion burial.

Yeah, right. So it's kind of it's kind of like that sort of continues. But you still got to work. You still got to, you know, handle the enemies. And when you get like ganged up on by riots and shit like that, like, you still got to fucking slow it down and, you know, play properly. Block is in and block is actually it's interesting. Is block is a method of it's just holding down lock on with concentration.

Oh, that's it, huh? But here's the thing, right? Remember how concentration works, right? So concentration is Virgil's meter for not whiffing and not jumping and not running around like an idiot like Dante. Concentration is you land your hits, you move with careful and direct motivation and you you can trick out of the way of enemies or like evade. But you can't jump and be like, oh, God,

otherwise you lose concentration. So walking and killing and moving and doing things elegantly with quote unquote dignity is supposed to build your concentration. So instead of if you're in a situation where you're like, oh, shit, I fucked up or I'm not going to be able to handle this, you can just stand in place and absorb the hit at cost of concentration. I don't know, but you don't want to do that. You don't want to do that, right?

It is a it is a it is a fuck up, right? If you block, but it's there if you've been playing tightly so that you can actually like stay, you know, stay stylin' without having to like panic jump or or or or panic run. So that's cool. And yeah, you know, like the mirage edge, all the stuff, it's it's virtual. It's virtual, you know, and his thoughts are fun. You if you've seen them, the ex one is fucking it's it's it's brilliant.

They have a new cutscene that starts off the story. Yeah. And and Vonte is no more. So I hear, but I'm not there yet because I didn't get to go. I haven't seen it. I'm not no, I didn't I didn't I didn't get all the way through because again, I've spent most of the week working on my guilty gear stuff. So like I have a lot of writing and work to do for the guilty gear video.

But the people don't know. I will explain this. Yeah. So Vonte is a cheeky little name that may cry people called the final boss of double may cry three special edition. If you play it as Virgil, because you would fight Virgil, but they just. Red coat color, just coat red. They just call it a little red coat.

Yeah, just shut up. It's totally Dante. Shut up. It's what at the end of Devil May Cry special edition with playing as Virgil, they have indeed created the new boss fights for Mission 19 and 20 being Dante and Dante for real this time. Yeah, that's cool to be expected.

But yeah. And I saw one even bigger bummer. It should have been Dante and then Nero. It should have been. It should have been. But since we're just talking about it, shout outs to Hitchhiker, who I saw him freaking out because there was a thing where prior to this even going down,

a bug occurred where someone was playing his versus mode mod and the player using Dante disconnected. But the other player continued to see Dante fighting, meaning that means that even Dante had a day. Right. And the that time ago. Yeah. And like they're like, hold on a minute. When in the game would Dante need AI?

Because when you're playing the multiplayer, you're either seeing people or you're not. They're not showing you the the DMC crew with the computer playing as him. So what the fuck could that mean? And basically that discovery led to him already realizing, oh, shit, Dante had AI from back then. And then in this case, here's the reason for it. It's because you're going to fucking fight him. So now that we've brought up Hitchhiker.

Yeah, before we move entirely on, I should ask you, did you fool around with the legendary dark night mode in SE that is special edition? I that's the only mode I fooled around with. How is it? Like I said, I'm having fun with it. I think it's all right. All right. The reason I ask is because over the past week I played Hitchhiker,

creator of legendary night's dark night's mod, AKA spite edition on the PC for the spite edition, which is now available on the DMC five next DMC five nexus. I think it's through the common cheat table or whatever. Just go bug Hitchhiker on Twitter. He'll he'll tell you or he'll tweet it again and I'll retweet it, which has a total enemy remix as well as a shit zillion enemies. And including the fact that when you actually die in a mission for real,

it says easy mode selectable is now selectable, which I was tricked into doing on stream. Yeah, he sent me that clip. I was because I was hugely, hugely punked as the world premiere of this mod. World premiere. I believe as well, I saw a job. Good job. Yep. I believe I also saw a difficulty selection within LDK. Yeah, the trainer has

the ability to toggle what your player damage is and how many enemies are allowed to spawn in at once. But also the enemy AI, no, because the thing about I did not see that because I thought I saw an image that basically was like within LDK, how do you want the enemies to fight? Because with LDK standard, you don't get to also it's it's a difficulty on its own, meaning you don't get to set them to, you know, a behavior setting after the fact.

But I think with this mod, like they actually did have that in there. Hitchhiker saying, yes, that is in fact the case. I didn't realize because I was playing an earlier version. So that's pretty cool. That's something that that's that's a downside about official LDK that's always been there is you can only play it that one way. I have to say, though, there is one thing about the Legendary Dark Knights mod, which like I love it because it is a mod

because there's always a little bit of elbow grease and rubber bands going into modding a game like this. And you can see how the sausage is being made per enemy encounter because the way the mod seems to work is that he has placed enemies in the scene and then tagged them as multiply this enemy. So when an enemy loads in, you will see for a couple of frames the first enemy and then you actually see all the new versions spawn in on top of them and fall over each other.

And it looks it looks like somebody mass summoning watermelons in Skyrim with the console commands and they're clipping. Oh, yeah, it looks so fucking ghetto. It's hilarious. It's really funny because you see like a bat and the bat becomes so many bats that it's just a mass. See, that's that energy. That's that energy of like, fuck you, Capcom.

We're going to make it work. We're going to fucking make it work. It's so funny. And as a result, if and when the Legendary Dark might know that the LDK mode comes to the PC, which it may one day. Who knows, I probably will. But when it does, this will actually be a significantly different thing. Hmm.

As a result, retaining its value. Yeah. I was I was very pleasantly surprised that Hitchhiker was like, yo, you have any cool move ideas? And I'm like, oh, what? Yeah, you asked me, hey, man, what do you want to give Nero? And I'm like, I could literally have been thinking about that for years and can't tell you nothing.

I had some I don't know. I had some ideas. So when the opportunity arises, I will take a look and see how that shit fares out because some of that is yeah, and I don't know if it's I don't know if it's OK. If like I just just spoil it or if it's in there or not or whatever the case is, Hitchhiker, but like that was a very like, oh my God, wait, what? Really? We can do this.

You can fucking we can just do this. Well, you can just make it happen. The ability to tell somebody to make Devil May Cry moves happen. OK. Hey, they were pretty good ideas. Thank you. Thank you. I and hey, hey, what if. People at Capcom are like, that's a cool mod. And then they take some of the ideas that Hitchh put into the game that were your

ideas and then they're like, no, these are our ideas and then put them into the next Devil May Cry. Oh my God, I did this. OK, well, then Hitch, can I tell everybody what they were or at the very least what the premise was so that it's out there at least from now? I don't know. Maybe if you just want to if you want to save it, then that's fine too. But at the very least, it's like let it let the record show that I would say. Don't mention it until it's implemented.

Yeah, I think people will be sad. You may pick one. Oh, no, you can pick one. That's tough. OK. How about this? How about this? You know what? I'll even I'll even I'll swerve it away for I'll say this.

A terribly underutilized aspect of Nero and Nero's kit. Was his rainbow dropkick. And we'll leave it at that. OK, that's good. I like that. That's good. We'll leave it at that. So, yeah, that's that's that's the deal. We'll see where that goes.

I'm you know, when I get a chance, going to go back to it. Did you go? Did you touch it at all? Did you go any any ways into that? I don't need it. I got the spy edition. Fair enough. Also, for real, though, like I'm playing

like so many new games, right? There's a lot going on like the idea of like going back to an old one that like has a new character and all that. It's like it can wait till later. Like, yeah, there's absolutely no goddamn rush. It's the only next gen game I have access to that I care about. Yeah, so, you know, I will say, Willie, I mean, I don't know what your long term plans for the future are in terms of

LP stuff or whatever, especially since you mentioned that you want to do Yakuza Zero on the channel. But you know that Yakuza 7's on the series X. Yes, I did see it that it's there. I did. But, you know, I know that I got I got some proper homework to do first before I jump there. So. OK, so I understand that mentality.

I just want to say to everybody else, you don't need to do homework for Yakuza 7. I really it's very important. That's why they didn't call it Yakuza 7 out here. Because which is goofy, because it's actually Yakuza like 16. OK, I don't have to do homework, but I want to because I enjoy my media that way more. I appreciate things more doing the homework that I don't even have to do, but I still want to do it.

You'll get like Camerocho has been the scene of like 14 different games. And having having a couple trips around it always helps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, I mean, that's that's pretty much like that was the like like the fucking motivator to like grab this thing when I saw it like available is just like, OK, let me just get my virtual box and that'll be there. And then whatever else, you know, we'll we'll work towards it. And, you know, fingers crossed on PS5s.

But at the very least, I can say I wanted to replay DMC five for a while. And then I was like, you know what? Let me hold off on that. Yeah, that's a this is a really good excuse to replay DMC five. And, you know, the the the timing it was interesting because the timing of I was kind of the timing was a little bit before, you know, there was some whispers in the background, so to speak, about the goingsons.

So I was I was basically sitting on going back to this game for a while now. And now that it's here, I'm like, I want to fucking touch it. I want to play so bad. So that's what that's what's going on, you know? Yeah, that's that's pretty much that series X. Again, nothing. Unique to go into in terms of that's because that's such a bummer. Yeah, it was all the fun of like as like even with the PS5, I was I spent

like an hour just digging through menus, just being like, I wonder what this menu is does differently now. But yeah, there's not much to dig a bit around with. There's not much to actually say about it. It's just it's there. It's it's it's thing. And you know, I don't think it will be easily forgotten once there's a number of games to play, but I don't really want to start buying games that I really want

for their PS5 on this on the XX. Yeah, you know, especially with the controller shit. And like anything that even uses the the haptic stuff even a little, I like you could get that version. Well, once you've you've used it yourself and know that you think it's cool. I do have one other thing I wanted to shill this week for anybody who's interested. I picked up a good old book ski.

Liam Wong's Toki O with like OO is in like as of the time T.O. K.Y. zero zero. And this is a really, really cool book that is basic book. Yeah, I know, right? I this is I can't believe there's a physical object in my hands right now. But what this is is is a collection of some beautiful photography that is basically Japan at night color corrected to be cyberpunk. Yeah, you don't have to do much.

It's a photo. It's man at night. You really don't. And it's it's a fucking it's beautiful. Liam Wong is was an art director on a number of Far Cry games. And I know that like the forward is from Hideo Kojima. And it's just fucking. Yeah, it's just a gorgeous collection of like photos that are they make Tokyo look even more cyberpunk than it already is.

And I just, you know, I saw it. I'm like, fuck, yeah, every photo. Like I've been following his account and just like liking his his amazing work for such a while for a while now. And like, it's like, I'm going to absolutely grab this and just put it down somewhere because like this is some good just good pictures, good quality, good stuff. If you are interested at all in photography books or anything like that, I would like to push Liam Wong Tokyo.

At you because it's super fucking worth it and beautiful. So I have picture book. I like pictures. Yeah, especially nice city pictures. I don't know why I just really like them. Yes, I bought an Instagram and print format. That's exactly what I did. Dude, when this when this covid shit is over, I think I'm going to go back

to Japan for like a month because I am. Yeah. Oh, man. Luckily, luckily, I was I got back just before, right? Like, yeah. So I got the second trip out of my system, but I just want to walk around a cool city without feeling like I'm going to die. That that would be very nice. I would appreciate that.

I have something to show and it's also an announcement and a thank you. I would like to say to Australia, thank you, Australia. It has been a long road, but it is finally worth it. The Australia experiment has been a success. Now that anti Donna has their Netflix special. The anti Donna Netflix special is six episodes and boys, it fucking great. Boys, it fucking fantastic.

I don't even what you don't know about it. Donna, what? You know, oh, you actually don't know about on anti Donna way lost. Anti Donna has been a sketch comedy group. Australian absurdist, Australia, absurdist comedy group from Melbourne. From many, many years, I have been a big fan much before they were popular because I am the anti Donna hipster. Oh, you got in there, huh?

Yeah, I was in there because Australians are silly. Hey, I was showing everybody awesome town. Guess what? Anti Donna followed a very similar trajectory. OK, that's awesome town. And if you I would not want to call them the Australian Lonely Island, though, I could totally see the comparison because it is also three guys who do musical sketches and it's absurd as shit and they got popular on the Internet.

Perhaps the Australian Flight of the Concords. I don't know what that is. Is that some kind of New Zealand shit? OK, you know exactly what that is. Fuck off. OK, anyway, I have been a huge fan of theirs for many, many years. They have had a lot of incredible video series. They had the Glenbury Middle School series.

They had Haven't You Done Well? They've had God being bigoted in the workplace series of videos. They're really funny. They're just really, really hilarious, silly Australian, very absurd. And their Netflix special, which is a six episode series, is just great. I cannot recommend it enough if you like fucking goofy shit. And it's just if you like just came out.

It just came out like. I don't even want to. I don't know how to fucking sell anti Donna because it's so goofy. Is this is this one of those things where they would sell out Madison Square Gardens if it were in Australia? Oh, they've done American tours, which all sold out. OK, so they're just a huge. OK, it is a humongous thing.

They've they've become they've been like an up and coming thing for many years. And yes, they totally kill it in good old Australia. OK. How you want a very quick anti Donna, like in five minutes, go check out Bikie Wars. But yeah, it's it's just silly fucking goofing around with your mates. Humor of like they're walking through the fucking house, complaining at each other that every every single door or hinge in the house

sounds like a man saying creaky door in which they move things back and forth. As Broden literally just says, Creek, creaky door, I'm a creaky door. And hang out with the fake Queen of England and Tommy McNip, what was it, Tommy McNip? Tassels. But would you say that that the sacrifice was worth it? That the sacrifice of equivalent exchange that Australia had to make in order for anti Donna to get popular,

something had to be given up in return. Well, yeah, we all had to deal with Australia for many years. Well, no, I mean, Australia itself made a trade. You see, oh, they had to live in Australia for many years. So I don't know if you've heard the other news out of Australia, but the nation of Australia has completely banned anti. Yeah, I actually retweeted this like a week or two ago. Was it worth it?

Australia, a country so terrified of pedophiles, I think is what they call them there that they at one point, I think they either tried to pass or did pass a law saying strippers couldn't have less than a B cup. Man, man, that that was that's crazy. That was engaging to the pedophile. That's so crazy. That's wild. That's super fucked up to do.

But yeah, so you sacrifice anime titties and you get your sketch comedy popular. I don't think that is a worthy exchange because in general, like genuinely, anti Donna has been the funniest shit I've been watching on YouTube for years. And they have totally deserved their Netflix show. And it's a great Netflix show. I hear that and I believe you. But on the other hand, anime titties, I'm aware, I'm aware about anime titties.

I am a listen, you may not think I'm aware. I am aware. You know, when Edward Ellrich has to fucking put the sigil down and and convert a pile of anti. I said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Has to convert a pile of anti into the sketch comedy group. Well, they know just into the Netflix contract into the into the Netflix contract. Exactly. They've already been there.

It's true. It's true. But then he gets pulled to the door. Shit. But yeah, if if you like funny things, you should check out anti Donna's Netflix thing. And if you need more, they have a YouTube channel which has so many more bits. Recommend Bikie Wars. Haven't you done well?

Anything where Mark pretends to be a racist caricature of an Italian. Which might be their best bit in their new show. OK, bigoted bills real good. Touchy feely co-worker is pretty good. Stay out of the kiln is pretty good. Role call is really good. They're all pretty good is what I'm saying. It's a good bit.

I will I will take the word take the word for it. It it's the fact that I guess you're well, how do I put this? There is a time when friends would come up to me and be like, hey, check out this YouTube sketch comedy group. And then. Oh, man. And that was literally a different fucking batch every week. And half of them were the person telling you. Wasn't that fun?

Yo, basically got this sketch comedy group. There's a really handsome guy in it. Basically, you I know very, very rarely did it. Was it worth it? So that was rough, you know. But yeah, this is got some proper credentials. Then then that sounds good. I like credentials, I suppose.

Hey, so for a big old, I guess, change of pace, I'm going to request a bathroom break this time because I've been holding in a mean bladder drop. Dude, I got to do it, too. I've been I've been kegling one across streams. No, but you can think about it while you pee. I will not. OK, we will be right back to.

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Yep. Yeah, they refuse to use the full name ever again. The SHH protein. God. Fucking. It's hypothesized that decreased SHH protein is an underlying cause of erectile dysfunction development in prostateectomy and diabetic patients. Our results show significantly decreased Sonic Hedgehog in prostateectomy and diabetic penis.

That's right. If you have diabetes, you have less Sonic the Hedgehog in your penis than the average man. Like nobody wins here. The person who named it doesn't win, Sega doesn't win, the researchers don't win. The person who named it totally wins when you talk about it. But the person who named it is not going for this kind of like fame with it. Oh, that's exactly what they're going for. That's the ultimate win.

They're going for wholesome yay. Look, I named it after my favorite video game type of fame. They're not going after dick don't work fame. That ain't the fame you want. This is like dick don't work fame ain't the good fame. That's the bad fame. We need to get in on this because like, can you imagine the cure for cancer is the newly discovered protein GG Allen was a genius. Excuse me, sir.

I'll cure that cancer for you. You just need to shoot you up with some GG Allen. This is awful. This is awful. And people for years from now are going to have to read this and they're going to have to read other articles extrapolated from this. Oh no, we've discovered a bam Margera tumor inside you. Oh no. The only way to get it out is to chase it out with snakes.

Crash Bandicoot is really great at decreasing AIDS when it's active after HIV. You can take some prep to stop it initially, but Crash Bandicoot works wonders. We need to study Crash Bandicoot more. Yeah. Listen, man, fucking. Cursed is right. Cursed is right. Yeah, that's so cursed.

Yeah, that's cursed. It's very cursed. Yeah. You know, I got a gift from the universe. I got to say it's a. It really is weird. Like the fact that, you know, we are. In a new video game console generation and it just doesn't feel like it as much with.

Because we're older. Yeah. I think like the one constant, the one that like with the main exception is the feeling of like a bunch of dirty scalpers laughing in the dark, having their way. I don't feel like it used to be this bad. No, it was scalping was always fucking trash. Bots have enabled it. But like it's always been this way on these console launches, man.

Like, you know, and like now there's there's like, you know, you could there's forums and the threads where people are all like checking to see what's going on. And the threads where people are all like checking to see what they can get together and people can self can can commiserate. And I was following threads where people are just like, you know, like, oh man, I got mine. All best buys coming through note canceled. Oh fuck. Okay, guys.

Okay, boys, get ready. We're going to try this and everyone's kind of trying it together. And there's this kind of camaraderie in the hunt and and like you and like you hear people like breaking where they're just like, dude, I'm going to just buy the scalp. And it's like, no, don't enable them. No, don't buy the scalp. Don't enable them. You're just going to give them more power.

You have to stand the moral ground. The money to scalp more, you know, and that's in there like, ah, but I need it. And like, or like my kid's birthday and, you know, and you're reading just like the full. It's a community, man. And I was I was there scrolling through it and like it is a it is a real like one day, maybe one week tops community that comes together of people that are all like, you know, they're finding strength in the brotherhood of trying to just honestly get their hands on a system and everyone is just like trying to reinforce each other with positive words.

And some people do fall for the scalps, but it's it's you know. Yeah. Yeah. You got to hang in there. It does suck though that like a bunch of alerts I got were for like Sony Direct because it's like that would be a nice way to get it if Sony Direct worked in Canada, but it doesn't. Ah, fuck me. Fuck.

Yeah. So anyway, the generation is started and I guess it'll just continue feeling this soft. Being old does have something to do with it, but it's high end PCs. It has something to do with it as well. That's a part of it. That is a part of it. I also even back in the day, having a high end PC, all the games are different. There's also a thing to where the tapering at the end of a generation, like, well, I

mean, I guess it's because PS4 was just was still as healthy as fucking ever. But it, you know, they PS4 has been around for like a fucking decade and shit's still dropping, you know, and we'll continue to drop in just like kind of the PS2 that had like a really long life cycle and tail end. I feel like the more alive a current generation is, the less you're really thinking about like that next one when it comes along, you know. Also, I mean, the jump, like, do you remember first seeing a PlayStation or N64 in person? Have your fucking mind blown out your ass?

This is, yes. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Those are done. Like, holy goddamn shit. That's like an arcade machine. I would say the jump has become like, it's still humongous, but the impact is half as much as the last time. Every time.

It's diminished by 50%. You know, I was thinking about this the other night and I was talking to some friends about oblivion and I just happened to be scrolling through some clips and saw a video footage of the Avatar 360 game where you played as like the Navi with like the gun and you were shooting other Navi. The game that gives you a free thousand points for doing a five hit combo. No, no, no, the Avatar James Cameron one. Okay.

Yeah, Pandora. Right. And I'm looking at it and I'm like, man, that was totally the shittiest generation. The 360 PS3 Wii was totally the worst. I have a lot of good memories of 360 games. XBLA, XBLA stuff made me very happy. A lot of my happiest XBLA stuff were ports of old games, admittedly. They were.

A lot of my favorite XBLA game is the port of doom. Sure. Yeah. Getting Soul Calibur one, getting Icaruga, getting a lot of stuff ported up made me happy. Third strike online. Um, I don't know. I don't know about that sentiment. All right.

Well, when you, when you, when you say that, I demand a challenge, provide a other worthy awful generation and you can't say the Atari because of the crash, because before the crash, it was the beginning of video games. But technically there was a generation before Nintendo and it was the real first generation. It was so awful. It was so awful. It almost killed you. So that is always going to be the worst generation.

All right. All right. By definition. We'll all agree that the Atari pre-crash was totally the worst generation. I mean, Commodore is in there and, and, and all those other, you know, um, fucking pre-90s consoles. Yeah. Uh, but anyway, let's take a look at what is going on.

Uh, so yeah, I would say, uh, top of the list, uh, was the thing that everybody fucking woke up to in Montreal. The bizarreness of hearing about a hostage situation happening over at the Ubisoft building. That was not Poggers. I'm going to go ahead and say that I think most people that are like part of any sort of friend, group or game community in this city probably know someone that works there at minimum one. There's a lot of employees that work in, in, at UB Montreal, um, when, uh, and as someone

who was again, like, you know, from coming from QA, I know people that are there and coming from, um, uh, the fighting game community as well, I know people that are there. So, uh, that was some fucking heinous stupid shit that, uh, we had to, we had to see unfold. And, um, the final state of affairs, uh, was, uh, Ubisoft responded by, uh, thanking the SPVM, which is our local police and that, and they, and that they were able to confirm there was no threat, uh, but they were called in for a hostage taking situation and it seems like it turned out to be a swatting, um, yeah, wonderful. There's, there's, uh, uh, details that are still not super widely available about how

and what went down, but one of the early ones, then there's always a lot of things that are not confirmed. One of the things that is not confirmed, but like I heard was that, uh, it might have come at the call might have been from inside the building, um, and someone, uh, uh, that I spoke to that works there said that they heard the same thing, uh, however, um, it still turns very interesting, very strange aspect to the story. In fact, the strangest, uh, but either way, the end result is that it was, uh, not real. Uh, and, and of course, you know, the police rolled in and tried to figure out what was

happening with it. And it, you know, a couple hours later, they were able to clear it. Some pretty, uh, scary images of like, Pete employees on the roof barricading the door and like the helicopters were kind of nearby, just checking out the situation. Um, yeah, just a fucking, you know, a hyper fucked thing to, to, to have happening, uh, anywhere. Um, other, uh, things we know was that they were on a bit of a skeleton staff because, uh, most people are working home from COVID, obviously, uh, there still are people that

go in, there are teams that go in basically to, uh, finish up any, like any, any teams that are doing like ongoing think products that are already out kind of are working at home, whereas games that are, um, about to, to release are currently are in, uh, uh, the final stages are the teams that were there. So, um, you know, majority of the workforce was not there, but nonetheless, uh, there was a point at which they thought like 12 people might have been inside and yeah. Um, for those of you who, uh, might not know, uh, swatting, uh, is something that basically is when, uh, someone calls the police and says that there's a, like threat requiring

a SWAT team at an address dangerous maniac out here that you guys need to come over, whatever they say, hurt somebody and then the police roll up and, uh, in a best case scenario, uh, they fucking terrify somebody and kick a door down and find out nothing is going on. And in a worst case scenario, someone gets fucking shot and killed. So, um, that is one of those things where, yeah, uh, if you are responsible for that and that kind of thing happens, that's to me, that's, you are just, that's a body on your hands.

You go to jail for that time. That's fucking, you killed that person. Oh, you, you do. You know, so, um, go to the jail now, please. And the threat of that occurring in a situation where it doesn't thankfully like this time around is still high enough that you need to have the proverbial book thrown at you. So, um, holy shit, fuck those dog shit people that do that. Not much else to say on the story besides that goes without saying, but I'll say it

anyway. Hey, don't do that shit. All right. Moving on to different news. I guess, because I don't have anything to add to that. Yeah, no, not much. Fuck them. Not much, not much to say, you know, um, you know, more details as they arise, I suppose,

but, uh, that's it. So at this point, uh, yeah, we talked last week about how, uh, there was some, uh, some bad things happening over with Capcom. And as of today, uh, multiple sites are reporting, uh, and Capcom has spoken up officially to release a statement about the fact that their servers were hacked and, uh, they were basically compromised with one terabyte of data. They believe they announced, they basically said in their statement that, um, uh, pretty much as we kind of were hinting at, uh, or as, as we were kind of mentioning last week

that, uh, personal information of employees was involved, sales reports and financial data. Um, and, but now they're specifying that this might also involve personal information of customers, not credit card data, um, and confidential corporate information. Uh, they also released a timeline of events, uh, basically initially they thought no customer information was breached, but now they believe that up to 300 or 35, excuse me, 350,000, uh, people or cases might be what, uh, breached information are we talking about? Well, again, they're saying people's emails or is it like, they're, they're not specifying, but they're saying no credit card data.

Oh, that's good. So, um, there's that and then, uh, yes, they, they released a little timeline of the incidents and basically, uh, you know, they were, their data was held for ransom and they contacted the police and, uh, tried to work things out, but that's pretty much the state of it. And at the moment they're trying to figure out, you know, like who and what and how, but like no details on what, uh, personal information of customers has been involved. But obviously, uh, I think, you know, this is the type of story that you want to, uh, stay tuned to find out if that might compromise something you could be on that list.

You know, or so if, if they release anything about, if it's just names, if it's emails, what that's going to be, um, so that's currently happening. And, uh, yeah, man, that, that's trash as well. That sucks, especially considering that, uh, you know, one thing that we did mention last week that, uh, is the case as well is that as far as like employees go, employees did have their personal data involved as well. Um, so that's what we're seeing from the reports. Capcom has, has put out.

Um, so those were the two big things I would say that happened this week. Uh, also on the, what are you talking about? You forgot the biggest news this week of all. Which I think you were actually going to segue into. No, I probably wasn't because I was going to segue. There's a couple of places, but I mean, you want to, you, you, you want to talk about the big new discovery? Is that the, I did.

Okay. Well, the biggest, I did, I was excited. The biggest, the biggest new, exciting news of the week is that they found a new primate. There's a new monkey, new monkey. New monkey. They found a new monkey in Myanmar. The Papa Langer named after its home in Mount Papa is critically endangered with its numbers down to about 200 individuals.

They found the new monkey and the new monkey is already facing extinction. This is going to go soon. Return to monk, they say, but little did they know that we discovered it as it was on its way out. They're cute. I like them. Born to die. Oh, sorry, monkey.

World is a fuck. They eat leaves. They're found across Southeast Asia. And it's got a distinctive spectacle like eye patch, but they're at risk because of habitat loss and hunting and scientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar based on DNA extracted from droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has been hard to find. New monkey alert. No, no, this is like, this is when you get like the notification that something is downloading

in your download bar. And then before you can click on it, this is the notification. You get the notification for it is finished downloading. This is like getting a new monkey discovered. And then another notification says nevermind. World record any percent to monkey extinction. Extinction any percent. W.R.

I mean, but isn't that the most 2020 possible? Natural news. It sure is. Wally, it sure is like the discovery of some new shit immediately followed by it's it's fucking. Oh, it died. It's speed run fucking death is the most it's the most 2020 you can get. So, you know, let's let's not get it twisted here.

No, no, there's even bigger news this week, my friend. Bigger news than that. If you were worried about the state of Boruto, my friend, I was you need not be worried anymore. Why? Because Masashi Kishimoto is returning to claim the helm as writer on Boruto. Now, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking out there.

You're thinking. But wait, hold on a minute. Was it he up to something else? Uh, no, it seems about that seems that he was up to nothing else. Nothing else happened. Don't worry about it. Kishimoto is coming back. And if you enjoyed your children with non traumatizing fucked up childhoods, just you wait.

Hard cut to him. Just grabbing all those characters and just just finding ways to just write it right in the right in the bin in the bin you go, you know, good memes. Good meme in there's some good meme in to come from this. All the characters childhoods like getting dunked in the trash with like fucking like dunk contest level windmills. All all female characters, all women in the story. Just dunk contest from the fucking free throw.

Like, yeah. And in particular, I enjoyed the there's a good one. Are you familiar with the tough guy entrance meme? I have not familiar with the tough guy. Tough guy entrance is a shot of a man is wearing some glasses and he walks into a room and just kind of stands there and like kind of poses and then it zooms in on his face and he's just staring at everybody. Um, he was a piece of shit involved with the, uh, the Paris attacks and he was tending like a tough

guy after a I remember that guy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Asshole, asshole, Paris attack guy who like who like let the people stay in his place and he's and then it's a tough guy on. Yeah. So people are just like, you know, Kishimoto walking back into the room after you heard

you talking shit about samurai eight. That's that's not what happened. That's that's not what happened at all. I legit can't think of any parallel to this situation ever where somebody left to do better things and then horribly failed and then came back and people were like, no, stay away. There has been Kojima trying to get away from Metal Gear from the director's chair ever since snake eater, but he never actually did. Um, oh, Cliffy B, good one, good one, chat, but like who has stepped away from a work

or handed the work off in some way because it is a different series and then came back after the Hindenburg. Hmm. I don't know. I don't know, man. Movies. Are there any movies where they're like, oh, well, they're okay. How about this?

How about this? Starship Troopers, right? Yeah. Didn't Vanderbeek leave for two and then come back for three straight to DVD? Oh, that might be true. That might have happened. I believe it wasn't like the creative force, right? Oh, Star Wars.

There was. Yes. True. Jay Abrams. True, true, true. Yeah. True, true, true. There's a bit tangential, but there's a really good like conversation your party members can

have and Yakuza where they're walking down the street and they're like, so Ichiban, what was it like being in jail for like 20 years? He's like, well, when I got out, there's a bunch of manga that I wanted to catch up on. And then he's like, oh man, you must have had to go through a lot of volumes. Like not really. It kept going on hiatus and I couldn't believe it. Oh, my God, that's beautiful. That's going to apply to Hunter Hunter.

Oh, that's beautiful. And I can't think of anything else. It has to be one of those two. It's something you care about. It's something you care about. It's gone on hiatus. It'll come back eventually. Could you imagine getting out of jail after a 20 year stint?

Your favorite manga is on hiatus. God, there's a fucking hard drive article to exploit the premise on. But anyway, excuse me. What? Yes, I was going to say that Toriyama. I don't know if that counts. It doesn't. Maybe it does, but it doesn't feel like it because GT effectively killed Dragon Ball.

So it doesn't feel like he, you know, but then it. But yeah, like if it kept going, if super happened right after GT, it would have felt more like this type of situation, you know. But yeah, yeah. That being said, this is awful for any. Buddy that's enjoying more to, I feel really bad. Can I give, can I give GT one like sideways compliment though? Super 17 is a really cool design.

Not just that. Or the idea of fusing with yourself. Not, not necessarily. And I, you know, I'm not talking about that. Uh, no. The overall on paper idea of making Dragon Ball resemble OG Dragon Ball a little bit more, yeah, is a noble and worthy endeavor. On paper, the idea of making things go, go back to how Dragon Ball kind of used to be

is something that I don't hate, you know. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Uh, anyway, just the adventures they happen to go on were fucking terrible. So I'll fucking out of context, uh, shot of, of Yajiro be roasting Piccolo's brother. Just like fucking Dragon Ball was wild. Dragon Ball was nuts, dude. Dragon Ball is like, I think Dragon Ball is like a more consistently good manga than Z.

I mean, I fucking love Dragon Ball. Yeah, it's just that Z was inventing Shonen as we know it, you know. Yeah. It was inventing the cool fight thing as we know it. So like it was like in a time when we weren't like, there were other fight manga, certainly, but like that particular formula, you know, um, kind of, uh, uh, was, was showing people like a whole new, oh my God, it's like, it's the stands, the stands came in, you know, but OG Dragon Ball had stories.

It had characters. It had a charm. There was a, there was fun and goofy shit and fights had like solutions that sometimes were like weird and technical and not necessarily just based on a number. Less than big number. Yeah. You know, um, Goku flying versus learning how to fly versus you having Nimbus versus feet Kamehamehas and yeah, like all kinds of little things.

You know what I, you know what I really miss? I miss like Goku running into a guy that was like a person and that person just beat the shit out of him, like just beat his fucking ass in and Goku was like, God damn it. I really got to fucking get my shit together. And you usually learn like a thing or like train super hard with Krillin Toriyama gets to flex his best abilities when he's telling old school Dragon Ball stories. Right. When he's telling a bunch of goofy kids, try to figure out a problem or meeting, you know,

some weird new characters and shit like that. Like, yeah, he's, he's at his best in that because as, you know, Plague of Gripes, I feel like has, has demonstrated many at times. When it gets to the, the power battles, it becomes really just like the events start warping themselves to serve the battles as opposed to the battles serving the story. You know, but it's fucking. I think my favorite dragon ball commentary. What do I ever had was break new ground on here.

Like the breakdown of like everyone's like, wow, they're so fast. I can't follow it with my eyes and like all that shit. And it's like, well, how are they talking? Like they're ostensibly moving multiple times faster than the speed of light. Amen. Anime, anime panel time is, is not real. You just have to ignore. Yeah, but like, I genuinely, I'm going to.

You got to ignore it. There are a lot of, I think my favorite Kamehameha ever is literally the one Goku does to Bulma's car. The first one. You remember how crazy that was? Roshi did this fucking shit and then Goku's like, yeah, I can do that. And they're like, well, okay, that one kind of sucked. But holy crap.

You totally did do it. That was a good one. Um, yeah, please get excited for Boruto. I legitimately, here's the thing. If you're out there and you're following Boruto, actually take note of this in the moment it happens. Like, let's, let's, let's see. Let's see if you can see things.

Take a swerve back to the, the old habits, you know. There was a guy in the comments that asked for us to screenshot his comment, but I won't, but I will immortalize it. And he yelled out, watch Itachi come back to life and solo half the cast in the next chapter. Boy. Good shit. Good news. Good news.

Anyway. Um, so yes, that's what's happening over there. Have you, I really, Could you imagine? Oh man. What's up? I was like, could you imagine if that actually occurred? Like how bad?

Like just straight into the trash. Dude, I mean, look, like, never forget that Orochimaru was still just hanging out, you know. He's signing autographs at the ninja fair. He's just, he's hanging out with the grandkids of the, of the people he murdered, you know. Anyway, so. Onto better things, right? Onto better things.

For example, have you seen how fucking incredible, you know, we talked about like blue point and the job they're doing on that remake, you know, and the job they usually do. And you know, a couple of little things with those models, but it is what it is. But I mean, really what blue point needs to do is step their game up because they need to catch up with the 13 remake because the 13 remake is apps. It's crushing it right now. And if you haven't been paying attention, this joke. Wally, this joke is not funny because they were working under very tight deadlines and did not

do nearly a good of a job as they could because of coronavirus. Play magic. I'm just kidding. That's bullshit. They fucked it. They fucked it all up. But that's their excuse. I'm like waiting for, I'm like, mother fucker, when the fuck did that come out?

I'm like, they literally said like, well, you know, we're working from home with Corona. So, uh, you know, um, it was tough. Okay. Hey, have you played any video games recently that you enjoyed? Yeah, I've played many video games recently that I've enjoyed. And that did they come out during, you know, the time? Many, a couple of them were delayed. Okay.

But they came out pretty, pretty great in general. Just checking. No worries. Yeah, that's what I thought. Well, anyway. So, hey, children, people are like, what game are we talking about? We're talking about 13. We're talking about FF 13.

No, no, 13. No, we're talking about XII. XII is a old ass game that was cel-shaded. Yes, you're a first person shooter. Yes. And I thought it was Ubi, wasn't it? I believe it was, but that, but I don't, but like they are not involved in this remake. But there was a game called XII.

It was a first person shooter. It was cel-shaded. And the fact that it was cel-shaded was the only thing to really say about it because it was, hey, look at it. It's got the cel-shading and that's all. There are people that like that game. I'm not one of them, but there are. Now, I never played it, right?

But from what I could tell, it was mainly about that visual style being something that people enjoyed. And it also kind of comic booked a bit by having like. It was quite visually strike. Yeah. It had like onomatopoeia appearing and things like that. And, you know, this was an early on when like there weren't a ton of games that were doing this. It had a very strong art style. And I'm just going to keep talking about that art style because that's all there is to say.

That's that. Yeah. But yes, I never got to it back in the day. Should I play this remake? Well, here's play magic and publisher, my Croids, have remade the classic first person adventure and they've issued an apology for what is being described as a disappointing myriad of technical issues. Here, I'm going to send you.

I've watched some video reviews on this. Did you see? And it is considerably more than a disappointing myriad of issues. It is a train fire. Step one is the side by side comparison of the art style, which the cell shading is gone. They literally just undid the cell. It's like it's the craziest art decision I've ever seen for any fucking game. Like the identity and the point of the thing that people liked.

You just went and said, nah, and you took it away. And you know, it's just it's such a it's such a weird, weird decision to make. They uncell shaded it. It's the only thing I ever knew about the game. It's the only point same to bring up here. And they just kind of turned it into what the tweet refers to as just kind of like a generic kind of Fortnite model. And yeah, yeah, it just it looks like Fortnite turns into whatever, right?

And then you can just check out the gameplay because the game getting uncell shaded is like really dumb. But whatever, okay, no, not whatever. It's dumb. But just there's a second thing where you look at the the the gameplay and there's a video compilation of just like the what looks like essentially when you shoot characters, when you shoot the the the enemies, the AI doesn't react to getting shot. They just go from being active to ragdolling.

And in fact, there appears to be like a half second delay. Yes, yes, true. So you shoot somebody and then the person stands there continues walking if they were walking. And then a second later, they just slowly crumple to the ground. And it's it's not unlike I'm reminded of what old ass movies from like God from like the black and white era where they didn't know what people dying should look like in war. So you go watch an old war movie and people just kind of lie down and go to sleep after they get shot. You know, now, to be fair, in real life, you do just kind of fall over.

Not everyone goes blah and has a big old like crumple very quickly. There's an impact felt from where the bullet hits you or so. And you generally go falling in that direction with some sense of velocity. In this case, it's like you got tagged by the bullet and then you take a couple steps and then you go time to go Betty by and they go down and take a nap. There's also a bunch of other shit like staring at some ammo. And as you walk up to the ammo, it slides up onto a desk. And as you walk away from it, it drops under the desk.

So the other there's so many like you can check out a g-man lives is Australian guy does video reviews for a lot of shooters. He went into a very exhausted breakdown. And like the final couple levels like the sound effects just sounded like your sound card is dying. You can't quick save anymore and they were replaced by checkpoints. They they mixed the music so low you can't hear it anymore. Iron sights have been added to some weapons, which completely fucks up the whole balance of the game. There's tons and tons and tons of bugs. There's a great one of the worst ones I saw is there's a sniper mission.

Is that what you're going to mention? I was going to the guy who's on the roof that is just walking around. I don't know if you saw that there's a one on one moment where the they're basically this dude is just trying to shoot you. But every couple of seconds he stops trying to shoot you and just kind of like goes back to walking around in like a non patrol. But just just no aggression in the AI at all. And you can just slowly meander to the left and he'll always miss. And it's just soft and weird.

There's a there's a series of flashbacks in the game that don't have a black and white filter anymore. So it looks like you just got teleported to a memory or something. Like it's super confusing. But my favorite is there's a sniper that you shoot off a building with a sniper rifle underneath the billboard. And in the original you would hit him in the head and you would see three escalating panels from left to right that were a zoom in of his face. And then it would follow him in one of the panels as he fell off the building and go right. It was a really cool shot. And in the remake it's a single panel that you shoot him

and he just ragdolls and has no sound effect. And that's it. Yeah. It's it's hard to describe like how a game like some what am I trying to say here. Drake and the 99 Dragons launched that way. They weren't trying to remake a story and game that already existed and that people already you know liked. If this is the end product of your efforts like why would you not just stop pull the plug and call it a day. It's it's it's absolutely cancel worthy. Like when you when you watch video footage of the two versions side by side you could you could convince people that the old one is the is the is the remake.

That's that's fucking rough. But it's like dude like it's that bad. It looks that shit that it wasn't worth it. Yeah. Cost sunk file sunk cost fallacy. You know we are we are where we are. Anyway rip rip 13 wasn't the greatest game in the world but it did have some cool stuff. And this is an incredibly depressing legacy for if you cared if you're one of those that cared. And again I was always just like oh yeah it's that cell shaded game and that was what it was to me. If you did care fucking hell. I feel bad for getting handed this. Yeah they came out they apologized for how fucking shit it was.

And you know they said they're going to keep working on it. Oh quiet shy reports. She beat the remake. It's an eight hour game and she has four hours of bugs recorded. Yeah. Oh yeah boy. That is some of these are real good. Like you know those you know when the person's head texture just freaks out and just pulls their whole asshole out through their fucking face. Yo four hours of bugs on an eight hour game. I'm fucking hard. I'm a wrecked. That is beautiful. QA dies hard man. That is gorgeous. That's that's lovely. Glad to hear it. Yeah man. A good bug. A good bug. Chub you right up. Chub you right up.

What is happening over here. Right. Well you might have heard but if you didn't there is the Neo collection coming to PS5 the complete edition. The fuck is that announced. Oh PS4 and PC Neo one Neo two all the DLC everything. I thought you meant the matrix. No Ni oh. Both games coming out PS4 PS5 and all the DLC just there's it's all here and it's all going to be next our current gen to next gen rather whatever like it there's I hate this part of the generation where there's just no excuse in my mind yeah but it is a current gen it's whatever it's fine we'll figure it out cornered there's no excuse anymore it's amazing they added fucking burning demsy rolling fists they've always had the kusari

gamma it's just it's an amazing game it continues to be that everything I see and every update I get about it is wonderful their development is based on quality of life I have nothing but the utmost respect for everything that is Neo and now they just dropped a fucking collection on us so this is incredible however no announcement can ever be truly flawless everything must be sullied to some degree uh-huh uh-huh on the plus side amazing new game collection both games all that good shit have you seen the PC valve helmet oh man that thing's awesome have you have you seen this motherfucking helmet dude that thing's great if you guys if you haven't seen it seen it pull up

google and type neo to valve helmet and take a look take a look at this motherfucker yeah it's a samurai helmet it is made of razor chroma keyboards it's got keyboard buttons along its sides and front there is a head is a is a gamer mouse it's a gamer mouse head with a trackball up top and there is a valve sticking out the back like the valve man logo it is the worst dumbest fucking helmet I've ever seen I don't know if you know this but there's a reason why that helmet is so ridiculous what's going on did you ever see this I just sent it to you in discord it's the neo one valve helmet so this is the sequel okay which was a samurai helmet that had a

valve stapled into the forehead with steam coming out of it now to be fair this is a helmet that is normal it's iron and then there's the valve like you know like again like the back of the guy's head valve man but it's in the front and it looks like a normal helmet with that little touch on it it wasn't a big bad gamer keyboard for huge poggers a gamer chad helmet yeah humongous poggers when you put this helmet on did you know that the inhibitor for sonic hedgehog protein is called robot nick kenan I wonder if you can robot nick makes your your penis flat I wonder if you can um wear this helmet and then keep pulse the gamer word

you'll have to find out for me buddy you can always give it a shot I don't think I'm in I don't think I could but I think I'm I think I'm fine I think I'm I don't think I'm enough of an alpha gamer to pull it off just with the with the energy coming in the key pulse when you do a key pulse yeah yeah it's good it's good um all right you want to you you want to keep talking about sonic hedgehog we can tell that was it that was all I wanted well too bad we can talk more about sonic hedgehog oh no you said you liked oh you liked and you're currently enjoying like a dragon quest

what if that's correct I am what if dice caseato took over on sonic the hedgehog I would literally trust any person on the yakuza dev team over any person on the sonic team I would literally trust anyone not on sonic team more than anyone on sonic team so for possibly the people making that 13 remake seriously anything just give us anything longtime yakuza series director uh producer dice caseato has gone on record saying he'd like to work on a sonic game it's an IP that I haven't come to before in that sense I want to try it sonic after all when you hear sega you think sonic I'd like to get involved

but if I were to do it I wouldn't make sonic as it was I would make it completely different honestly walls like you could you could take yakuza like a dragon and swap the models and have and like bootleg the the characters names over each other with the names sonic and amy and shit and change almost nothing and that would be the best sonic game in years I mean fans make sonic fan games all the time I wouldn't be surprised if a sonic RPG was out there fully fleshed out wait a second wasn't there an official sonic rpg on on on ds by bio where it's terrible was it terrible was it ds the dark brotherhood it's called the dark brotherhood gba how early was it no it's the ds right yeah ds okay i just like oh no i just

my brain just fucking activated on that like some synapses fired boo there's an official rpg isn't there okay woolly you need to listen to this you need to remember you need to listen to 10 seconds of this music track that is dogs on a chronicles the dark brotherhood the central city theme it is the worst wait hold on the worst hold on wait ever it is unbelievable wait for the drop like like it is you put that up pretty fast platform oh i have that ready i have that ready for when sonic rpg gets mentioned 547 000 views 12 years oh yeah no um that is the same

system by the way the nintendo ds that gave us radiant history as the edge of green with violin whoo like it sounds like a game boy game i thought a gba game i think that causes extra damage because it's sonic oh yeah it's music associated with sonic the hedgehog so that causes extra damage i agree you have further to fall because there's some good god damn sonic music out there man but yeah i think everyone agrees just give any like just give give sonic to anybody that wants it really at this point just anybody just take it from where it is and just give it to just give

it to anyone just make it a fucking public domain thing with a licensing fee and just have it roll in how did they not just create a new job position called king of sonic and just give it to christian whitehead and say you are king of sonic for life i don't know i'm going to assume i this i have no information to back this up this is completely out of my own ass and head but i'm going to assume that people inside sega don't like that people outside sega were the ones to make the good sonic game because well they don't even really work here i don't know if that is true but i do know that there have been stories from time to time where a studio that gets upshowed by a western developer reacts poorly to that yes i have heard the term said by me

that it's possible that people throw a pissy pissy diaper tantrum baby fit if a team from not the regular team does a better job than them was it there i'm trying to remember besides other subject matters a vague interview about how platinum got involved with revengeance and how rising was failing and i'm i'm i'm again i'm i'm just i have a spotty memory on this but i feel like there was an interview that involved them coming and basically being like like this is kind of like the pride of japan and if we have to like lose this project or hand it over or something it will be really embarrassing so like we really yeah can you guys save this

right like wasn't there something like that where they basically well i mean they did a they did a huge thing where kajima was like my team is terrible and competent and can't lead themselves so we had to go to platinum show them how it's done it was it was very very like spank their ass in public embarrass them shit there was a there was a thing involved in the conversation involved like that specifically mentioned like how japan was doing in the industry at the time and that like platinum being involved was an important factor uh for that reputation um yeah it was a while ago though unfortunately i don't fully remember but yeah um you got that going down and

if you are looking for games to play you know well there's a full launch list here so i'll stick on the docket a full launch list of everything exclusive or everything rather launching on x-bone and xx and ps5 but um a couple of announcements alongside this stuff one apparently someone's remastering blood rain one and two so if you missed out on you can't shut up you missed out on blood rain now is time for blood rain this gives a terrible uve ball presents blood rain cigarette interactive shut the fuck up releases blood rain and blood rain two enhanced respectively titled blood rain terminal cut and blood rain two fuck up terminal cut

for pc via steam and g o g wait what it's a terminal cut again that doesn't make any sense blood rain terminal cut and blood rain two terminal cut for pc via steam and good ol games on november 20th if you currently hey hey hey that's terrible hey wait hold on if you currently own blood rain if you currently own blood rain or blood rain two on steam you will receive terminal cut and blood rain two terminal cut for free yo you guys you already got the game you already have uno you already have it you guys are you like all right i can't believe everyone listening to this already owns blood rain and blood rain two terminal cut excuse me blood rain terminal cut and blood rain two terminal cut

this is terrible i like upgrades i'm a fan i have a much it fucked that i don't shut up i'm just gonna quote the new york times from 1994 for a minute or two naming the varieties of hedgehog genes which play a key role in embryo development has been a source of friction amongst research teams one group wanted to give the varieties numbers another letters dr clifford j tab and developmental biologists at harvard medical suggested they each name every newly detected gene after a species of real hedgehog this scheme stuck for the first three which were designated indian moon rat and desert the third person a horror action series blood rain introduced gamers to rain a brutal half vampire femme fatale traveling the world to foil nazi plans

battle supernatural threats and uncover more about her vampiric heritage featuring a unique protagonist fax action combat vampiric powers and globe spanning storyline blood rain and blood rain two offered a dynamic and visceral gameplay experience beloved by fans and critics alike and decided blood rain became a true cross media phenomenon spanning games comics and films across the early 2000s test the new name saying it trivializes a nobody optimizations includes support for higher display resolutions improved rendering upscale cinematics support for modern gamepads the biology laboratory national localizations include fully voiced localized characters in english french italian and spanish optimized

the ziggurat interactive president wade rosen said in a press release fans have been asking what's next for blood rain we're excited to show off the great work that's been done by terminal reality on the first two titles all right that's uh you get over the emails we have any other actual news uh yeah no uh we're done okay cool hey send email down super best oh that's wrong uh castle super beast and gmail.com wait that's not the email either what's the fucking email castle super beast mail at gmail.com castle super beast mail at gmail.com that's right that's the correct one

oh there's a metroidvania style action game called spirit of the samurai in which you're a samurai it's a 3d on a 2d plane and then you become a little like spirit ghost thing and you're fighting looks kind of a little little weird but kind of kind of cool i'm curious to see more uh might be interesting that is hard that is hard to search for on google yeah and uh that brings up a million other things breaking breaking breaker break news uh the ggpo rollback netcode beta for guilty gear xx accent core plus r has been extended once again and this time it's lasting until forever cool cool extension guilty gear has rollback baby let's fucking go dude like i can't tell you i mean i can't

tell you when i'm about to the ability to pop okay here's how fucking good this is so i played um this week and then i played uh some more i played with octopimp i got fucking wrecked uh and then i played with some friends in the in the mtl community the game has the the fact that you can pop it open play it get a good ass match instantly and like get two sets in in like five minutes and then close it like i can do that like when i feel like like it's like playing teppen for me right when i got a little minute to just play i can just pop it open get a couple games and then turn it off and like because in my brain it's like low commitment it just like it's so fun to just jump on and not have to fucking deal with any trash right furthermore it supports a cool feature

that i did not know steam had where uh when you make a lobby you can create uh you can press a button like you press like um it's it's lt on the controller but it's one of your stick buttons to copy to the keyboard a url that is a steam url that if you paste it at a friend or somebody they will click on it it'll launch steam launch the game launch your room and put them in the room that's cool in one fucking click so you can just make a game and then paste your link at at whoever you want to play with and they instantly join the room it boots the game up and goes right to it it's godlike and you play perfect connection because it's got fucking rollback like it's so easy and quick to get games in i i'm i'm i can't believe how about how good this is um i didn't

know that fucking steam even had this and yeah stadia better be crying stadians on suicide watch like fucking unbelievable how good that is man uh anyway hey woolly i have a piece of trivia that our old pal buttons helped me discover just now because i did not know uh are you aware that there is another classic franchise that the yakuza team has actually worked on to save from death because it was awesome and they loved it what was that uh toshi horror toshihiro negoshi co-produced with shigeru miimoto and the producer we were talking about uh daisuke sato was the stage designer for f0 gx whoa holy shit that's fucking awesome that's good trivia hell yeah they should let those guys do whatever yo f0 rules man

and fuck yeah that's super cool they should let those guys do whatever and now i'm sad that f0's done oh yeah because they also they like they saved it and then they killed it well they didn't kill it but yeah man gx i always wanted to play ax i i kind of wish there was a way for that to happen but the only thing i know about f0 gx is that i saw somebody playing it and i almost threw up good because it was going very very fast good oh you can play x i'm looking at footage right now this is so fast as to be there i don't understand how this is a real game there is a way to play ax yeah you can play ax tracks in gx but uh ax i mean okay obviously ax with the full fucking setup would be rad but um

yeah you can actually uh if you if you can actually play it uh on dolphin that's cool of course why is gx so fast cuz gotta go it's so fast gotta go hey you love hey you should give these guys the sonic games fast games huh how about that yeah yeah um you like wipeout yo why about school yeah fast shit good yeah magfest had an ax it's not as fast as that shit though magfest had an ax cabinet i didn't play it there but uh playing playing f0 ax with the full cab would be fucking sweet um but yes either way how about that let's take some letters you got any good letters or just shit ones uh let's try this one over here let's find out

tool guard asks hey willy and high pat been following 13 sentinels play through came out of curiosity um just wondering how come you guys rotate saves i understand bouncing between two and three and i can imagine a number of reasons having every slot used but i'd rather hear from you instead of make wild guesses thanks uh there's uh i mean it's different now that we're streaming all of our shit so the fear isn't quite as extreme uh but it used to be that you'd be recording and then every now and then you would finish recording of an lp session and you would go uh the export recording or you know it do its thing and then uh your shit would just fucking break and not so the other day i was playing some call of duty and somewhere midway through the session

through the mission um the internet across montreal for various videotron lines just fucking exploded and people lost their service uh citywide so that killed the stream and um you know obviously the the backup recording continued but in a situation where that wasn't the case then yeah you would want to be able to go back wherever you need to for recording purposes outside of recording purposes it's also so that you can go back to certain parts if you need to check something without having to go way too many hours behind right the other day in 13 sentinels there was something i wanted to check and admittedly like now that i understand the feature is better i know how to replay things properly but something i was curious about way back at the beginning uh i was i was able to go

back to it because i had a save that was like two saves after the rotation so it was like eight saves ago or so i needed to go see something and it was still there because of the rotation so yeah that's why it's just useful man and if you need space you can know what's gonna happen if you need space you can make more space you know but like uh in in persona games in particular wasted days suck and i'm somebody who likes to i don't i didn't play with an optimal guide to make the most of every single night i kind of wanted to wing it while also making sure i got something decent going so you know a healthy mix of like choosing my own path and kind of being like okay well no today i need to absolutely go hang out with this person so you know nights

where you where you miss out on something horrible or where something sucks you just want the opportunity to like not fuck that up so occasionally if you need a rewind it's nice to be able to go back exactly where you need to um and yeah you can get a lot done with uh just two or three but that's as long as you're okay with things being hours apart you know every 10 minutes is is is a lot easier imagine you were doing an old style LP of ff7 remake and your save got busted or you recorded something like the ff7 lp i was doing um on stream the the stream vaude got all fuck fucky for like three four hours and i had to go and rerecord that for the vaude people right now imagine if i hadn't been rotating saves like uh-oh i just get fucked vaude people just

get fucked but even outside of even outside of lp and reasons like you know you have a pc background you played games where you used to fucking quick save everywhere and save scum yeah you know there's a save scum just do it there's a yeah there's a uh a convenience to having you know to not go back too too far to to fix mistakes or see other paths um let's see here let's take one from uh marcox says their castle super beast in an article called salt sugar and fat i read about how coca-cola markets what they call the heavy user base apparently 20 of consumers use 80 of the product wanted to know your statistics if this relates to other stats about spending on f2p games

hope all as well there are coca-cola whales interesting yeah i mean i don't not believe it that makes sense my mom had a friend back in granada who did not consume water he only consumed coca-cola it was the single man like it is impossible that he's still alive at this point i'm gonna go ahead and say like that doesn't that doesn't work anymore um but like the ridiculousness of like knowing that you're just going to have diamond kidney stones and not giving a fuck yeah you know there's no no he did yeah he actually did pass away now that i think about it i forgot that yes i can't believe yeah no he did

that happened so he was not in fact built different he was not unbreakable oh i just saw something interesting the technically counts as news did you see that fifa 21 will be releasing a spending tracker because it's totally not gambling a what a tracking tool will not only keep track of playtime and how much a real world money you've spent but will also allow you to set limits of how much you can play and spend in fifa 21 oh you'll even be able to limit the amount of packs you can open oh the integration about tracking and limits in fifa playtime is grounded in research that shows having access to more information helps players feel more comfortable give me a source on that is that real is that real

real it's that is super without being company mandated totally not gambling at all what the fuck uh this is their attempt to get out in front of a lawsuit they're going to lose oh my they're going to lose one of these microtransaction spending tracker holy and and this will allow them to go see we've been really forward you know pat how would you feel if the esrb sero and peggy required games with microtransactions to show you the price of what you've spent i'd thought i'd be fine with that that seems like a completely reasonable regulatory practice

would it be safe to say that if you found that bad it would likely be because there's some things that you need to address i think that games that have microtransactions should be mandated that the title screen display the amount of total dollars spent prominently okay on boot okay her boot okay all right yeah no clocks in casinos right right right right did you imagine if like mmo's did like had like a playtime meter in like the upper right corner of the whole time here's the problem right here's the problem and by problem i mean juicy juicy delicious detail uh there will be people that will be really really mad at having

to look at that and those people will find ways to express how upset they are that they're being shown that information and like i don't know what the equivalent of for scrub quotes would be in this case but addict quotes it doesn't really have a ring to it doesn't quite flow doesn't roll off the tongue did you see whale quotes the the guy who works at a credit card company describing his at work experience with genchin impact i did not guys working at the job and he pulls a fraud claim a fraud warning guys card gets auto locked because he appears to have sent 12 000 on genchin impact and under 12 hours oh my god and goes oh that's clearly somebody stole his card yeah you know just went nuts gets the phone call you

unlock my motherfucking card right now bitches oh okay we thought it we thought someone stole your card oh no unlocks it and then is sitting at his desk watching hundreds of dollars of transactions just start flying onto his screen that was a lie i don't want to live in this world anymore every story i tell is a lie i hate it i hate you internet i am now giving up if you think that the internet is terrible and you hate it please direct your complaints to at woolly wolls on twitter pat you will handle can we get a citation on everything coming out of your mouth from this point forward i double checked the monkey story from multiple news sources because i was about to talk about the that was really important i was about to talk about the ethics of over serving in bars

and what over serving is a thing that a bartender is not supposed to do they're supposed to legally cut you off when they observe that you should no longer be drinking booze you've had your you've had enough you're pretty wasted yeah and keep bragging about how you're gonna get in your car so now apply that to other facets of life and you get an interesting thing because you know we have over serving in in a digital spending context and we're adults we're allowed to spend our money however we want to you know and it's you know who are we to diagnose people you know but you can't experience something like that and and walk away uh unshaken if you're the if it's your

job to unlock that card in that hypothetical scenario but it didn't happen because it's not real so who cares it's not real i got punked once again thanks internet yeah i blame mark twain again yeah i have a dog it would be it would be interesting because companies would loathe it they would fucking hate everything about it but a big old cash number up in the top corner to tell you um and maybe even a little like like uh like it let's say it says like five hundred dollars and then it'll say like out of forty nine ninety nine which is what you paid for this game you know just so that you know the retail value versus the extra on it and um um generally speaking i suspect that those who are like that theoretical person will not give

the slightest bit of a shit and it will probably flex that number proudly uh a number of people will they'll be like i know what i am you know i'm a sick fuck you can't shame me you can't stop yeah i'm getting uh whatever that character's name is in all honesty the best use scenario of for that is um mom and dad walking by and going why the fuck does it say two thousand dollars on this this is this is yes that's exactly it like my i was thinking of i just thank you because i forgot earlier but i wanted i was gonna bring up the we and the log so that it tells you how much you've played that day and i remember seeing that and being like it's actually a snitch tool it's a fucking snitch tool every time you boot a game on the original we there'd be a daily log

for parents to see how long you played for and what you played and it's like you can't turn that shit off but it's like nah just ignore it if you're not a parent whatever but it was all there you know um i mean at that point it's like yeah like i mean i i suppose now you've just got like parental apps where they can just check the shit on their phone and see what's up or let regulate time say oh you get x amount of hours per week in whatever the case you want to do um well actually nowadays you just get the amazon drone robot that just monitors your family 24 hours a day there is that yeah you could just do that but yeah some sort of uh price uh display or i mean at that point though you might as well just put it like a limit that says you can't go over this number no matter

what you know that'll be that uh anyway coca-cola whales yeah that's true um what do we got over here let's take one from james says uh sup drist dordan and bueno battle hammer was thinking about finishing amnesia i was thinking about this after finishing amnesia rebirth and finding it rather disappointing i've played many hours and i'm not eligible for a refund so if we sit there on my it'll sit there on my steam library forever untouched but it's not untouched you've beaten it um and i guess i find it kind of wasteful uh it would be nice if i was able to recoup some of the cost of the game you found disappointing or at the very least be able to trade it or even give it away if you know you're never going to touch it again uh should digital

retailers like steam allow you to refund games no matter the playtime or have a side store that allows you to sell unwanted games from your library okay i really think the obvious answer to the first question is no of course not i don't think you should have a refund policy with no playtime requirement like that's ridiculous you beat the video game if you go to a movie but you walk out of the movie and go that movie suck give me my money back you get laughed at that's ridiculous not if you walk out at the end if you walk out in the first 20 minutes yeah they'll probably give you your money back um but um the second one should you be able to sell digital games that's actually really complicated and there's a bunch of government agencies in the eu australia canada

us all are going over it when steam's like no and the eu's probably going to mandate it at some points they all they always mandate all sorts of shit i could easily see a scalp market appearing if you can set your prices on that i could see all kinds of people setting up nefarious shit um it would get yeah it would get rife with weird corruption if you had to figure out how to like again set a price and and and sell a digital thing and then the person gets it and then the and have the transfer and and i know that like a steam is not going to want to handle like regular payouts you know what i mean refunding is one thing but like being a kind of a paypal sort of company is a whole other business you got to open up when you're when you're

effectively paying people you know um i think that is not reasonable to want to refund the game after you've beaten it i think that's some bullshit um and i i assume that the idea comes from beating a game physically and then reselling it after you're done with it you know that's kind of where it's going but no i i think it's more reasonable that it's like if you didn't beat the game if you played it a bit and realized you don't want this or if you haven't touched it at all then yeah have a refund policy um and i think that's a reasonable refund policy you know like no matter what the time uh uh uh well if you buy a game and then you never touch it and then the price goes down after a couple years and then you refund it they should pay you what then yeah

yeah that gets a little murky i i'm just sitting here giggling about like you ever see those steam user reviews that are like 3,800 hours on file you know this game sucks yeah those are fantastic yeah i fucking love them um let's see i mean hmm yeah no it's it's just ridiculous because i'm like the like if you're trying to pull a full conversion of physical to digital in that instance then the idea of like store steam credit for by trading in digital games it's like it's like what like it's okay so we'll delete the game from your hard drive and just give you and you'll get less money on the next like it's like what is a trade-in you know like there's no there's no yeah anyway whatever uh it's

really complicated okay um and similar to that last one we'll take over here from uh angelo says alo been collecting console games mostly the ones i love and never want to part with not very often but when i sometimes i buy a game that i'll trade in later however upon getting a ps5 amidst the pandemic my household is high risk i felt that maybe for the best uh it would be best to start focusing on digital instead especially since ps5 has been offering digital versions and even upgrades of stuff i have and i could therefore get rid of physically uh i figure it'll save shelf space that i'm already running out of and i can get some easily and safely uh i can get some games easily

and safely without having to leave the house plus i won't have to wait for a store to open for an anticipated title i hear a lot of talk about how digital is not the best anymore because you don't truly own what you buy and it won't be possible to access that digital storefront and your library forever however i do feel that if i can't access that digital library for whatever reason there's probably other things to worry about what can i do to alleviate my dumb brain's desire for a plastic box when all i really want is the game to play well the easiest solution is to buy to look at the fucking pile of boxes that you have acquired over your life and wonder how long you can possibly keep that up i can give you my answer when i gotta yeah i absolutely cannot

keep it up yeah i uh when i um i got a ps4 i looked over at the enormous bookcase that was dedicated entirely to 360 and Wii games and was like i can't do this indefinitely like i literally can't like it will be a big problem as i was now we're buying a lot more games than the average person as i was putting plugging in the xx i was putting the x bone away before i put the x bone away i ejected the master chief collection put it back in its case yeah and put the x bone away and realized that i'd been keeping that case in the space where the x bone originally was on the shelf now that the x sex is here and that's taking that spot i go over to my shelf and i'm holding my master chief collection and it took me maybe

10 minutes to figure out where i could fit where i could fit this thing in because there's actually no space anymore and um i'm basically at a point where like like i have to choose what to more or less throw in a closet you know but if i start creating a closet pile then that would be bad so the point is is that i totally um think physical is important and you and it's nice to have something that you own because you never know when you're gonna want to play it again but i am at a point in my life where i can't do it anymore i have to go digital for practicality's sake so do you want to know what my process was for moving my ps4 games um i unplugged my ps4 and i plugged in my ps5 and i took the uh little ssd external ssd

that was i kept my ps4 games on and then i plugged it into the back of the ps5 and then i put my ps4 behind me until i can figure out what i want to do with it and just find a box that works and i'll put it in that closet over there do you own a single digital game a physical game zero yeah zero okay i own zero i have not bought a physical game since long before the ps4 came out because i was buying pc games i own um i can look at them from here i think okay what do i see i see skull girls from the limited run i got that um um i got the special copy of samurai showdown uh with the old neo geobox but i mean i gave reggie the disc for that because i i had the digital i just wanted the cool box um sushima

came right that was provided and uh i see mkx there so i got that at some point and that's it i see four things yeah yeah i think i think i got four physical things over the ps4 how many of those were sent to you like three of them possibly yeah so yeah um yeah no in this line in this line of work it is just like that that's it right yeah i the other important thing to notice that like yeah we're not just speaking like we're speaking as people that are like buying way more than the average person needs to based on the fact that this is our jobs i had a lot of shit shelved up before i started doing this but um it became completely untenable once you know it was like we're grabbing

just about everything of interest that drops specifically to take a look at it you know so um yeah i i honestly think it's just look you just got to realize is like you you don't you you don't have the space for it you know how you know how i feel about digital versus physical games okay get ready when i uh set up the new audio video equipment that i have my ps3 hooked into so that i can record ps3 games i decided to get the ability to do so just to be able to do it i don't really have any plans right now but like it's annoying because like the mgs collections on there stuff like that um i uh accidentally hit the fucking like eject button on the tray for my ps3 and discovered that there was in fact a disc in there and the disc that was

in my ps3 was goddamn akuji the heartless oh yeah yeah yeah and that was still in there from the day that that episode mystery box was that a mystery box in that was a mystery box and that went live september 14th 2016 fuck yeah that's good shit i like that's that's how i feel about discs so i tossed that shit that shit is gone for me uh uh persona for ultimax sat in my fucking tray because every time i pulled it out that was why i was pulling it out so i just i'm like you're just you can just stay here for now what am i doing yeah you pull it out and then you look at it you're like yeah and we can just weld this ps3 shut as far as i'm concerned um what's going on what you got coming up oh uh this week's all bangers on my channel i'm very happy to say that

i'll be playing many more yakuza's like a dragon i'll be playing demons souls the ps5 version and i'll be playing uh more visage uh because people were really happy with that even though it's too spooky for me um did you see what two mellow's doing like an asshole on twitter i mean he got some tracks into sack boy which is pretty sick no no no just straight up trolling dudes fucking playing through demon souls on ps3 and like shitting up the hashtag with screenshots of the ps3 version the goat god bless god bless i love it he's like wow this area looks incredible and it's like the piece of shit like ps3 tutorial like the ugliest looking it's great hey did they do anything to um

really funny did they do anything to world tendency nope the menu is much clearer as uh in terms of uh uh like what is actually happening it's like a bar instead of a brightness but no world tendency has remained i suppose that'll be a rite of passage yes that is the yeah yeah oh man fucking make sure man that was one of my favorite parts of my first stream when i did it i beat phalanx in one try i was very happy and then i went back to the nexus and i'm like check this shit out and i threw myself off the fucking edge and killed myself so i didn't screw up the tendency hey how about that and everyone's like why did you do that why would you have done that and like well it's actually a complicated answer me uh i it's it's i don't i i've been thinking about it and

considering like my overall like you know i'm gonna be in the other chair but i have a general lack of experience i'm gonna be very hands off and i will let the child find its way to the toys you fucking think you will you fucking think you're gonna be hands off i'm gonna be real and then you're gonna see some annoying shit and you're gonna be like well well i mean i i will i don't mind a nudge you know here and there but i think knowing that the journey comes from understanding the mentality i look forward to seeing how the struggle goes and then the eventual aha moment because he is a fucking fighting game player and he does have the ability to assess and learn and play and he was a like major top player at melee so like i know that it's in there

you just gotta you know you gotta i would uh i would do some wiki diving yourself on the upgrade paths of weapons because that game's upgrade material shit is the worst ever it's so bad different it's nonsense no it's terrible okay just the same but like every single every single type of upgrade has a different material and like you can only upgrade certain weapons into other weapons at certain upgrade numbers like you can only make the lava bow with the red hot demon soul if you fucking sorry no with the right spider soul if you upgrade a plus seven bow a plus eight bow can't do it now plus six bow can't i will do my best i'll do my best to have one information on hand that that's relevant and and and you know relay that as needed um i know that as this is a

souls game there will be infinite opinions coming in from infinite one guys about what should happen what to do how to do this and how to have how things should go um but i do believe in the magic of a kind of discovery through of sorts especially for how open these games are so um yeah i'm not gonna be the person that kind of gets in the way and says nah dude this build i don't know i mean i'll try to point out what i hear is good and what's not great and if he asks for recommendations but uh i let i like to let the baby walk i have an advice on what not to do don't let him pick up anything anybody drops for him well that's if that happens yes that might not necessarily happen

highly highly recommend not to let him pick up a bunch of completely okay well hold on if we end up in a situation where we're streaming and people stream snipe us and fuck the lp up then it will just play offline like you know that might like if we cannot play a session without it being unfortunately busted up like that then because yeah when we used to play we used to not we used to play in non-streaming so you know it was like still a regular experience with regular multiplayer um but like we we if this if this would end up being the case for this then yeah we'd have to go offline there'd just be no way around it um and knowing how by the way do you see uh you see we got a little reference in jeans uh i did i did and i and i do want to go read that i

believe uh there was mention of dropping of the shields so uh that is correct so shoutouts yeah over in the the washington post but um uh uh of course this i'm talking but all of this is predicated on actually acquiring a god damn ps5 so so step step one step one is fucking get the god damn thing and when i figure i'm just gonna just go to the store when i figure that out then we can talk about reggie versus demon souls we gotta hit step one first you know what you should do you should get a scraping spear and have reggie just hat keep it on his off hand so if you ever get invaded just pull it out and invaders will just kill themselves i mean like i i i would i want it would be awesome if we could have an experience that was like still online and still involving

the jolly cooperation and also invasion but not at an abnormal stream sniped rate you know oh man when page was playing like ds2 like it it started to get ridiculous like it like there were a couple streams where people were like just scraping up against the god damn invasion timer just like every single 10 minutes just here here comes yeah it's like oh come on guys yeah that's too i mean it would happen it happened in mine too you know when i was going through it so i i just uh yeah i don't think we'll give i think i'd give it a shot we'll see how it goes but if people just make it unplayable then yeah we'll just we'll just go offline you know the the password function is totally in demon soul so you can play online but like

have a password so that um you know people can't uh you know come in unless they know the oh will we still uh interact with um the other shards the bloodstain yeah great perfect beautiful and then give me the password okay okay what the fuck are you gonna do whatever i want i mean if you got some some good ideas let me know but uh don't fucking ruin the ideas what i just told you don't don't ruin the pure boy's first experience he's he's popping a cherry man i would never i will make sure he gets the right experience but like i said step that's step one we gotta get step zero first so um but yes that's there um and then again same thing i said for for talking about uh yakuza zero is gonna be you know as soon as um we get a chance to move you're going to love that i know um but i i over

time have seen just that like it's it's refreshing to not go from big-ass long game to big-ass long game like it's enjoyable for people to get a little breather and play and get a little something short in between hence the little you know uh later alligators and mario galaxies and stuff but um we we should talk about that because that game is like super super massive depending on how much of the side content you do yeah yeah no like i i didn't even do i didn't even do like less than half of the side content on camera and it was still like gigantic but like the side content is the best parts some of the side you know what i will i'll tell you what i will straight up go down the quest list and be like these are the ones you can't miss for the stream there there's because there there's

like they're all winners to a degree but there's ones that are like come on let's that's the one everybody's going to be waiting for how to train your dominators or ghost pornography and i'm also aware too that like uh my my my stop and talk habits especially in the case of something like 13 centinals is like that's starting to irk people that's that much is becoming clear the stop and talk was uh compensating for my talking while important dialogue was happening so i didn't want to miss stuff so i started doing stop and talks but now that's becoming a slow thing you know so i'm gonna try to balance the best of post worlds but uh yes um long game needs to not be made even longer by virtue of the way i play but there's some things i can't really help it's just

the it's just my habits but as somebody who is 100 percented almost every single yakuza game dude there's there's a lot really there's a lot there's a lot in there but like long with lots of stuff to do and enjoy is to me i don't fucking mind it like mario rpg was fun from second to fucking second so i i didn't mind how long that lasted you know even if it is over the recommended experience i'm having that experience with seven which like uh the only things i haven't done on stream are grinding generic like kill ten thug kind of quests and like uh hitting the minigames tons because like every side quest i've done in seven is incredible but yeah like obviously if you know the if i say that but then like less people are tuning in then it's being it's pretty clear

what's going on oh yeah fuck right before we get out of here aew announced their new wrestling game and it's gonna be um by uh the director of no mercy and uh fight for new york and def jam so that's pretty cool however it is also being developed by yukes who made a whole lot of not great wrestling games so potential monkeys paw potential we don't know maybe you see because the people made the things that were not the good but that that guy in charge did the good so i'm hoping that they lean towards the good because the fact that they're advertising that that's what he did and that's what the game is going to be tells me that they know that that's what it should be more than advertising the yukes and the other bad games part of it if what they're pushing is what they intend to follow

it shows that they know you know yeah all right uh that's that's that's good that's good um all right you break that fight up we'll get out of here take care everybody that dog's trying to fuck that can't no do you you You You

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