Castle Super Beast - CSB 113: MELTY BLOOD LIVES, COWARDS

Episode Date: March 30, 2021

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Hey, good afternoon, Woolly. Welcome to podcast. How's, how's you doing today? Doing alright and full disclosure, an attempt at a normal length episode is going to be made, so please bear with. The normal has become a freakish, horrible mutation that is literally twice the length of the intended design, but just like my penis, there you go. But we are going to actually aim for a normal length show, which for those of you who've

been around long enough might recall is two and a half hours. So this is the attempt. This is the attempt. I think we can do it. I think we can have a normal podcast. I know that people have come to bite-size this over the course of the week as they listen. Maybe two weeks. Yeah, it's a little egregious, but nonetheless, I appreciate those that do.

But yes, this is the attempt. More doom review than Tokimeki Memorial review. Sure, sure. I think, I think any self-respecting podcast can aim for that one and a half to two hour mark. I hope Tim's doing alright. Have you seen his Twitter? He's been extraordinarily ill lately.

I have not. He's got, he got like pericarditis. Oh no, that sounds serious. I don't know what that is. Yeah, and then he got like some kind of necrotic lung infection. Oh, not the word necrotic. That's always fucking bad. He described the bacteria that got into his chest, had the word necro in it, and I'm like,

Jesus. Yeah. I mean, all I know is, is that like we indirectly facilitated him and Ludwig talking, and I thought that was a cool interaction. So yeah, that is cool. You know what else is a cool interaction? Let me tell you. If you happen to be browsing your local Epic Game Store Fortnite V bucks vendor and you

want to have a cool interaction with your favorite content creator, the next time you make a purchase, you can use the code Pat stares at and that'll help the channel. That's a cool interaction, right? So the bit can no longer be about spite playing something for weird eyeball like reactions. The bit has clearly firmly become like ironically play the thing and then get super into it. The original bit was slightly different than just spite play it for lulls or what have you. It was. So I talked about this briefly when I played League of Legends briefly.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Both of those games have one thing directly in common and World of Warcraft also had it during its good years, right? And it is when you're playing it, you can feel two things. One is, wow, you can feel how popular it is from the menu if that makes any sense. And the second one is, wow, so this is what a video game with completely unlimited budget feels like. Yes, I recently played Call of Duty.

Yeah. And it's just, oh, every poor has been money syringe to death. And so I actually, this is actually the third time I played the Fortnite. Once I played it, when it came out, the second time I played it six months later, and then this would be the third time. And this is the time that it clicked because I was talking to people about Apex because when the leaks came out for the Apex, they're going to put a Titanfall character in Apex. I don't know if you saw that.

They're going to put the villain of Titanfall 2, I think his name was Bisk or Brisk or something like that, into Apex. Well, he was already in the trailer, the first trailer for the game. He was sitting at the bottom. So he'll have a wall run and he can call Aerie Denial Titan or whatever the fuck. And even if that's not real, all that matters is me going, man, I sure would love to play Apex Legends by myself, like, and ensued was the conversation that happens every time I make the mistake of saying that out loud.

Is somebody comes out of nowhere goes, it has solo queue now, and I go, really? And they go, yeah, you can queue by yourself against an entire game of teams of three. Good solo queue. That's exactly what I mean when I say I want to play Apex Legends by myself. So you got your solo queue in Fortnite, and it sounds like you enjoyed it, how many people exploded into a tower of construction blocks upon being shot? Yeah, there's that. There's that nice little image of like Tetris 99 and Fortnite and I think Apex, which is

like, does somebody turn into a four story building when you shoot them and are you happy about it? Yeah. With Tetris 99 being the only one that's yes and yes. I'm going to say maybe sub 10 percent of all people. Because that is easily the most unappealing thing about the entire game to me. Yeah, absolutely. So it is sub 10 percent of all players that I've seen.

Just you should get hit once and they just instantly turn into a building. And what's actually much more interesting than that is that, how do I put this? Do you remember that match of Third Strike that I played against men where he did the full Daigo parry? Vaguely. Okay, so I played a match of Third Strike against men and I played as Chun-Li and he did the full Daigo parry, like no problem. And then I walked up to him and threw him like six times in the corner.

And what? Because he couldn't tech my throw. That's what it feels like. Okay. It feels like, oh my God, look at that guy turn into a building and then I shot him. From your building? No. He poked his head out and I shot him.

That's been most of those interactions. Okay. There have been like, I want to say literally five times that I have shot someone and they turn into a building and they go into the sky and then they land behind me and fucking put a banana up my ass or whatever. And those are the true iPhone kids or whatever the fuck. So you've played quite a few games then? I've won eight.

How many of those were with real players? All seven of them. Okay. I want to say, well, the first one was I want to say 90 bots and 10 real people. Yeah. So they're still doing that? Oh yeah, it's really clear. It's really obvious and it's not the situation where you suddenly jump in and now it goes

from bots to real people. It's like 90, 10 and then like 75, 25 and then 50, 50 and then after that it's just real people. But yeah, no, seven of them were completely real wins against human beings. Now whether or not you consider children. Human children. Human beings is one thing. I never played a game that had a wider skill gap.

Well, I assume that since it's the thing, right, you're entering Disney World and you're grabbing 10 random people around you at Disney World and you're going to go play a game with them. I would assume that it's such a large base of people that like you're getting an overall massive mixture of people who literally just do not play games with those who play nothing but Fortnite. All at the same time, all the way, the whole, the whole gamut. There are people that like it feels like I've seen like a wider skill gap here than in anything

I have ever played. Like people that get the drop on you and shoot at you and shoot at you and you turn around and then they shoot at you and they don't hit you like a single time. And then they just stand there and then you pop them once and they blow up all the way to what you think of as like spontaneous building gun generator freakazoids, but the vast majority of the time it's against people that are like normal or less than normal and it feels great. Do you feel like you're walking into the big party at the video game like, you know, house? Like do you feel as if, you know what I mean?

Like there's certain, like there's, there's, yeah, because this is the thing, this is what it is. It's the Fortnite. Street Fighter 4 side tournament at the Smash Brothers event. And you're like, Hey, do you guys, you guys play Street Fighter? Yeah, a little bam. Take that, children. Um, it's, it's two things.

One is something like you can just, it's the actual 40 million people. No, it's, it's, it's the fighting game tournament at the anime con. That's, that's what you're looking for. That's much better. Yeah. Uh, there's 340 million people playing it and you can actually feel it because it's just it's like the matchmaking times are instantaneous and it's a giant game. Like comparing this to like the experience of playing PUBG was like hilarious because

PUBG was, it got that headstart and it never, it looked like shit with basic unity assets and they never, ever got to the point where it was anything other than, oh, I got killed by a cheater. So like no, no fucking features or anything like that. Meanwhile, like the first game I ever played of Fortnite, I looked at, I dropped in and I'm like, oh dude, I think I can get the drop on Master Chief while he's stuck fighting Deadpool. What skin did you use?

The brand, the brand shit is out of control. What skin did you use? The default. What is the default? The default is now, it is a collection of normalish looking NPCs that wear a green like army shirt and tan slacks or tan shorts. Used to be like a guy with like a, like a tank top and like a bandana kind of thing. It's all right.

Did you not have access to Palpatine? I did not have access to Chancellor Palpatine or Emperor Palpatine. And then I'm like, okay, what's in the battle pass? Oh, Lara Croft is in the battle pass. That's the, that's the video game character of this brand synergy scenario. And they know what they're doing because the first unlock at the very beginning is the reboot Lara Croft. And the second unlock about a third of the way through the past is the fucking anniversary

classic Lara Croft. And then the super secret unlockable is the Lara Croft from the PS1 cinematics with the sharp face. Do they, um, so all that shit's like time locked waves and all that. Is that the, so that, that was the most confusing thing. When I turned the game on for the first time, I was faced with what might be the most awful starting screen I've ever seen in a video game. It was, hey, get them now.

They're leaving in eight hours, Ryu, Chun-Li, Master Chief, Kratos, John Wick, Sarah Connor, and the Terminator will all leave in eight hours. Get them now. And I'm like, I just pressed start. I just pressed start. Can you bleat God, damn it. Now, um, I remember also seeing at a time that like gameplay changing things existed. Like the tanks are the rolling balls that people had for a while there are the little

neck things and, uh, Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet, right? This season's thing is, um, there's a bunch of wild animals on the map and you can tame wild animals or make special versions of guns with animal parts. Okay. But all those gameplay elements come and go as well. They are tied to the season. Yeah. Okay.

All right. As well as, as well as like the, the map will change. Okay. Um, so what I discovered about the limited variation thing is that there's a, there's a trick, something like the predator will literally never, ever, ever, ever come back because the predator was on the battle pass and battle pass shit never comes back. So I actually just finished the Mandalorian and like, oh cool, the Mandalorians in this. And he was the premier battle pass of the last season.

So he will never, ever come back. But you know what might happen? They might just happen to sell a season three Mandalorian on the store that has nothing to do with the battle pass or, hey, this ancient skin that was part of the battle pass was really popular. It'll never come back except for this new version where he has a red stripe on his black shirt instead. So that's the way they get around it where, uh, they'll, they'll be like Lara Croft,

for example, will be exclusive to this battle pass forever. But in a year, maybe you'll get Lara Croft with a hat and that's a different skin. Right. Right. That's different. So for example, like, you know, Kratos and Master Chief are gone and I'll pick those up if I want to, but they'll come back and like, I don't know, six months or whatever the fuck.

You know, Master Chief costs $45 in V bucks. Well, it's a good thing people can go to your link and give you V bucks. That's right. No, they don't. No, no, no, no. If they happen to spend V bucks and use my creator code that is Pat stairs at, I will receive 5% of that, which I will then put towards V bucks for content creation of Fortnite. That's right.

Cool. Kratos costs like 34 bucks and like seeing them next to each other on the menu was like really funny because it's like, wow, Sony and Microsoft really just charge the absolute maximum they could possibly get away with on this. If the CEO farts in your face, is that worth V bucks? I mean, I'll have to ask them. Okay. Okay.

Just check it. Tim Sweeney's still a fucking bitch. Yeah, no, it's this thing where I'm playing it. And I think one of the first things that I streamed last week, one of the first things I said was like, I hate this game because it feels really good. It feels hyper polished. There's a million options. It feels like the most like it feels like the thing, the party, the room.

It's the most. Yeah. Yeah. It's the game. Like it's it's slick and immaculate and everything feels perfect. It's like, wow. Yeah. Virgil showed up.

Would you play it? Willie? No, I'm. Yeah, you would. I'm not. Dude. You'd play it. What if there's a taunt that he does?

You don't have motivation and it does a very street fighter and Chun Lee and Ryu and the Xenomorph and the Predator are all really good incentives. Either way. Wonka. Yeah. No, I don't care about fighting game or character. I like skins per set per se. That's not.

Yeah. Yeah. I legitimately logic on you is, is always silly. It's super pointless. Like that doesn't work. I'm not being bread crumbed by that. I legitimately feel like, yeah, I guess if you can say that. So effectively the, the, the tower system construction thing ends up being a non factor

in most of your games is what you're saying there. It is. It is. How do I put this? Like the, the, the scenario of Tepin is a really fun game. Everybody. Tepin is a really fun game. I enjoy it.

Working my way up through champion rank, the, the, the, the, I would say in a total game of 100 people, there are five people in that match that will turn into towers. And the question is whether or not when you get to the final 10, if any of them are still alive. Cause like I put up, I put up a Twitch clip, sorry, no, Twitter video through the PS5 of every single win that I had and only one of those had a person turn into a tower. The rest of them were like the same shit you'd see in every battle, other battle royale, which is you like skulking your ass around a corner in a tiny, tiny ring, hoping that

you get the drop on the guy. Or there are three of you and the other two start fighting and you just wait until they're done and you shoot one. Um, no, um, I'll be mentioned, I'm on the console. I'm on the PlayStation five. Right. Playing with other, but it's not, but you're, you're playing with cross played people. Yeah.

But it's, it, it's still attempts to, it, it attempts to fill your game with people from your, your console first and then cross afterwards. The cross play is mainly, you know, that's a, actually that, that feature is probably worth distinguishing on its own as like cross priority, you know, where it's like you can play with others, but we will try to keep it to the same place that you are. That's good. That's a smart idea. Um, all bits aside and, and, and veiled down.

I, uh, yeah, I honestly, I just, I've just never had an interest, you know, um, I tend to like see the thing that is like, you know, blowing up in one way or another. And in some cases I'll be like, yeah, does this interest me in, in fortnight, fortnight's case is just kind of done. Um, it's not to say I will never, ever play it. I've never, you know, before, before the lines get drawn in a bit of like, he will never, ever touch it. I've never said that I will never touch it, but as it stands, I'm just, I'm not particularly

interested. There's things that grab my attention, uh, way stronger. And, uh, one of those things, which I'm looking forward to hearing about is, uh, rise, which I assume you got some time in on. I did. Uh, to, to finish off that last thought is like, yeah, the thing is I really love Battle Royale. I love that thing.

And it's just like, I found a reason to absolutely hate every came in that genre from PUBG to warzone to fucking apex, like, okay, let's try fortnight. Oh, it's good. Shit. Hmm. Crap. Darn it. Uh, enjoying apex.

I know what makes the games fun. I can, I can see how that, you know, I can see the through line one to one on that. So I mean, you know, I get it, but fuck all that. They added dogs to monster hunter. Yeah. Really useful ones. Dogs, the, uh, dange, if the dog in video game form has killed many monsters for me, it's crazy.

So I saw that you'll, you'll be healing up and then the final hit will come from the dog and you're like, what? So monster hunter rise. I saw that like you can not only like use your dog in battle as advertised, but you can like jump on its back to do the traveling thing and you can sharpen while you're on its back. Yeah. And other.

So that was, that was a feature. They added in, was it iceborn or just regular world where you could ride like a tamed monsters and it would automatically travel to the, the location of the, the monster you're fighting and then you would, you could sharpen or heal or whatever, but now you can do it walk under control of the dog. Like you can control the dog. Brilliant. Yeah.

It was an, it was an iceborn. So you probably never got that far. Oh, you can also dog drift and go super fast. You drift your dog rise has a lot of crazy shit in it. Like everyone talks about the wirebugs, which is the extra movement and like the, the special moves essentially, but there's all sorts of shit going on. The first of which is like, they put village and get, you remember how annoying it was playing world where you would have to see the cutscene in the fight and then you could

call for help because they wanted all the quests to be the same. They went back on that and they went back to the old way where there's single player quests and multiplayer quests. And when you do a quest that has a monster you haven't fought, there's a little 30 second cutscene at the beginning that plays once and you watch it. Never again. Never again. And it goes into the cutscene viewer.

So you can, if you want to play with your pals, just fucking load goddamn, go to the gathering hub and do the multiplayer quests. Yeah. Do that. I saw, um, Sun High, a Sun He, excuse me, put out a really cool gift of riding a doggo, jumping off of it for extra height, zip lining onto the wall, jumping off the wall, air dashing to reposition and then getting a giant aerial greatsword swing down on one of these fluffy looking fuckers.

It's a legombie. I'm looking at the gift right now. Super sick. Really, really cool stuff going on. So the craziest thing is that all that movement stuff is associated with the greatsword, which is the least mobile weapon the series has ever had. Yeah. Yeah.

When I played it, it was stand still and charge your shot up and then swing it. Yeah. They have, they, they have, there's, there's a lot here. The wirebug stuff, which is the wall running and the aerial repositioning is all like great. What's more important than that though is, you know, those hits that like knock your character onto like their back and they slide and they do a little roll. You can, you can use the wirebug to just like dash out of those. If you have a wirebug like available, so you're no longer stuck in like combos.

Well, that's it. Talk to the ground and he Ukemi's back up with the wirebug. I see that happen. And then in the same gift, and again, I liked it, but I'm going to retweet it towards the end, you see he is in the air charging up another giant overhead, but then makes it an air to air. It seems as if like the monster jumps at him and then he cancels the swing he's doing into a mid air to air attack, which then checks it back on its back, you know?

So I guess all these big greatsword swings can be canceled pretty much any time into something more functional. No, no, no. I'm watching the clip and no, he just did a jump and a swing. He just was doing this encounter over and over until okay moment. Okay. Okay. So there's all of that, right?

Now, Willie, what you played the land. I played so I played charge blade for the most amount of time that I switched to greatsword for a bit. And then I ended up on Lance specifically because of that run. Okay. So I'm a fan of that. So there's a, there's a minor feature that has not been publicized. Like they didn't put out any trailers or anything like that, but is ends up being a bigger game

changer than the wire bug mechanics, which seems nuts because the wire bug stuff is so flashy and allows for so much movement. They have a feature in the game called the switch skills, switch skill system. So I'll use the greatsword as an example because it's the one I'm the most familiar with and it's the simplest. You remember that you had the greatsword, it does a big charge and a swing and there's multiple swings of increasing strength, right? And then if you hit like, I think it was B on the Xbox, you do a shoulder tackle, right?

And the shoulder tackle had like some hyper armor and it would knock you down, but you take damage through it. So switch skill is it goes, well, what if instead of the shoulder tackle, you wanted to have your character put the sword up in a block and advance? You want to just change that button to be a different move entirely. What if instead of the true charge slash, which is a, you know, that double hit and the first hit is like the primer and the second hits the big hit, do you want to just change that into an even bigger single hit, but only does full damage if you get hit during

the animation? So is it a move list editor or is it weapon specific? It is, it is, it's three. There's a minor skill, a major skill and a wire bug skill that you can swap and it's per weapon. So like the lance, you remember I had like the dash where you would stab forward with the lance while running. That becomes what is essentially charging star instead.

It's crazy. Okay. Like the charge blade can can choose between a variation where it charges up the sword to be stronger or turns the axe into a buzz saw where you have to time the hits. Like I remember the charge blade had a sword buff shield buff or axe buff. Yeah. Now you can change between do you want the sword buff or do you want to have the axe so buffed that when it hits the monster, you want to hold down the button so that the

fucking spinning saw blade hooks for extra hits and charges the vials while you're doing it. It's crazy. All the weapons have these three changes and it allows for like this crazy modification of your own play style. Do you play dual blades and you want to be in the air all the time? Change your dash move into a move that puts you into the air. Now with all this extra stuff on your kit, does fighting the same monsters now go like

not do you feel like way more overpowered or way, way easier taking them on the usual for the early game, yeah. For the low rank stuff for I've been playing the series for a long time and low rank is always easy after you get into it after the last one. But this shit is like, oh man, like the one, two, three and four stars have like no chance against you because you can just like the great swords primary wire bug move is really simple when you're in the great sword stance, you know, the one where you can you walk like step, step, step and it's terrible.

It's a dash that sheaths your weapon and makes you invincible and gives you a damage buff. So if you swing the sword and then you realize the monster's going to do like a fucking flip, just dash to the side and you'll be able to run away in half a second and you'll get a damage buff for your trouble. Because what it felt like to me in world with a lot of these slower, lower mobility weapons was like you don't get to run away from this monster's giant bullshit flailing. If you know the monster well enough and you know the matchup, you can recognize the animation, know when to time the exact moment of your invulnerability and crush it.

But that requires full on matchup learning and full on monster learning. Or get fucked. Or get fucked. Exactly. Yeah. Or run in to do the sweep and Rathien does the backflip right in your fucking face and you're like, oh. Whereas here, if you don't know the fight well enough, that wouldn't matter as much.

Just get the fuck out of its way and then come back in. Yeah. And you can just swing. And if you do eat shit, you can Ukemi so that you don't get hit by a follow up. Or you can get so far away that you'll be able to heal. Yeah, the low rank monsters have no chance. Like absolutely no chance against you. By far the easiest monster hunter to get into because they did not scale up the monster

like aggressiveness with your movement. It feels like it feels like to use a fighting game analogy. It feels like you're playing Marvel and they're playing Street Fighter. They're still on the old classic. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You can air dash.

You can super jump. You can, you know, triangle jet, triangle jump, right? Yeah. And they can't. They just can't. So in addition, some of those switch skills are just better than the old skills. Like they're just, they're straight up improvements. So there's all that.

I mean, the stages are these gigantic like cavernous sloping mountainous hilly regions that you're running all over the place and jumping on. The game has completely new music and has more music than usual. Cool. And it's great. Like it's like to anyone who's been playing Rise or watched any streams of it. The music is great. Like I don't know what they did, but it's fucking a plus.

And the main hub theme is like this vocal Japanese track. Like it's like Devola and Popola are singing to you. Nice. The whole time you're hanging out in the village. And in addition to all that shit, your dog goes actually doing real damage. Yeah. They do real damage. They have cool moves.

Like you can throw a metal umbrella on them or a giant shuriken or they can bite the back of the monster to distract them somewhat and the cats do all the same shit the cats did. But like it's interesting because in multiplayer, it used to be in world, right? If you wanted to go into four man multiplayer, you couldn't bring your cat, right? If you were by yourself, you got your place, you replace it with a person. And if you had one person and one person, they could each bring a cat, right? They have changed it. Now the game kind of assumes that you'll be rocking one dog and one cat, though you could

go two dog, two cat. If you wanted to, you shouldn't because the cat can heal you and the dog makes you fast. Don't tell me what to do. But when you go into multiplayer, when you go into multiplayer, when you go into four man lobby, you still get to take one with you. So when you're fighting a four person lobby, there are eight entities fighting the monster. Yeah. I remember when it got first announced, we saw that detail where it's just like roll

out everybody gets one, even with a group of four. And the reason for that, I assume is because the dog acts as like the fast travel system. And even during the absolute shit show, that is a big monster, you know, one of the larger ones has a lot of effects and four people and four dogs in these giant big maps. The lowest I have ever seen the frame rate drop is to 28 frames a second on switch. It runs much, much better than world. And compared to the hardware it's on, it's doing like more than twice as much than world it.

God, imagine if it wasn't on switch. Yeah. Well, it'll be on PC later so we can all turn it all up and it'll run at 280 frames a second while world still fucking crunches itself at 48 or are engine. Crazy proven its value. Yeah, proven it's fucking bones. It's just built different. I can't I can't talk enough praise about the game.

It is a little easy near the beginning. Like it's like kind of hilarious, but I can understand why because I had a friend of mine who's an idiot went into the multiplayer gathering hub and did his first mission ever against a multiplayer monster by himself and was like, why is this taking so long? It took me like four, 45 minutes. I had to reload my ammo for my gun four times and every shot I did did one damage. And I'm like, did you do the village? He's like, no.

So then he went to the village and like you do mission one for the village and it goes, this is how to move. This is how to open your inventory. OK, but pause, how easy was that mistake to make based on the layout? Could they have just walked in the up in the wrong direction, talked to the wrong person and then got handed the wrong type of quest? So I can kind of see it, but they they part of the tutorial that they must have skipped was that the game makes a very clear distinction that out in the village

like square, the girl you talk to there is for the single player missions inside the gathering hub that is like the big like Guild Hall kind of place. That is for the multiplayer missions. OK, they tell you straight up these missions are for a party of four, though you can go in by yourself if you want. So it's not like wandering over to the skeletons in Firelink. No, it's not. It's like I did not read this carefully enough.

Fair enough. And I just mashed through. Um, I hit credits on it after eight hours, which was really funny. Um, you remember when World does that, too, where you beat like Neregigante the first time and it rolls credits and you're like Zora Meggeros. Wow. Oh, God, it was Zora. Oh, man. OK, yeah. You get to like halfway through low rank and they're like, you did it. You beat it and you're like, no, I didn't.

It's even it's even more ridiculous this time because it's it's it's really early. Like it's yeah, but but don't take away the sense of like accomplishment and the feeling of, hey, like you saw the main variety of monsters. We want to show you and now come the gods. So here's here's why it's extra ridiculous. Well, when you first hit credits in Monster Hunter Rise, you will not have even seen a Rathalos.

OK, never mind then. Fine. OK. Yeah, you will not have even seen one. OK, like that's that's why I'm like sitting in the credits. Like I didn't even see a Rathalos because in the world thing you fight aside from the flagship is a Rathian. In a world, you go to the four zones and then you fight like three monsters in each zone or so. Yeah. And then they throw you on the final cinematic one, you know, and then you fight Nurg.

And in this one, they had they go, Magnum. Allos attacking the village. Can you go kill Magnum? Allo and the very first time you ever fight Magnum? Allo, you kill it and they roll credits and they go, you save the village and you go really and then you walk up to the quest giver and they go, you may have saved the village from Magnum. Allo, but, oh, man, all this crazy shit just rolled in.

OK, fine. Oh, there are two other big things. One is there's a there's tower defense in Monster Hunter now. That's the alternate mode this time around is tower defense. It's called the rampage and it is a shit ton of low health monsters attack a tower defense line and you build up and you build up turrets and automatic flamethrowers and shit like that to fight them. And are you racing around the map towards

like points that are under danger? It's its own. It's like an arena room. It's really small. Yeah. That sounds. It's. OK. I need more time with it to make judgment. It seems cool, but fine. But oh, yeah, it's it's it's better than he has.

Somebody in the chat said it's better than Zor Magdaros. I mean, I imagine it's like as as someone who's really surface on this whole franchise, I can tell you that the that fighting the monster and the challenge of it and itself is the funnest thing about the game. And I feel like the further away you dilute that with extra steps and modes and types, you dilute the purity of what's the funnest about this game. I agree. You don't have to do it, though.

Like it gives you a special type of upgrade, but it's quite easy to get. And so I've been ignoring it. Last but not least, I have to make a little bit more clarification on the because there's a lot of people that just played world and a world multiplayer quests and single player quests were the same. It's just whether or not you brought people with you in every other monster hunter game ever, including this one, there is a hard split. There is an entire set of quests for single player.

There's an entire set of quests for multiplayer, and they have. They are completely separate, OK, and what they used to do. They used to have it so that the multiplayer quests were scaled for three people and fuck off if you had less. And that was its own kind of fun, I guess. But multiplayer for those multiplayer quests was fucking mandatory. What they have done this time around is they do have the system where if you go to the gathering hub quests,

they will scale for one to four players. But the difference is and why it's more difficult is that you remember Pooke Pooke, don't you walls that? So Pooke Pooke is a one star monster hunter world vomiting, I don't want to call it Guana monster, right? Yes, yeah, in in low rank village, which is the single player one, you fight him at rank four. He is deep into the village progression.

You are fighting losers on one and two star. Losers. However, if you go to the gathering hub, he's still one star. So that's how they've they've gated the the difficulty in the progression where it's like in village, it's like, no, you must fight all of the losers. In order to fight something even approaching challenge, whereas in the gathering hub, it's like, no, here's here's 11 monsters here right now, including the losers,

but also the tougher ones. How about instead of tower defense, Dogo drift racing? I mean, that's kind of already in there, but like as a mode. Yeah, maybe. Also of note, and I haven't gotten this far, but I have it on good authority. The game currently has no ending. Um, what does that mean?

It means that next month in April, when Camellios and other monsters get released as free DLC, they will include the game's ending. So you just beat the list and then nothing happens? I'm sure something happens, but it's clearly not like the actual definitive like end. I mean, I guess if the credits already rolled everything else is just bonus. So in fact, usually the credits were multiple times. I have, okay, people in the chat are saying it does in fact have an ending,

but it is a cliffhanger, which will be resolved in a couple of weeks. Um, I'm interested to seeing the, the DLC stuff they're doing with this because with world, I hated the way they did the DLC that time. Shit where they're like arch-tempered, whoever is out for two weeks. That sucked. Yep. Uh, they, they have gone back to the event quest came out, download it. It is now in your game forever.

You can do it whenever you want. Yeah. Um, which formal based design just is trash. So it's just always trash. Monster Hunter does this when they have to do a big technical change up. Uh, they stretch it. So, uh, Monster Hunter world came out with 30 monsters with iceborn. It eventually worked its way up to 69, which was very fast.

Monster Hunter try on the Wii. The very first graphical upgrade the series ever got came out with fucking 18 monsters and two of them were events. So it really only had 16. Uh, fucking rise comes out with what I want to say 38 to start. And they've already said that when the DLCs dropped like the free DLCs, there won't be one monster this month and then wait two months for another one.

It'll be a couple. Hmm. So like every game after a technical change ramps up the list and the features more quickly. I also imagine they're going to, I imagine they're also going to stick with like, like I felt like, um, for the first couple of months after, uh, world, they also had like the, you know, like, Oh, here's the Dante event. Here's the crossover for this or that.

So like you can just kind of wait and see like, Oh, here's the next big, like whatever crossover thing to just jump in on and catch up. They used to do it is they would say, Hey, the Dante quest is available. Go download it. And, and then just have the Dante quest available forever is how it used to be in the older games. Um, remains to be seen, uh, like, uh, what, what, how many are going to come out that way and there will be an expansion.

There always is, uh, but I definitely prefer it a lot compared to that time stuff, that time stuff. Uh, you know, I never fought like the last two or three monsters in world because of the time shit and also because of like this horrible MR grind that you had to do. And all, a lot of those features were just like stretch world as far as it'll go. So that type of feature and that type of design will always, um, the problem

with them when you're looking at them like objectively and going like, well, we tried out a new system here. It's FOMO based. It's trying to get people in on a calendar in real life to, you know, stay more on top of the game. Um, it works because people will do things out of FOMO, but the data of people tuning in to do these activities doesn't report that people feel bad about doing them.

So when you had to get these exclusive costumes in Street Fighter five and it was going to be, you know, you have a week to do it and then it's gone. And it's like, oh yeah, like if you care and you want to get your cool captain commando outfit, come do it now. And people did it. They booted the game up. They did their due diligence and they, you know, it does get that engagement up in that way, but you're not tracking that people are annoyed

at the feeling of missing out and catching up on FOMO. And even though you're getting those numbers out of it, it's just, it's, it's not tracking the first one in Street Fighter five. And then I didn't get the second one. And I'm like, well, now we're going to try this again. Yeah. Participation go up, but like, you know, mood go down. Feel is bad.

So good for them. Rise is great. Oh, one last thing to say about rise. The biggest disappointment world had aside from, you know, this monster not being in it or whatever. Do you remember how many weapons were like the default bone weapon, but with like some feathers from the monster? I'm thinking very specifically of a set.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it was terrible. Like, especially since the old games, every single weapon was like a unique, like bone carving, like techno cave punk fucking monstrosity. They're back to that. Like, I don't know if they've got more weapon designers. You know, they only had like two on world and nice born, like literally like, I think one or two guys do all the weapons.

It's like, no shit. So like, you know, you ended up the situation where like, if you, if you play hammer, there's like a Rathalos head hammer. That's the coolest. But like, world didn't have it. And like, uh, in, in, in world, there's a monster called Glaviness, whose tail is a big great sword and his great swords very distinctive. And it was like a generic looking great sword in world.

And it's like, this monster is a great sword. What are you doing? That's very important. Actually. I remember using not a bone lance that was just like, yep, it's another bone lance. And yeah, yeah. So they're not all back.

They're not all there, but it's a big jump. There's way, way, way more unique ones. And this is clearly running off the same like assets that world was. So the next one, world two or galaxy, yeah, monster hunter galaxy. That's the one. Um, we'll have more still as they catch up to this, this level of technology. Game's great. Game's super great.

I love it. And do they have the same amount of love's monster hunter? Do they have the same amount of matching, uh, Palico outfits and doggo outfits? Oh yeah. The dog outfits are crazy. Nice. I have one that makes makes my dog look like a yokai horse right now. Hell yeah.

Sick. Yeah. Rise is great. If you have even the most passing interest in monster hunter, you should get rise. It's fun game to play. Fun. Good.

Good game. Right on. And it runs good. That's good. That's, that's, that's actually the, the, the, the main secret takeaway here is it fucking actually runs every monster hunter except for monster hunter two. No, I played monster. I played every monster hunter except for frontier online.

This is the one that runs the best out of all of them. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. It's embarrassing. Kind of. Yeah. Uh, I think I'm, I'm, I'm gonna go get that later. Um, I want to jump on.

I want to jump on. Um, somebody in the chat pointed out and I feel of remiss. It also has the biggest subtitles I have ever seen in a game. Yay. Because it's, it's so that you can read the subtitles for real when you're playing it in handheld mode. But, but I am serious. The subtitles cover the bottom 20% of the screen.

That's good. That's fine. Gigantic. No problem. I'll take that over the opposite problem all day. Oh yeah. You ever try and play the three houses on handheld mode? I mean, so unpatched Sushima, um, you know, there's some rough, rough ones

out there. Good. Um, I, I, okay. One last thing to say. This is important though. Uh, somebody in the chat earlier made a joke where, uh, they said Pat said the rise is the best monster hunter to start with. He says that every time one of these comes out.

That's because they get easier to start with. If you've held out on monster hunter because it seems intimidating and confusing and hard. This new one's the easiest to start out with. It's very easy in the beginning and it does not overwhelm you. I'm sure that person felt clever. It's the best one. Hey, Willie, you know what happens when you mine a rock in, uh, in, in, uh,

rise? Mm hmm. You hit it once and you get all the materials. How about that? And you can, and you can do it from the dogs back. Wow. While moving. Yep.

And just get all of it. So now you have the little taste of what, what I was screaming at you about for world because in five games. You're going to be like, can you believe you had to stop and hit the mining thing three times back in the day? That shit was stupid. And then I got to go, you know, your pickaxe could break, right? And you're saying this as I'm helm splitting from space.

Yeah. So, you know, it's fine. And you didn't have an inventory separate for the stuff you picked up on the map. So if you brought too many potions, you wouldn't be able to carve the monster. Oh man. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. That's the word. Oh, also, I'm just thinking back to it. Took a second to get the menu and then shortcut menu for reloading your. Oh, I forgot all about that stuff. That's going to take a minute. They've actually, they've, they've significantly simplified and improved that as well.

Like I want this layout, but I want to just restock it. So yeah. Okay. Hmm. Do you remember back in the day when there were no item loadouts? You just had to take every item from the inventory and put it in your inventory. No.

Yeah. It monster hunter for is the best monster hunter specifically because it invented item loadouts. Hmm. Well, remember paintballs? Oh man. You used to have to find the monster and hit it with a paintball before it showed up on your map.

Dude. And in rise, not only do they show up on your map, the blue icon shows up underneath them when they're ready to capture and your cat says they're ready to capture. So I'm telling you to shut up, but also this is me floating behind punch mom when she's doing demon fusion and I'm like, no, you don't understand. You had to go out and back in to see if the right skills would show up on the list and to get the right RNG on the skill you want to keep.

And you know, so sometimes you have to do that to 300 times. Just give me media. I want me to stop it. I'm trying to keep media. No. Yeah. No, don't give me media and and McGaradine. I want Agadine.

Ah, ah, dude, dude, I'm excited to play Nocturne just because they put the new skill fusion in it because the fuck. Yeah, right. Um, so what's going on this week then? Oh, no, he walked away. Watching Golden Girls. You're going to watch Golden Girls on stream. No, I'm just watching Golden Girls in general.

Okay. Great. That's cool. Um, I mean, would you say that I'm more of a rose or a Dorothy? Who's the super old super horny one? That would be Blanche. Sure. She's from the south.

So they're all like super dead, right? I'm going to assume they're dead except for Betty White 99. I believe Betty White is 99. It's it's absolutely crazy watching it because like they're in their like fifties or sixties, but it's like 85 and 85 in Golden Girls time looks like a different planet. Man. And then you see a picture of Betty White and you're like,

she's pretty much exactly the same. See, that's crazy though, because like you get that and then you look at fucking Prince Necronomicon of Buckingham. Oh man. And you just it's like, what is the human being? You know, what a fascinating creature. Where does the human being start and the orphan blood end? You know, and dude with his balding hair, like in about 15,

he's going to start getting the sagging lines and it just. Yeah, this is where I saw it, but I will transition tweet where it was Prince Philip comes home from the hospital and it was somebody going guys, this man is clearly dead. This man is clearly a puppet. Just put him in the ground. Yeah, wild, wild. Well, what's up with you, man?

Well, for me, a short week, not much. Mainly just more time on Slay the Spire. I've unlocked all four characters and I've now used them all. So I can say I've gotten the full spectrum. I've also managed to clear the spire out at least once. Right, which character? Oh, the third one, obviously super busted. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, man. So the first time I used the third character, the robot, it was like unbelievably how like I was trying to figure what I got him and I was like, oh, this orb system sounds busted. Sounds unfair. And then it turns out it is. And then for that, but I didn't even know what I was doing.

And I just built up a character that was like every time I did just about anything, I would gain an electric orb and then cycle through like five or six of them in a row and just zap the entire stage. And it was like, oh, you just don't even have to work here, you know? And then like, but, but I still ended up like getting to like the third stage boss and then I died and then I did it a second time. And then the second run, I got a completely different set. I got something that was more built around like dark orbs that build

up damage over time as you don't use them. And then you finally play them for a huge effect. And it was just, it's so insane. Every card the third character gets is just really, really, really OP. It feels like every style of play you built towards the second character, the with the skull helmet, the poison guy. Yeah, not.

He was he was the character I gravitated towards not much going on with that. I felt I didn't. I kind of felt like you just kind of struggled more than the default balance swordman, you know? Oh, I had I had a way better time with him than the swordman. Huh? Yeah, I wasn't much better. No, I was I wasn't digging it.

I was I was yeah. And it's Slay the Spire is what I'm talking about. And I felt like default swordman was like, you know, I'm like, yeah, I can feel how balanced this is and it's good and you got a good number of attacks. And then second, yeah, the poison stuff wasn't really my jam. Third is just crazy. You don't really have to try.

And then fourth was the one that I actually think is the coolest in terms of like the mechanics of it, right? So I didn't get to the fourth. Everybody says they're busted. Fourth is super cool. Not I don't I feel like the fourth character is not as busted as the robot the third, but the fourth is really interesting because what the fourth is about is she has stances and the stances switch you

from double damage incoming and outgoing, which is wrath to calm, which is more defensive or neutral or David. You know, you can become like divine and get powered up. And so all these different stances you can play cards to switch into there are then cards that you get to use or abilities or buffs that come from switching from one stance to another. So when you when you enter calm, you get a bunch of defense. You get a bunch of shield and when you exit calm, you get movement.

Right sounds like the my most hated character type the stance character, but it ends up being so like your turn lasts forever. If you know how to do it, that's the thing, right? Is you if you have a stance that costs one at movement point or action point to enter, but it refunds you to every time you exit. You can kind of create a system of like, all right, jump in and when I jump in, I get back an attack that that costs zero right away. I use that zero attack.

I switch back out. I get a zero attack is always fun. Yeah. You know, and there's there's literally there's some zero attack cards that are like it will fly out of your discard pile back into your hand whenever you switch stances. So you just, oh, oh, yes. Right, so you get this flow going where you switch into a stance, do

an attack and you get back this zero attack, play it again, switch stances and then it keeps coming back, you know, and it ends up being a really smooth kind of feeling where within like a couple of turns, you just concentrate down on one enemy and melt them. You know, I felt like the third character, the orbs electric guy was the robot was like taking out like random enemies across the the five or four or three that are attacking you. Whereas with the fourth, you're just focusing on one and just

doing heavy ass damage laying in, you know. Yeah. And plus some relics allow you to do things like start with you can start with extra strength, you know, which allow you to concentrate better or in some cases there's cards that are like cash in. Oh, no, wait, sorry. No, no, hold on.

I was thinking of the robot where you can cash in your orbs for extra movement and shit. But anyway, though, the point remains is that like it feels like the fourth is more technical and I like the design idea the best and it's not just completely busted. You know, I got to look at that. What's it called the fourth one? Yeah, I don't have their names, unfortunately at all.

Take a second. Yeah, I remember the robot, the poison man. Oh, the watch is cool looking. So you got the ironclad is the main one. The first, the silent is the second, the defect is the third and the watcher is the fourth. Yeah. And the watcher also gets a miracle cards, which are cards

that retain in your hand between turns. And when you use it, you get a free point. So like you also get to like gather a bunch of like free option movements, you know, it just it comes together really nicely. And yeah, when you do a sick turn that like gets you like nine or 10 movements, because you've effectively switched from wrath to calm to neutral back to calm, you know, and then gotten shit done out of it.

Like it was just it felt really nice. So Slay the Spire is very cool. And yeah, I can say that I definitely get, you know, the the breadth of what's going on there. There is there is one big advantage that because there's originally started a couple weeks ago as a response to you playing fight and tight spaces. And I wonder if fight and tight spaces will have this because

a big like thing that Slay the Spire has is the mod support. And it's really, really easy to grab like a ton of different classes. And I guess the kind of basic art helps in that respect. I mean, it's in early access. So I imagine they've got to worry about the main game ingredients first, but I would not be surprised if if mods and other fun stuff came along.

I mean, fights and tight spaces has it has the system in play and the assets and the and the maps to allow for customization. Like I feel as if, you know, if they wanted to, they could even roll out a kind of multiplayer. That could be interesting if they if they wanted to like, you know, try that out. It it might end up feeling a little bit like a hybrid Haven

in some ways and it might end up being like, well, this is just a busted deck. You can't beat, but I'd be curious to see, you know, what that what that might feel like. Yeah, but in any case very, very cool. I do I do feel like the the characters that like I will say this that like the different decks you get in fights and tight spaces are not as varied as the different characters in Slay

the Spire because they function in completely different ways. Whereas it feels like you're playing the same character. You have options. You have a lot of the same basic options, but you can just lean into offensive defensive counter throw projectile based styles, but you're, you know, you're kind of building around the same template, whereas like, yeah, the silent feels nothing like, you know, the the other characters.

Yeah. So I did a bit of that and beyond that as well on get into fighting games, I went back and took a look at Neo Geo battle Colosseum, which shaped that game. It's great. It's the Capcom answer to Capcom fighting evolution. And to be honest, wait, what? What?

That explains a lot. So Neo Geo battle Colosseum is yeah, it dropped around the same era as around the same time as like KOF 11 and and they basically it was it was SNK, you know, all stars and it was fucking great. Like they did so much more work because it wasn't just a salvage job off of a canceled game like Capcom fighting evolution was. This shows you that like SNK went out of the way to one, grab a number of characters from all their beloved games and then

grab a number of interesting roster picks that are not the most expected ones. So, you know, of course, you're going to have Kyo Iori, Terry Bogard, you know, how Maroon, Nakaruru, etc. But then you're also getting cyber who say Mars people Mars people, you're getting Metal Slug Marco, you're getting, you know, like Azra from Samurai Showdown and you're getting a lot of really fun picks, you know, that are that are unexpected.

But you get Mars people, you get Mudman in there, you know, they did a lot that they didn't kind of have to do last blade getting representation as well. You know, it ended up being a very like cool roster that then also has a number of unique animations that interactions with each other. There's a lot of team supers because it's a 2v2 system, you know, so there's unique supers with Kyo and Iori attacking

at the same time or Rockin and Terry, you know, like all these pairings that are like rivals kind of doing their special co-op attacks. There's unique specials that only existed in that game that then get exported to other shit later, you know, one of the coolest fucking ones I wanted to do without showing was Kyo does his bodega punches into like the ending kick that launches you into midair and then he snaps his fingers and detonates

you like super stylish shit, you know, that was unique to this game. So it was just yeah, I wanted to go back and fucking show off like they put love into it and it was also the game that was the one with the plot revolving around defeating the evil war as corporation. Oh, that's right. That was the one about the evil of war as the evil war as

was was going to destroy the SNK world and it's up to the heroes to save the save the day to those of you who got who don't who don't know. We're saying war as and you might think that that's j u a r e z like, you know, call of war as right. Well, how do you spell war as in the ogeo battle Coliseum wears with a Z W a r e z an era of the Internet that no longer really

exists. But if you were around for 90s early odds Internet you were around for, you know, early rom culture, early emuladores who goes or juegos and stop pirating KOF 98 on Kyara, please and the and the the war as yeah, that was that was the thing at the time. So they just straight up put it in the game and the main character you're using a fights you and when he does his level three

attacks, you can see the actual Neo Geo logo up here and flash on the screen because he's the hero to save the day and to save the SNK world. Right. Yeah, co mega shock. So yeah, man, no, Neo Geo Battle Coliseum is just the exact opposite energy of Capcom fighting evolution. You know that that was like I had I had no time.

I wasn't even night before like homework levels. It was morning of class while the teachers walking around collecting scribbling on your paper to hand in your assignment. Yeah, whereas Neo Geo was like, let's start at the beginning. The moment the assignment comes out, they started doing their history and their research and they brought these fucking, you know, this great cast in and had a really good time with them.

You know, they threw in fucking Neo Dio, they threw in King Lion, just all these badasses. It's probably the weirdest roster I can think of from like a SNK game, but that's a good thing. You know, I don't I don't like a lot of the losers they picked like they have. I don't like that Tetris girl. Would you rather a roster of all showdos like SVC chaos?

No, I just rather play KOF 11. Sure. Well, I think they did. To me, this is an ideal kind of situation where you get all the all the poster people that that that that are recognizable that, you know, make everyone comfortable. No one gets scared seeing too much weirdness, but then underneath all of that comfort is a whole lot of weirdness.

You know, and heroes from their respective franchises. So, yeah, King of Monsters getting representation. Bereaky one getting representation, Savage Rain, all of that shit. It's good. So that's going to be coming out. Why is McRoo so fucking popular? Why is she in every single one of these?

Ah, she's, uh, she's a, you know, pure he may shrine lady, you know, cute girl. Well, it's just, you know, cute fighting game girl from the era of early fighting games. It's like Chun Lee's popular. Why is Chun Lee popular? You know, strongest woman in the world. She's cool.

Yeah. So, uh, McRoo came around, but instead of cool, she was boy. Man, I'm just thinking about like all that SNK Capcom versus SNK stuff about like my versus Chun Lee. And it was always like, man, who's going to win? I'm like, one of them's the strongest woman in the world. The other one is not.

Seems like a done deal. I've always, I've always given, uh, Naka Ruru more than a pass because as a kid, I was like, holy fuck, there's a fighting game character that has a bird and they fight at the same time and you jump on the bird. That's the coolest shit I've ever seen. It was so unique, you know, and then Poppy as well, like I like massive crude kudos to fucking Sam show for that style

and Poppy will always live in my heart forever. Because his name is Poppy. Hmm. It's a dog named Poppy. Yeah. And you can go for the excuse to say they were thinking like a Poppy seed, but you know they weren't. Oh, that's there's a stretch.

You know they weren't. Anyway, um, so that's also coming up, uh, getting to fighting games later on this week. Um, yeah, over on the channel. We're going to be having a, um, an unusual schedule. I'll confirm some things and I'll post it a little bit later on, but, um, I think Reggie and I are going to take a look at, um, it takes to the new co-op game from, um, the, the

Pharris, uh, Andres Pharris, I believe the no way out a way out and, um, two brothers folks. So great co-op times with them. And this is their new game. Fuck the Oscars. Uh, that's that's going to be coming up. Um, and before you, before you come on back, before you finish this off, I just want to ask you how Adios was.

Yeah. Actually, I just remembered that that's coming out this week as well. Uh, Adios is brilliant. I think we, what you said about it last time is pretty much what needs to be said. Um, the last said the better, cause it's such a brief experience, but it's fantastic.

And you know, um, it's been a while. I remember when we were in an era of like, oh no, walking simulators, right? But I would, I would say that like that, that, um, yeah, that's a, that's a dismissal of something like that has like really strong writing like this. That is worth your time going in. And, uh, doc, uh, doc was on Twitter, uh, last week, uh,

there, he read a review where somebody just went, this isn't a game to which he responded with what I think is probably the best response with, then what is it? Mm hmm. Is it a movie? Is it a book? Is it a piece of mute? No.

Yeah, it's a game. I think the term walking simulator was, um, not only like sort of like a chastising of the, of the, what you're doing, but also of the quality of the story that was being told perhaps. But, um, in any case, I'm, I'm going to say here that this is absolutely worth your time worth checking out. Uh, it's a short and sweet, um, story about characters that are very human and, um, yeah, you kind of just, you dive into

this world for a brief moment and then you dive out, you know, and then, uh, you can kind of, I feel as if you can also, um, if you felt like it analyze the relationships, I felt like there's a enough to kind of put together a, a, um, a string board of like meaning between people's, you know, people's faces and, and, and intentions and things they say. And it has honestly probably, uh, one of the coolest little mechanics I've seen presented in, um, a game like this where

it's just about having conversations. Uh, the, the idea of the dialogue option that you cannot say, right? Yep. It's great. Not because you don't have the stats like Mass Effect, but because you can't, you can't, you, these words are not going to come out.

It's just not going to happen. And you, and you're thinking them and they're there, but you, you're not going to say them even if you try. And what's so fucking good about that is that it does an infinitely better job at painting a three dimensional picture of what this person's head is like, how their thoughts work and where they're coming from. As opposed to here's four very different things, pick one of

them to say, here's three similar things, but there's only one that you're willing to utter. The other two are blocked by your own personality and perhaps traumas. It's, it's fantastic because in a book, a movie or even a visual novel, you would have like a smash cut to what is essentially the inside of the character's mind and they would, they would give you a minor soliloquy, right?

They would just get that you'd hear you would zoom in on characters forehead and then in Giorno would be like, maybe if I shove this fish, fish up his ass, his stand will die or whatever. Um, whereas here it's like, you don't need that. You just need to, you would get, you know, would a fish work? What if I did 10 backflips into the pond, etc. And then you would go, oh, that's how his stupid brain

works during a stand battle. Is this kind of losing the plot? Yeah, a little bit, but I'm trying not to talk about audios at all while talking about audios having a trouble. Yeah, that was a horrible analogy and everyone is now way more confused having heard you say it. Um, but nevertheless, let the point remain that like imagine a visual novel except the dialogue choices again are, are,

um, they're not like these are the, these are the four outcomes you can try to go for or something. It's just different ways of thinking about whatever you're being presented with, especially if it's a particularly painful or, um, uh, uh, baggage topic, you know, there's a lot of ways you can handle confronting somebody about something, but sometimes they're just thoughts in your head and then you stifle them and then you end up saying just

the one thing. So, um, that's a, I love that. I love that about it the most I'd say. Uh, yeah. Congrats on somehow breaking the game. Yep. Uh, I QA fielded. Man, everything I played this week, I broke.

I don't know how. Oh yeah. I don't know why, but I got some wild shit. I broke Adios, uh, with apparently a bug that upon attempting to reproduce, they noticed it can be done within a 0.1 second frame window. So there is a literal micro window of time in which you can do what I did, which skips the entire, um, one of the

final chapters. Yeah. Skips the best chapter in the game. So that, uh, that was a brutal one, but thankfully I was able to load that back up and get that going. Um, I feel like the two final ones, I don't want to talk about other, about the details of it, but I feel like the two final ones are meant to be like, if you're a human being,

one of these two scenes is going to land nuclear on you. So that was, that was the explicit, uh, doc was talking about it and he basically wrote it in such a way. That these scenes are back to back and depending on your personality and the life you've led, one of these exactly will get you. Absolutely. And it covers the entire emotional gamut.

Yep. And, and so for you, what you said was the best scene in the game, I disagree. Cause for me, it was the other one because the other ones real good. It's, I'm not going to say it like it, it got me 95% of the way, but for me, if that was just this, the other one was the, was the more real of the two and, and it just, yeah,

you get, you get snipered in the chest. Like that's it. Yeah. You're done. You know. Um, anyway, Adios, go check it out. It's on steam. It's on itch.io.

Uh, Doc's quitty, uh, put it out and, uh, yeah, it's just, uh, it's worth your time. Go, go, go, go, go peep it. Um, and then we also, um, we're going to have an episode of that coming out, uh, sometime this week, I believe as well. So I'm tired. There's a lot of decisions I thought about making that I was like, no, I won't make them.

You know, so I'm curious about how certain other things could play out, but for the most part, uh, yeah, I got, I fucking, I bugged that out for some weird reason and then showing off some intros with, uh, Keo and Iori and Neo Geo. I bugged out that game too. And just, yeah, and I ended up running around on a black background because it didn't know what to do. It was so fucking weird, but I don't know, man.

I think, for some reason, just the QA field has been exerting into everything I've touched, everything I've touched in the last couple of weeks. Um, and, uh, yeah, um, if you want to tune into that, or if you want to take a trip down history lane and learn about Tekken advance, which I booted up and threw at Reggie. Uh, tune in, tune in to get into fighting games. Guess what?

Back in the heyday, when Tekken three was at its height of popularity, they made a Game Boy Advance version of that game. And it is way more functional than you would expect. All right, I'm looking at this. There is side-stepping. There is stage scrolling. Side-stepping. There is a pretty fucking complete move list for a lot of

those characters. There are crazy. You can side-step and do a 10 string with your car with your fave and it's there. Yeah. Yeah. So take a look as we, uh, we try to explore the world of Tekken advance, uh, on get into fighting games.

Let's get shit. Uh, yeah, that'll do her. Oh, if you want to check out my streams this week, by the way, folks, it's going to be a fucking weird week. Disco Elysium's final cut is out this week. Hell yeah. I'm excited. Did you know that the, that it has twitch integration?

Yep. You can leave it up to the audience to fuck with your shit. I also want to thank, uh, Zaum for sending me a hoodie. I did not know what was going to be on the hoodie. Uh, it's, it's a black normal looking hoodie with gigantic fuck this world written in gold on the back. Is that official? Yeah.

Wow. Just, just from the top of your shoulder to your ass in giant gold letters, fuck this world. Okay. Um, I am so excited for disco Elysium. That voice acting shit. Did you see the clip that I put up of like Kuno like screaming about, about your dick?

I did not, but it's, it's, it's all there, man. It's like it's going to be the, it's going to be the, the, the stream with me talking the least I've ever done. Yeah. Super excited. I mean, I was ready for a happy medium, but in this case, like they just went ahead and fucking did it and that's, that's more than fine.

You know, um, uh, I'm also going to be streaming, uh, Outriders is coming out this Thursday and, uh, I said last week that y'all would get to see a Kenchi stream, but Monster Hunter Rise came out early for me. So I did that twice instead. So this week y'all will get Kenchi. You're really going in there, huh? Oh yeah, I'm going to go in there.

All right. Don't worry. That'll help soften the blow of what might be a couple weeks of, uh, fortnight once a week. Once a week, he says not, not even joking. Damn. Really getting in there. I've been playing, I played it more than Monster Hunter this

weekend. Are you heading southbound with your whatever real fortnight gamer? Jesus Christ. You can't eat. Come on. You know what? You know what I will say?

Do you know what jostled my brain to play fortnight? It was that goddamn song. Chug jug. I couldn't get away from the song and it's just good enough that it sticks in my head every time I hear it. Are you familiar with American boy by Kanye West? Yeah. Okay.

I am just checking. It's not as good as this version. Fair enough. I know V just covered it and it's pretty fucking. Yeah, that shits. No, I know. I want the little kid version. It drills in his voice is going to crack.

It drills in there. It does. Yeah, excuse me. It was by Estelle featuring Kanye West. My mistake. Shame on you. Big shame. Anyways, um, once a week.

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I mean, Willie, you're playing multiplayer games on your channel once a week. Oh, yeah. Totally. No judgments here. That's not true. That's not true. All right.

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feels wild ride I will retweet it. I have already retweeted it but I'll retweet it again right now just so that it's at the top of my timeline and what this is Mr. feels his Twitter account because it's always something that I wanted to talk about but he does a better tweet than I ever could it's so fucking good. So the undertaker rises from the ashes and it's over his chest

it says Melty blood type Lumina and then underneath that is a reaction shot of of of Orton the apex predator and over and he's just going oh my God face and it says Street Fighter 6 KOF 15 Guilty Gear Strive Granblue Fantasy versus Tekken 7 Mortal Kombat 11 Injustice 3 Smash Ultimate and that one dungeon fighter online game it's Melty blood there's something about the resurrection of Melty blood from the bathroom that is so fascinating like this is the highest definition bathroom

you've ever seen the sprites are new there and there's new art it's looking crisp in fact it's more than a resurrection it's a new game it's it is a new game but yeah it's just taking Melty blood and bringing it back and it's it's a little nuts considering like the current cash cow that is fate that the same company has that they could have went with on this route but you know they they like no let's just give let's give Sukihime some love you know back to Melty blood yeah so no we

are we are fully out of the bathroom now to be perfectly honest that's all this toilet has rollback I would like to give another shout out to HD Kiran for a good tweet which calls to attention how strong this announcement was this is how you announce a fighting game all right immediately upon discovery of the existence of this product it was unveiled with worldwide release confirmed release time frame confirmed platforms confirmed rollback netcode confirmed

and questions that get and answers to questions that get straight to the point about the battle system right away what questions are those by the way I'm curious I haven't seen those so if you go to the site which is Melty blood dot type Lumina dot com they kind of talk a little bit about how the system will keep what Melty blood is known for and what like Melty but players who are familiar enjoy about it but it's also going to be rebuilding it from the ground up in a

way so this is going to be a bit of a strive situation perhaps with some things that are familiar and some things that are new they're so with so like between that and the sprites it's like at the end of the day like yeah this is a sequel it's it's it's not a it's not the latest version of Melty blood it really is a full on sequel is that girl in the white just saber before saber was saber.

The on our parade yeah our credit is our is is our she's she was totally sure is that just a saber I mean if you want it to be I believe so yeah and rapid beats are now are going to be in the game which is a sort of it seems like it's going to be like a bit of an auto combo system going on there so sure there's shots of cheeky who is looking as dating sim

protagonist as ever he is he is a Japanese student with glasses and a knife which means any students with glasses that can pick up a knife can cosplay as him and feel kind of like yeah imagine if I was in this world and then the best part is that to feel like they're powering up all they got to do is take their glasses off and now you you and your box cutter are super in there. Yeah yeah so you go Shujinko cheeky Nana yeah and cheeky

Toto I was always blown away at the relative simplicity of Melty Bloods designs well that's because they're coming off of dating sim art right like you're coming off of dojin game art and a lot of games that are just visual novel dojin games that like don't have the fighting game part attached have art styles like this that you then sell at comic cat you know and it took you a couple months on Ren P to like lay it out and then you spend a bit more time after that

finalizing it and you'll see like rough versions of homemade games like this all the time little little garage cases you know. So it just to me that's what the art style like no idea what you just said okay the art style being that I didn't understand a single now you used in that whole thing no problem let's try this again the art style looks pretty simplistic compared to a lot of other like big budget anime

titles you know let's say what you're what you're the reason why I think that's as the case is because the source of this game which is it's a fighting game based on a visual novel dojin game right you know what that is and those know I lost to you when you started to talk about comic cat and Ren P just don't know what that is Ren P Ren P is a is a visual novel Mugen it's Mugen for visual and you just grab you grab the script you grab your art assets and throw them in

there and then you're good to go and then people will get together like Genchi Ken the manga like they'll get together little comic clubs and groups of people will just work on a little Ren P project you know and then they'll put it out at comic cat which is the big convention and then see if it gets any traction but in a lot of cases you're gonna see this very like time constrained will call it art style so that's that's kind of why yeah it's just none of those

other ones became fighting games that blew up the way multi blooded it yeah and you and if they do at some point you might see the art style change from like dojin anime to like fucking we got money you know but this this there's an artist I forgot his name but the artist has a style and it's this particular style and use it keeps that dojin feeling the whole way through I would say the same goes for everything I've seen of toho right toho also has that sort of like

it's budget sort of feel to the art style by the way walls I'm still gonna keep listening I just need to head upstairs make sure the dog's not choking on anything I haven't seen him in a bit okay so you keep talking I'll be back in like 45 seconds right that that will occur what are we what are we talking about I said I said to who has that anime look I suppose Zun makes everything is that who we're discussing I suppose so yeah I kind of feel like when you looked at King of Fighters

for girls may it rest in peace we saw the art style soften the characters that with the characters we know that have more detail had to get simplified for the dating sim versions they became a little bit more be seen in in their in their appearance I'm gonna say as well even before that there was another KOF dating sim not dating sim but like KO KO KO fighters KO adventure game we're had had a similar look to it as well so you know it's what happens when when when you

become a visual novel version of yourself you lose a couple layers of shading I like that yeah just flatten it out it's fast it's easy melty blood is back and it's fucking immediately got rollback and that is also really important for them because the last melty blood game also had rollback but that's not because the devs made it oh yeah they released a steam version of of it and then everyone went this sucks the netcodes terrible

and then the community took it and like basically took the piece the the arcade version got it working and emulated and then put rollback in through a command prompt separate booting software and then people are now playing the game with handmade rollback perfectly and it's pretty crazy yeah and it's like you have to boot up a fucking command prompt you have to boot up a DOS prompt window to use it and it's not at all friendly to new players newcomers to like get into things that

way you know and so what kind of happens is people went hey by the game on steam to support it but then get this other version that we actually play for real you know and that's a bad look when the fans make a functioning version of your game for you so the so melty blood and in birth under night uniclear they're the same they're both French both are French bread and everyone thought that when the dev was asking for ggpo tips on Twitter that it was going to be because uniclear was

getting rollback but it's not it's because a melty blood was being worked on you know I'm very happy for everybody likes melty blood and I am simultaneously going man I would way rather play uniclear agree agreed between the two I like I like a under night more for sure we'll see what happens though I think we're going to see that franchise again I think yeah French French bread is is doing all right right now I think I think they're probably working on something hopefully

a sequel as opposed to another update it'd be really it'd be I have an idea for a sequel it's going to be called overnight in berth overnight pro berth there it is go on there's no more this is as far as my brain will go but where's the pun there's a pun yeah because in berth is also in verse no it's not yes it is that's why they went with in berth because it's like but be in v can be interchanged so that it sounds like in berth and inverse at the same time in basu

okay but I'm not going to say it like that and I'm the one making the stupid new name yeah so your name needs to be as clever I don't think clever is the right word for that damn DTFO yes T anyway type Lumina coming 2021 with all the bells and whistles alongside that some other cool things a judgment sequel is apparently in development everyone who's shocked raise their hand I better not see any hands so this is a rumor coming in from tojo dojo who spoke to a source name for you

could submit they spoke to a source that says yeah it's sequel to judgment or judge eyes as you would is on the way and something about a trademark called lost judgment was was found and it was a working title for something that they're working on and say with sega's working on so yeah that's cool I like that like this is a franchise that you know is going hard and and like from what I played judgment was pretty sick and there's more than enough room to take it like seriously

as well so the idea that like you know judgment is about that 99% conviction rate that we talk about from time to time yeah huh judgment is great by the way I beat it a while ago it's incredible yeah ends really well so there's more than there's more than enough room to take on more social issues I suppose or for more dead serious stories with these characters so why not why not what if it goes tactical RPG yeah yeah saying has already made tactical RPGs with the fucking I don't

know shining force judgment to get good I would like honestly I would say just like as long as you show off some new facial capture tech that gets like some more old grizzled Japanese dudes it's now you you're way in there now and it's like can you think of any franchise or video anything video game that's like hey man you want to see how many pores an old man like fuck cloud and his stupid pretty face I don't give

a shit about the pores and clouds face I want to see every crevice on Kuzi I want to see all of it the age lines the fucking it's a scars you know I want to see that and I want to see that having an amazing scene yelling at Kiryu who has a stupid anime video game face I have to say one of the best things about Ichiban is that Ichiban has a human head instead of the manga panel manga panel turned into fucking video game 3D model that to you as

it never looked worse than in the high budget moment with him in Iwano and like it's cutting to Iwano like way up in his grit you know and then it's having him and his him having to stare down and then back to just anime face proportion men with no lines or pores whatsoever like fucking weird it's it's really wild because like Majima and Kiryu are not based off of actors and as the series got more popular every character began to be based off of real people yeah and small

yeah like human erection has more detail in his face than Majima does because he's a real person but he's a comedian but that's the thing neither did solid snake but eventually when the time came they gave snake a face you know you know what I'm thinking you know how like car cars are like a really fantastic show off of like your new graphics engine like show how shiny the car is old people is how you show off like face technology yeah

yeah definitely that that quantum dream test from from way back when it's it's yeah it's just and it's more impressive when you see it also in them when you go hang out at the old folks home in like a dragon and you're seeing background old people NPCs

you're like oh look these are all unique faces as well they're not just randomly generated but gray hair and and a slouched over proportion like they they have actual fucking detail you know yeah yeah there's only six of them but they're very detailed oops now there's five well yeah yeah I think that's my that's what I'm most excited about with judgment is just scanning the fuck out of these old Japanese faces and getting all the grit

there's going to be more yakuza games there's a spoiler hey you there's there's a new yakuza game on average every 15 months it's been that way since 2004 and then years later on PC yes it's finally all up on PC six just six just landed right that's what I was told you just finally came out so it's finally all

on PC except for judgment which is not on PC due to some exclusivity thing with goddamn stadia so that'll be next year I can't believe stadia is still in the way in some way shape or form won't anyway so yeah more judgment coming along and with that yeah speaking of stadia in the way Amazon games

if we could actually take a 510 minute break right now I'd very much appreciate it okay 510 minutes we'll be right back okay I was about to talk about Amazon games have announced they're opening a new game studio in Montreal with a focus on AAA with the focus on maybe just maybe getting a game out the door before they shut that studio down the first project is an online multiplayer game based on a new IP headed by a number

of siege devs so I don't see what makes this any different from every other attempt Amazon has made at the video game it seems they're very they're trying very very hard to understand the video game in fact they have even purchased this very streaming platform about streaming the video game it's true but they cannot seem to figure out how to make one or release one so this got me wondering like what what ever since the iron

galaxy by what's what do they what you know nothing and well yeah if you go back to the wiki on it looks like they've been at it since 2010 I mean they're put they've put up stuff on the Amazon app store it would seem airport mania yeah tales from deep space in terms of buying a studio and releasing

games the Amazon game studios are at minus one well what's notable here is that the bottom of this list is because basically there's a bunch of stuff that's listed as reflexive entertainment which is not Amazon game studios and then around 2015 2014 we're seeing the some of those games I mentioned loss of thin and such to stuff to release to iOS and the Amazon app store and then 2018 we got dragons layer as a twitch extension

the grand tour game and then new worlds coming out 2021 and then cancelled Nova cancelled intensity cancelled break away cancelled crucible crucible saying it's cancelled is selling it short that was in beta released went back in a beta and then cancelled break a that's why I put it at minus one is break away not the game that like we literally went to play

yes I think I remember yeah I didn't go yeah so break away was that game that was actually like yeah they had they had an idea there they had a they had the the prototype of something fun but then it just never happened and then I got I don't know what it's called there's a game out now that a lot of people are having fun with that is like a final version of break away actually fuck Keats talks about it a bunch

what not quite oh shit what is it's a like I think it's a 3v3 Monday night combat style arena there's like fighting in it but there might be a ball that you're carrying God I don't remember the name of the game mega rocket mega rocket something maybe

I don't know let me let me let me do a quick shit I don't I don't remember what it was called rocket something that's fine well anyway it seemed as if that was a better version of what break away was going for and then it came out and everyone went like yeah that's good that looks fun

so it's not fucking rocket league holy shit no I wonder how many people we're working on rainbow six siege and said to themselves you know what I'm sick of designing maps rocket arena rocket arena that's what it's called okay I'm sick of designing skins or whatever for rainbow six siege

is there any developers that are opening up in Montreal oh I can go work at the new the Google studio make a stadium game with Jade Raymond okay okay so I'm I'm fired I wonder if I can go back to Ubi's oh there's a new Amazon studio making something I should go over there and how many times they're going to repeat that fucking process

I mean look you could put it on your resume you can say you did work you got paid like I it's it's it's this fucking just brutal thing of like yeah if the thing you work on for a while just never fucking comes out you kind of die inside but I feel like the industry has been in such a state that nowadays especially the veterans in this city have all experienced that at least a couple of times that they're probably getting a little more calloused

over it and you're just like well some update update the fucking stat sheet you know there's something about Montreal by the way to to those of you who don't know Montreal is and Quebec in general but Montreal offers very lucrative tax benefits for the game business yeah which makes it a great place to open up a studio that you plan on closing down in the future at some point because you don't really care that much

it's the best place to open up a studio you're not really committed to mm-hmm mm-hmm yep you don't see as many like full on buyouts other cities have a lot of buyouts but here you just see now we just opened up a whole new spot and fucking and it's gone yeah yep some do stick around but yeah it it those and sent those incentives are very very high and I feel like well I don't feel like I can guarantee you that you walk in

at any one of these places as they're getting started up and as you're doing the interview you can just look through the door and see a bunch of your friends from the same just doing the same circuit we're all here at the gangs all here last one's gone crazy it's like you find you find it's like you found the new bar you know like oh shit yeah this is where you ended up huh yeah write it out we'll see where this one goes you know talented people but yeah so we'll see what happens

I'm putting my bets on never released hmm hmm now I you know mm-hmm this is this is Google and not Amazon but I feel like they're in the same boat when the Google studios closed that one kind of blew me away but it didn't really hit me quite hard enough until thinking about the Amazon one the stadium developers they closed down before any game could have

possibly come out those are supposed to be like big budget AAA games and they had a year to work on those before they got shut down like what the fuck was Google expecting it makes it's I think like it's almost like the epic store version of this where they're like look we just find a game that's happening anyway and buy that out is the smarter route oh way smarter because you're just like they're struggling to get something original off the ground for a decade now and I

don't see what's going to be different this time you know maybe it will be but the the tail of the tape says otherwise yeah so I don't know we'll see but in the meantime I can tell that anyone who gets hired in on the executive level will likely be jumping in with a parachute perhaps even skydiving in to acquire what they can before it all comes crashing down because I can tell you have any names in mind well I can tell you that officially one Reggie Fizemei has deployed his parachute after

soaring out of the GME burning plane which has been repaired in midair but either way he skydived in he skydove in he got the cash he loaded up his burlap sacks and then a midair plane repair pit crew saved the plane and changed the engines and upgraded the plane and he was looking around going what the fuck is happening but he never stopped feeling all these guys and a gas refill went down the one of those midair gas refills you know but he kept he kept filling up the bag he wasn't

they use just like this is huh you know right and then eventually he looked at the bag and he went oh shit yo diamonds whoa I got there's more in here than I start I thought I had and the pilot comes in from the front of the plane he goes Reggie did you do this and Reggie goes yeah I totally did it I called those guys excuse me I need to put on this parachute and then I saved your plane and then Reggie strapped his cash to his chest not unlike a baby in a papoose and he put his

hands out and he dove and he dove away from the game stop plane and pulled his parachute like I obviously want to sit here and go I'm so smart this is exactly what I said was going to happen but everyone said this is exactly what was going to happen I believe Reggie Feeza may said this was going to happen at the press release when he joined seriously I believe at the press release he came out and went yeah I'm wearing a parachute I'm about state just long enough to get that

signing bonus mark my words play it for the jury I'm here getting what I'm getting and then I'm out but I'm here I kick ass and I take names and I pump stocks that's what we do you so yes Reggie's out the play I'm going to say a rousing success and he steps down alongside the other board of directors as the the new people take over and they really statements about what they're planning to do with game stop and all that all that stuff continues yeah fucking he said

it he did it and that was it that was it man really I am literally pulling up Photoshop right now he never even he never even had to make a statement or like a press release or any official he didn't he didn't do anything he did nothing publicly at all he jumped in watch the number go jumped out damn what a hero what a hero my work here is done exactly exactly I'm literally putting it together right now yeah so that's what's going on on the other side

of the fence Sony has hard confirmed the rumors the PS3 Vita and PSP stores will be closing on July 2nd for PS3 and PSP and August 27th for Vita you can still go download whatever you've purchased but that's the end of that fuck you too bad fuck posterity fuck them kids did you want to teach or tell somebody about persona three fuck you too bad what about the all three versions of persona three are getting wiped out by this that's pretty funny original

fest and portable all wiped out like just it sucks man absolute does yeah so go make the purchases that you want to before it's too late you know and then you know it's it's off to the seven seas no need to rehash last week's conversation just a note that Sony has confirmed the dates that they will no longer be selling games on anything besides the PS4 and the PS5 Sony has put out a statement telling all prospective sailors that ports are closed and the only way to

acquire the life saving sugar and rum you need is to take matters in your own hands well upon the open ocean seeing as the canal has been blocked it seems we need to go all the way around the coast of Africa so that shit is crazy it's pretty nuts but I guess it's what we got to do how else we get to ship our goods our spices you know yeah I'm going to go ahead and say that like this type of shit and the we shop shut down like this is worse than new consoles not having

backwards compatibility oh yeah like I will take a world where consoles just say fuck the past constantly but the past console still exists I will take that over the collective the collective digital wipe storefront wipeout because at the end of the day like the backwards compatibility thing is primarily a matter of convenience not for everyone but for a number of people it's a matter of convenience with like what the fuck am I going to have hooked up to my TV like

really like a billion things over here like this is this is too much you know but denial of access to these games it just sucks man and I don't know if you saw it but David Jaffe put out a really dumb take what David Jaffe said something stupid like a fucking dumbass are you serious I can't believe it holy shit David Jaffe a twisted metal and God of War fame said something fucking stupid all the oh my god my god back her okay so the dog is barking and growling at the photo of Reggie

I have open in Photoshop good good that's good that's a good sign yeah so basically like it was it got into this whole thing where like you know he was saying that like people getting fake outraged at you know they're about the storefronts going down is bullshit and like it was such a weird thing because the initial take seemed to just be like it seemed to just be haha you're mad your games are down right and then everyone's like that's what the fuck is wrong with you this sucks and

then further clarifications led to know the problem is that so it's bad that Sony does these types of things but we should but they should not be enabled to do so and also a what was it game preservation is a bullshit argument because games being preserved doesn't mean that you have access to them IE the lock off the Louvre has preserved many works of art you don't have access to the Louvre it doesn't mean that that right doesn't safeguard consumer digital products Jaffe we

can't Jaffe where am I supposed to buy and play twisted metal black well so five years but this is that game you ever made so so like the separation comes into the idea of game preservation as a word should only be used for will the data be deleted off of the planet Earth for all time right oh yeah that's totally what people are talking about and if you use it in reference to your personal access to the game then that's more of just a spoiled choice and it was like man

dude like how is it God he anyway hates yeah you're Reggie Feesomey or just you doing Photoshopping of weird things and that didn't he hate that weird monkey face to he hates that weird monkey face yeah okay that the one that's like oh stinky Zangie oh boy Zangie hey hey hey quick question is my face on the screen nope I can put it up there right now it's my animated background what's he barking at right now he's barking at a serene photo of the countryside because he

thinks Reggie's still there that he's just hiding not me no dude I don't I don't see you during the podcast yeah that's fine that's okay I prefer that that's good I just wanted to confirm that the barky face was not directed at me no no okay I've had a couple of the dog pictures of you the dog is indifferent to you okay good why do you ask no particular reason

I don't believe you yeah so anyway the preservation argument dumb and it's like obviously people are just trying to say hey literally the concept of having access to a game that I can show my kids or anyone in the future at all is a positive and that not existing is a negative and then he kind of again and then he kind of doubled back in this way to say that like like yes it's happens and it's a part of the market and it's bad

that Sony does that but it's also bullshit to decry the game preservation argument and it's just like alright dude like I was I was typing up a fucking you know one of the one of them Dunkaroos and I was like fuck this I just you know this whole thing just becomes nonsense but at the end of the day anyone pretty normal can just look at this and see hey access to storefront where game classic games exist no longer exists that is bad because the console I bought to play these

games on I can't do that anymore now you are like you know you're back to physical only which obviously has its hurdles and I think we were all kind of building up trust in a digital system over time from the ps3 era forward we caught we felt like okay this PSN stores been around we've been able to hold on to everything and I guess now if it's hit the threshold where they just kind of decided that sales are not enough on a monthly basis for them to kind of keep this going then they

just make the business decision you know but that business decision like yeah like it hurts video games in a historic manner it and it puts I would say everyone's confidence in digital way down you think that game developer whose last two games are readily available and are complete pieces of shit would want people to be able to play the old games they made that were good for all of time so that you don't think of David Jaffe and the only games you can play is fucking drawn

to life and calling all cars which are complete garbage I'm sorry drawn to death drawn to death drawn to life is the other so yeah so that you can go wow David Jaffe is like a horrible hack developer it's a shame the only games I can play of his are these terrible pieces of shit I guess they were all terrible. Well God of War was good until God of War. Well God of War was good but then God of War 2 which was

directed by the same guy who directed all the other ones was way better than God of War that happened to I would. Yeah I would like I'm thinking about so the idea of like sales versus server costs right primarily as the incentive or disincentive. There's a factor here which is just the resale factor which Nintendo we like we've talked in the past will use more often Sony maybe not so much they know Sony's not going to pull

things down and then do the re-release as much as we would see the eShop do it but if the server cost was an issue right it would there be a way like just follow my wild logic here but would there be a way with let's say even like a future console that has this more authenticated and worked out to have you download a game digitally onto your computer and put it on a storage media and then let the storage media go into your console verify the game and install it from there.

You mean like backing up your games onto your PC through the Vita. Yeah actually yeah like that totally way to do that that exact thing is something Sony in particular has already done can you get games for Vita onto a storage device and then plug them into your like and then buy them through the PSN on PC. It's about you have to you have to back up from the console to the PC and then re and then send it back.

Okay. All right so not not quite the same there but basically if there was a way to remove the server cost issue here by just having the store continue to exist on well at that point you're still paying for the servers though you might as well just it doesn't matter. Yeah that's stupid that's stupid online. Yeah that exercise came out we didn't pay for PlayStation Plus

and we had an online store now we do pay for PlayStation Plus and they're taking away the old online store. It doesn't matter. Yeah the cost of servers is it doesn't matter. Man it's just if there was if there was a way for future digital things to you know like be protected in some way like it's it's pretends well yes unofficially there's the high C's and that's all there is to it.

Yeah yeah it's you know piracy is a complicated topic and there's various forms arguments and circumstances but it has always been my position and I think it's a fairly reasonable one that once a company goes know you can't have it and you go but I'll pay for it and they go I don't care they forfeit all moral right to non-pirating of that material because that's bullshit. Yeah what I just don't enjoy is the the you know depending on

who we're talking about the steps of convolution associated with all of that so for the friends that I'm trying that I'm trying to like you know pitch games to they want a simple solution they don't they might not play games as often they kind of just want like oh yeah go play this it's on that and then they can figure that out but if it gets more and more obfuscated in the future you know anyway it it's I mean even even outside the moral stance of that issue right like

if somebody goes dude I'll pay you for this and you go no you won't the answer from the average consumer is okay I guess I won't pay I guess I won't then like I was gonna and then you said don't so I said okay I guess I won't anyway told me not to and it's funny cuz like Nintendo is getting like a fucking wonderful free pass right now because Sony shutting down these stores is a similar but distracting event compared to did you remember that they're going to shoot Mario to death

in the mouth in just a few days yes they're gonna drive him out back and have him put down three times actually it's crazy right right there just point blank so that he won't feel it will you video games are a consumable product exists so that you are able and expected to rebuy these products later Nintendo just did this shit with Mario well you might have come true and has never been true also you might have come late to the conversation where I said that yes Nintendo tends

to resell these things to you but Sony does not so there is a difference here with the way these how companies are handling it they all do it like nonsense thanks for trying play again but you know it's a you know it's a consumable product on Apple you know it's not a consumable product my coffee machine or the copy of the thing that I own did you see probably not so there's a subreddit called asshole design and oh man it's strong because it shows you things that are

designed by assholes to be assholes in the wrong way to you yes right and I saw what that was my my HP printer no longer subscribes to their monthly service yeah so my printer ink cartridge cannot be used anymore and it's straight up is like the warning label on the physical printer is printer will not be able to be used as you are no longer a member of HP whatever fuck service and it's just like oh we're here we're here now you bought a cartridge of ink and put it into your

printer but how dare you not be a part of the service anymore oh going back to the consumable thing for a second it's like hey well if you say you bought a car right and the car had a piece in the engine that was planned to fall to pieces within 10 years almost like some sort of planned obsolescence yeah almost like they planned for you to have to get a major repair from the dealer probably or get a new car that's illegal for a reason it's called planned obsolescence yeah like you said

this is just a long form digital version of planned obsolescence it's a little different no it's a little different because the the purchases you make still exist on your console and can be played the what you're being denied is the continued usage of that console for new games and unless you go physical if you can which the PSP go you cannot it's not 100% the same it's a denial of the active service but the main functions will still continue

online games probably not though fuck you if you're playing anything that's persistently online yeah so that was confirmed and then a couple other quick news announcements here one Akumi Nakamura opens up her new indie game studio working on a new IP that's cool I hope it's good she's been doing the rounds checking out other studios and visiting and kind of like I know she like she's like did a tour of a bunch of western excuse me a bunch of western

game to us to studios and yeah she's been kind of just like I guess talking to people and putting plans together and I guess they're finally done she's launching her own studio and does it have a name yet I don't think it has a name yet but more to come on that interested to seeing what she she has to to to to put out because she was a surprisingly strong influence on evil within well Ghostwire Tokyo is going to be like probably

where you get to see most of why she left suddenly don't know but that'll be where you see most of her her chops probably there was that one and then yeah quick shout out to a Kickstarter again do your own due diligence check it out see how you feel but at a glance this looks pretty fucking cool astral ascent 2D platformer rogue light references slay the spire by name and

children of Morta as well and its influence really nice pixel art really nice full portraits for the characters full anime animation for what looks like some sort of intro sequence rad at red colorful pixelated style just very very cool visually combat wise I'm almost getting slight indivisible vibes in terms of just like watching how many different characters are like hanging out and like on screen just

doing shit together and yeah this thing is currently about half funded asking for 44,000 Canadian and they're at 20.7 with 30 days to go so take a look if it looks like something you're interested in you can check out a demo for it apparently hi biranian workshop is the name of the studio and yeah they made something before this called dark devotion which is something I'm not familiar with but apparently

it's on steam sounds familiar yeah just it's one of these things where I saw a tweet with a bit of gameplay in it and I was like oh this is this is pretty this is interesting what's going on here dark devotion looks kind of like a almost blasphemous see yeah I can see a little bit of that there sure but yeah this is called astral ascent

and looks cool okay let's take some letters all right if you want to send a letter and send it to castle super beast mail gmail.com one more time that's castle super beast mail at gmail.com and yeah we got one coming in from curious and Cornelius says hey woolly and pat now that you've

both experienced Yakuza I was wondering if you'd heard about the East Asian storytelling structure Kisho Ten Ketsu for those unaware Kisho Ten Ketsu is broken down into key introduction show development 10 twist and Ketsu resolution or conclusion you may have noticed that many of the quest lines in Yakuza follow this structure often with each consisting of one sequence of the quest in game

it's it is interesting because now that you put a name to it yeah I do know exactly what you're talking about in the feeling of like a four part like side quest where you know the third at the third act of it is some wild change and unpredictable turn exactly and then you followed up with the prestige do you know of any other games that follow this structure as tightly probably not but no Yakuza is it's like what it's

crazy how like like you break down every single fucking side quest into the same series of steps it's crazy yeah the side quest in particular like I really like once though I started looking at them as for coma that is what just made everything make sense it's just don't put whatever you were doing before the first panel doesn't matter the world spawns into existence and curio drops into the frame and he

looks at a radio that suddenly here and goes huh where this radio come from and then in the second frame the radio turns on and it's the guy doing the stories about you know the wild stories from Tokyo and all this shit and third thing is he's like oh man these stories are great wow and maybe I should send in one and then that you know what I mean and then he just fucking takes off from there and it's like yeah it doesn't it doesn't matter what was happening before or after

you just you've spawned into a world where he's staring at a radio and he's never experienced radio before like almost like Garfield experiencing a radio for the first time you know what is Garfield have to say about the concept of an AM radio well let's find out a lasagna you know and you can turn to that one issue and then he has a little mini arc and then it'll end with the radio getting smashed and John screaming at him and then that's the radio

arc you know and then you get your little completion points yeah that's that's a good good good thing to keep note of key show 10 cats as a Japanese storytelling thing and keep that in mind next we got one coming in over here from James says dear raging bull and mad dog of Pat Cousa while not so much a question on podcast 11 I remember Pat was saying that he wishes P5 Royal would come to the PC this immediately sparked

a memory of an article I glanced at a month ago while not exactly talking about how Atlas should be releasing it in the end the epic game store stepped in and yes P5 are coming to the PC as a game store exclusive I feel this is a monkey paw scenario which made your wish but it made a bad wish on the bad storefront are there any other times it'll come a year later are there any other times that you said hey I wish they put this on PC

only for it to happen but get botched in some way I mean yeah but I mean more accurately I spent years going man I wish they made a new Shining Force game and then they would make one and I would go God damn it God fucking damn it I don't know how many of these kids remember what PC games were like before steam haha I do but

yeah you need to take a second and consider that times used to be real rough real I don't know why it's not voting I guess I gotta go find this obscure Microsoft distributable Oh did you not damn it dude you loaned me the 30 installation discs but you forgot disc 14 Oh no no wait I found it no wait I found it but you overwrote it with your homework

you used the disc for your homework and now disc data 14 of 30 is gone sorry you no longer have this game haha shareware though yeah CD keys um what was it called was it called spawn versions the blizzard did like you get the 10 levels of Diablo um um um spawn key the keys to give your friends right

yeah I don't remember yeah there was definitely the word they used for here's the key that your friend gets that lets your friend install brood wars but he can only play multiplayer mode with you or other multi people are the people but there's no single player it's just brood wars multiplayer yeah weird yeah it was a spawn key good idea

kind of like early steam with the gift copies I'm I just saw a piece of news in the chat that I'm gonna have to all right well while you verify that let me get to the next letter here Joseph says dear crack the sky and downward spiral in as a striker gunvolt to gunvolts route the way to beat the pen ultimate final boss requires you to sing J pop through the

3ds microphone while reading and reacting to the Blitzkrieg of projectiles and lasers during the battle the song name was reincarnation right the shit that pops up when you power up lumen the sing along moves to the tempo so scrolling along the lyrics karaoke style takes one third or two thirds of the top screen real estate you can't bullshit by singing mum muttering in the pitch of the vocals like rock band good luck tripping over good luck

not tripping over yourself as you can't enunciate the Japanese correctly and in sync to the lyrics either the boss fight is uniquely frustrating standalone except I happen to be playing while staying over at my grandma's house at 4am needless to say she woke up upstairs to chide the racket and penetrating the paper thin insulation beneath her ceiling have you ever had something similar experienced yeah that is wow gunvolts I was giving you the benefit of the doubt a minute ago because when

I saw the footage of part 3 where you're playing as not gunvolt I was like alright we got a good game here as long as you don't play as the titular character this is the dumbest shit I've heard about what that's incredible as if the normal gunvolt gameplay wasn't bad enough but yeah now you got to fucking sing at the same time in key sing mm-hmm it's good it's good sing the song out of me sing it I have been able to verify what someone in the chat said

some tech rafter net Sega has filed a DMCA takedown notice to the Yakuza like a dragon steam database page oh I did see they think they think it is a piracy site giving the game out okay I did see a tweet about that apparently they've done this in the past and other studios have as well and steam DB is usually able to send a message and then they revoke it but Sega is the only company that doesn't respond doesn't care and when they send back an initial thing

saying like hey this is not excuse me infracting in any way they sent a second one so then they just pulled the page down that part makes it sound like it's not a misunderstanding they just don't want people to see the stats no that's not it it's still a misunderstanding they're just stubborn and stupid there's just no human beings involved in the verification process 65 year old businessman going but it says it's on the way it's not they're stealing it

for those who don't care what they say for those who don't know steam DB is like steam spy and a couple of other sites out there which just show you the stats of like a game on steam current users you know sales price everything you'd want to know about the game being listed and how many people are playing it and you know when it goes on sale and what its general popularity is in different regions and shit just metrics metrics on a given game

it's just it's just a stat page it's like and it's using the public steam API looks like the old Atlas stegosaurus found his way to the to the to the next floor the next floor up and is doing doing work for Sega so that's a dumb and I saw the steam DB guy yeah apparently was on Twitter going hey can anyone know what to fucking do here

because the answer is take Sega games off your service I mean is there any is there any what if they just really covertly don't want people to know about how many people are playing their game you're giving them so much credit this is the same company that killed thousands of YouTube accounts that had shining shining force because it had they were more popular than the fucking search results of their brand new game

yep yep yep yep persona stars Russian reality TV die yeah all right all right that's it that'll do her yep so tune in this week for an unusual schedule we're not going to be back to Yakuza just yet

I believe V needs the week off for something else so we'll get more updates on that but yeah it's going to be me and Reggie doing some stuff for Tuesday Wednesday Thursday I'm probably going to be playing like I said it takes two and if we have time we might look at something else and then yeah Saturday I'm trying to set up get into fighting games the newcomers but I feel like I might not have

someone ready in that time frame I'll let you guys know either way but stay tuned to the Twitter for an announcement about that and also because that story I talked about with the whole Buster Wolf tale apparently that thing got some traction and the people who made the Mark of the Wolves limited edition thing were like hey cool dude we can do a you want to do a giveaway on your Twitter and I was like sure so give it away check in on my Twitter

I'll make a post about it a little later but yeah there's a collector's edition Mark of the Wolves for the PS4 that comes with the art book that I referenced and soundtrack and a bunch of other cool shit that all you got to do is follow my account and their account and then I'm going to keep it open for a week and then I'm going to pick a winner maybe even do it on get into fighting games that makes the most sense that's where we do Black Christmas and then yeah get a free copy of Mark of the Wolves

you should let me enter that giveaway and then just say I want it by chance your name goes in the list I can random select there's nothing stopping you you're not my employee you can do what you want that tune in Willy versus on YouTube Willy versus on Twitch and good stuff

yeah I'm going to be streaming over at Pat stairs at twitch.tv it'll be Disco Elysium Outriders and catch you this week and if you happen to be watching the podcast live this week on Monday Peach's Live has finally got her camera working correctly and she'll be streaming later tonight as well there you go folks have a good one and um despite our best efforts we still flew 30 over that's okay

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