Castle Super Beast - CSB375: The Official Ingrid Apology Episode™

Starting point is 00:00:36 Bless you. Bless you. You know, I've also been sneezing this morning, and people, I was streaming earlier, and people were like, are you sick? I'm like, no, I'm 40. Like, when I wake up in the morning, I do the dad. A couple noises. That whole thing.

Starting point is 00:00:54 Couple noises. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, where are we starting? Hey, Willie from Woolley versus. How are you? Hello, Pat Stairs. At?

Starting point is 00:01:06 How are you, are you having a good day today? You sleep? Uh, yeah, not, not that much. Not that much, but, you know, we're trying to make do, uh, with what we got. Um, okay. So, yeah, a billion announcements, a billion things. Uh, four billion things at the same time. Yep.

Starting point is 00:01:27 Self discoveries. Did you do anything? Have you done anything of particular note and interest with your week before we dive into that shit? Well, there's one, you know, as I've always said, as Stellar Blade's strongest soldier, I have now discovered that I'm apparently going to be playing this for the first time. There is a, there's a whole lot going on there. And I saw some weaves and I saw some dodges and I saw some punches. and I didn't know, you know?

Starting point is 00:02:10 I didn't know that that was going on over there. You played Stellar Blade this week? I did not play Stellar Blade this week. Okay, I feel like you just soared past my question. No, this week I went back to Mina the Hollower, and I tried another hand at it. And what I discovered was, slowing it down and basically playing, just walking and just slowing the pace of the game down to, to like, perhaps like three times as slow as I was progressing is the way forward, you know, not just running up to things and fighting them, but just waiting, letting them come to you, poking, moving your way forward.

Starting point is 00:03:02 I cleared the first tower, which you can go to multiple, but the one I cleared out was... Yeah, you can go to anything in any order. I went to the graveyard one. Yeah, that's the easiest one. That's the one I went to as well. And then the...

Starting point is 00:03:23 Yeah, I think the feeling of that was, you know, okay, well, not to always grab a from soft reference, but literally just like it felt like I slowing down the pace as bigger enemies came at you was it just becomes mandatory you can't go well because they'll walk into your hits yeah um and then there's things that I'm swinging at that are like you take like 10 to or plus more hits to kill and you kill me in two or three you know um but uh I I you got to get those bones yeah yeah I think I figured out the the the the the flow of that a little bit a little bit better. And the way that you walk around and just boss fights erupt out of nowhere constantly is kind of nuts.

Starting point is 00:04:18 It's all the time. Yeah, which I like a good boss fight. It's cool. Although like I came at I came back to town from my guess the wrong side and then picked a fight with a rival who. No, that that. that one happens when you do the first tower. Okay. And I noticed as I was fighting him that like every hit I did did so little that I was like, am I not the correct strength for this? Maybe it's possible. It felt very strange. It felt because I did like a spiral out like for a while. I did like eight hours before I tackled the graveyard. and I had boned up like like six, seven, eight times.

Starting point is 00:05:06 Okay. I was trying to save money because I saw the weapons I wanted to try. So I was trying to save money to go get the weapons and try them. And perhaps the game doesn't like that. Oh, yeah. No, that,

Starting point is 00:05:19 no, it's not that a game doesn't like that. It's just like you went wide and you didn't go tall. Yeah. So I only boned up maybe once or twice to strengthen myself. Oh my God.

Starting point is 00:05:29 Yeah, no, that would do it. Because like, um, The thing that I do with almost everything ever, like I do it in Pragmata, I do it in this, I do it anything that I buy things. I just buy the cheapest item so I can get the most everything. Okay. So, right?

Starting point is 00:05:45 So like at the shop that sells you hearts, right? The first one's like 500. It's like snap that one up. Snap up the sub weapon one. Snap up this next one. Yeah. Right. No, I don't do that.

Starting point is 00:05:58 I go for the things that are, that I want the most, slash are going to affect my game the most. So, well, I would say having attack power and life would help. True. But I get, or okay, I guess the, the weapon I'm going to interface the video game world with entirely is a humongous deal to me. I need to, I need to know which one of these I want to wield and how they feel and make a decision on that.

Starting point is 00:06:26 Well, that's why they give you the choice of all three to play around in the intro. Which I didn't get to do because I picked up the. hammer and then I guess I walked one tile too high and then it forced the event to occur, right? So I only got, well, then you need to take that up with past. Well, I don't know what to say, but the point is, is that the thing I care about trying is the weapons and I want to buy and play them to see what they feel like. And if the decision to spend my money on that is the incorrect one, well, that sucks. No, Wully, Wully, stop. You're literally going, why is it so hard? I never leveled up. So, So I was saying what I said was it's totally possible that that's the case.

Starting point is 00:07:04 I did level up like, again, not like six or seven times. I did level up like I think twice by the point I was walking back to town. But I don't know. I'm also like. When you say twice, do you mean like two rotations around the whole stats? No, no, no. So what did I do? I literally, I got enough bones to upgrade the attack.

Starting point is 00:07:39 I got everything up to a thousand, I think. So I did that one, like, upgrade of everything. And then I think I upgraded attack a second time to 2,500. And then I had enough money to be able to buy a weapon back at the shop afterwards. said instead of spending the rest of my money on like the levels i'll put them in so that i can go back and go shopping okay so the the main thing is that uh for i i did i did i did i did quite a bit like i played way more of it and those like level ups represent like enormous increases in like life like specifically defense like it's one of those things where like the bar doesn't seem to grow all that

Starting point is 00:08:25 much, but like it is a huge increase to how many hits you can take. Okay. Well, I, I, I guess I, you know, fought. Yeah, so I fought the, the, the boss and beat it and then the climbing up the tower was cool. And then I walking back to 10. I did like three towers before I realized you don't have to jump in all the holes. Oh, really? You just have to get to the top. Oh, I thought jumping in the holes was kind of the point. Okay. It pushes, it pushes the electricity further down so you have more time to get bones, but it's actually totally. Yeah. Like totally pointless. Yeah. Well, aside from getting the bones. Yeah. Um, so I, so, okay, am I, I, I guess, yeah, like, is this the case where I should restart and do different things with my money? Like, no, you know, no, just, just the, so the, the,

Starting point is 00:09:19 the, the, the, when I described it as having spiraled from the town. is the long and short of it is that every single step you take from the center of town the game gets harder in every direction right so if you're like

Starting point is 00:09:38 if you went like all the way to the right like in the graveyard right and that was pretty brutal right then go one slot up one slot down one slot left and then in the natural like course of that

Starting point is 00:09:53 you will just bone up a bunch of times and get a ton of get a ton of Cicua at um, uh, trinkets. Like the, it's basically the Eldon Ring situation. Right? Where it's like, man, this is like I ran into like a, basically what happened is I would explore to like straight south until something kicked my teeth in. And then I would explore southeast until something kicked my teeth in. And then I would explore

Starting point is 00:10:17 east until something kicked my teeth in. And then I did that three times. And then after the third run of that, I, I went east to the graveyard and it still kicked my teeth in, but I managed. So, yeah, I did, I've been getting my teeth kicked in all over the place, but I, again, I managed. It's a tough. Yeah. And like I said, my whole thing of like changing the mentality to being maximum patience, maximum slowdown, maximum poke once run, maximum wait for them to do their pattern and then only swing. You know the thing you do when you're fighting a soul's boss that you literally just can't get in a word edgewise except for after this one telegraphed attack?

Starting point is 00:10:58 Like doing that to a couple of things, which got me to beating that rival after many tries. Oh, so I beat it on my first shot. I was like, I was wondering if it was like the rival left and like didn't let you do it again. No. But in fact, it forces you. It's like, yeah, you can come back to town until you can do it. You had to do it. You had to do it.

Starting point is 00:11:19 And, yeah, it was in a place where his whip was, you know, killing me in, like I said, it was doing enough to kill in about three hits, I'd say, or so maybe, maybe that's off. And in terms of how much damage I'd swing at him, each swing was like a slight amount of his life bar going down. So I, that fight took a long time to do. And I did kind of go, okay, you know, this is, this is a. a case two of like, I'm sure weapon damage factors in here. So when you level up the weapon, you don't actually, it doesn't actually seem to do more damage. You just get more moves.

Starting point is 00:12:01 Okay. Which, but some of the moves do more damage. Okay. Well, um, well, I, I, you know, struggled through and I beat him eventually and, and kind of went, okay, I think this, this is where the game wants me to be right now. And then I kind of confirmed it with, um, going to buy my third weapon. or second weapon and then the game's like here's another boss fight right so oh oh man that that that is supposed to I am of the opinion that that is supposed to stop you from getting a

Starting point is 00:12:35 from doing what you were doing right because if you're if you're good enough to beat that boss and get your second weapon they're like you don't need these health upgrades you can you can just buy whatever you want um and uh well I did get the third weapon. Yeah, I'm checking back. And with my, with my dagger, which is like the least powerful weapon, I was doing maybe one 15th health to him.

Starting point is 00:13:02 But I was doing like, bop, bop, bap. Yeah. Like per opening. But it was like a completely ridiculous amount of damage being done. I did beat him. And he had to hit me five or six times.

Starting point is 00:13:14 Uh, to kill me. Yeah. So, so basically, uh, after fighting him and beating him. I'm like, okay, I, this game is just trying to, this is what it's throwing at me.

Starting point is 00:13:24 And yeah, I'm, I'm sure that I've got to get those levels up as well to, to compete or so. But this is, and that's another case too of like, the thing that I don't like as much, the, the, the tile platforming, you know, it's asking you to do immense amounts of tile platforming. So they put out a little dev diary kind of thing that showed off with a lot of animated gifts, how they, balance the tile platforming. And it's really interesting. They have something called pit sweat, which is Mina turns a slightly lighter shade and has little sweat bubbles up when she's on the edge.

Starting point is 00:14:03 But they also give you hang time over pits. Like your jump is physically longer if you're going over a bottomless pit. There's a little bit of invisible collision. Yeah. Well, it, but it's not just for, pits, though. I'm talking about jumping over, for example, whips or lava, you know? Yeah. No, I mean, it all counts as, like, damaging surface. Yeah, yeah. And then also tracking where, like, an exploding rock that's coming in four directions towards you, tracking the trajectories of that stuff as well gets a little bit dicey and tricky because it, it's falling from the sky, not coming from the north, you know? So the things that, things that travel, that fall for, from the sky down to the ground

Starting point is 00:14:51 versus traveling from, cuddling towards you from the north and a little, things like that, I'm still just like, yeah, unfortunately, just it's the way the game is displayed,

Starting point is 00:15:00 but, you know, you just got to get used to that and learn it. One of the things that you mentioned, like specifically about the platforming leads to one of my complaints that you haven't gotten to yet.

Starting point is 00:15:11 My only complaint, and I know why they do it, but my only real complaint is that there are a lot of trinkets that you get that have, super fucking powerful effects like really like really powerful effects

Starting point is 00:15:24 that in most games would just become part of your core permanently yeah so there's a trinket that if you jump and hold the button you float your your descent floats more slowly and it gives you a full

Starting point is 00:15:39 extra square wow of platforming but it takes a trinket slot of which and I'm like those are premium they're very premium you get like five tops. Okay. I have two right now, you know, and they're like set to resurrect from death and I think suck items in. Suck items in. Yeah. So those are both really essential feeling. It, it does have the

Starting point is 00:16:06 Holo Night thing though, where there are some that are like, this is pretty shit, but then you find one that it pairs with like perfectly. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Right. Like there's one that, um, when you get hit you don't lose plasma off the heel. Okay. Okay. And there's one that makes you drink your vial instantly and you can't have the vial knocked off of you. And those two together make the

Starting point is 00:16:31 heel way better. Interesting. I can see that having completed the dungeon and fought a, you know, I triple back to back to back of three bosses in a row because I literally went from dungeon clear to

Starting point is 00:16:47 back to town to buy the weapon. that thing is intense. Yeah, and I kind of went, okay, I see what this is. I have to be, and especially the pacing change that I'm describing, I have to be in a mood to play this game, and that mood is going to come when I have some time and some patience to like... Oh, it really demands an extreme amount of patience because it's not just like the, like, you have to give enemies their turn.

Starting point is 00:17:18 Yeah. Right? it's also like, I'm looking at some of my footage from before and I'm like, that's a secret, that's a secret. Like on the one screen, like I was spending like 15, 25 minutes on single screens just going, how do I get in there? How do I get in there? How do I get in there? And the really fun bit is that there's often like multiple different ways to get in there. Like I used that floating thing that I described earlier to jump some pits that I, probably wouldn't be able to.

Starting point is 00:17:50 And I'm like, there's no other way to get through this pit. And then people pointed out like, you could use the bicycle to get through the pit. Or you could get, or you could throw one of the bouncy pads across the pit. Or you could get the burrow that shoots you farther to get across the pit. And I'm like, wow, that's a lot. I thought there was only going to be one solution. Yeah, I feel like between the pacing difficulty and platforming that like this requires, for me, I have to sit down and be fully, fully concentrated playing it.

Starting point is 00:18:22 Can't be doing other stuff or listening to other stuff, whatever. You know, it's no, this is not a, I'm, this is not a podcast game. This is not a, I'm done for the day, time to sit back and relax kind of thing. You have to sit down and fully engage with it. And that means I have, that mood doesn't come as often as my, hey, I need to relax right now, mood. So I'll come back to this game sometimes here and there. but, you know, that shit's real, man. I have found this game to be an enormous source of what I call it U-Stress, right?

Starting point is 00:18:59 It's good stress. Like, I got into a flow state for like 15 straight hours on this. I think it's one of the best games I've played definitely this year in quite a while. But at the same time, I look at it and I feel the same way I did about Silk Song. It's quite difficult. It's not as difficult to Silk Song. It's quite difficult, and it's very particular about how it wants you to engage with it. It wants to engage with it.

Starting point is 00:19:29 It wants you to engage with it in the exact way that they designed you to engage with it. Yeah, I think that Silk Song is a really good comparison. For me, it feels like the difference is that one, like, I love the amount of polish in both, and like that's what's keeping me like, you know, interested here. When I feel like I pull it off in Silk Song, like I, the reward, the highs I get and the rewards are much stronger for what's, what I'm doing. And in Mina, I'm still, I'm still chugging against some of that bad friction. I'm still like not satisfied with some of the, the, the platforming things and the

Starting point is 00:20:13 movement things and I'm still not satisfied with just yeah some I don't know exactly just there's some parts of it that are not a hundred percent as that's a vibe check yeah and I will say that like you know I'm hoping to to see like you know those those moments in Silk Song of like fighting one of

Starting point is 00:20:35 those like real bosses and then getting like oh fuck like locked into that to that feeling I want to get that to that equivalent here and see you know how how good that goes. Because climbing the tower is a really awesome post boss fight fun thing to do. It's a little bonus level. And it's all mode seven and shit. And it's dynamic and feels really interesting and stuff.

Starting point is 00:20:55 But like, yeah, Silk Song, you know, Lost Sinner, Last Center, anyway. And final boss and all the enemies that really, really require you to like sit the fuck up and pay attention. Coming through that struggle at the end feeling like relief and like a super high. high and a rush from that. I'm hoping this game can hit those for the difficulty that it's requesting of me. Because if it's asking

Starting point is 00:21:23 this much difficulty but doesn't hit those highs, I'm going to have a more sour experience for it. If that makes sense. Oh, so I think, I think you might run into trouble because at the point that I was at with you, I had already had like huge highs. Gotcha. Right? Like, like, Like the going through the crypt and fighting a bunch of getting the escort quest puzzle, right through the final part of the crypt. Followed by the bosses there.

Starting point is 00:21:55 Followed by the tower. Followed by surprise boss fight on the way back to the fucking town shithead. I was just like fucking in love. I was absolutely in love. I think too This is just like a game that was like made for me Like it was just absolutely like everything about it Like just pushes all of my buttons and all the right way

Starting point is 00:22:19 And I don't know when I'm going to get back to playing it Because Some fucking stuff going on right now I think too that part of that that feeling I'm describing Also comes from like as the escalation occurs Your how much can you do in response and, you know, Hornet can right off the bat, you've got your dive, your bounce, you've got your dashes, and you've got a whole lot of, like, cool shit you're doing that you're staying alive with.

Starting point is 00:22:48 And right now with Mina, I need to still get more of that stuff. Like, I know there's the dash heel that's a consumable. And then ultimately, diving is the main dynamic thing you're doing with precision. but maybe with more tools or with more, yeah, more that I have yet to unlock, you know. It's essentially like, Mina's not as fast as Hornet is, like, she has similar options. Her burrow is better than anything that Hornet has because it renders you completely invincible. Yeah. But, and you have the same amount of directions left right up down.

Starting point is 00:23:32 It's just from a slightly different perspective. And then there's just that little like, ooh, like dopamine rush that comes from like bouncing off of shit with Hornet and redirecting an air and dashing, hit the wall, jump off, bounce again. And, you know, that fun stuff. Like, you get that dodge with. Yeah, that's a, that's a fundamental property of like the 2D setting. You can't exactly do that with, with Mina. Unless there are a couple of, there's like some, well, I ran into a couple micro dungeons that had you doing that style of platforming. of like bounce pads, uh, and timing like moving bounce pads.

Starting point is 00:24:06 You know, who else does that? Shovel night, you know. That's true. So that that is like, it is a fun, it's just fundamentally the, there's a part of the camera angle here to it. So, um, in any case, though, um, what is what I, I love how fucking just like, you know, again, the polish is, is awesome. You get to the top of that tower and you activate and you get a nice little like letter and you sleep and you, the whole moment is everything about the way it's, it's happening and the

Starting point is 00:24:31 characters and all that are, again, it's all the love that they put into their previous work, you know, establishing this world. So I, I, I am engaged by this. But, uh, yeah, I, I am just, I, I'm not in love, you know, and, uh, I want to be. But, um, that's where Mina the Hollowers at. Um, and, uh, I mean, yeah, that, beyond like that stuff, uh, finished off Pragata. Oh, yeah. By the way, I got to tell you, Moons Closed is a great title. I text you, Dad. I don't know if you got it. Thank you. Moons Closed is an A plus title for the end of that shit. That is a really good game. That is one of my games of the year. That is a strong beginning, middle, and end. And it does the great thing, which is by the time you wrap up Pragmata, there's still more game

Starting point is 00:25:31 for you in the form of besides the challenge missions and things that you're unlocking, if you just go through the game, deal with all the main red rooms and then progress picking up weapons as they come to you, there's still a whole lot you haven't gotten. And when you finish it and then load it back up, there's a full-on like, here is a DLC. That is not DLC. It's just on the game, you know? you have a whole other area and set of challenges to go just check out that felt as if it were a DLC pack. So great, great in terms of just extra content there.

Starting point is 00:26:13 And the way that the game is flowing and the type of packing and puzzling and combat interplay that you're doing by the end is phenomenal. There's a whole weapon type I didn't even really get to use because it was based on clearing the bingo boards. where there's one weapon that's like a mine. I don't even know what the fuck that is. Oh, okay. So there's, there's a whole, there's a whole subsystem of like,

Starting point is 00:26:40 you collect these little items, these coins, and you spend each one on a grid system. And then when you clear a bingo on the grid, you get a reward. So if you clear a triple bingo, you get a second reward and you clear all the whole board,

Starting point is 00:26:56 all five, then you get like an even bigger one, you know? And there's not, and there's real, weapons and stuff to get on this board as a bonus board, you know. That's awesome. One of the things it has is a weapon that is a mine that you can plant.

Starting point is 00:27:11 And when it explodes, it detonates a hack subroutine of your choice onto the enemy that detonates it. So you can start piecing together more and more synergies, right? very, very cool. And then we'll, I like that. So anyway, pragmata finish is strong. Should I play that? I mean, it's one of my games of the year. I love it.

Starting point is 00:27:39 Because, like, that game got, like, just pushed by God and fate off my schedule. I did the sponsored stream. And I was like, I'm going to get to it this week. And then, like, three fucking weeks in a row. I'm just like, there's other fucking shit. And then I'm like, I'm just watching you, like, having a ball for it. And I'm like, should I go back to that? Should I would people want me to go back to that? I mean with your hours you'd blow through it

Starting point is 00:28:04 You'd blow through it it would go yeah it would go really quick I I I was actually thinking about if I if and when I went back to it probably Next week I would start the fucking game over I played it for 90 minutes as part of the sponsor like I don't I don't fucking remember how to shoot dad game anymore So you know that thing you're just talking about where like you get an item or like a ring for example in me and you go oh maybe this will be a good thing with a thing with a thing with a another build and you can see some synergies. Yeah. Every new thing you get in this game fires off your synergy synapses. Every single thing, something gets introduced, you go, oh, wait, how would that work with this?

Starting point is 00:28:42 Does that combine with that? And then you can, um, and you feel every time they introduce anything, you feel that constantly. And that feels great. I love the idea of like, hold on a minute. Is the sky the limit on this? And it's like, yeah. It actually is because, like, the real problem is your own human ability to parse the information fast enough. But if you can, you have amazing synergy with heat builds and, um, uh, what's it?

Starting point is 00:29:18 Is it called looping? I forget, there's one that's just like every time you hack, it keeps the combo going and it restarts the hack again. And it's like... Oh, okay. And it's like, you can keep fighting and keep hacking and keep fighting and keep hacking. And like, for as much bonuses you can handle as long as you can handle it while you're getting your shit rocked. You know? Right.

Starting point is 00:29:42 Chain. Chaining. You know what game does not have that level of synergy and in fact has no, just learn the system and do it, pussy. Onamusha way of the sword. It does. Onamusha has the system, and it says use the system to beat up the enemies. That being said, as a fan of dodging, as a fan of paris, and as a fan of Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro, I really enjoyed that demo. I really enjoyed it with one, and I mean one big fucking butt.

Starting point is 00:30:23 The difficulty is nonexistent. It's piss. It's cr-it. It's non-existent. You know when all the Genma kicked down the doors in the courtyard and they're like 20 guys, they're going to come at you? It took me like 25 seconds. So if you walk up to an enemy and press the attack button to kill it, you will just do so in a combo.

Starting point is 00:30:45 So it feels like it's on lower than easy, like demo easy. Right now. Game Jerno mode. Right now, the fun of a Dodge and a Parry is at you. your leisure. If you choose... At your whims. If you want to style on things and have fun, which I wanted to do, then yeah, walk up to

Starting point is 00:31:07 something, wait for it to swing at you, and then try to counter it and do the stuff that way. But if you want to just face fuck everything and mash the attack button, everything will die before you see a single mechanic. So what I really like is that... By the way, what control method did you use? The action one or the one where you hold L1 to Perry? okay because like it's really strange to me that they labeled the one where you hold l1 to block as like for those less experienced with action games that's the old onomusha control scheme in onomusha you hold l1 to block so i'm like i'm gonna go and put it on the fuck but that was that was also like resident evil camera right yeah it was um uh i'm glad like because i ran into a problem in sign hell f and you can you can you could probably adhere to this.

Starting point is 00:32:00 Silent Hill F, I ran into a big problem with it, which is like, wow, this dodge acts as like a Perry. Like there's a perfect dodge in Silent Hill F. And I'm like, wow, it's really, really powerful. If you can do the perfect dodge in Silent Hill F, I think it's like 14 frames, a lot of the game's combat becomes completely ruined because you just stunt on these fucking guys. but if you can't the game's actually probably pretty tough

Starting point is 00:32:32 and it's like the whole game's difficulty boils down to can you react to an enemy attack in 14 frames or not and the answer for you and me is absolutely 100%. Can you hit a drive impact? Right and Onamusha says okay for those of you who can well how about instead of pairing it

Starting point is 00:32:53 you start issiting these fucks Now, right, what was really, again, for a game that does not present you with the challenge to do so, the ways that you can beat these enemies are numerous. Vast and diverse. The spinning wheel enemy, Lezard, can be parried to the left, to the right, redirected into other enemies. Yeah, you turn an enemy charging you into a projector. You can parry it forward and then deflect it and then east end in. If an arrow is being shot at you, you can deflect it back or you can dodge left, right, or forward through it. There's so many ways to counter and stylishly do the clash system where you have to, you know, don't hit the same strength button, hit the different button to counter it. And a lot of that going on where between that and the way the camera's working, there's almost moments of Sekiro feeling gameplay, more than Oni Musha feeling gameplay. but there's just this basic level thing

Starting point is 00:33:57 where walking up to an enemy and swinging at it, the enemies don't block, right? Well, or not much. Not much. They take damage. The people in chat are saying the folks from Capcom were like, no, it'll be much harder than the full release. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:34:10 So what I think, what I think, exactly, and you'll probably have to juice it up even from there. That Sasaki fucking Kojiro boss fight, though, Guyon Ryu, like all the check marks. I wish I could have enjoyed it for more than 45 seconds. I watched some replays of people clearing it, though. Like, you can beat it. It seems like there's a timer that starts from the moment the fight starts,

Starting point is 00:34:37 because I saw some people beat it completely in different ways. However, if you spend some of that time slow walking to the side as he walks to the side casually, you're wasting precious time, but you're farming aura. and what's more important than that? You slow walked, right? Yeah. Okay, okay. You can't.

Starting point is 00:35:00 Like, he was going left, I was going right. You gotta meet the energy and fucking come back, come at each other at the same time. I love that feeling, and I'm like, I can't wait for, yeah, this plus the difficulty of it, because you get, every time you dodge, it looks really cool. Every time you clash and then avoid and then come in lower high, it looks great. and then you get that weakness system of like, okay, do you want to go for more damage

Starting point is 00:35:28 or do you want to go for resources? Like, what do you want to take out? Resources every time. You know? Give me these souls. I mean, this demo's about to end. Whatever, who cares? But in the long run, yeah,

Starting point is 00:35:39 level yourself the fuck up. I'll fight this boss for as long as I fucking want. That being said, when you got to your what would be a Neo level up shrine, notice that it was just save game, you know? Yeah. It remains to be seen what,

Starting point is 00:35:53 you'll actually be leveling up. If there even is, like, that heavy of a level up system. I don't know what happened after the first onomish game. I mean, you played a couple. Only, only one. Yeah, Onomusha has a level up system. Yeah, so did two, three, and four kind of, like, go further with it? They didn't really go nuts with it.

Starting point is 00:36:09 It's like, you know, do you want your, which store do you want to upgrade? Which, you know, magic do you want to upgrade? Do you want to upgrade your health? Stuff like that. And, like, I think it was a move sometimes, but not a lot. And also, Sekiro-like, is when you're picking up a, a secondary weapon. It's a special button, not a sword replacement,

Starting point is 00:36:27 which, again, yeah, it's ony musha, right? So getting those daggers out for a little bit of an extra style, you know, I'm, it feels good, feels good. I think the game at high difficulty or at like more than what it is there

Starting point is 00:36:43 is going to be awesome. I'm glad that you can let me know on September, the week after September 24th, because Um, like Oh, bro,

Starting point is 00:36:56 a Capcom Samurai action game is like dead last in my priorities that week. Yeah. That's fucked up. I mean, look, we can get to the September fucking orgy in a moment. Um, I guess beyond that in terms of weeks.

Starting point is 00:37:17 Um, yeah, uh, that's, that's pretty much it. So I played, uh, you know, played those games, and then upcoming, of course, is our journey into the, what's the continent called? What's the planet? Eorzia. Eorzia. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:37:38 Final Fantasy 14. So we're starting that tomorrow? That's tomorrow. I'm going to be starting a little bit earlier than you because I'm going to be chit-chatting. And also I'm going to be setting up New Game Plus stuff. but yes, I'm going to be starting at noon Pacific and Wully, I believe you're going to be starting at 1230 Pacific. That's what you have listed on your schedule.

Starting point is 00:38:03 In your time. That's why I said Pacific. Sorry. 3.30 Eastern. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes. That's usually when I say 12 or 1230 Pacific, I'm usually referring to Pacific time. Brain, brain. Are you good, man? No, just I, you said,

Starting point is 00:38:21 When you said 1230, I panicked, and then you said Pacific, and I was, whatever. All right. Like, did I? I'm not getting up at 9 in the morning to do this after today, bro. Oh, my God. No, this is an extremely poor week to pack in more special things. Wildly poor. So.

Starting point is 00:38:37 Don't worry about it. All right, jumping into that. Yep. Yep. And, you know, we'll see who rolls through. I've got some friends that are going to pop and pop around and come to come hang out. I'm very certain that we're going to encounter a wide variety of a cast of characters. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:55 And you said that, like, we'll go into some of these dungeons with sometimes four, sometimes more, depending on... I mean, you'd have to get pretty goddamn far to need eight. Okay. You did... That's not for weeks and weeks. Oh. If you get there. Okay.

Starting point is 00:39:13 Okay. Okay. The first eight is like at... Oh, past level cap for Roaming-born. Okay. The funny thing is in my brain, I'm like, I know that the game is fighting a big thing and dodging squares. That's correct. That is, but it's also simultaneously playing a rhythm game. But I'm also like, I don't know what it is when you're not fighting a big thing and dodging squares.

Starting point is 00:39:40 Like, oh, that's, how do you fight small things? There's a, you fight small things. You get, you get five bore asses every now and then. And are they in the middle of a giant grid that you have to dodge on? No, they're in a fucking open field. Yeah, so that's what I... Where you would, you would commiserate. So that's what I mean. Like, I...

Starting point is 00:39:59 The idea of the arena, like, raid-looking version of the game, I don't know what... There's a non-verton... That version of it looks like. I mean, you ever seen footage of World Warcraft? Wow, yes, I have seen. Yeah, and like that. That's your open world, like, basic guts. Okay.

Starting point is 00:40:17 Well, so yeah, we'll be starting that out tomorrow and we'll see where it goes. And the... By the way, if you have any questions about it ahead of time, I put up a blue sky thread where I was answering a bunch of shit that y'all were asking about the mechanics of doing this shit. Is it the mechanics or is it the wool canics? Oh, it's both. Okay. It's stuff like, hey, what are you going to do about people being like assholes in the vicinity? I'm like, I'm going to tell, well, they disable shout chat on the chat window.

Starting point is 00:40:57 Right? Because people can just walk in and go, oh, he was behind it all. And like, okay, yeah, no, you turn off shout chat and probably say and you leave party chat on so that only cool kids can actually talk to you. And, well, what are you going to do about people crowding NPC, you know, remember when you did the near thing? Crowding NPCs, so you can't click on them. It's like actually they put in a feature that if there's a quest NPC, players phase off 30 feet from them. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 00:41:23 So that that doesn't happen anymore because that was a thing that kept happening all the time. I look forward to seeing the betting sheet on how fast the bounce off is, what I'm going to play, how it's going to look. I don't know if you saw, there was a threat of people doing like real money. I didn't see it, but I'm assuming there is. I'm assuming there is at this point. Yeah. Yeah. again, perfectly normal.

Starting point is 00:41:46 Some of those people, I was like, bro, you're, you're shooting high. Even I'm like, bro, you're shooting real high. Big fan, big fan of when people carve out an Amigara fault hole. I gotta be honest. I'm also mentally running that bet against myself, but I have like the ability to influence it. So I'm basically gambling against myself. Sure, sure. But yeah, at the very least, you know, I'm, I have an account that I'm installed and I'm looking at the boot up screen.

Starting point is 00:42:23 Does the boot up screen do the, is when you boot it up now, does it do a Realm Reborn? Like the boot up screen? It played the intro. No, but like the title, does it say a Realm Reborn and it's blue? I don't think so. I think it just says Final Fantasy 14. Oh, that's perfect. That's what I mean.

Starting point is 00:42:43 And it's a blue background. It's a blue background. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, because what they, they added that in a patch like a long time ago. I didn't know if it was default. That because you're like, you know, five expansions behind, as you hit the expansion, the title screen changes as if you were of the year that came out. I see, I see, I see. Okay. No, it just says free trial and whatever stuff. Oh, that's cute. And for all that stuff that is like free trial oriented for the record, I'm like, I'll take a sub for a minute and then unsub if I need to to smooth out any of this shit. Like I don't. Well, what you... I don't know. Don't. No, don't do that. Don't do that.

Starting point is 00:43:20 Because here's what happens. Here's what happens to everybody who does that. They go, man, I'm annoyed by these free trial mechanics. And so they sub at like level 45 and then it comes time to resub the next month and like, I don't really want to. But then once they've subbed once, the rest of the free trial just disappears on them. Oh, you don't get... Once you've subbed, you have to sub forever. You don't.

Starting point is 00:43:41 You'll never be able to use the free trial again. Uh... Yeah, that's how. they get you that's how they get you i see i see i see oh that's me no no the the the trick is you you play your free trial and then you're like either i've hit the end of the i've hit the level cap and i'm done with this or no i'm proper in all right here's here's my subscription that's mean okay unless you start let ah yeah it's the it's it's the it's the the the trap that comes along with getting to play at a level 80 with four expansions for free?

Starting point is 00:44:13 Unless you throw out your account and start from scratch. Which you'd be fucking stupid to do that. That's a crazy person's task. I mean, in my case, I don't have anything else on it. Like, I booted up the, the, the, the, I logged into the squeenix account. And it's, and it said, uh, welcome back, super best. And I'm like, oh, I was like, oh, I was like, oh, what game did we use this for? Do you have like the, do you, do you remember?

Starting point is 00:44:40 what like birthday you have on that account? It was, it was all me, but it's just, it was something we played at some point. And it was just, it had to display info from whatever game we played that needed it. Yeah. So I was like, yeah, I'm not using this Squeenix account. I have not in a goddine. That's really fucking funny. That is going down.

Starting point is 00:45:01 Make sure you have all the information, because that account management sucks. And then I'm going to be continuing the fucking big top. on Thursday. Oh, just the best the best one. Love in this case. Such a good case. You know, I just hope it goes on forever. If I, if you want to feel better,

Starting point is 00:45:21 um, all uphill from here, good to hear. Good to hear. All up here. Um, because you know, what, what the case really needed is one more creep at the, at the finish line, you know,

Starting point is 00:45:38 to, to, to really just, throw it all in. So that's fine. And then hey, look at that. We slamming? Oh, we slamming. We slamming. You know what's really fun, Willie? When the Say Jam slam gets announced, shout out to Say Jam, love you, buddy. Shout out. And runs down the list. And of course, you're watching the stream or you're watching the vaude to get to the part where they mention your name. And you're like, are they like, hey, this guy's a T. T.F. streamer and you know him from here or is there a story attached

Starting point is 00:46:13 to your fucking name? And for both of us, we got a story attached to our names which is fun. Sage Jam described how he reached out to you and how you were like already signed it out and Sage Jam felt dumb because he didn't even check before talking to you. I'm waiting in the lobby, bro. Where are you at?

Starting point is 00:46:31 Yeah. And it's like, all right. You beat him this round. And for my personal thing he gets to my name and he goes, this guy, and I go, oh man, he was in the lobby practicing with people. And he was like, yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm so rusty. I don't know how to play.

Starting point is 00:46:49 I just started a couple days ago. And he's coming in with skins from every season. And he's playing like nine different characters in the fucking practice. Yeah. And I'm like, no, I'm just a little guy, dude. I'm just a little birthday boy. And I don't know what I'm doing. I don't want to play video games.

Starting point is 00:47:06 Why you always lying? You can downplay your character, you can't downplay yourself, Pat. I think the funniest thing is like, I got to meet Grims. I'm like, hey, Grims, I'm pleased to meet you. And he's a very nice, polite guy. And he's like, yeah, I just started playing like three, four days ago. How about you? I was like, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:47:27 I just started. And then we played a couple matches. And he's like, I don't know. So. And I have like the current battle passes skin. So then Sejahm proceeded to later in the stream specify that Pat is a top six seed in the player list. So yes, you are in the top six seats of the advanced players. He said that last time, and I lost my matches.

Starting point is 00:47:58 So obviously, that seating was incorrect. Obviously. If I was such a good seed, then I should have won my match. Clearly, clearly. Here's what I say. That's how it works. Here's what I said. I'm like, you can put me at whatever, whatever you think my level is here.

Starting point is 00:48:17 I am a plastic bronze rookie when it comes to duos. My ranking as a duo player is infinite dog shit. It's fine. I am only good by myself. we would idea like idea in an ideal world we would be practicing and playing together um i think we are both going to be the same seed for sure i think yeah i i think there is i think there is like a zero percent chance and that we end up on the same time and as much as the castle super beast team meme would have been fun which legitimately i was hoping for uh yeah it would have been nice but like there's no

Starting point is 00:49:01 we're the same we're definitely the same approximates and and he confirmed as such and said, yeah, no, y'all can't play together. That would, that would be unfair, but it would be unfair in our favor. So come on. So I was looking at it going, so I was thinking that based on the way the last setup worked, I figured that would be likely because he basically had a different level at each team. You know, each grouping was, was, um, everyone was paired off at a like four or five different ranks. But this time, because of the system, it seemed like, oh, well, it might be possible this time. because of the duo system, you know?

Starting point is 00:49:38 Yeah. But even then, it's still being distributed more flat than that. But what I will say for anyone who didn't see it is that the slam format for this one is really cool. It's a rounder round robin. I mean, one thing is it just, it's more matches. More people are going to play more matches, which is always great. Yeah. Well, because we ran into some scary moments at the last one where some people's weak players.

Starting point is 00:50:05 like younger players were really good on their brackets. And it was like, are the coaches not going to get to play? Oh. Is C1 and two not going to get to play? Yeah, it is interesting. So like now you have a system where, one, everyone's in a duo the whole time. And two, everything is going to be about rotating between duos with some of the, one of the two coaches, because each team has two coaches now. Or can you hold that thought for a second?

Starting point is 00:50:34 I have to be right back. It's very important. RB. Right. So there's this... To boost, will you be in the slam? You will. There's this whole cool new thing happening with the Seajam slam 2XCO format.

Starting point is 00:50:47 But it was best described by Shumimi via a jpeg of a bunch of people, just punch it and kick it in a dustball cloud. And at the bottom, it says... Shit. What was the... word? Slam.

Starting point is 00:51:06 I don't know. It was like slam roth, slam tation or like something. I forgot what the word at the bottom was. But anyway, it was, she shoo-mimi just. Yo, I fought Shumi the other day. She got way stronger since the last slant. Yeah, Slamtaneous. Like, way stronger.

Starting point is 00:51:23 So, um, uh, actually Shumi and, uh, and I were paired up together in a little test thing yesterday. So we, oh, that's what that was. Yeah. So we got to, I got to, to, I got to, play and see and like she's got a great teamo and yeah she she she improved massively she was a brand new beginner player when she was on my team with cloud and hobby and them and shema and she and she carried some matches last night you know that that i dropped so uh she's great also like love

Starting point is 00:51:53 the the whole like brain jubber jar like gimmick thing go oh it's great yeah just a whole lot going on there i i i you know what it is you know what it is like i'm seeing this i i'm checking out the stream and I'm seeing everything going on there and I'm like, oh, effort. What do you mean? Look at the effort. I remember being younger and like being like all the effort. No, no, no. We are, we are professional phonet ins, folks.

Starting point is 00:52:32 Speak for yourself. I'm streaming like 12 hours today. Yeah, I'm fucking tired I am. I got a 530 to do the fucking Nintendo thing. I do, yeah, I really, I enjoy, I enjoy her and her setup and her her stuff. Oh, no, she's great. Very, very cool. I also had a really fun experience the other day where I was practicing with Dethy and Zendrea

Starting point is 00:53:01 and just like running my Timo fucking nightmare. I play Timo Blitz, and I was running the hook you in, cross you up with Timo Nightmare nonsense. And they were just like, fucking super tilted. Like, what am I supposed to do there?

Starting point is 00:53:19 I'm like, well, if you're in that situation, the only thing you can do is die. Yeah. And now the Zen's posting like, like anti-Timo rhetoric memes in the fucking chat. And it's like,

Starting point is 00:53:29 yeah, so there's one part of this that I, I wasn't too sure of cold going in, which is like when it, excuse me, when it comes to like everything that happens like prior to the actual slam dates, like I know that like, you know, you jump in there, you get some training and you practice and you do whatever you can. And I figure like with everyone on your team and stuff, it's going to be difficult to coordinate the times and hours and stuff to get people together. but didn't have that much of a problem last time everybody just kind of moved their whole life out of the way Yeah so it seems like that's kind of how that worked with the yeah you guys had some yapper practice You know streams going through and stuff and so it was it was pretty much every single day

Starting point is 00:54:13 Someone would be on in the evening hours and you'd hop on in practice so That's kind of you know what I'm yeah expecting we'll see we'll see how it actually goes you know when they announced the teams and stuff However We're in the awkward spot right now where everyone's practicing but nobody knows what it's going to be so I was fighting I was fighting box box and box cubed on a team

Starting point is 00:54:37 who are not the same person Box two is not box box box yes and I remember posting a Discord wow this box guy is pretty tough and say jam was like which one I'm like I don't fucking know I don't know which one of these guys is which was it yeah yeah the the um but the Braum or the

Starting point is 00:54:53 or the Vi or the Vi it was the Vi it was the Vi um and I was I was I'm you know, where everyone's practicing, everyone's playing matches, but like nobody knows if they're, like, going to fight each other or be on the same team. Their direct seed against them. Yeah. Right?

Starting point is 00:55:09 Like, yeah, Willie, let's, you and me practice. Let's practice and get good together. That's a fucking terrible idea. We're just going to learn each other's fucking tricks. So the classic is, this is what happens whenever I go somewhere and then I sit down and then they're like, all right, Willie, you ready to play your first match? Cool. It's against Reggie.

Starting point is 00:55:24 And I just go, get the fuck out of here. Right? That happens. And then, but then the other thing too, which is this is the real classic is you want to go old school fighting game community. You at any tournament, it's you travel, someone travels, someone comes to visit. They sit down and they just, they jump in the casuals and they just start scoping. And you see motherfuckers post up and just start playing and trying to like, oh, you want to mess around, you want to play a couple of them? And just doing whatever they can to go scope tech, gather data, etc.

Starting point is 00:55:58 And like to the point where like God, we were doing the Twitch rivals. It was me and Max a million. Team, Team Wully versus Team Max. We did a bunch of different games with the people on our teams. And like, I think like Darkstalkers was one of those games, you know. And Justin Wong is like, hey, yo, you want to jump on casuals and just run a couple sets and mess around? You know? And I was like, oh, I'll let you know.

Starting point is 00:56:22 Let's see what's up. And then like, Esteban is like, don't fall for that shit. he's trying to get he's trying to get data you know what he's trying to do like listen everyone helps everybody and we're in the age of open information but when it's like fucking two days from the event don't fucking look stepfather's like you try how dare you just it how dare you try that shit like i i think i described it last time but like i i you know we got the list we got the teams we got the seeds and then i marked down every name that was on my seed and i i followed all of them and any time they started to stream 2XKO,

Starting point is 00:56:58 I would hop in to be like, what's going on? What the fuck is that? And that's when I learned, like, for example, Huntress had like a really solid art. And I was like, I'm going to scope this out

Starting point is 00:57:08 and figure out what I can do. And the answer is, I don't know how to watch people's gameplay and absorb information. Like, I have to actually fight them and make a bunch of mistakes. Yep.

Starting point is 00:57:20 And you have to see them making mistakes, too, to really internalize that, which is a whole other layer of research. but ultimately, yeah, you're just going to fucking feel it. You're just going to jump in there and fucking swing press buttons and see what happens. But there is that level to have just like, oh, shit, here's this prize pool, whatever thing, you know, going on. You're like, it's not a bad reason to not phone it in and you want to try and play good. You know, there's fucking money involved, right?

Starting point is 00:57:50 Yeah, but also there's money involved for specialty prizes, which we have not found out what those are yet. but something like best duo. Goofiest moment, silly, like, coolest combo. Mm-hmm. But what I was going to say ultimately... Biggest comeback is probably in there, right? What I was ultimately going to say, though, was the thing that I wasn't aware of

Starting point is 00:58:13 or wasn't too sure about coming in that I see now is there. It's kind of like there's an overall just kind of like everyone's hanging out in a room. And it's almost just like a big kind of chill hangout. Very good vibes. Very good vibes. And it's sort of just like, yeah. If you're, you know, if you want to, if people are, people are asking for coaching, people are asking for matches and

Starting point is 00:58:30 sense and you just have to kind of throw yourself in there. I can see somebody who like is coming in brand new, being, you know, shy or so about like putting yourself out there. There's a little bit of like you have to put yourself into the mix, you know, and get in there. But it's a really encouraging environment and like, yeah, the fact that there's like like, like, I guess twice as many coaches or, you know what I mean? Like double coaches per team and everything. very, very cool. And even the fact that they have like coaches where it's like, okay, so there's going to be people that are there to help you walk through

Starting point is 00:59:04 and talk to you about how to play and improve your game like SQ and then secondary coach Sonic Fox who's like, if you don't know a bread and butter, don't talk to me. Sonic Fox is here to smooth out the edges and make sure that they can carry and destroy, you know, but they're ultimately going to just be like, there's somebody here you could ask probably very specific questions to or that you can like learn by example but the the encouraging parent you know is going to be the other one you know um so that's a lot of fun and uh so far yeah we'll see what's going on but in terms of the dates so next monday next wednesday and next friday are going to be the three slam dates busy days that is June 15th, June 17th, and June 19th.

Starting point is 00:59:58 Uh, Senate. Mark your calendars. Sennah and Thresh, uh, coming out right now. Senna and Thresh, uh, and, and a rogue-like slay the spire mode as well. Yeah. And, uh, the pool, uh, the fucking pool, uh, stages and costumes. Three new stages. Hey, woolly.

Starting point is 01:00:21 No. Oh, question? Do you have a question? I have a question. Yeah, what could that question be? How do they fire half the team and the output increases by 300%? Because the whole time, it sounded like the regular downsize game plan of once you have a live team around, that's smaller than the development team, they're going to keep things running and keep content going out,

Starting point is 01:00:46 was still the plan that followed through. but if they did really, really well, they were going to be able to keep the extras on. That's, that's it. Because like, they're double dropping fucking characters now. They're, like, and Thresh was, is a bonus. And I think, like, he might not, like, he might have not even been planned for the season, but here he is.

Starting point is 01:01:08 But I think they, or the, yeah, or the six character. He showed up on the list. He showed up on the list. They have, like, three new characters, they have three characters for the season that are there. And then they go, like, here's a new one. And he's the next one coming. Right. So they moved him up and put him in there. Also, you can see, and between that and the designer talking about how they pulled out all the stops and everything, it's the hardest design character they had to ever make. Like, you can see that they went, we got to drop a lot of really cool shit and get people excited. So they're definitely responding to the downturn of that announcement, you know, especially for folks that were like saying like, hey, what the fuck? I thought this game was canceled. And so, yeah, I understand the like, they, they're trying to turn around. the perspective on it.

Starting point is 01:01:50 Announcing a glut of content is certainly one way to do that. And it feels like the, yeah, between Senna getting her reveal and then break down and all that stuff in one day, Thresh the next day, and then now like five stages? More stages and costumes and stuff than you know what to fucking do with. It's like, yeah, this is now we're hitting characters, Thresh is character 15, right? As far as I'm concerned, today is the game I kind of expected to get when it launched, right? The single player mode, the roster, et cetera. Like, it has the characters in it that I'm like, if, that had to be there mandatory.

Starting point is 01:02:37 It has Darius, Ari, it has Dimo Blitz, Warwick, Thresh, and then like you're smattering. And it sounds, and knowing that Thresh was a high demand, exactly. it feels like they went, okay, this is the bullet point checklist characters that must get in here ASAP, so they're all in there, yeah. It's really fascinating that you have a group of like 100, what is it, like 200 fucking characters and there's like 15 to 30 that everyone's like, those ones. Yeah. Those are the ones.

Starting point is 01:03:08 Like people keep asking for like set, for example, because of pro wrestler. It's like, yeah, get fucking set in there. People are asking for Riven, the girl that uses fighting game. And you know. in her fucking league. And I mean, that happens, that happens with Smash Brothers as well, right? Like, yeah, there is a filter process that occurs. However, um, yeah, this, this pace is, is, is not certainly. And, um, we'll see what those characters have got. Thresh seems pretty fucking insane. The main mechanic of, I, I gotta say, the conversion process of MoBA character into fighting game

Starting point is 01:03:46 character, they're doing a really good job of this. I really find it. I love watching that sort of design philosophy take root because in a game like League of Legends where there's deaths that leave souls behind that Thresh needs to absorb into his lantern, how do you apply that to like this one-v-one situation? And you... Like primarily visually. Yes, but you don't actually have that mechanic. So instead you make the lantern become something tied to this game's mechanic, which is tagging to your partner. Well, the other thing is that one of Thresh's things is that he can use his hook on allies as well, so he could pull allies out of danger.

Starting point is 01:04:31 Right. Which actually fits really well of being able to tag characters in novel situations because he pulls characters to where he wants them to go. Or even Senna with the beam that heals allies and hurts enemies, right? like Overwatch style You know Like that's that's She still has a little bit of that

Starting point is 01:04:48 Retained No really He can't Oh am I thinking of stitches Uh The lantern pulls allies When they can zap Towards it when when shielded

Starting point is 01:04:59 I remember Is what I saw of his breakdown Um And then he can pull A second time To pull himself towards them Whatever man I'm gonna play team hooker

Starting point is 01:05:07 Hooker Hooker Yeah Robo Yeah dude Just fucking blitz and thrash just fucking fucking get over here. I know, I think the fact that so,

Starting point is 01:05:20 like he throws the lantern out on the screen in multiple places and then when you hold a tag button instead of tagging on the spot where you're standing, you tag to where the lantern is is going to allow for some insane shit, I'm sure. That's a really strong thing to give a character as a baseline ability. Never mind the rest of what he does, you know.

Starting point is 01:05:40 Because it just adds one more mix-up to the rest of the ones that you already have, you know. So look forward to the slam. That will be on the dates, Willey mentioned. Was it 15, 17, 19? As well as, let's be honest, me and Willie are going to be doing late night, probably bonus streams at random.

Starting point is 01:06:03 There will be some random. I might not always be streaming per se. It might just be based on when I can get in there on my own schedule. Let me ask you a question. If you hop in to practice, but you're not streaming, are you still going to be on voice? Yeah, if I'm in the groom. Oh, well, then, welcome to the Pat Stairsat Show for multiple nights this week.

Starting point is 01:06:30 Okay. Because, yeah, that's, that's, you know, we'll just, I'll just have to call it. I looked at the schedule and I went, I'm just going to write random training at random intervals. So, yeah, I put a bunch of times, and some of those are lies. I took the opposite way. I filled every slot on the schedule,

Starting point is 01:06:49 and if I'm not doing it, I'm not. That's it. Yeah. Cool, so that's it. Anything else on your side? I did a sponsor stream of 007 First Light. How'd that go? Man, that game, okay, sponsored opinion. They're giving me some money.

Starting point is 01:07:07 Be aware of that. That's probably a game of the year contender. It's so impressive. Does it? It's like... Does it play? like an action game that is based on an IP or does it play like a hitman game where you're James Bond? Okay, so listen, if I were to have a set of bullet points that I'm to read, it might at the top say, do not say this is like a hitman game.

Starting point is 01:07:31 Ah. Okay. Sure. That being said, it's like all the little tricks that I.O. Interactive, basically learn making those Hitman games. And it's actually closer to something like Splinter Cell. But basically it's a lot of the systems that you encounter in Hitman, but it's repurposed towards a much more a linear directed goal. So I played about two-ish hours, two and a half hours.

Starting point is 01:08:02 And you have your starter mission, which doesn't include a gun. It's basically, you know, Bond's first accidental mission where you're stealthing around and you're knocking people out and you're learning how to use mechanics. It's that kind of thing. and then you sign up to become a spy and the tutorial for becoming a spy is one of the most impressive gameplay things I've ever seen in my life

Starting point is 01:08:23 because it is a like feature length montage you go in and you're like all right you're going to learn combat and you get your shit whopped and then they're like all right let's start the montage you drive a car

Starting point is 01:08:39 and as soon as you're done driving a car around the track it does a full-on camera cut, which is very difficult for games to do, into you doing the push-ups mini-game, into immediately you learning how to block hits in the melee combat, into do the parkour trial.

Starting point is 01:08:57 Warrior-ware. You are warrior-wearing your way through. Yeah, here's the shooting trial. Okay, back to the combat. Now learn throws. Okay, now do the same lap, but faster on the car. Okay, back to the time.

Starting point is 01:09:10 Now back to the time thing, but shooting is also part of the fucking trial. And just on and on and on and on and on and on and on for like an hour. Wow. And just like Chris Shen doing with like this big knockdown, drag out fight and then like a proper level where you're doing sneaky shit in the base. It's in as well as a bunch of exams where it's like get the flag without being spotted. And it's it's super, super fucking rat. Like there's a, you know, hey, you're in this old castle.

Starting point is 01:09:40 get the flag at the top of the minaret, right? But there's guards that are there for the exercise purposes, right? And so one of the things that comes up is you have your stealth, you have your stealth takedowns, you have your watch that activates, you know, technology around you. You have the ability to get caught by someone and be like, oh, and you have a bluff meter to lie convincingly. you have the license to kill, which you can't go weapons hot until they have used deadly force against you, at which point you gain the license to kill.

Starting point is 01:10:21 And you're doing all sorts of like, you know, using items and distracting guards and doing all this. And you get all the way to the top and you get the flag. And I'm like, great. And then someone in chat goes, yeah, so there's a challenge to get that. flag without stepping onto the course. And I'm like, what? It's like you backtrack, back the way you came and climb up into the pedestrian area and just walk along the bleachers and then jump over to the fucking roof and grab it and just

Starting point is 01:10:52 ignore the entire exercise because you're a fucking spy and spies are supposed to fucking cheat. You Kobayashi Maroo the situation. Yeah. And it's, it's super, super rad. looks gorgeous, feels great, super interesting. And as has become a trend, as I was playing the game, and everyone in my chat, I already played it, of course,

Starting point is 01:11:17 which makes for a great sponsor. Everyone's like, this game's incredible, this is possibly a game of the year. As I'm finishing up the stream, Amazon comes out and says, hey, by the way, we are not going to let IO. Interactive make these James Bond games anymore, because Amazon has the rights now, and Amazon games is going to make them from,

Starting point is 01:11:35 now on. I'm like, wow, I'm so glad I just spent a two and a half hour sponsorship going, wow, I could never believe they would let anyone but IO. Interactive make these games. What an incredible choice of developer. One and fucking done. Mm-hmm. What a weird development.

Starting point is 01:11:51 What a weird development. It feels as if that were in place prior to the game even being announced. Sure does, doesn't it? Sure does. And they were just waiting for this. Oh, they walked the statement back. Did they walked a statement back after 007 sold 3 million copies in a week?

Starting point is 01:12:07 Is that why they fucking walked that back? Well, the insane thing too is like isn't there that whole bit where for the longest time every James Bond depiction was being controlled by the family and this one person and like and I think they just stepped down.

Starting point is 01:12:23 Yeah, they just finally gave up on. So now, now the brand is being held by yeah, like whatever the MGM lawyers or so. Now, of course, by the way, you have to remember, this game does not depict any specific movie bond. It is a brand new origin story totally unrelated to any particular or specific film franchise. That's very important that you say that.

Starting point is 01:12:49 What I saw doesn't look like anything, but is it like Young Craig or? No, you're a new character. It seems like a new guy. And they specifically reference like, oh, the program's been on. the outs for a while. We haven't done it. We haven't had the double O's in quite a bit. So you're the one of the new guys. And then you go into the basement of the Q Lab and you find the

Starting point is 01:13:10 fucking jetpack and all the fucking stupid gadgets that Roger Moore and all those dumb asses used. It actually looks like James Bond Jr. A little bit. It does feel a little bit like James Bond Jr. a little bit. Yeah, it's great. It's great. It's super fucking cool

Starting point is 01:13:27 and slick and well polished. It is a it is a sterling edition of a triple I video game. That montage is fucking sick, though, for real. It's super awesome. And that's it for me. Good for I.O.

Starting point is 01:13:43 Yeah. What's coming up this week on Pat Stairsat? Everything. Tomorrow's Woolley versus get touring of the retirement home and slash get out of fighting games to get into FF14. That's tomorrow. There's two XCO's late in the week. I have a 33 Immortal sponsored stream on Thursday.

Starting point is 01:14:03 I don't remember what the rest of it is. Check the schedule. There's many things happening. It's crazy. That's absolutely. That's Twitch.com. And YouTube. com stairs at and YouTube.

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Starting point is 01:14:25 is caving in. Just balls out. Big, big balls, balls out. That's it. Fuck. All right. Let's take some sponsors. I love our sponsors so much, bro. I love you, sponsor.

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Starting point is 01:21:34 Do you have a list? I do. And it's very long, but we can... There's a bunch of shit we're just going to fly right past me. Yeah, yeah. So look, we talked about Thresh Seda and the new stuff into XKM. Yeah, that's over with that. Goodbye.

Starting point is 01:21:48 Tell you one thing. I mean, the energy at this point is probably a little more settled in. But, fuck. This is a good fake E3. This is a good one. No, man, that summer Games Fest announcement was a big one. A lot happened there. I got to say that was one where the blow up on the phone and everywhere else was the most frequent.

Starting point is 01:22:08 Of all the events, because Xbox and Nintendo followed, the Summer Games Fest was the biggest one. As it should be. They played it right. Yeah, hey, Street Fighter 6, right off the bat coming out, guns blazing, hitting hard. Here comes new characters, Yasmina and Arjun. Here comes Bosch and then Tifa. Here comes this, everyone. I'm very sorry about the way that I spoke about Ingrid last week.

Starting point is 01:22:40 I was wrong. That was a silly thing to do. I was very foolish. Good character. Great character. super good addition to the roster. Should have been happy to see her. I'll be happy to see her every time after this again.

Starting point is 01:22:56 Ingrid, what a okay in my book. Thumbs up. There's a video of me making a similar apology talking about how Mercury's in retrograde that Sarah Gerania made. Good job. Thanks, Ingrid. You're great.

Starting point is 01:23:07 Thank you for filling out the form. I did fill out form. I posted. The application. Yeah, so through Ingrid, the gate has been opened. Through Ingrid, all things are possible, just like our Lord said. All things. All things.

Starting point is 01:23:23 And I will say this, you know, as far as a character to play as, because I also played some of that this week. Yeah, she's really simple. Got some fun, stupid beams, and she blows the game up. God bless. Godspeed. I also, I like the little thing they're doing now where you can have these taunts for wacky modes. It's like, this is never going to happen unless the two people fighting want it to happen. But if they do...

Starting point is 01:23:46 Yeah, boss. Ingrid looks really quite ridiculous. But if you want to have fun, you and Akuma and such, you can, and Bison can become these insane gods, you know, go nuts. Yeah, man. So I really, hey, obviously for years I've been saying how much I love brand newcomers. And I think this is a really bold choice. And I don't think it's nearly as bold of a choice as I see other people because there's three new people here. attached with one of the most famous and beloved guest characters.

Starting point is 01:24:21 And I think that's how you sell a season pass. I think that's a really fucking smart thing. I think that's how you sell a pass, 100%. So we didn't even get to it. Tifa Lockhart of Final Fantasy 7 remake fame is coming to the Street Fighter 6. And in fact, it was confirmed by the director of FF7 R2, 1, 2, 3, who walked onto Max's stream and sat there and said, yeah, so lots of companies have been actually talking about trying to get Tifa.

Starting point is 01:24:48 And we've been, she's been shopped around a little bit. And we eventually settled on the one that's doing really well that everybody loves right now. I remember when those Tekken rumors were going around

Starting point is 01:25:03 about Tifa. And I was like, no, that's stupid. And then I heard it like one too many times from one too many people who would like maybe, maybe, uh? And now she shows up

Starting point is 01:25:17 and Street Fighter and I'm like, whoa, they dropped that shit. That sucks, man. So that's basically, it sounds like internal whispers on the Tifa and Tekken discourse were extraordinarily high and credible. A long time ago, too. Like a long time ago. They were very high and they were very credible. But it seems like the ink did not dry.

Starting point is 01:25:43 Just didn't sign. Just didn't. And then furthermore. you know, the state of affairs, Tekken needed a big dub right now and this would have been it but I think instead they decided to go with the one

Starting point is 01:25:57 that was already going crazy successful in Japan and overall. Like Ingrid was the most players the game has ever had and Tifa's about to push that through the roof. Yes. Now, getting Yujiro, Hanma,

Starting point is 01:26:15 in Tekin is a good pick. and that's a wild one. But as I was pointing out earlier, I played as Backey in an indie fighting game a couple weeks ago. So, yeah, they'll sell that shit anyway. Backy's kind of affordable. Backey's cheap. Bacchie will show up.

Starting point is 01:26:31 If you invite him, he's coming through. Tifa, Tifa needs to be whined and dined. She's a sweet girl. She just doesn't go anywhere for nobody. But you can get the HANMAs for a dime a dozen, you know? All you got to do is. make a plate of invisible food and they'll show up. Man. I don't know what that's about, actually. I saw a clip of that and I didn't know what the

Starting point is 01:26:53 fuck was going. I don't know. I don't understand back here. I don't know. But if you're, if you're an American president, then be careful. Um, so, uh, yeah, I believe the, the, um, so what we saw with Bosch, that I was calling for from the moment I started World Tour mode. As soon as I saw him and then he, and then he died. And I was like, oh, I was. Oh, I was. I guess he's not going to. As soon as I saw him do a dive kick in that intro to World Tour, I'm like, that is a late season character to drop into the main game. So I thought the same thing, except he fucking died. He is dead in the dirt fucking dead.

Starting point is 01:27:32 But until. Well, let me ask you, hey, Pat, did you play Ingrid's World Tour mode? No, but I heard. She just straight up, the reason why World Tour is no longer is because Ingrid retconned like a bunch of World Tour out of Ingrid is the end of World Tour mode, but the first thing you do on the way to getting her is you go to an alternate reality where you see Bosch's soul. So she straight up resurrects him. And he in the new timeline, Bosch won the tournament instead of you. And I always thought Bosch was a really cool design that was like, stood out from World Tour.

Starting point is 01:28:13 So I'm glad that that was not for nothing. and that that instinct was correct. I would also love to see a final character in the form of John World Tour at some point as a... Oh, yeah, that'd be interesting. As a fun Moku Jin. You know, that would be a fun world tour.

Starting point is 01:28:32 That would be fun. A fun random select style character. But in terms of just like having Bosch show up, now I'm like, great, that's really cool. Yasemina... Hey, kudos to the Philippines. Yes. Shoutouts, Josie Rizel. For getting a street fighter character.

Starting point is 01:28:47 Shout out Jose Rezal. Double kudos to India for getting a second street fighter character. Shout out Slapshawks. Shout out Bayani. Love that. Good Filipino representation. Iwagaiangangangbender. And she's got the flag on her shoulder, by the way.

Starting point is 01:29:07 It's like it's there. Great. Yeah, because new reps from new countries often have like, I mean, remember how Laura was like basically the Brazilian flag. made man. Right, right, right. Um, and, uh, Arjun looks like a yoga disciple as well. Yeah, but it's like, what if you used yoga powers and street fighter, but you were huge and buff instead of, of thin and skeletal? I, um, I, I love, you know, me loving the passage of time. I love the disciples. I love met Matt. Yeah. I love these characters that come along and, you know, we can see someone who's got the power of yoga.

Starting point is 01:29:45 but not going to be stretchy, gonna be buff. So, it's fucking huge. Arrjun looks cool. Let's see what's going on there. And, yeah,

Starting point is 01:29:55 I guess I can just say, like, I feel like that trailer could have started with, like, from the people who brought you all the beloved street fighters you love,

Starting point is 01:30:04 come the next beloved street fighters you will love. I am really happy that Street Fighter is branching out to so many new characters, and they all, also have this massive guest character now that they are aware that they have been turned

Starting point is 01:30:21 into the waiting room for the revolution that is virtual fighter oh ah ah i see i see well yes here's look here's what i'll say on street fighter and and and you know the the original characters is that um they you like years one two and three of bangor after banger returning favorites they did an amazing job bringing everyone back and delivering on that with a lot of people that that everyone wanted to see. And I think like when you look at the track record there and you look at all the original characters they made four, six, they have yet to fucking miss. Every new character has been phenomenal so far. And except for JP.

Starting point is 01:31:07 And I think, and I love, I still love JP. He's annoying as fuck, but I love him as a character and how different he is from other characters in that world. And knowing that their track record has been like fucking stellar so far, I'm like, this is the team more than any that I trust to bring new original characters to this world, right? This is not the Street Fighter EX collection. This is not area. No, no, it is not.

Starting point is 01:31:33 And Pulamperna and Doctrine Dark, you know? These are staple characters that we're going to love for a long time that you're going to be asking for in the next game. So it's really, and I'm excited to see them come in, establish themselves, and immediately be like, oh, fuck yeah, in the way that we, jury is a instant hit forever in this franchise. And, you know, again, the jury's just a winner. She was a winner on day one. Absolutely. And, and, you know, like the, the jury's out on some of the returning cast from the jury, huh, is out.

Starting point is 01:32:11 on some of the returning cast from, you know, from five or so. And of course, a lot of folks want to see, you know, like a claw and, you know, everyone that you recognize and such. But I think it goes without saying that, like, you don't know, like, you don't know what you're going to love until it's here. And like, now that we see these, I'm, I love the boldness of going, three years of returning, here's an original season of brand new. and I bet you after this

Starting point is 01:32:42 we're going to go back to returning characters as well you know? Probably. But it's a really whole batch of people who haven't been around a bit. But you got it

Starting point is 01:32:51 you got to give the new a chance to fall in love with it. So let's see what they got. And yeah, you got to get some more World Warrior representation in there too.

Starting point is 01:33:00 Again, we got a Filipino character. All right. A bunch of other shit went down. I would like to pull out one that was not necessarily at the show. but you catch fucking Montreal Disco Elysium.

Starting point is 01:33:16 Yeah, what the fuck, dude. Vampire. Nothing's ever based in fucking Montreal. Vampire the Masquerade. It turns out, so it turns out, I see a trailer for this game, and it looks like Disco Elysium, and it's Vampire the Mascarade. What's the name again? It's, um, uh, Eternal Whispers.

Starting point is 01:33:39 So I see. characters hanging out at Fat In Five Roses, which is a landmark. The most, it's the biggest landmark in the fucking city. Like, it's the most obvious fucking... It's an old flower factory with a big neon sign that stays lit, even though they don't do, they don't make a... Biggest fucking sign. And it's right on the top of the fucking industrial district.

Starting point is 01:34:00 You can see it forever. And then the last shot of the trailer, he's on top of a cross that's on the top of Mount Royal, overlooking the same place that the lookout is that you see the city. we've been there looking at that spot. Yeah. So he's at the top of the cross at Raccoon Point Lookout, which is also the view of Raccoon City from the R2 Times screen. Oh, yeah. That's great.

Starting point is 01:34:24 And so it turns out this is not random. Oh, my God. They're in the destroyed Metro. That's so fucking funny. It's amazing. And then they walk into a bunch of like churches that are like cult churches where you're like, yeah, we've got some. Yeah, there's plenty of churches. We got so many churches here.

Starting point is 01:34:40 We don't know what to do with them. They're turning them into restaurants and venues. So that makes sense. There's a cult hanging out in one or two of them. So it turns out this is not random, though. There was a 1992 vampire novel called Montreal at night. Yeah, this is based on a book from 1992. Montreal by night, excuse me.

Starting point is 01:35:07 And so White Wolf is. just adapting an existing thing. And because I went to go, look, I was like, oh, is this a game that is being developed in the city here? And then they just picked it. Because it's like, no, no, no, no. This is just picking the setting because that's where the book was based from, you know? So, yeah, this is...

Starting point is 01:35:24 Have a fucking gigantic climactic fight with the werewolf in the fucking oratory or some shit. Oh, God. I mean, through the, through the metro, you know, going down into Barry UKAM. Yeah, that'd be great. I still remember watching Punisher Warzone Where in a Montreal theater And Punisher walks down

Starting point is 01:35:44 Behind the Lionel grew Metro And the whole crowd went Oh Because it's supposed to be New York Like literally the shootout in the jackal You know, you can't unsee it But yeah Eternal Whispers

Starting point is 01:35:57 And on top of that They are not even remotely Pretending to be a disco like They are lifting the hood 100% with the fonts, the same film strip visuals and character portraits out of disco.

Starting point is 01:36:16 If you're going to steal, steal from the best, right? They're stealing completely from it. And Vampire of the Mascarate is an existing franchise and IP. But they're like, yeah, we're doing what disco did and we're using the exact same text and font and style and portrait and everything. And you know what? It's great. Fuck it. Yeah. No, cool.

Starting point is 01:36:34 I'm always, I'm, I'm still bummed out that we never got the DeSX Human Revolution plateau level. Oh. That would have been awesome. Man, fucking hit, running down, uh, bro, you can see my old apartment in this fucking shot. That's so fucking funny. Running down Santa Laura, you know, seeing a bunch of crazy shit and then hitting the water.

Starting point is 01:36:58 Um, no, I'm gonna, I'm, I need to know. This, this feels like an LP just to fucking. sightsy, you know. All right, so that aside, and I can't wait to see how Putsin is handled. We... Well, they're vampires, so they don't eat real food. Speaking of Montreal, fucking 1666 Amsterdam, finally, Petris de Sile. Congratulations.

Starting point is 01:37:27 He managed... You finally got here after decades. So I want to believe that, like, he ran on stage, being chased by Ubisoft lawyers trying to fire him from life. From his own company or whatever it happens to be. I feel like he has to stealthily run around to hide because they will find him and try to fire him. But 1666 Amsterdam has been revealed the project he's been working on for what did they? How many years, you know, whatever?

Starting point is 01:37:57 666 years. His entire time since he left Assassin's Creed. and then we got to see it's about a witch and looks cool. I didn't play the demo but that must be a real weight off your shoulders to be like hey it exists

Starting point is 01:38:16 but also it's coming out I don't think you have and no one could pull this amount of time and clout to get a project going for this long unless you invented Assassin's Creed like unless you invented big money dollars Assassin's Green. The amount of faith you'd have, you know, garnered to work on something for this long is crazy. To those of you, by the way, who are unaware of why Ubisoft chase after this man with such an

Starting point is 01:38:42 intense hatred and violent attempt to end his career after he helped invent Assassin's Creed, he was running the Assassin's Creed studio and said, I don't think we should put these out every year. I think the quality is going to suffer. And that's pretty much it. And just like that, an enemy for life. Mr. X was deployed to chase Patrice around to the end of his days. And just like that, the quality went down. Immediately. I would love for this to be an absolute banger, because then you can just get this super trifecta of, like, post-UBesoft victory.

Starting point is 01:39:22 You know, everyone who leaves making incredible games while they rot in the process. So good times. Lots of other stuff was announced And to just get to the meat and potatoes of it FF7R3 Revelations Because Because

Starting point is 01:39:40 The Crisis Corps team stole the subtitle They were totally going to use Did you see that interview? He said they were never going to use reunion He said We would have used reunion But the Crisis Core guys got it first. But no, in the Maximilian interview, he said reunion was never on the table,

Starting point is 01:40:06 actually. They did an interview about this like a year ago where they said that. Well, he just said in Max's room last week. Max asked him, now that we know the term is revelation, like, was FF7 reunion like going to be a thing from the jump? And he went, actually, from the start, we never plan to use that. Oh, really? Well, then it should have been resolved because they use the word resolve like 10 times in that trailer for some reason um and you know everyone there's a million other r e words that it could have been but hey guess what we're going with the biblical end of the story so this game is super weird this game is not what i thought it was going to be here's what's crazy to me because i haven't played ff7 r2 yet but um and now i'm like fuck i got

Starting point is 01:40:49 because i really enjoyed that game you kind of yeah oh yeah no i'm excited too like i really like the first one and stuff i remember you talking about the stuff that was a bummer about about two, but, well, here's the thing. I've had time to think on that. Me streaming the game like very, very significantly hurt. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Because, well, you know

Starting point is 01:41:09 what I would do? I would stream the story bits and then I would finish for the day and then I have to go as fast as I could to do all the extra open world stuff and all the, all the queens, right? And so I would have enough time to do the story thing for the next stream because I knew the game was really long and I was chasing

Starting point is 01:41:25 to avoid the big spoiler as fast as possible. Right. Which I now, like, yeah. Well, so what I will say is just like watching the trailer for three, I'm like, I just, it just hit me with a wave of like, holy fuck, I really loved R1. Like, that was one of the best games I've ever played. The combat system and that makes me so happy.

Starting point is 01:41:45 And so I just need to, I want to feel that again. And what I was so shocked by was I watched that trailer preparing to go, all right, I expect to be hit with the feeling of watching a. Treeler for 3.3.A. Ava 3.33, right? I expect to be hit with the most insane I don't know what I'm looking at,

Starting point is 01:42:05 but... No. And instead, I see you and I see Max and I see everyone else that's going, yeah, we still don't know what's going on. And I'm like, what? But there's a whole game I missed here and you guys are still in the same boat

Starting point is 01:42:21 as me. They, um, they, my biggest complaint is they did not go near far enough in the changes. And it sounds like that the third one is going to be where those changes really manifest because they're also talking about how the ending of

Starting point is 01:42:39 the game will change depending on what content you do or choices you make. So I mean they made a big underlying moment to show it off, but that fucking Junon Canon misses. It missed. That's a big deal. That's different. Yeah. And also in the meantime while we're looking at the systems because I didn't realize that

Starting point is 01:43:02 Sid and and Vincent didn't make it no so remember it a remake um uh Red joined the party but he wasn't a party member yeah uh Vincent and Sid join up but they're not like for the mission but not yet not for real you know okay okay okay so this one they'll have um they'll have uh everybody And yeah, the somehow Final Fantasy X2 has returned. With fits! The dress spheres are back. What a fucking great idea. Hey.

Starting point is 01:43:38 Very interesting. Everybody has four fits. And they're classes that you might want to play these characters as anyway. And when you put them, Warrior, Black Mage, White Mage, whatever your deal is, they look like cool costumes. They get super cool, unique costumes. Do you think we're going to get, like, are we going to go throwbacks for Cloud, or are we going to just do brand new armor soldier stuff? Because they could put on something and be like, here's a little Advent Children vibe for you. No, they could do like White Mage Cloud.

Starting point is 01:44:13 Just in a big coat. Here's some Kingdom Hearts, if you want it. Yeah, maybe, maybe. I mean, looking at Tifa's outfit, like, I was like, that looks cool. I've never seen her wearing anything else besides the Advent Children outfit. but this that looks great you know um and then the full armor barrett and stuff like yeah i all that's fun uh and then yes the implication you know i guess that the weapons aren't going to play out the same way as we once thought but all this stuff seems to still be like minor changes and

Starting point is 01:44:42 perhaps it's still going to be very very similar to keep the remake spirit in there but then a big final act that's completely different you know um either way um just looking at the game in action. I'm like, fuck me, this combat system is, it's like, it is. Oh, it's, it's great. It's fucking. Well, I'm trying to think of like, like, I, it's everything I want an RPG to be an action RPG, you know what I mean? And yeah, absolutely. And like, Expedition 33 is hitting these things that I didn't know I wanted as well with, with how it's, how fun that's set up. But like, the play of feeling, like, the fight you're engaging in in an FF7R, it feels not, you don't have to do any abstraction of enemies in a row, you're in a row, you're attacking each other, right? You get to feel the cinematic

Starting point is 01:45:36 placement of everything happening in the room that it's in and the space it's occurring in is all very real. And that's something that like I love about it that, you know, RPGs by nature have to simplify and abstract mechanics, you know, like card games do and everything. else. You have to put a board down and have a place to fight on that board. And this game is like one of the first times I've ever felt that they've solved that problem without changing the genre completely over to action. Yeah, I believe it's made by the battle designer for the Kingdom Heart series. And you can feel some of the influence there. It's great. Love it. It's great. the thing that shocked me the most, because it's like this is taking place mostly in the end of, you know, the disc three area of FF7.

Starting point is 01:46:28 I'm like, what's the format? The format is do whatever, go wherever, jump out the goddamn airship anywhere right away. End game full map. Um, parachuting. Like, like a fucking breath of the wild or a fucking skyrim. just like, yeah, there'll be places that are super tough. Don't go there. But like, Jesus.

Starting point is 01:46:53 So besides that, I got to say that, man, when I hear a sea shanty, there's that little part inside of me that goes, ah, God, I fucking loved Black Flag. I really enjoyed my, my, my, my memories with that game. Black Flag recinct, it's a thing. And they're, they're doing some, they got Wood Kid. doing a remixed sea shanty you know in the trailer there um but you know

Starting point is 01:47:24 uh that's that's I feel as if it's a like I don't you know they've they've cut out all the modern day stuff and black flag resinked it's just the full it's just the pirate shit

Starting point is 01:47:39 which means that you it's just the pirate shit and then at the end you run into like some fucking alien random shit. Ben has nowhere for that story to go. I wonder how that's going to be handled. Yeah, without the other side of it.

Starting point is 01:47:54 Hmm. Anyways, if you can't skull and bones, then, hey, you can still fucking boat up and chanty and shoot. I would be a lot more excited for a black flag re-synced if I had not played like 10 more highly similar Assassin's Creed games after that game. I have played none, and I still love sailing. So, yeah.

Starting point is 01:48:20 Yeah, Attack on Titan 3 is coming out. Then we saw... Cool. What was the... Yeah, Control Residence showed off some stuff. We got a second trailer for that, actually. Yes, the different one, too. We saw, hey, okay, Gundam Rogue Orbit.

Starting point is 01:48:40 Looks not like a Gundam game at all. And that's why Mick Gordon is doing the music. I can't believe that has the name Gundam attached to it because I'm like Armored Core? It looks very not like Gundam. This is not an armored core? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't feel at all.

Starting point is 01:48:58 Cool. It's Gundam only in that there's a V-Fin on that robot being fought. But hey, Mick Gordon is here and he's fucking jamming, so let's hear what the music. Good enough. Is going to be doing. Very interesting. Mighty Cuphead Adventure. Cool. And the announcement

Starting point is 01:49:14 that... Being made in assembly. on the master system. Actually? Yes. They're not doing the shovel night. They're doing an actual throwback. No, it's a master system game that they're then porting. That's fucking crazy.

Starting point is 01:49:31 I know there are people that do that for fun in the like ROM hacking world. That's so insane. Yeah, the people who make Cuphead are weird and nuts. Studio MDHR is insane. But they're making more Cuphead as well. So we'll be seeing that. Resident Evil Veronica

Starting point is 01:49:47 That was such a fun How fast? How fast? Very fast. Door opening old lady No, it was as soon as she walked into the room And I saw the table Okay And I saw all the bullshit on the table

Starting point is 01:50:05 What was it? Because I didn't know I don't know Code Veronica so I'm like What would give this away If anything gives it away? I'm gonna rock it down One Paris setting. That's where that game starts.

Starting point is 01:50:16 Two, the cafe is La Caffe de la Père Pouille. Umbrella. Which is the Umbrella Cafe. Didn't catch it. Then she says you're the sister of the guy who lives upstairs. Didn't catch it. But then she opens the door

Starting point is 01:50:32 and in the door is a bunch of military shit and maps and a fucking dumbbell on the fucking spread all over. And I looked at that and it was not any of that scene dressing. It was the look of the walls and the floor and the texture and my brain went, this is a R.E.

Starting point is 01:50:48 Oh, you just looked at this engine itself. And then one second after that, she says it looks like a boulder rolled through here. And I'm like, okay. That's a line? This is Chris Redfield's apartment. Okay, okay, okay. Now, why Veronica and not code Veronica?

Starting point is 01:51:11 I have no idea. No idea. Um, this is a game that is fairly weak. Yeah, so I've heard. This is like, this is a mediocre Resident Evil game that they're remaking. So I'm very interested in seeing what they do. Are they going to fix it up? They're fucking better.

Starting point is 01:51:30 It's the one that had the actual 3D camera, right? Yes, it did. But that's not why it was mediocre. It was mediocre for a wide variety of reasons. Okay. Some real loser characters in this game. Alien isolation too Cool

Starting point is 01:51:51 Great That's what I got Fun stuff Cool And then Yeah hey It's not pod racing It's Galactic racer

Starting point is 01:52:04 And you know what Looks like Pod racing was Pod racing was fun Pod racing was fun Pod racing was fun Stellar Blade Blood rain

Starting point is 01:52:14 There's some there's some Dempsey rolling and some weaving and bobbing and punching. And this is also ShiftUp. So, hey, check out your goonslop, everybody. I don't like the term goomslop. That's, that's, I believe that's the definition of the thing, the genre of all things that Shift Up makes appears to be goonslop as a tag. Don't care for it.

Starting point is 01:52:44 And, what I remember, I was told that the first one was like, despite just, despite the, the goonslop appearances, you got a pretty decent action game. That's a solid action game. Absolutely. Out of the last one. Yeah. Okay.

Starting point is 01:53:01 So, yeah, there you go. I'm like, yeah, I don't know. I still haven't looked at that, but this, this gameplay is certainly something that I'm more interested in. Mm-hmm. Um, like, ah, yeah,

Starting point is 01:53:19 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, stranger than heaven. Yeah. Snoop Dog. Okay, first of all,

Starting point is 01:53:32 bring Snoop Dog out. Let's have Snoop Dogg for. Yeah. All right. You know what? Let's not do that. Let's not do that. Snoop Dog said that Sega was his favorite game as a child and he loved it, and then he confusedly walked off stage.

Starting point is 01:53:44 Don't let, don't smoke weed every single day of your life. Just, just straight up, just, man. Just don't. Not every single fucking day. So, look, Tupac is in, Tupac is in the next Yakuza game. He's in Strangother Than Heaven. And. Well, but Wully, his estate signed off on the likeness.

Starting point is 01:54:00 Oh, you mean the fucking exec that at Warner Brothers, the random white guy that is not a member of the Shakur family in any way shape of war? Oh, you mean the guy who stole Tupac's estate after Tupac's mom? After Afenik Shakur passed away and then the rest of them are like now it's in a state of like there's lawsuits over the rights to him. And this is why hologram Tupac will will haunt us forever because he's not. So he man, he was he was in charge of managing the estate. And then he hired himself to run the estate and gave himself like $5 million to run the estate that he only got to run because. Yeah. So yeah, it's not it's not an AI thing.

Starting point is 01:54:41 It's going to, they're going to hire somebody. But that's the weirdest part about this in the sense that like, so there's going to be a person who's being cast and their job as credit is going to be in the role of the voice alike of Tupac who is going to be the face alike to the fictional character. And then who you're going to credit in the credits?

Starting point is 01:55:02 Like, what's that going to look like? It's super weird. I think most people that are, you know, weirded out by this, it's for the simple reason that at least for me when I see it, I'm like, depicting somebody who's dead in a fiction or in a story or in a movie or in anything is totally fine. In most cases, what you expect of that is it's the person themselves, right?

Starting point is 01:55:25 If you're going back in time to a place that was where the person lived and they themselves are a character. Like if Tupac himself is a person that's showing up in this or random fucking Bruce Lee as a character in what's upon a time in Hollywood, for example or so, right? But instead of that, you have them playing a role as if they auditioned for it in a fictional thing. That's super weird because, you know, Tupac and Binta could not have been around to be like, yeah, I want to be a character in this setting and play this role. It's not them themselves, you know?

Starting point is 01:56:05 Whoa, what the fuck just happened? Hold on. Infinite Rulies. That's really weird. Did we just lose Pat? We might have lost Pat. Discord just crashed. All right.

Starting point is 01:56:17 Discord is back. Discord is back for now. Hey, I have a question, and it was about Tupac's ghost. What makes everyone's stomach churn about this, that Mifune in Onamusha does not? Toshiro Mifune. from the main character of Onamusha Way of the Sword, the dead actor, whose likeness they're using. He's based on it?

Starting point is 01:56:49 I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, he's based off Toshiro Mifune. Okay. Is that another case of, I guess, the estate saying that's fine? Yeah. And they basically went back and forth with them for like two years to get the likeness rights. Okay.

Starting point is 01:57:05 So Toshiro Mufune is the main character of Seven Samurai, the, um, the Kurasawa fucking classic. He's awesome for those who are asking. Yeah, I would say that, like, in general, there's a weirdness to a character playing a role as opposed to just being themselves, you know? I just personally, that's how it feels to me. But in this instance, the estate having to do with it certainly makes it a lot worse. because there's a definite feeling of like, well, is the Shakur family okay with this? Are they getting paid for this?

Starting point is 01:57:46 Is anyone involved? No, absolutely not. They're being massively fucked up. Okay. So there's a level of this where you're like, yeah, everyone who would be the right people to speak on this or give an opinion or say, yeah, sure, we want to participate or etc. Instead, they're having Snoop Dog making it seem like it's okay because he's peripheral. involved, but he is not the Shakura State, and

Starting point is 01:58:11 thus they don't get any money for this. They're not involved in any way, shape, or form. This is money going to a Warner Brothers executive, so that sucks. So I'd say to me that, to me, that would be the difference that makes it worse. Onamusha 2

Starting point is 01:58:26 also the likeness of the main character is after a dead actor. Okay. Yeah. But again, there was no like drama around the likeness in estates. It was like the family slash yada yada. I guess most people didn't know in the sense that like,

Starting point is 01:58:44 even Bunta in this, it's like there's an expectation for, like because it matches the genre, it's not as much of an out of left field story. So if a samurai actor shows up in a samurai work and the depiction is, you know, done via the estate and all that stuff, I'm assuming everyone just kind of assumed that, It feels like that was accepted as more of a normal thing. And I think Tupac is such a left field thing that you don't expect for this type of game that you go, wait a minute, how is this okay?

Starting point is 01:59:16 And then, well, like, you go, wait a minute, is his family okay with it? And then you find out no. Right. Snoop Dog says they are, but Snoop Dog says a lot of things. I don't think Snoop Dog knows where he is. Yeah. And obviously, you know, there's the situations that fall into like, I mean, you have your, your, um, Star Wars, you know, characters that show up in CG form.

Starting point is 01:59:43 And then you have like stuff like with Bruce Willis now as well, where he's like given his likeness, you know, because he can't act himself and everything like that. There's a whole complicated version of this that, that I think has different degrees of being okay. But wherever you are comfortable personally, at bare minimum, the person, their family, And their estate in like not just in terms of the fucking people who own the likeness rights or whatever, but literally his next of kin should be the people that decide that and at bare minimum get paid for it. Absolutely. So that's that's super weird here.

Starting point is 02:00:25 And Snoop Dogg, it's also, it's also we're running into this thing. There's like an East versus West thing. And it's also with AI in that like, Japan doesn't understand why any of us are mad about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a, no, no, overall, and this is a, there's a peripheral conversation attached to this, too, which I was going to bring up, but we might as well touch it here. Like the companies in the devs, they're like, what? Why? Yeah, no, no, overall, the anti-AI sentiment is very, very Western. Asia in general is much more accepting of it and just sees it as a new thing.

Starting point is 02:00:57 And this is touched on by Gene Park, one friend of the show, who did elaborate on the story about Kojima, where, he explained that what happened there actually sounds like the article he wrote was taken out of context. And it seemed as if there was a, Kojima is going on board with this AI project with the director of Drive. And instead then there was a follow-up story that said, actually he walked back from it in a new interview. And, you know, there was a bit of a sentiment to be like,

Starting point is 02:01:33 oh, did he get a call from Guillermo? you know, is that what happened? Right. To which... It's like, no, not actually. To which Gene then came out and basically explained, he's like, yeah, so I went to this event and I spoke with Nicholas Mending Refn and he spoke with Kojima and got the understanding of what happened there.

Starting point is 02:01:52 And, you know, not to paraphrase the article that you should go check out and read to see what he had to say about it himself. But I think the impression is that Kojima was always somebody who looked at it and said, this shouldn't be used creatively. he's not interested in that in that, he's not interested in AI creatively in that context. He thinks it can be used for mundane work and wrote stuff and, you know, assistance of whatever banal tasks, but not for the generative creative stuff. And it sounds like a Nicholas Winding Refunding also is, well, okay, he used it to make the trailer. He's more interested in it. He used, he's more interested in and he used it to make the trailer for this Prada show.

Starting point is 02:02:35 Prada as a whole is a brand that is full in on it and the whole fashion world is all gung-so. Well, yeah, no, the fashion people are all like psycho-evil, like cannibals. The fashion world is all-go-insane all in on it and looking to have it do everything allegedly. Everything they want with their brand. And this art show,

Starting point is 02:03:00 Satellites, was originally made by Nicholas Winding Reffin and Kojima as just their friends and they were basically doing the show. And it seems like Kojima doing participating in this show is like doing it as a favor to his friend. But it's not necessarily that he is on board with this whole AI generated trailer and all the content that's being put out there. And also at the show itself, there wasn't any AI content or anything used that was used to make anything at the show. So basically, Gene wanted to clarify that like, uh, There's a, there's a product, Prada itself is going all in on AI.

Starting point is 02:03:38 They have this promotional show called Satellites 1 and Satellites 2, which were not AI related. That was a collaboration between Kojima and Reffen. And then Reffin put out a promotional thing, which was using AI to promote. But Kojima was never on board with that. And also the stuff that he did pretty much is a consistent statement from beforehand. So that's the update on the whole bit there. I think when it comes back to stranger than heaven, though, Snoop Dog has been no stranger to taking a paycheck left, right, and center,

Starting point is 02:04:20 wherever he can get it. If you were to go back through the list of endeavors and different entrepreneurial, you know, things that he's gone into, besides becoming a Snoop Lion Rastafarian temporarily. Snoop Dog. That was fucking weird. Stoop Dog had a theme park. Snoop Dog had a porn company.

Starting point is 02:04:41 Snoop Dog has death row games. Snoop Dog advertised that he was giving up smoking in order to sell a fake fireplace, a smokeless fireplace. I mean, the man will take a paycheck literally everywhere. it's insanity. So him coming out on stage to kind of like smooth over the weirdness of seeing Tupac walking out for this game trailer doesn't actually do that at all because he's the last

Starting point is 02:05:13 person that would give a shit about the integrity of it. So that's weird. But smoke, smoke weed every day though. And I think, I think Snoop is like genuinely an incredible example of why you should not smoke weed every day. He is just like confused.

Starting point is 02:05:32 Every time he comes out on stage, like, I think he's like fast forwarding some kind of demented process. It's bad. I think they just point him in a direction and hand him a microphone and then he just goes out and then he gets a paycheck when he walks back offstage. Like, you know, go out there, say games. Yeah, Sega, my favorite, whatever, what? What are we doing?

Starting point is 02:05:53 Am I singing? We're not, we're not, I'm not singing. Okay. All right. That, you know. I saw somebody to chat and say. says, Pat really hates Snoop Dog.

Starting point is 02:06:01 I'm sorry, me making fun of him for being so high, he doesn't know where he is after we just finished a conversation where he's pimping out the ghost of his dead friend is the line? And is, are you people fucking serious? And I think his son is, is on stage involved,

Starting point is 02:06:18 but also to just direct dad where to go afterwards as well. Um, yeah, yeah. So look, man, look, Snoop is a,

Starting point is 02:06:27 he's a, he's a hip-hop legend. But, like the man is not going to stand on stage and do anything of integrity or value to not cart out the ghost. They hated each other. Then what's he doing on the stage? Announcing two pucks.

Starting point is 02:06:46 Like, okay. Well, if we're going to get into the Yallang Got Love for the West Coast bit, you know, Shug Night, you got the Bloods, you got the East Side. Okay, look, Bloods and Crips. The whole thing is here. Um, listen. If, if what we see in that game is the founding of the Tojo clan and then Pock is like, yeah, I'm inspired.

Starting point is 02:07:16 And then he goes back to America. Oh, fuck off. No, shut up. That's terrible. And founds the bloods, which clearly is historically what he did. Oh, God. And also, no, I actually don't like Snoop very much at all. Like my, I like, I like his music, but like one of the tipping points for me is that being a world famous beloved rapper and hip hop icon wasn't enough.

Starting point is 02:07:45 He has to cheat and fake doing my job so badly he gets confused and wanders away. There's that. There's ease. Fuck that. It's not enough to be one of the richest performers. ever and be world beloved. No, I gotta do this too, but I don't want to do it. So I'll just record a bunch of shit

Starting point is 02:08:05 and oh no, I'm too high wandered away. I'm confused. I left it on for hours. Fuck him. Fucking embarrassing old ass man. I really am starting to think there is a 50-50 shot

Starting point is 02:08:20 that he's going to leave this game talking about the expanding new crips that are back in America. and that they got to make a mob pyru group to figure it out. And thank you, Yakuza for inspiring me to... I got to be honest. I don't really know what you're done.

Starting point is 02:08:40 Okay, the blood's in the crypts. The bloods in the crypts back in the day. Like the, and how they were founded, the, whatever, the Compton, Pyrus, etc. There's a whole bit, right? Every, every set is wrapped and there's a whole thing. But I'm thinking that the Tojo's and the Omi are like, What if this yakas a game says And then America founded

Starting point is 02:09:03 The Bloods versus Crips War Based on looking at the fucking Tojo clan Isn't it just they didn't like each other's shirts Is that not the beginning of that? Yeah, because you know I have a blue shirt, you have a red shirt I think you should wear a red shirt

Starting point is 02:09:18 And when I put it in the washing machine This shit just runs and that sucks And I hate that That's not cool So Fuck you get off my block Okay. That's it. That's how it all started. Anyway.

Starting point is 02:09:38 And then like someone came in wearing yellow and they're like Latin Kings. How does that go in the wash? Listen, they walked up, they introduced it. It was the crowd made a guffaw. Yeah, it was a very strange emotional reaction from the crowd. and everybody at home. Just like, ah.

Starting point is 02:10:02 And then Virtue Fighter Crossroads, apparently, is the new single-player action-fighting game. Bro, it's so fucking weird to have Virtual Fighter carry the torch for the Leica Dragons. And for Shenmoo. I think what happened is the trailer leaked for Crossroads, and then...

Starting point is 02:10:22 A little bit of it anyway. And all of that versus battle stuff was in it. And I think they went, let's not, now that that leaked, that sucks, we can't reveal that. So let's reveal the story mode content instead. No way. This was such a well-produced, gigantic presentation. It was. Well, okay, the follow-up presentation afterwards, for sure. But I mean, the one that they showed, the short trailer that was on the actual game show, I'm just wondering if, like, they planned to show the thing that leaked and then decided to swerve away from them. No, no, no way. They are definitely full speed ahead on selling this as a single-player action kung fu adventure that happens to have a fighting game in it because that's the trick.

Starting point is 02:11:08 That's how they're going to trick people into playing fucking virtual fighter. Here's the hot new like a dragon game. Oh, it's got such a cool fighting system. It's like Shenmu. You remember Shenmu? Actually, it looks like seafood at points when, you know. Dude, no, it looks like the fantasy of what Shenmu wanted to be. But the camera rotates into fighting game angle.

Starting point is 02:11:31 And what I waited to see there and what I was immensely happy about was there was no group attack. He fought one person at one time. Yeah, they just rotated. And as soon as someone went down, the camera rotated and the fight continued. And I was like, awesome. This continues to just be a purefighter. Yeah, virtual fighter crossroads.

Starting point is 02:11:53 So I don't know where that leaked trailer is for then, but I mean, whatever the case. The leak trailer was the battle stuff that's like two minutes at the end of their giant presentation. So there's a two minute battle trailer or so that we saw on that. And then there's a 25 minute video that shows off the whole thing. And when you see the whole thing, like you really get a feeling of like what they're focusing on to sell this because it's a 25 minute trailer of which 22 minutes deals with the single player story. It's kind of crazy. There's hanging out in the restaurant eating. Who's Pi Chen?

Starting point is 02:12:27 And like, you know, all these moments of like world touring it, you know, though it looks significantly better than World Tour. Yeah, the shot where he's walking by the mural. Oh, he's dodging the attacks on the mural is like so incredible. That is that should, like that shot fucking sells it. They're like, man, some of you people. fucking love Virtual Fighter, but we love fucking Virtual Fighter. Look at these cool,

Starting point is 02:12:55 and there are the old designs, so it's a really old mural. That moment is meant to, exactly, it's meant to make you pop off if you're a fan, and it's also meant to make you, if you have no idea what Virtual Fighter is, you look at that and go, okay, these people are important, I should care.

Starting point is 02:13:12 Right? Yeah. And then Akira at the end, with the stare down and the duel, like that is such a good shot. Incredible. But then on top of that, they're like, okay, cool. So it's this action adventure very similar to RGG games in the past. He's going to be walking a morgue. David Hater. You're going to be playing four characters,

Starting point is 02:13:30 but you know who's going to be doing world building? David Hater. Stop with that. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, who's going to be the lead writer? Oh, it's going to be Brad Kane. Oh, fantastic. Oh, who else? Who else? Who else they? Of as Dust Falls, Ghost of Sashima. Okay. And you versus Wild Out Cold. Right. Who else they got? Oh, they're going to get the scenario director. who's Siyoshi Furuta, what they work on. Like a Dragon series, judgment and lost judgment.

Starting point is 02:14:00 Okay, so that guy knows how to direct a fucking scenario. Okay, well, what else do you got? Who else do you got running this? Okay, you've got the scenario writer, Shinji Yamamoto. Well, what they work on? Oh, they worked on Persona 5, Royal, Persona 5, Persona 4, Persona 4, Shimigami Tensei Devil Summiter 2, Rideo Cus Noah versus King Abidon.

Starting point is 02:14:25 Yeah. Also, we know that guy knows how to write a fucking scenario. So the secret to bringing back Virtual Fighter is to make a whole lot of it that isn't Virtual Fighter. Yeah. And then you hide Virtual Fighter on the inside of it. You sprinkle it in there. That's how you make them care.

Starting point is 02:14:41 They showed off that it's going to be four new characters. Like the World Tour equivalent is going to be four brand new characters. And you'll be following all four of their different. different stories. And then they showed this gigantic motherfucking chart of like all their chapters and all the side quests branching off of them, which includes

Starting point is 02:14:59 side quest for Jeffrey hidden away on one of the screens. I'm, I'm, I'm, this looks like it's going to be a phenomenal game. I don't know. I'm not convinced that it's going to sell

Starting point is 02:15:11 like crazy until they do the cure you is confirmed in it. No. Wully, you're not, you're not think of it. right way. This is not a fighting game. Virtual Fighter Crossroads is not a fighting

Starting point is 02:15:26 game. It is the newest RG action adventure game that's being built with top shelf, wonderful graphics, expansive world. Market it that way. Someone, I had a friend that literally, it was in Discord going,

Starting point is 02:15:42 wait, is Virtual Fighter Crossroads actually VF6? I saw that question be asked. And it's like... No. Virtual Fighter Crossroads is the virtual fighter action adventure game that once you are done with the expansive four-character story that has alternate endings and branching paths, seriously,

Starting point is 02:16:04 you will have a versus mode that will be there for you. You want to keep playing the game. Yo, make money. People don't give a fuck about fighting games. Of course not. This is what... Regular human beings. They care about action, adventure games.

Starting point is 02:16:21 This makes perfect sense. This makes perfect sense. This is what you do. Now, in terms of getting the word out, we'll have to see how that goes because it's still called Virtual Fighter. Yeah, it does. So we'll have to see how that goes. Well, you notice it's implied to be VF6 by the title, but it doesn't actually say Virtual Fighter 6. It is V-I.

Starting point is 02:16:46 Yes. So they're doing the same thing that the Xbox 360 did. what all sorts of games do where they start going to subtitle instead of numbers so they can be like, this is the perfect time to start playing virtual fighter. Honestly, though, all of that aside, I don't particularly care

Starting point is 02:17:02 in the sense that if it just is an existing 3D fighting game that's really awesome and virtual fighters back, that's dope as hell. And 3D fighting really needs a pickup right now. It does. This is a really... The timing went real.

Starting point is 02:17:18 So also like the discourse that is is talking about like taking, anytime we're returning the discourse to fighting games breaking through, I'm kind of like, I don't care. I'm just like, yeah, whatever, just make a good. We actually have data on this.

Starting point is 02:17:34 So it's a fighting game channel, yes, but Rufel Munger pointed out that he put up the Tifa trailer, the night that it happened, and he put out his video on the Crossroads presentation, but he wanted to get up as fast as possible, but unfortunately he can only get it up at midnight Eastern, which he described as death for a video, like the worst time you could put it out.

Starting point is 02:17:54 And that Virtual Fighter Crossroads presentation on Rufelmonger's channel is flying past the Tifa announcement in terms of views. Hmm. Interesting. People crave Rufel. Virtual Fighter with a story and some pop to it. Asterisk. Rufelmonger is the source people go to for virtual fighter information as well. So it's like you're going to the person that is known for being about that thing. Like people are flying over to Max for FF7. People are going to you for Yakuza and R.E.

Starting point is 02:18:27 You know, like so I, Rufel is also seeing a bunch of that as the fucking epicenter of that game, you know, online. The people yearn for a virtual fighter with a story that exists. That exists at all. I'm also glad, speaking of things existing, about Wolf Among Us 2 existing. For real. That's cool.

Starting point is 02:18:49 I fucking love Wolf Among Us, and I'm really happy to finally see that after all of fun. Yeah, Page was really stoked. Yeah, man. Fables is great, and this has been a long time coming, and it looks beautiful, and I'm super down for it,

Starting point is 02:19:00 and they're putting one back out as well. It's one of the telltale things that, like, you know, was super interesting, but, like, kind of not forgotten, but it's just been so long, so it doesn't get brought up as much because there's been nothing to say about it, you know? So yeah, Wolf Among Us 2

Starting point is 02:19:16 It's coming out. That's what's there to say about it now. Interesting, Ninja Turtle's Last Ronan. Again. So I did not, that's a support. Aren't you excited for another Platinum Ninja Turtles game? Maybe this will be better. Maybe this will be better. And it's what's left of platinum, mind you, right?

Starting point is 02:19:35 The platinum remnants. Last Ronan, as a pick is interesting, though, because it's not a random, it's not a, it's not just a random Ninja Turtles game. It is specifically choosing a story in an alternate reality where most of the turtles are dead except for one. And it's about the remaining turtle, you know? And it's initially like pitched as like, because it's initially pitched as like you don't know which one of the turtles is the one that was the last one, you know, until you go a little bit in. So yeah, it's just to see like how that gets adapted into the game I'm interested in. you know, can the remnants of platinum do something interesting?

Starting point is 02:20:18 Who knows? I think the stuff that we said about, the weird stuff about Bayonetta 3, a lot of that was like, if you apply it to a different IP here, and if that last platforming, whatever game, Sariza and the ghost or whatever that thing was, apparently that's not. That's not too bad, right? So we'll see. I don't know. It might not be a complete write-off. We'll have to see more. Yeah, and that's pretty much it for,

Starting point is 02:20:55 for, I'd say, the summer games fest. And then Xbox games showcase. Hey, what a great time for me to go take a piss. Excuse me. BRB. I'll come back. should I keep going? Yeah, the boys need to go P.

Starting point is 02:21:20 All right, all right, BRB. Should you go B right bet? Yeah, all right. Speaking of Piss, there are 48 hours to get your Reggie plush left. Oh, don't worry, I got him. I got him, I got him. I got him. Just for letting the people know.

Starting point is 02:21:39 That's a, that's a, that's brutal. This is what happens. when you enter the arena. You step in the ring. Hey. Emer. If his, a plushy outsells yours. Oh, oh, we talked about this.

Starting point is 02:22:01 The number that appears after it's done is a straight up value. And if whatever that number is, I have been maximizing as much pushing as hard as possible every week to let everybody know to get their Reggie plush available now, only two days left, because at the end of that, it's a statement on your value as a person.

Starting point is 02:22:27 It is an objective, qualifying default score that will be abided by from this point forward till the end of time. That's crazy, dude. That's crazy. It's kind of nuts.

Starting point is 02:22:46 It's a little bit iconic actually. But this is what has happened. So back to the Microsoft show. Emergency Day. Dude, I woke up and I watched that and I was bored to tears.

Starting point is 02:23:04 Like, okay, they showed Persona for revival. Looks great. Coming out February. Sick. When the fuck am I going to play that shit? Do you remember when Gears of War 1 came out and Yeah, it was hot as hot. And we were all in on the lore and we were talking it was crazy hot i had the destroyed beauty art book and we

Starting point is 02:23:23 were talking about can you imagine what if we got a game that was all about emergence day yeah and it's like it took too long and the series has been on a down swing and it hasn't like evolved meaningfully in like 10 15 fucking years hey look it's and assassins creed china and the most interesting thing about it by far was they said hey we thought long and hard about making this an Xbox exclusive and we're always going to make the the best decision not the fastest decision and then we find out that they made that decision the night before based off of nothing and that because the devs didn't know and they put out a goddamn video doing a deep dive that had PS5 logos all over and in fact the PS5 build exists and is uploaded and it's done just simply not available for

Starting point is 02:24:15 purchase. Someone in the chat pointed out that Space Marine gives everybody what they want out of Gears of War and more because it's fucking Warhammer. It's, space Marine kicks ass. It's kind of crazy that like, we're getting these types of games where, yeah, this is exactly

Starting point is 02:24:30 what folks were asking for 20 years ago. Yeah. This should have been, instead of Gears of War judgment, it should have been E-Day as the fourth game. You know, and instead of an unrelated fucking non-prequel. Also, it's like some of their talk about the fucking storyline was so fucking weird and myopic.

Starting point is 02:24:51 Or like, it's about hang, it's about, you know, it's about you and your and your brothers and sisters in arms making it through this. And then they show Dom and Ty. Both of those characters eat a gun. Like, what are you talking about? Yeah, I just watched the individual trailer releases after the fact. But I think, I'm imagining back when they made the first game, the thought was. was like, we can't actually do a gears of war that would be like, we get, we don't have the tech to do a full insane city, you know, of, of emerging, of the city, the city chaotic nightmare that that day would be. Totally.

Starting point is 02:25:30 And, and, and like, they showed it off. And it's, and it's literally like the same gears gameplay as ever with like running down the street falling to pieces. And it's like, dude, it doesn't, it doesn't wow me anymore. And, and I think to like, like, the, the bit of like, okay, here's the thing. run up to it and you stab it and then here comes a chainsaw and then is there going to be a moment of like looking at the chainsaw looking at the gun and going oh you know like is that's is that how they're going to bill it I don't know um it feels like the at least the way it's presented it's like shit started popping and you were a soldier that was ready to go almost immediately just in

Starting point is 02:26:10 civilian clothes you know as as opposed to like you slowly became also like you bluntly, like, the characters all look like shit outside of their people. Outside of the big uniforms. Yeah, yeah. They look wearing normal clothes. The proportions are bad. It sucks. Yeah. But hey, they showed persona four revival, and that looks hot as

Starting point is 02:26:28 fuck. I, that game looks gorgeous. I feel sad that I just don't want to play it because I, I, I, it's been a long time for me. Okay. So I could, but at the same time, like, you know what that game needs really bad, like really, really bad. They need to, if we're talking about full content additions, everything, they need to put back the

Starting point is 02:26:50 fucking side of the S-link where you fuck Yoseke. Oh, just full, full cowardice out. Where Yoseke is gay for you. Put it back in there. All of it. Like, and like, because I look back on his character and his character makes way more sense and is way less awful. Yeah. If he's dealing with weird gay thoughts the whole all the homophobic stuff because you're being closeted. Yeah. I think He's like, I don't know if I can hang out in a tent with you guys by myself. Yeah, because your dick is hard, dude. I, the game is just way too long for me to ever replay, I think, but it looks fucking beautiful.

Starting point is 02:27:29 It looks kind of almost like, yeah, like if you remember playing the first one, you know, in your head and you haven't seen it since, you might give yourself a false memory of that this is what it looked like with the cool yellow. shadows and everything. I don't know. It's pretty, it's pretty shiny. And it's pretty shiny. No, and,

Starting point is 02:27:48 and yeah, clearly it's like, okay, you can do the big three games all in this new style that you've, you've gotten since five and then metaphor.

Starting point is 02:27:56 They're going to do persona four and it's going to be really fucking funny, dude. Sorry, persona five. They're going to do persona five. They already,

Starting point is 02:28:04 they, I mean, P5 R is already a thing. Persona 5 Royale with cheese. And if you ask for them to go before three, they will fucking throw you out the window. They will defenestrate you. What's that?

Starting point is 02:28:20 It's like the opposite of Valve. P1, P2, die. Death. They also showed persona 6 for like one second. And it's green. And spooky. I want to say, by the way, I called green like 10 years ago. Of course.

Starting point is 02:28:38 You got to do all the primary colors. No, no, not of course. I could have been wronged. Never underestimate my ability to be wrong. Sure, but you know, it follows suit. And then, you know, just looking at the previous as well. But here's what's more important is... Yeah, did you see the league screenshot?

Starting point is 02:28:57 I didn't. But... Oh, that's important. Oh, okay. Because I was going to say, for me, what I was going to say is it's green and spooky, but that doesn't matter because chairs with balls and chains with slavery wanting emancipation was... That's a lot more hardcore of a thesis statement than the actual game you got.

Starting point is 02:29:16 So whatever the spooky green thing is, soften it down by about 60%. Water it down. Okay, well, there's one screenshot that I saw that looked very legitimate and came out before this. And the color was green. From the leaks. Yeah. And it was the background of like the text was like green and like a Ti-83 calculator. And the main character is white.

Starting point is 02:29:40 blonde. Okay, I'm just Googling this. Huh. So, okay, I heard there was a leak, but I don't know how much there was in it. But, yeah, okay. Um, I guess. And I saw Atlas saying, sorry that that happened. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:30:02 But I'm assuming it was. But, yeah, it looks like the main character of Versona 6 will be a white guy. which is I want all sorts of weird asslinks I mean they already pretty much confirmed the high school bit and everything in their description though right yeah of course they do yeah

Starting point is 02:30:21 you know that's all as it ever was um no all I'm just I'm just looking at like the the good graves and the whole like horror imagery and just feeling like you guys are you know you're setting a tone oh it's gonna be bombastic with cool ass music you're setting a tone here

Starting point is 02:30:40 but it's just clearly going to be so much softer than you're implying when we actually get down to it. Anyway, yeah, P6 is coming. Yeah, no shit. Oh, interesting. There's another character, too, with, yeah, all right. What else did we see? We saw those two. We saw Emergence Day.

Starting point is 02:31:04 Then there was a look at Senua. so Hellblade 3 Sure Um sure Still gotta go play the second game But like that that fucking I really liked that first one

Starting point is 02:31:19 That impressed me Yeah I crazy talked myself into a clip there Because I was complaining about women And then like Senua showed up And was like god damn it a woman Fuck shit Well It's

Starting point is 02:31:31 It said it was cool I really uh yeah Hellblade's dope I'm um I guess this is the The The the final perhaps it's like a trilogy

Starting point is 02:31:40 sure whatever they said that last okay did you did you touch any of them or no I played at Senua 1 or Hellblade and then I remember talking to Gene about Senua 2 and he was like it's pretty

Starting point is 02:31:56 but there's like not a whole lot of it did you like it? Okay that's all right it was more interesting than it was good if that statement I understand I liked it because it was It was interesting

Starting point is 02:32:13 But I was expecting so much less of the combat Is what happened there, I think And then we saw Yeah Yeah yeah yeah Dude that game looks like shit That crazy taxi Crazy taxi is back

Starting point is 02:32:32 And before and they played the music That everyone wanted to see And before the ex- Yeah Which is why I I have fucking emails in my fucking email about how monetization cannot be enabled for the fucking... I mean, look, there was one job, and it was to get offspring, and they did that, right? The second job was to not put up an AI content disclaimer, but...

Starting point is 02:32:55 Oh, darn. This is the world we live in now. And then the third job was to make it not look like shit, and it totally looks like shit. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah is actually... I-A, I-A-I-A-I-A. I look, I feel like there was two directions they could have gone in. One was the one they went with the more, like, realistic look.

Starting point is 02:33:20 The other, they could have gone super stylized and insane. And by going more realistic, it looks like a mobile fake ad. Do you know what I mean? It looks like the genre. Yeah, it looks poor. It looks like fake video game ads that you see for stuff that's lying to you on. your phone. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:33:42 I really hope that this does not spell the same fate for obviously JetSet Radio and the other stuff. Oh, it totally does. It totally does. Sega already canceled their super game. Got canceled. We saw a little bit more of Jet Set Radio, including the new Professor Kay, who, hey, guess what?

Starting point is 02:34:00 If I put on a fucking suit and tie, if I put on a collar and tie, that's, that's me. there I am. What's up? And some shades. That's a freebie. And... Anything else from that that you cared about? No, it was pretty scanty.

Starting point is 02:34:19 It was pretty scanty. And then this morning... Okay. They announced a lot of that shit, but the most important thing is the thing that wasn't at that fucking Nintendo direct at all. They announced a port of Muramasa

Starting point is 02:34:34 Revenant Blades, the Vita slash... PS5, Switch 2, Switch and PC. That's for the first time ever. Vanillaware. Personal computer. Oh, we didn't talk about fucking Guild Wars, Guild Wars 3. Guild Wars 3 coming to consoles.

Starting point is 02:34:54 That's another one. So that's another one where the trailer had a big long buildup, and it was like, how soon can you recognize what game you're looking at? you fucking, there was no shot. There was no shot in hell recognizing that one because it was all new shit. Guild Wars 3 is primarily interesting because they're finally going to make a Guild Wars game. You can play with a fucking controller. But also, ArenaNet makes good MMOs, but they just relaunched Guild Wars 1.

Starting point is 02:35:24 And they are going to support Guild Wars 1, Guild Wars 2, and Guild Wars 3, all three MMOs simultaneously. That's pretty impressive. Okay. Uh, also, isn't that, like, doesn't that, isn't that counterproductive for like, sub subs? Three different teams? What subs? They don't do subs. Right.

Starting point is 02:35:50 A arena has the controversial buy to play model for MMOs. True, true, true. Okay. That's the trick. That's how they can do it. it. Buy to play. So then it's server costs over time, hope enough micro-transactions. And those are managed by the micro-transaction stores they all have. Okay. Okay. Which is like some cosmetics and some but they don't compete with each other as a result. Nope. And they're all going to be very different

Starting point is 02:36:21 games like Guild Wars 1 and 2 are very different from each other. They're like fundamentally different at their core. And they said that it's going to be action combat. It's so from my gut on this is that they're making Western Black Desert, but what if it wasn't dog shit? Wait, so you press an attack button to swing an attack? Yeah. Huh. Yes. Okay. And they also, they

Starting point is 02:36:48 want to focus a lot on movement and traversal and moving your character around. Okay. Nintendo Direct this morning dropped a couple things, so there's like a couple things, I don't know. I watched it. It wasn't that big of a deal. It was kind of a big deal, actually. Devil May Cry 5, nothing new edition.

Starting point is 02:37:08 Sure, for the Switch. Sure, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. It exists. And that's, we saw it. And there's nothing to say except there will be a demo this summer. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:37:21 That's it. Final Fantasy Residence is really funny. So I did not know that people like the loved Final Fantasy Brave XVus. I did not know that they loved. Okay. So for me, I just saw this and I saw a brand new thing that was like sprite based and looking like HD, 2D. Yeah, it looked really interesting. I was like, oh, that's cool.

Starting point is 02:37:44 Is this a new thing? And it's called Final Fantasy Residence. No. Right. So I did not know anything. And I also did not know. But here's what's funny. You ever notice how, excuse me, you ever notice how like you were watching a trailer for a game and you know.

Starting point is 02:38:04 that it's a re-release simply because they're not talking about the characters, world, or plot. They're talking about the technical specifications of the game.

Starting point is 02:38:14 Right? So the first time you've heard about this game and they're describing its art style, its engine, and like the things that it's getting

Starting point is 02:38:24 and you're like, wait, but what's the world? What's the setting? What are we looking at? And you go, oh, this must be a re-release of something people already know. You know?

Starting point is 02:38:32 And like, just, Tell by a trailer whether you should be seeing, whether you're seeing it for the first time and the world is learning about this. Or you're like, hey, you remember this. Well, here's what we added to it, you know. It looks really cool, though. And it is a degachified final fantasy. So I was going to ask, yeah, it's a, I know it's a mobile Final Fantasy game, but like, was it, was there actually a game in there, you know?

Starting point is 02:38:57 Yeah, I ran for like 10 years. So, like, there's, like Ariana Grande, people were telling me, is it? that game voiced, I think. What? Like, it was a fucking ass mobile game. And apparently Octopath Zero was like, people were very happy with how that got decadified. So the gacha is just a fucking early access version of a thing that can be

Starting point is 02:39:23 re-released later. Well, kind of. It kind of looks like it. It was a fundamentally different game, right? Because, like, you know, the battle system is going to be different because it's not a gotcha game anymore. But there's now a through. line for multiple games that are getting

Starting point is 02:39:36 degachified and re-released proper. Yeah, so get ready for the standalone single-player card game Teppin Chronicles or whatever the fuck. I mean when the like, no, no, I wouldn't expect that, but I feel like at some point I could imagine a world where Hoyo

Starting point is 02:39:51 says, nah, fuck it, we want some we want some big, like, proper sale money of something and maybe takes a game that's not as actively blowing up, like Zenless is, is hitting, and and all their current Hoyo stuff is hitting.

Starting point is 02:40:05 Maybe something that's phased out and then does like a big release with that or so. I can see something like that happening. They're making money though, so, you know, they would have to... So yeah, this is a win. This is a win. Oh, yeah, no, but ZZZZZ is never going to do that. No, no, no, no, no.

Starting point is 02:40:23 That's what I'm saying. Not something that's currently crushing it. It would have to be something that starts to be less relevant, you know? Ocarina of Time. remake. Cool. They didn't show anything, but it's this year? Weird. So how many re-releases have there been?

Starting point is 02:40:46 Because I... Not as many as you were fucking. Yeah, because I had a weird moment of going, wait a minute, did we do this? No, we didn't. We didn't. There was a 3DS version. We did ports, but there's never a full remake. There was.

Starting point is 02:41:02 It was a 3DS version. that wasn't a that wasn't a remaster it was new models it was okay okay but now it's the higher that man version yes right yeah yeah yeah okay um looks nothing nothing to say until i don't it actually drops you know i would think they would have to expand it a little bit because the game's actually quite primitive by today's standards yeah no i yeah 3d s version was the was the remake i get that so um emblem fortunes weave tactically dropping itself on September 17th

Starting point is 02:41:39 motherfucking pieces of shit four houses now fire emblem fortunes weave you get it because there's four main we moved away from it but vanilla wear PC is a thing now okay yeah okay yes

Starting point is 02:41:57 Muramasa is on the are we testing the waters to decide about the rest it appears that I bet you marvelous ink is testing the waters, not vanillaware. Their publisher. Testing the waters of do we want money? Well, they're going to, I would imagine if I was publishing vanillaware games, I would just be yelling at them every single fucking thing.

Starting point is 02:42:21 I need to put their fucking games on. I need to jump into the future where we're reporting on the story that's, where after it's all said and done in the dust settles, someone comes out and says, yeah, I worked with George Kami Tami and he just actively despised the PC and we were, I think I remember reading an interview where they were, they said that. Yeah, I just, I'm like, I need to get an inside fly on the wall story that is a personal grudge that stops this from happening, you know, no matter how much the money would help them. It's especially silly because like every single project they put out, they go, we ran out of money on the last week. week before this shipped and hopefully you buy it so we can pay our staff and not have to fire everyone. They've said that like three, four times. George, it doesn't have to be this way.

Starting point is 02:43:11 And then he goes, yeah, it fucking does. All right, George. Just go back to drawing your big fat titties and asses. Just we'll handle the business on this end. List of games coming out in September 2026. It's bad. the way, Dragon's Dog with two dark, Kristen, got announced at this Nintendo Switch thing as well. Fire Emblem, Dune Awakening, Control Resonant, Silent Hill, Townfall, Onimusha,

Starting point is 02:43:44 Minecraft Dungeons, if you care. Oh, it's a death, it's a death zone, dude. It's the worst that's ever been. It's, there's never been anything worse than this September for video game. Something called Riz Dungeon. Riz Dungeon. Anyway I don't like it Here it is I have the list

Starting point is 02:44:06 I'm looking at a giant one But Valour Mortis Yeah from Aon 2 Mom posted it It's but it goes from August 27th To November 3rd Do you have that one? I have one for all months

Starting point is 02:44:18 Okay But yeah It's just like Between Between August 27th And October 9th There's one two three four five six 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 games.

Starting point is 02:44:41 Yeah, the one I have is including even smaller ones, but, uh, and then you bleed into October to just get the rest of that ace combat, Galactic racer, Rayman, Gears of War. Darker risen is October 9th as well. Castlevania is October 13th. And FF resonance. Yes, to the 22nd. Okay, so there is the Xenoblade Genesis. So I remember the last big direct.

Starting point is 02:45:10 Did you catch up? They're going to announce the- Did you catch up? What's that? You were doing the Xeno series. Okay. I did not catch up. I played the first one because I had the definitive edition on the Switch

Starting point is 02:45:20 that when you play it on Switch 2 runs at a locked 30, which is my minimum, right? And I'm like, I will maybe take a look at 2 and 3 when they remaster these fucks. and then there was like multiple directs in a row where like I knew that they were making these remasters but they didn't announce them and I'm like oh

Starting point is 02:45:38 they're waiting to put out the remasters as the lead up to Xenoblate 4 so they're putting out the remasters as a lead out to Xenoblate 4 which is coming out next year uh yeah 2027 right Nintendo Switch ports

Starting point is 02:46:01 Sports Resort Rhythm Heaven groove Star Fox demo Sure it looked fine Looked like a fucking Star Fox Then Kingdom Hearts 4 Cool Is it weird at all to see

Starting point is 02:46:16 That All in a city In Japan looking super different It's extremely Because it looks weird to me It's extremely weird To see this Not at all

Starting point is 02:46:28 in a Disney setting. It looks like a fucking Nintendo hire this man fucking fan game. It's bizarre. I mean, surely that's got to be like, you know, a chunk of the game, but there is also going to be

Starting point is 02:46:47 the going to the game worlds, right? Maybe. He's holding what looks to be like a Moana keyblade, which makes perfect sense. Unless it's planet Earth and overlapping. I don't know what's going on there. But it's just, I just see Tokyo and I'm like, huh?

Starting point is 02:47:07 And then, yes, which is getting a bunch of ports of stuff. There's some DLC for, you know, Donkey Kong and everything. Pocopia. Yeah, I think that was pretty much it. So, you know. Oh, there was something else. Delta Rune Chapter 5. True, true, true.

Starting point is 02:47:29 June 24th. And I was like, I hope they don't fucking show Delta Rune. I don't want Delta Rune to come out soon. And then within a millisecond of me saying that Toby Fox's goddamn puppet jumped up on the fucking screen. Yeah. It's, it's crowded, man. It's crowded. So that's the last chapter, right?

Starting point is 02:47:57 No. It's two more. Oh, is it seven? Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, seven. Yeah, crazy. Easy Talk's getting real bad lately. It's getting real bad. Okay. Well, beyond that, there you go. There's your, like, E3 is gone, but this is your E3.

Starting point is 02:48:14 This is just, it's just three days of nonstop announcements all in one shot and then side announcements at the same time, which is crazy. Honestly, if like throwing stuff out there, like, we're catching these wind peripheral things at the same time. But the only other stuff I, I, I, I had here was the kind of insane and ridiculous, just unfortunate newsletter that G-O-G put out. I would say that is very unfortunate. So they just, they made a newsletter post and they used some runes and a logo and they did not check the display of how these rules. would appear on all devices and how it would appear when translated to German. So for one reason or another, you got Slavic Adventure with the fucking SS logo going out from good old games. And they're like, sorry, that's not what we meant to happen.

Starting point is 02:49:29 It was just a bad text and wing ding type situation for certain language. but boy is it just an unfortunate sequence of events. There was... It reminds me of a very famous Northern Lion clip. Have you seen the clip of NL playing Call of Duty Warzone and he's spray painting the wall? So he's waiting in the gulog and he spray paints like an S symbol on the wall

Starting point is 02:50:02 and he's like, ha ha. And he puts another one and he realizes, immediately that he's like made the SS logo and he like immediately shuts up and stops talking and he's like, oh, uh, so he tries to spray it again, but it's like a maximum of two sprays in, in the gulog. And he's just like, he's like, he's like, like, just like, you know, rinsing his mouth, like, oh, oh, no. And he's shooting it and trying to blow it up with grenades and it won't go. And he just like panics and just runs away to the other side. Can you not just replace it with a different one? Like, no, no, you can't. You can't, dude. God.

Starting point is 02:50:36 That's hilarious. Yeah, yeah. There was that. There was not, this was pretty much like also something in the leaks from beforehand. But for those out there that give even a slight shit, which is literally zero people, Rick Stroud announced. So Rick Stroud fanboys was a term that was used disparagingly back in the day. where for people who liked deep cut S&K lore

Starting point is 02:51:07 idiots like me they'd be like shut the fuck up you Rick Stroud fanboy Rick's cool Rick was cool the problem was that Vanessa was cooler that she's much cooler so Vanessa the boxing

Starting point is 02:51:21 milk from KOF is lifted the moves completely from this Native American boxer that had white dreads and she just replaced him she took his moves and replaced him permanently. And that was the end of Rick, you know, to which I say, yeah, fine, fine. That's a good one too. I get it. But now it's like, you know, they're going back to it. And it's not

Starting point is 02:51:48 quite a fong to hockey situation. But, um, yeah, there's a, there's just, I'm just, I'm just reminded of the slurs of, of, you know, the early aughts and, and Rick Stroud fanboy was one of them. That's not a fucking slur. Rick Stroud fans are not a fucking protecting class. They wouldn't hire me. I'm going to fire a fucking disability act lawsuit because they wouldn't hire me because I wore a Rick Stroud t-shirt to the interview. That's not a real thing. Now, what if I told you some of them were like, well, fuck Vanessa.

Starting point is 02:52:31 I wish. It was, I never, I, from the moment I saw Viv. Vanessa, I always loved her and thought she was great, but I did go, that's the end of our boy. He's dead forever. Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's like genuinely shocking how much like, how, how more easily, what's the word? Like, like, lovable Vanessa. Have you ever had that moment of watching your character get replaced? And you're like, I'm not even mad. I just, I'm just sad, kind of. No, I picked the best character ever. It's such a weird thing to just be like, yeah, yeah, I'm not, I can't, I can't hate, but I'm just sad.

Starting point is 02:53:16 Anyway, the last little bit was a little update. Remember the other day when we were talking about how the game? I do. I played Bayek in, in technical. Oh, oh, you wanted, yeah. And I was like, get the fuck out of my fucking face by it. If you're a fan of the original teachers or Bruce Irving or any of those dudes, yeah, yeah, yeah. You want version one and here comes the student and you're like, fuck that.

Starting point is 02:53:49 Horang is way better, dude. Also, he's a, he's a hot boy with the hot boy appeal in a motorcycle. Absolutely. And he has a chuny eye patch. No, that's got, that was so strange. Why does Horeg believe that he's an eighth grader with superpowers? I don't understand. Maybe because he fights a literal devil man.

Starting point is 02:54:17 And he didn't cause World War III. And he didn't. A little update to the last time we talked about, um, the CEO of GameStop, uh, wanting to buy out eBay. and there was an interview where they interviewed Ryan Cohen, and they're like, so how are you going to do that? And he went like, you know, with the money. And they're like, what money?

Starting point is 02:54:42 And he's like, the money. And they're like, but you said the money, you told us how much money and it's not enough. And he's like, well, we have the money. And they're like, you're not answering the question. That was hilarious. And of course, no story, no shot without its chaser. as of today

Starting point is 02:55:02 the GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is attempting a hostile takeover of eBay It was what money The money, didn't you hear? Yeah so you know You get a bunch of fucking thugs together

Starting point is 02:55:22 I don't know you get some dark money and you get some stuff that's unreported and you try to do it through the stocks and through the shareholders. And right now eBay is, I guess, fighting back against that because initially they expressed that this was an unsurious person with an unsurious offer. But the reason why he was talking that way is because he had other plans.

Starting point is 02:55:47 So we'll see. A bunch of stupid fucking bullshit. Let's take some emails. Hey, before we do, why does Thresh's, deep sea costume give him fat tits i didn't see it but you oh you haven't seen it oh it's but um it's i think you know the answer to that question it's the same reason why ari is getting her eighth skin yeah that's true give some weird gigantic fat sweet boobies also also i have seen human thresh and human thresh also has fat tits have you seen human thrash here you go

Starting point is 02:56:31 Oh yeah, I have, yeah No, but seriously, look at that. I get that. I get that. But you go look up that human thresh costume and like of what little there is to say he has the fattest hits. It's really,

Starting point is 02:56:52 it was really scary there for a second that like as a default. Because they tried to push human thresh for a while. see that being a special costume at some point. Nobody liked it. Nobody was into it. It was very... There you go.

Starting point is 02:57:08 I have no connection to this character or lore whatsoever, and I definitely could feel the thing of please keep the skeleton man being a skeleton. But what I will say looking at this human form is they made him a hot Chinese Wusha, like villain. It is what he gives the energy of. And that's not what I saw coming.

Starting point is 02:57:30 Not a fan of it. Not what I saw coming. Like, I still think he looks really cool, but I want a goddamn skeleton. Well, what about a skeleton head with fat tits? You know what? Why am I talking to you? You're not the fucking authority here. Paige has weighed in, and she does not care for Stresh's design because he's got

Starting point is 02:57:51 muscles, and he's not just a pure skeleton. So Skeletor is a no-no? No. Oh, really? I wouldn't have thought that. No. skeleton, bro, because Skeletor has a

Starting point is 02:58:05 big buff chest and he's ripped as shit. Yeah, and he's not a skeleton. I see. I didn't know that was a deal breaker. Interesting. It's an extraordinary. Even like the lower you go

Starting point is 02:58:22 when you got a bone up. All bone up. But like, hmm. So let me give you an example. So Page is streaming Massif. right now, right? She's streaming Mass Effect 1.

Starting point is 02:58:38 And she is streaming Mass Effect 1 like a goofy fucking way. Because every time I turn on the stream, she's drawn like mustaches and shit on her face. It's fucking hilarious. But she saw Sarin. Yes. And she saw Sarin being a boned up

Starting point is 02:58:56 skeletal birdman with robot shit coming out of him. And she was like, yo. Yeah. But that's what I'm just saying that like at some point, Even if you have skeleton body, skeleton head, skeleton everything, I'm assuming you want them, you want that trouser full. Skeleton. No. Skeleton.

Starting point is 02:59:20 Damn. Okay. All right. Wow. Not even the logistics. No, there's logistics. And the logistics is skeleton. Sure.

Starting point is 02:59:33 Sure. Yeah. Okay. Like when I was explaining her, I yeah, Tury and. have like a carapist, they're like a hard body the whole way around. She's like, yeah. Okay. Because it's like a skeleton.

Starting point is 02:59:45 Okay. I, hey, I get it. I'm the one that's calling for the Uma Musume to be more Uma and less Musume. That's... Castle Super Beast Mail. That's dangerously cheesy, bro. At Gmail.com. That's dangerously cheesy.

Starting point is 03:00:07 Castle Superbeastair. beast mail at gmail.com. Yeah, if you're going to go in on a monster girl or a monster boy or a monster design, fucking commit. Get in there. More monster. I agree. I assume we will see more a classic thresh that's just not available in China.

Starting point is 03:00:32 Because that's what's up. That's what's going on there. From Leonard Church, Dear Titan Woolley and Warlock Pat. in light of Oh dude Leonard wrote in I know Leonard Dear Titan

Starting point is 03:00:46 Willie and Warlock Pat In light of Destiny's End of service What is your Of course What could have been Essentially

Starting point is 03:00:53 What was the thing That you saw Great Potential in But it never fully captured Best regards A sad hunter So Leonard Church

Starting point is 03:01:03 Is of note As a guy That would respond To me Complaining about destiny And I would be like your name is a red versus blue reference and your avatar on Twitter slash blue sky is the Destiny logo so I'd be like bro and then over time as the game started to like fucking run down

Starting point is 03:01:25 he started to be like oh fuck and I reached out to him when Destiny fucking died and I'm like what are you going to do he's like I don't know right because he's like the warframe just ain't the same and he's right. What's the name of that, that Dante Virgil Warframe, by the way? Okay. I don't know. So my answer would be Mega Man Legends 3 because it's not about what that game could have been, because that clearly could have been a really cool return.

Starting point is 03:02:03 I wanted to see Mega Man Legends 3 come back and be a really cool game so that the game that the game that comes after that could have been fucking incredible. Like I wanted to see a third Mega Man Legends game and then once that's back and it's good and established and it's like a smaller in scale but still a good game.

Starting point is 03:02:23 The thing they make after when it's back that's a bigger, crazier, awesome game that has that art style and those characters and that type of world just like fully, fully committed to it would be unbelievable. You know? Mega Man Legends 4 hypothetically.

Starting point is 03:02:38 would is something that I I god damn would love to see and and um you know if we ever get something like it it's not going to be for at least a decade but uh it's a shame there was a lot of potential there because I don't know I don't really have what could have been that I can think of right now I really didn't I really struggle uh all right and We'll just take one here. Dear Basilio and Fidelio. Sure. Oh, no.

Starting point is 03:03:20 Don't call me. I mean, look, we don't sound like Oasis, but I am tall and dark. You know? Yeah, but like, as soon as those two shitheads showed up on the screen every time I streamed it, I would just scream out, yo, is that the fucking blowjaw brother? Oh, like that. They sound like Ringo to me Yeah, well it's, it's

Starting point is 03:03:45 It felt like, it felt like hanging out with the fucking evil Like, it's, it's, it's, is it the liverpool accent or I'm not sure I think It's the particular type, you know, the particular one. Yeah, there's, there's the, there's the, there's that and then there's the, um, It's not, it's not quite, uh, cockney British. It's the other kind. Oh, there's, there's more than one. There is more than one British. In fact, there is, yes. There's the northern British, you know, the ones that sounds a little more fucking winterfell.

Starting point is 03:04:21 I guess that's what I'll say, the north. Anyways, the actual thing is, until dawn to electric boogaloo. When Supermassive worked on Until Dawn, they were locked into a work for hire contract where Sony kept the IP and royalties for the titles they produced, which was great when Supermassive were a tiny no-name startup, but not so much now.

Starting point is 03:04:49 Basilic Moon were on a similar contract for the Until Dawn remake, and it bankrupted them. So Fire Sprites, on the other hand, are an internal Sony studio, the Liverpool wipeout guys, and reborn... There are people from the former Until Dawn team on that.

Starting point is 03:05:08 So Sony keeps any IP and money. They don't like sharing IP and money. It's simple as that. Similarly, the dark pictures aren't published by Sony

Starting point is 03:05:18 for the simple reason that they'd keep all the IP and money, not due to some falling out. It's purely business. Yeah, that makes sense. I believe that. I did not know that

Starting point is 03:05:29 there was a... I mean, obviously it's like, yeah, the fact that someone else is being handed it is that, you know, that Supermassive doesn't own the thing. But I guess at the time I just assumed it was like, you know, this is their big hit. It's, you know.

Starting point is 03:05:47 Fun fact, Sony X-Dev commissioned original until dawn to spite David Cage, who told them that he was the only genius capable of making such a game. Oh, that's great. He's not even capable of making the kinds of games. That's really funny, if true. Big if true. Yeah. All right. Uh, cool.

Starting point is 03:06:14 Don't forget to check out Twitch.tv.TV slash Pete Saliva and YouTube.com slash peatislava slash live tonight at 5 p.m. Pacific. She's going to be doing more mass effect. I don't know what the fuck she's up to with that shit. Goodbye. Go check it out.

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