Castle Super Beast - SBFC 064: The Big Booty Swat Kat Party

Episode Date: October 28, 2014

This week is all about the P-Star experience. Bayo2 is out, Korra is out, as well as the last Smash segment for a while, we promise. We also weigh in on some new indie announcements, and spend more time than expected on GACKT.

So, where are you right now, Pat? Where in the world is Pat San Diego? Where in the world is Lil' Pat Swarga? Nice. Good one. Great. Amazing. That's real smooth.

I didn't know what to call him. Lil' Nome in Japan? Just shoehorn the syllables into the song, that's how it works. How's it going? Where I am is the beautiful downtown Sheraton in Hiroshima, Japan. Oh. I did not, in fact, end up going to Tokyo. I was given a much more interesting and better location to go visit in the vicinity of Hiroshima.

Okay. So, no geek shopping for you? No. No, I did plenty of geek shopping at Yodobashi, but that's a different topic for later on. A different day. Well, no, I just mean, I have a list, man. I have a list in front of me of stuff I did, because I remember, I don't remember what I do.

Right. So, I figured I would write it down and make a list. Always good. So, you want me to hit this list or what? Sure. You have a list. Here's the order of the list. Is it like a pre-recorded message that you did?

Yeah. It's what we want. You guys are dicks. Just press play on the yak bag. Just give us your list. I'm just going to, yeah, I'll press play on the yak bag. We'll press yes on our pre-recorded response and go, uh-huh, interesting, uh-huh, honey. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As much of this podcast as we can get through without actually having to talk to one another. Right. Absolutely. Sure thing. Yep. Right. All right.

So, the first thing I did after... Uh-huh. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go, go, go. The pieces... Go ahead, go ahead. We can add a Japanese flavor by going, hmm, while nodding.

Hmm. Yes. Hey. Hey. Um, yeah, first thing I did last week after the podcast, I went down to Universal Studios. West Jake. Uh, because I wanted to get into the biohazard thing. Yeah.

You did. So, fun for me, biohazard shit is ticket appointment only. Oh, I was hoping you would have to be this height to enter and you wouldn't make it. So, fuck me. Oh, shit. That's impossible. That being said, Matt, they have a giant, they have a giant water world section. Yeah.

Do they have to be back? Universal Studios. No. And you have to deposit 40, like yen, to continue. Oh, no. I did not. Are there actors that dress up? So the Universal, uh, the fucking water world sequence is the most, apparently it's the

coolest part of the park because I was told it's an alive stunt show that reenacts the final action scene of the movie. Fuck yeah. Yeah. Okay. But when you just look into the section, it's just completely empty at every point of the day. But the performers still got to do it.

Yeah. Well, because, because that stuff's out of sight. So it just looks totally empty. Right. It does look like shit. What they do have is an awesome Jurassic Park attraction that has you going through, like, the containment thing. It's, it's a fucking, like, log.

Jurassic Park. Uh, but what is, so the, this Universal, the Universal Studios, Japan's big thing is their Harry Potter thing. Yeah. And you're in a Harry Potter, right? Yes. Okay. So I'm not anymore.

You got out of the game. Now you're a muggle. Out of the game, when, when the spoiler hit, I got out. Oh, okay. Oh yeah. Yeah. You said as much as I had some point. But I, but I went down there and they have just, they, they make you walk for like 15 minutes

through a forest in the middle of, I don't know, but they have totally recreated Hogsmeade and the castle. Yeah. Into a scale that looks real, real. Wow, that's cool. It's real convincing. Don't they have that in the States too? Yeah.

There's an American Hogwarts. Yeah. Okay. That's also pretty new. Does USJ have butterbeer? Yes, it does. I did not have the chance to try. The fuck?

There were too many. Or fire? Super fans. Or firewish. My sister went to one of the States in the States. She said the butterbeer was atrocious. Oh no. It was just too sugar and nothing.

Apparently. That's what kids love. I know. Yeah. It's, it's like. The process happened where I turned to my girlfriend and I said, is that real beer? And she said, no, it's butterbeer. And I said, well, we don't have to stand in line.

It's also at 9am in the morning. Yeah. 10pm here. Yeah. No, it was like 6. It was like 6pm. Come on. If the Harry Potter exhibit's got butterbeer, did the Waterworld exhibit have a vial of

your own pee? No, I don't know. I didn't manage to go into it. Isn't it fucked how quickly the sun sets there, man? So that is what I don't get. I don't get, my girlfriend has been telling me every day, it's the land of the rising sun. That also means it's the land of the setting sun.

That shit's in a hurry to get the fuck out. That combined with the time zone, like this makes no sense. How is their time zone like set to a time in which 4.30pm is when the sun goes down? Yes, exactly. How did they decide that that night was 3.30 in the afternoon? Afternoon. It's bullshit. As a result, everything in the fucking country just closes at 5pm.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tokyo's alive. Tokyo's alive after dark. Yeah, I bet. But the other place is not. Hiroshima is not. Osaka is a little bit more. So this Hogwarts thing has this, you know, like roller coaster built into the castle?

Yeah, just like the real Hogwarts. First of all, this is the most amazing line I have ever stood in. It deserves special mention because the line is just you standing in parts of Hogwarts with the paintings on the walls moving like they're supposed to. And they're all yelling at you to be polite. Yes, in Japanese, so I don't know what they were saying, but I assume that's what they were saying. And then you get into this fucking, I don't know, it's a, it's a, you remember those old

D-Box things? Yeah. Like an amusement park? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where they would just shuffle around in your chair. Yeah, pretty much. They've combined that with a roller coaster that goes only sideways. Cool.

So you can't see the track ever. And then it just goes, it goes through like a flash forward of like, then the dementors attack you, then the dragon attacks you, then you're in the Quidditch match. And it's throwing you all over the place and then Hans Gruber attacks you. And then you're 80% through the ride when you just slam to a stop and all the lights turn off. And you hear a confused Japanese lady come on to the intercom going, Itto, Sumimasen. And you're just, and you're just stuck in there for five minutes looking around.

Like hanging in front, like stuck hanging on a bottomless pit with all the lights turned on and none of the machinery on. Like did they not create the tension between each book or lady? Yeah. Did they not finish it? I don't know. That makes me laugh for the days of animatronics because then you'd see those things in the middle of talking go, run all the wayers now.

So they start the ride back up and the ride just slowly comes back to life like the animatronics and you just slowly walk past the dragon head that has mechanics turned off and is just a big, stupid looking dragon head now just with no lights. That's an experience at least. But then they just let you go again. That's fun. Worth every penny. And you go on it and then Willie, you could not ride this ride.

I walked off and almost felt like I was going to throw up. Like this thing was, you know, contrary to popular belief, I'm actually a really big fan of roller coaster. I was going to say, what is wrong with you first person clubbing? You have the most specific motion sickness in the world because it's virtual. It's not real. My actual, it's your real one. It's because what's happening on screen doesn't emulate what's going with my body.

Okay. I guess you're still nuts. VR is totally fine for me, actually, because it's one to one. Right. Yeah. I think you're just making it up for attention. Yes. You're just bad first person shooters.

Anyway, so Universal Studios is awesome. I saw, I don't know, like there will be footage of this because I don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't sound like the lamest thing ever, but they have a light show slash parade there that is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life. It's all off brand Disney robot elephants. Yes, of course. Those classic characters like made out of light bulbs and it's the loudest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life.

You know what I want to see in Japan, I want to see a parade of that balloon thing that was solid snake. Yeah. I just want to see like a 50 foot tall snake made out of small balloons and just going down Osaka loading above the children and all the children are like gross, we hate this old man. Big boss of the new shed. A bunch of bishi ride-ins that are doing making cartwheels down the street.

Oh, that'd be so good. Just a group of young men doing it. That'd be nice. There you go. There's like a confused Colonel Campbell on the PA system just telling you about your bullshit. Yeah, I understand. Like the thing I saw is pretty close to what you're describing.

Okay. Oh, good. I'm looking forward to it. Making Konami money right now, man. That was free. Making cartwheels. Making cartwheels. So, Willie and Liam, I remember vividly you guys talking about a Gundam machine in the

arcades. Yeah. Well, there's the pod sphere. Kind of. Yeah, the pod. Right. Yeah. That thing's awesome.

Oh, so you played it. That thing's amazing. All right. Yeah. Which is not the one you said was not great. It's not that great. But if it's your first time in- The game inside it kind of sucks. That's what I'm talking about.

That's what I mean. That's fine. Yes. There's another game that they have in the same pod, which is a jet-like fighter game. That's way better. And if you play that one instead, but the game itself, the Gundam game, is really, yeah. The cabinet is great. And I got to play Gunslinger Stratos.

Yay. It's good, isn't it? But I only got to play the tutorial because the machine was telling me to get a card. It's a Nessica card, but you just have to press the cancel button. In the language, well, I didn't know that. So I was stuck in the training mode and didn't get to actually, actually play it because I can't read the language. But more important than that, Willie, did you go up to the, did you go to the Sega Avion?

There are Sega arcades all over. Anyway, more important than any of these arcades games is the girl Photoshop booth. There are some very weird looking photos of me and my girlfriend in a fucking bag now. Okay. Our eyes blown out to shit. So that means you went to the ones where it's like male plus female, okay. Because they have rules where they're like male, not okay. Male plus male, not okay.

But if you just walk in the floor. Females only or couples only. Okay, so. So that might explain why all the teenage girls were looking at us weird. No. When we were walking into these machines. Wait, if you're okay, then why is it weird? Some are okay.

Some are not. In one arcade, it was girls only. It doesn't matter who you are. I never saw that. All right, let's say you were paid enough attention and I just walked right in. So it could be like a mom and her daughter? Well, Liam, you know. You can just wait for her there, but we could not.

I don't understand the appeal of this machine because I did it as like a novelty goof. Right. Haha. I have big anime eyes. You just described the appeal. Yeah. But you also, you also like don't wear make you don't understand the appeal of makeup and you don't like it's the same thing.

Hey, kawaii. Yeah. It's a boy. That's it. We're done. It's fucking weird. Yeah. It's like a cultural thing that we just don't have with all this Japan talk, but we have

photo booths. We do see that new app that Japan has that if you take a picture of your cat and you sync it up with your cat's face, an anime cat girl pops out and it's individualized to the color pattern of your cat and the cat's eyes. How did that take so long to get me? I don't know. I just saw it. I just saw this little orange like Tabby cat and then this like hot little cat girl

jumps out. I'm like, yeah. Oh my God. That sounds like that would be the first app ever made for a phone in Japan ever. That's the worst thing I've ever heard in my life. I don't know. I think it's all right. What app would you scan, Benny?

The phone blows up. Oh, okay. Good. It's not too good. No, you get you get Saber Wolf, right? Yeah. That's what Max's videos tell us. You would get that color Saber Wolf, you would.

That's true. Let's see. What else is on this fucking thing? Unless Wally, did you have just a question? Well, no, I was going to move. I was going to ask you. Yeah, where else? Because you clearly went to one of the good arcades that had the multiple floors.

Play any rhythm games? Did you see any of the crazy rhythm games? I went down to the rhythm game section, saw it and went, nah. Okay. All right. Sure. And then I went up to the the the fighting game section and was baffled at the shit selection of games until I found the emulator box that lets you play exerred.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's weird. It's it's so you you have six, you have six arcade cabinets that are emulator boxes that play 20 games. Then you have four solid rows of blaze blue. Finally.

Yep. Well, which arcade? I mean, like, it sounds like you're in one of the like, if you look around, you'll totally find other ones that are better selection, I'm sure. I mean, I haven't been to the area, but I'd be shocked. Exert feels real good. Exert is good, isn't it? Exert.

It's real good. Yeah. Aside from arcades, I climbed Inari Mountain, which is where the Fox Shrine is. There are there are like 80,000 shrines built into this fucking mountain. Yeah. Yeah. The warship. Like it's it's three hours up.

Well, I guess if you're a piece of shit like me and every single step of the way, you know, a, you know, in Shadow Warrior, that bit where it's the those red gates that you're walking through. Yeah. Yeah. Like just three. Yeah. Okay.

This is this is like a full two kilometers of that up a mountain. Another. That just never. Because when you said like it was a three hour trip and you climbed the mountain, I was like, oh, you talking about the smallest mountain in the world. It's in Osaka. No. Okay.

No. All right. Well, you know, no. And also when you describe that, it reminds me of that one scene in Ninja Scroll where he's under all those those arches and he like looks around and that's after he gets poisoned in Ninja Scroll. Well, we actually went to that place and there's a place in Kyoto. It's a Ninja Scroll.

It's a Ninja Scroll. Exactly. He went to the Ninja Scroll exhibit. That'd be so awesome. Yeah, man. The big rock guys there is the venom lady and autographing stuff. Like, can I run in the forest with you blind swordsman? He's like, no, not today.

It's my day off. That'd be awesome. So I don't want to go too deep into that because like anything that I can say, like it'll be better in video form because fucking gorgeous. Yeah. Aside from the fact that there are people that totally live on this fucking mountain and you get all the way to the top, which kicked my ass and you're overseeing Kyoto from the top of a mountain.

There you go. And then at the very tip top, an old man lives there. Yes. Like a 90-year-old man. Yeah. And then we were, when I was shooting a bit, just wandered out of his house to like fix his umbrella. Yeah.

If you bring in the right medal, it'll make you a sword. What? What? You're changing your purpose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Masamune.

Or the Murasama. Take your place. Whichever. Oh, the thing. Yeah. Two for one today. Oh, Willie. Willie, I remember we talked about it.

Did you ever end up getting to go to Nijo Castle? No. We went to Osaka Castle. Okay. Yeah. I talked about that last week. Yeah. Nijo Castle.

Not as cool as Osaka Castle until you walk on the floor. Yes. In the floor. The super secret, the super security floor out there that squeaks. The floor squawks at you like nightingales. And every single piece of the floor in every single part of this castle is yelling at you that you're going to kill the Shoka. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if did you guys get the story of like how this, what, why this place is so stuff. I get it already. Yeah. It's this whole big corridor that surrounds the main room and every step you take is loud as fuck.

So nobody could ever go in there and see it. It sounds, it's called the Nightingale Hall because like it sounds like nightingales are squawking like everywhere. And then they've even pulled the bottom off the castle in a couple places so you can look and it's the simplest thing ever. It's just nails rubbing up against like the wood in a really specific way that makes this noise. It's awesome.

So yeah. Let's see what else we got here. That's kind of like how. The guy's like, oh someone's clearly trying to assassinate me because someone's walking towards me. Yeah. It's all just going to kill the first person that I see. Yeah.

And then. Well yeah. And they've got guards hidden in the walls, you know. Yeah. So you have the Nightingale Hall and then you have, okay, you see those doors with the tassels? Those just hung out in there waiting for assassination attempts. Like. Not very confident, the Shogun.

That radical. That hallway name reminds me of how in Naruto, Sasuke does the Chidori move and that means thousand birds because it's like a thousand birds tripping like electricity. Oh my god. Oh my god. Shut your fucking mouth. And the podcast here. You guys are telling Narrow?

What are we at? 10 minutes is good enough. You did already. He's already dead. Like I said, I was in the- I found my headband. No. I was digging through my shit and I actually-

I actually found it. I was digging through old shit and I found it and I fucking tossed it. I know. I thought you were going to like make a comeback video. Yeah. But you pour a 40 out while wearing the headband. You should make a video of you being sad. God damn it.

Just a retrospective on your life. You pour the 40 out on a photo of Kishimoto or whatever. What's going on, Pat? Let's see. I'm in Hiroshima, which is awesome, beautiful city. I went to the Peace Museum. Yeah. I heard Hiroshima bounce back.

Yeah. It's like crazy. If you have a weak stomach or can't handle like tragedy, don't go to the Hiroshima Peace Museum. Yeah. That's what my girlfriend told me because she went as well. Right. That's the same thing.

That is the most brutal thing I have ever seen in my life. That was the same thing as when my sister went to Poland and she went to the World War II Museum there. She was like, that was rough. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is the roughest shit I've ever seen in my life because it's like, okay.

First of all, the museum's dirt cheap to enter. I think it's like five bucks because they want you to come see it. They want everyone to come see it because atomic war is horrible. And then I went in expecting to see exhibits. What I wasn't expecting to go in was, here's the destroyed slash burnt off clothes that the eight year old caught. Yeah. Look at the horrors of this explosion.

Absolutely. You see any shadows on the floor? Holy fucking shit. Yeah. No. No. They tore one of the human shadows off of a building and have it inside the thing. It is dark.

And they're like, they're like, here's that can that woolly shakes. What? The can of mints or whatever. From grave of the farm. Oh, jeez. Yeah. Yeah. Woolly's favorite pastime.

That's the one. You fucking, fucking shit. Sitting on a, we're going to be old sitting on rocking chairs on a porch somewhere at 80. I'm just going to shake the can at you and you're going to fucking have a heart attack. It's going to take him like five minutes to realize what you're doing. And then he'll yell at you. You guys are complete pieces of shit.

By the way, I just remembered because you're such pieces of shit, I have not even seen blackout God. I have not even laid eyes on it. Someone informed me. You'll see it's on the shelf at the top. It's at only, it's only at Don Quixote. And someone informed me that I've been understanding the concept of blackout God all wrong. What?

How? We were already moving more. Please fill this up. Because whatever you had in your mind was not it. The true concept of blackout God is, because the KO is emphasized on the can. But it's supposed to knock you the fuck out. So it's blackout. Oh, it makes you blackout.

And then, and then KO God and then defeat God. Oh, shut up. This is what the word is trying to imply. You're making that up. I swear to God. I wouldn't even buy a drink that knocks you out. Because then it gives you the power to defeat God. But if you just want to boost, I don't need to kill gods right now.

Well, then they have regular blackout for that. Okay. Just blackout. In case you just want to blackout. And you just blackout God and you just want to blackout and smack God in the kisser. I know it. What a mysterious country. Don Quixote.

Don Quixote. I still have yet to go to a... Pardon? Have you played any more Monster Hunter 4? No, not yet. I'm waiting to go back home where I can pull on everything on my television. Yeah, absolutely. And have like all that shit done.

Oh yeah, the crap. I played a little bit of it. The fucking tutorial fucked me up because it tells you to look up at guys in the sky. But I didn't know how to do that. You're like how? So you're just walking around doing nothing. No, because I didn't know what it wanted. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I'm looking to start that back up when I'm home and I have a quest guide and a translation guide, et cetera, et cetera. There you go, there you go. That's nice that there's enough of a fan base that they have that already done. Gotta have it. Okay, I'm glad you like it. What else is there?

Hello? I'm losing you guys. Oh. Hello. Hello. We still hear you. All right. Okay, so technical issues aside, what was the last thing that I said that was heard by you

guys as a human? You were talking about Monster Hunter and then you were kind of segwaying to something else. Yeah, you couldn't look up and you were using a translation guide from Monster Hunter. Basically, I'm gonna start putting time to that when I get back. But somehow refused to use a translation guide for Yakuza. Yeah. What an upset. Yakuza, should I say.

To be fair, Yakuza has way more text and story elements. Yeah, absolutely. Monster Hunter has way less. Hey man, like Quitters never quit. Even if I never learn any Japanese and just get a menu guide, I'm gonna be able to get through most of that game. Yeah, absolutely. Because every item has a symbol and I know how to kill monsters.

And the story is just so thin. Who cares about, there's a story who gives a shit. I wanna get a bigger sword. Sure. Like that's what that game is. What's the story behind that story? But why do you want a bigger sword? I made it out of Arathion's guts.

Why do you hunt? That's the story. You keep hunting. Because monsters are bad. Are you sure monsters are bad or you just don't understand them? Maybe if you're able to read the monster's diary entries. Yeah, you would know. You guys are shits.

You guys are total shits. Monsters like itchy, tasty. So you completely avoided Tokyo. That's a very different trip to Japan. Yes. And no, I'm getting there. There's a reason for that. But before I get there, I have to say, so last week I talked a lot about how the trains

in Osaka are the worst. Yeah, you did. Well, I had an excursion by myself with no help from anyone. My girlfriend was not there to guide me throughout this strange place. Back to Yodobashi because I decided to go nuts and buy a Mad Cat's T2, which are totally just on the shelf there. Okay. You okay?

Why? Okay. Because I wanted it. All right. All right. Because I wanted it. I can get it a month early now. Yeah.

I did hog. I suppose. Anyway. Anyway. You're some good news for Latton Zero this week. Yeah. But anyway, we'll get there. So, all of a sudden, the trains became really easy to follow and I had no trouble getting

lost. I wonder why. It's like they were good all along. And I seem to have pinpointed the navigational issue. Oh, no. Oh, no. Stop glaring at me. Uh-oh.

Rut-ro. So, we're going to move. Fuck you. Anyway. So, we're going to move on. Stop it. Oh, no. Well.

The reason I came out to Hiroshima and not to Tokyo is because a friend of a friend suggested, hey, you could go to Tokyo or you could go to Okunoshima, which is way out of sticks. No, it's real. It's way the fuck out there. Like, you go to Hiroshima, then you take the Shinkansen to Mihara, then you take the two-car local line out for a half hour into what is basically Inaba. Okay. So, yeah.

You found your way out there, too. Yeah. That sounds exactly like the trip I took out to Hakone. That's also when I went to Cuba, it's like you go to Havana because it's two hours away. And that's like the main city. So, would you want to do that? Because it's just a big city. And the reason why you go out to Okunoshima is that it is the former poison gas factory.

Nice. Oh, cool. There you go. Counting USA. It used to be like this secret poison gas island that was off the map because it's embarrassing. Now it's open for tourism. But the deal is that when the poison gas island was demolished, the story changed and it is now Bunny Island. Oh, you made it to Bunny Island.

Okay, yeah. Because it's rabbit's now fucking everywhere. It is now just covered head to toe in adorable bunny rabbits everywhere. There are so many. Because they were testing rabbits and then they just abandoned it and let them go. So, here's the deal. You're walking through like a poison gas factory in the poison gas museum and all this shit, right? And then you get to the part where they talk about the rabbits and every single piece of literature and everyone at the hotel is like,

no, these rabbits are totally indigenous to the island. They were always here and you look at them and like, this is a rabbit you would get in a fucking pence. This is not a wild rabbit. And you're like, what about the poison gas? And they're like, you mean the rabbits? No, the poison gas rabbits. It's funny. You look at it.

You think you pronounce it poison gas. These lab mice are indigenous to this island. Yeah, exactly. So, Matt, these lab rabbits have always been here. Matt, the way you describe that is exactly how it is. Right, absolutely. Like the people who live slash work there don't even want to tell you where the poison gas museum is. But that's super fun to go somewhere where they actually do act like that.

It's the weirdest fucking thing I've ever seen. So the trick is, is that with these rabbits, all you have to do is shake a plastic bag. Yeah. And they go nuts and swarm you like it's hell. But hell with like adorable little bunny rabbits. Oh my god. It's the fucking, it's the coolest thing I've ever seen. And there's tons.

Unfortunately. Ridiculous. There are thousands. There are so many of them. It can't be overstated. Japan's like an interesting place when it comes to that stuff where it's like, so what's the truth behind what happened here? Fucking nothing. Buy a gift.

What truth? What gift? These lab rabbits are indigenous. I'm sorry, I don't speak English. Do you want a hat with Usagi-chan on it? Yeah. Or the poison hat. I think that's weird.

Try asking a cab driver where the suicide forest hits. Oh, come on. You didn't ask him in those words, did you? Did you move it along? Did you use those words? The video series ain't done yet. Oh, did you use those words? That's the funniest fucking thing.

That's the funniest thing. I really want a video, I swear to God. I think I totally bet if you don't come back with a video of you inside the suicide forest going, yo, bitch, go see it. Yeah. Then you should probably get out of this YouTube thing. Moving along. Okay.

There's not much to move along other than like, I'm staying in a fancy hotel right now. Sheridan at Hiroshima is fucking four star. Dude. Four star. You should stay at fancy hotels. Nah, man. I'd rather wear a Yukata and chill in the bamboo backyard.

I wore the bamboo backyard. It came in my fancy hotel. Yeah. They just give you that shit. It's still with chocolate. Who's built in? But do you get to contemplate emptiness and the nothingness that is reality? She does that every night.

Oh, I drank a bottle of wine and stared at the window. And stared at my seat. Yeah. Fair enough. Same thing. Amazing. That's pretty much it for my Cliff's Notes. Aside from one thing that I should mention, and I wonder,

Liam and Woolly, I want to know if this happened to you. I didn't do anything special here at all. And I lost like 11 pounds. Wow. That's interesting. Well, I don't know, man, because from us eating out, I didn't really do anything, but every meal was rice and meat. There was very few veggies to be found.

I don't pay that much attention to my weight, so I didn't really check. Yeah, you wouldn't, Liam, you piece of shit. You scrawny, life motherfucker. By the way, the place you're staying in, the hotel you're staying in, or just in general, I don't know if you've been to other guest places or whatnot, but have you gotten amazing sheets and comforters the entire time? Yes. Like, go check the thread count on that shit.

It's outstanding. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable thread count. Count them yourself if you're not sure. Anyway. Also, I'll note, this hotel has a super toilet. Yeah, it does. I finally use the super toilet.

Press the button, though. You press the button? You press the button. I like how your cheek's doing. I'm not a big fan of the button. You don't like the button? The button's a life changer, man. You grew up a three-seashell kind of guy.

It's definitely a life changer. But he's more of a fist-to-the-bum kind of guy. I think I liked my life before. Wow. You have no class, sir. You don't understand technology. Okay. Woolly in his bathroom now has a spray bottle for his bum.

You've got to recreate the feeling somehow. Yeah, exactly. You just can't sit without it. And you're just going to plaster a condom hood around your priffs, right? You're just going to get a super soaker and just learn how to aim it. Remember there was that super soaker with the nozzle at the end that you could turn to shoot around corners when people were trying to fucking snake you. Perfect.

So you stand up and 90-degree angle that shit? Bam. Right in the cancer. Done. Fuck this podcast. It's not a good one. Matt, how was your week? I woke on the day after the last podcast.

We both woke up, me and my fiance, to the sounds of a weird rattling shriek. And I go, Zach, what have you gotten into? Then I see that Zach's near the fucking fireplace and I go, what the hell? And there's something in the fireplace. And I'm like, Wolverine, come on, Wolverine. It's not a Wolverine. There was a bird in my fireplace just going nuts. And I go, okay, well, I need to take the garbage bag and hold it over a hole and then open up

the thing so that the bird can go away with it. It came down the chimney but behind the cover? The gradient cover. And Zach's looking up and going, what's up with this? It's nuts. And I'm like, okay. And then my fiance goes, okay, I'm going to open it up. And as soon as she opened up a crack, it just zoomed out and started putting ash everywhere.

And I'm like, oh, no. Did you miss the bag? It just zoomed it. It was too fast. Oh, shit. Too fast. It goes and slams into a window. It just went straight for a window.

And I went, oh my God, that's bad because that's horror movie shit. And stuff starts swinging into your hole. And then we go, and this is near the coat rack and that's where our internet modem is. And I'm like, okay. But I go over and I still hear it behind the coat rack. And I'm like, okay. And I'm just holding my hand on the crank because we have window cranks. There was a crack in the window open and there was ash.

And I'm like, oh, God. Oh, God. Bird in the house is awful. And then I was able to fucking leave. That was how I woke up on Tuesday morning. We woke up to that noise. And we thought it was like stuck in like the dryer or something. You got lucky on that, dude.

Because oftentimes Bird in the house is an ordeal. Yeah, it just went straight for the window. That's like a half an hour. So I thought I was going to go up there. I thought we'd have to call an exterminator or I don't know, like a wildlife specialist. Well, there's tricks for if you have a bird in your house. I'm sure you know all of them all. Use a tennis racket.

Use a tennis racket. I'd use a fucking bug net. But tennis racket works every time. Oh my God, dude. The amount of time there were bats that got into my house. And it's just like, where's the racket at? Oh, Jesus. I'd use a racket on a bird, but not a cute bat.

Oh, they're not cute. Well, I'm sure where you used to grow up, they weren't fucking cute at all. Mario tennis smashed that shit. Bam. I'm sure where you grew up, the bats had their own zip code. So, you know, like in terms of video games, I talked about it a bit, but I started to really get into Shadow Warrior. Like five chapters in and I'm really, really enjoying it.

So that's out now on consoles. Yeah, it's on consoles. And it was just added to like the Xbox store like a day ago. I don't know why the delay. Yeah, that's odd. You mentioned that there was some real play. It wasn't there then, but now it's there today. And that game is 40 bucks, by the way.

It's a great price to consider how long it is. That's the one thing that people like have said is that the game goes on actually a bit too long. But then you're just, it's like I'm on chapter five, apparently there's banking chapters. Pat, we barely scratched the surface of that game. When I went through like the first level that we went through, there were like shitloads of secrets. Like there was a secret room.

Of course there are. It's supposed to be like an old like Duke Nukem 3D Doom thing, but modern. But like we were playing it for a video. Yeah, but you don't even know how like an old school Duke Nukem Shadow where it's supposed to be. Because remember there was like, like you mentioned before in Shadow where there's all the arches and no, not too far away from that area in the game. If you go under a waterfall, then you see the JPEG flipping of an anime girl going la,

la, la, la, la and washing herself. That's from the first game. If you go further, you wind up in pixel art land. And then the gently segway, gently segways from modern graphics into the original Shadow warrior graphics. That's really cool. And like, yeah, I'm having a blast playing that because I started playing that after I all segue into it.

And I booted up Korra and I wasn't that impressed with Korra off the bat. I guess it's because it's got a slow start. I played it like another hour after that. But that's like, Korra is weird. Korra feels like everything else but the combat was developed by somebody else. And the combat was developed by Platinum. Yeah, that's the thing is like, I really like, I didn't really understand. It's like, I didn't really level my expectations that everything but the combat will be mediocre.

The combat will be great. But like everything, like the Naga sections are fun at first, but then some of them go on too long. And just the story is shit. And, you know, you can say that for a Platinum game. The story in a Legend of Korra game is shit? Well, you know, the book, book, book three and four or whatever everyone like, oh, it's better.

But when a Platinum game, you say the story is shit. Yeah. Yeah. Hard for the course, right? Like the story in most Platinum games, save for one of four one on one is not, you don't play it for that. No, of course not. What are you talking about?

The Bandai story was super understandable. It's super understandable, coherent. I love the way it keeps changing the way it tells its story. But this was written by the Korra guy. But this is written by the Korra guys. And it's like, they know it's like, you can't actually have anything important happen. Yeah. I would rather it be your own crazy side story where anything can happen.

Like the Berserk, the fucking Dreamcast Berserk game, an awesome story where they just went like, just go nuts, just make something stupid and just happened in between this and this. Exactly. And this is what the Korra game is supposed to be, but the story is just so nothing. I was honestly thinking about like how to make a good comparison of what the Korra game is. And like, if Korra were to be written into four books, right? Right.

The story of the game should not deserve a chapter or a page, barely a footnote on one of the pages. Yeah. Is that insignificant? And there's that much to it. There's nothing. Like, I know they can't do anything grand and big. At the same time, it's like that you have to, you can't not do it.

Like just bringing a new villain that starts, and that old guy is just, I don't know, I'm not gonna be a new villain. Anyway, it's like, I played like a couple of, like an hour and a half a Korra, then I just went back to Shadow Warrior because I was having more time. Sure. Yeah. That being said, it's the best avatar slash Korra game ever released and likely to ever be released.

I hate that Kotaku article where they're like, there will never be a good avatar game. And it's like, oh my God, you piece of shit. I would say. There's a game. There's one right there. Probably. I would say that the game is good. If you really like action games, play it.

If you don't like action games, but love Korra, like you will be disappointed. Yeah, probably. I feel differently, but we'll, we'll, I'll get into that in my style. Yeah. I was able to download and play a little bit of the new Shantae game, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, which a lot of people are very confusing about what that is. Yeah. Because everyone assumed it was the Kickstarter game.

It is not. They needed funds for a console Kickstarter game and this 3DS game. They were making prior. They were making prior to the Kickstarter. And it's really like, it's, you know, it's, it's way forward at their absolute best with an IP that they love because it's theirs. Like they're, I mean, I can't think of many other American developers that still love 2D and like, you know, decent sprite work.

And spend a lot of money on it. Let's still love 2D. Well, Double Fine doesn't play. Let's still love 2D and spend money on it. Well, how is Double Fine loving 2D that much? And their adventure game they just put out. Which adventure game? Broken Age.

Broken Age. That's 2D? Yeah. I thought it was 3D. Well, I kind of mean more of action games. Sure. I know it. In general.

Um, I, I bought like the, sorry. Apogee. Anthology. See the thing, the funny part is how you're making this a thing now. Yeah. Despite the fact that no one was around. The entire world has called them Apogee games forever. And Matt called them Apogee.

Well, you're like, what are you saying? What are you like? As I kind of stated, it's the same thing as when you're a kid. You don't know. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think Adamantium was? We were watching Sahela Girls and you were like, look, it's Cage.

I mean Kage. Well, I really called him Cage when it came out. Yeah. We just, we just said Yakuza a minute ago. Yeah. Apogee Anthology is 32 Apogee 3D realms games for 20 bucks. You just boot it up and it's a program and it just shows all the games and you click it, you start and they already come with, they're all controller supported.

Wait, it's got like a front end and everything. Yeah. Wow, that's cool. So I put it up and I saw a game that I had never mentioned on video, but it's called Biomedis. Yeah. And you play as a little guy with a mustache, looks exactly like Kenny from The Walking Dead. And you have a little like machine gun and you just blast monsters in the traditional

Duke Nukem style. And that was such a fucking, the PCs share were golden ages to me. It's like, I remember so many of these games. Yeah. But I don't remember the names. I don't remember the characters, but I remember the game. Right. I don't remember the names.

And I just had a blast playing. I just like, my fiance is way, way back in the bedroom. And she hears me going, oh shit, Biomedis. And she's like, what? I'm like, I just, I love Biomedis so much. And then like it's got, you know, Rise of the Triad, the original Shadow Warrior. Of course. Two, two, a Commander Keen games, like four Duke Nukem games.

It's a big selection. Just a giant stuff, Raptor, Call of the Shadows. How many games in total? 32. For how much? For 20 bucks. That's a good deal. It's a good deal.

I'll take that deal. Would you take that deal? I'd buy that for a dollar. I'd think about taking that deal. I don't know. Does it have cyber dogs? It's, it's, I don't, I'm not familiar with that one. Are you making that up?

Okay. No, no, I'm looking, I'm looking at the entry for, I had this moment where I'm like, you're talking about those old like shareware games that you can't remember the names of. And I remembered one that I played way, way too much of called cyber dog and I had this horrible moment of like, is that the game's real fucking name? Well, some games. No, the game is called cyber dogs. Some games on the anthology changed their name.

Like there was one game was called Halloween Harry, but then they changed it to alien attack. Like I had two different names. Sometimes those things happen. I don't understand. Does it have Sango fighter? I know it's not. I know. But I would pay $20 for Sango fighter.

So we brought my attention to a new show that's starting on Cartoon Network called Over the Garden Wall. Yeah. It's made by like one of the, the creative directors of, of adventure time. And it's like 10 mini episodes that are adapted a book. It's very whimsical. It looks like Nino Cooney, the American Nino Cooney. Yeah.

I think a new season of like writerator Cartoon Network, whatever you want to call it stuff is coming out because yeah, a bunch of new things have just started. So that's starting us like November 1st or something. And we're on the checkout because I saw like a laundry list of everyone that's working on it. Like Elijah Wood is the voice of the main character. All this other stuff. And it looked really good.

Like I'm not sure it's not trying to be the adventure time thing. So it's been, you know, something a little bit more serious, I think. And a Halloween party madness continues. I'm still buying. Willie and Liam saw phase one. A little bit. My house is getting there. Matt's going through like Feng Shui, but with horror.

With horror. And I'm not sure I mentioned this, but when I was a kid, when I was like nine or something, this house at the end of my street, it was two grown up brothers that used to live there. Then they grew up or whatever. And they were part of the weird science thing that would travel around to different schools. Say, hey kids, chemicals. Oh, yeah. Have fun.

Science is cool. Right. Stop playing video games, you know. And then they would do this stuff like, and then they would actually bring it to that house. They'd go back to their parents house and start doing some fucked up shit. They would start taking old horse class masks way before the creepy horse masks. They get actual realistic horse plastic masks, fill the necks up with dog food and leave

them on the lawn. Oh my God. Oh my God. And then one of the guys had this really creepy devil mask. He'd sit in the entryway of you have to open up the door and he'd be sitting there with a devil mask and they had fluorescent lights and a strobe light beneath him. And he'd be like gesturing to you to come in. The candy was behind him.

I did not get a piece of candy that night. I ran shrieking from it. I was so scared. But I was like, did some fucking hype too. Years and years later, 10 years later, the guys like, hey, they came to our house because they're friends of our family and go, hey, I have a box of the old Halloween stuff and you do what it. Oh, is that that mask you have?

That's not that one. But I have two of them. I have two devil masks that have like that big realistic one. And I have this other one that's so peeling. It looks like it's from the 80s because it is. Right. And he gave me and he's like passing the torch to me. Now you have to terrify children.

And now I terrify children as long as I could at my parents house because the whole goal was this is my fucking candy. Right. I bought it. You got to take it. I want to see if you have the balls to fucking take it. And I hate when parents say, this is too scary. That's not right.

But I go, fuck off. If they can't handle it, bring them back when they're ready. It's like years later, we're passing the torch. Bring me a child or a man. Matt, here's a garbage bag of severed horse heads. They're real. And you're like, oh. So my goal in this apartment is to try to make it as spooky as possible.

My goal is to make sure that Liam is like, oh. Nervous. I'm already nervous around that big skeleton you got. Originally, your goal was to make sure that your guests would pee their pants. But now your goal is to make sure that they shit their pants. Yeah. That'd be lots of fun. I'm really, really excited to see this because I haven't seen any of phase one or phase two

or any of these. Exactly. You didn't see the smoke machine. Yeah. Like the last time I was there, the only thing in the place of no was that skeleton next to your television. Yeah. He's moved and he's like, he's wondering about that.

That thing scared me without doing anything where we'd be like LP'ing something and halfway through it. I just go like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was something in the bathroom that made me go, OK, you got me. You got me a little bit. You got me a little bit. If that hadn't, if that had been open when I went to the bathroom, it would have scared the shit out of me before I got to the toilet.

Lots of girls are, lots of girls are coming. So hopefully some of them. And you're an awful man. There was no noises or any fanfare. I just went in. I took a piss. I turned to my head. I flushed the toilet, walked out and was like, yeah, no, you got me.

There was no reaction, but I was gone. And the very last thing is someone on my Tumblr said, hey, you should check out this movie on Netflix. You might like it. It's called The Taking of Deborah Morgan and just got added to Netflix. And me and my fiance have seen a million found footage horror movies. They're almost universally bad because anyone with a camera thinks they can do it. Yep.

You can't. Yep. Nope. We can do it. We could do it. Yeah, we have a camera, don't we? Yeah, we have several cameras. The Taking of Deborah Morgan uses the concept of, oh, this old lady has Alzheimer's.

So this college team is doing a poignant documentary about Alzheimer's and how tough it is, the tough thing is. And then it turns out it's not Alzheimer's at all. It turns out it's something much more sinister. It's terrible. And this creepy old lady that they got to play in it is super amazing. And it's one of those found footage things like it makes sense because they're documenting the disease.

Yeah. And it's only up to where it's like, whoa, this is something else. And it had a moment at the end that was truly shocking where the woman is just doing something. I'm not going to spoil it for those that want to check it out, but The Taking of Deborah Morgan is really good. What's his name? It was recommended by Mr. Elephant Tusk, which is a great name. And I thanked him because like a found footage movie, like I said, it's 95% trash found footage

movies. 5% are maybe good, and even less, you'll find them. So it was a really good movie. So that was basically my mind. Any birds attack you? Yeah. Excuse me. I managed to avoid the bird attacks.

For me, it's pretty much, you know, busy here and there trying to get Halloween costume together, trying to get some other stuff put together. I found a component that I didn't even like it was going to be a, I'll never get this. And they went to a storm like they have it. So it's a mechanical component. Now I have mechanics in my costume that I have to use because I just saw it. You're going to be a Furby. I wish.

So yeah, I know. And my costume is going to be real lazy. Holy shit. Are you going to be a Furby? What's with the Furby? I was thinking life-size Furby costume. Funny. With the eyeballs.

And horrifying. Yeah, exactly. Fair enough. Yeah, no. So, you know, I played Cora as well. And I thought that, well, for one, I don't know the story, right? I'm not going in with the expectations and stuff that, you know, a lot of people have. Right, right.

So I kind of was like, all right, whatever, let's see what this is. I know I'll like the show if I ever watched it, but I wasn't affected because I didn't have the sort of expectations I would have went in if I was a fan. That said, I think you can still admit the story is pretty cultured. It's very, it's very loose and nothing, right? Yeah. It's the feeling of like adventure time where it's like you play the game and you're like, oh man, I love the source material.

I guess I was hoping for more. I can imagine people feeling that way. Yeah, exactly. But the gameplay is super solid. It's really fun. Absolutely. And I feel that like that, it shines and it stands out in a way because when I look at the bad reviews it got where it's like, oh, IGN gives Korra a lower review, God had two

confirmed. You know? You were like a four, right? They gave it like a nothing, right? Like I'd say it's a seven. And, you know, I think you could argue me down to a six, but like gameplay is great. I haven't finished it yet. Yeah.

Because that's the thing is it got, it got trashed on really heavily with some, some bullet points that were like the item usage is difficult and it's annoying when you have to restock them every mission. The parry window is too narrow. The parry window is so generous. Are you shitting me? You're using items? What are you talking about?

How is that a detractor? You're not supposed to use them at all. Now, I say to you, I can imagine game reviewers specifically was the only time I'd have sympathy for them. They probably have to play way more shitty licensed games than we do. Yes, of course. So I can imagine them being predisposed to hating. But when you see the specific complaints like that and the parry window being too short,

which is like, you mean the thing they're supposed to be doing? Yeah. The thing they got, right? It's like, you just, it just reminds me of, you know, people that don't understand what they're playing or understand how they're supposed to approach these games. Even as a cheap budget game, and even on a budget, Platinum still made their game too hardcore for reviewers to get it. For reviewers to give a great acceptable score.

Exactly. So go read the guy behind the Zeboid games. Go read his Why Wonderful 101. There's a bad fit for reviewers once again and apply it to the situation once again. Also, Bio Gamer Girls. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because you look at it and you just have this thing where like, I mean, even the animation is like, you know, not to forget the cutscenes and whatnot.

But it just reminds me of the initial releases, the initial reviews for Street Fighter 4 when it first came out from some of those shitty rags that were basically like, oh, these cutscenes are awful and the single player was pretty dry. So all in all, meh, 80, I guess. Not much. 80%, 80% or whatever. And then the full disclosure, we didn't really touch the multiplayer that much and didn't have that much time.

Wooly, the all time worst was 1UP had talked about how much they love Street Fighter in that office. Yeah. And how much the EGM staff were crazy about Street Fighter and how the first issue was Street Fighter, you know, shit like that. And how crazy they were. And they had that video special. I remember that one.

HD Remix and 4, like back to back over and over. Remember? Okay. I remember it. And then they went to each of them. It's like, so which one of them did you like better? And like almost every single member of the staff was like, oh yeah, HD Remix is so much better.

Like Super Turbo. It's not even close. And just shadow over 4. Yeah. To be clear, when they played that build of 4, that was the really bad one where Seth was like, this was retail. Shut up. Okay.

This is a different video. Because 1UP had the exclusive on the reveal. I remember that was a thing. I mean the one where Shane Bettenhouse and everyone got flown to Japan. No, not that version. Yeah. But the only thing different there was the lighting in the hitboxes. So that was it.

But in any case, I know what you're talking about, Pat, because basically all the press prior to Jared Ray interviewing Ono was garbage. It was just worthless because no one actually knew Street Fighter. They should be asked. They didn't know what to ask. They didn't know anything. They were just fans. Sort of.

We played them back in the day on this. They didn't know it. Doles them in? Yeah, exactly. Oh, look, this one has Shenlong. Hey, how about that? How about that Shenlong? You know, and it's just fucking garbage.

So I'm like, I feel like it's that part too with Korra now in a way where it's like people that don't understand what they're touching are trying to give it a review and they're just failing spectacularly. I think Street Fighter 4 is a slightly special case. I think it's like your point stands with the Street Fighter because it was like the first thing ever where it was like new generation were bringing back a super old thing. We're doing it like really big and the people didn't know how to handle it. If they get a Street Fighter 5 now, it's like now game journalists and lots of people should

know. It's like, okay, this has been Street Fighter 4. Every once in a while, there's something that comes along. There's a game that kind of plays that works like this is pretty much just gameplay. There's some decorations dropped on top of it, but not much. I feel like Bangaiyo is a good example where you press start Bangaiyo, the mecha game. I remember Bangaiyo. I just don't know your point.

Yeah, you press start and then you just get a level select screen and then you just go through them. And that's it. And it's like, exactly. And that's video games. That's fun. That's fine. There's nothing wrong with that if that's what it's doing.

There's something that when a downloadable game, just in general, when they come out, it's held to a different standard sometimes, like not all the time, but it's like a lot of games get reviewed slightly harsher. It's like, oh, this isn't as grand as a- It's kind of the same thing as the handheld pack. Yeah, the handheld. A little bit of that. A little bit of that.

Yeah. Like unless you're like a Microsoft or Sony-backed indie darling or if you're something else, like, and Core is a really good example of like a licensed title. And it's like, oh, I should be expecting the world. I should be expecting the world. Oh, some like really big Japanese, oh, the guys that made Metal Gear Rising. Oh, okay, cool. Yeah, I'm sure it's going to be awesome.

And they're just like let down, but they're let down because it's like the expectable whole package to be phenomenal. In any case, just to speed it along. It's not a 10 on 10, but it certainly is a lot of fun. And it's got some things in it that I appreciate. Like how like when you jump, the enemies jump at you and you can actually have a little bit of air combat going on. A little bit, yeah.

You could air parry until like that. Like most of the characters in the games don't really have that. They don't really have jumping enemies in such a way. The patterns don't diverge that much, you know. It's fun stuff. You know, it's still got your multiple defensive options. Yeah. It's still got your cool parry.

It's still got your like mid-combat, super smooth, quick time events, you know, where it's like we can the enemy then do the finisher. Exactly. Like fun stuff like that. An unstated thing was like a lot of people were also shitting out reviewers, I should say. Yeah. We're shitting on the fact that it's like, oh, of course they lock away all your powers.

How lame is that, et cetera. You have to earn them back like a video game. Game's two hours long. Right? It's like, well, for starters, yes, right? Can we have a little bit of like a journey? Plus an action game, the whole like another big component is New Game Plus. Getting your stuff.

It's got your action game store in there. But they completely just ignore the fact that even... Plus, if... Go ahead. If you want, like if you want to complain about that, like this is the weirdest time to complain about that considering like there are like three or four separate storylines and avatar about how you temporarily lose your powers. Yeah.

Like that's what the storyline in book four is right now. So it's fat, but then there's also the bit where it's like and even without your power powers, if you just do basic style switching, your combos change, your melee is different. It's completely different on each one and your strings and everything and it's like no reviewer actually mentioned that or even recognized that because they were too busy just being like, oh, I don't have the big fire that catches my eye. This sucks. You have a different actual style.

IGN had a really scathing line. I think it was IGN where they said like I switched to Earth when I wanted to do damage. I switched to air when I'm crowd control. I switched to fire when I wanted to die and it's like, no, fire is amazing. I showed you, right? Yeah. I know. Fire is really good.

They just don't know how to play, but I feel like they were hitting buttons so fast. They didn't even notice that like your basic attacks changed by switching styles. They have to have like, you know, something like like Earth can't be the same as win. Like if there's got to be Apple, you wouldn't have caught this, but when Cora meets that little girl, I always forget her name, but little girl. And then she goes, oh, she's someone blocked by Bendy. That's not a video game thing, David viewers, it's because that happens in Coral all the fucking time because if someone couldn't block Bendy and that would mean Benders just

can run free reign, there has to be that person that can do that and it's happened like a couple of times. Apparently, I'm told that's a big thing in the show. The G-blockers. G-blockers. They're a whole section. A whole thing of the story. Yeah, right?

That's what you're saying. Yeah. There's that. But anyway, moving along, you know, besides that, of course, you go from that and then you play your band at a two. And yeah, I didn't mention because I just got my copy today because it was all sold out. Every story went. That's fine.

That's understandable. It was for me too, but I, you know, I got my digital and my physical first print is on the way. So that's, that's how I'm doing that. Yeah. If you didn't catch that, it really got the big European book thing. Like I assumed everyone was getting that. Not when I can't play the game.

I, well, I guess, whatever. I don't know. I, I care. I wanted it. It was pretty. But no, um, I played Bayo two and like, of course, getting high. Oh, it's not. It's on the way.

It's on the way. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It was the day after. Oh, yeah. Uh, you know, of course, losing my mind with how fucking, oh, it's so good. But then I have this inverted feeling.

Yeah. Two platinum games in the same week, right? It's so close to happening last year. Yeah, it did. I know it rains in Revengeance. They were like back to back. Well, yeah, they were the North American release. You're right.

You're right. You're right. Um, and, you know, I just had this weird thing and I was telling the guys like, I haven't felt this way since Metal Gear Solid one where I'm getting angry. I'm playing it and I'm enjoying it so much that it upsets me that this is the only time I'm going to have this experience and no other companies, no one else gets how to make a game that feels this good. Would you go through a calendar year and there might be seven games that get it if you're

lucky? If you're fucking lucky. You know, exactly. Or someone nails a genre so hard. One of them will be in action. Yeah. Like the feeling is so impeccable. It just blows me away and I'm kind of just like, I know this is how it was before back

then. I know it's still getting it up, but I'm like, why can't this be more common? Why does it have to be rare? Because it's hard. Why don't people understand how to make things good? It's so upsetting. Is there ever been like an American made action game that even approaches like that level of control?

No. I can't think of anything. Coach Rider. You know what? You know what? You might be right. Um, and the reason why I said Metal Gear was it wasn't the gameplay of Feelington. It was just the level of story conversation and character building and so on.

I walked to it. I was like, oh my God, full like hour long conversations happened in this video game. I couldn't understand. I'm like, yeah, we have to, why aren't we doing it? You know? So I kind of had that weird mo mood, um, mood, um, with it. But, um, you know, we'll, we'll talk about you're just booing this screen as you play, but you're booing other things, everything that is not on my screen, life outside of

my TV. You look to the right and you look at your stack of games as near your colleges and you're just booing those, just pushing it over my shelf, just knocking it on the ground. Um, of course, there's music. What else, you know, uh, there's Pat. Remember how we thoroughly, thoroughly are, um, we're preachers that preach the, the greatest Marvel versus Capcom two money match ever. Right.

Yeah. Absolutely. Uh, clockwork versus Neo is the best money match of all time. Ever. And I don't even like Marvel. I actively dislike Marvel. And I think that's the greatest match up. Uh, Hokutono Ken has another amazing match that I constantly push.

Yeah. Uh, so there's now a third thing that is worth checking out and the gameplay is really solid. It's not the, it's not the gameplay is actually the backseat here, the, the, the everything surrounding it, the hype, the fanfare, the Cinderella story of a match between this scant and low tier God. This is a money match that happened in Street Fighter, uh, in Street Fighter. Um, this scant is the guy that won, uh, Marvel a couple of years ago. Yeah.

And he's a, he's a black player. He's a really good, you know, player, whatever, very good player, low tier God, new guy coming up, right? Smug fucking cocky black dude that makes these videos, just talking trash to everybody. And it's just, it's these two characters coming up, you know what I mean in the wrestling world. It's your, it's Sina versus the fucking Apex Predator, you know, or CM Punk, whatever you want to call it.

And so they had their, their match at Wednesday night fights. It was just a, it was a first to 10 and they actually, actually hate each other. Like they're seeing denim and fucking vitriol and Alex Valle is in between them and he's doing the, the mic, he's working the mic and stuff and everything. Yeah. And Mike Ross is commentating and he's scared that a fight's going to break out at any moment because it's about to, but they're, but they're just like, no, no, we're going to direct our anger at the video game.

Was Mike Ross quiet? Like just not really hyped? No. He was into it. He was into it. Yeah. You're going to like to this, right? Yeah.

I'm linking to it. Yeah. He was commentating with Ari and it was just a great set where they just go around the world and all the, the whole story, you know what I mean? And the ending, like the trash talk amplifies even harder. I'm sure. I'm sure. It's just fun to watch.

The only way for it to go is off. Yeah. So otherwise you wouldn't be recommending it. It's been, it's been a while since a, a money match of this like level as has happened and I think it's a good one. I don't mean to, since it's, it's, it's, I'm not sure if you saw it, but there's a fair neogas. Someone says, do you want to see three plus hours of Jackie Chan fist of fire and Garo?

Here it is. They link to a YouTube, Japanese YouTube account that lists all these crazy obscure fires. I'm not like some crazy, some like, like here's three hours of Jackie Chan fist of fire money matches straight from Japan. Here's three hours of, of, of, of project justice. Here's three hours of a game I've never heard of, but it's called Awake. There is no king. Wow.

And it's slash chaos breaker, like the American, the local, his name is chaos breaker, but I think the game is called no awake. There is no king. And it's the most like we thought that, um, what, uh, battle fantasies, the most RPG fight or ever is Trump sit because you take a team like in KLLF, then you get an item. Yeah. You get like poison or whatever and all your characters are barbarians and knights and elves or whatever.

You need to check that out after we're done. So you can see, because this game is nuts because it's 2D sprites, but they're rendered. It's weird. Dude, poverty is catching on poverty. Poverty is the new, the new height, you know, um, and, uh, and besides that, uh, I watched two movies, um, something that I've been meaning to get around to forever that I just finally decided to do. I sat down and I watched Taxi Driver.

Weird. Okay. Yeah. Cause I just, I hadn't seen it up until now. You know, it's actually a tough watch. Well, that's the thing is I went back to it and I'm like, this is really dated. It's good. But you think about when it came out.

Exactly. It must have blown people's minds. The early seventies, Pacino, uh, uh, dinner or rather, and, um, it's this very twit, it's everyone. If you don't know Taxi Driver, yeah, I just had a twisted story about this cab driver that's slowly going crazy and then things happen. But it spends so much time establishing how weird and creepy and messed up he is that like nothing happens, just establishing story and character until it happens to the world

and that's the movie. Until it pops off. You know. And then it's over. Yeah. And yeah. And so like at the end of it, I was like, well, I appreciate what this is, but I feel like unfortunately the times have just moved, you know, and, and it's weird because it's

a Scorsese movie. And so I kind of felt like I was like, I, I'm kind of blue balled right now. So I was like, I, I need to watch something else. So I just watched Wolf of Wall Street, which is also a Scorsese movie. And it shows you, man, oh man, does this guy know how to make a fucking movie? Yeah. Wolf of Wall Street is so fucking good. I think I think when I watched it on Netflix, I watched it a few months ago, I think I remember

talked about a bit on the pocket plan just said it spends again a little bit too much time showing you how opulent everything is. Yeah, yeah. Because when the actual story starts, that's when it gets really interesting. But I think the whole, like there's a middle section that could have been chopped a bit and put on the desk for you to bruise it. I mean, for someone that finished watching Taxi Driver and it was like two in the morning and I decided to pop on a three hour movie.

I stayed through to the end and, and, uh, okay, I was not ready to see or, or, uh, I was fine, but the scene where, uh, out there on the Capitol, it has to get to a phone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is the scene of the movie. That's, that's rough. It was fucking hilarious.

For me, just on a personal level, I was not ready for the Grenada speech. Nobody told me, nobody warned me. That's really, that's really cool. There's a speech about Grenada in it, and it's the best fucking thing ever. It's not even a spoiler, it's just like they're talking to lawyers and one of the lawyers is just like, you know, you and your situation, it kind of reminds me of Grenada, a small island nation, population of maybe 50K, not that much, you know, whatever, US invaded it back in the day.

The point is, is we could come in here, have our dicks hanging out, nobody gives a fuck. It's unusable. I'm going to win. You're Grenada right now. And I'm fucking lost and I'm like, oh my God, it's so true. Oh, so Willie, I want to ask you a question. Sell me this pen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Exactly. Sell me this pen. Yeah. And then if you say anything other than, oh, let me get your number, then you fail. Well, the funniest thing was, sell me this pen was the question I got at my job interview at my last job. Really? Yeah.

The head of the team at the game company where we worked was like at the end of the interview, he was like, okay, so we're all done and everything. All right, by the way, here, Willie, sell me this pen. And I was like, oh, he's like, he didn't see the movie, nevermind. All right. That's correct. No, no, no, not didn't see the movie, he was like, oh, he doesn't know the, he doesn't know the joke.

Right. But yeah, it's a whole thing. Sure. Yeah. That movie is fucking amazing. The dude that plays Shane on The Walking Dead, I don't know his name, the actor, but he's the scumbag with the most fashion, the goatee. Yeah.

The guy that runs money for them. Yeah. Yeah. He's the fucking best scumbag Italian motherfucker ever. I like, I lost my shit. Oh, yeah. And he has a dumb fight with Jonah Hill. Yeah.

He fights with him or just like, when he's talking to the guy, you're introducing him in the beginning and he's just talking to this Liam looking kid, you know, he's just, he's tapping the guy's dick with his bat, he's like, hey, you're getting your pussy with that thing. Tell your sister to come around next time, make them watch, make you watch as I work out. You know, she doesn't want to talk to you, man. She's not interested. Ah, fuck out of here.

Bring her panties around next time. Hey, Ma, we got chicken or what? Anyway, you know, it's an old movie at this point, but go watch it if you have it, man. We'll pull off Street, we'll destroy you. Two things. We have to see if we can go see them. Everyone's been telling me John Wick. Yes, it's supposed to be really good.

Indiana Reeves assassination movies and assassin, 99 on Rotten Tomatoes and it went down to 89. Just John Wick. It's just, everyone, I've been hearing it. Just go see it. Just the new assassin movie. Yeah. That's the new standard. And I've been really excited to try to see that, but I don't know what it's for.

So you have to go make, try to make an appointment when we have time, which we never do. Yeah. Yeah, man. So what did I do this week? You played Korra? Well, I want to start with something that's been running for like two and a bit weeks where I've been slowly watching through the double fine adventure, like... Backers.

Backer, what's it called? You know, like the documentary behind the scenes thing. That is the best way for someone who doesn't know about game development to understand how hard game development is. Never seen. It's really good. And since a lot of the people who work there have such great personalities, it's really entertaining to do.

Where they'll, you know, they'll sit down to shoot a bit, but the people in front of the camera, like Tim Chafer and stuff, can make it really entertaining to watch and not just want to do. So do me. That sounds really interesting. It's really good. And it's like 16 or 17 parts. It's good the whole way through.

I was a big fan of Broken Age when it came out. So that was kind of what pushed me to that. And then I've been going over to Matt's place so much and like watching this as well, I really wanted to play costume question. I've never touched. Oh yeah. So really? You never like costume question?

The first one. The second one comes out tomorrow. So you unironically like Candy Corn. We're going to get to that. We're going to get to that. So I download costume quest. I played through the whole thing yesterday. Super fun game.

Really like imperfect. It's got issues. It's got frame rate issues. It's got issues everywhere. But really charming, really charming game. Of course. I'm excited for the sequel tomorrow. I can't wait to play that.

The sequel is basically more of the same. The same but better. They say it's better in every way. So I'm excited to see if it actually is better than every way. And after that, I said, okay, I need to bring Candy Corn for the podcast. So you can hear the crunch. We can finally settle this. Finally settle the score.

No, I've had Candy Corn. How is this settled? How is this settled? It's not though. It's... Dude, I'm not eating it. We've already established that Candy Corn has nothing to prove. We've already established this.

Yeah, it knows it's Candy Corn. Oh, okay. You gave me too many pieces. The people want to know. You gave me too many pieces. I'm going to do it too and hate this as well. Pat, here's some Candy Corn through the mic. You got it?

Yeah. How is this going to settle anything? No. I put them all in my mouth. People are asking for this. Fucking Shandrack posted a picture of their baby with a mat hat eating Candy Corn. I was like, yeah, yeah, get the baby used to the poison now so it doesn't realize it later.

All right. So it's taste blood. So first things first. Eat it. First things first. No, I've eaten it before. People want to know. I've eaten it before.

I don't eat it. I know because that's where it belongs, Candy Corn. So here's what's up. Here's what's up. It's not disgusting. However, if you had a bag full of other normal delicious candy, you wouldn't want this. Like... No other...

No, I disagree. Candy Corn is disgusting. I ate a couple and it's like, if you don't have a drink candy and you eat more than two, you're done. You're done. You're out. If you have a drink candy, you could kind of munch through these if you really needed something sweet.

But, but... No, oh, I'm getting nauseous. Just thinking about... No, the real nasty shit that no one knows about are those fucking zealors candies that you get on Halloween. They have orange pumpkin and bat wrapper, like twist on them. And they're just black toffee things. Yeah.

There's, there's this... You can't chew them because they will break your teeth. Oh, God. There's this subhuman group of candies that you'll see at dollar stores where it's like the more colors the candy has on it, the worse you know it is. Or Allen's chocolate. They're the Morlocks of the candy world. That's harsh.

I've never eaten candy like a Morlock. If it's black, white, and it has pink, these are the bad colors. If you stay away from that shit, you give it to the kids that come to your door. You'll eat it yourself. You keep the arrows. You keep the coffee crisps to yourself. Of course. It's like, it's subhuman is absolutely the right word.

It was made by subhumans for subhumans. Leela's parents. Leela's parents. You know. And even them are like, Leela, jeez, what you eating here? No, I'm eating this right now and I'm like, that's isn't great. No. Why are you pushing it on us?

Because we had to... You had to know. You had to know. People know my stats. If they have the candy corn wars in the 2PF streaming room and they're like, Matt, where do you stand? I go, no. You eat one?

No. I ate it before. If I had eaten before, I'd eat it now. Damn it. Sorry. My girlfriend never ate one. And today I get back with the candy corn. She's like, oh, candy corn, I really want to try it.

And she got halfway through the first one before giving up. Okay. She's just like, okay. Died in your arms that night. So I learned in costume quests that candy corn has less sugar than raisins. What? I learned it in costume quests. I don't know if it's true, but that's what they told me.

Raisins are yummy. Chocolate raisins are yummy too. No, I don't like that. So our stats are not my thing. I would give you chocolate-covered breakfast. See how you feel. Fuck. Manage.

I'd starve. So then Platinum put out a game this week. I played through Quora. I played through Quora twice. I played through it on Extreme and Normal. And I've just been kind of like polishing it up. How is Extreme? Is Extreme actually Extreme?

Extreme is tough. Yeah. The game on Normal is hard for a licensed game. Well, for a game. It doesn't pull any punches. Absolutely. They're all odd. The Activision would be like, no.

No, definitely. But I guess it was pretty clear that that was the route they had chosen. There's no easy way into its setting. There's casual. And then, well, it's kind of tough. Yeah, exactly. Extreme. Activision producer was like, all right.

Activision gave me $9,000. I'm just, I'm at least going to nail the combat. Yeah. Who can we get? And then just focus on the combat. And, you know, overall, it's probably disappointing. I'm glad that Platinum said that the relationship is really good. Like, I really hope we get to give this another swing with a bigger budget.

Anyway, yeah. Combat's really good. The finale's really good. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah. I heard about the Final Boss. It turned out that Activision came back to them and said, hey, we want Quora's chest to be bigger.

And Platinum was impressed. Yeah, no. Yeah, it was a pretty good game. And then the other thing I did this week was I watched the first two episodes of Swat Cats. Yeah. And this came out because of the video. Bingo.

Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo.

Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Or later. Yeah, that just somehow crossed out on without viel attention. I mean, it's nothing new. There was no extra stuff here. Imagine that in a restaurant.

But there was almost no entire restaurant. And now for me, I think there's about 20 minutes in two weeks before they open next month. Yeah. There is about five minutes, yes. So I might as well vlog as much as I can. Stay tuned. Bingo.

Ten minutes, yep. Four minutes is about 28 minutes so please go ahead and add it to your viewership. It's up to you. Play the SNES game. Oh yeah, I'm not kidding. Is it SNES game? Is it SNES game? I think it's all right.

It's all right. It's all right. I think next we have to get a bunch of big booties up in the space. I can't handle that. One thing at a time. That's great. Watch SWAT. Watch SWAT cats.

They have all these big booty bumping up in your face. We need to have a big booty SWAT cat party. And then there was this other little indie game that came out. You might have heard of Bayonetta 2. Yeah, good. Yeah. So I bought it and I finished it and it was fucking great. I'm not sure if it's shorter than the first one or just I played the first one so much

so it just went smoother because I only died like one or two times a day with them. So it's probably just that. But it's fucking good. The best thing about Bayonetta 2 is the pacing. Because the pacing is on a whole lot. The pacing is a little off of the first one. Yeah. But I got to say though, the smooth ride through was on which climax?

It was on second because I couldn't do it on lock everything. And then on third climax, which you're doing now. Yeah. You're okay. All right. All right. Fair enough, man. Fair enough.

I'm like 14 chapters in. I haven't died. But it's not as smooth a ride. Well, no. He has a sea lens. Yeah. Of course. We all have our sea lens.

Exactly. I feel like it doesn't speed up the experience. What do you mean? Like, no, no. It objectively went faster. I finished it significantly. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Fine. No, fine. Fine. In an hour. Skip cutscenes, I assume. No, no. I walked away.

Oh, okay. It was probably just because in Bayonetta 1, I was getting my shit pushed. You had to restart a lot of sections. Yeah. And then I took like 80 hours of Bayonetta 1. Okay. And that was an experience. Yeah.

I carried over to Bayonetta 2. Plus, I played the demo leading up to it. Sure. Plus, you know. We hit where, interestingly enough, Gen 1. Sure, yeah. Right? Just to go, wait, what do I have to do here?

That was the first hard thing. And then Gracious and Glorious. Yeah, sure. Yeah. You know. But anyway, it felt shorter, but it's great. The pacing is improved because it's shorter. Sometimes a game can be shorter and be tight.

Exactly. Tighten. Just make it, not lose weight. Just tighten. Tighten it up. Yes, yourself. And the combat is way smoother than the first one. Like, to anyone who played the first one, go back and play the first one after the second

one. It is stiff. It's like, when you're playing the first one, you're like, oh, this is so fucking smooth. And then you play the second one, it's a whole other level. Like, they just frothed it around a bit more. Even smoother than before. I find myself like getting hit with like a breathtaking set piece way more often as well. Yeah.

Five minutes, you're just going, oh my God, look at this environment. I think that's one of the pacing improvements, right? Just get real always. Don't hate me. I haven't played it yet. Don't hate the player. It's really good. It's a really good game.

I'd love to talk just about the ending and stuff. But we're not going to wait a little bit. We're not going to do that. But really, really good for that. Bayonetta 2 spoiler cast. Yeah. Well, look, man, expectations met. And expectations are in the stratosphere.

So. Well, I mean, I have one thing I want to say, but I can't say it. Okay. You guys. Yeah, right. And it sucks because I really want to say it. One little crit. At least from you, too.

Liam, I haven't even fucking played the game yet. I know. I know. Matt hasn't either. At least from you. Is it a gameplay crit or a narrative crit? It's a spectacle. Okay.

All right. About how the spectacles. I was going to say, of this year of like high profile games, you think this is the first one of this year that actually like met slash exceed expectations rather than a lot of big releases this year. Just super disappointing. I think Bayonetta 2 met my expectations. Well, you know what I mean?

I mean, in regards to Watchdog, in regards to Titanfall, in regards to Destiny, in regards to something else. Yeah. No, I think it's the best of any of the like bigger games, if you could call it. Hey, Titanfall is fun. No one's playing it. Yeah. There's a specific thing.

They're adding a lava form mode in Titanfall, by the way. Yeah. And I saw them there adding co-op and I'm like, local co-op? Yeah. That'd be 20F. Yeah. I would like to actually play that with you. Because I've always been like on the peripherals of trying to play Titanfall.

Yeah, man. There's a big update coming. But like, it was really good. Totally met and exceeded my expectations. Did not exceed my expectations in the way that Wonderful 101 did at all. Yeah. Well, to be fair, it took a sequel versus like a brand new game. So it's easier.

I'd say it didn't exceed my expectations in the way the first game did. Okay. Yeah. I'm still on the Popeye. It's really like 10 on 10. 10 on 10. My nose has powder all over it, dude. I'm still riding high.

It's great. It's great. Some of those bosses are fucking huge. I can't even overstate how big they are. The bosses in the first one. No, these are way bigger. I don't even know what you mean. I totally know.

There's one boss. It just doesn't. It just doesn't. You're just said, zoomed up to a part of it and you're like, it is so big. It is so fast. I really, I really wish Gromwagon and Platinum synced up more time wise. You know what I mean? Yeah.

I wish Gromwagon was going on now and then Platinum might get a chance to work on a game. Well, if you kill him, they just don't like kill or kill. They just hate kill or kill? I mean, I mean, Pat, obviously, you know, like you see the Lumen Sage and the cutscenes can see like, oh, those are going to be some sick ass fights, you know? They're like. Well, I played one of them at PAX. Yeah.

Like the duel with Man of Motherfly versus Temperance. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I didn't know that was in order. That's, that's like early. That's real early, apparently.

Yeah. And that, and it, like it puts as far as the rifle battle thing goes, like that's right up there with Virgil three, that's right up there with Jean three, like immediately. And then, and then you get more. And then you get more. No, absolutely. More rival fighting over the weekend. Like, like step, step two of that guy is step three of everyone else so far.

Like Vorkin three, like all of them. Step, step two, he's moving so fast that you're wondering how you're keeping up. Well, well, what happens is I was, because if you can watch a replay of what you did when you beat him, you would see that the fight you're playing is what the cutscenes are. Basically. You are fighting like the fucking cutscenes and like platinum is they slowly try to get to that level where it's like we want it to want you to feel like you're doing use them.

But this is like absolutely nailing it to me without a question. Are like the pinnacle of like what sound design in the game should be because without the sound design, you would not audio cues are you're done. I horrible audio cues are you're done. Absolutely. Absolutely. And like it's perfect. And if you would have a Wii U and you're over 17 years old, you're just not like video

games. It is. No. No. Seriously. Yeah. No, it is. But I was going to say it's like, you know, some people still like, you know, it's good

of an action game or less unaware, but you know, easy operation mode or whatever. It's there. It's there. You can play with the stylus and I dabble. I just I toss myself on the level and play with it. I'm like, yeah, it's totally works. Did you know about the free lollipop bonus? Which?

Every time Baio licks a lollipop in a cutscene, if you press the corresponding button to which lollipop colors he's using, you get that buff for free at the beginning of the next game play section. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. You didn't have a color. How's the color corresponding to buttons on what you're playing? You can map them.

You map them. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. There's that. We'll leave the lollipop one and you guys must know Liam, especially since you beat the whole game that if you dodge manually in the cutscenes in which she dodges and then it goes in the game.

It changes. Start gameplay in which time. Well, not only that, but there's there was at least one fight where the beginning of this boss fight changed because I dodged one time and I didn't dodge another time. Sure. And it had a different play out. So yeah, like there was a there is a fight where it gives you a mo I'll tell you after Liam.

There's a fight where it's like the thing is about to hit you and then you can press it or not. And then the fight starts differently. One thing I'm really glad about is they got rid of the QTE then cutscene. Yes. That was one of the worst things about the first game and it was a terrible, terrible flaw was they had some really tight QTEs in those cutscenes. Even if you knew the button was coming, you could still fuck it up.

Now it's just about the megatones. Going against Forty to Doe when he when he shoots the blast, you're the destroyer, you have to jump away. That was the worst one. I think that's the worst one I've ever seen in the game. I hate that. I hate that so much. It's one of those things that I'm like, I think we're watching a review or whatever

revengeance when you guys were over at work. They were talking about that one section of revengeance, we have to run down the exploding highway and you have to dodge the cars and I must have died on that section like four times just because I didn't know what the game wanted from me. It wasn't a QTE, but it was just like this doesn't work. A tooth. It's a little old tooth. Uh-huh.

No, game's great. Game's great. Shmoop sections. I still feel kind of like as I went towards Platinum, Shmoop sections as I ever do, because they're always just such sore thumbs. Like, Wonderful 101's is pretty good because they really built a lot of stuff around it. But like, Bayo 2 and Bayo 1's are just kind of like they just have enemies flying, which is nothing.

But how about them paying homage to some other games in the repertoire as well? No, because the homage is cool, but when you play games like Star Fox and stuff, the environments are a big part of what makes it fun and the environments are just like nothing in the Bayo 2 ones. It's just like, lie towards Skybox and shoot like enemies and they're fun, but they're not. Well, I mean, I meant like when they're paying homage to a thing that's not even a Shmoop. You know what I mean?

You'll have to allow it right now. You'll have to allow it right later. Yeah. It's great. Go play. Alright. What do you do? Stop listening to the podcast.

For one stop. Just go ahead and go do it. Don't tell people to stop. No, no, I'm making the exception this time. Pat, no, I hear you. It's fine. I know you have a heart out, unfortunately, early this week, just to let everyone know. Well, they're going to kick me out of my hotel.

Yeah, eventually. So just flag us. Flag us when you've got a piece out. It's fine. Yeah, I will do it. Okay, so a bunch of stuff. This week, I generally don't want to spend too much time because we spent a lot of time on Smash the last two, three weeks.

So this time around, obviously, there's important stuff we've got to go over. But we just don't want to like harp too soon. Hey, Liam. There's only compliments to be paid right now. Yeah. Hey, Liam. Yeah. They listened to you.

They made a direct for you. Well, you know, exactly. And like, hey, look, it's got all the content I want. And I mean, the only four hundred and twenty songs. More than that. Yeah. And like the only the list of composers was rivaling the list of songs and previous entries. No, the only like the only flaw that remained with the gameplay is still not melee, but

that's it. Now, this is everything I want. This is everything. Everything else. And that's the only flaw that remains as far as I'm concerned. Unless, of course, there's actually a problem with some of the content. What a lesson. Oh, fucking Target Smash.

Bullshit. What the fuck? They added two more levels to that instead of scrapping it. Yeah. And now you do it a lot. Liam, don't worry. You'll be able to play it in HD. The game.

That. And break targets is in Smash Run. But it's not. And I think the biggest thing to talk about Smash is that guy that they had to announce that they're out. Well, he's the announcer. Yeah. It's a little like he just doesn't have a filter on it.

It's fine for the game. But when you have to listen to four incentives, it gets a little. Well, the gag. The gag got old where it's like, I'm going to speak calmly before I say this. Yeah. And some of the features that works well for 90 seconds. It doesn't work well for a 44 minute video. Some of the features they crammed in there, like higher resolution.

I was like, okay, get, look down on that. Like that. It was really good. Exactly. When that eight player ball thing. Wow. I was looking at it and I was like, that's the mode I'm not going to play. No, it's a novelty.

It'll be, it'll be fun in teams. Well, what I am going to play with eight player mode is the big stages. The big stages are awesome. And I think big battlefield is the coolest fucking thing ever. That's great. That's great. So cool. I really want to see the 2v2v2v2, you know, like that's going to be.

Well, that's going to be what we do. And each of us are going to have two controllers. Amigos. Amigos are in. Amigos are doing their thing. Oh, who gives a fucking shit? You know, I'm, we're all getting a bunch. I'm going to get, I'm going to get the little Mac one.

How did you know? I don't know about Mac. And it's going to sit in my glass container. It's not going to actually fucking hit my Wii. Well, I was going to say, like, I'm not terribly interested in the smash uses, but when they eventually have their inevitable amiibo game that's like Skylanders or Disney Infinity, that is going to be awesome. But we're not at that inevitable game yet.

That said, I was thinking about amiibos and I'm like, but I wish Mario Party 10 could use any amiibo. I wish I could be marked in Mario Party 3. That'd be really sad. Wouldn't that be awesome? That'd be great. They play exactly the same. What if I could just use that little toy?

Just use the model and your game is going forward. Because amiibos are confirmed for a Mario Party 10. But who's it going to be? The Mario. Of course. The Mario. When am I going to get to use little Mac and Captain Falcon and a pit? When are these ever going to be useful to me?

Absolutely. If not in that game, you know? And it's like, are they going to make 700 and whatever Pokemon amiibos? You know? You know? Yeah. Some people would buy it. Yeah, for sure.

And everything that came out in that week, that was like a week before it, was pretty much true. The stage builder, the board game, the other thing, if you know what it was. Yeah, whatever it was. Yeah. A lot of people dumped ass at the Mewtwo announcement. Yeah, absolutely. That's a big one.

It's awesome. I like Mewtwo a lot, but I'm more excited that there is character. There's DLC, period. Exactly. Exactly. What Mewtwo represents is more exciting than Mewtwo himself. I am excited for Mewtwo, though, because he's a character who never got a brawl iteration, so he is going to feel different from Melee.

That said. Maybe. Well, and I was going to say, and if he doesn't feel any different, if he's exactly the same as Melee, tournaments will only be running Mewtwo, and it will be great. Well, one of those eight costumes better be armored. That would make me want to play Mewtwo really hard. The soundtrack thing, that's a nice little bonus. Jardinga's theme is in there for the Galaxy Stage.

Yeah, Mario Galaxy Stage has the wonderful 101 final battle theme in it. I was hoping that theme would be in the game for Final Destination, but I'll take this. Special Smash Mode is back. It's full of everything's there. Everything and more. All the shit. The new stage list is huge. As it should be.

And with DLC as a possibility, I'm thinking that this is positioned to possibly be, like, to be more content than brawl in the long run, if it actually keeps up with delivery. Throw 30 more characters, and why not? And they finally added Ridley, of course. Well, yeah. I can't get over that awkward zombie comic about Ridley. You see that, where they finally fit Ridley in the door for the interviews for Smash, but Samus just won't let him finish it.

No. And they're all like, come on. Like, I settled my differences with Wolf, you know what Fox said. And then she's like, he killed my family. And everyone just, like, stern face looks at Ridley. And Ridley's like, what? What? What?

What? One time. That's pretty good. Ridley will never be in. Yeah. It's the best we'll get, I guess. No, it looks absolutely. Like, I'm still just as excited for it as I always have been.

You know, like, people think I hate it, but no, I love it. I can't wait for this game. Like, probably the weirdest thing that I took from that Smash announcement was that they said that, hey, if you own both versions of the game, you'll get the DLC free, which is great because otherwise I would have felt stupid for getting the 3DS version. Oh, sure. Okay. So, after watching that direct, like, all I could think of is like the people who get

only the 3DS version are getting like fucking cheated. Well, you know, I said it the other day, and I'm going to say it again, just the last thing before we move on from Smash forever. I have one more thing. Okay. Which is, well, I used to grab my 3DS to play a quick round of Tetris any time of day, all the time, inside the house, outside the house, when I just feel like playing a quick thing. You know, it's served to the purpose that people play Candy Crush 4, I suppose.

And right now, I noticed that, like, Smash, I can do that. I grab it, play a quick round, and then toss it, and that's it. And I think 3DS will continue to serve that purpose in the future. Yeah, and that's what it's going to be for, forever. Exactly. And plus, like, you level up your guy, you can just import him into the U-bringer, and there you are. We don't play like that.

I know. I know. Leveling doesn't matter to me in Smash for this game. Yeah, no, for other people, absolutely. I suppose. That's why the feature's there. For children in Babies, I suppose. For children in Babies that play Pokemon in the game, still.

Last thing on Smash Brothers ever, Liam. So the thing that really got me and, like, gripped me, and for some reason, like, I was really enamored with, how would you tend it? Master Fortress. Master Fortress. Master Fortress is so sick. That's great. I don't know, like, but...

No. I saw it, and I was like, that's so cool. It's like we're adding one more form. Cool. That's the best possible form you could add in stage. That's genius. It's so fun. That's right.

Yeah, I agree. I've always been fond of the boss battles in Smash Bros. for some reason. And Master Core looks really fun. Yeah, now that he's got the Fortress form. I mean, it's already really good, but... Done and done and done and done and done. Done. All right, so the Sunset Overdrive embargo was lifted.

The reviews are coming in, and they are mostly really positive. They're not bad. Strong nines, you know, strong eights. That came super good apparently. Yeah, mostly eights, exactly, yeah. And then a couple low ends at the bottom. I guess that taste that I had that kind of disappointed me at PAX... Played a demo.

Yeah, well, I'll have to read these reviews and see what they're praising. Exactly. I was going to say, like, keep in mind that, you know, watchdogs don't manage to pull out from places. Absolutely. I was surprised. I don't know. What a shit game that is.

At the end of the day, I think Sunset Overdrive just shows how shitty EA is. What? Perfuse. Like, it's like, like, Microsoft or Sony or whoever. Let's say whoever published Sunset Overdrive is just like, you know that you had a rough year making the worst game ever. I don't know. Well, what I mean is, like, having a rough year is this fun thing that you want to do.

Well, fuck you. 13-year-old say it's garbage. So, make it into a soulless piece of shit. And then you get, like, this apology game for yourself, just saying, just have fun. Just do whatever the fuck you want. I just think, like, because it's on the edge, because a good developer is just nice. That happens very rarely in the game industry. When you make a flop and you didn't die, you continue to live on.

That you're able to make, like, this could be a Sony Act Flash game forever. You know, still be like, at least we went out with a kind of a bang. Most developers never get that. Unless you're Shinji Mikami. Unfortunately. But, no, I don't, I'm still, like, I'm on the fence now more than ever because of how much other shit there is to play right now. Right?

So, I mean, my hype for Sunset dimmed. Right now I'm thinking, okay, Matt, you're going to get it. It's first thing tomorrow morning. I'm going to take a look and see how it's going on your side and battle is determined. That being said, you can hear people selling download codes for it from their bundles. Oh, interesting. Yeah, so. That being said, you know, like, unless you start a game from the start, sometimes you

miss a lot of stuff when you're playing through it and then I'm, like, level four and you don't get the same corporate, like, you know what I mean? But it's not story things that I care about that are going to matter to me. I just want to see the game play going from moment to moment. Because I remember the reviews that I read just came through, just like the progression of, like, you always constantly get a new thing just as you're getting used to the old thing and you lose a little bit of that sometimes when you just pop in to take a look. I know myself and my tastes.

It'll be, it'll be enough of a deciding factor for me. I think because I touched it. I played it and I know what's there already. I just want to, again, see what it's like outside of that mode. That little clip I gave you from Jim Sterling is, like, I'll play anything that's that inside. Right. It's so, like, fourth wall breaking that it references neogap. Yeah.

I remember, like, I did read in some reviews, like I said before, that, like, the nods and the winks and the nudges eventually, like, for some people turned into a guy neurotically looking across the table just twitching his eye, you know, with, like, apparently some people felt there was too much of that and just never let up. I'm like, like, they were making, like, fourth wall breaking jokes about how the gameplay you were performing was monotonous, like bringing items from here to there, stuff that was just blatantly called a fetch quest and they were like, ah, fetch quest. But regardless, you're still doing the fetch.

You know, as we travel further and further down this journey that we all call the Internet, it's becoming more and more apparent that we all use it. So these jokes that were once upon a time, like, oh, that's an inside thing. You're on the Internet too. It's because it's just like, we all know we get it, right? Hey, man, as long as it's not as bad and awkward as those fucking meme pictures in Guacamelee. I was about to straight up say the derp derp in Guacamelee. Guacamelee and Borderlands 2 are like the words you tenders to say.

Like, oh man, just beat that horse. Just beat it. I'm super excited. Like, I really... It looks good. I really just want to have... Did you touch the facts? No, I didn't.

Okay. I was literally going to go out and buy the Sunset Bundle tomorrow. But then I found out... Good thing you did. But then I found out that deal... Well, no. I found out that deal doesn't apply to Canada and over. Oh.

Well, because our dollar's fucking, like, 88 cents to the dollar. It's worse than it was when this shit started. It's true. You know, bring back a lot of yen, Pat. Yeah. Whatever, man. No, shush. Die Canadian dollar die.

What? Yeah, no. You know, all I can say, Matt, is like, I... You remember how excited I was, and then I touched it. So now I'm, you know, I want to see up close again and we'll decide, I guess. Fun times over at FromSoft. I'm sure they're enjoying the press they're getting now. You must have read this before.

Dude, the press is good. It was literally the first thing I saw when I woke up. Is this the good thing or the bad thing? This is the silly thing. This is the, this is the dumb thing. Bloodborne's probably targeting 30 FPS. Yeah, the bad thing. Because Yamagawa, Yamagiwa, the producer, says that's a good framerate for action games.

Like, no, not that it's good. It's the best. Yeah, it's the best. Now, they said that, like, they didn't actually, like, hammer down the numbers. But they're targeting 30. They're targeting 30. You know, there's something to be said of the idea that, yeah, a rock solid 30 would be fine for the Souls series.

There's no way it's going to be a rock solid 30. No. So just don't say anything in the first place. Just don't say anything. The demo we played was not rock solid. Yeah. I can only imagine the question about it. Yeah, the only negative thing that occurred while watching and playing the game, Bloodborne,

was the framerate was just all over the place. Yeah. There's only, what, like, two months left before they have to start completing it? That'll be better for release, because that demo's really old. Certainly. Certainly. Yeah. But yeah, no, like, I'm expecting, like, 30 FPS the whole time, except for that time

you killed that one enemy that dies in that specific vertical enemy. Yeah, exactly. While you're being invaded, while some particles are fucking blowing up, while you have eight rings on. Yeah. Yeah. You're just blowing a fucking rainbow on the framerate. That's what the rings do.

You're just glowing. You're like, what is this glow on? Oh, it's the ring. I wish, I wish there was an option. Like, this is such a stupid novelty thing, but I wish there was an option that you could toggle, like, the glow on your character. Me too. Me too.

Me too. I remember, I remember there's a mod for Dragon Age one that does basically that. Where it's like, removes the stupid shit glow effect that farts all over your character when you use certain skills. Like, I hate that. I hate that effect. No, I agree. Like, I see the little icon that says I'm regenerating stamina faster.

No. You don't need to make my character glow green every single second of the game. And like, and like games are having that thing where you can toggle on and off your helmet. Like that kind of thing. Yeah, exactly. Are your stats and on different items. It's like, save that shit for what matters. Like letting you know you have Umber and Climax.

Yeah. Of course, if you wanted to get rid of that completely, you could always switch your Dark Souls to First Person mode according to the mod that was just released. That's the best mod. You have to do a full LP of that. So I don't know if you guys went out and checked out the footage. Yeah, the Kingsfield mod. But there is a First Person Dark Souls 2 mod out there.

In case you did. And man, oh man, does that make everything fucking hurt. Like what? The only way to play this is with an Oculus Rift on your first play. You constantly mean situational awareness in a Dark Souls game. Why would you not want to be able to look behind you? The first thing I was worried about when I heard about this was like, oh shit, they're going to map the camera to the head and rolling is going to be the worst thing ever.

But no, it's not. It's not. It's just floating in that area. Yeah, I watched some of the footage and you move so fast, dude. In First Person. You're moving at like insane, unreal speeds. Nice speed. You know what I mean?

When the camera pulls back, it looks normal. You don't recognize that when you're walking around. It looks like a hyper game. I'm sick. You know? It might be the FOV, but it looks like a hyper fucking thing. Teleporting into an uppercut. Yeah.

Yeah, like it was just, I was just watching him run across Majula down the stairway over to Heist Tower of Flame. And it just, it's moving so fucking fast. Oh, it's the second game. It's not the first game. Dark Souls 2. Oh, there's been a First Person one for Dark Souls 1 for ages. Oh, I never looked into that.

That's cool. It's rough though. That one, that one's really rough. Yeah. And the fun part is like you get, the guy actually gets invaded and he fights a dude in PvP with it on and it's so, it's impossible to win. Yeah, of course. You can't cause he's roll, he's all over it.

There's no chance. Yeah. But the novelty is fun. It's fun. I'd love like, I don't want to play it ever. I just want someone to do a full LP of it. I'd love to play it. Yeah.

Just for the kick. Just for the kick. Yeah. You can see that moment where you get hit in the back by an enemy behind you and you have to turn around. What the fuck is that? I'll always want to reverse. The game says there's a third person mod.

I'll always check that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. There's Edge. And then you see her torso not moving and you go, fuck, I shouldn't have done this. No, no, no, no. Dance X Human Revolution is the best one in Third Person where his body just shrinks into his legs.

Because that's how you do crouching, right? You don't actually... Like, if you don't have multiplayer, you don't actually have a crouch animation. That's actually... Yeah. Why would you make a crouch animation? There's a mirror somewhere. There's a mirror somewhere.

The mirror's not working. That's why it's broken. Oh, wow. I always lament that Third Person Salshaded Mirror's Edge game for the Wii that EA never released. It came out on IOS. No, but it was like a different thing. No, the IOS game is a runner.

Yeah, the IOS game. Yeah, it's not the same game. Oh, I thought it's a previous one. Oh, shit. What were you going to say, Pat? Which one? Just laughing. Yeah.

Dude, I was... No, sorry. Because right before he mentioned that, the Dance X, he said the best one is... Oh, no, the best one's Dead Island. Oh, what do they have? The best one's Dead Island where... Are you just hands? Dead Island and Crisis 2 and 3, where Dead Island, they screwed up and uploaded the wrong

one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think if you did that one, you would just turn into Third Person. It was horrible. Nice. And you would see what a sprinting animation from First Person looks like in Third Person. Yeah. And it just looks like the most fucking awful thing.

And Dead Island is always guilty of looking awkward in First Person when you look down at your feet. For context, they basically put out the release version. Oh, okay. Yeah. The shift. Gotcha. I remember seeing an animated gif of what Crisis looks like in Third Person.

And it had the Crisis guy go up to cover and show you what the peak looks like. Imagine the gun just sticks to the cover and his body just extends and shrinks. Because it's single player, there's no noise. Dude, the magic that you're never supposed to see. Those JoJo poses. Those JoJo poses. You're never supposed to see that. You are a stretcher or a Jurassic Park trespasser where you're just two pairs of boots and

some boobs. Yeah. Killin' dinosaurs. Looks good. Can't wait. Patty, you sitting down? I'm sitting down. Yeah.

There's another RE2 fan remake. Oh. Shut up. Another one? Yes. I didn't hear about this. There's another team making RE2. Is it got called?

And they're doing it from RE4 camera point of view. Is this team in a country that exists? It no longer exists. It no longer exists. Just put it in itch. Do we know who they are? Yeah. Well, they already fucked up by telling us.

Well, that's my point. My next question was, Pat, now that you know this, are you not pissed that you know this? I've known this for like six months. This is old as shit. You just didn't know it. The second team? Yeah. Oh, okay.

Well, I thought this was the third one. I remember there was a second one. It only hit the news cycle. Pat, is this the one where they used the RE Dark Side Chronicles RE2 and they're just building on that? Yeah. Oh, I heard that. Yeah.

The Dark Side Chronicles bit jogged me. You mentioned it. I don't like stop talking about that. No. That would actually be good if they just come up. Stop talking about that game if only because every time you say it slowly, I think you're talking about Dark Side Fill. Oh, darn.

See, this is the perfect look into the space and time because it used to be perfectly known because I knew about it and Matt kind of knew about it and no one else knew about it. Right? But now, you brought it up on the podcast because where did you see this? In Eurogamer. Yeah. Because Eurogamer only found out now. Yeah.

Like whoops. I was reading an interview with a guy that's remastering Resident Evil Remake and he got asked the questions like, what is your favorite Resident Evil and would you like Capcom to ever remake it? He's like, personally, I'm a very big fan of the masterpiece Resident Evil 2. I have no idea why Capcom uses to remake it. Well, I bet they're going to do it after this one if it's successful. Well, the fun part of reading these articles, if this one's really successful, they'll

just do it. They're not going to remake it in the same style. They'll never do it, Liam. Dude, if this one's successful, they'll do it. Hold on. Liam's successful by what standards? Capcom standards? It's fucking Resident Evil.

It should sell that much. On five revelations, I don't even think so. Did it? Did it? On all platforms? I don't know. Why, they're making revelations too. RE2make is never coming out and will never exist.

It did. It came out in Dark Side Chronicles. Oh, I hate you. I hate you so much. It's technically a remake, Pat McClendon. I'm going to say the first time I see you, you're going to be like, hey, Pat, and you're going to forget. I'm going to punch you.

No, I'm not going to forget because you just told me. So the fun part of reading these articles is always how at the end of it, the website is like, we reached out to Capcom for comment to find out how they find out. Why? And they sent a decision to assist the Pat back to the developer. You killed it. Good job, guys. You now made sure that that developer is wiped from the earth.

They killed it for the... Those are fucking nuts. They killed it for all the stories. Exactly. Exactly. God, there was an amazing... They're in it for the scoops. Yeah.

What was that? There was a really great example of that this week of like a news station creating a story where it didn't exist. Not even that. Not even that one. But it was similar. And it's just like, you create the story, you create the controversy, then you get the person fired, then you complain about the aftermath and you're just fucking, there's

just nothing to talk about. It's the worst cycle ever. It's just in. Reporters eat shit super hard. Just speaking of journalism, those fucking American websites this week that were posting news stories that were like, Canada in crisis, you know, internal terror attacks, shock them. Right, right.

And then you look at the Canadian website and it's like, you know, soldier shot on... It's just a piece of the news. It's very objective and like, man... Well, I think that's a bit of the U.S. saying, hey, everyone, forget about your own troubles. Look what's happening up there. Well, I mean, it's an important thing that happened, but Canada in crisis is... It's amazing how you bring that up, Liam, because completely on the opposite hand, a lot of people were giving CBC a lot of credit because their coverage during that shoot was

amazing. They were the best. They were non-sensational. Peter Mansbridge just sat down for like four or five hours straight and he just told you, these are the facts. He says what we know. Here's what we don't know. We're not going to guess and speculate and bullshit.

Exactly. Like, I got the whole inside, outside, it was fantastic coverage because they're just like, we're not going to create this fucking culture of fear news reporting bullshit to get the ratings on. Sure. No fast reaction camera. Peter Mansbridge would stand for that anyway. If they ask him to do it, he just drop his mic.

You know, sorry, sorry for getting too local American listeners, but it's just basically, you know, the Canadian coverage of a guy that came up to our White House equivalent with a gun and shot somebody. Shot two people. Yeah. Shot one guy. One guy died. The other guy did.

And it just, the reporting on it, they just, they didn't do the really shitty crap rag journalism. You know what I mean? They did solid video journalism. How do you think video games back into this? I think they're probably the main cause. That was in his console. What was in his CD tray?

Probably Arcana Heart. So yeah, exactly. They made her major kudos to them. He must have been playing the Bayo. You're just playing controversial new game costume quest two. Where you dress up as a terrorist. Oh God. And steel.

Halloween band nationwide. Oh my God. I'm so sad. Matthew sent to jail for being a vampire overlord. I'm a vampire. Lesbian space sex simulator. Yeah. Exactly.

Lesbian space sex simulator. That's the best one. So when you tell me that there was an American headline about Canada in crisis, like that just makes you portal because it's like, Hey, you guys didn't sensationalize. We're going to do it for you. Yeah. Yeah. You're not doing a good job.

We got this. Canada legit shook. We'll show you how it goes. This is how it's done, son. The other cool bit was, so yeah, you said you bought your, your stick pet. Yeah. Okay. So lab zero basically came out and said, Hey, we patched a driver into skull girls

on ps4 so that it works with ps3 sticks. Awesome. And they're releasing that driver for every other company to use specifically the mad cats. Can they do that? There's a little, you can the loophole. You get no, you get approval from Sony and you tell them we're running a peripheral. You could run any peripheral.

Okay. If fucking buzz can run the little like, or the scenic controllers are good to go. I just, I thought it was very like closely like, I thought it was really stringent. The, the arcade stick. Yeah. Well, I mean, a lot, we take a lot of guesses because Microsoft is very like hands off with making third party controllers. But no, it seems with Sony, you kind of just get the approval that you want to have peripheral

supported. And in this case, they had one of their programmers just kind of in his off time came up with this. Was that the end result? Cause initially like, I remember when they were first looking into this months ago, they said, we're looking for someone who can program this for us. Yeah. It's actually a known programmer.

Someone that worked on something particular. I don't have the name in front of me unfortunately. And he did it for it. But he did. Yeah. He's just like, I was bored. I did it. Here you go.

What's your favorite PlayStation TV versions of supporting local multiplayer? It's like they're like so on top of what they need for their games. Yeah. And I just, and I love the fact that it's out there. So it's kind of like the onus is on anyone who's making a fighting game now to be like, hey, we're going to be cool. Guys. Well, what's the only company that even has that potential now that are on?

Cause all the other ones are Japanese. I guess so. I guess. Cause like you say that, and I had an initial paying of maybe I shouldn't have gotten the stick, but then I'm like, no, wait, there are going to be companies that don't support this. Yeah. Yeah.

ArcSys is going to be a hard sell. You're right. You're totally right. To a gotten stick. Just it's coming out here and like, yeah, and it's important. I could get it faster. And I think it's important to note that a lot of people had the same thought, um, which was a mad cat probably hates this fucking thing because now they can't sell you that

proprietary stick. And then, uh, Mark man came the fuck out ahead of the controversy and it was like, nah, son, we love this shit. Yeah. I hate that twisting where it's like before an issue even exists, you make a story out of it. Yeah. Yeah.

No, Mark man was like, you probably think we're really mad because we can't sell you another stick, but that's not the truth at all. It couldn't be further from it. We love this. It's great. They're not a giant company that they're, they need to sell a million sticks a year. Yeah. They'll just make four killer instinct sticks and have everyone fight over them for years.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Hey guys, I hate to interrupt, but I got to go or else my hotel is going to kick me. No worries, man. Oh, that little indiscretion. It's cool. Thanks for the updates. Off.

Uh, I will be back with you next week. I'll say it. All right. On the podcast. Yay. All right. Yeah. Something like that.

All right. You guys have a good rest of the day. Try to have a good flight. Try to have a good flight. Not possible, but try. The flight wasn't that bad. Okay. Well, again, try to have a good flight regardless.

We'll do. All right. See you guys later. Later. Why? He's going to have to pop some ludes. You have to pop some quailudes. Yeah.

The whole way through the flight. Oh, but they're past the expiration date. So it just took a long time for them to kick in. And I hate that guy. He's great. He's great. He's great. Um, there are two guys.

There goes Pratt. Um, yeah, let's move on. Let me just close Skype. Okay. Now bring up the real issue. Now let's get into the raw shit. There's it. There's it goes.

Um, yeah. I'll Skype. Please don't die. Oh no. It's screwed up everything. Whole podcast. It's gone. The hell in a hand bath.

Quick. Make something up. Tap dance. Are you even recording? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It doesn't look like it.

It's going to catch up. Don't worry. Okay. You're recording. It's going to catch up. Don't worry. Anything I say is going to get recorded. No.

Please don't. Don't reveal the secrets. Liam. I'm looking. Come on. Tap dance. Nothing's happening. No.

Okay. Let's go. Do some bits. Hey, I want to talk about. Like it's working. Nevermind. Nevermind. Shut up.

No, I want to talk about it real quick. That Kickstarter game, the black glove. Yeah. That thing is floundering. Yeah. See that? No. Not even at like a fifth of its goal.

What's the game? I talked about it. It's not long ago. It's the X Fire Shot. X Fire Shot guys. Like the guys that all got fired from Infinite. Oh, you mentioned it last week. Yeah.

It's called the black glove. And it looks really cool, but there's no combat. So everyone's like boo. Yeah. It's like. It's like an adventure game. It's like what Bio Shop Infinite should have been. What a concise, perfect summary.

What? Everyone checked it out, but there's no combat. So everyone's like boo. Exactly. Well, you see Double Fun Adventure did so well. It's kind of a shame. Well, it's a hit. We're from the makers of Bio Shop.

Oh, where's cool combat? Oh, it's just the cool bits. Oh, fuck that. Yeah, I know. Yeah. It looks good. They just added. They just added the consoles to it.

Not a stretch goal. Just the base goal. They just added consoles. That's very well. Just sneak that in there. They need to make money, right? Yeah. That was probably a stretch goal initially that they would unveil.

Oh, so slowly. You chuckled it back. Yeah. It's just like, yo man, you should go. So you see Juno. Oh, it's a pretty good movie, but there's no combat though. So everyone's like boo. It's a good catch all things.

I hear the baby doesn't fight what's up with that. Shitty mechanics. Yeah. So I saw a drive, but there's no combat. So I was like boo. But then you get a game that's the only combat like Korra and everyone's like boo. You can't please these people. You can't please them.

You can't please them. That's why Watch Dogs has guns. That's true. But even then we said boo. Yeah. It was Willie that said, oh God, just don't have any guns. He's watching the trailer. Yeah.

The first time I saw the trailer, I was like, you're doing it. You're doing it. Just don't pull out a guy. Just don't pull out a guy. Fuck. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

Boo. There's combat. So Liam, you said that the deal on Sunset Overdrive is unfortunately not available to you. To the States only now. Yeah. So what is available to you is 50 bucks off over the holiday season. So it's three city. Because there's a price drop.

No, that's the one I'm referring to that's not available in Canada. Yeah. Oh, so I thought you meant the bundle. No, no, no. I mean the price drop. Oh, okay. The price drop on the console. But that includes all bundles.

All bundles are $50 off. Yeah. Because some of them are 500, like the one terabyte Call of Duty one. Yes. So it's down to 450. Time to take a trip down to Plattsburg. It's going to be so bad. It's cheaper to just get up here.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm probably going to buy one this holiday. You're up. You must know people. I want that white controller so bad. Exchange rate is just not worth it. That is how bad our exchange rate is that I'm not willing to do it.

No, just like, just tell Pat like to just jump out of the airport for a minute. Grab one and come back. Are those white controllers sold separately? Yeah. Oh, I want them so bad. I want my Oreo Panda controller. So like it's a really like a really interesting move for Microsoft. I mean,

It's aggressive for sure. It's aggressive. It's not permanent. It's only for the holiday season. It's only for the holiday season for two months, I think. So like the story is like Microsoft's been up behind. They're taking a hit. They're taking a hit on that.

Is this, yeah. They shipped a hundred percent, a hundred and four percent more. Shipped. Yeah. This time around the last, the last, the last time they were reported. But, It's still behind PS4. Of course.

Of course it is. It's still above 360. Now my question is, has there ever been a faster price drop? A price drop that you could think of in the post 2000s? The 3DS. That was how many months later? Six months. Six months.

The 3DS was permanent. Whereas this is only temporary. Exactly. And it's only in one territory. This is way more limited than that. That's, this is, we need to sell a lot. That said, it's incredibly ballsy of them to do a $50 price drop in their primary market. Like that is really telling of their strategy.

I mean, they should do it. It's a good strategy. Yeah. It's really smart. They've got the stronger holiday lineup. They have Sunset. Forza just came out. Master Chief Collection is coming out.

Killer Instinct Team 2 came out. Yeah. They've got a stronger holiday. They're on their way to a billion. Yeah. I know. Like well on their way. They're constantly ticking towards the building.

Their little clown cars is getting there. They've got top of that mountain. We'll see how the sales stack up. You know, hopefully it manages to make a really significant difference. I could see like mainstream mothers and dads not knowing what the fuck to get and just sees one that's worth a dollar's cheaper and just goes fuck it. So it could only help, but I don't know. It could only help.

Exactly. You're right. Like that said, if the PS4 still does better, that's like, I wonder what they're going to do after that. That's also very telling. Yeah. To permanently price drop, but maybe I don't know. Just on this tangent, I was thinking also for PS Plus and for Games of Gold, you think

this December we might see the first retail game for both of those consoles on PS Plus and PlayStation? Cool. Because of course both of them on their previous systems already have retail games that come out as freebies, right? Right. You think we're finally going to see that this holiday? I mean, now would be the time, right?

Impress new users, get people buying in. A brand new game? No, not brand new. What a retail game. You wonder, that's the concept of a box game. Not a pinching game. Like Knack or Tildo and Shadow Ball. That's fucking something.

Bullied. Sorry. I'm trying to. You know, I don't understand what you're saying. Games of Gold last month had Darksiders 2. Yes. Sure. You think we're finally going to see that leading into this holiday for PS Plus and Games

of Gold on the new platform, which haven't had any retail games? Oh, okay. Because these games have been out for less than a year. I think we'll finally see it because like, you know, people have been whining on Games of Gold and PS Plus because like, oh, indie shit. Yeah, okay. I was thinking, I was like, what are you talking about? There's been, I'm like, wait, no, that was Strike Suit Zero.

Yeah, all free games on Games of Gold. And Strider and all these fantastic games, but they're indie shit. Indie Strider. I hate Strider and his Horn Room glasses. Yeah. But, you know, maybe. Maybe. That's tight jeans.

I mean, does it play to write opportunities? But now would be the time to announce that. What game would you pick? What game would be a good candidate? Okay. So I was thinking about it. Oh, look at him. So for PS4, obviously, Knack and Killzone are the two like first party ones that are

even viable. And for Xbox, Rise and Dead Rising are the ones I was thinking about. Sure. That said, there are three other games that spring to mind. Three Square Enix classics. Tomb Raider Defender Division. And Sleeping Dogs. Oh, I think those three games are all political.

You should give away. You should give away Sleeping Dogs for free. Because it's not worth $69. That's for fucking sure. If it's a game, I'm calling it. That's my best. Yeah, I can see that. Because those are all games that have a big enough kind of like, they have an oomph to

them. Too much clout. Yeah. Like if you released Bound by Flame, people would be like, who? Man. That game is still a straight crap. It would be, honestly, no. It would be nice because you'd be able, they'd be able to like, print up a little holiday

sticker, kind of like the old Mario and Duck Hunt included sticker and just put it on the box. Because you get a free like month of PS Plus or Gold. So you get that game. Get your game. Everyone gets it. I get that shirt on Sharp Roblox. That's not ours.

Don't worry. I'm not hopping. But it's a picture of the exact same, like the render of Duck Hunt from Smash, but it's Banjo and Kazooie. And they're like looking at each other like, oh, never. Yeah. Whenever I look at that picture at Duck Hunt, I'm like, oh my God. Terry, enough love.

That could be such a buddy. Yeah. Okay. Well, while you're not hocking, I'm going to hock a little bit. Okay, cool. God damn that order of the Stormfielder shirt is fucking cool. Yeah. No.

Because we actually finally got ours. Yeah. We're late on the reception. You know what? Like, I'm working on some, I think at least you have seen some of the designs. We're working on some new t-shirt designs. Yeah. And for anyone that's interested, they have to do with long standing LPs.

Yeah. Long LPs. Not the longest. Not the longest. But, you know, getting close there. And then I just got the finals. I got the finals of the one, of the colorful one. I got the finals of the black and the blue.

The non-color. Yeah. And they're both really cool. Hype. Lots of hype. Thanks, Terry. So speaking of hype, fucking Lucas Pope is back. Whoa.

Who's Lucas Pope? He made Papers, please. Oh, okay. Right. I recognize his name from Twitter. Nice. Yeah. He made Papers, please.

And now he is working on a game called The Return of Obra Bin. And it is a first person adventure presented in Dot Matrix Graphics. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Actually, and it's demo free available right now. There's another Dot Matrix Graphics. Is there?

I think it's called Mini Flake. It's like a dungeon crawler. Okay. Dot Matrix Graphics. I like that, man. It's charming. It's great. There's a lot of adventure games coming out recently.

I feel like Vanishing of Ethan Carther. There's like this. And there's a lot of people like just are done with like, I don't want to make a first person scary game. I don't want to make a first person shooter. You know what's really easy? A first person adventure. Yeah.

Vanishing of Sean Carter. Vanishing of Sean Carter. Where is his blueprint? I can't find it. Don't have to model a character. Check the dinosaur. Don't have to animate a character. Don't have to really do anything.

You know, like you save a lot doing that. That said, you make really awesome games if you're good at it. Fucking Papers, please. Exactly. So you don't need any visuals for that type of shit. Yeah. Yeah. Talk about that.

That's interesting. Yeah, no. And it's basically a, it's what I'd call a what done it. What done it? Yeah. Okay. Because it's like, there's a ship that goes out to sea. Like I went out and it was lost at sea 100 years ago.

Yeah. And it returns to shore. And your job is to go onto it and know nothing. No one's there. Nothing's on there. And you've got to investigate what the fuck happened. Like go ships. Yeah.

And it's not a who done it. It's a what done it. I don't think it's that scene from a movie, go ship where the metal wire snaps everyone's heads off and it's the most radical thing that there's been in the first person. Oh, Majdin Jojo's bizarre adventure. Shut up. Not, it can't be an actual homage to that movie. I told you about forever.

I remember. I remember. You need to see at least that chapter. No, wait. Are you mean, do you mean go ship or do you mean deep rising, the one with the monster in the ship? The one where the fucking. These are very different films where the wire with the fucking pulley hook.

Yeah. Drops and fucking kills the guy. Well, no, this is in go ship. There's a. I didn't want to get into a conversation about go ship, but here I am of 50 people and a metal wire is so tight. The tension. You've never felt it and it snaps and the wire decapitates 50 people and the kid lives

and it happens in the first 10 minutes of the movie and after that the movie begins the drizzling ships of the rest of the movie. But that's awesome and deep rising is when there's a gigantic like fucking octopus monster that lives inside the ship and they investigate the ship can't find anything. Then the monsters will be revealed itself. I think if Jojo is doing anything, it's bad because that's what Iraqi would fucking do. Anyway, anyway, anyway. Good old guess who is the new CEO of Unity?

He was Johnnie. Right, so Johnny Rigatoni, Johnny. Alphagetti. I guess he knows the others, right? So I suppose not very well though, Jimbo, we have no idea how his business is. Well, things he said, may have been gross. But yeah, John Wiccatello was working on the board of directors for unity, I believe. Sure.

At some point. That sounds like a good stepping stone to be coming in charge. So yeah, he now got the full step on up. He's great, so he's amazing. Yeah. Okay, I see people on the PlayStation blog, people who clearly have no idea what is inside of the new game besides fun. Right.

And there's a lot of fun in here, but I don't know what else. I don't know what else, exactly. And they're like, what's with all these Unity games? Unity makes a game shit. I hate seeing Unity logos because I know the game is going to be shitty because they just lately moved this. I love that so much. And it's like, you don't even know.

I want to whine and dine that statement. You don't even know what you're saying. I wish I could go out with Why Can't Metroid Crawl type of shit. I fucking love that level of ignorance. It's tangible. So good. You can feel it. Yeah.

You can give it a massage. It's so ignorant. That's like, man, these Bink guys just think they're so good at every game. All the lazy Bink games. I hate this renderware, man. I want like fucking soft deck. Oh, soft deck code. Get the fuck out of my face.

Your logo is in front of the shitty game I played. Fuck you. Yeah. So that's good for him. But yeah, that's what he's doing. Meanwhile, I mentioned Strike Suit Zero. Those dudes are doing some shit, too. They should be.

Yeah. They're now called Edge Case Games, which I really like. Edge Case? Edge Case Games. Testing term. Ah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they're making a game called Fractured Space. I've got to be confused with Fractured Space. That's exactly what I'm thinking. They're making it called Fractured Space. And apparently it's also going to be... High-speed robot action? High-speed robot tactics. Oh, cool.

Yeah. That sounds fun. So it seems like it's going to be a bit more on that side. Instead of the dog fighting element, it's going to be more of the commanding element. Right, right. Like, right in command and not right. And I'm like, hey, man, if the toys you're playing with are still robots, I'm still interested. Yeah, absolutely.

Hey, speaking of indie game companies announcing stuff, Red Barrels finally announced their new game. They announced their new game. Outlast 2. Outlast 2. You know, shocking no one. But I like how they said specifically, we have another horror game in us. Yeah.

And I'm like, fair play. I think it's like when Yacht Club finished All Night, we still have lots of work to do on All Night, but maybe we don't want to be known as the Shovel Knight Company. Yeah, exactly. But if they... If you feel like you still got it. We still got it, because Outlast is probably one of the better horror games we've seen for a long while.

Can you imagine a people or a cracked article where Pokemon Company says, we don't want to just be known as the Pokemon Company. It changes its name to Pokemon Company. We had that horse racing game we made. And Harmonite. And Harmonite. And Game Freak. Game Freak is not Pokemon Company.

That's true. Oh, yeah. Sorry. They might as well be, but they're not. No, you're right. Yeah. Seth, put on gas. I know exactly which one you're talking about.

Well, there's so much truth to that at the same time. What? It's the thing of like why is basically it can be brought down to why are the previous Pokemon games so technically incompetent. Right. Right. Right. And like not using 3D.

And it's like, why? For what reason? For what reason? Like other companies get blamed when they can't do 3D or anything. Yeah. They're making a kids game. And then it's like, why can't these guys do it? You're making a kids game.

Kids don't care. You're kind of watching. But they don't care. I know. And you're kind of watching. But I saw that thread and I'm like, I felt bad for the guy who made the thread. He's got a point. You can't play that.

No, you're right. Right. That's uphill battle. Exactly. But I do agree to some point, to some extent, because I still want that Pokemon game that's never going to happen. The beautiful, amazing, wandering, the wilderness, 60 FPS vistas in every fucking, you know. Well, an easy argument for like as little as that thread, but like going all the way

up to what you're saying is they make a million zillion dollars per. Yeah. It's the same thing as Monster Hunter or other stuff. It's like we don't have to. Exactly. So it is like, I would say it's like the guy said, I wouldn't say it's incompetent. Exactly. It's budget and laziness.

Not even laziness. It's not their priority. It's complacency. It's complacency. Why do we need to make that giant thing? That would be something better than if Nintendo was to let someone else do it. Or even, or even like, even things like, like, why make Team Ninja give me my bouncy misty. Or like, why are your clothing options not infinity?

Why are they so limited? Why are they so limited? You can't do black characters. Did you have that issue? Yeah. Maybe you can do Southeast Asian characters at best. Don't play it. Don't play it.

Don't play it. You don't know it, but the Pokemon Company is the most xenophobic company in the world. If you're not one of these 600 species, you're bullshit. Like there's one black setting and it's Bob Sapp. And it's specifically a Bob Sapp problem. It is just Bob Sapp. We only have trunks on. It's Big Bo only.

Unsurprisingly, it's the most popular model in the game. Japanese surveys are like 85% of players. Use the Bob Sapp model. Some parents think this is controversial, but we think this is cutting edge. Well, speaking of controversy, we don't have a ton of time left, so we're going to cut it close. But there's a bunch of shit that has nothing to do with video games that's going on. Sometimes that happens. One of those things is the bullshit over at Toys R Us, because a mom said that Breaking Bad

toys don't deserve to be on a shelf where Barbies are sold and where children go to buy their toys. No. And now I show this article to you. The one point I just want to bring on the start is that the action figure section, like they said in Toys R Us, defended itself at first where they go, well, the Breaking Bad figures are next to all the adult figures, like McFarlane, MECA, Friday the 13th. That's where they are. That's the section.

Also, they're not next to Barbies at all. They're labeled 15 and up. They're labeled 15 and up. But it's the stupid sensitivity of just no, but this building is children, so this doesn't know. This is a child building. Right? You know they sell Call of Duty in the front, right?

You know that? Exactly. And then you combine one dumb bullshit thing, right? It's the same thing with comedy where it's like, I don't like that joke. This man should be fired, right? The whole censorship thing. And then you combine it with Toys R Us just panicking because a 9,000 signature e-petition got put up and then the news broadcasts that to make the story go further to blow it up

to be an even bigger deal. Exactly. Cut to fucking Aaron Paul just basically going, nah, that's some bullshit. Bitch. Like, she would totally have a point if action figures with crystal map accessories, which they do have were just in the kids section, she would totally have a point. Yeah. If they're right next to the brats, then that's no good.

The fact that they are ostracized in the adult section, you know, back when they have to go through the curtain and get ideas and stuff. As Toys R Us advertises, they make toys for kids of all ages. And again, like in the front, they sell everything. In the front, they sell every video game that comes out, including Call of Duty, which she will buy for her child. Because violence is eight years old. Because violence is not a problem, but drug references and sexuality are.

Yeah, those are the big two. How am I supposed to explain this to my child? I can't. And we saw there was a counter petition that's like 50,000 people saying, no, put it back. And basically overnight, it was just like, this is stupid shit. And now they're waiting for the Toys R Us commentary on it. Hey, look, there's way more people that think you're being dumb. It's never going to roll back.

Because like, you know, they did the whole thing to step out of the way of the issue. Once you do the knee jerk, you can't undrink the knee. They're not going to step back. That being said, the action figures are quite shit. They are. They're not fun. The only action figure you would get is of your poster there, of him sitting. Sitting.

Yeah. Walter White sitting. And it would need to be a statue of Harlock. It would need to be a statue of Walter White sitting. Surrounded by money and math. It probably would. But that's besides the point. The point is the principle.

I was just trying to make it funny. Yeah. And you know, and these are the types of like moms that just, you can't really negotiate with them. Because it's a mom. Because it's exactly, and she's automatically right. And she mean, and whatever she thinks is suitable for the world. Yeah.

Kyle's mom in the South Park movie, she was like, no. And she was like all against it. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. This one person disagrees with that. No matter how tough you are, you always have to listen to your character.

I'm pretty sure XC had set a thing on this one time when they were putting out a center on category for their KDS. I bet they needed to, yeah. Yeah. And they were like, you can't do a physical release in North America because you don't want it to have that kind of impact. You're such a small company. Yeah.

They're like 20 people. But that being said, just put him on the box and it's like, you know. It doesn't matter. Right. There's a boob there. You're right. Boobs aren't a part of my American apple pie life. What was that game that was just so good?

Let me shoot this game out of the store. What was the game that was just centered? Juggle shot. Exactly. Oh, it was guilty gear. It was guilty gear where they centered the guilty gear box. They covered Everett, Elford, Boobs. Did they?

Yeah, exactly. I was going to say they should have covered the complete, the entire character in this action from the game. Wow. These people just can't understand that Ass is hometown. Parents don't understand. That's a lie. Do you want to dock your car in the ass garage every night?

Okay. Rolling along even quicker than that. Age of Ultron trailer. Pretty sick. I really hope. It was awesome. I really hope that. People ask you, what do you think?

It's just fucking awesome. Yeah. It's really cool. No, I really hope that the thing that we know comes into fruition, which is you got a bullshit Ultron to win. The trailer seems to be implying. There's no actually fighting Ultron. You can't beat Ultron.

I think he will. I'm going to fight him and they're going to win. I think he looks really awesome in that last shot, but it's also cool because you can see that he evolves during the movie because you see how the starting crushes Tony Stark armor. Then he looks like classical Ultron. That's the way you always do. You don't have to stick so close because I'm going to get different variations.

I really like his voice. James Spader. Great. It's great. The Hulkbuster looks amazing. The Hulkbuster looks great. The Hulkbuster looks like the Hulkbuster. It's like it can't sort that out.

The motion and like the way it totally moves differently from the Hulk is the fucking robot. Also, Benedict Cumberpatch probably going to be Dr. Strange. Awesome. I like that a lot and I can't wait for the new Screaming Dr. Strange fangirls. Oh, jeez. How nuts. Dr. Who vs. Loki. What a smart idea.

What a smart idea. What a smart idea. What a smart idea. What a smart idea. What a smart idea. What a smart idea. What a smart idea. They had Bronson on the fucking docket for that.

They had a lot of people. They had Ethan Hawke. They had Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin Phoenix just dropped and said, no, I can't commit to nine adventures. Joaquin Phoenix is a weirdo. Get Benedict. Get all the girls. Get all the girls.

All the girls. All the girls. Look at that. You're super right. And just like that. That can't fail. Yeah. It's also a badass Dr. Strange that.

No, of course. Of course. It's a cool Dr. Strange. It's going to be all like Woody. And Schuma. And Schuma. Schuma. Schuma.

That's the question. It's like a never sell it anywhere else. You'll play Schuma, Liam. Yay. Not content with Gotham representing the Batman franchise on CW, I guess, or whatever. No. I know Gotham is Fox. The Flash is CW.

That's correct. So the same guy behind that, by the way. Arrow and Flash and all that stuff. Is going to be making Riverdale the Archie TV series. Only on Fox. Now, I think that that's stupid until I read the thing saying, no, it's the twisted tales of Riverdale and everything is fucked up and scary. Okay.

That's the premise. Is that like that? Archie's Weird Mysteries? Archie's Weird Mysteries. Yeah. I can't find that. What's that sound? Oh, I like this.

It's, remember the thing, if you played it in Fallout, when you go back into the past in the 1950s and everything was black and white and cheery, it's that cheery Americana facade, but underneath it is underpinnings of something more. That's like a best-seeing hack. So, you know Fargo? Yes. So there was a Fargo TV show. Yeah, there is.

And apparently the way they made... They look quite good. Yeah. And the reason why it's good is because of that. It's like, yeah, this is not the same people as the movie. It's just the same setting, but there's a weird darkness underneath it all that's not even real. It's like superhuman.

And we don't really know what's going on. Dude, I'm not sure you read it, but I read it in Snoffs's Archie comics. The comics itself got really fucked up. What do you mean? Like Archie had to kill his father. I'm not even kidding. Yeah, but they wrecked on everything all the time. No, Archie's Weird Mysteries.

I just read the Snoffs's and everything that happened to Archie when I stopped reading my sister's Archie's like in the early 1990s. Okay. And then things have happened. Like, the fabric of the Archie reality has been forever changed and we are now looking over the abyss. That's what happens when you cross over with Sonic the Hedgehog and you introduce the computer.

Also, the computer. Extreme horror? What the fuck was his name? I remember. I just saw this fucking thing again. Side Swiss life. No, no. Over damage.

No, it's not something like that. It's a single, like, word. Ravage. We've worked like that. Oh, shadow. You remembered it. Then you forgot it again. Yeah, exactly.

I pushed it back to the edge. I think that sounds awesome. So you're saying that Archie is going to be like, like some Mike Oldfield music, right? So like, so like he's going to be on a double date with like Betty Veronica and he's going to be running back and forth going, oh, what's going on? And then he runs back to Betty's table and then Betty's back at the other table. And then there's just two Betty's. And then Archie's eyes just start crying blood and then it goes into his teeth and his teeth

start screaming. And then it transitions to Jughead eating a hamburger. Yeah, exactly. And Archie's called the hamburger. And Archie is the hamburger. There we go. It's Archie Burger. I can't wait.

Archie's weird. There he is. If that actually pans out, I'd love to fucking see that. Yeah, for sure. That sounds like a novel way to fucking do that. Sounds fun. Sounds fun. And let's take one question.

One question. Well, we did overtime. We did overtime the questions. Yeah. So if you have a singular question and you want to be the lucky motherfucker that gets it read on this podcast, you send it to superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. That is superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. Oh, you did kind of a sexy come here look there.

Yeah, you can argue about your candy corn stance. It's bad. Or you don't need to because there's only one stance. Don't feed it to your babies irresponsible people. Train your child to love it. Train your child to have Lord of the Flies type shit where they puncture candy corn. I've seen children trained to speak dark languages that lived in houses that had no light for their entire lives.

Yeah. Like a wolf trained for blood. Train your child to stand candy corn. We're waiting for the questions to load. I'm just going to put my hand down the front of my pants. Just get nice and comfy. Yeah. So you guys are going to play Bujingai.

Oh my God. The forsaken city. No. You even know what I'm talking about. Yes. Okay, good. It's the gacked character action game. That's correct.

I still don't have a copy. I'm going to buy it. You know what? Fuck it. There's no tone. There's a question about gacked. Oh, yeah. Sure.

Miguel. Yes. Miguel asks. So I heard you guys refer to gacked saying that he ruined Sephiroth, something about Soldier G, and how he simultaneously ruined and saved anime. What's up with that? I looked it up and never found the conclusive answer. Okay, gacked.

It's funny. Gacked quote unquote played the character Genesis in Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, which is otherwise a really good game, but like he's like a sore fucking thumb in that. Really? He's literally read. He inserts himself into the story to be the strongest, coolest, best guy ever. It's terrible. And after the story wraps up, I believe it's after the credits, there's a final scene that

is not CG, but it's actually live action of Gacked. Shut up. I can't even remember that. He's a live action clip of Gacked growing an angel wing like Cloud and Sephiroth, but this is before them because this is the Zack story. Yeah, of course. Gacked is off into a heavenly light. In an otherwise just like Gacked in an awesome game, like Gacked's inclusion really spoiled

a lot. Uh, so... At the same time, he's a celebrity, so it's like, I understand. Don't put celebrities in Final Fantasy. But that's how you sell them. Yeah, but put... Like, I want to play Call of Duty and have my point man be John Cena. I want that.

I desperately want that. Not at all bad. I don't want Zack to be fighting Gacked. He'd be the best point man because no one could see him. Yeah, exactly. The thing is, is that Gacked though, that's a self-insertion. See, that's a self-insertion because he loves fucking FF. He didn't write himself.

No, but he just went, hey guys, he tap danced and he sang Ita Mia into the fucking scene and that was it. So, on the second part he saved anime because there's two anime specifically where it was like Gacked to snap his fingers and said, more Hokuto no Ken. Well, he saves in ruins anime because, yeah, Hokuto no Ken, he's like, yo, I want to be in this. I think he plays Rey or he plays an original character. You know, so...

And you knew this in the North Star? Yes, let me... Sorry, sorry. I'm very sorry. I know. Shin Hokuto no Ken came out and it would never have happened if Gacked didn't say, you guys should make more Hokuto no Ken. So, they went, we're making an OVA.

Yes, sir, right away, sir. What do you mean we're not making Hokuto no Ken working? And he said, all right, I'll provide the title track and the credits track. The title track's awesome. And I'm going to voice the new villain. Oh, it's the new villain, right? So, he shows up in that and is like, he does a fine job. It's not like a...

The character isn't like... He just voices a character. Dropped into the story. It's just a guy who Gacked voice. Exactly. Right? And then he brought back, and then he brought back Gundam double Zeta. I know that.

Yeah, there was a movie compilation and he voices Char. So, it's really like... But it's like, but... It's weird. We want to see a new CG movie. That's cool. Sure. But you're going to make yourself the coolest guy ever.

Like, really? You're not going to fucking let it go to... All right. Well, there's one more. There was... He snapped his fingers and said, more Berserk. Yeah. That's why they did the Berserk movies.

And he did all those cool ads that I slavishly watched where you just go... Like, you would just show visuals and he'd just go... Berserk. Yeah, yeah. Oh, shit. I love those 15-second ads where they have no time for anything. You just see like, Guts' face and then they cut the... Like, half Guts, half Dacked.

Yeah. And then he's on top of a tower singing, Damn, shit. And then it cuts to a date and it's over. And it's over. Yeah. So much. So Gats are forced for evil and for good.

There you go. That's what's up. Generally, it's fine if he snaps his fingers. It's fine if the production comes out and he happens to voice something in it. But if they call him in. But if they decide to draw or write or film Gats into the anime. Film him into the anime. I like that.

That's a problem. And like, only exception is like, I'd play a Japanese Assassin's Creed where you play Gats. Otherwise, I don't know what I'd do. Yeah, I don't see that. Well, or you can just play a Virginia guy. The Forsaken City. Yeah.

You get to characterize your game with Gats. Yeah. And the character looks exactly like them. Yeah, the Forsaken. Shit. Yeah, it's not too bad. It's fine. But it's like, it's no chaos.

What the fuck is that game called? It was Devil Kings. There was Devil May Cry. And there was that one. Yeah. The one with the pink hair guy. I don't even remember. Because fucking like in the States, right?

That can happen with Hollywood. Like an actor can say. Jari no. Yeah. That helps. That's rough. I was just going to say an actor can be like, I want to be in this. This will is in a apocalypse.

Elijah Wood. No, that's not what I mean. That's not what I mean. I mean, an actor in Hollywood pointing to like a franchise or a game. Elijah Wood. And just putting himself into it. The main character in Broken Age. Oh, it's true.

Yeah. Because he loves shapers old games. And it especially works when Hollywood adaptations come to life. Although you don't know if it's the other way around where they're like, you got to get a star attached to this. Yeah. Right? You never know.

You need, fuck you. Oh God, we're making cowboy bebop. It's got to be Keanu Reeves. It's got to be Keanu Reeves. It's got to be Keanu Reeves. We're making Akira. It's got to be Leonardo DiCaprio. Making Robotech and Hassan Tobi McGuire.

Anyway. All right. Always, always available. Always available. I desperately want for a big like 3D amazing American Mecca production with wrappers as the pilot. No, it's called soul Mecca. These wrappers who don't know what's going on.

Let me explain what my brain just did. So Macross, do you remember Love? This is a great movie. And it has a moment in it where this girl has to sing a song that literally saves the universe from an alien invasion. And she doesn't want to do it. So the main character is like, no, and he fucking like smacks her and goes, you know, you have to do it.

You have to save the world. So I'm just picturing Ice-T just smacking a bitch like, sing the song, Min May. Sing the fucking song. No, no. How about this? How about this? It's like, like December, Snoop Dogg, Jarl, Wings of Hominion. Oh, God.

That's awesome. Soul Plane, but with Mecca. What are you guys watching? Costs and Quest 2, Condemned Smiles. I can't look for that. Hopefully I can play Sunset at Math Place a little bit. But for me, finally, after like, for anyone who's been listening to the podcast, I think for even one day.

I think, what are you talking about? But before the podcast came out, it's been number one. Since before you were born. Before I was born, it's been number one on my horizon. Three to more than just one. Yep, there you go. Finally, three to more than just one. So I am extremely excited for that.

I am scouring Montreal locations for anywhere open at midnight that will sell it to me. There's only one place that I know that's near your house. And they won't sell it to me. Why not? Because they're not there. Hmm. That bodes poorly for you. Because they only get that easy.

I'm very early. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Barry's my publisher. Yeah, yeah. I'm looking forward to popping in the wonderful 101 and finally getting to play. It's Bayonette. Wonder, Bayo.

Yeah. Wonder, John and Wonder. That's amazing. I'm glad they put that in there. Because the sheet that nobody, the requirements that you actually had to accomplish were impossible. They were really hard. They were really hard. They were really hard.

And no one could get them. So I'm going to pop the cheat in and do it. And it's a great little thing. You have to do a little P-Star logo on your controller, which is awesome. Some people are like, how the fuck are you writing a P-Platinum? I'm like, no, that's a P. It's a P. It's totally a P.

Exactly. And I'm going to be humming tomorrow's mind for the next six months. Are you going to actually finish that game? Bayonette, too? No, I'm just going to leave it. And I'm just going to never touch it. Just leave it. Just playing 101 and humming music.

I want you to finish the top. Just leave it at half. No, I'm not going to beat it. Just leave it at half chub. Just leave it at half chub. Leave it at half chub. No, it's not playing. Leave it at half chub.

I'm filling up, but I ain't going to do nothing about it. Like I said earlier, I'm really excited for Sunset Overdrive. I kind of hope I'm not. Your statement's kind of making me go, oh, man, I hope I do really like it. Because we were both in the same place. Yeah. The only difference is I got to play it. So hopefully you have a good time.

Yeah. And that, and like I kind of mentioned, it'll whisper, our Lord of the Fallen comes out and that went from kind of nothing to a lot of people getting their hands on it and saying, if you like Dark Souls, but don't like Dark Souls. It's different. Which I am of the opinion that I like Dark Souls, but I hate playing or watching Dark Souls. It's fun with everything else. And what I saw.

It's really gorgeous. Yeah, no, it's really gorgeous, but I'm like, it just plays easier and it's not so much about stats. Did you Dark Souls like, did you see kind of what happened this week with that? Like it seemed like Namco just like seeded a bunch of copies to like Souls players who people know. Like fairly well known. Yeah.

And they've been putting up like hour long videos where it's like, yeah, it's a real game. Oh, really? Absolutely. It's a real game. It's not quite Souls, but it's totally a real game. BNV, Mathematosis, get their copies. I don't know who got them, but I just keep around a little bit. The thing that really struck me is that it seems like the game's really good, but the

voice acting is dreadful. And they went, oh, yes. I can't wait. And like I said, I want to try to catch John Wick at some time this week would be really cool. There's a thing on Friday. And I have a gigantic fucking Halloween party on Friday. The thing that's more important than everybody's birthday.

Yes, it is actually. You'll have more fun. I got scolded for forgetting his wedding. Fun times will be had for sure. They will be had. And maybe they might even be committed to video form. Who knows? Not saying nothing.

There will be. There will be food and dance and we'll make merry. Also, I just realized that the shitstorm will be finishing this week. We're going to have three more Halloween videos starting today, Wednesday and Thursday. And then the final night Halloween will have, will be kind of reversed. I hope you don't mind, Willie, but right now the Friday night Fist of Cuffs is kind of scheduled for 6 p.m. That's why.

And then the final shitstorm, which me, Willie and Pat are in for a very special game. Yes. Is the 9 p.m. video because I just felt it was more appropriate. And we've got two LPs loaded in the chamber. Yes. As soon as we're done with these current ones. So yeah, that's all going to continue. That's gone.

That's happening. Oh man. I feel like we're really running a channel. It's almost as if we're running some sort of successful channel. Geez, I fucking don't know. Well, I'm ready for that. Time to stop this podcast so you can not play Bayo too. Exactly.

And remember, folks, if you have to learn how to talk to a lady, ask your mom.