Castle Super Beast - SBFC 073: North Korean Kayfabe

Episode Date: December 30, 2014

Time for a last minute news roundup before the new year begins!

So Matt, just to be clear, yes, you're not saying that the interview is a work. Oh man, we're not right in the last. You're not actually, because for a minute it sounded like you were saying it was a work. Within 10 minutes, he's like, okay, so there's evidence that points to the entire interview being a work. I need to clarify this. For those that don't know, the movie, the interview being a work is like, it's all a big scam to just to get a new revenue stream from online movies day in day. But no, I'm not saying it's true.

I'm excited at the prospect of it maybe being true. Because everything in the world being a work is awesome. I love being lied to all the time. Okay, well I can get behind this. If everything was a work? Because that would mean Obama got in on this. That would mean like, this is honestly the plot of Metal Gear Solid 2. Yeah, yeah.

It would be unbelievable. Especially if it was all digital incarnations of those people. Like Obama never actually spoke, it was just a meme. Oh, that'd be so good. I think I was saying to you that the interview for the people that have seen it, it's like, yeah, it's a comedy movie and there's dick and fart jokes. Absolutely nothing special about it. But why is it special now?

You see? Because it's freedom, motherfucker. If it got released normally and there was no controversy. Well, it totally bombed. Not totally bombed, but just not had anyone talking about it. And they calculated exactly how much they could shit on Leo and all the other actors when they got their thing hacked. They calculated it, yeah.

Dude, it would be amazing. They're gonna come out and say that the thousands of terabytes of data are all fake. Exactly. That government is powerful. Wow, what a clusterfuck. What a fucking mess. When you're running a company and your fucking president of your country

comes out and says, you guys fucked up. You should have talked to me. Like what? If I put up a video late, is Harper gonna come to my house and tell me they fucked up? No, he's just gonna tell you it's offensive and take it down. And then the fact that North Korea and Internet Harper would do that.

Down for nine hours. Just momentarily, it was just getting spammed to shit. Five gigabits per hour with flooding their pipes. Had that choice, those choice words for Obama. Yeah. Don't fuck with a man's internet. Yeah, what a great heel, North Korea. Think about it.

Kind of useless, uses scummy tactics. If North Korea came down the entrance ramp, it would be like kissing its muscles. I'm doing the Randy Orton pose. Really, it really would. But here's the deal. I actually watched the interview. Okay.

I checked it out. I wanted to see. Is it as good as Team America? No. Because the comparison is so obvious as to be laughable. It's not as good as Team America. That's the thing. It's just a whole hubbub over fucking nothing.

That's what I mean. It's a work. If there wasn't no hubbub, there'd be no hubbub. It's totally just a fucking stoner comedy. And it's really dumb. It's as good as Pineapple Express. No. Not even.

Well, then fuck this movie. It's fine. It's possible. It's a stupid stoner comedy. That's what it is. It has a moment or two, but really it's whatever. But just the fact that this whole thing blew it up into stratospheric proportions is...

People will always remember the interview now. Exactly. Very suspicious. And people were already talking about it. Fuck off, man. Let's listen to your conversation right now. We're talking about it. This is like if dude wears my car,

was instrumental in stopping the Rwandan genocide. And then governments are getting involved. And basically you've got the president of the United States backing the release of Shitting in Your Pants Chokes. That's what this actually is. This is like Obama and Putin getting into a fist fight over their country's portrayal in Axis Powers Italia. Okay?

This is the level of absurdity we have walked into. No, because Japan doesn't have works or anything. Japan's just straightforward. And then the best types of works are the ones that are half K-Fib and half Shoot. So Obama didn't know. Obama was not let in. But the Sony was all like,

oh god, this is even better than we could have hoped. The most sensible thing I've read on the whole situation has just been an article that was basically just reminding everybody that North Korea every once in a while, every couple of years, it has to do something crazy. Easy for attention. There's a term for this. It's called saber rattling.

They have to rattle their saber. You got used a lot with the Iraq guy. Who's saying? Because he'd literally fucking rattle the saber. And it's like, okay, they're saber rattling again. Look at us, we're fucking cool, we're gonna kick your ass. We know we're smaller, and we know that we can't do shit, but we have to act crazier to make up for how small we are.

Dictators or these types of countries are basically like pop idols that are forgotten, and then they gotta do something. I'm gonna kiss this person now. I'm gonna have a party with a snake. You know, flying Dennis Rodman, whatever. Same thing. Wow, that just sinks right up. That's easy, wow.

And then fucking extort money out of various nations to be like, hey, you can only calm us down if you pay us off, man. We're crazy, we're in an old gold ball. You don't know what we're gonna do. It's fucking sad. I disagree with Matt over this, even possibly being a shoot. That being said, I agree with you. Shoot's great.

Everything should be a shoot. I'm sorry, work. Shoot is the opposite. I fucked that up. That's a brain fart. But it is a shoot. We want it to be over. Everything should be a fucking work.

And that's why, before we get to our fucking weeks, I'm gonna just jump right to it. That's why I'm so glad that every single day it looks more and more like everything to do with Metal Gear and David Hader is the biggest fucking work ever. Yeah, it seems like it. What about Hader?

Dude, his voice is in Ground Zero's. The PC version came out. People fucking dated my shit out of it. Two things of note. Unlike every other game of this, every time this happens, there's nothing about Phantom Pain in there. Absolutely nothing.

Like, no, no weapon list, no fucking nothing. But David Hader's fucking voice is in it. There's a couple voice clips of a guy that sounds really suspiciously like... When you're dealing with Kojima, I almost feel that those are breadcrumbs. Like, if they're gonna go through the trouble

of ripping out everything that could tie in a Phantom Pain but leave this bullshit in there, yeah, David Hader is gonna be in there fucking... Were there any clips of Major Zero? Not to my knowledge. I feel Major Zero was a voice actor that got screwed out of his money. It sounded like it.

We don't know the exact figures, but I definitely would like to know if... Like... Because both of those situations are very similar, and the Major Zero one doesn't seem like there's any fun or possible angle involved. He's like, they're just not paying me enough. David Hader's tweets and responses to the whole thing

like, why aren't you in Ground Zero's or Metal Gear Solid 5? His tweets were always in such a way that he's like, they're very, very vague, not vague, but just he didn't go into much detail. He's like, I never heard a call back. But the guy that played Major Zero is just like... Fuck these bricks, I'm out of here.

But Hader, listening to someone else play the voice of Snake makes me sick to my stomach, is kind of strong. Good thing he's not playing Snake. Good thing it's him that's playing Snake. Okay, so his voice clips are in there. What are the clips? Are they spoilers?

I have not listened to them for fear of spoilers. Neither have I. But I was like, is it old dialogue that you could say was reused for things or is it a brand new dialogue that's specific to Ground Zero's? Are they allowed to do that? Of course they're allowed to do that

since he's working on the game with them. No, you shut the fuck up. Every time you do that, I'm infirming the belief, and I was firming the belief with no evidence. Now that I have evidence, the game can come out and he's not in it,

and I will think that he's secretly in it. Major Zero, he played like a seagull. Major Zero was not... There was no voice samples of him in MGS4, right? I don't believe so. They never actually had to hire him back for anything. No, he was just that all dead old mummy man at the end, so he never said anything.

So it was just Snake? He gasped. Yeah, so it was just Snake Eater where they actually had that voice actor. Now, me and Pat know this, but all of this leads creating so that Konami's really suspicious with this because they screwed all those silent-held voice actors.

Yeah, Matt, you're totally right. Every five, ten years, Guy Seehee and everybody who worked on Silent Hill 2 and I think Silent Hill 3 as well would come out and say, hey Konami, how come you just didn't pay us? And Konami would be saying ellipses. Konami would say, we don't owe you any royalties

and Guy Seehee would say, why does my contract say you owe me fucking royalties and you fucking douchebags? And they would go, ah, sorry, we don't speak English. Like seriously, like over and over and over. And you bring up Konami, fucks, they're voice actors. You bring it up every time with the comparison too. But I just, I don't know.

There's so much on all sides. Like, Kojima, to my knowledge, never had problems like these. So maybe it's Kojima taking a shot at Konami and making a big, big, big thing out of this because David, oh, this is the opposite. Or in worst case scenario, it's actually Konami upper. Like, I couldn't think that there was anyone

more upper management than Kojima, but they're like, don't pay voice actors. And he's forced in these bad decisions. And then Kojima's paying hater out of his own pocket so he's not in the credits, so Konami doesn't know. That'd be awesome. Because it's like, it's like, what other, what other voice actors did not return besides Snake

that are good, you know what I mean? Is there anyone else that you can look at the cast and say, Richard Boyle, the former voice of Big Boss? Okay, but why is Robin Atkins down the voice actor for Miller from Portable Ops and all that? Yeah, all the way forward. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's been consistent. He's been consistent. It's weird. I don't know, man. I don't know. Anyway, uh, yeah, that's that stuff. So not only are you not playing as Snake and Ground Zeroes, you're not playing as Big Boss either

because Richard Doyle will also be in the game as the real Big Boss who is actually Skullface. Oh my God, shut up. Okay. Where did, where did your love for this kind of pre-Metal Gear bullshit go? You used to be worse than I am right now. No, no, no, no, no.

The, the, the, the, the story and lore possibilities. Yes, absolutely. But this, like seeing Hater being sad and reading his heartfelt like explanation that guys, I'm not, like that just hurt so much that I'm like, no, those feelings I felt were real. That's gonna make it all the sweeter. It's especially sad because not too long ago on my Twitter,

whatever, I found this poster of this movie called Werewolves that David Hater wrote and directed. It came out like a few months ago and it's like the worst, most vile, like Twilight shit you've ever seen. And, and you look at David Hater now and also not great. He wrote X-Men. Yeah. He's also puffy and weird looking.

You mean like, like, like he did it? What happened to the guy that was in Guy Verdark Hero that I fell in love with? You're a voice actor. He doesn't need to look the part. He's fine as long as he seems. Like, Hamel voice acted for decades and he got all, he got very puffy and now he lost all that weight

to be a badass Luke Skywalker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he hates his beard. Yeah. I never had such a weird quote. I hate the beard they forced me to have. He said he's worn for years? Nah, yeah.

I don't know. He had like a straddle. He had a straddle, like the Joker years and stuff. Yeah. And the ring years, he was bearded. Yeah. Whatever. It's fine.

I mean, it's just, I, to me, Hamel is baby face. So, he was baby face for one thing that he was in and then he was motorcycle face. Yeah, he got motorcycle ass. And now he hates the beard again? Then what's that about? I don't know, man. That doesn't make any sense.

No, no, for Force Awakens, they said have this big scraggly beard. Yeah. He just had a quote going, I hate this fucking thing. Well, almost, is it a Gandalf beard or is it like a fucking? It's pretty substantial.

It's more than any, than us have. Because if it's a Ewan McGregor beard Yeah, it's Ewan McGregor. Okay. Well, that's not that bad. He hates it. I hate it. All right.

Enough of that. Can we get into the intro, please? Yeah, okay. Call it episode 73. Yeah, what's the episode? Episode 73. Yeah. Yeah, cool.

That's it. Haley, what'd you do with your week? Dynamite. Vita. Dynamite. Oh, no. We don't have that guy. Yeah.

Yeah, Liam's gone this weekend. Liam's still gone. He's out in the bootie. He's a killing deer. And choking them to make them say his name. Filming Duck Dynasty episodes. Filming Deliverance, the TV show. You motherfucker, you're so stupid.

That's what's going on. I'm trying to work off this, and this motherfucker says, yeah, he's filming more episodes of Deliverance. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? Fargo can get a TV show. Deliverance is next. It's true. He never knows.

Yeah, Liam's. Film me more No Country for Old Man. There you go. Liam finds some drugs. He'll be back next week. Yeah, he'll be back next week for sure. Yeah. So, we're going to do the week part.

Is this the part where we do the week part? This is the part where we do the week part. Okay, why don't you go first, William? Yeah, you go first. Okay. And if you don't talk about it, I'm going to talk about it. Yeah, I'm going to leave it up to you to get into the good stuff. Yeah, that's really good.

As far as not overlapping bits go, I've totally locked it in. I've decided I'm playing Sinkiske in Guilty Gear Excerpt. Like, that's... Yeah, I know. You're a piece of shit. Yeah, you're right. You go straight to the DLC boss character. Yes.

Yes. Just find a way to workshop it every time. Every time. Every single time. You mean legitimately a DLC boss character? No, he's a teaser-mandum DLC character. He's a random DLC character. If I played fucking Ken, you'd be like, yeah, go straight to the rival, stronger boss character

because... Like, fuck off with that stupid boss-tier woolly shit. No. Stop. Stop. You literally can't make me. It's all boosting. It's all boosting.

No, but... Like, okay, so I remember... We had to talk... That's the right word to use. We had to talk about this. And he's like, no, it's not funny because it's not true. I'm like, I don't care if it's true. I think that shit is hilarious.

I think it's hilarious. Oh, man. So what you're saying is that pie stealing is true. Yes. That's what you're saying by saying that. Is it not true that in a recent recording that has yet to go up, Matt and I discussed how we have never actually seen you eat a pie or even touch a pie, which means you're really good at thieving them.

Except for the one time that Matt forced me to look at a pie for the merch video we did. And it doesn't really count, but the original story of the McDonald's apple pies was true, but they're just weird pastries. They're not actually a pie. It's too late. And rock, paper, scissors is a legitimate means of winning a pie. Yeah. Or, you know, like houses or countries.

But we're way too far down the cliff for that one. Way too far, way too far, way too far. So it's fucking over with. Yeah, it's over with. But the point is, yeah, I kind of just... I had no means. No, how's that netcode patch? I haven't played it since they put the netcode...

Oh, you wouldn't fucking know. Never mind. No, my netcode has been, like, not that bad. Because I was talking to some people and they were telling me that it was bad when it fucking came out. Like, that netcode was not good. Okay. Matt Max had a re-review of the netcode and you see what he said yet, but he put up a video. Oh, and I was sort of seeing people talking around and it's like, so I'm on average meeting people with one frame delay,

and the highest I'm getting in my region is four frame delay, which is underneath the threshold for Arc System Works's game. So here's the thing. I actually played it before. Like, I was playing it the night the patch went up. So you got the bam bam. The one to one. Yeah. And I got to see it specifically.

And I didn't notice any significant difference in terms of, like, just an improvement per se, but the one thing I did catch was I couldn't find a ranked match for the shit, for the life of me. Well, that's because not everyone had the patch. Like, at some point, you have to back out to get it or whatever. And if you're playing it right, right then. Also, patch isn't out for Japan yet. What? Yes, code patches.

North America only. And they rushed it to hit the DLC date. Oh, whoa, that's weird. But why wouldn't it then simultaneously release in Japan? Probably just because they prioritized North America. Just because there's more people. You know what? It's weird.

Probably because our internet is shit. You're right. Your internet matters. Fantastic internet. Yeah. You're so... Totally right. But, uh, no.

You know, I had no... So, Sinkisuke. I had no mains. And I'm looking at this cast and I'm like, I don't know where to go with this because, you know, like, the secondaries are always there. And I'm not going to main, like, Kai. Like, I like Kai. I like Soul, but I'm not going to main him. You're going to main him, right?

Why don't you main Soul? I would think you're all about Soul. Well, because he's super cool and that's all. But it's fucking Ken and Ryu, man. There's something about Soul's, like, his moveset is really solid, but really basic. And it's just like, yeah, he's really solid and I like to play as him. But it's not giving me what I need. I never use a character that's just...

His thing is fundamentals. Right. But I'm thinking of, like, Rage of the Dragons, where you like Billy, who has fire punches, you know? That's just what I was going for. Because Billy's style in that game appeals to me more than anything. Aesthetics is what I go on. And then, like, if they're moves, if they're not the main fucking character, I have a higher chance of liking you than if you are the main character. Just cuts, you know?

So in this case, yeah, I'm like, fuck it, I'll try Sin. And, yeah, he's got, like, three moves, barely. So once you learn how to workshop them... Yeah, you can cheese the whole game, because he's perfect. You can't cheese the whole game, actually. You can fucking die. You had to know that as soon as you mentioned this, Pat had to see... Pat's going to find a way to salt it up.

You should know, I mentioned that I have a giant-ass shit-eating grin on my face right now, because I'm enjoying this so much. I'm sure they can hear about it, really. But it's really no replacement for by-game, but... Well, there's no character that plays anything like that. Anything, in any other game ever. Like, blocks done into moves, what? Yeah, a character that's based on alpha counters of different varieties. You know, it might be that Bikin is just gone forever from this system,

because of the way yellow Roman cancels work with option selects when you're doing block strings. Because I was seeing people talking about how, as Milia, you can do her bread and butter, like punch, kick, slash, etc. But if you option select, like, the yellow Roman cancels during it, it won't come out unless they burst, and then it will come out. So, that can... Bikin can still work, though, because she doesn't need meter to do her cancels. Yeah, but, like, if you're doing that to somebody against blocks, then, like, they could probably yellow Roman cancel her move.

And you can yellow Roman cancel them. Ah, man. This is over my head. Yeah. I'm just gonna use Potemka. Some of the sickest matches ever have been like, I do some high-risk startup move, they answer with a super, the startup is just slow enough that I Roman cancel out of that shit. You know, like, that's what this game is about, man.

Well, you better hope it's that, that's the reason, rather, it's like they might try to just redo her complete move. Yeah, around wipe it, wipe it from scratch. Throw an arm on her. That's blasphemy. That'd be the fucking weirdest. That's the fucking worst. Or turn her into the By Your Side version, which was, like, really, really good.

They had to nerf her from every version after the original. Which one's that, sorry? Guilty Gear, the original game, By Your Side. Like, she had... Oh, yeah, she could do house and cent or whatever it was on the ground. House and cent on the ground. And that was like the most broken shit in the world. It was so good.

It was, it was, it was, um, uh, fucking, uh, what's his name? The Ken from BlazBlue. Ken from BlazBlue? Yeah, the yellow-haired guy again? I forget his name. Ragnar the Blood Edge and his rival Jyn. Jyn, Jyn. Jyn's DP?

Yeah. It was like that, you know? Yeah. In any case, um, so yeah, I'm, I'm all in with Cyn now. And, uh, I'll straight up tell you, wouldn't we know that, when we play the matches and you're getting super salty and butt hurt. Yeah. Just realize all you have to do is look at my food meter.

Yeah. And that's it. I'm dead. Blocks, block until you need food and then use that as the... And exactly. And if I don't successfully mix you up, you will have a punish on me. Mm-hmm. That's, and, and...

And as, as I play a character that has super armor on some of his moves, I should be able to do that. If I'm not able to do that, it's cause I'm shit. Yeah. And, and I have, but I'm shit, really. It's been a minute, but it's fine. It's fine. Uh, I'm sure we'll get back in with enough practice,

but Exard, putting the time in is fucking glorious. I, I fucking, I went into training mode a couple days ago just to see, just to see how bad Potemkin's bullshit is in this one. Mm-hmm. If you jump in with a heavy slash and do a crouching heavy slash into a super, it's 70 fucking percent off, off round one. It's absurd. It's the fucking, like, come on.

Uh, I don't know if you guys... I'm never gonna hit it, but I want to know that I can. Did you fuck around with Leo at all? Did you see Leo? Oh yeah, Leo's great. By the way, we have to, we kept saying that he's a wolf guy. Wolf guy. He's a lion guy. Wolf guy.

Oh man. He's awesome. Uh, I just saw videos. I mean, I, I honestly, I haven't booted up the game since we played. Okay. So, so first things first, Ash Crimson. Nice. Can't wait.

Right? Charge characters, sonic booms and flash kicks. Guy. Right? And then in addition to that, he's got two stances and, like, a dashing slash that puts him in a back, yeah, back turn towards you. Which all this almost change and he remains in it, but you can cancel out at any time. Actually really like the controls for his stance.

Mixes you up because he's, like, he can dash forward and back, like, and make you, like, guess which side. Yeah, his wrecker turns him around and that's advantageous for him. You know, because you're a block, you have to block the opposite way. And his good super can only be done backwards. During that stance. Exactly. And then the button becomes a parry button.

Yeah. Like a counter launcher. So, that, that's a fucking... And the counter's really good. That is an interesting ass character that... And I like his design a lot. We love his design a lot, but that's also the go-to design for, like... Lion man.

Yeah, well, like fucking after BlazBlue did it. And I... With Valkenheim, yeah. And I smell Valkenheim, the other guy. There's another... There's... Valkenheim is like Wolfman, but there's another dude, I forgot his name, but he got the Kamina colors and he has the long hair.

Azrael. Azazel. Azazel. Azazel. It's like, that's the go-to. You gotta have the waifu, literal waifu girl. That's right. And then the beef long hair, badass go-tea man.

And that's gonna be the two archetypes to make everyone happy. That's what Harada's gonna put in Tekken to make America happy. You know it. No, I don't think you will. He's... I believe him when he threatens to put in a... He puts in rage? Skinhead angry man.

That'd be great. No, I was like, I just... I said before when we were talking about Tekken 7, it's like all the new characters are just garbage here, like the worst new characters in any Tekken game ever. Design-wise, just the most uninteresting initial releases. I don't even remember the male guy. There's a woman who sucks, then there's a guy that sucks who I remember the least about, and then there's like...

That's the worst indictment ever. And then there's Lucky Chloe. I can't remember the character. Does anyone remember what he looks like? No. No. But there was a guy revealed and then there was Lucky Chloe, yeah. It's...

When you're in a fighting game, that's all you have to go on as far as getting people hype go. That character looks cool. I want to play it. Designs. Exactly. The most... The strongest example being like Big Band.

You just see it and you're like... Big Band made me shut my fucking mouth and play Skull Girls. And learn. Just looking at a fucking character design. And in this case, you know, it's like... You know, so I really hope they stepped up the list because he says there's a list. See, they should learn from fucking Dead or Alive 5 last round and put out those fucking tech demos.

You see that shit? You see the soft body tech demos they fucking put out for Dead or Alive 5 last round on PS4 and Xbox One? It's a fucking zoom in of a character's boobs as they heave and fucking breathe. And it's 30 seconds long and that's all it is. And the tech demo that's the fight? The tech demo that's the fight? They have a round and then it shows your character on the ground like I'm defenseless and the

continue thing, but the continue thing never pops up and the guy playing it pans and zooms into her chest also to show it off. Oh my fucking god, you guys. Like, oh, oh. I appreciate it. They know what they're about. They know what they're about. They got their heads on straight.

Did you guys see that interview with Iida Gaki where he's like, yeah, Dead or Alive has just been so shitty since I left. It's the best it's ever been. And then everyone in the world said no. It's the action games from Tecmo have been on downward slow. Yeah, yeah. It's the only time anyone's ever cared about Dead or Alive. DOA 5 totally made everyone.

When we played it on Vesicas, we're like, this is legit the best Dead or Alive game. When I played it when it came out, the moment you touch it, you're like, okay, no wait, hold on, this is better. It feels better. It feels better. Wasn't Dead or Alive 4 generally considered not great? Okay, I guess. For Dead or Alive?

Yeah. The TV series has been steadily improving, but like 5 was a massive step. No, DOA 3 was like a fucking toilet. Yeah, I didn't even play DOA 3. But when you fucking boot it up and you see like also final round is happening this weekend. Go to bigegaming.com or whatever and it was like, oh shit, like they're paying attention to local tournaments. That's really cool.

Yeah, so whatever. You know, whatever. Guilty Gear. I talked about the interview a little bit, watched it, that's a thing. Oh yeah, I didn't want to get into it until the top 10s went up, but yeah, SMT4 got around to finally be back. How far are you in? So I got one ending and I'm working on...

Whoa, okay. I'm working on... Neutral. I'm working on... What ending you got? Tell me what ending. A bad and then... Oh, you got the white ending.

Right. Okay. And then about to do chaos? Yeah! High five! Yeah, no. I knew it. And then I'm going to go neutral.

Is not law unacceptable? Absolutely. Like chaos is bad. Chaos is really, really bad. Yeah, absolutely. But law is just, this is not acceptable of a patent. No, to the point where... Especially for you.

To the point where every single time it's like, are you sure you want... Like, I've never been more sure of it in life. I haven't scrolled and picked an answer so fast, so hard when the game is like, the drama that relies on you making this... No! Fuck you! It's so obvious what makes the most sense to do. And they really, as the game escalates, they push a lot of those at you because they really

want you to feel as bad as possible. They give you a lot of bad... It is the epitome of like, all of your choices are between the lesser of two enormous fucking piles of shit. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of the good version of like, playing beyond two souls and they're trying to make you care about stupid boyfriend man. Yeah, yeah.

And you're like, I really don't give a fuck about this guy. It's like, but you should kiss him or choose to hold his hand. I super don't want to do that, David Cate. It's that, except in this case, it's like, no, the true answer is so fucking clear here. Man, that game's great. It's really good. It's great enough that I fucking put it at number four. Like, holy shit, it's really good.

And yeah, I mentioned it briefly in the top ten, but the level of customization, I don't know if that's a staple or if this one added more to your customization of your demons. Of yourself, your demons, your ability in general, your passive, your apps. It's an SMT staple that you choose all your stats and you have a blank ability bar. Because I'm just, because comparing it to like the Persona games, right? Which is the most obvious comparison that people get about it. Yeah, there's you, there's your demons and your moves, right? Yeah.

And that's the same. But then there's so much other shit besides that that you're still, you're still customizing. In SMT three, it wasn't apps, it was Magatama and Magatama gave you abilities, but they also altered your stats. It's very variable. You always pick your stats, you always pick your entire character's abilities, you always pick your entire party and what they have and how they level and what you've used. The difference is with the Fusion Calculator that is in SMT four, now without a fucking

guide walkthrough chart, you can actually get into that. You can see. Okay. This is going to be this. This guy, you can use your compendium and cross reference it and it cuts and you pick their fucking skills. Just as you're leveling up, feeding stats into what you want. Like it's, there's so much there, like you can't go back.

Like I though those games are astounding. SMT one, two, three are amazing games because of these convenience features that you've encountered in the Golden and SMT four. It is borderline impossible to go back to shit. You just like go back to random fusions with no ability to pick what skill gets brought over. So you just save scum it till you get what you want. Yes.

And that takes 10 minutes per try. I'm, I'm, I'm like, I don't know whether it was Nintendo leaning into this or whether it was Atlas leaning into it to make this happen. But like, it's really cool that this did happen. Oh, that's Atlas. And well, yeah, but like it's, it's like, I'm happy that it was a 3DS game because the two screen thing worked out really well. I find that they made you so good.

I would prefer it. Like this is an actual thing where I would agree there's pros and cons here. Like just the older, like SM Nocturne had a lot of really cool framing. Like a lot, a lot of cool framing you can't do because it's, it's character icons, you know, but for the day to day dungeon crawling, yes, the two, the two screen thing works out really well. Um, especially when you're like in any game where you have a first person RPG enemy up top full screen, you know, dedicated towards them.

And then bottom screen is all your HUD elements and shit like that. It makes things more cinematic. It's how fucking sick is it when you get to the point where you're in the fusion calculator and Minotaur shows up as a party member. Yeah. So man, you don't really know these as much. Every boss in the game is just an enemy. That's really, really tough.

And you won't encounter them later as regular enemies. But because you're fusing together what are essentially magical evil Pokemon, eventually when you get up to the level that that boss was, they become available as a party member. So when you get to the end of the game, you're rolling with a party of all the bosses. And it's so sick. And the first thing that you showed me in this entire game was Minotaur's design. Man, I don't know if you've ever seen it, but it's really fucking cool to the point where pull it up on the screen we've got right here.

Yeah, I'll pull it up. I'll pull it. You keep talking. Yeah, it's fucking great. I love a good Minotaur design. It's the best Minotaur. And like my other go-to fucking cool design is Kreskin. Because I don't know if you remember, Kreskin is basically like a Dante-style dude with long hair,

trench coat, crosses on his back and his arms. And he's like he's a legendary demon that fights with his twin brother across time. Yeah. Yeah, you see the Minotaur design? Fucking Minotaur with skull face. The human skull nose and then the back and then the arms also turn into bull arms. It's like literally like it's like literally like a human like sort of cellular structure bone structure fused inside a Minotaur and bull thing.

And it's one of the first bosses in the game. It's the first real boss. Real boss and you encounter it and you go okay, this is where the design level is at. He stops you from getting to the real game and his design clearly denotes that. And then oh yeah, that game's a stellar. I'm going to give it another like I'm going to give it a whole other playthrough, maybe not this year but eventually because it deserves it and I need to get that neutral path. I came so close to getting that neutral path.

So the big decision you just made gives you a plus nine in the opposite choice. You get to count numbers to get the neutral path. Or you can just use a specific just choose the first option. To get neutral choose the first option. Every time. Every single thing. And then when you get to the path where it splits and you choose it, just go like left, right, right and then that's it.

But it gives you to get the criteria for law or chaos is plus eight. I believe. And that decision gives you plus nine. Okay. And I was actually at zero. I was actually at zero and I hit the point where I said I'll choose law and it gave me law and I'll choose chaos and it gave me chaos and there was no way for me to get neutral. I was so fucking pissed off.

And you know what fucking sucks? Two slave slots. Yeah. That's why two. That's a random number. Yeah. Three at least. And I've been rotating them.

Yeah you are. And there's no way to really save at critical moments. Here's what you do. You save. This is how you do it. You save in the subway. In slot two. You save in the subway.

Yeah. And then slot one is just constantly do it over and over. Exactly. Exactly. Or near a terminal or you know because like you can actually fuck yourself. Yeah. You can actually give yourself a save game in which you are doomed. Now I don't know if it's just 3DS limitations.

I would say that that's at least two more save slots than mercenaries 3D. Yeah. It's had zero. Fuck man. That's the one thing that bites but you know. It's random. Some games like what were we playing like Evil Within had how many 25 million save slots. Yeah.

But it was still an odd number. Yeah. But at least they give you a new game plus where you can fresh start. Or you can new game plus carry everything. And the fresh start also brings over your at points also. So that's at least like you want to know some fucking bullshit. If you want to really fucking cheese it like not just not just bring over your compendium and your stats you want to fucking cheese that shit like hard.

Put your strongest demon into street pass. And the street pass demon is saved outside of your save game. And then when you go back to the beginning of the game bring him back in from street pass. And it won't just be your main character that's the high level. It's your strongest demon as well. Oh my god. Let me ask what's I know we're going a little long on this. What what type of character did you make?

Mag? All the way. Yeah. Magic 201. Yeah. I got up to 260. Yeah. Basically keep pumping agility until you never get preemptive strikes because that's doom

in this series. I noticed that I noticed that it allowed me to keep going past 200. Yeah. And you hit 200 and it looks like a wall and there's like a little red line and you go past 200 and it starts turning the icon yellow. Because you're clearly beyond it. You're not where you're supposed to be. No.

And once you get fast and once you get to like 60 agility or something you're fast enough to always get the first turn. So that's fine. And luck is you just bump it up every couple levels so you don't get unlucky. But then pick an attack stat and dump every other fucking thing. It used to be a little more balanced because there used to be a stamina stat which gave you HP. But here it's just no pump your damage.

And it's kind of disappointing because it used to be that the MC in these games was the best physical attacker in the game. You'd never want to use a magic character. You wanted to use a physical. Like the Demi Fiend from SMT3, you know the guy with the Tribals. Like that guy, all the art is of him physically grabbing demons in the face and forcing them to his will. Because he's so strong but you're a magic guy in this one.

Yeah. And like everything I catch just devastates. And did you get any almighty shit? Of course. Yeah. And like the fourth slot is always dedicated to a tetracarn, maracaracarn. Yeah. Fucking dude.

Luster candy. Luster candy. Oh yeah, that shit as well. Oh my god. Buffs, this is an RPG in which buffs fucking matter. Well each, like as I described, it's a game where you will get wrecked if you're not equally destroying the computer as hard. Yeah.

Every boss fight you win is a hilarious, like one sided victory. And every boss fight that you lose, you go and you go oh my fucking god, how the fuck am I going to do this? There is no close battles here. It is destruction. So yeah, but let's move on. What a great fucking game. It's an amazing game.

And I guess the last thing was, went to go see a comedy show with me. And we both took our messes and it was nice. So I'll transition into you right there. So dude, so I'm just hanging out with the messes. Like what are we doing the other day? I don't know. I'll just fucking get tickets to the comedy show. Great.

Hey Willie, you want to come along? I know you like stand up. Bring the messes. It'll be nice. It'll be nice. It'll be nice little double date. Isn't that sweet? Isn't that sweet Willie?

Sure. And you both lost your girlfriends. So won't. They're hanging out right now. I remember when you literally lost them. Yep. Almost actually. So we're sitting there and Willie asked me the important question.

Pat, who's a headlining? Who's playing? I go, I don't know. I just pick tickets at random and look on your fucking face, man. They're just like. And so then an old man in a cowboy hat walks out and I'm your host. And then he proceeds to hit us with what appeared to be a 10 minute ad for a Montreal country music fucking station.

That's correct. Including such lines as, you know, you don't actually hate country music. You like country music and you don't know it yet. Did you know there's hip hop country music? It's called hip hop. And at this point. It's the shit that Liam does. At this point.

I can hear y'all. Y'all out there. The girlfriends are laughing because my girlfriend loves bad comedy so she's good. My friend just seemed to be like happy. Like, ah, she's happy in general. So fucking happy. How happy were you two? So me, I look over at Willie and Willie has that fucking smile on his face where he refuses

to look at me. And I go, oh, and I say to him, I didn't make you come here. You offered. I asked you if you wanted to come on this. I did not make you. To be fair, this is all Willie's fault for not doing the research beforehand. I should have known. That show that I got invited to.

So that's where I flagged down the waitress and just keep him coming. I also did that. Luckily, as soon as he fucking disappeared, it was a pretty good show. I would say it was a pretty good show. Joey Lies ended up headlining. And he's legitimately good. I love that Joey Lies. And it really felt like he had a set planned.

He had an actual set plan and came out and they're like front row. This poor fucking guy. Yeah, man. This poor fucking guy with like a weird like kind of not mohawk, like, you know, just so circle mohawk coming out of his head, poofy shit. It's like, you think when you know that you're sitting at a comedy show and like it's it's it's specifically like a dude that does crowd work, you sit right point front center. Dead center.

You try to be the most normal fucking person you can be. Right. And this guy that was dead center was a fucking hipster with a half shaved head and a big curly moustache. Oh, that type. And it was like. And his wife sitting next to him is a hairdresser. Oh, no.

And every single fucking comment patch came out and took a break from their set. Just a shit on there. Just to wreck this guy. And it was rough. Oh, man. Was that guy classy enough to just take it? Yeah, he just sat there and nodded. Because it's really bad when the person that's like, yeah, it sucks to be made fun of, but

just completely takes it. He was a professional crowd work victim. Like he got that seat. He held it. He looked like a dumbass. He just ate the shit and he smiled and it was fine. But it was a good show, man. Generally a good show.

We had food, had drinks. And then my poor girlfriend. Oh my God. So we're walking down St. Catherine, right? And she really looks like fancy clothes. She loves that fucking shit. So we look over and we're past like the fucking design school for that shit. Yeah, I know.

And she looks over and says, oh my God. And we've all had a couple drinks, right? She goes, oh my God, look at that dress. And like puts her arms out to acquire it. Behind the glass. And walks forward. And then walks forward. And leaves in.

And then like the loudest fuck face plants the glass hard. Like didn't, like was not aware of the glass. Bam. Like hockey check. Now I was looking over towards you. I was talking to you about something. So I didn't actually witness it. And I don't think you witnessed it either.

I saw it from my friends. All of a sudden I hear like the most pathetic. In the world. And I turn around and I start to console. And you and your girlfriend look, you go still stone still and lock in. Cause you are frozen in time, unsure as to what to do. And everyone is trying not to laugh. Everyone.

Cause it started as a guffaw. And then it was like, okay, wait, no, she's not stopping. No, like some tears are coming out. The presence of alcohol makes us a murky situation. There is no alcohol at all. I think everyone would have been consoling like, oh, that sucks. Blah, blah, blah. But just enough alcohol, but not too much, right?

Yeah, not too much. Yeah. So it makes it murky and like, oh geez, you know, and the, and the note, the note is holding. Oh, I'm scared. Yeah. It's like, oh man. And you're, and I'm like, okay, no, it's fine. It's fine.

It's fine. And after a minute. Yeah. You get the, you get your go ahead. And the go ahead is the. Right. It's the. The half laugh.

And at that point, I could not hold it anymore. Let go over, walked a good three feet away. Lean down, put my hands on my knees. And laugh. That's weird. And laugh. Is it good? Preparing to do it.

Yeah. Yeah. Like laughed as hard as I ever have as loud. It would have been harder if she did the exact same thing, but to that, that, uh, window display at Ogilvy's with a little like bonoms and little like, uh, Wonderland. Like, oh my God, it's tiny little people like having like a winter wonderland. And try to go into that world. And I just like, I was like, while Pat's losing it, I'm like, I just put my hand on the shoulder.

I'm like, you can see how this is funny. Right. And she goes, it's not funny to me. And that's fair. And you look back over at the glass and you just see face stage. Right on the face. And it's like, oh man. Oh, geez.

The ghost just went through the glass. Oh, good night. You know. Yeah, Canada's a dangerous place. It's a dangerous place. Glasses, transparent. There's traps everywhere. Uh, so what else I do with my fucking week?

Uh, I bought a phone that I'm holding in my hand right now. Another one? Yeah. What do you mean another one? You already had one. Yeah. Well, yeah. Everyone already has a phone, Matt, but sometimes you want a new phone.

So this is, your reaction is actually part of my problem because I was telling a friend of mine, I don't need a new phone. Getting a new phone is stupid. And he says to me, yeah, I know, but this is where I'm crazier than you, Pat. I love phone technology. If I could have a new phone every six months, I would have a new fucking phone every six months because I love it. And if I got a phone, I would get this phone, the fucking Sony Z3.

And I said, he sends me a fucking YouTube link to a goddamn consumer reviewer or whatever. And I go, that's a really nice phone. So the gadget less takes over. I thought Sony made a product that was bad and have always been bad, either TVs or computers or something. Their computers are pretty shit. Their computers are pretty shit. Remember we were talking about what Sony needed like performed really poorly and there was

something you were saying that that we're doing so bad they should just axe that division. Was it phones or was it something else? It was phones. No, it was, God. I think it was TVs. Wasn't it like TVs are doing bad? TVs are doing bad. Anyway, sorry.

But I might have been phones, actually. But I know they make money off of PlayStation and medical supplies. And that's it. Yeah, and the insurance and shit. So I got this phone. But I did play a game on it, actually. I played Ridiculous Fishing, which is... How was that?

Was it? It's ridiculous. Oh my God. Dude, there are actually good games on this. That being said, when I went through the... I fucking had the horrible moment of like, I never bought Android games because I had a fuck bubble. And now you're compelled because you got to try out the...

You got to benchmark the phone. No, that's not it. And why not? Right? So I hit the net. I say best games, Android of whatever. Best of this. And I look over and it's like, dude, I bought every single quote unquote good Android game

for like $14. And I'm done. That's all. I have all... How many were there? Like 25. And most of them were free. But then I'm like, wait, where's all the...

And I'm like, oh no, wait, it's all fucking puzzle ripoffs and not really MMOs that tell you they're MMOs. That's right. It's the wasteland I thought it was. Yeah. That means that... Nice to confirm that. Yeah.

That being said, Ridiculous Fishing kicks fucking ass. Like I highly recommend it. It's kind of amazing. Did you get Hitman Go? I got Hitman Go, yep. Nice. Liam keeps pushing me to get the fucking AVP game that came out and he goes, it's really bad.

And I go, I know it's bad. What? That's his push? No, but he thinks that's like, Matt, you like really bad games. I'm like, I like making fun of them, but I will not buy them and I can't make a video and put it on the channel. And I go, can your Ouya run it? And he goes, no, I go, fuck your Ouya.

It is the most useless device any of us have. Actually, if we really want to get into it, this thing has a goddamn video capture for the screen. We can actually put up videos of this. Sure. Let's never do that. I wrote an article that was like, the Ouya is the great, the perfect gift to give to people you hate.

And I love how Liam loves P for our gaming, but he doesn't love it when it makes fun of a thing you love. And I posted it and I just put the quote that says, everyone hates the Ouya and the Ouya hates everyone back. That's great. It's a great quote. And his Facebook like note on that link was like, new fuck this article. So yeah, did you get the DMC for refrain?

No, no, I think that's, I think that's only on iOS. So here's, here's the, I found out the secret, wonderful horror of Android, something that I had never known and was something that's even worse than the shit we usually talk about. If you have a phone that has Android 5.0 lollipop, whereas this is 4.4 and it's going to be updated recently soon, every single Square Enix game just breaks. Nice. And it just fucking breaks as well as they all as of September, all of them are broken on iOS 8, just broken, crashes the instant you hit start.

So I bought the world ends with you. I have until the next firmware comes out to play it. Well, if it's any consolation, we didn't touch them. But that's fucking outrageous that they wouldn't, it's, and it's, it's, it's not just outrageous because like it breaks. It's cause they cost $14. It's outrageous because the text of the game says playable on Android 4.0 and up. Yeah.

Like it's, it's, it's an explicit lie. No, it's really embarrassing and it's been that way for a while and it's, it's like, it gets, it's second, second, what's the word I'm looking for? Like iOS gets the, the premier treatment for their releases. They're broken on iOS too, but in many cases, in many cases, like there's an iOS version that comes first and then an afterthought Android version that comes later that has way more problems, you know. And again, it's still $14 to fucking buy and it's like, and it's like, here, here's the

thing, right? But the house ring sells. It's, it's like piracy is probably a bigger problem on phones than it is on PC, right? It's like people, especially Android, just download the game as an APK and install it. Now I'm not going to do that. I'm an adult, but if fucking world ends with you, just dies because they don't update it. They owe me $17. No, because you should know that Square Enix fucks these things up.

So it's your responsibility to not download that. I guess it is. I guess it is. You should probably just play it on the original console. I have it, but I'd hate the, like when they said, hey, we removed that part of the combat, I said great. Oh, geez. But it might not work in the future.

Wow. That might convince me if anything, because yeah, fuck that part of the combat. Yeah. Fuck getting good. Fuck. No, past the puck is gone. Now it's just the touchscreen stuff. And there's a button for your partner's attack.

So that's a step up. Yeah. It's not very yet. Fuck getting good. Don't bother. Yeah. Fuck it. Just get the baby control scheme.

Yeah, I get it. We're not going down this dark road. Yeah. Cause you'll lose. So that's my way. I didn't like, I don't really have much else to say. Matt, tell us about your week. I had at a Christmas altercation where when I go to my fiance's place, I think I told

you about this last year that they play charades. They play charades for 4 a.m. to 20 points and it's guys versus girls. And this was my sophomore year playing this. Okay. I had to prove myself last year. Now you're expected a certain level of competence. A certain level of competence. And I was actually tasked with making the list.

The guys make the movie list for the girls and you try to get a combination of movies that are hard, easy to guess, right? So you like, you know, Pacific Rim, that's another thing. You try to get some obscure ones, right? So the girls make the list for the guys and yeah, by fiance is, is incredibly competitive right. Incredibly competitive and they both argue their movie choices. So when I get movies that I have to act out that the girls have made, I can tell which

ones she has written because we watched them on Netflix and we were the only ones ever to watch them on Netflix because no one saw these. But they count as legitimate movies. No, they don't because no one saw them. There's no way you can guess them. I am given a movie and I look at this and I go, I go to her, what the fuck movie is this? You made this up. You filmed this in your backyard and she goes, no, it's a real movie.

The movie is called Beyond Outrage, which I've never heard of and stars nobody, right? So I have to do this and you get all this stuff like vetoes. This movie is bullshit. It's not made up. You veto it. Give me another movie, right? And I've already used one because this movie was also made up and I've never heard of it. How am I supposed to act it out?

If you do things like scene from this movie, then you act out like an iconic scene. Like if you're doing the Matrix, you go, whoa, dodging bullets, you know? Okay. But for Beyond Outrage, who stars nobody. So I go, okay. It's a goddamn Japanese movie. Exactly. So the same thing that Pat just did is that once I was finished, I googled this movie

and I go, oh, it's from Japan and stars Japanese people and no one's heard of it. A manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky power struggle. Right. Okay. So I go, all right. Beyond and you go, syllables and you go, sounds like and I go. Free on. I go.

Yes. Exactly. I'm like, because I have the solution in my head. And I go, yawn. Yeah. And then someone goes beyond and then I just go, and then it goes anger, whatever, rage. And I go, yeah, yeah, rage. And then I just go step in, step out and they go out, out, in, out, beyond, out, rage.

And then I go, yeah. And then all the guys go, what? Yes. What movie is that? I go, oh, it's a movie that my fiance filmed in her backyard. Yeah. Yeah. So all the movies I wrote down for them, they, all the girls got every single one because

they were fairly easy. And I was using like the bird on a wire, Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn 1987. They got that. Right. And they got all this other shit. And then the girls won in like two hours. And the other two guys that are much more competitive with this on the guys, they go, what the fuck?

Who wrote these movies? And I'm just like walking upstairs really quickly or whatever. But there's were ridiculously like no one could have gotten it. I understand. You're not supposed to be fucking fair. You're supposed to win. I guess. But to be fair, the girls have lost seven years in a row or whatever.

So this is like the first time they ever won. You throw them out one like predators and then have good luck getting exactly that. We've got a predator for them. No, but S. I didn't actually. And it's like. I would. Predators.

Yeah. Because that makes it so much harder. That's how granular they get. If it's not pluralized and you didn't say the pluralized like version of that movie title and you fucking lose. I had my great friend, all of our friends, but my great friend, Rocky Balboa. Rocky Balboa. Shut up to my place and Rocky, all of us are shit bags.

Liam's a shit bag. I am. You two guys. I think I'm winning. Take pride in being a shit bag. Like that shit last week about retail was like people fucking mad. I don't blame. I'm an asshole.

Anyway, bedrocky is a saint or whatever and he works up north with the Inuits and teaches his children there and he secludes himself at the wall. Yes. I could take a day trip to the fucking North Pole. Right. For a year. So he finally comes back and Texas from the wildlings he does. So he comes back and he goes, Hey bro, wanna play some games?

It's been and he has no internet. His internet connection is so poor up there. You can't play anything online. Of course not. Can't watch videos unless it's like I need to watch a video. Yeah. He has to wait hours for it to load. Yeah.

You have to fly it in on the specific flight. You can't play online. You try playing third strike years ago. Yeah. It didn't work. Right. So he's playing and he goes, Do you have the new Smash? And I go and he loves Smash and he doesn't love it in that like super hardcore way.

He just loves playing. Well, I avoid it trying to say it but yeah, he just loves playing Smash, right? And he goes, I don't know anything about it. Yeah. He watches the intro. He goes, They're in it. Oh. He doesn't.

Oh my God. No. Because he hasn't watched anything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he doesn't know all these characters. And we start playing him.

He's like, Oh, that's that guy from a punch out. He goes, Dock Hunt. He's so excited. He's playing this. Oh, that's awesome. Eventually we have food and whatever. And he goes, Oh, can I play some more Smash? And I go, Well, here you go.

Rocky, Merry Christmas. I got him a Wii U. Oh. I got him Smash. Yeah. Because he doesn't have time. He's here for two weeks. He can't buy a console.

Right. And he can't play. He's here for two weeks. He can't buy a console and he can't get a console shipped to him or anything. Oh yeah. No one will fucking go out there. So I gave him a Wii U and Smash and he's just like, Oh God, I'm not going to have time to play.

But thank you. Because he's like, his time is so stretched. Yeah. He's got to go out to jail. He's also the sheriff. Yeah. Exactly. My sheriff.

He's a deputy sheriff or whatever. And he's fighting polar bears and shit. I wasn't exaggerating when I said the wildlings, man. And so that was really fun. I even showed him D4 a little bit and he goes, is this game Japanese? And I go, yeah, I know it is. It's cool. Before he flies back up, he says, I came out.

I'm not supposed to tell you this, but the white walkers are coming. The other thing you remind him of is that he, when he came back, he went to his cousins or whatever. He went to parties and he goes, I went to a party and he's not like a party. He's kind of like us. He's not that beer, alcohol drinking party type when you go to people's houses. Yes. So we mostly like to watch movies.

We like to hang and play games or whatever. He's fucking nerd. He's fucking nerd. So he goes to a party and he tells me this story and I was like the very similar story what I had. We're at my GameCube, right? And I had a friend who was having a party and his party was taken over by his older brother.

So I show up with my GameCube and four controllers and I have Smash and Geist and Geist had just come out. I'm excited to show everyone Geist, but the party was taken over by like adults, like cool people. Yeah. Like me. Pro adults. So I'm setting up the GameCube and I hear people and I'm like just, I'm trying to like

go through the setup of this weird TV I'm not familiar with. I'm setting up. I'm like, okay. And I look behind me and there's two couples making out on a couch and I'm alone. And I just start playing Geist by myself and no one's watching. This is the best story. Geist is not exactly Rez, man. It's not, but that's what I had.

You know what I mean? I was really excited. So that's Rocky's version. His version is that he brought a GameCube. What? How does that work? I don't know. He brought a GameCube, an FC twin that like any Super Nintendo thing and he brought it

all set up and he starts setting it up and no one's like, the new games are lame. And he goes, oh. Okay. That's all he wrote. And I was just like, oh my God, that reminds me of when I did that and I like, that was only like 10 years ago, but whatever. And the other two things I did is that Willie on the watch, watch The Geist. It's on Xbox video, probably PSN right now.

Don't know anything. Movie? It's on. It's movie. It's Drive is a Michael Manish, you know, neon 80s send up, right? Sure. That's what Drive is kind of going for. The Geist is kind of like a Cape Fear regular every day guy comes to town, but he's not

that regular. There's something mysterious about him. And he's so charming and everyone falls for it, but one person in the town doesn't. 80s synth soundtrack constantly winks. The opening scene is a guy walking down like just his feet, like a long wide screen shot and then walking down, you just see his feet. And just black screen. It says the guest.

Okay. And I'm like, it's a new movie, but it's a new shot old style. That's where I'll leave it there because it was really, really awesome. And it was one of those movies that kind of like we were talking about with the interview, like my theaters aren't playing this, how am I supposed to watch it? Would it be cool if it was on something else right now? Because in all of Quebec, not one single theater was showing it when it was supposed to be out.

Check that shit every day. I'm like, is this out yet? Is this? No. Is it out on Amazon? No. And it finally came out on Xbox video like three months later and like I was blown away. It's really good.

That's one thing that Xbox video is good for. I got to say is like, we have because it's specific weird Canadian shit means we don't get a lot of releases when America does, but Xbox video gets them pretty fast. I think PSN is the same sort of quick way. Or you use the fucking proxy. Well, sure. Damn proxies. But even then, it's like not for like Amazon purchases and shit like that.

When I was trying to buy Fargo and I was trying to buy every now and then, if you go to Amazon.com, the depending what retailer it is, they will actually ship it out to you because like it lets you put it in your fucking cart and get all the way up to the purchase. Yeah. What the fuck are you going to get back here? We'll take this billing address that you got to give us a real address. I mean, I kind of dropped to you guys earlier, but I started watching because I dropped off at Parks and Rec because I didn't know this, but it's like I watched the first season like

the first five episodes. I'm like, all right, I guess then I look it up and it's like, yeah, the first season's not great. Actually, it's they retooled everything in the second season, which I didn't know. That's true. That's true. I started watching it because Madame's Madame Batsu on, you know, as I brought up from the Batsu blog.

So I'm posting all these things of Andy and April doing all these, the best TV couple ever. And I was like, when did this happen? I don't remember that that much. Yeah. You know, I guess now that I think about it, the first season was a lot of stuff about the because the first season was a lot of stuff about six episodes. I can't, the first season, right?

April, how can you be pregnant or we don't use protection and we do have sex every single day? Like, um, no, but, but I don't think I'm pregnant. Okay. I guess I didn't realize it was a slow start because I liked it right away. Sure. I just look at PD and it says critical reception to the first season was not great. It only started getting awards second season and when Rob Lowe and Adam Scott come in,

it kicks it up because Rob Lowe, man, that dude is fucking awesome. The awesome thing about Parks and Rec is that I constantly bounce between who's my favorite character. Like, there'll be a couple of episodes where I'm like, oh, this guy's like Rob Lowe is really annoying. And then Rob, when Rob Lowe's life goes into the sugarcane, I just go, wait, this is way better. But then when he bounces back, I'm like, yeah.

For me, it's never been a question. The moment Ron Swanson goes poppin' nights and the camera pans over to his fucking, but I'm like, yeah, no, Ron Swanson. It's Ron. It's Ron Swanson. It's the side character that's stealing the show. When Rob just starts talking about like, I don't really like puzzles or clues or like sort of like these chases and then like later, he's just like, I actually really love puzzles

and he starts squealing or like everyone's getting along well and then like everything gets fucked up because of some stupid shit. No, he goes, who broke the coffee maker? I don't care who did it. Just tell me who did it. And then he goes and he goes, I felt everyone was getting too chubby. So I broke the coffee. Everyone's getting a little too chubby around here.

But there's two jokes specifically that I love is the joke that gets reused in a lot of things is when everyone, usually Leslie goes on that radio talk show like The Douche or that one that's hosted by the guy that voice acts Homer, Dan Gasolana, is the joke of what's happening is not currently what's happening listeners. I'm not making farting noises. You're right. Right. And just always going back like what you're hearing is not like Leslie goes, I did not

say me so horny when they play that sound clip and my favorite is when someone yells at Ben for being a nerd and they go, Oh, what happened now? Did someone cancel Game of Thrones and nerd and he goes, why would they cancel game? It is the most part. Yes, yeah. It's amazing that Louis C.K. just being awkward and quiet. There, I think that that show has the distinction of having my favorite joke ever to be mostly removed from an episode and it is the patent Oswald rant about about what Marvel should

do with their fucking movies. As long as I keep talking, you cannot build anything or end this meeting. Yeah. The filibuster and some of that shit came true. I'm really glad that like Amy Poehler got her show. Yeah. You know what I mean? She's always been fucking hilarious.

She just hasn't had a vehicle until that. So that's a good one. I just wanted to tag on because as you were you mentioned in Christmas stuff, I forgot that like Christmas dinners happened. Yeah. Yeah. The family things. All of them.

Yeah. And I mean my version. My version of that was, you know, usually the girlfriend goes out of town. To visit the fam, her fam, but this time around she stuck around to, you know, visit mine and say hi and meet them for the first time. And so she got to see like the crazy soul food shenanigans at like 50% capacity because a lot of the kids are out of the house or at their various other parents, like houses and things like that.

But she was still around to see like, well to get some of the family history about like where we came from and the tale of the narrative. The narrative. The narrative. Exactly. Thank you. And for the groundbreaking moment in which I saw a picture of the brother that I had never met for the first time.

I remember when you mentioned this, like, yeah, I have some brother. I don't know. Yeah. Right. I mean, like there's siblings that are out there and like, yeah, like there was one they had a picture of. They tracked it down and she got to see it at the same time I did. And it was like.

It's not nice. Nice. It's fucking weird. It's fucking weird. You got to retell. Sorry. A little like an overall going on long, but you got to tell me what you got to say to our listeners what happened when you told your brother about the explosion of a certain

character. No. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. I didn't tell my brother yet because he told me I told my cousin because my crazy dumb ass cousin, the guy that used to grab the knives and sharpen them in my face. Oh yeah. That guy.

Yeah. Fuck that guy. That's in every fucking family. Yeah. I told him about the explosion of rage and the usage of childhood lore and like, I was like, do you remember back in the day when, when my brother made his character and he's like, oh my God, big angry black guy only used hard punches, never fucking back down for nothing.

Would never use a girl. Yeah. I remember. What about it? And I was like, well, he's got ground swell now. And I didn't, I didn't jump the pictures when I was just telling him, but he's in various games and playing like pushing him and going places and he just, he just lost his mind. And he's like, oh, he's like, okay, I'm going to try to think up new stuff from that era

because there was more. I remember old shit. Yeah. You forgot about it. We got to tap into some moments that we had, you know, because like, because there was, there was totally more there and there was stuff about, he was talking about when, when we came back from the Grenada because we were kids, we went off to Grenada and grew up there for many years and came back and he's like, when we went off, we were just normal kids

and we all hung out and played together and he said, we came back like fucking two mogleys from the Jungle Book with hardened Ryu feet running on the gravel, talking in accents, hanging off of trees and shit and building our own tools and toys. Being able to communicate with animals. Yeah. And he's like, and I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? He's like, no, you've literally built a rubber band wooden gun toy slingshot thing and you guys are playing with them and we're like, what the fuck happened to these kids?

Yeah. What did happen? And I super remembered, like, yes, we took a clothespin and you can build a slingshot gun and we used to do that and shit and I was like, yeah, man, he said, we couldn't fucking talk to you guys. We didn't know what happened. You were communicating in foreign fucking clicks and, you know, and I was like, what was going on?

And I was like, yeah, that was happening. And then Nintendo came out and that was the end of that and it was just, that was, Nintendo fixed that right. Like Nintendo just destroyed this like child subculture he had going on. Like the accent went away immediately, all of that created everything gone. Nintendo fixed that shit, brought us back home. There's one thing I forgot is that I mentioned I got our friend Rocky Wii U and then he got me something too.

And just by pure coincidence, not anything to do with the channel. He didn't know. You just got me a boxed copy of original Mike Tyson's punch out. I'm sick. Now I'm going to open this up for a second because there's something in here that I was like, what? There is a certificate of authenticity written by Mike Tyson and it's all these things that Mike Tyson never become angry.

It will inhibit your ability. Nobody is born the best. This is in training makes you the best. What is? That's real. I don't remember that. I was too young. I must have had a coffee.

Look at this instruction manual. This I remember. Yeah. This instruction manual with the original Doc Lewis and the little Mac picture. So he didn't know anything about SuperBestRunsBox and we just happened to give this and I was like, dude, that's so awesome. Yeah, man. It's even got the cool black little slip cover.

You got to do it. You got to do it. You actually need that. It's the law. Yeah. You take care of that, man. That is a nice box because I fucking had that and I don't remember that certificate. And the irony that comes along with Mike Tyson saying never use violence.

Never get angry. Don't do it, kids. Anger will inhibit your ability to solve mysteries, to increase violence. That too. Hey, come on, pigeon. Calm violence is the strongest violence. Oh, man. So there you go.

Yeah. That's our weeks. Not bad. Not bad. All right. What about the world, man? Now, the world's weeks were... What?

We got a cat. We got to catch up. Okay. Because we had a Christmas cash. That's right. So we're kind of a little back up. In a week in which nothing happened. There was a little bits of...

Yeah, exactly. Bits and pieces. All right. Let's roll through this shit. We're catching up. We're catching up. But we're going to start out with recent stuff because I put them on the docket in that order.

Okay. Because I'm lazy. So fuck you. I didn't say shit. You were. Why are you so defensive? How bad's the order? Well...

You need to defend it. I don't know. Let's start out with DS Fix accidentally getting blocked by Bandai. So this was an entire... I mentioned this last week. To us. Yeah. No.

It was not on the podcast. Yeah. It was in the podcast. No. Before we recorded the podcast. No. That was during the podcast. I'm certain.

It was in the middle of a letter. I said, you know who gets naughty this fucking year? Oh. The Namco Bandai. That's true. That's true. There's an update. So there's an update.

So the basic gist of it is the DS Fix, the fucking tiny ass, any mod that fixes Dark Souls 1 on PC. Got fucking DMCA'd and Durante was like, not take this shit down. This shit's illegal. Durante being the guy who made it. Yeah. And who fixed Deadly Premonition. And who's a fucking genius.

And everyone's freaking out and go, what the fuck? So it turns out what happened was is that when that debug... Me and Liam briefly talked about that debug mode thing in Dark Souls. Yeah. How many people play as bosses? Where do you play as bosses? Well, to get the fucking debug mode to go, you need to use a cracked executable. Right?

Which Ben Namco went, ah, fuck, to that. So they hired a company. So they hired a company, go scrub the net, and this company did not pay very close attention. To what they were scrubbing. And accidentally sent. As is the case with these things, Austin. Yeah. So they DCMA'd Durante's patch.

And when Durante contacted them, the response was basically, oh, fuck. Yeah. Okay, hold on. That's a mistake. Because also, not only is this patch really good and important, nothing in it is actually your code. It's all his original code. It's all custom shit that you just plug in, you inject it.

Yeah. I didn't quite get the gravity of it until I saw the screenshot of the video options without his... You know the resolution option doesn't actually work, right? It's fucking bad. It's crazy. There's like three things. Yeah.

It is really bad. Like you set the resolution 1280 to 720, or you set it to 920 by 1080. Yeah. That's just the scaling. It's always going to display 1280 by 720. Always. Yeah. Actually, holy shit, I just remembered.

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But we're inched closer, though. We're edging closer. We're edging closer to 2015. In real time. A lot of people have new year's resolutions. A lot of them. You know, they... Not us.

No, fuck that. We don't do that shit. That's some dumb bullshit. We don't go losing weight, you know, reading more books. A lot of people have different things they want to accomplish over the years. Stop littering garbage on the ground. Yeah. I already quit that one.

You know. I don't want to do it. Or I want to ride in a motherfucking tank. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Now that's your new year's resolution. That's pretty good. I can get behind that one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Arnold Schwarzenegger does that every day. That man, he's a fucking boss. For funsies. He knows. So what do you do if you need to solve your tank driving desire? Well, as a Canadian, this is a difficult problem, because there ain't damn many tanks around for civvies.

There's that one decommissioned one up by the place over there right around it. It doesn't move. Yeah. Not a lot of people have access to a museum in which they can steal a tank. Gentlemen, I have a solution. I don't believe you. Now, come on. This is a fucking tank-based problem.

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Thank you for solving my tank-based dilemma, Willie. No problem, man. Thank you. All right, we're back. And we're back. So I'm back, I'm back, yeah. So that's going on on that side. That's mixed now.

That's dealt with. The situation is diffused. They said it was an accidental thing and Dorontae. And then it got rescinded. That's all fine. So Dorontae's posts of him just going, what the fuck, these fucking pieces, like, you know, it's all good. He wasn't really that angry.

He was more like baffled. He posted some angry posts. Oh, I did not see that. Yeah, he posted. I'd be fucking pissed, too. He directly gave them like millions of sales. Yeah. It gets nuts.

Shovel Knight is in road redemption. That is a fun, unexpected twist. I think it's awesome that it's like after Shovel Knight's come out. Yeah, not even. It's not to promote the Kickstarter. Yeah, usually this stuff happens, like there's Kickstarter cross-promotional characters when a bunch of Kickstarters are going on. The fact that Shovel Knight has now achieved the status that he's against is fucking sick.

So for those of you who don't remember, road redemption is the Road Rash as a game. It is the Road Rash that EA refuses to make. And that was successfully funded on Kickstarter, and they just put out a trailer showing a bunch of baddies being evil and, you know, like, running cop cars off the road and shit. What a bunch of dicks. And who's going to save the day, Motherfucking Shovel Knight? And fucking bullets can't affect him because he's got a horror, and he's riding on his shovel bike and he's hitting you.

He just lacks people with his shovel. Yeah, it's... I played Road Redemption a little bit because of the steam and early access, and then, like, I played it. I was like, yeah, basically the basic gameplay is fun and everything, but, like, all of the UI is still, like, all, like, whatever. Then I booted it up again, like, a month later, and it's, like, so much more improved. Like, it's staggering.

Like, in a month, like, like, I was like, whoa, whoa, no, now it looks, like, close to being like a released product. And just putting Shovel Knight in there is just really awesome. The obvious question is, is there a Palette Swap Shield Knight? Don't think so. Not yet, at least. It'd be easy. It'd be easy.

Change the helmet and replace the shovel. Yeah, well, Shield wouldn't really help that much. But it would be the same kind of bash, you know, how to shield bash instead. Um, yeah, so let's fun check out the trailer. There's also a possibility that RE0 HD Remix could be happening. Finally. The game everyone wants. I can end my hunger strike.

For RE0. It sounds like they might, you know what, to be fair, like, I know, but you might as well. Why not? Because they, they, the, the quote is they learned lessons from doing the remade there. Yeah, I bet they did make. You know what's confusing though is that RE0 has all those weird panning sections. Yeah.

That must be definitely, did a remake, did a remake have one or those? But it's, uh, remake had very few. Yeah. I think maybe only had one or two. But zero had way more. But when they, when they transferred it to widescreen, what they did is they, they, they cropped it up and top and then they would pan up and down in remake occasionally. But since zero has a lot more of these panning scenes, the panning scenes are actually going

to be the easiest thing in the world to change if they go left, right. Yeah. Because you just, you just put the whole fucking thing on the screen now. Yeah. That being said, I would like to play through it again just because I remember so little of it. I remember very little. But that's my choice.

Because it's not very good. I know. But it's like, if, but if they figure, if they have the first one made, why not? If they're going to fucking actually go and say, Hey, it was really good to do remake and we learned a lot making remake and then RE0 comes out, these motherfuckers bet to start making RE2 made. Never. Like, see they, but they asked about that game specifically, a game that does not exist

in that survey a while back. Yeah. Yeah. But as you already know, and don't want to hear, we're talking about new assets versus existing assets, plus it's practice for the real deal. I bet you know, creator, no head of any department and Capcom even wants to remake it. You know what I mean? They're too scared of making it.

I don't think so. I think so. I just looked at that Capcom investors website just today and that it's still way up there, man. There's definitely talks, but no, but I mean, there could be upper management saying make it, but no actual creative like head of any department would actually want to just to help us. Would you, would any of us, that's like, like they can't even make great Resident Evil new

ones nowadays and you're going to try to emulate like the best one. That's why that's why everyone's so intense about it is RE1 was great, but RE2 is a much, much better, way more ambitious game and RE1 got remade and now remake and RE2 are the same level of quality because a remake is so good and the assumption was going to be that RE2 was next and just never happened and that would be like you would be done with survival horror. You'd be locked stocked for a decade if RE2 make existed or happened. It's their FF7 remake.

Is it? Yeah. I'd say. No, it's more because they did it. They did it and showed everyone that they could do it. What do you mean? What do you mean? Okay, FF7, they always say we'd love to do it, but it'd be so expensive and it'd be

impossible. It'd be hard. But with this, there's a fucking example right there of them exactly doing exactly that and it dramatically improved the game and like that's why it's different. It's like that in tone of like please do it, please do it, please do it. But the fucking example already exists. You can't really compare like Chrono Trigger or any of the other things. And the assets, the asset difference is hilarious.

Like 100 pre-rendered backgrounds. That being said, like Remake was remade by the guy that made it, whereas now you can't. Well, that's fine. Hire Kamiya. He made RE2. No, he's not going to do it. Why? Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And while we're on the Capcom bummer train. We're never getting off. You have... This train don't stop. You have 24 hours as of listening this to go download Marvel vs. Capcom Origins.

I'm pretty sure, no, it's actually gone now. It's too late. On everything except for XBLA. XBLA, it leaves on the 31st. Okay. So on PSN, it's already gone. I'm pretty sure it got that when we did it for Superhero Month. Perhaps so, but if you don't have Marvel vs. Capcom Origins and you have an Xbox

360, you got to get it now or you're never going to get it. Never going to get it. Never going to get it. Never going to get it. Never going to get it. Because all those Capcom Marvel contracts are just running out. Yes, right. All those Superhero contracts.

We were talking about Deadpool. I don't know if I did Marvel 3's contract run out before Marvel Origins. I don't know. No, because they re-upped the one for Origins. That's why they released it. Or like it's... No, well Origins came out after, but it's like maybe they're going off of vanilla. I don't know.

Going back to Zero, I'm not sure if anyone would agree, but you still think it's just smacks of God we're desperate to put out titles? Absolutely. Absolutely. Like what sells that we have? I've been bitching about Capcom not putting games out for a fucking year and now they're putting tons of games out and they're all ports and re-releases and remastered. Remake makes sense, but then it's not confirmed, but to put out Zero, that's really smacks

of desperation. There's no one to ask for Zero. What I'm waiting for is the Class Capcom golden years label, where they start smacking on some of their games. Remember these times. Now the only thing that would like, yeah, it smacks of desperation, but I would love it is Onimusha HD collection. Sure.

It's kind of baffling that it hasn't happened. One to three? Yeah, one to four in there. You can't put four in there. You know what? I was about to say it's baffling that it hasn't happened and now I know exactly why it's happened because we just talked about Marvel Origins losing its fucking licensing rights. And everybody in fucking Onimusha is a goddamn named existing, possibly dead actor.

Four is not, though. Four is not. Four is original. But you're not going to do an HD collection of one. And JoJo got yanked offline as well, Heritage for the Future is gone, like all these licensed HD things. These should be perpetual. Well, because back in the day it was a disc, man, so you fucking bought the disc and then

that's it, we're done. I got to the last disc. Onimusha 4 is a two disc game, right? I got to the end of the second disc, but not right before the final boss and I had to quit for some reason. I think I was having an emotional problems or something like that. There was some reason why I got so close and I hated that game. That game's bad.

But I almost beat it. Well, there's some things that are good in the game, but overall it was like the worst Onimusha are new. It's the worst Onimusha by a huge margin. It's the camera angle. They decided to put the RE4 camera angle into it and it fucks the game up. Whatchamacallit? That's Soki's game, right, Donna Drew?

So Tatsunoko made me like the character, but it fucking sucks. Onimusha 2 and 3 are fucking rock solid, awesome game. But it has that cool guy you might like because he looks like he was designed by Yashiro Naito, remember? It's a doctor with glasses and he punches you and then your bones break. There's a lot of that cool stuff going on, but none of it is preferable to Saminosuke. It's true. None of it.

Or Janganon. Janganon. So yeah, that got pulled off. You want to talk fucking licensing deals, holy fucking shit. He wouldn't fucking do the English voice acting in the game. Oh, I forgot that. He did his own character in France, but when the magic pixie gives him the ability to speak English or Japanese, it's another guy.

It's just some other guy. He refused. The Janganon totally speaks English. I can see that. He's an actor. You seem as lazy. Do that shit. I don't mean lazy bad.

He's just like... No, babe. The reason why I assume is because when you're on a movie set, you actually don't have to talk all that much, like comparatively to a game that's like 12 hours or more. The 40 sessions are brutal. They're brutal. So he's like, fuck this shit. I don't know.

It's a method. I'm using the profession now. Other things getting yanked, this fucking sucks. If you want to get your Tetris going, Tetris Classic and Tetris Axis are both getting pulled off of the 3DS eShop. Do we have a movie please today? Well, the reason why is because you mentioned Tetris. Well, let me just...

So let me... Sure. You're fucking it up because the order was so carefully planned. Carefully. So... Particularly. I... Fucking...

Tetris. You're a fiend. You're a Tetris fiend. And I was craving some sort of action for the longest while, and they finally put it up not too long ago, the Classic and Axis games, where you can go and get them. And I was happy. That being said, the best Tetris game, Tetris DS, still has not been dropped anywhere or put on anything, and it's expensive to go buy a copy of that shit on the show.

So like, there was nothing for a while, and this was a happy solution that made everyone fucking, yeah. Now they're pulling that shit off, and no one really knows why, and it sucks. And they're suspecting that it could be because Ubi's Tetris game is about to come out. No, it did come out. Or already did come out, is that the case? Well, that's why I was gonna... And there's speculation that Ubi's saying they don't want competition on this, so they're

clearing these games off. I don't know if they have that kind of sway. You know what I mean? Like, if they can get Nintendo to fucking pull games off the eShop because they think it's competing, but if it is because of that, that's horseshit. So I'm not gonna say Ubi please because I don't know. That's not even the Ubi please. That's part of it.

Okay. Part of it is that their Tetris game is broken, and everything doesn't work, and they're screen tearing and slow down, and everyone's calling for refund. Did you say screen tearing? Screen tearing. In Tetris. Yes. Screen tearing is exclusively horizontal.

So how the fuck on a goddamn Tetris board that doesn't move this way? I haven't played the game itself. It's just that, like, I saw the story of Neo-Gathic on a lot of headways, and it goes, the new Tetris released on Xbox One and PS4, it is unplayable. That's ridiculous. So that in conjunction with also takedown those other, if that's true, to play our version that doesn't work. I'm not saying it's just as bad as, like, it's the Assassin's Creed Unity of Tetris

games. Man, I'm not going to say that they're the reason why it's getting pulled until we know for sure. Yeah, for sure. But that's super weird, especially because Tetris is a brand that actually has, they have their own standards company. It's like the Tetris company. Yeah.

And the Tetris company has their own guidelines, like their own compliance, and their own testers, and they make sure every game stands up to the Tetris legacy. The bar. Right. Tetris is important. And they put it through every copy through rigorous testing. So the shittiest possible version of a Tetris game you ever get. Should be pretty damn good.

Yeah. It should be still pretty good, exactly. And I'd say, like, that Tetris Underwater one on 360, it's probably the worst one that I can think of that I've played in recent years. Tetris is not, like, what happened to the Atari games and those fucking PS1 versions of Centipede and fucking Frogger were coming out. Frogger, yeah, exactly. It's not that.

It's Tetris. It's still Tetris. And like, they can only get so terrible. So I'm really confused by this one. Okay. Sorry. It wasn't screen tearing, but it's Ubisoft just fucked up Tetris. There's glitching, the game freezes, there's frame drops, and it corrupts your save data.

So not nearly as bad as screen tearing, but this was just, like, again, pushed out. Fuck, dude. Not great. This is not great. So, yeah, if you have a copy of Tetris DS, just leave that shit in your cartridge slot. Call it a day. Call it a day. That's all I got for you, man.

I don't know. Fuck. And I was mentioning JoJo getting canceled, the other day, not canceled, JoJo. All JoJo canceled forever, rather JoJo getting pulled, and to go back to that. Let's pull JoJo's. The wool was pulled from over our eyes. The Eyes of Heaven? Yeah.

Oh, nice. We thought that was the fucking 2D Fighter's follow-up to the original All-Star Battle which led our expectations to be low. And it's super-tuper-not. It's an arena game. It's a 3D Fighter. It's not a 3D Marston. No.

It's third-person camera, split-screen, jump victory versus. Yeah, no, that's it. That's what I was going for. Yes. This has way more potential. This is a better choice, in my opinion, because they don't know how to make the really good 2D Fighter. So they might have a better chance in a genre like this.

I totally agree. I can be less precise. I totally agree. The CyberConnect that's developing this series. Yes, the CyberConnect. They're taking the same models. And the same moves and all that stuff, like same animations. And they're changing the camera angle, and they're changing the genre, and I think it's

for the best. And they're adding a shit ton of characters. Shit ton of characters. Yeah. Like one of the first characters that was shown off was fucking Stroheim. This is weird. This is weird because it is the opposite of the Budokai series, in that Budokai started as a 2D, 2.5D fighter.

And then they went Tenkaiichi and that fucking ruined it. But in this case, the switchover might be the still thing that saves you. I think there might have been one or two Tenkaiichi's that were fine. I think it's like after Tenkaiichi, when they stopped calling it that, and started calling it Raging Blast, and whatever, with that was right. The camera behind this Gimbal character, not as good as the two guys on screen fighting. I love you, Bid for Power. Yo!

Yo! Bid for Power. The game that I went to a store to buy Quick 3 for, and that was the first time where it's like I got a bunch of money in my bank account one time, because an aunt died and she gave me some money. And she gave me some money and then she's really sweet and whatever, and I went to a store and I was like, I'm going to buy Quick 3. And that was the first time where like, sorry sir, your card is declined because you have

no more money. That was the first time I had money and I didn't know how to keep track of it, like electronically. And then I just got, so I can't get Bid for Power, I said to the guy, because I can't get Quick 3 and unfortunately Bid for Power never released. Oh, well it did. Well it did, but not in the form we wanted. But then it did. But not in the form, oh wait, yes.

The patch much later. The secret month later zip file that Mysteries appeared on the internet that put all the Dragon Ball shit back in. Yeah, so JoJo. JoJo is getting turned into a 30th reaction game, and yeah man, it's tag. So you think this will come out here? Yeah. Considering the first one did such fucking gangbusters numbers.

Well over here. Over there it did gangbusters numbers, and then it was enough to say why not bring it over here. But we don't know if it performed here. Yeah. I'd say, but. I would much appreciate it. In a digital form at the very least, I say why not, you know.

But you'll still be able to play the Japanese version regardless. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm all for this change, because like I said, it's like you tried and you know. You tried. It was what it was. So that's JoJo.

There also is a new announced Minecraft story mode. A lot of people are asking us to comment on this. By Telltale Games. And I think our comments are, yep, that was announced. Telltale announced Minecraft story mode. It's not going to be about Steve Sylvester, but he's probably going to be in it. This is like, man. So not when he was making Minecraft, kept promising features like a final boss and

like a story mode and shit like that. And Minecraft was incremental, right? It's like he was in beta and then you add a little bit here, add a little bit there. But he wanted a goddamn final release. So he just threw in a fucking bunch of bullshit where you fight a fucking shit dragon and said, yeah, that's that's the fucking story. And people were like, yeah, the game's really good. And I enjoyed it anyway.

But this isn't a fucking story. Come on. And now we get this like years later as a separate product. Like, come on. Plus after he's left the left mine. Come on. And it's made by a different developer. Like, let's be honest.

This is basically just Lego the movie, the game, not Lego Lego, the movie, the game. But not Lego. Not Lego. Exactly. That's one of the biggest mansion in Hollywood somehow. That he outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé for. That's so nuts, dude. What a man of the people.

But you know what? The fact that video games are there, you know what I mean? That's like, yeah, dude, fine. And hip-hop's like, wait, what? No. You got that shit, man. No, it's us. Isn't it?

Yeah, you know? Jay's like, who? Literally who? When less players have more subscribers than Vivo channels. There's going to be a day where Prince is going to walk into a fucking club, and they say, I'm sorry, sir, and PewDiePie walks past him. And he has the fucking nervous breakdown and all fucking nervous breakdowns. And all the girls are wearing PewDiePants.

Okay, like, that word is now in my head forever, and I love it. I love that word so much. I don't know what it is. It's something sweet, I bet. It's exactly what it sounds like. Okay. It's just his face. Yeah, it's a brofist.

It's a brofist. Yeah. You know the brofist? It's a brofist in Canada. Bro Army. Bro Army. It's like, okay, imagine, like, fucking Louis Vuitton, except the logo is not Louis Vuitton. It's the fist brofist.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brofist. PewDiePants. Whatever. It wasn't exactly what I thought it was. I don't understand kids. I don't understand the kids these days. They watch these.

Hey, kids, if you're listening to this, explain yourself to us in the email section. You know what? What? Tak Fuji. I understand Tak Fuji really well because he speaks fantastic English and I love that. He speaks better English than we do. We understand. Have you seen that fucking conference yet?

Oh, fuck. What are you talking about? Because we talked about this like a while ago and you said, you know, someone hasn't seen it. No, that's not the Nami. Okay. I fucking know that conference. So good.

Um, Tak Fuji speaks to us on a spiritual level and he is now leaving Konami after 10, I think many years, many years, many years of working there. And more, the coolest thing about the announcement is the fact that, you know, he's been on Twitter and he's such a good sport. Yeah, he's a good guy. He's been, he's been like fucking like saying, like, yeah, like, um, I'm leaving, I'm leaving the Konami, but, you know, I want all my troops on Twitter to still stay in touch, you know. I have the most extreme Twitter.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like so many extreme years at Konami. He's great. He's hamming it up. That he's fucking video game history. It's amazing. One of the integral cornerstones of the industry. And if you don't know what we're talking about, it's, uh, what year is it?

It's 2012. 2012. 2000. No, I think nine. Oh, I think it's 20. I thought it was. No, 10. Okay.

Hold on. Shit. Horrible. Oh, fuck. Konami press conference. Oh, yeah. And what's the autocomplete? Konami.

Oh, I can't. Oh, my new phone, the new keyboard. It's bad. I don't buy this phone. It's pretty fast, but I'm typing in mo-bobby, like, Konami press, 2010. Okay. That's 2010. In between everything.

Thanks, autocomplete. Thanks, Google autocomplete. Um, there's a new game announced from- God damn it, it's the fucking, the preview picture is the guy staring at the bag. It's good. Back in the guy's hand. Konami. You gotta do it.

Konami 2010 press conference. No, I was talking to a Konami employee and they're talking to me about that moment. The guy that we met at E3, he was just like, yeah, a lot of people were like, after that, we're like, dude, why were you doing that? And he goes, what? I did. And he doesn't, he didn't know what it looked like. Yeah.

And he's just, I just, like, our stage was so crowded, I just, there's nowhere for me to go. This fucking liar is- Oh, that's the best. Anyway, a new game announced. So, uh, Boss Studios, the guys that made, um, uh, Surgeon Simulator, yes, uh, have showed off some really early footage of this new game called Worlds of Drift. And it's, it's alpha.

It's absolutely alpha. Like real alpha. Real alpha. That's pre-alpha. Like real alpha. That shit's so alpha, dawg. And what it is, is, um, they're just basically showing this concept that they have. And it's, you play this like, it's a cool little art style, um, a little bit, um, uh,

journey-ish in some senses, like, you know, kind of like a little mystical thing. And you're a little hooded, like, kid, uh, and you're just, like, grapple hook swinging off of floating- Well, you're, you're on board. Yeah, off of floating islands, you know, and they show you multiplayer of a bunch of kids swinging off of the islands and stuff and whatnot. And it's, like, a more advanced version of what the Bionic Commando Spider-Man guy was doing, but way further along, um, not, but again, still really alpha.

And then it shows you them swinging together, and then they get together and start putting parts on a flying ship, and then the flying ship takes off, and then they're on top of it and swinging off of it and stuff. And that's all they got, right? And they're just kind of like, we don't really have anything else yet, but if you have, if this interests you- Yeah, exactly. At all, or if you have some ideas, or if you think this is something that you might want

to check out, go to the website for it, uh, and we're, we want to hear your feedback because we think it's kind of cool, but we don't really know where to go with this. It's not a kickstart, it's just them saying, yo, check this out. Exactly. What do you think? It's worldsadrift.com, and like, yeah, they just straight up, uh, they're like, we don't know, we don't know, we have a thing. We're a drift.

And maybe in the world, we don't know, and it's like, it's like, this is a weird stage of video game, like, do we have a thing? Yeah. Is this a thing? You would never see anything this far behind closed doors, you know, back in the day, and now it's straight up like, hey guys, it's an idea, maybe, maybe, I don't know, tell us, you know? We don't know.

Um, frankly, we don't want to know. They need a man in a suit to come and tell them that it needs to be a sequel. Yeah. Don't have an ending, just have DLC. Brutalist Fishing has one of the best endings in a game I've ever seen. You accidentally fish up your dad who is in an ice cube, and then you have to shoot him into space, and then his hat falls down from space, and the hat says, thank you, son. That's ridiculous.

That's amazing. You're a dickhead. That's pretty good. Cause I was gonna say, are you going like frog fraction style? It's almost. Right? It's like this weirdly emotional ending to a game about shooting fish. Yeah.

That's, wow. Dude, when's that frog fractions game gonna come out? We don't know. We never know, and that's the best part. It's the best part. It could already be. Right. Yeah.

As you're saying that. As you're saying that. You won't tell anybody. Um, there's a new leak of the steam controller prototype. Looks like a goddamn controller. Updated. So it looks very similar to the last one, except now the- Breaking news.

The orb on the left is a D-pad. It's a disc thing. And it's still really hard to tell until you get hands on it, but- I tried to get- I'm down. I tried to get into that program. They could just get it and like, no, that's limited now. I'm still conceptually down for what I'm seeing here, uh, for the use of anything

but a fighting game. Like, cause what they want to do, they want to do a fucking controller that can play old mass and keyboard games. Okay. Yes. Which is the most ambitious thing they could possibly do. That can't be anyone ever, yeah. Like they want me to be able to play Baldur's Gate with this thing.

But I could see like a fucking scum-VM style game being played with like giant track ball side on the right. And then the D-pad is selecting your options below and your dialogue. That makes perfect sense. You know? I'd have no problem with that. But you know, they're still going through iterations. This one, yeah, looks like it might be interesting.

Maybe. Yeah. Um, less to complain about, certainly. Yeah, the double track thing. What a compliment. That thing was weird. There's less to complain about. Well, that's thanks.

Removing negatives is the same as adding positives. Super best friends play. There's less to complain about. Speaking of less to complain about, have you seen the trailer for the new Don't Knock game? No. Oh, um, Life is Strange? Life is Strange.

That's the one. So, uh, Life is Strange. I didn't see it. It's, uh, this looks like it might be interesting. I don't know. Well, the trailer itself describes it as a playable indie movie with time travel elements. I like how everyone is like, we can make a David Cage game, because he can't. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. You know what I mean? So here, from what the trailer seems to be, here's what I'm hoping. Oh, I see what you're talking about. And that's a bit of, remember me, but an entire fleshed out game. Around things like that. That's not bad combat. And, well, nothing but storytelling.

No, yeah. I know why this game is on the docket, because of this chick with the fucking hat and the short blue hair. Well, no, I just go watch the trailer. It's, you know, it's the possibly going to be the fun, good bits of, remember me. No way. Without the combat stuff. What was that?

The remixing. Everything but remixing. Oh, yeah, that's true. So, uh, if this, if this game turns out to be that, and then everything in between is just straight up watch the movie and choose the dialogue, that's fine. I'll accept that. And this is, this is episodic. And I think the trailer said the first episode comes out January 31st.

Yeah, exactly. So, at the very least, it has a, you know, it like, like, it's, it's, it's angled like a fucking Michael Sarah movie. You know what I mean? Okay. In the sense of like, in the sense of like the, the, the, there's like a Juno, um, uh, slackers kind of feel to it. Yeah.

You know what I mean? And like summertime girl in high school bits and stuff like that. But with time travel. But then there's some, some weird time travel shenanigans that are happening. I feel awkward just thinking about Michael Sarah. Everyone does. Yeah. That's exactly it.

Except when he does Jojo shit. Except when he does Jojo shit. Yeah. It's a setting that I haven't seen in a game. So, you know what? That's true enough. Down to see what, what goes on there. And you know, they've proven that.

It was published by Square, right? It was published by Square, not Capcom. They're done. They're done with you. Oh, we used you. You failed. Well, goodbye. Sense in.

But, uh, you know, Square picked it up because, hey man, after, um, after the murdered soul suspect, their cravings for middle of the road, European developers seems strong. Again, episodically is something that I think something like Square Enix and other publishers are like, yeah, let's take a, let's try this out episodically. And because, you know, you, you, I suppose it must cost less somehow. Somehow. Because you can tank it after episode one of it sucks. I could see, I could see Don't Nod being.

I've been rising to know that. Yeah. I could see Don't Nod. It wouldn't win a million dollars. And a couple. God, why do I know that? What? Like a couple games from now, when they know what they're doing, if they, if they're like

a cyber connect in terms of like, they're, they're the go-to guys for like a cool remix memory scene type thing in a game, I could see that happening if they clean up their shit a bit. Well, because again, remember me that those sections were really well done. Just the rest. It's weird though, because like the people that are the go-to for that are the people who made ghost trick at Capcom that Don't Nod used to work for, so like, what? So fucking weird.

We'll see. We'll see. But yeah. Remember me was not good. This is what I remember. I'm also, I'm like you said, I'm on board for a world where everyone is like, I can do David Cage better than David Cage, you know, because he hasn't yet. I want as many people as possible to fucking stomp on his days.

Very did David Cage. Way better. Way better. More interesting. More interesting. And likable characters. I like those characters. Speaking of likable characters.

Oh, you're, you're getting really good at this. Oh, you're so good at this. That F-Zero game you never played is finally coming to the virtual console. What? What? What? F-Zero GP Legends for the Game Boy Advance based on the anime. You're right.

I never played that. And that sounds awesome. And that's the one where Captain Falcon punches the universe. There's cutscenes in this game, I think. There's like little anime things. There's bits that tie in with the anime. So, you know, but yeah, that's coming up. How about we release a new F-Zero game?

How about that? That'd be cool. Maybe if this does really well, we'll think about it. What sucks is that like if you boot up Mario Kart 8, you can actually just play F-Zero. Play in one course. So let's take a look at the Captain Falcon amiibo sales and then we'll determine whether or not that's good enough to make a new F-Zero. Okay, they all sold out and that's not enough.

So it's not, you know. We'll make that many copies. Exactly that many copies. No, literally I can actually see a fucking meeting in which they're like, dude, Captain Falcon thing only sold $800,000, not worth it. And some guy says, you only printed $800,000. How the fuck is this? He's like, dude, I got the numbers, the numbers don't lie.

So, you know, hey, and just the dude championing F-Zero is having a fucking nervous breakdown. We can start our new segment, Amiibo Watch, because I want to see where this goes if not straight into the toilet. Yeah. Right, hopefully Nintendo actually sold it. We're in the gray market, we're almost at the black market. Well, they just announced that one piece Super Grand Battle X has Amiibo support. It looks like the shittiest fucking thing in the world.

And it looks like you're putting costumes on your fighters and they're- Oh look, Luffy's dressed up like fucking Luigi. I can't tell if he was doing any powers that were. I know that a couple of people I know that love One Piece went nuts for this. I don't think that's that bad. I think it's- I like One Piece just fine. I think the idea of Luffy dressing up as fucking Mario or Marth is the fucking stupidest

shit in the world. I think that's fucking stupid. Can I make Zoro look like Ganon? Yeah, probably, but like that's like, eh, why not, because it looks fucking dumb. I think when it's a third party thing in this One Piece and it's popular, like it's a good move. It's like, it's not to the individual person and go, yeah, it's stupid or I don't care or whatever.

Or, I love Nintendo characters, but One Piece is, I don't like One Piece, but as a business move, like, that's a use of Amiibo and it's more popular franchise. I don't know how to describe this, but like, Bayo dressing up as Samus or Peach or whatever, that felt natural. That felt fine. I don't feel it feels any more natural. JoJo, Jotaro is going to dress up as fucking Tingle, like what about when the Tekken characters dressed up like Mark for Tekken Tag 2?

That was fucking stupid. Okay, fair enough. I mean, I'm of the opinion that I want more of that Samus and Monster Hunter style, like Monster Hunters great, because Monster Hunters goofy bullshit is all the felines. And plus, Monster Hunters all about different costumes and armor sets and things, like dress up already. Like, bare nose, drafts, and springboard pirates bouncing around the place is serious business.

No, it's not. I just don't think, like, the art, like, meshes well at all. Ehhhhh. I think you're being a badass. I think it's fine. Wow, okay. And I want to see Amiibo supporting different things. Of course, the best version of it would be Nintendo characters in One Piece art style,

just showing up. Yeah. That would actually be, like- Just straight up in the cast. But the costume thing is a little bit lazy in comparison to what that could be, which is, like, actual playable Mario shows up in the outside Luffy. But I feel like in every game like this, like, Nintendo and people who own IPs are way more okay with costumes of their IPs being used than the actual character themselves showing

up. It feels like there's a lot more, like, concern in, like, making sure the brand is right. Plus that One Piece game, like, I think the One Piece game is coming out soon, or what? Uh, yeah, it's not, I don't think it's out yet, but it's a pretty new trailer. It's coming out relatively soon. Pretty new trailer, you know. So, yeah. There's just not enough time to implement, like, an actual, fully featured thing.

So, just, but either way, Amiibo will watch. They're not dead yet. They ain't dead yet. There's another one, eh? Is there another game announced? Either Yoshi's Woolly World, I think, got Amiibo, they just announced has Amiibo support too. Oh, okay.

You mean the game that you're in? Yeah, my game. Your game. That's the one. I mean, I played Wii U with my friend, like I said, Rocky came over, and he saw, like, an ad for Yoshi's Woolly World, and he goes, wh-whoa. Who? And they go, are you guys, and I go, what?

No, no, that's Michelle here, and he goes, oh, it's spelled differently. Yeah. But dude, I thought that for a second, and he's like, I haven't seen a lot of your stuff, or he like, he actually thought that we had something to do with it. Shame on Rocky for not seeing the water. Yeah, that's true. Um, yeah. And Star Fox was announced to get Amiibo support.

Miyamoto said that. I find it so weird that things about that game are getting announced before that game is announced. That is the easiest Amiibo support ever, because all you have to do is have your little character box just go, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, brr, with Falcons sitting there instead, going, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, okay, punch. The Star Fox game is so weird, because it's like, it comes out this, like, next year, and it still feels like they announced it, like, three months ago.

Yeah. I feel like they didn't actually announce it. They didn't technically, but there's press releases that say New Star Fox. Like, when they're saying, like, Miyamoto's not ready to officially announce it, but he wants people to know that it's there. But like, when you're talking about this game that is coming out, but like, there isn't even a goddamn logo. There's like nothing.

There's nothing. There's no direct fee to it. Remember, it was the game awards where they taught, there was Miyamoto and Anuma, and then they were like yucking it up, and then Miyamoto goes, oh yes, my Star Fox game, yes, it's going very well. In fact, it's going so well, it will be out before your Zelda game. Haha. Yeah.

And he's like, but my game is coming out in 2015. That means it's coming out even before that. And he's like, yeah, totally. It's, it's gonna be, it's gonna be the Doc Lewis punch out of Star Fox. You know what I mean? Oh, that, I wouldn't like that. It's gonna be a really light. It's really short.

Like, it like, hmm. I don't know. Star Fox 64 is pretty short. So Star Fox. You know what? They're not long games. But the way this is cut being treated, it feels like it's not being rammed off to be something like Assault, which is much longer, but much less than every way.

All you need is 15 stages with branching paths, and those stages are good. Mm-hmm. Get better scores. I don't know. We, we, we'll see. I just figured if it was gonna be a bigger thing, they would have had way more on it by now. Like a fucking logo or a single screenshot or even a piece of art.

But then you can have the cool thing of here's everything about Star Fox, it comes out in two months. Directly to you. Like, and then, and then we, like we've said before, that's either an awesome thing or it's like, oh, could you promote this a bit more? It's the retroactive Wii U pack-in game. Now, now you can, Pat, you can shit on, you know, like, um, Nintendo characters appearing in costume form in, um, one piece.

One piece all you want. I just think the art looks bad. That's it. That's the point. We're just showing up as costumes in modded Street Fighter, specifically the ones done by- Wully, Wully, just- Calendantar666.

We give Wully links to put in the podcast. This is one of those things where I'm just like, looking at my computer and Wully just posts a link to me and I know this is a link that all this motherfucker just wants to put this on the podcast because you could just play as Bayonetta and Samus now. Well, here's what, but you didn't even see the whole of it, man. What do you mean? Because this fucking dude is doing the best mods. Because people have been modding Street Fighter for years now, of course, all of the crazy

costumes. They go from fair to great. Sure. You know, and every once in a while there's something like, oh shit, yeah, that blanket really does look like Predator. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever, you know? But this dude is doing models that look actually official, to the point where-

They look like they actually made them in Street Fighter 4, like in that, like the Bayonetta one, like Max actually did a video about it, um, but he's using Bayonetta as a Crimson Viper. And, like, it just, it looks like a fucking cannon Bayonetta. And the new, the new one that I didn't see a video of yet is Link as Cody, and the Knife is the Master Sword. No, I saw that. No, I saw Link versus Link Battle as fucking Snick.

It's really cool. There's, like, there's Samus in there, there's Hall- Samus uses Cammy's, uh- Yes. Hall Buster, um, Armor, um, uh, whatchamacallit, Zankief. Zankief and the Master Sword. Is this the guy that made Ice Cream Cone Sagat? Vanilla Sagat.

Because that's the one. I, I, I, that's the one. Have you seen this? I know that, but I don't think it's him. It's him. It, that's, of all these fucking modded ones, that's easily my favorite. I'm pretty sure it's not him. It's Sagat's just an Ice Cream Cone with arms and legs.

Um, but, like, Spider-Man, Phelan, and shit like that, where it just, it's just, it's not even, like, a mod anymore, it just looks official, is how much work he's putting into it. Like, fucking kudos to this dude. Um, I put a link to it. You gotta, you gotta see it. I'm impressed. The other one, I haven't seen the video of the bayonet.

I saw a video of Link. I saw a video of Samus. Dude, she's got the fucking hair ribbons, man. I don't know. I saw, I saw an image of it. Yeah. Like, that's, you know, that's impressive. Um, yeah, there's that, uh, there's a new, well, it's not really even new.

They announced this a while ago, but there's, uh, some footage of it, I guess, you know, early teaser. Uh, retro noir mecha game. Okay. Called Urkela. Urkela. And, uh, our style is again, we were using this so much, but it, you know, hyperlite slash below super time for us.

Right. Pixel art mix. Yeah. That style pixel art, um, with like, um, monochromatic, uh, cannibals style. Yeah. Grayscale. That's what you're thinking. Well, yes.

But like also that type of like background and like, yeah, and, uh, you are a, a lonely mecha wandering through this land and like big, crazier, scarier mechs come out and I guess you've got to deal with them. Yeah. But like the trailer looks like it might be interesting. Um, you know, just wanted to give a shout out to that. What's it called again? Urkela.

Urkela. And I was trying to figure out who's making this. Like, is there, there's no names behind it. There's no studio names. Just by my mysterious developmental force, everything just refers to the title of the game. Nothing refers to any of the people. So I have no credits to give.

And no one's making it, Willie. Making itself. Yes. It's just being made. Just being made as we see it. Uh, there was a poll for what street fighter five characters do you want to see over on event hubs? I see a lot of people.

A lot of people are getting super salty about this poll. This is hilarious, but also awesome. Tell me. Tell me. I don't know why people are getting salty over a poll that's on event hubs. Exactly. Unless it's on the Capcom blog. But you know, nowadays event hubs is where most people are going for that sort of thing.

You can also call a lot of fighting game like hype from it so you can see where people are thinking. Yeah. I guess. You know, and it has like every, every like, um, every vote has a couple hundred like people behind it. Yeah. So it's, you know, it's not, it's a pretty sizable population.

It's not. Plus it's like a million characters. So this poll, I am really happy with the results because the blank is at first. Uh, no, no, no, that's why I'm happy. Fuck off. You see, I'm not that stupid and biased with my shit. Calm down. Calm down.

I'm a bitches every day about bike and not being an excerpt. Yes. Because, but that's, listen to where I'm going with this and you would hear why it's the exact same thing, motherfucker. All right. The point is, let's hear it. The top five characters are number one, Alex, two, Karen, number three, Q, number four, Urian, number five, Armica, six, Oro.

Those are literally the characters that in every poll, do you get my point here? What do them and bike and have in common? They're not around. There's only Q, right? There is only Q. The people that they want to see most are people that have been gone for a long time. That have been denied. Exactly.

That's true. That's awesome. I'm so happy that it's not like, Ken is like number fucking 20 or whatever. Well, to be fair, that's because most people assume that those characters are going to be in the game. I'm probably going to be sure. But, but like, you know, the, the, the, the, Alex, Alex, Alex is, Alex is out on is number one.

What? Yes. I, I, Q and Urian are dear to my heart, but like, I'm actually amazed that he is number one. Like I want him to be number one, but I'm glad that everyone else is. He was the most egregious, like, missing person from four. Plus, he was like almost, uh, like really close to what we thought, like when that, that other secret, uh, Ultra Street Fighter IV character was announced, and you saw those

images that really looked like it was him. The entire top 10, with the exception of Jury and Cammie, are all old characters that we haven't seen in a fucking long time. Sean is up there. Fucking Eagle is up there. Rocky just bowed. Yeah. Sean like a million times.

He did. I asked him, hey, did you see footage of Street Fighter V yet? And he goes, no. And then he goes, it's Sean in it. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You know.

Oh, I love his consistency. And then like way down at the bottom of the list, who's dead last, who's dead last? Yeah. You want, okay, well. It's gotta be Dan. No, it's not Dan. No, there's no way to say it. Number 60 is E Honda.

Number 61 is L Forte. Oh. 62 is Rufus. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's not surprising. 63 is Joe from Street Fighter I. That's not fair.

The black guy. No, that's Joe's the white guy. Mike is. You're right. Sorry. But that's not fair though. Number 64 is Lee. Nobody wants Lee.

Nobody wants him. Yen and Yang's dad. Man, Mike Rossum cry though. Yeah. But no man, like Rufus is way down there. Nobody wants him. Well guys. Is King Cobra on the list?

Hey, here's the thing about Rufus, right? A lot of people who play Rufus don't like Rufus. They just play him. Like they play him because he's good and everyone who doesn't like Rufus fucking hates Rufus. I fucking hate Rufus. The middle of the list is just populated with all of the favorites from over the years. And that's great. It makes sense.

That's great. I'm so happy. Is there a number on that list that says new character? No. I would have liked to see that. I would have liked to see that. That's a given. Well, you're a given.

I am a given. To be fair though, when Street Fighter 4 came out and every new character was shown, everyone in the world would bitch about them. I'd like to see Viper. Not us. Yeah, no, but not us. But the fighting game community at large hated everyone for a while. Everyone got mixed reviews.

I remember Viper was received pretty well. Except everything was like, everyone was like, why is she like an SDK character? And some people will complain that her tits are too big. And then when Abel came out, I saw people saying, oh, this is so bland and generic. I feel Abel's the best one. Okay. I agree. My complaint still stands where I'm like, I think Abel's fine because he's a martial

artist. That's totally off of the course. I just wish he had long pants. I just don't like his shorts. That's all. You know, and it's a random dumb thing to be because he's an MMA guy and MMA guys have shorts. I get that.

I just think it would look better with long pants as a design. That's it. I'll go fight Dana White. Or we could have gotten little girl Abel. Little girl Abel. Little girl Abel. A little bit great. Yeah.

Also acceptable. But like Jury is like Jury, I think is one of the best female character street fighter ever now because she's different and she's evil. And she's Jolene Kujo. Yeah. Yeah. She is. I've never been that associated until now.

Really? Yeah. He said it like a hundred times. I know. Joe, what's your name? Joe Terose. No. Jury is absolutely 100% inspired.

Yeah. I just mean inspired. Yeah. Modeled closely. Motif. Yeah. Like Webbs and such. Even her hairstyles.

Same thing. Same thing. Okay. Also, we talked a lot about the fact that early street fighter five footage, you know, it looks like a bit rough in some places, but it's got pretty damn good overall. But it looks cool in a lot of other places. Like I like the hard hits getting blocked and not continuing. Yeah.

The kicks and punches. Exhousing off. Stalked. Yeah. For any game, especially fighting games, I always have a problem like when they're shown to early is getting over, like getting over the fact that like HUDs and stuff are not final. Yes.

Because HUDs and design almost like that for fighting games are super important. Like when I see them and they're awesome, they're the most awesome thing. Like that's one of the things I like about Persona 4 Arena and all that. Yeah. Like it's so awesome. So when I see, when it's like not because it's perfect and I'm like, oh God, I don't even want to look at that until it's done. HUDs go through more changes than anything.

Easiest thing to change. Yeah. They go through so many fucking iterations. But when I saw it, I was like, this is, I hope it's early. I know. I'm just saying that's personally, it's something for me hard to enter. And here's the comparison, right? We talk about how Street Fighter 4 looked when it had a reference of it.

And now there's a link putting it all together. I have in the docket for you guys to check out. Go actually see the early S footage of 4 back when all we had was the screenshots and Seth Killian talking over video footage. Yeah. Love videos and stuff like that. Look fucking rough. And you see like the, you see the revenge meter up top and shit like that.

Yeah. It was all like all over the place. So, you know, it just like Street Fighter 5 looks a lot better off in this. Compared to where it was. Yeah. Absolutely. Than 4 did, you know, and the, and the earlier versions of 4 where we never saw any video where they had thick black outlines and it was Ryu and Ken fighting in like an airplane

hand. They look like the fucking worst garbage ever. It's unbelievable. Like, like rejected shitty SNK game that never made it style visuals. Disgusting. It looked like one step above Street Capcom fighting all stars. Like it looked that rough. One step below.

Oh, one step below. Wow. You're going the opposite way. It's a church, dude. It's fucking awesome. Ryu's hair is, he's balding. He has wisps on top of his head. His eyes were all weird.

And their, their stances were like the knees twisted all forward and back. It was good times. So no, 5 is way better along. So just keep that in mind, you know, they didn't put up the, the big bang banner over all the footage saying this is a work in progress like some other trailers do these days. But it's always a work in progress. Come on. And speaking of things that, you know, are works in progress or never going to happen,

Sakaguchi on his personal YouTube page put up a trailer for a game that he canceled from this walker like fucking six years ago or so. Cry on. Cry on. And like, so we heard about this back then, we didn't, we didn't get any details on it really. And now he put up like a full on production teaser and it seems to be a girl in her colossus is the bit, or a girl in her knack almost, if you go watch the trailer, it's really

that's what you're going for. Well, it was the art style is a little, a little, a little like he was not here. You don't have to. Yeah. No, it's like, it's like a cell shaded Ghibli style, you know, girl running from these monsters that look like Ghibli monsters, you know, like dark little creatures. And she's got a little golem on her back and, you know, she falls off the edge of a little thing and then the golem falls and then she drops and prays to it and it becomes a big

colossus and saves her punches. That's what you mean by knack, that it grows and gets bigger and so on. And then the end of the trailer is her sitting on its shoulder and it's this giant fucking golem just overlooking like a scene. I'm like happy and saddened that Miss Walker is kind of like probably going to make mobile games for the rest of their lives. Why is that happy? Happy because they found success with it, you know, because like Terra Battle is actually

doing what was done, but like, I loved You Love Lost Odyssey, I love Last Story and it's like I kind of get this feeling that they're probably never going to go back to console big RPGs again. Not on their own dime. Yeah, that's what it's going to be. You can't keep a good Gooch down. That should be like on the boxes of all those games. No one can figure out what his angle is with putting this out there on Christmas.

Maybe Garner. Because the team is totally different. Those people are all gone now. They're working with tri-ace on this too. So yeah, trust the Gooch, trust the Stash, smell the Gooch, smell it, then you'll trust it. That's how you know. This mustache gave you emotions.

You made the live stream. People are apparently still buying live streams in your mustache. People are apparently. Life stash. All right. Well. Hey, I'm sorry. The stash stream.

All right. I'm done. I'm done. People are buying what? People are still buying Super Street Fighter IV for 3DS. They bought 100,000 copies over the course of two months. I don't know what's going on. It's the most successful version.

I don't know what's going on. There's some guesses that people really like easy operation. I don't believe that. I don't know what it is. You could say, oh, it sold like, you know, two million copies. Well, it's because it's this 3DS launch game. That's there. You've explained it.

That's done. But then it's like, no, it sold 100,000 copies like just this past year. In September. From September to the end of October. In September, they sold 100,000 copies and it's a million and it's just no one knows what's going on. I think it's just, it's a common game. It's cheap and it's like people that get new 3DSes just see it.

Oh, it's a fighting game. You just get it. Maybe. But that's a lot of incidental purchases. You know what I mean? Yeah. It makes sense to me. Like unless there's some kind of fucking like hack exploit that lets you play home brah

that nobody knows about. Yeah. Yeah. There's a certain 3DS or I guess handheld games in general, like I told you about this before is that like they release some random call of duty on the DS and it sells nothing when it comes out. Yeah. But then over a year it sold 800,000 copies.

It's the long tail. It's the long tail. When you do, when you do Baio two numbers on your 25th month on the charts, you know what I mean? Like what's going on there? I don't know. I don't know what, but it's a fucking weird one. Americans are buying it to grind it into dog food to make their dog strong.

Please eat the 3DS Gim. I just made that up. I know, but it sounded good. Yeah, I know, right? If you want to write us a letter and tell us about how strong your dog is. That's awesome letter. That's a great letter. We would like that.

I'll write that letter to you. Well, they won't pick those because it makes him insecure about his ability to kill dogs. But like I would like to read it. You fucking crazy. I had a dog. He was super strong and cool. See, that's how you kept it. If it was so smart.

Because it could fight you off. Best dog. Yeah. If it was so smart, how come it's dead? Oh, that's terrible. That's fuck off. That's horrible. Because the fucking Grenadian rats got to it.

Oh my God. That's an unbalanced fight. That's like three to one. If you want to tell us about your rat-based dog murder, fucking write us in at superbestfriendcastsdgmail.com. If you want to call Matt a fucking monster piece of shit for that joke, also write in for superbestfriendcastdgmail.com. You had shitting on everyone that worked retail last week. I worked retail.

I built up the shit. Well, I also had a dog that died tragically. So I can say that. Oh, I didn't. Oh yeah. No way I didn't. No. Like.

Wow. The way to fucking downright everyone. I started it. Matt, you fucking sucker punched it into the grave. There you go. I told you the stories already. No, you didn't. Let's leave that to that sad.

This is a good, happy podcast. Yeah, yeah. I didn't tell you, but when I had to feed Ralph, man. No. Ralph? Ralph. Oh. Yeah.

Back in Grenada, I fucking had to go feed Ralph, and like when it was five o'clock, that man, it was dinnertime, and Ralph knew it was dinnertime, but the fucking rats in the backyard knew it was dinnertime, and so they all came in swarming, surrounded like fucking pincer formation on him, and the food would be out there, and he'd kind of like pull himself up to start eating, but they'd keep fucking coming for it. So I had to go down there with the food and the stick to fight off the rats while my fucking dog ate dinner, and that was five o'clock every day, and it was like that scene in the goddamn last samurai, where Tom Cruise is surrounded, and he's flailing around with

the fucking spear, and they're like just rounding circles around them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel what the rats do in numbers, and I'm swinging and literally hitting the rats away, and they know that if they overwhelm, they can still get some meat, so they don't care about the numbers, and the dog is trying to get his dinner. I told you this story. You did not, man. I never had this story before.

There's no way. That, whoa. Like I appreciate the last samurai. That's like the darkest shit I've ever heard. Hey, why do we have free mails? My dog died on Christmas Day, actually. Why are we doing this? He did.

Are you serious? Yeah. He had him for seven years, and he had this sort of stomach problem, and he started throwing up everywhere. He brought him to the vet, and the vet's like, oh, I'm going to put him down, and that was on Christmas Day. Happy fucking new year. Yeah.

Jeez. I'm not joining in on this fucking shit. These fucking downers. Well, your dog's still fine? My current dog is still totally fine. Oh, okay. He's a Chihuahua thing. He'll live forever.

Well, let's start with this one, I guess. Fuckin' Apologies to whoever the fuck this is for sandbagging the shit out of your email. Eric wants to know. Sorry, Eric. I've recently been listening to some video game albums performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Wow. And I'm just wondering if you could pick a game to get a fully orchestrated soundtrack

with the instrumentation of your choosing, what would it be? To be honest, every game that I would think of this has already been done by either an orchestra or a C-remax. Okay. Well, my fucking go-to in a heartbeat is Icaruga. Of course it is. Icaruga. There's an orchestrated midi track of chapter one, but not two through five.

Yeah, you know what? And I goddamn want to hear Metempsychosis performed by an orchestra. There is one thing. They did do Resident Evil Orchestra, but the track, and they did do Medley of G. For Resident Evil 2, and they did a couple. They'd be great if at the orchestra they have a guy dressed up as G and comes out and yucks it up. Honestly, the Resident Evil Orchestra is like the listing.

The track listing is kind of pathetic because they say, okay, we're going to do every fucking game that's currently released, but we're going to still have it within the normal timeframe. So the game that you want gets like three tracks. There's another one that's like, it's a fucking 40-minute concert. And it's just like, no, man. I want to hear like track 11 on the Resident Evil 2 soundtrack, Secure Place. It's the fucking music that kicks in when you walk into the RPD hallway, main lobby. That is my ringtone now.

It's so fucking amazing. It's the best ambient thing ever with the piano. That needs to be, that needs to happen. All of those ambient tracks with slow piano need to happen. My number two, if I had to pick, a groove is number one by a fucking mile. Number two would be Mega Man Legends. Mega Man Legends 2 had some really great background music that would do great in orchestration. What about you, man?

I'd say different than an orchestra, they still perform live is like pretty much any song from Killer Instinct would probably be really awesome, like with like metal guitars and shit. It's already there though. Not all of them, because some of them are so electronic, but I'd like to hear the No More Heroes theme done in a cool orchestrated style. I'm glad you didn't say Final Fight, because that'd be rough to really, that main theme. The fucking guy with the composers trying to lead them in the timing of it, but you can't

because it's so fucked up. There's not an orchestrated, but there's like CD, like Final Fight CD had like more of a like a full-bodied selection of instruments to do that, and that sounds fine, it's not my favorite, but yeah, there's some that you can love, but they don't actually fit for an orchestra. Like the one that I was dreaming of for the longest time was Xenogears. I wanted it to be redone, and then OC Remix put out their fucking Human Plus Gears album, which is the humans part is tracks remixed in folk tunes and like organic music, and

then the back half is all the dark music done like electronic and grunge as shit, and it's a fucking amazing album, it's fucking great. And it's free, it's fucking free, that's the Human Plus Gears album from OC Remix. I'll pimp out Metroid Metal, it's good shit, it's just all the tracks from the original Just go to the fucking OC Remix album page, just go to the fucking OC Remix album page, it's fucking awesome. Yeah, pick a Mega Man X remix, go. Mega Man X remix?

Yeah. Storm Eagle. Air based, it's gotta be air based. Storm Eagle, yeah, that's the one, yep. What Ethan wants to know, what your New Year's resolutions are? None. No, I don't know. To not make New Year's resolutions anymore, which I'd succeed at every year, because it's

easy. Or isn't that a paradox? I kind of feel that, yeah, if you have New Year's resolutions, they should kind of be all year, they don't think you need a date to force you to do it, you're either gonna do it or you're not, and it's gonna be any time of the year. And the answer is you're not. So remember that time we tried to improve ourselves and then we gave up after one second? We failed.

Vic V... That's every day, that's not the New Year. Exactly. Vic V got the eyes of Bayonetta for Christmas. Good job. He opened his eyes to how awesome art books are, so now he's wondering what art books he should have on his shelf. He's been eyeing the Capcom design works.

Sure. That's a good place to go. That's a good place to go. I mean, your mileage depends on how much you like the game. How much you care about the stuff for the series. One of the best art books that I know of, even though I don't care for the series all that much, but God of War II specifically, the art book there is amazing. Okay.

And then you have to like, after seeing the Minotaur design in SMT, seeing the shitty Minotaur's of God of War is like a huge step back. But the actual like, remember that section in God of War II where there's that gigantic ice titan that's stuck in a cave and you're going around his face? That like conceptually, like it looks godlike. I've got a giant art book shelf and my favorites on that. If you care about this stuff, the Gynax Groundwork books are unbelievable. The Groundwork of Evangelion and the Groundwork of FLCL books are super fucking cool because

you see the tweening and then you see the, what should we call it, like the storyboarding that they used for a lot of episodes in addition to a bunch of like concept art and cool stuff. Why have you never told me that you had this? What is wrong with you? I assumed that you were a fan of these things, that you might love them enough. Being a fan, I'm sorry that you don't love them enough, Kat. Anyway. Oh God, does you see the fourth movie is going to come out?

Death Note has a really nice art book as well because like all that amazing like church stained glass window stuff is, you get to see the full, full spreads of that. Of course, Vagabond has, Vagabond, Vagabond is so fucking dope that there's literally, there's a book called Water and there's a book called, Oh God, you love that shirt. Yeah. I think it's called Earth. One is called Earth and one's called Water, I believe. And it's like the Water one is just all watercolors and the Earth one is just all hatching.

There you go. There you go. Beautiful. It's so beautiful. Now that you went beyond video games, I talked about it when I got it, but the Pacific Rim art book is because it has the schematics, the blueprints of the Yeagers and all the logos for each, like Striker Eureka's logo with that bulldog with the missile in its mouth.

Yeah. Those are awesome. See that new toy line, by the way? Sorry? New toy line of Yeagers coming out. Like, like, you mean just another wave of the same company or do you mean like something completely different? A giant new wave of like 13 or 14 new Yeagers.

Yeah, I think I saw it. And still no brawler are you coming. God damn it. It's going to take a long time to get there still. Yeah. But no, the Pacific Rim one, the Prometheus art book for actually explaining what the story was supposed to be. Like when you bought the extended Blu-ray, whatever, it taught you nothing.

It's only the art book that says, well, we were thinking of doing this that made sense, but that's what I'm going to say. Ah, fuck it. Don't do it. Just put a zombie. Yeah. That'd be great if the note is just a bunch of scratched out like scenes and it just put a zombie.

Udon did a really good job at putting out the Mega Man Zero works. And the Mega Man and the Mega Man X double book. Yeah. That thing is sick. That book, the Mega Man 20, 20th anniversary books, and the Uda Okami stuff where you can go to your comic shop and find those. The Okami stuff is outstanding. So that's a really good get.

I actually really like their tribute to their tribute books. You know what? Yeah. I mean, I never got the Darkstalkers one. I kind of stopped getting them after a little while, but the Street Fighter one's still great. And like, there's almost noch. Here's a shortcut.

Just go to the Udon site. You just go UdonEntertainment.com and they just have this section just called Art Books and you see that they've released like 50. Tons. Tons. They love them. Yeah. A lot.

There's like almost no way to get your hands on it these days, but if you ever did, the shadow of the Colossus art book is the shit as well because you'll want to see some unused Colossus designs. There you go. Yeah, yeah. We had some cool shit. There was like 24 originally, right? There was a lot.

And there were multiplayer based ones. Yeah, because back when it was Niko. Niko, exactly. Oh yeah, man. Vick V, that should sum you up nice. I hope we've given you enough options, Vick V. We're going to take one from... Fucking acknowledge my shitty pot.

He's not even standing back again. I can see him realizing it and he refuses. He refuses. He's taking it from... Okay, Will wants to know, do you think Kid Rikiris Uprising is a character action game? No, it's not. No, it's not. Next.

It's a wrist action game, Zinger. Oh. Okay. I called my own Zinger. How about that? Julius Piles says, this is an S-link question, social links are explained as the bond between two living things. That's right.

But the bond, it doesn't specify that the bond needs to be positive for both sides. So Strega using the Revenge Request website in P3 to get stronger with negative social links perhaps, it establishes that the Hermit S-link lets you do things, lets you level up your S-links through the web. So could it be that Strega was actually powering up by doing those missions for people because it never actually explains what the purpose of that service? No, a negative relationship someone is not a bond. Yeah.

The word, the word used is explicitly bond over and over and over. It's like, if they say, ooh, I hate that guy, I want to kill him. It's not a bond. My, like, my, my hate, your hatred of Strega does not give you a social link. That's true. Despite you being directly involved in having a relationship. That's true. Yeah, you know what, that's, yeah, there you go.

The only way that would make sense is that you bond over your shared hatred for something else. And that happens in P3 with the fool link. The devil as well, like, time it doesn't really fucking like you at all. No, but it is, it is a, it is a cohesive, non-adversarial relationship. He's just an asshole. But no, that's a really good point. If you could do that, then the main characters would have formed negative social links with

Strega. But they did. Yeah, so. Yeah, that's pretty. So when, when your relationship turns negative, not your, your social link reverses and stops and you lose all of its powers. So it's explicitly positive. A good question, I guess.

Yeah, no, that's, that's interesting. Mark says, greetings above average, close compatriots conglomerate. I like this. I like this. Pugilism, the scuffling. Ooh. Ooh. We're still time to change it.

Do any partake in the viewing of the sport that is boxing? No. I mean, like, on occasion, but not, I don't follow boxing. I didn't have boxing in my youth. I'm one of those guys that, that used to, but UFC just like fucking took a lot of place. It's only 70 ground pounds you can watch. And it's not as like, the cards are not as fucking interesting. No, no, the cards are more interesting because they're more honest.

And boxing is unfortunately a corrupt sport, man. Yeah. And you mean like UFC? Uh, UFC has its problems, but it's not nowhere near as bad. Well, that's only because it hasn't been around as long. Once it's around for 50 more years, guess the fuck what? Yeah. We're gonna have to make a new martial art.

Anything that gets popular. About sword fighting. Well, for... Knit hogging. Well, yeah. God. Well, they already have that, dude. There's competitive real sword fighting.

Shut up. No, no. Done by dudes in like... We're gonna have a different knit hogging. No. No. Not that one. Not the creepy sex thing.

Not the sex thing. That's not what I wanted. Oh, Jesus. It's competitive. I mean, I'd watch boxing highlights of people getting knocked the fuck out, but to actually watch them match is not... The main thing was that when UFC was like getting its groundswell going, a lot of it was like, hey, what two guys do you really like and want to see fighting?

And like, okay, let's make that card happen. So my problem is... And boxing was not that. Boxing was trying to arrange shit according to who's gonna get paid what. Yeah. So I've said this way before on many videos. My problem with UFC is really simple. When UFC started, it was cartoon fucking video game shit.

It was like the no weight classes, no fucking... Oh, yeah. It was just shit. And it was like fucking martial arts, master, fucking five to 130 pounds. It was cool to be ten. It was cool to be ten. Versus Gus from the Bronx and Gus weighs 400 pounds. Like that fucking dumbass cartoon video game shit is what I want from UFC.

Was it you or was it you that I was talking about that Saturday morning live action show called Masters of Fighting or whatever? It was me. It was me. It was like Mortal Kombat style, but it was like American Gladiators and there was backstage segments and then they just had a dumb martial arts fight and it was not real, but it was. That was fucking awesome. It was the best.

It was really good. We should do a Let's Watch. We should do a Let's Watch. Try finding that fucking shit. I can. All right. We can just watch the Tekken movie. No.

Oh. Fuck you. Okay. So Marko's basically asking if... His name's Kushwood, dude. Yeah. But... So he's asking, have you guys ever really liked and got into a competitive game that

had no following or big community and you just sunk time into it? Day of Defeat, man. Day of Defeat had fucking no community. As a PC Titanfall player, this sucks. As a Titanfall? Yeah. A PC Titanfall player. Like Day of Defeat had more than fucking Titanfall does now, but it was like always living in

this fucking unbelievable shadow of Counter-Strike. Yeah. Like it was hilarious how much, like how pathetic it was in community compared to Counter-Strike. And to my knowledge, I never got like, there'd be clan guys, but like they're not actually like, they're not fighting a fucking big tournament. Like, you know. My version of that is Senko Narande, War Tech. Oh my God.

Of course he was. He was the half-schmup, half-fighting game. And he was smaller and voraciously devoured. And Billy. And Billy, yeah. And past. And it was so sad because it was pretty cool, but there was no one online. I do even know it out online.

To the point where poor Billy was trying to get that last achievement for a thousand online battles. And he fucking could it. So what he had to do was literally leave the game in matchmaking mode for two weeks on every day. And when he heard somebody slug in, run over to the TV, play a match, and then put it on play as many as he could with them until they got one. Can I explain, can I dispute one part of that claim?

Why? He did not have to do that. He said to me that he had to keep the game on for two weeks. No. He didn't have to do that. There's nothing apart this, nothing about this process was necessary. In terms of getting the achievement, he did not have to get that achievement. Oh, yes.

Like, like that, when someone tells a story like that, I'm always hit with like, you really didn't have to actually do any of that. And just like, woolly, the reaction is, but wait, what would he mean? Which part? We got caught up in the fucking plot when the fucking basis was nothing to be doing with. Oh, flip the script. I guess, I guess for me, and I guess I was like, oh, sorry, I guess we could all go

this way. For me, it was kind of like, we're kind of forced to, but when Anarchy Reigns came out, you were kind of forced to just look for matches somehow, because we were playing with mostly Japanese people. They got to the point where I was asking the best friends Facebook for people, like people's fucking, like, gamer tags, like, does anyone have Anarchy Reigns? And the answer would usually come back, no. And you'd just be trying to search for anybody, and then you're like, I was kind of, I was

up to that point where I was like, yeah, let's really get into this and let's like, make our own community because no one else is going to do it, and it failed. It failed. Yeah. And one last one from, you don't have to get achievements, because one last one from Patchouli, and he says, on the last couple of podcasts, you mentioned some eccentric fighting game competitors, like that girl that turned out to be an actress and that masked person.

These are just Smash Brothers things, guy. But yeah, I guess. Yeah. Has there ever been any unique competitors or the equivalent of a fighting game community Shockmaster that you could cast? Oh, that's awesome. Shockmaster? No.

Triforce. I forget the guy's name. Wait. Triforce. Not Triforce. I'm going to look it up while you guys are talking. Okay. So, my vote's Triforce.

I'm going to say, the closest thing you'll get, you've got Horsehead Man that plays Makoto with a Horsehead Mask on, he was pretty fucking good, and he like, played with the fucking Horsehead, and Juicebox Abel had a lot of charisma going on, and he was known for being a pretty good Abel, that every time he landed Abel's breathless, he would do the whole fucking arm waving around thing while on stage. The showman. There was a big showman about it, and everyone got hyped for it. You know, mainly little things like that, and like, I liked when that started to emerge,

because it's like your character becomes your persona, raised the Rufus, is still done to this day. I forgot, who does the Akuma thing? That was Tokyo. Tokyo got up in front of the screen and did the raging demon on the back of his chest on the projector. Yeah. It sucks if there's no projector, and he can't do it.

Yeah. I mean, it doesn't work for everybody, but like, Blanka's Ultra II when you land the anti-air version is perfect, because he shoots both arms up in the air, like, yeah! Because it's a simple motion to replicate. Exactly. So I've done that, blowing up some dudes in muddy matches once or twice. It was fun. But what, Pat?

So I managed to get ahold of this guy's name, I did not know he was still active in the fighting game community, because I remember reading about him in fucking EGM back in the 90s. His name's Sebastian Jennings, and his nickname back in the 90s was the one-handed terror of Tuxin. Okay. Dudes got no left hand. Oh, good.

Dude kicks ass at Street Fighter. Yeah. I immediately found a combo of an article about how he's fucking way into Chun-Li, and has made a shit ton of Chun-Li tutorials. Interestingly enough, so is Broly Legs, the guy that, I'm not sure what he has, but like, he's really small, and like, he can't really use both of his arms fully, so he plays with one arm with like two or three of his fingers and his mouth on a pad. Wow.

And he also plays Chun-Li, and he fucking kicks ass. So I believe the, oh man, I don't know how accurate this is, because my memory, this is back when I was in the fucking 90s, right? But I believe, or not 90s actually, like 2001 had to be onwards, but I believe the reason why he was featured in EGM is because he had won a local tournament using Oro. Oh, okay. That's news. That's awesome.

And that shit just is fucking perfect. That writes itself. Yeah. I have a question, Woolly. Does this person count, and where we all went to college, there was a closed spaces, and I can't remember if he was into fighting games or playing with us at all, but the dude that dressed up like a ninja every day. Oh, oh, fucking Ninja Alex.

It's Ninja Alex, yeah. Was he into... No. And he wasn't fucking idiot. Yeah, fair enough. And he wasn't a ninja every day. He was a star. That's why I saw him as a ninja.

He was a stoner, but everyone was a star. He was a real heavy stoner. That's why... Are you dressed like a ninja? That's why some people called him fucking idiot Alex. Yeah. They dressed him as a ninja almost every day. He wasn't.

But there was that one time where he ran into the martial arts class, because the teacher of the martial arts class... Oh, shoot. You had to do this. The teacher of the martial arts class always, he's a really old guy that's like, okay, so what you need to do is put your stance in the key eye form. You want to go key out. You want to get that.

Because you want to make sure that your enemy feels it and you never know when there's ninjas around. And he always would say that. That's awesome. So one day he came in dressed as the ninja and ran in and went like, I'm a ninja. And then ran out. And then the super serious teacher saw that shit, had a dead pan face and then cracked a smile.

Everyone's like, ah, you got him. You got him. That's what I call real ultimate power. You made him laugh. Yeah. I think I told you there's this guy named Adam and he's like into the Tekken scene in Montreal or whatever. And when I was going to high school with him, he was in a Dragon Ball so much, I think I've

said this before, that one day he would dye his hair. You told me this part of the story, but not Adam and not the Tekken part. One time he, every day he'd either dye his hair bleach blonde and then dye it jet black the next day. Because he's like, I'm in non-super Saiyan mode today. I am. And he was really into Tekken. That's really bad for your hair.

And now he's fucking bald. No, he's not. I have some friends on Facebook or whatever and like he's got a wife and he's got normal hair and whatever. But he's still in the Tekken and he heard a little bit about like, oh, you do less plays. That's awesome. You're still in the fighting game school. It just caught up a little bit.

But back then, I thought he was the coolest motherfucker ever. This is how that story goes. You thought that was cool? Yeah. Okay. So I didn't, when all I knew about Dragon Ball was the Vegeta arc and that was it. And he knew about all this stuff that's happened in Japan so far. He had the movie, the second cooler movie.

Right. When him and Vegeta were teaming up. Dude, that's the fucking weirdest, most obscure movie of all. Was he the man that opened up little young Matthew Junior's eyes to the Black Goku? Yes. I think so. Probably was. Probably was.

Oh, fucking Black Goku. Love the Black Goku. Oh, my God. He gave me those hentais. What? Did he? Was there a section on that site? No, it's because when I won those Black Goku fanart contests and he said like, oh, here

I got every anime ever and I just didn't know what some titles were. Remember, this is like the dawn of the internet and I got Berserk and I got this and I got this. He's going straight down the bees. Yeah, the blue girl. That's probably like Sailor Moon, right? Yeah, sure. Yeah, it is.

It's the one that I wanted. Oh, okay. Anyway. I like Kites. That should be fun. Isn't Kite like also a legitimate movie? It is. Isn't Mesoforte also a legitimate movie?

It is. They just have incredibly graphic sex scenes right in the middle. Yeah, right. Which they had to put in there to sell it. Otherwise, the animation company and the guys involved didn't want to fund it. Yeah. Sure, what's coming up on the website? What's coming up on the watch?

What's coming up on the website is that we are still in the middle of the scuffling. The scuffling. It's scuffle week here in Canada. Scuffle week. I think everything is steady as it goes in terms of stuff that's currently going on. Does that thing I have to do go up for tomorrow? It goes up for tonight. Yeah.

For the viewer, it goes up tonight. I should do it. You should do it. I should do it. Yes, that's... Yeah, we had the border thing. Yes, the border thing. So, if you saw that we were doing the finale of Escape from Boog Island.

Yeah. In the shitstorm leftover series. You can ascertain what might be next. To that guy who said, raise up your hands and give them your spirit energy so that this may happen. We did it. Okay. Yeah. Like motherfuckers.

Like he totally apologized and it's cool. But dude is like the moment Dark Souls finale goes up. Dude on Twitter is like, are you guys going to go back and do Dark Lurker or what? Like you didn't do... What? I'm like, watch the episode. That's what you were referring to. Yes.

Okay, watch the video. That being said, apparently Dark Lurker is from Kingsfield. I didn't know that. Oh, gee. That makes sense. That's awesome then. That you got stuck in a wall. Yeah.

And then the play through that Matt and I did is going to start immediately after some things are happening. It's the worst segment of this podcast. This is so bad. We just don't know how long some things will take. Yeah, that's how life is. I think what we talked about, we played Game of Thrones. You fucking idiot. We played Game of Thrones.

Of course we did. Yeah. No, we did. Me and Lee, I couldn't play it because I'm not caught up, remember? Yeah. Yeah. So Game of Thrones is coming. Yeah, it's done and it's just coming up, you know, soon.

I forgot that we talked about it. Following the end of whatever is happening right now. End of either Def Jam or... Yeah. I don't know if it's going to be this week, but last week I just did my entire Japan video. So that's finally going up. It's late, but fuck it. There you go.

Hey, we're all about that. Yeah. We're all about late. It's super on time, Pat versus Japan. Nice. Nice. Like, clearly you survived. No, I just made that up right now.

I don't know what I'm going to call it. Oh, okay. But I guess I have to call it that now. Okay. Well, shit. And I've been getting something. I'm thinking about it because there's been a bunch of questions about tips and what to do and things like that.

Yeah. So there might be room for some sort of little epilogue thing to kind of tell people. For what? Just what to do when you're there. Oh, it's Japan, Japan. So I'm thinking about that. Maybe if you want to maybe do something. Yeah, I'll go over there.

You know, and just tell people what they should do and what's cool. So that might show up. Just, okay, put Skittles in your penis. Yep. And then when someone goes to shake your hand, bow and then shoot the Skittles out onto the floor. Taste the rainbow. There you go.

Bam. International attention. In terms of, in terms of what's on the watch, it came out Christmas Day. I bought it, but I haven't played it yet. But the Shantae game that came out on the 3DS, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, came out on the Wii U and I will gladly play that because it's on a console. Well, you know what's on the watch? The neutral ending of SMT4.

Okay, but I meant the watch. Yeah. What's on the watch for the next, for the next fucking month? Two months. Fucking wire. The wire. In HD. In HD.

Available. I caught like five minutes of the first episode in HD. Holy fucking shit. It's a way bigger difference than I thought it was going to be. Okay, so it's a big fucking deal. I went to HBO Canada's website and tried to figure it out and guess what? You can't do it. Guess what?

You're not allowed. You're not allowed. You can't do it. So you forced my fucking hand. Yeah. I tried to give you money, but you forced my fucking hand. So it's weird how you're just able to watch it now. Yeah.

It's amazing. I think for free. The times. That being said, those Blu-rays are coming out in summer, so I'm going to buy those. I'm paced with the girlfriend though. Because the guy that I watched it with in its entirety, I'm like, damn it. Do you want to watch it again? He's like, nah, not really.

Then we're talking to a different friend. He's like, I never saw it. I'm like, great. I got a new reason to just go through the whole fucking thing. Exactly. And the girlfriend hasn't seen it, but she'll have watching number four, I guess. There's a great Twitter out of this guy that's been taking photos. Yeah, it's a Baltimore police reporter.

Yeah, and I love that. He goes down to the pit. Here's Marla's spot. Everywhere he takes all of us. And then the last one is just a random 7-Eleven. And it's just like, oh, this is just a 7-Eleven. Check it out. Might be interesting.

That's it. It's fucking awesome. And if you know, you know. Yeah. But anyways, yeah, that's it, man. I guess. You want it to be one way, but it's the other way. Is that the 7-Eleven?

Oh, no. Oh, no. Not that not. Okay, no, no, no, not that one. Because that's actually like a convenience store. You're thinking of the fucking hole in the wall fucking. The hole in the wall fucking. Because when you say that, I think you want it to be one way.

Yeah, no, no, not that one. You're thinking of ducks. Ducks. You're thinking of that duck. The duck problem. And of course, just seeing the basketball court. And it's just an empty basketball court, but I can't stop cracking up. Because I just see Prop Joe in a suit.

It's like 110 degrees out here. I keep them aware to suit Prop Joe. Look the part, be the part. Oh, God. We'll see you guys next year. See you guys next year. Yeah. Liam will be back.

Liam will be back. Oh. What? No, he will be. Oh, yeah. Well, that's really going to happen. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.