Castle Super Beast - SBFC 092: Post Apocalyptic T-pose Culture

Episode Date: May 12, 2015

An attempt is made to chronicle the downward spiral of the company formerly known as Konami.

Someone's going to try to shut this podcast out eventually. One day. It's only a matter of time before the VAT manufacturers tell us to call. I was going to say, how many Xs could look at podcast title Y? We have all the amount to close us down. Yeah. Then we'll just have to go down to Pirate Radio. And lose everything.

Yeah, that's right. Dude, if we had to stop all this and just rebrand, we'd just rebrand it to a dirt face. I am certain one of us knows a person that can set up a Pirate Radio station. Probably. If we all put feelers out and we're like, does anyone know how to make a Pirate broadcast? I've got a Russian. Yeah. I have a pocket Russian.

Oh, I have a pocket Russian that can handle the legal end of this. Okay. Or the illegal end of this. To make sure the cops don't find our Pirate Radio station. No, we're totally in. You have to mask the signal or they can just find the tower. And every week we have a new password so people can tune in and you can win things by listening. We'll post the instructions on how to build your own ham radio on Twitter.

It's like that Pirate radio station that Ron's brothers had in Harry Potter. There was like their anti Voldemort podcast that they had. They had six sponsors. You know what, Rengar? I love this podcast, but there's something about anti-Blank podcast that isn't the same as radio. It's just not, because it's not live, it's so grassroots that it's almost sad. There's also something about being like fucking DJ Professor K or DJ Sagara.

Just being like, there's a group of kids out there being rebellious and I'm their boss. I'm gonna do it for them. Yo, you gotta shut this podcast down. It's causing youth rebellion. Yeah. We're keeping you up to date on the games. All these kids are playing video games and listening to anime because of these idiots. Yeah, no.

The podcast, if anything, would be causing youth. We're lowering the GDP. Apathy. Yeah. And like, anti, hey, why, hey, yeah, sure the government's evil, but wouldn't it just be easier to stay and apply some video games? This pirate radio station is lowering the tone of our society and their creepy British accents. And we just get to the point where like, man, fuck the system, we just start broadcasting

like Commodore games. We are at episode 92. Almost there. Almost there. Almost there. Be on the level. Old person joke. There it is.

Yeah. Okay. We can go there. We can go like back. Golden girl. The reference. Back when the Dallas Cowboys mattered. You know, back when.

What happened in 92? I was born. Wow. What else happened in 92? 92. When did Sonic 2 come out? Not 92. No.

It was on 93. Sonic 2? No. I think Sonic is in 92. I think. Grenada happened in 92. Oh, yeah? It was on.

It was ongoing. Oh. Does it continue? What do you mean ongoing? Wasn't that a single date? Well, it didn't exist until I landed. Okay. And then it ceased existing the moment I touched off.

Yeah. So. Yeah. The most influential Canadian in the world. Oh, I thought you meant like the US invasion of Grenada. No. No, no, no. I mean my presence.

You are a person of Grenada. I'm president of the place. I thought you meant the machete guy. No. It despawned once it was outside of the plane. Wow. The whole country just bamfed past the zone wall. That was it?

Now you're just a skybox fucker? Yeah. Buy a family. Everyone's T-pose and placeholder textures. He's spinning around on this fuck. No, yeah. His family's on the tarmac and T-poses. And they just pop out of views the traditional way to say goodbye in Grenada.

Just T-pose forever. Just T-pose. Oh, I can't wait till that becomes some future culture. The T-pose culture? The T-pose culture. Some aspect of religion. No, it's post-apocalypse and the only thing that remained is a copy of NBA Live, whatever, 11, and Jesus on the cross.

Yeah. And they put the new word together. Sorry. Sorry, the new word, remember, is crossified. Crossified Jesus. I'm sorry. It brings me endless joy to know that NBA brought T-posing to the line. Yeah.

Everyone now knows what that is. Because nobody, like, we knew about T-poses and, like, if you saw enough buggy games, you'd see it. But you didn't know unless you were inside. But your brain didn't know that that was called the T-pose. Right. Right. If you encountered it, you'd be like, oh, that guy's bugged out or something.

But that NBA Live ships and it's a fucking disaster piece. That pan over the middle of the court and a guy's just T-posing in the center. That is the best. What needs to become the next, like, popular thing? What? That's inside is the NPC fountains. Because that's for, like, GTA-style games where, like, it's open world and you've got to populate NPCs everywhere.

You have certain games, like Just Cause, have parts where NPCs just drop out of the sky in this one corner from a back alley and they all float into the streets. So it's the opposite of a monster closet. I don't even hear it. Yeah. It's a sky fountain. It doesn't make more sense because it'd be harder to see. Is it called an NPC fountain?

That's the term you go with. Because it's weird. Because that's going to cause confusion. Because the boss fountain is a totally different thing. But that's a player made. Yeah. Yeah. That reminds me of that, like, constant bug in every Assassin's Creed game where, like,

people will just collide and then start multiplying. Oh, yeah. That's a lot of that. That thing's cool. It's great. Yeah. I love that. You know, it's not on the docket this week.

Whoa, it's not on the docket. It's a new Assassin's whatever. Whoa! It's not announced until the 12th. No, it's not. There's some neat stuff. I am fully done. Today.

Even though I was, like, mostly done and then didn't pay attention to whatever that 2D game was. Good. The general satsuma around that. No, because black flag brought you back. You can't stop the video. But then Unity pushed me away and it got me at 80% away. And then just the general vibe around that Chinese game.

You're not done. I'm fully done. You're not done. You're not done. You're not done until something that you want comes. No, here's the problem with that. Victory in London is not high. My favorite part of Assassin's Creed is the big overreaching story, like the modern day

stuff. And now that I've skipped, like, three or four of those games, there's no way I could possibly be into that anymore. If they bring out the next one and it comes out and for all intents and purposes it doesn't have horrible performance issues like Unity did, and the game is just good, yeah, I'll play. If it's a first setting. And yeah.

If it's in England, so it'll be cool. If it's in London, looked a little bit like Yarnham. I'm so... I mean, it will. Imagine. By default. Absolutely. Like architecture that's slightly off and architecture that's slightly doesn't make

sense. I'm done until they go to Russia or Asia for real. Well, they're going to Russia in the 2D games. No. But he says for real. For real? Yeah. So guess what that means?

It means I'm done because they're never going to do that in the modern era. Like in ten years when Assassin's Creed sales are winding down, then they'll fucking go to Russia. At least if they ever do go to Russia, we know that the backstory is good as well. I still need to get more into Rogue because of the hour play I played of Rogue. Where does that take place again? Like New York and the Arctic. I don't know.

I would argue there's other things you need to get into before getting more into it. No. If I knew you needed Assassin's Creed fix, I should just see like play a little bit more. Hey, I did some gaming this weekend. Hey man, what happened to that next gen port of Rogue that never happened? That was never announced. It was never announced. I know.

But it's just like... Yeah, but it still doesn't look like that. Everyone... It doesn't. I agree with you Pat. But everyone thought like everyone saw it a mile coming. No. Yeah, they're all past.

It's four Xbox one port in a year. No, shut up. No, never happened. Well then, why don't you break into it, Matt? You did video games? I started and finished Wolfenstein The Old Blood. Oh, cool. Did you finish The New Blood or The Old Blood?

The New Order, right? Yes. How long is the extra cafe? The DLC is $20 and there's two parts to it. Like it's say chapter one. It goes chapter two. It is standalone though. Yeah, standalone.

It's downloadable. So this is a really rare thing because me and Liam were talking about, man Bethesda or Xenomax is just the worst. So evil. And they basically created shitty DLC. Poor Sarmar. Yeah. How long is it?

Sorry, I was just... Sorry, no. I was getting... He's got to build up. All right. You wrote a diatribe. There's a story. This is a filibuster coming home.

Follow the path. The company that created shitty DLC then makes probably the most like... One of the better ones. Like it took me way less time to beat Far Cry Blood Dragon than this. Sure. Really? It took me five hours, 35 minutes. That's with 40% of all collectibles found.

I mean like letters. Yeah. You know, something like that. Shitty first person shooter collectibles that you just... Yeah, but... Find the intel. Wolkenstein's letters are really well written. No, the writing's good.

That's a fair time for that price. That's a fair time for that price. For $20. $20 bucks. And that game's good. Well, the new order's good. And I absolutely loved it. I think I actually like it better than the new order just because you move to so many

different places in such a quick amount of time where it's not spending... Like, I'm not saying like a longer game is worse, but... Spend a while in that prison. You might get a little bit tired of the prison. You go to a sanitarium. You go to a graveyard. You go to like a really charming German village and everyone hates the Nazis there. And you're right next to Castle Wolfenstein.

And they build up Castle Wolfenstein to be like, Jesus is the hardest core fucking castle ever. You have to take a sky tram to get there. And the new... There's two new villains. A guy named like Rudy Jaeger. Rudy Jaeger. And it's a huge, you know, Aryan super guy.

And he has like those dogs, the Uber and whatever, the really like six cyborg dogs. And he uses them to torture people. And he's a jovial, like, I love torture and everything. And all the voice acting is great. There's a couple of sections where you have to pose as a German soldier and anyone that's around B.J. or like, you're the fucking worst at this. And they go... I was just going to ask, is B.J. like still that German is fucking awful?

And we can't believe we're even taking you on a mission where you have to pose as anyone. And he goes, I've been working on it though. And the opening minute, you get stopped at a checkpoint and you have your nice little uniform. And when you get the concept art for the uniform, this is what I like about concept art is that it gives you just a little bit more. It gives you a little description. And if you played a little bit of New Order Pad, you might have seen it.

But for the concept of your locker, it'll say the context of why B.J. is wearing this. And in this, it'll say, there is no German uniform big enough to capture B.J.'s face. Or B.J.'s frame. So this one was custom made for him by the OSS. Or whatever. So he's going in there and then the Rudi Jäger just goes like, hold on the minutes or it's subtitled in German. And he goes, what is your name?

And then B.J. just goes, Franz. And he goes, okay, where are you from? Like, Frankenferter. He goes, what? And that's all he knows how to say. He goes, hot dog. And then he stares at you. And he goes, ah, yes, you speak like one of the stupid Americans.

Good joke, good joke. Then he'll let you off. And you walk into the elevator with your English very much like Mechelfastbender. And your buddy's postards. Very modeled after him, a guy named Wesley. And he just goes, really? Hot dog? And he goes, it worked.

And then later, just as an example of the really good writing, like it goes lots of places and it goes really the supernatural route towards the end, which I love. Yeah. Because return to Castle Wolf and sign all the ones on the PC and PS2 next walk up. They're a little too grounded. They're just kind of, they didn't really touch upon all that dumb, supernatural stuff. They were pretty fucking generic. They were still good games, but.

Yeah. And this, there's a guy on your headset and he goes, okay, B.J., in this area you don't have to be very careful. Do not kill anyone if you can like spit it because you have to be very careful. And B.J. goes, what's that? Kill every Nazi I can find? What? No.

No. You have to be careful. Yeah. I can't hear you. Kill all the Nazis. Got it. No, please. Bye.

And that's an actual written. Does your objective marker ping after and say like kill all the Nazis? Whoever's behind the writing for these two games is amazing because they took B.J. Blaskowitz, who is a face. A face. Like a sub-doom guy level face. Yeah. Sub-doom guy.

And he exists primarily in action posters. Yeah. Punching head for head. By the way, that's awesome. And all the action posters are Wolfenstein where he's bare chest and has a great uniform, his great pants. He's that for half the game. And I didn't realize it.

And when you get to a woman character, she's like, not that I mind looking at you, B.J., but you want to put the shirt on, the Nazis will see you. And then you go, and I'm sorry, I'm marking out, but there's a moment where she says, put all your guns away if you go and pose as a waiter, like you can't have your guns. And I don't know if it's depending on how many weapons you have, but there's a cutscene where he opens up a chest and puts in his Lugers, puts in his assault rifle, then puts in his other assault rifle, puts in his shotgun, puts in the rifle, puts in his knives, and it just goes on forever.

I don't know if you had less weapons or if the ammo count was zero, but it had to be played for laughs. Yeah. Just turning that character into a really interesting weird character was awesome. There's also three Wolfenstein levels in this one piece of DLC, and they're all different levels, and they're all, they have this really cool slick transition where it shows B.J.'s modern face, and it morphs into classic Wolfenstein face, and he like zooms in and zooms out, and it's pretty cool.

Does this work as a standalone thing for not having context of playing the full game? It does, but if you play the full game and play this, there's, oh, that's where that comes from. That would work the other way also. That would work the other way also. Yeah, I heard it was designed so that you could play it either way. Like, B.J. says this line that's always repeated in the new order, and then when a guy tells him it for the first time, and that's where he got it from.

But it's not like a required companion piece. No, no, no. Like I said, it's really good and goes some places. In the first three seconds, I told Liam, new mechanics already introduced, you get pipes, and you can use the pipes to climb up walls, use the pipes for, because you don't have, remember, if you save a guy or versus the other guy live in new order, as a new mechanic, you get a different skill set. You get explosives, and you get lock picking.

And in this, the pipes that you get are these multi-purpose weapons that let you do a bunch of things, melee dudes. I really, really enjoyed it. I'll probably play through it again a second time at some point, if I can, on a slightly higher difficulty. Maybe a lower one and just fool around, but I immensely enjoyed it. I'm surprised how much I like it. I really hope machine games can keep going with this.

I really hope machine games makes like a brand new Wolfenstein. So you beat it, right? Yeah. Was the Doom trailer at the end? It was not. The Doom trailer was not. But they had the Cacaco Demon. Cacaco Demon?

As a little plush inside one of the dogs' little things. That's great. Oh, no kidding. Apparently there was a lot of Fallout 4 references in the game. Ah, yeah, you would move. Yeah, I heard that from, I think you said that. Someone said like, Pip-Boy shit appears on shells. I didn't find that.

Here's a map of Nevada. Yeah, kind of. You know, you know. We'll get it, PJ. Yeah. Really quickly, I fooled around with Jason. Not that happy with it. So, yeah, here, let's, I have stuff on it too, so let's both do this and that.

I'll just say that, I think it's because of the three variation thing, but like, the version of Jason, or the two versions of him that were in the Terror Drone game that we had, was more interesting. He had more weapons. He had that cool super where he has his mom be a stan. And I kind of feel that this is just a generic brawling character that has a variation with the machete, and then all the rest are punches and grabs. And then buffs.

I think buffs. And like. The most depressing thing about this is that there's no Jason X variant. Yeah. So there's that, right? Honestly, this is a very, like, it's a very official character that fits the archetype of Jason throughout all the movies, but it doesn't have fun. It's not so safe.

Yeah, yeah. It's too safe. It's so safe. And also, it's all the boring bits of the Friday the 13th movies, and none of the exciting bits. And even the fatalities are not, like, yes, I know what you're doing here when, you know, the one where he grabs you and slams you. Like, you shouldn't.

It's called sleeping bag kill. With no sleeping bag. Exactly. So the thing with this is that I'm looking at it and it's going like, the way you make him interesting is you get props involved. And who cares where you're coming from? Yeah, I know. Someone said to me on Twitter, imagine a variation called weapon master where he takes out a chain

saw for one special move, takes out a machete for one, and they're like, there's actually, like, yeah, like, it's based on how creative Netherrealm thought they should get. And also his base design is so boring. It's specifically what he looks like in Jason versus Freddie, but the one from like, like, I don't know, part seven, where he's wearing a green thing and he's basically a skeleton. You see his spinal cord peeking out of his back and he's all shredded up and his face is like half his mask is gone. And you see like his skeletal, like, jaw bone.

That looks so much more interesting. It would have fit Mortal Kombat even better. The magic wizards in this game. And that's the thing is like, like, there just, there wasn't enough fun being had. They could have had like moments where there's just like references to old shit that happened in the movie. The fucking one where the black guy's like boxing with him and he just punches his head off.

Yeah, that's right. That's in the dubster. Make that like a fatality or a brutality. There's a brutality where the head goes flying. Yeah, it's like his clothes flying. He just kind of shoulders you and the head goes flying. It's like, you could have had more fun. This we have to see if it's going to be a thing for all the DLC characters, but so disappointed

that all the intros are just generic. Yeah. A challenger appears. Oh, who are you? Nothing to say. Did you notice that the only person that actually talks to him is Shannok? That was probably, Jason Voorhees. To me, that was probably like one of the most disappointing things.

You could have made it work. The intro things are so strong. You could have made it work even when Jason's not talking. Just go back to the other person. They say something. So I guess we weren't crazy when we all said, oh, they just say Goro. Yeah, no. No, the word is for it.

The DLC ones are all way simpler. It makes me worried about Predator. Specifically Predator. I can't imagine that Predator has to be better just because of the amount of weaponry. He's got shit built into that character all over. You don't have to be smart. There are some cool ideas. Yeah, the miss thing is cool.

Yeah, the lake miss teleport is cool. The move that makes you unable to run or dash. It gives you infinite amounts of armor. No, no, no. Not that one. There's another move where it makes you unable to run or dash. Not you, but Jason. The opponent.

Oh, it reverses your controls. You mean the one that the music goes out. It's supposed to make the character scared. So they're like, oh, exactly. That's fun as an idea. But that's in a variation where his attacks are just punches and grabs. I wouldn't like the machete to be in all three or a chainsaw to be in all three or something. But the fact that one is exclusively machete.

I think I told Liam about this. His ending, though, is fucking awesome. His arcade ending? It's awesome, but it's not as good as I would have hoped. But I like it because the character he does it to. It's a great look it up or play through it. He kicks the shit out of not a teenager. Which is why I'm like, I think they could have done better.

My favorite thing, though, is that he uses the knife in his neck. That's pretty cool. Although I got really nitpicky where he would take it out and it would always have the same metal clanging on cement when he's in a stage. I know that's still the most nitpicky thing. You're in the deadwoods that has snow and you're clang, clang. And I'm like, ugh.

Get some more foley work in here. Get some more foley work. Now, that's all cosmetics. Gameplay-wise, I just like... Well, the same thing stands. He's just boring. But he's not just boring, but it's free. It's so nuts how they just gave him specifically on the slasher style.

They gave him such free combos that it's like his best, most optimized combo is do the same two. Dude, I will forward and press 4-2, 4-2, 4-2, and then do a head-ok. I was watching Max's stream when he came out and I'm looking at it and the combo is the most boring shit in the world. And it appeared to be super easy. Just hold forward, 4-2, it's low, it's overhead. So everyone online is going to fall for it.

Because no one knows how to deal with that. And even if they don't fall for it, the netcode's not great so they might not be able to even react. Do it three times into a command grab. And it's fucking running and dashing animation. They're so stupid because it's like... And that's the part where I say, I feel like IP people, or boy or man, or whoever it is, Jason doesn't run.

He hit Dash in the remake movie. That said, he can't. Wait, really? Yeah, he runs. And when he runs, it's fucking scary. Oh shit, new move unlock. The rules have been broken. Because in the game, he just looks so dumb doing a fast, normal lock.

And then it's like, you couldn't concede this point because of aesthetics for whatever I do. Now that I realize he runs during one of the movies, it's like, okay, that is a real one. It's just for one movie, but it stands. It's good enough. It's good. And I was going to say, in Teru Drone, he had traps.

He had a bear trap he'd lay on the ground. There's stuff you can fucking do. Some people are like... This weird fan game should not be more impressive than the real game. Also, should people think that Jason can do things that he doesn't do? You know what I mean? Well, of course. That's the part of it that I feel is maybe Netherrealm proposed better ideas

and they went crazy with, here's a bunch of shit we can do and they're like, no, that's too much. We need to keep it accurate. We'll see how Tanya and what our Trevor turn out. That's what I'm saying. If those guys are bad, then there's clearly a quality problem across the board. I'm excited for Predator, but I'm also excited for Tremor. There's no excuses what I'm saying.

That's the cool ninja concept that they haven't done in a while. The one thing that I expect from... The brown ninja. The one thing you kind of come to expect from DLC fighters in these cases is they get more love. Like, look at Skullgirls. You would hope, right? The Skullgirls DLC characters are like fucking ridiculous compared to the original cast

with how many moves they get. And in this case, Tanya, it's like you had a basis to work off of, so that's fine. But Tremor is going to be the real litmus test. Who? Yeah, definitely. Tremor's the world. From MK Special Forces. What?

The brown ninja? All of our favorite characters. Really, really quickly, as you guys know, I went to go see Ra. You did? The whole thing. But the one thing is that, like... I'm not sure if you know about this, but now it makes total sense to me. You got to wait for the commercial breaks.

Of course you do. It's super annoying, because when we've ever seen a paper review together, there's no commercial breaks. There's a paper review. Of course. You say it of course, but it didn't have to be like that. Breaks, kayfabe, where you're watching Randy Orton and Roman Reigns stare at the titantron with dull eyes looking at commercials for Scooby-Doo meets fucking alls.

No, wait, these two are the commercials in the stadium? Yeah. Oh, that does break kayfabe. They're not commercials like for whatever network you're watching on, TSN, ESPN, whatever. But they show that they're on. Hold on. Did they... Entrances?

Did they ever go to commercial mid-match? Entrances? Commercials match. Okay. Not mid-match. They never stop fighting. Yes. Sometimes when you watch Ra, they'll have a commercial mid-match.

This is what you miss, and they'll show a move or two in the replay. That's the network. That's the network. They have to do that later. I understand. But it kind of breaks the... Not kayfabe, because everyone knows that they're waiting for the commercials. But it kind of made me go, I like watching the pay-per-view of that.

But next time, I signed up for the WWE website thing to let me know when there will be an event in Montreal, so we get tickets right there. You can ruin that broadcast with signs. Yeah, wrestler cry. I want to talk about this. Someone told me that a wrestling podcast, a really well-known one, something like... A guy said, I'll let this guy's podcast say it, and I'll repeat his version of it. But she's like, all right.

Sad Tweet of the Week goes to Alex Riley. So apparently at Raw in Montreal, some fan put up a sign that says Push Rage. That being you. That made me. Alex Riley then tweeted a picture of him looking at a monitor, and his tweets are so inspiring. This is better than any WrestleMania moment I could ever have. So humbled. Thank you so much.

And then while I was at the show, I saw this. It's almost like, look at what this guy's saying. Wait, this is at the show? I was at the show. I was at the show. I'm looking at this. Like, live. Because I had time for live.

During commercials, I had nothing to do. That was live, man. That was live. And I see this guy, and I tweet to him, and then the guy goes back to the podcast. I'm sorry to forget his name. I'll try to remember it next time. But he goes, so then apparently the guy who's the owner of the sign tweeted Alex Riley and said, Yo, I'm sorry.

It has nothing to do with you. This is just my friend's brother's dumb call. Crew wrestler. Crew wrestler. Yeah. Sorry about that. Alex Riley then takes down his tweet, but not before several other wrestlers, like NXT Champion, like Owens.

Screen capped it. So it's kept in time forever. It's realized now. Oh, it just rolled out. Can you believe this shit? So live other wrestlers picking on the little guy. Hey Alex, you see this? I talked to Matthew about this, and he's like, that's pretty fucking hilarious.

But it's a good thing you came clean. And I think I said, I did not want this young man to be wrapped in the warm blanket of ignorance. Yeah, I know exactly. And think that we're pushing him. Yeah, I think that he is. Well, Matthew said what? It's a good thing you came clean. It's a good thing you came clean.

And I was like, yeah, because I don't want the guy to. Yeah, okay. And he's like, it's nice that you came clean. Yeah, man. Totally. Big fan. But then some other people would be like, but no. So you're clearly pushing the dumb call.

Hey, you know, Alex, you know that sign wasn't really for you, right? What? No. Like, the longer it takes. Yeah. The worst thing. But like, I felt really bad until Owens retweeted. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Here's why. And I was like, yeah. Because before, before all you had was sympathy for the person that was like in a bad place. But now you get to be part of the bully squad. And you just get to just be like, ah, ah, ah, it's so good. It shows that the, the in crowd wrestling got a group is like, it's acceptable. Yeah.

To like have her on the sky. Yeah. Riding. And the last little thing is that Arnold Schwarzenegger's zombie movie, Maggie, just came out. It's on Xbox. See that? It was on Xbox and PSN and it was also on theater. So it's day in day.

So I, I, yeah, it's, it's an independent movie more or less. And I watched it and it's, it's really good. But if you go into it going, I want Schwarzenegger to take. No. If you saw it fight the boss zombie. Yeah. I saw the trailer and the most interesting thing about that movie is that it's not. It's clearly not.

He does kill zombies. Yeah. But it's, it's very good. It's, it's slow. It's not so in a bad way, but I enjoyed it. There's almost no story. The story is what you saw in the trailer. His, his daughter gets bitten by a zombie and just deal with that.

And then that's it. There's nothing. I want to be in those roles. That was a good movie. He looks like he's got that full on like really tired old man look going on. He's a farmer. Yeah. Arnold lobbying to get the road remade.

I like the part where they eat the people. What's that? The boy's an adult. And it was quite good, but he, and he was also very good in it. Like he didn't have like a shitload of lines, but when he did, like he cries actually at least in three scenes. Yeah. Which was amazing.

Cause he's probably. It doesn't sound like this. No, no. Like completely silent and single tear, which is the most sad. It sounds like the movie that the action star wants to make to show that he can do more than that. Cause he can't be a governor. No.

No. Kind of amazing that that ever happened. At the end, does someone turn to him and be like, you did a good job, Dutch? No. His name is Wade. That is a character in, oh, it's gone. Anyway, I recommend it. It's pretty good, but yeah, it didn't blow my, my, my zombie brains out, which I wish

they're out there a bit more. You wish your brain. Good zombie movie is now hard to make. It did feel like a little bit like more like the, if you think about the tone of the last of us, it feels like that. Yeah. Okay. Um, so I played two games this week.

Uh, first on the list is they finally attached. Yeah, Liam. You got skipped. Oh. Oh, sorry. I figure I'm sitting here between Pat and Matt. I figure, I figure you probably have an exciting story for us. Oh, okay.

Well, uh, maybe. Okay, fine. But Pat. Well, fuck it. I don't want to do it anymore. Do it. I know all he has to talk about is his stupid FF 14 shards. No.

Tell us about your linked shell. Shard. Shard. Tell us how you finally figured out that it's Monster Hunter. Stop. And true work face. Hold on. Stop it.

Stop. They finally patched the durability problem. It's Scholar in the first set. Yeah, they did. And I played a bunch of that over the past week. Oh, cool. What do you think of this? I don't know.

I have no idea. It's super weird. What do you think of the new enemy placements? The new enemy placements in general so far, I'm only up to the best deal, are pretty good. I actually really like them a lot. They've taken away a lot of the weird dogs into the best deal and I've just left regular enemies. Are you trying to play it straight or are you trying to like gun it?

I'm not. I'm trying to play it straight, but I'm ending up gunning it because the game's early part is much easier. I was going to say, do you think the new enemy placements are like more like funsies and bullshit or is it like a remixed one? So let me, let me, so here's, here's how I feel about the enemy placements. I think they do weird things, but it's very obvious that you're playing a remixed version of the game that seems to assume that you beat the original version.

Yeah. That's what I was wondering. The third part, it's like, this isn't going to get me if I'm actually new. It's only going to get me if I thought I knew what this zone was. So probably the best example I can think of, put a boss where a bonfire used to be, dude fucking, not flexile sentries, but what are those pursuers? So yeah, there's the pursuer, but what's the one with the sword on the front and the swords on the back?

That stupid guy? That's the flexile sentry. That's the flexile. Fucking regular enemy now. Yeah. Whoa. It was before. No, but now he's early on.

A bunch. Right. Let's take the very first fight with the pursuer in the, in the Cardinal Tower, on the castle. Yeah. On the rooftop. Not the boss fight, the one where he just shows up pre-boss fight. So first of all, the area before that has the turtle lights instead of just the regular enemies.

And the turtle lights have been dramatically depowered. Like. Turtle lights. Well, the big guys would fall on. They look like that. But they, you can kill them in four swings. Okay. Crazy.

So they're all over the place now. But anyway, you go through there and you climb up and you kill the guy that's throwing, you know, rocks at you. No, sorry. Molotovs. Molotovs. And you notice that there's, there's fire. There's four or five items on that area.

So like it's more incentive to go up there because there's all these items and there's, and they're all in dead bodies. And then pursuer fights you and, you know, he's the pursuer. You get twinkling titanite when you kill pursuer now, which is great because twinkling was not super valuable. Right away. What's that? Like right away.

Yeah. Okay. Every time you kill pursuer, you get one twinkling titanite. Okay. So those weapons. Granted, it's not useful early in the game. Sure. Yeah.

But you'll be able to build it up faster. Yeah. But so you kill pursuer. I killed him on my first try and I was really happy about it. And if you kill pursuer and you're like, whew, I did it, don't take a break because some of those bodies are going to get up and rush at you from all three corners. As soon as he dies, they start to get up and they all attack you. Now, if I wasn't taking a break because I knew they weren't going to be there, I may

have been more vigilant, but I knew they weren't going to be there. So it caught me. Right. Okay. And I didn't die, but they got some good hits in. Yeah. There's a lot of little details that I actually really like. Now all the giants that you find, all the giants that go, you go to the memories later, you

find one of the trees, you find enemies attacking them. You find enemies like, like, shoving their faces into the geometry and swinging their swords over and over and over when you encounter them because they're soldiers that are still trying to fight again. Like that's a nice little detail. They've totally rejiggered tons of the way the path through the game is. You can't complete the tutorial anymore without a fragrant branch of your. There's a stone.

You know the last fog door that has the bridge you pushed down that leads to the two ogres? There's a stone guy in front of there and the whole area is filled with basilisks and it's way, way tougher. And then when you go fight two ogres, pursuer pops out of the floor and it's the super powered version of where the coffin was. It's the super powered version. So, but there's no actual geography changes. No, no, but they, they have, they have done what they can.

I have fought pursuer four times by the time I got, by the time I got to ruin Sentinel. Wow. He showed up once in the tutorial, once in his usual spot, once in the best, you know, you know that, that, that room that you kicked the, you're supposed to kick the barrel down and explodes the dogs. And then you run across and open up the chest to get a key. You open up that chest. He silently comes out of the ground behind you.

Wow. Okay. Yeah. It's not pursuing. Yeah. Apparently he shows up like 10 times. It's nuts. Okay.

Go to fight the rune sentinels. You also need a fragrant branch of your, like they, now it's, now it's like easily obtainable. You buy one from the, from the very first merchant like that. And so you want to sequence break it, fine. But now you like, they, they give you more branches and more stones, but it's like annoying because like, oh, I got to use this to get to rune sentinels. Yeah. You also use it to get to the woods now instead, right away.

And also what I noticed is that they have totally rebalanced some of the enemy types. The hardest enemy in the game that had the most amount of kills in Dark Souls 2 vanilla was the great sword guy, the royal great sword enemy that you fight a lot in the, in the, in the forest of the giants. It was just really bad for newbies. They've been toned down. Rune sentinels are now hilariously easy. They're, they take like three times as much damage.

I think the most, probably the most important thing to go is like, fun fight now. Did they, it's worried your life. Yeah, it is. It actually is a fun fight now. It must be satisfying to just wipe the floor with them. You're only going to know later, but did they change the requirements for opening up the last gate? I don't know.

You know, um, they souls or two million. They have, they have, they have, um, those, you know, those fancy guards with shields and swords from the castle. Those are standing from all the king doors now. And that's, that's a nice little lore thing. And the other thing I noticed is like, when you get to the Bastille, you know, you take the, the, the bird that gets you to the Bastille, right in front of you is the chest that gives you the dull ember.

Oh, immediate. No kidding. You can, and the basilisks that you fight in the tutorial drop infusion stones. So you want a lightning weapon right now, do it. That's cool. And it appears that the, I'm not sure, but it appears that the crows have had their, uh, rewards de-randomized. Okay.

So they're fixed now. So they, they either go on a fixed order, it seems like a huge improvement. What would you think about a game like that, or like, let's say, Bloodborne or any of these from soft style games having a feature that was like new game plus random seed. And it's like, this is a thing that can randomize enemy placements, of course, but might break your progress. Yeah. You don't know what you're going to get, but it's a rift.

Do you think that'd be a worse thing to put in there? No, the one thing that they have done balance, there's two things they did balance wise, uh, is, since you get tight night a lot easier, I have, I mean, I beat the Rune Sentinels with a plus five mace like right away. Um, but the weapon balance of the game is now different because the durability bug is no longer there. Like weapons that would break constantly don't and are now way better. Like I cannot wait to get the great sword again because it's going to be the best that

it ever was. Um, and the other thing is that, uh, they have fucked with aggro ranges, like, you know how you could tell where some guys would have zone walls, they have extended some of those aggro ranges way farther in some directions. So, um, if you're not playing with other people, you're also probably not getting the other major. Hades. No, you do.

This is something that I don't care what they got to do. I don't give a fuck. They have to start putting this in new games. I don't care how many resources it is. It is such an amazing feature they have added. So you know, you can play with more people on multiplayer. Who cares about that shit? When you go up to a bloodstain and you click on that bloodstain to see the death, any bloodstain

within 10 feet will all play simultaneously. So when you see a pit that has lots of blood and hit it, you see like 10 guys throw themselves off the edge. That's way better. When you see a bunch of bloodstains around a corner, you see a bunch of guys turn the corner and just eat it. That's way good. It's awesome.

That's awesome. Uh, so far, I'm liking it a lot, but it's really weird. You didn't get to any of the deal series yet. I know. I'm only the best deal. Do you know if they're remixed? Or if they're... I don't know.

If they're not remixed as hard. Okay. That sounds fair. Uh, really, really... I like it. I like it a lot. You're playing on PS4, PC? PC.

PC is fucking great. Yeah. It's really good. That's almost like lore. And they didn't talk about it because it's like a minor feature, but it's awesome. The legend of that one corner. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, yeah. It's like... It's like in Meat Boy, where you can see, you know, all the meat boys at the same time. Yeah. And those parts where I was going backwards through the best deal, getting to like this dark hallway, where just blood stains are everywhere, and you're like, what happened? You're like on PG&G, and she's like, no. I love that.

I also should not be trusted when I talk about going back to games or moving on, because as soon as I got home after the last podcast, I loaded FF14 up again. Wasn't that just after you said I'm done with this? Yes. That was just after... Like, fling? No. Are you playing an Assassin's Creed game right now?

No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not playing anything. Oh, I get it. Oh, that's a good stuff. That's a joke. No, I quit because I ran what's called a guild test, which is randomized like a party task for a speed, and there was a bad healer, and I was like, oh, right.

I forgot. MMOs mean you have to deal with bad healers, bad DPS, bad tanks. Yeah, massively, multiplayer, online games. And they ruin it. That's the genre. But I went back and was like, no, but it's big though, right? Like what me and Lee were talking about. And so this is a privilege exclusive to people that have a lot of Twitter followers, basically.

But you can just brute force yourself, good groups, by saying, hey, I'm on this server, join a link shell, and then a group of 20 people just are on that server. And you're like, okay, I want you and you. And it's like, hey, does anyone want to run Brayflocks right now? And three people go, yeah, I'll run Brayflocks. Now comes the easiest part of choosing your team, the cuts. You are cut, you are cut, yeah, you're not even in it. So I ended up playing a lot of, by the way, I'm going to change that character name now,

because now people are going to harass me, thanks a lot, Dickhead. And I couldn't get it. It was public. No, it wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't. I said it was mine. How did you know? Dude, how do you think I know it?

People didn't realize. I knew it because people were posting it. And I also didn't know that was you, I assumed that was someone else because it was in all the screenshots. What the hell, I fucked up. Good job, idiot. Anyway, I guess you don't like triple try it as much as me. Christ.

I saw it, not even that. I saw like eight other screenshots and lists of who you had it all. Whatever, you can change your character name for 10 bucks. You can say that, but he's the one that made it. No, you know what? If you're willing to fucking go to Altros just to harass me, like fucking kudos. But if you didn't say that and just rolled, you would have been... Damn it, this is just like every other time.

Yeah. Also, people are calling your shit out because they're also, they're listing tons of games where it's like you can get a massively single-player experience by playing Blank. Yeah, but I don't want Dragon Quage, Dragon Age. No, I don't want to play that one. It was one of the ones... Dragon Quage. It's the wrong sub-sub-genre of art and like concept.

Yeah. It needs to be... Liam understands. I know exactly what you want. And I'm looking at the Witcher 3 now and I'm like, it hit you, didn't it? It hit you because it's big. I saw a map with all the quests. And then you'd have to be like, wait, this might actually be a good game on top of being big.

I wouldn't say why don't you just play Xenoblade again then. Because I don't... I don't know. One of the things I don't like about Xenoblade is all the quests, the side quests, are really generic and they don't have any... They don't, even the flavor text isn't even as good as MMO flavor text. It's just like, hey, can you get me 8x and you go kill 8x and you bring back 8x? So there is an answer to this on my wife.

And it's an answer that I didn't expect to give you. But that's what I want. I want the big, deep world without the other players. Okay, but that's what... So Matt and William... And Xenoblade gets me a big, beautiful world that I like, but the side character comes up. Matt and William, there is an answer to your question of why not just play one of these other games. And the answer that I didn't expect was the real answer.

And the answer is that I want to play a Final Fantasy game. Because I really, really like Final Fantasy. I really, really like Final Fantasy. And this is a really good Final Fantasy game. And the cutscenes are great and like a lot of stuff in 14 is fantastic. This game has a main story. Like MMOs don't usually have main stories that have plots. This one has one and it's not the best thing in the world.

But it's better than half of all Final Fantasy stories. They re-birth that realm. Birth is super hard. And yeah, so I've been running Dungeons and Duty Finding and just, oh jeez. It is like Monster Hunter. You're right. You're looking forward to Heaven's Word. I am actually looking forward to Heaven's Word.

Yeah. So this eventually, so okay, I'll just put the shame out there right now. I played a week and I have a level 35 warrior and a level 31 paladin. Wow, that's pathetic. And a level 15 conjurer. It's not pathetic. It's not pathetic. That's a joke.

There are people that started before me and they're like, how did you pass me on two classes? It's like, well, because it's a fuck me. Yo, it's really good. And oh yeah, eventually it ended up getting to the point where people are like, we should start a free company. So there's a free company now. Which is like a guild another game.

Yeah. On Altrose. Yeah. It's called the Storm Feelers. Yeah. All right. And the crest is a fist in front of like a brown lightning bolt. Why is it brown?

Because that's what J-Fist put on the crest. Okay. Oh, Mr. Frost. Yeah. He's actually the guild leader. It's number two stronger. A whole horse is right. It's better to be number two.

Because I don't actually have to run the free company. But you get all the benefits of being on the top. But I have the ability to change anything I want and ban people or whatever. So yeah, it's a really good MMO. There's only one thing about it that's negative. Two things about that are negative that Bear mentioning. One, it's that boy, this game has the worst gold seller problem I've ever seen ever. Worse than RuneScape?

Well, I never played RuneScape. That I've ever seen. Okay. Yeah. I played WoW and Terra and some other one. Dude, it's the worst. First of all, you have to turn whispers or tells off. Because if you don't, it will never stop.

No matter how many you blacklist. And when I was talking to people, I was like, well, why are you guys typing in busy before every time you log on? Because my thousand person blacklist is full. Right? So when that doesn't work, you'll be running through a zone and start getting friend requests from Gil Gibberish. Just to, and then the shout on that thing is ruined.

Yeah. But luckily you can make your own tabs in which only your either Link Shell or Free Company can talk. So don't ever go into general. Have you hooked up with Billy? Billy? No. Okay.

I have not. He can hook you up. Yeah. I know. Is he actually hooked up on this? Yeah. That's what he does. I could go for 20 million free Gil.

I could go for that. You need... I'll tell you what, I know that he's like in a client and super like... Yeah. Yeah, but it's probably not the server. Like I'm on Ultros because the ages ago when I first started to play, I wanted to join the Gaff Guild. And I did.

And I rejoined it now for, I rejoined it right before making my own so that I could die my Chocobo blue and then immediately quit. So thanks guys. I appreciate you letting me back in. Now I have a blue Chocobo. I don't need you anymore. Goodbye. You're making a blue Chocobo is the most expensive thing I've ever seen in MMO.

Oh yeah? Like at level 35, the average amount of money that you will have is 100,000. It costs like 200,000 to die your Chocobo blue. I'm sure you could pay like a dollar to fix that. No. I'm sure Billy could let you pay a dollar to fix that. Yes. It's sugar daddy.

And the other thing is that there is some overlap for the rest of you guys. And that is, man, anytime you have to play with people competitively or fucking cooperatively, like you know that guy who bitches at you for spanning fireballs? That guy's here. But he's a rogue and he's bitching at you for not having good enough gear even though you just beat the boss effortlessly. And he was the one who almost died because he stood in the AOE. It's the healer that yells at you for you drew too much aggro.

I'm the tank. I'm supposed to draw aggro. You're supposed to heal me. That fits under the thing that they hate us because they ain't us. But you have to know his healing limits too. Yes. That's why I drew those three guys. And that's why the healers shouldn't run into the...

There are healers that you draw the guys and then they run to the back. Like they run through the enemies to the back near the other aggro ranges of other enemies. Then you've pulled like 10 guys and they're like, why you know, why you know, flash these guys to get aggro? He's angry and jealous that, yeah, your gear might not be as good in spec as him, but you're better than him. And just every... Think about that. Is tanking just a lifestyle?

Yes. It's a way of living. So there are so many specific things. There's the DPS guys who queue up for the duty finder, but never actually select yes to go with you. So the duty finder comes up and says, hey, everyone's ready for the dungeon. Everyone just has to hit yes. You wait on a minute. Oh, well, it canceled.

Wait, wait another five minutes. There's the fucking healers that start the goddamn dungeon. The instant you load it in the dungeon, you see BRB Bio. And they're gone for 10 minutes because they had to go take a shit and they waited until the fucking dungeon propped. Oh, all right. Other people are awesome. And the game knows this. The game knows that you don't want to do this.

So they have given you enormous incentives to play with randoms. Liam, feel free to cut in and take this dance whenever you want it. I played Splatoon a little bit. Liam, you should play FF14 with me on my server. Fucking Splatoon's so good. So good, girl. It's good. If you want to find out about what I'm talking about, just go to the reddit.

There's a post there. So I played Splatoon during one of the... I forced them to sticky it. During one of the... I asked them to sticky it. That's different. No, if one of us asked someone, it's basically forcing it. I asked Mike to sticky it and a different mod stickied it.

So that's not even on me anymore. Don't forget to use referral code, woolly m. Oh, man. So I played Splatoon during one of the... If I could get game time, forget... Oh, man. I played Splatoon for one of the three... In one hour, that mommy said you were allowed...

During one of the three Nintendo prisoner allotted freedom hours where I got to play. Stretch your legs a little bit. What are you talking about? So the Splatoon demo, you could only play it during three specific hours on these two days. The test fire demo was limited to a certain time. Wow. So I got to play during one of the three... Yes, you can play hours, which is kind of shitty that they did that,

but whatever, the game's out soon. Do you download a demo or is it like the whole game with just a limited thing? No, it's far smaller than the whole game. The whole game is 2.8 gigs, this is 600 megs. It's two maps and a couple like weapons and three... It's also gonna be like worth it for a pre-download even. Yeah, no, for sure. That game is really fucking good.

How did the framerate and all that hang up? Great. Well, shocker, it's a Nintendo game. I saw a Tumblr post of someone just showing like a bunch of the Avengers trying to lift Thor's hammer, and it's like the X-Bone and the PS4 and they can't lift it, and the hammer says 1080p, 60 frames per second, and then the Wii U is vision, and it just picks up the hammer and it says Splatoon for some reason.

Well, I mean, you know, obviously that's gonna be that way when they're targeting these kind of graphics. It's only 2.8 gigs, it's easy to get... No, that doesn't make sense. How many matches did you get in? I didn't count, but probably 11 or 12 within that hour. I ran into the hard limit, and I was like, oh fuck, I wanna keep playing. I think someone's telling me this on Tumblr or whatever, or Twitter, someone's like, you focus everyone to play for this one hour,

and you get the most data ever about how the game... No, of course, but I wish there was like a third open day or something. The usual thing that you do with stuff like this is you have a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, is just go for it. Exactly, you have at least it. That's how MMOs do it. Like, considering Nintendo's the company who pushes the draconian, you can only play this demo five times.

And remember, there's more draconian than that now. Is this as transparent as it seems in that this is clearly a stress test that they're running? Like, I think it's A, stress test, B, they're fucking terrified of people getting fed up of the game and not wanting to play anymore. That's why I think they do the five play limit. That's interesting. Because they don't want people to play it too much and be like, I got my fill. Then you just don't stop, and you just don't turn the game off.

No, I know. But why else would you do the limit of you could only play this game X times? For what other reason? Well, they should release like a full demo of some single player stuff and like a multiplayer one. Anyway, the game's fucking good. I got some really good like day one tech that I'm sure people will all pick up within the first week. But that first week though.

That like during that hour, figuring out that stuff was free victory every time. Okay, so here's one that I grabbed on like moment zero, minute zero, because I was watching other people play and no one was doing this. Game start, turn around and paint your own fucking base. The amount just runs forward to shoot the conflicted area and hit the other guys and doesn't paint their own area. And the tips the game even tells you to do. So there's multiple maps.

There's like six maps in the game or whatever. One of the two maps in this trial version has a large base area that the enemies objectively and literally cannot get to fucking paint that. Spend the first 30 seconds of the game painting your base that is invincible because they can't touch it. It's ridiculous. The amount of matches that my team won in where I was looking at there at the other side of the map and there was unpainted spots in their base.

And you're the only one in your base doing it. And I was the only one doing it. Yeah, yeah. That's exactly it. So if you're starting the match with a roller, which I was doing because I like the roller the most. Everyone's like the roller is super good. It's not OP. It's not?

There is a devastating weakness to the roller that people will find in the first week. I saw people posting pictures of a roller just rolling over the earth. Dude, there is a devastating weakness that I figured out. I'm not going to say it. Oh, keeping your tech close to the chest. There is a devastating weakness that I also took advantage of to beat other roller players because they didn't know. It sounds like the smart gun in Titanfall. Yeah, kind of.

It seems like it's the easy perfect one thing. There's a devastating weakness. So hey, you're saying it's annoying when people just run ahead and don't do the thing they're supposed to do? Yeah. Welcome to tanking, my friend. You guys are just tanking Splatoon. If you start with the roller, it is your fucking responsibility to paint the base. Don't leave that to other people.

No one else can do it as well. You're wasting the other player's time. Also, if you have a fucking sniper rifle, don't stand there trying to paint over little corners. You are wasting everyone's time when you could be getting free kills on the enemy rollers. Are you using a sniper or a roller? Yeah. Are you choosing your loadout before the match? Yeah.

No, you pick your roller. See, that makes it even dumber. Yeah, exactly. The fact that someone would take a sniper rifle. There's people taking snipers and they're doing their job, but then every now and again, they're like, oh, that corner needs some paint. And then the rollers are just fucking clearing the field when the snipers have free kills on the rollers. That's it.

Yeah, exactly. Rattrap doesn't go head-to-head with players. Play your class. No matter what game you fucking play, play your fucking class. No, exactly. It's just common sense and paint your own. Exactly. That was the most ridiculous with the one.

Also, some of the good stuff is like, there's walls in the arena that are somewhat thick and stuff. Find a way to the top of the walls, paint the top of the walls. Because, no, but that shit counts. Sides don't count. It's the only up-facing. And that top of the walls that's tricky to get to is so valuable because it takes so much time for the enemy to try to fix it. Exactly. And if they try to fight it, it'll take a bunch of their time.

You know what it is, Liam? All it really is is the common sense of think about your goal and not shooting the other guy. No, shut up. The goal is to cover the ground. The game says it over. Don't shoot the other guy. Honestly, I saw some comments a couple weeks ago or whatever when I was talking about Day to Feet. Like, why Day to Feet and not Counter Strike?

Because in Day to Feet, you win by capping flags. You don't win by shooting guys. So the guys that just hang out in their base and shoot every guy and get huge KD, lose. They lost every time because they're not out capping flags. Now, when everyone's rolling on all cylinders after people figure out this shit and they cover the ground immediately, then you fight and then it's cool. No, exactly. But like, this day one stuff, some of these players are bad and just not figuring out all of this shit. Alright, so let me ask you.

They're children, Liam. Let me ask you. Children sometimes know how to play video games. I don't know if your children would know about the specific kind of games. I think there weren't that many children in this demo. I've gotten my ass kicked by kids in Halo. So of all of you, kids can play video games. It's dumb kids that you're talking about.

Sorry about that. But my question is, half of the people who play this game are going to be shitty forever. Just how half of the people who play Battlefield are never going to fucking heal their teammates or whatever. If half of your team is shitty forever, is it still going to be fun to play? No, you lose the match. But no, half of the ball teams are shitty forever. It'll be fun. It'll be really fun.

But you're still going to be mad like, oh guys, why do I have to paint the base every time? I had a team of three snipers with me as a roller. I was like, this is worthless. But the problem is, you can't change weapon or loadout mid-match. And you don't know what your allies have before you pick. I actually really like that. I like it too. But it ends up in situations like that where you have three snipers with one roller.

No, you're not going to have three snipers with one roller. By the time the game comes out, you're going to have five snipers and one roller. And that roller will be you. And you're going to lose. The actual shit is when you run into a team of four rollers and you don't have any snipers. That's the actual shit. I'm going to say something controversial here probably. Snipers are probably the worst class in every game.

Not because they're bad to play as, or they're not effective, but the most commonly useless player is the bad sniper. The bad sniper, yes. The good sniper is the most useful character in the game. Yes, but that is the most commonly useless player. The sniper who just, I just want to sit on top of a tower and shoot the guys that, oh, I shot him. We lost. Every game that has guns is a million bad snipers. The snipers are either the best or the worst.

And it's about a 1 to 99 ratio. Yeah, exactly. And people are going to play in the class. They think they're going to have fun. No, play the one you're good at. And guess what? A lot of people don't have fun being supports, which is dumb because I love being support classes and things. Support classes are fun.

It is. I actually enjoy being a tank way more than I ever did as a DPS. And that shocks me because you're supposed to think the tanks are boring. Support classes are cool. Yeah. But that's terrible. That's going to get annoying. Splatoon is super good.

Can't wait for the full game. I played that a lot. I played that for one hour a lot. It felt like a lot. Good thing it wasn't two hours, then you might be done with it. Yeah, exactly. I played like 15 hours of Oreshka, which I came back to. That game is like, I put out the analogy to Elder Scrolls when I first played it.

What? You remember? No. You just pour more hours in and more stuff just keeps coming out. This game just keeps going. There's so much to do. It's so fun. I think it's like, it's a shame that I think it passed under everyone's radar.

Dude, I knew about it beforehand and it passed under my radar. Yeah. One of the best games on the console, like by far. It's so fucking good. Let's, sorry to cut you off. Yeah. That's a good word from our sponsors. This episode is once again brought to you by the looting of crates.

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Yes, but crate sounds good. You can stack crates. Chest have round tops. Did you say to someone, mom, that's my crate. Yeah. And your mom would be all impressed. Your mom would be like, whoa. Whoa.

Big man over here. Yeah, there's no possibility of a crate being a mimic. Mimics are always chests. No, exactly. Remember a mimic crate would be a terrible thing. Remember back in our babby days, it was all about loot bags at birthday parties. Yes. I got a loot bag.

That'd be cool. Of course. Crate's obviously bigger. And I mean, there's not birthday parties every month. Never even happened. And you did have them if you had lots of friends, so I didn't get bags every month. None of us could. But now you get a crate, which is even more delivered to your doorstep every month.

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It's crazy. It's nuts. It's a celebration of the act of breaking into crates with crowbars. Backing open. And looting. If you don't have a crowbar in your hand, you're not really looting. Well, to be fair, you can bust these crates open with your hands. You don't need a crowbar.

No, but the spiritual representation. And in fact, I would recommend against it. No, put it on the ground, get your foot on it, and get the crowbar in there. There's no possibility that if you try to use crowbar on these, you'll smash that shit to pieces. I was playing a game over the weekend where there's lots of loot all over, and then you have to break it open sometimes with a fucking crowbar. Sometimes you need it. And then I started thinking, I'll be so much better if they just sent a crate with this

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Fucking if you have a Vita and you want an RPG, ignore all the compile heart stuff, ignore everything. That's not hard. Even potentially ignore Final Fantasy 10 and just get Oreshka. It is a fucking, there's nothing else like it. There's nothing else like it in English. The only other thing like it's the first game that never came out here. That just says laugh isn't in that game.

I know. So why would you even bother? That depends on the person. That's the kind of title that's very hard for people to find just based on what you're saying. So you want to kind of… O-R-E-S-H-I-K-A Oreshka. What's the subtitle?

Tainted Bloodline? Tainted Bloodline. Yeah, it's probably easier to look for that. Yeah, it's an abbreviation of go forth over my dead body. Right. Or I know Shikabane Okoete UK. Because the idea is that your family dies and the next generation keeps going. Well, I started getting to some really cool stuff where like you can make, you can make

like special armor for people and you get something forged for this guy specifically. And as he levels up, it levels up. And then when he dies, like a skill gets imprinted on it. And you have to pick someone to bequeath it to. And then it becomes that person's armor, but it retains the old guy's name still. And it keeps leveling up with that guy, with that skill, those skills, and that person will die and it'll add more skills to it. And you'll be fighting with it, and like you'll have all the ancestors appear behind

you in the air. And like, and you'll get special shape going on with it. Like mini summons during the fight. It's so cool. Matt, don't forget about the word ant. What's saying the bad name? And you will know what's funny about it. And you will know what's funny about it.

Yeah. Oh my god. It's a fucking sick game. And it just gets deeper the deeper you go. And it's so cool. And the other thing is like, since the Bloodstained Kickstarter, like we knew about it ahead of time, I've been like so excited for it. Talking to fucking, like you got, well, Matt mostly, but you guys as much as I possibly

could. And I've been replaying all the Igavenia games. And they're fucking amazing. They're a good game. I beat Symphony and Harmony in portrait this week. Jesus Christ. It's on top of, oh yeah, but you know those games backwards and forwards. You just do them.

That's on top of the thing that we'll talk about later that we also beat this week. Kickstarter's out. Did it pass yet? It's been a few hours. Liam, we said we'd get there after the news. We said we would get there. It's so close. Put your border back in your fucking pants.

Dude, I'm not going to talk about it. But it's so close. Yeah, that was. I'm not going to talk about it. But I'm talking about it right now by pointing my thing at you. You literally said we'd get there. We'll get there. You're optimism and I'm so excited.

I'm so excited. I'm so excited. This week of that he replayed them all though this weekend though. Because it's like, you remember when Mighty No. 9 was coming out and ukulele just recently. And you know how Mighty No. 9's video came out yesterday and it doesn't look very good. And people are like, oh my god, this is the game I've been waiting for. Like this is that for me and I'm so excited and I can't contain it. I can't control it.

Just hold it to the heart. No. No, don't make me. It's coming. It's leaking all over the place. All right. I'm glad this is a like out. You should watch the anime Punchline, which is written by Kotaro Uchikoshi who wrote Virtues Last Reward in 999.

What? That's a good guy. It's pretty entertaining. Punchline. Drumline. Drumline. Punchline. Oh man.

Drumline. They drum it in the rain. That guy was such a dick because he kept telling the main character, you got to learn how to read sheet music. He's like, no, I know how to read it. No one watched Drumline with me, huh? You got something you want to share with us? I watched Drumline. All right.

Unapologetically. Back in the past. I don't know. I don't know. Back in the past. I don't remember what the- Sordid marching band plays. I have no idea what the circumstances were that led me to watch the entirety of Drumline.

Oh, Bloodstain Kickstarter past. Yeah, but he's not talking about it. He has the drum battle in the rain with the guy, and they just keep drumming, and then he's like, man, this guy's amazing, but he has to- you have to show him the drum technique because he doesn't know how to read sheet music. He's like, you can't force me to read sheet music? That's not fucking- I don't know. Drumline's a weird movie.

All right. Really, what story are you baiting me for? Is it the Ari story? No. Well, I'll talk about runaways. No, but you like- everyone got to come along and meet him. Yeah. Not me.

No, because- I chose to not go. After being thoroughly impressed with the product and that I showed them, everyone else wanted an Xbox. Okay, let's be clear. We're talking about Xboxes because the phrase that everyone was satisfied with the product that I showed them- Yeah, that makes it could be anything.

Like, comes off more dubious than even this dubious conversation. If you weren't listening last week. Xbox fully loaded. Yeah. Fully loaded. Dubious innards. Much like Herbie. Yes.

So, what was I going to say? What was I going to say? Ari. Ari? Yeah, so everyone's got one now. And I can happily say that I got my cash money box. Yeah. Packed out the skull box.

No, no, no. I got the dumbest one. You got the biohazard box. I got the big dumb neon orange biohazard. I have the doom texture art of a skull that's on a wall. And Liam looked at the remains and just said, fuck this. Get me a regular. Regular.

Well, because I asked for the money one. And Woolie's like, I'm taking it. And then I asked for the skull one and you're like, that's taking it. That's already mine. And then I'm like, well, the biohazard one then. Oh, yeah. Because you applied last. You applied last in the Facebook conversation.

In the end, I'm actually happiest with the regular. Yeah, probably. I'm sure I will get tired of that dumb biohazard thing like tomorrow. I will never tire of it. No. You got out the best on this one. Fucking Benjamin. Truly, truly you got an unnecessary Xbox.

And Matt, you can look at it and be like, Matt, did you do that yourself? Yes. The answer is yes. You love skulls. All it's missing is like Viper's tracks playing in the background. Unnecessary Xbox. Yeah, that's it. Okay.

So for me, I did quite a couple of things. Short business out of the way. The Yomi PC game. Yeah. Finally launched. They had the early demo that was around for a while. That was just kind of like bare bones. It's kind of rough.

Yeah. But now the skin full one is out and it's got all 24 decks, I want to say, in it. And yeah, that's a fucking card game. It's not as good as Triple T. That is so good. That is one of the best card games I've played in a like maybe ever. It's fucking fantastic. It is so well balanced.

And so this way better than Triple Triad. Oh, Triple Triad can suck Yomi's dick. Damn. Triple Triad can suck a lot of card games. There you go. No. Triple Triad is the best. Triple Triad is a card game for people who don't know card games.

You also don't. That's why it's the best. You don't know anything about Yomi. Anyway. It's the Japanese word for reading the mind of the environment. What's that? It's Sirlen's card game, right? Sirlen's card game that...

Is it going to ruin our buddy Silo? Why was I just thinking of that? Is it going to ruin Super Turbo 2? So yeah. I love Yomi. My buddy Silo was working on that for a while and it's finally out. And it's really cool because when you obviously have the PC like card game to play here, you get to see all the...

You know there's a lot of rules that you could forget. Yeah, of course. It's a rather complex game. And here you get them turn by turn. It guides your hips, yeah. You see the like Phase 1, 2, 3 kind of thing. It takes you through that. I imagine it also like graze out cards you can't play and stuff like that.

Exactly. Any good port of a card game should have the like super guided rules like that because it makes it play just smooth and easy. Yeah, put all the mechanics rules under the hood so you can't fuck it up. So you never get that thing of like you can't play that card man. No, exactly. Like okay, over to the book. Then it also has of course the layout of the fighting game so you've got the art of both

characters in their idle stance there. And when you do the combos, it switches and sequences from one to the other to the other to the big finish. So yeah, the Yomi game on Steam is fucking cool and since my girlfriend and I love playing Yomi against each other. I didn't know that. Yeah, so this is like an excuse for her to get like a Steam account and like set that up so we can go laptop to laptop.

Now she's going to get drawn into Team Fortress 2 for the rest of her life. Oh shit. You lost her. Yeah. She was a good catch but she's gone now. I wish there was a local multiplayer multiplayer server. Okay, now you look away from the screen. Yeah.

And it would be like a message that says look away now. Yeah, yeah, because that would have been... Or you have to play it like Starcraft 64 and she has to be under a... Put up the cardboard blockers for GoldenEye. So that's great. That's cool stuff. The cardboard blockers was always like so far beyond like the average person's willingness. But it's so necessary when you're playing for reals.

The screen-looking part of the game. Fuck you, man. Isn't that a simpler solution? Isn't that just a simpler solution? Is to just say no screen-looking part of the game that you know where everyone is on the map at all times if you know the map. That's why Screensheet is coming out. Because that game is just...

That game is that. The game. Anyway, so I played through and finished Broken Age Act II. Yo, what'd you think of it? Did you play and finished Broken Age Act II? Not yet. Okay. I have not played Broken Age Act II.

What'd you think of it? Okay. Do you like the first act? I love the first act. I think it was really good. I had such a great time. Broken Age Act II, I have not seen a fumble at the five-yard line this hard... Really?

By a shock one. I don't want to hear that. And what I say at the five-yard line, I'm... By a shock one, this is a real bad fumble. I have never seen this bad of a fucking ball drop and then crawl as the other team picks it up and runs and return touchdowns. In terms of a story or mechanics or a decision or... So I'm going to dance because...

Dance, really? Explaining... So do you think the game is bad? Here's what it is. No, do you think it's bad or good? Like, I want to know before... I have to elaborate. Okay.

It's worth playing if you've gotten halfway there already. Yeah, okay. You've got to conclude it, right? But here's what's up. Yeah, I can't explain exactly what's going on without spoiling things, but obviously, Act I ends on something like Exclamation Marquee and then you pick up the pieces immediately afterwards and then act II. The first half an hour or so of each character's campaign in Act II is fine.

It's more of the same goodness and you can continue and play that and it's great. But then it just starts getting up its own ass with obtuse-ness to the point where... You mean adventure game obtuse-ness? But remember the obtuse-ness that was like a fucking rubber chicken rope pulley? Yeah. And then we're going to say cat hair and magnet. Yeah. Because that's the all-time most absurd.

You hit that point around the half an hour before. Oh, no. Right? But then you just start going beyond. And then the game starts doing things where not only is this puzzle so ridiculously obtuse-ness, and not in use this item with that thing, technical obtuse-ness, like entirely different game mechanics, one of which is reprogramming or rewiring a robot in these patterns that are just...

It's not fun. It's not interesting. It's just dry and frustrating. And there's moments. And if you play the first act, right, there's something you realize is that you can click either character, you choose which one, you go through the whole thing and then you switch to the other and that's it. There's moments in this where you actively cannot progress unless you switch to the other

character, but there's nothing telling you that. Oh, no. So you run around hitting your head against a wall for hours. And you didn't have to do the same for the first part. The first part didn't have any of that. Okay. So if the game first part, if the first part did have that, you might have had a clue that switching back and forth would have been something, but it doesn't do that.

See? It brings you to a point where there's one character, there's a moment in each one where that starts, right? You got to go from one to the other or from the other to one. And enough failed attempts at something and you get a bit of a hint in one way with one character. And the other characters, which happened to be the first one I was doing, you get no hit whatsoever.

So you were just stuck and it straight up hit your head until you randomly give up and switch to the other character, which I never did for the first act and which I never wanted to do because I wanted to complete them entirely. Yeah, I get you. So Radiant Historia had a timeline switching mechanic in which you would get progress blocked on one side and then have to go to the other. When you would get your progress blocked, one of your party members would say, oh man, we'll never get past this.

How will we ever get past this? If only we had done this earlier. Yeah, exactly. And you would go, oh. Exactly. Or they'd say, oh, this guy's sick. He needs an antidote, but unfortunately we lost the antidote back then. So you would go to the other timeline and do it.

So I'm sitting here looking at all the ways they could have indicated to you, hey, maybe you want to switch over now, of which none of them are happening, including the most subtle ones could have been letting the little face of the other character glow. That's. That you go, hey, maybe it's time to just click here now because I've hit the wall. It's such a fine line that they're straddling because you said you like the first act a lot. I like the first act a lot.

There are so many arguments tooth and nail and like I've argued with people tooth and nail that like, no, the complexity of the puzzles in the first act is fine, but there's people who say, no, it's too easy. They're way too easy. Yeah. And it's like. I heard about those. And it's like, so they, you know, so you're saying they went too hard.

They went way too hard. But at the same time, it's like, you know. And dude, trust me. Yeah. When you get there, it's really hard to defend. And I'm saying. I haven't gotten there. And I'm saying this and it sucks because of how much I was excited and because of how

much I love the first act and like we're both sitting there when we're playing it, just going, I'm so mad that I feel this way about something that I'm supposed to be really excited for. And we ended up basically going till like five in the morning, just going like, well, if we stop now, that's it. Oh yeah. Oh wow. Okay.

So we have to finish it right now. And then you get that feeling sucks. Right. So you get to a finale in act three, right? Inside the thing where switching becomes constant. And again, no never indicating why or when you're going to switch. You just have to hit the wall. Just do it all the time.

And scrape every corner and every edge. Talk to everyone. Exhaust everything until you go up. I clearly have switched. It's weird because you said this fumbles at the five yard line, which made me think that there's going to be the ending. The ending. But you're describing the entire second half of the game.

You're describing the entire second half. Well, because that's the 45 yard line. Yeah. But the thing is that when I say like that first half an hour, I mean, it's kind of like it may be maybe even longer than that, depending on how long it takes you to piece together things. But basically it's from the moment that you are forced to switch. There's like, there's a really obtuse chicken pulley thing before that that I can deal with.

I'm like, that's weird, but that's fine. But from the final moment where you're stuck at a wall and then you move into the third act, it just falls apart. And the switching becomes more frequent and less indicated. And then the last things you have to do are just like, there's no reason why your brain would ever think this solution connects to this one or this thing would you to use that. And it's like, did you root for such energy? You have to look it up.

Well, that's exactly it. The only way to salvage this. And then you get an ending, by the way, and the ending is all right. It's all right. But the fucking only way to enjoy this, and this is for everyone who's out there, if you really don't want to go through the shit, is play it for, like I said, about half an hour, switch characters, play another half hour, and then just get a guide. And I know that sucks, but it's like find a spoiler for your walkthrough out there.

I'm sure you can get one or two and use that when needed, as needed, because you're going to. And it's such a disappointing fucking way to end this project that's been, you know what I mean? And you've been following the backstory and all this stuff, and it's like, God damn, it falls apart, man. That's a shame. And I never do this, but after beating it, I felt compelled.

There's like six in the morning, and I'm like, I got to go on Metacritic and see what other people are saying. I'm curious, you know? And like the first thing you see is obviously, yeah, the first act was in green, the second act is in yellow. So like it kind of wasn't alone. And no major outlets have really gotten words in yet, except for like, I think GameSpot and IGN.

And like the GameSpot review was pretty much, yeah, on point with what I'm kind of saying right now, in that it's like, you have so many moments of, you solve the thing and instead you go, oh, you go, what? Really? Yeah. And that is a bad, instant reaction. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

Because you always, because in the first one, I always end up going, oh, fuck, yeah, okay. Yeah. You hear the little chime in the room. Well, the first act's good, like straight up, it's just good, the first act. Yeah. And then you hear that chime and you just go, really? Or you fucking put the mouse down or get up or walk away and take time, take five. Well, you know, fucking warning for everybody out there about that.

On the other flip side of Double Fine Things, I watched the full Symphony of the Night. Oh, Igarashi playing through. Yeah, Igarashi with Ben Judd and Anna Kipnis sitting around. Ben Judd. Yeah, Ben Judd. I thought he was a janitor. So he opened up an agency for video game talent. Okay.

And he works as a translator slash video game agent. He helps get Japanese people in contact with Western companies. Yeah, I knew that. Pretty much. And... He's been doing that for a while. He mentioned that like a year and a half ago on the A4 podcast. Right.

So, yeah, so he was sitting in with Igar and doing the translation and they're all drinking wine. I love Ben Judd's translation voice. Yeah. It's great. It's fun. And... Sounds like an affine. This is a fun watch, but also like a bit leapered because...

It sucks because I really like Anna from the Double Fine adventure video series. And she really likes him for the night. And she loves Symphony of the Night, but she's so painfully average at it. And it's not that... And I say this as someone who's like, we're on the receiving end of this in our LPs so we know what that's like. Yeah, we know what it's like to be bad at video games. Of course.

It's like the one LPs the whole way through. But you're sitting through... You met Snailborn. I met Snailborn, you're right. But you're sitting through and there's points where Ega just grabs the controller. Doesn't grab... No, not in the mean way. Not in the mean way.

He says, can I try this? You know, because there's a couple of times where he's like, oh, use your shield. There's a go down, there's a thing over. You can do that. Real loud. I would have grabbed that shit out of your hand so fast. To be clear, he does it like five or six times. Like it's not during two and a half hours.

There's a couple of funny moments that happen over it when he grabs it and tries to... Yes, I will get that energy tank. Oh, and then he botches as well. Yes, I will get that energy tank for you, Matt. But it was hard. To be fair, it's one of the hard ones in X. But it's still worth it to just see his little play-by-play commentary on everything. Yeah, there's some good tidbits in there for sure.

Exactly. Little things that, you know, I didn't know. The voice acting he knows, he gets it. He's like, I'm not an English speaker and I can hear how bad it is. And like there was actually a full dub for that intro. The title's called... It was so bad that he had to get rid of it. It's one of those things.

Like there's a little hint there that they knew. Because something came out when? 95? The 70 and the 90? Yeah, the 90's. Now it's like 97. Later, the 97, right? Okay, Resident 1 came out in 96 and that voice acting was hilariously god-awful.

Chris and Richter Belmont have the same voice actor. And he's doing the same shit. He's doing the same like, that fucking monster have at you shit is Chris from RE1. But it's not just him. It's everyone's thing. One of the best things is when they encounter death in the beginning and obviously he powers you, Ega brings up the fact that originally that line when Alucard gets hit by Death's power is he goes, No, as the items are flying away.

And then Ega's like, that's really fucking lame stuff. It sounds too whiny. No, my items. They're taking my stuff. Don't take my stuff. And he's like, that was awful. And we were like, is there anything? Is there fucking anything we can do?

What line can we repurpose? And one of the guys was like, oh, there's another line where he just goes, what? And he's like, okay, what? So he just, so yeah. So now Ega's stuff goes flying when he goes, what? And it sounds better in all fairness. But how did you take all my items? And he's like, clearly the sentiment was supposed to be like, ah, shit, death.

I should have known. Yeah. I was a bit too familiar. I was acting too close and I should have been on my guard. Yeah, again, death. One of my favorite things about Castlephania is the death is number two. Yeah. And he's just straight up like, how are we going to one up the chariot fight with death

from Rondo? From Rondo. And they're like, well, we got to go straight to the big boy. Yeah. Because that's it. So open on Dracula, yeah. So that's a fun watch for the tidbits. Check that out.

Not a good bits in there. How many games are out there in which the sequel's first level is the final boss of the prior game? It's rare. I wouldn't think very many. It's fucking rare. It's just coolest. Because how many people, or at the very least, how many games do the bait and switch on you,

like Metal Gear? And it's like Metal Gear and this are the only ones I can really think of. Well, this one's not a bait and switch. Well, when they first previewed the game. It was not a bait and switch. That was how they presented it, was they showed off Richter's section. Yeah. But when the game went on shelf, she's on the cover of the box.

Yeah, no, I know. I look her, it's on the cover. I don't think it would have been less of a bait and switch if Raiden was on the cover of the box. Well, then it wouldn't be a bait and switch. I disagree completely. That should be lies. It is a bait and switch.

I don't think it would be a bait and switch if Raiden was on the box. In the beginning. Because he's in the intro. Because the exact equivalent to that is Final Fantasy XII, where the idiot kids are on the box. But you start playing as Rex. So I think it's a bait and switch. Whatever your presumption.

Then they immediately start playing as the kid. After like two hours. When your presumption is that you're going to beat an out character again for the sequel and then like give you something different or they mix it up, I think that's like a surprise. Like it says Alucard's name on the box. I know, but they knew it was going to be a surprise. He said it himself. No, he didn't.

He said players thought it was going to be Richter after we showed off the early stuff. And he said that wasn't really ever the case though. And then he said they were quite surprised by that. No, they were surprised to find that. Dude, it's on the box. The game shipped like that. You don't get home with that box and say I'm going to play as Richter. I watched it too.

I know. You're misinterpreting what he's saying. I'm going off of what they subtitled. You're misinterpreting it, man. I think you're wrong. I also think you're wrong. Because it's clear that they show you one thing and he was reacting to the fact that some fans were upset by that. But in some cases it's like, oh, we're just having fun.

There was a whole other TGS between that one and that one where you could play as Alucard. But do you think then that like going back to the right in situation, you think that because of the way the box of that game came out, people were not expecting it to take the whole time? Not just the box. No, there's Doctor. You literally didn't know when they faked stuff. Remember they faked, like Pat's saying, they actually faked stuff. Like the plot of MGS 2 is that you can't trust anything you read on the internet. And like all those fake trailers are the ultimate expression of that.

Showing Snake in riding areas and stuff. Yeah, you can't trust. Where did you see it? The internet? Would you trust me? Ah, you're right. You should have looked in game magazines. Well, I think the expectations were somewhere else.

And what they got was not what they expected. Maybe a bit. But like, I don't think that was the intention. Dude, when I picked up Symphony in a night, I bought it and I picked it up in a rental case that had no box. That had nothing. Yeah, nothing. And I started playing as Richter and I was like, and I played Castlevania 1 and Bloodlines up until that point and only that. I'm like, oh, sick.

Great. And then I was like, and I never played Metroid. Or Super. Or, well, I said Metroid. No, well Super Castlevania. No. I never played Super Castlevania. I never played Metroid.

So it's like, oh yeah, cool action game. And then like, I go and like, you start as Alakar. I'm like, this is cool. And then I hit start and I saw the inventory. What the fuck is this? It was a really weird one. I was definitely very surprised. I'm sure.

Well, the same would happen to anyone who rented FF12 without knowing the box. Lastly and briefly, I just want to call attention to something. I watched this weekend Star Wars 1-3 A Phantom Edit. Oh, how is that? How long is it? This is not the Phantom Edit. No, it's Star Trek. So Star Wars, no.

Star Wars The Phantom Edit is episode one, removing Jar Jar, cutting it down to be a tighter movie with whatever. Does he come out cleanly? I don't even know how you can get out of that. Like when you take him out, is it a clean cut? Yes. Yes. He's in shock.

How much you can just remove him? So that, yes. So that's Star Wars Episode One The Phantom Edit. This, confusingly named, is Star Wars 1-3 A Phantom Edit. Where it just does that to all three movies. Tell me it turns them into one movie. One movie. How long?

Two hours long. What? Fucking. Is that like a third of the content? That good? Is it actually pretty good? Except for some of the line reading. You can't fix Hayden, right?

There's things you can't fix. Hayden's not even a bad actor. It's like the direction. If you saw the footage of George on the set, it's like, no, say it bad. Yeah, I don't know. But like, you're giving me too much emotion here, asshole. Like in particular? No, I want you to say like, I think that the Jedi are evil.

I want you to say it like that. Yeah. Not from my point of view. It's not fair. So all of those lines, all of the whiney lines, cut. Say younglings. Right? Lifted.

Completely out. Having a creepy skeleton to our hand. A really big one being him whining at the council while everyone's cringing at him having a tantrum. Yeah. They cut that so that he just has a moment of like frustration. And then Samuel L. Jackson's like, dude, sit down. Does it have the part where he's like screaming about how he killed all the sand people?

I killed them. All of them. Is it the children? Padme's like I'm super wet. So let me cliff notes this because it's fucking like, it's like, when you watch it, the main thing to it is the beginning and the end. That's where that movie breaks, right? So you start the fucking race and the scrawl goes up and the scrawl is simplified.

It's awesome. Like a retouched, redone one completely. A completely new one that just says, the Jedi are these guys. This is who they fight. Trade Federation. This is who they're trying to trade. Space taxes. They're just like, the Jedi are these guys.

They fight the Sith and Anakin is special and they're trying to trade him. I really hope that's what it actually says and you're not paraphrasing. Did they alter the title and the credit and the crawl to? Completely. Does it like the Phantom Edit? The Phantom Edit. Oh, cool. Wow.

It's a whole new start. So someone went in there and then spaceship travels and then we move down. And the camera travels down to Naboo and then Duel of the Fate starts because the only part of Phantom Menace in this is the fight with Darth Maul. Shut up. Because you don't need them. You don't need anything. You don't really need any of the beginning.

You don't need no contact. No, you don't need it. You start with the fucking Maul fight and here's what you get. You get the two of them. The Jedi are good. Sith are evil. They're fighting Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan is young and rash and hot-headed.

Is that an action fight in any action movie? And Qui-Gon's all lies and shit. I guess I have to see it to get it. Literally need nothing in that movie. And here it does more than not show you things you don't need. It adds things to Qui-Gon's character because you don't see them so you just just zoom. Qui-Gon dies and then he goes to train the boy. And so one, then you cut over to Anakin, grown up, and Obi-Wan, fast forwarded and they're

grown up and they're going on their thing. You don't get the weird thing with Boyd and Padme knowing each other and having a weird thing for them. Remember at the beginning of the Blanket Review for episode two, he just says, why didn't they just start the whole movie here? Nothing in episode one actually carries over and the elevator scene, they already establish all the stuff that they need. The audience is expected to understand too many things that they are and are not told.

So why not just have them assume more? You just get him going, you know, train the boy and then you see the boy grown up and he sees Padme for the first time and the way they act around each other when you both see them for the first time is bashful enough. Childhood friendship. So you're like, yeah, I haven't seen you since so long. I want to protect you. So that's done.

Everything that could have been from Phantom Menace is gone, right? So then you go through the first movie and then here's what you do. You take everything that has to do with Obi-Wan and his side story and you get the fuck out of it. And you focus on Anakin. Because that's who matters. And you focus on Padme and their actual love story, quote unquote, trying to make it a love story.

How much of that is cut? How much? Let's be real. You remove everything that's, again, Obi-Wan relief. So what you end up with is this thing where you get time to have Anakin. They cut the line that he just jokingly said. Which one? It's everything.

You are everything. So soft. Yes, you are everything. Well, fuck this edit then. Okay, so every moment of cringe-worthy, stalker-ish, creepy dialogue from him gets removed. That sucks. Because that shit's crazy. So what you end up with is a normal feeling relationship where they eventually go off to...

You're not allowed to fix that part. So they go off every day. Everyone in this room is putting their hands in front of their face so that they can't see what they get back to Naboo. So when they get back to Naboo, they literally edit out the funny parts of the movie. So they get back to Naboo and then they put that in the deleted scenes with her family. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah.

So you get to have these dinner time moments with the dad going, hey, so tell me about the new boyfriend Jedi guy, huh? And everyone's like, he's a mom. And you get these little things where they get to slowly pepper through the... Right? And then he, and eventually, eventually they clearly start liking each other and then he has a dream. It goes, oh, fuck.

Right? And then it's like, hey, we kind of like each other. We didn't do anything yet. We don't have the creepy feels. We don't have the creepy me stroking your back shit and all that. It's like, no, dude, my mom is, I got to go. I'm sorry. And then they're like, okay, we got to go.

They go. He does the whole mission. Yeah. And then brings her body back and doesn't go on the, I should kill them all. And I fucking, I should be the powerful. Oh, that's gone. Yeah. No more vision.

Quiet. And being like, here's the body, shit sucks. And she walks up to him and hugs him. And then that's it. Then you go through... Like what? And then Obi-Wan is like... Like what if, what if, what if in the ending to MGS3, like Snake just started to go nuts.

She's like, I killed the boss. I killed the, I killed the compress. I shot them. I died. Like... I hate my boss. Everyone leave the movie now. Like in the room with the president.

So not to run through the whole thing, but just... Which are, when Obi-Wan does check back in, it's like, you see him being like, hey, I'm on another planet. I'm doing my own adventure. Oh shit, something's coming. Right? And that's just you go to, you go find him. They do that whole bit.

They end up cutting off the first movie at the hour, a one hour in. The second movie. Yeah. Okay. I was like, wow, an hour to all the fates. That's a lot. They get captured. They rescue them.

You see the joint army robots for the first time. And then it flashes forward after everyone gets rescued out of the audit, the big coliseum. And then we go, then we see Dooku walk away. And then it goes three years later, hey... Did they even fight Dooku? Padme's pregnant. Three years later, Padme's pregnant, right? And I'm like, what the fuck?

The both Dooku fights are gone, really? And the entire Yoda fight is everything. I'm like, whoa, that's weird. The Yoda fight's fucking down, man. I was like, that's weird that they grew that, but okay. And then you see, he's like, oh, I'm pregnant. Oh, okay. They sleep.

And then he has another nightmare. And then in that nightmare... Oh, man. Okay, yeah, great. So in the nightmare where she's like, oh, I'm pregnant. I'm going to die because I'm having children's childbirth, right? They change that. And they do something so smart.

He fucking makes it so that the nightmare is a jar jar. It flashes to show her dying in childbirth. Yeah. Him dying in lava. Uh, Dooku cutting his arm off and then him decapitating Dooku. Yeah. So then he sees these four horrible things. You immediately understand, oh, and then he gets up and you see the robot arm for the

first time. So you go, oh, yeah, okay, I get it. And he sees a bunch of horrible images. He's like, oh no, these are going to happen. Including his own death. Yeah. But then he focuses on her because he loves her. Aw.

Which makes him a better character because he ignores his own death. If you phrase, if you put the nightmare like that, then his behavior at Mustafar makes more sense because he's on the lava planet and then Obi-Wan steps off the ship and then he goes, well shit, I'm going to die right now. It's interesting that they're trying to make it focus more on him loving her because who wouldn't? Because she's everything soft and smooth. Not like San.

Not like San. It just gets rough and coarse. And the problem with that is that he says it gets everywhere. It gets everywhere. Like it's a meatball. It gets everywhere. They get rid of the dumb rope, like they roll around the grass and then he says dictatorship is awesome.

They get rid of that part. Fascism. Fascism is awesome, right? I love fascism. They rearrange the Palpatine scenes so that it's not so fucking brain dead. Is he still having Monster Mash? Yes. But they do it in a way where it's actually like he's up to something but I don't know

what it is. And then it fucking flows and then the ending is the best. Does he go no? No. Damn it. So they do this awesome thing where they get rid of all the fat. They trim all the fat at the ending so that you get fucking Obi-Wan as the high ground, slices him in half, dudes burning on the ground.

You were the chosen one and then he just sits there going fuck, I know. No screaming, I hate you. None of that temper tantrum shit. He just goes ah and then Obi-Wan walks away, right? Shit comes in, picks him up. Get rid of the Qui-Gon, learning how to be a ghost shit. Get rid of... That was assumed.

Everyone just assumed that they knew how to do that. It's not essential so what you have is the funeral procession of Padme moving after she has the babies. She doesn't die of a broken heart to get rid of that line. So you just get the side... I forgot about that. I forgot about that. You get the sideways procession of her inner coffin cutting in with the Darth Vader procession

going the opposite way at the same time. That's cool. Anakin and Obi-Wan fight like all the preamble. They simplify that fight. So they turn the Yoda fight that's happening at the same time into one big scene and then they turn that fight into one big scene and get rid of all the stupid parts in the middle where they're twirling the fucking raver batons, right? So the last part, this parallel that even Lucas himself didn't see of both the coffin

and the hospital bed on the same parallel moving, they cut those together and so you see as she's going to be buried, he's going to be reborn, the mass goes on, silence. The bed straightens out, zoom in on the face, cut to black, credits roll. That's much better. It's awesome. So how long did it take? You're really selling me on this. So you know what they should have done, right?

So frustrating how much better this is. You know what they should have done, right? What they should have done is they should have done all this good stuff and then right when they're like, oh no, she's dying a childbirth, they should have had Jimmy Smith's and C-3PO walk down the hallway. Why does everyone always say Jimmy Smith's? They never say his character's name. Because nobody knows the fucking name.

They never get it. Wow. Wow. And then they just like CG that fucking cardboard cut out of baby on soap. Just self-parking his way down the hallway with them. So look, here's what this is. And just like awkwardly. How long did it take you to edit all this?

Yeah, so what you need to do, because what you need to do is go and make the matte edit where all the dumb shit is left in. Oh my god, my version would be so much better. Just look at whatever Wooly's version left in and cut all that out. Yeah. Oh, it's like the, you know how they had the censored Straight Outta Compton album that came out years ago on the internet? No.

Yeah. In Star Wars episode two, yeah. Someone censored Straight Outta Compton and put out the like the fucking regular edit version of that. It was funny. How? So then someone came out and said like the remainder album where we did all the censored fucks and put them into every track and that's what you get.

30 seconds of fuck shit. Did you hear that remix of the Knuckles theme? Yeah. That's what I was showing. Knuckles. Knuckles. On Knuckles. You don't even try Sonic.

He's Knuckles. On Knuckles. And they replace every adjective with Knuckles. Knuckles is fucking great. That's pretty good. Yeah. Oh man. So, yes.

It makes a better movie. I'm sorry it's not as funny. But it sounds legitimate. And it sounds like what you can actually show your kids. So, yeah. The other thing is that like I don't mind like trimming a movie and like making it overall better. When you fucked up as hard, that fuck up should remain and no one should forget.

No one will ever forget. Why not? Future generations. So, you should own four, five and six and you should own one, two and three with police tape around them. So your child never gets at them. And then an unlabeled DVD case with a label hastily attached. That's as poor.

That's as fixed. No. And as this burned onto a laser disk that's folded into the box. So this led to a discussion about the magic of editing. Oh, dammit. And how I actually edited was a clue. I was just about to fucking say that even if you don't care about Star Wars but you have seen all the movies we're talking about, this seems worthwhile just to feel.

Because I've known this for a while. I don't know why but like I felt like you were going to say it's like editing can completely change a movie. It's everything. Completely. Fix it in post. The editor is as important as the director. As the director.

It's one to one. And Tarantino's director. And Tarantino's editor being this woman that he's friends with but he can't work with at all. And he has to let it go and she'll fight him. It's kind of mine now. Now I remember. He knows two of us.

Now I remember this because every single time we talk about Kojima's storylines I always say he needs an editor. Yeah. He needs. He. Do. This. Yes.

And this led to me having a discussion. Kojima with the power of a good editor. About the magic of editing which I don't know if you noticed that. Damn. I learned when you taught me by making me watch the Kingdom of Heaven director's cut. Yeah. That one's crazy. Because the Kingdom of Heaven director's cut is the opposite of this problem where they

edited way too much and did a poor job of it. So. And the longer version. The law. The version that's like more than an hour longer is way way back. I know. So I had no idea until I saw this and it turns a movie that's a three into an eight. Cheers.

Because of editing. On a couple of sites. On ten or on five. On ten. Okay. On a couple of sites that year when the director's kind of Kingdom of Heaven came out. Like that DVD Blu-ray whatever. One like thing of the year because the movie was better.

Like. Why a huge larger. Yeah. You want a in between of your fucking range on this. Go watch Tom Young-Gung and then go watch The Protector and see a movie that was butchered in its American editing. Wow. Tom Young-Gung and The Protector.

No. Fucking go watch that movie. I can't remember what you were talking about. They have completely rearranged all of the scenes and none of it. No story doesn't make any sense anymore. Tom Young-Gung was always kind of weird to begin with. Yeah. It's just a martial arts movie but it's not great at anything else.

They take, you know the bald guy, the friend. It's been too long. Yeah. All of the top friends. Yeah. They fucking shove it. They have removed his scenes and instead of having it one big scene in the beginning where he's established a scare.

They have them like sparsed out throughout the fucking movie and it's so confusing. Yeah. There you go. Kingdom of Heaven. Yeah. You just jump from fight to fight in The Protector in some cases for no reason. Kingdom of Star Wars. So yeah.

Let's get into the game music. What's games? So. You want to start with goodness? I don't know. I want to start with the most disgusting fucking thing that's happened to me. Yeah. Get out of the way.

So last week we were talking about the whole Kojima versus Konami thing a bit. We've been following it for a bit of a while now. It's been a mess. Something that happened after our podcast went up immediately was our buddy Super Bunny Hop put up a video, a really good one. Saying, hey, I got a source. Because I can't confirm a lot of the things. Yeah.

Because it's only the one source. It's one source, but here's what the inside story seems to be and it pieces together a lot of the confusion going on and it makes sense of some sort. So the Cliffs Notes is basically the Konami's more or less pulling out of console development and structuring, breaking down all existing teams and studios to create one mega studio that is just going to make mobile games and slots in Pachinko. It's not just Koji Pro. It's everybody.

And as a result of the streamlining, first of all, everything you like is going to go away and tons of people are going to lose their jobs. The stuff with Kojima has been a personal feud between him and the CEO and has resulted in people having their security revoked randomly and all sorts of bullshit that you do to employees to try and get them to quit. It's a bunch of quote unquote facts about Konami that were hearsay until the point where Konami de facto validated them by performing a takedown on the video. Yes.

Where DCM made this video after everyone pointed towards it and said, oh, look at this. And straight up, you go there now and it says by Konami. Yeah. No. And the fact that they took it down makes me very inclined to believe that those are pretty fucking accurate claims. Yes. And the fact that you're just like, let's censor this.

Because it's straight, that's what it is. Let's censor it. That is disgusting. What's the Streisand effect? I hear there's poison. No. You know what the ultimate is? Hey, this 50 digit code cracks all DVD players.

Don't post it. We're going to takedown anyone who posts it. Do you remember that? No. When that fucking the master key for DVD encryption got cracked and takedowns of websites and all sorts of shit were going on and they sent it to dig back when anyone still went to dig. Said, hey, dig. Fucking pull these down.

And then for days, all the tech websites were nothing but posts of this 50 digit code. And everyone was saving it to their computers and it blew up a million. I had like text files saved on my computer. Well, now I have the code. And you can't do this, idiots. Whatever happens to dig. It still exists. Let me see what's on their front page right now.

What happened to heavy? Yeah, right? Exactly. Flash. When somebody talks shit about you and you take legal response to it, the first reaction is, oh, everything was true. So here's where we go. It's just straight up on the emotional train.

It's like any goodwill you could have had with people, any way you could have salvaged this after doing the actual literal PT takedown that you did. Oh, yeah. Or PT is actually gone now. Yeah. PT is the most recent post is weird old bar games you've probably never heard of. So they're still cranking it right there with us now. Yeah.

PT getting killed for real. I'm shocked that Liam was wrong and that I was right about PT. I fully believe that I would be wrong. Because why would they pull the game down? The only company who's done this as far as I know in the past and has actually prevented people who've purchased it from buying it as Nintendo with Yoshi's Cookie. But other than that, I couldn't even name another one. Even all the Marvel bullshit that happens with it.

Yeah. As long as you bought the game. Yeah. If you had it, you could still go get it. Yeah, exactly. But this retroactive, it never was, it never was fucking chance that they're trying it. The only unfortunate thing is there is one valid point in Konami's favor if you want to make this a game and it's that Reedus' face appears.

Sorry? Sorry? And that is the one really unfortunate point where they can just say that and everyone just goes, ugh. Now they go, I don't care fuck off. No, don't misunderstand here. I want more than anything for PT to exist because it's one of the best four things I've ever made in video games.

And Sterling says it right. Also, if you haven't been following this and have PT on your PS4, don't delete it ever. Yeah, you'll never get it back. If you want to get rid of your PS4, you can sell it for like $1,000. No, you can't because eBay started shutting down those auctions. Oh, that's nice. Really? They're all gone.

Every one of these auctions is gone. You know what? I bet you they wouldn't have shut this down if it was not, if they had charged it. Go to your local bulletin board. The fact that it was free and it was something made by Kojima, they're like fuck this. So the thing too is like... If it made money for them, they probably wouldn't have taken it down or at least this fast. With Sterling's thing this week, where he was talking about the fact that publishers

and people like Konami, they don't actually even... They don't respect the archiving process of anything like this. No, they don't like this. Or the fact that this is a really major step in horror. All of that doesn't matter. The art of the video game doesn't matter. Business is business. Yeah.

But following this, that... Good job for completely justifying all PS4 piracy side effects forever. Like in one fell swoop. You make a decision like this and then follow it up by silencing the guy who has the video. You're fucking done. Your credibility with people as far as just trust goes? At this point they've cooked themselves, man. I'll be really surprised when people pirate Metal Gear Solid V on the PC.

That's going to be shocking. Aside from Metal Gear V, this actually isn't as bad as it could have been in the sense that, let's say Konami would continue making console games as normal. Oh, they're going to keep making console Metal Gears. I don't even know about that. They're just going to be farmed out like Silent Hill was. It's impossible to predict at this point. Yeah, that feels good.

I can't wait for the weird bullshit we're going to get from farmed Metal Gears. Wait for Metal Gear Homecoming and Downpour. No, no. I can't wait because I want to see. You're going to see it. I want it. I want to see a new one. Metal Gear Operations Zanzibar.

There you go. Those are going to happen. Great. Yeah. So it's just straight up like, I hope Bunny Hop throws up a new video in the next 24 hours or so. I hope nothing bad happens to Super Bunny Hop's channel. Yeah, we're going to have to do some strikers. That's what I'm saying.

I hope nothing bad happens to him. I hope he comes out of it for the better. Having a strike is having a strike. No, exactly. It sucks. Will Rumble Roses be okay? Yes. Yeah.

Anyway, so yeah. Thoroughly. You feel the other thing. Thoroughly. Fucker. If you care about Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Zone of the Enders, Contra, or other Konami products, you know, like, as a response to this, I went and bought Gradius 5 on PS3 and downloaded it because, what if?

I had a digital copy. You mean with Gradius 3? No, five. Five, whatever. Not on PSN. Yes, it is. Pat would know more about it. I know there was a Gradius that came out recently on PSN, so maybe.

I was looking for it, and it's actually... I bought it last week. Okay. And I also, even though I had a digital version of the HD collection, I fucking bought a fucking physical copy, PS3. That's actually smart, just in case. Yeah, you know that. Because now, who knows?

You loved IzDay. They're dead. It's such a bummer coming after, like, Ground Zeroes was fucking amazing. Meraphate 2 is amazing. Well, Kochi of Productions does good work. Well, Kochi of Productions does good work. It was incredible. They re-released Suikoden, Suikoden 2.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's true. The future looked promising. The future looked promising. The future didn't look terrible. And no, no, those were lies. But now, the future is forsaken. Yeah. I just hope, like, the rest of the Suikoden's can't really...

It refused to change. Don't get some, still. No. Well, three's coming. Yeah, but... That's what I mean. You know what? They'll release them, and that's the last you'll ever see.

Operations ends in our city. I hope I get that. And what better way? What better way to yell fuck Konami than to help fund Egavania? So that shit is... It's clear. As a matter of fact kind of way? Yeah, sorta.

It sounds about kind of way. Did you happen to see what the stretch goal is at 850,000 for Bloodstained? Yeah, that thought put the boner away. Let's introduce the concept. Yeah. Bloodstained. Bloodstained is the new game from Igarashi that he's popped up with. Wait, there's a sub-title.

As of yesterday. Ritual of the Night. Ritual of the Night. Yeah, it's like the symphony. Not the symphony, but it's like the symphony. This is not a Castlevania game. No. No.

This is a 2.5D Egavania game. Yeah. This is a totally different thing. Yep. So check out the main character. She looks cool. Miriam. She has weapons.

Miriam's a great goddamn name for this kind of character. The other thing about Miriam is that she just seems to have all of the weapons. Shocking nobody. Shocking nobody. The video for this straight up screams the mighty number 9 video to me. It's like I know what you love me for. But this video is arguably even better because of the production value. Instead of fading away and dying, he fades into bats and flies away.

He flies into the night. No, it's like two player productions killing it with that video. It's like how many people do we know that own castles and mansions and gothic stairways? Yeah. Get them all on board. So I just want to say I am so impressed at how hard, how prepared they were for this kickstarter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we were in on this a while ago.

We knew about it a while ago. But we didn't know some details. We didn't know some details, but we knew about it for a while. And like evidently a lot of other groups did. And now that like we're getting to see every other bit of it, it's like they have all these goals on the kickstarter for social media shit. They have that stream with everybody invited except us. They have so much.

We don't live in LA, man. I know we don't live in LA. They would have invited us. Yeah, they would have. But like they are so prepared for this. Not you though. They would have invited the three of us for this. That guy probably hates castles anyway.

Yeah. I mean, Igavenia. I gotta be careful about this. And they already had a post on the PlayStation Vlog and shit. Like they are so ready for it. It's crazy. I'm so happy to see. It's not one of those kickstarters that even has a big name behind it.

That's not put together super well. It's like very professional. You wouldn't have found a way in the building anyways. Of course. I would have. You would have your photo. So like Inti Creates is making the game, which is great because they're one of the few guys still making like 2D action games.

So that's like, that's a really good thing. Yeah. Fan Gamer. Fan Gamer is of course handling all of the projects more or less because you still need a western locale branch to use kickstarter. You can't. Benjax Agency is involved as well. In some way.

I don't know if they're still involved or they just set it up. They got portraits with themselves as vampires. So I assume they're involved. Everyone who's a vampire gets to be part of this. I'm a vampire. I'm really happy Fan Gamer's involved because I buy their shit all the time. So I like super trust those guys to put out quality like backer products and stuff. I went in on the $175 tier.

I just like, I look for the tier that has art book and I go in for that tier. And you're like, yeah, art book. I already got some like people asking, are you going to put Zach in as a pet monster at $3,000? No, I'm not. It's a little much. Remember that's $3,600 Canadian dollars. When I read the word pet though, that's where my brain went right away.

Actually, Jack would be a pet. Hey, do you think they're going to make it? Oh, they made it. Yeah, they already passed it. They're what, $600,000 at this point? They're 4K shy of that. So I guess then, yeah, based on the way this conversation is going, we're all just going to go in individually and not do a big stupid thing.

The only one that was suitable for that was the pet. And even then that's way too much. Yeah, that's more of my favorite. No, there's nothing in here that's good for a team. You and I, you guys, can we all pitch in $1,000 and put Benny in the game? No, fuck. There's already horrible enough creatures in the castle being in the game. I have an arid as small.

I already put down $500 for myself and that's how it stands. Dude, what's that get you? A lot. Yeah, I bet. A lot. What's the big thing? It's a giant thing with the big character. A poster of the castle.

A signed copy of the game. A signed copy of the soundtrack. A cardboard standee. I'll probably give it like $5. Also, you can get a retail copy of the game as one of the levels, which is really neat. But like, I'm so excited for this. Like the, you know, because I'm a lot younger than you guys obviously. What?

I know. Shocker. I've never heard that. I played, Aria was actually the first one I played and that came out in 2003 and I was 11. And like, that game was like really formative to me and I know it's weird because like that came out and you guys had already played symphony and shit, but I hadn't played Super Metroid or stuff like that. And so seeing all of those like amazing games.

So Aria and Saras, you're like RE2. You played four final fights. You played Egavania games before Super Metroid. Yeah. Wow. Well, I did too. What's that like? It's weird.

You go back and you're like, I don't like Metroid because it smells good. You go back and you're like, where's the RPG elements? Sometimes you say stuff that's so fucked up and stupid that you don't realize what you're saying. No, hold on. Hold on. Thank you. I had no words. I just had to sit.

You could have said, I went back and said, this is different. No. I had to sit. I had to prove. I know. I'm okay. I had played Fusion before. There is a very simple explanation for why my brain does that as I want to swing a whip

or a sword and I don't want to shoot a gun. But like. You play lots of games where you shoot a gun. Yeah, but in that style of game, I dramatically prefer the melee to the shooting. But like, I don't know. All the Egavania games, like they really mean a lot to me though. Like some of my favorite games. And so like to see this come out, it's like, it's really like dream come true.

And I'm like super giddy about the whole project. We have not been able to tell. No. You remember that giant tip that you're making? There was a point where we got the first. You saw the picture and you started jumping around and screaming. We got the first art sent to us like what, a week ago or something. And I just yelled in Pat's apartment.

And you were doing. Yeah, exactly. You sounded like that. That's what you sounded like. Oh, I'm super excited. And all of the rest of us looked at it and said, that looks like that. Yeah, that looks alright. Yeah, I remember that.

And I was like. And I was seeing Liam this excited. And I was asking why she was excited. You know what it was? It was tier two of the Fire Emblem reaction. Yeah, I guess so. Where you're like, oh my god, that art style is so good. And we're like, yeah, it's alright.

This was like, I'm so excited for this game. Like the only bummer about this whole project is the March 2017 attached to it. But I can't look at it. No, we can't start as push up. Can't fucking wait. Keep pushing them. Push them farther. Delay it.

I just pour all your money in this game. As long as that could be accelerated or like decelerated, depending on how much money they make. Actually, if stretch goal at like three million, that's like we will speed up the pace of development. Let it go to this way. In fact, let's shit ton of these things. If it's March 2017 and they blow past like 10 stretch goals, add another year to that. Guess what? There's no shortage of Kickstarter games for us to play in 2016.

Nope. I still haven't even finished Eternity. Let's fucking chill. We can take 2017. No, of course. Kickstarter is all of this. The other like funny observation I want to make is the base price for a digital copy of the game is $28, which is significantly higher than other Kickstarter games.

So it's like I really feel like they're fucking gunning to make a really big game here. And I, I, they better. I hope the lead up to this things release feels better than the lead up that minor number nine is currently going through. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. It's money number nine looks like I might wait till it's final. But hey, this Kickstarter has a thing on it that says this concept art is only concept art. The problem is that the concept art looks like a fucking vanilla ware game.

And now it just looks like that. Yeah. Well, you can prepare yourself for the backlash of people that are going to see the final. Of course. And get fucking upset. That's like that. Like the only other sort of even close proximity of this being a remake and sort of, you know, and there's not that many 2d, 2d artists anymore is like the remake of of Rondo on the PSP.

That was. Yeah, I really like that. Yeah, but it's still like to a lot of people. It's unavoidable though. The nature of these campaigns is a everybody get hype. Everybody roll into the big hype ball. So you get a bunch of people that actually don't. That didn't necessarily look at the 3000 word post.

Or they don't really understand what they're what's happening here. So yeah, I had trained. But then when they start to see things, they just go, huh? So they just passed $600,000. So every art book is now a hardcover. Yeah. A hardcover. Sick and it was free.

That's a good one. No, that's a good one for sure. What's an 850? At 700,000 you get a second playable character, which maybe that's Gabelle. That's 850. 800,000 you get Nightmare difficulty. 850 is the fucking quote unquote fuck Konami tier where you get David Hader in there. Bring it all home, Hader.

He would most likely be the second playable character because if you're going to hire him, have him be the fucking second playable character. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's probably going to be Gabelle. Yeah, Gabelle. No, I'm going to be Hader. Sorry? I'm going to be Hader.

I'm going to be Flaccid Snake. No. I said Hader. Hader, yeah. Flaccid Hader. Flaccid Hader. Flaccid Hader. Yeah.

So that's really bringing the... Rock Serpent. That's bringing the chicken storm to Roost or whatever the fuck. That's the one. Rock Serpent is the solid snake ripoff character. Maybe. I'm going to push that. Also like building off how they were super prepared for this.

Like they already have like art for like, hey, we're funded. And if you go on the PlayStation blog, if you go on the PlayStation blog, they have a shot of her holding a PS4. Like, yeah, we did it. Yeah. There's been a couple kick starters. You can start to shop that in like 10 minutes. No, it's a unique art.

Like if you look at it, there's been a couple kick starters. They were so ready. Eternity springs to mind where it's like they put the thing up and they go out on lunch to clear their heads. They come back like, oh no. Oh my God. Oh, we need to think. Meeting now.

Like Sawyer said they had to have a meeting immediately saying, okay, we need more stretch goals right now. What can we do? Yeah. Now. Because fuck. But like fucking look at this. Like front of the PlayStation blog, they're there.

Like the minute they're confirmed to be an actual video game. That's awesome. These guys are like, they super know what they're doing and I'm super excited. It's like there's a documentary, not a documentary, a movie that's being funded by the former actors from Firefly. Right. Like the con man. Is it not Firefly, the movie?

No, it's about a bunch of actors from an old sci-fi show going to cons and the stories they do. Oh yeah, you mentioned that. Yeah. It was one of those things where they filmed a little like minute long short for every goal that they hit. And like when they hit them all in day one, they just threw up like 15 videos at the same time.

So like they were prepared as well. Cool. But you get that weird sort of like, well, here's everything. It's clear that when you make a Kickstarter to something that may do well, you have to be an asshole and imagine like sky high nonsense dreams for the money that comes in. Right. Say it does badly and you have literally 100 fucking goals that go up to $10 million, right? You look like an asshole.

But that's better than like having a scramble on day two when it's blown past all your stretch goals and you're just going, oh, I need more stretch. Like they're clearly hiding a bunch of stretch goals here. Like last goal was, I don't know. Yeah. This is too much. That's fun. It's nice.

We'll make them do a wrap. We'll make them do another wrap. So far, the pedigree of Japanese Kickstarter is pretty good. So far. So far, so good. Don't fuck it up, Inafuna. Can we roll back into fuck Konami for a second? Yes.

Yes, we can. There's always time. A bit of important news just came out. So PT, they removed its support for SharePlay. So I can no longer charge people $10 an hour to play it off of my console. Oh, piece by piece. Now I can charge people $20 an hour to come to my apartment and play it off my console and try to sell them drinks while I'm at it.

There's only one thing they can actually do from now on to up this. There's only one fit and it's releasing. Break into your house. No, no, no. Turn on your console. This is a real thing that they could do if they were desperate enough because these things don't cost money. To do this, it would take money so they could release a patch for the game that breaks

it. That breaks it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. But that would cost money. But that would also require a certain amount of money. That you're losing.

The patch could be downloadable from the game. No, no, you can't actually. Really? It's the way this is from QA. Yeah, you actually can't do that. The way it works internally. You can't do that. Well, good.

Yeah. Because, yeah, they could. But that would be some spiteful shit. Yeah. But wait for the next big Kickstarter, SteelCog. Man. Kojima can't go to Kickstarter. He can.

The amount of money that Kojima could walk into any. Kojima could walk to Microsoft. He could walk to Sony. He could walk to Nintendo. He could walk to Activision or EA and he would get a fucking blank check. Who wants aluminum metal? Whatever. I like SteelCog.

SteelCog's way better. He could get a blank check if he walked in. I suppose. But you know what I mean? He might not even deal with publishers anymore. Maybe. That's why. Or what if he wants to go down to Nintendo and be like, I have an idea called Sun Vampires.

Swatnaughts. Yeah. Swatnaughts. Swatnaughts is pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Grabbers. Grabbers.

I said that like six months ago and I still love it. Grabbers. Grabbers. Oh, man. Okay. Well, anyway. What's going on? There's another tinier Kickstarter that could use a little bit of help.

It's something that got thrown our way and after checking it out, the first reaction is, hey, what's this? Power Drive 2000. Power Drive 2000. This looks a lot like Drift Stage. Oh, boy does this. And a little bit of distance going on. That being said, it still looks really cool.

But you can't deny it. It's there, but it still looks cool. So if those ones didn't tickle your fancy, maybe this one will. Maybe this one will. This is Canadian. This is Canadian too. It's Canadian. Yeah.

Those are from Ontario. Represent Ontario Media Fund. It tickles my fancy. So I'm down. This one's even more... The day to day? The 11th. All day.

Kickstarter went up. This one's even more like the thing that I love. You're driving on the main menu of Blood Dragon. Because the main menu of Blood Dragon is just black with blue wire frames. The laser field. Toilet over laser fields. That's awesome. So they're at 7,000 of 45,000.

They've got 22 days to go. It's an unfortunate time to launch a Kickstarter, but the game looks good. So hopefully they can make that work out. Also a lot of the artists that contribute music to Hotline Miami are also... Do we know who's making this? Yeah, the artist lineup is huge. The actual... It's being made by Megacom Games.

Megacom. Like it's logo is like OCP shows up. Are they some global hypermeg in that? No. Looks indie. Looks indie. Definitely. Have they ever made it before?

The main guy has some games to his name. He does? Yeah. I'm looking through the front page. It's a good looking game. Yeah, I know. I just want to say I'm sure these guys are on the level. But with anything that's unknown like this, you have to do your due diligence.

Of course. Before backing in. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I agree. But yeah, what's really cool is that they do have a giant list of... But yeah, that truly looks like... A giant list of Hotline Miami composers.

Right out of the gate. And I'm sure you get all of them by just showing them that trailer. I didn't finish Hotline Miami too. Neither did I. I have no desire to play it after the one giant session I played when it came out. I still will fucking in Hotline Miami. So yeah, just need some help. Maybe the thing.

I don't know. We'll see if it makes it. I just want to mention. There was another thing I did this week that I forgot. Really? And it's just going to be... Me too. No, just...

No, no. This is game news. This is game news. Quick shoutouts, thumbs up to Capcom for releasing Miss Adventures of Tron Bon on PSN this weekend. Yeah, okay. We'll buy that fucking game. I don't like that. That is the number one way to send a message rather than boycotting shit.

So let's roll into that story then. I saw a huge spider and put a book at it. That was my story of the week. Oh. I saw a quarter-sized spider on my wall and I was freaked out and I threw a book at it. But it was like two in the morning and I think I might have woken up my neighbors. But it was totally worth it because that spider's dead as fuck. And then I had to tape up all my windows.

Now mine was just... I restarted. I started rewatching Curb. I taped up all my windows. Just to see if it was as painful as I remember. It is. Thankfully it is. But it's also not just because of the situations that happens because he's an asshole.

Yeah. Larry David. Larry David. I watched a movie called Infernal. I can talk about that if we're going to run into things like that. Yeah. I think we all just... Well Tron Bon's new.

But the spider was really scary though. Yes it is. It's fucking Tron Bon. That game cost $200 last week. Okay. It's not even great. It is good. I don't like that game at all.

So there's theories. There's theories about the fact that Mega Man Legends hasn't popped up on PSN. Yeah. Doesn't that fucking soda pop out or something? There's voice actors too. There's multiple players. Well there's theories but none of them have been really solved. None have validated.

Until this thing right here. So Tron Bon came out this weekend and I think that kind of sparked some of the people that were trying to figure out what the fuck we released Mega Man Legends 1. What's going on, right? And two. And two. So it turns out that at some point the major running thing was that there's audio issues with voice actors and stuff and what not.

But Chris Benson like two or three years ago actually de-confirmed that it was that. He said it's not related to that. I only knew Chris. He seemed on the level. Yeah. And so he you know nailing that. And then the other running theory which, oof, pulling the collar on this one. Yeah I know this one.

Apparently went to jail for child porn at some point over the years. And then they're like maybe it has something to do with that. But no it's not that either. The most likely case is the fact that you buy bottles of Oronamin C. Yeah that's what I said. They look for legends. There's the voice acting shit which I didn't know was de-confirmed. No but this is the reason that always flowed to me over time.

I'm trying to explain the story. Oh I'm sorry. I'm just I'm right. So the orange drink that you buy or whatever is a real product. Nobody likes Banjo-Kazooie. It would be easy. No nobody's smart. It would be easy.

Oh I'm gonna get in so much shit. Yeah maybe. I'm so stupid. Go on Woolly. It would be easy. I take that back. I'm gonna take it back. Edit the game usually and get that product out there like any other game where they didn't

have the rights to this tie in anymore. Yeah. Except that PSN doesn't allow you to edit. It has to be the classic. Yeah. It has to be the native one. Yeah. So that's a that's a sticky situation for them and that's why you're probably not getting

many views. Banjo-Kazooie is probably a pretty good game. So that sucks. Good job. Way to back a patch up. I gotta back down. I gotta back down. Like I really really feel like the only way to do this dumb product integration thing

is not future proofing your past proofing your game so that it can't get released in the future. So the only way to do it is to do it like those fucking FIFA ads where they connect to a server. Yeah. You just cycle them out. And the product of the ad is there on the server connection. Burnout to that too.

Burnout ads. And they're not connected anymore. It's gone. It goes to a generic. Right. Fake ad. That's really smart. Do you want to buy a box of Calorie box?

Hey Calorie May. Dude. Generic Calorie box. You don't even have to do that like via a server like you look at Peace Walker in Japan you get Doritos and Axe and Mountain Dew as items and you still get those items in the Western version. They're just cheese chips and body spray and whatever. But that requires editing the code which is what I was just talking about.

Yeah but that. No but I mean on your release just unless your unless your deal is forever. Removing. It never is. Well but the whole point was that if you can remove it obviously do so which is what they would have done here but if you had a more like a more future proof setup would be a server connection. Yeah definitely.

So then you don't have to change the code. And I'm just saying. Changing the code is optimal. I'm just saying. But I'm talking about the reason why they changed it. No I don't say changing the code. I'm saying only get deals that last forever. That's true.

That's not realistic. But sure. That's not realistic at all. Then you should not hire anyone in the Japanese voice industry that has a long standing contract deal that their voice will never be exported. Yeah sure. Anyway. The problem with those deals is that it being on the play station is just new enough that

people can put ads in your game but too old that there's no internet connectivity. So it's in this nebulous area where it will never be. And it also gives you the situation like oh no I can't connect to the internet with this game so now I don't have to look at Mountain Dew ads. Nintendo it's up to you. Get Mega Man 64 growing. No. Yeah you're allowed to change code for virtual console games.

Here you go. I'm just saying. This one's great. It's an opinion piece but it's still polygon. This is the console one. Consoles need to die and Nintendo should be the one to pull the trigger. So the premise of this article if I'm not mistaken is Nintendo's not doing good with the Wii U.

That's objective. They should just make their next machine a service instead of a machine. No. I'm sorry but last I checked the PS4 sold like 22.4 million units in record time. Also what the fuck crock are you smoking. Also let's all remember the games as a service. You'd be support of the most part how many you did. Dismal failures all of them.

Look at SimCity and all that fucking shit. Yeah. 20% a article. So. Oh really? I'm shocked. And yes I am playing Final Fantasy 14 and those are different. So what was the article's name again?

The one that he just said it consoles me. So our next piece of news. Brian Christenke needs to die and Nintendo should pull the plon. Our next piece of news. I know it's too far. Moving on. Moving on. Moving on.

For the first time since 2012 Nintendo's profitable again. Good for them. Amigos did it. Amigos did it. So I'm very, you're right, this is the perfect juxtaposition for that last article. I'm so glad Nintendo's profitable. I'm bummed that they're profitable off the back of Amigos that as of yet still don't really have a good use.

That's what I was going to say is I'm glad that they're doing well again but I'm mad that they're doing well for horrible reasons. Like my fantasy was that they would do really, really badly and then improve instead of finding a weird new tertiary gross income source. Nintendo makes money off of creating a fever pitch. It doesn't matter what it is but it gets everybody going back for a thing. People love their brands. It's not the long term stability.

It's the erratic, insane, one-time short marketing, not short marketing as in marketing but short marketing of availability for our products. At least Iwata said they're thinking about unreaching, locking the NX but there are complications. You can draw from this but you are not going to say anything from rates but you should expect a positive outcome. Like you're basically saying. It's what he hopes to do. It's not locked in stone.

That's what publishers hate not being able to reason with it. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't fucking matter. You make it optional at worst. So that they take the blame. You don't want to make a game on Nintendo? Get out then.

Yeah. Well they go, no, we don't want to look like the bad guy. You look like the bad guy. Yeah, exactly. You are the idiot. Make the decision. Shut up. Like that, when the rumors were going around that Sony was going to implement a similar

DRM thing to Xbox, the prevailing theory was that theirs would be opt-in and that they would leave it at like Konami or EA or Activision's door to use as they would say, you want to fucking take the hit on this? Who wants to die? Now granted none of what I'm saying is confirmed and may possibly not be real but that seemed to be what was going to happen at the time and it's genius. It's like, no, fuck you. You want to do it?

Fucking do it. Go ahead. It still upsets me to this day that the fucking 3DS and Wii U are region locked, that's absurd and I mean the Wii of course as well. It upsets Matt to this day and every day until that Fatal Frame game comes out. It doesn't upset you because it is coming out. No, but every day until the day that it actually comes out. And apparently it seems that it upsets a lot of two.

I fucking hope he changes it then. If the next machine comes out and it's still region locked, because remember there's old boys, that's all four. There's old people on that board of directors that are old and have been there since it was a goddamn playing card company. Fighting them. Is he really? Because he already released three consoles with region lock in a row but he wasn't fighting

them before. There's 12 of them, you fight 12 people. I'll fight 12 people. They have dentures and they can shoot them out at you. Shut them down. They fucking curse you with their old man curses. They have walkers. Dude, it's bullshit.

It's totally bullshit. Hey guys, do you think we should put region locking into the next console on the whole table? Yes, yes, yes, yes. One of my favorite games of all time is Oendon 2. I guess what? The DS isn't region locked. I guess what?

They fucking region locked the DS when we got the DSi. It's horse shit. There's no good reason. The reason is, oh there's an internet, oh jeez, so region locked. I want to believe that before the NX arrives, Iwata can slay the 16 old men. Hey, and this has nothing to bring it together. My problem is, those guys are irrelevant. Nintendo just has to sit down and say, okay, our new console is not going to be region locked.

But here's the problem is, if they hardball it so hard that it makes big names walk away. The names that are going to walk away anyway. That's, I don't know. Konami's going to walk away? Capcom's going to walk away. That's the thing. You're talking about, you're talking as if these companies are in the room to walk away from.

Yeah. They're not in the building. Capcom and Square aren't going to walk away. They make a bunch of money on their Nintendo franchises. But walk away doesn't necessarily always mean walk away. Walk away can just mean we're just going to put more attention on something else and not region locked. That's also not region locked.

This has nothing to do with it. This has nothing to do with anything. But if you want to spread your outrage over some region locking shit, just throw some at Sega for like the PSO2 fucking IP check where they will ban you if you're from not in the regions that the game is officially supported. Oh yeah. Yeah. And there's ways to get around that.

But holy shit, you really don't want people to play PSO2, do you? Yeah. Well, they want them to wait for the English room. Which is coming out this year, I'm sure. You gotta get in touch with your podcast. This year, every year. Yeah, you gotta get in touch with your podcast. Yeah, me and Liam had to talk about this.

He's like, I'll double down every year. I'm like, I'm not. I'm taking your money this year. And I was like, oh. But Liam's flying to the Cats game because if he doubles down forever. No, it's on the winner of the bet's decision to double down or not. Not if we didn't agree to that the first. No, that's how all double down bets work.

Because you, I want to see the results. No. No, because. Double down. No, because here's what happens, right? We double down forever. Here's what happens. I win Mad Max Plenty.

Here's what happens. You're sanged and I win. I win the double down. No, here's what happens. I win the bet and then you look at me and go double or nothing and I go, no, pay me and you pay me. And then I shrug and then I walk out of the room and then I don't pay you the money you owe me.

There's a picture of him dying and he's got this smile and it goes that look on your face when you're about to die and you never had to pay that guy back. So that's kind of what that Liam's going for. Fuck that guy. Oh, look, we got some money. It's December 31st, 2015 and we're in my house. How about you pay me, Liam? He's like, not this time.

You just jump off my balcony. Geese laugh all the way down. Catch me. Now take care of my son. What? Look at little baby Liam peeks from behind your bookshelf. When did this happen? Just now.

Cut to the intro mark of the wolves with Patsy. I've been passing man this kid's overrated. I don't know why everyone seems to like you. I think you're super overrated and use the rising tackle as part of your super. That's dumb. I make that move as a joke. It's dumb. Pats, we're in the wild wolf jacket.

And it doesn't fit. No, it would not. It would not fit. I would not be in a classic jacket like that. I would not be able to get my hands out of the sleeves. That's the problem. It's not the shoulders. It's the arms.

He's got a regular shaped frame. Like if you want to draw me or whatever, like not being able to fit in clothes, it's the length of sleeves and pant legs. It's the problem. There you go. Mark of the ginger. All right. We got some release date windows.

Soda. Woo. P5 is going to be happening between October and December 2015. All regions. Everywhere. Good stuff. I called it. I'm so happy.

Good stuff. Wow, you called that three month gap. Well, here's what's up. No, it's not it. It's no. I called it that it would be out in both regions simultaneously. Oh, sorry. That's the important thing.

Good on them. Wow. Good on them announcing and spilling the beans and getting this stuff out there so close to release. Yeah. Because how many years has it been? Right? A lot.

A lot. A lot. Since Catherine. No, not since Catherine. And since even before Catherine. Since persona, since six months after persona four. Catherine was the War Gods. Yeah, but it's like P3 came out and then the next year P3 Fez came out and then the next

year P4 came out. So then six months after that people were persona five. And that was in 2007. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Good on them. Good on them.

That's what you do. I can't wait for 2020 when it'll be out in Europe. Yeah. P4 isn't region locked. I know. I know. See? There's another amazing advantage of not being region locked.

Before March 31st, 2016, we're going to get Street Fighter 5. That is shocking to no one. Exactly what that leaked release thing. That's what everyone thought it was going to be. Also, I'm glad because I was kind of skeptical of that. February is the month where fighting games come out. February is fight month. Absolutely.

It's been this way for a while now. Come on, Dota. Capcom put out their estimates for what they're thinking they're going to do. Yeah, sales prediction. Yeah. And they're expecting to ship 2 million for Street Fighter 5. Which is a very fair assessment. Which is extremely fair considering like how 4 did and so on and so forth.

It's surprising that they're being this humble about it. I guess they've learned their lesson. I remember saying it a few months ago on the podcast and I think that was the most skeptical. But I was saying of the four companies, Capcom is fucking reforming themselves. Hopefully. The shipping expectations thing. DMC4, Deep Down, The New Dragon's Dogma, the no more Western shit games. Hey, you know what they need to do?

The new Ace Attorney. They put out that statement saying they want more HD remasters. They've been on the roll, of course. Here's what they need to do to win me over. They need to put out RE0 remake. I'm like, yeah. Oh, it's coming, yeah. Yeah, and then they need to not port the GameCube or Dreamcast versions of RE2 forward.

They need to actually remake a new game. Because if they say, hey, we're bringing RE2 back and they pull that fucking Square Enix FF7 shit, I'm going to fucking blow, I'm going to lose it. No, we're going to reship players' choice GameCube copies of the game. I own that! So just for context on how reasonable this is. Vanilla net stupid. Shipped 2 mil first week.

Vanilla destroyed. Oh, I didn't know that. Shipped 2 mil the first week. Super. I thought it was like months. Remember that shift? Not told. Shipped a mil immediately.

And then on 3DS, did a mil separately. Yeah, the best performing version of it. And the hype is real. And this is like within the launch range. And then Ultra did 500k. That's about right. Like, it's literally going half down each time. Well, yeah, because that's what happens to fighting game revisions.

So, but it's just, and so 5 coming in saying, hey, 2 is like extremely, like, you're going to hit that. Yeah, for sure. Also, Monster Hunter stories, they're aiming for 2.5 mil. Which is a piece of cake. Piece of cake. Piece of cake. What was it? Like 3.0 something for?

We're up to 3.0. Sorry? Well, 4.4 million. That was a 4 now? Yeah. Before you? It's over 4 for 4 you. And about a million of those are for the West.

No, no, no, it's over 4 just for Japan. Yeah, no, but a million, there's about a million. One million of that is from Western stuff. Yeah. Yeah. They just put out new numbers. Okay, are you sure? Okay, maybe.

Maybe I'm crazy. This was all part of the same article. Yeah. So, 900, which is, guess what? We don't have to worry about Monster Hunter ever being localized ever again. Kudos on just having real numbers. For you was the one that actually broke through. So, yeah, shout out to that.

Woo. The other fucking awesome Capcom news. I mean, you can, I only have so much. This is, of course, excluding Tron Bonn, which was already good news. Which was already good news. And it's only so much seamen I have for Virgil. So, there's Trish footage as well. Oh, it's okay.

Yeah. And the Trish footage is pretty cool. Yeah. I'm surprised they didn't go with... Didn't they put on another Virgil video this week? There's like three of them. Yeah, okay. I can't.

I love the idea of Trish coming into Willie's house and Willie's like, eh, and then Virgil comes into his house and he goes, no, I'm motivated. Trish pushes Trish down the stairs. Like, I can't, like, minus time hesitation. Yes. I actively do it before she hits my block. Trish always bothered me because it's like, why is Dante just shluppin' a girl who looks just like his mom?

Talk to Shinji about that. I don't know. I would ask her. I prefer a lady to Trish on her. Everyone thinks Lady to Trish. You don't think it's fair. That's not fair. That's not a hard choice.

But that's it, man. I don't like Trish's look. I don't care for it. No, I'm not sensing it. But regardless... The motorcycle's cool. The lunar phase? You got me, babe.

Like, I'm in. Yeah. And so they, yeah, they remixed our move list and didn't go with the DMC2 move list. No, they went with the DMC1 credits move list. Oh, and combined it with stuff, just other stuff. Shut up. You need to listen to this, all right? You need to make, because I was thinking about the Street Fighter Cross Tekken trailer

we did for Fighter P Day, or you did. You edited. You should do a DMC4 special edition trailer where it says, like, Dante, Virgil, Trish, Lady, and now, and then this fucking big, huge text comes up, and it says BOOJINGAI! And he's just standing there. That'd be fucking sick. And then people would really get hyped up. I thought you were going to say Lucia.

Get some good footage, because you could easily subtitle it to say whatever you want. Yeah. Because he's talking Japanese and that's stupid. And then it's cut to be fine 80 footage of BOOJINGAI, like, running up the SD emulator and just put it in. It's got to be gacked in the corner of the roast. Well, that's your homework for this week. Bring BOOJINGAI back from the frontier.

Yeah. So yeah, good old fucking Capcom. You can keep it going. Maybe one day they'll become Capgod again. Yep. And let's just quickly say two cool things about fighting games. One, fighting games are cool. You're going to throw people anywhere.

Give a Shimizu in Tekken 7 is the best Yoshimitsu design. I totally agree. Great design. I love it. I absolutely hate it. It's the best Shimizu. It's the best. I don't like it at all.

Tentacle Yoshimitsu. He's an octopus. I don't like it. No, I don't like it. As an alternate, fine. But as his default. What do you want his default to be, his boring Tekken 3 version? No, I didn't say that.

I said any of the ones that are like thematically the same. The Tekken 4 is pretty true. I don't understand this character anymore. Now he's an alien. Did you like the bug designs? Tekken 4 is the bug one. I actually liked all of his designs. No, but Matt, there's nothing to understand about Yoshimitsu.

He's a robot ninja and it's weird. So every time he gets a new body, he's like, yo, give me a weird thing. And Dr. V is like, yo, I got this. I didn't care for his Soul Calibur design. I really don't like it. I really don't like it at all. I don't like it at all.

I just change his design every game. That's great. It's so good. He's Athena, but way cooler than Athena, because Athena sucks. There's another character that has like shit just hanging off of him like that that I'm thinking of. Overman King Geiger.

He has that kind of design. It's fucking cool. I'm fine with it as a default. It doesn't displease me. I'm just like, I don't get this anymore. I don't know. What does he get? It makes me feel uncomfortable now.

There's nothing to understand. It's just tentacles are cool. Matt had a bad run in with a controversial tentacle. He's an octopus. He's not an octopus. He's a ninja. He's an octopus ninja. He was a bug ninja before and a robot ninja.

All right. All right. No, that's fine. When I look at it, I go, oh, someone went crazy with the accessories. That's right. That's right. I don't think that looks like a cohesively.

It's fine. I just need to pick that cohesively design. Matt, Arya. Arya bringing, taking everyone for a ride. Certain fighting games on their head. Oh, she got shown off. In a textual stream. So Arya is going to be a character that is a robot girl.

Yeah. So she's going. I assumed that she was going to be like a range zone or anime character. Well, it's, you're getting everything. Because here's what you're getting. You're getting a robot girl CEO of Ultra Tech, which they sent the full name of it

and it's actually not a stupid name. Yeah, no, it's like a 40s style. Yeah, it's like Ultra Fine Atomic Technologies Company. And then over the years it turned into Ultra Tech. For short. That's great. So she has three drones. Oh, no.

And you can A, use them as strikers or B. It's way better than you think. Way better. Or switch them onto your body to change your mode. Oh, okay. Each one has its own life bar, which is a third of her health. Okay. You have to cycle through all of them

and defeat them all to beat her. When one gets blown up, she switches to another one. Or mid-fight, she can switch to the other one to heal it, but that's the only way her potential is to get it. This is a really interesting take on boss fighter. Oh, it gets better. There's only one round, theoretically, for her. But you have your two life bars.

Okay. So every character in the game has the two tries. They get back up round two. So they're going to make. With her, it's just the ball. They're going to make her really bullshit. And when Woolly says it changes her mode, it changes her special move.

Yeah, but balanced for one round. Balanced for one round. Yeah, exactly. Balanced for... You are now forced to use the mode that you didn't like. Yeah. Yeah, when she... When he says mode, he means it changes her special move set

from the jet tiles to swords. So imagine M.K. Phase one. Imagine M.K., you beat the first style. You got to use the... You got to fight the other styles. No, I don't want to. Well...

That's it, right? Or use them as strikers and then they get blown up. Or it's like, man, I have... I've totally figured Aria out. I have her down pat. Okay, now second phase. Oh, I don't know how to fight this character at all. And that's going to be like the way players use her.

That is a matchup nightmare. It is going to be great. It is going to be great. Right. There's going to be a way to do it. But you just learned it. Yeah, but it's like, say there's... Every character has good and bad matchups

against certain versions of her. She has to go through all three in the fight if she's losing, right? It could also come down to like her normals being most of the matchup people. People learn how to fight again. Yeah. Yeah.

People learn how to fight late. But this is game plus one. How can you fight a man with four alters at the same time? Right. How could you even? Lay's got, what, 18 stances? 19?

Yeah, his stances. So that's crazy. Yeah, I can't wait to see her final design because that wasn't her final final design. Yeah, yeah. There's also some bullshit as a foot. Every fucking month it seems like something shitty is happening to a streamer.

So Panda, an FGC streamer, was at Texas Showdown and someone broke into his car and stole his streaming equipment. Great. That fucking sucks. And it's like, this happens. Where was spooky during this time?

Well, here's the deal, right? Probably streaming. Probably. A month ago, the same shit happened to Mark Man. Oh, good job, man. Yeah, I know. You ruined it with that cough. Someone broke into Mark Man's shit

and stole his streaming equipment. And like, spooky3ds went missing the other day. What? And it's just like... It's almost like America is just crime-filled. It fucking sucks. People are being real assholes. No, here's the thing.

Where are these taking place? New York and L.A.? Well, that was Texas. Texas. These places have crime. Yeah, but people have guns in Texas. Yeah, I know. But it's like, this reminds me of like

three years ago when John Bob went down to E3 and found out their entire truck with all of their gear had been stolen. Okay, so Mark Man's... All of it. Mark Man's gear included the demo for Tekken 7. That was the year that we went down there, Matt. Yeah.

And then you're listening to the podcast and they're like, yeah, so we... If you're listening and you stole the demo to Tekken 7, please upload it. You know what, I bet... Please contact us on Twitter. I bet it's just some random thugs and they steal all of Mark Man's equipment.

And they're like, what's the CD? Who gives a shit? Hey, man. They're going over there. Yeah, and that's what sucks. It's not a pawn shop. Yeah. It's a pawn shop for 20 years.

It's like Patina basically says, look, man, I don't care. Keep the stuff. There's pictures of my baby's birthday and like being... Yeah, yeah, important stuff. ...and family things and relatives and just memories.

Just send me those. I don't care. There's a solution here. And the solution is to never take those photos or care about anything. You're going to say back from up to a hard drive. No, no, no. No, no, no.

Headed off at the pass. No, nothing that emotional. I'd rather have nothing. You know what I keep in my wallet? Money and credit cards and my bus pass. Don't live unless you create memories you enjoy. Unless someone takes those away from you. I don't know.

I remember the memories that I enjoy, usually. That's why they're memories. You forget everything 10 minutes after you say it to you. Yeah, but then when somebody that was in that memory reminds me, I'm like, oh yeah, and then it all comes back. Forget all your memories. I remember the important things. I remember the least important things.

I remembered Runaway today, that horrible fucking Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons movie that Matt refuses to let me talk about because he's afraid of it. There's robot spiders that shoot acid and he's seeking bullets and Tom Selleck never wears that weird sparkly chain mail outfit.

Remember what email people should write to if they want to send us letters. It's superbestfriendcast at gmail.com. Remember it again. That's superbestfriendcast at gmail.com. Also, I want to point out, that was a fantastic segue. One of the best so far. I can see it coming, but it's still good.

We don't have much time to read emails this week. So we're going to blast it. John writes in and says, basically, hey guys, a long time ago and so on, recently you were talking about Snit from YTV. The guy that voiced Snit is actually teaching in television broadcasting at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario.

His name is Attila Rao, and I'll tell you this, because he was my teacher in my second year of documentary. Our class went nuts when we found out who he was, so that's what he's up to. That must be the weirdest when you do something like that. You're like, yeah, I did this thing part-time job, I guess, on YTV

and all these kids started marking out. You're like, oh. Yes, it sucks being the only person in my hometown that has a stick. That's bullshit, Josh. You live in Hamilton. I know 30 guys. We were there, we met them. Like from Hamilton, they fucking played and had terrific experiences.

He's got it right like a fucking Craigslist post. I mean, I have an arcade stick. Hey, do you want to come over to my house and play fighting games? Not suspicious, honest. Or look up Toronto Top Tears. Go find Red Pill Gaming. They have a whole Hamilton crew and they play.

You know, you just go on Twitter and your house got bruised. Got sticks, we'll fight. Got sticks, we'll fight. That's a good name for anything. You get over there, it's like a Cali stick fighting tournament. Brick Dancing Hobo just wants to bring to our attention

the fact that the Rob Riggle Dead Rising movie did come out. Yes, I saw that. And it's a Crackle exclusive. No, we talked about this. Or maybe we didn't talk about it in the podcast. It wasn't there. And let's take

one last quick one on I'm so confused how you choose these sometimes. Well, I have a bunch. You just throw a spin at the computer and whatever email it falls on. Just click on whatever one. But no, because it has to be good ones.

He's parsing all the terrible emails. I want to point out that some of these emails are not good. That may surprise you. Take a guess at a percentage. It's too low. Do you want to be my friend on Xbox? I was going to say 100.

It's too low. It's probably like 30% of all messages. Yeah. Here's a quick easy one. You guys have flirted with talking about politics and religion at various points in the podcast. Will there ever be a point in which you share your political and ideological views on the podcast?

No. That is a quick and easy one. No. It's a little divider so that even the people tallying the votes don't get to see you vote. Yeah. We run a channel where someone will say

I don't like that game very much and then he has yelled at for being a Nazi. I'll come clean first of all every year I vote for the secret Nazi party that's on the ballot. It's a write-in. You guys vote for whatever party

that promotes cookies the most. You got to support your cookies. Oh man Trudeau's eating a big cookie. But Harper's even eating a race in cookies. That one good politics interesting around here. The cookie race. Where are the Oreos?

I offended. Jack Layton used to like Oreos before he died. You know what's awesome though? Video games. So yeah. And movies. I love the comics and I liked them

and I'm still too much of a shit to say that comics are okay. They hurt me too bad. No they didn't. I'm glad you know who you want to be for the rest of your life. That guy that hates comic books for no reason. But he stays in his apartment alone

so it's funny. What's coming up is I believe today Liam and I on Tuesday yeah we're starting a full LP of Castlevania area of sorrow Spoilers. Liam fucking crushes it. Shows cool bugs and shit. I was pretty.

I was okay happy with it. It was okay happy. That's the correct take away. Aside from that. Sonic should be finishing up this week. Bloodborne. Bloodborne continues. And maybe something that's creepy

on the weekend maybe. So here we go. Okay that sounds fun. Let me go check it out. I'm checking out Global Wars in Toronto which is a new Japan vs. Ring of Honor special event

one night well two nights only. But yeah I know a lot of wrestling recently. But it was like kind of just throwing on my radar the last minute. Back to back belly to belly can't wait for that. Might have a date with Takahata I don't know see what happens.

I don't have a chance to do Broken Age Act 2 I'm still going to play it. I'm not going to not play it. When you told me you didn't enjoy Time Souls I still played it. Yeah no exactly. So I'm going to play through that. I hope I enjoy it. And I'm going to play Tauren when that comes out

on Tuesday. We had that in our what's coming up in May video and it's like yeah it's a Ico like. Explore. One of the big things is you're a little girl so you get cool. Exactly. So that's cool.

Pat you should check that out. Because you start with your primary fetish. Oh that's fun. Geez wow. You might not like the ending though. She's too old. She becomes eight. Hey but Tronvone's out I'm looking forward to Tronvone

I'm going to play that. It's Tronvone man come on. Tronvone's great. Sure. I've been playing it. What are you going to play it on? Let's squash that beef. I'm going to play it on the Vita TV. Why would you play it on TV and on the PS3? Because the emulator on the Vita is better than the PS3 emulator. Are you serious?

It is. Not only does it run a little bit better that emulator but you can remap all the controls if you're using a Vita TV or a Vita. And Tronvone's controls are so antiquated that it benefits a lot from remap. But it's good. Antiquated? Yeah it's antiquated.

That's a very antiquated way of saying it. Now I'm making it further. Don't correct anybody. But like stuff like where in Tronvone you press L and R to rotate, you can instead map that to just moving left and right

if you would so choose. See I've got to go take away the PS TV from my girlfriend to get that. But I need to anyway. I'm just for other reasons. Well you're bigger than her. It's either the hair or the Vita

baby. Well I'm looking forward to the salvaged trip I got to New York. Oh yeah. Because I can't go to Toronto with Matt for the wrestling thing because by the time... You've been banned from Toronto. By the time that... I wish I was banned from Toronto. We all will.

Sorry. To figure out whether or not people can get time off to go and by the time we figured it out we sold out. The tickets were sold out. So we salvaged the bike going to New York instead and guess what now that the Shark Robot store is shut down. I don't know what the fuck to do in New York.

So if you've got suggestions get at me. Well he was going to sleep in the kid. I got a list of cool restaurants to go check out. Did you get that list? And I'm going to try to see if I can make it to don't turn off the dark. Yeah. But outside of those two things. Yeah. I really

don't actually know what the fuck to go down to. That's the list I was talking about. I have the Google behind there as well. I got yes. It's such a good looking list. I really want to go to New York just for those restaurants. Food is going to be a thing. Yeah. But outside of food. I looked it up

for you. Midtown comics is the name. Comics. Midtown. All right. Chattatown fair I'll see what's left of the remnants. But yeah anyone that's got suggestions on what's cool in New York. Don't forget to bring your peanut butter for Chattatown fair. This might be your last

chance. That's true. Be a part of history. Yeah. Okay. So like server maintenance is happening in like half an hour. So I'll be playing Scholar of the First Sin. And then I'll probably be playing FF14. FF14.

If you want to know about the free company just go to the reddit. Man be sure to shave if you died before Wild Hunt came out. Do you mean like me physically die? Yeah. That's correct. Because when big releases happen and I'm really excited I go holy

I better not die. I hope I die. Yeah. Off the top of my head Brawl and Pacific Rim. Yeah. I better not die. If you die your whole life was wasted. Exactly. See Pat we've already determined

that you are going to die by falling out of world in real life. You're going to roll into a corner of your apartment and just keep going. Be wary of collision. That's what you got to look out for. You need to be scared of falling to his floor. Now the question is

does Pat hit an invisible floor and die? Or does he just fall forever? Like knuckles. At least you won't lock all the achievements before you die. Alright everyone don't die out there. Don't be scared.

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