Castle Super Beast - SBFC 148: Send the Kids to the Nerf Chamber

Episode Date: June 7, 2016

Liam's out. MORE OVERWATCH IS IN. The pre-E3 hype train begins departing from the station.

It's another friendcast triple ballin. I have three balls. Yeah. Yeah. You lucked out. I'm like 75% of a Krogan over here. Well, that's not why we're calling it that. Krogan.

Krogan. Krogan. What do you think it's called a triple baller? Well, there's a game on the Vita this week where. Liam's dead, you guys. Damn, you almost got me. I was fooled. No, Liam can't make it.

He has to attend the graduation. Prior engagements kind of thing came up. Can't come here. Yep. All right. Continuing on. Hey, we have to do a podcast this week, even without Liam. We have to do a podcast every week.

I'll be playing the part of Liam at random intervals. I will argue with myself about whether or not PSO2 will ever come out. That's pretty good. It won't. No, it might though. Maybe, I guess. It's fine. I don't really feel all that strongly about it, but I will say that it will because Sega

is great. Yeah. Sega is great. Well, I wish we had known earlier because we could have prepared a week. So much shitty ass like petty snarky bitchy things to do, but unfortunately that's all you get. It's okay. We'll wait with them because he's not going to listen to this.

What kind of asshole listens to their own podcast? Not for work reasons. Yeah. Not for work reasons. Like, will you listen to the podcast after we do this because to make sure we didn't say a bunch of racial slurs or whatever and we just forgot. Or make sure to put some more in and we don't know about it. Sometimes I enter a fugue state and forget.

But no, I mean like, hey, man, we did a really good podcast this week. I better listen to it. That'll be a lot of fun. Aw, yeah. Like, fuck off. You were there. You should listen to last week's podcast to spend the time. No, that'd be awesome.

Dude, that's the worst. I honestly probably am listening to giant bomb while that's going to a lot of time. You walk into your party. No, I do listen to it, but it's just you've been hearing it because I've been catching up late. I am so far behind. I've been catching like a full like getting behind on a podcast that you desperately want to hear the non relevant bits as well.

But there are relevant bits is the weirdest. And I imagine people go through the same thing with us where it's like, it's 2017 and you're like, so the new doom came out. Oh man, it's really good. It's like almost dull. Yeah. And that being said, thank you for tuning into this podcast. Oh, you can listen to multiple podcasts a week.

Of course you can. There's so many hours. You should listen to this one first and the longest. So many hours. Listen to it. Oh, we are not. Definitely not the longest podcast out there. Yo, fuck it.

I didn't have a week. I played Overwatch and Street Fighter. That was it. I played. I played so much Overwatch. That's all I did. So I saw an image floating around of a Winston player named Harambe Revenge. Yeah.

Yeah. And that was the moment that I'm like, every, every meme, meme art I've seen for the past two weeks has been Overwatch related. Of course. Or Datboy. Of course. And then it hits the point where it's not a meme, it's news as it's coming out. Yeah.

I saw that gorilla carried that child and dragged him around. Looks like Widowmaker took him out. Play of the game, right? Play of the game to Lee Harvey Oswald. Play the music in your head. Are you seeing it? I can see it. There it goes.

I can see it. And then now cut to the point. I've got you in my shoes. I can't. Overwatch fever is sweeping the world is swelling. It is at one might say, yeah, well, that or I was going to say like, you know, capacity. Max capacity. It's really hitting.

Like you could say that the Overwatch hype train is currently charging its ultimate. It's so, like I started to play the game and I've been playing it for a while. So if you will, Lee, and I don't know if you ran into this, but there were like nearly half the cast, though, I was like, nah, you know, just not for me, they're not bad. And I don't dislike them. Just their gameplay style or whatever, like Symmetra, for example, right? Just it doesn't gel with me at all. I don't know what I'm doing.

I'll never figure it out. But because of that little thing on the screen that says, hey, dipshit, there's no sniper on your team. There's no builder on your team or whatever, and nobody else wants to go. You eventually end up being like, fine, I'll play Symmetra. And now, now, I think I like every single character on that roster. They all have something of real value, but you need to figure out their deal. They have so much depth to them.

Like as Junkrat, I was terrible until I realized I should be aiming at the floor. And doing your jumps. Because the bounces, it bounces like two, three times. Like the timer only starts once it hits the ground. And like it always goes predictably if you aim straight at the floor in front of you. Even if you try and lob it, it goes all over the place. You got a Bastion problem. Genji solve it.

He Genji. It's the most. It's so good, you know, and you just got to figure out your composition from there. Are you Bastion and you have a Genji problem? Fire one bullet and then stop and then fire the rest of your bullets as soon as his animation is over. I like, I like that. That's the, that's the shimmy in Street Fighter.

Every single day I have found out some new tech, like the amount of ultimates that Genji can reflect to the weird mechanics of, of Roadhog's chain. You know, Roadhog's chain will always pull someone towards you even if you're like in the air or whatever. Oh yeah, dude. Like there's been some ridiculous, I've yanked mercies off of cliffs as I, as Lucio knocks me to my doom and it's the fucking best. I like last night I had a thing where we got bumped up because of either a junk rat or

a Pharah bomb and like I bumped, it bumped me up while I was tackling a dude. So I ended up splatting him into like almost the ceiling. Yeah. Basically I did a, a Reinhardt rush teleport through up a Symmetra portal and just came right out and hit a guy on the other side. Like it was like a teleport kill, not blind. If Reinhardts hit each other, they both come to dead stops. Yeah.

Oh, you do both fall over. Reinhardts chain beats Reinhardts charge 100% of the time, it completely cancels it out. If you, if you're on that Ilios map where you get to the round three and you're going to be playing in the hole, pull your Zarya out, get that Graviton Surge, everybody in the hole. Zarya is probably the best example of a character that I thought was just abjectly terrible. Like wow, I could not stand her at all, I could not figure it at all. And then I popped my bubble and a tracer killed the entire bubble and then you just have this

beam of doom that can't be stopped. And then the whole thing about her as well with like the together we are a strong thing being like her gameplay philosophy where literally you have to protect people and yourself and then you're now a beast for a little bit. Like it's really fun time. That being said, there are some very notable flaws that they are apparently going to fix in an upcoming patch. The major one is they are going to rejigger the numbers behind play of the game so that

it's not Q every single time. It's not Reaper hitting his ult every time. It's not Bastion hitting his ult every time. It's always nice whenever you see play of the game and it's like oh he hit Q and it's like no actually he took three people or four people. The one that gets me, the only one that's like just they hit Q and it makes me excited is Mercy revived the entire team, the whole team. But like it's going to make it so that Ice Walls that like block certain amounts of damage

will count towards your play of the game point total and healing will count towards your point total. So there will be a lot less flashy ones but like Zenyatta will get them some time. Now Matt, no need to hide it. You jumped in and played a whole bunch Overwatch this week so you can get in on this. You put your toes in right? No, I played like one or two matches. If you want me to quickly go through like my week though and then you can go back to

Overwatch talk or whatever you guys are talking about because I don't really know what's going on. I watched a few things. If anyone enjoys the Friday the 13th franchise go watch Camp Crystal Lakes Memories. It's a six hour documentary that exhaustively goes through every single movie. Every all of them. And two things of note when they speak to a lady that was in one of these from the late 70s or early 80s you see this mom now and she's like it's so cute that I was in this.

You would I think all the fans really want. I think all the fans really want a Jason movie where all the survivor ladies team up and fight Jason. No one wants that ever. All these ladies just are trying to get themselves over and say you know what would be great if I could get paid again. No. Because I got paid $20 50 years ago or whatever.

And I'm an iconic like slasher character. Not really. No. There's no iconic. Who's the iconic character in the Friday the 13th franchise Lawrence Fisper from Dream Warriors Jason. Yeah. That's super wrong.

It would be Kevin Bacon. Yeah. The thing of note in this documentary that for one about 10 seconds they talked to some old guy and I don't know what he did. Doesn't matter. His name plate comes up and his name is Dick Warlord. That was his name. And I looked at that for a while.

Yeah. This old man's name. You stole my name. Dick Warlord. Stole my battle net tag. Stole your reaper name. Yeah. Right.

Sometimes you gotta just you gotta just tracked out a family and become friends with them. Just to say I like whatever you're spitting here. Yeah. It's good. So that was really fun. I watched all six hours of it. It was very, very, very, very, very in depth. It was really, really interesting.

I also watched. Go not in depth in six hours. I had to like a really surface level interpretation of the movies that's six hours long. Like what? It's just old cast interviews like what was it like to work on Friday the 13th? No, but it's such a pleasure. Because remember, there's like 11 movies. They do Freddy versus Jason and they do the remake as well.

It's about 28 minutes per movie. Yeah, pretty much. So I really interested. And I also got back into watching a few random episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I saw a couple of them are just like slowly being re-released on like Xbox video and PSN and stuff. And I saw they have amazing artwork and I saw one name of the movie that they're riffing on, which is Death Stalker and the Warriors of Hell.

Now, I'm passively familiar with the Death Stalker franchise. I think I am too. Is that the one, the Conan Rebob, the blonde guy and he's like weirdly rapy for some reason? It's a different guy in every Death Stalker. Yeah. Okay. So I watched this thing and I could not stop laughing. It was like one of the funnier things are I'm also a little bit sick.

So I was kind of like, oh, let me watch this. So they'll cheer me up a little bit and you feel like no, stayed awake the entire time and laughed all the way through. And these are the later Mystery Science theaters like in the later nineties, like they went to about 1999 Mystery Science Theater lasted. What? Yeah. And in my brain, that's a show from the 80s.

Yeah, it is to me too. But I forgot that they replaced the main guy Joel with Mike and when they had that recent Mystery Science Theater Kickstarter thing, which was a huge success, it's with the original guy Joel. And I was like, oh, I bet these are terrible. This is the one with the new guy and they're just as funny and I actually get more of the references because I'm familiar with late 80s, early, early like 1990 Mystery Science theaters where a lot of the jokes go over my head because they're political jokes in

the nineties. Of people that like are either dead or you didn't know when you were alive. Actors. And like, and when I watched this, this is a death stalker episode, they go, man, it's like playing doom. And I was like, I got that reference. I know. Do when I was a kid, I was very, very happy.

So I watched that. The other thing that we might know, I sat down and watched a little documentary called Gods of Egypt. Yeah. It was accurate. I believe. I'm old. Accurate.

They got they got boots on the ground. They ran their cameras right in ancient Egypt. So how is Jehuti so Friday night, I asked my wife, what are you leaving? What are you going out with your friend? What are you going? What time are you going? What time are you going? She's like, why?

Why? What are you going to do when I'm gone? I'm going to watch Gods of Egypt because you won't let me. And she's like, no, because it's terrible and it's the way Washington, but I want to watch it though. And she's like, fine. I'm going out of five, whatever. And I was like, aw, yeah.

Good job reinventing racism. So rediscovering. Yeah. No, it's a it's a reimagining of race. I'm dusting it from the sand that we didn't really want to do a sequel to racism. So we settled on this reimagining. So I was telling Wully in Gods of Egypt, there's the main plot point is a Gerard Butler needs to make a gigantic Jehuti Mecca made out of the organs of the best gods in the pantheon.

Why? Because to be the most powerful, okay, he's going to, because they turn into their big Mecca armors and they fight. And I'm watching this thing. Excuse me. You didn't see this. Their mummy's alive powers. Okay.

They're, yeah, because there's a, there's a Horus. There's an, uh, there's a, there's a jackal. There's a Ram guy. Let's not get it twisted. This also has one of the coolest interpretations of Anubis ever really where Anubis like all the other gods, they're, they're Jamie Lannister, the Gerard Butler, they're Chadwick Bosman who played, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, Black Panther. So most of the time, I'd say 8% of the time they're walking and talking like they're,

they're themselves, right? The awkward thing about Gods of Egypt is that humans are not the same size as Gerard Butler or Jamie Lannister. They're actually 12 foot tall mega gods and they have scenes where they interact with tiny baby humans and it gets really uncomfortable. I feel like it's kind of shocking that I somehow missed that detail. Entirely. Because it's not shown because when you watch the movie, it's so awkward.

I would have been way more interested in seeing that movie. Is taking a bath and he has tiny baby hands of human lady slaves rubbing up and down his chest. And I'm like, I no wonder no one knew about this because they're like, oh, this didn't work out when they broke, when they got the film back from the special effects people. They're like, oh no. We thought this would look cooler. So it happens very infrequently.

Unless your fetish is Gerard Butler giant than. He doesn't get any of that. It's only Jamie Lannister. It's only Lannister. Okay. But Anubis never changes from cool jackal form and is always in the Netherrealm showing you where to go. And he's like, okay, the end of the world is happening.

At some point, you know, the general idea of the movie, the end of the world is happening. I can hold it off for a bit. For like a while. And then they go, are you sure Anubis? And Anubis like, yeah, sure, man. And then they go, okay. And that's kind of the Anubis held down it for a while. And I was like, whoever made this movie knew that Anubis is the best and the coolest and

the strongest. Well, every myth and religions death god is like the dopest of them all. So like, like it's too easy to James Woods them and make them funny and lame. So like, use them sparingly and then they'll be cool. I remember, I remember when comic book girl was referring to the part where like how it's like it's actually a flat earth or something like that and it follows the ancient Egyptian like lore of like the sun is actually being drawn by a on a carriage by I forgot the name of that God and like a raw raw and he's and he's and it's like this whole ongoing

battle every day and night he has to fight the demon of Armageddon during the night. Yes. Yeah. It's so fucking cool. So at the end of the day, it's like, oh, it's like it's entertaining. Yeah, I bet. It's it's a notch below the mummy movies, which is the word mummy movies. The first two.

Okay. That and those are the words that got me going, wait, hold on, stop. But it's way, I love the mummy levels way, way better than one and two or so then clash of the Titans or whatever. And so here's the thing with the whitewash and I was explaining this to Willie. So here's their problem. Right. And I totally get where the where their problem was.

We have a star. What star can we get? We need a really big star. All right. You know, the guy from Game of Thrones, people know him enough. Let's have it as the main character. Sure. One white guy.

Okay. Cool. So let's have the bad guy. Oh, well, it can't be a black guy or anybody of color because then that looks really bad. If they did cast him as a black guy, it would look really bad. Oh, it's literally like you can see the plot in your head and just like bad. Yeah. Okay.

So all right, let's make him a white guy. I'm like, ah, that's not. All right. I guess that's fine. Now here's the thing. Here's the thing that Toth, the God of wisdom, he's played by Chadwick Bosman, the guy that played black. I saw the clip using him and I was really happy with that scene.

It looks really cool. He's quite funny and he's just, he's kind of there for comic relief, but he's, he's, he's a smart like God. He's like the other guy. Love, he's alive. The snake. He's the book nerd. Right.

Right. Right. And like that's fine. He's in the movie for a decent little bit. Now the actual problem with the white wash is that they have the main human character, which is a doofy, most like whiter than me or Pat or Liam or Wally and, and he's just the whitest guy ever. And he's the main human that is in this road trip scenario with Jamie Lannister.

And I'm like, Ben, why can't he be a black dude or like a, like a guy of color? Like that's weird because as they go, they hate each other. Like humans suck their week. Yeah. God don't listen to us. They think they're so big. They're literally big though. Right.

They're quite large. And I'm like, well, if that was, that would have been a nice balance where like he's, he's actually in the movie 80% of the time and he's just the wimpiest, dorkiest. He's a thief and he has the hottest girlfriend ever. And the girlfriend constantly says, where'd you steal that from? You got me this dress. Where'd you steal it from? Cause you have no job.

Is she Egyptian? She, she's more like anyone Egyptian would you, would you just, I'm just going to go on a limb here. Would you describe her as a vaguely ethnic? Yes. She's from fucking beyond. She's Mediterranean. I'd say, but she's like, if any, the question is just, does anyone look vaguely Egyptian?

There's one, there's one girl that there's one, well, in the background, in the backgrounds and like when you see the whole pantheon of the gods, most, most likely they don't show it. They don't tell you everyone is, but there's lots of people like spotted like, Oh, that guy is that guy's dark skin. That guy's like a girl, whatever. There should be drachy looking motherfuckers everywhere. Where's my uncle man?

There's a human character that's kind of an evil guy. That's like kind of vaguely drachy or whatever. Oh man. But remember, if you saw one of the trailers, there's two gigantic snake monsters that are chasing. I do not remember. Well, there's two gigantic snake monsters. They're actually quite cool.

And both of them are being ridden by two girls. One that's the most Nubian princess ever. Yeah. And one that's the really light haired, very vaguely eyebrowed blonde girl from the wives of Mad Max. Oh, so it's like that PSP. It's like the PSP. It's exactly like that.

It's exactly where I was going. It's exactly like that. It's like, yeah. Okay. B to it. PSP. There's a there's a giant celestial space, grab void. Okay.

Trammer. All right. So I was overall, that wasn't too bad, but like it deserved not to make any money, but whatever. Because it cost a gazillion dollars. It cost a gazillion dollars. I also played hard reset redux. Okay.

That's a, a, I mean, I mean the redux. I know what hard reset is. What, what did we learn from shadow warrior? Put that back in. Yeah. This. Yeah. So you have a fast, like Devil May Cry dash.

Like a low Ang does. You have an electric sword now. I don't remember these things from the original game because they added it to the redux. And there's completely different enemy placement, new enemy types, whatever. I was having a lot of fun with it. Story is incomprehensible garbage, it's better to just skip it. I feel like Eastern Europe can only go one of two ways with that. It's like either the story is the Witcher or it's every other game from that region.

Yeah. I was really, really digging it. I, I just stopped a few levels in and I really like how you're always finding robots. So there's always these electrical outlets or things that you shoot to shoot arcs, electricity to stop robots, to destroy them. And there's lots of fun you can have with the environment. It's just, it's a very, like if you, if people like the recent doom and don't know hard reset or the light shadow warrior, like give it a go.

So I lied. I played tons and tons of overwatch. I know. I know. Did you guys. This is more for the viewers. Did you guys see that video of fucking, what's his name, Lucio wall riding his way out of the hole on Ilios after being knocked to the bottom?

There's videos of Lucio wall riding forever because if you set his jump to a scroll on your email, you can do the mirror's edge PC bullshit tricks. I'm not, I'm not going to do that. Just spam it forever. When I went over to go record at Woolies, I left overwatch on and I was like, Oh God, I have to go record shit. Really want to play over. Well, anyway, fuck.

I guess I'll go and do my job. So I left and then while we're recording, get a text and Leanna writes. So I got you two loot boxes. Oh, I've been leveling for you. And she plays Zarya. There you go. And she's just like, I like her because I have a lot of health. Yeah.

And I'm like, Oh, it's true. She has like 400 health and half of her health is shields, which is way better than regular health. But like, you got to really to, to like, to win with Zarya, you got to really be like on top of the battle and almost be like a leader in a way. It like is Zarya. You have to be a commander because you have to kind of know where everyone is and know who to shield. I'm at level like what thanks to her level like 17.

You know, I've seen maybe two Zaryas ever. I fought a group that had two Zaryas and it was the worst massacre I've ever received the entire game where like they were popping their shields so that half of or more than half their team was fully invincible right when we would push and then they would turn into gods and be totally unstoppable. No, you can't. You like a bad Zarya is just going to be a dead weight that'll help pull the team. He like really shitty pyromancer pyromancer pyromancer pyromancer pyromancer from you

know, but a good Zarya will fucking hold it down. Like it really helps when you're combining the her ult with anyone else that does good damage. Honestly, like even without the alts, like if even if you have like some that somebody like soldier 76 or Hanzo, as long as they just start firing directly into the into the pile. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of soldier 76, I started playing like it like we talked about like, I was just

like Farah Farah. I love Farah Farah Farah. I'm like, here's how because I'm I'm I'm stuck firmly in offense. Okay, you were having trouble branching out. No, no, no. I never branched out. I stay I stay in offense and I'm like, here's what here's what now that I've seen what almost every character can do, I'm going to max out everyone I want offense.

And this is how the game will keep going for me. And then when it's I get bored, I'll filter down into everyone else. Yeah, as soon as you get bored, because like moving over to like Hanzo or Roadhog or Reinhardt or Junkrat or May is like a wildly different experience. It couldn't be like, because it started with Farah, then it moved to soldier 76 and I'm like, oh, he's kind of boring, but I have these cool skins. I did in a random loot. I got his like, like evil, kind of evil, like American thing.

Oh, that's fun. So when I started playing him, like I do way, way, way better with him than Farah, just because they're different skill sets, different skill sets and it depends who you're fighting. Like Farah is hard countered by soldier 76. Right. Right. Yeah. And then whether it looks cloudy with a chance of justice, Reinhardt, and the, the, the most

satisfying thing, aside from even getting like, you know, a good drop or whatever is I totally got play of the game. It's the best. It's the absolute best. I didn't get play of the game. The play of the game is mine. All your plays were lame. Mine was of the game.

And then when it actually happens, and yes, it does happen 0.5% of the time where you call it and I act, well, at least for me, you call it and actually get it. So unfortunately it's kind of like what you said, I was soldier 76 and I think we were in the, the kind of garage hangers of Route 66 where everyone is piled in there and I'm up above a rafter and it's, I've got you in my sights. Shot three people in one row. The alt wore off and then a McCree is just running back and forth and I killed, that's the other thing.

You can almost always lock it. If you have your alt plus a regular kill and a random kill, well, what it is, is get a quad. If you get a quad, you got the quad. Yeah. And then every now and then you get the miracle like Reaper where the whole team was sitting there. It goes down.

Yeah. My personal favorite ones to see are Reinhardt doing the earth shaker followed by the projectile that hits everyone. That's the other dude. Yeah. To the wall. Followed by the wall. Yeah.

Followed by turning around to hit the swing on the guy. You didn't pin, but you did knock away, which is usually like a diva out of a robot. That was the perfect Reinhardt play of the game. Doing everything. Yeah. Doing everything. And it wasn't just occasionally on that, that occasionally on some mastery of long stretches.

Yeah. You'll just hit shift and right before your, your, your dash is about to wear off a guy just happens to walk through a doorway and had no idea you were there. And then your, your distance resets to infinite as soon as you pin someone. Yes. You double your, it goes the entire distance from the pin. Yeah. Exactly.

Then you have the other thing where it's like a play of the game to Turblerone or Symmetra and staring at a wall. Yeah. And they're just like walking in a circle going dum de dum while all their, their talents do work. There was a, there was a play of the game with, I was playing with bird squad and it was literally like a, a, a, the guy walking back to the fight out of spawn. Like the play of the game started with him in the respawn timer and then, because he

molten cord the, and then died instantly. Yeah. It's, it's really. I've never had a play of the game, which like kind of like show a bug. I've seen maybe one or two, like really it was a widowmaker shooting one guy in the head then walking back and forth and doing nothing else. And I'm like, means that game was shitty. I was thinking it was like, what's the game that shitty?

My, my, my favorite so far bug that I've encountered. I don't know if it's a bug or it's intended, but divas mech explosion is based off line of sight only. Yeah. And if anything is in between you and them, you're fine, including the signposts. The signpost that's like two centimeters wide. As long as there is a physical object of the stage in between you and it, it doesn't matter how much of your body is visible.

Like it will block it. I can, I just want to put out a PSA for Reinhardt people out there and anyone that's new that hasn't seen it yet or whatever. Yes. It's super cool and dramatic when a Reinhardt pushes the diva mech out of the way to self-sacrifice and save the team, but it's stupid because she can usually fly back off like, if you try and do it to diva off the edge without the explosion, she can fly back on. Yeah.

That's not what I mean. And if you want to do it to the exploding robot, like I better be careful. I'm talking about, I'm talking about how everyone gets, everyone gets all like, oh my God, cause Reinhardt pushes the exploding mech to save the team and you're like, you're an idiot. You can shield it and everyone gets behind your shield and you still have 800 shield left. It only does 1200.

Well, what if the shield just got broken, then you push it and you push it right away and you hit the wall and then you usually would have enough shield to just hold it up and survive. You don't have to die in that scenario. So it's not as cool. You know what's not going to be a play of the game that, yeah, no, well, if they, if they rejigger the numbers properly, like your, your like defense of that, like negating potential damage actually might be, no, it is, it already is because I last night, one of my plays of

the game was killing a die, die, die as soon as he, yeah, that's, that's a shutdown play of the game. Yeah. Like mercy, not mercies, uh, widow makers that headshot people like within like a hundred milliseconds of their alt popping anytime, play the game anytime you hear justice range from. Oh, yeah. That's a, that's a decent chance.

There's nothing better than killing a reaper that, that got his first die out. Yeah. Oh, no, there's one better. There is one better and it's heroes never, it's like, oh, because you're high, no, because you're like mercies entire alt just disappears on that. Like some of them keep some of their alt, but mercies is gone and it's like, oh man, that's a whole redirect that's gone. Yeah.

Talking, you mentioned Symmetra before because like up until a certain point, I never saw Symmetra and I don't care for her design except for her like, you know, alternate skins, which are amazing. And I was like, man, she's just like so boring. She's like, looks kind of similar to Farrah where she's just like, you know, a dark woman with like blueish metal stuff, metal stuff and I'm like, eh, you know, she's fine or whatever. I don't really care.

I actually saw like just based on the teleport, just based on getting the entire team back into the fray. Did you get the teleports where they need to be? I'm like, oh my God, that's so useful. So if you think about what it is, she doesn't heal, but strategically a teleporter is just like a red. So apparently it cuts down on time. Apparently back in the, an earlier version of the game, her shields gave 50 instead of

25. Okay. And it annihilated game balance because it made tracers and Ganges impossible to kill. Right. Okay. Like 250 on there. Yeah. All of a sudden, all of a sudden, like, uh-oh, like tracer would get a 200 instead of 150.

And that's a, that's fucking 25% of her health. So it took me a while to realize what, what, why people are drawing this and don't get it. And here's kind of what my tiny little nitpick on, on Overwatch is right now. On the main base. I know it's a, it's a multiplayer shooter, but okay. Why are people drawing this? I don't get it because the game doesn't impart any information.

Talking about the pornography. No. The game doesn't impart character stories. Yeah. You have to look at their fucking website. Right. Yeah. So I'm like, why does Steve have, why is she always eating Doritos?

Oh, yeah. Why, why is she always drinking down Doritos? Because she's a pro gamer. She's a pro gamer. I know that, but the game doesn't tell you that. The game does tell you that. Where does it tell you? Her sprays.

Her quotes. And her quotes. Pick her and stuff. I picked her like twice. Yeah. Okay. Okay. But this is where my tiny nitpick is, where I wish in the hero gallery, at least have

a little profile. Do you have the bio that already exists on the website? Yeah. Put it in the game. Just put it in the game. Yeah. Totally. Like all the cinematics that are not in the game either.

Yeah. Good. And like, promotional material. Just like, because my, my actual thing, like in the future, maybe, I know this is a real long shot, but I know like a lot of people, this is like a broken record with games Extreme Fire 5 and other stuff. It's like, it'd be really cool to have like a little 20 minute go through the ladder of little scenarios, pick the character you want, get a little animatic story, get a little

animatic ending. You did have that. It's the, it's the tutorial that doesn't think you know how to play video games. What's the, the 76 tutorial? Yeah. That thing. Okay. Ever.

Well, what can I say? Like it's like, I feel like, I feel like that this is the kind of complaint that only arises on something like Overwatch because the characters are so interesting. That's, that's. Whereas like the, it's, it's like it's counter strike. Right? Like, that's what it really is. No, it really is that, but when the characters are so interesting, you want to learn about

them. But once I saw, started all these, these diva images, my favorite one so far was her playing like a game and she's drawn like a scrunchie like. Like a Gremlin. Like a Gremlin. Yeah. And she, you hear like, oh, justice. Oh, oh.

And she's like, mommies and she looks inside like a dark room and she sees Mercy and Farah like with her cheeks flush and they're like, oh no, Hannah, what are you doing? She's like, mommies. I want McDonald's. Right. And then they're in the car with, with diva with a bunch of fries coming out of her mouth and she's got angry eyebrows on and Farah and Mercy look really embarrassed. I'm a big fan of them.

These are hilarious. Of a Gremlin diva and soldier dad. Yeah. Soldier dad. So of course, like again, anytime you have good character designs on anything, you're going to get immediate like fan art. Yeah. But all the characters are so good waving in there like soldier 76 should be the most

boring shit ass fuck ever Reaper as well. But because he's so edgy, he's such a massive edge Lord that you can have fun with him. So I, on the note of fan art and stuff, I want to give a huge shout out to Alpha Gamboa, uh, who totally caught something that I was like, what? This is interesting. Uh, basically what like made this huge description about how, if you look really careful, there is a quadruple amputee and a bunch of the cast are as well. Yeah.

A lot of people are missing out on the fact that like it's possible that Lucio's legs and McCree's left arm is our, like, yeah, there's some obvious ones, right? Some of his right hand, but there's some stuff in there that's a lot more subtle. And like, yeah, I think Farah is probably the most subtle. And Farah is, and Farah, sorry, is very obviously a quadruple amputee. And like you look at just the, the toy limbs that are there, you know, that has to be like the hinges. Like there's no place for an arm to go through that arm.

And like, and like, so you follow the conversation and it's like someone asks Blizzard and Blizzard doesn't answer directly. They just say that's her suit. Yeah. And then, right. And then like the actual artists who like made the 3D models and stuff is like, oh, there's stuff, but I can't say anything because it'll be the focus of the next like animated show or something.

But it seems like a bunch of the heroes are totally people like that are part omnie as a result of like warren dreams. Because it's part of that story that Matt wants to see that we're not allowed to see. Like there is supposedly a conflict going on in this game. What is it? It's between the blue team and the red team. Fuck the red team. You know, I saw that, that one, that was great.

You know what I love? Love, love, love. You are always the blue team. They're always the red team because like they're America's armying it. Have you ever played America's army or anything? No, but I know it. So in America's army, you are always playing in the multiplayer suite as the American army and the other team is always the op for always.

Okay. Like in a multiplayer context. Yeah. But like it's stuff like, you know, you can always tell it a glance. Like is that Winston electricity hostile or not? Yeah. You know. That makes is my is that my eyes are there, right?

Honestly, it really doesn't matter. I've been killed just as often by friendly ice like I'm running away and a fucking ice wall from my own team member appears in front of the door that I need to get into. And I could just hear me going like I stopped the team from getting in and I'm helping. You can see like this is great replay of like a mercy that gets like, you know, in the Asian map Hanamura and Hanamura. There's like the second point and there's that little room on the side where the health pack is.

Yeah. And an enemy junkrat gets gets is inside there and a mercy goes in and then a friendly may puts up an ice wall and locks them in there together. And the guy who's playing is just like, I guess I'm just going to have to kill junkrat now is mercy and he just strafes and does it from full health to nothing with the fucking mercy gun. And it's like you asshole you trapped me in here and it totally worked like you get this great moments like that.

The the fact that like earlier like girlfriends like staying over and it's just like isn't really watching, but it's just there's lingo going on over the mics and stuff. And you kind of think about what it's like to be out of context and hear someone going hi noon, hi noon, hi noon, back out, back out literally the exact same thing happened to me. Are you shouting? Hi noon. And run.

He's high noon. What is that? What? Oh, hi noon. The really, really interesting article by Anthony Birch on Destructoid about the characters in Overwatch. I did not know what's the best. You should really read it because he's like, this is why it's so good.

Because you're talking about the writing? He goes, this is why it's so good. Not a single line is annoying. It is perfectly balanced to impart the information you need to know. They are cliched lines that either of them themselves are not inherently entertaining, but people were able to take it. Hi noon is the most cliched thing a cowboy could ever say, but now everyone knows and they like it.

It's so good to hear all these non-annoying lines, unlike, say, Borderlands, by the way, sorry. Birch, wait, what, really? Yeah. That's what he wrote in the article. I was about to say Birch knows a little thing or two about too many annoying lines. Yeah. So he says it like, this is why Blizzard is so good.

This is why all the lines that people say in Starcraft and whatever, and in Warcraft they're all not funny, but in out of context they are, and then people gravitate towards them and say them a lot. Can everyone hear every line? No. No. Some lines are just to you, right? There's that tip that says the strongest, most dangerous people on the map are the ones

you hear the most. So here's the deal. Have you noticed that Farrah says Justice reigns from above, but other times she will say Missile Barrage incoming? Justice reigns from above is your team. Yeah. Missile Barrage incoming is the enemy team. They're all like that if they have voice lines.

But what I mean, I don't mean like that. I just mean like if you're respawning at the same time as someone else, because like, well as Reinhardt you're respawning, just like, again, again. Yes, they can all hear that. Everyone can hear those. Okay. And it's like when you play Symmetra, you hear it a lot because throwing the, throwing the shield on somebody, they all thank you.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And like I love those little details where like people will call out turd ahead or it's not turd down. The enemy has a teleporter. I found the teleporter. Yeah.

And it's like, I don't like all I need to know is like, wait, who said that? That was Winston. Okay. Winston's over there. They're four. I at least have a general idea of where that teleporter could be. Yeah. What have you?

Yeah. If you're running out there and you see three skulls respawning, just stick around. Yeah. You know why that team's doing so well? Cause they have three widow makers. Then you need to counter pick. Fuck man. Rando's like, like straight up pug games.

Hey, I want to play Genji this time and I picked Genji first, then two other guys pick Genji and they refused to come off it. The courtesy, the courtesies, whoever picked it for and like, like, okay, I'll pick, I'll pick May or whatever that, that'll work. And then like they're getting blown up. Like they're not only not good, but they're being directly counterpicked and they will not change the entire game. Like the whole game is built around if somebody picked a character that wants to hang out on

the spot of your map that you want to hang out on and they are a hard counter to you. They're like a Genji to your bastion or something. Pick a fucking different character. Pick and like pick somebody else that isn't necessarily a hard counter to them, but your comfortable with and isn't like just decimated. And like I'm someone that wants to play tanks, but I'm absolutely learning that like to be a good team member, you cannot just do that. You need to have versatility and pick what's needed.

You need one of each role that you're decent at because that's why I'm trying to like go down the ranks. And like I find the one offense guy, like I'm like this, this is the like, you know, the one that like I think I worked the best at and then like move to the other one. They're so wildly different that like, like, I mean, I was talking to those people the other night. It's like, how the fuck is Symmetra classified as support? She is the most pure defensive character.

Teleporter is a res. Yes. Teleporter is a res, but it can be destroyed. Yeah. But it's also also also like those, those, those turret, like laser turrets, like if you have like two symmetries and they just drop them all in one spot, did you get the car wash achievement? No.

The car wash achievement is hit them with six turrets and your beam simultaneously. Okay. Yeah. Fucking dude. Oh, Ryan Hart from full to nothing in like a second and a half. Yeah. There's nothing that can be done. Well, a smart Zarya is what you do.

Yeah. Smart Zarya just becomes super strong. Treat it like a block. All right. It's like Nerf this. Everyone runs away. I'm like, yes. I'm like, someone stick with me.

Bam. We're at a hundred. There's a goddamn weird overkill mechanic on that thing where it does have 200 health, but it will always negate one hit. Oh, the, um, but the shield does have health. They can't be destroyed, but it will always, there is a parry block on it. The first hit, the first hit of damage is infinite durability. No matter what.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's why like dragons are a problem, but any one hit thing is, you know, as Roadhog, you can just stand there and take the entire dragon ultimate if you heal when your health gets low. Oh geez. Ridiculous. You can take the entire thing like no, you, you, we don't even end up at that particularly

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Well, you know, a lot of nice if trees would start pitching in a lot of good. Well, they pitch in a lot of air, but a lot of good villains over the years. All they really wanted was more trees, millions, knives, the dragons of earth. There's never been a, you know, Don Cheadle in that one captain planet skit. Yeah. But you don't got to be a villain to want more trees. In fact, if you take a look at the services offered by audible audible, you can get yourself lots of knowledge in this world without books, but you don't need books because audible provides

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They didn't. That was a lie. Only lie. People died. We got to get off overwatch because we're going to talk about it overcast. Also congratulations to Overwatch for selling like seven and a half million copies right out the fucking gate. Yeah, sure.

That's blizzard. I guess. Yeah. I mean, it's like it's been a while since I think like a game has totally absorbed everyone. You fucking know that. And not just not just like not and not just like some peripheral people are not just the first person shooter people.

Yeah. So every right. Foods and air. Bandos are that powerful. No. Art is that powerful. Good art. I know for sure.

But you know, that's that's why every like every time a really big, hotly anticipated game comes out like you can see the world and FF 14 get visibly smaller in terms of player population. I've never seen it like this, dude, like you're logging in on the middle of the day on a Saturday like six days after Overwatch came out. There's six people out of like 280 online and like, holy shit. No, I didn't like I'm basically, you know, I'm like doing some five practice, get some matches in, rank up once.

All right, over to Overwatch, you know, like when I feel like a decent amount of progress has made my reward is switching over to Overwatch. It's a fucking blast. It's such a good game. So much so that there's a meme of where people I can't afford Overwatch, so I'll just stare at the wall. Well, I'd rather do that than play fucking battle. The flow chart.

The flow chart is like, are you stupid? Yes. Battle board. Are you? No. Okay. Do you have money? Yes.

Overwatch. No. TF2. Yeah. Okay. It's a lot of news. Because there's a lot happening. It's amazing how I had like nothing of value for my entire week.

Same here, dude. Like I started crafting in 14. That's boring. Well, no, I got there's something I guess because I mean, there's stuff in progress that's not really talked about locks on your heart or suspicious pasta. How do you, how do you, how do you feel about it now that it's done? I'm glad we're here. That episode is a masterpiece.

It's what we've been building up to for years. Dude. Oh, JoJo. Oh, also, I should mention, why are the Titans just murdering all the colonies for no reason? I just turned a corner and they just say we have, in order to make sure that everyone knows that we can't be beaten, we need to gas like a billion people. Because if you're in a colony that you could be harboring suspected enemies. Their logic is like, oh, this will get them all to back down.

I was like, are you stupid? Like, come on. The colony laser is pretty cool. If you're not on earth, your life doesn't matter. Wow. Titans are drip bags. I don't like them very much. Yeah.

It, I mean, there's, can Jared come back so Camille can throw him down again? Shit can't get worse. All right. I have a, I have a complaint about Gundam. It's important. Okay. The first time it was really bad. The second time it was even worse.

But the third time I want somebody to put a gun in Camille's mouth. That cyber new type is mentally unstable. Stop trying to reason with them. They will die at the end of this, this arc, but I got to get my dick wet. I'm your brother, Rosamie, but I get my dick wet on you girl who I'm taking advantage of who is mentally to say like, dude, and it's the same time ever, like three times in a row. He's like, oh, you're normal now.

Great. Let's go. Let's go away to the argama. And then they have some kind of psychotic break in which they pull a gun on him and he goes, what are you doing, a fucking whoever? How can you, how can you do this to me? And then, no, I have to save you. And then Char shows up every time.

And he's like, you should really shoot that bitch because she's going to shoot you. And he's like, no, I could never in every story that ever makes it better or acceptable or in any way dampened is that there's often, if not always another dumb ass kid that's even stupider that does something way worse continues to exist and he hasn't done anything really all that bad lately, but he was shown entering a battle in the last episode. So that's that that just wait for the other kid to do something worse cats. You resurrected Neo Hitler. Why did you do that?

Oh my God. And then it's like, and no matter what timeframe you jump into, there's always another one. By the way, like for some reason, people are convinced that you don't know about what G Gundam is. Of course. I know what she got. Yeah. So there by this hand of mine is burning red, et cetera, et cetera.

I've never seen it. Yeah. But you know that there's a hype fighting Gundam. Yeah. That's that's on the list. Okay. It's it's I'm watching them all in release order. We just need to make it public.

Okay. Because it's like, tell Pat about G Gundam. It's like, he knows what it is. I've known. I've known about G Gundam. It's kind of impossible to like 97. So we watched the cool shit in that Gundam episode we did for mecha week and it's true. Yeah.

You saw master Asia and all the fun stuff. All right. Master Asia. So this week, so much shit went down. All right. So much shit went down. Who's dead? Who's fired?

Well, I would hope that the dead and fired folks would be the people that make the decisions at Konami in Japan. But that doesn't seem to be the case because they're going to be pulling in so much money. I don't want to talk about this picture too much too fucking late. Okay. You want to see? You know what? I saw Liam on somewhere post a link somewhere that said no spoilers and I didn't click it.

This is before it really came out and I was like, I bet you know what it is. So no spoiler has been ruined. It's been ruined. You need to find out. Because it's always a Pachinko machine because we know now what it always is going to be. 100% of the time it's a Pachinko machine. And this one probably hurts the most because it's the new models in the goddamn fox engine. Like I thought the fatal fury, the Garou one was like a big one.

There's nothing more than this. And Plague sends me, not even the link, he just says like, oh, you're going to be, you're going to die soon. I'm like, I'm already dead Plague. Like the moment it happened, and it's not just the moment it happened. It's the wave of it over Twitter and social media. Yeah. Come to think of it, this has been a good where you get reminded because someone else

sends the link every five to six minutes. It's 99% dislikes on this video. The official one, they uploaded of it. It's been a good week for Woolie's death this week. Well, hey man. Lots of groundswell about him dying. Yeah. Really pushing for it hard.

So you got the best looking version of the boss I've ever seen. Yeah. She looks like different than her model, but she doesn't look that way. But still looks like a person. That's what happens when you completely redo the model. I think Snake looks worse. And you're well, we've seen a billion versions of him. So like I'll take, I'll take whatever, you know, I'm used to the, at this point, my

brain is just thinking of the phantom pain version of him, you know, but the camera just slowly zooms out and you get those fucking Pachinko borders and you die. Your soul escapes your body, but not yet because, oh, no, no, it gets pulled back in. It gets pulled back in for when the reboot revival site reveals the casting directions for the new reboot series. So these are so bad that when I saw these, like I saw that you were like dead and you were asking your soul to leave your body. I'm like, what's doing it?

And I found the fucking thing. I read these things out live to the raid group and no one could believe it. Like it's, it's the, it's, it's, it's superhero samurai cyber squad. So for those who don't know, basically the reboot guardian code series, there's been a bit of a, not even a leak, but it's just on the explore talent, which is a casting website. They found the casting call for the new series and it's for the live action parts of the series.

Oh yeah. The live action parts you want of reboot and kill me, reboot. The guardian code is a live action CG animated comedy series, but it did not. So they're now, so they're casting for four role, five roles of teenagers, uh, and you've got attitude. All right. The, they need to find a 15 to 16 year old Caucasian skater dude. Uh, they need a, any ethnicity, uh, Techno geek, uh, they need a social media maven opinionated

intense alt check. It's true. Yeah. Of any ethnicity. They need a big athletic and strong jock who love, who loves it. Some people play by the rules, but has no patience for when they don't. And they need, uh, a virtual evolutionary recombinant avatar has to be a must be Asian must be and her, her descriptor is a single word attractive.

So this is literally just Elizabeth from peace. So basically we're looking at what is the formula for all the mid nineties, um, like post power rangers type team up things. And it just, it, it like, who thinks that this works is what I don't understand. How do you, how do you sit in a position of power where you make these decisions and like you're in 2016 and you're looking around and you're going like, you know, it needs to come back. 90s.

It's a samurai, samurai squad. Like how did you not see the mountain of bodies and go like, we're going to be different. No. Um, people were originally comparing it to Zix, but now don't even know what that is. Live action kids going into a CG form. I'm done. Don't know what that is. All right.

But, uh, now animorphs. But now with these new details, it's been updated to be a code Lyoko is God that that's the one I fucking everyone. So everyone's looking for code references now and, uh, yeah, no, if you want to, you can end my life. It's fine. I'll take it. No problem.

Um, wait, can you, and can we like, can you shoot me at the same time live on the podcast? No, just you have to have your head directly like behind his shoots you to the bone goes through both. I should mention we got a, we got a Serbian film it like the end and just like line up and don't know, I don't use one gun. I don't have the absurd love that only does for reboot. Like, like, it's a bit like you are wearing a fucking megabyte shirt right now. Um, but I like, I liked it a whole lot and I think it's a fantastic show.

But the level of suicide required here is because this is, this is the worst. Like this isn't like, oh, they took an old show and they're changing it or whatever. This is like the worst variation slash new pitch I have ever heard for any property. It's Pachinko. Yeah. It's, it's, it's a fucking. No, this is the actual I'd rather have nothing. Yeah.

And it's like, it might as well be a fucking, a fucking battle game like show about Pogs at this fucking point, just you go with fucking digital glitches, CG Pogs. Everyone has their own glitch. And I'm sure there's people listening to this podcast to go, what the fuck is a Pog? Yeah. That's fine. Sadly, we've covered it. But no.

Did England have Pogs? No. The most I'd rather have nothing. It's ever nothing. We do have an exclusive from the subreddit, from the best friend subreddit. And this is fucking interesting in that shoutouts to Radsuit who went and spoke to the folks over at Antarctic Press who, oh, this was great. I saw this publishers of diesel diesel.

The Jojo. Jojo part nine diesel diesel, the thing that Iraqi ripped off Jojo and he, and he goes to them. He says, you know, what's up with that? Yeah. And the funny thing is, like, I actually know about Antarctic Press like for a while, but I didn't realize it was their logo on that. And he caught on and went to go figure out and go went to go ask.

And so basically, you know, after like kind of elbowing the dude scene, you would meet at conventions and talk and talking to them. He got the story behind how Jo Chen Welchens, the creator, basically got a copy of the Jojo OVAs. And like because he was so blown away by it and like impressed, he knew that it would never have a chance of coming over here ever. And then he would never, they never be able to get the localization or publishing deals for it.

So his deal was, fuck it, I'm just going to do an American comic version because that's what I have access to. He's kind of a hero in a way because he thought he was the only one that was actually localizing it. But you're still kind of a piece of shit because you're like, not mine, though. And like, and like this is like, you can spin the story to be like, it was actually about Jojo Awareness. It's actually a homage piece, but I don't completely buy that.

And so I'm like, someone in there, especially when the end of that post is like, so what happened to the guy who wrote that stuff? Oh, he basically runs the company. Yes. He basically, he's now editor in chief and he's a colorist for Marvel as well. But yeah, it's just like, according to them, the reason why this happened was because like he thought the world would never know about Jojo and he had a responsibility. The best intentions.

If you're having trouble advancing in your job, just steal someone else's work, especially if you don't think it works for Gene Simmons, especially if it's the work of like a foreigner who doesn't even know who you exist. Music from another country. Just steal that shit. Victimless crime. Yeah. Foreigners don't have victim.

What? Okay. No, let's, let's roll that back. There's a Harvey Bergman episode about like taking Japanese songs and just making them English and putting them out there for the pop charts. And then we got the waterfall of trailers. Yeah, today specifically. Since there's going to be the least to say about it, conversationally, I just want to

get hype personally that Super Robot Wars V is actually getting an English version. Like congrats on you, you'll lose tons of money, but you're doing it. They congrats. They're not releasing it in America. Oh, wait, they're just releasing English version in Asia. You totally don't lose money there. At all. Yeah.

Hey, whatever. Fuck it. It's English. They know that there's some folks that want and care. So why not? Okay. I thought it was like, cause I just saw the headline. I was like, wow.

No. And the reason like that is almost like a fucking like never going to happen thing because of the licensing nightmare, right? Unless it's an OG game, which also was announced, unless it's an OG game where they have nothing but original robots. And if a developer in America should make a game called mega Android fights and just kind of localize it that way, so people can enjoy it and Arctic press. What the fuck are you getting on?

This is the redangallion. So yeah, we got that coming out for Vita and yeah, well, there's no trailer for it yet, but there's nine minute trailer. No, no, I'm talking about something else. There's no trailer for it yet, but there is a goddamn like Berserk Mousseau game coming. Oh, the most evil Mousseau game. Yeah. No.

Yeah. The most. The most evil Mousseau game by Omega force. Yeah. No. So they just said it was the most evil. Yeah. Yeah.

The coloring is similar to the new Berserk anime is like ads and shit, but did you see a behelit somewhere? No. Did you see a brand? Anime. Did you hear forces? What would it be other than Berserk Wally? Not Berserk.

Why would they describe it as the most evil of Mousseau games? Because Griffith's in it, but you're not evil if your guts. Yeah, you're great. You're you. What? Like what? Where is this coming from? It's just colors.

Yeah. That's all you have to go on. The quote. Lots of things are red and black. Yeah. But isn't Lou Boo's color scheme red and black? I know. It's just a quote with like an image.

Okay. Anyway, so you're going to feel really dumb when it turns out to be Berserk. Like Pat, I mean, not about Pat and Matt, like you're scrolling like freak like feverishly, but let's like there's there's nothing there. It's a teaser picture. That's just text. He's crazy. There's nothing relating to Berserk associated with it, except the fact that it's totally

going to be a Berserk Mousseau game. Okay. Matt's dead for the rest of the time. Yeah, I know. Because your article says this is it's going to be a Lou Boo standalone game. Shut up. Why are you? Why are you?

Are you not hearing me telling you that that's a hook fish bait? No, I don't care, though. Oh my God. No. No. Did you hear about this floating city over China? No. That didn't happen.

Here's a picture of it. No. No. No. No. So anyway, we got some E3 trailers nice and early. Yes. Which is kind of absurd because it's way in front of E3.

Like, yeah. It's like a week earlier than usual. Well, we didn't used to get them before E3 at all. Yeah, for sure. For sure. But got to get out in front of the pack. Yeah. So cutting, standing out in front of the pack is ukulele.

Oh God. It's such a fucking, you know what? I appreciate any trailer that always takes jabs at their previous work, like going, man. Where's the brown level? Where's the shitty driving sections, nuts and bolts, so fucking good. Plus, those last couple of areas they show in the trailer look so fucking gorgeous. It looks really fun. That giant moon, like holy crap.

Kind of looks like what a lot of early access games want to be, but don't do. These base level Unity assets just aren't cutting it. Yeah. Really glad they showed some like 2D, like mine cart sections. It just like, from the first initial videos where it just looked kind of barren and there was just another one area, you just see how much progress they made in like a year and some change. Like it looks so fucking good.

And there's nothing more classic than like character on top of other character in Monkey Ball kind of like balancing mode. It's such a fucking video, like that's a video game, man. I said, I'm not looking good. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that it's now been pushed from October till next year, but if the trailer didn't look that good, then no shortage of games to play between now and then. I just, I just kind of, I just want to play it, you know, unfortunately that toy box thing,

that toy box demo that they have for it is going to be released to like, I think backers in July. So that that's cool. Cool. We've got the announcement of Final Fantasy 12, the Zodiac Age. Yeah. This, this was like known like, I want to say like three years. Like Robert for a while, like listing leakouts kind of thing like a million years ago.

I kept thinking like, like, oh, surely like every year, like, oh, surely they must announce it. Nope. But now it's coming all of a sudden. And it's the good version of 12 Zodiac. So that says that says HD as those assets are going to get that's as HD as they're going to get. That's the best.

Luckily that that art style looks really, really good up as like FF 12 for the longest time was like, Hey, you got your PS2 emulator kicking ass. And it's one of those games that ran at HD, right on the PS2. No, I think it did. No, there's like two or three games on the PS2 that ran at HD. I think it was one of them. Grant to Rismo, that jackass game. Yeah.

That jackass game. Are they crazy? You're fucking nuts. Anyway, I'm looking forward to that just because I never finished Final Fantasy 12, but I liked it a lot when I was playing it. And we're all searching. I hate that game. Why?

It sucks. You hate Star Wars? I, I, I hate a story that refuses to be anything but Star Wars and I really don't like the battle system. I think the battle system is totally. I really, I really do need to play it because there's characters that look like my type of people in it. But I, well, here's what I like because I like the idea of the judges.

I like the idea of being an Iveless. I like the idea of, uh, yeah, both here and friend. I like, um, I like Han Solo and Chewie better though. Yeah. I don't know what I'm, I don't know the details, but from a, Gran Turismo for Jack asked the game. So I got those two right. But like, I'm, I'm assuming like Van would have ruined it for you.

Vaughn is the worst. He's a focused, tested piece of shit. And if he wasn't added in by the, the game would be better without him and him and Penelope can just go, there's, there's no loss. Someone predicted you'd say that. Oh really? Yeah. Penelophanosy 12, uh, ran in 16 by nine as an optional display mode.

That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Okay. And what's the other one? Tourist trophy. Sure. Okay. We're done.

And Valkyrie profile to Cimmeralia. Those are the four games. I love that. That Jackass game is in there. That's great. I had my component cable back there. Look, made them look way better. Like, no, like, whoa.

Yeah. I couldn't believe it. Even at, even at like 480i. Yeah. That, uh, uh, same thing for like a Dreamcast. Go get that VGA plug. The massive clarity increase from like S video is stupid. But if you get to see that Cactar cutscene in HD, yeah.

Oh man. Can recreate that fucking fan video even better now. Totally do it. Totally do it. I'm very excited. Mocking us. Definitive edition. It's, it's because of the way they flail their arms and shake their asses.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fucking Cactar. Which is not what I imagined that. The wiggle of Judas. The swastika shaped Cactuar right. I think you've discovered like the hidden truth. You've unlocked the Cactar's dark secret. Uh, we've got a, the new trailer for Horizon Zero Dawn.

Well, what a, that's a fucking trailer. That's a lot of plot. Probably a bit too much plot. Actually. They've so, but it does get your brain sort of like spinning and like, okay, so what is the setting? What is the world? What is, they've said it before it's the post post apocalypse.

Yes. Like it is way, way after the problem happened and then like people got past the age of the fall. Yeah. I really, really wish it's slave never existed. Yes. To make this game more special. Yes.

If I never played it, then does that, yeah, no, it still exists. I don't know anything about it. You saw a single screenshot one time. No. All I know is that Andy circus is involved. I know nothing about enslaved. Well, it's another failure. No.

I'm not going to look. I'm not going to look. It's another failure for Ninja theory. So, so what I want to know is like the biggest, the most, the most curious thing I have is the fact that's like, who programmed the machines to act like animals? Yeah. Look at the evolve. I'm not looking.

Fucking look. I'm not looking. Fucking look. I'm not. I know what the box logo looks like, but I don't know any art. I don't know anything else. What's the problem with a trailer like this? Send woolly pictures of enslaved on Twitter.

Oh, fine. It's slaved and slippy. The problem with a trailer like this, and I guess the ultimate goal is like, whatever shocking truth, you're clearly setting up to be a big bomb. Better be a shocking truth now and better fucking blow me away because that's it was earth all along. Yeah. Yeah.

So that's the thing is every Gundam I see from turn A to D. Double Z. You'll never make a Gundam. You'll never make a Space Noid out of me. All right. Speaking of Space Noids, all the enemies in this look like Zoids as well, even closer comparison. I want toys to them.

Yeah. Yeah. I think I think of the setting looks fun to me. Yeah. The setting looks great. I was I was like on board the instant I saw that bit where she's like shooting the underside of that dinosaur with a fucking bow and arrow. It looked great.

Fucking robot. Robo Elks, man. Yeah. Fuck you. What is lithium city? I don't know. Like Matt was talking about it like right before he came over here. Fuck you.

Isometrical. Isometric. You should not watch a trailer. I did. I did not see it. There's also a six minute gameplay demo of a guy doing it and it's the most intense. Like, yeah, it's I guess mirrors edge or Tron aesthetic and music with. Yeah.

I wouldn't throw mirrors edge in there. I throw Tron Tron in there. I just mean like clean art style. Glowing neon colors and like just really tactical fast isometric shooting with a dash and just I watched a six minute trailer of just the gameplay and it's just really, really intense as floor after floor. Increasingly harder enemy types and level layouts just with awesome. From the YouTube preview thumbnail that I was just able to see the art style looks really

cool. Yeah. It's the trailer with the music to the beat of the gameplay was fucking sick. It reminded me a little bit of a super giant game in some ways. A little bit. Yeah. It looks cool. It looks cool.

Nice. What you didn't see in the trailer is full melee combat too because you start off every level with no weapons and they say in the introductory level procure all weapons on site. So you always start with no weapons when you go into a mission and have to use these really sick looking melee combos to get a guy's gun away from a robot's gun away from them and then you arm yourself up progressively more as you go floor by floor. Yeah.

Really, really ask people to check out the trailer if that sounds interesting. I think they probably need to because like when I clicked on it, it was like you're like number like 104. Yeah. So very, very indie games released the the account that put up the trailer is just the guy's name. Sure. Oh, that's always good.

Yeah. Find his old Mugen like demo test. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, might be cool category. Put that tag on it.

Put that little asterisk. We got another trailer for Cosmic Star Heroin. We talked about this a while ago, but it's the newest Z Boyd game. Yeah. And yeah, now we get to see a bit more of it going on and a little bit more of the Chrono Triggering happening. We've been working on this thing for a long time. The RPG is happening a while compared to Rain Slick 3 and Cthulhu, the world and all

his other games. This is the one that definitely they seem to be putting way more time and work. And you can see it. You can see it. Absolutely. There's and there's way more art happening like the earlier games would be on par with like a Final Fantasy one or like an older Dragon Quest, whereas this one seems to be really going like not Chrono Trigger.

It's like that's a fucking step. Yep. And yeah, don't check out the trailer, man. We have the fucking balls to just like compare stuff to Chrono Trigger. Well, a lot of them. Did they do that? No. No.

They say fantasy stars. They're made inspiration. Okay. A bunch of people like go for Chrono Trigger stuff though, like or have done over the years, I should say. There was that one game that like it was on DS that like was made here in Montreal. I keep forgetting its name. Black Sigil.

I think it was Black Sigil. Yeah. Yeah. They literally put part of the preview coverage for that game was like developers keep saying they want to make another Chrono Trigger and do the grass on the fucking ground is Chrono Trigger grass like the closest I could think of of that generation to that would be like Radiant Historia. It's not as good as Chrono Trigger, but it's pretty cool and it's about time travel.

Oh, God. And there's that new, um, the new RPG as well from, um, was it Tokyo RPG factory that was doing the Chrono Trigger looking type thing? I don't remember. Don't remember. Liam would know. God damn it. Anyway.

Uh, so speaking of Liam, we've got the sequel to Akiba Strip announced Akiba's beat. And it looks like the pun doesn't work. It doesn't really. So they're out. I think I don't think there is a pun. Well, Akiba Strip is like I know your trip to Akiba, but it's also an Akiba Strip. But I don't think there's a pun intended for this one. Yeah.

Akiba. Akiba Strip. Akiba Strip. I only just beat people. Yeah. So well, here's what it is. You watch the trailer for it and it's like the kids running around Akihaburai again. But now there's like weird like, like speakers and like creepy looking like visuals and weird

VR things attached to buildings and it's all weird. And then it just cuts to straight up Persona 3 style battle system dungeon crawling gameplay. So it looks like they're going right into full on RPG like adventures. All right, then. And it's not what I expected from where the vampire still take their clothes off. I have no idea. I don't know. Does it look like they're like they're vampires though?

I don't know what I was looking at. I wanted to strip them. Yeah. And beat them then. It's the sequel to stripping is stupidest game. Oh, yeah. If you've been there, it's cool to watch the whole place and you can only do that so many times.

You can wears off very quick. I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does. So having another we've got to reuse those extra assets. There's only so many super potatoes you can go into in a digital game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Alison Rhodes canceled. I've seen the same joke about a dozen times and that is the first comment to every story about this. Yeah. It's like, I guess they took that P.T. P.T. Seriously. I echo people's sentiments where I absolutely want this to be because of Konami just because

it would be a drama. Yeah. Just fuel it more. Yeah. But I'm sadly assuming it's not. Now I got initially really pissed at this because like, well, what about everyone's money? I'm like, oh, wait, they already refunded that because they got a publisher to pick them up.

So they refunded everyone's money. Well, that's totally fine. Kickstarter. Yeah. Because Team 17, since they're a UK project, picked it up. I really like, because I was really, really interested in this game just because people say, you know, P.T., but it was more than that. It was like, you're in an entire house and they're going to add an outside foresty section.

It was like clearly P.T.'s inspiration. It was going to be cool. It really looked like it was going to be a thing and I had spoken to the developer once or twice before about like, do you have a demo? Like, maybe we could play it for you if you want or whatever because we're interested. You know, we have this dumb shitstorm thing and he's like, yes, it's not quite ready yet. We're like, okay, well, whatever. Don't worry.

We just actually invented the game just to cheat on our taxes. So it's not going to be real. We're going to cancel it. I hope it's not something like that. I seriously doubt I just have fun doing that. Allison Road cancelled because Kojima's hiring everybody. Yay. Oh, it's not true.

We don't know the details actually. We'll find out probably after this podcast goes live. Whatever the band was that wrote that song was like, no, you can't call it that. Or that dead band. Our Ludens just didn't want it to happen. But yeah, that's that's a bummer. But we don't know why yet. And like the guys Twitter said, it's supposed to be a thing soon.

We'll find out. Oh, really? Because whenever that happens nowadays, I'm just like, yep, never going to find out why. No, no, no. The tweet specifically said like more details. Sorry. Press release or whatever. It's being turned into the next mass effect.

I don't know. I don't like it. Oh, by the way, well, you saw this, right? John Boyega takes the lead role as Idris Elba's son in Pacific Room 2. That's good. That's what he was tweeting about, or he's like, news from the breach coming soon. Not only is that awesome, the coolest thing ever, but that's perfect casting. John Boyega, like the new new sci-fi hotness, I suppose.

I guess. Attack the block, Star Wars, now you're a superstar. Oh, fuck, it was totally him and Attack the Block 2. That's where he came from. Yeah, geez. That's where he came from. Oh, Moses is going places. Yeah.

It's like the whole cast unknowns thing. If you're like, only works for that one movie. Only works once, man. You can't not be huge after. So that's fucking cool. I like that. Aiding Christensen didn't get huge. No.

Because it was a lot smaller. Well, the prequel movies didn't launch anyone's careers. No. In fact, they killed quite a few. In fact, Natalie Portman said it really damaged my career greatly. Yeah, and Count Dooku was like, I need to go back to being a vampire or some shit, and then you die. I'm a vampire, Ed.

Portman had to go do some creepy ballerina shit to get back on track. Make out with Thor. Just a little bit. That's correct. Yeah. And people will push her out of the way and say, no, Cat Dennings. Sorry. I can't hear you over Cat Dennings in this movie.

Natalie Portman not being in Thor 3 is the best. The best news. It's more Cat Dennings. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Well, I really got. See, usually we would, usually we would continue like blah, blah, blah with Liam as

well. He like goes through the list. Yeah. That's fine. It's fine. Hey, Willie, how do you keep all these in your head like that? Yeah. It's really crazy.

Good job knocking over your mic stand. Hold on a second. I'll fix it for you. Which way is the thing facing? I'll fucking fix it. Just stare at the door. All right. Well, while you do that, we can talk about how the Batman Telltale series.

Oh. Batman. Batman. Telltale series. Batman, the Telltale series, is going to premiere this summer and the Walking Dead season three. Wait, premieres it come out? Yeah.

Cool. All right. And then the Walking Dead season three will premiere this fall. Okay. So they're both coming this year. I'm really interested in the Batman one because it's like that's awful. How awful slash how could cool could that actually be? All right.

Here's the deal. This is wild. I don't want to play as Batman in this game. Yep. I want to play as Alfred. I want to play as literally any one of them Batman, but also not Robin or Batgirl like that's cheating. No, no, no, no.

Now, of course, Paul Markey would say, yeah, that'll put butts in the seats. I want to play as a beat cop, Gordon, not necessarily Gordon, but Gordon's great too. But like a detective, like anyone that's normal, if you're Gordon, you get the connection. You know, it's weird that they did do that. What you're kind of asking with all those weird, dumb Batman spinoff games like Gotham City Imposters where you're not allowed to play as Batman, but just jobbers dressed up as Batman. Yep.

But that was like, this may be also the TV show Gotham. This may be a little harsh, but I think that Gotham City Imposters art and general premise is vile. I feel like it's been a while since I've been turned off by something so hard. As someone who has to stare at it at work, I can concur. It's way worse. It's amazing. It's fucking ghetto.

One of the only games I could ever look at was like, I'd rather it just be a brown military shooter instead of this colorful, goofy thing. Fucking stupid. That's what you get when Paul Martin goes, well, then, okay, you're not Batman. How about this? You know, it bums me out, man. The fact that I don't care about what Clementine is up to. I don't really either.

That really, really bums me out. And you never even, did you ever even beat Season 2? Me? Yeah. I played them all, dude. I don't remember. You haven't talked about it. Because what is there to say?

Yeah, that's true. It's really amazing to me how the game has completely recreated the success of the TV show all the way down to the second season being terrible. Down to the second season and the drop off and the, oh, these characters that I once cared for, meh. Maybe like in Season 3 of Walking Dead, where apparently we get the dictatorship at the prison, we will get the Clementine dictatorship, where you have to lord over all the stupid survivors in a mall or some shit.

I wonder if they're too big to ever revisit fables. I don't know. They're too big. Hmm. Well, that story did end. Marvel is coming now to... That story did end in that thing. You could, you could...

There were, there were loose ends. There were loose ends. Sure, but not enough. But also the world of fables. When's my, when's my, when's my Watchman text adventure game? Well, it's what we got. Alright. Good.

You're thinking about it, aren't you? That could work. Yeah. But it won't. But it won't. No. That would be really bad. But it actually could.

It could. It plays Adrian? Uh, I'm pretty sure that Watchman was already given huge justice by the willy-approved Watchman. The end is nigh, beat him up games. Say what you will, the lighting in that game is pretty. Yeah, the lighting in it is great. Awesome. There's a venom just shooting off your mouth there.

Dead Rising 4 poster and gameplay images potentially leaked. Fucking whoops. Potentially, even though we're staring at it. That looks super legit. I'm kind of sad that Capcom Vancouver has not been able to make one single goddamn thing outside Dead Rising. I'm also really sad about that. It seems like that's, it's a good group with like a good group, like a good engine.

But that's the problem. And like the games are getting worse every time. Can we, can we crowdfund a bigger version? A version of HD plus Ultra Super Turbo? Yes. That was the, that was their best one. Don't do this. That was an arcade game for the whole.

That is my favorite Dead Rising game. You're right. And my second favorite Dead Rising game is Case Zero. Yeah. So what do you want me to tell you? I don't know what you want me to tell you. That's the exact amount of Dead Rising I want in my life. That being said, like, you know, it's, it's, it has been a while.

So whatever they have for Dead Rising 4, hopefully it's, you know, big, nice, polished thing. That's not, not as what Pat would call, not at all an embarrassing slog. Yeah. That one boss fight, that was like, so where I was playing it, you're like, you suck at this Matt. Then you play it. You're like, oh wait, no.

Yeah. You suck, I guess. But also this is one of the worst boss fights I've ever done. Anyway. So another Capcom news. And this is something that is like, we hate to get into dumb fucking like, no, we don't. But no, like, like actual barely news personal things that like, you know, happen to people and stuff in this way.

No, we don't. But it's, this is related in general, the, the whole Noel Brown thing. What? Did you catch this? No. Okay. So Noel Brown. So, okay.

Before, before you continue, let's reiterate that last week, Capcom put out a statement asking that the FGC and its events, please refrain from assorted thuggery, thuggery no longer allowed. So that's the context that I wanted. My no thuggery shirt is already on the way. And we were like, man, but the FGC needs thuggery. The FGC's been thuggery, right? And then they got that thug in love.

But yeah, so you got, so, and for backstory, I guess, you know, is Noel Brown's a top player that, like Justin Wong's best friend, basically, and he's, he's, he's, he bopped me at a Marvel tournament a while ago. He has been a top player for a while and like he tends to get in the news over really bad things. If you Google Noel Brown, you get some like employment damaging results. The thing though is that there's almost always a, another side of the story when you get into it and it's all, but it's like, it doesn't, several times.

So the first one is like, like Noel Brown, bionic arms, a dude at a tournament for nothing. Well, but what turns out to be because his dead mom was being insulted or something along those lines. You know, and like other things where it's like, uh, allegations of domestic abuse, right? Which turn, it's like, uh, was fighting with person that might have been cheating and then she got in the way or something. I don't know. Whatever.

It's like, that's not what the, like that's not up to us or anyone that is actually not there. That's up for a court. Exactly. But like that's still considering the first event, that second event takes on a different tone. Unfortunately. Right.

And then the third event being like, just grab ass and randos on camera. So that's what the story becomes and then behind the scenes, quote unquote, it's not a rando. It's a friend. It's a girlfriend of a friend of his and he did it because the day before she did it to him. So haha, we were playing game, but what happens is, is you're on camera at a tournament and you grab ass and cap, and the person, the person looks back at you and like, in like,

what is clearly like, what the fuck? And then like, you get, and then they walk, like, on the step in and then a nose band from CP on, on the basis level, on the basis level, I'm going to remove all intent, all all effect, all like whatever. How could you be so fucking stupid as to think that the camera just turns off as soon as the guy walks off stage, just put out a thing, just put out a thing, but so so straight up. It's like time to make an example because we just put the rules out and this is a legitimate scandal.

We headed basically a live fucking game of throne style. So banned from CPT, dropped by sponsors, and banned from Evo as well. So yeah. Like even going or participating? Well, you can't, I don't think you can stop someone from showing up. From participating. That's the best you can probably do, you know, I mean, well then you can keep someone off your private, your event grounds if you want.

This was inevitable and regardless of like, I don't mean with Noel Brown, no, I mean that somebody was going to get crucified, you know, if they let show their series, if they let Harris back in the building, I'm sure he'd be the fucking left for right. Someone was going to get crucified. And when you look at the situation, regardless of whether or not this man is an actual piece of shit or just a hilarious Malcolm, an unfortunate circumstance person, right? Just like everything just happens to go wrong. Like when you look at the spree, when you Google this man's name and you like, oh, there's

a scandal. Okay. Capcom man. Well, who is this guy? That's a tax people at allocations of domestic abuse, three scandals. It's like, well, this is the easiest decision I've ever made as PR man or whatever. And it's just like, and then you go in, it's like the pushback is like by like leaking texts and things.

So that's why I'm just like, it's people's personal lives and it's not worth really podcast discussion. But it's just like, this is one of those things where you're like, God damn man, God damn it. This range is from unfortunate to understandable on Capcom's part to totally justified and good riddance. Right? Like that's the scale we're dealing with. You're going to get martyred, dude.

You're going to get martyred. Like there's no way that wasn't going to happen. And you had multiple chances to not get martyred by not having scandals and attacking people. Like the other one, like the, the, the one where he grabs the girl's butt, like that's bad and it can be explained away if everybody talks about it or whatever. But uh, and the, the one with the head pizza, then up, yeah, whatever, right? And maybe he's just an asshole, but everyone's like, oh, you're not like whatever. Everybody has their different relationships with their friends or what have you, right?

And maybe like, maybe those allegations of domestic abuse were completely manufactured or maybe they're not. Who knows? Like that's bad, right? That's a really fucking bad one though. Uh, but nothing's going to undo the footage of you attacking a guy at an event. You're never going to wipe that one off your fucking history. Yeah.

And like even aside from everything, like if that's there, like eventually that's going to, like get them there when they, when they try and just clean it up, it's like, who is responsible for crimes? Who talks about doing crimes on, on street and who's high right now? I mean, that's the thing is like, like, that's why it's like, you know, like, it's like, you know, dead mom in the situation. That doesn't make it. Makes it ununderstandable, but not okay, you know, you know, it's like fucking Tommy

was so coming into Evo just goes and saying straight to the camera, I did not hit her. I did not. Oh, was that a thing? Oh, that's, that's, that's from the room. Okay. But who walks into an area and proclaims, I did not do that crime in front of a camera. So, uh, yeah, I never stole nothing from that bank. Yeah.

Exactly. Never. So yeah. Cap cops are serious. Also the timing of like immediately after they put that fucking statement out, like, this cannot be tolerated within that, because if they did nothing or if they gave them one, they would like, like that whole scene would look like a fucking joke from like a moderation perspective.

No, of course. And like there's, I mean, whatever, without like elaborate, there's like definitely like backroom talks that occur. Well, of course. And then an act is made. Yeah. I imagine they went to the GC Dawn or whoever the fuck and said, we really want to crucify this guy.

And they're like, you know what? Okay. And then this other guy, Noel Brown is in putting butts in seats. Yeah. Yeah. Daigo's working for Twitch. And you know what? You know what?

Just like Daigo helps old people. Yeah. Get into bed. Yeah. No old punches about that man at like, like, you know, there's your sports heroes or whatever and like you're always terrified. Like, uh-oh, what if you find out they beat their significant other or they're a fucking freakazoid or they fuck dogs or something.

And like, he works the elderly, like he's free and clear forever. He could kill a hundred people. I don't even care. Or like taking care of old people's noble God, low tier God versus viscant thing. And that's so good. And I was like, dude, I care. I, I, I, I'm a charity worker. Like straight, like straight.

You have what do you do in your spare time? Low tier God. You have less than that. You talk shit on the internet. Wow. No one's ever done that. Um, a new technique. Low tier God.

Fucking top tier. What the fuck is that? Yeah. Dude, it's the best gimmick. All you need is to, to like, to understand the way the FGC proper feels is you have to go back, watch that clip and watch K Brad's face as he's cheering on low tier God's good bullshit. And he's just like, uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. He's hype manning it. Cause that's what you have to do. Cause it's, you have to buy in. It's the best. Um, so, uh, and, uh, well, whatever.

Yep. But, um, there's other new announcements. Well, there is an overwatch, uh, thing that has to do with, uh, moderation. Do you have that on the docket? No. Cause I would love to talk about it. No. So there's a PC gamer article called, uh, overwatch cheaters are having a hard time.

And before the game came out, uh, Blizzard announced, Hey, by the way, guys, we are going to ban you if we find you cheating. Yeah. We're not going to fuck. We talked about that all the time. Yeah. Oh, you talk about the update. Yes.

Yeah. Like we're not going to push the foot around. No warning. So overwatch has come out and it's been out for a couple of weeks and boy, are they serious about this shit. They're banning people down to their hardware IDs. You there is no, not make a new, uh, account or it's like pervadev IP change or anything. There was a guy who bought a new copy and then went in, changed his MAC address, his

bio start date, his IP, no, I will cheat. He went through a VPN and like within a day, the servers figured it out and ban and reban him again. God damn it. You can't stop the amount of the amount of work that goes into this is so absurd. No. Fuck you. It's like, it's like, it's the only way for him to get off is the only motivation I can

see. Like, what? What? I will buy a new rig. It is the only way to get around it is a new piece of hardware in your machine, which is like also, also far beyond like he's a move. Yeah. Yeah.

Find a new IP. Oh, I'll move. If I can cheat, I will move. Become someone else. I will steal an identity. It's like, did you hear about that, that massive wave of counter strike bands that went over off on valve? They got like thousands and thousands of people.

It was, it was, I'm stealing this from a giant bomb cast from a couple of weeks ago. So William surprised you haven't heard it, but basically the, the creator of this very popular aim bot that had never been able to be tracked down or cracked or what happened. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He accidentally let like his GitHub fucking account last and it turned the account public and somebody sent the source code for the fucking thing over to valve and then they put it into their machine and that's how they found it and just got everybody, including some people that had like tens of thousands of dollars worth of hats.

Yeah, they fucking wiped it just like cheaters losing money on games like makes me so happy. That's divine. Yeah. No, that's like, like tongue hanging out of my mouth. It's, oh, you're, oh, you're losing, you're using, like, I want, I want like a PS4 or an Xbox to have like some form of hardware detection that's like, oh, you're using a lag switch and then it like melts part of the motherboard and it just dies. Yeah, no, like, sure, you get no rights.

You get nothing. You lose good days. Like not only are you gone from my experience, you are out of pocket significantly in some cases. You, you're signing a ULA that explicitly states that all your shit is void. If you cheat, mother fucker, there's a certain nobility, though, and wanted to cheat so bad. It's the mentality of I'll cheat, I'll die, I'll cheat again. Right.

Right. Well, the game's no fun unless I'm cheating. I mean, why would you even play video games? What does bands may never be bad again? They dunk them into this, this cheat water, the band god. We worship the band god. What they cheat. They never cheat again.

What is bands may never be bad again. Yeah. We're from the cheating island. Right. Yeah. We're the great cheats. It's just a nobility to their cheats. Our noble house.

Fucking love cheating. I love it. I can't get enough. Oh, man. I look for the new cheats every day. Oh, God. Okay. And if you like, you get, you get like in an arranged marriage and the like, you better

cheat on her. No. You have to uphold our tradition if you're not cheating. You're losing. Yeah. So we got the infinite warfare is not doing great in terms of press and pre-order. Yes. What's infinite warfare?

Call of duty. Oh. What's that? Yeah. I know. Man, you know what they should really do? Over what? I'm stealing.

I'm stealing a joke from a friend of mine, but he said they should make a fishman skin for soldiers 76 and call him cod man. Oh, oh, that's it's super good. Shut up. That's fine. That's fine. So yeah, basically it's not looking great because for the first time ever, the pre-orders are all time low and how low you ask 33,000 copies on PS4 and 31,000 on Xbox one.

What? And wait, no. Where are you getting that data? Let me pull it up. But yeah. But yeah. The escapist. Oh, that's okay.

That's probably real. Okay. I kind of don't. Where are they pulling that data? Okay. So we got, yeah, and that's the comparison to Black Ops 3, which was, of course, 287 for PS4, K, and 423K for Xbox one. Could that battlefield trailer like beating its ass and the likes to say, well, actually

the indicative of like a greater trend? That's the... The Warfare's debut was before that, right? Yeah, but they were very, very close to that. These are the pre-order numbers. Very close. But remember the Call of Duty trailer was like the most disliked trailer in like whatever history it is.

Yeah, but that was, it became that after the battlefield. Oh yeah, okay. And the battlefield one trailer is the most liked video in the two pages. Really? Yes. What is all this? More than 1.8 million. More than Star Wars episode seven.

Oh, that's weird. So that's the thing is like the Seasaw, like it was bad before, but when that happened, the Seasaw shot so hard the opposite way that like people went back to that trailer and disliked it in order to like the battlefield one. Okay. It's like arguing with a guy and read it and you go to all those fucking posts and just downvote them, but in Call of Duty land. Now if Blizzard would want to fire back, they would release the official porn of Overwatch

trailer. Oh, they're shutting everything down because they're making an official art book. Well, that's what we assume. It has to be the case after all. You know, you got to protect your copyrights. You got to protect your copyrights over porn. And they're doing a really bad job of getting that porn porn watch. Yeah, I'm not having any problems getting it.

I mean, it's like the first trailer, the first thing we ever saw of the game was like these two kids wandering through a museum. It's like they set and told us who they're aiming for. Right there. And the world is like, nah, fuck that. I got asses to watch. Have you played as Torbjorn on a team with a widow and run out of spawn behind her? Oh God, I can only imagine.

Her asshole is like slapping you in the fucking face. I can only imagine. Like they were jerking off while they were modeling that. Nothing escapes my asshole. That's like a Zarya quote because of the suction. Sure. I will break you. Nothing escapes my sight.

Okay. This is a suction because it's suction. Welcome to your new Overwatch character. It's a sniper named Rosebud. What else we got? We got the Agents of Mayhem official cinematic announcement. Wow. What a useless trailer.

No gameplay in sight. Okay. I'm moving on. But why does that woman in the Saints Row headquarters? Why? I don't know. She's the head of the Saints in this trailer. What is this game?

But I hope the art style looks like that. I hope it does look like Overwatch. Because you know what? Because there's going to be a lot of fucking games. Well, here's the thing, right? Also, fuse before fuse, right? Over strike looks so much like when you go back. It's really not.

But that's the thing is even that was not a gameplay trailer, but everyone was still like, yeah, okay, this looks fun, right? So that's what I'm saying here, Agents of Mayhem, give it the benefit of the doubt. Yeah. Maybe we're going to get something that keeps up to this. Then it'll turn into fuse. Then it'll turn into fuse. I like volition a lot and I was watching this, so I was like, I look at these characters

and I'm like, wow, it sucks because it's like, you look at it, you're like, all these characters are real shit compared to the army of waifus and husband. You know what I mean? It's like, when you have this art style, it's like, you have to be better than them. But we don't even know what the genre is, you know what I mean? So like, I don't even want to make a direct comparison right away. It looks like it looks like a one player. Man, look at this sick pixel art of Pharah.

Yeah, I just retweeted that literally. Oh, really pretty. This is fucking dope. Wait, is that you that retweeted that? I just retweeted that. Is that why that's all my Matt McGagher? I'm going to retweet it. There you go.

And lastly, we can get into it, but we don't have to because we're going to have enough to say definitely. Is there about Overwatch? The lineups. It's about the E3 lineups that are. Man, if people get sick of the fighting game talk, Overwatch talk is going to get fucking real bad. It's going to get bad.

So every week when we're like, what's on the watch? It's just like, what's on the overwatch? Underlook. Yeah. No, we just fucked the red team. Fuck them. You come out. But wait, Reaper, don't you hate Overwatch?

Oh yeah, I totally hate Overwatch. But I hate the red team more. I hate losing more. Yeah, that's it. I am a virgin because I never lost. Yeah, that's the good one. That's the good one. I like that one a lot.

That's why Reaper's amazing. That's when you sell the edge lord idea. I want my Doomfist so bad. Oh yeah, I know, right? And Sombra. You go back through that old concept art, man. There are like 15 characters that did not make it into this game that are all A plus. They're all right there.

But Doomfist seems like the most obvious one because they're right there. Athena as well. Yeah, Athena's there and Sombra. They all look fucking awesome. It's like in the trailer where you just see all the artworks of them standing there. I hope they release a big art book of Overwatch. Sombra seems like it'll be the most obvious pick because her gameplay is also known. She's a support sniper.

There's also the movie star from the posters there with the cool VR glasses in the mech. She's basically looking like not quite D.Va, but anyway, whatever. Wait, are you serious? That's D.Va in those posters. In the Hollywood level? But she has different... That's D.Va, dude. Okay.

D.Va's a programmer, turned everything. Yeah, but the mech that's standing next to her looks like a Pat LeBur mech. Yeah, but it can be different. It can be. She's a multimedia star. It can be. And Lucio is a famous musician. So, I thought that his hockey skins were just for visual variety.

And then in a goddamn map, I heard him talking about how he likes hockey. Now I'm on board with you, Woolly, a fucking Brazilian black guy that's in a hockey. Fuck off, there's no ice in that country. There is no ice in that country. That is absurd. That's fucking dumb, that's funny. So the Ubisoft E3 lineup is as follows. Okay.

Did you see that fucking Ubisoft downgrade video? I clicked on it and I was like, I don't care. Dude, that thing is amazing. I started to watch it and then I was like, it's just a reminder of all the downgrades. It's a breakdown of nearly every game Ubisoft has shown off in the past like five years and what they came out and looked like. The Rainbow Six Siege one is like the most embarrassing. I clicked on it and it was like, time to get out, Ridge.

I was like, no, I don't care. No, it's not time to get out. It's fascinating. I just closed it. It's totally fascinating. It's the video game equivalent of looking at the McDonald's menu like photo of a fucking Big Mac and then looking at your own Big Mac and remembering all the times they fooled you with shitty looking Big Mac.

Sure, but like, you know, food, if you eat it, it'll taste just as good as the food in the picture because the food in the picture doesn't really exist. It was like for a game. It's like... Yeah, like Watch Dogs? Well, Watch Dogs is like, yeah, the case, but like Rainbow Six Siege, like I know a bunch of people that play it. They're like, it's fantastic.

Yeah, they're all hassling me to play it. I was like, no. I don't care about it, but like everyone's like, it plays good, but yeah. Funny Farts kept trying to butt in Fart all over me. Eagle Flight, the VR demo. For Honor on everything. I always forget that For Honor exists. For Honor was a lot of fun when we played it.

That's crazy. I think about For Honor every couple of days. Yeah, you're just like, man, For Honor's going to show up and that'll be my other weird multiplayer melee game. Yeah, I'm really like, if there was another melee class in Overwatch. I burned out on Chivalry and Life For Honor is going to scratch that identical itch of just like fucking mean ass, grungy, European garbage combat. Ghost Recon Wildlands and South Park, the fractured but whole.

Yeah, somebody's been playing Dark Souls. God, Souls like fucking South Park. It's actually the game involving the superhero alternate personas. Yeah. Is it written by Obsidian? I don't know. I'm assuming so. Probably.

Yeah, I'm glad it's like, you know, I watched that video about like a canceled South Park game that was basically GTA, the Nintendo 64 put out and I'm like, it would be really awesome if the South Park game existed when South Park was like the hottest thing in the world and still like good or whatever. It's still quite good and popular, but it's not like the fucking Zeitgeist Super Show that it was. But I'm glad that like it took like, I don't know, 20 years for it to get an actual good game.

Dude, I never really gave that that NCC for a game the time of day. Yeah. Because it's trash. Well, it's every subsequent South Park game is and as far as the treehouse goes. Of course, we know that the Zelda is going to be the main. Are you serious? Are you serious? They're going to show Zelda at E3, but the first live gameplay of Sun and Moon Pokemon

and Monster Hunter Generations, DQ7, Fragments of the Forgotten Past, Tokyo Barrage Sessions, FE. Well, it should be. It comes out like a few weeks after that. They got to promote it sometime. And Q&A with the developers of Pokemon Go. Hey, guys developing Pokemon Go. Yes.

What's the NX like? Next question, please. What's the real name of the NX going to be? If you have questions for the developers of Pokemon Go, you can send them in. Where? It's his super best friend cast at gmail.com. Yeah, that's about right. I'm not sure.

I thought we were going through E3 lineups. Yeah, no. You just had the Ubisoft one. Oh, OK. Those are the two that are out right now. Sorry. I thought there was like a bunch of them. No, it's still like over a week away.

That's what we got. And then next week, we're probably going to do the others that come and then that'll be that. OK. What's the email sound like? It's me. Oh, I slept like shit, man. Some government lady called me on the phone this morning at 8 30.

And you threatened to hit her. I went. No. No. Not. No one from the government. Jesus. You can't do that.

He'll get in trouble. You threatened to hit Melvin. Mailman. Yeah. No. No. The bell guy. I didn't threaten to hit him.

I implied that I might. There's a difference. That's not an overt threat. It's implied threat. There's a very different tone to that. You casually held your bat in your hand. Well, this better happen. Wait.

That didn't happen. That was a fantasy that I talked to you guys about on the podcast. Didn't hold the bat in my hand. Yeah. I just thought about doing. We'll have to believe you. No one would cry if a bell fucking employee just got beat to death with a bat. And no one did.

No. Not even them. They'd be like, yeah, I had this coming. How are you? Are you satisfied with the beatdown you're giving me, sir? Would you like to switch to an aluminum bat? His last words were fair enough. Fair enough.

Dear ultra-optimum allies, what's your favorite piece of video game lore that is never mentioned in game from Luke? Almost all overwatch lore. So the example he gives to kickstart things is in Star Fox 64 Venom's nuclear base satellite Bulse is actually Bulse 2. The first Bulse defense satellite orbited Cornelia, but when it malfunctioned, it was sent into space away from Cornelia. The nuclear meltdown contaminated a sector of space with a radioactive fallout resulting

in a green Y-shaped nebula. In other words, sector Y was created when the first Bulse blew up, which is why sector Y is next to Cornelia. This is from a strategy guide for Star Fox 64. That's pretty good. That's cool. I talked about when I played it, but like all the, well, that's difficult because it is talked about in-game somewhat, but the collectible cards you get, the Nando Nobor

Heroes, which you need to play New Game Plus to get them, tells you all that interesting shit about characters like Naomi is actually 85 years old. Henry's real name is Henry Cool Down, which you do not know if you just played the game the first time. I thought it was Sir Henry Motherfucker. I thought it was Sir Henry Motherfucker as well. There's stuff like that, but this is like, this is floating around in all our battery bags.

Yeah. I think for me, I know there's cooler, but the one that I can recall right now is the fact that Nero is Virgil's son, and the fact that what happened to him in those woods or whatever was effectively just, he was put under enough stress that he de-teed one of his arms, but only his arm. But permanently. Right. So the idea that you can permanently de-tee a part of your body is fucked, but cool.

And yeah, these are things that you don't get. Man, I don't know. This is, I don't know. I'm sorry. I have a bad, I have no answer for your question. Every single thing in Dark Souls, like, I don't know. That's tough. It's a tough one, because I know there's good ones out there.

I'll make a lot of distinctions between like in-game lore and out-game lore. It's all lore, man. But there's still, there's always stuff where it's like, you find out afterwards that this was what it was. There's tons of Street Fighter stuff. And it's like, oh my god, it twists everything around. There's tons of Street Fighter stuff that's padded. Yeah, the fact that fucking Satsuinohado Ryu is a shit, and Sagat's the most honorable

cool guy ever. Yeah, that's the one. And he was helping Ryu up, and then Ryu fucking Shoryuken Dem as a cheap shot. He goes, the only living guy, never to get knocked out by the shit Shoryuken. Ryu was on the Magic Pixel, and Sagat held his hands out. And fucking ate it. I don't know if this counts, but in FF14, there was a cutscene in 2.55 in which a dragon took away all your powers.

And everything he said sounded like nonsense, and no one could figure out what the fuck he was talking about all the way through the expansion. And it was like the crux of the plot. And then you go and read a better translated version of the Japanese thing, and it's like, oh, all of this was happening. And I had no idea, because whoever localized it wanted to get all flowery and shit. I don't know if that counts, but the real meaning in English only exists outside the game.

Fair enough, you caught us on the spot. It's hard to think of things like that sometimes. We got another one coming in from, okay, well, I'll get to it after. Dear Mike Larry, Wally, and Peyte, you're all fans of anime, so what's your favorite I hate anime. Translation error slash bad fansub. For context, many years ago, I bought a genuine DVD box set of the Japanese dub of Sonic X. At the time, I did realize they were shockingly fake.

And what tipped me off was the fact that the subtitles kept referring to tails and knuckles as Dillis and Nacruz. Nacruz is cool. Nacruz. Nacruz. That's awesome. So I was taught a lesson that day. Please tell me you've suffered a similar trauma.

Oh, right. Yours faithfully, Nacruz Zai Chidna. That's good. That's a lot. I a friend bought a friend got a gift from another from a friend of theirs and watched a bad Chinese rip of the entirety of Cowboy Bebop and throughout Cowboy Bebop or the first couple episodes, get to the Mars, get to the Mars and Spook get to the Mars because they put a U instead of an I and spike.

Get to the line, Spook, get to the Mars, I remember for quite a while. There's always the classics like People Die When They Are Killed and all according to Keikaku, Keikaku Means Plan. And it's not technically an anime, but by far my favorite ever is literally every line of dialogue from Star Wars, the third gathers, the backstroke of the West. My favorite one is the translation error of turning the word Jedi into Presbyterian Church. And at the end, when Darth Vader goes, no, instead, it is do not want. That's good.

Do not want. That's where I came from. Yeah, that's where I came from. Oh, man. But for me, I think people die when they're killed by the the the one that bring up a lot. Whatever we talk about this stuff is just the old fucking Escaflon a first episode when Vargas is turned into ball gas because these and G's are there.

It's all there. Hard guys. Ball gas. Ball gas. I have so much ball gas. It's a problem. You should get someone to take a look at balls are quite gassy. You gotta gotta get someone to air them out.

Got them dickfarts. Yeah. Good old dickfarts. Good old dickfarts. Yep. All right. More than that, but like, I think that's I think that's where we can we'll move on. It's the fucking guy who's got his hand up and he looks so serious like people die.

Someone tried to start explaining that to me about no, I don't want it. I shut up. Don't want it. Leave it. Leave it. Let it be. It's beautiful the way it is. Let it sit.

Take a photo of it. You're right. Okay. We got one coming from Antony and he wants to know, yeah, who's your favorite voice actor? My favorite voice actor is there's Aaron Fitzgerald. That's a good one. Steve Bloom. That's a good one, too.

You know, it was mostly just because I was one so much, but then when all of his other roles were kind of revealed and the amount is Robin Atkins downs and, you know, like Kazahira Miller has a lot like tons like I didn't realize how much and he was, of course, the prince and warrior within. I forget that he just sounds exactly like like a Miller that he's really like I really enjoy him. Plus, he's one of those voice actors and if you like doesn't follow me or anything, but I just asked him something once and he totally happy to respond.

He's like, yeah, I do voice that HP Lovecraft documentary. Oh, there you go. There you go. And of course, what's, what's our, what's a Fem Shep Jennifer Hale, Jennifer Hale. My favorite is Takahata. Shut your fucking flyer mouth. Who's your actual favorite? Oh, we're talking about real voice actors.

I think I think. Oh, wow. Motherfucker. God damn. Remember, remember, Takahata could face you down at Cal Bravo. I know, I know. He can and he will. He will.

Because he's listening to this as he's running on a treadmill right now. He's beefing hard and getting fit while I become a ginger ball. Yeah. The only way to defeat it is to soften up even more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Start eating right now. I don't know. You can tell, but I'm pretty soft over here.

Got to get more doughy. Well, it's the only armor. I like it. I'm like an uncooked bagel over here. I mean, you know, everyone knows that like, I'll go off on a Norio Acomodo thing for Japan. Every time. But your actual favorite is the Dobson brothers in English.

Paul specifically Paul specifically Paul. All right. The wrong choice, but sure. No, because Paul to me is his matrix and Paul is grave hearts. And like those two roles plus, you know, I'll take jamming. Really jamming. I'll take jamming. Well, isn't that Paul Dobson?

I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll be like jamming too. Yeah. I'll take it, man. He's he's he's he's he's got the right like that's the ASMR that I'd get into. Oh, really?

If I would get into ASMR. Yeah. You don't choose that, man. It chooses you. I know. Um, for me, it's, uh, it's Jen Hale by a mile. Like there's no comparison. I could listen to her voice forever.

I'm, you know, we make fun of like Steve Bloom and Nolan North and that other guy, Troy Baker, because they're in everything. And we're like, oh, look at Steve Bloom again. Every time I can hear Jen Hale's voice come out of a character, I'm excited. Like I'm like, yay, I get to listen to Jen Hale. She just has the best voice ever. And my number two would be Michael Bell. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Michael Bell. He's Raziel in the legacy of Kane games. He's the fear in Metal Gear Solid 3. He's a million other characters. He's even in he's an actor as Zorn in a encounter at far point in fucking Star Trek TNG episode

one. Wow. He's that guy, that fucking got slave guy who's like, oh, I'm going to take care of the alien. On a side note, like I never thought I'd be in this living in this world of fighting games with English sound effects coming out. It's weird. But I fucking love it.

Like all the like in Street Fighter and in Guilty Gear and in Skullgirls, like not in King of Fighters, though. No. No. No. But in all the other games, all like like the fact that I'm just like it's like the English barks work. Yeah.

And they're quotable and they're fun. Yeah. And we're getting some of that in Overwatch now. Oh, yeah. Like we're talking about how cool it is to just listen to Zenyatta say anything. Oh, he's a dude. Love the way he talks. Zenyatta is the best design.

He is stepping to the ice. Best. Embrace tranquility. And his his fucking play of the game animations are the best. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. You earned it.

You fucking earned it. Oh, my God. They're the best. Like you are just a God, man. Amazing. So that's all fun stuff. They're super best clods. Wilson wants them.

Clods. Hey, can I see his face over the fence? Timely. Not that. Not that Wilson. Oh, how's the blood on your volleyball? Yeah. Wow.

Like that. I can't believe you went there. Where else can I have gone? I don't have any other Wilson's. I've been reading Marvel's 2014 run of Moon Knight. Really good. And I've been inspired by their amazing illustrations. Been busted out my waycom tablet to practice my drawings.

My drawings. Drawings. What's your medium of choice? Traditional or electronic is fair game. I'm out. Okay. Well, I like when I was drawing, like, yeah, I had a tablet and I was pretty much basically doing all digital.

But just because it was, like, quicker and it was just less straight on your heads and stuff, like, I used to draw all the time crayons and pencils, colored pencils a lot. And I did a lot of painting with acrylic and acrylic fucking sucks. I hate acrylic. Just nasty. Drys all gross and whatever. And I was never able to work it very well. But yeah, basically, like, threw that all aside for just digital.

I'm like, yeah, whack home, wake home tablet. Tablet. I actually learned the fun way that scratch board is my favorite. Oh, scratch board is really fun. Scratch board is the funnest fucking medium. Because it also, it makes you look better than you actually are. It makes you look so good. And here's the thing about it.

But it's not just that. It also taught me something, too, about, like, the way I paint and stuff. Well, when I was messing around and stuff like that, it would be like, my brain thinks better and negative than it does in positive. Yeah, I can see that. I can subtract from a black surface better than I can add to it to build up something that looks realistic. For those of you that are aware, scratch board is like a black, like, kind of panel.

Yeah, dry. There's dried India ink all over it. And you kind of scratch away at the blackness and you, like, reveal that it's white. So you want to do, like, a shadowy portraits of people. Negatives. Really play with shadow and light. Exactly. And like, it makes you look better than you are.

You sculpt out the, out of the darkness instead of adding. Sculpt out of the darkness. Instead of throwing something into the light. Oh, I forgot about scratch board. It's so funny. It sure might have been that. So, yeah, that's what it would be for me. Good stuff.

We got one coming in from Akuta Bar. And Akuta Bar wants to know. Yes. Yeah, she was the one that was super correct in calling us out on the wow going for a free to play thing. Oh, yeah, right, right, right. Yeah. She wants to know, is there any, anything you've backed that has you regret or has most met

your expectations? I mean, I mean, that has regret. Okay, okay. I think we all talk about how did the kick starters you back go is the question. Yeah, because I, because I think like we all know and I love shovel night and have talked about how great that is. So like, that's kind of an obvious thing. But like, is there anything that you regret backing?

So right away, I have to say I violently regret backing my knee number nine, not because of the final quality of the game because it's not out yet and that's unfair. But it would have saved me from being involved tangentially in this like year and a half of drama. Yeah. I would have been able to just go, well, I didn't fucking involve myself with that, not my problem, but instead I am kind of at fault for whatever happens because I put money into it.

And the other text was that going back to, into the after those podcasts where we talked about while going free to play, we were currently in the, if you don't back mighty number nine right now, you're an idiot era that we went through. And it's, and she says, it's still too soon to judge. But at the time, Pat described Kickstarter as exploding and everyone was super enthusiastic about ghost song that's still not out yet. I think I was accurate and say that Kickstarter was exploding because it absolutely got bigger after that point.

Are there standards you apply to pitches that you didn't earlier on? Absolutely. And it's mainly the standards that Kickstarter now forces you to apply. That's, that's true. Kickstarter did it for us in some way. It's like you need to have some kind of products type something depends obsidian could literally do a Kickstarter tomorrow with Josh Sawyer standing in front of a camera going, Hey man, we really want to make another RPG.

We're good for it. And it'd be like, yeah, you guys are good for it. Same thing for yacht club. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Yacht club could just fart into a mic. Yeah.

And like, I'm like, yeah, I'm a, I'm a legendary. For most others, five more, six as skeptical, like pillars turned out great. The shadow run backing better turned out great. I don't know about planescape. That's seems a little if you're, but hopefully it goes well project Phoenix and what's the other one? Fuck the mats. Hold on.

No, that is project. Whatever. Those two Japanese JRPGs that both Liam and I back that appear to never, never going to come out. That's it. What was project? It is. No, it's.

Unsung story. It's the other one. Oh, okay. They're, they're never going to come out. I'm really glad I didn't back the Uia. I backed that goddamn kingdom come medieval war game, which so far all I've gotten out of it is a technical alpha that was astoundingly pretty and they seem to be working on it. So hopefully that goes well.

I put a lot of money into that Dark Souls board game and that I did finally go read how it works. So that was really cool. God damn idea. Yeah. Yeah. And so hopefully that turn doesn't turn to shit, but that's, that's a lot safer. That one is a physical product, like a, like a litter box of some kind.

Like it's, it's, I'm glad that there's after you. You murder the Lutman after I murder a Lutman. Yeah. That email you showed us was so crazy because everyone thought I was, I was like really exaggerating it, but I was not. It's still being worked on. They had a build of it not too long ago, about like a month ago, but like they're taking a lot longer to make Kaiju combat than they should.

I mean, I still get back or emails about that and they're still it's like there's other kick stars I've had that have, that have had nothing like no updates about them. Like some of them I even forget that I up like I, Unfortunately. Yeah. I know what you mean. Like, like, so then you look at them, they miss some updates, you know, maybe that, that's one that I personally put some money into.

I'm like, it's, it's being made. I played a build of it not too long ago, but like I wish they would hurry it up because they have other projects that they're doing that were part of the kick start thing, but I don't really regret that doing it, but I am, I let them meant that it, you know, it's pretty slow. What I do like, like Pat said, I kind of, I kind of, you know, the main number done, even though I did play the beta couple levels and I did slight it quite a bit, but I'll still reserve judgment for the cause, but I really wish I hadn't put a hundred and twenty

five dollars. Yeah. I put something like it's at the point where even if the game comes out and is excellent, I would still regret backing it because the journey to get here is not worth whatever enjoyment I can derive out of this game. Yeah. Uh, something I really like putting money into, it's not a game per se, but it was a, an artist Richard Leong who made like a, it's gigantic Cthulhu art book of all these various

monsters and I get a little figure with it and I got the digital version as a reward in the, in the, in my email not too long ago and it's incredible. I poured over it, really want the physical book and it's, it's coming soon. So I'm glad I put some money into that. In terms of regret, I put twenty five dollars into slain. Remember slain? I remember slain. It's fucking awful.

And it reviewed terribly as well. Plus it will. It's like, remember, we were like, oh yeah, like PlayStation one, like it looks really cool or it looked really cool. It's, it's fucking awful. Like, like it came out and I played it and it's like, it's mostly negative reviews and they've been, there's, it's, it's awful on a base standpoint. Like it's not fun to play and your character doesn't do much.

Like he slashes and has one magic attack. It's just bad to play. Like it's, it's, it's the one I actually like having to finish product. It's like the opposite of vulgar, the barbarian, which is the first thing I ever kickstarted and then came out vulgar. Sorry, the Viking. And that gear is awesome. I'd never beat it because it's so fucking hard.

Hey, Willie. But this is a bit off topic, but would you like to know what the reviews look like from here's edge catalyst? I've seen them. Okay. Sevens and eights. Seven, six, sevens and eights now. Actually, it's not that bad.

Seems pretty split. You know what? I also had the exact same reviews, like gradients, like identical. Yeah. Yep. So I guess that's it for me off the top of my head. I'm trying to think, cause I'm sure there's a bunch of fucking projects that I'm sure I've forgotten about, but I think we got the overall on it though.

You know, mostly successes for me. Okay. Uh, we're still in development here's, here's one that Solomon's asking that is a summary of that baby and half motherfucker. So a summary of lots of questions like this that we get David instead. I think so. I kind of want to ask one to ask a couple hundred at the same time. All right, let's hit it.

Uh, okay. So Pat, if you had to choose between more birds or instant current savage clears, what would you choose more birds? No question. What's your character in class right now? My character in class is I'm going to dark night, uh, 60. Uh, I'm getting a warrior up to 60 as well. I have a Dragoon at 60 and an Astro at 60, but I 99% play the dark night.

Okay. Uh, Matt, if you had to choose between a Punisher movie that was rated R and given the same love as Deadpool, or to be a sidekick in a B lists Punisher movie, what would you want? Uh, for the movie to exist or for me to be in the movie, to be a B list sidekick or your, your, your micro, uh, do you want to be micro because I don't want to punish a movie anymore now that we're getting what it should get, which is a series.

So I guess I'd opt for the psychic role. Okay. But I actually don't really want to, you and, you and chain bird, burn, burn, bear, man, burn, thaw, burn, thaw. Uh, Willie, if you either could have a third person mirror's edge and see faith with dyed hair and never use guns or play or give the street fighter IP to platinum and watch it become a character action game, which would you choose neither?

I don't want the first one. Clearly you talk about that. You were talking about that before it came in. We, the two, which would you have to pick one now? I also have to, if she has to dye her hair, I don't like this faith is fine. I think he's just saying that because he thinks that's what you want. Okay. Perhaps, but street fighter as a pro as a character action game sounds terrible.

I'd never want that. Not everything works great for virtual quest. And, um, yeah, yeah. Third person mirrors are just cool. I guess, but like, you have that. It's called the assassin's career. Yeah. I'm kind of, I'm pretty happy with the current state of affairs that is

catalyst and street fighter five to be perfectly honest. So I'm Genji. Yeah. But that, it just, you know, it just, it just to sort of like encapsulate like a whole bunch of like, I think I figured you're, I would take more birds in a second. My group isn't even trying savage. We don't care.

Hey, man, cosmetics. Ben says it's currently 25 degrees Celsius in Jolly Old England. That's 77 degrees Fahrenheit for those of you who use an inferior way to measure temperature. That's pretty normal. Yeah. Let's go for them. It's super duper hot.

So he's wondering about what your water gun arsenal used to be. Oh, and were you the squirter or the squirty? Were you water warriors? I used to have a lot of water gun wars. I had, you know, I had like about three super soakers during my life. And the super soaker 50, the classic, the yellow and green, the old faithful. And I got up to super soaker 100 and that broke not too long. Well, you know, I had one, one summer's worth of broke.

The one I preferred the most, which I forget what it's called, was a super soaker. I think it's called the cross shot where it had a turning thing that let you shoot around. I remember that one. Yeah. And it was just a little like a dial or something like a like a hand grip and you'd turn it and it would show all the fun commercials where your

sisters are trying to get some in an alley and you're shooting them with fucking water and they can't, they don't know who did it. Who could possibly shoot around a corner? That's fucking crazy. My brother and I got in at the age of the XP super soakers. So like when they had the pressure, it's when child skin started searing off. Yeah. Yeah.

When you got the pressure of shooters, it's the golden years. I love those were fucking sick, man, because you just like every time you'd leave and reload or whatever, then come back and stand on top and just be like, I've got you in my sights. And I'm like, it would hurt if you had any friends that had the giant bazooka with that shot to Sumo in the commercial there. It'd be ridiculous. I also always wanted to ever had the water pack.

Oh, the back never fucking go out of ammo, motherfucker. Get to be Vulcan Ravens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The problem and the thing that I quickly learned and bummed me out was just like there's a super short life on the fun of a water gun fight because you only get so wet and then you're just wet and you're like, all right, well, fights over. I'm so happy to hear there's nothing else to it. Yeah, you know, hey, you know what's cool?

Video games, water guns never used again after that point until. Paintball came along. I didn't do paintball as a kid, though. OK, I would even have a. I played a bunch of video games, but then it was like, hey, there's laser fighting. It's like cool because it's like a video game like, oh, OK. And then someone's like paintball. And I was like, yeah, OK, it kind of hurts.

So it took me a while to figure it out. I had the Super Soaker 1000, which is this one Rockefeller over here. You remember this? I remember that one. OK, no, see the reason and the reason why it was so hard for me to remember is because my friend Eric, who lived a couple of blocks over, had the 2000s. Now, I don't know if you remember the 2000, but the 2000 was like the child destroyer. Yeah, that that was the one that like physically damaged.

It like would leave welts and shit. Oh, yeah. And if he'd shoot you in the fucking face because he was a cunt, he was a stupid little shit. Laramie got sued quite a bit. Fucking hurt like fuck Laramie's fucking like at some point during water fights at over his place, like people would started to physically attack him to steal his gun because it hurts so much more than the others. What a hero.

He's a little bitch, too. He was weak. Yeah, well, he had the best weapon. Yeah, it's because his parents fought all the time. And then there was that. And then there was this moment started to be like, you're over at Toys R Us and it's like, do I buy a new Super Soaker or do I buy a Nerf gun? That was a tough one.

You never got into Nerf. Well, Nerf was. Nerf was widely applicable and not just for the summer. No, of course, of course. But like none of my friends had it. It's like Ninja Turtles muted in bedhead. If no one you know has it, it's no fun to play. Retrieving the darts was a bummer, the total bummer,

especially the ones that had the suction cups on it. And they would never stick properly to the fucking Styrofoam ever. You would have. How long would that take? Like a week of messing around with it before they'd start to fall off? Barely. You'd ask your dad for like an industrial strength. We were some bullshit. He's like, I'm not letting you play with this fucking thing.

You get darts on your face. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Got to get that terror sweat. No, there's no there's no. Can't you just turn up the heat a little? No, there's there was no perfect solution. You know, as a kid, all these things are all fucking. That would have been a fucking great name for a Nerf gun.

The final solution. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's the that send all the kids into the Nerf chamber. Just have all the balls hit them. Jeez. Lastly, we got one coming in from Aaron. And Aaron wants to know. Do you remember Nerf crotch bats?

No, you just you just whack people in the dick. That's not like a real commercial for it. There's a commercial for a lot of what about that slime guy where the black kid gets all that cum shot on his chest? Did you guys have that the cum blaster? No, I didn't have the cum blaster. I didn't buy that. And he sent the kids like rubbing it into his nips.

Yeah, there's a power zone. And on a related note, our last one comes from Aaron and he wants to know if you've ever seen a game commercial that convinced you to buy a game that wasn't worth it. Oh, whoa. Sonic 3D Blast. The game's terrible convinced you to buy it. Yeah. Oh, I was like fucking nine years old or some shit.

For your health, though, the the the initial trailer commercial, whatever of Warrior Within. I was like, I don't like this. But they had one line. I was like, oh, that's a good line, though. You know, it was very edgy. It was like I am the Prince of Persia and the King of Blades. And they sink it to him doing like a dumb breakdancing move

with a sword. He used to capitate them. And I go, OK, that's kind of cool. So I bought it. And then, yeah, Warrior Within isn't worth it. So that's that's the one that jumps to my mind. It doesn't really count because it didn't happen to me at the time. I was like, the Devil May Cry 2 commercial almost got me. Was it that the one where it's like a kid played?

Is no, no, no, no. It was a white church and Dante breaks through the glass and just does combos on the way down. He just shoots really. He just shoots. And it was really cool. OK, don't type nerf, nerf dick bat into fucking crotch bats. Crotch bats. Oh, crotch bats crotch bats. I don't know if I've ever been suckered in by a commercial

and then like unsatisfied. Yeah. I mean, me like usually you got suckered in by a commercial and it was fine. Yeah. Yeah. And like or like in the case of like adventure time where it's like I just thought it would have been OK and then it wasn't.

But I don't know. I don't think it applies. Yeah, I got I got nothing. You really just saw a 3D Blast is the only one that like stands out really hard. Just fuck that game is terrible. I hate it. OK. All right. All right.

That you hate it. It sucks. Like you don't like don't even play that for a fucking spin dash quick. Look, it's fucking no. No, no, no. Well, well, just do that. Well, it's isometric. So it's coming up 3D. There's a there's a arcade version of it. That's actually quite good.

Well, it's coming up overwatch. Oh, no, there's no overwatch coming up on the channel. No, actually, I'm waiting for my big catalyst box to arrive. Catalyst, huh? Yeah. The big special edition that comes with no game. Yeah. What does that actually come with? A dumb messenger bag. You get you get like the bookends of faith and kid faith.

You get an art book. But is this cut ways? Is this what's on the watch or is this what's coming up on the channel? Yeah, what's on the watch? And the overwatch and you get all this stuff and but there's no game. Patch 3.3 hits in 14 hours. And I'm really excited for that. I'm super excited for the past week.

I've been on discord with my raid buddies just yelling out patch is coming. Well, there's no patch. I'm excited. That's what I'm playing blood and wine, too, which is really good here. That's really good. Yeah, it's funny. Tell us if I if I run into a bug, I'm stopping because everything I've seen is that it's but like the buggiest thing they've ever put out because fucking nuts. Yeah, like the lock on disappears forever after a certain.

Wow, wow, wow, like and then add a certain late game quest. Sometimes it comes back. That's no good. No, it's not. I'm looking forward to not buying a game this week instead, just watching a full LP of it because in Sonic's edge of nowhere, a third person game is exclusively releasing all the Oculus for reasons no one can understand and the reviews of it have been quite good. And all the reviews of it also say there is no point in this being all the Oculus.

Sick. So great. It's a great game. That's it. Sick. So I'll be watching a full LP of it because like there's still not a single VR game that I'm like, this is the one. So not going to can't play it somewhere less than it comes out today, I believe. So I'm going to be watching that. And yeah, I'll be playing fucking more overwatch for sure. Then that's it. That's it. OK.

And on the video side of things. OK, so we got Deus Ex will be continue to go on ups. We got. I believe. Dark Souls finishes. We'll be ending this Wednesday. Yes, is wrapping. And that once again, Star Fox starts this week. Or did it already started?

Already started, already started. Liam has been teasing a new LP that me and Liam were doing. And he put a post up on Twitter that I then like sent him a message, go, why you do this? Why you do that? And it was like, oh, man, I've been waiting forever to play this new LP. It's really been torment. And I was like, why you got to do this? Because people are making all sorts of guesses and they're nowhere near it.

Yeah, I don't think so. So there will be a new one coming. Yeah, but you're not saying it. What it is, I'm not saying I'm not saying what it is, but I'm saying that no one who I've seen like on the response to that Twitter post, no one was anywhere near it. OK, is that the. Yes, I was about to say me and woolly and mega hamster dumps took a look at Salt and Sanctuary.

Can I just stop and say that we actually probably never said super buddy up on this. OK, runny gerbil shit, runny gerbil shit is a good one. We when we were in the podcast. Well, yeah, that's true. That was like a year ago. I mean, like this entire episode. Oh, no. Yeah, it hasn't come out. Who the fuck is mega hamster farts while we're in Atlanta?

We he had us take a look at Salt and Sanctuary and Sanctuary. Wow, he's so into that. He's pushing on you guys. I didn't know it had co-op. Yeah, I didn't know it had co-op. It does. It was specifically the co-op that he wanted to play. But he make a bad game. Worse gave us gave us an idea about where an item was that would enable co-op

and then proceed to forget where it was. Nice. So that is a lot of a lot of the andering is cut out of the set video. But it's still a good time, though. So a gallivanting look forward to that. And yeah, I guess that's it. The Boltons teach you that word. Gallivanting got that last episode. I know, right? It's super good.

Wait till the wrap up. You guys more episode left, I believe. Wait till the wrap up talking about Aragon. Yes, not really. Dude, I found out some shit that's book only shit. It's fucking crazy. Does it matter? By no, the book has the books have been rendered non-canon.

Yeah, there's there's some shit that's book only shit. It's fucking out of this fucking world. Nonsense, break your brain. Shit. Yeah, I guess that's it. We did it. OK, I guess that's it. OK, bye, everybody. We did the podcast. Enjoy coming back next week and visit our YouTube channel

and our website and all that. I'll be visiting overwatch porn. I'll be what? No. Yeah. Which ones? All of them. But there are so many. Which ones? The characters I like. Yeah, like Jim Sterling's. Send links.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jim Sterling's fucking video on overwatch porn where he has that sequence where he's talking about. Roadhog. About Roadhog. Roadhog and me just pounding it. Pounding it. I've been I've been saying that all week.

And he's done it before, like that gag. But for some reason, with like the zoom in on it's great. It's so much better. Like Roadhog's thighs are really developed. Photo. For some ways. Oh, high definition tattoo on his gut.

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