Castle Super Beast - SBFC 151: Gotta Go Fath / Freak Frag Fry

Episode Date: June 28, 2016

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There's 151 shooters on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Oh my god, the temptation. Good for Xbox One. The temptation to not go for Pokemon. That, no, we already got that out of the system. We're forbidden now. Only 151? Well, that's the thing.

I mean, it seems a little bit at the same time. I remember that number being much dire, much more dire. Much dire, much dire. Much more dire. The number was much dire. At the beginning of that console's life cycle. Well, because it took up a higher percentage of total games. I'm sure it includes the backwards-compatible stuff, too, now.

And, you know, like, shooter can, like, unfortunately, like, refer to, like, almost anything with a gun. Because it's one of those weird, like, things like fighting that it just gets in anything that includes the concept. It gets included into it. Wooly, those are beat-em-ups. I think my most... Street Fighter V is a beat-em-up.

I think my most hated genre descriptor is brawler. Yeah. Because it means fucking anything. And it also means nothing. Because it's not a real genre, either. Because the genre descriptor is that we've come to know, have we've learned from, like, internet and magazine review divisions that we've gotten used to over the years.

And then, like, the official ones just kind of ignore those and go with what would the public kind of think. The official ones treat them like tags instead of genres. So, like, Steam as well. So you'll see, like, shooter, comma, fighting, comma, brawler. Well, it's because, like, game... Well, those are fan-done. Game genres, like, have nothing to do with their content.

They have to do with their, like, mechanics or perspective, which makes them completely different from every other genre classification. Like, the camera work in Children of Men does not define that movie, right? It's the fact that it's, like, a bleak, like, dramatic thriller. Yeah. The camera in Resident Evil 4 totally defines that game.

I would love to see if Mirror's Edge 1 is a shooter, but Mirror's Edge 2 is not. No, Mirror's Edge 1 is a first-person action adventure with shooting elements. That doesn't break nicely. No, it doesn't. Speaking of which, just before arriving here, my big box finally came.

Your big box? My big catalyst box. Oh, yeah, OK. So that was nice. I didn't have to wait till August, which was... Did you touch it and turn into gold? I did not. I simply opened it to confirm that it was what it was.

And then I left to come back. What actually comes in that? I have no idea. You got your little statue of faith. You got your... Good old faith. Good faith. I believe there's a...

You gotta go fast. You gotta go fast. You guys, that works a little too well. That works a little too well. Please draw goofy pictures of faith now. Let me just make a little note. All right, there we go. And you've got, of course, your city of glass,

like, I think, a temporary tattoo thing, which... That'll look great on you. Well, what I actually would think would be cool would be to replicate what they do in the actual game slash in the comic as well and make a framed piece out of it, which is where the actual thing came from, because her mother made that design and such, which I learned from reading the Mirage Catalyst comic

this week, which Matt, may he rest in peace, so nicely gave to me on our way out to our convention adventure. I think that that prequel comic may be the worst part about playing Mirage Catalyst. Why's that? I haven't read it. Because one of the loading script, loading screen tips, is, hey, do you wanna know why faith was in jail

at the beginning of the game? Read the prequel comic, and it has like a fucking website underneath it. I really don't dig that. The game's just like, yo, go read this. I think that is the worst. I've seen it before, but it never so blatant as it is. You don't gotta do that.

The absence of it wouldn't bother me. Like, Destiny's implementation is actually way worse because they don't even tell you to go to where you can find the story. We know that was a whole fuck up of its own. But this one is just like, really? Go buy the comic book. Can't there just be a note in the game

that's like, why I went to jail? In Faith's Diary, why I was in jail. In Assassin's Creed, though in Assassin's Creed, they do the opposite, and you kinda just have, someone shows up and everything about the way the camera and the music cues hit is all super dramatic, and it's like, but if you haven't read the backstory, you'd have no idea why.

But that's fine. I just don't want the little thing popping up in the corner that says, click here to buy comic book. No, no. But how would you feel about the comic book thing, which is like, see this for reference to know why this person's important? I'm not playing a Wikipedia page.

Like, no, I mean, it's just like. Cause if I didn't know. Like, if it literally didn't say that line ever, I wouldn't question it. Also, I don't need to question it. Why Faith was in jail doesn't matter. No, it's cause, but yeah, I guess. Well, you read the prequel comic, does it matter?

Ah, I mean, it does something interesting. Like it adds context. It does something interesting, which I'll bring up in a second, but I guess the only reason why is cause I'm thinking about like the specific moment in Ascrete 3, and how I'm like, to me that was awesome, but I'm wondering if anyone else,

well, if you got to that point and didn't ditch Ascrete 3, if you got to the point where this character shows up, if you kinda went, who, and why does this matter? What the fuck? And if that didn't- Which character is it? Daniel Cross. Yeah, exactly.

It's a really cool fucking awesome thing to see him, and I just kind of wondered if there's anyone that'd be like, what the fuck? That happens in Syndicate as well, where there's a character, the mentor character for the early game is a guy, an Indian guy named Henry Green, and I'm clearly supposed to know who this character is,

like from the word go. Apparently he's from Assassin's Creed India, or his dad is from Assassin's Creed India, or something. But I didn't fucking play that game. I don't know who this guy is. And like when I played Liberation, you get to the mission where Evelyn and Connor have to like destroy this big fortress,

or take it down rather. Like, you don't get a thing that says like, buy Assassin's Creed 3 for further context. Yeah, of course, of course. So like all in all, like the little clicked here button- You can infer they're important. The click here button in the URL and anything like that, I totally agree is tasteless.

But I don't mind the mention of like, this is where you get this story. For me. Because comic books, like I said, I'm used to like, read Amazing Spider-Man 141 to find out where the fuck this guy came from. For me, it's like, I think like a tasteful way to do it is like the Smash Bros. games do it,

where you go into the trophies and the stickers. If there's a mode for that. And the collection, et cetera. And you just see the raw list of data. Like this is where you want to go to do that. Matt's not here because unfortunately he died in Philly. Yes. He was shooting B-ball outside of the school, et cetera,

et cetera, et cetera. A couple of guys are up to no good, and well, you know. They're making trouble in that particular neighborhood. We had a flight to catch. No, Matt's working on something. He'll be back soon. You know what?

If that something doesn't actually kill him. Yeah. Maybe, might kill him. Might kill him. Due to a erection. It's possible. Big things happening for Matt right now. But if Matt was here,

I know exactly what he would say about this. And it is the fact that he, like me, gets really, really annoyed when step one out the gate, you're like, we have a trans-media experience for you. Yeah, fuck that. Right? Fuck that. And this is one of those.

It's not that bad. And I think the only one that ever succeeded, ever was Dead Space. Because the motion comics they put out, there were just motion comic versions of the actual comics they put out, and they were free, and they did a really good job setting up the story.

And there was only like a very small mention here or there of those comics in-game, where you found the main character and you found what happened to him. I think that's always the key, is just don't talk about the other stuff. And that movie was terrible, but it did. It was enjoyable some bits.

But it was enjoyable. And it did give a detail here or there. And you see Nicole for about a minute in that thing. And I think she's actually doing the message to Isaac. But it's more about that team and stuff. And it's like, that stuff is really tertiary. It's really in the branches. And the final book and stuff, too.

Yeah, I think the optimal way to even go back to what I was saying specifically with the Ascrete example is, when you have that buh-buh-buh, here's the sky thing, it kind of makes you wonder what's going on. But if you don't treat it that way, right? If you actually treat the material in a way where it's like, this is the guy, here's what's up with him,

but you can still enjoy it without necessarily getting that piece of information. But then it happens to be there. That's good, too. But if it's played up in a way where it's like, you should probably fucking know this. Is there a fucking godlight shining down on Connor when you run into him in Liberation?

Then, you know, yeah. Anyway, yeah, so that was on the way to, like I said, con adventures. In Philadelphia, we went to too many games. Now that's not, I discovered upon arriving that that is not in Philadelphia proper. That is not deep in the heart of Philly. That's deep in the heart of Pennsylvania,

which is very fucking different. Outside the city. That is some colonial ass suburban stuff, man. We had a few con adventures. Well, have you eaten at that Cheeburger before? I had not. Cause I had not. Cheeburger, Cheeburger.

I ate there last year. Fuck my ass with that Cheeburger. That's exactly what happened. No, no, Liam, I'm being kind of literal. That's literally what happened. Like, creates a horrible food baby that just escapes your body in the most terrible of ways.

I need to shit your pants in a hurry. Bob Evans will make you scurry. Alternately, we'll fill your pants with slurry. Alternately, like, don't go to Bob Evans, cause that place made me shit all over the target. I always, I'm aware that like, it's like, when you go to cons or you're out of town for the weekend, it's just kind of like, all right, ignore your,

your like dietary rules and just try to try to, you know. Well, cause if you try to give up, if you try and eat like a normal person or like a healthy person, you will instead go hungry. Because that shit is not around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I didn't go hungry.

Well, but shut up, Liam. So what, you know, we're building an air of salads at the Wawa that were 300 calories. They were delicious. Yeah, we only hit, I only got to that Wawa at the end. It was good though. Gotta say, good job, Pennsylvania. I've heard things about Wawa.

Expand your Wawa. I was impressed. You're almost like Japanese kombini, but you're not quite there. It's like an American Japanese kombini. The closest you're going to get. The Cheeburger, however, was way more concentrated with making shit come out of your ass.

It is the greasiest food I've ever eaten. Ever eaten. I believe that's the same for you, Willie. Yes, specifically because I ordered the half pound burger melt. Yeah. I ordered a three quarter pound burger. I guess I just didn't know that melt means

every part of this sandwich is greased and soaked in butter. Soaked in butter. Like literally. I didn't put that together. I experienced a feeling that I've never had with a burger before in which I take my burger, which does not seem that bad in its size. And one that's like, that's a huge burger,

but I can do that, right? And upon biting into the front of the burger, hot grease literally shoots out the back and splashes on my paw. Yep. And my palms are, I put the burger down after a single bite and it is literally dripping with grease.

And this occurred for about 60 to 70% of the burger. Yeah. Fuck. I, fuck, again. Did you guys like it or? Yes. It was fantastic. Okay.

Cause like when I went, I was like, oh, this is like whatever. It's a very good burger. I enjoyed myself thoroughly. They actually season that shit as opposed to the place that opened up downtown here in my here in Montreal. Which place? La Belle et la Buff.

I've never been to that one. Okay. It's a new joint and they don't season their meat and you just get great patty in bun that tastes like nothing. And I was like, look what the fuck you're selling me. So here it, yeah, it was, it was all right. And you know, I just, what I do is while being ignorant, I at least go, let me just log the numbers here.

So I know how bad it is. Just so I don't fuck up the rest of my plan. It's like a 4,000 fucking calorie sandwich. 1,200, which is, that's your days intake. Minus like, I don't know, a fruit. Yeah. It's fucked up. You're eating too little then.

It's supposed to be 1,800 to 2,400. I measured for my shit. But you know, in either case, man. Yeah. And I saw that AVGN, Ant Fish and Epic Game Music, James as well, all took the one pound burger challenge. I spoke to James shortly after that. Which one?

Epic Game Music. James from, oh yeah. Yeah, James from Epic Game Music. Very shortly after that, we were walking back to the hotel across that Mammoth parking lot, right? And he was talking to me and my girlfriend. He's like, so I ate this one pound burger, right? Yep.

And he had that look on his fucking face. And he's like, man, I got to get back to the hotel. Yeah. Like the con's not going to cut it. Back to the hotel. They take your picture and they put it up on the wall and it's just like, it doesn't say the wall of shame. That was at like five p.m.

So that was multiple hours later. He still felt horrible. Man. Bad idea all around. All around. But I will say that if you did make it over past the giant parking lot city that is the area we were in. Parking lot city.

American parking lots are crazy. Because there was no mall. It was just broken up stores. It was just multiple stores that had all their parking lots facing each other into a mega parking lot. There was a bunch of like warehouses on the side. Yeah, too. It was nuts.

There's a theater at some point. Yes, I know there's a theater. I'll talk about that in a moment. But you make it over to the venue and you get to too many games. So too many games. I was not there last year. What a nice convention.

I like that convention a lot. It's cozy. What a really nice convention. The only thing I don't like about it is the panel rooms are a bit small. They're a bit small. But they have a killer dealer's room that's just massive. They have a really massive selection of games.

That was my favorite dealer's room I've been to so far. It's a very good dealer's room. And their arcade set up with the cabinets was great. Yeah, it's modest, but it's good. Like the games are all good. They picked the right games for those cabs. And they got more this year than they did last year as well. What we're seeing here is exactly what

it looks like right when a con outgrows the venue it's in. Yeah, because like one more year and it's going to be people are going to go like, come on guys, you need a bigger place. Oh, I thought the space was comfortable. I didn't think it was like. No, I felt it worked. Because like at Otaku Thon, it's like, oh, fuck. Like good luck getting through that dealer's room.

But Liam, next year, the venue will be too small. That's when they'll start to talk about it. When more growth comes in. The only thing for me is the panel rooms. They just, we need bigger panel rooms. Yeah, we're too famous for the little panel rooms. Oh yeah, it's us. Yeah, totally us.

No, the game's room setup was awesome. They had the, is it arcade attack or Ataku Attack or Japan Attack? I don't think it was Tokyo Attack this year. Was it them? Every time I see Jubeet Machines, I assume it's them. But I didn't see any of their shirts or tech guys. Usually they have stickers on all their cabinets. So I don't think it was them.

But they had a lot of good rhythm games around. They had like a great. All their pop and music were broken. I mean, they're old. They had all those candy cabs with not just all the street fighters and stuff. But then you got Last Blade One going on. Yeah, some some. And then you've got another, what was it?

It was the wrestling game. I can never remember. It was it was the Keniku Manawa game that we played for for the WrestleMania. I didn't play it. And a bunch of other like interesting stuff, you know. Yeah, no, it was a good selection all around. There was an Icaruga cab that unfortunately wasn't running Icaruga. And there was a bunch of good stuff in the middle too.

Crazy Taxi arcade machine. Crazy Taxi was there. Didn't even know about that stuff. Yeah. And then, of course, you had back over where the consoles were the the the smash. I want to call it like Coliseum because it was like just this giant like row of tables dedicated to smash and then a huge screen that was running Street Fighter all weekend.

Shout outs to Biggie and those boys because yeah, he was helping run that. Yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, CEO was going on. But you know, they did a really good job with it all in all. Did you end up watching Kenny Omega and Xavier Woods Match? I went through all of my CEO main important shit last night to catch to catch back up. There was a lot of good shit. That's weird.

We sound slightly different. I wonder what happened. Almost dejected and as if we were in a different space. I feel deeply unhappy. Hey, what happened? What happened? Liam, get back to CEO in a minute, I suppose. Did you know that I was watching a pug video the other day?

And I found out that pugs became less popular in the mid 1300s and 1700s due to the increased population of cats. And before we sat down, I was like, why the heck would the cat population increase so much? And it's because you needed cats to kill rats because of the black plague. Of course, that makes sense. So the pugs caused the black plague. Well, why am I wasting time with such an inane story?

OK, so it turns out that, you know, there's things that happen every once in a while. Sometimes we have podcasts that are recorded with underwater. Sometimes we have podcasts that are recorded a little later than usual. I've had, I remember that shitstorm that I recorded where I plugged the USB thing into the wrong thing and it record the internal microphone. I like that one. Ultimately, though, we are usually, in fact, we've been always able to salvage the original

recording process. Or just throw whatever garbage we got on you guys. Yeah. However, this time around, audacity, the software we used to record used to lie to us. It simply lied. And so when we were done at the end of a two hour and 20 minute recording session of which is what, two hours and four minutes more than you guys have just received. Yeah, we saved and exported what we had.

And I went home and I looked at it and it was 16 minutes. So that's why the first 16 minutes you heard are totally normal. And then Woolly calls me up and says, Pat, please tell me you still have audacity open. I go, no, I closed it. At which point we're fucked. So here's, you get two podcasts today. Podcast 151.2. 151.B, right?

Yeah. 151.B, yeah. So, yeah, here we are. We're going to have to go over what we went through. Time to recreate my enthusiasm for yesterday's talk. Exactly. As we go down the topics. It's just not possible.

The absurdity of the situation. I can at least dig. Yeah. Just pretend that you made the docket and that you know what's coming. I guess so, yeah. Against all odds, Matt still isn't here. So because I was wondering like, because I made multiple jokes that he had died. Yeah.

And then we had to delay the podcast today because it didn't exist anymore. And I was like, hmm, maybe Matt will be on this. And then it'll be like he came back from that. But no, he's still dead. The absence of his arrival just makes me think he's dead. Yeah. So he's, he's, he wouldn't be here on time, unfortunately. He is coming back today.

Yeah, right about this evening. Right about the time that we're going to wrap this up, actually. But I figured you guys would want your podcast on Tuesday instead of not. So, yeah, he's, he's off doing big things, big, special things, accomplishing life goals. Actually, yeah, he's been talking about this for years. So let's see if he comes back with anything worthy. And that'll, that'll be that.

So, so what, what did we say about CEO already? So, yeah, I was just, I checked out the Kenny Omega Xavier Woods bits were super hilarious. Those guys are troopers. I'm super happy they made it out and like CEO is defining itself as a very different kind of tournament because while it's blowing up and supporting the Capcom Pro Tour and going full e-sports, it's also got its thuggery roots. Hey, it's the maximum, it's the maximum indie thug showboating tournament. This is how much I care about this re-recorded podcast, not for mainstream viewers at all.

And, and, and when we say thuggery, we mean like there's a moment that can only be described as thuggery because during the wrestler intros, there was one wrestler intro slash game of whatever intro where like 30 dudes just rushed the stage and big thuggery right while hip hop was rocking and they just big thuggery gave you a big frighten and they just fucking they just pushed it. And then like as after the crowd cleared out, there was one guy standing there and then he sat down and played which is pretty sick like CEOs definitely got like the, the comedy on their side.

Like just the most entertaining showmanship is on another level, you know, and I really think it's it's becoming like the tournament to watch every year. Even if you're, you know, you follow EVO, you follow Capcom main events and such, but CEOs got the Royal Rumble. They've got the wrestling ring with the proper entrances, they got the wrestlers, the actual wrestlers. Yes. And you got Kenny Omega and then Xavier Woods who came up and talked and actually played

solidly. Shit talked during the set too, which is really good. It was pretty good. It makes me wish that you had a mic clipped to their clip to their shirt the whole time because you could see them talking sometimes and you there was no mic to barely have to come over and hold the mic at this is definitely not Korea where they're being sealed into their gamer domes. Yeah.

No, no, no. They're antibacterial game sphere. They were doing it. And then like and then afterwards running it over to the DDR machine. Yeah. To continue the challenge. They're the opposite person won that one to spoil the first catch the results. But yeah, no, that that was a really fun time.

And then of course, they they capped off the awesome event with the Balrog reveal trailer. Okay, so let's because this podcast is a jumble, fuck the stated order of this podcast. Let's just talk about Balrog right now. So we got that awesome rock trailer that pretty much showed off what I was saying. I would hope would apply to Balrog's disciple, Eddie, instead, just they gave it to Balrog, which is multiple rush punches in the same string, every every angle, yeah, that he could punch in. He can now punch in on your rush.

And his tap is a V trigger. Yeah. So instead of having to hold down buttons every so yeah, now you just tap them, which tap for the tap. Pretty strong. Yeah. And you can combo from the tap. You can just you can actually just just dodge.

I'm going to bet you don't have to do the punch. I'm going to bet you can only tap combo and counter hit. I feel that seems I don't know, maybe I don't know. I mean, it seems like what you end up doing is you press the two mediums, he does the dodge, then you press a punch button, he does that, and then you do your maybe you're holding back the whole time. And then you run, you really love I love everything about Balrog that I've seen this trailer.

We get the best super he's ever had the gigaton punch back. It's just a gigaton punch. Did you see a story costume? I did. Yeah. Yeah. Everything was good. It's just a regular boxer's outfit.

There's shorts and there's two tank top. One is one is American American like track suit. Yeah. Red and white flags and one is like a golden gloves, like kind of fancier outfit. Yeah. But the default like hoodie with the hood like he's what he's huge. He's a bee. He's he's been hitting the juice and he's even more like hunched over bad like yeah,

he's like he looks more like I'm backing himself. He looks more like he looks great. You know, who else looks great? Everyone. Everyone. That's right. They didn't even need to show them and it was so cool. You know who doesn't sound great?

Yuri. Oh, you don't like his voice? I think he's fine. Fuck. It's not crush. I wish I wish all he had said was the word crush. I agree. It's really close.

In my mind, Yuri and always spoke in just single kill command words. I mean, I think that, you know, when you're casting a new person to like get that flavor but still be able to deliver a voice on his top. It's not the Yuri in my heart, but he does have Agus reflector. So fuck it. Yeah. Can't wait to see him tear his clothes off. That was a nice they see.

I think I think like Hans was saying like Capcom's got to bring the hype back because after people being bummed out by the delays of this Friday's coming up, yeah, which is now the July update, by the way, and also whatever, the fact that like their their store took so long to come out and everything. And do they have a rage quitter implementation yet? They have. They have improved it a little bit. They have improved that.

They still manual. No. No, no, no, no, no, there's the manual one is for like major like ridiculously like tool assisted robots getting destroyed. Yeah. But there is a there is a proper rage quit system now. There's a there's a rage quit system. Assemblance of it at least.

You've got the Zeni system being folded. Gone. That needs to be the proprietary's local shops will carry those items and that'll be that challenges are coming into in this patch. Those are coming. It's really good. Get your dailies. Of course.

And then, yeah, ROG is going to be available at the same time as a bookie. So that's fun. It's not huge. Story mode, correct? Yeah. Yeah. So it's a big update. And in that story mode, we'll get to see just a little bit of jury and urine, you know,

you get to play as them. Well, that's that's what I mean is just a little bit because they're the I assume they would not be final versions of those characters like like the moves, I imagine would be the same. But the properties and I don't get it. But no one's excited for the other character that we're going to get to play as in that saga. No.

Shadow Lou warrior. Got. Yeah. Shadow Lou generic. I wonder when those like event missions are coming in. You remember? Yeah, I do. There's only like one screenshot of those and someone's going to hack the PC version

to make that dude playable. Yeah. Totally. So just in case for the people who were totally clueless like I was about SF5's ragequit thing, I figured I found I looked it up. What it actually is, if you disconnect too many times, they lock you out for a couple hours. That's great.

That's a very good thing. That seems fine because it just cuts down on the people who will play all night and do that all night. Yeah. I mean, it still doesn't deal with selective rage quitters. Yes. Which is good players that also rage quit people. Exactly.

People that are on there like that are ultra platinum that are actually well, you know what? Yeah. Like on a real level. Guess what? I'm never going to have to deal with that person ever, ever true dad. So yeah. Version 1.0 of Street Fighter 5.

It's solid. That's good stuff. Good, good, good. Usually I'm the person to say that. And like in this case, I actually disagree. I don't know. I think I'd be happy with the... No.

Like I stand by you that I love the beginning. No, you know what? No. You're super right because the store not being there means it's unfinished. Yeah. Like I totally agree that I loved it from day one. That's the part that's like really, really... Well, and remember it didn't have like the character tutorials, it didn't have like...

It was missing a lot. Yeah. You're totally right. That stuff is also that Mr. Wizard announced the same day that Rob and Ibuki are going to be legal for Eva. So Eva, it will always be exciting. Yeah. Well, it's just got a little extra flavor.

Time to discover your exploits. Because you will hate it, but you will see the new tech on the stage instead of Desk's video. Yeah. Right. Develop whatever you can into the... It's a very different feeling. And I guess now is the goodest time as any to announce that I'm going to Eva.

You're going to Eva, buddy. Good job. You're doing it. You have fun at Eva. Do a good job. You're going to try to do a better job than I did last time. And yeah, stay tuned. You know what you should do?

Yeah. You should bribe people. Bribe tournament officials. Just bribe. It's all the way up. Just not offering... Offering the rights of your fight money. Not all the way up.

Just enough. Okay. Just enough to get top eight. Just a couple extra spots on stream. Best French thug. Wear logo. It has a shirt. You know, shirt.

Yeah. Get the brand shot. And all that stuff on the back. If I could choose what my next moment would be, it would be me versus Jamie Lee Curtis. Hey, you know what? For real. I was walking to the Wendy's earlier because I was eating that food because I was like, fuck my life.

I got to redo this podcast. When are we going to get our own goddamn faces on these fucking bus ads? The bus stop ads. Oh. Because of the YouTube things? What the fuck? Yeah. We've got...

Here in Montreal, we've got some YouTube ads on bus stops. Yeah. I spoke to it. I spoke to Matt about it for a little while. So there's those. And also, there was a YouTube event in Montreal, where all at Plastazar, where quote-unquote all the biggest YouTubers from Quebec will be. Awesome.

And I went down the site and we are bigger than any of those channels by a noticeable match. The biggest channel was 400k subs. Not to aggrandize us or anything. The person that I saw... The person I'm standing next to, you know, a bus shelter and I'm looking at this guy and I'm sure he's got a very good channel, but he's on a fucking billboard in my city. Sorry, a bus shelter in my city looking at me, looking all fucking cool in a white background.

And I'm like, how many subs is this? He's got like 100k subs. What? How come I'm not on a bus shelter? Because I saw one with Lilly Singh and like she has tons of subscribers, way more than we ever will. But like, what? A guy with like 100k subs was on an ad in a bus shelter?

Do we just not have the right phone numbers than us? Maybe it's because we speak English. It might be. It might be actually. Who knows? Yeah. Possible. In many situations.

It might be because they're advertising towards a Quebec audience. Yeah, that was part of that event. It was like French-only, all-English fuck off. Well, no wonder they don't have- I was actually looking at it and I was actually kind of offended because I was like, man, that's like actually language profiling. No, but doesn't that actually make them relatively more popular because they can't rely on an American audience?

Because they have four. Oh. Relatively. Yeah. No, I mean that very explicitly. No, no, I know. But like some of them had like less than 10,000 subs. But those are 10,000 French subs.

No, less than 10,000 subs. Less than 10,000 French subs. That's nothing. That means, yeah, but that's only out of the Quebec Wall Internet. And you only care about English subs. That's a lot of French subs. But like it's still language profiling and actually it actually kind of did. Yeah, but from a marketing perspective that makes a lot more sense.

That's the land we live in, literally. Yeah, for sure. Like if I lived over in say Turkey and I didn't speak fucking word of Turkish, but I spoke Chinese really well and only spoke Chinese and was really big in China, I guess it would make sense that I would not be invited to the Turkish Youtuber's Convention. It's kind of different because English and French are the same. I know. I'm using extreme wild examples to kind of make my point because I always do that.

But we might as well be American to them, you know, so that's what's up. That act, you know what, or Western Canadian by that metric. More or less. Anyway. P.S. Fuck Ontario. Speaking of places that are not here, that's the... Speaking of places that are not here, there's that other place down there, Philadelphia.

We went down there. Too many games. Was it a convention? You want to talk about that again? Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. All right. All right, so it's not quite Philadelphia, it's the place outside of Philadelphia. So I thought it was in Philadelphia, right?

Next to a place called King of Prussia. And Skip Back Village was where I was staying. Nice place, very colonial. Con is really nice. Too many games is a very nice con. I think too many games is a great convention. It's a good con. It takes place in the middle of an endless parking lot.

Yes. What else did we talk about? Met some people. I got to meet Liz, one of our artists. Very nice lady. Very cool. Pleasure to meet you, Liz. James from Epic Game Music, nearly shit his pants, walking back through a parking lot

because he, him and James Rolfe. And who else was it? It's Aunt Fish. Aunt Fish. They did the cheap burger. All did the stupid fucking thing. Guess what? I think we already talked about that.

Fuck. Fuck. Yeah. That was in the first 60. I was going to say, I think we're past the... This podcast is terrible. So we... Don't stop listening, though.

It was a good convention. It was a great convention. We talked a little bit about the games that I played already. But we did not talk about the cool guys that glossed over. Okay, because that's... We got to rep those guys. Those guys had the best, most interesting booth I've ever seen at a dealer's room. And what they do is very simple.

They buy Nintendo Power and old game magazines. But Nintendo Power was like their main standby for a lot of that stuff. On mass. Like they'll just go to eBay and go to stores and just give me a thousand Nintendo Powers. And they will go through that stuff and find all the pristine, awesome ads from those years, all those years ago. Cut them out and laminate them. And the coverage is really good because they had from the first magazine I've ever bought

the Hi-C's Havoc ad on the back of that, up to Hyper Light Drifter. So we... We... Me, Woolly, Liam, Matt, the best friends in Taka in particular, like we clean them out. Put their kids through college, really. Yeah. A little bit. We need to rep them because it's amazing.

Like they had almost everything that I ever wanted from this kind of... Once I saw the idea, I was like, oh, do you have this? And the answer was yes. I got the Alpha 2 Ryu looking up at Akuma ad. I got the two... Chrono Trigger Epoch. I got the two-page Xenogir spread of Stand Tall and Shake the Heavens. Some obscure stuff.

Popful mail, man. I have the pure black background with the white text that's just as Genesis does. So the cool thing about these... I love that one, man. These, of course, is the fact that because they're laminated... They travel! They travel easily, and they're smaller than a poster. I would never ever give a shit about this kind of thing, but just making it durable

makes them like valuable. Well, because it means we can bring them back and we don't have that wonderful con experience of, oh, all the shit I bought is annihilated. Even besides that, I would never just keep a stack of paper ads. Yes. You know what I mean? Like, not even just traveling, but like at home, that would just be trash, you know? Elaminating them suddenly, like, makes them a lot more desirable.

They're permanent. Just like those memories. Yeah. So those guys are great, shoutouts to them. Shoutouts as well to the cool Giovanni slash Donald Trump cosplayer who gave us a bag full of goodies and cool stuff, including Moon Knight by Brian Michael Bendis from 2011, which is a really cool comic. And I guess I'll just describe the highlights really quickly.

So Moon Knight's a big fan of Wolverine in Captain America and Spider-Man. That's crazy. I didn't even read that comic. He had a control. That's fucking nuts. No, he's nuts. He's nuts, actually. Like not Frank Castle nuts.

No, he's just hallucinating that Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Captain America all want him and that he's around and they need him to be on a secret special mission. And so he's out in LA where no one else is because everyone's out in New York. And wait, is LA just? The whole deal is like LA is like, yeah, really, there's nothing going on out there. Most people are out in New York. Most villains are out in New York. But a couple of them figured, you know what, this is stupid.

Nobody's working LA. Because like if I leave Spider-Man's jurisdiction, I might get shot by the Punisher or if I make a left, I'm getting beat down by Daredevil and then all the other street level heroes for hire. Fuck this, I'm moving. So they go out to LA to start up with their own crime shit. And the only one out there really is Moon Knight. But no one knows who the fuck Moon Knight is.

So if you, the reader, has never heard of Moon Knight either, it's fine. They take that into account. People are wicking up who Moon Knight is after he swings by. In the comic. You know, type of shit. Like it's really bad. And he's teaming up with people who have been Avengers for 44 seconds and can't even remember who they were as well.

So it's great. And you know, so you get Moon Knight jumping into an action scene, dressed as Spider-Man. But then they rip, they beat him down and realize it's not Spider-Man and they rip the costume off of him and he's wearing the Moon Knight costume underneath that. And then it's like, oh no, here comes Wolverine for backup. And then he just fake snickets with some weird claw thing he has on one hand. So he's, and in his brain, it's Wolverine doing that. So he's just, he's out of his fucking mind.

And it's great. It's a fun time. And it's not in like a Deadpool kind of way. He needs serious medical attention kind of way. Does Moon Knight have any powers? He's pretty much, he was brought back from the dead and... Oh wow, that's, okay, yeah. Like actual magic.

But he's barely got anything. So great. So he's just Cosplay Man in this run anyway. More or less. That's a great goddamn read after going to a convention. Really fun art style as well, as you mentioned, looking over my shoulder and seeing the fact that Moon Knight is strong. I didn't say that.

With, no, you didn't. What are you talking about? Anyway, Moon Knight is strong. It's a negative space. So a lot of the time he has no outline. He's just a white shape on the page and that's fun. So thanks to that guy for bringing that and some other cool stuff. Also shout outs to the Hunter that brought me the rest of the Abarray Killer.

Like... Yeah, he brought you the knife that went with it. And the Hunter with the proper transforming weapon. And the little transformer and everything. So that was a really fucking cool time. I like that as well. We did our panel. That was fun.

And did Philly have anything else for us? Oh yeah. I guess, you know, also we got a good shout outs to Mark Swint, Ben at the Sage. I assaulted him. And... Oh, was Mark that you did that to? No, Mark Swint. No, he was with Mark.

Is the one who called on the violence within me. Okay. If you assault Mark Swint, you'll die. Yeah, no, that's not happening. He encouraged me to attack Ben at the Sage. You're like Mark Swint would be a better, like, Street Fighter character than N'Kali. Mark Swint could walk into you and you'd turn to mush. That's what happened.

So I did and we were planning to do something, kayfabe, but it turned out you stiffed him a little. It went more than a little stiff. And I guess... Look great. Footage of that will show up later. Who was that with? Not in court.

Taka was there. Takahara. No, but I mean, like, where will that show up? That will show up on the anime abandon section of the Ben at the Sage's channel. So stay tuned for my court hearing, my court dates. Stay tuned for filmed crime. Yes, that's correct. Negligent, though.

Negligent. That's... Yep. Alleged negligent crimes. Uh, I guess to go back to non-conrelated stuff on the way to it, I also had the fun of losing my 3DS. Woo. Don't know what the fuck happened, but it was heroine.

Here's a very abridged version of the conversation we had on the last podcast. Nintendo's lack of an account system is fucking unacceptable. It's so backwards. It is so fucking embarrassing. It is literally a generation behind. Two now, actually. Yep. And we left that in a place where I was like, oh, I guess you'll find out next week when

the story continues because what the fuck? Why can't I just log in and reclaim my saves? Well, you first, you need your police report. Yep. So I call up the... But you did call them, man. All right, so here's the bonus. Here's the bonus, for I guess.

Fuck my ass. I call up these fuckers. I get a line. Wow. I wonder if this story ends well. And then the guy's like, hey, Nintendo, how can I help you? And I tell him what happened. And he's like, oh yeah, sure, no problem.

What? Really? Give me that serial number and look in your chequery email. We'll send you a message and then... Just equivalent for codes or whatever. And then your purchases will be transferred. Super handy. So I was like, okay.

I still didn't get the email. But... Okay, wait. No, that's... He did say it might, like, because you're calling late. It might take a minute. He's like, because you're calling late tonight, we're closing in about half an hour. So it might happen tonight or it might happen tomorrow.

But... So we'll see. Yeah, but you should have no problem getting your stuff back. So... I feel... I do appreciate... I hope you get back a code and you type it in. It says this 3DS has been banned from the eShop.

Yeah. Also, you play? Yeah. No. That was... Better than expected? Yes. So you're still not as good as required?

No. Because really all you should... You should just have to sign in. You should just have to sign in. Yeah. Um... But they will do it manually for you. What was...

At least now they will. I know there was a time where they absolutely would not. Oh, yeah. Part of the identification process that I found particularly hilarious. Could you please hold your penis up to the phone? Can you please, uh, list for me some of your purchases that you've made on your console? Dude. I was like, uh...

Okay. Wow. What an unnecessary step. What an unnecessary step. Uh... Fire Emblem. SMC4. And, like, I go down, like, 15 or so games that I've bought.

And he's like, oh, also you can include Wii U games as well. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. And I list down about, like, five or six Wii U games. You should have jokingly said what's a Wii U. And then I pause after listing about 20 games. Yeah. And they're still silent. You're still waiting.

You still want to hear more. Okay. And then I throw out another five or ten. And then he's like, yeah. Uh, okay. Okay. And I'm like, like, how many games? Really?

What's the number? What's the threshold? What percentage of my ownership do I have to go to? Also, what if you're a person who's only bought ten games? Exactly. So someone with a lot more than that... Like, if it was 80%, I would never be able to list it all off. It's insane.

No way. But he's just sitting there. What if my 3DS and I couldn't tell you what's on it right now? He's sitting there with his hand out beckoning. And as I'm running out of... Keep going. As I'm running out of things, you know? It's like, it's like when you go down to some kind of government thing and they say, can

I please see, you know, some, a very official thing. We need two pieces of ID, right? And you give them your, your, your, your, uh, usually you go with your, uh, you always have your Medicare card on you with our health insurance card here in Canada. Uh-huh. Um, and, uh, you give them either a passport or a driver's license. You know, whatever. And they say, oh, do you have your, uh, you know, because this was a couple of years ago

for me. I remember this happening. And I said, oh, well, I need your driver's license to your passport. And I said, well, I don't have those. I was like, do you mean on you? I'm like, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't drive and I haven't traveled multiple years.

So I don't have them. I was like, well, then you need to go, you can't do this. Like, excuse me? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like, but I need, you told me to come here. Yeah. Also.

I need to be able to do this. I need to do something with your address on it. Like, and it's, get, get fucked on that one. And it's like, what, like, so can I bring like, you could, if you, if you happen to have your hydro bill, then maybe, but maybe that'll do it. Well, what may have been the, the stupidest form of that is when I went to vote, I ended up showing them my just eat email receipts. And that was good enough.

That was good enough. Nice. Good stuff. Perfect. That's ridiculous. Uh. Fucking paperwork is such fucking garbage. It's trash.

Uh, anything, anything, uh, that comes to mind that you guys did in the way that- Did you want to talk about your Mirror's Edge Catalyst box? Yeah. Yeah. That finally came. Did you ever call- I'm fucking looking at it. Did you ever call Amazon and get your free money?

No. Oh. It was on Thursday before I recorded. Huge ass box finally shows up. Hey, thank you for not ignoring me and stealing my money. Hey, wow. Did you like Mirror's Edge? I know.

I know. It's getting worse every time. I know. Why would they steal your money? Thanks for not fucking burning my house down and then coming in and taking my shit, Amazon. Hey. You fucking thugs.

How do you like- We need to get back to that sonic pun. No, we don't. You got to go fast. Wasn't that already- Mirror's Edge. Wasn't that already in the first- No. Oh.

I didn't care. Okay. Faith's got to go fast because Sonic and running- Okay. Well, anyway- Fuck. The box is huge. The statues are huge.

The lithographs are kind of small, but they're all right. This podcast- They're over in the light. They're not here. This podcast will be remixed. Yeah, I saw you have that stapled to your wall. Yeah. Do you get that feeling as we talk?

That's the faith type of thing. That this is going to get slowed down and chopped up? This is the biggest collector's box I've ever had for anything. Let me take a look at the Titanfall one. No. That's borderline obnoxious. The Street Fighter one- It's definitely not the biggest box you've ever had because then you'd include shit like

Rock Band and Guitar Hero. No, but the Street Fighter legendary box. Well, you never got that cat helmet for Halo? No, I did not. Never got that RC car for the cod blocks? I can't say I did. What about them? Whatever was in that Skyrim box?

The Skyrim box is a big statue of Skyrim, man. Yeah, the Titanfall 2 helmet is going to be a thing. That's a bit ridiculous. Can you wear it? No. Wait, can I wear it? No. Then why?

Maybe Baby Ashley can wear it. I have a giant head for my tiny body. It's constantly surprising to others. So the human's helmet in Titanfall is the least important cool thing that's a part of that game. Send me a robot. Why would you not send me a robot for all that plastic? Anyway. What a waste of my time and money.

I can't believe it. Oh man, I'm looking at a picture of a goat on a skateboard. I guess then what happened before that was I finally got to sit down and spend some time with Mighty No. 9. Oh my God, we have this whole fucking thing again. Yeah, I know. That's why I'm not looking forward to this podcast. We had such a good podcast recording.

I liked it so much. No, we can't keep saying that. I know. I know. And it's fucking shitty. That's just going to be weird. No, no. Work through it.

Work through it. They don't want to hear that. They don't want to hear about what they're never going to hear. Let's do the fucking speed form. Yeah, okay. So here's my opinion on Mighty No. 9. It's the worst campaign I've ever seen that still resulted in a real object coming out that I can't acquire because I'm still like yesterday I was still fighting with Humble.

Guess what? Today I'm still, cannot actually receive my game. I was never able to get the survey. I was not, I'm now not able to receive the game. So as for now, the game score on Pat's book is depending on how you want to view it, either X out of 10 or zero. Sure. Now I can't believe.

Right? Like whichever, whichever score system you feel comfortable with, I feel those are both accurate in a fashion. I was not aware that the Humble Bundle people put out games in this way. Don't say it like that. Yeah, they have Humble. Say it like you said the first time. They have a Humble Store, but the branding is still confusing for some.

They're getting into publishing now. Don't do this. I can't do a whole podcast where we sound like that. It's really good for them to branch out because the Humble Bundle sales are down a little bit usually. Fuck. I played through Mighty No. 9 and completed it. God damn it.

I think Mighty No. 9 is like a 6 or a 6.5 and if you're playing the Ray content it's like a 7 or a 7.5 because Ray is more fun. Beck is really enjoyable to play as, but Ray is a little more fun. He thinks that it's an okay game with some serious flaws and it's like worse than the best Mega Man games, like 2 and 3 and X1, 2 and 4, but it's better than the worst ones, like 7 and X7 and X6 and like Mega Man 1, Mega Man 10. It's worse than 1, 2 and 4 and it's better than 6, 7. And it's on that weird X5 level where you're like, well it sure as fucking X4, but it's

also sure as fuck not X7. Hey, the dashing is a fun mechanic. I like that they let you do it many times. Beck is fun to move with my controller. But when you get the red pass-through power-uppers, a big group of enemies and it tells you to dash through the first guy, but then you can't dash through the first guy because there's enemies behind you. But then Liam says that, well, they're really good about giving you a red enemy before that

big group of enemies so you can just shoot through everyone. So Mighty No. 9 is a victim of a fucking nightmarish kickstarter for 10 SKUs, which was a mistake by everyone's standards. And you guys- It's like when you look at a weightlifter and he lifts up a ton of weights and you say don't do that. Oh, but then a man- No, no, wait, wait.

And then the Xbox 360 drops off the side. Them trying to do 10 SKUs at once is like somebody going, I'm going to lift this heavy thing entirely with my back. And you go, you really shouldn't do that. And they totally managed to lift the shelf with their back. And you're like, well, you're doing it. And then the Xbox 360 falls off the side and breaks. And you're like, oh, boy.

And you start to buckle. Oh, hey, Ben Judd making translations that weren't said. And Inafune was like, hey, we got to go super fucking big and hard. So he put this publisher-style deadline on himself with the SKUs and it fucked their game up. You would think that somebody that went to Kickstarter, which is all about anti-publishing, would have learned from publishers that pushing 10 SKUs is always a bad idea. Especially since the man worked for Capcom for like 20 God in here. When we worked for Ridos, we knew that you should never do that because multiple releases

is a terrible thing. It's not a terrible thing, but it's really hard to do. You had eight people to port today. Eight people full time. And your most skilled testers that are working on some of them. They can go on to the next SKU. But instead, if you're spreading yourself- You got to spread.

You got to get stuff gets missed. You know, it's really shitty the fact that there's a physics engine where there's bugs that happen because of physics things, because that didn't really happen back in the day in the 2D ones when the car- It could, I guess. Slave pointed out that it could, because they still use physics. But it wasn't the same where it was like, you have a box that's going on a treadmill. It's a middleware engine.

And then the treadmill freaks out when the box falls over the edge. I hate the fact the bullets disappear. That's really shitty. That's weird, especially when you're running forward on the rail sections. I really hate that shit. But, and I really hate the fact that you're 3D and you can't really tell where the collision ends in those parts where you can touch- And Liam was standing with his shoulders in a tornado

and he was like, I guess I'm fine in this tornado. What the fuck is a low dash? I don't know, that's stupid. He really got stuck on that part. Why is that even used in this part of the game when you don't even introduce what it is? It's holding down and doing the dash and it's the same thing except you're a little lower to the ground and you only need a once, really? That's dumb.

And so we'll leave with this. Do you think that Mighty No. 9 will ever, ever, once it's patched and fixed and a little bit more polished and is a decent game, not a great game, but a decent one, that it will ever, ever be able to outlive this stink? Only if Mighty No. 9 II comes out and has a good game. Only two people- I think the series needs to be a series and then people will forget about it, but it'll take a lot. Only the people who are hearing about it for the first time walking into a store-

Not the people that are burned. People that are on the internet and are aware of what's happening. And furthermore, Inafune's name won't be cleared until he makes a Shovel Knight quality game to bring it back and then another one to impress him. Yeah, he's got to do two more. His name is done. Because one has to cancel it out and then one has to re-re-give himself back. I like Soul Sacrifice a lot.

Soul Sacrifice and Soul Sacrifice Delta are awesome games. Unfortunately, neither of those two is Mega Man. Unfortunately. Although it kind of is actually now that you think about it. You go in and you kill the opponent and you take their power. And you get the monster's power. Yeah. It's pretty much Mega Man.

It's pretty much Mega Man actually. Either way. I think of it- That's actually- I never thought about it like that. Yeah, wow. But it's pretty much Mega Man. He's really into that power taking. And recore is you kill the guy and then you take their-

You take their- Yeah. Yeah. So why did we never put this together? Why did we never think about this? All of Inafune's games were about taking their powers. This is new, yeah. No, I've got yours.

No, I've got your powers, Sphinx Man. Yeah. I have the ability to tell shitty riddles and get a big nose. Yeah. But it's- I don't know. For the $20 I put down, I don't feel cheated or anything. I got what I paid- I got what I expected. I mean, well I sure didn't.

Yeah. Yeah, you still haven't gotten anything. I'm sorry. Yeah. And prior to that, to getting into it and stuff, like, there was just a- definitely like the sentiment was all out there. And what I really wanted was to be able to cut off all the bad luck and unfortunate- Yeah.

Horrible diarrhea. Something that was nothing to do with the game. That was the pre-release campaign. Gotta go fast. Yeah. I wanted to get rid of everything that was done and all the fuck ups they did and just play the game in a box so that I can make my own opinions. Yeah.

And not just go on what everyone is telling me I should feel. Yeah. And I still haven't beaten it, but I think that's what I said. Worst than the best. Best better than the worst. Definitely. And that sniper stage was cool. Sucks that there's no checkpoints.

It was. Yes. It was a cool stage though. Yeah, we're going back into the- No, no. You're out. You're out. You're out.

The patterns that PyroGen had were fun to learn. PyroGen was a fun boss. No, stop it. No. No. PyroGen's a lot harder as Rey because you have to stand close to him all the time to hit with your slimes. You're done now.

It's better than Gunvolt. Okay. I like it better than Gunvolt. You guys both liked it much better than Gunvolt. We both didn't like Gunvolt. No one liked Gunvolt. I don't know anyone who liked Gunvolt. We really tried to like Gunvolt a lot.

Your shirt upsets me because- It's kind of a nice shirt. It's a really nice Gunvolt shirt. Yeah, but it's a bit- I would like to say I'm a big fan of Gunvolt because I feel like I am, but I don't like the game that much. Yeah. There's nothing much to like.

All right. So what else did we talk about in our weeks? I played Tokyo Mirage Sessions for like an hour and a bit. You think it's really good and that it's like clearly splitting the difference between SMT and Persona. Hashtag Fee. And it's a good game, but it is clearly lower budgeted because it's only 35 hours long. I can't do this.

Oh, not anymore. Oh, shit. There's been an update. No, Pat was right. He said yesterday. Yeah. If you can't wait for Persona 5 and you need another thing to tide you over- Or you just want another thing to tide you over.

It's a fucking good JRPG. Yeah, it's on the list for me. More Fire Emblem themed than SMT, but the SMT really comes through in the game mechanics. Go for that instead of Star Ocean. Very good. So I hear Star Ocean's still good, so IDK. I don't know any more. We saw that wacky ending.

I hope you find out what that's all about. Fire Emblemu. Um, so, you got, then, you got, hey, hey, you know what you got? What? You got GOT. What? Game of Thrones. What?

Game of Thrones finale aired yesterday. I scrolled the bit where Willie talks to himself about Game of Thrones. Okay, okay, so let's- Well, there's the bit where I try to say things in a way that might catch your attention, hopefully. But anyway, it was really exciting. It was a very good- Jets?

No! Is winter come? Do not speak like this! All right. Well, look, I thought it was super fun, and I'm really happy that pieces are moving, and- And that the thing is happening. Things are moving in high gear because those six seasons have set up, and now things go. So, I was scrolling through a Discord, so we talked at length about a topic that I only now touch,

which is I'm waiting for the Game of Thrones episode entitled The Culling, in which like 14 of 38 characters bot-botch it, right? Yeah. Yesterday, scrolling down my Discord. Anyway, so you know what else is really exciting? What? What is exciting? Independence Day?

You saw Independence Day. Yeah, me and the girlfriend saw Independence Day at a theater in Pennsylvania, which was very nice, totally empty. There was a man in there being very rude and talking during the movie. Would you say it was a hilarious, campy, spiritual successor? Yes, I would. Should I see the movie? If you like a fun summer movie that is bad, but you like it and had fun watching it, then

yes. It is, you know that thing that you expected to feel when you went into Transformers? Like Independence Day? Yeah, but instead you walked out going ehhh. Yeah. Remember when you walked in thinking bad boys with robots, but walked out and realizing it was like a baby shit for babies? Yeah, I realized I wanted my money back.

Yeah, that's what you'll get. This is like closer to bad boys in space than Transformers is. Does it accurately convey the sense of wanting your money back? No. Oh, good. Very much does not. Do they make fun of Will Smith at any point? No, he died.

He's dead. Good for him. He's very dead. He died in a training accident, a.k.a. wanted too much money. Wait, he died in a training accident? He died in a training accident. That sounds like they just couldn't get him. That sounds like they just couldn't get him.

That sounds like an insult to Will Smith. Whatever. He didn't die in a cool way. No. Because it's like, hey, where is the babies from the Fuller House? It's like, oh, they're running their multimedia giant conglomerate empire, so they didn't have time for our family reunion. Oh, there's pictures of Will Smith all over and he's a great hero.

And then everyone at Fuller House stares at the camera and stares at Mary Kate and Ashley Olson. So I was wondering if there's anything like that. The Olson twins are in the movie. There's big photos of Will Smith and they're like, Will Smith is cool. Jeff Goldblum is full on Jeff Goldblumming all over. Judd Hirsch is Old Man Jewishing it all over the desert. I think the best place for us right now is near my boy David.

It's just, you know, that shit all over. They blow up the earth real good. Fuck that. It is like, you know how we see a lot of cities and shit get blown up in movies nowadays? Yeah, I hear London just gets flattened. It is impossible. I don't know. Destruction porn?

It's beyond. It's like annihilation pornography. Like, there is no way to undersell the scale of the destruction on display in this. Because you, did you watch the Independence Day II trailers? Yes. Did you see that, the destruction scenes? Where London gets flattened. Were you baffled as to what was actually occurring?

Well, my brain just turned it off as it exploded. No, but like, were you looking at it and like, are they blowing it up or are they throwing a rock at it or whatever? The objects. Was it the thing from Destiny? Yeah, kind of. Okay. Yeah, that's in there. Oh, the Travelers there.

Yeah, the Travelers just in there. Okay. Like, not even joking. So they couldn't get Will Smith, but they could get the Traveler. The Traveler. Yeah, but it's not Peter Dinklage. He asks for less money. Yeah, no, there's a shot of the Earth at one point after the Troubles, like, you know,

in the middle of the movie, and it is like, I don't even know how to describe it. Half of the Earth is obscured by the damage. Wow. It is the kind of thing that you look at and go, how, even if they win, how can you possibly go back to the real world after something like this? Yeah. Oh, man. No, I heard about Brexit.

Yeah. Well, yeah, they got Brexited pretty good in this movie. Blame James Cameron? Do you know David Cameron? David Cameron. David Cameron. If he had stayed in office, London wouldn't have gotten flattened. What about Quixit?

What about Quixit? What about Quixit? What about it? What about Quixit? Never. Never, apparently. Yeah. Those Troubles are over.

Yeah, good movie. Lots of fun. It feels like it was a four-hour movie cut down into two hours. There are characters that look like they at some point had character arcs, but then had their character arcs removed. In favor of the old guys getting character arcs? No. In favor of nothing.

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Did they ever really leave? Yeah, when were they gone? I mean, they only come to my door once a month. Well, I guess they leave for like 29 or 30 days a month. Yeah, I suppose so. Okay, so this time around, they actually left for a really long time. I think they left for years. Years?

Right. How could that even be? But we didn't notice because they then came back. What? Through time. Okay. They were the products of the future in their hands because the next theme is futuristic. I like this.

See? They were gone for a while. Why are they only coming back now? Why didn't they come back for the first one? Shit. This is weird. Everything has its due time. Why would you ever choose this moment in time to come back?

You know what? I bet if they brought it back any sooner, there would be timeline weirdness. We wouldn't have been ready. There would have been all kinds of malleable, like corrupted timelines. Are you just talking about that part in Timecop? Yeah, a loot crate would have come back in time and touched another loot crate and it would have melted into a pink blob. That's not a very good loot crate.

You don't want that to happen. No, you don't. So you got to come back at the exact moment, and the exact moment is now, which is the month of July. You're going to be getting the futuristic theme. And that includes, of course, Rick and Morty. You got your Futurama. You got your Star Trek.

You got your Mega Man. You got your... Everything. Everything. Valiant Comics is in there. Those are all things that I like. Those are all the good things from the future. I mean, they're not necessarily good because...

Well, they're not bringing back like... Rick is actually a horrible human being. Was there Mega Man from like the year 2000X? 20XD6 or 20XDX. No, the first Mega Man one is 2000X. It's 2000X. So, you know... So he's actually the past, but...

No, he's the past future. Don't worry about that. But he is futuristic. He is futuristic. All that stuff and more straight to your door. Like my Roomba. Exactly. If you want to get in on it, you head on down to where?

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Wow. Thanks, lootcrate. Thanks, lootcrate. That's good. That's actually pretty good. All right. So there is one extra thing I'd like to say about Independence Day. This is...

There's a phenomenon that happens in Hollywood movies every now and then. This is the most blatant time I've ever seen it ever in which they're like, that character exists so that the movie does well in China. There is a Chinese pilot who is at the most beautiful woman I've ever seen who has maybe 15 lines in the movie and is the bestest hot shot at his pilot ever. She's just there. And she is literally just there and like, you know, they go, the world is together now because we fought the aliens and now everyone's together, but the only countries you ever

see are America and China. And it's like, hmm, interesting. I wonder if she'll go fix Tony Stark's heart next. Yeah, it's the first time that I've ever seen a movie where it's like, that's for the Chinese movie audience. It's weird. Oh, did I play anything? Do you guys remember when I played anything this week?

Oh, blood and wine. No, no, no, that's what I was going to play. No, you were going to buy more microtransactions. Yeah, I was going to buy more microtransactions. I played Bloodstained as well. Yeah. And it's... It's bad.

It's miraculous. It's the worst game you've ever played. It's everything I expected and more. It has cool new game mechanics that fit perfectly in the mold. It feels more like Area of Sorrow than I expected. The back dash is a couple frames too slow. What about the tosses? I hope they restore that.

Boss is really cool. They have nice 3D intros before them now instead of the 2D intros of your... The 2D intros were good though. What about the amazing everything? Everything's incredible. If you were a backer and you paid $60 or more, go download that demo that you're entitled to. This is not the beta.

It's the demo. Unless you're people like me who don't want to do that. If you weren't a backer and you still want to play it, I don't know, go torrent it or something. It's a demo who gives a fuck. I hear they're doing things that they never could have done before with the older consoles. They use the right stick that didn't exist on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS.

And using the right stick, you can aim a new series of skills around the environment. And it's a really good mechanic and it's really well thought out. And it's just fantastic. Mighty No. 9 this ain't... Alright. Also, it's by the same company. Which is... Mysterious.

So that's where I want to look and be like, where's the exact dividing line of who's involved with what, right? Because Ben judges on both sides. A big part of it is like, we'll never... When you compare $2.4 million to $10 plus million with Bloodstained, it's always going to be hard to say for sure. But also, Bloodstained isn't trying to ship on 10 SKUs. The world has proven that they prefer and are ready for games to be released procedurally

instead of everything in one. Yeah, you know what? When you say procedurally, do you mean randomly generated games? No, I mean literally... I remember Woolly said something like this and it put me into a little spiel that I'd actually like to repeat in short form, which is, I am impressed by the general public and Kickstarting public's desire to wait for better things rather than rush them out the door like the regular game playing public seems to want.

Right? Whenever a game gets delayed, all you hear is like people... The great gnashing of teeth and people getting mad, right? But when a Kickstarter game gets delayed, within reason, right? Everybody goes, yep, okay. Make it better. I trust you guys in most situations. And I think that's great.

I think that that attitude serves Kickstarter very well. Well, it's the rational decision to make. Yeah, I put my money into this. Yes. Make it good. Kyle, I'm willing to wait. And that's when Liam points out that he never redeemed his copy of Pillars Eternity that he didn't know that he owned.

Yes. You know, do you rush back into the kitchen and yell at the chef, even though there's another meal already on your table? You know? Yes, apparently. But you shouldn't. Don't do it. You know what else is a really good new mechanic?

Jimmy down the Jiffy Loop? No. Bam! I'm a fan of the mechanic that is gore, violence, blood, and other horrible adult things being inserted into Samurai Jack. Wait. You want to rephrase it? Samurai Jack is coming back.

You mean the TV show? Not the individual. And Samurai Jack is going to be rated TVMA because there's going to be dark tones of violence and... Opinionated alt chicks. That's nuts because... Fuck! Fuck!

That's the dad, goddammit! Motherfuck. That's going to be the fucking go-to phrase for years! How do you like Billers Edge? It's all about opinionated alt chicks. It actually really is, and it's a big turn off. It's like three of those opinionated alt chicks quotes this weekend. Every one of those characters is trying too hard.

Every single one. And it's like, ugh. Whatever. It's an offensive. It's a par. No, but it's like, ugh. Anyway. Oh yeah, I read the comic.

Whatever. So Samurai Jack... Oh yeah, check out the prequel comic for Mirror's Edge in the game. We already talked about it. Did we? If you want to know more, check out the prequel comic for this podcast. Where we record this podcast entirely. Yes.

And lose it. And go to prison. Samurai Jack never finished, so you never got into it, Pat. But now it's going to be worth your while. It's like Twin Peaks. Yeah. So there you go. It was never worth it.

And now those two... And the Guardian codes. I never realized. That's a joke that I made. It was very funny yesterday. Gotta go fast. We laughed. That one as well.

Gotta go fast. I made some good ones. That was Liam's. I was planning on... See, here's what I wanted to do. I wanted to restart the Mirror's Edge conversation so that I could just flat out fucking steal. Liam's gotta go fast joke because the evidence is gone. Wouldn't be the first time.

Won't be the last. Buuuuut... Unfortunately, Liam refused to play my game. Yeah, because I knew you were going to do it. Damn it. I told my girlfriend this morning Pat's going to try stealing the jokes. Did you really? I did.

Like for real? That's awesome. I'm glad you're on the ready. Now it's a hunt. No man's land. Everyone's trying to steal my jokes. All jokes are up for the grasp. Can you just start playing around about right now?

I work so hard to make them and then people just put them in Punisher videos. It's like damn son, can't make a fucking joke and piece around here? No. Shit. Pay me. We do. Why did no one catch on to the fact that the Xbox One S shrinking size comparison was just a lie? How did we not notice that the instant we saw it?

I mean you can't even get a disc in that thing. You can't even fit a disc inside the thing. We didn't even notice. That the USB slot was too small. We need to stop recording. Anyway. The render that Microsoft made showed a comically tiny Xbox One S made for ants.

In hindsight? Where you could not even fit a disc. In hindsight it's like one tenth of the size in that diagram. And how did we sit there and eat it up? All of us looked at it and said yeah. You're not lying straight to our face. We believe you because why would you lie straight to our face? And yet they did.

And yet it lies. Phil Spencer, we're like Phil spends his time lying. The Xbox One S still looks like an amazing improvement. Yeah. Still looks like an amazing improvement. That's the goal you come to for your re-recorded podcast. The original Xbox One. But I don't know why they had to lie about the size like that.

Because it's already pretty good. Here's why. The reason why they lied about the size is because it's still not smaller than the PS4. I really wish that when Nintendo made the 3DS XL and they said it was 40% bigger. Are you really going to do this? Balloons it up to the size of an Xbox One. Are you really going to do this, the whole podcast? They lied about the size.

Are you really going to do this? They lied about the size because this doesn't usually happen to them. You know, it happens to everybody. Just got a little nervous. Now and then. They wanted to make sure you were impressed. Well, hey. They might have oversold it a little bit.

Oh, I mean, you know, it's fine. But then when we got the comparison shot. It's fine. I just wish you had, you know. We got the comparison shots. Talk big. It was resting on top of the bigger, blacker one. Yeah.

And you're like. Really? And it was like, well, now the truth is coming out. Did you workshop this last night? I did not. Okay. So when you see the smaller, wider one, resting on top of the bigger, blacker one called the S.

Then we saw that it was in fact larger than we thought. Yeah. Not as small as originally advertised. Did I flip that one around or what? Not really. Honestly. All right. Not when you use the phrase, like not as small as we thought.

We want it when they were. So what do you even fit a disk in that? So what you're saying, what you're saying, well, is that when you lie them on top of one another, each other, yes, your, your, your routine, you're impressed. No. About how, how not much smaller it is. No. It's just that the truth comes out when they're, when they're right next.

The slot size is the same. When you, that's how you can tell. When you open up Photoshop and you hit the scale tool, then you go from one to the other and then it's like. Just go from white to black. And then you're like, oh, okay. No, from black to white. Black to white.

Right. But then when you have them both in the frame at the same time on top of each other. And you're confronted. Very evident. You're confronted with this. But the size was not what you thought it was going to be. Yeah. How upsetting.

For her. Oh, you had the whole thing. I know. The whole thing. That's why. The whole thing was deniable. And we don't deserve. It was deniable.

We don't deserve. And we were talking about penises slapping together. How do you even fit a disc? There's a system of shock rematch. I don't care. Nobody cares. I didn't care the first time you brought it up. I was just being polite.

It's really bold that they're putting it at them. Nobody cares. Mega Dimension Neptunia. Nobody cares. While the naming thing. We did a video on the channel. Oh, yeah. They named one like a Wii U game, but it's on the Vita.

And there's an MMO one, but it's not an MMO. Great. Waited. Liam Sandbagging his Neptunia game. Okay. So like the moment you said no one cares, my brain went minus eight minutes. And then you did that again and it went minus seven minutes. Hey, look.

Here's another. Time to roll in new news. Hey, look. If you go to my Twitter yesterday, you can see a photo of my face. Photoshopped on the faith's body. That's humorous. You got 15 minutes more of that? Because I told people to make me images of Gotta Go Fath.

And they're working on it. Berserk Warriors is confirmed for the West. That was already confirmed. But we also do have the trailer that I know. Looks good. Yeah. Looks good. Looks really good.

I don't see anything wrong with them using Casca's costume as a pre-order bonus. I get why people are like eh. But let's see what the fuck it is. Right? Yeah. I want... Because I don't doubt that it can be used very badly. But I'm sure it's actually fine.

When Guts swings his sword into a crowd of a hundred, I want them being cut in half. And they are. Also... Hey, Willie, do you want me to read you the inside reviews for the game Inside that we still know nothing about? All the ones I just... Ten. Ten. Ten.

Nine point seven five on ten. Five out of five. Nine point five out of ten. Ten. Ten. Five out of five. Five out of five. So you know what my favorite part about the reviews that I read about that game were?

Metascore 95. The favorite thing about the... I got a phone call from my mom. Is that... Willie? Is that out? Yeah. Tomorrow.

Today? Hi mom. Willie, so my favorite thing about that games reviews that I've seen is that none of them talk about anything in the game. Clearly, the feeling of the trailer is that they can't. All of them are like, this game is perfect. Go buy it. Yeah. It's very clear that they can't say anything about what's actually going on.

And those trailers are really good at not telling you about what's going on, but peaking your interest. So those guys are doing a good thing. Yeah. Good job. Is your mom okay? Did she safely get away from the Brexit demon? Yeah. I saw the news last night and she was like, oh, are you re-recording the podcast now?

And I went, yeah. And she said, you must be ready to shoot yourself. And I said, yeah, pretty much. At least I don't live in fucking England. Yeah, well, neither does she. I know. I know, right? Dodge that bull.

Topical. Bam. 24 years. Your mom. That's adorable. I don't mean that in a condescending way either. She's great. No.

You know what else is adorable? You guys like your mom? I like my mom. You know what? I like the idea of pugs. Nope. It's better. Am I allowed?

Oh, it's like... Oh, no, he showed this to you earlier. Oh, it's like four little baby shizus? I don't know what the fuck they are. I can't tell. They're really furry. They're like, they're fucking tribbles. They're adorable.

The trouble with shizus. The trouble with shizus is that... They get all up in your spaceship. Yeah. They fuck your bulldogs. How do you rewind this? I don't know. Give me my phone back.

Okay. I already retweeted it. Spend the rest of the podcast recording. We should really treat the podcast this way every week. This is fun. The trouble with Devil's Third is that the online services shut down at the end of the year. They've kept it on longer than they should have, to be honest. Because it was a ghost town on week two.

Yeah. It was shorter than APB and it was shorter than auto assault. Auto assault is in my... No, that was the three month one. In my mind, auto assault is the reigning champ of online games to die because it was dead on the first day and it was an MMO. And it lasted three months. I want to put out a thing if anyone can find us an indie game that historically had zero players online and has never had a player. The reason why auto assault sticks in my mind so much is because I listen to the John Baum cast and I listen to Hotspot.

I remember way back in the day, Gershman was supposed to do the review for auto assault. Right. And he talked about how the fuck am I supposed to review this? There are no players. Right, of course. There are no players in this MMO. Was it multiplayer only? It's an MMO.

Oh, I didn't like that. It's an MMO that launched with no players. Damn. Fuck! I wish I could play it. Yeah, well, you can't. I'm sure there's a pirate server out there somewhere. Or not.

The purpose of open beta is also stealthily to make sure that there's an actual player base that exists, period. Is it not? So... No. I mean, you really should know that before you get to the open beta phase, but you're not totally wrong. Yeah. I don't know. I think that's what market research is for.

Hey, what's next on the docket? I'm trying to remember. I'm trying to remember, too. We cut like 15 minutes. A ballrog was in here, I think. A ballrog was already in here. It's Marin. Marin's playable.

Oh, Marin's playable in Hyrule. She uses a bell. Warriors. When you say Marin, you mean the chick with the milk? No. Is that Mal? No, Marin. It's kind of similar names, though.

Who's that? She's from Lynx Awakening. Oh, I don't know that. This is the Lynx Awakening pack. You didn't play Lynx Awakening? I didn't play Lynx Awakening. You get Marin and you get the Pegasus boots for Lincoln. Lincoln.

And she looks super cool. Marin's singing the songs. It's cool. Marin's really dope. I wish she used all the instruments instead of just one, but she still looks super cool. I wish she was not just a dream. Snake Eater. Well, she was a seagull in the end.

It's okay. She made it out of the dream as a seagull. That'll have to do. Yeah. Man, seagulls are fucking pieces of shit. Marry that seagull? No. What happened?

You let it fly away. You just fuck it. Do you? It's not for you. You just fuck it. Fuck that seagull. Yeah, like David Cameron with that pig. No, that pig fucker, David Cameron.

That's what the Brexit was about, right? Yeah, it's about pig fucking pig in the mouth. People that didn't want to fuck pigs. No, people didn't like their Prime Minister fucking pigs. So they're like, we're out? No. Right, they left. He was against it, actually.

You know what my favorite part about that whole pig fucking thing is? It's for real. It's the guy that called, like, insinuated that the Prime Minister fucks pigs, immediately went on record saying, oh yeah, I don't think he fucks pigs, but he had to deny it in the press and that's totally worth it. Yeah. It's pretty good. Oh, the English.

If you're doing a hazing and they ask you to put your dick in a dead pig's mouth. Don't do that. Just shoot them all because hazings are stupid. No, don't shoot anybody. Don't shoot anybody. But hazings are one of the dumbest things to have ever existed. Well, someone on my Twitter was talking about how that reminded them of the one of the most fucked up things they ever seen, saw.

And it was just a screenshot. They posted from some anime where there's just a cat that you can't really see, but a cat is going down on a dude. And it's like, what happened? Well, if you want to find out more about that, you can go check out Team 4 Start Gaming. Oh, yeah. There you go. Cool.

Hey, that's correct. Um, oh god. Fuck. What's the next story? Is it one that we covered really well and thoroughly? The next story is about Oculus. Oh, I don't even want to cover this again. Oculus, they were like, yo, we like making VR open platform is good.

And then they were like, suck my dick, five, you're blocked from our shit. We're blocking that so you can't even buy games from our store and play them anymore with your other headsets. And then Dark Alex was like, no, uh, PSP up in here. And after a little while, now it's fine. And you can buy games from the other store. Now they turned that shit off. And you can use whatever headset.

But like Christina Aguilera said, Genie's out the bottle. Genie's out the bottle. April 15th, five customers can use the Oculus Store to buy and play games. Oculus is pissed. Did you say five customers? Five customers. Oh. Oculus is pissed and they said they don't condone it.

May 20th, Oculus puts DRM into their runtime, forcing five customers to lose access to the games that they legitimately bought. Of course, five customers are using custom software to make their hardware compatible with Oculus. Yeah, burn it up fully. But it would be a stretch. Yeah, burn it up. Pirates, walled garden jumpers with credit cards at best.

Five customers then get back to Oculus with a fix that makes piracy easy. Oops. June 13th, Oculus blog announces 30 VR games, one of them was super hot. Super hot. What the fuck is this? It's exclusive. People are not pleased with that. The developer apologizes and says it wasn't a DRM conspiracy.

Oh, I just got a press release from Capcom. They were not trying to be greedy. But it doesn't matter because someone in Germany notices the DRM is gone secretly from Oculus. So after this whole shit storm, the Libra VR people are still in disbelief that they did this. But hey, you know what? You don't have to pirate shit anymore because now they're backed up saying you can spend your money on our store and it's okay.

Which is great. I can't wait until someone makes it so I can plug a PlayStation VR into a computer. That is the final. I imagine we'll be day one. Deciding factor. Yeah, I just got a press release from Capcom going like... Is it okay to share publicly? It's literally like, dude, check out all the updates SF5 will have as of July 1st.

Yeah, we know. Isn't this the baddest shit? This is for people that weren't watching CEO. Yeah. That's all. So we already talked about that, buddy. No problem. You should have watched CEO.

Heart and Slash has a trailer and it looks really cool. Heart and Slash is out. Yes. It is up on PSN. You should go buy it right now. You should go buy Heart and Slash. That is a game where you are a robot and you shoot things and you look like... How much podcast do we have now?

Mega Man Legends. We have an hour and 22 and a bit. All right. Mega Man Legends. It has the same art style and it's really cool because you put on one of over 75... There's no city thing in this game. One of over 75 body parts to choose from. Like what, Liam?

Like Robo... Like Robo Pawn? No. You. Come on. Like Cyborg Justice? That's right. We can get eight references in this game.

Cyborg Justice is the shit. I think you couldn't beat the second level. My enthusiasm... Yeah, that's right. The Starship level is super fucking hard. You need pneumatic legs to jump over that big hole. Was I just a shitty kid or what? Wait, but can't you not get the pneumatic legs?

No, you can get them. You can also get the tank legs and do a double jump, but it's really... Was I a dumb kid or is that game really hard? It's extremely difficult. Okay, thank you. That makes me feel better. The difficulty was very high. Very high.

Okay, so Heartin' Slash is out. Did you guys realize that this week is like the most stacked fucking summer draw in the fucking universe? Oh dude, there's no games to play. There's no games to play. Ridiculous. Alright, so we use this up as what are we going to be playing this week, but fuck it, let's just throw this in. Because I think this is actually newsworthy, right? The amount of games?

So, most people probably haven't finished that Witcher expansion, right? No. So let's roll that into that. So you get... Well, the kickoff to this entire discussion was when I reminded you that Revelator is out. Yeah, the Revelator came out last week. Yeah, the Revelator is out. We will all confirm.

We didn't even know that. We don't have time to play it. Friday is the Goddamn Street Fighter V update, which takes it to 1.0 as leaving us back at the Witcher Blood & Wine update, bringing Blood & Wine to 1.0. That fixes it. Yeah, basically. Very accurate. It's also coming out. And then Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

Overwatch continues to exist. God Eater 3. Zero Escape. God Eater Resurrection. Zero Escape. Zero Escape. Star Ocean 5. Good version of Resident Evil 5.

Yep. God, what else? Are there any bad versions of Resident Evil 5? No, there aren't. Yeah, that's what I thought. JoJo. Eyes of Heaven comes out. Eyes of Heaven.

Heart & Slash. Out of Nowhere Adventures of Mana came out. Actually, I guess I'll just take this opportunity. Take the credit. If you remember, that was a Volvita game. And let me choose no words carefully. Choose carefully. Volvita did influence that game coming out.

I can confirm. To a degree? To a degree, definitely. How much? I can't say. Some. Obviously. Some degree.

But if you were one of the guys who voted, yes, I would buy this game in English then. You helped. This is your call to action. Don't prove them right. Don't let them say they were right by not localizing it in the first place. Now's your chance. So Adventures of Mana is also out. To put their money figuratively.

Put your money figuratively where your mouth is at. Don't put your money in your mouth. Don't do that because money is disgusting. Money is covered in germs. And cocaine. Well, no, not Canadian money. Sometimes. American money.

The Canadian money mixed in with the American money in my wallet right now. That's now covered in cocaine. But the people listening to this are used to the Coke money. Yeah, they know. There's so many fucking games coming out this week. You can't play them all. There's too many. I have to put Star Ocean 5 off.

Oh, and Inside comes out now that that's a fucking perfect game. Oh, so that just leapfrogs multiple spots onto the list. I have to do that Blood and Wine expansion. I have to do all of it because then I am done. Like I've fully completed that entire series. Right in the trash. Well, in the mental trash. Like I made the joke the last time.

That I would buy Revelator, play eight matches, and then never touch it again. Yeah, I had the exact same thing. And I said, you know what? Why don't I just cut out the middleman and not? I really, really want to support Guilty Gear. That's the difference. I went out and bought it last night just because of that. I bought most of the Blaze Blue games for fuck's sake.

And I don't even like that series. I'm not going to play it, but... Am I going to get a text message? You're not. You're not. No one is. No one's getting a text message? Anyway, you know who might get a text message is...

My ass. A.G. I-Numa. God, that Nintendo guy can't say the word I-Numa. I-Numa's. It's like he just can't read plain English. It's like me pronouncing anything? I-Num-Nums, I believe. This was where we went like that.

Yeah, something like that. Take an English class. From the Starship Yamato. So how do you feel about picking up an item that's called the Hyrule... Hyrule... That... I would feel really good to pick up... The Hyrule, Hyrule, Hyrule, Hyrule, Hyla, Hyla...

Did you notice that Grezzo made Ocarina of Time 3D? Fuck! Highly in soap soap. This is so impossible to follow! Then, Victoria's Mask 3D, and I really wish they would have made a new original 3DS game. You all almost thought they were gonna make an original Grezzo 3DS game? I thought they were making an original one. People haven't heard!

But they're arbitrarily making a two... They arbitrarily made a link between worlds. A link between worlds, what about that? That's an original game. They're arbitrarily sticking to 2D... Didn't you want to play Triforce, whatever, fucks? No. Yeah, just like spirit tracks.

So multiplayer Zelda is something that I-Num-Nums wants. Multiplayer Zelda can blow my asshole out. But he wants it on console. He did it on the Gamecube that time, and it was pretty good. But why not? I think it'd be fine to get a Hylian Soapstone. Anima straight on a Colin's face. That's what I think.

As a group? Yeah, whatever, I don't know. As your friends? It is a multiplayer game. Why'd that fan art of you guys in Zelda give you all weirdly gigantic nips? I liked it a lot. What was up with that? It takes gumption to do that, and I like that.

Liam, you had like eight huge ass droopy nips. Who was I? Was I the Uku? Yeah, you were the Uku. Uku's cool. You were Uku. Uku's like that one monster in Soul Sacrifice that I forget its name. Yeah, that one. The one that's like a bird.

Yeah, the gluttony. Yeah, that one. Yeah. I can't remember what it was called, but... It's called Gluttony. Maybe it was the Cockatrice, maybe? Anyway. Oh, it's the Cockatrice.

Yeah, it's in the gluttony. Yeah. Looks like an Uku. No matter how bad it is, nothing will overtake away the awesomeness of the name Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness. So, actually, I guess I'll talk about that for a second, because I followed a bunch of people who imported the game and were like... Yeah, like known importers.

Known importers who I regularly follow and trust their opinions, and they were like... And they've turned out to be solid in the past? Yeah, and they were like, yo, this game's good. This game's like actually like good. It's not... Like 7-8? Not as good as the first two games, but like it's a good somewhat return to form. So, you saw that, and then I walked in going like all the...

Because I didn't see that. I just saw the review topic, and the reviews are slamming it. The meta score is like 55 or something right now. And I'm like, these people who I follow are like, yo, this score seems a little low, actually. Like, that's weird. So, I don't know, if you're into JRPG, you might enjoy it. Are they more tolerant of certain tropes, or are people less tolerant? Why are they like...

They slammed the right games and thumbed up the wrong game, or thumbed up... You know what I mean? Yeah, I know. They were good. They were like, yo, Mind Zero's a piece of shit. And then you still played a bunch of them. But Caligula's pretty good, I guess, so... You still played a bunch of Mind Zero, though.

I still did. Yeah, so, I don't know if I can trust this. But, uh... I don't know. Fucking Destructoid's so good. Supposedly, Star Wars 5 is pretty fun, but just a bit too traditional. Destructoid's so good. Like, I feel...

Sorry, I feel like this article might have been written by you. By me or Matt? What does it say? It's Brock Lesnar and his big, dumb sword tattoo are on the cover of WWE 2017. Oh, that's what the title's called? That's the title of the article! That is like you'd write it. Hey, so do we know whether or not Ford is stealing from old Firewatch?

They are. It seems like... It is unmistakable that they are. It seems like it's one of their... But did they pay for it? No. It seems like it's one of their regional dealerships they did. And they hired some artist who just stole the air.

Because that was Oli Moss. Yeah, I know. And some artist just stole the air. When Firewatch brought it up to said dealership, the response was LOL. So, this is gonna get fun. Oh, okay. Okay. Like, total dismissal.

Just... Yeah. We sell cars. Whichever. Whatever, man. I'm in the real world. Whichever artist who got hired... Go.

Go. I know. I don't even care. You have fully public record of everything you're good. Go out into the ocean and swim until you can't. Yeah. How do you feel about the fact that the Pokedex is now alive? What do you mean it's alive?

It talks to you like a magic MacGuffin. Can you fuck it? Like Homerous Shield in Madoka. It just talks to her like a goofy object. No, it doesn't. That's a stupid fucking idea. Alright, I have multiple new images for you guys. Kids' games need toys to talk to the main people, or else they lose attention.

Pokemon's a cool game, and I like Pokemon, but I think the talking Rotom Dex is kinda silly. Yeah, it's weird and I don't like it. Pat's showing me a picture of Sonic with... I don't like it. Mirror's Edge aspects photoshopped into its eyes. Um, no, it's Pokemon. No, it's Pokemon. Ah, shit, I don't even know if I can say it.

There's a new cool... whatever, Plague's making a good thing. Um... Is that smell? Is it another fence? Fence is going up. Yup. What's that smell, guys? If you enjoy this quality content...

What is that smell? And... It's like looking around the apartment nervously. Enjoy. I need to just start retweeting all these Sonic images. Excuse me. If you enjoy, um... Sonic does not swear, take drugs, or harm the environment.

He likes to vape and praise the Lord. Vape-nash. Vape-nash. And this is from like a children's textbook or something. I don't know what that's from. You gotta stand back to back and see who rips the fattest one. Whoever follows me on Twitter is gonna have a weird day. Alright, if you have complaints about the fact that this episode of the podcast is probably the shortest you'll ever hear...

Very likely. ...complaints to whatever Team Four Star's email is. That's super best friendcast. Team Four Star, we are not as good as the best friends at Gmail. That's super best friendcasts at Gmail.com. What are you gonna do, Taka? You're too afraid to fight me. Oh, this is gonna be fun. You are not rereading me sending emails.

You fuck. You are not! No, no, pick out terrible ones. Do not reread those same emails. Don't reread the same letters. I don't want to talk about Finger Family again! You just picked the Finger Family one again! Don't do it again.

I will not rob these hard-working individuals. Can't we just credit them? Alright, have you guys heard about this Finger Family shit? Critical did a video on it. Yeah, I did. Before the critical video, there was the pregnant Spider-Man family. Yeah, we did. And you know what they do? It's because parents are shitty,

and they give their three-year-olds iPads and just walk away. And so they play the same playlist every day, and that's how the videos get millions of views. Thanks. When are we gonna transition to a Finger Family based economy? Fire Devil Black. Fire Devil Black, that's a cool name. We are super aware of these videos.

We were even aware of them before yesterday when you told us the first time. We had a pretty good conversation about it. And we should get into that. And if you want to know more about the Finger Family thing as an example, there's way more of these than just the Finger Family thing. Go check out Critical's channel. He has a cool expose on this shit, where he just talks in his smooth-ass voice, and he dives deep.

Chrissy wants to know if we ever listen to music that's not from the game while playing the game. Bitch. Even when we're grinding out and doing really long, really boring sections. I only ever did it in Excite Truck and Wipe Out HD, and that's it, and that's all. I hope you lose this podcast. No, we listen to the game music all the time. That's what we want to hear.

I have a bunch of friends in MMOs that turn off the music for everything after like two or three battles, and I think that's totally insane. Sometimes in Overwatch, people put on the DJ thing in Discord to play music while playing, and I'm like, fuck that. No, turn that off, please. I want to hear the game music. When I'm training in Street Fighter, I want to hear the music no matter whatever. I'll elaborate on something I didn't say.

If the game does not have ambient music, guess what? I bet the sound design's important, and I want to hear it. Overwatch does not have music in the stages. You know why? Because you have to listen for footsteps. You have to listen for everything. Right? Everybody's gun has a different noise.

The coolest thing about Overwatch is you can play any sound effect, and we'll be able to tell you which character it is. Immediately. Game general says, should Kojima be reigned in, or should he have free reign? No, let him. Let his freak frag. Fucking freak frag fry. Freak frag fry.

It's hard to say if Kojima is surrounded by yes or no, until he fucks up, but he hasn't fucked up. Those are grenades that mess up your hair. Aw, damn it. You fuck. Good job with the podcast name. Ah, fuck. It was gonna be...

What was it gonna be this time? It was gonna be Gotta Go Fast. Yeah, I know. But now... Because I've been pushing it pathetic style. Way too hard. So now we gotta... Gotta go fast until it's mush.

Gotta take Fath out back and shoot her down. Fath out of 45. Oh yeah, no, what's that smell, guys? Yeah. What is that smell? Bluh. Bluh. Yeah, oh, you did see it.

Okay. All right. Good, good, good. Okay, here's some more Sonic art you fucks on Twitter. Yeah, that I can't use for the thumbnail, because we're not going that way anymore. Oh, we don't do that anymore? No, we can, but I mean...

We don't go Fath anymore. I'll fucking use it, whatever. I'll use it. It doesn't have to be consistent. You know what? There's two titles. Just fuck it. Yeah, no.

Have Gotta Go Fast slash freak frags fry. I think Pat's line just there was good. Doesn't have to be consistent. Just fuck it. I think that's a good podcast. No, put three podcasts to... Oh yeah, because iTunes gets all pissy. Yeah, I know.

You have to put a little asterisk over the U. How about this? How about this one? Fuck your own asshole iTunes naming convention. Hey, so Dr. Strangelove had two titles. It was good enough for that. It's good enough. Who's Dr. Strangelove?

The guy in Metal Gear, you know? Oh, no, no. That's how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Thank you. Yeah, it took a second. It's on below 17. I thought you meant... I thought you were talking about the Marvel character,

and I was being a shit. Are you serious? No, I was being a shit-ass. I thought you were just talking about Dr. Strange. Do we have a more email? Do we have a more email? No, we're all out. No, he's looking at one.

Subway asked you how do you get a better email? You don't. You send the email. Yeah, but that was a person in person. I know, but Wally talked about it last week. Here's one that I didn't ask. All right, here's an actual new question. Here's your first new piece of content.

Here we go. Here we go. World Exclusive. World Premiere. Skodavis asks, how do you super best friend cast? What video game world has left the least interesting and the most devoid of reward once the player or character has finished their quest through it?

A lot of War 3. Without any question. In terms of gameplay, I never would ever, ever want to touch a Sly Cooper game after I finish it because there's literally nothing left. Oh wait, are we talking about like a fictional space or are we talking about like the game?

Like, it's not worth going back into the game to play around. Because my answer is that the War of God of War 3 is like actively ruined to top to bottom by the end of that game. An example, every Zelda world is full of dungeons that are just death traps with no items left together. Yeah, once you've emptied it, it's pretty pointless. Shadow of the Colossus is a dust bowl

with 16 corpses on the ground. I had so much fun with Shadow of the Colossus after the main game. I think most open world games lose 90% of their purpose though. Yeah, I would say that. Near. Sikber. On a game I haven't even seen half of.

Well, it's ironic. Near will know what you're saying is quite ironic, so. Okay. Oh, fuck. No, is this a good question? Fuck. What? Fishing All-Stars.

That was a really good question. That was really funny. Someone asked if it was a Fishing All-Stars game, who would be in that game? Alright, Alec. Jeffrey McWild is the main character. Jeffrey McWild is the main character. This is indisputable.

Indisputable. The secret Akuma boss is the ridiculous Fishing Man. Yeah, we basically. Everywhere in between, we named every character that fishes. We named like 40 characters who fished that one time. That included such characters as Big the Cat and Kiryu Kazuma. Red from Pokemon. A bunch of Unarukami.

I even threw in Gone from Hunter X Hunter. Yeah, a bunch of non-fishers posing as fishers. We really, we listed a whole bunch of fishers. Imagine all the fishers we would have answered. It was a good answer. We got them. That one that you're thinking of, that we didn't say we got them. I included the Monster Hunter,

which I was pretty happy about. No, we don't even need to go any more specific. No, I'm having so much trouble remembering the ones we even just said yesterday. And that's stupid. That's fucking dumb. I threw Earth from Jimin. Oh shit. Alright.

Cool. Well, I guess we can take another. I guess we can. Here's a new one. Is it bad? Michael says, hey guys, I just graduated from high school. Hey, congratulations. I'm going to prom today.

I was wondering, how was your prom? It was terrible. It was not good. I went to the graduation and then I just went home. I should have done that. Instead, I didn't go to the graduation and went to prom. Big mistake. Seems backwards.

Not a good mistake. I had no interest in going. I didn't really have many friends in high school graduating with me. They had either graduated the year before or were graduating the next year. Most of my pals at that time didn't go to the same school I did. Yeah.

Me and my little friend David, little small Chinese guy, he's my buddy. We kind of like coordinated. I literally never heard of this person. Yeah, I know. It's from my old friend. He changed his name to Billy. I wore like a white tux like Asian outfit.

We took each other in prom. And we rented a limo and we got all our friends in and we did the whole stupid thing. That sounds fun. We drove up to a lookout. We watched the sunrise and then we went home. Yeah, that sounds fun.

That was it. Matt got up and asked the Sheen High if they were ready. We all know how that turned out. Yes. What are you guys looking forward to this week? More emails.

There are too many video games to play this week, so I'm just going to try my hardest. I'm looking forward to more emails. I'm just going to... I'm just going to do this. You know what? You know what? Original content can be emails because let's face it,

126.088 fucking... Well, you got to add 16 minutes to that. Yeah, I know. I had random clips on. So actually though, Giant Bomb Cast lost a complete podcast a couple of months ago and theirs was in a worse situation

because two of the guys had gotten on planes and left. I remember reading about that. They did a full email podcast like crazed. It sounded like and it was fun. So hopefully this will actually turn into gold. Okay.

Here is the esoteric fact of the year. Okay. 153. Okay. Is the exact number of times that Pat said do you know what I mean or see what I mean in the Dark Souls playthrough? I counted this from pre-episode one to the end of the DLC.

You should have saved that. You should have really saved this email. That's really good. We're in it now boys. It'll be new for Bat at least. These are all new. I actually absolutely adore... Coming in from Chris.

The statistical analysis of our speech. I think it is the coolest thing. It's like Pat, did you know that you say this word all the time? No, we didn't. Pat, did you know that every time you say all you pause for emphasis? So we got one coming in from Kevin.

Every single time. What was the thing with the fighting games where he rubbed his nose? So Kevin says... I'm an eccentric man. Kirby is kind of an eldritch god. Kirby's whole deal is absorbing the essence of his defeated foes.

His stomach appears to be completely infinite. It goes into some kind of vortex or something. He has the mind of a young child and while he regularly destroys beings of awesome cosmic power Meta Knight is also a Kirby, but he's purple with yellow eyes.

What the fuck's up with that, huh? They're a race of space warriors. What is the lore of Kirby and his implications to the common folk of Dreamland? He is, in fact, an eldritch god. That's correct. Have you seen Right Back At Ya? That's your answer. But they're racing stars. Kirby's like...

In Right Back At Ya, Kirby is infantile to the point of, like, absurdity. He's a fucking baby. He's literally a baby. I never imagined Kirby to be that young. I imagined Kirby with a 5 o'clock shadow chain smoking. Like in that one ad.

Like that one ad. Alex Pool, we are not going to do your variation on Mary Fuck Kill because we did the final one a couple episodes ago. A while ago. But we said that was it. We said it. Your second email

He's just hitting next. Is the same thing. You're just scrolling through the email. The ones that came in between is where we left off before. Hey, you know that part where you told that guy that your best chance of getting your email in is to have a good one? Here's a little preview

of that process. Yeah, the guy that we met in Philly was like, hey man, I got a question for the podcast I was wondering what the best way to get it on the air was and I was like, I'mma be honest make it a good question. And then he went, dammit. So we got a second question in from Alex Pool

and they're also doing another variation of Mary Fuck Kill. Probably not aware that we are not doing these anymore. Sorry Alex, cool. Here's a translated King of Fighters 14 interview from 4Gamer. Okay, that's cool. This is where they showed the Gerro 2 sprites. This is what I retweeted

during too many games. Yeah, we got those Gerro 2 sprites. Did you see that one of the guys in the interview was saying he wants to make a new World Heroes? Because he can just do whatever he wants and no one will care. That's really depressing by the way. And someone said he wants to make a new Bereaky One now that consoles have two sticks.

No, no, seriously. Actually, you should do the interviews fantastic. I couldn't find the translation, so thank you for that. That's great. Madman's Cafe. Just retweeting Sonic pics. Okay. Alright, Tom from Argentina. Hey man.

Big fan and he says what games don't apply to the Let Platinum Do It rule? Rhythm games? Strategy games. I would say honestly none. They just need proper time and budget. I literally wouldn't name

any. I would say things without action. I would love to see anything they make honestly because I just want to see. Yeah, I guess. I guess it's like there's some that you'd look at and they wouldn't line up with what they typically make, but I would rather see them take a shot at everything first. I would...

But if I had to pick a genre arbitrarily, I guess anything that has to be realistic like sports or racing? I would say narrative driven role-playing game. I would not want to see them make them. They made one of the best ones of last generation.

Paul says, okay, so I've sent you three emails today. What game are you talking about? Infinite Space. Oh, that's not narrative driven RPG. I'm talking about like like an obsidian style game. Paul says, okay I've sent you three emails today and I'm sure I'll be blocked for spamming

or something, but let me just say Hotline Miami on the PS4 is not optimal. It's glitches that make enemies invulnerable. Oh, seriously? It is not unplayable and I'm having a good time with it but it is no way fair. That sucks. That's weird because the PS3 and Vita versions are perfect.

Have you ever played a game that was playable and get just unfair? I owned a Genesis, man. That was half the game. Like for real. Final Fight doesn't have good hit detection. We owned PS2s, right? Yeah. Guess what? Any multiplayer that had an Xbox, did you

play Soul Calibur 2 on a PS2 at any point? Why, no. Really? Never? Okay, well that still wasn't even the best version, right? It was to me. Okay, fuck this character garbage. No, it spawns the best one, but...

Xbox, all those versions of the game were the same except for the fact that the Xbox had better resolution support. Alright, uh... Hey, it's Easy, Easy Pete. That's it. You don't get a question, man. Hey, Easy, Easy Pete.

I was just wondering if your title, Saibatsu comes from the early 2000s manga, Akumetsu. That's all. Thanks. Alright, we're done. Dear, Easy, Easy Pete.

No. Thanks. Saibatsu. Alright, so Deus Ex and Nier will continue as they will. Do you want to tease that LP again? Do you want to announce that new LP that you announced?

Yeah, which one do you want to announce this time? There's the one that's going to be we announced it too many games. That's Catherine. Matt and I are going to be playing Catherine. Which would be really cool. You like blocks and he likes being married. Seems like a good combo. Yeah, okay. That's pretty good.

And then there's another one that Pat and I are going to be doing that's very testosterone heavy. Very secret cool. Shooting out my balls. I was going to say something else and then just said balls.

I mean, that's where... Alright, we should start packing up these microphones. Use the same preview video. Of course. I apologize that this podcast is only one 34

plus 16. We didn't hit quite two hours. But in those spots that we talked over each other really bad, we did cover multiple topics in like a third of the time. I stuffed some extra emails in there. Jam it in.

Just like this meets like three days old. Just sprinkle some emails on it. But clearly you're not you're not feeling it. Oh, me? So. You want to go get Bulldogs? Hey, Willie, what

what music are you going to use? Oh, yeah. When I was at... Alright, here's the winner. When I was at too many games... That picture is good. You need to send me that properly. When I was at too many games, there was a

really cool pinball game that I played called Black Knight 2000 and the music was really good. And I was like, holy shit, this is a really good pinball game and the music is awesome. And this is just more fun than I've had with a lot of pinball games. So here we go.

I can't believe you didn't know about Black Knight 2000, man. That's what we're going to be doing. I sent the image to you. Okay. Okay, bye. Get ready. Go! You got the power.

You got the power. No way. Get ready for battle. Give me your money! He is a Black Knight. You got the power.

You got the power. Give me your money. He is a Black Knight. Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,

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