Castle Super Beast - SBFC 153: Trespassers Will be Shot/Acquire Sick Legendary Pokemon

Episode Date: July 12, 2016

Matt does more Weddings! Woolie does VR! Pat does Inside! Liam does Birthday!

Music Yeah, nobody wants to start the podcast. Okay, I just... Nobody's gonna start it. Yeah, everybody's gonna start it. Here, let's just start in three, two, one. Happy birthday. What?

Oh, no. Are we doing this? No, I'm not. Okay, starting it. You don't deserve the song. Okay, well, let's start again, though. Okay, okay. Three, two, half.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Nobody wants to start this podcast. Nobody wants to start this podcast. Happy birthday was rewritten to be a different song. I'm in a weird position to start the podcast, because the only thing I want to talk about I can't talk about, so it's like, yeah, it sucks. Okay, well, I'm gonna petition for someone to start the podcast.

Okay, well, we'll have to... Okay, let's clean break. Clean break. Birthday boy's gonna start it. We'll cut all this out. Okay. All right, and then... All right, Willie, cut this out.

Cut... Okay, cut... One, two... No, he'll say it. He's cutting it. He's cutting it. Oh, you're going to get it right anyway. For sure.

Yeah, for sure. Five, four... Oh, I didn't see you there. Welcome to the Super Best Friendcast. I'm your co-host, Liam. And welcome to episode... Willie, you have a thing. That's pretty good.

Does anyone own the Skyward Sword, Figma? No, I do. I met those, yeah. I do, yes, I do. It's a pretty cool Figma. I like it. Apparently, it's Figma 153. Ah, there you go.

That's the number. Damn it! I didn't see that. The numeral of the Figma. I mean, I should get the loot box, loot crate for the future. I would have seen that coming. Damn. Damn it.

That's a weird future joke that you'll understand in the later. That ad only runs in the future. Future people? Yeah. You get it? You get it? Hey, Liam, nice to meet you. Pleasure to meet you too, Patrick.

Yes. Another co-host of the Super Best Friendcast. That's me. I'm Pat. Hey, Willie, how are you today? I'm doing great. I'm doing fine. And also joining us is Shit King.

Yeah, no, I'm rubbing my scars because they helped me remind me that the past was real. Oh, hey, Matt. How are you doing? That's profound. Yeah. Stronger than yesterday. I thought I talked about that scar in my knee that some asshole bully pushed me into broken glass.

Yeah, the one that closed when you hear a shatter sound. That's nice and got-star scar. There you go. Don't fuck with that. This angry knee scar. I bet that kid was thinking, oh, there's some broken glass. I bet I could push Matt into it. Oh, fuck that kid.

I'd be surprised if he knew my name. Yeah. Oh, that's depressing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He used to make fun of you. Your uniform used to be white. He had pre-marital sex while I studied the blade. Anyway.

Oh, man. It's only him. How does it feel to be 16 now? I felt the same as it felt last year when I turned 16 again. So, you know. No, you're like- Great board during the stream yesterday, I believe, was a German spy that said, you are not 20 or 21 or 22 or 23.

You're probably actually thousands of years old. You're a vampire. Thousands of year old myth dragon. Like Kenneth from 30 Rock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. I mean, you guys can take guesses if you don't know how old I am. You're 23.

You're 24. I'm 24. Damn it! You were 23 just a few days ago, so I really can't blame you. I tried really hard. Thank you, Matt. Also, for sending anime titties to my Facebook page, my mom's like, what the fuck's that? You have a great boss.

Wow. It's not the reaction I expected. No, she should have been like, what the fuck's that? You're like, it's what I like, mom. Oh! Shut up. No, she thought it was funny. Yeah, I thought it was funny.

I thought it was funny. All right, that's all I got. Like, I'm still- The queen loves anime titties. What are you talking about? That's why she has all those corgis. Yeah. What?

Think about it. I like the cowboy bebop. I'm still super salty about you discovering your gift prematurely. Yeah, that was like the most unlucky circumstance ever. And the one before that, too, as well. Yeah. That's never gonna- But thank you.

I do really, really- I did get a chance to listen to it finally, and the quality is unreal. That's cool. I've never really listened to records, but Woolly got me the Streets of Rage- The finals. The first final. Nice. And yeah.

How did he discover it prematurely? How that went down was like, I think I just saw it at Woolly's place. And I asked him- No, no, no, I had- Oh, no, I was looking at the Drift Stage one. Yeah. Yeah, I was looking at your Drift Stage vinyl that you got from the Kickstarter. And I said, hey, I just bought the Streets of Rage 2 vinyl from Mondo.

And I was like, fuck, I can't wait to listen to it. And I think Woolly didn't realize that he had bought the first one as opposed to the second one. So I just went, well, fuck. And I got up and I was like, fucking here. And I was like, shit, I don't own this one. This is the first game. So it's even better because that was the one I wanted. Jesus.

I was like, well, then I double fucked up. It all worked out in the end. But it did, I guess. And, you know, thank you again. I do really like it. The quality is amazing on all stages. The quality is unreal. The great thing about the vinyl is that even if you can't listen to it, you can use it as some type of throwing disc.

Yes, exactly. Kill Zambies. Yeah. And it's also- And what I love about collecting them is you get the huge piece of art. Yeah. The art's really nice. I've never seen the Streets art at that resolution and quality.

Yeah. Because it's like the vinyl's like fucking huge. Yeah. So like I heard you had nonstop infinite celebrations and like pictures of like daddies with fish and stuff. Yeah. My dad went fishing and he brought me a bunch of fish for my birthday. Which is great. I'm going to barbecue them up.

It's going to be a good time. So I have some birthday stuff. Like we might as well. Like what else did you? I mean- I'll start with you. Yeah. I guess if I have to go to birthday stuff first, which I will.

I just- I went up north and I saw my family. It wasn't like crazy eventful or anything. We had a nice dinner. It was a good time. We burnt the town to ashes. We watched a bunch of movies. We watched Speed. Yeah.

Because Speed's a birthday movie to watch. Speed's a fucking blast. That movie sucks. Is Speed a birthday movie? No. Is it? No. No.

Because you say die hard to Christmas movie. No. Speed's not a birthday movie. But like I forget whether like Keanu Reeves doesn't go oh and it's my birthday. No. Or like Jeff Daniels goes oh it's my birthday and then he gets blown up. Man Keanu Reeves is really not great in Speed. No.

No. He's really good. But then like every eighth line just falls apart. I think he works in Speed. Like he works in two movies Speed and Point Break. Like Keanu Reeves himself does. But everything else is kind of trash. Airhead cop guy that's on the job.

Man fuck that old lady that's just like I'm getting off of this bus. I gotta get off. Yeah but then she gets hers. She gets blown up. Immediately. And that's why I'm like I don't feel bad at all. Fuck you. Yeah.

I watched Zootopia with my brother and sister and they hadn't seen it yet. But that movie is really good. That movie is tight from back to end. So this is like the second time you watch it now? Yeah exactly. That movie is really well written. Like there's no wasted scenes or anything. It's probably the director of Wreck-It Ralph.

I think so. Yeah. It's not too long ago and I was like oh that's... Makes sense. On John Lasseter was the producer too. And John Lasseter was the producer and everything. Forever and ever. And the last one I watched not with my family was The Boy and the Beast which is by Mamoru

Hosoda who did like Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and stuff. And yeah just put this up on the shelf of masterpieces along with his others. Like it's fucking fabulous. It's really good. It's about this boy who basically goes to this other dimension and becomes the pupil of this super tough bare man Kuma Tetsu who's like... Iron Bear? Yeah.

Holy shit. And he's one of the candidates to become Lord of the Land but he's the strongest but he's not... he's like terribly disciplined so he can never win like his big fights and shit like that but he's super cool. Anyway it's a really good movie. I was sold when he said Huge Bear Mission. This is really cool. When I went up to Yeti Khan a couple weeks ago, like the Resorted Convention, they had

a large projector screen in the middle of town square just blasting Summer Wars on TV as the random tourists are walking by and they just take over. Just blasting Wordsworth every fall weekend. Have you seen that movie though, Summer Wars? I haven't. It's Wordsworth as well. Just putting that out. No.

You're gonna watch that with your family. Summer Wars is like probably his best movie. I'm familiar with the art style. I only seen Summer Wars like once was a years ago. And it was fantastic. Other than that though, yeah, I played a lot of God Eaters still just going through that. No end in sight. Hunting games last the fucking million years.

Forever and Monster Hunter comes out of it. Monster Hunter's out soon. True that. True that. I played a bit of a game called Fury that I think we're gonna check out. I've been hearing astoundingly good things about this game. Yeah, I've been really excited about it for a long time and like when I sat down to play it at PAX East I was really not disappointed at all.

I was debating whether or not to make the tweet that just kind of says, we know about Fury. Yeah. A lot of people asking about it. It's like if you actually go through my like history I tweeted about Fury like a bunch when it was like announced and stuff. We know it exists. We were always aware. Did you guys know that Mai is in DOA?

I funded that decision. That's a girl who looks like she's wearing Mai's clothing. Yeah. Doesn't look a lot like Mai though. Mai's really flat. Yeah. Well, anyway. Did you know I'm in Steven Universe?

Fury. Yeah, did you know that? I heard that. I didn't know I was in Steven Universe. Did you know that I'm being featured in this kitty litter ad? Yeah, I saw that one. But yeah, I played through Fury. It really looks like played through.

Nothing but boss fights is what I'm told. Well, see that's the thing. There's boss fights and they're really good and they're really long. They're really long. But between each boss fight there's a little section where you walk for anywhere between, I don't know. Two to five minutes. I haven't timed them but two to five minutes maybe more and you just walk.

You just walk. Or you hit the X button and auto-walk. That was weird. I was like, what? What? What is this? Yeah, I didn't catch it initially. But yeah, you can just auto-walk and it's kind of world building but it's also not super

exciting when they do that. Sounds like a Jotun. Yeah. A lot of walking and then you get a boss fight. Yeah, and it's the same thing where the bosses are fun but the walking's not a Jotun of fun. Okay. But I think we're going to check it out and do a video at some point. The only thing I played a little bit too and the other thing I'll add about it is like,

yeah, it's pretty fucking fun when you're playing it. The only thing is that I have to play a bit more. I got to the second boss. But the first tutorial boss is like, the boss fights are long and that's good because that's the main part of the game. But I don't like it when the boss needs to talk at you and talk shit about you. Every three seconds and everything he says is incredibly generic and just, yes, I know, you'll beat me and I suck.

And that got a little, but the second boss doesn't really have any of that so that's good. I wish they wouldn't repeat their lines quite so often. Yeah, and they're not particularly interesting. No, exactly. It's just the stuff in between. But it is really fun. That Afrosamurai artist has a style that is very clearly his. There's literally a guy that looks like Kuma.

And he has visual cues that he just loves and is going to stick with. No, definitely. But definitely recommend it. And if you own PS Plus, just go download it. It's free. It's free this month. And it's well worth your time for sure. Gosh, it was the other game.

It was a game I played a lot. Oh yeah, Zero Escape 3. How could I forget? Of course. I finished it. Rank it now. Now. Proper finished?

Proper. Oh yeah, 100 total lead. Oh, you know Liam, he would never say finished. I wouldn't say it was finished if it wasn't finished. Because last time it was like, I've gotten a couple of the endings. I'm getting in there. Yeah. I don't know if you had to rank it.

It's an essential part of the series. It's probably the least satisfying one by the end. But it's an important part. Without it, it wouldn't all work together. We all know this game barely even happened. And it only seems to have really happened because Western fans were screaming and saying shit all over the place. Yeah, exactly.

But at the same time, it does feel a little unbalanced. And the ending is a little unfulfilling. The early-mid section of the game is jam-packed with puzzle rooms. And that's really great. And then right after that section, there are no more puzzle rooms. After you've done that early-mid section of the game, just the puzzle rooms go away. That's weird. Yeah.

And it's a bummer because 999 and VLR have really cool puzzle rooms. And puzzles worked into the story all the way right up at the end. My question was going to be how the puzzles stack up to those games. Oh, they're fine. They're just as good as the other ones. Yeah. But then they go away. But then they go away.

It depends on what order you go at them. Just like in Virtue's Last Reward, you don't necessarily have to go in a restricted order. You know what I mean? So if you go in a certain order, you can get some of them to come later. But ultimately, there's no finale puzzles. There's no... That's because the... Yeah.

I still have to finish VLR. And I think I'm actually going to restart it in the near future. Because I'm far enough away that I forget all the puzzles in most of the plot. But the final puzzle of 999 is where that game, like, slam dunks it into space. Yeah. It's a big part of it. Yeah. It's a really good final puzzle, too.

Kind of different from how they did in 999. Well, it would have to be. But it totally does a different thing. And I mean, Zero Escape 3, I guess it does a different thing, too, by just not having... I guess. ...a final puzzle thing. But I can't say that I am wholly satisfied by, like, the complex motives of the... Of the circumstance and the characters.

Is the zero-time dilemma not much of a dilemma? No, the dilemma's there, but there's aspects of it that are kind of unsatisfying at the end where, like, things they did...things that the writer did before played off perfectly in previous games. And I don't feel like they all played off perfectly in this one, kind of. That's not to say it's bad. It's great. The game is great.

And it's an essential part of the three games, and you absolutely should play it. But it's a...I think it's a bit weaker than the other two. That's a bummer. Yeah. As long as it's not, like, terrible. It's Return of the Jedi. Like, still an 8 or an 8.5, you know? Right?

Yeah. Would you say that? Yeah. I mean, still essential and great. So definitely check it out for sure. I still recommend it, absolutely, but maybe just a little bit weaker. It's Metal Gear Solid Blank. Yeah.

Yeah, pick your fucking poison on that one. One. No. No. Anyway, that's pretty much... Three, obviously. That's pretty much mostly my week. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a good format, unless your phone's still exploding. Yeah, it's kind of exploding. I'm trying to remember a game, a name of the game I played, but I'll be able to get through it. Yeah, I don't know. I played Fury a bit. I played that, and that was really good.

Well, something that's alongside Fury is on the PlayStation Store. I saw Energy Hook. Yeah. And I was like, yeah! And then I played it, and I was like... Oh, no. It's a bit raw. It's from the makers of the Spider-Man Swimming Mechanic.

No, from The Maker. Now, when you're the guy, and I've read about this too, the guy that designs Spider-Man 2 Web Swimming Mechanics, now, he made a really, really rough demo on his own spare time after regular work on Spider-Man 2 was being done. He would stay after and go, I can really... I think I have something here. He made a really rough presentation, showed it to the president of Activision at the time or whoever was a big wig, and then that was like, hmm, yeah, I kind of see what you're

going with for. Then got the rest of the team to make it a polished thing. Now, when you're by yourself... You don't got a team. You don't really got a team, and of course, I think, you know, maybe had one or two people helping the sound guy or whatever, but the game is really, really rough. I don't quite understand how, like, it's to be played, because you just, did you play it?

Yeah, I actually did. I forgot to mention it, because it was kind of not... So yeah, feel free to jump in. Yeah, it's more like a sports game than anything, in that you're doing tricks in the air and stuff like that. It says in the trailer, no story. No story. No combat.

I'm like, you know, if your game has no story, no combat, that's fine, but don't put it in your trailer, like, it's, oh, no story, thank God, I thought I could buy it. Oh, I don't know, for Mirror's Edge, that would have been... I liked the idea of throwing the rocket pack on with the grappling hook, because I love swinging. It's essential, that tool, because you need to get more speed to get more air to do more trick. And it looks a lot less rough than it did in the first trailer.

Oh yeah, it's way better looking than it used to be, but like... It's still not great looking, but it's way better looking. He worked with a different artist for each stage to get, like, a different visual. That's what it is. And that's really cool, actually, but, like, ultimately, the game is just a little, like, hollow. It's just not a lot bare. Yeah.

Because when you start swinging, you're like, it doesn't immediately feel as good as Spider-Man 2. And because, like, a lot of the animations is when a person is swinging, it's just their character model just kind of, there's no animation blending. Because when you play a Spider-Man game, even the bad ones, they spend time on him doing cool poses and backflipping the animation blends really well, like Spider-Man 2 did. And it's just, it's like this, and you're just, because when it says from the creator Spider-Man 2's swimming mechanics, you immediately have a picture in your head, and you start

playing this, and you're like, oh, like, it's not awful, it's just kind of there. It really just feels to me like, you know, when you have a game built around a game mechanic, it just feels like that. But in Spider-Man 2, the web-swinging was just a traversal mechanic. It wasn't the backbone of the game. It was important, and you did it all the time, but, like, if you wanted, you could run all the time. Energy Hook really doesn't feel like anything outside of that.

It's really all you have, and even then, it's not the same kind of feel as in Spider-Man where you were, you know, you were going from goal to goal. It always felt meaningful to do it, because it was, like, fast to move from here to there. But in Energy Hook, you're just kind of like, okay, I'm going to swing real big here. Let's do the big swing. And then I'm going to jump real big and do a couple of tricks in the air, and then I'm going to swing real big again, and I'm going to... That's a big swing.

That was a, ooh, that was a big swing. Golf claps. Yeah. As a swinging enthusiast, I'm kind of bummed to hear that. And I definitely think you should check it out, because I know you're into those kinds of things. Yeah, maybe you... Wait a minute.

And... Hold on a minute. No, I'll just leave it. Walk the dog back there. Yeah. All right. Like, maybe you could go through it a bit and be like, hey, no, if you do this, or you get to this level.

There is enjoyment. I don't know. It's not, like Matt said, it's not bad. It's just a bit hollow, ultimately. And I forgot how much it cost, but, like... I think the asking price was $20, which I found it was a little bit steep, yeah. Aside from that, like, the game I was trying, I can't find it, but it's a really neat game. A horror game that just came out in the past week on Steam.

And it has, like, driving through the something, like, it's a horror game where you're in a car the entire time, and you're driving down a lonely highway at night. That's cool in and of itself. And I played it... It's like that 400 days episode, where you're in the car. Yeah, sort of. I mean, this is, like, from a first person perspective. Visit ZombieCarGames at ScaryWebGames.com.

No, it's not. It just came out on Steam in the past week. And I'm sorry. I can't remember the name of it now, but it had a kind of forgettable title. But it was... I played it for about, like, five minutes, just because I installed it, booted it up, and I was like, okay, really, this sounds cool, because there's been a lot of visuals. I mean, there's this one animated gift people might remember just seeing on various message

boards for years of, like, a perspective of someone driving down the road and seeing some gross, silent, hill-type monster that scurries at you. That's from the very first Best of the Worst. It might be. It's like that movie is, like, it begins with a Z. It's an obscure, like, horror movie. And that visual will always kind of frighten me. I was like, holy shit, that looks fucked up. Imagine you're driving down the road.

And, like, I saw a horror movie the last past week where someone's driving, their headlights are caught with someone just standing in the middle of a road. It's a scary proposition. So I was like, that's an interesting idea. But then it stops being scary, because you just keep driving and get the fuck out of there. It depends. Do you run out of gas?

And then... Like, again, I only played it five minutes, but I was like, okay, okay, and it was ramping up with, like, intensity of what was going to happen, and I was like, oh, shit, I got a gig going. But it was really interesting. I'm sure we'll find it by the end of this podcast, the name of it. You've got our crack team. I'm looking.

Our crack team is on the job right now. I need to just log into my team. It's called XTRO. That's where that gif is from. That's the movie. Yeah. XTRO, yeah, exactly. Aside from that and Fury and Energy Hook, I burned through almost all of Lucha Underground

Season 1. I have about four episodes left until the end of the season. And it's a really interesting thing. The end of the season is treated as kind of a pay-per-view. The event is called Ultima Lucha, and they're like, at Ultima Lucha, you're going down Johnny Mundo, that type of thing. The final Lucha. And I've been really burning through it as much as I can, because every episode, I'm

like, oh no, I got to see that match now. I'm invested in almost every single storyline, except there's a wrestler from AAA from Mexico, Tejano, who I'm not really interested in anything he has to do. Not that he's bad or anything, but I'm just like, yeah, you're a wrestler. Your name is Tejano, which is basically the Texan. You're billed that you're from California, but you wrestle in Mexico, and you have a cowboy gimmick where you wear a cowboy hat and chaps. What are you?

I don't get your gimmick, so it's a lot of stuff all at once. So really, really enjoying that. There's a part I want to talk about, but since Willie's watching, I don't want to leave, because he'll mark out. How has Lucha Underground come out in terms of seasons? Does a whole season just come out all at once? Well, okay. 39 episodes, one giant half.

Legit right now. The only place you can get Lucha Underground is on the iStore, and that is one episode per week, which sucks, because all of it's out. It's just legal. That's the way you can buy the whole season. But you can buy the whole season. You can buy the whole season, and it'll come out on every one of your devices. Okay, so it's only 39 episodes for season one.

For season one. Okay. Season two, I think, is already wrapped up. Season one and two are already done, so you can just buy those on the iStore. No, but what I mean is, like, there's a full season that's completed. You can watch a whole season. You can watch a whole season. Okay, yep.

Time to jump in. Okay, but Willie, there's a moment with Dario, where... So we were talking about Dario, now, like, I know Liam's watched one episode. I think they at least showed us. A couple, a couple. But yeah. Okay, Dario's office. Now, the geography of...

It makes no sense! When there's... Like how one door comes out, one place, and the other door comes out another? Dude. There's a dark hallway, and people open up this door in a dark hall, and they go to Dario's office. But Dario's office is also in the arena, and there's a side, and he comes out of his office, then you hear the Spanish guitar playing, da, da, da, da, da, and he's like...

And Johnny Woods don't beat up a bunch of guys in the hallway in the front door, and then you assume the back door leads to the ring. But you don't see a back door when you're in his office. Right. There's only one exit. And then in the cut scene... And the worst part, what's the worst part? Because whenever he's in the cut scenes talking to everybody, you see the sun behind him in

the window. What? When they're in his office from actually coming in from performing in the ring, there's no sunlight. It's in the arena. Like, this window has overlooked the arena, and he pokes open the blinds, and he's looking, and he's like, ah, yes, unique opportunity. So wait, the blinds lead out to the ring?

The blinds lead out to the ring, but also the sun. The sun is there. Now, of course, shoot-wise, hey, let's have a cool sun coming through the blinds. Of course, because it looks great, yeah. But there's a moment where a fight spills into his office, and he looks at it and goes, oh, yeah, and then makes a drink and mixes it, and drinks while people are fighting the audience. And he's like, yeah!

He's fucking awesome. Oh, my God. That's great. Anyway, all the storylines lead up to some really cool shit. It's like, you know what's really cool is that I had this early, I think I told you, I had this small little criticism, and it's like, when I like something a lot, I struggle to find little criticisms, and sometimes they do bother me. One of the things is that some guy's gear, their ring attire, is not as cool as I'd like

it to be. Your gimmick is really cool. Your mil muerte, man of a thousand desks, why are you wearing dorky, pinstriped gray trunks? He fixes that. So-and-so fixes that. Some characters power up and get a new suit. I told you about the costume changes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like Drago gets a suit upgrade, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's awesome. So I'm really, really, we have to do, we have lots of spoiler casts left to do, but once you've caught up at least, we have to do one. Like I'm itching to- There's a spoiler cast that needs to be done next week for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Game of Thrones one is still waiting in the wings.

Aside from that, I also went to pizza, pasta, wedding to the postaining. This is your wife's sister, right? This is my wife's sister, Melissa, and because she smells, anyway. This dwarf- It's so childish. I know, but she- It's so stupid. But she earned this.

She earned this because when she comes over, she's like, oh, Matt, you have all your cute little dinosaurs. That's cute. Oh, well, that's fair. Fuck you, you smell. That's my comeback. You smell, Melissa. Yeah.

Their wedding dwarfed ours by three times over. So three times- Like in terms of mass? Three times the amount of people. Was it Italian on both sides? Yes. Yeah, well, that's why. It explains a lot.

But like, here's how you get to 300 people. Oh, yeah. Hello. Yes. Oh, Matt. By the way, this is our mechanic. I see. Of the family.

I see. And these are his sons and daughters. Yes. Yes. Wow. That's how 300 people come to be. Because apparently, I didn't know this at the time, but for my wedding, this was a huge faux pas to not invite the mechanic.

What was- Do you even have a mechanic? No. The family mechanic. The family mechanic. Yeah, yeah. He's family. He's basically family.

Him and then the carpet picker. Okay, well, I was going to say, like, is he a mechanic or is he a mechanic? Yeah. He's a mechanic that works on their cars when they're- Are you sure he's not a cleaning guy? This thing of ours. He's a mechanic, as far as I know. He's not a cleaner.

He's not a fixer. What he does in his spare time is up to him. Arcasinostra. Exactly. But it was a really, really, really good time. Like I said, massive, massive. I didn't know I legally get the right to sit on the honor table if I'm married to the maid of honor.

Benefits, huh? Oh, Joe's weird, because I was meeting so many people, and I'm like, yeah, I don't- You have blood now. I just sit- Hello, person. I will never see you again. Never. Yeah, exactly.

It was still a really good time. There was- in the hall that we're on, there was another wedding. This hall was so big that they had multiple weddings happening. So some people spilt into the wrong places. And in the other wedding, it was apparently so crazy that I got home around 5 a.m. This lasted quite a while. And when we're waiting for everything to kind of wind down, we saw gurneys being stretched into the other wedding hall, because some people were just partying a bit too hard.

Just a little too hard. And my wife had to give a speech, and she was just scared to death of doing the speech. Like the metrics say, more people are scared of giving a newlogy than being in the casket. But she fucking nailed it, did super well, and I was like, see, it was fine. It was fine all along. And lots of people came up and congratulated her. So it was a really good time. Then inevitably, when we got home, we said, okay, let's break it down.

How was our wedding better than theirs? And how was theirs better than ours? And it actually equalled out to about the same. Did they get their wedding photos? Their wedding photo guy was fucking way better. Oh? Well, it was the family guy, right? No.

It was this guy there. This guy had guns. You know what I mean? Guns. He had straps and harnesses, and he had three cameras hanging off them. And if you kind of like blurred your eyes a bit, it looked like he was strapped with fucking Uzi's and shit. You know how many photos?

76. I've got you in my sights. Don't get killed. Don't get photographed out there. You know how many photos you took of us, the groom's side? Five. Yeah. That's correct.

But the bride's side. She said maybe about 10. Oh. Oh, that's reserved. I was also chosen to be the videographer of the entire night. That's fair. I had my camera. So I made sure to take artsy fartsy shots.

I also made sure to take for the fact that I was in the groom's house. And his parents were like, you know what? You guys have a long day ahead of you. They got catering and got an awesome spread, prosciutto. Just prosciutto. Yeah. Yeah. And just that.

Cabbage. Sausages. Tons of fruit. Like just all the pizzas, everything. Right? And then I take a picture of this spread and I send it over to Liana and she goes, oh, I tried to beat this and she sent me a picture of a single bagel on a tray because they didn't get anything catered.

They were too busy. Oh, wow. Okay. So like the night I was like, ah, ah, so then I sent it to my father-in-law. I sent it to Melissa. I sent all these pictures and I got all these texts back to say, please stop. I was fucking awesome. You're ruining my wedding.

Routing my wedding. So yeah, it was a really, really fun time and I'm going to be making that wedding video and I got footage of the food like on either side, so it's going to be a good time. And lastly, I did have time. Sorry. I appreciate that you took the time out of your wedding party to talk shit about that thing. To jump on Twitter to catch that someone made a mix of comp with the Ur guys noise.

Nice. Replacing the beat. Wow. Wow. This is Christ. The most painful thing. Because it's like a two a.m. Can we play this?

Can we get this on? We can get it on the credits of this episode. There you go. There you go. I want to hear it. I really don't think you should though. Lastly. Where do I go to hear it?

Oh, by the way, Matt, before you switch topics, did the driving game, horror game have a low fly aesthetic? Yes. It's called Dead End Road. Dead End Road, thank you. No blame on you for forgetting that fucking name. Dead End Road. 13 Dead End Drive.

Dead End Road. But yeah, check it out because right now it's like, you know, it's pretty positive. And yeah, I had time on Friday to go to the Montreal Comic Con where I met like Laurie and Nyoto from our streams at Maud and also Alto Bass, who made the Persona 5 animation of Ulta. He's from around here. Yeah. And also did.

I also didn't know he did those overwatch pictures of you and me, Lucio and Farah. He has a cool ass Daft Punk helmet. He gave me the prints of them. So I'm going to give you yours. So they were really cool, hung out with them for a bit. I saw the lovely Energizer Bunny known as Jessica Negri, who both times I've met her is just super, super, just happy and just going through the huge line. She's the only person that showed up early to take like autographs.

All the other. William Shatter. Oh, fuck. William Shatter. I was lucky if he can get out of bed to get to these things. And like the entire autograph section was just empty except for her and like one other cost player. But what a great con.

I didn't know that that that Star Exorcist said, oh, can you get me like a Jessica Negri print and have her, you know, I'm like a huge fan. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. And of course I chose the one where she's dressed up as Fox McLeod. And I was like, yeah, can you sign this for Star Exorcist? She goes, oh, my God, Star. Yeah. No.

Of course. Oh, my God. And I'm like, oh, you know each other. Like, yeah, we talk on Skype all the time. We're like best friends. I'm like, oh, shit. Okay. Because I was like, I was like, oh, yes.

My friend. She's like a big fan. Everyone. No. Star. There you go. That was really fun. And what I lament the most is like, I was telling William during a stream yesterday

that I bought the most edge thing you've ever seen edge. I was going through the Punisher comic section and I was just trying to find the shit, the crap now because I've read all the good. Yeah. Now I need the worst. Now I want, I already have all of Black Week. Now I like, is there more weeks? Yeah.

No. The Punisher was black for a whole week. Now I want like, was there a Hispanic week? Was there, you know, whatever? The Punisher's Chinese. Please don't shoot me. I have a hostage. This kid.

What do I care? My kid's already dead. I did find one thing, which is a weird holographic foil cover of some era of Marvel where the imprint was called Marvel Edge and it said double edge and it was, and Punisher's fighting to, to, to death with some guy and it says, will you go over the edge and then the double edge logo is half on top, half on bottom and it's flipped to make it look like double and says, the edge age begins now and I went, oh my God, and then I found issue two and that's all that went past and he's fighting to death with Nick Fury in this cover.

I'm like, what is Marvel Edge? And I go to Eric, Eric, our friend, our other friend and he goes, he looks and he goes, what is this? Oh, he didn't know. He didn't know. And then we're hopeless. We're lost. I didn't bring it.

I forgot to bring it, but I got to show you guys because it's fucking awesome. And aside from that, I got to play Outlast 2 very sporadically last at the minute in front of a live studio audience. Yeah. Did they have it at the Conner? They had a PlayStation VR booth. They had a, yeah, PlayStation was there last year. They had a Dance X mankind divided and yeah, Outlast had a booth and I go by there and

I'm like, oh yeah, cool. Is this the same demo you had at PAX East? And they're like, yeah, yeah. And she goes, are you, are you met from a super best friends play? And I was like, yeah. She's like, oh, I'm Alicia. Remember, you came by her booth at PAX East. I was like, oh, yeah, no, I remember, remember.

She's like, yeah, cool. Hey, we're having a panel like, like just in about an hour or so if you want to come by and I was like, yeah, sure, okay. And as I'm kind of waiting in there before the panel starts because she saw me and she let me in and Naoto and Laurie and everything. She goes, hey, I was wondering, would you want to play the game like with the developers and I'm like on the panel? No pressure.

Prepared. This is the same demo from PAX East, right? Yeah. And I'm like, well, I did beat that demo without dying. I'm not sure if you can dine it, but I did beat it. So I'm like, sure, okay. And it was actually a really good time. It's interesting because the developers are there, the sound designer and I get into the

room that's filled with thousands of dead, burnt babies because of course, um, oh yeah. And I go, where does one get the Foley sounds and he's like toast. Okay. I just recorded me crunching a bunch of toast. And I'm like, yeah. And then the other developer try and say, he goes, usually when we need a bunch of Foley sound effects, uh, uh, JF, because of course his name is JF, um, goes to some cabin in the woods, then comes back after the weekend's done and has all these sounds.

Yeah. We don't know where he got them. So it was, it was a real fun time actually. And there was some good Q and A going on. The real Rocky showed up. Of course. Yeah. Amazingly.

So yeah, really packed weekend, but I had a good time. Really wish I could, could have had time to go back again for the, the final day. But like the Sundays are always actually more popular now because everyone thinks there are the least popular days, but they're not anymore. Everyone goes on the Sundays, but it is when the dealers start taking shit down like early because they're pretty done. Yeah. Um, I'll tag in on that, uh, right after a word from a sponsor, a great man once said,

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Oh, it was, you know, like I come in and I get to beat everybody up for a minute and then I get beat. I went to Comic Con just on the Saturday and I pretty much the only thing I did was stand in the PlayStation VR line and two and a half hours later I got to play Riggs. Cool. And I'm like, I'm gonna, because I saw they had res and I was like, I know res. You know what you're getting into. I know what's the best thing.

And Liam's talked lots of great things about Riggs. I think Riggs is so I wanted to see that and then this is it's the only VR heads that I hadn't tried. Right. So now having done all. Oh yeah, you've done them all. What do you got? I can put it together and I can say, I can say that it definitely is the least impressive

and that's expected based on the price point. But it works. It's like going to deliver that immersion is a comfy that I had the most trouble with that of the three and I have because I have my hair, but I do, but I just of the three I had the most trouble getting it to stay in focus on my head. I eventually did get it into position. The guys that were that were working the operating guy next to me kind of like, he's like, what do you want to do with it?

And I'm like, just let me move it a bit because he has to move it for you kind of thing. And like, I was eventually able to kind of like slide it a little bit into position and get it clear, but it took a minute for that. The responsiveness is there. It definitely still like they all three have that really good like immersion, immersion defining deliver the immersion that you look for when you started up and you look around you're like, holy shit. Yeah, I'm in.

Right. And you look down at your body and everything. Riggs in particular has this awesome moment where you're going through the the warehouse, not warehouse. Yeah, you're in the docking bay, the hanger, hanger, hanger. Thank you. And you look and you look at your your Mac and you look around at your team and the other guys working and stuff.

And it's a really cool immersive feeling. In general, I think that yeah, it feels like it is the least expensive of the of the three and it it feels like it is the least responsive. But what do you mean by responsive? The level of like how sensitive it is compared to the way you turn your head. Like if you turn your head very quickly versus like little subtle, subtle movements, it is the it is the least sensitive of the three. OK, I didn't really find there was any issues with it.

It didn't. It's not that it's an issue. It's just that it's not it's it's not the quite as fast. It isn't. It's not as smooth when it comes to that I it and I think that it competes pretty well with the Oculus. I think that those two are going to deliver a pretty similar experience based on the feeling I got off of those two.

I feel like the vibe was still the holy shit, whoa, level of sensitivity, but that's coming with your price point, of course. Riggs itself is really fun. I had a good time with that. I wish it was faster and I feel like I might get. Did you play as one of the faster bots or I don't know which I don't know. OK, yeah, because you just get dumped in with whichever one in the demo. But there's like there's a low to the ground one that's really fast.

OK, I got to pick the robot I wanted. And I did. Yeah, I got to pick and there's like that lineup of like 10 or so. Oh, damn, it was a huge lineup. All the all the times I've gotten to play it, it's just been what with whatever mech they told me to. So that's really. Yeah, I picked the last one on the list and just tried it out.

OK, it could have just been the mech, but I was hoping the game would be a little faster than it ended up being. Right now, it feels like a little bit slower than Hawken, but the clunk of your robot is there, the feeling of dashing up and hitting and doing the melee stuff is really fun as well. And I think, yeah, I think it's a good game. I think that's going to work out if the maps end up being varied and interesting because it is like a sports ball.

It's a sports ball game, exactly. So it's really going to come down to the maps. Did you did you like get that bit of it that I spoke about where it's like having a third stick because you aim with your your eyesight is really good. Yeah, it took it took more than a minute to get used to that part of it because I kept naturally looking lower to the ground than I should have. Right. The guy kept saying, he's like, look higher. You should look higher.

OK, and I'm just so used to like scouring. Yeah, that's what I noticed. You do in nearly all games, you have third person control where you end up pitching the camera down about 10 degrees lower than so you can see it average because you want to see the floor and items. Items, it's things I pay attention to where as a shooter, I imagine you want more of the horizon or horizon in the center. Exactly. And in this case, yeah, I kind of felt that and I had to get used to it.

I didn't I didn't get to those. The other games they had there were Battlezone and Russia, Blood, the and the PSVR Worlds demo, right, as well. Alongside Reds, of course, are two like indie games that didn't really recognize. One was a horror game. Well, what that was? That was until Don Russia, Blood. Oh, OK. And there was one.

I think that's called Eve or something. Yeah, Eve Valkyrie. Yeah, it's based on Eve, the the massively multiplayer multiplayer money stealer. Yeah. Yeah, so so in general, she does a good answer to that. She that's a big spreadsheet. In general, I think you're going to get it's going to be one of those things where it's kind of like if you're going from if you're going from nothing to VR,

you're going to put it on and you're going to get that like going from CRT to HDTV experience, you're going to be like, holy shit. Wow, this is really cool. And I think that the feeling of going to Oculus or PSVR is like going to 720. And the feeling of playing a Vive on is like going to 1080. OK, yeah, you know, that's kind of that's what it's going to be. Right now, though, of course, because you're getting the biggest line up with the PSVR because it's most affordable, I, you know, I it's going to succeed.

For sure. It's going to I think it's going to. I hope so, because if that one doesn't, none of them. Then it's another failed start. Yeah, but, you know, but we'll try this again when we're down to sunglass size devices. But like, yeah, I kind of feel like that's where the analogy kind of like fits closest in my brain. It might need to that feeling of entering a high death world

where there's a really high end one. And so so what you're saying is that. This is the console that the feel. Anyway, is the console generation of the PS to the GameCube in the Xbox. And it has the possibility of having the PS to the library. I would be inclined to say that's what he's saying. But I think it doesn't work out because ultimately the cost of an Xbox versus a GameCube relative to a PS4 and a PS VR versus a PC.

Yeah, it was still ballpark. Like it was still for a PC and V even a setup. You need a room that you're willing to sacrifice and three thousand dollars sacrifice to the all right. Well, for the vibe, for the vibe, you can do the smallest, which is the two meter by two meter square. OK, that that's so I thought it was three. But so I did.

I did the math. The living room you are sitting in right now is the smallest usable area. Wow. It's this is not. And that's that's from that corner to the corner of this couch. OK, yeah, outwards. So it's it's imagine I move my Ottoman out. It's viable.

And it's it's it's a viewable. It's viewable. This is the the absolute fucking total minimum space. The other thing with it, though, which is a lot, actually. Yeah, if if it's if you're going with like shared VR experiences, you're like the the vibe specific stuff is going to have you walking around. Whereas the Oculus and PS VR stuff are not, you know. So in that regard, like if they're if we're not going to if we're going to

go jump around and have like the non-DRM specific titles that you play, it's like you'll be fine. It's like what the squares and rectangles like vibe specific stuff will not translate well to the others. But Oculus or PlayStation specific stuff could transfer over to the vibe. I mean, because the vibe just has more tech. Well, Oculus and PS VR can also do the same thing.

Vive does, but not at that level of fidelity, because you don't have the extra cameras, the extra cameras, but you can do the moving around. So like that principle works. Yeah, not as good, obviously. That game, Super Hypercube, Super Hypercube. Yeah, that's where the blocks are like moving forward and you have to create like almost our mutual friend Fred played that and he said it was all right. Looks amazing, right?

Looks really cool. That's the kind of thing where I feel like having the ability to take a step to the side would really help that type of game, because it's about peering your head and then coming back to the front view and then reconfiguring the shape. In any case, though, I thought it was cool. I thought it was worth it. And I feel like, yeah, I'm not converted on launch, but I'm I'm going to purchase a VR headset.

Otherwise, how are you going to play Tekken 7? How is that going to happen? Yeah, right? There's no other way. So that was good. That's all I got to do at Comic Con. Fuck the rest. Yeah, that line, that line, that line.

Yeah. Well, imagine if you did that, you're pretty like, I'm fucking well, I mean, I was I was standing behind a Tokyo cosplayer. So we talked about Danganronpa a bunch and about the upcoming anime. And that was fun. But yeah, that was it. Did he think that you should have killed those kids? Actually, she thought she. I don't know who Tokyo is.

That's OK. She thought that she and she enjoyed Ultra Despera Girls, and she thought that was fine. And it ruined your life. So like, but anyway, to need your hand or there, I'll tell you what's in right now. What's in? I finally finished Steel Ball Run. JoJo parts of it. Yep. OK.

Is this like the longest one? Steel Ball Run, from what I can tell, is like three or four times longer than the others. Wow. OK, OK, OK, OK. So so here's the thing about Steel Ball Run. It is easily. Easily the absolute best part of JoJo. Yeah, bar none. So far, I was I was you're going to say fucking so far so far.

I haven't gotten into into part eight yet. But you finally switched from four to seven. Yes, seven. Do I'm in. I switched from four to seven. And and I explained a bunch of stuff about how like I it was hard getting into it because I was really bummed. I remember you talking about this where you're like, oh, this is rough game. There's something there's just a huge bummer point that fucking sucks.

And you're just like emotionally drained and like and then Steel Ball Run, you know, if you if you kind of aren't too familiar, starts out in a way where it's almost like, is this even JoJo? Right, because there was a point when I did not have the JoJo label. And it and it continues and it doesn't on the on the book covers. It just says Steel Ball Run. Oh, man. Right. And for the longest while when it was coming out,

Fighter Three, just being three, three. Yeah, it's totally that. And I remember when it was coming out and like people were reading it online and I wasn't I wasn't at that point. But I remember when people were like, we don't know if this is related or not. Like it is pays tons of homage, but is it actually it's so different? It's own thing or not. And then it's like, no, it's part seven.

It's part of JoJo, but when it takes so long to get going. But when it finally fucking does the shit it does is unbelievable. And like it never lets up. And then it fixes that that exact problem that I had. The thing that bummed me out. It manages to fix that twice over and then doubles down. So there's the thing that is really a bummer without getting into specifics is kind of like there's a point in JoJo where you kind of like leave

the whole like timeline behind. Yes. OK, that's what you're bummed out about. Yes. And it's like, it really it's a sucky feeling, right? Yeah. And the events of part six are dramatic and and and change to say the least that shit. Yeah. So when seven comes around, you're like, I'm just fuck, man. You know, all that stuff doesn't matter anymore to get into something new, I guess. Right. And then but then part seven starts going like, no, no, no, no.

We know we understand. And like this is this is going to turn into a celebration of all the best parts of JoJo. And so it like at first it just it's just like, oh, the names of some of the characters are similar to names. There's a guy whose name is Epile. Yeah, there's all kinds of shit. Exactly. Like at first it's like little similar names and things here and there. And then it's just like, no, like there's moments and awesome shit. And then by the end it's a festival celebrating everything good about JoJo,

you know, and and the characters, the way they get through. I know one of those things. I won't say is I know one of those things where I can understand why you if you didn't know about that, why you would say it's a total festival where you get there and you're like, yeah, yeah, you're doing that. Yeah, I know exactly. And it's right towards the end there. And of course, the other thing, too, is like ever since Dio and like,

you know, his abilities, it's like, how do you one up his powers? So part four, you step it up a little bit. Part five, you get a little crazier and you go and you go and you go. It just works. And yeah. And then it's like when you by the time you get to this one, it's like, what can possibly one up every other villain? Oh, my God. OK, I understand.

You're fighting. You're fighting Q. Basically, it's it's like you there's that tweet I put out where it's like the remote control is represents like you have like stop the pause button, which is Dio and you have the skip button, which is a Kim Krim Kim Krimson and like a bunch of that shit. And like, yeah, it's like part seven is like, throw the remote controller out and get a new one. You know what I mean?

Like, I don't even know where to go with the analogy on it. But it would be menu. It's yeah. Yeah, it would be the menu button. You know, it's unbelievable. It's really, really fun. And it's the best part. And that's crazy to me because I really love Diamond is Unbreakable. But like the fact that the setting is so different as well.

It keeps it fresh. I can just go on for hours about it. But I can't wait for us to fast forward through years and years and years of the future to get to the animated versions of this. Oh, it's rough. It's going to take a while. That's going to be its own like multiple season. Oh, yeah.

I don't like that new opening for. I think that the new opening for is animation is good. And the visuals are awesome because they're packed full. Oh, there's so much good stuff that I was finding this time. And I felt really happy about it. Full of hidden shit. But the song is not as it's typical anime. Typical Shonen, I should say.

And I unfortunately kind of felt like, ah, you know, that that feels a bit like some stuff I've heard in the past. Yeah. Remember, that was how I felt about the first opening for season four as well. So, you know, I think the first one's a bit better. Musically, musically, they've been more daring than they have been with this one. But the visually, it's it's super. It looks great.

Yeah, it's really solid. Cool. It's got so much good stuff in there. It's suitably darker. Yeah. Um, I don't know if you remember, like when you get to the character select screen in JoJo All Star Battle, Ringo wrote again, goes, welcome to the real man's world. The significance of that line, dude, like, when you know what it means,

it turns that from a, yeah, that's a pretty cool line into a, oh, my God, that's the best thing ever. OK, you picked the perfect thing to say at the perfect time. It's fucking great. Um, so anyway, that that's the ball run. I can't recommend it enough. Lastly, I played a whole bunch of Valhalla. Yeah, serving drinks, serving drinks, chilling.

The game tells you get some get some chips, get some snacks and relax because this is a game that you play to just mellow out. So Valhalla is a game in which you are a robot bartender. You're not a robot. Oh, you're serving robots? What? I don't know. You're a bartender serving whoever comes in.

In the galaxy. You are. It is cyberpunk bartending action. OK, that's why I thought robots. OK, yeah, it's just no, you're just in the future. So it's like a laid back tapper in the future, basically. And you know, not really. But but you but you get you get like really good music, cool visuals,

very snatcher feel to the whole setting. And, you know, like armored like mech guard cop just comes in and is like, you know, I want to drink, man. And he's like, yeah, I tell me about your day. And he tells you about his her, excuse me, futuristic day, you know, dealing with the future. And it's really interesting to just kind of like have this kind of passive experience in a game in that way.

The best bit is that the writing is good. Yes, the writing isn't just like, oh, I'm just clicking through this. Like this is like entertaining writing was bad. Then the game is pretty much work. Yeah, the game would have no value. Exactly. But, you know, like a lot of like middling visual novels come out where you're just clicking through and you're like, yeah, OK, I'm getting through the story.

But like this game, you feel for every character by the time you just finished that sentence, five visual novels have been released on steam. Yeah. Yeah. No, one of them is illegal. And I know which one is the one team four star. Oh, illegal steam visual novel gambling rings. It's a and it's a very easy to jump in, jump out type of game, too, as well. So you can just kind of like serve a customer, save and tap out if that's what you want to do and stuff. So really cool.

I was thinking about saying like, hey, maybe we should take a quick look, but it might not actually. Yeah, when you said that, I said I was down, but then I walked out and I was like, I've played the demo. I know. And after after spending a bit more time with it, it's kind of LP Poison. I played the first five minutes of it and like, yeah, it's just a lot. It's like, it's a lot of reading, which we like Dragon's Dog, but LP poison.

You know, it's very good. And I highly recommend it. However, it might not be the best thing to record for the channel. But I'll continue to play that. And that's that's a fun time. So yeah, that's pretty much me, man. All right. I played most of my usual games. So I'm going to ignore those.

I only played one new game of note, and I'm going to try and talk as little as possible about it, please try to try to talk the same amount that I did this last week, where you just say you're feeling. Yes, anything more than the title already betrays. And I will I will talk about it in the Vegas possible, whatever. I feel like and say the name of the game. I feel like I've yeah, I feel like I've. OK, so I played inside me and me and the girlfriend sat down

and beat the entire game in one go. How did it make you very inside? OK, well, Liam, you guys have not played this game into our viewers home. Do you remember the feeling that you got when you watched the trailer and the name came up? Yes. Yes. The game is that OK. OK. OK. Over and over and over again.

Yes. OK. Yeah. This is so far my game of the year. No question. I totally agree with that where he said earlier. It's like, just say what I said because I was like, how do I talk about this? I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. So just say what I said today. It's game of the year.

And I thought about it like that's oh, no, he's super right. It's totally like it's more vague than that. It's like it's like maybe it's not the game of the year, but it's one of them. Now what I I love. I love everything about that. So just the reviewers 10 on 10 can't tell you shit. These are the developers that made limbo. Yeah. And you can tell playing this game.

There's a lot of similarities to limbo and like the core game plays your kid and you're moving left and right. Right. This stops limbo's asshole inside out. There is no question like like like Austin or Austin said, there's no reason to play PS2 Odin Sphere with three. Yes, there's really no reason to play limbo with this. No, it's completely supplanted from, you know, limbo had that cool art style was black and white or black and gray monochrome.

Insides art style that you've seen from the trailer with this weird monochrome star scale, no one has faces. It's it looks so amazing and it's it's used so well. And the the camera work in the game, like zooms and pans and stuff like that is perfect. I remember reading a review afterwards and they described that, you know, when in a 2D game where you walk over and there's something in the foreground, so you change to the next room or area,

those are perfectly paced. It always feels like a big reveal when you come to a new area. And the game story is astounding while doing nothing. Exactly. It does nothing like there's no there's no speech and no text. And there's no text in the game aside from the title. There's less text than even limbo because limbo, there are those little collectibles. And if you collect one, I believe it said a little thing.

The the the only the only word of text in the entire game is inside when you press start and it says inside. Yeah. Yeah. And that's all you get. It's it's all shown. That's all I want. And the the number one thing that I love about it is it has the best difficulty curve. Oh, yeah. Any puzzle, anything I have ever played. Never, never too frustrating.

Never like immediately like, oh, well, I'm just going to do this. The worst one I got was about one third through the game. And it took me three or four tries because I didn't realize I had to run in a certain direction and I hit a point at about the 60 percent mark where it clicked and I was I might as well have been sprinting from left to right through the game where every puzzle was challenging, but obvious if that makes it like where you just get what you have to do. You're just there and it's perfect and it stays perfect from minute one

to minute and the game is short. I was really short three hours and 20 minutes. Yeah. But I like when I realized that's like they probably had this three hour and 20 minute game done for a while. They just went through it over and over and over again, like polishing it, like curving out this difficulty really because some of the puzzles like the puzzles of limbo or a lot of them are garbage. Yes. Comparatively, the last third of limbo's puzzles, I believe,

with all the gravity shit is fucking terrible. And I hated that that. Did you guys play limbo? Yeah. Do you remember that? I just I just really didn't like that. No, I genuinely felt like limbo got kind of miserable. Yeah. At the end of the game. That does not happen here. No, no. In fact, the game gets stronger over time as that's good.

They because you only have a jump and grab and they do a lot with that. And they just start to layer mechanics as you go. You're never doing one thing too often, you know, and you learn a mechanic and maybe it'll come back later. But when it does, it will be in a way that, like, well, you had to master this to get here. So we feel comfortable integrating it a little and then maybe a lot. And, you know, it's it's just masterful.

Did you see or did you look at the alternate? Yes, I did. Do you know how that's done? Because I still don't know. It's absurd. OK. So to you folks, I would say there is an alternative to this game. As soon as you beat the game, yeah, look up that ultimate ending because you will never get it on your own. It's it's it's really it is braided braids stars shit level of fucking.

You're not going to get it. Gotcha. I'll look at it then. Astounding. Just fucking amazing. I, you know, like, I wanted to but I hesitated because I think we can just say it like. Yeah, you can do it. We're going to take a look at that. I think I think we're going to take a look at that. We're going to take a look at that.

So I can't be in that because I won't be able to shut my mouth. I got you. I will be there, but I will shut my mouth. I'm I'll be staring at woolly. I'm really resisting the urge to just fucking go. But like, yeah, podcast over here. It has the strongest ending I've seen in a game since Portal One. OK. Well, I'm going to try to turn all of that out. Yeah. To and all of that.

Don't listen to us. And just just go. The only other thing of note in my week, and I guess this, I bet there's a news story that that sidles up against this. So Pokemon Go is not out in Canada. Is not. Yeah. Unless you siloed it through Android. Yeah.

However, I heard some people reporting that there were bands, but I didn't get any confirmation on that. However, my girlfriend from the States, who has an American phone, does have Pokemon Go. This. OK. I thought that Bluetooth headsets were as bad as it could get. Of like, look at that crazy person. Look at that asshole on the street.

Oh, no. Oh, no, buddy. Standing in the fucking rain for 20 minutes. Go on. Oh, look, there's a drowsy. That sounds fun. So like and and it's it's the behavior of people walking around, not paying attention with their phones at arm length. That's the part that makes them look so much worse than usual. Is their phones are out like they're not close to their body,

like looking at it like texting. They're all the way out and they're clueless and they're just looking for Pokemon. I have heard it. It has it's the new social poison. Yeah, it's the worst thing to happen to the earth. I've been really excited for it. Oh, I see. That's the thing. I can't wait to play it.

But until that moment, you look at the people who are playing it when you can't. And they look like such assholes and we're going to look like that soon. I don't know. I think it's hilarious. Kids are finding dead bodies. Yeah, like I hear there's so much good and so much bad associated and popping up everywhere. Here's the pitchy I found in the delivery room when my wife is having a baby. That one's funny.

Or as simple as like wandering into the wrong fucking neighborhood. Oh, this gym is in someone's backyard. My favorite one is awesome because it's like it forces people to be explorers even to their own detriment. Yes. My favorite one was always about feeling the guy who caused a crash on the interstate because he got out of his car because he saw a fucking Pokemon in the middle of the road. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's that's you know.

And I mean, it's something that like I just some people saying that it's great to see a bunch of kids outside find the dead bodies. And well, well, they're going to find the parks trying to have some fun in doing things. But yeah, some of those locations inside a police station, maybe. Oh, dude, so fucking cool. Did you see? Oh, there's a beacon in the near. There's probably traders there.

Oh, I'm being robbed at gunpoint. Yeah. You see that one? I've just seen tweets with like, yo, fucking the Santa Monica pier is jacked with Pokemon. Everyone, let's go. Like it's just like this. The world is being brought together to find these virtual creatures that don't really do anything or have any value. But what's really happening is just that we're just going back

to what the world used to be when people went outside. You know, that's their Pokemon has put like has put us in doors. And now it's bringing us back to the door. That's that body would have been found. Pokemon in the olden days. In 1990, we would have never solved that murder if it wasn't for Pokemon. We might solve it now. A bunch of kids on their bikes, twirling sticks,

and the goonies would have been driving. They would have had their body, you know, and like, let's say now or a couple of years or whatever, there's going to be a huge like side like a war where like people that have given up in their give up machines and people that are like on their go outside. Oh, yeah. Japan especially. No, it's going to be a thing.

I mean, look, dude, you have to use your phone. Pokemon goes to give up machine, too. Oh, it is like if you're going outside and your motivation is to play a video game outside. It's it's not it's not intrinsic motivation. You're just extrinsic motivation. You're doing it for some of the giving up outside. Yeah. See, Boktai made the mistake of making it the sun,

which is freely available, even when inside. Yeah. The fact that like you can go out to the outside of the major Montreal City area and still see like three kids on their bikes rolling around, dicking around in the woods, because there's nothing else to do up and fucking whatever. I mean, to be Timmy Scamang. Well, this means this means that like when people go to cons,

like all going to the con, just roam around the street, you're already having to be somewhere or Seattle or my understanding is that it's based on ingress data. So like it's specific points of the city and not just kind of random. It's not random. So from what I can tell, I was talking to some people and if if someone goes, oh, look, a Mewtwo right in their vicinity, if you're fast enough, that Mewtwo is seated in that location

and you can get your phone out and get it before them. So areas are being seated and areas can also be depopulated for a while, it seems, by over over catching over over poaching. So like areas with trainers, trainers in Roswell. Stay safe areas with few trainers. Those trainers should have the ability to catch more Pokemon. Oh, shit. I heard there's this like really rare jinx inside that strip club.

Let's go, kids. And there's a Zapdos on government property, even though it's not. Trespassers will be shot like slash will catch rare Pokemon. Even though it's not actually out in Canada today, just on the way over here. I saw two people playing it. Yeah, it's not because you can. So I load it on not on Android. Oh, you saw people.

Yeah, two people playing it just on the way over here. I've been looking and I haven't seen it. It's because you can download it on Android and load up. But Nintendo says that they might take action against those illegal people have claimed to be getting bands. I haven't seen definitive proof of it. It should be out by next week. But they said it.

Well, I forget if it was Wall Street Journal or Forbes or one of those places said it was planned within the next days that it would be out in the morning. But the map data is is working here. Yes, worldwide. Yeah, that that that there's a couple of gyms nearby. Yeah, OK, OK, yeah. Churches tend to be tend to be gyms a lot of the time. That's a safe place in that's a safe place to go in the states.

Yeah, I was told that nearly every church is a gym. But here there's too many churches. So Montreal, specifically, the city of a thousand steeples. There's this like really sad statue of Jesus nailed on the cross. There's a fucking piggy like on a. There got to get him out of the way. You Jesus fucking ditto is hanging out all over the Virgin Mary. Dude, that was fucking great.

This is one of an exciting world. I can't believe they're going to add trading. I think it's thrilling. I can't wait to play it, honestly. If you want those types for a while, you better get down to that fucking graveyard. You're going to have a big ass frighten. Did you see that thing where so there was like a little photo montage or guys like we went in here to catch some Pokemon.

Oh, we found some. Let's leave now. Oh, no, they locked us in the cemetery because it's past the hours. Please no. And there's a picture of him like like grabbing it. Yeah, let us out. We just wanted to catch where I saw the photo of a guy pointing a gun at a ratatas saying, what the fuck is this in my house? Yeah, but just like, you know, funerals going on

and some kid wanders by with his phone out at arm's length. Yeah, yeah, yeah, putting his phone in the casket. Oh, there's this fucking geodude sitting on my grandma's chest in the casket. Mitomo may have been stupid, but Pokemon Go is clearly like awesome. Like just it's just in concept. And what's that ridiculous thing? It is horrible. Like Nintendo stock went up to the biggest.

It's ever biggest jump since 1983. It went up 25 percent, which is the limit. And it could not be traded for the remainder of the day. Are you serious? Yeah. That's a thing so that stocks don't go wildly out of proportion and they stay within reason. Jesus is they cap out at 25 percent. Now, I thought that this was all the Pokemon company and not Nintendo.

No, no, it's the Ingress guys. Nintendo owns like 30 percent of the Pokemon company. Which is a period. OK, so anything the Pokemon company does is they see money no matter what a bit. Nintendo. Yeah. OK, because I and this was I think Iwata himself was one of the guys who spearheaded this one with Ingress. OK, bad. He wasn't. He's in the Pokemon company can do things that Nintendo.

Yeah, they have they have autonomy. Yeah. They made where God who made Tempo, the fucking stupid game, free game, free game, free different developers. Yeah, man. So I mean, fuck it. Like we can roll into that. Like, yeah, a girl found a dead body and all kinds of other news popped up. Oh, it's a fun stuff. I mean, what is there to say?

You know, like what was this? I saw the story like someone, one of our artist friends, I got maybe Liz. I can't remember. But they're like, yeah. So I went to the park and I met a bunch of people that were like all had their phones out and we're all like, you're catching Pokemon. Yo, cool. You like Pokemon? Well, let's be friends.

And a bunch of cops came over and they're like, what the fuck are you doing? They're like, no, we're just catching Pokemon. They're like, what? And then they just show them their apps and they're like, OK, but we have our eyes on you exactly looking at you. Well, you know, when the Australian like police message is like, you know, don't play this game. No, no, no, it was it was it was you don't have to come inside to catch

the Pokemon you're looking for. But also, Australia, don't play Pokemon Go in Australia. What it was is like their police stations at Poke Stop. And that's where you can get some free Pokeballs like every every so often. Yeah, murals, landmarks, stuff like that. Exactly. You can do that. You don't actually have to walk indoors. You just have to fucking spin the thing.

Yeah. Yeah, don't catch Pokemon in fucking Australia because you'll fall ass backwards into the pain bush. Well, I'm excited for the headline of like Obama falls off Air Force One Steps, catching Kangashan or something. You know, there's I mean, there was a PG on the train tracks that someone took. Like it's like literally on the train tracks. Like there's like it's in like a lumber sawmill and there's like this really like nice looking like a right shoe right on top of the saw come and get.

Well, this plagues to me. It's like, don't you want to catch me? There was there was one that I saw that was a guy he posted on Twitter. It's like Pokemon Go is trying to kill me and he was mountain climbing. And the Pokemon was like 10 feet past the edge of the cliff. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. I want Plague to find out he's got a good one and like build a barn around it and put bear traps all over and just feed him for the year.

So that was so you two lives in here. So I don't know if it's true or not. I assume it's lies. I assume it's lies, but like I heard that Ingress got so bad that people started putting up physical barriers. Yeah. So here here is you because you have to. So here people are just coming in. So here. No, no, no, like they don't mean any harm because they're coming in.

The deal with Ingress is that Ingress was it was different. Well, you weren't catching Pokemon, you know, you were catching anything. You were going to these locations. Like, so, you know, the Pokestop locations now, instead, they just give you items. So like that mural out there, the one over there. That's that's you get some Pokeballs from that thing. But instead in Ingress, they were control points. Yeah. Mm hmm.

So you would go to a control point or a radio tower or fucking whatever. And you would go, OK, I capture it. Yeah. And then if they were in pseudo remote locations in order to prevent like the blue team from coming to capture, they would totally like barricade them or make them more difficult to get to. I don't mean I don't mean like private property owners. I mean, people playing the game, stopping other people from playing the game to get and people were doing weird shit like going out to fucking Ingress

points that are like deep in the woods or some shit and disappearing or whatever. But yeah, no, it's smart that they didn't do that for this. Though, the one thing that I found is that gyms can be decided by player strength and location, which means that like if any of us became like super strong like players, our homes could become gyms. Oh, geez. Whoa. Like this building could become a gym because we have so many.

I was walking down the street, two streets up to go to the restaurant with the girlfriend and she noticed that an apartment building was a gym. OK, which like, guess what? I don't want my fucking apartment building become a gym. Walk outside. Isn't it? Isn't it how it works is like they're they're at fixed locations and then you take control of that should be. But some of them are like apartments.

You can. No, sure. But I don't believe you can. I know that you can drop a lure at you for to rob people. So I don't have to bring a gun or a knife and then you take their phones. Real Life Team Rocket, Real Life Team Rocket. Oh, my God. I'll steal your Pokemon. Yeah. You can hold people at the gunpoint and force them to trade your Pokemon.

The guy that you meet gets to the glutes and titties put in for that one episode and you can't see him anymore. Yeah, the world is vast and beautiful and dangerous. What else we got aside? Can you believe this didn't launch in Japan? Like Japan is a tier two country in this. Yeah. And that would be the perfect environment. Well, because when you release mobile games,

it's you always do Australia, New Zealand first or Canada because they're large, first world countries, but not too large or too dense. So you get to see the impact on your servers. And then they just picked America second and it was all supposed to roll out very quickly and then shit crashed hard. The servers couldn't handle it. So they had to stop rolling out right there. So that's why like I saw posts of people saying,

man, Pokemon company, you stupid Europe's way bigger than Australia. And it's like, no, that's the reason it came out in Australia. Europe isn't bigger than Australia. Yeah, but, you know, there's more people. I don't know. But I mean, anyway, so it was supposed to roll out really quick. But that's yeah, I assume a gangbusters in Japan. Every region.

It's that's it. Dude, it went to the top grossing app instantly. That doesn't happen. OK, that just doesn't. I don't follow mobile. Yeah, because apps become most popular now or hot, new or whatever the fuck. But top grossing immediately. Yeah, I said more than just whales are spending money on it.

Like I don't follow mobile too specifically or closely. But in all like all the media create threads that I follow and stuff, there are some people who post a lot of mobile stuff that I do. I do read because it's still interesting. And this kind of jump just it doesn't happen at all. And I mean, it makes sense. You take a fucking awesome mobile concept that was always awesome and you slap it on or you slap it against one of the most beloved

IPs of the past two decades. Peanut butter and chocolate tastes great, separate, but tastes better together. Exactly. Like it's it's literally just a match made in heaven. And I mean, like, and it's something that like people like my girlfriend, who's actually she's like, I not she wasn't. She's not super interested in just Pokemon, but like she likes taking walks and going outside and doing that type of thing.

So she's like, yeah, that's a good incentive to, you know, check places out and whatnot. But at the same time, she is like a little interested in Pokemon. Yeah, like, but that's enough. Exactly. Yeah, the card game a little Pikachu. And exactly. That's enough to get you in totally. Like it's super clear that's who they're targeting by only having one hundred and fifty one in from the start.

You know, I can't wait, you know, I can't wait for Matt to go on Twitter and just start screaming where the fuck can I get a cube on around here? Yeah, why the fuck can't I find a fucking cube? And someone's like, there's tons of Cubones in fucking Ottawa. And then he's like, hmm. And he accidentally takes a plane to Finland. Accidentally. Accidentally. So in the meantime, the Japan is like Cubone.

It's far fetched, by the way. Fuck. You sure? Cubone. I like Cubone. OK. But far fetched to be fair, they're similar. They both have sticks. In the meantime, Japan can chill out down at the Kirby Cafe that's opening up next month, which is fucking cool. Really? I'm I'm excited by that.

Hey, Japan. I mean, it's neat. Yes, I love that. Hey, Japan, guess what? This is what a baby sounds like. Hi. Oh, what's that? I've never heard that before. Picture in picture, celebrity reactions to hearing a baby for the first. What is that?

Like tiny human. Like how they have cat cafes, have baby cafes. Babies on the floor. Please don't feed the babies your dinner. Baby, baby, broke. Don't. No, no, no, no. Don't shake the baby. Yeah. And the Japanese girls are in a group laughing at them.

Like, I have no hair. Man, like we have we have cat cafes up here in Montreal. And I'm just like, why can't we have HR Giger cafes or Kirby cafes? That's a hard sell, Willie. Or Gundam cafes. Hey, do you want this cafe? Will you be attacked by penis monsters out of the walls?

If you eat this food, something might burst out of your chest. Good enough for California. Yeah, California is high. They are. Yeah. You know, what else is high? Space. Have you? Well, technically, there's no relative position. So and you can explore space

because Drift is coming out. Yes, it is. If you remember, that was the game that was basically like gravity. Except, yeah, it's a VR experience and trailer looks super dope. It also is a non VR title. It came out a while ago on Steam. Yeah, I played it. I bought it.

I remember people saying that there were some issues with the like the campaign wasn't the most fun because it's just because you're constantly racing to get the next oxygen and you're not doing anything else. It's stressful, but you're supposed to be like going from like because an event has happened and you're trying to recollect what has happened. So you're finding people's diaries like like little video like, you know,

things and yeah, that's basically what you're doing. But it like from an audio visual, like atmospheric standpoint, it's it's it's it's gorgeous gorgeous. And it's definitely more of a, you know, walking. Sorry, jetpacking simulator, loading simulator. Drift. I think it's out on PS4 and Xbox One this week is what it is. Yeah, I remember I remember seeing that it was out on PS4 this week earlier today. So yeah, Drift.

That seems like something that VR would help as well. The feeling of like maybe looking around. Spacelessness. Yeah. Spacelessness. Yeah, I said it. Again, I enjoyed I enjoyed that feeling of gravity and I would like to see that. Am I getting the title right? Is it a drift drift with a one instead of an eye with gravity?

Yeah, OK, correct. Before you move on to a new topic, Willie, I just found a bunch of Pokemon Co numbers that are very interesting as to its popularity. It's currently on five percent of all active United States Android devices, which is more than Tinder. It has more daily active users than Twitter. It's got more app time than Instagram.

It's topped the Apple Store chart in five hours. It's the fifth grossing app on the App Store in 24 hours. It topped Clash of Clans and Candy Crush's revenue within 23 hours. To those second and third numbers are kind of shit, nothing because like the game's been up for two days. I know. No kidding. It's got such high like play times, but it's ridiculous.

It's like it's more popular than Tinder. No, the Pokemon are more important than your penis. Well, it's not it's not overall play time. Is it? No, it's daily. Daily, daily. OK, OK, OK. It can't beat overall play time. That's actually impossible. That doesn't make sense.

But the fact that it's beating the money charts so quickly is is like crazy. That matters and it is totally. It's winning the VG. That'll save the Wii U. VG charts. I mean, the phone. It's easy to win VG charts. You make a game, you flip a coin and maybe you're at the top.

Maybe charts don't care. They just make it all up. OK, how many Super Nintendos were sold compared to copies Mario Kart? All of them. Yeah. Anyway, my favorite. Jordan, um, some dude has finally cracked the Sega CD, Sega CD after 20 years.

Sorry, the Sega Saturn CD. Sega Saturn has like has the only you could only mod chip it and that that barely exists anymore. Yeah, it's super rare. And basically a lot of Sega Saturns have been dying out because the system survives, but the CD trade dies much like Dreamcasts have been dying. And while I've learned and done the work to to to revive

dead potential meters in Dreamcasts, Trace Saturns have been way older. And basically what this lets you do now is load in a USB device that will load up a ROM and let you play your games. No problem, even if your CD is traced. Did you did you watch the video? I did. And it was really interesting because the guy who discovered this

was actually doing it for chip tune purposes. Ah, that's awesome. Yeah. And so he wanted to hack his the Sega Saturn he bought specifically just to, you know, use it as an instrument. And he realized that like the only way to get anywhere was to mod chip it, and it seems so ridiculous to try and find a way to do that in 2016. He's like, yeah, fuck this.

I can probably make it do better. And then he just went through the work and figured out a way to make it do better. So he's not there yet, but it works. And it seems like he does intend to make them and make some available. Even if. But it's not available yet. He's opened the door to the future experimentation. And it saves it saves the hardware from complete obsolescence.

Dude, it's the best. It's playing ISOs on actual hardware. That is the the best version. When, when, when, when. The cool thing I didn't know was the way the copy protection worked on the Sega Saturn. Actually, I had read about this when I was like learning about the Dreamcast copying many years ago.

The dream, really neat. The Dreamcast copy protection was busted and it was but it just was pretty much reading data backwards from the outside. It they should have used the same copy. Should have used the same one. Yeah, because they didn't know how good it was. Perhaps, maybe. But because it actually made the test of time, dude,

because you still can't beat it. The way it works is it burns the data normally. But the outer rim of the disc has a little wave pattern that's just like an up down little like a line. The important thing here is that's the way the disc is manufactured with this little wave that goes around the edge of the disc. If you buy discs to burn copies, they are automatically by default not manufactured like that.

And you can't burn that in. You could never recreate that little line. So it's physical. It's a fascinating, fascinating thing. You're right. Is the equivalent of the different shaped cartridges to region lock you? The cartridge don't fit. But more extreme.

But now it's like and like the Sega Saturn is looking for that little weird shape on the edge of the disc. Else the disc is void as a game. That it's run to keep it running. They should have kept it. They should have kept it. It was fascinating. It was unstoppable.

That would probably still be effective today. Yeah. But it probably costs more to print those discs. But yeah, and but thankfully, you know, like we're probably if this goes through in the way it is going to see saved hardware as a result. Yep, definitely. Well, I the moment they're available, I'm going to buy one. Got it.

It's literally just a device you pop in the back and put every Saturn iso on. How many times I can play three by three eyes. How many times have we tried to record that fighters? Megamix fixed the cops once. OK, it was twice. I remember it being I came over and I remember I remember it messing up on us twice. I think the second time might have been just for fun. The second time was an attempt that it was it wasn't like we're going to sit down

recorded. It's like let's load it up and see what if we can get it working again. And the answer was fuck no, either way. The drive just shit. Yeah, I got it working at home and it was no problem. But then it matched place twice. It was a problem. And it was just like fuck, man, you know, like it's sitting here. We got it all.

I want to play rent a hero versus Daytona USA car. Time is stopping us. So yeah, that's that's good news. You've already hinted at the fact that my surenui is joining the cast of D.O.A. Five, a girl who doesn't look like my surenui dressed as my surenui is joining the cast of D.O.A. Five. Is that is that how you feel?

Are you just making fun of the fact I look at her? No, I look at her and it's like, OK, that's her clothing. But that doesn't actually look like my how should my look in the D.O.A. Five engine, the way she looks and not like that. The way she looks and maximum impact. Yeah. So shitty. No, no, no, just like she looks like she looks like a dead or alive.

She doesn't look like she looks like Momiji, who is a Japanese ninja. But but she looks like Momiji is my issue. You know, I understand. Like all the girls look like them. She looks similar. But I mean, what I can't act like, you know what I mean? I looks like I don't a character. Like, I think the art of my over the years,

it hasn't been treated like Chunli where Chunli has features that make her stand out. I think my is always kind of had a bit of a generic face. So I don't really know what features. Sure. Yeah, I think it like K.O.A. K.O.F. like 13, like 12 and 13. They did this deliberate art style. She has like a large forehead, giant eyes.

But before that, you know, kind of the bangs. It's hard to say because when it's a K.O.F. character, they've been drawn so similarly for so long. And and you know what I mean? So when it's brought into a new art style, it's like, what does she actually look like? She has a lot of interpretations, but like outside the video game medium, like the animes and like fan art and other types of fan art and stuff like that.

But I think it's fucking awesome in general. It's cool. Yeah, it's always great when D.O.A. takes flagging, lesser fighting games and brings them up to the proper level. Yeah, like Virtua Fighter. So Matt, now your stretch goals are to get the Obari bottle into the game. No, my stretch goal is to get the K.O.F. maximum impact short haired costume. Alt costume. That's a good one, too. That's a good one.

It'd be cool if they announced like her and maybe a guy as well, would be cool for D.O.A. Yeah, I think I think they almost have as many girls as guys in D.O.A. They must have more now. I think like E.O.R.I. would probably be the right move. That'd be that'd be a fun inclusion. Speaking of guests, of course,

we've also got the announcement that if you grab your Shovel Knight amiibo, slap that on Gunvolt, too. It's fucking you get to fight. Shovel Knight, congratulations. Now I'm for sure getting Gunvolt, too. Shovel Knight looking the best he's ever looked. So like hats off hats off to fucking Yacht Club for giving a shit about how much their amiibo can do.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like Shovel Knight is quickly gaining value as an amiibo because there's just more shit you can do with it. It's so this, of course, goes hand in hand with the fact that they are Yacht Club is going to be publishing Gunvolt, the physical bundle. Are they publishing the digital release, too? I don't know. I don't know.

Good for them, though, absolutely. What an awesome sprite. His sprite looks so good. It looks amazing. It looks like like Shovel Knight for 16 bit. 16 bit, yeah, even better, almost, you know, like. So that's fun because I just I just hope the art and Gunvolt is not the problem. That game looks fabulous.

No, absolutely not. I hope Gunvolt, too, is generally just better. The only thing I've done with my Shovel Knight amiibo is get a random item in Kirby, you know. Sure, yeah. Well, if you wanted, you could just co-op with the person. Oh, that for the 3ds version? That's the Wii U version.

OK, 3ds version has something else. I can't remember, though. We've got the Bless you, gross, damn gross. We've got the Super T's that we're going to find out something about cool that sniper medic in overwatch. Sombra.

We're going to find out something. I hope it's Farah's mom. By Comic Con or before? Which is Comic Con, Comic Con. San Diego Comic Con, which was a real comic. The big one, because that is because they have an event called behind the overwatch's new hero. And then they. So I'd like to.

Wow, I wonder. And then they tease the rifle because I really I really hope it's Farah's mom. Because when I read all like the speculation that like when Farah's mom is presented, she has a sniper rifle and she's has somewhat of a relation with actually like Farah's mom's old design, better than Farah. I don't like what it's the hat that does it for me. Well, because yeah, yeah, that's cool.

But I haven't seen the art. Have you guys touched overwatch's competitive mode? A little bit. I have. It's that mode. Yeah. It's confusing. The rewards are jacked. Like I mean, we want. Gold over over 45 minute discussion about this. The only my personal sentiment is that overwatch's design is so that every

basic bitch will have a good time. Characters are balanced. So counterpicks win over skill. Sometimes it's made so everyone has fun and it normalizes skill levels. The game's meant to be hyper rewarding and it is hyper rewarding, right? But then like you play in competitive and you look at the amount of XP you get relative to how many matches you have to play. You look at how your XP gets nerfed

if your team is a higher level than the other team. You look at like you finish a match and you get one competitive token and you're like, wait, I need 300 of these to get a gold skin. And like, it's just a gold skin. Like that's not even worth it to me at least. No, I don't feel like it's worth it at all. If I got a cool brand. These ones actually look pretty good, but like sure.

But like, let's say it's a call you like, but like it's 300 matches. You've got to play to get one completely new skin for your weapon. Like, you know, like other skins. Sorry, that's not the the point is the currency give out. No, no, no, no, no, that's the main problem. OK, yeah, because they are all go to. I don't like it.

I find it weird that there's even a reward, though, because like in most games, you just go ranked for the sake of ranked. Yeah, you know, well, it's it's the first casuals. Don't care. And what do I get? It's the hard stone method. Is that what they do? It's the Diablo ladder method. It's OK. So in hard stone, it's it's

so in hard stone, you play and up until you start at rank 25 and then you you move up to rank 20. And if you lose from 25 to 20, you cannot rank down, right? But every win, I think you need 10 wins or something to get to rank 20. And if you hit 20, you get the card back for that month. And then after that, it's the ranks, right? And, you know, you get coins every win in in hard stone. In Overwatch, if you finish your placement matches,

you get an animated spray and a special icon. And the animated spray is like a like it's the Ilios map, but it's animated. It looks really cool. But in addition, they have the instead of like winning currency for fucking whatever, you're winning currency for special prestige skins. And me and Liam talked for a long time about we talked for like an hour. The the the the number versus the reward versus what you have to do to get it. And we came to the conclusion that you it's fucked either way,

but it's extra fucked because you don't know whether or not each season will lock that look behind it. We don't know if the gold weapons are only for season one, because if they're only for season one, then no one's going to get these fucking even besides that, like the season's two and a half months. So you have to play. Oh, we did the math. It's you have to play like 10 wins a day wins a day.

And it's like and that's and those are like 30 minute matches, right? But yeah, they go on way longer. And it's like if it was a thousand, it would almost be better because it would be the it would be telling you, listen, you're supposed to get this over a really long period of time over like four or five months, and then you'll be able to get a weapon for one character that you really, really like your favorite thing, but instead and or if it was 50 or 75 or 100, it would be like you can totally clutch this out if you try really hard for this season.

I just really feel like the numbers jacked. Like if they gave you five, if you reduced it from 300 to 50, yeah, or like you're still you're still asking them like 50 matches, which is to get which is a huge amount of time, at least three games, like at least it's a huge amount of time you're asking for for the reward. I'm like, because if you play competitively, no, it's three out of five. OK, three out of five rounds, so it's a while. And I actually like that that.

Yeah, for sure. That that match set up. But it's like it's not quick play. It's 45 minutes. Yeah, I just I just I'm really weirded out that the the reward for ranked thing is a thing because I feel like K.I. does a really good job with it by having the level 50 a costume that you have to get, but you can get to level 50.

Just grind it in multiple ways. But it's not so one mode. Well, what I what I expect to happen is that this is like a test bed for rolling out the loot boxes for weapons. Like I like they've all they've shown that there's now a menu that you can choose your weapon and then your skin for that weapon. So I assume with the next major update at the end of the season, they're going to integrate Sombra and they're going to integrate

like unique weapons skins per skin or at least be able to distribute like the unique weapons skins you get with legendary skins and be able to mix and match that with whatever skin you sure I'd like to see a mastery system the way that here's the storm does it where you can get advanced versions of a character's basic costume as you level them up. But I don't know if that would work. Yeah, I don't know. I still really enjoy playing Overwatch, but every time I finish a match,

like it's a sour reminder that like I'm never going to get that shit. Like 300 matches is a lot. It's a lot. It's just crazy. I'll get one eventually. Eventually. But it's unless there's a lot. If unless there's season law. See, like that. I don't think they will be.

I don't think they are. And if you weren't like sort of distracted by that and kind of just it would be the same game and just thinking about like where you want it or you want to be on the rank chart also, I'd be more like you wouldn't be. Yeah, it would be the same. It would be the same as it was before. Now suddenly there's something that I don't like. And so every time I see the experience ticker go up like

and and I get one currency. It's like, so what am I fighting for? Like why? And I guess that's the issue. That's why I that's why I said at the beginning, Overwatch is all about making players feel good. And then this is like really jarring and different because it like it requires you to really, really earn it. And there's nothing wrong with earning stuff in games,

but I don't play Overwatch because I want to earn something. If I want to play a more skill based shooter, I'll play Quake or something. Like I want to play Overwatch because it's relaxing and it's easy and it's fun. And like they're really good at getting that magic 50 50 win rate and stuff like and then like suddenly there's this where it's like, you know, the magic's still there, but the carrot is dangling a kilometer above your head. And instead of instead of like guaranteed, you know, what was it six to ten matches to level up?

Less than that, actually. But and I don't know if we were on camera or sorry on Mike when we talked about this, but I have not personally encountered this. I've actually had it be pretty positive, but every single other person that I know that plays Overwatch on PC, who goes into competitive matches has said that like the fucking community is the most toxic shit. It's like playing League of Legends.

It's like it like those people just migrated to a new game and the chat is just and fucking in the garbage. In competitive, everyone fucking drops out. The I've had so many, like don't you get penalized when people drop out? There is there's like a grace period where if someone drops out, a message appears while you're playing a match and a player has dropped out, and you can drop out with no penalty right now. If you see that you're losing and what do you think?

What do you think happens? And then after a little while, it says you can drop out, but you will get a loss, but there'll be no penalty. And after that, I never got to this point where it says you can drop out, but there will be fucking repercussions. Sir, you know what those repercussions are? I think we talked about it briefly, but the repercussions are a 20 percent XP, 75 percent, 75 percent XP demotion for a while.

And if you do it a couple more times, you get a time out. If you do it a couple more times, you're banned for the entirety of the season from the mode, which is two and a half months. So I don't know what those numbers are, but once that becomes established, because it's still the early days of this thing, I don't think we'll be seeing many more people dropping because it's too risky. You're dropping to keep a win rate, but if you drop too much, you're banned. What I, someone read, someone, sorry, sent me a thing, though,

that kind of implied that like when someone else drops from your team, the rest of the team is penalized slightly in some way. The rest of the team is penalized by the fact that somebody dropped. Yeah. And if you lose, it matters. OK, that's all there is. And then as the match goes on, eventually the match will determine, oh, you're fucked, you can all leave with no penalty. Anyway, my complaint just stems from,

there is no reason to gate these things so ridiculously aggressively. If anything, it just makes me feel less compelled to play the game because the completionist part of me knows I can never. There was always a way for me to get all the skins. That's always possible. Like, look at me, I will never get all the skins. I'm that asshole whale who spent hundreds of dollars on skins because I didn't care and I love this game.

Yeah, I'm going to be playing it for years. And I can't be an asshole and spend money to get these things. Well, even it's even beyond my completionist reach as a piece of shit. The thing that, again, I mentioned those because with K.I., you still do have a grind to get a character up to level 50. Yeah, of course. But it's just that there's no there's more than one path to that carry. Yeah. So.

But like an over in Overwatch, let's say you in a year, you win 3,000 matches, congrats. You got 10 of the gold weapon skins, like 3,000 matches. Doesn't even get you close to all of them. It doesn't even get you halfway. I'm glad I don't like gold shit. Yeah, God forbid you like gold, but I actually don't. But what if God forbid you do?

What if the next season's thing is like glowing, green, Tron style, green and purple, and everything? No, no, the next season is a thousand and you get a Zarya skin. That's not shit. How about that? How about that? Her white and black ones are OK. But the other the older skins are gone. Her hair gets ruined each time.

The one where her hair is cool, but her goth hair is lame. The one where she has the big coat is all right. Except it has Z fighting like crazy. It does. That's fucked. And the God on Xbox one. I use that. I use that. That's weird. I know, because I checked on Matt's console and I was like,

I use that for a while. And then a guy that I was playing with was like, dude, your costume is fucking freaking the fuck out on PS4. It does it too. And then I saw another person say, I'm never using this fucking costume. And then you know, it's not a phase, mom. Yeah, that's good. Speaking of Zarya, though,

Leanna was playing a competitive match and she was Zarya and everyone. But one other person on her team dropped out. Nice. So it was two against five. So she won. No. Oh, wow. Yeah, got crushed. Yeah. But like, how is that even possible? The match should just be over and no one gets a win or a loss. Where are you going?

No, no, please come back. Blizzard is pretty good at this kind of thing. And they will eventually it's going to take time to implement something to change the toxicity of the chat. And like Dota has had a lot of success with their their their changes to cut down on toxicity with their reporting and their incentivizing of good behavior. And that that's the solution.

You need to incentivize good behavior somehow at Blizzard. I feel they're going to do it. This this this caught everyone off guard, called Blizzard off guard. Oh, shit. Oh, fuck, we got it. Oh, wow, we didn't really. Oh, this is way much more popular than we the projecting is going to be. And like, even at Montreal Comic Con, there's not as much blizzards

like in the Art of Sally. Art of Sally was huge, huge, huge. But everyone just had like a little bit of overwatch. And I was talking to like three artists friends and they're like, yeah, we should have. No, you know, who did it? All over. You know, who did it? That guy who always has the amazing giant booth with the cool Samus. Yeah, yeah, he had some.

But he didn't have every character he had almost all of them. He had a bunch all along the front row. And I was like, he's doing it. He knows whoever whoever is on these trends earliest in Art of Sally's will win every con. Yeah. So here's the thing. You say the couple is off guard. I don't think that's the case at all.

What do you mean? I think blizzards saw the numbers come in and go, yeah, that's about right. But it just seems like all these like fixes and what is like, we didn't think that we needed to put this in at first. Oh, well, no, you mean in terms of design? Yeah. Yeah, no, that's always like that with them. Yeah, OK. So how would you guys feel if Demon's Souls got remade

but with another developer? I think that's cool, depending on the developer. Yeah, for sure. Mizaki clarified recently in an interview that was he was taken out of context about the the future of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls and such. And he basically stated that Demon's Souls and Bloodborne are Sony owned and Dark Souls is owned by Ben Namco. And from soft, they're just the developers,

but they don't actually own those IPs. So the future of those IPs is in the hands of the people who own them. So it's very possible that they could continue in the hands of another developer. Yeah. So Demon's Souls remake is not impossible. Well, I mean, yeah, as is any other. I saw a lot of people having a conniption fit like, no, you can't give it to fucking a bad. Don't give digital extremes, Demon's Souls. But it's like, no, I would love to play a digital extremes, Demon's Souls as well.

Would like that. That'd be fucking like all it is is, hey, Blue Point, it will remake Demon's Souls or something like that. And that is great news. That is not like that's fantastic. That would be fantastic news. I don't get why people are reading this as like X C tier game company is going to make sequels. It'd be lame if it would be lame if Dark Souls continued,

despite the fact that they didn't want it to. Well, we'll see what we'll see, right? We'll see what happens to Metal Gear. I mean, Dark Souls, but I always got the impression from Miyazaki's interviews that he's like open to the idea, but he's like, listen, we have all of our people working on new stuff. We don't have time or people to go back and remake old stuff. You know, somebody else wants to do anything if I can do it.

You know, I'd work. But he's like, well, we're done. I think they should. Yeah. Also, we don't own that shit. How about we make something that we own for once? I mean, well, now that Katakawa owns them is really their chance to to make something new, because the thing is always the money. You know, it's like, yeah, we can own that. But is it going to have the budget the last Wednesday?

Well, now that Katakawa maybe it'll have an even bigger budget or well, an even bigger one. Sony Namco Katakawa, like even bigger. I mean, the budget will be the same. Um, twelve dollars and a bunch of muffins. Well, I mean, like Sony's a bigger company, but that doesn't mean they're pouring four billion dollars into the game. You know, like also that kind that kind of came

wouldn't benefit from double the budget. No, it'd benefit from the same budget or a bit. It would benefit from more time. Time. That's the only thing time is like it is money. Correlated to budget. Yeah, they can they can use all that money that they freed up now that Adam Boyz is a free agent. Yes, sure. So he's leaving to work on games again.

Everyone eventually just goes, you know what? Yeah, I want to make my own stuff. Yeah. I mean, and Seth Killian did it. And it was like, what's you up to? Christian. Oh, Rising Thunder. That's what you have to. OK. OK. Oh, wait, you're not up to that anymore? No. That's cool.

Well, all right. All right. Yeah. So, yeah, he's he's he's started. I didn't realize that he started actually at what did they say? His credits were you work for Capcom for a while. Capcom, there's another company. I think it's Blizzard or something like that. Yeah. And before he moved into Sony. He's been all over the place. That's cool.

Everyone's cool, but by Dave Lang, I like Adam Boyz a lot. Everyone's cool, but hopefully he makes something really good. Yeah. Yeah. We've got Sega finally explaining something in regards to their publishing situation of Atlas and Sega Games in Europe. There's a good answer to. Oh, I didn't see this. I'm really interested. What what are they saying?

Yeah, because there is a there is a European Sega branch, I imagine. There is. They are all the PC stuff. But Deep Silver is putting out. There are the ones that show people with tweets during E3. So why? Why isn't Sega publishing? Basically, they've recently because there is a Sega Europe branch, but they focus pretty much exclusively on Western made games.

Yeah. And and digital as well. Sure. And that's kind of the entirety of what the office is focused on. OK, so they wouldn't actually be that good of a fit of put out a big fancy person of five bucks. However, personally, I feel like that's garbage. Like you're a global company. Fucking I agree. Bob, I never understood why for any. I never understood why the publishing situation for Europe

has to actually be located in Europe. Maybe that's a stupid ignorant thing. But are you telling me a guy in California can't read up on what you would have to do? No, it would be because you would need to have someone that at least speaks the language. Sure. Easier to find in Europe than. Yeah, I imagine to talk to distributors and other things.

I always found all that stuff to be kind of nonsense. Well, I find it's nonsense when I have to look through their credits in a game. If I'm playing the North American version of the game, I shouldn't have to look at the European credits. Yes, the silver lining or I should I say the deep silver lining. Oh, that's pretty bad. If you were thinking about that for days, is that they're going to be using deep silver

to handle packaged products. That's fine. They'll do fine. And that's a great answer, because that just means, hey, they're going to be there and they're going to be better than as opposed to not the ghost lights. Ghost light is one of them. Yeah, that's it. And deep silver is another big publisher.

So it's not like the fucking it's not like ghost light. Not like going through ghost like and like can ghost light afford to localize that after their get way of the samurai three. Yes, they can, but Nicholas anything but Nicholas. Yeah, no, but that's it. We do the answers. They'll call it. It's your game until it never.

Nicholas later game until it like folds in on itself. Disappears. OK, we need you to unprogram the game now. Please unprogram it. Devour cave story story story. Glad that I was able to keep you that way up. Five minutes. I'm in the Street Fighter five story story story. And I also just lastly want to point out.

I didn't even know that this was a thing. Jim Sterling covered recently the steam green light vote scamming that this is super interesting to me because I always knew I'm like, there's got to be a way to game the system. But is this like if you vote for us, we'll give you our game. No, not even better than that. Yeah, like there's a group called YOLO awesome. Yeah, YOLO what?

YOLO life, YOLO publishing console. Whatever. Yeah, basically console Kings. Reality Kings. And it's like basically they have a steam group set up. Yeah. And they advertise that they will get your game green lit. And they advertise that they will get there. An agency that'll do that for you. And they will get you like positive press.

We've got 10,000 Chinese people over in China willing to click yes on a button. And well, no, it's people who just like the group and join the group. And the reason is they all they have to do is print a headline that's like, hey, give away we're giving away free copies of Fallout 4 or free copies of whatever that we that we bought from like gray market sites for fucking so what they do is they spent $40 to get keys to create a contest that gets people to vote.

No, no, no, no, no, no, they don't. They say, hey, you join this thing right here. And also, if you'd like, you can vote on these things to encourage us to keep doing more. There is no direct correlation because that is against the terms of service services. Although you will find that they they fuck up on that all the time. And they do imply direct correlation.

We're also not saying how you should vote. Yeah, we're just encouraging you to vote. But they are actively saying as well that we get games. Greenlit. Yeah. How do you get money out of this? Yeah. The people who pay you to get there. It is. Yeah. There it is. They are acting as a publisher. You spend you spend a hundred bucks every week

to put out some keys so people follow you. Then you charge a thousand dollars per developer who wants to get Greenlit. Yeah, and they've got money and they got upwards of like 60,000. Yeah, they've they've Greenlit a bunch of games. It's a good hustle. You know, it's a hustle. I can't respect it. It's not loyal. No, respect it regardless. You have to respect the hustle.

Respect the fact that someone was more brave to hustle than you. I once worked for a telemarketing agency that was tricking old people to fucking give away their credit cards. That's a good hustle. This is but this is an easy I never made a sale. I should point that out. I never made a sale. You just stole a lot of credit card. Well, you know, no, no, I never I never got them to get the package

because I was terrible at it because I couldn't sell because I wouldn't lie. And then when I when I did tell you about what happened after I quit. OK, well, I quit slash got fired when, you know, they fire you and you're like, oh, thank God. And then like my dad's like, is this where you used to work? And he shows me the newspaper and it's like my boss being let out of the building in handcuffs. Nice. Yeah, there you go.

That could have been you. Yeah, if only I would. You could have been from page. You could have been the big time. And now you're no one. Respect that hustle. Yeah. I mean, Valve is about is like seconds away from shutting the shit down, you know. So it's you can respect.

Well, you think so, but they've been doing it for like. Yeah, but hopefully now that attention is being cast on it. Because, like I said, I always assumed there was a way to game the system, but I didn't know what I would like to agree with you. But Greenlight has legitimately been trashed since its inception. Like, fortunately, the entirety of Greenlight's conception is so that we don't have to do it anymore, which means is de facto unsupervised. It actively upsets me that Valve can't just hire three guys to do the job.

The idea of three guys. No, working eight hours a day. The idea of 40 hours a week. Five guys, 120 hours a week together. I think three could do it. The idea of Greenlight is important and strong. And I like it on paper. And the biggest hustlers of all are Valve.

If you think about it, I don't think the idea of Greenlight needs to exist because Greenlight only exists because Valve was turning away certain games. Stop turning away. No, no. Well, what about the shop? You want to see these games? What about the shop in the height of the shovelware period of like the Wii when it's like, do you have any kind of qualitative blocker?

I don't know. There's anything. OK, but anything's better than Greenlight. But listen, listen, just as bad as just as good on on on on PlayStation on eShop, on Xbox, you can put anything. Explicit, yeah, you can put it. No, no, Xbox Live Arcade. You can put anything. There's no content assessment, just having that barrier of entry

where the person has to get a kit and and fill out forms does a lot. Greenlight, there's no barrier of entry. So you just need screenshots and basic word entry skills. Let me let me ask you a question. You would know better than this. Is it still the case that if you have a proper publisher, you can you can get past the Greenlight? Yeah. OK.

So the entire purpose of Greenlight is to stop in the garbage trash from flooding steam. Well, it failed. It failed because shit ass publishers are just dumping thousands of cell phone games into steam on mass that don't even work every day. Every fucking day. And aside from that, there's just like I played some real like stinkers and mobile developers are just taking their entire catalogs

and mass dumping them into steam and just using whatever raw port controls. And then half of them don't work because they need touchscreens with multi touch or some shit like it didn't work. So this is this is besides tons of games that people like Jim Sterling cover where it's just OK, I'm going to head to the Unity Asset Store and buy 17 parts and throw them all into a blender. You know, so then so then what should the should there should it be complete, should it be like a submission then?

It should be just like there should be actual there should be human beings that look on things and say this should or should not go I've I've gone through the registration process in the past for Nintendo and PlayStation. Easy piece of cake. It is so easy. All it takes is the desire to do it, the motivation, you know, and like and that we that will weed out a lot right off the bat. Like, honestly, I think it would make a big difference instantly.

You know what I mean? And heck, having some rote compliance is good, even on PC, where you know, it's supposed to be an open market, but I guess that's a fallacy because Steam is not an open market is controlled and Steve is still the de facto market. Yeah, it's the de facto market. But anyway, like having rote compliance, making sure the game works properly and runs, that's not something to balk at.

There's a reason they had to implement refunds. Yes, because shit doesn't work because stuff, you know, like it's upsetting. Steam should be way better. I want to like it, but there's so much shit that just makes me like shit that other people have solved and like slam dunked, you know. And like, sure, the Wii U does have its share of like utter tripe, you know, but like so does so does PSN. It has what's that game called attacking Zajida and like I am bred.

Both those games are like trash and. You know, but those are like huge stinkers once every couple of months. Yeah, you get a couple. Yeah. But, you know, I think on the Wii U, it pops a lot more because less people are making games for the Wii U. Yes, I know, and there's a bad thing. So yeah, it definitely sticks out.

And you get stuff like chasing dead that you see. No, shut up. None of the curation methods we have right now are perfect. But I guess like the ones that result in the least amount of shit are the ones that I would lean towards and say, like, follow that model. I think anything's better than green light right now, because green light just once you've got your foot in the door with green light doesn't matter. Nobody else has to vote on your garbage anymore.

You can just keep pumping it and like just pump away. Just keep pumping trash into there and another thing will stop you. Just pump. Whereas like and some other problem when shovel night and pillars of eternity have to fucking fight for a month to get permission. Yeah, like that's absurd. They should they should just have to fill out a form. Somebody should have been able to look at that and look at a form and go,

OK, you filled out a properly stamp done. Yeah, you're in, you know, they shouldn't have to fucking have a campaign to tell people to go make their game available in light campaign. Yeah, yeah, it's like, I don't go play dead and drive. Go play dead and drive. It's cool. It is a 13, 13 dead and drive. No, stop saying that. Stop that because that's that's the old board game.

And that's what it is. They advertise on YTV and the game you're talking about is dead and something else. No, it's just called that drive. Huh. All right. Dead and the first one that comes before that and road. Yeah, because drive was what I threw out to confuse everybody because the game is do that because 13 dead and drive is available now. Dead and road. Fine. Hold on.

I'm going to check it again. Please check dead and road. There you go. Dead and road. Dude, there's a there is a YouTube channel I found called like it's like the YTV splat project or something. And it just collects YTV bumpers over. Hey, we'll make. Oh, from 93 to current day. That's good. He was barely speaking of weird shit on the Internet. Somebody gave me a pretty good, reasonable answer for finger family

as to what is going on with that. Oh, we know. Yeah, we know. But how they're created and why there are so many. Yeah, it's because of the kids. No, but how are there so many? It's a robot. It's a bot that creates videos out of comments. Oh, OK. And it creates new videos that kids click on.

And then it creates that's why it's rando bullshit like gorilla banana, the fucking airplane. God, that's what I was just showing. I was just it's machine generated. I was showing my girlfriend the one like today one. And I was like, name me a franchise at all at all. And I was like, fairly odd parents. I was like, OK, here you go.

Bam, first result. And it was like the exact same sliding images used in the Peppa Pig, Spider-Man one as used in the fairly odd parents one. And that's that's correct. But just throw it all out. What that doesn't explain is the live action pregnant Spider-Man with finally with tangled and and frozen Elsa together, pregnant.

Yes, finally, last videos. And it doesn't explain. Just let it go, Peter. Hey, kids, giant face alien AI thing. Maybe the robot's smarter than you think. Maybe it's trying to tell you something about your likes and dislikes. That's a corner of the Internet that my life was fine, not knowing about. I don't know.

Let's return to that and let's take some emails. OK, guys, if you want to tell us about a scary corner of the Internet, please don't. But you have other better questions or comments. Send them to superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. What's that address again, Liam? That's superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. And your letter and or email, email would sound something

like this when Wally reads it. Mark says, Hey, best friends, question from Mook here. General place generally places from review sites will review games on a scale out of 10. These are always subjective and everyone has their own idea of what each pip on a one to 10 scale is. My question is the most ambiguous score is a seven between bad and good. What does a seven mean for you?

And what does it take to make a game hit that what does what takes a game higher than the barrier of mediocrity? So yeah, this is like, where's the middle of your review chart? I think I think a seven is if you like the genre, you might want to check it out. Yeah, that's what that's what seven means to me. Like people ask me like that Godzilla PS4 game. If you're a Godzilla fan, that game is a seven. So I would say that seven represents average

and I'm doing big quotes. And when I say average, I mean, averagely good. Yeah, on the good side of average. Yeah, it's like this is a this is nothing crazy special. But it's like the word decent. Back in the day, you call this a rental. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Eight is when a game becomes good.

You can buy that nine is really good. And ten is you got to play this now for me. It's always like a question of taste. Like, yeah, I think I think a ten kind of surpasses that. Yeah, ten usually surpasses taste. Generally speaking, it's like, whatever, just try it. There's a good chance you'll like it. But like for me, it's always like, OK, do you like this genre?

Yeah, seven's probably like, check it out. It might it might do you good. And otherwise, if you don't like the genre, it's probably going to be what pulls it down for me from seven to six is like, it's a fine game. And there's fun to be had, but something about this game is busted. Something about this game is like, it's still good. Like, it's still on the right side of good, but something about it is fucked up. Either it looks super shitty or it has bad control.

Some inherent entertainment value is can always be derived from like a seven or is like a six or a five or, of course. Well, well, I'm of the opinion now that if you're at a zero, you can get a lot of that. It loops back around. It loops back around. But like seven is like, I would never give deadly premonition in any like time frame or frame of mind of myself lower than a seven because I'd always inherently get a sense of value out of it or entertainment.

But there are problems. Yeah, big problems, big problems. I definitely think like anything under five is you're looking at an on 10, of course, you're looking at a number that's telling you how close to good. It is. Yes. I think whereas, whereas on the other side of five, you're looking at numbers that tell you how close to bad it is. Yeah, exactly. So I think the five represents completely mediocre middle of the road and that it's just as good as it is bad.

And for me, that's not enough, right? Six is the worst. Five is the worst by far. No, to me, like five is like not many things are 50, 50, you know. Yeah. How many things are a six to me? Yeah. So I've run into more sixes on fives. I think like, I think like fives, I guess, is just because the world we live in, there is an overabundance of quality in a lot of ways. Like to me, we have more good games nowadays than we used to get.

Absolutely. So you just don't. There used to be a lot of one, two, and three. So you just people aren't really making a decisions on fives, you know. The the review scale, you looks underutilized because generally games have gotten better and the average review score has increased. Yeah. Back in the Atari days, I feel like the average review score might have been four out of ten. It's a crazy fallacy that people say like games used to be better.

Like if you want to, if you want to pick the masterpieces, sure, maybe the you can say that some of the old masterpieces will never be topped. And that's you can totally make an argument, but the worst games are untouched. The end of the 16 bit era and like the dawn of like the blockbusters of the 3264 bit era had more block like masterpiece blockbusters than we have now. Now there's more of nothing's worse than a real piece of shit at Atari game. The problem is when the the problem is like is then when that denotation turns one button and it sucks.

That's a high risk. When when the denotation turns the connotation, right? And now you have like this triple A game blown eighty five failure. Yeah, I hate that shit. Well, that's always like failure for what it could have been. Like it's always expectation like an uncharted again, like an eight point five. And I was like, oh, what is this? Or a twilight princess.

Wonder of the year. Yeah. And people. No, for sure. It's like that's ridiculous. We got one called Sonic is my Lord. Michael wants to know inside is a 10. What is your favorite classic and what's your favorite modern Sonic game? Sonic is my Lord.

So three Sonic three Knuckles and modern modern. The. I'll say I can I got an answer. Sonic two is my favorite classic game and my favorite modern game is Sonic Rush. I think my favorite modern one is probably colors and my favorite classic one is adventure. My favorite classic one is Sonic two and my favorite modern one is also colors. I was going to.

I know that's not what he was asking. If he wants a 2D one, it's Sonic two, but I don't. I guess it's Sonic Rush by default because I've barely played any of the quote unquote modern ones. Did you ever play colors? No. OK, it's very good. I have no interest in that. That's that's fair.

It's not fair, but Russia is so fucking good. Yeah, I don't like how you you lose rings. I don't like how you lose your spin coming out of certain ramps. But aside from that, it's pretty good. The rush button is a really, really fun feature. I rush to me my second. Yoriko Bay wants to know, Liam, what's your favorite toho song? My favorite toho song.

See, that's a struggle because my favorite toho song is one that's in Taiko no Tatsujin V version. And I don't know what the name is because it's all so complicated. Well, then you'll just have to sing it for us. My favorite one that I can name is like bad apple. But like I let me see if I can tweet it. No problem. I'll tweet it at some point. But I think it's called bad apple.

Preston says we'll move on. It's cool. Preston says, Yo, is I about to I'm sitting on the bus. It's raining. I got a busy day at Walmart ahead of me. Yeah, I can't get that one bless song out of my head. I hate my life. And if it weren't for that sweet, sweet minimum wage, which I barely pay the bills, I would have quit. What is the worst job you've ever had?

Pat, I think you already answered this question. No, I haven't. That's not correct. This job after you guys because I have to I have to scroll backwards. There's this door to door sales. Trash, nothing you did door to door. I did door to door for what? For two things.

One was for like a perfume like thing that was like like kind of fundraising ironic where you get you get part of the money yourself, but you also raise the funds. Right. And then the second thing was on behalf of a mental illness center. That was similar in that like you got paid this much, but you also contributed to the center. And it was just not a fun time going door to door. Mine would be I was about to like go.

Oh, it's a co-share between this one, this one. But one was clearly worse is that I worked in a Zellers distribution center. Zellers is like it doesn't barely exist in Canada. It's like it's like Kmart. It's like Kmart in Canada. And basically I was in the back. Isn't Zellers gone? I think they shut down.

It was in the back like distribution center where you're packing up shit. And it was just in a gigantic warehouse with no AC. Literally had a cold compress on my head all day because there's is sweltering every day during the summer and just the longest hours. And I think I told you this story before, but like one time like my second week there where it's at the first week is like whatever. I can do it.

And the second week is like, fuck, no, I can't. And then the only thing you have to look forward to is your lunch and someone stole my lunch out of the fridge. And I just stared at the floor like super sad. And like I was like the most defeated I've ever been. And also shit money. Post Eclipse, Matt. Post. No, that fuck it.

That was during the eclipse. OK, sorry. You just reminded me that I once for one day for one day I did strawberry strawberry picking. Fuck off. What is that? How strawberry picking some bad shit? Because when you're 13 or 14, yeah, that's the right age for that. Only job you get whatever there.

Yeah. No one else. And somehow you screwed it up. So I fucking you go up at five in the morning and you wait to get picked up at the bus stop. I never I didn't know about this drive up north to the farm. That's about an hour and a half away. And then you just stay up there and pick strawberries. And it's fucking terrible.

And the Asian kids in front of you are picking the bad ones and throwing them into your basket. So that when the farmer comes around and he looks and he's like, just just and I'm like, I'm picking the red ones. It's it's not me. How are those in front of me? Throw them out of your bucket. Yeah. Well, and then you just double the work.

And so you're fucking you're focused on that and something. You paint yours red with their blood. Yeah. And just I have that that that ancestral like link moment where like I get a vision of strawberry becoming cotton. And I'm like, no, I was wondering like when this joke would occur. And then eventually the farmer that gets pissed off because of the stupid Asian kids that are fucking up my thing is just like, go sit on the fucking truck.

And I just go sit on the truck and wait for the day to look down at the strawberry and like a mouth and eyes wraparound. This was the day that I got in. This is not the day before where I stood up there at five thirty and waited to get picked and then didn't get picked at all. Oh, yeah. I respect those Asian kids. Hustle, they sure pulled the. I fucking don't. How about you, Blim?

Worst job ever. It's this is I think the worst one ever. Ironically, wasn't like the worst experience. It was my my uncle works at a university. And they needed someone to help with one of their computer science labs right over over the course of a summer. And I didn't really get any info. My uncle just said, yeah, I got you a job for for two weeks at the university. You can stay at our place. It'll be a nice time staying at their place was a blast.

It was near like downtown. I shouldn't say where it was because I don't expose the university. But yeah, it was it was a nice place and I had a fun time. And let me save a bunch of money for like Fan Expo that summer. It was great. The job, they sat me down and they were like, OK, we need you to use OpenGL and make a bunch of 3D models go. Here's your list. And I get like, I can't understate enough.

I was like 13 years old and I'm like, oh, these kids are good with the computer. They want me to use OpenGL, not not not not like proper rendering software. They want me to use OpenGL raw. Yeah. And I'm like, OK, what the fuck? Do I do I do this ad open? Yeah. So I had to go to the I go to one of the library at the school and I snatched a book because I wasn't allowed to rent it because I wasn't a person. And I took a a book about computer graphics

and I brought it back home and I studied as hard as I could. And by the end of the week, I think I did two percent of the work. And I walked out with the money. Yeah, that's how it was. It was like no one check. No. Wow. I think at a certain point, they realized I didn't know how to do it, but they didn't care also. That's a hustle and like it was like it was like an experience

where it just you walk in, it flashes in front of your eyes and you turn around and you've got the check in your hands and you're like, what happened? Yeah, and they didn't give a shit. You didn't give a shit. They I tried. I tried. And to this day, I feel bad because I wasted their fucking money. But they didn't tell me what the job was. They just sat me there and said, OK, you got to make all this.

So all right, child, how are you with assembly and machine language? Exactly. So what was the worst? I did return the book to the library. I made a lot of extra money participating in university surveys where, you know, they like the students have to do their their papers and shit so that they need to get a bunch of samples to come in and like, OK, how do you interpret these blocks now? And I think I made an extra 600 on the side doing those for the two weeks.

What a criminal. It was great. OK, so here. So that afforded me the money to buy the ickytow sent back. I liked so much a fan expo. Nice. All right. So my worst job was not the telemarketing place that I just described because I only worked there for one week, made zero sales and left happily. That being said, there was a girl that worked with us that smelled so bad that at one point the boss said, all of you go home and take a shower.

All of you, all of you. I don't know who it is while staring at the person and then no, no, no improvements were made. The word was her name smell. Smell. Smell. Smooly smell, whatever. The worst job I ever had was that I grew up in a suburban town around Montreal and there was one local pub there and I worked as an underage bus

boy when I was 15 or 16 for one summer. And so there's dive bars in the city, right? But there's no dive bar, like the hopeless suburban dive bar. Yeah, I know the type and just like clearly too young for this. And the just, oh, pick up this shitload of broken glass in a dark room, which is a way shittier task than you would think it was. Take out all these ashtrays and accidentally burn the fuck out of yourself. But the worst part in this, this tops like eight years of bagging groceries

or the disgustingness of fucking doing telemarketing is going to the bathroom and clean up after the drunks. Nothing tops that. That sounds like a pretty nasty job, especially when it's like, OK, shit and piss and vomit. OK, that's normal blood. That's the one that freaks you out because you're terrified to interact with us. And it's like, is that vomit? No, it's blood and vomit.

Great. Fantastic. The best part is that since I was under the tables, what do you spoke? What is the bartender supposed to do with the tips they receive in regards to the bus, the bus boys and the fucking waiting staff, depending on how it goes. It's supposed to be shared because no one's going to tip a busboy. But the bartender was the daughter of the owner. So fuck you.

You get paid your six dollars an hour for this. So you didn't even get. I lasted like a couple weeks and bought Silent Hill three when it came out. And it was fucking worth it, I guess. Yeah, with with because I I lasted at the the meatpacking. No, in the meatpacking for the entire summer, then I just got myself a PS2 with that. Yeah, but just cleaning up blood vomit is just that look like vomit to you.

Blood runner up. So it's blue runner up of jobs that I applied for and thank God, I didn't get the desperation. One is medical test subject. Yeah, at which point I fucking I backed out when I went because I was talking to my girlfriend at the time, whose friend got got like it got into it. And that's where I heard it from.

And she was like, oh, yeah, Jimmy can't sleep. Yeah, I'm like, what do you mean? Jimmy can't sleep like he's been doing this for a couple of years and he just can't sleep anymore. He's never able to sleep. He don't sleep no more. And I'm like, OK, not doing this fucking shit. And the one, you know, OK.

So my friend, you know, your mom has friends. Oh, my friend, Dina. Yeah, her husband works at the he can get you a job. And I go down there and do the interview and it was going to be for cleaning staff for operating rooms, yeah, which. Is a dark ass job that you shouldn't do because I would talk. I talked to him after I failed out and he's like, that's probably for the best.

I see every day, every day I see bits of people that probably should have gone back inside them. That's fun. Like what the fuck is that? Is that a whole liver? Oh, man, I know he needs that. Being being not 60 and trying to make some money because your parents are like, I'm not giving you allowance.

It doesn't happen. Yeah. Is the worst. Yeah. And I just like that one. When I was dealing with that shit, I had the one friend that got the job. The one friend. He got the chocolate tester riding the fucking ice cream bike around. Don't shut up. That's the job.

That's living the dream at 14. Living the dream ice cream job bike. And I was like, I hate everything about your existence. But I'm my my parents were always really sympathetic to the fact that the job pool was aggressively limited where I lived. There were like a grand total of like six jobs that opened up in the summer. And they were made for kids. Like they weren't real positions.

I had a high school of two thousand people that were competing for 14 fast food jobs in the whole fucking town around my place. It was because there was more businesses. Yeah, I tried desperately to work at. I gave resumes to every comic book store. Yeah, you did. Like city and none of them will take you because everyone already had it. Exactly.

Like I there was a literal moment of my dad telling me to make a lemonade stand that occurred. That was like what make sure the end is backwards. Dad, I'm not six years old. One, you know, all right. Make sure the A is backwards. I don't look different. The A is backwards upside down.

Yeah, sure. Well, well, well, well, he's bad lemonade stand. Enjoy. Should I just fucking in salt lemonade and in an apple? Should have invested in Nintendo up until we got it all on Exxon. Yeah, man, man. That would have been a really good stock for a while. Yeah. What's what do we got in stock for in stock?

For this week, Street Fighter will continue. Everything continues. Catherine will continue scintillating revelations being exposed in Catherine. Every year, pushing you to the edge of your seat near will continue. Obviously, Zelda will end. Zelda will end. Finally, 42 episodes in inside will likely replace Zelda in the near future. Is that a play through or is that just one?

It's a play through. It can be both ours. Why are me and woolly not playing through it? Are you both new? Are you both clean on that? Yeah, I'm clean on it. Whatever you like. Peg, Matt, to go with.

Oh, I'll hold your hands. Yeah, and then go with if you want. I mean, fuck it. And then, you know, you and I have still have to start that thing. Yeah, we got to we got to start that thing. Yeah, what are you guys looking forward to this week? This week, G Fest in Chicago fan meetup at the Galloping Ghost. Oh, with your little dinosaurs dinosaur con next weekend, right?

That's this coming weekend. Make sure to rub the your panel in Smolissa's face. Well, a fan meetup at Galloping Ghost Arcade this Saturday at around 7 p.m. Talk to the group and they're like, we talked to the the benefactors of Galloping Ghost Arcade and they're like, we're sorry. We won't be getting crews in red line by the time you you get here. I'm like, oh, OK, we'll be getting it two days after two days after I fucking call myself and then like my panel on Godzilla, Godzilla versus video games,

giant pixels all out attack will be happening on Sunday at 1 p.m. At the G Fest. So we're looking forward to it. I'm going to be heading out to Balrog stage and I'm going to see if I can make some fight money. Chances are I'm not going. Wait, isn't that banned? Yes, that's bad.

You can't you can't. You can't regularly and money matching. You can't regulate what goes on in those hotel rooms. You can't regulate the feeling of walking down the hallway, listening to the sounds of arcade sticks being tapped and knocking on the door. You know, you know, you know what I want to see? I want to see like combo feed accidentally get caught on camera going. Hey, hey, hey, no money matches in here.

No, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you can't have that on the floor. Come upstairs to this room. I bring a thousand off. Could you imagine it breaks down this weekend and the news comes out? There's the official Capcom back room money. Do the salt and it's like high stakes. Like the salt is more is almost official at this point. Yeah, yeah, because it like besides they get it on the stream.

You got you got you got you got the screen going. There's your entry fee. There's your high rollers tournament. Everyone who organizes Evo is in the. Guess what? Exert had its it's fucking salty sweet and who was in the room. Daisuke, yeah, literally in the room, playing casuals with people. Like it's on that level.

And here's so what up? Yeah, yeah, Matt fucking doggen himself with a thuggery shirt. Put it put a sign on the door. Definitely no thuggery. From that, I really want to finish lucha underground. Yeah, I'm probably going to start watching loose lucha underground because everyone, even people outside of you, people are coming up to me. So you guys start watching because Dario

and the old gods or whatever and Monster Hunter comes out on Friday. He, he, I still don't know what they're worshiping in the basement. Oh, that's great. That's what I want to hear four episodes away. Liam, what about you? I mean, I'm going to play a bunch of games. I really want to play inside this week. And there's some other stuff I want to put put time into

the new old Project Diva Future Tone that came out in Japan like two weeks ago. I played it for like a half hour the other night. Just throw every other future tone, throw every other console Project Diva right through the garbage, through the groaning of the into the floor, destroy them. They're fucking worthless. They all have like 40 tracks, right? This game has 224 tracks.

So this is the arcade. This is actually a port of the arcade game. That's so that's a lot of tracks for anything. Yeah, there's still value to the handheld versions, the console versions, throw them in the trash. And Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Versus Force comes out this week. Don't let them say you didn't buy it. Don't let them not localize the PS4 one when it comes out.

But with your wallet. OK, it matters because that happens. Shout outs to Cologion. They made it. I think I think it's because of the gym position pointed out. Geez, we didn't talk about it. Sorry, continue. I know, I was just going to say, I think it's because Sterling.

I know exactly what you're thinking. And good on them for the last second. Success. What up? What up, man? Kickstarter, that's all this shit Kickstarter game, right? Pray for the gods that that kind of came out of nowhere. Like I was really, really impressed by that. So I checked in some money.

Yeah, they announced it a few months ago. Yeah, they announced it a few months ago, but the Kickstarter only kind of happened now. That like was fucking like, do you like shallow classes? Do you like shallow classes with more stuff like inventory, different weapons? Oh, it's that game survival, like animal companions, like a wolf and shit. Like and for a three man team, that game looks incredible. So if you're interested in it, go go check it out. How much time is left to go to a while?

Twenty twenty plus. They're about 50 percent the way there, because it's it's. It's a lot, six hundred K or something. Yeah, it looks like a like, oh, it's a triple A, but it's like pretty like impressive scale for like a three man team. Yeah, definitely. Let's pray for the gods like a fucking. It's just like that.

That amazing title we couldn't remember. It's it's pray. Shall wake as in stuff you hunt it. Yeah, exactly. Pray for the gods. Well, I think that's it for podcasts. Willie, can you play us out to the wonderful sound, wonderful sweet sounds, dulcet tones of company here, guys.

Break up your volume. Here we go. I apologize for nothing.