Castle Super Beast - SBFC 164: RKO That Giraffe for a Save State

Starting point is 00:00:00 When's the last time you watched the Blade Trilogy? Um, like, wait, yesterday? Every morning. La Magra was in your house yesterday? I watched one of those. When you say the Trilogy. I also played T.J. Combo with the Blade costume too. Do you mean, did you watch a movie of the Blade Trilogy or did you have to watch the

Starting point is 00:00:38 whole thing? No. Cause like, that has never happened in my life. The sitting of the Blade Trilogy has never, never, never, never. I'll stop you right there and say, with Pizza Pasta Force, I went, we should all watch the Blades and everyone went, yeah, and then that was eight months ago and it still hasn't happened. Listen, I feel deep down in my core that it's got the same problem as the Bourne movies

Starting point is 00:01:06 where they're not meant to be watched next to each other. Dude, I can't even, how many Bourne movies are there's like five or seven or something. But if you watch the back, then there's the rat face legacy. So I marathon the Bourne movies and they're all the same fucking movie. They are all the same movie. So they're, they're fine, but they're not meant to be seen. I, I would rather watch Blade two, three times than watch the Blade trilogy. I watched Blade one.

Starting point is 00:01:30 Come on, Blade one. Blade one. Yeah, but, but, but remember, if you watch the trilogy, you have to watch Blade Trinity. Yeah. No, no. Cause it's like the name is Trinity. Also, if you want to double down, if you want to be a Blade boy, Blade boy, you got to watch the anime, then you got to watch the show with sticky fingers when it starts

Starting point is 00:01:51 to get good. You got to get in the episodes of radioactive spider blood. Don't be with Blade in them. I'm Blade and plasma. That's Spider-Man. Oh yeah. Mobius is running around and Punisher too, Punisher too. Punisher's like, are you seriously Plasma?

Starting point is 00:02:09 You're such a pussy. Watch me shoot my net. So Woolly, what was the budget of the Blade trilogy? $164 million dollars for you. All together? You good. Awesome. You good.

Starting point is 00:02:24 You started to get ahead. You start to learn. You sharp. You sharp. You got to learn. Why is Woolly talking about this shitty movie franchise? There must be a reason. Time to Google Blade Movie 164.

Starting point is 00:02:32 Oh, there it is. There it is. Who was the actor that played Deacon Frost? Did we ever see him again? Stephen Dorf. Did we ever see him again? In the movies? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:41 Like in the movie? Like Ganondorf's brother? Yeah. No, Stephen Dorf. Stephen Dorf Dragmire. Stephen Dorf Dragmire. Yeah. Was born in Connecticut.

Starting point is 00:02:50 He's been in a bunch of movies. He was in, like, that Alone in the Dark movie by Uwe Boll. Good for him. But he's a Z-List actor in general. Yeah, but he pays us taxes. I don't know what he does. Hey, kids, pay your fucking taxes. Wesley Snipes takes credit for starting the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Starting point is 00:03:10 He did. He does. Because he wanted to, I guess. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on a minute. Hold on a minute. Lou Ferrigno started. No, I don't count that because that is from the 80s and then nothing.

Starting point is 00:03:26 That's like saying Adam West started that. Then you started 97. Lou Ferrigno did well. That's Hulk, right? Yeah, yeah. Then it did well. And then they started making X-Men movies. So then there was an ancient MCU that was Lou Ferrigno and Dolph Lundgren.

Starting point is 00:03:42 Dolph Lundgren. And Captain America. Is that Captain America movie? Oh, God, there was a Cap movie, too. This is Dolph Lundgren. Punisher. Oh, no kidding. 70's Punisher.

Starting point is 00:03:50 I like that Punisher. I haven't seen that one. It's good. Oh, it's weird. You have a Dolph Lundgren in the role. He kills a bunch of Japanese people. It's nuts. Good for him.

Starting point is 00:03:59 Yeah. And the fucking Hulk, man. Gotta be sure. That seems like... It's not canon anymore. Then there's Thor. No, no. Thor appeared in the Hulk show.

Starting point is 00:04:07 Oh, yeah. He had a cameo at one point. Couple episodes. Hey, guys, did you watch that Red Letter Media retake on Blade One? No. I think I did. I try to avoid Blade Media. Because there's a bit of trivia in there that Jay found out by watching the director's commentary

Starting point is 00:04:25 about that line you guys love so much. I'm not familiar with this line. About some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill. Yeah, apparently he edited it himself. So, not exactly. Oh, okay. So, Goyer, I think Goyer wrote it. But Goyer's scripts are like, and then the guys talk.

Starting point is 00:04:47 Like he just does big broad strokes. Oh, big stuff. And then everyone just kind of ad-libs and fixes it. He's like, Wesley Snipes is good at this kind of thing. So in some kind of production meeting, Wesley Snipes says, man, some motherfuckers always gotta ice skate uphill. I love it. And the director and Goyer go, that's the best thing we ever had.

Starting point is 00:05:05 Ever. That's gonna be the zinger of the movie. And Wesley Snipes goes, no, that's stupid. You don't put that in the movie. And they're like, no, it's the best thing. It's already in the script. And now it's in the movie. After Wesley Snipes is like, no.

Starting point is 00:05:18 And guess what? It's stupid. Don't put it in the movie. Wesley's an idiot. That's why he's in jail. Because that line is awesome. It's not funny. It's like that bit of trivia where they said, Halle, what do you want to say next?

Starting point is 00:05:31 How about something about what happens when you fry a frog with a toad? A toad. Yeah. They'll bolt a lightning. And they're like, no, Halle, please don't. Don't. No. Oh, the movie came out.

Starting point is 00:05:44 That was everything else. She couldn't continue. I blame Solid Snake for letting that through. Oh, man. Yeah. Hey, I got my first any amount of noticing from Hideo Kojima on Twitter. Nice. Where he posted watching Blade tonight.

Starting point is 00:06:00 And posted a picture of like a Japanese Blu-ray of Blade. And I wrote some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate up and he liked it. He didn't retweet it. But he liked it. You're getting somewhere. Yeah. No, one day. That's a good-ass one-liner, man.

Starting point is 00:06:16 That's fun, though. It's really easy, man. There's no context for it. What's the context of saying some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate up when he's about to kick a syringe into someone's head? Because Beacon becomes the blood god and then Blade cuts him in half. And he just reforms. And he flew too close to the sun.

Starting point is 00:06:31 He kept in. And so Blade was just like, there's always some asshole trying to get on up. So when Daedalus is looking up at Icarus, he's like, some motherfuckers always- Yes. Yes, exactly. And that's what's- You're asking for trouble. That's lacking from the movies these days.

Starting point is 00:06:45 Because it's too much of a risk if the line sucks. Because you put so much weight on it. Because the music stops. And the camera zooms in on the character space. But you have to take that gamble. Because that pays off. I know. But no one has the balls anymore.

Starting point is 00:06:57 We're playing it to- We'll just say Halle Berry destroyed it for everyone. But the music didn't stop and zoom in on her face, did it? It totally did. It was hyping it up. It zooms in on her eyeballs, dude. And remember, she's the best line ever. Also when she says it, it pans back to Toad.

Starting point is 00:07:14 And he's like, what? And then it goes back to her for the zinger. Because I feel like the only things that get played like that these days are like the homages and the throw-ups, like Yippee-ki-yay and shit like that, that's already established. And it's like a movie's best intentions is like, hey, everyone's going to go bananas over Captain Phasma, this mysterious badass. No one gives a shit about Phasma. It's about Trader.

Starting point is 00:07:40 But they didn't know that that was going to happen. Because she's a walking toy. We got some good recent ones, though. Kubo had one, Don't Breathe had one. We got some good recent ones. Yeah, but I didn't have the slow build up. But Don't Breathe was like, that was us grabbing that out of the movie. It wasn't pushed.

Starting point is 00:07:58 I don't know. I don't know. I still feel like they sent, like, someone wrote the line and thought, this is a good idea. This is a really good idea. Yeah, I can see myself having a conversation about Don't Breathe or someone in them forgetting that possible. Yeah, but then you don't want to keep talking with them. If you see it get a hashtag, that's when it has some type of push towards it.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Hold the door. Like AJ Styles came up with the hashtag, I'm going to beat up John Cena. And that was a hashtag for a while. That's really good. And then it stopped. That's good. I like that. Simple, but effective.

Starting point is 00:08:30 Concise. Concise gets to the heart of what most people want to do. Or how about Mickey and the, I'm going to beat up CM Punk hashtag. Did that get any push or any play? I'm not sure. I'm going to get knocked out in two minutes. Guys, CM Punk got rocked. Dude, I'm sure somebody can go back, but if we ever talked about this on the podcast,

Starting point is 00:08:51 I'm pretty sure my exact words were CM Pi. CM Pi is going to get punked in the ring. No, it's CM Punk is going to die going into UFC. I mean, there's two things. He's not a caught damn fighter. He's a fucking pro wrestler. There's two things though. Did he get punked or did he make half a million dollars?

Starting point is 00:09:14 Sure. But I mean, you know, also if you're, I don't know how many UFC fighters are vegetative. But CM Punk being one, that's going to be an uphill battle to get muscle. I'm going to give you half a million dollars, but I'm going to beat your ass to the baseball for 12 minutes. No, there's no baseball bat involved. There's a guy's fist. Yeah, that guy's fist.

Starting point is 00:09:35 That's harder than a baseball. That's like when, when, when they, when they call us, uh, Seth, um, fucking, uh, not green, whatever. Rogan. Rogan. Rogan. Rollins. The one who plays, uh, Chris on Friday.

Starting point is 00:09:48 Street Fighter 4. Oh, Seth Green. Seth Green. Seth Green. Yeah. When they call him out for like, oh, what, what was with these shitties movies you make, fucking up, uh, without a paddle and whatever. He's like, Hey, I'll have you know that without a paddle grossed this many, this much million

Starting point is 00:10:01 dollars, and I got a fat paycheck out of it or whatever. It's like, yeah, but it was a bad movie. It wasn't funny. Yeah. Go talk to Adam Sandler and be like, Hey, why do you make a bunch of garbage? And he goes, fuck you. I'm rich. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:10:11 Right. So it's just, so it's like, like, I would have liked this. Like maybe book CM Punk. Like us. Like the Green Ranger or something. But not as successful. Like the duty fought Mickey was like, yeah. There was an interview with him talking where he's like, I'm someone that everyone's looking

Starting point is 00:10:24 at CM Punk coming into UFC going like, this guy's, there's no way. Right. It's just not going to, it's not going to fly. And if you lose or even have like a contest with him, you become the joke of UFC. So he's like, he's like, I have to go. I have to destroy. I have to go with really, really hard. I will gladly kill CM Punk for half a million dollars.

Starting point is 00:10:46 If CM Punk wasn't from wrestling originally, like he looks like any UFC fighter. They're like, he looks like a diamond dozen guy. It's stacked up against him. Yeah, but he has the X's on and he has the Cobra logo on his shoulder. And the Pepsi. That changes everything. The Pepsi. But every UFC fighter's got fucking logo.

Starting point is 00:11:03 Yeah, they got their stuff. And then dude came out to Hey Mickey and everyone. Brock Lesnar has the logo of a big needle going into his arm. Into his butt. His favorite knife company on his chest. Fuck. It's not that it's a knife tattoo on his chest. It's that it's a knife tattoo with brass nuts on it.

Starting point is 00:11:25 And it's going into his tummy a little bit. God damn it. Cut it into his tummy. It's so ugly. I want to know if there's like, there was a bit of a shockwave where some wrestlers that were thinking, yeah, I could get in the cage. Yeah, I can do that shit. Well, Brock did it.

Starting point is 00:11:39 Kind of. No, I know. Definitely. And he did it and came the other way. Yeah. And some people that were like, I want to make it out. Kind of saw that one. Well, there's precedent for this kind of situation.

Starting point is 00:11:49 Yeah. Do you remember? UFC fighters moved to. No, no, no. I'm talking about much older. I'm talking about. Oh, what the fuck was it called? Where WWE held boxing matches.

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Starting point is 01:36:13 Bro. Bro. The Creators intent. Yeah. Or the perception of the creator's intent. What you think the creators intent is what you want. Because yeah.

Starting point is 01:36:26 That's why some people are misguided in that. Because that's what they think the creators intent is. Yeah. The creator wanted EO10's. Well, no, but on the other hand maybe the creator did want their stuff dubbed in English. But they don't think so. Their perception is the creator wanted you to see the Japanese one. You follow?

Starting point is 01:36:42 I follow. It'd be so easy to just ask. Yeah. No, I get you. I get you. That's what people's desire is for today. It's just perception of what's authentic. Like video game movies.

Starting point is 01:36:53 What are you laughing at? The EO10 thing gets me every time. Every time. Yeah. It's on slide. EO10 on slide. It's like video game movies where it's hard to get over the sum of what are all the amazing anime movies that got turned into American productions.

Starting point is 01:37:09 All you need is kill. Fucking suck. That's not an anime. It's a manga. And it didn't suck. Potatoes, potatoes. Right? But Dragon Ball, Aeon Flux is kind of a weird in-between thing.

Starting point is 01:37:21 And what else? That's all I can think of. No longer friends with Titan. New best friend is EO10. Really doubling down on that. Kite got made. Oh god. But that kite movie sucked because it didn't have that one seat.

Starting point is 01:37:40 Samuel L, didn't he do that? No he did, but it exercised the best seat. Not really anime. Those are the three things. Not really anime, but like the ring, the grudge, Godzilla. So like, you know, I like Scarlett Johansson fine enough. I think she looks good in the role. You know, Hollywood, Major Millions, etc.

Starting point is 01:38:06 They don't think like Rinko Kikuchi could pull it off. They don't think anyone else... Way to exemplify the exact... I was kind of yawning in the middle of saying that. You were so bored by her that you were so... Oh wow! That's what I was saying the other day. Like, I legit don't know, are there good enough Japanese actresses who can speak English

Starting point is 01:38:32 at like a Hollywood acceptability level? There's Chinese, there's Chinese. And is that better than a Japanese? No, that'd be the same problem with a different language. But like, I wouldn't be thinking necessarily of like... I'd be imagining more of a casting call for people that are like in America, you know, but they could go with Japanese people that can speak as well. I mean, ultimately, you know, I feel like there's a lot of people out there,

Starting point is 01:38:57 but the decision isn't... Should have just been Nakamura. They can't find the person. But Shinsuke... Shinsuke Nakamura should be Makoto Kusanagi. Yeah, that's right. That's fine. Yeah, go for it.

Starting point is 01:39:13 It's a body, it's a body. Done, she took it. Alright. Yow! That movie is now better because you're going to go see it the whole time and you'll be like, what if that was Shinsuke Nakamura? And then Bato walks in and you just hear... Brock Lesnar walks in.

Starting point is 01:39:32 That'd be awesome. Yeah. I feel like she played like a Russian girl in her last movie. Yeah, she did. She did. I just, you know, like, it's one of two, right? It's like you do the departed where you just completely take the story out of its location and place it somewhere else.

Starting point is 01:39:50 Put it in some weird place. Where everyone talks like that down by the hob. But it's like, if it wasn't going to be Makoto, if that would just be a Japanese actress, then someone needs... Damn it! What? I'm just like, I'm reminded like, I love the departed so much. It's such a great movie.

Starting point is 01:40:06 But like, I love it for one line. And it's a fucking, what's the guy's name? Marky Marks. Sure. Mark Wahlberg. The fucking cameras are failing. And he's screaming like, who the fuck set up these cameras? He goes, I did.

Starting point is 01:40:19 Who the fuck are you? And he goes, I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy. So soldier 76. Right. That's... Oh! My God!

Starting point is 01:40:30 Yes! What you love is, what you love is Infernal Affairs. The Chinese trilogy. Is that line in Infernal Affairs? I don't remember. Like seriously. I see the first two Infernal Affairs. That's too good.

Starting point is 01:40:41 Yeah. All three of them are great. By the way, Willie, you know what's on Netflix? Killzone 2. What we didn't get to see in Fantasia. It's on Netflix already. Fuck you! God damn it!

Starting point is 01:40:53 Tony Ja plus Wu Jing. Get out of here! That's my pairing. That's my OTP. That's Canadian Netflix, no less. Sorry, Matt. How was it? Was that Makoto?

Starting point is 01:41:01 Kusaraki? If she was going to be a Japanese actress, then someone else needed to be Tom Cruise. Yes. Like if it wasn't going to be her, there's someone it's got to be. Then Bato had to be Will Smith. Yeah, exactly. No, Will Smith, yeah. Yeah, Will Smith.

Starting point is 01:41:17 Yeah. I mean, it's funny because like in that Landis video, he actually like, he's like, there's 10 A-listers that can get films made. The draw. And like Denzel and Will are the two black guys, but for girls, it doesn't apply right now. There's no one else, you know? There's no Meryl Streep out there right now.

Starting point is 01:41:32 Lucy Hu doesn't exist anymore. I know it's true because back in the day, if you needed un-Asian face, you grabbed Lucy Lu. He simply went for her. And it was like, oh my god. And if you really get Lucy Lu, you get Kelly Hu, who played Lady Death Strike. Right. And so the short list, and so this list of like potential alternatives that I was talking

Starting point is 01:41:51 about, they're like, you can get, you know, the, there's a- Like the triple S-rankers. You can get, you can get Rinko Kikuchi, you can get the girl from- She's not a triple S-ranker. No, no, no. I'm just saying, I'm saying, I'm saying actors right now that are working. But she can't speak English. She's a good writer.

Starting point is 01:42:09 Right. You can get the girl- I love her, but like- The girl from Suicide Squad. Yeah. They said the girl from Once Upon a Time. Devin Ioki. There's the girl from, oh god, there's another movie.

Starting point is 01:42:20 But anyway, there was a short list of like, here's some people that could theoretically play the role, you know, a little bit that they- Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise. He could. She switched bodies. It's okay. Well, if he's going to be the last Samurai, why not?

Starting point is 01:42:33 He's pinned down this path before. Right? I'm just- Dude, Tom Cruise. I'm just really great. I'm just really grateful that America can teach Japan honor, finally. Tom Cruise, like ass up on a, on a Tachikoma, riding it in the tight suit. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:42:50 The Yards out there, I bet you. I'll pay. I'll pay. That'd be good. Your ass is in that seat. Yeah. That's good. You're watching that in D-Box.

Starting point is 01:42:58 I- And he's tearing the, he's tearing the, his arms are falling off and he's like, oh, it must be because of my galactic tormentor. Yeah. Cut over. My movie, but the last movie I made, it didn't do so well because of my galactic tormentor. Oh man. The Laughing Man.

Starting point is 01:43:16 Decreased Tick. Sinu. It was a virus. So. I really hope it's good at the end of the day. That's all I care about. Hollywood sucks. Sometimes.

Starting point is 01:43:26 You know what else sucks? What's that? Fucking root kids being sold on your computer. So this is bad. So it's bad, bad, bad. So, uh, yeah. No two ways about it. So the good news is that if you hold down jab, medium kick, and stride punch, Eurian

Starting point is 01:43:43 burns his clothes off and wears his third strike uniform where he's all naked. Fucking great. It's so nice that they did that. The bad news is that for anti piracy reasons and they decided to basically install a root kit. So when I went through their capcom.sys file. So when I loaded up the game, I was like, why does it ask me for admin privileges now for super permissions every time I load it up?

Starting point is 01:44:08 What's up with that? And then I went on to the reddit and was like, oh, yeah, yeah, so I got, I got to get rid of this thing and in the press release too. They had an interesting thing where they're like, this isn't, they're like, we have a new thing to stop a piracy and whatnot and to cheating as well. Stop people just hitting the button and getting a billion fireplace and, and they, and they said no, um, no DRM on it. Right.

Starting point is 01:44:30 And they're right. It's not DRM. But it's way worse. It is a file that is installed that is a capcom.sys file that can easily allow anyone to mess with it and basically inject malware into your current. So that's effective. I'll give, I'll give a really simple explanation. Cause a lot of people don't know what we mean by root kit.

Starting point is 01:44:49 I assume you've looked it up a little bit and got, well, yeah, I remember cause once Sony did this with their fucking CDs back in the day. So a root kit is basically a little file that whatever, it lets you, it lets you bypass the shields. It puts it into the windows 32 directory and essentially gives itself level zero clearance to do whatever the fuck it wants with your computer and it can do whatever. The problem with root kits is it's really easy to then go through that thing and fuck up your computer because you, like those things aren't typically safely made and they represent

Starting point is 01:45:29 a big open back door to your computer now that somebody put on there. So Capcom in order to stop people from running cheat engine and shit wanted zero level permissions so that the kernel would go, oh, you can't run cheat engine and SF5 at the same time. The game won't even turn on without think, like dumb fucking dumb, even without thinking because someone went in and saw and checked out, there's lines of code that are not used in the file that are copied directly from actual malware out there. Great. So they got in touch with someone, someone went and found some actual malware and repurposed

Starting point is 01:46:11 it to be awful malware, but just to be halfway off. So here's the PSA part of it, the new update that went live, I think five hours after this thing went out, turn that shit off immediately, but you have to go and find it and delete it yourself. It is still there on your computer. Fortunately, it is the capcom.sys file and it is your win 32 folder and when your windows installation and if you look at the types, you'll see like application application application and you'll see one file in there called like list of that system.

Starting point is 01:46:45 Yeah, yeah, you get rid of your right. Delete that. A big boo boo and the way that the immediate rollback says that people on the development side said, do not do this. And somebody on the business side said, oh, it won't be that big of a deal. Do it. That like, and then somebody got to say, I told you so people found out and it's bad. Because that's a really fast retraction.

Starting point is 01:47:17 That's five hours. That's like that rollback. That's what it feels like to me. It's one day of work. They didn't go home. Yeah, no, like they fixed it even within the start of business. The guy who said this is a bad idea had that build ready. Yes.

Starting point is 01:47:34 And he's like, okay, I know they're going to roll it back. They're going to roll back. To get it within five hours, like to make a build, it takes like a fucking hour and a bit. Yeah. Like they rolled it back so fast. Because it had to be a new build because it's that is rolled back, but not Urian. So no, they had to make a new build.

Starting point is 01:47:55 It's a different build that doesn't have the bullshit. Like it's crazy, crazy that it even got out. People at Capcom knew that this is going to blow up, but whoever got to decide. Yeah, it's super shitty. Went ahead with it anyway. Super shitty. Bad. No, no.

Starting point is 01:48:13 Bad Capcom. Definitely. So, but you get all the colors now. If you have the season pass, right? And that sick ass new to Cali outfit. Yeah. Yeah. Designed by Kazanoko.

Starting point is 01:48:22 I love the implicit acknowledgement of giving out those colors with the season pass is like we know this is the reason most of you are cheating. Most of you are cheating to get these colors and then you have the sheets open. So why not just give yourself a billion fight money? Did you see, did you see the Cali's belt? I did not. It's pretty cool. Is it a sharing gun?

Starting point is 01:48:42 Yeah. That's the only reason we would use ushered tones. It's a pretty cool. Let me see if I can pull it up real quick. It's worth it. It's worth it. Is it? I'd say so.

Starting point is 01:48:53 Okay. Because if you know, then you get it connected to Pat's TV and send it to Pat's TV. I don't like that people can do that. That's a weird. Hijacking other people's TV. Yeah. You've been doing that. And I don't know what's up with that.

Starting point is 01:49:05 It's a really good feature that I like. Take a look at that. Pat. Oh yeah. It's that stupid show that's going to die. The Cali's belt is a reboot logo. That's awesome. Anyway, fucked up.

Starting point is 01:49:16 I don't understand. Yeah. How did that get there? Yeah. He's excited for guardian code. Yeah. How about that? I always felt that Nikali was an opinionated all.

Starting point is 01:49:27 I knew it. It was a race to see who could get there first. Yeah. And Matt did. So speaking of rolling back and races to see who could get there first, Shuhei Yoshida says no man's sky didn't have a great PR strategy. No shit. No shit.

Starting point is 01:49:41 Huh? Big lie is not a great strategy. I understand some of the criticisms especially that director Sean Murray is getting. It wasn't a great PR strategy because he didn't have a PR person helping him in the end. He is an indie developer. This is also known as throwing someone under the bus. Kind of.

Starting point is 01:50:03 At a certain point it's like what do you want? You want to know why or just say I have no comment? Yeah. I myself, I really enjoyed the game and the plans to continue the development on it and such are what I'm really looking forward to. Saw that metric that said like concurrent players on PC are like less than a thousand. That seems accurate. It's pretty crazy.

Starting point is 01:50:30 Yeah. Just don't, you know, sold the numbers. It's not battle born. It's not battle born. Certainly not. Is that, is that what we're doing now? Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:50:42 Yeah. Well, you're the tallest midget. Every once in a while is that what we're doing. Every once in a while, like while we're playing and stuff, Mothman will go out and find like battle born streams on Twitch and just post them and just see how many active Twitch people are playing and you can watch like of the five or 10 streams that are up. These are the only people on and they're only playing with each other and it takes forever to queue up to another match and it's like, oh my God, it's dropping, it's dropping down

Starting point is 01:51:11 to double digits at some points. It's getting really rough out there. Yeah. Rough. On the comment, like, yeah, I respect his honesty, but like what else are you going to, like real talk, I did enjoy the game. I did have fun with it for a fair while. But the almost complete silence from Hello Games is awful and I completely don't understand

Starting point is 01:51:36 what they're doing. I did not expect that silence. I thought they'd be out there trying to fix that, at least doing damage control. And they've been putting out patches really fast and they've been fixing a lot, but like I cannot believe the startling silence from Hello Games and it really disappoints me actually because I really... You can make like a flash game of being Sean Murphy and like Murray, Murray, whatever, and like going, sorry that I slightly...

Starting point is 01:52:08 No, sorry, Matthew Kowalski. Sure. Matthew and Wally on the name game this week. Go on, go on. Murphy and Murray, really? Go on, go on. These Swedish or something? I don't know.

Starting point is 01:52:18 I was yawning. I know the name. You make a flash game of him running around like a bunch of tables and putting out fires and you think that's what would be happening and like, yeah, you're right, I remember just seeing a big patch went out for it and I was like, okay, so what does it do? There are patch notes actually and there are extensive patch notes. They have been fixing a lot, which is great. That's what they should be doing, but the silence is deafening and I just think they

Starting point is 01:52:45 should fucking speak because it's ridiculous. The lack of communication is really what's killing it. Because the longer they say nothing, the more it looks like, whoops, you caught us in a whole bunch of big lies and we totally intended to lie all those times. An apology or a tacit acknowledgement, if a mistake or whatever, is worth a lot and I'm really disappointed that they haven't done anything and I don't blame Shuhei for saying what he did because that's, what are you supposed to, because he could have delivered the PR line of, I have nothing to say, you know, and I applaud him for saying that and

Starting point is 01:53:22 it's a shame he's getting slammed for that because that's probably how he actually feels about it. Yeah, I'd think so. Really the, like, what, I'm just like, really, that's, we're comparing games to Battle Board and it's like a metric. Did you see that? When you're talking about how many people are online, fuck yeah, you are. An American retailer two weeks ago that was shipping disk, sealed disk copies of Battle

Starting point is 01:53:44 Board for $5. It's just like, oh man, this sandwich is pretty bad, but at least it didn't give me AIDS. Like is that the level that we're jumping to? They announced the DLC character, not DLC, I think it's free DLC character. Free LC, whatever. The AIDS are pretty bad. That's literally the dog sitting there with the office on fire. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:54:06 And Randy Pitchford is the dog. Well, as much as I like kind of want Randy to get his a little, I do feel bad for them. I put so much in on Battle Ward and it did not pay off. It's just, it's a race to when it becomes a free. Yeah. Well, and that's not a bad thing. No, it would, it would help salvage whatever they could. I feel bad for them because of them getting blown up, but I also feel bad for them for

Starting point is 01:54:31 like blizzards, weird targeted thumbs in the eyes every chance they could get. That seemed totally unsolicited. But do you feel bad for Paladins? No. No, especially not after reading all the stuff about the development and about how it was like super concurrently developed. And certainly there are bits that they looked at from Overwatch, but how they point out that lots of abilities that people assume debuted in Overwatch actually debuted in an

Starting point is 01:55:00 earlier game. In the beta, in the beta for Paladins. And like showing off stuff, like how a lot of their things, they had similarities to Overwatch. Yeah. And when, and was called a ripoff and then they came out and showed like the receipts basically. They showed stuff.

Starting point is 01:55:14 They showed the receipts. Before Overwatch had that stuff, where they had it. To say that actually, no, these are MOBA trends. I watched a video from, of their Knight character. Way pre-Overwatch. But William. And he had, he had the shield and the charge. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:55:26 Way pre-Overwatch enough. You know how this works, where someone will go, well, here's the receipts. This shows a timestamp of when we unveiled this ability in our beta. And then Overwatch revealed that ability for that character, you know, a month or two later. I don't know. I just don't know. This doesn't feel right. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:55:49 Like what? I kind of feel like, hmm. Like what's, what's, what's. Yeah. You're showing me facts. Don, Don of War, right? This isn't about facts. This isn't about feelings.

Starting point is 01:55:58 I'm just really sick of Games Workshop ripping off Blizzard. Yeah. It's disgusting. Yeah. It's disgusting. No, we're sick of these Don of War games ripping off Starcraft. Same giant soldiers. Just God damn it.

Starting point is 01:56:11 Absolutely. No, but Willie goes, but we've, we've repped Killer Instinct for a while. We used its fucking theme song, I don't know. It seems like this love of Killer Instinct appeared overnight. Shit. Just as if it was green with money and that giant check. This is like, like, like, I wish you would guys had gotten paid to show for Killer Instinct. I do.

Starting point is 01:56:39 They would have gotten the thing that I got to do with FF 14 where I get to go, they paid me to say what I was going to say. Idiots. Yeah. That was a fun video because that was back during the era of like, how dare you not shit the on the Xbox. Yeah. He almost cried and then he took a shit when I was like, well, we're talking about a game

Starting point is 01:56:59 that looks cool. Hey, so speaking of deafening silence, you had more to say. I was just, I saw the donkey video right when it came out for it and I was like, wow, that's really flagrant. And then I was really kind of glad to see how not flagrant it was after the fact. No, the real thing is that the flagrant is that they're both ripping off MOBAs because MOBAs have that exact kind of character design. I mean, that's the, yeah, it's just that genre of art.

Starting point is 01:57:24 No. Ducky is a fucking hilarious motherfucker. Yeah. Goddamn. Is that a pro Genji? The only reason you don't play Paladins is because they are all black. It's a shame that John Tron doesn't watch his video. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:57:38 I saw also they announced that Paladins has over a million downloads and it's doing really good on Steam. Yeah. No, it's killing it. Good for them. The controversy helped. I don't know. Probably can't wait.

Starting point is 01:57:48 Is that a hiccup? I can't wait for a question mark. It was a big squeaky question mark. Yeah. Quake heroes. Sounded like a turtle. What? Sounded like a turtle.

Starting point is 01:58:00 Okay. Yeah. Speaking of... You've become everything you've hate. No, I was trying to... I like turtles. Apparently you hate them. Really?

Starting point is 01:58:08 Because you just shadowed them for 10 minutes. I just don't like to hear them having sex. You said you tape a turtle inside its own... No. I said I wouldn't do that. Yeah, you did. No, you said you do that. We have that.

Starting point is 01:58:19 We have that on record now. That's right there. Said you'd use pliers to pull it out. Oh, Jesus. Really bad. That's its spine, bro. Wow. You can't...

Starting point is 01:58:27 It's really bad that you would say that. I just think... You need those blood powers and I can't believe how thirsty you are. I just... I think it's... I think it's cool that turtles live forever, basically. Yeah. Well, tortoises.

Starting point is 01:58:38 Okay, so if you're jealous... If you did that to three turtles, but then you could make them circle around you like Mario Kart and shoot them like projectiles. No, that's lame. Okay, okay. You have to kill two turtles and your magic power is you can put your feet in their shells and their shoes that could walk on water. Not like those...

Starting point is 01:58:54 Wait, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Starting point is 01:59:02 Those are not those like bullshit floaty shoes that you fold on your fucking hands. No, you can walk like Jesus. He can walk. He can walk. He can run. You can coniate that shit. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:59:10 And you got to keep them forever, too. You got to kill those turtles bad. I could probably make money to do it. Do you know what I'd love? I'd love those turtles, the turtles shells in Mario Galaxy that are just little propellers. Yeah, yeah. On the bigger water. I love those things.

Starting point is 01:59:20 Mario's been into the blood magic for a long ass time. Yeah, killing all types of animals. Crush the turtle until it comes out of its mouth. You know, the bricks in Mario 1 are toads, right? Yeah. They're the bricks in their heads. 50 points a piece. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:59:34 Finally, toads are contributed. You're eating mushrooms that are their heads, you know. Christ. We know this. Sick burn on toad, I guess. Yeah, well. What else we know? We hate toad.

Starting point is 01:59:45 Is that... It's a segue also. Yeah. There is a... It's like a layup, but the ball just hits the ground. Well, because we went so far past it. I know, yeah. No, I want everybody to remember.

Starting point is 01:59:58 I'll put the ball up. It's fine. Look, there's a Silent Hill broken covenant lost pitch that was for the PS3 made by the Shattered. Yeah, yeah. Matt was talking about this. And now there's some footage of it. You can go take a look at an eight minute video.

Starting point is 02:00:10 It's neat footage because it's some of the assets of Silent Hill Origins, but it's on PS3 tech. So this is... So it looks better than Silent Origins ever could. So, William, I want you to look at my face and see the actual for real tears. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I just had this unexpected, just like wave of depression in my body. What would be your thought on a Silent Hill where you play as a priest and you have to

Starting point is 02:00:35 bless, slash, get rid of curses? That'd be great! Yeah! So, Climax LA was working on this. And here's what's weird and interesting to me because I fit into a part of this timeline What? Back in the QA days. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because Climax was a thing.

Starting point is 02:00:54 Because Origins and what originally was called for was in test at the time. Five maybe. Five, excuse me, rather, not the room. Because it was called Silent Hill Five for the while. But then they turned it into Homecoming, exactly. So both of those were in test and that was basically being pushed as the future of the franchise. That's one of those competing projects where Vine to be the next one and that company's

Starting point is 02:01:24 Vine to be the next one and it's up to Konami to decide which one. So obviously we didn't hear the other side of it where there was this broken covenant pitch was happening around the exact same time, in fact, a little bit earlier. But during that period of time, I remember that it wasn't up until the end that that name suddenly switched from Five over to Homecoming. I remember hearing that name. But the logos that we all stared at for a while were SHV. Oh man, that's neat.

Starting point is 02:01:55 So you can check out the footage of it and see what it will never be. Silent Hill is so depressing, man. And you know, I don't have a ton of experience with the franchise, but I do have experience with Shattered Memories. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you fucking do. I'm not sure if you guys remember, but Silent Hill probably has the most objective downward trend of any game series ever.

Starting point is 02:02:17 It's very noticeable. Every, no, but every single game sold worse than the one that came out before it. And 100%. At my last count with this, just like, holy fuck, and yes, and is it a stretch to save that it seemed like PT was going to save it? Yes. Yeah, it was. Absolutely.

Starting point is 02:02:37 Yeah. At my last count, this marks the third Silent Hill game that I know about that's been canceled. Not canceled, but like either a pitch was not picked up. Are you counting way forwards, 3D Silent Hill, that they jettisoned and then eventually made book of memories? Not counting them, counting the, counting Dementium, because that was going to be a Silent Hill game for the DS. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:03:00 That Konami said. This is the one specific because it was, we don't trust you. You're like, we don't know, like you're a small developer. We don't trust you. No. All right. Well, we'll make Dementium. Dementium one was a moderate success on the DS and it's a pretty good game.

Starting point is 02:03:15 They're about to make Dementium two. Are you sure you don't want to make this a Silent Hill DS? No. No, thanks. Dementium two. Much better game. And it's just like that. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:03:26 No. Give it to Votra. That's why I bring up Wayforks. It was the same story. And then there's Frozen Heart, which is what Shattered Memories is going to be, which is a completely different, like new entry. And that kind of got jettisoned for a remake and as good as the remake is, you know, but it's all Konami's fault, right?

Starting point is 02:03:44 Yes. In one way, except for that one time it was Wayfork's fault? Yes. It is Konami's fault. If it's not directly Konami management, this Konami via Tom Hewlett's fault. Tom Hewlett. That's the name. Because I was never...

Starting point is 02:04:00 I don't think you would have that much power. Tom Hewlett is the number one reason why those HD collections are trainwrecks. But I never heard about like Silent Hill being associated with a dude's name, you know, like a director. Tom Hewlett. Tom Hewlett was the guy. Well, I mean... But only late, late on.

Starting point is 02:04:15 Yamoko kind of took it, even though he didn't really, not deserve it, but it wasn't really his... There was no driving force. Instead, there were two names. There was Masahiro Ito and Akiri Yamaoka for music and monster design. Those are the two that stand out. And I forget the guy's name, but the crazy motherfucker that like snuck into the offices to make those CG cutscenes.

Starting point is 02:04:38 Oh my God, why does every game that's good or fucking special have one of these stories of someone sneaking into the office after hours? Did I ever tell you that one? No, I don't think so. But I know the story because I've heard it on fucking everything. The guy, they were like, ah, cutscenes are expensive, we're not going to do them. And staff snuck in after work and made those cutscenes that they used in the trailer that is the number one reason why Silent Hill 1 is a success because those CG cutscenes were

Starting point is 02:05:08 astonishing. Always. Always just someone's labor of love where they're like, nah, fuck it, I'm coming in off the clock. Put it up on the board next to Spider-Man 2. I mean, like realistically, that's what it is, but it's like, but like we think of it as like, okay, the lights are off, security guard's gone. I'm going to crawl up the building, right?

Starting point is 02:05:29 And then David Serlin is going to put in the HD remix changes, you know, like while no one's looking. Anyway, so I guess speaking of while no one's looking, you know, how about that digital homicide? It's a story we didn't really cover because Jim covered it so well. But then Jim stopped covering it when they sued him. And digital homicide was like, we're going to sue Jim Sterling because he damaged our brand and all that shit.

Starting point is 02:05:58 And that's insane. He told people that our bad gamers were bad. And then they were like, well, Steam doesn't do anything to moderate Steam reviews of any kind. And those are hurting our game too. So we're going to sue Steam reviewers. And that's really crazy. So then they sent Valve some kind of subpoena or subpoena requesting the private information

Starting point is 02:06:26 to sue the bad reviewers. And here was Valve's response. No, that's right. And now they're suing Valve. And here is Valve's response. Haha. Um, this feels like an individual's meltdown. No, this feels like a work in the, it's been a while, it's been a while, but doesn't

Starting point is 02:06:54 it. So in the breath between, I think they worked themselves into a shoot in the breath between those highs was the sound of all of their games getting delisted from Steam, which for LP purposes is unfortunate because, you know, yeah, you know what? I'm not itching to LP the piece of trash that has sue happy developers. Yeah, how about that too? Yeah, like this is so shitty on every front. Like at a, they should have never been able to get those games on Steam in the first place.

Starting point is 02:07:27 Like B commenters issuing death threats on Steam. Ridiculous. No matter to who, no matter to who should be moderated way more strictly than they are. Well, Steam's laissez-faire approach is bullshit. It will exactly. And but D, but D, I'll skip right to D. Yeah, like no, these guys are also kind of nuts. But E, Jim egged them on for a really long time. That's his job.

Starting point is 02:07:51 Jim will do that. But G, like these guys might have something in court with Steam because like that is a thing you're not supposed to do, suddenly remove a person's way of like life if you're the person. I bet they sound assigned to contract, but Zed, they're not going to get anywhere and frankly, I don't care because they're kind of assholes. Because the more than kind of like, because the they are, no, they are they, right? The guy.

Starting point is 02:08:15 Yes. Because there's a two guys. It's one. It's a guy. Okay. And it's basically. Yeah. No, he is.

Starting point is 02:08:24 And it's like, it's the kind of guy who basically is like, if you insult or don't like me, I can sue you for that. The only entertaining part about the story is like what the fuck is wrong with you is that then the company's name is digital homicide. Yeah. He basically killed yourself. More like digital suicide. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:08:43 Yeah. This is like what the second or third time Jim has been sued or like threatened to be sued. I'm completely unshucked. Jim just rubs people the wrong way to find a way to like, to like mix the lawsuits together so that they all cancel out like, like his video copyright strike. I still remember like Matt pissing fire that day that Jim gave Vanquish a bad review. He gave it a three out of 10.

Starting point is 02:09:12 Yeah. But the point is he gave dynasty where the point is like an eight. The point is Matt is that it made you really mad mad enough to sue him. If you were older, no, but some people, some people, your pitch was brought to a boil. It was. And Sassage Creed two is a four out of 10. I'm surprised. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:09:31 That's about right. I'm surprised. This is the first time there's a big meltdown. It's removed from steam kind of thing considering because the meltdown, like it's like, okay, we melted down and did that interview. Yeah. That literally did nothing. Well at all.

Starting point is 02:09:45 Okay. So now we're going to double down and soon. Okay. Yeah. That I'm going to assume is going nowhere. Okay. We're going to triple down and sued steam reviewers. Oh, we can't do that because of a hundred reasons.

Starting point is 02:09:58 Yeah. Okay. We're going to quadruple down. No, no, no, no. Like it's meltdown compounded. And in between each one of those steps, you had a logical moment and that doesn't. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:10:09 That moment of reason doesn't actually work. You're right. Into this model. And plus Jim balanced it all out by giving deadly premonition a 10 out of 10. And it was used as a sticker on the box art. That's the greatest gift he's ever given. That's pretty good. Yes, Willie.

Starting point is 02:10:27 No, I'm just, I'm like, you like, that's your that that's going to be like to your grave using your powers for good. Yeah. Um, we have a welcome the GameCube version of Tony Hawk three got a lower review. You were mad about that for you. I don't care about that. Oh, you use I care. I know I cared about, uh, uh, why did it get a little bit of you didn't have an online

Starting point is 02:10:50 mode, which you couldn't do. Doesn't matter. It's inferior to the other versions. Yeah. But that's like saying the sun doesn't shoot lightning bolts. Well, it's not its purpose. You know, it's missing a feature, though. It's missing a feature.

Starting point is 02:11:07 Yeah, right. It's missing a feature and that is missing a feature, but it's like, period. That's the end of the sentence. Yeah, but the GameCube sucks. That's your comeback. It does. It does actually. I'm on the GameCube.

Starting point is 02:11:20 It has good games. Didn't the GameCube have any port at some point, a which like a internet port at some point? No, you can connect to other GameCube. But I was gonna say, yeah, Phantasy Star did play online. Warp Pipe allowed you to have it. Warp Pipe. Warp Pipe's not real. Warp Pipe was totally real.

Starting point is 02:11:37 Warp Pipe was totally real. Phantasy Star was super online. Yeah. All three of them. So could you. You could play us some online via like nefarious methods, yes. Wait, not like, no, but Phantasy Star was literally in nefarious methods. They could have done it.

Starting point is 02:11:51 That's not about that. It's got a really specific tone to it. It's not just extra legal. It's nefarious. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:12:02 Continue, Willie. Yeah. Well, we got a lot of things that Matt likes actually speaking of things. There's no such thing. I think you like. I think you like snake pass. Snake pass looks fucking dope. Dude, that looks so fucking cool and fun.

Starting point is 02:12:15 You just said you didn't like it. Now here's the. No, I bet. Okay. Wouldn't find something. I only have one question. Yes. Does the snake ever stop moving or do you have to keep moving?

Starting point is 02:12:26 I don't know that. Because every footage shot has every moment of footage has been the snake moving. Okay. And it makes me think you can't stop. For those that don't know, snake pass is a game by Sumo Digital that makes Sonic Transform racing. They made both the Sonic racing, Little Big Planet 3. So it's a very ukulele, Benjiro Kazooie style platform where you control a snake that's

Starting point is 02:12:46 physics or. It's like the snake from Snake Rattle and Roll kind of. It's not. It's, it's. But he doesn't play the same, but he looks like him. It's like what I'm trying to take that. You remember like Octodad is like, ha ha, Octodad, but it's actually terrible. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:13:00 It's like that concept, but it seems like it play like the impressions of EGX were like, this is awesome to play. You play like a fun snake who moves like a snake. You can't do jumps and shit, but he twirls around things. He twirls. Snakes can do jumps. No. There is a snake that can jump.

Starting point is 02:13:15 And you can get a parrot who can pick you up and stuff. That's cool. Game looks good. And you look exactly like Kaa from the Jungle Book. Oh, you kind of do. You're right. The style is so close. Snake pass.

Starting point is 02:13:27 I like it. It's really good. Yeah. Yeah. There's that game Steel Assault that was on Kickstarter. Yeah. Okay, Willie. Did you see these gifts?

Starting point is 02:13:35 The new look to Steel Assault is way better, but way more interesting. But the, but the grapple. It's not a grapple. It's different. It's a zipline. What do you think about the zipline? It's new and interesting. And I like it.

Starting point is 02:13:50 The fact that you can, you can go up and down on it and use it on the ground. Put destructoid. Put destructoid. The fact that you can use it on the ground and to maneuver around boss fights. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. These, these, these fucking images woke me.

Starting point is 02:14:07 Right. So you got, you got the ability to zip line up a stage, right? This is a fucking 3D maneuver gear. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it's not just a grappling hook on one side. It zips and grapples both sides. And then you've got the fact that you can do it on the ground, crawl up and down to

Starting point is 02:14:24 avoid shots. And it looks really dope when you do it. So, you know, that looks okay. This was a, this was, let me, let me go through all of this. We covered this game in the first version of it on the podcast when it first dropped. This looks as a Jillian times better. This was originally pitched on Kickstarter as a very modest like $9,000 goal for a basic NES platformer.

Starting point is 02:14:44 And it was one, it was one guy basically doing moves to the work. If I remember correctly. Yeah. And then like after they, they reached that modest goal, he said, you know what, we're going to change, change, take a change of direction. We're going to make it more of a 16-bit style thing and change up whatever. And he said, if anyone wants to take back their money, if that's not what you want, I'll give it back to you.

Starting point is 02:15:07 Pretty cool. Did that. And now showed off the zip line mechanic just now. And also the artist that worked on the original NES looking pitch is now chipping in on another Kickstarter game. That's like cyborg ninja for the NES or whatever, like looks like it's from the NES. It says you will get this game for free. Nice.

Starting point is 02:15:27 If you, if you, because the first deal is all did have a really good look that's gone. Now it's not that new looks really good too, but it looked, it didn't look as good. I mean, that that is a, it is different. We're going to get that Kickstarter game paying tribute to cyborg justice. I think that's it. Get right on. Oh, you got to pull the arm off. You got to get to beat them up into the different pneumatic legs and, but I can't wait for that

Starting point is 02:15:50 thing to come up because there was a little demo version that cut out that jump that tank legs I played and it was pretty good. But I was just like, yeah, I know it's fine, but that looks way more interesting. Yeah. I'm glad to see it rebirthed. You re boss also steel salt. Good name. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:16:09 Uh, cyborg ninja slightly more forgettable, but I mean, it's an NES thing. That's looking up cyborg justice footage on, I mean, unless you're talking about metal gear, in which case that's the cyber, I believe it's called cyber ninja, but it might be wrong. Cyber ninjas. Cyber justice is great. You know what else is great? Uh, so we are seeing a couple of new announcements for new games.

Starting point is 02:16:33 One game called, uh, hold on, hold on. Liam's interrupting. I just, just they just announced runner three, like runner three, like 20 minutes ago. I thought that's had ruin or three. I thought that was like how the first few games, they didn't exist. They never happened. How? Okay.

Starting point is 02:16:53 Runner three. Not much, not much to say about it. No real, there's a trailer, but that's it. That wants to open the trailer. You can open the trailer. But I'm good. All right. Well, I'd rather just watch more cyborg justice.

Starting point is 02:17:03 It probably involves you running from left to right as commander video. Fuck you. You're crazy. Well, all other bit trip sagas remain dead. Unfortunate. I mean, one has to be the, the winner. Yeah. You win.

Starting point is 02:17:17 I'm just salt. So like flux. I love flux. I can't get through a day without using it. I like one of the other ones too. Hey, Willie, last, what's the last time you turned off flux? Never. Oh, you got to do it every now and then to appreciate it.

Starting point is 02:17:30 No, I still appreciate it all the time. I was running color tests on my TV earlier and I think I almost died. Yeah, it's perfectly. Look at that. Unflux TV. Every time the sun goes down, I appreciate it because I see it fade in. Willie, you're about to announce a new game. You have a long fade or the short fade?

Starting point is 02:17:45 The short fade so I can see it happen. I'm trying to get to the new game. Yes. The new game. Fuck you and your hatred of flux. What a useless program. I just don't like it. It's the wrong color.

Starting point is 02:17:56 I'm looking at the wrong color. It's better for your eyes. I don't care. My eyes are good. They're pretty good because I have glasses. Now they are, but when you're old like us. If you have shit eyes, then it's good for you. I do have shit eyes.

Starting point is 02:18:08 Well, I mean, I got my glasses. No, I mean, my eyes are just bad. Okay. Ghosts and demons, online co-op, action, stealth, huh? This is Aragami. Right. Right. Right.

Starting point is 02:18:23 Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right.

Starting point is 02:18:31 Right. Aragami is a stealth game that looks really stylish. Were there like some new press releases put out or something? Yeah. Okay. Which is why it's coming up again. I saw everyone talking about it. I'm like, what's the deal?

Starting point is 02:18:39 With a limited run physical thing. Pat, if you didn't see this, it's like Tenchu, but your ninja has shadow powers. And we can summon shadow dragons to eat guys. And what's for me? Tron motif shit going on in some places. That also works for me. So, you know, who's publishing the retail? I believe it's not because it's not limited run.

Starting point is 02:18:58 Tenchu was it? I think it is. Oh, yeah. Awesome. I don't know. I think it's like 505 games. Lints works? No, no.

Starting point is 02:19:06 Sorry, Matt. I'm saying because saying it's a limited run print is confusing. Because there's a company called limited run games. I think it might be limited run games that are putting out the physical. People shouldn't name their companies after things that already exist. Yeah. Well, I mean, the box comes with some cool shit in it. Like it looks like a pretty special edition.

Starting point is 02:19:21 And the ninja design is really solid. I like it. I like it a lot. But yeah, it's a 3D stealth game, much like Splinter Cell or Tenchu. Alright, got me. It used to be called, what was it? What it used to be called? Liam.

Starting point is 02:19:33 What is it called? What is it called? Two souls or some shit like that. Two souls, shadow, path of the shadow. That's a terrible name. Yeah. So if you don't want to be hijacking this for a second because I saw this bit of news that I forgot to send a woolly, but I really wanted to.

Starting point is 02:19:50 Yeah, man. So it's not limited run is doing the origami thing, but limited run are teaming up with Suda 51 to release a limited run of the Silver Case on PC. So if you want a really nice box copy, if you want a really nice box copy with the game on a disc with no DRM and everything, it's probably going to be $40 like their usual there. I wish I had like there's no date for it yet, but because they're that steam demo where I played it and I was like, no, thanks.

Starting point is 02:20:19 You're too surface for it. Damn. Well, I mean, if it will be really like Flower, Sun and Rain, so he'll love the Silver Case. So in. So on board. So get ready for the, it's the same game. Yeah. There was another announced game that where the fuck where the word that go?

Starting point is 02:20:40 I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Well, it's a game was announced somewhere. It was announced about like a few hours ago, actually, which is why it's, and it's sundered and it's by Thunder Lotus Games, who are the guys behind Jotun. So they're bringing that same handheld animations to everyone and draw hands drawn animation style.

Starting point is 02:21:00 Excuse me. Tongue. I'm like, I just retweeted it before you guys started. Yeah. And it was a PlayStation blog like pretty much exclusive like announcement of it existing. And it's being billed as a metroidvania. Just let that sit. No.

Starting point is 02:21:20 No. Okay. I got to see. I got to see. I watched the footage. It's the word that got thrown out. I saw the footage and the trailer doesn't really. And I stopped trying to push.

Starting point is 02:21:30 Exactly. I went at the, I looked at the footage and I said, well, that looks really busy and kind of messy. And then I looked at the, the description and it said it's procedurally generated. And I said, yeah, well, that's all I need from that game. Well, so it has elegance horrors. So that's all I need from that game. It's cool.

Starting point is 02:21:48 Animation looks cool. And you know, those guys are right over there. Yeah. So I hope, I hope hope's good. Hope's good. Keep an eye on that one. 2017. I believe.

Starting point is 02:21:59 Keep an eye on that one. Sunderd is a good name as well. Sunderd is a pretty good name. I'm liking, it reminds me of something that would fit into the, the, the Volver trilogy of, uh, Ruinner and, uh, I'm Solver, I looked at it and I was like, I wonder if they were planning on naming it Severed and then they had to change it because Sunderd means a very similar thing. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:22:22 Yeah. We are in 3ds and a lot. Either it just came out or it's in a few weeks or something, but yeah, it's, it's coming out and by that game on the Wii U, it would be good on the Wii U honestly. It's like the one console that could play it actually. Yeah. I think the 3ds version will be a bit kneecap. The iOS version is fine, but you don't move around as fun.

Starting point is 02:22:43 I imagine so. Yeah. Well, you have the news stories. Emails. Emails. One day you should go through and get all the vile hate mail for us. Yeah. Oh, do you want me to actually, one day, not, not today, but next time prep it, I've, I've

Starting point is 02:22:58 browsed past it. I don't want it. What if it's me and it hurts my feelings? I've read them and there's some really brutal ones. Oh yeah. Prep the good stuff. And like, there's some ones that are like, super breast hate cast. Like I read one that was like really long and really angry and like, it was about lore

Starting point is 02:23:17 or shit. No, it was, it got rough because it just got really personal because like, it was, it was about. So it's like, you're asking me how hard I want to get dunked on. Yeah. It was about what? It was about someone that lives in the Philippines and is living under Duterte in Davao City and like how us talking about it in a joking manner.

Starting point is 02:23:42 We kind of, yeah, I get that, but it was, it kind of like also was like, look, thanks to your pushing of this, now we have this guy to deal with and it's like, like almost like we kind of were responsible for that happening in a way. I don't know that we were responsible. I know that those jokes were deeply inappropriate and last I checked, I'm not allowed to vote in that country. So, but that, you know, it was really, really embittered towards that topic. Hey, guess what?

Starting point is 02:24:05 I don't want to read my own hate mail. Yeah. And then it all pays somebody else to my mail for me. It also went into like, um, like apparently, like, because I made a comment about the localization in attack on Titan. So like, well, a 10 shit or about, no, no, no, not about that, about the, the poor localization for the, uh, or no, no, no, it was, um, super robot wars. And so it got really bitter about me, like saying that like a substandard, substandard

Starting point is 02:24:32 English education in those countries or something, which is something that never came. But anyway, Why do you think all of Asia, except for Japan is bad at school? Why would I, why would I say that? Why would you say that? You said it. I don't know. Please explain this sort of video.

Starting point is 02:24:48 Noted. We'll read your mail. I honestly think I hate cast in the future would be appropriate as long as the questions that you call from it are appropriate and we can have at least a little bit of fun. But it's just, you brought it up and I'm like, dude, it happens all the time and that's the most recent one. So I was thinking about it this morning. Thanks for your mail reader.

Starting point is 02:25:10 Yeah. We're going to send you a copy of earth room gym on the Game Boy. Damn it. I don't have a Game Boy. No, fuck you. Glad you knew exactly where to go with that Nicholas Pickles has super best friendcast and gmail.com. Oh, no.

Starting point is 02:25:27 By the way, the email address for that hate mail. Yeah. What's team four stars email? Super best friendcast at gmail.com. That's super best friendcast at gmail.com. We really need to get an email address of one of our colleagues to just dump all of our garbage. Throw it in.

Starting point is 02:25:46 And they were like, why am I receiving these? I will ignore them. Yeah. It doesn't result in much. But like you, if you're lucky, it's just rare enough that every couple, every week, you're like, why do I keep getting emails about this topic? One or two. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:26:00 That'd be good. All right. We'll take one from Ben and Ben. Oh, Ben. Gentle Ben. So they're, they're porked up Koopy Crimers. Yeah. Koopy Crimers.

Starting point is 02:26:15 Doing Crims. Lots of stuff, but just of it is, what's a good example of something that's legitimately fantastic once you get over the early hump? SMT-4 is a good example. Dead Rising. Dead Rising is good. That's what I, my, my jump to all the old Resident Evil games. If you don't like that style of control near, but it's like 80% is the hump.

Starting point is 02:26:41 Oh, I know that. I know the number one. It's Witcher 1. Witcher 1 is like a ghetto, weirdo game for mutants. But if you can get past- You mean Polish people. Yeah. If you can get past that first chapter, which is goddamn awful.

Starting point is 02:26:57 It's like legit awful, even with compared to, like the chapter two onwards is one of the best RPGs I've ever played. But like that first part is like 10 hours. It's a lot. It's a lot of crap. I think No More Heroes has a little bit of a rough start in what you get to like the, like Shinobu and a few of those bosses that, that's where it starts hitting its stride. And it gets kind of better as you go on.

Starting point is 02:27:21 I would say nearly every game in the hunting genre. Steins Gate. Steins Gate has a remarkably slow beginning, the, the, the vision of the game. But it's really, really good once you push through that. The anime doesn't have that problem because it just, you know- Dude, a bad answer is like, ah, the new Doom starts off real slow. Yeah. I've been told that Gintama fits this perfectly because the first time it's a slow burn because

Starting point is 02:27:51 no, because the first three episodes, the ones that I watched are non-canon that were added for the anime release. Hmm. Yeah. That would be weak. I'm going to say Gurren Lagann. Yeah. Okay.

Starting point is 02:28:02 Really? I don't think it's a slow burn. I think it starts off really good. The people that haven't immediately latched onto it, uh, have had problems with that little hump at the beginning. Well, I, I have a- And then the other- I only prepped me on Gurren Lagann where he's like, watch more than like five.

Starting point is 02:28:21 And that's where like, you could say it's slow, but it's still awesome. And you're just like- It's a close of start, then it slows down for a lot of people. I was okay with it, but it slows down for a lot of people. Well, I have a friend who never finished it despite being into it at first because he gives every show he watches a four episode test. Yeah. You've said this before, actually.

Starting point is 02:28:39 Yes. And he, then that's it. That's the end of that. Yeah. But thanks, asshole, who made episode four, um, put your face next to that big anus. I was about to say that. Breathe in the big anus. You deserve it.

Starting point is 02:28:55 You made a bad episode with bad art. That's the most un-Japanese thing a Japanese man has ever said. They were trying something. Yeah. To make a big anus. Playing best. Let's see if we can stretch it wider and more poop can fall out and make a ton look terrible. I, before, I guess before you like get to the really good tech and like high level stuff,

Starting point is 02:29:17 uh, the first time you play best of best is pretty rough, but then like, I really want to see high level matches. Then you really become the best of best. Oh, that same note. Shrek super slim. Yeah. We started playing that. Everyone was like, all that way.

Starting point is 02:29:34 But it reveals itself. But then it reveals itself. And the last one I'm going to say is whatever your first Souls game is. Okay. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Not knowing.

Starting point is 02:29:46 It's playing it like a normal game. Especially if that first one was Demon's Souls when it was the only one. That was the best experience. No. Um, we got, we got one that's the best experience like everyone else is getting a worse experience. Yeah. What we got? Uh, we got one that's basically just a rebuttal to the Luigi's Mansion arcade review.

Starting point is 02:30:06 That's good. Is this a low review then? Greetings from the Burning Hellscape that is Southern California. At first I just want to say that Mitch may have over exaggerated several aspects about the Luigi's Mansion. Okay. This is going to start going back and forth. There might be some inaccuracies with that review.

Starting point is 02:30:21 Played it with my little sister, uh, once the long line died down, the vacuum is not uncomfortable to hold after 10 minutes of gameplay. Your flashlight can get a bit sore. I found it helpful to lay the bottom of the vacuum against my waist and aim appropriately. Not like a pistol, but like a water bottle. Yeah. That's how Luigi uses it. Just like Luigi.

Starting point is 02:30:38 Neat little immersion feature that wasn't mentioned was how you can vacuum up multitudes of coins in each and every area. A mechanical device in the vacuum will sometimes produce a bit of kickback. Oh, that's nice. Oh, back. Neat. Simulates the feeling of having a choke in the, of these large gold coins passing through. Wow, that's really cool.

Starting point is 02:30:52 That is a really good feature. That's really neat. Credit muncher though. We didn't get to the final area. Sister and I were able to get through the second area only swiping once with our cards. Nice. The game also allows you to revive your partner like in rock band. You just have to cover each other's backs and split the enemies between each other.

Starting point is 02:31:06 And, uh, so if you kids remember, this is a Dave and Buster's exclusive. What's a Dave and Buster's? It's a family arcade bar slash. It's like Chuck E. Cheese's America's for adults. American's a weird place. There's times when I went to one in New York City. Storm of ghosts can blitz you, uh, and with a Toho-esque smart, but, but you, the game has a Toho-esque smart bomb.

Starting point is 02:31:29 Each player starts with two that flashes and stuns all enemies on screen so you can get back to them all up at once. Exactly. I want to play this so fucking bad now. I guess you have to go to America. I will. Yeah. We should see if we can open a Dave and Buster's franchise here.

Starting point is 02:31:42 Just to get our hands on it. We would never, never be able to hold down a franchise position trivia. What does Luigi mean? What is its root, uh, meaning in Italian? Pasta coward. In Italian? Yeah. I have no clue.

Starting point is 02:31:57 Brave warrior. Oh, wow. I was, I was stupidly close despite being completely wrong. Wow. Brave warrior. That's good. That's good. It does mean pasta coward.

Starting point is 02:32:07 It's funny because he's not. Uh, Don Trell says, uh, they're super best friends, uh, yeah, thanks for telling me about Lisa. Uh, I was chatting with an old friend about SNK games and we came to SVC chaos. I thought it was an okay game until, uh, he pointed out it was more like SF2 versus SNK with a lackluster roster and buggy system. Yeah, it's terrible. I love that.

Starting point is 02:32:31 Uh, he won. I beat you all losers. It's awful. He would have to say that the game should have been much more like SNK versus Capcom match of the millennium blown up and it would have been perfect. That's great. Some games you think that, uh, should have been ported from handheld to console, um, and would have been better that way.

Starting point is 02:32:52 Every single one ever made. Uh, what? What? Um, I think the big one. I think the big one for me that, uh, you know, uh, Liam and I talked about was like, no, we version of Kid Icarus uprising. Yeah. Well, even though we, there's, there's ones that are games that I think would be objectively

Starting point is 02:33:12 weaker on their, their relative console at the time, such as every Pokemon game before online was a thing, uh, would be objectively weaker because you'd be missing the multiplayer component in that fashion. Kid Icarus surprises are really good example. That's okay. That's surprising. It would be a really good one. Absolutely.

Starting point is 02:33:32 That's a huge miss. Um, law. Honestly, lots. Most, most would do just fine. Uh, the world ends with you would be a big step backwards. Uh, agreed to disagree. The world ends with you would be a big step backwards. You'd lose a lot from that and gain so much and poke.

Starting point is 02:33:47 No, like the ability to control your character. Yeah, you can control the character. See, if you're, if you're, that's why instead of getting into this, I said, agree to disagree right away. It's hard to trust you on this. You don't know how to drive a car. Yeah. The standards are low.

Starting point is 02:34:01 What does that have to do with touch screen interfaces for controlling things is very low. Okay. Let's go out and steal a car right now. I bet I could drive that car. No problem. Jack a car. Can't.

Starting point is 02:34:12 You can't reach the pedals. I, I guess that's a legitimate problem for my sister. Honestly, much shorter than me. She has to, she had a car once she test drove it and she got all the lights, you put the seat all the way forward. She's like, this isn't going to fucking work. I do think that like pretty much all games that are just single player or don't have a multiplayer component, whatever, they'd be fine or better or equal.

Starting point is 02:34:34 I want, I want, I want my god damn Ghost Babel HD. Yeah. Well, I mean that, anything like Game Boy Color, like that's not even like it's always going to be better on a console. I've always wanted the Game Boy Zeldos to get a 3D version. Maybe they will. It's Link's Awakening and the Oracle games. The text there.

Starting point is 02:34:58 It'd be nice. It'd be easy. It'd be nice. No, no, no. It's fucking not a link between worlds. Not that trash. No, not on that. I mean a 3D game.

Starting point is 02:35:06 Oh. Not a 3D, not a 2.5D kind of game. That was like an ute. Yeah. Yeah. Like a full 3D game. Okay. Like Grezzo should have made.

Starting point is 02:35:15 Yes, I'm mad. Morizio says dare super mejores vatos. Vato. Hola. Vato. Hey, buddy. You talk a go to the movies a lot. What's next you eat at the movies?

Starting point is 02:35:28 Popcorn. We have a Tim Bortons in our theater, so I can get like not crazy expensive food at that. So I usually just go buy Tim bits. I haven't had popcorn in years. I'm like, I don't have much of a desire to have it. I have that dripping pizza. Okay. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:35:44 That little stand. There's that dripping pizza where they have the three layers and there's one that's dripping with cheese and I'm like, that's the one. I don't have any beef with like the buttery cinema popcorn, but I just have no appetite for it. Like it just doesn't. I never get it when I'm alone because it's too much, but whenever me and my girlfriend go to the movie, we get a bag of popcorn and the M&Ms and we put the M&Ms in the bag

Starting point is 02:36:03 of popcorn. That's fucked up. I'm not saying it's bad. Yeah, it's great, but it's fucked up. Wow. It's great, dude. So wait, what's the issue? No, like Salt and Sweet can work together.

Starting point is 02:36:14 No, but don't the M&Ms just like naturally go all the way to the ball. Wow. Not for a while. You'd be surprised. Okay. But by the end of the movie or by the 40 minute point, yeah, because the only problem I would see is not the taste, but just like mechanically. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:36:27 No, you have a good experience for a long while and then at the end, it's really satisfying to find M&Ms. Mm-hmm. And then you... Southern and butter. Okay. And then you get to the bottom and you're like, yeah, I found the last M&M. Oh, it's a kernel.

Starting point is 02:36:41 So what I really think that... So when we were seeing gravity and I show up a little like, oh, I got to get something to eat and have an eatin' all day and I was like, okay, well, he's sitting there and I'm like, here's your ticket. Well, he's like, okay, I come back and I have this ice cream and I put down the ice cream and a little cup and a little thing. I had this little like black vest on like a, like outside hoodie vest and just sat in the ice cream for like an hour.

Starting point is 02:37:05 But the movie was good up until that point and I'm looking around and I see Woolie's enraptured. I'm looking around. I'm like, my ass is so cold because I'm sitting in this ice cream. But if I get up... Wait, you knew. Everyone will know. You sat on your ice cream.

Starting point is 02:37:18 Shut up. I like, I was sitting in the ice cream. Like my... How did you never tell me about it? Well, I'm telling you not to be honest, the hoodie, the hoodie, the vest I was wearing, the vest I was wearing soaked up all the ice cream and got brittle and like, I threw out the vest. What the fuck?

Starting point is 02:37:41 But I didn't want to ruin the movie. I didn't want to get up and go, oh, it's starting to push the ice cream. I mean, you're watching fucking gravity. I took one for the team. To this, I didn't know that. I thought we just... I didn't tell you because it was embarrassed. I thought we had a pro pleasurable viewing experience.

Starting point is 02:37:55 Did we? I didn't... You. You. Anyway. Fuck that ice cream. I never got it again after that point. That movie's like three years old now.

Starting point is 02:38:06 And fuck gravity too, right? Fuck gravity. Fuck you, Sandra Bullock. You made me sit in ice cream. So yeah, I'll go for what do you call it, popcorn usually, but if I'm feeling like a real piece of shit, like abject piece of shit, I'll go buy that big bag of reasons and when you eat the reasons, you have to make sure to instead of putting the wrappers into the bag, you throw them on the floor so that the theater staff has to clean it up.

Starting point is 02:38:35 Because I had a friend of mine who used to do that and he's like, oh, I hate those people. And ever since they told me that they hate that, I now do that and just all I try and kick some underneath the fucking seats and shit. I love it. It's so good. Yeah, I know. I know what you're going to fucking say. I'm sorry.

Starting point is 02:38:52 I'm really sorry. It wasn't cool. That habit was harder to break than I expected. Especially when I'd be like, yo, Pat, here, I got you some of your favorite. Here you go. That was very sweet of you. Oh, look, you just dumped them on my fucking floor. Okay, listen, I like, it's a, it's a, it's a, hey, Jesus Christ, I have a disease.

Starting point is 02:39:08 You know when we really go nuts and we've only done a couple of times together, but it's like, if we ever go see a WWE pay-per-view, I'll like, get whatever, cause you're there for like four hours. I'm banned from doing reasons at your house and you're not allowed to eat trail mix at my house. Damn. You got up after eating that trail mix. It looked like you shat out a granola bar.

Starting point is 02:39:30 Yeah. It's embarrassing. At least you didn't sit in any fucking ice cream. Oliver. I just bought a new vest. Shut up. Oliver wants to know what every day, Monday in action would you like to see hit sparks on?

Starting point is 02:39:45 Oh, opening a door. That's too much. No, it's not. You open doors a lot. That's just walking. No, no, too many footsteps. I was thinking that too many footsteps. Tires against the ground, like every time a car turns now, because opening a door happens

Starting point is 02:40:00 just infrequently enough that I'd have fun with it. Open up a drink like twisting. No, you'd be fed up by now. Honestly, I wouldn't. There was a cap that because, because, because back at the office I worked at, uh, before the last one, I, there was a door that you had to like get to push and then like kind of force open a little bit. So like, I liked like pretending to do like the Yuri and chariot tackle through the door,

Starting point is 02:40:20 like, and like, I never know. Oh, I know what it is. I never. It's for me. It's making your bed and getting those corners all nice. Hit sparks. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:40:34 And, and the hit sparks let you know that it's done and everything's even. All right. You are struggling not to come at me. I can hear it. I can hear it. No, no answer. There's no wrong answer. Cosmic ballet will then go on.

Starting point is 02:40:49 I think I'd want to like make it like either that it happens when animals attack things. So whenever you see animals fighting, it's really, oh, well, no, I don't want hit sparks on that. I want like blue shadow super trails. I want all. Yeah. I want the whole thing. Okay.

Starting point is 02:41:08 Like if I could give my dog blue shadow super trails to just make it seem like he's going faster, but he's going the exact same time. Time stops. You look around for the dog as he's starting his ultra, but it's like, he's not going any faster. He's just kind of lazily walking along, but you see what part, what part of this? Oh, this is when all the pets are wandering. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:41:26 Like the tail is just wagging with a fucking blue trail darks, you know, alpha three. If it turns red, you know, he's got three, and past this dog dangerous. And one last one coming in from a Cuda bar, like, like a dog. She gets a special treatment because she asked a good question. A dog runs across the street and a car comes to slam into it. You just see the focus. Sprite. Just like another ink, like, yes, and it just keeps walking like nothing.

Starting point is 02:41:56 Red focus. Hey, top fam in the Mega Man LP, we brought up how it ruins immersion to somewhat see in an RPG and attack animation that appears to hit, but actually misses. Oh, I hate that. That's terrible. That's true. That's true. Are there other examples of this effect, things that have to play out in a visually

Starting point is 02:42:21 misleading way because of the limitations of the game? Remember when I was like, I can't do like, I hate how in MMOs, you swing it, nothing. And you get no feedback in 14. There's a hit stop effect when you actually connect and there isn't when you mess. That's really good. Well, you remember Blitzball where you would do a thing and then the game is like, no, you didn't do it. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:42:41 Yeah. Yeah. You don't understand Blitzball. I sure don't. But I do understand that that looks like bullshit. You swim up in front of the guy and it's like, no, you weren't there. You weren't there at all. Clear shot on the goal.

Starting point is 02:42:52 Yeah. Also, will someone please acknowledge Massimo's huge torquing, but every time he takes a hit. I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Did you? We'll keep an eye out for that. All right. Massimo.

Starting point is 02:43:02 Yeah, I don't know if there's anything else just quite like that hit feedback. Ironically, the only thing I can think of that's similar in like, fuck that, but it's actually the opposite. It's an old RBG's where you'd be in your battle lines and the characters wouldn't fucking move and they just swing their sword at nothing. Yeah. And then a hit spark would appear on the other side of the screen and go hit. I was like, fuck you.

Starting point is 02:43:23 You didn't hit shit. It always bugged me when I was little in Pokemon. I mean, I get why it is, but where if you miss the move, animation doesn't even start. Oh, okay. It just says miss. The, I mean, there's definitely like the lack of hit stop tells you you're playing a bad fighting game, you know, like there's that part of it. But I, for me, I guess it's kind of like when canned animations don't connect properly,

Starting point is 02:43:48 like in that Metal Gear Survive footage, there's a part where like a zombie grabs onto like one of the, one of the random guys and you see the zombie is like on the ground, but the guy struggling with his whole body in a canned, I've grabbed by the way. Yeah. Yeah. And it just like, it's the fucking jarring. What did you think of the fence in that? Did you watch it?

Starting point is 02:44:11 No, I saw it. I saw some clips. Which part are you talking about? Oh, okay. There's a fence that they build that looks really good when the zombies crawl over it. Crawl, keep everyone else really good. It's one level of annoyance below the invisible hit one that I was talking about, but it's any game in which you have a wide variety of weapons and that weapon is given a 3D model

Starting point is 02:44:31 and that weapon never actually changes. Like you'll, like, you remember, I remember in FF7, every single sword that Cloud put on was different. Right? Yeah. And every single gun that Barrett used. Sure. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:44:46 And then I played a million other PS1 RPGs and a bunch of them don't do that. And it's like, you equip this new sword that looks fucking identical to the old ones. Like why even bought, it drove me nuts. And it's not a sprite. It's a fucking. Yeah. It works when there's a sprite. If the thing is too detailed, like a sword, for example, if its details say it's like

Starting point is 02:45:07 a triangle with, like, a blue part in the middle, you're like, you got a brand new sword and you're still using that triangle, so like, fuck off. But you equip the Demon's Edge and Chrono Trigger and that shit turns red, man. Yeah, exactly. You can do it with sprites. And similar was, I think, was it Tomb Raider Legends, perhaps, where each new weapon you got showed up on your body? Yeah, that's great.

Starting point is 02:45:26 I like that. I can't remember what that was. I think it was Tomb Raider Legends. Maybe. Yeah. That seems advanced. It's like you're not. Time did it best.

Starting point is 02:45:35 You only had one sword. Yeah, but it takes your clothes apart. Yes. As you play, his clothes degrade and he gets more naked. In a dynamic way? No, no, just progressively. Like a cutscene or he'll fall down. What?

Starting point is 02:45:51 Send the time. And he's shirtless by the end? Yeah, he's totally shirtless and his pants are all fucked up. He even has a little hat. He has a little turd. He starts with a hat. Oh, my God, you're so right. I completely forgot.

Starting point is 02:46:02 There's a cutscene where he rips off his sleeve. Yes. He just already torn, so. Totally good. That's really good. I like that. Strong. The integration of battle.

Starting point is 02:46:11 You start as like a like a flop and you end up as a glistening piece of man meat. Yeah. Shit. There's this dude. I saw that fucking cosplay as the prince is the man meat version. Yeah. Man meat. Man meat.

Starting point is 02:46:23 Yeah. I'll see cosplay. Get me a nibble of that. Just a big old sly album. Was he kicked out of the UAE for being too hot? He could have been. Oh, man. Could have been.

Starting point is 02:46:36 Those guys are gonna fuck it. Those guys. Those guys will rule the world. That news article just fucking framed on a wall and gold. Get him out. He's gonna fuck her wives. Get him out. Those guys will be like battle tanks where they own all the battle queens.

Starting point is 02:46:49 What kind of animal did that guy have to kill to get those looks? I don't think he did. No, man. No, you got to be born in books like that. No, he came down from on high. No magic can make something like that happen. He came out of the womb like Rashi. No.

Starting point is 02:47:03 No. No. And the light's shooting out. Yeah. Yeah. Spitting mixer. He flips onto the wall. We'll send us shoots out by a tornado.

Starting point is 02:47:13 He's glorious. He's glorious. All right. I'll have to show you those pictures of that guy in the cosplay. What's the next part of our podcast? Yeah, what's the future? Okay. The future.

Starting point is 02:47:24 What's up in the future? Hey. Two games come out on the 3DS. I'm really excited for River City Ransom, Tokyo Rumble, which our friend Xavier Woods seems to just be going nuts over because he's playing it right now. You mean, somebody's telling him about playing it? No. Up, up, down, down.

Starting point is 02:47:40 He's playing it. He just has it. Oh. And Sonic Fire and Ice actually, I just realized, comes out. And that's where I'm like, man, sure, hope this is good, but even if it doesn't. The first one was pretty good, so. Even if it doesn't, doesn't matter because it comes a free episode of Sonic Boom. It does.

Starting point is 02:47:57 So I'm down with that. So I really want to try those. Hope that they're both good. By the way, I guess he's got to show up here in November. Sonic Boom. Xavier. What? Xavier.

Starting point is 02:48:08 What about him? Yeah. He's going to be up here in Montreal. Oh, okay. For what? For wrestling. For his job. For his job of wrestling.

Starting point is 02:48:16 Okay. Great. Okay. Great. Hang out. Yes, you should. Yes. Darkest Dungeons coming out on PS4 and Vita.

Starting point is 02:48:24 So I'm excited to play that. That's a good game. Yeah, I've been wanting to play it for a while. That's a good game. I'm going to play that. That fucking announcer. I started playing the Psycho Pass game, so I'm going to keep playing the Psycho Pass game.

Starting point is 02:48:34 Let's see. I'm going to put more time to SMT Apocalypse, which I started this week, but didn't get very far because my need to grind out all of Demon's abilities before moving on to a new area. Stop. Completely stop me. Stop? Put it down.

Starting point is 02:48:48 Finish Man kind of. Well, there's that. You know I do this, Lane. I know. You're neutral ending. Yeah, I looked it up. Good. You just looked it up?

Starting point is 02:48:56 Yeah. Like once you get to the fork, there's no more story left in that game. Basically. Yeah. It's really disappointing actually. So like you missed out a massive chunk. Oh wait, which one did you do and which did you not do? I got Chaos.

Starting point is 02:49:13 You got Chaos. Yeah. Okay. And I went and looked up like what happens in the neutral one. And then I watched the ending, which is about eight, nine minutes. Okay. And then I'm up to date. All right, fine.

Starting point is 02:49:25 That's good enough. I'm up to date for Apocalypse. I'm going to take two seconds here. Apocalypse starts at the weirdest location I've ever seen for a sequel. It starts about an hour before you beat the game in SMT four and your character dies in some generic mission because he sucks. And some God brings him back to life and says, you didn't die. You're come back to life now, right?

Starting point is 02:49:46 In SMT four, the one that you mean you played Willie, that didn't happen, but now it did. So Flynn does not go on to beat the game, how we beat the game. Instead, an entire new story is born from that moment. So just another timeline. So the neutral ending you got doesn't happen. Interesting. Well, it doesn't. It's own timeline.

Starting point is 02:50:09 Yes, it does. And it's own time. This is just like separate timeline. New sequel. It goes, no, no, it's different now and you start the game and everyone's like, Flynn's Dick is so big. He's going to go beat the game, everybody. Everyone has to go help Flynn get his dick big and go beat the game.

Starting point is 02:50:26 He's going to go beat the game. And then you go, no, Flynn, don't don't beat the games yet. What is this reboot? It's really weird. It's really bizarre. But it's a cool game. And it's an SMT game. I'm going to play it.

Starting point is 02:50:36 And the FF 14 patch is coming out tomorrow or tomorrow morning. So I'm really excited for that birds birds. The new bird is gold. Wow. Wow. A golden bird, you say. I can't wait to hear about it. I can't wait.

Starting point is 02:50:54 I will literally just talk to myself at the end of next week's podcast and it's that thing of a deal. It's not. It's fine. It's fine, dude. It's making fun. Video games. I'm going to get that bird.

Starting point is 02:51:05 Video games. Sure. What about you? Oh, I'm also going to keep watching Lucha. Honestly. Yeah. You should also play Yuri and learn the Yuri and learn the fucking Yuri and match up. See people who are complaining about him getting nerfed and it's like I have no sympathy

Starting point is 02:51:22 for you. I have less than zero sympathy for people complaining about Yuri and getting nerfed. Because they play because they were playing pre Yuri and release when they explicitly said this isn't the final balance for Yuri and it's like I have no I have zero negative zero sympathy. He's got close to full stun resets off of some. The stuff I'm seeing looks dumber than the stuff he can do in thirds. The agus shit is nuts, but you have to remember he needs full bar to do all that.

Starting point is 02:51:49 I heard one of his either is near his tackle. One of them is advantage on block and I'm like, is that real? No, but like again with agus out, you can do all kinds of course, yeah, because the hit box, you can you can you can throw into the agus and the guy gets knocked out of the power bomb back up into the air and then you can super. That's great. That's fantastic. It's like some of a wookie tape shit.

Starting point is 02:52:18 But again, you get cost to your bar. Naked urine every time. Naked urine every single time because it's but it's not not CPT legal though. Can I ask? It's not. I'm probably not. If Mika's cleavage was a problem. I don't imagine.

Starting point is 02:52:32 Let me ask you. What a double standard. When you change it, when you change colors in, you can't get him to have his red skin or his, you don't get the different skin colors. What you can get is the the alt costume with the shades on. He keeps the shades on while he's naked. Okay. They really.

Starting point is 02:52:49 And the long hair. They really need to put out like the different skin color. Oh, for sure. Because I want my black as fuck. You're in. I want my red. And I. Oh, my gray.

Starting point is 02:53:01 Like gray. You're in. Hopefully with the classic costumes, I'll be able to do that. I assume you're going to be getting some of it. Yeah, exactly. Because book. But right now the different pinstripes suits are fucking classic. You know what they should do when you play, when they put out the classic costume that's

Starting point is 02:53:11 naked urine, you should be able to hold those punch buttons and he puts on a suit at the beginning. Starts. Like it plays it backwards. Yeah. Yeah. He's fantastic. That's that's about it.

Starting point is 02:53:23 What's coming up on our channels and shows and shit? Do you want to bring up the thing or no? We got a while. One thing. It's too risky. It's too risky. Storms coming in before. Storms.

Starting point is 02:53:33 Oh yeah. It's too late. Is that before next? That is this Saturday. I believe. Saturday. Yeah, totally. It's before the next podcast.

Starting point is 02:53:41 I have for any of those that are that don't frequent our YouTube channel that just listen to podcasts. You do a thing every year, every October called the shit storm of scariness. And this year will be the worst by far. The worst by far. I just need to applaud the intros that I've seen so far. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:53:58 Two snacks. They're incredibly good. Don't worry. They won't be spoilers because there's no sound on my PC right now. We're just watching it right now. Oh my God. Oh, you guys wish you could see it. The quality.

Starting point is 02:54:08 Oh boy. Oh, it's so gory. Oh, that part's super nice. But that's not, but there'll be more. There'll be more. How terrifying. Oh my God. I'm scared.

Starting point is 02:54:17 Doesn't that make you want to sacrifice an animal? That's actually really scary. And then look at the setup right there. That's a good setup. The setup. Two snacks is giving one of four intros for the shit storm. It's amazing that there's four. That's the one.

Starting point is 02:54:31 Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Amazing. Unbelievable stuff. Everyone did a great job. So that's the Saturday it starts and that's one scary video per day. For the month of October. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:54:43 Yeah. Because October's a spooky mouth. But if you happen to miss it, you can get into the mood by watching Liam cower through Resident Evil 7 in a fantastic little stream. Did that go up? It's going up this week. Nice. As well as our extended Captain Levi adventures.

Starting point is 02:54:59 Where Liam actively does not show content. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go in that fucking room. No.

Starting point is 02:55:09 No. No content. Nothing scary happens on the ceiling. Nothing. Just watch Blair Witch. You know all the tricks. I mean, we did play through the whole demo and then I played through it with my girlfriend the next night and I was like, okay, I know it back to front now.

Starting point is 02:55:23 Nothing scary. Liam suffers from something that I occasionally suffer from when I play a horror game. And that's being a cowardly bitch. Yeah. And there's no cure. No. No, no, no. You just gotta.

Starting point is 02:55:35 Well, you can go get a straw. Yeah. Suck it up. Whoa. I'm hoping that watching Cube 2 Hypercube will make me better with horror. Probably will. Probably will. You're gonna love.

Starting point is 02:55:44 That was my only plan. You're gonna love Bikitaka. Oh, yeah. You're gonna love him. Okay.

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