Castle Super Beast - SBFC 183: Jizzy Topped Butter Beer feat. Maximillian and Simmons

Episode Date: February 7, 2017

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Hey! Hey, what up? Hey. What's up? How's it goin'? First off, welcome back. Welcome back. Thank you for having me as a guest.

Yeah. We had a lot of guests recently. I actually sorta am, cause I'm not gonna be her next one. Oh, where you going? Going to Vegas for the Valentines Day. They'll see a Cirque du Soleil show. We planned there's a Cirque du Soleil and there's a topless Cirque du Soleil. Oh, yes, there is.

We're gonna go to the next one. I performed. The adult Cirque du Soleil. That was too hot for Montreal, so they left. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, I'm not gonna be her next week. But yeah, thanks for having me on the show. Yeah, no, I always wanted.

I mean, we heard a lot of good things about Matt McMussles. And the fans were saying, like, you guys really need to get him on the podcast. That needs to be a thing where one of us takes a break for so long, cause you start getting those comments every while. It's like, have you heard of this, like, Matt, have you heard of this other person? Speaking of actual people, we need to get on the podcast so I can, like, if I could just, like, calm you, you know.

I don't think that means anything to you. We got Max back once again, and we got Simmons. What's going on, guys? Oh, my name's Max. Hello, everyone. You're taking my bit, you fucker. We're all stealing from the Simpsons. No, it's my bit now.

Listen, we want to appreciate and thank you guys for coming on at what is 11 a.m. over in the past. 11 a.m. is not that... It's not that bad for normal people. Yeah, we're not normal fucking people, man. We're goddamn crazy. What time did the stream end last night, guys? For you.

We were streaming Onimusha 3 into the 430s in the morning. Okay, that's four hours ago. That's four hours ago. It'd be great if you're streaming Onimusha and you're streaming Blitz. And if you keep going back and forth, the game slowly merges. That'd be great. It's all really dope. No punaga going for the pass.

No, no, no. You're thinking Onimusha characters in Blitz, but what I'm thinking is Blitz characters in Onimusha. But the Blitz characters are real-life players up until... And I know it's not Blitz, but can no punaga's face just be torn off and it's John Madden? Celebratory touchdown dance absorbing the souls of the crowd. But Blitz had those codes to change people's heads.

I feel like if you had introduced only Blitz characters into the Onimusha storyline, the story doesn't change at all. Not really. Well, half of them are Mortal Kombat characters. Yeah, exactly. They're juiced up and they're ready to go anyway, especially Blitz the League. What would it be called Onimusha Blitz 99? It was originally also played Blade Warriors.

Oh, boy. Oh, I brought that. I brought that to the other day. You looked at me once and you asked me if I played Blade Warriors and I assume you haven't. Yeah, that's... Matt, have you played Blade Warriors? I played it.

I brought my copy to the office. Did you unlock fucking Mega Man and Zero? I forgot that they're in that thing, Matt. It's the only reason to play the game. It's the only reason to play. Oh my god, that game is trash. I tried to run it, guys. You gotta play it.

That game is fucking trash, but it's gotta happen. The shittiest thing is that even if you have like a PS3 that can play PS2 games, your number one resource for getting saved data for PS2 games is to go to Game Facts, go under Saves, and they usually have like almost anything. There's nothing for Blade Warriors. No. It's like Code Breaker saves and Action Replay saves and nothing...

Really? No, Max, because I know exactly why, because people beat Onimusha Blade Warriors. They unlock Zero and X and they were like, Now it's gonna be fun. Now it's gonna be great. It's not even like... The version of Mega Man isn't even regular Mega Man. It's like Mega Man EXE or something like that.

Oh, really? It's not even added? Yeah, it's the... It's whatever they're pushing at the time. It was Rockman Zero. And then you play as those characters and you're like, Oh, it's just as terrible as it was before. Yeah, but it doesn't really change much.

Then you delete your saved data when you need to make room for another Final Fantasy file or whatever the file. Has every version of Mega Man been in some type of fighting game? Like X is an infinite. A regular Mega Man is horrible. We got Trigger in Tatsunoko. You got Bad Box Art in the second. You got Bad Box Art in the second.

And then you're just telling me... You're telling me you have EXE or whatever in Onimusha. If you count infinite, then yes. I think so. What about Star Force? No, Star Force has not been in anything. Good. I was just about...

Yeah, good. Star Force has not been in anything. I forgot that game existed. Star Force, you're way out of this game. Cartoon Mega Man needs to be in something. If he does. He does. With the fucking...

Wait, the old cartoon or the new cartoon? No, fuck that new cartoon. Minimega or whatever the fuck that thing's name is. No, I mean... Old cartoon. We're talking about the old cartoon where everyone turns an alliance. Yeah, we're talking about sizzling circuits. And voiced by Cheetor.

Right. Okay, I get you. We're talking about the cartoon where everyone says, Roll, get back into the kitchen. And that's not an over-exaggeration. Well, that's what she was made for. She literally was made to be in the kitchen. Never.

One of her arms is a vacuum. Doesn't she beat up a bunch of the robot master stuff? No. No, I'm thinking of the robot... The robot version of Roll that attacks Dr. Light. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good stuff. Got to track down the voice actor for Dr. Light that's all about Dr. Waui.

Dr. Waui. Dr. Waui. That's the cut scene. Yeah, yeah. Seven, right? Yeah, seven. No, eight. No, it's eight for sure.

Oh, yeah, it's eight. Eight came out on the PlayStation one on the Saturday and it had cut scenes. Yeah. That's good stuff. Yeah, that was one of those... Some guy was localizing in Japan overnight and he had like six hours to get it done. And he was drunk. And he fucking did it though.

He did it. He's a hero. I put my mark on history. Everyone's going to remember that Dr. Light performance. It shipped. It was a product you could buy. It hit the shelves. Yeah.

We should do a Let's Watch of old Mega Man. Sometimes the worst dubs are the ones we remember way more. Yeah. What was I fighting for? What was the ultimate? Okay. Like how much do we quote House of the Dead on our streams? Oh my god, yeah.

Suffer like G did, motherfuckers. Like you're never going to quote Night's contract voice acting. You're never going to quote... Neer. Neer. It's so good. I told the story once before. Max and Simmons, do you know why Resident Evil 1's voice acting is so fucked up?

I'm only assuming it's similar to Sega stuff where they were literally pulling in like random people that worked in the office. So no, they actually had decent voice actors and some of those voice actors returned later. But what they did is they recorded like 50 takes for every line and then Mikami and the sound guy spliced up different parts of different lines to what they sound, they thought sounded the coolest. But neither of them spoke English. Oh, wow, the splice that takes together.

Yeah, I read something recently where Mikami said like, yeah, we had made the mistake of telling them to speak really slowly and then he had no idea how bad it sounded in the native language. It's like if you cut up like an anime dub based on what you thought sounded the best. That sounds cool. That is the most disrespectful thing you can do to voice actors performing. Yeah, but it would be like it's way more memorable that way though. I mean, given this was early on when like no one had respect for the job really, you know,

like we were hearing the horror stories about the guy sitting here and silent hill and shit like that. But wow, that is disrespectful. Because like the ultimate is like don't open that door, right? So it's actually don't open that door. And no, not that door. And they just cut those two lines together and like that sounds great. Yeah.

This isn't Chris's blood. I don't know where this interview was. But during the remake, right when it was coming out, Mikami said he hired a voice director specifically for a remake. And apparently he said I used to get in arguments with this guy during remake. And he said I eventually had to secede because he was a native English speaker and I wasn't. Why would you fight them? I hired him to do this.

Guys, all you have to do is look at your competitors in the fighting game industry and find lines like wubba wubba. I'm in the pink today and I hate spunk and realize that SNK made the mistake. Yes. And all they had to do was ask one person who vaguely knew English to look at every line of script dialogue in the game. Hey, that doesn't make any fucking sense. That's not a word.

This apostrophe S is the stuff. Hey. I have a question. Maybe someone can answer it. When when SVC Chaos came out officially retail on the original Xbox, did it still have a stage called Nude Place? Yeah, it did. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's straight. No one ever sat there and said, you know, that kind of sounds a little weird. Not Nude Place. As long as there's not nude people there, I guess they were like, eh. It's the idea of nudity. Yeah. It's sober and SFW place. Fuck Palace.

It's sober the worst ones. It's sober. Yeah, from KOF 11. That's a bad one. But at the same time, like anything that like I mean, like mainline SNK, like, well, dude, like, God, there's there's what the fuck. There's one that's slipping my mind where you're in. You're in.

It's supposed to be Julian. It's Julian. Yeah. And it's just like, no, that just turned out that way because. Or whatever. You know, and then you you got all kinds of other like weird, like things like that where it's like the bees become the bees. And then someone spells it out.

Yeah. Because it passes as a new name. Yeah. But it's like the mistake is as soon as someone commits it to text in like a gamest mook or an art book somewhere on an obscure page and like, fuck. Why? Now we know that's how the spelling is. I still think the weirdest one by far as they thought the big bad was appropriately going

to be called Bill. Buffalo Bill. Like, isn't it a bill? I don't remember seeing it. You told me it was supposed to be. Bill? No, no, no, no. I don't know.

We can all agree that Gill is still not a great name for your final villain, especially one that looks like that. But at least it is a name. But at least it is a name. Julian's cooler. At least it is a name. Yeah. Just put a Roman Coke in Julian's hand and you're done.

Yeah. So, you know, graphic designer sends his final artwork over and he's like, hey, guys, so cool name, right? Check it out. I wrote out this awesome font for Blazblue. Uh-oh. What do you mean there's an E? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. This still confuses me because I'll type out like Blazblue and then I'll get just wrecked on Twitter. Yeah. That's right. How dare you spell my anime game's name correctly. Well, something I learned way early on was fucking Samurai Showdown is the dumbest because the W is missing.

Oh, yeah. The official spelling. I have a theory on that. You know what's spelled weird and wrong? Combat. Why don't we have our own thing like that? I think you're giving SNK's translators far too much credit. Maybe I am.

Because in Japan, it's called Samurai Spirits. So that wasn't part of the planning. But then why use the W, maybe it's because it actually looks slightly cooler. We don't spell so good. I like Showdown. No, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. Sorry.

Silver is not the ultimate. The fucking Steel Battalion, what the fuck was it called? Heavy Arms or Heavy Publics? Showdown, Heavy Arms or whatever, trailer for Kinect that was put out at that fucking trade show where Capcom spelled their own fucking name. That's the ultimate. Wait, what do you mean Cap Capom? Yeah, Cap Capom.

Oh god, it's been so long. I forgot that's where it's from. Cap Capom. Yeah. I thought it was from Resident Evil. No, that's Rebellion time. No, that's Steel Battalion too. Wow.

Yeah. No, the Kinect one. For the Kinect one. Yeah. You guys should play it. You guys should stream that. Yeah, you should play it. We streamed the original.

This was like a year ago. Really functional Steel Battalion system. I saw the box in your house one night. In the guest room, I saw the box. So yeah, the box is just still there. One evening and it was actually like the most cumbersome, awkward as game ever with more motion blur that ever should be in a video game, but kind of fun, like until you realize that the 90% of the buttons on that stupid stick are useless until after you launch.

Yeah, man. The windshield wipers, man. Come on. Yeah. The windshield wipers and the radio and stuff. Like this is, I'm dodging missiles on this really crazy giant thing. I'm not going to just fire up, you know, kiss FM or something. I would.

Awkward and fumbling. You need to play the Kinect version, then your entire definition of the words awkward and fumbling will change. So were we able to beat the first mission? Yeah, we were. You were not able to beat the first mission. We beat the first mission. We got, we got.

Me and Pat did, and I don't know if you played your special. We're talking about the Kinect version. No, no, no, no. We were not able to be able to struggle through the tutorial. Maybe. Okay. Cause we played stable. We did it as well.

We had one night for Mecha week. We set up the full thing and no cameras going with the foot pedals. And you know what? It was super worth it. For the moments that I was fully in control of a mech. Talking about the Kinect version, motherfucker. It felt great. We're talking about the funny one.

No, no, no, yeah. But I'm just, I'm just saying like one where I blew up those fucking Chinese cactuses. But the one that Max was talking about, it was great because Liam had the instruction books and he's flipping through panicking to find the pages we need to figure out how to do that. That was a night. I love that. That was a night.

Yeah. That's great. I don't know about that night. It was a good time. Can we get a Mecha version of that where it's like fast and you need someone flipping through instructions? No, no, man. Telling you how to control Jehu T.

No, man. That's virtual on controls, but then you can't move your hands that fast. Yeah, I can. No, you can't. I can't. You can't flip around. No, I was super good. Mech pilot.

You would die immediately. You don't even know. All of you would die immediately. I don't know. I can wear big shoes. You would all die piling in a Mac because you would both be too excited. That would happen. You would both.

I would overshoot it a little bit like you specifically want a design game that you can't possibly play. Yeah. No, I'll do it. Oh, God. It's the fifth pedal for your erection. So there you go. Let's let's let's get into the weeks, I guess, since we do need to rotate.

I'll grab mine first. I didn't do anything of note this week. Awesome. Other than other than I got into that playstation for beta. Oh, you did. A firmware thing. Well, you get boost mode. I got boost mode.

Does it boost? You can enjoy Bloodborne with a couple more frames per second every once in a while. So here are loading. Here's my breakdown of the new firmware. The wallpaper thing is nice. It's a wallpaper. You can just make custom wallpaper now. You don't have to use custom themes or anything like that.

You can just make your own. Because I'd want some of the parts. Wait, you can't like do sounds and music and shit. I don't think so. No, but it's just a wallpaper, right? I'll just delete that off the docket. Oh, sorry, buddy. No, great.

Easy. Perfect. I think he literally said everything that could be said. No. It's great. Putting games on an external hard drive is easy. Super fast. I transferred my entire library over, which was almost full in like 80 minutes.

Like really, really fast. One of the three or four things, I'm like, I can't stand about the PS4, is that I'm always running out of space on it. Yeah, I slapped a six terabyte external into that fucking thing. For it to finally catch up to the Wii U in this regard? Yes. Most importantly is that they knew to go with the proper naming convention of boosts mode.

People said it should be called beast mode. You know how bad the notifications tab used to be where there's just fucking five columns of fucking bullshit? Now it's just one tab and it's just like you got a friend at it or just download finished and it's fine. I have to get a new hard drive now. I guess to officially catch everyone up to speed, what it is is there's a new update that's going to allow you to use up to eight terabyte external hard drives on your PS4

and boost mode, which is going to... Which I'm about to delve into right now. That is, it's under the system settings, so it's something that it's intended to be toggled on and just left on. It enables faster frame rates or faster loading times or in games that have variable resolution, a higher resolution overall, in old games that are pre-PS4 pro like that don't have patches. Like Bloodborne. Like Bloodborne.

And so I loaded up Bloodborne and I went to Old Yarnham. And Woolly, you will probably remember the bridge that we crossed in Old Yarnham many, many times in which we heard the game literally crunch. Right as the bullets are coming at you. We would hear the console actually go ehhhhh and freeze first. Is this the same part of the bridge in Old Yarnham where it's like I saw the video of a guy playing in boost mode, where it's like the first part of it's like regular and I'm like, yeah, that looks like it is.

And then like when he plays it the second time in boost mode, I'm like, it does look smoother. Yeah, so, but it's right before the bullets come at you when you're going down that stairway. Yeah. It pitches. So hard every time. An extra five frames a second may not seem like much, but it's a lot. In a game where you're hovering around an average of 25-29 and never actually hit 30,

it makes a much bigger difference than you would think. It is much smoother feeling. The frame pacing still is not, but... Yeah, that was just about to say like that's like the frame pacing, which is the big issue with the game is an engine problem with Dark Souls 3 on console. But weirdly enough, I don't think it happens on Xbox. It's like dedicated to PlayStation 4, which was some similar thing I watched on Digital Foundry for Final Fantasy XV, but for some reason like frame pacing issues seem to happen

like a lot on PlayStation 4 and Bloodborne is like one of the worst ones. And it's weird as like frame pacing, a lot of people don't understand it. The game is still drawing 33s a second. It's not as easy to understand as frames per second. I'm actually confused right now. All it does is, for some reason, the engine draws the exact same frame twice. So it's running a constant 30, but it's well, not well, it would be running a constant 30 with the boost mode.

Yeah. But for some reason, sometimes multiple frames are duplicated. And also some frames can be, so say you have 30 frames a second and it's a, what is that, 37 milliseconds each, right, Max? Yeah. I would say like it's ideally the frame would be finished drawing and completed on frame 17, sorry on millisecond 17, but for some reason you'll end up with frame gets completed on millisecond one of the first frame and then it'll get completed on millisecond 36

of the next one. So you'll have nearly a full second in which the frames don't actually advance even though it's still running at the same. It's fucking confusing. The checkout was like three minutes ago and I got you. No, no, I was running something down, but I was going to ask Max, Max, like, like Blood Born is your like personal, like favorite of like I own the Souls games. Yeah.

Or I get that. Yeah. And top five games of all time. Oh, there you go. All time. You haven't gotten into the, the, the firmware beta. Have you? I haven't.

No, I haven't gotten it yet. I only just started reading about it and noticing that like it's going out to select people and it's going to come out soon. But yeah, that's like, that's like the number one requested game. It's like, all these other games are getting all this attention in terms of, you know, of getting pro patches and stuff. And it's like, come on. So why don't you get like a special edition with the DLC bundled in and like maybe it

like, like a patch to bring some things up to spec. It would be interesting to see like if, like, not that we were ever going to, but like if it ever were released on another console, you could make direct comparisons with moments exactly like. Well, the thing is, is like the reason why people care so much about Blood Born getting this thing is because like it's an exclusive and that's where there's no other way to play it. Yeah.

Just Sony games. The issues that you had with like the PS3 version of Ultimate Marvel, where you had like a, I think it's like an extra two frames on Super Startups. The answer to that is play it on Xbox. And then the answer to that later in future will be play it on PC or PS4. Well, it got, well, it got ported to PS4 with the PS3 version. So that delay was still in there and it was like, come on, that's part of the game. And that's essentially why the PS4 version has total balls netcode because it's based

on the PS3. Yeah. Unfortunately, the Xbox 360 version of Ultimate Marvel 3 still runs the best on the line. Yeah. Stupid. And you know, like there's no, why would they go cross-platform to port? Also, until Dawn, I also tested that.

That runs significantly smoother. Wait, the original or you don't mean the original? The original. The original. Like a lot of times when they'd zoom in on characters' faces and stuff like that, you'd get, you'd drop down like 20 and it seems like much smoother. Okay. Cause I've been, there's some friends that are like, would be really into until Dawn,

at least to play it like over the course of a couple of hours at a night. And I was like, yeah, we should do that one time. So I'll wait for that if that actually improves. The only, the only downside I've seen to boost mode is I've seen a lot of people, I didn't do it myself, but like apparently Soma just shits its ass with boost mode on. Like Soma can't handle it and crashes constantly. Well, that's what I was kind of wondering. I'm like, if there's an option for boost mode, why isn't this thing enabled all the

day in time? It's like your, your jury rigging bullshit on top of old games. That didn't know that such an option would exist. So a couple of them are going to freak out without this mode, you know, and that's exactly what it is. So turn on boost mode. Does your game freak out? No, leave boost mode on.

Of course. And you know there's a new tier. Nearly all games I saw, better load times and like, is there a list of games that actually get affected? No, the only one I can find is on the GAF topic where people are just breaking it down. Like, just game by game and say like, does it work? What is in it? It would literally be a user like made list of everyone just actually trying games.

They are never going to make a fucking official list because it's supposed to be on all the time. No, they're never going to make it because companies like EA, if it turns out Madden breaks on that will freak their fucking shit if a list, official list comes out that says shit fucking breaks Madden or whatever. Yeah. Now the thing is, is that at the end of the day, like we said, I think last week, this, this is not like, this is a cool, unexpected quality of life feature that drops.

The ultimate is to still do what Neo does and have the startup screen ask you what type of gameplay you want. Whether you want solid frame rate, whether you want variable or whether you want lock 60 or 30 days. That's the dream. Does Neo come out tomorrow? Neo comes out in 10 hours. Yeah.

Later today. Yeah. And that's, that's the ultimate. But until developers are consistently doing that, you need things like, so like boost mode is really nice. But honestly, for our purposes, for me, especially, but also for that PS4 in there, that hard drive feature is the fucking shit. We got to get one for that.

And it's, it's easy. Do it at home. Bring it in. You just take any hard drive and you, you format it and X fat and you plug it in. That's it. That's all you do. It's just like USB 3.0, Pat. Yeah.

It has to be 3.0. It will not do it. I'm actually kind of shocked that just a USB 3.0 drive is fast enough for those kind of speeds. Well, it's, it's plenty fast, assuming like, uh, like you don't have all the stuff on your PC bogging it down with the horseshit. Yeah. We can't figure out why the fucking transfer rate on that PC in there.

So shit sometimes. I mean, my, that my first question was, you know, like, is it 3.0 only or not? Because that will actively slow down. No, no, 2.0 is, is less fast than the hard drive reads. Exactly. Cause honestly, like I'm at the point where like it sucks for anyone. They can't like afford one, but like honestly, I'd rather just all consoles from this day for it always have this ability, like all, like out of the gate, cause it just makes

you not worry. I will always buy a way larger hard drive than whatever the fuck comes in the box. Like I have a three terabyte hard drive for my, for both my Wii U and my Xbox one. And it's just only when the PS4 went up until this news hat, I'm like, why can't you take more data? No, the, the, the gigabytes is not enough. The PlayStation four now is turning into like practically like a Sega Genesis 32 X Sega CD monster because I have this device that has PS VR going into one side of the camera

popping out. Yeah, that's true. It's going to have a hard drive on top of it. It's taking up a whole frigging shelf. Let me ask you, do you have, do you have a splitter setup for that? Because you know, you can't root HDR through the PS VR box. Yeah. I, I absolutely, it's, I, to even get the PS4 pro to work.

For example, through by Max, thank you very much. You helped me figure out my help. He had to go to the fire and no, I had splitter and a HGCP issue or whatever the fuck. And Max was like, use this and do this reboot thing and it totally worked. No, but I think what's funny is that that process did not work for me. It didn't work on my TV. And the weirdest thing about my entire PlayStation four pro debacle, which got like, we got a lot of track.

That was national headlines. Was it not? Unlike New York times, people watch this thing and they're like, oh, I have no issues. And I'm like, and I was always, all these other people like, I, I'm getting the same problem. Listen, it's good that you have no issues dependent on your TV with the PS4 pro. My biggest problem is that when I first fired up the system, when I first turned it on and I said, just go, it gave me the option and everything showed up fine and said, yeah,

it's going to download. As soon as the patch happened, it screwed up. What? Yeah. The patch screwed it up. Patch is bad. What the hell is going on? And still to this day, I can't just plug in the PS4 pro into my TV and use 1080p.

Like 4k actually works right out of the box, but you can't, you can't, you can't, there's no devices that you can plug your 4k stream into exactly and it'll fucking spit it out. You have to put it through a splitter and the splitter has to spit out 1080 and all that fucking stupid shit. When you put through 1080 and you just go into the TV, I get, I get black screen and only audio. Great. And that still happens to this day in order to, in order to, that's weird.

So I got, I got the, I got the picture, but no fucking audio at all. Yeah. Weird, weird shit. And that's bandwidth issues. A lot of people are running into this. I had, I eventually had to run through a framemeister, which is, uh, which will, which will process this, the, the signal and scale it to 1080p no matter what. So I'm taking a 1080p signal, putting it through a thing that runs out 1080p.

And that's the only way I can get the regular, you're talking to me about the framemeister. You're just like, yo, no, this thing's legit. Hey, Max, it's so many problems. I got, I, you, you reminded me of something, Max. And I have an open message to everybody out there on every technical and video game form ever. Hey, my thing is broken and you go in and you type in the words, works fine for me. Fuck off.

Fuck off. You help no one. Yeah. Cause your input is worthless. Yeah. No. Cause I'm really, I'm really sick right now. And I'm coughing up blood.

Well, I feel great. I guess you would say you are being a complete ignorant dick when you tell people your shit works great. Maybe you did something wrong. Cause it's fine over here. I saw the same thing where I downloaded double dragon four on a steam and when I when I boot it up, there's just flashing red and blue boxes and I'm like, that's a hell of a thing. That's fucked up.

So I can't blow on it. Yeah. You go to the discussion forums, spit into it and hope it works. And there's like three things are like, I'm getting red and black blue boxes. What's up. And the first reply and all of them is like, I think you might be crazy. You should look at your system. It plays fine for me.

Yeah. Thanks. Thanks for your very useful input. You fucking bastard. The first VR headset that I got from was like, it was just completely trashed and the bugs that were like not the, the, the visual like corruption I was getting was completely different from what other people were showing off and like we're talking about. No, yours look like hardware failure on a weird blue and red.

Yeah. I'm sorry. I said to you, mine's working fine for me. You did. You did that to me in real life. I really did. God damn it. Anyway, but I didn't want to say that what you were saying about every console having

that like external hard drive support from now on is it makes sense because like we're all becoming digital hoarders now and like the shelf space is now and it's like, there's no more physicals that we're really collecting as much like the switching with you are still ridiculous and that they only have 32 and that's enough for maybe like what two games depending. I don't know. So that should change, but like even fight like 500 gigabytes for us is like, we'll burn through that.

And most importantly, we need to chronicle things like PT and the Ninja Turtles games that they don't want you to play because they keep getting pulled off. I don't fucking chronicle that game. Someone needs to keep a record. Did you chronicle that game? An archive needs to be kept of Ninja Turtles games that get fucking pulled off of Marvel games. Marvel games, maybe not that Ninja Turtles game.

Well, that's like the crazy thing is that like if you had an Xbox and you were pretty good about that, you know, you could have X men arcade, Simpsons arcade, Ninja Turtles arcade. Oh my God. They were like, you know, there were a time where they were all on 360. Yep. Not at once, but, you know, they were, they had like this little like, oh, 10 month window where, where Ubisoft's allowed to release Konami's game or whatever.

Yeah. My Xbox 360 still to this day is, is an archived, like historical museum of Sega arcade games that are no longer available anywhere. Mine's kind of there too, or like, yeah, I was like, I'm never going to delete this. Not because I thought that there would be get to get delisted. I was just like, why would I? Yeah, I never thought that it would become an issue until it started happening. Daytona, like, like Outrun, they're all gone.

Yeah. Now some of those games, like mysteriously, like a lot of them, like the, the Streets of Rage, Vintage Collection, whatever, that's now backwards compatible in the Xbox one. So that's cool that, that they took the time to even take a few of those. But yeah, Afterburner Climax not being there kind of. And the really annoying shit is like Schumagorath and Jill Ballantyne. Yeah. Fuckin' don't do that where someone can get screwed.

You're the transition or 16-bit to like 32 and 64, it's like, you know, 2D to 3D. It's like, I kind of feel like DLC stuff was kind of this transitional period where no one knew exactly what the fuck to do, especially with fighting games. And that results in the Schumagorath, Jill Ballantyne shit. People were trying shit out, you know. Hey, while I was taking a piss and holding my dick in my hands, I thought of one last detail about the hard drive shit, doesn't let you put your save games on the hard drive. That's fine.

You can probably manipulate them. Well, no, not even that. Like, I had my Wii U external hard drive die because of the way the Wii U handles save data, it has to go with the game. And that means I'm never going to beat Donkey Kong. That means I'm never going to go back and play Bayo 2, because all that shit is fucking lost to the ether. Well, now your local hard drive will be your save box and everything.

And that's way less likely to fail than your external. I might replay those two. Yeah, well. I'm replaying Bayo 2, like, literally today. Well, I guess I'm a shit. So I guess I'll say that, like, yeah, I mean, for not an eventful week, there was a lot to talk about. For me, I'd say here, I've been working all week and the only thing I've played...

I played some games and I played all the same games I played usually. Yeah, the only thing I played for fun was Let It Die, and Climbing the Tower. Did you climb the tower? I climbed the tower. Did you? Yeah, I'm on. I want to jump into that game, but at the same time, I feel like I've seen so much of it because so much of it is so similar.

Yeah. You should still try because the setup and the story is really fun. I mean, like, there's not as much story as you would hope, but it still is. It's fun gameplay. And as you change every, like, 5 to 10 floors, you get, like, a set change, if you would. And it gets pretty drastically different, I'd say. So it's pretty cool. And like, the weapons you get later on and stuff, and the difficulty spike too, like,

it keeps it interesting. I'm still very... That game is successful because that is a very interesting idea. It literally passed, like, a million downloads, which means literally nothing, but it needs to know how much it actually makes because I was like, man, this is going to fucking destroy Grasshopper if it doesn't work. And like, all we know right now is that it's sold, like, a million digital downloads. And after that, I don't know if it's actually generating money.

I sure hope it does. Yeah. Were any of you, you know, I don't think any of you guys were at PSX this year. We were not. We were not. Where it had the biggest booth was for Let It Die. Really? At PAX.

At PAX, it was a massive booth for it. And I waited, I waited a long time to get in on it. And I hated the game. And I played it there. Did they have, like, the Suicide Girls booth babes there too? Oh, what? Were we at PSX? Yeah.

Oh, fuck. Calm down, Matt. Calm down. Disappointment was huge just then. I feel you, Matt. I feel you. I used to have a Suicide Girls account back in the day. Yeah, of course I did.

Of course you did. Of course I did. Your undercut loving motherfucker. Yeah. I feel you. I'm right there with you. Damn it. No.

Let It Die. The thing about it is that there are flaws and they do start to show a little bit later on. Funny you just put out a video about that, actually. Oh, cool. I haven't seen it. Yeah. I mean, we were definitely way too rash in our initial judgment of it.

What? Me and you did a video and we were rash? However. What the fuck? What does happen? Well, I'm on like a break. I checked that video and it go, why are the dislikes so high on this? And I was like, I watched a little bit of it and I was like, okay, it's just.

We didn't get it. Opening jitters. We didn't get it. I don't understand. And the thing is that what happens is as you get later in, the set pieces start to, not set pieces, excuse me. The blocks that make up the tile sets, they become very repetitive and you sort of know exactly what this level is made out of the hallway for connects to like elbow joint.

The first thing that I thought of when I saw that game was, oh, you're climbing Tartarus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not quite as similar, obviously, but more similar than you think in the sense that like there will be like, you know how Tartarus will have the room with the side banks where an item is in the middle of it and there's a certain number of fucking demons in the.

It's the same thing. It's like you have that one bank and it always has the dungeon and people are really fantastic. So there's that. And I mean, outside of that, I've been like just digging around on Super Mario run and oh yeah. Yeah. Is that on Android yet? I don't know.

Very soon. I think. But yeah. Time Waster. It's a decent time. Waster. Has anyone played that fire emblem game? No.

I looked at it and I thought. I'm not. But everyone's going nuts on that. My whole fucking raid team is going nuts over it. Because it's literally like keep playing until you get your waifu or your husbando. That's the reward. That's exactly what I'm seeing. Like on Twitter, some of our followers are like, oh, I did something in Fire Emblem.

And then here's a new picture of Lynn. Here's a new picture of Tharja. I was about to say, here's a new picture of Tharja. Tharja. I mean, come on. Come on. And I was like, oh wait. Like, okay.

I obviously know exactly what they're doing with this mobile title, if this is what your unlocks are. Fire Emblem starts at waifu wars. Fire Emblem is literally going to be like Nintendo's actual first success on mobile because Mario Run was not. Unfortunately, a lot of downloads, not a lot of actual paying people for that, the rest of the game. Do you actually play Fire Emblem in this game?

I don't know. There is a tile set in the trailer and screenshots where you have like a battle mode. It's not just waifus and husbandos. But that's the reward. That's what you're striving for. And I get that. How many of them can I get pregnant? All of them.

Oh, good. I'm glad that Fire Emblem, even though it's all of them, it's going to be low. Are we playing like Gaze Chicken right now? Yeah, you are. Because they're going to get real pregnant. So like Tracey Morgan pregnant. No, like Big Shiner pregnant. Whatever the hell you guys are thinking of, I'm glad I'm not thinking of it.

You know what? Don't worry about it. It's not worth your thought, your brain. Very big shiner. I've mentioned the image of Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles holding each other both pregnant. Knuckles isn't dead. Knuckles is dead as fuck. He's not dead.

You just corrected me before the sentence came out of my fucking mouth. Yeah, no, because I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. Knuckles isn't dead. The dumb thing about that whole Knuckles is dead meme is like, oh, a kid has only lived to be however old and I'm like... 16. Wait a minute. He was like 16 when the game came out.

He was dead already. He died immediately, actually. That's exactly it. What the truth is, after his first adventure, he dropped dead, really. Yeah, that was pretty much me. Simmons, did you have a week? What do you do with your life, bro? Did seven days occur in your life?

The week wasn't good at all, but the weekend was kind of fantastic because me and Max went to Retro Gaming Expo. How was that? I wanted to know. And that was cool. And then I got, if it's possible, I can't, but I almost got drunk on Butterbeer at Harry Potter Wizarding World yesterday. Is it amazing or terrible because I'm getting mixed reviews? Amazing. Of Harry Potter?

Of specifically Butterbeer because it's the thing I want to try the most about Hogwarts. It's amazing, but there's different versions. There's alcohol versions of it. They've just kind of grifted the drug, the FDA, and are just selling it, actually. Two whole families getting them addicted. So there's three or four types depending where you are. There's cold, frozen, hot. Frozen is like a slushie, and that's really good, and hot's really good.

Cold's whatever. I want to try hot. Max gave it to me when we were in Orlando the first one. He gave it to you, huh? Oh yeah, totally. And there's like this big like frothy white, you know, gizzy top to it, and I just took a sip. Sure was.

Can I have the gizzy top? Yeah, Simmons really knows how to describe a frothy, gizzy beer. That's the fucking name of my fucking new drink. Can I just get you voicing over our Budweiser commercials? The gizzy top. No, no, no, the gizzy pops. Once a gizzy pops, your thirst like a piss-colored drink. You're not supposed to drink from the top.

You're supposed to let it seep in. Use the straw on the frozen. Here's the funniest thing about Simmons and Butterbeer is that, yeah, we went to Universal like Orlando, which has, it's awesome. Like the Harry Potterville stuff in those parks is really cool. Yeah, I mean, you got to try Butterbeer. So we tried it. And before entering this part of the park, Butterbeer's like the first thing you get

as you go into like the wizarding world place. I'm not a big Harry Potter fan, but I would tell Simmons this place is really cool. Like they, they nail the theming. If you're a fan of this at all, he's like, I'm not really a fan. He used to like watch the shows or the movies repeatedly because he worked in a video store back in the day. So we kind of like, yeah, you despise them. Ever since Simmons has had Butterbeer and has gone to that part of the theme park.

Yeah, he told you this. No shit. This guy has been like a huge Harry Potter fan is reading all the books now. That, that shit mission accomplished in Universal. Yeah, they totally suckered me into it. Cause yeah, like he said, we had to get people to pre-order the second movie. So we had to play the first movie on repeat. So I had to be playing overhead for, for hours on end every day.

So I kind of hated it for a while. Matt, did you forget some kind of pin back in an LA? Forget some time. Some, some, some of the Disneyland pin. Your Disneyland pin. Yeah. There are these pins that Kenny got me and it's like, hey, I'm a first timer point. And laugh at me.

Okay. Because everyone at Disneyland usually seems like they're like a vet and a splash mountain. We got so wet. I got so wet cause I was in the front. That was, I can't believe how wet you got. That I needed to buy a new shirt. Wow. So I got a Jack Skellington shirt.

Oh, that's wet as fuck mother fucker. And then I was like, well, I need to take off all the shit. And I had my, so right now max is in possession of a wet sweet baby shirt and a wet pin. Okay. I'm a, I'm a first timer. Okay. I kind of held that wet shirt in a bag for me because I needed a new one. They're all wet and racked next to my desk and sniffing range.

Okay. Good. So you can smell my musk. Rocky horror, you know, when you go to Disneyland and you're the first timer there, they want to, you know, draw all over you or point it out. Cause people will then hustle on you. They'll see like, oh yeah, you motherfucking you're new. The problem with anytime Matt says I got wet, it could also possibly mean he went out

and bought the fucking game. It could also mean he got fucking high as shit. So you never know. PCP. Uh, so, uh, so you, you, you, you enjoyed the Butterbeer weekend. Yeah. Yeah. I had way too many.

Nice. Okay. Uh, how about you max? Yeah, we went to retro game expo. That was only the, uh, the other day and it's, it's neat mostly because they have a lot of the panels they had seemed to be just like YouTube celeb panels. Okay. So I didn't feel like we missed out on like a ton there, but if you want to meet like

some of those. Like completionist. Really cool. We went completely like incognito or not really incognito. We just went, but we didn't really tell. I don't think you can go incognito anywhere with your hair, man. It's a problem. It's a goddamn beacon of light.

The, uh, I mean, like the, the Portland game retro expo. It's very, very similar to this one. Yeah. Cause those guys were all there too. Yeah. Cause cause I was there. Yeah. The best part is the, is the floor.

Like they have a ton of vendors that come from wherever the hell that just sell old shit. So between any console generation that's like ever existed, these guys are selling games and magazines and pretty much anything. Did you get or find old consoles retrofitted with HDMI? Sadly, no. God damn it. I actively looking for that kind of stuff too.

That is the greatest treasure any retro car can bring you. We literally streamed only an HDMI and 64 game yesterday. So, so good. How'd it look? The only thing that I was able to pick up, I randomly got copies of like Animusha two and three and stuff. Yeah. I did find a copy of like mint conditioned guitar Oman for 40 bucks.

Cool. Which is pretty good. Cool. That game is, that game is hiked up in value. Other than that, like, I think Simmons got a copy of a Albert Odyssey, right? Simmons for Saturn. Yeah. I was able to haggle down the price.

Oh my God. I love that fucking game so much. What was the price? Super expensive on eBay now. Like Saturn games are dumb on eBay. I know. I know. I've been lying through the roof.

I literally just got in the mail today, yesterday, Willie, I beat him up that was only released on the Saturn called hot blooded family. And it's literally a father, a son and a daughter and they're hot blooded. That's it. Okay. So this is the river down at one of those things and you happen across an elemental gear boat suitcase. Let me know.

Willie. Send me a text. Actually, you know what? You know what guys? I'll help Willie out even more. If you see that elemental gear boat, gear boat suitcase, no matter how much it costs, just buy it right away and Willie will pay you back. Yeah.

Doesn't matter. Oh fuck. Do you know what I mean? A slipcase or a suitcase? It's a suitcase. What the hell? It is. It's literally the rarest thing.

Dude, that thing was hundreds of dollars. It's just crazy stupid nonsense. It's just crazy stupid nonsense. I can't even imagine what it would cost now. You don't even like elemental gear. I remember- It's the spirit. Other than that, the Expo had the only, the only, not really-

What is that called? Honestly, it is functional. The Nintendo PlayStation was there. PlayStation. Yeah, I read about that. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, they came out to Megfest as well, actually.

I think so, yeah. Nice. Other than that, that was the weekend. This week, I spent the entirety of it playing the DLC for Resident Evil 7 as well as finishing up Madhouse mode. We got so fucking confused when we went to load up the game the other day, we're still playing our LP. It's like, wait, is this the DLC?

Is the DLC out? What is the DLC? Did it come out? Did I already play it? Did I already- There was a point where we picked up a tape in the game and we played it and I was like, isn't this the DLC? Oh, no.

Yeah, I thought that too. No, that's Adderlondo. I thought that too. Well, no, it's Nulondo. Nulondo, excuse me. Nulondo, you bitch. So you played the DLC? The DLC, like it was, it was, it's really good, but like two thirds of it is just a

remix of stuff that's like kind of already in the game and not a lot of like brand new content. Is this the one that's free though? I don't think the first DLC pack is like, in terms of new content, worth 10 bucks, but oh, it's really crap. Like Ethan must die is some of the most fun I've had in any Resident Evil game. Max, I saw a clip of you walking into a room and getting fucking exploded the instant you said it was saved.

The whole dude, it is. Was that from Ethan must die? That's Ethan must die. Okay. Like it's literally one hit death. You go through the entirety of the mansion, but a very linear way. Like you can't get lost. There's one way you kind of go, but each room has a unique set of challenges and traps that

are completely different from the main game that will try to kill you at any cost. You know what that sounds like? Dark Souls. No, it sounds like it sounds like a harder version of but like ridiculously unforgiving because there's no way you can know that this trap is going to do this and then you die and then you get sent all the way back to the start and you have to redo it all. So by the time you're finished with this thing or near the end, you've gotten so get good at it that you look like you're speed running the damn thing because it's like,

Oh, dodge this guy. Duck here. Open the door. Close the door. Dodge this. Duck that. Grab these two bullets. Go over here.

The, uh, the nicest part about it is that every run is unique because the boxes that are your items, their items aren't like hidden anywhere anymore. They're only in boxes and the boxes have star ratings from like one star to four stars. They're all random. So you can be at one point where you only have a bunch of healing items, which are frigging useless because you die in one hit anyway. And now you have to figure out how to kill these two enemies or at least lock them behind a door to progress to get to the next box to pray to God, there's a gun in it.

That sounds nuts like a hardcore version of fourth or tofu survival. Yeah. Yeah. Like the battle. The battle mode stuff where you had to go through one path through the area and it was super hard. Did you have a one hit out death? Like, no, no, but what it, what it did is in, uh, for survivor was the first one and

that's with the hunk and RE two. And what they did was they gave you like a deep, they gave you a handgun, a magnum and a shotgun and some healing items, but they said get through the, the fucking deepest most basement level all the way to the roof and they fucking stacked those rooms with enemies. Just absolutely ridiculous. Like I only beat it once and I fucking love that game to death. Cool.

Cool. That's fun. That's very much what I think this is like, like it feels like a lot of the, the remix of like kind of like modes and ideas for completing old, it totally is the only thing that's completely unique is, is the bedroom tape. And it, that's actually pretty good cause it's all a puzzle. Like bedroom is, is a unique thing where you're stuck in a bed and Marguerite comes in and feeds you food and you have to, we have to solve a puzzle in the room to get out while

so Marguerite doesn't know that you've been out of bed. That's cool. So the biggest, the biggest gimmick of it is that you move all these items in the room to try to solve the puzzle, but then Marguerite gets, gets like, like a noise happens and she knows they're, you, you, you're moving around, so you have to get back into bed and put all the items back the same when you started so that she shows up and starts looking around the room. And depending on what you did, she'll either freak out because you moved something or anything

or she's like, okay with it and continues like her little, you know, like pre-canned stuff that she does. Right. It's actually pretty fun. Interesting. That's cool. I can't even find the suitcase version of Elemental Gear Bolt on eBay. Well, there you go.

You're not getting that shit. You're not getting that shit. I don't even realize you're working. I don't even realize you're working. Anyway, before we get into your week, Matt, let's take a quick word from our sponsors. Sure. This week we're sponsored by Loot Crate. I'm aware of them.

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This is really pretty. And with that, let us get into the seven days that took place in your life, Matt. I'll try to blaze through it because I've been away from this podcast for a while. Because by seven, you mean like 35? 35. Well, my clock timers here is exactly one. OK. So that's one hour exactly.

OK. Let's go. So just to blaze through some stuff, I went on a cruise. Blaze it. It was really fun. Highlight was going to Mexico on an excursion where I was just super drunk in the ocean with like green in my cup. Yep.

Oh, the green shit? I went, you got green and they were like, I got green, don't worry. So these nice fellows had all these drinks, Cabana set up and I'm in the ocean like da, da, da, da, bo, bo. And I assumed Liam was lying about this, but he wasn't. All they sell in Mexico are predator statues. They think he's real. I love it.

Yeah. So I saw I like at all the little gift shops or whatever you just go through and you see like, you know, like fake bullshit hulks and Captain America's fine and football jerseys and shit. But then you see legit bronze and bone statues and Liam gave me one when he went to Mexico the other year. Oh, thanks. You got this at some like comic book stores and no, I got it in Mexico.

I was like, fuck off. I don't get it. Like like straight up Yachua faces or like just Hunter only. No, just just anything like stuff chiseled out of bronze and other stuff that was just repaints of NECA released official figures where they just put like bling on the predator. Okay. And I saw one that's made like out of like silver or painted silver. It was actually really nice.

I got like a little figure. Yeah. I was like, oh, how much for this? I got the green. Yeah. And he was like, oh, I have for you like $30 and I was like, 25 and he's like, oh, okay, sure. And I'm like, yeah, I'm bartered.

You had gold or Mexico. So I'm on the beach and I have like a chicken one in front of statue. The other I can already visualize exactly. And run this cruise. It was like the hugest cruise ever. You're the truck version of you on a beach seems like a fucking 17 year old girl at a fucking spring break. Which we met because there was a bunch of like this whole family of like, you know, mom

and a dad and like three like daughters and like a like a son and they're all from Kansas and they're like, yeah. And I was like, yeah, I got a printer statue. They're like, what's that? I was like, ah, I just walked out of there. I didn't know what the fuck I was talking about. So not worth talking to you after that. Yeah.

Exactly. And this cruise was like a thing that's so big that you'll never get into a pool. You never will. It's just so packed. There's like five pools. There's like an infinity pool. How many people are on this boat? Four thousand.

Too many. That's too many people on a boat. You need a boat ship. There is an infinity pool, which is you need a Jojo strength boat. It's suspended above glass. So you look down like off the edge of the pool and you're like, oh, that's the ocean I'm looking at. Oh, like a hitman level.

Yeah. Like a hitman level. Okay. And I never got in there until the day where if you're on one of these cruises and there's excursions, you go on one excursion. Don't go on any others. Because if you don't go, everyone's gone. So everyone left on the excursions that we did not go to, which is like another port

in Mexico. And then you get the boats to yourself. Everyone's gone. Just everyone. And I'm like, okay, yeah, I'm in this boss-ass pool. So the cruise was really fun. I also finished the entirety six seasons of Downton Abbey. What?

Yeah. What? So do you remember the last time? I think the last time was on the podcast. I talked about I was watching The Crown, which is the Netflix original show. What's going on with you? So since I like that. Everyone's talking about The Crown.

So that's understandable. It's very good. It's like one season so far. But then Leanna was like, well, maybe you might like Downton Abbey. It's been years since I've watched it. She's not watching fucking Coronation Street next. It's different than that because literally Dark Man shows up in Downton Abbey where he's got this bandaged face and like, I, I, I, I inherited.

This is just a fucking ploy and I inherited all the money and they're like, no, no, you didn't. So Downton Abbey was really fun. We just finished the last season. Was it? It was one season. Did you have fun? I did because it was actually really fun where I'm like, oh no, Mary's being a bitch

again because she hates Edith because anyway, God, that's English. It really was. And there's some, there's some guys that show up, Gerard Mormont from Game of Thrones shows up. I hate that guy. Matthew Goode, Osmandias from Watchmen shows up too. That's awesome. I know you hate England so much.

I hate the Englanders. He's been listening. It was, it was really fun. The first five seasons are in Netflix, but the sixth and final season is not on there. So we have to, we have to get that in an Xbox video. That was really fun. Uh, Taras House, the new season, Aloha State, all of Hawaii. Are they, are they America?

They're in Hawaii and what they do is that they got a lot of Japanese people, a lot of Japanese people go to Hawaii and live. So they all speak Japanese in the show, but they all speak English. That's better than mine. So sometimes they'll break into English and my mind will just shut down because it sounds better than how I, are you, are you talking? I'm like, whoa, takes a real native speaker to fuck up their own language. It really does.

And some of them, some of these cast members, when I watched the first Taras House, the first group of people were like, eh, they're okay. This first group of people that starts on Netflix and it has part one, which is eight episodes. And that's part one. This is the weirdest distribution method I've ever seen. Part one is out now. But part two will come in up later.

It's all season two. It's part two. Oh yeah. No, they find the mask at the end of the first one and they, they go to the, they see the pillar, man. Uh, speaking of which, JoJo, the start of Phantom Blood is perfect for, for, uh, Downton Abbey. Okay, there we go.

Okay, there we go. Cause I'm like, I'm like, Matt's straying out into the wilderness and he's coming, he's bringing back. Bring it back. Downton Abbey. I brought back some tea and crumpets. And I'm like, what? Uh, but, but, but to, to Rassos is really, really interesting so far.

I lost it because it's in America, basically, uh, Hawaii. And there, there is people on the show that are like, think more like Americans cause they've lived in Hawaii for like three or four years now and they're like, yeah, maybe I'll try doing this. And then the actual girls in Japan are like, maybe don't, don't hold my hand. Okay. It's a disgusting pig. It's a disgusting pig.

Um, so that's only at part one. I finished it. I watched it with star exorcist and, and, and Liana, we would just burn through in one night, eight episodes. It was really good. Uh, I went to LA as Max and Simmons, no. And anybody who watched that stream. Yeah.

Anybody watched that, watched that stream of predator concrete jungle. You fucking bitch. Why would you do this to people? They never played it. They never played it. I saw you. I saw you on Twitter. Your slow beef is like, I'm going to play fucking street wise.

You're like, you're a fuck you slow beef. I'm in here. And then you go, you go to LA and hang out with Max and they're, they're fucking stuck. They're playing fucking concrete jungle. You're fucking ruining other people's lives. You're bringing your fucking bullshit everywhere. Spread. You got to smear the shit out.

And when you're out of room in your own room, where the whole ground, you just draw a big smiley face. Right. You got to start. Exactly. You got to open the door on some rolling the shit into other people's space. In Matt's defense, we did play X-Men Origins Wolverine and I hadn't really played a lot of that game and it's fucking great.

Oh, that is awesome. Character action game. That's good. Yeah. We're going to play that when the movie comes closer. I remember the demo on 360 like you really saw the only problem with that game is levels go on too long. It's the same level over and over and over and over and over.

But like the actual comments look amazing, but I spent a bunch of time. Remember we spent like 30 minutes in Venice Beach last time, Muscle Beach and all that. Are you a real Rasta looking for Tony Hawk levels and points? So we spent a bunch of time here and what I understand about Venice Beach is that has the Venice canals where if you go on the regular street, you see all these houses, nice houses that have these huge wood fences and shit. You cannot see the front of these houses. If you go on the canals, it brings you to the back of these houses where you see their

backyards and no one gives a shit. There's no gates. There's no whatever. There's all this expense. There's a Shang Tsung Palace I saw breaking into their house to steal their shit. There's birds everywhere. I'm like, I don't get it. Why is the front so protected in the back, which anyone can literally walk along?

Any ocean creature that decides to come fuck up your house and walk through doors, a bird, whatever. I don't understand. Max, any insights on that? So Venice is on the other side of the freeway and that's like a no fly zone. Okay. I really would go down to Venice when I lived in Santa Monica, which is like, yeah, Santa Monica is one side of the freeway of 10.

And then there's Venice where the air, the air audibly, audibly becomes stinkier. I think that makes sense. And then the entirety of Venice just becomes fucking weird, man, as if Santa Monica wasn't already really weird, man. You got to get in there to collect your, the letter skate. But then once you do video, then you got to leave as soon as you collect. We went to this Italian place that was really, really good, but it was just, I sat down and just as like, I'm sitting in the thing, like a bowl full of garlic bread, mini bites, just

as brought there. And then my meal showed up 20 minutes later and I'm like, I fucked up. You fucked up. You ate all the garlic. They were the best garlic mini bites. You should have just left. I should have left. You're an adult.

You shouldn't know. Here's what you do. You tell the wife, Hey, tech, call me on my phone. Call me on my phone. And then you get a phone call on your phone and you just go, Oh, what is it? Oh, no, I'll be right there. And you just run out. We were both there.

Oh, yeah. No, no. She like dials you like under the table and it's, you know, come on. We're the only ones there. That's protest. We went there really early. Um, and we went to, uh, Frank and Sons. Remember when we went?

Frank and Sons. It was dude, you need to. Like, now you sound like them. I know. Cause I didn't know I just thought it looks amazing. It's a collect the Frank and Son is a collectible show. It's basically a, uh, con merch room all year round. And yeah, Max and Kenny and Simmons at all said like, Oh yeah, you guys need to go and

we didn't get to go. I try to go once every three months at least because it's worth it because I go there and like you can't haggle prices on action figures and stuff. So I got the gorilla alien, the new reissue of it, the Mantis. Does it have the ability to dunk in water and shoot out water? Actually does not. But it looks cooler than the regular one. So it's just, it's a cool version of Marshae opus, basically.

Kind of. Yeah. Cause all it was was action figures, cards, comics, whatever. And there was like really, really legit, like brand new stuff in Japan, but old shit. Like I forgot that Todd McFarland released a whole series of I'm going to help out my friend action figures, which is your savage dragon. Here's shadow Hawk. Okay.

Here's all these fucking things. Old image. Wow. Yeah, exactly. Old image. I'm like, there's a savage dragon action figure who would buy that. No one. Cause this was a mint in the box.

So how many, so how many did you buy? I got, I got the zero of those, but I got the clan leader predator, which is based on the old Kenner alien versus predator line. And I got a Punisher figure that was apparently a Walgreens exclusive. There's only one. I got the Captain America, Rob Liefeld collection with the stupid titties showing up in Captain America with the bad perversion. There's one that I want to know about.

Yes. And you can take a guess. They had reboot action figures. They had everything. Yeah, I have those. That's fine. No, you don't. I don't.

You don't have these. They've disappeared out of existence. I call Billy. He's shoving them in the trash right now. I'm a little disappointed. Yes. Mango spawns. They had mango spawn.

And mango spawn. How much was it? They had all the spawn. They had spawned turbo riders. Okay. They could. They must have had the reissue, man. It's about the new shit.

Dude. Because the old one that like was the rarest and like most ridiculous. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. It's incredible hard to find. The first booth I went to, they had a bag, a Ziploc bag.

It says entire McFarland, Medigar Solid 2 collection. Okay. So had all the Medigar Solid 2 figures in a Ziploc bag, all of them. And I'm like, that's so legit. Was it a bag that was used hard to see through? No, no. It was perfectly in clean bag. Perfectly transparent.

Hey, Simmons. What are you disappointed in? That there's a whole booth that sells like every fucking street shark known to man. Yeah. And I never heard Matt talk about it. Because I already have a good collection. He knows how to mute his mic if he talks about it. I already have a good collection.

I'm glad we're starting to get on the same page. Now tell me about Biker Mice. Let me finish. I already have a collection of street sort of shark figures that a fan gave us when we went to LA, I think the first time. And that's in the office right now. I brought it in the U.S. What?

I think we're good for street shark figures. Yeah. Yeah. You leave. Ranking Sons is cool because you'll find like random, incredibly rare weird shit, which is always what I'm what I'm like looking for. Yeah. I first discovered some old alien versus predator art prints that were of like a thousand.

Exactly. Issued from Dark Horse back in the early 90s. Dude, there was a Max knows this. But there's a guy that had his own predator alien dioramas where he took the glue gun to make alien slime and made his own scenes and little diorama boxes. Are you hiding street sharks in this office? Yes. Not hiding.

I couldn't find them. And of course you went to Max and Jessica and Kenny brought us to Disney World, which I was on the outset. You went to Disneyland, motherfucker. Disneyland. I'm sorry. Worlds in Florida. Worlds in Florida.

By the way, Max, we already planned our trip to Universal Studios in Orlando around the same weekend as WrestleMania because we're like... Did you say Russell Mania? Russell. Yes, with an R. I made peace with it. Yeah. You just gave up. Yeah.

I just gave up. So we're going to do that. I thought there was always Russell Mania. So we're going to do that. But like Disneyland was really awesome in that I had the best corn dog of my life. I had this corn dog and Max was like, you should get the corn dog. You should buy that. Just get the corn dog.

Just get it. So I got this corn dog, waited in like a 10 minute line and I was like, okay. So good. 10 minute corn dog. Matt was like in the middle of Disneyland Street with a corn dog in one hand and something else in the other. All that matters is that his hand was full and as he bit into the corn dog, he's in the middle of Disneyland Street saying, I'm so happy right now.

So if you guys haven't figured it out yet, Max is like this theme park Willy Wonka. Yes. So if you play the theme park with Max, he takes you over to some food areas and says, try this. And then you just take shit. It's good. Well, if you ever want to go, we smell to smell. Yeah.

We saw a thing. We're carrying around gigantic turkey legs, just a slab of meat and a thing. And every time I went by, I went, oh my God, that smells like the kind that heals your HP. This is the kind that heals your HP. Wow. Me. And every large turkey leg.

Yes. And everyone kept saying and like Twitter, whatever, like you're in Disneyland. Oh, I'll get the fucking turkey leg and I'll store your HP. And we never actually got one because we're always like kind of fulfilled or whatever when we just ate something. We see like couples just like both slavering on this meat on either side of it. It was amazing. And of course, Kenny knew exactly when every picture on every ride was going to get taken.

So did five times every time and knew it. And then my picture is me going like, I don't know what's going on. Is it now? The classic. Yeah, the classic. I love, I love the photos of the talking about XKCD right now. No, no, no. People that went up to, I want to see Splash Mountain and they got a chessboard and glued

the piece. You are talking about XKCD, XKCD invented that gimmick and then people started to do it for real. Then I didn't know that was where it came from, but like, like putting chess on the way down. I think there's, I think there's people that did that with like a Gamecube, a TV and mail. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I think so. My picture for Splash Mountain was literally the only one I was prepared for. I was just like going with your head on your chin. Yeah. Everyone's just taking pictures of the photos. I really want, I really want one of those photos of me one day to be me vomiting on every single person.

Nice, nice. It would happen. You can't find them. Immortalize that forever. It would happen. I got to go, I got to go JoJo Pose at least once on it. Well, everyone thought Kenny was doing JoJo Pose. It's got to be a sitting pose because if you stand up, you'll be like decapitated or something.

No, you got to, you got to pull the ref point and then get back down real quick. And Max will agree with me on here. The best ride there was cars. There's a cars ride because it was the newest. Yes. When you go through Pirate of the Caribbean, all this whole shit, you see all the old shit. Then you see a very super advanced Jack Sparrow. Yeah.

That's way more advanced than all the other robots. And he's just like, and I'm like, whoa, he looks really good. Everyone else looks like shit. And you go to cars, which is the newest ride, which is literally you're on it. You go through like a garage and the animatronics. Like I know this might seem ridiculous to you, but when an animatronic car comes up to you, I thought it was real. I thought, yeah, you know, the hydraulics on the car, the bumper that moves to make

his lips move looked like the fucking cartoon. I was amazed. You're very right. You want me to spoil that for you, Matt? You want me to like shatter that illusion? Please do. That animatronic, it's half animatronic, half projector. Because there's a projection on the windshield of their eyes that animates.

It's amazing. You have to do it on mouths and stuff too, especially on like the frozen ride at Epcot. That's how they get away with it. Matt, you're right. It actually bugged me for a while too. Well, there's a couple at the beginning of it. Like Mater, I think, actually has his mouth moving. It's not a projection, but a lot of them do have projection.

Projection is like the new tech that's in all the rides. Yeah, that's what brought Tupac back to life. I love the idea, though, of these like rock'n'sock'n pirates next to a Westworld Jack Sparrow. That's really good. That's not a bad descriptor of it. They start to cry in their head sketch so far. But the cool part of the car is right is that once you're done all that and they soup up your car, because you actually get into a car with like four people, and then you race

against another car filled with people, they pretend like you're on the racetrack and you see who's going to beat each other. And it was just, it was a very short ride, but it was like literally the most production value. The actual track was huge. It looked like a Route 66 from the old watch. The only thing that could make the ride better is that when you, when you pair up with the person that like the random other people that are on the ride and you start racing, they

don't play the stupid ass cars music. It straight cues into Speed Boy from Initial D. That's the only way it could be better. What about magical sound shower? Because that ride is outrun. That would be pretty good. The only bad part about the entire like Disneyland in general is just you guys telling me about all these arcades that they used to have that they closed down. Dude.

Yeah, well. Dude, I first played Tekken 3 here. It used to be better before you came. Yeah, exactly. I was kind of sad about that. There was an arcade by Space Mountain. It was two stories and right over the escalator going up to the second floor of just more arcades that you never saw anywhere else was like about a third or half scale model of

an X-wing and a TIE fighter in mid-battle. And this is like years and years ago, right? This is like 15 years ago. This is actually even longer than that because they started to change a lot of arcade games that they held. Like they took out a bunch of shooting games. They had no more shooting games anymore. They took out fighting games.

Anything that was essentially violent. So you had a whole bunch of like downhill ski racer and you know old wave race game from Sega and top skater because ever since Columbine, Nintendo got like super hands off with anything. So all the house of the dead games, like all the Street Fighter games, Alien vs. Predator, all that stuff that I kind of discovered at Disneyland was all gone and they eventually just phased the whole thing out. I just kind of think that there was a lot of fun. Yeah, and I just kind of think that there was a lot of fun.

I just kind of think that there was a lot of fun. And I just kind of think that there was a lot of fun. To me, it was Columbine that did it. Yeah. I didn't realize that was the catalyst there. I didn't realize that was the catalyst there. When we went to the round one, I finally played Tekken 7 and like the only bad part of it was like the cab I was playing on was like a really shitty resolution.

But whatever I played, Katrina, like the model girl, like her moveset was amazing. I played Shaheen and like Tekken 7, like now I've actually gone on like rage arts, just changed the game where I'm like, okay, I have this really good move. I don't know whether I'm going to use it now or not. And it was just, it was really, really fun. And I had a really great bunch of matches of King of Fire's 13 because they had the arcade version of that there where I played against a fan that like, Let you win.

Sorry? What? I won two matches and I lost a third. But it was really, really fun. And it was just like Tekken 7, like now that I've actually gone and had all of it, like I was always kind of like, ah, it sucks. It's just the same game. Like it's not a real game.

It's not. Until you play it, you're kind of convinced, you're like, oh, this actually does feel really good. I mean, it's just the same type of characters. Like it's just basically an extension of Tekken 6, really, like in terms of graphics and story and characters available. When I actually played it, like Rage Arts really changed it up or instead of just stupid generic rage of just, oh, I do more damage and I'm faster.

Well, I mean, I get why you wouldn't like it because it's not exciting. But it is. But now I like it. But it's in there. And I guess the thing is, when you have it, it's still rage mode. So if you don't pop your drive or your arc, it's still your normal rage, right? And you can still bust out. You can use that.

Your flash. It has fucking armor on it. It will hit me while I'm doing the rage or nothing happens. Can you do two in a row? No, because you're spending, you're catching my rage. My master class technique will not work here. But what you can do is your rage, it is safe on block though. So if you...

I got kind of this opinion, I haven't really talked a lot about Tekken 7 because there was a point where my like hype gauge for that game was like maxed the fuck out. And it was sometime right after E3, especially when Akuma was announced, it was like, you know, this game, oh my God. And at E3, when they started introducing the story stuff and seeing how the cinematic elements like blend right into gameplay, like this is really awesome. And I got to actually play it with the Akuma versus Heihachi fight. I'm like, this game is going to be sick as hell.

Like, when's it coming out? And there was still no release date at the time. I'm like, okay, okay, it's going to come out at the end of the year or something like that. And then it essentially has been, since the last time I played it, delayed an entire year when it's going to come out at the next E3 now. And that time that the game is going to come out is literally going to be within a month released of Injustice 2 as well as potentially Guilty Gear Rev 2. I'm like, just delay it again.

Like seriously, like even for a casual audience, like casual people are just going to bite and sink their teeth into Injustice 2 for sure because Batman and Superman. And I really want Tekken 7 to have like a moment to breathe. The first half of the year is crazy. The fact that we've been waiting this long. Yeah, the first year is just nuts. And even for fighting games, the middle of the year is crazy. And then the end of the year has marvels.

So I don't know. The fact that we've been waiting this long is a bummer. It's like the perfect time to make me like not be excited because there's just too much shit out there right now. Yeah, I feel like, you know, like it is a bummer because it's been so long since it's been announced and we've been excited to wait for it. And of course, like Japan has already gotten the best out of it. How long has it been out in America?

Okay, it's two years. It's like two and a half years. Jesus fuck. Japan's had their hands on it for a while. But I guess like the thing to keep in mind is that their approach to this is the opposite of what Capcom's was with 5. That's the most commendable part is that they're taking their sweet time. I actually was going to take more time packing it in.

There's going to be so many features in this. So it feels and here's the thing is like I said, the last version I played had that weird delay. Every time you land a throw when you're doing this, the sync screen play where you both switched. Well, I forgot what it's called, but like when you're playing on two screens of the screen sync. Yeah.

Yeah. And like there's a weird like like half second or or or or so is like really long delay every time you land the throw. That's very weird. And I didn't like that. But I feel like besides little issues like that, there's, they're packing it in with features and it's doing the opposite of the bare bones Street Fighter 5 release. So it's two sides of, you know what I mean?

Like a coin that is like. It's a tough coin bummer, but I've been following the game like actively. It's like I've been watching Tekken 7 matches. I've watched characters go from, you know, nothing and new characters come out to be gods and then those characters get nerfed into the ground. Like I've seen the entire life cycle of a fighting game for a game. That's not even out yet. Like Tekken 7 came out.

I played it. I dropped it and then here we are waiting for an update, but that actually hasn't even happened yet. I feel like, I remember when SF4 had its location tests and we were all going nuts and getting as much footage as we could out of that and the arcade version came out and then the console version came out about a year after that. 2008 to 2009. And we played it at that arcade in Toronto and like that felt like rabid and like still

not totally figured out, you know, stuff like that. Like by the time we got there, like we knew Sagat was beast, right? We knew stuff like that, but it's like, yeah, this is a live vibrant game and now it's finally coming to consoles. The fighting game is amazing. And then Tekken 7, like that game's been out for like when it comes out here, it will have been almost three years since release. Back in the days of fighting game releases though, when you'd be updating and checking

threads on the Madman's Cafe for cell phone footage. It would be a solid 10 months sometimes of just random match footage before you get your hands on it. There's only so many eight show fucking tourney placement videos you can watch. And I've been watching green Tekken stream the game in 720p, like four meg bit rate, really good looking streams for like a year and a half now. So like I said, it just feels like I've already played this game and it's come out, but it actually hasn't yet.

And this is duplicating what happened with Tekken 6 because Tekken 6 was out in arcades and everyone was playing it and then bloodline rebellion dropped and though everyone was playing it and you had to go to arcades to play that stuff. And then finally Tekken 6 came out on console, which was essentially bloodline rebellion. But it was like the game had already been out forever. It didn't help that the netcode was straight trash on the first Tekken 6, but it's a similar situation where for some reason they just hold off for a long time to give a better product.

But I feel the timeframe they usually release these games is like conflicted with all these other titles that a lot of people that might want to casually pick up a fighting game have a lot of other options. At the same time though. The second fan is going to eat it up. Of course. Like I'm absolutely going to buy it. Yeah.

And I hope that I'm going to have enough time to learn it because Tekken is a tough game to get good at. At the same time, though, I can't help but feel that while the casual player will have more options, the casual player is not going to be as burnt out as you were, for example, following everything about it for a year now. I feel like once it's out, it's out and it's going to be an option and they're going to have it in their hands and it's going to feel new. If they've been just seeing trailers here and there, it's still kind of fresh to that

player. But yes, they're going to have to decide between a couple of other things. I really, really hope that if there's a new virtual fighter in the near future that they don't do what Tekken does. Because virtual fighter would do this. They would wait forever so they could get the latest revision to come out. And then no matter how late they waited, a new revision would come out immediately after the fucking game shipped and it was so fucking frustrating.

I like how you're preparing yourself with demands for a game. Shut up. I'm just as much... Just take it if it comes. I'm just as much anticipated. I said, I hope. That's not a demand, you motherfucker. Pat, just like you, I can't wait for Dead or Alive 6 to be released.

That being said, I remember that Sega poll that said, hey man, what do you guys want? Like, VF was way up there, was one of the top ones. People want a new virtual fighter. In games that don't exist, that are going to exist and I'm completely convinced they will exist. I can't wait for Soul Calibur, Reboot. It's just going to be called Soul Calibur. It's going to focus on characters and not have the crazy mechanics of five.

And it's going to have Bloodborne as an exclusive PlayStation character. So there's going to be a Blood Hunter. The character's name is going to be Bloodborne? Yes. It's going to be Old Hunter. His name is the Hunter. Yeah, I'm going to say it should be the Hunter. Like a stage based in Yharnam where the moon changes each round.

That's pretty okay. Come on now. Come on now. You can already see it. It's okay. It's yourself. I hope that if they do Reboot it that they get another name, right? I hope because we've got...

Soul Edge too. I hope we go with the Soul something else. Soul Calibur. I know that you like holding onto a name because of branding and such, but it'd be cool, you know? Well, he's a big fan of Steve Blackman getting the Soul Edge. Well, that's lore that's fresh. We're still figuring out what to do with it.

So yeah. Soul Shamrock? I mean, look, I'm not going to tell them what to create, but you should. After Edge, Blade, and Calibur, I think they can find something interesting. I just want to quickly give a shout out to... You'll appreciate this before we get into the news, Pat, someone named Sam sent one of these, which is... Let me see that shit.

This is the main... Let me see that shit. Someone sent a cool 3D printed version of the maze from Westworld, and it has a ball in it, but that little paper is stopping it from falling out. So that's... Yeah, so that's really cool. Thanks, Sam. We're going to put that up on the wall somewhere and you can play with it, but it wasn't meant

for you, so you can't possibly solve it. I bet I could solve it though. If you're a fan of Westworld, like... Here you go. Yeah. Hold that up. I did. I did.

Oh, no. You fucking fools. This is what happened. It was not meant for this. Us dropping that on the floor is a metaphor. Also, it reminds me, happy birthday to our buddy Cranky Construct today. Yeah. My name is Cranky.

Ooh, Cranky, it's a birthday. Yeah, no, he was born. Wow. How old's the Crankmeister? Yeah. A younger than all of us. Probably. X number of years ago, he fell out of the, like, fursuit animal...

No, I was... That's okay. Don't worry about that. It was a bird from the moonlight presence. Are you sure? However that worked, I don't know. It's a bear. I think it's a bear.

It's a bear. It looks like a bear. Okay. Also, really quickly, it took... Do you not know? He likes bears. What don't I know? Also, really quickly, it took Vernon Shaw and Jared Rosen from Hot Pepper Gaming.

They were in Montreal randomly. And took them to a Montreal brunch. And I was like, did you do the poutine? Yeah, I did the poutine. Have you heard of Dirty Dogs? And I was like, yes. So you know Dirty Dogs, Willie? No.

Dirty Dogs won poutine fest two years in a row now. And they opened up a location near my place, not too far. Dirty Dows. 30 different types of poutines. Sounds legit. You should go, because we went. Hey, Willie, you're looking a little too healthy right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You need to get some poutine in, yes, son. Poutine fest. This is the thing I've never heard of. Yes. In our summer. Completely in the dark here. I discovered a place that delivers ramen yesterday. Oh, you fucking disgusting pig!

No, like, no. No, dude. That's a fucking next level... Like, what? You're gonna have the garbage food you make in a fucking shoe, because you're too lazy, delivered to you? Oh, God. Anyway, you sack of shit.

Do you have some cookies left in your pocket you should be eating right now? I don't. I have some chips off of the table. Hey, listen, those table chips taste delicious. I marinated them in my own feet. Nicely done. So, you mentioned Vernon, and you mentioned hot pepper gaming, and that, actually, there's a question that popped in that I saw that I fucking...

I was so, like, livid at this. Livid. Basically, someone pointed out that, apparently, as of this morning, hot pepper gaming is no more. It's true. What? Yeah. Wait, what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hot pepper gaming put up their last video today, and it fucking sucks, because what that means is, is that Pat cowered it his way out. He waited long enough. Of never having to do it, and now it's over. We could just steal their gimmick and just do it ourselves. We could just make you suffer for our fun. We could just do it.

Yeah, we could put a hot pepper in a really gross soda. Why are they over? They're all busy. We literally did everything we wanted to do. We couldn't push this anymore. They're all, like, and they're going on to jobs that are, like, real. Oh, what? Because they have been doing a lot of things, and it's...

What? Well, Jared works at Riot Games, and Vernon works for Game Grumps, so... So, they're busy, and that's understandable. Okay. It sucks. Well, the reason I never... You cowered it your way out. The reason I never did it is I never play games to completion soon enough after the

release for it to be, like, worthwhile to do it. You want me to just eat one on the podcast? I'd like you to eat one on the podcast. Okay. I'd like you to suffer. Okay, well, I'm not gonna... He really needs it. I'm not gonna eat the fucking ghost pepper.

I'm not gonna do that. Because you have to be... Because when they said they did everything they wanted to do, it was like Xavier Woods eating four habaneros in a row, reviewing Smash 4, rather. I'll do a podcast on hot peppers, man. I'll fucking do it. Don't you call me a pussy. I'm a coward.

But you won't eat a ghost pepper. Fuck that. I'm not stupid. That's not cowardice, Woolly. I still remember having a really, really long conversation with you before you did this. I'm like, Woolly, we get it. You're very brave. You like spicy food.

I want you to seriously consider what you're doing here. Watch this video of this big, tough man. Big, tough man, tougher than you, just vomiting all over and crying like a bitch. Of course. And you were like, no, no, I want it to be cool. Okay. I get that. That's what I said.

I want it to be cool. Yes, that's what I said. Well, that was the intentions. I want it to... I want to go for it. I want it to be good, but also I... I want to be a big man and see everyone what a big man I am. Okay, but...

And everyone saw. Look, knowing that I can handle hotter than regular things, I do need to amp it up. That being said, I don't want you to... You amp it up too high, man. But I don't want you going with no, like, bitch level... No, I'll go for something in between the ghost pepper. What do you have, yeah? I'll go in between that.

I'll go in between the six digits of Scoville's at the very least. Okay, well, is that in between the two things? Yeah, that's less than a million. Okay, I'll look at it. But more than, like, 25K or some shit like that. Dude, you guys like hot peppers. We got this shit in California called Sriracha. It's so spicy.

Well, you know what else you got down in California? The fucking California Reaper, you fucking psychos. So ghost pepper wasn't enough. We had to manufacture fucking super peppers in a lab for weirdos. So Sriracha sauce is the shit that I basically guzzle. Oh, is that the shit you throw in all your food? Yeah, and honestly, like, that to me... This is not, like, big dick duck or whatever.

It's just literally, like, it's really not that bad. It's super mild. You've been keeping up on fucking pepper tech? I haven't. Because every now and then, you'll be like... You look at the Carolina Reaper, like, taste videos, and you're like, the guy just crotch in, like, oh, no biggie. And then the related video is, like, eats a pepper,

and the pepper is, like, H4B2M6. It died yet. The labs, they've walked out, and they've got, like, a new thing, and they're holding it with, like, that shit that they're holding the isotopes in the Simpsons intro with. You know, like, the tongs, and you're just like, what are you doing, science? We don't need this for anything.

The elephants are already scared of the Bujalokia. There's no reason to advance this. Yeah. Ridiculous. There was a parody video where they're, like, talking about exactly that, and they're at the level where they're like, okay, we need to amp it up, and when you, like, opening this bottle will kill all life on Earth.

It's like... I wonder if I can drink the whole bottle. Still not. You know, we need to... The new pepper is going to require you to get an E-series head and an E-series arm, and then put them together. Oh, God, it's an R7 joke. It's an R7 joke.

Okay. Why is the head so much smaller than the arm? I don't know, it's weird, right? It's weird. It's like a shrunken head. And the head has arms on it. I don't understand. Yeah, yeah, I know.

I gotta beat that game. I don't know, like, Marguerite was into some weird voodoo shit or something. Some weird voodoo shit. Okay, I thought you were making, like, a, a, a, like, almost, deus ex joke, almost. Like, you need, like, bio parts to handle this or something, but no, deus ex is too, is too, is too meta. Oh, God.

Oh, God, someone, someone uploaded that clip of, uh, the fucking, what a shame. Oh, you finally saw that. Oh, my God. Dude, there is, there's a mission in deus ex. I explained it last podcast, but it's, uh, the fucking, and not a few podcasts ago, where J.C. Denton is tasked by a daughter

to save her father from nefarious never-duels, and the quest is written, the quest prokking is written in such a way that if the dad dies for any reason, it prompts, uh, J.C. Denton to go, what a shame. He was a great man. And that includes completing the entire quest

all the way up until talking to the daughter, which means the daughter and the dad are standing right next to each other. You pull out a gun, you ice the dad like a cold motherfucker, and then she goes, oh, no, dad! And then J.C. just goes,

what a shame. He was a great man. She goes, oh, no, J.C., what are you doing? It's fucking ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. And I think it's her reaction. It's actually kind of tame, because it's like,

almost like I look at it, oh my goodness, my father, no. And it's like, he's just having a very peaceful, normal conversation after you blow him away. It's the best. Fucking video games, man. I love you video games.

Uh, alright. Was that in the most recent deus ex, or was that like human revolution? Deus ex, original game, like the first PC game. Oh, oh, OG OG. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Matt, while you're walking back there,

your bumping of the camera has offset it completely, so you want to just rotate and fix that. Oh, no. The universe is balanced. You gotta point it back at me. No, at me. Other way.

No. Okay, anyway, no visual bits. So listen, let's talk about the news. Getting into game news, and not so much game news. There were a couple things that got announced. Here's something that everyone was waiting on,

and then, God, what, eight years later, no one's waiting on. What is it? Avatar 2 is going to start filming now that Avatar 2, 3, 4, and 5 have finished being written. So... So it actually has not started yet?

Nope. No. Avatar 2 has not started shooting yet. And how are you going to use the same cast without them looking eight years older? Because they're... Because they're navi now. Remember?

So no more humans at all, and... They're going to get Tarkin. Oh, man. See, the Avatar things, you know, I like the Avatar movie or whatever. But here's the thing, I kind of liken it to Grand Theft Auto games being released versus Call of Duty games.

So if you wait a long-ass time, you're going to make money forever instead of pumping out the movie. There are people going through like some kind of fucking Avatar depression shit that could have gone for some more Avatar. I was super wrong.

Make them wait. Yeah. Whatever the planet was called. Post whatever depression. Pandora. Post Pandora, yeah, depression. I was super wrong because when I heard the first announcement that they're like,

yeah, they're making an Avatar sequel. Everything else that he's planned is going on the back burner for this. And they're making three sequels, actually. Now they're making the Battle Angel lead a movie with Rod Rodriguez. They shipped it off to other people, yeah. But you like Rod Rodriguez.

I'm talking about back when it first got announced. We didn't know what was happening with Estrita, right? That's true. Eight years ago, they're like, we're making sequels. This thing was huge. Avatar made tons of money. And I'm like, what about James Cameron? What about all the fucking boss office?

What are we supposed to do next? No, man. Blue naked cat people. Right. So I thought they were like, oh man, they're going for maximum cash in, right? Like immediately. And I was mistaken because eight years have passed.

No, Willie, they had to build up to maximum cash. So the cash is happening, but they clearly don't mind how much time passes between them. Fox has given dates for these movies to come out. And James Cameron kept going, no, not going to be ready by then. And he's at a position where they go, okay, whatever you want.

Would you like us to clean your balls again, Mr. Cameron? We can if you like. It's kind of weird to think that with Avatar 2, if you were a kid and you went to go see Avatar, you went entirely through several grades in junior high and high school. You touched a move, maybe.

Avatar 2 will come out and you're in college. You thought of doing that. A whole new audience. So Cameron specifically told in an interview, he explained that his focus isn't on Avatar 2. It's on 2, 3, 4, and 5 equally. Oh, fuck off. They're all being developed equally.

And I just finished the script on 5. So I'm now starting Active Prep. I know we'd be working on Part 2 in August. I'm not going to front. It's like five or six movies. That's a little ridiculous. I could see the world that was created be a trilogy. And that's good.

No, I can't even see it be a trilogy. What the fuck is there to do? There's multiple planets. Honestly. There's multiple planets. Look, the audacity aside. It's like a universe. The ridiculousness of the Babe Ruth pointing at the stands here

that we're seeing. The event, not event horizon. What's it called? Calling the future now. Unlike Advent Rising, this is the most profitable movie in the world. And guess what? When they drop, they're probably going to be good. They're probably going to be good movies.

But it's still sort of ridiculous. This is my two minds about it. Because I'm kind of like split on it. One, don't doubt James Cameron when it comes to sequels. I mean, if any guy's proven that, he knows sequels. But it's two, three, four, and five, back to back to back to back to back. So he's doing all of them, all four of them at once, which is weird to me. And the script writers he brought in for each one of those movies are terrible.

I'm excited. I'm talking AVPR guy is writing. Shut up. Cameron hated the AVP movies. They they they delayed and a really Scott directed James Cameron written alien sequel well before. Yes, you think you would hate those dudes. Now, the actual date scheduled for an avatar to is December 20th, 2018.

Oh, so I don't know if that means we're going to be seeing like a two year apart releases of these things, or if it's going to be like, like, one year because all he needs is shooting and post production. Right. Actual script writing. He said it's all done. There's nothing more efficient to me than how Star Wars is coming out now, which is one of your movie spin off.

Major movie spin off. I actually actually think it's too fast, honestly. It actually annualized. Here's the thing. It's not the fact that there's a spin off in the middle. Is that because the answer to that problem is don't go see Rogue One. And you would have been itching for more Star Wars by the time last year one was better than Force Awakens.

If I don't know if it was. So I will say it was. I don't know if that's true. I think you may be wrong. If we if we got a dream match in between every official KOF. That's right. It would have been fine. Yeah, I would have been okay with that.

We wouldn't have had all those bum years. Childish Gambino is Lando Calrissian. Yeah. How do you hate on that? I'm not saying you. What are you? Harrelson is going to be in Star Wars just like he was always meant to be. That's awesome.

I would love to see. No, I was. I was not being sarcastic at all. I was dead serious. I just I just feel that I generally feel that anytime you annualize something, it's really risky and you risk over exposing it to people. I do. I think you're right.

You know, he's right in the sense that if it was like, let's say six movies like the Super Bowl. If it was six new movies that are in the main timeline, the fact they're like, how about a spin off every other year is what I think makes a happy medium of like, you don't actually have to see this. Disney's going to fucking Star Wars as hard as they want to fucking Star Wars. This is the past. They were never going to get pretty damn hard.

Yeah. It's just begun. Yeah. You just spend that much money and not use the goddamn life. See that other bit of James Cameron news is that James Cameron is getting back the rights to Terminator and wants to make one final movie that reboots. Like that. That forgets all the other bullshit he was not a part of.

He's having the director of Deadpool be the director of this while he would produce slash. What a weird crossing of wires. How many times can we clean slate this bullshit? Can we beat Spider-Man if there's literally anything that could be clean slated bullshit? It is Terminator. Yeah.

All you have to do is you have the start of the movie and he goes and shoots fucking Daenerys and born face. That would be all ignored. I'm just fucking shooting about that Terminator doesn't work without Arnold though. I forgot that movie existed. I forget that movie existed. So I'd be happy just forgetting it. Which one?

Genesis. No, not salvation. I would always forget salvation over Genesis. He's going to fucking make a new one. I can't argue this. I can't argue this because it's all bad. It's going to be like, yeah. Who's your new Terminator?

Terminator Mega Drive. Just Genesis wasn't offensive. Yes, it was. Salvation hurt me. Salvation hurt me in my eyes and it's horrible color palette. It's an Xbox 360 color palette. There's a red out there. The whole movie was just gray.

I'm glad that James Cameron would get the rights because he literally had a clause in a contract that says, 2019, I get the rights back. I think that's awesome. There's a salvation rant I went on. I don't know if it was on the podcast. I wish we were on YouTube to capture our conversation talking back from salvation. Unfortunately, I don't think we ever got it off. Why was there a valve?

Why was there a mug? And a pen. Anyway, look, it was great. I don't know. I'm not going to sit here and talk about how much better whatever is than salvation or whatever. What I'll say is that Terminator Genesis may have had the most damaging trailer I have ever seen.

It's true. Film ever. Yes, I agree. That trailer damages that trailer removes two full points off that movie. And some of the worst casting ever in a movie. But for with John Connor, right? They are terrible. But who?

The casting. For everyone or who? I can't even remember. The guy who plays John Connor looks like some dude that would be on a sitcom. The guy that plays John Connor is terrible. But what's worse is the guy that plays Kyle Reese. The Channing Tatum guy. That guy is okay in a few movies I've seen him in.

He's okay. He's the bad guy in the first Jack Reacher movie. But he was the worst. Even Anton Yelkin passed away, the guy that played Chekhov in the Star Trek movies. He passed away. He played a good young, he was a good actor, but the guy that they got to play Kyle Reese and Genesis is the worst. Is that Jai Courtney?

Jai Courtney, yes. That's the part of the movie that I feel like will bug me the most. I generally enjoyed the rest of it honestly. I remember the usage of Arnie was really fun. I didn't like how they fought the fucking Mass Effect 3 Star Child at the end. That's basically it. It's like all in all, I did enjoy what was happening in Genesis up until that stupid main villain. You know?

Oh, it's not good. I saw Resident Evil the final chapter by the way. Genesis when Daenerys opens the fire truck door and is like, come with me if you want to live in her version of singing. I was just like, oh, it's over. It's fine. No, but I can see that. The problem is that James Cameron has probably the best female protagonists in movies.

It's true. Ripley and Sarah Connor, they are great because they're thought out characters and nothing just focuses on them just being a girl. A lot of this shit that comes out for the new movies is just so horrifically cringe worthy. It feels like they're trying, but missing the point completely. Did you feel Max moving his head around as he said that? I felt a motion where he was like, oh, I'm so frustrated. Let's close this off and you tell everybody what you fucking told me about Resident Evil

the final chapter. So I saw Resident Evil the final chapter. The last line that is said is that my name is Alice and my work is not yet done. Fantastic. That's new credits. Actually, no. That's how they end the final chapter. No, I'm going to close this off with the final umbrella chapter.

Oh, God. Damn. There's so many corporations left to fight. They never fixed that loophole in HCF from Code Veronica. They could go to Code Veronica. They could fight Tricell. They could find anything. Really, really quickly.

The first hour of the final chapter is actually a really solid action movie. I was like, whoa, why is this not a bad CG fest of bullshit? The last half hour is exactly that final bullshit of bad CG. Wesker's the president, right? No, he's not. Not anymore. The bad guy is, again, the main, but like, here's the actual thing that makes it, like, even halfway, like, remotely watchable.

President Wesker. Is that against Gerard Mormont is the main villain of this movie. And that guy's like, I'm going to hand him the fuck up. At some point in those movies, Wesker absolutely is the president of the United States. He's not. Someone told me he was the president. He's not. I need to look this up.

Yeah, at the end of the movie, right before this, he's just sitting in the White House in the Oval Office. No, no, no. He's sitting on top of the White House, and then there's a whole bunch of people there. There's a bunch of zombies coming after him. He's not the president. He's just sitting in the power seat. He's just sitting there.

Okay. Well, anyway, the actual end note to the story that I wanted was the fact that Robert Rodriguez and Battle Angel Alita is, or excuse me, Alita Battle Angel is coming out July 2018. 2018. Yes. That's good. Wow. So James Cameron isn't going to get to make his dream movie.

And that is his dream movie is Battle Angel Alita. And just like Ghost of the Shell got handed off like a lateral, like this is the same thing. Like both of those things were listed early on as like amazing, like the, oh my God, these are rights that are got options by Spielberg. You know, he was interested in whatnot. And then in both cases, it was like, nah, fuck that magazine. We're too busy. Would you rather James Cameron wait until all these Avatar things are done?

And then he does Battle Angel Alita in like 2021. Would you rather him partner with someone and develop a director that we like? I know. I know. It's the better solution. I actually prefer that. And it's the same as Ghost of the Shell where it's like, should we wait for Spielberg to get around to this?

No. Okay. Hand it off to someone else so that it actually gets made. I get it. I think Cameron's still involved in the movie. No, he is. He's producing it. It just, you know, it just like the original excitement when I remember in high school

hearing about this and reading the IMDB. Man, that was so long ago, huh? About, about, you know, both of those things getting adapted and like, I was like, what are the fucking odds that Cameron and Spielberg want to both get in on some manga? Oh man. 10 years from now is going to be great. And it turns out your best hope was actually second best. The fucking Del Toro.

Plan B, you know, so whatever. Reset, shut up. I legit hope Ghost of the Shell is good though. Like as much, as much as I was like, this movie's going to be trash garbage. Yeah. And then I saw the trailer, I'm like, okay, all right, there's a couple of dump shots. Super Bowl trailer was really good, actually. Just don't embarrass the franchise.

I'm still waiting. Exactly. I don't think it will embarrass. Did you watch Aion Flux? I feel like they're trying really hard. Who watched Aion Flux? No. No.

It's the fucking worst. Of course it's Aion Flux. I don't fall asleep. Hey, it's got Mila Jovovich. It does not. No, I'm thinking of fucking the other thing with the color name. Ultraviolet. Thank you.

Ultraviolet. Yes, you are. Oh, hey, maybe so happy. This is the first ultraviolet reference ever. But I'm out of here. All right. Good night, everybody. But you know that Aion Flux was Charlize Theron.

God. Ultraviolet and Essay Rios in the same week. I'm not ready for this. Oh, this podcast sucks. Oh, no, Essay Rios is so deep. Anyway, look. Anyway, look. What else you got?

So there's that. Now, every once in a while, asset flipping is a thing that happens. Oh, you're talking about China again, aren't you? No. Oh, no, wait. It's time to go on down to our boys over in Brazil. Oh, the other China because, you know, when you want to talk about places that give very little fucks, we can talk about no BR.

So I'm finished. No BR. Yeah. Okay. No. There you go. Soul Brain Night of Darkness. This is a game that has popped up and it was officially, it was a trailer that officially

popped up on Sony's page. And this is a game that literally grabs every single asset from something else. To start on the list, we're looking at music from Ori and the Blind Forest. You sure are. Oh, my God. Okay. We're looking at artwork. This is like near-automata.

An Elf wallpaper artwork stolen from DeviantArt. We're looking at a shield from Skyrim. We're looking at a character model taken from Terra. We're looking at their official page has a dead or alive character picture with a legend of Zelda text. It is unbelievable. So my favorite news story is that Sony doesn't give a fuck anymore. Between this and Black Tiger?

Life of Black Tiger. And someone was saying this to me is that they fired whoever was vetting Sony independent games and the people they brought in don't give fucking shit. So that happened and the trailer is terrible because all you're looking at is just footage of the character running around with very little combat. It's amazing. Highly humorous to me, but at the same time, it just seems like PS4 became steam green light.

Almost. That's the problem. Not quite. Because again, you just want a... All the proud Brazilian flag on the beginning of this trailer. You want a quality vetting process at the very least just not allowing shovelware through the gates. Or at least not...

Oh, I don't know. Just kind of see... I'm just saying, man, this is... Brazil just doesn't have the extreme vetting that America now has. So the description for this game on the PlayStation Store... The people who want extreme vetting. Matt, this is for you. The description for this game on the PlayStation Store says the old gods have forgotten this

land. No one could save our people when darkness began and to spread and to collect the souls of men for his army. Soul Brain Night of Darkness is a 3D exploration game. Jesus. It takes place... It's about a young warrior tired of struggle that must wield his sword to rescue his people from darkness and avenge the death of his parents against all of them.

All of them. All of them. They're army of monsters and warriors. Stop. I'm tired of struggle. I will now read the description for a game called Odalis. Yes, please do. The old gods have forgotten this land.

No one could save our people when the darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odalis is a classic exploration game inspired by ghouls and ghosts and human stress. Player takes place with Haggis, a warrior of light who must fight to wield his sword once more to rescue his son from darkness. It is a copy-paste of the Odalis description. So everyone, please go download Odalis on Steam. It's a fantastic homage to classic Castlevania's and everything.

There is now... They're a really great game. And the fact that that happened, I did not know that just happened, that they just copied and pasted it. Thank you for telling me. That's ridiculous. That's just hilarious. Odalis is made in South America and it's a fantastic game, just like their last game

was on a Ken. And they're making a Contra-style game that's called... It also looks great. So that sucks that they ripped off a little bit of a legit, independent, good platformer. So NeoGaff is now digging as fast as they can. To find everything and where it comes from, because that's always fun. What you realize, like 10 stolen assets later, you eventually learn that there can't be a single original asset, right?

There can't be. So at some point, like you start... Oh man, this page is fucking crazy. At some point you start digging into it and you realize that like, okay, the trophies they have for the game are taken from Turbosquid, and it's not like 3D models that they took the exact thumbnail for the trophy and threw it up there on PSN. Their previous game just has a thumbnail of Yoko from Gurren Lagann on it, and it's just sitting on the PSN.

Can you show it to me? Yeah, and you're just looking at it. That's it. And you're just looking at it on the PSN store. And it's just like... How does this get through the font? No, no Max. People were telling me literally, Sony's vetting process, someone got fired and then a new person

is in, and they're just like, fuck. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. And then of course, and then there's Grand Theft Auto Pictures on their official Twitter. This is great. And it blows my mind, because it's one thing to just talk about a random stupid asset flip, like Jimquisition does a great job of that. We don't need to cover that.

But when... He sure does. At some point you have to do something on your own, but when every single piece of your entire catalog... Well, clearly you don't actually have to do something on your own. No, you really actually don't. Compiling. I suppose someone else isn't doing something as well.

Unbelievable. So no one's going to be able to steal this. Like I stole it. Sony, please. Please. That's hilarious. I hope they never stop. Yeah, no.

Guess where is Steam Greenlight? It's an infinite, like infinite fucking flowing river. This is like a trickle of hilarious garbage. Life of Black Tiger. Yeah, it's more condensed. It's focused. It helps you see it better. Like the crack isn't as wide, so the piss stream that comes out is like razor sharp.

Life of Black Tiger, I was like, when I come back, let's do a video. We can't. You can't. Because that's not available on the Canadian PSN store. But you can play it on your iPad. You can. I want to play the PS4 version. You want the original experience?

The version that Sony said, that's okay. Yeah, the one that the creator intended. Yeah. Absolutely. Life of Black Tiger seemed like a Windows 95 game. That someone whose family was rich enough to have a 3DFX voodoo one chip, back in like 96, 97. Yeah.

You're like, check out this. Look at my PTTV. I appreciate Simmons doing the thing that we love to do here, is try and fucking time lock whatever bullshit came out, like down to the specifics of the specific chip. You're so right. Yeah, I know. Like I'm a big fan of the 3DFX voodoo card. Oh, Brazil.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to copy.

It's hard not. It's not. It's hard not to copy everything when we have such gigantic asses. Speaking of, well, gigantic asses, I could have said copying things, but I'd rather go this way. All right. Yeah. Oh, boy.

I'm excited for this one. So I heard about this. Real Fantasy 15 is releasing an awesome pack of DLC with their Gladio DLC pack with Magitek exosuits, which allow your characters to dress up as Super Sentai rangers and basically be invincible for, I think, a half pack. This pack got delayed, didn't it? It's not exactly cyber sub zero. And the reason why, well, I hate this.

I think that I should be a problem said. Hame Saban, once again, Saban Brands, actually, I believe is what they're known as now. Really? So basically after releasing the first images of this really cool Super Sentai throw up that they're going to be adding to FF 15, fucking Power Rangers mogul, Hame Saban, noted piece of shit, copyright enthusiast, litigious motherfucker that he is infamous for Chroma Squad, got in touch immediately and what that's mine, I mean, I own Power Rangers. And the Japanese company that's homaging a Japanese thing that is Sentai is now basically

being forced to change the costumes entirely because fucking Saban. So this is disappointing to me for a couple ways. A couple, you say. And it's specifically, here's the thing is that it isn't going to be a problem, obviously, for Japan, but over here, because anything that crosses the shores and makes it to this side that looks remotely like Sentai. So the reason why I think he's allowed to get a stamp on it, it's so disappointing is because I think this Samurai, Cyber Squad, TR troopers, same thing.

This guy needs to, so what I've been thinking about Saban for a while is that he needs to get fucking Tim Langdell and that you remember that motherfucker, who's that piece of shit who owned Edge, right? And EA said, man, fuck you, Tim Langdell. And they fought him on one of his bullshit court cases and they blew his asshole out so fucking hard that everyone saw it and everyone saw that, oh, I don't actually own shit. And he lost his ability to do that forever. Someone needs to just fight Saban on this once and they will totally win and we will

all be free from this nightmare. There's a really, really appropriate thing that I would like to see where with this announcement, they also announced that they're going to be releasing a boss fight where you can fight the CEO of Square. That's the weirdest. No, that's not true. No, yes, that's super real. Yeah, they're screenshots.

Yeah, they showed the model on their pretty big presentation. How about we replace that model with someone else and have you beat him down with Power Rangers? Does anyone as unfortunate enough as me to download the new Power Rangers game and play it for about eight seconds? That game looks like a fucking classic and I made the right decision. It's the fucking worst. You saw the trailer. I played it.

No, but you saw the trailer. I saw the trailer. And then you made a decision. Look at me, Willie. Matt is the man who seeks out the Denny's. He knows. Yeah, okay. You waited into the storm.

Hey, you released a beat him up, huh? How does it feel to hit even one single enemy bad than you should have canceled the game? Yeah, now please. Are we talking like, okay, what level of bad are we talking like double dragon three bad? Like, well, like, I'm going to beat him up where when you hit a single enemy once, it doesn't feel good. It does. There's no impact.

There's no nothing. And I didn't play it a long enough to get to like Zord parts. But it was just the cheapest, shittiest, like, just flat like like budget flash animation, nothingness. Like all the Power Rangers being also released in the 90s, like the the movie game, the the Genesis game, they're all great. Like they're all fine. And then this one's like the worst like why would you and the fact that it's classic Power

Rangers and not even like the movie versions makes it worse. I'd rather be the movie versions and be like, oh, okay, that's just the movie thing looking at the trailer for it. It just looked like a like a really bad mobile game and the fact that it's not on mobile is the only reason why you probably even gave it a shot because you might as well just ignore it. I saw I saw like one screenshot taken at like a toy fair off screen on a phone and I just nope the fuck out after that.

It's real bad. Anyway, yeah. No, there's there's there's absolutely no reason. But you want to talk about Saban, you want to talk about things, beat him up to feel good when you press the buttons on them. Let's fucking talk about River City Rants. Some underground shit, son, man. Oh, is the lucha underground shit on the docket of Netflix?

Yeah, but it is lucha underground is coming to Netflix. Whoa. Yeah. Well, my great. It's coming in the middle of a story, man. I'm trying to do a thing. Okay, look, so lucha is God dammit, River City Rants underground, which was the Kickstarter project from a little bit back is finally actually happening from a Toronto based company.

Yes. And it's dropping. And this is like not Cuneo. It's River City specifically. They released a new trailer and this shit looks amazing. Like they're they're being they're being really faithful to the River City Sprites, but they're obviously like way more animated and doing way better than it could have looked in the back.

You got awesome new characters breakdancing. We talked about we talked about the some of them earlier. We talked about that girl specifically her trailer like a few months ago. But yeah, so you can take a look at this and like here's what he's doing. Yeah, there's a boxer little Mac just little Mac in his way through the entire fucking everything. I look fantastic. It looks so goddamn good.

And you're seeing exciting juggle systems in place. You're seeing extended combos and like the kind of things that I look for. Wow. That's right. Yeah. You're seeing sure you can sit uppercuts and tattoos. And here it comes. That's Glenn.

Yeah. I'm sure you can. There's a trailer in the LinkedIn, the docket for you guys, but River City Ransom Underground looks incredibly. It comes out in February and it's later this month. And it's basically like, yeah, not Cuneo, but Ryan and Alex years later after they've opened up A&R Auto, I think is the name of their, look at them do it. Yeah.

And then Genzo Man. Oh, and Genzo did the art. That's part of it. Yes. I'm glad Max knows who Genzo Man is. Oh, of course. Yeah. He's great.

Yeah. So this is dropping February 27th. I think this started as a Kickstarter without the license and then the art system acquired it. Just acquired it. Just let them have it. Yeah. That's awesome.

And I'm happy to say that like someone reached out. So hopefully we can take a fucking look because this thing looks so damn good. It really feels like Double Dragon Neon all over again. I hope it's as good. Yeah. Oh man. Because that's the thing is like with the comparison, what my brain immediately thinks about is like Double Dragon 4, which just came out.

And what a great game that is. What I'm hearing is that Double Dragon 4 is just very like tame in that it's faithful. Basic. You know, they don't really go too crazy with it. It looked really easy for a Double Dragon. I heard that the sound effects are great. But I like the idea of this where you like you keep the look like the original, but you go nuts with it.

And that's the exact treatment I want Battletoads to go through, you know. I think that'd be the best way to do it. Yeah. I haven't heard this before. We were like, if Microsoft was ever to bring Battletoads back and God knows they teased enough of it to actually do it, it's like, how do you bring back Battletoads? You don't in the modern sense, you do, you Mega Man 9 it and you just make a hard ass NES style game because like literally when everyone thinks Battletoads, they think of

the NES game. They don't think of the arcade version. They don't think of the Super Nintendo conversion of that arcade game. They think of the NES version. Yeah, exactly. They think of the NES version as hard as shit and that like even Japanese people are like when Game Center CX did it, they're like, why is this so hard? I don't know.

I feel that if Battletoads was ever to make an appearance of some kind, like he'd probably be a guest character in a fighting game. Yeah, that'd be great if they did that one day. Yeah. That'd be awesome. But unfortunately... One day. Is that on the docket by the way?

Ultimates? Hold on. Let's... I just want to make sure. I don't know. We are helping. Yes. We are helping.

Samurai Jack Season 5 had a trailer. Yes. What's Samurai Jack? Samurai Jack is like literally the best cartoon in the world. Season 5 is going to be dropping when? March? March. Okay.

11 or 17, something like that. Well, yeah. Have you ever played the Samurai Jack game, the Sega release? I haven't. You should... We'll do a video on it, maybe. That game is actually okay, like it's pretty good. It's not amazing, but it's actually pretty fun and close to the source material.

Samurai Jack is one of those things where I'm like, that's never coming back. It was such an experimental, weird thing that kids wouldn't even get. So I like how that's kind of like... What was it meant for kids? Yeah. I think it was meant for kids. Well, now it's not. Now it's not.

Yeah. Obviously acknowledging that the kids have grown up. Yeah. I really, really love Gendy's art style, and I love seeing it like in this... I'm glad he's able to do it again. I like seeing it in this like high budget, especially like... And Phil Lamar is Samurai Jack, like one of his best... This is way better than anything that he's touched so far, and like, goddamn, that looks

fucking cool. So, Samurai Jack coming back and now Rated M, I believe? I think so. I've been told that's one of the announcements. I think that one of the first things after the announcement coming back was that it is now completely rated mature, so there's no reason to censor anything. I hope, because there's been some things where it's like you take away the rating and allow the creators to go nuts, like Ren and Stimpy, where it completely loses its charm

and the show doesn't have to think about anything anymore, instead it just puts everything like right in front of you, where hopefully that doesn't happen to this. Hopefully the fact that it's being... It's given its ability to be completely uncensored, sort of, and go crazy with its storytelling that they don't... I think Ren and Stimpy were... Hopefully they can be just as clever as they were before. See, the difference a little bit with Ren and Stimpy, you had art through adversity.

You had to be creative. Yeah, yeah. Samurai Jack, it was hyper-violent, but it was just robots. They literally... It already was kind of at that level of violence. When you see Jack versus the Minotaurs, and it's just a bunch of robot Minotaurs, and he's just ripping arms off and then shoving it down their face, but it's electrical. So to me, it's like, okay, we can just...

All you might, hopefully, it's just the same thing, just for replacing robots with blood. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like Leonardo. Like, all he does is... Oh, they killed a lot of robots. All he does is he slashes foot soldiers, and he kicks humans, and he holds the swords in his hands.

You're like, God damn it, Leo. I don't... Yeah, you look cool while holding them. Yeah. And of course, that's because the source material had him fucking cutting Shredder's head off like seconds into the book. Did you ever see that Turtles Forever movie where they buried that... Oh, yeah.

So they go to Mirage, and Shredder shows up there, and they just kick him off the building and be here. I heard Turtles Forever? Yeah, man. Oh, God. We should have done a Let's Watch to that if we didn't know. I... God, Turtles Forever was so good.

Fuck. So that's going on. Yes. Lucha Underground is coming to Netflix. Yeah. Season one and season two. That's really exciting. And very likely, season two.

Season three's episodes just dried up all of a sudden and stopped happening. No, because we're in the mid-season, apparently. Yeah, but they went on a break. Yeah, no, that's what I mean. Now, it'll be easy to keep track of where you are. Much, much easier. Because in Canada, we're fucked. If you want to get that Lucha Underground legally, you can't.

Actually, I... You can only get season one, and then season two is just not happening. And when I first brought it up, you couldn't get season one. If you remember, I couldn't buy it off the Apple Store. Wait, wait, fucking two years to find out what happened at this live event. Yeah. Yeah. No.

No, I will not, sir. If you guys don't know Lucha Underground, please watch it, because it's literally Mortal Combat. Oh, oh yeah. I mean, the... It's just Mortal Combat. The elevator pitch on this is it's pro wrestling, but there is an ancient belt of power when you collect amulets and you put the pieces together.

You get a little bit of power. There's a dragon man. There's a... It sounds like a video game. Mil Mortes kills the band and then makes a skull thrown out of their bones. A character is betrayed, and his eye is stabbed out, and he returns with an eye patch. There's a guy that's from space. Literally.

Do you understand? What's the most... What's the most... This is live action, by the way. What's the most... What's the most... Oh, there's a Soul Transfer storyline going on right now. Yeah.

We're getting there. There's also time travel. We're getting there. So that's... Did you hear Chikara's apparently going to do an entire season of a time travel arc? I heard that. Yeah, but then someone followed up and said they've been doing it. Oh my God.

But someone said they filmed a secret season and they're going to flash back to it. And you know what? If it's about time travel, then yeah, they've already done it. Oh, what? Anyway. Time travel jokes. Hey. We're here.

So anyone remember that old, that third Miyamoto project? Oh yeah, that game that looked like fucking shit. I never thought it was going to come out. Hey, hey, hey, Pat, I got news for you. Yeah? It played like shit too. Yeah. Did you touch it?

Yeah. Cool. Simmons gave it the touch of death. It was a piece of crap. I was like, how are you going to... I remember seeing there, I mean, like how the hell is this going to turn into a full game? It's not.

Yeah. So it looks almost like a little like Sumo thing. Shit's dead. But basically that shit's done and it was going to be the final Wii U game and it's been canceled. Keep holding that LWU. That's fine. That's fine.

And I remember wondering if that was just going to automatically get switched over to the switch. Look at you. But it didn't. Oh. That's fine. That's fine. The Wii U is going to stop being relevant and about while it's already irrelevant.

A couple of weeks. Yeah. But I mean... I think that this has been kind of relevant right now. Now here's the thing is I think there's room for a like clunky Mount your friend style robot jank game out there. I don't know if Nintendo's first party is the place where that needs to be. I think that is the explicit problem.

But I think there is a real funny game inside shitty robots to making each other. I think there is. Like robot gangbees. You lose limbs and shit. Yeah. That would be cool. Absolutely. You guys are huge fans of gangbees now, yeah.

And that's exactly... Ganggeest. Yes. Ganggeest. So... That got me. I don't know. There's something more humorous about gangbees.

Like Project Robo was just it just it was like playing a very highly polished Jaguar game. And again, I like like the basic sumo like abilities and whatnot like there are there where it was all right, but I'd like to see like actual like I haven't seen footage of this in quite a while. This looks like trash. I want to see like you stepping on the wrong object and you're bought falling over. You know, like you need to you need to lean into it as hard as possible, which I don't

think Nintendo. You know, that being said, like, yeah, the concept is really, really fun in the EDF style stance, but it's like there's a couple of VR games are even released like this. There's a giant kaiju or king kaiju on Steam that uses a HD, HD Vive or whatever. There's a game that works like this. There is room for this clunky bullshit thing, but like, yeah, exactly like you said, I don't know who would... Someone with a sense of humor needs to needs to handle Americans.

The big appeal of this game was the gyro, like the motion control of it. Like that was what was kind of annoying because you can see from the HUD. It's got that Star Fox kind of look. I'd rather it being VR than you actually punch with your hand. With tilting, but also moving your arms with sticks and going forward and backwards with shoulder pads. It looks bad. The game looks terrible.

So cut away. It looks like they just jacked the aiming and stuck this into Star Fox. I wonder if the speed of a speed increase of like 200% would help a lot too. The fact that when you increase speed on gigantic monsters makes no sense. No, I know. I guess it's just kind of like instead of the complete lumbering, you kind of get a little bit more feedback for each decision you make. Well, that doesn't matter now because it's canceled.

But combining motion with like dual analog arm movement with pedal forward and back. All three of that shit is just, you know, the ultimate example of like pat your head, rub your tummy and then spin around. Right. And you played it against someone else or was it against AI? I think it was just AI. It was, I think it was just single player only demo. Okay.

Well, you know, there goes that. What can we say? Don't worry. Nintendo has so many games lined up that they can afford to cancel a couple and nothing of value was lost. Um, it's going to be a jam packed year of Nintendo releases. Actually is. I can't wait.

Wait. There's that Mario game. That's all the game on both those systems. Can you please define a zillion? Fire Emblem SMT. Wait. Whoa. There's no.

Okay. Wait. There's a firearm coming out in 2017. There's no way SMT is coming out in 2017. The game doesn't even have a title. No. It's a firearms Mario cart. Uh, fucking Mario Gallant, Mario Odyssey.

Same game. Okay. It's like six then. Yeah. So basically an entire year is worth a game, which I don't believe. I don't think six is an entire year, and I think like coming from March till the end of the year. I think that's fine.

It's decent. I just want, this next story is something like a launch period is what you're saying. At least no launch period is not nine months. The launch period is two months. No. No. A launch period worth of games. Yeah.

Next. I wish more of those at the end of the year were within the first six months of the year though. I wish that as well. Because like Zelda's the only one for quite a while until Mario Kart in April. I think the first couple of months. So a month. No, it's two months actually, because it's March to April.

March 3rd to April 28th, that's absolutely two months. I wanted an excuse to talk about transferring, but fuck it, we're running out of time. Yeah. Dude, there's no reason to talk about transferring as much as you want to. Kojima even was like, yeah, transferring. That shit was stupid. And everyone's like, fuck you Kojima, I love you. We made fun of that on this podcast.

Or we could talk about a more spicy story. What's spicy? Oh, like the not-safe-for-work glitch that removes the clothes of girls in Dead or Alive 3. I did not hear about this, but I have to ask, are they anatomically correct? They are not. The reason why I bring this up, the reason why I bring this up is for the context, since we talked about watchdogs going through exactly this issue.

And so there's totally a glitch. And Conan Exiles, please look at our video on machinima. Conan proudly embraces it though. So when you pop in a VR headset and go underwater, the clothes disappears and... That shit's intentional. That is... It's so awkward, but here's the thing is that the actual... There's no actual nudity because they're not anatomically correct.

And they haven't been... They're Barbie dolls, basically. Yeah, there's no nipples, there's no vagina, there's no 2D butthole, which was also alive. But anyway. I don't mind that. I don't mind there being no fuss, no must. Yeah, but that's exactly it, is that they basically... Yeah, it increases the fantasy of your beautiful porcelain dolls.

Exactly. But they didn't make the mistake that Ubisoft made by actually having characters that were modeled this way, also create problems if a bug didn't exist. Also they're highly aware that people rip these fucking models out and jam them into Gary's mod, so they want to not, like, aid that work. Certainly. Right, you might say they were covering their asses. Now I just...

I don't get it. Yeah, exactly. What a pure boy. Go back to your Christian Rock songs, buddy. Cherry boy. I think honestly, like, no, there's probably now official documented rules for Ubisoft saying... Stop modeling these genitals, guys.

...put junk on things that aren't going to be shown in the junk. Why? This can only go bad for us. What possible gain? And if you're going to put junk, why do you put junk that's just barely above a blue waffle on there? Why? Why?

We're not doing that. That's not bad. We're not doing that. No, you guys, you wouldn't know. You're pretty strong. Why don't you tell me what I don't fucking know, woman? You may be. I'm just stronger than you are.

Matt, spare your life. I'm just stronger than you. Spare your life. I don't know. All right, we're not going to scroll down here. Let's... I watched that video. I was waiting for it.

Okay, baby. Do you guys remember when they ripped the very first Dead or Alive volleyball for Xbox original? I believe so. Yeah. I had heard rumors that they were anatomically correct back then, like they had done that dirty deed. I think in the day, I can see that, but when they're dealing with shit to your wife, who's

like honkers... See, this is the thing, though. That was back underneath Tobu Nobu at the time. Yeah, that was the actual... Yeah. Oatmeal. Oatmeal face. But it's also why they have...

And he demanded that shit. Yeah. Isn't that also why they have like a three-page long warning in front of every Team Ninja game specifically, just for them about like modding? Yes. Yeah. I also think that... I still remember before DOA 5 came out on PC.

There was a fucking statement by the devs, like, please do not... Please don't, yeah. Please don't. Please stop mod their clothes off. And I bet a bunch of people went, I didn't even think to do that. I'm gonna see some titties. Yeah, right. I mean, all from the age of Nude Raider mods and shit like that.

It's been a long time. They need to bring Nude Raider back. To be honest, listen, now that Source Filmmaker exists, none of it matters. Oh boy, just not a Nude Raider. No, Garus. Remember the first time I looked up an image of Nude Raider back in like very early late eight nineties or something like that on the internet? And you look at this character that has probably a maximum of 18 polygons without any clothes

on and in your head, you're like, I imagine this being a lot better. Man, yep. It was good enough for me. Did we talk about how Randy Pitchford may have created the fucking... Bore... No, it didn't. What's it called? What's the name?

Battle Land? Battle Land? He may have in fact created that subreddit for the porn. Yeah, I remember checking that. His post about it was like within minutes of that board's creation. It just parked up, right? Yeah. I don't know.

Really? I don't know. There's conspiracies. So there's a conspiracy theory that Randy not only endorses pornography of his game. He's groveling for attention for Battle Born. He's pointing out that porn a few... He might have created it. That's correct.

He might have actually created it. Now remember, he is a magician. Yeah, it's true. Speaking of Overwatch, Lucio's coming to Heroes of the Storm. That's cool. It is. Let us... Oh yeah, also Drawn to Death.

Remember that thing? No. Nope. I'm joking. I do remember. It was a Jaffy's game? Yeah, it was Jaffy's game that doesn't look very good and he got really pissed off when people told him that.

So that exists and... That's coming out in April. The art style, yeah. Is it free to play apparently or is it not free to play? I don't know if it's free to play. No, it's 20 bucks. 20 dollars. And Drawn to Death, who had that cool sketchbook art style that we liked actually, which was

like... Yeah, three years ago. Trapper Keeper Adventures. David Jaffy got ahold of himself. Of course he got the show, David, like he's now a part of the marketing. He's got made God of Origin. That looks terrible actually. Yeah, I never liked the look of this game.

I thought the idea was cool, but Jesus fuck. It looks like me now. I don't mind it, honestly. I don't mind the idea. He looks like Rich Evans. I look like, I like the idea of it. The artwork, like the models with those two shirts. Wow, he does look a lot like Rich Evans actually.

Okay, I'm calling it right now. David Jaffy and Rich Evans are the same person. Oh my goodness. The artwork of the characters, the only thing is that they look too good for a high schooler's drawings. Yeah, I could never draw that shit. Way too amazing. It should be more imperfect to really sell this, you know?

I mean, is it? I want to draw my own dank horse shit and put it into the game. Yeah. That would be amazing. It's like a multiplayer deathmatch only thing now, like what the fuck even is it? I would play a fucking, I would play a multiplayer game called dank horse shit in a second. Dank horse shit. Oh.

I love this. The art style's ugly, but endearing. Destructoid. Destructoid's a rag recently. So that's, I mean, this is really truly like a high schooler's sketchbook. I like it now. Yeah. I'm fine.

Did you hate Sterling where he gave Vanquish a three out of 10? No, I thought that was hilarious. Yeah, that was hilarious. I was like, Jesus Christ, you're a crazy man, you British fuck. Let's take some emails. Wow. Jim gave Vanquish a three out of 10. He also gave all the fucking warriors the, like a nine or an eight.

I think the thing for, I think the literal subject line for Vanquish is like, you can polish a turd all you want. Jim's nuts. Jim's a crazy person. He was like Zinji Mikami's Vanquish. Jim Sterling is the fucking Alex Jones video games and I love him for it. You know what Jim Sterling? I'm animated.

I'm a real red-blooded. Yeah. Jim Sterling. I can't agree with like his, his love of Mousseau and stuff like that. Jim Sterling is the Jim Sterling of video games. And yet I still watch every Jim Cousins. Every single one. And I think they're great.

Did you watch his, and did you watch his review of the Overwatch porn? Uh, I think so. It's really long and detailed. Um, and yeah, no, and his channel's fucking awesome. Did you watch, did you watch Dee Pitti's video of Overwatch cosplayers watching Overwatch porn? Uh, I did. I did.

Catch wind of that. That sounds like a lead up to good times. The other thing was, uh, he was the one responsible for writing one of the stories about me and Marvel back in the day. It's true. It's true. I forgot about that. There's that.

Anyway, uh, emails. Emails. Where should you send them? Emails at superbestfriendcast.com. Man, you know, usually our guests don't remember the email address. Thanks man. I appreciate it. It's, it's great being a guest.

This is good here. You're just having a piece of water. I actually really like being a guest. I think I'm going to make a habit of it. Nope. What does that mean? I don't know. Does that mean you'll be here more often or that you'll leave so that you can come back

as a guest more often? I think that's the latter. Please continue. Anyway, um, yeah, that email again is superbestfriendcastatgmail.com. Do we have any, do we have any good emails this week? Pause. I just remembered how amazing the intro song for the gym position is. It's really good.

Oh yeah, it's good. Fucking Born Depressed is such a good song. Yeah, it's a good song. Thank God for him. Uh, okay. We got one coming in from Jordan and he straight up just wants to let us know that when Kamen Ryder X-Aid first was teased in Kamen Ryder Ghost, he showed up, did an EX Tatsumaki and then left.

Good to know. Awesome. Good to know. I like it. Strong. I'm out. I'll see you in eight weeks. It's over.

Okay. We got one coming in from Justin and he says, uh, dear best friends, I got super hyped when I saw Bikin' announced and it made me want to get into fighting games again. However, I developed a nasty habit over the years. Maybe you can help with some advice while playing FF 14, uh, I often mash the button for the skill I want to come next while the global cool down is ticking after years of doing this. I now do it in fighting games.

Oh shit. You're fucked. Bad. That's bad. I need to get rid of this nasty habit. I don't know what to do. Okay. Well, the first thing to do is to force yourself to stop doing it in 14.

You just know, but no, you know, but like specifically go to the place where you learn the bad habit and unlearn the habit there before trying to unlearn it. Because then if you're playing a fighter and you're trying to unlearn it there and you go back to 14 and then you just do it normal there, you're going to just reinforce the bad habit again. I remember getting used to, uh, I was spamming my shield button with Zarya and Overwatch or spamming fire strike or Reinhardt and it's like, no, no, no, no, no, get used to the cool down timer, wait for it and top it and, well, that with, I don't think it's official

with 14. It's extra weird because there's about a half second before the cool down, uh, reprox that the input will still count for the next one. So that's kind of encouraged. But no, just try and calm down, learn your rotation, dead center, and enter the most in games like Street Fighter five where it's like, yeah, counter hit stuff will just destroy you, but in, in a game like Guilty Gear, especially if he's talking about like biking, then I think you're going to be kind of okay because Guilty Gear gives

you a lot of freedom and how you kind of want to play that game. But of course, if you hit buttons a little bit too much, then, then yeah, all this defense to cover your ass. A lot of, well, the thing is, is yeah, a lot of fighters also, like when you input something too early in a combo and it does, it's not within like the point where you should be canceling the move, the fact that you attempted it will sometimes like stop you from continuing the combo, right? Not every game has that, but some do.

And those are the ones where you like, you just need to, you, it's, it's the same old prepping that's practice, you know, it's, it's the same old, just play it, keep, keep in mind that you're doing it and then play a lot of games, not doing it. If you, if you're really, if you enjoy hitting buttons, Guilty Gear is a good game to play. It is. It's a really good game to play. But you hit buttons while guarding, you hit buttons while attacking, you're doing everything. If you're still playing 14, unlearn it there.

That's the root of your problem. That's where you got to fix it. So stop playing 14. No, no, if he stops playing 14, he'll never be able to fix it. I heard him say that. 11. Oh fuck. There, I know.

So I go back to play 14 with, they hit like cap and got all their shit maxed out. They're like, let's go back and play 11 psychos, crazy people. Go play fantasy star online. Yeah. They're going to go way back, pull out that dreamcast and get your internet disc out. Yep. Thank you. Um, yeah, Saturn.

Well, dreamcast originally, but you know, thank you. It's there too. I know you love the game. Part two. No, no, no. With them, with the modem and five people went online. Yeah. I wonder how there are more people on the game than the GameCube version.

I wonder online. I got a hue cast. They went online. Yeah. Modem. Yep. Or you could play fantasy star online too. No, you can't.

Hey, um, Keo says, Hey guys, I've been playing games like Dragon's Dogma and Tales of Cold Steel lately and enjoying the really cool feeling of magic spells in the games. In the topic of spells in video games, do you prefer short and concise animations for spells or longer, more bombastic ones? Okay. So cheers from Uruguay, South America. I don't know how many of you guys have played Dragon's Dogma, but Dragon's Dogma has the best long cast spell animations I've ever seen.

Yeah. It's really unique looking. It can take like up, like up to 10 seconds to cast like one of the bigger spells. But when you throw that shit down, the world is ending. Yeah. It's fucking crazy. 15 has those amazing summons. Those are incredible.

And of course there's FF8, which is the ultimate in terms of sit back and watch the scene go. What was it, Arc? It's like two and a half minutes. Now I'm fine as long as you can skip it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

The question is, are we talking action RPG or turn based RPG? Because turn based RPG is fine if you have a long spells as long as you can skip them. But action. I think that the length of a spells effect should be balanced out by the rarity of it appearance. So something that's removed in FF15, I saw that twice in my entire trip through the game and it's like two minutes long or something, but it was so worth it. It's nowhere near two minutes long.

Well, it feels like it's awesome. You sit and watch it. But something like a fucking fireball. You feel like you've been graced. In a Baldur's Gate game or something like, no, I want my character to put their fucking hands out, a fireball to shoot out, hit the dudes and explode. But you know that you're going to game the system to get Knights of the Red eight times. You know.

I always thought it'd be neat if like even if FF15 did a thing with it, summons where you give the ability of the characters to cast summons, but you, it's not a guarantee. Like calling upon the gods doesn't always work and you can modify the stats to make it work. They don't like it. I like, I think the one thing about 15 that I would have changed as much as I love the way you summon in that, I think it would have been so much cooler if you started to summon, but kept playing on the field while it started up.

I would have loved if you got the whole cinematic and the God and Odin comes down. And the dude's just up there. Yeah. And he's, and he's fucking throwing the lightning bolt and like, and everything is happening the same way it does. But you are on the floor. But then that's an animated play. That's an animator not getting his work.

And then you controlled Ramo at that point while you're in his hand. Yeah. But that's an animator not getting credit for his work. Who cares? It's just some animator. I mean, you know, it's ending the fight anyway, so you might as well stop fighting and look at it. But I think it would have been fun to like almost treat it like an extra fifth party

member for a moment. I mean, like if you, if you summon something and it's the, it's at a point where an enemy is just basically oval, well, percentage wise, always die than that should be when a full animation plays out. You know what I mean? Like it depends when, when you summon rather than if you summon like or not in 15, you get actually, there's multiple attacks. What I would rather have if an animation takes, if a spell takes a little while to cast, I

would like the casting animation to have some uniqueness to it. Yeah. Yeah. Like so they, they should be like doing shit with their hands and stuff like that. That's unique the whole time. Well, you may appreciate this in 14. There's the scholar class, which are healers. And as they cast their dots, they do JoJo poses with books.

Like they literally like hold the book out in front of them and have their arm like out this. And later on, they get a different stance in which this giant like red effect appears around their book. It looks great. Dude, I love the idea that the gods are not appeased unless you do that. Listen. Listen.

You better fucking bend that back. This heal is not going to proc unless you put your hand properly in front of your face. I love that. Pick a little fucking like diva gods that are just like, what the gods would do. Your vogue has impressed me. I will, I will sprinkle on you. Oh, Jesus. It's like, if you can't sacrifice an animal, fine, you're not going to do that, but you

got to do a cool pose, brah. I'm not going to have my practitioners look like a bunch of lamers. Yeah. And, and let's take one another mat. He says there are super beast companions. Hello. Pat and Willie love mocking David Cage games for choice, not really mattering. And pointed out that Western RPGs and Pat, you pointed out that Western RPGs you play

don't feel like they, your choices make a difference. However, a lot of JRPGs don't even pretend to give you a choice. In Xenoblade Chronicles X, when you say no to the hero team, it just double negatives you back to the question until you say yes. Tokyo Mirage Sessions has a digital lolly that asks you if she can call you Oni-chan and the choices are yes and very yes and the Persona series where it's like never matters. What is it like?

Yeah. Okay. And like, yeah. Okay. With your dick out. Is that the choice? It seems to be. Is this a cultural thing and Japan just saves choice systems for dating Sims?

What are some good choice based on JRPGs? First of all, sir, I think you're very wrong with your statement saying that Persona doesn't have choices. The modern Persona series has like infinite choice, but it's in your day to day life. And if you're playing, like if you're going on a date with someone or whatever the fuck and you answer the wrong thing, you lose points for that, which I know you brought up dating Sims, but this is a percentage. And you can also, you can also be like, oh, you can go, you're fucking stank, get away

from me. Ben. And of course, there's the big final question in for where there's a lot of wrong answers. Find the killer. So. It's a great question. I disagree with that statement. Yeah, it's dumb when you're no literally just resets Matt, we didn't, we didn't get much

dumber than that. You edited that into a gag in fucking Xenoblade Chronicles X when we're talking to that fucking guy. And we just say no over and over and over and he just starts resetting the entire conversation over from the start. It's like, fuck you. Don't give it. Don't even try.

Give me anything. I hate that. That's the magic of video games, though that particular that to me is is worse than saying yes or no, but it didn't make a difference. So the, the, the, the different of freedom, the, the difference there, the difference there, a lot of Western RPGs do this because the path, the path you walk has to go more or less the same direction in some points, depending on what kind of game it'll be less linear or more littering.

But if you have a party or if there's some kind of reputation system, say you're like, we need to kill this guy because he's evil, right? And you go, no, that's too evil. We can't do it. Or you say, yeah, let's murder his ass. Super awesome. And that guy dies regardless. The game will usually still take into account whether or not you were gung-ho about murder

or tried to take a higher path and we'll associate that with your character later. Fair enough. Right. Which is different from a fucking conversation in like infinitely repeating with P until you get the right one. I see. I see what you're doing. I remember a JRPG that had the dialogue box is that the questions kind of mattered and

that was skies of Arcadia because if you wanted to get the very best title at the end of the game, you had to answer every single question through all 150 hours correctly as well as do all this other stuff. That's really ridiculous. You should play Skars of Arcadia one time. No. Just once. And lastly in the world, it's pretty damn good.

What is it? Last one is dear best friend zone to Zybatzu. If you can have front row seats to the entirety of any fighting game tournament. Whether it's the sacred order tournament from Guilty Gear, the King of Fire and Fist tournament, the King of Fighters, the Battle of Ragna from Glaze Blue, Street Fighters World Warrior Tournament, et cetera, et cetera, what would you watch knowing that you're immune to collateral damage? Oh God.

That was not like a dragon ball. I was going to immediately disqualify like King of Fighters, War of Combat, et cetera. You'd give a fucking kill to the problem. Okay. Let's go. Max. If it's in the lore, yeah, I, I want to watch, I would be, I would be there for the live broadcast of the Ultra Tech sponsored killer instinct tournament, which is the story of

the first game. You know what? You know what? That was a good one. Robots versus fucking crazy cat women and, you know, that's underrated. That sounds amazing. Dinosaurs. That sounds amazing.

Not bad. It has the most variety maybe. That's the most variety. Okay. Okay. I'd go to a King of Fighters dream match, probably 2002. If only for the fact that I love, I want to see all those fights for real, but also that's a massive tournament.

That is a very long tournament. Yeah. You're going to be there for a few years. Yeah. The dream match, a fucking three on three, like two out of three matches bouts. Yeah. I'd fucking take them crazy. Well, thanks for jumping in there, but I was going to ask Simmons, what would you say?

I mean, I, Max really kind of took the thunder on that one because just being able to visually see something is weird and I'm trying to think of other fighting games, but not every fighting game actually has a quote unquote tournament in it. You know what I mean? Like, does Guilty Gear actually have a technical tournament that they're fighting? Yes. Darkstalkers. Yes.

Darkstalkers does not have a tournament. Yeah. It fucking doesn't. It's a bunch of sexy monsters. Yeah. Like knowing that you can't die by spectating, what would your pick be? I mean, what about being in like the audience of a Colosseum for Soul Calibur, Simmons? Yeah.

Yeah. That would be cool. But I would go with KI just because of the, there's a werewolf and then there's a robot and then there's, well, now there's like mummies and shit. There's dinosaurs. Yeah. Yeah. Dinosaurs and shit.

There's visually like mindfuckery thing ever to watch a tournament. Well, you asked me. Bar none. Yours is Rumble Roses. Mine is not. Bar none. Mine is not Motherfucker. Bar none.

Ask me later. I absolutely, my answer is 100% Marvel versus Capcom. Oh, bullshit. But is there a tournament for Marvel versus Capcom? There is no fucking tournament. You're making that shit up, you dumb bitch. No, it's more like, I don't know, I would love to see Marvel, and I actually excluded it because you fucking broke your own fucking rules.

We're going to get everyone from the Marvel side to fight everyone on the Capcom side. Yeah. Why don't I just say Kingdom Hearts? Let me. Does it count? Capcom versus in K2. There's a tournament there. Yes.

Well, here's what I was going to ask, because does it count if there's a villain that like secret wars is everybody and forces them to fight in a tournament? No, it's a tournament. There's no tournament in Marvel. Even if it's, there's no stands in Marvel. Like not publicly. There's no bleachers. No, not at all.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, because I'm like, I'm because I'm saying like if a boss forces people to fight in a tournament, like it's not in a tournament, shut up, shut up, shut up. They're just skirmishes. Yeah, he's right. It's just wandering. Then you know about wandering. The intro movie is how that's going down and you just happen to be playing in a three

ounce fighting game because that's how the fuck the game works. I'm also going back to abyss and onslaught because it is the mark of the millennium tournament that you can't. That's the thing is I'm going back to like MVC two and MVC one as well. You can't, you can't no, shut up. All right, all right, all right. Capcom Princess and K2. There you go.

There you go. That's the right answer. That's a better pick anyway because it doesn't have those stupid Marvel characters in it. That's a little harsh, but sure. That's a dead-up. I like, I think the spec- Oh, why'd you have to pick my favorite damnit, Max? Maybe he's the best.

He's so good. I think the spectacle of seeing like a zero loop in real life would just be the dumbest and the greatest time. Why don't you say Tatsunoko because that is a tournament. Is it? I think it is. No, it's not. No, it's not.

No, it's not. That's a bunch of, that's a bunch of skirmishes as well. Ah, damn it. I thought it was. I'm just trying to think of, because like I said, like I feel like when villains pull together a bunch of heroes and force them to fight, like, um, what's his name? Bowling. Yeah?

Think in your head right now, the ending of CVS2 where you fight the true bosses. Yeah. That happening in front of you. Yeah. Yeah. God Rugal in a Shinokuma. Yeah, yeah. You're gonna merge into one fucking thing in front of your face.

This is where you need to be. Take our right now. Right. I would like to watch the King of the Iron Fist tournament because it's one of the few tournaments that actually presents itself as an actual fucking tournament with an audience and TV cameras and shit. But there is enough variety of the killer instinct, uh, like taint of like having dumb dinosaurs and kangaroos or whatever the fuck, robots fighting each other.

The killer instinct is also in the future, which we're not in. Hey, you know what I just thought of? Yeah. What did you think of? If Willie was at the CVS2 tournament, he would get like to listen to that announcer all day saying all sorts of shit and content. No, no, he wants the robot. He wants the robot.

Not CVS2 guy. What's up with that? Huge difference. Huge difference. Huge difference. He loves it. Don't, don't fucking shame him. Also, there's no game for it.

I'll shame the CVS1 robot all I want. There's no game for it, but like sitting in on the planet Hulk fighting tournament would have been. Oh, what about? Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. What about your guys? No.

Fuck you. No. Yeah. I forgot my question. Holy shit. Yeah. That's a really good one. Thank you.

That's not bad. Yeah. I'm glad he put the collateral down. Good job, Eric. It's important. All right. It is important. So with that, uh, let us go into, uh, what you guys are up to and what you're, what you're

looking forward to. What's, what's coming out? What's you doing? Um. Matt. I'm, I'm, I'm currently replaying Bayonetta. Oh, sorry. Be understanding.

Guests first, sir. Guests first, please. Real guests. Matt. Let us know what you guys have. Okay. Okay. What's coming up.

Well, what I'm trying to do right now is I'm on sort of on my stream, um, I'm just still kind of in the genesis of getting it together. I'm trying to replay all the good Zelda games to get myself hype for Breath of the Wild. Right. If you're playing Breath of the Wild, I'm nowhere near as hype for it as I, I should be considering I'm a big Zelda fan. Why not go into it clean and normal? Yeah.

I don't know. I just, I'm just playing all the, all the old classic Zelda games to get myself pumped up for the new one. Yeah. Me and Max were watching your, your, uh, link to the past LP when we finished that stream the last weekend. So. Is it working?

My stream? Just hype. Are you, are you, are you getting excited for Breath of the Wild? I am. Hmm. It's, hmm. Okay. A little bit.

Like it's, it's a very slow moving. It's like glacial, like movement right now. Okay. Cause I'm just enjoying the old games, but like, I know how the new one is and plays and it's not really like the past ones that I, that I enjoy a lot. So you're gonna get a real good taste. You might as well do better like playing Skyrim or Switcher 3 to get hype for Breath of the Wild than the old Zelda games.

I feel like there's more of that there. Or any of the Witcher games. So I'm not, I don't know, maybe, maybe we'll see, but then there's near after that, which I'm, er, is I'm like, Oh, is near going to be really good? I don't know anything about near. Yeah. It's going to be very good. So I'm like torn.

Hopefully your heart will melt like Zora's domain. Hopefully there's an unlockable butthole. Dude, if there's DLC, butthole taint, that's going to be godlike. Man. I gotta say, I love the director. Yoko Taro's crazy. He might do it. Did you see that?

Don't test him. Did you see a guy in our subreddit sent him a zip file with like to be lots of pictures, but then like Yoko Taro follows that guy. Absolutely. As he should. Yeah. What are you supposed to do? Not follow him?

Yeah, I know. He's sending you characters that you designed in compromising positions. What else are you creating these characters for? Art? I don't know. I feel he's just got like one of the best heads on his shoulders at that company. He's great. And his interviews are great.

And he's a treasure. He's just watching him do that stuff. Max, what's going on, man? This week, for sure, on stream is going to be super dedicated to Neo. I'm just going to dive headfirst into that game. I can't wait. I did everything in the last chance demo in one night. I could not stop.

So I'm just looking forward to a full game being that and just grinding and going through areas and looking for rare monsters and trying to dig up some dumb looking hat that looks fucking awesome. Like I can't. I can't wait. I want to do a ninja class potentially right at the start. Just like straight ninja garb and Hakama stuff and see how difficult or easy that is and go for a very lightweight class.

But outside of that, super looking forward to the 60 frame per second. Final fantasy 15 patch in a couple of weeks. I really, I stopped playing that game because so much stuff started happening. I'm only like chapter three or four. So it's like a good chance for me to jump back in and play that. And then fighting game wise, which is like the big focus of the YouTube channel and everything. A lot of Injustice 2, they're about to put another character outside of Blue Beetle into the Injustice 2 online beta.

So we're going to play that a bit more. I hope they got something good because Blue Beetle ended up being just kind of jacks for the most part from the first Injustice always very, very zoning heavy. And I was like, this is not a character for me. So I'm very curious if they're going to stick in there. Yeah. Have you had a chance to play with the Chain and Sickle and Neo? A little bit.

I mostly stuck to just double swords, just to say familiar with something. But Chain and Sickle is like a super ninja weapon. Like it's the one I'm most excited about. Yeah, it's a very interesting play style. And it right now, at least from the early access beta thing, it used so much key that it was crazy. You did a couple of moves and you were out of stamina. It's like, oh my God, dude. OK, this is an intermediate weapon.

So you're going to have to do the purification timing. Yeah, you got to work on purification. You got to work on getting good and everything like that. Fuck yeah. And of course, where can people find you guys? Yeah. Go ahead and first, Simmons. Well, the Twitter is, you know, twitter.com at doom assist me.

And then it's reversed for the Twitch stream. It's just twitch.tv slash assist me, doom. That's terrible. You can't read it. It's better than ours. Yeah, yeah. And of course, Max. And yeah, mine, my Twitter is on screen right now.

I'm also a Maximilian underscore dude on Twitch and YouTube.com slash user slash miles 923. I think I also got a change to Maximilian dude on YouTube. Make a lot of crazy fighting game videos. Yeah, I think we should also point out that YouTube.com slash video games is like a lot of our archival purposes for the streams that we've done. Yeah. And a lot of everything that's not fighting games, usually like. Yeah, yeah.

A lot, a lot, even a lot of stuff is. Yeah, not only on like video production on there, too. Tell Luna I'll beat her in wrestling one day. I think she's ready. I'll pin her. Finally, too strong, of course. Over on our channel, we've got more Dark Souls. We've got more Resident Evil, more Parasite Evil, more Parasite Eve, more One-Offs,

one of which will assuredly be more Dumpster Fire, more Dumpster Fire. More Kongos. Oh, we played Kongo. Oh, you just thrown it out there. Shut up. Satter Kongo. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, kind of thing about that. Yeah. You know what? We'll save it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Matt wasn't sure what he bought. So I don't know. We figured it out, though.

Yeah. And I think, is there any other One-Offs that we took a look at? I think that's it for now, pretty much. OK. Well, either way, you know, it's the huge. And once that, what's the next thing ends? What are you gangs personally looking forward to, man? What are you looking forward to?

This week? I think we talked about pretty much everything, like between like River City Ransom Underground. There's only one thing that hasn't been mentioned. What? And it's that the For Honor Open Beta is running from Thursday to Sunday night. Oh, god.

I need it. Dude, you forgot. I fucking need it so bad. So part of my week that I didn't talk about was me just going to every single Twitch streamer and YouTuber. And just watching For Honor footage. And just watching footage. Oh, man.

It's so good. Yeah, For Honor, For Honor, For Honor. Open Beta, everybody get in there. Waste your life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it that the PS4 version doesn't run 60, does it? No, it does not. Yeah, it's a PC version.

It runs cinematically. But unfortunately, the PC version runs with you playing the background, so. Yeah, I dealt with that back then. So I'm going on PS4 just to dodge it, just to avoid that shit. It's so bad. We're in a world where multiple games that are big releases have footsies in them.

Everything has footsies. What the fuck happened, man? It's super footsies. God damn. I'm almost a little turned off by For Honor after playing a whole bunch of it and actually getting good when it first came out, because it became very RPS heavy. You had to make a choice between one of three things

and then you had to counter that person's one to three things. It was a lot of that on top. It was like footsies and RPS. I think Plague's are the same thing, where it's like, yeah, it boils down to this thing. Well, what Plague was telling me last night was that fainting is the end-all, be-all. That's what I was going to say.

Doesn't fainting and dodging, instead of blocking, mix that up a bit? It does. I think fainting was a part of the RPS stuff, especially back in the old beta I played. OK. You could not do an attack. You could commit and then stop, and then fake them the fuck out,

where they would commit to go for something else. I don't know. I haven't played it in a long time, but at the end of playing it for two days, I was kind of like, OK, this is cool. I'm going to wait for this to come out. I wasn't insanely jazzed, but I did think it was good. I mean, RPS does follow.

Did you form the foundation? I didn't. The RPS does form the foundation of, I think, a basic system that can be fun, though, because if you look at K.I., you've got light, mediums, heavies. You've got to break those. But then you add on top of that. That was actually a very interesting conversation early

on in the development, when I was really close around the double helix guys when the game was being made of how much they wanted to take RPS elements. And they tried to remove a lot of RPS stuff, because it's such a core mechanic of the game, with the breaking system being the 1, 2, and 3. So they try to take that a lot out of the core gameplay stuff. So a lot of situations in Street Fighter 4,

which would leave you in an RPS moment, where it's like, OK, I got to do this, to this, I got to throw. He hits me, he throws me out of it, stuff like that. They tried to avoid that as much as possible, and which is nice. There's not a lot of crazy RPS and K.I. now the game's just fucking crazy in general. Right.

I feel like the 33% chance, guess, is the starting point. And then you build off of that with, you know, Comma Breakers, Counter Breakers, et cetera. And so everything that people have told me about for Honor is that the blocking, and the fact that you started a neutral block, is a starting point. And then you have defensive options that. I just figured you'd really like it,

because there are like six different defensive options. Yeah. So the blocking is a starting point. And then from there, you have the advancements. There's blocks. There's timed blocks. There's timed block parries. There's counter hit.

There's auto armor, counter hit strikes. There's dodges. And juggling. There are dodge parries. There's throws. There's throws. There's guard breaks. Yeah.

There's anti-guard break throws. I hear they're lenient on the tech timing. They are very lenient. OK. All right. Speaking of killing, I'm interested in ultimate fatalities coming from February 14th. Yep.

Happy Valentine's Day. Now murder someone. Jago. And only five at the start. Jago, TJ Combo, Maya, Tusk, and. I saw Thunder's video. Thunder. You saw Thunder's.

I saw that video. We're characters that are bigger than Thunder are smaller than him in his ultimate. So one thing I did notice is that rash. He does it against rash in the video. And rash responds by looking up and smiling. So the reason this probably took a long time is because they had to rig every single character in the game.

To react differently. Not just to have an ultimate, but to have ultimate reactions. Yeah. So that's probably why they didn't initially take this on early on happened because the roster's getting big. Oh, God, we have to do ultimates and then rig every character for an ultimate reaction, which is different because not all characters in KI are human.

They have giant rock monsters and dinosaurs with weird backwards legs and dog people that stand upright. So they have to reanimate all that shit. What a package, man. They're going crazy over there. Yeah, I'd say that's we've then now we've named them all. And with that, we should just end the podcast. OK, podcast is over.

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