Castle Super Beast - SBFC 201: Pat Hates When People Shoot Him

Episode Date: June 13, 2017

A little E3, a little Wonder Woman, a little Puyo Puyo Tetris and a whole lotta bullets. You can watch us record the podcast live on twitch.tv/superbestfriendsplay

Hello, hey, welcome to the three podcast finances done pad woolly. How are you doing over there? I mean, it's it's just a pot. That's fantastic. Hey, Matt, how are you doing? You doing good? That's great. That's fantastic. All right, you're doing a thing. No, I'm just excited. Oh, okay. Oh, sorry. You had no follow-up. Okay. No, I'm doing a thing because I expected energy to come back at me. Okay, because the way the podcast has worked over the years has been really great. It's happened. Basically, I have a very loose handle on the steering wheel of the of the ship. That's correct. So what happens is I kind of start the ship rolling out. But if someone just walks up and grabs it, I'm like, I'm all right, great. Hey, Matt, you said nothing

super great has happened yet. Nothing involving new games. Let's talk about the devolver press conference. The thing that I would burst at the seams when I came in here to talk about. So we watched the the actual devolver thing was about 15 minutes, right? Last 15 minute devolver thing with the head explosion. It was fantastic. And it was off zero new game, zero content. Lady yelling at us. I would disagree. I would call that content. Lady yelling at us to shut our fucking mouths and just buy it. Just buy it at the earliest access. You can get it. And I'm sitting there during the final bit with you know, all that rest in peace. Dave Lang and I'm talk. I have that saved on my phone. Rest in peace. No, never forget one out. Dave Lang is funny, way funnier

than what you just what the actual words are not that. Oh, yeah. But the photo coming up the photo and it's saying that he died two years ago. No, no, no, that's strike one. Now we're getting to the second impact. The other part was when they announced it, there was one clap. Yep. That is what made that and also it's the Dave Lang Memorial Center. Yeah, which didn't click in my head. That was the second and third swallow. They came in hard and they didn't they didn't sandbag that. You know, just doing the weird head thing at the end. And I'm on my desk or talking to my buddies and I'll go, Oh man, you know what I just, you know, it's I know what's not going to happen, but I just want to scanner style head explode. Yeah. Oh my God, they gave me a scanner style head

explosion. It was super fake. Like the fake is shit. Super bad. The bottom of her of the mannequin face was like cropped out of the frame. She had no hair because they couldn't get a wig on at the same time. Well, the scanner's head shot lower. The head pop on the scanners works as a ball guy. And you get yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. You couldn't get a bald girl. So no, that's that is like with the least amount of games like our new game announcement shown in any conference. That is my best so so far. Following that is when a lot of people tuned out because it went to what they were calling the pre pre show for E3 Devolver for E3. And everything that showed up was like pretty much everything was devolver or what have you. And it was hosted by a guy named John

Carnage, which I now know is the director of strategic marketing over at fucking Twitch, John Carnage, which explains how they got away with everything that was on that stream. Okay. So the confusing bit was that when I looked up the time, I'm like, does this time slot run until fucking tomorrow at noon? Yes, yes, it does. It was a 12 hour stream. Hell yeah, it was. So it starts off pretty awkward, man. I know you watched up until that bit where until they were playing an arcade game that was just a bunch of different games that cycle at random and they had a fake phone. It was all goofy weirdness. And then then it started to come apart because they were switching to big Kaiju wrestling that fucking indie league for 20 minutes for full matches. Right. And then

they would come back and then they're yelling and then Johnny Moons, Johnny Moons in and goes, we're going to talk about my movie that came out in 2017 and he's screaming at them that they fucked up the trailer and they're talking to him about what Kevin Sorbo smells like for 10 minutes. Yeah, he had some he has some fucking bounty hunter movie where all he does is parkour and jump off shit. It's terrible. And then and then I hope I get his name right because I'm not super familiar with him. He's a guy from crime time. Shad, gaspard. So you say crime time? Yes, the tag team, the wrestling team, crime time. Because I was like, there's no way he means the tag shows up and starts touching the guests and hitting them with rackets and screaming that he's Jim Cornette.

Yep. Okay. So so then and then we switch to adult swim riders coming on and showing fake pilots and a full episode of Ninja Slayer. So and non stop. So first of all, adult swim people getting involved is the hallmark of the like, you know, which direction this is going. I feel like the devolver like people behind devolver and adults are the same people. They show up at a lot of the same orgies in LA cross like, hey, so so hey, you want to do a thing? Okay, we'll see you then. And I mean, adult swim games is their own thing. But really, you feel like, yeah, they've been in they've been inside the same people. Yeah, exactly. I was like, they had a fucking bit with everything is terrible coming in. It was a fucking show. I think it was a full season of

Eric Andre live for you. I feel like for years, you know, E three has been trying to find its direction. E for all wasn't the right way. No, I think we found a new direction, which is what we found a path. Well, this is like every now every two seconds, they would be actively mocking the other press conferences and all but name and just absurdist this humor and anti humor. No, no, we found Kauffman ask, we found Warhol ask that one publisher can do. Yeah. And then the rest just got to keep doing what they're doing, which is like very early access at the speed of thoughts, screaming at developers, caught your stupid shitty comments on our games. That's strong to change the games. We haven't even come up with that. If you if you listen to this podcast and

have very little interest in like a video game news and things like that, that's an extreme minority. What are you doing here? They just like us. But you if you're one of those folks, you should go check out the Devolver E3 2017 press conference pre show to see what we're talking about show live. It's a 14 minute long video. It's live live. It's a 14 minute long video and it's fantastic. And it's entertaining. I do have to say if I could critique it for one second, I do think it was kind of a missed opportunity when people start going, what the fuck? Why is this trending? Why is everyone freaking out? Went to go actually watch it because no one really, you know, Devolver is still low on the total pull of brand recognition, like no absolver at all, not even a trailer.

There was there was a moment on on stage. Yeah, yeah, where he threw the money at the screen. And it was absolver. He was throwing the money into absolver. Sure. But what I mean is is that but it wasn't a real show of their but but it did a half and half. It had two trailers that were fine for Ruinner and a thing. And I just kind of feel that serious ever was is their big game that's coming out in a few months. I have to assume I have to assume that the actual show. No, no, no, they had bits where it's like, okay, the one of the developers from speed runners is going to come on and she's going to show off speed runners and everyone playing speed runners is going to be terrible and they're going to tear their shirts off and scream at her and start

throwing shit around the stage before they start teleporting around. And there we go. Like was that it couldn't have been a worse ad for these games. But at the same time, if you were watching it at 430am, you couldn't have been more interested and on point to care because it would be an hour of nonsense. And then 10 minutes of a video game, a video game, what are they playing? What is this game? What is this? Oh, it's it's speed runners. It's frog smashers. It's whatever the fuck. General jousting. Yeah, bro force. Yeah. Let's get suited to show up and do a troll trailer. Yeah. And they told me it was going to be a troll. They told me like a week ago and I was still like an action like you know, all I could think of at some point is a

friend of mine on discord pointed out like Pat, they stole your gimmick. They're just throwing they're still your your the end of your stream gimmick where you just throw as much bullshit that you know our fucking stream outro. Yeah, that's what that was for 12 hours. I mean, to be fair, that's been mega 64 TV. Yeah, the last couple years. That also has been adult swim late night. Our shit is weak now because they're all ruined it. They're expanding it into them to the E3 space. And I just found it kind of weird that they did put out two completely normal trailers. I would rather have them done not that at all. And really double down on making fun and press it was it was the most confusing part is when they actually became a real press conference for a

minute or two trailer was amazed. And then they went back to being psychos. Yeah. I don't know what happened. There could have been shootings or live deaths or like, you know, burn down the studio. I was watching and someone said someone just got killed live on stage. Oh, yeah, no. The guy that got his arm cut off, I assume. No, it was a different guy was Future Man. No, but at the time, Future Man, I think is he's from Future Man Gaming got killed on stage. Okay, that might have happened. So he was beaten to death and then dragged off and then he came back a couple couple of minutes for a later segment. Was that audience? Was that like stock footage? Oh, hell, yeah, they kept reusing the same stock. Yeah, yeah. But you you from the audience and the two

guys know I know. But the thing was like they had moments like the popcorn girl. Oh, no, that was super stock. I love the personal heroes of the show were black family, black family pointing at at the entertainment was pretty good. Look, that the arm got cut off. Especially, especially did you guys watch the Bethesda thing? Yes, I did. So the devolver thing was the ultimate palette cleanser after that, because that was had I there was a point where I was like debating whether or not to try and convince you guys to stay here at the office to do the thing. I know, but right, I was gonna. And I'm so glad I didn't even make the attempt because that was the worst most boring practice conference I've seen at E3 like I'll give it

points for for its aesthetic where it didn't really nail it. But I give it points for almost being kind of a direct where it was just like, here's a little I do like the land to swirl into the next game trailer and not be Bumble King's fucking shitting it up on stage for an hour and a half. I did appreciate that. But overall, it was just a bunch of bullshit until the last until the under construction area. They didn't show anything but that one like, you know, even within CG trailer and the docket this week is the roundup of every show that's gone off. So let's get there. Okay, well, fine. Let's have a normal podcast because they suck. Let's get there after we do the normal make a sad face. Yeah, tell me about your week first.

So I watched the devolver. How was your week? I apologize for not being here on the last podcast. We had a we had a road trip that we had planned for weeks and weeks. And guess what, if it wasn't going to be that week, it would have been this weekend where I would have not been here for E3 shit. That's not appropriate next weekend because it's Father's Day doing a big family thing. So we're busy doing that. What? It's that day, is it? Yeah, it is. Same, same, same Sunday. And Matt and I changed Matt. Matt, have you been celebrating Father's Day because you have cats now? No, okay, right? Does that a thing? People do that? Well, I have a son now. Oh, and that means he can get me stuff for Father's Day. Yeah. Anyway, so after that, I have other stuff going on. But so

that this was the weekend, I had to do it. And Willie, any plans to go to Vermont anytime soon? Vermont? Yeah, not that we're inside out to explain. Not since I've been there for fucking work. Okay, not since the B town episode. I had to fucking do a stint in B town for two weeks. What network tests? What was there? What do you mean? What was there with stint? We had to do we had to do a road trip for works because you had to be on the American side of the border to check out Oh, I thought you were talking about rock band. No, no, when I was when I was in QA. Yeah, you had to worry when I was doing quality assurance. But yeah, but I thought you're assuming I thought you're gonna say right yet. No, he went to be town much later after that. No, no, rock band. And

that was ages ago. And that was Platsburg, wasn't it? That was Burlington. Okay, by the way. But no, that was Platsburg. You're right. It was Platsburg. Yeah. No, no, Berlin. Okay. There's Vermont. Yeah. There's Burlington. And there's Platsburg. No, there's not. Wait, Vermont's a state, Willie. Vermont's a fucking state. No, no, I know, but they're in Vermont. Yeah, that's what he's saying. So when I said B town, I meant Burlington. Yeah. Okay, so that's Vermont. So the rock band thing didn't happen in Burlington. It happened in, I know Vermont's a state. Okay, I'm saying Burlington was where I went for work. So much convinced you know that. I would have said Platsburg if it was for rock bands. So we went to get the rock bands. And then years later, when he was

still working at the QA place, he went down there for a fucking QA. I thought it was those days could be switched. That's why rock band was like not that long ago. So what they had us do was sit at the edge of the American border and test out American signals for American carriers. Is that illegal? Yeah. Yeah, it's legal. It's super legal. But it's just like, for like to deal with American companies that had like their signals only in the States, we had to be in the continental U.S. Yeah, it's network. You got to make sure it works. That's what we did. The reason why I ask is because there's at a little fan meetup at a barcade in Vermont called the archives, which you personally would love. Like very classy looking place like wood floors, giant bar, diehard arcade

was there. I played it, said a lot of people. You're not getting me to go back to Vermont. Okay, well, it was it was a nice one. It has many, many fond memories of B town. Yeah, it happened in testing bullshit in hotel rooms. So it's also where I got where I waited in line for the Wii. Really? Yeah, it was during the launch. Wow. Yeah. So I enjoyed that. I also played I've been playing a shitload of Friday the 13th. I still don't know what the console versions deal is, but the steam versions version has been absolutely rock solid. I want to give everybody who worked on that game a little fucking golf clap for like fixing that real real fucking fast. Yeah. Not like they had much choice, right? No. Yeah, but still, I mean, that's the kind of thing

that you horror fans were giving them death threats. Well, consider consider the difference between this and say like something like the Master Chief Collection, which is still broken. It's still broken. Fair enough. It's been two years. Yeah, they're never gonna fix it. Never. So yeah, I've been playing Bolo to that and really, really getting into it. Like, you know, when there's a multiplayer only thing, I maybe Assassin's Creed was the last one I really got into with Brotherhood, right? Brotherhood. So I'm into this. You guys, if you're Jason, if you kill one person out of seven, you still technically win the match. You get a cutscene of your mom going, Jason, you did so good. S rank, you get a rank up, right? So you always get that

cutscene. I've not seen anyone not kill one person. Well, yeah, because one out of sevens, but there's seven people running around the map and you have different ways to leave the map. Wait, stop. What do you get if Jason fails to kill a single person? I don't know. That must be amazing. As a survivor, as a counselor, you get you survived and you get a really good XP. Oh, God, just the saddest most pathetic. I don't know what you get. You must get you failed or like the easiest. None of your friends are dead game over. What do you do on that? So Ms. Voorhees just turns away from you. What you can do is I've not seen it done in a real match. I haven't found a YouTube video of it being done a real match. You can kill Jason. Would you like

to know the requirements? I would very much like to know the requirements and I want them to be arcane. Okay. So at seven versus one, one person needs to be a female counselor. They need to find Jason's cabin, which is randomly generated on the map somewhere. Got it. They have to swim to it usually. Got it. If they get to the cabin, they have to grab Jason's mom's sweater and put it on. Obviously. Once that happens, the player that's Jason automatically gets a ping and has the ability to warp directly back to the cabin to stop this occurring. Got it. Shit. The person then has to run somewhere. Another counselor has to have now morphed into the hero character that gets called in, which it's a radio frequency. You say blah, blah, blah, blah, Jason's attacking any counselor

that then dies or gets to leave the map has the chance to get picked to come back as the hero character Tommy Jarvis. So he's basically a striker that gets called in as really good stats. He has to have a machete. The girl that's wearing the sweater has to be near Jason and he has to be chasing her. She activates the sweater where she just goes Jason, calm down, put down the weapon. The player that's Jason that gets stunned, she then has to run up to him, hit him with a melee weapon that also creates a large amount of stun. He has to fall to the ground. She then has to back off and let the hero character start whacking him in the face of the machete. Also, if you attempt this without pre knocking Jason's hockey mask off, it doesn't work. You also have to cause enough

damage and throughout the match. So that is mask falls off. Got it. This is like a canon movie way to kill. It's a mix of a bunch of different movies. So remember when HD Remix came out and the thing we all loved the most was the achievement that you unlocked when Ryu specifically defeats Sagat with a Shoryuken on the second round. And we were like, that's fucking great. This is taking that concept to the third or fourth degree. I saw video people doing that, but they're like, okay, so we could never get this to happen. So we just have a whole group of people when I'm Jason and we're all like, just stand around. There's like seven counselors all going, we tried hitting him in the legs. We tried what it's just the machete. We had to test it

and it's a slow-mo cut scene death too. So it's at least sad. But it's something that you could figure out if you all were fans and knew the movies inside out. I'd say the only thing you wouldn't really know is that it has to be the Tommy Jarvis guy because that's a mix of a bunch of different movies. That's like the sweaters from this movie. Hinn is mask off is from another movie and Tommy is from another movie. But that's why it sounds like I'm like, if you're really, if you know the series, not just one or two, you have to know the entire thing. You can piece together each bit. You could. I don't know if in like the how to play or whatever. I went through it. I don't remember it saying like, this is how you killed Jason. But like, there's a lot of

mechanics in this game. I was talking to Plague about this that the game does not tell you. Like who discovered this? Was this like a YouTube video that just popped up? Excuse me. Yeah, I guess. I don't know the genesis. Maybe the developer said something. Usually with this kind of thing, the solution just kind of rises out of the ether and everyone thinks it's horseshit until video proof shows up. It does sound like a horseshit thing. Like, you do all this like no way. Like the fucking Megalodon and fucking Battlefield. Something like that. So I've been unlocking some shit in that. The only thing that's sad about it is that like, I'm now leveled up a lot. I've had this problem with me a little bit.

I had this problem with MKX. I'm all the way over here. How come I can't get nothing? Because you're all the way over there. It wouldn't make a difference. My legs are short. I could be sitting right next to you. But hey, we could, you could try. My tiny baby legs. Why did I look at them? You looked at them and how they don't even come close to the floor. My stomach churned. Hold on. I can. No, look, they can reach the floor now. Look, they're literally not reaching the floor. You're, oh yeah, lower there you go. Lower that chair. No, look, there is your toes were hitting like the carpet fur trim. Continue, please. I had this problem with MKX where I owned the PS4 and like two Xbox one copies for a reason.

And I leveled up a little bit on one and a little bit on others. So I fucking hate that stupid problem. So for Friday the 13th, I'm now like a level 12 on that. But I had put my Kickstarter shit on the PS4 version and got my DLC, including the Satan Jason Scorpion costume. But I want that on steam, but I can't get it anymore because it was a Kickstarter only thing. And I'm sad because each Jason has different stats in that game, like one and their cannon weaknesses to the movies. And each one has cannon strengths to the movies. In this movie, he ran really fast through the water, just fucking booked it. So guess what? He's fast in the water. Great. I had that happen with my Faradar PC PS4 saves and I had some cool stuff on one that I didn't have on. Yeah, no. It's the joy

of double dipping. I just, I really do wish like it's, I don't even need like, I don't need cross play. I would like save transfer though. I know it's stupid. It's so dumb. And a game like Faradar crossplay, the thing that'll add enormous value to the game. Fuck that. I want the thing that's for idiots that buy two copies. Well, at the very least, it made me think of it because I know they're talking to the same server. Yeah. You know, so I'm like, I know that my data is right there at Ubisoft's on Ubisoft servers. Why don't you contact the guys who were crazy enough to figure out how to transfer their Mass Effect saves from console to PC? Fuck, that reminds me. We need to put Mass Effect saves into fraud fractions. We did. I did at home.

What happened? It says, thank you, Commander Shepard. That's pretty much it. That's great. And the last thing is that I, I got to take a peek at Wonder Woman. Fucking assholes. Sorry. It's all right. I saw Wonder Woman the other week. I saw Wonder Woman this week. And immensely enjoyed it. Did you see Wonder Woman? I did not. Okay. So I really, really, really enjoyed it. My expectations were high. Let's talk spoiler free. Yeah. The only thing I have to say is that I didn't care for the last 10 minutes of the movie. Like it, its quality was lower than the rest of the movies. That all say. I wouldn't say it was terrible. I just kind of felt like it, I've seen better. It's a type of last 10 minutes. That's very similar to a lot of superhero movies, but not all of them. Yeah. It's

quality is lower than the rest of the movie, but it doesn't go into the red. No, no, it does not. You know, like it stays up there. It goes to maybe a yellow. I say that the rumors that this is the first competent DC movie are rumors. Well, you saw them. You saw it. Confirmed. So what you're saying is that the first movie that DC has made and all this shit that Zack Snyder hasn't gotten his finger pies in. He is a producer. Okay. But like Patty Jenkins is the director, right? Patty Jenkins is the director. And she was able to take the same exact universe and story and even actors in some cases and make a very good movie out of it. It was, it was very enjoyable in the same way that Thor 1 was enjoyable. Okay. Yep. Yep. Small, isolated, you know, self-contained, make it work.

And it's actually crazy. Fish out of water. Fish out of water. It's crazy how similar Thor 1 and this movie are in a lot of ways with the exactly bring me another is replaced with ice cream, you know, and whatnot. But they managed it. One of the one of the really impressive things I found was they do the Zack Snyder action like trademark copyright. You're 300 shots. But they do it in a way where it actually it's not just like fucking fapping all over the screen, like, oh, this is my slow mo moment. It's done in a way where they established early on that like Amazons do this stuff. And they show you the people that she's watching, like as a kid learning about that stuff. And then later on when you see her doing them, it's like, yeah, she's doing the

things, you know, it wasn't so like you kind of have a thematic link in that sense. So it makes it look a makes it work a lot better. And also the action scenes are very, very spaced out. Like there's one near the start, there's a really awesome one in the middle, then there's some stuff near the end. It wasn't like an overload of like bullshit CG shots. As you can imagine, all like very much like Captain America one as well, you're learning about her past. So the pretty much the whole movie is set in the past. Yeah, it's in World War One, right? One. The Kaiser one. Germans, Germans were all the enemies in World War One. The Kaiser was the guy that initiated World War One. No, I know, but I initiated World War Two. It was one. It was hard times. Super

duper one. Okay, yeah, you're right. Super duper one for sure, for sure. No man's land was World War One. Did you see trenches? Trenches, trench warfare. Yeah, the British guys have weird fucking helmets that didn't look stupid. The Kaiser was the enemy. Yeah, it is absolutely unquestionably one. And so it spent most of its time in that and like it was really interesting because you yeah, you kind of got to you had this one sort of feeling of like I want to keep Wonder Woman in the past. Yeah, I don't really don't have a touch that Superman Batman stuff, even though it's already been established. And then you're like, oh, yeah, we're back in the present now. Okay, yeah, to just to slay God grass, you know, because the past was

really enjoyable and fun. And it's going to be really weird to see who's making Aquaman. James Wan, who directed a lot of horror movies and directed one Fast and the Furious. Oh, you know what? That might actually work. But I'm just thinking like they're gonna have a problem if the Batman and Superman movies are the bad ones and all these other characters that are the they're not side characters, but they're not quite as important as those. They are not. Wonder Woman's the by far the closest. Yes. Are like are the good ones, right? Like, isn't that weird? Like, oh, the Batman spinoff movie that one was terrible. And the Super Mayan one that one was awful. But every other side character, those ones are good. Suicide squad was

all awful. That's the Batman spinoff. Well, you know, I thought you meant like the Batman movies spinoff. It would be an interesting role reversal if we entered a decade where Batman and Superman were the least popular of the Justice League heroes. That would be super weird. Could you imagine? Yeah, Flash beat Superman at the fucking popularity box office thing for an awful man. Well, what's popularity? Because as well as Wonder Woman did, it made like the least amount of money. Sure. Well, not by a whole lot like Batman, Superman and Spider-Man like worldwide will never be topped as far as recognition box office. But but in general, it would just be interesting to see like the two main head stars like like get less play. I just think it's because the other movies

coming out of like like the the solo side pieces like this is this is like, if you were telling me that Avengers like looks terrible, but Thor 2 was fantastic. Right. Right. Right. Like just wow. And I mean, and the thing is, is that and like there's nothing nothing has more power to like set the trend of what people feel about a character culturally than a movie. If a really good comic comes out like comic readers like it and that becomes a thing, but it's not going to spread worldwide internationally. Yeah, it's eyeballs. Yeah, it's a consensus of like, oh, this character is cool now in this way. So it'd be really interesting if that's the route they go. Either way, go see Wonder Woman. Yeah, I heard there's a I read a pretty interesting article about

a super awesome action scene halfway through the movie that so the executives like had to be fought on because they wanted to cut it out of the film. Yeah, they wanted to they didn't want it filmed like not so much cut it. The No Man's Land. Wow. That would have been a huge mistake. That would have been a huge mistake. And apparently Patty Jenkins was like, no, you idiots. This is like the this is the this is the most superheroist shit in the movie. It is. It's it's it's the same moment as like Spider-Man holding back the train and Spider-Man 2. Yeah. It's like one of those things. And I mean, as far as pacing goes, like it doesn't the movie doesn't rush itself. You know, you spend a while establishing things. Yeah, you spend a while establishing things without a major

action scene going on. And you know what I mean? It's it takes its time. So it's a really nice thing when the action does start up. And what a fucking crazy stupid decision if that happened. Now, it might be right that the main that Wonder Woman is saving people in that scene. That's like the crux of it. Not really protecting people. It's war. Okay, it's war. It's a war thing. It's a war thing. There's one thing that's unexpected. That was cool is that like they do the thing to where it's like, it's not that Wonder Woman doesn't kill people. It's just that you don't see them dying expressly on screen. Yeah, the fall off screen. And maybe people die. People totally die. But they just don't they don't emphasize it, right? But you have a really cool effect of like

as a result. So she's using the sword and shield sometimes. But occasionally when it's like, let's do some style switching for fun. And she whips out the lasso of truth. You get a really interesting almost like zoom out to Lords of Shadow action scene. She's like glow whipping people and like snatching them in and swinging them around the place. And it just visually looks really cool to see that weapon in particular used in a let me ask you since it's World War One, does the does the movie dodge the DC movie universe problem of like, what do we do with civilian casualties or not? No. Okay, what do you mean? Like, okay, so in Random Steel, we all make fun that Lois and and and Clark are making out on a thousand nine elevens at Metropolis. Yeah, while all the children

scream and die in them. And then in that man versus Superman, we all made fun that they got kicked into a fucking Phantom Zone of a city where no one ever lived ever. And they use the flaws of the first movie to build the plot of the second one. So because this is World War One, it takes place in battlefields and England and all that shit. Warfare. They get they pretty much sidestep that problem entirely. They sidestep the problem entirely. And they use it in another way. Okay, fantastic. That works. So because both of those other ones were not solutions. They were both ridiculous. It's very cool. Beyond that last thing I'll say is shout outs to shout outs to fucking god damn it. What's her name? Miss Underwood house the cars wife. Oh, Robyn right. Robyn

Wright is super awesome. I love the picture of this is where you started and it shows her in Princess Bride. And this is where you ended. Oh, God. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, then it just shows her as like the Queen Amazon or the ants to the yeah. No, Robyn right has a really cool face. I guess I don't know how else to say that she has a very dramatic looking face and I really like her. Very cool. Yeah, that's me. That's you. I guess I'll take it this week. So yeah, watched Wonder Woman. I also spent I mean, spent some time on Tekken and I meant to but I didn't get anymore. Tekken is fun. There's it's great. There are that I the slowdown is everything. It's my life. My life is all about I'm getting blown up matches. I'm getting my shit

ruined. But then I had the one round and with the slow mo and all of my energy just came back. And you know, I think I said it offscreen earlier this week, but just like it feels like a Steve Fox enhancement system. I can understand why you would say that. Oh my God. It makes every one of those last second dodges feel so much better. And that's all that a fighting game really should be at the end of the day is something that's competitive because the person you're fighting is almost as good as you or better than you and it just feels good. And not only that, but like it's a Steve enhancement system, but it also brings everybody else up to where Steve used to be with his dodges. And like the best one isn't even because we got some of the slow mo ones and those are

so exciting. But there's a second level of that and it's the slow mo ones that are so perfect that there's no hit and the match continues. Oh, the whiff whiff. Yeah, the double whiff. Like a lot of a lot of the hop kicks versus lows that happens and like there's a there's footage of a tournament where like, like as soon as the slow mo started, both guys like stood up and started bashing and jumping up and down. Yeah, it's the best favorite thing to happen in fighting games in a long time. That's all gravy. There was a yeah, the thing about tech and of course is just that like in general, you always like you have to sort there's just so much to learn when you try to switch characters or pick up any other people. I would say it is people can see that by watching

our Friday night first, the cup of it. So there's a wild difference between whenever we play a character we know and a character we're passingly familiar with. Yeah. And so I don't care much for Akuma, particularly I'm fascinated with his implementation. But I don't really care for playing as him. But I really like Shaheen. And he's great. I like Shaheen and I like his like shadow step system and stuff like that. But it's just like, holy fuck, right? This is what an 80 move move list. 80 try like 20. But okay, sure. But like, yeah, 120 in total, 80 of them you'll do maybe sometimes and really it crunch it down to 10. It comes down to 15 10 to 15 that are bread and butter they work every time. Here's your 10 string. You will never do this ever. You know, and then of course,

for me, the bigger thing I find as equally as difficult is proper movement is proper movement where you're doing the dance of like backstep front step side step back to triangle your triangling around the stage is a whole thing. I can do it a little bit in virtual fighter. I can't do it here. It makes such a big difference between what hits you. You know, whereas like a game like Soul Calibur, you can actually take your time a little bit and just play the defense in this. It's like, no, everybody in Soul Calibur has enormous fucking giant hitboxes. Yeah, exactly. You know. So yeah, that's fucking great. I spent a bit of time playing Puyo Puyo Tetris. Don't stream that shit. No, I won't stream it. I won't do it. But

I fucking get you. I booted it up with the intent to try the Tetris mode and then try the Puyo Puyo mode and then try the mixed mode. And I ended up just playing Tetris. Shocker. Because I fucking look at you would end up playing Tetris. And I can give you a full report that the Tetris mode in this game is good. Is there a Tetris Funko Pop in his home currently? Yes. Good. Does that exist? Is that a product that exists? Guess what? Yes. Holy fuck. Okay. Maybe not. Okay. Well, you chose the right conversational piece to make that work. The fucking Tetris systems, like what you want out of a Tetris system is the basics like up to quick drop. You need two rotations. You need a left and a right. Yeah, you have to. And you need a lock, right? You need

to switch my piece up for a saved piece system. That's your fucking bare bones. You need that. And then on a secondary level, you need tea spinning. And you need to see if you have proper tea spinning where you can hook your things. You can hook your Tetra Minos into a spot and then drop them into an impossible space. Right. All of that's there. Plus voice acting, fun stuff. Yeah. Puyo Puyo Tetris so far. Is a good Tetris game. It's a great Tetris game. I'll get back to you on the other modes when I feel like it. But goddamn, I love me some Tetris. And Tetris is totally your fucking desert island game, right? It could be as long as it had enough difficulty. And no, because I believe it's Tetris fear. Here's the fuck you. Oh, the problem is that

difficulty 99 on Tetris DS became easy. Yeah, that's not enough. What about invisible Tetris? Yeah, that's also you can get used to that. What I need or would want for desert island would be the what is it called the fear effect, the Tetris grandmaster to grandmaster challenge, those crazy ass ones they use for for the speed runs. And when they do awesome games done quick, that's the version of Tetris I would need. Impossible. The moment it appears on top of the screen and then the block has hit the bottom with no transition time. And all you have to do is slide it around. Just do it faster. That's the speed I got used to. And that's the speed I would want for desert island. So yeah, that's a fun game. Then I watched Beasts of No Nation. I've been

that is on my Netflix list for like the last like six months. Yeah. So I just see I said two hours, 20 minutes. I'm like, I need to make the time for this. How's interest? So here's the problem is, well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, let me look with Netflix, because what you mentioned, I had the same thing where it was on my list forever. And I went back to my list. And I noticed a bunch of movies that were on my list are fucking gone. And that shit sucks. I had the entire original Dragon Tattoo trilogy there. Yeah, those are gone. I had Bronson on my list. Now it's gone. You know, I thought you saw Bronson. No, I didn't. And it was there. And a bunch of other cool shit that I don't remember now was there. What's the point of even saving your fucking

list? You need to actually just watch the shit when you see it because Netflix licenses don't always get read. Well, I mean, Beeson No Nation always will because they fucking bought it for 12 million. Yeah, this is our movie now. It just is amazing. Even better than Idris is child soldier kid. I mean, the kid they don't know how old he is, the kid who they found playing soccer outside of his school skipping, where they just went, Hey, do you want to be an actor? And he's like, no. And they're like, Okay, do you want a better life forever? Yeah, maybe. Okay, here you go. I remember with the set they were talking about. So like, okay, we're trying to do the fucking paperwork for this kid. He said he said it was 16. Right? Yeah. Okay, good. We said the paperwork.

Go ask him, how old are you? And he's like, looks at them. He's like 14. Like, no, really, how old are you? And he's like, 15. Like, they don't actually know who this kid is. And he doesn't care to tell them. And he's going to be in Spider-Man. Yeah. Oh, wait, really? Yeah. As what? He's, I don't know. But he has like, he's cast for Spider-Man. Okay, I don't know. Awesome. Is the same character? That is a dark plot for Spider-Man. If you ever wanted to follow those child soldiers from Metal Gear and find out what they were up to, what's their backstory? They're up to some shit I hear. You can go watch Beasts of No Nation. Um, fucking good movie. Damn it. Oh, it's just super good. And it's a type of movie I can't put on and work on something while it's on, you know? It's like,

yeah, I know you have to sit and watch. It demands your attention. Like, it's so, you're so in there and it's so like, well, the whole, first of all, you know, the whole authentic experience thing is like the people surrounding Idris Elba and the kid, about half of them are pretty much people that went through the shit for real. And there happened to be from the area in which they're filming. There's one guy that's walking around with them that's like, he's basically the equivalent of general butt naked. If you're, you know, like the guy, I've, I'm naked. I've got bullets on and my AK-47, I'm ready to go to war. And that guy was like, yeah, he's the advisor on set that basically is like, yeah, I was a former child soldier and I'll, I'm here to make sure that

you guys get it authentic and do it right. And he was the equivalent of Full Metal Jackets, Arley Emery, where he's just like, this guy's around and everyone here knows he's the real deal and half of these other people are basically the real deal as well. And Idris Elba had to show up and actually intimidate the cast to get them to respect him as a fake commander. You know, it was really, it was like snoop walking around on the wire. It was amazing. It was fucking amazing. And I was so happy because like, while you're watching it, like, well, two things happen. How come they don't do that for like the Thor movies? Yeah. And they just have the gods walking around. That joke is terrible. Anyway, Anthony Hawkins is pretty close. You get so used to

an actual God walking around. You get so used to just like the whole like, oh my God, child soldier carrying a gun that's fucked up. Yeah. That by the end, it's just like your brain just like, oh, right. Yeah, that's a kid. Yeah, I almost forgot, you know. And the second thing is something I was kind of afraid of happening. I'm like, is there's gonna happen? You're kind of just wonders like something that sometimes happens when they when you have movies that are like about Africa or about an African struggle or something like that is like, here comes the foreign guy, British or American dude. Here comes Pat to save the day and explain the situation for everybody, right? You know, here it's like, it's not it's not necessarily about

like the like Africa. It's like, this is my African friend, you know, I hear they have their kids fight in the war. And not only did that not happen, but like the closest thing to it is a 10 second moment where in the middle of the conflict going on, just a UN VEX series, a couple of vans just drive by with like journalists just taking pictures of what's going on. And it's the most disjarring like you like every day, like they the Council just kind of stop and just look at the people driving by and you're like, I've seen these photos. Oh, totally. Everywhere. And like, you don't think about what it how fucking weird it is when you're in the opposite side. And like, this fucking just like trying to fight a war here and a fucking camera

shoot just rolls through. People are fucking rolling through a war zone like they're on safari and just and then just leave and you're just like, like, what is your existence anyway, back to death and mayhem, you know, and like it's such a fucking like it took the fear I had of that moment happening and like completely twisted it. Fantastic. You have Netflix. So you do have access to the movie. Yeah, get around to it. I want to I want to bed super duper solid. Um, and like, yeah, and like, it's full of really great moments like that, which, you know, I'll let you get to. And beyond that, what else is there to say? Not my three now, Funko, apocalypse. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You had it. Hey, Willie, I saw that you posted a video

about how you bought a bunch of Funko pops. Oh, big fan. Yeah, huge fan. And you put them all over your house and then you, you know, you had funsies with it. Yeah, I put a place them all over the place. I even forgot where a couple of them were. So now I'm going to have a little game where that's really impressive. Find them and show everybody wonder how long that game will take you. Yeah, I wonder might take you actually six months. Okay. So listen, the one thing, because right now my girlfriend is like walking around the house nervous. And I'm like, why like, why are you nervous? She's like, I don't know. But I just, they're not going to attack you. But the one thing that I had that I fucking was what was like, I'm like, listen,

Matt and Liam, are you guys playing fair? Because there are a lot of places and spaces where you could have just grenade lobbed a Funko pop that will never be found by anyone in the next couple of years. Because how do you get up there? No, wait, wait, let me so that that's all I need to know is the game fair. I'll give you some facts. There is one that is time locked where I can only ever see you finding it when the seasons change. The every other single one is everyone took a look at it. There was a meeting saying, is this too far? Is this in a place where we're like, no, did you discuss too far? Yes. Yes. I was given a proposition that I thought was too far and said, how about we don't do that?

And this was brought by one Levi. Okay. And by the way, all Levi and Liam, I was brought aboard this cabal later because I checked the toilet tanks. Yeah, that was what that was it. And I would have accepted it if it was in a Ziploc bag. Okay. That was also talked about, but I still said, but you know the toilet tank in your toilet in the tank itself is actually very clean. Yes. That's not really the issue. It's super clean. In fact, in Japan, it's how you wash your hands. Oh, you don't want it to like, I don't know, gum up the works and you don't want to destroy his plumbing. I was worried. So so that's what I mean is like, is it fair in the sense that like, you know, are they in places that I can reach and see and eventually, you know, fair. Okay. So how

many of them did you find? I believe I found 13. It looks like you have a couple more to go. It looks like I have a couple more to go. Second question. How many of them are there? 20. Second question. That's more than half. Did you make, did you focus it around my shit or my girlfriend's shit? Because if you put it in like her stuff, to be fair, there's only one area which I knew was kind of her stuff, which is her work area. Everything else kind of was like you had, there was you all over. Okay. Well, the bathroom part with all the makeup and stuff and not makeup, but like, you know, I know part in the bathroom myself. So you're asking the wrong person. Okay. The place with the box is like fucking, you know, all right. Well, I fully expect Willie to bake himself a pizza,

bite into the pizza and go, what a fuck go pop. Like I said, I like, I'm totally fine as long as the rules are fair. I think it's very fair as discussions happened about the ethics of the place. How many of them did you hide on the roof? One, which you found. Thank you. That clarifies quite a bit. Okay. Well, because that's, you know, because you could have went under the wood. Well, no, the actual problem is that part of your roof is dangerous. Yeah. And they could have held someone off the side of the building to place it on the outside of like an internal archway, which I would have noticed, I believe. Maybe I believe. All right. You know, so by the way, Willie came back in with those Funko pops and started placing them around the office. So they will, as they're found,

join the rest of what's, see, that's a mistake. That's a huge mistake. Because I think they're already gone from the office. No, no, no, they're here. Okay. Okay. Did you do anything else in your week? What are you? What are you? What's happening right now? What are you talking about? Okay. You don't get to replace the same ones. I can do whatever I want. And B, you're right. Can we have some rules here? Can we have some sanity? There's no rules and sanity in the game of life. When you unlock and find a fucking Korok seed, that thing stays on the map. Until you find all the Korok seeds and they unlock for a bit. You're never coming over. So what I'm trying to create here is multiple

people that I know that can come in again. That you was the pluralized general. The earth. Anyone who knows any one of the people involved in this plot. The web. The web is too complicated. Time to rotate my entire friend. And so here's the thing. I'll call people I haven't seen in six years. I'll call them up and be like, Hey, I need you to do something for me. Fucking chocolate fuck assholes. Don't worry about it, Willie. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You are the fool. How was your week? As for my weekend in reality, for games, it's just restless waiting for Stormblood. So nothing there. The only thing that I watched of note, Matt, did you catch last week's episode of Twin Peaks? No, I did not. Well, it's fantastic again. Weird again. And David Lynch

is becoming the master at getting his audience to hate him. I talked to someone that loves Twin Peaks and is like, this is the worst shit ever. Active taunting of the viewer of what they want, what they expected. And they're given the anti what they wanted. They're like, they'll give you shots of Twin Peaks and then float away to a mirror dimension. Yeah, or they'll they'll give you like a two second conversation in the police station now to Vegas for 28 minutes. Yeah. And it's clearly very intentional. And it's awesome. And I love it. But like, I can see people getting like super mad. Especially every scene with Cooper, where people are starting to get fucking pissed off. And those scenes are long, really, really, really long and drawn out. And in

many cases, wordless. But you're loving it. Even down to episode specific cliffhangers, like episode four, I think you saw that one, Matt, ends with a big cliffhanger. And then it's like, we're going to go see this person, this big important person, but it's not, you know, said who it is. Episode five, nothing to do with it. Nothing. Those characters aren't even there. It's like, like the like lost before lost. But now it's like, I don't know, it's doing what the difference was doing. The difference with this is that there is an answer. Right. Okay. There actually is an answer. Right. Okay. Okay. And even the characters are finding out about it. But you're just not being shown that you're being shown the right. It's, it is the, it is,

how do I put this? It is the successful version of what the third Evangelion movie tried to do. Where everybody is commencing the plot and going along with the plot. And you're not getting it. What you're getting is hanging out with Shinji, the whole movie. And Shinji is a fucking non actor. And everything's happening around him off camera. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It's, it's fucking great. It's super awesome. Twin Peaks. Oh man, this new season. Cool. Oh, before I forget, I've been asked by multiple people to the earth, except by the earth, I've been asked by the earth to explain my pillow pile. And I'm a pillow pile. I don't know if there's what the question. What are the, what's the question? The question is, is that if you want to lay down on the floor,

you have a bunch of pillows, so you're comfy. That's the question and the answer. That's the answer. That's it. That's the question and the answer. Sometimes pillows are comfy to sit on. What is not being comfortable on the floor? More pillows are more comfy. And aesthetically, aesthetically, it's nice. Yeah. Plounge, I believe, is the word. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know that either until my friend pointed it out to me, but a plounge is a pillow lounge. And I was like, ah, cool. Sounds good. Yeah, I like that shit. Hey, there's too many people in the house. You got to sit on the floor. Put a pillow underneath your butt. But, but, but like, you know, we're all fat, so like, you can't stay on the ground for too long. Well, because then

your legs start to die. What? Because fat. Oh, yeah. Because then your legs start to die because it's cutting off the circulation. Yeah, because that's what happens to fat legs. You know, so it's real breaking the reality. It's real to me right now. You will never be able to kneel in Japan underneath a Kotatsu. Don't tell me what I can or can't do. I'll flip that fucking Kotatsu. God. All right, dude, when I went to fucking Universal Studios in Japan, my girlfriend tried to calm me down because I got so upset. But like, I'm the only person in the line that's like a white guy and we're going to get on the ride and somebody takes me aside and makes me sit in the fucking weight limit fucking test seat. And it's like, I'm overweight,

sure, but I'm looking around. It's like, these are 90 pound Japanese people that are just like, the ride was not designed for any of us. And I got very upset. So I ate a bunch of candy. As you should in the seat, in the weight seat, just point at the number. Before we take a quick look for responses. Oh, we have a sponsor. Yeah, okay. We're okay on time. No, no, no, no, that's fine. I'm like, it's because we do have a limit today. We have a limit and I'm keeping an eye on it. I don't worry. We just cut the clock. No, we went through it. We just quite fast. It's fine. We're doing okay. Don't worry. The last couple press conferences had almost no fucking news. So that shouldn't be too tough.

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a certain level of excitement. Maybe a duel. I mean, the streets play a get your mail. I see a rapid increase in the interest in parliamentary procedure if dueling becomes a happenstance. I mean, like Canada as one of the peaceful and kind polite, polite nations known for all that. But well, duel, mother. A duel is a form of polite violence. It is. And that's what I'm that's exactly where I was going. Yeah, we're keeping up our image of being well friendly folks by politely beating the fuck out of the problem with the duel. We alert you to the fact that the beating is coming in the modern age is that in order to initiate a duel class someone has to accept the duel. Well, not just that, but you also need a tiny little bitch glove that you can slap somebody

with that required. It's just it's a method. It's a method. Um, what I'm particularly fond of is all the folks that are taking this to mean it's some kind of Yu-Gi-Oh shit so that they're going to show up with their card plastic dumb plastic thing and be like, yeah, it's time to do the duel or like Beyblade or whatever. That's like, no, mother fucker, this is a street fight. You're going to get punched and that thing's not going to block too well. A trap card. A trap card. All right. Well, maybe this is just a ploy by the Canadian government to trick people into thinking that Yu-Gi-Oh is real so we can beat on the Yu-Gi owner. Oh, no, but I brought my pot of greed. Fuck you. Austin eruption immediately moves to Canada so you can just say it legally.

Basically, it'd be doing legal mistakes. I was there was a point. Certainly. Um, we did clarify not too long ago. I remember the story that I got the info about dueling about how the the Wild West finger twitching was all about like getting the guy to pull his gun on you but killing him before he could fire because then it's self-defense. Fucking amazing. That's great. Super cool. Um, the last duel that someone died from in Canada was a long time ago. Yeah, it was an eight. I think it's 1899. It said two dudes fought over the love of a school teacher and teach my children. Well, I just, the way I'm thinking about this, could you imagine like you you're like flirting with a girl and then some other guy's flirting with her and then you guys

go fuck it. We're going to settle this one. Someone's going to die and then the winner gets to live a life with that girl and she's like, oh man, remember that cute boy that one time he murdered. He's dead now. There's a couple things with that. What the fuck? I feel like there's a couple steps in between there in which they could go, okay, can you really not make a decision? Is this really the only tie break? Is this the only way we can solve this? You can't just pick one. Especially back in that timeframe, could the girl not have run out in the middle of the duel say, okay, how about you Wednesdays and Thursdays? You Tuesdays and Mondays? Are you implying the line, gentlemen, you can both have me? Maybe I was. Maybe I was. I'd rather get fucking, oh man. No. Getting shot seems cool.

The idea seems that getting shot and surviving seems cool. Yeah. And well, the idea seems to be that there's no backing down when your pride's on the line. I daydream about getting shot sometimes. I also daydream about you getting shot sometimes. There's the layup. There it is. Slam. Slams it in. And survive it. The idea being that like two people argue to the point where they're like, I'm willing to die for my point. Yeah. And then you do the duel where you walk a distance away and you turn around and you shoot, but you shoot with the shittiest types of pistols. Oh yeah, because dueling is actually about saving face. It has nothing to do with actually killing anyone. So you both fire and you miss because the guns are garbage. And then you go, fair enough,

you stood your ground and so did I. I still lose this situation. I showed that I'm a big tough man and I was willing to die for what I believe. And that's how you agree to disagree. And occasionally, somebody takes a bullet to the face. They're like, whoopsie. My second was here. He saw it was fair. Yeah, it was fair. Sorry. Sorry. My aim was good. So that's Canada. Now. E3. Lots of things happen. A lot amongst the lots of things. One of those things includes the bone X. No, the X box. The X box. I'm going to push both until I'm going to push both. No, I'm exclusively ex bonks. Also, the hilarious thing about it is that there are some people

that are very adamant about pushing the X box, the, the, the zone X or the Xbox one X like pure, because they think the official name is the stupidest one. Like all the goofy joke names are not as dumb as the, as the official one, because the official one looks like a boxer at UPS. It said, I'm box one, but he couldn't get the name box one. So he just put the fucking X's at the sides. I'm pretty sure they just use it and look at serial numbers and not the name of the console. I'm box one. The fact that these, these, the acronym for it sort of spells out X box, I don't know if that was deliberate or not, but might be. But then again, that have to include the B, which, which it always has. So then it's XBO X. Yeah, it's X box, X box, right? XBO was

X box original. It should be X O X. And like, you know, at the top of the old video game magazine, so they would have the names of all the consoles that they cover and they'd have to shorten some of them. Yeah. Even if they didn't have an official shortened name. So if I was going to see this on Game Fan, it would say X O X. Hugs and kisses. Absolutely. And I'm expecting from this point forward, whatever they make next, you're allowed to create some new like branding for like, you're allowed to just ditch. I think that it's getting ridiculous. PlayStation has a number and it's simple and they're going to stick with it. And it has a pro to say the better one. And that's all you really need. Well, Xbox one has a number, right? Just the number means nothing. You sure.

Nintendo has the word Nintendo and then it doesn't matter as long as anything follows the word Nintendo. That's correct. So they've got it down. These guys are fucking bumble fucking all over the place. This is the Microsoft Xbox One S X. So I have my worry is that S like if we get the pro version of this, it should be called like the Xbox One X box, you know, like where do you go? And S are probably two of the closest letters in the English language in the pronunciation. And I foresee a lot of very confused parents try like, like them like a store not having Xbox One X's and then being told, well, we have a plenty of Xbox One S's. Do you want an Xbox S or the Xbox X and and Jimmy's dad is like,

which plays the games better and the store. Give me a switch. Give me a switch. Yeah. See, yeah. Well, no, you can't get a switch. It's where you're buying. Give me a PS4. Like, do you see any marketing value? Surely there is because they spent millions on it, but do you see any inherent marketing value to keeping the word one? So no. And also, they there was an interview with the Spets. I think it was and they were asking him and he was really upfront about the decisions they made to name it. Yeah. And they were like, Scorpio's cool, but it's kind of weird for the average person. Okay. And we were going to call it the elite, but we already have an Xbox called the elite. Well, a 360 model called and they figured that

like, uh, and when we have the act, the S, so why not just use that branding? I get it. I totally get it, but I'm glad they didn't call the Xbox Elite Xbox One Elite Xbox One Elite X. Now, we want to get Xbox out of this. Unsurprisingly, you can tell, but I can't say the word properly anymore. Xbox One X, Xbox, Xbox One X. Unsurprisingly, we're moving further and further into console generations being blurry and controllers just don't change. Well, the goofy thing is that like all this naming shenanigans reminds me of PC video card shit in which PC video card denotation is sorcery and makes no sense and changes every single year. And it's like that. It's like, well, what about the Xbox? Once upon a time, it was ATI Rage 128, the end,

you know, and then, and then you, when you ended the rage line, Voodoo 3F, Voodoo 3F, Voodoo 3FX, exactly. And then when you end that long, that line, then it becomes ATI and new thing. But it's like, well, a 1080, is that better than a 9800 pro? Yeah. Well, well, or, or yeah, when you start, when you start getting into the Nvidia GeForce and the various numbers and the things that comes after the numbers, it gets, it gets to be bad. Yes. Okay, I'll let me throw out a question right now. CPUs aren't much better. Aside from work is every is all of us buying one. I'm going to buy one for a very highly specific set of circumstances that the average consumer that it's not going to run into. I'm going to buy it for multi platform games that I don't want to buy

on PC, but want to have the best version because their PC stores are nightmares. So EA games and Ubisoft games and the exclusive here or there that comes out that's just easier to play on console and games that freak out when you put them in OBS and I want to stream them. Sure. There's a couple of those where the game just goes crazy when you put it into OBS. Yeah. And so they fuck that, just streaming on a console. Yeah. So I don't think that's a super fair question because considering our business, we don't get a choice anymore. Well, no, but no, it is because we're going to buy one for work. There's going to be one sitting in there, but do you get one for your house? But also for work, you'd kind of need one. Yes, for work. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like,

let's be real. Like, we need to know. So like that choice is kind of beyond us. Then aside, but if I would have, if I would have, it would remain questionable because I'd have to see that exclusive game that needs to sell me the console. It's the same every single time is show me the one game that will get me there. I mean, because I never bought a PS4 Pro for myself because I saw really no value for myself in that. And in this, at least I can understand that this is a better. So I like the PS4 Pro plenty and I don't think it's support has been very good. This is a much simpler, better idea than the Pro, which is just it's a way, it's way stronger. And combined with the way they handle backwards compatibility in that it runs in like an emulator

that just runs faster. If you have more juice, like it will make 360 and Xbox original games look better by default. And it's, it's so much stronger that patches for like, you know, Witcher is getting a patch now and stuff like that. Like it's just like, just crank the settings up. Literally turn them up. We've been online. And so it's recorded like how we entered and are exiting the last generation, right? Like the Xbox one and PS4 came out during our time online and whatnot. Like I feel like every time a new console comes out, I will always have the same answer. Yeah, you do. You've been consistent. I only got that Xbox one because of PS4 Pro. I didn't get a Pro.

So for example, let's just say off the bat, I'm going to assume the answer is no, but you having a 4K TV would getting this just for K, sorry, would getting this just for KI in 4K. Is that enough for like, no, just playing the same game in 4K is not enough for me. It needs to be a game that I cannot play. Well, you can play all of them. The difference is, is can you play like this thing is very clearly targeted. Yeah. I don't care about the bump up. I don't care about the bump up at all. I have a 4K TV. I don't care about the bump up. I want a game that I can play specifically for my money is where I would be at if I wasn't well, they're definitely not going to be there's for the time being, they're not going to have Xbox

Xbox exclusive because anything that's going to run at 4K on this thing is going to run just fine on a regular Xbox. And if they're pushing Windows 10 as well, then you know, that's what that's going to be. Now for somebody like me who's a crazy performance asshole wants all this stuff has the expensive PC and all that shit for console games that are only on console. This is absolutely the way to go for me and I don't have an Xbox. So I'll pick it up because why, you know, I waited for an Xbox and now they're saying here's a better Xbox. Yeah, maybe I don't if they announced K I to just call it killer instinct to know. Like for me, I don't really care about the bump up that much or care or stuff that I already own. What I do care about is actually

having one console that will play a lot of Xbox family games, a shit on backwards compatibility. Like I think the 360 the library 360 games that the Xbox one now plays is actually like there's there's stuff that's missing. But a lot of these are really, really good games. And I've bought like maybe a dozen like not re-bought but like re-gotten games I had on my 360 like, you know, Double Dragon Neon, some other stuff like that. If I want to play through Mass Effect 1 and 2 again, it's gonna be on this. Yeah, it's not going to be on the PC because the PC versions of the PC version one anyways is really bad. And there's certain Xbox original games that like I love and would love to like throw away some of that stuff in storage to have one console that

can at least play one console at least a good amount of all these things. That is true. Like there's no we out on my shelf because you don't need it anymore. Right? Yeah. Gamecubes, gamecubes, you don't need that space anymore. I think it's fairly obvious that there's a massive peripheral like thing there that has not been announced for this yet that is going to come perhaps next year. Like what do you mean? Like a VR answer? A VR answer. Yeah, maybe. Or this thing's definitely got the juice for VR. They need to release a game that's like Donkey Kong 64 or Perfect Dark where it literally has many features the older Xbox couldn't do. To show off what's possible. Like you can do this, this, this like gameplay. But Microsoft is always

no. Exactly. They're never going to do that because all they are about is more juice. Yeah. Let me ask you guys. What do you feel about the price? It's high. It's high. It's not ridiculous. Considering the juice that's in it, but like lower than I expect. But that but well, the thing is, is, is, you know, like, do you like how bad do you want 4k? Yeah, if you want 4k gaming now, because 4k is 500 is absolutely reasonable to crawl to 4k with his PC. 4k requires juice. It requires stuff. And when they were showing that off, it's like it's got liquid cooling and it's got like all this shit. It's like, yeah, there's kit going to that. But there's real hardware going in. But I still think that it's out of touch with the average person. Yes. I don't think consumer.

I don't think this is for the average person. I think this is for the asshole. I think because this is a 4k thing, I think the extra hundred bucks doesn't matter to the guy who spent $4,000 on their television. Yeah, I don't I don't think that they don't they do not expect the average consumer that's like like into video games to just and that's a ballsy fucking gamble to play. Well, the the ps4 pro had like a weird more broad thing where it's like it makes every game better. But 4k and it was kind of like half hearted. Whereas this is like, no, this is this is the this is the expensive one. They also need a sticker on any of their first party games or any third party games that take advantage of the that say, remember the Kinect stickers better with Kinect.

They need a better with Xbox. That's part of the box labeling. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, in the trailers in the bottom right corner of like Anthem, it shows Xbox one enhanced. Yeah. Yeah, no, they're the reality. The reality is that it's definitely it's for you. And it's all the idiots like me. And and for people that just want to play the game period entry level, like people, they're going to just hold on to what they have now. There's because they don't have a reason to go out and buy there's a there's a weird secret value to this to PlayStation owners. And that's the impetus to make a highly customized spec for PS4 Pro has been low so far. Turn up a couple options because it's looking, you know, whatever it's extra work.

But since there are now two specs that are considerably higher than the baseline, it makes a lot more sense. Like Witcher, they had gone out and said, we are not making a PS4 patch. Yesterday, they came out and said, we are now making a PS4 pro and Xbox one enhanced patch because it just crossed just over the line into financial viability. And that's primarily for older stuff. So the idea then that this coming out is going to bump up expectations for the line as well. Then and now they've inverted where now the pro is going to struggle to do 4k or do checkerboarding. This thing's going to be kicking out native and developers are going to respond to this heightened bar on all ships rise with the tide kind of basically. Yeah.

So they're going to put all the work into the fucking, you know, Xbox one enhanced thing. Why not put it in there? I think they also did a much better explanation of how super sampling actually works for like older games, even though they only spent about 45 seconds. Like it's got a technique called super sampling and it'll downscale your shit and it'll look nicer. Now, am I wrong in assuming, Matt, that like for you personally, the Xbox classic compatibility is enough of a cell? It's not limited. Well, it's not limited, but like I'd still rather have something that is that is the best in plain modern stuff and also play also. It's it's enough to make it an eventual purchase. I mean, because they add the games and

like every every couple of days or weeks or whatever it is. So if they have the same rate of putting Xbox original titles on there, like they do the 360, like I would if I wasn't going to purchase one day one, I'd purchase it like month three. The Xbox one had the Xbox original has some fucking bang and classics on that. Yeah, that were originally launched. So like this is definitely like, yeah, they never got ported to in place. A lot of Sega games, for example. That being said, what I what I said at the time on stream is the same. I feel I don't know how they're going to fucking handle their fucking vape vape chamber. How are you going to have a liquid cooled vape chamber processor that is like getting shipped out in a console that is not going to

break constantly? Like that thing is not meant to be moved around, tussled with, you know, like it's not meant to be ignored. You have to actually, well, look, craftsmanship, it has good craftsmanship because that's it. Like, especially like, like I like learning the ropes of, you know, my liquid cooled system was like my liquid. How can my system possibly be this liquid? Well, it was rough because I, you know, like the first time around, I didn't realize that it's like you actually do have to maintain this thing. And you do have to like, you know, service it. Wait, what? Not like, like you have to, if you move, if you, like it's not met, it's, they break much easier. Okay. Is what I'm trying to say. So what I, they're not as durable. So as fans in that case, considering

these are AMD APUs, right? Yes. I would highly, I would think that durability of this is a primary concern because of the, the issues that you're talking about. They likely sacrifice some cooling performance so that it's made out of sterner stuff. Otherwise, we're going to have a red ring again. We're going to, like that's the worry is, and it's not going to, when this liquid cooling fucking thing breaks, it's not going to be like the heat sinks failing on the old one of like, is my 360 red ringing? No, like your shit's going to explode. It'll kill you. Well, it'll just, it won't kill you. It'll kill your family. It'll blow up your house. It won't turn on, but I like the other scenario. That's a blow up your neighborhood.

And, and, and like that, if you got the idea of like a first year of something coming out, being fucked over by this type of shit, you know, like the wheeze that would get broken because people were smoking cigarettes around them, you know, well, that's a very, it's ridiculous, but you end up with this first, like this launch window of like people returning their shit and whatnot. I feel like going into making the choice to go liquid cooling in a fucking console is, well, here's the thing. The reason why soon, or they figured something out that we don't know. The basic deal is that the reason why the Xbox one original, like not the S not, you know, the original that came out of the logo reason why it's so big is because it has a fucking

it has a goddamn fan in it, like the size of that laptop. Yeah. Like it's, it's all fan. Because they were very serious about the thing not melting, like the 360 did. And they go, okay, well, we're going to, we want it to be smaller. But I mean, that if we're going to, if they're going to pack that much more shit in it, it's going to make more heat, right? So the only way to make it smaller is to liquid cool it. And I'm going to hope that that's the second one that they figured something out and they're like, Oh, this works. Is this going to be, I don't know if the instructions ever officially recommend this, but I feel like this might be the console where they're going to be like, Hey, dusting your shit is now mandatory. You now actually do have to

make sure because you should be doing that anyway. But if you don't, if you have never dusted your console before you dust, you have to turn both keys at the same time. And then you go into the unlock chamber. If you've never done it, you now probably will need to actually fan and get your fucking liquid air airspray. And you will have to dust your Xbox like it's a regular servicing thing that there's kind of a beauty in that because it's like if you're at there, someone's Xbox breaks, they'll be like, Microsoft be like, Well, you should have followed the directions, you should have taken care of it. It says it right there. It's not our fault. Fuck that. Or the assholes that will buy it that really want to take good care of their hardware

will just like do it and then they'll be fine. So maybe it's like a win-win scenario. I don't know. Now, we don't need to go over everything they announced, obviously, shadow of video games looks great. We can talk about some of the games they talked about. War door. I think if we grab the roundup, War of Mordor, War of Mordor, one more time. War of Mordor. Mordor. Plague doesn't like the Tolkien game. The game that he always envisioned to be the true. That's correct. So yeah, some of the things they announced. Forza, right past that.

Metro. Metro looks great. Yep. And the last two Metro games have been fantastic. So very excited, especially for that Far Cry 2 map. Very interesting moment with walking outside in that trailer. Yeah, totally. You're reversing everything about Metro. How about that? There was a look at Assassin's Creed Origins. Looks cool. I really hope that you get to put on a hood that is an Anubis face. That would I can't imagine that that isn't the final armor set. I can't imagine they would green like this without being able to. I imagine the first piece of art was like this kind of techno robe with an Anubis face on it and they're like, yep, or maybe putting it in Egypt. How much would

you personally kickstart Mummy's Alive DLC armor? Personally. He's a kickstart DLC. Like I start the campaign. Like how much would you fund? Would you pay to get just how much would I pay to get downloadable Mummy's Alive armor? Okay, I would pay zero amount of money if it was just the armor. I'd pay infinite amount of money if it was the armor and the theme song. What about the voices? No. Okay. And it plays all the time you're wearing the armor. You just take it off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. That's it. That's the one. This game has like swappable armor and like, you know, loot and shit and makes total sense. So ask Credo. Ask Credo. We've got

Player unknown battlegrounds Minecraft state of the K2 is weird because it looks like a do-over. Why? I don't know. It looks baffling. They're saying it's much larger than the original game, but we saw, you know what? We saw the exact locations. You saw the church and we saw like with that dust field outside. Yeah, but I recognize like that whole suburb like so that must be a tiny piece of them now much bigger map. Pokemon, gold and silver. Sure. How about that? Right? Deep Rock Galactic looks fine. Sure. Yeah. Cool co-op game. Darwin project looks terrible. I mean, it was a it was a it was a gameplay. It was gameplay. There was gameplay. It was it was Screamlorded gameplay. Very, very brief. They cut to it. There's a yellow shirt.

Dragon Ball FighterZ. Dragon Ball is the fucking, it's the takeaway. Hey, Marvel versus Capcom Infinite. You're a pretty cute little lamb. Get out of the way. I'm trying to look at Dragon Ball. Normally, normally I don't go in for that whole like, oh, fuck that other game. Let's focus. No, this time, fuck that other game. Like all my Marvel excitement that dissipated last week over the roster has now gone into this. Yeah, I don't have that, but I'm still excited for both. Well, but I will say that fighting games are now even more competitive than they were when they came back a few years ago. This thing could not be more exactly what we wanted. You never got something that like the couple of 3DS fighters, like they're

okay. Never. It's just it was back in the Super Nintendo taste. Yeah. Okay, fair enough. You know. Except for a few 3DS fighters, I know that were like, you know, made by Arc System Works. Like, this is the first one that's like, there was that weird DBZ Super game on the PS2 that was there was there was Ultimate Battle 22, you know, final bout. So right off the bat, I want to give big thumbs up to everybody ArcSys that is involved in this. Their shading technology is the best astonishing. And it's weird because Dragon Ball games started to look perfect around like Budokai 3. Well, that's what I thought. But then they got worse because they put in they're like, what do we do? Put in more effects and it started looking less.

And now it's back to perfect. No, it's back to perfection. And I mean, like ArcSys has clearly established themselves as the guys that can make the IP fighting game for you. Yes. Do you have an IP? Would you like a fighting game? Do you want it to be good? Yes, we can do that. Okay, you're going to do that. We have the ability to do that. Okay, that's great. And here's a DBZ. Yeah. And Roboto tweeted this out and I'm like, it would be so embarrassing, but it would be the best future where they're just like, he's like, Capcom, please stop digging around. Just hire ArcSys to do Darkstalkers. Yeah, I think it's like a pride thing. It's absolutely a pride thing. That would be super embarrassing. I would be embarrassed. But you hire Dimps. Yeah, but they were the secret

company guys. No. You know, they made Dragon Ball games. Dimps' secret company name. It's a secret. And they made 18-2. Yeah. No, ArcSys is their current competitor. And there was one detail that somebody was throwing around on Twitter of like, if you're able to deflect like people's energy blasts, they fly into the background and destroy shit in the background. Yeah, you didn't see that? No. You know what? You know when Goku or Vegeta, they just backhand something and you see it in the background. It blows up like a capsule building. God. Fucking ArcSys, so good. I was going to say, MP5 Arena is coming. Yeah. I was saying this on Twitter. I find a baffling that Xenoverse fucking 2 is coming for the Switch, but not this. That was probably already in development before

this even existed. Yeah. They now report. Smartly, very wisely, they got that Black Desert. I guess. Well, did you actually try to play Black Desert on PC or did you do the Character Creator? I did the Character Creator. I played it for like a couple minutes. The fucking interface for PC on that is Nightmarish. It's the worst ever. Yeah, but I don't have a baseline expectation for MMO interfaces. You don't need one for MMO interface. It's bad. It's terrible. And seeing that this is going to get a console version means like, maybe I'll take a round in it because it'll have menus that can be used for a controller properly. I mean, look, it's the best Character Creator in an MMO. It's the best looking MMO. And it's very general and the combat looks like not MMO combat. So those are

like a weird Eve game for crazies. Yeah. But those are three really strong things going for it. Something that is going to be odd is they have real estate in the game that you actually... Is it free? No. But you buy it and you make houses and stuff. And that, in my experience, usually doesn't go well. But I think here it's like they have rented houses as opposed to building a house on the map where... Player housing is always a goofy thing in MMOs because the only way you can do it for real is if you have a stupendous land mass. You need so much land that even if every player on a server were to buy a house, it would still maybe 10% of the land. You know, kind of thing. Or limited availability. Or instance. Or instance houses. Which is how

most MMOs do because it's easier. Walk into this door. It's your world now. Yeah. But instance housing, while fun, because yeah, oh, we have our... It's lame. You know, you want everybody to actually... You want to look out to town and see the town. And you want your house to be in the good spot that other people can't get because your house is in the good spot. You want them to see your big dick, yes. Now, the thing is, is I just didn't expect this to show up ever again. Yeah. Pretty much. So that was really cool to see that. It's not getting forgotten. Along one of those Korean MMOs, you just go, oh, that's cool. And you expect to... Oh, it'll be in the background there and PC bombs. Yeah, it would be like guns the dual showing up on a console. I have to say

though, it was a little like, oh, that's not good. Is that, hey, we went to Japan. We have some games to show you. Here's two games. One of them's from Korea. And one of them is on other consoles. Like no one in Japan... There was a very... They'll never get a big exclusive ever again, I think. The weirdest thing about that whole conference was like they kept saying exclusive and diverse lineup. It's like they showed off some good stuff. But like, aside from Anthem... Not actually exclusive. Like nothing was actually exclusive. Because business wise... Anthem's not even exclusive. Who's going to be that dumb? Nowadays? Well, so what you would then go is it's very similar to PS4, but it's like you would go, okay, well, Microsoft's first party output. Yeah, are they paying for

the game? Their first party output right now is not great. Forze is good. But the rest is... I don't expect... I don't expect many companies that are not having the game paid for by Microsoft to be making like... Well, they canceled all those games. Yeah. So, okay. See the heaves. See the heaves. See if these is the only one that... But that's still on Windows, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, but it's also being canceled. Their rare is not being paid by Microsoft to make that. Really? Well, they own rare. Then why would... Then, of course, that counts as... Yeah, that's why they had the rights to cancel it. Yeah, okay. Yeah. It's still on PC. I guess I just... In my head, that's... To be fair, though, when I look at this stuff,

I would much rather play these games on the new Xbox. Do we call that second party? Do we call that second party? That is traditionally... It's technically owned, but not internal, would be second party yet. Okay, because in my brain, I'm like... Like retro second party. Yeah, fine, fine, fine. They're their own company, but they're still owned by Nintendo, but they're not internal. The company owns a certain amount of shares, and it just makes... We can boss you around. Basically, first, second, and third depends on how much independence do they have. Do they have zero independence? They're first party. They have some. Second, do they have total? Third.

Last night was the coolest looking game ever, you mean? Fucking fantastic. Cool art style. Looks super dope. That is the most impressive art style I've ever seen. Yep. It's really unique, and I can't wait to see what's going on with that. I saw him in a guest this game like a year ago, and I thought it was just animated. I thought it was those kinds of art projects that people do. I'm going to make a fake SNK background that didn't exist. And when you see that level of detail with the map and stuff, and then it cuts to pixel

art main character being super well-lit and animated. It's so odd, but cool, you know? It's so fucking cool. And yeah, your lighting is just dramatic as fuck last night. It's so fucking cool. So that was one of the cool things they announced. Then there was the Artful Escape, which was a hipster guy with guitar. Quapping his way through the world, don't know what to make of it. We'll see. Code Vein, Anime Souls. It's coming to the Xbox. We've talked about this on the Power Guys before. Yeah. Bamco's. Looks good. Bamco's doing it. Anime Souls.

Also Modern Day, or are you seeing that apocalyptic? Yeah, Future Tokyo. Destroyed cars. So that's happening. Sea of Thieves. Looks great. Yep. And Tacoma. They showed a little bit more of that. Looks like Tacoma. I forget what that one was. It's a walkthrough space. It was Space Weirdness. Right. Okay. That trailer was briefed. The end of 2001, A Space Odyssey. Got it. In a video game. Oh, damn.

Super Lucky's Tale. Strikes me as odd that this got its own section. I agree. But it's a part of... It's an audience that was not catered to for the rest of the show. Fair enough. Fair enough. Show your diverse pie. I just thought it would be, all right, my grandchildren will get to play Kape. Finish your sentence.

No, no, I was done. Okay. Cuphead. They'll be wearing their Zarya skins. September 29th. We're getting Cuphead. No, we're not. It still doesn't say the year. September 29th. He's right. He didn't say the year.

Terry Crews has decided to rebel against Blizzard and continue to be Doomfist. In every game, but... Overwatch. I'll admit, they'll crack down through each other. The show looked a little rough. It did. But, hey, it uses the power of the Cloudman. It runs on 30 on the Xbox.

Hey, wait, if the power of the Cloud is infinite, then how come they're releasing a stronger console? So then Ashen is... No, answer my question. And Ashen was the game that looked like Inside Souls, I guess? I don't know. And no faces. I mean, yeah, so it reminded me...

Looks like Below in 3D. It reminded me of Inside's art style with the no-face things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Fighting Monsters and such. Life is Strange before the storm. I was confused by this because this is made by a different developer. That's like... You missed it last week, but Don't Knot's working on Life is Strange 2.

So they wanted the prequel done by someone else. And they're clearly using the assets, you know, because they're not doing a unique thing with what the game style is. Shadow of War, Mordor of the Earth. Shadow of Video Games. Shadow of Video Games. Video Games of War. The video game-esque video game ever.

Yeah, Oriental of the Wisps. And then, at which glorious, beautiful game. Max Crud. And then Anthem, which is like fucking good job Bioware. You have everyone's attention. Yeah, I was like, I couldn't care less for Bioware games nowadays, but I was impressed by that. I was extremely impressed by Anthem.

Looks fucking awesome. Well done. I'm not sure how much of that trailer I believe. Yep. Well, not the watching around that village part. That first bit looked super fake, and the second bit looked much more real, but highly impressive. So impressive that I'm still doubtful.

The fact that I have like destiny vibes, like coming strong, but you're in an Iron Man suit and you can fly and you can super run and you can do all that stuff that I love to see. And looks more like Bioware's take on like this. I know this is a fucking, I know this is a fucking plebian thing to say. Say your pleb shit.

Yeah. The fact that it's third person makes all the difference to me. People would see their character. But I would have given more of a shit about destiny if I could see my character consistently. Like even before people had problems with the game, the main thing for me right away was I want to see my guy. Anything like this that has persistent character

and a long story and all this stuff that's your character that you made. Yeah, you want to see your character. That's supernatural. That's not pleb at all. Is this the closest thing to an RPG? No, I don't know what that they've announced. I don't know.

I mean, I didn't see any RPG stuff. They just no real, no actual RPGs. Didn't show any of those mechanics if they are. What's that? All right. And that was Assassin's Creed. Orange is probably the closest thing they showed to an RPG. RPG elements.

Yeah. And that was the X-Bunks. Well, I mean, Black Desert. Oh yeah. No, it's an MMO. It's an MMO. Yeah. Okay.

It was the X-Bunks. So what happened to EA? This is really quickly. This is pretty much the exact same conference they've had for the last two years where it's not terrible. It's just not. They also didn't show any like clearly fake games.

It didn't exist. Which is nice. Actually, I'm going to talk about Bethesda. Oh, okay. Please. I have more to say about Bethesda than EA. I need to take a shit. So is that a good time?

No, I don't. I'm just making a shit funsies at Bethesda's expense. You can do it right in your pants. I can't stop you. That's what they did. So I didn't watch the first like 15 minutes of it and it seems to be that's what most people were complaining about.

Is that accurate? No, it was just that there was nothing. And like their big announcement was like, hey, Skyrim and VR again, I guess. And Doom, you remember how slow and shitty Doom were? We're making it slower. And shitty. We were also announcing no new single player content for Doom.

None. I heard Todd Coward didn't make it. He didn't. He powered it out. He didn't have his lies ready. Man, that tickles you bad. That gets you super good. I just love the name Todd Coward.

So I saw a Tumblr post where someone says, can someone please explain to me why Erwin's saying he's lying? I don't understand. And a lot of people said, I actually don't get it either. I just think it's funny. So I say it too. Is there a specific lie that spotted this? New engine for every game they've ever made.

Brand new engine built from the ground up. You're going to be able to do this. You're going to be able to do that. Like, just he's a PR pitchman guy and he and it's all lies. And it's just because those games are so popular and the flaws with them are so obvious. Yeah, people just go, OK. I remember the first time they showed Fallout 4

and they said, this is a new engine you're looking at. And you're like, no, it's not. You can tell just from the first five fucking seconds of footage. But besides all of that, which is very much the reason why, I feel like I would have invented a character named Todd Coward in the same naming conventions as Paul Marketing and Lucky Ted. I'm a fan of a name Todd Coward.

Too bad it's taken, you know. I fucking love it. So anyway, we took a look at Doom VFR. Yeah, absolutely no interest. Looks real bad. So I'm glad they're doing the thing, which is like actually redo the game to work in VR better. Like that's better than trying to just fucking make Doom 2016

into a VR game because it just doesn't work like that, especially that game. So I do applaud that that's more work than they needed. I saw that your basic takeaway was why not spend the money on the on expanded content instead. Or just announced that we're going to be making a new Doom because that game leaves on a cliffhanger. I want to fucking play that.

I'm sure they are. Oh yeah, no, I'm sure they are too. But I don't know. Yeah, I still haven't played Doom and I need to get on that. And I don't think the VR version is the one I'm going to play. No, it's a completely different game. The regular version is a fighting game from first person. It's awesome.

OK. This is a VR shooting game of which there's dozens released a day. I'm sure it'll be good, but I just have no interest in playing VR right now. Yeah, Farpoint got to do that, though. Fallout VR, of course. Hey, guess what the best part about this game is? What?

It's a separate game that you buy for $60. Is it a VR experience? No. What is it then? It's Fallout 4 with VR support. You got to pay for the VR. It's a new game. You got to pay for it.

It's a new game. You got to pay for the VR tech. You got to pay for the VR and D and the VR. That's fucking horseshit. People have modded this in. Like, that's fucking nonsense. In a way that doesn't make you vomit. There's new controls and shit like that.

Well, they're not going to change the fucking movement speed or anything like that. You have to. Well, I can see it in this. They're still moving the same way. Well, hold on. We haven't seen them walking yet. There, look. It's exactly the same.

OK. Yeah. This is not DLC. This is not an add-on. This is not an update. Like, this is a completely different $60 game. Liam and I broke it down a while ago about how much it's not... You can't just take any third-person game or first-person game.

That's what I was saying about Doom. And stick the camera there. Like, it's so easy to make you fucking vomit. Well, look. They're doing it. Look. They're doing it. I hope that's...

Pay $60 for that privilege. I hope that speed doesn't make you feel sick. Wait. Maybe... I don't think you can do that on PSVR, but maybe on the Vive, if you can? I forgot the name of that really bad launch VR game that made everybody vomit.

But if you want an example of a problem... Why here they lie? Go play Here They Lie. If you want an example of what happens when you don't do this properly. No. You don't listen to Woolly. That's bad advice. Because they patched out the VR on Here They Lie.

And you can play an amazing version of that game because they knew. You can't do VR anymore? No, you can. But I just like to say that they patched it out. If you just play it on a regular PS4, it just works. It doesn't even ask you for VR. Alternatively, you can try playing Windlands, I think it was called.

What about that flying game? Bird Game. Yeah. Didn't that make people throw up? No. They did a lot to make sure that you didn't... Bird Game. They were just...

Buy Fallout 4 again at full price so you can play the shitty VR version. Creation Club. So these are... What is this? This is them trying to hide the paid mods again. Mod developers making cosmetic items for their games. That's what's going on. It's like a subscription service for official mods.

Elder Scrolls, Legends, Heroes of Skyrim. I don't know what this is. That's a card pack for their fucking shitty Hearthstone ripoff. Okay. That's what that is. Skyrim Switch with Zelda shit in it. I had some friends of mine just flipping their shit out at the idea that the Zelda Amiibo fucking shit is a value add to this game.

Didn't they say... You can go download fucking Link pornography in Skyrim right now. First of all, didn't they say that, originally before they're like this doesn't confirm... I mean it's not gonna look that good. Then they say like we didn't confirm the existence of this game, even though they showed footage. They're being really cool about that.

The reason they didn't give them the clear to fucking announce it till E3 for some reason. Secondly, are we getting a Dovahkin Amiibo? I think it's neat that they're actually doing a little thing, but I still couldn't care less about that. Why is the frame rate in the trailer bad? Because I'm sure the frame rate of the game is bad. Damn it. That's bad.

It's almost as if you shouldn't have done this. I mean, I think that like that's a... It's a port for somebody. That's a good game. And honestly, I would be down for playing that away from home, right? Because that's a fun game. But like, it's at the same time,

it's like woo! Port of a five-year-old game. Yeah, are there... Are there... You know, there's like... Okay, so there's... I know there's an extensive Skyrim modding community. Is there already Zelda-like mods out there that pretty much have this?

If there weren't, I'd be shocked. When this one announced? I would be shocked. Well, if there weren't anyone this was announced, there definitely are now. As of right now, yes. Dishonored death of the Outsider. This confused me at first, but then I was like,

oh wait, I know exactly what this is. This is Wolfenstein the Old Blood. Yeah, it's their DLC. Which is a six-hour standalone game. Which is like $30, $20. So... Mini game. Mini, mini...

Mini, mini, mini, mini Dishonor. It's a Dishonor. Yep. I don't particularly... That's how I feel about that. Quick Champions, they're not cancelling it. They're... Not only are they not cancelling it,

they're immediately going to guest characters. They're not gonna press... That's good. I got more interested now. I could always go for more BJs. Well, I mean... If you... Blaskowitz.

If you press down the button, then you have to keep it held, and that's a lot of effort. So the only thing that makes me happy about this is that BJ Blaskowitz is cool. He's the coolest. He's very cool. And it means the Doom guy is going to be in this game,

100%. I hope Raiden will be in it like he was in previous games. That'd be cool. Quake Heroes looks... It looks like Quake and it looks fun, but just the... All the marketing should have been... Oh, remember your classic Quake Heroes?

No, that's Lies. It's not weird. That's massive, huge Lies. Yeah. And also they're weird, like we're pro gamers playing in an aircraft. Hangar alone is weird. I don't like it.

Well, you gotta stay on message, man. Oh, fuck you in your message. The evil within two. Yeah, let's talk about this. Sure. It appears to start like 10 minutes after the end of the last game. Yeah, so I was saying on Twitter,

like, man, do I... As time goes on, I was like, man, I think the evil within might be one of the most disappointing games for me of all time, considering it's pedigree. That's the thing that I always say, considering the people that made it.

Like, it is a huge disappointment compared to the previous game. So I think there was a fucking subreddit topic on our subreddit of like, why does Pat hate evil within so much? And it's not an entire LP to explain. Yes, there is. And I had a friend of mine ask me the same thing.

It's like, listen, not only is this game a massive disappointment coming from where it is, right? But the LP that we did could not have had more problems. It had so many problems. We had every version of the game actively fight us at every occasion. We had performance problems.

And we ran into... Because I remember Liam was playing at the same time and we were showing him the fucking bugs we were running into. And he's like, how? How did you get these to have... Like, well, there was a bug in one of the areas in which you're walking through the fucking part

where there's all these tripwires and bombs everywhere. And the tripwires were invisible. I remember. Where our fucking flashlight was on, the tripwires would go invisible. Yeah. Like, and this game couldn't have been set up for us to dislike more.

Now, what I'm wondering is, is technical issues aside, you still were disappointed. Yes. Now, did you... I've since played the game again when it's been fixed. And I still really disappointed.

Okay, did you... Now, Liam talked about the DLC where you play as the boss being really fun. I still haven't played that one. We played the Kidman DLC. And I remember him saying that that was the best thing the game had. But you know what?

When we were gearing up for that shitstorm, I put out like a straw poll. I asked people... Which is the better one. And they're like, don't play that terrible boss DLC. It's boring. It's not scary and it's short. Okay.

And I was like, okay, we'll just do the Kidman things because I assume those would be more tense. And it was okay, but it was still had the same problems that we had with it. All this being said, can't wait to play this.

I immediately think it's better because it seems to be about Sebastian. And instead of... Some guy. And like it looks a bit scarier. I still like the designs. I assume technically it'll run much better. Well, the trailer isn't enforced 21 by 9.

So... Yeah. It'll probably... It's one of those games where I'm like, man, I was disappointed by that. I sure want to give that a second shot. I want to play a second one. And I want to be blown away and like it a lot.

So... I like the wax aesthetic on everything too. It's cool. Story was poor and... And it goes on Friday the 13th. There were technical issues. A version of this with the same... It's not just the story,

like the gameplay also had the massive problems. Okay, okay, okay. So it really is... Like the way your character moved was a consistent problem. I hated the stupid crossbow. I hated making traps. Right, okay.

I hated all that shit. You know when there's a mechanic in a game and everyone on the team rallies behind it and goes, man, this is going to be what sets us apart? Yep. But the player hates it. That's the crossbow and evil within. There are so many resources

and so much ammo management and so many fucking mechanics dedicated to that crossbow. And I hate the crossbow. Yeah. I could go for a glass of milk. I could. That trailer makes me want to want some milk. That's wax.

The new Colossus. This looks fucking awesome. This looks great. I was like, what the fuck is this? What the fuck is this for like what? The first five minutes of the trailer? And then I was just like, ah, it's crazy. I love it.

What a long trailer. Wolfenstein in America. Well, because it has a bunch of crazy bullshit. I love the first Wolfenstein that the new order. I really, really got engrossed in that. I was like one of my favorite first person shooters of like this generation really. It's fantastic.

And this like it's another game where I'm like, oh man, this was pretty good. I liked it. That I have a few little mini problems with it. But holy shit, will they make a sequel and make it like even better? And this seems to be it because it's crazy. Also like the tone in the original Wolfenstein new order

was very dark, very sad, right? And a few goofball moments, but mostly. Which is pretty fitting. The things Matt talked about or the goofball moments consistently. Yeah, but that's Matt. But overall, it was. I never got that.

And that was appropriate for occupied Europe in the future under Nazi regime, right? The Wolfenstein in America's tone is way more appropriate to that, that kind of goofy fantasy fiction in which there's like a fucking Stalinist hardcore red guy just screaming about the US of A and fucking we fought a German

and there's bullets flying behind him and there's a guy playing a fucking flu next to him and BJ is just screaming. I got courage on where I'm not gonna. It's it's just. I see. And I saw those slides of like hyper glorified Nazi killings. Yeah, man.

It's this everything about this tone is just so interesting. In the first game midway, if you kind of find this ragtag group of rebels and you kind of help them out. And in this, it's like you find a rag tag. Plans walking around in America. And what I like about this also is that they confirm that you go to different places in America

because the first game was very centralized in Europe. So is this a lot like it's a weird future version of the man in the high castle. You get to go to post nuclear war, Manhattan, Louisiana swaps and like in like Texas. So this whole scene is goofy. I don't know if you guys notice, but there's a Nazi officer is talking to me.

He says, hey, you look familiar. I'm just playing. I'm playing the trailer. There's a fucking huge wanted poster with BJ on it in the back. Right in the back. That's everywhere. Yeah. So also, BJ has some kind of mecha suit.

So what do we know about this game? Because what is that and what is happening? He's the new Colossus, I guess. Maybe, maybe. Okay. All right. Yeah. Wolfenstein goes to America is awesome.

Yes. And that was their stinger. That was by far the best, most interesting thing they showed. But we all knew it was going to be there. So again, it wasn't a surprise. But at the same time, like fucking awesome. BJ Blaskowitz, that pixel man who shoots Hitler, one of the most best written,

interesting characters in video games. These games, like Wolfenstein is not a franchise that deserves to be this interesting. And you know what I mean? I wouldn't have guessed it. No. But there we are. All right.

So very quickly then. To the old ladies with the fucking pickaxe. Devolver did their thing. Watched the whole thing. We talked about it early in the podcast. Watched the whole thing. But like after the 14 minute video, what do we got as far as games and announcements?

Oh, nothing. We got two games. Well, there were no announcements. And there were, there were, these new games were old games that already been announced. So. Okay. There was absolutely no news at the Devolver thing.

All madness. They showed a great trailer for Ruiner. They showed a trailer for a Serious Sam overhead 16-bit co-op thing. They did. Yeah, that game was cool. And I said before that it sucks that Obsolver wasn't there. And there was also another game that they showed very, very briefly in like one of their weird clip montages of someone's tripping on acid,

whatever, that I played a paxies called Ape Out, which is a very fun, cool game. And I was also kind of like, ah, well, it would have been nice if you'd shown that in a bit more of a context, because it's one man's small indie game. And like I talked to that developer, seemed like a really cool guy. I'm like, sucks that he didn't get out on there at all.

Okay. Well, then let's talk about EA. They had. They showed some sports balls. Yep. There was Anthem. They teased to Anthem. Yeah.

So that was that. A Way Out is super duper cool looking. And no online matchmaking of any kind. A Way Out is from the guys that made Brothers, A Tale of Two Sons. If you enjoy it. I remember when that came up, it says a brother, A Tale of Two Sons developers,

and it's like a bunch of fucking like Italians in jail. And you're like, go out of fucking shit. Yeah. Like what? You would never fucking imagine it was those guys, but they got money and they did well with the brothers apparently, because this looks way better. I saw some extra stuff of this in which they're showing off like characters

able to see the other person's cutscenes from other angles. Yeah. Well, well, it's forced split screen and the whole game will have like, you have to see what the other guy's seeing. And when one person has a cutscene, the other person's slice becomes smaller. Yeah. And then vice versa.

And the other thing is that there are co-op dialogue wheels in which no, you have to agree on something. So this is a co-op game, but you're not ever going to be able to play it with your screen just showing you your view. No. You only can play with seeing both players view at the same time. So I'm glad that EA decided that we needed a new prison break LP.

Yeah, I'm very glad. To have a sequel too. Well, it's interesting because yeah, like for me, it's the brother's sequel LP, if anything. And to us, it's the prison break LP. I think ours is a little bit closer to the prison break game. Well, it depends how long it's been in the prison. Developer or theme.

Depends how long they stay in the prison. The prison's like a third of the game. Okay, maybe. But if it's like the first hour. Well, there's not like a single bit of footage that's outside. Oh, there's tons. I'll turn it over. Oh, wait.

Yeah, they're jumping around the... Sorry, they're jumping around the forest. We could also just pretend it's Green Dolphin Street prison. Yeah, we could. And you'd have to pretend real fucking hard. Yeah. Yeah, it was neat. It's easy stand out.

A way out. And it's nice that no one knew about it. Yeah, yeah. From like fake language voice acting of like... To like full on like accented proper like AAA douchebags. So good job. Good job. Accented douchebags.

My favorite kind. Yeah, there's all this footage of fucking outside the prison. Yeah, exactly. So that was cool. Another pretty... It sounds like another LP announced by... For DeFeefs. FIFA 18.

Oh, it's DeFeefs. DeFeefers. Just cut out all of the boring soccer. The journey, Hunter Returns. So there's that. Battlefront 2? Cut out all the boring space battles of Battlefront 2. I really, really hope they build some sort of sequel to the X-Wing thing.

Hey, look, Willie. Guess what? They won't. Most of it's in third person. Actually, almost like all of it. Oh, I play Battlefront. Yeah, he knows it. I liked it.

Was he original on third person? Yeah, when you're a hero, yeah. No, but I mean like almost all of the footage they were showing. You mean the previous game that like before this? Or this one? Yeah, yeah. Totally. Okay, there's first person shit.

Everyone was just using third person. You can toggle. Okay. You can fucking toggle. Battlefront 2 looks awesome and it's going to have a single player. Much like the original, it looks visually astounding. I will buy this. Fighting on Naboo?

It had the worst presentation of anything I've seen in a long, long time. Where I was just like, stop. Just show me a trailer and stop doing this. Stop. Stop talking about shredding. Stop talking about fucking. That's got to hurt. Like it was higher commentators to read off a teleprompter is like a nightmare.

At least if you're going to commentators, don't give them teleprompters. Just let them commentate or like just do what I was saying when we're watching the Microsoft console last night. If you're going to have this big involved thing that goes to an entire match, that's fine. But then just have a succinct narrator talking about what's happening on screen. I don't know what value. Let me tell answer me. What value do you think that a marketing guy or EA guy says?

We need to have these commentators there. We talked about this before you got here yesterday. To create the feeling for the person watching at home that this is what it's going to be like when they make it big and become a big eSports star. And here's the thing. People like us. Yeah. Yeah.

That's the yeah. Care enough to know that it's stupid and cringy and and like we hate it. But I am not asking about that. I'm asking like in terms of what what they're like Pat just basically answered it there because someone who cares less is like oh cool. Yeah. No, no, no. But no, no, that's not what he's asking.

Sorry. He's asking is we know that the point is to stay on message. Yeah. And we know but he wants to know what is the targeted message for what is the what is the intended feeling in the dumb consumer. What is what is the advantage of like like I said, battery basically they want to make people feel like they're eSports stars if they play Star Wars Battlefront 2.

Oh, fucking of course eSports. eSports, eSports, eSports all day. What is eSports? eSports. Oh, electronic. No, no, no. What I want everyone to do is take some time out of their day and go to Mike Ross's channel. And he has had a wonderful talk about what he's been up to lately

and how he feels about the state of eSports. You text money, man. If you really like eSports, you should check it out. And thanks, Mike Ross for putting out such a statement. What is it? Support eSports.cash, I think. Anyway, you're fucking you're supposed to just clean lowball it. Sure.

And then and people go and they get confused. That's fine. So yeah, it's absolutely pushing that that that side of it and the idea that you're going to be a fucking screen ward. And it's just embrace eSports.cash. It's just weird to me because if you were to make what I what I said, which some people do, some people have done in a conference, I'm sure at Ubisoft, they'll do a little bit of it, but they'll also do the live thing is that if you just have like a five, six minute long

video that they they play on the stage and it's it's it's a very constructed view of how a match plays out, I think that's there's no disadvantage to doing that. No one's going to look at that and be like, oh, I'm bored. Like, you know, if they're inner stars, they're inner stars are watching it. But there will be a subset of people like us and others that are like, fuck this stupid shitty. Like, is everyone all my friends on my Twitter feed are all like, this is the worst, right? So I don't think there's any disadvantage of doing a trailer or more like more concise and concise style.

Yeah, no, I mean, like, admittedly, we are insulated amongst people that are like minded. But I think the the the Sea of Thieves type thing, you know, where you just like you walk through the game and you talk about that felt a lot better. Just do that. I have a little piece of information about Wolfenstein. Sure. Somebody just sent me the new Colossus is the sonnet at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.

So people are saying that the Statue of Liberty is going to be like a robot. No, no, but like, learned people that should have seen Wolfenstein to the new Colossus and got Oh, it's in America. That's what that that's that's the name of the sonnet. Yes, it might it might as well be called Wolfenstein to Statue of Liberty America America. Interesting. Cool. I I I was looking up the the like the Statue of Liberty's original colors because you know how

it's only that color because it's bronze. Yeah, it's a bronze statue and then that fades away. And then like the originally it's not even called Statue of Liberty. That the Statue's name was Liberty of the World. And then it just kind of took on that name. What's that statue? Oh, that's a Liberty statue. Hey, needs need for speed speed for speed payback burnout underground.

Guess what? This is the first need for speed I'll buy in like. Since hot pursuit to and why is that? Because it's just burnout now. Yeah, it's just burnout and fast and the furious car flipping. Did you did you play? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the cool stunt type game. Stuntman.

No, dammit. Danger zone. Stuntman 2. Fuck, it was Disney. Flat out. Split second. Split second. Split second.

Did you play split second? A little bit. Yeah. Okay. Did you like it? I just thought my favorite. I didn't like the rubber banding on the A.I. It's the worst ever fucking plan.

Okay. But I like the concept of it, but like this also has a big dumb story mode, which is why I'm all all about it. So looks cool. It's better than need for speed the run. Battlefield 1 DLC. Looks cool. It's Battlefield 1.

Yep. Uh, football. Yeah. Okay. Football, football, football. No problem. Sports ball. Sports.

Nothing came out of the PC gaming show. Oh, okay. Yeah, that was like now. That was right now. Okay, great. Good, great. And then. Showed off Total Warhammer 2.

Cool. So then let's just talk about this fighting game that popped up on it. Okay, Blade Strangers. Let's talk about it. Blade Strangers is. That's the girl from Go To Princess, isn't it? Well, well, well. I don't think that's the person Willie wants to talk about.

I know who he wants to talk about. It's in this roster. There is. No, no, no. I'm not talking about the roster. I'm going to talk about a person named Nishimura. Former Street Fighter artist. Yeah.

Is the person behind this game. Okay. So that's cool. All the design is coming from those staffers and such. What we're rolling your hands. I don't know. I don't know. Curly is in this.

From fucking Cave Story. That's cool. I didn't know that. Well, because it's a 3DS indie all-star fighter. Most of these characters are from 3DS indie games. Like it's crazy. It's the craziest thing. That's super cool.

It's nice that Nikolas is publishing this. So much like Yadagurassu. This might never, ever come out. Or come out in various confusing ways. But Curly Brace, really. Is she like, keep away style, running game? No idea about the style again. I'm not even sure if she's like.

The thing they showed looked very early. And just Kawase from the hook game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. Okay. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. So the thing they said about the art style is that these are actually

3D models turned into sprites. Good. So. It's a good way to do it. It's very, it's one of those fighters that we play. Like Aqua Plaza or something like that. Or was Aqua Plaza all 2D? Aqua Plaza was 2D.

But 3D Mall is a fantastic way to go if you're making something like. A fighting game like DB Super. Or what's it called? DBZ. Fighters. Fighters. Or if you're making a popular anime series of a beloved manga. They're not 3D models in the game though.

Berserker's so bad. Yeah. Yeah. I showed Bully some gifts. Yeah. He started to like. He showed them the one where someone drew the rest of the guts. Yeah, I did.

Okay. I did show them that. I saw all versions of guts walking away. I love Ipatch Wolf's video of it's still bad. And he goes into how. Yeah, Super Ipatch is Wolf on it. Why it's still bad? And why you deserve better?

And how the phrase it's better than nothing is a nonsense sentiment by idiots? Because you know what? You know what? Back in the day when it was first announced. Girlie Grace. There she is. When it was first announced Berserk. I was like, oh, I'm just glad Berserk exists now.

Yeah, I know. I'm just happy. I'm not happy anymore. I got unhappy. I wonder if quotes in there too. I think every franchise gets one person. Okay. It would be cool if quotes was in there.

I don't think it would be on there. Cool. So, yeah, that's what Nicalis is doing. And I guess beyond that, since we're going to be doing the 4 p.m. Ubisoft. Ubisoft stream. Let's take a couple questions, wrap it up. Yeah, I need a 10 minutes to walk around.

And get out of here before we come back for that. Give me some questions. Yeah, so you have some questions. You send those to superbestfriendcast at gmail.com. That's superbestfriendcast at gmail.com. Okay. Don't send it to other emails. Nope.

We won't get them. Only send it to the one that I just, that Pat just said. Okay. You'd think that'd be obvious. It just confirmed that Shinji Makami is not directing The Evil Authentic. Okay. Well, maybe it'll be good this time. He's an executive producer that Makami also directed Vanquish.

Yeah. And God Hand. Is that me? Are you vibrating? Someone's calling me from Missouri, so I will not pick it up. It's probably a robot. It's probably a robot. Do you want to try saying that again?

It's probably a robot. No, no, no. Strap me on that dick. Hashtag balls on the phone. Please push me onto this penis. Need it. I like when people say Missouri. Missouri.

Missouri. Missouri. I'll be cold and the duck. I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri. All right. First one coming in is from Jason. They're super best gamer cast. Jason here.

Hey, Jess. As a fellow gamer, I'm sure you were excited about E3, which is gamer Christmas to gamers like us. Always doing it. I can feel it. I'll stop now. No, no, you keep doing it. As you probably noticed, sometimes companies have problems relating to their player base.

Using the word gamer constantly is one of the symptoms of this. I wanted to know if years of watching these press events has given you Pavlovian cringe at any words. I immediately become nauseous whenever I see a man on stage use the words smart device. Okay. There's two. There's two words. It's a good question.

There's two words that do it for me. And I'm like, I'm going to be speaking for both of you as well because I know it does a view. Content and experience. Not so much content experience. Content has become normalized. I don't know. There's a specific inflection that the executive types. But the problem is that we are content creators.

Oh, no, not. No. Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want the updated version of that? Yeah. You're an influencer. That's the good one. That's the good one.

I'd much rather be a content creator than an influencer. Can I be a content influencer? Oh boy, are you ever. But experience is fucking the worst. I will say for all press conferences outside of games being excited to do something. It means nothing anymore. I don't even cringe at it. I just don't hear it.

I would like to throw everyone at Square Enix under the bus and say that stop telling me to please look forward to shit because you do this shit for decades and I hate you. Iconic is a dead word. Ubisoft is like specifically. It means nothing anymore. Being yelled at there. But no, I really, yeah. Yeah, I definitely think.

Aiden Pierce's iconic hat like immediately destroyed that fucking word. Was it code or is it hat? Is his hat iconic baseball cap? Okay, let's take one from Andre. Persona 3 is blue rap metal about death loss and the focus on Greco-Roman mythology. That's right. P4 is yellow pop rock about truth and self-actualization with focus on Japanese mythology. Now, P5 is red ass jazz about freedom and rebellion with focus on rogues of all origins

and loose narcissism. You all seem in agreement about P6 being a green color motif. Absolutely. But what about musical style, core theme, or mythological basis? What do you think would be interesting? Uh, I'm not a music guy, so I wouldn't know anything. Baby metal. Baby metal.

I think I think I wouldn't mind going back to hip hop, honestly. R&B. R&B. All right, well, they just tell me what you want. Just tell me the name you want. All right, Shogi Meguro gets his R&B boner going. And we can even throw in some classic jazz in there. But really, really, we want to get that R. Killiera.

Let's go with, of course, Green is happening. Let's take, as far as themes go, perhaps, conflict and various gods of war across different cultures. Okay. So you can get your Aries in there, but also your Mars and your, uh, Myxcodles. So it's the nature of conflict between conflicting conflictors. Exactly.

Because every culture has a different god of war. Yeah. Right? Hatchiman, whatever. And so you get that as your thing. And I think that'd be fun. Yeah. I don't really have any ideas because maybe it,

but I like the color green for this. Why could it be like an orchestra, like operatic? Because operatic is a flavor of the existing musical themes that they go. Every velvet room is. They always go, they always go velvet. Like the entire thing can't be that. Well, no, because that's a special thing. Okay.

And it's outside of the world. That's to denote specialness. And you go in there and it's blue, and that's what it is. That makes sense. Uh, do you think, Andrew wants to know if you think Microsoft may have made a mistake by focusing on 4K almost exclusively? Because I know that as a uniform consumer, my takeaway from the event was if you don't own a 4K television,

you have no reason to buy this. I'm primarily a PC gamer and I've deliberately not upgraded to a 4K monitor because my current video card, I know at 1080p, I can buy any game that comes out and instantly go and crank it. Yeah. That's a very weird situation with PC people. So no reasons. Someone has to focus on it.

The, the, the new console that has more juice in it is for 4K. That's what it's for. If you don't have a screen for it, don't get it. You have no reasons. 3D TV's failed super hard. So this is the next thing where we're like, let's funnel everything into it. I don't think

it's a mistake that they're focusing their new thing on 4K because it's going to be a groaning, groaning, groaning audience. It's groating all the time. It's groating all over. Crazy groad. Crazy. I'm getting groated right here. My groad.

The senses. But, but they're definitely still going to be selling a shit ton of S's. Yes. And they were pushing very much this one and this one. I think we're going to hit a point where those are the two things out in the original. Is it a problem? Sorry.

The Xbox One S, it stands for small, is bigger than the Xbox. No, shut up. Shut your fucking mouth. It's bigger. Shut your fucking mouth, man. It's not important. It doesn't stand for small. It stands for slick.

Slamming. It's not really slamming. This is a late joke here, but P6, green, reggae, lovecraftian gods. Why not? It's pretty funny. Lastly, let's take a quick one. You know what, that'd be good. Right?

Right. A last one. Dare super to look best. Luchador's Cameron is asking what your favorite Vampiro broadcast quote is. Mine is in the first few episodes when one Luchador jumps off the top of Dario's office onto another. Vampiro responds with, Wow, he just jumped from 435 feet in the sky,

followed by a long awkward silence and then the show ending. It was so great because I couldn't tell if it was a genuine mistake where he meant to say 14 or 15 feet, but tripped over himself and was trying to insinuate the Dario's office is in fact 435 feet in the air. I think it's when he's telling, I think it was him, but I think it's when he's telling the Matt Stryker in season two

of Lucha Underground that like fucking, I forget his name. Emile Moortes comes out and it's during the Emile Moortes owns everything arc and he's just deadpan. We're living in the decade of darkness here at Lucha Underground. And it's like fucking what? He has the belt like that.

Like it's not the decade of darkness, Vampiro. No, no, it is because they, well, I can't, it's spoilers. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Anyway, I think maybe a toss up between when he's interviewing a man called Cage for the first time. Yeah. And he tries to stand up and act tough. Oh God, yeah.

And then it just doesn't go anywhere because it's like, Dude, you're a fucking amounts man. His, you're a, you're a scream lord now. You don't get to do anything. And perhaps, perhaps when, what's your name is licking people. Yeah, Katrina. Yeah, yeah. And he's like, oh man, I don't know if that's really much of a punishment.

Huh. Yeah. And gets nothing. Nothing in response. No one takes the bait. Nothing. I'm a big fan of every single time he's talking about Conan. Because you could feel.

Does he hate Conan? Yeah, he hates Conan. Why? I've hated Conan since forever. Conan's a bum. Conan's a punk. I hate Conan. I don't trust that guy.

It's a shame that the Prince Puma is an amazing Superman. It's tied to the likes of this bum. Even after Conan's canon death, like just constant like, You know, I always hated Conan. I hated him so much. I fucking hate Conan. You though, you're the best. You're great Puma.

Man, that Conan. I hate that Conan. Mine is also another Katrina licking moment is where it's just like, I don't know. It was just a joke match. I forget what it was. But it was basically Milmore's was involved and Pimpinella was there too. And she knocks down Pimpinella, Katrina.

And then she does the licking thing on Pimpinella. And there's just kind of a silence between Mad Striker and Vampiro. And then Vampiro goes, um, that was weird, man. And then they just cut to the next thing. And it was like the first time where we're like, Vampiro after he said something like, that's legit funny. Editing saved the day. It's been many months since I watched it.

If once I get back into Lucha Underground currently, we'll have many more. Well, anyone that wants to get into Lucha Underground here, some showing stuff, it is on Netflix. It's on Netflix and watch Lucha. All right. So with that, um, I mean, podcast is over. Yeah. Well, I mean, what's happening where our podcast channel channel channel wise.

Okay. Channel wise, everything continues. Everything continues. Yeah. It's the way it's been for like a month now. Yeah, pretty sad. We picked some long ones. Oh, by the way, I'm, I'm, I brought Bubsy back from the deck. I know you did it.

You did. You've returned and stricken back or whatever. No one thought I'd be able to do it. He's stroked back. No one thought it would happen. But now that Willie knows about now that Willie is confirmed knows that he knows on the podcast about Bubsy's return and that the willies are striking back. Uh, usually we would say to stop sending him, uh, the stuff, but keep sending it.

I, I'm, I'm, uh, what, what should they do, Pat? I was going to say they should actually really stop because it's annoying me. You want me to do this again? I can yell just as loud as you need through your microphone. So I know, but I like the fact that your throat will start hurting. Now you don't know what'll cause my throat to her. Ah, shit. Yeah.

You're just in a layup mood today. Actually, you're just giving it away to everybody. You're just sitting under the net, just tossing basketballs up in the air. And then you're dunking it and it's bouncing off. Off the head. That's yep. Yep. That's correct.

Oh, well, all right. We're going to take a break. Well, the podcast is over. I have a, I have an upcoming thing to point out on Friday. I'm going to do my fucking 24 hour suicide stream for Stormblood. You can do that. Don't come watch me die. This weekend, I'm going to be at YetiCon in Blue Mountain, Ontario.

Blue Mountain. That sounds like it's supposed to be there last year. Yeah. That was where that overwatch pool party thing happened and stuff. So I'm going up there. I'm being told that the theme is now retarding. So I guess you're a fit. You're a great fit.

Sorry. I guess I have the costume. You sure do. You're wearing it right now. I mean, yeah. What? It's an audio podcast. Yeah.

So, you know, but anyway, I'm up at that con. So if you're there, I'll see you there. I can also say that Friday is also the launch of ARMS. So me and Liam will also be streaming ARMS on this Friday at around 8pm. Just playing through all the modes and unlocking the God character. I want to play him. I want somebody to leave my stream. Go watch your whole stream and come back to mine.

And I'm dead and I'm dead. I'm just dead. Like decapitated. You got shot in the back like you wanted. There's worse ways to go. Okay. So I want to point out that when I think of daydreaming about getting shot, I'm like mostly fine.

And I come to the podcast and it's like, Oh, you mean that's why it's cool. It's like a Teddy Roosevelt situation. And they're like, Pat, why are you bleeding over this? Oh, I got shot. It's not a big deal. No. This is the fantasy in my mind.

No. You missed the podcast like once where you're like, I'm just tired. No, you know that footage of like the children getting shot. Yeah, I was the one time. You know that footage of the children getting shot in that one movie? A Postal? Yeah. No, no, no, not Postal.

The other one. Hobo with the shotgun. The one where they're getting it. No, they're burning that one. It's in like an outside area and they're like just lying down and smiling as they're getting shot. I know, I know. You know the one?

Yeah, I was thinking more like that where you're just kind of like getting lit up and then you lie down with the kids. And then. Am I fine? That's the end of you. I want to restructure. Are my organs going to grow back? Oh, no, you're dead.

Well, fuck that. You've passed on. Dead sucks. I don't want that. All right. All right. So if this is live, we're going to do the Ubisoft and Sony press conferences.

If you're listening to this in podcast format, go find us watching those conferences. So yeah, soft in like 20 minutes. And I'm going to confuse. I thought Sony's was at nine, but I read it up. It says it's at eight. Well, then it's at eight. No, I don't know.

So don't worry. It'll still be at nine. Because it's Sony. Yeah. Like every single year I've ever watched it. There's always kind of late. Right. So remember, Woolly hates when people troll his Twitter

account with bubsie things. No. What he loves is hiding Funko Pops in his apartment. And Pat hates when people shoot him. What is this? What is this? What is this? What is this?

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