Get Played - Console Draft: Nintendo Gamecube

Episode Date: April 3, 2023

Heather, Nick and Matt discuss a little bit more about the Diablo IV Beta and a bird watching app, then they discuss various Nintendo Gamecube games in the Console Draft and play another round of VAGUErant Story. This month's We Play, You Play: Resident Evil 4! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @getplayedpod. Check out our premium series Get Anime'd On patreon.com/getplayed or on Stitcher Premium. Join us on our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/getplayed Wanna leave us a voicemail? Call 616-2-PLAYED (616-275-2933) or write us an email at [e-mail] Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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how to name this new piece of hardware worldwide. Now look, this is our follow-up to the Nintendo 64, and as you can see by this prototype, it is cube-shaped, and you play games on it. So really, we're just going gonna blue sky it any any name pitches anyone has for this thing i got it yeah the super super nintendo i'll write super super nintendo and then i'll also write underneath it super duper nintendo which is related but so that those are

a couple options okay i guess eat my lunch hi hello my name is go. This is my first and last day here. I just, I, so I've been looking at this, the mock-ups you guys got here. And I was thinking, you know, I got a box like this with a little lid in my apartment. Uh-huh. And I was, I think maybe we could call it the shitter. The box, the lid, you're referring to your toilet. You call that a box with a lid? No, no, no.

I haven't. I'm on my way towards toilet in that house, in that apartment. It came with a came with an exposed pipe on a hole in the ground. Anyway, this shit. I mean, maybe it's for kids. So the pooper. Okay. Shitter pooper. I'm not going to write those down, but I want to encourage anyone to say whatever. I just know that

there's no way Nintendo of Japan is going to sign off on that. Oh, what? Does that mean something different in Japanese? It means the same thing. Yeah. So it's equally offensive is what I'm saying. Equally upsetting. And you were saying that you're cleaning the language up because this is marketed towards children. We're marketing.

We want everyone. We want one of these in every house in America. We want everyone to enjoy this. Okay. Okay. Let me just say this. Look, I think this is helpful. I mean, Doug, we're here partly so you can lend a different perspective.

So we're happy to have your input. I'm just going to say what is and isn't realistic for our business plan. This, I feel like I maybe have it. Maybe we're thinking a little too hard about this. You know, this thing is cube-shaped. Cube. It plays games. Yeah, yes.

It's okay. I like it. The Nintendo Game Box. Oh, I like that. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Okay. I keep focusing on that lid. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Okay. I keep focusing on that lid.

But that's pretty good. I'll write it down. Yeah? What if we call it the lid? Because it's got that hinge, that lid on the top. Yeah, it is top-loading. You love the lid.

It is top-loading. I love that lid. It makes me want to poop in the machine. When I see that lid, I'm like, oh, there it is. And then my body starts reacting to it, like, uh-oh, got to go. That's how sensitive you are. You see something that you can shit in.

You're like, oh, man, I got to shit. Look, I'm going to say let's take a bathroom break now just as a precaution because I don't know what's going to happen in this conference room. But I think this has been productive. We'll reconvene in the afternoon. So thanks, everyone. And, yeah, everyone's fired. Coming this fall, the new console for Nintendo.

Introducing Lid. We wiggle our C-sticks and pull ourselves up by our superfluous rear handles as we draft Nintendo GameCube games this week on Get Played. Thank you. Welcome to Get Played, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host, HAC, along with my fellow host, NW. Wow, there's an F in there. An F. I didn't want to call you F and NW. That's all right.

NFW. The F stands for Frank. It stands for fucking Nick Weiger. I'm Nick fucking Weiger. Along with our third host, Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. MKA here. The initials.

Don't dox me. Wait, what was that? MKA. Mortal Kombat Apodaca. Yeah, let's fucking go. Finish it. Well, hey. Well, hey.

We're all back together. We're all here. We're all doing another podcast. Everyone is here. Everyone is here. hey well we're all we're all back together we're all here we're all doing another podcast everyone is here everyone is here as was said video years ago well now we're conflating fighting game franchises which i'm all for we're in a crossover metaverse era of of interactive entertainment and it's good and it's good it's all good all good. We like all of it. We love it. I can't wait till Scorpion

de-spines Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah. I can't, I can't wait for Kirby to, to suck, Jesus. Wait.

You can't just stop there. I can't wait for Kirby to suck King from Tekken's head off. There you go. Yeah. Good save, buddy. His cat head? Yeah. Got it.

That's a cat guy, right? Yeah. He's like a wrestler with a cat mask. He's more of like a, what is that animal? A cheetah. A cheetah. Got it. Yeah, got it. He's really, really cool. A cheetah's a cat. We don more of like a, what is that animal? A cheetah. A cheetah, got it. He's really, really cool. A cheetah's a cat.

We don't need to get pedantic here. Hey, you know what's cool? We're talking cool stuff. This month's WePlay, a billion dollars. You know what's cooler than that? A trillion dollars. You know what's even cooler than that? This month's upcoming WePlay, YouPlay is Resident Evil 4 coming Monday, April 24th.

The long-awaited, dedicated episode to a game we talk about a lot. The remake is out. It's drawing raves. I don't know if anyone's playing it yet. I'm not. I am. But Matt is. But we're going to be doing that in a few weeks.

And also, I feel like we should mention, Heather, you're going to be away for a few weeks. Yes. mention heather you're going to be away for a few weeks uh and yeah i am taking uh my very first sabbatical from get played for a couple of weeks while i uh i don't i'm just i'm i i'm gonna go on a honeymoon let's just say heather's gonna tie up a couple loose ends and leave it at that. Yeah. I got a couple of things I got to work through in Japan. Yeah. If you know what I mean. Yeah.

Oh. Oh. But yeah, I'm going to go on a honeymoon and the boys are going to either sink the ship

without me or get a couple of guest hosts. Yeah. I don't know what the plan is, but I won't be here for a couple of weeks.

A little from column A, a little from column B. Yeah, I was going to say. The show will be worse, but we're going to have some great guest hosts. It'll be a lot of fun. I I don't know what the plan is, but I won't be here for a couple of weeks. A little from column A, a little from column B. Yeah, I was going to say... The show will be worse, but we're going to have some great guest hosts. It'll be a lot of fun. I was going to maybe say

maybe we shouldn't have said anything so people don't anticipate when to stop listening. Like, oh, it's going to be in a couple of weeks. Okay, I'm just going to stop. No, keep listening. They're going to be great.

Yeah, it's going to be fun. Another roll way back. And you know, when the cat's away, the mice will play. Mm-hmm. As the be great. Yeah, it's going to be fun. And Heather will be back. And you know, when the cat's away, the mice will play. As the expression goes. Is that it? We might get a little silly without Heather here.

Things might get a little random. Should we talk about, should we touch on while we're talking about the future? I don't know if it's worth saying now. We might be putting the cart before the horse. I'd like to be cremated. Matt's going to be cremated. Frozen. Cryogenically frozen. That's my plan. I just don't want to be left out in the woods. As a warning. Yeah. Just remove my

eyes and leave me in the woods. You should rent an Airbnb when you're going to pass and bring yourself to the porch in the middle of the woods and pass there. That's a good idea. Just let it happen. Yeah. I was wondering while we're talking about next month's, we're talking about what's going to be happening

in the next month, if we should just jump ahead because we got this big Zelda video as of today's record showing off some gameplay. Aonuma-san was showing off how the, you know, like the fuse system

and some of the verticality that exists within the upcoming Tears of the Kingdom. Maybe we should just spill next month's theme. Is this too much? Are we disclosing too much information up top?

This is huge. We're about to, we're about to freaking break the internet, dude. Are you ready to do that? Because we were talking about a few things. We got a few ideas around. We talked about doing Maytroid. We talked about doing Mayazaki and

doing some FromSoft games. But what we ultimately landed on is we're all going to be playing Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, the new Legend of Zelda entrance. I don't want to say Legend of the Zelda. We also called it Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, which I don't want to say Legend of the Zelda. We also called it Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Tears of

the Kingdom, which I don't think is what it's called. They call it all four things. That's canon. That's canon. Hey, it's Ganon.

We're playing. It's Ganon. We're going to be playing that game anyway. Tears of the Kingdom. So we're going. So next month's theme

is going to be a link to the cast. We're going to do a month of Zelda content. So we'll be exploring a bunch of different avenues and then ultimately landing with a WePlay, YouPlay of Tears of the Kingdom. So that'll be a lot of fun. Wait, cast?

Yeah, cast. Like link to the past. Like link to the past, but link to the cast. But what is cast? Podcast. Podcast. Oh, link to the cast. It could, a link to the cast. It could be a link to the podcast, but that's just like the...

I was like, but cast, but of the games? We'll be talking about the characters too at some point. Hey, it's Revali. Okay. We're mostly going to be talking about different casts. So we'll do like an episode about the cast of Friends. Yeah. And all their different trajectories. David Schwartz became a director. That was interesting.

Somebody maybe with a broken arm. That's fun. Yeah. That's a cast. Okay. Okay. I understand now. I'm sorry.

I was a little slow on the. No, this is fine. A link to the apostrophe cast. Like the podcast. Great. There we go. It could be a link to the podcast, but I felt like syllabically it sounds better to just be a link to the cast. Yeah. But like syllabically it sounds better to just be a link to the cast.

Yeah. But maybe I'm wrong. A pod to the cast. That's really good. A pod to the cast. That is shit, man. But then you lose Link, you lose too much Zelda.

Could be The Legend of Zelda, a pod to the cast. All right, that's pretty good. All right, it's that. Okay, that's really good. Matt, edit all this out and just say, just leave in that.

No, no, no. Keep the conversation. We got to fill time. I think you can't just present something that good without showing your work a little bit. That's true. People are going to call it, like, they're going to say that we didn't come up with it. Right. Anyway, so, yeah, here will be the pickup point, Matt.

Next month's theme will be The Legend of Zelda Zelda a link to the a pod to the cast I don't know if we should I mean I don't do a ton of editing really I mean I actually it's not true Jordan sees the sessions but I don't know I don't have one

more I can do yeah I'm saying truly truly I think we keep the whole conversation in there because it incorporates the people who listen into a sort of parasocial experience of the evolutionary idea or the evolution of an idea.

I wouldn't even call it revolutionary idea. It's really good. Can I solicit this? If anyone has any Zelda stuff they'd like us to cover, we have some ideas of our own.

Yeah, we have a month ahead. You got lead time. The talk starts now. Send it in. Wherever. Email is probably the best place for it. Something like that.

Yeah, but you can post in the Discord too. Post in Discord. We have like a channel for suggestions. That's true. Yeah. All right.

Can I talk about one more thing before we start to get into the podcast proper? I'd love it. Sure. This is going to sound like Influencer Paola. I assure you it is not. I went and saw this movie on my own at a preview screening.

Dungeons and Dragons, Honor Among Thieves. It fucking rips. Ooh. That is a fucking hoot. That's all I've heard. All I've heard is that it's good. Yeah, it's great. It's funny in a way that doesn't break the fourth wall.

It respects the source material. Yeah. Doesn't take the piss out of what it's actually doing. Cast is great. It's funny in a way that doesn't break the fourth wall. It respects the source material, doesn't take the piss out of what it's actually doing. Cast is great. It feels like a Fast and Furious movie, just with high fantasy. And it's just a total blast. And it has just enough fan service to still be inclusive to people who don't know what the fuck it is, but like really tingle the, the nerds in the audience, which my mind was largely a crowd of, of complete fucking nerds. Uh, I will say that typified by outside afterwards, I, uh,

there was a group of five people, five friends, and they were discussing, uh, how faithful the, the movie's representation of the Druid class was. Let's look this fucking rules. That's awesome.

I'm not surprised it's good. I have been sort of keeping an eye on that movie as a movie that I've been interested in watching. And the thing about it to me, though, is something that surprised me about that movie was that my mom is all in on it for some reason. She's like, I can't wait to see Dungeons and Dragons. It's a great, it's a great fun adventure.

And it's a, I don't know, I hope, I hope they make 10 of these, like Fast and Furiouses. There's also like, there's all, this is not a spoiler. It like is in the first 10 minutes. It's just a throwaway piece of dialogue. But like, I get, I like really roll my eyes at MCU stuff where it's like like like wow Hawkeye met Doctor Strange and people are like, oh, you know, like I like I just don't I when people like matter like that. I just like I don't. What the hell? But I do go fucking nuts when people meet.

Yeah. Yeah. But but like but that's also just like a Marvel is not my cultural touch. So I didn't you know, I didn't really grow up reading comics or whatever, but like there's a, there's a line in the first 10 minutes where it was just like, okay, well we'll take the boat to Baldur's Gate.

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Wow. And I wanted to hold that one up. All right, Heather is stepping away from the desk for a second uh if you're planning on you know taking a pause from the podcast when heather is not away not here that's maybe a little preview of what it's going to be like that's sort of exactly what it's like we're going to be describing what we think heather's doing heather's probably in japan now. So I've got this. Wow.

Which is this Dungeon Master's Guide by Gary Gygax. Wow. And TSR Games. It's hardbound, and it's copyright 1979. So I think this is older than the one that I pulled up previously. And it has inquiries regarding this work should be accompanied by a stamped return envelope and addressed to AD&D questions, TSR Games, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, with a little PO box number in it. And I think this is older than the other one. Because the other one was from the 80s

and this one is from 1979. So it's got a really charming but ultimately crude drawing of a red devil holding a lady in his hand and like a wizard and a swordsman. Can you hold it up again so we can see it? Yeah, that's great. It's really cool.

That's like heavy metal shit, the animated movie. Yeah. It looks great. Yeah. So I've got that. And then I also found all of my old modules for Dungeons & Dragons, old modules for Dungeons and Dragons, which are just like individual dungeon modules for like the 1981 edition.

It's pretty, I love D&D. It's a good time. Wow. It is fun. I wish I sort of had more, I've played in a couple of games or campaigns with the same group of friends, and they always kind of fizzle out because we get too busy to do it. I wish we could have seen one all the way through because we were having so much fun.

Yeah, the movie did make me want to play fucking PNP D&D again. I was like, man, that fucking just has that sort of sense of adventure to it. Could be an episode. Could be. Could be. That's pretty good. Maybe we'll do it. Maybe we'll do it.

Maybe when Heather's not here. Get a little naughty. Yeah, we don't do video games when Heather's gone. Yeah, we don't do video games when Heather's gone. Look, speaking of video games, we got a lot of games to discuss both past and present. And, you know, there's been some backlash. I would even say rage to some of the characters who have been in here. But also, it's not true. It's made up. It's also's also made up we're making it up we're also making it up that since the departure of the resident

evil merchant who will will they reappear at some point before we play you play of resident evil 4 we'll find out but i do think this week's guest is really going to knock everyone's socks off so uh actually jordan if you want to open the door there. And yeah, here you go. You want to, yeah, you can just grab my mic. There you go. It's a me, Pratt Mario. Oh, shit.

Wait, this is actually huge. This is huge. The movie is coming out this month. Oh, wow. That's right. The movie is coming out on April 5th in theaters everywhere. Let us go. Oh, my God. Wow, look at his little mustache and his little hat. That's right. The movie is coming out on April 5th in theaters everywhere. Let us go. Oh my God. Wow. Look at his little mustache and his little hat. That's right.

It's really Pratt Mario. It sure is. Mommy Mia. Oh man. I have so many questions. What is your relationship to Christianity? You know, of course, Mario is a good christian that's okay what attracted prat to the character originally uh uh how about um uh what what is your favorite and i know it's probably pretty authentically italian what's your favorite italian meal oh great question uh As Mario, an Italian-American with strong ties to his cultural heritage, you know I love a rumen, a pastrami rumen. Mommy Mia. Hey, can I do one more? Can I do one more question?

Hey, Pratt Mario. Yeah. Can you just give me a taste of what it would sound like if your little bum got burned by lava? Oh, right. Yes. Yeah. Well, that's a common scenario that Mario can find himself in as many adventures as he's trying to rescue his dad, Luigi, from the villainous Bowser. So anyway, I'd be like, oh, no, my butt's in lava.

Yahoo. All right. Yeah, that's like, it's perfect. It's just, I can't believe that it's happening. I can't wait to see this movie. I can't wait for everyone to see this movie as well in theaters everywhere, April 5th. Yeah, that's going to be huge. And I can't wait to see how you face off against the uh the various enemies uh in in the film do you have any

uh maybe what who's your least favorite enemy uh in in the mario in your world oh hey there's lots of uh villains that of course that uh prat mario has to face uh in uh in the hyrule kingdom of, of course, there's the shy men. There is the boob bombs. There is, of course, the Oopa Loopas. And then there's the little guys who look like mushrooms. Of course, those are the Roombas. Yeah. I fight all of them. I love to stomp on Roombas.

This movie is going gonna be really good this movie's gonna be a sensation excellent it's gonna be really good uh i can't wait to i legitimately can't wait to see it um and i just can't believe that you would even take some time out of your busy schedule promoting this film to uh come promote it on our little show so so thank you for being here prat mario uh yeah a real pleasure uh fuck charles martinet uh anyway that's a that's a and that's can i say that's the official stance of the show yeah too we we agree um yeah no oh sorry sorry charlie yeah sorry charlie uh anyway uh i have a question for all of you. This copy I've been handed.

What are you playing? Thank you. That was so good. That was great. Wow. I can't believe that he showed up. That was amazing. Our show is really becoming something.

It really is becoming something. And look, I have four games to talk about for what you're playing. I don't want to dominate the conversation more than I already do. So I'm going to go in multiple shifts, and I'll try to do this quickly. But why don't I just start off, and we'll start off with something, Matt, that you and I can both talk about, which is I spent some time with the Diablo 4 open beta. I didn't get to play it during the closed beta the previous weekend, but I got to play for only a few hours on Sunday night. I got a rogue up to level 11. That was pretty much the extent of my play time. But Matt, you've also been playing

some more Diablo 4. Yeah, I got back in there with my sorcerer, Decha. Wow. Yeah, and got him up to level, I think I'm at like level 20 or something i think it caps at 25 and uh for the beta yes and uh it's just i i i i know that it's it is i said this last week it is going to become a big problem i think in my life because i i can't stop looking at it when i'm playing it it looks it looks great uh I feel like it plays really well. I haven't had a lot of experience, like I said, on mouse and keyboard Diablo. So I'd be interested to hear what you think about that. I've been reading a lot of people favorably comparing it to Diablo 2.

But there are things about it that people are comparing it to Diablo 3 that they don't love. Like it having to be online all the time and stuff like that. It's a super cranky fan base. Yes. The Diablo fan base kind of just all wants everything to be like a game that came out 20 years ago. But I do think this is, from what I played, and I was dealing with some latency issue as would be expected. The servers were super impacted. But I had a blast.

I thought it was super fun. I think it looks fantastic. I was playing in widescreen in my widescreen monitor. Pretty gorgeous lighting. The things that I sensed were, first off, there's a new potion system. first off there's there's a new potion system there were the health orbs that were added in diablo 3 which was again very super super controversial at the time with a cranky fan base that eventually adapted to it but there also were consumable potions at least in my memory it's been whatever 10 plus years since i played how how fucking long ago did that come out it feels

like 10 years ago yeah i mean just about i i got to it late but it feels like it feels like it's been out for a long time yeah and then then then the Reaper of Souls, whenever that came out, that was like kind of when I got a second place. May 15th, 2012. Jesus, yeah. So it has been 10 years since I was actively playing it. Anyway, the potion system now has a, it's like just a, you just have a limited inventory, and then you get more potion charges by killing enemies, which just has a it's like just a you just have a limited inventory and then you get more potion charges by killing enemies which just has a different feel to it i do kind of like the scarcity of like there were some times when i was kind of in like a mini boss fight or something

and just surrounded by mobs where i kind of felt like oh shit i'm down to one potion i gotta get some potion charges and so i don't get you know murked here i kind of liked how it felt but it is definitely a change. There's also a Dodge that's on a cool down, which is similar to the role that was added to the console versions of Diablo three. And that was the point when I saw that was in there. I started playing it. I was playing with a mouse and keyboard at first is how I usually play Diablo, but I switched over to play with an Xbox controller on my PC. And you know what? I do think it feels better. I kind of, I kind of really liked the, at least the class I was playing was, was,

you know, just super actiony. It felt like mobility was a big part. Cause you know, like the rogue has a bow, but then it also has a pair of short swords. And so some of your abilities let you like phase through enemies. So you want to stay super mobile and then also create distance.

So you can use your, your ranged attacks. And so for, I kind of, to me, it just felt better on a controller, You like phase through enemies. So you want to stay super mobile and then also create distance so you can use your range to tax. And so for I kind of to me, it just felt better on a controller. But either way, I felt pretty good. The other thing is that there's a. They do they have like a they have like cinematics with your created character, which is very which feels like a departure, like and I know don't just be like isometric.

We're watching. We're staying in the same perspective as the game camera and we're hearing a bunch of dialogue. Cuts to here's a close-up on your character's face and then here's a counter shot on the NPC and they're having a conversation. It feels like a real cutscene in a AAA

game, but in a Diablo. And it's kind of jarring. I didn't dislike it, but it definitely felt like a format break from the previous games. It is... I mean, I haven't played a lot. It did feel strange to me. I was like, oh, wow. This is like...

This is like a real game, but it's like a different kind of thing entirely. I hadn't seen that in any of those games, so it was cool to see. Yeah, I thought I had a fucking blast, though. I'm excited to play it more i know i can't wait for i mean it comes out in june there's like i feel like five huge games releasing in between like now and then uh but i i really can't wait to play it because i did i did find it very satisfying to be clicking around um and i was starting to get more magic powers.

One of my favorite ones right now is summoning this flame hydra that like... Which class are you playing around me? Sorcerer. Okay, yeah, yeah. It's very, very cool, but I do... I kind of want to start it with a druid, because I do

like druid classes when I play D&D, so I think thatid. Uh, cause I do like, I do like Druid classes when I, when I play D and D. Uh, so I think that could be fun, but I also, I'd switched, um, difficulty, um, because I was getting smoked by, uh, by a boss. And I was like, I got, I think I got to take this down a little bit. Just, just one down because I, uh, I want to, I want to have fun. Right. And did you consider for a second, uh, getting good yeah um i tried to get good and um i was like well it's gonna be faster to do this and then proceed and i you know i turned it back yeah because in the first two let difficulty levels you can switch back and forth at any time

at the this like well or whatever um but if you go hardcore which i've never done before you die and then you got to start all the way over again which doesn't seem fun to me at all i kind of like hardcore characters i didn't play it for the beta because you know but i just like i do like that but there is a period where you just get murked yeah it's like well that was 30 hours of my life yeah i would be i'd be so mad yeah but but in turn But talking about hardcore is different from the different difficulty levels you can play, like, within the game. I will say, and, you know, there's nothing loaded behind this. I'm just like, I've played a ton of Diablo. I actually had more fun when I upped it to the veteran difficulty because I felt like I had to, like, just, you know, I had to be a little bit more strategic in my gameplay.

But I thought it was great. I also say this is maybe, I don't know, maybe some people find this a weird thing to say, but I do kind of feel like there's a lot of good developers at Blizzard, and the company's been kind of dealing with some shitty things that come largely from management and decisions that are from people above the uh you know the over the heads of the top line workers and like that led to diablo immortal coming out that certainly led to a lot of like human rights abuses or you know human resources abuses that took place in the within the company yeah all that shit is like really shitty and gross

i know a lot of people were maybe some some people were kind of upset about Overwatch 2 launched. This one feels like, hey, this is actually a good game that, you know, the people who worked on it can feel good about, and hopefully it comes out and is well-received by the fan base, at least in terms of the open beta. I felt like they did it. It's really well-executed. So, but yeah, I had fun with the open beta, all long story short. Matt, any other things you've been playing? So I played that a little bit. I started the Resident Evil 4 remake and basically got through the demo part of it again with the chainsaw man. But this time, I was able to kill the chainsaw man. And instead of just running around like a chicken waiting for that bell to ring.

But I also saw on a TikTok that you can shoot the bell and make the, and I didn't, which I didn't know. I saw that on the TikTok also. And I was like, man, this game. I was like, the game is good. The game is like that. It's really, really good. You can make them like, you can trigger the event

and then have them go. They're like, oh, I guess the bell's ringing. I better go. Fucking idiots. Yeah. Well, they're idiot uh yeah well they're infected nick give them a give them a break we're all kind of infected okay now i'm back on board mainstream media well and the woke mind virus yes um that's resident evil 9 uh leon trying to get rid of uh get rid of the Umbrella Corporation's man-made woke mind virus. But I also, because I didn't finish Metroid Prime Remastered last week, I was very, very close as it turns out. I'm even closer now.

I have one more artifact to get, and then I have to take down Meta Ridley. Yeah, and once you take down Meta Ridley, the game's over, so don't worry about that. No, there's other stuff. You're set down Meta Ridley. Yeah, and once you take down Meta Ridley, the game's over, so don't worry about that. No, there's other stuff. You're set after Meta Ridley. No, that's it, Matt. There's got to be other things, I'm sure, right? There's probably a big Metroid or something.

Yeah. But that made me so scared. The thing about it, I said this in the Discord, and I didn't say this to you guys I wish I would have said this on the show last week I like that Samus' ship

looks like her it's like my favorite thing it's so funny to me the ship is just like her helmet yeah I mean they

boy that was around I think in Super Metroid I think is when the ship premieres and then they built a new one for Metroid Prime and they tried a few different things and they tried a few different things

and they ultimately were like, eh, let's just make it look like the Super Metroid ship. It's like her same suit that you start with. It's like basically the same shape. It's no question whose ship that belongs to. It's true. And then somebody at the Discord pointed out, they're like, yeah, all these pirate logs are like,

we can't find her. Where is this Samus? And it's like, I don't know, this fucking, is she here? It's like, yeah don't know this fucking, is she, is she here? It's like, yeah, the ship that looks like the person that's killing everybody.

Yeah. Uh, I think she's here. Um, but it's, it's, uh, just to reiterate from last week,

a fantastic game. And it's like when they skin the Goodyear blimp to look like a minion. It's like, yeah, you know that we know what that is. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Um, but it's, uh, I can't wait to finish it. It sounds like I'm going to be done after Meta Ridley, so that's good. Good to know. But Heather, what are you playing?

Well, it's been a really tough week for me, and I've only been able to even dabble in Fortnite. I know that there was another Discord private server event on the Get Played Discord Fortnite channel, which is really cool, and I wasn't able to attend. I don't even know if there's a new event happening in Fortnite this week. There might be. But I've had such extremely

limited game experiences this week that i wanted to shout out something else so matt could you um maybe play that that sound so apps are software and it if we had been recording this podcast in the 1990s i think that educational apps and educational software would have been fine to cover in the what are you playing segment. And I'd like to talk about an app that I've been using on my morning walks with my dog every day. And this app is called Merlin Bird ID.

I feel like I've talked about it on the show before, but I asked the boys and they said no. I feel like I've talked about it on the show before, but I asked the boys and they said no. Merlin Bird ID allows you to Shazam bird calls. Wow. So you hold up your phone to the sky while you're on a morning walk. And if there's a bird nearby, it'll automatically populate your phone with what bird that is and give you a photo of that bird. And then you can talk to the bird using the app. of its bird call and communicate with the bird in such a way that it will almost often always fly over to you and it is it has turned the real world into pokemon go for me yeah like i

there is a cooper's hawk also i'm starting to recognize bird calls and I wasn't a bird person before this, but now I'm a bird person. So like I'm like, oh, that's the Cooper's hawk. Oh, that's the house finch. Oh, that's Hawk using this app. And it has flown down to the low shrub in front of the house where I can like view it and it is fucking enormous. Wow. But I was like, this is such a transformative like experience that is kind of gamifying nature in an interesting way, but also giving me like education about like what I'm experiencing. And I,

I just, that's been what I've been playing this week is the Merlin bird ID app, which is connected to, I think Cornell university. You're also helping them because of the sounds that you're recording are giving them information about where these birds are migrating, what birds are in certain areas. There are different tiers of your information sharing with Cornell. So you can choose to be an active, almost like the people who review everything on Google Maps.

Sure. It's like that everything on Google Maps. Sure. You know, it's like that. But for birds, it's been it's been a really cool experience. And if I like if I legitimately had a couple of hours, I think I would just sit outside with this fucking app and see what kind of birds I could get to come over and land near me. Sounds like a hoot. I'm just I'm done. I'm fucking done. I'm not going, I'm not going. That stopped me in my fucking tracks.

I need a two-week break from your fucking bullshit. That's what I need. Because also, the timing, you manage to time those things after I'm vulnerable in any way. And the thing is, he probably, he's been sitting on it. Like the little devil he is.

It's like a fucking headshot every time. It's like a no scope headshot, max kill, max damage. Like like i'm just fucking blasted every and it's i'm done we're having fun that actually does uh that app does sound cool as hell i loved hearing the bird sounds i love the birds it was i was like i could hear birds all day they're great yeah that's pretty good i will say when you're like hey i you know i haven't gotten a chance to play a game but but I do want to play this audio. I was half hoping you were going to play the Dunkachino ad. You know, my New Year's resolution is to cut back on sugar and add more protein to my diet and stay on track with my fitness goals.

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This was last, I think, update. I was like, I got to this boss. My update is that I beat this boss. I had very limited playtime in between my full playthrough of Metroid Prime Remastered, but I got through that entity and am now in a late game area, which is optional, but is needed for, from what I've read, for the good ending. So I'm through that and I'm at the point where there's a boss at the end of that area. I'm being very circuitous because I don't want to give, I don't want to be too deep into spoiler country. And some of these characters that you're facing tie into the story and you know it did so like i i'll i'm being coy purposefully

but i'm on a boss now that from what i've read is like the most difficult boss in the game and that's where i got up to last last night actually i got shithoused about 12 times in a row i was like okay this isn't happening i just gotta go to bed and I'll figure this out later. But yeah, it's great. I will say there are a couple of late game encounters that I was like, fuck. Because the combat system is really designed around, you know, one-on-one. And, you know, deflecting and parrying and counterattacking against one opponent, especially when you're dealing with mini bosses and bosses. And some of the late game encounters, they set up scenarios where it's like here's two here's basically two

mini bosses at the same time and i was dealing with like fuck i just don't know how to like i'm i'm like sprinting away frantically trying to get separation between these two characters so i could just face off one-on-one and i ultimately was just like i just gotta look at a guide and get some sense of how to do this and i look at the guide i was just like well well oh there's the it's just a high level version of the stealth mechanic where there's this shinobi prosthetic you get called the furrow the finger the furrow finger furling call whatever the fuck it is it's some sort of finger calling thing that is like a furled finger and uh is used to draw enemies away to to that specific location.

But it was out of my mind because it has such limited use cases. But it ends up being a thing where if you're just paying attention to the game and how the mechanics work, which I wasn't, you could have perhaps figured out that like, oh, if I go to this specific spot, I can use this curled finger prosthetic to call one of the mini bosses away from like, oh, I'm just too dumb to pick up on this, how this encounter is designed and how you're supposed to actually approach it. Because when you do do it, it's very manageable that you can face them one-on-one and you could just get through them. Once they do that technique, it was like two tries, but

it just was not a thing that I was able to intuit. But it was a thing where it's just like, wow, this is really thoughtfully designed. And this really integrates all of the by the time you're in the late game all of the different systems that are coexisting uh which are overwhelming but it is a a really truly impressive uh and super fun game uh despite its challenge and despite the roadblocks uh let's talk a little bit about a few games i streamed a couple games of games I streamed. So those I was playing for fun. A couple of games I streamed on our Twitch channel. This is a new thing I'm calling Stream Daddy. Stream Daddy. Stream Daddy

Daddy All right, great. So we got the Stream Daddy sting there, courtesy of Jordan. Thank you, Jordan. We did? Yeah, it'll be in there. Oh. So we're just supposed to imagine that it happened?

You'll hear what it's like, and it's good. I will? I'll hear it? You guys listen to the show after I edit it, right? Oh, of course. Of course. It'll be good. It takes me hours and hours? I listen to it on half speed. Okay. It'll be good. I streamed a couple of games on our Twitch channel, twitch.tv slash getplayedpod.

First was a game called A Memoir Blue. This is an indie game developed by Cloisters Interactive that was on Game Pass. And I picked it because How Long to Beat said one hour. And it is an hour long. It is a short, very twee game with limited gameplay. Heather would not like it. But it's got some cool art and it's got some cool sound design. It's basically like you're a swimmer who's got some cool art and it's got some cool sound design it's basically

like a you're a swimmer who's lost touch with the mom who raised you and uh it's just like it's just dealing with you grappling with your memories and that relationship and whatever it's kind of low stakes and and sweet and charming but there's not a lot to it it is the kind of game that when people people make fun of indie games this is what they're picturing uh but but you know whatever it's on forever much longer it's on game pass uh worth checking out if you're into that sort of thing or just want a uh just want some some easy trophies uh or slash achievements um i also messed around with this game called project zomboyed and shout out to the twitch chat for cluing me and i i should have written down who

specifically uh recommended this but a few people were shouting it out. It is an early access on Steam are and you are in a as far as i can tell as in this demo or in this early access version you're in one of four towns in kentucky and you're just going around and just like it's it's it's to the point where you have to monitor your character's satiety and thirst and exhaustion and boredom. And then you can like, you know, things like, hey, here's a car. But you know what? This car doesn't have any gas. You don't have keys for it. Or, you know, like you need to find a place to sleep.

Yeah. Like, oh, I broke a window and climbed through it. Wait, the glass cut me. And I have a specific laceration that I need to treat. So it's super duper detailed on a granular level that's really impressive. And also there's dynamic scoring that kind of happens programmatically in terms of what's going on in the game action. When you actually get surrounded by zombies, it's legitimately scary because you are just a person with just like a makeshift armament and trying your best to defend yourself.

So it's like, hey, here's a bunch of zombies running at you, and you have a rake that you found. And you know what? You can't actually hurt someone all that much with a rake, so you're kind of in trouble here. Climbing a fence exhausts you. It just felt like a game where I'm really, really impressed by how much detail they put into this. And it was super tense and fun to play in the limited amount of time I spent on stream, but I'm going to play it more off stream. But yeah, that was another one that wasn't on my radar

and shout out to Twitch chat for cluing me into it. Anyway, that's enough out of me. That's enough out of us. That's enough. What do you play? And let's get to the business of the day. It's time for our console draft

for the Nintendo GameCube. This is. for our console draft for the Nintendo GameCube. Was that the GameCube intro sting? That was still my best. That was great. That was really good. That was really good. For a second, I thought, like,

are you trying to do the NFL draft theme? And then I was like, no, the others are not going to know that. You know what? I don't know it either. Anyway, there's a... Here's the thing. We covered Metroid Prime last month. We're covering Resident Evil 4 this month.

We're like, what do these games have in common? GameCube classics. Why don't we just try to pick up from the best of the bunch for this particular Nintendo system? So we're not just doing Nintendo consoles when we do these console drafts. That's just how the last couple have worked out. And so here we go. We'll go snake style. We'll pick five games a piece.

Any pre-draft thoughts before we get into this? I didn't have a GameCube, but so I'm drafting games that I would have liked to play and then maybe have some limited experience with as well. But I'm excited because the GameCube, a great console, great lineup. This is going to be a tough one, I think. I'm really excited about this draft because I think that the GameCube has a bunch of A-list players.

But if I'm really building my perfect little GameCube, I don't think I'm going to be in competition for a lot of these heavy hitters because there's a lot of niche titles on this machine that really really fucking work and i'm really excited to have a kind of a casual conversation about uh cool shit that nobody's played well let's work our way through it so here's all i'll say i had the third pick last time so i'm fine with whatever draft order although i'd prefer maybe not to have the third pick okay i'll go first let's get

uh you know i i think last time we did this i did um take the first pick i'm happy to go third i'll give the first pick to heather all right but But then you only get one. That's fine. Okay, I'll go third. Yeah, one, two, three, three. Yeah. Two, one, one. Yeah, that's snake style. We'll go back and forth. Okay.

And it's not, Heather, you don't have to do it. Snake style. The thing about the snake character is that the snake loves doing, like the snake seems like it's having the best time. Ooh, time to do a draft snake a draft became institutionalized in american sports in the late 20th century as a way to ensure parody across different franchises however like weird al that's great god damn it that's great that is god damn it that was great holy shit no snake you fucking idiot just listen to me god damn it let the colonel talk god damn

it you wouldn't know what i was talking about if you let me finish god damn you i love snake i miss him he's good all right heather your pick all right so i'm gonna i'm gonna go out of the gate with a game that goes against the preface that I set up as the concept of my draft. Because I didn't know that I was going first, and I want this fucking game on my GameCube. It's The Legend of Zelda, The Wind Waker. Wow. I don't think there is any game from more than 20 years ago, which visually holds up as well as Wind Waker does. It's incredibly gorgeous.

Yes. It is incredibly soothing. Sailing that fucking ocean. People were like, I hate this. It's the best. It is the bird watching app of video game travel. It is so fucking nice. It is a smooth feeling.

And I remember being at Anime Expo, I want to say, in the early 2000s. And somebody had this little CRT that was showing the trailer for the Wind Waker, which we'd only seen in magazines because this is an ancient time, right? You'd only seen this art style in print. So you didn't really get a grasp of what it looked like to watch it move. And watching it move felt transformative. I was like, oh my God, this is a cartoon.

I'm looking at a cartoon. And the thing that really like pushed me over the edge on my enthusiasm for the game was the look of the explosions in the Wind Waker, which were like these spiraling, like cell shaded. It was so gorgeous. I've never beaten the wind waker i get i get like fucking lost on the ocean in that second half of the game and i'm like i don't really want to do any of this as a tedious end game yeah yeah you have to collect a bunch of shit a bunch of triforce pieces but that opening and that and the and link's design

like the sound of link in that game so fucking good good stuff um so that's my first pick which isn't one of these niche titles that i am that i'm excited to champion, it's just such a fucking good game. So The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker is my first draft pick here on the GameCube console draft. the Wind Waker was announced and then the run up to release. And another big GameCube game went through a similar cycle. You know, I was remembering the, I was just thinking, do you ever see like the, there was a pretty, there was a meme recently where it was when

Horizon Forbidden West was coming out. And like people were like fixing like Aloy's like, like here's what she should look like. They were like, she should look like, you know, like they were like

fixing her character model. And the same thing was happening, I don't know if you remember this, with this Heather, with Wind waker because people really didn't like the chibi link they were like they should be like have a different sort of yeah the the character model should have like a like different proportion should look more like a like a traditionally animated you know a western animated c like like a 2d uh link i

remember that same sort of backlash cycle and the same thing happened, not in the exact same way, but the same thing of like, how are they going to make this happen? They're going to ruin this franchise that I love with a game we just covered, Recency Bias Ahoy, but I feel like if I don't take it now, Matt's going to take it. Metroid Prime. This is so fucked. I should have gone first.

Arguably, and maybe people's list, not mine, but definitely up there uh as the best gamecube game undeniably good and you know took a franchise that it's a premise that shouldn't have worked taking this 2d franchise and making it into a first person game and they absolutely fucking crushed it and it still holds up as we experienced with the remaster so that's my first pick metroid prime matt let's go to you you get two picks in a row okay i get two picks in a row so i'm gonna make these two picks

count okay because i feel like there's a couple things that i'm looking at that maybe nobody's gonna pick so first one out the gate i'm going mario kart double. Wow. Because I love Mario Kart. I wish the Double Dash mechanic was back. I've played a little Mario Kart Double Dash with some friends. I love Double Dashing. I love having another friend in the cart with me. That's fun. I like that.

Bring it back. At least there's a mode. It doesn't have to be the whole thing. Right. You can just put it in there. So Mario Kart Double Dash, my first pick. My second pick, also a Mario game. But it's one I've never played before.

But I've played other entries in this particular franchise. I'm going Paper Mario, The Thousand Year Door. Fuck. Wow. I thought it was like there's no chance he's going to pick this. I love. Because I know you haven't played it. I haven't played it, but I want it, and it's mine.

I love how cute he is. I love Paper Mario and how cute Paper Mario is. He's so cute. Another game like Wind Waker and Metroid Prime that has a big collect-a-thon in its third act that kind of is a little bit of a grind. But yeah, I love that game. It was on my list. Matt, while we were talking about it, can we play a little? Can I put something in the chat and we can play it? Yeah, of course. Here's a great track from the GameCube paper Mario. This is Rogueport in the town of the same name. when i hear that i'm much like Channelism on the YouTube comments here. Quote, I hear this and it's 2007 and I am 12 again.

My childhood. This is really good. I'm excited that I got to pick it. Yeah. And I'm looking at Paper Mario right now. And I just... He's just so funny to me. He just looks so funny.

I love him. Yeah, he's great. And they play around with him being just like a 2D entity. Yeah. Which is just a fun running gag in the series. Great game. I think the best in the series. A couple of good picks for you, Matt.

It's back to me. Now, look, RE4 is still on the board i could take it but i i do think it's kind of a multi-platform game although it debuted on the gamecube but also there's a game that i just have to have on my roster and it reaches certain points where i have to just be sam prestey on the oklahoma city thunder uh the gm who's just like famously drafts players he likes perhaps earlier, even knowing they might fall to him later because he's just like, I have to have this guy. And this is my game. This is my number one on the console.

Super Smash Brothers Melee. I'm happy it still survived Matt's two picks. So I got to take it on my roster now. So Melee, you're on the board joining Metroid Prime. Welcome to the team. That's a really solid that's a solid pair and like um smash is weirdly something i often forget about even though i do like smash yeah it's just not my go-to for some reason but that's a great that's a great pick

i you know hey i love that platform fighter sort of thing i mean i guess i really just love smash although i played other platform fighters, but I just have a lot of fond memories of that game. And to me, that is just like a game that is, like, that's what the GameCube is all about. And people who still have GameCubes and wired controllers these days are a lot of times just using it to play Melee

because there's still a competitive scene. So great game, and that's my second pick. Heather, you get two in a row. All right. Well's my second pick. Heather, you get two in a row. All right. Well, my first pick here is going to be a game that I have talked about on the show before and celebrate mostly because of the way it incorporated peripherals. I'm talking about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the GameCube. Which, let's cue that song, has one of the best scores in all of Final Fantasy games.

Just an honest adventure sound that draws you in. It's like, hey, guys, we're about to go on an adventure together. But in order to go on an adventure together, you had to have four Game Boy Advances and four friends. Which, I want to,

can I drag an image into the, no, I can't. You can text it to me. I can text it to you. Or you can share it on your own screen. I'll just an image into the... No, I can't. You can text it to me. I can text it to you. All right, great. Or you can share it on your own screen, whatever you like. I'll just drag it into the chat. All right, there you go.

So not only could you play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with four players, each having their own separate information screens on their Game Boy Advance via the Game Boy Link cable. So you'd have like mini maps and one person would have like,

hey, there's a treasure this way. And you'd all follow them because that treasure showed up on their Game Boy. So it was this conversation inducing experience. But if you manage to have five if you have if you had five game cubes and four of them had the game boy advance player and you had five crts you could put five CRTs, you could put all of that information on separate CRTs so that you would have this like war room experience of playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with four players. And then you could all share the information as you were seeing it.

I... True nonsense. But it rules. I love the sort of audacity of this game. I love that. It's like, hey, if you really want to experience this, you've got to be not only a Nintendo household, but a Nintendo community, because like people would have to have their own Game Boy advances in order to participate in this thing.

So I'll confess, I've never fucking played it this way. Like I had my Game Boy Advance and I had a friend and he would play on the on like the controller on the screen and I would have my Game Boy Advance for my second player experience. But it was really boring that way. Like it's designed for four people to experience it at the same time. Fucking like someday I'm going to get to do that and it's going to be fucking fun and awesome. And it's neat that that experience is still waiting out there for me in the future.

I love it. My, my final also, I like that. Let me just read this from the Wikipedia. Deciding to partner with Nintendo for game development following severe financial problems created by the failure of Final Fantasy The Spirits Within. franchise creator square formed the game designer studio as a shell company to develop nintendo hardware without impacting games for sony platforms they were so fucked after spirits within that they had to like jump through hoops in order to make this game available on the gamecube

it's a game i've always wanted to play i've never played it before uh and I was disappointed to learn that the Nintendo Switch port of it is bad yeah it's not very good all right so that's one okay that's that's one of them right there that's one of my that's one okay and then my my next my next pick is not going to pull anything off the board for you guys. It's a game that I have pushed us to cover on the show many times. Oh, yeah. From Grasshopper Manufacture, it's Killer7. Wow.

A game where you play as a guy who's got seven assassin personalities, which you choose between before you enter into this like 90s vr looking visual experience uh that is about how uh i think it was the united states government was helping control japanese politics i don't it's been a long time since I've played it, but it is one of the like weirdest fucking games. It is a singular experience. There's nothing that's like killer seven. It's not like, oh, it's a killer seven. Like, and I also thought it was interesting that, uh, the core adventure style gameplay has been compared to snatcher right uh goichi suta who is the director of the game was a sort of um a protege of uh uh kojima so there's elements that sort of uh borrow from

from the themes of kojima's work and it's it's fucking great and very weird very weird game uh and so even though it's not a gamecube exclusive i felt like it played best on gamecube and yeah that's my uh that's my third and final pick killer seven wow i think we get five picks, so. What? Are we doing five? Yeah, we're doing five. But you're doing, you did two back-to-back right now. Yeah. We get some more roster slots is what I'm saying. Oh, God. Okay. It's not a Triforce

of. This is the draft. It's a different format. Triforce is three. The draft is five. Oh, God. Okay. Great. Well, don't be distressed. We'll figure it out. There's lots of good games in this system. By the way, Killer7 had a Windows remaster in 2018, so we probably could play it.

I don't know how the remaster was received, but we could check it out in the Steam store. Who knows? It's deck verified. This is a game that I never played Killer7, but I'm aware of its art style. It's kind of like cel-shaded plus first person. It's really, yeah, it looks like nothing else. Really cool. Great pick. I would call it off-putting.

When you play it, it's a little like somebody's shoving tinfoil in your mouth. Like it's a little bit like, whoa, okay, look out. All right. All right. It's my third slot. And ooh, ah, ah, everyone's going bananas because it's time for my ape pick. That's right. This is my ape slot.

What? Now, you might be hearing ape slot, and you're like, okay, I think I know where Weiger's going. Super Monkey Ball, of course. Going to get Super Monkey Ball, which I did get at launch. I waited in line outside of GameStop and picked up a launch bundle, which included Super Monkey Ball, and it is a great game. And it is a great game. And if I had more slots, it would be on my roster. But instead, I have to pick a game, which, to Heather's point about ludicrous peripherals in this particular console, Donkey Konga. Give me those Donkey Kong bongos. The game is called Donkey Konga, but they are bongos and you know what it's cool as hell they also released a game dk jungle beat which is basically like a platformer that uses the bongos which is a fun use of the peripheral but hey it's one of those things that i wish i still had like the sama de amigo me uh

fucking maracas it's just like why did i ever not like get rid of this thing? But it is a cool piece of hardware. And you know what? It's a fucking. It's it's it's uniquely Nintendo, and it's a great use of the Donkey Kong property. And I love that shit. Back when they used to actually make dedicated music peripherals, this was one of the more ludicrous, one of the sillier and a very cool game attached. And you know what? It kind of fills out my roster with like, hey, I got like a first-person, you know, single-player adventure experience.

I've got a sort of party fighter, and now I just got a straight-up party-slash-rhythm game. So that's my next pick, Donkey Konga. That's a killer pick. That's so fun. I've never played it before. But it seems like it's cool. Sucks that you don't have it anymore um

my next pick is not a nintendo exclusive but started on the gamecube wow was eventually ported over to ps2 i love this game i know that none of you guys are gonna pick it so it's kind of a safe i could save this one but i'm just gonna pick it now beautiful joe wow i love beautiful joe so much gorgeous game gorgeous really fun funny um i love the the combat style it's it's just it's just a lot of fun um i wish there was a modern port of it seems like it wouldn't be that hard uh to get it over to the switch um but it's it's it's one of my favorite games from that era i love it and beautiful joe too as well but i'm only drafting the first one um uh but i was kind of surprised we didn't get more beautiful joe i sort of he's in mario made a sequel right yeah he's beautiful joe too and

then there's a there's another like spin-off game set in the Beautiful Joe, I think, world. I can't remember what it's called. Or there's a DS one, I think is what's different about it. But he's in Marvel versus Capcom 3. I was sort of like, oh, Beautiful Joe's here to stay. Right. Joe's not going anywhere. He's in a fighting game with all their IP.

He's fucking gone. he's just gone now yep bring me give me joe yeah so i missed joe so that's my three three games between 2003 and 2005 or i'm sorry four games two of them released near simultaneously, and that's it. It's a big bummer. I think, oh yeah, Red Hot Rumble is the one I'm thinking of, and Double Trouble as well, which is for the DS, and Red Hot Rumble, I never messed around with Red Hot Rumble, actually. That's because it's for GameCube, and PSP. I love Beautiful Joe.

I just love the way he looks and his whole attitude. He's kind of a funny guy. So that's my third pick. My fourth pick... I don't know what this version of this game is like. I just know that when the

most recent version of it came out, it took over my life in such a positive way. And at a time when we all really needed it, I'm going with the original Animal Crossing for GameCube. Wow. Because I just know that if I had to have these five picks, I'm going to want a game where I could play it for so long and not get sick of

it. And animal crossing is that, and I do sort of miss that everyday check-in with animal crossing. It made me feel so good doing that. And I haven't checked in on it. I still do it. I, I just,

I, I, I sort of worry about feeling judged by them. Right. I would hate to know that they were disappointed in me. And what am I going to do? I'm going to be buying items again. I'm going to be on the turnip market.

I can't be dealing with that again. But I loved it. And, hey, when there's a new Animal Crossing, I'll be there. I'll be there. But I think I did my, you know, once I sunk like 400 hours into it, I was like, I think we're good. I think i did my you know once i sunk like 400 hours into it it was like i think we're good i think we did it uh so animal crossing is my fourth pick uh for for the draft and uh i'm liking my roster i gotta say mario well we'll recap them later but it's looking pretty good

wow great picks re4 still on the board i think it's going to stay on the board though because i think at this point i just want to go in a different direction. And, you know, you talked about some multi-platform games. Well, this is a game that I originally played, and in fact only played, on the Sega Dreamcast. But it got a remaster of sorts, an improved version on the GameCube that was well-received critically. And, you know what, I think I'd like to have it on my limited roster of GameCube that was well-received critically. And you know what? I think I'd like to have it on my limited roster of GameCube titles.

I'm talking about a JRPG entitled Skies of Arcadia Legends. Wow. Give me that Skies of Arcadia Legends. Played Vanilla Skies of Arcadia on Dreamcast. And yeah, give me that Gamecube version uh to fill out my roster with a nice big fat jrpg with some sky pirates uh heather you got two picks in a row to finish out your roster all right so my first pick is going to be another cross-platform game called ikaruga which is a vertical shooting game that fucking rules. I have it for the Switch.

I have it for the GameCube. I have it for the Dreamcast. I love this game. And I'd be remiss not to include it on a console where I didn't realize I had two more games that I got to choose. My final pick is Resident Evil 4. Wow. I start with Wind Waker, end with Resident Evil 4.

It's a fucking great game. It was an extraordinary exclusive experience at the time of its release. And nothing makes the GameCube stronger than its very few iconic releases, even though the system itself is a baller fucking system. Yeah. Those are my last two. That's my five. Very cool roster you ended up with there i have a lot of directions i

could go with my final pick but you know as much as i as much fondness as i have for like the pikmin franchise i've always felt like those are games more that i wanted to like rather than actually enjoyed playing i think they're cool designs. I think the aesthetic is nice, but I don't necessarily need to have a Pikmin game on my roster. And, you know, some of the other GameCube exclusives that are still available are like a cool, but, you know, maybe more novelties or maybe haven't aged great. So I'm going to go with a transformative piece of hardware, great. So I'm going to go with a transformative piece of hardware, which as Nintendo often does for better or worse, they led the way with a technology that we now take for granted, wireless controlling. Wow. I am taking the Nintendo Wave Bird. We had wired controllers up until the Wave Bird. Everyone had cables they were stepping over and coiling up.

You go to your friend's place, you play a game, make sure you roll up the controller. If you don't, you're an asshole. You know what? You'd accidentally unplug your controller while you're playing. That would be a thing. Mom rolls the vacuum cleaner over your controller. That creates a whole hassle. You don't have to worry about that anymore with the wave bird.

And nowadays, you're not wired unless you're playing like something competitive where you need to have that responsiveness and lack of latency so i'm taking the wave bird uh here's a uh here's a little bit on the wave bird from a contemporary review from ign in short the wave bird lived up to or exceeded all of our expectations some some of which were just plain shattered. If you are considering buying an additional controller for your GCN, then I suggest holding off, saving for a few more days, and buying a WaveBird. It's that good. With plenty of range, flexible operation, and long battery life, the WaveBird is a truly amazing controller and one whose impact will doubtlessly be felt throughout the industry. True words. The impact waslessly be felt throughout the industry.

True words. The impact was doubtlessly felt throughout the industry. And you know what? It's a great way to game. What happened with the naming of that controller? The Wave Bird? It's nonsense. I don't get it.

I mean, it's like, oh, there are waves. It's the waves in between you and the GameCube, and it's like holding a free-flying bird in your hand. Maybe. Fucking baffling. It's really strange. They had a bunch of different options. They were considering calling it a bunch of different things, I remember.

But yeah, they ultimately landed on this, and I'm not sure why. But it was so huge and there was also like that because there were some attempts at wireless controllers but they were all work like old school remote controls whereas infrared and you had to like line it up so it was the line of sight of your console and this not being that was just completely transformative uh and uh hey if you're unless you're playing competitive smash uh you could you could do pretty well with that wave bird and that nintendo gamecube so that transformative. And hey, if you're not unless you're playing competitive smash, you could do you could do pretty well with that wave bird and that

Nintendo GameCube. So that finalizes my roster. Matt, your final pick or picks. How many you have left? I only have one left. Okay.

There's a lot of ways I can go because there's a lot on the board left and there's, you know, there's people are gonna be mad. You didn't pick this. You didn't pick that.

You didn't pick men. They're gonna say you didn't pick men. They't pick that you didn't pick men they're gonna say you didn't pick men they're gonna say you didn't pick men and i just you know there's just a lot that there's just there's so much and i just feel like as a fan of spooky scaries who is a coward, I can't help but go with my boy Luigi in Luigi's Mansion. Great pick. And solidify my five picks there with Luigi's Mansion. Wow. Good game, fun game, fun franchise, great art direction,

really good lighting. He's like, he's funny. A lot of these guys, a lot of these guys are funny. It's a great use of Luigi because it's like, this is his core character

and you know what, he doesn't necessarily have any special skills of his own, but you know what, he does have a fucking vacuum cleaner. Yeah. There you go.

Yeah, and you know, the house is dirty. He's going to have to clean it up a little bit too, not just with ghosts. Right. And I love a tidy house. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. And you know, the house is dirty. He's going to have to clean it up a little bit too. Not just with ghosts. Right. And I love a tidy house. Yeah. Uh, so those are my final picks. Why don't we go through, uh, why don't we go through all of our picks here? Uh, I'll start. Um, my picks were Mario Kart Double Dash, Paper Mario, The Thousand Year Door, Beautiful Joe, Animal Crossing, and Luigi's Mansion. A lot of good games there, a lot of good games on the system. Mine were Metroid Prime, Smash Bros. Melee, Donkey Konga, Skies of Arcadia Legends, and the Nintendo Wave Bird.

Heather? What did I pick? It was, I first picked Wind Waker, then I picked Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with the game boy advanced link cable i picked ikaruga a fantastic shooting game i picked killer seven a very weird off-putting excellent interesting game and game. And finally, Resident Evil 4. That's my GameCube. What's your GameCube? What's your GameCube?

Shout it now. Shout it now. Shout it. Whatever you're listening on, just shout it. We'll hear it. I can't hear you. Shout it at the thing. Roll down all four windows of your car and shout it.

If you're on a treadmill at the gym, shout it at the person next to you. Yeah, I want to be on the freeway hearing NBA Street Volume 3. All right, hey, that was our GameCube draft. Let's do a segment, eh? That's right. It's time for a segment.

Can Nick and Heather guess what game is being described with as little information as possible? It's time for Vagrant Story. Fuck. Vagrant Story. So you know how this works. I'm gonna read

a description that I wrote of a game. Yeah. The descriptions are not helpful in any sort of way. Okay. Here we go. Let's just get this first one right out. Great. A young man goes to the school of his dreams. And I just beep-beep-beep?

Yeah. Bully. That is incorrect. Not a bad guess. Good guess. But pretty good. I think there's maybe something with school of his dreams that makes me think that are you talking about a Persona game and perhaps the one we've talked about a length of podcast, Persona 5 Royal. Nick's on the board with one. Wow. Persona 5. Here we go.

You're entering into subconsciousness in that game. Horseshit. Here we go. Okay. You're entering into subconsciousness in that game. This is horse shit. So, you know, there's not a lot of information in there, but maybe the information in the clues is there to help you in some way. Right.

But also they're not helpful. But they're not helpful. I'm just going to guess bully the entire fucking time. Maybe because you are a bully. No. You're a bully. How dare you? I'm a bully. Matt are a bully. No. You're a bully. How dare you? I'm a bully.

Matt is a bully. Bullying us with these vague descriptions. Here we go. A young boy fights to save an island. Oh. Heather. Kingdom Hearts. Heather, that is incorrect. What the fuck? What? Whatather that's incorrect what the fuck what what it's incorrect but that's

what he's doing doesn't mean it's the game i wrote down it's not this but i just want to guess it uh hudson's adventure island no but that's fun okay we. We all like that. But that is what the game is. Yeah. Doesn't mean... Do we get more guesses or are there additional clues? No, it's only one clue. You can guess as many times as you want or you can get fed up with it and I'll tell you what the answer is. Okay, so I'm trying... I'll read it again.

I'm fed up. I'm fed up. I'm fed up. A young boy... A young boy... Fights to save an island. An island. A young boy. A young boy. Fights to save an island. An island. A young boy.

Oh, Kingdom Hearts 2. Heather, that's correct. Just kidding. No, it's incorrect. Well, look, I don't think you characterize Mario from Super Mario Sunshine as a young boy, although he is kind of fighting to save an island in that game. They should do a Mario where he is little. They've done Baby Mario, but they haven't done a full-on Baby Mario game.

Yeah, let me play as Baby Mario. Is the island surrounded by ocean, or is it like an island in the sky? It's an ocean island of sorts. It's an ocean island. It's his home. His home. Have I played this game?

I don't think you have, but I think Heather has, and I also have not played it. No idea. think you have but I think Heather has and I also have not played it no idea is it the same is the same era as the previous game it is not okay yeah wait you guys want to know the answer Heather's about to get really mad mother three mmm set an accurate characterization of other three I wouldn't think of it that way

but I mean it's appropriate also I was thinking about mother 3 the other day because it came up on shuffle on my like when I was on a drive it came up as music on my shuffle and it's a great fucking game we gotta play it

mother hey that was good okay you guys are gonna be mad about this one tell your island that it will be We got to play it. Mother. It's really- Hey, that was good. Okay. You guys are going to be mad about this one. Tell your island that it will be safe. A young man trains to be the best and beat his rival. Wiger. Is it just Pokemon Red?

No, that is incorrect. Final Fantasy VII? that is incorrect. Final Fantasy VII? That is incorrect. Is it a JRPG or is it an RPG? It is not. Train the best and beat his rival. What's the clue? Is he a young man?

A young man trains to be the best and beat his rival. Everyone who hears the answer is going to be like, that's technically correct, but Matt led them astray. It's Street Fighter. That is incorrect. Is it a... This really is vague. Living up to the name Vagrant Story. Punch Out?

That is incorrect. Trains to be the best and beat his rival. Not an RPG. Is it a fighting game?, is it a fighting game? It is not a fighting game. There's combat in it. I was thinking about...

It's not fighting. It's not. I was just thinking about... There is a point system, I'll say, but it's not like fighting. Point system? Can you give us a platform? Wait, is there a theme for all of these?

No. No, not a unifying theme. It's random. It's random, okay. That's the extra challenge of Vagrant Story. Is there a platform or era you can tell us? For this game, I'll give you one. Okay.

PlayStation 2 era, early 2000s. Trains to be the best and beat his rival. This one's maybe not fair because it's deliberately obtuse. But it's vague. I'll just guess Ratchet and Clank. That's incorrect. Heather, do you want to guess one more? No.

This is hard. A young man trains to be the best and beat his rifle. Tony Hawk's Underground. The issue is that could describe what you said could describe any game. That's sort of it's sort of it, isn't it? In that game,

in the campaign of that game, you and your best friend have a rift and he becomes like your rival and you're training the whole way to become the top skater and get signed and beat him,

Eric Sparrow. Here's the next one. A man goes to great lengths to complete his goal. What? A character goes on a journey and learns a lesson. Yeah.

Okay, well, don't read it. Sega bass fishing. That is incorrect. Can I hear that clue one more time? A man goes to great lengths to complete his goal. Is great lengths a clue? Noby noby boy. Heather, did you look at my paper?

Is that real? No. Fuck you. It's about a thing that gets longer and longer until it can touch Pluto. Is it a snake? A man. A man. A man. Goes to great lengths to complete his goal.

A game we covered getting over it with Bennett Foddy? That is incorrect. But a good guess. A good guess about a game we've played, I'll say. good guess a good guess about a game we've played i'll say great lengths gets longer maybe you're thinking of lengths a little differently a man a man so there is a player character a man goes to great lengths. Yeah, that was kind of a bummer part of writing these.

A lot of them are boys are men. This is like GeoGuessr, except you've just got a sign that says Main Street. It's like, all right. Or that internet thing that can guess any character. Right, yes. But he's like, you gave him a clue, normal man. Yeah.

A man goes to great lengths. To complete. Mario Paint. Is incorrect. Journey. The answer is Death Stranding. Hmm. Okay. He goes to great lengths.

He goes so far. Traverses a long distance. Yeah, sure. Okay. It makes sense in hindsight, but I think the challenge is it's like, how do we get there? It's like there's almost not enough of a curl.

I do think in making this one, I accidentally made it harder than previous ones. These are maybe too hard. Nick has one. Okay. Let's see if we can do it one more. This is the final one. Okay, one more.

A man reconnects with who he is. This one's got to be Death Stranding. What if I did a fake out and did two of the same one no but that's also good final fantasy 7 that is incorrect that's a great guess that's the whole that's a whole narrative arc of cloud strife reconnects with who he really is yeah man reconnects with who he really is. Silent Hill 2. That is incorrect. But a good guess.

Super Mario Brothers 2, because he wakes up. That's a great guess. No, that is incorrect. Man reconnects with who he is. Is connects a clue? Reconnects. Final Fantasy 15, because Noctis takes the throne. Oh.

I didn't realize that Noctis takes the throne. That is incorrect. Reconnects with who he really is. Is this a fucking Kingdom Hearts? No. Do you want the answer? Yes. Disco Elysium.

Oh, sure. There you go. We should have gotten that one. Yeah, we could have gotten that. So, I'm sorry that I made this game so hard. Yeah, that was too hard. No, it's all right. Do you think everyone's mad?

I am. No. Nick is our winner with one point. Very exciting. I won't make it as hard next time. Win's a win. And that was Vag vagrant story, everybody. Maybe a little too vague.

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