Get Played - Tri-Force of Cubes

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

Heather, Nick and Matt discuss AI President Tier Lists and what they're playing, then they choose various cubes from video games to build their perfect Tri-Force of Cubes and they answer your questions in the Question Block! This month’s We Play, You Play: Metroid Prime Remastered! 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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Hey. Hey, Nick. I think we're, I think this is going to be a good episode, but I admittedly, this topic is a little random. Yeah. It's random. A little random. Yeah.

It's a little random. That's okay. Yeah. The internet likes random. I mean, I'm sure I'll gripe about it later, but right now I'm down. Yeah. It's, you know, it's, they're going to love it. Speaking of random.

Now I'm down. Yeah. It's, you know, it's they're going to love it. Speaking of random. I mean, this is random, but. I've been developing a little side project, a little video game of my own. Hey, look at you. That's great.

Yeah. But you're dipping your toes back into the water. That's great, Nick. Back into that world. Yeah, it's awesome. It's called it's labor of love. It's called a big Love. It's called Big the Cat Fucks a Speedboat. And basically, I mean, it kind of is what it sounds like from the title. You know, you are the player character, are Big the Cat, and then there's a speedboat, and you're just really going at it.

And every time you successfully fuck it, you get a pie, which is also kind of random. I think in the spirit of the game. In fact, the type of pie is randomized. Sometimes it's lemon meringue. Sometimes it's a Dutch apple. Nick, you're a wise man. Thank you. You're a wise man.

Thank you. And I believe in you. I understand that you understand the world who is this game for yeah that's that's sort of my big question because big the cat yeah you know an ancillary character in the sonic universe i mean ancillary is a little harsh but go on well doesn't have his own game is what i'm saying not yet not until he gets his hands on that speedboat and like i know he's like in in sonic frontiers he's like he's fishing so he's like water adjacent i just don't know like i don't know if like boat and big the cat is like this is my only problem with it is that i just

i think it could be something else yeah actively not looking for notes i'm telling you what the game is yeah i guess maybe just walk us through a couple other things that maybe Big the Cat does. Yeah, so the Big the Cat, you know, obviously we're trying to get the original voice actor, well TBD. The voice of the boat,

the X-Files star David Duchovny. So that'll be fun. The voice of the boat? Yeah, I go to the same gym as decovny and so i just uh you know i'll sometimes spot for him and you must be the best spotter on earth that dude's fucking shredded he's jacked yeah it's fucking huge he's huge and now i'm a little more interested in the game actually because i like to know that a voice actor is jacked yeah and i know i know that to be true of mr decovovny. And he's kind of like a

horny guy. It's also because yeah, it's a horny game. He's in the Red Shoe Diaries. And you know what? Hey, again, the whole theme here is random. Here's another thing that seems random. It's a text adventure. What? There's no graphics. It's all text. It's a text adventure.

Yeah. Okay. With some voicing. Nick, I'm proud of you. It's a text adventure. Yeah. Okay. With some voicing. Nick, I'm proud of you. It takes courage, wisdom, and power to see a vision like this through. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Thank you. We were being a little harsh before,

but I think it's good that you made a video game where you have to read that Big the Cat from Sonic fucks a boat voiced by David Duchovny. Yeah, that's good.

I think that's good. Well, we all agree it's good. I think that's a good place to end things. Let's do a show. We rank fictional video game

three-dimensional objects via a fictional video game two-dimensional object as we craft our Triforce of Cubes this week on 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, Heather Ann Campbell, with my fellow host, Nick Weiger.

Nick Weiger, that's me. And I'm here with our third host, Matt Abadaka. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. And welcome back to Get Played, the premier video game podcast where we used to talk about and torture ourselves with bad games. But now we talk about anything we want. And generally speaking, it's like Nick or Matt saying, let's talk about this. And that's going to be that episode today. Today, they said, hey, let's talk about this. And I said, what? And they said, let's talk about it. that's gonna be that episode today today they said hey let's talk about this and i said what and they said let's talk about it and i went wait what what what are we talking

about and they said that's the thing so listener get ready you're in for a treat straight from the noggins of weiger and apodaca it's a special episode. But before we even... Washing your hands of the content of the episode preemptively. I think this is going to be good. I think this might be one of our all-timers. I think it's going to be great. I think it's...

You have input on the show. You're allowed to pitch whatever you want. We'll do your ideas. That's not true. All we hear from you is, I don't have time to do the podcast. That's not true all we hear from all we hear from you is i don't have time to do the podcast that is not true i have said for one year straight come to my place and play 32x and you guys you're the light goes out of your eyes when i say it and you look away and you say oh what's that sandwich over there or uh did you know where my wallet is? Like it's all like a 32X.

I'm good today. Do you want to do it today? 32X. Yeah, we can do it today. What? We can do it today. You want to do it today? We could have done it today.

Like if we come over right now, you're not busy or anything? You got nothing else going on, right? You're going to call my bluff, huh? You're going to come right over right now? Yeah. All right, motherfuckers. Why don't you come over right now?

Right now. If we're lucky, put down the podcast.? Yeah, all right, motherfuckers. Why don't you come over right now? Right now. If we're lucky, she'll kill us. Hang up your phones. I do think we should do it. I think it's a great idea. Because there's another idea that we have that I won't spoil because I think it's a good idea. Not that we don't want to be at your house all the time. I love being at your house.

It's a lot of fun. Yeah. I think we can kill two birds with one stone, get two episodes from one hay. Yeah, there could be two episodes in one day. And the truth is, there's so much bullshit here that we could probably do three or four episodes. I could subject you guys to Game & Watch for an hour,

and you'd be like, okay, let's rank Game & Watch. The least terrible one was Donkey Kong. For when this happens, will Mary be there? Yeah, can we hang out with Mary? Knives in my stomach. Just ruthless and unnecessary. And here's the thing. I'm just being cheeky.

We love everyone at your house. Mary, your dog. The crows. No, we'd love to come over. That'd be great. It's a logistical challenge different from like, hey, there's no prep

and we can just show up and talk about something, which is what we're doing today. We'll figure it out. We'll offline about it and we'll make it happen soon. There is prep because I had to look up what the fuck you guys were talking about. And I do want to say, I think this idea is good. Nick pitched it a while ago and we didn't get to it. And I was like, I'm holding on to this for when we need something.

Not that this was in case of emergency break glass situation but i was like i think now they're ready for it i think they're ready for this huge idea came in handy in the in the clutch yes look look i'll be i'll be transparent with the listener i've been i've been asked to write a movie in in in a few very short weeks from start to finish like yeah she she's adapting the OJ novel if I did it. And so my schedule has become extremely busy. I'm really grateful for this opportunity. It's fantastic. What a joy.

But it has put a crowbar into what I thought was going to be a leisurely schedule as I headed towards my wedding. Is crowbar a hint as to what movie she's writing? Huh? No, I don't think I a hint as to what movie she's writing? Huh? No, I don't think I'm allowed to say what movie I'm writing.

She mentioned Crowbar. Yes. OJ's self-financing a movie where he finds the guy. Interesting. So it's like taken but with OJ? But he's Nordberg

from the N gun movie yeah it's gonna be funny it's gonna be funny he's funny in those movies yeah um but yeah that's so that's that's the kind of that's why nick's like well i'm not the busy one i don't know it's been a fucking year 32x a year come over and play star wars arcade a year i'll come i'll do it anytime i know nick will get off of his hammock that he has set up between two palm trees on his little island and he'll come over to your house it took nick three months to get matt and my gift christmas gift for him that's true and the only reason he got got it was because I brought it to him. I was like, okay, here you go.

In the studio, which is where I'm at with Matt today. Yes. And Jordan. Jordan is here. Does our engineering. That's true. And Heather, somewhere else. Yeah, that's.

Just get her. I don't like that. Just fucking get her. Let me just say this. You started this. I want to... Fucking shitting on the premise for our episode up top. We're all friends

and we all like each other. We really like each other. It's true. We're just having a laugh. You know how fun it is to just kind of take the piss with your pals for a little bit? It's super fun.

It is fun. And if you're one of the Reddit commenters who is like, I can't stand Heather's tone. Mad nicker, nice guys. Why she got to be so mad at them? Know that I've been smiling this entire time. And here's the thing.

Shut the fuck up. Yeah. Smiling as if I'm hitting my own kneecap with a hammer. Just over and over. Smiling. I love that we should go over to Heather's place and we should play some games and we should come up with some content. And then you guys should come over to my place and I'll show you some stuff. Oh, shit.

I was going to cook for you guys. Remember that? That's right. Pitch? Yes. That was the pitch that I was saying. Let's keep that under wraps. I think I could tell the audience that.

I've got multiple video game cookbooks and I was going to cook recipes for multiple video game cookbooks and we would do an episode. That sounds like a great episode. That sounds like a, it's a home run. Nick just invited us to his house. Nick wants us to come to his place. Yeah.

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Check it out. algorithm. I don't know if this happened to either of you. I've been getting these AI generated presidential tier list videos where basically it's Obama, Biden, and Trump making tier lists of various franchises. And I've seen so many of these because they just started popping up my algorithm like two weeks ago. And I just I click on all of them and I like all of them. But I imagine some of our listeners are seeing the same thing. Can we just – I sent you a link, Matt. Can we just play some of this so you can get a sense of it? I think this is them making a Mario tier list.

Yeah, here we go. All right, great. All right, you amateurs, let's rank the mainline Mario games. Bring it on, you pussies. All right, let's go chronological and start with Super Mario Bros. Does anyone even play this game outside of speed running? Here we go with this shit again. Joe, it's old as shit and boring. Super Mario Bros. Does anyone even play this game outside of speedrunning? Here we go with this shit again.

Joe, it's old as shit and boring. I think it's a low C tier. It's dog shit, Joe. Whoa, hold on, you dumbasses. This game is the classic Mario by which all others are measured. It's A tier for that reason alone. Joe, you dickhead. This game came out closer to World War II than to today.

It's literally only good for one type of speedrun, and there is no replayability. Get your head out of your geriatric ass. This game is B-tier at best. Look at Mr. History Channel over here. Shut the fuck up, Donald. It's A-tier quality. Wrong.

Look, I don't think it's A-tier, Joe. That's insane. I'm going to place it in B-tier. I think that's stupid, but whatever. Wrong. Whatever, let's move on. SMB-2 is a pretty obvious tier. All right, we get it. We get it.

What is life, man? That's so fucked. SMB2 is a pretty obvious. We get it. We get it. What is life, man? It's so fun. It's truly insane. And it's, you know, like, look, this is the fun before we get society. Yeah. Collapses. Yeah. This is I was like, I'm shocked that I am actually entertained by this.

It's great. It's great. But then I was like, oh, man, we are one news cycle away from it is has been unable to be determined whether Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic saying and then hear a quote. Yeah. Or whether this is an AI generated story and there have been no ability. There's no independent verification capabilities yet created by the CIA or what? Like, we're fucked. Until then, I did like both Trump and Obama dunking on Biden.

What good. So funny. That's excellent podcasting. Obama also, he seems to be the mediator role in all of these videos. A lot of them done by different creators. But yeah, I watched a Zelda tier list different creators uh and uh but yeah i watched a zelda tier list watch a mario kart tier list watch a soulsborne tier list they're all good i've seen them on tiktok like they're like squatting up in like uh like call of duty or whatever it's and

they're always getting mad because like biden's always playing like the wrong game or something it's also interesting because there's like i've seen some that have like george w bush in them as well and the w is never as good and it's just like oh there just must not be as many hours of george w bush's voice that's been archived and ai have been trained off of yeah because like think about that too like i mean he wasn't like a social media president right like everybody else is sort of like on like more online than him so you i bet you could generate um anyone i mean should we just ai generate one of our shows there's probably enough hours there we can just like call that a day let's do it let's fucking do it mine would sound too human to be believable oh and when nick and i were walking outside uh we saw those two of those um delivery uh robots and uh they both stopped and said, what's up, Nick?

They like knew him. Speaking of robots, I shared a trailer or a gameplay video with you guys, which I can just talk about or we can watch and talk about as you guys are watching it.

It's for the upcoming RoboCop game. This is from Taeyon and looks just like the movie. I mean, just looks like fucking RoboCop. The problem is you enter this first person perspective in the game. Yeah. And you are playing as RoboCop. And it is immediately uncomfortable.

Like, you are walking around as a emotionless police officer in a dystopia that doesn't, no longer looks like, unlike our world. Right. Yeah. And eventually you are just killing people like you just start killing it's like there are drugs in the basement I'll take care of that he goes down to the basement

and then fucking just starts executing potential criminals. Right. And it's not good, guys. It made me so uncomfortable, and I love violence. That's all.

Yeah, the power dynamic at play of just being law enforcement, it makes it feel extra grim as you're mowing everyone down. You're not an underdog. You're an unstoppable killing machine who works on behalf of the authoritarian state. I think it looks awesome. It does look awesome. When you mentioned it being in first person, which I understand that choice for a lot of reasons, especially if it's primarily gunplay. And, you know, you get to see you get to see the HUD.

You get to live the RoboCop HUD, which is featured so prominently in the films. By the way, I saw RoboCop one in theaters late last year at a rep screening and time my fucking life. I've never seen it. Oh, my God. It's this is it's like it's an all timer for me. It's such a great. I have to watch it. It's so fucking hot. Oh my God. It's this is it's like it's an all timer for me. It's such a great I have to watch it holds up so much

feel so prescient. But anyway for me seeing in first person is like I just want to see fucking RoboCop. This feels like a game with a third person perspective.

It's such a cool character design. Let's see more of it. I think the problem is is that they had to put him first person because he he cannot move fast enough

for it to make sense. Interesting. Like his walk cycle wouldn't make any sense because we know how RoboCop moves and it's like ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk. But everybody else would be moving at human speed. So you have to put it in first person to like cheat that problem.

Yeah. No, I understand why they might have decided on that from a design perspective, but I did miss seeing the guy. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure you'll see him in cut scenes. Sure. Murphy.

The name's Murphy. Wife showering. Old house empty. What am I? Robopod. Well, look, we have a great topic we're going to get to. Probably the best topic we've ever had. Great topic we're going to get to in a second.

I mean, legendary status. In the Triforce of Episodes, this one is the Triforce of episodes. This one is the Triforce of power. Barack, you dipshit. This episode is easily S tier. What the fuck are you talking about? This is B tier for sure. I could have watched the entire rest of that

video. I watched a Pokemon one, and I laughed so much. And then there was another that was posted two weeks ago. And then last week, whoever created it posted a part two, because he's like, I wasn't expecting this to blow up. People wanted more, so here's part two. Anyway, we're going to get to this s tier topic in one second but first i have to ask everyone what are you playing man that is such a weird yeah space yeah i mean okay yeah the resident evil merchant would come in here usually and tee that up and we just haven't heard from yeah

he kind of just you know just disappeared it's also strange because i feel like it was hitting a pop culture saturation point like there were references to that segment in in on other websites and and blogs uh there's now t-shirts that say, what are you buying? Not from us. Not from us. From other people who are just hopping on that bandwagon. I think maybe a big mistake maybe on whoever produces this show, Zan. Well, look, I don't want to say we're replacing the Resident Evil merchant, and I know we can't really fill that void completely.

He was maybe more trouble than he was worth, which is partly why he's been excised. But I was thinking about what we could use for this segment. Actually, Matt, if you want to get the door, I got us another video game celebrity. Oh, sure. Who we could just maybe just try out today and see if it works. So, you want to let him in? Yeah, I'll let him in. Wow. Yeah, and you can just put the headphones on.

Great. Hey, it's me, Bubsy. Did I mention I don't like heights? You know me, Bubsy, the beloved platform character. From my games, Bubsy, Claws Encounters of the Third Kind. And of course, Bubsy

2 and Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales. Everyone loves me. Hey, Bubsy? Yeah. We won't be needing you today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Bubsy. Yeah. We won't be needing you today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Bubsy.

That was, we'll be in touch. Yeah. Go for Baroque. That's one of my catchphrases. What? But his, it doesn't make any sense. Why would you reference that art style? Go ahead.

Make my day. Does he say that? Well, it worked for Clint. What? I say both those things. Ah, listen. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we were I'm open to having somebody else do the what are you playing thing for sure.

For sure. I don't think, and this is no disrespect to you, Bubsy, I hate to do this in front of you, actually. It's not really how the creative process goes. I've been on the other side of this as well, auditioning and stuff, and it's tough when they give you feedback right to your face. I don't know if we need to go with the first guy that comes in you know i think it could be like a sort of like it could be an audition process rather than just like trying to fill a void

right away okay well but it's not that not to say you didn't get it we might ask you to do this uh i yeah i only regret i have but nine lives to give um i'll just i'll i'll go and on my way out the door what are you playing from bubsy is bubsy asking what are you playing okay thank you bubsy um thank you bubsy and you know if you want to maybe contextualize those nine lives a little bit might i recommend puss in boots in Wish? Oh, man, that's a great cat franchise. That's, I wish Puss in Boots can do it.

He's not really like a video game. If we got Puss in Boots in here, that'd be great. There's a Shrek video game. Oh, yeah. If he makes an appearance.

I think he's a playable character in, you know, in like the Shrek sort of like beat-em-up games. Yeah. Who wants to go first? Heather?

Yeah, go ahead, Heather. Yeah, I think I should go first because Heather? Yeah, go ahead, Heather. Yeah, I think I should go first because I have very, very little to say. I haven't been able to. I've done a little bit more racing in PSVR. Wow. Thanks to our Discord, I am assembling a sort of shopping list for the steering wheel that I'm going to get because I want to really be immersed in the racing experience, the smoothness of life. Maybe I'll even race next to a cup of coffee so that when I'm in the Gran Turismo Cafe, I can sip that coffee. That's cool.

In Fortnite news, this week marks, as of record, marks the end of the season. The Shockwave Hammer has been vaulted. There have been trailers released for the upcoming season of the game, which will incorporate a Neo-Tokyo style Blade Runner City with neon lights and new samurai sword mechanics. Wow. And a bunch of new characters. There's also going to be a Star Wars event where the lightsabers come back. And as we all know, I love putting on that Kylo Ren skin and charging at people while wielding a lightsaber. Yeah.

Hell yeah. One of the great joys. and charging at people while wielding a lightsaber. It is one of the great joys. I just want to say thank you to the incredible get played battle bus discord community. I now have more than a hundred people on my fucking friends list, my epic friends list. And it is because of the organization of a few members on that discord. Uh, and every time I get 20 minutes to play, the chances of me playing with some of

our listeners is really high. And I'm really, really grateful for that. It's been awesome. I can't wait to see what the next season holds. And to the, the haters who can't fucking stand me talking about Fortnite. Uh, Oh, well, yeah, sorry. Sorry.

You don't like two seconds or, you know, two minutes on a fucking free show. Um, especially on a game that like, I'm talking about shit. That's shit. It's not like,

I'm just like, Oh, I dropped on the same house and I shot the same guys over and over again. Every week the game is changing. Like they're adding shit constantly. So it's it's a it's a real pleasure. And I think a model of future video games like this is what they wanted Valhalla. Ubisoft wanted Valhalla to be this. Where it's constant events and

upgrades, but they don't have the narrative capacity to incorporate random, crazy bullshit. Aaron Yeager from Attack on Titan is going to be in the next season of Fortnite, along with Titans,

potentially. That's fucking cool. They're going to add a grappling mechanic for a short amount of time. All this stuff is just stuff I've seen leaked on Twitter. It's like, why wouldn't you play it the every game? I love mayonnaise. I love mayonnaise, too.

Yeah. You never hear me say a bad word about mayonnaise. Well, yeah, you eat it by the handful, but I like it at a normal amount. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I like to hear me say a bad word about man. Well, yeah, you know, you buy the handful, but I like it a normal amount. Yeah. Yeah. Great. It's also what you to what you were just saying, Heather. So many games have are continuing to emulate this and has also tried to emulate this.

And we've seen things like with Halo Infinite or, you know, Avengers, the Square Enix Avengers game. I forget what the subtitle was. you know, Avengers, the Square Enix Avengers game, I forget what the subtitle was. It's like, the failings of those is that it's just like, they have like kind of a, they can't, they have limitations within the worlds that they've established or the world that they've licensed, you know, versus like Fortnite, they can do whatever.

And it's just the whole thing of it is it doesn't make any sense at all. Fortnite is the kingdom hearts of shooters. Like it's a bunch of shit that should not go together. And does. And it's delightful as a result. Like, the Terminator should never be pointing a gun at the head of Goku. Yeah. But there he is.

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Donald, you idiot. The red eye assault rifle is S tier for sure. I'm talking in a naturally flat tone. That's so, yeah. Makes it funnier. Yeah. Yeah, very different for you. Matt, what are you playing?

I'm still in Pokemon Black world on my Steam Deck, and I'm absolutely loving it. I encountered a Trubbish in battle the other day, Heather. Nicely done. And I was going to take a picture of my Steam Deck, but I decided it was too late at night to bother you with such a thing. I mean, I keep my shit on D&D when I'm sleeping. Oh, that's nice. Well, now that I know that. Yeah, you can text me all night long.

Get ready for all these crazy late-night texts. I'll wake up at 5.30 in the morning as one does, and I'll immediately see that I have 30 messages from you guys, and I'll make my morning. Oh, wow, great. I'll start popping off in the late night. But I've been doing that, and I'm really, really loving that. I'm taking my time with it, though, just because I'm in sort of a zone

where I'm just bouncing between a bunch of stuff, right? I got, um... I'm playing our We Play, You Play game, which I don't think we said at the top of the show. Meant to say that up top of the show. This month's We Play, You Play is Metroid Prime Remastered, coming Monday, March 27th. Thank you for the reminder. I'm playing that, and

you know, I'll have more to say about that, but I have two big updates. First update was that I had to return a couple of things on Amazon. So I had an Amazon credit that I didn't know what to do with. Is this another opportunity for you to shit on Sonic Frontiers? Is that what this is? Is that what you're teeing up? No, that credit's long gone.

I returned that and got credit for it. But I had credit that I was like, what do I do with this? I don't know if I need anything. I saw that Persona 5 Royal for Switch was on sale. It was like $40. Oh, hell yeah.

Okay. I was playing it on Game Pass on my Steam Deck, but I was like, I have this OLED switch, and I was only 40 hours into it. I double-dipped, baby. I got it. Wow.

I started it again. Alpha move. And I'm playing that again, just like in little spurts. I'm not in a rush, you know, because I've experienced quite a bit of it. I'm not in a rush, you know, because I've experienced quite a bit of it. I'm not in a rush to finish this thing. I forgot how fun the beginning of the game. It's so good.

Great opening. You don't spend a lot of time in the beginning of the game because it's like, you know, it's just the beginning, but I had experienced it already and by the time we talked about it, I had been, yeah, like 40,

you know, almost 50 hours into it. It's delightful. It's so great. Just like when you're meeting all these characters for the first time and stuff it's just it rules it's so so good and it looks great on the on the oled switch uh and i i also double dipped for something on steam deck because this is the lowest price i've seen it at and it was was Red Dead Redemption 2. And that's maybe one of my all-time favorite just games. I love it so much. Like, when it goes on sale, I imagine you bought it through the Steam store playing it on Steam Deck.

I did, yeah, yeah. When it's gone on Steam sale, it's been like, it gets like $10 off, maybe $20 off. But I saw it, I think it was like $19. It was the cheapest I've ever seen it. Yeah, so that's what I was like, okay,'s now i'll double dip i had i thought about it previously because i was like oh it'd be cool to have this on steam deck just to have just to have this as a portable option i don't know how portable it is because i think you have to be

logged into the um the fucking uh rockstar launcher or whatever um but i'm not sure yeah i'm not sure if you have to be constantly online to be playing it. But it was too good of a deal to pass up. It took all day to install to my Steam Deck. Because it's such a huge, it's a massive game. It's a big boy. Almost 130 gigs. Taking up the remaining space on my Steam Deck.

And it took forever. and I finally was like, I got a hardwire connection into my router, and it still from there took almost three hours to complete. Wow. But I'm looking forward to getting on horseback, maybe picking up some bounties, and just letting my, I guess my freak flag fly. And being a cowboy.

I love being a cowboy. Yeehaw, giddy up. Yeah. Et cetera. Playing a cowboy game always makes me hungry. You like stew, huh? Stew, bacon on a cast iron pan. I love stew.

I'm big on beans. Yeah, all of it. Cowboys look pretty good. It's all, yeah, because think about it. I mean big on beans. Yeah, all of it. Cowboys food's pretty good. It's all, yeah, because think about it. I mean, often they're hunting. Right. So it's like they're going to eat whatever they're hunting, and it's going to be good. Those cowboys know how to eat, and I commend them for it.

But Nick, what are you playing? Wait, before we move on, one of the most shocking statistics about the Wild West and Old West to me is that it maybe lasted 20 years. Yeah, that is interesting. Not a long period of time. It's like 2002 to now is the period of time when you might be in the Old West. Yeah. So that's what I loved about the first Red Dead Redemption was that you get to sort of like toward the end of the game

and you just see like a fucking car and you're like, what the fuck's going on here? It's not like a new car, but it's like one of the first cars and you're just sort of like, I've been driving around on a fucking horse this whole time. They bring cars further away. Yeah. Yeah.

So it's basically like the Wild West lasted for as long as like the run of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It's like a very strangely short amount of time. I just looked it up. The archetypical old West period is cited by historians to have occurred between the end of the civil war in 1865 and the 1890 us census. So like, that's like the iconic old West period. And that's 25 years. Quarter century.

Yeah. That's nothing. Let's bring it back. Yeah. Wait, what? Let's bring it back. Let's bring it back.

Okay. It's coming back. Why not? It bring it back let's bring it back okay it's coming back why not we'll come back uh i i put i've been playing a couple of things first of all i'll just touch on sekiro again uh i've i've been reading some books on like i love self-help books it's one of my indulgences it's like it's they are for me what like trashy romance novels are for some other people i know they're not really like all that helpful, but I just like I enjoy reading them. And I've read a few that there's there's this new movement and like kind of like an anti productivity sort of approach to self-help, which is that we become so productivity is like obsessed that there's now like a like a, you know, an emphasis on just like fucking just take the days as they come. Don't feel like you have to schedule out every hour you have and just do whatever the fuck

you want. Do it. Do something that's fun for you. But one thing that I did pick up that I did find useful is if it's something that you enjoy doing or want to do instead of giving yourself like a or like a skill you want to work on instead of giving yourself like a target amount of time to do for a minimum, have a target amount of time to do for a minimum uh have a target amount of time to do as a maximum and that like in and of itself that like restriction is kind of freeing and means that you can kind of like like whatever you don't feel like you have to hit a goal rather you feel like okay i have like this little window of time that is set

aside for this thing and i've been doing this with se Sekiro because it is a game that is like, you know, it can be, can be, I'm a very, I'm a patient gamer. I'm a persistent gamer, but you know, it is still a game that can be frustrating. So I just kind of give myself like one hour per day to play this game. And you know, however far I make it, that's, that's kind of where I call it quits. And it's been working really well for this. And I feel like I'm making steady progress. And sometimes I'm like, oh, wow, I did pretty well in that hour. Anyway, some observations I've had as I've been playing more of this game. Too many Shinobi prosthetics.

Some of them, I feel like they don't really have their place. Or they're too specialized. They're too situational. Not to give from a note, but I kind of feel like Umbrella is cool. Shurikens are cool. But some of the stuff, it's just too much. But one thing that I realized is in terms of why does this game feel so differently than Dark Souls or Elden Ring? And obviously the emphasis on parrying is approached to dodging is a huge part of it. But I don't know why it took me so long for me to zero in on this.

No stamina bar. There's no stamina. And so, yeah, you can just run as much as you want. You can feel free to flee and dash around. And it does make you, when you embrace that, when you embrace it like, hey, I can just sort of, you know, there's a thing that's like stamina, which is posture. But that comes from, you know, mistiming deflections or from taking block damage basically uh your your posture can ultimately be staggered but stamina in the sense of just like you just get exhausted from normal actions it doesn't really exist and and that also in terms of letting yourself escape from battle

it also lets you just relentlessly pursue opponents which sometimes is a way if you're doing that, you could really beat the shit out of somebody, which is very satisfying. So yeah, when I just kind of crystallized like, oh yeah, there's no stamina bar. I don't know why it took me so long to just make that very simple observation. A thing I do really like, another thing, and this is an early game thing that you learn and that you kind of use throughout, but it's a thing I really like, and it's a mechanic I haven't really seen in the same sort of way in too many other games.

You can wall jump in Sekiro, but you don't have to change directions. It's not like you... Usually when you wall jump off a surface, traditionally, it's orthogonal. You go in the opposite direction, and you can kind of jump between things. And this game does have that, but also you can jump towards a wall and then use your motion.

It's very unnatural physically, but who gives a shit because it plays great just to propel yourself directly upward. So I do really like that, and I do really appreciate the choices they made. I don't know. It's a fucking extremely fun game and extremely satisfying, and I'm just chipping away at it an hour a day. This other game I played on stream, Late Shift. This is an FMV game developed by or published by Wales Interactive, who does a lot of these, Welsh developer, obviously.

I thought this was a lot of fun to stream. It's got really impressive production values for, for, you know, an FMV game. Like just, it's just kind of like, Oh wow.

Some time has passed and they really have some budgets for these things. Pretty good acting. I think the writing is a little too, trying too hard to be Guy Ritchie, but it's, but it's basically like, you know, it's a British heist or a Welsh,

you know, whatever. It's a, it's a Welsh like sort of heist scenario where you're a parking valet, your player character is a parking valet, and then you get, you know, kind of looped into inadvertently looped into carrying out a heist for an artifact. And the narrative just proceeds through there. And you've got all these sorts of choices that you make. And that what makes it at all interactive i don't know i really enjoyed it i will i just will say like there's a thing i think a lot of it comes from telltale games where critical choices are like there's a timer and i kind of just feel like these games i don't know i'd like to have a toggle to turn the timer off or or maybe just some twitch integration where there was no time restraint on the choices and like the chat could vote because i mean that would be fun for something like this um that's it i don't

know i don't know why i like i like fmb games they're just like it's it's it's the least interactive a game can be i guess outside of a visual novel but i still kind of find them very engaging and i thought this one was a lot of fun i'll play more from whales interactive they can be pretty fun i really liked when we did I think I liked it. I think her story was interesting, right? Yeah, although her story has a lot more gameplay than this. This is like

basically a choose your own adventure book. Like Bandersnatch or something. Yeah, exactly. Which I enjoyed also. Very much like Bandersnatch. Her story is like you're actually going through clips you're kind of behaving like an archivist. I was hoping that because I'd seen Late Shift and have sort of had it on my radar a little bit, just in case I was like, oh, maybe we should do that on the show one time.

I thought it was going to be about the Letterman Jay Leno thing. I would have loved that. I would have loved a scenario where you have to hide in a closet during an NBC meeting as Leno. Man, they're talking about Letterman in there. He throws so many pencils,

the pencil bud is going to be through the roof. Hire me, I don't do that. Anyway, that's it. A little Sekiro, a little light shift. And there we go. Should we get into

the topic of the day? I think so. I think we're ready for it. It's time to go. You know, they're fucking losing their minds ready for it. Triforce of cubes. Yes. It's a good topic.

This is a good topic. Look, a cube, a very common object in video games. It's there in a lot of different contexts. And, you know, we have this Triforce of format we do where we pick the Triforces of Courage, Power, and Wisdom in a given category. This time, it's all things cubes. I think it should be pointed out that the way this was pitched was that Nick conference called us at three in the morning one day. And I have my D&D set so that

on multiple call like it'll go through. So I pick up on the second ring I hear Apodaca going, Nick, you okay? And Nick just goes triforce of cubes and hangs up. And he like sounded wet.

If you don't remember how we do the Triforces because it's been a little bit we haven't done it in a little while. We're going to be completing a Triforce in each piece

courage wisdom and power and we're going to be not drafting but uh selecting um different cubes from video games that satisfy each piece of the triforce and uh but who wants who wants to go first is the is the real question uh i can start. Hmm, interesting. I mean, I don't have to. No, I think that's fair.

I think here's the thing. This was your idea. Yeah. And when somebody calls their shot like that, like you just did right now, you've got to respect it. And I think you should go first. Yeah.

Look, Heather was talking D&D earlier, the context of Do Not Disturb. You were saying i was maybe wet let's talk about dnd in the context of d and d dungeons and dragons and a cube that is wet the gelatinous cube wow the monster from dnd that has been available you know, appeared to a lot of different examples of the franchise. You know, they played PNP, obviously, or maybe it might appear if you're playing a hack and slash game like Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance. But you know what?

That cube is ooey gooey, and it's scary, and it fits my Triforce of Courage for that reason, because if you're going up against it, it might trap you inside of its gelatinous cube-like form, and you're just stuck there. So you better have some fucking cojones if you're going to go up against one of these things. I have here in my hole a first edition. First edition?

Certainly one of the first editions. This is a 1981, so not a first edition certainly one of the first editions this is a 1981 so not a first edition wait first printing wow oh i have a first edition dungeons and dragons rule book of course you do holy shit wait what well would that be because the i'm seeing here that the original edition of dungeon Holy shit. Wait, what? Well, what would that be? Because I'm seeing here that the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons was released in 1974. Yeah, that's... Previous edition edited by...

So this is by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Edited by Tom Moldvay. Previous edition edited by J. Eric Holmes 1974 1978 1981 TSR Hobbies basic rule set but it says

first printing January 1981 so it must be the first printing the TSR did of the Dungeons and Dragons rule set. It's a beautiful red pamphlet. It looks, I love it. Cool art in the front. But I'm going to read,

because I was like, I wonder if gelatinous cube has been there since the beginning. And sure enough, here it is. In the monster's description. Also, I just turned around and reached on a bookshelf. Yeah, that was the thing that

if you're listening, you didn't understand. Heather just turned around, barely searched, and grabbed it off her shelf. As close to her as my cup of tea is to me. Yeah. Gelatinous cube. These monsters are made of a clear jelly and are shaped like cubes about

10 feet on each side. Due to their near transparency, they surprise on a roll of one to four or one D six. They move through the rooms and corridors of dungeons, sweeping the halls clean of all living and dead material. In the process, they may pick up items they can't dissolve such as gold pieces and gems,

though they usually eat carrion. They will attack any living creature they encounter, inflicting 2D4 points of damage each successful hit will paralyze the victim unless a saving throw versus paralysis is made any attacks on paralyzed victim will automatically hit a gelatinous cube may be harmed by fire and weapons but not by cold and lightning yeah it's got some tough immunities. It's dangerous. I'd be scared of that thing. You better have some courage.

I don't know what this edition is, but it's pretty neat. It is pretty neat. I like that it's got the three hole punch there. If you want to put that into a binder, like a real nerd. I hear gelatinous cube, and I'm thinking delicious. I love Jell-O. That's the other thing because your association with it in the real world is like hey i can have some gelatin but you know you don't

want to run to the gelatinous cube i probably haven't had jello dungeon 20 years you still have it all the time yeah i don't have it at all i got it pretty recently did you love it jello cup yeah it's great uh was it actual Jell-O or was it a pudding cup that was Jell-O branded? It was a Jell-O branded Jell-O cup. Wow. Okay. What was the flavor? I got to know more about this.

The cup of Jell-O? I'm going to guess lime. Yeah. Cherry. Oh, cherry. Sure. Classic. That's incredible.

I wonder if there will be a gelatinous cube in the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons movie. And I wonder if they'll have a joke about it tasting like cherries or something. I've just I've just looked this book up on eBay and it is not worth that much money. Throw it away. It's only worth like 35 bucks. It's not like it's not like I turned around and found a $1,000 book. No, but that is... So what I'm saying here is it has no business even being in your garage.

Toss it in the fucking trash. Apparently it came with three hole punch. Priceless heirlooms only. Because the one that's on eBay has three hole punches already built in. It's pretty cool. Yeah. That is really cool. That is cool.

All right, that's my first pick. Who wants to go next? And that was the Triforce of Courage. Courage, I'll go. Well, Courage, and I hope neither of you chose this because I'll feel guilty because I don't think there are that many cubes.

I disagree, but keep going. But when I heard, you know, Triforce of cubes, I thought the GameCube itself, one of the most courageous design decisions made in video gaming history. Second only to, I think, the Wii and the Virtual Boy.

Because we were in a generation where the PlayStation 2 had already been released. It could play DVDs. And Nintendo was like, nope, we are following into in the metaphorical, allegorical path of the cartridge and we are going to create a disc that you cannot like burn so that people can't just drop these little, you can't just buy these mini discs. And they released a cube and everyone was like, what the fuck is this? And yet the GameCube did not fail. Mario Kart Double Dash, Resident Evil 4, Smash Brothers, all on this fucking cube.

And then my personal favorite, the Game Boy Advance add-on, which you could snap into the bottom of the Game Cube, allowing it to retain its shape as a cube, just a larger cube. So you made the cube bigger, and then you could put Game Boy Advance games in it and play them on your TV. I love the GameCube.

And that's my Triforce of Courage choice for Triforce of Cubes is GameCube. I love this pick. This actually was going to be my Triforce of Power for my entries, but that's okay. I have a backup. But one thing I did bowl up for this, and Matt, if we can play this, is the GameCube startup sound, which prominently features a cube. Is that the best one ever?

Has there been a better startup sound? I don't think so. I think it's number one. What? We've had a whole episode about it. We did an episode about this, but I still think

this is the best one. It's a great, great. You like the original PlayStation 3 startup sound? What was your pick? I forget. Oh my God, I love that sound.

It's so audacious. It's the hubris of it. It's the Lydia Tarr of startup sounds. It is a fucking crazy choice. But I think that the absolute best is still the original PlayStation. It's fucking, it's so good.

It's a good one. It's a good one. The other thing I was going to say about the Nintendo GameCube is that there was a game on the GameCube, which I haven't played, but I remember, and I looked it up, called Cubivore.

And Cubivore, a cube game on the GameCube, is the most expensive GameCube game you can find on secondary markets. Holy shit. It sells for $500 plus these days on eBay. So there you go. Wow. Cube-ception. Matt, your pick for Triforce of Courage for cubes.

Okay, this is going to sound like actually maybe the reverse of courage from what I'm about to say. You know, because one might not associate this act with being courageous or heroic, but I think every hero needs to know when to proceed and maybe when to be a little sneaky and hide. My pick for the Triforce of Courage, my Triforce cube of courage, the cardboard boxes from Metal Gear. Great pick. That Snake hides in.

Great pick. It Snake hides in. Great pick. It's a great cube. It's a great cube. You could argue that maybe it's not fully a cube, but it's a cube. It's a cube. It's a cube. Every box is a cube.

You get in there, the soldiers or whoever defending the Shagohad uh don't recognize you because you're in a cube you're in a little box hiding oh and then they might get huh maybe investigate and then you're in trouble yeah and then you start blasting. And it's all fine after that. But I love getting in the box. It's so fun. It's such an iconic thing from those games. And I knew if I didn't pick it, somebody else was gonna.

Yeah. Great choice. It's also, it makes a small cameo in a Death Stranding trailer. Yes, that's right. And it appears with him, I feel like it's in Smash Brothers. Like when Snake pops up in there, he's in the box. You know, it's great. It's just like, I don't know, like if they make,

when they eventually make this Metal Gear Solid movie, he's going to get in a fucking box. It'd be insane if he didn't get in a box. I hope so. I hope they don't do a cop-out joke of just kind of like, Snake, get in the box. It's like, really? You know what I mean? I think that's a kind of like rug pull thing they would do. That's not realistic, so we're not going to do it.

We'll just take the piss out of it. I want the game in the same way that like Psycho Mantis fucks with you in the game. I want Psycho Mantis to potentially kill an audience member watching this fucking movie. The film should break the fourth wall. It should show like someone playing the game on a PlayStation. Someone is playing the movie. That's what we're watching.

Someone playing a game of the movie. It's going to be so great if they do it right. Credits roll at minute four. So the Triforce of Power here is what we're talking about. Power. My next pick. Look, I was going to pick the GameCube savvy, savvy move by Heather to snipe it. So I'm going to go with my backup. What is more powerful as a force than love? I mean, really, it's what we're doing it all for, right? Is that something you read or do you know that?

That's something I've heard. I've heard that love motivates people, connects them. Yeah. Empires have fallen because of love. Yeah. Cultures have risen because of love. Yep. Legacies endure because of the power of love. Cultures have risen because of love. Legacies endure because of the power of love. And you know what?

One cube in particular signifies love. I'm speaking, of course, of the weighted companion cube from the Portal series. Wow. A great pick. A fantastic pick. Yeah. Iconic cube's it's a powerful image when you have to incinerate the cube when you're forced yeah yeah that's powerful it has a power over you as the as the user as the player you find this thing and you feel a connection to it. You do? That's the power of love.

I think you do. That's the power of cubes. Wait, I thought that the companion cube was a joke about how you don't feel any connection to a cube. But I think, as a result, you do have a connection to the cube. And I think we see that played out in people buying plushies of the cube. connection to the cube. And I think that's, we see that played out in people buying like plushies of the cube. People love the cube. It's an instantly iconic shape in all of gaming.

It's an irony on top of an irony. I think so. I think people do feel affection for it. It's like, hey, you like things. Why don't you like this cube? And then you're like, I don't give a shit about this. And then you throw it in? And, and then you're like, I don't give a shit about this. And then you throw it in an incinerator and you're like,

ah, okay. But then you start to develop this meta narrative about having actually cared about the cube. So then you buy a plushie of it. Could be. I also will say my initial reaction when I played through portal for the first time is I have this cube with a heart song.

It's called the weighted companion cube. I'm, I feel a little bit bad putting that in the incinerator. Does it make a sound when you burn it? No. It screams. No, it really is just a cube with hearts on it. But it's my pick for the Triforce of Power

of cubes. It's an excellent pick. Heather, to you. Alright. This was Wisdom? right. This was wisdom? Power. This is power. Nothing represents power quite like a power-up. And that's why my second cube is the question block.

But I'm specifically going to say the question blocks in Mario Kart. Wow. The item boxes. The what? What did you call them? They call them their item boxes. Item box. The question block.

Ba-ding! But the Mario Kart version. i i'm not sure that i think like in super mario bros is the cube a cube or is it is it a flat panel because you exist on a two-dimensional space who knows well in the in the 3d marios it is a i think it is a cube and in the modern 2d marios too you know they have they have depth i buy it as a 2d representation of 3d do you guys think that they're the same item i i do hmm yes i think for the exercise yes but in practice absolutely not. Right, because you just drive.

I think of them as different. You drive your car through the item box and it's effectively a ghost. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, yeah. Yeah, but when you punch the question block, the item box in Mario Bros., they resist you. they resist you. Yes. I thought you were asking if the question block in 3D Marios is the same as the question block in 2D Marios.

If you're asking between Mario Kart and mainline Marios, then I would say no, they're not the same. But they're probably manufactured by the same company. Sure. Because they've got the same logo.

The Riddler's logo. Anyway, I'm choosing the Mario Kart question block cube, item box, whatever you want to fucking call it, as my cube of power here in Triforce of Cubes. And it's the block which determines exclusively determines the fate of the race yeah because absolutely yeah the rubber band mechanics of mario kart games are such that you can you can constantly gain speed on a first player the the person in first place is artificially slowed by the game itself. And the people in last place are artificially sped up. There's a higher top speed on the map itself if you're in last place. So the only control you actually have is the randomized element of the question block.

You know, of course, there's the blue shell, which takes out whoever's in first, though it is in rare occasion can be dodged. There's the banana peel, the red shell, the homing shell, the green shell, which is an untargeted random shell. You've got, you know, latter day power-ups like the Lightning Bolt, which shrinks everybody. You've got a bunch of coins I think you can fucking get. I don't remember what those do. Mushrooms that make you go fast.

Yeah. You can ink somebody with a blooper. It is an excellent cube and one that provides you with power. That's why it is my cube of power in the Triforce of Cubes. Matt, you're up can I tell you what because my girlfriend doesn't play a lot of video games but she does play Mario Kart with me sometimes so she doesn't have a lot of language

for like what certain things are in video games so when we're playing Mario Kart when she sees those blocks coming up she's like oh good my toys she calls them toys I love personal shorthand for game stuff those blocks coming up, she's like, oh good, my toys. She calls them toys. That's cute. It's really cute. I like that.

I love personal shorthand for game stuff. Yeah. I love that stuff. It's so funny. Yeah. She's like, I didn't get any good toys

or I missed the toys. It makes me laugh every time. It's great. My Triforce of Power, my cube for the Triforce of Power. Maybe one of the earliest cubes in games.

This is a cube that, you know, can make or break a good run. I was speaking of the square piece from Tetris. Wow. Ooh. Yeah. Huh. Nobody was thinking about that, huh? Yeah.

Interesting, because you're all thinking about, you know, the L shapes. Sure. The line, perhaps, or the one, you know, the one that goes like that. Yeah. Matt just made sort of like a lightning bolt. Yeah. Motion. But that square, that block, that cube comes in clutch.

Sometimes it can be a detriment to a good run. You know, you might only have space for a specific piece that you need, and you're going to have to start building further out that way. But sometimes it slots right in there, and it clears your two rows or whatever. Then you can keep building. I love that little guy. Sometimes, I feel like he's mostly yellow. I feel like I see him as yellow a lot.

So the yellow cube from Tetris is my pick for the Triforce of Power. Let's just say, I'd say you get all cubes from Tetris. All of them? You think those other ones are cubes too? No, I just don't want to lock you into a yellow cube because they're not always yellow. That's not always.

Okay, yeah. The cube piece from Tetris. Because, yeah, it's not yellow on Game Boy, is it? Could it be argued that it was a square until the Virtual Boy made it into a cube? It could, but to that I say, no. Only because I feel like everybody has always called them blocks. Like, I feel like it's always been like Tetris blocks, like those things. So to me, a block automatically has depth, even if you can't see it.

And I'll take no further questions. Do you remember playing Tetris on the virtual board? Yeah, I remember being physically ill doing that. Such a confounding game. Yeah, a nightmare. Just bad. Should not exist. But I'd be interested to try the Tetris effect in VR.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That seems like it could be great. But anyway, Nick, let's kick it over to you. Final piece, wisdom. Dictionary.com defines wisdom as scholarly knowledge or learning. And you know what? I would consider a synonym for that. Intelligence.

Wow. And so when I'm picking my Triforce of Wisdom of Cubes, I'm going with the Intelligent Cube from PlayStation 1. This cube's cool puzzle platformer for the PS one. They think you can play on PSN. I, I think, I think it's, I think it's maybe available on contemporary platforms, but cool aesthetic, including really cool music,

which will, you know, it's not, not the kind of music you'd typically expect from a puzzle game. Let's go ahead and play some of this, Matt. Interesting. It's like the middle movement from a Shostakovich symphony.

It's just so fucking epic. Epic. Not a great comparison, but a more contemporary game that you can kind of compare this to. It doesn't have the story or the horniness, but just in terms of kind of how it plays, very vaguely a Catherine, which we covered on the podcast. very vaguely a Catherine, which we covered on the podcast. You know, like a lot like the... It's kind of a... It's like a puzzle platformer game with a character,

and it's unique and cool. And it certainly fits the triforce of wisdom of cubes. Intelligent cube. Nice. Our final selection from me answers a question of wisdom because this is the...

Let's try again. I mean, you can keep what I just said, but it's clear that I was like having a mild aneurysm while I was speaking. Take off the virtual boy. The best selling system of all time demonstrates a strength of wisdom that few other consoles can achieve. But embedded in that system, default, without putting in in a disc are a set of cubes. On every startup screen, you would begin your journey into a PlayStation 2 game by seeing

cubes. But what some players didn't realize is that those cubes changed shape and stacked atop one another based on the number of games you played and the length of time you played them. So over the course of the life of the PlayStation 2, those cubes were changing in response to you. And that is wisdom. Wow. Incredible. Why don't we start the PS2 right now, right here on this show. You're just in a space field of like shapes and cubes

and blocks. My, probably my least favorite sort of sound of all consoles. Yeah, it's kind of nothing. I love it. But really, really deeply nostalgic for an entire generation of gamers.

That is my third cube. Are the cubes on the screen of the PlayStation 2? Excellent choice. I looked it up just because I was curious when you were talking about the best-selling console of all time, PlayStation 2, what you're referring to is still number one. Switch is kind of not quite nibbling at its heels, but it's coming up, and I wonder if Nintendo is not going to release a new console until Switch overtakes PlayStation 2. I wonder if they kind of have that as an internal corporate goal.

an internal corporate goal. It's wild that, because I would think that in a time when we have so many other entertainment options, the saturation point of the Switch is kind of remarkable. 100%. You've got a fucking phone

in your other pocket, a television showing infinity streaming services, computers, tablets, and yet the Switch is still dominating. Yeah. And all the things you mentioned other than the Switch, you can get hentai on. You can on the Switch. What?

I'm just saying, like, it's amazing it's succeeding despite that. Got all these platforms I can consume hentai on. I can't do it on the Switch. Still, it's dominating. Why did the word consume bother me? What was that? Content is consumed. At least you didn't say absorb.

Yeah. Yeah, absorb is worse. You're right. I'll allow consume. Throw a hentai manga into a gelatinous cube wasn't gelatinous when it started um oh okay my wisdom pick it's been mentioned already wow so i'm just gonna get right to it wow i think this type of puzzle should be a standalone game. And maybe I should check out Intelligent Cube.

But the cubes from Catherine, I remember when we played Catherine. Wow. Couldn't care less about any rest of it. That puzzle aspect of that game was extremely my shit. I loved that game, that part of that game. Confounded by the rest of it. But if you took that out, I think it's a very smart puzzle game.

And requires a lot of thinking. A lot of like, because you're like, okay, you're a guy hanging on a block. I'd keep that part of it too. Why not? Don't change. Yes.

That this is a man in distress in his dreams or whatever. That's fine. But to to see to have the foresight to you know where to go next to plot your next move that requires a lot of thought you can mess up pretty quickly in that game and so that's why it's my pick for wisdom the cubes from catherine do i remember what they're called absolutely not i don't know if they have a name specifically. But it's sort of like, it's like a map kind of almost, where it's like you're sort of scaling up a series of different cubes. But

they're cubes nonetheless. And this is the Triforce of Cubes. And that is my final selection. They sure, that's a great pick, Matt. It was a fun game we covered. We covered that in our old format with our friend Sean Diston. And it's what gave the podcast my medium lived catchphrase, which I'll sometimes

return to and will certainly be spammed in our Twitch chat. Yes. Edge. Which is said repeatedly while you're playing Catherine. Horny ass game, and you're hearing a voice command you to edge. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I mean, that was,

should we repeat our Triforces? Yes, my Triforce of Courage, Gelatinous Cube, Triforce of Power, Weighted Companion Cube, and Triforce of Wisdom, Intelligent Cube. I have the Triforce of Courage,

Game Cube, Triforce of Power, question block slash item box from Mario Kart, and the Triforce of wisdom is the playstation 2 opening loading screen cube wow and my triforce of courage are the cardboard boxes from the metal gear series uh triforce of power the square block from tetris and finally the cubes from the Catherine puzzle portion of the game for wisdom to complete my Triforce of Cubes.

Amazingly still on the board, Qbert. The cube man himself. Yeah, that's right. No one picked Qbert. He's hopping all over cubes. He's changing their colors. I just figured he was out of commission because he started a family with Josh Gad. He's really busy colors. I just figured he was out of commission because he started a family with Josh Gad.

He's really busy with his loving marriage to Josh Gad. Fucked in the nose hole. Speak at the end of Pixels. Yeah. Hey, that was the Triforce of Cubes. That's right. Not to give ourselves praise, but I thought that was a fucking home run. I thought it was a fucking blast.

I loved it, and I loved being surprised. A lot of my picks got picked, you know? Yeah. But there's no reason we couldn't do a part two of this. Yeah, we'll do a part two for sure. Oh, my God. Hey, speaking of cubes, it's time for a different sort of cube, the question block. All right. I'm going to kick us off with a voicemail wow and if you're a fucking pod head like the rest of us you might know who

this is hey guys chef kevin here i'm a big fan of the show and i listen every sunday night when it drops it's a lot of fun listening to the pod right when it comes out, which made me wonder about your experiences playing a video game the night it drops. Last year, I had a lot of fun playing the new God of War when it came out, and on the other side, I remember playing the new Goth of Nights game and thinking, I

really need to start being a lot more careful with my money. Thanks so much, and Matt, if you listen to this and just want to text me instead, hey dude, just because we're friends doesn't mean I'm going to play your stupid voicemail. I totally understand. Thanks, gang. Wow. Wow. Well, that reminded

me that I have God of War and I have not opened it. God, yeah, that's a bad feeling. That's a bad adult feeling. I have the money to buy this game and I don't have the money to play it. I got, I mean, I got yeah, yeah i got it for free so i don't feel that bad um but i yeah but i also feel bad because i'm like fuck i really like vikings as a setting sure i really should put it in i should put it in uh in on may 1st. Okay. There you go.

Yeah. Just until you'll have 11 days to play through it before Breath of the Wild 2 comes out. So that'll be great. Oh my God. Here's a question for... There you go. Here's a question for everyone. What do you like better, Viking or cowboy? Viking.

Fucking Viking right away, man. Viking. That's really tough because that's older than cowboy. Yeah. Cowboy is like closer to space than it is old if you think about it in those terms. Yeah, you do like space more than old. Yes, but... But you also like the ocean.

I love the ocean. And Vikings, they're all over that motherfucker. Yeah. But I think I gotta... I feel like there's a lot of Viking stuff in games, and there's less cowboy.

So I think I gotta go cowboy because every time I'm doing cowboy stuff, I'm like, this rocks. This is so fun. It's cowboy for me. I think a lot of it is that just, you know, a cowboy because every time i'm doing cowboy stuff i'm like this rocks this is so fun it's cowboy for me i think a lot of it is that just you know i'm like matt i i grew up in southern california so in proximity to a lot of the that's right desert landscapes that are depicted in the old west and so a lot of that yeah i've been to a lot of ghost towns and sort of old cowboy

shootout spots and saloons and so i have a lot of affinity towns and sort of old cowboy shootout spots and saloons. And so I have a lot of affinity for that. And you were there, too. So. All right. But it was. But Vikings are cool. Vikings are very cool.

I just kind of like I also like horses and guns, I think, more than boats and, you know, pole arms or whatever the fuck they were using. So can I can I say something potentially too woke for our for our podcast sure you better be careful because i don't you don't set me off the wild west as much as i i love the food the genre has started to make me extremely uncomfortable because i i'm i'm basically watching genocide from the point of view of the Nazis. Yeah. In a way, like it's not, it's really hard for me to divorce and romanticize. Whereas like the Vikings are just as violent and horrible. Yeah.

But they're also farmers. There's just like a, it feels like when the Vikings existed, everybody everywhere was going around conquering and killing everybody. And like, oh, it's the church versus the, like everybody, everywhere is just like, and in like constantly annihilating each other. Yeah.

The 19th, by the 19th century war had pretty much been abolished. Well, like in cowboy times, cowboys, I think I know what Heather's saying. Like by the time well like in cowboy times cowboys i i think i know what heather's saying like by the time you get to cowboy times everyone else is sort of like hey we're not doing that and cowboys are like fuck that we're gonna fucking kill everybody yeah it's just it's very it's like it's it's emblematic of like a yeah like a wave of genocide that like goes across

the country and oh cool san francisco in old times is neat to look at and i and i do like looking at it like it's neat but i think just emotionally it's easier for me to enjoy enjoy viking stuff and i understand also that it viking stuff is being co-opted by like white nationalists yeah so it's really there's no there's no fun no fun no and you know it's tough to know that fun yeah just forget about all that stuff yeah it's you know if you if you don't succumb to the woke mind virus everything can be fun um how about we read some wait wait we didn't i didn't get a response oh you didn't respond to the question. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, Chef Kevin. Games that were...

Times we played a game when it just came out. For me, I'm really, really glad we all played Elven Ring as soon as it came out. Yes. Because a lot of times... Look, gaming is an extraordinarily expensive hobby, especially if you're playing things new upon release. And one way you can make it budget-friendly is just fucking wait for Red Dead Redemption 2 to go on Steam sale for $19 know five years after it releases but you can do

that with you can play you can game on a budget if you're willing to be a few uh a few years behind or even a generation behind you can this very more expensive hobby this extremely expensive hobby you can make a lot more palatable to your wallet but it is really fun to be engaged in the zeitgeist when something that's huge and is making a a massive cultural impact is on the scene and so i still like like a game like elden ring is like this is so big i have to play this right away and and you know breath of the wild tears of the kingdom when that releases on may 12th i'm going to be playing that immediately yes because i want to be part of that conversation and be able to absorb all the memes or whatever so i say generally yes i i these days i reserve it for this absolutely massive titles back in the day i do remember getting final fantasy 8 at launch and playing the shit out of that right away because final fantasy i played the i played

previous final fantasy entries but final fantasy 8 was the first one I was like day one on. Because Final Fantasy VII, I bought a PlayStation to play, so it was a little bit after it released. Final Fantasy VIII, I was like, this is coming out. I think it came out the same day as the Dreamcast. Does that sound correct, Heather? Probably, yeah. I think that was Sony's counter-programming to the Dreamcast launch, very successful, and very successfully so. And yeah, I just played the shit out of that immediately and had the time of my fucking life i i remember because we did because we the

way we did this on the show we did um we covered left behind uh the last of us dlc right before um the last of us 2 dropped and i hadn't finished the original The Last of Us. Yes. So I played through that, played through Left Behind, and I think we recorded the Left Behind episode on, like, Last of Us 2 Eve, basically. And I was able to just go straight into The Last of Us 2 from recording

basically. Yeah. And I remember being like, this feels so good. This is like, I was just, uh, you know,

also the pandemic had started. So it was like, it was just like a fucking like, um, just dark time in general. So I was already wallowing in that. Um, but that,

that felt really good. Like just to be in on that and like play through that pretty quickly and also like i buy a lot of physical games now in uh but like when animal crossing came out similar time that's a great that's a great one i was so happy to be playing animal crossing as it was brand new yeah with everybody else in my friend group and people that i wasn't even that close with, like just playing animal crossing together was, was great. Was,

was a perfect thing to be doing. And I, I loved doing that. Non-gamers that I like kind of knew I was like visiting their islands and like they were playing and they had the, you know, playing the shit out of this game. That was a great moment.

Heather, do you have one? Did you say one? I have nostalgic for those times all right nostalgia for those times already it was three years ago strange strange time yeah uh there's so many games i've played on drop um last of us part two uh naturally uh i think I played Sonic 2 the day it came out which was fucking magical Elden Ring as we said but like

I've even played like Grand Theft Auto games which I'm not like a big Grand Theft Auto person but it feels like if you're gonna play Grand Theft Auto you have to play it the day it comes out so that you're like on the ride with everybody else um vice city and san andreas in particular because like three i feel like there was kind of a slow burn of people like have you played you played this game it's fucking crazy and then yeah so

there was so much hype for vice city and san andreas when those came out that yeah you kind of wanted to be playing those at lunch yeah um i i feel like there's there's been a there's been a ton i know i played the last of us part one the day it was released because i was fucking looking forward to that game for forever and i know i will play factions the day it is released god i hope that game breaks my the chokehold that fort fortnite has on fun. Oh, I would love to walk away. Can't walk away. Those are the ones that come to mind. The ones that like,

I feel like there wasn't to the other side of Kevin's question. Final Fantasy 15. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I haven't purchased a game in a while where I was like,

I kind of wish I didn't buy this, except for Sonic Frontiers, but I didn't buy that at launch. How dare you? But usually I'm pretty selective. I feel like when I buy something, I know that I'm probably going to enjoy it anyway. But yeah, I haven't had the other side of that coin in a long time. Let's get another question.

Yeah, thanks, Chef Kevin. Thanks, Chef Kevin. Thanks for listening, buddy. Thank you, Chef Kevin. I'll text him later. We cut your voicemail from the show. Yeah, we're going to. Yeah, hey, sorry, buddy.

I just didn't make it. Too fruitful of a conversation. This one's from horse gam on our discord what's the best bread to go with soup any soup of your choice this is a great question i've been buying a lot of fresh loaves lately could go to bub and grandma's the bakery idea they'll have like a little outlet at the farmer's market um shout to tyler uh I will, I find that, that I'll go a little bit, I'll go a little, do a little bit of a swerve here. I think what's a lot of fun to have with soup is some croutons, throw some croutons in there. And what I did with some, some, you know, like kind of get it in stale

fresh loaf I got is I cut it up into cubes, as is the topic of the day, toss it with some olive oil and some garlic salt, baked it in the oven for a little bit. I was a great fucking soup companion. So, yeah, I think croutons is a great choice. That's that's excellent. There's some croutons in there. All right.

But I think the question is more about sopping, sopping bread, which I'll think on. I've been doing something lately which has transformed my soup game, which is making full garlic bread every time I have soup. Wow. This is alpha as hell. The fact that you even have a soup game is incredible information. I love soup. I love soup and I love stew.

And I was like, one day I was like having a tomato soup and I was like, man, I really want something to eat with. And typically you go with grilled cheese with a tomato soup. But instead I made garlic bread, scratch garlic bread, French bread cut in half, put in the toaster, butter and fresh garlic. Right. And I have one of those not toaster like-like vertical toaster, a horizontal toaster. Yeah. And then I was like, I bet this would be pretty good with a chicken noodle soup.

And I made garlic bread with a chicken noodle soup, and sure enough, fucking, oh, incredible. That might be the best answer. I have yet to find a soup that isn't elevated by a big, crunchy, hot garlic bread side. Yeah, that's so good. That's an incredible answer. I was going to say, I'm pretty basic when it comes to bread,

but I love sourdough. Sourdough is my favorite. I love sourdough so much. I'm dipping that sucker in anything you put in front of me. I'm dipping it. I love it. Maybe not anything, you know, not like applesauce or like something sweet. Sure.

But when it comes to soups, if I got some sourdough bread, it's going straight in there. That's a home run to me. Such a good soup bread, they make a fucking bowl out of it. That's right. It's sturdy. Yeah. To give a more bready answer, I will say that, you know,

not that they necessarily are known for their soups, although they have some decent soups on their menu, but as a soppin' bread, that brown bread you get from Cheesecake Factory. You get yourself a little cup of soup, and you got some of that bread on the table, hot and fresh to soak it up. I love the Cheesecake Factory. It's so fucking good. Matt, if you ever want to go after

a course, we should just do it. Yeah, I'm 100% down. Yeah, we should I love the Cheesecake Factory. It's so fucking good. Matt, if you ever want to go after a cord. Yeah, I'm 100% down. Yeah, we should go to the Cheesecake Factory. Heather, do you want to go to the Cheesecake Factory after a cord someday? Sure. Jordan, you can come too. That sounds like a nightmare. Jordan's nodding. I'm in.

Hell yeah. Okay. I'm getting a fucking herb-crusted Parmesan chicken over there. Call it a day. Yeah, get a fucking 1,800 calorie salad. I'm there a day. Yeah, get a fucking 1,800 calorie salad. I'm there a lot. Here's an interesting question from Crest Sphinx from the Discord.

What was your first job in California? Now, Nick and I, from California, so our first jobs would be from here. Yes, I've never lived anywhere else. Yeah. I've lived in the same county my entire life. Yeah. My first job in California is probably grocery delivery girl.

Mm hmm. I worked for yummy dot com before they provided you with a car and I drove my own car and I delivered groceries before smartphones. And so I had to use a paper map to get around los angeles i had to pre-plan my route wild and and and going up to the hills to deliver groceries to to rich people in the hills with a paper map finding like wonder vista yellow Drive, like fucking like finding that shit like Pacific Pacific View, get it getting the groceries to those people's homes and then being tipped. Sometimes negative sense. Was defining defining moments in my in my young life. So grocery delivery girl.

And I also transcribed reality tv for uh china as i think i've mentioned on this podcast before one one thing and this speaks to your character either you have you have paid it forward to on the sense of now when you get delivery i know you're an extra generous tipper holy shit i make everybody i i would like to believe because I having come from yummy and now ordering yummy. I. I tip them the way that I wish that I had been tipped. And I'd like to imagine because when I work there, you had a sense of like which houses tipped. OK, and generally sort of stagger those out with your fellow drivers so that, you know, you wouldn't always be the one going to the place that tipped 10 bucks.

Right. So I'd like to believe that I've created fights at Yemi. throwing out money in the parade. Who do you trust? Money, money, money. Hubba, hubba, hubba. Who do you trust? That I'm creating chaos in Gotham City.

Man, the 80s were a horrible time for, you know, like society and for the economy and to really sort of set the table for the bifurcation of wealth in this country and the empowerment of corporations. But movies, like there were mainstream entertainments like Robocop and the Tim Burton Batman that explicitly commented on that, that still like hold up to this day.

Yeah. Great era for movies. Me? I'm giving away free money. And where is the batman that makes me want to put it on it's so good fucking great nickel was your first job like i worked so i worked at i worked at a bookstore okay and i stock shelves and i also worked in the warehouse as part of that an off- where there would be like, you know, like boxes you were unloading or crates you were loading around a lot of pallets. And I will say that it was not a customer service job. It was primarily like just, hey, take these books and put them on these shelves. And it was one of those first, it was my first time to, you got time to lean,

you got time to clean, sort of like that dehumanizing aspect of it. Because there were times where it's like, there aren't any books to stock. They'd be like, all right, go straighten up the shelves. There's like, just want me to go around

and like fucking make sure all the books line up on the shelf. This is annoying as hell. That said, the sheer monotony of it, it was like something I was like, I think I could probably just do this forever. I would have no trouble just kind of like just having this be. I just go in and I put books on shelves and I make sure they're in the right order. And I will say that the times I could have human contact, which would be like a customer comes up to me and was just like, excuse me, where can I find a book on art history?

I would like relish those moments. Sure. Be like, oh, I've got, I've just been like doing this task. Also, Heather was talking about before smartphones in this sense. And I think this is true, as obviously do for a lot of customer service jobs,

you can't have headphones in, but it's a lot easier these days to have like, you know, I could sneak in one earbud and have something playing in my head. You can do that there. You're just alone with your thoughts. So that made the time go slower. But when I have those moments of customer interaction, I could be like, hey,

yeah, I'll go show you the art history books. Here they go. I'll walk with you. Yeah. And they're like, no, thanks. I'm Weiger. Just fucking tell me. I worked at a grocery store. I worked at Albertson's out here. That was my first job ever. I got that right out of high school and was there for a few years and they wanted to promote me so bad, but I was like, never around because I would always be like, be doing like improv shows or something. And they were like, well, we want to promote you, but you can't, we can't, you're just like, you barely work enough for us to keep you here.

Uh, but they were, I loved working there. And, uh, and in, in, during the pandemic, I had like survivor's guilt kind of like,

uh, like when I would go to grocery stores and I would just be like, so like, like I always bag my own stuff anyway. Yeah. Uh, cause I'm just always like, I got this,

like I can do it. I'm just standing here. It's, it's sucks to see one person like really hustling, you know, when it's super busy. But I, yeah, I'm always, I'm taking my cart back. I'll grab another cart if I see a cart. I hate poor etiquette at a grocery store so much. It drives me insane.

I love putting carts back. Me too. Yeah. I did it for hours and hours sometimes. And that was a part of the day where I could put a headphone in. That's nice. And if the manager saw, if Manny saw me doing that, he'd tell me to take it out. Was your manager named Manny?

He was. Fuck. That's a good manager name. Pretty cool. Last one. I think this is an interesting question. This one's from way, way, way. What's your favorite thing to fall asleep to?

Dead silence and pitch blackness. Yeah, because I know you have sleeping issues. Yeah, I want it to be tomb quiet. I want to feel like I'm in a coffin. I want that Dracula sleep. Yeah. be tomb quiet i want to feel like i'm in a coffin i want i want that dracula sleep yeah i like i i don't you know there's no there's no tv in our bedroom there's no like i don't white noise i'm anything yeah uh the all the lights are off all the shades are pulled it's as dark as possible if i'm in a hotel i'm using them blackout curtains yeah i just i just want i just want dark and quiet

i used to i used to have a tv in my room and i would like always put on like the simpsons or like seinfeld and i have a hard time getting sleep because i'm laughing my fucking ass off if there's something on a screen i'm just riveted i'm just laughing but now it's like i'll play a little bit of something in bed or like i'll um be reading and then i just have a very clear like shut down mode where i just put everything away and then just like sit like sit there with my eyes closed until i'm asleep and i just i make it happen yeah i listen to um ocean sounds on a home pod oh which is just a sort of fluctuating white noise that sounds like an ocean wave hitting a beach that's it like just a like that just over and over again uh that's my

that's my sleep i i go to bed extremely early because I wake up extremely early. Yeah. And try not to look at my phone for the last hour and a half before I go to bed. Sometimes read a book, sometimes do a crossword puzzle. And then go to sleep with an ocean sound. You ever switch it to Titanic mode just to hear something else? an ocean sound you ever switch it to titanic mode just to hear something else well i saw recently on twitter somebody being like i'm never listening to youtube uh sleep sounds ever again because they'd cut to six hours or five hours into relaxing city rain, like the audio.

And then in the background of the city, you hear, oh no, no, God, no. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Ah, oh God. And then you hear like a car crash. Wow. And I was like, that is a sinister prank.

Because nobody's going to know it exists until you've listened to like four or five hours of rain sounds. Yeah. Yeah, that's cruel. It's pretty cruel. Yeah. But yeah, Titanic, that was what, the Titanic joke

slash question. It was a joke. It's fair to call it a joke, I think. Yeah, that's fair. Nobody has to laugh at a joke for it to be a joke. You know what I mean? True. You know, I think I might start falling asleep too. All right, Barack, let's go ahead and put Red Shell in A tier.

Of course you'd like Red Shell in A tier, Sleepy Joe. Honestly, the way culture is right now, if that's not a fucking TV show by the end of this year, I'll be livid. Three AI presidents arguing over video games. More entertaining than this show. Yeah. Amazing. Hey, that's this week's Get Played. Links to our social media are in the episode description.

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Great anime. In a way, he's endorsed our podcast. I think that's fair to say. I think it's like he's sort of saying that that's good too. He said it. Yeah. Guys. I want to say I was wrong.

Wow. Wow. That's big. The Triforce of Cubes was wrong. Wow. Wow. That's big. The Triforce of Cubes was a good time. I'm the one who got played this week. Wow. Heroes