Get Played - Tri-Force of Titles

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

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Ooh. Oh yeah, okay. I would love if we could like get a new angle on marketing, maybe get our name out there a little bit more. Yeah, I mean just this year we got Claire obscure, you know Expedition 33 with you know, which has a subtitle colon expedition 33 death stranding to colon on the beach Donkey Kong colon bonanza Yeah. Yeah. All right. So like get played colon Matt's quest Fuck that's really good. It's pretty good in a lot of ways. It is Matt's quest. Fuck, that's really good. That's pretty good. In a lot of ways, it is Matt's quest.

Yeah, I'm trying my fucking best over here. It does feel. I'm not always succeeding. And I like how it puts you to the forefront of, like, if we think of the show as something Matt's having to do, it makes sense. If I had one knock against it, and maybe this is me being humble, it's that it's not really just my quest.

I do think about this as a three-person endeavor. I don't wanna be necessarily the star or the face of it. That's nice of you, Matt, and that's appropriately humble. And that actually brings me to my pitch. Get played, Colin, the dawn of Matt. Okay. I mean, I think to many, this is probably a lot of people's first encounter with me.

I'm not known from something else. This is probably the thing that I'm most known for. Again, I think you're being pretty humble. A lot of people love your comedy bang bang appearances. All right, all right, all right. So then maybe not that. Maybe I've got one. Get played colon last Matt standing.

That's really good. That's actually, yeah, I mean, look, all of standing. That's really good. That's actually, yeah, I mean, look, all of these are really, really good. I guess the thing that I would be maybe concerned about is then carrying the weight of all Matt's on my shoulder since I'm the last one. I have to be sort of impressed by default, which is kind of a lot of pressure.

How about GetPlayed colon Matt's agony? Now, so far, I will say of the ones that have been pitched, this one concerns me the most because it sounds like I'm gonna have a hard time. And that's, I'm not really trying to have a hard time. I mean, but, you know, to be honest, in some episodes, maybe you are having a hard time. I'd say in most of them, I'm probably having a hard time.

Okay, well, I'm worried because you- We're trying here, Matt. No, I appreciate it. It's, you know, and isn't it something? I'm shooting down a bunch of ideas. I'm worried because you... We're trying here Matt. No, I appreciate it. You know what, isn't it something? I'm shooting down a bunch of ideas, I'm not offering any myself. Yeah, that's fair. But it's fine. It's okay, it's okay.

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I think we got it. Matt played We are mysterious yet evocative and add unnecessary Colons as we select our triforce of game titles this week on Matt played colon get 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, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host Tiger Weiger. That's me, Tiger Weiger, along with our third host, Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the premier video game podcast where this week we are talking about names. That's right.

Titles. The phrases that are uttered by an executive committee when they are describing the game that you are going to play. You know the title of our very show has changed over the years. That's true. It was how did this get played. And then before that it was can you believe how did this get played? And over time it's been simplified. We Sean Parker'd it down to just get play. That's the core essence of the brand. That's right, and let me tell you something. We're gonna do a couple other things

like Sean Parker, I think. Oh yeah? Yeah, we're gonna start Napster and then Spotify, and everyone's gonna be mad at us all the time. Okay. Hook up with some college girls. Yeah, yeah, I mean if it happens it happens I I would be fine with us starting like I know there's been a lot of dunking on starting brands that are adjacent to podcasts Yeah, last few weeks, but let me tell you if you guys want to go on like to start a

file sharing service or a subscription based skateboarding company or a You know if you want to do like a flavor like a thing a powder that you add to cola to make it a flavor That could be interesting to me because we all love drinks Yeah, I mean, I'm a big beverage guy. I got two beverages by my side right now, as do you, as do you, Matt. I mean.

You're also making very intense fists. Are you all right? I'm riled up. He's practicing for holding two drinks. I'm glad he's practicing. I'm all for us attaching our name, either the name of the podcast, our names individually, or both to some sort of product,

no matter how much of a scam it is, because we're in a world beyond consequences. There's only upside now. If you can make a little bit of extra money, might as well. Scam planet, scam planet. What if we did like cool sunglasses? Yeah, I'd be down for cool sunglasses.

I mean, cause like, what's the harm in that? You have a pair of like Get Played branded sunglasses. I'll take them. And they're cool and like that's just, you just have them, that's okay. Can we just from, you know, shits and giggles, can we say that they are blue blocking sunglasses and it'll also make them extremely dark? Yeah. So that it opens up your pupil really big, but they they are blue blocking sunglasses and also make them extremely dark?

Yeah, so that it opens up your pupil really big, but they're not blue blocking and it just lets us We also do have actual That's actually good kinship goods comms last get played baby we do we do but I would let me pitch it again Yeah, it's a powder. Yeah, so let's say you're at the store and you're like. Any powder, I'm in. I'm in. It's like, oh, I want a cherry Coke, but there's no cherry Coke here.

I'll pull out my cherry powder, and I add it to Coca-Cola, and it makes it taste exactly like a cherry Coke. Okay, so it enhances plain sodas to add some sort of flavor burst. Previously, the plain soda, simply undrinkable. It needs to be cherry. Well no, imagine you carry around

a variety pack in your pocket, right? Or get a fold out little kit of element packets, like those little, or single serve honeys, right? So you've got a few in your pocket, or if you're a lady lady you got it in your purse Because we aren't allowed to have pockets in our pants now and And it's like you go to the you go to the store, and it's like oh, they've got root beer But you know what I've got in my pocket. Yeah, I've got vanilla

Okay, so I could add vanilla to this and make a vanilla root beer. That's pretty good and And starting to rub no my favorite flavor of coca-cola That is no longer available is Oreo cookies and cream coca-cola, which was fucking phenomenal I remembered liking it, but the fact that your favorite is To put it as kindly as I can derange So what if you have like a cookies and cream packet and it's like, oh, I could add this to root beer, that would be delicious.

I could add this to cream soda, I could add this to Coca-Cola. Have you ever done the Coke freestyle machine? Yes. Yeah, of course. It doesn't have Oreo. Of course it doesn't have Oreo. Yeah, I've also turned on a light switch.

What are we asking here? Hold on. I wasn't asking you Because I mean I know that you're you're getting the You're like wheezing the juice poly sure style under that fucker and getting all every combination you could possibly get but I'm just saying You have access to a bunch of variety like that not to not to say that we shouldn't do this powder The freestyle machine kind of eats our lunch unfortunately I think on that but how often are you at a freestyle machine? I'm more often at a grocery store. Yeah. No. Yeah, it's good It's an interesting point

And by this also by this measure I think that Doritos powder should be sold in packets. That's really good. Actually no yet Doritos powder Like put it on your popcorn Doritos flavored popcorn put it on your popcorn bake a chicken I really bake a chicken put a fucking Doritos powder on it. Put some cool ranch flavor on the outside of raw chicken I think I think and this is this is gonna be a long walk maybe. Yeah. You know what a tuna melt is. It's tuna and cheese, right? Yeah. It's delicious.

Horrid. Horrid. What? It's a horrid combination to me. Never had it before, can't speak to it. The idea of fish and cheese to me is brutal. You've never had a fish, or like a filet-o-fish sandwich?

The fish delight, you mean? Yeah. Yeah. It has cheese on it. Yeah, no, I've never had that. Wow. And I think, and here's what I'm gonna say, and you can fill in the blanks however you want.

I think anyone whose favorite sandwich it is is disgusting and shouldn't be the president. I mean, that last part kind of made subtext text there Ranch I'm sorry you can't be better be writing you in I Get your repulsion because on paper yes fish plus cheese sounds gross I have had it in certain combinations, and I really don certain combinations and I really don't like a lobster mac and cheese. I don't feel like that works.

Not for me, not for me. But a tuna melt, weirdly, it all kind of comes together. So on that note, Doritos powder on tuna fish sandwich, probably incredible. Could be good. Because how often you have tuna fish sandwich you have a little Doritos next to it and you're eating them basically at the same time,

it's a good combo. Yeah, that's me at Jersey Mike's. But are you having it, are you talking like the Dorito next to it and you're eating them basically at the same time. It's a good combo. Yeah, that's me at Jersey Mike's. But are you having it, are you talking like the Doritos nacho cheese or are you talking like a Cool Ranch? I'm talking about Doritos nacho cheese but assuming that it comes in a powder form, you could have like the spicy Thai,

you could have the, like all of the different flavors of Doritos. The salsa verde, the taco. Sure. And in powdered form, you carry it around in little packets and you shake it on stuff. That is a get played presents Doritos powder.

Look, I'm in. I just feel like maybe my only issue is Doritos is going to be like, we don't get anything out of this. You're not really an ad for us. Attaching Doritos to your brand is way better for you. We can just do this We don't use and upset people on our end actually well Then maybe we because they clearly haven't done it even though they've been a brand for forever This is what we do everyone knows it's Doritos powder, but it's just called

Like make your food get played or something. That's a terrible pitch, but it's just called like make your food get played or something. That's a terrible pitch, but it's like, you know, you like level up your food. Yeah. Get seasoned. Yeah. Get seasoned. And yeah, it's like the equivalent of, you know,

when you get the Dr. Pepper ripoff, it's called like Dr. Star or Dr. A plus. It's like, you know, it's clearly a pepper soda, but it's not the real thing. You come up with a not, a clearable approximation of nacho cheese. Yeah. This is what we should be doing.

We should be doing ripoff sodas. What are we doing? People buy Dr. Star. It's, I think- Watermelon Sprite. Yeah. That sounds good. That sounds fucking good.

Let me tell you guys, I hate watermelon and I know that it's a good combo. Let me tell you guys, I hate watermelon and I know that it's a good combo. And see, this is why I'm glad Heather's on board because she's not just pitching for her own self-interest. She's pitching flavors that everyone's gonna like. They must have cucumbers sprayed overseas, right? I'm sure that's been done.

They've got Sprite plus P now. Sprite plus P? Yeah. Haven't you seen the ads? Or maybe that's the one near my house is that somebody has crossed out the the tea and just wrote pee Which I thought of it I'm fucking furious Cuz it looks it looks like piss Sprite plus tea is pretty good. I was a little bummed that it wasn't caffeinated

Yeah, that is a little bit of a letdown. I don't like caffeine do I need I mean not any but you imagine I know you're nice and refreshed from a sprite Then you got a little zip cuz you got a little caffeine baby That would be a little bit of a differentiator for it because it's you know, it's it's the all the sprites are are caffeine free It's like hey, there's, there's one sprite varietal that's got a little bit of a caffeine kick, that would be nice. I got this to say maybe about Sprite.

And maybe this is gonna be controversial, I don't know. I think all the sprites are good. All the sprites are good. I kind of think maybe all the sprites are good. Watermelon Sprite. That sounds great. Watermelon sounds good. I mean, yeah. Think of a flavor of Sprite. I'm trying to think of a bad one.

Banana Sprite. That'm trying to think of a bad one. Banana Sprite. That's a little tougher. Banana Sprite. Cause like you don't really get refreshed from banana. Yeah, how many banana beverages are there? I guess you can have like a banana in a smoothie. Yeah, it's kind of a thicker drink. In Japan they got banana milk at the 7-Eleven

and it is so fucking good, it's insane. Milk is thick though. And you're not getting refreshed from milk refreshing banana spray Something about it sounds colder. Yeah, like a banana. Oh my god ice cold. We can't go down this road I was about to say banana is colder than milk We're in trouble Trouble Banana is colder than milk, but you kind of agree right no what are you talking about? But it's definitely warmer than milk. That is I'm having room to

As a flavor I Kind of get We're saying like kind of like that like Like talking about the temperature of light almost. Cooler light versus a warmer light. It's kind of a cooler flavor. I get that idea. Okay, thank God. Because milk is a warm flavor.

Like plain milk is a warm flavor. Yes, yeah, absolutely. Strawberry is a cold flavor. Banana is slightly colder than milk. And just to remind the audience, today's topic is Triforce of Tidal. So if you thought we lost it, nuh-uh-uh. We're still, we know exactly where we're headed. That's right.

And it's straight for the wall in a terrible wreck. Running full speed. RC, our producer Rochelle Chen Ranch, do you, you're talking drinks. I feel like you mentioned one that you're a fan of earlier. Were we talking about before the pod started? Something you were sipping on? I know you like the Nohito, which is the Spindrift flavor.

Yeah, and then we were talking about the guava, the island punch flavor. The island punch flavor of Spindrift. That's a lot of fun. That's, look, I'm not gonna say more about it. Spindrift, if you're listening, we'll do the ads. We'll do them. What's a Spindrift?

Spindrift, I mean, it's a delicious, refreshing, sparkling water with- Oh, is that that thing over there? I've had that. Yeah, it's like a La Croix with a little, but it's actually got fruit juice in it. It's got fruit juice in it. It's really good, but this one, the Island Punch one is, I've been calling it the summer drink. Okay.

And I think it's the summer drink. It might be the summer drink. Ranchier Initials RC, it's a, there's an RC Cola, Royal Crown Cola, have you ever had that? I've never had it, but I have heard of it. I'm so glad we finally got to this. Has Ranch ever had RC? Initials are RC.

Have you had RC Cola? It's a natural question. Yeah, if there was an HC Cola, I'd try it. There should be. It could be. It could be our brand. Hi-C, I guess, is HC. I guess you had Hi-C.

Hi-C is definitely Jason. We had Royal Crown, because my dad liked it, and it was cheaper. We had RC Cola in the house as a kid, and I did develop a fondness for it. Not bad. Does it still exist? It still exists. I think you'll find it. Don a kid, and I did develop a fondness for it. It's not bad. Still exists? You'll still get it.

Yeah, you'll get it. Don't worry, Ranch, we'll get you an RC soon. Don't worry, we'll get you. We'll get you sipping an RC in no time. And I bet you'd be drinking it, and you'd be like, I do wish this was vanilla, and that would have been the place for us for our powder packet. And I know that I remember the origin of your nickname

being from a dream, right? So a friend had a dream that your nickname was Ranch and then it stuck. How do you feel about, I don't know if this has ever come up, how do you feel about Ranch the dipping sauce? I think we have discussed this, but yeah. Oh, I like it, it's good. Yeah, it is good.

I have no qualms with it. Do you know that in Holland, cool ranch Doritos are not called cool ranch because they have no concept of what ranch flavoring is? So they're called cool Americans? That's pretty good. It may be the most proud to be an American American. The other countries don't have a concept of this flavor.

This shit's ours, baby. USA, USA. I've seen that before. I feel like this is a Reddit image I've seen is like the American section of like a UK grocery store, and it's all just the worst shit imaginable. It's like Pop Tarts, Twinkies, fucking chocolate syrup. Yeah, all my favorite foods.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Belvita. Have you had a Pop Tart in recent memory? I have, but for content. Oh, man, I loved it. I had a Pop-Tart not that long ago. Which one did you have? It was like the raspberry frosting one.

That's like a- The blue raspberry one? No, just like regular raspberry. You gotta track down the blue raspberry. It's a promotional tie-in with a Fantastic Four movie. Oh. But yeah, you gotta give that a go. They're a lot of fun.

They've got like laser etchings. I mean, the technical, it's not that sophisticated, but they've got like art of the Fantastic Four on the frosting. You imagine them using a laser on the Pop-Tart? They might use a laser. I don't know how they do it. You know, I wonder if there is a sugar-free Pop-Tart.

Nah, no. Interesting. I would assume that they would come around the corner on that tech because why not? Maybe not by pop-tart. Yeah, it is good technology. Maybe not by pop-tart, but I bet there's another brand that's doing a pop-tart type thing that's like a protein-loaded, sugar-free nutrition delivery. They finally are doing sugar-free jams, and it's like, yeah, because fruit is already sweet yes I don't need sugar in my jam yeah I can have peanut butter and jelly again it's the best A new era of power has arrived with the Alienware Area 51 gaming laptops intentionally engineered to push more power to the CPU and GPU for maximum The new G-Force RTX 50 Series GPUs with DLSS4 amplifies performance and image precision for ultra-s smooth, stunning gameplay.

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What are we talking about? We're talking about it it's Triforce of Titles this week. We all know this. Yeah, it's the Triforce of Game Titles. We're talking about some of our favorite titles, irrespective of their connection to the actual game's content. Resident Evil Merchant, thank you so much for barging in there. I typically queue you up. I got somewhere to be.

I feel like you kind of just picked your spot and it worked. You know what it was? To me, that's like when an actor is in a play and they're not listening to the other actors. No, I was listening. They just know that they have to say this next. Tick, tick, tock, tock. I gotta go. I gotta, I got somewhere to be.

Where are you off to? Yeah, what are you doing? I'm seeing Jurassic World Rebirth. Oh, how about that? Yeah, yeah. I got a friend in it. You have a friend in the movie, an actor? No, one of the dinosaurs.

Okay. Well, I mean, so an actor, it is a dinosaur actor. What? No, no, no, no, no. No, it's, what? No, no. So the dinosaur didn't know they were in a movie? No animal knows they're in a movie. That's a? No, no. So the dinosaur didn't know they were in a movie? No animal knows they're in a movie.

That's a good point, honestly. No animal has ever acted. You watch Air Bud and you're like, that dog doesn't know what the fuck's going on. No, it doesn't, no concept. The dog from Anatomy of a Fall is one of the greatest actors I've ever seen. That is a good dog.

It's a sad dog. It's a sad dog. That's a good movie. That's really good. I think, I don't wanna spoil it. Yeah, don't spoil it. He doesn't know he's in a movie though. I's a good movie. That's really good. I think, I don't wanna spoil it. Yeah, don't spoil it. He doesn't know he's in a movie though. I guess that's fair.

The dog. What, the actors? The dog. No, the dog doesn't know what he's doing. Yeah. No. What if the dog, instead of doing what he did in the movie, just like licked his asshole?

Well, I mean, he might have during some takes. They just didn't use those. I'd like to see the whole asshole take of an animal movie I just like a really serious movie and then it just cuts over to this dog and he's just going to town on his ass yeah I'd like to see it the all dog asshole cut of Manchester by the sea yeah yeah yeah

now what are you guys playing? I have a question for you real quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're friends with one of the dinosaurs. We can all agree that dinosaurs in these movies are computer generated. What? Yeah, I imagine they're largely computer generated, but I think there is some practical stuff that you maybe don't even sense.

I don't think you understand how you okay? Man I hate to break this to you. Yeah, I was once computer-generated This is what I was going to ask I was gonna ask so wait because because you're from a video game. Yeah Are you computer-generated? No, I'm real. You're real now. Yeah, it's Roger Rabbit rules Okay, it's much Rabbit rules. Okay. It's much like the process that brought Qbert to life in Pixel. Yeah, he had to get fucked alive.

He turned in, yes, he turned into a, there was a physical incarnation in our world then was turned into a very sexy, like barbarian lady and then Josh Gad impregnated her. Yeah, well anyway, so yeah, all of us, CG, we all work on the same circuit, except dinosaurs don't know they're working. Why did they have to make Qbert into the lady?

Like couldn't they have just brought the lady to life from the game? What lady? Cause I think it's... Do they just like the joke of Josh Gad fucks Qbert? I think that's... They probably worked backwards from there. And maybe they were like, okay, well then we have to then sort of like, who are they gonna get?

He's not just gonna fuck Qbert. Yeah. Like, it has to be like a form that this character would be attracted to. Who, like, in this... You know, who are they gonna license for this? Uh, I bet you Qbert was cheap enough there. Like, he just turns into a hot lady instead of like, you know, who are they gonna license for this? I bet you Cuber was cheap enough there like he just turned into a hot lady instead of like being like, oh, we got we're getting Lara Croft.

Is the implication dick in the nose? Is that is that like spoken? I'm just not familiar with any other orifice that Cuber may or may not have. I just don't know how those what what happens there. And if this- Dick in the nose. Is it a nose cloaca, like one orifice that like handles everything? Is that what's going on? Can you imagine if your nose, oh God.

If your nose was on your mouth with your asshole on your dick. I'm having a rough time today. I was just about to say, can you imagine if you shit out of the same thing you smell with? That'd be horrible. Yeah. It'd be a fucking nightmare. I'm glad you stopped say, can you imagine if you shit out of the same thing you smell with? That'd be horrible. Yeah.

It'd be a fucking nightmare. I'm glad you stopped yourself from saying that. Yeah, you still said it. My brain is bad today. I don't know what's going on. I'm scared. When his anatomy, I mean, like he's turned into a sexy lady that Josh Gad is horny for. When that happens.

And he fucks it again. He turns into this high fantasy lady. Yeah. Well, no, I don't think he previously fucked Q-Bird. I think, I don't think so. I thought he, no, wait, I thought he fucked- I think he fucked the lady in Q-Bird, he fucked Q-Bird in hot lady form. Yeah, I think that's what's going on.

Oh, I thought he fucked Q-Bird and that's what made her into a lady. No, but he stayed, but he stayed. He stayed. That's kind of an insane thing to think about, because I think you were here when we watched the movie I must have been distracted. I thought that was the story they were telling. You're looking at your phone. Probably Why is it wet? It's like Princess and the Frog rules

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Whatever. They lost their way after I got fired. It's okay. Well, yeah, I don't know nothing about that series anymore. No, it's okay. Well, yeah, I just, I don't know nothing about that series anymore. No, it's okay, you're better than that. Yeah, you were in the most notable and acclaimed interview. Thank you, I think that's true.

You can hang your hat on that. I do. You ever talk to that big lady? Big lady? You think if you fuck her she turn into a cubit? Jesus, so sort of reverse? Yeah. I don't know. It's sort of reverse. Yeah, I don't know

Do you ever know okay? Nick Walker, what are you? Resident Evil Merchant, thank you so much for asking what I'm playing You know, I don't have something super topical, but I'm fine to tee off here, because we're just fucking around anyway. So in terms of what I'm playing, I picked up a puzzle book by the Slovenian game designer named Blaz Urban Grasher. I apologize for butchering their name. Mostly, this designer mostly makes analog games in print. And this was a recommendation by friend of the show, past guest Eva Anderson. There's also a version on Steam that was released in December called Lock Digital, which I've been messing around with because I had the physical book, but I don't want to to mess

up this thing. Oh, it's just such a nice little piece, you know, of art here. So it's basically like the size of three by five note cards. And it's a you know, it's a spiral bound For easy, you know flip in here and for laying flat, but I'll circulate this and you can see what it is basically it's a And just to talk about this the lock digital real quick this which is the steam version It does have some nice simple aesthetics and it's just a really good translation of the way the puzzles are but it's presented with just a little bit more bells and whistles.

It is the slim volume of paper and it's this charming, challenging word puzzle game where you're solving grid-based word like puzzles in an invented language. It's one of those things where it's like – so you'll see if you start from the beginning – and actually I can go back to that when it comes back my way. But if you start from the beginning, it's like – it just sort of teaches you some very simple rules in terms of how it works. You're filling in certain letters and then blank spaces get shaded in and that sort of leads to, that just keeps getting heightened and progressed.

Can I read the introduction here? Yeah, go for it. Do you pronounce it loke? I've heard it called loke. Locke are a fresh new kind of living beings that spawned in the middle of a vast incomprehensible world. Help them understand their surroundings and guide them toward expansion of their civilization. This book consists of handcrafted puzzles to solve.

Besides solving puzzles, you are also required to figure out most of the rules by yourself. You'll need a pencil and eraser. You can also cover the pages with transparent plastic sheet that's included and draw on it with a dry erase marker. That's cool. Yeah.

And I do have the plastic sheet, but I just don't have a dry erase marker. So I've not gotten that direction. But I will say this. I really like it being just such a fundamental game design. I read this book a while back, A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Rafe Koester is the author and its thesis is basically that game design is an act of teaching and then allowing the player to apply that knowledge. And you think of any game you've played, like it's like, you know, inside

which we covered in the podcast, a really good example, you're like, hey, here's the new here's a mechanic. This is how this works. Take this to its a logical conclusion. Okay, that section is gone is done. Now here's a new mechanic. This is how this works. You know, you sort of are or are Super Mario Brothers level one one, of course, is just such like it like here, we're just going to teach you how everything works. And then you're going to apply it throughout the game. This is the

same sort of thing. You're just like being taught these rules. And then as it progresses, yes, you you can pick up new rules either from being told what they are, but like yes, a lot of it is coming from inference because it is intentionally obtuse, but that's part of the fun. And I don't know, I really like it and it's also made me want to get more into like more analog designs, more stuff that's on paper. I used to have this magazine I got as a kid.

I think it was just called Games and it was all like – it had like word searches and crosswords, but it also had things like this, which were just sort of like a little bit more arcane, a little bit more invented, you know, and not these off the shelf designs. They were a little bit more bespoke. And then also things like lateral thinking puzzles and visual puzzles. And I don't know, it's just kind of fun to work with it, work this shit out in paper in the same way solo in the same way it is to like play a physical card game or play a tabletop RPG So yeah, that's that's what I've been playing so is the physical book the same thing that's on it's the exact same design

It's just like a basic like a like a direct translation of it. Yeah, it is really really rad It also feels like a design document for the game. Yeah, that's what's cool about it. Cause like there's not, I mean, I can't think of another video game that could be printed and put in a book and you would get the same experience out of it. That's really unique. But I think a lot of games could be that.

I mean, like it's like, you know, visual novels a lot of times are basically just choose your own adventure books, right? Like there's a print execution of something like, you know, How to Fool Boyfriend or something that we've covered. You know what I mean? It's like, I think there are ways to render designs in this very basic way. And again, that's just kind of what I admire about it.

I know that there's an an Elden Ring Board game Okay, and I don't know how it functions or what it even looks like to play it, but that idea Is scary to me a game that's like hard to Because board games are already the the level of entry for some board games is already really pretty difficult Because you gotta make sure it was paying attention and understands the rules and stuff. Now it's a game that's impossible to play. Sounds kind of crazy. I'll have to look into it though.

Yeah, one of the Larian games, I think it's a Divinity Original Sin 2 as a tabletop version too. And I'm just kind of like, I don't know if I'd ever actually get into it, but I'm like just kind of curious about how it works. When I was a child, my grandmother had the Pac-Man board game, which

was a board game that was like, imagine two boards stuck on top of each other. So it's got a thickness to it. And then they are drilled into the top board, lots of holes. So there are divots in the board the board does that make sense yeah? And then like a cribbage board or something. I don't know what that is, but okay And then you would put marbles in each of those divots so the entire board was a huge Stat like lines and lines of marbles like like the maze of pac-man yeah, and then your player

token was a big pac-man with a hole in the bottom of Pac-Man, and then your player token was a big Pac-Man with a hole in the bottom of it. And every time you would move, you would stomp onto each of the marbles and eat the marbles, which would get stuffed into your Pac-Man. The problem is the action of stomping on the board would sometimes unsettle all of the marbles on the board.

Oh, so yeah, if you're slamming it too hard. Yeah, the whole boards fucked up. Yeah. Yeah, that's really funny Yeah, it was not an enjoyable game to play You have to make your own Yeah, just like that that's what we did Matt what are you playing? I'm playing three games right now three Jesus Christ. It's tough. I'm having a hard time. I'm having a hard time. Who's doing this to you? Society, certainly.

Wow. I, it's all out of my, you know, I can't be responsible for this. I'm still chipping away at Hollow Knight. I've abandoned what I was previously doing in favor of going back to the earlier parts of the map and finding new places to traverse with my new abilities. And that has now gained me an additional mask. So instead of six masks, I now have seven

on my way to an eighth. And I've also collected other, shoot, where are they called, ranch? When you get an item that's like a, they're almost like boons, kind of, but they have a name for it in the... Charms? Yeah, charms.

Yeah, charms. So you get these different charms. And so I have some really boss ones right now. I have this one that when you get attacked, thorns like come out of you and that does like a lot of damage to the enemies. I love the concept of thorns in general. I just remember in like, the first time I really clocked with them

was in Diablo II when you could have like a thorns aura as a paladin. And they nerfed it, but at first it was like so OP. It was like 1700% like damage to the enemies based on what they gave you. And so you could just like take your way and just kind of vampire survivors your way through dungeons.

Thorns are really cool because they're as intimidating as, like they look very intimidating, but they actually do hurt. So there is something about them that is, you're like, I already know not to mess with this. It's too crazy. It also, for me, it just evokes Christ, which I like. I'm just thinking like you've had a thorns.

We're always just thinking about Christ. I'm always thinking about him. We wish he was evoked more in a game. Yeah, yeah. And you know what? It shouldn't have happened. They shouldn't have done that to him. No, yeah, and you know what it shouldn't have happened. They shouldn't have done that to him. No. Yeah

but I like I Know I think it's I think it's cool conceptually the idea of like I'm gonna take damage But you're gonna take a damage in return. Yeah, that's like I don't know It's just it's just an interesting give-and-take what about like the ability to like I feel like this might be like a druid class Yeah thing where you could have like this sort of like plant druid that then has like Tentacle thorns that's pretty fucking scary Yeah, I'm trying to think of the the druids have thorns Maybe they do maybe it's maybe it's like a new kind that I just made up. I don't know

So I'm doing I'm doing that I'm working my way back toward where I was going But I I still don't think I have enough masks to, how many masks did you end up with, Ranch, do you know? I think eight, but then you can, there's also charms eventually that, the temporary, I've got the temporary ones. Oh yeah, I've got some of these temporary ones too. That I'm afraid to use them because they're temporary,

then you have to go buy them again. And I feel like sometimes I Mean Geos are everywhere, but sometimes you could lose enough Geos that then it's like I like somebody you got a grind for Geos Which is like the currency within the game, okay? I'm playing Tony Hawk's Pro skater 3 plus 4 and I I I bought the switch 2 version Okay, and my my thought there, just for portability's sake, it runs perfectly. Wow.

4K 60 frames per second on Switch 2 docked and in handheld. It's fucking gorgeous and it's great and it's a lot of fun. And I felt like I got really good at the game again when I was playing one plus two and all Occasionally still dip back into one plus two Remake but like the I Did not play Tony Hawk's pro skater for very much When I was a kid three was probably the one I spent the most time with so it's exciting to see these levels again

But I'm like having to relearn It's almost like relearning the game even though like I have the muscle memory of playing the game But like the maps are like I'm relearning the maps again So like I I'm basically kind of starting at zero again, and I feel like I'm bad at the game But I'm having a lot of fun with it And I know that there's a lot of talk of in Tony Hawk's pro skater for this remake sort I mean, not sort of, did away with what made Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 very unique, was that it had an open world structure.

And instead of the missions that you get at the two minute start of the clock, they were just around the area. You go up to skaters and things and get missions from them. That's not in this at all. Instead, they've adopted the two minute timer structure. You go up to skaters and things and get missions from them. That's not in this at all instead They've adopted the the two-minute timer Structure, but the maps are still pretty big so you can increase the the time limit You can increase it up to like an hour

I think Wow and then just kind of go around the map and still do the challenges the way you would do them But I haven't I haven't gotten into four yet, so I'm still playing three So I'll see how that's going. But I think they really nailed it. It's a really, really great package, and it's a lot of fun. And some great new songs in there, too. And I like making a character that kind of looks like you in any game. Oh, yeah.

That's the fucking best. It's so fun. Yeah. I mean, I've been able to do that my whole life. So. Just like, oh, like like, when there's, especially when there's a lot of clothing options and you can sort of like, this is kind of what I would wear.

Yeah. That's like, that's the best. That's so much fun. And I'm playing, I'm playing Death Stranding 2 still. And it's just fucking nuts. I was saying to, I said this in the group chat I Was in a cutscene and some characters that are new to the series Rainy and tomorrow we're having like a little conversation

They were kind of like brushing each other's hair and my wife comes in and goes so this is what you're doing And it's there those two characters are so great. I really, really love Rainy. I think I've seen, I've experienced in game all the things that I've seen of the game. Oh, wow, great. Whether that be in like trailers or in the, at the event that we went to.

Yep. So I'm, so now everything else beyond this point is like new information to me, which is very exciting. And I'm still just having a lot of fun making deliveries. I'm like so slow to move on to whatever the next thing is supposed to be. Right. Because I'm just like, okay, well, like I'll just make a,

oh man, there's a fucking, you get this, you can get these upgrades to your vehicle, to like the truck. One of them is like a machine gun, and the other one is a sticky gun, so like when you're driving around, you can pick up, you don't have to get out to pick up lost cargo. Yeah, you auto pick up and store in your pickup truck lost cargo.

Sometimes I'm not even doing, I'm just driving around. I'm just like driving around, just being like this if I find something great great but if not I'll just drive baby and it's it's it's I've upgraded my batteries yeah this there if they were trying to beat the allegations that it's a walking simulator they kind of done it cuz I kind of only been driving Wow I kind of been driving the time yeah the car is good. I usually don't like the cars. I like the cars the cars You know what I have one complaint about the car that I did voice, and they didn't get a reaction from you guys In the chat, it's okay twice wait what I put this in the chat. Nobody said anything about it. It's okay

Well, let me find out what was this is weeks. I mean maybe not weeks ago. This is like a week You should be able to honk the fucking horn in the truck. You did say that. Hold on, let me see when you sent this. I didn't have a feeling about it. I kind of feel like Nick will agree with me once he reads it again. No, I'm looking at it. I'm trying to look at it in context.

So here's the thing. Here's what I will say in our defense. It was a tangent from another thing we were talking about. Yeah, and it's maybe too hot of an idea So so it got Heather sent the link of a mysterious life form found on a ship that docked in Cleveland Which was about a glop of goo that Was not damaged by a blowtorch

Looks like tar looks like tar from Death Stranding to Ranches get as clarifications literally something out of Death Stranding a lot of black goo They call it tar in the game and they don't destroy it and it comes from the water and that carries dead whales with it And Max says I wish you could honk the horn of the truck when you try Seems like a complaint I would always have no matter what yeah but yeah, sometimes. I'm like I'll be driving and I'll click in one of the sticks to be like maybe this time. It'll do it I'll just always be trying it well. I know it doesn't do it. I feel like the way you honk in this game is I'm Sam

That'd be so good if you could just honk. Honking is really fun in video games, because there's generally no consequence. It would be funny to honk at a BT. It'd be great. Oh, I saw a, you know how you get little notifications and stuff? There was one that was like, a courteous BT destroyed a car,

or something like that. I was like, what is that? Who's that for? And my favorite one is, my favorite little alert you get, I was saying is, Sam's skills improved based on his experiences. I'm like, great. I love it.

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to sit down in front of my PlayStation 5 Pro. I have not progressed the story that much. I think I'm in chapter six, maybe chapter five. I'm not even sure because all I wanna do is extend the roads and extend the monorails. And I have extended the monorail to an area that I have not, I don't even know when I'm gonna unlock

where I've extended the monorail from, too. I don't know what, like, I'm also seeing creatures that I had not seen previously in this game. Whoa because all I do is Drive to where the next monorail station is find out how much stuff I need drive all the way back Yeah to town because Also, there's no I'm not linking anything. I'm just setting up the monorail system for later use. Same with the roads.

Building roads, looking for where the road station is, making, like, zoom out on the map, I'm like, guys, the road's gotta go that direction. Zoom in. What this also means is that I'm often fighting guys who are much, much stronger than the weapons that I have, which is so much fun. I'm on brutal difficulty,

but there's a sniper rifle in the game, and very few things are more satisfying than sniping somebody in the face, and it knocks their armor off of their head, and then they get freaked out, and you have a very small window of sniping them again before they alert their base Yeah, and because these dudes Also, I don't know Matt if you like I went through an area of dudes that were like using drones on me

And I was like yeah, I had something like this is this Cuz also I didn't know what it was it was just like an alert and I was like oh what's happening I don't know. I don't recognize any of this HUD element. No. But I had to build a road through where they were. So I had to kill everybody, not kill. I guess I'm tranquilizing everybody, though I do go up and kick everyone in the balls

as I walk by. Because it's so good. Feels unnecessary. Sometimes I will just headshot one of them just to see if it doesn't do anything. Yeah, I've only killed one guy and it was on accident. I ran him over with my car after I tranquilized him because I didn't really think it would do anything.

Right. I'm betting I could kick somebody in the balls to death, but I haven't tried it. That's how I hope to go. Ha ha ha ha ha ha Just like smiling ear to ear. But that's all I've done is infrastructure in Death Stranding 2 because I'm also, I'm really nervous about the game being over.

And so I really wanna just like slow play it as much as possible. I have not gotten any time to play in Death Stranding 2 and I'm really disappointed about it because I've been looking forward to it and I've just gotten very busy and I've also, when I have limited chunks of time for gaming, I've either been doing things like lock,

which are easy to just jump in and out of, or Bellatro, which I am continuing to play obsessively and I've gotten, just a Blotra update, I've gotten gold stakes on a couple of decks now. I think I'm gonna go, I was just like, this is gonna take a while, but I think I'm just gonna go for the achievement to get gold stakes on every deck.

Because I'm just like, why the fuck not? Because I can generally complete one run in one session. And then, you and then as you get towards the thing I really like in Roguelikes is when you have – there's a threshold up to which where you can complete each run. Basically if you know how to play the game well enough, you can complete a run just by playing correctly and playing efficiently. You just kind of get to a point where I can guarantee you can complete a run just by playing correctly and playing efficiently. Like, you just kind of get to a point

where I can guaranteed finish a run. But then there's obviously a threshold, like the heat levels that you keep adding in Hades, where you either have to be super good, or you just kind of have to hope RNG is on your side at a certain point. And as you start to get up to purple stakes and above, the game just starts being actively unfair.

And you just have to hope you get like kind of the, like you can win, and people who are better at the game than me can win more frequently, but like sometimes things just kind of have to go right or you can play pretty much correctly and efficiently, but you can still completely fuck up your run just because you didn't get the right cards. Speaking of card games, I have been playing Pokemon Card Game Pocket, which is fine,

but the person I want to shout out is my mom. My mom's been playing Pokemon the Card Game Pocket. She has no experience in card games, and she's had to learn every, like all the concepts of how these games work, and she is now in Ultra Ball 3 in this season's ranked Pokemon. She's also a free to play player. She won't, and she does not, I don't think knows how to spend money on a game.

Good, that's good. But she's on her way to Master Ball for this season. I'm kind of really impressed. Yeah, it's cool that that's possible without spending money. Like that's, I think maybe the end of the market of a good game. I installed a, like when Super Mario Run was new,

I had that on my phone and I showed it to my nephew and he's like, oh, can I play? And like, sure, yeah. And somehow like immediately spent $10. He's like, how did you do that? Can I play and like like sure yeah, and somehow like immediately spent ten dollars Hey People out I want to shout out ranch because you have been playing Claire obscure expedition 33 I have what what is your experience like it seems like the game really has its hooks in you the first ten hours I was so fucking confused

What has its hooks in you? The first 10 hours I was so fucking confused. Yeah. Yeah. But then I watched a couple of YouTube videos about how the whole leveling up system works and yeah, now it's just super fun and I'm loving the story. Yeah, the story's really good.

The combat is also really fun too. It's like you're doing enough. Yeah. It's engaging enough, but you're not like, I'm constantly button mashing. Yeah. It's like the, it's interesting to contrast that with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth,

which I'm probably repeating something I said in the podcast before, but it's like, they're two wildly different approaches towards making a turn-based system or a menu-based combat system more active. And so you basically have the real-time with pause, Final Fantasy VII Rem remake, rebirth system, but you're still selecting menu options.

But then you have a pure turn-based system, but then it's got like a lot of interactivity and timing-based enhancements to your attacks that you can do that make it feel very engaging. I don't know, I really love the combat system. Another game, like Death Strand 2, I just like ran out of time to fucking play, but I really, really enjoyed it. Yeah, you gonna stick with it? Yeah, the story so far is like pretty mind blowing. Is this a game, the story's great.

Is this a game you're streaming or is this a game just for you? Just for me. How about that? I love it. And you're playing it on the deck or what are you playing it on? Xbox on PC with the Xbox controller.

Okay, great. Yeah. Hell yeah. And the- Yeah, it's on Game Pass. Game Pass at Nick Gafferby. That's right, there we go. Man, Game Pass is good. Wow, sounds like a really nice derange.

Really, really nice derange. And we're gonna let her try RC Cola. That's actually really nice of her. Every since we started talking about RC Cola, I've kind of wanted one. Yeah, I was like, where can can I track one down is that liquor store near the studio is gonna have it I say probably won't you got to go to Ralph's and we're gonna have to get like a two-liter Yeah, and then you got it then I got a way to get I quit to a 12 pack of RC Cola. I don't need that much Do we fill out like a can we just make?

Anya get it or something? Hey, Anya can we get RC Cola for the office? Can we get one thing of RC one time? And then fucking, uh, Chef Kevin's drinking it and we're getting all pissed off Somehow be such a huge pain in the ass to try to get like RC Cola to the studio for a bit Yeah, yeah. But we should do it.

We'll say that, I don't know, Rachel Billson wants it or something. Do you have anything you're particularly responding to like story-wise, character-wise, art-wise? I think my favorite thing about the game is it's so beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just like crazy looking and then yeah the story lots of mystery

I love it. There's some freaks in the game too. I was gonna say everybody's hot. It is a pretty horny game. And this you know, it's not here or there Somebody don't got no shoes on. There is a barefoot lady, which I have no complaints about but I was just like there's also this there is an element of You know, it's everyone has was has their 30s, it's fine. Yeah.

People are older. I'm glad you're playing it because... Well, just from a JRPG thing, it's just like so often it's like a party of teenagers. It's like 15 year olds and 17 year olds. It's like, I don't know, it's kind of nice to be playing a game with some grownups.

That's kind of what I like about Sam is that he's kind of just like an old fuck. Yeah, an older guy. This is like me, just like alone and miserable. Fuck, I gotta do this fucking job. So what's this game about? It's a guy who does his job. He's like really good at it.

He's a sad old man. I'm glad you're playing it, Ranch, because I know that there are plenty of people listening to this show who are mad at us for not playing it because there's just too many games We did cover it. We covered it a little bit. We just we just bounced. We just didn't finish it We didn't cover it to you intend to finish it this year. Yeah, I just like I have what I don't fucking know man I wish this was my only thing. It's not my only thing. I got other shit I'm doing if somebody would match the amount of money that I'm paid to work

Yeah, and just let me play video games, I would just play video games. And the podcast would be better for it. It would just be better if some mysterious, wealthy benefactor decided to finance our lives. That'd be pretty great. Let's say the Frito-Lay company was like, hey, we have this Doritos seasoning

that we'd like to fix the Get Played brand to, and that will be enough to finance your current lifestyles. We don't need to live large, I just need to pay my rent. Yeah, I'll say this, because I know that these people with a lot of money, these billionaires like to attach themselves to already controversial figures that are already wealthy and bad.

You have the opportunity to do something huge and go the other way and, like, attach yourself to, like, good, nice people who just want to play video games and leave everybody alone. Yeah, kind of zig-wor the other guy's ag. Why not? Yeah, it's okay. And if you've done this previously, perhaps maybe you were the aide to a certain political figure

who then got mad at you and fired you, you could bankroll us for a little while. That's all right. I don't know, man., wait. I don't know. Get X. Get grok? Get grok. I drive on get grok. I guess there's a line from where we take the money.

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I guess there's a line from where we take the money. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I'd have to say, I was just kidding. I would never. Hey, let's talk about our Triforce of titles. We're going to have Triforces of Power, Wisdom, and Courage. We're each going to build our individual Triforces of Power, Wisdom, and Courage. We're each going to build our individual Triforces.

We're each going to select three game titles that we think fit these labels. Just to go through with some past Triforces that we've done when we've done this format, NPCs, Triforce of NPCs, Weapons, Triforce of Mounts, Triforce of Sound Effects, Triforce of Cubes, Triforce of Trilogies. I also feel like I couldn't find it in my notes, but we did Triforce of cubes, Triforce of trilogies. I also feel like I couldn't find in my notes, we did Triforce of Luigi's at some point. We did Triforce of Luigi's, which was not confusing to anybody. I do just want to point out too,

I was looking at my notes on my phone here and I see that Rochelle loved my message that I wish you could honk the horn of the truck when you drive and then replied to it, ha ha. During the record? Yes, yes. So I do feel vindicated in this way.

Thank you, Ranch. Who would like to start? Or should we start in a more abstract, like a more general sense, like what makes a good title? What do we like about title? Like, cause for me, I think this partly came from so many titles are so fucking bad. Yeah, and they're just sort of like There's an unnecessary subtitle. There's too much verbiage. It sounds

Generic it doesn't evoke anything. It doesn't make me understand what the game is about like it's it's just a There's a word salad issue with modern game titles. Yeah. They kind of almost overthink it into sounding like nothing. We like, I mean, I feel like the jumping off point for this last week was Intergalactic the heretic prophet. That's just like a bunch of nonsense. And you know, but the thing is, with anything, this is true with bands as well. And I think I heard it probably first when doing improv on like Herald Night at UCB or something. Because you have so much agony over what you should be

called, like what your name should be, the name of your improv team or something, or the name of your band or whatever, and nobody cares about the name. The name doesn't sound bad if you're good. I was on an improv team with Nick Weiger for many years. And when we first formed, there was some discussion about what our name should be. I was a real, real proponent of the name, A Bank.

Yeah, I really liked A Bank. Because I wanted us to be announced with ladies and gentlemen a bank hey everyone we're a bank one word suggestion but we ended up being called last day of school yeah which was cheerful a good but a good name. And a little bit of trivia about that show. We had a Facebook page. Yes. And it was at the height of Facebook.

So everybody liked Last Day of School. We literally had millions of likes. Millions and like so many. Yes. Like 7,500 million likes because who doesn't like the concept of the last day of school? Yeah.

And so it'd be like, you know, like we'd post like a group photo and then there would be like a kid commenting, like a literal sixth grader, like math sucks. But we'd also get like, who are these assholes? Years and years ago, I remember on the, on the lost subreddit for the TV show Lost. Okay.

I remember being subscribed to it and somebody posting, help finding wedding band in this like location. And everyone's like, oh no, I'm so sorry. This is for a TV show. And then the person was just like, God damn it, I'm fucking trying to find my for a TV show and then the person was like god damn We thought it was just a lost and found the world

I'm you know I have my own my own list and we'll get to it And I feel like a lot of my titles might my picks are either like very simple or Like a little bit. little bit ornate, but poetic, you know what I mean? It's almost like you wanna be at one of two poles. Yeah, cause like, gosh, I mean, I don't wanna discuss them too much before saying them, I guess, but yeah, cause sometimes you get the ones like we've mentioned already, or you get some,

there's just some really, really great ones that just really sell you on exactly what the experience is going to be. And I think that, I don't know, maybe more so than any medium, you have an opportunity to do something like that with a video game, because, I mean, I guess Breaking Bad is a cool title.

You understand what the show is about, if you hear the name of the show. And just to be clear on this one, at least my perspective, I'm picking titles separated from the content of the game. Like what does the title say? And obviously you're gonna like certain games more and if you like a game, you're going to like its title

more by association, but I'm trying to create some sort of Separation in my brain and just like talk about the title in and of itself and what it accomplishes All right. Let's start with Triforce of Power. Anyone want to start? I'll go Wow I'm gonna blow up my note app here. Oh great recognize my fucking face. God damn it Ranch let's edit around all this this it's gonna be really embarrassed Fucking damn it. Are you kidding me? It's right yourself fucking phone and then recognize my fucking face

You just be able to turn your fucking phone on I Think I think you can turn the face you the the face recognition off again ranch Let's just edit all this out. It's making Matt look really bad right now what's my social security number you looking at for my Triforce of Power and ranch cut all this for my Triforce of Power I'm picking a game that that are picking a title rather of a game that I actually have not ever played Wow but the title to me evokes power because it's so strong. It's a strong title, it's an intriguing title. Okay.

You hear these five words and you're sort of like, oh, interesting. I wonder what's going on there. It sounds like a really cool video game. Okay. Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I love Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I think it's a great game. I mean that's like that sold me a PlayStation 1, that and

Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil. But like that was the I think the second game I ever got for my PlayStation 1 was Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Fantastic game and did all-time Metroidvania and basically the reason metroidvania exists as a genre is because That one that that that's the first castlevania that kind of follows that format and comes on the heels of Metroid and Super Metroid Symphony of the night is an awesome subtitle. It's really good Castlevania also sounds really cool. And I also like that. The Japanese title is just Dracula That is really good Yeah, I think this is a guy basically what I'm saying. There's a lot longer way of saying

I think this is a good pick. I was really nervous that you were gonna dislike it for some reason No, no, I think it's great. It did seem like you were setting up. Yeah that being said which is a Nick. Yeah No, I admire that being said would be it's tough to pick from among the Castlevanias cuz he's also got like You know like aria of sorrow. You know very cool. You've got a what's the the DS one is it's it's Don of sorrow sorrow. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like it's um, I gotta get into Castlevania I love all the titles of these games and good franchise. Yes good franchise. Yeah, Symphony of the Night excellent game. I gotta do it Good franchise. Yeah, it's good franchise. Yeah, Symphony of the Night excellent game. I gotta do it Dissonance, what's the oh, yeah, that is pretty good. It's good

Rondo of blood Rondo of bloods early, but then but see but you take you take these subtitles I feel like I have a theory about the subtitles with this with this franchise Yeah, these subtitles only work attached to Castlevania. Yeah. You take any of these and put it on another game, it's dog shit for some reason. Halo, Aria of Sauron. Well, that one maybe works, it kinda works, but like, it just like, yeah, Symphony of the Night is so, there's something about it that really only works with Castlevania.

It's interesting to look at the whole timeline of Castlevania's, because they use the colon and the subtitles so often. From the second entry, Castlevania II, Simon's Quest, Castlevania III, Dracula's Curse, there's also a Castlevania II, Bellmonster's Revenge, which I think was the Game Boy version, yes, that was the Game Boy version.

But then, yeah, all the ones that we talked about, Symphony of the Night, Legacy of Darkness, Circle of the Moon, really a Gameboy Advance game, Harmony of Dissonance, Array of Sorrow, Lament of Innocence. But then there's also Super Castlevania IV. Do you think in the territories where Castlevania is called Dracula, the subtitle is Dracula Castlevania's Quest? Yeah, that's probably the call they make they just replace the Dracula with Castlevania there the Simon with Castlevania. That's probably what they do Matt good call

What is the Japanese title of Super Castlevania for Dracula for Akumajo Dracula fuck that's cool. That's really cool. That's pretty good. Great pick, Matt. What's your first pick for Tri Force of Power? Well, I took this task as a call to celebrate titles that could only be in video games.

Like, if it could sound like a movie, then to me, that doesn't make it powerful. Because it could be a movie. Like you don't hear it and you think video game. So for me, I'm really leaning on video game sounding titles. And for me, the game that most represents power is a fighting game.

And the title is Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road to Boruto. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit.

Pretty good. Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road to Boruto is the fourth game in the Ninja Storm franchise, which is a Naruto fighting game. Shippuden is the grown-up version of Naruto. It's like the second major arc of Naruto because you have Naruto and then he came back as Naruto Shippuden. So Naruto Shippuden is already effectively a subtitle.

Ultimate Ninja Storm, subtitle. Four, subtitle. Road to Boruto, subtitle. So this to me is a powerful, it's like you hear that and you're like, that can't be anything but a video game. Yeah, it's an assault. Cause every other word you're sort of like, it's done.

No, no. No. Yeah. And that to me, yeah, that to me is representative That's an assault, because every other word, you're sort of like, it's done. No, no. And that to me, yeah, that to me is representative of what power is in a title. It's just a barrage of words that can only mean video game. Nick, what's yours? They say, you know, you shouldn't put a hat on a hat, but then if you add like four more hats it starts to work out.

This has been reminding me of maybe my favorite video game title of any game. Peter Jackson's King Kong, the official game of the movie. Well then, Matt, you're gonna love the rest of my list. What is more powerful than a straight on declaration, than a statement of purpose, than a full on thesis? Oh man. And for me, that comes from a PlayStation 1 game, a puzzle game where you play a sentient

domino. The title is, No One Can Stop Mr. Domino! Exclamation point. Holy shit. The Japanese title also very powerful, do not stop Domino-kun. Wow, cool. No one can stop this guy.

That's pretty good. No one can stop Mr. Domino. And here's the thing. How do you respond to that? I'm like, hey man, I believe you. I'm not even gonna try. But also, Dominoes, I feel like, famously stopped all the time.

What? They fall in one direction and that's it. But you could think of the unrelenting momentum of a chain of dominoes and the domino effect, as we call it. Who do you think was the first person to do that? Because every time I see a bunch of dominoes falling, I have to stop and watch it all the way through. I love it. That's not their intended purpose either. There's a bunch of dominoes falling, I have to stop and watch it all the way through.

I love it. That's not their intended purpose either. There's a game called Dominoes that people play. And someone was like, hey, let's stand these sum bitches up on end and see what happens when we tip one over. Yeah, and then I also, I love the sound. It's a good sound. It's a good sound.

Oh man. Man, have you seen the like ready loaded dominoes that come on like a track? And so you can tap them down and they go Then you can pick up the track and go shup and they all stand up simultaneously and then you lay the track back down Yeah, it's like speed dominoing for setups Yeah I messed around with some of the we I like it was that was one of those weird things were like at my elementary School they had those in like the tray of games when it for when it was rainy and we had to take recess indoors.

And I just remember messing around with those and being like, this isn't fun. Because you know, because like part of the fun is like actually setting it up and here you just sort of like because it's so efficient, it feels like a plus one project. I'd rather be wet outside. That's me? Yeah. Some rain freak? What are you talking about? about guy loves being in the rain

I don't I also I actually know the Domino's you prefer. Yeah to mediums for 599 In this economy Man, it actually would be devastating to learn that they've raised the price. I Must have 599 for medium. I have 99 for me. There sure they must have, right? Are they still $5.99 for a medium? $5.99 for a medium? There's no way you can get a medium pizza for $5.99. What are you talking about? I'm thinking of- You can't get a cheeseburger for $5.99.

Man, the world is horrible. A hot ready is like $7. No! That's still really good. I wanna know how much a medium pizza at Domino's costs. I'm looking it up right now watch it be $13 a criminal amount of money Going to Domino's

Dot-com you don't have the app. I know I don't know Swipe a screen Didn't even swipe a screen. It's on the home page. So are we going with a default? Just a default medium. Delivery or carry out? Delivery. OK.

I'll do carry out to compare. I got to fill out all this shit. I can't even look at the price. I got you. We're doing a medium hand tossed. We're doing no garlic crust seasoning. All right, I guess that's on by default. And we'll just do a cheese.

Okay, add to order, normal bake, pie cut. No extra cheese, let's just get a baseline here and we'll go to our cart. If you guessed $13, you went under $13.99. This is, because you all know what I'm talking about. $13 you went under 1399 this is Cuz we all know what I'm talking about they had to head the deal that was like two mediums for $5.99 Eat, I don't have any idea about this deal, but I believe you I used to feed myself with this This is the deal now is two or more medium three topping pizzas. I'm looking at coupon wizard But they're 10.99.

Everything's so fucked. It's, that's, I mean, God damn it. In the 90s, McDonald's cheeseburgers, I think were 99 cents. Oh yeah, maybe cheaper. Yeah. Man, everything's horrible. It's pretty rough.

But you know what's not rough? Game titles. That's right. Should we move on to another one? Let's keep going. Next up, Triforce of Wisdom. Matt, you're up. Okay.

So I did this one a little bit differently than the other ones. Okay, okay. Because I think, while for these, I'm mostly thinking of singular titles. Yes. For this one in particular, I went with the franchise

and the titles within the franchise. And if that's not allowed, I went with the franchise and the titles within the franchise. And if that's not allowed, I'm kind of in trouble. I think you make your own rules here. So here's, and here's why I picked this, this particular franchise for wisdom, because these titles to me, at the very least evoke a, I see what they did. Okay. Get to think about see what they did. Okay. Get to think about it a little bit. Yeah.

It's a little fun for everybody. In the series that I'm choosing for the Triforce of Wisdom, the Ratchet and Clank series. Okay. Some of the titles being Rift Apart, Up Your Arsenal, Going Commando, Size Matters, and arsenal going commando size matters and quest for booty You know wisdom in the sense of being like wise asses. Yeah, kind of being a little cheeky cheeky being a little Okay, I see what they do. Yeah, okay. Well when you're a kid my age well when I was a kid when these games are coming Out and then even the most recent one

Ripped apart. I'm sort of like that's pretty funny. It's a lot of is ripped apart a butt pun I think it's fart like ripped a fart. Wait, really? I think so. I finished that game. I never put that together I think the party's supposed to be ripped a fart. Yeah, I think so. I Don't believe you Sound your is that your interpretation or did you get somewhere? No, I feel like I talked about it with Jordan. With Jordan Morris. Ripped apart is ripped afart. Yeah.

I don't know if I care for that. Well, it's a little too rude. Yeah, I mean the other ones are a little bit more subtle, you know. Quest for Booty is subtle. That one is like a character's name is Booty and they're looking for him. But I think those are all really funny and like, I don't know, I just like those games and I thought one of these Triforce pieces

could belong to an entire franchise and I feel comfortable with that one. And that was Wisdom? That was Wisdom. Ratchet and Clank also like a great title in and of itself. Oh yeah, the buddies. Yeah. For Wisdom, I went with a game title that requires knowledge

It requires thinking it requires you to sit down and be like what is this and that is near replicant? version 1.22 47 4487 139 Wow again, that's near replicant version near replicant ver 1.22474487139. Wow. Again, that's near replicant version,

near replicant ver period. 1.22474487139. That's the official title of this game. Now, what do those numbers mean? What's an approximation of the square root of 1.5? Whoa. So wisdom is required to even understand the title of this near-replicant game.

Wow. What does that mean in the context of near-replicant? I don't know, I haven't played enough of that. Is it like it's like a mid entry between a first and second game? Could be. I don't know anything about those games. Yeah, I never played them. a mid-entry between a first and second game? Could be. I don't know anything about those games.

Yeah, I never played them. I have a model kit for one of them, but I have not, I need to sit down and really give some time to Neoreplicant. I keep being told it would be one of my favorite series. And it certainly has an extremely passionate fan base. So that is my title for wisdom, my entry for wisdom. Again, if someone wants to give us money

to just play video games, and then we can cover all this stuff. We can dig into it. We can stop doing our other things, and we can just focus on this. But right now, if you're slapping your leg, and you're saying, Heather hasn't played near Replicant yet,

I'm slapping with you. It's kind of on you actually. It's actually your fault. Yeah. In many ways. Stop slapping your leg. You're on a horse. Yeah, yeah, stop.

It's gonna go faster and faster. I'm not doing gambling ads by choice. I'm doing my boner pills ads on spec. Just for fun. I have a pick that is perhaps a little bit less fun than neither of yours, but I just feel like it's such a great title and this is a franchise that all of us have played a ton of and I think fits in nicely with wisdom because there is this kind of a wisdom to these words just being paired together. And my understanding is that the origin that's given to this title is somewhat apocryphal.

But more came from it just kind of sounding sonorous, just like from these words sounding nice together. But these words are a great pair and they're they're they're you know They're they're effective in terms of evoking what the franchise is and all the different ways it spun out This is kind of a straightforward no-brainer for one for me Final Fantasy my pick Yeah, for Triforce of wisdom very good That's a really good pack of Apocryphal story is that Sakaguchi when he created Final Fantasy? It was like he'd been making some games

he wasn't really passionate about, and he's like, this is my last go. If this one doesn't work, then I'm just out of the business. Apparently that wasn't true, but it was a nice story that was circulated for many years about the origin of Final Fantasy. But just what a great fucking title.

You were saying that it was apocryphal, and then said what it was and I immediately thought oh That's nice You should just say it's true. Yeah, that's like it's fine. You should be able to lie a little bit I'm lying all the time You said I was the funniest guy ever earlier Should we go in straight into courage, Triforce of Courage. So what is courage?

What is it? Some might say it's the ability to not be afraid. If they want to describe it like incorrectly. You might say it that way. Sure. For me, video games are scary. Some video games are scary. It's true.

Yes. And sometimes these titles, they kind of clue you in to, hey, this might be a little scary or this might be a challenging experience in some ways. And sometimes you can accomplish a lot with just two words, two different scary words. And these two words to me that encapsulate courage, and actually you need courage to play these games, I think. Yep. Because you're going to fail. You're going to fail a lot. Okay. My pick for Triforce of Courage. Demon Souls. Wow. Because you're on one hand, demon.

Scary word. Souls, you're kind of like, I actually don't really know what to do with that. Yep. But it could be scary. Yep. You go in, you're playing this game, it's not necessarily a horror game, but I find myself being scared playing this game because you find yourself many tough situations back against the wall

fighting for your fucking life yeah and the game is hard yeah and you need courage to power through and to and to persevere and to succeed in this in all of these games all these souls born games yes ring Elden ring met you said demons souls right I said demon souls is demons it's demons it's so it's multiple demons I can't think of anything scarier actually but it's possessive D it's his soul not demons it's not demons multiple it's demon that's demon souls yeah soul man because of the s-trait going into the s-elite It says it's demon souls, but it's demons souls either way It's still very scary the idea that this singular demon can possess multiple souls demons souls haunting

Also the beginning of like you know the the souls born genre as we know it such as such an Important game such a significant game obviously Dark Souls has more reach and influence But it does not exist without Demon's Souls I'm curious why you went with demons over dark because Dark Souls is pretty damn good to Dark Souls is good But Demon is scary a little more evocative. It's scarier. Yeah, I can I can handle the dark. I'm not a fucking baby All right, I'm not afraid of the fucking dark. Yeah. Demons though.

I mean, look, not ideal. Yeah. No. Not ideal. Don't want to tempt them by saying I'm not afraid of them. But. I turn the lights off in the studio, you just start shrieking. Pants full of piss.

Like a water balloon. Like they... How dark would it have to be to be pretty... There's like a level of dark that you'd be uncomfortable. Oh yeah. I mean like if you go in a sentry deprivation tank, it's dark, so dark that you can like see the inside of your skull. Yeah, but I'm not afraid to be like dark in my own home or something like that. I've been in fucking like dark ass caves and like yeah scouts

Yeah, I remember there was a day that is what the boy scouts are like we're gonna take you like a super dark cave We can't see anything and then later on I was like why do they do that? You're missing a memory What's your triforce of Courage? Well, my final video game title in this Triforce of Titles is a game title through and through. And in fact, it is such a game title that just naming your game this takes courage. Because it cannot be a title given to any other. You would never read a book with this title. You would never listen to a CD or hear a song with this title.

You would never see a movie with this title. Yeah, you had me, wouldn't read a book. And the title is for Courage. From the fighting game from 2008 to 2011, Melty Blood Actress Again, current code, colon, hologram summer again, comma, try Hermes Blackland. What on earth? That is the full title of this Melty Blood release.

Melty Blood Actress Again, Current Code, Hologram Summer Again, Try Hermes Black Land. I remember when I first heard of Melty Blood back in the day, I was just, like it's one of those things where it's like, that can't have been translated correctly, but I guess that is just what it's called, Melty Blood. They've certainly committed to it.

Melty Blood, and they committed to every other word in this title. This goes bad just going back to it. Melty blood. And they committed to every other word in this title. This goes bad, just going back to our Domino's discussion. This is a thing that's happened in chain restaurant verbiage in the past 10 to 20 years, which is they used to say melted cheese or melting cheese. Now they say melty cheese. I guess that's what's focus tested best.

But it's just like, that's so fucking dumb. Why is Jack in the Box saying melty cheese in their ad copy? Why is Carl's Jr. Hardee talking about melty cheese on the Western Bacon Cheeseburg? I bet you it's so that if they present you food where the cheese isn't basically liquid, they can't be like, it said melting cheese,

it's not in the act of melting anymore. It previously melted perhaps. Melty could be a little bit more of like, it's not in the active melting anymore, it previously melted perhaps. Melty could be a little bit more of like, it's kind of a catch all, but I think there's also maybe something to just like, melted sounds past tense, so melty sounding a little bit more active. Whatever the marketing side has figured out, it's just like, now we have to deal with melty.

Probably at fucking Domino's, they're talking about melty cheese on their pizza. Let me open up the app again. Sorry, keep going, Heather. It's his favorite, his screen time pops up, nine hours in the Domino's they're talking about melty cheese on their pizza. Let me open up the app again So I keep going others favorite is his screen time pops up nine hours in the Domino's app Just looking not even ordering just looking at it Understanding the functions imagine sitting next to somebody on the train and look like Nick who was just staring at the Domino's app and just Pressing different options. I totally understand it. I'd be like you see everybody You know what?

The pizza tracker is sometimes the only thing we got. Okay, click first specialty pizza I clicked on, a hand-tossed Philly cheesesteak. Try your new Parmesan stuffed crust, premium buttery flavored dough stuffed with melty cheese. You called it! Wow! Nick, this is, I'm gonna attribute this to your expertise from your other podcast doughboys you have your finger on the pulse with food you've that to be

able to call that is honestly that was amazing yeah that was a that felt like I was watching Babe Ruth point to the stand yeah that was like watching Will Hunting solve a math equation. It was incredible. Babe Ruth in terms of body type. No, yeah, you're shaped like a chocolate bar. I mean, I don't know, it's a guy. Anyway, that's my title for courage is that insane word salad of one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 words. Jesus Christ. For the title of that game. What kind of game did you say that it is? Fighting game. It's a fighting game. I've never played the Melty Bloods. And also a visual novel. Okay.

I've never played the Melty Bloods. You ever, as a fighting game enthusiast, have you ever spent time with them? I did play them at the arcade. They were on the Naomi board, that delicious Sega look. Yes, yeah, the Naomi board, which is basically the guts of a dream cast.

Yeah, so I did play it in the arcade, but I did not play it beyond that, and it didn't stick with me. Yeah, well, can you read the full title one more time? Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code, colon, hologram summer again, comma, try Hermes Black Land. Fuck.

That's like a phrase to like activate like a soldier. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Uh, Nick, what's your courageous title? You know, what takes some courage

is having a job at a AAA studio working on AAA games, and deciding to walk away from it with your partner to move to another country, to make your own indie solo dev games, and then to have those games come out and be generally regarded as triumphs. That's what Lucas Pope did.

And he is responsible for the game and the title that I give to my Triforce of Courage. I think this is just such a wonderful title for a game that evokes exactly what it's about. Papers, please. Wow. What a fucking title. Yeah.

Tells you exactly what the game is. Yeah. And it's such a like, it's not, you know, an immigration office simulator, which I think a lot of times someone would take that approach, it's just like, no, this has some poetry to it. I think it's just such a great title,

and I really like it. Good game, too. And a great game. Yeah. An excellent game, lots of fun decisions. Go to the back of the line, this is wrong. Yeah. And a great game. Yeah, an excellent game. Lots of fun decisions. Go to the back of the line. This is wrong.

Get out of here. This is wrong. Shall we recap about my three picks, my Triforce of titles? No One Can Stop Mr. Domino, Final Fantasy, and Papers, Please. My three picks for Triforce of Power, Castlevania, Symphony of the Night. For Triforce of Wisdom, it's the Ratchet and Clank series, Rift Apart, Up Your Arsenal, Going Commando, Size, Madder's Quest for booty, just to name some of them. And for Triforce of Courage, Demons, Souls. Great.

For Power, Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm four row to Boruto. For wisdom, Nier Replicant version 1.22474487139. And for courage, Melty Blood Actress again, current code hologram summer again, try Hermes Blackland. Those two in a row, what a nightmare. I was like, do I speak English? Yeah, to hear words that you actually know,

but in an order that you've never heard is shocking. Truly disorienting. Do we want to shout out any honorable mentions from our long list? Because I have a few that I would like to shout out. I don't know if anyone else has any. I have a couple. But yeah, but one word title, fantastic title,

tells you exactly what the game is about, and it was such an impactful game. Doom. What a great title. Doom was on my list. And similarly, another FPS, and one that I like more than Doom. I also like these games more than the doom franchise But the doom is also a great title, but half-life. I think it's just another great title

Yeah on my list earlier the aforementioned Resident Evil and biohazard I think both titles work really really well. Yeah super great titles for power I think God of War Ragnarok is pretty fucking cool. And also just God of War is an awesome title. Yes, because you just kind of know, you're like, okay, I'm gonna be fucking with some stuff. This is gonna be crazy.

I think Twisted Metal is an incredible title. It is a really good title, yeah. For exactly like what it is to a car wreck game, that's good shit. And Shadow of the Colossus, I think, is a great title as well. Great, great title. Really good title.

I had it on my short list, and I was thinking of picking it. I kind of vacillated, because the Japanese title is Wanda and the Colossus, which is also a good title, and it always is kind of like, is Shadow the Colossus, which is also a good title. And I always was kind of like, is Shadow the Colossus, I don't know, I'm just talking through my own thinking here, but it almost kind of feels like they were,

like is it a little try hard to make it Shadow the Colossus instead of Wanda and the Colossus, which is a little bit more abstract, but it also is like a really poetic sequence of words. So maybe it's an okay localization, I don't know. I'm just torn on it, because I like it, but then I'm also like, because it's changed from what the original is.

I don't know how, I have trouble wrapping my mind around it. I know I'm not making much sense, but whatever. What else is new? The two titles that didn't make my list that were on my short list are Infinite Undiscovery. Oh yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It's pretty courageous. Pretty fun, pretty fun. And then in terms of another Courage one, it's got Brave in the title. Bravely Default, Flying Fairy.

Yeah, that's really, really good. It's pretty good. Other ones just to shout out some Totemic games. We talked about Chrono Trigger on the podcast, great title. The Last of Us, I think, is also just a great title. The Sims,, great title. The Last of Us, I think is also just a great title. The Sims, a great title. The Typing of the Dead. Yeah.

That's an awesome title. But my actual honorable mentions were Baba is You, Tactics Ogre, Let Us Cling Together, and Untitled Goose Game. Untitled Goose Game's great goose games great that is really really fun And just in terms of like seriously like calling out like a great fucking title Perfect dark yeah Great title, and I just want to pour one out for the team that got

Disbanded that was working on the reboot, but Perfect Dark sounds awesome. It's a fucking great title. Is that game just never coming out? It's just never coming out. Maybe we could attach our brand to it and we could do it. Get Played presents Perfect Dark. Dog shit, everybody hates it. What a horrible industry.

I know. But then it's just like- Name a good one. It's not specific to what we cover any topic You're talking about you're just talking about fucking the people in power. Yeah, I'm sure the people in the Doritos flavor industry are like god this fucking job sucks. Yeah I think Bioshock is a cool. Oh, yeah, I'm shocked a great title too scary for me though Don't let don't like those games too much. It's a little too scary for me

Should we do a segment let's do a segment. Let's do a segment. I'm bringing back an oldie, but a goodie And it's I'm tying it to a reason a release. It's coming out later this week. Okay, great Donkey Kong Bonanza comes out later this week Yeah, I can't fucking wait. I'm so excited. You're playing four games soon My life is really hard I'm scared about what's gonna happen because one of these The thing about Tony Hawk is that I'm not feeling pressured to you know right yeah sure finish that I'm just playing it But since Donkey Kong Bonanas is coming out,

I thought why don't we visit the bestiary. I'm gonna name some enemies from the Donkey Kong series, and you have to tell me if they're real or if they're fake. This one's always hard. This one's hard. But I'm ready for the challenge. Let's go. Let's do it. Okay, this first one, army.

What? Army? Army. Like the word army, like Navy? Army. Like Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines? Yeah, is it spelled like, what's the spelling here? It's spelled A-R-M-Y.

A-R-M-Y. Army. This sounds like it could be like a mini boss. The thing is, in a lot of the Donkey Kong games, it's like you're not learning on screen what these things are called. You have to refer to a wiki or a manual to know the canonical names of them.

I'm gonna say Army is not real. I'm gonna say it is, because why would you start off with a negative? Heather's correct. Army is real. They're like little armadillo guys. Oh, that's what they're called, okay. I know they're armadillo guys. Yeah.

I didn't realize they were called armies. Heather has a point. I have a point. Zinger. Zinger. I hear Zinger and I can, I'm picturing something. A lizard. A picturing type of enemy.

I'm gonna say real. I'm gonna say real, it's a lizard. Okay, it is real. They're from Donkey Kong Country. So both of you get a point, Heather has two. Are these the stinger guys? I think so. I didn't get, yes.

Wait, you didn't find out what they are? Well, I had a list in front of me and they had pictures and I thought I should save the pictures because I know I'm gonna get asked yes. Well, you didn't find out what they are? Well, I had a list in front of me and they had pictures and I thought I should save the pictures because I know I'm gonna get asked about it and then I didn't save the pictures. I'm having a hard time. Ranch, can you look up Zinger of Donkey Kong Country

and let us know what type of species it is? Ranch, can you do the job Matt was supposed to do? The fact, there's a lot of these. I'm gonna send the list to Ranch, actually. You're gonna make her do this? It's a wasp, yes, that's what it is, a wasp. I'm gonna send the list to ranch actually is it It's a wasp yes, that's what it is a wasp. I'm not gonna make ranch do it I'm just gonna just so she has the list ready to go are she ever play a Donkey Kong game I have not Wow you know, but you know who Donkey Kong is I know who Donkey Kong is is the I mean cuz we have our segment obviously dude ranch where we name some dudes and we

See if you know about them. Where are you in the Donkey Kong canon? Did you know any other characters? No. You don't know, like, Diddy Kong? Oh, yeah. Did we do a Dude Ranch with the Kongs? We might have done it. We did.

I know we did a Triforce of Kongs, but that was another one we did. Look, we've done a lot of Kong content. Yeah, and there's more to come. I gotta say we're not gonna ever stop talking about the Kong's Okay, so zinger it's two to one. Here we go. Next one Neki Neki I'm trying not to metagame it because we get you know, we get two positives

That was like well like naturally like a negative would probably be what's likely to be here. But I'm trying not to metagame it, trying to take each one individually. Neki. Does not sound like a bad guy to me. Yeah, I don't think Neki is real. No, incorrect.

They're from Donkey Kong country. Wow. I think they're like ostrichy or something they look like a Eagle oh this isn't the mount is it it's no The necky all right next one here we go all right so still two to one two to one leggy leggy All right, so still two to one. Two to one. Leggy. Leggy. Again, try not to metagame it, but now I'm like, is this gonna be a thing where they're all real?

Is that gonna be what his angle is? You're like- Isn't this something? He thinks I have an angle. He's like trying to play as if you're the Riddler. He's like, what's he hiding? No, leggy, leggy, again, I mean mean I was wrong about necky, but leggy sounds fake I'm gonna go with a real so we can give Nick a chance to tie well. You don't need to do that. I do it

The game is tied leggy is fake. I thought army necky toss a leggy in there. Yeah Here we go next one Nicknack Here we go next one knick-knack Knick-knack I'm trying to picture what knick-knack could be I'm gonna say Fake I'm gonna go real it is real. They're from Donkey Kong Country 2 Wow It's like a bag of garbage. They're like little gnats. Oh, yeah These guys great Okay next one Heather is now falling behind yeah, that's these guys. Great. Okay, next one.

Heather is now falling behind. Yeah, that's correct. Three to two. Nick's in the lead. Can we say, just for, cause it's Donkey Kong, can we say that we each have bananas, so I got three bananas and Heather has two bananas. Okay, yeah, you're right. Wait, no, you're absolutely right, Nick.

Nick has three bananas and Heather has two bananas. Great. See, now the game's kind of good. No, this is good. I like it. Okay. And, you know, so we'll see how whoever has the most bananas. Yeah.

Whoever has the most bonanza. Whoever has the most bananas wins this bonanza. That's right. Okay, next one. Clang. Oh, yes. Clang is real. Is real. It's fake. Clang is real. Is real.

It's fake, I made it up. What? Wait, really? I made up Clang. I'm thinking of a guy, I'm thinking of a metal mouthed enemy. I made up Clang. But Clang is not real. Wow.

How about that? I was certain Clang was real. I made it up. Wow. Tied, three to two bananas. I mean, not tied, but. Stay, stay. The score stayed the same. Stagnant. to two bananas. I mean, not tied, but. Stay instead. The score stayed the same.

Stagnant. The score is tied with itself, because it didn't change. Clump. Real. Clump. Clang. Clump.

Ha ha ha ha ha! What an amazing podcast. Ha ha ha ha! Clump. What an amazing podcast. Clang. Fake. It's real, the score is tied. Again, three bananas a piece. Three bananas a piece. Clump is an alligator with big titties.

He's a busty alligator with an army helmet. He's from Donkey Kong Country, I'm sorry, Donkey Kong 64, rather. I think he's from Donkey Kong Country 2, actually. Oh, is he? Yeah, I think he's maybe an up-res photo, but he might appear in other ones as well.

Right, yeah, because I was just looking at it, it looked like a 3D model, but I guess they do use the 3D models rendered in 3D. All right, still anyone's game. Dan Spider. Dan Spider. Sounds like it could be a mini-boss. It also sounds like some shit that Matt would make up.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Dan Spider. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Is there a Dan Spider in the Donkey Kong franchise? I'm gonna say fake in order to give credit to Matt. I'm gonna say real. Dan Spider is real. Yay!

And he's from Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. It's just a spider, he doesn't even look interesting. Dan Spider. What is cool? Also feels like they gave up on naming him. Yeah, I don't know, Dan Spider. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, again, just like went with such a cool design,

because there was Donkey Kongo, which had the DK bongos they're using, and then they make a platformer that you play with the bongos. So that's such a cool thing to do with a hyper-specific. Four bananas. Four bananas for Nick. Three bananas.

How many more do we have left? Quite a few. Oh my god. Quite a few. We'll do a handful more, because I just think some of these names are funny. All right, great. Davey Bones of these names are funny. All right great, Davey bones Davey bones real

fake It's tied again for bananas a piece Heather Heather gets it Davey bones is from Donkey Kong king of swing Davey bones sounded real, but I was like it sounds too real to be real if that makes sense Yeah, that's kind of like a pretty a pretty clever pun, but I over thought it Davy bones is good. Yeah, and I like the way he looked to yeah more than more than Dan spider didn't even try Dan spider just looks like a loose way expect to look like a guy just like have funny eyes or a regular spider Maybe give him a hat. I don't know a Spider with a hat. I'm sort of like that's Dan spider. Yeah anyway

It's like seeing a like a spider in some guy's bathroom And he's like hey what it is spider in there, and he's like oh yeah, that's Dan spider It's a regular ass spider you name Dan spider. Yeah talking about he's like you don't even do anything interesting No, yeah, making a web catching flies. Yeah, it feels also like the mistranslated Name to a spider-man movie Making a web, catching flies. It feels also like the mistranslated name to a Spider-Man movie. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Sounds like a boss. I'm gonna say no. I think he's real. He is real. Nick takes the lead, five bananas to four.

He's from Donkey Kong Country Returns. He's got like a no eyes chicken. I don't like it. He looks like he plucked his eyes out, it looks like. Yeah, I don't like it. And you know what? Nick's the winner. Hey!

All right, I get all the bananas. I love it. Some of the funny ones ones we missed out on are sassy sasquatch and Ghost rope ghost rope and ghost book I tried to come up with a fake ghost one But I couldn't come over than idea is pretty good ghost book is good Pretty good. I can't wait to play bonanza me too. I'm hyped You should eat a banana on Friday when it comes out in preparation for it. Do you know I eat a banana every day?

Yeah, I do every single day. I will do it because I eat a banana every day. You both eat bananas every single day? I ate a banana this morning. I eat a banana every day before bed because I've heard that they aid in sleep. Really? I guess I did need a banana yesterday, I had two bananas.

You guys are in this fucking donkey Kong Bonanza arrow over here That's this week's get played our producer is Rachelle Chen ranch yard underscore underscore sard Ranch you still streaming Silent Hill 2 I am still chugging through what do what's your stream schedule? Or is it kind of regular? It's kind of irregular right now, but right now I try to do Afternoons on Mondays and Wednesdays. Nice. Check Ranch out, twitch.tv, slash yard underscore, underscore sard, also our social media. Our music is by Ben Prenty, benprentymusic.com.

Our art is by Duck Brigade Design, duckbrigade.com. Get played merch, as mentioned earlier, kinshipgoods.com. And check out Get Animated, our sister show on Patreon. Matt, what are we watching this week? As mentioned earlier, kinshipgoods.com. And check out Get Animate, our sister show on Patreon. Matt, what are we watching this week? We're starting a new series, an all new series entitled, is it Birdie Wing? Birdie Wing Golf Girl Story. Yeah, Birdie Wing Golf Girl Story.

And it's exactly, talk about titles. It's exactly what it sounds like. Yeah, exactly what it sounds like. There's a lot of crazy stuff in it already. I guess. I'm having a lot of fun and we'll certainly be having a lot to say about it over at patreon.com slash get played. The show is on Crunchyroll if you want to watch along.

And you know what? Hmm. Who got played? You know what? It was me. I'll take one. Okay. Take one for the team. You know what, it was me. I'll take one. Okay, take one from the team. Thanks, Matt.

It was me. Yeah, thanks, Matt. It's very big of you. Yeah. Boom! Yeah. Boom! Boom!

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