Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Andrea Rene Returns! (Special Guest) - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep 15

Episode Date: April 17, 2015

The gang talks about all the games they have been playing lately, are all licensed game horrible, we finally broach the topic of how ridiculous Amiibos are, is it okay for adults to play games without... clothes on? (Released 04.10.15) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:08 What's up guys? Welcome to episode 15 of The Kind of Funny Games cast. You might be asking yourself, is this going to be the last episode 15? Yes. Yes, it is. The first and last ever, episode 15 of the Kind of Funny Games cast. I am Tim Geddies. This is Alfredo plays. You can find them on Twitch.tvist. This is Andrew Renee. Coming back again. What's up, guys? Shit's going down. You're officially a member of the Kind of Funny Team.
Starting point is 00:00:35 You use these fucking things to punch yourself in the face with him. I do it all the time. You probably know her from the internet. Please, somebody make a gif of that. Oh, don't worry. It will happen. It will definitely happen. And rounding us out.
Starting point is 00:00:47 Very round. We got one half of the coolest dudes in video games. Greg Miller and Pertillo. I had to do it. Dead. And no, it was worth it. I look like he just looks like a disembodied head on my arm right there in the monitor. I can't see that.
Starting point is 00:01:01 I know. Don't worry about it. That's good, though. He's hitting yourself with the microphone. It's this thing. I know. The pop filter goes everywhere. It gets everywhere.
Starting point is 00:01:08 I blame Kevin for that. Like the sand. Like the sand from the Tungusky Raiders. The Tungusky Raiders. How can you forget them? The Metacloreans and the Medi-Clorians. It's like how everything's slightly off. They're Tuscan Raiders, Greg.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Don't ever get that wrong again. Okay, sorry, I apologize. All right, so, you know, a lot of things have happened recently. A lot of video games have come out. A lot of games have been played. Greg's been gone for a long time. Yeah. I feel like.
Starting point is 00:01:33 I mean, you've been back a little bit. Do we do a gamescast with me yet, or is this my first gamescast? This is the first gamescast we've done with you and No, because we did the Chips A Hoy argument in the last one. Was that game's catch? Yeah. Yeah. Man.
Starting point is 00:01:42 People like that a lot. People like that. They don't like how serious you are. I know how NPR you are. I think it's fucking happened. Whoa. You know? That's a good conversation.
Starting point is 00:01:49 We're not serious. Thank you. Thank you, Fred. Do you remember the Chips of Hoy commercials where... Chips are... Bup, bu, ba, ba, blah, blah, blah. I don't. I don't.
Starting point is 00:02:00 What are your favorite cookies? My favorite cookies? Oh my God. SoftBatch? But I mean, like, like, like, bright. and cookies. Yeah. Soft batch?
Starting point is 00:02:10 Yeah, they're Kebler, aren't they? Oh, okay. The ones in the red package? So, Kebler. No, those are the S-chips-ahoy. Keebler also. No. And they're the red ones
Starting point is 00:02:18 with the fire ants and the hot action? I'm pretty sure they're Kebler, but I'll check. Shout out to Mitt Milanos. Mitt Milanos. R.R.P. Ben, what are those, what they're called? I do, I do love some thin miss. No, the fields.
Starting point is 00:02:29 Yeah. The fields? The ones that come in the, like the sossilitos and the. What? Oh, Pepperidge Farm. Pepperage Farm remembers. The Mems. Danos.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Did those have commercials? These ones, yeah, Kuehler. See? Whoa. Yeah, okay. Softbass, Keebler. And now did you just ask, did Peppurch Farm have commercials?
Starting point is 00:02:46 Yeah. Petrich Farm had the best commercials. Don't remember. They're not that memorable. They're fucking. There's a family guy joke and a Reddit meme about it. Really?
Starting point is 00:02:54 Yeah, I'll Google you one here. You're going to go one here. The best commercials. Because they were all. Like a rock. Oh, like a rock. Look at me. Rock a rock.
Starting point is 00:03:02 Well, guys, this is the kind of funny games cast. It doesn't make sense, and it never will. Talking about cooking. Talking about cooking. But if you guys didn't know, this is a show that's on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. Remember making toast in a gizmo like this? Maybe you remember grandma toasting homemade raisin bread and load of crump raisins. Squirreled with cinnamon.
Starting point is 00:03:21 That's sweet. This isn't even about cookies. Pepperidge Fah remembers. You see, they used to make bread. What? That's what people knew them for. Oh shit. You like that?
Starting point is 00:03:33 Yeah. Oh, my guy, look at that hat. Yeah, it's like fucking. He looks like Colonel Sanders. He's Orville Redenbacher meets Colonel Sanders. Do you remember these commercials? Yeah, kind of. Because I didn't remember that the Pepper's Farm remembers.
Starting point is 00:03:49 But you do remember the Chips of Hoy commercial. They had one commercial. They ran for like 12 years. Forever. Why did that play for so long? It was good. It damn worked. When I heard Big Band music, I thought of cookies. It worked.
Starting point is 00:04:04 Okay, YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games every Monday through Thursday. Thursday, broken out topic by topic every Friday. You get the full episode there or over on iTunes and all the other places. If you want it early Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny Games, that's cool. But the coolest part that you might not know is if you pay even a dollar. Even a dollar. Actually, I think it's even less. Can you do less than a dollar on Patreon?
Starting point is 00:04:23 Well, you do it. You can, but we don't reward that. Oh, okay. Do you give us 90 cents? Thank you. At least a dollar that's you are the exclusive episode every month. And those have been really good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:32 They're worth a dollar. Yeah. They're definitely worth a lot. We found out of the kind of funny Patreon. we discovered you were the, you're the unsung hero. On the page? Oh yeah, you're right, right. I didn't accept it.
Starting point is 00:04:41 It's too late. I gave it to you. That is how titles work. Nope. Someone gives them to you. You can't unexc-it. No. Guys.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Yes. Oh, it's not even the right song. It is. Oh, I remember this. Oh, look, it's just a balloon with text on it floating around chocolate chips. Like, what the shit were people thinking? There was other ones, though. There was definitely
Starting point is 00:05:06 There was one in a ballroom Yeah They just kept that song They like found Do you know the name of that song? Not worked the audio Chips A Hoy I think it's called
Starting point is 00:05:16 Sing Sing Sing I could be wrong Do anybody ask Terry? Is it? Yeah Nobody cares for band nerds We know shit This is like
Starting point is 00:05:26 That was a new That's a new one Are we still talking about Chips A Hoy? Yeah Yeah This is why they This is the Chips of Hoy commercial as well
Starting point is 00:05:37 Don't remember this one. It's old. It's got like computer stuff, so it's not. Oh, that's when they lost it. They tried to get too fancy with it. They tried to our computer chips. Was that they were going for? I don't think that's what they were going for, but it's possible.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Oh, here we go. Here we go. This looks like it. Chips, oh, wait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:57 There's, there goes. That's what we all remember. With the dancing exclamation point. That's what we grew up on, everybody. Every time I watch Pearl Harbor or Captain America, this is what I'm taking back to whenever they're out ballroom dancing. I want to fucking kick the hoie right now. All right, guys, the first topic for today that has to do with video games is, what are you playing right now? We've done this before.
Starting point is 00:06:20 We did it with Colin and he gave us the answer. We did it with Nick, too. It was Colin and Nick on that one. And Nick was talking about dying light. So it was a while ago. That and Axi and Verge. It was an Axi and Verge. The two games, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:29 He got into Axi and Verge though. He's waiting. So I'm to speak for Nick Scarpino right now and say that he's playing Axioreg because he's still playing it. Yeah. He beat it. He loved it. He wants 100%. He's like 100%.
Starting point is 00:06:38 How far are you, Nick? 75% of the items, 95% of the map. Hmm. That's pretty good. How many hours you put into it? 25. Damn. Nick Scarfito put 25 hours into a game.
Starting point is 00:06:53 That means... Yeah. Well, he also really likes the opening theme song. Oh, yeah? Yeah. What does it sound like? It sounds real. Nick, can you come here?
Starting point is 00:07:02 Nick, can you come here? Gave me. Nailed it. Okay, fine. Ship it. So I played Oxenridge for a little while. All the games that I'm talking about right now, I've only played the opening like 10 minutes too.
Starting point is 00:07:19 So I went that... How do you just play 10 minutes of a game? It's been interesting. There's just so many good 3DS games from the player. Yeah, it's just so busy. We're not getting back into that. I got my teammate here, Greg. So we're good.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Yosh's in the World, son. Yeah, I'm excited for Yoshi's Worldier World. Who is? Yeah. Yarn Amivo. Come on. Kel's a pug-ass bitch. I've been playing, I played a little bit of Axiom Verge.
Starting point is 00:07:44 You got me Bastion codes. So I play a little bit of Bastion. Both those games, I'm like, these are fucking awesome. I'm all about this. Wait, had you not played Bastion before? No. Oh, what? I know.
Starting point is 00:07:52 It's so cool, though. Like, the concept of it and, like, how it, everything about that game is like, the kid fell off the year. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. And then I had a copy of Tomb Raider, the remastered one. I've never played a definitive edition. Nice.
Starting point is 00:08:07 I started, I popped it in. I was like, I really like this. It's a little extreme. I played about an hour. of it. Her deaths are extreme. Oh yeah, her deaths are very gruesome. Very gruesome. And it's just like, it's a very intense opening to a game. And I was like, wow,
Starting point is 00:08:19 this is very, uh, not what I expected, but I'm liking it. What did you expect? Nude codes? Yeah, that's all I wanted. That's all you knew from two minutes. I wanted more pointiness. I was a little let down on the point of this back. Oh, man. These graphics have come too far. Yeah, exactly. It's a little excited. But I feel like
Starting point is 00:08:35 the sound effects are what's catching me off. Well, first off, the PS4 microphone, needs to shut the fuck up. Oh, the controller? Yeah. You can turn it off, so I did. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:45 Because it's just like, you're walking through puddles, and it's like, splash, splash. It's like, why are you so intense right now? Like, that should be like a splash at best. But, yeah, it's a little too much for me to handle. But it's like every single thing she does is the most, like, overtly, like, loud noise ever. It's like, she walks into a rock. She's like, ugh. You never walk into a rock.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Yeah, it's bad. I mean, I really like that game, but one of my biggest criticisms of it was that they just make her seem like she's orgasmine all the time. Yeah. Which, I mean, that's not my biggest criticism of it, but it definitely feels weird. Yeah, I just have the Pokemon video stuck in my head now. You splash, magic card splash, splash, flash.
Starting point is 00:09:21 Oh, that was good. Yeah. I miss that. That's a whole school shit. What are you playing now, Prater? A shit ton of stuff. I finished Bloodborn. Beat the whole game.
Starting point is 00:09:30 You loved it. I loved it. I loved it. Were you expecting to? Were you a demon-souls, Dark Souls? I was scared out of my mind. I've never played any soul games before. So I was like, this is going to kick my ass.
Starting point is 00:09:38 I'm going to be doing this live. but I beat it 17 bosses deep so that was fun it was like 30 hours I've been going back since I got a PlayStation 4 I played the last of us nice love that game I did uncharted the first one over the past weekend I got two and three lined up
Starting point is 00:09:53 now now what's interesting is you did it off PlayStation now I did how was that the game streamed beautifully but there was a dead zones on the analog sticks so okay what does that mean so that means like uh so this is this is the analog stick right
Starting point is 00:10:09 You just move it one way. It's like you start, it's just like it starts functioning. The thing is the dead zone is just like if you move it like this, there's no response. You got to go hard. All the way around now. You have to swing it hard. If you're listening to MP3, he's moving around a giant ginseng honey tea, green tea here. Arizona.
Starting point is 00:10:26 Arizona. Yeah. So you like, you really have to move the analog. So it made it really difficult to like line up headshots or stuff like that. I'm going to go play two and three. Also, I played PT. Fuck that game. Did you get through it?
Starting point is 00:10:40 Did you have the chance? That is the most frightening hallway I've ever experienced in my life. Did you do the whole thing where you talked? You talked in the microphone? Yeah, it was, oh. Did you play it? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I loved it.
Starting point is 00:10:50 No, you couldn't pay me to play that game. Really? Okay, you maybe could pay me to play that game. Get the Patriots here up. I would not play that on my own volition. I would, I afraid about a good idea for us to do let's play. It's like a whole week of us playing through PT, so it's all five of us individually doing it. Oh, sure.
Starting point is 00:11:06 I like that. Yeah, I played it right after. a week or two after it came out, maybe a month. But yeah, I streamed. It's cool. It's scary. But the game that's my new jam that I'm just streaming every day is Battle Royale, H1Z1. It's so good.
Starting point is 00:11:22 You know what has H1Z1 train for a while. It's just everything that I wanted out of day Z. But essentially, there's like 150 people that drops everyone. Everyone parachutes into this large open world. Everyone scrambles for weapons, backpack, stuff like that, ammo. and then it's the last man standing. So people start shooting each other. It's a cool idea.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Yeah. And eventually there's a, there's a, there's a, you have a map and there's a green circle, and that's the safe zone. So it's the hunger games. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:11:48 It's hunger games. But you get all these. No, it's battle royale. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. But you get all these random encounters.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Wait, are you speaking English? What do you mean? In the game. Do you speak English? I speak English. So there you go. I hate you so much.
Starting point is 00:12:03 It is hunger games. No, but there's so many, there's so many, So there's like proximity chat and there's so many random things that happen all the time. Like I was with this one dude that didn't, he, it was Korean, didn't speak any English. And all of a sudden, like his three friends. So it is battle. Battle games.
Starting point is 00:12:24 All of a sudden I got out. He checked the driver's seat and I got in. And like he met up with like his three other friends. And all of a sudden I was in a triad gang at that point. And they just kept rolling up to people. They popped out like four of them to start shooting, killing. people now so you're working with other people knowing there can be only one uh yeah so i mean that's the thing right it's like if you have a team you're stronger until like the final it's like
Starting point is 00:12:46 how's that going to go down anyone can turn it on how long do the games last for usually i mean anywhere from i mean depends if you die right away but i've gotten first like three times like 45 minutes or that's really cool that's really cool idea yeah you got some ridiculous stories in that yeah there's some people like the one guy was rushing and then he didn't really like me and then eventually turned to a love story because i kept singing to him like uh Mariah Carey and Clayakin. Yeah, of course. Invisible.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Clayakin still has responded to our tweets. That's upsetting. He's busy running for office. That's so weird. It's a good rendition if I do say something. Yeah, it is. What about you? I've played a couple different things.
Starting point is 00:13:30 I've been playing Ori in the Blind Forest, which I love. I hate love, I mean. I'd love to hate it. Oh, yeah. hate to love it. It's really great. I've also been playing the pre-sequel, Borderlands, the pre-sequel
Starting point is 00:13:45 on the Hanson Collection. We played this weekend. And then I've also been playing the new Evolve DLC with the new hunters and the new monster. Have you been on that? That hype? I haven't touched it yet. I've been busy filling out my backlog of my catalog of
Starting point is 00:14:01 PlayStation games. Yeah, I have a pile of shame that I'm going to try to go through. A pile of shame, I like that. But now, have you never heard of that? No. You guys don't have a pile of shame? Well, we do, but I didn't refer to it as a pile of shame. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:12 It's like games that are like stacked in a pile and you're shamefully haven't played them yet. Yes. So I have some that I have to work on, but moral combat comes out next week. So. And you were a big Mortal Kombat fan. Oh, yeah. Which is interesting.
Starting point is 00:14:25 Why? I feel like those aren't things that exist. Big Moral Combat fans? No. What? That's weird. Are you out of your mind? In the fighting game, echelon, it's like, street fighter or Mortal Kombat?
Starting point is 00:14:37 No. If you walk into a room. There's still a large group of people who like more of combat. Don't get me wrong. I understand that there's fans. I'm just saying it's just like, I don't think that anyone's going to be like, I'm, you're excited for World Kombat for right now and then you're never going to care about it again. Until they announce another one and reveal each character that you know it's going to be in any.
Starting point is 00:14:55 So what you're saying is that they aren't doing an adequate job of putting out filler content like Street Fighter does in between 10 pole street fighter releases. Well, I mean, yeah. So we need Mortal Kombat 9, Ultra Adidas. Edition HD 2.0. That's exactly what was necessary. Yeah. Just want to make sure we roll to the stage too. To be fair, I'm not a fighting game guy.
Starting point is 00:15:14 I just like casual games. Well, I mean, they announce that in Moral Combat is going to be part of ESL, which is great. So I'm... Elder Scrolls Living. Exactly. The electronic sports league. I think this was stands for. It's one of the e-sports.
Starting point is 00:15:31 E-sports, bro. E-sports league? E-sports. I should know with that. Let me look that up. We all should. It doesn't matter. We don't.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Because the e-sports don't matter. Regardless, I'm excited for that game. I've been a Mortal Kombat fan for a while. Okay, so what are you excited about for it? The story? The new story mode looks really, really awesome. Cool. I know Hunter Pence, big fan of Mortal Kombat.
Starting point is 00:15:53 He's like super fucking excited. Kind of funny thing. Mm-hmm. Mortal Kombat fan. He's been on the show. So, two are you, you can have a great time. Me and Hunter, we can play together. Destin, Dustin likes Mortal Kombat, right?
Starting point is 00:16:04 Yeah. Vince. Vince hates it. Hates it. Vince doesn't like it. Vince doesn't like it. He's a fighter. He had a whole rant about the characters.
Starting point is 00:16:11 I don't know. He just doesn't like the poppet circumstance, I think. God damn it. This is going to be a problem. What the pop? No, we both just keep making the exact same noises. Yeah. It happens.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Oh, Greg. Yeah. What are you playing? Tons of Borderlands of pre-sequel. I'm all in. I'm invested. I'm in love with it. I mean, I have plenty of problems with it.
Starting point is 00:16:37 But I'm in love with it. You know what I mean? It's one of those games where it's all I want to play. It came along just when I needed it, Tim, where I wanted a game to play in just checkboxes, finish quests, get the nice bright green turn in. Yep, that's exactly what I want to go do. You know what I mean? I've been looking for, I've been on the road a lot lately, right? So, like, with DeVita, I really, really want.
Starting point is 00:16:55 On the road. Thank you, thank you very much. I've been looking, you know, wanting a Western RPG. I don't want JRP. I don't want turn-based. I want like this thing that's just out there doing it. You want FPS RPG? Yeah, Gunsurker.
Starting point is 00:17:07 It's a lot of letters. So it's like, I hadn't had it. add that, right? And right before I left, Bloodbourne came out, right before I went on vacation. So I played for like 15, 20 minutes of it, liked what it was. I'm like, I want to play this when I get back. But even then, I wanted like the literal checklist, you know what I mean, doing this, seeing
Starting point is 00:17:21 the progression, assigning skill points, doing all these different things. And so when I got back in Borderlands with that, that's all it's been. How do you like it on the PS4? Great. Yeah, it works really, really well. It's nice to have the PlayStation 4 controller. It's nice to have Borderlands and Super HD or whatever the hell you want to call it. The suspend mode is nice. I hadn't,
Starting point is 00:17:37 they just put out the new firmware for PlayStation 4. So the ability to pop out, put it in a rest mode, and then come back in. I turned it, I turned on, Christine and I are playing together. We've been doing split screen for a while, but that was wearing on me because, you know, my eyes have seen what borderline should look like, you know what I mean? So eventually we broke it into two monitors in the bedroom, and I turned on her system. It wasn't even, you're reaching. You're reaching for that one.
Starting point is 00:17:58 You're reaching. You did the whole, like, sexual innuendo, two monitors in the bedroom. What does that mean? Hey, it could happen anywhere anytime, Greg. What the hell is that mean? Anyways. I turned her system back on And she had put hers in rest mode
Starting point is 00:18:11 And then it had like the little spinning thing On board on it's like what is that And I clicked X on it and it just Fired up right to where I left off Like no loading it was in pure suspend mode I was like that's awesome I need to start doing technology It's here
Starting point is 00:18:22 That shit crazy I mean the Vita you know pioneered that But nobody no big deal The Unsung Hero the Vita Yeah exactly Yeah It's Bass Liber Yeah I started that
Starting point is 00:18:30 It does have a vast library You motherfucker Then I started bastion on PS4 again Great love it sowing to it, it is totally, though, like, and they, when I got my code from Super Giant, they did the whole wiki, like, we're still working on the Vita version. Don't worry, because, like, that's a game I feel is perfect on the Vita.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Like, that's all I would play on this trip to Missouri tomorrow, if that's what I had. I want Ori on the Vita. Yeah. I want that so, I know, but I want it. I wanted, I wanted so bad. It would be really great. That game, we did a let's play on it, like, a couple weeks ago,
Starting point is 00:19:00 and I was just like, fuck, this looks so cool. Like, calling it, Nick did the first 15 minutes. I want to play that game. How have you not played it? Because I don't have an Xbox. Yeah, and it's on PC, but like... That's not... I know I'm sure getting it would be easy
Starting point is 00:19:12 and putting a controller and being fine, but it's just like, as a console gamer, the idea of that, I'm like, ah. No, thank you. It's one of those... You talk about, like, when we argue about the Vita 3DS, who is the better library, and you want to talk about a bad library.
Starting point is 00:19:25 It's PC, right there in the basement. Oh, yeah. No experience. You guys need... No games at all, really. ...seem and gave in into your lives, and it would be much better. Steam is amazing.
Starting point is 00:19:34 It's awesome to have your, everything there. For the... you know, like a city skyline. Crap. There's another, oh, Marvel Heroes. Like, having them all just there ready to go. I love having them on the laptop. The origin laptop went.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Yeah. It's just nice to have them ready to go. But, like. And Mount your friends. There's something. There's something. Have you played, not your friends? I don't think I have now.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Do you know what it is? Maybe. It's this amazing game where there's a goat and you're just chilling there. And then you're like these like dudes with just like limbs. No, I definitely have not played this. The limbs. Like, you need to climb on the goat. A throat and it's a goat.
Starting point is 00:20:08 You haven't even talked about the penis physics. Well, there's penis physics. Oh, Jesus. You don't see the penises. They're on banana hammocks. And they're spinning around. And then you need to, like, climb on top of each other. They're spinning penises and banana hammocks.
Starting point is 00:20:20 It doesn't make much sense, but we suspended disbelief. We have a less play coming out this week, so it should be... It's an old game. Like, we're really late to this, but you introduced it to my life. I'm really happy you did. We need to do gangbeasts now. Yeah, gangbees. Gangbees I've known about for a while.
Starting point is 00:20:35 I'm just waiting for... Console version. Exactly. Because, again, I know it's easy, but the idea of dragging everything out there and syncing controllers, the controllers barely synced to other things, let alone to PCs. Just got to accept gaming into your life, man. I do. I like gaming on the PC just fine.
Starting point is 00:20:54 I just prefer a controller, and I prefer the easy, booting it up and having it go. Makes sense. I'm just lazy. You've seen how hard it is for us to do anything around here. I hope you understand how lazy I am. Brato, what games are you going to be playing coming up? on your streams and all that. Coming up,
Starting point is 00:21:09 Witcher. But, well, I'm coming up like, now. That's like a full month away. Oh, like now?
Starting point is 00:21:14 Yeah. Uncharted 2 and 3. Yeah. I'm going to do that. Good choices. That's on my list. Besides that, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:21:22 I never really thought that far. Okay. It's kind of winging it. Fair enough. What about you? What are you looking for? Me? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:28 I don't even know. For me, this is the first time in a while. It's true. He doesn't. He plays 10 minutes of a game. He gets so excited. He's the expert on library.
Starting point is 00:21:37 for handheld systems. I am. Without having any knowledge of the other. I have the vast amount of games. The other universe. This is the first time in a long time. I feel like I'm satiated. I feel like it for a while I've had that like
Starting point is 00:21:51 clawing behind my eyes of my spirit just not being happy and wanting to get out and play something specific. And Borderlands for right now is hitting the mark. You know what I mean? To the point of where I was debating bringing my PlayStation 4 to Missouri.
Starting point is 00:22:04 Because I'm only gone two nights. I have friends to see there. probably not going to play that many, but to have the option. I just want the option. Don't pull a Destin. What Destin did, we had the, what did at the, what did I jam at that company retreat, and then Destin brought his PlayStation for, like, the one night, and everyone was out drinking, and he was in his hotel room during the nightfall,
Starting point is 00:22:22 and I was like. But, like, the other thing, too, is I was, and we had Anthony Carboney on Colin and Greg Live and the Game Over Gregory Show. And on Collander Live, he was talking about how he got this hoary screen, that way he could, you know, the little one he could carry with him and play his games on the road or whatever. And I was tweeting about that over the weekend. And then the games people, that's like I said.
Starting point is 00:22:40 Games, yeah. The games case, yeah. Well, they have that new screen that's like the size of a tablet that's just powered off of USB and it's right there. That sounded really good because then the guy, then other fans were chiming in saying like, oh, I use it all time. And one guy put up photos of him on a Virgin America flight, PS4 plugged in, and then the PS4 charging the screen. So he's just playing his console. I was like, damn. I mean, that's pretty awesome.
Starting point is 00:23:02 What do you play the PS4 into? And Virgin they have in-state. Yeah, power off. Persian thinks of everything. And then I was thinking about I could probably trick the company into buying the screen because me and Kevin were talking that we need a third screen in here. That way we don't need the two months. We just have one monitor, you know, you don't have to worry about it.
Starting point is 00:23:21 It's got its own head phone out. So we wouldn't have to worry about how it always is where I can't hear anything. Kevin approves this purchase. He does. I'm doing it. Oh, guys, Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin Edition comes out. I forgot about that. I'm looking at the releases.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Yeah, and Zeno Blake Chronicles 3D. out this month too. So you have that till the The Bass Library. It's happening, Greg. Thank you. It grows. You do need to have the new 3DS Excel to play that though. So... Which is weird. The box art looks hideous. Persona for dancing all night is my answer. Dancing all night. Yeah, that's what you got.
Starting point is 00:23:51 It's coming up. The big thing though is like I got Borderlands right now, right? And then later this month, state of decay one year later. Then next month, Witcher 3. Then that'll keep me going for basically ever. June, Batman. Then we get to August. We're all going to play as your solid ground zeros to prepare for
Starting point is 00:24:09 phantom pain is a like that i like that a lot we're in what i like to call easy street everybody easy street i like that are you not going to dip into tamriel unlimited on ps4 double dip june i for a long time had wanted to and i played a little bit of it on pc and i liked what i played and it was another thing i'm going to wait for ps4 or whatever and now that it's finally here incredibly late no probably not because i'll be lost by that time if i want that kind of game i'll be so invested in the witcher right like i'm not playing the old scrolls online
Starting point is 00:24:37 because I want like the fucking fantasy of it. I like, you know, I want, or wait, don't know, because I want to play with other people. I want the fucking fantasy of it and running around and having quests, knocking them out. If I'm already 20 hours, 30 hours, 40 hours into the Witcher 3, well, there you go. That's all I'm going to do. Because I got Wilds to hunt.
Starting point is 00:24:55 What? I got Wilds to hunt. Oh. Wilds. Got it. See, that's the name. Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. Damn.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Damn. Actually, they took the three out of the name. Witcher Wild Hunt. It's called the Witcher Wild Hunt. called The Witcher Wild Hunt. It is not. Yeah, it is. The Witcher, the Wild Hunt.
Starting point is 00:25:12 I asked their marketing team about this, and I was like, so when did you guys change the name? They're like, oh, we just decided it. We just did it. They just literally just did it. You can still look up the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, but like if you look at the marketing promotional materials now and the new Box Art, it's the Witcher Wild Hunt. Just change kind of funny to mildly entertaining.
Starting point is 00:25:29 Yeah, don't bring mention to it. Yeah, I don't know why they would do that. They must make maybe something to do with the series overall. Yeah. line. Well, I think it's because so many people didn't play one and two, so they don't want to scare off people into playing this one. I mean, that's such a weird decision to make this far into the marketing campaign, though.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Well, they probably got a lot of, you know, responses. Because, I mean, if you listen to anyone's video talking about it, it usually is, I didn't play the first two, but this one looks really good. Yeah. It's too late. The damage is done. There's still Wish of 3 all over the internet. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:25:59 You just put up the first 15 minutes take called it Wishar 3 Wild Hunt. Yeah. The Wikipedia page hasn't been updated. I actually did put out again. All the time they failed. It's over. I played a lot of games this weekend because I was looking at my PS3 and I had to, because we were talking about PSN accounts and if it like goes back to your old games or whatever.
Starting point is 00:26:17 And so I have two accounts on one system and half my downloaded games are on one and half for the other. It's like, God, this is the worst. But I was just like, I'm going to play a little bit of this. So I played Tony Hawk, the remastered or whatever the hell was called, HD version. I played that for a couple hours. And then I played, do you remember Payne? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:34 Yeah. I played that for way too long I don't know why it booted it up It's like it's the game where you shoot yourself out of a giant slingshot And like damage your body I like how when you want to explain a game To someone you turn to Kevin Well can you like make eye contact
Starting point is 00:26:47 You're actually explaining it to them Yeah yeah yeah and uh yeah I definitely played that for way too long But it's it is fun Pain pain was my good one I remember Because that was like one of the I guess like it was a downloadable title they'd promoted You know coming to PlayStation Network for a long time And so when it came out
Starting point is 00:27:04 people were interested at that IGN and so I was still PlayStation team obviously I was a young buck on the PlayStation team so I covered it a lot and it seemed like everything I covered about it would be that it was broken that it was this was down or this wasn't working or this was for free it's like when I finally met Travis who was the producer on it like
Starting point is 00:27:19 he was like he did one of these like he's a big dude he's like Greg Miller the guy who finds everything broken with pain who had 30 seconds of it going on then we became fast friends there you go that's what happens you don't have friends you have family Greg That's true.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Speaking to that, topic two, Oh, wow. Licensed games. That's good, yeah, that was good. Wasn't that good? Yeah. So the reason we're talking about this is the Fast and the Furious.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Last week, at this point, it'll probably be two weeks ago when you're listening to this. Forza Horizon 2 had the Fast and Furious DLC thing that came out. It was free. You can get it for two weeks for free, and then it's $10 to download. I think this is a great use of licensed DLC. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:00 There was so much promotion for this, promoting the movie and the game and stuff. And like, it was fun. And it was standalone. It was standalone. You don't even need the game. It was just a lot of fun. And it's a short little, like, two-hour thing.
Starting point is 00:28:12 And, you know, it could have been better, definitely. Could have had a little bit more integrations from the actual movie and stuff. I mean, I want, like, I want a Fast and Furious game. You know, this was just kind of a car game. Yeah, okay. Exactly. Yeah. Duh.
Starting point is 00:28:27 But, uh, this is cool. It just, it definitely felt like it was Forza, but with, like, Fast and Furious. Furious references instead of it just being an actual fast and furious thing, which is what it is what it is what is you guys favorite licensed games? And like it gets hard because like no. Lego the Hobbit. Really? Oh. All the Lego games in general.
Starting point is 00:28:47 Maybe not my favorite of all time. I have to think of it, but off the top of my head. That was really well done. And they used all the VO from the movie and like all the scenes from the movie and well not all of them but things like iconic moments that you remember it if you watched the movie and then played it was really good. everyone's looking at their phones now I was looking at the time I've had things happening today and I'm communicating with Colin
Starting point is 00:29:08 who is far um so that was one of my favorites in recent memory that was really well done in my opinion did you play it did you play anybody I didn't play like a Hobbit I'm not a Hobbit fan I feel Lego games
Starting point is 00:29:22 fall in the same thing as Telltale games and I think Telltale gets around here one with Colin and always be like I hate the telltale games are always the same thing it's the same structure so he and I have very similar
Starting point is 00:29:32 You do. But the problem I always talk to Colin is about that, like, the telltale franchises are using, you know, Borderlands or Game of Thrones or Walking Dead. I don't think they make them expecting everyone to play everything, whereas, like, they're making something for, like, Game of Thrones fans or something for Walking Dead fans. So, like, it's so, it's clear as day to us. It's the same thing. But, like, there's a few people who might be compelled to play all Telltale games like we do, if that makes sense on the outside. I mean, I wouldn't look at Telltale games as a licensed product that's promoting another product like the Forth's a Horizon 2 thing. Oh, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:30:02 I'm just saying, like, Lego games for me are the same way of I love Lego games, but those are the opposite of TelTow, where TelTelow, I'll play everything because I love Telltale. Lego games, I'll play the Lego games that speak to me. So, like, when Lego Hobbit came out of it, I was like, now. But then, like, DC, I flattened them, every one of them and play the hell out of them. So that kind of thing. Okay. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Yeah, see, the thing gets hard, because with the license games, like, what she just said about it being made to promote something else, that really limits it. That really limits it because, like, Arkham, obviously the Arkham games are great. Yeah, those are licensed technically. Yeah. So that almost feels like it's cheating But back in the day it wasn't Like Spider-Man on the PS-1 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game
Starting point is 00:30:40 When the Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out Well no, not Amazing Spider-Man That's the Spider-Man. Oh, it's true, good thing Spider-Man 2 was Tobey McWater Yeah No, I'm talking about the Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game On PS4?
Starting point is 00:30:52 I don't think it was on the new Well, maybe it was You're thinking of Spider-Man 2 If you're thinking of anything Where the kid with the balloon went away And you're stopping carjacks And everybody loved it? No, this game just came out
Starting point is 00:31:01 Yeah, it is the amazing Spider-Man too. Yeah. It sucked. When Activision published? Oh, yeah, it sucked hard. Well, they published all of Spider-Man forever. Yeah, because they own the license. But, like, that is an example of a game that could have been really incredible, but like.
Starting point is 00:31:16 No, 100%. Yeah, yeah. Well, ones that are really incredible, Spider-Man 2. Yeah, well. At the time. Oh, yeah, of course. Sure. I mean, I mean, Spider-Man won, not the movie one, but the PS-1 one.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Yeah. It's on PS-1 and 64, right? No, Spider-Man 2 was on PS2. I remember it as a PS2 game. I'm now jumping off of that. Okay. The original Spider-Man. The PS-1, the one I have up there underneath the shoes.
Starting point is 00:31:40 Yes, that one. That one, that was amazing. Yeah, that was a great. And I feel like that was a different take because, like, that was when it was, it was a licensed game because there wasn't like superhero things left and right. Sure, sure. So that was like an amazing experience of Holy Shit of Spider-Man. Yeah. And it's the Tony Hawk engine, so it feels right.
Starting point is 00:31:57 It was good. Right. I really like that. Just like Spider-Man and Sega games. Yeah. Yeah. That's another great spot. Okay, going back to that generation, then there was a ton of fun.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Fucking everywhere. Yeah. Everywhere. There's a license. Ghostbusters. Duck tails. All the Disney shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:10 Aladdin, Lion King. Yep. Which honestly, don't hold up as well as you'd think they do. Really? Very floaty. There's only one license game I cared about. Xbox 360. Sneak King.
Starting point is 00:32:22 Oh, yeah. Oh, Sneak King. Yeah. What was the Kart? What was the Kart one? I forgot. There was Sneak King. There was a heart racer.
Starting point is 00:32:30 Yeah. There was one of them. one. A bike game, right? Maybe when I say card, I actually meant bike. Oh, okay. Did you guys play Transformers Dark at the Moon? No. I went with the movie? I took, I took, oh, was it the movie? Don't you remember the movie?
Starting point is 00:32:43 No, I stopped watching the movies because they were so terrible. But I remember the one, the guys who did the born conspiracy game, they did the transformer, they picked up the Transformers license. And it was really good the first time. People didn't like it. High Moon Studios. High Moon did a good job. They didn't do the most recent one though. Or Cybertron?
Starting point is 00:33:00 No, it went from, there was war for Cybertron and then fall of Cybertron, and then there's Dark of the Moon. Both of which were good. Yeah, they were great. And the Dark of the Moon was, I'm assuming not good, but that was a license one. It was okay. And then there was one more that tried to combine both those worlds, and it's just like, stop, guys, just fucking stop. Yeah. And it hurt me. It was Battle for the All's, I don't know, who knows? Who knows? Greg, which ones do you like? Well, I think at the nexus of everything we're talking about Where it's promoting something, but it was also a great game, is none other
Starting point is 00:33:35 Than X-Men Origins Wolverine, Raven Studios, Who then got locked in a Call of Duty Dungeon, never to be released again. This was a game where, like, the story made no sense, It was a tie-in-to-a-tallel movie, Like, some of the boss battles weren't... But everyone loved the fucking game, because you were Wolverine, and you're getting shot, and your skeletons getting revealed, and you just, like, they got the M rating
Starting point is 00:33:58 so there could be blood, and you're just tearing dudes apart, and jump it's gonna be, and I was like, yes, this game is fucking awesome, except for the fact that it's not that great. And there was, like, that was that weird thing of, like, all these emotions, like, oh, I love just tearing dudes apart, and now I gotta fight the blob for some reason in this really bad boss battle,
Starting point is 00:34:14 but now I'm tearing, now there's a bunch of robots. I just want this level to end, but there's more robots. There's always more robots. But you're unlocking classic wolvie suits, you're, you know, getting us, so good. And there'd be like, you'd be in the suit and you'd get bluepets, and you get blown apart,
Starting point is 00:34:27 but then you'd heal back with the suit wouldn't heal back. You're like, oh, my God, please make this forever. And Activision said, no. Raving away forever. He's made ten more Spider-Man games. How many fucking Spider-Man games
Starting point is 00:34:37 were on the PS3? A lot. And what's sad about it is that it was Beanox who did it. And Beanox gets, I stand by this to this day, gets Spider-Man, made an amazing Spider-Man game,
Starting point is 00:34:49 could continue to make more amazing Spider-Man games if Activision hadn't been Activision about it. And I love Activision. Don't get me wrong. I'm not sure. They are who they are, blah, but like, it all comes back to when they bought Sierra's catalog and didn't pick up Ghostbusters.
Starting point is 00:35:01 And they said, we want games that are annualizable. And that should tell you everything you didn't know about Activision's business model. They want to make money and great for them. But, you know, they get Binox, and Binox makes shattered dimensions, right? And it's a really cool Spider-Man game everybody loves. It's like, oh, this is really fun. This is great. Like, I can't wait to see what they do next.
Starting point is 00:35:16 And next is Edge of Time, which had a shorter turnaround. It's like, ooh, like, this one missed the mark, but I'd love to see you guys do an open world. Like, oh, here's the amazing Spider-Man, the movie video game. What did Web of Shadows hit? Was that before this? That was before all this. This wasn't Beanox. And that one is, it's diversive, it turns out, or whatever.
Starting point is 00:35:33 Divisive, it turns out. Divisive. Divisive. Is that how you pronounce it? I think so. Okay. I would say divisive. Divisive.
Starting point is 00:35:39 That one puts everybody on... Potato potato. Whatever. Other sides of the line. Anyway, I did not like that. I did not like that game, but like Javi Rodriguez loves it. And he's a big time Spider-Man fan, so whatever. There's something for it.
Starting point is 00:35:52 But Beanox had something, it seemed like they had a great idea. with Shattered Dimensions. They're like, holy shit, this is a great story. It's fun. It's cool. It's all these different Spider-Man. Edge of Time did not deliver at all. Then they finally give them the open world of Amazing Spider-Man.
Starting point is 00:36:05 And, like, the combat system was fun, flying through, you know, because there was so much verticality and attacking from the air and stuff. But that didn't work. And it's like, well, maybe they'll get it right. And then somehow Amazing Spider-Man too was worse. And then the wheels fell off, Disney bought Marvel. And it's like, I don't think you're ever going to see, you know, that was the whole thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:21 It was, like, Major Nelson had, or, no, it was Dan Amric still from Activision being like, hey, all of our Marvel games are coming off services on Tuesday so buy them now if you want them people like why he's like contracts end and it's like that's kind of your tell tell sign that something's changing there yeah but that could be exciting right somebody could potentially be taking up the
Starting point is 00:36:38 reins I mean as a as a license game fan when it's done well I just don't understand how people don't look at Batman and aren't like well fuck let's do that every time let's never put out another movie tying game it hits to the matrix da put something out where people can build a universe to where the fourth game now in the series is going to be this gigantic, gigantic thing.
Starting point is 00:36:58 You know what I mean? Like, do that with Spider-Man, do that with Spider-Man, do that with Incredible Hulk, whoever you want, just let them go, give developers time, don't try to force it, don't try to, you know, you can't get that to every superhero, though. I mean, I think Batman is maybe an exception to the rule. I mean, the word Batman was the most searched, like, superhero of all superheroes on YouTube? Like, how many other superheroes have that pull?
Starting point is 00:37:22 Avengers, you know. Superman? Not all of the Avengers, though. I'm saying if you put it as Avengers, if you made an Avengers game. There was an Avengers game. It was pretty bad. Yeah, there was one that was that first person
Starting point is 00:37:32 when they released footage out that never made it, and it's just got killed, you know what I mean? Like, I think there are these examples of, just like the movies, right? That's like jumping back seven years. Like, Ant Man, you can never put an Ant Man movie out. If you make the right choices, right,
Starting point is 00:37:45 and you build a little momentum and get it going, that could be the changeover. Yeah. I think. I would like that. I just want good superheroes. Yeah. Portoilla does.
Starting point is 00:37:53 He agrees. knows all about that. All right, guys. Topic number three. That was it? You got nothing else? That's it. No more license games.
Starting point is 00:38:03 No more, no more license games. Did you got any more? Huh? Do you got any more? No. I mean, I was saying, I thought maybe you. What I would have to do? Everybody liked that game.
Starting point is 00:38:14 Oh. Well, she ought to give the Lord of the Rings. I mean, that wasn't a license game. Lord of the Rings is a license. I mean, technically, yeah, sure. But see, that's what, like, as we started talking about this, it all kind of fell apart where it's just like, the argument of license games suck
Starting point is 00:38:28 is just simply not true at all. So we're saying if you're tying it into something. That's when it gets weird. So that's fast and furious and experts. Yeah, because it's like license games, I think there's, I don't want to say this more good than bad, but like there might be at this point. Like because of Telltale, because of Lego,
Starting point is 00:38:43 because of the Arkham games, because of all this different shit, it's like there's a lot of good license out there. A lot of it. Spider-Man games has been a lot of shitty ones, but there's also been a lot of good ones. So I don't know. Transformers, a lot of great ones. Dragon Ball Z, people really like those games, right?
Starting point is 00:38:59 Yeah. Yeah, Naruto. Naruto. All that stuff, yeah. There's a ton of games. People like that shit. Okay. I think it's good.
Starting point is 00:39:06 I just want good license games. Not bad license games. Yeah, remember that. Like the family guy games. I want Sneak King, too. Yes, let's see a sequel. Yeah, let's take a truth. See truth?
Starting point is 00:39:15 Oh, yeah. That was a great one. Yeah. But again, does that count? Because was that promoting? It wasn't like a tie into SoftBark season 10 or something. Yeah, that's what I'm saying like I what are good examples of the tie-in stuff like origins and fast and furious Yeah
Starting point is 00:39:30 What else that man begins the EA game like that was like in Superman Returns terrible fucking games that were licensed ties Yeah just to clarify what we're putting license in a box Yeah, all right we shouldn't get out of it. Just get out of stuff right Okay, cool, nobody puts Colin in a box top of number three Amibos So they're a thing they're definitely a thing and they're a real big thing and I don't think people expected them to be as big of a thing as they are. We got grown ass men and women out there. Fighting the good fight trying to get their nesemibos. There's so much going on on Twitter. It's turning people into animals. They're the new
Starting point is 00:40:02 Beanie baby. Yeah. And it's crazy because like, all right, Disney, Infinity didn't do that. Skylanders didn't do that. Well, that's because they understand supply it to me. Yeah. Well, then also, they just, they were different. They were very Activision about it, which is just like, let's just fucking make money. Buy this shit. You know, little kids, you want this. Go for it. Yeah. This is like, hey, here's characters you actually really care. And I guess Disney Infinity has this too. But this is different because this targeted the heart of Andrew Goldfarb. And I was like, you need this.
Starting point is 00:40:29 You fucking need this. And you're like, God damn, you're right. I do need this. Yeah, I do. So it causes this whole thing. And now that, so Smash Bros. What's shocking to me is we're like four characters away, I think, from all 50 characters having their own amoebo in stores.
Starting point is 00:40:44 Oh, really? Yeah. Well, at least announced. Sure, sure, sure. So, like, they've given dates for all of them, except for like, four of them. I think Falco and like... Falcon and Poon! I know Falco doesn't have his.
Starting point is 00:40:55 But it's like, I never, ever in my life would have thought that I'm going to get Star Fox figurine in stores. Yeah. That makes no sense. An Ike from Fire Emblem? What? Yeah. Like, there's all these, like, crazy things. And so there's Smash Bros.
Starting point is 00:41:09 And now there's the, there was the Mario line. And then there, now there's Yoshi's Woolly World, which is an amazing little yarn ones. Yeah. I'm definitely getting one of those. I'm telling you right now. So you're just giving it. I don't. I don't.
Starting point is 00:41:20 It's this thing. think they're a bad thing. I don't understand why people are acting like these are the worst things in the world. Because you get one, you get a whole bunch of them. Yeah. What's the problem with that? There's a lot of them. That's on you. You're against them because if you get one,
Starting point is 00:41:34 you got to get them all? No, I'm not against them. I just know that, like, there's a reason why I don't buy pop figures because if I buy one, I'm like, oh, I'm going to go get all the characters in that. Sure, sure. Yeah, but imagine if those pop figures give you costumes. Successfully made them a collectible, which I didn't think they're, we're going to do. I didn't think the quality of the amoebo stacked up against Disney Infinity figurines. Um, Skylanders figurines as well, also really high quality. But where Nintendo has failed with Amibo, in my opinion, is in game functionality. In a lot of the games, the functionality is really,
Starting point is 00:42:06 really weak. And they haven't made a game yet where you need to have an Amoebo to play that game the way that Infinity and Skylanders have. I think that's where they've really misstepped. And maybe that's why they kind of held back in production of Amibo, which makes them hard to get. is because they were kind of, you know, tepid about the audience response, knowing full well that you don't need to have Smash Brothers Amoe to play Smash Brothers, right? So I would like to see Nintendo actually step up their in-game functionality, and then maybe I'll consider buying them because I have not bought a single Amoebo yet, and I have a shelf full of Infinity figurines.
Starting point is 00:42:40 Do you really? I do. Do you play Infinity? I do, not all the time. I need to play it more, but it's a hard game. It's most fun when you're playing in Toy Box with friends, And the only friend I have that plays in toy box regularly is Brandon Jones. See, my thing with, I agree completely with what you're saying.
Starting point is 00:42:57 But I just, I don't think that Infinity or Skylanders are the right answer. Like, it's not like if Nintendo made that, that it'd be like, all right, now it's worth buying these things. Like, I don't know that we need a game based on that, because that might be a problem. Because then you have to buy all these things to make this game fun. And, like, that's an issue. Like, I'm not going to buy them to get additional costumes and stuff like that. but like if they were the... No, but imagine if there was
Starting point is 00:43:21 like an open world Nintendo game where there was, where when you tapped your amoebo on the game pad, the character appeared in the game instantly and you could play with that person and then you wanted to switch characters to go through a different puzzle or a different part of the game and you tap the other character.
Starting point is 00:43:37 I mean, that's the functionality that Skylanders' Infinity has, right? And that's what makes them so addictive is that idea that you just put the character down onto the Infinity Bay so the Skylanders Power Portal and like your character instantly appears in the game. It's like that technology at work in front of your eyes is really magical, you know, when you use it. And Amiibo just doesn't have that.
Starting point is 00:43:56 I think the thing there, though, is like, is that gameplay that's engaging to people over 12? Have you played it? Yeah, I remember I did a demo of Infinity and I was just like, I love these little figures. I love Disney way more than I should, and I want these things. But it's like, I don't want to play this game. I really don't. Well, I would say Infinity's gameplay strengths are in the toy. box, whereas Skylanders gameplay strengths are in their actual, like, campaign.
Starting point is 00:44:20 I think that they just did a much better job of making that gameplay accessible and exciting to people that are above the age of, like, 10. And I think we'll see in the Infinity team take it even further with the next Infinity that they're going to announce, which hopefully will be happening sometimes soon. They announced it around this time last year. So I just think that they do such a great job with gameplay, and Nintendo has just failed with gameplay with Amoebo. Yeah, I mean, my problem with,
Starting point is 00:44:48 my only I make a problem in quotes, because I don't really care about it be amoevos, right? I'm a Sega kid. I wish I had, I wish I made different choices. We could only wish there was Comic Zone amivo's, man. I wish I'd made different choices, and the characters met more to me than they do.
Starting point is 00:45:01 They don't. I respect everybody, and don't get me wrong, but, like, you know, when the Mega Man came out, I made sure I pre-ordered it for Colin for Christmas. Like, that was his Christmas gift. And even that got here in March. You know what I mean? And that was not just because they couldn't fulfill the order or whatever.
Starting point is 00:45:14 The problem I have with them is, this crazy, like, just make more of them. Well, it's 2015. Why are we acting like their beanie babies? Why are we acting like they are Muppet Baby toys from McDonald's? Like, there are things. It does not need to be like this. It does not, you go to Amazon, you click buy, you get it. But Nintendo doesn't get along with Amazon, so everything's all fucked up.
Starting point is 00:45:30 I don't like that. Just fix it so everybody can get what they want. I don't understand why this is such a big deal. I don't understand, and clearly, I don't understand why it's such a big deal, because Nintendo does understand why this is a big deal to make it a bigger deal. They have played their fan base like a fiddle. Good on them. and, you know, if the fans are fine with it, fine, like, to be part of this.
Starting point is 00:45:48 But the amount of tweets I've seen, I brought them up on Colin and Greg live before, for my friends who are adults, who are directors, who are creators, they go, please Nintendo, hear you fans and make more. They hear you. They know what they're doing. They're doing this, so you tweet about them, so you keep talking. Like, I don't even know how many waves of Disney Infinity figures have come out since the Avengers and, you know, Guardians of the Galaxy stuff, because those are the guys I would care about.
Starting point is 00:46:11 Have there been more? I don't know. Maybe they have, but people aren't tweeting about them every day. You have people tweeting about this every day. You have Jose Otero with a cart full of fucking Yoshi's taking photos of him. It's just like what the fuck is going on? Like what the fuck is happening right now? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:46:25 Like, it's crazy. But I feel like that's the part of the fun of it though. Like the fact that it is a big deal and it's making people crazy, it makes them interesting. Sure. No, again, if they were this out, nobody would be talking about. No one would give a shit. If you could just find Ike in any store you walk into, no one would care. But the fact that you can't get Ike makes you want Ike.
Starting point is 00:46:42 Like, that thing is when they first came out, I was like, I don't need these. I'm not going to use them for the actual game functionality. I kind of want them because I like buying things. I go, well, I'm just like, which characters would I buy? I was like, all right, I'll definitely get the characters I play as. So I'll get zero suit. I'll get Charzart.
Starting point is 00:46:59 Oh, those aren't out yet. I use Marth. I'll get Marth. And of course, Marth's like one of the rarest ones you can't get. And I'm like, well, this just went from I kind of want it to I really want it. Yeah, see, it's working. They're playing you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:10 And so it got to the point when I was like, how much do I pay for that? And that, once I started thinking about that number, I'm like, I don't need this. But one day, okay. It's one of those things where it's, it's Comic-Con every fucking month. Whereas, like, Comic-Con, you don't get in line for the Hasbro, you don't get the crazy He-Man thing, you bitch you about it on Twitter for one day, and I never hear about it again. And, like, every fucking three weeks I'm hearing about amoebo's. I just don't understand the little faucet they're letting trick a lot of characters.
Starting point is 00:47:35 But again, it's just because I, I just, I'm immune. I am deaf to their pied piper. And so I just get to watch all these people. freaking out about it. You know what I mean? It's like, whatever. Yeah. I mean, I'm, yeah, I respect Nintendo, but there, you know, it doesn't really resonate with me. But God forbid, if they make
Starting point is 00:47:52 Pokemon ones. Oh, I know. I would go bankrupt. That's the problem. Like, Nintendo's going to. That's their game. When they make the Pokemon game with the Amoebo's, oh, God, help us all. If they made, if they made a true, like, full RPG Pokemon
Starting point is 00:48:08 that had required Pokemon Amibo. them all functionality, then that would be really huge. Because look at how much Skylanders is made for Activision. It's an over $2 billion franchise now since that franchise launched. You know, Nintendo could make that kind of money if they did it right. But Nintendo just always missteps just a little bit, right? Just a little bit.
Starting point is 00:48:29 So like they're doing the, they're on the right path. I don't think that they're making all of the right decisions yet. And I don't know if they're holding their master plan back. It always seems like they seem to do with everything. Yeah. You know, they misstep out the gate and then like they figure it out. a couple years down the line. I think the smart thing
Starting point is 00:48:45 if they were to do a Pokemon game would be just you can play the Pokemon game right and you can catch a Pokemon's. Okay, yeah. And then the ones that you can't find, you can just go buy it in the store and then use that like integration, right? Because then at that point it's like,
Starting point is 00:49:00 oh, like I have the blue version. Like I can't, you know what you're saying? The exclusive ones that you can't get what you're going. Like I could buy all the red version ones. So you're adding in-game transactions that are in stores. Yeah. And in-store transaction to a game.
Starting point is 00:49:12 Everybody's always fine with his long as they get something. Yeah. I mean, that's the real killer when like if they want, I guess again, they don't need to. They're fine. Everything's working.
Starting point is 00:49:21 I'm sure the way they want. They're rolling in money from this. But when they're like, all right, now we're putting out 8 bit Mario Amibo. And when you touch it to your Wii, you automatically download the original. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:32 Something like that is fucking awesome. And they're not really doing that. It's like kind of that. It's like, you get to play for 15 seconds. Yeah. Well, fuck you. But like,
Starting point is 00:49:41 that's what I'd, on from the Smash Bros. ones, like, if the new DLC characters, so when Mutu comes out, Lucas and whoever the hell else comes out, like, instead of me paying for the DLC to buy it, if I can go to the store and it gives me a code with it, I love that. I want to get something. I hate this digital bullshit.
Starting point is 00:49:55 Well, and they could sell so much more, right? So, Mutu is, what, $3.99 if you'd buy the digital download, and if you were to buy the Mitu Amibo for what is, $12.99 they are, right? 1499. I only see my eBay for $55. Yeah. So if you buy the Amibo, and then he
Starting point is 00:50:10 automatically unlocked when you were, you tapped into the game pad, that would be genius, right? But they're not doing that. Yeah. Missed opportunity. That'd be so awesome. Another thing that bothers me, and this is just a very me thing, but the Yarn Yoshi, it's like, it doesn't have the, there's no base, it's like, where's
Starting point is 00:50:26 the consistency, guys? You can't do this. That's like the freaking DVD case next on my Blu-rays, and it's just like Squarespace, why do you keep doing this? Stop. Stop! You think that after there's been enough examples of this. You remember the Simpsons box sets. They got to like, season five,
Starting point is 00:50:42 Kevin knows all about this. They released the Homer head. And everybody's like, fuck you. Make me you've had this and they're like, oh, right, right, they printed boxes and sent them out to people because everybody's like, we, we buy this because we're fucking nerds. We wanted to look good on our shelf. Yeah, you better damn well know that if Fast 7 or Furious 7,
Starting point is 00:50:58 sorry, does not come in the fucking Best Buy exclusive steel case. I don't even know what I'm going to do. Yeah, well, you'll buy them all right now. No, because my steel case are beautiful right now. The number of times he's bright about that. It's just, I may fast. You kiss too cut. So good.
Starting point is 00:51:15 This is how he's getting on his girlfriends. Yeah. All right. So many girlfriends. But yeah, it's, this is a big deal. So this is Jan Yoshi. It's like, guys, come on. Why?
Starting point is 00:51:22 That is. That is so cute. It is. It looks fucking awesome. But put it on a fucking bass. It's all. It's all about that base. There's,
Starting point is 00:51:30 there's computer chips in his ass. Yeah. His ass definitely is going to have a cylinder field to. Yeah. Man. Alfredo, what would make you, would you buy like Master Chief Amibos? Eh, I mean.
Starting point is 00:51:42 I would. This is coming from somebody that bought the Halo books and read them all. I mean, I would, but then again, the same time, it's like, what else is Microsoft going to do after Halo? What, like, Blinks the cat? What do you mean after Halo? I mean, like, how many, really, how many, like, figures are they going to be able to do that? You're talking about if they made their own amoebo. Yeah, they made their own amoebo.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Yeah, competitors. Like, how much? The fours the car. Marcus Phoenix. I'm like, okay, I guess. Well, I mean, that's why Sony and Microsoft aren't talking about it, right? Because they don't have that really iconic cast of characters The way that Nintendo does
Starting point is 00:52:15 They actually just have, you know, 10 full AAA games That's all they're doing for them That vast library It's a toy's in a tablet With multi-touch? No, just one touch No, no, one touch. Please. Should we be able to play for four hours? No, two. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:52:31 Could you play with two of these revolutionary game pads? No, you can't. Oh, man, that would make too much sense. Mario Party, let's make a game for the fucking Wii U and make it so that you need to use Wii moats. You can't... All right, guys. Fourth topic.
Starting point is 00:52:46 They need to make a Wii moat anivo. Or Wii tablet amoebo. That's just like flicking you off. It's on the screen. It's somebody's looking at Redgie picking off. Well, I'll tell you, real quick. Amibo I would buy, and I'm sure they're going to do, when they do Super Mario World, and it's Mario and a cake.
Starting point is 00:53:03 I mean, I'll buy that. I'll buy that. I'll buy that. I want to like the amoebo so much more than I do, and it's like I am just a second away from slipping into this. and just getting so dirty and nasty with these things. Getting so far into it. Because once I buy this, you better damn well know I'm buying Disney Infinity shit.
Starting point is 00:53:19 You think that I'm going to have my zero suit and not have her chilling next to Elsa? You're kidding me. You are kidding me. So it's like I look at them, but it's the build quality like you were saying. It's just like, oh, like the zero suit one they showed has this freaking like weird ass yellow stick behind her. Holding her up. Figure out gravity and stuff, guys. Come on.
Starting point is 00:53:40 out of her butt. I think a lot of people underestimate the amount of research and development that goes into creating an actual physical toy. And that's why only a few companies worldwide do it really well and manufacture on a broad scale. And Disney clearly has the resources to do that. And Disney's done merchandising for decades, which is why we see a really high quality collectible. I just think that Nintendo maybe needs to put a little bit. more R&D into Amoebo and it could be a really, really big
Starting point is 00:54:14 thing. It could be even bigger than it is now. That's what I would like to see. I want to like Amibo, but they just haven't given me a reason to like them yet. Do you have the Aladdin one? I have Jasmine. I don't have Aladdin. Because Aladdin's dope as fuck. He's all right. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I just got Loki
Starting point is 00:54:30 though. He was in the last wave, yeah. It's pretty cool. Before we go to the next topic, I want to give a shout out to Hot Chocolate Party. It's a YouTube channel. They made an amoebo rap, and it's fucking hilarious. It's really funny. I'm gonna show you later.
Starting point is 00:54:43 It's good. Are we done with the peach shoutouts? And I miss the end of peach shoutouts? Yeah, I feel like those are. Kevin, give me the yes. Every still go to bitly.com. Or bitly slash peach goblin. Bit.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Dotley slash Peach Goblin. He has an album. Yeah. An EP. Excuse me. You should go check it out. He's a good dude. All right.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Topic for the final topic. The final time. It's a kind of funny mailbag. We're going to do a bunch of rapid fire. But we can talk about them for a little longer if we want. Questions. As always, tweet at me at Tim Getty's. Let me know your topics that you want us to talk about.
Starting point is 00:55:16 Just like at Festorello. How do you feel about that name? Festrello. It's pretty good. I like it. I like it. I'm a fan of the Festor. I'm a bigger fan of the L.O.
Starting point is 00:55:27 Is it acceptable to marathon games in your underwear when you're an adult? Yes. Yeah. Entirely. Yeah. We all do that, right? Most certainly. Of course.
Starting point is 00:55:36 I mean. Even though now I'm a little more nervous about doing it now that Connect is always watching me. Yeah. Well, that just kind of makes me want to do it more. Someone's watching. They get to see. Because I'm a big fan of my underwear collection. What?
Starting point is 00:55:52 Okay. Go into details about that. I don't need to go into details. I mean. I mean, just, okay. Afrored of. Are they prints? Let's, no, well, I got some prints ones.
Starting point is 00:56:00 I have a lot of holiday themes. Boxer briefs. I have a lot of holiday themed boxers that my mom has bought me over the years. So it's like, she's gotten me a pair to you. Yeah, she did. She has. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She got me and him matching Transformers boxers back in 2007 when the movie came out.
Starting point is 00:56:15 But the thing about boxers is it's like you get them years, but they last for a while. Yeah, they last forever. You know, so it's like my boxer collection, I haven't bought boxers for a long time. But it's pretty on point. Like we got some Valentine's Day ones. We got some Christmas ones. We got some St. Patrick's Day. Like they get pretty much in your underwear.
Starting point is 00:56:32 You're saying. I would. Definitely. Like there's like Memorial Day ones. You heard it here. There's a memorial. No, there's not. I really wish there was, though.
Starting point is 00:56:39 It's just a bunch of veterans saluting. But there's things like that, right? But then it reached a point where I was like, I'm not going to wear boxers anymore. Why? Because we found boxer briefs together. So good. How did you find them together?
Starting point is 00:56:52 Well, here's the thing, right? Yoga pants. It's a big deal. Everybody loves yoga pants. What's the yoga pants for men? Boxer briefs. How did you find them together? That's what I'm at.
Starting point is 00:57:03 I mean, probably because we decided to be grown men one day. We're like, yeah, let's be grown men and stop going in like Zumi's and go to Express. Okay. Okay. Oh shit. They got that boxy briefs. I'm like,
Starting point is 00:57:14 whoa, what's this? They have good ones there too. They got real good ones. Yeah. That's really. I don't really wish that one. Nick also wants to talk about underwear.
Starting point is 00:57:23 We said to be grown-ass men, so we went to Express. Yeah. So it's good. So you only bust out the Express Boxer Briefs when you mean business. Yeah. Because it's like, or else it's H&M.
Starting point is 00:57:35 Literally. In every sense. It can happen at any time, at anywhere, Greg. Okay, sorry. Right now I'm wearing H&M ones. So there's no action happening. I mean,
Starting point is 00:57:42 no business today. Again, Greg. Anytime. Anywhere. But it's just like, Express you only got to bust out because Express has the big ass express. Like it says it.
Starting point is 00:57:51 People know. So it's like it's the equivalent to women wearing matching bras and underwear. You know that they have shit in mind. They're planning. Oh, that's true. If you see that, yeah, they're stopping into it.
Starting point is 00:58:02 If they're not matching, it just means that's when it's the anytime anywhere. Video games, right? Yeah. So yeah. It's just like. People they want off topic. Wanted more off topic, they're getting more off topic.
Starting point is 00:58:12 It happens. All right. So, my boy, Zach Edwards, aka Houston Z. Shout out to you. I like you a lot. People complained that Fallout New Vegas felt like an expansion pack or D.L.C. For Fallout 3. Who said that?
Starting point is 00:58:26 People. What can be done to not make Fallout 4 feel the same? Fuck those people. I didn't feel like that. That's what you do. I was cold bloodied. I mean, it's going to be an HD version of Fallout. That's all it's going to be, right?
Starting point is 00:58:41 It's going to be a fancier version of Fallout with better textures and better loading and less game crashing and falling through the world because you wore a hat on the strip. I mean, Fallout is Fallout. I'm expecting it to be a lot like that, and that's exactly what I want. Good. Better lip-sinking. That would make it, you know. Not, like, put some cinematography into it, not just, oh, I'm talking to this person.
Starting point is 00:59:02 I want to talk to this person. There's a lot of ghouls over there. At Crispy N-64 says, How awesome is Mount your friends? Very awesome. That's very awesome. Very fucking awesome. Catch on let's play on YouTube.com.
Starting point is 00:59:15 That's kind of funny games. Do you what day is going up, Kevin? Kevin can't even get today's let's play up. Let's not. Sometimes this week. It's definitely, definitely happening. At Hokie says, Dem Halo trailers, dough.
Starting point is 00:59:27 Oh. Good Lord. Those trailers, it's a little old news now, but fucking A. I like it. I like it. Because I feel like I'm done with the whole fighting the covenant and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:59:38 Now there seems like there's like, mystery and like this big conspiracy going on he's fighting another spartan i'm like okay like i could get into here's my question for you afraid today on colin on call on god with andrew renn we were we were talking about this halo podcast they're doing it's in the vein of serial which was a real murder and they probably shouldn't say it's in the vein of are you listening to it would you want to listen because it's all about the truth and all this jazz and trying to figure out what's going on the story i mean i don't know for me it's just like from working at igan i get kind of develop this thing where I just don't want to know about a game because then I know too much.
Starting point is 01:00:12 So for me, it's just like at this point, I just want to just wait to the games out. Maybe watch a few trailers in the meantime, but just wait until it's out. Are you aware that that Halo TV show came and went already? The Nightfall? Yeah. I watched a little bit of it. I don't know how I miss this. I interviewed the guy.
Starting point is 01:00:28 I didn't even know. No one talked about this. A couple days ago, I was buying some Blurays and I saw it on Amazon. It was like Nightfall. I'm like, that's all Blu-ray. Yeah. What? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:36 I watched the first two episodes. It had a very like, In terms of production quality, like sci-fi, original movie type feel. And I was like, eh, it's cool, but I really care about it. Well, if you want to watch it, I can bring my Master Chief Collection over. Is it working yet? Is it working yet? Well, I haven't played it in a while, so I don't know about that.
Starting point is 01:00:56 People told me it worked. I just think it's interesting that it's very clear that Microsoft is trying to appeal to a mass market audience because they debuted the trailers during The Walking Dead. They didn't announce them with a game news site podcast. partner. They didn't announce them at a big convention. They were like, we know this is tent pool, you know, cable watching for our target audience. So it was
Starting point is 01:01:16 interesting. I think it's definitely the right move because it's their flagship franchise, but I don't think that we were talking about this morning, I don't think that people who watch the Walking Dead are going to go search out a podcast to listen and find out more about Halo. The truth. Hashtag the truth.
Starting point is 01:01:32 Hashtag the truth. Yeah. What's interesting about those trailers, though, is I feel like they were exactly what Halo 5 needed to get people interested. At least the people that were on the fence. If you're sold, you're fucking sold. But I feel like it was great for all the people that moved over to PS4 from
Starting point is 01:01:48 the Xbox. And we're just like, all right, I'm done with this. I've got enough Halo. Like, Curran, our friend, he saw those trailers, he's like, fuck, I have to buy an Xbox one. Like, I can't not play it. He's a girl. He's got a car? He is. He does have a car. He has a dog. You should go follow his dog on Instagram.
Starting point is 01:02:05 We need to make him famous, Greg. do me a favor bleep all that out Kieran did not give us the money for shoutouts for a month Oh no no no no The dog does not get me Yeah fuck Roger Kevin here's what I want you do
Starting point is 01:02:20 I want you to put all that information up But then put a black bar across all of it And let him know that he could have gotten that blood He could have supported us $3,000 current step it up All right at Charlie M says Favorite Gameboy Advance game I have a lot of favorites
Starting point is 01:02:36 The first like Tony Hush Pro Skater 2 was my first one Because that was a launch game That and the whole Mario advanced series was really good. Oh, yeah. That was so long ago. I don't even remember.
Starting point is 01:02:48 The Castlevania Games. I'm Googling for the full title of mine. Hold on, because I don't want to get YLFU's my phone. I was still like playing my N64 then. I was not playing Game Boy Advance. What was I playing on that? I just remember just playing Pokemon.
Starting point is 01:03:03 Oh, Zero Mission was amazing. Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion. I did play Fusion. That was good. Yeah. Mine? because it's the reason I bought my Game Boy Advance finally because I'd been on the fence forever and ever and ever
Starting point is 01:03:16 and then I went into Sam's Club because I was in Missouri and they had all like you know how they just had that giant thing of games and I was looking through it and they had the clamshell Blue GBSP GBSP Gold Ball Blue Yep you know it And I was like if they have Extreme Ghostbusters Code Ecto 1 I'll buy it
Starting point is 01:03:32 And they did And I bought it and it was so much fun There's a box out you need a little refresher Oh my goodness how it looked Yeah, Pokemon, Ruby, and Sapphire was a big deal Because I feel like that was the perfect time So Pokemon on the Game Boy came out in 98 When I was in third grade
Starting point is 01:03:51 And I feel like I was the exact generation That that game was made for Because it got me I was at the per day to get hooked And buying all the toys and buying all the cards And buying all that shit And then you grow up And I played Golden Silver
Starting point is 01:04:02 Which came out like a year or two after Still in elementary school though But then we went to middle school And that's like, all right You're not supposed to play Pokemon anymore quote, Yeah, and so Yeah, so we went,
Starting point is 01:04:14 We went sixth and seventh grade Without Pokemon, because it's just like, whatever But then Ruby and Sapphire came out on GBA It was like the next gen Here's new Pokemon It was the first one that like Didn't have to do with the The first two games
Starting point is 01:04:24 And I remember all my friends It was that moment of like Oh, we're supposed to be cool We're not supposed to like this Oh, did you buy it? You bought it? Oh shit, I bought it too Are we playing at lunch?
Starting point is 01:04:34 Are we doing that? And then just everyone's playing Pokemon It's just like, goddamn right Fuck's the side You're trading? We're trading? We're doing this shit? Yeah, Ruben Sapphire was, that was some shit. All right, fanboy wars. Papello wants to know about fanboy wars.
Starting point is 01:04:49 Do we believe in the necessity to defend the systems that we play? No, no one needs to actually stand up for Nintendo and its greatness. That would be ridiculous. Everybody already knows about the vast library. I let the ignorant people who want to say that there are no Vita games. Speak for themselves. I don't think we need to get into that. I mean, we'd buy into it here and joke around there.
Starting point is 01:05:08 Yeah. We don't care. I mean, yeah, it's one of those things where it's like, you totally don't care. And I think that it's a good thing, though, just that, like, you support stuff that you like. Bland, bland, like hate, blunt and bland, blind hate of the other people, that's not cool. Sure. Like, you need to not hate other people. But, like, really loving the thing that you love?
Starting point is 01:05:26 Hell yeah. Do it. Yeah. Same thing like sports. Like, people who like sports are just, like, really proud of their team, you know, just really proud of your console. But they're also really hateful on other teams. It's true. That's true.
Starting point is 01:05:36 It's very true. So fuck them. It gets ugly. Yeah. It's totally me too. I think the only time that you really need to defend the thing you like is maybe when it's new, right? So like when X-Ox 1 and PS4 first launch, like fall 2013, like deciding which one you were going to buy, then maybe. It always comes down.
Starting point is 01:05:54 In that very, like, finite example. It's the same reason I was a Sega kit because I was told you get one system. You know what I mean? Like, even if I would have tried to talk to my parents by getting any other than any other than you, they already have the genesis. They're sick. What do you care? You know what I mean? Like that's how this happens is that you get into your.
Starting point is 01:06:08 trench and that's it. Now you're in the war. And that was like, you know, when the new systems came out, I bought them all. Whatever. I don't care. I'm a grown-ass man. I don't get shit anymore. I keep buying games on Steam. I'm not even playing them. You're fucking dull in this category. It's like, yeah, it's whatever you want to do with it. And then it comes
Starting point is 01:06:26 down, inevitably you play one more than the other, but like it's just whatever you know, right? That's what we always talk about. This is what I used to talk about all the time at IG when, like, I was deep in the trenches with PlayStation 3 and stuff. And me and Damien would argue about the Xbox 3 60 and PlayStation 3 interfaces and it was totally just like
Starting point is 01:06:42 you know one. It doesn't matter how simple it is if you hand somebody something new like how do I even get where do I even go? Where do I get to my printer set? Well that's what exactly XNB taught you.
Starting point is 01:06:54 That's the funniest thing with fucking awful. I know. No, but see I liked it and like I'm familiar with it from the PSP. So it's like all right it all made sense. It's like okay cool
Starting point is 01:07:04 but then the perfect thing is calling. I'm not defending the Wii use system at all because good lord it's a mess but Colin acts like it's the most obtuse thing that just totally is designed for idiots and it's just like if you just calm the fuck down for one second you'll get to what you need to get to it's really not any different than any other system like it works
Starting point is 01:07:26 now where it does get complicated is if you're doing let's plays and you're trying to figure out which am I in Wii mode or regular Wii mode? Do you need to go in the Wii mode for the virtual console and buying stuff and that turns into oh it didn't auto recognize that we've switched from 10 Oh my God, shut the fuck up and just work. So that's all a mess. But it's like, otherwise, it's not like any of the systems have it down.
Starting point is 01:07:45 Exactly. It's just like everyone has their own little things. And how many times I've had a text Freedo? Because I'm just like, I don't know. I'm on the Xbox One and I want this to happen. What do I do? He's like, oh, that's, okay, cool. Where's the printer settings?
Starting point is 01:07:56 How do I print from this? Can I boot in Linux money? How do I get magic sheep collection to work? You don't. You don't. You eject the disc and put it on the shelf. Wait for further instructions. Cal FD wants to know about Metal Gear Solid Ground Zero's.
Starting point is 01:08:11 Is it worth a play? Thoughts on the game and the franchise. Obviously, we love the franchise. Do we all love the franchise? Nope. Okay. Well, I love the franchise. Greg loves the franchise.
Starting point is 01:08:20 Kevin loves the franchise. Kevin loves the franchise. Grand Zero is totally worth playing. Yeah. Here's my thing with Ground Zero's. And I've talked to you about it today already. I'm sorry, you're getting the same spiel. It's okay.
Starting point is 01:08:32 Ground Zero's, you know, Peace Walker's the best game of all time. Period. I mean, I heard you thought Smash Bros was. That's not sure. And so when Ground Zero's was coming up and I'd watch the trailers, whatever, like, this is going to be Peace Walker, H.D., I can't wait for it. And then I got it, and I started streaming it for, I took one day off work, if you remember. I was going to stream and platinum it and try to platinum one day. And I beat the campaign, and I started doing the little missions, and I just ended up stopping and playing something else.
Starting point is 01:08:56 Because it was too much. It was too much Metal Gear. It was too much realism for Metal Gear of like, all right, I'm on this arm of base, and I've tagged everybody great. And then I start moving, and there's one guy I missed over there. Hey, who's that? I'm like, oh, fucking jeep. So then I'm just running around like an asshole shooting right now. I'm like, oh, this isn't fun.
Starting point is 01:09:13 I don't feel like snake. So that was a mood killer for me. And it turned me off to it in terms of like I didn't go back to try to platinum it. Now I'm getting revved up for Phantom Pain where people are telling me no, no, this one is actually Peace Walker HD. This is the one you're going to be crazy about it. You need to get into. So like, I'm taking August off from other games and only playing.
Starting point is 01:09:31 I'm only playing ground zeros. I'm going to platinum ground zeros. I'm going to get really good at Metal Gear again so that when I land in Phantom in pain land, I'll be ready to go and I'll feel like Snake again. Now, it's going to be tough. Quitting other video games cold turkey. I'm going to get my head kicked in a few dozen times, but it'll eventually get to be like Middle Gear Solid 2 where I knew
Starting point is 01:09:49 enemy patterns and I knew where everybody was going. So I'm going to do, I think my first week, I'm going to go to every mission, and just lay there. And just watch people. Just memorize their patterns. Just fucking learn. I'll stream with six hours and be laying there. I'm figuring out exactly what's happening. Throwing rocks, seeing how people react.
Starting point is 01:10:07 to it. He's got one of those, corkshoe boards. Yeah, exactly. That's fucking, see, Ground Zero's to me is like, it's my perfect gaming experience
Starting point is 01:10:15 where it's short. And it's like, yeah, it's very short, but it's like expansive and there's a lot of different things to do, but it's also contained. It's an open world that, like, is designed.
Starting point is 01:10:26 And it's like, all right, cool. You can go into this area. There's a lot of shit to do, but it's like, you don't need to worry about the rest of the world. Don't worry about what's past that fucking mountain.
Starting point is 01:10:33 There's not dragons over there. You don't need to worry about it. Like, you're good. Just stay in this area. And all the things you're saying about it being not Metal Gear, like, it's just way, it's too much. Sorry, too much Metal Gear and like, it's too real and all that. I loved that.
Starting point is 01:10:45 It was like one of the, I remember playing Melodyar Solid 4 and it being my first real next-gen experience with games. Yeah. And for me, this is also my first, this is a PS4 experience, even though you can play on the other systems. But like, the way that the guards interacted with you and like the lights and all that stuff, I was just like, holy shit, I had so much fun having it be that much more real and that much more just like ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:11:07 I kept trying to do bullshit, like jumping from building to building without people seeing me because I'm fucking Spider-Man. Yeah. And does he do it? Yeah, it's fun. It was really fun. I remember Kevin was playing a lot too.
Starting point is 01:11:15 Like he was doing all these different things. And it was one of those experiences where his play-through of it, totally different than my play-through of it. Yeah. And I love that because it's two hours, but everyone's two hours is different. It's a really expensive two hours. Was it?
Starting point is 01:11:29 Yeah. It was like $2,99. If you bought the retail box version, it was $39. 99. Right? Oh, shit. That's a lot.
Starting point is 01:11:39 You got those side missions. I'm like, I bar it. Extra ops. Go through and get it. Have you played it? Did you play it? No, that's going to be on my list. I think it's a place for a game come out, but it's like, well, I mean, not the time
Starting point is 01:11:52 was 40 bucks. Jesus. No, you can get it. You can get a cheap now. Well, now. Let's see how much. Let me look it up here. That's expensive.
Starting point is 01:11:58 You can just watch my stream. First week is laying there. All right. Cool. I'm laying there. Watching. Fucking. Fucking being a snake.
Starting point is 01:12:04 I'm only going to eat like snake. in the game. Go fly on the wall. Saran wrap in your kitchen. All right. Serran wrap in your kitchen. What the fuck? All right.
Starting point is 01:12:15 Ryochefn wants to know our thoughts on relationship simulators in non-dating sim games. Like, Mass Effect and persona. How do I say? So relationship elements in a game that isn't based just about that?
Starting point is 01:12:27 Love it. Big fan. I'm not a fan. What the fuck is your problem? It's too much work. What? Don't do it. It's optional.
Starting point is 01:12:33 So like Fire Emble has it? And I'm just like, oh, God. Like, this is part of the gameplay. I don't want to deal with this. Like, can I just have side bitches? Come on. Can I just have some? No, because you ever play games?
Starting point is 01:12:43 You're like, oh, hey, what's up? Look at this girl character. Well, I mean, that definitely happened. It's me. And then, games like Mass Effect allow you to bang them. That's true. It's pretty great. It was such, it was the much needed release from all that action and space drama
Starting point is 01:12:58 and mineral farming to get to go out there and talk to people. It encouraged you to go talk, right? Because then I'd run around the ship and talk to everyone in the ship, usually about ship kind of stuff. But then you get to your little secretary, your little piece, you talk to her, you get over to Garris, you talk to him. You figure out. Gosh, we're going to do it? Exactly. And eventually you do, and it's hot.
Starting point is 01:13:17 I remember in Final Fantasy 10, there was like, and usually the Final Fantasy games will have some, like, tree of, like, responses you can do that'll, like, make one person like you more than the other. I remember, like, you were flirting with all the girls. So, you know, Lulu, Riku, or whatever. I want Riku. It's like, I know the story is gonna make me go with you and I want Riku. And then somebody I got Lulu. Damn it, Lulu.
Starting point is 01:13:40 Just like real life, man. Yeah. You can't predict love. You can't. You really can't. You can't tell somebody that they love me. But it's like, it's things like that. It's like, now we actually do have what I thought I wanted back then of, of you can actually
Starting point is 01:13:49 make all that happen. It's not just like predetermined shit. It's like you can choose who the hell you want. Right. And make sure that's too much. Like, I don't want real life. So just don't. So you just, you're, okay.
Starting point is 01:13:59 But you enjoyed real life out of metal gear? Yeah. I'm glad you said that because I was going to bring that up. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's not that it was real life. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop of Spider-Man. No, like realism in video games. I'm not talking about like real life.
Starting point is 01:14:13 Video game realism and real life are different things. Are they though? Yeah, they are. They definitely are. Greg Miller feels me. Week two is just going to be crouch walking. No fighting, just crouch walking. Okay, so I looked it up.
Starting point is 01:14:29 It was 2999 for, Xbox 1 and PS4. It was 1999 on the last That's not bad. I spent $17 to watch Furious 7 again. It was worth it. 30 fucking bucks.
Starting point is 01:14:47 30 fucking bucks. It's not 30 bucks anymore. You can get it as cheap as 10 bucks. I mean, they're just throwing them for free at this point. Oh yeah, I mean at this point. But damn, back then, $30 for like two hours? Yep. But, but.
Starting point is 01:15:01 I want to know what I'm going to say. There's reasons to replay. There's things to go collect. If you're just looking at it in terms of a campaign, I feel you. But there's more than that in that package. All right. Yeah. Disagrebe, that's okay.
Starting point is 01:15:13 Not enough people bought it. That's why Kijima left. All right. At Esteban. It's a great name. Yeah. Want to know. Should jobs allow time for video game breaks?
Starting point is 01:15:23 No. No. Reading people's tweets is always hard. Just work. Just go to work. It's always just often. It makes me stumble. It's the simple line of just one more game.
Starting point is 01:15:32 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's ridiculous. No, do your job and then do video games afterwards. Yeah. Definitely. Like everybody else.
Starting point is 01:15:40 Esteban. Jay Marulo. Jason Derulo? Nope. Jason Derulo. How much do you think he gets that? Like, every time he walks in the room, people sing his name. Jason, I don't know the stand.
Starting point is 01:15:56 Are we going to start seeing more superhero games like we are with TV and movies? I hope so. Yeah. I mean, more? There's been so many. But I mean, you mean, good ones. Yeah. I mean, I thought, like, when Batman Arkham Asylum hit, I thought we're going to get it.
Starting point is 01:16:09 I thought, here we go, the golden age, we're going to get a Spider-Man game. People took time on in a superman game, and this never happened. You got Marvel Heroes. You got DC Universe online, of course. Best in memo of all times. I mean, things are out there. There's things to do, but I don't understand why it hasn't taken off. You hope that now Disney has a plan for all the franchises, whatever they want to do.
Starting point is 01:16:28 And then, yeah, whatever Warner Bros is working on. Would you consider Disney and Fendi? to be a superhero franchise? No. No. I mean, that's like, is Mall versus Capcom superheroes? Just because it has superheroes in it. I mean, yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:41 Yeah. Right? That's a, no game. So you're talking about, like, a single character's standalone story that turns into a franchise. Or X-Men. We need some more Asian apocalypse games. Remember those? No.
Starting point is 01:16:57 X-Men Legends. Oh, yeah. I gave you the Sir title. Gotcha. Yeah. That was it would be good. Some dungeon crawl, remember them? Remember these?
Starting point is 01:17:05 They were on PSP? Remember the PSP? I never played those versions. No. So what's the story for week three? Week three, week three, we're going to, no, we're going to try to steal cops. You only got a month.
Starting point is 01:17:19 But I'm going to know the X's and O's, man. I'm going to see, like, I'll just be like the Matrix. I'm just going to see the, I'll be able to predict everything that's happening. Crazy Dogs wants to know, do you think Fast and Fear should get a decent game with story made? Yeah. entirely. A Fast and Furious game would be awesome if done right,
Starting point is 01:17:36 but it would never be. It won't be done right. It would never be. The best you can hope for is it would be when they end the franchise that they continue on that way. Yeah. Because that would make sense.
Starting point is 01:17:45 It's like, you know, like you just, it picks up, I don't know, it's always, Dom's got some fucking shopies running or something. And Vindy's is like the main NPC and you like come in
Starting point is 01:17:54 and he sees something, I don't know. He's like the quest giver? Yeah, exactly. I never thought about how much I want a comic continuation of Fast and Furious.
Starting point is 01:18:02 until right now. They don't want a comic continue. Like the season 11 of... You always think you do and then you don't. I do. I think it can be okay for it to just be over. See, I like what you're saying. See, the problem is it's not...
Starting point is 01:18:14 They're going to stay. They're outstaying their welcome. Well, yeah, because it's their most profitable franchise ever, right? I don't agree with that. I think that the movie I just watched should have been the last fast and furious. No. Think about... There's three more coming for sure, right?
Starting point is 01:18:29 What? Not three. Three? I heard there was a new trilogy. At least two more. This is the start of the trilogy. Oh, I thought it was, I'm sorry, I thought there was a new trilogy beyond this or whatever.
Starting point is 01:18:39 Imagine how bad then the next movie is going to be. What are you basing this? They've not been gone to space shit, so we're going. I'm basing it on the fact that I'm not even trying to take shots at you or whatever. I was watching it and like, I love the movie, don't get me wrong. But, and I guess some spoilers for who's alive, not at the end of the movie, just in the middle of the movie here. But like when they get everybody together,
Starting point is 01:19:01 and they're around the table and there was no rock and there was no Han and there was no Gal Gadil and I was just like this team isn't even near this fun there weren't the two other guys that cracked Wise in the other movie I forget what their name were but like the worst characters that like honestly did not deserve to be in the family hey some fucking just somebody the Dominican characters the characters from the Dominican Republic yeah yeah yeah Tago Calderon or whatever it's I'm just saying there is we were missing parts of a team there yeah because and now we're not going to have Paul Walker and we're not going to have Mia and we're not going to have Han and we're not going to have Gal Gadot
Starting point is 01:19:30 Yeah. So you've pulled this. We had Dalgado for two movies. Yeah. And she had one function that she was really good at. Then we had Han, who I'm not going to talk any shit about Han. He was an amazing character. He's just, he is.
Starting point is 01:19:43 He was really great. Everything. He's the Obi-Wan of this franchise. But it's like he can live on, just like Obi-Wan did. He's not going to live on. He's not going to live on. Flashbacks? I mean, he's not going to be amazing.
Starting point is 01:19:55 But like, I feel like they can just add more characters, have more people. That's not how families were. But that is, that's how the fast. family works but they won't be as fun I don't want to get to know them it's trust me it'll be fine by the time this ends Tokyo drift on it and just get all new character they brought the Tokyo drift kid and I'd be
Starting point is 01:20:10 alright no well no god bring bow to I want to that's what I'm saying bringing Twinkie it'll be great it'll be good I'm not worried at all I just hope they found at all there's no concern at all
Starting point is 01:20:25 no even they're going to be fine oh man I wanted to start spoiling the fast movie right all time with this out there yeah yeah yeah All right. We're going to end it here. Ladies and gentlemen. Because Greg is just wrong about everything. He's about to make my day really bad.
Starting point is 01:20:38 Leave comments below telling Greg that he's wrong about the Fast and the Furious. And, uh... What? Yeah, thank you, Nick. Shut up. Thanks a lot, Nick. All right, guys. Tweet it at Tim Geddes.
Starting point is 01:20:50 Let me know what you want us to talk about next week. Thanks a lot, Greg, for talking to me. No problem. Even when you have a wrong opinion, it still makes me happy. I'm just saying you better start setting your expectations lower. I will. I will. I always do.
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