Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Elyse Willems from Funhaus (Special Guest) - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep. 138

Episode Date: October 2, 2017

Funhaus' Elyse Willems joins us to discuss Golf Story, Nintendo Switch, her time at GameTrailers, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up guys? Welcome to the first ever episode 138 of the Kind of Funny Games cast. As always, I'm Tim Getty's joined by one of the coolest dudes in video games, Greg Miller. Tim, you are looking so good today, and I can't put my finger on what makes you look so good today. Andy looks great today. Thanks. At least you're phoning in. But everybody, I mean, like, there's something about us three. And I'm really handsome gentlemen today.

Maybe it's kind of funny.com slash story. Oh. Now, here's the big thing. A lot of people are watching over there on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. you're like, man, do they only sell one shirt? There's only one way to find out. Go to Kondofuny.com slash store, see if we have any other shirts

or if it is just this one bridge one. And joining us once again, the Hispanic heartthrop. Andy Cortez. Andy Kondes. Oh, Candy Korn Tez. That was... Is that going to be one of your...

I did that last year. Yeah, it was a huge hit. I felt like. It was a huge hit. Were you change your Twitter handle? No, like you change your display name. It was Candy Corn Tess. I hate that.

Really? I hate that. I hate the ones that are like... whoever at packs, like, no. No. I never, I never do. You never do it? Now, come on.

Yeah. I don't either. It's helpful for people. It's healthy. And joining us for the first time. Helpful how. Elise Willem. You know,

right. Bah, ba, ba, ba, ba. Funhouse. Thanks so much for having me. This has been a fun, fun day. No, thank you for doing so much with this.

We went to Target together. We went to Target. We did. We got two podcasts together. Yeah. That's a lot. I don't think we've ever done back-to-back proper podcast. Like,

Gog and Gamescast with a guest. Okay, We're the guess. That might be the one where we've... So I'm pretty excited. Yeah? Are you feeling loose? I feel a little... Loosey-goosey.

Any more corn. No, the corn? Oh my God. This is the Kind of Funny Games cast each and every week. We get together. Talk about video games. All things we love about them. All things going on in the world of video games.

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It's fantastic. Yeah. Early, a week early. Right now, we're about to turn to that. Yeah. As of right now, a week early. That's a definitive state. The motion carries.

The next one's going to be good. If we end this show when it's this published and everything's up and it's done and we see a spike in sales of this shirt, are we all going to wear the same shirt from here on out? Forever? Yeah. Just this shirt. I guess heads up audio listeners. We're all wearing the same shirt at stuff at least.

Do I get a cut for being present? Yeah, I say so. I see so. Not wearing the shirt. They're not really supporting the team. You're present. I mean, you're gonna, people wanted you really badly. They've been forever saying they want a lease on the show.

They want a lease in the show. So you're gonna bring in more views, I understand. I hope. Here's what, when your show goes live, just make a very bad Photoshop of yourself in this shirt. And then we'll give you. Andy, do it. I'm on it. Can you Photoshop or lease?

Yeah. You designed this shirt. Yeah. You didn't even work for us. You just did it. Yeah. Wow. We paid him, right?

No, he didn't pay you. Oh, really? No. I was like, can we pay you now? I was like, just buy me drinks. In classic Andy fashion, he didn't want to have to deal with all of it. So I was like, oh, dude, we'll pay you. And he's like, I was like, dude.

I was like, just fill out this paperwork and we'll pay you. He's like, can you just not? That is such that, like, that gave you an early peek into who I am as a person where he was like, here's the money. We like, just fill out, like get the invoice. And I was like, it's just a lot of shit, man. He would pay taxes. Like, I remember about someone was like, hey,

just send me an invoice and he's like, what is that? I'm a draft dodgers. I was like, just Google, Google invoice. He was like, what, Andy? When I was in college, drew a comic strip for the school newspaper, and I was like,

easy money, this is great, gonna be able to spend it on beer every weekend. Because there's, you know, two cartoons a week. I should have been rolling in it. But when I went to get the money, they were like,

all, cool, you need your social security card. And like, my parents had just split up and like everything was everywhere. And I was like, ah, fuck it. And I just did this trip. free for an entire year. But then, like, I had to take a few semesters off because I was doing other journalism stuff. And then when it came back around, I was like, you know what? I'm bitter and

salty. I never got paid. So I'm going to do the comic again just for the paycheck and phoned it in for an entire semester because I'm a bad person. Was that your little frog comic? No, this was the adventures of Gary and Quinn. And what it was is that the football coach at the time was Gary Pinkle. The basketball coach was was Quinn Snyder. And so it was their shiner. You know Quinn Snyder. You know Quinn Snyder. Utah Jazz now, right? I don't know, but that was a good joke. about him that like, uh, Quinn Snyder looks like the, um, the villain in a movie that had, that was, that was a disaster.

Here am I guess. Not to mention, you know, our audience doesn't know anything about it. Do you remember any of your strips? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, when I was, when I was on point with them, like, I had a bunch of good ones of, uh, because it was all pulled from like what was happening and like, with the school and the, the sports teams, whatever.

But then there had been a rumor at one point about, I probably shouldn't say this all. awesome. That's just juicy as hell. There was a rumor going around about one, there was a rumor going around. I mean, there's no way around about one of the coaches I just mentioned having an affair with one of the players' girlfriends or whatever. Whoa. And I put that in a strip.

And then one of those coaches probably pulled me aside. It was like, what the fuck, man? I was like, ah! Dude. Wow. Too real. Too real. That's fucking cool, man.

And then you drew a follow-up strip of a, just a humble cartoonist being pulled aside. Yeah. Before we went live, you were talking about Costum Quest 2. Yeah, you're excited to play it because... I'm saying Halloween's coming up. We already have the Friday the 13th stream here. It'll be on Twitch.tv.com. Such kind of funny games.

Friday the 13th, it'll be me and cool Greg for sure playing. Maybe we won't invite other people. Am I going to buy a Jason mask? I think I might. I think I might get a hockey mask. But then, yeah, I saw it today when I was planning out more game over Gregi shows because we just have a billion of them happen all the time now. that Tuesday, the 31st, Halloween,

we don't need to do the show that day, so I put in a Halloween stream there. And so the question is, do I play more Friday the 13th, cool, Greg? Do I play Customs Quest 2? Because if you remember, I was the first person ever to back Costum Quest 2 by giving Tim Schaefer a $5 check on Up at Noon,

and then never shutting up until it actually happened, and then it actually happened, and I never actually beat Cosm Quest 2. I got halfway through, something happened, got distracted, never came back, and I thought that said none to play all that. Because for me, Crash Bandico was that game. where it's just like I was asking for it, asking for it, and I got it.

And then I did play it. But the reason I bring this up is because James, his game, is Psychonauts too. He loves Psychonauts. Oh. That's happening. How excited is he about that? Has it been any, like, updates on that? Or is that just one of those things that was like, we're doing it, and it's been silent?

No, but he is going camping with Tim Schaefer and the team because that was a Kickstarter, or, sorry, a fig goal. And there was a very, very generous fan. Did you say fake goal? Fig. Oh, fig. A very generous. fan that got that goal.

And James was like, he's like, I can't accept it. And the guy was like, no, please, it'd make me really happy if you would do this. Wow, that's really cool. I don't know when it's good. I think it may be in the next, you know, year. Has he met Tim and everything before? Yeah, he has. Yeah, Tim Shaver is like, the best.

The best, man. He's been on a million of these shows. He does the morning show for us when nobody can fill in. But no, like, real update on any, he's going to do that little cameo or whatever. No real update. Did he do, did he play Rombus Arroon? the VR one? I think he did.

Yeah. I haven't heard it. When it came out, like I'm not the biggest psychonauts fan. Like I enjoy it fine. I really do need to go back and play the PS2 remaster

or whatever on PS4. But so like I never felt the urge to jump into the VR game, but I know a lot. It came and went, but it didn't seem like to be able to really talk about it. So I didn't know if a fan was all over it. No,

I think he probably played an event or something. Sure, sure, sure, sure. That's a PSVR only, right? Yeah, we don't have a PSVIR. Oh, you guys suck. I didn't realize, I didn't realize Funhouse is doing that badly. Yeah, you guys love your PlayStation over here.

Yeah, we do. I don't know if anyone at Funhouse owns a Vita. Definitely, Bruce does not. How much creativity would be Lawrence? Irish Gamer Man want to know. Do you own a PlayStation Vita? I do not. There was one, like, week, back when Dangan Rampo was only on the Vita.

Or sorry, well, yeah. Ian, we worked together at game trailers. I was like, can I borrow you're, you know, so I could play this? And he was like, sure. But then after a week he was like, I need this back. And I was like, oh, well, I've been like traveling and working. I haven't. And he was like, no, I need it back.

Too bad. You had your shot. And I was like, okay, never again. Why did it ding and Rapa drag you in? Or try to drag you in? There was just something about, about, well, it being an accessible anime gaming experience in a sense, if that makes any sense. more so than a lot of more like niche. The mystery element.

Yeah. I'm a big fan of 999. Oh, so like locked through mysteries. Sure. Okay. So I was like, I was totally down with,

uh, with the similarities. So have you played one and two now that they're on like PlayStation? And now obviously Dangan Rompah V3 is out as well. No, I those are I need to go back and actually do them. The, like the,

I've played, uh, they're not the same games, but like 999, zero time to learn. Yeah. Yeah. But I need to go back and do the Dangan Rompas now that I can actually get them.

I like the way you pronounced it. Dangan Rumpa. Yeah. She's doing very authentic. Yeah. I don't know that that's the proper way. I'm just used to like, dangan rampa. Mama Kuma.

Oh, Mama Kuma. What is he up to? Elise, what are you been playing? I can tell you the last three games of, in my personal time, I've been playing. The life is strange, the new. Before the Storm. Before the Storm, the first episode. Thoughts.

So, uh-oh. No, no, no. I, it was a little slightly jarring to have Chloe voiced by somebody other than Ash. Um, but I still thought the, the new voice actress did great. Yeah. Just, you know. Um, and I liked, I like the story.

I never really saw Chloe as someone that I kind of related to. Mm-hmm. But, uh, they're softening her and I, I like that we're getting, the kind of a perspective of her and Rachel Amber's friendship 100%.

It feels, I miss the time rewind mechanic. Oh really? Like that actually kind of felt like you were puzzling a little bit more

the discs or like comeback mechanic and like that's cute but like it didn't feel like it doesn't feel as gamey. Yeah. I'm curious to see like how it's going to

as a prequel I think you always need something that's really going to hook you and compel. Because you know it's going to happen. Ultimately, you know the trajectory of events. So not yet in that first episode did I get something where I was like, okay, I'm really

hooked and curious to see what they're going to feed me that's going to keep me interested in this. Did you guys play it? Did you? I did. Yeah, I'm a huge life is strange fan or whatever. And so jumping into it, it was like, it's cool they're doing more. All right, great. I hadn't been like, this is an awesome background, by the way. This is a good question. I hadn't seen yet. I hadn't seen what the hook would be to it. But like, Like, yeah, playing through and please shut your face. Sorry. I love your fashion sense.

That's Ghostbusters. Coolest guy in the office. Oh, okay. Remember this movie Ghostbusters? I've heard of it. They made video games about it over there. David Crane signed one copy of it. Going through, I wasn't like hungry for Chloe's backstory or anything in there.

But when you jumped in, it was the same way for me where she's always like the punk and she's this and Hela. And you're like, okay, cool. And she has blue hair and why? I'm already super, I'm super intrigued and hooked by the fact of watching her mature into that person. And like when she starts wearing the punk thing on her arm, right? And then she starts wearing a different t-shirt. Yeah, exactly. It's cute.

They go back in retcon why she would say hella. I love there's an origin story for Hela. Having not played these games, that sounds like the best thing. Because that was the big thing, right? Of like they put out there, like so many people queued in on that to hate on that. And then being the fact that people like NorCal people like yourself who say Hela, why would this girl from Oregon say Hela. Like they actually went back and gave you a reason of why that would happen.

She was like, oh, the bear is pretty cool. There was a little tease at the end in the, in the, uh, the when they were doing that preview at the end. There was a silhouette where you're like, who is that? Yeah. Yeah,

it was that. I don't miss the rewind mechanic just because, I mean, like I liked it fine, but it was also the fact of, this is three episodes, it's just a story.

If they're gonna give me fucking awesome moments like that D&D game, like when you walk up and get to play, yeah, you get to play Dungeons and Dragons and Life is Strange or whatever, and you go over and it's all based

on what you say and do. And it's just them talking in the three different perspectives of like, here's Chloe. here's the board and the dungeon master here's this other kid and you go through and it's so well done of like slow pansy

and intense music and all this shit I was like yeah fuck yeah I hope you continue playing your D&E campaign yeah yeah yeah right that'd be awesome and then oh I played the second chapter of Bendy in the Ink Machine I don't know if you guys I haven't heard of this is Bendy in the ink machine

so you know like the classic Max Fleischer cartoons like Superman. Yeah, and like Betty Boop

in that kind of it's almost you think of it as early Disney too but Max Fleischer was a rival of Disney

Benny and the Ink Machine you're it is kind of like a Do you Felix the cat? He may have

I feel like yeah Felix but you're a you're an animator that's returning to a now

defunct studio like 20 years after you worked for it and it has that very like that vibe to the

art style and you you created all these these these characters one being bendy who's kind of like this devilish little guy and I don't tell you too much there's so much lore about this game online too Matt Pat has done like a couple oh yeah game theories on it which like I the the episodes are like there's there's you know there you don't do too much like game-wise like you have an axe you have there are these like in creatures that you know you do have to fight at points but it is a there's like so much story it's kind of like another five nights of Freddy's where like what's the story and it's just slowly being revealed over time yeah they I played the second one because the next episode I want

to say it's coming out this week I'm assuming it's maybe today steam it's no Felix yeah it's on steam pop-in there's like all this lore and then the the most recent thing that I started playing was Hollow Night see I'm waiting for the switch I know I couldn't I couldn't do it I just spot on Steam. How is it? Because it looks beautiful. It looks super awesome,

but does it stand up compared to? Now, I feel like we have so many Metroidvania-style games. Yeah, well, it's Metroidvania with light RPG elements, but I love Ori in the Blind Forest.

Sure. So that was part of the reason when I'm like, oh, this game looks beautiful. And it does, like, kudos to the artists of this game, because they're doing a lot

of heavy lifting. Just that style, I think, is luring a lot of people in. And the platforming is great. It's like Ori where, you know, you do unlock a bit of, and you're building you know you don't start with a double jump you don't start

with a dash that sort of thing but it's it is tough like it's a tough game and you're it has like dark souls is elements too which I guess is now kind of the trend with like every every every let's like let's make a side scroller or a platformer that has like a bonfire kind of element or really tough like bosses dodgerals yeah but I I'm digging it so far It is tough and like it is like dark souls where you're not necessarily clear on what your exact objective is, but you have to infer and uncover those story layers as you go throughout and you're kind of piecing together what your objective is, which I'm curious to see whether I'll actually fully understand or comprehend like what that is supposed to be. because I've kind of like look to see what the response is and some people are like

this game got too hard for me and I just stayed up on it I'm like I hope I don't hit that wall yeah because it is the kind of thing where if you die you lose everything that you've accumulated and then you go back to the spot where you died and you have to fight your ghost it's not really difficult but say you died at a boss battle

and then you've got to go back and fight your ghost and the boss at the same time the boss is charging at you the ghost is charging at you that's where like that reminds you of shovel night like having to go back and get your treasure and what i like about shovel night is i thought they did a really good job of the risk versus reward where when you die it's the three treasures or whatever that pop up and you have to you can recalect them uh but you don't have to and i feel like this sounds a bit more like it gets in your way and can like fuck up the actual gameplay whereas the shovel night thing it was more like if it was in an impossible place just don't go yeah if you die on your way to that ghost to reclaim your stuff you

lose all that save. So it can get frustrating in that respect. But yeah, I would say wait for the Switch because people are going to spend so much time with this game on the Switch, and it's really pretty. Do we know the release date for Switch version? No. One of these guys, huh?

One of these ukuleleys. There's a whole bunch of them. Ulai Star do that, but apparently Star do that. But it's got approved or whatever. It just got approved. It just got approved, so it's common. It's been an interesting thing with the Switch with the E-Shop because it seems like a lot of games aren't committing to release dates because they're trying to get the game done

and release as soon as possible so they don't put the date out so that as soon as it's ready and gold or whatever, digitally, I don't know how that all works. They can just get it approved and then boom, it's live. That's why Golf Story. Yeah.

It's a perfect example where we heard about it in the Nindy's presentation and then like September, and September comes along, it's in the next Nintendo Direct and it was like, we have two weeks left in September. There's no date?

That's fucking weird. Do you ever worry that like these games, or maybe the developers were worried that they're not getting press because there's nothing that you can point to and say like, it's coming this time. The thing about that, I think right now the rush is that this is literally

a gold rush right now. We've seen it. Three people, or three games got talked about, I'm kind of funny games daily today, right? Ocean Horn, death squared,

and one that I don't remember the name of because I hadn't really heard of it before, but saying that, hey, our Switch version of the game sold more than all the other versions combined. Wow. Because time after time after time. Because this is, I mean, the Switch is the new Vita in terms of like, hey, you put out games on this and the audience will buy it.

The attach rate is insane. Even things like, I forgot what show we talked about this on, it might have been games daily, but Ultra Street Fighter 2, which was panned by the internet. Like so far of the Switches like physical real releases or like games that they put focus on, that was their game for May. James bought it. He spent like 40 bucks. He buys it every time. Every time Shriver 2 comes out. And that's the thing is like, it's a, obviously it's a great game.

But like this version does have a lot of issues. with it and the fact that it's $40 is an insult when that that game originally came out for $15 10 years ago the remake not let alone the original version but that game sold more in its first week than Marvel's Capcom Infinite did on PS4 and Xbox 1 and that is combined and I was talking it was combined oh okay Gary Woodrow was on today and we were talking about this of my concern is because like did you see today we're recording this on Thursday obviously all the games that came to switch today it's an obscene amount of games obscene amount of games I've seen him, I got the press release in my email from Nintendo and I was looking through and I was like, oh shit

Lover's in the Dangerous Space Time is on Switch. I'm like I haven't even heard about that. Awesome and that's cool, but like are we getting to the point where there's too much? I didn't know it was coming to switch. No, I didn't even It's the thing, yeah, where I think beforehand, you know, are we worried about the press? No, we're not worried about the press, we're worried about people buying it. And now, as this market now is filling up in the marketplace is getting so crazy. Thank you, Joey. It's just like, well, we're going to hit that limit now where it's hard to find games. There's going to be so many games that they won't all sell like this. So right now it's literally get your shit out as fast as possible.

You think it's going to become like a mobile type situation? No, I mean, I think that you're going to, I think the quality per capita will be better. But I think it's going to get to, you know, how we talk about PSN, Steam, Xbox, like, how hard it is to find games there anymore. How hard it is to separate the good from the bad. How hard it is to get something, an indie game that's on Steam press when there are a million indie games on Steam trying to get press. I think, you know, I was talking about it today, right? You just hit the power button on your switch. There's this nice little curation right there of three top stories, right, from Nintendo to tell you something about.

And we've seen that be snake passes out. I've seen it be other little games. And it's not hiding stuff in the way that I think the, PlayStation Network does and being able to jump in and get into that that's great But when there are 14 games at every Thursday release those numbers are gonna start to go down in terms of adoption I do think that the switch is going through that that kind of early foundation process where there's so many ports and especially when it comes to indies I think the indie developers are seeing so much success and so much sales and just numbers and numbers numbers Yeah, oh fuck let's get the game that we did three years ago

Oh how important it yeah let's just go let's just go and it's just like I think that that's gonna die down of course of Eventually and I hope that after that it does become more of a focused kind of systematic thing of Nintendo Does an indie's presentation focuses on 15 games and like we see those kind of trickle out I wonder if like it'll inspire a lot of Indie devs unless it's just easy for them to push out a PC You know version as well if that's native but like if they'll stop Developing and only develop for switch because like I know a lot of people are like there'll be an indie game that I'm like oh I'm excited for Like Hollow Night, for example. Or like, and I'm like, oh, there's this game, you know, Owl Boys.

Hell yeah. And I'm like, oh, I'm really into this game. And then they're like, oh, I'll wait for Switch. I'm going to wait for, I'm waiting for Switch. And so I'm like, oh, everybody's just expecting these games are going to get ported. Well, I mean, that's the way it is with the stuff that comes on on Switch first, right? Like, I don't expect it to be Switch exclusive forever. I expect Golf Story to be everywhere eventually.

It's just the fact that, from what I understand, Nintendo's super aggressive about Nindis. And hey, if you're publishing on this platform, we want it exclusively for this amount of time. And I think as the deal, you have these developers coming out being like, yeah, we made Buku money on it. I think more and more people are going to start doing that. And that'll just be the switch. Like talking to Damon Baker, the dude that does the Nindi's presentations like hosts him. I talked to him in D3. And he was talking about how much Nintendo is focusing on getting these independent developers to commit to the switch and wanting to have something about the switch be enticing more than just, oh, it's on switch.

but having it be first on Switch or exclusive modes on Switch or like what they're doing with Rocket League and things like that. And it's so awesome to see because like that's the GeoCore City PlayStation mentality of like we want to look at indie games as a pillar of the Switch. Yeah. So it's not just not just first party, third party, but indie games are just as equal to to those other two things in terms of their vision. And I think it's great that we're seeing them with their, the presentations showcases, directs. and whatever you want to call them that each one of those kind of focuses on one of those different pillars. Was there anything else on that press release that you stood out in terms of Nothing that I really was like, oh shit because like Lovers and Danger Space

time is such an awesome game and I can just imagine it being so great on switch, especially if there was the you're playing with somebody on joycon support to player that'd be really interesting. I don't know if it'd be possible but maybe because it's not really intensive anything's possible to him anything is possible nothing else stood out to you're saying not even conga master party Conga Master Party did not stick out to me, but what did stick out to me, but I already knew about this for a couple of days, golf story. Sure. Greg, we've been excited for this game. You've been playing it.

Since that Nindi's thing, yes, since the Nindi's presentation, right? I think we've all been, like, this game looks awesome. And this is the thing to your, you know, is it going to be hard or is it going to, you know, are they going to struggle for discoverability or something? I think it is the fact that if Nintendo continues to do Nindi presentations, they continue to these special directs. When you get there, you're going to have games that obviously stand out from the pack and that people see and identify with, like, It didn't work for me, but I know a lot of people were, I know Joey Noel is excited for that elephant game or whatever. Oh, Cube, not Cumbbo. Trumbo.

Something like that. What the hell is it called? I remember when it came out on Xbox One. But that's the thing where I think things will stand out to different people. Oh, that game already existed. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. If I'm thinking of the same game.

A little cute elephant. Trumbo. Yeah, that sounds right. To be clear, lovers in the nature space time out October 3rd. But it was in today's press release. I was like, why didn't I read that I kind of find a games daily? Not that I'm here to nickel and dime you I just looked at the press release

But that's the other thing too that's impressive about Nintendo for me as a Nintendo fan that's been on Nintendo's press email for years now. God how sad it was for so many years to get the email and be like out this week and it'd be like no quote unquote real game and then the downloadable stuff would be like

here's on the Wii UE shop there's DLC for some game that you've never heard of and then 3DSE shop is a bunch of other random shit and it's like some of them really quality things but it's just like what The fuck, and now it's like every week is this huge list. Yeah.

Yeah. No, it's nice to see them thriving, right? And I think it's just, it's going back to what they knew would make this switch work and survive. Is the fact that, yeah, Nintendo can't live on its exclusives alone. It can't live on Mario. I can't live on Zelda all by itself. We saw that with the Wii U, you right? But you put out great indie stuff on it.

You put out all these different people. You now start to have companies like Ubisoft wake up and be like, oh, well, yeah, we should partner with them. We should make something. I would argue with the three. Wii U though, this is important to put out. It didn't have a Mario, it didn't have a Zelda. Like, it didn't have the proper thing that people would expect from those games until the end

with Zelda, obviously. That doesn't count. Yeah. So, U sucked just for a minute. I had great games. It did, I know, and that's why I'm glad the Rock on on Switch. It never got the core games that maybe could have made it. Can you believe it's a fucking month till Mario Odyssey? No. I'm just so jealous of Bruce

is going to be here. Oh, when it comes? No, no. I didn't put that together. Is he here when Mario dropped? I was like here right after it because I'm like oh he gets talked to you guys about Mario. You guys say you want to play it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But golf story Greg, I've been playing it. Andy's been playing it.

We are golf fanatics here, that's what. You've been playing it too? Oh yeah. Oh, man, I'm so jealous. Yeah, you gotta get your shit together, huh? I do. Yeah. What it's so enticing about it is just that it, I mean, a lot of people who have seen it,

I don't have any background with this, but it looks like Mario Golf. It's Mario Golf and the game board color. Yeah, exactly. And so that's the thing where people are super into it. I was into it because, you know, we were heads down in everybody's golf from the PlayStation exclusive and crazy about that. And so when the Nindy's event happened and they showed this game, it was like, oh my, this

is like the answer to us. Literally, when we're sitting around playing everybody's golf, it's like, this is fun, but man, this would be great on Switch. It'd be great to you'll play this all time. I thought it was only going to be a Steam game. I first saw the trailer, I think, close to when I first got hired around here. Oh, really? Wow. And I was like, oh, it's probably going to be a Steam game. I probably won't play it. Yeah. And then the Nindis

presentation happened. I was like, oh my God, this is a Switch game. Holy shit. Yeah. And it, yeah, it really is a lot. like Mario Golf on on Game Boy Color. The dialogue's super cute and funny. It's so charming. I mean, they're little, you know, pixel characters, but they all have their own personalities. They all these different things.

Totally. There's already intrigue on the golf course. Like, why is this guy running? Drama. He's trying to sell knockoff clubs and shit. The coach won't coach me. What the fuck is on? How anime is it, though?

Anime, I don't think it's very anime. No. But again, you know how much anime I watched, too? I can't tell you. So is your objective to become, like, the number one golfer in the world or something like that? Right now it's coming up from bootstraps. You want to be trained.

You want to get this coach. You're like fulfilling. It starts with a flashback to you and your dad playing golf. That's so sweet. You're trying to honor your father here and go out and get good at golf. It's so cute. And then like 20 years later, it's like, hey, I'm trying to get back into it. And I'm back on the course.

Then I'm going to do my do right by my father. Is he dead? He's like, no, he's just. He's just over there. He's on vacation. I thought I'd come back and be a golf. Is the gameplay of the actual golf? like system

whatever it is. I haven't actually seen all the gameplay I've seen has just been overworlded. It is the only thing that it does weird that it didn't that it doesn't do like every other fucking golf team does is like the behind the back view when you're about to shoot. You're shooting from the top down just like from every view that you see down here.

But it's the same three three dot skill check or whatever it's obviously not as technical as most golf games but you can once you set your shot you can set, I want to put backspin and I wanted to draw

a little bit or slice or you know or hook or whatever. It's obviously not as technical as a game like everybody's golf, but... And that's been the one thing for me. You know, I've been playing how long was Gamescast? An hour and a half. Yeah, I'm sorry. Hour of 15. And I probably put in 10, 10, 15

before that. So I played an hour and a half of it or whatever and I've just gotten through my first nine hole. Like, hey, we have to have a competition. The rest of it's been running around. It's been little challenges. It's like, I get it into this. Yeah. Because to like what Tim said, I've like looked over your shoulder periodically and I've never seen you play golf once Yeah, right now I've got this caveman wants me to race around What intrigue is Greg?

I just don't I don't this caveman dude wants me to run on there's tarpitz in his course too that I'm running So essentially the first guy that you're gonna meet he's like You go up to a group he's like hey can you give me lessons and he's like no it's 1495 So you have to make 1495 in order for me to give you lessons Microtransaction bullshit all of his all of his like students on the course like yeah beat it like punk or whatever and like we're paying customers or whatever and so eventually you're like

okay well I have to go I have to run around the course and figure out how to make money so there's like a woman a mom and her son is like in the water and there's like alligators in the water and she's like oh my son's out there what the fuck do it so you like hit the sun with a golf club you hit the son with a golf ball and he flies back because he has

one of those little spinny hats so he flies back to the so she gives you like three bucks and you're doing all these little chores around in order to make the money But the really intriguing part is you get back and you find the coach You fuck that mom. Yeah, you fuck her to do you know right it's really graphic But essentially you give him the money and and he's like all right I'm gonna have you do these shots or these golf shots So you do him and you kill it but he's like no, you're not good man sorry you don't have a future and you're like what the fuck why not and this other little fucking snotty kid is like hey check out my shot

He's like how's my shot coach and he hits it He fucks it up. He hits it like two in the fucking slunker. Two slices. Yeah. And the coach is like, looks great. And you're like, whoa, something's up here, dude. There's shenanigans of foot.

And so you go talk to the snotty kid and snotty kid's like, yeah, want to want to battle sort of thing. And like, I guess it is kind of like Pokemon in that sense. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's the anime that I'm talking about. I'm so into it. I can't wait to get back to it. That's fucking awesome. How much is it?

15 bucks. 15 bucks on Switch. Available now. 1499. 14. 95. 95, I guess. It's okay.

It's so special. You weren't listening. It's so cool. Hey. So great, though. Are you, is it as good as you wanted it to? Yeah, no, totally. I'm all in.

I want to play more of it. Yeah, I think, you know, as something to break me from destiny, or when Jen's all selfish and wants to watch a movie with me rather than let me play destiny. I can play this then on the download. She won't know. Are you playing anything else?

You want more destiny. Of course. Yeah. And after the destiny? Yeah, a little bit more destiny after that. Yeah. You know what I mean? I almost got.

I just, I'm almost got the trophy for my stupid Titan. I know you've been worried about this. I have that. Then I'm obviously going to do the warlock trophy. Then I got to go through. Warlock Master Raceman. How much of the, war of the factions have you been playing, Andy?

Not, not, I, I barely selected my faction. Would you want, you want future war call? Yeah, because they have the coolest lobby and the coolest looking gear.

And apparently, like, they have a really dope-ass, um, pulse rifle and Scott rifle. Okay, so I'm looking forward to, have you done any of the farming of tokens?

Have you seen this whole thing? No. There's like, because you can go into lost sectors, do it, but not kill the boss, warp back out, come back in and just do it all over again. Oh, I didn't know that. I did that for a while. Is that like teasing it? Yeah. Oh, okay.

I wasn't sure if that was like how you actually do it or not. No, I don't know if it's been patched. No, I haven't done any of that, though. The first night, so I selected my faction and then my roommates are like, hey, do you want to play Crucible? And we're like, yeah, sure. And then, of course, we got fucking transed. Sure. And I'm just not very good at PVP.

Do you already have the trophy for the War of the Nine? Have you done that thing? Or Chislinine. No. Wait, no, I don't think so. I've been to, I think we only won like three matches. I don't know. Not very good at PVP at least.

No, yeah, sure, sure. It's a pain in the ass. But I do it. The fun I find in doing PVP is your daily challenges and your milestones. That's what they should be making the fun part. Yeah, and what's fun is like you go into PVP and like you see that like, oh, the goals today are like kill people with five, with void weapons. or whatever, or kill 50 people with a super. Not 50, it's always like 5 or 10 or something like that.

So they're always a really attainable goals, and they're fun. And that's where I find the cool challenge in Destiny PVP. Because otherwise, I'm not going to have fun. I'm going to get my ass whipped. But it's like, oh, I never really use my fucking the flame sword guy. Sure. Never use that, but I have to do it for this challenge, so might as well try it out. but no I haven't done much of the war of the factions

but I'm slowly weaning myself off a desk in a little bit getting a little bit less out of it wait for the new expansion yeah that's the thing I want to get my power level up before I stop and then I want to also just keep playing too that's fun yeah that's fun get it to where I can just raid or whatever you know I'm sorry I'm already raiding obviously get to where the raids aren't you know soul crushing and not I'm like I want to cry while I play it and just get good enough there to wait then for the expansion

plus I want to get that platinum What else you've been playing, Andy? I fired up NBA 2K18. Hell yeah. Because I'm a big baller. Slam a jam, a Tomahawk. I'm a big baller. I'm just slam dunking all across the court. Okay. Correct. Man, a story mode is so bad. You're playing on PS4. I saw that. Right?

I'm playing on PS4, yeah. I was thinking of trying to like coerce Funhouse into, like, let's play it. But then I was looking at some of the reviews and they were not that positive. We want to do a party mode where we do like 2 v2 or like Greg versus Nick and just that's happening. Hey, we're going to do that. But man, the my career, create a player, this is your guy. I've always loved that mode in 2K. And I haven't played in the last like year or so. I stopped at the year where it was a Spike Lee joint.

Oh no. That's the year that I didn't play it. You didn't play. Why didn't you play the Spike Lee joint? I don't know why I stopped. Okay. Not like Spike Lee, not a Knicks fan. But also the year prior to that was like the last year I played.

it was just abysmal because they had actual players who were acting. So, like, if you got drafted to the pel. Like, you would get drafted to a certain set of teams, right? So I got drafted to the Pelicans. Eric Gordon is sort of like your mentor. And Eric Gordon, good Lord, dude. Eric Gordon is. Elise Williams, what have you been playing?

Like, you could tell this is, he's reading a fucking script, and he shouldn't be put through this, you know? This isn't one of his skills. He's a three-point shooter. He's a three-and-d-d-a-guy, Greg, all right? He's good for defense. He's good for three-point shots. Not for the readings.

He got signed to the Houston Rockets. He killed it last year. But he's just terrible. And all the actors are terrible. All the basketball athletes are terrible actors and they're really bad readers. And there's like really great montages of the cutscenes of them reading. Like, hey, man, you do it really great today. You should also come to the team next week.

Like, you could tell, like, where they're, like, reading comments. I love basketball. Yeah, I love basket. They have to ADR it. So I started 2K-18 and of course you give your guy name Andy Cortez. Yeah, you do. Right?

But Andy Cortez is playing as DJ. Yeah, nicknames shit. So the last time I played was like two years ago, I believe, and you were Prez. That was your name. P-E-R-Z. So like what he would do is like if you fouled somebody, he'd be like, My name is Prez and I approve of that foul. Presidential pardon.

He would say shit like that. I was like really, really stupid. That's really good though. That's really good. Yeah. So, DJ, he gets, so he's, so he's, you're getting, you're applying for like some like street league sort of invitational or whatever. And one of the guys recognized. He's like, oh, I remember you're DJ, huh?

So how's that DJ life cheating? You quit basketball for, didn't you? So it's like you quit basketball four years ago. You're trying to come back to the game after like, after, like, after. Yeah, exactly. So after failing as a DJ, and I didn't get far into it, I was like, this is fucking bad, man.

But the gameplay feels great, man. Yeah. I mean, but you can cross over some punks. Did you see the microtransaction shit that everybody's done up in arms about? No, I haven't gotten anywhere near. Like, essentially, I did the part where you play a few games to sort of show that you

have what it takes, Greg. Sure. And then you select your favorite team early on, and as you were leaving one of these, He's like streetball league. Some guys like, hey, DJ. And you're like, yeah, what's up, man? He's like, okay.

And you're kind of like very standoff. He's like, yeah, fuck this guy. And he's like, I'm a scout for the San Antonio Spurs. And you're like, what? Yeah, so you kind of freak out. And then you essentially go to the team's like fucking practice area. And you're like, hey, yeah, we wanted you to try out with the third stringers. Caramolone, he's back.

He's back. So you try out with the third stringers. and then you do well enough to, like, hey, you're tired? And you're like, nah, man, I'm not tired. He's like, are you sure you're not tired? Because if I see you, like, you know, be lazy out there, I'm going to pull you. Yeah. So you play against the starters.

And of course, you kill it. So they're like, you know what? We're going to offer you your contract. Then you collapse and there's a mini game and it becomes trauma center. Yeah. Getting the spiders out of your lungs. What's really awful about it, though, is like you go back to your apartment. And your apartment is like a fucking basketball gym.

But you have a bet. But you have, like, this female friend who's like your best friend. Oh, and she's this Asian woman who's really loud and that kind of acts ghettoish, and it's just like, it's just really bad. Like, it's awfully acted. I'm not a huge fan of it. But I saw to the part where now it's kind of like open course in everybody's golf where now you're in the game, you're in this like open big lobby and there's other created players around you. And you get to go play. Other DJs.

Yeah, other DJs essentially. DJs jamming on DJ. It's so annoying. But the gameplay feels. so fluid and awesome and like it always does. It's just the story mode, they need to go to another really big reinvention in order to

make it good again. Yeah. Because it's a long shot, long shot. Scott Porter, yeah. Did you ever play Madden? No. Long shot in Madden this year's really good. So they put in long shot mode in Madden and it's like story mode. Super good. Marisela

Ali is the dad. Oh, I love him. It's so sad. It's like he dies. Dan Marino's in it. He's really good. Yeah, Danmarino is actually really good He acts. Yeah, yeah. Well, I knew from Ace Ventura that he's got chops, but he's just been resting him for like 25 years to come back.

It's straight up like Friday night lights. Yeah, that's where he's got to be. He's straight up like Friday night lights like, no. It's really, really good. It's really good. Do you think we should do that on a fun house? You should. Well, I mean, you might cry a lot.

I think it's like it's so good that you can't really be made fun of. Oh, people make fun of it. Yeah? Yeah. People are mean about it. Okay. Well, that's my. That's my two cents on NBA 2K.

Interesting, you talk about how bad the voice acting is and the acting in general in NBA 2K. I know where you're going with this. Last time, I'm kind of funny games cast. I have something else I've been playing, but go ahead. Well, we're bouncing around, aren't we? I mean, I clearly have something else to say. Can we just fucking add that around?

There's no, there's no. Like Mark Wahlberg and the Departive. Yeah, just sweating. Alex Baldwin. Last time, Unkind of Funny Gamescast. Previously, on Kind of Funny Gamescast. insert the clip Okay

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Thimbleweed Park Thimbleweed Park Well I was making a joke Like when I You know like I love it Thimbleweed Park I was talking to a good game

Because I've played it At preview events I'm like yeah I want to play it I then didn't want to play it on PC Obviously didn't want to play on Xbox Then it was coming to PlayStation I was gonna get trophies Then it's coming to Switch

I'll wait for Switch So we had this flight down To go see these idiots in LA We gotta hang out with I'm out on the plane, actually the airport, popping the earbuds, crack my knuckles, turn on thimbleweed park,

start plants in the weed park, enjoying the first little bit of it in this stuff. And then like, Andy got there and I was like, I turned it off. He's like, how is that going? I'm like,

I like the writing. These voice actors are so bad. Like, I just don't like any of their performances, their delivery, their accents. I'm like, I don't know what to do.

But I think that was, that was perfect, because it was a small operation. at that time. Sure. Can I ask you a question about how it plays on Switch? Yeah. So, um,

when you're, you know, because you obviously have to, sorry, you have to click on an, in action. Yeah, like,

move here, play this. Can you just like touch screen like doop, dupe? Yep. Yeah. Man, fucking play on it.

I should have played it on PC. I played it on Xbox. So every time I'd have to drag the cursor. No, no, no. That must be so sweet. No,

it's super nice. You here. I'll click it over for you. So tight. Like, it's the thing where I, I'm not an adventure game guy for the most part, right? Like the old school telltale games I didn't really want to do.

And whenever Tim's here and he's like, oh man, do you play this game that I made or that game that I made? I'm like, nah, huh? I played full throttle with Poe once. We enjoyed that, but nothing else. So jumping into this one, I was like, all right, cool. I like the idea of it. You know, there's been this murder in this town. She's so in love with it.

Yeah. I like the style of it. I'm playing it on the casual. Do you want casual or like season difficulty in casuals more like forgiving of yeah what the fuck do I click on how to do it But like I was playing it it might have been that it was early, you know what I mean? Like we were trying to try to hang out for doing different things Southwest terminal it was disaster but it was this thing of like I'm really into this and then they start talking and I'm just like ooh Is the clown's voice okay? I don't like I didn't get to the clown

Uh holy shit this makes it so much easier to play yeah oh my god Yeah and that's the thing is I'm gonna get back to it I think I'm gonna turn it off I think I'm gonna go back and just turn off the voices, but it was just like the main guy you're playing as in this duo Detectives. I was just like I can't have a fucking meltdown right now. I can't believe the difference. You're so lucky Greg. I'm saying I don't like that voice is fuck me. So I need to get back to it But yeah, I just did not hit on the note. I thought it was going to you don't think they were trying to parody like Dana Scully or anything I think they were but I think she's just like a joyless voice in there that I just don't enjoy listening to you see the picture that guy has a weird accent do I have one oh yeah no that's

kind of interesting Fox Mulder and Dana Scully yeah like X-Files we kneel yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay interesting marketing and then in a similar vein coming back from the trip down to LA for the let's play reunion I booted up another lost phone or you know the sequel to a normal lost phone or whatever and I think again this was of course five in the morning so that might play into it or whatever because I'm just reading texts and doing all this different stuff it didn't hook me like the first one did hmm I started the first one on PC and should is it available on like Android you know wow yeah yeah should go back and do it that way because I I was like I don't really know if I'm in I mean I wasn't in the right

mood for it but yeah it didn't get the first one I really enjoy and it was like oh man this is intriguing of like what's going on and where and I forget what it was something about the you know you start the first one you scroll back through these text from your father and it's like okay cool oh yeah yeah but I'm just talking about you see this relationship with this father and the family and then to the like where are you worried about you what's happening kind of thing. And this one, I jumped in there.

I thought like there was more information available at the beginning or whatever, but I'm reading back through this chat log or what I guess text log with your boyfriend. And I'm going back and forth. I'm just like, I don't, I, it might be that I was reading it wrong, but this was enough of like,

it was just a bridge too far for me to believe of like, it sounds like when the guy leaves, she moves in with him. When he leaves the apartment, the door locks and you can't unlock it. Like she's trapped there like a prisoner. And I was like, that doesn't sound real at all.

Like, I don't understand what that is. Maybe I'm misreading this context, but I kept going, and that's the context. I'm going with it. I'm gleaming from it or whatever. So, like, I'm already like, well, this guy just sounds like a psychopath or something's weird here. And he keeps making up excuses why he didn't make her a key yet.

I'm like, all right. Like, I don't really understand. And then I got to like where she, she disappears or whatever. And like, where are you? I'm worried about you, blah, blah. And like, I went back and started reading the other text messages. None of them seemed all that like, oh, this is what's going on. Like, I don't know.

She's missing. Was there a train accident? like I know it won't be long. I should go back and get back into it and see it and see if it catches me moving. Maybe it was just, that was the morning and I wasn't in the mood for it. Yeah, sometimes games like that. It's a definite mood.

Yeah, 100% right. Not to derail that, but it's tangentially related, I guess, but are you and Emily is away fan? We both are huge. I need to go back and play that and then Emily is still away.

Emily's away two. Yeah, so you never beat it. I've never, I've never played them. You got to. Emily's Away is such a special game that I love so much and both of them are so good in totally different ways. I feel like I saw Tim Tweet about this a long time ago.

It might be my favorite let's play we've ever done. Where me and Greg played through the entire second game in one four hour sitting and got wasted. This is great. It was so damn good. But yeah, no, those games are, they're so great. They're super special. It's like this game when you first were pitching me on the prequel to it, like it sounds cool. Cool, but Emily is a way just nailed that to me because it's like I like that this is modern and it's like you're actually using your phone to do all this stuff

But there's something about the setting of using aim and during a time Pay time period yeah the sounds like all the things of like the references to the music that was coming out during 2004 or whatever It's like let me know what you think about it I remember like I first saw it at an Indycade but then like I think I just I was like this doesn't really seem like a great game to sit down and play now. It's definitely not a preview game. Yeah, you know, when you're in a tent outside in Culver City, you're not going to, but, uh, yeah, there, I mean, I definitely love games like that. And the thing about the original, a normal lost

phone, right, was I felt like there were like, again, leaps in logic of how this all works, where it was like, okay, this is interesting. It was short to, you know, it wasn't like, you know, I was spending hours on it. And I don't know how long this one's going to be either. But I feel like this one is like, let's put more in there and try to gamify it more. And like, this is like, So I went in to try to get into like this little secure thing and you put in a passcode. I guessed it and it didn't work. And then it's like incorrect password. Your hint.

Some of the following information. Year of your year of birth of my first boyfriend plus office number of my penultimate boss plus street number of the place where I and Amanda met for the first. I'm like, all right. We're gamifying that a bit too much in terms of like, you know, what the fuck's going on. Who uses the office number of their penultimate boss? It like spells it all out. And then it's that because then it's that thing of just like, okay, cool. like, and I was, when I started playing it

at 5 in the morning in the terminal, right, in the last one, I don't remember ever having to take notes. It was like pretty clearly as I started going in this one, I'm like, I should probably have a piece of paper and I'm like, I don't really feel like doing that. I thought you were reading literatica. I thought you were writing in a row. The last game I took notes for was her story.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like Jim Carrey in number 23, just mad scribblings all around me. Yeah, no, we did that too. We did that too, yeah. But what I love that, Emily's a way, too, is I felt like it did a great job. of adding more elements that weren't shitty gamifying things. It's more like, oh, this is actually like with the YouTube and with the web browser

and being able to use the desktop. It was flushing out that experience without just piling on things to it. And again, arguably, I haven't played near enough of this to have that opinion. But that was my, I mean, first glance, it's a mobile game. You know how they are. There are a dime a dozen. I can move on to something else and switch or this, that the other. That was my impression of it where I didn't get locked.

I didn't get hooked the way I was the first time around. Yeah. The two things I've been playing, I got Poken Tournament on the Slix. DX. DGenerations. I played it on my, a little bit on the flight from L.A. And it's just, I played, me and Kevin did a let's play when it was on Wii U. And we played a little bit more than that.

And like, it's one of those games where I would have loved that if that's what Pokemon Stadium was on the N64. Yeah. Now I don't really need that type of game. And I'm not really a fighting game pro by any stretch of the imagination. So it's like, I heard you're MLG. I don't. The systems are a little too deep for me to wrap my head around just from casual playing. Cool Tim and Justin Wong hanging out on the local circuits.

But it's definitely, it's a good game. There's a lot going on. The character selection's great and I enjoy the the Pokemon cartoon elements to it where it's like, oh man, this feels like the battles felt in the cartoon. But I feel it's like a weird release to put out so close to arms because they're very different games, But they're both 3D behind the shoulder fighting games. Yeah. And I feel like arms is a lot easier to wrap your head around than Poken tournament.

And I enjoy arms more. So I'm like, I don't think I'm really going to play too much of it. So that's kind of my thoughts on that. The other thing I got to play a lot of was the S&ES classic. So I got that. It's freaking adorable. obviously I love it super Nintendo my favorite console of all time my first console of all time and so many of those games are just so damn good so there's 21 games I think one of them being

Star Fox 2 and yeah called that one like I saw it that game's trash that's it's it's so bad and it's like Star Fox one of my favorite franchise is because I remember playing the Super Nintendo one back in the day and even my first time playing it I was like this is rough but it opened up my imagination so much where I was like, this is so cool. The way that they were all talking to you, it felt like, that's what it was. Anything's possible in video games.

It was funny though, because it reminded me of Star Wars and it's because it was aping Star Wars, but such simple, like, it's just a flight, like you're on rails going through shooting stuff, but something about it being like a 3D, like game and the way that the graphics looked unlike anything I've ever seen, even though they were trash.

But just having all the different characters come up, it made it feel like it was part of something so much bigger. And like trying to understand like the relationships. And like it got pretty deep. Just the lore given you on the menus and stuff about James's dad, or Fox's dad dying and Peppy being a former teammate of his father and all that stuff. It's like, fuck man, this is so cool. Man, I didn't know that.

It's great. And then when you, when they made Star Fox 64, it was just like, oh, well, fuck Star Fox and Super Nintendo. That game is like it's just done. It's like unplayable now. StarFx 64 is so good and it was a remake of that game. And I just keep remaking it and making it worse now. But StarFx 64 was so good that I'm like, I can't imagine going back.

And Star Fox 2 never came out because as they were making it, the PlayStation has already come out. And like the novelty of, oh, it's a 3D game. It would have just been crushed. And also just the quality level just wasn't there. And a lot of the elements that did work from it, they ended up using for Star Trek. Fox command on the Nintendo DS in like 2006 I think it was a walker dude no that was Star Fox assault oh idiot the Starvox command was that it was like not real-time strategy but it was a strategy thing where it's like you draw the lines of like where the ships

go and Star Fox too has those elements mixed with the more classic on rails or even I think this is the game that introduced the um forgot the name of it but where you were just corn area and you like you know the boss fights it all range mode is what they call it when the boss fights of Star Fox 64 and you're not on rails anymore. No, you're just kind of in an arena. Oh, right, right, right, right. It has a lot of that. But yeah, no, I, I, like, played maybe an hour of it.

I'm like, I would never beat this game. It's so hard to control. I love the characters. Everything that I liked about the original Star Fox was still there. But, like, this is definitely a gimmicky novelty thing of like, oh, man, there's a, like, this probably is setting a record for finished game that took the longest to come out ever. But yeah, it should have stayed that way, in my opinion. But when I first came home with the Super Nintendo, I was like, I'm going to hook it up.

I'm going to play around for a bit. I want to try Star Fox. And then I looked at Super Mario World. I'm like, I'm just going to pop it in. I'm just going to beat the first castle. A couple hours later, beat that damn game. It's so good. It's so freaking good.

Lawrence and I were talking about maybe playing Secret of Manna together. That's one of my favorite games of all time. I mean, I still have it. The original. Yeah, we have a. Super Anaston cartridge for it, but I don't use cartridges anymore. I want my

HDMI output. I mean, it's such an amazing collection of games. I love all the features that they added with the safe states and the rewinds and the borders and all and stuff. It's definitely... What is the rewind exactly? It's that you rewind to watch what you've done? No, no, no, no. No, no. You rewind

just start back from your... Is that even a feature in the Super Nintendo or I'm making that up? It is. Well, some of these rewinds? Okay, because I know you can do it in a... Because I was like, oh, if you goof, you could Just go back. Is that what it is? Because Andre Seeger's, I thought, put out a tweet talking about the rewind in relation to Mario Kart that you could go back and try to do.

Like, it was helpful to, if you missed a corner to corner. That's what I, that's what I think it is. I think it's just like a reroute function that takes you back in the game. Okay. Just a little bit. Like tracer. Yeah, exactly. The movie tracer?

No. Overwatch. But yeah, so obviously it's a great collection in games. But the problem with it is, it's like, I'm not, I don't have any need to replace. them and especially when it's in this type of collection it's like why isn't this on switch like these are the type of games that I'm like if they were on switch I need buy this I know and it's it's great as a collector's item but I don't argument I've been making forever with back when there was so much hullabaloo

about the a ainess and his class and his class yeah and the production supply issues and all that's like who's actually in the market to buy this to play these games like I just don't think that that many people are it's a novelty thing that maybe they'll play through a little bit but at the end of the day it's like it's collectible it's just a collectible thing and it's just a piece of nostalgia put on your shelf. Yeah and it's great. Like you say when we unboxed it right on the morning show of like when's the last time you held a brand new SNES controller? That stuff's awesome and I had a great experience with it and like I

again I recommend getting this thing because it's like it is a great collection in games but it becomes really easy to look at the glaring omissions like where's donkey con country too? Like why wouldn't that be there? And other things like that. But then also just like still the court is stupidly short like it's way longer than the last one was but like I still had an issue with my TV where I had to unplug HGMI cords and like stringing along my floor just to get to my couch. I'm like, this is stupid. They want you

sit and cross-legged in front of it it, may go on back. You're right, yeah. Absolutely. Oh man, I had a really great point. I mean, it wasn't. Think on it. I'll say, I can imagine if you're a parent and you have kids now and they're

in elementary school, this would be a fun way to show them what you were into. I know that when the pre-orders are coming out, Miles from RT was like, damn, I couldn't grab a fucking pre-order. And the main reason is because, like, I want to be able to show it to, like, my future kids

and be like, hey, this is. And I was like, damn, I probably only buy them on day one than Miles. So I told him that like, hey, you know what? I pre-order three. I'll give you one. You know what? Hey, I'm an asshole.

No, so I pre-order three, one to give to my nieces and nephew. Don't know if I want to do that. But another one for me, and another one because I'm going to trade to one of the kind of funny best friends, Matt Clements. I've known him since we were back in the community, like at our first PSX, the one where y'all did here in SF.

Yeah. He was like, are you going to PSX this year? And I was like, I don't know. And he was like, well, we could try to figure out to trade it there because he bought a UK version. And I was like, if you buy the UK version, I will trade you my standard American one. And he was like, yeah, we could totally do that. Like, I want that. I just love the color.

No, the colors is so much cooler, man. The rainbow colors is so much cooler. We're doing that San Diego Christmas thing. we can probably, if he comes to that, we could get it. And I'll probably be a PSX for sure. I don't know what your deal is. We'll figure it out. Figure it out.

And I'll smash it. Now it's time for this week in gaming history. Hold on. Here's what I also played. Oh, you got more. I have one more. Whoever wears the shirt runs the show. The newer version of the shirt.

Yeah, well, I have the newest. I know. We're varying levels of this shirt. The last thing I wanted to mention that I played a Runeer. I've been playing on PlayStation 4. It is such a cool, stylish twin stick shooter. I want it to control like Hyperlight Drifter because I fucking love Hyperlight Drifter, but it is a twin six shooter, so you are using your ride stick to sort of spin around. And sometimes it feels kind of loose and weird.

But it is beautiful. The art is awesome. Every time, and there's like really cool story. So essentially you're a dude who just has like a mask on that just has wording. You don't know what your face looks like. But you are looking for your brother who has like been kidnapped. And there's this girl in the game who sort of guides you through. She's like a crazy cool hacker chick.

And she looks awesome. She has like super like good looking girl with like awesome. No, she has a like big, she kind of looks like a. Tracer. She kind of looks like a, God, is it noodle from, is it noodle from gorillas? Oh, yeah. You have the big headphones. Yeah, she's really cool looking.

All the character, all the art is really cool. So whenever you, whenever you come across. an enemy, it's obviously it's sort of like top down isometric game. When you come across an enemy, like their 2D art flashes on the screen, and it's just then like in a cool. I love that. And the art is beautiful. It's all like, everything's very red.

The font that they use is so fucking stylish. And they come up on the screen, they're like, yo, what the fuck are you doing here? This is our territory, whatever. And you eventually had to shoot them down or whatever. But there's a really cool skill tree where you can, you know, improve your dash abilities or like throw out a shield, of shield and the shoot from behind it. It's super stylish and fun and it's gorgeous and I highly

recommend playing it. It's fucking awesome. It is awesome. It's just straight up cyberpunk fucking greatness. Sounds red. Yeah. That was time for this week in gaming history. Two years ago on September 27th, 2015, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 came out on PlayStation 4 and one was one of the most disappointing moments in my game. Oh, I remember that. It was sad. Like every once in a while when I want to feel bad about myself, I watched my review of that game and I just see my heartbreak and it breaks my heart to watch my heart break. Two years ago, man. Two years ago, man. Two years ago. Gone and forgot about that because the last Tony Hawk game in my consciousness is like Tony Hawk ride.

I was going to mention that, but I was hoping you weren't going to mention that. Full of technology. That was sad as well. But Tony X Pro Skater 5 was even more sad because it was a return to roots and they were going back to the number and that meant something. Fortunately, it, meant very bad things. God, that's so fucking upsetting to me. Two years ago, also, Greg, this one's for you. September 29th, 2015. Lego Dimensions came out on PlayStation 4 Xbox.

It's for me and Joey. Two years ago. Yeah. And just rest in peace. Not really kicking anymore. There's still shit coming out. Not from here and out. Maybe it's the way it was.

Yeah, I mean, they found, they got out those team Titans and the PowerPuff Girls, and that was the end of any announcements they had. And they had announced those, more than a year ago. So it was like Goo. Here we are.

That looks like it's over with. 15 years ago on September 24th, 2000. I'm like looking at it. Screen cheating. Now, I only put this one on a list because of its name.

Super Mario World 2 colon, Yoshi's Island, colon, Super Mario Advance 3 on the Game Boy Advance. That's right too many numbers and names. I loved it because Yoshi's Island were my favorite games of all time.

Playing on Game Boy Advance was great. They added the freaking sound effects from Yoshi doing his whole, do the sound. Like that's shit and the, the, whirr- thing. And it was just like, it just,

it just ruined. But it did have a bunch of, I think, so it was the Mario 3 on Game Boy Advance, added the card, the E-reader thing. I remember that. And it had all,

it opened up new levels. This one also had like eight new levels for Yoshi's Island. They were really hard. I enjoyed that a lot. 16 years ago on September 24th, 2001 Eco came out on Oh

So not to that the other day Oh Oh I don't know That was a CD game Which was one of the blue disc once Yeah Wait what?

The was one of the PlayStation 2 Was the blue bottom Because of a CD Not a DVD 18 years ago on September 30th 1999 Grand Theft Auto 2 came out On PC Did you play that?

No memories of that game No memories of it Three was my first one Through PC was its first Three was my first one Was it really? Wow I don't remember on PlayStation

later on the other stuff. But did you, you play the Oh yeah. Oh yeah, big time. Yeah, big time. No, that was the thing where we would We'd go out, we'd backyard wrestle And then we would all pile back in and watch it. And then we would turn on PlayStation 1

And pass the controller and just fuck around. Have you ever talked to James with backyard wrestling? No. He built a ring. You guys should backyard wrestle. I don't know about that anymore. We should look at each other's tapes for sure. You guys should move back into your parents' house

and build a ring in their yard. Well, fucking, when was it where a guy like fucking suplex James and he almost died what it was like Pax West it was really violent it was yeah during the panel I totally forgot about that it was super vying this guy was like can I do a move on to you James like yeah come up here and the guy did the move and it was like a really

violent like fucking crazy ass flip and oh my god like James could have gotten really heard about it James just goes for man like at the let's play reunion I thought James was going to die when he dived in the pool onto that the dock and it just was like about to go off the infinity pool I saw I saw I saw Jen tweet at you like don't hurt yourself

Yeah yeah yeah yeah that's like always my thing I'm like I never want to be like a nag Or not fun but uh I You're gonna kill yourself I'm so always worried yeah it's like What are fun police We're here It takes just one one uh broken one death spine

But no yeah for GTA2 We'd pass the control around fuck around and see who could outlast the cops Longest get to five stars the fastest kill all the Elvis's This is like a thing that I'm surprised never made into the other ones But there'd be like this uh conga line of Elvis's going and they'd be like jogging down the street. And yeah, there's all these weird things. And you do use all the cheat codes to spawn the items and the bazookas and sit there and go.

Render the Jesus saves sign to save and shit like that. It's so crazy because to me, uh, I, Grand The Vodont of 3 came out when I was 12. Yeah. And that was the first time where I became obsessed with the franchise where I like didn't even know anything about the other ones. And like, looking at it, I was like the other ones might as well have not existed. Well, but to hear everything you're just saying like to now have played the other ones like there's so much that

Translated into GTA 3 sure and into 3d in a way that like you look at Mario games you get Zelda Where it's like oh man that 2d 3 3d 3rd 3d transition totally worked. It's like oh shit Gt 3 is just GTA in 3d yeah like the the star system and using codes to unlock the the weapons and stuff It's like stealing cars obviously and killing people like that and all that shit but it was that out that was such is GTA 2 was something we played over and over and over and over again on PlayStation 1. They put out that. It wasn't a full number cycle, and I figure what they called it, but there was a GTA, London. Yeah, right.

And that was the deal of like drive around to that. We didn't ever get into that for some reason. But I'll never forget opening EGM that first, that one month. And they had two screenshots or three screenshots from Grand Theft Auto 3. And it was like, yes, this is third person. This is open world. It's down. And we, me and my friends who had played hours and hours of GTA, too, are like,

how can this possibly be? How they're like, we've played and you can't drive. drive around this open world. There's things you can't do this like this. There's no, it's gonna be small, it's gonna be this, we won't be able to go into things. And it was like,

you get that game, like holy fucking shit. And now the most important thing to ever happen in video games. 19 years ago on September 30th, 1998, Pokemon Red and Blue came up on Game Boy.

Change in my life forever. I think you mentioned Pokemon Red and Blue this third time today. That's what I do. You hit the quote. The comments will let me know about that. But no, I love those games

and they're so important to me. in terms of just opening up my imagination and just the type of game genre that I'm even willing to try. Like, if it weren't for that, I would never play RPGs at all. But like that taught me that I like those. It's a gateway drug for sure. Like Colin always used to call it Baby's First RPG.

And like that's true. And there is definitely the deep levels of competitive play that I never got into. But the world of Pokemon red and blue and then the follow up golden silver and when it went back, it was just like, there's so much. It's so interesting that I totally missed it.

You know what I mean? And I don't know if it's because I thought it was the card game in the in the TV show and it was a kid's thing or that, you know, that must have been what was the turnoff, I assumed to me then. Because like on a, and maybe I wasn't as open minded then when I was, you know, playing fewer games or not fewer, but fewer genres, I guess. Just because I had Game Boys, I have, I have the ability to play this game. And I don't know what about it never made it sound intriguing, even though obviously if I'm reading EGM and going to the websites, like people are talking about this, people are into it. Where all of your, I mean, for us at schools, every student was collecting cards and doing it. And I guess that was the thing of, well, no, because I want, and not in my grade. I think that's the thing is I think we were, I was a little too old to be on the card collecting side so that you missed that part. I have the same way where I didn't, Pokemon wasn't really, I aged out and it was just, or it just wasn't a thing. It was something I remember Mike, I was talking about Mike O'Brien playing in his basement and stuff like that. His little brother was into it. So that must have been the thing of like, oh, there's the.

cutoff that's what that is yeah it's weird and we play Pokemon snap really yeah right there's a TV show and the cards and all that stuff but just the games and like I mean it's obviously true because Pokemon is just the same damn thing over and over and over to its detriment and they've changed it up a little bit now but the just the core progression of the gym leaders and the elite four and how the dungeons are set up there's just something so rewarding about it where it's like you act just creates so much character within each of the the major fights you go up to where it's like it and when you add

the cartoon on top of that it just there's something about it I'm like man this is just a very special game from it's a cool time to be alive it's a cool time to be alive living our best lives true living our best life uh and then this one's for you Andy 20 years ago on September 29 1997 Croc Legend of the Gobos came out on PlayStation

one huge fan huge fan of Croc he thinks it's time to come back no I mean you know he's no cool spot he's no cool spot um and then jokes aside 21 years ago on September 26 1996, Super Mario 64 came out on N64. Wow. And now Odyssey.

And now Odyssey, man. Wow. Wow. We talked about Mario 64 forever, so you understand. But what interesting for me here, 21 years ago, September 29, so three days later, then 64 came out. So Mario 64 came out before the system. And that's happened before. We've seen it a couple times, but that's really fucking weird.

I remember the PSP games came out before the PSP did. Sure. That was really weird. I want, no, yeah, that's right. I can't fucking wait for Odyssey. And it's going to be like, it's going to be like, you can just take it wherever you want to lease. We've been playing it right now. Yeah.

Oh, you know my dream switch game though is Captain Toad Treasure Tracker 2. It's common. You know, you know, it has to be. I don't know. I don't know that the other one performed that well on Wii U. Oh, it did. Yeah, it did critically well and people have a soft spot for it. I got, I hope.

I would have a truck going by, but, you know, it's like, everyone's trying to muffle Cajun Tos Racker too, but it's that one for me But I really I really want Super Mario World 3D world To come out as well Because I think that's another chance man

Because that's just like the perfect co-op Game to play and it's just You can play with a little joycon man Yeah It's just perfect for that For that little I don't know I could just live perfectly on that world I want Mario Golf

I saw on my Animal Crossing Oh yeah I mean these are the ones the top of the list Mario Tennis. Smash Brothers, of course, sure. Yeah, I grew for Mario Tennis. I don't know, man. Come on.

Mario Tennis on Game Boy Color was this shit. That's because it was like this. But every Mario Tennis is like, ah. Fucking bite your tongue, dude. Yeah, I know, right? Did you play the Wii one? He hates Mario. Huh?

Did you play the Wii you won? No. It was so, so bad, man. It wasn't that bad. Mario Power Tennis? Yeah, it was. He's grown because he lost the championship. No, there was a point with the, uh,

that was the first ever, uh, Nintendo, Kind of Funny World Championship. There was a point with the Wii where they just gave up. And I know a lot of people would joke and say, oh, Lou from the beginning, but it's like, no, we used library.

It was amazing. And it hit a point where it stopped being amazing. And it was just bad Nintendo games, which usually doesn't happen. Post treasure tracker. Postreterter tracker. It just fell apart. And he said, no more.

Starfog zero. Ugh. All right, now it's time for some little Elise Q&A here. You can go to KnaFriotr. Some little Elise Q&A. I know, making the space. I hate this. So we have some questions from you, Elise.

Maybe ask the questions that everybody can answer. Well, everyone can answer them too, but like, most of them are for you. More sigh and says, Elise, do you believe armored core would be a bigger success with a season pass plan for DLC missions? I told you, before I taught core, I need to look up the core lore so I'm informed of, I don't make a poor coal on the core. She's mouthing.

I need to know what for. Have you played an armored core game? No, of course I haven't. Get anything? I play Captain Joe Treasure Tracker. I'm excited because of the touching. I have played Armored Corps, though. Cool.

What a plot. I don't know you want to remember that I forgot. Trevor Stark to dig it out for me. Well, is the new fucking armored core game going to be that left behind or last to live game? I know you're talking about. Is that the last alive? That's a Yoddishinkawa game?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, a lot of people are saying they're like, oh, is this like an armored core-ish? game. Is there actually a new armored core game coming or do you guys just bullshit? No, this last, the last

whatever the fuck it is. It's called or left alive. And it's basically, it looks like Middle Gear Solid. It is seriously like Snakey or like Metal Gear Solid 5 where you're like behind the fucking

behind the view and he's shooting big robots and there's big robots and I mean, it looks your voice got high there a little bit. It's going to be a niche hit. Commander Cubie says if you could have your dream Muppets game, what genre would it be and what features would you want to see? Are you obsessed with the Muppets?

I know there was a Muppet Gogh topic today with you. I do love the Muppets. It is a big facet of my life. So that would be great. A Muppet Noir, Muppet mystery would be great. Or if you were the Muppets, you were working together to, like, restore your theater or a game that was sort of like episodic,

like a Muppet Peace Theater, which was like their Muppet Classic Theater. And, you know, each episode had a different... We're creating a game right now. Like how there was Pirates or like a Muppet Church Island, you know, each game had its own different theme and play style. I don't know. That's a big question. That's a loaded question. Who owns the Muppets?

Disney. Disney does? Yeah. You got connections, Greg? We get those Muppets? Oh, well, I just don't know anything about them. I feel like we haven't done anything with the Muppets in a while. They had a movie recently-ish.

It was a TV show. They had another TV show, right. Muppets, I feel like are one of those things that's going to die. They'll never die. They just go away. It's going to get put out, you know what I mean? Because it's all the old people's care of. She just got not shit.

Because I feel like you look at, you look at Rolf. You look at Kermit and you're like, you're some old ass puppets. And I don't care about. Ralph was Jim Madison's favorite. That's fine. He didn't talk for years after he died. They didn't have. Ralph Boyce.

You know who made me laugh a lot? The bear. Fossi? No, no, no. The cop bear. Oh, I know who you're talking about. Yeah, he was in the movie. He was in his name.

Oh, wow. He's a security guard. It's so funny. I laughed like out loud several times with the girls. Any other times. She's like, why you'd laugh. PBS? Sesame Street is probably owned by Jim Henson Company.

But that's not the same thing as the Muppets, right? They're different, but they were at one point together. Yeah, they're owned separate. It's like the Beatles and the monkeys. No, it's not like the V-L-A-L-A. It's exactly like. It's more like saliva and P-O-D. Yeah, exactly.

That's what it's like. Selina in there. By the way, I put a bitty-bibum-bomb-on Kevin's wedding playlist. Oh, great. Like Salinas? Yeah. Be-de-be-Bomb-Bin-Bahe-a-Bee-Bahe-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ha-lis. Melissa with the Y says, what games in the Switch have you been playing?

I know everyone was playing Zelda, but I haven't heard much Switch talk from Funhouse since. I mean, I don't, I guess I haven't been playing anything since. Like, Zelda would be the last thing that I was playing on the Switch. Was there a Mario Kart sort of fun side guys with Funhouse? Because there was one here, certainly. Not as much. Just remember that. There was one here, certainly.

Yeah, yeah, think about that, right, you know. We have fun here. I think probably, like, James and Lawrence are, I mean, Mario Odyssey. I'll get. Now I'm kind of into... Thinboid Park. Not the movie course. Golf story.

Yeah, you are. I might get that. You should get it for your flight back. I should. I have shit. I have to like read and do though. Reading. No way.

But, uh, you can't interact. Is reading cool? Oh, he says he fucks with reading. You got cool new shoes. Come on and show. Put them up here. What does that mean?

What does that mean? Champs had a commercial with Sauts of Banks. She was showing off these shoes. So I went and bought them. Cool man I love cool Greg Slivert Being down Brian says have you played paper Mario in the thousand-year door? I love that game. It's on my face There you go

Yeah, it's your guys are good which one was that I go See my paper Mario starts with we Where it for paper Mario yeah, yeah Whatever you're the first one was good. That's the problem is super paper Mario was it was good But it wasn't a paper Mario game A thousand year door is fucking fantastic. I played Super Mario on the Wii was it?

Yeah. It was half platformer and half, right? It was like, Paper Mario needs to be an RPG. Let's just be real. It does. My apologies, everybody. The Alicia has a couple questions. One of them is, what was your first impression of Greg Miller?

Greg's pretty intimidating. Really? Yeah. But I'm also, like, afraid of everyone. Oh, okay, okay, live in total fear that everyone hates me. Oh, sure. Okay. That's just normal for everybody, I think. Yeah. It's funny, though, for you, though, because you, I was on the Roostertyth, Reddit recently,

and there was this really big thread that someone was like, is at least the most well-liked universal person in Rooster Teeth? And I think that that's true. I think that's a small, it's a vocal minority. I mean, trust me, I see the comments where I am not well-liked, so I know that that is not fully true. I think people are very, very... very nice. Yeah, I would say

like Greg and also like you don't realize how quickly into meeting Greg he's going to have his shirt off. Yeah, that's true. That's a big part of it. That is a big part of it. Whatever, that's the icebreaker. Yeah. That's just, I'm just an normal person like you. I'm just a normal person. I take my shirt off.

I take it off. My corner's lick my mouth. One sleeve at a time you know. It's like the rest of us. The Elyssie once again asked a very important question. What is one Disney Channel original movie that You would like to see turned into a full-length video game. What is that?

What are they... Okay, so for me, my only experience with any Disney movies was like... I didn't have Disney Channel growing up, but on Sundays they would do like... The ABC. They would do like the Disney family movie. So they'd show like bed knobs and broomsticks and shit. So what do they mean? Talk about the original movie series.

I don't know. That if you're not familiar, you wouldn't be familiar. Johnny tsunami. Brink. Zenon. What's the one with... The answer's brink, everybody. The answer is either fucking brink.

Or it's Xenon. When or no? When did they air? Nighttime? Saturday nights. Once a month. I feel like it was Sunday night. Like when we were children?

Yeah. So once a month from 1998 until about... Man, had a huge crush on Zon. What was the Catherine Heigel one? Where she and her sister switched bodies. Bewitched. No, switched at birth. No.

Star-spangled. Switch. No. It was a star. Once upon a star. Once upon a star. That was like, who is this woman? Yep.

Well, she, yeah, woman. She was our age. Yeah, no, but she was like older than us. Sure, but she was also tall. This is like one of our first things, though, I remember, and it was like, oh, she's in a bikini and a hot tub, like watching this on Disney Channel. And then it was like, and then it ended up being Captain Higgil.

I was like, oh. The most important thing is the first ever Disney Channel religion movie, Susie Q starring Amy Jo Johnson, aka the Pink Ranger, and that movie started with her getting ready for prom and putting her prom dress on. Hot. The answer, Disney Channel movie that needs to be turned

into a video game, Blood Diamond. Thank you. That's the Lear and Ato Capra? Yeah. Yeah, the classic Disney Channel, family film. Disney Channel original movie.

And the last, the Elyssie question was, what was the game that made you think, oh, heck yes, I love video games, and I can't wait to see more. I mean, my favorite video game,

which is Legend of Zelda, Link to the Pass. Like, that's a formative game for me for so many reasons, including being like, the closest to my heart. You know? Did you ever play a link between worlds?

I did. I really liked it. I love that game. another game in that vein. I mean, I love that game. Good Lord. It picked up a lot of those paper Mario thousand year door.

A little, uh, scratch those itches. Get on the wall. Yeah. Roll, roll, roll. Just a ling would I always do. Yeah. Do you guys have a, like a game that was very formative for you?

I think, I think Greg and I have the same answer. NBA 2K 18. Say it at the same time. Long shot. I know this one. Metal Gear Solid one. The first one. Yeah.

That was a big one for me. My story's tired for our audience. I haven't heard yours. I guess it just, I mean, kind of for the same reason. This showed me that like this is what games can be in the future. And we're seeing the first glimpses of it right now where like it's super cinematic and there's like credits. Like in the intro, which is like so weird to me. But I remember like playing the demo when you are first on Shadow Moses and you're underwater.

and then you get up out. I think the demo ended when he's like, I, and he's like, what's a Russian gunship doing here? Yeah. Sort of thing. And I was like, holy shit. Like, but there's still credits. And like, it was super cinematic.

And that's what kind of changed it all. I mean, it's either that or this is also like super like fence sitting right here because I could just go either way. But Ocary enough time. Because I always love the Zelda games. But like, Ocary in a time was like, man, you can fucking go anywhere. And this is huge. Look at this giant open field line, man.

It's so real. Yeah, I created my own, like, Zelda rip-off games that I never made, but, like, I drew all the characters for. It was like, it was like, the Legend of Eliah. And it was like, and, you know, I had, like, my own version of the fucking Korox. I'm my own version of the Zora. That's awesome. Yeah, I, like, made a fucking rip-off of the Hyrule map and shit. Yeah.

That game was awesome. I've told this story a bazillion times, but Yoshi's Island playing through it. First game I ever beat. But there was the moment where I beat World One, and I beat the boss in the cast. asshole and I thought I'd beat the game and I was so happy and then I realized there was five more worlds to play and I was like that was my moment where I'm like I love video games this is my life So good feed the goddamn baby Eddie Phoenix wants to know what are your favorite moments with the game trailers crew? Oh my gosh Because I don't think a lot of people know that you used to be with what is now the easy allies crew before phone house Yeah let me interject really quickly early on earlier when we were recording Gog I was uh

informed that Scrooge from the fucking Muppet Christmas Carol was Michael Kane I didn't know that Oh yeah okay He blew his mind Yeah so that blew my mind

And I had the same reaction When I found out that Elise was the girl In the fucking game trailers Or in the game trailers Like freak out video Where they're freaking out to Shenmu being announced Oh really? I didn't know that

Interesting And it's so weird But I watched that video and I showed like a bunch of my friends that video like check out how like crazy they go and like because we've been doing like 14 hour like coverage or whatever those days. The all day live stream reaction streams. Yeah. Yeah. I used to work on like the E3 all access. Like Keeley coverage but in that year we were like oh we're doing it from our office. That was fun. So I mean. So what are your favorite memories? I guess like I mean mandatory

update that Ian and I did together is like hands down. My. my favorite memory because we all like just got up to so much fun together we did fake 3DS commercials where we poured chocolate sauce on ourselves like blood we had to shoot episode we lost our stage and had to shoot episodes in Kyle Bosman's car where we just stuck gopros under the headrests and made him drive us around the neighborhood and it was always like having fun with limited to no resources at least toward the end um uh like anytime Ian and I did like eat like show floor coverage or we just dicked around with like stick mics go and doing the show floor um like there's uh any time like we did these not funny GT sketches that were always

super fun and like Kyle worked on those with us um any like I'm trying to think of some, like, older stuff, too. Being in an elevator with, uh, Shiguro Miyamoto and then not saying anything. Because I was, like, way too embarrassed to say anything. Oh, didn't you and Adam talk about that, like, a couple years ago? I think you did. Like, yeah, it just, it just always felt like it was, even when it was like, well, we have no money to do stuff. No, like, it was just fun to.

To still try to make things. Now you're making that rooster teeth money. We got that sweet-ha-dose-to-rooose-to-r-rush-to-toeat money. No, I meant like resources. Trying to think of like... See, we've interacted with Brandon Jones a bazillion times. We're all BFFs, and he's been on our show multiple times now. I know I say that you're like the nicest man in gaming.

Brandon Jones is also like one of the nicest men in gaming. He's awesome. I fucking love him. But I'm sad because I never really get to work with the other guys. And specifically, Brad and Huber, every time I see them, I'm just like, you guys are awesome and we have a great time at conventions and stuff. But I just want me and Huber to do a podcast together. It's all people want.

And we need to make it happen. We need to figure it out. Huber is like one of the most beautiful, hearted people in the world. And you meet him and you're like, he seems like kind of like NorCal guy. He walks in and he looks like he's like he's like a skater. What does that mean? Like, yeah, super cool guy. I would call him cool Huber.

Yeah, cool Tim, cool humor. And like, but then he'd be. like, dude, you watch Macross last night? Like, he says some super nerdy shit and you're like, oh, he's not cool at all. He's like the sweetest person and like always endlessly

positive and just like happy and excited. Brad, like when Brad started working with us, we were like, Brad is way too cool. Brad is too fucking cool. He's too cool. Brad is like like me? Brad's kind of like Andy, I think, in certain ways. Yeah. Hang 10, man.

proud we were all just like, hmm, he's too, he's much cooler than we are. Hang 10's a L.A. thing. Oh, my apologies. I didn't understand. I spent a lot of time at L.A. hanging out with fun house. Sure. Yeah, he's like, like, honorary fun house.

Gotcha. You know. It's just because he looks like Rahul Koli. Yeah. But, uh, but yeah, if you, if you, like, if you and Huber could team up in some way, that just be like this bastion of pot. I wanted to be this, like, I want to make it a thing. Like, I don't know what that thing is yet, but I don't want to just be a podcast.

You guys should go to, like, a WrestleMania or something together and film yourselves having a good time. That sounds awesome. Like, yeah. Okay, okay. That's a good recommendation. I'm sure he does. It's a good recco.

I don't know if this was covering on the games, uh, game over a show. Sorry. Uh, what is your history, like your lineage? I don't know anything about you other than you,

fun house. Like I did. I mean, your career. Oh man. I mean, I started, I had,

I had been in a few other places in, in working in L.A. for like producers that weren't, uh, talent of talent booking agency that weren't like in this field and then a friend of of like mine new do you know Jeremy Hoffman yeah oh yeah I know Jeremy Hoffman and was like I know this this girl it doesn't really have a background in production but you should just like talk to her Jeremy and that's I mean that Jeremy Hoffman is like as responsible for so much in my career sure and is

like I wanted the truly great people in this industry and so like he gave me a chance as a PA on GTTV, which was Spike, their show. And I worked on that and learned a lot about producing. And then when that show ended, transition to the website and continued working there. When game trailers got sold to Defy and there was the big layoff moved along there. Okay. And yeah, it was kind of like adapting and taking on new responsibilities as they came. like, you know, okay, we lost our graphics people doing, like making graphics for the website now and thumbnail.

Like that I'll, you know, that was like such a fertile learning ground for like, especially it was terrible that the layoffs happened and then the transition which inevitably led to game trailer's closing. I think, I think those guys are better off now. Like I'm, I'm glad that it wasn't just like. Like, this is going to go on forever now. And I think it's, like, it's awesome. And, uh...

You get used to it. You get used to it. Sorry. Um... But it was such, like, a fertile learning ground. Yeah. Because we didn't really have anybody, because we weren't, you know,

getting a ton of money toward the end to do stuff. And we didn't really have anybody breathing down our necks, so to speak. so we could try new things and yeah it is fun it's like when you think back to like the good old days you don't realize you're in them at the time too so there's a lot of that

yeah that's deep shut on you don't think it's she just coined that and then like when you and Huber go to WrestleMania you won't realize that's the good old day that's the people later cool Timmy cool Hoopeman

cool yeah man hell yeah gamer defense says how is it to work with the funhouse guy It smells Lots of farts And then Russell Saddle also has What are some of the things you like or dislike about working at Funhouse? Well Working with the Fun House guys is like

You know it's a 180 from game trailers Because game trailers it was a lot more like actual We're doing a lot more game coverage And working more in an editorial aspect And for me like I do I do love games in that respect But I do love comedy So Funhouse it's sort of

We are I guess we are more of a comedy channel that uses gaming as our vehicle. And that for me is something that I never in a million years thought that I would get to have a job where I get to go to work and feel funny all day. And that's the main crux of what we're doing. And to be around people that just like, everyone, because everybody's so funny and so good at what they do, you're just like building and you're constantly feeling motivated to keep. bettering yourself and that's great. I mean, I think of those guys, James excluded,

like, you know, brothers to me. And, like, Adam thinks of me like a sister. Shut up. He won't admit it, but he does. But bad things about Funhouse, I wish we had a better office. I wish we had a better office. Where you can hear ambulances outside.

Yeah, we were on the pulse of the community. But no, like, right now I think maybe we, we, there's more we could be doing. And especially because we're kind of divided with half of our team being in a totally separate office. So I wish we had more of a unified space that we could. And who knows, like that might be a thing that comes with time. I remember when I'd visit you all on the way over here, I didn't know that you all were divided like that. And I kind of forgot like, I've seen the room obviously on camera several times. And I couldn't, I didn't put it together.

that oh there's a lot more there are a lot of editors that aren't ever in that room and so like I just went to one of the rooms because I was like DMing you or Bruce or something and then I'd knock on the door and and Don opened the door and he's like hello and I was like here to hang out with Elise and Bruce and Adam and they're like who are you and I was like Andy just tell Matt Pek because Matt you know Peek knows me and like they're like oh well they're in the other building I was like oh right I've never been to the other building one I've only been in your area. Haunted. It's

haunted? Firebats wants to know who's your favorite celebrity to do impressions of and have you ever considered doing stand-up comedy? I don't know that I have what it takes to do stand-up. I've thought about it because and I have Steve Martin's master class on comedy and stand-up.

I don't know that it's for me. We were Talking to Nick about it though and it was interesting to hear Elise and Jeff like listen to Nick's method of like doing stand-up and they're like wow It's cool to see somebody else Nick has this like charisma like he just he's rolling he can talk to anybody yeah yeah He's got it like you could be like Mitch Hedberg like weird comedy sort of thing no you like a Anyway it doesn't matter but I don't know I'm working on as you know I'm working on the Jennifer Aniston Yeah let's hear that one again that was really good FIAfebbs, oh.

That's good. I can only say Feebs. It's a very limited person. Well, I mean, with all due respect, when you're like Jennifer Anderson, I was like, what is it? Jennifer Anderson? You're like, oh, there it is. I see. Now do Fat Monica.

Does she go like this? Yeah, she does make her face like that. No. No. She is like a. This is from Gary Jones. This could work. So stressful.

I'm sorry. What? Do you guys want to have any of you considered doing stand-up? No. No. No. No. Okay. Nick wants all of us to do it with him. And he's like, he's like cool, Greg, you're funny. Andy, you're funny. Tim. You can do it. You're funny. You're a specific. I feel like the two of you together could come up with some real good shit. Yeah, he acts like the ventriloquist dummy and you're the ventriloquist. Just like Jeff Dunham. I love that guy. He's so funny. Oh my God.

Where was I? Gary Jones says this can work for both us and you. What's it like? making spots for GameStop TV. Oh. So the thing for that is like that's just a rooster tea thing where they have the opportunity to... I'll take this question. Have us make a... Whatever video we want that just plays it.

GameStop TV is all over the world and like you can take the question first. You're okay with me going first? Yeah, you guys can go ahead. I enjoy writing them just because I like those little opportunities where I can try to make the guys laugh

unexpectedly because they don't read those scripts. They don't read those scripts. I send them there. I read them. But then when we get up there to shoot them, I'll put in some really cheesy or terrible joke. Or have them say, you know,

give them an aside like, do this voice here or whatever. And they, like, I get a big kick out of them having to do that. So that's my favorite part of those. On another level, it's really cool to have,

and I worked in an EB games. So it's one of those mind blowing, like, your life full circle. Like, you can't fathom. It. You are what you hate now.

You're the person on camera. I became the villain. I live long enough to be the two-face. So I, so like that is mind-blowing when people are like, yeah, I saw you in GameStop. And I'm so glad that I got to, you know, see you guys when I went in there. That's, I don't know, it's probably cool for you too. Yeah, it's definitely super cool for us. We haven't done too many of them.

I think it's been like three or four at this point. But to me, I love it because that's my favorite type of feature and video to do, and we just never do it here. and we just never do it here. But having a scripted thing where I get to perform the script or the teleprompter and then have B-roll that matches it and editing it myself and kind of as I'm writing the script thinking about what the video looks like. I super love that and like the opinion pieces too and like that's what I love doing most at IGN.

I didn't really get too much opportunities to. But what I like about you doing it is that's all you did at IGN. Sure. Well, you did a lot of other things too. But like that was your job at IGN and to see you do it now for the GameStop videos, it's like, man, like you're boring. to do that shit. Yeah, it's a cool call.

I mean, to answer this question, I fucking hate it. And it's just, and I don't hate the content. I love the opportunity. I do love getting out there and doing it. But it's for the way we work, it's always that thing. It's what gets pushed every day on the camp. Because like our, you know, the morning show, games daily, and usually a podcast have to happen.

And so then it's always like, well, I need to do this call now or I need to do this. What can move? And it's always that GameStop video. It's true. It's moving the writing. and then moving the filming. And then moving the editing. It inevitably gets to.

They need it by end of day Monday, which means I'm getting here at 9 in the morning and I'm doing the video and then I'm running back to my desk and I'm trying to edit and I'm trying to get the B-R, it's like, you put it on the way oration people want. It's all my computer I need to edit.

Where's the cancer panel people want? It's all my computer I need to edit it. Where's the commercial for the team fat apron? It's all my computer I need to edit it. It's just like with seven people there's nowhere for any of the work to go. It's constantly gridlocked. And it's not a regular thing.

It's such an anomaly schedule. It's always that thing of like, coming up, I'm like, oh, I got an idea. I pitch you an idea immediately. And I'm like, here's what I want to do. So it's a monthly thing where every month, I think it's a little bit different with you guys. But for us, every other month-ish, they rotate out what members the Les Play family do. I think you guys always do. But no, I think we're like every other month now, too. We were monthly. But yeah, it was monthly. Now it's not. And essentially me and Greg have been kind of taking turns doing it. And they're like, oh, what topic do you want

to talk about? And originally it was kind of just like, here's five games coming out this month. but now Great just literally did one that's like Why I like persona 5. Yeah, I think that's great. We need to tailor ours more like that too, I think. And so by the time it gets the finished product and people watch it and like I start getting screenshots of it and like it's usually like, I'll say 14.

Oh my God, you're a GameStop. That's awesome. And then one fucker who's like, I fucking hate you. Stop coming on these channels. You scream too much. I'm like, lo, fuck you. That part's great. But like the actual, oh, fuck, how are we going to get this fit?

It does really suck. I can tell you though. Every time I'm in different city or traveling and I see a game stop I go in But I never seen oh yeah I've never seen us on yeah I've only seen rooster teeth stuff like I've seen like slow-low guys I've seen game attack a couple times Which I'm like how is that multiple in different cities and shit so it's like it's all just a roll of the dice Final question Elise what's up with Wallyji Waluigi sneak in love Well I don't know you guys I doubt you guys know about this wall a league sneak in love was a game masterminded by myself Kyle Bosman and Ian Hink at game trailers and it was supposed to be a stealth romance franchise starring Waluigi

stealth romance where Waluigi you know it was a trilogy originally oh of course first game you are playing as Wau Luigi and you're sneaking around helping other Nintendo characters fall in love with other Nintendo characters yeah essentially like mini games where there's just variations on game mechanics and play the second game I believe I don't believe I know this because I've thought about it so much the second game let me walk that back

the second game was it started with all the Nintendo characters now coupled up at a party at someone's probably Peach's Manch or Peachtes Castle and they're all coupled up except for Waluigi who's he helped everyone else He played matchmaker too well He's alone so he goes out to his car

He's like okay everybody I'm gonna go I got like a date or whatever night But then they just all look out and see Waluigi sitting in his car for like 30 minutes. He doesn't actually have a date. Oh, man. That's sad. They all see him. So then they all... Is this all a cutscene? Yes, playable cutscene.

Oh, okay. Quick time events. Yeah, it's LQT's on Waluigi, getting into his car, sighing. Opening the glove box. Driving into his garage, rolling down the window, turning out, closing the door. And so then I believe it was that like the other characters are now helping Waluigi find love. By the third game, it was called Wau Luigi Sneak and Love.

Snake Eater. I care for Wawa. Wawa, because at the end of the second game, you find love. Sure. You get married who becomes the mother of your daughter, Wawa. Of course. And then at the beginning of the third game, there's a very up-esque montage where Waluigi's wife,

Wawa goes by-bye. Well, Wallyge's wife dies, and then he's a single father to Wawa. And transition maybe, you know, 15 years later, and Wawa is about to go to college. And Waluigi, he's still a bachelor. You're getting choked up. I can't. I can't. He's still a bachelor, and he's about to be separated from his daughter.

So Wawa says, let's go on a road trip together. Yeah. And, like, one final. It's like a coming of age. One final. Final. And I think it was that Look around.

I think it was that he like discovered that like she had a diary. He started reading her diary or something. And then he was helping Wawa like become a woman. I don't remember exactly how it played out. Well I don't want to know the ending. Yeah. But yeah, there was a whole like Waluigi sneak in love.

I can't remember what the second. Waluigi. Oh. The second game was called Walao Luigi. you sneak in love? Was it I care for you? 2.8.

What the fuck was it called? I'm sorry, I don't remember what I was it. Did Sidiya do a Deccam? But man, stealth romance game. They don't make enough of those. Kyle and Ian and I I think we had magic.

Yeah. And if you guys have any connections at Nintendo We'll let you know. We'll hit up Mr. Nintendo for you. Elise, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. This was freaking awesome. Real fun.

We need to have you back. We need to come down to do stuff with you. I love to. Anytime you guys are in L.A., please like come to us. Oh, we shall. We love you guys. We shall. Andy, don't have to worry about that. I'll be there, man. No, dude.

I will be there. Oh, my God. Until next week. I love you. Bye, guys. Bye, guys.