Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Mario Odyssey, AC Origins, Wolfenstein 2 (w/ Bruce Greene) - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep. 142

Episode Date: October 30, 2017

Bruce Greene from Funhaus joins us to discuss Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, and Wolfenstein 2. (Released first to Patreon Supporters on 10.27.17) Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...it megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:11 What's up guys? Welcome to the first ever episode 142 of The Kind of Funny Games cast as always. I'm Tim Geddy's joined by one of the coolest dudes in video games. Greg Miller. Skittily Bob, Bob, Bo. And joining us for the first time on this show, Fun Houses, Bruce Green. I was really hoping that I was going to be one of the coolest guys in video games, but I guess not. You're definitely one of the coolest dudes. Don't fucking lie to his face. There's like an echelon of people that are.
Starting point is 00:00:37 I think majority of guests that we've had on this show qualify. Okay. There's a handful of people that don't. Trevor Starkey. No, Trevor Starkey. It's a joke. Calm down, everybody. There's probably one or two people that don't.
Starting point is 00:00:50 You know who does deserve it? Tom Bach. Tom Bach. Tom Bach. Patreon producer. Thank you very much for your support. Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow. And all of that good stuff. Skilly, bye, ba, ba, Tom Bach.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Skilly baob, baob. Tom Bach. You know how you guys, you just need to deal with Greg Miller like once every couple months. It's not that hard, to be honest with you. Yeah, we don't have to. Worrying too much about it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:12 And it's like, you guys seem like, oh, he's putting it on a show. He's not putting it on a show. That's not putting it on a show. No, that's the shirt comes off. He starts yelling. I know. Singing. And sometimes you start a song and then it turns into another song.
Starting point is 00:01:22 And then you forget what song you were originally singing. Well, that's the best part of music is that it's like jazz. And you can do whatever you want with it. That is the best way. Pop, pop, pop, tap, tangerines. I like to think of myself as an armadillo. And 98% of the time, I'm rolled up like a fucking ball. But some days I just go half jelly bean on me.
Starting point is 00:01:40 What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Let's talk about video games. It is very hot here. Very hot. So Greg is losing his mind. We have a new air conditioning unit. We'll see how that works out.
Starting point is 00:01:52 And we also have a new shirt, this party mode shirt, available now on kind of funny.com slash store. If you're not watching this live. But if you're watching this VOD and everything, it comes out on Friday. Yeah. So you should get that.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Probably my favorite shirt. That's a really cool. Will you send those shirts to find out? We should. We should. I actually really like the shirt. Because this is like one of the coolest shirts. ever had. Courtesy of one
Starting point is 00:02:12 Andy Cortez. Andres. Who? Who's that? Oh, you don't know him? No, I hadn't met him. He's a community member. You haven't seen all the emails that he's been sending you guys? Nope. Resumies over and over? I think we probably put that on a, it was a block of some sort of filter. Yeah. Good. I'm glad. Thank God. We were worried for a little bit.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Yeah. This is kind of funny gamescast. Each and every week we get together talking about video games, all the things we love about them and all that. And good Lord, what a week it is. It's the week. It's October 27th. There hasn't been an official day for it, but I feel like an official name for the day, but I feel like someone, someone crappy. Video game, Boner, Jam, 2017.
Starting point is 00:02:45 See, I knew it. I knew someone wise or and better than me. That's a really long hashtag. It is really long. Hashtag video game boner jam. 2017, October 27th. Put it on the calendar. It'll go down in history.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Similar to the year of dreams and the year of dreams too. We now have video game Boner Jam, 2017. Yep. We have a lot to talk about with those. Greg. Yeah. What do you want to start? I want you to talk about Super Mario Odyssey.
Starting point is 00:03:09 Super Mario. Odyssey. Oh my God. Have you played it? I have beat it. What? I am obsessed with it. Oh, yeah. You've been already? Very, very lucky to have gotten it early. Thank you, Nintendo. Um, played the hell out of it on a plane. And my lord, that is probably the most impressive thing about it is, is the fact that this game is as big and varied and creative as it is, and it's portable. Like, it's still the novelty of the Switch, I don't think we'll ever wear off because it's one of those things where you think about it. You're like, oh, it would be nice to have. But when you actually
Starting point is 00:03:39 have it. I played Mario Odyssey portably the entire time. I never because I was in a plane, so much because I went to Austin. And it was just such a great experience. And like, sure, it would have been better on TV, but not by much. Like, everything's so well designed. I was going to say design, like you can read
Starting point is 00:03:55 all the menus, everything's there. Totally. Totally. Well, it's just like Breath of the Wild. Yep. It's the same deal. Yeah. It was exactly. You can play it on the TV or on the switch. For years, we dreamed of console quality experiences on the go. And it's like, we're finally at that point that we are getting Nintendo's best anywhere we go. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:10 I am absolutely in love with this game for all the listeners and viewers out there that have heard my kind of thoughts over the last couple months having played it at E3 and somewhere else. Random Nintendo events. Oh, yeah, Nintendo events. I had a little bit of trepidation. Trepidation going in. What were you worried about? I'm curious. The main mechanic of the game, the gimmicky thing of the throwing the hat.
Starting point is 00:04:34 And I was like, ah, like I feel like it's a little too obvious where there's never. never at least what I played before there was never a point where I'm like I don't know what to do it was always like oh there's a big gap oh there's an enemy with wings like you knew you're immediately that one yeah it's like always clear what you're supposed to do like right from the get go can I put a pause on it because you can my question for you is mr. Mario expert what they call me they call you mr. Mario have you played Nintendo game or Mario games where you feel there was more of an essence on problem solving puzzles where the answer wasn't Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:05:09 Okay. And so I guess that's my thing. Like, to finish off that, I apologize. Just because, like, I don't want to get caught and all that. I, having beat the game, I don't want to listen to what you say. I know. I'm fucking around. I know, I'm fucking around.
Starting point is 00:05:21 Skittlipa, ba, ba, back to you. I don't want people to, like, just take the quote of what I was saying without finishing it. Going through the game, it totally was. There was never a point that I captured something that I didn't understand exactly what I needed to do with that function. And I do still feel like that is the, the weakest part of the game. I was going to say, did that make it too easy? Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Okay. With the core part of the game. Now that I'm in post game, there's a lot more challenging elements, which Nintendo's done a really good job with in the last decade, I'd say, of Mario games, both 2D and 3D, where they've done a great job of having a well-paced game, and then the post-game being challenging, opening up a lot of, like, harder things, whether it's Galaxy's Green Stars or the New Super Mario Bros. series, like, extra levels and stuff. or the Champions Road stuff of the like Galaxy series as well.
Starting point is 00:06:13 But the capturing the different creatures and elements and stuff, that is the equivalent to like flood in sunshine or the gravity in galaxy. And I feel like both of those were more enjoyable and had a lot more problem solving elements to them that like made it feel like I was actually accomplishing something instead of just kind of going forward. Now having said all that, this game, if there's two things, I want to give it absolute credit for it's surprises, surprises and pacing. As you're playing through it, every single corner there's some surprise
Starting point is 00:06:45 and some shit that you're like, what the fuck is that? So even though capturing those things isn't necessarily like that challenging, it's always fun and it's always different and weird. And I was another concern I had was seeing the trailers and stuff like, oh Mario captures the giant T-Rex, is that gonna be the end of the surprises?
Starting point is 00:07:04 Like, because that is so out there. Seeing the human, the New Dong City and like seeing the, the humans and stuff. It's like, wow, that looks very different. But a lot of the other worlds were like, they look different, but they also look like they could totally...
Starting point is 00:07:15 They look like they could fit in a Mario game. There is a ton of stuff in this game that is totally out of left field where you're just like, what the hell is this? Stuff that you hadn't seen in trailers or other games? Not at all. Hadn't seen it. That's really cool. It's one of those things where it's...
Starting point is 00:07:28 I never thought that there would be spoilers in a Mario game that I'd want people to avoid, but I highly recommend that you do not look at thumbnails on YouTube of people because they're going to spoil the hell out of a lot of moments that are really freaking cool. There's so, there's a lot more worlds than I expected. Yeah, I was going to say how many worlds? That was your big concern.
Starting point is 00:07:46 In ballpark. There's over 12 is what I'll say. More than. There's more, there's more than, yeah, there's more than 64 or Sunshine had. Okay,
Starting point is 00:07:56 okay, great. Sunshine only had seven. Mario 64 had like 14 or 15, depending on how you count it. And this one has more than that in theory. Well, it gets weird. But because not all of them are equally big.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Like there's some that are like smaller levels that are, uh, just boss fights with a couple moons. But I think that's the cool thing is there's no consistency, but it's very well paced. So it's like you never know exactly what you're going to get to next. You might get to a kingdom that is a bit smaller. But then once you're there, it opens up something else that is like, oh, here's where the next level or next portion of it is that's totally different. And in that sense, it reminds me of galaxy a lot.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Like they, they went into this and they're like, this is the successor to Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine. They even show that kind of graph of like how the Mario series has progressed. And it definitely is. And a lot of the levels are that. But this is also a successor to Galaxy. And I think that that was a very wise call on their part. I think a lot of the early levels and late levels specifically are always keeping you
Starting point is 00:08:57 moving forward. They feel very linear if you want them to be. And that's a trait the Galaxy had. But then you get to other areas. And you're like, wow, this is super open. And there's five different moons that I can see. in the vista. At any moment, I can get any of them.
Starting point is 00:09:11 The game also, again, not being challenging, but it's always fun. There was never a point that I'm like, oh, like, I don't want to do this. Or I looked at them like, oh, I know exactly what I need to do. Now I just need to get it done. It's always like, I know exactly what I do, and it's going to be fun doing it.
Starting point is 00:09:24 Yeah. And I think that that is a charm that Nintendo has in its games, but specifically in Mario games. And the surprises are always interesting. And the charm levels and the goofy little things, It never comes off as corny or like, oh, they're doing this just because they can. It's always like, this feels right in the world, and it does feel like it's progressing the Mario franchise ahead. It's not the revolution that Breath of the Wild was for the franchise.
Starting point is 00:09:51 I just about to ask, because I think a lot of people saw trailers and gameplay and went like, this is the open world Mario we've always wanted it. It's not open world, right? No, no, not at all. I mean, like, when you get to New Dong City, it's large, but you kind of get to the boundaries within a few minutes. You sort of know where the edges are. Yep. But other worlds, I assume, are larger.
Starting point is 00:10:10 I mean, so this is where it's like, I'm not trying to spoil anything, but I feel like some of this talk is not going to ruin your experience. New Dog City is, it's more vertical than it is large. And I'd say that it is one of the bigger stages. That is. That and the, like, Mexico, like sand. Yeah. Like cold, like ice sand world.
Starting point is 00:10:30 That is probably the biggest world, I want to say. And then the rest of them, they're all. None of them, there wasn't a single level that I was like, oh, this is too big. Everything feels like there was a lot of thought put into the level design. And it's constantly like, oh, cool. It's not just big for the sake of being big. There are a couple levels that are like, I wish there was more here. Because there's one in particular that I'm not going to spoil that is so fucking cool and different than the rest of the game.
Starting point is 00:11:00 And there's not much to do there. And I'm like, oh, like that would have been such a great thing. It does make me think like, will there be DLC for this? game and there's a lot of, there's a lot of hints that there will be. So I'm very excited about that. But even then, I'm done with the game and I have so much left to do. I think there's somewhere between 800 and 900 moons. I heard you have more than 900. I don't know the, is there more than 900? That's what I heard. So how many did you get? I currently am at less than 200. I'm like, oh my gosh. Around 200. Yeah, nowhere near. And in the history of 3D Mario games, you know,
Starting point is 00:11:31 you only needed 70 to beat 64 and there was 120 total. Right. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it's something similar. There was 120 total, and I think you needed 60 to beat that one. And then Galaxy's a different piece because it's a bit more linear. So this, I think you can scrape by with something like 150 or 140 even to beat the game. But it's so much fun to get all the different ones. And none of it feels like the blue coins and sunshine that are kind of like, this is just collectibles. I have to do this.
Starting point is 00:12:02 Yeah. It felt like filler. there's no filler in this game or there's not that there's no. There is very little filler for how much there is. Some of the moons are not hard to get. You just see them and you're like,
Starting point is 00:12:14 I'm going to get that. You do. Other ones are fetch quests, other ones are, you know, platforming challenges or whatever. And I think that's kind of what made the game so special
Starting point is 00:12:22 is that all moons are created equal in the sense of they just add up to, like they all are worth the same amount. There's some triple moon things that you beat a boss or whatever. Triple moon. still just getting three moons. And I thought it was rewarding to know that even if I have to spend 10 minutes collecting bandmates or whatever the hell it is from around New Dock City, or if I just see something at the top of the building that I need to find a way up to get it, that those are equal challenges.
Starting point is 00:12:52 And it's not like it's not like it's really, really hard. One's really, really easy. Yeah. And it's not like a Ubisoft game where it's like a bunch of checklists of like get all of these things. E7 again. We got E7 alert on old Roli bot down there. Roli bot is happening an E7 attack.
Starting point is 00:13:10 His name's Roliebought. Yeah. Like that. Does he roll though? I don't know. I don't think he does. Dumb name. Fucking wheels on him. I can talk about this game all day. The music is fantastic. I can't wait to fucking play. So much about it's great. And there are, there's probably
Starting point is 00:13:22 three or four moments in the game that I was just like overtaken with joy. Where I'm just like, this is that Nintendo magic just being jizzed. all over my face, all over my body. Jesus. That's a box quote. There's a moment in New Doctor City,
Starting point is 00:13:37 and there's a moment at the very end of the game that I'm just like, wow, like every, it's kind of a sensory overload of cool things happening at once. And I'm just like, this is freaking great. So where does it rank? That is a very hard question. Are you talking about within 3D Mario's or within Game of the Year this year?
Starting point is 00:13:55 Because I think both are very, very, very hard discussions to have. Is it better? How much did you play Breath of the? the wild. A lot. So did I. Did not get all the shrines. No, no. I got. Um, but I definitely not the Khorak seeds. But I played a lot of it. Did beat the game, you know, and did way more extra shrines than they needed to.
Starting point is 00:14:13 So which one do you like more? Which one I like more? It sounds like, Zelda is still my game of the year. Okay. That's, that's, that's where I'm at. And, uh, that is just a crazy thing because this year's been insane. And the fact that Nintendo has two games this good. Uh, the reason I give it to Zelda over Mario is I'm a Mario guy over Zelda. Breath of the Wild was revolutionary to me
Starting point is 00:14:39 and it changed Zelda and it made me like even more than I already did. Mario was just like lived up to expectations and yeah. You know what I mean? But you expected an excellent Mario game. Absolutely. Well I think a lot of people did when they saw this. They were like oh wow
Starting point is 00:14:55 Mario's back or whatever. I know it wasn't gone but that's what they were people kept saying. And my thing is I don't think he ever left. in the 3D space. Like I loved 3D world and we just talked about it last week on Game Scouts. Like I don't think that there's a 3D Mario game that's under a 9 out of 10. So when you look at all of them, it's like all right, cool. Yeah, it's up there.
Starting point is 00:15:13 Where does it rank? I don't know because really it's freaking good. I'm also nowhere near done with it. So I think that's the thing is it's way too early for me to like give it a definitive. How many hours have you put into it? About 20. Oh wow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Okay. There's a lot to do and it takes a lot of time. But it didn't feel like it, man. It was just going by. And again, the pacing of it's great. Going from level to level to level, I never felt like I had to be somewhere too long. In all the previous open world ones, so Sunshine in 64, there's a lot of times where I'm like, I need to get two more stars in this level before I can open the other levels.
Starting point is 00:15:47 And it just kind of feels like it's overstaying it's welcome. Like it reaches a point when you go back to get everything. That's different. But in order to progress and to get to the next level, I think this game is just super good at getting you there fast. But there is a chance that after completing more postgame stuff, that this will beat Zelda for me in the game of the year discussion. But as of now, Zelda wins. It's just the postgame in Odyssey, without spoiling anything, is freaking awesome. It is super cool.
Starting point is 00:16:18 It is what I would want them to do. It's not fully realized, and that kind of bothers me. But it's very, very awesome. And I'm excited for people to experience it all. And I'm excited to keep playing the game. So, yeah, Margo Odyssey. Two thumbs up. Wahoo.
Starting point is 00:16:33 You can't do your Mario impression for it? Wahoo. See, there you go. I got great for that. Greg, you've been playing. Everything. Everything. You've been gone.
Starting point is 00:16:42 You've been galivanting around, Austin, Texas, leaving me here all by myself. But when you left and you took the Mario Code, like the son of a bitch you are, we got codes raining on us for Wolfensstein and for Assassin's Creed origins. And so, been playing both of those. Wolfenstein more. I've put two solid knights into Wolfenstein. Whereas Assassin's Creed, I can start there. Assassin's Creed. I like Assassin's Creed games. I would say since Black Flag, I haven't gotten
Starting point is 00:17:08 super invested in one. It's the same with me. Exactly. I put it in syndicate for a while and I was like, oh, this is cool, but for some reason I'm not feeling it. This one, a year off. I, okay, I wasn't sold on Egypt really. I didn't, I don't expect it to be a better game because they've had a year off. And according to the reviews, for most reviews, they are. IGN, Alana gave it a nine. I saw a game spot I gave it a seven. I popped it in, and the first night I was like, it was after a long day at work, I was tired, I was a little bit cranky. So I played like 30 minutes of it.
Starting point is 00:17:35 And I was like, you know what? I'm not in the right mindset for this. I'll come back to this tomorrow. And I woke up and I was like, let's play more Assassin's Creed. And I played another 30, 45 minutes of it. And I turned it off. I was just like, I'm not feeling this. And it's not technically bad or anything like that.
Starting point is 00:17:48 But it's just not doing what I like out of my Assassin's Creed video games of putting me in a place, bringing me up to speed on it. Like I was talking to Kevin about it because he started playing it and he's stepped away. We'll be back eventually. But I was talking to Kevin about it, right? And we both had the same thing of like you start this game and it's literally like you're thrown in. It feels like you're in the middle of a game because it's very much like, oh, you should know this guy already. And this is what's happening.
Starting point is 00:18:12 And now we're here and you kill the initial crux of this game is going to be that you're after. I think it's five or six guys, right? They have done you wrong and you're going to kill them. And you open the game killing one of them. And it's like, all right, cool. You've killed one of them. Now it's like, what the fuck is going on? And you're in this new area and you have everything immediately almost where it's like,
Starting point is 00:18:29 all right, cool. Now use your eagle friend to scout this thing and do that thing. And you go over there and I look at the map and the map's already filled in with a whole bunch of shit. And it was just like, what is, this game feels like, you know, Assassin's Creed 2 was so great at, hey, I'm EZio and I'm a little shit and I'm fucking fucking girls and I'm just spending money and I'm in like, you're like this guy's journey. Right.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Whereas this one, I'm joining this guy and he's already fucking apex predator and he's awesome. And so as I'm like clumsily trying to figure out how to do it and then like guys on a horseback ride up and I don't want to ride my horse, but they, to fight these guys, I have to ride my horse. Is there a possibility that maybe if you like get another hour into the game, they shed some light on the past and all of a sudden it sort of makes that feel better or you? You know what I mean? That's the thing. You hope so. I'm not done with it. I'm like you though.
Starting point is 00:19:15 Like I don't know. I feel putting an hour or so into a game at that point if they haven't gotten me. Yep. And that's my problem, right? It's like, especially this week where it's like I had that and Wolf and St. Stein's downloading and I need to play Life is Strange and like there's all these, and Mario was coming. It was that thing of like, wow, this is not the opening impression salvo. I need to get me hooked on this game. I'm not saying it's bad. I do expect to get back to it and tinker with it eventually,
Starting point is 00:19:36 but it went, it's like down now into the pile of like, well, there's a million other things I need to play that I really want to play. And that's not a fair judgment of it, but it's where I am with so much choice. You know what I mean? We're jumping into it. I mean, other side of the spectrum, Joey just yelped. I assume there's a spider or Kevin Toucher. Um, on the other side of of the spectrum is Wolfenstein, where Wolfenstein from the beginning, fucking awesome. This game is awesome. And I am
Starting point is 00:20:01 fucking horrible at it. I am horrible. Wolfensstein is pretty difficult. It can be relatively difficult. And it was like that, it was that thing playing it this time around. I talked about it before with Wolfstein, you know, I want the original or not the original, but you know, the new order. I had started it and fell off somewhere in the middle. And I
Starting point is 00:20:18 couldn't remember why, but I remember enjoying it. I should get back to it. I never had time to get back to it leading up to this. So you start. this game gives you a great recap, you know, hey, here's everything that's happening. And it picks up right where I left off in Wolfenstein, the New Order. I'm like, okay, cool. And I love the characters. The game's beautiful. Sounds so good. It's great story. These people are giving out great performances. And yeah, and I'm playing. I'm like, oh, right, this is why I stopped playing the New Order, because I'm just fucking bad at this game. And I don't play shooters all
Starting point is 00:20:42 that often. Oh, okay. And like, I play Destiny, but that's not the same thing. And it's, it is that thing of like, since the New Order, I've played other shooters and had fun with them and beaten them or done whatever. And so it is just the thing of like, wow, I'm just not good at Wolfenstein. Because it's hard and it is this. Again, it's not that easy. Yeah. It can be if you put it on the easiest difficulty or whatever.
Starting point is 00:21:00 Right. Then it doesn't, maybe it doesn't feel exactly like Wolfensstein should. Exactly. And that was the thing is it, though. Like, what is it about it that makes it difficult? For me, you beat Titanfall.
Starting point is 00:21:07 Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, like, it's, you know, it's, you know, sticking to old FPS tropes, right? Of like, no regent health. You got to find armor. You got to find health. You got to do this. You actually have to do that stuff.
Starting point is 00:21:18 Rather to get it. But for me, I think, personally, is just the fact that I have no rhythm with it, if that makes sense. Where I play things and I'm like, I'm in there, I'm getting blown away. I'm like, all right, I'm being two balls of the wall. I'm running in there being a psychopath.
Starting point is 00:21:31 Then I play it super cautiously and I'm still getting killed. And I'm just like, where, what do you, should I be dual wheel? Like, I'm trying all these different things that come up to speed to where it should be and I'm not. And I just keep lowering the difficulty because I want to play this game and I want to enjoy it. But when I guess these parts where I'm just running my head
Starting point is 00:21:47 into the wall over and over again, it's like, fuck. But it's like, I will continue to do that. The game is that good. I enjoy what it is. My hope is that I'm going to turn a corner and find the difficulty that works for me now. And they'd be like, all right, this is too easy. Crank it up a notch.
Starting point is 00:22:00 All right, this is, you know what I mean? And an attempt to explain that. Because when you brought it up, I was like, I started thinking about it more. Bethesda with the new order and with other first person shooters like Doom and things like that, they attempt to get you to think outside the box with their shooters. And a lot of shooters don't. If there's a trope, like you said, you're just kind of following and winning your path. Yeah. They actually try and get you to think outside the box and also they want you to die because when you get the better weapons and then you start just
Starting point is 00:22:28 Ruinning fools yeah it feels really good yeah really satisfying that's I think that I feel like that's what they're going for with Wolfenstein Sure because the first I played through all of new order yeah and I loved it And it was it was the same for me where like the first couple of times I get through the stage. I was like this is too hard. Why is it so hard? Am I bad at this? Maybe the bat maybe the game is designed poorly blah blah something would click yeah and it'd be like oh oh oh oh oh they want me to do this, they want me to do this. And I'd figure it out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:51 And then towards the stage, they'd give you some badass weapon. Well, and you're just like, yes. I got this, you know. That's the thing about it. Because I want to be, I think I already have been incredibly clear. The game's phenomenal. Yeah. Like I literally love it, even though I'm bad at it.
Starting point is 00:23:04 It is the thing of, I think I might just have the wrong perspective on it like you're saying. Because it is very clearly, like there was this one part where I was going right. I have a gun that can melt the walls and melt certain, like, things that have yellow on it. And you, to get that gun. like you have to kill this big baddie who's got it. So it was like, first off, figuring out how to take him down. All right, I got him. He had two of those guns.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Like, get the first gun. I fight off the first wave of guys. Then the thing's out and it was like, there's like a clear moment where like the wave shifts. And Jen was the one to say like, all right, when that happens, drop that. I'm like, I know, hold on. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it.
Starting point is 00:23:35 I'm doing it. And I ran over and did it. So I think it's like what you're saying and what they've talked about in their interviews, right? It's like they don't look at their games. They don't call their game. Machine Games doesn't think of Wolfensine as a shooter. They talk about, you know, for them, it is this action adventurer, I think, that's what they called it.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Because it's more than shooting, it's more than that. And so I think I'm very much coming in, like, it's call of duty. These guys run over there and I do that, and I shoot this and I have to do that. When in reality, I have to figure out what the right weapon combination is. Which is fine. It's just frustrating when I'm like, I'm going to sit down and make some progress in Wolfenstein, and it's me fucking going at it. And then where the fuck is this guy who's broadcasting the location?
Starting point is 00:24:10 I'm trying to catch him, but reinforcements are coming. And it's like, well, it's a lot of, I can't take credit for this. My compatriots of Funhouse, I think it's either Lawrence or Adam, constantly talk about how, basically everyone's like, I want Half-Life 3,
Starting point is 00:24:22 I want Half-Life 3, because Half-Life 2 is so good and Half-Live is so good. Those are more of action-adventure shooters. They're not just a Call of Duty shooter. And we, like I said, Adam and Lawrence have been saying this for years. Wolfenstein is Half-Life 3.
Starting point is 00:24:34 That's what, that's the game you wanted. They're making it right now. And if you're not playing those single-player campaigns, then you're absolutely missing out because those games are amazing. They're fantastic. Story-wise, mechanics-wise, everything. I mean, like, that's what, if Half-Life-3 had been, you know, released,
Starting point is 00:24:50 that's what we would get. It would just be in source. Yeah. And I think that, I think Bethesim machine games are doing really good work on those games. And they're doing something special. They're doing something different. I mean, like, you've talked to me about video games for years, of course, and you've listened to me to talk about video games for years.
Starting point is 00:25:04 I can't think of another game that is literally making me eat my own shit. And I'm like, all right, fine, more. Yeah, okay, I'm like, they keep pushing me down and I keep getting up. Like, G.I.J. and a hit movie starring Demi Morton. You know what I mean? Like, I'm all about it. And I want to get back to it.
Starting point is 00:25:16 And I want to play more of it. And I want to get better at it. It's that thing where it's like, I hope that I turn this corner with it, where I'm like, all right, cool. And then quit and then start again. Like, oh, let's just play through it the right way, at the right difficulty. It's like, pop the fucking trophies I want and stuff.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Good Lord. Yeah. So it's awesome. Like, I mean, the performances are really good. The story's really interesting. It's that cranked up, not comedy, but over the top. It is. We're fighting Nazis, but they're characters too.
Starting point is 00:25:39 And we're characters and like, like, Like what I wanted out of it when I was talking about watching the trailers. Like it is this hodgepods of personalities and all these different things. There's these interesting narratives woven into it. And it's like, yeah, fuck yeah. And the reviews have been fantastic. Yeah. My thing is I really hope this game sells well because if it is as good as everyone's saying it is,
Starting point is 00:25:56 and like with the whole controversy of single player games going away. It's like, well, here you go. Yeah. This is it. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Kevin, we already talked about Assassin's Creed, but what are you, what are your thoughts?
Starting point is 00:26:07 How long have you played and what are you thinking? So I've played about like three hours and not my favorite Assassin's Creed so far. Yeah? Yeah. Which is your favorite? Probably the second one. Satis Creek, too. That's a great one.
Starting point is 00:26:25 That's the one that was in Venice, right? Yeah. Yeah, that was amazing. Great game. So what doing it like about this one? It just doesn't feel like an Assassin's Creed. The fighting has been changed, so now it works with... Shoulder buttons.
Starting point is 00:26:39 Yeah, but also the setup of it, the way, like, you level up your character. Well, you make changes, you upgrade his stuff and then, like, that upgrades the stats. There's an RPG element. Yeah, there's RPG. It reminds me a lot of division. Division, yeah. I was talking to you earlier about this. And it just, it doesn't feel like it's an Assassin's Creed game, and it feels like there's so many items and so many stuff.
Starting point is 00:27:03 And I don't know. I don't like it anywhere near as much. I'm going to keep trying a little bit because, you know, I, I'm, I'm, I, I'm, I'm a big Assassin's Creed fan. I've played all of them except for Unity and Black Flag. Black Flag was great. No, I played Black Flag. Syndicate.
Starting point is 00:27:18 You didn't play? Syndicate, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Syndicate. And what's the one that came out around the same time? Didn't they release? The one that was like the Xbox One version and launch thing? What started with you, right?
Starting point is 00:27:29 Unity. Assassin's Creed and Unity, yeah. Anyway, I really like them. The way this, the story of this one started, super confusing. it was so confusing that I actually was like this doesn't feel right I'm gonna restart
Starting point is 00:27:45 and make sure I didn't miss like I didn't actually cut through a cutscene I'm telling you it feels like a ride just jerks or like it's fucking you warped into something where you're just like what okay who is this what's happening I always thought Assassin's Creed was convoluted I always thought it's always been convoluted but they made me
Starting point is 00:28:02 care about these characters I felt like at least from the bat or they gave me a reason to like I don't even like it's starts with something about to happen, then it cuts to a year later, and then it's like three weeks after that. And it's like, wait, what? All right, I guess. And so, yeah, I'm not super invested in the story.
Starting point is 00:28:20 And now that I'm a couple hours in, I found out, like, what exactly happened? And it's just still like, man, what a complicated, convoluted way to throw you into this story that just doesn't... What about the world, though? Is Egypt cool? Yeah, Egypt's pretty cool. It's, no, the world It's pretty cool. The world's cool. It's a pretty game.
Starting point is 00:28:41 There's a ton, like I was saying, there's just... Do you see the pyramids or the sphinx? I haven't got that. I'm still in the small town or whatever. I'm still in the small town too. I'm like on the mission that is going to take you out of it right now. Oh. But I also, I like, I...
Starting point is 00:28:54 If there's a side mission, man, I have to do it. So I just cleared out that whole little area. It's cool, but again, the controls just don't feel right. and the gameplay is different. It should be a better game. I think it had an extra gear. Well, that's the question too. If it's different enough,
Starting point is 00:29:12 like everyone wanted something different from Assassin's Creed. I didn't. I want to make that clear. Okay, so that's the thing. It's like, you just wanted more Assassin's Creed, even though you haven't played the last two Assassin's Creed. Well, it was the last one, but it came out,
Starting point is 00:29:25 like there's two, I don't know, dude. Audience member, Andy Cortez has shown up. Hey, guys. What's up? Big member of the community. So it seems, like the general consensus is that a lot of people like Assassin's Creed. I've put in about
Starting point is 00:29:36 maybe 30 minutes-ish and I think it's gorgeous and I love the main character, right? And I feel like I didn't really feel that with a lot of the other Assassin Creed's games. I didn't put a whole lot of time into the other ones, but I never thought like, oh, this guy's badass and
Starting point is 00:29:53 people are probably going to check me on that because everybody loves that Tio and shit. You do. Shout out to you, SEO. Yeah. He's not real, great. You know that. He might be. But I put in about 15 minutes I put in, or about 30-ish minutes to Assassin's Creed, and then I've put in like
Starting point is 00:30:08 15 minutes into Wolfenstein 2, they're both my games of the year now. Just, I'm making a blame the same way right now. Yeah, 15 minutes. Yeah, they both are. Co-game of the year. No, jokes aside, though, Barrett was saying that, like, Assassin's Creed is up there for his game of the year.
Starting point is 00:30:24 Yeah, and Barrett hates everything, which is crazy. So it's very, very hard to please Barrett, and he loves this game. And that's my thing about it. It's being super well received. And I think honestly, I read a little bit of Alana's review, right? And I think it's even our strapline talks about how it's like, it is a different Assassin's Creed. It's like an RPG or action RPG or something like that.
Starting point is 00:30:44 And it's like maybe again, I need to come in with a different lens on. Maybe I just need to sit down and be like, I'm going to play two hours of this game and see if it clicks more. Sure. Who knows? You think you're just missing the power of the Xbox 1X? I might be. That might be the big problem of it.
Starting point is 00:30:57 Is that what got delivered you think over there? Oh, I don't know. It should be here. Kevin, is that the Xbox? 1X over there? It should be. It is. It's on box that bitch. Let's fucking inbox that motherfucker. We actually have one in our office, I think, waiting for us. Right. That is exciting. Yeah, it's Xbox 1X day here.
Starting point is 00:31:11 They're all shipping them out doing that and stuff. Are you? You're in, you're in this? I am actually very excited. Like, I don't, I very rarely play console at home. Yeah. But the one X, I don't know what it is, but Xbox always gets me excited about their consoles. They always do for some. Even that. Kevin, I need you. Yeah. I don't know. Okay, sorry. I got nothing. One second. I got, I got no fingernails and I got no keys on me. I just got a, this is the Xbox 1X.
Starting point is 00:31:35 A brown box. Here we go, we're gonna get in there. Do you want me to locally record this? Huh? Do you want me to locally record this? That would have been super guy for sure. That's why I was like, hmm, this might work. You don't want to locally record this, right, Tim?
Starting point is 00:31:46 Nah, no, no, no. It's on games, so they can see a thing. There we go. Cut away from yourself. Always cut away. Right towards you. Oh, that's, that's, that's, oh. Kevin, give me the overhead.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Microchip. Give me Sky cam here, Kevin, look. Kev, give me Skycam. There it is. Push. Push this out of there. No, you got to play on PlayStation, remember? Do this one we got in here.
Starting point is 00:32:07 We got a whole booklet about it. Wow. Tell me all that mix her right away. Good. That's what I was worried about. Even the box. Oh, yeah, if you're listening, it's a cardboard box. And then inside there, it's got all the Xbox Accouthermonds and things there.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Sky can't. Oh, you got a good job. You had it the first time. Sorry. You can read from the pamphlet. Okay. Oh, it's a nice pamphlet. There's texture.
Starting point is 00:32:29 Look at that. I'm not sure if that comes with. everyone X. Yeah, you don't think Holy shit. Here, that's for you. Oh man,
Starting point is 00:32:36 I already bought this. They gave us the 4K stuff. A, if you haven't seen Planet Earth 2 in 4K on a beautiful 65 inch OLD TV, you're fucking up,
Starting point is 00:32:45 man, you're fucking up. Man, yeah, this is, so if you're listening to home and even if you're not, so we also are getting Xbox 1 live gold, Xbox Live GamePlasts. These are all like trials.
Starting point is 00:32:55 Netflix, so you can try the 4K, Spotify, EA access is all in there. Then I think these are all games, right? Yeah. So yeah, we have, now we have insane codes for every fucking game ever. Assassin's Creed origins. Call the World War II. Code on there? Oh, so this is, this is probably what a consumer would get.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Yeah, we're getting to the consumer part. We're showing you the press part first. The Call of Duty. Destiny 2. Disneyland Adventures. FIFA 18, Forza Motorsport 7, Gears of War 4, Halo 3, Halo 5. Just push it on. Halo Wars 2. Killer instinct. Madden. Shadow of War,
Starting point is 00:33:33 Minecraft, Rush, a Disney Pixar adventure. Quantum Break, chronically underplayed game. Recore definitive edition. Ooh, Battlefront 2. Super Lucky's Tale.
Starting point is 00:33:45 And then Zoo Tycoon. The one we've all blamed for. So there you go. Codes to give away to try this one. And then see what the Xbox one is all about here. You're into this next thing here. More stuff. So this is what you're getting.
Starting point is 00:33:57 You may actually get that if you're concerned. Yeah, getting started. You got you. Well, they're going to give you. trials for all this stuff right yeah so you got Xbox glow goals you got that there's so accessories in there right unboxing's you weird I know it's tiny it's that's really cool yeah it's it it was the first one was so fucking big right they're always so big man well that's the thing with the S right was the
Starting point is 00:34:23 this is a little bit bigger than the I think it's this is smaller than the yes really because it looks so much like the gears are worn when I have that it is smaller yeah thank you Andy Do this. Kav, you want to go to SkyCam? Show the console. Still, I wish it came with the elite controller, but I get it. There you go.
Starting point is 00:34:43 Xbox 1X there. She's a heavy one. She's a bulky girl. With all that 4K gaming technology. Oh, she is heavy. You're right about that. There's all the ports here. Showing the ports.
Starting point is 00:34:56 I want to get that shot there. Andy, I don't know how to put this knife away. I'm going to kill myself. They got the H-E-I-N and out. Still doing it. Well, yeah, you got to. It's too. No connection.
Starting point is 00:35:08 Connected port. Yeah, that was a big thing. I think they officially. Yeah, they did. No, no, they're officially. But they're still, quote, unquote, gonna support it. This thing is dense. Yeah, it's a...
Starting point is 00:35:17 I miss the texture, the, the whole texture on half of it. You know, like the walls right here on the side? You're being serious or you're not being serious? I am. He's being... How often did you touch your Xbox? Oh, not for a feel, for a look, because it kind of adds like a two-tone sort of look to it, you know? On the S.
Starting point is 00:35:34 That's all on the S. That's sexy. That's sexy. All right. Well, that's sexy. That's the Xbox 1x. You can feel the 4K visuals pouring out of it. I actually, fucking no joke.
Starting point is 00:35:45 Watch Planet Earth. That is the thing that'll sell you on an HDR 4K, all that stuff. Like when you have a nice TV, like I played it on my Xbox 1S. We can. It's just beautiful. So beautiful.
Starting point is 00:35:58 He said we can. He agreed with you. Shut the fuck up. Kevin RoliBots beepin. He's not even plugged in. The Xbox 1X doesn't require power. Good Lord. Kevin, can you turn on the fan? Yeah, we're going to need some backup.
Starting point is 00:36:12 That's failed totally, right? Yeah. Roli Bott is not up to the cast. I can't feel anything. Sorry, Roli Bought. We tried for you. Oh my God, I'm sweating so hard. It's bad.
Starting point is 00:36:21 We're all dying in here. Gray, you also played Hidden Agenda. Oh, I did, right. Yeah, I'm sorry. I also played Hidden Agenda and Life is Strange episode too. Yes. Hidden Agenda, there's Let's Play Up on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games of us playing it.
Starting point is 00:36:34 If you're unfamiliar, this is super massive first game of the year. They are the guys who did. Dawn. They have two more ones coming after this one. This is the play link game where you download to your phone or tablet or whatever, the hidden agenda app. And then you play via that being your control or whatever. The idea being that like until dawn, there's a horror story kind of playing out. And then the game part of it is you playing with other people choosing, like voting on where you're going to go. Then the deal is that every, like it's broken up into segments, if you
Starting point is 00:37:04 will. Like there's like, you know, this scene or whatever. And in every scene, someone at the table will have a hidden agenda card that they are trying to either, you know, like, don't let this person go to the house with this person, um, influence the decision making this way. Basically that when you get to the end, you're trying to make somebody at the table is trying to make you make one of these choices. Um, we played it with me, Kevin, Andy, uh, Joey. We all had a great time. It was really fun. It's, it's, it's a game that it's interesting. I, I, you know, in the let's play talk about how it's, to me, it's like, you know, it's kind of like secret Hitler or something. It's like a board game put onto the TV, right?
Starting point is 00:37:37 Which is cool. I wonder how much variance there really is on a second play-through of it, but I haven't done that yet, right? And it turns out we were playing. We were like, are we going to play this one sitting? I don't know, maybe. And it was like, well, how long is it? And we can figure it out.
Starting point is 00:37:50 And it turns out it's like, what? Six hours, Joey, didn't you say? Six to seven hours. So it's like that game. Did you play the whole thing? No, no, no. We did like, what, an hour or whatever? Hour and a half of it.
Starting point is 00:37:59 Yeah, yeah. I have a lot of questions. Play it on me. That's interesting to me that it's that long because it seems like it's kind of trying to cater to that jackbox party pack style. The biggest problem I have with the game. The game, the idea is great. The game is great. Where they fucked up, I feel, is that they didn't make it episodes.
Starting point is 00:38:17 They should have put out this game called it Hidden Agenda and call it Season 1. Don't call it season one. But then have it be who wants to play an episode of Hidden Agenda. And we get 45 minutes that ends on a cliffhanger that makes me want to play the next one, but also chooses a winner or whatever. like I've played that part of the game. Because this is the issue with it of, yeah, this is a great idea. This is a great step. Taking what worked with until dawn so well that like how you and Nick were playing during
Starting point is 00:38:41 extra life and stuff and put it into a different thing and make it where we all just playing having this great time together. But the problem is that there's never a clear end point for us, right? And you can stop and save and quit and come back. But it's that same thing of like, cool, I had all my friends over. We played an hour and half of it. And then the next day, different friends are here or, you know, a week later, you know, Joey couldn't come.
Starting point is 00:39:00 but we don't want to, it's like, oh, they can't pick up from where they left off. We can, but like, but nobody will know what's going on. Exactly, exactly. And that's, it would have been, I think, a way better idea to be like, we're doing this in episodes. Every episode, if you're making your choices quickly, is 45 minutes. Yeah, no, definitely. And that's the way we'll break it up and have you go. If they would have done that, I think this would have done even better. Well, because that's what I think the beauty of the, the, the playing stuff and jackbox is, is it, you can be in a, at a party or just a group gathering of, like, people that aren't necessarily gamers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:27 And be like, hey, like, we can have this experience. And it's at a point that it's at a point that It's not like, oh, it's stupid mobile games. It's like these are cool things that people can be a part of and feel like they're good at it or getting something out of it. Like they don't need a prior knowledge of video games, right? 100%. And this sounds like you kind of do. Like this sounds like you need the time investment. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:47 Part of it. The only hookup, the only trouble to them is, yeah, it's going to take a while to play a full game, which sucks. Because the story is interesting. I do want. And that was the thing of like, when we finished it, it was that thing of like, all right, maybe we'll come back to or whatever. And so many people in the comments of the video have been like, no, you got to come back. Even me, I'm like,
Starting point is 00:40:02 I really want to know what the fuck happens in this story and where it's going. So it's like, I'm encouraged to play again, but... But then you have to play a game with Andy. Yeah, he's the worst. That's not... Uh, I'm sorry. Uh...
Starting point is 00:40:14 Uh, you guys, uh... Somebody playing Gundams? What a burger? Fucking nailed it. Fucking nailed it. You know what I mean? Yeah. But no, it's great.
Starting point is 00:40:25 I'm a little bummed about it, though, because I, one of the problem I had, and this is a very me thing, but a problem I had with until dawn is I loved everything about it, loved the game. My first thought was, holy crap, I have so many friends that aren't really into video games that I'm like, you need to play this. And it's too much of a thing to be like, play this game that's eight hours.
Starting point is 00:40:44 Yeah, whatever it is. And it is that thing of like, there's audiences that it will work really well with, right? It will be of like, hey, everybody, I'm coming home for Thanksgiving. And me and my parents do need something to knock around with at night or whatever. hey, we have board game night every week at my friend's house, so we're going to play this for three weeks. You know what I mean? Like it will work, but I feel like it could have just been done way better. So that's the other thing, too, I guess to their credit, we already do have now a lot of games that are just the kind of 45 minute play a game.
Starting point is 00:41:14 So it is cool that they're starting as something that is a bit more Dungeons and Dragons S. It sounds like they're trying to make a telltale game, but for a lot of people. Yeah. And all in one sitting. Yeah. Because like, but even with telltales, I wasn't crazy about them because I never felt like video games. it just felt like I was watching a movie. It was like, press A or X, and I'd be like,
Starting point is 00:41:31 A. And that, to me, didn't feel like a video game, but you could play that with a bunch of people that didn't know how to play a video game. Yeah. And then it felt like you were sort of, it's a choose your own adventure movie. And it's disappointing that Hidden Agenda can't do that with the interaction of all the phones. Because I feel like you could get a bunch of friends together and do it for, like, we said, two, three hours, choose your own adventure and have a really good time.
Starting point is 00:41:51 But it sounds like it's more of a time investment with that. Yeah, that's the only, that's the one downside. Because it totally is that, you know, it's, when we, started into it, I was like, oh, it's like this, it's like that. I didn't understand Tim how much like faking it is. Where it is, all right, cool. Like, everybody gets the card, but only one of the cards is that real hidden agenda. And you look at it and swipe away.
Starting point is 00:42:08 And then it is like, immediately, every time we were playing, Andy, was like, it's Joey or it's Kevin. And then you're like, oh, yeah, totally it. And then like, you're making choices. And you're like, wait, why are you siding with me suddenly? Because it's got it. Some of the votes have to be the majority or have to be everybody. So it's like, you have to get people to your sides.
Starting point is 00:42:25 You're like bartering and negotiating to get people to come vote. over here. It sounds great. It is. It is great. It is great. It's an awesome game. It's a really cool experience. I recommend people try it and play it.
Starting point is 00:42:34 I just worry, or not even worry, I just don't think most people are going to see the end. I think you're going to play it for a while and have a great time. But eventually some friend is going to be like, fuck, we've only thing for two hours. I'm not a gamer. I want to go do something. Can we do this? You know what I mean? Like, let's go to the movie we're going to go see.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Right. But there's ways to chip away at it. I just think it would have been way smarter to be like, break it up by episodes. and then if you start episode two and you've never played before, it's like previously on Hidden Agenda, and it's like reading the choices from my save, knowing what I'm doing, and then we get and we start off and you know what's going on.
Starting point is 00:43:01 Andy, am I misrepresenting Hidden Agenda in anyway? What are you saying? Everything I just said. I didn't listen. But I did read the first comment on the threat, which is kind of the problem that I had with it where you want to, you want the story to keep going. You want to find out what the hell is happening,
Starting point is 00:43:18 but you also want to, like you were trying like I knew you were the faker at one point or the faker right the guy who's trying to to keep the agenda going yeah Greg had the hidden agenda I knew that but I didn't want him to go through with it but what he had to do in order to go through with it had was the only way to progress the story it felt like so it's like you're kind of battling do I want to fuck Greg over or do I just want the story to keep going and so there's like a competitive aspect that's I don't love Now for the record, we were playing competitive. There is just a story mode where we could have just voted and done whatever.
Starting point is 00:43:55 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you could play through it and not be where we were, where it's like we're trying to... Does that just mean there is no hidden agendas then? We didn't play it. I don't know. I haven't had an experience with that. I've just played competitive mode. But there is a video on the PlayStation blog called The Difference Between Them.
Starting point is 00:44:10 We had a conversation about this, I think on Games Daily. How many players can actually play it? And I was like, I don't know. Kevin, can you watch that video? And Kevin's like, I can't. We got the answer we had, but no one's watched the video. to explain the difference between story. Right there.
Starting point is 00:44:22 I'll just click it. Yeah, I know. Again, once it was one video. I should have watched multiple times already. And then Life is Strange before the storm. Episode two. Yeah, I figure out of the subtitle on it, but it's episode two. It continues to be fucking great, man. That game, did you play Life is Strange?
Starting point is 00:44:35 Do you care about Life is Strange? So I always get these two mixed up. I think, so I watched somebody play through most of it. Okay. Is it the one where you walking around the house trying to discover what happened? No, I've gone home. No, that I didn't know. I never played.
Starting point is 00:44:46 Okay, okay. It's like I said with episode one, I just feel like this game has no business being this good. It's still the same thing of like, I was never aching for Chloe and Rachel Amber's story when I play Life is Strange number one. But here I am getting it in like episode one. You're like, oh, fuck.
Starting point is 00:45:01 It's cool. And they're doing so many interesting things about it because in life is, that's the crazy. That means somebody's car is like now Cube. That means we need like Jaws to Life crazy ass. I've never even heard that. That's the second time I've heard it while we've done this show.
Starting point is 00:45:19 Yeah, like about a month ago, there was like, maybe like three weeks ago during the fires and stuff. We just heard normal siren go, another normal siren, then like a weird high pitched one, then another weird high bit, and then that thing. That's like, what the fuck is going on? You know, the original life is strange. You played as Max and you had the power to rewind time. And so there's like this video game element to it, really, outside of just kind of conversations
Starting point is 00:45:39 and branching storylines. And then with this one, there's no powers. Chloe does not have powers. Nobody has powers in this game. No spoilers. And so episode one, it was really great. They did these cool things. And then they,
Starting point is 00:45:51 they had dream sequences you were in, like, and having these really, uh, touching moments I felt with your father who passed away that you know, this isn't a spoiler. Um, and then,
Starting point is 00:46:01 but there was this one part where you play a game of D&D. And like the, the, the dungeon master's talking and they just keep using different camera angles on your little miniature on the table. Yeah. And it was so fucking cool. And it was like,
Starting point is 00:46:11 wow, what a great moment. I'm like, are they going to be able to keep doing cool shit like that? Yeah. In episode two, they do. They do really cool shit like that.
Starting point is 00:46:18 Where all of a sudden it is like, like there's touching moments in it. There, and I don't want to spoil anything, obviously, but like there's the cute things I didn't see happening. There's, you know, this one thing where this guy's getting in a fight
Starting point is 00:46:29 and he's asked you to protect his brother and it's like, do I go out of the room or do I stay in the room and what do you do? And then it was like, you know, I made my choice
Starting point is 00:46:35 and then there were like multiple, multiple callbacks throughout it. And I did something shitty on top of that. Right, done something shitty. This thing happened
Starting point is 00:46:43 and now everyone's calling me a hero. And I really was feeling the guilt of like, fuck, but I'm a shit. I'm a dirtbag. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I'm a dirtbag.
Starting point is 00:46:50 They're eventually going to discover that I'm an asshole. And then, again, you get to the end, the main, fine, the second to the last, like, big set piece. And it happens. I don't know. Should I say or not? I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. Like, racial ambers in this play, right?
Starting point is 00:47:07 The Tempest. One of the people can't make it because of the fires that you guys cost. And you have to go on stage and do it, right? And I'm like, all right, cool. So it's whatever. And they give you the costume. And then you change and you come out and there's the script. And you click on the script and it has your lines highlighted.
Starting point is 00:47:25 And I started paging through and I'm like, wait, do I have to actually memorize these lines? Is that what they're fucking doing to me right now? And sure enough, you go on stage and it pops up with like multiple versions of like, what's the real line? And I was like, this is so fucking cool. James Willems is trying to call in about life is strange. James, are you trying?
Starting point is 00:47:41 We are live streaming right here. You want to say, hi. Oh my God. It's, there's video. Hi. Hi, Tim. Hi, James. Hey, Greg.
Starting point is 00:47:50 Hey, guys, I need your help real quick. So since Bruce is gone, Lawrence decided to do a real game for real gamers episode. Yeah. And he picked this game called NeoFude. Really cool. And Elise and I haven't done any commentary on it for the last 15 minutes or so. It's just been Lawrence playing silently. This is what it looks like.
Starting point is 00:48:14 You could do. Oh, I got to throw the olive oil on my cyber arm. It's in the future So you got to grease it up with the It's a robot arm He's putting virgin on Oh my robot arm You want to sky cam it
Starting point is 00:48:28 Well now we're sky cam in your gameplay We don't have funhouse technology It'll take a second Content we can contact Yeah I remember tune struck yes This makes tune struck Look like destiny too Do you do you need
Starting point is 00:48:47 Do you need Greg or Tim's help or Andy or Kevin or anybody? I need you to tell Lawrence to stop. Okay, so on three, we're all going to say Lawrence stop. Okay. All right. He's literally unscrewing every screw. Okay, ready? One, two, three.
Starting point is 00:49:06 Lawrence, stop. I was really mean to do that. You heard guys have feelings. Hey, hey, cool Tim. We call him Uncle Tim. No, cool, Tim. Not Uncle Tim. Tim.
Starting point is 00:49:19 If Tim were an uncle, he would be extremely cool. James, did he stop or not? No, but you guys heard his feeling. I just got olive oil in my cyberactuary. I'm sorry, guys. I apologize for the interruption. It happens. James.
Starting point is 00:49:34 We're going to go back to a podcast. We're sorry. There's Benson, by the way, if you want to see. He wants to see Benson. What did Benson rub his nose off on? Oh, he has lupus. Yeah, he has a disease. He has his disease.
Starting point is 00:49:47 All right. Bye guys. Bye. I apologize. I did not know they were going to do that. I don't care. We had fun. This is what we do here. It's party me.
Starting point is 00:49:54 You got there and you deliver your lines or whatever. Yeah. And then, which I thought was like a super cool. Like the game does so well at, hey, you're an angsty teenager, right?
Starting point is 00:50:04 And now you're like, all right, whatever. But then I'm in these situations. Like, and then from there you go to like Rachel Amber's house. You have to interact with their parents, like set the table and like they don't like you.
Starting point is 00:50:10 It's like. Rachel Amber? It's one of those like Tim Getty's name. Her name's name. Yeah. You know these people in your life who you say their full name when you talk about. Oh, so her last name is Amber. One of those guys?
Starting point is 00:50:23 Yeah. I actually do. I say Tim Getty's in. Really? Yeah. I feel like I've made it. That's kind of dope. I say Tim Getty.
Starting point is 00:50:29 Yeah. No, you're definitely a two-name guy. But you walk around and you do that. You wrestle with these, you know, choices. And they do weigh on me of like, and like the disappointment in my mother, Joyce all the time. Like, yeah, this is a real fucking thing. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:50:41 Like, it's just another great episode of, I was playing. I was like, all right, where are they going to go with this? right and then I was and I wasn't like out of it but I was like waiting for something and then it all just goes and like again it ends with another like fuck I can't wait for the next episode like they nailed this so like yeah what is what is the next thing going to be and how are we gonna get there and I'm getting sad already and I don't want to play life of strange again now because now I know who racial is see is that better for you it is and so I'll you know I want to say no Rachel Amber just like you know not to be that guy but I'm gonna be
Starting point is 00:51:09 she's gonna be a porn star eventually I thought it was a hyphenated first name Rachel dash Amber I mean either way either way it's It's definitely a star name. She's dead and everyone knows that. I didn't know that. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. So how does it compare to other,
Starting point is 00:51:24 it's like other games like this, like Telltale games like Game of Thrones and Walking Dead? Yeah, sure. For me personally, the way I was to think about it is that what's going on? I feel the game resonates emotionally better than Telltale games for the most part too.
Starting point is 00:51:40 I think, doing it wrong, I think Walking Dead season one great and like hit me in the fields and did all this. but like it's rare like when I'm playing a telltale game I feel like I'm very it's very much a game even in Batman right where I'm like I want Gordon to be my friend and I fucked it up and I was like oh fuck Gordon's not my friend anyone I won't ever keep going to go you know what I mean like oh well that's not the way I thought it was going to go it's fun and it's in but it's like I get in
Starting point is 00:52:03 and I get out and like with the exception of walking dead season one which really did hit me in the fields and keep me thinking about it forever this is more it sounds like personal relationship exactly and that's the thing of like versus Batman and Gordon yeah exactly exactly and Like that's the thing is like this is on paper like you know what a fucking stupid game like Like yours playing is an in in in in in axty girl. All right cool. I'm fighting zombies. I'm just living your life. Okay but I've rewind powers now. I mean there's this like system where you yell at people and if you get a mad like they well they'll fuck up like all right and like my dad's dead. Oh and like mom's got a boyfriend. Oh you okay like all right you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:52:38 It's like a young adult novel. But it does they do such a great job as life is strange one did, even though that was a little bit more fantastical, they do such a great job of giving you themes to relate to and emotions to relate to and totally bringing me back to, hey, yeah, this is what it was like to be in high school. And like, again, I feel like enough time passed. You might have been waiting for it. But like, in episode one of before the storm, right, like, there's this super powerful scene. And I won't spoil, spoil it or whatever, but like this super powerful scene that is like, I've never had a parent die. You know what I mean? But to go through as Chloe and be like, she's fucking raging because of something that's happened.
Starting point is 00:53:16 And then get to this like stark reminder of your father who passed away. And like it like, and like, you know what I mean? Like, Jen cried multiple times playing this game without. Like it was, Jen watched me play it one morning.
Starting point is 00:53:27 Then I went to work and she played it again on her own. And like she was like touched by it too. Because they do just such, such a great job of giving you relatable, honest moments in a video game. And I feel like that's the thing where telltale is great and I love telltale games, but they show their seams more. It's a video game.
Starting point is 00:53:43 game, here's this technical jerk, this thing and the other. And like, don't be wrong, life is strange is, of course, not, you know, it has a style to it that like, like, that way it's not uncanny valley, but you're also like, okay, well, that isn't how a body moves sometimes or this, that, the other, but like that's video games. But it's like, I suspend all that disbelief and I'm all in and I fucking love the characters and love the story. It sounds just like when Archie's dad was shot on CW's Riverdale. A lot of people like this Riverdale show.
Starting point is 00:54:06 And I cried. I cried of, did you really? No, no, I didn't. Oh, you can't cry about CW shows? No, you can cry about anything you want. Okay, thank you. I just didn't. Like, I zombie?
Starting point is 00:54:18 Rahul. Every time the credits roll, I cry on eye zombie. Isn't that right, Rahul? By the way, he's at the beginning of the show, and in the credits, not the end. I've never watched I, Zambi, so I don't know. That's why you like Fun House. Fuck! Wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:54:31 Not you. That was Rahulah. You're fine. Okay, all right. Yeah. Have you played anything, Bruce? I mean, like, I've been playing Overwatch, PubG and Fortnite Nighter Royale. Oh, 4th.
Starting point is 00:54:43 So, Fortnite Battle Royale, it's funny because I've been playing PubG pretty consistently, at least 50, 60, 70 hours of it. And I did not think that Fortnite Battle Royale was going to be good. I played Fortnite even before Battle Royale, nobody had. And I'm serious. And I was like, oh, yeah, like, whatever. And when I heard that they were copying PubG, I was like, there's no way that this could be nearly as fun as PUBG. It turns out it's more fun.
Starting point is 00:55:06 And it's even, there's less tension. And there's also less waiting. Yeah. So PubG is, this sounds ridiculous, but it feels more real, whereas Fortnite just kind of feels cartoonish. I think it's because of the style. It helps a lot. It's getting get out and play. I've been playing it too, right? And it's just like, yeah. It really is a getting get out. Oh, you died, hit circle back, lobby and come back in if you want to. Well, and the map is smaller. The game moves faster. The pickups are easier. Guns everywhere. Yeah. I mean, like, honestly, it is, I've had more fun with it because it feels like there's less pressure, which is weird. Because PubG, there's pressure. There's an investment, right? It's pressure on you to survive. And Fortnite, not so much. So yeah, that's what I've been playing in my, in my, those are, they're PC games, though. So I know you guys. No, I play Fortnite on console. It's fine. We can be, we're brothers in
Starting point is 00:55:49 this one. It's okay. No trophies. So it's a lot, it's a lot like the nightmare you live every day. Right. Yeah. Well, I don't need trophies to validate myself. I just need to know that I'm going to play against the best of the best of the best on PC. Yeah, well, yeah, of course you're against the best of the best of the best of the best of video games. I see. You're saying they're all on PC. I understand. But a lot of probably aren't playing because they're doing their taxes at the same time using the calculator widget. We're on Excel.
Starting point is 00:56:16 Yeah. Exactly doing this. What's the monthly budget look like? Fucking dorks. It is time for this week in gaming history. Now, Greg, we got an interesting week for you. Fucking day. Well, yeah, it is a big fucking day.
Starting point is 00:56:28 Yeah, that's towards the bottom. That is the bottom on this list. Because it's backwards in time how I do it. I know what you're talking about. You start with the biggest. I know you. I don't know what he's talking about. 17 years, son.
Starting point is 00:56:37 That's what I'm talking about. Every week, Bruce, we go back and we talk about all the, the biggest game releases or just whatever I want to talk about really that happened this week in gaming history there's a very unique thing about this week in gaming history for some reason between October the week of October like I guess it's 22nd through 26th whole or 27th whole bunch Tony Hawk games and Grand Theft Auto games guess those are popular populations let's start off for Christmas I would imagine I'm trying to start out different here four years ago October 25th 2013 Batman Arkham origins came out who yeah fuck you haters for not playing it
Starting point is 00:57:11 And liking it more. If you didn't know it was WB Montreal, you would have loved the game, but you didn't. You're monsters. Deathstroke battle. Best boss battle in the Batman. Arkham Series,
Starting point is 00:57:19 fight me on it. You were a fan of Arkham Origins? I barely played it just like everybody else. I did play Arkham Asylum. But Archim Origins, everybody was kind of like, no, it wasn't very good.
Starting point is 00:57:28 It's not as good. But then more that I heard people talk about it, the more like, oh, no, this game was actually really good. Yeah, we kind of fucked up. Yeah, exactly. Enjoy your tank in night.
Starting point is 00:57:37 Five years ago in October 23rd, 2012, hotline Miami first came out. On PC. That's like a long time ago. Five years ago? Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:57:46 We're old. Yeah. And then eight years ago on October 27, 2008, everything changed when League of Legends came out on PC. Oh, yeah. So what year was that? 2008. I played League of Legends again long before everybody else did because my roommate was playing. We get it.
Starting point is 00:58:03 You're cool. No, it was on PC. And it was one of those things where like I played it and hated it. The matches would last like an hour and a half League of Legends hadn't perfected the formula yet And I remember winning a match It was like I played three or four lost a bunch Hated it
Starting point is 00:58:20 I remember winning a match that was an hour and a half long And I hated I hated the way I felt So I was like I'm never playing League of Legends again Yeah yeah so I stopped playing it And then it like exploded And then it turned to this a matter You know obviously a worldwide phenomenon So they must have changed
Starting point is 00:58:35 I have never gone back No You're a man of your word I am a man of my word But I should go back. I don't know. And here you go, Greg. Nine years ago on October 27, 2008,
Starting point is 00:58:44 Little Big Planet came out on PS3. Do you like a little big planet? Yeah, I love Little Big Planet. Yeah, I love a little bit more. Sack boy. Who cares? Man, little big planet. No, that was a jam.
Starting point is 00:58:58 Platinum did it? No big deal. Just saying. Just tossing that out there. Nobody cares. No, who can. You can't care. I don't need to change the game.
Starting point is 00:59:05 Play, create, share. It was a big deal. Phil Harrison. gaming 2.0, that's... We get it. You're a PlayStation fanboy, Greg. We know you love Sony. So now from here on going forward, it's all just GTA and Tony House.
Starting point is 00:59:16 So let's go 12 years ago on October 24th, 2005. GTA Liberty City Stories came out on PSP. A game changer. Because that's going back to earlier in this episode, we're talking about console quality experiences on the go. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:27 That was like a real attempt at that. Right. And it was pretty damn solid. Oh yeah. It was really solid. Yeah. It wasn't great. It wasn't great.
Starting point is 00:59:33 It was something to play. You guys are saying it wasn't great. That means it really... Shut up, PC, fucking doors. If I have to hear you talk about Windows 95 one more time. It's the best, guys. It shot me up.
Starting point is 00:59:46 13 years ago on October 26, 2004, GTA San Andreas came out on Vegas, too. That was a great one. That was the one for me. Everyone says it went too far. But going into it, though, I was like, all right, obviously, GT3 I loved. Vice City. Cubs.
Starting point is 00:59:59 But then it's like, all right, Miami, 80s, that sounds fucking cool. I'm in. But you're going to tell me, you're giving me California. You're giving me San Francisco, L.A., and Vegas. I guess, not talking to California, but whatever. And it's set in the 90s. I'm like, this is the most Tim Getty's fucking thing ever. I'm all about it.
Starting point is 01:00:17 And then I got it. And it just, it, yeah, it felt too much. Having to do all the working out and eating right. And it was even just little things. I like, I like driving with the D pad. And then they took that from it. They stripped it from me because there's too many buttons to do different things. So I use the analog.
Starting point is 01:00:33 What do you mean driving from the D pad? Nobody does that anymore. I know, but I do. I still do. Terrible. You're terrible. The only one, Tim. I'm sorry, buddy.
Starting point is 01:00:40 That's why you're not good at Mario Kart. It's true. It's true. Oh, shit. But, no. Like San Andreas, though, it's just like, that was the only one of that generation that I never beat the whole thing.
Starting point is 01:00:49 Wow, really? Yeah. Man, I love San Jose. Yeah, that was. Yeah, that was. Yeah, yeah. CJ up to no good. Man, no.
Starting point is 01:00:55 San Andreas was great and doesn't, I think it gets shit on too much. Because you don't get me wrong. Three revolutionary. Blue everybody's doors off. Vice City, of course. 80s, amazing neon, Ray Leota.
Starting point is 01:01:05 And then, yeah, everybody's always, like, oh, you had to work out, you didn't have to work out. You had to eat, sure, or to heal, right, or whatever, but it wasn't that bad. It was fun. It was cool. Same with Jackson. You got planes. You had a jet pack. Come on. It's true. It's true. Stop being a hate, nice hater. My dude. 14 years ago on October 27, 2003,
Starting point is 01:01:22 Tony Hawk's Underground came out on PS2 as the one that added the whole story mode. You're fucking that boy. Eric Sparrow, being a little bitch-ass motherfucker out there. What do you say? He said, you're fucking boys? Yeah. I hate you. Yeah, thug was like the beginning of the end for for Tony Hawk's franchise Well sure, but that's how it usually works when you get to the best you can only go down and thug and thug two right up there And then it's that now I mean the thing is they're not bad like they're actually good I would say but that was the first time that they added gimmicks that didn't fit or compliment the gameplay
Starting point is 01:01:57 Getting off the board sucked wasn't fun to control didn't add to combos in a productive way it stopped your momentum entirely It's not what Tony Hawk's about. That what he's up back. God damn it was fun, though. I will give it that. 15 years ago on October 27, 2002, GTA, Vice City came out on PS2. Obviously, fucking classic. What year I'm sorry? That was 2002.
Starting point is 01:02:18 Thank you. Just making sure. Yes, yes. And then 15 years ago on October 23rd, 2002, TonyX Pro Skater 4 came out on PS2. My favorite Tony House Pro Skater, because it's the best. 16 years ago on October 28th, 2001, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 came out of theater. Weird.
Starting point is 01:02:32 I'm telling you, man. They're all about. I'm sure call of duties all probably line up around the same November time frame. Tony Hawks, Procedator 3, the first next gen at the time. Tony Hawk game introduced the revert. Fan fucking-tastic. 16 years ago on October 22nd, 2001, GTA 3 came out. There it is. That's the one.
Starting point is 01:02:51 Starting it all. Yeah, that was. Couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe it. A milestone. Chatterbox. You kidding me? Failure.
Starting point is 01:02:57 I won't bore everyone with the same stories, but that was the thing. Getting that EGM with the first screens of that could not believe my eyes that that was going to be a thing. and then getting it in college, I would leave the door open and just play. And people would come in and just sit there and just watch and listen. And there was so many times where I'd pull over to go do a mission or whatever. And somebody was like,
Starting point is 01:03:14 no, no, don't get out of the car yet. I want to finish this story. Because Laslo was saying something or doing something. It was so good. So question about GTA. If I remember correctly, the GTA3 trilogy, you can get six stars.
Starting point is 01:03:28 Correct? I don't know. And then now you can only get five. Five is the max in GTA. Is that right, Kev? I wonder why they changed that. Six is just too many. But it just seems weird because that's such a defining thing about Grand The Vodado's getting the stars,
Starting point is 01:03:43 especially like if you're not doing the story mode, you're just with friends fucking up. One of the game modes was how long can I survive having maximum stars? So wasn't the change the amount? I always thought that was weird. Hey, that's just me. And here is what you were talking about, Greg. 17 years ago, October 26th, 2000, the PlayStation 2 came out. You got damn right.
Starting point is 01:04:02 It did. What a day. What a day. The best DVD player of all time. Young Greg Miller. You're right. Smugglers run. Sorry you were somewhere polishing a hard drive, dork.
Starting point is 01:04:10 All right. I was over there. At that point, I still, I think, in Nintendo 64, I never, I never bought a PlayStation 2. Wow. Would you watch your DVDs? You're one of the few people in the world. Yeah, I know, right? That's insane.
Starting point is 01:04:22 I never bought a PlayStation 2. I don't know why. I don't know why. I totally missed that boat. No, I didn't buy a PS3 either. But I think I stuck with Nintendo and then I think the original Xbox is what I skipped PS2. how. Yeah. I don't know why. I know really. It's kind of sad, isn't it? Yeah. I missed out of my
Starting point is 01:04:37 childhood. That beautiful blue box. You know what I did instead? What? I built a PC. I'm sure you did. I built a PC and I entered the world of real online gaming. The worst part about- you tell me the network adapter wasn't real online. So calm. The PlayStation 2. The worst part about PC gaming is that we almost had it done. It was almost snuffed out. Remember this? Like 2007, 2008. Everybody's like, it's over. And I was like, never. Yeah, yeah. And you fuckers and your steam and you're fucking. Now it's always gonna be here. Yeah, I guess that steam was the thing that kind of like, like, no, it's never going to be. I have an awesome photo on my phone from IGN the old old days of Mike Thompson. He, I forget what we were joking around about, but he went over
Starting point is 01:05:15 to Charles Anyet's desk and he'd put a giant box over the PC, PC there and wrote rest in peace, PC gaming. And it was whatever, 19 to 2007 or eight, whatever it was. And it was like, ha, it's so funny because there was like, somebody had put out like, maybe like the examiner or somebody, there There was some like zine going around, like one of those like insert zines that was like PC gaming's dead or whatever. And everybody's like, oh my God. And Charles like, it's not, dude. It's not funny guys. Now it's better than ever.
Starting point is 01:05:41 I know. Fucking goddamn. So Minecraft. Better than ever. So now it's time for some audience questions. You can go to kind of funny.com slash gamescast just like all these beautiful people did. Task Bruce some beautiful questions. King Franchise 88 says guys, which game that drops tomorrow do you think you'll play the most?
Starting point is 01:05:58 Assassin's Creed. Mario Odyssey or Wolfenstein. Mario Odyssey. I feel like it's an easy answer, right? Mario Odyssey. Wolfenstein. Yeah? That's going to be,
Starting point is 01:06:06 that'll be the first one I go to, I think. Wolfenstein, I've already played like an hour and a half of it, just at different events. Yeah. And I need it. You need it right now. I need it right now.
Starting point is 01:06:14 See, I'm going to binge so hard on Mario, but then it's just going to be that game of like, oh, I'm on the plane. Let's get some moons. How many of these moons do I have what I have to do? Like shrines for me, I loved when I was playing Zelda,
Starting point is 01:06:23 but after I beat Zelda, I was like, I don't feel the need to run around to do this. Whereas with Mario end game and all that of the jazz, I'm going to feel like I really want to play more of that. Makes sense? Obviously for me, it's Mario. Although I do really want to play Wolfenstein.
Starting point is 01:06:34 I was worried. You're going to really love it. I was worried about it from a review standpoint and from like an actual critical reception to it where I was like, Are people going to think it's like a 7, 5, 8? Because if so, but like New Order and Old Blood were great video games.
Starting point is 01:06:49 And it's only better. All right. The Hulk James says, why do you think Gorilla chose to do only one DLC for Horizon? Maybe less is more. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it works to their advantage. It's what we've talked about too.
Starting point is 01:07:05 I think you were on this game daily where we were talking about game of the year and should DLC be included for it if it's in the same calendar year. And this is a great way to be like, it's a really great marketing move. It's a really great thing of like, like I said, I beat Horizon in February. Literally a couple months later, I was like, man, I can go for more Horizon. And then they were like, hey, we're doing DLC in November. I was like, great. And now it's November.
Starting point is 01:07:25 So it's like, hey, it's on the tip of your time. for voting for nerds like us or whatever for caring about game of the year. It reminds you of these games you play in the first half of the year that you forget about like Resident Evil was this year, which sounds crazy. The Resident Evil is great and I love it. But I just don't think of that as a 2017 game anymore. Then it is also like, hey, it's in the news. People are talking about it again. So now kids are asking for it for Christmas. Hey, it's selling more again. Hey, we're all around it. Like, it's a good moving. Yeah. I think it's enough to be like, hey, here's this next, hopefully great expansion. And we'll see you for Horizon 2 and two four, two or three years.
Starting point is 01:07:55 right? Let's go off and do that. IMO. If somebody else has something to say. Charlie says, what's next for first content from Funhouse? E-sports is over. Would Bruce or the Funhouse team ever do a full-on let's play? So what do you mean by full-on let's play? Because the, interestingly,
Starting point is 01:08:11 we, the first content, we did a thing, I don't know if you guys watched it at all. It's called e-sports, e-jicks. And what we did was we basically tried to play as a team and get better together in Overwatch, competitive mode. And so we were actually playing the game seriously.
Starting point is 01:08:27 And for some reason, people enjoyed it. We, like, each one was pretty extended let's plays. It's about an hour long of us, not yelling at each other, but like getting pretty competitive. Yeah. In Overwatch. And I think we're going to do another season of it because we really enjoyed it. And we love playing Overwatch. We play over
Starting point is 01:08:42 Overwatch all the time in our spare time anyways. So I think that will be more first content. There are other things kind of coming up here and there that we can't really talk about yet for first content. But We're in the works We're in the works
Starting point is 01:08:57 They're probably like six months away Yeah but in the meantime Twits and Crits is our Dungeons and Dragon series On first and then oh thank you And then we're also gonna be doing more Esports EJex so that's what's coming up for fun I love you guys little e-sports jackets Or whatever the fuck they're called
Starting point is 01:09:11 The E-sports jerseys The jerseys yeah Those uh yeah we like those too We like those too They're fun they make us look like total nerds I love it's great Michael Gulliver says Hi Bruce big fan
Starting point is 01:09:22 How do you find so much to do in games like GTA 5. Do you get gaming fatigue? And if so, how do you overcome it? So two separate questions. Do you guys play GTA 5 at all? So we just recently committed. Oh, good.
Starting point is 01:09:32 That we're like, we're going to fucking make this shit work with let's plays and party. I made my character. I ran around. I was like, oh, man, this is a lot different than I remember. It's totally different. Yeah. I think you and I were talking about this last night. With GTA co-op, the they give, I think there's new DLC, which is just like new planes or new
Starting point is 01:09:51 bikes or whatever else. It's almost every week now. point and you have to you have to buy them so it's like you're spending a ton of money on DLC but the fun part is if you don't spend the money you can either go online watch people play it or when you're in-game you'll see people fly by with it and use those different vehicles and stuff and that's really cool that's actually really cool in the GTA co-op world to be online with another 32 players or whatever else for Funhouse the way we're we're keeping it fresh is we're
Starting point is 01:10:16 making new sets of ensemble characters so we just all of us became the watchman like with terrible watchman costumes and then we you know like play the character which is garbage but we then we end up doing the missions that GTA 5 lays out for you in online there's a motorcycle club that you can do there's like you can run a business there's a smuggling that you do like a smugglers run which is like smuggling drugs and things like that there's so much to do yeah it's unbelievable how much there is to do in GTA I feel like if I was actually playing that game in my spare time I probably never stop you can play two three hours
Starting point is 01:10:48 a night wow it's great it's really really fun you guys are really gonna enjoy So yeah, I mean, we, you know, played the game single player when it first came out and then online. Which is great. Whatever. But now it just seems it's daunting to me to look at because there's cutting stunts and like this and that. I don't know what the fucking this is. It is kind of daunting. There's a lot to do.
Starting point is 01:11:05 The way I've looked at it is if you want to go in and join in on the world events, which are everywhere, you'll see like little, you know, like blue circles or you just kind of run into it and be like, I'll do this contest now or whatever else. I think it's more fun to get your friends together. So like you two or you know like obviously bring an Andy or somebody else and say we all need to play right now together online for an hour or two You'll have a lot more fun that way Yeah have do do with your friends rather than kind of join in all because if you're by yourself It's gonna yeah, yeah, yeah, we're talking about doing it like as a party mode
Starting point is 01:11:36 Absolutely yeah all of us together. You're gonna love it. You're gonna love it So very excited yeah stay tuned Yeah, and then yeah though do you get gaming fatigue? Not really no we play so many different games at this point it's like I was feel because I'm not very good at the games. So I'm always like I wish I were better at it. But I don't get fatigue when it comes to video games. I love video games. I love them. So I just enjoy the fact that I get to play them for work. Yeah. Yeah. So then following up on GTA, Rob Michael says, does Bruce believe that Red Dead Tool have such a grand and crazy multiplayer like GTA 5? And are you looking forward to it?
Starting point is 01:12:09 Uh, so I want it to real bad. Boy, do I want it to be GTA in the Wild West. because GTA online feels like you put on a if you put on a VR headset and you were in GTI online It is like like movies or books have promised you where you can do a bunch of things and like you can you know like kill Play tennis rob a car you can do anything It is it is the world at your fingertips I hope it's the wild west I really do I don't know if they're gonna do that You don't think so they are yeah I think they are But apart from getting into it too much much. I don't know if it's going to be as grand as GT Online. Maybe in like three or four years
Starting point is 01:12:51 like it was with. Of course. Of course. Yeah. You have to build on it. Yeah. But I hope so because the wild west is so fucking cool. You have to imagine they're going to. They've learned so much. They're making so much money. Games is a service. They got to do it. They get to do it. Games and service. So. M. Rahman says my question is for Bruce. How does it feel to grow up and succeed together with your friends? And how strong is your friendship with everyone? Oh, I mean like I've known James for 10 years. I've known Adam for seven. I've known Elise for seven. I mean, like, it's crazy.
Starting point is 01:13:18 I mean, you guys know. You guys do it every day. You hang out with your friends and, uh, and you've made a business out of it. Yeah. And also you have a lot of fun. I, it blows my mind. It blows my mind every single day. That's one of those things that I'm eternally grateful for.
Starting point is 01:13:33 Yeah. And then there's Lawrence. And then there's Lawrence. No, no, no. Uh, no, like, I have a personal stake in, and each one of my guys because we all, you know, we all kind of came together and like, I was, I went for Lawrence. I went for James. I went for release.
Starting point is 01:13:47 Like, those are people I wanted to bring on. Yeah. Because I knew we'd have a great time. So I can't say enough good. I can't say enough good about it. There you go. Cal Forbes Dowst says, what's the game that has the best Rule 34 to have to do with it?
Starting point is 01:14:01 You guys, I mean, have you ever looked at it, though? I know what you ever looked at it though? No. You never looked at Rule 34? No. Have you? Oh, yeah. I figured Tim had.
Starting point is 01:14:08 Yeah, of course, yes. You haven't? I mean, what do you mean? I know what Rule 34 is. What, do me a favor? Go to Google. I'm gonna do it right now. Good.
Starting point is 01:14:18 Go to Google, type in Rule 34, Samus, Iran. So that's your answer. I would say that's the first one that pops into my head. Samus. There you go. Every time. Rule 34 Samus. Doing it.
Starting point is 01:14:30 All right. And don't show. Click up the top thing. Don't show your wife that you looked at this. That's too late. I didn't do it in an incognito browser. It's now in your history. Click here for an adult and you're okay with that.
Starting point is 01:14:40 You are definitely an adult. It's true. What is this shit? Whoa. Just some literatica? You just got a fucking pop up. It's from Apple, it says. Chrome breach info.
Starting point is 01:14:50 Oh, gosh. It's a trap. Call Apple support. Security breach detected. You are accused of viewing. This sounds pretty real. They're accused. Don't do it, great. It sounds pretty real. You are accused of viewing slash storage of dissemination of band pornography, child pornography, zoo philia, rape, hardcore sex.
Starting point is 01:15:12 I mean, they know what I have here. They know what I got going. going on the rule 34 Marius Peterson says can Bruce yell yes inside gaming style did you ever watch inside gaming not enough to know what this so I used to scream yes but that was on a Friday and today's a Thursday well this is going live is it going live Friday you for yeah yes that's what I used to do I like it I like it and then Stio Dunn says I'm loving this trend recently of Bruce showing up in a bunch of the Let's Play families content.
Starting point is 01:15:46 Oh yeah. Can't wait for this. I was on couch shop fully naked. Fully naked. Fully naked, yeah, except they, they blurred out my cock and balls. Were you actually fully naked on set? 100% fully naked. No way.
Starting point is 01:15:56 Damn. So there's video footage of your cock and balls out there. Yeah, there is. That's balzy. Tim's face. I can't get out of the Chrome breach. Sorry, bud. Kevin, fix my phone.
Starting point is 01:16:08 Enjoy that Rule 34. Kevin, fix it. Come here and do it on camera, Kevin. Zorkeefe. Says, this is the last question. What's the best part about collaborating with kind of funny, sugar, and the Risherscheek family.
Starting point is 01:16:20 The best part is they are all, we all have the same, I feel like we all have the same sensibilities, the same sense of humor. We're all just generally, I love these guys. I love kind of funny. I love couch up there.
Starting point is 01:16:33 We're all just good people. And I don't get to see them enough. It's true. And I wish that I was able to hang out with you outside of work as well. Yeah. So come down to L.A., please. We freaking should. Come down to LA, spin the night in my loft.
Starting point is 01:16:47 I like that. And then we'll go out karaoke and then the next day we'll shoot some stuff. I'm all about that. Please do it. Please do it. Because I don't get to see you guys enough. I can't believe you fucking hacked my phone with this Rule 34 shit. You just Googled Rule 34. I can't get out of it now.
Starting point is 01:16:59 It's an endless cycle. You close Chrome. You reopen it. It's still there. It does not sound. I'll fix it. I'll fix it. Ladies and gentlemen,
Starting point is 01:17:06 this has been the kind of funny games cast. Bruce, thank you so much for joining us. This has been fantastic. We will see you guys next week. What did you do? Nothing. I did what you told me to do. What did you do?
Starting point is 01:17:18 God damn it, Craig. Why are you going on websites? He said to do it on the show. Oh, here, suppress dialogues.

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