Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Reacting to Greg Miller's Worst Gaming Takes - The Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: May 14, 2024

Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping - TOTS: Greg Millers Worst takes - Jason: thinks greg is perfect - Gotham City imposters - Blaster Goblin - RDR2 - New World Lawn Service - RDR2 - Sandra - RDR2 - Lukenback - PS VR2 - Portland Kevin - Metal Gear Solid 3 - Big Fan - ADS - Hogwart's Legacy - Dave - Resident Evil 8 - Vampire Mommy - Resident Evil 8 - RE FAN - Rise of the Ronin when Final Fantasy 7 rebirth - Tavin Bothel - PC gaming - James Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, May 14th, 2024. Of course, I am Tim Gettys. I am joined today by a very lovely panel on this very lovely day day. We have the future of video games. Blessing at a yo-e Jr. Good day, Tim. With the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez. Good day, Tim. And we have the man of the hour. For years we have let this man spout his opinions about video games, whether it was at IGN.com, write in review after a review of good game, bad game and everything in between, or hear it kind of funny, doing the exact same thing, but instead of using his pen, he used his big old mouth. He said things you've

agreed with. He said things that you didn't agree with. And those are the things that we're talking about today. The takes of Greg Miller that you thought were so bad that you had to call us using a phone to tell us your thoughts on Greg's thoughts. And today, we're going to listen to those recordings. And we're going to have Greg a tone for his sins question mark. Greg, how do you feel about this? From the top of the show, motherfucker, I don't acknowledge or respect the authority of this kangaroo court, all right?

You've all supported me for too long, all right? You all wanted the truth. And sometimes you can't handle the hard truths. So that's on you. All right? We'll see what evidence these fucking knuckle-draggers are going to be. bring here. All right.

I don't like that. King Kong fans are going to show up with and talk shit to me about. I'd say troglodytes, but they took, when I insult them the one time, they took it as their little goddamn fan club name.

All right? I've done nothing wrong. I, and what do I think? I doubt I'm going to be wrong on any of these. You'll see, Andy. They're going to come up

and it's going to be right. And I'm going to fucking be nail. They're going to sit there and they're going to apologize. I expect the phone calls to come into the number we used as an apology. when this is done. Oh shit, okay, cool.

Maybe that'll be a follow-up episode, but I somehow got it. I also don't understand how you guys weasled out of this, because the original pitch was our bad, where our bad gaming takes, and somehow it evolved to Greg Miller's. Greg Miller's. That 404, you know? There weren't a whole lot, yeah,

there wasn't anything to really find it there. I have one of submit that isn't gaming related. Okay. Cooked fish being bad. Fucking awful. Fish sucks unless it's raw, all right? Or fried. I get it.

I get that with a fried fish here and there. Bless, how do you, think this is going to go today. I'm going to have a lot of fun today. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think I was in favor for like the, let's do it all together. But I think the conversation involved into like, let's start with Greg and then see

what else we can do. But I'll tell you right now, I'm not doing one of these for me. If you try to pitch a blessing episode, I'm not going to show up that day. I'll be sick that day. Andy, what about you? I'm super stoked. It'll be a nice sort of looking back at the past. Yeah.

Looking back at how you realize, oh, you know, he was even an idiot back then. You know what I mean? Exactly. There's one in particular that I hope comes up, and I expect we'll come up because it's absolutely blasphemous. But we'll have to wait and see. I don't want to get ahead of myself. I don't want to spoil anything for y'all.

Did you call in? I did not call in. I probably should have called in. But I'm sure that people will speak for me. How recent do you think this goes? Do you think that somebody has a call about something you said two weeks ago? No. What have I been wrong about recently?

Let me tell you. What do you got, bless? You want to lead this off? I actually don't have anything about it. I actually don't have anything about it. The only thing comes to mind is Starfield. But I feel like if I go behind that, if I go further back in that 12 minutes,

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Today we're brought to you by the kind of funny membership, but we'll tell you all about that later. For now, we got to start with the topic of the show. Tots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots. Remember, get your super chats in everybody. We'll get to them through the whole thing. But, Greg, enough stalling, enough Dillion. Enough Dallion, enough Shillian, enough Shalian, all right? It's time to get to your bad takes, okay?

Uh-huh. I want to start with Jason. Jason called in. Can we hear him, Kevin? Hi, Greg. This is Jason. I've been listening to you for a long time since the IGN days. He's a lot of your takes, man.

Let's see. Bad takes, bad takes. Well, no, none of them. They're all 100% great. Thank you. Have a nice thing. Ladies and gentlemen That's another episode

of the kind of funny games cast In the books We're not doing this We're not doing this everybody No We have to hold him accountable We can't be reasonable We can't understand

That opinions are opinions And everyone's entitled Unlike these Knuckle trackers in the chat All right Go back to your Guyco caveman commercial all right

I just don't like Knuckle Dragon I don't know something about it He's caveman right I mean yeah But I don't Something about it though How does this make you feel, Greg?

The first person right and saying that you're perfect. You know, I think that's honestly going to be the majority of the opinions here. I think people probably to search their memory banks, find something, but video games are art. Are we all going to agree, Andy? Of course not.

You know what I mean? We wouldn't have a podcast if we all agreed all the time because we'd all just go out there. Why are we going to act like some opinions aren't dumb? You know what I mean? I've never had a dumb opinion. Let's fucking dunk on some dumb opinions. We've all had dumb opinions.

No. I wonder if Blaster, Goblin thinks that Greg's had an opinion. Kevin, can we play Blaster Goblin, please? Hey, Greg. It's your favorite kind of funny best friend, Blaster Goblin. I'm just calling to ask

how you managed to keep your career in the games industry. After giving Gotham City Impostors a 7th, Angry Birds, a 7.5. We all know Gotham City Abosters is a dead-up dead. Thanks, Greg. Huh.

That's an odd one. It's odd because I don't know if he's saying that it's too low or too high. I think he's saying it's way too low. I think he's saying I scored Gotham City Impostors at IGN on February 10th, 2012, too low. Okay. Because the 7 seems very appropriate. Gotham City's Impostis, this is IGN.com. Gotham City Impostors is a functional shooter with a sense of humor and a Batman license.

It's got plenty to unlock, but it's not all that deep. Go shoot, win, over and over. If you're looking for a first person shooter that doesn't take itself seriously have at it, but don't expect an FPS revolution. I feel like over history, Gotham City Impostas has become like a very beloved franchise. Really? Yeah, over time, people keep on, it's always like the darling on the internet.

It's like, oh, bring back Gotham City Impostas. Nobody's out here being like Gotham City Impostors is one of the best video games ever made. Are they just comparing it to the Angry Birds score of 7.5? Angry Birds Review, January 10th, 2011. I'm going to give, because this is Angry Birds. The addictive touch game is revamped as a PlayStation Mini. Okay, there we go.

I was about to say, Angry Birds get a 7.5. That sounds low to me. Verdict, there's no denying that Angry Birds is fun, but it could use polish, such as sharper visuals, a better price,

and smoother action. It's one of those games I could play for a few hours on a plane or obsess over on my couch. Angry Birds, what are we, we're talking about Angry Birds now? That doesn't sound right to me.

But yeah, the PlayStation Mini version, 7.5, all of that starts to crystallize a little bit more. Yeah, I'm looking for. I mentioned the price, though, so how much were they trying to sell this mini for?

What is the PlayStation Mini. The game is $3.99 at release. That's a bit high considering the iPhone version sells for $0.99 and has an extra set of stages. This one doesn't. Even when the game was first released in the App Store, it only cost $1.99. Also remember, this is a PlayStation Mini, so by design

it has no online leaderboards or trophies. So, Andy. Take them back. I know that you, limp dick PC fans, like to think you invented indie gaming and, you know, supporting a digital-only storefront. But perhaps one of the most

forward-thinking companies in the world Sony PlayStation said you know what How late did it take for them to get crossplay? They want to protect the children. It's interesting that you PC players don't. Interesting. Interesting. They decided that, you know what?

The PSP, been fucking killing it. You know what I mean? So what if we just took away the disc drive and made a PSP go? All right? A little sexiest little device you remember that. You know what I mean?

And when they launched that, a Sony Experia go cell phone. Exactly. When they launched that, they launched an initiative called PlayStation minis that were just downloadable games that were very small little bite-sized experiences or whatever.

And one of them was Ingerbirds. Wow. 7.5 on IGM. 7.5 better than Gotham City Apostors. Gotham City Apostors, I remember just being such a fine experience, but like not being like as a DC fan, right? That's why I did it because I'm not a shooter guy.

But I remember just being a, okay, this is fine. But it's not Batman, but it's not whatever, but it's fun enough. Would you stand by a 7 out of 10 today with your memory of Gotham City Impostors? I winced when he read it because I thought, I thought it was going to be really low. So 7, yeah, I'd stand by that. Sure. Yeah. That sounds right where I have no amazing memories of it.

I remember running on rooftops and being a fat guy and a Batman shirt and a Batman face mask that I put on. Last weekend, yeah. I had a critic for Gotham City Impostors, 71. So you're right in line. Wow. Yeah. Well, also he was the one that caused it. You don't know what I mean?

All right, well, let's move on. So you're wrong. Jason, was that Jason? No, that was Blaster Goblin. You're wrong. Jason's on your side. Thank you, Jason. Sorry.

The shackle clear soon. Let's go right down the list, Kev. Let's move on to this one from New World Lawn Service. Hey, Greg. Derek here. You know, I've been following you for a long time. And most of the time, I respect your opinions and yeah I'd be like I got it. Different opinions everyone's right. You raise it, Keff?

But the one I just can't get over is with Red Dead Red Dead Redemption too. Now you say what you will about the gameplay, maybe the game's too long, but when you drop out of the story because you're just like, ah, I just don't like playing the bad guy. It's like, well, that's the story. You got, you got to keep going. I mean, like, one of your favorite movies of all time, you know, a murderer, he's like, ah, I won't fail him in life, or I failed him in life, but I won't fail him in death. they had the same mom, they and Martha. Like, that's character. I just can't let it go, man.

Thank you. Thank you, New World Launch Service. That's a great take. That's a great fucking take. But that's not, there's actually, I'd want to hear one from Sandra as well, Kevin. This is Andrew Bowling, and it's honestly Red Dead Redemption, too. It is the most Greg game I've ever played. It is wonderful for so many different reasons, for reasons you love other games.

And yet, for some. reason you have continued to never give it a chance. Change your mind. Go back and play it. I think you'll love it. That's Sandra Bullock? So I just, I don't know what was there. It's not like I'm Andrew Boland.

It might have been what it said. Yeah. I do in front of me on this doc have a transcription of it and it does say it's Sandra Bullock. So we took the voice mail transcription. Google Voice gives you a transcription. Yeah. So they've been put it that way.

That's hilarious. So I'll start with Sandy Bull. We got one more. Do you want the one? Fucking jeez. We got one more. Can we play Luke and Black? Can we play Luke in Black?

Greg Miller. Kendrick Lukenbach here from the Kendrick cast podcast. It's been a long time. We've been listening. We've been out there from the Beyond days to the PSI Love You Days. Many takes. But more recently, five years ago and in 2018, you hated Red Dead redemption too. It's one of the most masterpieces of the PS4 generation.

I can't even fucking say a sentence. You went on Red Dead Radio, Cherry Petty, talked about the story didn't click with you. Arthur Morgan didn't click with you. But brother, let me tell you, you go on stream with this game, you get to chapter three, and you just go out and explore the open world,

let it breathe in you, let the open world speak to you. And I'm telling you, brother, that open world is going to live with you. in you. I think you're missing out. Check it out. Take care. Bye. Beyond. Yeah. Sandra Bullock. Cameron, looking back, Lackenbach, Lakinbach, Lackenbach, Lucas. Get fucked. Wow. Seriously. Oh, you know, fucking, get to chapter three.

Why don't you, you never gave, Sandra Bullock, you never gave this game a chance. I played 20 plus fucking hours of this game. Never once had fun. Never enjoyed the story. Never enjoyed Arthur Morgan. I've said before it's a work of art. I get it. It's not art I connected with. And why I know that I'm right on this take is because no one ever fucking comes at me

for a dead redemption. Listen here, this guy's a fucking idiot, Dutch. This guy would rather play an Assassin's Creed game for the 14-time Dutch. Barrett did it? That sucks. It's the worst take, dude.

This take is one of the... Like, you're right. We kind of forget this one because there's been a lot of terrible ones since then. But, like, when you go home, and you're like, man, I could just fucking exist in any of these Assassin Creed games. My God, give me Rise of the Ronin all day.

I want a little friend to walk up to me with a checklist and say, go pick five fucking plants over here, go kill six deer over here, and you'll get that XP to go up. You just want that serotonin. How about you just have an experiential moment with Red Dead Redemption 2? I did. That game was a masterpiece. I'm bored riding in the snow.

I'm bored going on here. I can't run in camp this fucking. sucks. I fucking suck. My team surrounding me fucking sucks. Why even give me the choice then too? Then you go, oh, your ex-girlfriend's here. Do you want to help her with her abusive husband or whatever? And I was like, no, just walked away.

Then everybody was like, oh, you ruin that storyline. Why give me the choice then? Cassidy is a piece of shit. And then when I do the fucking thing, that's a piece of shit. Oh, and people write, oh, but it's called Red Dead Redemption. You got to get in the game. How much you get redeemed? What the fuck was John Morrison's problem?

The first game. How about you get redeemed? So much fun. from the starting Red Dead Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Red Dead Redemption. I don't want to play as a bad guy. I want to become a good guy. I don't want to be a bad guy.

I don't like doing crimes. I'll be droll and fucking last of us and be a piece of shit. That was great because you didn't know you're a piece of shit till the end of it. You know what I mean? That was a fucking brilliant.

You kind of knew. You kind of knew. Brilliant. The redemption already happened. Him and Tommy already did so much fucked up shit but we didn't even spelled out for us. I'm right on this one

because I get yelled at all the time. It's called a character arc. Read it. Learn it. Everyone loves Red Dead Redemption. The Batman versus Superman fan doesn't know what a character arc is. They're fine. They're fine.

What's good writing? What's good character writing? I have no fucking idea. I love Batman versus Superman. I agree with that. Yo, are there big teams in a fucking par? Fucking Perry button? That's all you care about.

You agree with Greg. I agree with Greg, yeah. Go forward plus. No, I mean, the part of this where I like, I started having war flashbacks is when Luggenbach talked about like, oh, he's got to get to chapter three. Because I heard that so much. And I was like, bet. Not only will I get to chapter three, I'll get to chapter four.

And I got to chapter four and I was like, fuck this video game. I'm out of here. I think the problem with the Red Dead is not that it's not, it doesn't do a good job of being art. I think Red Dead is. It's great art. It's one of the most impressive video games of all time just for like how well put together it is. And yeah, like the horse balls growing and shrinking depending on the temperature. Yeah, horseballs.

And then also just the amount of, like, detail and how good the open world looks, right? Like, it is a very well put together video game. And I think it's doing a lot of things with it's like, it's writing and storytelling and all this stuff. I think the problem that Red Dead Redemption 2 has isn't that like it fails to be art. I think it fails to be a fun video game. And like, I know we talk about should video games be fun? Do you think we have that conversation all the time. Thank you.

Is that Kevin or bear? I can't tell. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. It's a game that at all moments, I think, fails as like a fun open world experience or an engaging open world experience. Like, let me even take the word fun out of it. I was bored out of my mind going from point A to point B on my horse, going from check, what, fucking open world checkmark to open world checkmark. It does the thing where it is, hey, get lost in the world, be in the world, but it still has the same like rock star open world design structure that lends itself way,

more to you. Hey, don't get lost. Go from point to point. Hey, we have like an icon here for you to go to and then do the story mission. Story mission is usually write your horse here and get into a shootout. All right, you did it. It was all very slow because it's cowboy times, but you did it. All right. Now go to the next checkpoint. It felt so structured, and that

is not what I want out of an open world video game. I think the reason why GTA works so well in being the same kind of thing is that in all of that, you're fucking driving around and you're fucking like getting into like more, I think fast-paced, more interesting shootouts. Like, There's just a lot more going on in GTA from like a speed side of things and just an action side of things.

Red Dead is so slow and methodical, which is great for cosplaying and role playing as a cowboy, but it's just not great for a video game. It was a four out of five Eldon Ring reviewer right here. I changed it. Just so we know. Just so we know. Maybe you need more time with it. But also, maybe you need more time with it. The first 20 hours.

Did you back it up? In the four out of five? I don't know if you could back on a four out of five or Elden Ring. The fucking grind in the first 20 hours of the other time. Don't know, let's talk, no, let's talk about, no, because I stand by, take this. No, because I stand by my first review of Eldering, which again, first of all, you, fuck from software, first of all. First of all, because they gave us that review code like six days before the review fucking embargo. I played 20 hours of it.

You should have gave us more time if you don't want to, if you want a better review. Second of all, in the first 20 hours, I'm just fucking on a hill grinding. They're okay. I think they're fine. The fucking six, six days. Hey, play this 100 hour game of six days. viewers and you have and you all have final reviews how do you have a final review out after six days get it together i think it's going to lower to three point five after i mean now i'm like you know what man

the hell the ring sucks it seems like it the fucking this is a great hour time everybody i just just to tear the entire team apart yeah i have never heard that i'm here for it everybody yeah i think again like i i stand by you know i and i love the conversation i did with jared petty on his podcast about it, where I was like, it's just not working for me, but I totally get it. And I understand why. And I think that is the joy and amazing nature of video games where you can get something out of and do something out of it. But it is, I mean, you throw it at me jokingly, but also seriously, I know to a degree of the Assassin's Creed or Rise of the Ronin or Checkless Games or Fall at 76 like I'm obsessed with right now. But it is that idea that like, I am playing

games for entertainment and enjoyment, right? So if I jump in and I'm not having fun, and for me after 20 hours of just not having fun, it's like, well, I can't do this. right? Like, I don't care what happens in chapter three because already you've done this. And I think there's a great analog to it, right, of like, I'm going to fuck it up. What's the latest Scorsese one with DeCaprio? Colors of the Flower Moon. Thank you, right? Where Jen and I were, I love Scorsese films, right? We were so stoked for it. And we got it. And Jeff was like, let's rent it. And I looked at it. I'm like, babe, we have a two year old and fall asleep in an hour, usually watching TV. And this is like, you know, a two and a half hour, three hour long movie, right? So we bought it straight up.

We've enjoyed it, but we just haven't gone back to it. Whereas it's just been one of those things of like, it's got it don't pace. and it's got a Scorsesey pace, which I really, really enjoy. But it's just like, when I have, when we,

Jen and I have that shared 45 minutes, it's like, do we want to chip away at that or do something you can knock out that's going to be more enjoyable in the moment rather than a long lasting picture. But I also think you're allowed to critique it for being slow, for being what it is,

right? I think just because something wants to be, just because something presents itself as art or something that needs to be taken seriously in that way, that doesn't mean that we can't critique it for the art that it is. Oh, 100%. That's the whole point of this, right? Yeah.

We got some super chats, right? And Benny B. Good just says dance, Greg. Only special feature says, it's not a game take, but Greg's hate for chili, I'll never understand. Looks like Diary. Beans don't taste good. I don't know. I mean, what I'm...

It's the beans. I'm learning this episode. I'm way more similar to Greg than I imagine. Because I also, I'm with you on chili. Learn your allies right here, blessing. You don't want this as your allies. Like, as a kid, what was it? Those are the Fritos that people would crunch up in front of the people?

I thought even that could help. It didn't help. No. The chili is, oh. The textures. I got 12 cans of my room. I have. it was beanless though right

I don't have to do Optimus Prime says John Marston wouldn't be half the man he was without Arthur Morgan you fucking sasswatch Arthur built John in a cave what's so great about that though is like you know

this is literally exactly what you're always talking about where it's like we don't need the I don't need the backstory I don't need this prequel movie I loved the first one John was great right off the gate you hit it we were ripping

we're having a lot of fun and then you guys were like let me also tell you a 90 hour boring story I'm like I don't I don't need that I think like what best Summarizes. I didn't know you love Red Dead 2.

Red Dead 2 is like this amazing TikTok of a guy streaming it, going through the snow and being like, fuck, man, this is just taking so fucking long. Yeah. And it cuts him at the end of the game, tears in his fucking eyes. See, but my story of like, what caused me to rage quit Red Dead 2 was like, I got to St. Denis for the first time, right?

Through your controller? I threw it. Yeah, through the window. Like, Kaisa and I, after he lost the Redaugh or whatever. But, you know, I get to St. Deney for the first time. I'm strolling through the town on my horse. And I, like, get to around, like, the back of the town. And there's this swamp.

And at the back of the swamp is a rainbow kind of, like, over, arching over, like, the swamp area. And I'm looking around. I'm like, this game is gorgeous, man. Like, this is such a beautiful scenery. And I'm having a moment there. And as I finish that moment, I turn my horse around and I accidentally knock over a civilian.

And then the cops just to get alerted about that. And so now it's like, ah, shit, because I'd turn the wrong way. I'm in this chase sequence with these cops. And I get out of St. Deney and I'm like, all right, cool. I'm about to get away. And then the cop one of the officers shoots me off my horse. And I'm like, ah, shit, all right. It's on. And then they keep shooting and then they accidentally kill my horse trying to shoot me. And then I'm like, ah, shit, I got to revive my horse. And as I try to revive my horse, I get shot and I die. And I'm like, ah, shit, I didn't revive my horse. All right, cool. Let me just figure out. I try to look up all the ways to revive

my horse. I couldn't. It was gone. I'll need a load of save that I, like a manual save. that was from 10 hours earlier. And that was the horse I started the game with. Death has to matter. I love that. I brushed that horse's hair. Yeah. You saw it.

And I brushed that horse's hair. I like I fucking like that. I had built up a relationship over time with that horse. And because of this dumb like, oh, I couldn't turn around the right way because it's not cumbersome the game is. Knocked out a civilian. All this shit happens. And now my horse is gone.

You got to live with LasBuss. You got to, that's life. It's the dead part of bread. It broke me. It broke me. It broke me. And then we have Bobby Joe saying,

and Red Dead Redemption, too. Such a fun video game. Great story and GP gameplay. That's what that means. Next up, we're moving on from Red Dead, everybody. We're going to hold Greg accountable for something else. Something from Portland Kevin. Hi, Greg. Portland, Kevin here.

I think you need to take another look at PSVR 2, or at least retire the bit as staying terrible. I can't do this anymore. I'm wondering if it's stifling the chances of it being great or at least preventing fellow best friends from trying it. I've also had a friend tell me the almost quick listening to kind of funny content because of how much you you and blessing

trash talk to PSPR 2. Though they didn't really understand it was a bit you guys were doing. I wonder if there are other people listening who were interested in it but didn't bother trying it because of this comedy bit. It's not a bit. So sure, Tony really needs to support it more, but I don't think

it helps anyone to trash talk to PSVR2. It's got some great games that definitely deserve some attention like legendary tales and synth writers. And I think you guys should definitely highlight it or at least give it another chance. Anyway, still love your guys' content

and Uncharted 3 is still the best Uncharted game. Greg's always right, as I have always said that. Thank you very much. I've never disagreed. I want to thank you for writing in. I want to thank you for being such a dedicated kind of funny best friend. You call out here. I've also had a friend tell

me they almost quit listening to kind of funny content because of how much you and busting, talk, trash, blah. What I'd say to that friend is just grow a pair. Are you inner you out? All right. I don't want waffleers all right oh well they said one thing I didn't like well they get the fuck out or are you guys but you have to announce your exit you have to say all right guys I'm done you got to be the YouTube God saying like I can't do this anymore this is the last episode that was a straw I what's

interesting about the PlayStation VR2 backlash blessing and I have faced over time is that I feel like the point we make the points we make get lost and grouped into this, we just hate PlayStation VR2, when in reality we talk about how much we like the tech. The tech's great tech. There are a few games on it that are,

but I mean like, for legendary tales and synth riders, Kevin, can you show the trailers? They're hyperlinked here I'm seeing. Like, these are exactly what I'm talking about when I critique PlayStation VR2

of like VR has stalled. VR is as big as it's going to get because all the VR experiences currently feel like I'm at Davenbusters. They feel like arcade experiences. They're not doing anything. that you look at and go, I have to go play that. I have to dust this off.

I've talked, I think, on our final PSI Love You, maybe, or one of the final ones, about the fact that PlayStation VR, I was in a different point in my life, obviously. PlayStation VR, too, I'm in a different point in my life with Ben and stuff like that, and it's just having the amount of time to play games where it's like, VR for me, sadly, is a thing of the past when we're not doing fun streams here.

And when we do fun streams here, I think they work so well because it is, hey, jump into this arcade game and go bust some ghosts and go, go, go do the game. We just Asgard's wrath too. right? And it's like, yeah, yeah. But like, looking at legendary tales who upload VR gave a three out of five. So it's not like it's, and I know obviously, hey, not everybody's, everybody in reviews are subjective. But like this looks like every other VR experience. And this isn't me

saying the game is bad. This isn't me saying the tech is bad. It's saying this doesn't move the needle. This doesn't make VR, a PlayStation VR2 a success. This isn't something you show in a state of play. And people go, I got to run out and get a PlayStation VR2. I think Bless audibly laughed at this one when it was on screen during this state of Oh yeah. I think there was like a whole... Oh, maybe. No, it wasn't...

Was it this one? All of us were just kind of like, what the fuck is this? You know, like... There's another one. I think they showed that after a really impressive VR game. We're like, you can't show this one

after that really impressive one. And here's synth riders, which again is like, I'm not... This looks like this game, but it's just like... This looks like every other... Yeah, I've played this game so many times, right?

And so my... Our point is never that... Pleasition VR2 sucks. Fuck, I'm they're stupid. You're stupid for liking it. Like what you like, as I always say, right? but it's the idea of sitting here going like

this isn't going to lead to financial success for PlayStation. This is not I think they regret this decision. I don't think there's, I don't think there's, I don't think there's, I don't even have to say I think they are not supporting PlayStation VR2 in a meaningful way that makes me go oh in five years, PlayStation VR3 or this, that the other. It's also not something

that I would recommend people spend 300 or four, I forget how much it even is, right? Like $400 to go out and buy. It's a very expensive device and if the library isn't there, I can't sit here and go, I can't sit here and try to like hold water for it and argue for it when I think we would get backlash for that too, right?

Yeah, I'm like, oh man, you guys won't say anything Nuggett about play it. 550? 550. Is that a bundle though? I'm on Amazon right now. It is $550 for just the console. Like Portland, Kevin, and your fucking waffler of a friend,

come on. You know what I mean? It's like I cannot sit here and tell you about it by to spend $550 to play Horizon Call the Mountain. Yeah. Like, Grand Turismo, like before your eyes is dope, right? Like, there are games there.

If you've never joined it before, the Moss titles are there. They're insane. Like, I love those, but it's again, like, mm. I also think, like,

people don't understand how much backlash me and Jada got for the PlayStation VR2 review, right? Like, it was more than I, I've said, I've said things that I'm like, man,

I've gone back and thought, man, I had a bad take on that plenty of times. Even on this episode, I'm sure that it's a year from not going to be like, man, all it's hard on her red to have a lot of food or whatever. But,

like, out of all the shit that I've said, like, I've been recorded on content for four years every single fucking day. The PSVR2 stuff is like the worst I've seen it. And so like to get it that bad for PSVR2, I feel like I should be allowed to make jokes about it. I feel like I should be allowed to like dunk on the people that are trying to like dunk

on me and come at me and Jane it for being like, yeah, it's okay. You know, it's a three out of five. I think this Horizon Collin Mountain game is okay. I think PSVR2, including the library and the platform and everything that comes with it is okay, right? We didn't even call it bad. We said it was fine. I think that's like a side of it.

And I think that that's where a lot of like the jokes come from is the fact that we can't believe how buck wild people are. Yeah, the fan base and how the fans that do love PlayStation VR2 are so like you said one thing wrong. Yeah. I also think you pay that much. You feel like you're more attached to this device because you spend a lot of money on it and they get even more hardcore about. Yeah. Like the ownership over that. And people, I guess people followed you through the PSVR one era.

People didn't get as much of me during PSVR one because I was on OKB. I love PSVR one as well. I think people don't realize that I'm somebody who talks up over it. That doesn't help you. That doesn't help you. Somebody who also loved PlayStation VR and talked a lot about it. We did a PlayStation VR show. You did a whole show. You loved them. I did. Still do. It was one of those

like that didn't help me at all when we got to PlayStation VR 2 and I was like, ah, they've sent it out to die. No, they haven't. There's X, Y, and Z. And they're all getting sevens. And occasionally in eight. It's like, well, you understand the argument I'm making isn't the quality, it's more, what are you going to do with this and the price and this.

It's a bigger thing than just saying PlayStation VR2 sucks, which is not what we've said. Support sucks. I want to move on. Oh, another super check came in from Professor Funkenstein. Oh. Saying, just saying a good take from Greg is giving Monster Hunter freedom unite an eight.

Him refusing to play Monster and a Rise because it's not World is a shit take. Fair enough. I did play Rise eventually, though, when it came to PlayStation. We did a thing. I did a thing for it. Yeah. Let's get to one more right now. let's go to big fan

Big fan Hi Greg Miller Big fan of the show I'm just curious why you think Metal Gear Solid 3 is overrated even though it's better than one

and four there you go there you go that's where it's overrated because it's not better than one it's 1,000% better than 1 it's not better than 1 this is you know

what are we talking about here we're gonna go into the bucket of amazing games and be like you give me two games what do you like better I like this amazing game better Well, let me ask a question here. Like, is Mr. Big fan out there?

Incorrect even in his assessment here. Like, because you prefer Metal Gear Solid 1 and 4 to 3. But do you believe the Metal Gear Solid 3 is overrated? Yes. Oh, shit. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Hey, I was trying to defend you here, dude. But I mean, but it's like in the same sense of like, we're at the bar, we're at this table. We're hanging out right now talking about it. I just think it's, it's. I think it'd be one thing if you thought Snake Eater was a six or a 10. Yeah. And it was like, you all love that game, that game's shitty.

But you're just saying, like, people overrated in that it shouldn't be number one. And everybody says it should be maybe two or three. It's one of those crazy situations where it's like, I, you know, Metal Gear Solid is like a life-changing game. When me and Poe pop that into the PlayStation 1, right? And so like for that, followed by two, I love Snake. I love this. Blah, blah, blah. And then for three to drop and me be like, oh, like this isn't my, this isn't solid Snake.

I get what we're doing here and I like that fine, but I, who is big boss? I don't know. Like, obviously, I'm not taking away from the final fight with boss, right? Like, I mean, or the game in general. Like, I do love Metal Gear Solid 3. But it is that idea of like, oh, and it doesn't have the futuristic tech to some degree. You know what I mean? Because of the time period and this, that and new the moment.

So it's just like, it's that idea of like if playing all of those in a vacuum, because you know how we, for most of us it was growing up, right? Where we were the biggest video game fan that you're talking to these people. Then then to get to the industry, have a conversation with the audience. and have them universally be like, no, no, three. I'm like, really? Like, I would put that in terms of the three. I just, that would be at the bottom of my list.

Not because it's trash, just because it wasn't what I, I love about Metal Gear. It's in some respect. Would you put at the bottom of the overall Metal Gear list? It's been a while since we did this, but I think when we did, I did it, yes. I think I did do the main line at the bottom of it. Again, like, I mean, for Greg Miller and Metal Gear, like my favorite franchise of all time, right? Like, we're talking about games I would all think are nines or above. Like, I'm not here being like, fuck it.

three can't even do it. No, three is great. I can't wait for this Delta remake. I can't wait to go and give it a shot that way or whatever. But it was always one, like a great example of it. This actually softened because I think there's a way easier way to nail me to the cross on this one. Is that when they did the collection and it came to PS3 and Vita, right? Yeah, with transferring and all that jazz.

I did the IGN review of it. And I remember when I wrote it, this, I think this might actually be the first time where I was like, you think what about medical? I think I, I, this is an errant shot that I was incorrect on because it was just like, you know how we used to review games to your point two of like,

hey, here's the thing, the review bar goes tomorrow. Fucking shit. Okay, well, I'm gonna play two because I love it and do this and touch three and blah, blah, blah, blah. When I put it, I think I put in my review a sentence

that was something like, Metal Gear Solid 2 is still this. Metal Gear Solid's three story is still all over the place. Dutta, da, da. And like, that is a line that has been thrown. at me many a time. And I'm like, you know what? I actually do stand down on that. Sorry. I was in a hurry. I was writing. It was

very much like me being like, fucking colonel, the boss stuff's cool. But that's, you know what I mean? It was very much like, that was a flippant comment that I was just trying to put in my review of like, this is all still the same as we remember it, right? And everybody would be like, that's not how I remember that. Oh, fucking shit. Sorry about that.

DJ Cantor writes it and says, Greg clearly hasn't played Miller's solid three, the best way it's meant to be played on the Nintendo 3DS. Remember that? That exists. Metal Gear Solid 3 on 3DS. Look it up. I actually have a picture that I really wish I had on me right now

of me back at IGN when I was over the cam, or over the shoulder shooting Metal Gear Solid 3 on 3DS with Sakurai play. Oh, shit. One of the coolest things ever. What did Stoneback Mike call Colonel Volgan? Was it Virgil Virgil Virgil, Vigal Virgin? I forgot what it was. I don't remember.

Incredible name, though. Among all the great names. Andy. You had something to say about Metal Gear. I mean, well, I was just, I don't know, I was just thinking about the overall, like, rankings and lists. And I, like, it's so hard to, it's asking me to rank the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Like, there's, you always just think about your favorite parts and do they, does this 10 out of 10 moment and how amazing that is go up against this 9 out of 5 moment? Like, it's so hard to freaking to rank those games.

And I'm kind of, I'm with Greg that I agree it's hard to rank your favorite things that are so highly regarded. I don't think I'd put snake eater at the bottom. I'd probably put maybe four at the bottom. But then I experienced four again, it's like, oh, fuck, man. It's so hard.

For me, three is consistently at the top for me, but I look at the rest of the middle years and I rearrange them in any way. Like on some days, I think five is my second favorite. And I'm sure many people will be like, oh, that's insane. On another day, when we did the replay through of all of them, I was like, fuck,

four is actually really, really good. I think my hot take is that I always had Meligrisawd 1 at the bottom. I know plenty of people. I think equal amount of people will look at me and say for that is Greg saying three is at the bottom. And so I think it might also be a

a Mario card thing of your first Metal Gear might be your favorite because MGS 3 was the first one that I played through. There may be a thing to it where when I think about Middle Gear Solid 5 and maybe it was just like the time in place, I was in college, I couldn't afford

a lot of video games. so the ones that I played, I played the fuck out of them, and I think of like how I spent hundreds of hours in Dragon AIDS Inquisition, and I had a great time with that experience. And Melger's Solid Fy was another one of those games that like, I just lived in, and I wanted to just play any mission that I could,

and I would replay all the missions, and the gameplay was so fucking superior to anything else I'd experience. The movement, the stealth, the combat, all that was so incredible, collecting all the, you know, fultening everybody, back to the base, like that whole core concept

was so incredible. And it's like, I don't love the story more than any of the other Middle Gear solids, but I was just, yeah, it's easily the least favorite for me, but still had incredible like story beats and awesome action moments and, you know,

you know, the man in the mask fucking meeting everybody and then like suddenly the super scary enemies are here that I always blank on their name. The skull. What are they called? They're terrible. They're fucking terrified. find a. Fucking Melgear Saw

Halanthropist. Yeah. That dude was so tall. He was so tall. Dude, there's like in the, I know the second chapter is where things get weird, but like there is a moment in second chapter

where things are going south at Mother Base. And that stuff is like burnt into my brain of like how real that shit is. I don't know. I think there is, man, yeah,

I think Meliger Solid 5 is, I'm with you that it has like, it's my least favorite of all the stories, but even the story moments in Meliger Solid 5. You will regret your words and deeds. You see quiet, you're just like

look at this horny lady like this just for freaks out there I just want to play the video game for all the horny dudes out there. You will regret your words. You won't. You won't. See, I'm totally with Greg on this one

and for all the things you said of like we're talking about a bunch of nines out of tens. Like ranking them is just weird but like I'm more of a solid snake guy than a big box guy. So it's like that alone. I like one, I like three, two and I really, really, really like four.

But I'm always a fan of end game. I'm always a fan of like let's bring it all together and like have the big moment. But I am very excited that three is the one being remade right now. Like I would prefer a one remake just because I go for it. I think that'd be so sick. But I want to give three another chance and like

another chance to be like am I wrong about it being the fucking best? Because clearly majority of people think that three is the best. So we'll have to wait and see where that all falls. That's going to be so far away while you wait. Check out a word from our sponsors.

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by daily vlog series. Hey! We're not a fucking drive you, thank you, and as always, it's been my pleasure to serve you. And we are back. David Flores writes in his super chat saying, give me a winner-soldier game that plays like Metal Gear

Solid 5. Oh, we. Oh, God. Oh my God. Let me knife flip. Andrew Stelner says, Greg Miller would unironically recommend Assassin's Creed Odyssey over Red Dead Redemption 2. Explain yourself, you monster.

I don't think that's that crazy. Yeah, I think we already done it, right? One game gets you instantly into the fun and another are just fucking Borsetal Chapter 3. Well, I'll say that about both. It's too boring as for Anast. Odyssey, Cassandra, come on. This Assassin's Creed.

Did you ever play Odyssey? No. Maybe shadows would be a lot of touch. I think shadows will be my way. No, you're not allowed to touch it. You just talk shit about it. Not a lot of touch you. Well, like, you know, it was me giving a third chance.

I mean, shit, I wish I was on three. It's me giving the Sous Creed an eighth chance. This might be the one, though. It's me. It's me every year with the Dallas Cowboys. This might be the year. I guess I did boot up Valhalla, too. So, yeah, this will be my fourth try.

Yeah. Brain 13 says, where are the real bad takes, like playing Avengers or hitting what a burger, you Neanderthal? Fair enough. Hey man, again, I've getting Waterburger multiple shots now. I haven't had the one in the fucking airport, though. I know. I want you to know, though, I get, like, a DM or a tweet every, like, a couple times a month being like, I'm at the Waterburger in the Houston Airport.

You're right. It's like, that's the one that needs to be the representative. When aliens come to Earth and say, what's the best Waterburger on this planet, you go to the one of the Houston Continental Airport? Yeah. I've been in a United Terminal. I've been in that airport like multiple times. I did not realize I needed to go to the library. Oh my God.

It is like so. I tried that one time I couldn't find it. It is so unhealthy. I'm going to Houston and like. Like after October. Somebody reminded you toward the end of October to go to that. Somebody being Andy. Just anybody in chat.

You give me a date. I'll schedule a text right now. S.D. Turtle says, Greg, you gave Nottie Bear a three out of ten. I love that game. It's definitely jank. But it's not awful. I really hope we get a new port as the performance was bad. I knew this one would come up.

So my reviews pulled up from June 30th, 2010. Still one of my favorite leads I ever wrote at IGN. I've only played a few hours of Noddy Bear, but I don't need to waste any more of my time to tell you that this game is a waste of yours. Nottie Bear is an embarrassment. It shouldn't be purchased by anyone anywhere. Give it a three, which is an awful on this IGN scale verdict. Nottie Bear could have been cool, but it isn't.

It's a bad game you shouldn't play. That is one that everybody comes up. And lots of time people are joking. and then there's sick little fucks like this that are like, oh, no, if you excuse all this stuff, it was fine, it was the performance, it was this. I'd like to go back in time to ask you what kept you from giving it a one or two.

Yeah, I think it ran. Oh. You know what I mean? That's how I always went down there. It was functional somewhat. Let's get back to people riding in or calling it. Excuse me. Let's get to Dave.

Hey, Greg, it's Dave from Louisiana. I'm a huge fan. Just want to say, I think one of your worst takes is the take on Hogwarts Legacy. I think you should have maybe given it a better chance last year. I think it was one of the best games out there last year. And overall,

all the JK Rowling things aside, I think it's just a great game. All right. Have a deal. An interesting one. Because what's my take on Hogwarts Legacy? I don't care about Harry Potter. So I was never going to touch it to begin with. And then, of course, yeah, like, we support all people here and all races, religions,

creed, sexuality preferences. So, like, the JK Rowling stuff was fucking abhorrent. So, like, we wanted to talk about that at length of how bad that was. We also didn't get a review code, right? We also didn't get a review code, probably because we were so loud about how much,

yo, this fucking sucks that the person at the head of this IP, not the developers, the IP is such a, has so many terrible takes, right? So an interesting one for, I don't have, I don't have a take on Hogwarts Legacy

because this would be like, oh, Greg, your take on fucking Avatar Winds of Pintosh. Way of water. Way of water is terrible where it's like, wait, is that not the one. Well, the movies.

The Ubisoft game. That I also didn't play because I don't care about. years of Avatar. I like a Ubisoft game. I like a Czech world list open world, but not where I'm going to go play an avatar game. And I like a,

I don't even know what you call. I guess similar thing. Open world. I like, but I don't want to be a wizard. I don't want to be a Harry Potter person. I don't think any of us played enough Hogwarts. At least any of us at the table played enough Hogwarts legacy to be like,

oh, it was bad. I think you might be the only person who did at the table. Me? Yeah. I played like an hour and I was kind of like, yeah, I don't need, I don't need this.

It was partly also just because I was like, I don't even want to play it for content. I'm just going to play it just because I'm curious about it. But even then I was like, all right, like, if I was more invested in a Harry Potter as a franchise, I could have seen myself pushing through it. But it's that thing where, again,

like, I don't think we've also never judged people who wanted to play it. Like, we're never like, oh, if you played Hogwarts, like you're a bad person or whatever. But for me, with Harry Potter, I grew up, watched all the movies. And I am, like, disconnected from it enough

to where the JK rolling stuff is enough of a turnoff to be like, yeah, no, I don't need to play this. But also, I get for people who are super connected, I understand why that's a difficult thing. I have supported many a thing or many of music artists where I'm like, oh man,

like it's gonna be real tough to give this up. Like, man, I listen. I like, man, if you, if y'all knew how much of a Kanye West fan, I was from the years of like 0.7 through like probably 019 or whatever or like up until like recent years, I had to really be like, all right, I got to slow down a lot on the Kanye West listening.

And that took a lot. And I understand for people who are so invested in a franchise or so invest in a thing, that like they love so much, they get fired up when they feel like they're being attacked for loving it. And I don't think anybody should feel attacked for loving a thing. But I think for us, it was just an easy thing to be like, well, at least for me, it was the easy thing for me to be like, yeah, no, I don't need to play more of this.

It was one of those things where like, I think 10 or 12 year old Andy would have been like all about this video game. And yeah, I'm right there with blessing. I do not think you are a questionable or bad person for liking or playing this game. It would, like, I feel like if I didn't have trans friends in my life who told me that they felt really, I have, I had four people in my life, one person, one trans person that was like, eh, I think I'm going to play it.

And I had three of them that were like, eh, I'm probably not going to support this. I'm not going to support this. I don't feel comfortable doing it. And that was enough for me to be like, all right, then I won't either. And it's, again, it wasn't like life or death for me where I'm like, I'm not that hard core of a fan where I needed to like fight those feelings. Otherwise I probably would have given it a shot but you know there was a lot of games out already so it's like this didn't feel like the must play that I needed to you know for sure. And I don't like from just reception online and you know the

caller talking about like I was one of the best games last year it didn't seem that way from the reviews and just from like last year we got Balders Gate 3. It was that thing where if you remember when it came out there was that initial group everybody who played it. Now she's should say everybody. A lot of people who played it were like, whoa, game of the year contender, right? And then I think that wane as the year went on. And then also as the distractors came out, like, look at this combat. The wand is

but again, I didn't play, so I don't have much to say, but no. All right, let's move on to the next one. We have two back-to-back that I want to play here, starting with one from Vampire, Mommy. I have that many bad takes. Yeah. But, come on, man.

Resident Evil 8. so tall vampire mommy, man. How do you hate that? She's literally perfect. I don't care that she turns into a dragon or whatever. You have to kill her. Ignore that. Ignore all the bad parts of the game.

That first three hours where she's there, peak game play all the bad parts of the game. That's not even the best part of the game. Hi, Greg. As a fan of yours, as a console over PC gaming, and the lover of horror games, How can you continue to think the medium even comes close to the masterpiece that is Resident Evil 8? Like it just doesn't make sense.

They are clearly in two different lanes. Even if I am biased over Resident Evil. Anywho, have a great day, and I appreciate all that kind of funny does. Much love. This is the one I was talking about from the beginning. I'm glad they were able to drag the media, man. I'm glad that got pulled in. I want to jump in real quick because I played Resident Evil 8.

I don't really love playing scary games. I did not think this game was like a masterpiece. There's a lot of moments that I hated playing in Resident Evil 2 that I was like genuinely scared of because it just made me feel like garbage and scared and awful. But like I see that Resident Evil 2 and understand why it's like one of the most beloved games ever. Resident Evil 8, there's a lot of like just dumb shit in that game that I, and I think Ethan Winters is like awful as a protagonist.

But I agree with Vampire Mommy that, like, Like when the vampire section is done, I'm like, oh, man, I don't get to see them again. Like, about like the, what's next? A little baby fetus thing. Oh, that was awful. That was the best part of that video game. That was good, but it was like awful to experience. But then like, at the end of it, it's called duty, you're shooting, you're shooting

werewolves and it's a shooting range. And I was like, this is cool for the person who likes action games in me. Like, you know, just like the trying to get head shots or whatever. But this doesn't, yeah. It's just, it just changes too much. But all that being said, I didn't. try the medium, but I saw a lot of the medium. And that's where I'm like,

maybe they have a point with Greg and, you know, the... Before you even kill Greg, I want to say this too, because I am probably the biggest fan of Resident Evil Village here at this table. And even I will say, on the new kind of funny scale, Resident Evil Village is an 8 out of 10 to me.

I'm not saying it's a 9. I'm not saying it's a 10. I could even make an argument for a 7-5. Like, I'm being realistic on where this is at. There is parts of this game that are really good, and there's parts of the game, they're just okay. There are parts of the game that are horrible. There are parts of the game that maybe are like flirting with bad.

I don't even think there are parts that are bad though. The protagonist is bad. But gameplay wise and like what we're doing with the game itself. You know, it's like the story and all that stuff, maybe not for everybody. But it's like to say that the game is bad, I think is a wild take. To bring the medium into it, which is just like, the medium is like, I got halfway through that game.

And I was like, you know what? This is just not hitting the way it needs to. To bring it up against Village, that's where I'm like, Greg, you're a madman. What say you? Why does this keep happening to me? This is a great one. This is an actual fun one to bring out, right?

Because I feel like this is almost like a fucking jawbreaker where there's like a core, but so much has been layered on top of it throughout it, right? Where I think the actual, because I have obviously in content really paying the Trump about how bad the village is, right? I think both, on the new kind of funny scale, I would give both,

and this is also hard because I'm not coming fresh off of my play through of the village or the medium for that matter. But what I've said when this does come up, we have an honest conversation is, is like, it's not that I think the medium is great. People always read in that I think the medium is a nine out of ten, right? It's like, no, I think the medium is probably,

like on our new scale right now, having not played either of them, I'd probably give them both sixes. I just think that like, the medium does something that's interesting for me with stories. whereas I found Resident Evil Village to be wholly uninteresting.

I hate Ethan Winters. I think they introduce cool characters but then they get rid of them too quickly. It is just shooting werewolves at the end. It is my fucking baby's multiple parts in a jar and a fucking sender thing and there's this fat guy. And it's just like,

this is all so outlandish. You know how I feel about fat people. Oh man. It's all so outlandish and I can't suspend my disbelief and I think there are a lot of cool ideas here that just don't get fledgible. out. I think the medium is the exact same way.

A lot of cool ideas that do not get fleshed out. But I enjoyed the breadcrumbs of the medium more of seeing it through the end and being, oh, that was, I liked going through that and doing that. But over the time, it has just become the fact that like, yeah. Because like, again, like, I were going to give them scores a little while ago. I just said six. That was what I would probably do. Again, I'd love to have gone back and had that at the time and yet, yeah, yeah, the other.

But like, that's another one where, like, I'm playing it for review. And I actually had, we'll redact all the names. had a person who's in the video game industry at one of the companies at our house. And they were like, oh, man, like, you're playing. Yeah, what do you think? I'm like, I don't think it came together. Like, oh, shit, really? blah, blah, blah.

And then when the scores came out, I was like, oh, I am the odd man out. I am just the one. And it's the craziest thing of, like, for how much I loved seven, right? But it was something about. Yeah, which I don't understand. I know. It was something about the strip back of, like, just this, like, Texas chainsaw mask or family. And the fact that it was all anchored around them and they're cutting each other up at the table.

And, like, there was, like, so much going on. But that's just the beginning of the game. I know, but I think it's set up so well where we're going until it also gets crazy.

I'm on a fucking boat, right? Yeah, exactly. But like, the village just didn't, didn't. There you go,

everybody. There you go. I regret nothing. Mason M. says, agree with my bad take that the Iron Giant sucks. Mason,

why would you write in? Iron Giant? That's an awful thing I'm saying. To just expose yourself like that. The Iron Giant, interesting. Wasn't it? Mason.

His name is Mason. Mason. How does Mason feel about Up? I'm curious. Mason, you nailed it. Let me tell you about Up. Wait, are you kidding right now? Everybody.

Oh, you love Superman. You love Superman. Watch the I watch the Iron John. Watch the eye. Watch the Iron John. I forgot it most of it. Oh, my God. He loves Superman.

Yeah, I know. So what a lot of people do, Kevin? You love Superman. It's true. I love you. Mason says, this is a dumb movie. I can't help that. Oh, my God.

Let me tell you about Up, though. Let me just say about Up. Oh, Up's good. Let me just say about Up. Wally, too. Ben's into Wally, new. I can watch Wally. Up.

Organized showing for me and Ben. Up, not better than Wally. Shouldn't have been ranked higher than Wally on our rankings. Just think about it. I'm going to add them to my list. The thing you remember the most is that amazing intro, and the rest of it's good. But that intro, like, just carries the rest of up where Wally should have been ranked higher. Joey Nauwell, I'm looking at you.

How dare you do that to me? Wally is a better movie than Up. How do you hate Wally? Who hates Wally? That is my list of movies to watch. So now it's Mad Max. franchise, Planet of the Apes, Nolan movies, Fifth Element, and Wally with Ben.

Oh, Lord of the Rings, isn't there? Put up on there, dude. Put up on that list. Let's get to the next one, which is Kevin Baffle. Good name. Greg Miller, this is Tavin Bawthel from the Two Penny Games cast, and I've been watching your content for about 10 years. And I've got to say, the most offensive take that you've had in those 10 years is a recent one.

And it is quite simply that you are spending time playing games like Rise of the Ronan when Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is right in front of you. You enjoy your little open world complete-a-thones checklist games. Rebirth is the best checklist game ever. And I've reviewed both games on Two-Penny Games, YouTube.com slash at Two-Penny Games. And I will tell even though I deemed rebirth for checklistiness, it is so much better than anything that happens in Rise of the Ronan. You, sir, are doing not only the place. station audience a disservice, but yourself a disservice. And I fully recommend that you finally pony up and play Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth,

because it's one of the best games ever made, even making it to my own personal top 10. And that's a fickle list. Thank you, sir. You have a great rest of your day. I was hoping Tavin was like, so I recommend you grow a pair. Greg Miller, what say you? I don't think, I don't think Mr. Balthel's wrong necessarily on that one. you know what I mean? Again, rebirth landed.

I was, we had enough reviewers. I moved down to other stuff, including Ronan or whatever. And I think, again, you can tell me if I'd be doing it the disservice. My reasoning on doing so much of Ronan at the time, right, after even reviewing it was the idea that I can play Ronan with no sound on. Like, I'm just running through and doing these things and I enjoy the gameplay loop of it, right? Whereas with the Final Fantasy, I'm expecting, I want to hear the story.

I want to hear the cutscenes. I want to be a part of that. Obviously, eventually it's going to open up into a checklist, the open-worldly, blah, blah, but I wasn't sure when that would happen. And also it's a mood thing where I just something about that Final Fantasy setting after I got done with whatever I was done with and had that gap wasn't where I wanted to be, right? Like right now I'm playing so much Fallout 76 because of coming off Fallout at the show. We were all high on it, right?

And I was like, okay, cool. And then I jumped into this and I found a game there. And I'm again last night, you know, playing at one earbud in running around doing my missions while I talk to Jen or whatever. But now I know I need to get to rebirth. There is no, I do not have any hate or distaste for rebirth. My prediction is that you never get to rebirth. It's probably true. Like if there's,

I mean, like the best intentions, right, are all the time on these shows of like, oh, I want to get back to that. I want to, but like I live and die by what I'm reviewing for work, right? And what the next headline is going to be.

The, maybe, the like, maybe, maybe is the fact that with the daily games cast now, I do think that there's a place for Greg Miller's rebirth review, right? Like where it is,

we get to a point where there isn't an immediate thing I need to be playing or what, like, what can I, in my afternoons, what can I play at the office to get me going? I think that. Labor Day's 12 says those are valid reasons,

Greg, but you're still a bad person for this. I understand. I mean, there's a lot of reasons I'm a bad person, but I will take that as well. I understand. We also just all got to kind of come together as a company and really talk about the disservice that was done

by this dude to my left with Tears of the Kingdom. I was thinking about that couple days ago. If it didn't, I would have been because of his vote of Nazi and at the end, but like in the game of the year, I'll never.

forget. Like, while we're reviewing that game, I think Greg brought up the term. Let's think of like a game of the year that isn't Tears of the Kingdom. Like, he kind of like started that phrase. And then in the game of the year conversation, fast forward was like, ah, you're fucking building whatever shit. Just because he's hitting it. Somebody needed to be the, you know, the red team on that one. Somebody needed to stand up and have at least some kind of conversation about it. I was just tell and bless this on games daily earlier today but with all the Switch 2 rumors coming out of like

there probably being a Breath of the Wild at the very least if not both that enters the kingdom remaster port up who the fuck knows what it's going to be yeah I went down the rabbit hole as I often do of YouTube being the what does Breath of Wild look like in 4KKRTX all that stuff allegedly all that shit and it's just like god it's just so

good but no matter how beautiful the game is just watching the game I'm just like this is a this is a fucking video game man and like God damn, these games are just so incredible and special. And I'm like, no matter how busy I am, if they do re-release those games, I'm going to play it again. Oh, yeah. You know, maybe not to completion, but I'm like, maybe that's when Greg will be able to see tears the kingdom through to the end. Well, you want to see.

Maybe not. It's just such a big thing. It's a massive undertaking, but you want to see your favorite, for me, at least, you want to see one of your favorite things ever in a better, with a better coat of paint. You know what I mean? Like, I want to see that shit playing smoother. I heard they might lock it to 30. Like I heard the new switch might be able to get a consistency. We might actually get there.

1080. 30. Watch out. Any, any thoughts there, Greg? No, I mean,

I enjoyed my time with tears of the kingdom. Like, there's no shade at all about that. But again, I think, you know, as we just came off of the great discussion about what the kind of funny review scale meant. It was that honest thing of like,

what does our game in the year mean, right? Like, we don't need to be the IGN of it or this, that the other. So for my personalist, when I knew it didn't even really matter, right? Like I wasn't worried about it.

It was the thing of like, I don't know what it was. If I had my enjoyment on that game and then put it down and never felt like, oh man. I think life got it in the way for you. Yeah. And again, it's back to my point of like,

if I'm going to be on the review, I'm going to review it and go through and do the damn thing. But like, then you miss that and you're going to play something for fun. But I'm always playing a review for fun, right? Like making the content and doing that's always it. So it always edges it out somewhere. Let's do one more to end this episode.

But we do have. more we might be able to get even more. If this episode has inspired you, if there's anything, you're like, I can't believe that they haven't called Greg Miller out for X, Y, or Z. We will probably put out a call at some point to get some more because this was a lot of fun.

Did we do? What's the number? Do we know the number? Garvin the number. But yeah, think about all that stuff. And if you like this episode, let us know in the comments below if you want to see more of this from Greg or if there's anybody in particular here that you want to see called out. Don't say what you want them called out for.

but let's just see who you're rooting for what we're going on. Bless already said he ain't doing it. So we're moving on from last. I don't hear from him. You know, Andrew Cortez. Don't say shit to me.

They're bad. I feel like it might be a real short episode with Andy, but I mean, all I said was that Arms would be the best Nintendo franchise. Best new theme song. I thought Arms was going to take over,

bus. I used to be excited for oh, it was the fucking square game. It was like a near follow-up that they turned into a multiplayer life service thing.

Godfall. No, it was very painterly looking. I was so excited for that game. And then it came out and I was like, oh shit. They'll bring it up right. Babylon's fall. Babylon's fall. I thought it was going to be good.

That was my arms. 2015 Pax Kid with the final one, Kevin, if you could please play that. Is this the kid that he roughed house with? Oh, no. Now is that. Casey. He did what to it? 2015 Pax, Seattle, Washington, infamous trivia.

10 years ago, almost, you told me face to face in a trivia competition for Infamous that Second Sun was one of the best games you played. It was okay. Greg, my friend's bullying about that game and that trivia

for almost 10 years. You did this to me, Greg. Is this Paul Danos and the Riddler? Greg Miller. Wait, this happened in 2018? Infamous Second Son. He's at 15, right? Which is Bab says L's theme should be playing.

I'm looking. I love that dramatic pause. It was really good. That was a really well-delivered thing. But you said Infimus Second Son was one of the best games he played? So, I've never been afraid of owning a bad take. I do not recall this one. And it does not.

And chat, you probably know better than me even. That does not sound like a take I ever held, which makes me really start Googling around. I remember a Top Pot Donut, meet and greet, where we all played Peace Walker. Was that it? Or,

because what year would that be? Because, like, I remember, he said it was 2015? 2015 packs. Top Pot donut. 14 Pots. A great donut shop up in Seattle. You want to stand up for it?

You want to stand up for it? Seattle boy. Sorry, I was. Top pot donut. Top pot donut. I've never been there. Oh, shit, really? Hot Pot Donut?

Yeah. What about family pizza? Put it right underneath watching. So if this came, if this second came out in 2014. Yeah. So here's where I would cobble together what I think happened,

but I'm not trying to argue against Pax Kid. I remember at a Pax going to Sucker Punch in doing the preview for Second Sun, where they showed the lighting effects and how it walked on the water, blah, blah. and I assume we played it there as well. I would think it's possible I left that and said, this thing looks and plays amazing.

But I don't, I don't, I've never, unless I'm drunk off my ass. I don't think I ever on a beyond or anywhere else was like, infamous second son is one of the best games I've ever played because it definitely isn't. And if I had rolled credits,

I would definitely think I didn't say that. I used the touchscreen. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, I remember. Del Sunro. You shake the controller for the... Yeah, the spray paint. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it was all true. So I don't remember this. It also sounds very weird that in an infamous trivia competition, I said to his face, like, I'm not saying it didn't happen. Maybe I was doing a bit. Maybe I was one of those where there was an argument happening and I had to pick a side. And I just picked that side. And you picked the aggressive one. I'm sorry.

I apologize to you that this comment led to your friends making fun of you. I'm a little lost on that narrative. 10 years of bullying. The whole thing is kind is a little confusing. You can call back in, call back into the number. Should I have the number a second though. This, this, this, this, this feels like 573 203, 5374. If you have more Greg Miller takes, you want to save for a second episode.

This feels like syndrome meeting Mr. Or, uh, Mr. Incredible. Yeah. And just kind of getting like a random comment and being like, I've hated you my whole life. Yep. Yep. I don't even know who you are. Well, there you go. What a great time.

This has been. Greg, how do you feel about your takes? Vindicated. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? What was that wrong about? We just went through all this. I stand by moses.

This infamous thing I don't remember, I apologize. What was the other one? I mean, Red Dead too. No, no, I agree with that one. I'm right. I'm right. I'm right. You know what I mean?

Maybe I'll get on Switch and I'll play it there. That's all all the problems, everybody. Let us know in the comments below what your takes are on Greg's takes. And remember, you can call that phone number that Greg just said for you to call in for your takes for another episode. 373-203-5374. The phone lines are open. Phone lines are open, everybody. Thank you so much for hanging out with us on this beautiful,

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