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Episode Date: December 18, 2024

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Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Wednesday, December 18th, 2020. I'm one of your host, Blessing Adioia Jr. joining me is the Master of Hype, Snowbike Mike. Bless, happy holidays, Big Doc. Good to see you. Shout out another duo's games cast, you and I. Oh, yeah. Back at it. They can't stop us.

I'm pretty pumped up. You know, we had a week of Games Daily together. Yeah, we know. And we're doing a little gamescast fun. I'm all about it. And I love it too because this means we get to get weird. You know, Greg Miller. I saw Greg Miller.

It was, what's today? Wednesday, so it was Monday. It was Monday toward the end of the day. I saw him looking at his computer. He looked stressed. And I knew what he was doing. He was trying to figure out what games cast was going to be.

And I looked at him. And then I said, I didn't tell him. I sent him a slack. I sent him a slack and I was like, hey, let me and Mike hold down the games cast. And that's some fun. And here's the thing. You don't even think about a topic.

Let me, you gave me till the end of the day, I'll think about two topics. And you handled it. And I handled it. And I wanted to Photoshop yesterday during the day to make an entire bracket.

because that's what I do when I get to lead the games cast And so I'm very excited about today's episode Of course, bless I asked you to bring out your magic cards A little early. Yeah. I know that our afternoon stream will be all about magic The Gathering but I just, you can't tell Snowbike Mike to bring his magic cards into work And not have me want to put them on the set next to me at all time. Oh yeah. Because I got a lot, bless.

I'm so in love with your setup right now because you got the nice like card boxes. You got like the nice like, you know, storage box here for a bunch of your cards here. Two storage boxes. I'm crazy. Because you've been about this life for a little bit. I've only recently entered the Magic Game. And so I still have my things in like the actual foundations like packs. But I do have like just a bunch of cards stored in here because I don't have the nice boxes.

I'm excited because you've been building decks. So you're one level above me is you're building the decks. Have you not built decks yet? No, no. I'm usually a pretty standard basic deck guy when it comes to playing. Or I have so many. I haven't opened them up. So I'm very excited to start opening more packs and building the decks with you.

I don't. Yeah. I've been just solo mic. Oh, no, dude. I've done a lot of magic the gathering arena, but I don't have anyone to play with. So it's a lot of solo mic, and when you don't have anyone to play with, so what it is, is I have the deck builder gene in me, because I watched a lot of Uguer growing up. I was hooked on Uguio, and as a kid, I would just build Ugiot decks, and I wouldn't even know, like, what the rules were.

I was just building regio decks with nobody else to play with. And, like, I don't know, there's something about deck building that appeals to me more than any other aspect. I don't even care about the collecting. I need to open up my deck building eye today, then. I got you. Help me out. All right. Let me get there.

But that's not what this episode of gamescast is about. Today, we're doing a bracket. We're resurrecting one video game IP. Remember, this is kind of funny games cast each and every weekday. We get together and talk about the biggest reviews, previews, and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch, and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with a kind of funny membership on Patreon or on YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. Watchers record them live and get a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be a part of the show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube Super Bowl.

chats as we go. Housekeeping for you. We're an 11-person business all about live talk shows. So, KFGD was before this, and that was about how Greg is mad at Hell Diverstew. I was hoping you guys would react more to the Greg side of it. You guys got into the heart of the issue with the Hell Divers Tew. We had a good jab at Greg beforehand, but we didn't circle back to it. Like, beforehand, we all kind of giggled and laughed at Greg.

Yeah. It was mainly your reaction where you were like, oh shit, he's learning about microchrist. Exactly. Yeah, no, that was my reaction waking up because I woke up to a 70, a 744 AM tweet from Greg Miller that I was like, how dare they? It's the old man in the Simpsons yelling at the sky. And it's like, well, go to reality.

I was like, I'm going to react. I was like, I wonder him, Greg knows how much these other games cost. But you guys had a really enlightening episode about Games Day. I really enjoyed hearing you and Tim talk about micro transactions. Yeah, it's a very interesting one because, you know, you have Tim Getty's who has helped build kind of funny over 10 years. So he really thinks about what you're selling and how that comes out to the customer and the pricing of all that, which is always fascinating.

And then you have me, where I know a lot of the chat will say, oh, Mike's a sucker and he'll buy anything. But also, like, I live and breathe these games every single day and night. And I'm on the store page every single game looking at what is the price tag? What are the benefits of me buying this? What do I get? Nobody is more equipped to talk about this topic. I'm like getting in there.

One day blessing, we're going to send, you know, back at Vail Resorts for leadership training. They would send you for a week with another department head. would shadow them for the whole week to learn about what they were doing on the mountain, what kind of cool things they were getting into. And so one day we'll send Snowbike Mike to EA campus or something where I'll shadow a team. And I'm going to ask, can I work with the microtransaction teams or can I work with the cosmetics teams? Because I'm fascinated by who sits in the room and makes these prices up.

I want you to know that's not a bad idea. I feel like if me and you came together and drafted a pitch, we could probably convince Greg Miller to let us shadow like video. game studios to learn things about the industry to bring back and talk about on the on my shows. Give me one week. Let me learn. I feel like we can actually make that happen. I feel like we have the resources and I'm sure if I'm sure there's

somebody at Xbox or at PlayStation that I'd be like oh, sure, bring blessing around for a week. Let him hang out for eight hours a day. Let them learn. Let's do that. Right now it's games cast and after this is going to be the stream and it's going to be all magic the gathering with me and Mike so you're going to want to tune in for that. If you're a kind of funny member you can get today's Gregway. Thank you to our Patreon producers.

Lenny Twining and Carl Jacobs. Today are brought to you by Heart Electric, still wakes the deep, aura frames, and Marvel Snap, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what it is, and forever will be. Topic of the show. Tots, dots, lots, lots, lots, lots,

Mike, we're resurrecting one dead video game IP. This is... I love this. Well, this is sort of the resurrection of a old PSI Love You XOXO episode that me and Greg did, where we resurrected one PlayStation IP

and that's how the meme of Parasite Eve came to be on kind of funny. Because me and Greg were like, yo, what if Kojima? What if he got Kojima? Literally no connection with Kojima in the original one, I'm pretty sure. They were just in their heads like,

but wouldn't it be cool if Kajima made the reboot? Which you could have asked for any of those games. For no reason we connected Kojima to Parasite Eve and we were like, we were like, yo, if you bring back Parasite Eve, you give it to Gojima, it'll be game of the year. Is that co-sid Paraside-Eve all the way to the end of the episode?

So who won? I remember. Was it Seifilter? It wasn't. Like, I'm blessing. I'm not kidding. I think it might have been Paraside Eve. It was not.

No, Periscite Eve made it to the end. I know that, but I think Paraside Eve lost in the last round. It must have. I'll look at a. PSI love you. XOXO. XO. We resurrect one.

One dead franchise, one dead IP. I love that. Because, like, for me, it's really exciting. Right? Because, you know, I'm not the biggest. it's Nintendo guy. So I looked up some of these games. I think you're going to be pretty excited of what games I ride for now. So this is what we did.

What games I have questions about? This is what we did. Me and you, we went and found a bunch of games from four different categories. Nintendo games, right? We got eight Nintendo games. We got eight PlayStation games. We got eight Xbox games and we got eight third party games. Bear, did you find the answer there?

It was Seifilter. That did win, but it was between siphon filter and Parasite Eve. Yeah, I remember that. That was a good pot. I was like one of my favorite episodes of PSL of you, X-X-O, which is why I wanted to resurrect it and do it for everything. And that was 64 games. Yeah, that's why I did 32 this time around, because I'm

sure that episode probably took us forever. I'm sure that was like a two and a half hour to three-hour episode. You nailed it to two hours, 28 minutes. There you go. But yes, we got eight Nintendo games, eight PlayStation games, eight Xbox games, eight third-party games. I was tasked with bringing it to the table, the eight PlayStation

Nintendo games. Mike, you were tasked with bringing the eight Xbox and third-party games and then I tweaked a lot. Then you were like, actually, Mike, I want to do in this time frame and I was like, all right, all right. And then you put some new ones in which I'm excited for. So I added in rules because I think we need a clear guidelines.

So the two rules that I put on the table for how we're picking these games, the games have to be dead IP, right? What I'm going with for that is pre-Xbox 1 and pre-PS4 era. So if you had a new game come out during the PS4 and Xbox 1 era up until now, you are not your franchise is not eligible that's how I went about it so he did and also you can't have any upcoming games announced

we did lose a couple for that so we love we I think we lost quite a bit based off of those two criteria things like max pain things like splinter sell yeah right upcoming games announced we're we're getting you out of here all right and also it's tough when you go third party you're like only pick eight because everybody's mind's going to eight different games on the third party side yes so there was a lot of games And I was like, oh, Mike, what if we had these? Like, there's so many games. I mean, some might say that up until maybe 30 minutes ago, I had like, there was a

locked list that got changed. They deleted on blue sky. Because I realized I had forgotten burnout. That's all right. That's all right. So those were the rules. Okay. All right.

Based on that, these are the games that we have. In the Nintendo side of the bracket, we have earthbound, F0, Golden Sun, Punchout, Wario Land, Kid Icarus, Nintendo Dogs, and, you know, Nintendo Land. I should point out, these are seated. I did do the thing that we never do during these brackets. And I went in and I did the due diligence of doing Blessings Personal Seating. And so if you

don't like the seating, guess why you can take up issue with me. Take up issue with him. You can put the blame on me as Acon said in mid-2000s. You might want to read it as the matchups just for visually. Should we just jump right into that top left bracket? Well, let me read the full thing. You want to read do all of them? Yeah. Okay. Just real quick.

I thought you surprised them, but yeah, I like that. So for the top left bracket then, right, the matchups, you have our first seed earthbound versus our eighth seed Nintendo land. You have our second seed F0 versus our seventh seed Nintendo dogs. We have our third seed golden sun versus our sixth seed, Kid or Chris. And then you have our fourth seed punchout versus our fifth seed warrior land. Chat's already quick to point out. We've broken our own rules. Which one?

F0. See, okay, F0 is a weird one. Are we calling F99? What are we calling that? I thought about it and I was like, I'm not going to count that. I'm not going to count it. Because I also, like, for the new releases, I'm also not counting things like remasters or remakes.

I know F099 or 35 or whatever it is isn't a remake, but it's far enough from calling it a mainline F0 that I'm fine with it. I like that. And also, it's either that or fucking like brain age or something from Nintendo. Don't show you're just from me says. So those are your eight from Nintendo. Okay. We then swing over to the right side.

What was it, the Xbox side? I think that's the Xbox side. Barrett, if you can bring the bracket up, once again, you have our first seed, Banja Guzui versus our eighth seed, one versus 100. You have our second seed, Viva Penaena, versus the seventh seed, Crimson Skies. You have our third seed prototype

versus our sixth seed, Fusion Frenzy. And we have our fourth seed, brute force, versus our fifth seed, Jade Empire. Coming back around to PlayStation, you have our first seed, Jack and Daxter, versus our eighth seed, Parasite Eve. That's some might say. God, damn it.

Some might say, should that be the first seed or the second seed since they won? But I'm just going off of vibes, all right? I'm just going off of vibes. We got our second seed, Sly Cooper, versus our seventh seed, dark cloud. We have our third seed resistance versus our sixth seed, ape escape. And then we have our fourth siphon filter versus our fifth, so-com. Lastly, on the third party side, you have our first seed, portal, versus the eighth seed, red faction. Oh!

You have our second seed, NBA Street, versus our third. our seventh seed, bird out. Game breaker. You have our third seed, Def Jam versus our sixth seed, Left for Dead. Great. And we have our fourth seed,

Sleeping Dogs, versus the fifth seed, SSX. Wow, you pulled that one out. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. You added some.

I like this. That is the bracket. Because I added those based off of, it's me and you, Mike, right? Me and you make the ultimate decisions here. We gotta have some fun. And I looked at that,

and I was like, we got to make some media, some less game like decisions here of like what games are getting picked for third party. Great, great. So Mike, where do you want to start here? Well, I do want to start with the rules.

How will we decide this? Who will be the ultimate vote? You, me, and the tiebreaker to the chat? The chat will decide and we just kind of promote why we should think this game should go forward. Me and you are the first vote. It mean you agree on a thing. That is the pick and we move on. Wow.

If me and you disagree, then we give chat a straw poll for 30 seconds. They vote and they break the tie. But we will always have the poll going for the chat so we can tease them and see what they choose? I'll say I say we only do the poll I'm very well I would say Yeah like once you guys start talking about a thing I can put up a straw poll easily Just to have chat voting on it

Throughout the entire discussion And then if you guys disagree Then the straw pole is pretty much already Yeah I like that I don't want to hear the chat I want to hear what they think Then we can tease them a little bit I'm fine with that

I'm fine with that I like that All right Mike Where we starting Shit we're going up to the top left Nintendo Nintendo on the bracket here. We're going to kick off your 1 versus 8 seed here. Earthbound versus Nintendo land. I will say also for Super Chat.

So people want to super chat in if you're reading ahead and you want to make an argument for a game on this bracket, go for it. And as we get there, we can bring in your arguments. Earthbound versus Nintendo Land. Had to look them up, Bless. Yeah. I've never played Earthbound.

Of course, I hear all the conversation about it. Really never seen Earthbound besides some screenshots before. So I actually looked up gameplay. A little turn base. Old school. Great music. Fantastic music. I'll give them that.

What's the story of Earthbound now? What the fuck is happening? It's like weird shit is going on. It's aliens. You're a kid. You have psychic powers. Oh. Yeah.

Shit goes down. It's been a minute since I played Earth down. I haven't played it since I was a kid. So I could even tell you like the moment to moment's story. All I can tell you is that I loved it. It was one of those ones that I think felt fresh and different. Granted, like this game came out probably before I was born if I'm being real, but I came to it later

and being like, man, I was introduced to Ness through Smash, and I always had the question of who the fuck is this kid? Like, what's going on with him? Which led me to playing Earthbound, which led me to being like, yo, this is fucking awesome. Weird, cool soundtrack, really cute world with a neat art

style and interesting, like, direction. Like, the characters look like Pokemon characters. But, like, the world has this eerie feeling to it. Like, there's something off the entire time. And yeah, you're exploring with, like, the fucking kids that you meet along the way. I like that it's so old school we didn't even make

like art for the back of their heads like in a Pokemon. It's just cards that say their name in front of them. Is that how it looked? When I was looking up gameplay it looked like you don't even have like the sprites of them in front like when they're fighting something. Yeah, I see what I see what? It looks like you know how in like Pokemon you see the back of their heads. Yeah. This one, it just looked like there's just cards with their names on

in front of them. Yeah, if there's a battle screen because now I'm like, wait, what did the battle screen even look like? Yeah, I think you're right. Because I don't, you definitely don't the back of their head. You're definitely right about that. Yeah, I was like, oh, man, it's that old school. Like, we didn't even get to that point yet. But the music really caught me off guard. The music, the colors, the world, like you said, it is very interesting. Yeah. I mean, if I'm looking at this, Earthbound is the easiest pick. I love Nintendo Land, but like Nintendo Land.

It's a hold up. Have you played Nintendo Land? No, never. I looked it up. Oh, it's really fun. Hey now. A Nintendo Land revive? Let's talk about it now. You're preaching of the choir. I've been asking for Nintendo. I've been asking for Nintendo. I've been asking. I'm asking for Nintendo Land to come back for years because it was basically a collection of mini games that were each based off of different Nintendo characters and the mini games were surprisingly fun. It was a Wii U title so it got super overlooked

but there was a Mario Tag game in there that I remember having a lot of fun with. There was a Luigi's Mansion ghostbusting game in there that was super fun. There was a, oh, there was like one other game in there that I fucking loved. I think it was Animal Crossing, you're collecting fruit or some shit. I remember having a lot of fun, but

like, if we're being real, if we're being real and we're matching this up, to Earthbound. It's no contest. Like, Nintendoland isn't even like the best Nintendo like party game. But think about all the fun IP that you'd have in 2024. Yeah, I mean, you would have the cool, innovative things you could

do with the Switch. You would have Splatoon in there, right? You would have, you can do some stuff with HD rumble. Mike, you don't give a fuck about HG rumble. Be real. I don't. You don't give a fuck about any of the things you're talking about. Here's the problem is I'm on the side of Earthbound, right? I was fascinated to look both of these up as these are both games I've never played before or really have ever seen. And so Earthbound caught my eye, like I said, the music, the color, the characters, the people

talking about the story, seems like a fun time. Yeah. Nintendo Land caught my eye because it's like, oh, that seems like a Wii game. We should play Nintendo Land on stream. Okay. I think Nintendo Land will actually be a fun time with us. I'd check it out. We'd have to maybe have like four of us, but.

Because you know, there's a lot of those Nintendo games that I loved on the Wii. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like Wii sports and then you think about Mario baseball and stuff like that, where you're using the num chuck and you're swinging it all around. I loved that. I'm a sucker for that. We can save time here.

We got a lot to talk about. Put it on. Earthbound wins. What the fans say? Yeah, what was the vote on this one? 82%. Okay. So there's some Nintendo land people out there.

17% of your sickos. They could see the vision. Or they just want to cause chaos. I don't think anybody on this earth is going to be like, oh yeah, I have a choice to bring back a dead IP and I'm going Nintendo Land over Earthbound. Let's move on to next one.

F0 versus Nintendo Dogs. Looked them both up. You had to look up both of these. I played F99 recently. Oh, okay. But I wanted to go back old school. I wanted to make sure I'm checking out some of these things, seeing what it's all about. F0 in 2020, 4 and beyond could be cool.

But do we need another racing game less? That's what I would say. Do we need another racing game less? An F zero game, yes. As a Gibroni who grew up in the 90s and had a Tomogachi. And I loved connectibles. I think we need to bring back Nintendo Dogs

Guys are fucking Like I think I think we need to let the dogs out What is that Do you genuinely Honestly I'm gonna ask this question And I know the answer Yeah

Do you see yourself Getting deep into a new Nintendo dogs game Me personally Yes No I didn't think you would say maybe But I could see it

I like the idea of this Nintendo dogs game So was this just like Having a time Amigachi essentially where you'd log on and you'd have a little dog there. You could feed it, clean it, pet it. I imagine so. I didn't play much Nintendo Dogs is always one that I either see my friends play or I would see commercials for.

Barrett, did you play Nintendo Dogs? No. Yeah, I don't know, I don't have, I don't know many like gamer gamers that played Nintendo Dogs. But I think this is one that probably just like, I think just had the appeal of like kids that had a handheld device, kids that had a DS. I have, and wanted to like have a fucking dog. I have a virtual dog that comes with me anywhere on my Nintendo Switch now. Yeah. Show it's all my friends.

Maybe we can have a dog party if we all link up our switches together in a certain radius. I'm surprised in 10 dogs is a dead IP, honestly. I feel like we got a hit on our hands here. No, tell me on F99. Why should I care about F0? Okay, first of all, it's called F0. Because look at this dog. Here's this thing.

What's the question here? Because is the question which one's going to sell more? Because I'll say, I think the 10 dogs is going to be more successful. What deserves the revival? F0. That's what we're, really. Yeah. People, if you're speaking.

to the fan base F0. F0 is a classic video game. It is a fun video game. You might say, do we need another racing game? We have a lot of racing games. But F0 gives you that high speed intergalactic aspect to it

that I think gives it its own personality, gives it its own flair. I think based off of like... But does Nintendo need that in the portfolio? Does it need it? No. They got Mario Kart. But like, do they need it? No, but I think it'd be fun.

Okay. And not everything, like, not everything in the portfolio. portfolio needs to be, this is going to sell 10 million, this is going to like save the cat. No, it's just a fun F0 game. And a lot of, you know, a lot of your fans want it. Nobody, I can't say nobody actually, because I think a lot of people will probably ask for new Nintendo dogs.

I think more people are passionate about wanting a new F0 than people are passionate about wanting a new Nintendo. Take me back to lockdown when we were all in lockdown and instead of Animal Crossing, you give me Nintendo dogs? Holy shit. Holy shit. I'm building a bond with that. It's going to be crazy.

I'll be honest, me too. You released a Nintendo Dogs in 2024? I'm going to be into it. This shit might go crazy. All right, well, here's the problem. Bless. We're going to be split because I'm saying it's Nintendo. I'm going to say it's M-Zero.

Bring it to the people. What do the people say? It goes to Nintendo. Oh, yeah. Holy cow, keep this up for a second because it is a very close vote here. 51% of people, 51.5,6% of people voted for Nintendo. That's one vote changing that. Yeah.

off by a few votes. So Nintendo Nintend Dogs is taking it. I feel it. That's the first upset of the episode. I love that. I love that. I mean, that's a close one to what that's 2-7, 2-7? Okay, not bad, not bad. That was a very quick upset. Let's go to the next one. Golden Sun versus Kid Icarus. Now, Mike, I'm going to need you to actually play authority a little bit because I know you looked up some of the stuff. I looked up both of these. You looked up these games beforehand. I know both of these. I know Kid Icarus from the NES game. I do know that there was a 3DS game

that released, but I never played it. And Golden Sun, I've heard more about than I actually know. Give me the pitch on these. Golden Sun seems like a fantasy turn-based RPG. It seemed very much what I was looking at with I don't want to compare it to Earthbound, but that kind of style. Golden Sun reminds me of like an octopath traveler and how it looked. Yeah.

Of like, oh, it's clearly that third person, or not third person, but like, you know what I'm talking about. You see the 3D model. He's running around. It's clearly turned based. Yeah. It's in a high fantasy setting. Yeah.

That's how it seemed to me. Now I'll tell you. A pixel art. Kid Icarus though Yeah I must have looked at like a modern one Because it looked kind of sick

It probably You probably looked at the 3DS one Kidacris uprising Both of them looked good I'm not gonna lie to you Both looked good And I was like oh wow I'm impressed

I'm not mad at Golden Sun But like kid Icarus Look kind of sick All right I'm gonna look up I'm looking up Wiki pages for both of these games Look up Wiki pages for both of these games Because again

I need It looks cool though Because I want to learn more about Golden Sun Golden Sun Is a series of fantasy role playing games Developed by Camelot which we know Camelot's awesome and published by Nintendo. It follows a story of a group of magically attuned adepts

who are charged with preventing the potentially destructive power of alchemy from being released as it was in the past. Players navigate characters through the games world by defeating enemies, solving puzzles, and completing assigned missions to complete the storyline. As we look at gameplay, I imagine this is Game Boy Advanced, right? Like, Golden Sun is always fascinated me because whenever I see gameplay of it, I'm like, that looks like every fantasy RPG that I've seen, every, like, classic pixel art fantasy RPG.

I like the look at this. But here's the issue, you read that, and I wanted to fall asleep. Because in the back of my mind, you know what would wake me up? Cool dude with a bow. Okay, cool dude with a bow. Let's be real with each other now. That guy's running around with a bow and arrow and he's shooting things. The plot of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pitt's Quest for three sacred treasures,

which he must equip to rescue the Greek-inspired fantasy world Angeland and its ruler, goddess Palatana. The player controls Pitt through platform areas while fighting monsters and collecting items. The objective is to reach the end of the levels and to find and defeat boss monsters that guard the three treasures. The game was developed by Nintendo's

Research and Development Division, yada, yada, yada. I think I just have more of a connection to Kid Icarus than Golden Sun. A lot of that is because of the NES title and then a lot of that is because of playing Smash and Kit and Pitt being a character in Spanish with Palatana. What's your vote? Where you go? I, it's like I almost want to abstain.

Because like, I just don't, I don't know enough about Golden Sun. Like kid acreis revival, hold on. What was the, you said it was the 3D S? Show him that new kiddickriss uprising. Show him that new one. That new. That new new. That's the one I clicked on. Yeah.

Show him that new new. Because I know this, I remember seeing the trailer for this to me like, yo, this looks fucking sick. Look at this guy. You know what I mean? You tell me you don't want to play that? No, I do. Kingdom Hearts game player.

Yeah. Look at this. I dead ass, do you want to play this? Yeah. This is real bad. This is where it. that, y'all. Let's be real with each other right now. Like, games like this are why I'm sad that I never owned

a DS or a 3DS growing up. Like, think about it in like, uh, because you see like the 2D like O.T gameplay and you're like, oh, it would, it would probably evolve like a Zelda or something like this. You check this out. You're like, oh, damn. Okay, my vote's Kidacris. My vote's Kid I Chris as well. It looks sick. How can I not?

Mike, me and you just pissed off a lot of people just so you know. Oh, you think so. Oh, dude. I hear so many people. Yeah, what is the audience? What is the audience? Because I hear so many people talking. about how good golden sun is yeah well it's one thing to talk about it's the thing to be about

it yeah golden sun one but it was a narrow value yeah 54% of the audience voted for golden sun over kid icarus okay okay next up in the bracket the final part of this one the final one in the punch out or in the nintendo side of their bracket for the first round we have punchout versus warrioland can you give me a rundown of warrior land i had to look it up and i still don't understand what the fuck was happening it's like just the two d Wario platformer, spin off of the Super Mario Land, like, handheld games. Okay. But after a while, they started

adding Wario as the main character. And, like, he's just a bit more beefy. Did you see the indie game that was at our GDC showcase, Anton Blast? That is basically Wario Land. That game is based off of, like, Wario Land-style gameplay. So, like, Wario's fucking

trucking through things, looking for a treasure. I actually don't know what the fuck the story is. All he was that, he's collecting a lot of gold, and he's fucking tanking through things. Here's the issue. It's wacky, has a fun art style. I like war. I haven't played it in forever.

It was one of the ones that I would actually borrow my friends, GBA on the bus ride on the way to school. And I would play WarioLand on his GBA. That's the extent of my time. There was also one for the Wii that I played that had a really cool art style to it. What's the other one where's mini games? Warrior Ware.

That's Wario Ware. So he's got two games. Yeah, he has two franchises. Good for him. He might have more. I don't know. It's a big come-up. I mean, listen, that's Wario.

You know, that's Mario's evil Twitter. Of course he's going to have franchises to him. I'm going to actually go with Warrior Land. Punch out for me. I'm in this weird one of like, I just want fight night or I want ready to rumble. I don't want punch out. Oh, interesting. But there's some cool games that are coming up in the Punch Out art style and gameplay style that are pretty fun.

That I'd recommend you check out. We saw them at some of our GDC coverage and at GDC. Big Boy Boxing, I think is what it's called. It's Punch Out, but with their own fun character. Is that the one, is that the anime art style? No, this one's more like cartooning. Partuni, okay. Oh, maybe that's what I'm thinking of.

I liked that one. I think it's called Big Boy Boxing. Check that one out. But yeah, I'm gonna go with Warrior Land. I'm going with Warrior Land. If I have to choose between Punch Out and Warrior Land of which one am I more likely to play and be excited about if they announced it, I'm probably going Punch Out. Okay.

Yeah, Punch Out. I know you mentioned like you prefer like, you know, other boxing franchises that you would gravitate to more. Punch Out, I think, is more of a unique thing. It's like more of a one-of-a-kind kind of game. It is Boss Rush, and I always love a boss rush. It is Twitch Reflexes. It is reading the patterns. Like, I think today in the world of...

You're putting up fake YouTubers and stuff for fun? Wait, say it again? Like some of the bosses, like, are you... Fake YouTubers are you going to be in? A few things, right? In the world of Souls likes, in the world of super difficult games, I think Punch Out becomes a sensation

if you release a modern one. In the world of so many personalities in, like, people that would definitely want to be in this. Like, don't put fucking Logan Paul or anybody or those guys in it. But, like, I think there are probably people of that ilk that you can make versions of

in Punch Out that could be really fun. A lot of ones boxed. You could put a lot of... Yeah, put a lot of peers as a lockable character. That was sick. Yeah, no, I'm going, I'm going Punch Out. Okay. Let's bring you to the people.

What are the people saying? Bring it to the people. Barrett's making the poll. Sounds like, oh, Wario Land. Wins it. Again, another narrow vote, though. 55% of people voted for Wario Land

45% voted for Punchout which means Wario Land takes it and moves on. That's the first part of Nintendo, not bad. That's the first round. Eight and four leave. So the winner's there and coming up in the next round when we come back is Earthbound versus Nintendo Dogs and then Kid

Icarus versus Wario Land. Damn, Nintendo Dogs has got a big battle here. Mike, where are you taking us next? Let's go to Xbox next. Let's go up top right. First up we got Banjo-Kizui versus 1 versus 100. It's a tough one. Is it? It's a tough one. No, it's not. It's not.

Here's the deal. We're riding the high off of Astrobot. We all love these 3D platformer collectathons. Blah, blah, blah. It's great. The bear and the bird. You know, there's a lot of other great ones as well. Gex the lizard, I think about, right? I think about my main man conquers bad fur.

They conquer the squirrel, right? I think about Glover. Okay. It's like... Well, Conquer should have been on this. Why don't we give any love to some of them? You know what I mean? We always got to talk about the bird and the And the bear. Conker could have been on the list. You didn't put Conker on the list.

I did it for Paris. I did it for Paris. You could have fit Conker in here. Now here's the cat. You put prototype on this bitch. Shout to the prototype. Shout to the prototype. But here's the problem.

I should have went through and just fucking redid this whole thing. Don't you love moments that bring us all together? Don't you love trivia? You love a good trivia. I mean, I do love trivia. You love the idea of like, what if you could invite all your friends over and also the globe.

And we all come together on a Tuesday night at 7 p.m. where Major Nelson hosts one versus 100. This wouldn't last in 2024. This wouldn't last. This would have the juice. No, who's going to host it every week?

Major Nelson doesn't work there anymore. You think Phil Spencer's going to step off to the plate? All right. Let me pitch it to you, blessing. Xbox makes the call. They're like, we need to have someone host this once a week. Bring, bring, bring. Snowbike, Mike, will you pick up the phone?

Do you pick up the phone? And I say, I say, hello, this is Snowbike Mike? Oh, yes, Mike, this is Mr. Xbox. We're bringing back one versus 100. Oh, my God. And we are looking for a host. Would you be interested?

Oh, my God. Mr. Xbox, I would love to host your weekly 1 versus 100 trivia show. But one thing, can I bring my partner in crime? Blessing out of the O.E.J. Hold on. You're getting another call. Bring, ring, bring.

Oh, let me bring it into 30. Bring, bring, bring. Hello. I noticed this. a three-way call now. Three-way call. Yeah. Hello.

This is Greg Miller. No, you're not doing that. You have a full-time job. With what time are you and Blessing going to host one V-100? I know we are now in a bidding war. Mr. Snowbike, Mike. Mr. Blessing at Aoye Jr. I will pay both of you $300,000 a year.

Wow. A year. I'm Greg Miller and I know you can't afford that for one day a week. Absolutely not. Here's the thing. Trivia. Because does HQ, do you guys remember to HQ trivia? Yeah.

Do you remember HQ trivia? That was big, but it was only big. Yeah, no, I don't think so. Jackbox games exist? It's different. Jackbox is close to this. I know it's different, but it's close. Here's the thing.

It's closer to HQ trivia, which was even more, which was more accessible because everybody has a phone, right? And so, like, more people are going to get into that. And even that died off. Well, your phone's an Xbox now. Your phone's a next box. This is a good point. That's a good point.

That is a good. argument. Here's the flaw in your argument is that it is going up against Banjo Kizu. Yes. It's fucking Banjo. Come on. I know. Everybody wants it. It's the easy slam dunk. You talk about Astrobot and what that is for PlayStation, how much how beloved that is. Benjo can be that for Xbox. It's been gone forever. So many of us have

nostalgia for it. The gameplay is there. The charm is there. The character recognizability is there. Come on. It's an easy choice. It's Banjo. I love that. It's Banjo. I agree with you. It is Banjo. All right. Bainjo wins and move on to the next round. What's the vote though? Oh, the vote, yeah, 65% They ran away with it. I mean, that's still, that's, that's too close for comfort. 65% of people voted Bainjo.

I think 64% of people just wanted to piss off Paris in the chat. Which I respect, you know, I'm all about it. Y'all got phones, don't you? Yeah, you know it, Brian. That's right. Check him in the super chats really quick. Oh, yeah, good call. Yeah, I've been neglecting those. Let's see what our people on the super chats is saying. Um, C.J. Splitson Rice says, right in and says, make Nintendo. but Pokemon slash Pikachu.

Robbie Rod writes in and says Nintendo Dogg is a mobile app like Pokemon Go. I mean, that'd be a smart way to bring it back. Pokemon Nintendo? Yeah, that would be crazy. The problem is that Nintendo already does have Pokemon. And so, like, to bring Nintendo's back and go, hey, how do we make this into Pokemon? You're working backwards.

You already have Pokemon. You're hitting a more niche market. Like, doesn't Tomogachi still kind of technically exist? Like, how many people are actually, like, getting into the Tomogachis nowadays? If you're thinking about buying stuff like Mike, a holiday present. Buy me a Tomogachi. J.J. Miranda

544 says the bracket needs to be adjusted. The two seed should be at the bottom and the four seed should be under the one seed matchup. I don't know how brackets works. I'll teach you that. I noticed that. Don't worry about we didn't say anything. We don't know. We don't understand brackets. We don't understand round robin. It's fine. So like, wait, the two seats should be at the bottom. So the two and the one

technically should meet at the very end. Oh, you're right. It goes one eight and then whatever the next like would be that four, five should be there. And then it should be three six or something like that but that's on me the one of the two should collide at the end that's a good call but hey you know

we're learning um Jordan Vickers writes in it says I know this is a movie property first but the Warriors remade ground up more missions in an online mode where you make your own gang and protect your turf can you dig it Jordan I can dig it

I love that idea he can't you dig it I can't think about it God I love it Calvin Perez says Doritos trash course should be on Xbox Oh that's a good call that should been on there. You know what?

Barrett would probably tweak on that. What? Because Barrett loves the speed running challenges of that recent Nintendo one. Bear, you should download at home Nintendo or Doritos Crash Course 1 and 2 and just go ham on those. You would love them, Barrett. I love those games so much. That's a great call. Never heard of those. Oh my God.

Barrett, you're going to lose your Marvel. It's just American Ninja Warrior. With you avatars. And you just run as fast as you can. It's a black. Great game. It's a great game. Deer Sixlet writes in about Dark Cloud, so I'm going to put a pin in that and when we get to Dark Cloud. Remind me to get back to that chat. Remind me to get back to DeCliql. Oh.

I'm going to tell you all about Dark Cloud. I got you when we get to Dark Cloud, Mike. Don't you worry. All right. Next matchup, Viva Penaata versus Crimson Skies. Shit, man. Is this an easy one? Yes.

Because I just don't think the dog fighting jet video games are all that exciting for a mass audience. I think there's like a small audience that really rides or dies for that. But I don't think that like the, you know, the plain action game is really that big. It's like the name is big. Crimson Sky, that is like a classic, like we all know Crimson's Skies. Fun fact, I used to play the Crimson Sky's demo. Oh, this exact one actually. Man, I used to play this on my PC a lot. Here's the issues. I watched this and I go, man, I would play that. You know what I mean? Like I was like, this brought me back there. This is like the exact level, the exact plane

outfly in that demo. Yeah. Oh my God. Fuck. It's a cool game, bless. It's a cool game, bro. But the answer is Viva Penaata though. I think the answer is Viva Penaata, right?

Like you love Pena-you-Lov the Piniadas. You love the little property management going on there with all the fun stuff that you can do on the farm. It's a good time. All right. I think, yeah. I'm surprised we haven't brought back Viva Penaena. What happened? Well, I'm surprised.

I mean, as we were going through this Xbox bracket, how did we get lost on this? I feel like right now, this is a case of, man, some easy decisions that are aren't being made over here on Xbox. Because Bange-Gazooie, bring it back. Viva Pignata, bring it back. What are we doing? You know? Sometimes it's tough with that 3D collect-a-thon,

action-map action platformer to nail it. I think you've seen so many come and go on like the third party kind of Xboxy side, like Super Lucky's Tale and ukulele that are like good, but they're not breakout All-Star Great. And I think sometimes you have a little apprehension of that, especially when you're going up against the big, dogs from Nintendo and now Astrobot

that like you're like maybe we hold for a little bit. Yeah. If it's not perfect. I feel that. I feel like what's more tough though is Everwhile being development hell. And Redfall coming out and being that. Or scale bound getting canceled. I feel like making a banjo.

Blessing if like if Team Xbox Xbox can get into your mind they'd be like just forget Everwell. They're like they would just love to MIB everyone while they're watching the Xbox or the Xbox E3 of like Everwell. boom got something. Nobody remembers.

Men in Black lives. We neurilize you. Next up, we got prototype versus Fusion Frenzy. Shit. Mike, you're going to have to

take the lead on this one. This is a crazy one, bro. Because of course, the hero beat them up, 3D hero adventure games are all the rage now, right?

Spider-Man's the hottest game around. Xbox has prototype, which was, you know, Activisions, hero game, kind of edgy, a little dark.

You know what I mean? They had two of them. They were fun. I remember those gamestop. commercials for prototype. Remember those? Yeah. No. They were like like what's it called fourth wall breaking

like yeah just making jokes while being prototype. Yeah it's prototype. Chat probably fuels me. Kind of badass, kind of cool. Here's the issue. It's like fusion frenzy's just great though. And who doesn't love a good party game? People love Mario Party. We'd love one on

Xbox. You love a good what's a pummel party on PC that I make you guys play all the time? Those are great. The mini games and Fusion Frenzy are great. They got a fun cast and crew. You have your favorite member, or maybe you're just like a certain color

you're like being the yellow guy or the red gibboni. Like those are always been great, you know what I mean? I love the yellow guy. I love being the yellow guy, you know? It's like, that's the problem here. I could go either way. I think it is Fusion Frenzy if the fans were to vote.

Prototype, they need a hero. Could Prototype be the one? Probably not. Chad also points out that prototype is actually not an Xbox IP. Well, I was going to comment on that, right? It's Activision, and Activision's owned by Xbox. Yeah, you got to remember that in there, chat, because it's Activision.

Yeah, yeah. You got to remember we've added stuff now. We've added a lot there. So it's right. You got to keep up with the time. There's a lot going on in that one, it's right. I think it's, I think it's fusion frenzy. So I remember playing Fusion Frenzy and hating it.

And hating it. I hated Fusion Frenzy growing up playing it. And my friend's house. could not stay in this fucking game. That said, it gets my vote also. Now, did you grow up? I think it's a better thing to bring back. Liking Mario Party?

Yeah. Was it just, you just didn't like the party games? Was there the games inside of it were good? You know, I think the mini games bugged me in Fusion Frenzy, but I think part of that might just be that, like, I'll play it at a friend's house. And I think because my friend owned it, they were just way better at the mini games. So they were slapping you around. Yeah, they're just slapping me around.

As a kid, I'm just like, you don't, fuck this. You don't remember being in the burger shop and you were smashing the bugs? With the hand, everybody had a hammering, they were smashing the bugs. I was probably crying. I don't remember, no. I was probably fucking frustrated. It was a great time. Yeah, Fusion Frenzy is winning.

Oh, wow, very close, though. The fans also voted for Fusion Frenzy with 53 votes. They want a hero. So it sounds like all of us are saying, Fusion Frenzy, and that moves on. Our final round of the Xbox bracket for round one. Brute Force versus Jade Empire. Mike, you're going to have to school me real hard on what's going on here.

What if I told you there was a Guardians of the Galaxy before Guardians of the Galaxy? No way. A rag-tag group of misfits. come together and they got a team up to save the world. And maybe there's a lizard man. It's called Concord and they did away with it. Now this time now, it's brute force, man.

What a time. Brut Force back in the day. Looked up Jade Empire because I never played Jade Empire. Okay. Pretty dope. Pretty dope that. You don't want to look up the Wikipedia and give you the rundown. I am more of a brute force, your brony, but I will say I looked up Jade Empire.

Jade Empire looked pretty dope. step into the role of an aspiring martial arts master and follow the path of the open palm or closed fist. Already you got me. Already you got me. And that's for the Steam version Jada Empire Special Edition. Let's see. They go on to say in this multi-award winning

action RPG, your choices and actions will determine the fate of the entire Jada Empire. Will you prevent the destruction of this beautiful land or will you crush it beneath your heel? Are you a warrior who uses his strength and fighting mastery to bring peace? Or will you instead use your power to bring pain and ruin the choices you. Barrett, is there a way, is there like a trailer that we can watch for Jade Empire?

This shit sounds fucking awesome. The original award-winning Jade Empire. A lot of people riding on this one. An incredible engaging story, a wealth of fascinating characters interact with, beautiful, mysterious lands to explore, discover, and save or conquer. Check this out. Got a cool tattoo. A dope-ass tattoo.

Great beard on that guy. So far, looking at this, this reminds me of the Mortal Kombat Deception Conquest mode. that. Man, that was a great time back then, too. I mean, playing a Shujenko, I love that. A great time. That was a great time back then. Yeah, rich blend of role playing and real-time combat. And this is Bioware, too. Bioware?

People were saying it was martial arts Cotor. I mean, based on description, I'm going Jade Empire. Look at this. This game looks fucking awesome. Listen, what if I was to tell you, that's the correct answer. Yeah, okay.

Yeah. I mean, like, you know, you got the brute force sickos like me out there, but I think the correct type, Correct answer is. No, based on everything I've seen and read, Jade Empire, shoot, this might go all the way. Jade Empire looks sick. Holy cow. You can play it at 4K60 right now in the series X is what some chat member just said. I might check it out.

That's crazy. That might be a break game for me. You know what? Let's see the vote. Are you willing to Jada Empire as well? Yeah, I'm going to go Jada. Okay, so we're both going Jada. What are the fans saying, Barrett?

Shout to the boot force. Cool. Jesus. They beat. Okay. We got to get some more. We got to get some more sickos in the chat. Jade Empire with about 90% of the world.

You don't hold that near and dear to your heart like I did? You know what I mean? What happened to all of us brute force fans? Did we lose it? I don't know what Brut Force is. I don't even know. Halo and Gears of War came out. We forgot about Brut Force.

It was a whole thing. Did we ever know about Brut Force? It was a whole thing. It was a whole thing. Man, I'm shocked that I was that out of the loop of Jate. I would have told you that it was a fantasy game or like some of it. Now you know. Wow.

Chat? Well, Xbox has this IP? Like they own this IP? I don't know on that one where it falls. And they don't use it? I don't think anyone uses this. We've moved on. Sometimes we have to let them sleep.

Let me look at it. Your winners for the Xbox side of the bracket are Banjo Cazui and Viva Penaata, along with Fusion Frenzy and Jada Empire. As we move down to the PlayStation section, our first matchup here, Jack and Daxter versus Paraside Eve Okay

This is similar to the last one Where there is a correct answer I had to look at Parasite Eve Tell me about it What do you like about Parasite Eve? What kind of cool? Resident Evil vibes Yeah

Weird like almost insect-looking alien robots That I was watching on the screen It gave me just like Hey this is What if we made like a weird Sci-Fi horror Resident Evil I mean I like that That's what the vibes I got from watching it

Also, it seems that EA is the owner of J. Dumpire. Call up EA. Call up EA. And they're in the Xbox section because it was an exclusive when it came out. And I think, did Microsoft might publish it? It's like when we put Mass Effect 1 on one of the best Xbox games list. Okay. You know what I'll let it slide.

You look at and you go, yeah, yeah, that seems about right. It's like when Mass Effect 2 was on the best place agent list. And we said, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The player takes on the role of Ayahabria, an NYPD rookie. and this is for Paraside Eve, attending an opera at Carnegie Hall with a blind date in New York City on December 24th, 1997. During the opera, everyone in the building spontaneously combusts. Get out of town. Except for Aya, her date, and an actress on stage named Melissa Pierce.

What? Iya confronts Melissa on stage, and Melissa says that Ayah's mitochondria be more time to develop. She flees backstage with Aya giving chase. Backstage, Melissa then mutates into a beast and flees into the sewers, declaring that her name, is now Eve. I'm gonna be real with you. That's kind of wild. It's kind of,

you're telling me that that's not cooler than Jack and Dexter? Imagine they brought this back and Kojima. No, you can't use that argument anymore. Just don't it out there. No.

That is a bullshit argument because we could say that about literally any game on this list. Let's be real. Okay, let's think about it. Yo, think about it. What if they brought back Warrior Land, but Kajima directed.

But think about it. All right, Jack and Daxon directed by Kojima or Paraside Eve. Think about it. Think about it. Think about it. This is pretty lip,

last day. It's a dope right up. It's a dope right up. Everything about Paraside Eve appeals to me. Yeah. Even more than Jack and Daxter, but I'm gonna go, I gotta say Jack and Daxter

because I know what it will do for the streets. The streets will go insane for Jack and Daxter. Listen, sometimes I got a break for the audience. Sometimes I got to look at them and be like, listen, you guys are more of an authority on this than I am. I've not played either of these games. I'm not a jacking-and-daxer sick of that.

You know what? You would love Jack-N-Dak. Then we better fucking leave it up to the audience because I'm going Paraside Eve. Let's see what, let's see what fucking Jack-and-Dexor says. That is going out now. I'm going to give it to look like,

I don't know about that, homie. Paraside-Eve does sound real cool, though. It's just a thing, like, imagine a cool and creative world similar to, like, Ratchin and Clank, and you're this fucking cool guy,

blonde guy, and your best friend turns into this fucking weasel. You have to, like, figure out how to, like turn him back into a human and shit. Oh shit, that's the story premise there. That's, I think that's like how it opens. My counter argument is that Ratchet and Clank exists and is the best 3D platformer of that era.

Out of the three. I would say that the world of Jack and Dexter is much more interesting than the world of Ratchet and Clank. Damn. What about Sly Cooper, though? Because I always look at them as the big three. I mean, they are the big three. And so what? What's the ranking of the big three? It depends on who you ask.

Every kid had a different game. And so if you ask me, I'm going ratchet and then the other two. But like everybody has a different answer to that. Okay. Okay. How's the poll going? Let's find out. Let's find out.

We're going to have a live look at the polls right now here to see who you pick. We've left it up to you. We've left it up to the chat. Wow. Oh, shit. Okay. With 51% of the vote, Parasite Eve,

a hundred and twenty four people vote or 125 people voted by the way 64 of them voted for parasite Eve we let we let the chat vote we let the chat speak on this one all right pariside you're not a lot of complaint after this exactly the chat can't complain because I let them vote I let them vote just so you all know my hands are clean yep I said jack and daxter so none of y'all can get mad at too none of y'all can get mad at me my hands are technically clean too We're pretty much just saying this

So when Janet eventually You know Post said all of us Yes You know Just for like whenever the Reddit posts get made Whenever the YouTube comments get put up Whenever people tweet

Just know that blessing is innocent In all this Because even though my heart says Parasite Eve My mind still said I gotta go to Jack and Nexter But how dope was that write-up A Parasite Eve though

I mean every Here's the thing Every write-up I read A Paraside Eve makes it sound Like the dopest game Of all time Now you put that in Resident Evil Like you just make Resident Evil

Like you just make Resident Evil but it's Parasite Eve Boom I mean that's is Parasite Eve. I know how sick would that be there? Oh, I see. Like a modern one. Oh, yeah. Like, give me Resident Evil Village, but it's Parasite Eve and we just see what it happens. Come on. Let's go wild.

Next up, we got Sly Cooper versus Dark Cloud. I mean, this is an easy one right here. It is Dark Cloud. It is Dark Cloud. Can I see some footage in Dark Cloud? Let's have a conversation. Pull out some footage to Dark Cloud. I mean, Dark Cloud's so good. What is this? It is a PS2, I guess, JRP with, like, dungeon crawling elements

to it and World, and, like, town building elements. to it. So basically, a fucking evil wizard alien man. Like, fucking, takes a village and throws it into a cave. I know I'm butchering the story, but basically this is what it is.

You as like this adventurer, you have to go into these caves that are basically like these roguelite dungeons. They are randomized. There's like a thirst meter on the bottom of the top left there. So you have to like... So much about you. Make so much sense. You're thirsty. It is a randomized dungeon. You go in

and each level has parts of the town that you can find. So you can find, like, people who live in the town. You can find houses. You can find parts of, like, lakes or trees. And as you go into each of these dungeons, you're bringing them back out into the town to then build this town. Wow. So the deeper you get into these dungeons, the more of the town that you can build.

And when you're town building, you can then talk to the different people that live there and be like, hey, what do you want? And one of the guys, he might be a fisher. So he'll be like, hey, put my house next to a lake. And so if you do that, you then get, like, a bonus item from this guy. And then you reveal more of this. stories. It's a game that, I swear to God, would be such a hit in 2024.

Because right now, guess what's in vogue? Fucking town building, survival games of the animal crossing and all that shit. But then also, roglights. Who doesn't love a good rogue light? It's all of that shit. And they did it before. They were so And imagine chat if it was directed by Hideo Kijima. Exactly. They were so ahead of their time with this shit, man.

Can we see a little bit of Sly Cooper? Have you not seen Slye Cooper? No, I don't know Sly. I'm just, you know, I just like see it. I like when Bear puts it up there. I think it's cool. Yeah, I feel, no, I understand that. I mean, the popular vote would say Sly Cooper. Yeah, that's the issues. We're going to take it to the chat. Oh, so you're going to fly.

I think I'm a sly guy. Okay. I'm a sly man. Sly is like kind of, it's a bit more, I don't know if this is the first one, but a bit more linear. You're like heisting and shit. You got like a team of furry friends that you're, you know, it's a fun vibe. It's a fun time.

This is a newer one, I think. Yeah. I'm going to go with Sly. This is the first video. Yeah. Fun platformer stealth game. I love this. I dig it.

I mean, you gave me two. good run downs. I know. I just got to fight for my passion. Yeah, you gotta fight for dark cloud.

I got to fight for my passion, which is dark cloud, but the streets are going to say otherwise and go Sly Cooper. Damn. Are there some dark cloud sickos out there still? I don't know.

Here's the thing. I don't know if I would describe the dark cloud fans as sickos. Okay. But like, I think it's more so like people have nostalgia

for dark cloud. Like I think there are plenty of people that are like, oh man, I fuck with this game back in the day. I wish it would come back. But like, I think sicko implies

that like there was a super deep lore narrative that people to this day are like, oh, this is the greatest thing ever. Like, I don't think anybody's like that. I think we all just liked playing Dark Cloud. Okay. Let's go to the next one. Next one, resistance versus ape escape.

I had to look up Apiscape. I thought that was Super Monkey Ball. Oh, my God. You know what? No, I don't blame you actually. Okay, just so you know, I thought of Super Monkey Ball. I probably thought that up until maybe I was 17 years old as well. Okay.

So I'm not, yeah, I'm not going to follow you on that. So I looked up Ape Escape. He's just running around with the net. I forgot the super chat. Catching monkeys? I want to let me shout out to this super chat real quick from Dear Sixly who says Dark Cloud 1 and 2 are the PS2 Foundation's Soulsborn Refines Do that now and pair that with Haiti-style runs in the randomized dungeons to gather resources

And you have a game of your contender I agree with you dear There's your Dark Cloud fan right there There you is Damn you two should team up make that game So sorry back to Resistance versus Apescape What were you saying Mike? I didn't know what Ape Escape was until I had to look it up People are reminded me that I did play it inside of Astrobot

which was cute don't love it don't love it so all you do is just go running around with a net trying to collect the monkeys yeah the apes yeah really yep that's a cool like I think fun art style

and fun vibe to it does that excite you no no I'm like my vote here would be resistance I think ape escape is like a cool classic game just for what it brought to the table as far as like the dual shock

and like analog sticks and like how it pushed things forward in that way but it's old as fuck, dude. How many did they make of these? What, two? Is there a bunch of them? I don't think there's that many chat. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't think two. But maybe I'm wrong. Okay. I don't know if they made some for like handheld. Khabab says three. Okay. Just running around, collect them. I'm just saying, like, think about the fun vibes.

And if PlayStation brought back fun vibes of ape escape, look, everything is so fucking serious at PlayStation's first party studios right now. So serious. We need another. They just put out. And the Lego Horizon. Yeah, I guess. But afterb is a one, one in fucking, like, 20 of, like, yeah.

They put out Ratchet and a Spider-Man. Yeah, once the next time we're getting a ratchering client. You know, fucking Spider-Man, that man's crying all the time. He's got to fucking fight his best friend. Give me a fun. He's going through, he's having a fun time. Catching some apes, okay? We need a resistance game.

I mean, do we, okay, did I say we need a resistance? I don't know. We don't need a resistance game. More so than an apisket. Oh, yes. Well, here's the thing. I don't think we need either of these. I think both of these franchises can stay dead.

I don't just be real. Listen, they're not making a past-in-part of the bracket. Mike, can I be real on this podcast? Be real? I don't go to fuck about either of these. He doesn't care. No. We don't need either of these.

I just think a resistance in 2024 would probably be just a more fun video game. I'm surprised you didn't go with Killzone. Because Killzone, Shadowfall came out on PS4. So it doesn't count for this. Think back chat to, you know, the, you know, You're running around. You're trying to figure out the puzzle of catching these apes. How many times have we seen this game in the last five fucking years?

Resistance, great co-op franchise. Great for co-op. Co-op shooter. Everybody loves a good co-op shooter. We actually don't really have that as much on PlayStation. You don't have that. You don't have that. That's gone by the wayside.

Yeah. I think there's a market for... Actually, I don't even think of there. I don't even know if there's a market for new resistance. I think there's a better market for a new resistance than the ape's games. Resistance is the right answer. All right. We're both saying resistance.

What do the streets say? What do the audience say? What do the audience say? Yeah, what do the streets say? The streets also said resistance. That's crazy. 67% of them never wanted it. You're sickos.

Bear, what was the last time you played Apescape? The game's not great. I mean, I'm just saying, like, bring back more fun, Sony. I don't need another fucking, dreary IP that's coming out and making us all fucking, exhausted and tired and first-person shooter. Like, that's just not, like, let's just get in me. I mean, to your point, I do agree, like,

if you bring back resistance, don't make it look like another brown PS3 video game. Like, add a bit of color, you know? Maybe not Killzone Shadowfall it. Or maybe you. I don't know. Like. I like that. Yeah, I think add some more brightness to resistance. I'm down. Lastly. Now, here's the big one. Siphon filter versus Socom. Had to look up Siphon filter. Yeah? What do you think?

Don't tease me with a third person over the shoulder James Bond looking game. Come on. Don't fucking tease me. Come on. Shit, bless. Do I need to look up the... There's a moment. Give me the rundown because I don't know what Siphon filter is, but when I looked it up, I was like, damn, is this just James Bond? Hold on, let me see. Let me look up a plot synopsis of Siphon filter, because I also didn't play Siphon filter,

except for a little bit. I think I had a demo on like one of the PlayStation Underground demo discs. Okay. But I never, I never played that much of it. I think it was more so along the lines of like Metal Gear Solid Splinter Cell. It was in that category of video game, but it was a bit more third-person shooter. Barry, can you show me what a PlayStation Underground demo disc looks like?

Did I ever play any of these? Do I? You might, I mean, they made so many of them. They came to the magazine. I'm going to instead give a show Seif and Filter. Oh, okay. I got a lot going on. Yeah, he has a lot of tabs open.

Sorry, I'm trying to find the Seifilter plot synopsis. The Wikipedia isn't doing a good shot. Here we go, Seifilter video game. In 1999, Gabriel Logan and his partner, I don't want to be Gayle Logan. And his partner, Lee Nzing, investigated a series of biological outbreaks triggered by international terrorist group Black Baton, led by Eric Romer. When fellow agent Ellis

loses contact during a mission in Costa Rica, the top secret agency dispatches Gabe and Leon to find him. They discover Ellis is dead, and Romer's suspected drug operation is a cover for the viral operation. Another outbreak in Nepal leads to more questions

when an infected person who should have perished somehow survived. It then goes on for like nine paragraphs. The game is presented in a third person perspective, and the player can freely move in three-dimensional space and rotate the camera in any direction. Yeah, you gotta be able to do it.

You gotta remember. This came out during an early era of PlayStation. It was different times. It's a different time. They had barely invented third-person shooters. This shit's wicked, bro. The core gameplay is focused on action, which involves Logan navigating through levels

whilst shooting enemies. The game takes place in a variety of locations, including narrow interior streets of Washington, D.C., to wide open planes of Kazakhstan. In some stealth-based missions, the game has various puzzles. Some locations feature low-light ambience, which forced the player to use their flashlight

despite its drawbacks imposed during stealth missions. So yeah, very basic. And there were many Siphon filters made. How many Siphon filters? They made a bunch? I believe so, at least three. Hold on. I'm opening up the wiki page.

So you had Siphon filters, one, two, and three. You had Siphon filter Omega Strain. You had Dark Mirror and then you had Logan Shadow. So about six for different platforms. I know some of those were handheld. I'm not going to lie to you Yeah Pretty lit

Seems really cool It looks good too I'm actually surprised It's caught my eye Barrett which one is this That we're looking at here Oh this is Socom Oh I forgot we're talking about Socom

Now you go up against the goat Okay Why hasn't PlayStation brought this back Why are we dancing around Socom What has happened in that corporate office Where we can't bring back Socom You know how we talked about Xbox And like you know

Why aren't you bring back Banjo Why aren't you bringing back Viva Penaata? Where's Fusion Frenzy? Where is jade empire? Even though I guess Xbox is not having any power to bring back K. I. We found that out. Yeah, yeah. I think the problem with PlayStation and Socom is that you have so many other IP that are way higher priority than Socom.

It's like, oh, man, all right. We got to make so com, but also we got to make another god of war. We got to make another last of us. That's true. We got to make another chart. You don't know who's going to make them. But why not find a team? I don't know if Socom's worth it in 2024.

Really? I don't know if the Socom needs. name means anything anymore. I think that's a, I think that's an IP that's of a bygone era. Is that like Ghost Recond? Not like Ghost Recond, like, uh, I'm talking, not Rainbow 6 and not the division, but I'm talking like advanced warfighter, graw, back in the day. I guess, but like, I think Ghost Recon, because Ubisoft has kept it active,

at least the Ghost Recon branding is a bit more relevant than So Kong. Do you think people still, do you think like the young kids, uh-huh, that are playing the Rainbow Six Seed because of the jinxies. Even know that it's tied to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon? Or do you think they just call it siege or Rainbow Six Seed? I think they just call a Rainbow Six siege. But I think because of that, right? Like the Tom Cleans, the thing I have so many questions about because I think Uwesov just

attaches that to anything military and maybe they know that that's going to get them an extra one million copies or something. But, and also, like, I think it's just based on lore and universe and stuff also. but I think if a Rainbow 6 extraction for example I think that's carried a lot by the Rainbow Six name because of siege right I think ghost recon wildlands I think had an audience to it um I think as long as to keep that shit active like I think USOP does a decent job at least maintaining some of those IP names or the last SOCOM was what mid 2000s long time ago long time I don't think like none of these kids know what SOCOM is none of these kids care about SOCOM I think it's kind of boring none of these kids know about siphon filter either. I mean, that's true. That is true. You're right about that. But I think the premise of a SOCOM versus the premise of a siphon filter,

siphon filter, at least, like, I think comes with an interesting premise to it of, oh, yeah, it's spy shit. Especially if you, like, let Ben's Studio make it again, right? Spy shit, action shit, like, story to it. Okay, that's exciting. Socom just sounds like the most militaristic. That's a problem. Yeah, like militaristic and also, all right, what's the game mode that people are getting out of

Socom that is going to hit for people? Probably super intense 6 v6 team death match with permadeath. It's not search and destroy. It's just straight up slow moving 6 v6, maybe 8 v8, larger scale map. It's not call duty running gun. It's very much like we're crouching and slow walking through bushes and we're trying to eliminate the targets. You might make like other game modes like rescue the VIP where there's a team defending a certain person or thing and then you have to infiltrate, take them out and get out type

situations. That's the bones that I would build in this. But it'd be 8V8 and larger style maps. So we really work on that stealthy communication of like, hey, blue team is moving up here. Red team be prepared. It has to be like that. I'm not mad at that pitch because that actually does sound kind of fun. Like I would check that out. My worry, and this is where I come down on Siphon Filter versus SoCalcum, is that I think when you look at what's out there right now, there's so much competition for a SOCOM, right? There are so many games that I think fill in

what that would bring to the table. You got Valorant, you got the latest Counter Strike 2, whatever it's called, right? You got the latest Counter Strike. You have a war zone. You have all these battle rels. You have a Fortnite Counter Strike. You have a Fortnite Counter Strike. But then for a Siphon filter, like, we're then talking about the market of third person

action, stealth, espionage games. And I still think that there's, like, those exist, but I think there's still room for that. Like, I think that would be exciting for a PlayStation First Party to bring back. Because you would give that to bend or you would give that to a first party studio to make and, you know, make feel brand new. I'm going to siphon filter. I'm right down the middle because I could go either way.

I got 100% jump onto the side. I'm like kind of hyped on Siphon Filter right now. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the old school Tomb Raider look to it. The OG like just golden-eyed vibes of the story and stuff. I'm kind of interested. But I will stick to Socom. All right.

So let it up to the people. What do the people say? Oh, they're seeing Siphon filter. Siphon filter wins with 63% of the vote. vote. Can't be mad. Mike, for round one, we got one more bracket left and that is a third party. But

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What, bear? We're doing it for the thrill. We're doing it for the thrill. We're doing it for the thrill. Let's get to possibly the most competitive side of this bracket. This is going to be tough. All right. Third party.

Our first matchup here is Portal versus Red Faction. Shit. It's a heartbreaking one, but it's not a hard one, Mike. It's heartbreaking. But like, it is heartbreaking because we could ride or die for Red Faction, you and I. Yes. It was so much fun. Destructible environments.

I remember taking the RPG and just shooting into the wall and making my own little caves on the side of the multiplayer map. It was so much fun back in the day. Fun doing that. Great story to Red Faction. I think underrated story, especially of that generation. I think it brought a lot of stuff

that I'll even... Not that I'll put it up there with Half-Life, but it gave a lot of Half-Life vibes in terms of like... Going through that first-person shooter campaign was like. Mars as a setting was cool. That was the first game to teach me about worker rebellion. And, like, rising up against...

Worker solidarity. Solidarity. rising up against the man, right? Like, Red Faction taught me a lot of that shit. But as much as I love Red Faction and I'm ride or die for Red Faction. Did you play the last one? Before we switch over to the portal,

which everybody knows. But the last one was like Guerrilla, right? Red Faction Gorilla. There was Gorilla, but there was also Red Faction Armageddon. Oh, Armageddon. Armageddon. Man. Yeah.

See, I'm a Red Faction 1 and 2 guy. The PlayStation greatest hits. I'm a red one in Gorilla. Guerrilla, I like a lot. Yeah. Did you not play Gorilla? No, never, no. Like I said, I've only played the one and two.

Corrilla's sick. Guerrilla's really, really good. Yeah, third person shooter that time around. The destructability was still there, but you're knocking down buildings. And so you get missions where we're basically like tasked with fucking fucking up, like an entire building, like putting up remote minds while taking people out and fighting up against them. That's like 360 era too, right? 360 era. Okay.

Love Red Faction, Gorilla. Never played Armageddon. I heard of them. Carilla and Armageddon with the last two entries. Okay, good to know. Good to know. Maybe I'll try them because I. You like Gorilla.

I have a big soft spot for Red Faction. I love these games. I will say gorilla is a different game. Like, it is, like, the things that gorilla has in common is the destructability and that it's on Mars. Okay. And that you're, I think you are minor as well. But, like, aside from that, it is like a different vibe, right? It's not a third person.

It's third person, open world. Okay. So, like, Red Faction, the original. Open world. Yes. The original was this linear first person, first person shooter campaign. Yeah, guerrilla was third person. You're getting the vehicles.

You're driving around. You're demolishing buildings. Kind of like crackdown. Yeah. You can like drive into buildings, knock them down that way. Gorilla was fucking awesome. Okay. That said, the Ainsis Portal. Yeah, come on.

The correct answer is Portal. The correct answer is Portal. And I told everybody during Games Daily, I played a Portal game in 2024 fan-made. I know I heard that everybody should jump on. You should 100% jump on and play that. I'm going to check it out now that here. It's great. It's fantastic stuff. So Portal moves on.

What are the, I'm curious, what are the percentages? because I know they said portal, 76% lower than I thought. There's more people out there. Yeah, people want to see red fashion. What was the one that was 90%? Was that resistance? The votes that we have?

Chat, what was the one? Because, like, portal being only 76% shocks me. I would have thought that was like 90 at least. Yeah. Moving on to the Jade Empire. Jade Empire ran away. Yeah, versus brute force. Damn, Ruth Force got,

brute force got dominated. That was a tough time. That was, maybe that was number four seed. Maybe I should have seeded that way, Lord. Next up we got NBA Street versus burnout. This is a tough one. I should have put the one. Because I know you ride or die for burnout. This is why, right or die for both of these.

This is the one that like, earlier on when somebody in chat said, I did this whole thing wrong. This is the one that I think it really affects it. Because now they're going to bang into each other on this next round. Yes. Like this would have been the final. Yeah, semi-final. Whatever wins this versus. And now you learn about the two seed and the one seat.

Now you know. That's why. Which I think I knew that. I think I just forgot. I was in a hurry. I didn't have much time to make this breath. A lot going on.

NBA Street versus burnout. These are my two babies. Game breakers. Great, great music playlist. I mean, both have great music playlist. iconic locations. Crash mode and burnout. Stretch.

Oh, crash mode. What was the name of the DJ? Cucumber slice. Well, there was DJ cucumber slice. Which was the NBA Street one. I think burnout had, was it Atomica? Oh, they had a DJ? Yeah, burnout had its own deed.

Did you play Burnout? No. I think I played a little bit of it. Was there a recent one? Well, there was a HD remaster. There was the HD remaster of Burnout Paradise. I think I played a little bit of that. DJ Striker.

I think. Atomica. Chat is going back before. It's all about just banging into things, right? Well, this mode specifically. Crash mode is. It was so fucking fun. Michael.

Mike. Tell me. Burnout 3 would have been your shit. Burnout 3 Paradise. was the name of that, correct? No, burnout three take down. Oh, take down. Burnout three take down

would have been your shit. Really? It gives the exact same... I mean, imagine, you know how fun NBA Street is? It's that but racing, dude. It is like you banging into shit, you make other cars crash and like, the camera will cut to them and you will see the car

like flying off the road and shit. Yeah, yeah. So cool. Super high speed, amazing playlist of music. You have a DJ that's like doing all the same stuff that DJ cucumber slice was doing during NBA Street, right? Like, keeping the energy up. But then you had the crash mode.

which is just caused as much destruction as possible. This hall of meat. And there was like, yes. And there was like probably like a hundred fucking crash levels in this thing. There's so many. There are so many. And I did them all. And you would have like power ups that you would crash into to like blow up your car.

You had the, I think it was called the crash breaker, which is like the last, you press R1 to explode your car one more time to get as much damage as possible. God, it was so good. Burnout three, racing? Was there racing in this? Yeah, racing was like the main mode. Okay. But they also had road rage, which was take out as many other vehicles as possible.

while you're not racing, but while you're going through a track. They had a lot of different modes in this thing. Cool cars? I mean, they had a wide selection of cars. They didn't have any licensed vehicles. And so I think that was maybe a step down. But I don't think anybody would let them license vehicles based on what they were doing in this game.

But I like the cars. They did have different class. They had a lot of cars and different classes of them. How about the areas? Where were you? Because this looks like Colorado Mountains. Yeah. So they had like three regions.

None of them were like based off of real regions, I believe. right like you had like the kind of the west coast I believe this is but then you had like a European part that was like more wintery European and then you had like more of like far east yeah USA Europe and far east is what people are saying okay cool

it's a tough one and then burnout paradise just making all of that but open world like open world and seamless and stuff and you can choose your own route and Burrout Paradise huh that was fun that was good this is a tough one and they had ads for Obama

they did and they had um uh what was the that song girlfriend by opero levin well let's be real really quick uh-huh NBA street had Mario Luigi and Peach they did they let him come in and hoop they did a big deal a big deal really big deal pretty sick okay game breakers I said it again yep that's how important they are yep giving you points minusing other team points really cool you got to you beat a team you would draft one of their best players onto your team it's such a good game. It's so good, Bless. This was when Street basketball was at its highest.

Is it a mistake making this NBA Street as opposed to just Street? Like, could we call Street its own franchise? They made street hoops and it wasn't the same. But I'm talking about like NFL Street, FIFA Street, NBA Street. Because we know that's the same thing. Yeah, but it was the licenses that drove them. No one played the And One game. You remember there was an And One basketball game?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. But like, I would say Ann1 is a different franchise. That's true. Like all the street games were at EA Sports big. Yeah. And like I would say they're part of the same thing. But like if we want to separate it.

What up? Oh, you want to just say we just say street. Yeah, like for this. Oh, okay. Bears fine back. It's got to be NBA Street. All right. Fair enough.

Fair enough. Yeah, we got to pick one. All right. You can't do the whole line. Because now you just have me thinking because I brought up the Mario game play. It's like what we would categorize like all Mario sports games is like one thing. You're right. Yeah, remember when they let us down with that Mario soccer.

They did let us down. They really let us down. Would you say Barry? Yeah, where I was saying, like, baseball, like Mario baseball and Mario soccer, two different things. Both sports, but, you know. Yeah. What are you going with? Uh.

Vote with your heart. Be real. It's fine. This really is my two babies. Like, this really is my two children. Because you know I'm going street. I'm going on straight. I'm going burnout.

Give it to the chat. I'm curious on what chat, because I feel like these are so equivalent. Okay. Like, both of these games, I would say are like of the same, like the exact same level to me. Chad is saying burnout. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Okay. That's tough. That's real then. That's tough. I'm going to put that in my back pocket. I'm going to acknowledge burnout then. Okay.

Burnout Paradise like remastered came out back in when I was at IGN. So it should be easily available for you. Yeah. I think I own it because like I said, I played a little bit of that. I played Pernaut Paradise on like five different consoles, dude. I played it because it was like the first digital or one of the first digital games I bought on PlayStation 3. That was like when I first learned about buying things digitally.

But then like it came out again on. on Xbox 1 and I bought it on Xbox 1. I bought it on PlayStation 4 when they did the remaster. I got it on Switch, dude. I'm playing that game on Switch. He's playing everything. I'm playing Burnop Paradise on everything. Next up. Def Jam versus Left for Dead.

Damn! I know my answer. I know my answer. Let's talk about it though for a second. All right. Let's start with Left for Dead first. Okay. Me and you're on the same wavelength.

Four player Co-op Innovative Hordes of zombies go from point A to point B Survive and live Revive your homies Try not to die

Increase the difficulty Fun little mini story campaigns Of different like you know Posters that you would go for different set pieces Yep 1A to 1B or 1D Whatever you want to call that Made a bunch

It was a moment Change the world because they've made a bunch of them ever since. Back for blood. Back for blood. We've seen. They want to capture that. Zombie army.

Play Left for Dead 2 on Steam. There's still an audience of people out there continuing to play that and keep it alive. Great moments. Shooting your friends or, you know, you'd get into an online match and they would shoot you and you'd get all frustrated and uptight. All right. But now let's talk about the game. That's going to win this. Come on.

Fuck it. Joe Button. Snoop Doggy Dog. Snoop. or whatever the hell he had to play as. I could go down the list of how much Def Jam meant to me. Because that first one

into fight for New York, what a time, bro. Arcady wrestling back again with all of your favorite hip-hop stars and rappers and a weird story. Here's the thing, all right? This is going to be my biggest argument for this. Tell me. What is this bracket

that we're doing? We resurrect one game franchise. We've got to keep in mind, we're resurrecting these franchises. in 2024, what's about to be 2025. Let's be real. And if we're resurrecting left for dead, guess what? We're resurrecting it to die again.

We saw what happened to Back for Blood. We saw how fast that happened. We're just going to put another one of those on the streets to get fucking trampled. Now, if you resurrect Def Jam, guess what? We get all these new rappers in there.

We throw in fucking Kendrick. We throw in J. Cole. We throw in logic just to beat him up. We throw in so many people. Who's the weird non-wrapers-hap? stars that are transcending and coming in. I'm talking chapel row. Oh, punk rock stars. Yeah, like, not Taylor Swift.

She wouldn't fit in this, but like, who are those people where you're like, oh, shit, I didn't even think of them, but they're in it. Ed Sheareran. Shit, Ed? With a guitar? Fuck, yeah. Oh, M.G. Oh, McChun Kelly for sure is in there. Oh, M. G.K.

Yeah, Pulse Malone's in there for sure. Travis is in there. Yeah, Travis is in there. Travis is in there for sure. Which, out of his logic. I actually love logic. I know. I was about to say,

motherfucker. He might have said to come in and you've been listening to him in the morning. Yes. Someone said Timothy Shalameh. Fuck yeah, just do it. Kai Sinat. Oh.

I like that actually. They might put Kai in there. He's that big. Yeah. And like I think we're in the wrestling game resurgence with WW2K. I mean right now is the time. I cannot believe there's not so. There's got to be someone knocking on the door all the time saying how are we not doing this?

Who do I need to call? Who do I need to get in front of? It has to be like. How can I not rally Snoop Dog to go talk to every one of these rappers and saying, let's do this. What's Snoop Dog making right now in that game studio? Who knows? We don't know.

What's him on making? What's he up to? They're making something. They're not making this, though. I hope. I mean, they could be, though. They should be. They should be their number one priority.

Def James's moving on. I'm sorry, Leferred. That's going on. What the streets say? The streets said Leffordead. Leffordead won the fan vote with 56%. That's a quick turn right there. Lastly, we got Sleepy,

Dogs versus SSX. Shit. You put these in here and these are two good ones. Yeah, dude. I really liked sleeping dogs. I mean, the world loves sleeping dogs. I was surprised at how much I loved sleeping dogs.

I was into that game. This is a really tough one. If I'm going based off of my heart, yeah. I'm going to SSX. Okay. But like sleeping dogs is definitely a, I wouldn't be mad if that went through.

SSX I just had more fun with. I had more nostalgia for. I think there's more. Love to get tricky. We don't have this. many SSX style games anymore, right? Like when it was the last time you got an arcade snowboarding game? You don't get those anymore.

Yeah, we got Tony Hawk, though. Yeah, but like, it's not, it's different. Do we though? I know. And, like, it's snowboarding. Like, I think, I think bringing this back would be more fresh in 2024. I agree. Sleeping dogs, like, we got Project Century coming. We get all these.

You got a thousand Yakuza games. We got a thousand yakuza games. We got a thousand games that are action beat them up. We got seafood. We got plenty of them. Yeah. I mean, that's all. Do you have an argument for sleeping dogs?

No, I, don't. I mean, just besides that, I like it so much, and it was a really good game. But I have plenty of those, right? He just filled that kind of like open world GTA-like game that I love playing, right? Like, I always bring up with you how much I loved true crimes or Saints Row, right? Like, I grew up loving GTA. When I got more off-brand games like that, I was like, oh, give me more, you know what I mean? So then you get to a world where we have sleeping dogs and, what's the Ubisoft one, watch dogs and more. It's like, oh, yeah, keep that going. I love that. But then we also, like, missed a couple of times.

And it was like, oh, maybe we don't need these as much. Yeah. SSX is the correct answer. All right. So we're both going SSX? Yeah, hell yeah. The world needs more extreme sports games, and we need more fun over-the-top snowboarding games.

We don't get enough. Y'all didn't show enough love to shredders. If somebody in chat said true crime, if this was SSX versus true crime, what would you say? SSX still, but true crime was great. I love you. Because true crime is basically is sleeping dogs. True crime rocked.

Sleeping Dog started off as a true crime game. You remember true crimes? Streets of L.A. Streets of New York? I played so true crime streets of L.O. Honestly, I'll still go SSX, but for some reason, true crime would make it a bit closer. We should rank the not

GTA likes. Is true crime the number one? Is it over is it over States of him? Next time me and you do a games cast, this is what I'll say. We do a draft. The GTA clone draft. I love that. We can't draft GTA, but every G-GTA clone is on the table.

I honestly go, like, no Rockstar games in general, right? Correct. Oh, yeah, because, like, are we counting, like, Red Dead or something? Is that we're... Red Dead, bully, uh, stuff like that. Okay, yeah, because I'm, in my mind, it is open world city and you maybe do crimes. Yeah. Uh-huh. Like, you drive

around in the city. I like that. I like that. I'm looking at, now I'm looking at the games cast for the rest of the week, and I'm like, is there a way? What are we doing? Here's the thing. Friday right now is a Magic the Gathering review. Ain't no way Greg has played enough magic. He's playing magic. There's no way he's played enough for us.

We're going to play magic after this together. He's going to have a blast. Like, I played enough to review magic. But what if Blessing and Mike did the non-G-T-A GTA flown? We have to be Roger. Oh, for sure. Roger has.

But Roger's busy. He's so busy. He's so busy. He's so busy. He's big time enough. He's working on things. Let's get to it. Next year's going to be big.

So yes, SSX moved on, which brings us around two. Round two. We're going to tear through this because we've already talked about. We've already talked about everything. Now everything kind of snowballs. We've built the snowball. we push it down the hill starting now. Also, SSX won the poll.

Wow. Oh, nice. You know, did you see the percentages? It's 54% to SSX? Is Sleeping Dogs still playable? Yeah. Well, maybe on Xbox. They got an HD, they got a backcompat.

What is Sleeping Dogs? I'm sure it's on Steam, of course, right? There must be a Sleeping Dogs remaster. There's a definitive edition that is Chad is saying. It's like sometimes I forget how long ago Sleeping Dogs was. That was APS 3. It was not recent, that's for sure. Yeah, that was a PS3 Xbox 360 game.

Shout out. All right. We swing back to Nintendo to start round two. Do it. Earthbound versus Nintendo dogs. Earthbound with a bullet, with a bullet. I'm sorry Nintendo's. I really wanted you to win, but that I am, I'm fascinated by Earthbound right now.

Like, Earthbound wins against Nintendo dogs so hard that fucking Keanu Reeves is going to come after me. I'm not going to explain that joke for this. Okay. Okay. All right. Earthbound, congratulations. I was going to need an explanation, but I won't ask.

He's right. Keep it going. Next up we got Kid Akersers, Wariland. Kid I say Warrior Land. What? Yeah. Really? Yeah.

Oh, no, man. I need the kid back, bro. Get the kid out there. Get the kid back. Get the kid back. Man, are you kidding me on that? But think about this, bless. What if Corey Barlogue directed Kid Icarus?

Oh, shit. Oh, you're getting me now. Hold on. Yeah. It's going really fast, so I'm pulling up a straw ball right now. We gotta pull up a pull on this one. Yeah. So why Wario Land over Kid Icris?

I think there is probably, I want, I think it's close, honestly. But I think Wario Land, it just seems like the more fun game to me. When I think about, like, what I want out of a video game from Nintendo, I think a 2D, Wario Land, like, wacky art style, like, you know, rushing through his Mario through these levels. Like, that just sounds a bit more upbeat and fun in a way that I think might appeal to a more sizable amount of the audience than kid Icarus. Kid Icarus to me is a bit more on the niche side of like what you do with that game. Okay, okay, okay.

I can dig. But also I think it's also just the fact that I have more nostalgia for Wario Land than Kid Of course, of course. Because again, I still think of the NES game when I think of Kid Icarus. Yeah, you got to look at that new one though. You got to look at that new one. But like Wario Land, I just remember, I get like, it brings me back to being a kid. Like it brings me back.

I love that. Let's see what the chat and the poll say. Chad is saying Kid Icarus. Because they're thinking about like what if it was Corey Barlow brought his hat. They're thinking about Corey Blah. Made it like a really sad, gritty reboot of Kid Icarus. He has a son now.

Kidichrist is a great pull. I love that. Dad, Icarus. Father Icarus. All right. That's it for the second round of Nintendo. Now we move on to the second round of Xbox. We got Bangeo viva Pignada.

Mike make the right choice. You know what the right choice is here. All right. It's the guy. It's Banger Gizuiz. It should be Viva Penaena. Baja Penaena is just so much fun. Think about all the cool characters you can make.

Think about the world. Think about the things that you can do. Yeah, but think about how Kazui'd be spitting out eggs. And he'd be collecting things. And he'd be collecting things. There's nothing better than a collect-thon platformer. Are they going to make a ban? Be real with them, bless.

We're going to vote on banjo, so we're going to move it on. Is it going to happen? Any banjo? Yeah. It has to, yes. Will it be good? Will it be great? Great.

Not good, great. Yes. Will it be what the Xbox fans want out of a mascot platformer? Yes. I don't know how you fuck that up. Well, there's a game blessing. There's a lot of games. You're right.

You're right. That's called Nuts and Bulls. You're right. But like, there was a game called fucking, what was the play on Banja Cazui? Yucolalei? The original ukulele. Like, ukulele wasn't terrible. Super Lucky's tale.

Yeah, those are good. That's the issue. It's got to be great. I think, well, here's the thing. ukulele you gotta remember that's an indie title right like i think they're working off a smaller budget than what you would get um as xbox developing a banja kizu kizu kuzzi i think you have the examples you have the templates you know that you can't get too cute with it and go nuts and bolts just make another

basic banj kazooie game give it the xbox budget i don't know how you go wrong i really don't know like i i know making video games are hard all right we all know this very difficult i can never i can never make a video game you know i one day i do i would like to make a video game. I think that seems cool. I think it'll be very fun. I'll make a banjo kazooe kazooey game is not rocket science though. Like it's not like I mean it's not at one point literally rocket science. It's not, don't do another nuts and bolts. Well this is one they've already made so many they didn't know what next to do you know. They made too. They made so many. They made banjoizuiz and twoy. It's in the

title. They made two of them and they were like oh what if you made him drive cars? It was the times. It was the times. We just didn't know. Think about tears of the kingdom. Boom. I mean, you're right. That's crazy. But here's the thing, is that Breath of the Wild kind of like set up the success of Tears of the Kingdom. We were prepared to have these crazy mechanics.

What was Banjo? But was Banjo too? He's setting up all this fucking crazy shit. I'm just going to be real with you before we move on. Because I appreciate that we're voting for this. Yeah. But I don't like that we live in a world where banjo's over-conquer. We should live in a world where we're right. like this. You understand

you made this list. You didn't put Concord here. You didn't put Conchre on this list. Because if I didn't put Benjo, people would be tweaking. You could have put both. You put brute force on this bitch. Shout to brute force. Broop forces on the list.

You guys are your fault of the boat. We live in a world where not enough people are loving Concord. I'm not happy about it. This is by your own doing. All right. The crowd agrees. The crowd is also going Banjo. 57%.

Next up. We got Fusion frenzy. versus Jade Empire. Here's the deal, Bless. I think we're going to throw the audience for a loop on this one. Because I think you and I both know the correct answer. Jade Empire.

And we're going to ride with it. It's Jade Empire. Well, hey, I love you. You told me the description of that game. We're into Jade Empire now. Me and Bless are big Jade Empire. No, man, after reading that Steam page, Jade Empire all the way.

Like to the moon. We are rocking Jade Empire right now. All right, we're going to swing back to the PlayStation side and go Paraside Eve versus Slide Cooper. Fuck, here's the problem. Uh-huh. There's a, there's my, there's Mike that knows

that Slash Cooper should win this. But Paraside Eve sounds so fucking cool. It sounds like... We can't do this again. No, there's a repeat. This is a repeat of last time. Here's the issue. I'm in a time loop, man.

It's fucking... It's 2021. Blessing is hosting a show where Parasite Eve is winning a fucking bullshit bracket. It's 2024. That's the... It's happening again.

Parasite Eve sounds cool, though. That's the issue. We as a... We as a... company need to come together and play Parasite Eve, dude. We all got to play Parasite Eve. You know what? Yeah.

We'll make it. We'll figure it out. Please do. Because it sounds cool. It sounds really cool. If you, and this is me, it's somebody who I'm just not a Slike Hooper person.

Never played Slike Hooper. But if you present me with both SlagCupor and Paraside Eve right now, I'm playing Parasite Eve over Slike Cooper. Just based off of what it sounds like. I'll blame Parasite Eve, though. Should we let the chat decide on this one? This is what I'll say.

Yeah. It's Chad's fault that Paraside Eve is in this round. Chad did do this. That is true. We have the out. Now, I'm done with trying to, like, you know, play their games. Because, again, I went Jack and Daxter. You did.

I was trying to throw them a bone because I know what they're up to, right? I'm trying to be like, listen, I know what y'all love. I'm going Jack and Daxter, and y'all squandered it. So guess what? I'm going Paraside Eve because I have no history of Sly Cooper. I don't give a fuck about Sly Cooper. I'm curious about Paraside Eve. Paraside Eve for Mike.

All right, Parasidee moves on. Parasite Eve. I love this. podcast. Here's the issue. Here's the issue. We're to get some of the next one. Who's stopping Parasite Eve?

Who's stopping Parasite Eve? This is going to come down to Parasite Eve versus Jade Empire somehow. We've only decided. I see you guys in Chat getting mad. Remember, you voted for Parasite Eve. This should have been Jack and Daxter versus Like Cooper. We might as well just get to it now. This should have been Jack and Daxter versus Sly Cooper.

This is your fault. Remember that. like that. The next matchup we have is resistance versus siphon filter. I mean, I'll say it. What's up? Ciphon filter. Yeah, Cifon filter. All day. I'm going Cifilter. Sounds cool. Looks cool. Way better than resistance. Also, did we get the audience vote on Parasidi versus like, right now we, we like, we're going real fast. So I have to be

selective of what I'm making my polls for. No, that's fair. That's right. They didn't need it. It was, it was 54% um, Sly Cooper. What? Wow. Very close. Very close though. People are rocking. So 46% of them are on our side. Who do we talk to? That could have been the electoral college if you think about it. Who do we get this game back? Now we swing over to third party. Oh, where things get difficult again.

We got portal versus burnout. You're the burnout guy. Is it over portal, though? No, it's not. All right. It's got to be portal. Yeah, portals are so good. I say this like I'm like, I hate portal.

Portal is like a top 10 video game ever made to me. Who's taking down portal, though? I mean, could be our next matchup. Could it be Jada Empire? Death Jam and SSX. Ooh, Def Jam versus SSX. You know the answer. I don't know the answer.

Oh, I don't know the answer. Really? I don't know the answer. It's 100% Def Jam. I'm going to make a poll. That deserves a revival right now in 2024. SSX or Def Jam? It's 100% Def Jam. I like both these games a lot.

There's too many franchise stars not to be riding or dying for Def Jam. There's too many great songs. Especially like coasting on the slopes, uh, bless. Think about the gameplay I just saw earlier where it was just like, I miss, like, arcadey fucking games like this, man. I think I'm going SSX. I got to go SSX.

Wow, I like that. So, yeah, we're leaving it up to the chat. It's just crazy. The SX gameplay is just so good. It's timeless. I mean, it's fucking Tony Hawk where you're snowboarding downhill. You know, who should be the face of SSX? Zeb Powell.

If you haven't ever seen Zeb on the snowboard, he's a big X-Games guy, big time Red Bull athlete. Go look up Zeb Powell and see all the cool shit that he does. He's him. Okay. He's him. He should be the next face of

If they put out of Def Jam today, who's on the cover? Snoop. Yeah, that's an easy answer. Because it's Kendrick. He's timeless. Who's on actually? I'm looking up the Def Jam page. Because who's actually signed. I think it's just eyeballs.

What do you mean? Oh, wait. Def Jam? No, I'm talking about like the Def Jam, like the real Def Jam. Like who's signed to Def Jam right now. Oh, okay, okay. Here we go. Snoop, Kendrick. Artists.

Two chains. Two chains assigned. Two chains would be great. for it. Benny the Butcher is on damn. Oh, Armani White. I don't know if you know Armani White. I do actually. Yeah. He's great. I've seen a couple of TikToks. Um,

Big Sean is on here. Damn, they got a lot of artists. Doesn't matter. DMX, rest in peace. Um, Wow. SSX beats death jam. Chat. Jabronies. Okay. They got Janaico on here. Oh, shit.

Watch out. I don't want to. Don't put her in the game. nobody nobody put hands on Janaiko all right if I I love Geneiaco so much

I love that it's great music um Bieber Bieber Bieber signed a deaf jam yeah no shit

yeah he signed a deaf jam you get tattooed Bieber too you would have to do like three different Bieber skins for sure you'd give them three yeah you'd have oh G

baby baby baby oh Bieber you would have yeah then you would have Bieber when he started hanging out with rappers um and then, I guess, though, I guess two.

There's Bieber and Kid LaRoy combo. Oh, yeah, I was gonna say, like, say, like, you know, gave his life to Christ, Bieber would probably be a skin. I think those would be the three. Hell yeah. Oh, Rihanna signed. Push a T. Oh, shit.

Pusha. Yeah, make that Def Jam game. All right. That's Jeff Jam. So that was the last one of third party, right, that we just did. So now we're in the quarterfinals. Yeah, quarterfinals. Back to Nintendo.

It's a big deal. Earthbound. versus kid icarus shit i mean it's not it's earthbound it's not a question it would be cool like what is earthbound in 2024 though like what's the story what are you making what's the fun story i mean we know what it we know what it is but like what is the story though i mean i don't know it's something quirky it's something weird that's the tough thing is when you say what is earthbound in 2024 yeah i think there's a lot of different directions like you could give it to an indie developer to make like another undertail style game you can go like uh uh links of

awakening with it and make like these cute little like cheeby type characters with it. I don't see it being like a like a Zelda Breath of the Wild scope type thing at all. No, no, no, you got to keep it small and weird. You got to keep it small and weird. Yeah. So I would either give it to Nintendo first party and go, hey, you saw the art style of Link's Awakening, find something that is inspired in that way and like go that direction and make a classic JRP that has weird vibes that is, you know, following this adventure with these kids and like

They're weird references to American culture mixed in with like weird alien shit. Stranger things. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Kind of like stranger. Stranger things, but like. Goofy and weird. Goofy and weird.

Yeah. More on the lighthearted fun. Either that. But still like making like kind of sucked in the upside down world. Either that or you literally give it to Toby Fox who makes Undertale and go, hey. It's literally just undertale. Just finish Delta Rune right now. Just put it out now and make Earthbound for us.

Okay. Right. Earthbound moves on. Is that your vote? Are you going to Earthbound? I'm going with Earthbound. Yes. Earthbound is the correct answer on that.

All right. Parasidey or Bainjo versus Jade Empire. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The crowd also voted Earthbound for the record with 65% of the votes. Bainjov versus Jade Empire. I think we know the answer.

I mean, we're riding with Jade Empire, ladies and gentlemen, this shit sounds sick, it looks sick, it could be sick. Mike, I got to go with the mind on this one. I have to say Banjo. I got to say I have way more of like an appreciation and like this style.

I play through Banger Gizui. I know how good that game is. It's the closest thing I have to Donkey Kong 64. Like I got to fight for it. Okay. I want to do Bainjo in 2024. But think about like what BioWare made with Jade Empire. What if Amy Henning was a RPG?

And think about, think about a chat. Think about before I give you the straw poll, it being brought back directed by Amy had it. Barry, put the straw pole in. You can't delay the straw. Stroll. Think about a chat. Just think about it.

Yeah, it's got to be banjo. But we're leaving it up to chat. God, Jade Empire does sound cool. Jade Empire sounds wicked cool. It sounds really cool. We got to play this game. We got to play a little bit of it. So, like, on the list right now to play is, what you're going to call it?

Paraside Eve and J. Siphon filter. You can play Sive and Filter. I try to Siphon filter. I'm good. I'm just, think about it, chat. You don't want this more than you want a banjo? You see this?

Like, this is crazy. that's a man that's a big fucking you know what this reminds me on with a fucking electric bat swinging at you you know what this reminds me of and this is a reference for probably two people in chat um the rug rats in pairs and 64 game where you played as chucky chan it's a great game yeah

well you play it as like all of the different characters yeah but no but specifically the chucky chan level is what this reminds me of uh all right what is that straw poll looking like people in chat are like yep The chat votes J-D Empire All right 60% of the votes

I knew they would do that I knew with your heart I knew with your heart Yeah you saw that gameplay They're just like Damn Scott point Read up read the wiki again Of Jada Empire

I'm so Give us the write-up Just give them how dope it's out I'm so mad at chat right now Bejil Kazui is right there Jade Empire If I bring up the steam again Step into the role

Of an aspiring martial arts master And follow the path of the open palm or the closed fist. Already, we're off to a great start. Sick. In this multi-award-winning action RPG, your choices and actions will determine the fate of the entire Jada Empire.

Come on, dude. I'm like, honestly, I know Slow Clap hasn't, like, made an RPG. But, like, if you can maybe expand that team and, like, be like, yo, add some RPG mechanics to this, slow clap can make a fucking sick-ass Jade Empire game, dude. If they can make a fucking... Soccer game?

Yeah, Fifu. They can do anything. then. All right. Next up, we got Paraside Eve versus Seifin Filter. Oh, shit. I'm getting deja vu.

Oh, shit. This is the finals of the PS I love you. And guess what? It's time to write or wrong. Parasite Eve. Parasite Evil or Syphilter. Blessing, I'm just breaking it down. Uh-huh.

James Bond, Tomb Raider, Perfect Dark Vibs, or Parasite Eve. Sci-5 freaky-deeke Resident Evil. I mean, that sounds good. I mean, you woke me up with Syphile. sci-fi freaky deaky resin evil. I've only played part of like the first Siphon filter game.

Yeah. And that game feels old as fuck. I actually didn't really like playing it the last time I tried it out because if you remember when PlayStation Premium came out, that was one of the games that was part of PlayStation Premium. Yeah. Fucked around in it for a little bit. Didn't play that well.

Guess what? We got third person shooters. Parasite Eve. It's Paraside Eve. Paraside Eve. All right? Put me in that theater. Let's see what goes down.

Parasite Eve wins. Next up for third party. we got Portal versus SSX. Again, it's not difficult. Portal. It's Portal. It's Portal. We'll go with Portal. All right.

SSX is fun, though. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, let's not get it twisted. That's fun to play. Oh, dude. I mean, I put SSX over sleeping dogs in death jail. You know where I'm at.

You know where I'm at. Before we move on to the semifinals, let me check with Super Chats to see if anybody's writing anything. B.J. Bernardo says, FI. Bless, you can reorder the Brack in the second round and just make sure the top seed faces the lowest seed in each bracket I'm saying I mean we're already here yeah we're keeping and like I no uh and then the star wars writes in and says my number one game that needs to be resurrected is definitely

eternal darkness sanity's requiem it would work so well with the modern day mechanics uh and then AP says barrett time to join giant bomb they love ape escape I like I don't fucking care about ape escape that much The only reason I'm making arguments for certain games is just to make it, like, fun and interesting and making it a fight, you know? And also just to piss Paris off that banjo got kicked out. Jayden Empire sounds so cool, though, Parr. It sounds interesting, but like, I bet you Paris has played Janda Empire. He probably has.

He probably would be like, yo, it's pretty cool. He was like, I played that when I was 45. He's going to come over here and give me. He's going to put your ad lock for that. And then, um, Langley says, no wipeout less. It's a seminal PlayStation franchise. I was looking at Whiteout. It narrowly missed the list.

There's so many. Yeah. You know what I mean? There's so many franchises. I had to pick eight. All right. Now it's time for the semifinals. Yeah.

Bring them up, Barrett. Oh, also thank you for the vote. Who won the vote there? Parasite Eve won the vote in that versus Seifin filter. Gotcha. All right. Earthbound versus Parasite Eve. Weirdly, similar types of games, if you think about it.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Both are spacey and weird. I mean, my heart says earthbound and my mind says earthbound. So I'm going to say earthbound. Someone brought it up in chat, but Dandadam. Dondadam. Ooh.

Yeah. Earthbound Dondadon. I mean, honestly, I mean, yes and no. Like, different energy for sure. Yeah. But I think if you wanted to make a modern earthbound a bit more like Dond to Don to Don, I think you could. Like both of them have to do with like fucking kids with coming of age.

Coming of age. Yeah, and crazy monsters and stuff like that. And like, essentially is just persona as well. And honestly, well, Don to Don specifically is, like, weird paranormal shit and alien shit. Yeah. Which is also Earthbound. Earthbound is paranormal shit and alien shit. I feel like that could be a fun one.

Yeah, I never thought about that. I could see that. Someone brought that up in chat. Yeah, no, that's a really good analogue. I think Donna don to Don is closer to Earthbound than I actually would have thought about. Okay, okay. Parasite Eve. What I keep coming back to.

Uh-huh. It's just Resident Evil, the latest ones. But now it's Paraside Eve. Yeah. Exact same gameplay. But you tell me this story. So we're doing so much projecting. This is exactly what happened last time.

We were projecting. It is. Don't know what I'm projecting anything. Look at the gameplay. Look at the gameplay. Look at the gameplay of Parasite Eve. Tell me that's not Resident Evil and that's not the progressive Resident Evil in 2024.

I'm convinced nobody's not. You know what it is. I'm going to nobody's ever played. Let me think about like a sequel to Donkey Kong 64, but, you know, it's just Resident Evil. Parasite Eve is legitimately whatever we want it to be. It is. It is.

It's President Evil. And look at the Proxion of the Resident Evil. Bring up gameplay of like, Peri. I want to see what combat looks like in this game. I showed it earlier. Hold on. I think it's like a turn-based J-R-PG. No, it better not be turn-based.

Turn-Base are dropping out. Turn-Base are not. Ain't nothing wrong with turn-base either. I love turn-based. In fact, these days, I might prefer turn-based. Earthbound is turn-based. I mean, yeah, Earthbound is also true. Yeah, for sure.

turn-based. That's Resident Evil. Oh, we just saw the last hit. Remind that a little bit. Let's see what... It's such a long video. I'm sorry. This is the end of the levels, not the end of the fights. I mean, I'm looking at the storage, and I'm like, that does give that Resident Evil vibes. Look at this and tell me that in 2024, this would not progress into Resident Evil. No, it is. I mean, so far, yes. Yes. But, like, we got to see what combat looks like. Maybe they drop kick somebody. or something like that.

Roundhouse kick. What was the last time you threw a good round house kick, bless? Probably when I was like 17, I think. Think about throwing one. I mean, I'll do, like, clear the area. I'll do any fucking combat. God damn it, man. Yeah, because I did Taekwondo when I was growing up.

Oh, that's sick. Yeah, so we were learning how to do the roundhouse kicks and stuff. Here we go. Okay, check it out. I'm back. Check it out. Oh, look at those creatures. Okay, look at it.

Look at it. Look at it now. Look at it now. You got to shoot. Is there a menu we're not seeing? Oh, no, here we go. Okay, so she has like an AOE and then she chooses one and then does the attack and then they move and then boom. Someone brought up it's kind of like fallout vats.

Or someone else was also. Yeah, you see it in the top right there you can see like the recharge of her pause. Like an active time battle. Oh, it is very interesting. That's interesting. Fuck, I actually kind of like this. I'm still going, no matter what I'm going on Earth down. But the more I see Parasite Eve, the one like this game looks like it's fucking sick.

We're going to play Parasite E one day. I'm down to play Parasite. We're going to get people excited right now. Uh, let's go with, um, earthbound. Oh, you're going to Earthbound? Yeah. I was hoping you'd go to a parasite. You want to make the-

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You said, we're going to Earthbound. We're going to Earthbound. I'm going to take my way. Do you know what the chat vote is? What would they vote? What they both? Fucking Parasite.

Of course they did. We got them rallied. We got them out. We got them excited. All right. Jade Empire versus Portal. I'm going Portal. I've already got Portal in 2024.

I played it. Buffy. Okay, cool. Like, what? I can make a fucking Jade Empire mod. We got, we got portal mods. I want an actual fucking portal.

You know, Portal 3. I want to be Shell. I want to be, you know, Glados talking to me, saying means, mean things,

making fun of me and my clothes I wear. Written by that team, which is unmatched. Like, I really like the, the mod stuff that fans have been making

the last couple years as well, Mike, but. Here's a deal. They don't, they don't live up to the, I'm making Jade Empire. And your mentor?

Uh-huh. Jackie Chan. Okay, we, no, no, no, no, no, we're projecting it. And think about it. You can't just make shit up. Think about a chat. Just like, you know, directed by.

Jackie Chan. Amy Hennick. Okay. Like, I can't just go, I can't look at Portal and be like, all right, I'm going to make Portal, but it gets all 10 out of 10s. No 9 out of 10s. All 10 out of 10s from every outlet, 100 Metacritic. Like, that's not how this works.

I can't make shit up. I'm just letting you know when J. Empire would be in 2024. Jackie Chan is involved. Jackie's involved. That will be sick, though. That would be fucking sick if they did that. Oh, man.

We gotta have fun with it. And then Earthbound, starring Timothy Shalameh. Whoa. Think about it. That sounds terrible. No, Finn Moore.

I love the idea if it has, no, nobody's starring in it because it's gonna have a cheevy art style. It's gonna be cute little, like, fucking pixel art guys. It's gonna be pixel art of Timothy Shalame. Well,

I was thinking everybody was pixel art except for Timothy Shalame. Timothy Shalame is a fully model 3D character, but everything else is pixel. We have to leave it up to the chat. We have to leave it up to the chat. All right. You want to know what chat votes?

Yeah, give it to me. Fuck. They believe. See, we should have just done Parasitey versus Jada Empire. 57% of the chat voted for Jada Empire. You guys aren't seeing Jesus

when I'm just, I'm going to tell you right now. If you're one of the people voting in this fucking poll, you're not seeing it. Like, this is egregious. Yeah. Well, here's the issue,

Bless. We can't post this. I'm just letting you know, Blas. Yeah, we can't. I'm just letting you know, I don't really care for turn base, so I'm going Jade Empire. Right now, the finals now is Earthbound versus Jade Empire. I'm going to check for the Super Chats real quick to see if anybody's saying anything.

No, okay. You're going Jade Empire. I'm going Earthbound. Yep, we have to. We have to. Let's be real here. Both these games sound fucking sick. Well, Earthbound is sick regardless.

I find I played Earth. Okay, well, let's do this. Bear it before you put up the poll. It's already in there. Okay. We give them our pitches. Okay. But what we would create the sequels to these games, the reverse.

survival smooth games would be. I mean, you've already heard mine, right? It is... Sell to them again. I mean, there's two different examples. Right? It's either you look at the range of talented indie developers that you see that have taken inspiration from Earthbound and have created those kind of games, games like Undertale, right?

And likes of that. And you give it to those developers who love Earthbound and tell them, hey, make this, make it true to what Earthbound is, make mother for, you know, make it pixel art, give it a personality, give it a cool soundtrack, all this stuff. Or you look at Nintendo's internal teams and go, all right, We're going to put some budget behind this. We want to make a top-down game. JRP that is of the art style that has an inspiration behind it, kind of like Link's Awakening, right? Something that is like modeled and all this stuff,

but make it cute, make it charming because when you think of Earthbound, you think of the cuteness, you think of the charmingness. And maybe, yeah, you sprinkle in some Don to Don to Don energy in there. Because Don to Don to Don and think is a great example of what a modern Earthbound looks like in terms of what they're tackling with the subject matter. Mix the paranormal with the intergalactic. Make it fucking dope. That's my pitch.

Love that, Bless. I'm making an open world game, just like sleeping dogs. You're a young street kid. Jackie Chan is your mentor. And of course, as you go, the finale is Bloodsport. But before we get to that, you have to go through a couple of karate challenges, like the Sa Tai Chi Kai Kai. And what now would you call it?

The Saetai Tai Chi. It's almost there. Almost there. And then, on top of that, Blas, right? There's going to be some weird shit. So it's going to be like yakuza moments throughout the open world, right? You'll get transported to some crazy shit where you're fighting a giant demon and stuff like that.

But then you come back to Earth and you're preparing for the blood sports. Okay? Customizable character. Different clothes you can buy so you can make sure you show up and style to all of your fighting events. You're, that's not the same game. You just invented a new game. Here's how to end the pitch, Mike, directed by Amy Heading.

Yep. Put your votes in. You just directed. You just pitched an entirely different game. Jade Empire. What do the votes look like? Jesus fucking Christ. All right.

Jet Empire wins. What was the percentages? Sorry I missed that. It looked like 60 something. It was 66% Jade Empire. Fucking blew the doors off of that game. Ladies and gentlemen, we have our champion for, I did not see this going this way. Wow.

I could not have predicted this fucking bracket. Yep, yep. In the Reap Resurrection, we resurrect one game franchise, one game IP bracket, your champion. Somehow is Jade Empire. someone in the chat made a great case of just like if you want more earth down just play under two I mean you're not wrong yeah yeah yeah yeah right congratulations to the empire EA you'll find your trophy in the mail yeah figure it out make it happen Mike this has been wonderful doing with you bless so much fun very fun we're a great afternoon just talking games talking smack

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