Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Soul Calibur VI Impressions - Kinda Funny Gamescast Ep. 192

Episode Date: October 22, 2018

Patreon supporter Mikey Phillips joins us to discuss Soul Calibur 6, Kingdom Hearts, Super Mario Party, and more. (Released first to http://www.Patreon.com/KindaFunnyGames Supporters on 10.19.18) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As welcome to the first ever episode 192. Better band than the Beatles. Oh my gosh. Just go away. So much. I'm the kind of pretty games cast. I'm Tim Gettys.

Join by one of the coolest dudes and video games. Greg Miller. Not anymore. Rap, everybody. With the Giant Bomb shirt, there's just a lot going on.

Yeah. We never talk about the Giant Bomb shirt that often. I don't feel like. I wear it. And of course, kind of funny best friends you understand. I just like Giant Bomb.

Big fan of the boys. You know what I mean? When I went to Judges Week. Yeah. Pre Pre-E3 Judges Week. and I went to all the different press events, there was one day where I wore the giant bomb shirt. And if you want to see video game PR brains break,

it's Greg Miller walking up and be like, oh, hey, and then me like, do you work at Giant Bob? Oh, dude. And I'm like, no, I just like Giant Bomb. It's what we do. In the YouTube space where I come from now, influencers were supportive of each other. Yeah, exactly.

That's hilarious. I was with Jeff Gersman all day. Didn't even reference that I was wearing a giant bomb shirt. Love it. He's a good guy. That's even cooler. Jared Petty is also joining us. My first time with you since my trip to Japan, we will talk about that in a second.

Dookie, dokey. There you go. It's finally appropriate. And joining us for the first time, Patreon supporter, Mikey. Hi. Yay. Do you have Twitter? Do you have something?

What's your Twitter? Kevin put it here kind of probably. Say it out loud. Okay. My Twitter is at Keylock MVP. The Keylock has an E at the end of it. Oh, okay. Because someone out there has.

Key Lock. Yeah, obviously. It has what is. You got lock, like lock and key the comic book, that's cool. Yeah,

and then MVP, which are my initials. So it looks out. Your fucking initials are MVP. When you get married, you get this like nice little thing where you get to change your name. And so I took.

You locked out there. That's a good. We met someone today whose last name is fail. Yeah. That sucks. Yeah. That was a bad one.

But yeah, they also catch me on Twitch sometimes at twitch. At twitch. slash key lock same way k-e-e-y-y-l-c-c-e okay so yeah well thank you very much for for joining us thank you for having me this is like super awesome there needs to be more in any an explanation this is a great story because if you didn't know of course you can go to patreon dot com slash kind of funny games you can give us your hard-earned cash get to come on this show

have fun talk to jared mainly just talk to jared i won't acknowledge your presence for a long yeah but i'll talk you ever know i'm kidding he's great mikey and i're friends now but mikey you got brought out here for your 30th birthday Sorry, I'm saying your age on the show. 30th birthday. Yeah. But then it wasn't until this morning that your husband revealed you were coming on the show. I had no idea I was going to be on the show until this morning.

And then I had my nervous breakdown and walking back and forth throughout the room like, holy crap, what did you do? So three years ago, three years ago, you two came, you're from Dallas, Texas. We're from Dallas, Texas. You came here to San Francisco. And you proposed to him. Yes, I did. I proposed to him. It was his 30th birth, it was his early 30th birthday present to take him in San Francisco.

and I took him here and we had a whole bunch of friends and I had the ring plan and all that kind of stuff and yeah I proposed him out at the Golden Gate Park in the Japanese tea gardens. Oh, very nice. Yeah, cool place. And yeah, and then we got married like a year and a half later and he surprised me today on my early 30th birthday

basically with this and I love you. Like you're just the best. That is amazing. I love love everything about this. This is fantastic. So I give you so much credit. for that. Because so many,

when we were talking about at lunch, right? You're like, how many people have actually paid to come on? I'm like, oh man,

dozens of people. But then it was the thing of like, well, yeah, they usually come to be on Gogg. Yeah. It's because Gogg's an easier

show to slide into. Hey, here's a run. I'm going to talk about farts or I'm going to talk about. Whatever the hell you want to talk about. My time next week, Greg.

Farts. No, angels. Angels farting. That is the next topic. I love it. But yeah, games cast you come in. Usually,

I've been planning all set for I'm ready. I've been psyching myself up to do it. You just got this all dropped on you this morning. Yeah, but luckily, I, I love games. I love games. I play games. I love talking about games. To me, this is like me just sitting at home yelling at y'all anyway. Sure. Awesome.

What do you yell about? I'm curious. Sure. I forgot my sharpie for mobile game or bullshel. Go for it, man. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Kind of Funny Games cast each every week right here on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. We get together, talk about video games, all the things that we love. about them. You can get the show early by going to

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It's a great time for everybody. If you get the video early, you get the pre and post show. You watch the pre and post show. We did a nice 24 and something minutes of this pre-show. was a good one. Yeah, I highly recommend it. Twilight Princess conversation.

Anytime I can get Jared Petty, shake his head and disgust at me, I know I've done it. And Greg definitely did that multiple times. We got a great mobile gamer bullshit coming for you later today. But that's like the end of this episode. How great is it,

you might ask? So great, I'm using Benjamin Franklin's sized paper. Oh, I'm going to address my member. Thomas Jefferson coming here. Should we abolish slavery? No, okay.

Not. Oh, I was Ben Franklin and talking to Thomas Jefferson. That was the reference. That was the reference. Because they, all men are create equal, except,

you know what I mean? That was rude. That was kind of horrible. Too far. So it's, it's seven questions today. Seven. Seven,

and there's no overlap. Okay. I love when you tease at the front of ZAM. Oh, man. He makes sense. I was saying we should. I just knew you're going to make me on this. To make it clear,

Greg Miller, what's your stance on slavery? Slavery is bad. All right. I was very much, I understand. This was a dress rehearsal. I had a,

been provided my powdered wig yet. You know what I mean? That's what. Clearly I was in the moment with my paper like the Founding Fathers did. We're very contradictory when it came to all men are creative goal. I'll stay. Yeah. Jared, it makes sense to you. Jared, do you ever worry about your career when you come on here?

Yes. Every single time. I went to Japan. No way. I went to Japan for the first time ever. It was fantastic. Had an amazing time. One of the highlights of my visit there was doing a fun meet and with a whole bunch of best friends out there.

Thank you very much for showing up to that. I was a little worried. It was just going to be me and Gia hanging out, which would have been fine, but you know what I mean. You've seen enough for her. I've seen enough. You got quite a group. But, yeah, quite a great group.

We ended up going to Super Potato. Oh, not as a group. That would have been a little too much. That was the original plan. I was like, we're going to do Mean Greet's going to be a couple people. We're going to go to Super Potato. There was way too many people. I did.

Really, really focused on verticality. Yep. And there's not much room to move around. Well, I mean, when you're in an island, yeah, there's nowhere else to go but up. Then they go up. They go up. Because Japanese mountains just kind of go like this. Like, it's just like, I'm on flatland.

No, I'm not. And so you've got to build like that. But I'd love to know your impression is a super potato. So Super Potato is essentially, correct me if I'm wrong on this, it is the game stop of retro video game stores in Japan. It's not the one that everyone's like, oh, this is the place to go to. It's definitely the one that's the most mainstream. cool, like, everybody knows it. See, I was, before you correct, before you correct this,

really? Really? Oh, wow. Yeah, okay. So not even then, not GameStop, because GameStop makes it sound like there's a million of them, unless I'm wrong, and there is a million of them. I would think GameStop in the way of popularity, it's the tourist place, it's the mainstream. Yes, okay. Yes. But I was like, I don't really, because a lot of people are like, I love Super Potato. They're like, don't go to Super Potato. It's way too mainstream and like their prices are too high,

and they don't have that much like rare shit. But I'm like, I'm not going for the rare shit. I'm going for some very specific things because I had to tell myself, if I'm going here, I can't overdo it. If I'm buying retro games, I need to have a plan, have a goal, go for those and don't get anything else. That's what Super Potato thrives on. You are their ideal customer.

They are the statue of liberty of, of game store. That's better. That's not as insulting. You've just got to go there. It's an amazing store. It's a really neat place. It's the one of Ribbonneau. But it is a chain. There are multiples.

But like not GameStop levels. No, no, there's only few of them. And it's the one everybody's heard of and they've built around that. And it's a very cool place. But yeah, you get better prices of other places. You can find stuff other places. But it's the place to go nonetheless. That's awesome.

It's like five floors. And as you go up, it starts off with like NES and you keep going up and it like moves all the way to PlayStation 2, which was I was a little hurt by because I'm just like, fuck, that's retro now. That's an issue. I'm old. We're old. Can we not discuss, oh gosh.

Yeah, it was hard. But going in, I told Greg this. I'm like, I'm buying a couple games. I'm limiting to that. I want Smash Brothers on N64 because it has an amazing box art in Japan. I want Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo because it's the first game I ever beat. And I want Pokemon Green because it was only available in Japan. And I'm like, that's a cool thing.

You know, I want that. Found all three, got all three. Awesome. Very excited about it. It was super cool just being in the place and trying to find everything because it's, Even if it's alphabetized because it's all Japanese and weird, things are all over the place. So it was kind of like a scavenger hunt to find everything. So I had a great time doing all that.

They had like random TVs just playing like Japanese crash bandicoot commercials on loop. I felt very at home. I have a few questions about this for you. If you don't mind me asking. First off, is the N64 in the back still playing Banjo Kizu. Yes, it is. Okay. Yes, it is.

So I first stumbled onto this. I think it may have been the Retronauts podcast. They talked about this. but before I ever went to Super Potato they were talking about how that Banjo Cazui copy is always turned on in the back. Every time I've gone to Super Potato it's been on and every time I've talked to

somebody since it's been on. It appears that same Banjo Cazooie cartridge is still running on that same N65. That was there there was a Metal Gear Solid on somewhere there was Smash Brothers Melee on a CRT which I haven't seen in decades of this year. It had a very like it hit me

harder than I expected it to where I was like oh my God that's how I grew up playing that This is really weird. But yeah, it was super cool seeing everything. And then I looked over and I saw Prince of Persia Sands of Time on PS2. And it was the Japanese version. So good. And the box art was beautiful.

And it was like, it's like an anime-esque version of Prince and Farah. Oh, man. This is the coolest thing ever. I'm like, I looked at Gia. I'm like, I know I said I was only getting three. You got to get it. But PS2 doesn't count as retro. I refuse to believe it.

So I'm getting this. Did she care? Did you need to justify this to her? She was kind of like, well, her whole thing, she's like, where's this going in the house? And I'm like, it's going to go in a drawer. Don't worry. Like, this is more for me than it is for anything else. Like, it's fine.

She's just pulled it out like, go out and the one ring. Get whatever you need. Then I looked over and I saw Final Fantasy 10-2 Final Mission International Mix or whatever the fuck. Okay. And that is one of the first games that I remember growing up reading like Game Fax forums on and being like, damn it. Like the Japanese version has all this extra shit

that we didn't get. I'm so jealous. I want it so bad. And so kind of like being able to look at it. I'm like, oh my God, this is the game

that I like would spend hours just like reading about trying to get any information on. So I had to get that. It was also like $3. So that helped. And then I also bought

on a VC 10 because we're not. You know what I mean? If you're going to buy 102, by 10. I mean, if you're by 102 by 10. Did we get home and they always run

straight into a drawer? Right. Like on your desk. Right now. Right now there's still or else I'm going to be in a lot of trouble. I love the idea that J.J.S. comes home and like you're sitting there like Golem, just pulling it out of the drawer like, my precious.

Dude, I mean, they're beautiful. Every morning I woke up because they're still on my desk. I look at them all. And I'm just like, these are so fucking. It's weird, right? Is it not weird that we do that to ourselves? I'm like over there I have, you know, my box, W. No Mercy and 64 cards, right?

And I have a whole bunch of other. Like what? The Spider-Man Japanese Genesis I bought in Japan at Super Potato years ago and random other games over there. But things that like matter so much to us that are such a piece of nostalgia in our history that we buy them and then you get them and you're like what do I do with exactly? They're like stained glass

windows. They remind us a profound truth. Yeah, I mean, I can't. I mean I have my copies of like Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts 2, Kingdom Hearts 2, Final Mix Plus. I'm sorry, I'm doing that thing where I'm... I'm bringing it down a little bit lower. I'm going too much your beautiful face. Oh, you're too kind. But yeah, no, I do the same thing with like all my old

PS2 games that I've kept like, you know, and it's just nice to see them all. Even my PS3 games now. Yeah. Like it's weird to, God, it's weird to think like PS3 now we have to like look back on and be like, oh, Lord. Remember that?

For me, it's so weird. I forget sometimes that I have PlayStation 4 games in cases. You know, Lucy moved in. So I like was clearing stuff out of the room. I opened a drawer and it was all these PS3, PS4 games.

Like, all right. Like, that was a thing. That was a thing. Having physical media. And then I hit a watch. I went,

and I just beamed away. Well, like, you just think for you. not retro, fuck you thing. Then I start going through and I'm like, what are the other games I need to get? Oh no.

Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. I need it. I have to. Sold out. Yeah, of course. Every version of it. They're all getting ready for Kingdom Hearts 3. Even though there's like 50,

even though we've released in like 50 a time, like we're on the third release of like all three of them bubbled together. The PS2 games were all sold out. Even final mixes and all that stuff. Oh really? All of them. But here's my thing. Or not honestly.

Kingdom Hearts, American box art. It's better. Yeah. That's a rare thing in video games. But like Kingdom March 1 and 2 are amazing box arts here. Yeah, they are better than their final mix counterparts, I will say. The box arts on them. And Kingdom March 3 box art.

I'm here for it, man. Super Potato is it. Is it your lock screen? Of course it's my lock screen. Super Potato and Japanese retro stores in general have faced a problem with this in that, with more tourists coming through and having heard of the place, the Statue of Liberty Syndrome is they get bought out a lot. And they're very good about restocking, but the problem is that eBay sellers, sellers have begun hoarding a lot of the more popular games, things like Kingdom Hearts,

etc. That they know they can sell against an audience for a markup. And it's harder and harder for the retro stores to get their hands on the stuff they know their customers are going to want. It's actually been a real problem in Japan for these establishments. I have been looking for a Japanese copy of the GameCube version of Soul Calibur 2 for so long. It is like really hard to find for me right now. And it's because of that reason pretty much.

Yeah. When I lived there, most of what I had to do was just go to small towns and dig through like bookstores. It's pretty much. Oh, sure. What can you do? Is it not easy to do when you're... Are there any Japanese games that you want to get your hands on?

No, but it's the same thing. I didn't want Spider-Man on Genesis until I was there. And I was like, wow, this is such a big deal for me. I need to pick it up. And I forget why I didn't pick up Metal Gear there. I just made it the cover of it. My thing was I was going to get it because it was another one of those ones. I'm like, well, I'm here and I'm looking at 10 different copies of it.

But my problem was I didn't know which one was the right one to get. Yeah. Because one of them had a really cool box art, but I'm like, this feels like the greatest hits version, and I'll be fucking damned if I buy the greatest hits. What if you found the Patapon Japanese version, what would you? If it was awesome, sure. But it's the same thing as if it was awesome.

But then again, even then I would have that moment of trying to talk myself out of it. Because it is, I think about it, like, you know, all the cool shit I've bought and gotten. I'm so stoked about. And then it ends up on a shelf that I never see or think about in that way. Well, that's the other bet I want to ask you about Antim. And really, you too, Mikey. When I collected, none I don't really anymore.

But when I did, it was mostly to play. I didn't collect a lot of boxes. I collected stuff that I could get to work on hardware I had, and then I would play it. Are there any games that were Japan exclusive or near Japan exclusive that you've been interested in mine just to play? I mean, are you going to break the little tabs off the bottom of Yoshu's Island so you can play it on your SNES? Probably not. There are some fighting games that are released in Japan that I would actually like to play the Japanese version of that didn't maybe come to the States or didn't get updates that the States didn't get. Think of like

Melty Blood type stuff? Yeah, like Melty Blood or, you know, the Soul Calibur 3. There was a, Soul Calibur 3 came to PS2, but they fixed some stuff with a rendition of it.

So yeah. Cool. Anything for you, Craig? I'm looking back. There's one, the only game I've ever really imported was,

and it wasn't a FirePro, but it was a N64 Japanese wrestling game where I had to get the adapter for the N64 to put the card on the thing because I, and this is an old story

for me of, I had my whole, EGM collection and I had remembered reading a piece about how to modify your N64 to run Japanese games and went through the went through you know every EGM forward and then every EGM back trying to find it and couldn't and finally had to email them and they were like oh it's turns out it's this issue which was the issue before my my collection started so to figure out like I would oh there I think yeah virtual pro wrestling I can tell by the box art that's the one I went and got right and it was like I remember getting that and thinking it was look oh maybe it wasn't actually no I'm looking at that

that's not it uh it was the coolest thing Damn, hold on a second. Are you going to play Pokemon Green? Or are you going to, I mean, did you buy a sealed copy? Like, did you buy a box copy? It's box, not C-I-B, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it'll work in your game boy.

They're not region-locked. You could. I mean, the infamous Tim Getty's story is I accidentally bought an imported copy of Pokemon gold, and I beat that in third grade when I could hardly read English and fucking beat Japanese. I don't know. Maybe I have to do that, man. Maybe I'm a genius.

It looks like it was New Japan Pro Wrestling. Okay. Tocong Road's Brave Spirits was the one I imported with and then printed off from the high school library printer this giant book of translations on how to play because I remember

people being like this is the best wrestling game ever made you know you can green mist with this one game as a reversal I'm like I fucking need this Wow I need this so like importing like you know

that was the time of like it was like one of my first major internet purchases where I was like you know watching it and waiting for the cards and everything else to figure out where they were and then finally getting them and then this weird

learning curve of sitting there not being able to read anything, not knowing what buttons did what? Yeah, that was cool. God, that's so awesome. But again, it'd be like, oh, that's a cool thing to have on my shelf and think about once. The other one that I just saw from the peanut gallery, Mother 3. Oh, yeah. Just so we could actually, like, play it

for once. Yeah. Did you import it? Have you done it? I've never played Mother 3. It's all my, like, shameless of things I haven't done as a gamer. Oh, that's not shame at all. I feel like it is. It's a game to get your hands on. It's true, but, you know. I've heard that. that there are tremendous English translation patches out there.

Just heard a rumor. You heard about that somewhere? Rumors? Like all the other rumors of there? Did you go to the arcade upstairs at all? I did. Yeah, played a little bit of a Mario Card Arcade

just because that's such a good time. Always. But yeah, I looked for a couple games. Kingdom Hearts wasn't there. I looked for amplitude. And maybe that game didn't even come out in Japan. I don't know. It wasn't there.

Oh, that's sad. And I looked for, there was a Transformers Generation 1 game. that was only released in Japan on PS2. Really? And I remember wanting it so bad that that was the reason I modded my PS2 and bought a bootleg copy in Chinatown.

Yeah, you did. It was that and Metal Gear, not Metal Slug 3, because that was also not released on PlayStation 2. And Cool Greg's yellow Spider-Man shirt. Have you heard about that? No. Cool Greg growing up had this fucking shirt

that he bought at Pure 39 that was a total, like, Chinese, knockoff Spider-Man shirt. It was a Hawaiian shirt that was like bright blue with a neon yellow Spider-Man. Okay. Multiple or just one? One giant one on it. When you buttoned it up, it had Spider-Man's face on it?

Yes. Okay. Yeah. And he would wear that big like multiple times a week. And recently we saw somebody that had like, it wasn't the same shirt, but it was very similar with a neon yellow Spider-Man. That's awesome. Greg and I were talking about this few weeks ago and he's like, he's like, Tim always made fun of me for Yellow Spider-Man, but I think Yellow Spider-Man's the best. Maybe he'll get a DLC suit one.

Yeah, exactly. Insomniax final piece of DLC, you'll have that in clear. Do you collect video games? I do, but someone likes to limit my resources. Looks off camera to the husband. I do collect video games, but at the same time, like, I have to be aware of my space. I also have a way too many freaking figmas and figure arts and all it. They're so much better than, yeah, they're good.

They're just really good. And yeah, I just have, I have so much stuff. But now that I have a house, I have places to put them, but now I'm like, oh, do I want to put these out, like, in certain places? So I don't know. It's, I'm happy with the collection I have. I'm sad younger me was forced to, like, sell to upgrade. Pretty much because I miss my,

If I could get my GameCube with my Game Boy Advance player and that disc back, I would be in heaven. Because GBA was such a time for me. Sure. Like, oh, my Lord. Well, something to think about with that. Have you looked at a Retron 5? A Retron 5? No, I have not.

Yeah. So, Retron 5, it's a Hyperkin thing, but it has a GBA port. And it handles the regulation really well. If you're telling me I can play chain of memories again and not be rechained in memories, I am so happy right now. It's just got a... James Burke has your hookup. Yeah. I just got an H-TMI out and Red TROL is awesome.

NES and S-NES and Genesis controllers. Okay. And it'll read GBA cards as well as like nine or ten other consoles. Oh, okay. So, oh, that sounds good. I might have to look at that. The controller that comes with it sucks. Okay.

But you can plug in your... So does it have shoulder, the SNS had shoulder buttons, correct? Yes. Oh, no, you'll take a real SNS controller. Okay, it'll take a real SNS controller? Yeah, you can get one, plug it right in. Awesome. Great.

Yeah, the one collector thing that I haven't started yet. But at some one, what do you want? I have to do this. This is a Tim Getty's like before I die. Crash Bandicoot suit from the commercials. Oh, God. Oh, God. Yeah, no, I don't think that's ever going to be.

That'd be a dream country for too. I think Timmyth is smart. I want a full collection of EGM and Nintendo Power. Oh, wow. Just those two. And every once in a while I go on eBay and I start looking and they have like a lot of 20 and it's like a bunch of them in whatever condition here and there. But it's like it seems like an investment.

And shipping's a bitch because it's super expensive. because they're heavy ass magazine. I still have my EGMs of all Kingdom Hearts 2 covers. That they release all like four of them. I still have those stuff. I have so much crap in my dad's attic. You know, my genesis or my, yeah, my genesis, every game,

but I mean, master system in particular, all the games, not the console. I forget if I sold that or whatever. But I do super regret getting rid of my EGMs. Because I do remember at one point when your parents like clean up the room and it's like I had them all up in a bookcase,

but I needed a bookcase space. And I'm like, I never look at these anymore. And now you're like, fucking be. And granted, I'd want them for one more a day. Yeah. How great would it be? Like, for, hey, every game cast, we bring in an EGM

and flip through it. Yeah, Damon does that sometimes. Well, fuck Damon, all right? It was my idea. I just brought it up. It turns out he time travel and stole it from me for games to do. And now he's got a lawsuit on his hands. He's got facts. Those are all facts. Yeah. But no, you're talking about the Nintendo Power Collection stuff is especially difficult

because people didn't save them. You threw magazines away when you were done with them or your parents threw them away if you wanted to keep them. Or you cut them up, yeah. And that's the thing. Put the ads on the wall. I was that kid. Yeah, it's the posters and the scratch and sniff cards and all that weird stuff is always torn out of them. It's good, though, if you can like, if you, uh, what I used to work for Blockbuster, I would take home the standies. And I would also have those.

And I had a crap ton of standies at one time. It was really insane. I had to get rid of the SU. Yeah, my in-law still have a giant Twilight Princess standing in their basement. I had the Devil McCry 3-1. I had the Kingdom Hearts 2 one. I had a bunch of them. Like, I can't remember them all off.

I got rid of so many over the years. Yeah, when I first moved, I had to throw away all of my, like, video game magazines. And it sucks. But I was like, I got it. So I only kept maybe 50 of them out of the hundreds that I had. So I still, my brother's house, I still have like my 50 that I can't throw these. The one I kept was. The PS2 launched one.

Exactly. The sexy blue cover. And it felt good. You know what I mean? There was like one year that EGM had these like really nice, like, Matt covers. Oh my God. I love them so much. in a show called recollection or like recollection

about like one thing at a time. One thing at a time buying it, playing it all the way through, sharing it with the, like doing it live. I think it'd be a fun thing, but I don't know if I'm not people be interested in something like that. No, there's something there, but like when I most seriously looked into this, maybe

a year ago for EGM specifically, I found there was a website. Don't remember the name of it, but it's very easy to find if you Google some things that has full collections of scans of any video game magazine you could ever want that you can just download as PDFs.

Oh, wow. There are a lot of places that do that. And I just downloaded a ton of them and I was just like, I had that experience of just going back and like reading reviews of old games and just being shocked at like the opinions and stuff. And it's,

it made me realize I'm like, do I really need all of these or like it's just having them digitally enough? Reading old magazines is very valuable. Reading old books is very valuable. It's a way to travel through time because you get in the heads of people at that. Remember when Winwaker sucked?

Oh, yeah. That's crazy, right? Yeah. My first EGM that I was subscribed to, Bomb 67. Did media at the time not like Winwaker? I know the audience reaction had a problem. A lot of people did not like Winwaker. And they were wrong.

Yes. I will never forget the EGM issue that was right after, I guess it was Space World back in the day, that on the cover it was Samis, Link, and Mario, and it was Sunshine, Metroid Prime, and Wind waker. And it was just like, holy shit, what did we do to deserve this? Like you guys are fucking giving us everything at once.

Right. What a magical time that was. Go into your mailbox or I guess the store if you did that. But like going to the mailbox once a month and finding out what video games were up to. Like in there, we didn't know outside of that. You guys make kind of funny the magazine? Pretty much. We'll make one.

One issue. Here you go. I'm so in on that. That's a lot of work though. I mean, you've been doing it. The middle is just going to be Nick in Scarpino Centerfold. That works.

Just like Nintendo Power. Yeah. I wanted to check out if you like, looking back at retro magazines, there's a guy named Ray Barnholt who does a lot of video game history stuff, and Ray did a magazine for a while called Scroll that you can still order on the internet,

like back issues. They're printed on demand. Super high quality, really well put together. Good gloss, good binding, great, great artwork and really high quality writing. But they're all focused.

So like this entire issue is about Ninja Turtles. Every Ninja Turtles game ever. This entire issue is about, like of all things, Jalico games. So every Jalico game, and they're all, one's about codes and cheats. And they're great. They give you that feeling of old magazine reading,

but with really high quality feature writing and spectacular art. Is Kill Screen still going? I don't know. You remember Kill Screen? Yeah, I do, but I don't know if it's still going. Okay. I am not as up on, I mean, you still have, you know,

the Brits have Retro Gamer and things like that, but I don't know Kill Street is still publishing. There's, I'm forgetting the name now. Shoot, who does an Nintendo one right now that's really good? I can't remember. Oh, fuck. The same people

who used to do the... Vita magazine. Yeah, switch lounge, isn't that right? My brain's dead right now, I'm sorry. I'll look into it. Hold on, because they're doing a final Vita send off that I'm going to do something before.

I can help you out of it. I'm going to reverse engineer, but hold on. Magazine writing created a very interesting situation that doesn't exist anymore in the age of the internet because magazine writing, you had enough time to think about it.

You had time to write an article in the magazine era most of the time, but you didn't have an unlimited amount of time. more time than somebody writing on the internet where it has to be out in four hours. Switch player. Switch player. But you had less time than somebody who's like writing a book or a feature. And so there's this very interesting form that comes out of that that's impossible to do.

Because on top of that, internet is unlimited. Yeah. Like your page count can be as long as you want it to or you can separate into multiple things. Magazine, you can only make the font so small. And it has to fit around the ads and around the screenshots and everything. Could you imagine those like tiny reviews that you still? like print into there and like because there was like a small game or something and like how hard it was just read that tiny little print. I mean even think about like trying to get me monthly

it'd be like three or four reviews from different people on one game. Oh yeah. On one third of a page. Yeah. Like second opinion. What an easy way right of like I remember the whole argument at IJ and even here right of like man it'd be great if the guys did a review. Well I'm like only one of us cares about that and then who has the time for every to play the same game if they're not into it like if you're at EGM and like I'm the lead reviewer of Game Max great but then it's like pass it off to Crispin or Dan or whoever Jen and they're going to play an hour three hours of it and be like hey this is my I have well they were all sentences there's that but they were also built on a model of sustainable ad revenue that contemporary sites have much more trouble with the fact was magazine

ad revenue gave you enough money to run a magazine where upon internet ad revenue which is constantly in flux is much much much harder to make work in that same kind of formula. And so, dedicating one person wasn't just a matter of time, it was a matter of the fact that they had greater human resources available than a lot of contemporary groups do that cover this kind of thing. Getting to modern

stuff. What do you got, Greg? It doesn't look good for KillScreen. Website news isn't being updated. Their last organic tweet was May 23rd. Greg, I want to talk about Assassin's Creed Odyssey. You beat the story mode. Something like that.

The big problem was, yeah, can I get through Assassin's Creed story mode, or at least the main story, obviously, before Red Dead comes. And I did it. I did it. I did it. Congratulations. No problem. I do want to give a huge shout out to Kevin Coella, who's now further than I am, though, in Assassin's Creed. What level you now, Kev?

48. Yep. I'm level 48. I'm 46, but I mean, like, how many hours are you ballpark now? You were 70-something, right, the other day. Wow. Give me two seconds. I have the thing open.

Oh, Lord. I was definitely not main pathing it, but I was like, this is, because I, you know, I can't say enough nice things. 87 hours.

87 hours. Holy shit, Kevin. It's a lot of fun and I'm real tired. And I miss it. I want to go back and play more of it. I want to be more involved in that world. I don't want to leave it.

And like, I want to, I mean, you talk about a game that. Oh, that looks, first off, Assassin's Creed is back.

Whatever. I don't care. It's annual again. Weird. It's in Greece. Here's a trailer. That looks interesting. play it. This seems fun. I don't know if I'd beat it.

Get the game. Like, all right, this is all right, but it's clearly not game of the year. Jump ahead 50 hours, and it's like, fuck, do I love this game? Like, I can't believe this game's done it. And, like, you know, you've been gone, Tim, so we haven't personally had a conversation about it, and I know I've talked about it on a million shows, so I'll keep a brief. But it was, it's just the fact that

so quickly in that game, I just checked it of just like, everything matters. Like, every side quest is great in some respect, whether it's funny or touching or sexy or whatever like every there's not a wasted this is just something to do thing in that game every part of every and it's a ubysop game quote unquote yeah and like you know the highest comment i can pay it right is like the fact of what would happen is jen would go to bed i'd

play for a few more hours we'd wake up in the morning and i make coffee and she'd like so what did you do last night and i would sit her there and retell her the random side quest i ran into right in her she'd be busting up laughing as me talk about it or like i told you the one last time no spoilers where you had this moment where you're like, holy shit, that's this story. And it's like, yeah, it is. And the game does such a great job of intertwining things you'd expect or maybe not expect, but then they're there and they're not before you know it. And it's just such a fucking beautifully well done game.

It's such a great thing. And it's so great all the way through in terms of what I'm talking about with SideQuest and talking about other tasks to do, but especially in the story where it ended and it, like, I got through the final cutscene, right? And it was just like now, you know, back out to doing stuff. And the final cutscenes week, right? Because there's, I got the trophy for completing the story in the epilogue. is what I mean.

Does it stick the landing? Exactly. Okay. It does stick the landing? Oh yeah. And that's the thing. It ended and I literally, Jen was in the kitchen.

I'm like, what a fucking game. Okay. Like what a game to get here and have this payoff with this character that I am, these relationships I've built and have it be like,

no spoilers, but like, you know, referencing who's died and who hasn't died and how this is and all about. And like, I know there's different endings and I think I got the good ending. It's just like, man,

what a fucking game. And in a game that when I started, I was like, oh, well, it's a video game and you see it seems and like hair doesn't look good here and da-da-da-da-da-da, it's not game of the year. And it's still not.

But it did definitely go from, oh, I can see it's being on my top 10 list to be like, man, yeah, this gave God of war a run for its money. And in terms of how much I care about it. Like, it's not going to the year. Yeah. Could it have been Game of the years and years prior? I think so.

This year we had God of War. So that is almost cheating. Last year we had amazing video games. Sure. The year before. Yeah. I think it could have, yes, I do think it. And I think it's that.

it's got that weird negativity attached to it from certain people of it's not Assassin's Creed it's something different now and it's like yeah but it's something way better yeah it's crazy that that's something that's something that's something that's crazy that that's something that's something that's crazy that's just like oh it's Assassin's Creed oh it's not a Saturday and at review everybody a lot everybody but a lot of people being like oh man yeah it's like the Witcher or it's like Skyrim and it's like all right the witcher looks way better than this graphically are you kidding me and like Skyrim is Skyrim is Skyrim and then be in the other side of it now 50 hours

and just be like I see what I see what I see what I saying? Like, no, this has that characterization and world the Witcher has. Right, but it doesn't have that problem with the Witcher had, because I tried to play The Witcher and I was like, there is so much going on, where do I begin? It easily could. It easily could. It definitely, it does a little bit, yeah.

But the fact that he said it's not like typical Assassin's Creed, that has me, like, wanting to play it. And my thing is, like, I played Origins for a little bit, and I couldn't get into origins because the story, the story just didn't kick off right for me. Combat was very, like, weird at first. I got used to the combat and the bird thing a little bit and the stealth was like okay

Did they refine any of that? They refined the stealth from what I hear Because I was with you of like I played two hours of origins And I was like peace. I don't like Bayak, I don't understand the story I don't really like the world From what I've heard from more educated people Like Andrea from Chris over the polygon

They put up a piece of like here's why it's better And indeed stealth has been improved It's still similar but it's there Fighting is still signed up on you know your triggers or whatever Oh well spilage Yeah But no It's great on those levels.

It's something very special. It's a very, very special game in a way that, yeah, again, for me to sit here and be like, Cassandra, one of my favorite characters in games of recent memory, if not, well, Cratos is so good this year. And Peter Parmer is so good. That's the thing. What a year.

What a year? Detroit Become Human. It was a fun game. I had a great time. Okay. Yeah. I mean, what? I like Hank a lot.

Yeah. There was a couple. Okay. Yeah. Tangent. Yeah. Will next year be as good as this. year and last year. For video games? I can't see how it's gonna be anymore. Isn't that crazy?

Last year we were like what I want to say this is the best game of year since 2000 whatever the fuck and now it's like nope this is amazing. No. No. No you had hopes right and then not only that it's like you have that and you have a satscrete you have red dead next week, right? Of course Ghostbusters world next week. Of course. Smash Bros. is on toy. Speaking of Ghostbusters world correct. Sure. You've been playing a lot more of it. I have yeah, yeah. We just play a bit of it. Yeah, we did a party. We filmed a party mode. It's supposed to go Wednesday as soon as on YouTube. Before you say anything.

Yeah. I got to play it. Please do. Played enough of it to get what it is. And I am pretty impressed at what it is. And to be very clear, the party mode is a sponsored party mode. Yes. This is not part.

You know how I am. This is not part of the sponsorship. I will never play this game again. Sure. Okay. You know, but I'm just saying, I was like, oh shit. Like this really feels like they took the Pokemon Go foundation and were like, how can we apply this to Ghostbusters in a way that matters and makes it fun and cool for people.

I can't imagine someone like you. Like that is, this feels like it's made for you as a time waster, but in a good way. A mobile game. It's like, yeah, here's something to do. But they make that fun and they make it interesting enough where it's like I loved the, just the way that even fights start or happen where it's like you have to follow the ghost of the augmented reality. And like to suck them in, I'm like, it felt cool. And the moment of video game can feel cool, that's when it achieves it.

It is cool. It's like video games are cool or something. Exactly. By your evaluation. I mean, compared to, you were talking about comparing it to Pokemon Go, where do you think it improves on it? What makes it better for it? So my thing is, and we're jumping around, Kev, so maybe Tomko try to keep up a bit.

We're gonna move the Pokemon Go thing in here too. Your poor, you're a big Pokemon Go. Your poor partner over here on the ground and cleaning. He's, he won't leave spills alone. Just let him clean. If you let him, he'll probably clean the whole place. Just kidding. So, Sino added...

Yeah, they added Sino this week. Yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah, that was cool. I've been playing Pokemon Go since it came out. No, so, like, I played in the beginning, because everyone was. I fell off after about, like, six months. And then, like, we went to on vacation and we're like, why don't we just try this again?

You know, we're just like, we were waiting for family and we didn't have much to do. So we were like, hey, let's just play this. And so we did. And then we got really into it again. And now we're like going and doing raids at our town. Like, earlier this year, like around July. That was about July. So I've been playing again since July, and we've been doing like, we're on a discord where people are like, hey, there's a raid here who wants to go.

And like we'll go. So is it a Texas local? Richard, like a certain city, we'll have groups off. So like Dallas has one, like, carot, like different subsections of Dallas will have raids. So like because Dallas is sectioned off in different like smaller cities too or the DFW area if you're from there. But yeah. But yeah. So yeah, we'll look on the discord.

We'll see like, oh yeah, this blah's going here. And then we're going to go here and then we're going to go here and then we're going to go here. and then we're going to go here. And we'll do like maybe four or something. But yeah, it's been fun. We get to meet like people. We get to hang out. People who've actually been playing.

They have ridiculous Pokemon. I'm like where how do you already have like everything and you have all the shiny is like please tell me like how. Like there's shiny Pokemon if you haven't been playing and since then. I mean, it's crazy. And like the center region if you, I mean, it's just cool that they're keep adding. Like they just keep on adding. That's the really nice part is they haven't given up on this thing.

Even though they could just like say, We're done. We made our money. Deuses. Yeah. Well, what's crazy is they're still making money. Like I saw a report recently that was like, there's still $8 million a month or something coming in. Are you serious? Which is just insanity. And then you add on top of that. I remember when the game first came out and a lot of people would be asking us, do you want or do you expect to see the golden like Gen 2 Pokemon,

Gen 3 Pokemon, whatever? And I was like, I don't know. Like I think they're going to stick to this like original Gen 1 thing of like nostalgia and everything. And to see now we're on Gen 4, that's. crazy. Like they're moving forward with this, people are still there. People are coming back. Yeah. Like you guys that's not that long ago. No, because

like you got to remember this, each generation is someone's first. So the minute they release a new generation, like, oh, that's my first Pokemon. Let's jump back in and play. Oh, it's $10. Cool. I'll buy some Pokemon, whatever. You know. So yeah, it's just crazy. But like, it's still, I mean, it's still the same game. Like, you're not going to see anything different. Like, unless, like, you haven't seen the raids or anything like that. Like, it's pretty much

the same game you left. It's just now here's more Pokemon. And since your question, I guess that's my thing. I haven't seen the ratings. I haven't done any of this. I imagine Ghostbusters is kind of coming in and just par for par adding what Pokemon has already added. But I might be wrong about that. Are the multiplayer in

Ghostworld? Yeah, I was telling you about the features, right? From what I understand. Because I have a launch month knowledge of Pokemon. Right. And so Goldfarb will occasionally try to talk to me about it. And then I wake up at home and I'm like, what happened? I don't know how I got here. Your wallet's gone.

Yeah, exactly. The kidneys. Like, ah, now you Pikachu's my shiny. No, so I know that Pokemon's added a bunch of stuff. From what I understand in terms of Ghostbusters's world and how it differs is the fact that, yes, the base gameplay, right, if you turn it down like we were doing, right, is, guess what? Here's the Google Maps street view of the neighborhood you're in. You see the ghosts around you.

You have the dimensional doors that are Poka stops that you click on. You get more traps. You get some XP. And then you bust the ghost. You put them in the trap. you collect him congratulations and then the counter to that is this other side of the game that Pokemon Go has aspects of now but not the exact same but correct me as we go it's the fact that there's a story mode which is hey you go in it's it's written by the IDW guys it has IDW comic art

you go in there that's awesome yeah no it's super cool and it's got a narrative and signed to it for each world you go into and as you go deeper in you are taking the ghost you've caught in the main part of the game. It's no game or bullshit. It's no game or bullshit. I hope it's

so today I'm bubble camera bullshit. Sorry, the computer is going is being really weird right now guys. It's because we're here today. Of course.

No, it's just because it's kind of funny and we're recording something. So, yeah, you get the ghosts, you've captured in the real word, you bring them in there,

you make a team of four ghosts that you in the ghost dimension then go and do the story levels of it and have them fight other ghosts. You level them up. It's turn-based RPG kind of thing, or turn-based combat, I should say, but it's also an RPG of leveling them up, upgrading their ranks, assigning them ruins, making them more powerful. They have CP, they have levels, they have stars, all this stuff.

You have them fight other ghosts and you go through the world that way, and that earns you other content and stuff like that or other, you know, things. And at top of that, yes, there's a thing called Gozers Tower or whatever, where you go through and you just see how hard you can go in a week. and there's leaderboards for that, there's PVP, and then there's just more PVEE stuff in there than I feel like I'm screwed up.

No, it sounds like you have a more like PVP focus, like with that turn-based combat, because right now all you could do is like you go to the gyms like you used to and you just tap on the things and they do this stuff, you can dodge attacks and enter raids and like a whole bunch of people attack one Pokemon and whittle it down and then you just try to catch it.

Yeah, so like, yeah. No, but basically there's just like there's none of that term-based combat that you're that are PVP that you have. Well, that's the thing is like it goes different right from, all right, here's what the game is. of you as the Ghostbuster you've designed and like creation's super limited but the Ghostbuster you've made and then you're busting your ghosts.

Very limited. Of course, yeah. I will add. Like three hairstyles and those hairstyles also affect how your face looks. Why? It's important to point out, of course, we're playing pre-release code. It comes out officially on Monday, all that jazz.

But like that's my, like, playing from what we've played, again, the reason I'm talking about it now at length is because last week it went the opposite where I talked a whole bunch about Assassin's Creed and was like, I've also been screwed out of Ghostbustrager. world and it seems like a lot of fun but you know whereas like now I'm yeah I find myself so fucking ready for Monday because all I want to do is play more

of it and fuck around because it is a time wasteer but it's like I see it's got its hooks to me of like I I like when we were getting ready to film the stuff for party mode it was that I finally discovered by coins that I'm earning in the thing not currency I'm buying but coins I'm earning in the game get applied to leveling up my proton

pack and making it more powerful so I had it sitting there and now I turn notifications on so it's like oh that upgrade's done click in While I'm at my desk, go, I cook that, get that cooking. And there's ectosphere similar to poca eggs or whatever, right? And it's like, yeah, I'm a thousand percent, but they're going to wipe the version I'm using before they put out the real version.

So I don't want to play too much now because I really want to play a lot when it comes out. So you remember when the Pokeball phone charger came out around the release of Pokemon Go? Is there a proton-packed phone charger for the Ghostosges game? There isn't officially that I know of, but if someone's making it, I will gladly buy it. Because this has been the big debate of like what

phone to like, you know, I'm eligible for the upgrades, what I want to do, how do I want to do it? I have, like, from Comic-Con, they gave me a whole bunch of Ghostbuster World Popsockets. Yeah. And I was like, like, I want to use these. And I'm like, I want to use these. So I don't put one on my phone yet because I want to save them all and put them on the real fun. I'm going to use from a proton busting. But I can't fucking wait. I'm having too much fun with just the, the not broken, the basic version. And so my hope is it gets launched. I hope it finds an audience. I hope it's around. I'm sure won't be near as successful. I'm not being stupid as Pokemon Go. But I hope it's successful enough that they do be like, cool.

Here's more, here's more things. I can't put glasses on my, like, granted, the Ghostbuster looks way too in shape in general, but I can't put glasses on, but I'm gonna make it a feel more like me, right? And, you know, it's like- Here's the thing, though, man. Like, I remember playing Pokemon Go in the early months

and being like, being outside, hunting these things down and like, as mobile game as it was, and like, oh, I wish there was more going on and all that. It's like, I felt like a little kid trying to play Pokemon in real world. When we play Ghostbusters, granted, we were literally,

wearing Ghostbusters outfits in public and doing it. Like, I felt like a Ghostbuster. Like, the game is really well designed to create a feeling. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it nails it. Well, and that's the thing, as a Ghostbusters fan, right? Like, having the song in there. And even like, every time you boot it up and like, after you're done with intros and stuff, you

boot it up. Like, the game begins with, like, wherever you are on the map and then the Ecto 1 roaring and your character getting out of the Ecto 1. It's like, that's cool. And if it's in AR, you have to PKE around the room to find the ghosts. So can I, if I'm having a Halloween party can I drop some kind of bomb in my house that turns into a ghost hub for my party.

Dimensional doors are the poca stops and just like poker stops that you can throw down, you can throw down the poca lures. You put a lure on a stop. You're good. You can, yeah, you can throw down ecto goggles that spawn, you can put on your ecto goggles that I think burn real world money or whatever you buy that bring out a ghost

for you or you put down the dimensional door and have stuff. Because this sounds like some perfect Halloween party stuff. Yeah, and that's the thing is like it's going to be interesting to see how it does because I do when it first got announced, right, hey they're making a Pokemon Go knock off Ghostbusters game as a Ghostbusters fan and a video game fan

I roll my eyes right of like ugh how bare bones basic bullshit and you get in there like oh no this actually was made with like a reverence for it and it is like they you know they made a big deal of like you know uh uh goalfarb's preview that's on IGN.com from a few weeks ago the same day the trailer debuted

or one of my trailers debuted it was not it wasn't it was a hey this game's doing a lot of shit Pokemon Go isn't but do we care like you know what I'm Because it was like, GoFarb was very honest in it. I don't have an affinity for these ghosts, whatever. For me playing the game, it is like, motherfucker, it's Sam Hane. You know what I mean?

It's the Halloween ghost from the real Ghostbusters. And then to have Sandman, the ghost that puts the guys to sleep. And like, I was talking about early on the morning show, that Jeanine's dream is it. And then to have slimer and lady slimer from new Ghostbusters and all this other stuff, it's like, man, they actually did a great job of doing this. To the point where I am like, I'm stupidly excited that the game comes out on Monday so I can play it in San Francisco. and then go to Toronto for EGLX

and get... Are there different ghosts in Toronto? How's it works? I certainly hope so. Leaning into New Ghost Wester's lore, I'm with you on that. Because it shows so spectacular. I do have a few questions.

Can I be a key master? I mean, you get dimension keys. Can I be a gatekeeper? You're always my gatekeeper, Jared. Okay, can I step on a church in this town? No, oh, there's a state puff marshmallow and already to fight. He's stepping on church is for you.

Is Rick Moranis around? I've not seen a Lewis Tully character yet. What about... I did have Dana Barrett pop up then. I was like, fuck, I don't know. So he may be the end. I bet he is, yeah. Again, the way this game is done in terms of like,

we know what the source material is. We know what the IDW thing is, which is bringing all the movies and the comics in, yeah. What happens when I make my name, Vince Clortha? I don't think anybody's going to care. They're not going to care that you key master of proser. My character's name was Gia with dreads because my character looked like.

Gia with dreads. Yeah. But you had fun, right? I did. I'm just disappointed. You won't play anymore, but you didn't play Pokemon Go, so how can I expect? Well, I did, but then I stopped.

Exactly. Yeah. It's like, Ghostbust, no, I'm good. If I was going to go back to something, it'd be Pokemon Go now that Pokemon Go is fixed. And I get that because again, this is the thing of what is your affinity, right? And like, Pokemon. Don't get me wrong. I, as I play it, I daydreams on my stomach on my phone, like playing it.

I'm like, man, what if there was a Ghostbusters World convention one day? You know what I mean? Like Pokemon Go Fest. Like the game can do that well, that'd be read. But the game does have from a base level right now, TLC for the franchise put into it. And so if they, I just want. More packs, more costumes, more customization options. Because like, this is where I'm at with this game.

I can't wait for the final version so I can give them money to put my character in the Ghostbusters 2 jumpsuit. Oh, there we go. Because that is what has spawned me making the Ghostbusters 2 jumpsuit. I was like, fuck, this thing looks hot in the game. I'd love to wear it. It takes life. Beautiful. I don't know.

My thing is, I'm so impressed by the game because it is a shameless Pokemon Go ripoff. Yep. And they know that. They don't hide away. We talked about PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and how it failed. Sure. Because it didn't lean in her enough. Mash Bros ripoff, but it wasn't.

This is. Because when we first heard about this, I'm like, all right, there's no chance of this being good. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. It is. Yeah. Congratulations. Sometimes our pop will. You did it. I'm very stoked. And Greg, Lego DC supervillains. You've been playing some of it. You're in it. Again. Full of

disclosure. I'm in this game. I haven't got myself. I haven't gotten to myself. Why are you in everything? Are you going to just disclose everything now? There's that thing when they're like, if you get 15 minutes of fame, you fucking take it for everything. It's worth. All right. I'll be in everything until they stop.

Accurate. Ghostbusters in D.C. What a Greg Miller week. Yeah, right? No, yeah, exactly. And what kind of Red Dead, but that's next week. You know what I mean? But like in the same 10-day period, I'm getting a whole bunch of shit. I really love. Yeah, Lega DC Supervillans is out. This is the game where you build a supervillan of yourself and it's an original story.

And the thing it doesn't get enough credit for, I think, is, hey, guess what, everybody? We have Mark Hamel and Kevin Conroy and Nolan North and Michael Rosenbaum and Susan Eisenberg and, like, the fucking cast of the Justice League cartoon. And then Travis Willingham, and I think Troy's in there as, oh man, but I haven't checked it. But like, everybody you know from the voice act, it's like, hey, we got together in all.

Anthony and Gruber. Oh, shit. Hey, we got together an all-star fucking cast and Greg Miller to make a cool, different DC story. You know what I mean? And like, it is that you are a supervillain. You know, you're in the fucking penitentiary with Lex Luther and he looks through your file and that's how you pick who you are and design your own character and jump into it. And then it's a Lego game when you jump in. there. It is a Lego game that as usual

it's a Lego game right which so many people then are like I like Lego games but I haven't played them in a while and I just gloss over Like they've added a bunch of new mechanics In there that make it cool and different of like powers Is creating a character A new thing? Yes in terms of it being Hey you are the main character of the story

I feel like for a Lego game that's kind of A huge deal yeah with the exception of Lego undercover that we you game that in Yeah yeah you usually You can create a custom character Minim minifig but this is the first time where it's like Story mode. I made this thing.

I'm playing through you. You still jump around. That's awesome. How much control do you have of your power definition? When you start, you have a variety. And then as you meet new characters and do new things, you get more. Because what they're doing is they're doing it smartly. And I'm very early in it.

I've only done the first two main levels. So main level, hub world, main level. Because there's just too many things to play. Your character's deal is that you were working with like Dr. Ivo or whatever. So like you're from the Amazo project. So I don't think you're probably going to turn out to be fucking amazer or whatever. But right now they're like, oh, the thing that like, you know, helps these people steal powers, all right, cool.

But they do it and cool. You know, the storyline is that you're going, you know, there's a breakout and the Justice League shows up to stop them. They're struggling to do it. And then the crime syndicate shows up from the different earth, right? They show up, act good. Then they throw away. They kidnap the Justice League.

And so they've shown up to set themselves up as the Justice League. They're not their bad guys, too, from another dimension. And then like, you know, Harley sees that happen. And so now it's like the villains fighting the villains because they're worse villains to get back the heroes or whatever kind of thing. So it's cool. That sounds spectacular. That sounds great. I am polka dot man.

Pocaheda. Yeah. The classic polka dot man. Yeah. That could absolutely be a real DC villain. Hands down. It is a real. No, no.

That is a real DC villain. This has been confusing. Yes, for people. I play in the game. My voice is the polka dot man. And then I made myself in the game. But I look so much like myself because the tools are cool. That everybody's like, oh, I didn't realize it was you.

I'm like, no, no, that's like you start your own character as well. Who does the- Where does the Pocodot Man appear? I mean, alongside Toy Man and the shitty Batman guys. Yeah, he's right there with Condiment King and all that shit. Like, he's being terrible, terrible people. Yeah, dude. I didn't realize Pocodot Man was a real one. The 60s, the 60s were a weird spot.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh my God. I want to be the voice of Condiment, man. Super Mario Party. Yeah. Everyone at this table has played. played more of this since we last time.

Yes. A lot. How are we feeling? You've been playing a lot of it recently. Well, yeah. We had a wedding this weekend, so we flew out here for the wedding. Well, I thought we were playing it for the wedding. And so, yeah, we had like an Airbnb full of nine people.

And, like, we have, like, two switches. And we're, like, all playing Mario Party, basically, whenever we are just stuck at the Airbnb. And it's been a blast. Like, we like it a lot. We do have issues with it. Don't get me wrong. And that's my thing. Because I just was on a vacation with a big group of people.

I brought my Switch and an extra pair of JoyCon because I knew I had Mario Party and we all had a bang up time. Were you guys doing the Switch with the two Switch things? No one cared. To just be honest, like no one. We just want to play the board game. It's all people want to do.

And that's one of my biggest criticisms about the game is they got the board game stuff right for the first time in iterations of Mario Party. It's been a long time. Like probably since six I would say that it's been good. Since GameCube probably.

Yeah, well, GameCube wasn't that four? Was it? Was there a few week ones that were game? Yeah, yeah. And some of the wee ones were not like, not, they were like the weird team thing. Yeah, I just dodged anyone that was like jump everyone in a car and go like bullshit. Totally bullshit. But playing it with people I was playing with Gia and other people that are not gamers necessarily.

And everyone had a blast. It's, I love the decision they made to make it JoyCon exclusive. Because every mini game was accessible to every. Everybody playing whether you're a gamer or non-gamer. Right, right, right. Everyone had an equal shot of understanding the rules going in, playing the game, and having fun. And the fact that they also had the demo, like, forced, like, right there. I mean, you can- The forced practice mode is awesome.

Yes. Also, shout-outs to the River Rapid mode. We actually had a lot of fun with the River Rapid mode. It's awesome. And that's my thing is there's elements of this game that are so good. And I would say even the best Mario Party's ever been. And then there's so much extra shit. And it's like, when you look at the game as, whole, what we just talked about is two-fifths of what's available and three-fifths of it

is just extra bullshit. Soundstage can go take a hike. Why? Why'd you even put it there? It makes the game worse. They should have just worked on their online infrastructure instead. Totally. Because I can't play that online.

No. Why not? Is it just run poorly? They just don't offer the modes people who are looking for. Which I get because the shortest game you can play is an hour of Mario Party for a classic board match. classic board match. 10 turns. That's a lot to expect of people playing online to not disconnect and not do a bunch of bullshit.

Let me ask a question to both of you guys who do you really want to play Mario Party online? Yes, I do. I want to get on Discord full of friends and play Mario Party online. That is the thing is I feel like it could be a fun like, hey, yeah, I don't see you enough kind of thing. There's an argument to be made about Mario Party online not working as a whole because I totally understand that people are going to disconnect. When you're playing with your friends, they're not going to disconnect. And that's the point.

You make a private match, you get in a discord, and you just play. I have friends in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Washington, like... Drag a bit more. All right, cool. You got friends. So, says the guy who's, like, got people all over the world that want to, like, hang out with you. Yeah, okay. You don't want to play Mario Party.

I will play Mario Party with you whenever you want. Anyways, but basically, like, we were all, like, hoping, like, online? Online good? Good. Oh. And it's just like, well, maybe we'll meet at Pack South, or we'll meet at blah, blah, blah, blah. and play Mario Party. So is the story of this game better

but not good enough? It's good enough. It's just not... It's not the Switch version of a Nintendo franchise. We've seen Mario Odyssey. We've seen Zelda. You know what I mean?

So wait, do you feel like this is Mario? Like, Aces kind of thing? No, it's better than Aces. It's better than Aces. It's... Because they didn't break brackets. The problem to me is this is going to be

an evergreen game. They rebranded it. It's not Mario Party. It's super Mario Party. To me, that's a chance for them to be like, look, we're going to fix all of this. They fixed most of it. And that's kind of a letdown. I expected more for sure. And

earlier today, as a recording, we talked about this on Games Daily of will this game have DLC and what's it going to be? That could change everything. Yes. If they support this game going forward with massive DLC with more than four boards, like, Because honestly, I love the boards, at least most of the boards.

Like, I would say half the boards. Yeah, don't be honest. Two out of four. Two out of four boards are good. It's not that many of them. No, there's only four boards. But two of them, awesome. Like, I love how they change up as you're playing.

There's a lot of switching going on. That's what Mario Party is all about. We need more, though. Yes, we need more than four. Do you want more boards or do you, which is more important? Do you more boards? Or online multiplayer in the original? Oh, boards to me.

Boards is more important. Just because the base boards. you're going to get tired with real quick. Yeah. Also, I'll take more characters because the fact that they added that dice block mechanic really made things more interesting in it space. Also because the ally squares that are on the boards, I love. That was one of the best things that they added, I feel like.

But in my experience, I feel like the ally stuff breaks the game. Because I feel like especially, and maybe this is, on one hand, I'd say it's an unfrered criticism. On the other hand, I'd say, no, this is a criticism. exactly do for this type of game. I felt like I could game the system against people that didn't know how to play video games. Super easy with the ally stuff. What did you do? Go to the squares.

Well, I mean, you have to land on them. They're a little O.P. Yeah, they are. And it's like, it's pretty easy to. For me, it was to, we did a party mode while you're gone of playing Mario, Super Mario Party. And I missed the first ones because I was out of town in London. So jumping in, I was going and I hit the first Alice card.

And it was like, oh, I don't really understand. And then it comes. Oh, and by the end, I, three allies. So I'm rolling like a one, but I'm getting nine, so I'm getting 10. And it was great, and I thought it was a really cool thing, but I didn't know how to game. I think the one tweet is like going for allies.

Like looking at those spots, trying to count and like trying to go on the paths that have allies, understanding how important they are. I feel like in one way to the hardcore gamer or whatever, it's like, cool, great. This is adding more. But it's like, I feel like Mario Party is the type of game that should be accessible in a way that like everyone playing

is having just as much fun. And moment that I start just trouncing everybody just because I have some understanding of how to play it is I think a bad thing. Yeah, I think they could tweak the ally system a little bit, maybe not let you instead of like giving you them to roll a one or a two for you every turn, they just give you their dice block. Yeah. Like instead of like doing that. That's my thing is if they give you the dice block or if it was just once. Yes. If they were just like a one and done item and then you use them, I feel like that would totally fix it.

I completely agree. I think that would tweak the balance out a little bit because we do notice like people who do tend to land on the ally squares, just tend to. to wreck shop. And that's the thing is like, Mario Party is not about fairness. It's not about, you know, equality. It's about ruining your friendship.

Runing your friendship. So it's like in that sense, I get it and that's cool. I just feel like this almost gamifies it in a way that I think crosses a line. They could tweak it. I think they're, I'm glad they added it and I'm glad they're going forward with it.

But you're right, it does need tweaking. But I'm glad it's at least there for now. I think this pretty much, this is a good step forward. for Mario Party, but we still need some steps, we still got some steps to do. They still got work to do to make this like a true

like really good Nintendo franchise going forward. Is this a good game? It's a good game. It's not a great game, but it's a good game. It has to be a good game because of how much fun you have. Exactly. Like that's the thing is like every single time I've played this game so far, it's been fun.

Right. Like we're beating up on it in a little bit and we're giving fair criticism of it and I don't want that to come off up super negatively. Like it's a good game. And I don't want people to think like it's a like it's trash. Don't buy this. But like just beware when you buy this, you're getting like these modes. This is what you're getting.

And we promise you if you have friends and they come over, it is great. But if you're looking to buy this like as a single person, don't do it. Don't do not buy it single player. I played it on the plane. It sucks. Nope. Don't do it. It's a bad game single player.

But I played it on the plane with Gia. And it was awesome. Yep. Like the mini games I feel the Nintendo has. had, and I don't know if anyone from the same team from the Wii era is still making these games, but I feel like they've learned so much from the Wii

of motion controls, of don't overdo it. Like, you're still doing stupid motions with like shaving the ice off or like, you know, whatever the fuck you're doing with your goddamn. That's a tri-sicle game. Yeah. The joycon's, but I feel like there is a understanding of what people

enjoy doing with motion controls, what people can do with motion controls, even if they don't enjoy it, but It's like that's part of the torture of Mario Party. Versus the like overabundance of bullshit things that nobody enjoys, nobody likes, and takes no skill. No, that's the best party game on Wii with smooth moves where they seem to understand that best of all. Where you're just passing around that same single controller of 12 people and doing very simple motion. What was that face?

Oh, that's about it. Mikey. Mike and I have some fun. Don't worry about everybody. You have your conversation over here. Was that making weird jerk off motions? No. Right there you were.

Because that's like why are the guys back to back? Yeah. There's something. Wait, what? What? It's front to front. No, no. You're doing like this, right?

So like I was picturing two butts hitting here and you were doing it like up and Oh shit. You're like, oh, okay. You're pulling them down. Yeah. You're, I don't like that. Don't do that. Next time you give it to me, don't do it like that.

No, fuck you make. Yeah, I was backwards on that. Next game. We're skipping one, Kev. We're going straight to soul. You want to talk about a saucy biscuit? Soul Tossy Fis. Soul caliber six.

So Soul caliber six. It comes out Friday. Yay. They have a fan, right? How deep down the rabbit hole do you want to go? Very. Give me this story, bro. So story goes, a young little kid and me goes to PowerPlay in the mall in Greenville, Texas,

where this is the only arcade for, I don't know, two to three hours or whatever. And basically, he sees a giant, like giant screen with our. arcade stuff and their soul caliber. Yeah, like big, setting the stage of history. Setting the stage of history. And it is like what, I had played Mortal Kombat, I'd played Street Fighter, I'd played Virtua Fighter, I'd played Virtua Fighter, I'd played Fight Tekin, all that kind of

stuff. And everything felt good, but like nothing really like sparked me. And Soul Calibur like just set my world on fire. Yeah. Like it was like an inferno. No, Soul Calibur is, huh? Your soul. The soul burns.

Did you run out and buy a DreamCalbara? like that moment? I, no. I didn't immediately because I needed to save, I had just bought another thing. And so, but I immediately,

as soon as I got, like a normal person. Yeah, but I did get a dream cast. The PlayStation 2 was not available for sale. I understand it was a year later. Here comes Jared Pettie, everybody. But I did eventually buy a dream cast

with Power Stone, Soul Calibur and like all that kind of good stuff. You did it right. And Soul Calibur is special to me because once it felt like the arcade. and when I, like, it was the first time for me where like when I played at the arcade and I played it at home, it almost felt like it looked better and played like the same at home. Oh, it's better at home.

Exactly. So it was the first time like I felt like, holy crap. At home, I can get a almost better, a better experience in the arcade minus like having an arcade stick. Because initially that's how I learned and I was too broke to buy a Dreamcast like stick. That was like impossible. Fast forward. Soul Calibur 2 comes out and my world is destroyed and oh my God, it's wonderful. I am loving everything about this. And I'm coming from like a small town, rural town where like single players pretty much all I could do, but I loved fighting games.

And no one really wanted to play fighting games that much. So I was living off of arcade modes and all that kind of stuff all the time. And Soul Calibur 2 had so much single player content that it was just like... What was the story mode call? It was weapon master mode. Yep. And it had like you had like these squares you'd go to and they would challenge you to be like, the room is going to explode in three seconds. Knock them down and they'll blow up.

If you... The slippery floors, knock them out of the ringies. And they weren't lame. No. And then you could unlock special weapons for all the characters. Like, Killick would have a stupid even longer staff. You thought Killick's staff was long before. It's even longer.

You ain't seen nothing yet. Exactly. Which version did you have? Don't ask stupid questions, Jared. The answer is GameCube. Anybody prefer fucking Hay Hachi or goddamn spa? You know what? The saddest thing is because like when So Hover 2 online came out, no link.

Because, obviously. You can't have that. Anyways, then Soul Calibur 3, that is arguably the quintessential peak of Soul Calibre 2. Totally. That was the game that made it mainstream. The thing was, Soul Calibur 1, not many people played, everyone heard of. Everyone was like, oh, this game got perfect tens. Like, what the fuck is it, though?

I never played it. A lot of people didn't own Dreamcast. I didn't. No. Until way later. Right. So Soul Calibur 2 was like, hey, this franchise you've heard of that everybody loves. Oh, you like Tek and cute.

Here's this other thing. Oh, it has fucking Link or. Jokes aside, Hay Hatchi or Spawn. That was cool at the time. Yeah. Like that's such an amazing thing to make everyone want to play that game. No. It's the closest thing to Street Fighter 2 when it was new.

Absolutely. That I've seen since Street Fighter 2. Soul Color 2 is a special place in my heart. Like that game just made so many friends for me and just like open the world of fighting games to me for like the most part. I think it's hard for people to think about that because fighting games have become such a niche thing. They forget that this was a mainstream game. that everyone was playing.

Yep. Also, what makes Soul Calibur, and they did this in the first Soul Calibur, the eight-way run system is so important. Like, eight-way run, when I say eight-way run, I mean literally you just, like, unlike in Tekken where you have to like double-tap to like dash side, whatever, move and dodge,

you just hold left, you just hold right, you just hold down, you hold forward, you're going to actually just move that way. It is the most freedom of moment in a 3D fighting game. It just feels so good to just dodge attacks, like, and then just counter. And it's so easy to do it.

why it hit casual is because it was so easy. And a lot of people like gravitorial down. And then we have Soul Calibur 3. It happened. They made it exclusive to PS2. So we lost, you know, special characters. It's still a good game. Not a great game.

It just, and it also had Soul Calibur 2 to follow up on. But Ford some more. Soul Calibur 4. Star Wars characters. Yoda. Yoda. The character that broke the game and made it awful because you couldn't grab him. Horizontal attacks went over his hands.

head. He was basically He was the odd job. You also had basically full combo ringouts from certain characters which made competitive like and then they had

the armor breaking which was okay and they had these critical finishers which if you broke all the armor off and did certain things cool you do this flashy thing but you never saw them it just felt like they never finished playtest they didn't it didn't feel like it and then they had also the guy

from the force unleashed in it Star Killer. They named him like a apprentice or something like that because the game hadn't come because the fortunately hadn't come out yet and it was weird and he was he was ridiculous with all his powers and he was stomping the cast fast forward more and we get to the darkest time in Soul Calibre 5 can it get worse let me tell you Soul Calibber 5 oh you like the roster you think all the old characters are cool

cool we're tossing those out welcome back to the stage of history where there's no one here you care about um Soul Calibur 5 story mode oh you like we're going to focus hard on story guys we promise stories gonna be great it's gonna be awesome watch it play it cool two characters we give no crud about like who patroclos and what's her i don't know patroclos patroclos patroclos no sophrecoclos patroclos sofidius come on patroclos i don't know petroclos she was my girl yeah wait so phidia had the daughter right savida had no sophia had a daughter and a son patroclos and pira wait damn cassandra is her sister also the slave.

Yeah. Cassandra. I miss Cassandra. But then that whole story mode was not very good, not very long. And then they added meter, which I liked the meter, except for one thing. What was always key to Soul Calibur was the Guard Impact System, which would basically parry. And anyone could parry at any time.

And Soul Calibur 6. We'll get to that. But basically, Soul Calibur 5, what happened was they added me. impact system required meter. So you could only parry if you had meter. And that drove everyone up a wall. Like the fact that you can't parry, like what you could do so simply in other fighting games, like in Street Fighter 3 or in other things like that, and they were tied it to meter,

just drove people crazy. They killed the eight-way run system because counter, you could, when you, basically, if you sidestepped and you got hit, you might as well say goodbye to your life. Yeah. Like, if you were, knew what you were doing, so you were scared to eight-way run, which is The whole point of Soul Calibur. This whole freaking point of self caliber is this freedom of movement to move wherever you want, kick wherever you want, stab wherever you want, do whatever you want. But you can't because if you do, you're going to get punished for it.

So Soul Calibur 5. Garbage. I thought it wasn't, it drove, it drove like what I thought was the final nail in the coffin. And then fast forward now to video game awards flags. Welcome back to the stage of history. So when, when the, when, when Heronel is. Adasan and Mukubo, uh,

Um, came on to the stage together and they're like, oh yeah, Tekken's great, Tekin's wonderful. But we have, Okubo'san's been working on this other thing for a while.

And then he's like, does your soul still burn? I lost, I had a Tim Getty's hype Gatorade moment. Yes. I lost my mind. I screamed so loud.

We were playing Overwatch with friends and I had the thing up on the side. And they thought like, are you dead? Like, but like I was just losing my mind. Seeing Mitsuruu and Sophidi on this gorgeous stage doing crazy stuff

which is amazing and fast forward some more now we're to the online beta test for Silkaver 6. Did any of you get a chance to try it out? I've played Soul Calibur 6 I did I saw you on the on the...

What are you new? Rampage Jackson? I fucked you up and I'll fuck you up again in the after game. It was awesome. It was cool to watch. They're the best. Rampage, all those guys and Demetrius, they were all great.

That was really fun to watch all play. They added a... They've added a lot. They kept them meter system, but now guard impacts are free to do. You don't have to use meter anymore. They have a thing called Soul Charge, which is very funny because it sounds a lot like V-trigger and instinct from killer instinct. You basically pop your meter and you go into this like special

mode where you get access to special tools and mechanics. Some people like will lose health over time but start like really dishing out damage or get access to new supers. The meter also has a super like now. So they had that in So Cup 5 when they brought it back. So everyone has a one meter bar Super, they're pretty flashy and pretty fucking cool, especially if you end with it. Like, if you kill someone with it, it does this really flashy thing with each character. They have a new system that's getting a lot of awkwardness from the community. It's called Reversal Edge. Do you all know anything about Reversal Edge?

So Reversal Edge is basically an auto-perry. Yeah. So you press the button and you go into a stance. And if you attack them and you just hold, if they're attacking you, you just hold the button down. You'll parry everything. And then you'll immediately counterattack. immediately once you counterattack both you and your opponent go stand side like basically back up

and you enter a rock paper scissors mechanic so basically vertical attacks beat horizontal horizontal beats kicks beats vertical and there are some other ones like guarding moving sideways moving forward moving backward do different things it gains a lot of meter and it's really easy to do and during the beta a lot of people were falling for it

but the thing to know it's not really that powerful it's powerful in the like beginner level and it's really good for beginners because honestly with guard impacting is hard like guard impacting is really hard to do until you like learn the game

I mean I beat Rampage Jackson at Eastport showdown I don't know if I'm a beginner as much as I'm the guys champions in the world exactly exactly so like garden impacting is hard to do but for beginners reversal is easy

it's one button parry the thing is though you start realizing reversal edge can be sidestepped so like once you realize like if you bait out the reversal edge you can just sidestep it and then just wail on them. So good for that low-level casual play, but then gets beaten out once you start getting higher up.

And guard impacts are better because you're at advantage when you guard impact. Like when you're doing a reversal edge is rock paper scissors. This could go either way. But the really nice thing about reversal edge is it gives you meter. That's the really important thing. And it gives meter a lot, which they might want to tweak, actually. That might be the only thing they want to tweak down to the amount of meter. Listen to all this, what I want to ask you, I enjoy the series quite a bit.

I'm not nearly as invested in the fighting game community as you are. Yeah, seems like you know a lot about fighting games. But do we stumble upon? The nomenclature you're using is, I understand. What I want to ask is, Soul Calibur 2, we were to start. And Sol Calibur 1. Yes. Transcended the genre.

Yes. What about Soul Blade? And. So you want to talk about Soul Blade and Soul Edge? Like, I mean, we can. but no let's not or or let's just let's just let's just work on soul caliber okay so what i want to ask about this for you mike is uh i've played a little bit of six you're heavily invested in it yes obviously it's going to please the community is it going to be consistently fun for players

outside of that community to the point that they're going to want to keep playing it long enough to get good at i think if they were willing to give it a try and because how easy the mechanics are because it's literally vertical horizontal and kicks and a guard button. The real key here is there's a guard, like, Soul Calibur is great because it's always had that guard button. And why Mortal,

I honestly say they're the same way why Mortal Kombat is so good for casuals is because there's a guard button. You don't have to worry about, like, blocking, like, back, down, back, all that jazz. You just guard, higher, low. I think if people give it a shot and are willing to forget, like, forget, like,

Don't forget and forgive, I should say, because we should hold them accountable. But are willing to give this series another chance and are willing to be with the developers as they go on this journey with this new, because they are rebooting. They are starting back all over from Soul Calibur 1, basically with the story. If they're willing to give these people chance, I think they could find a very good casual slash competitive fighting game out of this. Fun. Because this feels not the speed of Soul Calibur 2. because everyone, melee talks about speed, Soul Calibur talks about speed, correct?

Like, that's like a thing. This doesn't feel as fast as Soul Calibur 2, but that could also be just nostalgia, but like this is the closest it's been to feeling like Soul Calibur 2 speed. Based on my limited time with it, I agree with you. Yeah. I've really enjoyed it.

I like it a lot. That weekend beta test, I was sad when it was over because that weekend beta test that we, that was sad when it was over because I stopped getting to play. And I was just like, I just want one more.

Just give me one more game. And any game that can give me that like just one more, just that one more match. Well, you mentioned Mortal Kombat earlier. Yeah. MK9 and MK10 brought Mortal Kombat kind of back into the mainstream. Do you recommend this to people who enjoyed MK9 and 10 or whatever the dumb DC one's called? We don't talk to me about injustice. We could go for days about the problems of injustice.

You must have played it. I did. Story mode. Great. Fantastic. Awesome story mode. Gameplay. How do you like projectile battles?

That's all that it is. I'm also not funny. I mean, in the lower levels it is. And that's the problem with a casual level of injustice. It becomes a projectile battle war. But I mean, you need to play with the okay beast guys. No, they're too good. Like I'm literally like at that level that's like I'm not tournament level.

I'm like right below it. Like it's like I'm okay and casual. I'm okay with my friends. And then the minute we get into tournament mode, I'm like, no. I can keep, I understand what's happening. but my eyes can't do the framed out of stuff in my head. Like, I just can't do it. It is out Friday.

This Friday, I believe. I want you to take this copy and I want you to give us a 60-second review that we can put in the episode next week. Okay. I already gave him a copy, Greg. Oh, did you have? I did. That was just for show. We already opened it.

That was just for show. And if we said this Friday and if they're listening Monday, that's last Friday, right? Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. We're behind in time, right? Yeah. So it should already be out. and if it's out please give this game a try not just for like

if you've had any interest in a 3D fighting game ever this is probably one of the easiest ones to jump into right now currently and it just re-sparks that Kindle that Soul Calibur 1 and 2 did for me for me personally the only thing that I'll say that they did that was

a faux pa is they announced the DLC character before the whole roster was announced and then that DLC character was available in the beta. That was the only major photo pop. That's kind of weird. I don't know about that. They announced.

The beta is the one thing because it's like announced the game before the game comes out. If it's close to the game comes out Friday, come on. But still, I give the game a try, play it with friends. It's a lot of fun. A lot of the, all the classic characters that you love and miss are pretty much back. As well as Gereldt of Rivia. And Gerelt of Rivia. So we have our-

Who's on the cover. Hell yeah. Well, Link was on the cover too. I get that. This is weird to me. Which is a huge deal? I know Witcher's huge, but is Witcher like a seller? Yes. Yes. Really? Yes. You put him on the cover of this? It's going to sell copies to this game?

It's got a Netflix series. Wild. He's going to actually play with me because the Witcher's in it. I can't get him to play fighting games with me. I look at that roster. I had no connection. From Judge's Week, I was like, oh, Garaltz in it? Yeah. They sold six trillion.

copies of which are three. So anyone who's played so before, please come back to the stage of history. The soul still burns. Soul still burns, man. Soul still burns, man. Which always sounds like an SDB to me. If you're looking for more, check out Eminem's Hellbound.

An amazing song that samples, Soul Calibur won. Final game I want to talk about here. Because we have a long list. Jared, we're going to have to hold some of yours for next week. Wonder song. Oh, Wonder song. That's such a cute little game. What is it?

It's like an indie game. I think it's done by the Humble Bundle people. I don't know who developed it though. I can't think about the top of my head. I'm awful at this. Thank you. Basically, it's a little indie game about a bard. He is trying to save his world from being completely destroyed.

He needs to learn all the songs to do this. Basically, you think like some kind of galliant knight hero would need to go and save the day. But really, it's just this little bar that all he does is sing. Okay. And you have this little wheelbar, basically, with your right analog stick. you can move around on the wheelbar and it does different pitches. And basically as you go through the, basically you get told,

oh no, the world's ending and you go on the quest to like go to the next city and then go find the thing that's going to, you know, the McGuffin that's going to like get you to the end where you save everybody. But basically you talk a lot to people. You get to know them. The dialogue is hilarious.

Like the get like the writing is pretty good. The music is solid. Because that's the whole thing. There's no fighting, right? There's no fighting. Just singing. And you do like rhythm-based games with the, with the music on like singing at different pitches.

That's what I, when you talk about singing at different pitches and all that, when I first heard this, it reminded me a Faye or Fee or however you pronounce it. But it sounds like you and I were talking before the show that it's somehow different. Can you articulate how? I can't really because I didn't play a lot of Faye or Fee. So I don't know how to really like do apples to oranges on that. That's okay. I'm sorry. No, you're not doing.

I should have, more games that are on my like to-do list eventually. There are too many games to play right now. Publure is Humble Bundle. Developers just one person, according to Wikipedia. Just one person? Greg. But the art style looks like it's like paper cut out almost.

Like it's really interesting. It's beautiful. It's people who've shown it to me before and talked about it before and I got a code and download I just haven't had time. I really think you should like at least give like the first like couple. Like give it like an hour. If like after an hour you're really not sold by the dialogue. It speaks to me and like, oh, that's something I want to play. It looks like a Greg Miller game kind of.

Yeah. sounds lovely it is I would definitely check it out it's like I think it's it's it's 20 bucks on the store something like that oh no I can check that for you too yeah but yeah it's but yeah it's super cool like I reckon I based off so far 20 bucks yeah 20 bucks based off what I played so far I haven't finished it so you know reserving judgment maybe I'll go into shit at the end yeah who knows but like so far I've been enjoying my time it's been great to play on the plane on the go like having it on the switch has really just helped me yeah it's great As is all things.

As is all things. But yeah. Quote. But yeah, no, it's a cute little game. I really think you should check it out. Like, it's, yeah, it's good. I'm going to play that. That sounds great.

Yeah, glad. I'm glad. I always support your Indies. Yeah. Jerry. Yes, sir. Now it's time for mobile game or bullshit. It's mobile game or bullshit.

It's mobile game or bullshit. All right. Today's mobile game or bullshit topic is. Can I find the thing on my phone that I just had open? You might be the loser today, Judge. I could be the loser today. I had this open, and then my phone buzzed, and now it's not there anymore. I can literally see it in the preview window.

Please just open. It's coming. Totally choking here. There it is. Boom. Mobile game or Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode. Now, are you a Buffy fan, my friend? I have not, but last weekend, Gia looked at me and was like,

Tim, do you want to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer from episode? one. And I was like, I don't know that I'm ready to commit to that, but that sounds awesome. You and Gia started, Buffy in review. Oh my gosh. Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from season one could be fun. The first season's rough, though. Is it? Yeah, the second season starts a little rough and then becomes around Halloween, it becomes awesome, and then it doesn't stop until the end of season six.

Would you hate me, Jared, if I told you that the only Buffy the Vampire Slayer thing I've ever seen start to finish is the movie? No, I wouldn't hate you for that at all. I think there's a lot of reasons you might never have seen Buffy. It's got a dumb name. I wasn't contemporaneous with that. I didn't start watching until like season six. And then I had to go back and watch it all because I thought it sounded dumb.

But I didn't love it. Once again this episode, James Burke, big fan of Buffy. Even bigger fan of Angel. Oh, Angel. Season 5 of Angel is maybe the best season of Buffy. It's amazing. Oh, season five of Angel. What is a sad story, Angel and Buffy?

Are you going to watch it? You know watch it? No, no, no, don't tell him. Don't tell him. God. Oh, God. I'll tell you what. I was contemporary watching Buffy the Vampire.

I didn't know that, Greg. No, I mean, it was one of those things I had on while I did homework and stuff. And let me tell you, oh, my God. Buffy and Angel story. You watch Angel? Oh, yeah. Remember the one where he had the fucking ring

that could let him go out and he smashed it in? Like, oh, you're fucking crazy. Yeah. That made sense to some people. Did you watch the end of Angel? I don't know. I doubt it. The last season's so good.

Oh, yeah. Oh, it's so great. Did you watch it? I was pretty into Buffy and Angel for a long time, but it's been a, It's been a hot minute. Well, we'll see if these are too easy for you. Well, no, I definitely, I don't know what your experience was.

It's similar to how I didn't really realize, like, episodes of Smallvillehead titles till the DVDs. And so I never watched Buffy on DVD, so I'm not. Every episode of DeGrassey, the next generation and DeGrassey, the normal show, was named after a hit pop song. Yep. Similar to how Friends is always the one with, right? One with, right, yeah. Definitely. There's a lot of fun stuff with episode titles.

Best episode titles of all are Star Trek episode titles. They're amazing. They have the best episode. They'll be next week. Actually, we've done that already. Oh, you already have to start. Yeah, we've done Star Trek. You were out that week.

Oh, okay. Yeah. We might have to have the return of it, though. Damn, you're my good luck time. Whenever you're not here, it seems like I lose to the guest. But whenever you're here, I beat the pants off you. So, Mikey, the rules, just in case you're not familiar with, are going to read you seven. Two.

Seven. Yep, seven today. Seven today. I'd like to do that when we have three people on to avoid ties. Seven different titles, either a mobile game or a Buffy episode title, I will also read you a short excerpt from the mobile game description. Some of these are made up.

Okay. All right. You all ready? Yes. Yes. Number one, starting with Greg Miller. I-Robot Eugene. Description. Tarzan Bot is real. I-Robot, Eugene is a Buffy episode. Buffy episode? Buffy episode.

Buffy episode? Mobile game. Mobile game. Oh. Number two, Tim Gettys. Dirty girls. Oh! So many to date. Oh, shit.

Dirty girls. So many to date. Mobile game. Mobile game. Mobile game. Mobile game. Mobile game. Number three, Greg Miller. Yeah.

Reptile Boy. Leap to the next level before the storms overcome you. Reptile Boy is a Buffy episode. That's a Buffy episode. What are you new, big guy? You're going to average? I'm going to go Buffy episode just because you guys answer. of that and you guys know Buffy.

Do we? Are you sure? Are you sure I'm not just like tricking you? You guys know if reptile boy was a thing or not? Are you sure I'm not just like completely? Fucking Giles up to some reptile bullshit. I'm sure. You know what's up. Zander. Oh man.

Jiles was so cool. Yeah, he was. Number four. Tim Gettys. Killed by death. Killed by death. You can't get any more dead than this. You're so good.

You're so good. I like this game. I think it's funny. I want to say, I wanted to say it was a Buffy episode, but that sounds like a mobile game. We're going mobile game. No, no, no. We're going Buffy episode. We're going Buffy episode.

We're going to Buffy episode. Mobile game. Mobile game. Mobile game. Look at this divergence going on here. Okay, so so far, have you guys all picked the same, Greg and... I think so. Yeah, Greg and Mike are on the same page here.

Tim's all like, do, do, do, do you just walking down. Number five. Greg Miller. Yeah. Band candy. Band candy. 30 days to prom. So it's banned like I'm... B-A-N-D, that band candy.

Okay. What instrument was that? That was a trumpet, but with a lot of extra buttons. Yeah, okay. I love that they're buttons. What are you called? Button. V valves.

Band candy. How do you know so much about band? Huh? I mean, press. that one, Greg knows how many things the trumpet has, two, that they're called valves. That was Kevin who said valves. He said, but I did say valves. He said it. I said, Valves. Don't try to take this away from me.

Can I ever be quiet while I do it. Man candy. Yeah. Mobile game. Mobile game. Really? Yeah. Buffy episode. Mike says buffy episode. That's a buffy episode. Wow. That was, what was that face? Okay, that probably just lost me. It was my American heart face. All right. Number six, Tim Gettys.

Yeah. doppel gangland Dopple gangland If I know one thing about my girl, SMG She would not stand For that bullshit So that's a mobile game Okay, you don't even want the description?

No Okay I do want the description I also would like the description It's Halloween in Chicago And the gangster doppelgangers are on the prow The gangster doppelgangers are on the prow So what you're saying is this is either like

That's a real one or the one you've just made up right? Yeah, it could be either one. Okay. Mobile game. Mobile game. I am going Buffy episode. Buffy episode. I said it before the description, but then your description, wait. I know, but they, come on now. You think they're going to, hey, gang, and then they're going to start with Chicago, and then you're going to go to gangsters. Too late, Jared. Too late. I don't know. They want to do it. Two sensitive, 2018.

Last one. Greg Miller. Yeah. Double meat palace. Jesus Christ. What? Double meat palace. Okay. Build your. Fast food an option. Build your fast food empire. Double Meat Palace, I'm saying is a mobile game.

Buffy episode. It has to be a mobile game. That's not a Buffy episode. Okay, so you're saying mobile game. Yeah. All right. Even though it was the 90s, there's no way they call that. Are you sure? Double meat palace.

All right. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, number one, I-Robot, Eugen, Tarzan Bot is real. Buffy the Vampire. Slayer episode. Tim sucks. We're awesome. All right.

So that's one point for Greg, one point for Mikey. Zero for Tim. Just want to have that on the record. Number two. Dirty Girls. So many to date. Dirty Girls is a Buffy

of the Vampire Slater episode from season seven. You do. You do. I was contemporaneous. I've seen almost every episode. Excellent. We all got that wrong.

So the score is Mikey one, Greg one, Tim zero. That's a Nathan Phileon episode, I believe. Yeah, he was on that episode. God, I can't wait for the rookie. Yeah.

It's already out. God, I put it up on Hulu last night. Unfortunately, oh, go ahead. Sorry for him. I didn't watch, I watched Dancing with the Stars. Oh, my apologies. Yeah. Unfortunately, season seven sucks.

So there is that. His grocery store Joe from Bachelors on it. Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. Number three, reptile boy leap to the next level before the storm overcomes you. Totally a Buffy episode. Yeah.

Everybody gets a point. One time. Two, Mikey, two, Greg, one. Did you know Reptall boy? Yes. No, I just know. How did, how does it feel to be on the board now? You tried playing me off.

How did you try fucking me? Me? What are right? Me and Greg don't know shit. You fucking do. No? Totally. I don't know.

What if I'm fucking with you right now, Tim? Mobile gamer bullshit takes out the worst. It does. It really does. It's like Mario Party. Like Mario Party. Number four, killed by death. You can't get more.

dead than this. You can't get any more dead than this. Killed by death? Buffy episode. Oh no! Tim gets it the only one making the score all twos. Everybody has two. Two to two to two. Everybody tied up with three to go. Two points each. Number five, band candy. 30 days to prom. Band candy? Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode. Damn it. That's right. Band Candy is the one where the enchanted band canty brought by the Evil sorcerer, Ethan Rain, transforms all the adults into teenage versions of themselves.

So then right now, Mikey pulls ahead. Three to my two, to Tim's. Oh, no, Tim, I'm sorry. I missed that one because Tim changed it like a coward. It's actually time. Okay, so right now, Tim and Mikey are ahead of Greg, right? Yeah, they both have three I have two. It feels good.

Number four, or number six, doppel gangland, Halloween in Chicago, did tip Greg off, because that's a Buffy episode. It's three. Oh my God, ladies and gentlemen. It's 333 with one question to go. Wow. Shit.

Have we ever had a tie on mobile gamer? We haven't. I do have a tie-backer. I knew you would. But I just wanted to call out. I don't think it's ever happened before. No, we got to the end once with a tie, and there was a tiebreaker. And it was a week you were gone.

Okay. And then the tiebreaker somehow they tied. It was the wikis. Yeah. And then I just punched each other in the face until we falls down. And then somebody surrendered. Yeah. All right.

Last one. Double meat palace. Oh my god. Ladies and gentle, Double Mead Palace, the Seminole season six classic. Oh my God. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The winner is. The secret was they were all Buffy episodes. Did I just... Right, they were all Buffy episodes. Did I just win mobile game? My God. Holy shit. That was my whole goal when he told me...

You did it. That was my goal. Like, just to... If I could win... Because now I get to go undefeated. Sure. Exactly. That's how it works.

Until next time. Until next time. Well, Mikey, thank you very much for joining us. Once again, how could people follow you? They can follow me on Twitter at Keylock with an E at the N MVP. And at Twitch.tv. What games could they find you streaming over there? They can, I'm obviously going to be streaming Soul Calibur 6.

I got two copies of it, yeah. Three, because he already bought one. I did. But yeah. Soul Calibur 6. you're going to find me playing. I think I was playing over, you'll see me playing Overwatch on sometimes.

I play also some story-driven RPGs sometimes. I was thinking about streaming the world ends with you. But we're probably not for reasons that I'm sure you'll talk about later. Oh, it didn't come on to? The switch version. Oh, really?

It's all right. It's all right. I recommend you find the DS version. Play it there. Does you suffer from one screenitis? Yeah, it does. So it does, but the real the real problem is the television mode. Oh yeah, which is, it's unplayable. It's unplayable. Handheld's fine. It is fine. It does work. I played it a lot on the plane on the way to Japan.

But I don't know. Maybe just a time and place thing. Yeah. But I'm not loving as much. But yeah, you'll, but you can catch me playing JRP's and other RPGs and other action games. Kingdom Hearts 3. Oh, man. January 29th. Maybe not the day of launch. Spoiler. The spoiler, the spoilers. People will just come in chat and just spoil it. The shots in family. You care too much. I care too much.

I care too much. If someone spoiled that game for me, oh, I'd be so sad. But anyways, you got some spoilers for him, Greg? Sure. Give me your Kingdom Hearts 3 spoilers right now.

Oh, fucking Donald Duck has actually been a grub the whole time. Ladies and gentlemen, we will see you next week on Kind of Funny Games cast. Mikey, thank you very much. Thank you. You were great. You were fantastic.

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