Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - The 10 Most Iconic PlayStation Protagonists - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

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Tim, Ma, Boy, Gettys. Oh. You just letting a bathe. Sometimes you don't need to use words. You just need to spread them arms. He did a pose like somebody was going to like dump a bucket of water on top of him. And I was expecting it to happen, Loki. Yeah, Kevin didn't set it off.

Could you imagine? Yeah, he asked right before. I can, unfortunately. There's a bunch of water in front of the video wall all over these cables. I mean, we did set up an entire huge-ass banner for Greg. to have at the beginning of Games Showdown. Yeah, but why this episode of Gamescast?

What about just like a small little water bottle? You know what I mean? Just a little trickle of water just right into his mouth. You know, a little hydration station right there. That voice he here is the lock. Roger Pekorny. What up everybody.

What up everybody? Thank you so much for my dog, Nick, and Roger looking tall. I got a little taller. A little taller on the weekend. A little gross for a little boy, yeah? I'll stretch it. I'm so tired, guys.

I'm so fucking tired. Why? I'd say it up to 2 a.m. last night trying to set up Moonlight, which is a streaming thing, so that I can play video games from my computer to my living room, which is not that far. And Lance is not in town, so I could easily just be hanging out

in the office playing video games on my computer, but I'm like, no, I need to spend my tired night figuring out how to stream video games from my office to the living room. And it's great. It's a great software. Moonlight's awesome. You should use it. But I can't figure out HDR. I don't have an HDR.

monitor and my TV challenges of our time. Exactly. I appreciate the struggle here. I'm fucking working hard over here. I'm a real gamer by playing no games trying to figure out how to play games better. That's how you actually become a real gamer.

I don't admit to how to console. I'm not a real escaper here. Can I admit something? Yeah. I don't want to say any HDR. Yeah. You don't mean either. What's something with HDR?

High dynamic range changes the amount of colors and the quality of those colors that is available specifically in contrast. So that's shadows and brightness. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So you're getting a lot more gamut.

And then other words I don't actually know. But does that make sense? It's kind of like the, what's the special theater that we go to in the Metriotton, Tim? Dolby. Dolby. It'll be vision. Remember they do the whole Dolby like intro where it shows the guy like shooting fire and it looks like kind of washed out on one side, but it looks really good on the other side.

I hate that intro. Is that the same one that like. You won't believe the projector is still on? Yeah, towards the end is like the projector. They're still on. I'm like, I believe you. And the homie jobs do from IGN will always like gasp at that. Like there's the, the projector is still on?

I had that line in my wedding vows and I'm very proud of that. What? I said something to the extent of our, the, our love is so vibrant that you won't believe the projector is still on. Oh, I didn't get that until now. That's great. Anyways, yeah, HDR is essentially like, and this is really dumbing it down, but just to explain it. It is calibrating to make sure that white. is white and black is black

a lot of times you'll look at a TV and black is actually gray and white's actually like off white like a bone or something like that it's making sure those are right those are right and if those are right that means that all the other colors and the shadows and brightness levels and those the white and black levels in red

or in yellow or in blue those are also way more accurate so it allows for more vibrancy and more difference between different colors is it worth it oh yeah yeah the most worth it is like how is it because I feel like if I combine that with OLED, I feel like my eyes might explode. Well, that's, that kind of is it.

Like, that's, like, OLED and HDR go hand in hand in a lot of ways. And that's what's beautiful is that, like, I didn't believe you, right? Like, I was like, this is a crack of shit. I don't know. I don't need high dynamic range, you know what I mean? The blacks look black enough. And then I got the OLED TV. I'm like, this is fucking crazy.

But so then, my issue now, of course, is that I'm now taking non-HCR content, putting on my HDR TV and I'm like, oh, this is disgusting. This is most disgusting. Nintendo Switch, man. Oh, so it doesn't work for, like, non-HCR content. It doesn't work as well.

Yeah, I mean, it doesn't work. Yeah, exactly. Like, so what happens? It looks like shit. It looks really washed out.

Yeah. Oh. So like, they didn't make the black's black enough. Um, well, it just, it's trying to search for the,

it's trying to prescribe levels of blackness. Yeah. To these things. Okay. And then it's like, okay. You know, like Kendall Lamar with Drake.

Okay. I'm waiting for where we were going to go. But yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got to the best place possible there.

come on. That's amazing. Come on, that was great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's essentially, it's translating, right? Yeah. But it's translating the wrong numbers because it doesn't have the right spectrum to be able to play with. It's math, too.

There's numbers. There's a lot of stuff, man. It's wild. But a big problem on PCs in particular is your Windows. You need to either turn on HDR or off HDR. And the Windows OS looks like shit with HDR on because it's not built for it. So you need to kind of turn HDR on just when you're playing games. Because the games have HDR or watching movies that are HDR compatible.

Because if you don't, everything's going to be way too dark or way too bright and it just look funky as all hell. So that's what Rogers do. So then now I have a fake virtual monitor that I've downloaded that is off to the side that I'm trying to figure out how to get my games to turn on there and it's not working out. I don't know what the fuck's going on. So I might have to hit you up and you're not. I don't think you're going to have the answers.

I probably won't. But I'm down to hell. I'm down to suffer with you, Roger. We don't have to suffer alone, everybody. Blewer or not, this episode of the games cast is not about HDR and all the last about it. It is about suffering. It is about suffering because, of course, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday, we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews, and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe.

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Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs and Delaney Twining. So you're brought to you by, Monster Hunter, now, and BetterHelp, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's start with topic of the show. Can I stop you before we get into it? Yep. I have a question to propose to this table, but also to the people at home. My Steam deck.

I love it nearly, and I love it dearly. I have the dock, the official dock. You're plugging in. It's inconvenient, but you have to take the little cable and put it on the top, and then you get to play on the TV. All that stuff's great. I have attached my DualSense controller and other controllers to my Steam deck via the Bluetooth settings, and it works fine.

Yeah. But you always have to go to the settings, then change the order of the controller, which sucks. Oh, yeah, yeah. Am I missing something or is that just the way that things are? I didn't mean to cut you all. That is my question. Is connecting the controller to Steam Deck slightly annoying? And that's just the way that it is?

Yes. That is it. All right. And you can't auto. You can do it through cable pretty easily, which I learned. Yeah, at Evo. Like somebody brought their Steam deck to play Guilty Gear. And I was like, oh, yeah, okay, let's do this dumb Bluetooth thing.

And he just gave me a cable and it worked. What was you playing with a dual sense? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was playing with my dual sense. And it worked perfectly. Oh.

So if you want to play cabled, it's easy because I'm thinking about being on the airplane I want to put my steam deck down and I'm only playing with the real controller yeah yeah you just have to reorder it yeah you can connect it through Bluetooth it might take a second to find but you'll do it and then it was a good idea I'm gonna try this

yeah because then you can insane says USBC is the way Tim okay I'm believing it I'm buying it thank you guys what's the topic of the show the shit list it's been gone of course if you're a patron in 23 was it or 2022 better go in a long time

Years are weird. But we had a show called The Shit List, which was a Patreon-exclusive show where I would go online. I'd find a top 10 list. I'd bring it back to Tim and Barrett or whoever's on the panel. And we judged that list for your amusement. It was a hit on Patreon. Big hit. But the public rarely got the episodes.

It was one of my favorite shows to do. Me too. One of Tim's favorite shows to do. And we're bringing it back as gamescast. I've got three different top something lists. Three. Three different lists. How long is this episode going to be?

I'm very excited about this. I mean, it should be a regular time, right? Like, usually shitless is like a 15. For games cast, it'd be a regular time. Yeah. Shitless for usually 20 to 25 minutes. Yeah? Yeah.

I feel like they're more on the like 35 minutes. You already mean? Well, we'll see. Near the end of shitless, we're definitely doing some crazy long things. Yeah, we have more people now too. Yeah. We'll see.

I'm strapping in, y'all. I ain't trying to complain. There's a chance we might not get to our last. If we're long on the tooth, we can save the last list for another time. Yeah, I like that. The last one is too important, bless. I mean, last one is a good one.

I'm not going to lie. Let's get into it. Let's stop wasting time. I'm wasting time. It's me. I'm the problem. So, again, I bring to you guys a top 10 list. We judge it for your amusement.

Before we get into a preamble, figure out, try to guess what's on the list. And then we go through the list. We judge it. The first list we're doing is the top 10 most iconic PlayStation protagonists. All right? Think about that. The top 10 most iconic PlayStation protagonist.

This list is from Grant Burton at the Gamer, published August Thegamer.com published August 29th, 2023. Now I went on Twitter and I asked people what list should we judge for shit list. One of the replies I got was from Grant Burton. He just gave me his author page on the gamer.

Good for you, Grant. Yeah, he said as someone who used to write for the gamer and who was featured on the shit list before, I may have a few worth looking at. So I went through his list. I love that. I'm not actually read the full list yet. I just saw the headline. I was like, I think this is the one to start off with.

And for those who don't know when we did the shit list as a Patreon, thing. A kind of storied thread throughout the shitless history was our beef with the gamer and how insane some of their top 10 lists would be. So we'll have to strap it and see. I mean, I feel like- We're our fans of Grant though, so. Yeah, and here's the thing.

The top 10 most iconic PlayStation protagonist. I don't think there's much room for us to be upset. Yeah, there's not room for crazy shit. What, Roger? Mr. Medieval. No. What's going on? Mr. Medieval?

The UK loves Mr. Medieval. What's your point? You're going to be upset if he's all. On the list or off the list? Either or any mention of Mr. medieval is his name like, I don't know. Ed. Joe? Ed. No.

Sir Daniel. In the chat. Sir Daniel. That's what it is. Sir Daniel. I'll tell you right now, Sir Daniel's not on this list. I mean, I'm not seen the list, but I'm just saying there's no way to top 10, 20. It's the gamer.

I wouldn't be surprised at Perapa the Rappas on here. Remembering how Peripa the Rappas on here. I didn't. Yes. Yeah. 10? The 10 most iconic PlayStation. 10. Let's start naming them, right?

Okay, going from the high side, right? Cloud. Yeah. Is that a play? Is that? Yes. I imagine it will be. They say PlayStation protagonist. I feel like it's just anything that's on PlayStation, right? Final Face 7 is a PlayStation 1 game. Iconic PlayStation protagonist. I feel like they're going to go. Yep. Yep. Solid snake. Yep. Fredos. Yep.

Sly Cooper. Yeah. Nathan Drake. Yep. Jolie? Jelly. I'd say jelly. I like that. that. I would go, I would say Joel.

Maybe both. Yeah, but I mean, whatever, let's put Joel, just because he's been a protagonist for longer. Astrobot.

No. No. Really? Sackboy, for sure. I would disagree as well, bless. Really?

Astrobots too early, you know? 2023, this list was made. Yeah. Yeah. We had Astros' Playroom.

I know, but that's it. Like, I don't feel like it's, it's hit there yet. I feel like, this is VR razor. I mean, honestly, right now,

I wouldn't put him on this list. We're talking about the most iconic, though. He's not, he's not there yet. He hasn't made it. Yeah. Give him two more games. Then he'll be there. Two more games.

Give him two more weeks. When does this game come out? Come on. Bam! That was great. That was a line, bless. Thank you. That was great.

But Sackboy, then. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. We're a game. We're already eight entries into this thing, and I can list a lot more, I feel like. Alloy.

Alloy. But yes. Alloy. I've never played these fucking games. You don't need to I know Ratchet and Clank Ratchet thank you

That's what I was thinking of I'm looking at the chat Jack Yeah I mean in the commerce No I don't think so I think ratchet Ratchett's the one

I think I'd be surprised If Sly's even here At the end of the day I think I think that Ratchet won the war But like Okay

The PlayStation Yeah So right now What we have written down We have 10 names written down Already What's up Tim Chat's saying sweet tooth

Which I know y'all are going to fucking laugh that. When you think about how much Sweet Tooth has been tied to so much a PlayStation's legacy, I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the list. Mr. Killzone. Laracroft. No. Oh. Yes. That's a PS1 iconic.

Yeah, but I have that Xbox exclusive game. You know what I mean? Yeah, but that is the problem is that I think that for some reason, Laura Croft definitively a PlayStation like icon, but I think over time lost it. I think it might have been because that Xbox exclusivity for such a big

deal whereas like crash went multi-plat but having an Xbox exclusivity it's like oh you played for the wrong team you fucked this up somebody in chat had a good one what Spider-Man I'd be fucking pissed if he's on this guy really? Really? Yeah because he's not a PlayStation protagonist

He's a PlayStation protagonist in a PlayStation game he's a protagonist in a PlayStation exclusive title I know but like it doesn't feel right it just doesn't feel right honestly someone else put out NAC I'd feel better about NAC being on this list of Spider-Man I wouldn't but no yeah NAC put NAC Put NACA. No, here's the thing.

Here's the thing. NAC at two games. We have 10. We have 10. We have 10. We have 10. Both of them, Roger. On actual console, it's not a fucking VR thing.

Exactly. We have 10. If we're making the argument for Astro, we got to be making the argument for NACA. No, we don't. Yeah, we do. Yeah, we don't like Astro. People don't like NAC. You immediately went to Astro and they have the same amount of games.

Yeah, but the amount of games are good. The Astrobot games are good. We got two. fine names. That equals one good game. Delson Rowe. Here's the thing. Okay, I want to read out the 10 names we have. Yeah. Because I think we have a strong list. And I wonder if there's anybody else that anybody here that you would remove

replace anybody else. So the 10 we have written down so far, Cloudstrive, Crash Bandicoot, Solid Snake, Cratos, Slike Hooper, Nathan Drake, Joel, Sackboy, Alooy, and Ratchet. Right now, the only one I could see dropping maybe could be Sly Cooper. And I think the Parapa fits there. Parapa over Sly. I think so. I think perhaps they're equal. There's a legacy to it that I know it's not relevant anymore, but it's like it's,

it was so relevant for a time that I think it always will be. I will also point out. I'm putting Laura Cooper had a movie that was canceled, but they had the intentions to make a movie. So that, that does show that was a powerful character. I'm still putting Spider-Man over the, over any of those. That's crazy. I'm just going to be so mad. Why?

Because it's just like PlayStation protagonists. But I also, are we saying all the Spider-Man? The organization got to play with Spider-Man. I'm saying the modern play. Yeah, but we're just saying, Peter Parker? Are we saying Miles Morales? Which one are we saying? I mean, I'll say Peter Parker.

I would even choose Miles Morales if I'm choosing the one. The one from this specific iteration? I don't know. It's interesting. I don't get that. I don't know, because they made a Miles Morales game, and then he's also like an equal character in Spider-Man 2. So it's like, I don't know.

I would say this list was before Spider-Man 2. Okay, that makes sense. I would say Spider-Man then. You're right. Let's get it. Spider-2 was just a year ago. What the fuck. people are throwing out people like Jins Sakai as well

and um see and Porter Bridges I'll give them shoutouts but no Heaven one blade they made a movie of that too I'm thinking about the movies right like you gotta think all right let's let's get into it again this is the top 10 most iconic

PlayStation protagonist written by Grant Burton of the gamer starting off at number 10 we got Astrobot Wow let's go Doesn't deserve it I mean that's insane Preliminary yeah I think How's that insane

Because Asherbot is not iconic at all I do think that in time How long do you have to be An icon? Yeah You need to be an icon to be iconic You have to be like Ask about an icon

Like I feel like honestly Like non-gamer's to a certain point Need to see this character And be like I've seen that guy before He's on every PlayStation. I do the amount of people that I've talked to That own PlayStation 5s And I have to be like oh Asherobot

I'm like what the fuck is that And I'm like oh it's on your console Do you have a friend right now That owns a PlayStation 5? I have a bunch yeah I'm trying to think Is there anybody we can call and ask Hey do you know who asked

is. Give me a second. Do you know this man? Hold on. Let me see like... Continue. No, because now I'm like, do I know.

I don't want to stop the podcast to look through on my small list of friends. I think who has a PlayStation. Because like Ashtrabot started, I feel like we're treating Astrod as if he started with Astros Playroom. He was around for Astrobat Rescue,

and even before that, with Robot Rescue in the VR Playroom. Oh, yeah. The big iconic. No, but I'm saying he's been around. He has been around. He has been around. He's been around longer than fucking Aloy.

I'm just, If I showed a picture of this man to my parents, they would not know who the fuck that man. They would be like, why are they making a video game based off Walgreens toys? Would your parents know Aloi? Would your parents know Credos? Credos, potentially. We're talking top 10 most iconic PlayStation. We've got to think about it this way.

If they made a PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, who would be in it? Who would be in it? Astromat would be in it for sure. But I feel like if we're talking top 10, I just don't know where things fall. Do I sure you find somebody? No, I did not find anybody. Because the more I thought about it, I was just like, oh, wait, they are all PC gamers.

They don't have it. But like, still, either way. I've talked to people. I swear to God, I swear to God, I've talked to people. And I've asked, I was like, hey, Astro, do you know that? What is that? I can't wait. Can we think Cole is going to be on here?

Someone just brought up Cole in chat. No. I mean, after listening out all these people, like, who would I put Cole above? Right? Like, I don't think I'm putting in, God, why do I keep disconnected? I think NAC should have been here. NAC should have been here. Mack is more iconic in a meme way.

What are you saying? Absolutely. Roger is not being, he's not being serious. Absolutely. I know. I know. And I completely agree with that.

But at least he's a meme. From the list we have right here that we've written out. Who are you removing for NAC? You're saying NAC deserves it over Astro? Yes. I'm saying out of like, you're saying NAC should be on this list. No.

I am saying from this already from top 10. If we're going to put Ashton. You're putting NAC above Astrobat. I would. Yes. More iconic. More iconic. More iconic.

Crazy. If we get 100,000 people in a room, we show them two images. They would know that. One of Jesus and what of neck. No, no, no, no. All right. And I'm all in on the knack memes. I'm all about it.

But video again, he has a lot of fucking viewers. A lot of fucking viewers. People know neck. That was number 10. Number nine, Jin Sakai. No. No. No.

Most iconic. Grant Burton. I'm sorry, dude. I don't know if this list is it. This sounding like shit. I mean, I think it's recency, for sure, is what they're going off of. Maybe, I mean, maybe they're doing the thing that you talked about with Laura Croft, where like you look at a crash and you're like, that's multi-platform now.

You look at a, I don't think you mentioned Spiro, but like Spiro's multiple. But that's my thing. Crash over Spiro, ratchet over Jack and Sly. Like, when we're talking top 10, you've got to start making some concessions. You have to start choosing some things over others. Number eight. We got Celine from Return. So they are doing only exclusive games that are released on PlayStation 5.

So like, if the entire list is that, then we have to kind of reframe our brains. Iconic, absolutely, I mean. Return of one of the best games this generation. No fucking doubt. Celine? Even over Astrobat? They made a comic book. The name of the list is the top, the 10 most iconic PlayStation protagonists.

You're failing at that headline. I'm like, I'm looking at the first. two paragraphs, right? I'll read the first two paragraphs to give full contest. Fuck yeah. The protagonist is the most important character of any video game, especially if that game is story or character driven. The protagonist, typically the character you play as, is the character you'll root for, who you'll spend the most time

with. Some games allow you to create your own player or character, or sorry, your own player character. Some push it farther and have you developed their personalities, their choices and actions. This is like when you need me to meet a word count. Yeah, absolutely. Other games have pre-developed characters for you to play as.

PlayStation has earned itself a reputation over the years as one of the best companies when it comes to publishing single player character-driven video games. Part of the success is due to its creation of engaging likable iconic protagonists. Each of their games has a distinct hero in the lead spot for audiences of all

diversities to play as, but some of them are better than others. Here we look at the best PlayStation protagonists we've seen thus far. That's the intro. There's nothing. That's what best is not iconic. The best is different than iconic. The words in the headline do not match. But like, is Celine either?

I don't know. We'll have to keep looking at the worst. I would argue the story of Celine and the process of her story. Listen. Does make her a strong, for best, best told character or whatever. But like, she's like a, like a best. We're not saying Returnals' top 10 stories. I love the Returnal story.

Don't get me wrong. But like, come on. But she also reminds me of like Jesse from control where it's like, that character isn't amazing. It's like, she's like the vessel for that entire story, right? You know what I mean? like it's kind of that vibes. I would never say she's like

an amazing character but everything around it is great. Yeah. Also Calvin Perez brings up a good point if it's best then why the fuck is Astro on here? Come on, you know. Come on. Astro's one of the best.

And I love Astro, but like... See, if it was best, I would be like, no, Astro needs to be on here. He does the Carlton Nance. Moving on to number... Number seven. Number seven, we got

Sam Porter Bridges. Jesus fuck. From Death Stranding. I'm done. I'm done, man. What are we doing? So I've infamously never played this game. What's his deal?

I mean, I like his character a lot. He's not one of the most iconic. Yeah, he's got to be. Is he Norman Reedis? Like, just Norman Reitas? Yeah, he's Norman Reitas. Yeah, he's known Redis with a baby. And he has like a cool fucking, like,

he pisses, he pisses sometimes, creates in shits and creates bombs out of that. And he has his little guy, his little detector that tells you where the, what they called? Spirits are at. It's been a year since I played this game. but yeah, no. He's not one of the most iconic PlayStation protagonists. Would you call him one of the best? No.

Moving on to number six. I was just, no, never mind. I was not going to make the argument, but I was just going to be like, oh, he's Norman Reidus, right? So it does make him inherently iconic, right? Because it's like, you see the guy and you also know he's in Death Stranding,

but like, I'm not going to make it like the argument that he's the most... Here's the thing. Yeah. Most of the other characters in this game, I'd argue are better than Norman Reedus in this game, right? Not necessarily from performance, but maybe even from performance.

He's giving, what up? Like, well-known, iconic, right? I mean, well-known for sure. I see that, and I'm like, oh, that's that's your ending, right? Sure, I guess. I think compared to other characters, even in his own game, he's very, like, normal, like, straight, like, just, he's a fucking delivery man. He's doing his thing. When you meet Mama, you're like, oh, there's some personnel.

When you meet Troy Baker in this game, you're like, oh, that's personality right there. This character, the same Port of Bridges, isn't like a very, he doesn't have big personality. like that. No aura. That's a perfect way to put it. ORA. Moving on to number six. We have Aloi for Horizon. Okay. Yeah. Which I would put there. Yeah, that makes sense. I would put it lower

on a list that makes sense. I would put it. The lower half the list isn't made up of people that shouldn't be on the show. Are we going to see anything before the PS4? Aloy's not iconic. I'm just going to fucking say it. When we're talking PlayStation, iconic PlayStation, no, they want it to be, but it's just not. She's number nine or ten. I think she is. I don't know. man. I really don't think so yet. On a list that makes sense, I think she would be low on the list. I think like, yes, they have tried and yes, a lot of us have not gravitated towards that.

But in terms of like pushing and marketing her as a character, I think that has pushed through that like. Exposure and icon, different things. Define icon. I think to be iconic, I think there's the combination of being popular and having something about it that it's like when there's, like, when there's an association immediately of when you hear the thing you think of that thing too. When I think PlayStation, I don't think of Aloy immediately. Really? Like, I'll get

there. I'm not arguing that she's not on the list like somewhere. I feel like she's not top six. That's for goddamn sure. But even then, I could see an argument that she's around like the 11 to 15 range. Because there's so many iconic PlayStation

characters, like protagonists even. Yeah. I think I agree as far as placement. I think she belongs on list because when I do think when I think modern PlayStation, Aloi is one of the people I think of, right? It is Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Cratos, A-Loy, Joel, Nathan Drake, right? I think A-loid does stand beside them, and I think she does have the benefit of, you know, I think the visuals, like the standoutness of how Horizon looks as a video game compared

to the other things, right? Like, her style just stands out. And then also, she's one of the few female protagonists that you have on that level that is doing that in a AAA open world game, right? and like Ashley Burch, I think brings that as a performance. Like, of course, there are complaints about A-Loy as a character, and, like, people might not vibe with a personality and all this. But I think on the iconic status, I think she does stand out.

I think she is, like, a, oh, I wouldn't be surprised to walk by this in, like, what's the toy shop called? Sure, let's say GameStop. I was going to say Toys R Us is what I was thinking of. Like, if I'm walking down Toys R Us aisle and I see Aloy, you know, I'll buy that for my nephew or something. And something I want to point out is, like, I believe, Horizon was the first game from PlayStation and the modern era to go to PC

and it has a huge audience there of people that don't necessarily play PlayStation games and this is the first time they played a PlayStation team in a very long time and there's a huge association with PlayStation and Aloi in that community like I've seen it a lot I've seen PC gamers be like oh I love Horizon I'm like the fuck you play Horizon like it I don't know

that association and Aloa has kind of grown a lot I've seen more Prapa the rapper cosplay that I have Aloid cosplay Oh you have not you absolutely have I've seen so many Aloid cosplay. You're not at the right conventions. We got to take you to the right conventions.

All right. Throw another PSS. He just looked deep into my soul. Like he had the image and he wanted to show it to me in his eyes. All right. Moving on to number five, we got Ratchet and Clank from Ratchet and Clank.

Pick one. It should be two separate. Two separate. Yeah, you got to pick one. It's Ratchet. And it's Ratchet, of course. Although shout out of my guy.

Clank. I ain't mad about combining them because it is Ratchet. Clank's there too, though. But he was a secret agent, too. Yeah. Don't forget about that part. Yeah. Don't forget.

definitely never forget. I try to. And number four, Nathan Drake. Yeah. Now let's pause here. Who's in the top three? Oh.

Because right now, we don't have, we don't have Kratos, we don't have Kratos, we don't have Kratus, we don't have Solid Steak, we don't have Joel. See,

I don't think they're going to do third parties. At this point, I'm thinking Kratos, yeah. Spitey. Joel. Spidey.

Yeah. Cratos is number one. Yeah. Yeah. Cratos is number one Cretus is number one No I think they'll put Joel number one Crados number two Spidey number three

I don't think I'm saying Cratos Spidey Joel I swear I've been more With the rest of this list And the vibe from the rest of this list I just I think Spidey is gonna be on here Are we missing something? Oh could it be cloud still

I mean we have It doesn't seem like it But we have Final Fantasy 7 remake Yeah but this is all I think this is all first party Yeah this is all been first party characters NAC Jack. That's a great call.

People get it. I think we have our three. Top three. At number three, we got Peter Parker slash Spider-Man. Disgusting. And they said Peter Parker specifically. Peter Parker specifically. Fuck Miles Marles. This list, I am sorry. I'm sorry, Grant. I love you. I don't love this list. I don't even like it. In fact, I dislike it.

It's mis-titled. It's just mistitled. If you said, hey, in the last 10 years or something like that, right? PlayStation first party protagonists of the last two areas. Of the last decade. Who are we missing? Number two, we got Joel and Ellie.

No. Joel and Ellie of the last of us is number two. Got to pick one. Also, no Jin Sakai. Putting Celine above Jinzakai, I think, is nuts. Assuming Chinakai is it number one. Wait, no, he got him. Oh, did we get him? Remember? And we didn't agree with it.

I think was number nine. Oh, you're right. You're right. Never mind. No, this should not be too separate. It should not be one thing. Joel and Ellie need to be Even more so than Ratchar and Clank, I know. And it should be Ellie. And number one,

we got Cretos from God of War. There we are. Yeah. Not Cretus and Atreus? The only good thing about this thing. Yeah, why is not Creos and Attrace. Yeah, come on.

It's a fuck up. Can we have a quick conversation? Yeah. Is Cratos the most iconic PlayStation character? Yes. Yeah. Okay, cool. I mean, if we're going,

what are the parameters we're going by? Just the most iconic. I might put cloud above Kratos. I think the physical red line on his face is literally iconic. You could just draw that silhouette and be like, boom, that's the dude, that's PlayStation. Yeah, but I mean, I feel like I associate this more

with PlayStation, right? Like, I don't know. Modern PlayStation Kradles for sure. Yeah. I don't put crash there anymore. Yeah, exactly. I feel like it has like it's been on so many different platforms just so long.

Yeah, I still go Kratos. You're saying cloud is not a, big really? No. That's wild. I think Final Fantasy is a franchise. Like, I would say bigger than God of War?

I guess I would have to check sales recently. I mean, honestly, I know I didn't grow up in the start, but like for me, it is almost kind of an afterthought, the PlayStation element of it all where it's like, oh, I associate it with Final Fantasy. I associate with one of the greatest games of all time. I don't necessarily like connect the PlayStation element to it,

because I didn't. Yeah, we weren't there when it was like. Yeah, it was dealing. Yeah, I associate Kratos. That must be an age thing. And that's weird because I'm not that much older than you. I guess I was around when Final Fantasy 7 had come out, but I was really, I was like maybe two. Because I remember growing up and maybe this still is exclusive.

This might be classic versus modern thing, right? Of like growing up the conversation for greatest game of all time was either Final Faces 7 on PlayStation or Zelda Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 64. And I just, like those weren't conversations or thoughts that I was having playing those games. Like playing Final Fantasy, playing Chrono Trigger, playing Super Mario and stuff like that. It was just like, oh, it's a video game. And even still like Final Fantasy 7 is exclusive, right? So I still have that connection. But I think modern times I would give it to Cratos.

Yeah. I think the fact that it's a tough one. We've had two arrows of Cratos that are both incredibly important and both iconic to PlayStation. I just give it to Cratos overall. We got another list we're going to look into. Let's do that. But before we do that, I want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and YouTube.com slash kind of funny games.

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H-E-L-P dot com slash Kind of Funny. And we're back. And first of all, I want to shout out Grant Burton in the chat. Of course, the author of the article that we just went through mentioned that the iconic wording wasn't him. Originally was the best PlayStation characters, to which Grant we say, that's the only comment that you have. You don't want to address anything else that's going on in this list.

But then secondly, we do have a segment at the end when we finish going through a list where we do rank a list. Is it the shit, which is a thumbs up? Or is it shit, which is thumbs down? Roger. It's shit. It's shit. There's no question. It's shit.

I love your, Grant. I'm so sorry. But it just, no, man. I don't know. I'm not as mad at the list as you two are, but I'm still going thumbs down for it. Just for like, even if we're going through the parameters of, if we're adding in modern or ever changed the wording to best, right, and keeping within the parameters, I still don't love the ordering. Yeah. I'm still like, I don't know.

I feel like I'll make some changes to that. But I think- And there's also the cheating of, you know, tying two people together and some of the rankings. It's like, make some decisions. Mm-hmm. Make some hard decisions. Where's NAC? Not that decision.

Oh. Let's move on. To our second list, the 16 best video game movies of all time ranked from Esquire. This one was submitted on Twitter by Matt Rorbeck. Oh, okay. Oh, you submitted it. Yeah, it wasn't written by Matt, but submitted from Esquire. This was published August 25th, 2023.

So about a year ago, the 16 best video game movies of all time ranked. Pixels. Pixels. 16. Where do we start here? I mean, okay. Just what, 16's a lot.

Yeah. Sonic. Sonic. Sonic 2? Oh, I go Sonic 2. I go Sonic 2 as well. I go Sonic.

Detective Pikachu. That's where I was going to go. Detective Pikachu. Do we count? Pokemon the first movie. Yeah, that gets a little, that's an anime. I doubt it.

I doubt it's counted. Yeah, I feel like this is probably more of like the Hollywood adaptations of video game. Was when Mario came out spring of last year, right? Yeah. I'm saying Mario. Yeah, Mario, for sure. Mr. Surfer, Burn in the chat said, Rekit Rolf, which I think is great.

Hmm. Oh, man. I mean, it has video game characters. It's video game themed. I think it's a video game movie. I agree, actually. It's not a video game adaptation. Is that the title?

Video game adaptation or is a video game movie? Video game movies? Yes, then I think it's... Well, Scott Pilgrims of video game. That's a good one. No. I don't think... I think Rekin-Routh because, like, Bowser and, like,

Robotnik, and people do show up. Yes, cameos. I threw out pixels as a joke. I think not saying the quality is the same, but I'm saying Reckett Ralph is more in that category of like it's more of like a reference and love letter to video games and not a video game movie. And I don't think Scott Pilgrim is on the list for that same reason.

I'll leave Rickett Ralph off for now. We can circle back to it when it inevitably shows up on this list. I mean, 16 is just a lot. 16 best implies that there's a quality there. You know what I mean? and I just, I don't know if there are Mortal Kombat. And yeah, that, like,

It's the nostalgia aspect of it. Well, there's the newer Mortal Kombat that I know. I'm saying the first one. That's a tough thing is that like, real, like the new Mortal Kombat is a better movie. The nostalgia factor of the original sure is there. I think it's cool to be like, hey, the nostalgia

but like none of the Mortal Kombat movies, I would say are legitimately good. And that's the tough thing is when you say 16 best video game movies, if they were saying iconic, then I'll say yes, Mortal Kombat for sure. 16 best video game movies and you're putting Mortal Kombat on there? It should have been iconic.

I'm interested to see what the list shakes out to be because if it's just 16 freaking movies. Professor Trees. Uh, Tron. Yeah. That's Tron's good. Tron. Sure.

What's the type one? Petra's legacy. Yeah, someone else shouted out Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider. Angry Birds. Those movies are actually pretty good. Yeah, we're definitely just naming movies now. Those are actually, people like those ones.

Like what? Angry Birds. No. It's wild because I was watching a video of, have you seen this guy? He was the kid that did the CG animation of the Lego in Spider-Ver. He's like, I don't know,

like 13 or something like that. And he was like, the movies that inspired me and he like lists a bunch of like, and he's like Angry Birds. Like Angry Birds like change my life. That movie's awesome. That's a kid. I know,

but I'm saying like if you look at, I think those movies are like not extremely well received, but like third base hit. I would love to see. I'm interested in that. Because I thought that was not the case. I need two of them. It's got 72% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I mean, if we're going for 16, it's got to be on that list. Here's the thing, right? There's some of you in chat that are saying Grand Turismo. Grand Tourismo came out, I believe, of August last year. I think this list was made for Grand Turismo. This list is August 25th. Yeah. I mean, Grand Turismo belongs in top 16 for sure.

Yeah. Definitely a movie. So, man. Yeah. It's a competent movie. I feel like we named like two fantastic movies. then we couldn't name anymore. Yeah.

I mean, there's all the Resident Evil's. Doom. The Silent Hill, Doom, House of the Dead. I loved it. Even though it's horrible. Dead or alive. I love it. It's horrible.

All the Uie Bowl movies. But yeah, we're talking about trash, but I'm not about best. Let's get into the list. Let's get into the list. I feel like this is going to be one that I want to like talk shit about the list more than. Yeah. As we get in, let's start.

Again, this is Esquire top 16 or the 16 best Vogi movies of all time ranked. At number 16, Street Fighter, 1994, Jean-Glaude Van Damme, and Raw, Julia. Look, I mean, it's bad. Like, there's no bones about it. This is a bad movie. It is fun.

There's a lot of silly things in it. It coming in at 16, we better only go up from here. Someone else in the chat said, I'm charted. That's a good poll. Oh, fuck. We're working with mid here, man.

Yeah. I don't know. That's what video game movies are. Yeah, but why is this top 16? This should be a top five at this point. Yeah. If you're going to go for quality,

just make it top five and make Mario. So people can read it and, you know, there's a word count and people can argue about it on the internet. I just feel like they don't call it ranking video game movies as opposed to like 16 best. Because like that implies that this is one of the best. And number 15. Jesus Christ. It's pixels.

Bet you didn't think pixels would be on here, huh? That's how that starts off. That's how it starts. Hey, Esquire, we didn't. We fucking didn't. They thought they were a little cheeky with that one. We got your ass. Shit.

Oh, fucking shot, dude. I will say, I mean, the... Hold on. Hold on. There's a compelling argument. 2015 probably told you to hate anything and everything, Adam Sandler. Well, it's 2021, and we like the Sandman again. We do. We saw Uncut Gems. We didn't see any of his other movies, but we saw Uncut Gems and we like them again. I mean, Uncut Gems is fired. It's great. I mean, with what they're saying, like, the actual, like,

the actual, like, CGI of it all, sick. The movie fucking. sucks, but, like, you know, you see the Pac-Man, it's like, oh, it's cool. Like, there's a lot of all, like, Cuberts in it. Did you know that, did you know that Josh Gat fucks Cuberd in that movie and makes a little Cubert babies? No. You're lying. I swear, what?

I swear, at the end of this movie, Cubert, I believe, changes into a beautiful woman who he was like, he, you know, is an alien, these are all aliens, right? And then they, like, saw, like, the, the arcade machines and they're like, oh, like, we, we want to be these, whatever. They turn into all these fucking characters, right? these are aliens. And then Josh Gad

fell in love with like a pixelated woman and then it turned into this pixelated woman but in like in real life it's like actually Kubert. So then they have Kubert babies. So yeah, Josh Gad fucks Kubert. And they let that happen? Who holds the rights to Kubert? I got to know.

He loved it. I mean honestly, I described that. I'm like fuck, this should be number one. That's pretty solid. Like Atari, let that happen. I mean, Atari, come on. We watch you the movie? Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

Oh, so, oh, was it on the... Yeah, I guess it was Atari. Anyway, this does... This does... This does make room for Scott Pilgrim being back on the list. Oh, yeah. That's top three right there. And Reck and Ralph.

And Reckett Ralph, for sure, is on this list now. Yeah. Holy shit. All right, moving on. Number 14, Uncharted with Tom Holland. Yo, you're telling me that Uncharted... Right above pixels. Uncharted is right above pixels at 14.

I'm already so pissed. at this list because there's no way that there's 13 movies better than Uncharted. No fucking way. 13 video movies? There's just not. I mean, kicking open the door, kicking open the door to like

Pixel style movies, I think you could. Yeah. I don't think so. Because what, Ready Player 1? They're not going to. Ready Player 1 is worse than Uncharted. But also, wait. There's no fucking question.

I've never watched Ready Player 1, but I have watched Uncharted. And Charter was like thoroughly okay. I will, and this is where the art. Is that where you're putting Ready Player 1? You're saying it's bad? No, Ready Player 1 is not okay. Oh, okay.

But I will say, like, and I think this article already fucked in my argument stick with me, of like, we're talking about video game movies, right? Like a thing that represents video games, I think Ochar does that very poorly, and it does not actually represent, like, the idea of that franchise as well. I mean, especially with Nathan Drake and Sully, like, I don't think that they represent Sully very well, and they don't really represent Nathan Drake as well either. I think it, but pixels, actually, like, if you look at the representation. I'm just trying to say, like, fuck it, what we're saying, but, what we're saying, but, record Ralph, like, that. That's like a representation of video games lovingly, and I can easily see that. For me, Uncharted has the tenets of the Uncharted games. I think it just lacks the aura and the Riz.

Which I think is very important. Factors of Uncharted, and that's the reason that franchise is so good. And moving on to number 13. We got... Fucking. Assassin's Creed. I'm 2016. I never saw it, so I don't know how bad this actually is.

They're making a Watch Dogs movie. Have any of us seen this? No. Sorry. I'm not seeing it, no. I got nothing to say. It's, it's very whatever. It's... This feels like a list that's meant to insult me to do. Like, the point you were making to him of like, if you're going to make a top blank best, like, I'm starting to see now of like, this doesn't belong on a top best. Is he Alt Tire or Desmond? Oh, not Desmond or, I don't...

It's an original story from whatever I remember. It's an O-C. But like they were trying to do AC1 essentially, but, like, like, it's a fast-o-C-1 essentially, but, like, Because Ebussov, I'm pretty sure, was involved in the story and... Prince of Persia. Oh, shit. Oh, shit, guys. How high is it going to be?

Oh, how high? And number 12. We got the Resident Evil series. From 2002 to 2016. That's, you can't just have an image from the fucking movie, I guess. You can't do that. Game? Yeah, is that from the remake?

What is that? Is Harry 2 or is that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then, yeah, no. The Resident Evil series of movies. I love the Resident Evil series of movies

for what they are, which is just you know, this can't be trash, trash, trash. I even enjoyed the Resident Evil, the remake, not remake, the newest movie. I don't know why I'm blank about what this was. No, that was the show. Oh. The movie, the really low budget one that came out

in the theater, Rockland City or whatever. Or is that the show too? No, no, it was that one. But again, I enjoyed that for being what it was. bad. Are these movies fun, bad movies? Like if I watched that and I got drunk with, oh, fuck, I'm gonna do it this weekend. Oh, yes. I needed that this weekend.

Watch R-R-I-1, dude. Like, R-1 is iconic for all the Rockies. I needed that. I was gonna watch Daredevil, so fuck that. The movie? I mean, sorry, yeah, with Ben Affle. Okay, yeah. That's a great time, too. Yeah, so I don't know.

No, dude, dude, I already would. That's good. At number 11, we got Warcraft. Fuck, okay. So, from here, from here, On out, it should be good movies, right? Because Warcraft was good. What's it? I thought it was. I think Warcraft is, I haven't seen it, but from what I get the vibes of,

equivalent to the vibes of Uncharted. Of like, yeah, it's not bad, but they didn't do it right. Yeah. Made a lot of money in China. It's got a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's pretty good. 76 audience score, though. We know the audience is always right. You know the critics are always wrong. The critics are always wrong. The audience is always right.

At number 10, we got Sonic the Hedgehog to you. Come on. Yeah. 10. Get this higher. Well, Sonic Hedgehog 1. But 2 is better than 1. I don't know. Two is like,

two is better than one. Okay, but like, here's the thing. If this list was all of this, Sodom the Hedgehog 2, saw the hedgehog 1. Like that's, I mean, whatever it is. Like, it would be like two and one.

I, that's what the real answer would be, but they need to spread it out. They need to spread it out. I don't know. I feel like Sond of the Hedgehog 2 is better than one, especially as a video game movie

by enough of a margin that other movies could fit in there. Sure. I get re-same. but all right motherfuckers from here on out you better be cooking with gas yes they're not gonna be cooking with gas they're not gonna be blessed

we'll see at number nine we got Jesus fucking Christ Moral Combat 2020 I don't like this movie man Fuck that movie No it's not a fuck that movie I'm with rocked that movie No no no no this movie

You had everything going for it You made an OCE why the fuck are we making a OEC? It's not making OCs That's the biggest problem This movie is not great. It is not at all bad. It could have been so much better. There's sick-ass shit in it

though. It's mortal combat. It's just disappointing. It is disappointing. It is a very disappointing movie. Yeah. At number eight, we got Tomb Raider, 2018. Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I also haven't seen it. But this is one of those ones where you watch the trailer and you're like, this is an example of why

sometimes you don't need to be entirely faithful to a game because then it's like, why am I watching this movie? Yep. And number seven, we got Grant-Rismo. Oh, shit. Like I said, They watched it. They came out the theater and they're like boom. We got to make a list, guys. I'll walk with it, man. All right.

That's sick. At number six, the Super Mario Brothers movie, 2023. Again, I feel like on a list that we would agree with, I think roughly this or number five. Yeah. This is like right placement for maybe the wrong reasons. Yeah. Like, I feel like to get to the top five and be like, all right, whatever. It's a good way to say that.

I like that. Man, I mean, I've been okay with 10 through six. Let's see where we are. Final five here. And number five, we got Final Fantasy Advent Children. That's actually fire. That's fire.

You know what? They're in their back from that. They were in their back. That's great. That's great. shot up to you, Esquire. You're bringing it back. I still don't think you should have called this list best, but okay. Okay. What a good movie. What a time? What an entire experience. Is it a good movie? I was having a fucking blast, dude. It's a fun movie. It's a fun movie. It doesn't have the aura and the vibe. It does.

100% off the chart. It's just the Batman Beyond movie, but like with Final Fantasy. I don't know what that means, but sure. It is. It's not wrong. It literally is. It's fire.

And number four, we got Sonic the Hedgehog 2020. Oh. Yeah, I don't like putting this above two. I just can't. I guess I haven't rewatched the first one. Got to give me a 2020?

It's very, it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, two is better. We give it the credit it needs because it,

opened the door to two in the future. And number three. Reck it Ralph. Yeah. Yeah. What is top two? Don't show Barry,

but yeah, like for us. I think Scott Pilgrim is going to be here. I think Scott Pilgrim. Reckett Ralph is. And the Detective Pikachu. Oh, Tron. Tron is on there.

It's Tron is number one. Yeah, it's going to be Tron. I'm going to say Tron number one I think that might do detect Pikachu one. Just to be like, oh, look at us. We're role gamers. This is that. was a fake game. This is a real game. Based on

a lot of the games on the latter half of this list, I'm insulted that Tetris isn't on here. The Tetris movie is legitimately good. It did. Oh, it did? Yeah. That was fine. But it's like, it's better than, it is better than the bottom half of this list. For sure. Are you sure? Tetris? Yeah. That was last year, right? Oh, wow. I was like

screening of last year. Oh, yeah, that was 2020. That was fun. Any other predictions? No, let's get into it. At number two, Detective Pikachu. Oh. Which means at number one. I love, it's not good though. And I feel like...

Really? Yeah. I thought it was good. I mean, I watched it when I was... For video game movies, it's fine. I wish we got a sequel. I feel like we were cooking something. The character designs, the world they made, the neon of it all so good.

But there was a lot of really bad decisions in that movie. And I feel like in terms of it just being a experience you're watching, it's like, yeah, it wasn't a good movie. I wish it was Sonic one in the sense that it opened us up to, expanding on it. Did that movie not do well? Why do we not get a sequel? It didn't do.

Well, the problem is it came out in the same month as right around Avengers Endgame and the Lion King remake that made over a billion dollars and Aladdin came out right around that. Like it just got buried. God, what a cute character. What a cute little character. I feel like this is like a good one for kids though, but it just didn't reach. All right.

Number one, it's got to be. What? No. What the fuck are we doing? No. not doing this. First of all, okay, so for audio listeners, number one is Mortal Kombat 1995, which opens

up so many questions. One of them being, you put the Resident Evil series on here and you separate out to Mortal Kombat movies. Secondly, this is not a good movie. This is a bad movie. No, man. This is a very bad movie. Yeah. But I told you, it is cool to

love this movie, to love the nostalgia of it. Where's Mario? Roger and Bless Art T. Young to know why this is great. I was on Mortal Kombat. I watched it. I know. I was fucking I was on the in review for this one. I was just freaking out that they even had the boss to do that. A right decision. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. I, yeah, no, that's, it's funny. It's a funny look, but I get it. I also get it because I think that that was like the intersection, at least for a generation, for my generation, when I was growing up, like, oh shit, like, video games could be something bigger. They could be movies. The Moral Combat movie did that too?

My Aunt Randy show, that's me. I was like, wow, video games could be bigger than video games. Because, like, I'm not a hater of this movie. I think this movie's fun. Yeah, I love moral combat. franchise and so yeah, I'm bought into this movie. But yeah, as far as like a good movie, you're saying 16 best video game movies.

Mortal Kombat, be number one? I don't know, man. I don't know, man. I don't know, man. For Rodgers reasoning, I do think it deserves to be on the list. Sure. But again, the order of this list is fucking all over the place. Tron should have been here. That's crazy.

That's crazy. That's crazy. They put Rekker Ralph and Pixels on here. They didn't put Tron. All right. Pix. All right. Is it the shit or is it shit? Dude, I gotta give it a thumbs down

Just because like the premise is bad And I feel like the ordering's messed up They kind of were cooking a little bit In the top 10 but like even then Nah Yeah, I'm not with the blessing as he was in the first list I'm not too mad at it like you guys are But like I think it's still the shit

I mean shit I want to quick fire one more list To hopefully bring spirits up Okay Because I'm looking at this one and I'm like It's a hard list to fuck up all right It's called the 12 best horses in video game history

Horses. Horses. Horses? 12 best horses. The 12 worst horses. Worsts horses on the camp. The 12 best horses in video game history. This is from, once again, the gamer.

It was published July of 2022. It was submitted on Twitter by deciduous forest. Any quick guesses? I'm going to say the shadow of Colossus horse. I'm going to guess Ipona not number one. Apona's got to be number one. Apona has to be. If not, it's roach.

It's the gamer, dude. It's the, The gamer's gonna put like the darksiders horse. Yeah. Like, I just feel it. I think Roach is gonna be, I could see Roach being above Epona, even though Roach was really frustrating in that game. I'm saying the horse from Ghost of Tsushima.

What's the Shadow's name? It has a name. Agro. From Shadow Clauses? Agro. Okay, yeah. I want the horse from Red Dead 2 that ball, they shrink. I want that one.

The ball shrink and horse. That's actually an excellent call. Ball Horse. Thank you. Red Dead. What about the shitting horse from Metal Gear? solid five. Oh, I like that shitting horse. Shitting. The horse is what it's named.

Dooky. Wow, we already got like a In Eldon Ring, there's a pretty sick Oh, yeah, but this is, what year did Eldering come out? 22. Oh, this was right after Eldon Ring came out. They must have made this list after Eldon Ring. I was watching Barrett play with this horse one time. Torin. And I was like, God damn, that's one sick ass horse. He's a great horse.

He's probably my favorite horse to control because they're just like control it like a character. No. I think Torin's like top five But I think the connection that we have to Oppona and Roach And Agro's moment in the story Those are top three right there Brings up the horse and lots of us too

Hmm No I mean it had an emotional moment somewhat Yeah but I was like so early in the game That I forgot that horse That was even in the game All right We can get it

I mean we don't have to spend too much time on this Because really in the episode I'm blanking on horse Horse I feel like here's the thing The horse armor that's all I was thinking worst horses I thought they're gonna bring up the horse armor

from like Skyrim or something Or no, oblivion right? Yeah, Bluivian, Morwin for the horse armor, that was oblivion. It was, okay, I gotcha. Yeah, horse armor was oblivion. Sure, I'll say Elder Scrolls horse. Someone said Yoshi.

I'd love him Yoshi's all right. Actually, not that Yoshi should be on here, but like, is there a horse that's a character? Like a, like a Bojack horseman style? Thinking through like, like, Pokemon, there's no, like, I mean, Ponetop, Rapidash, but like, I, I doubt they'd be on the list here. They're sick, though. Oh, but stallion from Borderlands, right?

But, style. I don't know, I never, what is But Stalian? I'm looking at Roger, like, he's the borderlands expert. Isn't I like a gun or something that shoots things up its butt? Like, like, it's like, I'm pretty sure. Mm. Someone said there's a horse from Animal Crossing. No.

Oh, I mean, probably. Oh, I guess, oh, the character. I was like, I remember riding a horse. Alright, let's get into it. Yeah. Again, this is Sam Halahan at The Gamer. Starting at number 12, Shadow Mirror from the Elder Scrolls. Yo, this horse looks sick.

This horse looks like, I am crossing the street if I see this horse. You have a blindfold? What's going on with his eye? I think he's just a red eye. Oh, he's an evil horse. Yeah, he's shadow bear. And number 11, we got the hero's horse from Dragon Quest 11.

Okay, yeah, all right, respectful. At number 10. Poppy? His name was Poppy? I don't like it. I don't like it. I had a different horse. I forgot her name, though.

Poppy from Animal Crossing. He looks like a giraffe. I don't like it. Yeah, I agree. I like a sweater, though. Why'd you say it like that? At number nine, we got the horse of your choice from Kingdom Come deliverance. I feel like that's cheating.

I feel like we're just calling out games with horses. Yeah. The horse of your choice. No, I need a specific horse. Yeah, horse me up. And number eight, Agro, Shadow Colossus, that's low. Eight?

That's low. After what Agro did for you? Like, come on. Come on, dear. At number seven, four horses of the apocalypse from Undead Nightmare. Oh, that's pretty sick, actually.

I fuck with that. At number six, Jen's horse from Ghost of Tsushima. Of course, you can pick the name of your horse, which is why they just have to say Jens horse. Okay, I'm okay with that. At number five, Roach from the Witcher three.

I would expect a top three. Yeah, same. I mean, whoever said Torrent might be number one is, it might be on the money. It's a Pona, man. I'm not saying. I feel like it's going to be, again, it's the gamer, Tim. Oh, my God, you're always going to.

It's going to be a Pona number two and then Roach number, or Torrent number one. And number four, shimmer from the last was part two. No, get the fuck out of here. Nobody remembers shimmer. Yeah, I mean, they never turned into a shimmer. You know what you mean? There's an emotional moment. Oh, yeah.

Shimmer. There's an emotional moment. Was it emotional or was it, oh shit, fuck. My horse just exploded. Then the first fourth of the game. She kind of keeps on walking too. Like, yeah, it's fine, whatever. And now there's no way shimmer is above agro.

That's insane. Can we talk about that? That's fucking insane. I don't think it's insane. It's insane. I love how much you rock for Shadow because I feel like one day we're going to win and everyone in the world is going to be forced

to play through Shadow the Colossus. Oh, no, we've got as many people as possible. Yeah, you think we tapped out. Yeah, I know, I've given up. Nobody else is playing Shadow Clause. I played it. And number three, we got Torrent from Eldon Ring. Oh.

Which brings us top two, and we're saying what, Epona and... What's two? Is it the Red Dead Red Dead Redemption Balls? Is it Yoshi? Is it D-horse? The shitting horse. I'm saying D-horse.

I think it's the balls. Yeah, they're doing the balls. Because they specifically said that Red Dead, the Undead Nightmares, right? So we've got to have a regular horse. But here's the thing about the Red Dead Horse Is that like There's so many horses in that game

Like it's not some of the course They don't care They don't give a fuck They said the horse of your choice From getting him come deliverance That's the point insane And number two

Apona Oh my God Did the gamer Fucking make an entire list Just to put the horse balls At number one I respect it Number one's gonna be mortal combat

I respect it Holy shit Horse balls Give me horse balls At number one, we got Every Shut the fuck on. Every horse

They all have balls, everybody. They all have balls. Every horse and Red Dead Redemption 2. They don't even call out the balls? Let's read it. Let's read it. Tell me about the balls. No other video game.

There's no balls. There's no balls. The blur breeds. No other video game has represented horses to the degree of Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2. Every species in this game has been crafted with great care, research, and accuracy.

and the horses are the shining example of just how far this effort can go. From wild behavior to the trust it will gradually place in you, it will be difficult to top it. We could talk about Arthur Morgan's horse specifically and the emotional bond he shares with it across his journey, but every horse in this video game deserves praise. After all, you'll spend so much time in camp with other characters' horses around, and you can tame and befriend as many as you wish. The level of detail here is unparalleled, and it's a joy to spend time roaming with these creatures. They didn't even kind of mention the balls

No There wasn't even a reference to the balls Yeah no there wasn't a reference Nuggy says a good shirt idea It would be control F balls Oh man I'm so angry This is the angriest I've been to

If Torit was number one I would be like all right You're coming hot off the Valdon ring Cool whatever I get putting a tonnet number two It's the phrasing of every horse In Red Deadterns They're making a point

That's the reason It's a bad point They said there's so many horses that you can't say know to this one. They said it's got to be number one. There's bullshit. It's fucking ranked the horses in Red Dead 2. You know what I mean? There's so many of them. The name of the list is 12 best

horses in video game history. And there's like, Red Dead 2 has hundreds of them. Exactly. That's not the 12 best horses. It's a numbers game. All right. The shit or shit? Man, I can't believe you got three shits in a row. I know. I thought at least one of these would be the shit. Yeah. Me too. You got to mention the balls. I would give it the shit if you mentioned the balls, but you didn't mention the balls.

I wanted that screenshot to just be those two. things just fucking bang it back and forth. I wanted to give. I wanted to give a bit. I needed a same. I needed it Wump. You know what I mean? No, we didn't get there. We got an opponent number two. Fuck. Well, that's it for the shit list. We got to come back with a, I don't

know, a positive list of the shit list. It's not guaranteed because I don't, I don't vet these lists. Top 10 balls. I couldn't guarantee. I'm sure that's out there. I couldn't guarantee a good list for you. But, hey, we had fun here today. We did have fun, everybody. Of course, this has been the kind of funny games cast. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with us. Thank you, Roger and Tim,

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