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Episode Date: February 14, 2025

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Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Friday, February 14th, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Getty's. I am joined on this lovely day by blessing at E.O.E.A. Jr. Good Valentine's Day, Tim. Good Valentine's Day to you. I don't know why I said it that way. And to the nitral rifle, Andy Cortez.

Um, I woke up and I just thought about St. Valentine today. Rest and peace. Wherever he's at, you know. Yeah, I was thinking about Vincent Valentine. Mm-hmm. All of him do. You get a haircut, Andy? Yeah.

A little trim. A little trimski. I was getting an unwieldy. You played some of that Eldon Ring last night? At 3 a.m.? No, no. Can you believe Mike did? For some reason, yes.

Can you believe he played until 6.30 a.m. plus? No, because I thought I turned off at like 6th. Was it 3.30 to 6.30? I think so. I don't know. I'm just so sick of him. Of Mike? I'm just so fucking sick of him, dude.

Yeah. Like, he didn't get a code. because he didn't sign up. Because he didn't respond to my text. Yeah. January 18th. Tell him the old voice memo. Mike sign up. Sign up for a code.

Sound society. He didn't answer. Of course. And it always makes me feel bad when I think of other random strangers. Like, yeah, Mike doesn't answer his DMs. He's like, yeah, he doesn't respond to us either. It's okay. And then yesterday. He's like, I'm not going to be playing this weekend.

I'm going out of town. Text him yesterday. or two days ago, when are you going out of town? Because if not, if you want to play with me and Bless on Friday night, I have an extra code for you. No response. He just sends me back the code for Exoborn, the game that we ended up streaming.

He said, here's the code for Exoborn. Never responded to the Eldon Ring thing that I just asked him. Yeah, of course. 40 seconds prior to that. And then chat is telling me last night when I'm streaming. Mike's throwing a fit on Twitter asking for an Eldon Ring code. it's like, please act like a normal. I'm so sick of you.

You just act like a human being and respond to a text message once. Just once. I just can't anymore. I'm just so, like. Andy, I feel you. I get it. The frustration is real.

But I'm letting you know right now. I'm feeling like an intense, just whiplash. Because me and Mike just rocked games daily blessed. There's a Friday energy. And Andy's, I hate to bring you down. But blame Mike.

I need you to get up on this level. He brought my energy down. I need you to get excited because this man put his life on the line. Snowbike Mike waited until 3 a.m. to play a video game until 6.30 a.m. And then he had to host games daily and he only mispronounced a few words, okay? Wow. That's really good.

That's really good. It's going to pass out in the middle of our Dark Souls stream. I do. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of exciting things happening. Yeah. Including Bless playing Dark Souls for the first time. I kind of want to give you guys a little apotief before we get into the game.

What the fuck is that word? Just a nice little something or other. You made that shit up. Gen. Pokemon is that. 10 5 is when they started getting weird. Appetive. Appertive, it's just a little.

How do you spell that? Is that like another word for appetizer? No. I think, yeah, it is. Apertief. Apertief. Usually low, can be bitter sparkling. It's an alcoholic beverage served before a meal to stimulate the appetite.

Whoa. Wow. I like that. That's what I'm trying to do right now. That's what I'm trying to do. You're going to question the man who married Gia. She knows all about the matter. I didn't know about the appertives.

I didn't know if it was alcohol related. I just thought. Yeah, me either. That's where we're starting, everybody. We had a fun discussion that I think I kind of like tapped into something today on Games Daily that I want to bring up to you two in particular, okay? Eldon Ring Night Rain. It's great.

Huge success. And he's played it as shit ton. Like he knows it's going to be good. This is kind of delivering what people like him want. Soon we'll find out if it's what people like. You want. Oh, for sure. And I think it's going to be great all that stuff.

It's going to be. It's going to hit. they announced the DLC. They're about to make a lot of fucking money. They're going to put micro transactions. It's all going to happen. We know it.

What? Oh, there was like a store thing or like a, yeah, like a store thing where those future DLC listed for Night Rain. Nice. There's going to be future bosses and stuff.

More bosses. Nice. Yeah. So all that stuff's happening. All right. Cool, cool, and like sure,

whatever. We don't know. Yes, we do. They're about to make so much fucking money for this stuff. My question to both of you. We,

like, let's just assume this game hits. Okay. That's the working hypothesis that we have. The fair assumption. Okay. Game hits. They keep adding bosses. They eventually run out of Souls bosses because there's only so

many Souls bosses you can do. Maybe they add a new one here and they'll do in there. Maybe they find some way to get the blood-borne shit. All that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This game's going to get modded to hell, too. It's very exciting. But officially, at what point are we getting Monster Hunting Monsters in here? At what point are we getting Bahamette from Final Fantasy?

It's not going to happen. No. Nikki fucking Minaj. The Ninja Turtles. No. From has too much integrity. Because I just saw them jumping in with some gliders. I'm just saying. What about gliders does not, like, what about gliders take away integrity from a game?

Honestly, bless? It's a mechanic. Think about it. When Nikki Minaj enters From Software's Night Rain. That's not the name of the game. But when she does, then we can have this conversation. Here's my thing. It ain't going to be no Nikki.

I'm only being a little bit, I can't say this word. For some reason, my mouth doesn't work that way. facetious. facetious. You nailed it. Yeah. There's a great job. There you fucking go.

Nicky Mnuchin'a's not going to be in this. But, and I also don't know his name. Is it Raffles? Ratholos. Ratholos. You did a Mark Ruffalo. Mark Ruffalo. Somebody photoshoped Mark Ruffalo.

I am now, as of this morning, convinced that you Eldon Ring motherfuckers are going to fight Rathelos at some point. Why? It's not even the same company. This catcom. When does that ever stopped anybody from doing anything? Why do you glide? You don't come back, everybody. Why do you think we're going to fight?

The MLB just crossed over with Pokemon Go unless anything can happen. Yeah, but from software is weird. From software is very specific. They're very particular. Until they start making insane amounts of money to fund their passion projects, the Souls games.

Look, here's the thing's funded. Elton Ring sold like tens of millions. Cool. The reason why I don't feel this way. And the reason why I was worried initially until I was, you know, my worries were stuff in a sack. is because I thought this is just a Bandai Namco project.

And that's where I was mainly worried about it. If this is just Bandai Namco, if this was, hey, Frum Software, keep making all the other things you're going to do. We're going to take your shit and make this thing out of your thing. We have a little side studio here working on it. But this is still the From Software team making this, you know, passion project because it's the director from the Shadow of the Urtree DLC. And, you know, it's not necessarily Miyazaki led, but it is people that have veterans that have been in From Software. for for years and years and years. I don't see this.

I'm willing to bet my life that I will never fight a Rathelos. Bet you like I will also bet my life that you will never fight it. Like no shit, man. I love you guys so much. I don't even think you will see Bloodbourne characters. That's how far I'm willing to go. It's like I don't even think you're fighting. I'm willing to go that I think that Rathlose is more likely than Bloodborn man.

You know what? I agree. I agree, actually. I'm with you on Bloodborn. Yeah, I don't think that'll happen anything. I think just because PlayStation, doesn't want to let Xbox players fight

what's the man the first guy with the hat Father Gascoigne Yeah Father G Father G Naerang is being directed by Junya Ishiaki

who worked on a designer on Dark Souls Who worked as a designer on Dark Souls Bloodborn Dark Souls 3 and Elbin Ring Junya

Ika Ishizaki Rath Raph Yep Yep it's confirmed He likes money He likes money And he's gonna continue

To like money And he's gonna make a lot of money Man Who will Here's what I'm going to bet my life then. If from software loves money so much and they're willing to do anything for money, where the fuck is Bloodborn? Why haven't they brought back Bloodborn yet?

That's not on them. That's on PlayStation. Yeah. Yeah, but I think PlayStation will be down to do it. They are making a competitive live service game. It from Software, suck the money from your fucking wallet, Andy. If from Software walked into the offices of PlayStation and went, we want to do something with Bloodborn, guess what? Bloodborn's happening.

I want to be clear. I'm not saying anything like this is a bad thing. Make a fucking good game. Do cool, good things. Give people content. They're going to pay for it. Let me play as Mickey Mouse is fighting. I think it is a bad thing. All right. Keep Ratholus out of my fucking Elton game. He's coming in, y'all.

No, he's going to swoop in. All right. Rathol's is such a specific. Out of all the games, Monster Hunter. He was a Boston Super Smash Brothers. Oh. All right. That's what I know.

All right. That's fair. That's what I know. I was wondering that too, but I was more focused on the discussion. But then also, in Pokemon Go, like I fucking opened this shit up and they're like, hey, maybe you want to play Monster Hunter. Rathlose is. there and I'm just like, okay, cool.

Clearly he's the mascot of this franchise. And he's down to clown in any franchise. Capcom's not even asking for money. They're begging. They're just like, put him, put this dragon in your game. I think you'll fight a meck from Armored Corps before refos. Yeah. And if they do that, I think that'll be really cool.

Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Can you imagine if I get a meck from our record? That would be really good. It's going to happen, everybody. It's going to happen. This is kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday,

we used to talk about video games. Sometimes we have a full-ass plan for, gamescast and sometimes we're like you know what it's a friday so we're just going to hang out kind of talk about what we've been playing but more importantly if y'all have things for us to talk about some fun juicy shit if y'all have some hot takes you want us to put in our mouth spit back out and just be like i don't know about that shit you fucking weirdo super chat i'm in and we'll do just that bless wants to do that right i'm honest i didn't hear a word you said doesn't matter doesn't matter i can always tell when bless is just not listening that fucking it's the housekeeping we got some good

housekeeping though today. Some of that includes me and Mike just had a banger kind of funny games daily. And then after this, we got a banger game showdown coming up continuing the season. Will I dominate? Probably. I want to give a pre-apology for the game showdown. I finished the episode and I was like, oh, I looked at Roger, I was like

I'm not feeling great about that way. Yeah? Yeah. But hey, I think it's an entertaining episodes. You all definitely watch that game showdown. One of the rare pre-recorded game showdown. So yeah, definitely check it out. I was like I was thinking about asking Roger of like, what are the Chains is we can't re-recorded.

A new Game Showdown episode. Just keep your notifications muted. God, man. Listen, if you watch this episode of Game Showdown and you feel some type of way, guess what? I know. All right.

I'm with you. Okay, I get it. I understand. That's all I'll say. Oh, man. It's a great way to tease it, though. I'm happy you understand. That's a good tease.

But like I was saying, after that, we have a very, very special stream. What are you guys doing? I'm playing Dark Souls. I'm playing Dark Souls. I'm playing Dark Souls. Dark Souls for the first time. Oh,

I'm picking it up. Wow. I've been putting it off. I've been one to play Dark Souls forever. Of course, I love Elden Ring. I love Sakarel. I love Bloodborn, but I still haven't played that core soul series. Me, Andy, the one and only Snowback, Mikey, if he doesn't fall asleep, are going to

play Dark Souls for the first time. Well, I am. Got some costumes. Oh. Oh, Dark Souls costumes? Well, I mean, no. I don't really know where you get those. Yeah, I just bought some stuff.

I'm so excited to see whatever this is. Andy, this is your birthday weekend. Yeah. You're starting off, right? got a lot of Eldon Ring Night Rain, juice flowing all over you. You got Dark Souls for the first time. How excited are you about the Dark Souls element? Sitting next to Blast, experiencing Dark Souls 1.

I mean, it's my favorite thing to do where I, you know, to watch people I care about, experience the things that I care about because ultimately I know I've got great taste, right? So it's like when I sit somebody down, like, hey, you sit here, watch goddamn the prestige with me. watch god damn you know breaking bad with me and to i i want to just watch bless sort of like see where it all started and sure you might go about it and be like oh this is you know what a neat little thing they're doing here how quaint how quaint how cute of them to be making there and then there's going to be awesome level design discoveries and i'm like how did they do this like how the fuck were they this on it this early ah excited and you speaking of uh sharing things with people

you love. I share that with you. Oftentimes, we talk about this. I love seeing you share those things with you. I haven't told you this yet. But Hans Zimmer, the concert tour that I saw, they're putting it in theaters. They're doing like a movie version of it. I bought me and you tickets. I'll have to tell you details later, but yeah, sometime in March,

Daily City, we're going to have a good time. Matt, can you imagine, though, if I was like on the ball and got tickets for the Final Fantasy Rebirth concert? I'm so bummed. The double future. They sold the fuck out San Jose Rebirth with an orchestra. This is a lot like a year ago too. No, wait, wasn't there, isn't there one NSF? No.

There's not. No. There's not. Damn. That really bones me out. Yeah. I would love to hear, I mean, well, just all of it. Yeah.

But I'm thinking of freaking, what is it, Mount Olympus or what's it called? Mount Coral. That one. Oh, yeah. Carl. Anyway, the stream's going to be absolutely amazing. so check that out. If you're kind of funny,

remember, of course, you can get today's Gregway. The last couple of Gregways have been great. We have Mike in Bless playing magic. We also have Mike getting really upset at Roger Farooning his birthday. I don't know if you guys heard,

but every day is Mike's birthday. Have you heard this? I'm tired of him. There was a very big kind of conversation happening while you guys were recording in review yesterday. That got so heated

that at one point, when Nick Scarpino in the middle of the interview, slacked, hey, could what have you close the door to the studio? And then that led into mic recording at Gregway. So just know that energy.

That's where it's coming. I recorded my Gregway on the drive-in. Wow. You did the Greg. I don't have a phone mount, but I have this little, I have this little kickstand. It's on my case. And I shoved it into like my front console sort of.

Yeah, almost like the vent. But it's like where the radio kind of meets where the vent is going to be. And it was really tilted and probably really fucked up. But I have my little microphone step. So it sounds good at least. and I talked to chat about Valentine's Day. I talked to him about video games and talked to him about an update on the Pokemon

Nuzlock 2.0. The Nicklock 2.0. We're getting closer to or closer to. We're getting close. There's no definitive date yet, but there is in our minds. We just haven't told you. Yeah.

And I also stopped at Krispy Cream, Pick Up Dennis. Thank you so much for that, but also I hate you so much for that. I got you, Doug. I just love sucking down these donuts, man. Like you don't even chew them. Like Krispy Cream? He just kind of suck it.

You know what I mean? Although I'm kind of, I'm not, I'm feeling a little suspicious about the raspberry filled one. It looks not right. It looks like it was maybe underdone or something. It, it doesn't look normal. I didn't look at it, but I did see it. And I want you to know very much. I was like, I hope somebody eats it before this game's cast is over.

Because if it's still there, it won't be there. Okay. Are you the ones who get them? I love those things. Oh, because I always get one. figuring that nobody's going to eat this one. And when I go back, it's always gone like, damn, somebody's eating it good. That's me.

I suck down the jelly and I suck down just the original. I don't do any of the other ones. Okay, well, maybe we should take a look at this one together because I would love a piece of it, but it also just doesn't look right. That boy ain't right. What about it? What about it? It doesn't look right. It just doesn't look

plump like they usually are. It's a little bit flatter. It looks wet. It's kind of sad. It looks real wet, flat and wet. I know what that's like. Oh, man. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Slaney Twining, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster,

and Karen Lindner. Today we're brought to you by Rocket Money, Shady Ray's, and BetterHelp, but we'll tell you all about that later. I'm seeing a whole bunch of Super Chats coming in that I like. Please continue getting your questions in Super Chat form, and we will get to those. I do want to talk to you boys real quick about some shit that I've been playing. I'd have to bless a little bit about this on Games Daily earlier in the week.

But, Sots, Sots, Sots, Soss. Thank you so much. I forgot about that. Um, we have two important things happening in my life. Capcom just keeps delivering things for me. The Cap gods. Oni Musha, we, uh, keep just getting information on this. Like, how in the last like month and a half, I went from not hearing the word

Omusha for years to like, Capcom won't let two days go by without something happening, right? Um, but in three showcases. I know, man. It's, it's absolutely wild. Um, but then in addition to that, we are, um, about a month away from, the Devil May Cry Addie Shankar anime coming out on Netflix.

He's been teasing that a lot. I'm getting incredibly hyped about it. And I'm like, all right. I'm kind of feeling, feeling nostalgic a little bit. I often do, but I was like, I want to go back. I want to replay through Oni Musha 1

because I want to be ready for when 2 comes out later this year. And I want to play some devil may cry. But I didn't know which one I wanted to go back to. I'd beaten one three years ago or so. So I was like, I'm going to jump straight to three. The OG, like... The OG, but the, like, the remaster version.

But it's like, it's remastered in that way of like, you know, the PS2 to PS3 type remaster. It's not like a super crazy, fancy anything. But the Switch version in particular of Devil May Cry 3, surprisingly, is kind of the definitive way to play it without mods. Because they're on PC, you can mod the game. A big part of what three introduced in Devil May Cry was different styles. so like trickster or um royal guard which is more of like the peri type situation. And they have classes? You just confirmed that I have played with Devil May Cry 3.

I always wondered of like, have I picked that game up? But yeah, I remember that. I mean, that system kind of carried on for the rest of the Double Mike Cry. So that existed in four, I'm pretty sure. And then in five as well. But the cool thing about the switch version is that you can do freestyle mode, which allows you to switch between the different, um, stances on the fly.

So not only can you switch between your guns and switch between your swords or melee weapons, you can also switch between the different styles that give you a different ability. So Trickster allows you to kind of have this like dash move. Royal Guard allows you to have a counter. Oh, okay. I was, what I was assuming was your weapons would be treated differently with these different classes. And I was wondering like,

what's the tank version of the guns? What is the Royal Guard version of the guns, you know? No, no, no. So the abilities and weapons are still to say. It's the coolest fucking thing ever, man. But yes, you still get your weapons. You can upgrade the weapons. And then you can also level up your different stances, the more you play with them. And one of the stances is gunslinger, which I want to like gameplay-wise more than I actually do. But there is nothing cooler than it.

It allows you to be shooting one way and then shoot the other way. So both hands are kind of shooting. It's just so damn stylish and so damn cool. But it's really interesting because Devil May Cry 3 is the origin story of Dante and Virgil. So it's like a prequel, right? Dante's Awakening is the subtitle of it. And it is, I'd say by far the best of the original Devil May Cry games. I think that actually it's probably the best overall period.

Like there's maybe a debate between it and five, but I think majority of people would say three is the shit. But it's a very, very old game, like PS2, late generation PS2, but still like, 2005, six, maybe. So we're talking a pretty old game. Onimusha, on the other hand, super old game. 2001, it came out. One of the early PS2 games, if I remember correctly, it was even one of the blue bottom discs,

which meant it was a CD. Man, those are cool. Yeah, dude. Which they moved on from pretty quickly. But Animusha and Devil May Cry, both Capcom, both a lot of lineage to Resident Evil, which is really kind of interesting to see how they are similar to that franchise, but then how they branched out.

And I think it's very fascinating to be playing these games in 2025 after we've just had back-to-back years of these R.E. remakes and seeing how far that kind of gameplay theory can be in a modern game, but like where it kind of came from advanced. Go for it, plus my question is, because we talk about this all the time, of Delve May Cry and Onomusha having roots in Resident Evil, Can you explain more of what that means?

Is it that they started off as Resident Evil games and then turn into their individual franchises? This is like a dino crisis situation. I might get a little, a couple of these things wrong because back in the day, I wasn't that up on their names of the directors and all that stuff of exactly who does what. But from what I remember, Devil May Cry,

so Anni Musha came first and then Devil May Cry was not that long after. Devil May Cry was the original Resident Evil 4. So they were working on it as Resident Evil 4 and then kind of took a turn and pivoted to it's like oh this is very much its own thing way more gothic way more um just like actiony than um what was it always uh i'm asking questions that you may not know but like was it always meant to be this dante fellow with two guns and a sword and shit or don't know about that but i think or once they started feeling the vibe they're like actually let's go way harder into his direction and change it up completely i need to watch you video on this. Because back of the day,

I was obsessed with this, like reading the information and like EGM and shit. I do have a Wikipedia entry here for Devil May Cry where they say the series alludes to Italian poet Dante's Divine Comedy. Hideki Kamea created Devil May Cry

after a failed attempt to develop a Resident Evil game with the first game originally being conceived as Resident Evil 4. Camia wanted to create a game with more action features, which Capcom felt the series did not need.

The games were directed by Hideaki Yizuno and writer Bingo Morihashi Capcom announced and you get, oh, they go on. But yeah, essentially, yeah, start off of the Resident Evil 4. Yeah, so, I mean, like, that's kind of the history of it, but it pretty quickly became its own thing. And obviously, we know what happened with Resident Evil 4, which is just kind of wild. But that kind of goes back to what I was saying about bringing in the modern remakes of,

you can see the lineage of this gameplay design. But to get to Resident Evil 4, even the original one and, like, R.E2 remake, it's like, God, there's so much DNA that is similar. But it is incredible how ahead of its time Resident Evil 4 was. Because I feel like we just kind of spent 20 years after that getting Resident Evil 2 to just play more like four. You know what I mean? And so then going back to the super more actiony devil make cry. But again, going back to Animusha, which wasn't, if I remember correctly, didn't start as a Resident Evil, but it's very much a Resident Evil successor.

It is the exact same gameplay as RE1, 2, and 3. Tank controls. You're getting different little puzzle rooms. that allow you to get an item to put in a wall somewhere to open a door. Like, it is straight the fuck up, Resident Evil, but you replace the guns with swords and bones, pose and arrows and things like that. But there is a bit more of a focus on action and like sword fighting and things like that.

But it is so interesting to me where I'm playing this and I'm like, this does not seem like you can see the end of it. Like you cannot go to the more modern version of it. And the closest thing would be, I'm not saying it's a soul's like, but the more methodical, like your health is going to die if you just hack and slash through some of these bosses.

Like it is all about positioning and like making sure that you are using the exact right attacks against these bosses. And not button mashing. Not button mashing. You button mashing to left and right against the normal enemies. But once you get to these big guys, I'm like, whoa, this is crazy that they really tried doing something dramatically different from Resident Evil in terms of battle.

Now here, I'm saying all of this just to get to a very interesting point for me where Ani Musa is about five hours long. Devil May Cry is about 10 hours long. Three, all right? Not that many years apart. Ani Musha is rough.

Even the remaster gets rid of the tank control so you can kind of fully 3D walk around. But if you notice even here, you cannot move your camera. It is fixed camera angles that just cut as you move. around the room and it does not change to where you need it to be. So you are fighting a freaking boss and that becomes the gameplay.

That becomes the like you got to position yourself or you about to get. You got to know if I step two steps over here, it's going to change the camera angle to one I don't like so I need to stay here. It's wild how long video games kept this and I'm only going to shout this out because I thought about putting it in my naughty dog script, but this kind of stuff is in uncharted one where like they have fixed camera angles to. depending on like how, like where you are in a room and then you can't control the camera anymore. And it's like, how, how was this a thing until 2007, 2008?

Oh, dude, yeah. Like, I think, I don't want to speak out of turn, but definitely like some early, not early, but some, like, late 2000s, early 2010s, like cinematic adventure games. I'm thinking things like heavy rain, maybe telltale, like any game of fixed angles, I don't think they ever figured it out for fixed angles where you're walking one direction, camera cuts, and like you're holding the same direction, but like, now you're going a different direction. Are you going a different direction?

Are you going the same direction? Yeah. Like, I don't think there was ever a clean solution for them. I've never minded the old school sort of fixed cameras. It's just whenever we're seeing a situation like that, I think to them, the game developers, they go more camera angles, more, you know, I guess the more the better. And that's not the solution. So the thing is, specifically when we're talking about Capcom here, it's the pre-rendered backgrounds.

Like, when you think about that PS1, and this is, you know, so early PS2. Like this is one of the first major PS2 games to come out period, like post launch. And like I think he came out within like six months or something of the PS2's launch.

And it have heavily focused on these pre-rendered backgrounds that they're trying to show off. So it's like you're trying to get the angles that way. But on top of that, tank controls, which were standard back then, fits so much better with it

because you keep the, not momentum, but you keep the direction that you're going with your character. So the camera shifting doesn't matter. But like, I have 2025, muscle memory here.

And anyway, I want them tank controllers. So it's like, I'm having a rough time with Ani Musham's, or Oni Musham. I'm still playing through it. I'm going to beat it and like, it's just so nostalgic, but like, God damn, what a silly game and I can't wait for the next one. What are you playing it on? Played on Switch. I'm playing both these on Switch. Yeah.

You're not doing one of them, a little, one of your little retroid pockets or nothing like that? No, I haven't had time still to get those all set. But goddam, I love the pocket five. One day we'll talk about it. But anyway, super fun game. The ideas here are great, but like, god damn, this is an old game. Look at that font bless. And then they never change. Yeah, exactly.

And the same sound effects too of like the title screen and menu and stuff. Like, I, Capcom, you got something. But then you play Devil May Cry 3. Holy fuck, man. This game just still kicks ass. And like, yeah, it is an old game so you can look at it and some of the jumps feel a little heavier or whatever. But for the gameplay of what they got going on of the action, it's like this game fucking slaps, man. And just see how far Capcom and the different teams came in just such a few short.

short years there and to see where we're at now. I'm like, good Lord, the style of this game, like the world and the characters and the bosses and how dope Dante is. Like, everyone played Devil May Cry 3. Capcom during the PS2 era, might have been God dear. Like, Godlike. When you think about Delphemy cry and what that did for action games, Resident Evil and what you talk about Resonable 4 and how ahead of its time it is and what that did for that type of action adventure style title as well, like, they were magical during this time. And I wish I, I'm, I'm, I think I was way late to the party when it came to Capcom. Like, obviously, I talked about Resident Evil 4 and did not click it with me when I was younger, right?

And, like, I think nowadays I have so much more of an appreciation of it because I love Resident Evil too. And since then, played 3 remake, played 4 remake, you know, played 7, played 8. And now I'm Resident Evil Pilled. But, like, between those, between something like Dovely Cry where I think my first Dove May Cry that I played front to back actually was Double May Cry 5. And, like, actually, I never finished Dominic Cry 5. Got to do it. I played like 70% of that game. I keep forgetting that I want to go back to it.

But they're just on another level. Yeah. This, I mean, Devil M. Cry 3 is the uncharted 2 type thing where it's like we're talking about this sequel that's just that much better. I would have lost my shit as a kid playing then. Yeah, Titty jiggle. I mean, 80. Titties aside for a second.

A lot of tis in this game. The opening scene of this game is Dante chilling. He orders pizza and like the pizza comes, but then demons come. And he's just trying to eat his goddamn pizza. He's shirtless. He doesn't even have his clothes on and stuff. And they're like, we're going to fight. And he's like, uh, I'm just trying.

trying to eat my goddamn pizza. And then he's like, you get into this giant fight. Some of it's a cutscene. Some of it's actually playable. It's fun as hell. But there's a scene where there's a pool table and he kicks it down and all the pool balls fly up. And then he shoots the white one so it hits all of them and they bounce and kill all the

fucking demons. And I'm like, this is the start of this game? This is crazy because I definitely played this then. Like I definitely played. I definitely didn't play all the way through it. But I definitely played at least some hours at Dovemey Cry 3. This must have been an Addison joint.

I must have gotten this Madison's Addison. It is hard to. It's a difficult game. But, man, it's really good. And y'all should play it and get hype. The anime's coming soon. We're going to take a quick word from our sponsors.

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That's BetterHelp, H-E-L-P.com slash kind of funny. Betterhelp.com slash kind of funny. And we're back with a couple super chats here. Omega Buster says a near 2B Eldon Ring crossover. No. That doesn't work. Yeah. I think, because I'm still in mind.

If 2B could be, if she could like take off her shoes and it's only just feet. Get a lot of feet in the film software series. I mean, a lot of hands and Ellen ring, right? So, like, if you can get digits in there. Yeah, yeah, man. But, no. I think the limit, I was even going to say Bain, I think the limit is, like, from software stuff

for, like, cross-over style of things. Yeah. And from software stuff, not even including Bloodborn. I don't, if we get out of that, I'm gonna be, I don't know. I don't think we'll get there. You'll buy us all ratings in case. Yeah.

Rally 21. I mean, earlier you said you'd kill yourself. Oh, did I say that? No, Andy said he'd bet his life on it. Okay. Oh, yeah. No, that's different. It is different. It is different.

I would like you. Anybody can take my life. I would let you kill me. Yeah. I'm going to kill myself. Riley says, uh, Blessing Andy,

hear me out. Bandai owns Tekken without Azazel or devil, devil, Jen. See y'all think about this wrong. We need monsters to fight. We need bosses. Sometimes the real monsters are the humans around us.

A hayachi boss fight. Okay. Because like, they do have like a lot of human characters. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. But. But. I mean, it might be cooking a little bit. But it's also a, you know, when we're talking bosses, it's a, this game very much wants three players to be whacking at a big old thing, you know? Yeah.

Maybe you just scale them up. Speaking of big things, dear Sixthal says, wait, Tim, it's Band Dynamco. What about Venomioidisman for a raid? Who the fuck is that? Yeah, you just said words. You know, come on. It's like the second big batty from Digimon. Oh.

Yeah, of course. What about War Graham on? War Greymon When he Like the first time we saw War Greymon was to take down Venomaiotisman Shit

Yeah Benomiodisman I think the problem Is that Let me show you Venomaiotisman Me and Andy just believe in From software It has a big one

Big old sack Oh Venomiodisman Uh huh Oh I'm thinking about The other Oh I'm gonna say I don't see a sack

He evolves Later shit You got big old sack Now let's under that fur You just have a big old dangle I don't see anything there Me and Andy Just believe in the integrity

of from software too much Mm-hmm I did too until I saw the gliders I'm telling you man What about the gliders That's like being like all the shooter has a gun You know it's not though This is a multiplayer

multiplayer game Multiplayer survival action road like Because you also use the gliders for Traversal around the war It's not just to get you in the old Eldon Rings You know because you get a horse Mechanics all the time Because you need to get around

Because the old elders Elden Ring has a jump also Bloodbourne didn't have a jump Does that mean Eldon Rings Try to copy Mario? It's not gliders though It's not Fortnite gliders If you and a squad cover

in and there's a circle coming in. It's breath of the wild gliders, Tim. It's not, though. It's Fortnite gliders. Gliders are in plenty of games. You fly in plenty of games. Tim, they are spectral hawks, okay? When you walk up to the big spectral tree, you see summon your spectral hawk. And you spectral hawk to all over that thing and you go and you go up into the sky because you also use it in the main game to get around and you're like, oh, we got to go over there to level up real quick. I think maybe if this is a battle Royal, maybe you may not be too far off Tim. But since this is PVE, three player

experience, I think it's just going to maybe you'll get a blue spectral hawk, but you're not going to get a, you know, here's the eagle from Lord of the Rings. It's a spectral hawk. Yeah. I think it's just the fact that like gliders, as we've learned in the last like eight-ish

years. What were you looking at? The year we're in. Oh. Because I think here's what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying. 2017, landmark year for gliders. Because we got fucking Zelda the Breath of the Wild. We got, there's gliders in PubGy,

right? Oh yeah, you had like the parachutes. Yeah, and then like Fortnite was out that year as well, right? Like,

I just think we're in a new air. I mean, we're in a new air. We can say whatever we want here. We all know at this table and otherwise. There's a difference between the Fortnite gliders and the breath of the wild gliders. And while functioning,

there might be some similarities here and there. I know, but there's a difference. But we, there's a difference. What I'm coming down on is that gliders as a gameplay mechanic has been, have been discovered to be very beneficial. to open to open world exploration.

I agree. And here's what I'm saying. Let's like me sticking to the facts here. Here's another way to fight against Tim's point. This game doesn't even fucking have crossplay. They do things their own way. Miyazaki is not just a director who has to fight against the powers up top.

Miyazaki is the dude at From Software. He's the boss. And he's not going to be like, actually, let's my, you know, I want to see Joel from The Last of Us Fly at Nop. He's not letting that shit fly, Tim. I believe in Mizaki. Integrity.

The word of the day. And from software has it. Cash money, baby. I like these other companies. I think of last was online came out, you wouldn't see fucking ratchet in that bitch. That's not enough. They don't have integrity.

From software does. Yeah, exactly, dude. Have Valentine's Day. Gondos says, I'm finally finishing control. What an S-tier maze. Cool game. Oh, man. Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God. The S-tier maze. I like that we're calling it. the S tier maze. Yeah. It's a good ass game. Cababs. Rights in. Define remaster. No. Slash remake slash reimagining. You know when you see it. You do know when you see it. I refuse.

It is very porn adjacent. If you're remaster, if the game happens and 3D objects are the same. Stelotin. And the game just goes up to 4K. And the textures look. sharper but the 3D models are the exact same then that's a remaster if they add a bit a new lighting system that's still a remaster like mass effect did but when you see

brand new 3d objects didn't mass have brand new 3D objects no mass effect was just like they got a texture upscaling they messed with the lighting system a bit but they didn't because they didn't have a lot of the source code like they it's a reason why

oh gosh they were mentioning a remake why a remake would be really really hard because they are missing a lot of the people that worked on that shit and it's like some in some real proprietary shit that they can't really get to anymore some like Unreal Engine 3 type stuff a remake is when you see a lot of brand new 3D models

in the game that were re-sculpted by artists and that to me when I see that shit I'm like oh this got this this is a remake. This constitutes as a remake. So what about Final Fantasy of 7 remake? It's a reimagining. And I don't think there are many examples of that, you know?

Reson imagining. It's reimagining. Oh, but I don't, to me, reimagining means more of like, we're going at it a different way in terms of what the story is doing and stuff or like. See, my thing that was like... Or completely changing the moment to moment gameplay. Yeah, I guess I'm going. So, Resident Evil, too. I would say, like, it is different enough that like, it's a reimagining, but if someone called a remake, I wouldn't get bad at them.

because I do think they're not perfect lines. There is a bin diagram thing. I'm going more out of it from a visual standpoint. I agree with you. With remaster, I do think there is a bit more of a clear line though. Last of Us Remastered versus Last of Us Part 1. Yeah, but like Metroid Prime remaster is, it's a remake.

Like by definition, by what you just talked about. Yeah, to me, I look at, I know that's what they called it or whatever. I look at Metroid Prime and like, this got a whole new thing. This isn't just. the ROM that you could download from back of the day and then upscale to 4K. Yeah, texture pack. Like that shit looks a lot better. But yeah,

models. I refuse to participate. My thing is, these companies don't agree with us and I'm like, just call it whatever you want. Yeah, exactly. This matters way less to me,

but I don't agree with the call it whatever you want. Stop getting cute. Just stop fucking calling it. I mean, reignited and re-boozled and blah, blah. Like, no. Just call her,

call it. What was a lollipop chainsaw on Kong? Read titty-tied out. Lollipop Chainsaw What was remastering? What was that? It was called

Repop We need to Repop these days That's fucking insane We literally need to come up With a list of the definitive Top 10 worst Remastered pun

Oh that's definitely Worst or we can do that shit It was right now If you want to Try to find it Yeah To find it Fless

God The goddamn Dead Rising One was the most annoying one DRDRDR Like I just hated I hated that I hated the way that

Any time I looked at it and I know it's not the correct order but it made me think oh there's a new dance dance dance revolution game coming out. Kingdoms of Amelor re-reckoning Cressmerichs. See that was fun. Put that in top ten best. Oh no man. Shaysley says any pushback

for the $40 price for Night Rain with paid DLCs? No. Not really. I saw people wondering, you know, being like, where's the content? Where's it? And it's like this isn't meant to if what you were seeing in Night Rain,

if we didn't see this trailer for like two more years and it's like, this is what they've been working on? Like, oh, this is, this is obviously just a smaller side thing that they're going to make money on. Because I saw a lot of comments like, where's the content? Where's it? This and that. It's like, it's a fucking small project. This isn't meant to be the thing that like all of 300 people are working on. You know, this is a, hey,

Let's make some money off the side while we work on whatever, Eldon Ring 2, Bloodborn, whatever the fuck. But Andy, I'm too live service-pilled. Where is the content? Yeah. I was like, well, you know, they're like, where are the biomes? It's like, every game does their roguelight different. This game is attacking it from the angle that they know of.

Boss fights are the thing. And there's eight big old ones that you're going to be fighting. In addition to the hundreds of enemies you'll be fighting on the ground. So I couldn't find a top 10, unfortunately, but I did find a reset error thread just of a bunch. And these are hilarious. We got Blood Rain revamped. We got Dark Siders. I can't hate revamped.

I guess we had revamped. Because he's a vampire. I still can, though. I still can. That's a really good one. You're winning me over. Darksiders, Warmaster Edition. No.

I hate this one. Dark Siders, too, definitive. I hate it. Hell out of here. I don't know what the fuck is. I hate how to pronounce that. Definitive. Obelisk and asterisk.

Yeah, there's Astrox and Obelix. Rolemastered. I don't understand what that is. Because they're Romans. Oh, there's Battle for Bikini Bottom

Rehydrated. Fucking goaded. That's not bad. That's good. Dehydrated. I just hate it all. Here's the problem. Like, do I like them as dumb puns?

Yes. Do I like them as titles of video games? Absolutely not. They're not titles. There's subtitles. Advance Wars 1 plus 2, reboot camp. Oh, because boot camp. You see that?

Reboot. That's the reboot. Rebo. I wouldn't put that in either best or worse. That's just fine. Boo. Yeah, those are the Saints Row reelected. That's weird, man.

That's good. But you're the question, are you? That's good. You know? Back then, we didn't know. Yeah. All right. Let's see what this is all about from AK.

Hot take. Demon Souls isn't the prequel to Dark Souls. It's the prequel to Bloodborn. Also, Demon Souls is better than Dark Souls 1. By a country mile. That's the fucking dumbest thing I've ever heard of my life. You should stick your head in a toilet. Whoa.

Give yourself a swirl. You're not going to give you the swirlie first. Whoa, man. Doesn't even care about you enough to give you the swirlie himself. Yeah. That's damn. Wild stuff. I've been wanting to play Dark Souls one forever because of the level design that you talk about.

Whereas Demon Souls, it's like more like segments. You have a hub world. You're traveling to a zone. You're traveling to another zone. I booted up Demon Souls a couple weeks ago. I played it like probably during PS5 launch for like maybe six, seven hours or something. And I was like, you know what, man? Let me, I want to, I want to, one of the one of the one of the one of the one of

reasons why I really wanted to play Dark Souls right now actually is because we're doing our Top 100 games thing and I feel like there's a good shot that Dark Souls or whatever the best game in the Dark Souls franchise will probably end up in my top 100 just given my gaming taste Demon Souls I was going to start off with but then you know I wiggle the controller around

you know move my character around and I was like I'll just play Dark Souls I'll just play Demon Sol's awesome that's just you know obviously I was very aggressive right there but that's that spider boss fight you have to fucking fight it down a hallway yeah, that shit sucks. I just want to hop into, like, the shit that I hear people talk about is, like, the goaded shit. You know what I mean?

I hear people talk about Dark Souls. I'm like, I want, I want that. I'll come back to Demon Souls. Like, I'm not throwing shade of demons. It's just, it's just definitely not Dark Souls. And I still really enjoy it. But, like, when I played Liza P, I was like, I would put Liza P over Demon Souls if I were to like it. Like, that's how much more I like that video again.

When I was in college, like, I might have been 2007, 8, 9. And somewhere in there, I don't remember exactly when this was. I had a friend named Daniel Ortiz, real good friend of mine. I lived at Westlake, not too far from here. And I'd go to his house. And he was the biggest nerd that I had ever met in my life up to that point. This sounds like such a just a college friend that, like we all have those college friends that we only knew then and we thought we'd stay in touch forever.

No, you just. That's me and Joey Soasaki. I miss Joe, man. Like that, that is definitely that guy. I actually ran into him a month ago for the first time in like 10 years. it was like a crazy like, wow, that's so weird that we were real close. Yeah, crazy stuff. I got so many of those.

Awesome dude. But it's funny because this was pre-IGM for me and whatever. So it's like I had my like friend group that like, oh, we grew up playing video games. But I didn't have anyone to talk to about like real fucking nerd shit. And like he kind of like got me into a lot of things that I definitely would have not. Like back then I read Spider-Man comics. He got, he introduced me to the Guardians of the Galaxy. Whoa.

Like how wild is that? Him and Alfredo would you play fucking hero clicks because they're guys. God damn nerds. I loved it too. Euroclicks. It's like a board tabletop game. Like with little like action, not a mini. Little mini figs, but like the mini figs would be like you'd buy them in blind packs. So it'd be like buying card packs.

You know what I mean? So you don't know which ones you're getting. All that stuff. Anyway, it was so much freaking fun. You would love it. I probably would love it. But anyway, I bought the Guardians of the Galaxy set because I loved Rocket Raccoon. I thought it was such a cool idea.

Who would have thought years later it turned into such a big thing? but on the same side of that conversation, he's also the one that was like, oh, dude, what are you playing on PlayStation? Like, what are you playing? Whatever he's like, you gotta play Demon Souls. And I'm like, what the fuck is Demon Souls?

And this dude rocked for Demon Souls so hard that I remember making fun of him because I'm just like, nobody's playing this, you were acting like this is a thing that I should know, like, what the fuck? And then years later, where all the Soul stuff started,

I'll never forget, I was like, but just by myself, humbled. And I texted him, I'm like, dude. Yeah. You were on to some shit. Stevie was the soul's guy. Oh, yeah. Stevie was like, is the hardest video game ever made, but it's so good, whatever.

I'm like, I'm not playing the hardest video game ever. He's probably one of the main reasons I didn't play Souls games for years and years. Because I just couldn't stand Stevie's ass. Because he'd always talk about like, oh, yeah, beat it. It's like the hardest video game ever. And I'm like, Steve, shut the fuck up, man. You're annoying, dude. That played Bloodbourne finally in 2020.

And I was like, damn. Oh, Stevie. you were right. Man, man. Like, hearing you talk about, like, those high school or those college friends that you had that, like, you were so close. But then, like, you just lose touch with them.

You spent 90% of your life with them for, like, two years. Summer, summer, 2015, I'll never forget. Because that was the summer where I became very good friends with Huey. He was, like, my best friend for, like, a good six months. And then I moved to Seattle. That's gonna be my best man, dude.

For real. And, like, dude, I think about this often, actually. Because, like, Huey posts on Instagram, I'm like, you know, his current life, his wife and all this stuff. And when I, I kid you not, I introduce Huey to his current wife, not realizing that they were going to like get married or whatever, but like I was like, oh yeah, you know, this is my friend Kelsey, like, Kelsey is Huey or whatever and like just at a random house party. Matchmaking.

And like, I look at their Instagram now and they have a child. And every single time they post that. Every single time I see them post that child, I'm like, I'm like, I'm the reason that child is. That's my baby. I created a human being. life. I did. I did though. And I'm like, and I haven't talked to Huey in like a good eight years. I think about it so often. My first podcast that I ever did in 2015, me and Huey started it. That's wild. We did a 15 episode podcast together called awkward individuals. This is the worst podcast from all

times. You can't fight it anymore. Oh my God. And now you have a child. That's so freaking funny, dude. Exist because of me. For real, I gave, I brought life to this world. Potential Wizard said In honor of Valentine's Day, what are your favorite video game romances? Mine is Pan Am and Cyberpunk, if you know, you know. Thanks, guys.

Clive and Jill. I love Clive and Jill, but there's something about it that, and I know that this is just kind of that personal, like, oh, well, they're not as good as the ones from before type shit for me. I love them, but like, Tidus and Yuna for me for 10 is like so high up there. And Zach and Eret, how things

are supposed to be, okay? No, I heard it's Cloud and Tifa, all right? I will say, Cloud and Tifa and F-S-7 Rebirth did something to me. Like, changed something in my brain. Had my fistballed up. Like, I can't believe how much this is hidden for me right now. I'm sure there's, I can't think of many, like, great video game romances, even though I know they're out there. I go with me and Shadowheart.

Yeah, really corrupt family. Man, she's just like, she's had some real wild stuff. I'm sure she wish she could take back just about religion and. life and stuff. But like, you know, I was able to freer from her, you know, terrible parents and her parents were awful and come over here, Shadowheart, I got you. I'm drawing blank. Yeah, P&M is such a good

answer for Cyropunk. Yeah. Because, like, did you all redo the love scene with P&M? I was insane. Oh, man. It had to turn it. It was different. It was different. I had to turn off the stream. It was so flustered. Uh, Melo Fellow says you guys should try the Mindwave demo on PC. It's a mashup invader Zim art style with Warioware Gameplay.

I've seen, I've seen the trailer. What the fuck is this called? Mind wave. Mind wave. You said it looks cool, bless? It looks really cool, yeah. We got a, after this podcast, we just spoiled the Pan Am sex scene for Tim. Because I feel like Tim would like it.

Yeah. Got to see it. We got the matter of fact saying, Tim, you should check out TMNT splintered fate. It's Hades with 2003 TMNT show style. Just added Casey. Also big love to KF. I watched Mike stream that for a bit. And I was like, damn, this looks really cool.

Like, it doesn't look as good as Hades. it looks as fun as Hades. I've heard that's what it is. Like it's not as good as Hades, but it's good. Yeah. You know. Cool.

Also, yeah, this game looks right. Also, yeah, I'm buried into this. Fuck yes. Coming out anytime soon?

Demo out. Yeah, demos out. Timothy Chesson says, are you ready for that magic the gathering final fantasy set, bless? I mean,

I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready, man. Honestly, I want it so bad. Every piece of art they've released from it. I'm like, this is amazing stuff.

Like, it's all, brand new unique shit and like they know what they had with fall fantasy like we can't fuck this up this means too much to too many people yeah and so far crushing dude magic pops off with art like as i've been collecting new cards i like i've been looking at like a lot of the unique and rare art stuff the full art cards and i'm like yo these are actually like fantastic um so yeah i'm looking forward to it i want to i think we got to do a workshop me and mike got to put on a magic workshop yeah because nick wants to learn and so we'll sit down tim nick i think roger might already know

but like we'll give Roger a refresher on how to play and we're gonna get everybody in this office Andy you're invited to everybody in this office is gonna learn how to play magic I love it. Barry, you're invited too. No, I'd prefer not to be. I'm still blanking on a great romance,

you know. Real talk, I don't think about RPGs. That many of them in video games. Well, that's the thing I'm thinking of. I'm like, oh, I love all these RPGs that have all these things. I'm still just like, hmm.

I just thought about Nick Valentine. And I'm just thinking of like Fall Out Four. Characters I'm in love with. Yeah. It was always Learra. always Lear from Mass Effect Oh yeah

Chloe Frazier Dude Chloe would ruin me Chloe was I'm gonna stop different Yeah I'm gonna stop there I was gonna say Max and Chloe From Life is Strange

Yeah Yeah I was trying to think of good couples Dude Sixlet says easy fix Zach cross Areath Cross Tifa cross cloud Polycule No No

That ain't Zach's MO That's a one girl type of guy No, see, that's the thing is that like Zach might be a one girl type of guy, but he's also kind of a one girl, one guy type of guy as well. Zach? Maybe a thruple. No. I don't see that in Zach.

Zach, on the prize. The prize is heirs. He's a stronger man than me. If I'm Zach, I want the white pick offense, you know? Yeah, that's all that he wants. Yeah. You know, I get it. God. Shut on my guy. A couple of these are a little spoiler in a way.

I don't want to read. I appreciate you rating, but we're not going to get to that one. a Joker man says Hatsune Miku for Night Rain. Y'all are taking it like too far. All right. All I'm saying is Rothelos. Dude, I was, man, hold on us. You bring it up, Hatsune Miku,

just took my brain down a thread of things that happened recently when I was downloading mobs for the outer world. Trying to get outer worlds to run better, look better, you know, add this little thing that adds better God rays or whatever the fuck. and you know that little computer screen you talk to

in the outer world like the ship AI or whatever very snarky this AI and there was a way to replace all of the picture because it's like essentially just a digitized looking like not really a human face it's kind of a drawn but it has different facial expressions to change like how it's feeling or whatever

and there's a Hatsun Mikumad of course because there's Hatsun Amikou Mad for everything I was gonna download this mod for stream and I'm glad I read the details further because it was a Gianna Michael's mod for the face and then I'm glad I clicked in I'm glad I looked at the mod

because it was like very you know lots of and not safe for work I was like ah damn it I wish if it was just the faces I would have been so okay with that I need to send me like right fucking there's something wrong with these Out of all people.

John Michaels? Like, it's so, well, check it out. She was a goat in the early 20, like, in the late 2000. That's why it's hilarious to me. It's so random to me. Like, it would be one thing we're talking about about all the danger. John of Michael? Listen, he's just trying to do it for the bit, Les.

I thought it was so hilarious that, like, those were the only two faces to where. It was like, Hatsun and Miku, and here's another moder who put in Gianna Michael. And again, I thought it would have been great if it was just her looking happy, her looking angry, her looking, what a. Like, what a funny, stupid thing. Yeah. But then I look deeper and it was like, no, no, no, there's like, they get real vulgar. Like, I can't show that on Twitch. That's hilarious.

That woman would activate in a way I didn't know what's possible. Nobody has since. Nobody has said. Nobody ever well again. The goat, yeah. Wow. Activate is how he just said. I mean, he's not wrong.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's not wrong. Yeah, she'd fucking laugh at you and shit. Yeah. That's what I mean, Kikou? Uh, anyways, Spiak and I are, it's the best, romantic videos. Who? Byek and I have from Assassin's Creed Orgence.

Oh my Lord. I want to say this. Last night, I streamed more avowed. I was like, hey chat. Do you want me to start a new game just because I want to have a video for YouTube because it shit looks awesome? Or do you want me to show you my character 31 hours in?

Full it like super leveled up. You may get spoilers. But it's also like, I think if I really, really, really cared about the game a lot. I definitely would not have done that. That's kind of what shows, that's kind of a way to show you that I don't think this game does anything amazing story-wise, where if it was like crazy twist and I'd be like, no, no, no, I don't want to show you all that.

You all play that. You got to experience for yourself. So that's kind of where I'm at with the game. And during my review, I kept mentioning that the third little island you kind of go to is just so far in a way more enjoyable for me than the first two. like if the whole game is what I'm experiencing now and last time I did a side quest that was like awesome and it had a really

cool random side quest with really cool choices that were really kind of fucked up like oh man I don't know if I should do this this is awesome and it's like I wish all the game was this thing and I saw a lot of comments you know rightfully

kind of going after me because I'm always way too negative for a game that I even like and I do that all the time and I got to praise the game more because I always go into here are all the things that I wish were better and I want to love this game and that's why I'm so disappointed that all these things

are not better so even though I think the game's like a seven-ish so far I want it to be great, I want it to be awesome but like if all of the game was what I was experiencing recently this would this game would be amazing it's just like it was it fell so flat for me

in those first two lands. And the reason why, and people go, well, Andy, if you feel that way, why would you give it a seven? Because if the combat sucked and if the traversal and exploration and discovery sucked, then it would be way lower. But that stuff is so damn good

that it's still holding it up enough for me. I'm like, no, this is still a good game. It's still fun to fight enemies and have my squadmates do this crazy spell that I can then, you know, capitalize on. It's still a lot of fun, but man, it's just disappointing. Yeah.

So far for me. That was the thing for me where, like, as I was playing through, I knew it wasn't necessarily a quality issue for me with the game. Like, of course, there are certain things where I look at it. I'm like, okay, I wish this was better. I wish this was more engaging. But I'm with you of like, man, combat in this game is pretty fun. Oh, man, like, they're kind of in their bag with riding a bit or at least world building and, like, you know, doing a great job of, I think getting you in on who your character is and what they mean to the world. And there's a quest early on where you meet another character that is like you.

And like there's kind of a, I don't want to spoil the side quest, but like shit pops off in a way where I was like, oh damn, that's pretty cool. But I think the more I played a vowed for me, the more I was like, man, I cannot wait for outer worlds too, because that is a world that I think I am already invested in. And I know just in terms of setting, in terms of tone, in terms of comedy, in terms, even you talking about the AI in the ship and being reminded of that and like how much I like that, right? Or the character who's basically just from Rick and Morty or there's a romance option in that game that people love. I forget their name. Parvati. Parvati, yeah. Voice by Ashley Birch.

Yeah, like Parvati. And like, I don't know. There's something about Outer Worlds in that world that I think I engage with a bit better for Obsidian and how their writing works. That, yeah, I'm just way more invested in versus how they do fantasy, which, again, isn't bad. I think, again, I liked a lot of how they set up the world. But, yeah, there's something about it where I'm like, I think I just prefer the tone of Outer Worlds versus what they're doing here in Avowed. And when it, on the flip side of that, when it goes to, you know, what I enjoyed about Dragon Age, it's like, you know, obviously people have their complaints about Dragon Age. But the NPCs and their side quests and the emotional sort of story beats in them are what really made me fall in love with them.

And I just like, I did one of them with one of the companions in Avowed and just wasn't really blown away by any means. I was just like, okay, this is fine or whatever. But it's like, one of your squadmates is the voice of Garris from Mass Effect. Like, that should be the easiest dub of all time. And it's just like, the writing for the character is not there to make me be like, fuck yeah, you're my writer die, bro. Like, when I played Mass Effect one, immediately I was like, dude, Garis, all fucking day.

Garis, you're all, homie, get in the backseat, dude. We're going to go on an adventure, you know. I just loved hanging out with a dude. And I just haven't felt that at all with any of the four squadmates in a vow. I just, I don't know. Also, correct myself, I don't think you romance Parvati, actually, because I think she's actually Ace. So I think it was one of those things where maybe as I was playing.

Oh, I never beat it, but I just always assume everybody loves Parvati, so I assume that was a romance. I think everybody loves Parvati just because she's a good writing. Well, yeah, really well-written character. I think there was a part where I was like maybe trying to romance her, and then I was like, oh, actually, no, I can't because that's not what they're into. Dude, I got her so mad the other day. Holy shit.

When I was playing it early on, I ended up, you know, killing that dude and that, like, big first mission in the outer worlds, the mayor of the first mission. the mayor of the fucking town or whatever who's like, take power away from the people who left our city, give it back to us you know, because they diverted power. And I ended up taking the power away from him and he was like, you fucked to this whole town.

This whole town is ruined because of you. People are going to, people are suffering already and you are making it worse. But it's really like, this dude's like the capitalist who's like making people work all goddamn day. And he's just like the horrible mayor of the town. And as he walks away, I'm hanging out with Parvati. And he's walking up the stairs.

I just go, boom, when I shoot him, and he fucking falls on the staircase. Parvati gets in my face. She's like, what would you do? Why would you do that? And I was like, he was really fucking mean to you. And she was like, oh, suddenly, oh, oh, what did you say? She was like, oh, you're so chivalrous. How you're going to murder a guy for being mean to me?

And I was like, no, I was just fucking. Dude, it was awesome, man. And I just like, you can't do that in Nevada. You can't just like randomly shoot people and stuff like that. I do want to shout out to you because I think there was somebody in chat that mentioned, you know, less is born to the game like Fallout than Elder Scrolls, which is 1,000% factual.

But I think there's also just a thing of, like, I think you mentioned this during the review, and it always sucks to bring up another game to compare it to a game. But like, Ballard's Gate 3, playing that game for even the limited time that I played it, because I think I put in 20-something hours into Boulder's Gate 3. But even in that time, I was like,

I was very invested in that world, right? It's not just the fantasy aspect of it. I think it is maybe just how much competition there is in fantasy and how, even totally, like what I want totally out of a fantasy. I like fantasy, but I think I also want, I like, what's the vampire's name in Baldur's Gate 3, the homie that everybody loves. You know, I don't remember name.

I never remember names. But, you know, vampire homie and like what he brought, what he brought to the table. Like, yeah, best actor. Asterian. Thank you, too. Like, Asterian is a character so fun, so interesting, right? So engaging. And I take that in comparison to even the first companions you meet in a vow where I'm like,

oh, you are not hysterian. Like, you are not like what I necessarily want currently out of a car. companion. It sounds like I'm breaking up with somebody, but you get what I mean. Yeah, having an awesome side quest. Having an awesome side quest in the outer world where it is a random dude at a bar who's like all sad and depressed. He's like, I need help go into this one shipwreck and you find out, or not a shipwreck,

but you find out that this dude, he eventually admits to like, I left my whole crew to die while leaving this planet. I was like, man, that shit goes so hard and that's like a really fucked up thing. and I just want more of it. I want more surprises like that. Again, I talked about the bounty system in Avowed, and this is no spoilers. You just go kill bounties, right?

It's for money, it's for whatever. But I was like, that's cool. But, you know, and at the bounty board, there's a bounty master. There's always a dude standing next to the board or whatever. And he's like, hey, go kill this guy. You turn in the money. Oh, you kill that guy. Way to go.

And I was like, okay, but like, what if we went the extra mile and you go kill all these bounties? And maybe there's one more bounty. Or what if there's just one of these random ass bounties that when you get there, the person you're there to kill is like, that dude sent you to come kill me? No, no, no, no, hold the fuck up. I have receipts on this motherfucker. This dude is corrupt.

You need to help me kill him because he went after. I was like, I want a surprise like that, you know? And it's just like, you go turn. All right, thanks for you. Here's your money. And it's like, ah, surprise me. I want to be like, wowed. And I want to go, whoa, I can't believe we're doing this in this game right now.

and it all just felt very safe for those first two worlds. And in this third world, so much better, so amazing. I am loving this third world. It just takes 25 hours to get there. I love that the chat when you asked like who the hot vampire guy was. And it was like, Asteroon, Asteroon, Estarian, Estirian, Jeff. Asterian, Asteroon.

Let us know in the comments below. What gaming plans you have for this beautiful Valentine's Day weekend, AKA Andy Cortez's birthday weekend because I hope that if you don't have plans you reconsider and decide that you do and that's to hang out with Bless playing Dark Souls for the very first time I'm so excited because tonight I'm hanging out with Andy for Valentine's Day

playing the Eldon Ring night rain and that too and yeah yeah some Eldon Ring Bruce yeah Bruce that's just 7 p.m. That's Valentine's Day threesome Hell yeah

if any one of you gets like sick let me know and I can jump that you got a code I mean, maybe, I don't know. Oh, shit. Yeah. Shit. Maybe I hook them on.

Well, everybody. Say something nice in the comments. You know what I mean? Say something just a little inappropriate. Just a little. You know what I mean? Just, you know, nothing crazy. I think we saw that once we got into a certain vibe with that, then things got a little,

things went a little too far. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they do. You know, I was thinking for sure. I was like, all right, this week we did have the kind of funny podcast episode called the horniest episode ever. And I'm like, are we about to call this games cast the horniest episode? I don't know.

Anyway, stay tuned to game showdown. Then after that, we're going to have the blessing playing dark souls for the first time. No matter what, I love you all. Goodbye. Gianna.