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What's up everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Friday, September 6th, 2024.
I'm one of your hosts alongside the tastemaker, Roger Picorni.
I had two McDonald's hash browns right before this.
It was bad idea.
And free six-tax.
No, it was a bad idea.
One is enough.
You shouldn't be eating two.
I buy, by the, it was buy one, get one for a dollar.
That's a dollar.
That's pretty much free.
I mean, you know, you pad it out, right?
Yeah, exactly.
And then now, it's just immediately housed two of them.
So, I'm, I'm, it's going to be a ride.
So as you follow that up with Tic Tacs?
Yeah, you know, because they got the McDonald's up.
You don't want a hash brown, right?
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Greg gets me.
As you know, I don't believe in meetings with the employees.
I just bring the issues to the podcast.
So Roger, we need to have a conversation, all right?
I want you to know how, how deeply you cut me when you got your new title of the
tastemaker.
And then you said, yeah, the other one, the lock is just the default.
And it's like, no, no, the lock is a specific character in WW2K23, all right?
It's not like I could pick other names.
It was a whole campaign to itself called the lock.
That's not default.
Default's when you start the game and it's like you're a player or whatever.
Or you link, that's default.
But it was, it is like the default name for that storyline.
Well, that, I mean, no, because you can't change it.
Default would imply that you can customize that.
Whoever, if you go through that expertly crafted storyline.
Yeah.
That, you know, people, this is actually an insult to a lot of current.
graders over there. You know what I mean? You insulted a whole much of
writers and developers when you said this.
You go there. Like, it's not, there's no default
about it. I understand.
You got it because of the game, but then you like, but
to say it was default was just, you know.
Generic.
So I'm, Kevin, we need to take that episode of the games cast down.
Oh, wow. I'm trying to get in the good grits of
WW2 and that's not going to help. That's not going to help at all.
Nor pirating all their content. We'll talk about that.
Of course, she's Christmas in September. It's Joey Noelle.
See, I thought that you were going to go.
in the direction of you needed to have a meeting with Roger
about him trying to get you to play Bellatro
multiple times. No, no, that's fine.
I appreciate that. I like that
resurgence of, oh, now it's mobile. That wasn't
my problem. I just don't like cards.
It was on PlayStation 2. It wouldn't help them.
I'm the same, right? Yeah. Guess what?
We have solitaire. It's the perfect video game.
Thank you. You know what I mean? If Craig Miller's playing
fucking World of Warcraft, you can play a card game.
You can figure that. I mean, I could. Well, that's not that I can't.
Because I don't want to. If the one day
you will and then it'll make a good podcast. I mean,
they keep putting cool decks in it, right? So, hey.
If your car doesn't have a
Ghostbusters deck in there,
you know what I mean?
You got Dave the diver.
It was a famed indie game.
Of course,
he's the Hispanic heartthrope Texas Street.
Latino heat,
clicking heads and ripping him to shreds.
The globe trotting head shot
and three points shooting,
root and tooting nitro rifle
from Twitch.com.
Andy Cortez.
Spent a lot of time playing deadlock last night.
That's that.
Well, did you accept the agreement
or did you escape out of it?
And that's why you can talk about it?
I accepted it.
I accepted it.
I agree to it.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate it.
I appreciate it.
more importantly, I kept on a green tool
one more game with Snow Bike Mike.
And it was
945 and then it was 10.20.
He's like, damn, dude, we got stomped right there.
But that next one, like, we're going to win this one.
I was like, fuck yeah, we're going to win this one.
And the next guy would be like, all right, this is the last one though.
But, you know, thanks for watching everybody.
We had two players on the other team quit.
And he was like, yeah, it's not a real win though.
I was like, you're right.
Let's do another one.
You're right.
And then that one ends and we win.
He's all right, hit the fucking button.
Let's ready up.
I was like, it's 1230.
I'm not going to do this again.
These matches are a long time.
It's a good video game, everybody.
I'd like you to do me a favor.
It's the year of the beta.
We're here.
You know, Haynes 2, early access.
Fields of Mistria, which we're about to talk about, of course.
You already clicked on the headline.
You know why you're here.
It's a Warhammer review.
Space Marine 2.
That's exciting.
But then also, it's not tots yet.
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
I'll tell you when it's tots.
And then it's going to be Joey and Raj
talking about their tails here.
Roger had a long flat tot.
what?
Long what?
Hasbren.
A long flat top.
Oh.
You really thought it was worth interrupting everything.
You thought that was going to go.
You thought that's like,
the educated man's joke.
That was going to worry,
you know what I mean?
No.
I do it for the fans.
No one kills him for saying that.
I say that's a potato.
It's not everyone hates me.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What's up?
Talk to me about deadlock.
obviously this game from Valve
a big deal there was the whole brew
ha ha when it was originally talked about it wasn't and then it's
now you're playing it
I legitimately this is one of those games
I'm trying to see sorry I'm fighting through that
I haven't seen in action so you could
put up like a million different things I'd be like I don't know which
what is deadlock why are you obsessed
with it how many hours into it kind of thing are you
Kevin go to you too and bring up Andy Cortez
deadlock you don't mind
um deadlock is valve's
new video game and it's
their essentially it's their version of
Paragon slash predecessor.
Right.
It's a third person, Moba.
I don't really mess with mobas.
I played Pokemon Unite and had a good time with that.
But...
Is that because you were just smashing little kids in it?
No.
Whoa, Joe.
Very out of context.
Crushing, my dad.
He is a PC gamer.
I'm crushing.
I meant crushing.
Sorry.
Greg had to go the extra step.
The extra step.
It's a Moba.
You got your four lanes.
It's a 6 v.6 game.
It's a hero shooter.
But yeah, you use the skill of your aiming.
You got to take out all these little minions.
And every time you kill a minion, they give you currency to then level up your character throughout the match.
Get more abilities.
You have three core abilities with an ultimate.
And you level those up as well with that currency.
And then you'll go back to your buy station and then get an upgrade for extra rounds, faster shooting, active reload.
So we get that like accurate reload or whatever.
really cool thing about is when you're shooting all these little minions, a little wisp of smoke
will pop up. And if you shoot that wisp, you get extra points, extra like currency. But the
other team can steal that from you. So they could shoot the wisp that you shot and like reclaiming
and deny those points for you. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. It's just a really, it's got such a great
rhythm to it. And again, Mike is like the most goaded shot collar. Because in these games,
when I play Overwatch,
I know when to
pull back,
when to push the point,
you know,
like it,
I know that rhythm.
Mobas are just like,
I don't know what the fuck's
going on this game.
There's still so much I don't know.
Did you not play Infinite Crisis?
Oh, man.
Did you see comics,
Mova?
Really,
that one passed me up,
Greg.
Yeah.
That was a tough time.
I was a gaming in that moment.
Yeah.
Sorry about that.
Sure.
But yeah,
it's such,
it's got such a great rhythm to it.
It's got such a great selection
of heroes with cool abilities
that all really, really look awesome.
They have a really neat
sort of design style.
And the whole vibe of the game is very like,
it's kind of got like a spooky,
noir, New York fantasy,
dark fantasy vibe to it.
It's very weird.
Like, when you look at the characters,
you're like, how does any of this fit together?
But the vibe of the world,
the narration, all the sort of like,
like one of the little load screens.
You got basically got a blue-looking,
dude who looks like a devil and he's a good detective and he's a little cigar and it's like oh this is the
vibe they're kind of going for right here i got it uh i just i'm really digging it so far and um
so this is it this is the moba that got you yeah well yeah i mean you know there's been a lot of other
third person mobas out there that i haven't necessarily given the best shot because sometimes
they're a bit more melee focus but i just like the idea of most of the roster you are pointing and
clicking. You are shooting a weapon or projectile or a hit scan weapon. And, you know, a lot of that,
I prefer the skill of like, I want to outgun that person as well as opposed to the much more
patient sort of gameplay of I need to know when to pounce on this enemy because I see their health
is a little bit lower. Let me go push that. I just prefer the third person shooting aspect of it a lot more.
It's so cool and it is still so early. It really feels like a friend.
friend of yours who, you know, maybe left
the studio is like, hey, let me send you a
dot executable file. I got a new thing I'm working
on. Like, it's so early, it's very weird.
It's a very weird release, obviously.
But a lot of players are
digging it, and I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Yeah, it's really cool how
much people have gravitated toward this game.
Because, like, visually, it doesn't look great
because it is so early, but it must be so
freaking fun that everybody's playing.
Yeah. Everybody in my high school group chat
for my friends back then, like, they all
are obsessed with a detective.
So yeah, no, it's, it's really cool that it's, it's, it's, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, dude, you should definitely hop in, because it's a, uh, yeah, like the, they're going for what Valorant did when Valoran came out and a lot of people go, man, this game doesn't look like a modern video game. It looks like, it looks like, it looks all flat, it's all cartoony looking, but their, Valve is clearly going for, we want this game to run everywhere. Regardless of what machine you have, like, Valorant can run on some of the shittiest machines at 60 frames per second. That's what,
But Valve is going for here as well, where it's, it's got like, it's got good enough lighting and
stuff like that, but obviously the characters have a very sort of flat looking vibe and
there's nothing hyper realistic about it all.
They want this game to just run really, really well.
And so far, this early in, like, you know, I'm having a really, really great time with
it.
I want to keep on playing it.
Okay.
Didn't expect it to be like, you know, I, I mean, shit.
I thought I'd be playing Concord for the end of my days, you know?
And your days.
I mean, Busting was the number one Concord streamer.
So once he had that market corner, you had to pivot.
to this. I did. Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right about that.
I'll see the glasses look great. Thanks, man. Are they new? I don't know. I've seen it. I've had
for a while. Yeah. You don't wear them enough. I'm getting so much shit still on that TikTok where I posted about
Concord. I got so much hate. What was the TikTok?
I was like, you know, of course I wasn't serious, but nobody knows that. And in the video,
I was like, look, I'm going to gather all the Concord players together and go, do you want to be
dying a fucking 12-year-old Jimmy and Timmy in the, in the, everybody's slide canceling in college? Do you
want to be dying
to those lobbies
or do you want to
come play Concord with me
where like
I'm having a pretty
good time
because there's
nobody's playing
it all the good players
are playing all the
hard games
right?
And then everybody's just
like fucking dream on
dude who are you
you're not gonna
rally anybody to come play
it's like
it's a yeah
I know
just trying to make
Concor
I know
trying to make this
woke game
continue on
who are you bro
nobody knows who you are
bro
like that's a joke
I know who you are
Andy
thanks thanks
thanks Greg
no problem
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Excellent.
Best theme song.
Have you watched the reboot on Netflix?
Not recently.
I watched like the first season that they dropped,
but not the recent ones.
I did see your tweet where you want more,
like creepy creatures.
Yeah, I mean, as a, as a fan,
of the paranormal in a big foot.
It just sucks that once we all got cameras,
they were all like, oh, they don't know,
oh, you know, everybody receded, you know what I mean?
Like, suddenly not nearly as many kids.
We gotta double down.
The Bigfoot family, like, mobile phone tails
are really spiking us.
They're really shooting up here.
Everybody's got shit.
They're shooting 4K now.
60 frames.
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Tots, Tots, Tots. Like I said at the top,
two reviews for you
to get through and enjoy, all right?
We will start with the one, the only Warhammer
40K Space Marine 2.
Of course, this is from Sabre Interactive,
published by Focus Entertainment.
And,
this steam description reads as
this. Oh, great.
No, it's something weird. It's just a new thing
I'm trying to do in reviews because I feel like there's
many people who don't know what we're talking about. Yeah, of course.
Embody the superhuman scale and brutality of a space marine. Unleashed deadly
abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless tyrianid.
Tyrannids. Tarranids. Tarranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person
action in solo or multiplayer modes. Review embargo lifted earlier this week, Metacritics currently
at an 83. Andy, you beat the campaign. You've been streaming it with Rage.
Well, I haven't, but I was there watching him.
You watch them stream it with Raj.
What's your review so far?
I really enjoy this game.
This is an easy, easy recommendation for this year.
If you're into third-person shooters, if you're into action games, it is so unapologetically itself.
And it just knows what it wants to be.
It wants to be a brutal action-packed, just like ultra-violent, ultra-gory, little 11-hour
John took me 11 hours to beat it, had a great time with it.
There is a lot more content that could have extended that.
When you are playing in the campaign, you can just sort of mainline through the missions.
Sure.
But after every couple of missions or so, you are like in your main party, it's you, your main character with two your homies.
And after every couple of missions, another random like group of three space marines, ultramarines walk up to you.
And they'll be like, Lieutenant, we have, we turn it report over here.
And so you could go like, oh, good luck out there, Colonel or whatever.
And you could go to a little terminal and then play as that three stack in other missions.
So there's other missions online that allow you to kind of get more unlocks and get more gear to make your dude looks more cool.
I think the guns pretty much stay the same, though.
I don't really know how many more weapons you are unlocking because I felt like I unlocked them all through the end of my campaign journey.
but and then there's a completely different multiplayer mode
on the side of that which is like they have PVP which I did not get to try
there is a chance that if I play the multiplayer co-op stuff where you're going through
these like co-op missions together you have to pick from I think five classes there's like
here's the big bruiser melee class here's a sniper class here's a kind of a mid-range
and you have like different equipment and stuff like that it's different than what the
campaign is, but you're essentially picking from classes, and I've heard that when the gameplay
starts working in there, that it just starts really singing, and it becomes like a totally
almost different experience for what you're used to in the campaign. There's a chance that if I
play that, my score might go up, but for now, my score for Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 is an easy
8 out of 10. Great game. A great game. Easily recommended. We're 5 out of 10 is a mediocre average game.
I would kind of, personally, I'd say, like, anything over a seven is, like, an easy recommendation for me.
Sure.
This game is a great video game.
I had a lot of fun with it.
I think that I may have, I'd give it a higher score, had the story grabbed me a bit more.
Sure.
I think it's easy to kind of get lost in a lot of the Warhammer jargon, which I know the Warhammer fans will probably come at me out there.
Oh, Rahul is that.
Oh, my brother.
Andy.
I had a great time with it, though.
It's so freaking fun.
When I first topped in, you're doing this tutorial,
and they teach you about, like, parries and stuff.
You've heard of it.
You know, look, I love a pair.
Oh, you've heard of it.
But it means, but right off the rib, Joe, I'm kind of,
I look at this mechanic, I'm like,
why don't I want to do this here?
Like, I'm a third-person shooter.
I got my, I got my cool guns.
I don't really know if I want to be meleeing a whole lot.
And there's times where you just,
have your sword or you just have a hammer or your knife or whatever and uh and you are just sort of
meleeing soarms and stuff and that aspect of it i didn't think i was going to like and i freaking
fell in love with it um the the peri system i think works fantastically it's especially cool if a
larger enemy is coming at you tries to jump at you and then they become sort of like we're in
our vulnerable state you could do the finisher right here if you do the finisher on the larger enemy and
there's a bunch of like small tyrannids around you, they all die.
And it's just such a cool little like visual thing.
And it feels good as the game.
We're like, oh, I really saved us a lot of time and maybe some deaths because, you know,
I've wiped out this whole sort of flood.
I wish that, and Roger had mentioned it on stream yesterday, and I'd been thinking the
exact same thing.
I wish this game had the Doom style gameplay loop where you can do this move to get shield.
You can do this to get ammo or you could do this to get.
get health and Doom had that great gameplay loop of like, all right, I'm going to do a finisher on you.
I'm going to make sure I do this move on you so I can get my shield and my health and my
ammo.
This, when you do a finisher, you get like armor back and I just kind of, I wish I just did the
straight of rip off of doom.
I think it would have been a smarter choice, but I still had a great freaking time with it.
The guns feel great.
Perfect dodging is also a lot of fun because when you, when you parry, you can follow up
immediately with like,
immediately if you shoot after a parry,
you go into sort of like the camera will zoom in
and do this cool like, bam, headshot critical thing, you know?
And after a perfect dodge,
you can do the exact same thing.
And it just feels really, really awesome and skillful
to kind of feel like you are getting better
of the CPU in that moment.
So questions I have for you is when I was watching this
on the monitor yesterday while they were streaming,
I eventually came in and made a joke.
It gave me a lot of Outrider vibes.
Is that fair?
I liked Outwriters.
We liked Outriders.
We played a lot of me.
Yeah, I really had a...
I loved Outriders.
I would say...
I would say no, only in that the Outriders' boss fights felt more like they were going for Remnant from the Ashes, Remnant 2.
Outriders, to me, at a lot of times, felt like Dark Souls with Guns.
And yes, this has a Perry and, like, a perfect dodge.
But there's still, like, a...
this to me just feels like
Gears of War without the cover shooting
or if Doom was a third person shooter.
Like it really wants you to be aggressive
and you're like I
certain parts of Outer,
I just felt like each time you kind of walk into a new area
and there would be a giant boss.
Like, I don't think there's that much enemy variety
in this game to kind of make me feel like,
oh, here's a new boss fight.
This may be a big new challenge.
There's certainly not the RPG nature
that outright has had where it's
all the tiered loot with all of the
I got a legendary thing that I then
upgraded it's it's straightforward
it's like here's these fucking guns go out there
Does that both the lack of
enemy variety because it's just the bugs right
No I mean there's there's a
There's a couple of enemies but it's not
It's nothing like that's gonna blow your mind
And then the am of the guns
That you're just using the
Is it by the 11 hours
When you rolled credits were you over
Doing those same things with those same
things or were you like? No, because
whenever there would be moments where I would
get to certain boss fights,
I go, oh, sick, they still got a couple of tricks
up their sleeve. And I'm enjoying the
boss mechanics right here.
Because I thought I had maybe
seen it all by hour seven or eight, and
then they kind of surprised you with a new
boss fight that's going to challenge you in a
different way that maybe the game hadn't been challenging
for a while. Because a lot of it is
you go from point A to point B
and you're just shooting storms and stuff.
Did you go nuts with this where you're customizing?
Uh, no, not a whole lot because I just, I didn't really see the option to do that where I think a lot of that is when you play the multiplayer and you unlock a bunch of stuff.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Gotcha.
There's a good chance that I did unlock a lot of stuff.
I just didn't really see the option.
I, when you're in that customization screen, you could pick your primary weapon, your secondary weapon, your melee.
And then there's the appearance option on the bottom.
And when I would hit appearance, it would just show me the load out that I had.
And I couldn't really click in or back out from there.
So I don't know, maybe the great chance that I miss the menu, because I often do that.
But yeah, by the end of it, I was still very, very surprised by the scale and kind of like these continued surprises.
Because I thought the game was done maybe two or three times.
Okay.
And it never, I don't feel like it outlasted it's welcome, which can happen a lot for me in a lot of games.
So I'm like, I thought it was going to end.
And here we are four hours there.
I'm like, oh, man, I kind of wish you ended at that point, you know.
Bring me up to speed on then what you and the squad have been doing.
Yeah, so I actually played this game before the stream.
I played the first four hours.
Actually, I got deeper into the game by myself because I played on normal mode at home.
And then, of course, Mike throws me into hard mode after lying to me.
So that's been, that's been rough.
So we've been kind of doing a whole section that would have taken us maybe 15 minutes, but it's taken us three hours.
They just kept dying a lot of Roger was like, Mike, why are we?
Like, did you raise that?
He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, slapy.
You know, that's why it's a join on me.
Put on hard, yeah.
So I'm a huge Gears of War guy.
I am very nostalgic for this era of video games,
and of course, Space Marine One came out in the 360 era around the Gears of War hype.
And it's worth pointing out Jason's super chats,
just like you can on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games.
And when I was like, is it like Outriders?
Jason says it's Gears 1 cross Doom.
Yeah.
And that's a great way to describe this, right?
Like, I was excited about just the idea of playing something with my friends
that is Gears of War like.
Sure.
And it is...
You're so desperate.
I'm so...
Oh, my God.
Wandering through the desert
drinking the sand.
Dude, I was so desperate.
And like, I booted this up
and it's just like a big old smile
on my face the entire time, right?
Like, it isn't exactly Gears of War
because I think it is more of like a hell diver's vibe
because all the enemies are smaller, right?
Like, with Gears of War,
you're fighting the locust
and eventually you have a few little grunts here and there.
So it's more of like, oh, you're, you know,
cover shooting, you're getting the locust.
Okay, cool.
But this one's like, no,
you're just mowing down tons of basically Zina
Which is kind of cool.
Like, they just look like xenomorphs.
The perfectly placed grenade will just send everybody flying.
It's so satisfying.
It's super fun, yeah.
I'm enjoying my time a lot.
I mean, not so much on the stream now because it's hard mode, but just the general idea
of what I'm playing.
I will agree with Andy and he kind of foreshadowed my thoughts right there.
But like, yeah, I don't love like the loop of it all.
Like, I don't love searching for the ammo.
I don't love, like, dying and then feeling like, okay, there's no really.
I always feel like I'm searching for like that
the shields, right? Like, it's hard for me to get health
and specifically with the ammo. I just, I don't love that loop.
But either way, I'm just having a good time
blowing things up and shooting people.
It's super simple and it just feels like a throwback
video game in the best way possible.
Yeah, again, I'm four hours in, but like I'm feeling like a
7-5 right now. And I think eventually that's,
that can go up or that can go down. But like, this seems to me
like just a very like, oh, I'm happy this exists in 2020.
24. It's like a good pallet cleanser for the rest of the year.
Jeff Grub, who we, of course, all despise, but occasionally makes a point that's interesting.
I like it me. I like...
Just, I saw you one time swore if your car tried him.
Oh, whoa.
He was in Ohio, but you were trying.
I know, Jeff, I saw on threads today, had a thread that was like, I'm summarizing,
but basically like, if you're walking around asking where are the good AA games,
you're not looking at Sabre.
Like, that's what Sabre makes, right?
Where they're not making the games that are going to get game of the year,
but they're making games that are fun and are filling a gap in the market right now.
Yeah, and that's a great point, but I also, I know that sometimes we can hear double A and feel like it's,
a bit of a pejorative of like, oh, what a double A looking ass game.
Like this feels of a much higher caliber, I would say.
So like, I don't want you all to think that you're getting a lesser quality game of like,
or man, I don't want to spend that much for a double a game or whatever.
I think it's well worth the price
and I easily recommend it.
I haven't checked.
I'm looking, I'm looking.
But I just love the simplistic nature of it.
I love that there is not a tiered loot system.
I enjoy that I'm not having to worry about a gear chase
and get a higher gear score.
And sometimes you just want that more straightforward natured,
this is going to be an action experience.
And you're going to have a lot of fun,
dodging a lot of big enemies,
and small enemies, and then you're at the end of a mission,
hearing your two NPCs start to, like,
there's some pretty interesting story threats that happened,
that I found myself enjoying more than I thought I would,
but still not quite to the level of where I was hoping we'd be.
Yeah, the entire time I was playing this game,
four hours, whatever, but I still kept on thinking about, like,
wow, it's so interesting how we went from the 360 era
where we had everybody chasing the gears of war trend, right?
And then it became, okay, there's too much, we got to stop,
and we just kind of pretty much hard stop that entire genre
until nowish around this time
where people are like, oh no, we can go back to this.
And going back to it, it's like, oh, there is value
to this just basic, hey, you're going from point A to point B.
And of course, this has multiplayer.
This is a little bit more involved than just a generic.
Hey, we're doing a Gears of War I campaign.
But it's nice to be back here.
Not that I hope that we go back to games like this,
but I kind of hope we see a few more of these.
I know that Space Marine is a specific
a subsect of the Warhammer franchise
that people have been excited for to come back
but I kind of hope we see more years of work loans again
I miss it
it is a
it's such a gorgeous game as well
I know Roger's been having
what I told you this Rod
I told you this Greg like
he's having problems on a PC
which is crazy to think about
a lot of problems
Greg because like you and I call Jason Trier
you know this is something
they're the building the biggest news organization
we didn't have any issues
Dude, I've been having so many issues with this game on PC, though.
Yeah, so I booted it up on my 3080 at home.
So that's a good graphics, right?
Yeah.
Should be able to at least 60 fbs on a 1440P monitor on medium settings.
And it's not, it's struggling.
It's struggling with DLSS on.
And then I had this weird one where I would boot up the game every time.
And then it would just cut my audio, like my headphones.
And my headphones are plugged into my PC.
So I don't know what the fuck is happening.
So I'm just having a lot of issues.
And also I've been playing it over here on the 4090, and it's dropping.
frames like it's like below 40 so like it's all over the place and and i had no idea there were tech
issues because i was at uh i was at the dragon age event being like man this game fucking works
flawlessly like like because i i for whatever reason the combination of cp and gp that i have
the game works really really great and i had no issues and i was very very impressed by the
scale at which they would do these sort of big destructive moments and and and it wouldn't bat an eye
and it would like not drop a frame or anything like that and the game does such a
a great job with visuals and with scale and visual quality.
For this being a game that doesn't have the ray tracing and the path tracing and all that stuff,
like, it is fucking, it is gorgeous.
And there's something about the art style that it feels like this was a game from last
gen that got a really, really, really good remaster.
Something about like when they do close-ups on characters' faces, maybe it's a stylization
of the face.
you know, they're not going for perfectly accurate human renderings.
I mean, these dudes are like fucking Minecraft blockheads.
Like, they are all just bros that are just roided out of their minds.
They're so huge.
But the, um, something about like the, you know, the quality of the, the way the faces look
remind me a bit of like last gen type stuff, which is maybe the, the double A thing that we're
talking about.
But like, when you see the stuff in action, the screenshots that I've been taking, the amount of
stuff like the amount of moments I'm just like god that is a photo mode moment and I've taken so many
damn photos on the photo mode it uh it's a very very pretty game with fantastic freaking lighting and
this is also the team who worked on a world war z which is a reason why i totally make sense of me
because I loved the shooting in world war z I loved the sort of swarm swarm mechanics of yeah these
gigantic roving rolling sort of like waves of tyrannins all running at you um I yeah it's just
they have such a great team there
and they knew what they were going for
and I think they nailed it.
I know we have a lot of
kind of funny best friends
who have contributed already to super chat
but more importantly
we have a lot of very smart
kind of funny best friends
so I'm sure some of this went over their head
so I just want to call out that of course
a 3080 card on Amazon right now is $900.
Now you might say
oh $900 for a PC that's a steal
no Joey that's just for the card that goes inside
of the demon that lives in your house
all right? One of my head's up
$900
That's $400 more than a PS5.
Yeah, but you know, when you buy a-
$400 more!
It doesn't even work!
He can't get it to work right!
But Greg, like, when I eventually do figure out
what demon is inside there and how to fix it,
it's gonna feel so...
It's gonna feel so great when I uninstall that one-go-
Yeah, everyone else, I was gonna say,
everyone else I've moved on to a different game
by the time you ever just figure it out.
When you buy a Ferrari, you can't just take it to Joe Shmo's service shop.
It's gonna take a lot of upkeep, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
But that's what the records.
For the records.
For the records.
the record. It's not a Ferrari.
It's a fucking Batmobile. You have to
fix it yourself. You can't take it to any shop
anywhere. You have to call Lucius Fox
and beg him to help you. Look, man, Batman,
he's a man of the people. You know what I mean?
It's true. Darkest before the Don.
I like this one. Zellus Zebra Superchaston
says, after some hours in Warhammer
and Astrobot, as Astrobot
taps into the nostalgia of Nintendo platformers,
Warhammer 40K taps into
those high school slash college
evening staying up late with your mates,
having a wild time. That makes me a
It makes me emotional.
That feels good.
We're so back, baby.
You know what I mean?
Video games were gone for so long, you know what I mean?
Until like last week when this game came up.
It's been such a dark period.
We weren't having fun, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
There's so many great, there's so many good moments of drama in this game as well.
And like just kind of cheesy moments that you're just like, oh my god, the the Omnisiah, the Imperians.
Like all of the lore of Warhammer is so fascinating.
I want to know more about it, Joe.
I was wondering, Joe, is this appealing to you at all?
all because there's been mentions of hell divers in there right hell divers outriders these are all hitting
things that i really like i just have like no knowledge about warhammer at all so that's kind
of the more thing or it's like i neither did i kind of just kind of wave it away because i'm like i don't
know anything about that and i don't think you need to this is a sequel to and i skip all the dialogue
and stuff anyways yeah i mean it does it all the time it's a sequel that i think takes place
many, many, many a year after the first one came out,
but even in their press release that they gave to the creators
and the press or whatever, they said,
you don't need to have prior knowledge on Space Marine One
to fully really understand what's happening in part two.
It's just a pretty neat story that I wish pushed a little bit further
and had me really like, holy shit, I don't know,
this game was going to actually make me care in that way,
but it still hit me with some surprises.
And some really, really hyped up moment.
I really want Roger to beat this game because there are some moments at the end that are like, like, clapping, like, fuck yeah, dude.
Like, they really hit you with some kind of cinematic gameplay moments that make you feel like this war hero taking down all of these tyrannids.
It gets pretty hype.
Turns out you are a tiernit at the end, though.
Oh, yeah.
You're a dinosaur.
Yeah, I really enjoyed playing this on stream because anytime,
something would happen.
Oh, like, actually, this is like
the history of Warhammer.
It was almost like when Kevin, like,
is able to talk to somebody
who's just watched Dune and he's like,
oh, actually the thing that you saw
in the background, this is X, Y, Z.
Like, it was nice to have that experience.
I know it's a very singular experience
being able to stream the game
in front of an audience.
But it got me excited.
I was like, oh, maybe there's something,
maybe this can be my entire new personality.
Wow.
I'm always looking for new personalities.
You, Rahul and Henry Cavill
all hanging out playing Warhammer.
I mean, that's next up, you know?
I got Hideo Kojima down, you know?
Shout up to the person
in chat who was telling them
about lore and I was listening in and as well
where there's no
there's no computer like every computer screen you see
because there's no AI there's no actual
computers in that time
because I guess they're scared of AI or some shit
every computer is powered by
like a former human
Prisoner or something like a
like a human's like consciousness
is kind of powering these computers
is like crazy that's so sick
what a weird ass concept but it's just awesome
as hell like that you become a computer
I might learn more about this world, Joe.
It's pretty cool.
I'm excited for you.
It's pretty cool.
I'm sorry, painting miniatures.
Oh, let's do that.
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We're going to talk about Fields of Mystery,
A game we've all touched to some regard.
Me, very briefly.
Of course, from NPC Studio.
It is in early access right now.
The Steam description reads,
that's right.
I'm going to go to Steam.
Whoa.
Start your new life.
Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities.
Magic, romance, and adventure.
All await you in this nostalgic farming slash life sim R.P.G.
Joey, Noel.
That is a description made.
for you. How far are you in Fields of Mystery? And what do you think of it?
I am now on almost the end of spring year two. Okay. I've made it through all the seasons,
which has been fun to change. That's a lot. I was going to say, if you're, if you haven't played
the game, that's a lot. It's like 30 hours. It's not that much. Why am I casual 30?
Why am I taking so long then? I'm in the fall of year one and I'm 21 hours in. You're enjoying
yourself. You're talking to people. You're romancing people. You're using the hoe. It just says last
weeks 15.6 hours, but that's a joke.
You're all in this game.
I played.
I can never tell with you, Greg.
I don't know how to see all of, like, total hours.
Oh, he's going to do some hacks into it.
Oh, no.
Looking to it.
It's really good.
This is like a Joey-ass game, which is funny because I feel like I was one of the last people
on this panel to touch it because both Roger and Andy had told me ahead of time.
I feel like I had gone through a period of time where...
33.
See, not that many.
where we were getting a lot of life in farming sim games of varying qualities.
So I'd kind of taken like a hiatus from them other than like Stardue and Dreamlight Valley
just because I felt like I was putting a lot of time into games that I didn't really love.
And I was like, nah, I think I've kind of burned out on this.
But hearing from multiple other people here, I was like, okay, I'll give this one a shot.
It's way cuter, I think, than Starry Valley, which I know is kind of what got Roder's girlfriend Lianza into it.
I think the color palette is like in the like animation style I think is like a little bit more appealing
because it's a little bit more anime.
Yeah. I feel like my takeaway again is I've just scratched the surface of it was it gave the characters more personality where I was like, oh okay I get you and I feel this and I vibe with that.
Yeah. And I never really did any of the dating stuff in Stardue Valley because I was I didn't love any of the characters like that, which I know is like sacrilege for a lot of people.
But that just never hit for me. And I feel like there were way more distinctive.
of yeah, personalities in this game.
I need to date Ulrich.
I don't know why the game will.
Let me date Ulrich.
It's very important.
It's the best little hymn boy.
They could add it.
I know.
And I'm just begging you to add it because I feel like on every tweet that I see about
Fields Mistrant, maybe it's just my algorithm.
I feel like everybody's clamoring to date him.
I think this is a really good start considering it's an early access compared to Stardew Valley.
It is like doesn't have the depth.
And I know I can see the hints of that.
I'm like, what's this little Alco over here?
And this looks like a door, but I can't open it yet.
And I know that this is going to be something, but it's not anything yet.
So I think it has a lot of really good groundwork for it.
I would like to thank the team of Fields of Mistria for making fishing so much more enjoyable than some of the other games.
Fishing is like always kind of my, not kryptonite, I guess kryptonite in the sense that like I can never get the mechanic down.
Because you have the bar, they have to move and keep the fishing.
I'm not good at that.
That's not how my brain works.
This is just a little.
You got the dots.
You throw it out there.
You get them.
It's perfect.
You hit the button
when you see the exclamation point.
Yeah.
It's not like keeping the fish in this bar
that you have to move up and down.
I hate it.
And yeah,
I obviously have been having a great time.
I took it on vacation
and then did absolutely nothing else.
So yeah,
I think it's a really good start.
I think it'll be interesting
to see how they move this through early access
into full release because I do think
that there needs to be a little bit more
depth because now I'm on year two. I'm like, cool. Now I'm just like finishing the community
or community center museum kind of collection and like making sure I catch everything. But
I feel like I'm kind of a little bit running out of things. Running out of like the actual
drive to do it. Yeah. And it's like, okay, now I have to like figure out what gifts everybody
likes, which just takes forever. And I'm sure that there's a guide out there for that. And I
will probably default to that because trial and error for that is not particularly
fun for me. I wish that you could give more than one gift a day, which you can do in Stardu
Valley to kind of like, piecemeal get at it.
that, but right now it's only one a day.
Also, it has like the cutest dog character of all time.
Andy talks to me about your 20 hours.
Yeah, I'm having a great time with it.
I never played Stardew, but this was one that kind of...
So why did this one grab you if Sardy never did?
It was one of those right time, right place where I saw a couple people tweeting about it
and was in bed with my steam back and was like, I'm going to buy this right now.
I bought it, started it up, immediately kind of felt the hooks, and I'm just kind of really
digging the rhythm of
all right this day I want to concentrate on
trying to further this
mission which is maybe planning these
things or maybe getting these
vegetables or whatever the hell that
those other MPCs want me to grow or
having a great time going into the mines
the children yearn for the mines
I love going into the mines
I love
sort of the
their version of progress of like
every so many floors you will hit a new
checkpoint every five floors you will hit a
spot that you can then fast travel to the next time as you go deeper and deeper into the mines
and finding those new uh i mean it really is like a lot of survival games finding that new
more powerful whether it's iron going to uh silver going like all that stuff is just like those
hooks always work on me and uh i think it does a really great job of that i wish it there was
i've already like maxed out my blacksmithing stuff which was i was like why like it seemed like that
would have taken longer.
So maybe that just takes some fine-tuning.
Just your level or did you upgrade everything?
I hit like level 30 on it already.
Yeah, 30's the max.
Yeah, it just kind of like kind of came out of nowhere when I noticed I wasn't seeing that bar go
up anymore.
I was like, oh, shit, that's just max already.
I imagine that they up those levels.
Yeah, there's a great, I think there's a pretty good certainty that that will happen
just because it is early access and I'm sure there are gathering a lot of feedback on that.
Well, and I've already hit the max levels of early access and the mines, which is
60, even though the level kind of button thing goes all the way to 100.
Oh, interesting.
I'm sure we're going to get more.
Yeah, I'm just having a great time with it.
I think it's...
Are you feeling like, Joey, of like, you're running out or this is getting repetitive, or you?
No, no, because I'm still, like, in the fall.
And I still, whenever I have...
Every time of year.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
PSL season.
And when it is those late nights of like, all right, it's midnight, I could hop into
into Fields of Mystery for about an hour, do a couple, like,
day night cycles run in there, talk to the NPCs, see what missions are coming up.
And I think it kind of like also hits you with that weird sort of curveball of, oh, this,
this is more than what I thought it was going to do.
That's kind of interesting.
Story-wise.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's weird and kind of a-
Have you had like some interesting juniper encounters?
Yes.
Oh yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So all that stuff is just really neat and I kind of want to see more.
I also got to imagine.
What if you just like one of these days you wake up and they're like,
there's been a murder.
Like, how cool would that be?
Like, someone got killed.
I hope this takes, like, a really dark turn.
Yeah.
That would be really fun.
It would be super sick.
But I would, like Joey's mentioning, let her date Ulrich.
Let me date Darcy.
She runs one of the shops every week.
She jobs by, sells some goods.
I think she's, like, one of the food sellers there.
What's up with Darcy?
Oh, like the night market thing?
Yeah, what's up with these vendors?
Let me date Darcy.
I'm just having a really good time with it.
I think it's such a great kind of way to,
just turn your mind off.
See that progression go up.
I think the art style is adorable.
I think the music has like some bangers.
Although I hit the fall time and I'm like, ooh.
We went from spring to summer and the summer music was like, oh shit.
They really, really ratchet this up a level.
And then fall, I'm just not really digging a whole lot of the music.
But I'm excited for the wintertime music.
This is so funny because I've played this on mute the entire time.
The music's so good.
Because usually, like, if I'm on vacation, wherever,
where I was with other people and there was other stuff going on,
so I don't be like,
you're like,
I'll ignore you to play this game,
but I won't totally ignore you.
But we were all ignoring each other and playing different games.
And then watch.
It's beautiful.
Raj, where are you at?
Yeah,
so I started playing this game because my partner,
Leanz,
was really interested in this idea,
in the game before it was released in the trailers,
because she always loved the idea of Starter Valley,
does not like the art style.
She's very blunt, she's like,
I think it's ugly.
And I'm like, that's crazy.
But she does not like it at all.
So she was excited about a prettier version of Star Do Valley pretty much.
So I was like, you know, let's play, why not?
It was last time we played a game that we were both into at the same time.
So, like, last time was Animal Crossing.
So I was like, okay, let's try this out.
So we bought it.
I tried it out one now.
I was like, oh, wow, this is totally working for me.
Like it's scratching that Animal Crossing itch.
Of course, it's not the same, but it's similar, right?
It's doing the, hey, I'm doing the chores every day.
Meet everybody in town.
Help them out.
Keep them happy.
And the difference is, like, now I want to, like, make out with some of these people.
I'm like, that's not something I had an animal crossing,
except for, you know.
Who were your favorite?
Tom No. I'll do anything to lower this dead.
Who's one that's mean to me all the time?
Oh, March.
He's so mean.
I love any of the characters that are just mean to me.
You know what I mean?
It's like, I could win you over, babe.
You know what's up?
Oh, yeah.
I keep giving him bars of iron
in the hopes that he'll be nice to me.
But he's only nice to me when he's drunk at the bar on Friday nights,
and that seems like not a great thing.
That's pretty bad.
Yeah, as I went deeper into the minds,
I was able to see some crystals
that I was able to break.
Took him to Juniper,
gifted these little crystals of juniper,
and she was like,
because she's very cold, Greg.
Yeah, yeah.
It's very like, just kind of like blunt with you.
He went, hmm, dot, dot, dot.
I like this.
Good job.
And I was like, all right.
We are making some head, baby.
We're so in, man.
She's about to put a spell on me,
turn me to a frog or something shit.
I can't wait, dog.
But, yeah, no, I instantly fell in love with that.
not put enough time into it.
I'm very much, I'm in just kit summer.
So, like, I'm maybe, like, I think eight hours in.
I wanted to play the entire trip.
I was like, oh, I'm going to go to Japan.
That was perfect time for me to play.
I was fucking fell asleep on the plane, you know,
did not have time.
So this is like, I just started getting back into it the other day.
And I was like, oh, the SteamDad game.
Let me, like, put on a podcast and, like, play it.
And I was like, I'm having less fun.
Like, I need to put this on the big screen and just play it.
Like, this is, like, one of the few games, like,
that are like this, in my opinion that I'm like,
oh, I need to like fully immerse myself,
like this is all I'm doing,
because it's that good.
Like, it is, it is so pretty.
I love Hayden.
I love the characters.
I think it's so fun to, like, talk to them.
And, like, maybe one has the throwaway line.
One has, like, something that's actually legitimately interesting
that you didn't expect.
And I also am just a fan of just the checklist stuff.
I do think I'm having an issue with the amount of requests I'm getting so fast.
I got so many requests.
Yeah, I got so many daily requests.
And I'm like, I don't even know what to do, where to go.
I have so many.
things that it's hard for me to manage it, but I like that you can focus in on any given thing,
right? Like right now I'm just, I'm grinding in the minds. I'm just trying to get better at that.
I'm trying to, I have a checklist of certain things I want to get. So, you know, you can kind of
just focus in on what you want to do and make your own objectives and then get to the other ones
whenever you need to. But it is a little overwhelming sometimes at least personally.
But that's not necessarily a negative towards the game, just how I look at the game.
Do you all play on one time or two time zoom in?
Two times zoom in?
I just been playing on my steam deck.
So on the steam deck, Joe.
What?
Check this out.
I was,
I was scrolling through some streams.
Oh.
And I saw someone stream in Fields of Mystery.
And it was like zoomed out.
I was like, is that like some sort of mod or whatever?
Go into the settings right now, Joe.
No way.
Go all the way down.
Go to display and switch in game scale to one time.
And then now hit B and back out.
And now walk out.
and you see so much more of the world.
Holy shit.
It's crazy.
Rogers is a breakout,
help everybody find it.
It's crazy.
How much better it looks.
It's so much more room.
You show that.
You want to see the other one?
Yeah.
Well,
like,
what the footage that Kevin was showing
right now basically was the
standard default two time or whatever.
Versus this.
Yeah, I thought it was like,
oh, they're streaming it.
So it must be on their monitor.
Maybe it's larger.
whatever, no, I just, like, never even saw that option.
Wow, that's incredible. Yeah, I had no idea that that was even a thing, but I don't think
I'm going to do it that way. I'm going to try it for a little bit, but I like, I like kind
of the intimate nature of it, a little bit closer, but that's cool that they have that.
Dang.
Yeah, I'm really enjoying this game. I don't want to give it a score necessarily, but I think
it's really excellent. Yeah, I'm feeling you have to. Yeah, I'm feeling really good about
him. I'm happy about it. Yeah.
If you're not cowards, maybe you want to.
Oh, I'll give one. I think it's an eight.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
I think that it definitely has the power to go up or down, depending on what full axis
this looks like once the minds open up,
we kind of see what else.
It's interesting to see how the differences
and how they use the tools in this too
because I feel like I use my shovel all the time
in Starry Valley and in this,
it's like use it for one thing
and then I like put it in my house
and never bring it with me.
I'm like, oh, this is just different.
I don't got to score for it.
Fair enough.
I would just like easily recommend it though.
I want to finish a full year
and kind of see where I'm at.
I want to get to the end of winter
and see how things progress
and not just like,
I want like a major like
I want this to feel like the end of a chapter sort of thing
and I'm hoping I get that
and but yeah I would easily recommend it to
even anybody who's been somewhat interested
at a couple people in my Twitch chat
being like Andy I've not really
a fan of these type of games
like is this one that much different
that it would vibe with me in a certain way
I'm like probably not like if you're somebody
who has tried out starred you and didn't vibe with it
I would say probably don't try this
because you might feel like you're wasting your money.
But, you know, you do got that freaking refund on Steam.
You can refund within 48 hours, 72 hours, something like that.
It's worth pointing out, it's just $14 on Steam.
It's really access.
I did not buy with Stardew, and then I saw this getting a lot of ground, and I picked it up.
I had similar hopes of like, well, I'm going to PACs.
I'll take this.
I forgot, of course, Ben's coming.
So it was like I had no time to play games.
I was always in dad mode, right?
Yeah, when I was on vacation, traveling the world a couple days ago.
Yeah.
I brought the steam that didn't boot it up once.
Classic gamer behavior.
Yeah, yeah.
But what I do like more from just the little bit I've played is the idea of like the characters.
There's something about the characters that works for me where Stardu didn't.
Yeah.
Whereas I used to a farmer or whatever, I don't care.
Whereas these people already are having personalities in the first few interactions and things like that.
I don't know if I'll get back to it, but I'm just not, I'm not a farming sim guy.
Yeah.
I think the biggest compliment to give this to this game is that it feels like Stardu Valley
with all of the quality of life mods
without having to actually install all of them.
Yeah.
So you can tell that it's people that play a lot of life
in farming sims that know the pain points
that we have with all of our favorite ones
and are like, what if we fix those in ours?
And we're like, thank God.
Well, great.
It's a real good game.
Oh, I mean, I'm like, it's legitimately,
like, I'm not even out of like meet everybody in town
because I was like trying to play,
but then I felt, I was time for bed.
And then I, something happened where,
oh, I didn't, classic PC, you know, no, I'm kidding.
I was just like, I didn't save it thing.
So I was like, oh, dude, I turn it back on.
I'm like, I got to start again.
Okay, not like it's hard or I was far into it.
But then I did it again, and then it was the same thing.
I was like, I don't even want to do this.
And then I came home and it was Astrobat Time.
So it's just like, I haven't done much with it.
But there's a vibe to it that I do like and I'm interested in.
I'm just busy and drowning in games right now where I doubt I'll ever get back to it.
Seeing the upgrades is something that really wants me to just kind of keep on going.
Because like the speed and swiftness and the upgrades of now I'm at a point where I can break a,
rock with one swing on my pickaxe and there's a percentage chance that it'll break about
seven rocks around it. Very cool. And seeing that happen and hearing all the sounds and the feedback,
it's like, oh, it just feels good to kind of see yourself becoming a better, you know, pickaxer.
Oh, that's a big part of life. Yeah. Yeah. Breaking down trees. All the perks and stuff that they
have for all of your abilities are really good. Yeah. All right. Good game. Great reviews.
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