Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - We Played a New Witcher Game! - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

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Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at RocketMoney.com slash Kind of Funny. RocketMoney.com slash Kind of Funny. If you want to get our shows ad-free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon.com slash kind of funny. Hello, good morning, good afternoon, and welcome to a Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, January 27, 2006. I'm one of your show host Snowbike, Mike, and today I am joined alongside my best. my best friend. I'm mad at you.

Oh, he's tilted. You're mad at me? I'm mad at you. Because I want you to know that I received many DMs about starting a Valerite team. And the Snowbike Mike and the Gibronie boys are looking forward to the next season to be joining the Valorant Premier League. I just, you know, I took a nap yesterday and I woke up and I was like, man, I'm so excited to play high guard. Yeah, yeah. With a good friend of mine.

get on Mike's already playing with hang time the hang time boys he's playing with bowling and he's playing with grason and not only that when I asked him this morning it was off camera too I was like did you play more high guard

he said yeah I did he's like I played with the hang time guys like oh he's like yeah I needed them chirping I needed to talk and he was like blessing Andy too quiet so it wasn't even like you were napping it was whatever it was a specific choice

because he's not happy with your performance on microphone which I've heard a lot from your subs, but it's crazy to hear from your friend. Hmm. Some of your subs. Got it for you. Got them.

And that's Greg Miller over there. Greg Miller. I'm not at everybody on the show. Playing a new Witcher game. Whatever. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about that. Feeling great, Mike. You're very busy. I'm on four shows today. You know? My man, Greg Miller is killing it for y'all. He's going above a town. That's happening.

You got blessed on assignment. You're going on assignment at 5 o'clock. And I'm still out here having a good time. That's what I'd see. Andy had a flight today at 5 o'clock. He'd say, I can't come in. Got to rest. I got a new idea for Uber. You ready for this? Talked about it last night. I've been waiting for a business plan. No, this was a new business plan. Was this a streamed? We might have talked about it. Yeah, yeah. Here's the deal. Okay. I love getting an Uber. And I'm excited for a good conversation. Yeah, you are. Because you never know where it could go.

You get to learn about somebody. You get to hear about their life. It's always exciting. But you know what I'm bored of? Me and Andy. We had a really long L.A. drive. an Uber, right? I don't do well staring at the phone for a long period of time while the car's in motion. I get a little motion. It's more like my head gets a little sideways on that. Got to open the window. And it's like, I would like

to drive. Well, here's my proper position. That's called a rental car. I just want you to drive the car to me. You sit in the back. I drive, maybe a little light conversation. And then when I arrive, I get out of the car. You take it. Go your own way. I don't need a rental car because then we've got to go through everything. Paperwork. You've got to

to check if there's a lot of red tape a lot of a lot of talking do zip car i i i want you to bring the car to me sit in the back i drive it to wherever i need to go then you get in the front you go i mean just a flip-flop on the whole idea why don't you just be an uber driver why don't you just you first off people stream all the time from the cars be the oom stream an uber driver this is this is me just needing when when the uber comes i like to be a little more active i want to be behind the steering wheel sure sure that's my new thing i'm gonna you know what today when I take an Uber, I'm going to ask. I was about to say, do you think I can drive?

You know the moments where we, there's a large group of people, but maybe a smaller car is ordered. Yeah. And you look at the front seat and you go, I want Mike to go, do you mind? And he's like, no, no, you could say it's like, no, do you mind if I drive and you sit? Do you mind if I sit? What is the over under chance and likelihood that I get into an Uber and I say, hey, my man, would you like me to drive?

Maybe you can take a little chill in the back seat. I think you can. Paper, relax. I think you can talk people into doing a lot of weird. You know, like the other day, Roger was mentioning how, you know, you slipped a guy some more money to get a service quicker. And then Roger brought up, which we've also brought up in the past, and Blessing brought up at one point of like, man,

white privilege is really working for Mike all the time. It's a care for your service industry employees. It was a $20 bill. I tipped him 10 because I had $10. in my pocket. The man lit up because cash is king. A lot of card jabronies out there. Bust out the cash. Okay. Cash is king. Cream. Cream. Remember that, okay? And boom.

He was pumped up. And that's what I'm talking about. I almost said cream rules everything around me. Cash was everything about me. You know what rules everything around me, Greg Miller? What's that? Video games. Especially new video games. And you have played a new Witcher game. And we're going to talk about that in just a moment because of course, if you were watching live, be a part of the show by super chatting on YouTube.com

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Tots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, today's topic of the show, Greg, you've been playing a new Witcher game. I need to know all about it. Can you tell me what is this Witcher game? This is Raines the Witcher. Are you familiar with Raines? I've never heard of Raines.

Raines, by my count, off of, I've heard of Raines. I've never dabbled in Raines. They've done a game of, have you played it before? No, I thought you had dabbled in the old one. No, no, no, no. So, Raines has been around a while. By my count off their website, this is their sixth version of Raines. Because there's rains, like, then there's Reigns for Majesty. Raines Game of Thrones.

How's that spelled, Greg? Raines like you're holding the reins, like you're a rain as a king. I think before, I think the initial game begins with the idea that you are on the throne and you need to make decisions for your kingdom and see how long you can last. Weeks ago now, I was hit up by our friends in PR and they said, hey, we got a new game coming out that's going to be based off an IP. Do you want to get embargoed about it? Yeah, sure, whatever. And then it turned out to be The Witcher. And I was like, oh, interesting.

And so as you see it go here, this is the gameplay. If you're an audio listener, click on over. this is Steam and it's mobile devices but the idea is that it is a narrative choice-based game that plays a lot like Tinder so the idea here is that you

Dandelion is telling your stories of course I expect you know a little bit about Witcher but if you don't that's your bard telling stories of the one and only Garalt or Rivia and going through all the different conversations happenstance your idea here is how long can you stay alive

as the Witcher we get to the end of this trailer again and they show the gameplay of it you see at the top four different icons these uh represent uh your reputation with non humans with sorcerers uh with another magic you and then it's also uh your commitment to like battling a beast if you go back like perfect right there right there right there if you can stop or pause um the little icons let you know how you're doing with these different environments or people and then uh as you make your choices those go up or down. If you were to empty one or fill it all the way, that's when you're in trouble.

The idea here is spinning the plates and keeping it in balance as you go through this narrative to survive longer. Because if you go and you piss off all the sorcerers by making friends with all the humans and doing all the human requests, right? The sorcerers get mad. They'll put a hex on you. They'll hang you. They'll do this. Again, these are stories dandelions telling. So the in-world's idea here is that, you know, Geroz over there, watching.

or whatever and just listening to him at a bar, do tell these stories that may or may not happen, just like the show, just like the game, which are three, or that is at least where I knew it from, right? But it is this game, and again, they've been around before.

I've played 90 minutes of this, by the way. This is a preview very much that I think came along at a perfect time for me. I am constantly looking on my phone for something to do that is a video game, but isn't that much time consuming, right? And also gets me away from the black hole, of hell that is social media.

I keep moving different things down to my home bar to take the place of Instagram or whatever, right? I brought down Audible, I bring down my e-reader. I'll bring down the New York Times, just to get me out of that to go do something. But then everywhere I go, there's just more horrible things happening. And so a game will be there for a while, but inevitably I burn out.

Pokemon Go will get put in the cycle and come on down there. For me, wanting to play games often comes with, I'm sitting there on the couch with Ben and he's watching a cartoon. And for him with games, we're like, okay, screen time's limited in terms of when you can play games in the afternoon. Usually he has a cartoon while he eats breakfast or whatever, right? And so he doesn't care about me being on my phone for emails or running through Slack or whatever. But if I was playing an actual game, if I'm playing Pokemon Go, Ben wants to play Pokemon Go. And so to have this, again, when you see it popped up, but if you're an audio listener, you know, as you look at it on the device, you have the four icons at the top.

But then you have the narrative blurb, the person you're there to help or, you know, answer that thing for it. And like, for mine right now, it says, this is a brand new game. Yeah, read out to us. Hey, killer, there's a succubus lurking, alluring peasants into the forest. She's quite dot, dot, dot, tempting, make her leave. And this is burgrave marquee of Denzel. He's a nobleman, right? So I can swipe to the left, talk her into leaving, and I can swipe to the right, return her head.

And as it goes, it'll show me at the top via dots, what's, which ones it's going to affect. Now, it doesn't necessarily tell you positive or negative. Down at the bottom, you see there's cards that you have here that influence each. It's kind of rogulight, right? Where each one of these runs is Daniel. Dan Lian could tell you the same story with the same ideas, but when you go and have the three cards at the bottom,

you have different stuff equipped. So like right now I have Garalt gains unpredictable profit powers. Some jealous magic users are easier to upset. The next one is the vermin. Rats everywhere. Sorcers are grossed out and easier to upset. I'm not in a good way with the sorcerers in this run. Monsters have rights to

Garald upsets people more easily, right? So it's this idea of like, there's cards I can have that'll show me like, oh, whatever choice you make with a sorcerer will tell you actually the plus or minus of what you're going to get from it and run through. But it's this idea of the narrative going and then at the bottom as well,

like talking about, okay, cool. Here's how many days you've lasted. You see it really briefly in the trailer we watched there too. There's the swiping thing, but almost inevitably in my limited experience with this and, of course, being a new Reigns fan, I would say. It builds to a battle where you see

what looks to be like a grid thing with a little gerald hopping around back and forth. The idea here is, and I am dog shit at it, is that you have your attacker at the top of the screen, Gerald at the bottom of the screen, right? And as it hops across, you need to get him in the right position to catch his swords

to then fight back against the dragon and take a heart off. We're blocking it. There's hearts for... It's almost like Frogger almost. A little bit, yeah, 100%. And then down to the bottom, there's Gerald's health as well. He has hearts. The dragon up there has hearts, right? You also have the spells, you know, the little

icons, I figure what they call them. Not glints, but like the, when you're casting your spells, and they have them down there that'll pop up for you. So it's this idea. Yeah, glips, is that right? That's what I thought it was too. So you have to hop into them, but I am so bad at doing it, I'm constantly hopping away from it when I should be hopping into it and hopping into

it and I should be hopping away from it. Are you? He's constantly moving. So you're choosing if he's moving right or left. Got you. Okay. So you hate it. He's constantly in motion, so you got to see it coming. Oh, shit, I got to go over here, but I got to get back there in three turns. I love that. Oh, so you're not, you're not stop.

No stopping the screen. Tapping the screen is stop him. He's just in motion. Okay, got you're just tapping the screen to change left or right on that. Okay. So a very simple game mechanic that's tossed in there on top of then just the choices. And of course, what I love about this is the detail in the stories and then the choices, right, of dandelion spinning the yarn, you meet the person.

Like there's, I keep, I, again, I'm really. Rusty on some of this. And I know you have the press release and all this stuff. And not rusty. I mean, I'm discovering as I play, I should say, right? The idea here is that you will get the same base cards sometimes drawn, right? Of like, there is a murderer. Find them assassin or whatever in the world, right?

And so it'll be different. But when I come back, I'll have the same setup of this guy keeps asking me what would be best to kill a monster and what would kill a man. And like, I have the choices to help him or hurt him. But then somebody will pop up and they maybe got killed by that. So then I can do when I run into that guy, accuse him or keep, you know, giving him, information to see if that's the thing. But of course, that helps or hurts me with the regular people and with the other people over here.

It's also separating me from chasing the monsters. Like, there's all these plates spinning, and then it's the fact that everyone is going to be different based on the cards I have and the story that's being told there. What were the four things on top again? It's humans. So let me tap it out. The humans, the second thing is upside down humans. So the first one, yeah, is do humans look on Gerald favorably?

The second one is, do non-humans look on Geralt favorably? Okay. So it's just, okay. Then the next one is, do humans look on Gerald favorably? Do sorcerers look on Girlfavorily? And the final one, how focused is Geralt on the path to hunt monsters? Oh, okay. So again, you need to try to keep all of those in the middle.

Getting them out of whack or whatever will then send it off and then lead to one of the outcomes. As you play, we're covering it right there too. It'll pop up. You meet new characters and it'll say, oh, you know, this character number one, obviously when you start or whatever, of 86 unlocked. Like there's like tons of people to meet in this game and have them go through Tris, Yenifer, they are in there too to be met. It's pulling from that game and, you know,

really, it feels authentic to the world and it feels like a fun way for me to re-engage with this world, right? Of what The Witcher is. And as you see right there, there's the numbers popping off on the screen that just went by. The idea is that when a run ends, you get XP based on how good you did, but the XP is going to dandelion. And so it's leveling him up as a bard, giving him more choices, more options, more cards,

because you unlock new cards then too and what they can do and so on and so forth. And then there's this thing that I'm super not familiar and then they talk about it really briefly in the present. I long story short on all of this. This is $599. It comes out at the end of February or what the 25th. 25th. Yep. And I think it's awesome. I think it's totally worth your money. I can't wait for review code. I can't wait to delve in deeper with it. But I'm still scratching the surface of like I am towards the end of my 90 minutes with it. I unlock the thing of like, okay, cool. Now you can take jobs. So it's like I'm telling the story. in the bars or I can go to the job

board and there's a guy who's having a dinner party and he's like tell me a story that involves lust and this and that and so then I go into my deck and I look for cards that would play into like I have a thing about romance and I have a thing about battles and it's like oh yes this is exactly what I wanted

then you now I'm crafting picking the cards to then go tell the story rather than getting a random deal that eventually you can redraw and things there's a lot going on and I've just scratched the service so I'm very intrigued it's hitting where I want it to hit right now. How about just like the Witcher theme itself?

How deep into the Witcher are you? Right? Are you a diehard Witcher fan? You're reading the books, watching the show, playing all the games. And like how well does this scratch that Witcher Itch as opposed to just like a generic fantasy tape? So it reawakened my Witcher Itch. So if you've been following on Gregway, I talked about going back to the Witcher 3, right? And kind of being like, oh man, I want a grand adventure because I've been wanting a grand adventure. But it wouldn't have happened without this game where it's like I was, I was,

I jumped back in. So my Witcher background ride is like we reviewed it or played it at review back in the day. I remember taking my PS4 to MomoCon in Atlanta, Georgia for a kind of funny. And it was that I forget if I put 25 or 35 or whatever hours in. I remember the big thing though is I never got out at act one. I just got so obsessed with all the question marks and side quest that I just kept going and playing and doing it. But then inevitably whatever review came around or whatever event came around and I put it down and never came back to it. Well, I'm not true. Show came. Watch season one. Fell in love like so many of us. They just dropped this. Switch version. I reinstalled on PlayStation, jumped in really briefly,

and I forget if it was just like, ah, you know, the combat isn't exactly what I want now in terms of how clunky or not even clunky, how specific it is, right? How unique it is and what they want you to do,

bounced off. And then, yeah, I've come back now and it started a new thing. Of course, it was immediately sidelined by two reviews, but I went, I liked this so much that I put down

redacted number one that I was working on to reinstall on Switch and reinstall on PlayStation 5. God damn. cross progression. What a fucking lovely thing. You know what I mean? So that I can rock it wherever I am doing whatever I want. And then yeah, I'm, I'm into that now and enjoying it. But again, sideline by two other reviews right now. So I haven't gotten deep, deep to it. But the bigger problem is like what I wanted from the Witcher is that narrative and is that story and are those characters and that I want the minutiae that I love right?

I want fables. Like a fable, I think I've talked about on shows of like in the lead up to the fable, uh, right? I reinstalled Fable Anniversary and Witcher 3 and so I started Fable Anniversary and I was like, ugh, this might be too dated for what I'm looking for right now, went back to then I went to Witcher 3, played that for a while and then we watched that Fable Direct and I'm like, damn,

this is literally the tone and the things and the memory and the NPCs and the combat. Like I want this game so bad that that was kind of when I was like, you know what, I can pause the Witcher to focus on my two reviews again. I've got it, not out of my system, but I see now the goalposts. But

all that to be said is this game reminded me of how much I like the Witcher and how much I like the world and more importantly Mike I think for The Witcher and me and especially for kind of funny fans who have been here since 2015

the idea that when I started the Witcher 3 I did no homework I remember in 2015 when the Witcher 3 came I was dating Christine and she went back and she played Witcher 1 and she played Witcher 2 and then she was ready for Witcher 3 right

and she loved it so much she would go on to work at CD Project Redd and so like for me I was like I'm just gonna jump in So you just jump in and it's like, here's Siri and here's this and you're a witcher and this. And I'll remember me like, I don't know what any of this shit means. I'm just going to go do this. And so much the story ripped past me that then to go and get into Witcher the show back in the day and get, and I know they're different, but get grounding of who Yenifer is, who Tris is, what's going. I was like, ah, okay.

Set the stages and the stakes and why they're calling them mutant and all this stuff so much better that this time coming here, I feel like I'm back around old friends. so it is that thing of like the story hits way harder and me choosing, you know, like so many games are you good, are you bad, are you just of that? Like, in Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, playing and making those choices of just like, are you going to beg them, are you a fucking strong arm for more money?

Are you going to help on the question or not helping them? I think so you're going to bang them. Well, that does come up too. Yeah, I guess, yeah. It is the idea of like, oh, wow, like, I understand what my interpretation of Geralt is and where he is on his mission right now. So for me, it makes more sense of why he would do this.

and what this shade is and the way I'm calling it. So I'm enjoying the RPG-ness this play-through far more than I had in my other ones because I feel like I know the characters now and the world. Well, I want to talk about your next grand adventure. Maybe it is The Witcher you stick all the way through it, but I do want to come back. Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Just on the, when I think mobile game, right, Andy, I think of kind of casual be able to put the phone down, pick it back up at any moment. How does this feel like moment-to-moment gameplay, right? I know it's just to swipe them up. Yeah, they're calling it. But, like, can I, put the phone down, can I turn it off and switch apps?

100% come back to everything. How involved do I really need to be on it? theoretically also like could be just a steam deck game. Yeah, it is a steam game. It is a steam deck game, right? Like it's out there. Yeah. Or whatever the demo.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So like it's out there for both things. It is Steam Deck verified, I believe. Maybe don't quote me on that exactly because I've only done my iPhone. But yeah, like, no, it is very much like shut it down, forget about it, come back. Oh, I'm still in the middle of this run. But it's also the thing where, at least for me,

my runs aren't 150 turns. So even if I came back and it lost something, I don't feel like I've lost something. I feel like I'm very much like, Dandelion's telling these stories. And if I come back, it's like, cool. Who the hell is Dandelion?

Danylian. He's the bard. But he's not calling to your witcher. No, no, Vesimir is the older witcher. He's like, he's like, uh, is yeah. Huh. Damn, I didn't know they called him.

I don't know his name's Dandelion. Yeah, yeah. Like I watched season one. I just don't remember that. Yeah. I forget, chat. is it in the game? Yeah, exactly.

In the show, he's not dandelion. They call him something different. Yes, here. Yeah, there we go. Okay, that's, yeah, I remember that. Okay, and then let's get to those boss battles. I have a couple questions. Sure.

Because you talk about day runs, right? We'll just run back these days, right? Building up to 100 days or whatever, a run is like Oregon Trail, where all of a sudden I fail and I'm back to day zero and we restart everything. 100%. Because these are the, yeah, these are stories he's telling. So they have the end. So, you know, especially getting the feel for it originally, you know what I mean?

Like, I wasn't, there's a quick tutorial, but I'm like, I'm probably talking to Ben and doing whatever. So I kind of, I saw the thing of like, don't fill in the thing, but you fill in the thing and it starts like glowing rainbow colors. I'm like, that has to be good. It's not. That's when they're like, oh, they're fucking pissed that you're helping out the sorcerer so much. They think you're a demon. They're going to, they hang. They chop you up.

They do this. And then there's all these different unique kills for, or deaths for Geryl that you unlock and have there as well, stuff like that. So, no, it's very disposable. I'm trying to figure out if I forget, I forget. I can look at my actual leaderboard. I think my longest runs only been maybe 20-some days. Like, it's in like, days are incredibly quickly as you go. It's about balancing it all and doing it.

Yeah, what does a day look like? How many swipes? Is that a boss battle at the end? I see Andy's currently playing it on his computer that fast, that easy right? Yeah, no, I mean, it's super easy to jump into, right? No, I mean, it's not even about the days. It's not even about the boss battles. There's ones where, like, three turns in.

I have a boss battle. I'm fighting, you know, a drowner or something. And then there's other ones where I just, go for double digit days and die because I said something or did something or wasn't paying attention. And then yeah, this mini games is super hard. Right? I was like, I got a sword. I got a sword. I got a sword. Yeah, you got to like, okay, so I got to figure out how to get in, how to get out, how to get the glyph, how to get the sword as you go through and do it, but dodge the attacks, right? It's like very, very interesting in a way that a game's just super chill. And like, again,

like how chill is it? It's super chill. Like you can sit there and debate and hem and hall your thing. Oh, here you go. Yeah, high scores right now. I have 30 days. 30 days. My high score is number one, 30 days, number two, 20 days, 16, and then 12. And do you think that's all in one sitting? Or is that a lot of... Oh, yeah. Doing it, put it down, come back to it. Is it one sitting, I can complete a good chunk of it?

Oh, 100%. Yeah, you can sit there and get a... You can do multiple in one sitting, yeah, for sure. And again, it's great for loading screens. It's great for killing time before a podcast. It's great. Like, that's what it is, and it's giving... I think the $6 price points very attractive for what it is.

I worry, I'm 90 minutes scratching the surface. What is the... repetition like you know what I mean like they're dealing the different cards I'm doing the different things but I still I still haven't caught the assassin murder or whatever it is so it's like once I do that I'm pretty sure it's different every time but is it or is it not a lot of question marks for me still that I would love to get the game and really invest time into but I'm super high on what I've seen it seems good again here I'm like yeah for victories right it says you know 32 monsters portrait gallery 89 characters to encounter uh uh 46 destinies to meet I've only had done

of those. So there's a lot of good stuff. It's one of those where it feels that it could be perfect if I was in a waiting room. Yeah. There you go. I like that.

Now, okay, well, when you first offered me this code, it's like, well, I only have Steam. I don't have iOS. Yeah.

It's like, where's the Android code, you know? Well, guess what? Raines, the Witcher launches on PC back iOS and Android on February 25th,

2006 for 599. Preview might have only been test flight. Oh, okay, got you. I don't know. In the same way, I don't understand how... A lot of hundred devices to account for, you know. Kansas is over there using a coconut phone.

I don't know how Android's... How they're trying, they're testing stuff, you know? Greg, any final thoughts on your preview for Rain's the Witcher before we move on to maybe a grand adventure? Ooh, again, super into it. One thing we haven't talked about, and I'm sorry, audio listeners, if I'm doing you dirty by not getting... I think the art style is super cute. You know, it is if you've seen Raines before, it is that Rain's art style, which I would consider a simplistic one, a cute art style, a fun one, a cartoonish one, but it's very distinct to itself,

maybe even a little South Prague, I guess, if they all were Canadians. But as you go through it and do it, like, I think it's fun to see everybody having their own identity. I think it's fun to see when Yenifer pops up or Dandelion, like, oh yeah, that's them for sure. Like that makes sense. It's a fun addition to the world in a world that I think is still so interesting in what they can do with it and the fact that they keep doing cool stuff with it. So I'm super high on it.

I'm looking forward to playing the final thing. Okay. Great preview there. Of course, remember, Super Chat Away. If you have any questions for Greg, we'll circle back to those at the end of the show. And also get ready because after the ad break, we're going to talk about Greg, Andy, and Mike's next big adventure.

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Andy will be going do do do do do do do do do. Nick will be shopping for paint starting it. But everybody else will be there too for you to come hang out and see. All I have to do is go over to kind of funny.com slash sketch fest right now to get your tickets before they sell out. Because come and watching a bunch of people talk about a very old Howard the Duck movie is really selling tickets fast. Welcome back. Greg, I think you have a fun one to swipe with me and Andy before we go. Yeah, again, I ask you during break that I do okay.

I felt like I was kind of all over the map. but it's, you know, I want to give the writing credit for how good it is in situations it does. So here's a Hans, the peasant is presenting me with this. Whenever witchers are in Bayonard, which is the town we're in, my clients ask me to bring belt straps to bed and prod them with red hot pokers,

deflate their desires. And then my options on swipes are, we are pretty wild, which would obviously continue the legacy, or we're terrible in bed to try to do it. And I'm going, we're terrible in bed, you know what I mean, let that play out. And that moved my stats,

but look, now they're upset at me. Now they're going to say, and look how close I'm. two focused on monsters on this run. You know what I mean? It's happening. I got my stats too high up with humans as I was playing a little while ago. And I want to disappoint the humans, you know?

You want to? Yeah. I was like, I got to disappoint. You know, yeah, yeah. But I did kick ass at the mini game. If you saw me as a mini game. I saw the mini game. I think I'm going to be really good at that mini game.

I can't wait to try it. I'm excited to see you try that. Greg, you said that this game scratch it's for you to want to go back to the Witcher. Of course, I've been watching Andy Cortez stream. and he brought up, hey, I'm looking to play The Witcher 3, maybe on a long stream, downloaded some mods to make it look extra pretty. So it sounds like the two of you are gearing up for a possible next grand adventure. Is the Witcher 3 the right choice for you?

Is this where you want to go? So there's several reasons for it because I know that I know that I want to have something to be able to say about the Witcher 3 when it comes to the top 100. Okay. Whenever we do our final sort of top 100. It has been knocking on Andy's door a lot. Okay. And that's why I just played through all of near automata.

And The Witcher 3 has always been on that list for me where it's, it came out around a time where I just wasn't gaming a whole lot. And I know that these games require just a buttload of hours and time commitment. So I didn't really have it at that time. And then it just kind of kept on getting tossed down. And then as I would be on every show, you know, whenever you get the question of, what's your, what's your deserted island game that you? you would take with it.

It was always the Witcher 3 because I know it would last forever and it would, you know, there's a lot of content there for me. But with the rumors of this DLC, I don't know if it's even true or not. Like, it's more of just,

it's mainly top 100, but it would also be great timing for if this possible DLC comes out because I didn't, I didn't want to wait until right before the Witcher 4 came out because I wouldn't get to vote on this for the top 100.

And I feel like I really need to give it it to do because I know that it's one of the best games ever, so I really want to give it a shot. Yeah, I downloaded a bunch of Monsford and, you know, made it look extra, extra pretty. How far are you having to know you started? No, I haven't started, no.

But I hopped in when it first came to the PS5, well, when we got the PS5 switch update or whatever, and I played for maybe two hours. Okay. And, but it was around the time of Chris's vacation, I remember, so I played a bit of it back home on my, on my PS5 at my parents' house and it was just, I was in between machines

and I prefer, you know, my PC with my controller and all that. So I want to give it like the proper actual shot of like, let me, I want to just dive into this for 12 hours one day. Just like, no life. That's what I feel like I need to. It's just like a clear runway to go ham on it. Because even those couple nights I did it in between my redacted reviews,

it's the idea of like, you're scratch. talking about Scratch the Surfers on a mobile game. Scratch the surface there where it's like, I'm doing things that I remember vaguely doing. I even went to look at my trophies on PlayStation. I did way better on PS4 than I thought I had with the 20 or 30 hours I had done. And so to come back and be in it,

it's like, okay, cool and really feel it. But it's like the nights where I'm doing nothing but talking to people, right? Which is always a sign of any good RPG. But it is like that thing I'm like, man, I really want, I need a good run. And I feel like this is what killed the Witcher 3 for me before was just the idea that, well, yeah, but there's things I need to be playing for work.

There's things I need to be talking about on content. So it's like trying to find that time to get in there and really get in the weeds with it. Like where are those gaps? And so, yeah, I've been looking for that grand adventure since the new year, which is, you know, very normal for me of like, cool. What is the giant RPG? I keep saying like, you know, I like it when things line up for me in terms of content. So like that avowed new game plus new races, new stuff. Like that will scratch the itch I feel like, but that's still February 17th or whatever.

Like there's still so much time before then, which really isn't that much. time with other reviews, but I need it now to be playing something and do it. So I don't know. Which or three, I want to get back to you, but I do have two redacteds I'm on right now. And it'll be interesting to be able to talk about redacted one in relation to this when I can, but I can't yet.

So that makes it complicated, I feel, and ties my hands on some things. But I, the other thing in terms of the grand adventure I have, nobody, everybody calm down. Everybody relax. Talk to me. I mentioned this in passing on Games Daily today, but it is an actual thought I've been having. I'm playing a lot of Switch right now. Playing

Redacted one on Switch and I'm playing, I'm going to play Redacted two on Switch, even though both these games are available on other platforms. Could play them on other things, but I was like, you know what? Jen hates the Rog. I need to be able to be in bed. Too last. Switch is Whisper quiet. I'll think with that.

Mac in those buttons. So like the more I'm on Switch and then Ben, I don't know if you caught Greg West here to Ben's obsessed with Smash Brothers now. So I played Smash Brothers all weekend and I only play his link. So I'm playing Link and I'm like, God, I need Ocarina Time. Do I want to do a replay Ocarina Time? But then I catch myself and I'm like, Greg, you're not allowed to go replay O'Carrine of Time

until you play Tears of the Kingdom and you finish Tears of the Kingdom. And so it's like, I need a grand adventure. I feel like... He's making a lot of rules up for this grand adventure, which I appreciate. Sometimes you're gonna die in. Exactly. It's like, gotta do this, got to do that,

got to do this. Sometimes, I can't, dude. You gotta just dive in. You don't understand. I'm CEO. I have to worry about this place in the games cast headlines and everything else. So it's like, I can't just fucking fuck off for a week and not play Redacted 1 and Redacted 2

and go play a goddamn old game. Ever heard of Eldonry? It's pretty good game. I mean, here's the thing. You guys bring up the Witcher. And Washburn always yells in my ear. My buddy, watch. He's like, The Witcher 3, Mike.

Just play the Witcher 3 for me. I'm very similar to Greg, as I played a lot of Witcher 3, but I got addicted to just chasing down those question marks and figuring out what the hell was going on in that first world that I burned myself out. But now there's just so many grand adventures

that I want to go on, right? I bring up my short list right here. You ready for this? Yeah. Dragon's Dogma 2. Baldersgate 3. Dead silence. World Warcraft. I didn't know what I thought.

World of Warcraft. Balders Gate 3. You played wow. I've. Crimson Desert. Are you still paying for a while? See, that's the other problem too. You bring up these and I'm like,

I would love to do the Witcher. But at the same time, what if I did Dragon Sogma 2? What if I did Ballers Gate 3 finally? What if Crimson Desert is in March? Why even start this? It's gold. It's hot.

That's my thing too. It's gone gold. Honestly, that was, again, You're talking about when I started The Witcher 3 again, but then, yeah, like two days later in that play-through, Crimson Desert got announced, and I was almost like, oh, maybe I don't want to burn myself out on an open world nuts and whatever.

I know it's not, they're not the exact same, but it was like, ugh. And so it is the thing, I mean, what do we want to do here? What if we played the Witcher 3 co-op? Okay. But it's technically not co-op. We just live in Andy's world and watch him do things, but we're not allowed to do things. They have a co-op mod.

They have a co-op mod, but you can't do anything in it. Here's what I'm worried about with what I'm worried about with Crimson-Dest. And in the hour to two hours that I played of The Witcher 3, the writing was so sublime. So good. And already the characters felt so real. And I'm like, I don't think. Chris doesn't have that stuff. I don't think it's going to have that.

The way the pros and the content. As much as I want that to happen, right? So that may kind of sour the experience. But I, okay, well, this has nothing to do with my first point. But as an aside, I have a feeling that, I don't know why I have a feeling like we're going to get Coomson Desert codes in like a week. I don't know why. It's out of nowhere.

Okay. I mean, it feels like one where they're just like, hey, go, hey, the game's done. We're going to get a March 19th. Okay, well, maybe like a couple weeks. Okay. We're going to give you like a month to play it, you know? Like, I have a feeling that. And that I agree with.

I think, I think if they're confident in it and everything, it seems like coming out of Pearl Abyss is they are confident in there. then yeah, we should get it as soon as they're ready because they're gonna, they should want us to experience everything. But you're a man of content, Andy. You'll hold your, you'll hold your viewers back by not giving them the content. And this is the thing I think about a lot with you too.

Well, if you get into Crimson Desert and don't give them, give them the Witcher. Because you'll be playing redacted. We'll call it. I think about this a lot. You guys is, you know,

as nighttime streamers, you know, with your second job or whatever. It's like, I could never do it because obviously, for me, I have, especially with Ben or whatever in life and run the business,

I guess, I have to. Do you think about a rental family? Every once in a while? What's that? Maybe if you hired just like a six foot for... Oh, a rental dad. Yeah, gotcha.

Just like, look close enough, you know? More it's like, it's just time for me to cut the cord. You know what I mean? Jen Ben, entertain yourselves. Why don't I have to be the goddamn court jester all the time up here? I need you to go up to them and be like, can I be a bad father for a week? Let me just let me neglect you for one way. You know, again, for me, it's that bounce where it's like, you know, I'm always shocked

when I talk to, I feel like, I prioritize the games I need to play and want to play, right? And so it's like, that keeps me current and I'm able to do everything. And I put you see me play at my desk and block out time. Whereas even for you guys to go home and give up three, four, five hours streaming something that is old when I know you're trying to make a review. I'm always shocked or impressed by it's a better word. I'm going to make my case for Tears of the Kingdom.

Because I loved Breath of the Wild and it was one of the best. gaming experiences, exploration, discovery. It was truly a magical, like, wow, gaming feels back in the way that we had those, you know, those playground discussions like you did when you were a kid talking about all the cool secrets you were finding. But it, and it managed to be so magical and amazing despite me not given a single fuck about what was happening story

or character-wise. Yeah. And Tears of the Kingdom is all of that. with the amazing cutscenes and character. Like, it did all of the, it still managed to recreate the, the magic and discovery and exploration. When we talk about how,

when I played Goddimore, Rag and Rock, I was like, it's a better game, but it wasn't as magical as 2018 for me because that was like my first time experiencing that. The same with, um,

the same with something like, um, Gosa Tsushima and Ghost of Yote, where that, Like that moment is still so awesome for me. She's the Kingdom, like, clears that. Cures of the Kingdom was able to still wow me. Yeah.

And you're able to play it better and it's going to look nicer. Of course. And the story stuff just like, I still need to get it clipped out. I've been worried to clip out these things just for spoiler purposes because I want people to experiencing them. But like, man, I was, I had, it was bucket to tears, man. Like, it was like, holy shit by the event.

Again, remember, I liked Tears of the Kingdom. I did 30 or 40 or 4. 40 hours as well into that or whatever. My problem there is the Witcher problem where I was like, I'm going to do every shrine. And I had a fucking map littered with waypoints. And then I was so lost anymore on what the story was and whatever. That didn't resonate.

I walked away for other reviews and stuff. So no, I know that, and you know I love Zelda. So it's like, I know I need to get back to it. I'm kind of in your camp in a weird way where I like what I've played at the Witcher, obviously. But one of the things that kind of holds me back from turning it on sometimes at night is the fact of like, well, I know this won't be. be a quick jaunt. This won't be, I'm going to do one thing, I'm going to take down this base,

I'm going to do this shrine. It's going to be, I'm going to get involved in a conversation and a quest and if I stop that and come back a week later, I won't remember. So I need to see the quest line through tonight. Whereas I think tears, even tell me if I'm out of turn here, the story spaced out a bit. And it's not even when I hit a story moment, it's not like I'm locked in for 30 to 40 to an hour in terms of what I played of like finding the teeth drop, getting the flashback and doing what I. You're getting bits and pieces here and there. I also, think that I experience it in the best possible way with the order

that I did things in where every next every next reveal was stunning to me because I did it in the right exact perfect order and see I think that's when I come back to tears that'll have to be what I do is that I'm really first off there's two things you do number one is follow the story and like

I'm not going to golden path and I'm still going to do strides but like I'm going to keep on the main thing I'm not going to do what I did before which was they want me to go that way I'm going that way I'm going to unlock everything and I Number one. Two, I'm going to be a bad father for a month. No, number two, I'm going to sit there and get good at combat.

Okay. Because it's not that I found the combat hard. I just find it clunky and not fun. Like, I never, I, in tears, and I don't remember breath well enough to make this comparison. But in tears, I remember every time I got into battle going, ugh, all right, fuck me. Like, I would run away from creatures, not because it was hard, not an Eldon ring thing. Just because I'm Emerson. I just don't like fighting you.

This isn't fun. This isn't Ocarina of Time swinging block and I'm there. So it's like, I need to. fucking eat shit for a while, not in terms of losing, but in terms of not enjoying so that it just become second nature and I can kick the shit out of everybody. It's the, it's one of the games where I'm like, not every game needs to control like a Soulslike or a modern action RPG, but this one does. And it's still a masterpiece to be despite me not loving the combat, you know, once I kind of got the hang a bit more and like, but I was still fumbling buttons all the time

and trying to find the right arrow and the right, you know, bomb to throw or whatever. Good ass game, though. I feel like put a few more hours into Redacted one. Yeah. Turn my eyes maybe to Redacted two

because I don't think that's going to be that long. And then kick on this. Or maybe fucking both off and just go, I don't need to do everything. Who do I need to be? There was...

Talk about the Witcher for a little bit with Andy. He's going to play it. Both of you, we shared this adventure with you. Okay, so what? You want me to fucking just torpedo the other two,

redacted one and two and we just play the Witcher. Yeah. Okay. You and Andy for a whole Saturday, play 12 out of the witch. A whole Saturday. I like how that's,

now it's changed a bit. You report back to us. Now, the one thing I wish, Mike, is I wish there was a co-op mod for Dragons Doggwin, too. I know you wanted that.

Because that... Like the four-player party? Because that, that game did everything so perfectly in terms of the wild wackiness of combat. Yeah. With everything being so physics-based.

and I still loved hiring other people's, like homies to kind of be a part of your squad. Are you like that? One of my favorite moments was creating Kevin Quo Alto to be your sidekick and then getting him on my squad and he was just like a bowling ball, wrecking everything.

Those are funny. And there's just such a goofiness to the combat that makes, like, it would only be more fun with friends. And I really would, like maybe there is a mod or something like that, but I really wish it that game that I could have experienced that with friends

because I did fall off near the end of it. We're throwing some things in the pot. We want good writing with a story, maybe share the experience with our friends. Clearly combat is a big for you guys. Well, because I was going to put, sounds like we're just building Ballard's Gate 3. Well, see, I love Ballard's Gate 3 combat.

I like, I like that style of it. I like the spontaneity and the improvisation of, I guess I could, yeah, shoot the rope up there. Oh my God, the platform cuts down and how it lands on. You know, I love how interactive everything is. I really want to do a either divinity original sin two, right? Two, that is correct.

Am I mixing that up with the other one? No. You're on. You're thinking of pillars of eternity. Man, I always fuck it. Pillars of a path of exile. Too many ofs, you know. But divinity original sin too is one that I want that when that sort of,

you know had its kind of remaster or whatever the hell it was recently where they kind of like I think Larry put on more platforms yeah yeah larian kind of had a little bit of a marketing phase with it I want to do a full ass campaign of that or just balder's gate three and it's like we play it seriously and we don't kill every mpc we can kill mpc's but like not every one of them yeah me and roger can't make that promise yeah I mean you're evil yeah me and roger will be evil. Yeah. Tyson from hell, his father was Satan.

Of course, he's going to be evil. Andy, I mean, like, what do you want? Bryce Tyson. I'm rolling. I'm role playing. Yeah, I tried, I over break, Ballard Gate 3 again, where I knew I wanted the grand adventure and I wanted the writing and I did all stuff.

And I jumped in and immediately got to that first combat section. I was like, all right, no, this is why I just can't do this. I just cannot deal without this control. Yeah. What if, what if? Okay. Well, I don't, okay. You and Roger are going to go on a grand adventure with a grand adventure.

later in the year. He was pumped up on the Switcher Co-op or Witcher co-op. But it's not true co-op like that. Oh. Because I just want to do a Baller's Gate like big ass marathon. Okay. Why are we avoiding the endless gobstopper?

Why are we avoiding the goat of goats? Why are we avoiding a game that changed an industry? Are you avoiding a veteran? No. Why are we avoiding a Titan? Why aren't we playing World of Warcraft right now? Like, ask yourself, why you're not in Azaroth right now?

Because it's not like that. Why you're not role playing as a blood elf or as a torrent and you're battling for the horde and you're going in... I did multiple nights playing with it. And you got my controller. I did the controller mod. I'm good.

I'm good. Why are we not playing the greatest game of all time? I mean, because the next time we do, it has to be the perm of death. You died. You died very early. I died several times. I had to restart.

so many times. But like, it's just not like that. I don't seek World of Warcraft for that, you know, I'm immersing myself into it. Pets, mounts. It's a different experience for me. It's a great experience, a special experience.

It's an awesome experience, but it's not what I'm seeking whenever I'm thinking about what I get out of something like Balders Gate 3. Interesting. Because I'm just not, I'm not reading dialogue. I don't give a shit about what's happening World War II. You could. You could.

Yeah, no, but you're playing with friends, though, and that, like, that, theoretically we would still be playing with friends in Ballets Gay 3 if we were to do it. But it's, I don't know, it just feels, I don't know. Sometimes you got to lock in. Here's my problem is you guys bring up the Witcher. And I don't think I'm going for the Witcher. I like The Witcher a lot.

I don't think I'm going back for it. Okay. I think I'm heavily leaning into my next grand invention to be Dragon's Dogmat, too. Interesting. I really liked what Andy brought up with the four-player party, kind of creating your own sidekick character, having others come. this is one that I didn't spend a lot of time in that I would like to try and in hopes that I fall in level.

Dude, it is so hype. Like the stuff that happens in this game, just action-wise, are the stuff that's like, it's, it's content creation dream. Like, when things happen in this game,

you're just like, holy shit, I got on top of the Griffin to start stabbing in the neck, and now I'm flying across the land with it. And I just hope I don't fall down because I'm just up here on this damn bird. it's it's an awesome video game man and I think it just kind of sort of losing me with the story I think that's where I sacrifice story

for more gameplay in moment to moments right in the combat side of things so that's like the Witcher clearly has the story that you want you have Witcher 4 coming up it's like I'm willing to sacrifice that for a little more combat oriented dude I yeah I think you will if you got super into it now

I think one of the downser sides was it was a little bit too much of a good thing with the combat because you were always getting kind of interrupted into fights. No quiet moments. Yeah, like they, I wish, it's weird to say that like I want less of this good thing,

but it did kind of spoil how good that thing is when you're constantly, you know, if I'm eating pizza every day. Yeah, yeah. You're like, uh, it definitely was too much of a good thing where you couldn't run, you know, 50 yard to 100 yards without, you know, another. Fucking coming at it.

Yeah, another sort of, you know, here's an encounter with some big ass monster. My Far Cry 5 problem. It's trying to go anywhere in a fucking turkey's chasing. Go away! But it was still so badass. And there's like a lot of wow moments with what some of the monsters do. There's just one, I'm like, adventureing through a cave at one point and I hear like some growling. And this big like fucking almost Yeti dude starts like fighting me and then jumps up and then like sticks on the wall.

Like, whoa, dude. This is crazy. easy looking. I can't believe that I think Capcom just really kills it with sort of, with how those encounters kind of, you know, can be so unique. And it's not just dragon and

bipedal guy that's going to like punch you or whatever. Gotcha, gotcha. A lot of great games out there, guys. The issue is stepping up to the end of the diving board and taking a leap and saying, I'm committed to this. It's not that I'm not committed. It's just there's always another review, game, preview,

whatever that's coming around. Crimson Desert that it is. If that's how it is, Crimson Desert, right around. I mean, I was frantically going through the schedule, right? It seems like after February, no, that's not true. Crimson Desert will deliver on all of the combat stuff that Dragon's Dogma does. Yeah. It is very physical.

It is very like you fucking uppercut that enemy. And if you uppercut the enemy and the enemy hits another enemy, they are going to hit each other and stumble. Like it has all those physical. properties. They already got me from Black Desert Online. I'm already a believer in this team. It's more just a story like we've talked about. It's like, can they deliver on the narrative? Can they deliver on the writing with the MPC? With the exception of a vowed. The week of the 16th doesn't look terrible. February 16th. Maybe the week, you know, I would like to say the week before maybe you

could start in, but there's a lot of stuff happening there that I'm sure we're all playing and doing stuff with two. My birthday, February 16th. I have birthday. Thank you. Thanks, birthday's coming up. Have you thought about getting him something? When's Greg's birthday? Three months from today. Oh. Big deal. We're talking about maybe pizza play sweatshirts from every He can get him. Today's Roger's birthday, right?

No, that was last week. Well, no, it's today. It might be today. What's their fuck kind of friend are you? It's on the calendar. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Roger! You film the buzz!

You say happy birthday, you know what I mean? That's your happy birthday. We already gave them the happy. Gotcha. When you're filming on the buzz, you already got it. When the buzz, it gets recorded, that's the day. That's the day. Watch the buzz. Keep up with all the kind of funny content. Thank you to everybody that tuned in on, of course, a very fun preview that is coming to your phones and PC as well with the Witcher. If you want to get engaged with the story and the world some more, that's a fun way of doing it. And, of course, helping us kind of navigate our grand adventure, seeing the pitfalls, seeing what's holding us back from jumping into some of these things.

and also seeing in our minds what we want to play next. What is that big one? I look forward to seeing more and hearing more, but guess what? If you're a kind of funny best friend out there watching live on YouTube and on Twitch, we're not going anywhere. We have more fun coming your way. And we got a great one, Andy,

because you're going to sit down for a kind of funny podcast where you go inside of a man, inside of Nick Scarpino. Excited to hear. How healthy is he? What's that cold look like? What's he looking like right there? I feel pretty good about it. And then after that, more straight and fun with me and Andy.

And so much more. Greg, you had something before we go. Sorry, I put an asset a long time ago because during the ad break, somebody was like, Greg really needs to look at Emberville. This was announced today. I saw the IGN article, and I already wishlisted it before I went on all the shows. But to be clear, the IGN article reads, Emberville announced for PC aims to be like Diablo Light meets Star do Valley. And I'm incredibly intrigued for this.

I was DM'd by the one and only co-carnage and said, check out the game that I'm working on. What? Yeah. No way. This looks awesome. I think he's like producing it or something. Look at me, Louis over here.

Yeah, look at me. Very excited to this early access this summer. So look, keep your eyes peeled and that. Go wish list you're right now like I did. Mike and Greg over here, chopped liver. Here we go. It doesn't even know Roger's birthday. I recorded on the buzz.

Yeah. That's all you get from me, Roger. And with that, kind of funny best friends, we will be back for more gaming discussions on another kind of funny games cast tomorrow. But don't go anywhere. Kind of funny podcast coming at you right now. Goodbye. Goodbye.

So long. Farewell.