Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - We Played Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Beat Elden Ring Nightreign - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

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What's up and welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, June 24th, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by the Master of Hype, Snowbike, Mike. Hello, Tim Gettys. It's nice to see you. I did not bring a computer out. We didn't have internet. Different vibes. And so, yeah, just brought a notepad out.

Old school. I had a lot of games. Yeah. You know, I just start writing. It's like, I got a lot of games. Yeah. I was playing video game charades with the chat earlier. Fun.

You missed out on that one. That sounds cool. Good job. Good job to everybody watching out there. Good job to everybody watching. We also have the Big Daddy himself. I'm so sick of Instagram bullshit. Let me post a story from the web browser.

So I don't have to go in here and copy and paste, but then this didn't copyrights and I'm going to do this shit. I just want people to know we're talking about video games. Something I learned about Instagram recently that upset me is like, you know, on your Instagram page, there's the like the archive thing you can have so you can have like set little circles that's very nice. I like that as like

hey, cool, here's some collections for us to be able to go. That can only be stories? What the fuck are we doing here? Pin a post. Let me make a collect. Pin a post we're gonna have to talk later. I don't understand. See, like I have all these ones pinned at the top that are just there.

Oh yeah, no, but I like the little I want collections of stuff. I wanted to just be like how stories look but like not limited to 60 seconds. Let me have a bunch of my longer videos together. Like game reviews. That'd be nice.

You know what I mean? Yeah, that'd be great. It'd really cool. You know what I discovered yesterday? I was doing something. I forget what, but it was that thing where I did something in Instagram and I went on one of my pin posts

of the photo of Ben's birth or whatever. And I discovered that when I did the, you know, fuck Elon and fuck Trump thing at Dice Awards, right? And everybody, all these people got really, really mad, right? They had come to my pinposts and were really negative there. And it was so funny to go through and delete all these comments like, oh, you thought you were really doing something. I didn't notice that was in February.

I didn't notice until June. It didn't affect my life whatsoever. And rounding out the group today. We have the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez. I have a problem with this company. This company? Kind of funny? This.

This company. This company. Funny. I don't think we're, first of all, I don't think we're doing enough there to make fun of the fact that Barrett's missed the last two days because he got sunburn. Like, what do we, come on? If it were anybody else. I mean, if it was snowmike, Mike, we'd just tear him. For the record.

For the record. You've been here. We live our lives. Dude, when the slack went out on Monday, that was one of those, I'm too stunned to speak. creaks. I was like, because you, of course you want to dunk on him for it or whatever. But then it was just like, man, that is just not an excuse I've heard for missing work. I got too sunburned over the weekend.

But I've been there. I have been there multiple times. I was a child. I was an adult. Things happened. I will say, like, you're right, Eddie. We're not doing enough. I honestly feel like it's one of those when your friends fall down.

You're like, are you hurt? And if they say no, you immediately start making a fun of them. And if they are hurt, let's convales, let's get you. Let's get you back in the office at least. So then be like, you're fucking idiot. Because I'm with you, Andy, we're definitely not doing enough. Having said that, the bravery and courage that this man, Barrett Courtney, had to say this publicly to us. I think we have to give him the pass.

I mean, it's one of those things like we all give each other a lot of shit here and we have safe words to stop, which we don't use all that often. But you want to see an example of how much I think we all truly love each other. It is the fact that Barry's like, I'm too sunburned. come work like it's okay feel better like it's not a meme like i do i do get it imagine you were getting the best by and you called in i got sunburn i can't come work too big back to back oh i freaking love it part of it is also probably like have you seen i wouldn't i i saw him the day of and i didn't notice when you walked by me but then he you know uh he was like what did you get into today i was like what did you get into he's like i i went to the beach and

then and he was like and i got hell of summer and i kind of looked him was like oh shit yeah Yeah, you did get a hell of sunburn. And it's probably just much worse now. I was going to say, is he blistering? Do we know that? The past two days, I've just been hearing him, like, wheel out. No, I've been hearing him, like, scurrying about. You hear Elycind chisdaging the iron lung.

I've been hearing, like, really slow footsteps, so the movement's got to be tough. Sunburns are the way. I had a blistery one when I was a kid, horrible. Yeah. Oh, dude. You burned, like, nobody's business. Yeah, I fucking, I hate it. Back when we thought Mike had his life together, Mike caught him sunset.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Sun Safety. Are you ready to practice proper sun safety? This Saturday? We're going outside. Big God for the number one. That's right.

That's right. There's, I don't want to, hold on. I want to get there in just a second. I do love to say, that was good. But I don't want to leave Barrett yet.

Because I do want to say, I know we've been hyping up his Nottie Dog video for the last week. It's finally out on Friday. I watched it over the weekend. And I legitimately am so impressed by this video. Like, I'm a fan of Barrett, period.

I'm a fan of video essays, period. He's done so many that I've been a big fan of, like, specifically his god of war and the Jedi Fallen Order ones. Like, really, really looked at those games from a perspective. I simply wasn't. So I've always been very impressed with that. But I think this is definitively another level for him. Like this was a very, very, very good piece of content. He should be very proud of himself. I don't agree with every single take he has, but that's part of the fun. Like it's really, I think that he stands by a perspective throughout the entire thing and like found the point of the video in such a beautiful way. I highly recommend everyone watch it because I told Bear this, but I expected that it was going to be good.

This is way above my expectations. This is very, very, very, very, very good. Definitely check it out. Wherever he may be. He may be. A little housekeeping for you. We're an 11-person business. All about live talk shows.

Games Daily, we talked about Xbox's upcoming layout. after this, the Gironi boys are streaming Dune Awakening with Lessing. We have a new Gibrone boy entering the desert with us and we're going to just let him live up in the spice. That's exciting. Yeah. He's hyped. He talks to Shilling Games Daily.

Nick came in and pulled the carts to get in there. You're going to... That's so exciting. Not Vernaz, whatever the planet is. Iraqis. Yeah, we're very excited. Hey, man, I watched the movies. I just don't remember. An alternate universe. Jessica never had Paul Trades. You watched Dune? Yeah, Jen's big into it. It's Idaho.

watching both on first nights, but like... What did you think, do that? How did I not know what this? I'll tell you what? Batista. Come on. I walk alone. That guy rocks.

Fucking Batista. He's back, baby. Oh, my God. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Gregway is all about death strategy, two commenters and how they actually got under Greg's skin yesterday. Oh. I didn't expect the seeds, right?

The move. I'm ready, yeah. We didn't do it now. That was spit-tanked, man. Holy shit. Oh, me talking about Petitza. You're used to be able to. Thank you to our Patreon.

Producer, Michael Jacob, Omega Buster, and Delaney, twining. Before we get into all that stuff, I want to go back to what you were talking about, Mike,

which is the Greg Miller kind of funny game showdown championship parade. Saturday. It's going down. Saturday, June 28th at 10 a.m. Pacific.

That's right. Correct. Yeah, we live in the Pacific. Yes, just making sure. we will be meeting at we will be outside the ferry building on the Embarcadero 10 a.m.

we will all congregate I urge you to bring your own signs I'll bring a sign I'll bring an extra I'll bring your shirt of course kind of funny.com slash store probably couldn't get to you time if you have it already ordered it but try and then yeah we will walk the Embarcadero

during Pokemon Go Day apparently with him there trying to get his Pikachu or whatever and we'll be celebrating me and me doing the impossible Andy leading team blue to their third championship in a row Big three The three.

That's huge. A lot of people say it couldn't be done. We'll end up at square pie guys. We'll have some pieces. We'll have some beers. We'll hang out until about noon. Chill out. I'm calling it a walking meet and greet.

I love it. Yeah. And more information on this, right? It is Pokemon, day one of Pokemon Go Fest. All right. A two-day annual event, Andy, very, very, very big deal. Oh, it's annual.

So it's like, it doesn't happen all that often. Weird timing. This is a big deal. Not only is this a big deal because it's Pokemon Go Fest. I'm going to be very, very intently playing this game. So I'm going to be walking with y'all. Everybody talking to him. foremost, I'm playing this goddamn game.

Okay. But second of all, I can now say definitively that it will be that day that I hit that you hit 50. That you hit 50. I will be bringing my jacket and I will not be allowed to wear the jacket until I hit 50. But I have to get 999 excellent throws,

which is not easy. Not the most challenging, but it's not that easy. And I have about 150 left. I'll definitely edit that. When do you hit level 49? I hit level 49 over a year ago. Yeah, it feels that way. Yeah, the last level

has been a grind and a half. So, yeah, I don't love that the day that I've been working for very hard, spending a lot of money, spending a lot of time walking miles and miles and miles. Should have set it as a crazy. You know? Should have.

Climb a game. Who would have known? Should have won't have. I know. What's the deal? You retiring or not? People want to know. Thank you to our Patreon producers.

Carl, Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to by Cash App and Mood, but we'll tell you all about that later. Let's start with the topic of the show. We played a whole bunch of video games on. We're going to talk about them. We played Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Somebody here, Mike, has beat Eldon Ring Night Rain.

We're going to talk about all that and more, but I want to start with Marvel Cosmic Invasion, because I'm personally very excited about this. Greg, you played it at Summer Game Fest. The embargo is finally up so you can actually talk about it. It's a cosmic battle awaiting. choose between 15 Marvel heroes in this frenetic action beat him up to fight against the deadly annihilation wave

threatening the galaxy from New York to the depths of the negative zone. The future of the Marvel universe will be fought for across the stars. This is from the team that made TMNT Shredder's Revenge. Obviously, the moment they showed this, both the animation and gameplay. Many of us here are kind of funny. We're popping off. I am a

huge fan of Marvel of sidescrowling, beat-em-ups, and specifically of 90s Marvel video games. And this seems to be taking all of that just being like, here you go, Tim. Does it live up to all my dreams, Greg? Yes, and more so, I think.

Let's go. You know, I have an interesting take on all of this where this debuted, of course, at a Nintendo direct. It was an early morning one, I do believe, where I think I was at home doing dishes, or maybe I was at home doing dishes because Ben was sick. But at some point I was at the sink. And I got a text from one of my Mr. Nintendo's,

who was like, I think you're gonna love this next thing. It's been hard to keep it from you. And I went, holy fucking shit. And I opened it up. And I think it was the next thing actually was Patupon, if I'm getting these right.

And I was like, oh my fucking God, Pat, or it wasn't, no, I was here for Paddway. It was something that's a great game that made a debut there.

Freedom Wars. I don't know. And he was like, what, no, I mean, that's cool, but not that.

And then it happened. And the trailer was going as it did. And I was like, oh my God, oh my God, oh, my God. And then it got to being a beat-em-up. And I went, oh.

And my history of beat-em-ups is, I am a child of the 80s into the 90s, right? So I played a lot of them. And I always found myself frustrated with them not feeling good, them not feeling right. I'm Superman and the death and return of Superman right, and I'm trying to punch to the right, but I'm off by a few pixels,

so I'm punching at somebody's calf and doing no damage. I was fucking as annoying as shit. And there was that deal where, even Scott Pilgrim when that one dropped and I was at IGN and everyone was all about that on the first first release I played enough of it but I wasn't a Scott Pilgrim fan and then I had this aversion I would say for beatem ups

after playing so many of them and not having the experience I wanted but I really stayed the fuck away from them this demo was so good that at the end and their tribute games was there doing it with me at the end they're like so what did you think and I said I literally was like this is gonna sound offensive

I'm sorry is this what TMNT Shredder's Revenge was like. And like, what do you mean? I'm like, I never played Shredder's and I'm like, what I gave a recap version of that. Like, yeah, this is what I've, and I immediately went home and started playing Shredder's Revenge because I've been chasing the high of Marvel Cosmic invasion since I played this. And Shredder's Revenge is a fantastic game and I know this is what you've been playing. Me and Ben love it. Ben loves it. Nice. Can we play Ninja Turtles? You know, he gets around, but he usually comes back to Leo. Okay. He's usually coming back to Leo. You know what I mean? But then it's

classic that I do it and then I pick some alternate skin for Raff or for Michelangelo and he's go, Dad, give me your controller. So I have to pass it back and then I'm, you know what I mean? It's all thing. Anyways though. Cosmic Evasion, yes, for somebody who slept on TMNT, who loves the property of TMNT but like, you know, I didn't want to go to this.

You are, it's a side scroll and beat them up just like you would expect, just like the thing said there. It plays a lot like TMNT as you would expect, right? You have the light attack, you have a power attack, you have a special meter that builds up and goes. The change here would be, as we watch the She Hulk, Rocket Raccoon debut trailer, right,

is the idea that you are picking two characters, that you can then swap on the fly with just a button and press. You could also play all the way through with one, and then if you know you got K-O'd, your second character would step in or whatever. This comes down to the fact that something they talked about in the demo that I didn't know at the time, but now, you know, future Greg would have understood it better of like,

in TMNT, right? They're all fucking turtles. Like, yeah, you got splinter and you got April and there was DLC characters. but like the core characters all felt pretty much the same. It's a turtle-like. Here with cosmic invasion, the first thing they did when we went to the character select screen, because we didn't have everyone to play with.

Sadly, all 15 weren't there. We had Captain America, Nova, Storm, Venom, Wolverine, Phila, Vell? Yeah. Okay, I don't know. Not familiar. From X-Men Dark Phoenix, right? Of course, how could I forget?

In Spider-Man. But when we sat down and were at the character, select screen tribute, like, hey, we would recommend pick a flyer and then pick a ground person, right? Because obviously we're dealing with superpowers here. Rock is going to feel different than She Hulk, even though I'm just watching them and saying that, right? But Cap feels different than Storm, right?

And that's who I picked. I went with Cap, of course, because Avengers, come on. Come on. Marvel's Avengers, Chris Dynamics, never forget. You were too harsh on it. You also let Black Panther footage. You tried to change your tune. Too late.

Too late. And then I just went with Storm because I wanted to see a flying character, right? And it was that idea of, you know, something I have right now in TM&T to a degree, right? Of, like, flying characters come in. It is, okay, I got to jump at the right time and hit you the right way. Whereas when more people are flying inside of this game, I would switch over to Storm. Go up there and beat the shit out of them. And then when that was done, go back to Cap because Cap's fucking awesome.

Throwing the shield, cash in the shield. To bounce off a bunch of people? Yeah, it's bouncing off people. It's feeling real good out there, real good. And Storm felt good, too. You know, they talked about her being lighter, more elegant, right? I jotted it down, right? I think it's her.

File of Elle was in Guardians 3. That comes from Jumps 0-004. I think it was the little girl. Oh. But I ended up joining the two at the end. Storm the captain. That's all I was thinking of. I was just kind of find that.

Storm the capital, you know. Oh, okay. Keep working on it. You're almost a thing about it. You know, Storm, like, she has, like, the dodge attack, the cross-screen that comes back and then attacks the other way. But then you see her calling down lightning there for her big special. Everybody feels powerful.

Everybody feels good. You know, we went through. I got to play, this is Venom. So you're swinging with that. You know what I'm swinging a spy? Spider-Man, you know, as you see throughout this, Venoms, the symbionate is constantly being deformed and moved around and slammed around, making it feel really good. For me, something we didn't get to see there, but I know from Ninja Turtles, right, is, like,

with my history of Ultimate Alliance and sitting there like a moron and grinding these characters to 100 for no reason, just sitting there doing... I love that game. Kamala Khan's spin attack, you know what I mean? Just getting it all. The idea of leveling these characters up, like you level up the turtles and Shredder's revenge, super exciting for me in terms of how I want to go and attack it. but so, so good.

Obviously gorgeous if you're watching it, if you are a listener, for some reason, haven't seen this game. I urge you to go watch a trailer, go catch some stuff, go see some screens. It's got that pixel-based sprite stuff

you expect from like X-Men arcade or from the classic 16-bit games. Obviously it looks modern. It's HD all that jazz. But yeah, Tim, they are nailing this. I think it's exactly what you'd want out of it. It's definitely what I want out of it. And I can't wait to get Ben's hands on.

Even when we're playing turtles, I'm like, Ben, to be superheroes. Like, yeah. We're stoked at the Miller household for this one. Yeah, I'm obviously very hyped for this. And a lot of what you said does resonate with me as well, where I love the games in the arcades,

the Simpsons, and the X-Men and all that stuff. But even as a kid, I never liked how it felt. And even with Shredder's Revenge, while that was still true, I feel like they added enough things that I could kind of deal with it. I'm in the same place as you with Scott Pilgrim, with the exception being I love Scott Pilgrim, and playing through it, like, I beat it.

But at a certain point, it felt like a chore more than it felt like I'm actually enjoying myself. But there was a lot of that game, the soundtrack from Anamadoguchi, specifically that, like, kind of kept me there. But something so special about Shredder's revenge and what seems to be for this, too, is the amount of love in the background and the amount of just character everything has. And, like, this being, like, watching the characters move, they look like the fighting game, Marvel characters from the 90s and the sound sounds like those fighting games, the Marvel and Capcom games. And seeing some of the movesets even from Wolfrene and Cap, it's like, oh, that's straight up. their move set from some of those games. It's those little references and nods

and the love that they put in, like, the storytelling of the backgrounds of the different locations you're in. I feel like that's the difference between like, all right, cool, it's a side scroll, beat them up. And like, there's so much love being put into every single thing where it does have that theme park feel where it's like...

A hundred percent. Part of it is the gameplay, but another part of it is kind of just taking in the whole scene. As you go through, if you pause, if you can, go back on and pause. Daily Bugle, of course, in the background. on Spider-Menace front page. There's the overt stuff like that, right?

But as you kind of saw it in one of them, but you'd have to be looking for it. In the back of one of them is a billboard for Secret Hospital with Mary Jane. Like they're making references to deep cut at you stuff that you don't necessarily know off the top of your head if you weren't paying attention if they weren't calling it out. But even like the obvious, like yes,

there's going to be just random things in the background to look at. But even just like the fun animations that are unique to just one specific screen. Of course. You'll only get there. A lot of that like metal slug love. Like part of the reason I love metal slug is the charm of the character animations and all the different weapons they have.

And the team over at Totemu really have figured out the secret sauce when it comes to getting all of that and applying it to a gameplay with leveling system that are great. Streets of Rage 4 is a highlight for a lot of people in the genre. This seems very interesting adding the tag team element because obviously the fighting games do that. But I don't think I've experienced that in another game. And starting with 15 characters pre-DLC, which you imagine. imagine this will get. You hope so. That's wild.

Like that is a lot of different playing characters with entirely different movesets. You're talking about the kind of like the flyers, the non-flyers. Like that's a level up of this like classic type of gameplay that I'm really excited to get my hands on. Andy, I know you didn't really vibe with Strudder's Revenge because it still didn't solve the

up and down issue for you. Yeah. Do you think that this might get you in here? You know, it's always it's not even the I'm punching on the wrong plan, it's just like, you know, I can move left to right in about a second and going up takes about three seconds.

I've always been a bit more bothered by that. I think the art style is something that I, it's worth even booting up for me. I'm just so into the pixel art style. What I wanted to know from Greg were what any what if any superheroes do you think should be in this roster?

Well, I mean, that list is as long as your arm, right? I feel like it's, when you get into it now, you start questioning, well, how what slots are you going to give to who right so i didn't i'm going to so let me add it because you got she hulk and you got rocket now i'm going to turn these bullet points watch this mic to numbers all right that's how good i am at google docs oh fuck it changed it in different letters oh god it's because it doesn't know where oh fuck me running you know what i mean

hold on uh there you go that's nine so you're talking there's only six characters left you figure iron man's got to be there yes we have to have an iron man right let's not be silly about it and then you start getting interesting because I think even She Hulk and Rocket are interesting picks right so to have so much screen time in the trailer I would yeah well it's their big reveals

yeah this is their own trailer when they got it oh this is just those they got announced yeah yes oh got you got a new trailer with just I wish fendom was blue that is one of my only issues of what I'm saying well I mean you figure there's gonna be all costumes oh yeah you know that's like that's what again for the turtles that's cool whatever for this game

Alt-Cost movie. Dude, that's got to be so much. You think you'll see a Fantastic Four with the movie time? It's close. Yeah, but who do you put? I think you put, do you put Mr. Fantastic in?

Because I feel like, you know, are we doing, this is very comic-y rather than MCU-E, so are we putting Miss Marvel? Well, if we're not getting Hulk, I think, thing could make sense. Yeah, if she Hulk, though, right? I mean, think what makes sense.

Yeah, but that's a different type of, like, brawler character. I hear, I hear, yeah. I guess Venom's a little more similar. Well, that's the thing is you look at, like, the classes you already have and start really going around that. Like wear the holes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, all costumes seems like insane if you're not just palette swapping things. Like, because for a 3D model, when you make a new skin for somebody, like you make the 3D model and then you just have to make sure that your, everything is, it's hard to like say this in a,

it's called painting weights where you were like making sure that like everything looks good in animation and the animations stay the same. But this is essentially like repainting over every frame of animation. I think it'll just be different colors and stuff. Just yeah.

Shedd's revenge, I'm pretty sure that was the case. We're not getting like trench coat Donatello. Yeah, no, no, no, no. Yeah, if you didn't play Ninja Turtles, yeah, it was like, yeah, you had a band, you had, no, what was that? And then you put eyes in it. And then you had, like, you know, the red thing on Raphael's face and stuff. Like, it was a different, you had the Game Boy versions.

Like, yeah, I'm talking about Venom being blue, I don't think. Gotcha. Yeah, okay. You have, like, Lady Venom instead of that. Yeah. Chat's saying that Sue Storm is in the game. and has been in all the trailers really yeah

damn there she is well they have it uh yeah i'm super hyped on this and yeah it it seems deeper than even shredder's revenge and shredder's revenge like had so many spectacular moments of like just vocal tracks coming out of nowhere like they got wu tank planted that bitch got your ass she's the invisible woman that's why she's in the trailers you fuckers you fuck faces in the chat

how about baddies did you see any bad guys What can we expect to see what cool Wow moments It's this overall thing of the invasion It's annihilation Is that what the main guy's name is right So you saw his little like basic Staros It's a DC person like attaching to people

And making them worse So we fought Beatle We fought I put it down Taskmaster Yeah we had these You know the Bebop and Rocksteady kind of fights there Not together but like in terms of like you know TMNT at the end of it But again it's interesting to see them

I think diving deep into the Marvel catalog right? Like MCU is so well known Marvel is so well known that you're bringing up Beetle we're gonna have you fight this guy as a boss like okay cool I'm excited to see what else is there

and what we're gonna build to as well At some point we see them fight this like tarotactal looking guy that I think his name is Sauron He's the dude for a Spider-Man comic I only really know from Marvel Snap now So really? I don't use one of the starting cards

of the Spider-Man comic of right Of like What's how smart you are And this thing you could cure cancer But I don't want to cure cancer I want to turn people to dinosaurs Let's move on from Marvel Cosmic Invasion to Mike.

Yeah, me and Andy beat Eldon Ring Night Rain. We're going to talk all about it. But before I do, we got to bring up a big crime that's been committed this last generation of video games. Fuck, we'll make fun to bear it. And that's Nintendo Switch and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Greg, being trapped on that system. That's fucked up. That is fucked up. I agree.

That should be out. That game, Greg. but this game will scratch my it. Yeah, good enough, okay? I'll take it. What about Night Rain? Andy, let's talk about Ellen Ring Night Rain, of course. It is a from software experience made exclusively for me. The only Gibroni who loves multiplayer games mixed with Battle Royale, closing circles,

and sprinkling a little from software magic. This is a game that I love to death. It will probably go down as one of my top favorites in the company's franchise list here. Yeah, I mean, you were saying this is probably going to be your number one of the year. Yeah. Really enjoyed it. This will go down as my favorite.

It's everything that I want out of a from soft experience, being able to share it with my friends, most importantly, having it being very fast and not have it. Hey, let's slow down. Let's read these stats. Let me guess if I put 50 into health, how much more will my health bar go up? It's just simply, hey, drop your runes off here at this site of grace. Let's level up. Let's move on to the next awesome piece of action.

And so it's this blend of. of high-paced action, extreme difficulty with From Software, Game Design. And then on top of that, of course, my favorite is the map exploration. I am always wowed and impressed by all the cool scenes that we see, all the different bosses that they mix in to the different locations and having, what, Andy, 10 bosses? How many do they have eight to 10? They have eight unique bosses.

Yes, eight unique bosses. And then each one of those bosses has a just splattering of different amounts of bosses. that you can fight before them too. Yeah, a bunch of different Eldon Ring enemies. And, you know, we reviewed this already in a way that was kind of like, yeah, we played it. We were doing our best.

It was a weird review period because this, I think this game is very much a year mileage may vary whenever anybody asks, should I play this? I have no friends to play with. I would say no, probably, because it's the same thing as signing on to play, signing on alone to play squads in Fortnite

when two teammates immediately run opposite directions, you're like, oh, fuck, this is, why am I even here right now? And that can happen quite a bit in the Eldon Ring Night Rain experience based on just reading a whole lot of tweets. I know the first couple days in there having a lot of matchmaking issues, and it took a while for the game to kind of get its rating up above mostly negative or mixed on Steam, because a lot of people were having issues with networking

and just with what the game was, and then they made playing solo a bit easier. Not even fun, Andy. People want to know it's solo fun. I think solo is much better and easier to deal with now because they gave you a free res. So whenever you do go down, you can just kind of come back during a boss fight.

And I mean, my opinion of this game has only gone up. I think the game really, really surprised me with how much deeper it was. I thought it was, it really just felt like, wow, this is a, like one of the best mods you could download on the internet. And, you know, they, it's cool what they've done here. They just want to, this was just one of the teams on from software saying,

I really want to make a kind of rogulight, fast-paced multiplayer experience. And, you know, we look at this as hopefully their testing grounds for their future in multiplayer and making things easier to squat up with friends. But I would say that my opinion, yeah, my opinion of this only went up. Because I think when the game came out, I was like, yeah, I think it's around an eight out of ten. I'd go up to like a nine. I think that the explorable areas with how the world does change with these shifting lands and how much adventure we found where once you beat a boss, then the next time you drop into the world,

there will be a massive part of the map that is different and changed. and exploring that was so much fun. Trying to find the balance of we're running out of time, but I really, really want to explore this. Having those sort of mini-metagame excursions where you go, I mean, Mike, it felt like everyone we were going, oh, we got to go take on that rooftop boss because it was so challenging. I think we could take it on now.

You got Loretta, the run killer. There's just so many awesome moments in this game that are fun as hell and the ability to, I think having that, RNG is also a lot of really fun. Like, I know some people can look at RNG as something that can just kind of get in the way, but whenever random number generator, that's what it means. I hate saying RNG and some people just don't even know what that means. But the R&G is sometimes having a run and then suddenly the build is working out and you

go, oh, shit, this is going to be a special one. It just gets really exciting. And then us beating the bosses and having people from Chad join us, it was a good time. I had a lot of fun with it. Yeah. Mike, are you prepared to give it a kind of funny score? On the kind of funny scale, I would give this an 8.5 out of 10 on the kind of funny scale. It is great to amazing.

It is an absolute blast to play. This is, like I said, a game that is strictly for me. And I think there are others that probably found a lot of fun with their friends doing this. But as somebody who has always wanted to share the Dark Souls experience with others, and then having that turned up to 10 where there is a giant map, there is a closing circle. And it is, hey,

we can't stand around at the site of grace and discuss what moves we should get. We just need to go, go, go. And have that all mixed in so well where, yeah, there is a little bit of thought process, right? Andy of like,

what are my passes on all these weapons that I grab? What is that next thing that I should be looking for, whether it be a buff to maybe help some of my moves? Or is it something that will affect the boss in a different way? different like poisons, holy damage. What should we be kind of gearing towards? So there is a little bit of thought process to that. It's not mindless, just run around and constantly attack.

You do have to be kind of mindful of what you're thinking you should be building towards. But I love the just fast-paced nature of this. I think the bosses are really tuned well for a three-player situation. Each boss felt like they were coming after every single person on the screen no matter what. There wasn't much free time. The only time I ever felt like I was free to just kind of be quiet and easy was when I had a weapon that said, hey, the boss will rarely look at you, right? And so I think they did a great job tuning these eight bosses to, hey, three players are on the screen and they really know how to attack you. I think in other from soft games, they're not really tuned to have two or three other people on the screen with you.

It is usually a one-v-one fight. And so to see them say, hey, this is the core of the game. Let's build these bosses out like that. single one was so much fun to see from, of course, the beginning when the wolf turns into three wolves and all of you are getting attacked one by one. I think that's really cool to the final boss where he can just, you know, close the gap and create space so quickly on you that you're never really safe no matter how far away you are. I think each of the character classes are really built out in a fun way for you to try and be something different than you normally would be. I'm usually a sorcerer, and even the sorcerer in this class is different than how I would play, right? because there is no man of flasks here.

You have to kind of play that a little bit differently how you get your FP back to use magic spells. And so each one from the super tank berserker guy to, of course, the Guardian Eagle, who is kind of the big shield man, all have their own unique stuff. And I think that's what will get me coming back, Tim, is there's things that I want now in the future now that I've beaten it that I want to see.

But really, I can jump back tomorrow because I have, what, six other characters to play, five other characters to go check out? A lot of other characters, and in the last week, they kind of just out of nowhere dropped an enhanced version of one of the bosses. And they're like, this is the extra hard version of it for people that want the extra challenge. And it's not just we gave it a bigger help bar and it does more damage. It has new movesets and completely new mechanics that it does in the second. It starts off in its second phase.

So when one of these bosses kicks up at second phase, you go, oh shit, the purple lightning is going to start happening. The boss starts off in that phase. And then suddenly, I don't know if you saw any of the footage of this, Mike, but there are those wind currents that shoot you up. You know, like the blessing calls them the trampolines. But this boss creates like a gigantic purple tornado and you have to jump into the tornado. Like it's wild what they're doing it. And then now this dude who is one of the more. annoying bosses to deal with the big sort of man horse

centaur man, centaur guy. There's, they are releasing the enhanced version of him in the next couple of days as well. It's just really cool what they're doing to keep players in while this next big DLC will happen and this next big deal C should be awesome whenever that does happen.

Another wild one from software again drops the no micro transactions. It's just all in the game, right? Like that was the one when we talked about. It was like they could make millions of dollars selling skins if they wanted to, right? They have a rabid fan base that is all in on this. They could have easily been like, hey, we got a bunch of these skins, five bucks a pop, and people would have gone crazy, right? But they stuck what they normally do of, hey,

we're not charging you anything. You just play the game and have fun. And it's wild to be sitting on that end of it, looking back and going, man, they didn't charge me a dime for any of this. I had a blast with just the upfront cost and I'm loving every moment of it. Yeah. Closing out the Eldon Ring talk here, Shaysley, Super Shats, insane. Did you Platinum it? It took me forever to get. three wins trophy. Andy, I know you're not a trophy guy and you're on PC, but are you interested in doing all the achievements? Uh, and as too many other things to play. No, like I've, I've never been that dude. At one point, we were close to getting the three wins in a row, the turkey,

and, uh, we got our ass, me, Mike, and I forget who we were with got our ass handed to us. So it was like, all right, well, that's gone and I'm not. We're never doing that again. We're not going to do that. Yeah, I'm not like super pumped or excited by us trying to. Yeah. This game is great. Go play with your friends. It's a ton of fun. I can't wait to see the future of this.

How they incorporate new bosses? How do they add other bosses from the games to be kind of the minor bosses? Will we see a switchup of the map anytime? What are the new added things like Andy brought up with just changing up the world in just a small, slight way? There's a little side quest. Big future to this. There's a lot more to this game than I thought that there would be. Not that I should be giving them credit for making a, you know, a full,

developed game. I just, I expected, you know, I think the negative part of me looked at this is like, oh, multiplayer cash grab. And there was a lot more in here than I thought there would be when it comes to different characters having their own mission structures and, and conversations that they're having with other people and like getting lore bits about all of these different people about why they're here. Really, really damn cool. Awesome game. Can't wait. Greg Miller has beat Death Stranding too, and he's prepared to give his final score. But we're going to hear that after a word from our sponsors. This episode's brought to you by Cash App.

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A couple days ago, you sat at this very desk. I think it was yesterday, actually. I was yesterday. And y'all reviewed DeathStra. two. Everybody gave their scores. Yeah. You had not beat the game. You've now beat the game. So you're now giving your final score for Death Stranding 2. I'm very interested. What is it

on the kind of funny scale? Thank you. Yeah. Yesterday when we did this, I was still an hour and a half away from goal. You know what I mean? It always an upsetting place to come up shore. You know what I mean? And it's a Kojima game. So an hour and a half what's that look like? That's the problem is when it was 12. 15 and I was in episode

14 of 16, according to trophies. It's too late at night for me on Sunday, on Monday morning to text blessed and be like, how far am I actually out? So it was that thing of, I could keep pushing, be blurry-eyed in the morning, but there's no guarantee I'm actually going to get there. So when I got it and I told us,

he's like, you're an hour and a half way. Fuck. Fuck, you know what I mean? It's interesting. Yesterday on the review, I said that I, for most of it, I thought I was cooking at an eight, and then as we ramped up to the end there, my final couple play sessions, which were media.

I was like, okay, I see an eight-five here or whatever. on the end of it here I think I lock in at an 8-5 there's no reason it's a great game I do think that the very ending of it

the final boss fight no spoilers of course everybody but it is a tale of two games where it is the first section is exactly what I bitched about yesterday in the review of like I brought up to the table

with Jerica and Bless I'm like does it Aoka-Cajima still have it as a boss fight guy. We talk about all the Metal Gear games and how amazing these boss fights were, but for Death Stranding 1, I don't remember any of them being spectacular. And in Death Stranding 2, no spoilers, the big things you build to for these fights, I don't think are that interesting. I'm fighting a giant BT. I'm fighting this guy. And so it is, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, he warps away.

Then I hide or I find him and I shoot you. It's not like, it's, it isn't what it was back in the day. Not a whole lot mechanically to him. Exactly. So then to get here at the end of this one, I there's another there's the guy shoot shoot shoot okay he went away the ping oh he's over there walk shoot shoot okay this sucks is what I'm thinking is I play at and then the second not even phase the next part was when I was like this is fucking Hadeo this is what I want out of these games of this bad shit crazy blah blah so I think I've been thinking a lot about it obviously of where my final score is I end on an 8-5 because truly the stuff surrounding the few things that I don't think are amazing.

The stuff surrounding it is amazing. It is spectacular. It is what I want. It is a gorgeous environment. I do like the moment to moment gameplay of making deliveries. I don't enjoy fighting the BTs. I think the AI could be smarter when I'm trying to stealth around or whatever. But that's not what the game is.

The game is that experience of trudging across Australia, trudging across Mexico, putting the thing in, getting that like, getting the new thing that changes how I play it and putting the battery on my car to drive me fast and blah. And then, of course, it is the bat shit insane story that is.

a death trading in general. Forgive me if you said this yesterday. Of course. If you're giving death's running two at 8.5. Yeah. What would you give death running one in 2025? Oh, see, I can't answer that question. Because that's the thing of like,

this is one of my points yesterday, especially with Bessing and Jericho having played Death Stranding one way more recently than me in 2019 when I reviewed it with Fran, Imran, and Andy. It was that idea of like, when I was playing Death Training 2, I was like, yeah, it's more Death Stranding. So to see all the reviews when people were like, oh, but they improved this.

So they got rid of this, friction point of that. I was like, oh, I don't, this is the rose tinted glasses of what I remember Death Stranding 1 to be. For you, Tim, and for anybody who didn't catch it yesterday, I brought up Superman in review, where I thought Nick made a salient point in Superman 2, where he's like, this is Superman 2, it is part 2 when you were like, oh, this is why it's so much of the stuff from the first movie he was here, right? That's what I think Death Stranding 2 is as well, where it is just the next part of Death Stranding, the next chapter in this story. It's not radically different because I'm still on the same journey just 11 months later.

You built for a lot of people? No. I did the exact same thing you made fun of me for in the original review of take a penny, leave a penny guy, but I just take the pennies. Fuck yeah. But to my defense, this is something we complained about in the review is the fact that, you know, we had three weeks with the game. Week one was literally, hey, it's Switch and you're going to SGF. So I started week two where a lot of people have already built stuff and I was like, cool. And I would contribute a little thing here or there.

week three, which was when I put in the bulk of my review time, they had turned off servers. So it was just me. So it's like, do you want to build this road? Nothing is in it. I'm like, well, no, because I don't even think I want to get back to this in the review period. So again, I'm very excited to do more of the side stuff and flush it out more. And again, that's where the 8-5 comes in, I think, where it is that idea of, I think the clip at which we had to play or I had to play for this, the sticking points I had of like, well, I want to like, I don't think the boss fight complaint is going to. matter as much in 20 hours when I'm still delivering packages and doing this thing. And like,

what speaks to me and speaks about how loudly this game is already impacted me is the fact that I was making clips yesterday and the day before to send to Tim. Like today when he had a brief second when the internet went down, I brought him over and I showed him the ending of the game. I showed him a thing I texted him. I sent him music this morning from an artist that the game turned me on to. Like, it's interesting how I think, dude is straight up. Remixes the GameCube intro song. It turns into like a whole, like, freaking jazz. It's really sick.

It's interesting to me how, you know, Hideo Kojima in A tour, movies, the music, his Instagram, all the stuff. The fact that this game is out for me and I've been playing it and has influenced me to that level where my Spotify is now littered with songs from this that have not only introduced me to the artist in the song, but then I've drilled into their album to find things I'm listening to off of that to send to Tim that it wasn't from the game. man. Of course, the clips I'm sending around and the references I'm making, like,

again, this probably sounds too hoity tooty, but I think games in general are art. Clearly, Kajem was trying to make something bigger than a game, and I think he achieves that with Deaths Training too. And that's why I think it's an 8-5, even though I don't think the boss fights have it like they used to, even though I think it's easy to cheese the stealth the way I did and it's a viable strategy. But does that mean I don't want to go back and 100% the game and do all these different things and walk across with my new no i want to do all of that i want to keep playing i mean you okay you just said that you want a hundred percent this game like do you i want to see yourself flat at me no back in 2019 i had no children in 2019 i had no children on

all the time in the world and i never made it back to death stranding one and i think it's the same situation here where you didn't think ben would be in of this dude shot at the ben baker's tentacle tongue comes out of we had we had such a breakthrough this weekend right of like him having video game time, but he not only did he let me nap next to him on the couch while he played, at one point he wanted me to play everything co-op, and I did a lot, or a lot of co-op, right? But I was like, hey, daddy, you know, reviews video games

for a living, would you mind if he played a game next to you on portal? He's like, no. So he was playing on Switch on the TV, and I was playing there next to portal, and I'm like, this is the dream. All right, this is the fucking life as he's playing Princess Pete Showtime. Hell you. I saw a good blue sky post, just to go back to your original thoughts on, or any of our original thoughts

on Death Stranding 1. Yeah. This is from Chris Plant of the Besties, who says, as the Death Stranding 2 discourse ramps up, remember that everybody played a different version of Death Stranding. One is 95% hiking, barely any user-built support structures, and a busted difficulty curve. Two, user support and lots of vehicles, but fussy controls in buggy physics. Three, Directors Cut with a human catapult. This game had a lot of different iterations where suddenly the director's cut comes out and it's, hey, we added a bunch of shit to make the world and traversal a lot more fun. and it is really, really neat.

It's, dude just blew Mike's mind. There was a human catapult the whole time me and Roger could be used it. I was walking my happy ass for hours. We would have launched your ass across the house. There's so much. I can't wait a pocket. I'm really interested to see if you're a death training to you guys dive in

and really get nerdy with it. Not to mention to see what's already built. Yeah. Because when that first, the week I had with it where other people had built shit and like, oh, hey, thanks, young, yeah, you made this for me. That's exactly what I need. Like, I'm not going to spoil things.

in there. But it was like that idea of like that. That was super cool. So yeah, no, best intentions I'd love to. I imagine it's going to stay in my hard drive for a while. I want to. But guess what? Free afternoon today. No meetings after I do Gregway. No other things to do. Goon awakening? It's time, everybody.

The Xbox turns on. And we are doing it. The real playthrough of Expedition 33. Oh! The next thing on my horizon that I really got to play and can't wait for it, Donkey Kong. So let's bust this shit out. I got a few afternoons clear here. Let's get in it.

Let's see it on a TV, not start it on low settings on a deck or whatever. Let's actually go. Let it go. We're gonna fucking go. I feel like we need to figure out the right way to do this, but we need to record your reactions to certain key points in this game. I'll let you know.

One of the biggest things. No, in chat, be fucking cool. Everyone on the table, be fucking cool. I've shut my eyes and taken off my glasses and I've rubbed my eyelids, essentially. One of the big things that made sure of like, obviously all of your praises. all of the praises online.

But every so often, eyes are closed, ears are shut, hearts are open. Someone's like, oh, but the act two twist or the twist between act one and act two, blah, blah. And I've heard that enough where I'm like, that's interesting. I don't think about it. The one and only Aunt Lucy James was over for, I think, 4th of July, Memorial Day.

And we were out back, barbecue and hanging out or whatever. And she mentioned it offhanded of this, whatever. And then she started saying, I'm like, do I, I, I said, what, you don't know about this? And I'm like, I've been, stay clear. and Jen's like, well, I want to know. So I closed my, I did the cover my ears and sang a song or whatever. And when I came back out when Jen Tim, Jen's like, oh, you got to play this game.

I'm like, all right. Like I was going to anyway. I knew I needed to. But here's the moment. I'm in this place. I'm ready to embrace it. I've played the opening three times, but I'm ready this time to be like, it was a preview. It was on the deck.

It was just not the right time. The third. This fourth time is the time where we're fucking in it. You don't want a PS5 pro it? No, because I want to be able to take it from the Xbox to the handheld. Oh, he's the rock ally has changed my life, everybody. And if I can, that was the same thing of like, fucking, tell me, tell me about it.

I fucking play cosmic invasion. Okay. Is this shredder's revenge? I said, I'm going to buy this tonight. Went back to my hotel room, opened up the switch store, $40. So I was like, hold up a sec. And then I went, I hovered on buying. I went, wait, opened up.

Guess who's on Xbox game pass? You know where it's sad. I got it on the Xbox. I got it on the. I'm fucking rocking. And I'm telling you like if for Marvel, like it's the same thing with Marvel or the it's the same thing with Marvel of like I want to put

so much time into that and I want my progress everywhere. So I was like shit, am I going to buy multiple versions? And I was like, wait, make this fucking Xbox game anywhere game. So I can do this exact situation again. I need to to run to a call real quick. I just got to say this and because I don't know if you knew this. Let me hear it big. But uh, G-Force now ultimate that we've been raving about.

It's on Steamback. Yeah. You can connect your game pass. so if you have game pass any game on game pass you then have on G-Force now on your steepak we're living a good time God damn good time everybody I'm gonna run Mike's taking over I love you all

let's finish it up Greg any more thoughts on Destraining 2 before I move on no there's a lovely review yesterday we did Jerica came and visited thank you so much to her yeah please go check out the full-blown review there and more thoughts but I have very special games but I want to save him because me and Roger played this Friday

Of course. And there's just so many things I want to know about from the boss fights to more. But we'll save it. We'll save it. Let's move on to the next part of the show. Andy, you beat the Lies of PDLC. You put a lot of time into this one. How did it go?

Lies of P.DLC overture. I have a problem with the games industry. Okay. All right. What's wrong with it? I had a problem with the company earlier for not making fun of bare enough for the sunburn. Is that also the problem with the industry that the industry at large? The industry has not capitalized on this.

A lot of Pierce, where is your blue sky about this? I, here's the thing, man. I finished this experience, and then I go, oh, I drafted this on my fantasy critic. 84? That's got to be a minimum 91.992. This is one of the best DLCs I've ever experienced. This is an amazing portion of, you know, just even better boss fights. with some of the most

gripping, heartbreaking storytelling you will ever experience this. This is like, this is going to be like my shout out of the urtree last year where I had it way the high, way high up there and everybody's it, but it's a DLC and you can't play about the core one.

I don't give it damn dude. Like they made it. Unless Barrett and the government comes to me and says no DLC's on your list and I won't put it there. You can't just make the rules. But I'm not going to not put it on the list. I think this experience was fucking phenomenal. The added weapons are so great.

And more importantly, it really does come down to how great the boss fights were and the storytelling to go along with it. I think the game is phenomenal. Lenart says in baddies, Andy. Don't forget the baddies. Oh, baddies. Oh, my God. No, the game's amazing. And I, you know, I know that they just hit three million sold, which is so great.

And I hope that they continue to sell, especially because. the for anybody who's always gone difficulty is just too much for me I want to try them out there are difficulty settings now that we mentioned you know when the DLC dropped

they released difficulty settings so that the normal difficulty that you play at is now like level three and then there's a level two that's a bit easier and then level one that is very very easy and so you have no excuse now

this game needs to be played the DLC is fantastic it is it cements them himself as if Frumsoff isn't doing one, what's Neo-Wis and round eight doing? Go ahead, Greg. So the difficulty thing, are you saying the game is so good, narratively, sorry that you dial the difficulty down to play it that way?

Or is, because like, wouldn't you, I would, I think for these kind of games, so many people are drawn in by the gameplay, by the challenge, by the Perry Poppy stuff. Well, I think that you can still be drawn in with the combat, but just not getting one or two shot. You're given some leniency. You're given some grace to miss a Perry every now and then or miss a dodge every now and then as opposed to I'm fighting this

boss and it hits me one, two, and it's like, ah, there goes that run. And that could definitely push people low and I totally understand why. For people who don't even have, for people like us adults with lives, I mean, much less Greg, who has children and has like, I understand

that time is so precious, especially when Tolls Like's take away so much of that time. I think now that if you've ever been interested in these styles of games, or even if you played Expedition 33 recently, and loved how the satisfying the pairing was there, maybe that's your sort of gateway drug. But the parries in this game to be able to break down, to be able to perfectly time your parries enough to where an enemy's weapon breaks and shatters, and now they do less damage is

one of the most satisfying mechanics in games. but I don't I also don't want everybody to think that this is going to be the most straightforward in your face story. Still requires some reading still requires some some you know voice in the most. Hey, go find a random note 20 feet off the path that's hidden behind some guy's blubber wail and I'm like, I'm not fucking hate a blubber whale. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's amazing. It's still so fantastic with what it does with storytelling and even some small side-quist.

that are definitely more on your face and more and less of like you got to do crazy exploring or whatever. It doesn't go as deep as from software does with how they're trying to get these stories across, but it's so effective in it. It's so emotional and amazing. The game is fantastic. I'd give this DLC like... Here comes. Fuck. I'd go 9-5.

I'd go 9-5 on the rating. Damn, dude. And the reason why I'm not giving it, like, the masterpiece thing is I think it launches and has a lot of difficulty issues where, first off, really, really tough to just shadow drop a DLC. Especially a DLC that requires you to be 15 hours into the base game. Yeah, but the sickos wanted it. The sickos didn't want to wait any longer. The shadow drop was a good celebration.

Ciccos didn't know when it was dropping. Yeah, so the sickos were already ready to rock. They were like, oh, this is a celebration. Let's do this thing. No, they're not, though. That's the thing. Like, well, how long the game had been out? It's been out for a long time.

Yeah, but getting into New Game Plus, you'd have to get back up to that chapter point. You'd have to get it. If I beat the game, I'm not allowed to go backwards. If you locked into your, if you accidentally hit start New Game Plus, and now you're a chapter one with your new character, maybe you put the game away,

maybe you didn't go back to it. The game comes out and the game says, oh, you need to be a chapter. after nine. And it's like, oh, fuck, I got to play a decent amount of this to get caught up. So as awesome as the shadow drop is, Shadow of the Earth Tree, much more effective because everybody's getting ready and getting prepped for the big DLC release, right? And make sure you get to Mogue's Palace to be ready or whatever. For this, it was, as awesome as it was to be surprised by it. You know, I could totally see this being missed by a lot of players, even if you

love Liza B, because maybe it's just catching you at a really, really bad time where you're already playing other video games, but I still think this is like easily the most recommendable souls like because of the difficulty issues, because of how amazing the boss fights are, the level designs fantastic and again, the narrative

is really, really awesome and so wild to see a Pinocchio fucking soul. This is, what a weird thing this is going to be. How silly that they're doing that this is. I think when We think of public domain and, you know,

everybody making a horror Winnie the Pooh game or, or whatever the hell to see this Pinocchio game and not be taken serious by anybody. And now it's like, oh, I'd put this over some Souls games. I would, you know, this is, this is the one to look for. And they have set the standard for if you want to try to make a game in this genre, like we, we hit every mark. We're not just going for comedy.

combat in the way that Steller Blade and Chris Berserker Kazan does and missing out on everything else that makes the games great. This game is hitting on every one of those aspects. Hell yeah. Game rocks. Andy loves that game. Go play that D-L-Chi.

Look at that. We got a raid from the Chugs. Nice. Adam Cole. Craig Miller. Babe-Bey! Yeah. You got a backpack you want to share with us. I do, Mike. Tell me all about this backpack. Everybody knows, and if you've been watching kind of funny a long time, if you've been watching, Greg Miller a long time. I swear by

SFBags.com. That's Waterfield designs. It's my switch case but my, well, now it's my switch case. It's my steam deck case. It's my rod case and it was my Vita case back in the day or whatever. They have this thing called the Techfolio Tank Backpack. I travel

a lot and I need a backpack that doesn't look ridiculous and can do a bunch of different stuff. So I got it. You have it over there. I have the tank back, the Techfolio Tank Backpack. You might say, it's a backpack, Greg. What's exciting about it? And why is it so expensive. Again, sfbags.com, they sent me this for review. They make a bunch of different stuff, obviously, but it's all meant to be, hey, this is a premium product, right? You can get a

bag, you know, it. It's a $419 back. Pull. Okay. A stiff price. I admit. I admit. Here's the thing, though. Nothing drives me more crazy. It's got 300 bucks in it. Nothing drives me more crazy than having a backpack that looks like garbage or a backpack that doesn't store all the stupid shit I need when I'm off on the road. Okay. They sent me this one and I, because of how I travel, because of what I do with the gaming and the computers and stuff. And I put it through many trips, let alone just fun trips or whatever, but many trips in

particular. The ones I want to call it are Pax, Montreal, and SGF. Okay. I use this bag for all three of those trips for entirely different reasons, okay? For Pax, I took it with an Xbox series S in it with the X-screen attack, attached, the controller and the headset. Of course, my water, my computer. The thing, if you want to toss it back up, the actual,

website. It'll look better, obviously. But it expands out so much and is able to hold so much, and it has all the different compartments. I have my switch in there, my dock in there right now. It's got controller cases on it. It's got all the different zips for all my different shenanigans of altoyds or power cables up here for my

AirPods. Internal zips rocks. This dude up here is a magnetic deal. So when I'm I have it, it's got the back, the straps so you can put it on the back of the suitcase when you're going up. But then here I toss the passport in there, the keys, the cell phone. I was just I said, don't put your passport in there.

I care. I can't have been missing Superman. We've been missing crypto. So it's nice to know that crypto was still in my bag from one of the other vacation trips we did, the Father's Day trip or whatever. Anyways, PAC said all that stuff. Montreal was my steam deck, my switch, water, kids' books and toys and the computer in there, along with a bunch of other stuff. And then beyond that, the SGF one was the special one where it was switch to

pro controller, water, computer, and clothes. I didn't bring a backpack. I didn't bring a suitcase to Succas. Yeah. I like putting it. So that's my thing is I'm going to ask you how much clothes can be fitting this? Because I'm a one bag man. You got this.

I don't like bringing two bags. No roller bags. One bag man. Yeah, you know, you can do it all? This is the shit, man. This is the one that did it.

I run through this great video. I haven't actually seen of it or whatever. I love this. It's, again, designed to fit gigantic gaming laptops. Again, this is the tech folio tank. They have a tech folio back,

a bag that's cheaper that isn't designed to have all this different stuff in it. The way this one does is you see with all different zips and different pockets, the different things on it. They have a million other ones up there. Again, SF bags, I've sworn with them for years and years and years. They're a local company here at SF2. Love Waterfield. Love everything they do.

You see how much you can store in it. Again, if somebody who wants to have all their crap in one bag, I was thrilled with this one and the ability to be able to store all the stuff. I love using it now as my daily bag. And the best thing, Mike, when I'm not keeping an Xbox in it and a controller and a headset and everything else, it comes down where it's like it doesn't look like I'm walking around. with, you know, a deflated balloon on my bag. A bunch of textbooks going to...

Yeah, yeah, you know, and I know, again, like, we always talk about this and, you know, how lucky we are to get review samples and stuff like this. These are luxury products, you know what I mean? These are premium products for what you're doing. The case, I think what, the switch cases are like $129, maybe, 120 somewhere in there. Again, you could get a case cheaper, but I can't...

As somebody, I don't know, I mean, the backpack I've had for, what, two months now or whatever, I've been kicking the tires on it. First off, not scuffed up and looking like crap, which a lot of my other backpacks would be. But all the cases I have for the gaming handhelds look and feel as good as they were the day I got on. So it's that idea where it's like, this is obviously an investment.

It's not going to be for every blah, blah, blah, blah. But like, I'm so sold on this tech folio tank backpack. Man, big fan of it. Everybody needs a good backpack. Just watching them put the little, the mouse into the internal zipper. Internal zippers is not even something I'd considered how important that's. I just like toss it into my bag. but like the ability to just like

if you all soft everything again people are I understand the sticker shock of it and that's what I'm saying when somebody said people want Temu prices for local businesses that's the whole thing of like again they've found their niche in terms of the audiences and what they're doing what we want out of it that's cool it's really good I'm a big big fan obviously I'm always happy

to support SFX so even when you fill up all these internal pockets you're not they're not banging into this it feels like an easy zip like that's a catcher you got a lot of things in here Greg yeah but I hate when I now I jam both those two sides together and then it gets a little awkward zipping it off it feels like it's supposed to fit comfortably it feels great i have so many just cables everywhere and see that again that's where the zip

pouches come in like they're up here too so you have like two different sets of that rocks zip pouches for ac adapters USBCs then this one i just put air pods in there you put everyone and i got the ltoids like i said ben bought you know what mike i want you to have these ben bought these m&Ms mn mnm minis but he had like one so yeah you got some mn mnmm minis don't yeah i love emm have you also seen the other one skittles littles littles he knows he's good a little's It's the same thing. Yeah, very cool. Anyways, again, soft, padded, these nice, feel it, feel that sleeve.

You know what I mean for getting in there? Oh, my God. Right? And you could have two laptops in there if you're that kind of person. So now, let's go over that. I got some equator stickers for you. I love that. How big a laptop can you fit in that?

I believe it's a screen size. The 19 inches gaming laptops is what they're promoting on the side. And then on these, these can fit your Switch, Steam deck. Where did you shove that Xbox Series S in this? So for the series S, right, I was running that one in here. here. So what I like to do with the series S is I have the laptop there, then series S with the X screen there, then the controller on top of it. Then I kept the headset up here because I, you know me, I got no shame. So I was rocking the big giant Xbox games. I was like, I got to have the

best. I mean, I'm playing outer worlds at 35,000 feet. I need to have the best sound available. And Tim would tell me this probably isn't it, but I need plug and play. I just need it to work. I just needed to work. Hit the button, turn it on. Let's go. Okay, Greg. I mean, everyone in life needs a good backpack. And eventually in your life, you will look, go, this is going to be the one. I'm not going to buy seven Jan sports like Snowbike Mike. I'm not. And they're going to break down.

I can't buy seven in two years. Eventually you will. Eventually someone will do this. And see how it like zips all the way down. Yeah. So you can open it. You can like have open heart surgery on and get in there and stuff. Okay.

Nine out of ten. Amazing. It's interesting to me. Because yeah, I'd love to test this of like for a snow bike mic trip. When I pack my clothes in one bag. Yeah. Plus the steam deck,

which I always ain't bringing because it takes up that. It's so bulky. With the case in it. Dude. It's that extra way. It's like, that's like, that's like three t-shirts or a couple of pairs of jeans. Like, it just takes up too much. I was just about to test. Like, how much I can shove in there, you know? I was about to bring up, though. I wish we just had Ant Man technology just, because the steam deck is such a big ass thing. And it's just, it's 40% of my backpack, yeah. Okay. And where can people find that right before we get out of it?

Bags.com, everybody. I've been supporting them for years. I'll continue to support them for you. Take a look. I like the look at this one. I actually liked that, uh, Mocha Brown over there. I like the brown leather on the front there. See, I think my suitcase, my suitcases are always going to be black. I'm always wearing black. I felt like the black was the better choice for me. That's nice. Waxed canvas with chocolate leather.

Let's jump into some super chats to round out the show. Of course, Gondor's Condors wanted to know about Andy and Liza P. Hey, guess what? There it is right there. Amazing because literally as Gondor's Condor sent it, Andy started talking about it. He goes, well, there's $5. Thank you, Gondos Condor.

Bander S.N. writes in and says, I beat. And then the other thing, too, it just, it stands on its own. it doesn't do the wobble fallover okay I hate a lot of shit I don't know how I hate a lot of shit about backpacks Bandra S.N. Rodin says I beat Pip Estrello this week. I highly recommend.

That's the yo-yo one. Do you guys see that? I want to play it so bad. Okay, okay. That's too many games. Too many games. New Mateo writes in for you and I and he says does your score go down if you're stuck playing solo only for Eldon Ring Night Rain? Yeah, probably, but it also goes down if I was on dial-up internet or something. I don't know, yeah.

St. Shelly writes in for you, Andy, did you platinum it? Took me forever to get the three wins trophy. Of course, Andy, not on PlayStation, but Steve, you can still get all the trophies and rewards. You'll go back eventually. Do you think you'll try for it at all? I mean, three wins, pretty cool achievement. I don't think it's something I'll try. I think I will just hopefully get it without really, you know, it's something I'm

ever going to strive for, you know. I want to play more, though. Broken Relic writes in with our final super chat and says, birthday tax. Happy birthday, Broken Relic. Hope you had a great day. Spending the day playing Death Stranding 2. We'll watch slash listen later today.

Well, of course, enjoy your Death Stranding 2 experience on your birthday. And then check out the review after you're done. Let us know what you think. I saw people in the chat asking about kind of funny games daily as well. We had a complete and total internet failure, just dead internet during games daily. So I saw people saying they're trying to find it in the live tab. That'll be, if there isn't, if there even is a live thing right now, it'll be removed and it'll be uploaded to you. Go to video.

Yeah. So be ready for that. It'll be on the video tab. Greg, Andy, anything to close out today's show? We had some fun. Try to play some more games. We're going to play Dune Awakening right after this. We're going to live on Twitch.

We're going to go back to the South Desert. We're going to pick up a brand new player in Iraqis. We're going to show bless how to play Dune and get him caught up with us. It's going to be a whole lot of fun with that. Greg, I got Peek written down for all of us to try to play next week, so that's going to be fun for us to see, and rematch

is somewhere out there. You know, the kind of funny team, we haven't got together to play rematch like we should. We're going to get out to the game eventually, we'll figure it out. But any closing thoughts before we leave the show? No. I had a lot of fun. I'm excited to go play Expedition 33. I'm really excited to hear about this, Greg. Yeah,

I'm still waiting my turn to play that, but I cannot wait to hear what your thoughts are. I like this shirt a lot. The only thing, it's not that I don't like. The logo looks like wingstop and it makes me want wings. Oh, that's good. Have you seen the hat? The hat's the firepiece of all this.

I like the beige sweatshirt you had, the tan sweatshirt. Yeah, you like that one? Yeah, they did a good job with this one. Even Nick is like into this. So maybe getting Nick to buy some. But this has been kind of funny games cast for your lovely Tuesday. We will be back with more. Of course, don't forget we are live on Twitch and on YouTube.

Going in to Dune to play some more Dune Awakening. And of course, Games Daily will be back tomorrow at 10. am west coast best coast time what are we doing tomorrow when superman their review is superman is thursday also a programming note for you jack quade the boys star ah this is it yes he had he pulled a big card on us and he can't do wednesday for the games cast so he's going to do thursday for the games cast and thursday's games cast will move to wednesday so tomorrow you get a review of rematch and dune awakening so far fantastic we'll see you then goodbye