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Hello and welcome to today's Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, July 26, 2004. I'm one of your show host, Snowbike, Mike, and today I'm joined by three incredible dudes. One, blessing out of Yoia Jr. Good day. What up, Evo, champ.

How are you? Almost called you, Tim. I don't like this energy from you. I'm trying something new. We'll talk about it. Stop trying it. Of course. Greg Miller.

Hello, Game Over, Gregie. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Good to see you. It's good to see you. I like this look. I like the softens for doing.

It's Thursday. Yeah. We're almost through the week. How are you? I'm good. It's like we're, it's like Delilah. Yeah. Oh, what's calling in? What's got you down right now? Oh, you need, you need a good love song right now? Well, here's Celine Dion to take it away.

I'm liking this. Some ASMR vibes right here for me on. Join us. Join us. Come down here. Come down here. Be to you. Oh, welcome. Of course. I mean, too far. That's too far. That's Andy Cortez. Yeah. Hi, Andy. How are you? I'll get a little cheese greater. There you go. There you. Now you did it. I'm doing great, Mike. Thank you for asking.

Yeah. Your hair looks very nice. Everybody talked about it. They complimented you. You went into the bathroom last night and gave yourself. and gave yourself a haircut, correct? Correct, Mike, yeah. A little bit of, you know, so one thing led to another. A little bathroom here? No, back in home. It was meant to be like a little 10, 15-minute thing.

Is it a lot of hair? Yeah. Really? Oh, yeah. One of the sides are different for sure. Like, you can tell the shaved down a little bit. And then the top gets too long, so you got to do some of that.

And then I don't like when I go too far on the sides because I got a chubby face and they just, you need to, like, shape your head to complement your face. You know what I mean? So here's what I need you to do. Yeah. As my barber, as you know this. I've been contemplating going from a 12 shaveguard to a 9 to bring the just

be a bit more, good or bad idea. I don't have any real problem? This side always grows long faster than the other side. I think if you do 12 all over and then you kind of do what Nick does, which is like get the nine to kind of then like get up here. Oh, oh, okay. So you see like a bit of a fade. I'm doing 12 here, but I'm doing nine into that.

I don't know if I'm talented enough for that. Wow. Remember, you remember the old office. above the comic shop. Yes, of course. About Paul's barber shop, do you remember this? I do.

I went down there once and Paul cut my hair. And when I, he did multiple times this happened, but the only time I ever did one time I, he's like, all right, lean your head back

so you can do whatever. And he goes, ugh. I'm like, I don't do beers, but I got to clean up your line. He's doing it. I'm like, all right.

I'm like, I feel ashamed. You're frustrating. What if I would speak for Chris Ankin say you should bring back the mustache, Greg Miller. Just throwing it out there. Everybody loved it.

Yeah, you know, there's been talk in my own head and then on the show of when we did invincible reacts I was like fuck if I had an umni man shirt I would have cut it I would have done it but I would have got to go to the skin because you have enough of that good facial hair vibe where you could give this like a five or seven leave the mustache as is I'd like that I like that look I'm getting ready to shove off for a vacation go show these Canadian fucks what it's all about like yeah you put it on the stream Andy shit Andy does the beard trim and he can stylize me you know

I mean. I'll be his fuzzy woolly. Let's have some fuzzy woolly. Was he woolly. What's what is that? Wasy Willie's come up before on these shows. It's the guy, the shitty thing you buy the supermarket back in the day, like out of the toy aisle that was like the blank face, but then with the magnet things, you do the thing. You would, a little tiny pieces of magnet blessed were the beard, and you would essentially just draw a beard on the dude's face using like a magnet pen, you would drag the magnet little pieces to them put the beard on the face.

You remember this guy? You ever see this guy? No. And you could give him hair. at the Eagle grocery store he was always there in the toy slash magazine aisle but I would for a long time way more obsessed you know kids are stupid way more obsessed with convincing my parents

when we went to Eagle the grocery store that they should buy me the play money so I just had like hundreds of thousands of dollars of play money why did I think this was cool

you know what you bring it to school no no I was just toy in the toy it was just for you I think I had a briefcase at one point I think honestly it might have been to augment my back to the future role play Because remember, of course, when Doc Brown at one point opens the suitcase and he has money from all the different eras

That's cool Willie Willie Willie Willie. Willie Willie. Guys, we got a fun show today for the best friends out there. He's living, breathing, Willie Willie Willie. Hey, Peres said, let me style. Mike Parris, I'll see you very soon. Maybe we can go out there, shop together.

Get a nice dinner. We'll hang out. Oh, interesting. You another date without Gary? Yeah, I get to hang out with Paris. I'm very excited. One of my gaming dad's going to be a good time. That's really mess up you do then.

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Yeah, yeah. Well, a lot of you are like, oh, man, hell divers are so great. It's like, put some respect on EDF. Put some respect on Jeff Force, Gemini. Come on. Nice job. And Fusion Frenzy. Were you smashing bugs?

And Fusion frenzy? Some bugs in it. I don't know if you remember that. That was a good time. It was a good time. So check that out. And then, of course, if you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is, will they make a documentary about us in 20 years? Greg, this definitely going to make a documentary about you.

I mean, who's they? I don't know. The government. I'm listening to this Blues Brothers oral history. Loving it. But I'm just like, I got me thinking of like, when they were making that movie, were they thinking somebody's going to make a documentary out of this one day? Gregway.

Don't talk. That's right. That's right. Greg Way. Blue's brother wasn't an actual band, right? It was a band, yeah. But like the movie was... The movie was fiction.

That's where I'm at. That's why I was getting mixed up. Got it. I was thinking they're a real band than I made a movie of. Not true? Sure. Thank you to the kind of funny best friends that make our dreams reality

by becoming Patreon producers like Carl Jacobs and Delaney Twining. Thank you so much for your support. Today we are brought to you by our own Portillo merch. But we'll tell you all about that later. Let's start the show with topic of the show. Ladies and gentlemen, it's an exciting one because Blessing is now back from Evo,

the biggest fighting game tournament on planet Earth. He competed. He had an absolute blast. He's a competitor. He competed. He was there smoozing, boozing, having a good time. Just a little bit. He's got to have a marg.

It's a summer time. I had mules. I had moth comeules. What was he doing out there? Smoosin and boozing? Shmoosin. Smoosin. Smoosin?

Smoosin. Smoosin. Let them cook. Let him cook. We've already had this at one point. He goes, man, Andy's out there smoozing. I go, Mike, it's schmoozing. And he goes, smoozian?

I don't remember that one. Damn it, man. And so, of course, blessing, you were at Evo. You played, of course, the games as a competitor. You played some games on the show floor. And we want to talk to you about it because you actually played one of the biggest games coming up. Riots, formerly known as Project L, now 2X-K-O. need to know all about it. As a League of Legends

junkie, I need to know what you thought of that game. Yeah, so like I played, it's funny, I wasn't there for work, but like, there was, sir, I did take one appointment and it wasn't for 2XCO, funny enough. Like, I didn't get an email for an appointment for that one. I did get an email for an appointment for Marvel

Capcom, so I'm going to talk about that too. I'm just going to make this, just the blessing played game at Evo's section. But yeah, starting off with 2XCO, that was a fun one because that was very easily the most anticipated game on the show floor outside of like an astrobot but like the 2xcal line was around the block right it was at least around like the section maybe not say block

but it was around the section right it was the longest line whereas you look at astrobot you can just walk up and play astrobot if you wanted to but a big part of that is people because people thought it was astro player thank you yeah people didn't realize this is a new one but once again fighting game fans dumb it's also the you know fighting game cute should not pick a fight with them They can actually fight. But the fighting game community cares more about the big fighting game at the arena. And so the 2XCO line was huge. I actually didn't get to it until Sunday, the final day,

which was literally like the day of the finals, right? And so there was a bit more space there. And so I got there earlier, finally got to a place where like the line was more manageable. And it was fun because it was this thing of every setup has four spaces for people because 2XCO is a 2V2 fighting game. That is the thing that they're trying to push for this one. That's kind of what makes it unique compared to other fighting games.

It is being pushed as a team fighting game. So it's you and another person versus two other people that are playing together. It is a 2D, very stylistic game. And I think for me that's where I want to start is that my first blush impression of 2X scales that this game is gorgeous. The animation is fluid. The animation is fantastic. Visually, it is a stunner to look at.

And that goes from like the character animations to even like just the UI of like picking your character. then transitioning into the match. And like every single beat of UI just looks fantastic. And it's a really cool, vibrant game to look at. Riot knows that to do it, man. They do. And I've been looking for my avenue into a riot game. It's funny because I just started playing Valorant on console recently.

And so like that has turned out to maybe be it. But, you know, I see these characters into XCO. And I'm like, I don't know who these characters are, but I know these characters have been around before. And so like, you know, I've been wanting that intro to them. So it's cool to like kind of, like, kind of, you know, you know, get more into this universe and more into, like, what's going on in the riot games. Mike can be that for you, man.

130 plus champions in League of Legends. We can jump into the Rift any time together. I'm good. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, if you have any fun, Super Chat, some questions about 2XCO or any of the fighting games that Blessing will bring up during Evo. Please feel free to super chat and we'll get those red off to you. Now, is 2XCO? Is this going to be simply League of Legends characters or is this going to be the Riot universe? And we might see Ballarin people.

I think it's just the Roontera world, which is League of Legends or Wildriff, the mobile version or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So I went in line, played League of Legends on, I use PlayStation controller, finished playing my first time and then we're back in the line. I had to play again. That's how fun this game was. It was like, I finished my session with strangers. I tweeted about it, and then I saw that Biden stepped down and was like, oh, that's crazy.

where were you? That's crazy. I'm getting back in line. Where were you moment? It's so funny because I was getting hit up by, you know, there are plenty of people at evil that I know from the industry.

So Mitchell Salthman from IGN who reviews all the fighting games there. He was like, oh, bless trying to play 2X scale and I was like, yeah. And so I'm like, dude, I'm going to know Biden step down. Well, he was the thing. I went back into the line.

And like, we're waiting in the line. I was like, oh, dude, I tweeted out my 2XCO impressions. And then immediately saw that Biden stepped down. Mitchell was like, Biden stepped down. And we had that conversation. Had to break the news to him that like, you know, glad you did it gracefully. But it was hilarious because I caught him so off guard with that.

But yeah, we went back and it was so fun to like, you know, play again with a friend because you go in, we pick our sides, us versus two strangers. And it is you each pick a character, but then you pick a fuse. The fuse is basically like the special ability for your team that round. And so there's like a handful of them. There's one called Double Down, which is basically the... Good sandwich. KFC Double Down, right?

Was it a good sandwich? I mean? I mean, double chicken, some bacon and cheese. What do we mad about? I had a friend that was really, like, excited for the Double Down when it was coming out, like, almost disturbingly so. Like, you can see his mouth watering for this thing when you heard it was double chicken, and then he had it, and it was the worst thing you ever had.

I saw it. I saw Sound Down, Selina Gomez take a bite of a watermelon sandwich, and I was like, that sounds good. But since the sound was down, I'm not sure what was in between. What does sound down mean? It was muted. Oh, okay. And there was no captions. There was a TikTok.

I was just doing it. Yeah, I was looking around on the internet and saw that. I was like, huh? A watermelon sandwich. Yeah, so instead of bread, watermelon. And I don't know what meat and cheese she put in the middle of it. Yeah, what protein is in the middle of that. Do we know?

Can we hit her up? The tiny meteor in chat says it was a great sandwich. Foxy Steve says that sandwich was awful, which probably is... There's a lot of people who are just like embarrassed. That's the real thing. They're embarrassed to say they ate it. But if someone who's stuck in on the go like me, I just need the protein and I don't need the carbs.

You know what I'm saying? Of course. I'm going to get back to bowling. Of course. So the double down fuse is a fuse where the point character can do their super. And then this, the, well, I'm reading from a page. It's a fuse where the point character does their super and the second can do their super or old. So it's basically you tag in another character or the second character to come in and do their super on top of that one.

There's another one that's called freestyle. Freestyle is a fuse, which you can do the handshake tag twice in one sequence. So it is like you're in a combo, boom, boom, boom, tag. like continue the combo, boom, boom, boom, tag right again, right? And these are based off of this pre-match, you know, abilities that you choose going in. And that was a really cool wrinkle, right? I think there's somewhere it's like after 40% of your,

when you're down to like 40% of your damage, you might do more damage, shit like that, that are these modifiers to how you play the game. One of the fuses that I picked starting off, I forget the name of it, but it was basically an auto-combo fuse, which was put in there to help new players get into the game and so you can just automatically like button mash and get into the combo like that yeah yeah it's kind of it's you know a lot of it's like dragon ball fighters where if you've played that if you like

tap certain buttons you can just like you know go automatically um i started off using that one and that was like a really good all right ease into this let's get a flow of this and the game feels right like the game feels just very fun just on a basic conceptual level of boom i'm going to do a combo and then tag by friend in, or if you're the person that's not in, right? If you're the person that's out currently, you can press X to do like an assist move. If you played like Marvel versus Capcom

where you can call in the assist, you can do that. And if the person that's in wants to like tag you in that moment, they can. So it will be times where I'm like, oh, I think Mitchell needs help. I'm going to click X, you know, come in, do a projectile.

If Mitchell wants, you'll click X, boom, now I'm in, now I'm the star of the fight now and I'm making things go. That sounds really cool. Yeah, and honestly it was. Like, it was really fun. to be like, oh, okay, this is the time where I'm going to, like, try and help him out a little bit,

and then boom, like, we can kind of get a synergy going there. Yeah, like, I had a really, really fun time within that stuff. And, like, even in the few matches that we played, I already found myself growing a bit. I was using this character, Echo. I don't know if you know what Echo. Yeah, Echo, of course, the God of Time. You were watching an Arcane show, Blas? No, I watched, like, three episodes.

I need to get back to it. It's so good. Is Echo win Arcane? Oh, spoilers, yeah. Okay, I'll get it. I'll get back to echo then. But yeah, using Echo and who, you know, has like these doubles that he generates. And so like you'll do a thing and then he'll generate an Echo.

And then the Echo's kind of doing the same thing of following your movement. It's that thing where I can tell that there's going to be a lot of depth there. Because even in those two matches, I was like, this seems like a lot. This seems like something I can dig into as far as understanding this character, learning this character. But even in that base level, there are basic combos that were like, yo, square triangle, R1, L1, that are like, you know, I'm doing these basic combos that are making it happen, that are make me feel like I'm doing cool things, is then like, I'll do a combo and attacking you and

Mitch, and it feels very natural, feels very fluid, and it feels very cool. One more thing I'll mention too is that the game feels simplified in how it wants to appeal to newcomers. And so, like I mentioned, you have the fuse that does the auto combos. Specials are also just on a button. Like, they're just on like L1. And so if you hit a direction at L1, it feels almost like Super Smash Brothers in that way. Maybe or whatever. Yeah. you'll just like, you know, automatically do these moves.

You're not putting in quarter circles or like you're not putting in like these complicated inputs. It's very straightforward, but it doesn't feel dumb down. It feels like it's, um, it, it feels natural. It feels good, uh, playing. And so, had a very good time. Were you able to talk to anybody from right there about project at all? Cause I, I think one thing I'm most interested in is like, are they going to really try to

focus this on being a two B two thing where I feel like most players might. just fall back to, you know, you watch Serena and Venus out there, you know, you see the William sisters out there doing their thing back in the, back of the day, and they're playing singles a lot, and they play doubles just because you kind of felt like they had to at sometimes. Like, do you see this

on Evo on the big stage in a year or two with two players versus two players on the stage? I do. I think that's the way that... Yeah, I think that's the... That sounds awesome. I mean, that's where the title comes from, right? The 2X scale, like they, I think they are looking to, uh, to this to be

like a team situation and like, you know, they're bringing in people four at a time. Like they want, I, it seems like they, that is what's going to make this game stick out is the idea of like, hey, this is who you're going to main, this who your friend's going to main. And like, yeah, I, I foresee it being a thing of at the very least there is going to be the category of 2v2 for for this at Evo. Maybe I could see a 1v1 scenario, but I wasn't able to talk to people or like figure out what the vibe is as far as like, can I just play by myself and then tag in and out? like I didn't really get an answer on that.

I'm sure there is online, but I'm not aware of that. They sell any merch there? I don't know how you, if they were, if how you didn't buy a shirt. It's a coolest logo, but like, again, really bad name. I saw people wearing the 2X Kail shirt, but I think those are just riot employees. I saw her, I saw a girl wearing one. I meant to ask her, but then I was like, oh, I got to get back in line. Oh, Biden stepped down.

I got a nice breaker, though. Excuse me. You know what Biden stepped out? Also, where did you get your shirt? Also, where did you get your shirt? But yeah, I'm pretty sure she worked for Riot as well. But yeah, played a lot of that. What did you think of the characters really quick?

For me, the League of Legends guy. Like, I mean, you got some cool characters just on the six that you could play as. You got Brom with the giant shield. Darius, of course, with the giant axe. Like, what did those look like on the screen? I know you kind of played just one. And did you notice any trends between players of, like, kind of finding out, oh, these are kind of the two to rock with. I, when I was playing, what, I think Mitchell and one of the people were playing against, we both using, was Brom one of the bigger characters?

Yeah, Brom's the big guy with the shield. Yeah. I think both of them were using. Brom, if I recall correctly. Oh, so you can double up. Yeah, like, if you're on the other team, you know, like, or you can pick somebody and somebody on the other team can pick the same person. Oh, okay, gotcha.

It wasn't like the same team we're picking the same people. But it wasn't a thing of, oh, this is the go-to character, like, this is where the meta is at. Like, I don't think people have a, have a vibe of that yet. I was just choosing characters I thought seemed cool. Echo seemed advanced from what I played, but I just like, I like the character design, and I like the idea of, like, spawning these echoes of them. myself. So that was cool.

Yasuo, Yasuo is the character, right? Yeah, he's the man with the sword. Yeah, I want to say I played a little bit of Yasuo and thought he was cool, too. He's got the twister that he throws out in League Ledges. Yeah. He's pretty cool. Ari's the lady from cat lady, fox lady from that K-pop band they got. A-N-N-N-N-N-A-F-K-A-D-A-A. K-A-A. There we go.

What a song. What a moment they had. I like the character design though A lot of the characters look cool I would explore like choosing these characters That's the thing is for me in fighting games Reef first jumping in What determines my main oftentimes is

Which character do I think looks the coolest Yeah And Echo stuck out to me immediately But looking at the other characters I was like yeah I would choose I want to try these different characters out These seem cool They got so many cool characters

I really want to see if they get deep into the bag Right like I think of a volley bear And it's like oh We've seen things like that But like what if they did show golf Like that would be so cool. Timu? Timo?

Isn't that where people buy the... Timo's the app, yeah. Timo's why I bought that Metal Gear Solid and Rex. You know you're stealing from someone. Someone is being ripped off. Yeah, I'm excited to see... I mean, they have so many characters there.

It'll be cool to see... Yeah, I'm sure they're going to add that stuff over time, too. And it's interesting you say, you really think it's going to stick 2 v2 because I had the Andy thought of like, well, surely they're just going to go 1V1 and you'll just tag in your, you know, AI whenever you're... Yeah, NBC stuff. Yeah, exactly.

But I would love to see it like, hey, we're doing 2V2 would be cool. I hope 2V2 works. Because I really enjoyed playing with Mitch and two versus two other people. I like the idea that you have to rely on another person and go, all right, I'm going to tag you in here. And communicating you're being like, yeah, I'm going to come in with the assists. And then once you do, boom, right there, do that tag. I think Riot also has the cachet to try to do their own fighting tournament stuff outside of an Evo. Yeah.

Outside of a combo breaker and all that stuff to say, like, hey, we're having. our, everybody come sign up, we're having our singles and our doubles matches. Yeah, that's, sign up your squad, sign up your own solo, you know, entry or whatever, and come play, we're over here. This first one's in San Diego, this next one's in New York or whatever. Like, yeah, they have the money, the budget, and the power to kind of just do their own thing for a little bit, in addition to let's compliment Evo and have our own thing up there as well. Yeah, that's the way I see it, right?

I think they try to enforce it a little bit of, hey, you train up to me too because we're going to have those, like, tournaments going on. I think people at home are going to go, all right, like, I'm going to play one v one if I don't have, or I'm going to play by myself if I don't have a friend to play with and maybe train up for that. But I think 2V2, I think will be prominent enough in tournaments that is for the FGC, I think it's going to be worthwhile to want to have a friend to train with and play with it. And that'll be the wrinkle, right? Yeah. I think so. I mean it needs to be that teamwork.

Yeah. Because that sounds, I'm with you. It sounds cool. I bet there has to be the solo option, but like, that sounds awesome. If Mitchell's awesome pulls a muscle, can I come off the bench? I got you. Yeah. TERS ACL or something.

That's nice to you. Yeah. I mean, I can have multiple partners, you know. We can get a polychial situation going. Okay. I like that. I like that. I like that.

A final one before we move on from this game. You say the word. Do you know release date yet on this? Do we have a vibe of when this is aiming for? There's an alpha lab happening soon. The alpha lab is basically, it's an alpha, right? People are jumping in early. So we could all jump into that.

You would have to, you would have to, you would have to register. We know people. Come on. Yeah. I'm sure you guys can get in. Come on. I got a riot gun buddy. You know what I mean?

Like, come on. That's part of why the line was so long at Evo is like one of the lines was to sign up on an iPad, just to like get guaranteed access to 2XCO when the Alpha Lab started. And so like I was waiting in line to do that even though I'm sure I can hit up a PR contact. But I wanted to make sure. I was like, listen, I don't want to miss this. So I lined up for it. But as far as full release, I'm expecting 2025. Okay.

Yeah, that'll be my guess. Well, let's jump into the super chats. Dean writes in with the $5 super chat and says. I think they will let them compete as a team or solo, but I have to imagine solo will be the most optimal so you can perfectly time your assists. Yeah. Yeah, I can see that being the case.

But yeah, I think, honestly, I do think you want to push the 2B2 as much as possible. I was going to say, yeah, of course solo exists. Of course, I think most people would be drawn that way. But I think that for, in terms of a big stage, it's a new dynamic. It's something different and cool. Yeah.

Like having like tag team wrestling up there, if it really is the fact that they call and do the thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. on Evo with four people up on stage would be

phenomenal. See the call of duty? See the call of duty valor and sort of dynamic where both players for one team once they stand up like yeah fuck yourself. You know they talk shit together. It's exciting. Blessing you got me excited and I know you have more games from the show floor at Evo and beyond that you want to talk about and that's what we're going to do right after a word

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make sure you know when it goes live. And while you're there, grab a few shirts for your friends. Welcome back, everyone. Let's jump into what you've been playing. It's nice to always catch up and see what everybody's been playing. I have found the game of the summer, the hot game of the summer. And it's not even releasing this summer. I'll go to the round of, by the way. Well, we're going to get back to it.

We'll get back to me. Well, I know you got a lot, and I want to make sure I get these guys off the bench to talk as well. Just want us to keep monologuing. You know what I mean? Well, I just want to be a little buster. I only have like five seconds of content to talk about these things. I'm not trying to linger on these. Well, you're going to get involved because.

We also have other games to talk about. But, you know, I'm going to tease my game out. We'll talk about it in a little bit. But, Andy, you got a game up at the top of your list that I do want to talk about because we got to stream it together. And I need to know. Like, what's the deal, Andy? Is it actually good?

Kunitsugami Path of the Goddess. I mean, this is a game that I, we all were confused about what the hell is this. Blessing became the expert on it. I didn't want to get the expert. I did a 20-minute preview. He visited the team. He consulted on it.

A guy who did not speak English, he came up to me and was like, do this. Pointing at the screen, and I finally learned what the game was. Canizu Gami is a really sick, solid game that I'm enjoying quite a bit. It's a nothing that I would say, hey, must buy. This is something you need to run out to your local target and go pick up. Probably not even available there. You predicted this was going to be a Steam Deck game. It is the perfect Steam Deck game.

Been playing a lot of Steam Deck, played a decent amount on stream with Mike yesterday. it is a pretty basic game once you start unlocking everything then that's where the real player agency sort of sets in the whole deal of it is there's different levels and different bosses you take on and you have to lead a goddess across a path kunitsugami style you have to set her down a path and monsters will come out at night and when they come out of out of night, she can no longer walk along that path. And then it becomes very towered event style game. You have a bunch of different villagers that you are freeing from the

the seet of the bad guys. I'm blanking on it. Me and Tim would be doing this thing where like there's always a scourge. There's always a play. Oh, it's called the defilement is what it's called. So a lot of these villagers are trapped in these little towns and they are under this sort of defilement gunk on them. You got to free them. And then they're like,

I want to fight for you, homie. So you can, when you start off, you can just make these dudes be a little melee guy. You boost them up, you turn, you give them an axe, and they can, like, hack away at bad guys for you.

And you place them in certain areas that are going to strategically be smarter for you to protect this goddess who's kind of walking along this path. The more you play, now suddenly you can turn these villagers into archers. You can turn some of them into an ascetic character, which is like

they more of a magic type character that they could slow enemies down and once you start upgrading those characters then you go back to your little bases and you start fixing up and repairing

this little village and you could set these dudes to fix that thing and then you get more XP to then take that to the little upgrade your little warriors upgrade your archers it just has a really nice flow to it it is pretty

turn your brain off, but I just, I love the art style of it. It's really pretty. I love the art direction of it. It's really pretty pretty. Yeah, the art direction and the art style is pretty fantastic. The mocap is really, really great. But yeah, character designs and the enemy boss designs just really freaky looking, very Yo-Kai style in terms of them going for like kind of a horror-freaky vibe with these

monsters that come out of the gate. And then one kind of neat wrinkle that I experienced was I finished a run, my very, very first run. the knight was over, killed all the enemies, and they were like, hey, great job. You can now walk around. You can lead the goddess to the end of the path. Oh, great. But you can also go do other things in this world

that'll get you out of, you know, little consumables that'll help you upgrade your whole, like play style or whatever. But I didn't do that in time. And then night set in again. And I had to fight again. I was like, oh, shit. I didn't know it was like that.

I didn't know that I had to like kind of continue the work. thought I was just done. So that added a neat wrinkle in how you strategize. You don't want to push the goddess too far along the path because then you might have her in a situation where there's so many different entry points of enemies to get to her at. You want to make sure you are putting her in the right position and putting your own little villagers that you are then turning into warriors in the right position too. It just got a cool strategy to it, but you were also real-time combating it.

while your dudes are kind of, while you're setting your dudes in the right spots, you are also like a little third person action guy. You have a dodge, you have a block. Why it's got to be so small? You have combos that can then take out enemies and then you can upgrade your ultimate ability to, you know, I have an ultimate ability right now that I put a whole sort of AEOE circle around me and it makes my villagers attack stronger and faster for a certain amount of time. ever gets caught in that circle, now my villages are stronger. But that doesn't work great against this boss. And this boss, my ultimate that I decided to choose was you do this big slash and it stuns

the enemy. So there's a lot of like just cool strategy that goes into it. I don't think it's anything amazing, but I am super surprised by it and I'm super into the idea of like, oh, let me just go complete another run. So far I'd give it like a seven out of ten. I think it's a really good experience. And I'm, as I start unlocking. more, I kind of see it getting

higher and higher in ranking because that just adds more to how can I really make this play style my own. I'm having a good time with it. I'm really surprised by it. Probably my surprise of the year. So is this like being in the Steam Deck game? Is this your done streaming, your kickbacked in bed? You want to play for 30 minutes an hour or whatever? Yeah, 30 minutes to an hour. And

the way it works is when you go back to your little home bases to repair all the little things in order to get more currencies to level up your dudes, when you go back to the You're a little tiny They're so tiny little men Possibly small

You go back to your You go back You set them to do certain jobs But it'll say Hey it's gonna take One run for them to complete this job So you have all your Villagers

Working on different projects And you know Well they're not gonna do these projects Until I go do another run Let me go progress the story Complete a run Go back to that village Hey all the work's done

Collect all your rewards Continue to level up your squad level up your own dude. It's just got a really cool hook to it. And part of it almost feels like it could have been a very mobile, gamey, micro-transaction type game. I'm super glad they didn't go with that. I think it's a really, really solid product if you're looking for sort of this strategy

game with some real-time combat in it. Oh, yeah. I like that. Exile Online. Super Chatsin says, Knitsugami, Sleeper Hit of the Year. Andy knows. I'm having a great time with it. Yeah.

I might, seven out of ten so far, and I did see Michael Huber tweet about it as well being like, this game kind of rocks. I'm super into it. So I'm excited to kind of see how it continues to unravel because the boss I just fought was unlike any of the other bosses I fought, and it required a completely different strategy that I'd never done. And it was kind of difficult, and I really enjoy the challenge of finding out what's the right thing to have my villagers doing or my civilian warriors doing, and what's the right thing

that I need to be doing in order to, be set up for success. Yeah, I've seen a lot of energy in the live streams over on YouTube and on Twitch, but of course, if you're listening and you're interested, a cool one for you, is this is available on Game Pass as well, so you can jump in and give it a try. Just something to keep in the back pocket for you. It's interesting. Me and Andy played this together on stream, and I

hated the look of it. I did not find it, you know, what... The colors didn't do it for you? No, it just didn't do it, but I will say this... It looks very messy, I feel right. It just didn't look right, but the catch is, like, I love a good tower to defense game and I like this blend of real-time strategy as Andy brought up of like a real-time combat of you put down where you want your towers to go even though they're not you know just stationary towers they are moving units essentially yeah you're protecting your lady and I love the idea of all right I'll put I have five villages to work with right now I know there's going to be

some flying enemies and only the arches can take out those so let me put an archer here who has a gigantic area of effect where you see where enemies, when they enter that big old circle like sort of area, my archer will sort of shoot at that dude. I'll put an archer here, I'll put an archer here, and then I'll put two warriors right in front of her.

Well, now, shit, I moved her up too far back, too far up the path. Now this path is like super wide open to her. I should put another warrior there. It's got a really cool flow to it. I enjoy the vibe of it. Being able to draw everyone to attack as well and get off of their marks. It's

very interesting. Of course, you think tower defense in my world is like, oh, I place a tower, and then I build out a maze, and the units kind of walk through that maze. This is not like that at all, right? It is like, Andy put down three warriors, and if he wanted to move them and have them all go attack one unit, they can do that at just a button press, which was very interesting. And so the gameplay got me. Yeah, the gameplay got me, but I didn't vibe with the look at all. Okay. Great, uh, great tweet here from Chris from aftermath site and also YouTube highlight reel. Um, he tweets out Kunitsugami is so fun.

Pickman-ass game, Overlord-ass game. Game permanently trapped on PS3 that you can only play with an experimental emulator ass game. And Kunizugami quote tweeted that and put thanks, I think. And it's like, it's so true. This really feels, I was talking to him about this

on Games Daily. Capcom right now, with all of the big hits they're putting out, with these gigantic, like, beautiful Resident Evil, huge budget games, Monster Hunter Worlds coming out, or Monster Hunter Wilds. Dead fucking rising.

Don't put some name. Yeah. Yeah. And then putting out a kind of weird little game like this,

it reminds me of Sony doing the little weird stuff with Japan studio. Yeah, like PlayStation 3 where they were trying to put out the exclusions

and then had a bunch of weird ass PSN games. Like last guy. You're like, okay. Yeah, it's like something for everybody right now.

And I think this is like that perfect small title that doesn't need to, you know, blow out sales or anything like that, but it's just, it's a really solid

experience. And I recommend everybody try if you're into anything that I've just mentioned. I like that. Over here on the superchats, SD Turtle writes in, says, I've been playing Fire Emblem Three Houses,

been going through the series, never been into strategy games, but the series has been great. Have y'all played it? No, but I know that there's so much like cool romance stuff and relationship stuff and like building of families, and it's super interested me there.

But if it was, like, this is the type of strategy I want, now. Canizu Gami, like, if I could, you know, if it wasn't just like that sort of hex, you know, the way Fire Emblems usually played, placing your characters in certain spots,

but if I could also real time run around do stuff, at the same time, I would be so much more into it. I just don't know if I had vibe with it. I don't know. Maybe you'd like Minecraft Legends. Is that the one? Yeah, that's the real... Dungeons is the Hacketla.

The Diablo one, top of the run. And Legends is the real-time strategy game, but you're a hero unit running around controlling your units like similar to what you're doing right now. But not as fun don't want. Oh, okay. Had you for a second? Lost you. Let you off I guess. Let's keep going

because Blessing you had a couple that you just wanted a quick hit through from Evo and I do want to hear about this Hunter Hunter game. I'm interested in that. It's not good. Oh. That's all I'd say. But it's the actual anime like it's the anime show.

into video game, right? It's a fighting game. It's a 3V3 finding game. Think like Marvel's Capcom. Like My Hero? Where they're in like the dome and you're running around type stuff? It's 2D. It's what you want.

Honestly, like it's what the fighting game community who likes a Hunter Hunter like anime. Yeah. It's the type of game you want just with a way lower polish. And honestly like if you're down to play a subpar like fine fighting game that like you know, you're not going to, I don't think. they're going to have this at Evo. I don't think this is going to get its own tournament.

But, you know, it could be something that you play with friends and have fun with for maybe a night, maybe a week, depending on, like, you know, how much you get into it. There'll be a tournament at somebody's, like, hotel room. We're like, yeah, yeah, come through. Yeah. I think, honestly, it could be worthwhile for that. Like, it reminds me when I played Dragon Ball Zibouta Kai back in the day, which was, like, also another, it was two-d-three-d, you know, fighting game. It had a 3-D game, it had a 3-D plane. But, like, that wasn't the best fighting game, by any means. But you love Dragon Ball, and so you play it the fan service and you play it to make these characters fight like action figures.

I think this could be good for that, right? If you're coming into this, as somebody who may like Marvel's Capcom or if you like King of Fighters or Fatal Fury or something like that, right, jump into this, you're playing as, you know, the characters that you know, you're playing as gone, you're playing as Kalua and you're playing as the weird clown guy. And you're fighting each other. Never forget the weird clown guy who is really weird. But, you know, you're playing as the characters that you like in the world that you like.

I think it could be worthwhile for that. But I played this right after playing 2XCO. So, like, the difference was so glaring. I was like, oh, such a jarring experience. It was so jarring. But I do. From this gameplay, it seems like they're kind of, they're trying to go for Dragon Ball Fighter Z.

But just the style and polish, like you were saying, is just like not there. Yeah, it's nowhere on the same level. But again, fans of the genre, fans of the anime, you might find something here for maybe a week or maybe a little bit of time. But then I also had a preview, like the appointment I made for Marvel versus Capcom collection, which is the modern port that they're, they're, making for a bunch of Marvel games or a bunch of Capcom and Marvel crossover games, including the Punisher,

the Punisher classic games and the MVC games and X-Men versus Street Fighter and all these things. In the demo that I played, they only had three games available. They were Marvel versus Capcom two. They were X-Men, Children of the Adam, and X-Men versus Street Fighter. Historically, honestly, I've not been a big Marvel versus Capcom person. Like, the movement of the gameplay has ever appealed to me.

that much and I always struggled to get good at those games. For whatever reason, this time around, I don't know what it was, but I was like, yo, this game kind of fucks. I think part of it's because you're a seasoned fighting game playing. Yeah, I think part of it is just being in the energy of Evo and people, of course, like, you're at Evo, so many people are into like games like Marvel's Capcom, right? And so there's just an inherent hype there. But then also, I played a bit of X-Men versus Street Fighter and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this game for a game that I don't hear people talk as much about compared to a Marvel versus Capcom.

X-Men versus Street Fighter almost feels way more, like, rounded and way more almost like Street Fighter adjacent than Marvel versus Capcom, which Marvel versus Capcom feels almost more party game-like and how many characters are in it, how crazy it can get on screen. X-Men versus Street Fighter, from the get-go, I was like, oh, this, I get what's going on here, I can read exactly like the flow of the match, I already know how to control all these characters. There's a movement to it that feels, I don't know, that just feels fluid and classic. And so, yeah, I really like playing X-Men versus Street Fighter, but then, yeah, jumping into Marr versus Capcom, too. Obviously, it's that same game, but it's hidden.

It's modern. They have options for, like, practice mode and, like, you know, some unique features in there as well. And then, yeah, X-Men Children of the Adam is a video game. So someone who doesn't know anything about this, this is one big package that I'm purchasing here with all these games? Yep. Online functionality? Oh, that's a good question. Like, will I be able to pick whatever game and be able to team up with the

over there and play against them? Yeah, that sounds about right. I'm going to open up the email as I talk. I think they have some new features detail in there to you. I feel like if that wasn't the case, we would have heard a big outcry already. Okay. That sounds insane. Everybody was already too busy talking about how it's not coming to Xbox and how they're

upset about it. Everybody is already, man, I've stepped down. It's got online play. Yeah. All kinds of new features have been added, including online play. That's cool. That's great. That's awesome.

I'm so excited to. kind of see this get revived in a way and see the community get around it. Like the MVC 3 and MVC 2 and like Street Fighter 4, that's where I first started watching Evo. And that's my friends were just so good at the game and watching them go play at local tournaments and stuff. And that's what really got me into watching fighting games. And I'm just so excited to kind of see the community get around it once again.

How gorgeous is this art? It's just the best. You look back at pixel art. Look back at pixel R from 16 bit area, you're like, holy shit, does this stuff fuck? Pixel art. But yeah, they've added in a trading mode.

They have a quick save option. One button special moves also is the new thing. Similar to what I was talking about earlier with 2XCO, where you don't have to do like all the circle inputs. Like you have a button that they've assigned is like the special button that you can use to actually pull that stuff off if you're not as an advance of a player.

That's me. I like that. Alec Bobco, Super Chats in and says, finally got back to her ride. forbidden West loved the story, gameplay, and soundtrack excited to play through Burning Shores soon too. Hell yeah, you are. Heck yeah, you can't forget. Robo Dinosaurs. Speaking of PlayStation, did check out Astrobot a little bit on the show floor.

Hell yeah. It was a weird one because, of course, Evo's owned by PlayStation. There's plenty of different booths. It's like a convention floor if you've been to a Pax or anything else like that. And there are tons of Astrobot ads during Evo itself. Oh, we're there? I didn't even notice that. Yeah, every commercial break, it was either...

Chipotle. It was either showing out Chipotle or... They showed the Astrobot ad a lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's funny because, like, the Chipoli ad, every single time they showed it in the arena, people would cheer. It just became a thing of everybody who was loving Chipotle. I never got to win.

I never won a burrito or a bowl, unfortunate. He was trying. You type in the goal or type in the code. So what's funny is that, you know, day one, you know, I walked by the PlayStation booth, and it looked like it was just a bunch of old games. I'm pretty sure. And if somebody else was at Evo, confirm this for me. They had it mislabel, I'm pretty sure, in day one, where I'm pretty sure it said Astros' Playroom.

Oh, really? So I think a lot of people were like, oh, that's just the old Astrob game. Or people just didn't realize that it was new Astro. Because like, somebody came up to me, I think it was a bunch of Solstman and was like, dude, they got Astrob here. And I was like, you know, they're like, yeah, PlayStation booth. And I was like, oh, I thought it was just a bunch of old games because they also had Grand Turismo and just a bunch of random ass games. But yeah. It's just a guy with his like portal.

Like, you want to play Ashton? We're supposed to bring a setup, but you can just play mine. I'm streaming back to my house. I got remote play on my cell phone. And my girlfriend texts me. Don't answer. I got a hot spot. So you have like, you know, all these thousands of people there.

And I go over and there's not a line for Astrobot. Like when I went, there were people playing on the station. And like, you knew it was a thing because I, I was like, I went up to one of the people working. I was like, hey, is there like a line for Astrobot? And they're like, oh, like, blue dust off the controller. Yeah. Coming in the chat from Tyler's new group says, Tyler from Evo here can confirm.

It said Astros playroom on day one. Yeah. So it was just nobody was playing it. I go day two. And yeah, like, I'm like, oh, yeah. I can start forming a line and they're like yeah I guess start making a line They're like oh there was stand here and just hope

it catches on They did not have a line protocol for Astrobot being here and so I waited for literally two seconds and then somebody got got off the station and I started playing and immediately it was magic Immediately it's like oh y'all know what you're doing there's a charm here there's a flow

here it feels like I'm playing a Nintendo Movement feels great movement feels great The world feels charming As soon as I got my hands on the controller I'm in like the hub thing, right? Which is your astrobot on like the dual sense jet thing that he rides around. And I went to a level and the first level I jumped into was I think just like a short, I assume they have like these short levels.

I don't know what they call them, but like these more I guess speed runny type things where it is. Yeah, challenge levels I guess. Very linear. Very short. But the gimmick for that level was you would take this like item and throw it and it would it would freeze all of the platforms. So you would have these platforms going that are like, you know,

like a fan that's going or whatever. And you would throw the thing and it would freeze that fan for a moment. And then you had to like, you know, jump across the thing. And it all felt great, look great visually.

I went from that to playing one of the bigger levels, one of the actual like fully fledged levels. And yeah, like it is everything I would want out of an astrobat platforming game, which is like, you know, fun moment to moment, like bits,

fun. Like, you know, I'm running through. And there's like one of those, What are those cardboard things that they'll have like the head like the hole for like where you put your head to

where you can take pictures in it? Standies. Yeah. There was like a standee that I ran into did that real quick and Astrobi like started making like fun facial expressions or whatever. I'm like there's so much charm to this thing. Photo mode and all action right there.

Yeah I mean I didn't check to see if there's a photo mode but yeah that would be definitely a photo moment right there if I took it. With the power of the dual sense controller everything is a photo mode thanks to the capture and share button. Oh but I'm you know. Double tap for a video. Hold it.

You know, it's over a photo. I never do it right. I never do it right. Every time. I always fuck it up. You're an idiot. I don't even need to hear you. No, but hold up.

No, no, no. It's for Andy. I'll accept criticism from Andy. Oh, I thought you were to say, I'll accept Annie being an idiot. I won't accept it. Because here's the thing. Mike, I take a lot of photos in Final Fantasy Rebirth. You and I both.

And when I do it, you have to go into photo mode first because I don't want the UI everywhere. Sure. You have to go in a photo mode first. Or you have to take away the UI with that one button and then hit us. And everybody, And everybody's like, Andy, you could just do this. I'm like, no, but I don't want the UI to pop up. I don't want the UI to pop up.

I don't want to let me be me, you know? So I don't know what I'm complaining about, Greg. I'm just going with the show. Hide the UI button inside of Final Fantasy. I was just signing with Mike, you know. There is so much demo in that Astrobot demo, right? There was so much more I could have done. But after that level, I was like, I'm done.

I don't want to play any more of this. Yeah, I'm gonna save this for when the game's actually out. I'm very excited for Asher about to come and have it be that. All right, cool. Ben's asleep. I'm downstairs. Lights off. Let's go.

Clip that out. Jump right in. Everyone's excited. Greg, there's also getting that. I'm so excited for Ash about to come. Oh, sure, sure, sure.

We're all excited about Marvel rivals. And you played a little bit before the stream. Sure. Before today's podcast. I want to know what your thoughts are. Oh, it's not for me. You know, I'm not the Overwatch guy.

That had been the, you know, the whole thing about it when they were announcing a new Marvel game. That's exciting. And then we saw it. I was like, Oh, okay. That is, I'm glad it's there. I'm glad people are connecting with it.

But yeah, for me, I did one matches Iron Man, and it was protect the fucking payload thing. And I'm like, no, that's, they ain't what I want. But the problem, Mike, yep, lay on. Is that this comes along in a time when I'm so fucking depressed.

Okay. I am currently grinding it out in Diablo four. The platinum, very much on the doorstep. Here it comes. All right, I'm level 77, I think, on my seasonal character. I need to get to 100.

Pop that. that'll also pop the healing trophy along the way. Great. Then I get some PV. P kills that'll cheese. Great. I got to get this character let my hardcore character to 50,

which I'm hoping to do on stream today with Zanth. What up, Zanth? We're doing the afternoon afternoon stream, the late one. Shout out. And then it'll be Uber Lillith. All of this very manageable,

attainable. It's just time sync. But I'm going home and I'm just pouring hour after hour into Diablo as I go out there and do Helltides and level up and yet, yeah. And I went and saw a little film,

a little motion picture. A little picture called of Deadpool and Wolverine. No spoilers. Everybody calmed down. Nobody said anything. And when the credits were finally done, and we were walking to the car, talking about the movie, I climbed behind the wheel, I start driving home, Andy, and all I can think

about is how good would it be right now to get home and turn on Marvel Heroes Omega? Or if you're a PC player's Marvel Heroes. You know what I mean? Get in there and have the new Wolverine movie costume, the new Deadpool movie costume, dust off all these other characters that are there and go out there. Because of course, Markle hears of Greg. I mean, Mike was...

Keep going, Greg. Keep going on. Marvel here's Omega, of course, the Diablo Clone. If you don't recall. I do remember. Yeah, yeah. And not an especially great one

if that's what you were out to be mad about. No, no, no. Okay, okay. Like, it was, it did what it needed to do. Here's an old, let's play back in the spare better. This is the first one I edited. Really?

This was before party mode existed. Yeah. Oh, well, great. Anthony Gios there. Of course, he was old IGN guy and then made it. This is what it came to PlayStation 4. You can see it rough around the edges and whatever. but like it had the juice.

It had the stuff of just a game to go sink and be in that universe. And so now I'm finding myself turning on Diablo to grind. And I'm like, ah, I love Diablo, obviously. I'm very excited for the DLCs and stuff. But I'm like, God, I wish I was playing Marvel Heroes Omega is a new hero, a new class, and new whatever, getting out there and doing that, you know? But I can't. So then I was like, okay, I'll try this Marvel rivals.

Maybe there's a chance. I know, you know, I'd never been an MMO guy. Maybe your DC universe changed that. Maybe this could change that. I jumped in. I'm very much like, ah, this ain't it. quality game. I'm not insulting the game. It's not what I want to do. So then I was like, as stupid as I am, I was like, you know what I'll do?

I'll read down Marvel Future Revolution. You remember this one? No. This is the one on a show you to talk me out of spending $50 on a Captain America skin. Jesus Christ. It was an old phone game or whatever. A RPG, everybody crosses over, customize your own hero, do the thing. I completely forgot that I got shut down in August 2023 because it was bad and nobody liked it. I was hoping it improved a bit.

So then it's like, what the fuck? Where is Marvel Ultimate Alliance for? Where is Marvel Ultimate Alliance for? Where's Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 on other consoles than the SWAT? Let's get Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 off. I'd be happy to restart on the PlayStation. Any day of the week. That would prevent us from going out to another bar and just playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance for.

We only did that once and it was so nice. It was so good. Why don't we do that? Why didn't we do that more? I don't know. You know, we're not near that bar anymore, you know. That's true. I love that the K-Rater I love that Greg is very much

As an adult, like child Andy was, when I watched the Mission Impossible movie blessed, I'd get on my dad's fucking like, like he had like a brother typewriter, I'd pretend I was hack in the world Like you'd watch a movie, it's like, I just want to be in that world Now I watched Tomb Raider with Angie and Joe Lee.

I was like, all right, let me put on a turtle neck You're acting like it's a torch I put out a turtle neck during the summer to pretend it I was like hiking in the mountains I love that. Alternation 3 was fun, don't be wrong. But I put so much time into it. I did the fucking grind an entire flight to, I think, to New York,

where I was trying to get everybody at a level 100. So I was just Kamala Khan spinning left and right, getting everybody XP and shit, being psychopath on it. What's funny is that I had the same thing where I watched X-Men the new X-Men series. 97, thank you. I was going to say X-Men Legends. I was like, that's a video. Watch X-Men 97 and I was like, damn, I want more X-Men stuff.

Like, I need to, like, I need to interact with an X-Men thing. Downloaded Midnight Suns on my Steamback. Oh, wow. Played the first hour. That's the going back through it. Then, of course, where's Ultimate Alliance 3? Phil Spencer owns Activision now. Fucking figure it out, get Ultimate Alliance

1 and 2 on Game Pass. I put a tweet out today about that. I have a call to action out there. I'm sure Phil will respond to get it out there. I'm sure I'll get over all the licensing problems that are there happening. You know what I mean? Also, just begging Marvel games to make another Ultimate Alliance.

But that's kind of where I'm at, where I saw somebody pop in the chat over here and go, Greg, just play Marvel Snap. And I'm like, I've played a lot of Marvel Snap and that's not what I'm looking for. Yeah. Midnight Suns, if you remember when I reviewed it, I was like, but I'm very much looking for a man. You want to be a little guy doing little things. I just want to be a superhero running around doing superheroy things. Maybe it is time.

You know, again, I'm going on this thing. I got it. It wasn't Steam Deck verified when I reviewed it. In fact, they yelled at me for playing it on a Steam Deck. Now it is verified from what I remember. So I have that there, but I'd want to start over. But if I'm on the road, I'm thinking maybe I'm doing the Canada trip again. I'm thinking about bringing the Xbox a S and the X screen again

So maybe just get on an Xbox have it there Man, that X screen is great But I'm heartbroken right now Well, me and Mike aren't hardbroken Because we are enjoying the game of the summer With Blessing and Roger Game of the Summer is Marvel Robles It's Game of the Summer and it's not even out until 2025

But it's 100% game of the summer Yeah Oh yeah they announced this game isn't coming until 2020 Because you're angry, you didn't know what's happening Is that so? Yeah But like we've talked about it before But now that the closed beta is back again.

The hype has been, you know, relit here. I've never fully talked about Marvel Vivals because I only got to play one match and didn't have anything to say about it. So I declined speaking about it. But now that it's out, it is so much more competent that I expected. It's got a lot of bouncing issues like most games do at launch and most games still do five years in like Overwatch and other hero shooters like that. But I am just kind of wildly impressed with the presentation with the look of it,

with the feel of it. It is, for those you all don't know, Marvel Rivals is Marvel Superhero Overwatch. It's 6V6. You can, there's a tank roll, DPS role, support role. You can, there's no roll locking yet, which roll lock is like, once

Overwatch was like, all right, we need to get more serious about this. It's like you need two tanks, two damage, two support. You can pick six damage here. You can pick all support here, whatever. Oh, it's not actually that many heroes to do that. But yeah, there's no, like, rules on it yet. But it's just, it's Overwatch. You're pushing a payload or you're controlling a zone.

And the way the control the zone works is, it's like if you lose that zone, if the other team gets to 100%, then you move on to round two. If they win that one, then you're done because they won two out of three. And the payload mode operates very much like any other payload mode you've ever played in an Overwatch game or TF2 or anything like that. But the variety with the heroes, I love that it's almost a good. exactly like Overwatch because I have those analogs in mind when I go

Oh Star Lord is Tracer But he could fly. Perfect. Love that. He has Reaper's Death Blossom Ability as well. Awesome. That's not as strong. I need them to buff it because I'd be using that. I'm getting quick every single time. Yeah. Scarlet Witch, the most Opie character

probably in the game right now. Her and Magic if you know Magic, Greg, she was played by Anya Taylor Joy in this. Oh, of course. You remember her. Yeah. Magic with a K. at the end. Even cooler. He also got Luna Snow.

Luna Snow. Luna Snow is like a K-pop character. Just Lucio. She does like the... Yeah, it's a power of music, essentially. But, yeah, the character art... I'll never forget when Greg said, everybody, come huddle around my desk.

I just got sent, like, this brand-new NDA trailer for this new Marvel game. And all of us, oh, what is this going to be? And we see the NetEase logo, and we all kind of collect to you, like, nah. It's going to be some mobile. or a mobug game that maybe doesn't interest all of us, whatever. And then immediately we see gameplay and we see the production and the presentation.

And it's off the fucking charts. Like the amount of love put into the art in this game shows me that they really give a shit about this product and they want it to really last. And if there's a game out there right now that you're wondering, will this, what's going to be the next game that? kind of join the apexes, the war zones, the fortnights, the Overwatch's, I feel like this one may have the best chance to do so. Yes.

It's so much fun, Mike. When we talk about heroes, who have you been enjoying in Marvel rivals, Mike? No more. I love No more. I think that's a really fun one. You've got to be a little more precise because you are throwing the spear, but I really like the AOE Ultimate

that he throws down where a whale jumps up and splash damage is a bunch of the area. I love that. He plays like Torbjorn. For those of y'all who know Overwatch, he plays like Torbion, and you put down these little tentacle monsters,

which are basically like Torbion's turret that he kind of like sets down. That's a good point. And one cool thing that I noticed what I was playing with Namor is they do this. Is it not Namor? And the movie called it?

The movie said Nemor. So I just, that's what I'm not. You're going. And the guy in the game Give me Aquaman. The guy in the game is like Latino as well. Like just based on like the accent and stuff.

So I'm going to go with Namor. El Niñozinezine. Make it sound nice. One cool thing that they're doing with this game is like, you can select, when you're selecting your heroes, you have these sort of fusion team-up powers, right? So, Loki and Hela have a sort of team-up power, which grants, like, extra damage or whatever the hell.

So if two people on your team pick those characters, your team's going to benefit even more from that. with Namor and Luna Snow, we had a Luna Snow in our squad, I was Nemore, and suddenly I had an extra turret that also did freeze damage. So Nemoor's turret thing,

usually it's a little octopus, little underwater guy, he just sort of spits out damage or whatever. But yeah, suddenly I had an extra thing that was doing frost damage now, and that's because he and Luna Snow, I guess they were dating at one point or are, and they had that little synergy team-up thing,

which is like, oh shit, that's really, really neat. and so many of these characters have that and that's a neat little wrinkle into the normal Overwatch game which doesn't have it I think it's a neat little addition to say like hey we're not just going to be a one for one clone

we're going to try to like be different in some ways but to a certain point you're going to have to you got to ask yourself when you're one of these developers like how much different can we make a 6 v6 sort of like hero shooter I like it though because it is I think if anybody is going to make a one for one, like we're just making

Overwatch. If you're going to do with an IP, I feel like Marvel's a very strong IP to compete with that. Like that is a direct head-on like, oh, you can actually maybe be successful in this realm. And the stuff that they're adding feel like worthwhile mechanics. Like, yeah, the team-up stuff I think is novel and so far, I'm like, oh, snap, yeah, like I'm not to switch characters and I am taking

into consideration of like, oh, there are other guardians. Maybe I'll choose Star-Lord. Maybe I'll choose this character to like compliment this other person's play style. Yeah, last time we played with Bruce, Bruce was Rocket Raccoon, and he has a team-up thing. Nolan North, by the way, he voicing him again. Yeah, and he has a team-up thing with Punisher. And I was Punisher, who's very much like a Soldier 76,

he's just a big dude with an AR, and then you can switch to a shoddy. But Bruce is like, Andy, I'm going to put down that thing that gives you unlimited ammo, and you shoot a lot faster, too. So it's a little, like, thing that kind of helps out your squad. But when you're teamed up with a Punisher, if you're Rocket Raccoon, that little team-up synergy thing then allows me to just, like, shoot at what's feels like double the fire rate unlimited until it runs out for that time. Really, really cool.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm enjoying it a lot. Like, playing it last night with you guys, I think it was a good, like, I played it when they had the original beta or alpha or whatever it was. This last time was fun because it was us in a, I think we had a six stack or a five stack, but it was us in a team locked in playing for an extended period of time. And I started to get a feel of like, okay, I can see where the synergy is coming in. I can see where the communication teamwork's coming in.

And like, it felt, like, it felt, I felt those moments of being like, you know, grouped up and being like, oh, we're focusing on this person. All right, this person's over here. Oh, Iron Man's over here. Like, let's try to take them out. And the flow of it felt nice. And also that I was trying out a lot of different characters and all the different characters did feel unique. And I, like, Star Lord I locked in on because I was like, yo, this dude, he has a, you know, he plays like Tracer. But his circle is like a dodge roll type thing and he can, like, dodge roll into the air.

There's a flip kind of. Yeah. And he's so mobile. I was like, oh, this is actually really great. Like, this is actually a different feel than what I'm used to when I even am playing Overwatch. So I think they're finding those interesting angles to take characters where, all right, Star Lord is Tracer, but like he has this, this, and this actually makes him worthwhile

in a different way. They're always like a combination of a bunch of different Overwatch characters. Yeah. I'm still looking for, like, my Overwatch mains were Reaper and Hanso. I'm still looking for those analogs. I've not found it yet. I think I do it's over for you, bitches. I think my main is Hela.

Hela there is like a zanata with mobility because Hela her standard fire is kind of like you have to lead it right but it's going to do a lot of damage

if you can do headshot damage just like a single shot she uses like her sword kind of thing that are in her head or whatever those these swords things and then the right click if you're playing on PC shoots a bunch of them

and then it sticks in their body and then those things will explode after a certain amount of time but she has a really great mobility thing where if you're in danger you hit that E button and you turn into like a little bird and she,

a little crow kind of raven, she flies away and you can get out of danger really quickly or get high ground. I just think that they've chosen a lot of creative ways to make these characters be cool combinations of things that are really familiar. Yeah. It's fantastic.

The third person has also grown on me a lot. That was one of the things early on where I was like, ooh, I don't know about third person. With the Star Lord example, I was giving a being able to dodge and dodge roll and get out of place. is like that works because it's third person. And even like using other characters, using Iron Man and like, you know, flying around.

Like all this stuff is it after a while of playing, I'm like, oh, no, this works. Like I'm actually used to this. This doesn't feel weird. Mike was gruding it up last night. Yeah, Andy paid me a lot of money and offered me in and out lunches forever to be tank. So, you know, I'll be in the tank there now. Yeah, there was a while. Yeah, Mike was like, I just don't really vibe with this whole tank thing.

Like, I'm just going to go damage. And I was like, all right, I'll go tank. But also like, I'm being heavily underutilized. on tank. Like, you got to put me on a damaged character. So I was like, Mike, you need to get a figure something out on tank. Like, I need to be damaged. We're not being very productive right now. Yeah, I think it's really great and

it shows, right? It feels polished. It feels ready for prime time. But there is something missing game mode wise, right? We can only do push the payload and domination so many times. What is that third or fourth game mode that they need, Andy? Because there's something missing here where it's like, if it

was primetime ready right now, what are the game modes that they need to add? Well, they have a basic kind of respawn death match style game, but that's like, I see that more is like just trying to build up your battle pass without wanting to get into a 20 minute, 15 minute match or whatever. But

like, I disagree there because I, coming to as a fan of Overwatch, like, all I care about is push the payload and the King of the Hill type stuff. You don't like the tug of war one? Um, the middle payload. Push mode is my least favorite mode, but it replaced

my even more least favorite mode, which two-point capture where you have to like, offense and defense, one team captures one point, and if you do that, then you go to the second point to try to get it. That was by far, my least for remote. I think push became a much better version, a much better alternative, I'd say. And they have a newer mode now, which is kind of like domination,

go to all the different points, which I don't really love. I don't think it works for a hero style shooter like that. Works better for a call d' doo-do where you're all just, due to they ours, you know, because it kind of takes the whole player's synchronicity out of things. I love payload. I love singular King of the Hill.

Those are like totally my jams. And I feel like having a payload is much more preferred to me than on Concord. As much as I enjoy playing Concord, I really want that game to have a payload mode. Yeah, that game should have a payload mode. Yeah, my issue with this right now is, I love this and I want more of this. This is one of the few betas we've come out of now from

Concord to Fragg Punks to this where it's like, oh, I want to spend all summer playing this. But I need more game modes because I can only do push the payload and two point King of the Hill for so long before I just, I'm like, okay, that was a great four-hour session. I'm going to cool off on that for quite some time. So I'm looking for something more out of this. How long is this beta running?

All weekend, I believe. Okay. Maybe a little bit longer. You can currently watch us over on Twitch. Andy and Bless will stream it later after Earth Defense Force. You can get a beta code while you're watching. What? through Twitch rewards, you'll get a code.

Hopefully they have more because last night it seems like they gave away every code on Earth, but hopefully they'll have more for people who's watching. Last night they hit a kind of critical capacity and like, sorry, we can't give away anymore. Kind of unfortunate. He was saying it's still August 5th. 10 days, okay, there you go, ladies and gentlemen.

So you can play it all, what, 10, yeah, two weeks here. I mean, for me, I already want to spend money in it, right? I want all these costumes. Because the cool part about this is you have the Marvel IPs. It's going to be easy to be like, this is free to play. Now we have all of these costumes for all your favorite characters. Those costumes are going to be

so expensive. I can smell it. You think so? Dude, I can smell the prices from here. You're settling on $7. It's not. It's Marvel. Settling on $7 to $10. That's what you've got to do here. You can spend $50 for just a fucking black Spider-Man suit. I can see her now. Game of the summer, not even out yet. Make sure to

keep an eye out on that one. Greg Miller, to round us all out, I have to know because I put that whooping on you in college football. Have you gotten any better at college football playing your friend, Po? Yes. That's the big thing. Of course, Po and me, our friendship lifelong, founded on football video games, especially college football on NCAA. So with college football finally being upon us, thank God, thank you, EA.

Thank you, thank you, Satan, if you did it. We were excited to get back on the gridiron, and we did, and we got out there. And I really felt that, you know, it's what we've talked about privately. First off, all the flowers to you, you are a better video game football player than I am. You've never stopped, whereas I kind of stopped with NCAA 14, right, with the occasional mad and check-in. not anything like you. Real quick last night. We're about,

we're trying to play. And I was like, yeah, he said he's going to play moral rivals with us tonight. to play some Marvel rivals. I look on Twitch, Mike's an hour into a stream.

I'm like, okay, cool. All right, cool, don't contact me, Mike. Maybe Mike, if you just told Bless that you missed him,

you know, he would have invited you to play. Well, we were all jazzed up after work. It felt really cool of like Roger and Blessing are in and he's going to be in. It was like, it was a cool vibe,

you know? I back to your college 25, sorry. Oh, that's fine. worry about it. Wednesday, next Wednesday, me and Bless are going to face off

at the Alina. Oh, Missouri Alina. We're excited about that. I'm really excited about this because Bless has got really great game at, of course, FIFA, now known as FC. And, like, you know, you and I have played. We've had some fun. So I'm excited to see what Bless lands on, you know, American football.

So far, I'm not great. Like, you know, Greg mentioned he's taking a break since, what, 2014. Yeah. I've probably taken a break since, like, 2005. It's been a very long time. So I'll be excited for that match, whereas Mike, you know, kick my teeth in. But it was the idea of, like, with Mike, I've talked to you privately of, like, you know, I think one of the problems is I play it too real now.

Yeah. You know, back on the day, I didn't know what the fuck. I was doing I didn't care or whatever. And so playing Poe, we did the first game, uh, Mizzou versus whoever, right, neck and neck back and forth. We're both old men playing this game. And I was like, this feels good. All right. Then the next game we did the random team business. I ended up with Arkansas and show, lo and behold, it all clicked. There it is like, right. Right. I used to play my NCAA is based on Brad Smith. What means scramble like a maniac. So when I got out there and I had a quarterback who could move, I was like, oh, I put the whooping on

Po. I was like, now I'm back. Now I'm here. Now I understand what I need to be doing. That is the move of you're not a traditional football head. It is get the scrambling quarterback. And I've been blessed all of my days with college football of Tim Tebow at Florida. Now into Chedars Sanders of like you are just running out of the pocket hoping to figure something out. Watch the play break down. Your receivers move just in random as position. Oh, I get a free 10 yards because nobody was on QB spy.

That's 10 yards first down. Oh, now I've done it. I've thrown it 40 yards to the broken play. That's a touchdown. Like, yeah, you've got to have that scrambling quarterback. Does I feel like you're running in mud in that game on. online? Yeah, a little bit. Just a little bit for me. Me and Ron Q teamed up

and there's like, you can, not as bad as 2K basketball, but there's a level of like, oh, we just hit, I've slowed down to half a step. And I don't like that. Very good. Good. That's great. I like that. I'm excited for next week. We'll find out. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, this has been your kind of funny games cast for a lovely Thursday, July 25th. Let's jump into a couple of superchats to end

the day. Specops Labs writes in and says, sub through Amazon on Twitch. Thank you for your support. Don't forget if you have Amazon Prime and you have Twitch Gaming, you can subscribe to us for free and help support the team and get ad-free viewing. Says, but wanted to stop by and say, hey, Snowbike, Mike, you're the man. Whenever my mood is down slightly, one of his videos hits and makes me smile. Thanks, homie. I appreciate you allowing me to be part of your life and being a gumbroony.

Shout to Caesar Gonzalez, who says, watching on my TV instead of my phone for the first time, and you all look 10% different. Mike, you have beautiful eyes, and Andy, you look a little sleepy today. Oh, thank you. That was my... Why'd you have to do that? Why'd you tack on the insult? My first time my dad ever met Andy, he looked to me, he goes, looks kind of sleepy.

Did he say, like, the guy with the hair or something like that? What do you say? I was sleepy. And I always am. That's my secret. And then Andrew VT says, I've been playing a lot of HoloCure, save the fans. It takes inspiration from vampire survivors and playable characters that are V-tubers. In the holoverse, maybe, is probably what it is.

No, we don't need this. We don't need v-tubers. Where the fuck is vampire survivors on PlayStation? I thought you put out the call. I thought they were all about you. They did. They're doing it this summer. Figure it out.

Well, you know, we still got like a couple months. Summer ends at the end of August. Let's not do this. September. September. September. Yeah, September 29.

Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been your games cast for a lovely Thursday. We are not done. done with the content here. At kind of fun. You got a whole day worth of fun. Of course, if you're watching live on Twitch, you don't got to go anywhere because we're going to take over your stream

for a fun afternoon stream with me and Andy. You're going to play EDF, Earth Defense Force, then blessing and Andy you're going to play some Marvel rivals where you can get a closed beta code, and then Greg is taking over with Zanth for some more Diablo fun. Of course, you're watching over on YouTube. We'll have a brand new link for you to go click over and support us there. Until then, thank you for watching.

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