The Besties - The Besties Podcast VII

Episode Date: April 8, 2012

We're a little late but no less passionate for our favorite games of the week. Be there when Griffin makes a case for a game he, in fact, quantifiably does not like. Enjoy Chris' realization that his game is wholly inappropriate for our program. Enjoy a lovely, yet impossible to safely describe adventure game from Justin and Frushtick gives it his all with Hunters 2 and yet falls tragically short. Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!

Shippin' out to Boston, hey, hey, hey Gonna meet some friends and eat a lobster roll Gonna go to a Red Sox game, hey, Wicked Everybody come with me down the street Hello, my name is Justin McElroy, and I know the best game of the week. Hello, my name is Christopher Plant, and I know... Got him. I know the game End of the game All his momentum is gone

People say this show isn't mature discussion Of video games but I'm pretty sure It's not going to be out of the park My name is Griffin McElroy And I came here That's it I'm in attendance This is the worst

Justin's going to fart right over me Why would you think that That's it. That's all you got? I'm in attendance. This is the worst. Justin's going to fart right over me when I start going. Why would you think that? My name is... My name is Ross Broderick. I'm going to have the game of the week. Done. I got it. This is the besties, and it's a production of...

Yes. Polygon. What the hell is that? Polywog. Polywogs. Polygon is a new website. It's on the internet. And you can go to it right now.

And there is a landing page. And it looks... It's polygon.com, right? It's polygon.com. We don't want people going to.orgs. No. We may have.org. I don't know how much...

We wrote to the internet authorities. But polygon.com is the name of our website. And it will launch later this year. We're still at The Verge right now. So keep going to theverge.com forward slash gaming to find all this stuff. Or just go to polygon.com is the name of our website, and it will launch later this year. We're still at The Verge for right now, so keep going to TheVerge.com forward slash gaming to find all this stuff. Or just go to Polygon.com and then click the big button, and it'll take you to The Verge. It's like a genie. I have not seen the splash page.

Can you describe it? It looks good. Please describe it. It looks good. So first there's our logo. Okay. And that looks like a P made out of wireframe. And then there's our text.

I literally can't imagine that thing you just said. Well, don't try. Just go to thepolygon.com and see it for yourself. We're in a hotel right now. I don't have any info. Oh, my God. So there's Polygon, and that's at the top. And then you can put your name in a mailing list,

and we'll update you with new info. Can I get Groupons? No. Oh, well. But if you scroll down from the top of the page it starts out like a maybe a beautiful green and as you scroll down it slowly becomes a soft mustard so apart from introducing our new site which i think we've done i feel like we've done a pretty good job of it why else are we here we're here to pick the best game of the year uh every week we get together talk about games that have been released very recently,

if not that week, and we make them battle it out for supremacy, and then we pit that game against whatever our current champween is. Fresh, do you know what our current champween is? As a matter of fact, I do. Our current champween is... Can we still... We're not doing that? That looks really good. Yeah, guys

let's not get distracted by how awesome the polygon.com splash page looks. Oh, man. See the color changes as you go down. That color gets so yellow. What? What's at the secret at the bottom? Make sure you scroll all the way through it. Yeah, if you scroll down there are Easter eggs. Um, I was just gonna say

stop saying champween. Okay, I think we can agree to that. Okay, champin. So, current champin, stop saying Champlain. I think we can agree to that. Okay, Champin. So, Champin is Journey. Journey is our pick for Game of the Year because it allows people to communicate without using their voice. So you could theoretically have someone in North Korea and someone in South Korea playing and working together for mighty... Because, what? I'm just saying, can't

you communicate without using your voice with lovemaking? Yeah, but you would know that someone's from North Korea. And you would be like, you don't match my politics. I don't see race. So, like, I don't see race. Also, I mean, I don't want to get touchy, but like...

What? People in North Korea don't have PS3s is that what you're saying? when you're making love to somebody or a beautiful man would you know the difference? would you know the difference between a North Korean and a South Korean if you were making love to them in a dark room?

or let's open it up because any race so that's the best game currently we have new games Or let's open it up because any race it does get a game. So that's the best game currently. We have new games. It's been the best game. Can we address the fact that it's been the best game since the second week? It's been the best game for a long time.

I'm going to go out and say it. This is not the week we're going to get the game. We are actually all at PAX East Which is kicking off tomorrow We're recording this on Thursday Getting ready for the show All in one room for the first time ever Recording the show all together Last time we had a guest

Who replaced Griffin Who wants to kick it off this week? Griffin We'll say the first person To slap the table. I didn't even try. I'm just going to mess up the mic. You've got to see who goes last. Oh. Okay.

I, this week... That was Griffin smacking the table. I smacked it because I am the best Hungry Hungry Hippoe-er that's ever played the game. My game this week is Hungry Hungry Hippos. Can we do board games?

No, we cannot. I wish. Do you have another game? I have several. Can I do Persona 3 Portable? No, too old. It's too old. It's very good.

It's $20 now on the Vita if you want to get that because that's the real best game I've ever played this week. But I guess the only new game I'm playing this week is Diabolical Pitch. And you love that game, right? Let me tell you about diabolical give me diabolical let me give you the bullet let me give you the elevator pitch pitch pitching and time so it's it's got a lot of that good good suit of 51 charm and all of the the suit of 51 idiosyncrasies that you have come to love in games like Killer7 and No More Heroes and Alvin and the Chipmunks game for Nintendo DS, which he ghost wrote that one.

Not a lot of people know that. And that just about wraps up all the good stuff that's in the game. It's a Kinect game, right? Yeah, that doesn't inherently make it a good thing. Is it a baseball game? There's baseball in it. There are baseballs. There's a hint of baseballs.

So you know like when you throw a baseball, like forces like gravity and inertia and all like the things that stop objects from just moving infinitely? Diabolical pitch says we don't need any of that. And every time you throw a ball, it just moves in a straight line. Only the Kinect can only sort of pick up whether you're throwing it left right or straight down the center so if you have like four guys coming at you from the left you have absolutely no way of deciding which one of those guys to throw it except you can lock on to people using your left hand sort of like in child of eden

only once like the later levels get like bullet hell crazy and you just don't have time to do that so you just sort of have to throw and hope for the best i don't understand though it's baseball like are you are they batters that you know they're they're evil dolls you're in an amusement park that you're there to oh it's like carnival games you're there it's not you're there to make a wish from the queen of the amusement park what What's the wish? All this time. I want to know what the wish is. You want your pitching arm back because you're using a cyborg arm.

I guess my time is up. It's not a good game. $60? No, it's downloadable. Downloadable? I think it's $10. But it's not. $10 too much? I finished it in like two hours and I looked at how long I had been playing it and saw that it was two hours,

and I was like, oh, man, I thought I had been playing it for, like, ten hours. Which is, like, nine. So you're about to die, and you've got two hours to live? You want to spend some time... Yeah, positive argument is a great time stretcher. Right, I guess.

If you want to feel like you've been alive longer. Yeah, so I guess you could, like, I don't know, turn the oven on and and then like put your your genitalia on it and then see how long you can keep it there because i bet it's gonna feel like a long time i'm saying diabolical pitch is tantamount to genital ruination i feel like maybe you're not making a great case for it being the best game listen it's got a lot of suda 51 goodness in it. So if you love Killer7, if you love Alvin and the Chipmunks 3, the Squeakquel DS, then you are going to love the pitch. Lesser known hits.

Well, let's move on then. Let's keep things going because that does not sound like a good game. My game was a good game. It was called Yesterday. And it is made by pendulo studios just spanish uh they sound familiar they did um they did a game called the next big thing and they did two games in in the runaways series um they make really beautiful colorful uh adventure games it was a It's a very specific sort of animation style, you know, an animated style. The story in Yesterday is so, like, weird and twisty, but well told.

It's not abstract. I mean, it's a very concrete sort of story but the story itself is so sort of twisted that i i can't to give you even like a basic setup of it would be would would ruin a lot of it for you because it it leads you down one path and then twist it on you um the it deals with a lot of darker themes it's not particularly like horrifying or anything but there's a lot of overtones of Satanism. What kind of game is it? Sorry, it's a point-and-click adventure. For PC? Yes. I know it's on Steam.

It's pretty basic. Get the items, combine the items. The cool stuff is there's a really good hint system that actually is a hint. I mean, they give you, like, leads you down a path without saying, like, this is exactly what you need to do. And there's also a refresh on it so you can, you know, you're not abusing it. And it also has a button you can click that shows you all the hot spots on the screen.

So you're not pixel hunting. The game is gorgeous. The voice acting is cool some of the story is really really neat a few things are like okay that doesn't make a whole lot of sense but when you see sort of the world they're setting up and the where the plot goes it's one of those plots that makes more sense the uh the deeper you get into it it maybe will take you like three to four hours to finish the whole thing, so it makes really good use of your time. And it's hard to

really do it justice. It's just one of those you just have to get in there and play, because I really don't want to ruin any of the story for you. Suffice to say, it's pretty bananas. And it moves in a real quick clip. You were talking about the hint system. Yeah. Is it like, if you die three

times, do you get a tanooki tail? How is the game? It doesn't say, like, like if you die three times, do you get like a Tanooki tail? Like how is the game? No. Like it doesn't say like check the mailbox to find the gun. It'll say, this is a place

where mail would go. Yeah. Or it'll say something like, it'll say something like, it's time, it may be time for you to use the grappling hook.

So then you got to think like, I don't know how to crack that code have you considered using the super glue on the turtle shell yeah there's there's a and it in some of the things it has a lot of specific uh bits written out for each thing so like if you'll at one point a phone was working and i tried to put a toy telephone connect a toy telephone to it and it it says, like, you consider doing this for a second, and then realize it is ridiculous. It's like, yeah, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Yeah, but that's not specific to the toy telephone.

You could plug in, like, a banana, it would say the same thing. No, no, it's specific to that. Because the other thing is, like, she just says, you know, I don't want to do this, or he just says... Quit wasting my time. Quit wasting my time. That's produce. It's good for potassium, that's about it.

You're a child. Who would do this? It's a small indie dev that are well worth supporting because they make super interesting games. I'm playing the other one, Next Big Thing, now because I enjoyed yesterday so much. But it really sets up a pretty mythical kind of story that I hope that they continue with. If you support indie devs, who's going to keep EA in business? That's a good question. That's a great point.

They're the worst company in the world, guys. Let's not go down this path. Well, we can talk. We're at halftime. I think we can wrap about that and we can talk about your adventure. Okay, we had an adventure. I think we should talk about my adventure.

I just want to hear the adventure. I don't want to talk about EA. Yeah, whatever. Everyone's talked. Here we go. So me and Chris Plant. That's me. We're heading up to Boston.

We live in New York. Shipping out to Boston. And we were shipping out York Shipping out to Boston And we were shipping out Shipping out to Boston Hey, hey, hey Is that a real song? Yeah, it was in The Departed It went Shipping out to Boston

Hey, hey, hey And then Jack Nicholson Eating all my friends And eating lots of lobster Gonna see you game Hey, go Sox You're the wicked best What?

Why wouldn't you let him finish his I love that song. I just didn't believe it was a real song. When you're on a f***ing improvised game television show, when somebody's on fire like Chris, I was on a Colin Mochrie burn. He was on fire, and you would not let him. Chris, play it.

I'm very disappointed in you. Straight across the sky. I just didn't see it. Let him. Okay, everyone, we're going to take two seconds, and we're going to let him. Chris, play it. I'm very disappointed in you. Straight across the sky. I didn't see it. Let him. Okay, everyone, we're going to take two seconds, and we're going to let. Because I don't remember that song. Shipping out to Boston. Hey, hey, hey.

Going to meet some friends and eat a lobster roll. Going to go to a Red Sox game. Hey, Wicked. Everybody come with me down the street. We're going. Pretty. Pretty. Pretty. I was literally like,

what's in Boston? Streets. I got this. Jackpot. Beans. That was lovely. So what happened? Me and Pint were taking the train up from New York to Boston and the ride's going okay. It's a nice little Amtrak train and we're sitting in one of those four seats

where you have the table in the middle. And we're on one side. And the other side is empty. And a gentleman sits down, and he's wearing blue scrubs. And, like, you know, pants, whatever. He looks like a doctor. Yeah, and he had a beard, a white beard.

Well, hold on. He looks like a doctor looks in a hospital. Well, like you know if you see doctors commuting sometimes they're still wearing their scrubs on the subway in their native environment okay now to be fair to to your skepticism after about five seconds you look a little closer and you realize he's not wearing anything under the scrubs and he he has cuts and bruises. All over his body. Everywhere. Including his nose.

None of his knuckles. Did you watch ER? Scabs. All over his elbows. So he's sat down. And we're not really interacting with him. But he, like, opens up conversation because we're both on iPads. And he's like, oh, you're technical people, right?

No, you're Apple guys. Oh, you're Apple guys. on iPads. And he's like, oh, you're technical people, right? No, you're Apple guys. Oh, you're Apple guys. And then he proceeds to tell us about his history making guidance chips for F-16s in the 1980s. Oh, great. But they were

analog. But they were analog then. How did you put it on a cassette tape? And how he made $116,000 selling antiques. And how he just escaped from the hospital. You didn't say he escaped from the hospital. What he did was he pulled out his papers.

He put them on the table and he said, the doctors, they've been trying to shower me for the past five days. I tell them I've already been showered. I've got nine problems with this story right now

Are you skeptical? Do you not think this happened? No I just I think you guys got goofed He was not wearing shoes Oh they couldn't have set up that goof They could have Who Amtrak set this up? No Ashton Kutcher

If you guys had hung out for a few more minutes And been more entertaining Betty White would have come around the corner and been like, oh, you guys. Things old folks do. Things old folks do. I don't know what her show is called. It's called Things Old Folks Do. Yeah.

Betty White's Things Old Folks Do. It's called Laughin, L-A-F-F-I-N, apostrophe, two, number two, death, because you're so old. Also, $116,000 is a really weird number to brag about. He was really specific about it. He was specific about everything, including counting. And he told us, you know, people have been telling him 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

That's how you count to 10. But he said, what if you count to 10 like this? 1, 2. And then that was it. That was it. there's like that was it there's like so many more and then both of us you know he swayed and he didn't help him count no no no when you expect i know some people have mental instability wouldn't you expect anybody though if they said something like that to take a moment afterwards hey i'm sorry that's something crazy that was especially weird that was a pretty crazy thing so i would say that the quietest moment of this interaction was he slid his throat let him die in the car so he's talking he's he's

explaining his life to us and i glanced down at the table before us and i thank you justin and i noticed my ticket is sitting on the table And on my ticket is my full name and address And I think my phone number And I'm like, I'm going to get Murdered And then I slowly with one finger Took the ticket off

And then departed Oh, at least he doesn't know that you're going to be Gone from that place Oh wait, oops, he does absolutely know that you're not going to be there well he also asked us what we were here to do and i told him exactly what we were here to do and then he said i don't get a ticket for that and he said what's your name no your name name your full name your christian name and social security and stuff like that anyway he's gonna be a pack So keep an eye out for Steve. He'll be in scrubs and no t-shirt and no shoes. And if one of, you see like a scalp in his hand, probably walk through.

That is not somebody Manhunt cosplaying. That is a real murderer. That's an actual scalp. My scalp. Hey, speaking of your scalp, Chris Plant, tell me about the best game of the week The best game of the week Is the browser game At the top of the New York Times Magazine's cover story

Are you kidding? Oh my god You write about games professionally You didn't play any this week No, I play games I'm sorry, I decided not to bring a game Are you going to do a spit take? You're taking my water I rethought it He's not to bring a game. Are you going to do a spit take? You're taking my water.

I rethought it. He's going to throw it in your face? I was going to throw it in your face, but it's not videoed. There wouldn't be any record of it. But I have a defense. No, I'm not going to do this. I'm going to do a game that was actually really good that I did play this game. Yeah, that would be so much better.

You came with a bad game. It was the only game I had that wasn't... Pause. What score did you give it a bad game it was the only game i had that wasn't pause what score did you give it i gave it eventually i gave it like a nine out of 36 is that math okay here's the game that i brought i'm i'm bringing i'm bringing dysphoria by ananthropy which is a browser game and uh if you don't know who anna anthropy is she is like an activist indie game designer uh and she made a game called mighty jilloff which is a super crazy masochistic platformer about like a lesbian sex slave who is trying to get to her dominatrix by climbing a tower but it plays like mighty bomb but it plays like mighty like a really hard version of mighty bomb jack uh in the new one

dysphoria is kind of like wario ware about her going on hormone therapy uh because she like she's a bit she's like larger and she has uh i'm trying to like she has like face double that is like she's having to shave off and she feels like she's being viewed as a man like in public and those are the first round of minigames it's like dealing with these problems how do you interact with them so like so like for like one it'll be like move your like cursor to like shave off like hair like unwanted facial hair and then one will be like to like catch pills in your mouth uh that you have to take once you like go on hormone therapy or like one is like kind of like a you're a tetris that you have to take once you, like, go on hormone therapy. Or, like, one is, like, kind of like a... You're a Tetris piece, and you're trying to fit through a hole

that doesn't match your shape. So it's, like, lots of, like, small games that are little metaphors for her... what's going on in her life. But it plays like WarioWare. But it plays kind of like WarioWare. That's my time. But it's actually great.

I had, like, all these other crappy small games. I didn't want to bring a serious game because it's in a serious podcast sometimes. But you know what? It's a great game, though. So good luck beating it. Yeah, kind of wish it had gone with the New York Times thing. Yeah. That brought us all down.

But you know what? It sounds interesting. Yeah. It's fascinating. Nothing that says the besties have to be all about goofs. No, that was some serious time. People are clamoring for some more. Pul Pulitzer Prize coming at us right now Well I don't think they give Pulitzer Prizes To game podcasts

Just wait This is the time now We're in Boston They gave that Peace Prize to Obama I've had our own Boston Tea Party Where we throw iPods in the rivers Until they acknowledge us and give us a Grammy for podcasting.

We can't let this game go unripped. What? Is there any multiplayer? No. Horrible. But there are Chivos. There are Chivos. I like that. I like that. I heard a rumor about

on-disc DLC on a website. That is it. Keep going. Keep going, guys. No, no. Keep trying. There might be something funny to say. Is it 3D?

No. There's no 3D. Yeah, it's depressing, depressing, depressing. Can I play it on Opera, my Opera browser? I haven't guessed it on Opera. Can it run on 8 megs of RAM? Probably. Is this a Molyneux game jam?

Did Peter Molyneux game jam it? No. That's my new catchphrase, by the way. Game jam it. Game jam it. All right, this is a blind alley of ducks. Russ Freshdick, pull us out of this. Okay, I've got a game that we don't need to be

super respectful of thankfully but I enjoyed it quite a bit I don't know I felt like I needed to be respectful to Chris Plant's game

because obviously this is a person bearing their heart it's like the most personal game so I'm not gonna good thing I didn't use that New York Times game

that you could've ripped into like with a spook for goose that would've been better you blew it anyway I'm doing a game

called Hunters 2, which came out a little while ago on iOS. How long ago? Can you define a little while ago? If it's only the two weeks. I can't. It's about two weeks. It's about give or take two weeks. Okay. Give or take. So Hunters 2 is obviously

the sequel to Hunters 1. Please, Mr. Sessler, continue! Which, as some people played, it wasn't amazing, Hunters 1. But Hunters 2... By the way, just so I'm clear, that was not a goof on Adam Sessler, but a goof on Rosh Fashitech. That was just the first video game expert whose name came to my mind. I guess I could have gone with Fred Savage's brother

please Fred Savage's brother from the wizard continue is it still your time yeah it's still my time anyway Hunters 2 is a turn based

tactical strategy game akin to XCOM or that ghost recon game on 3DS that was excellent or

Griffin is downloading it as we speak. I love... I've been looking for a good... And the amount of depth, like, every aspect of the genre you expect. You have a squad. You can play on hardcore mode, so, like, if a guy dies on your squad, he's gone. Can you play it on iPhone or iPad?

Both. Okay. It's a universal app. What were you playing on? I was playing on iPad. I'd recommend it on iPad because you get more screen real estate, but you can play on both. was playing on iPad. I'd recommend it on iPad because you get more screen real estate, but you can play on both.

Wait, one second. You're saying that iPad... Just really quick, one second. Are you telling me iPads are bigger than iPhones? I mean, to some people. Not the iPad Mini, which I just leaked. Sorry, Apple. I wasn't supposed to talk about that. What is it? Read about it on Polygon.com.

But yeah, it's a tournament strategy game you can like change equipment on your guys if a guy dies he's gone forever if you're playing on hardcore mode so it's like a really intense you earn money to buy new equipment there's a whole campaign which Hunters 1 didn't have for people that like Griffin who's obviously a huge fan

of XCOM and tournament strategy games, I've never played XCOM. You know what? Don't go too fast. Or kind of like Advance Wars or Fire Emblem. We want to talk about it. Can I say... That's all I got. Because honestly, like...

There's an easy problem here. Okay. Tell us about the story. How many people are on Earth at the beginning of the story? Oh, yeah. Okay. So according to the game, by the end of the 21st century, right? We're in the 21st century now.

According to the game, there will be 500 billion people on Earth. 500 billion people on Earth. At the end of the 21st century. So that's a bit of a problem. Okay. So people need to leave and go to Mars. After the tutorial, what time is it? 29, 58 or something like that

and then you go five years five years previous oh no i was joking about that that doesn't actually happen how so basically there's gonna be a lot of banging going on in the next hundred years first off don't say get ready first off don't say banging banging don't say banging banging or don't say any of that okay um second of all nope that's literally mathematically like i i tell the developers that but honestly they have more insight these developers like the most virile dudes on earth like what you guys they might know more than you do that's what i'm saying 600 times a day maybe they have like a whole crew of chicks back at home in Finland or over there. I don't think that's how chicks work. Unless they're like mother alien beasts.

You're like, you inseminate them. Come to our development studio slash brood hive. They don't actually say 500 million, 500 billion people. So maybe they're sounding like squirrels and stuff. She's swollen with birth jelly. I do also enjoy that you think that everyone on this game team has to be a dude.

But then I was going to make that goof, but then I thought, well, it's a tactical strategy game set in the future where all we're doing apparently is having sex. Yeah, so it probably is a bunch of fellas. I'm someone who, I can enjoy some tactics, but when things get too number heavy, I don't get super into it. It's pretty light on the crazy math. Like, you have.3 percentage points chance to increase this groin shot, which like Fallout does sometimes.

It's pretty light on that stuff. If you really care, you can do it. Are there really groin shots? No. Because I was going to say, if we're doing groin shots, then that's going to solve our $500 billion problem. That solves a lot of problems. How big of a team are you usually managing? You start out with four, but I think you can go up to six at a time.

Some missions limit the amount of people you can bring in. What's the DLC like? Because I remember Hunters 1 had some DLC problems, I think. Yeah, I didn't run into any DLC. What's the price? Oh, you can buy credits if you really want to, but you don't need to buy. What's the price? Five dollars for a universal app.

It's a universal app. It's a uni app. So you can, it's like you're getting two games for the price of one. It's like you're getting one game twice. By the way, Game Center achievements. Rude hives are not cheap. No, I guess not. It's quite good. I would recommend it for anyone that likes the genre. Alright.

Time's come to call this to a vote. What is the best game of the week? It is not mine. Straight up. It is not Griffin's. Griffin is out. Can I exclaim deep respect for Chris Plant's game? But I'm not going to pick it.

Wow. Because I played it and it was clearly an emotional experience for that person but for me, as a game, you know, it's... You wanted more achievement points. Yeah, there could have been more achievement points I thought. Okay. Alright.

More badges. I thought plants was good so that's my votes for plant. How's everybody else voting? What was your game again? My game was a beautiful graphic adventure called Yesterday. I'm going to go with Plants. Okay. Why?

I just forgot everything about your game. Yeah, I don't really remember anything about your game either. I guess I'll go with Plants too. All right. All right. Yeah, you didn't want to win. Plants is the best game of the week. All right. Just so we're clear, so we're not calling it Plants game. All right. All right. Yeah, you didn't want to do it. Plants is the best game of the week. All right.

Just so we're clear, so we're not calling it Plants Game. What is the name of the game and how can people get to it? It's called Dysphoria and it's spelled, I believe, D-Y-S-4.

Number four. Number four, I-A. And just Google it. And Google maybe Dysphoria and Anthropy. And it's on, I think it's on... It's on,

not Congregate, the one with the tank. Oh, yeah. Newgrounds. It's on Newgrounds... It's on... Not Congregate. The one with the tank. Oh, yeah. Newgrounds. It's on Newgrounds. Cool. World of Tanks. But, I mean,

I'm going to be just outright. I said at the beginning, I don't think that there is a game that we have this week that is going to beat Journey. And even though I'm very happy my game won, I do think it is a very singular personal adventure.

And I feel like Journey... Journey is a two-person personal adventure. Exactly. I have no argument with that. So, ladies and gentlemen, our king and still champion... Nothing is going to dethrone this. Nothing is going to dethrone Journey until things get... I mean, something really life-changing happens.

Maybe something we see on the show floor. Can we bring something to the show floor next week? Can we suspend our usual rules? Maybe. Let's see what pops up. I saw a bunch of the dudes from Robot Entertainment on the plane. I bet they're bringing Orson Stine, too. No, it's fair for us to do this, because we did it with 2DC.

Yeah, but that wasn't a patch. Oh, but you can't enthrone with it, too. What? No, go on. Well, no, but, like, you can't. I mean, that's going to be next week. We could do a bonus show. The PAX Heat.

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