Video Gamers Podcast - [Bonus Round] Bar Room Brawl - Video Games Podcast

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

The Video Gamers Podcast is back and video game hosts Paul, Josh and Ryan are bringing you a hilarious Bonus Round episode. It’s a video game bar brawl, and we’re drafting a team of 4 video game characters… but there’s a twist! The other host picks the theme you have to stick to with your team. Then we duke it out until only one video game character is standing. Who reigns supreme? Find out in this awesome gaming episode! Thanks to our LEGENDARY Supporters: YayaArizona, Disratory, Cykasniber and Alex Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q   Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I am your host Paul and joining me, he's getting ready to execute the throat rip from Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze. It's Josh. Dude, is that not one of the greatest moments in like movie history absolutely have you seen the remake i haven't seen the remake because i don't there's no way the remake's gonna compare to the original i heard it's not bad but yeah it won't be the same yeah plus uh sam uh what's the what's the old dude's name oh uh sam elliott elliott from from the first one yeah he's awesome too man yeah he He is great. Not a great ending for Sam Elliot in that movie. That's true.

But that's okay. I legitimately looked to see if Patrick Swayze was in a video game so I could try to draft him today. Oh, that's so funny. No. Okay. All right. And then joining Josh and me, he sees a bar fight breaking out.

So it's time to hit the jukebox. Rolling Stone, street fighting man, G7. Only problem is, he just pressed G8. It's Ryan. If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga. Oh, that's me. I would do that.

Oh, do you like piña coladas, Ryan? Getting caught in the rain? That is, quite honestly, the best song to fight to. And the best bar fight in movie history, Dirty Work, for my pick. Norm Macdonald just getting tossed straight out the window. All right, so for our listeners out there today, we are going to be doing a little bit of a twist on what we normally do for a draft in a bonus round episode. We're going to get into all the details of the rules and what we're doing. We're talking bar fights because we're going to be drafting teams that are going to get into a

giant bar fight brawl. But before we get into that, Josh, I think you're going to read a show review for us. I do have, I actually have a couple, but I want to get to this draft, man, because this is going to be a lot of fun. So I'm just going to read one today, but this is your reminder that if you've been listening to the show and you like what you're hearing and you want to help out, please take the time to leave us a review. If you're on Spotify, you can rate us five stars. If you're on Apple, you can actually write a written review and we like to read them on the show. Like this one that comes in from Super Dave 1966 and it's titled Gamer Dads Come Together. And it says, I discovered this podcast less than a month ago and have been binge listening for several weeks. These guys are awesome and fun, very informative on many games.

I'm an old school gamer in my 50s and I've been gaming since the OG Atari days. I love hearing about games I've never played or heard of. It makes me want to check them all out. Keep up the awesome work you guys are doing. I look forward to every new episode. PS4 Super. P.S. For Super Earth! Yeah! Oh, Ryan's so excited. Any Helldivers reference? I too, I may not be in my 50s, but I too was gaming on the OG Atari back in the day. So me and Super Dave 1966 are gaming bros.

I'm assuming that's probably a Super Dave TV show reference. I'm guessing. Did you super dave i've seen it i was like oh yeah you know a like consistent watcher of it but i've definitely seen it oh yeah shout out to what's his name bob einstein i think what a what a funny dude love him on curb curb also oh yeah all right and then ryan why don't you tell the people a little bit about how they can support us on patreon yeah definitely um you know we uh we like to think that uh we work pretty hard on this and you know we like to give uh good quality content and uh stuff for you guys to listen to in-depth reviews on the games fun crazy episodes like this where we're going to draft a video game bar fight so if you've uh enjoyed what we do for you guys maybe consider doing something for us multiplayer squad.com shoot over there you can start as low as five bucks a month just

really helps us out gives us a little bit of support and keep this uh train rolling absolutely and so let's let's go ahead and jump into our actual draft here. We want to give a shout out to Discord user Morgau, who is super active. He is always hopping in, posting ideas for bonus rounds. And I even made a joke a few months ago that I said, man, so many great ideas. If only we ever get to a bonus round, maybe we'll use some. Today's the day. We're finally here, Morgau. We finally get to use your idea. He had posted, what if you guys drafted teams of characters that end up in a bar fight and

then see which team ends up coming out on top at the end? And he gave a couple ideas of possible twists. And I really loved the idea where he said, maybe you guys can assign each other a special theme. For example, maybe Josh has to draft a team of all female characters or all aliens or something like that. And that way it kind of leads your draft. Maybe it gets us a chance to draft some characters we normally don't talk about or cover on our show.

I thought that was a great idea. So we have all assigned each other a theme, but we have not shared it with the whole group. So for example, I gave a theme to Josh. Ryan has no idea what it is. I have no idea what theme Josh assigned Ryan, you know, and so this will be a lot of fun as we find out. And then we're going to jump into our draft. We do four rounds snake style. So we each end up with four characters and then we're just gonna plop them into a march madness bracket we're gonna start matching them up 1v1 see who gets eliminated we'll also talk a little bit about like who might have been gassed in the prior round versus another

character so maybe that one character would normally win but if they just got out of a hard fight maybe they'll actually lose and i think this is to be a lot of fun to cover. I'd love doing drafts like this. How about you guys? Oh, absolutely, man. Chaos, giant bar brawl. Now, I will say that we did have to impose a few rules, or maybe just one rule on this, is the character has to be able to fit into the bar. And so there are certain characters that just would not make sense to be able to fit into the bar. And so there are certain characters that just would not make sense to be chilling in a bar when a bar fight breaks out. So in that case, we have said,

hey, we're trying to keep this as like, this sounds dumb to say, as realistic as a video game character bar brawl can be. Yes. When Mario gets in a bar fight, we have to keep it realistic yeah uh and also you left out another important rule is it's a fist fight so no magical powers no use of the force we're not going to put darth vader in and yoda out here and they're they're going to win

no weapons no weapons yeah this is purely fist fight you can maybe grab a beer bottle or an ashtray or something i guess i guess you probably have ashtrays and bars anymore at least in america but uh yeah i think this is gonna be a lot of fun we randomize the draft order i don't know that we're gonna have a whole lot of overlap draft order may not even matter because we have our different themes but the order is going to go ryan j, then me. And then in round two, me, Josh, Ryan, and then we'll do that over four rounds. Let's talk about the themes that we've assigned to one another. I assigned a theme to Josh and the theme that I gave Josh, I thought

was very fitting. I thought Josh would enjoy this. what's fitting mean on this one, Paul? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Very fitting. Come on, I want to know. Tell me. All bald characters. No, I'm just joking. That wasn't it.

But I did think about it. I was like, that's a very limited list. No, I didn't want to handicap Josh too much. I gave him all villains. So no protagonists for Josh. That's it. Hey, man. Number one, most villains are pretty strong. Yes. And so I kind of like this and the idea of a bar brawl because I was instantly like,

oh, man, there's a few that I can think of. To be fair, I had GLaDOS on my list. And then I had to look up how big GLaDOS actually was. And GLaDOS will not fit into a bar, guys. And if she's in the potato, it won't do you any good. Exactly. I did think about the potato GLaDOS too, but then I was like, this isn't going to be helpful either. So I did unfortunately have to take GLaDOS off of my list.

But I liked this category, Paul, because it really gives me, I mean, some powerful people to go through. That's what I was thinking. And I feel like in our drafts, villains are sometimes underrepresented because you initially just think of protagonists. So I thought that would be fun. All right. And then Josh, what theme did you assign Ryan? For Ryan, I actually went with the theme of it has to be a video game companion. So any sort of companion in a video game. So cannot be a villain, cannot be the protagonist. It has to be a companion in this case.

Ooh, okay. So like if Claptrap is in the middle of the spar fight. Dog meat, maybe, you know, I mean, so there's a lot of video game companions out there. So I felt like I gave Ryan a pretty big pool to, uh, to draw from, but he's definitely gonna have to get a little creative too. Yeah, that's for sure. You would not imagine how many companions I, uh, skimmed through the last couple of days. Yeah. And then Ryanyan what theme did you assign me uh so i i man i had uh i don't have the most focused mind and trying to pick one from all the options was very hard for paul but or for me to do for paul and so what i went with is characters and video games that don't speak. Oh! Characters that do not talk. That don't speak. Okay.

Do not talk, do not speak, yep. Wow! No doubt mode. Oh, that's a tough one, man. Silent Fury. I mean, but you gotta watch out for the quiet ones, too. Paul was very upset. He did, now I know why he said it,

because he did tell me, he's like, oh man, what the heck, dude? He's like, I went so easy on Josh. I did say that. I said I went a lot easier on josh i was thinking usually if a character is silent they're usually not like over the top powerful so i was trying to start to get creative and that's when i started asking you guys point of clarification are we gonna say that like animals are allowed yeah and initially we said

sure and then i was thinking well then i'm just gonna draft stuff like the griffin from the witcher 3 like who's gonna be able to fist fight a griffin uh but that like kind of betrays the whole idea of this so we said gotta fit within a door it is okay to draft animals or aliens as long as they are small enough to fit in a normal door right all right well should we just jump right in here oh man i'm excited about this one guys let's do it you know it all starts just fun just somebody playing darts you know ordering a drink before somebody just says the wrong thing or spills their drink on somebody and all of a sudden chaos erupts hits on the wrong girl at the bar, whatever it might be.

All right, Ryan, you get to lead us off. For listeners who've never heard us do a draft, we do a selection. Sometimes we throw out a couple initial thoughts and then we'll jump into where we match everyone up 1v1. All right, Ryan, hit us with our first selection. Who's going to be our first companion taken off the board? Your first companion is someone that should actually be just a main character. I wanted to start off with a bang and just go with an absolute powerhouse of a man. And I'm going with Jackie Wells, cyberpunk.

Oh, that's a great choice, man. My boy, Jackie. Dang it, that's such a good pick he's gotta be pushing like 280 just solid mass and this dude's growing up you know in just the city with he's fighting all the time got cybernetics like he doesn't need guns he doesn't need weapons he's just gonna use those two big bricks cinder blocks on his hands he's got his arms yeah dude that's it's uh yeah so i'm going with jackie don't don't they get into a bar fight in the in the montage too so this is not his first rodeo either v goes into

the bathroom and spits out a tooth that's right and then they just go right back to fighting yeah that's great that's a great jack ryan yeah jackie is no stranger to bar fights that's for sure he's a seasoned fighter i will say i was a little worried for you, Ryan, when I heard that theme, because I had no idea what was selected for you. But that is a great companion to kick things off. It was a lot of work, but I found some good ones. Also, I feel I love Jackie, dude. I don't want to.

I know. I don't want to. I don't want him to lose. Yeah. I don't want to throw somebody out of and be like, get beat up, Jackie. Good luck. Yeah. Yeah. At least he can carry himself. All right, Josh, hit us with our first villain. Who are you taking?

Well, I don't know if you boys have been paying attention to social media, but the other day I posted one of the hardest bosses in a video game. One of the hardest villains to beat in any game ever. And that is Mike Tyson from Punch-Out! Okay, okay, okay. The main boss himself. I figured if this is a bar fight, I need somebody that's got some punching power. And man, if you ever played Punch-Out!,

this is one of the greatest villains ever because this guy was impossible to beat. Also, I did beat him back in the day, which was one of my better gaming moments. But yeah, I'm going with, with all my Tyson from punch out.

He's going to kick your butt. You better back off me, Brian. That's an excellent choice, Scott. Guard your ears fellas by the way

who can't wait to watch Tyson box Jake Paul I can't wait to watch I normally don't get into those but this one I'm actually into man

we're all rooting for Tyson oh absolutely he's gonna murder him man it's a family show but I hope he punches a hole

through his head yeah the only thing I wonder is the age difference what is the age difference between the two he's tyson's 57 yeah yeah he's still a beast though man jake paul i don't know he's got your power's the last thing to go all he's got to do is one good liver shot or a good that that tyson uppercut oh jake paul is 27 dude he's so 30 years 30 years on him man i don't know there's something to be said for youth

tyson he's still got it yeah i hope so all right okay great pick i i i wondered if anyone was gonna go like the boxing route oh yeah this is very ironic josh because uh i'm drafting little Mac. Whoa. He doesn't talk. He doesn't talk. And guess who defeats Mike Tyson? Oh no. This is kind of like drafting a one trick pony. Uh, I don't know how well he will do against others, but if little Mac faces Mike Tyson later, I kind of like my chances with little, little, little Mac. Let me clue you into something though.

As little Mac, I got obliterated about 5,000 times by Mike Tyson. So it doesn't... This is like the Doctor Strange moment where he's like, I've seen 4,332,000 alternate timelines. Yeah. All you need

is one. Yeah. So you're telling me there's a chance. All right. Yeah, I'll take Little Mac there. Nice. Great in Punch-Out, great in Smash Brothers. You know, gotta love Little Mac. Not a Smash Bros guy, but I actually did like Little Mac in Smash Bros. Nice.

Yeah, yeah, he's great. He's my favorite character in Smash Bros. And then starting out with round two, since I get to lead that one off, only because there's the slightest bit of overlap with Josh, I don't know if he would draft this or not, but I'm just going to do it here. Give me the Xenomorph from pick whatever alien video game you want. Fist fighting a Xenomorph? Sounds terrifying to me. It does. However,

it's better than shanking them with a knife because once... There's no blood. If you just sock them in the jaw, they're not going to spray acid blood everywhere. But you shiv a xenomorph, man. Now you're in trouble. Yeah.

They got agility and speed, so I liked xenomorph, and, now you're in trouble. Yeah. They got agility and speed. So I liked Xenomorph, and I thought maybe Josh would take it as a villain. So why not kind of reach in and take Xenomorph here? All right. Coming back around to you, Josh, your second pick. Oh, boy. Well, this is where we're already getting into these people with powers. I mean, Mike Tyson's got some punching power, but let's be honest.

He's still still human. To battle a xenomorph, I need somebody that can, you know... Ellen Ripley? That can control aliens and maybe alien swarms that can control a Zerg, if you will. And so I am taking the villain Kerrigan, Queen of Blades from Starcraft. Love Kerrigan. Yeah. I mean, good luck dealing with those razor bone wing things and, you know, her psionic powers. Because she was, what's the, what were they?

A ghost, right? Isn't that what they called them in Starcraft? The people with the psionic powers? I'm pretty sure it was ghost. I don't remember. Yeah. So, you know, she's got psionic powers. I know pretty sure it was ghost. I don't remember. Yeah. So, you know, she's got psionic powers. I know we're saying you can't use powers, but she has them.

You know, it's intimidating. So, yeah, go with the Queen of Blades. Okay. Love Starcraft. Love Kerrigan. Kerrigan is a really underrated villain that I feel like a lot of people don't initially think about when you're thinking best villains, but what a good pick. All right, Ryan, Ryan coming back to you you get back-to-back picks buddy

oh very nice so since I'm all of a sudden facing a xenomorph I am going to do the same thing that I would do in Skyrim and sacrifice my companion uh Lydia your favorite Nord warrior. I'm sorry. You're going to die to the Xenomorph. Lydia, which one is she? Remind me. When you first run in and you go into, I think it's Whiterun, she's the companion that helps you. She's like your kind of your... Oh, that kind of greets you when you get in Whiterun?

Yeah, greets you when you get in there. Yeah, and then she runs up to you. It's been a while since I played Skyrim. The name sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember where she was at in the game. All right. And so wait, you're just saying she's going to get sacrificed? She doesn't stand a chance?

No, she's not. She's just fodder. Throwing somebody against, you know, as a distraction is a viable tactic in a bar fight. There you go. She's got good defense, probably has the shield. So take a little bit of energy out of the xenomorph There you go. She's got good defense, probably has the shield, so take a little bit of energy

out of the Xenomorph. Okay, so maybe lose one battle to win the war. Is this what I'm hearing? Okay. It's all about strategy. Ryan might be a little more conniving in this draft than I realized. I'm working with companions here.

Yeah, when's Luigi getting drafted? Toadstool? than I realized. Well, I'm working with companions here. Yeah. Yeah. When's the companion cube toad toad stool? That's an easy one, man. I did look at that one. Yeah. Companion cube. All right.

Well, let's go ahead and take our first break and then we'll come back. All right. Continuing with our draft, Ryan, first selection of round three your third overall pick who's our next companion well let's come out with another just op too strong for their own good character we're going with someone who you may think is a main character in all the games they've been in, but not always. Metal Gear Solid 2, Solid Snake comes back as Plissken, and he is the companion slash helper of Raiden.

And like I said, Metal Gear Solid 2. So CQC master, war hero, everything you could ever want in a soldier. He doesn't need weapons. He'll just snap the guy's necks going with Solid Snake. Plissken. Alright. Sure. What the heck is a Plissken anyway? We all know Metal Gear lore

is so easy to follow. Plissken, that was his fake name when he came back to help Raiden. But then he copped up to that he was Snake later on. But they did fight and Snake just took out everybody. Okay. I like it. It wouldn't be

a draft if Ryan didn't take something from Metal Gear. So I like it. Alright, Josh, your pick. Well, I need somebody strong. Somebody that's trained in combat. You know, somebody that's so cool that maybe they wear their sunglasses inside at night and that is a name a gentleman by the name of albert wesker from the resident evil series

okay starts off starts off you know just as a normal human but by the time you get to you know resident evil 5 or whatever it is this this guy is superhuman. The only way you could kill him was to throw him in a volcano. As one does. Yeah, because that's what you have to do with the really strong villains. So Albert Wesker from Resident Evil, superhuman strength,

all kinds of abilities. I get that maybe he can't use any psionic stuff, but you can't take the strength away from somebody. And he's going to look cool while fighting. He's got sunglasses on. He kind of looks a little bit like Schwarzenegger from Terminator 2 with the glasses and the hair.

Yeah, and he's tough, man. This guy is no joke either. Very true. I like it. All right, coming back around to me, to back my last two picks i've already got little mac and xenomorph next pick i am gonna go doom guy i think doom guy is the first thing that came to mind for me of a character that does not talk but has a lot of power i feel like it's hard to go wrong so i'm gonna go ahead and take doom guy now does he say rip and tear or is that just like his motto i think it's just his motto i don't

remember him saying it in a game i'm i'm inclined to believe that he doesn't speak i i looked it up i think on later ones he may have said a couple things but it says he rarely speaks on screen so i think that fits the, the, yeah. Yeah. All right. He's certainly gone through several games of not speaking. So most of the games he does not speak.

Yeah. Although he does speak in Doom Eternal as well, but I think, I think it's fits the spirit of the draft, even though I don't really want to fight Doom guy. All right. All right. So we'll lock in Doom guy.

And then with my last pick here i boy i i don't even know guys this is the hard one like who who am i gonna take i'm not gonna take like gordon freeman he's no good in a bar fight like this i was also thinking, you know, Claude from GTA 3. I love him. He's not going to do that well in a fight here. So I don't know. I'm going to go a little bit. Okay. You know what? Ace of shame has been posting a lot about Bloodborne.

I'm just going to take the hunter from Bloodborne. I know he doesn't get any of the weapons, but this is a dude who's seen a lot and he's fought a lot. He's not going to be scared. he's not gonna be scared he's not gonna back down and we all know he's gonna be able to roll out of any punches mike tyson might throw his way so i'm gonna take the hunter if only i'd ever played bloodborne wait come on bring bloodborne to pc by the way come on man it's a crime it does not exist i know there's got to be a reason for it but whatever that reason is is stupid because i want to play it yeah and and i i'm not a souls guy i did not love bloodborne but i did play it on playstation and man it would it would do crazy

if it got put into pc oh i imagine all right Josh, coming back around to you, your last pick of the draft. This is my last one, man. I've got, I've got, see, this is where you guys know I like bending the rules, but I actually had to look,

I had to look this one up too. I was going to pick Diablo, but if you had to guess how tall Diablo is, how big do you think Diablo is? Nine feet tall. 12. Well, nine feet would fit in a bar. He's 14 feet tall.

14 feet. Yeah. And that's what I was. I know. So that's when I was like, dang it. I was like, he was like number one on my list. And then I was like, no, they'll never go for it. But you know what? That's like two shacks on top of each other. That's how tall. Unless this is some fancy bar at a ski resort where it's got the huge vaulted ceilings or something. So I didn't pick Diablo, but I am picking a guy that knows how to fight. He's got four arms. He's taller than your average human.

And I am picking Goro from Mortal Kombat because what's better than two fists in a bar fight for fists in a bar fight you know I will say when I got characters that can't talk I initially thought like oh I'm gonna grab like some guys from Mortal Kombat or whatever but a lot of them will either have a voice line or they talk in the movies and I was like like, when I saw Goro, I immediately thought, I hope Josh doesn't think of Goro because I think that's a great pick. Oh, yeah. Okay, got Goro in here.

All right, Ryan, last pick of the draft. Who are you going to take? This is a tough one. Wait, this is my last pick? Yeah, this is your last pick. Oh, that is because I went back to back. You're right. Yep.

Well, let's go with someone who has a lot of youth and vigor. We'll last the endurance test versus a lot of these characters. Oh, you know what? Actually, I'm going to switch on the fly and I'm going to actually ask a question. Is Groot a companion? Does that qualify? No. I get what you're saying because Rocket rides Groot and stuff, but Groot is one of the... Is his own character?

Well, he is a Guardian of the Galaxy. Yeah. So I wouldn't consider him a companion. I just thought you guys were talking about... But that's also a great pick, too. Yeah, I know. I'm thinking about these big guys. Okay, no worries. No, I'm going to go with

Atreus. Oh, okay. Half god, half giant. You got the youth. Super annoying. He's going to be the first one knocked out, man. He's just going to talk like crazy to them all. We're a god business. We're on god business. Did not

get carded, apparently, at the door to this bar yeah i mean let's be honest they let him drink mead back in the day yeah yeah oh gosh atreus can't wait to see him die i can't stand it all right let's go ahead and sum up our teams here ryan you are coming in with jackie wells lydia solid Snake, and Atreus. Atreus. There you go. Josh, you've got Mike Tyson, Kerrigan, Albert Wesker, and Goro. I've got Little Mac, Xenomorph, Doomguy, and The Hunter. How are you guys feeling about your teams? I like my team. Not good. I'm a little worried about two people on paul's team but nobody else what solid snake dude i mean he's gonna pop out of

a cardboard box kind of old you know sucker shot someone no this is prime Metal Gear Solid 2 Solid Snake. The best there ever was. All right. They don't agree. They don't agree. Don't make fun of me, guys. What was Ryan's last pick? Just say it. It's Atreus. I know.

Atreus, there we go. I didn't type it into the doc yet. That's the second time you forgot in like two minutes. I know. I know. I just needed to put it in the doc. I was trying to listen to you guys, and then I forgot. All right.

All right. Atreus is in the spreadsheet. We won't forget again. Don't worry. He's getting knocked out of this real early. No way. I do think Josh's team is looking pretty solid. I like my team a lot, too.

Ryan, I'm not going to lie. Yeah, I'm companions. I think you're hurting, bud. Yeah. Josh got villains. Hey, man, you could have picked Claptrap. How are you going to punch Claptrap? Should have went with Cogsworth from

Fallout. There you go. Alright. Let's start matching. Oh, man. Ryan, this is looking real rough for you because our first matchup is Jackie Wells versus Goro. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, no, not Jackie. That's a good fight. What do you mean? Not Jackie. Ryan, can you make a case for Jackie? He's got big legs. Yeah. And

he's funny. It's pretty cool. And I don't. It's pretty cool. And I don't know. Can Goro get his arms around Jackie to squash him? I think so. I mean, Jackie could use his charisma to try to get on Goro's good side. Yeah. Before he blindsides him with like a beer bottle over the head or something. Maybe this is true.

You're arguing against your guy. Because I know I'm really trying to help you here because this is... I like Jackie, man. Jackie is one of my good ones. That's luck of the draw there. Yeah, I think, unfortunately, this is going to be a first seed exit for a character.

I'll tell you what, just to make it more fair, Goro is going to only fight with three hands and he's drinking a beer with his other hand the whole time he's fighting Jackie. I don't think it'll matter. I think I would still pick Goro. I was going to make a joke that after the fight, let's just say Jackie took off one of Goro's arms. Ooh, okay. All right. So a little, little attrition. Jackie would put up a good fight, man. I don't think Goro would just steamroll him by any means. So we do have to remember that

for the later rounds, though. Goro's going to be a little wore out. Okay, how did I lose a limb? Did he just break it? Jackie did the elbow down into the... Goro fell back onto the table, and then Jackie came down on the side and went...

Flying elbow drop? And it's his top arm. You can pick which side. So it's just kind of dangling there. So it does inhibit his other arm too. No, no, no, no, no. Nice try. What if he got shanked with a glass bottle in the arm?

That makes a little bit more sense. Sure. Straight in the bicep though. It's going to hurt. He's not going to punch with it. All right. So Goro's down an arm. Yeah. Goro weekend.

Goro. I still got three more. When you've got four arms, they are expendable. All right. Round one, matchup two. We've got Mike Tyson versus the Hunter from Blood from bloodborne dude if you miss one dodge you're

knocked out because i know because but like you guys did you guys ever play punch out oh yeah oh yeah did you make it to tyson do you remember when he like he does like the the uppercut fury and it like blinks for a half second and if you you miss that dodge, like away from that side, instant knockout, like just instantly. And then I can't remember. Do you have to replay the whole game again to get back to him? It was back in the day when you would get codes. So if you beat like Flamenco or whatever that character was, it would give you a code that you could enter

and it would put you back in that round. So you didn't have to restart. But there were, of course, no save files. This is back on NES. Right, right. So, I mean, I get that you need to dodge a lot, but one missed dodge and it's over. And how many punches would the hunter need

to get on Tyson, to take Tyson out? A lot, probably. I don't know. See, I don't know a ton about the hunter, man. I mean, I get if he had weapons and stuff, but I don't know how strong this guy is. If Buster Douglas could knock him out, the Hunter could.

Oh, what Buster Douglas? Come on. Now, yeah. And plus you drafted like peak Mike Tyson from a punch out. And just remember, when things start going south for Tyson, he will go for an ear.

It is true. Yeah. So there is that weapon, too. He will bite. Yeah, absolutely. All right. So I think we all agree Mike Tyson's making it out of this fight probably relatively easily.

Hunter missed one dodge roll and just kabam. All right. I'm realizing maybe I went too easy on Josh, giving him villains. I'm not feeling too good yeah all right round one match three we got our two youngest fighters going up against each other we've got little mac versus atreus oh atreus will win one at least that's good willie come on i mean i like little mac but i do kind of side with ryan on this one no way that's insane in a fight a trained fighter versus a teenager he's half god half giant he i

mean he fights a lot of monsters he doesn't have powers though he doesn't need to look he's fist fighting you see how acrobatic a trained fighter atreus is pretty acrobatic i mean he's doing flips he's doing cartwheels, he doesn't have his bow and arrow, so that is the question. Give him a bow staff. Like a pull stick? Because there would be a pull stick at a bar. Pull stick, because he just uses his bow.

He uses his bow as a bow staff to hit. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Ryan, you went so much into a trained fighter can take on, according to you, an unlimited number of people and will win that fight. This is a bar fight with a trained boxer. No, he's a professional boxer. Boxing is different than fighting.

Okay, fair enough. But it is a fist fight, and boxers, last time I checked, fight with their fists. One leg sweep from Atreus, and Little Mac is down on the ground. No, and it's just easier for Little Mac to get up and uppercut him. Come on, there's no world where Atreus wins a fist fight against Little Mac. What are you talking about? What makes Little Mac strong? Like, what makes him...

He beats Mike Tyson. Yeah, but he... In punch out. I mean, after 5,000 attempts. Like, what makes him... He beat Mike Tyson in punch-out. I mean, after 5,000 attempts. But, like, Little Mac can lose to Glass Jaw Joe in the first round, if you're not careful. All right. Well, I mean, you guys get to vote.

Ryan, it sounds like you're voting Atreus. I get it, Paul. I get it. But I feel like a half-God teenager is probably going to be able to take a hit more than Little Mac can. Of course he can. He has no powers, but he still has his regular ability.

He's half-giant, too. The stuff that he gets hit with... I don't really want Atreus moving on, though, either. For the record, this is the biggest travesty if atreus beats little mac what in the history of our drafts no way i don't know but how strong do you think little mac is i think if you do a poll are you going like i'm thinking 85 where he can take on anybody like he's fighting charizard or whoever because like that's a different story than just some little scrawny boxer guy in a video game that's

taking on King Hippo and losing most of the time. I mean, I play Punch-Out! You lose so often! Oh, goodness. Alright, are you voting Atreus, Josh? I am going to vote Atreus. I can't get conscience picks Little Mac on it. I just don't know what

vision of Little Mac Paul has in his head. He is a trained fighter, and we're drafting fighters to fight in a fight, the last time I checked. Kratos trains him how to fight? He's trained to shoot a bow. He sucks otherwise. He does a lot of brawling, man.

Okay. And he Spartan rages. Of course, he passes out when he does that because he's kind of lame but yeah the kid who falls over i just want to trace for three days by somebody else paul like put the xenomorph against a trace this is this is so dumb all right round one match for xenomorph versus albert wesker who i will be honest, I did not even remember. I had to Google it. You remember Wesker from Resident Evil?

Come on, man. Mm-hmm. I did remember once I saw him. I just did not remember him by name. Albert Wesker has superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman stamina, and regeneration abilities. That's not counting the fact that he can mutate into a more powerful form in Resident Evil 5.

Now, we'll say he can't mutate because that'd be using a power. I'm not sure he gets any of those. Superhuman power is a power. Is he taking his stamina away from him? I don't even know what to think anymore in this draft.

I feel like the alien would just wreck him though. He would. I know those aliens would just destroy. Those things are so, that's like one of the best like movie creations ever. They're too, they're too fast to try to fist fight. They're just creepy.

They crawl like spiders on the ceiling. Sometimes it's got acid blood, like drop down on them and just destroy them. I mean, I guess what is their main attack, though? Is it the little mouth thing that shoots out? I think it's the claws. Is it the claws? They tear you to shreds.

Yeah. I think it's like fighting a Wolverine times a thousand. That's kind of what they are. I mean, okay, to be fair, Ellen Ripley grabs the Queen Mother Xenomorph in that suit, the loader suit, and the mother can't do anything against that. So they're not like super strong. They're just fast. It might be one of those things where I don't know if the mother is different than like the other xenomorphs.

I think there's like, I think there's different kinds of xenomorphs too. But in my head, I'm just'm just thinking yeah like a fast agile rip them to shreds with its claws honestly anybody that's played resident evil hates albert wesker so i'm fine if he gets his butt kicked by the xenomorph not to mention this is a full-on bar brawl i do feel like the xenomorph he's gonna get some he's the xenomorphs taking some damage from wesker though man this is not a pushover. That's fair. This is one eye.

They don't have eyes, do they? Do they have eyeballs? I guess they do. They got eyes. Yeah. Because, you know, you need to see in the darkness of space. That's the thing. If you get lucky and get a real strong kick or a stomp on a Xenomorph, you're going to do damage to it.

I don't think they can take a lot of hits, but I think it's like a glass cannon. They do a lot of damage right off the bat. All right, well, Wesker popped both eyeballs, so your xenomorph is now blind. He's blind? He's blind. All right, got a blind xenomorph

trying to carry my team to the finals. We'll see how that goes. Just raging against everybody. This is just in case, Paul. The draft goes weird, and xenomorph winds up fighting somebody on the other team. Xenomorph just kills them all. Yeah. Okay. goes raging against everybody this is this is just in case paul the draft goes weird and you know xenomorph winds up fighting somebody just kills them all yeah okay all right round one match five we've got kerrigan versus solid snake oh good luck solid snake going up against the

queen of blades get out you're gonna try to get the blades though she doesn't get the blades they're part of her body she has the bone wings they're in they're in great it's like saying she doesn't have a spine i thought she like wore him like a suit i don't remember i don't remember my starcraft wings man like that's part of her body snake would be like oh blades yeah um i don't see as much as i like i mean what is his name plissken that's that's what he goes as it's it's solid snake it's just his like code name is is he able to jump out of a box at Is he going to hide for the first 30 seconds, and then he's going to hop out and take Kerrigan by surprise? Because then he's got a chance. Just because I think you guys might have forgotten what Kerrigan looks like

as the Queen of Blades, I just put a photo in our chat for you. Oh, those look dangerous. Yeah. I mean, she's going to jack you up, man. She could just kick him with those heels and just stab him through the heart. And she is wearing heels. She was out on a date. This is a bar.

That's wearing heels. Okay, yeah. And you spilled her margarita, so she's really mad now. Oh, no. Yeah. Who are you voting for, Ryan? Yeah, I don't think Snake can take this one as much as i want him to all right so then we will put kerrigan through should we just call the call this now and just

crown josh the winner all right let's see last match up in round one and then uh things are going to take off pretty quick here. We have Lydia versus Doomguy. Rip and tear until it is done. Sorry, Lydia. Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I barely remember Lydia in Skyrim. It's hard for me to picture her taking on Doomguy. She's a Nord warrior, dude.

You would have been better with the companion cube, Ryan. At least you could have been like, pick this up and throw it at him, Goro. Goro just punching this cube in the corner for the entire fight. Wondering why he's not winning. It won't die. Yeah, my team sucks. Does this fully eliminate you, Ryan?

No, I got Atreus. Now do you see, Paul? Now do you see why? Now do you see why? Yeah. Atreus. Goodness gracious. Okay. All right.

Lydia has been murdered by. It wouldn't be that close though. She is a warrior. Nobody come to her defense. No, everyone's too busy fighting someone else. Who's going to, who's going to come help her out? I don't know. Like Tyson.

I'll give you, I'll give you the bartender the bartender and lydia versus doom guy i'm still taking doom guy yeah all right let's go ahead and take our last break and then we'll come back and finish this tournament all right we are back round two we've got a total of six characters left oh boy we've got goro mike tyson and kerrigan representing josh he's got half the characters remaining other than that we've got atreus by ryan and we've got xenomorph and doom guy by me good news guys is we just we discussed right before recording are we going to have any friendly fire here or should we adjust the bracket on the fly? We agreed that friendly fire is possible.

Yeah, it's a bar fight. You never know what's going to happen, man. Yeah, it's chaos. You might not even realize who you're fighting because we've got this all out brawl round to match one. We've got Goro versus Kerrigan. Oh no, two of Josh's against each other.

Uh. He needs two more arms to stop all the bone wings. Goro's hurt. And so does Kerrigan get to like. Impale people with her. Yeah. I mean, Goro has four arms he gets to use.

Why would she not get to use her, like, bone wing things? She's not allowed to use her powers, because Kerrigan's got all these psionic capabilities and stuff, too. But, I mean, that's like saying your alien's not allowed to use its claws or its little shooty mouth thingy, because that's its weapon. Like, her weapons, they're part of her body. So, to me, I would say they're allowed but i'm also biased so yeah he's he's pretty quick too though he's strong so he could grab him you know when she tries to stab him he could just snap him in half yeah you know

somebody hadn't damaged one of his arms so so goro's grabbing two blades and then punching her with the third arm left is this what we're saying yeah there you go and now goro's grabbing two blades and then punching her with the third arm left. Is this what we're saying? Yeah, there you go. And now Goro's arms are cut. I feel like Kerrigan would just like make a shield around herself with her bone spike things.

Let Goro just wear himself out. And then she just, you know, stab him. This is so ridiculous. Stab him with one of them. Did you see us arguing over who would win in a fight 1v1 kerrigan versus goro guys let's be honest this is the heart of this show because

these are the stupid things i don't know who would win like i'm honestly kind of torn man i feel like kerrigan would win because getting impaled is worse than getting pummeled but like i've played world combat goro will straight up like rip people in half and rip their arms off and stuff and then beat them with it. So it's like, what wins? Does brute strength and three arms win out over how many bone blades does Kerrigan have?

It's like two wings, but each one's got three blades. Yeah, they're tipped with razors. My thing is, I feel like you could impale Goro, and I feel like he's still going to fight for a good 30 to 40 seconds before it starts. He's got a lot more hit points than Kerrigan is what you're saying. Yeah, I could see this. Exactly right.

I wish I had a video clip of that. Just did the best Goro impression. The perfect Goro. My gut reaction was goro so i'm gonna vote goro but i think it's a very close right what what's your take on this one right i think like you guys said i think he can take some punishment there's those blades are gonna do a lot of damage and there's six of them. My thought is Kerrigan wins, but she loses three of her blades. Oh, so one of her wings gets crippled. Yeah, one of her wings gets jacked up.

I feel like Goro could maybe snap one. Yeah, Goro just like snaps it, and then she just stabs him too many times with the other one. He's like, oh. All right, I think I'm going with Ryan on this one, man, because getting impaled by bone-tipped razor wing thing sounds terrible.

And Kerrigan's no slouch. Like, she's an athlete, man. She was an elite, like, trained commando before she went bad, too. So I feel like she knows how to handle herself. She's got those razors on her forearms, too. Yeah, that's true. All right.

So, all right, I'm going to side with Ryan on this one. I'm going to say Kerrigan would win, but she ain't coming out of that undamaged either. She's down to one right. So, all right. I'm going to side with Ryan on this one. I'm going to say Kerrigan would win, but she ain't coming out of that. She's down to one wing. Down to one wing. One wing with three blades. All right. That's fair.

So, we've got a one-winged Kerrigan, a blind xenomorph, a stupid, annoying half-god kid. What is happening here? Best draft ever. Atreus. Man, I just hate him even more now atreus now all-time most hated character by me i love all right let's see round two match two we've got mike tyson in his prime versus a blind xenomorph oh man okay xenomorph is blind tyson's you know he was back in his day in his prime he was smooth he could probably move around without making a lot of noise man very true and if the xenomorph leaps at him i feel like he can dodge it pretty easily if my xenomorph doesn't even know where

tyson is i i'm i'm gonna vote for tyson yeah I think that's the right call. Are you guys serious? Yeah, okay. You take the Xenomorph? A healthy Xenomorph. A healthy Xenomorph, yes, Ryan, but this Xenomorph is blind now. It's blind, yeah. So?

How's it going to know where Tyson's at? It just will swing its giant claws at everything around. And you know what? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, man. You know, he's head bobbing. I know, I know. That's Muhammad Ali. I know, I know.

But I'm just saying, like he's doing the little head bob thing that the alien's swinging around everywhere and then he just uppercuts it. Just boom. That would be majestic.

I mean, I see it happening. All right, well, I'm outvoted anyways. I think the xenomorph, but you guys go with Tyson. You might have won me over, Ryan. I don't know. I just Googled Xenomorph height.

They're a little taller than I realized. How tall are they? Seven to eight feet tall, and they're 14 to 16 feet long. Yeah. Going from head to end of tail. Yeah, I mean, you're counting the tail, which is, you know, they'd fit in a bar. How many punches does Tyson need against a Xenomorph? He'd go for the body.

Body blows, dude. Body blow. Body blow. He's got to hit it like 10 times, right? The second he goes before body blows. It's going to be too close and then just clamp. All right. But this alien, it's taking more damage, man.

I think he uppercuts it in the face and it pops off. It bites through its own little jaw thingy. The jaw's gone. Yeah, it's like biting your tongue. And it's blind face and it pops off. It bites through its own little jaw thingy. The jaw's gone. Yeah, it's like biting your tongue. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Upon, now that I realized how long they are,

Tyson's going to have to be within arm's length of the xenomorph. It's going to take them out. You just heard Tyson going like, what the heck is this thing? Oh my God. That's the worst white tyson impression ever oh i love it all right xenomorph we'll take that one but he's he's now he's now he's a little he's hurting i i would like to say that you know the the doom slayer against lydia

didn't none of us thought that maybe she even got a lick in on him. He's just fully healthy. We got a fully healthy dude. What are you hating on Lydia for, man? Jeez Louise. She's still a soldier. I'm drafting my neighbor

Lydia to fight. Alright. Final match of round two. We've got Atreus versus Doomguy. And according to you guys, Lil Mac didn't even put a scratch on Atreus, so they're both fully healthy.

Atreus versus Doomguy. You could annoy Doomguy to death, to where Doomguy would just go, oh, no more. Would he rage? Would Doomguy get so aggravated that he kind of loses his cool at this point and goes into like a blind rage that could be just starts throwing tables at atreus yeah yeah i mean atreus is going down what's's the most spectacular fashion? Just puts him in the corner? Does he put him in timeout?

I mean, let's be honest. There's no way Atreus is doing anything here. No, not... What are you talking about? I guess Doomguy? He's half god and half giant. I don't care. Doomguy is half

like, don't mess with me guy. Oh, yeah. He faces the entire demon horde, man. With guns? I mean, he rips... Dude, the strongest ability is when he gets that power up and he just one punches things

and they explode. With a power up. See? You need power ups and guns. I'm not saying Atreus can win, but don't say he's not doing any damage. All right. What damage is he doing? Right? Choose your disability. Breaks both his legs.

Breaks both of them guys legs. All right. He's just laying on the ground in a chair. Swinging up. Put him on a stool so he can spin around at least on a stool that way he can spin around and aim at people oh goodness all right we're propping him up on a bar stool however uh so doom guy does make it through although he has no legs okay i can't feel my legs sure this makes perfect sense

all right this means we are now down to our final three fighters unfortunately ryan you've been eliminated you get the bronze for for this draft you are the weakest link goodbye we now are left with a one-winged carriganan who still has the use of both of her legs against doom guy who is stuck on a bar stool swinging into the void and my blind xenomorph who also has been uppercut and is missing the... Missing his protruding jaw. Yeah, whatever word that is. The shooty jaw. I think that's the official term for it.

There you go. Yeah. So, boy. All right. But how do you see this going down, Ryan? Let's ask you first as the impartial judge. And so this is all three? Is that what we're doing?

Yeah, Kerrigan doom guy and the xenomorph xenomorph is blind and missing its shooty jaw yeah doom guy has two broken legs kerrigan is missing one of her bone wings it's definitely between xenomorph and kerrigan the question is yeah like what i i'm not sure doom guy is gonna do anything so is the thought kerrigan just immediately takes out doom guy first she just pushes the stool over and he's just on the ground oh that's yeah that's a good point and then he's just dragging his body and she just gives him one through the heart so he's gone no no damage and now it's just like they started Xenomorph and Kerrigan. Oh, man.

But that's a good battle, I think. Now, is Kerrigan so distracted taking out Doomguy that it gives Xenomorph a little bit of extra time to attack first? I would think so. Or how does this go down? Why has Kerrigan got to beat us? Don't you think that the blind alien would go after the guy that's spinning around on a stool making a bunch of noise? I think the intent is that they're on

a team, and I know the xenomorph only has so much understanding of this, but I mean, you could argue the xenomorph might accidentally friendly fire and hit Doomguy anyway, but I don't think the xenomorph would intentionally go for doom guy they're on the same team he's blind though he doesn't know that's true he is

blind yeah they don't just kill both and let's be honest aliens ain't so bright okay but now we got space travel wait there there's no uh there's no weapons but she has the blades so if she uses them then the acid comes spewing out man that might melt her bones yeah her so maybe she's just normal kerrigan after all this she's got one wing i feel like she can't use i will say other than the claws from the alien because he doesn't have a shooty mouth anymore like claws are the only thing the alien because he doesn't have a shooty mouth anymore. Claws are the only thing the alien has at this point. Well, I guess the tail. That tail can whip around. Yeah, the tail does try to impale things.

So, man, this is a tough one. I'm going to side with Kerrigan just because one bone wing is still a bone wing. It's still an extra weapon. Yeah, with three spear tips on it. whereas the alien has claws and a tail but he's blind so he's just thrashing whereas kerrigan can like time her shot

you know she's looking she's waiting the tail goes whipping by she charges in and just you know one bone wing straight through the the alien at this point. And then the acid sprays out and it melts her bone wings. And then she stands there victorious. But now she's normal. And then the scene ends. Yeah. And then Raynor comes walking through the door and says,

sorry, I'm late, Kerrigan. So you don't see an ending where the xenomorph just bleeds all onto kerrigan and then kerrigan dies and and it's uh nobody ties or that'd be a bad doom guy winds up winning as a floppy fish on the ground because the xenomorph and kerrigan take each other out he just drags himself under the pool table yeah because he's uh yeah i mean i i i'm i'm inclined to say carrigan's wing still gives her a lot of reach it's an actual weapon also i think i think she's gonna win against a blind if the xenomorph is fully healthy it's the xenomorph all day every day i would i would say see this is where it gets interesting because I would say if Doom guy was healthy, that he would rip that alien apart, because that's what he does.

Yes, exactly. Yeah, there's not much difference between a xenomorph and demons in Doom. So I feel like he would have wrecked that xenomorph, but Atreus broke two of his legs. Yeah. When we've got just xenomorph versus Kerrigan i think my xenomorphs taken too much i would vote kerrigan this is a video game character draft like battle bar bar brawl and a xenomorph like kerrigan just sounds like a better winner versus like a xenomorph yeah i i don't i don't know that you ever actually play as a xenomorph and you're usually

hiding from them yeah you don't even really see them a lot in the games but yeah i'm i'm fine saying kerrigan is the last one standing she's pretty bad i mean honestly in a bar fight if i saw the queen of blades in there i'd be like yes ma'am can i buy you another drink whatever you need yeah uh check please just get out how do you guys feel to know that we're probably the only people in human history to have this conversation? Oh, we are definitely the only ones to compare.

And this is why people love listening to the show. Yeah. We're solving the real problems of the world. Guys. These are, these are things people need to know. People should be thinking about this more. Yeah.

Honestly, we're, we're bringing knowledge, bringing awareness. Yeah. Awareness. Yeah, honestly. We're bringing knowledge to the world. We're bringing awareness. Yeah. Awareness to these hot topics. Don't get into bar fights with certain things. There's a lot of problems in this world,

and this is the biggest one, honestly, that we should be focused on. All right. So, Josh, you are coming away as the victor. I love that it's your second round pick that carried you into into the finals yeah if only uh if her and goro didn't face off against each other it would have been a landslide i think it would have been i think we would have had like a healthy kerrigan

at that point or a healthy or three-armed goro which is you know at least at least it made for a semi-interesting final round would goro have beaten the xenomorph i'm a little worried because he has to get close he has to get like he has to get in real close fully healthy xenomorph i don't know man that's what i'm saying or are we still saying blind and if he rips the xenomorph apart then all that acid blood is melting goro i feel like that he would have been a lot weaker to the xenomorph to be honest if the xenomorph is blind i think goro gets to it and snaps it grabs it by the tail and then just chucks it or something or it does that yeah yeah maybe swings it around and does the whole smash thing does alien acid melt through bone uh yes it melts through like metal and you think it

would melt through bone i think don't they have the thing where it like splashes on the face but then you see the bone i don't know i guess it would melt through bone i i feel like you see it always dripping through like the ceiling and through you know what i mean if it's going through entire floors i feel like it's going to get through bone okay all right all right well congratulations to kerrigan uh her finest accomplishment winning this bar brawl yeah uh i think that does wrap everything up here for this bonus round we want to say thank you once again to more gal for the idea uh thanks so much for bringing that up all of our listeners out there should come join our discord

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Happy gaming. See ya. All right listening. Until next time, happy gaming. See ya! Alright, next round's on me, everybody. I feel like pina coladas at the end of the day. Oh my god. Alright, bye everybody. Bye.