Video Gamers Podcast - [Bonus Round] Stranded on a Desert Island - Video Games Podcast

Episode Date: October 30, 2023

Video game hosts Paul, Josh and Ryan have been stranded on a desert island! In this awesome Bonus Round episode, we draft which video game characters we’d want stranded with us. Then we pit them against each other in a gaming tournament like no other. Listen in to see which video game character reigns supreme as the best to be stranded with! Thanks to our LEGENDARY Supporters: Redletter, Gaius214, Nate and Kiitaclyzm Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com//videogamerspod Follow us on Twitter: 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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Offer ends March 3rd, 2025. Terms and conditions apply. invest with RBC. Offer ends March 3rd, 2025. Terms and conditions apply. Invest with RBC today. Hello, fellow gamers. Welcome back to another edition of the Video Gamers Podcast. Today, we are going to be tackling the topic of best gaming characters to be stranded on a desert island with. We are going to be doing a four round draft snake style, then we will pit all our selections against one another March Madness style until we crown an overall winner. I am your host Paul, and joining me, he was on a three-hour tour before his ship called

the Minnow left him stranded on an island. It's Josh. You're not going to bait me into singing again, Paul. But I am 100% singing this song in my head right now. Are you? Did you watch Gilligan's Island as a kid? I loved Gilligan's Island, dude. So did I, dude. Loved it, man kid loved gilligan's island dude oh so did i dude man

it loved it yes it was so great oh what a great show all right and then joining josh and me i'm giving him a more modern reference because he's the youngest one on the pod he was working for fedex and his plane crashed on an island and then his wife got remarried almost immediately it's ryan all right i can barely make out what you said it was so loud that uh discord blocked you out i know what i think you were yelling wilson oh yeah wonderful all right guys believe it or not we did our last draft in tournament in June. It's actually been four months. I feel like we've been a little derelict of our duties.

Now, to be fair, we did release some flashback Friday episodes that were tournaments in the meantime, but I looked back and the last tournament we did was best character to have as a roommate. Ryan won that tournament by picking Nathan Drake in the third round. A little bit of a dark horse winner. I finished second with Cortana. Somehow Josh's pick of Mimir inexplicably made it to the final three. Still don't know how that happened. Yes, because he'd be a great roommate. I still stand by that pick. Oh, all right. So who wants the honors who wants to explain what we're doing here today go ahead ryan oh i was already shaking my head what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a beautiful

draft for you guys we're gonna do characters if we were stranded indefinitely on an island so we're kind of gonna loop around it's gonna go josh me then paul and we're just gonna kind of going to loop around. It's going to go Josh, me, then Paul. And we're just going to kind of go Ron Robin snake style back and forth. And then we're going to vote between the two, battle them up head to head and see who is the winner. Yeah. And then we'll have our consensus pick who the best character to be stranded on an island with. So I wanted to ask you guys, like, what makes for a good character to be stranded with what's the criteria that you're looking at here i personally i actually this is how i broke down my list is i went with various categories of things that i would need or want

if i was on like stranded on a desert island oh that's what i did yeah so like you know one would be like survival like who's really good at survival? Who would be a good person to keep me alive? Who would be a good person to just hang out with? I don't want to get annoyed by somebody. You're stuck with this person forever. So what are some characters that I could just totally vibe with and be like, okay, we get along great. We're friends, that kind of thing. And it should be said that we do have one rule for this draft and that it is that you are on this island forever. You can't just pick somebody with a jet pack and be like, well, I picked so-and-so because they just fly me off the island. No, you're here. You're spending your life on this island

with this person. My criteria was about the same as yours, Josh. I mostly just thought about someone that I can get along with long-term, Josh. I mostly just thought about someone that I can get along with long-term. I don't want someone annoying or someone that we're going to clash with. And I want it to be someone that has a lot of skill. So someone who's going to be able to get things done on this island. I'm assuming that this is a relatively large island. So we're going to have to do like some hunting, building some shelter that kind of stuff uh as great as it would be to be with someone like uh i don't know like sure gordon freeman from half-life that's someone who's very smart i don't necessarily know that that's the best

person to have to survive with the other thing i was going to mention is that we have blacklisted a few names because we want to avoid some of the common characters that tend to pop up in these drafts so we agreed we're not going to draft certain people like kratos laura croft we also said no micah bell or trevor phillips although goodness gracious i don't think any of us would would take either of those last two put me out of my misery oh my gosh. Being on an island with Micah Bell. Oh, I can't think of anything worse.

All right. Well, Ryan mentioned the draft order there. Josh gets the number one overall pick. You did mention in our Discord, Josh, that you were so ecstatic because there's such a clear 101 here to take at the top of the draft. I don't know why you guys keep hosing me on these. It's like, you know, who's the best villain? Oh, man, I know who the best villain is. No, you get the third pick in that draft, Josh.

Who's going to be the best roommate? I don't know. Your first pick. I was whining a little bit about my luck with getting the first pick in a draft when it doesn't matter. But there is a character that I think leads the pack in a sense. And it's the one character that I would be a little bit worried that you guys would pick in this case. So I think that's who I'm going to go with first.

But I tried to think outside the box a little bit on this one. Okay. I respect it. I kind of try to do the same. Whenever we do these drafts, I tend to look at my steam library and my Epic game store library and try to think, okay, what characters are in this game?

Would any of them be a good selection? And then I make a master list and then I just kind of try to prioritize them in my head. Before you give us your first pick here, Josh, we do want to let all of our listeners know that they can come follow us on socials everywhere at Video Gamers Pod. We don't talk about it too often, but also, you know, come join our Discord server.

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us keep the show on. And also, you'll get some awesome perks like bonus episodes. Go sign up at MultiplayerSquad.com. And I just want to say, because I know that everybody in the world has a Discord server out there nowadays, our server is awesome, man. It is an incredible community of gamers. I mean, it's active. People are super cool to each other.

They're always chatting games or putting games out there or giving their ideas on games that just came out. So this is no slouch of a Discord where it's it's like oh yeah i join and there's 12 people in the server and then i want out right away right it's like what have i done like come check it out you will be happy with it like we're we're proud of this community that we got and if you're not in there you're missing out on a part of it yeah absolutely you know people wake up they they go they check instagram or facebook or any of those social medias i'm like straight to the discord what's on what's what's every got going on today and i even i like learn about stuff coming up or we've got some really knowledgeable people on there that are always posting news

updates and stuff that are super super cool right on topic um awesome anyone that joins is gonna love it yep yeah absolutely and sometimes we give away free games. Sometimes our listeners give away free games, too, if they have extra keys. So it's a win-win for everybody. Or whiskey or anything. I was going to say, we've had some really nice whiskey given away. And I'm not saying that we haven't had a few graphics cards given away by listeners as well. But that's my point, is that this is legitimately a fantastic gaming community.

And so I get it. A lot of people are like, yeah, yeah, everybody has a Discord server. No, this is the place to be. Absolutely. All right. Well, I think it's that time, guys. Let's go ahead and start our draft. Josh, number one overall pick, who do you see as the best selection? Okay, guys. So I broke my categories down, like I said, into people I want to chill with. Maybe I don't want to give away anything because I don't want you guys to poach one of my picks and come up with one of my awesome ideas. But what is the number one rule if you are out in the wilderness and you are stranded somewhere? Make a help sign and build shelter. Shelter.

Exactly, Paul. I think it's actually water, but go ahead. Actually, I think it's shelter so you don't freeze to death in the middle of the night. game character that is light years above every other game character out there for building shelter and surviving on a desert island and building a castle or a dungeon or a little cute hut or something like that. A person that can punch a tree and get wood and then take that wood and make a little house. That person is Steve from from minecraft i'm

going to be living the high life boys because i'm gonna have the nicest house imaginable it's gonna be decorated with little lamps my kids are always showing me this stuff they're like dad dad come check out my minecraft house it's got a library and and it's got a fo. And I built this one up in a tree house. Look how nice it is. And I'm always like, that's really cool, man. Like, good job. Well, guess what, boys? While y'all are slumming it in a little leaf hut or something like that, I'm going to be

living the life of luxury because Steve is going to build me the coolest shelter you've ever seen in your life. So full disclosure in our Discord, you were saying there's no clear uh 101 i was trying to throw y'all off i said i said i think you can kind of argue too but one of them is such a boring pick they're not even on my list and that was steve dude i would not have taken him in this draft it's such a boring character are Are you kidding me? You want to hang out with Steve? How is that going to be exciting? Dude, I don't care about Steve. I'm living in a mansion.

Dude is building me a castle, Paul. On a desert island. I'm living in paradise at this point, man. What are those conversations going to be like with Steve? He doesn't talk. All the better. He can't annoy me at this point.

You think you're going to like somebody and then their true colors are going to come out and you're going to be like, what have I done? Steve? Don't talk, man. All he does is provide. It's a very,

very good functional pick. And of course we have to denigrate each other's picks a little bit because we're all trying to win this draft. Of course I would expect no less. That just shows me that you're jealous, Paul. Not jealous, Paul, uh, not jealous,

but, but good functional pick. You're absolutely going to have no problem with shelter. I will give you that Josh. All right. So Ryan, it's kind of sounds like, was that going to be your number one pick if Josh didn't take them?

Yeah, I was going to go boring at first for sure. And, uh, just, I mean, he can just punch like sand on the ground and make you just giant sandcastle to live in so yeah it was definitely gonna be my first one like i said i put it in

the chat as he was describing what he was gonna pick before he said it yeah because i knew that's exactly what he was gonna do but uh yeah it's a good nice boring pick dude the slander just means y'all are worried all right go ahead ryan are you going to take with the number two overall pick? Well, let's pick somebody now that can actually talk, can actually do more than just punch sand and punch trees and build dumb block cubes of nothingness. Who would you want when you're out there trying to survive? You want a survivalist who's experienced it, who's had to survive through a crazy time.

Maybe a crazy time with zombies. Maybe a crazy time where they'd have to craft things, make things, build things, and they can play the guitar. I'm going Joel, baby. Last of us. Are there zombies on this island? Did we say this was a zombie island? No, it's not. It doesn't matter, though, because anything that comes up, it ain't going to be as tough as a zombie.

Would you rather be prepared for a zombie outbreak or not prepared, Josh? This is what it comes down to. Okay. Since we're slandering each other this early in the episode i mean in a a desert island where you are stranded with one other person sounds about like the safest place in the world to be if there was a zombie apocalypse happening it does i will say joel when i think of him he's kind of like the ultimate survivor so i can see why you would want to take him early in this. He's a good fighter. He can craft.

All you got to do is give him some rubbing alcohol and some gauze, and he's got the world's greatest bandages ready at the go. Okay, I get it. And you and I are huge Last of Us fans, Ryan. So Josh, not so much. Hey, I love Pedro Pascal. What are you talking about? Sure. Oh, gosh.

All right. I had you talking about? Sure. Oh, gosh. All right. I had a feeling Joel would go. I wondered if you might do Ellie instead of Joel. But okay. I was kind of curious. I need a man, baby. There you go. All right.

Joel will lock him in at number two. All right. My pick here to finish out round one. I am going a little bit outside the box. I don't know if this is necessarily on your guys' radar or not. I kind of thought for a second this might be where Josh was going. When we're talking about Ultimate Survivor, we need someone who can craft, someone who can cook, someone who can fight, someone who knows how to survive and interact with other people someone who can punch trees and punch rocks i am going with my character from rust this is the ultimate

survivor to not just survive but thrive on a desert island my character is gonna have us with ak-47s in no time we're gonna have all the best food do you how many i don't care if it's bear steaks or fish or uh pork whatever it is we're gonna have that grill going and we're gonna be having a good time there's actually pretty good nice sweet sweet meat so i do have a question about this paul i love serious no there's good i love the originality but also i've seen how many times your character dies in rust just trying to go from the beach to like the area where we want to be sure so does that come into play at all as far as like you dying 300 times well you see josh this is a uh desert island which means it's not

full of 14 year old racists that are just looking to kill everybody fair point fair that's the difference if you were to play a pve version of rust there's no problem surviving i don't know man i've been wrecked by bears aren Aren't there boars? The wolves? Oh, sure. If you're out there dying to the boars, you need some help. I mean, if you're naked, which in Rust you are a good bit. Yeah. I just need to make my first bow, and I think we're more than okay.

Is this Paul's Rust character? Yes. Paul's Rust character. Okay. Paul's rust character? Yes, Paul's rust character. He is a very striking black man with a beard, very muscular, and... Other assets. He is very gifted. We'll leave it at that. Willie.

Yeah. What's that? Well, it looks like a giant... Johnson. Yes, sir. And is a fantastic pumpkin farmer as well. Oh, he really is. Yeah.

World's greatest pumpkin farmer. And hemp. Everybody's going to be happy. Unfortunately, Russ kind of did away with the pumpkins. However, Josh has seen, give me 48 hours in in real life and I will have a pumpkin farm that is so dense with so many pumpkins that it will lower the frame rate of the game whenever anyone goes near it. It was a great defense. It really was. The best thing is to heal.

You could just eat like eight pumpkins and you'd be at full health. You know, that was pretty fantastic. All right. Paul's character from Rust went in the first round and then to start out round two in a similar vein i am going to draft the driller from deep rock galactic oh the care oh paul's deep rock galactic character i'm sensing a trend here paul paul's deep rock galactic that's darn. Somebody's obsessed with themselves. I'm not drafting me, Ryan.

I'm drafting the driller. That's it, lads. Rock and stone. Let me ask you a question. Who doesn't like dwarves? Elves. Elves. And that's it, right? And they don't even exist.

Hanging out with dwarves? I like how dwarves can exist, but hanging out with dwarves in this exercise they do sure of course this is just paul's rules yeah paul's rules he just does whatever he wants i like it now look i like rebellious paul here keep going paul sure i love it now josh is worried about freezing in the desert and i guess that is a valid concern i have to admit being that we all live in phoenix i'm immediately going to get me out of the sun that is what's going to kill me you know the elements i'm thinking more heat but my driller is going to be able to take us underground we are going to be able to tunnel out the world's greatest base underground my dwarf is hilarious. Knows how to dance. Knows how to party.

This is someone that you're not just going to have to be forced to survive with. It's actually going to be like a lifelong friend. And I think you're actually going to have a fantastic time more days than you won't. And those dwarves can drink. They know how to party. That is for sure. And honestly, living underground would have its merits as well i think so too what happens when you run out of gas for your drills

though because you're on a desert island i mean uh we'll cross that road but if we've already drilled out our base then i'm not terribly concerned about drilling so much more yeah it's more initially to set up it's like a sad moment where the driller just eventually takes the drills off and sets them down and is like, my work is done. Just watches the sunset at the end of the day. Yeah.

And he's got unlimited glow sticks. Gonna be chucking them underground. We don't even have to worry about it. Paul's got a rave desert party going on. I'm not you selling me on this, Paul. You're selling me on this paul you're selling me on this the driller did anyone think i was gonna draft the driller from deep rock galactic oh no way all right that didn't even cross my mind that's all i need moral victory right there as long as i just you know surprised you a little bit all right well we'll go ahead and take a short break and we'll be right back. This is Carry the Fire. I'm your host, Lisa Laflamme.

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and someone who has both is one of my favorite characters from a game that i put way more time in to than i care to admit um i'm going from destiny cade six then boom it was like an ugly contest where everyone was a winner this one dude's all wrong so i shot him then i shot this other one shot a couple extra guys just to be safe i did i did a lot of shooting if i'm being totally honest okay kade six i like it so uh voiced by the great nate fillion uh filling filling filling i think that's how you say something like that yeah paul would know even though he's a canadian good guy now i did not play a ton of destiny i know know who Kade6 is. I remember him being a really cool guy. I definitely feel like I could hang out with him. Does he bring any skills?

Yeah, dude. He's going to nuke everything on that island. So you're going to be living in a wasteland after that. No, I'm the chef. He's going to go kill the stuff and bring it back, and I'll cook it, and then we'll just laugh while he just tells jokes. Okay. He is like the comic relief in destiny right oh yeah so you get like the personality and the humor you have like your main you know the main characters uh around like the the tower and

everything and then he's like the one that of the four or five that there are of the main people that's like kind of the funny one so he's he's a big jokester likes to mess around a lot of witty remarks and comments but he's you know got this little single shot or single uh revolver and no he's a robot right it's it's kind of hard to explain android cyborg like he's like a psychomantis explanation again is this i know right trying to make me stumble over my words basically he's sweet that's all okay all right i mean i know kate six is a beloved character that's for sure kate six quote he's sweet yeah that's all isn't he also dead don't bring that up oh sorry right oh man ryan's getting choked up it hurts all right is it to me we are back to you, Josh. You get your back-to-backs, right?

Sure do. Well, it's funny because Ryan mentioned, and this is very true, I actually had a category that is companionship. I am an extrovert. I need interaction with people. I can get along with just about anybody. But you also brought up a good point, Ryan, when you were like, you want somebody that can go hunt and is good, is going to be able to hunt down some of the wildlife on this island. Paul, you brought up a good point that it gets cold at night on a desert island. You're going to need warmth. And maybe this is recency bias on my half. You know, for me, I'm going with quiet from Metal Gear Solid V, boys. I mean...

Is this under the pervert category? I actually labeled this companionship, Paul, in quotation marks. I have proof. I will send you guys a screenshot. Sure. So, yeah. I mean, she can hunt. It's purely medical. She's a sniper. Sure. So, yeah. I mean, she can hunt. It's purely medical.

She's a sniper, Paul. That's true. She's going to take down the wildlife. We're going to be eating good. Listen, she has the perfect attire for a desert island. She's not talkative, so I don't have to worry about her being like, oh, she talks too much or any of that stuff you know she's not going to be like josh you didn't go collecting a firewood today you know

and so it's just like on a desert island this is strictly business guys okay it's companionship it is hunting it is proper attire for the desert island life it is staying warm at night she sings well i don't know what that weird song that she sings is but now i've got some music as well excellent homer hums very well and insert home here josh is dying i lost i'm sorry lost. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. All right. So, yeah.

Good pick. Yep. Sure. Okay. I can now scratch off Professor Garlic. Okay. There we go. Yeah.

Maybe go another direction with this next one. All right. We finished round two. You get the first pick of round three. All right. I do want somebody that is excellent at gathering food. We're on an island, right? What's right next to an island? The ocean. The ocean is a bounty.

A bounty of food and fish and wildlife. And what better person to go collect that than Dave the Diver. Yeah. I knew he'd go. I knew he'd go in this draft. I love it. Yes. So I'm picking Dave the Diver. He's going to be the guy that's out there every day

catching all the fish, making sure we're eating like kings, man. Best sushi in town. Who's going to cook it? I can make a fire. i'm not an idiot ryan i might not be a chef but i can cook fish you know so god i would just like to point out for everybody right now i'm living in a castle i have fresh sushi every single day of my life and i i have quiet for companionship. This is, this draft is going about as good as I can possibly imagine.

This is Josh's dream vacation. This is what I'm hearing. I got to say your team sounds pretty sweet. Yeah, it does. Not bad. All right, Ryan,

coming back to you, middle pick in round three, who are you going with? Oh, well, I guess in honor of also having companionship but also someone who can shoot a bow can hunt can is agile can jump around can collect things um i'm going with uh alloy aloy aloy she she was on my list it was it was literally like aloy and quiet and then i i was

like which i i went with quiet well here's the recency bias aloy for me i you know i got a thing for redhead so i couldn't pass that one up um yeah i think that's just if i'm gonna survive and i'm with a lady it's gonna be her uh previous host michael could not be more excited to hear i was actually i was gonna give him a nod i was gonna say for uh just for michael i'm gonna pick her just for you even though i butchered her name at first sorry it's i had a long day at work this pick is sponsored by michael the butler and he approves this message he's at home like when he listens to this he's fist pumping i'm gonna get a good old aloy i'm gonna get dm right away probably all right that's a great pick i like it ryan good old aloy from uh horizon zero dawn horizon forbidden west good all right coming back around to me i get my last two picks here boy there's so many good ones that

are still on the table um okay i thought it'd be funny if i just kept sticking with the same theme and said my character from the oregon trail but i'm not gonna do that i'm gonna pick i'm gonna pick a real character my world of war. Yeah, there you go. My priest in World of Warcraft. This is going to be a pick that I think only 0.2% of our listeners is going to know. Josh, you're probably not even going to remember him by name until I remind you who it is. I am going to take Galerius from the Forgotten City. Oh, is he the guy? He's the servant that runs off and does everything for you.

He's the servant. That guy is awesome. I freaking love Galerius. He's such a cool character. So for anyone out there who has never played the Forgotten City, it is a time loop game where you end up with people during ancient Greece. And you are greeted by this guy, Galerius, who is just the friendliest man in the world.

And you tell him, hey, I'm from the future and I've already met you. I'm in a time loop. We've done this a bunch. And he just says, oh, cool. I totally believe everything that you just said. What can I do to help you? And he will run around and do all your errands.

He takes care of everything you need. He is incredibly honorable. he's a fast runner uh he does not mind doing what's best for the group so i had to go with galerius here the the only thing i think you can knock him for is you can actually get him elected as the magistrate in the forgotten city i don't know if you remember this, Josh, but his very first order of business is to release Dooley from the prison. And Dooley immediately steals and breaks the golden rule and everyone gets destroyed. Oh my goodness. So I think he's a great number two, as long as you don't give him all the decision making.

But he is the perfect person to go do all your errands and everything you need on the island. Phenomenal pick, Paul. Nice. That guy, dude, I remember playing Forgotten City and absolutely just thinking like, this guy is the best character ever. He is just so friendly, so nice, so understanding. I had to pick him here. And then with my last pick in the draft hmm i okay all right i'm i'm gonna go with jane from rim world your dear sweet jane she's dead paul she is dead uh in my rim world save she is dead

um no thanks to todd who got her killed but for those that are very long-term listeners of the show, they will remember that I played RimWorld for hundreds of hours. Sweet Jane was part of my party for a very long time. She had one arm, but ran around with a rifle and was a crack shot from range. She guarded my base like no one else ever could she was an incredible leader of my colony and then when todd and i installed the multiplayer mod um he got her killed by frostbite i believe is what happened we had no doors and she basically froze to death which made me very sad um but i'm going to go ahead and say Jane.

Fantastic hunter and gatherer. Great survivor as long as you don't put her in a shelter that is not enclosed. So as long as we take care of that, I think Jane's going to be a good pick. So Paul's team is Paul's rust character. Paul's Driller from Deep Rock Galactic, and Paul's Jane from Rimworld. A hundred percent. That is correct. I like this trend, Paul.

Only missing Paul's character in the Oregon Trail. All right. Coming back to you, Ryan. This is your last pick of the draft. Who are you taking? This is a tough one. There's so many good characters of me that i could possibly pick you know yeah are you gonna take the ryan uh nintendo me that you

created my my uh me nintendo wii bowling character yeah there you go tennis um so man uh i think i'm gonna go with something that not very much outside the box but when you want somebody to who can craft who again uh is not going to talk to you or bug you but can also defend you or help you attack things and fight. I'm going to go Link. Okay, Link. That's a good pick. I like it. Okay, sure.

You're not going to have to worry about, like I said, not going to have to worry about him talking. You just hear... Oh, you get annoyed by those, though, Ryan. that could lead to trouble later on then we can battle he's got ultra hand like i i actually briefly thought of link and i thought it was a really bad pick in my head and then i'm like wait you get ultra hand link is a great pick hey link shoot up to the top of that mountain you know and just and he just goes right through the mountain all the way to the tip top grabs whatever and then comes back down if you're josh

you know you just kind of slowly climb your way up and just keep eating food to build your stamina and he doesn't have to worry about the elements if it's cold he just has to eat some chilies yeah and it'll keep him warm survive yeah crafting fighting uh doesn't talk perfect perfect i love how much of a premium you guys put on people who can't talk i think that would actually drive you wild not having anyone to talk to i think you would want to talk to someone you can talk to them they just can't talk back i will say i'm gonna slander this pick because four weeks in of link just going ryan would just slaughter him he'd be like hey link come to this cliff with me look at this view and then just shove him right off the cliff man then he'd pull out a stupid glider and i'd be like

dang it he'll spot his leaf yeah that's all he needs all right great great pick i like it ryan i think i underestimated link because of ultra hand yeah all right josh last pick of the draft give us your pick and then we'll go through some honorable mentions oh you guys done messed up man i'll tell you what all right i've got my castle i've got my company i've got my castle. I've got my company. I've got my food. I need a party. I need a good time. I am taking Dionysus from Hades. The god of wine and ecstasy. The god of fruitfulness and vegetation.

Dionysus, the guy who knows how to party and have a good time my my quartet is complete man i mean i cannot think of a better dude to just you talk about your island rave paul we're having an island party sponsored by the god of wine himself on this island, it is going to be great. I hope I never get rescued. I'm struggling to make fun of that pick. The only thing I can think of is, I don't know how relatable a Greek god is going to be. They kind of famously don't like people. Dionysus loves people, man. That's why he's the party god. All right. Fair enough.

So just a quick... So he is the god of winemaking, orchards, fruit, vegetation, fertility, and festivity. What more could you possibly want on your island? It's just you and him, though. What? Have fun. It's just you two. That's fine.

Two people is all you need to have a party man all right all right dionysus is that the name yep dionysus from hades got it so to sum up our teams josh has selected steve from minecraft quiet from metal gear solid 5 dave the diver from dave the diver and dionysus from hades ryan has joel from the last of us cade 6 from destiny aloy from horizon zero and link from zelda and i have my character from rust my character from deep rock galactic galerius from the forgotten city and j from RimWorld, which was really just a randomly generated character on my save. Let's do some honorable mentions. What do you guys got? Okay, so I did skip an entire category once I got to Dave the Diver and Quiet, who can hunt up some food.

But I did have a category of things that i might need to eat in an emergency so i had a chocobo from final fantasy because hey man i can ride it around the island but when things get rough i'm eating chicken for days and days i had yoshi because again same premise there uh and i had roach from the witcher 3 and again same premise there um i don't think roach is gonna taste very good i mean that's why i didn't pick him and honestly he was at the bottom of the list so chocobo maybe you got the chicken argument going but it's probably closer like ostrich which is fine but yoshi's also a dinosaur i'm not so sure about that i mean nobody knows right right? Could be delicious. Maybe that's why they went extinct, Paul.

Maybe it's like alligator or something. Too good. Yeah. So for my companionship category, I had quiet, which I took. Ryan, I'm a little shocked on this one. Marin from Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor. Oh, that would have been a sweet pick. Because she could use the force, man. You know, so that was a good pick. I did have use the Force, man. Dang, that would have been a good one.

So that was a good pick. I did have Professor Garlic. Now, not what you guys are thinking. You want a botanist if you're stranded on a desert island. You want somebody that knows the local flora and all that stuff. And then just cool people to hang out with. I had Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima. That dude is super cool.

I had the Companion Cube from Portal, a la Wilson. You know, maybe you don't want people around. And then I had Victor, the Ripper Doc from Cyberpunk, because Victor's super cool, man. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then my wild card was I had Cheeseburger the Bear from Far Cry 5.

Oh, gosh. Was Cheeseburger friendly? i don't remember yeah he was i mean not i know he had diabetes yeah he did have diabetes i don't know how long he's gonna last if you don't have his bear insulin shots but you know that's he was my wild card oh how funny that's great i love far cry 5 uh what about you ryan you got any wild cards uh i didn't have too many but uh if you're if you're on a desert island or you're you know stranded away what's the best thing is man's best friend so dog meat i thought would be a good one no have him go around you can also you know go fetch stuff

get you get your critters do things like that but yeah i didn't really have too many other uh backups because you guys took a few i did have have because I did kind of the categories like you did, Josh. But instead of Dave the Diver, I had the chef because I'm thinking, all right, well, I can go catch all the food. I had the chef, Bancho, Boncho, whatever his name is. Boncho, yeah. Boncho, yeah. I had him on there as well. But then you got to go catch it all because all he does is just cut it up.

Then I should have picked my Subnautica guy. He caught a lot of fish it's true cooking the fish is a lot easier than catching the fish yeah yeah a couple that i had on my oh by the way ryan you like dog meat over d-dog from metal gear solid i know i was gonna say what about what about all the dogs see i'd rather have d-dog yeah d-dog sweet with that eye patch he can kill people with a knife as i learned this week in our discord server i did not know that i always go non-lethal in metal gear solid five so i was shocked he'll run around with a knife and take everyone out for you all right well a couple of my list here for honorable mentions i have the trombone champ as long as he can bring his trombone um it's not gonna get old at all it's only gonna be fun times ahead that's another guy

getting pushed off a cliff I love that character. And Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. Because he's going to catch the fish. He's got a built-in harpoon. And he's going to be able to fight and catch things on the island for me. So I thought Scorpion might go somewhere in this draft. But that's really about it. All right. Let's go ahead and do our last break and then we'll come back and we'll do the tournament part of this episode all right guys tournament time we are looking at our first

match up here round one match one steve from minecraft versus. This is easy. There ain't no ooh on this one. This is ooh. One of these guys is getting crushed by the other guy. Josh, that castle's looking a little boxy. Okay, I'll build a mansion. Hey, Steve, go cut down some acacia trees or mahogany for me. Punch those.

I think I want a wood cabin now. Okay. Make sure you put some glass windows along with the torches and don't forget the fountain out front uh and and oh yeah the swimming pool in the backyard too yeah yeah ryan you got a little bit of an uphill battle but do you got do you have an argument you can make here for link nope not really because i really don't like link as it is i just thought he'd be good he's a good crafter good fighter but uh and the the biggest thing is i guess he does have the ultra hand man like yeah ultra discount that you can't you can't forget about ultra hand and the things that he can

make are 10 times as cool as what steve can make steve makes just block whatever he can make a lot you're gonna live on a little flying cart he doesn't build houses he could oh he could absolutely easily sure yeah easily just pick up all these as long as you know what as long as all of the stuff is perfectly laying around he's not crafting these things he's got to find them and like if you don't have two fans a board and uh and a zonai device around you ain't making nothing the zonai devices you've got a good argument there josh that is uh rip link the winner is clearly steve i don't like rewarding josh for the pandering pick uh We all know Josh's thoughts on Minecraft, but that's okay. Steve wins match one.

We have now round one, round one match two, Joel from The Last of Us versus Jane from RimWorld. Let's just give it to Joel and move on. I love that 0.000000 zero zero zero one percent of the population knows who jane is that just tells you how important she was she was really paul still mourns jane to this day you know and to be fair you know i'm a larger guy jane was a very rotund

woman it would be a lot of upkeep to keep us both full on this island maybe it's for the best uh we'll go ahead and lay we'll lay jane to rest for the second time yeah she she will not survive this draft all right round one match three paul's rust character versus dionysus i i'm sorry paul i the god of festivities, the god of wine, the god of fruit and vegetation. This dude. But. Oh, Josh, you're hungry? You want pomegranates, pineapple?

Like, which fruit did you want? I'll just, you know, I'll just will this into existence for you. Want some wine to go with that? Here's my counter. You are not getting your whole team. You only get one character to be stranded with. If he's your stranded partner, he's not going to help you build a shelter.

He's not going to help you fight off the wild boar and whatever wildlife's out there. He can't help you with that. Sure. He can make you drink as much wine that you're not going to care about. You're going to get mauled to death and you're drunk and stupor that's my that's my best argument the primary character in rust arguably no one handier than that character just give that character a rock and next thing you know you've

got high-tech devices built on that island also no other character that dies more but we already said that's not a problem on a standard i mean i don't know people dying it's dionysus isn't dying all right i'm voting for my rest character josh is voting for his own dionysus ryan you're the uh difference maker here you get to pick it all comes down to me all right so do I want to have a good, sustainable camp, somebody who's a survivalist that can help me get through this time easily, or do I want someone to party with? I'm going to party, baby.

Yeah, do it, Ryan. Let's go. Give me that wine. Keep it flowing. That's perfectly fine. I also say dionysus is not going to do you any favors okay he is a god you're going to be serving him i think this pick would backfire you in the long run you know what man if dionysus is like go get me some fish and i'll uh i'll whip us up an orchard we can have some fruit salad tonight i will absolutely

be like you got it man i'll be back in i'll be back in a little bit your wildest dream is fruit salad josh i'm just i mean he's the god of fruit in orchards like if i had my own god to serve me he's not the god of like meat i can't be like dying nice as will me a cheeseburger. That's a different god. Very nice. All right. All right. That's fine. I knew I wasn't winning this draft.

Dionysus is the upset taking out the number one seeded Paul's Rust character. Paul's Rust character. All right. Round one, match four. We have the Driller versus Aloy. Paul, this one's really not looking so good for you, man. Aloy can kind of do it all. All she can do is she's a good bow hunter. She's a hunter.

She's a crafter. She's a survivalist. She's a good companion. She's a survivalist. She really is one of the better people to get stuck with because she really can kind of do everything. Are you more likely to survive i don't know that she can build of course she can't i'll build i'll build compared to my dwarf my dwarf can build way better than you ryan no no offense can he build or can he

drill drill yeah but then what do you do with the time it's like reverse building it's like uh if now you've got like a basement of a house or you've got a bunker you can just make a hole you just made a hole but there's no concrete walls there's no like it's just what do you need concrete for to keep all the bugs out you're gonna have so many worms and grubs and that's protein baby yeah i mean hakuna matata. I mean, there is a point there. I got to go with Aloy on this one, Paul. I'm sorry. I like your pick, and I get the benefit.

It's a bad vote, but go ahead. And again, you guys, you were the ones that brought this up, that you don't get a team. If you had a team, the Driller makes a lot of sense. But this is your one person that you're stuck with. And the driller is just going to drill the ground. Oh, and he doesn't shoot a bow. Nah, she does a lot more than that.

It's the same argument. She crafts. She explores. She examines things. Yeah, my driller can't explore. And she does, even though she's no quiet she does fall under the companionship category as well all right i'm calling shenanigans all right moving on we are in round one match five cade six versus dave the diver uh cade's a cool guy but i need food ryan

get out of here so when ryan voted for the party, that was the right answer. But now that Ryan's bringing the party, that's no longer the answer, Josh? Is Cade Six really the party? Oh, he's totally the party. He's the party. He's a comedian. And he's dead. He doesn't exist anymore.

Well, I got news for you. These are all fictional characters. Oh, dang it. Fictional characters. Am I getting through to you at all? None them exist in case you didn't know i don't know kade six that well and i know that kade six is a beloved character i just don't know what he would bring to the table other than he's got a revolver kind of like aloy just having a bow well she's she's got her wits she's got her wits about her i'm i'm i'm voting for dave the diver as much as i love the kade six pick this is a desert

island ryan that's payback pick that's a payback pick i think the best picks in this draft are my rust character dave the diver like the characters that actually can survive yeah so i am voting based on the actual merits of this draft never in a million years would i vote for cade six or for that matter quiet but uh i will go ahead and give dave the diver my nod here i'll vote for him it's the righteous all right and then last match up in round one we have quiet versus galerius now ryan i i'm assuming you've never played the forgotten city it's not nearly as popular as metal gear no no i have i have not played it all right well he is just the most enthusiastic person who will do whatever you ask of him, and he'll do it with a smile on his face, and he will truly be happy to do it.

I don't know that he's necessarily the most skilled person at survival. So take all that what you will. I will because I really do like Paul's pick. Galerius is the dude that is the nicest guy in the world that will do whatever you ask him to do. But like Paul said, I don't know that this guy has a shred of survival skills other than just being like, go talk to this person. Go do this for me. Can you go grab that thing over there? Okay, great.

My dad always called it a gopher. When you needed that person to go for the tools and stuff like that. So he's the perfect gopher. But other than that... He's going to need direction. You're going to have to direct him the whole time. And he'll do whatever you say. But that'll be the limit.

The limit is what you know how to dictate to him. I will abstain from explaining the benefits of quiet to you, Ryan. She's a deadly sniper on your desert island. I don't know what good that'll do you but you can go ahead and vote ryan she sings too paul she sings she hums she doesn't sing or she hums okay um well based on josh's excitement when paul made his pick i'm gonna have to go with that hilarious it'sius. It's a pity vote. It's a pity vote for Ryan.

But it is a really good pick too, Paul. Thank you, considering that's my only character that survived this draft out of round one. At least I've got Galerius to rep me here. All right. Moving into round two. We now have our final six left. We have Steve, Joel, Dionysus, Dave the Diver, Aloy, and Galerius. First matchup here in round two, we have Josh against himself.

Steve versus Dave the Diver. No, you can't make me. No! Yep, Sophie's choice time. I am voting Dave the Diver. dave the diver is the way more inspired pick it's more modern i i love that pick i i'm voting dave the diver who are you guys voting for here i okay so this is this is where it gets really tough because all joking aside shelter is super important. And I get that Steve

is the boring pick. But if Steve is able to actually craft me any kind of shelter I want with a swimming pool, with a fountain, with torches and all that stuff, that's insanely handy. Dave the Diver, being able to go out and swim in the ocean and collect fish and shells and scrap and all that stuff could be very handy as well. There's one problem with Dave the Diver. He's kind of a portly guy. He's probably going to eat a lot of the food. Doesn't he catch whole sharks and stuff? I feel like...

With the right equipment, yes. Yeah. They do have the Fulton balloons in Dave the Diver, believe it or not. I think they call them drones, but it's basically like a Fulton device. So is he catching like a full like 800 pound tuna or whatever those way? Yeah. Yeah. You can like, yeah, you can put a tuna to sleep later on in the game and then you hook

up like a device to it and that like wings, like the drone comes and carries it away. And then now you have like fresh tuna that wasn't like killed and has spoiled i'm gonna go the other way i think this is a problem i think he's going to catch too many fish and now i think you're going to be attracting like bacteria and bugs you might have trouble getting rid of all the excess i feel like this is legitimately like the finals championship right here like steve versus dave the diver should not be happening if you say so yourself i mean i'm just you know maybe i'm a little biased maybe a little bit i don't i vote for both ryan so which one do you pick you can't vote for both dang it um can i catch food that's a problem what good is a house if i'm starving to death

it's a desert island so we're thinking it's a temperate climate i'm a pretty handy guy i'm going dave the diver that's my vote yeah that's where i was gonna go the other thing being is that dave is actually a really cool like just chill human as well i feel like i'd get along really well with him. And so you're getting the guy that can provide food and you're getting the guy that is good companionship, will be fun to hang out with and talk to and all that. Steve,

he's going to build me a castle, but then at that point, I feel like I'm just going to walk in and he's going to be staring at a wall and creeping me out. Just chilling there. I think the social aspect really does matter. I think if you are on an island indefinitely think about going months without the other person being able to talk to you you really would go i'm too talkative i think all right i'm going dave the diver yeah and dave

diver he's a he's a worker too he'd go and he'd dive all day long and then he'd go and he'd serve at the restaurant all night true that dude hustles he's a worker man so yeah solidifies it yeah all right perfect we now have in round two match two we've got ryan against himself this is what happens when you eliminate all my picks uh we have joel Aloy. Interesting. That's a tough one. It's not tough for me. No? I think it's Joel. I have one I want to pick. I think it's Aloy.

I think it's Aloy. Ryan, you get to actually decide who you put through. Joel's the ultimate survivor and he has a better knowledge of modern science aloy is kind of living in like you know alternate history prehistoric you're on it that's what you want on a desert island what's joel gonna do he's gonna be like well if only i had batteries in a walkie talkie i could do something guys but sorry that i'm voting joel josh is voting aloy who do i want to go through

uh who do you want to snuggle up with at night for warmth ryan this is gonna be your only character to make the finals so this is this has to be someone who can potentially beat dave the diver and either dionysus or galerius pick joel pick joel ryan that's the right choice stop trying to influence me oh man this is tough um i'm i'm i'm going joel yeah yes i think that's the wrong choice right no yes no i think i think ultimate survivalist uh someone who can handle himself and also you know what do you want to do when you're sitting around the campfire? You want to hear a couple tunes on the guitar. He's going to sit there and he's going to sing you a lullaby while you go to sleep by the campfire. Joel loves hard.

Family is everything. You're going to be his family on this island. He would sacrifice the world to keep me alive, man. He would. He really would. That's how much he would love me. So Joel's my guy i believe if memory serves when we did our draft of best gaming dad joel was my very first pick yeah which was in

round one not so much for survival on an island but he's a good he's a good protector granted better on mainland but i would still feel very safe knowing that joel had my back that's a very good person to have on your side yeah all right and then our last match up in round two i did not see this coming dionysus versus galerius i got it i don't think either of these people deserve to be here they're whoever wins this is lucky to be in the finals. You're crazy. I'm going Dionysus, dude. Galerius, my boy. I really got nothing but mad respect for him, but he's going to be useless on an island. You know how pretentious Dionysus would be?

Dude, you don't know Dionysus, Paul. I better start furiously Googling this. You pull up Dionysus from Hades, and every time he pops up, he's like, Hey, what's up, my man uh we're just chilling up here in olympus and you know people were talking and i want to make sure you're having a good time so here have this buff you know boy being the god of wine and ecstasy that's yeah that is some title that's what i'm saying man what better person to get stuck with i'm living the good life man now he is also the god no he's also the god of insanity okay let's throw that in the mix and ritual madness insanity makes things a little

fun sometimes guys ritual madness but he that's a little scary he gets to pick it's not like it's a random roll of the dice you know all right all right ryan who who are you voting for and i i might be voting for dionysus myself at this point i'm not sure well i'm gonna make it tough for you because i'm gonna go hilarious so uh i think having a gopher on an island if you kind of know what you're doing and you have someone that can just get everything else done all the cleanup work every all the stuff that needs to be done, the chores, that's the guy to have. Okay.

I am going to give it to Galerius. Oh, my goodness. I think you're underestimating the attitude of the Greek gods. They don't mesh with humans. No, they hate us. He does if he's stranded with me. We're in the same boat. We're bros at that point, man. He's it does if he's stranded with me we're in the same boat we're bros at that point man he's a god and he's immortal he doesn't care about you visiting my island

we're stuck together i think you're more gonna be his slave is where that's gonna turn out if he's giving me non-stop ecstasy and why fine my dogs live with a good life, man. You know what I mean? Yeah, we're giving this one to Galerius. That is the tragedy of this draft right here. I would argue otherwise, but that's okay. You guys are passing up

a god of partying for a gopher. Yeah, we're trying to survive on this island, Josh. Can he produce fruit and vegetables? He's not the god of orchards. All right. He already lost, Josh. Let it go.

All right. Every listener out there right now, I know you're sympathizing with me. And that's all that matters. Every single one. Amen. All right. We are in the finals.

This will be quick because I feel like we've already kind of defended these characters quite a bit. We're just going to pair them up 1v1 and see whoever wins the most rounds. We can do this relatively quick here. Joel versus Galerius. Which one are we giving it to? Joel. I'm going to say Joel. I would have said galerius at this point so okay so i'm gonna say joel there uh what about dave the diver versus galerius dave the diver dave the diver glarius doesn't have the capabilities to like provide food. Yeah.

All he's doing is cleaning out like the latrine and, you know, like sweeping the beach and stuff like that. That's like menial stuff. He's almost like a better employee than person to be stranded with. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well,

that means, uh, that Galerius is already eliminated. He will take bronze. That means we are left in the very finals we have dave the diver versus joel i'm pick i'm sticking with my pick here guys i've explained it to no end joel i feel like would get a little grouchy from time to time i can see that that's definitely true dave the diver is just a jovial, happy guy. And if I'm straining on a desert island while we're

eating our delicious sushi and he's found scrap and nets, so we're building a shelter together, that's the dude that I want to actually continue on with versus Joel, who might have my back, but what if there's nothing to have my back against like what it's just what if it's just a peaceful island and there's not bandits on this island that's you know then what is joel doing that's what i want my island has bandits joel's the answer yeah yeah but this is not a bandit filled island i'm assuming there's no bandits is the problem well i'm going with joel because that's my guy yeah i'm going with dave the diver dang Yes! Which means we have another round three winner in the draft.

This has been happening more often lately. Hey, creativity, man. It pays off. Wow, Dave the Diver winning. I did not see that coming, but I figured someone would draft him and the more I thought about it, the more I like that pick. I think it's a well-deserved

creative win. If this was inner-city apocalypse survival, Joel would have been a much better choice. If we're on The Last of Us Island, filled with blind zombies that click, Joel would win. Clickers, no. All right, well, congratulations, Josh.

You had the number one pick, and you didn't even need it. You won with the overall seventh pick. Dave the Diver, he actually came in the second half. Look at that. Just shows. Draft order. He was crying the whole time, too. Dionysus made it to the semifinals, which I was pretty proud of.

That's about as far as a fourth round pick can go is like to be one inch away from the finals now let's just vote if you get your whole team who has the best team well i didn't draft for a full team that's a little little unfair but that's a different if you want to throw that up on socials josh let let the people vote for which team overall they like. I think we might do it. I mean, most people don't know my Rust character or Jane from RimWorld. I'm going to do very poorly in this poll. In Paul's defense, Paul's Rust character is the provider of the clan. That's true. Which is insanely nice to have.

So that gets a lot of cred from me. My Rust character is the Galerius of our Rust clan. It really is, because I log in. I log into Rust, and I open up a crate, and there's 50 bear steaks cooked and ready to go. And I'm just like, every time I'm like, you rock, Paul. And then I take 49 of them, and then I go die, and then we lose them all.

But Paul cooks some more after that. That's what it was like. I know I didn't really play Rust with you guys, even when we played arc for the deep dive like uh that's how it was like i'd hop on and then paul had just done all of all the cities like yeah i did these i got these dinosaurs and i made this farm and i got these plants going fertilized over here jerky there's like 80 jerkies over here you know yeah this is nice that's i'm i'm the the gatherer and the crafter in survival games what a guy love love to do it i pick paul as my fourth round pick i was gonna say i should just pick paul there you go see now you're all coming around to paul's rest character

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