Video Gamers Podcast - Shadow of the Erdtree, Black Myth: Wukong Bosses and XDefiant - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: May 30, 2024

The Video Gamers Podcast is back with another incredible episode of This Week in Gaming. What a week for gaming! We got a new Shadow of the Erdtree story trailer, find out Black Myth: Wukong is slated to have 80 bosses, played XDefiant, beat Hellblade 2 plus much more. We chat all the video game news you need in another awesome episode from your favorite gaming podcast.  Thanks to our LEGENDARY Supporters: Disratory, Ole Jake and JigglePuff 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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hosted by three lifelong gamer dads. We have a lot to talk about in today's episode. We're going to start off the pod by talking a little bit about our experience hosting a booth at Phoenix Fan Fusion, which was a total blast. And then we're going to provide some of our thoughts on recent gaming news. Please rate our show five stars and check out Patreon support options to unlock bonus episodes and lots of other perks at MultiplayerSquad.com. I am your host, Paul, and joining me, he was the best-dressed Kratos over the weekend and even had to face off against his father, Zeus, at FanFusion. It's Josh. Dude, okay okay so first of all for people that don't know and they're like what the heck is fan fusion fan fusion is comic-con so they just can't use the comic-con name but if you're talking the same scale of like an event fan fan fusion was huge and it was a blast

oh yeah we saw multiple kratos, and yours was definitely the best. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's good to stand out above all the others. Yeah, for sure. And then joining Josh and me, he was the best-dressed Nathan Drake. Although, I'm going to say Ryan's teenage daughter, Jaden, wins the real MVP here from the podcast. It's Ryan. Yeah, you know that salesman, saleswoman, entrepreneurial stuff that just runs in the

blood and she took right to it. Hey, hey, you want to spin the wheel? All I need you to do is this. Oh, man. Yeah, clearly, clearly a salesperson at heart. And the fact that she enjoyed it really cracked me up because she had no problem engaging with strangers, asking for ratings, telling people to check out the podcast.

All right. So yeah, let's talk a little bit about Fan Fusion. So we were sharing a bunch of updates on Discord with the community. You guys have been there before. I never had. So that was my first time along with running the booth. We were set up in what they called the gaming hall. There was so much cool stuff to see. We engaged with a ton of people. We were giving away free prizes. We were

getting people to rate the show. We saw so much cosplay. What are some of the highlights of the weekend for you guys? I mean, for me, all of it, to be honest. I mean, it was the... We didn't really know what to expect. We knew that it was a big event, but we didn't know how people would respond to a podcast having a booth and what would they do at the booth. Because normally at these things,

you're just spending money. People just want a shot, man. Yeah, you're selling stuff. Yeah, people want Funko Pops or cool posters or neat little figurines of their favorite Genshin characters or whatever, you know? And so we really didn't know what to expect. And dude, it wound up being way better. I mean, way better than I think any of us were hoping for. So I know for me,

my favorite part being an extrovert and like, I just love to talk to people and be around people was the fact that we just we had like thousands of people coming by and like just talking to us the whole time and then wanting to like talk about the podcast or talk about video games and you know we got to meet some really really cool people so for me that was the highlight for sure yeah it was it's there was a lot this year it was definitely at one point on saturday i know they were holding people back from going down to the exhibitor hall where a lot of the booths are and stuff um our area was a little bit separate from that but it was just it was so cool the thing that i love is it got back down to that core of

just talking games to people like what are you are you playing? And they'd say, the amount of times these crazy obscure games, or one guy said Star Fox and Ace Combat, and some other people were saying Pokemon, and every game under the sun was what people were playing at this moment, and it just opens your eyes to how many different kind of types

that everybody falls into and falls in love with. So it was so cool it's cool to talk to everybody um see everybody get hyped up tell us they're gonna listen you know check things out and then uh just seeing my daughter get hyped up about it and she's really getting into the cosplaying and all this kind of environment so yeah it was the whole thing was just awesome i think my favorite thing of the weekend was seeing people in hell divers cosplay. Oh yeah.

So like in the beginning we saw a couple people roll around with like the capes and the helmets, the whole ordeal. And Ryan, you spent the last several weeks, if not a couple of months, just running your 3d printer nonstop. And that's like some of the free prizes we were giving away.

You made, I think, something like 70 Helldivers medals. Yeah, about that. That looked so good, exactly like in the game. And so I think it was, I don't remember whose idea it was. It was one of you two where we saw the Helldivers cosplay and just said, well, whether they spin the wheel and wait around or not, we have to give Helldivers medals to anyone in hell divers cosplay. And so we saw those people,

we saw a whole squad of four roll in. And so they were all doing like, they had the salute and Ryan and I are doing finger guns back at them. We had some people come around with like the voice modulators. So even like talking through the helmet, I mean, we even had people in hellivers cosplay come around and say, we were sent on a quest to come find the Video Gamers podcast by some other Helldivers.

So it was just really cool to be able to see the love, especially for one of our favorite games of the year. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like I said, just tons of cool people, man. Everybody is nice to everybody, which is rare when you're around 100,000 people. People are complimentary. They're polite. It's a really cool thing, man. I'm very hooked on this event now.

But yeah, from a podcast standpoint, it was more successful than we could have hoped for. I mean, like I said, we met a lot of new people, got to chat video games. We got a lot of new ratings and stuff like that, which was really nice. It shot us up the charts, which is always good to see because exposure is the name of the game, right? The more people you can get in front of, the better. And this was a really good opportunity to do that. Yeah. Getting our hustle on. I will also say we set up a monitor with Bopple Battle running with four controllers. And some of the kids were just there the whole weekend.

Yeah, the whole time. Yeah, yeah. So like their parents brought them there and then just kind of like let them play Bopple Battle for hours on end. But it was very fun hearing all the laughing and the cackling and the yelling. Like everyone was getting really into it. All right, let's go ahead and move on to some gaming news. So this week brought two really highly anticipated releases

that came out on the exact same day. So Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 released. It did receive pretty mid-critical reviews. It has a score of 81 on Metacritic, although I will mention that's the exact same score as the first one. Kind of seems like most people had the same criticisms and the same compliments to both games. We're actually going to be doing a deep dive that will release on Monday. So we're going to hold off on our thoughts on Hellblade 2 until then. And then we also had another game release that could not be more different from Hellblade 2. Total opposite end of the spectrum in X Defiant.

So this is Ubisoft's attempt to wrestle some of the multiplayer shooting market away from Call of Duty. Plays very similar to Call of Duty, except there's a higher time to kill. Every character that you pick has an ability along with an ultimate. So it adds a little bit of a twist to the Call of Duty genre. And the game seems to have been a pretty big success. They've had over 3 million users within the first 48 hours. They've already hit 300,000 concurrent players. Now that the game is here, I know we haven't had a lot of time to play because we had to immediately do Fan Fusion into Hellblade 2,

but we were able to play a few matches earlier today. So like, what are your guys' early impressions so far on the official release? Mine has been very up and down as I have been very prone to let you guys know. I'm like, this game's stupid. Okay, that match wasn't so bad. I lost, I lost, I hate this game. This is the worst game ever, this game's stupid. Okay, that match wasn't so bad. I lost.

I lost. I hate this game. This is the worst game ever. This stupid sideways bunny hopping stuff has got to end. And then it's like, then I have a good match. I'm like, all right. All right. You know?

All right. Maybe X-Defiance got something to it. So I'll be honest, man. I don't know. Like, I had fun playing with you guys. I played with a buddy of ours, Jared, last night. I've done probably a dozen solo matches at this point. And I am very up and down on X-Defiant at this point. Legitimately playing with friends, I enjoy. I like the progression of, hey, leveling

up weapons and doing challenges to try to unlock new weapons and stuff like that. But I don't know if I'm a fan of not having the skill-based matchmaking. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I don't know why people say that's a great thing to not have it. I'd rather the matches be close than every once in a while being able to wreck some fools. I'd rather have good, even competition. The one thing I don't get is... I mean, I could argue for skill-based matchmaking, and I could argue against it. I legitimately can see both sides of it. The general reason why people don't want skill-based matchmaking is so that you can feel super powerful. Every now and then then you're going to have that match where you're the top dog and you're just wrecking fools. And while that,

you know, sounds great when it happens to you, I feel like it doesn't happen enough. And then, you know, we played a match where the other team was like three incredibly good snipers. Oh yeah.

And it was like, we couldn't even move man. And it was just frustration for like 10 minutes you know what i mean so it's like at least with skill-based matchmaking i get that you don't have those blow out like where you just feel like you know all powerful like oh i'm just popping off but i think i'd rather just a match be be fun yeah than frustrating so i don't know man i get it's hard but that i mean that's the reason they they have different levels of leagues and stuff. I played men's league hockey and they'd have B, C, D leagues.

I played in B and some C. When I would play beginner leagues or D leagues to help fill in, you're like, oh, okay, these guys are kind of bad. And you feel bad. It's not fun. So I don't get why people enjoy coming in and just curb stomping us and getting, you know, 37 and four, you know, and just kills like that. So I don't know.

I'm with you guys on the matchmaking. I think skill-based is fine. Just make it even and make it fun, you know. Yeah, I'm 100% with you. Like we could go out and play kickball against a bunch of six-year-olds and make them cry and beat them. But what would the point be? Like, I wouldn't feel good about it.

I don't know. I'd feel pretty good. I just imagine the sound of throwing that ball. I was going to say, just having to bounce off. You're out. You're out. Kid just goes flying. Like, all right.

Other than that, though, I freaking love this game paul i do are you with me yeah dude it's sweet dude it's so sweet i think the time to kill is good i think the perfect the yeah i think the recovery rate it's not too fast to where you can um you can still follow up on a guy and finish him off if he's you know close but if you duck away and you're smart about it you can recover and engage again soon so i i love the little abilities um and obviously you know paul the spider bot that thing is the bomb i know i'm just sad that we have to level up and work our way there because the last you and i played was in the beta when you had access to everything so in my first match i was like where's the spiderling and i was like dang it i have to level up i i will say it is funny and call of duty of course has had this for a while but you have to

like level up your individual weapons to unlock all the attachments and that makes it really hard to switch off a gun that you're finally popping off with because it's hard to gauge like okay i started with the m4 now i've got the ak well now i got my ak up to where i've got a few attachments it's feeling pretty good well now i unlocked you know this new weapon but now i'm running around with iron sights and i'm sucking with it and it's like well should i stick with it and upgrade it you know it's kind of hard to tell but of course you have to have some kind of motivating factor to keep playing it is really satisfying to see that you know level up your ak is level eight and it's like sweet you know what did i unlock i gotta go update my loadout uh but you

guys have like any favorite weapon types or any any weapons so far i'm really digging the assault rifles it's me that's that's funny because i have not I played one match with the basic AR and that was it. And then I was like, let me try this SMG. Ooh, let me try this LMG. So that's what I've been leveling up. I'm about to start working on the ARs, but then seeing all these snipers in this game and getting wrecked by them kind of makes me want to go like,

oh yeah, I could be a sniper too. Not standing on the point, nowhere near the zones. Yeah, exactly. Not helping anybody out, just getting those headshots. So yeah, I mean, I like SMGs historically. I've always preferred SMGs in games. It's just more my up close and personal kind of play style, running around corners and flanking and stuff like that.

So I think for me, those are my favorite. The LMG, if you can get a good lane and just rain down bullets from afar and just not have to reload, because other people assume that you're reloading at one point. And I'm like, dude, I still got 50 rounds in this magazine, man. Like, please step into this lane. And then they do.

And you're like, you hear that nice little satisfying headshot that yeah, then they just go down. So yeah, so far. I mean, I will say I am enjoying the game. I just I haven't made up my mind yet. Like I might love it or I might not love it. But I think for me, it's still like I'm still kind of on the fence. Yeah, I love the the combo with with fire drone and then the grenade,

especially on the escort missions because everyone clumps up on the package. And then if you throw a fire drone and a grenade in there, usually you'll get at least a couple. That one's great. And then with the sensor pings where you can see where everyone's at, you can actually see kind of their red silhouette through.

So you can see them about to peek and then you can just get a beam right on their head and just nuke them you know i love doing that in those it doesn't work as well in open maps but in those kind of tight quarter maps where you can see the guys peeking out it's it's so good yeah for someone who's not super uh tech proficient in the call of duties i tend to just get wrecked nonstop. So the fact that X defiant adds those extra abilities, you get to play a little bit more with like positioning and not just clicking on, you know, the headshots. So that's what I enjoy trying to play a little bit

smarter. I did try out the SMGs after Josh was really lauding them. And I went 10 and 22 in that match. And I was like, man like man i this smg is not working and then i had to go right back to my ars and then i was doing a lot better you gotta stick with it that's why i like them for though because it's more mid-range so you can still get those long shot kills but it's good enough in close quarters yeah for me this game almost all the maps have a lot of mid-range combat which is why i've been liking the ars all right well let's go ahead and take a short break and then we'll come right back and talk about shadow of the earth tree this is an ad from better help online therapy we always hear about

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I don't really know what I saw or heard in this trailer. What did you guys think after watching this? I looked at it and I'm like, I don't even know the story. And I'm somehow more confused. Or quote unquote story. Let me ask you guys a question did it look awesome it looks awesome it looks awesome that's all you need to know this is all you need to know don't worry about like little things like story or characters story

trailer you know or characters or you know what the little gold light means and nobody cares about any of that stuff man oh my goodness it's i actually restarted the trailer and transcribed what's in there so i could follow it it's very short there's not a whole lot of words okay i'm gonna read it to you right here because it's so short mccullough the kind spoke of the beginning the seduction and the betrayal an affair from which gold arose and two was shadowborn what happened was a war unseen one that could never be put to song a purge without grace or honor the tyranny of mesmer's flame and so kindly mccullough would abandon everything, his golden flesh, his blinding strength, even his fate. But we are not deterred.

We choose to follow. Will you walk with us? And I felt like Pippin in Lord of the Rings where I'm like, yeah, where are we going? I don't get this, but it's just more Elden Ring, right? I think that's all people care about. More cool bosses, cool new areas to explore. I mean, that's what it's just more elden ring right like i think that's all people care about more cool bosses cool new areas to explore i mean that's what it's really all about like i don't even know why they dropped a story trailer i don't know if anyone really cares gave them a reason to show more footage and that footage looks awesome dude the giant like lumbering fire

giants that look like baskets with the just flames like raging out of them like that was like yeah the walking braziers which one time in the past on the show i accidentally called braziers not gonna make that mistake again but yeah they were like massive like 50 foot tall braziers like walking around lit on fire it was awesome walking brassieres you have my uh curiosity that's a different game i mean we've joked about this before story in an elden ring i know there's people that dive into the lore on this and i know we're gonna have a listener or or 10 out there there's story bro the story makes total sense guys i don't like why is it so hard to follow listen listen i don't care about no story when it comes to elden ring man there's cool characters cool okay michela and millennia the brother sister weird duo that's something about the erd tree and all that stuff like okay cool i freaking love elden ring man

and i could not tell you anything about the story in that game because it don't matter talk about the story all i know is with shadow of the earth tree there's some fire dude named mesmer that's got something to do with stuff he's torching everything there's more of the golden earth tree light thing that for whatever reason just makes my brain happy and this game comes out in a month man i'm so excited dude less than a month. June 21st. And just because you two non-Elden Ring loving friends of mine. Family show, family show. I know. So we have a game giveaway going on that we're actually going to pick a winner the day that this episode releases.

But a solid 80% of the people that respond, I said, what game are you most hyped for that's a future release like 80 of the responses are elden ring shadow of the earth tree and it's like there is there is a world of people that are super stoked for this game and i am one of them oh dude i was getting some stuff last night from the the grocery store and i overheard uh oh i started something something dark souls and then they were going and i'm like you guys talking about elden ring and they're like yeah i was like shout out the earth tree yeah and then then they just started going off on it right i'm like yeah my buddy's excited too the base game sold like 24 million copies like yeah you know it's one of the best selling games of the last several years.

I mean, in addition to that trailer, there were some leaked images online. I don't know if you guys had a chance to really look at it. It doesn't really show a whole lot, but we did get to see what the land of shadow looks like, which is where Shadow of the Earth Tree takes place. I did enjoy seeing different colors, like some different biomes. I mean, if nothing else, even if you don't love Elden Ring, you know the game is gonna look beautiful.

I mean, that obviously goes without saying. Elden Ring is gorgeous. It is a hauntingly beautiful game. Like, I mean, we're playing Hellblade 2 right now. I have said, I think this might be the most graphically advanced game I've ever seen in my life. But there's something about Elden Ring that is this weird, surreal, eerie beauty to it,

which I really jive with. And I mean, it's true because number one, Dark Souls games have never been called good looking ever. But there is something magical about Elden Ring and the world that it encompasses and some of the scenery and vistas and stuff like that. So, yeah, I agree. I think it's a beautiful game. Yeah. Well, since we're on the topic of Souls-like games, we have our last story of the week. We got some leaked details about Black Myth Wukong. This is the Josh episode.

Josh has never been more excited. I was like, this episode's made for me. Yeah. So well-known leaker Lunatic Ignis shared on Twitter some details about the game. It is going to include New Game Plus at launch, which is nice. You don't have to wait for that in an update.

It's going to have multiple endings. It will have 160 plus enemy types. Wow, Senua senua saga you're on notice with your you know six enemy types you're getting 160 with blackmuth wukong we're getting 80 or more bosses and that the game will be slightly easier than soulsborne games um it has not been officially confirmed by blackmuth wukong but this is a well-known leaker with a good reputation. So I think we can take it as more than just a rumor. It does seem accurate. How do you guys feel about this news?

I'm gonna let Ryan go while I compose myself for a second. So for someone who is not the biggest Souls fan, I'm pretty excited about this one. I think this one looks pretty cool yeah i'm excited watching the battles and i do love kind of like it is too in a god of war like the scale difference in some of the battles is always so cool the the attacks the gameplay it for someone who's not a souls fan this has definitely uh piqued my interest big time yeah i think that this game is still going to be very odd i mean you're running around as a monkey fighting all these guys and you can turn into an insect like games that swing big like that if it hits it's going to hit hard yeah like i feel

like this game is feeling more and more like the heavy favorite for winning game of the year. I know Shadow of the Earth Tree is probably going to be a 99 on Metacritic, but it's an expansion, right? It's not a fully brand new game. I think Black Myth Wukong, if it hits, it's going to do huge numbers and everyone's going to love it. That's my only worry is like, is the oddness going to be a little bit too out there? But man, I mean, who doesn't love so many different enemy types and so many bosses? Sounds like there's going to be a lot to do. I love the fact that it's a little bit easier than most Soulsborne games. That way you're not just hitting your head against a brick wall.

I want to be able to lose to a boss fight. We've talked about this before. What's the ideal number of attempts before you beat a boss? For me, it's somewhere in the 8 to 10 range. Josh doesn't mind doing the 30 to 50 attempts. That drives me wild. And I think Black Mith Wukong is maybe going to be in that 15-ish attempts per boss, which I think would be awesome. Yeah, it's really all going to come down to how good the game mechanics are. I mean, if the game mechanics are on par with a game like Sekiro or

Elden Ring slash Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Lies of P, right? Where your timing is tight, your movement is fluid. I don't know if there's going to be a parry or a block system or something like that. But if the game mechanics are what they need to be for this type of game, I don't see a way that this game isn't a massive success. I mean, in all of the footage that we've seen, the art style to this game is incredible. The lighting is incredible. The animations in this game stand out really well to me. I mean, go check out any of the videos. And the combat is just so fluid. The way that the bosses move around and your character moves around and stuff like that. I mean, this just hits on all cylinders for me. And that's why i say the only way i i can imagine a world where this isn't just

an absolutely incredible like game for especially for people that like this genre is if the mechanics are bad and i just don't see that happening i and i think the reason for this leak and why we kind of just buy into it right away is 80 bosses that sounds about right you know huge enemy variety like look at Elden Ring I mean not to keep making comparisons but look at how many different types of enemies there are in Elden Ring and that was part of the awesomeness of that game is anytime you were like well what the heck is that and you're like well I guess I'm gonna go find out you're probably gonna die because you don't know how that thing's gonna attack you or or what it's going to do, you know, that kind of stuff. And so that kind of discovery, I think is what lends itself to Elden Ring being so great. And if Black Myth Wukong is going to

have that much enemy variety, I think it's going to lend itself to that as well. So I, dude, my hype level for Black Myth Wukong is reaching dangerous levels. And that's so 80 bosses by 30 40 50 attempts i'm here for it i'm here for but i mean to be fair they do say easier than dark souls i'm a little like i don't know what that means you know because a lot of people say well elden ring is easier than dark souls one you know or some bloodborne right which is easy you know and it's so it's like you kind of have to have like uh you know like a control yeah to say hey it's easier than this but i don't really know what that means and is are there going to be optional bosses which are really hard

kind of like millennia in elden ring which would be great because people are going to want that challenge um so yeah i'm i'm very curious i have a very good feeling because people are going to want that challenge. So yeah, I'm very curious. I have a very good feeling that they're going to pull this off. I just, I can't wait to get my hands on this. Oh, I so hope you're right. And even this is kind of quickly coming up fast. I mean, it's three months out. I mean, I feel like we've been talking about Black Mouth Wukong for such a long time and it always felt like, man, that's so far away. I don't even want to get hyped at all yet but now i mean three months it's gonna go by quick it's gonna be here before we know it

all right well a couple other stories that we're not covering today just to catch you up on some other gaming news if you haven't been reading up on it arrowhead studios ceo decided to move into a different role to work on game creation again. So they hired this. Yeah, dude, this reinforces everything I love about Arrowhead Studios right now is the dude was the CEO oversaw the launch of this game, oversaw the development of it. And then he goes, you know what? I feel like I'm kind of too much on the business side of things right now. And I'm a gamer. I want to be on the creative side of it. I love the fact that he made that decision because I mean, I've always said, I like the fact that this guy's chatting with gamers online. He's a real person. He's not

doing PR speak or any of that stuff. And the fact that he was like, I just want to talk about games and make games. I don't want to be involved in the whole like business side of being a CEO is, is just music to my ears, honestly. You mean you don't want to go public and get shareholders and just be a suit up in an office? Yeah, you got to respect the guy for just knowing what he likes. And I don't know if it resulted in a pay cut or if it's technically considered a demotion since they hired another CEO.

But yeah, you got to love a person that just loves their passion and that's what they want to do. Heck yeah, you gotta love a person that just loves their passion and that's what they wanna do. A couple other news stories. Kingmakers released a new trailer. That game looks like a lot of fun. Did you see it? I mean, where that's the tank shooting the castle

and the castle walls are falling down. Did this increase your interest or decrease it any? No, neither way. It still looks like silly good fun. It'll be fun for a weekend that's exactly what i saw as i went okay that's cool the destruction's neat but i don't know that it was a positive or a negative for me yeah uh we got some kingdom hearts games finally coming to pc through steam death stranding 2 is filmed and recorded but they said it'll still be over a year of work

until that comes out and there were more videos and more info leaked on valves deadlock. Um, any final thoughts before we close out the show? I'm real excited for deadlock guys. I saw, I saw a leaked video. It was like a 20 minute video and it was every character and every ability that the characters had.

Dude, this is looking good. This is looking real good, man. This has given me huge Overwatch vibes, but with a slightly more strategic element than just the shooter element. I mean, those are there, obviously, but I mean, you've got tanks, you've got healers, you've got DPS, you've got this fast travel on this like rail system where you hang from these rails and scooch around the map and stuff like that uh i mean these abilities look great dude there's like interrupt characters where you bash people and you kind of like interrupt them and stun them there's disruptive characters where you can like you can trade places with somebody so you teleport

like to where they were and then swap spots with them. So I love that strategy aspect, being involved in a shooter on top of everything else, because it really just lends itself to those like, I'm going to outplay this person, not just I'm going to click a pixel on their head faster than they can click the pixel on my head kind of thing. So this seems like this is custom built for me. I cannot wait for this, man. The Josh show. I'm telling you, I feel like it's Christmas.

So whoever put this show together, thank you. I've been a good boy. Well, you can have fun with that. Paul and I will still be playing next to Defiant. If you guys, there's no way. If Deadlock comes out, you guys are diving deep into that with me. Oh, of course we will.

I mean, it's a Valve game. You have to pay attention. Yeah, it's... The community is going to get so toxic so fast. Maybe. With Deadlock. I mean, maybe. Guaranteed.

Probably. Guaranteed. We're pulling in the League of Legends people, the Counter-Strike people, and the... MOBA elements. Team Fortress. It's going to be bad. Team Fortress people are nice, right? Paul has left the voice chat.

That's all I'm saying. I'm not even going to try in that one. All right. Well, that wraps everything up here for this week in gaming. As a reminder, please rate us five stars. Go check out our Patreon page,

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