Video Gamers Podcast - Subnautica Sequel, Return to Monkey Island and Half Life: Levitation - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: April 14, 2022

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Starting point is 00:01:16 weekly along with early access. So if you have an interest in helping financially support our show, you can see our Patreon page at MultiplayerSquad.com. Since today is Thursday, or Wednesday for you Patreon supporters, you know what that means. This is a twig episode for us to break down this week in gaming. I am your host, Paul, and joining me, he just came back from Alien Planet 4546B, where he's been exploring the deep blue sea. It's Josh. Oh, I love a good Subnautica reference, Paul. Kudos. Yep. And then joining us is our other co-host.
Starting point is 00:01:58 I actually don't know if he's going to get this reference or not, but I guess we'll find out when we cover the story he's been running around fighting the evil undead pirate le chuck and completing his trials to become a real pirate it's michael man i don't get the reference but le chuck sounds like a pretty all right guy that's a cool name if you had to guess what do you think le chuck is like what what what do you think that person would be um he is a pirate who um has a scar over his right eye that's actually in the shape of a fish uh and there's actually it's actually a big whale story i'm making all this oh okay it's actually a ghost pirate who uh takes his ghost pirate ship to the fires of hell and And you can only defeat him by spraying him with root beer. So you were very close, Michael. I'll give you a B+.
Starting point is 00:02:50 Yeah, I was really feeling it. I was channeling it, and I was like, I know this one, guys. And actually, I knew that the whole time. I just made up the other part because it sounded funnier. Oh, very nice. All right, so here for This Week in Gaming, we always spend a little bit of time
Starting point is 00:03:03 talking about what games we've been playing over the last week sometimes we break down news stories sometimes we do a little bit of both guys let's just be honest this week was a very weak week for news is that am i allowed to use that phrase is that too confusing no way week week is great yeah this week sucked so bad for news we don't have a whole ton to talk about uh but we do have some new stories that we will jump into so normally when we do this we talk a little bit about what we've been playing what have you guys been up to lately josh how about you go first i know you've been busy with your gaming life i have it's funny man like because you know if you had asked me three weeks ago i would would have been like, I'm only playing this one game.
Starting point is 00:03:48 But yeah, lately, man, I've been branching out a little bit. So you guys have heard of Slay the Spire, right? The card game. Have either of you played Slay the Spire? I've heard of it. No, but my son does. Okay, so Slay the Spire is an insanely popular card game, card-based game that started a big run of those. And there is a fan expansion that came out for Slay the Spire called Downfall. It's completely free to pick up, and it is incredible. It adds to the base game so well that the content is amazing. And the developers of Slay the Spire 100% support this
Starting point is 00:04:26 because of how well it's done. And it's completely free. So guess who's been playing Slay the Spire again? Me in the future, probably. That sounds amazing. Oh, dude, it's so good. So if you are a fan of Slay the Spire, which there are millions of people out there that are,
Starting point is 00:04:43 I highly recommend that you go pick up Downfall. It lets you play as the bosses in Slay the Spire. So you're actually trying to be the bosses that are fighting off the heroes. So you kind of go like an inverse order of the maps, which is really cool. You get the boss abilities. There's fully fledged cards for these i mean it's it's a honestly this should have been a paid dlc and they released it 100 free because it was all fan created that's cool now slay the spire is not pvp right like it's like a story mode just single
Starting point is 00:05:18 player yep solo based uh i think there's like a there is kind of like a weird leaderboard thing where it's i've never played that i just play it like a weird leaderboard thing where it's... I've never played that. I just play it like a single player game. I feel like you've gone through a few phases where you jump back into Slay the Spire. I feel like every year you'll do it at least once or twice. Yeah, Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Hearthstone, and occasionally Gwent are the four main card games.
Starting point is 00:05:42 But at some point, I've always got a card-based game that I'm a huge fan of at any given moment. I've only really done Gwent, and I love Gwent. We've talked about this before. I'm not a huge card-based game, but I think it's just because I love The Witcher so much, and I like collecting the cards in the game, that I was like, I might check this one out. But
Starting point is 00:05:59 famously, I still haven't played. I always say famously. It's like, I'm not a famous person, so I should probably not use that. You're famous famous now buddy right you can't stop people talking about how michael does not like card games right right so except gwent right except for gwen but i love gwent so yeah that's cool do you ever hop into or do you think you'll ever hop back into inscription josh or think you're done with no inscription was great for like the six hours that i played the first act i don't think i'll ever get back into an inscription i like a little bit more it was really really cool with what it did but like at its core i want an actual card
Starting point is 00:06:37 based game that's you know either very strategic oriented or like pvp mode gotcha that makes sense uh yeah to be honest since i realized that news stories were pretty weak i realized i should probably start playing some other stuff so i would have something to talk about so i actually went into steam and started checking out some of the different downloadable demos that were available and you guys know i love golf games and i saw a demo called cursed to golf now i'm assuming neither of you have heard about this game at all cursed golf or cursed to golf because that sounds cooler to me yeah cursed to oh cursed to golf yes uh so this is an upcoming game that this is not a joke they blend golf and a platformer together and that is what this game is okay yes so let me set the stage so you got to go farther into this now i have to know oh yeah absolutely i download this demo and i start playing it and
Starting point is 00:07:43 in the beginning you're just a regular golfer. They're talking about how you are probably going down as the greatest of all time. You're about to win another tournament. I think it's supposed to be like, like another majors or something like that. And so they're like, if he sinks this putt,
Starting point is 00:07:59 he'll be the unanimous greatest of all time. And then you get struck by lightning and you die on the green of the final hole in this tournament and you go to purgatory and they tell you oh yeah you're stuck here the only way you can get out of purgatory is by hitting golf balls and working your way through these stages and so they let you start playing the demo. I would be stuck in purgatory, guys. Yeah. It's pretty wild.
Starting point is 00:08:31 So basically the levels are built like a platformer. Kind of imagine Mario, except it's more vertical. So it's got different things you have to land on, and you have to make your way down to the end. And so basically they only let you have so many shots, but then throughout the course, if you hit a certain type of statue, it shatters and it gives you additional shots. So it actually combines golf plus platform. And it sounds like the weirdest thing in the world, but when you start playing it, it makes perfect sense. It's actually a pretty clever game.
Starting point is 00:09:04 Believe it or not, it also has cards pretty clever game uh believe it or not it also has cards i feel like every game has some kind of card system because cards are great they are great yeah so they give you like certain powers along with your golf abilities so one will be like a practice shot so if you play that card you can you know swing and then give it the real try so yeah you just you know you aim you got yeah, you just aim. You got your power. You got your angle. You got your driver, your iron, and a wedge. There's bunkers.
Starting point is 00:09:31 You just work your way through these levels. It's actually pretty cool, but there's no PvP. I kind of wish that they had some kind of element like that, because I love playing golf games with friends, and this is just a single-player golf game. But yeah, what a weird one. Yeah, I'll have to check that out because I also like golf games. I just don't play them very often. But most golf games that I play, I really enjoy. When you guys were just talking about this, Paul, the look on my face had to have been just complete. I'm still trying to figure out
Starting point is 00:09:59 exactly what this game looks like because I'm like, wait a minute um i am also a huge avid golf game fan the first one i ever played was jack nicholas golf from like 1991 or 92 because you could make your own levels and then you could have your friends come over and play the graphics are terrible that doesn't work at all but i played almost all the tiger woods games um when you were talking about this one i'm like now i kind of do wish i had a multiplayer because i want to play a golf game with paul but i also have to figure out what this platformer mashup is. And so I'm going to check this out. Yeah, you can download the demo for free.
Starting point is 00:10:32 I don't know when the game releases. I forgot to look it up before the show. But it's pretty clever. Even if you just download the demo, I felt like it kind of scratched the golf itch that I've had for a while. We have some friends who have been playing a mini golf game in VR that they've been trying to get us to go buy. I've heard it's really good, too. I've heard it's really good as well, but I've kind of been holding off on it. So instead, I went to go play the Cursed to Golf demo, which was probably not as good as
Starting point is 00:11:01 Walkaround, if I'm being honest. But it is a very clever idea. How did you find this game, Cursed to Golf, and just decide, you know, that's what I want to play right now? When I was scrolling for articles, one of the articles mentioned the Cursed to Golf demo, and they wrote about it. And I was like, oh, I need to go check that out. So that's actually how I ended up running across it. Yeah. That's an interesting one. Josh knows I love going through
Starting point is 00:11:25 the weirdest game demos that I can possibly find. I was going to say, if it's got a weird name, Paul will absolutely check it out and has found some real gems using that method. Say no more. Right, Josh? Oh, man. For long-term listeners, they'll remember that one. That's my all-time favorite game demo. That one was bonkers. Michael, I had no idea that you loved golf games that much. I do remember you mentioning liking Tiger Woods games. Like you, I played a lot of those. I played all the PGA Tour games. I love golf games. Maybe at some point, we'll have to do a deep dive on a sports game for once, and maybe it'll be a golf one. 100% because we don't really talk about a lot of sports games in the show. We're just not huge sports games fans, but golf, I think, almost lives in a different realm just because I feel like it's
Starting point is 00:12:13 not like I play a game like a football game and I feel like it's just a bunch of button mashing and getting lucky on, oh, that guy made it to the end zone. But golf actually takes a little more skill and strategy. And I've always loved golf games yeah we've talked about that too with tiger woods because in 2006 remember they changed the putt again i'm like i'm never touching it again i didn't oh man so yeah i mean is there anything else that you guys have been playing lately michael i know you were gone most of this week because you were on a camping trip so i can't imagine you were getting into too much else anything else you guys have been playing lately that you wanted to talk about before we switch into articles you had me scratch the itch of star trek online from the twig episode last week and so i i mentioned downloading it and i may have flown around i
Starting point is 00:12:53 didn't see that abhorrent jaeger starship flying around anywhere so it was definitely an april fool's joke i believe but uh but i i did i mean i probably put like 30 minutes into it flying around as the enterprise and was like cool it, it's scratched. We're good. And then I moved on. Very nice. Anything else for you, Josh? I'm sucked back into Rocket League again. Are you really?
Starting point is 00:13:15 I'm not surprised. I mean, you guys are not surprised by this. I'll say this, though. If games need a decaying MMR, right? So for people that don't know what MMR is, it's basically like match, you know, match make ranking or something like that. I can't, you know. Match making rating, I believe.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Yeah, match making rating. There you go. Thank you. And so that's your skill level, basically. As you play a game, your MMR will go up or down depending on your wins and losses. And ideally, a game really wants to keep you right around that 50% mark. You should win half your games. You should lose half your games.
Starting point is 00:13:51 You're in that sweet spot. But if you don't play a game like Rocket League for, let's say, a month, and then you try to hop back in Rocket League like I did, I'm going up against champion caliber players, and I haven't played in a month. So guess who's getting absolutely wrecked trying to play Rocket League again? Are you no longer champion level? I mean, no. I mean, you know, I'm just playing for fun, Paul. Why do you got to bring up painful memories, man? You know, so it's just a small complaint. I still love Rocket League.
Starting point is 00:14:24 And yes, you know, I've been playing it every day now. complaint i still love rocket league and yes you know i've been playing it every day now and so my skills are getting back up to to par again but it's games need that decay if you if i haven't logged in in a month don't make me play as if i was at the height of my game when i logged off a month ago yeah rant over i love rocket league it's the best and you'll be champion level another five matches or so anyways. So you got this. Very nice. All right.
Starting point is 00:14:52 So taking a look at these articles from this week, what do you guys want to tackle first? Which we get into. There's a few I'm really excited about. I don't know how much we can talk about them because it's not like there's a ton of information to pass along. But you know what, Paul? You led in at the intro to the show. I mean, you guys know my absolute love of Subnautica. And guess what? The next Subnautica game is confirmed in development. Now, neither one of you guys have beaten Subnautica. Paul, I know you played it.
Starting point is 00:15:28 You gave up on it. You couldn't find some piece of your ship that you wanted, and you got frustrated, and you quit like a quitter. And then Michael, you just have never played it because you like to miss out on amazing games.
Starting point is 00:15:40 I do. I don't like fun things at all. I only like things that are painful. I bet Michael owns it, though. I bet it's in Michael's library and he's never installed it. Am I right? Please tell me you own Subnautica. I do own Subnautica. It is in my Steam library. I do own it for sure. They're with one of those other 500 games that I've just never installed, but they're there because I'm like, hey, someone said that was good. And Steam sales also, of course, unfortunately, always get you.
Starting point is 00:16:05 I was going to say the Steam sales get you good. But so I have played Subnautica is one of my favorite games. I went into it fairly blind. I had heard somebody mention it. I'm like, let me try this out. I don't really like exploration games. And then I absolutely fell in love with it. And to this day, it's still one of those most memorable games that I have played. And then there was the sequel to Subnautica called Below
Starting point is 00:16:31 Zero, which I thought was pretty good. It's not as good as the original, but they did a pretty good job of capturing the things that they needed to capture. I have some minor complaints on that. It's not as good as the first, but it was a good stopgap. But lo and behold, they're announcing that the next game of the Subnautica series, we'll call it, is in development. And now that's all we know. We don't really know much more than that. That's end of news. But man, I'm super hyped for it. If it's anything like one or two, for that matter, it will be an absolute must-buy for it. If it's anything like one or two for that matter, it will be an absolute must
Starting point is 00:17:06 buy for me. Okay, so here's the thing. I played Subnautica, I would say, for a total of about two hours. And what is it about Subnautica that you love so much? Because if you don't really love exploration, is it the base building? Do you just love being underwater? Do you love just reaching new levels where you get deeper and everything's different? What about it draws you in? It's the discovery. Honestly, exploration only works if there's things to explore and find, and Subnautica absolutely masters that. And just when you think... I've said this before, but when you think like, oh, I finally got this little ship where I can go deeper and I can pilot it and I have air built into that for a little while until it runs out of battery or something. So now it opens up even more.
Starting point is 00:17:55 And it's like Avatar, the movie Avatar, where it's like you just discover some amazing biome where everything's bioluminescent. And then you're like, oh my goodness, like, what is this? Like, this feels so brand new. This is incredible. And then you start to discover even more technology or I can't spoil a lot, but there's, it's pretty early on that you figure, I mean, you're on an alien planet, right?
Starting point is 00:18:18 It's like you start to discover alien technology and you're starting to try to figure out what's going on on this planet. So there is this story that you are discovering as you play but man it just it it's like this slow roll of just awesomeness that just continues to roll as you play the game and get even more awesome and even more awesome i it's it's really really incredible man i always wish i have time to play every single game we bring up on the show because it sounds really good and i have a i have a i have a confession one of the reasons why i haven't played subnautica is because i have always literally been
Starting point is 00:18:56 very confused about what it is um around the same time that i think i'd heard of subnautica there was a video game that uh again cheap steam so i can't tell you what it's called because i have no idea and it was basically like sim city where you just build a cutaway submarine and that's the whole point of the game and i'm like that doesn't sound like fun at all like oh you upgraded your engine oh no there's a fire an engine room too you have to put it out you know and that's what i thought it was the entire time until very recently so that's just my own naivety it's it's truly memorable most people that have played subnautica and actually beaten it feel very similar like if you if you you know there's a lot of forums and reddit threads and stuff like that
Starting point is 00:19:35 where people say like what's that game that really stuck with you after you played it and like subnautica is almost always mentioned as one of those games. You know, it's a good thing that Michael was not a part of the podcast back in the day when we did the games that you've never played in your Steam library episode because that would have been a ten-parter with Michael. And we're back to Michael. Michael's made it to the bees. And we're back to Michael. Yeah. Michael's made it to the bees. And we're only 400 in.
Starting point is 00:20:06 All right. Oh, man. Yeah, one of these days I'll have to give Subnautica another shot. I thought it was perfectly fine. I liked it. There was one material that had bugged out that I had to loot, and I couldn't find it. And I looked on guides, and they told you where to find it. But I went there, and there was none.
Starting point is 00:20:24 And I just gave up. I was like, I'm not starting this game over. I'm too busy, but maybe one of these days I'll give it another shot. I did pause for almost a week playing because I could not find the last piece of like a blueprint or like you have to salvage stuff
Starting point is 00:20:37 to get technology. It's like you have two out of three of the pieces that you need to build this amazing thing that I knew was going to progress the game a lot and I could not find it for anything, dude. I spent hours combing the bottom of the ocean floor, you know, and I was getting so frustrated. And then finally, I just came across it and I was like, yes! And it's just one of those things when the game gets its hooks in you, you are absolutely hooked at that point. How many hours do you think it takes to beat?
Starting point is 00:21:05 I got the feeling it was like a 15-hour game. 15 to 20, to be honest. Yeah, it's not a very long game. Now, you can spend a lot longer exploring and base building and things like that if you want to, but the actual plot of the game, all the discoveries that you need to make, the ending of the game,
Starting point is 00:21:21 because it does have an actual ending, yeah, 15 to 20 hours tops it's got a vr mode too right it does it does actually from what i've heard yes you can you can swim through the ocean in vr in subnautica and subnautica is a beautiful game dude and that's all the time we have for the show guys i've got to go over that i didn't know that either and that is amazing that's brilliant that actually is kind of it's also creepy like there's some people that would classify subnautica as horror now i don't say i don't think it's horror at all but there are definitely some tense creepy moments and i think
Starting point is 00:21:56 that would translate to vr really really well yeah i've played a couple vr horror games where i've i've had to put them down because vr horror games can be terrifying i had a mod i had a mod in skyrim in my vr skyrim and skyrim is not a scary game but when you're in these crypts and there's these draugrs down there was a realistic lighting mod and you would come around a corner and all you see is these yellow eyes and it's pitch black and i'm like it was i was i can't play skyrim right now i'm terrified uh but i i am really uh i really you've really piqued my interest on subnautica right now and i haven't i haven't put on the headset in a little while and now i i think i might want to give this give this a roll so yep try it out you know as us gamers get older once we're in our 70s 80s and 90s
Starting point is 00:22:44 you're gonna start seeing people dying of heart attacks. Oh, I'm sure. Because you're playing scary VR games when they're too old and can't handle it. Yeah, I have no doubt. All right, let's jump into our second article of the week. I'm a little more excited about this one than the Subnautica one. We have a new Monkey Island game that is going to release this year. This is how you do it!
Starting point is 00:23:06 That's how you do it. Don't give us the eight-year wind-up like Cyberpunk and then completely drop the ball and release a terrible product. This is a game called Return to Monkey Island, and it looks like they are going back to the original roots of the first two Monkey Islands, which in my opinion are by far the best. I loved The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2. After that, they got into the more cel-shaded, very childish animation style. Those did not do it for me at all.
Starting point is 00:23:38 But they have some of the original people working on the project. I love combining a pirate adventure with all the humor. I absolutely loved Monkey Island growing up. In fact, I would go as far as to say Monkey Island was my first favorite video game. It very much sticks out. I would spend the night at my friend's house that owned it, and we would just play it all day until I went home. And Michael, apparently you've never played Monkey Island since you did not know who LeChuck was. It actually sounds like I don't just play it all day until i went home and michael apparently you've never played monkey island since you did not know who le chuck was it actually sounds like i don't actually play video games which is really funny because i'm like oh that collects them second story i just
Starting point is 00:24:13 i collect them like like cards like went cards i just like i'll never i'll never use it but i collect it one of the things though that i did read about in this article that just floored me was that the game like they basically announced it on April Fool's Day. And everybody was like, oh, it's an April Fool's joke. And it ends up being that it's not. It's real. And it's coming really soon. Well, part of it is, is that the co-creator who is spearheading this new one, he's a guy by the name of Ron Gilbert.
Starting point is 00:24:42 He got out of the other ones so he was very very involved with the first two which are easily the best of the whole series and then the series kind of started to fall off but so he's back and the April Fool's thing was because he said that he would never make another one and that he was done
Starting point is 00:25:03 and then all of a sudden they're announcing that here's this new return to monkey Island. And it's from Ron Gilbert. And people were like, no, he said he wasn't going to make anymore. And then he's like, no,
Starting point is 00:25:16 I really, this is me. And what's really cool too, is that the voice for Guybrush Threepwood, who's the main protagonist in this game. The guy with the fish scar above his eye. Yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:29 Yep. Yep. And so, and then the original voice actor is back to voice Guybrush as well. So it's going to be like very true to the originals is kind of the, the angle they're going for. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:43 This is the same guy that did maniac mansion and he's also the one who did the cave which we did a deep dive on so that's that's who ron gilbert is that name might sound familiar we've brought him up a couple times in the past uh you know who else i know loves monkey island me josh and not only just josh what i was actually thinking of was Gearbox. Because, spoiler alert, our next deep dive is on Tiny Tina's. There is an entire three-hour section of Tiny Tina's that is absolutely nothing but a love letter to Monkey Island, which I thought was fantastic. Well, and the pirate, I won't spoil anything, but Paul, I mentioned to you that there was a joke that they set up through a multi-hour quest in that with a punchline at the end. And it made me laugh out loud. We'll save that for that episode. But yes,
Starting point is 00:26:35 the humor in Monkey Island is some of the best you have ever seen in a video game. Oh, yeah. It was like the early days of the point and click adventures and the humor is always what made monkey island stand out um the game itself was always fun but it was basically impossible to beat unless you knew someone else who knew how to beat the game it was one of those games where you had to buy a guide or someone had to show you how to work your way through it but yeah i love the monkey island games this is one i will absolutely buy so many remasters and remakes have let me down but do you know what's absolutely fantastic the monkey island one and two remakes are spectacularly made i remember it being where you could just hit like f1 i was gonna say didn't have the button immediately yes it had the button so you could see how much better it was yep because you could immediately
Starting point is 00:27:29 go back and forth between the two styles and i love playing as the original graphics because to me that's what's more nostalgic but yeah they will absolutely get my money for a return to monkey island that is a really cool feature though to be able to side by side what it looked like you know it's kind of like whatever you see a remaster people put out youtube videos and it's like you know you see the sliding line and that's how it looks now and you could do that in the game which is really really cool i that that blows my mind also i wonder if the monkey island uh piece of tiny tina or whatever it was just flew right over my head since i haven't played monkey island so i'm excited to find out what i missed it flew right over my head since I haven't played Monkey Island. So I'm excited to find out what I missed. It flew right over my head.
Starting point is 00:28:05 Yeah. There might have been a pirate named LeChance and some things like that that are clearly parody if you had played Monkey Island. If you didn't, it probably was just very confusing. It was just this pirate named LeChance. Yes. All right. And then our last story of the week, since we only have a couple minutes left here, there is a mod releasing for Half-Life Alex,
Starting point is 00:28:29 which is bringing a full four to five hour campaign, which will kind of tide us over until we get the next official Half-Life game. But what a cool feature to be able to get like a full campaign. That's of that length that you're going to be able to download. Take my money, please. Yeah. And it's funny because immediately when I hear about this, first of all, by the way, guys, guess what? I've played Half-Life Alyx.
Starting point is 00:28:56 So one out of three ain't bad for this Twig episode. But it instantly reminds me of the Skyrim mod. It was the Skyrim mod, right? That was the Forgotten Kingdom that became its own separate game. Because that was like a four or five hour piece, that content from the mod itself. Yeah. But the fact that we get a whole other game, essentially, out of this is brilliant. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 00:29:20 I can't wait to do it. Yeah. Half-Life Alyx is hands down the best VR experience in the world. The only downside to it at all is that you cannot play it self-contained on an Oculus Quest. You have to have a PC with a graphics card that's capable of running it. And so that's the only barrier of entry for people to play Half-Life Alyx. But if you have a PC, you can do the Air Link with your Quest and play it. And that's how I played it. It is the most mind-blowing VR experience out there, in my opinion. And I think we all agree on that, right? Yeah, 100%. It's heads and shoulders above anything else.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Half-Life Alyx is the first time that I truly actually considered buying a haptic feedback vest to play this game. They're like $1,500 for an okay one. They play like three different games depending on the developer, and it's a whole mod that kind of goes through Half-Life Alyx. And I was like, man, this game is so good. I might want to get the full-on suit where you're getting hit when the things are chomping at you and you feel it on your shoulder.
Starting point is 00:30:34 I seriously considered doing it. And my wife was like, you are a child. No. Dude, Michael's closet is just filled with haptic feedback vests that he's never used buys them all they just sit around yes yes well believe it or not guys we're out of time already that's crazy so yeah we're so glad to have you guys here with us here for the last half hour i know i already mentioned it a couple minutes ago but our next deep dive is going to be on tiny tina's wonderlands can't wait to talk about that with you guys what a fun game and then our next
Starting point is 00:31:10 deep dive after that we're actually not too sure yet we have not settled on anything i think we were kind of kicking around the idea of weird west we are i don't know if that's what we're doing also a new legendary supporter that we have not announced yet that may want us to play a game a certain game yeah so it's up in the air weird west seems to be the the front runner but that is not confirmed yet we reserve the right to change our minds i yeah right right the disclaimer right there but i am actually um i'm excited to play weird west anyways just because i think the artistic style of it just looks interesting it's something
Starting point is 00:31:49 i just want to kind of check out i've been playing it guys um probably four or five hours in it's uh it's in my steam library i just haven't fired uh it's a game pass that's what i did right is instead of buying the game i signed up for the one dollar ultimate game pass for a month you know it took a page out of paul's book set myself a reminder instantly 28 days later to cancel it but that way i can play weird west for a dollar very nice all right well just as a reminder come hit us up on social media at multiplayer pod and check us out on social media at MultiplayerPod and check us out on Patreon at MultiplayerSquad.com. And then we'll see you guys on Monday for that next deep dive.
Starting point is 00:32:32 Happy gaming, everybody. See you guys. All right. See you, everybody.

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