Video Gamers Podcast - Would You Rather Gaming Edition - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: July 18, 2022

Gaming hosts Michael, Josh and Paul are bringing you a hilarious episode you can’t afford to miss. We play Would You Rather Gaming Edition… except the other hosts don’t know what each has planne...d. Spontaneous insane gaming situations, video game related questions and absurd questions abound in this awesome episode! Thanks to Manscaped.com for sponsoring today’s episode. Head over to Manscaped.com to check out their awesome lineup of high quality men’s care products. Make sure to use code: Multiplayer at checkout for 20% off your ENTIRE order and FREE shipping! Thanks to our LEGENDARY supporters: Blackstar (DQ), Glapsuidir, Phelps, Michele B, Redletter, Nevo, Waynerman, TFolls, AceofShame, Jake, RangerMiller, and Ad Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/multiplayerpodcast Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/multiplayerpod/ Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/MultiplayerPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: multiplayerpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:46 Manscaped has everything you need to keep your lawn looking amazing. Get 20% off and free shipping with code MULTIPLAYER at checkout. That's 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com when you use code MULTIPLAYER at checkout. Unlock your confidence and always use the right tools for the job with Manscaped. Hello, fellow gamers. Welcome to the Multiplayer Gaming Podcast. We are three dads who love to talk about video games, and we are very excited to have this bonus round episode for you all today. We are going to be doing a gaming edition of Would You Rather Questions. For introductions, we're going to do something a little bit different for this episode. I am your host, Paul, and with me is Josh. Now, Josh, would you rather tell the people about how they can help support the show, or would you rather tell them about our new legendary supporter?
Starting point is 00:01:50 Ooh, I'm picking legendary supporter. That's a lot more fun, isn't it? It is. It is. Thanks for giving me first pick, by the way. Yeah, absolutely. Is that like a host seniority thing, since I'm not the newbie? Sure.
Starting point is 00:02:03 Yeah, I think that's what it comes down to. Well, we have yet another legendary supporter. As listeners of the show know, we have different tiers on our Patreon page, which you can get to by going to MultiplayerSquad.com. But people that love the show, want to help the show, they can sign up and support the show. But we have a legendary tier, which is the highest tier you can get, basically. It's ascending Mount Olympus, so to speak. But people that sign up in that tier, they get to pick a game for us to play. Their perks never go away. They'll always be legendary on our Discord server. And one of the, I think, possibly the longest term listener that we have, one of the OGs,
Starting point is 00:02:47 uh, has changed the, his name a few times on the discord server, but I'm going to go with the latest one, which is Dr. Katatonic, uh, has been around since the early, early days of the podcast went legendary, has been a longtime supporter of the show and said, you know what? It's time to up my game. Join that legendary tier. Thank you, Dr. Katatonic. We love having you in the community. We love having you as a supporter of the show and said, you know what? It's time to up my game. Join that legendary tier. Thank you, Dr. Catatonic. We love having you in the community. We love having you as a supporter of the show.
Starting point is 00:03:09 Thanks for sticking with us through all these years. Yeah, absolutely. And Cat has given us a list of possible games that he's going to choose for a deep dive, although they are all a little more spooky in nature so he he asked if we can hold off and do his deep dive closer to halloween which of course we are willing to do absolutely so we're looking forward to that later but we will let cat decide to announce what game that is uh whenever he decides he wants to do that callista protocol all right and then joining me and josh we've got michael here uh sorry michael you don't get a would you rather there's only one left so would you rather tell the people about some ways they can help support the show or or refuse i guess those would be your options i flat out refuse
Starting point is 00:04:00 to help anyone the noob No. Do you want to be like Dr. Catatonic and be extra awesome? Yes. Well, you can support the show by going over to MultiplayerSquad.com and if you support the show, guys, you get all kinds of bonus cool stuff, right? If you go to the Discord server, you get
Starting point is 00:04:20 a different color for your name, which is super exciting, right? It's not that gray. It's all kinds of fun colors. And the different colors depend on what tier you support on. But also, probably a little bit cooler, you get bonus episodes. Yeah. We give you extra episodes. They're really just a bunch of shenanigans, but they're a lot of fun. And you can have those access to those twice a month if you support the show. So please do that at MultiplayerSquad.com.
Starting point is 00:04:46 That was good, right? Did I do it? Yeah, absolutely. And all three of us are on those bonus episodes. We cover mostly gaming, but there's always a couple of silly questions in there. And it definitely devolves into a little bit of madness as we... If you've ever wanted to just be a part of our conversations that we have before the shows and after the shows, that's honestly what the bonus episodes are like. So it's more of like you're hanging out at the table with us. They're a little less formal.
Starting point is 00:05:16 They're a little less structured. They're a lot of fun. But that's kind of what I would equate it to. Wait, do we have a formal structure on the rest of the show? You know, Paul? I mean, we're doing the intro right now. That's right. You're right.
Starting point is 00:05:29 This is my document. It says intro next, Michael, try to talk a little bit less and then end of show. I think those are my notes that I have here. That's always our notes for Michael. Right. Just talk less.
Starting point is 00:05:41 Just don't. We know that you're riding bicycles inside your brain right now. Just go. Just park the bicycle. Get off. It's Josh's turn to say something that actually makes sense. Yeah. And Josh picks the silly debate question on each Squadcast bonus episode.
Starting point is 00:05:58 So if you want to hear us debate over whether or not it's okay to pee in the shower, that's the kind of content you're missing out on. How many holes does straw have? We're going to get a rush of subscribers after giving away some of the silly questions that we ask now. Oh, goodness. All right, so we are going to be doing a whole bunch of gaming would-you-rathers.
Starting point is 00:06:23 A very long time ago, Josh and I did a would-you-rather episode back when Todd was still here on the show with us, although it was a little over two years ago, I believe. It was one of our very first bonus rounds, and we have not gone back to that well ever since. So we decided, why not? We've got Michael now with us. We haven't done this in a while. So each of us came up with a list of would you rather questions that are all gaming related and we are just gonna go in a circle read our would you rathers we'll all give our answers and then we'll keep going until we run out of questions or what's probably more likely is running out of time because we've been known to get a little
Starting point is 00:07:02 chatty on these but we are going to try to keep it to an hour. Does that sound good to you guys? Now, I think we should tell everybody, we have not shared our questions with each other. So while we each have our own list, you guys have no idea what is on my list of questions. Correct. And I have no idea what's on y'all's list of questions. So that's part of the fun of this is we don't know what's going to happen here. Yeah. It's always very exciting having no clue what you guys are going to be hitting us all with. Mine are all very standard, guys. Don't worry.
Starting point is 00:07:37 I hope none of them are hard. I'm not ready to think a lot today, guys. I've got to be honest. You didn't study for the Would You Rather episode? I didn't. Is there a study guide? Oh, yeah, definitely. There is.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Spark notes. You know, I'll take this week off, and then you guys can just... Just Paul, Would You Rather, Josh. That's it. There you go. Would you rather Michael take the day off or stay here and talk some more? Would you rather Michael talk less or talk less? Right.
Starting point is 00:08:05 All right, Michael, I know you were super excited for this Would You Rather. Let's give you the honors. You got your first Would You Rather you want to read for us? Yeah, I'll start it off with, I'm not going to go super crazy. No, this is a super crazy one because this is literally a question about crazy. So, would you rather have Micah bell or handsome jack in your party oh at a at a party like at my house not like in your party like you're a posse you're roaming around you're you're like yeah on a quest yeah what quest yeah any quest just would you rather
Starting point is 00:08:38 have micah bell or handsome jack go on hands as your as your right hand man does the game have friendly fire yeah because that might change my answer i'm going handsome jack i i can't stand micah bell that guy he was my number one pick for uh worst villains or you know people that you hate in video games there's no way i could be in a party with micah bell um give me handsome jack he might kill me he might stab me in the back micah i feel like won't try to kill you right away. At least like he's going to sit there and troll you and call you names and stuff. But handsome Jack might just assassinate me, but I'll take my chances in dealing with him because at least it'll be fun until he assassinates me.
Starting point is 00:09:18 Well, here's the thing. Handsome Jack is predictable. He is evil and you know he's evil micah on the other hand is a total wild card where i guess red dead 2 spoilers he's actually working undercover with the pinkertons and he's selling you out and then he will just randomly start shooting up a town after you break him out of jail and yeah you just you hate micah no one wants to spend more time with micah even you josh i remember when you were trolling our discord server a little bit and you were trying to argue that micah was one of your all-time favorite characters and like no one was even buying that so there's no way you want micah to be in your party no yeah i think you got to go with handsome jack even though he's a lunatic.
Starting point is 00:10:05 I feel like he's the known lunatic that I'd rather take my chances with. Yeah, see, it's funny. When I was thinking about that one, I was kind of thinking that Micah Bell is somewhat predictable, but that's also because I've played the game and I know what he does now.
Starting point is 00:10:18 So it's kind of behind the curtain, but in real life, maybe not. My only argument for Micah Bell is that like dude can take out a whole town by himself like he's a good shot he's ruthless and depending on what type of party you're in like maybe you need that on your side if like you know and he was loyal to like certain people kind of but yeah i i would just be concerned about handsome jack because just when you think he's actually on your side and he's getting all chummy with you and all friendly and saying all those fun
Starting point is 00:10:43 jokes then he zaps you in the back but i think i'd rather have handsome jack as well yeah at least it'd be fun you know with micah it's not fun at least with handsome jack you know that before you die you're probably gonna get a laugh right yep yeah and handsome jack's not gonna call you black lung for the entire time you're with him all right good good one to get us started off with all right josh what you got i'm just gonna go very straight and narrow for the first question so just i mean as as baseline as as i can get okay um would you rather have to lick trevor phillips from grand theft auto 5's dirty underwear or have to lick the lint out of road hogs belly button i was teeter on whether
Starting point is 00:11:28 i was quitting the show when this episode started but i think this i think this question has made me just want to quit the show so i don't want to i don't want to think about this so grand theft auto five trevor phillips uh you know famously crazy guy um with not he's not the most hygienic guy uh generally wanders around in uh soiled underwear and a sweaty wife beater he might be the least hygienic guy you know but then there's roadhog from overwatch who is uh has one of the most pronounced and cavernous belly buttons that i can think of i can't imagine the things that get trapped in there so pick your poison gentlemen which one are you going with?
Starting point is 00:12:10 When I think of Roadhog, the first word that comes to my mind is the word moist. And that's not a place you want to start. It's not. I don't want to lick that. I don't. But the thought of licking Trevor Phillips' underwear. Oh my goodness. What do I do? The underwear is... I couldn't handle the smell. Don't breathe. Don't breathe. Don't breathe. Just taste it.
Starting point is 00:12:34 I think I'd rather lick a disgusting belly button than a disgusting cotton button. Just to see if I can sway your thought process, you just have to lick the underwear. That's it. Just once. Just a little lick. But with Roadhog, you have to lick the underwear that's it just once just a little lick but with road hog you have to lick the lint out of it so i've got like dig in there you've got to dig in you gotta actually strike gold so if i come out and i don't have like i show you guys my tongue and there's no lint on it you're like you gotta go back in going back in paul why don't you
Starting point is 00:13:02 answer this one first these both sound so great i don't know which one to choose uh is there any possible upside to finding anything in roadhog's belly button i i kind of doubt it so if you're gonna make me go digging with my tongue or just like a little light lick yeah uh boy i i give give me sentences i would never say for a thousand dollars alex i'm gonna say give me trevor phillips underwear and uh i'm gonna go ahead and give it the tiniest lick if it's gonna be that minor compared to roadhog all right so michael does that sway your decision uh i don't know it might i was following the crowd or are you forging your own path there, buddy? No, I was. Thank you for the nightmares, Josh.
Starting point is 00:13:48 Yeah. I'm not going to sleep well. What? I told you. It's just the first question, guys. I think that when I think about it, I think about like Trevor's attire. He doesn't seem like a boxer briefs guy. He seems like a loose fitting boxer guy.
Starting point is 00:14:01 Oh, he's a tighty whities for sure. Oh, he's tighty whities. That's what I was thinking. That's what I know. Oh, my oh my goodness more like tidy yellowies i want the road hog has an audi right yeah i'm going for the audi i'm looking the belly button i'll find the lint i just i trevor's tidy whiteys he's probably been wearing them for six or seven days oh he's been i don't the whole time, too. Yeah, there's Skidmark Trevor. That's what we're going to call him. I'll take the belly button, even though there's really
Starting point is 00:14:30 no right answer here. I just feel like I'm picking the less wrong one. So give me the belly button for $200. Interesting. Wait, what is a belly button lick? I'm going the underwear, man. I think because it's like I'm sensitive to textures, right? I don't like certain foods because of the underwear, man. I think because it's like I'm sensitive to textures, right?
Starting point is 00:14:45 I don't like certain foods because of the texture of it. I don't think I could deal with having to pull out some lint and be like, all right, there you go. As gross as the other option is, I think it's the least intrusive of the two. So I'm taking the Trevor Phillips underwear. What if you get in there and you find out that it actually smells and tastes like bacon in the belly button? That's what I'm hoping for. It could.
Starting point is 00:15:10 It very well could. I'll let you guys know when I'm done. That lint has been in there for a long time. Now, Josh, afterward, are you going to take the toilet plunger like Ace Ventura and make yourself vomit? I was going to say, I am 100% Ace Ventura-ing this thing. Yes. The irony of this question is the lint that is in Roadhog's belly button probably came from Trevor Phillips' underwear. There you go.
Starting point is 00:15:33 So I got both. You're just doubling down. Poor Roadhog. He's out there and he's like, I'm really hygienic. Why are they messing with me? Say bacon one more time. All right. Let's move on.
Starting point is 00:15:45 As much fun as it is thinking about Trevor Phillips underwear in my mouth, let's go on to the next question. All right. You know, I'm going to bring things back down to a relatively normal base. What? Guys! I'm going to go with a more traditional one here. I got some that are a little crazier, but's uh let's let's just bring it down a notch i'm gonna ask you guys now all three of us famously love rpgs i think all of us say it's our
Starting point is 00:16:13 favorite genre yeah you would be accurate would you rather live in a world where the only video games that exist are rpgs or a world where all other genres exist but there are no rpgs josh is gonna be way more conflicted than i am on this i will be you you give your answer while i sit here and try to decide michael you're not gonna have games like mist there's no puzzle games no interactive movies and i know you like some of those games too yeah i i just think that if you look at my top 10 list of games i think they're all rpgs except for mist yeah so i'm i'm i as much as i like other games i think i've definitely drawn more to gaming and the reason i game is rpgs really like if I'm looking at playing a game, like before I was in the show,
Starting point is 00:17:06 I would just not play games if there wasn't a good RPG to play in a lot of ways. Or my friends are playing a game. That was fun, too. Ooh, that would be gone, though. I couldn't play games because there's not a lot of RPGs out there that are good for big groups. Overwatch is out. Deep Rock Galactic is out. I'm still picking RPGs.
Starting point is 00:17:22 I'm going with RPGs because that's why I game. But Joshosh is not gonna get his favorite game of all time rocket league so let's see how he answers i this is where i'm really torn here because i do love rpgs now my brain is instantly because i don't follow rules a whole lot trying to think how i can bend these rules now do rpg do rpg elements count Because most games nowadays... Give me a game you're thinking of. Give me a game you're thinking of. Satisfactory.
Starting point is 00:17:50 That is not an RPG. Definitely not. It's got gear upgrades and equipment. No one has ever called Satisfactory an RPG. I'm just saying it's got, you know, so these games that might have RPG-ish elements to them. So this is traditional RPGs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:08 Your Dragon Ages, your open world RPGs. What about like Bioshock? Would you say Bioshock is an RPG? No, I would say that's an action game. As much as I love RPGs, I need variety. It's the spice of life, boys. So I would just have to give them up, man. I need that ability to play a puzzle game from time to time. I need the ability to play Rocket
Starting point is 00:18:32 League, some first-person shooters, whatever. As much as I would just put a hole in my heart, man. I got to have that variety. Yeah, RPGs are by far my favorite. Look at my top 10. I think like eight of them were RPGs, something like that. I know I had Portal and I had a Mario game in there and I think all the rest were RPGs. But I don't know, losing out on all survival games, all first-person shooters, card games, Josh,
Starting point is 00:19:02 you really love. I do. You know, I'm gonna to lose Hearthstone. I mean, even just losing online-only games like Overwatch, that is so much of my free time and social time with friends. So I think I'm with Josh. Even though RPGs are my favorite, I would rather lose RPGs and keep all other gaming than to be pigeonholed.
Starting point is 00:19:25 Yeah, I think we've had some good would you rather questions. We're getting people on both sides. I love it. That's true. Yeah. I'll take the whole of the pigeon. Give it to me. If it's an RPG section where that pigeon lives, I'm taking it.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Okay, Michael, we are back around to you. Hit us with your second question. All right. So I'll kind of keep this in the same vein as paul and this one's a little bit more normal i mean i don't i just don't i think every question is going to be normal when you compare it to trevor phillips's underwear question so um all right would you rather play only one game at a time but you play it to completion like like 100 completion on the game or juggle so many games that you literally can never ever finish a game like you can't finish the main story you can't finish the the main quest line you can never see the end of the game but you can
Starting point is 00:20:17 play as many games as you want this is such a layup for me so this one of these is clearly already josh i just kind of answered this one i'll just jump in real quick and cap on to that one i need that variety i rarely finish video games if i do finish a video game it says it is a tremendous uh like recommendation from my brain that says hey we like this game so much that we want to finish it. Even the best of games generally peter out towards the end. So for me, I'll never finish a game and just play 100 different games all at once. How many different games have you actually finished? One hand?
Starting point is 00:20:55 Kind of one hand, you think? Yeah. Honestly, yeah. To actually seeing end credits roll, it's probably... In all honesty, in 40 years of gaming probably i don't know though see back in the nintendo days you didn't have that option you had to finish your games because that's all you had so but i mean if we're talking in the last like 20 years i could i've probably finished 10 games total in 20 years time no one like that's wild that's honestly if you
Starting point is 00:21:22 gave me five minutes i probably could go through the list. But yeah. But I just, I like that variety, man. My brain just wants something different. And then I'd go with that. And then once I don't play a game for like a week, I'll never go back to it. I'm pretty sure I know what Paul's answer is going to be. So I should probably rephrase the question. Would you rather play games like Paul or play games like Josh? That's exactly what the question is. I am such like, I don't even know how to describe this. I'm such a completionist in all areas of life. I do not put a project down and pick it back up later. If someone gives me something to do for work, I have to do it immediately and finish it. I don't like juggling multiple things
Starting point is 00:22:05 at once. I like handling things one at a time. And when I play video games, when we do our deep dives, I completely finish the next deep dive before I jump into the next game after that. The only thing that I do juggle a little bit is I have no problem with a game like Overwatch or Rocket League or Hearthstone on the side. And so that way, if I want to break from like a story based game or something that we're doing a deep dive on, I can hop into an online match or two because that's multiplayer. That's a little different. So I don't mind having one or two of those on the side, but I will play every game to completion. I won't necessarily go for all the achievements but i have done 100 achievements for games like mass effect 1 mass effect 2 cyberpunk i got 100 completion on for all the achievements so i'll even do that sometimes
Starting point is 00:22:57 whereas i don't know if josh has ever looked at achievements for any game ever because i i'm guessing he doesn't even care wait what do what do you mean by achievements, guys? Like, playing the game is the achievement. Yeah, well, my SR is good. Yeah, I'm almost loyal to a fault. Even if it's a game I'm not really loving, I'll still finish it because I want to get my money's worth, and then I'll move on to the next game.
Starting point is 00:23:21 What about you, Michael? I feel like you're a little more loyal to your games, but I feel like there's so many games you want to play you sometimes end up dropping some yeah i my what i'm guilty of sometimes is if it's a long campaign like a long game like horizon zero dawn which wasn't a long game i i think i completed the whole game like 103 hours 100 completion every single achievement everything every even every little box on that you know everything and um i came back to it twice like i left and came back twice because it's like that's that's an undertaking and i had other games i wanted to play so i'd go and come back that being said that was still like my main game at the time and i would i would rather play a game completely all the way through than to like never be able to finish it like that's i just i don't
Starting point is 00:24:05 understand josh's head i don't it's your head i don't get it but now i don't want to understand it i know that that that mind came up with the question about trevor phillips's underwear so i don't want to go there exactly yeah i've made jokes in the past it's like josh will just watch the first episode of every TV show on Netflix, and he's just never gone on to episode two. He's perfectly content. Oh, this is new. Oh, this is kind of fun. Great. Oh, here's something else that's new, and it's kind of fun. And I do think that there's definitely some validity to that. I think Josh likes the excitement of having the next new thing. I get some excitement wrapping a bow on it,
Starting point is 00:24:45 seeing that 100% completion and being done. So just slightly different motivating factors, I guess. Are you crushing your bills? Defeating your monthly payments? Sounds like you're at the top of your financial game. Rise to it with the BMO Eclipse Rise Visa Card, the credit card that rewards your good financial habits. Earn points for paying your credit card bill in full and on time every month. Level up from bill payer to reward slayer. Terms and conditions apply. All right, Josh, we are back to you. All right, guys, I'm going to tone it down just a little bit.
Starting point is 00:25:23 No, it's not. Would you rather lick? Crazy question. Alright. Would you rather have to be roommates, okay, so living in the same apartment or house with Wario and Waluigi or Pikachu and
Starting point is 00:25:40 Kirby? Oh, man. I think this one's kind of easy. Really? Yeah. I still don't know my answer to this one. They're both terrible. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:25:50 Well, with Kirby, isn't he going to eat everything? I came up with a question and my brain can't decide. Isn't Kirby going to eat everything you have? I mean, maybe. But he'll spit it out and it's still fine. So you're happy with eating leftover spit out mac and cheese. Sure. If Kirby eats your couch, you're sitting on Kirby at that point and that that gets kind of awkward too yeah but is there anyone more annoying
Starting point is 00:26:12 in all video gaming than wario yeah pikachu i'd way rather hear pika how many times can I say it before it starts getting annoying, Paul? A whole lot compared to Wario. So you're picking Pikachu and Kirby, Paul? Pikachu and Kirby any day of the week. They are much cuter than Wario and Luigi. Their voices, while Pikachu does have a very high-pitched voice that will get on my nerves eventually, I'd still rather have that than Wario and Luigi's voices.
Starting point is 00:26:48 Do you get the benefit of Pikachu? Because doesn't your Pikachu or your companion... I've never really played the Pikachu games. No, you don't own Pikachu. He's just a roommate. He's just a roommate. I don't get whatever benefits of Pokemon. He's his own person, Michael.
Starting point is 00:27:02 You don't get like he's his own person michael you don't own him if your power supply breaks can you ask pikachu to give you a spark it'll it'll fry all your electronics oh man make sure you have some surge protectors in that house right so what would be that what would be the upside to having two evil an evil mario and evil lu Luigi living in your house is my question. You make your decision and then I'll tell you. Man. I think I'd probably rather not live with a couple of evil people. I'd rather live with good people. As annoying as... Are Pikachu and Kirby considered good?
Starting point is 00:27:38 Yeah, 100%. Absolutely. They're your buddies. They're helping you. Yeah, they're the protagonists of their respective games. True, versus the antagonists. Okay, so just a breakdown. Antagonists good,
Starting point is 00:27:51 antagonists bad, protagonists good. I got that right. I know we've gotten that mistakenly flipped in the past. So Michael, you're picking Pikachu and Kirby? Yeah, really just because I'd rather not live with evil turd nuggets who are going to be evil. I'm going with the evil turd nuggets, man, because you're picking Pikachu and Kirby? Yeah, really just because I'd rather not live with evil turd nuggets who are going to be evil. I'm going with the evil turd nuggets, man.
Starting point is 00:28:08 Because I'll tell you what. Because you're one of them. I'll tell you what. Like, that's why. Okay, I don't doubt that this would get annoying. I don't doubt that they would probably trash the place, right? But I can deal with the slightly evil side more than I can the super annoying side of Pikachu and Kirby. Kirby's swallowing stuff.
Starting point is 00:28:28 Pikachu just saying, Pikachu! All the time. I would shoot Pikachu. I would literally come home one day and be like, I can't take anymore. Okay, I get that Wario and Luigi can be annoying, but they're going to come up with some of the best shenanigans and be like, Josh, let's go!
Starting point is 00:28:44 And then I'm going to be like, yeah, all right. Sounds like a blast, guys. Let's go. And so I think... Plus, I'm pretty sure Wario and Waluigi can hold down a job, whereas Kirby and Pikachu are not going to be contributing to rent. It's not happening.
Starting point is 00:29:01 Kirby could be like a garbage man. That's about it. Just take all the garbage and bring it to the dump. Spit it out. Yeah. Kirby could be like a garbage man. That's about it. Just take all the garbage and bring it to the dump. Spit it out. Yeah. Pretty sure Pikachu can win you some Pokemon tournaments and probably bring home some fat cash prizes. He's not going to want to go to work every day when he's...
Starting point is 00:29:15 No, man. He's living his own life. Man, if he gets down on cash, he could literally just trade himself. Yeah, but then he's gone. And then I got to find another roommate. Oh, I mean mean he'll find well pikachu and kirby i choose you they're they're my roommates i'm taking them josh can have wario and luigi and uh we'll be having lots more fun than you guys that's for sure
Starting point is 00:29:36 sure the police will be called to your apartment far more often it's not my fault it's my roommates sorry very nice okay let's see here next would you rather question far more often than mine. It's not my fault. It's my roommate's. Sorry. Very nice. Okay, let's see here. Next would you rather question. All right, here we go. Would you rather always have minor but noticeable lag anytime you play any game ever or always have no lag
Starting point is 00:30:01 but only be able to play four games with you for the next year. Oh, man. That's evil, Paul. That's evil. Okay, so always have minor lag and play anything I want. Or never have lag, but can only play four games for the next year. Yep, you have to pick four games and you are locked in for the next 365 is the minor lag uh perpetual forever yes it is noticeable
Starting point is 00:30:33 give me the one minor i'll pay my one year's time yeah i i then it's over and i honestly i can get by with overwatch rocket league and two other games for a year. It would suck, but I could do it. And then it goes away. I feel like you would end up spending more time with some of your other hobbies, like woodworking. Yes, exactly. I feel like you would disappear for chunks because you would get so sick of playing those four games. Lagging games is terrible. The rubber banding, especially depending on...
Starting point is 00:31:02 I mean, I play a lot of Rocket League, man. A half second of lag will just trash you in that. Yeah. Lagging something like a turn-based RPG is not going to hurt you nearly as much. You just wait. But yeah, especially online matches, especially Rocket League, that'll really screw you up. What about you, Michael? Are you going to go for that constant minor lag or no lag, but you only get four games for the next year i think the real question should be would i rather have the lag the constant minor lag or lick trevor phillips's underwear and i would rather lick trevor phillips's underwear so i'll do the four
Starting point is 00:31:37 games for the year because i can't know lag is lag is like the most annoying thing you know it's it's like like in any aspect of your life, you're watching something on Netflix, and all of a sudden you see the quality go from like that beautiful 4K to like a 480 or something, or you have a little loading bar. In games, again, like we played V Rising. We did that review a couple months ago. And the first couple days, that lag made me want to smash my laptop.
Starting point is 00:32:03 I wanted to smash it. Yeah, that was not minor lag. That was some pretty major lag. But even minor lag, like rubber banding, like let's say when you're walking with a character and they're getting there, but every fourth or fifth step you go back a step. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, none of that.
Starting point is 00:32:19 I feel like I can pick four games that are big, big, robust RPGs and get 400, 500, 600 hours worth of playing out of some really big games and satisfy myself for the year. I think this is a tough one to answer. especially now that we're a little older and we're past those Nintendo days where you had one game at a time, it would really be hard to only play four games for a whole year. That's a long time. And any brand new release you're not going to have access to, you're going to have to wait until next year. But I still think I would go with only four games and no lag. And I'm just going to pick four games that are online pvp that way
Starting point is 00:33:05 you're not gonna get as sick of it if you pick something like an rpg eventually you're gonna be done and there's nothing left to do so i would try to capitalize on overwatch would definitely be one of the four and i'm gonna pick some other similar type to online matchmaking games and games that also are heavy in customization so like if forge is out for halo infinite, then maybe halo infinite is one of the other three. But yeah, I think that's what I'm going to pick on, on my side.
Starting point is 00:33:32 Yes. I think my answer was more driven by the year 2008. This answer is brought to you by the year 2008. Cause in 2008, I played two games that whole year. I played oblivion. I played gears of war two, I think that was it.
Starting point is 00:33:43 And it was like oblivion was, I put like 450 hours in that game you know and yes i did get i did get the first microtransaction of all time i got the horse armor um which i thought was exciting very nice and then i was duped like everyone else like wait this doesn't help me at all it's just cosmetic what i pay for this anyways yeah so i think i i think i could get through it just because i put so much time into the rpgs i do love getting the 100% completion. You know, like that every single hidden thing, everything.
Starting point is 00:34:11 You know, and so I think I could do it with four RPGs, but I'd probably have to pick like Overwatch as one of them so I could take a break and just play something else every once in a while. But give me the four games. Yeah. Guess what's coming back? World of Warcraft. That's going to be one of my four. I'll tell you that right now.
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Starting point is 00:35:23 That's the code MULTIPLAYER at Manscaped.com. Remove the question and That's the code multiplayer at manscaped.com. Remove the question and go with the sure thing at Manscaped. Okay, we are back from break. And Michael, we are back up to you. Oh, man, I wasn't expecting to go right now. Okay, we'll do. I'm actually just really curious about this one it's not as funny i mean it could be because we seem to make everything funny um but
Starting point is 00:35:51 this is our shenanigans um okay so would you rather only be allowed to play free to play games or only be allowed to pay trip to play words are hard to play triple a titles so you don't get anything between it's either only free to play games or play triple a titles so you don't get anything between it's either only free to play games or only triple a titles and you have to buy the games so if it's free to play you're getting them free but the quality is not there or triple a which is 60 bucks a game whatever it is so you're losing all indie titles valheim's out neon whites out hades out you're gonna miss out on a lot of gems so only free or only full $60 that's it just triple a or free to play that's all you get the other games don't exist give me the triple a oh rip rocket league well rocket league was paid initially that's not now
Starting point is 00:36:43 yeah it's not now that would count I feel like there's more AAA titles out there we have the whole history of the world too you know what I mean so it's like I can play any AAA title or I can only play free to play games which while
Starting point is 00:37:00 they have become more popular in the last few years I feel like I want that AAA still. Give me that experience. What about AAA titles that are free-to-play, like Halo Infinite multiplayer? That's Beth. They fit both categories. They fit both categories. I'm taking the AAAs on this one. The free-to-play, there's a lot of fun free-to-play games out there, but there's not enough of them that I enjoy to want to be stuck with that forever. Yeah. I'm with you as well, Josh. I think there's a lot of really good free-to-play games,
Starting point is 00:37:32 whether it's Apex Legends or a lot of the Battle Royales are free. I think there's a lot of good to pick from. The problem is you're going to lose out on every single good single player campaign which tend to be my favorite memories even though i spend more time playing multiplayer games i would really really feel sad if i missed out on the next witcher game or the next dragon age game i would have to have that available so i would take the triple a titles even though it's going to be a lot more expensive and even though i'm going to lose a few free games, I would still rather have that than, uh,
Starting point is 00:38:09 be forced to play fall guys or among us. Right. What about you, Michael? Do you have a choice in this one? You can play a lot of lost dark if you wanted to. Oh, that's true.
Starting point is 00:38:19 Yeah. Just then do you get to pay for the, uh, I guess if you're playing it, then you can pay for the pay to win part. When you get to the end, I'm still jaded by that. By the you can pay for the pay-to-win part when you get to the end. I'm still jaded by that, by the way. Diablo Immortal, you can play that all you want.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Oh, yeah, yeah. Overwatch 2. Sure, Overwatch 2, free to play. I still think the answer for me is going to be AAA because I'm more of a story game person. It's just like basically cut and paste Paul's answer here. And I think that's exactly where we're at. It's just... Yeah. Okay, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:46 Okay, Josh, we are now up to you. What you got with this next one? Back to me. All right. Does it involve underwear? No, not this one. Or belly rubs. It runs me disappointed.
Starting point is 00:38:58 All right. I got to tone it down just a little bit. Let me be serious. I can be serious for a minute, and then I'll come back to some of the crazy stuff because I've got a couple of good ones still. So, okay. Legitimately, would you rather be the best tank, healer, or DPS on a pro esports team? Oh, okay. So you're one of the best in the world.'re on like you're you're playing you know the the the
Starting point is 00:39:25 super bowl of overwatch or league of legends or whatever uh you know like what would you rather be known for being the best tank being the best healer or being the best dps i would say best dps because that's going to translate to other stuff i feel feel a lot easier. If I'm a world-class mercy player in Overwatch, like that's cool, I guess. I don't know that that's going to- There's honors and stuff, you know. Sure. Well, yeah, but I'm saying like specifically
Starting point is 00:39:54 if I was a world-class mercy player, that's not going to translate to anything else terribly well or being like a really good Reinhardt. So I would rather be a really good DPS. And whether that's playing someone like Genji in Overwatch, or playing any kind of shooter, I would rather have that skill, because that's going to carry over to a lot of other stuff. And I feel like it's just a little more glamorous. I'd rather go down as the great DPS than as a really good healer. Being a really good healer is a really good healer is i don't know like
Starting point is 00:40:26 what's the old joke like being the tallest people in a town of little people i don't know like i feel like it's not that great if you're the best healer i'd rather be the best dps interesting i would say you know when you look at like dps and you look at tanks and healers dps is like the quarterback it's like the flashy one that everyone knows like oh man so many kills you're always checking the kill counts and all that stuff you know nobody remembers on the nfl team i mean they do but not as many people will know the defensive player of the year versus the top quarterback you know and i feel like dps is like the big thing that being said i'm gonna go tank here a hundred percent because i feel like
Starting point is 00:41:05 dps is awesome and yeah other people would know who you are but i feel like internally your team when i play overwatch for instance and i have a really really good tank like that guy kind of helps carry so much of the weight and having that dependable person who's that good like your team acknowledges it and just knows like we kind of depended on you healers the same way too but that's more of a support thing well it literally is a support thing i just literally a support like a healer thing that healers do healers guys like you make people better but um i just there's something about being a good tank that when people acknowledge like ryan dude oh when i play a goodinhardt and I've had it in several
Starting point is 00:41:45 matches, well, like two, I've had two good matches in my life. We were there for both of them. So yeah, you were there but people are like man, that was like I that was an amazing Ryan, like just the way I got the pins down all that stuff like you can't like didn't carry it, but like that was clutch. That was awesome. And I just I feel like that's
Starting point is 00:42:01 so satisfying to be like the unsung hero like you know what you did versus the like that's so satisfying to be like the unsung hero. Like, you know what you did versus the person that just always goes out and has the most kills. This is going to sound weird, but I both agree and disagree with Michael. Um, because that's weird. I disagree that the quarterback is the DPS. I think that's your wide receivers or your running back that is DPS. They're the ones that flash, everybody cheers. They have that short, brief, exciting moment. But for me, the quarterback of the team is the tank. I can see that. I would actually want to be the tank in this regard because it's the heart of the team.
Starting point is 00:42:37 Yes, healers are doing their job and having amazing healers are going to make everybody look good. That's like the coach on the sideline, but nobody wants to be the coach. But the tank is the heart of the team, the captain of the team. It's like the coach on the sideline, but nobody wants to be the coach, you know, but the tank is the heart of the team, the captain of the team. It's the guy that maybe doesn't get all of the attention or the highlight videos, but the team, it's like the anchor point.
Starting point is 00:42:54 And that's for some reason, that's what I would want to be in like that pro arena. I get, maybe you're not in the limelight as much as the DPS guys and you don't have the highlight reels and stuff like that, but you're kind of the, you're the, you know that keeps it together and so that's i think that would fit what i would want to be a little bit better my my analogy was good yours was better because that does totally make sense yeah yeah paul went with the selfish pick of like give me
Starting point is 00:43:20 the fame oh yeah yes give me the fame you asked me what would i rather yeah the uh playing tank is i was thinking in my head because i'm more of a basketball fan than you guys it's more of the point guard position where they are determining the pace i almost exclusively play healers in overwatch i know we've we're talking about overwatch a lot today but i've been playing a lot of the overwatch 2 beta there is nothing more frustrating than sitting back as a healer watching a tank that will not move in yeah and they won't go past the checkpoint king's row on attack i cannot tell you how many times a ryan pops out and holds their shield loses all the shield hp and just stands there doing nothing for four seconds and just keeps doing it over and over and i'm'm like, Ryan, you got to move
Starting point is 00:44:05 in, dude. Like if we fight here forever, we're never going to win. So it's really important to have a tank that understands pacing and sensing. Okay. We just got to pick. I got to move in now and maybe I die, but that's okay because we have the numbers and we have to play aggressively. It's so vital. And if you have a really bad tank, you're really going to pull down the whole team. So I think tank and DPS make the most sense. It's just the idea of being like a superstar healer. I'm not getting it. I also, just as an addition to that, a caveat,
Starting point is 00:44:41 it's also annoying when a tank is too aggressive and they think they're a DPS. There's that balance that you've got to have and all the good pros they have that balance but also the teamwork and so anyways that's it oh yeah no nothing is worse than a rhyme that immediately turns a corner and immediately charges one v5 or one v6 and it's like i don't have line of sight no one can heal you and then they're like we're the healers you know there's nothing worse than that so there you go paul's paul's healer soapbox okay i think we're up to me we are would you rather all right and we're uh we got a little more time here for one or two each uh okay here we go would you guys rather have to live in the world of elden ring
Starting point is 00:45:26 or live in the world of escape from tarkov oh give me elden ring taking that elden ring baby give me the beautiful erd trees and the vistas and the earth tree is gorgeous man it's pretty it's a pretty grim setting still just the earth tree is the only beautiful part i mean there's some really really nice vistas i'll take elden ring all day because escape from tarkov well escape from tarkov is it seems like post-apocalyptic like yes it's forested that's pretty but literally everything is trying to kill you from the shadows at least in elden ring i know like oh look this thing's coming at me. You know,
Starting point is 00:46:06 I can run away versus Tarkov where some camper is just going to sit in a bush and kill me. And there's nothing. The world's empty. There's nothing out there. At least Elden Ring's interesting
Starting point is 00:46:14 and you can explore and there's horses and there's the occasional person that doesn't want to murder you. Is there? Yeah, sure. There's like two in Elden Ring. Thea gives me hugs. Sure. Oh sure oh yeah if you want the fia
Starting point is 00:46:28 hugs what if you're just wandering down the road and you run into godric the grafted like that's not gonna happen in tarkov has no monsters tarkov has everybody's people who might act like monsters everybody's a monster in tarkov but elden ring is literally filled with real life horrific monsters i would lose my mind if i was in elden ring i would lose because nothing there like there's nothing friendly about like yes the the landscape is is actually quite beautiful it really is there's nice water got some caves to explore but there's like no normal people you can talk to you can't talk to anyone who's normal everybody's got this weird thing going on it's people you can talk to. You can't talk to anyone who's normal. Everybody's got this weird thing going on.
Starting point is 00:47:09 Do you talk to anybody in Tarkov? I don't know. I've never played it. That's part of the problem. You can try. You can try. They're just going to shoot you in the face. I mean, I feel like this is just like... This is bad.
Starting point is 00:47:20 It's a bad pick either way. There's no goodies. I'm going Elden Ring. Give me that fantasy setting man I'll take fantasy setting nine times actually ten times out of ten over post-apocalyptic just humans murdering each other willy-nilly all right so I'll keep in mind my answer if if if I am in this world of Elden Ring and Josh is in the world of Elden Ring can we be friends in the world of Elden Ring together so I have the world of Elden Ring. Can we be friends in the world of Elden Ring together? So I have
Starting point is 00:47:45 somewhere to talk to as long as you're my summons like I summoned you. You didn't summon me. Oh, okay. Sure. And how long are you guys going to live in Elden Ring? I've got martial training. Josh, how long did you play Elden Ring before you died?
Starting point is 00:48:02 Four minutes? Five minutes? Five minutes maybe? minutes maybe six okay so you're really gonna enjoy all those visuals of the of wherever you spawn in elden ring and it's all gonna come to a close my first death was against the tree knight when you first start out the and i was like oh what's this guy and then i still remember good sir yeah i that's what i did i had no idea i had no idea there were no friendly NPCs, and I just walked up to him like, I'm going to go talk to this guy.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Nope. No. Yeah, I think I might go Tarkov. Really? I think that life would suck, but I'm going to survive way longer than I am in Eldrin. You're going to live in your blown-out school room and just hope that nobody ever finds you in there?
Starting point is 00:48:42 Yeah, bunker down, lock myself somewhere. I don't know. I'd rather enjoy the world for a few moments. Well, but if you're in that world, are you in that universe? So do you come back to life and have to go get your stuff off your body? No. You're just dead. Game over, man.
Starting point is 00:48:56 Yeah, game over. Then I'm definitely picking Elden Ring, because in this case, since I'm picking between two terrible choices, just end it quickly. Get it over. Yeah. Since I'm picking between two terrible choices, just end it quickly. Get it over. My wife has always said, if it's a zombie apocalypse, I'm just going to let them take me because I don't want to be on the run. It's my wife's hottest take, and it cracks me up every time. She's like, nope.
Starting point is 00:49:14 I'm literally going to lay down and just come on, zombies. Just take me. All right, Michael, back to you. This is probably going to be your last one, so pick a good one. Go fast, Michael. Can to you. This might, yeah, this is probably going to be your last one. No, I got lots of good ones. Go fast, Michael. Can we do a rapid fire and just fly through two of them?
Starting point is 00:49:30 Maybe, it depends on how much you talk. Sure. Okay. I am staying from answering this question. Remember the notes, Michael? Dang it. It was the one note. All right, this one might be my last one,
Starting point is 00:49:42 so I'm going to pick a good one. I don't know if this one's allowed or not um but i'm gonna ask it anyways would you rather have to attend a family reunion naked or not be able to video game or game for five years oh easy this this barely qualifies as a gaming would you rather but iather, but I'll allow it. I'm going naked to the family reunion. I don't think it would surprise... With my family, I don't think it would even surprise them that much, to be honest. Josh is already naked at family reunions. Yeah, I was going to say.
Starting point is 00:50:15 A couple drinks in. It's just the norm. I haven't met Josh's family, so I don't know. I'm not giving up my primary form of relaxation and stress relief and hobby and podcasting just because I'm scared of my family seeing... My family's already seen my naked body. I was born into that family. It might be hairier now, but they've seen it all before.
Starting point is 00:50:38 I feel like if Josh has... If this is a scheduled family reunion that he's going to go to next year, he has time to grow his beard really long and then just like tie it between his legs and he's wearing clothes there you go that's that's that's the loophole all right oh boy family reunion naked or
Starting point is 00:50:55 no games for five years and I can turn it into a gaming question on both sides would you rather attend a family reunion naked and still play games during the family reunion naked and still play games? During the family reunion? Sure. Sure. You know, my family is just so prudish. I know Josh's family. They're much more bohemian. They're a little more open in that regard. My family would be so mortified i mean this is my upbringing i was not allowed to watch a lot of pg-13 movies
Starting point is 00:51:29 even when i was 14 15 16 years old i remember being told i was not allowed to go see certain movies at the movie theater my family was very tight and prudish about anything in that regard i i think i might get disowned if i showed up in my birthday suit your family like exiling you and just being like paul we have unvoted you are now exiled i feel like josh's family would legitimately laugh and be like oh that's a great joke where my family would be like we need to have a serious conversation how are you doing and we're going to hospitalize you immediately right yeah uh i might have to go with no games for five i'm sorry i'll tell you how great i might have to ragnarok is don't worry oh man oh yeah and the next one or two entries i'm probably missing those two what about you
Starting point is 00:52:16 michael i think i think that like like one of them is like just one really bad day right that's a really bad day i'm naked around my family reunion, and my family's probably going to have mixed... They're probably somewhere between Josh and Paul's families. Which, by the way, my favorite part about this question was that I got to hear Paul say the word bohemian. I've never heard him say that word before. There you go.
Starting point is 00:52:37 That'd be very happy. But I'd rather have one really bad day and just an awkward conversation for the next year or so, and then just nobody would ever bring it up again because that'd be like one day that Michael went crazy. Your family would forget after a year like they would never bring it up again. So my family would talk about me until the day we all die. My family has a weird thing where we just don't talk about things sometimes.
Starting point is 00:53:00 Like if it's a painful memory, we just won't ever bring it up. And I'm like, that's cool. I don't got to hear about it again. It was a rough rough day but i get video games the next five years so i'll walk i'll go naked got a lot of dust under that rug huh yeah a little bit little bit do we have a whole show we can dedicate to that it'd be real depressing very nice all right all right i i like the question all right josh you got your next one?
Starting point is 00:53:32 I'm trying to debate whether going like an actual really good gaming question or just going off the rails again. All right, let's do a good gaming question here. Would you rather have, and you can only pick one, and all of the other ones go away. Okay? So whichever one you don't pick, you lose access forever to the others. Would you rather have the Elder Scrolls 6, The Witcher 4, Dragon Age 4, or Mass Effect 5?
Starting point is 00:53:58 Ooh. You pick one and you do not get the other three. I feel like this question, I have to take notes on it i don't you ask me more than two things at one time elder scrolls six witcher four dragon age four mass effect five i don't like this question no i don't want to can we get the silly question these are all games that should come out in the next five years right that are probably some of the most anticipated releases of the decade absolutely which one are you saying
Starting point is 00:54:34 i'm planning my flag on this one even if i'd never get to play any of the other ones all right i'll knock mine out real fast just because i haven't played dragon age and i'm barely in the mass effect one so i'm gonna push those aside because I haven't played Dragon Age and I'm barely in the Mass Effect one. So I'm going to push those aside because I haven't made it a priority in the 40 years I've walked this earth to play either one of those franchises. So it's really between Witcher for me and Elder Scrolls six. And that's hard because I love the Elder Scrolls games. But kind of a hot take. I was actually, even though I liked it, I was disappointed in Skyrim.
Starting point is 00:55:07 Because I feel like a follow-up to Oblivion, it just didn't have that feeling. They didn't have the way the AI worked in the other game, whereas you walk through the town and you accomplish things. Hey, aren't you the one they call the Hero of Kvatch? I haven't said that in a long time on this show. That's crazy. I said that in the first six episodes.
Starting point is 00:55:22 Things were going so well. They were going so well. And The Witcher was incredible. Note number two, stop talking about the heroes. Oh, shoot. There's a red light flashing on my monitor that says wrap it up. It's like the Oscars. We just need a buzzer for Michael where we can just
Starting point is 00:55:38 shock him. Paul's just going to start playing orchestral music. The Oscar playoff. I'm going Elder Scrolls. I love The Witcher, but I can't get enough of that Elder Scrolls franchise. And I feel like Bethesda can do no wrong anyways, right? Wink, wink.
Starting point is 00:55:55 Sure. Never done anything wrong. So it's going to be great. Yeah, it's going to be Fallout 76. Plus, Elder Scrolls, you're getting probably VR options, if nothing else, through the modding community. Oh, mods. It's sold. It's sealed. The mods. The mods sealed it. Elder Scrolls, you're getting probably VR options, if nothing else, through the modding community. It's sealed. The mods sealed it. Yeah, I could see you picking that. See, for me, I'm the exact opposite, where as much as I love Elder Scrolls, I love that series the least out of those four.
Starting point is 00:56:21 So I definitely would not pick Elder Scrolls. I agree with you, Michael. Oblivion, I think, might have been the peak. Maybe it's all going to be downhill from here. Skyrim is great, but I preferred Oblivion. For me, the next Mass Effect 5 is too much of a gamble. It's not going to have Shepard. Andromeda was a huge bust. I enjoyed andromeda but it's nothing compared to the original trilogy so for me this comes down to the witcher where i have to trust cd project red who i don't really trust after cyberpunk or i have to trust bioware who i don't really trust um wait didn't you get a hundred percent completion on on uh cyberpunk though like
Starting point is 00:57:06 a hundred percent oh i love cyberpunk sure oh but you don't trust him but you love other games no yeah i well cyberpunk i love despite being a huge mess it's the mess that i love i would have to say boy yeah i'm gonna say the witcher which is the one i would pick as much as i'm looking say... Boy. Yeah, I'm going to say The Witcher. The Witcher is the one I would pick. As much as I'm looking forward to the next Dragon Age, I'm going to say Witcher. I did not think that one for you, Paul. I figured Michael Michael Elder Scrolls, but that's impressive. I'm picking Witcher 4.
Starting point is 00:57:38 Honestly, not being able to play any of the other three would break my heart, but if I had to say, hey, this is the one I want, I'm going Witcher 4. I think CD Projekt Red knows they messed up. I think they're going to pour everything they have into Witcher 4 as their redemption story. I'm with you, Paul. Mass Effect,
Starting point is 00:57:54 I feel like the series has gone downhill. I love Elder Scrolls. I think Skyrim's better than Oblivion. I know that's a different take than you guys, but we're getting Starfield and I feel like that's Elder Scrolls 6 a la space. Space edition. So it scratches that itch for me in that regard because it's gonna be the same formula i'm sure it will you know probably will yeah um so it i'm with paul it's a toss-up between dragon age 4 and witcher 4 i i i gotta go witcher 4 on this one here's the thing though i played
Starting point is 00:58:23 witcher 3 not very long ago if i were to play dragon age inquisition i guarantee you i would be like it's whatever it's whatever i've played last right that's what it's the recency bias is strong with this one yeah for real yeah i love the witcher i love dragon age and i love mass effect. That's a really hard Sophie's Choice. That's a good one, Josh. So I will go ahead and concede my time to the speaker because I know we're just about out. Michael, did you have one last one you wanted to throw out or do you just want to call it there and save yours for next time?
Starting point is 00:58:59 Well, we're all even right now. If you ask your question, do you have one? I was going to say, if you bring us home, Paul, then that's an even rotation. Yeah, bring us home, Paul. All right, you want me to hit you with one last question let's do it yeah it makes sense we've all asked what four or five so all right let's see here uh all right since josh is bringing the four part would you rather i'll go ahead and bring a three part would you rather i got you beat all right i'm gonna i'm gonna reference our good old make love marry murder segment that we normally talk about on our deep dives and i'm gonna ask you guys mary make love murder mercy
Starting point is 00:59:32 diva and may oh mercy actually diva may actually this one's not hard for me you gotta murder one because i just talked about that in the and i believe it was our uh mid-year awards uh episode that i said that one of the categories was uh best like wife material and i said mercy in that regard so i will i will marry mercy i will murder diva um she's annoying. And then I will what's the other option? Make love to me. Spend some time with me. Spend some quality time.
Starting point is 01:00:13 Ironically, D.Va the only gamer of the bunch, but you're going to murder her, huh? I would because she's just her voice lines are annoying. I mean, she is stronger out of her mech, you know, but I just, I don't know. The other two are much more my style.
Starting point is 01:00:28 All right. What about you, Michael? Do you concur or do you have a different opinion? This one's really hard for me. The Mary is not hard. I, you know, I'm definitely marrying Mercy. It's just, there's no question. Nobody, nobody out there is going to answer this question any differently.
Starting point is 01:00:43 I don't know. May is a pretty good candidate there. Oh, right dang it oh she's smart she's sweet adorable she invents things she took a hair dryer and made it into a freezy gun yep um still that being said um it was really hard between diva and may because like diviva does have that outfit she wears where she's in the police uniform and she's a cop. I don't know why. And the show. Michael likes a woman in uniform.
Starting point is 01:01:14 But I'm going to murder her because of the same reason that Josh murdered her. She just annoys Bojeebus out of me. I don't know who Bojeebus is, but he's annoyed out of me right now. And then also Pajama. Just going gonna take pajama out and on a date sure a good time and that's the end of that question for me i agree i think mercy is the best marriage material out of the bunch she's kind of the most mature and the most normal yeah uh what what negative thing can you say about mercy nothing
Starting point is 01:01:46 nothing no right no yeah for me i'm more annoyed by may than diva so i will swap those compared to what you guys said yeah i'm gonna why are you doing this because she freezes you all the time isn't it i i like may and diva they are two of my favorite characters to play, but I find May's voice and voice lines far more annoying than D.Va, so I'll go ahead and murder May. As much as it might hurt me, because I do love playing as May. It hurts me. Yeah. I'm not
Starting point is 01:02:15 happy about it, but you gotta pick one. That's the whole point of the question. Alright, so we're gonna call it there, boys, and we're gonna save all the rest i still got a lot of good ones i got a lot of good ones so we'll have to do this episode again we gotta do this again sometime guys yeah we'll come back to it for sure i i know these are a ton of fun so yeah thank you to everyone out there for listening to the episode thank you to manscaped
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