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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Jeff Grubb, and with me.

Speaker 3: Is Mike Manati.

Speaker 1: In today's episode, add some ship toast beans on Toast

England because Argentina's won.

Speaker 3: Guys go in the World Cup final and they are not. Okay.

Speaker 2: Look, I'll just say what I'll say, man, this is

what I believe.

Speaker 1: The Dust Bloods. I don't even remember what we said

to inspire that. Honestly incredibly mild. The Dust Bloods confirms

network test dates. I just I'm curious about that game.

Every time we get a chance to talk about it,

I'm kind of going to bring it up, even though

there's nothing new to talk about.

Speaker 3: Really.

Speaker 2: Same with GTA six, other than it could have.

Speaker 1: An insane first week of sales, which we all kind

of know about. We'll get to that and a mess

of a guest guess of a mess I forget which

one it's called, but we'll have those results, and I

think we're gonna be picking some new games as well.

I am apparently looking forward to seeing what our results were.

Untried Wolf in the chat who puts that together for us?

It's intimating there's some interesting results. So I'm excited.

Speaker 2: I mean too, Mike, how are you doing.

Speaker 3: This? This smoke thing is bad and like I don't

know it. It's like impacting me a lot for some reason,

like it's really yeah, yeah, that's really bad. It's put

me in a bad mood, like it's somehow made me

angry and sad, and there's other things I don't know.

I don't like all the this smoke no good.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh yeah, So what Mashant's looks like Venus

and Green Bay, Yeah, it's it looks like another planet.

Like I had my lawnmower, my robot lawn ore going

and it looked like a rover on another planet out there.

And we, at least where Mike and I are at,

are kind of in the mild zone compared to places

like Michigan, which my you know, I got family up there.

They're telling us about their cars being covered in ash

and stuff like that.

Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's it's wild.

Speaker 1: But I did go outside to like take the trash out, Mike,

I got a headache now is that?

Speaker 3: Yeah, power of suggestion?

Speaker 1: Is that my weakness totally plausible, but also it's a

real headache, Like that part is real and I'm dealing

with that now. So yeah, yeah, hopefully this this clears up.

I know that the fire and the smoke itself, the

origin is not supposed to clear up for weeks, but hopefully,

like at least spare us, I guess, and spare a

huge swath of the country. And in Canada's am I Ryan.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it goes with your hinds beans.

Speaker 3: It's a short trip across the Atlantic.

Speaker 4: Must copy name Jimminy jim Jimmy.

Speaker 2: Got that yeah covered in soot.

Speaker 3: Yeah. I had to go outside for love because another

tree guy came and I'm like, all right, look at

my tree. And they looked at it and they'll take it.

Read of that. I like their quotes high. It's always

I hate stuff like this because it's a lot of

money and people will be like, well, how much is it?

And I'll tell them and be like, well, that's a

lot of money. I know it's a lot of money.

The question is is it too much money? And it's

just it's like it's hard to almost I called three

other tree people and get them to come here too,

and I just want this goddamn tree gone.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I had say, You've been dealing with that for

a long time, so I get the frustration.

Speaker 3: Uh, I'm I'm you know, I am.

Speaker 1: I am going through the process right now of like

trying not to spend as much as my van is

worth to get it fixed, which I might still end

up doing because buying a new car is kind of

a rough time to do that right now. So uh,

hopefully I won't have to. But I got take it

to another place and get another quote. So I hate

doing that, but I'm going to have to. But we're

doing with some stuff. We'll be all right.

Speaker 2: There's cool video.

Speaker 1: Games happening all the time with Guess we could talk

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all that out over there. All right, we have a

lot to talk about, Mike, but let's take a quick

break first. I all right, we're back. I did enjoy

that Argentina game though, Christian, that was that was a

lot of fun. If I wanted to win that game,

I simply would not have turtled for.

Speaker 3: The last five minutes.

Speaker 1: But hey, what do I know from Software's The Dust

Bloods confirms network test dates. Hey, they're gonna let us

play this video game here in August, Mike. And you know,

I know a lot of these details came out around

that time of the direct but they did not sync

into my brain because they showed us so little. I

felt like, well, we didn't learn anything new about that game,

so I did not like open expand my mind to

actually learn like some of these detail.

Speaker 2: Since then, I have gone back.

Speaker 1: They did write things like, in this new multiplayer action game,

you'll take on the role of the Blood Sworn and

fight against and alongside up to seven other players with

unique weapons and abilities. Transcend Transcend humanity with blood based

powers that transform your character and combat style as you

battle to secure the coveted first Blood. The Dust Bloods

launches exclusively on switch To in twenty twenty six, and

as we're revealed in the presentation, players can learn more

about the closed network tests of the game come in

in summer twenty twenty six. We did learn more of

that is, let's see here, you can get into this

if you register. Yes, you can begin to apply on

July twenty twenty second. They do intimate that it's first come,

first serve. I bet it's a little bit more than that.

They'll have a selection in early August, and then the

listed times are all August twenty first through August twenty fourth,

a variety of four hour sessions designed to get as

many people in at one time so they can actually

test the server, and then they are going to test

multiplayer balance and stuff like that as well. We're probably

probably gonna like get like a real gameplay trailer before

this happens, right cause people like, we'll get to see

it once people are playing it, right yeah.

Speaker 3: And I hope you like get to see it before that.

Yeah yeah, yeah, ah yeah, I mean I I definitely

want to see what this game actually is. I'm already

kind of setting myself up to not be super interested

in it. I've been, you know. I like the The

Soul's games a lot like me as as games a

ton I'm playing Oton Ring again right now, but I

like them because they are largely these kind of single

player action RPG experiences, right I like Explore, go a boss,

get the progression, and you know, when I hear multiplayer first,

I just don't really see how it's going to facilitate

what I like best about these games. Like, just just

hearing the description, I'm like, is this like a run

based game where it's kind of like like matches and

it's like, oh, we're all kind of running around found

some place, trying to kill each other and bosses to

see who can do the best. Again, I just we're

working together more. I still don't really understand what it is.

But also like, no matter what it is, it's probably

not Bloodborn too. I don't even know how close it's

going to resemble that, So I'm just not going to

expect that and get disappointed. Yep.

Speaker 1: It's uh yeah, definitely extraction elements, Like it's that's clear

at this point, how overt how much like you know,

you could be inspired by something, but you sort of

just take one element of it, like moment to moment,

what does this gameplay?

Speaker 5: Like?

Speaker 1: I still don't. We still don't know. I still feel

like we don't know. So yeah, I'm I'm definitely still curious.

And then it's it's Miyazaki, so if he wants to

try that out. He is one of the people who

I will hear out kind of with with anything, even even.

Speaker 2: An extraction game. So I'll give it a shot.

Speaker 1: But I of course would just obviously be more excited

if we were if we were talking about a Bloodborn too,

if we're talking about a new real Souls Born game

that has its multiplayer elements like all those games do.

But that's not the star of the show. So yeah,

I like night Rain, but night Rain did not take

over my life or something I didn't like give a

bunch of hours to. I enjoyed what I played a

bit the one or two times I played it, and

I expect the same thing to happen here.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I thought night Rain was fine. Now

it still did very very well, right, some people still

flock to that. I bet that's the case here. I

do wonder, I mean, if it's a case of they

don't just have the next Soul like normal clin nicquote

Souls game from a different director. Is this going to

be like almost this Fallout situation where Wow, we're actually

not gonna get one of those for a really long time,

and people are gonna start getting antsy and kind of upset,

maybe resent sort of quote unquote distracting projects like this one.

That's a lot of speculation. Let's see what this game is.

We'll see what happens for what it does. But again,

I just if it is like extraction souls, I don't know. Yep.

Speaker 2: Let's see here.

Speaker 1: You see that they showed off the switch Joycolm with

a removable battery.

Speaker 3: They have a support article stuff show called Game mess

Mornings where they have talked about Yeah, we talked about

it there.

Speaker 1: Yeah, that's neat. That's that's in line with EU regulation.

That's been a long time coming for like three years now.

Speaker 3: It's finally in.

Speaker 1: Place, and Nintendo is complying with it in some ways,

like they're not necessarily doing this for like the standard

Switch one or something that which would also need a

replaceable battery.

Speaker 2: They're just gonna stop selling that. We talked about that.

Speaker 1: But everything else that they're not discontinuing will get a

version that is for the EU that has replaceable batteries

and at least tell you a kit. But the kid

is just basically the battery with some red like very

easily available tools, a plastics budget, a Phillips head screwdriver.

We're not talking about anything propriet, proprietary except for the

battery itself. And that does mean you're gonna be able

to get aftermarket batteries and replace this thing yourself without

having to do anything with Nintendo.

Speaker 2: And that's just that's just better.

Speaker 1: I do get frustrated with my handful of controllers that

I do have, Mike, that you know that I can

tell the batteries are shot and the thing holds a

hold it maybe it holds a charge for a play session,

but if I come back later, it's dead almost invariably invariably.

Speaker 3: So yeah, I like this.

Speaker 1: I prefer replaceable batteries and it's a little bit best

of both world situation where it's replaceable and also rechargeable

where you can plug it in. And I hope, I

hope this is something that like they just say, hey,

we'll sell these everywhere, because it would make close sense.

Speaker 3: That's what I'm wondering. If it's kind of like you

know the USBC stuff where they're like, well we're gonna

do it there, We're going to just do it everywhere,

I guess, and they're all going to be removable batteries.

You kind of, you know, you sort of wonder why not,

and Nadendo has sort of mowned before that, Well, these

things don't have as good of a battery life and

they're a bit bulkier or so, who knows. Maybe they

think that they're still a disadvantage to it, so they

only want to do it in the places that they

have to do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1: I mean, they're a company that sold a lot of

joy Con one for the Switch one, and a lot

of that was driven by people wanting stuff that didn't

have drift, or maybe their batteries did get shot because

they broke as they broke exactly, and that's why this

whole right to repair movement is so important. And if

their reasons are sort of like, well, clearly you just

like the way things are working, because you sell a

lot of extra ones, Go to hell and sell us

these things.

Speaker 3: Please.

Speaker 2: The GTA six hype is kind of picking up with like.

Speaker 1: Predictions of how well it's going to sell and five

point two million, five point two billion, excuse me, in

the first week, which would be insane. Like we talk

about you know, the best grossing, the highest grossing films

of all time, and like a couple of them have

been at like one point five billion over their entire run,

and maybe one or two or at two billion or

like one point eight billion. This is a game that

could you know, gross five point two billion dollars in

a week, and how many copies would that be? It's

something like fifty million copies according to this new Zoo analyst.

Speaker 3: That's unfathomable by the.

Speaker 1: Way, Yes, right, fifty million copies in a week or whatever,

even if it's like even if it's like three months,

that's insane And.

Speaker 3: That's wild for us, just for a game that is

only available on PlayStation five in Xboxbox series consoles. Right,

it's not like the things on you know, all those

switches out there or all the PC's that are out there.

Part of me is like, yeah, I could probably do that.

Part of me is like, are we are we setting

ourselves up here a little bit? Are we maybe getting

a little piece with how what if it only does.

Speaker 1: Twenty billion or yeah, like twenty million copies sold and

you know one billion?

Speaker 2: Is that is that a colossal failure?

Speaker 5: Like?

Speaker 3: Are we like expecting like half the people who own

a PlayStation five to buy this game? Maybe that's right.

Is that all going to happen in one week? I

don't know. Again, it could. I'm a little bit outside

of GTA interest myself.

Speaker 5: Somethings.

Speaker 3: It's hard for me to gauge, except that I know

these games are very popular. They're constantly still talked about.

GTA five was the best on Game four forever back

when we like really had to cover MPD reports back

in the day. We would laugh at ourselves. We got

in trouble one time because we laughed about how long

GTA five was just constantly up there. So, yeah, there's

there's a frothing demand, I suppose, but sure. I mean's look,

it's gonna make a lot of money. I wish that, yes, which,

like I felt like, oh man, all that money's gonna

really help the game industry that I'm even more skeptical about.

I don't even know cow much is gonna help Take

two in their continued quest to have to make the biggest,

most expensive games ever that have to make billions of

dollars in their opening week.

Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about all.

Speaker 1: The things to have to go right for Grand Theft

Auto to make sure that the game sort of picks

up where Grand Theft Auto five and Grand Theft Auto

Online are gonna you know, let off, so all that

remains to be seen and in the meantime, Yeah, that

like when you put it that way, where it's like,

you know, maybe a third of everyone who has an

X Xbox Series X and S and or PlayStation five

would have to buy this game, and that's in a week.

And again that's a guess. I guess this is the

game where that is possible. I think it's probably much

closer to something like a fifth of of all those players.

And people are gonna buy new systems for this, but

they're more expensive than ever, so it's going to be

more difficult than ever if we do really get to

a point where it's like we look back two weeks

after this game came out, and it did sell four

to five million, you know, made four to five billion

dollars and sold you know, somewhere between thirty and fifty

million copies. All of the things that these companies did

to raise prices in sort of the shadow of this

game coming out will look really smart in that moment.

It'll be like, yeah, that clearly they needed to make

as much money from this moment as possible, and they

were right to do.

Speaker 3: So.

Speaker 1: If this comes in soft, I think we're going to

be looking around and like those price increases were too aggressive,

and we're really gonna get answers to just how much,

how like how greedy they were allowed to get and

whether people are gonna make them pay. Right now, it

just feels like we really don't know, despite what Newsy

was saying here.

Speaker 3: And then you know, we talked about the Dust Budds

and there's a few games like that all great time.

The same thing games coming out this year that I

feel like I've barely seen anything about yep, right, and.

Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't seen any gameplay from Grand Theft Auto six.

Apparently that's like pretty standard. People are saying like that's

like I was definitely talking about that today. To me,

it's just like you can pre order that game and

yet we haven't seen it. That just is so strange.

But I guess that that also was normal for like

back in the day of Grand Theft Auto five.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess. But even like man, I feel like

even in Rockstar time, we are just were It's weird

to have seen so little of this game that we

all believe is gonna be the biggest game ever just

because so I'd like to see. I like to see

game play. I like to see why yep, parunt oh

go ahead.

Speaker 4: Yeah, doesn't they feel like is like the industry saying like, hey,

there's still money to be made here. It feels like

it feels like that. It's like, for real, trust me, investor,

there's money here. You just we just didn't know how

to do it, and now this game is going to

do it.

Speaker 3: It's like definitely.

Speaker 1: I mean, they know demand is still there somewhere. Uh,

and that's why they like still feel comfortable raising prices.

So yeah, I think so it's just, uh, I think

the rate at which they told or sort of suggested

to investors that things would grow did not happen, and

maybe returns temporarily with Grand Theft Auto six, and so

they're ready like sort of pounce on this moment to

take some profit and be like, hey, let's let's really

get our stock price higher for these three to six months,

and then whatever happens after that, well fuck it, we'll

figure it out later.

Speaker 5: Uh.

Speaker 1: Paramount hired Mike Zaymont to work on Avatar Legends. Mike

z is a garbage person, some piece of shit, sexual harassment,

piece of shit, lots of sexual harassment allegations. Was was

fired lost the studio because of stuff like that, sort

of just kind of it sounds like the worst kind

of edged lord that you can imagine. And then also

criminal behavior on top of that. Alleged criminal behavior on

top of that. Yes, and they brought him on to

work on some of the technical and background side on

his own.

Speaker 3: Apparently is their defense.

Speaker 1: They're like, he's not managing anybody and his all the

allegations were about him abusing the people he managed. So

we're in the clear, right, And everyone who is in

the know about this seems to be going, no, what

are you talking about?

Speaker 3: This is this is crazy?

Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you guys Sean and Christian both yes,

are familiar with this. What's how's how's this developing?

Speaker 4: This happened the Tuesday after the podcast, and Nintendo was

where I asked like, how do we feel about Avatar?

And I didn't know this guy was in the game.

I saw him trending on my Blue Sky. I didn't

pay attention, and he turned out that he was working

in this game. And I was very excited about this. Game,

like super excited and learning this. I'm done. I don't

want to I don't you know, I don't want to

even play the game. I don't just care anymore. She's

like completely kill my interest in the game, and she

just fucking sucks.

Speaker 3: So I don't know.

Speaker 4: Maybe if they walk it back and like they like

given the boot, maybe I'll consider. But he seems like

they're not even going to do that, so I'm pretty imperal.

Speaker 3: So Paramount, right.

Speaker 5: Yeah, the background on this I think is important to

the story here because this actually flew under my radar

until relatively recently that Mike Cee worked with Gameplay Group

International or Interactive GGI, whatever their full name is. He

worked with them on their last game, and I didn't

realize that, so Diesel Legacy was a much smaller game.

He worked on the development side of that, and GGI

published that game, and now they are the developers of

Avatar Legends and he is working on that in a

development sense, So he has a relationship with that company,

not specifically Paramounter or PM the other co publisher, right,

A lot of people suspected, So that's where he comes

into the story here, is through the developer specifically, it

seems like he has some kind of friends over there,

some people who brought him in on the development side

of things. And my problem with this situation is specifically

that this is a game made by a like in

the grand scheme of things, a relatively small team, right,

and so they do have the choice, they do have

the option of who to bring in because a smaller

scope game, it's you know, when you have a massive

scheme of like nowadays hundreds, if not like close to

one thousand people that we're talking about, like you know,

an Ubisoft activision or something project like, you don't necessarily

know everyone who's working on the project. But when it's

a smaller team and you very intentionally bring in someone

who has this history who you know, sexual harassment allegations,

and he did what he did on stream very publicly,

and there's so many stories about him being difficult to

work with for a variety of reasons. Bringing that person

on it makes a lot of people uncomfortable, myself included.

There's developers in the FGC who said that they turned

down the opportunity to work on this project because of

him and someone else. I actually don't even know who

the other person is. But to me, that says that

there's a problem with the culture at that studio if

they brought him on and anyone else to his problematic.

And that's why I don't want to play the game.

I don't want to spotlight the game is because I

don't trust that studio.

Speaker 3: Right.

Speaker 1: It suggests that there's like, you know, it's never the

first time, it's the first time we noticed, right, Like,

there's something else. There could be other skeletons in the

closet there that you know, you know, and just for

insanity at this point, like we try to protect ourselves

from like that.

Speaker 3: I don't want to.

Speaker 1: Like, if I can avoid it by just not looking

at the studio or this game, so be it. And

that's kind of how I feel better.

Speaker 4: As well, because the sorry what you're saying.

Speaker 3: I'm just going to say, do you think the fighting

game community is, like, do I turn their backs on

this game? I just don't like recent times I know

things like you know, the Fatal Fury stuff going on there.

It's like, hey, the conference's favorite DJ is in it.

It kind of just made them, It made them blink

a little bit, but not necessarily. I don't know revote

against that game. Do you think this is maybe more

intense than that.

Speaker 5: People are prey torn, just like they were on Fatal Theory,

where some people are saying, like, hey, you know, the

good people made this game, though, like we shouldn't like

Tank the entire project because of one person, because of

one thing about it, which I think it's easier to

say fuck S and K because of their ownership. I

think this is a stickier subject where there does need

to be a conversation here of well, everyone we love

is working on this game, or I had a friend

who did contract work on this game. I was they did.

There's a big conversation to be had here, and people

are going through that conversation right now. WEFCC is prey

divided on it.

Speaker 4: Yeah, like when the game is like I maybe these

kinds of teams, like the community and the developers are

very intertwined. Like you see these steps like they're part

of the FGC too, like the competitor or some of

these steps, they're like part of the community. Sometimes they

even come from the community into the dev space, you know.

So it's kind of it gets kind of tough there,

and some people are like saying the same thing we

were saying. They're like, now we're not gonna play it,

and other people are like, well we can see over it,

like past that and try to play the game. But

I personally don't want to even like talk about it.

And it's hopefully that we talk about it.

Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of where I'm at. We're just okay,

Well that this has turned me off of it because

like I think, I think it sums up well. To

the CEO of the company that developed Diesel Legacy talked,

I actually found this article. It was linked to me

on PC gamer, I believe, talking to a bunch of

people involved with and the CEO said that she wants

to get of Mike Zee an opportunity to like, you know,

change things and turn things around, and like he should

be given a space to do that and everything like that.

And I think what speaks volumes is that his countersuit

against the women who called him out for sexual harassment.

He had that countersuit going through April of this year,

and so I think that speaks a lot to who

he is, the situation, and why a lot of us

don't want to be involved with a studio that was

willing to hire him and have them work on multiple projects.

Speaker 3: Now.

Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think that the excitement for this game

was building, and this really took a lot of air

out of the sales for it all in one go.

And you know, I've been saying a lot recently, people

don't need many reasons not to spend money. People don't

need a lot of reasons to choose to deliver their

time from one thing to the other thing.

Speaker 2: And this is the kind of thing where it's so

yeah for me, Okay, I know.

Speaker 1: I don't need to check this out now, and it's

that simple, and I think it's going to be that

simple for a lot of people.

Speaker 5: Just one last thing on it before we go, because

if someone doesn't know the situation at all, I see

someone in the Chad does ask a very valid question

of well, what makes him so essential that they would

have brought him on? Like what why do this at all?

And admittedly he's a technical genius, he is a very

smart person that comes to development, But yeah, I don't

I don't think there's any situation in which, you know,

a lot of people are saying, hey, this is what

this person did to me, This is the situation involving

this person. We don't want anything to do with him.

You don't. There's not an exchange to be made there

in my opinion.

Speaker 1: Uh, before we move on, there was that new Wolverine

trailer I think came out was that today?

Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys, did any guys watch it? Because I'm

not yet?

Speaker 5: Nope?

Speaker 1: No, Yeah, all of those games where it's like I

just like, no, I'm I haven't watched it either.

Speaker 3: I'm like, I like, I don't know what else I could.

I mean, I think I don't know. I saw the

last one.

Speaker 5: I get it.

Speaker 3: I guess it's where I am like, I'm not so

excited for Wolverine. It's like, oh, another more soul of

of information for it. Sure like I'm I'm gonna play it, yep.

And that's but I love it. Yeah, I mean I

better like at least, but yeah, I don't. I don't know,

like another deep dives Actually I think story focused right

the thing here, So you know, Wolverine game some.

Speaker 1: Characters that I won't mention in case people are trying

to avoid it, you know, due to spoilers, but good luck,

and also it's the characters you would expect. But yeah,

I'm definitely like right on that borderline of like, I

am excited. I love Insomniac's games, but I also do

not need to see anymore of it. I know I'm

gonna play it, so yeah, I'll just I'll check that

out when it happens. This this is one of those

gimes where it's like, I really am curious how it does, because, uh,

Spider Man is PlayStation's best selling series, and is this

going to be able to replicate that. Maybe they're going

ahead at a time when Wolverine is kind of a

peeking back up, because they do seem to be talking

about getting X Men back together for the movies, and

X Men ninety seven continues to be excellent, so yeah,

maybe it'll hit on it is.

Speaker 3: As we see, all the comments for over this trailers

posted are yes, entirely about physical copies and discs and

things like that.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yes, that happened to.

Speaker 1: That's happened to every video of even a little like

remotely related to PlayStation. Happened to that Tempto Teeto game,

which was just an any game that got posted on

PlayStation's YouTube channel, and four hundred comments all about bring back,

bring back discs.

Speaker 3: We just want discs, and yeah, I do think this is.

Speaker 1: The way to make it happen, like especially on something

like the Wolverine trailer, because Marvel executives are going to

look at that and they're going to go back to

their meeting and there's gonna be a chance that they

just bring that up and say, hey, why on this

trailer for Wolverine, Like, we don't know, we don't care

about discs, but why are they asking about physical discs?

And then they're gonna have to explain that to other

partners and other executives, and it just creates the small.

Speaker 3: We decided, Yeah, we decided to be less popular and

hopes that makes us more money, which is maybe not

going to be a great pitch to your partners.

Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, all right, that does it for the big

topics I wanted to talk about. Let's talk about what

the folks want to talk about when we do the

super chats after this break. All right, it's the Sides podcast.

We're back, Mike Manatti, could you please read those super

chats for me?

Speaker 3: Absolutely. James Pie says, just when I thought I was

done with HG two D, that New Found Fancy Residence

trailer pulls me back in Claire really knows how to

make those pixels pop. Yeah, I'm behind on my trailers

in general, Jeff, I have to look at that too,

but I'm definitely like in a Okay, yeah, I'm gonna

I'm gonna try this game out mobile.

Speaker 2: Don't remind me what Residence is again.

Speaker 3: This is the single player console version of that mobile game. Yeah,

great XVs.

Speaker 1: Right Okay, but yes there, I'm like, I know something

I just couldn't remember exactly what it was.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 2: I always thought that was good.

Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's kind of classic style Final Fantasy

with you know, pixels and turn based battles and things

like that. I just watched. I just saw somebody do

a combo on a skeleton t Rex with Barati and

a mini gun. So that was cool.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 1: This is this scene here where they're like walking up

to a pier and there's a ship like a little

bit out in the water, and the it's shimmering and

there's like the paliometric fog.

Speaker 3: God, that looks pretty, man, it looks. It looks pretty

for sure.

Speaker 1: Oh man, Like the depth of field on the airship.

It just it looks really pretty. I still really like

h HD two D. I don't care who knows I've

got It's like I've just been playing so much of it.

It's just like, you know, I'm still in the Dragonquist too.

I'm like a little bit like this game's kind of

all what the same sort of a thing with it?

But this does look good. And yeah, I'm gonna be

checking out for sure. Oh go ahead, please, No, I got.

Speaker 3: This, but I don't worry the smoke alrighty destroyed your mind? Yeamp,

it's gone, Brady B And he says, saw Chris Nolan's

yacht to see today, Abe was nowhere to be seen,

to say nothing of much out of ten adaptation, that's funny.

Speaker 1: That's that's just dropping the ball there, Like that's one

of those just bad adaptations.

Speaker 3: I get it. I am seeing this tomorrow with AJ

so tw half hours. I think. I was like, it's

like anything crazy. I think it's to an hours longways,

we're not I'm not seeing an IMAX or I think

we don't have any IMAX theaters. Here's the movie.

Speaker 4: It's going to be ninety minutes.

Speaker 3: That's about right for a resident email. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

what are we doing is smart? That's good.

Speaker 1: I have to drop my van off at a different

shop on Sunday night. Maybe I will find a way

to like go watch this movie while I'm doing that.

That's the plan, all right, I got a.

Speaker 3: Plan, Missouri. Matt says, thank you Mike and Jeff for

the content. Thank you, Missouri. Matt. Let's get on a record.

That's impossible for Stak used to be blood just because

of because the very first thing you do when you

dress to animal is drain blood. Yeah, I mean, of course,

of course we're not gonna.

Speaker 1: You know, I'll say that I never thought about it much,

and when I saw it, I just was like, that's blood.

I don't care. Obviously, it's gonna be fine. I think

Mike's the one that like actually did clear this up

for me. I never thought about it, but I was

never like scared of it. So it's it was never

like a problem for my brain to deal with.

Speaker 3: Well, what I appreciate about you though, when I explained

to you, You're like, oh, that's interesting, thank you. Some

of the people fight the truth. Yeah for you sometimes

most of.

Speaker 1: The time, though, Yeah, it's like especially when it's like food,

I'm like I am food and food and language like

those your interests.

Speaker 3: So I'm like, yeah, he knows what he's talking about.

Outer Heaven says, let's get it on record that it's Oh,

that's the one I just read. Zobbie Porn says grubber

Dilo or cyber Grubbo. Grubber Grubbo. I like Grubbadillo. I

think it's important emphasize the armadillo part of it as

opposed to the cyber aspect of it.

Speaker 4: Cyber seems pretty important to me.

Speaker 3: Cyber grubble could be so many things to me, right,

I don't know, there's a I don't know.

Speaker 4: It sounds like that is correct.

Speaker 3: Well are you how do you think? What do you

think about that game? Cyberdillo, Jeff, I don't like it.

That's a damn shuh uh. It's like you know how

you feel when you go outside when it's really smokey.

It's like, imagine if a video game was that, and

that's yeah, if you don't pick up your pace on

a little bit, might be looking at like five episodes

of Grow but which, hey, compared to what we had

space Ace, that's a breeze, yeah.

Speaker 1: Both space Ace and Virtuoso. Right, Virtuoso got to like

seven or eight. I also thought it was pretty long

for like maybe seven or eight. Yeah, and then Space

Ace in terms of a number of episodes tied. H.

It's like I don't feel like I'm like taking that long,

but I've had a couple of deaths, and it's like,

I think I just need to come up with a

couple more strategy used to be a little bit more careful,

and I think you're doing fine.

Speaker 3: I think the game is just bullshit.

Speaker 1: Oh it's it's bullshit for sure, But it's like that's

the one thing that's holding me up for sure.

Speaker 3: Uh zubum Mafus says, boys, be sure to check out

ground could troll with a cape. Arcaded Portland also co

Circle on thirty ninth and Gilson is a nice roundabout

with a statue of Joan the arc Well, just to

make sure Dan's driving and we get wear that thing,

the car will explode clearly. Yeah. Yeah, that's like it's

weird how people are with roundabouts, even like I have

friends who like I don't consider like weird, like you know,

conservative with like a lowercase people in their lives who

when we start getting more roundabouts, we're like, what is

this European shit. It's like it's so much better red

light or able to stop. You can just flow into traffic.

Speaker 1: But yeah, people people who aren't used to it, they

just they see another car in there and they're like, well,

if I go in there now, I'm going to die.

Speaker 2: It's just like I try it once, I promise you won't.

Speaker 3: You'll be fine. You won't use your spatial reasoning to

judge that car's current speed and where it will be

by the time you pull out there who are going

to be completely fine. They put a roundabout at a

place here those called five points, and it was a

five stops situation. It was terrible because it was five points.

It was awful and nobody can handle taking their turn.

Nobody understood how that works either, to be clear, and

there was just there'll be long lines on one of

them because it was terrible. This is it has completely

just fixed the traffic problem there. It was obviously much better.

Taca Pelman says, this is the only show worth watching

at nine tonight. Oh yeah, like goddamn right, right, Look,

if you if you need, like you know, read the

news about things going on, I suppose, but don't, Yeah,

don't fucking watch. Oh yeah, don't watch sho Yeah, don't.

It's absolutely a clown show. He Bucket says. I got

ask Christian how he is feeling about Argentina's chances against

Spain and the FIFA World Cup Final.

Speaker 4: We're it's been pretty good after how we dominated England.

It wasn't. I wasn't feeling pretty good before England. The

I'm gonna you're gonna you know, you're gonna be honest

on that one. But we always have that, you know,

that clutch moment and minute eighties like our minute Man

eighties when everything happens the magic sterns.

Speaker 1: You literally have eleven eleven goals at seventy five minutes

or later in matches in this world couple lone Yeah

are that's inyeah, Yeah, it.

Speaker 4: Is pretty crazy because it's soccer. Football is very it's

very exhausting at the end, like you get, you get,

you die in the in the sports, especially when like well, now, David,

cooling break is kind of easier, I guess.

Speaker 3: God, yeah, Smart, that's nice.

Speaker 4: Cooling break is pretty good.

Speaker 2: Actually, it seems to be working for you guys.

Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough match,

like every other match. His pain is pretty strong, so

you know, but still have faith. Never never lose faith.

Speaker 3: All right? Next up it's from Chrono Breaks. It's the

original Mario movie. Trailer wasn't built at comic Con. I

think with Hasbrou showing the Zeona toys at comic Con,

will also get the trailer. I co before after spider Man.

Spider Man is July thirtieth, so San Diego Comic Con

is July twenty third to July twenty six, so like

it could very easily debut there. Yeah, and then now

we usually know what the panels are, and I don't

think there is there is a Zelda panel, right, so

I guess, right, is there like just a Sony Pictures

something there that has row toy panel? I guess, but

I don't know. I don't know if that's where it

does show up. It is where it's you know, I

mean that happens all before, where we see the toys

for these things before we see much else. I remember

Yoshi was revealed in the fucking Pillsbury uh cookie box, right, Yes,

that's exactly h Yeah, so we might see things there,

but I would be shocked if Spider Man isn't where

we get the teaser trailer, And I wonder if the

teaser trow is gonna be much more than here's a

master Sword. I wonder if we'll even see a link

or a Zelda and then they'll play some music. But

again another thing. Yeah, gonna be very real here, very soon.

Soothing Bath says, have you seen Marvel Rivals influence on Fortnite?

I don't know what you're talking, but I have not.

I wonder if they mean like boys. It is time

for a hot bat summer.

Speaker 5: Yeah, introducing bis versions, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Poison ivy, and

most importantly, Batman wearing Cowell and some teeny tiny swim trunks.

Speaker 3: Oh jesus this, Oh my god. The Poison Ivy.

Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, is the one that's most Marvel Rivals gooner

coded for sure?

Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Look, this is a valiant effort.

Speaker 1: It is nowhere near the levels of gooonerism that Marvel

Rivals is capable of.

Speaker 2: But I do appreciate them trying.

Speaker 4: You have to be a really special kind of degenerate

to to come up with those kins on Marvel Rivals.

So that's.

Speaker 5: Years of Captain America. Who the hell hell poenis Lebarty Pants, Like.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that America.

Speaker 2: They nerved his penis and it was still gigantic.

Speaker 3: It was pretty Yeah. Yeah. I think Overwatch has new

swimsuit skins now as well, which, yeah, they they look

relatively tamed and jeez.

Speaker 4: All right, I think the community is the gunner one there.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah over there. Yeah. Blizzard is trying to

catch up with the community in that department. That's that's sure.

It's just it's a straight up arms race in Marble

Rival World Fortnite. It's not about Fortnite. I'm like, don't

make Fortnite sexy. It's like the minions of being sexy,

you know.

Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it's like if you're a McDonald's happy

meal came with a thong, Like that's weird.

Speaker 3: It's like, what is this toy? Oh no, yeah exactly.

I just all right. Next up is from Otso Cafe.

It's not too late to upgrade to an r V

for the road trip. Think about it. There's no there's

four of us, of course, I know, comfy.

Speaker 1: We were like, uh, we originally were talking about like

at least getting like a big old Mercedes like camper

van sort of thing, which is like, you know, not

like an r V, but like the bigger van that

has like a bed and stuff in there.

Speaker 3: But now we've got a minivan. We're good. Yeah, yeah,

we're gonna be more than Oh okay, I am, I am.

I'm looking forward to that. And I've never seen that

part of the country really, never been north of I've

been to Dean Francisco and I've been to Seattle.

Speaker 1: I don't know what happens between. Yeah, I'm not sure.

So we're gonna find assuming.

Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna get to the bottom of it. Lex

Lay says, you are going qualify for Irish citizenship.

Speaker 2: Yes, we'll keep out of door.

Speaker 3: There we go, we're doing it.

Speaker 4: You start that meme of that argent the hands, you know,

Argentina and Ireland in the middle. It's like hating England

and that's how we come.

Speaker 2: I think, I say, Lizzie's in a box. Is that

a good one?

Speaker 3: I think, yeah, there you go, yeah, yes, But then

Stoop Stoop Soup Soup Soup Soup says, I can't watch live,

but I wanted to say that. I wish my wife

looked at me the way Biggie was looking at Mikey

on the dump truck today.

Speaker 2: He nuts, I mean it was a match rate in heaven.

Speaker 3: I believe it. It's great.

Speaker 2: What how did you how together?

Speaker 4: That's crazy. I need to see that.

Speaker 5: I didn't know.

Speaker 3: I love that. I didn't know. Yeah I was. I

did a podcast with with with big Ee, which is

still weird to me. That was fun. He also wanted

to learn about my pubic hair. I didn't want to

tell han, but he insisted his ASA. Yeah, yeah, so

he's by what a what a nice what a nice guy?

What a good like an incredible storyteller? Just uh gosh,

so much charisma? What a what an awesome guy? Yeah,

that was a good time. Would happily be on our

podcast with him again whenever it is possible, because I

for his book too. It sounds really reading it. How

I got over I believe was the name and then

Gene Nitro says Sony owned Crunchy Role is now attacking

anime physical media by locking their online store behind their

two highest subscription tiers. He wrote, genius, you need a

certain subscription sure to access to the store to buy

the physical media.

Speaker 4: Yes, the stupidest thing ever I don't understand what's the

the I don't understand how they come up to that.

Speaker 3: I don't know why.

Speaker 4: It makes no sense because it's not like it's not

like it's what they.

Speaker 1: Make is it's it's but are there like DVD copies

and stuff?

Speaker 4: They sell everything? The last time I checked.

Speaker 5: The problem is if you guys don't know Sony, if

you've kind of talked about us on GMM, I suppose

Sony is slowly gobbling up all the animees so they're

going to have an actual monopoly on it.

Speaker 1: And they said that's the strategy, right, the strategy to

get all the anime and then to use that IP

to do whatever.

Speaker 3: So yeahs frustrating.

Speaker 1: Can you only buy like one copy of the Blu

ray if you remember? Can you like buy ten and

then you go sell it on eBay? I bet they

don't read weird?

Speaker 3: What a weird sit man? God? I miss got. I

remember going to a Sun Coast Video which was a

place in the mall, and that was a past anime.

They had anime and it was like Holy Ship and

I would do things like by the anime box set

of ESCA and Outlast Star. It was like oh man,

they had anime and they had wrestling. God, it was

so cool. They had everything. God I missed. So that's

that is my dream. All so where people talk about

the mall stores, they missed. Sun Coast video was.

Speaker 1: The ship Uh Virgin Megastore was that but bigger so

and we had that at Easton. So it's like that

was my mecca. I spent so much time there. And

then my friend tried to steal something and he got

stopped and rested.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.

Speaker 5: Sure.

Speaker 3: I was Star had a busty cat lady, and I'm

like one of the last episode you just you saw,

you saw it was this out lost Star, Yeah, you

just saw it. There was a hot Spring episode and

it just happened.

Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, I was shocked. How you

going are you doing with story?

Speaker 3: Look? I was like thirteen. I showed it right right.

I was like, I know they could do that.

Speaker 1: Yeah, Trubling, she's in a video game, She's innocent.

Speaker 3: I still there's an official Street Fighter material where you

can watch Friendly Shower with nipples out. Pretty wildretty wild

they were.

Speaker 4: I was to say, it's pretty So what happened to

County Because the Grunty was like the best place to

watch anime for for the longest time, and it was

run by nice people and everything. And now it's this creature,

but by Sonny and Funnimation. And instead of instead of,

instead of making cruntur O people handle the Fundamation stuff,

they did they all the way around because Fundimation is

somewhat older than Cunturrol a little bit. So in Japanese,

if you're older, you take over the younger thing, and

then you ruin everything. So rip crunch Roll. He's been

dead for a long while, but I always he always.

Yeah's the heart of place in my heart.

Speaker 1: Well, we'll always have Yahoo Anime. Oh wait, hell yeah,

uh all right, Uh let's see here. No more super chats, right, Mike,

We are caught up in the super chats for now.

If you want to send a more people, we will

read them before the end of the show.

Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1: All right, another break will come back, and then we're

going to do our segment Mess of a guess. We'll

be ready for that right after this, see you soon.

All right, we're back. It's time to do a Mess.

Speaker 2: Of a guest.

Speaker 1: We have Q two results, we have Q three predictions.

But to handle this, I need to hand the show

over to Sean Turboshau McDowell, Shawn, how's it going?

Speaker 5: They tried to stop it, but guess sweater by The

streak continues officially on the show four weeks in Rows

the month in Turbo, Sean.

Speaker 3: Got, hey, hey, we did it. Hooray we have to

stop yay Sean, Kay, he's too powerful.

Speaker 5: Ah, alright he is once again? Time four. Oh, what's happening?

Speaker 3: Voice? Why?

Speaker 5: Why am I double voice? Why would I?

Speaker 3: I will mute that? I think?

Speaker 2: Is that coming through on the game game?

Speaker 3: Okay, I have killed it. All right, We're good. All right?

Speaker 5: How single?

Speaker 3: Now?

Speaker 1: Yeah, he's uh, he's single. Ready to mingle everybody. I

present to you Sean Turbo Show. Now let's hear the first.

Speaker 5: Big Okay, okay, yeah, all right, let's try that again.

Speaker 2: Yeah, things like that?

Speaker 5: Uh messive, I guess Quarter two results, Core three predictions.

This is as always put together by our friend the

Unchared Wolf and then present by me Turbo Shawn. So

thanks again, Wolf. Let's get into it with the rules.

It's been a few months. I'll remind everybody what's happening?

Mess of a guess is where the game mess the

two guys here on the podcast as well as the

community they get to play at home. Everybody's given a list.

Last quarter, it was fourteen different games coming out in

the quarter. Their task was to predict the open critics

scores for each game, and the scores determined by the

top cretic average. An open critic whoever is closest to

the final score as opposed to their opponent, gets one point,

and if you get the correct guess right on the money,

you get two points. And if you think it will

not release in a quarter, you'll say it will not release,

and you also get two points. So about further ado,

Game number one last quarter was replaced. Jeff had the

first guess on this one. He predicted seventy seven. Mike

predicted seventy eight, but it didn't matter because Jeff got

exactly right with the seventy seven prediction. Nicely, dond Jeff.

Speaker 3: Start for Mike. E's there, I got to get some

luck here. That's so close. God, we are both good

at this. YESU you look up close. Yeah, we both

knew where it was gonna be. I probably wanted seventy seven.

You said, seventy seven that I was right.

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always what it is.

Speaker 3: Yep.

Speaker 5: As always. If there's a lot of people who won

the in the community, I will not name them all

in the interest of time, but you can check out

the video version if you want to see how well

everybody did. Anyways, Game number two mouse Pi four higher.

Mike went first with a prediction of seventy four. Jeff

had even less faith at seventy three, but people puble

toally liked it. It came in at eighty one on

Open Critics, so mikey gets the point.

Speaker 3: There. There we go.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it is definitely it did way better

I thought it was going to do. This is definitely

a nominee for my twenty twenty six game that Jeff

Grubb didn't get. I don't know if I got this

one the way that so many other people did.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I like I did like it. I'm kind of

wouldn't mind going back to play it. I thought it

was fun. So we'll see game. Remember, maybe you're right,

maybe I'm right, but we'll fight.

Speaker 5: Three h Tomadashi Life Living the Dream. Jeff guests first

at eighty three. Mike had a lot of faith at

eighty six and came in a little lower seventy nine

on Open Critic.

Speaker 3: Hey, Mike's right again, great say of my problem is

that all I do is talk to you, and you

talk about how like this. I'm talking to people who

think this is the greatest thing ever all the time.

I'm like, I guess people really like Tomadocci life.

Speaker 1: People are bet the reviewers are bad for this game,

like it's it's hard to review a game like this.

Speaker 5: You were are bad.

Speaker 3: It's bad.

Speaker 5: We're gonna throw that in your face and in the

near future here yeah, please Suel thirty four. Congrats forgetting

exactly cruct to the community game number four. Pregmata. Mike,

you went first, but in eighty seven Jeff had a

little more confidence. In eighty eight you were both in

the ballpark, but Mike was the closer one. It was

eighty six on Open Critic.

Speaker 3: This one was at eighty seven for so long too,

and they like drink I eighty six.

Speaker 1: Yeah, my new blog that reviewed it if It gave

it a one.

Speaker 3: If only this giant bombs score at the four point

five out of five was a five out of five.

Speaker 5: But my pa I did that dude, give it five.

What a knucklehead, yep jerk. Game number five, Vampire Crawlers,

Jeff went first with a prediction of eighty. Mike went

a little higher at eighty three, and Mike was the

right to do so eighty four. So nicely done, mikey, gosh, yeah,

it's good. I'm like one point away constantly from getting

it right on the dots so far, and this is.

Speaker 1: One where it's like another one where it's like it

did way better than I thought it was going to.

Speaker 3: I like that one a lot.

Speaker 5: I really liked Vampire Crawlers. Game number six, Kiln Mike

went first. Mike predicted eighty. Jeff fine a little higher

with eighty one after doing research, so you're a little

more confident there. But people were lukewarm on this one.

It got sixty eight on open crek, which means that

Mike gets the point that it does bread fish in

the community.

Speaker 3: All right, going lower help on that one. Then.

Speaker 5: Game number seven, Sorrows Deaf went first with an eighty seven.

Mike did his research and decided to go above with

eighty eight. Research though, because Jeff got it right on

the buddy at eighty seven, nicely.

Speaker 3: Exact guesses are killing me again. I'm one off, but

you got it right now. You're back on the lead again.

Speaker 2: God, and we did learn. Never research it never helps.

Speaker 5: Someone just asked in the chat what was kiln Oh

you don't remember the double Find Mobile?

Speaker 3: What? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you played it like the pot

billy stuff was cool. I think they should have made

a different game based off the pot building stuff. Yeah, definitely,

yeah at base a party game. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 5: Game number eight Invincible Versus Mike went first. Mike predicted

eighty one. Jeff took the under with eighty and it

was good to go under. It fell a little under

that even at seventy seven. Jeff gets the point there.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I should have gone under on this one. Okay,

that's fair.

Speaker 4: Kind the most the most seventy seven game I ever

played my life.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah that's right. Yeah.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Uh.

Speaker 5: Donby Porne says, I ain't know Giant Bomb played it. Oh,

killing killing probably. I was gonna say, yeah we played

that one, Yeah, it was. It was a upf one time.

Game number nine forts Horizon six. Jeff went first. He

predicted ninety one. Mike, though, was safer to to take

the under. So he took ninety, but once again did

not matter. Steph got it with a ninety one. Nicely

done there, Grubby.

Speaker 2: I can't wait to see how I blow it this time.

Speaker 3: Oh look it's that giant bump five out of five

collusion that pumped it up to a ninety one. Oh god, damn.

Okay okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 5: Game number ten, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. Mike went first,

You said seventy one, Jeff, slightly more confidence. Either of

you had much confidence, but Jeff went went the seventy two.

It ended up at eighty. People liked this one quite

a bit across the board usually, so Jeff gets the

point there.

Speaker 3: I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.

Speaker 2: Me too, I need to finish it.

Speaker 3: Actually I did not. But this is one of those

ones that I'm like, this game might be like legit good,

it's a good.

Speaker 5: Gamees okay, next Lego Batman Legacy, Up the Dark Night.

Jeff went first with eighty. Mike then went with an

eighty two, and he was right to do so. Eighty

four on opencrrect people also like this one quite a bit.

Speaker 3: Crawling back, crawling back, Let's go.

Speaker 5: Game number twelve, Indie Darling of the Year, Bubbzy four

d all the cool kids love this game. Mike went first.

Mike predicted eighty three, and then Grubsy himself, of course

bearing the Bubbsy name well, with an eighty four. He

was confident in it figs to some slobs, them absolute morons,

like the dude who gave it a three five or

a giant bomb. Let me check right here was it?

Speaker 3: Yees group, I think what it is, gave it. I

love this game. I do.

Speaker 2: I should I should have given it higher.

Speaker 3: I love it.

Speaker 2: The more I think about it, I love it.

Speaker 3: I'm sorry you got a sixty six on open. That's

that's that's lows wild. I don't know if I think

it's crazy low, Like I don't know if I would

give it above, like a three point five out of five.

But yeah, it's a little low.

Speaker 1: It really comes down down like how much you fall

in love with the controls, and I really do like them.

Speaker 3: It is.

Speaker 5: This game was dragged down heavily. Game Informer and Metro

game Center both gave it a four out of ten.

Speaker 3: That's wild. It's like they it's like they were acting

like they're still playing Bobbs three D. I don't know.

I don't Yeah, I guess. I don't know how you

dislike it that much because it feels really good as

a three D platform.

Speaker 5: It's it's is basic is why we're given. That's why. Yeah,

I totally did not give him more than like a

seventy ten. Absolutely I understand, but I like this one

quite a bit to any rate. Anyways, Mikey gets the

point there, Adamy Mouse and Community God God got closest

with sixty four. Congrats there, I suppose, all right. Game

number thirteen is while we're on a double oh seven

first light Deaf went first with an eighty two, Mike

went above with eighty three. They knocked out the park

with this one eighty seven on open Critic the Congress,

to Mike, Congress, to zool in the community for getting

the double points exactly right.

Speaker 3: Yeah. I think we both thought, like, well, this is

the first one, this will probably be like good, but

like obviously room for like big improvements, and it came

out better than we were expecting. I think we're like

a lot of people were expecting very good.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and like with like in hindsights, like eighty two

like felt like really good.

Speaker 1: That would have put you in a tough spot like

maybe he'll maybe he'll go under or over and either

one feels like I have a good chance.

Speaker 3: But man, that game was way better again than I expect.

Speaker 5: Okay. Game number fourteen was The Adventures of Elliott the

Millennium Tales. Mike went first. He said, eighty one. Deaf

took the under at eighty you're both in the ballpark.

It was eighty two. Mice closer. Mike gets the point

on that one man.

Speaker 3: Once again one point away from getting it right on

the money, I have crawled back from a huge deficit

to be one point away from tying with me.

Speaker 2: Now yep, oh my god, I told you I can't

wait to see how I blow it.

Speaker 3: And that was it for the quarter. Some fish one

point away. If you didn't get those two on the nose,

I got nothing. I technically right.

Speaker 2: But if you're so close, just get closer. What's your problem?

Speaker 3: This is all about points.

Speaker 5: There's no quarterly winner here, that's right.

Speaker 3: Oh oh right, So what are the total points things between?

Speaker 5: This quarter? Jeff ledgend by one point, So you know

you got what a dish story, right, Okay, can I

to Your results are on the screen right now if

you want to see how well you did if you participate,

check it out. If you do not see your name,

Fortunately you didn't get any points, but thanks for playing.

Speaker 3: I just, I just.

Speaker 1: My goal is always to at least score better than

the community, because the community is that at such a disadvantage,

so when they have occasionally beat me, it's really hurt

my feelings.

Speaker 5: That's true. Yeah, congress to Voganity, who tied jeff at

with nine points while competing against everyone else in the community.

That's impressive. All righty order three is up next, thing

y'all for this one, we are getting discount right on.

Get Yeah, no, I thought it was fifteen Nope, Wolf

is correct. Fourteen games coming out this quarter and when

the end.

Speaker 1: Of the quarter, we are okay, we are just we're

just doing until the end of the quarter right now,

in the next three months, because like we were starting

a little bit late.

Speaker 5: So okay, yeah, it's still you know, I was starting

just a little bit late. Was it's not good effect?

The predictions don't awesome. So yes, end of this quarter,

this three month period a deadline for the community to

put in your predictions is when the first game on

the list to get a review gets a review. Jeff Grubb,

you have your research clause. We know it, we love it,

some of us hate it. You can choose to do

research for one game of your choosing. If you don't

think a game releases in the quarter, you can say

we'll not release and get double points whoever it. Can

say what the open crik for Star Fox was without

looking it up. Can choose the order to go in

as way to sing, yeah, I think it probably was

eighty two. I'll go I'll just say eighty three. I

actually don't know here right now, what the fuck was it?

It was eighty two? It was a two miles right who?

All right, Mike, do you want to go first or second?

Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I'll go first. I'll go first.

Speaker 5: All right, let's do that, Mike. Tell me what you

think Splatoon Raiders is gonna get.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and also, don't worry about us being late to

this quarter because all the games are coming out September anyways. Yeah,

Splatoon Raiders spin off. I think that the single players

Platoon game or the main line s Platoon games do

very well generally. This certainly probably like low eighties, maybe

even just high seventies wouldn't shock me. I don't know

how feature richest things going to be. Yeah, maybe I've

been like, but if Yoshi could be an eighty though,

I will say eighty one for s Platoon Raiders, gotcha?

Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm uh.

Speaker 1: You know, I I'm gonna use my research cause right away,

all right, and I'm gonna see what's uh with Side

Order the DLC. I want to see what the DLC

did this. Yeah, yeah, Google, oh splatoo.

Speaker 3: I think that's fair. It's like this in some ways,

this doesn't seem like too different from one of those

right open critic.

Speaker 1: Alright, let's see your side or Okay, I did a

seventy eight, okay, so then I think it's going to

do better than that. Yes, all right, I was researching

and I did see that the Side Order DLC did

a seventy eight. So I said under at eighty because

I do think it's going to do better than Side

Order did.

Speaker 3: So eighty is my score for Splatoon Raiders.

Speaker 5: Okay, so Recamp Mike is going with eighty wy and

you were going with eighty on Splatoon Raiders. That's right,

somebody and somebody had chat says you started researching it.

No matter what, he's just going to do one point

below bike anyways.

Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, had side.

Speaker 2: Order been better, I would have done done something different.

Speaker 3: But no, Yeah, clearly that's done.

Speaker 5: Eighty two Game number two. Jeff, it's your turn. Now

tell me what you think Halo Campaign Evolved will get.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: God, this is tough because I almost think it's going

to be helped by not having the multiplayer to be reviewed,

like for people to be like they can just judge

it based on the campaign. And I think this is

a campaign that will get an enough love. I'm not

gonna go super high, but I'm gonna go pretty high.

I think I'm gonna go with an eighty five.

Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, I'm distracted by this translighting that I see

in this picture here in doctrination bisexual please Oh that's

what it was. I'm sorry, I can't. I don't get

the narrative. Doubt. Well, I guess I come the I

feel like people are going to kind of think this

package feels a little spartan without the multiplayer stuff. This

is a campaign that's going to be again again, I

think people are going to like it. But they're not

going to be enthusiastic, I think in.

Speaker 5: Eighty three, eighty three okay, and then circling back to

Mike for Beast of Reincarnation.

Speaker 3: Yeah, a game that looks promising. It looks like it's

it's going to be fun. I wonder if it's I

wonder if it's going to tap into that Stellar Blade audience, which,

like that almost seems like a point of comparison for

me when I look at this and trying to get

a gauge on maybe how it's going to play. Where

it's a little character action, it's a little souls like

both of those things. I wonder if it has like

juice outside of that to catch a larger audience or

would be more interesting because like aesthetically, I don't know,

like it looks nice but not particularly exciting. I think

I think it's going to do well ish. I'm gonna

say in eighty one, Okay.

Speaker 1: That's a that's right where I'm at. You know, I'm

high seventies, low eighties. I do think I would have

said eighty one had you not now, so now I

am really left with over or under.

Speaker 3: I'll go eighty two.

Speaker 2: I'm gonna go eighty two.

Speaker 3: I think.

Speaker 2: I think it's the game's gonna hit with enough people

that overs the right.

Speaker 5: Move, Okay, and then next Jeff Marvel Token Fighting Souls

eighty seven.

Speaker 2: I think this game's gonna be just fine. I think

it's gonna do real well.

Speaker 1: I think it's gonna do yeah eighty seven, Okay, huh,

yeah it could, it could.

Speaker 3: Huh.

Speaker 2: I mean it's gonna come down to the single player.

Speaker 3: Really, what are the single player option is gonna be?

Like I'm trying so event we just saw Invincible Versus

was a seventy seven. This is going to do better

than that, Like the high end, something like a Street

Fighter six. I bet it's like a ninety or somewhere

around there. That games is reviewed very well over the years.

I wonder what. I don't even know if there are

reviews for two X game. I don't know what people handled.

Speaker 2: That research clause. Look at what dragon Ball Fighters he got.

Speaker 3: That's a good point in that game. I think reviewed

very well. I think there is more excitement about Wow,

a dragon Ball fighting game as opposed to oh, another

Marvel fighting game. Although the character designs here, it's on

each twist. It's a good looking game. It's gonna get

and reviewers love presentation, and the presentation for this is

going to be very good. Gosh. At first, I was like,

there's no way I can take the over, and now

I'm like, god, I have to take the over. I

think that's corret. Now I still got to be atble careful.

I'm gonn say eighty six. I wish I could take

eighty seven. I think that was very good. Guess yep,

that's right where I'm at. It have been for a

wonder Yeah, okay.

Speaker 5: Game number five resonance a Plague Tail legacy.

Speaker 3: Mike, all right, I'll use my clause. Let's see, I

can only look at one game, right, not like both

the last League tail.

Speaker 5: I don't know.

Speaker 3: I don't know.

Speaker 2: You can do what you know you can do. It's

just you could use it for one game. So your

research is your research.

Speaker 3: If you want to look at a bunch, it's fine.

Other Plague Tails did, although like I also not super sure,

like how as a sequel is this spin off? I

don't really know. I'll tell you what. It helps that

the other two have are like eighty two and eighty three,

so I guess I can just go right around there.

I think they're gonna fall off a bit. And hey,

I've said eighty one a bunch already, let's do it again.

Eighty one for Plague.

Speaker 5: Why not?

Speaker 1: I'm a little bit more. My expectation is that they're

not going to fall off. My expectation here is that

they will continue to grow.

Speaker 2: So eighty two, eighty three. I think this one will

do in eighty four?

Speaker 3: Okay, gotcha?

Speaker 5: Gotcha? Is it appropriately?

Speaker 4: This is more actiony though? Isn't this game like different

from the old ones?

Speaker 3: That's different?

Speaker 5: Okay, maybe a little more in the grub wheelhouse here

game number six Star Wars Zero Company. I didn't realized

this with this quarter.

Speaker 3: This is coming up before the racing game. Yeah, yes,

and I have high hopes for it. It is x

COMM people do I like?

Speaker 2: I am mid eighties. I'm gonna go eighty four.

Speaker 5: Okay, got it?

Speaker 3: Eighty four screen for this, damn it? Ah, people. People

want one of these so badly. I think reviewers especially

like these games, like I bet Midnight I wish I

could see what Marvel Midnight Suns did. Might use my

research class, I know see what that did. There's a

there's a there's there a Star Wars fatigue is very real,

and if the story isn't very good, it's gonna get

dinged for that, and it just might not be right. Yep,

season eighty four, God it, it really is. I'm either

going eighty five or eighty three.

Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 3: I think I'm going to count on the Star Wars

story aspect of it to not be very good and

saying eighty three, yeah, I'm I would have all the

same debates if I was in your shoes. I don't know.

Speaker 1: I think I might have gone over. But when you

said that, it's like, yeah, you're right, that story stinks.

It will get dinged hard for it.

Speaker 5: All right, Next game, The Blood of Dawn Walker.

Speaker 3: Right, I kind of remember this trailer sixty nine dudes, Okay, nice,

all right?

Speaker 2: That makes it.

Speaker 1: That makes it way too easy for me to just

take the over there because this is Whicher people.

Speaker 2: I think they will have they'll get some shit together.

Speaker 1: I'll just take seventy. I'll take seventy and and hope,

hope that they are able to deliver something. Okay, gosh,

for the record, I think it's gonna do way better.

Speaker 3: A right, never see vampires are like, that's cheap, bad shit.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always really unimpressed by vampires.

Speaker 5: I get it.

Speaker 3: Yep.

Speaker 5: Well, next up, interesting that jeffs is going first. Orbital's Jeff.

Speaker 1: Man It Takes two and what you McCall it both

did really well split fiction split fiction.

Speaker 3: Uh huh. I wonder if this like does just under

those or is able to repeat that.

Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go pretty high, and

I'm gonna go with I think I'm gonna go with

eighty six.

Speaker 5: Eighty six, Mike, how do you feel about Orbitals ninety Hell?

Speaker 3: Yeah, brother, I think that's what those games. I think

those games have been like ninety two in that range.

Even this game could be there. Even it looks better

than those games, even I don't know. I think this

game is super neat. I think reviewers are going to

have a really good time with that, help going to

really appreciate the aesthetic of it. So yeah, I have

high hopes for Orbitals.

Speaker 5: Okay, game number nine one, Musha Way of the Sword, Mic.

Speaker 3: Yeah, Popcom doing really well. Pragmatic eighty six. I believe

Resident Evil Requiem was like hi high eighties, So I

think this will also be high eighties. God, when I

played it, it's played so well. I'm a little worried

about narrative stuff a little bit, but I don't know,

maybe they'll be good. Eighty seven eighty seven. I think

Owing Musha is gonna be very well.

Speaker 5: All right, all right, that's this time.

Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's really good for this one. I

don't want to go under, but I think I have to. Mmmm, Yeah,

I'll go.

Speaker 3: I'll go eighty six. That sucks, okay.

Speaker 5: Next up, game number ten, Halloween, Jeff.

Speaker 1: Yeah, Ilphonic. Uh, I'm gonna go with a seventy four.

Speaker 3: M all right, all right, Yeah, we've had so many

of these asymmetric horre game things. They're always they're always fun.

But I don't know what could you do seventy two

people like it if they won't be enthusiastic, all right, Roger.

That Next up, Mikey Marble's Wolverine Boy Get a Ride By.

So Omniac games typically review very very well. So it's

interest because, like looking at the trailer, it looks really good,

but it doesn't have the things that we know Insomniac

does well. It goes ratchet and quank like the really

cool weapons or in Spider Man, the really cool movement,

Like this is another behind the character melee action game.

It's gonna be a real spiffy one of those. There's

a part of me I want to just like it

may not be as high as I might want to think.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting cynical about PlayStation

because of everything. God eighty seven almost sounds good again,

But God, eighty six, it sounds low for insomniac. But

part of me wonders if it's gonna be just the

slightest bit of I wish this was more like Spider Man,

if that makes sense. I wish this Wasn't this a

kind of a linear set piece action game, or maybe

people are gonna gobble that aspect of it up. I

don't know. God, if I say the sex, I no,

brother's probably gonna go higher. And he's probably right too.

I'm going to maybe just follow my insafe the wet'll

be here and say eighty six.

Speaker 5: Eighty six, got it?

Speaker 3: Yeah?

Speaker 1: I think this is an easy over. You're right, my

eighty seven. This is this is one I think we'll

do between eighty seven and eighty nine.

Speaker 5: All right, next game, Fire Album, Fortunes Weave Jeff.

Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I know, Three Houses did very well and

then the other one whose name I can never remember,

Gauge thank you did okay, like good, but significantly lower.

And so I'm like, is this somewhere in between? I

don't think it will be. I think it's gonna be

one or the other. And I do think I think

it's gonna be a return to form. So I'm gonna

I'm gonna go with eighty seven. I'm gonna I'm gonna

go our happy eighty seven.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's rough because there is a big discrepant, say

between that's my saying that you're word now, between like

what Three Houses did and even some of the other

ones like Awakening and then Engage probably like lower eighties,

if that might even been high seventies. Now, they they

desperately want us to think of this game as from

the team that did Three Houses, right, They definitely want

us to associate this game with that, the Gladiator thing.

The different starting characters. God, I would love to pick

eighty seven. Ah, these characters I get fucking awesome. Yeah,

I think I'm gonna just have to hope that they

knock it out of the park. And again I think

I think three houses is probably even higher than it's

higher than in eighty seven. So this is like that

out I'll say eighty eight. Yeah, I think I'll say

I think you're right to do.

Speaker 5: So. I'm a pretty big Fire Emblem fan, and I

feel like this is even calling back more to like Awakening.

I think they're going back to that, like I would

go over I probably in your anime fantasy stuff that

people love back then. So I one three houses was

in eighty nine. I just looked up and five three

houses too. Yeah, and even I have thought three House

I liked it a little bit less than our people

and still got like, yeah, eighty nine, so a high

house for this one.

Speaker 3: And then Gage was an eighty one. That's what I thought.

I knew it was like yeah, okay, yep, I would

have gone over to you.

Speaker 5: Number thirteen control resonant, my kids going first.

Speaker 3: To get to play this. Hmm. I think that remedy games.

But I'm trying to remember if the review because party

is like what did I think? I wait, two got

amazing reviews, but pardon me is like, wait, was it

more than an eighty four? And I'm conflating it. M

the first Control very well liked, this game seems really cool.

People like these guys a lot. I I think this

one now, I'm trying I'm thinking high, and I'm trying

to think how high do I want to go? And

maybe don't want to get too carried away here, And

I wonder if any of these games are going to

suffer from the kind of glut of melee action games

that we are getting. Ah right, I mean just you

know here alone Wolverine. Uh, this, uh, this is the

third one. I'm already immediately forgetting it. I mean, ushah,

thank you, right right. So it's a lot, it's a lot.

But they'll have different flavors, different they're they're different, like

Control a ton. I'll be ambitious. I'll say it's eighty

nine for Control Residence. Damn it, dude, that's exactly what

I wanted to say. I was hoping you go lower. Shit.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's right what I think.

Speaker 3: That's almost exactly what Alan Wake two did. So hmm,

I'm gonna look it up. I am afraid of going

over because it's so easy not to get a ninety.

Speaker 1: It's so easy not to get a ninety, but I

kind of I'm.

Speaker 3: Gonna go with a ninety. I'll go over.

Speaker 1: I'll believe and I know it's I know it's say.

I know it's safer to take the under, but I

want to believe you're right.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah.

Speaker 5: I am curious about this one because I feel like

Mike could be right. You know, everybody's like me and

loves their character action in Maine Combat game, So I'm

looking forward to this one as a results app. I

feel like there might be some fatigue, so curious to

see how this one plays out. Doman, We're at the

last game Silent Hill town Fall. Jeaf, You're gun first.

Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1: This is like I know, like the third or fourth

different team that's working on Silent Hill recently, and I

can't I can't remember.

Speaker 3: It's like Anna Pirna, we're helping them with this or

something like that. I can't keep it all straight.

Speaker 1: I think that they will continue to maintain a high

quality bar for Silent Hill, but I'm not going to

assume that like the all the love that was there

for Silent Hill to remake or f will show up

for this one.

Speaker 2: I'll go with an eighty two.

Speaker 3: Okay, yep, I kind of agree that, like this might

be the worst review of those three and still reviewed

pretty well, just like lower eighties. I guess I'll go

a little bit higher than you because this franchise has

been doing so well even though it's like all these

different teams, like, how could there be consistency? I guess

technically there isn't because there's that one weird TV show

like one, but I don't know it. One's kind of

forgotten about that. But first person style that seems the

uh yeah, I'll pick the over. I'll say eighty three.

Speaker 5: Eighty three, and then as long as I didn't miscalculate, excellent.

That is the end of the predictions, which means, as always,

I will recap that for everybody listening at home. Going

down the line, we had Splatoon Raiders Jeff said eighty,

Mike said eighty one, Halo Campaign Evolved Jeff said eighty five,

Mike said eighty three, Beast of Reincarnation Deaf with eighty two,

Mike with eighty one, Marvel Token Fighting Souls Jeff said

eighty seven, Mike said eighty six, Resonance a Plague Tail

Legacy Jeff said eighty four. Mike said eighty one. Star

Wars Zero Company said eighty four. Mike said eighty three.

The Blood of Dawn Walker Jeff said seventy. Mike said

sixty nine. Nice Orbitals, Jeff said eighty six. Mike went

with ninety Onny Mooshow Way at the Sword, Jeff said

eighty six. Mike said eighty seven. Halloween Jeff said seventy four.

Mike said seventy two. Marvel's Wolverine. Jeff took eighty seven.

Mike took eighty six. Byramb Unfortunes Weave Opposite Direction, Jeff

took eighty seven. Mike took eighty eight. Control Resident Jeff

went when ninety Mike went with eighty nine and Silent

Hill Townfall eighty two from Jeff, eighty three from Mike,

and Wolf leaves us with good luck to everyone participating,

and let's hope we can actually get to all these

new games, yep I.

Speaker 1: And for the record, I think Madden will get a

seventy nine. So there you go, there you go, all right.

Thank you so much, Sean, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2: Wolf. I love doing these. It's a lot of fun thing.

Speaker 1: And like it's always like being like, oh man, I

have a pretty good sense of this one, and then

be like, I also have no idea what this other

one even is. So we'll get the results of that

in about three months. Looking forward to it. Let's take

another break, we'll come back, we'll talk about what we've

been playing, clean up some super chats, and get on

out here.

Speaker 3: We'll be right back.

Speaker 2: All right, it decides we're back, Mike, what have you

been playing?

Speaker 3: Well, I know we can say that we have been

playing heave ho. We did a quick look of that.

That's on the site. Now me, you, Jan and Dan

Connectivity capadres iybomp, you have the Connectivity compadres are back

together again. I never actually played the first one. You

all had experience with it. Those games, you're just kind

of this face with two arms, and you can kind

you can grab onto surfaces and each other to sort

of create these links, and you're kind of climbing and

swinging around to reach obstacles and things like that. So

it's just really funny the ways you have to work

together there. Sometimes you have levers to push things like that.

Really funny. But there's also this competitive mode where you

know it's four people uh, you know, Battle Royale, everyone

for themselves and be like a race or just survival

who can last the longest, you know. So it's like

platforms are moving, or we're gonna give you all guns

or lightsabers, and you know, go get each other, like

who's the first to pull the lever. There's kind of

the uh the Bomberman rules there. It's like the first

to get five wins is the winner. And that was

I thought that was a ton of fun. It was

a good time having a good time with that. But

I think you know, the Quick Look is like an

hour long. We played for quite a while and I

think you'll see we sort of just had an absolute

blast with it. Yep.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it's they definitely understand the game they're making.

Speaker 3: It was immediately obvious.

Speaker 1: It's like it's more of that, and then they kind

of refined all the aspects of it where it's like

you're getting into the fun right away. And and yeah,

I mean it is one of those games like once

you see it, you understand what it's asking you to do,

and and the physics are very like forgiving. There is

a lot of after touch, you know, once you learn that,

it's a lot easier to do those big swings that

we were doing where we're all sort of like pushing

in the same direction, so we could make these big

like make these big gaps and actually get over them,

and that always feels really good. It's got a nice

floaty but like substantial physics systems, so you can you

still feel the weight of the swings and stuff like that.

Speaker 2: So very satisfying to play.

Speaker 1: And and yeah, they just they really got I think

both sides of it, you know, the competitive and the cooperative,

and it's one I would love for us to go

back to and keep playing more, though more of both,

but I kind of would want want to play some

more of those difficult levels for sure.

Speaker 3: And that a lot of Terotech Legion, which is that

Vampire Survivor like game with the cart to download it now. Yeah,

I was worried if you played much of it. I

know you like Vampire Survivor a lot. I've been I've

been doing a ton of Terotic Like what's my play

My weight time was twenty four hours? Okay, it's kind

of my Yeah, I'll get a run of this game

in in between like things, you know, if I have

a break here or there, This is how I can

kind of de stress at the moment, just kind of

going through trying to beat all of the levels and

consider myself happy. So yeah, into this in a way

I never really even was with Vampire Survivors. Just having

that kind of car building mechanic gives it a bit

extra flair for me. So absolutely loving it.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I just installed it.

Speaker 1: I'll get on the steam deck as well, and looking

forward to spending time with it. It's definitely one of

those where it's like I see it, I get it,

and I love you know, I love Vampire Survivors. I

also love, you know, the car building mechanics that have

been in a bunch of besieged and and nuts and

bolts and even the gummy ship like yeah, the Kingdom, yep,

for sure, and that stuff is really fun to me.

And then this seemed like just watch I was watching

you play it somewhere I can't remember where it was,

and it was like, oh, like being able to like

get a new weapon and deciding where it goes on

your car and like how you're going to use that,

and like building your car to like to like make

it you to use that functionally in the best way possible.

It's like that's seems really satisfying as well.

Speaker 3: So I tell you, like the tech is, don't build

your don't build your weapons facing forward, have them building

going to the side. When you circle around to kind

of groups of days, you kind of whittle them down.

They even just pushed an update for it not too

long ago where one of my complaints was like, your

progression is character tied, but it's like you you earned

the credits for that character, you can progress them. You

and lock do cars, but they start from zero, which

is a little bit weird because you're on more advanced

levels and now the credits are cross characters, so you

can do rounds of one character and then use that

to upgrade another character. So that that's a nice update.

So you know they're listening to feedback in all of

that jazz anything else, Mike, Uh, you know, more out

and Ring, which has been great. I'll probably more to

say about that once I have finished run. But you know,

I've been running around not doing summons, doing a Bleed build.

It's been a ton of fun. What a good video

game that is.

Speaker 1: Yep, it's definitely one. I'm jealous you have the time

to go back to that. I would really love to

go back to elden Ring. And that's that's fantastic.

Speaker 2: I've been playing a couple of games.

Speaker 1: I did boot up a power Wash simulator too, because

that Star Wars DLC dropped, and the first one you do,

the first level you get is Uncle Owen's Moisture Farm,

and it's like, oh, yeah, that's what this whole thing

is gonna be. It's just these scenes or sets from

the movies that I recognize, like recreated and loving detail,

and then there's fun little gimmicks to it where it's

like there's the the Gonk Droid and I clean.

Speaker 2: Him off, and once he's fully clean, like what like

all his individual.

Speaker 1: Components are like the messy part, so it's like you're

not just cleaning him off as a hole. You got

to clean off his radar dish and then clean off

his left foot and his right foot, and like there's

the power coupling underneath, you got to clean that off.

And but once he's fully clean, then he comes to

life and he starts walking around making gonk noises and

oh cleverly, Okay, that's nice, and you know it's still

just a zen chill zone out game, and I I

can be in the mood for those I'm not always

in the mood, but this is doing enough where it's.

Speaker 3: Like, oh, I will probably probably a couple levels.

Speaker 1: I always try to get to, you know, some of

the big imperial stuff, try to see the uh, the

the at at walkers or whatever.

Speaker 2: But yeah, they did a good job with what I've

seen of that so far.

Speaker 3: And then I did play oh.

Speaker 1: That, I did play that Teeto game, which is the

one that got a bunch of comments about PlayStation discs

because it got uploaded to the Sony PlayStation YouTube channel

and people are mad and they're putting their comments everywhere,

and I'm like, Okay, I'll check out this game that

got some attention because of that and then got some

seemingly negative attention.

Speaker 2: No one will say anything bad about the game. The

game is is neat.

Speaker 3: It's uh.

Speaker 1: It is a combination of Banjo Kazuoi slightly, and mostly

it is like one of these three D platformers like

Oh to See where it's like there are objects, certain

objects in the world that you could take on their

its identity and therefore its powers, and then you can

use those powers. Now to do something different, Like the

first thing you get is a flower, and you turn

into a flower, and then you have this sort of

vine whip that you can use to hang on to things.

Early on in that tutorial area, though, there was also

just a sofa I could turn into and its power

was to shoot out like dozens of tiny little pillows

like over its head, and I'm like, to what end?

I never figured out what that was about. So there's

some like funny stuff in there as well. It's like,

I bet I'll discover eventually what that is useful for, uh,

but I did not early on, and it just it

looks cute. You play as like a blob that's come

to life to take on these t toe t ee

t o and it's you know, it's one of these

dumb double A three D platformers that are all on

the cusp of like really cracking the code of figuring

out that genre. Like still nothing's as good as Mario

or the Ratchets or anything like that, but they're getting

closer and closer, and I really think this is one

of those that is on that it's part of that

pathway of getting the indie platformers to feel nearly as

good and as robust as a big triple triple A platformers.

So I mean, you know, definitely worth checking out if

that's your genre.

Speaker 3: Let me just think that, like we have like three

D ind three D platforms is a genre. Now we

get multiple of them a year. That's wild.

Speaker 1: If you know, if this game came out on sixty

four would be one of the top five best games

on that platform. Like that, That's how it is saying much. Yeah,

it's it's uh so yeah, really cool to see exactly.

Speaker 2: And then I did play. I did play densh Attack.

Speaker 3: Did you did not check it out yet? Seems like

I mean, gosh, the reviews for it were really strong.

I think it's like an eighty seven or maybe higher.

Speaker 4: Uh yeah, that means Japanese.

Speaker 3: That's true because there's that there's those train simulator games

that have the word dentia in it.

Speaker 2: That's how That's how I learned that.

Speaker 4: Yeah do you say Japanese?

Speaker 2: I did have to wait, how do you say subway

in Japan? Because we were eight.

Speaker 3: Okay, I thought it was in it to be honest,

I uh, this game.

Speaker 1: I could see why it's getting such high reviews because

it is the things it's doing. It does very well.

It is going for the Dreamcast aesthetic and then like

amplifying it up in every way and sort of doing

its own thing with that. So it's not just a

pure homage. It is a sort of a successor to

the Dreamcast style. And then when you're playing it, it

just does a bunch of cool stuff relentlessly, and once

you get on its wavelength, it's very rewarding. You don't

have time to think. You're just gonna be doing cool

stuff with a train, And I guess for people that

don't know what it is, it's like an extreme sports

game where you play as a train on a track,

and it's really a successor to like three D Sonic

games where you are grinding and doing all these like you're.

Speaker 2: Going from from track to track.

Speaker 1: You're like jumping in the air and flipping to the

track to the left or the right, sometimes to avoid obstacles,

sometimes just to do cool trick combinations. And I'll say

the one thing is it definitely is doling out the

information about out what you're capable of slowly, So it's

like as I'm playing, I definitely want to do the

Jeff Grubb thing of replaying a level over and over

again to get the highest possible score or the most

perfect run. And that's it's not smart because they've not

taught me how to do a manual yet. I've done

a manual. I don't know how I did it, so

I need to keep playing to figure out what's going

on there. And then I saw in the customization page

for my train, I'm not just picking my color. There's

also this little bar below it's like, this train has

no unique abilities. Oh, there are trains that have aility.

There are unique abilities, So I should not be trying

to like optimize my run with this train. I should

be waiting till I get something that probably makes whatever

easier to do.

Speaker 2: So instead I'm focusing on going.

Speaker 1: I'm progressing through like the main campaign, which you know

has Neon White style storytelling, but a little bit quicker,

a little bit faster paced, so it's a little bit

easier to get through. So it's not it's better than

the on Whites. I'll say that, yes, and then yes

yeah not yeah, it's like tone down in every way.

It's just sort of like they're telling their story and

you care about it, or you won't. You probably won't.

Speaker 2: And then there's like you know Tony Hawk's style, like

obstacles to do on each stage where it's like you

have a horn that you can honk, and when you

go through this part of the office if you take

this track, well, when you crash through the windows at

the office, hit your horn and you'll blow all the

papers off the tables and you'll accomplish.

Speaker 1: You'll get a check mark for that, and as you

do that, you're like getting all these progression points or whatever.

And so yeah, it's like I'm going through each stage

trying to find those and trying to get through all

the levels and figuring out new stuff as I go.

It has required me to sort of relearn some of

the like I'm like, for example, in Tonyhuk's Pro Skater,

when I go up in the air and I do

a trick before I land, I begin priming the next

jump because I know very quickly I'm going to try

to jump right away and start another trick. Chain here,

if you like prime your jump before you've landed, it's

not going to register. You have to wait till you're

down on the ground. So it's like just slightly different

than what I'm expecting a game like this to play like,

so I had to like just like unlearn some habits

and I'm still in the process of doing that. For

people that aren't like aggressively Tony Hawk coded the way

I am, they're probably just going to this and figuring

it out right away. And then when you get on

the other side of that, it is very cool to

like be pulling off these awesome moves, and it's got

awesome set pieces where you're right on top of a

ferris wheel that that's come off its track, or you're

on top of a boat and you can guide the

boat in the water and hit ramps and ride a

giant tsunami and stuff like that. So yeah, just you

know why coming out of its ears with with style

and substance both alike.

Speaker 3: So I'm really into this, Jeff.

Speaker 5: I did want to ask you so because like one,

look at this game, like the style of it. It's

like on paper, should be a Sean game, like you ye,

look at all the style and everything. So I play

the demo when they have for next Fest one or two,

next Festa go, and I thought it, like dial Wise

is fantastic. I remember thinking the game players that's like

straight up soaring and so here's how you talk about Okay,

so I was curious, Like you said, it stars kind

of slow, but like it does like pick up and

get more involved with like more mechanics and stuff.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm like hesitant to call it a

learning curve because like it's not like difficult, but yeah,

it like it's slow.

Speaker 2: To unveil all the things you're capable of.

Speaker 1: And and I do think as it's doing that, I'm

getting more and more into it now, Like it is,

it is targeted at me, it should be a Jeff

game as well.

Speaker 2: Has it like met those expectations yet?

Speaker 1: No, but it's it's getting closer and closer, and I

could see it's continuing on the trajectory. So I do

think if you give it another chance, you'll definitely like

it better than you liked it during the demo.

Speaker 3: I think that's okay.

Speaker 5: Yeah, because the demo, I believe have like a sort

of a training mode kind of thing. I think they

called it like the skate park or something like that,

where you'd like have fuller access to stuff. And people

told me, if you like learn all the stuff that's

in there, it's really really fun. So I did get

I did get the game. I got the full game.

I'm gonna check out over the weekend. I'm really curious

see if it does click with me.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll I will, I will be interested to hear.

And then I played a little bit of Assassin's Creed

Black Flag RECINCD. Because it's another game I talked about

when I was on the Besties and I'll.

Speaker 2: Just say like, oh, yeah, that is what I said

when I was on there.

Speaker 1: It's like the processed food version of that game, where

they have really streamlined it, really gotten rid of all

of the friction. And maybe that's sometimes to the game's detriment,

but for someone like me who already played that game,

and when I do think about it, the things I

want to re experience, I kind of want to get

to pretty quickly.

Speaker 2: Well, that's the game that they've made here.

Speaker 1: They made it so you're gonna be on that ship

within the first hour and fifteen minutes or so, and

you're gonna get a couple of times to like like

mess around with that before that, so you're gonna get

a taste of it.

Speaker 3: It will wet your whistle.

Speaker 1: And then if you want to just kind of do

cool Assassin's Creed stuff like progressing like in re seen

the level of your boat that happens really quickly as well.

They just really made it easy to digest this game

in a way that I appreciate. But I've seen some

of the responses from people like, hey, I think the

original is better, and I think that's probably right. But

for me, again, as someone who's already played that, getting

to replay it in this format has really worked so far.

I don't know if I'm gonna stick with it, but

it runs really well on the Steam deck, so maybe

I will.

Speaker 4: They they made they made the remake the way we

remember the game place. Now. They gave the actual game place.

Speaker 2: You know, the combat's like way better.

Speaker 1: Like I think that the sort of having Paris and

stuff in there, that's a noticeable improvement, although you would

assume that stuff was in the original.

Speaker 2: It's not all right that uh that does it for

me as well? Oh yeah, go ah yeah, real quick.

Speaker 4: I try Soul Frame because as people was Soul Frame

and it was like, it's pretty fun, and they were right.

I'm a couple of hours in and it's the real

funny is that she was open Ward RPG is roun the.

Speaker 3: War Frame people digital streams.

Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I was trying. I haven't seen the

like warframe part of the soul frame, you know what

I mean, Like the old stuff where you craft your

like your frames, different frame stuff I haven't seen in

this game. I don't know if it even is in

this game, because you pick you pick like one of

three classes to play, and it's those three so far.

I haven't seen like a way too. I'm barely early on,

so maybe it's like laterally on you. I've seen the

store where they sell you like skins for your guy,

but nothing nothing more than that. But it's just an

open war with like the combats. Feels pretty good. It's

not like super floaty like Warframe is, where you like

dash and like like you know, crouching jump, double chump

and that kind of stuff. It's not that type of game.

It's more like, yeah, you're on the ground, you're dodging.

You're like I think if you played the Warrior I

don't know the name, sorry, but the guy with the

shield and sword you can parry. But I'm playing Image

but I only have like like a shield.

Speaker 3: And that's it.

Speaker 4: And the dodges and it feels pretty good. It has

the open wall is pretty good. I really like just

walking around and like like questions pop out and you

can just do it like what you're exploring is pretty cool. Yeah,

I'm having fun.

Speaker 5: I don't know.

Speaker 4: You guys are gonna try as you you were talking

about trying.

Speaker 3: I started. I want to give it a track. Man,

I've always liked it random, but like I was always

intimidated to get too invested in it, honestly. Yeah, I

want to check the idea being in on the ground

floor with one of these is appealing exactly.

Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, yeah, I heard the multiplayer is really good

and I want to try the multiplayer. The dungeons. I

did a couple of dungeons and there are I think

I'm not sure, but I think they're like procedurally generated

because they are kind of the same vibes. But there

the rooms are like differitely arranged. There were a couple

of abandons, so I really like that. Probably like the

it's gonna be kind of like that. So yeah, I'm

having a good time on a stick with it and

see how it goes. It's very it's very early on.

People say it's very bare bones. I don't I don't

know what they mean with that. It feels pretty complete

to me, so well, we'll see.

Speaker 2: All right, Uh, let's let's get to those super chats Mike.

Speaker 3: Alrighty, what's he here now? APA eight boxes reminder, Mike

has tons of hair everywhere but his crown and growin.

Thanks for the much needed laughs on a hard day.

Cancer sucks. Jingle of Midgrass probably said that horribly wrong. Sorry,

but I guess I. I hope you continue to heal

idiabox absolutely. And then war Rizzo says, in Portland, the

Multonoma Whiskey Library is neat Whiskey, a U and multonomous

and where that thing, the whole convention is right, So yeah, okay,

ex Origen says, I'm catching up on your great Bully

run mentioned the old Gladier show Good News UK has

been going strong three seasons and it's right. This is

a new series this year too, but I haven't watched it.

I feel like there's a Gladiator's revival every couple of years, honestly,

and that you know it ever hits like nineties Gladiators does, right, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1: Right, that is definitely yes, there was something about the

nineties and the way that the steroids were being used

and everything.

Speaker 3: It just it did make it look and feel different, right, Yeah,

what the one that see Virkal was in, the one

that he competed in. Yes, Next up is from Zobby Porn.

Jeff didn't blow it. How very undetroit of him.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll try still get to fire Steve Eiserman as

my GM.

Speaker 3: Now, don't worry. I don't want to talk about it.

Next up is from Corey Carmine. He says, ever heard

a Bit Brigade. It's a band that plays rock redditions

of video music while someone speed runs the game live

on stage Pink Columbus on August fifth playing Mega Next Gesha,

come check it out. I've seen them twice in uh

in Cleveland. Actually even interviewed them back when I have

games Beat. I saw them do Mega Man three, which

I was very excited about. I saw them do Metroid

as well. Yeah, that's an awesome experience. Maybe next would

be a great one, of course, But yeah, definitely check

out Bit Brigade if you can. I don't know if

I'm gonna make the The Columbus Trips a bit of

a long when it's like three yeah, come, this is rough.

Yeah yeah, So I don't know if I'm gonna make

it up just for you know, I don't say just

for that, but for that. But everyone should see Bit

Brigade when you can. I'm glad they're still toring. It's

been a wile since I saw them. They're fantastic, excellent.

Speaker 1: So all right, that to ess over the super chats.

Thank you everybody for the nice messages this week. Uh,

we're gonna get out of here, I think, Mike, it's

time we.

Speaker 3: Got to record a Columbro's.

Speaker 1: We gotta do a Columbos everybody. It's finally come time

to pay the piper there, and I'm.

Speaker 3: Happy to do so. It was a fun episode at

the very least.

Speaker 1: We will talk about that here after this episode, so

you guys can go get that if you are a

Patreon member.

Speaker 3: It's one of our bonus bonus podcasts.

Speaker 1: Mike, how are you doing? What you got plans for

the weekend? What are you gonna go other than the movie?

What are you gonna be doing?

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great question. Hopefully not much. I think

last week I'm like I'm gonna do nothing. Then I

was like, oh, should I have like five things I

need to do on Saturday? Which was which was fun

and all. It's it's my brother's birthday today. Happy birthday, Chris.

He's actually on a road trips. I don't have any

obligations there. He has a good birthday and is a birthday, Chris.

You just checked out that new Universal Kids kind of

amusement park they opened up in Texas. Oh really, okay? Fun?

So he had fun there and he's checking out some

other parks. It's gonna be going to Dollywood actually at

some point. Oh, very curious to hear about Dolly. Yeah,

you guys will be staying inside as much as I

can because the weather's terrible. I should probably have some

cleaning I should be doing, is whatever. Yeah, I want

to get this spacement cleaned up after my trip.

Speaker 1: It's like, because we have, you know, a bunch of

stuff that we get out from down here to get

to go on the trip. Now it's all back down

here but not put away, so I want to do

Then I got a new entertainment center because this one's

falling apart, so I'll put that together maybe a good time.

I got to finish those cabinets in the laundry. It's

gonna be be a busy weekend. But you're right all inside.

Speaker 3: Fuck the smoke, yeah, God absolutely not. Just don't don't

want to be out by weird puts. Yeah, When when

are the When is the World Cup finals? When does

that happen? Sunday Sunday, Sunday, Sunday Sunday. I tell you what, Christaid,

I will root for Argentina.

Speaker 5: Fine, you do that.

Speaker 1: Messi gets the ball in the corner and he doesn't

sing cross pass and that was amazing.

Speaker 3: Is Bessie Like is Bessie's legend already? Like settlers at

a thing, We're like back to back World Cups where

it's like that, I mean it will be Alzheimer's insane.

Speaker 1: He does that, that would be like it sort of

does begin to put him in another It puts him

a kind of like, you know, like Tom Brady headings

like three Hall of Fame careers in his one career.

Speaker 3: That would sort of be the similar thing here.

Speaker 1: So I'm saying, ye, all right, thanks for watching, everybody,

Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3: Cut you next time. I have a good one.

Speaker 2: Take care of yourself, hands goodbye.

Speaker 3: I'm just driving away, drove to the rest, I just

saw people outside without masses. I was getting met on Facebook,

which I know should be a face people who are

like arguing, like I'm gonna go outside.

Speaker 2: It's like, what are you trying to prove that you're stupid?

Speaker 3: They're still they're still trying to prove that they're not gay, apparently.

Speaker 5: And.

Speaker 2: Jesus, I didn't think about that, everybody.

Speaker 4: I don't got no wool lungs. I could tickle this, right, Kim.

Speaker 3: Jesus, but I you know, they like suck those heads.

So I sucked them and there's a lot of good

juice in there. It was pretty good. I did say that,

all right, we're up.