459: GRAND THEFT AUTO 6 EXTENDED LOOK REACTION
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In today's episode, they made another Grand Theft Auto. That
doesn't sound right. Leakers be leaking. Crime-related draft. We're going
to do a draft, everybody. We're going to do some
crime within that draft. You all will help us figure out.
Who wins that draft? It's going to be kind of
a GTA-inspired one.
Speaker 1: But first, Mike Minotti, how are you doing? I'm doing good. Boy,
we sure did decide to give ourselves a week where
we work every evening, huh?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with us? We don't do this. Wednesday night,
Friday night, this Monday night. What the hell? I know.
Speaker 2: We made some big boo-boos this week, and look, we're
going to have to look at the consequences of it.
Speaker 1: I don't have any reviews that I'm working on or anything.
No deadlines coming up or nothing. Get your webcam out
of my square. I just noticed. I just noticed, all right?
Get out of there. If I did my arm and
I see my arm in your space. I hate it.
I hate it. I was going to fix it. There
we go. There. Thank you very much. No problem. I
was breaching into Mike's space. That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what? I am not going to any soccer
games this weekend. None of them. Not even the later ones.
I'm sorry. I'm busy. I'm sorry. I got to get
stuff done. God, even then, I think we're doing, I know.
It's like, it's funny because like the things I'm saying
I'm doing. They don't sound difficult or hard. It's like
on Wednesday, I was like, I got to get home, everyone.
I got to go watch Paul Bart. Like, what do
you mean you have to? Seriously, I have to go
watch Paul Bart. It's somehow not an option. This is
required for my employment. And then like on Saturday, we're
doing our cocktail episode of the 90s Disney podcast. It's like, it's,
you know, it's another show I'm doing. Yes, we're making
cocktails and drinking them during it. So it's fun, but
it's just, you know, it's just, it's not, it's just
not a lot of free time. Yeah. Not having a
lot of Jeffrey time right now. That's for sure. Uh,
but no.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, I mean, cause yeah, you're right. Like when
I'm not doing all that stuff, I am playing games
for review.
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This is all just like, man, we, when we pile
it on, sometimes we probably pile it.
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Speaker 2: We have a lot to get into with all of
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to you about, Mike. So let's get into that after this.
All right, Mike. So Netflix had the GTA special. And
then immediately after that was over, some previews started coming out.
My understanding from when I was looking earlier is it
doesn't seem like anyone's played Grand Theft Auto 6. These
were all hands-off previews. I could be wrong because things
keep coming out. So, but that was my understanding. Um,
so it was a very small group of press and creators.
They went to Edinburgh. Uh, they got to talk to
co studio head, Rob Nelson, uh, and that Rob Nelson
played roughly 30 minutes for them.
Speaker 1: They were able to ask questions and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But we also got a good look at the game in,
in that Netflix special, which was about 26 minutes, 30
minutes long. It was in that range. Um, And we
got to see, you know, hey, it's Grand Theft Auto.
It's Grand Theft Auto. And we were talking to Christian
beforehand right before you got here. And it looks very expensive.
And then, like, the next thing we both kind of
said right after that.
Speaker 1: Was it better. It better look expensive.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the one thing it really has over
everything else is it can and should look very dense
and technologically impressive. And it certainly does check those boxes.
which I think might be enough for me to go,
I need to play this game just to kind of
see what all of that really is going to entail
when I'm holding a controller in my hand. I personally
am not chomping at the bit. I wasn't blown away
by what I saw, but I'm not trying to be
a stinker either. I want to play the game and
judge it for myself. That's where I'm at with this game.
I just didn't see anything in there that was immediately like, oh,
I can imagine this being the future of games.
Speaker 1: I don't know. What'd you think? I mean, yeah, I guess, right?
I suppose it depends on the expectations. In terms of like, hey, finally,
the next Grand Theft Auto. It's like, yeah, wow, look
at that. Like, you can see a lot of improvements
since 5. It's been a while, but like, they're currently
building off of what they did with 5. The swap
with protagonists, just a ton more detail in the environment.
Maybe bringing back some of those San Andreas elements that
people miss with like, how you can really customize in
your character. Stuff like that. I thought there was a
lot in that show that like, yeah, definitely was impressive.
I guess... I so never really believed that there could
be anything they can show. That'd be like, well, video
games are going to change from now on because of this.
It's like, no, this is what a video game can
look like when they are sort of afforded almost infinite
time and money. And this is like the one video
game that kind of has that luxury through a series
of like successes and kind of circumstances on its side. Right.
So it is fascinating in that regard. It's a bit
strange for me as somebody who I've said before, it's
not the biggest GTA fan. but I liked Red Dead
Redemption 2 quite a lot, for example. So I can
be down for these kind of games. I've just never,
I've never been like a big like, ooh, yeah, modern crime.
That's like, that's a kind of setting and aesthetic and
a narrative vehicle that I'm always really interested in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the stories have never really worked for me in
a Grand Theft Auto, sort of ever. The sandbox element has,
but it's, you know, it's also frequently been the same sandbox.
So I spent a lot of time in grand theft
auto three playing around on that sandbox. And then in
the follow up, follow up games, we try some of
the story, do some of the missions, never really see
them through, do some more goofing around, trying to see
what mayhem I could cause and would have a good time,
but it was diminishing returns for me. Um, spent a
little bit more time in five cause that's one where, uh,
I was installing some more mods and, and kind of
doing my own thing in there and that worked.
Speaker 1: And that's, that's cool. And I definitely see the potential
for that here.
Speaker 2: But, uh, I, Do we have like a couple of
things that I would say, hey, if they do this
or that, I would be at least perk up a
little bit. And they're talking about some of those things. Now,
I'm always kind of on both sides of the fence
with the simulation stuff. They do seem to be going
for more of the Red Dead Redemption 2 style simulation
aspect of it. And I'm not like flat out against that.
Even getting on the elevator and having to wait for
the elevator is not really against that. I just usually
what I'm looking for is And then I want to
insert myself into this and be a stick that goes
into the cog and breaks the machine and then see what...
I want to see what happens at that point. Like,
that's the kind of thing I like about a hitman
or whatever. And, you know, I have my criticisms of
Red Dead Redemption 2's sort of responsiveness to the.
Speaker 1: Player getting involved in its simulation.
Speaker 2: I expect that to maybe still be the case here,
but I'm willing to see what could happen. And one
reason I have some optimism is... one of the other
aspects of this game that they are touting is that
the NPCs are a really big focus for them. Technologically,
they had their LA studio almost exclusively working on fleshing
out the responsiveness, the interact interactability of the NPCs, making
them feel like real characters with all kinds of uniqueness,
both in, both in terms of visual, uh, aesthetic design
and giving them the character characters that way, but also
schedules and all this stuff. And yeah, I, to me,
that begins to sound like, okay, so then that's the
obvious place where now I can go interact with them and,
and cause some mayhem and see what happens, you know,
whether it's mayhem or whatever else, maybe they have some
deeper systems for me to interact with these characters. That
feels like my, my own doing my own story. I
would be curious about that. They are, they do seem
to be setting up something there. And then, um, Hey,
missions may be less rigid. That would be a big
one for me obviously i know.
Speaker 1: That's a big sticking point for you yeah yes yeah
i just find it very.
Speaker 2: That like you talk about the um The uncanny valley
for when you notice things like the beer appearing in
his hand when he opens the fridge. For me, the
uncanny valley is this world so open, so many things.
And if you walk five feet in the wrong direction,
the game gives you a game over. That is uncanny
valley to me and really drives me crazy. The New
York Times says Nelson demonstrated missions with more possible approaches,
which introduces enough unpredictability that Rockstar says they're harder to test.
During the demonstration, Nelson was apparently still spotting tiny problems himself,
at one point calling out an NPC whose reaction was
slightly too slow. So, you know, OK, that again sounds promising.
And I want to get my hands on the game
myself to find out. And then in terms of the
size of the map, they're just saying very big. They
aren't giving square mileage. Mostly when they get asked that question,
it seems like their focus is look at the density,
look how much stuff is going on in this world,
which that was very clearly obvious from all the video
we've seen so far, but especially in these gameplay videos.
Speaker 1: So I put all that out there to you.
Speaker 2: We can, you know, have like a wrap up conversation
now and then move on from Grand Theft Auto six
because we have talked about it a lot. But any
other thoughts from you?
Speaker 1: Just that it's seriously unfun to talk about Grand Theft
Auto 6, boy. Man, like, I'll tell you what, we
did that reaction, and I thought I was nicer to
it than I thought I was going to be. I
think at the end I said, that looks neat. I'm
excited to play it. And it's the comments are still like,
you guys aren't going to stop me from liking the game? Like, yeah,
no shit. Why would I? What are you, fine?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You gotta understand too, this game, like I was telling
Rob earlier, I'm glad people like this game because apparently
the entire industry was, you know.
Speaker 1: This is where all the money's gone, yeah.
Speaker 5: If this game failed and the entire industry was going
to blow up for some reason, nobody explained why or
why was, like, I still don't get it, I'm too
dumb for that. So I'm glad people really like it
to the point where like, are you do any slight criticism?
They're going to jump at your neck. So it was like, okay,
I guess we're safe.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's a lot of people whose first
giant bomb video ever was us talking about this to
make sure we were bowing down to the king and
we didn't show enough humility in front of it.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Even just like, you know, on social media, people are like, oh,
you people think they're really cool for not being excited
about Cradle of the Dead. No, I'm just not. I'm sorry.
What am I supposed to do with life?
Speaker 4: I never liked this series that much.
Speaker 1: I want to still play it. it looks neat i
just it's become this behemoth and it there's there's a
lot of baggage around it and i don't know why
that's impacting me i don't know what i have to
do with it right i don't know why anybody cares
what how excited or not i am about grand theft
auto 6 but gosh it feels like this weird weight
and shadow around the whole industry right now says exactly
how i feel i'm looking forward to playing it but
not any more than anything else it's just right another
video game for me which is kind of like why
how is that not like the perfectly acceptable position to
have before you know whether a game is for you
before you.
Speaker 2: Anyone has played it outside of rockstar i mean i
guess there's a lot of reasons to assume it's going
to be a game for you if you've liked all
the previous ones because it does look a lot like
those but man i just the yeah i i'm not
that moved by super realistic graphics i also.
Speaker 1: Feel you know i can't Look, guys, I love punching up.
I just do. If I see something to tease about
Crypt of Thought 06 or Rockstar, I am probably going
to do it, and I'm not going to feel bad
about it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Chad is calling me a hater. Jason also likes it.
Speaker 6: Well, they said they love you being a hater, to
be clear. They like when you hate. That's all right,
but I'm not hating on the game. I should say,
I posted, I skidded that I wasn't impressed. They've been
doing this same game for 25.
Speaker 2: Years, and like, like, The missions did look very familiar.
The gameplay looks very familiar. Now, I think that's my
assessment based on what we saw was... look, their solution
to how do we make this game feel big and
like it matters and like we're making a leap forward, well,
there's only so much they can do for gameplay. Their
answer is probably going to be do more of it
than ever before. More options, more variety. And I think
that's what a lot of their fans want. I think
that's probably the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: Exactly. I think I agree. But that is what they did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've been doing the same. And see, like, if
you're thinking game to game, your great leap is like
we're going to, Like, I don't know, the city is
going to be bigger and it's going to be kind
of more realistic to me, annoying sometimes to, to move around,
to interact with the world. I'm not impressed by that. Like,
I guess it's impressive in the technical way that you
can do all this stuff and it looks great and awesome.
But for me, it's not. And the thing is like, oh,
it's more realistic. You had to wait for the elevator.
I don't know if that's fun to me. in in
retro redemption to me that game was fun because when
you carve a thing a buffalo that it looks cool
but i don't know i've never carved a buffalo in
real life and that's a cool thing to do maybe.
Speaker 1: You'll carve a drug mule on this one yeah.
Speaker 5: Sure that's my point it's just like it looks cool
i want to play it it's not like i don't
want to play.
Speaker 2: It right i i want to play the video game
i want to see what they put in there i
want to see if i can find something especially for
me i just You know, I do watch it, and
it's like, oh, I'm reminded that the humor's probably going
to be, like, pretty lackluster. That Arby's joke. Not that
they're going after my boy at Arby's, but... I went
to Arby's today and saw... Yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 1: There wasn't really a joke aside from, like, well, people
like to make fun of Arby's. No, and the joke
is one of the oldest jokes. Like, we love animals.
They're delicious. That's literally the joke. That was, like, their...
showpiece joke yeah and like i you know i've never
found grand theft auto funny in it like and you
know maybe it's a good thing honestly that they seem
to be veering into the humor less than ever honestly
because i never thought they were particularly good so especially
if they're you know they're saying things like yeah we
want to give me time so that's why you know
we're not gonna talk about uh donald trump or stuff
like that it's like man you're a game about like
seemingly like immigrants and cops and all these things and
you think like You're not going to talk about modern
politics or how that works with any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: And like, it's, I think it is, that's definitely a
fine line to walk. Cause yeah, that stuff can feel
out of date if you do get it wrong for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll, I'll admit that.
Speaker 2: But it's like, to me, what, what that sounds like
is they're, and I can't, maybe this is not true,
but it sounds like to me, Hey, we are afraid
of the people who will say, go, go broke. And
we don't want to have any sort of backlash to
our game. And she's like, you're grand theft auto. You're
the biggest, the biggest dick in the field, right? You
should come in there swinging it. And you sound kind
of like you are instead a little bit afraid of,
of the reaction to your game.
Speaker 1: And that makes me less confident because you just sound
less confident, but whatever. I want to play it. I
just want to play it. Then I'll know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm not, I'm not afraid to hold grand theft
auto to a high standard that it seems to be like,
begging me to put it in right so yeah and
like as i saw it chat yeah hold uh i
want to hear have the same energy for ocarina of
time there's a very high likelihood i'm just straight i'm
not gonna like this ocarina.
Speaker 4: Of time yeah look mike you're right it's uh it's
like there's no pleasing everybody when you talk about a
game like.
Speaker 2: This this one especially though so and you know it
I also not like, I just like when I keep
going and saying, I want to play it. It's because
what we're talking about is again, a commercial. So I
can only have so much to like that I can
feel about it. And when I do find things I
want to talk about, it's like, let's talk about that.
And it's usually like, well, no, I'm looking for reasons
to be excited.
Speaker 1: You're just often. You're not going to get that here.
Speaker 2: Like often you're just going to get us saying, Hey,
here's how we're feeling about this thing. And we're looking
at it from a critical perspective. Cause that's kind of
the job.
Speaker 1: And we're all, yeah even just like i don't know
things we say get taken i was just like oh
you know i don't particularly get a lot of joy
out of robbing a convenience store in my game and
then people like mike needs needs to play baby games
like all right that's my favorite when i say something
like that people like well i'm an adult and i
like adult things like okay cool but i'm not gonna
put a pinky in your mouth don't worry yeah You
can see all the sex and violence you want. It's OK.
Speaker 5: I love all that shit. Like, I love robbing fucking
a bank and shit. But there's so many times I
can rob a bank the same way. You know, it's
just it's for me is that to, you know, be
aware of the same thing.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that's Grand Theft Auto. That's Grand Theft Auto game.
I'm sure we're going to be talking about plenty. All right.
Speaker 2: There was those leaks that happened. And Grand Theft Auto
or Rockstar did respond to them.
Speaker 1: Um, they just, they did.
Speaker 2: They, the one thing they said that like stuck out
to me was that they were, uh, they did seem
frustrated that they had to wait for Netflix cause they
made that deal with them.
Speaker 1: At least the people who are writing this message.
Speaker 2: Um, I wonder if that deal was, you know, brokered
by take two or rockstar or whatever, either way, it
would be brokered by people at the top and the
people actually working on this who are probably feeling the
most frustrated about their, the game that they slaved over, uh,
being portrayed in a weirder way in, um, in the leaks. Uh,
we're like, Oh, well probably we would have responded to
this more quickly in the past had we had the
freedom to do so, but we didn't because we had
to wait for netflix to do their thing on the
date they said they were going to do it um
but yeah i man those leaks came out that basketball
scene looks exactly like the basketball scene that was in
this trailer.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was the one where i was like leo
playing it's good like ah i recognize that right yeah
um yeah you know like i i i bet it
i feel because i bet it's very stressful because it
stresses a lot of people out there that that's out
They have no control over how those people are going
to show that game, things like that. I think there's also,
it's hard to do, especially when you're in this big corporation.
It's possible to take a step back and be like,
how is this really going to actually impact us negatively?
And probably not. Your game is going to sell fine.
Your game is not going to be delayed because you're
not going to even have it as bad as Half-Life
2 did, right? You know, it's all going to work
out fine. Again, I bet there's a lot of headaches
for it. probably was large for people freaking out about
their security and stuff like that. There's people whose job
it is, is to like the side of people are
going to see this game. And instead you have these
leaks out there. Um, so I do understand all that,
but again, rockstar, I've got the thought are going to
be just fine.
Speaker 2: Uh, to kind of put a bow on this story,
cause the, the leak aspect of this could be, could
be over. Um, uh, cyber leak appears to have cashed out, uh,
of their, their crypto, um, PC gamer, uh, Yeah, like
the most predictable rug pull in history is how PC
Gamer put it.
Speaker 1: He didn't release that build online like he said he
was going to.
Speaker 2: I mean, he might still have the Deadman Switch, but no,
it seems Cyber League perpetrator of last week's GTA 6
leak and perhaps the world's least convincing self-appointed champion of
consumer rights is... may not have ultimately been encouraging the
use of cyber leak cryptocurrency for benevolent purposes. As of
this morning, it seems the leaker has cashed out on
their scheme to the tune of over $ 200, 000 in a
rug full that just about everyone saw coming. So going
to put $ 200, 000 in the pocket and get out of there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And there was also no leak today. Part of
me was like, that's not enough money for the danger
you're in, buddy. I don't think that was worth it.
I think you're right. Yeah, probably not.
Speaker 2: $ 200, 000.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You're probably getting caught in going to jail. Yeah.
It should be a good deal more money than that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That really is a, that's it number for the, for
all that, but good luck to cyber Lake. We'll see
how long that freedom lasts. Xbox plans or reveals plan
to do their whole project. Positron a disc to digital and,
put a disc in your Xbox, get the digital entitlement.
The details of this have come out and it seems
pretty generous. It seems like, oh yeah, they are promising
that many, many games for the Xbox One and Xbox
Series consoles will work with this. There's more games getting
support later, but already I think they said over 1,000 And, uh,
you know, the way it works is the way we've
talked about it before, but as a reminder for people,
if you have like an Xbox one disc, you can
put it in your system. It will now give you
the digital entitlement, meaning you'll get all the benefits that
come along with that. Being able to play it without
putting the disc in being able to play it on
a different system. If it's Xbox play anywhere, you should
get that as well. Um, very, you know, I said
a thousand, they say thousands like plural thousands. So, um,
robust support of this for this out of the gate. Um,
I've been asking everybody this. I'm still trying to figure
out exactly where I land on it.
Speaker 1: I bet I'm being more optimistic than I should be.
Speaker 2: But to me, when I see this, it's like, I
hope that this means that they will be providing people
a way to put their disks into systems one way
or another for many years to come, like including on
Project Helix, which I don't think is going to have
a disk drive built in. But I think that this
means that they'll enable an external drive to be plugged
in so people can get the digital entitlement for the discs,
even on the Helix.
Speaker 1: Is that even too optimistic? Maybe. I don't know. I don't...
Maybe that's not what I would bet if you put
a gun to my head, I suppose. I don't know.
Speaker 2: No one buys discs on Xbox, and I have to
sort of reckon with that.
Speaker 1: Who would even buy this Xbox disc drive? They would
have to just sell it themselves, because a Walmart's not
going to bother carrying that anymore at this point. It's
going to serve so few customers, right? It would be
on the Xbox store, right?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I suppose it could be.
Speaker 2: They can make it so a bunch of third-party ones
that already exist work, but I bet it's not that easy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it could be like a generic one, maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be. I'm not sure, yeah. Maybe. But yeah,
if you told me this is just about getting people
who have an Xbox Series X and S to start
scanning that stuff, maybe it's more of that. I don't know. Yeah,
so let's complete the circle here, though.
Speaker 2: Dead in chat says, if you claim the digital code
and then sell the thing on eBay, how does that work?
So you have the digital entitlement until that disc appears
in someone else's system. So that means if you lend
it to a friend, if your cousin takes it without,
you know, and if you sell it on eBay and
someone then put, puts that disc in their system and
connects that online and gets their version, their, their digital entitlement,
the digital entitlement leaves your account and goes to their account. So,
I mean, that works really well for lending games still.
Lending games now is more powerful than it was before,
which is one of the aspects of this that makes
it feel very friendly, very generous again. But yeah, you'll
just have to keep the game, which means you own
the game still, so you own the digital entitlement.
Speaker 1: That's the whole idea here.
Speaker 2: All right, that does it for the stories that have
happened this week that are kind of worth talking about,
at least that I brought. But we have a bunch
of Super Chats that have come in, so we'll get
to those and talk about what people.
Speaker 1: Want to talk about right after this. All right, Mike,
we're back. Let's do those Super Chats, please. Oh, yes,
of course. Grub, you know that I love to Super Chat,
starting with... Yeah, most ready, man, they're saying. You know,
for some reason, I was like, I didn't change YouTube accounts.
I don't have to do that for this. I've done
this many times. That's not what you have to do.
Slider from Saskatchewan says, I love that Mike is already
thinking of nuclear options for Dan with Rhythm Games. Do
you guys ever play Boogie or Sukabon's Scotch Arena for
the Wii? No, I have not. I have not either boogie.
Speaker 2: I feel like I recognize, or in my brain, I'm
picturing a cover of that game and I want to
look it.
Speaker 1: Up and see if I'm right. But yeah, that would
be the most I have. Kitty cat man says, help
me out dogs. I keep hearing people talk about how
exhausting the GTA discourse is, but the only discourse I
see is people talking about, how exhausting the GTA discourse is.
It's exhausting. I mean, these things do always get there
where it does become exhausting, but then that becomes part
of the conversation itself, right? So then that becomes exhausting also.
It's a self-perpetuating machine of exhaustion.
Speaker 2: It's tough for me because I have a news show
and I have to talk about things that reach a
certain level of newsworthiness and GTA 6 sort of always
clears that bar because And I got to bring that
story to a guest host and an audience that often
is like, man, I don't, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: And it's like, yeah, I don't know what, honestly, I
don't know what to say to that. I could tell
you're exhausted by this and I don't blame you.
Speaker 1: You're right.
Speaker 2: So having to like stare in the eyes of people
who are over it is a little bit, it kind
of gives me just a slightly different perspective.
Speaker 1: But I, I agree. You're right that Mike's right.
Speaker 2: The whole sort of circular nature of these conversations always happens.
Speaker 1: But I was seeing plenty of like both like the
insane hype people, the people like being very against it,
of course, like the people being mad at the people
against and the people being mad at them. And then yes,
then the next step is like everyone talked about how
exhausted they are. Right. Yep. Yep. Every time. Right. Like, oh,
I can't. What kind of person wants this game to fail?
And then they're like, oh, yeah, everyone thinks it's real
cool to tell everybody how much they don't like Grand
Theft Auto. And then it's like, oh, I don't want
them excited, actually. And I get it. Everybody wants to
say their piece. And if everybody is like, well, I
want to just say this one thing. I mean, it
is so insane how much attention this is getting that
Twitch was suffering and was kind of down just because
everybody was trying to talk about the GTA 6 reveal
on Twitch, right? So it's just, it's, I don't know.
The whole thing is just wild. And like, yeah, there
is like definitely a part of me that gets just
a little bit weird about, about how big this one
game is for sure. And that probably does raise my
skepticism level and, you know, maybe a little bit of my, my, my,
my diffiness. That's not the word, but you know, I'm like, yeah,
I want to tease this thing a little bit. I'm
already skeptical of it. So sure. If that runs you
the wrong way, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: And you're right about the punching up thing where it's like,
I know this game will be fine.
Speaker 1: So you're right.
Speaker 2: Like if I see something to tease, I will, I
won't hold back as much, but then you do get, uh,
sort of slammed down on, on, on your head from
people who.
Speaker 1: Are like, no, I want to be excited. And you're
ruining that. It's like, Oh, I don't actually don't want
to deal with you. So nevermind. And that's the fun.
I didn't get exhausted. I'll defend the game right now. Grub.
That was a ridiculous complaint about elevators. You piece of shit. I, uh,
I hope it's, I hope it's mostly elevators. I hope
that's what I hope at this point for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You want to tell me to stop being a baby
about killing people in video games?
Speaker 2: You're entitled to it. No, I'm glad that you are
so consistent. I'm like, no, Mike's got his feelings about this,
and I don't want him to change for anybody.
Speaker 5: Mike, I heard another person say that same thing, where like,
when they kill people in this game, it looks too real.
Speaker 1: It's not just you. There was a bit of a
difference between running over people in a PS2 game and
doing it in this thing. It's fine. All right. Next
up is from Grant. And he has been a Lincoln
man for 11 months. If you're reading this, it's too late.
I'm already gone on a camping trip. Have a good
show weekend and see you all Monday. Um, that's good.
That's good. Uh, Jim Gaffigan does a funny bit about camping.
It was like, Oh my, my wife's like, my wife
loves the camps. Like it was a tradition in our family.
I'm like, look, it was a tradition in everybody's family
until we invented the house. That's really funny. It's like
my parents didn't take me camping. You know why? Because
they loved me. Oh, yeah. You want to burn a
couple of vacation days ago, sleep outside on the ground. No, no.
That's where I am with camping. Uh, next up is
from Pokey. It says, why does Mike hate doing fake
crimes of video games so much? Is he afraid he'll
like it and start doing them in real life? I
do have an addictive personality, so yeah. Sure. Could be
a big problem. Yeah, it could unleash something. Missouri Matt says,
thank you, Mike and Jeff, for the content. Do you
think hot dogs taste better at the ballpark? Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes. One million percent.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's my dream.
Speaker 1: With everything.
Speaker 5: I don't know how hot they are at the ballpark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta make that happen. I mean, any kind.
And even though they all, like, they're different, like, You
get one from one of the stands, that's good. You
get one from the guy walking around. That's usually the best, honestly.
I like that guy with his cart. He slathers it
up for you himself. That's the good stuff. Next up
is from Zombie Porn. What if we get Grubb stuck
in an IRL elevator? Yeah, God, I would be weird
for not liking that. Everyone else loves the idea of
being stuck in an elevator.
Speaker 5: I was stuck in a service elevator one time for
25 minutes, 26 minutes, and it was rough.
Speaker 1: That's a long time in an elevator. The last five
minutes were.
Speaker 5: It's terrifying. I was with my dad.
Speaker 1: We worked together.
Speaker 5: So we were kind of laughing and everything because you
talk to the guy. You press the emergency button and
a guy talks to you. It's like, all right, we're coming, whatever.
And we're waiting like 20 minutes. It was like, the
last five minutes were kind of quiet.
Speaker 1: It's like, are we going to get out of here?
What's going on? I think the beginning of speed has
given me some elevatoring. I'm more afraid of elevators than
buses because of speed. Sure, yeah.
Speaker 2: The beginning of Mission Impossible. Now, he was underneath an elevator.
That's a little bit different, but still.
Speaker 1: Sure. Next up is from Ferguson. He says, never played
any GTA game. Watched a stream earlier. GTA 6 looks
like a video game. Hope other people have fun. Going
to buy more Pokemon cards. Can you imagine if, like,
what would have happened with Pokemon if after the Pokemon
game from 2011 came out, there wasn't another one for
15 years and how much people would be freaking out
about that. Yep.
Speaker 2: God. Yeah, that would be, that could, that would potentially
be even bigger, honestly, than Grand Theft Auto. Um, you, uh,
because zombie porn has a pretty similar one. You skipped
a couple.
Speaker 1: My mistake. Excuse me. Um, the AP idiot box says
on my way to the Kirby cafe. Thanks for keeping
me company in the train. Distract me from going in
the correct direction. Love ya, guys. Yeah, if I'm at
the Kirby Cafe, who wouldn't?
Speaker 2: Man, I'm glad you're having a good time. Have a
real good time at the Kirby Cafe. All right, yeah, here's.
Speaker 1: Zombie Porn's second elevator theme super chat. What if we
put an elevator in Grub's bed? No! That's just scary! Yeah, well,
if that was his beloved horse, though, and godfather, right?
He'd be happy to see a dead elevator. Yeah, if
I saw a dead elevator, I would be very horny, actually.
Speaker 5: Is this why you don't want to, like, raise her, like,
for your desk, your... Like, yeah, it elevates.
Speaker 1: It's spooky. It's like, it's alive and can come eat me.
Dirk Diglett says getting married in October. And the lady
says we can have a CRT and games at the wedding.
What retro system games would you bring for local multiplayer? Oh,
even I am like, it's, it's the 10 to 64.
You're worried about local multiplayer on a CRT. Like, unless
you're like gonna get the dream cast going, which would
be right. But, uh, GameCube would be a good one, too,
but I think Nintendo 64 is such a nostalgic favorite
for split-screen or, like, local multiplayer stuff.
Speaker 2: Yep, you can really quickly get a bunch of cool
multiplayer ones that would just be a lot of fun
that anyone can pick up and play.
Speaker 1: FireHorse says, Mike, folks are upset. I mark this as correct.
Want to give it another go. So, on Tuesday, you
had me pronounce a lot of words. I did pretty good,
except for hors d'oeuvres. I... brain farted on that one
well i heard this from a lot of people including
my girlfriend that i maybe got away with this one
um yuja.
Speaker 2: Yuja it's the second one i didn't want to like
i get a little z in there of my yeah
yeah fuchsia fuchsia is what.
Speaker 1: I would say it's a weird one it's a weird
word yeah.
Speaker 2: It's a weird enough one i was just like i'm
gonna say i'm gonna accept this i don't want to
like make a whole thing of it but uh And
it was close enough, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: I got that a lot. That's what happens.
Speaker 2: People at home love to be correct. So and, you know,
that's the risk we were doing there when we did
that whole segment.
Speaker 1: So it's weird.
Speaker 5: It's weird you don't pronounce the C on your language.
Because that C is so powerful in Spanish.
Speaker 1: Disgusting letter.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are. We do hate the C here. But
try to get rid of it for a while.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Uh it's everywhere else says i got my steam machine
oh congratulations that's fun i bet that's i bet that's
a fun one to plug in for the first time
just get going just start downloading things on it yeah.
Speaker 2: I uh i did figure out the angle for the
video i want to do about the steam machine which
is uh It's become the family computer like I used
to have when I was a kid. There was the
family computer in a big cabinet in the family room,
and that's what our Steam machine is here, where we
turn it on, and we mostly use it for games,
but occasionally we'll go into desktop mode and go on
the internet on the TV in the family room all together.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool for that.
Speaker 5: It will be cool to have your thoughts on that
thing in a video format.
Speaker 1: Yes, I will get to work on it. Yeah, I've
been busy. uh uh let's see here now Alex Gogo
says hi I never played a Castlevania game I was
gonna try one which one should it be I mean
it should be Symphony of the Night which somehow isn't
just available on every platform though uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah I mean look if you get the advanced collection
you're gonna be doing just fine yeah get the advanced
collection even maybe just do Aria of Sorrow first like
that's like kind of the easiest one to get into
uh probably yeah so Aria of Sorrow.
Speaker 1: Would be would be another good pick there J.D. Kemp
says submission for 90s Disney drink shot of A.J. 's Pappy. Happy.
Speaker 2: Is it is this a reference to like your guys's
grandpa shooting a dog?
Speaker 5: Happy.
Speaker 1: What's a pappy? Is that a grandpa? A pappy? A grandpa?
Why would I be daddy? His daddy's my daddy. Happy.
I know. Right. I understand. I understand the confusion there.
We told a story before about Chris, my other brother,
having a rare bottle of Pappy Van Winkle that he
has been refusing to open. I got it. OK, so
this is a mix up of the brothers in this
mix of the brothers. Yes, Chris. Well, yeah, Chris, like
won an auction to be able to buy that bottle
at market price or whatever or whatever. Not market price
like the standard price. It's much more expensive than that.
And it's like, it's so it's worth so much that
he's stun locked and it's probably just not going to
drink it until it goes bad. So we're all very
bad at him. Yeah, no, that's, that's correct. Uh, next
up is from cat shrine crime. Excuse me. Guess PlayStation
five got jailbroken at a hardware level. Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's, that's been in the works the last couple of weeks.
Interesting timing here, huh? Interesting timing.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: And, uh, you know, that's one of the reasons why
for as much as they don't want to.
Speaker 1: Move on to a PS six, uh, they'll move on
to a PS six. They'll do it again.
Speaker 2: I think they'll rebrand the PS five pro in one
way or another as a PS six light with a
new chip set that is locked down on a hardware level. Um, yeah, that's,
it's a, we're kind of right on schedule for something
like that.
Speaker 1: Uh, cat shrine crime also says also squadron 42 delayed
like eight months due to GTA five. This is that, uh,
a spinoff of the uh that what's that game that
got all the crowdfunding in the world.
Speaker 2: Okay yeah from um yeah star citizen thank you christian
star citizen.
Speaker 1: And look i'm not saying that these people are ripping
like part of me is like is it really just
because grand theft auto five eight months way okay that's
kind of what they said i think they like release
a statement and they.
Speaker 2: Are specifically record his stuff for squadron 42.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm looking this up, everybody. He definitely did this. Okay.
Speaker 2: Do you want to guess, Mike, what year he was
recording his stuff for Squadron 42?
Speaker 5: 2019.
Speaker 1: No, earlier. 2017? Earlier.
Speaker 5: 2015?
Speaker 1: 2014 and 2015. Oh, my God. 11 years ago, he
recorded his stuff for this game. Insane. Yeah, okay, cool. Cool, cool, cool. God.
I don't want to jinx anything. It's been bad for
a celebrity. They better hurry up. They better hurry up.
Next up here is from... You see? Look, you see
they invited Greg Miller to the Rockstar? Now look, I...
also would not have invited us if I was Rockstar.
But still, still, how dare they? I mean, I get
how they dare, but how dare they? Next up is
Zombie Porn says that someone who's getting the game they
want mike and christian are right this will be the
game i play as i watch mike play sewer shark
on my tablet yeah i bet it's gonna be a
second screen experience for a lot of people right i
mean that's just that's just a lot of these big
radio games anymore a certain point yeah um next up
is from jedi monster says gta 6 is the biggest
example yet of puddle news and people getting anxious about
this game need uh needing to be good people have
been waiting a long time i guess that's like because
there's like the subset of people that it does it
does just feel like I don't know. They just want
people to talk about how awesome and cool this game
looks so that they feel validated about their decade of excitement.
I don't know. It's the biggest example of that ever.
Speaker 2: Like there's never been a bigger example of that anxiety
around needing a thing that you've attached your hopes and
dreams to to be good. It's this like there's more
people who are in that camp than for anything else,
especially in video games. But anything else ever before, like
since like the prequels.
Speaker 1: Right. It's it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: And it's going to manifest in people being pretty annoying
about this in every which way.
Speaker 1: Next up is Lassie, and this is Mike. You need
to go to all the games on Saturday. No, I
need to get some things done. I bought a mattress.
I haven't done shit all with that. I bought a
display case I want to put together, put some of
my rare games in. I haven't been able to put
that together. My fucking house is a mess. I know
this basement is driving me crazy. I don't have time.
Speaker 2: I got to finish my goddamn laundry room, which I've
been working on since fucking May.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. GDZA says Rockstar should cancel GTA 6.
to punish us for watching the ski badges they're like
nobody gets it.
Speaker 2: I love that actually that'd be really fun says murdoch
says first time playing metal gear solid 4 old.
Speaker 1: Snake makes me sad uh we've i need to like
watch some performance comparisons it's just uh i need i
want to see metal gear solid 4 at 60 frames
per second I feel like I had to have played
the part of Metal Gear Solid 4 Hater only because
I wanted to talk Dan off the edge of it
being one of the greatest video games ever. I like
Metal Gear Solid 4. I liked it quite a lot
back when I played it. I think it's super cool
that that game is now available on modern machines. Right,
but top 10 game of all time. That's a lot.
That's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 2: The way Old Snake makes me sad reminds me of
Dolphins Make Me Cry from that Hootie and the Blowfish song,
so I laugh there.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're getting to play it, though. Making Snake
look like someone's grandpa is a good way to get
some extra sympathy for... I want to play Ghost Babble.
That's what I want to do, man. That's a great
game right there. Next up is DKBomber. He says, Retro
games for the win. Modern games are depressing. I like
both still. I do. I mean, there's definitely... like I
definitely am not just excited for almost every big AAA game.
Like maybe at once upon a time I was right. Like,
but it's like, wow, this is the next game from
so-and-so I'm immediately excited. I am like more skeptical sometimes
of like even Wolverine. And I like almost everything is
something it does. And I'm like, huh? I wonder.
Speaker 2: But it's like it's awesome to be a Capcom fan
right now. It's awesome to be a Silent Hill fan
right now and to look forward to the next one
as a Silent Hill fan.
Speaker 1: That's a new uncharted territory for those people. This is
this is it's cool.
Speaker 2: So when the games are good and they're coming from
a company that seems to have shit figured out. there
ain't nothing wrong with being excited about the next thing,
even paying the full retail price up front for something.
Cause it's at the end of the day, it's usually
probably worth it. Like, like it has been for pragmata
and resident evil this year. Um, and could be for
Ani Musha when we get to play that. So yeah,
that doesn't mean I'm going to have that same level
of energy for everything, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can pick and choose. I'm good. Uh, next up
is from Simon, Simon from Saskatchewan says, I recently learned
about Sukabon's, uh, Shacho Reina for the Wii, uh, The
title means delinquent CEO Reina, where the CEO is a cat.
Japanese only bad rhythm game. Well, that's how can that
be bad? It's fine. All right. I want to try it.
Colder zebras is thanks to Mike. I'll never forget where
I was when I learned Dolly died. My wife and
I are taking our two year old to Disney for
the first time. Short three day trip. Any quick top tips? No,
because he didn't tell me which Disney. It depends. It
depends on which one. It does depend. Actually, I will
say this. You're going with a two-year-old. Be ready to
take breaks. Maybe multiply the day. Go back to your hotel.
Go somewhere. Don't force that kid to try to brave
it in the park all day. They are going to
get cranky and tired. They're going to get a little
cranky and tired anyways. And don't, you know, just let
the kid take some breaks and stuff. Don't let that
ruin the day. Make sure you have that stroller. Let
him sleep in there quite a bit. Nothing wrong with that. I.
What you said earlier today did not realize Peter Cullen
was Eeyore. I didn't, did not know that. Yeah. The
few people have been, and now I'm like double checking
to make sure I'm not like saying this. No, I
think that's right. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: That was Eeyore.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Peter Cullen did a little bit, did a lot of stuff.
Obviously mostly known.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Obviously mostly no Froptis Prime, but I, I quite like
Winnie the Pooh a good deal. So I mean, Eeyore
aspect was important for me.
Speaker 2: I mean, Optimus Prime, but also just anytime I heard
his voice, announcing some new shit coming to Toonami or
Adult Swim. That also was, there was a time and
place in my life where that was the coolest shit
in the world.
Speaker 1: Here's a new anime coming out of Japan. It's the
big O. What the fuck?
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, tell me all about it, dude. It's just, man, man.
Toonami had a vibe, man. I've been chasing that for
a long time. We'll never be there again. It was
too cool. Kono Nakasama says, new Final Fantasy XIV event
has a nice level air to Uematsu. Oh, neat. I
kind of have a lot doing to catch up with
the patch story stuff, and then got to do the
raid quest lines as well. But yeah, those events are
always pretty, pretty fun. I think you're going to like
the raids. Oh, I'm sure. The raids have always been
pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I'm excited for them. Which one
do you think I should get through first, the Ape
Mans or the Alliance raids? The Ape Man. Yeah, I
don't like the Alliance.
Speaker 5: Well, if you like Final Fantasy XI. Have you ever
played Final Fantasy XI?
Speaker 1: I barely played Final Fantasy XI. I have no great
affinity for it.
Speaker 5: Me too, so I don't think you're going to like
that one. You do the Ape Man.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. If you guys want to send
any more Super Chats, we will read them before the
end of the show. Thank you. All right, we're going
to take another break. We'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll get into our segment tonight, which is a draft.
We'll get that set up. We'll be right back after this.
All right, we are back, and we are going to
do a draft. This is a crime crew sort of draft.
We are going to draft things, I believe, all related
to open-world crime video games.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm in trouble.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, I want to go just to visit.
I'm trying to think of something like mundane. I got nothing.
I want to visit a ballpark at my game. OK, Mike,
you go do your fun thing.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I will. Petting zoo. Yeah, petting zoo. Actually, not me.
Not in my game. All right, here it is.
Speaker 2: Well, it does say last in the 10 dogs, but
it's Monati's 11 versus Grubb's 11. So I guess it's
like a heist thing as well. You are leading a
heist crew. The person who most recently stole something goes first.
Shut the fuck up. Friday rules apply as needed. After
round one, whoever currently has the lowest budget buys first.
If tied, the person who bought second last round buys first.
Once a crew member is bought, it cannot be bought
by the other player. If you run out of budget,
you must buy the $ 1 option and go negative. If
both players run out of budget, both can purchase it.
If you are in the Gamest Discord and want to
make a draft, check out the form in the topic
suggestion channel.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Joy Z who created this.
Speaker 2: Mike, when Steph and I first moved to Colorado about
11 years ago.
Speaker 1: More than that.
Speaker 2: Now we went to Walmart and we put a pair
of scissors in the bottom of the cart and we
did not see them and we checked out. And so
we stole those scissors. So that was about between 11, 12,
13 years ago. Have you stolen something since then? So
how much time do you have to serve once you
turned yourself in?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I might be stolen, but maybe there's a
reason we left Colorado. Gosh, I don't know if I've,
I must have deliberately stolen something in my life. I'm
shuggling the hooker up. I told the story of my
brother getting a little intoxicated and stealing a wizard hat
from Hopra House. That was fun. But I'm not a
delinquent like him. I mean, you stole the hearts of
everybody in America. Of course.
Speaker 5: You stole my joke just now.
Speaker 1: But Jan did it too in chat. Oh, my God. Damn, everybody.
It must be true. Holy shit. I'm flattered. I'm flattered.
I'm flattered. I think I'm going first, Mike.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: All right, there it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we'll go to the first page here. All right,
so we are selecting the second in command. We both
start with a budget of $ 30. I am P1.
Speaker 1: Mike, wait, is that right? No, maybe you're P1. Let
me double check that.
Speaker 2: You're P1, Mike. I'm P2, but I'm going first here.
uh so my second budget of 30 i see okay
30 um you can see everything all right mike i
see it great buddy could you do me a favor
and read the options for people.
Speaker 1: So these are choices for second in command starting from
cheapest most expensive the one dollar option is superfly johnson
from dikatana it's a steal but we all seen how
he performs in the field Yes. Number two is Balthier
from Final Fantasy XII. I'm a big Balthier fan, personally.
Number three, though, Jill Valentine from Resident Evil. Number four,
Alex Vance from Half-Life. $ 4. And for $ 5, Garrus Vicarion
from Mass Effect, who we know is a big fan favorite,
great character. You get the first pick here. I mean,
are you going for Garris Grubb?
Speaker 2: I would love to go for Garris, but I feel
like I can't. I think the cost performance ratio of
Jill Valentine is too much to pass up. I feel
like she gets a lot. She does a lot for me.
And at $ 3, it feels like a little bit of
a steal. So I'm going with Jill Valentine.
Speaker 1: Hang on.
Speaker 2: I'm clicking the button, and it's saying false. Christian, can
you click on it and see what happens?
Speaker 5: Let me see.
Speaker 1: Oh, wait. It says view only for me. Request added access.
There we go. Oh, my God. For real?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm requesting access from the editor, Christian. I'll say,
as you figure that out, I will say, gosh, I
thought I was going to be picking. I love Boss
Air a lot, and it's cheap, but that's me.
Speaker 1: And I know that Jill Valentine and Garris would be
more popular picks. I will say I think Alex is
a little expensive at $ 40. I don't know. I agree.
Maybe a little expensive. No way it's Superfly. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I'm either saving money with Balthier, who people do like.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I just, I feel like when I generally lead
Super Final Fantasy with this crowd, it doesn't super play off.
Garrus is so popular with everybody.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Even at that price, I think I got to get Garrus.
Speaker 2: I think that's the move I would make. And I
kind of will maybe regret not picking Garrus. So I
think you made the right move there.
Speaker 1: All right. Round two, The Muscle. Mike, what do we
have here? And I think you would be going first
as well. The Muscle, everybody. So, number one, Glass Joe
from Punch-Out. Number two, Ben Throttle from Full Throw. Is
his last name really Throttle? I don't remember that. $ 3
is Chun-Li from Street Fighter. $ 4 is Karlak from Poltergeist.
$ 5 is Mike Hagar from Final Fight. Oh, I'd love
to have Mike Hagar. I can't go back to back $ 5, though.
That just seems crazy to me. I feel, honestly, these
all seem so far behind Mike Hagar. Well... Chun-Li's pretty
good at $ 3. I'm a LucasArts sicko, but... You're doing Chun-Li?
I'm doing Chun-Li. Chun-Li's my muscle. 90% in the thighs, baby.
Speaker 2: I feel like I have to match that energy, and
I think the only one that has a chance of
doing that is Karlak. Mike Hagar, I think, also would
be very good, but I'll save the dollar. I'll go
with Karlak, who I think is going to be enough
of a mommy-dommy muscle-bound one that I think that's also
going to do a lot for me.
Speaker 1: I thought you might have just gone with Glass Joe.
I know how you are. I love Glass Joe. Yes.
Speaker 2: Had you selected Carlyke, I actually might have gone Glass Joe.
Speaker 1: All right. What's next? All right.
Speaker 2: Next page here. The Femme Fatale. Mike, you have $ 22.
I have $ 23.
Speaker 1: That means you're going first again. What do we have here?
All right. Number one, the Weighted Companion Cube. Number two,
my Shiranui. Shiranui? Shiranui? From Fatal Fury. It's Mai from
Fatal Fury. Number three is Rouge the Bat from Sonic
the Hedgehog. For $ 4 is Ivy Valentine. And for $ 5
is Bayonetta! Uh... Hmm. But these are all... Honestly, these
are all pretty good. This is a good spread. Yeah. And, like...
The one I really like is a cheap option, so
I think I'm just going to go for it. I'm
going to go with Mai from Fatal Fury. I think
more people know about her thanks to the Street Fighter
VI thing. She's great. We love her. Give me Mai. Yes,
that's rough. That's crazy what you just.
Speaker 5: Said about Mai. She's $ 2. Well, she's not very known
for Street Fighter.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. No, I said more people know about her
because of Street Fighter. It, like, increased, it widened her profile.
Is that acceptable, Christian? You know what? Never mind. We
don't even need to ask you. I agree, Mike. I
thought I said a completely normal, reasonable thing. All right. Man,
should I just go with Rouge the Bat? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I want to go with Ivy, but I'm
not sure if, like, that does that much more for
me at, I mean, I like Bayonetta, too.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: Again, I'm not sure if like going and spending more
money right now will do all that much for me.
And the companion cube is funny. Maybe that's maybe that's
funny enough that it's worth it at a dollar. I
think I'll stick with the Rouge the Bat at two
or three dollars.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: OK, that takes us to the next page and we're
tied on money. And I went second last time. So
that means I go first this time. But Mike, it's
the burglar. Who are options?
Speaker 1: Grubb's all-female team is about to hit a roadblock here
because for the Burglar, your options are $ 1 Claptrap from Borderlands,
at $ 2 Garrett from Thief, $ 3 Sam Fisher from Splinter Cell,
at $ 4 it's Sly Cooper from Sly Cooper, and at
$ 5 it is Solid Snake from Metal Gear. Um, yeah, God.
Speaker 2: I think I kind of maybe need to go in
splurge here and go Solid Snake, although Sly Cooper is
also pretty awesome. The thing is, I have to think
about it. I'm going first now. I spend more money
and then like you could go and just select Sam
Fisher or whatever. And I think that's a lot of
people will be just as excited about that. Maybe not
as many people. So am I really getting my money's
worth right now? If I do go solid snake, I
think so.
Speaker 1: I think I will.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go with solid snake and spend
my $ 5. There's a lot of rounds left though. And
I'm only going to have $ 15 left. I've already spent
half my money and we're only, we're going to be
less than halfway through. So I got to really be
careful going forward. I think that's where you splurge.
Speaker 1: Frankly, I think many more people are excited about Solid
Snake than Sam Fisher these days. I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I definitely think that's true, but I think Sam Fisher
puts enough of a dent in you saving money might help.
Speaker 1: I think I only have one option here because I
think people actively dislike Claptrap. Yes. Garrett, people just don't
know anymore. I think Garrett's cool. Sam Fisher, it's fine.
I think I need to take Sly Cooper. I think
I have that Sly Cooper at $ 4. 00.
Speaker 2: No, Sly Cooper is maybe the most established burglar here,
even above Garrett.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Number five is the backer. This is the financial backer.
I have $ 15. You have $ 16.
Speaker 1: So I believe that means I go first, right?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Here's our backers, everybody. $ 1, it's Sam
and Max. $ 2, Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. $ 3, Andrew
Ryan from Bioshock. $ 4 is Cave Johnson from Portal. And
$ 5 is Roxanne Vandelay from Hi-Fi Rush. Yeah, I think
that I'm happy to take Tom Nook here. That's a
steal at $ 2. It's a steal at $ 2.
Speaker 2: He plays with our audience. Everyone knows his deal. He's
got the right energy for this job. He's a steal
at $ 2. I got to go Tom Nook. Yeah, I
think Tom Nook was easily the best one on here.
So you got me there.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think some of these are overpriced. I'm
kind of inclined just to take Sam & Max. I
love Sam & Max. I think that plays to some people,
at least. Yep. And it doesn't play to fewer than
any of the other ones, I don't think. Yeah, and
I now have technically one more animal person than you do,
because I got Sam & Max in the bundle package there.
Speaker 2: Okay, I might be losing out to the furry vote.
Speaker 5: The thing with Don Luke is that if you fail
the haze, he's going to kill you.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's fine. Okay, this is a fun one.
I have.
Speaker 2: $ 13, you have $ 15, so I'll be going first again
for The Driver.
Speaker 1: All right, here's The Driver, everybody. It's going to be
for $ 1, Jack from Elite Beat Agents. That's fun. For $ 2,
Putt-Putt from the Putt-Putt series. $ 3, Raika Nagasi from Ridge Racer. Oh,
he got excited. $ 4 is Axl from Crazy Taxi, and
$ 5 is Needles Kane from Twisted Metal, a.k.a. the driver
of the vehicle called Sweet Tooth, apparently. Which I still
don't like that. He's Sweet Tooth, damn it! Right, exactly. I, man,
I kind of, I think I'm just going to go
with Putt-Putt. You will, you know it's good for you.
I look, I am not going to touch her. All right, Mike.
I know what I know. I get it. That's fine.
I'm going with putt play.
Speaker 2: I played some putt putt games with my kids.
Speaker 1: That that's fun.
Speaker 2: And I just think that dumb ass car on my
team looks real great.
Speaker 1: But I think, I think putt putt record is the
best options here. I think Axel's taking a hit recently
from some certain things. Yeah. Give me a right. Go
all day long. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay.
Speaker 5: No one's going to, no one's going to like, no
cop's going to be suspicious of Palpatine.
Speaker 1: He will be crazy. No, right? He's just a car.
That's what he's supposed to be doing is driving. The mole.
I have $ 11. Mike has 12. So I'll be going
first again with these options.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 1: It does hurt. You don't, it's good to have more money,
but it does hurt not to go first. Often. For $ 1,
you have Larry Lovage from Leisure Suit Larry. $ 2, Luigi
from Mario Brothers. $ 3 is Octodad from Octodad. $ 4 is
The Spy from Team Fortress. And $ 5 is Agent 47
from Pitman.
Speaker 2: There's a couple here that really speak to me in
Octodad and Agent 47.
Speaker 1: But I love this Luigi. The Mr. L Luigi or
whatever it is.
Speaker 2: And, yeah, again, he's only $ 2.
Speaker 1: It feels like another steal. So, yeah, I'm going with Luigi. please. Okay.
It's not Larry. I don't think Octodad plays for my team.
So Spy and Agent 47, both good. I feel like
I maybe just need the heavy hitter in this case.
Agent 47, especially our audience loves him. I love him.
He's a great mole. Yes. It's a lot of money,
but we're getting later. This will put me back in
first pick territory like that. Yes, that's true. Yes. And
I think you have enough money for the next. Yeah,
there's three. It's OK. Maybe you have to take the
one dollar option on 10 or something like that. But
we'll see. OK. Here we go. The explosives expert. Mike
has seven dollars. I have nine dollars. Mike's going first. Mike,
what are the options? We have Electrode from Pokemon. Rico
Rodriguez from Just Cause. Jinx from League of Legends. ratchet
from ratchet and clink that's four dollars again that's one
dollars four dollars i forgot but i think you're all
picking up this and the number uh five five dollars
bomber man man what are you thinking mike i'm thinking
i would love that bomber man but it's just too
expensive man i love that fucking guy i love bomber
man it's just too much and you know honestly, when
like your second favorite option is the $ 1 option grub.
Speaker 2: I think you take that, right? God, man, this is
a really good one to have this option on Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I'll take the, the, the bargain bin electrode.
He knows how to explode. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That I think, cause I mean, for me, I really
feel like the only other option here is Bomberman and
that's $ 5. It's going to leave me with four for
the next two. So I'm going to really be in
a corner. Uh, I could end up regretting this, but
I really just like looking at this, I feel like
I have no other option.
Speaker 1: Uh, So you are Electrode. I am Bomberman. And I
have four. You have six.
Speaker 2: I'll be going first for the Hacker.
Speaker 1: All righty, everybody. At $ 1, it's Sora from Kingdom Hearts. $ 2,
Aiden Pierce from Watch Dogs. $ 3 is Adam Jensen from
Deus Ex. $ 4 is Futaba Sakura from Persona. $ 5 is
Cortana from Halo. I'm curious where you're going to go here, Grub. Yes, Ruff, actually.
I don't know.
Speaker 2: Um, God, I mean, man, Aiden Pierce does have his
iconic hat. Uh, that's true. Um, I, I, I do
like Adam Jensen. I think maybe the most personally out
of all these characters, I feel like that might be it.
And that's the one I can afford. Cause I can't
afford Cortana. Uh, Cortana might be cool, but I can't
afford it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Um, I'm, Does Futaba Sakura, you know, does that move
the needle for people? I guess I don't really know.
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: No, what?
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: I'll be left with a dollar. So I have to
pick the dollar option next time. No matter what I'm
going with Adam Jensen.
Speaker 1: All right. I don't think Cortana is worth $ 5 anymore.
I like Sora. I know if I pick Sora, there's
a lot of people out there who just immediately aren't
going to want my team. Cause I know how this works.
I played this game before. So it's either like a
bit of a budget, unexciting price of eight. And I
think Futaba moves the, I think the persona sickles, that's
a fun character. At least we just $ 1 more free
than you for the next one. So basically you're getting
the $ 1 one and I'm getting the $ 2 one. We're
just going to roll the dice and see what we get.
But yeah, I got to have Futaba. All right. It's
your favorite, Mike. All right. I have $ 1. He's got $ 2.
I go first. It doesn't matter though for the wild card.
What are the options, Mike? The $ 1 is Mr. Saturn
from Earthbound. God damn right it is. Yeah. $ 2 is
Trevor from Grand Theft Auto 5. $ 2 is Voss Montenegro
from Far Cry 3. $ 4 is Dante from Devil May
Cry featuring Dante from Devil May Cry. And $ 5 is
Goromajima from Like a Dragon. Jesus. Yeah. So by process
of elimination, you got Mr. Saturn and I get Trevor.
So there we go. We got our teens then. All right.
This is the, uh, This is the full rundown here.
Speaker 2: Mike, go ahead and read your team as a reminder
for everybody.
Speaker 1: Yes, on Minotti's 11, I have Garrus as my second
in command. My muscle is Chun-Li. The femme fatale is
Mai from Fatal Fury. The burglar is Sly Cooper. The
backers are Sam and Max. Ryko from Ridge Racer is
my driver. My mole is Agent 47. My explosives expert
is Electrode. My hacker is Futaba from Persona 5, and
the wild card is Trevor from Grand Theft Auto 5.
Grubbs11 is with my second command, Jill Valentine from Resident Evil.
The muscle is Karlak from Baldur's Gate.
Speaker 2: My femme fatale is Rouge the Bat from Sonic the Hedgehog.
The burglar is Solid Snake. The backer is Tom Nook.
The driver is Putt-Putt. The mole is Luigi, or Mr.
Elf specifically. The explosive expert is Bomberman. The hacker is
Adam Jensen. And the wild card is Mr.
Speaker 1: Saturn. I think these are both good teams, bro. I
don't know. I don't know which way it's going to go.
I ride with any of them. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I'd be very happy with either team, especially if they
were competing for the same heist or whatever.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: What we'll do now is we'll get this posted up.
We'll let the community vote. The podcast producers will vote.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll talk about what we've been playing.
Maybe do some super chats.
Speaker 2: We'll find out the results right after this.
Speaker 1: See you on the other side. All right.
Speaker 2: You can continue to gaze upon our work in the
draft here below while we go ahead and ask Mike Minotti,
what have you been playing?
Speaker 1: What have I been playing? Indeed, Blood Dungeon, going through that.
I'm struggling to get a clear on one of these
levels for some reason, and I'm not sure what I'm
doing wrong. I've unlocked four weapon slots, which seems to help.
I've unlocked the extra health. Do you think it helps
straight up because....
Speaker 2: You you will you kind of get the same number
of treasure chests uh yeah i was thinking about that
so it kind of maybe spreads out some of the
power over those weapons i.
Speaker 1: Guess i was thinking like if you get four weapons
and you focus on the universal upgrades maybe that's good
but like it's always like five damage increase at a
time so it's rough but i usually had a real
buck where after the second boss it just kind of
ramps up and i get swarmed and die usually is
what goes on so but I'm still having fun. Two clears,
two clears. So, uh, it's hard. It is hard to
do that. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm still having fun. I'm
still working my way through it. Uh, figuring those things out.
It's a, it's a good time. Portal show too. I
was playing that like have seven hours in that, you know,
talked about for it. It's fun. I think the boss
design is like, is like the big area where it,
it compares unfavorably to like dark souls or even, even
Eliza P really. Okay. Um, that they've been kind of,
I don't know, they've been okay. They just don't have
that great flow or even that readability of a boss
from like a Dark Souls. Like I fought this one
guy who's basically a slug baby monster. At one point,
like it just kind of started doing this attack with
his left arm where it just would very quickly swipe
at me, like almost instantaneously. And I'm like, well, no,
that's not how this works. I should be able to
read that it's going to do that react. And maybe
there was a tell and I just wasn't picking up
on it. But then that goes back to the readability. Right, right, exactly. And,
you know, not that the boss was that hard or
anything like that. I eventually just kind of, you know,
powered through it. So it was fine. But there haven't
been that many of these big boss fights. And when
I do get to them, they are kind of a
little bit whatever. But the game is still a lot
of fun. I've been enjoying going through it. We'll probably
see it through to the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I continue to be pretty entertained when I tune
in to see you play this game.
Speaker 1: It's, you know, I also.
Speaker 2: when I watch you play this game, think to myself,
I should probably just pick up lies, lies of P
on switch to, and play that first.
Speaker 1: Cause I still have not played that one. So, um,
so yeah, I mean, it's, it's got, it's appealing.
Speaker 2: There are other games of this, of this stripe or,
you know, within this realm coming out soon in Animusha.
So I'm like, ah, I guess I could also just
maybe save my time and play that instead. Um, but yeah, I'm,
Mortal shell two definitely seems like it's, it's a worth
playing and I will want to find time for it
at some point. I just have so much else going on,
including a star Wars zero company, which I've been playing
a bit of in between working on some other stuff.
Speaker 1: And I think, I think that game is really, really fun.
Speaker 2: A big part of it is, you know, it definitely
nails the fantasy of being a tactical cool team in
star Wars.
Speaker 1: There's two sides to that.
Speaker 2: The most important side of that for me is absolutely
the combat missions.
Speaker 1: Are those fun? And they are. You have the character
synergies that you really want. They are very obvious. You
begin to develop strategies almost immediately.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it is as simple as, you know, it's not
a synergy, but the one I talked about before on
social media is where I had the bruiser character cabbie
who does like uppercuts. And that's like when he's like
the main character that does melee that you have right
at the beginning. And, um, you get a thing where,
you know, you can shoot some people with him and,
and then maybe move them. And then if he's within range,
you can use your last action point to then run
and do an uppercut in the character. And as long
as that character was almost dead so that you do
put them down for good with the uppercut cabbie gets
all his action points back. And then you can keep
going and keep moving them and like really get them
across the map and do even more damage. And that is,
it they have that kind of thing for every character
some characters like uh chuck was showing me one of
the mandalorians who can do that to a kind of
a crazy degree where they are flying around the map
and and just getting in doing butt slams that are
like hurting people in an area of effect all around
them And you start really getting into the minutia of, oh, man,
if I could move this character a meter more per
action point, that would make a huge difference. And I
really like thinking about that. And I really like getting
excited about the idea of figuring out how I can
make these characters more mobile and more deadly and work
together better. And it absolutely nails that side of things.
And then it does it with a strong Star Wars flavor.
of all of these characters. Like I can, I've seen
them in star Wars before and they work in a
way that I would expect them to work. Um, now, uh,
the other side of that is living in the star
Wars universe with this team, which they try to like,
sort of make a little bit, you know, a diet
version of fire emblem. You're going back to your base
after each round, you're, you're building bonds with between characters.
Speaker 1: You're talking to them. As you build up bonds, you
get upgrades.
Speaker 2: Um, Your home base is a derelict ship on the
Ring of Khafrein, which is that planet from the beginning
of Rogue One. And, you know, all the aliens and
all your other teammates are hanging out there. And eventually
you get some people from the Republic, kind of the proto-Empire.
You can tell it's already being transitioned into the Empire.
But the proto-Empire, as they come in, they hire you
to do a job and they sort of make a
little base within your base. And you can have the
conversations and everyone's got their own clear motivations that deal
with their relationship to the Republic and to the Separatists.
And no one's really happy with anything there. And that
kind of drives the story forward. All that stuff works
pretty well so far. It's not like, oh, mind-blowing, awesome
Star Wars storytelling, which we've had in a lot of
Star Wars games. Obviously, Knights of the Old Republic, but
I would also put Jedi Fallen Order in there as well.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, that's a really good Star Wars story.
Speaker 2: This hasn't been on that level, but I've been into
some of the characters, and I really am enjoying building
my team out and going out on missions with them.
The characters you do get that are authored, you get
a couple of different kinds. There's authored characters, and then
there are generated characters, which you can completely customize. So
you can make them, if you want to have a
team of all Mandalorians, you can do that, and the
game certainly facilitates that. I think most people who play
the game though are going to use the authored characters
because the authored characters have their own sort of, uh,
paralog stories that are happening where you can go, they're
going to, Hey, my old buddy who is also a
clone trooper, uh, he's, he just called me up.
Speaker 1: He's in trouble. Can we go help them?
Speaker 2: And you go out and you do that mission and
you help that guy out and that gets you, you know,
builds the bond with that character and you get to
see stuff you wouldn't get to see otherwise, especially let's
say if you're playing on hard and you have permadeath
on and that character died, that would lop off that story.
So it makes those, those missions feel that much more special. Yeah. I,
I think it's a game that makes a lot of
sense for people who are like, Hmm, Star Wars, but XCOM,
I would want to see what that's like. Now, if
you are a desperate XCOM sicko, this is probably not
the XCOM XCOM game for you because it's not an
XCOM game. It's a star Wars game. First and foremost, uh,
just using XCOM to tell star Wars stories. Uh, I
think I would have, I would like it even more
if those stories were just a little bit stickier, had
a little bit more going on, but it's not pushing
me away at all. It's definitely like, Oh, this game
is delivering on what I needed it to, to get
enjoyment out of it.
Speaker 1: Uh, so yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm quite fond of it. Mike.
I definitely am. I'm curious to, to try it. Um,
I almost hesitate to ask this question, but, like, I'm
kind of curious about this, because, and I want to
be clear, I think people can all make these choice results,
and I'm not somebody like, I think you should play this,
I don't think you should play this, really. But we, boy,
it seemed like it was a really big talking point with, like,
all that SNK stuff not too long ago, right? Because,
you know, Saudi Arabia owns them. And I feel like,
you know, EA, the same thing now, and I just
feel like I am not hearing that conversation at all,
all of a sudden, around this game. It's definitely come up.
Speaker 2: I've definitely talked about it and had people be like,
you know, that company's owned by Saudi Arabia. I think
there is like a small sort of grace period that's
happening with some of these projects because this is Bit Reactor.
Speaker 1: Bit Reactor is not. People are very excited about them
being able to. Yeah. Like a lot of people wanted
a new Exxon game. This is kind of the closest thing.
Speaker 2: And Bit Reactor is not owned by Saudi Arabia. That's
a different company that's working with EA. Now, EA is
publishing this game.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. EA and therefore Saudi Arabia gets money. for this.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's, that's definitely, that's definitely the case here.
It's just, that deal just closed. People have been looking
forward to this game before that happened. And it feels
like this game, you know, I'm not going to speak
for everybody. This is why everyone's not caring about this.
Some people do, and some people don't. And the reason
for not caring about it is they just don't care.
But I, I'm definitely of the opinion on this one
where I'm like, man, I had been following this game
for a long time. the two entities that were working
on it that I always cared about were respawn and
bit reactor. And I was following their development and EA's
involvement always was a turnoff.
Speaker 1: And now it's even worse. Sure. Um, but I kind of.
Speaker 2: Don't want to punish bit reactor all that much.
Speaker 1: I see. I do see the distinction.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: And again, people, people make their own choices with that
stuff for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's, you know, there's, it's always case by case
and sometimes it's, I'll be more worked up than, than others. Uh, the,
The thing here is, man, buying this game is not
going to, or not buying this game, it's not going
to affect Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: They make their money from oil, and that's in everything.
Speaker 2: I know it's nihilistic, but for this one, I don't know.
Speaker 1: These are studios that I care a lot about. So, yeah,
I'm enjoying the game.
Speaker 2: It's worth definitely looking into if you are someone that's
not going to bother and you're into Star Wars.
Speaker 1: I definitely enjoyed what I played of it. Yeah. You know,
it seems like people are pretty, I mean, got it
reviewed better than I was expecting it to. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like it went up to an 88 right now. Yes.
It started at 87. It's gone up to an 88.
So it's just doing better. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If you are looking for the dissenting opinion, they are
out there. I think I want to say that. Well, obviously,
Chuck's quick look is a very good resource for that.
But I want to say Aftermath maybe had a criticism
of it.
Speaker 1: Aftermath.site.
Speaker 2: I think they said they were expecting more from the game.
So if you're looking for the dissenting opinion, they are
out there. And I would check those out as well
because people really know what they want from an XCOM game.
And this one's slightly different enough that it could really
bother you because it was really bothering Chuck for a
lot of the game.
Speaker 1: Right. It's always interesting when, like, you only know the
one person playing. It's like, you know, I was hearing
from Chuck's, but I was like, oh, man, like, you know,
I was like, what are people going to think of this?
I was like, oh, yeah. I even teased Chuck, like, hey,
you got your own Mina the Hollower there, buddy, right?
You thought a game was just good, and a lot
of people think it's great. You think that wouldn't matter,
yet somehow it feels lonesome when that happens. Anything else, Mike,
that you've been playing? You know, just some more stuff
I've talked about already, like Final Fantasy XIV and some
other stuff I can't talk about quite yet, so Uh, yeah, yeah,
that's it. That's it. Yep.
Speaker 2: I'm busy as well with, with some stuff that we'll
be able to talk about, uh, maybe not even next week,
but soon everybody.
Speaker 1: So, uh, just hang in there.
Speaker 2: We're going to, you know, keep it on top of
them as many of these games as possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Oh yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm already playing grand
theft auto six. That's what I'm playing. That's it.
Speaker 2: All right, Mike, let's do those super chats and then
we'll get the results of the draft.
Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. We'll see that before I have a conniption. Um,
brandy brandy says today i learned ghost babble is called
that because of the initials oh gb for game boy
oh yeah i never thought uh i don't know why
it wasn't even called ghost babble in the united states
though it was just called metal metal gear uh that's
right it didn't have a subtitle yeah which is dumb
uh i don't know why but i'm a sucker when
portable games do that ghost penis yeah i loved all
the ds games that did that shit.
Speaker 2: Dragon sword we should do one where we um yeah
we should do one where we take all the ds
titles and like go to like uh jan and chuck
or whatever and make them try to guess what series it.
Speaker 1: Is yeah yeah that's that's gone dawn of sorrow yeah
what's the what's the resident evil one called god it
was a survivor deadly silence deadly silence god i love
that shit that's great uh fire hair says who is
this car that's putt putt snake sounds like a winning
team to me shut up zombie boy says so nintendo
direct next week or a different week um yeah who
knows i don't know about next week probably not next
week it's like i'd be shocked if we got through
september with that one right yes exactly right all right
uh any other super chats mike looks like we are
caught up there now all right let's uh Do the
drum roll. YouTube's betrayed me, but what about the Discord groups?
On YouTube, you won with 62% of the votes. And
I'll say, look, I always do this, Grubber. I'm like,
it could go either way. I won't be mad. Then
I'll see you winning by what I deem in my
brain to be too much. Unacceptable. And I get mad.
I see like five people in a row be like, well,
Grub's team has this one thing, so I'm voting for that.
And I'm always like, look at the whole team. Not
just Carlock, you fucking simps.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 1: There it is. All right. Carlock, would it be into you?
I'm sorry. Don't shut the fuck up. Yes, she would.
You sweet boys. You sweet children. Sean, do we have
the results?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are we okay? Is it safe to read them? I'm
afraid for some reason. So the winner.
Speaker 3: With 54% of the vote.
Speaker 1: Okay. Is grubs 11. Listen, listen, 54%. That's fine. Perfectly acceptable. Practically.
And you know what? On, on blue sky, I'm doing great. Yeah.
I'm waiting for that. You know what? Hang on, hang on.
Speaker 3: I'll get mad on behalf of Mike this time. Mike,
you fucking nailed it this time. This one was immaculate.
You have Chun-Li and Mai together. You have Futaba on Hacker.
Electrode as the explosives expert is hilarious. Agent 47, Reiko
as a driver. I don't think you made a single mistake.
I don't think you made a single.
Speaker 1: No, you knocked down the part. The options that you
had in front of you, I think you always selected
the right one. I feel like when Grub gets a
draft and he gets like a Garrus or Mass Effect,
everyone's like, well, of course I got to vote for
the Mass Effect team. I didn't see a single fucker
bring up Mass Effect this time. Oh, we all forgot
about that. We don't like that anymore, I guess. I
don't want to play with you anymore. 54%, Mike. 48.
Basically a tie, like you said. Practically a tie. And
a tie is practically a win. Right? There it is.
All right. So there's your winner, Mike Minotti. The draft
this week. Man, that was fun. I'm glad we did that.
All right. Oh, so now Garrison's a cop is what
everybody is saying, right? Christ. Oh, I don't like it.
Speaker 2: All right, we're wrapping up, everybody. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for tuning in. We always appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Paris is owned by Saudi Arabia now. It's not untrue.
A vote for Mike's team is a vote for Saudi
Arabia with two characters, yeah. Oh, why don't you just
give your money to Saudi Arabia anyway, you fucking nihilist?
Maybe it's not about that, Grubb. Maybe it's about my
morality and where I want my money to go, you
piece of shit. Look where that got you. Basically a tie.
Speaker 3: Look. Huh?
Speaker 1: Back to me. Abandon your old world morals. Why'd you
go wait in a fucking elevator, you piece of shit?
Apparently I'm gonna in this video game a lot. Ignoring
you the whole time. She doesn't give a shit about you.
Thank you for watching. I think that Karlak would love
you very much. Actually, you know what? I want to
stay super hot. I don't want any of you all
touching me. It's fine. Do you think she would be
happy with you selecting the other team? Of course not.
Speaker 2: Your best move was to select the Grubbs team, of course.
All right, we're going to be back on Tuesday with
Last of the Nintendogs.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about.
Speaker 2: More video games on Decides next Thursday. thank you for
hanging out with us, everybody. Mike's got some stuff happening,
90s Disney, and we both.
Speaker 1: Got stuff happening. We're going to make cocktails. Yeah, we're
going to make cocktails. That episode will be out soon.
We recorded the Paul Blart Mall Cop film in 40s
last night, everybody. Good time. It was a good time.
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Jan did privately tell me today that we have to
watch Paul Blart 2.
Speaker 1: I said, we do? You have to. It's a strong word.
Strong word, but... We'll see.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun, and if people like it,
especially I have an Abby on, maybe we could do
a follow-up.
Speaker 1: There is a two, and I've seen it. It's rough.
I haven't. It's rough. All right.
Speaker 2: We're going to get out of here, everybody. Like I said,
we'll be back next time. Oh, tomorrow on Giant Bomb,
there's a UPF. And then 6 p.m., if you're a
premium member over there at giantbomb.com slash join, we're going
to be doing Giant Bomb Video Weekend Rental Club. Come
hang out with us as we rent N64 games from
another dimension.
Speaker 1: Bye, everybody. I should open my package so I can
put my jolt in the fridge, right? Yeah, put your
jolt in the fridge. That's a good idea. I still
want to warm my jolt. I'll give Monday Night Combat
season finale at noon. That's right, yeah. You know what,
you pieces of shit? That'll impress Karlak. That's right. Come
for me, muckbangers. Don't bully me, I'll come. I threw
that one again. Don't bully me, I'll come. He's so deadpan.
All right, we're out.