everybody it's tuesday may 27 2025 welcome to the giant bomb cast episode eight 192. The road to 900 begins, I guess, a couple episodes ago, and I guess since the very start. I'm your host, Jan Ochoa.
joining me co-captain of the ship he doesn't have to get ready because he stays ready that's right his shoes are always tied jeff grubb hello everybody i'm happy to be here janet show great to talk to you bud fantastic fantastic speaking about talking to you but i'm always happy to talk to this bud that's right he's not just a dude like will osprey he is
Dan Reichert. Let me, look, get to the intro and then I'll talk, I'll give that context, okay? Speaking about context, he's always reading between the lines. He's the devil in between the details. Because he worships him. Def back. It's true. Hail Satan. How's everyone doing on this fine Tuesday? I'm good, thanks for asking. It's a pleasure and a goddamn honor to share the screen with you all this afternoon. And the honor is all ours because we are joined by THE PADMIRAL GAMES LEADY UP!
Mike Minotti. Hi, I like it when girls affectionately call each other bitches, and I kind of want, like, something like that for us. you mitch yeah we call you mitches yeah yeah would you mike can you like can you give me like a girl Oh, I thought there'd be more to that. Girl! Okay. Girl! Oh! Second one was good. Second one was good. Second take. My lady friends had me watch Pitch Perfect over the weekend, everybody. It's okay. I've been accepted.
There's like four of them. Which one did you watch? There's three. And way back when I only ever saw the third one. And that was really weird. Because it involves spies and stuff. Okay, so I saw it. Like the second Cars movie? They made the comedic sidekick the main character fat Amy gets It's actually a lot. I haven't seen either. Is Fat Amy the mater of
Oh, yeah. I could have told you that, Jan, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. But, yeah, we like to see movies on Christmas night, right? Everyone's in town. It's like, oh, we'll see that new Jumanji, and it was sold out, and we're already there. It's like, oh. The thing that's showing now that we can't see is Pitch Perfect 3, so here we go. Tell you what. Pitch Perfect 1, a lot better than Pitch Perfect 3. Yeah. Yeah, I maintain that that's a pretty okay movie.
fun yeah that one's that one's singing it's not like step up to the streets about dancing right this is a singing movie not a dancing movie those are fun those movies are fun though can we do a film in 40s with all of those dance movies we are not doing a film in 40s so i get my angles and demons We have a lot in the backlog there. We should just start watching movies and then recording that. I knew this was going to come up.
How did you know it was going to come up? It's good. It's all on YouTube. We watched it this weekend. Mike, how much did you see of it? None. Everyone keeps telling me a chat that you saw and you love it, though. Is that right? What is it? What is it? It's the worst movie I've ever seen. It's about a dog that gets
turned into a man by a magic puddle and then the man uh tries to fall in love with the dog wants to get laid basically and then the puddle turns him into a man and then the dog falls in love But he only turns into a guy at night, and so his name is Prince, and he's a dude at night and loves a lady, but then he turns into a dog during the day.
Yeah, I mean, okay. I think that's illegal. Yeah, it's confusing. There's a lot of questions it brings up. What's illegal about it, Mike? You know... speciality part of it she doesn't have sex with a dog and there's no sex shown in the movie period so annette exists so i feel like and that is so much dog sex yeah i just think like when you when you talk about worse movies and the fact that annette exists
I'm sorry. You're on the right side of history now, Grubb. For my birthday, which is two months past, I want to sit Adam Driver down and just be like, buddy, be honest. Tell me what you think about Annette. I bet he likes that. I bet he's real proud of that. I bet he thinks more eventually about that than Star Wars. Oh, yeah. 100%. I mean, come on.
To me, that's not that much of a reach to be more proud of this thing than Star Wars. And that got like a seven-minute standing ovation at a film festival he was at. We could do anything at Cannes and get us standing. Yeah, and how many times have you seen Annette now, Dan? Six. That's just fucked up, man. It's fun to think that Adam Driver was a Marine and then eventually did Annette. That's a funny thing. Dan said standing O.
Annette, he was a producer on Annette too, so he's got more of an emotional stake in it. Is Mike saying the orgasm? Is that the joke? I think so, yeah. But standing out was just a normal phrase. I feel like... What do you want me to do about him, Dan? I'm sorry I brought him around. I'm not blaming you. I'm not blaming you. Thank you. I'm blaming Mike. I was gonna say that I've been experiencing a lot of brain fog recently and doing this first fucking thing.
on a Tuesday does not help any on what's wrong. Yeah, sure. Yeah. This doesn't feel like Tuesday. All right. Giantbomb.com slash join. Giantbomb is independent. If you want to help us out, you can sign up for a premium membership, $9.99 for a month or $99 for a full year. All the money goes to us. You've already done that. You want to toss us some more bones? Coffee?
ko-fi.com slash giant bomb give some more uh uh uh bones over there and if you are the top donator for a month dan reicher what what will we do we and we have a leader right now and we have a picture but yeah the leader for the month will give us a picture that we will all display in the back of our frames for the following month. We need to order these frames. Yeah. I assume... Digital photo frames, if we put them up on a thing or something, it would show on camera, right?
Yeah, that's what we're looking at right now is getting some 21-inch digital photo frames. and we will proudly display that in the background. There's four days left this month, right? That's the end of the period? Yes, and I think tokens only is still the leader by a good margin. So, yes, but that will go on.
so pictures coming soon if you're asking why we want physical frames it's because it's funny yeah way better way better another piece of business happy birthday happy 30th birthday to our own turbo sean yeah It's crazy to jump from 17 to 30, right? Yeah. Is he going to, like, not be able to make fun of us for being as old anymore? No. Yeah.
No, we're not older. We're much older, yeah. Through the transitive property. We've talked a lot this morning about the transitive property. I think he can still make fun of us. The good news, Mike, is that now, Some kids could start making fun of him for being old. That's all I want. Okay. So he'll join us on that side of things. Yes. It is my dream for someone to approach Sean and call him Unk. Yeah.
i get called unk so much it's now beyond the point that does make sense yeah novel it's like energy i mean you have pieces and nephews right i'm not talking about the people who rightfully deserve to call me I'm talking about like teammates and people who are my peers. Uncle Jeff is a thing that I am a little It was nice in the beginning in my early in my late 30s, maybe early 40s But now it's like, oh, you're actually worried. I'm gonna fall down and get hurt Well, I mean, that's a...
Aren't you glad to have that care and affection aimed at you? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks for letting me see the other side of that, Jim. I'm proud of what I hear. You start practicing a sport that'll give you some leg strength and you won't fall off. Yeah, right, right. So stupid. I said care and affection and I heard care and affection. See the manager and tell him that I hope he's having a nice day
Okay, wait. Do you guys think you should have to say uncle or aunt when addressing an uncle or an aunt? Or can you just call them by their first name? First name. I just... I have to say uncle. Okay, I strongly disagree. I love this. Mike, why? It's respect. Yeah. Yeah. This time I call my aunt. My Aunt Bonnie, Bonnie, when I was like a teenager, and she got so mad that i didn't call her aunt bonnie she punched you i'm a doctor
Yes, that's what she was acting like. I was confused for a while, and it took me a long time to piece together. That's why she was mad. I wouldn't say anything. I wouldn't be upset then, but it would deeply hurt me if my nephews or nieces just said, hey, Mike. Okay, but, like, imagine him as, like, 25-year-old. Yeah, I'm 38 and I have an Uncle Dave. I've only ever called him Uncle Dave. It's weird not to. I thought my aunt's name was Auntie blah blah blah for the longest time.
I think it depends on the person, right? I think certain people... Wear the uncle or auntie thing better than others and I think it's a case-by-case scenario Your Uncle Mike's, your Uncle Dave's, like, those are almost by default inseparable. Sure, there are a lot of Uncle Dave's. Of course, those are inseparable, right? Like, they have to be by law. Do we all have an Uncle John? My son does. My son has an Uncle John. Shout out to the Uncle Dave's out there.
Both my parents have been married three times, so it's like there's a lot of uncles. My Uncle Dave is like a former Uncle Dave. You should just call him former Uncle Dave. Was your uncle when you were like seven, because if that's the case, then he's always your uncle. If he was like an uncle while you were like 12 to 11, yeah. Yeah, I was like an early teen. Well, he had the Super Nintendo where we went to my step-grandpa's house, so I would use Uncle Dave's Super Nintendo all the time.
That's for sure. I had Uncle Butchie, and I love saying that. Oh, that's a fun one. Ooh, I had Uncle Skeeter. Really? Yeah, great Uncle Skeeter. He was great. That's awesome. What was he great at? He just played guitars in bars around Kansas. Yeah, and he helped the Muppets put on the show. Okay. I have another, and this is a completely unrelated question. When you're brushing your teeth, cold water or hot water to put on the toothbrush before you brush? Cold, cold.
I do call it, but it hurts my teeth because my teeth are so stiff. Hot water? Some people swear by hot water. I'm a cold boy myself. I've done hot in the past. I can't imagine hot water is any meaningful. It's all about the brushing action. Yeah, for sure. I mean, who wants to brush their teeth with soup, right? Like, I don't know about that. Did you answer, Jan? I didn't hear you if you did. Oh, cold water.
okay i mean i'm insane but not that insane yeah sure what is up and what is wrong with them More like... Hold on. I'm going to brush my teeth. I just need the water to warm up. What are we talking about? Shut up. It's like the exposure to the water. That's just like a quick... Yeah, it's a quick bit. Yeah.
Who are you? Who are you people where you need warm water versus iron to make it scrubbed better? Is that the thinking? I think they're like, you know, hot water kills bacteria is I think the thinking there, but that's not what brushing the teeth is all about.
for sure it's about brushing off i mean to wash dishes of course sure to brush the teeth i don't know okay so i had like a normal toothbrush for a long time that was just like white bristles and then i ate a bag of cheese it and immediately brush my teeth afterwards and it turned it like super duper orange and so now it looks really gross But it's not. It's just like it got some Cheez-It dust on it. But it looks like this yellowish, orangish, but it was like clean as a whistle white before that.
Is this a problem? Yeah. I think looking gross is like 90% of the thing you don't want your toothbrush to do. I mean, it makes me upset every time I look at it. And I have a bunch of backup toothbrushes. So maybe I should just swap it out. Yeah. What are we doing? That means you're not actually gross. Yeah, it's not like actively gross. It's just discolored.
I think it's gross if it's changed color on account of your diet. Like, what are we doing? I'll change it. No, here's the deal. Normal Cheez-Its won't do that. And so that's why I wasn't afraid to do that. But I was eating those, like, Quest Protein Cheez-Its. And I think those are just like way more potent and it'll just like totally Nickelodeon orange your toothbrush up. Sure, yeah, the protein's definitely in the dust. That's where they put the protein.
Dan, I also think for further brushing engagements, maybe it is not the right order of operations to instantly brush your teeth after eating. But I was, like, eating right before bed. Have a sip of water. Before I fall asleep. Have a sip of water. Yeah, maybe gargle first before. Yeah, there's fluoride in that water. I'm telling you that the protein cheeses are potent. Protein cheese-its? Protein cheese-its.
I don't like any of these sentences. Yeah, everything you've said in the last ten minutes sucks. I just gotta say it. I like unhealthy foods, and then if you give me a somewhat healthier version of it, like, I don't get... anymore things you get from like Whole Foods and they're called giggles instead of skittles and let's call the scam you are scammed by a color and that color is the color green right before we went live
It seems early for that, Dan. Oh, I'm awake. I've had stuffed crust pizza and healthy Skittles this morning. You know what? I had stuffed crust pizza, too. I think we both had it left over. wrestling pay-per-view pizza this morning. Did you have Domino's wrestling pizza? No, I got Papa John's. Okay, but we had wrestling pizza this weekend, yes. We had wrestling pizza for sure.
that was i got the pac-man donut this is a good wrestling show that was a good wrestling show palatro without jams you see the uh one wrestler palatro type Yes, yes, I did. That's pretty cool. That's cool. I didn't realize Speedball Bailey does, like, Mario World speedruns and stuff. I saw him backstage at Dynamite and didn't really know him, so we didn't talk, and now it's like, oh, my God, I would have just dorked out with Speedball Bailey about Mario stuff. He seems awesome.
Also that match was great. Now is the perfect time to also mention that we have gotten the ability to turn super chats on on YouTube. folks it's not a guarantee that we'll get to every single super chat that gets sent in we will get to the super chats during the email segment after we read the regular declarer emails. So if you are on YouTube and you're in a position to send a super chat, hey, holler.
um we're not gonna read all of them we're gonna try to but please please all right here's one from martin also confirming super chats are active p next Is that our first super chat is penis? I think it was actually the second one. I think Antonio Martinez who said Bomba Gigante. Should we explain the penis thing to them? Because that seems like a legacy thing from our shows that it's carrying over. The word penis was funny. It's true.
I think what happened the first time is someone just had leftover characters in their super chat, so they just threw in an extra penis for us, and now everyone ends their super chats to the Game S shows. with peanuts. Give us your extra penises. You don't have to do that here. Yeah. You can. Well, I'm sure that Magic the Gathering would love to follow all the penis talk with a fun reveal of three new cards for the Final Fantasy set coming out. We got Rufus Shinra here.
scorpion sentinel and cypher almazi here um this this isn't helping my my problem here gang um man i You, like, dropped this on us, like, like, like, basically during the meeting. It's like, oh, by the way, we have, like, some magic reveals. And we're like, what? Explain. I didn't even know it was the Final Fantasy. We got Cypher and Rufus.
That's awesome. Look at Rufus. That Rufus boss fight in Final Fantasy VII Remake is an all-timer boss fight. It's so freaking cool with his coin and his dog. And you don't get to pet the dog. You get to shoot it. I am now concerned about your own dog, Michael Minotti. Penny's great. My grandpa's dead. My grandpa can't hurt Penny. that's right what there's a long history of his family just doing all kinds of stuff to dogs don't worry about it what What?
There's one dead. Let's get through the sponsors. Okay. All right. Yes. Yes. All right. Shouts at the Magic Game. The Gathered Wizards of the Coast or a bunch of other outlets are revealing cards in the lead up to the release of the set. kenny omega and adam cole did one at pax east uh so i i think the gauntlet is being thrown down that i think mike and i have to fight blessing and snow bike mike in a 2v2 magic duel i don't think they do that that's cool uh but we'll do it
They used to do that, right? That used to be a thing, or did I imagine all that? We could just do ones-on-ones and add up tallies. We could do a round robin tournament. All these cards are so cool the Scorpion Sentinel from Final Fantasy 7 Quotes are so good. Cloudstripe says, Barret, be careful. Attack while its tail's up. It's going to counterattack with its laser.
I remember when Cloud said that in the video game Final Fantasy VII. Thank you, Mikey. Do you remember? There's no quote on the Cypher Almazi quote. Almazi? Almazi? Almazi? amazing right i i guess i would say oh yeah amazing let's say i'm amazing uh you see uh this one's from the final fantasy eight set uh because you can see squall over there in the corner uh but yeah these cards are coming out soon uh and i can't wait to have my hands
Genuinely serious. How does it work? It's just like a separate game from like the regular magic You can just put it in with all the other stuff, but like they're making decks that So I think, I don't know if there's an 8 deck. There's a 7 deck, a 6 deck, a 14 deck, and a 10 deck commander deck.
then there's some other stuff and then there's just you know booster packs with all sorts of cards from all across the franchise as well um yeah it uh looks really cool we're getting a ton of amazing art for this thing just like these cards Right here, it looks really, really cool. I love Final Fantasy, and I am going incredibly vertical for all. Hey, did your grandpa kill a dog? Yeah, so let's talk about dog murder now. Um...
Is that what happened? Okay, well, this is my story to tell. Well, now, if... Yeah, because I don't remember the details. I was wondering, like, are we talking about the one where he shot a dog or is it another one where your grandma hung a dog? What? Okay. You know what? Wait a second, wait a second. You know what, let's get to that later. That dog was fine. I saved it. Mike actually saved the dog. It was an accident. Okay, why did your grandpa shoot a dog?
They don't want it anymore. Wait, he did it because he didn't want it anymore? That's the option? Look, it was the 2000s, alright? No, this was the 80s, this was the 70s, I think. Was the dog, like, racist or something? Nah, it was my dad's dog, and my dad, like, went away to college. My dad went away to med school and my grandpa, every time my dad called back, he'd be like, oh yeah, the dog's not looking too good today. And then each time he's like, oh, it's looking worse and worse.
And eventually it's like, oh, the dog died. And then my dad found out way later. Why the dog died? This was premeditated. So he like planted the seeds. My grandpa didn't kill a dog in anger. No, well, I know that would be better. I don't understand. So he like slowly but surely drops seeds to your dad. He's like, oh, the dog's looking shitty. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Look, you should not have done that. No, yeah.
Is that why you have like a weird thing when you can pet a dog in a game? No. That's a thing. I would never hurt a dog for God's sake. Okay. Well, I do see a chat coming in telling me to ask you what. your family fought on in World War two So, yeah, he fought for- It's not like he was selecting from a menu game. I'm not a history buddy. Didn't you see your family from Germany? I think so. Yeah, what do you think they were doing during World War II? I don't know them.
I got it. Just follow him. He was eventually captured by the Nazis instead because they turned against Italy and they killed everybody in his platoon but him and his friend because they could cut hair. so then they had uh there are barbers and some pow camp and then it was liberated by the americans right but like they didn't trust the americans yet either because they were just fighting them a few years ago
So they had to kind of just like slowly, they just kind of stayed in their bunker for a few days because they were afraid to get out. Then finally they just sort of left, just kind of walked out. And I think they were in Germany or France and they just started walking back to Italy. or something and they eventually got there thanks to magic the gathering for uh that was pretty good so once again the cars are roofish scorpion sentinel cypher all amazing
Set coming out during the sunset. He was a star set in Italy. His mother was a famous opera singer. So if your grandfather is your grandfather? Yeah, my grandpa Minotti. So if Grandpa Minotti wasn't a good Barber, you would not be alive. No, Mikey. He wasn't even that good. He would cut my dad's hair. It was terrible.
And there's some sort of irony with you being bald in all of this. He had a great head of hair until the day he died, actually. You can't trust bald barbers, okay? No. You just can't. No, he was great. Except for the dog-killing thing. No. Um, alright. Shit, he earned it, okay? I'm glad both of my grandpas are dead and I never met them, so I didn't learn any deep lore.
That's probably for the best, Jan, you know? Yeah, he loved wine. My dad doesn't drink, never drink much, but my grandpa, like, later on when I smelled wine as a dog, I'm like, that's grandpa. Now I understand why he smelled like that. I smell it, and I think it's church. Oh, yeah, I kind of like that, but more in the Italian wine, it's a more intense... George or Mike Maharty is what the wine's called.
is italian wine like is that uh higher like higher high brow low brow and compared to italian brain rot mike Italian brain rot Mike I like that alright games Jeff Grubb and I recorded a quick look over the weekend for Despelote. A very relevant game compared to everything we've talked about. Oh yeah, very nice. childhood memories in Grub, where is it again? Is it in Ecuador? It's in Ecuador, yeah. It travels throughout the different dates of the team Ecuador trying to qualify for the World Cup.
um the quick look is probably going to go up after the show today i don't have any more expanded thoughts than how grub talked about it uh the last time we brought up but despolote is such a fantastic indie vehicle for like telling someone's story uh it means that they do it and like there are select pieces that are kind of highlighted or stick out from like the this person's memories from like these specific events it's really neat i do like the blurred out kind of
um d-res textures of some of the uh other areas in it it's it's really cool i'm a sucker for whenever they show real footage amidst like game stuff because i'm the same way but it's not exactly like that was just full-on fmb of like nukes going off this one is like you'll see a tv of a soccer game
in the midst of a like diegetically like imposed into like it looks really cool yeah it's great yeah yeah the visual style like it serves a purpose while also looking fantastic that's a good thing for any game to kind of pull off for sure yeah very small team uh the game is like less than three, four hours. So if you're looking to have a quick emotional journey that you can experience, 100% go with that. Also, you can kick a Shrek DVD. So that's fantastic. Oh, cool.
Speaking about kicking things, we kicked it on Friday by playing the Mosquito Game. That was fun. It was fun. That was a good time. A mosquito cover of what? Gasolina? and All-Star and Gangster's Paradise, right? Yes. Play it on a kazoo to sound like a mosquito. Yeah, it's very good. You know, This is one of these asymmetrical multiplayer games. One versus a team of players. It's best if you have friends doing all the roles, sure.
I don't know if I'll ever play this game again, but it's one of those games where I'm like, I'm very glad we had an excuse to do it because it was an awesome afternoon. Right. It was 1v4, so it was perfect for us. Yeah. it's not like you know is it balanced very well right now but is it really silly and funny
Yeah. It definitely felt like one of those Texas Chainsaw Massacre or what's the really big one? Dead by Daylight. Dead by Daylight where you may be better served if there was progress uh carried over from round to round because the human is definitely a little bit um
lacking in the lead-up. Yeah. You know, we weren't doing, like, simple, like, someone pointed out, like, had we been closing doors behind us in one of these levels, and then the mosquitoes had to fly down and go through the little trap door. It's like, oh, duh. we just weren't even thinking there's that deep let alone like probably there's probably a couple more levels below that that we didn't even scratch so the fact that we weren't doing the most basic stuff makes a lot of sense although
you know the so the way it was working for us playing as the human was like you know try to kill him as much as you can throughout the level really though if you could just kill one at the very end you win because all four have to escape for for the mosquitoes to win So it kind of did bring it all down to that one moment. So it's like if I were designing this, I would try to find more ways to mitigate that or kind of force confrontations at other points.
But for what it is, again, we were having a good time. And I do wish that like there are parts where it's like there's one that's like a Jurassic Park level basically and there's like a big mosquito in a tube.
And there's like three color-coded like, you know, chemicals you can put in. And I thought that something was going to happen where it's like, oh, it's going to let this big mosquito loose and help me or whatever. But it's just like everything just kind of winds up giving you money, you know? So, I mean, again, small team, small game, but like... Some more fun things I could have done with it. I was pleasantly surprised after UPF.
Also, we need more mosquito games. Yeah. Did someone say in the chat that there was a Mr. Mosquito 2 that only came out in Japan? Because if that's the case, I think so. I think that's true. Gotta try that. I'll find out right now. Yeah, let me know. um all right moving along the train of games speaking about trains dan reicher you played monster train 2. oh my goodness i have been deep in that um i didn't play the first one was that
I said nice. Oh, yes. Bonk had played the first one. I know she was big on Slay the Spire. She got me kind of into that. And I think I always thought that Monster Train was just like a Slay the Spire thing. It is in a way that it's a deck builder, but there's also some like, I don't want to call it auto battling because I think that's selling it short, but it's like you're kind of placing your units on the three levels of the train to start.
And then the actual battles aren't like, you aren't playing a card every single time you're attacking. You kind of set up the pieces and then a combat run goes almost like the Unicorn Overlord. you know where it's like you just kind of watch the battles and you kind of set the pieces in motion um but yeah it's really cool like you'll get your like primary clan your secondary one and so you can mix those cards there's a lot of fun like synergies and things like that um i'm like
I think I played like seven or eight hours this weekend, and I still feel like I'm very, very early on. I've only unlocked three of the five. Very, very intimidating at first. I've played Slay the Spire in some games like this, but it's just a lot of learning. what these terms are, what valor means, what all these different... But the tooltip situation is very, very good. So if you're ever confused about what something does, all the stuff is right there for you to figure it out.
Yeah, it's really, really loving it. It's more different than Slay the Spire than I expected, but just having a great time with it. Yeah, out of all of the games that kind of came after Slay at the Spire, I think Monster Train 1 is the one that hit with me the most. I know there was... grift lands and that didn't really land with me too much uh the steam world um what was the card based one they're all card based well uh there was like one that it was like medieval setting
uh like a party of three i know what you're talking hand of gilgamech thank you oh yeah yeah yeah gilgamech yes yeah uh and and that didn't really resonate with me i'm really excited to check out monster train to uh dan does it still have like the weird hell versus heaven aesthetic of everything it's got some of that going on honestly the narrative stuff i've just been kind of
blazing through. It does not seem important to me, at least. So yeah, I just kind of went right through it. But incredible Steam Deck game, obviously. Real quick, I was able to confirm the existence of Mr. Mosquito 2 by going to the Giantist Wiki, which is one of the first results when you Google Mr. Mosquito 2. uh because all the characters are going to be gigantic and apparently they're fans of that on the giantess wiki i heard giantess as in like a giant scientist but you mean the fetish
I mean the fetish, yes. Yeah, they don't have a giant science. Thanks for clarifying. I appreciate it. Jan! Jan, transition to a game that I didn't play. I gotta go to the bathroom. Oh, there he goes. Okay, I was about to issue up another one of his games, but instead...
I'll just talk okay. He looked like he was about to shit his pants as he walked away. Something snuck up and bit him. You saw that, right? All of a sudden. He's about to inflict doom on a toilet, I believe. Mike Minotti, you have been playing Doom. Two. Yeah, yeah. I kind of got that Doom 1 plus 2 more recent compilation remastering. It's on and everything, but I was playing it on Switch.
you know i played these games back in the day but i didn't beat them so i finished doom one i'm like man that's still really good i played even less of doom 2 back then you know i think the subtitle was hell on earth and as a kid i was like
I think this might be too much for me. It has the word hell in it. That's a swear. What will I do if my parents catch me playing like this? It's funny to play it now and be like, oh, this is... basically just doom one with some extra stuff it's the extra stuff is cool you get the super shotgun for the first time you get the revenants the maps are really uh big you got some set and you know like things that look like cities but
still very much that doom one attack but playing through it was a ton of fun so i was actually shocked how much fun I still have playing through Doom 1 and Doom 2. The Dark Ages is out, and that's great, and I've been playing that when I can, but it's very easy for me to play games at night in my bed. so this has been sort of my go-to for that. And, you know, I map.
quick save to up on the d-pad quick load it down the d-pad i'm not being too precious about that i'll just save and load as much as i need to so i can kind of get through everything and see it and still a ton of fun and it still feels like a good challenge doing that just kind of clawing and scraping your way through all these difficult levels and it's ripping and tearing actually yeah actually you're right that's embarrassing i mean i apologize deeply
I played some of these newer boomershooters, and they're fun. I know Dan played Boltgun. He's going to talk about that. I liked Boltgun, but I kind of fell off that. It's kind of weird to me, like, oh, actually, just, like, Doom, the game that started all this, and, like, its direct sequel is still better than a lot of these even today. Yeah, I, uh, Boltgun's getting a sequel or DLC or something? It's getting a sequel. Okay, it's a full sequel. Alright, yeah. It is weird, like,
how hard it is for indie games that are clearly inspired by genres like that to recapture that. So yeah, when I went back to Doom 1 and Doom 2, when that got that, the night dive treatment was like yeah this is refreshing and how much it holds up i'm glad it still does i'm glad here doom 2 does as well what's wild is there's so much more in this compilation like yeah it's doing one thing too
but it's all these other campaigns from like you know like compilations for fans that were officially released at some point um john romero twice went back and just made like new campaigns um something with an s sigil 1 and sigil 2 that I think were definitely the 20th and then 30th anniversaries of doom so I could just go and play like tons more og doom if i wanted to and i like almost kind of do so yeah if you um if you
or cares about playing just the oj doom it is still a ton of fun works great on switch so i'm sure it works great everywhere uh i mean it should it's a very old game but for so long jeff you know this we just didn't get good doom ports it was a very difficult thing I've never played any of the original Dooms. Really? Not even touched him? I mean, on a friend... I don't think... I don't remember if it was Doom, but a friend... showed me on his TI-84 Texas Instruments calculator.
I think it was Doom. It was probably Doom. Do you think that's just a consequence of your generational blinders? I didn't have access to a PC maybe until high school. in terms of something that could actually play something. Hearing Mike wax poetically about these previous Doom ports makes me curious i mean it helps us because it's like for us it was everywhere it was inescapable so it like and then you know i played it a lot at the time but it's like even now when i think about it is it's the
important thing so it's like an artifact almost if you don't have that context I wonder if it changes things a little bit yeah it was like when I realized you were talking about it last week and I was thinking about like my first memories of playing it and it was sort of like the first
exposure I had to like gore yeah you know like video game gore and then you know doom does that weird thing where like all the sprites face you no matter where you're looking yeah and it kind of like makes it all about you in a weird way right where you're just like forced to kind of like face that and to hear the sounds and do all that yeah it's uh i do yeah maybe i was just a little soft when i first was exposed to doom but
Doom kind of scared me a little bit, guys. Doom was like a little above my head when I onboarded. Sorry, Dan, I'm too soft for you. I mean, I'm younger than you, and I thought Doom was cool as hell as a kid. Yeah, you know, look, I'm just being honest with my emotions, you know? Just trying to tell the truth here. It's as close to a central reading as we get in with video games, right? Everyone should do it.
Okay. I played some of that Dune 1 plus 2, if that's what we're talking about. Very, very good. Really enjoying that. Nice. How are you playing it? Are you playing on the Switch like mic or what? No, I started playing with a controller on the big screen, and then I played with a mouse and keyboard, and I was like, ah, this actually feels right, because as much as I didn't play PC games growing up, Doom since it was sprite based basically like my computer could actually run it and so like it did
The mouse and keyboard, or specifically the keyboard, I guess, felt right. Yes, exactly. The keyboard is the difference there, yeah, for sure. Yeah, because it's almost weird having the mouse, and then it's like, well, obviously you can't look up and down and stuff like that. No mouse look, yeah. Yep, yep.
it's so interesting hearing y'all talk about how scary it was and i remember brad talking about how formative doom was for him also yeah just me seeing it now in where i'm at it's like this was scary guys yeah i mean
Yeah, it was... The installation was scary. You know, you had to, like, jump through hoops to get it to fucking run, and then... all the sounds like the roaring i thought never ending story was terrifying oh that was like the first movie i saw in theaters is never ending story one or two and yeah scarred Yeah, I don't know how Falcor was supposed to be, like, a friendly character. That shit is scary.
I think the rock thing is scarier than Falcor. They're all scary assholes. Like, Falcor's just a big dog, right? Yeah. Long dog. long dog with like a flying long dog who's never you know i watched the rock on sunday night the rock is really good you said the rock and he heard it and so now he wants to talk about the rock again in case anyone was wondering what was going on i saw the rock this weekend again the rock's good
Yeah, we know. We know. ZX Poison Gas. I made a cocktail based on VX. I made a VX Vial cocktails for me and my friends that looked like the little green gimmicks. Made with Midori and it was good. Did your face melt at the speed of sound or whatever he says? Is Midoriya more adjacent? Melon. Yeah, it's a melon liqueur. Alright, speaking about quick looks, Greb and I also did one for TMNT Tactical Takedown. This comes from Strange Scaffold. I...
In the span of that quick look, Grubb, I had told you that I went from not liking the game to enjoying the game. And unfortunately, I think I'm back to not liking the game. In terms of like a tactics game, this is like super duper light. And it's kind of a bummer, especially after the tactics genre had such a strong year last year with Tactical Breach Wizards, which is a super fantastic game for you tile sickos like me out there.
But I think where this falls short is that everything is fairly light because the uh the character pieces like the turtles the enemies they all look like board game pieces like warhammer figures that are stuck to a platform and on top of that each level you are playing you are only playing as
one turtle um and that kind of defeats the purpose for me because like you know when you play those those beat-em-up games uh the part of the fun is playing with and playing with and seeing all the turtles i understand if you're playing solo dolo that you'd only be playing as one But in a tactic setting where you could take your time, I feel like it would have lended itself to the benefit of the game to be able to play as at least two turtles at a time.
I've got to be honest, I didn't get to watch that quick one yet. I would have expected to play as all four Ninja Turtles. I assume that as well, yeah. It's weird. That being said, the combat is... Fine. I think Leonardo and Raphael are definitely much more fun to play as. tactical takedown does a thing that is very popular in all tactics games now where
You just want to kind of kick someone off the edge of the level screen. And that's fun. There is some synergy with the moves. So for instance, like Leonardo, if you knock out an enemy with one of his attacks he gets like a buff and that leads into a more powerful attack the next action that he takes but overall it does feel kind of super duper light it also doesn't control well on a steam deck uh for me this is like such a minor nitpick but with a tactics game
that has a grid, a tile grid on it, I need to be able to use a D-pad. And just being stuck with using an analog stick doesn't feel the best. The writing is also super light, which is kind of a surprise to me given Strange Scaffold's history with, like, making banger stories and having, like, really fantastic writing. It is a fairly, like... feature light game um which is kind of a bummer because i'm just as much of a turtle sicko as i am a power ranger sicko um
Yeah, if there was an option to maybe replay some of the levels as other turtles, that could be cool. I just don't. see this game being able to integrate. playing as multiple turtles in a stage. That being said, in the future, I think it'd be sick as fuck to have an XCOM-style game with all of the turtles at once. Maybe you throw in a Casey Jones in there as well. Perhaps an April O'Neil. Oh, give me April. Okay, I'll give you April. Don't give it to him.
Now I feel tainted because of Mike's outright need for people. Jan Zatchmo wants to know from a super chat who everyone's favorite turtle is we know that you're a Leo guy Dan you're a Donatello really cause I could see you being like, Donatello's a nerd and a loser, but you like Donatello. You're smart and you had a bow staff. That's who I was for Halloween. They're all cool.
Jan, by the way, Jan, I'm sorry about your... The transition was happening and I saw it. I know. Hang on to it. It was a balance because Mike said, well, we're getting money. Oh, I understand that. I saw where Jan was going. I don't want to... I understand. Let's finish with the... Michelangelo, I'm a basic bitch. I didn't like Michelangelo. He wasn't taking it seriously enough. Oh my lord. Too much of a goober. Yeah, Donatello could fight and he could do machines.
I don't know if there is a funnier reason you could have said for not liking something. I don't think there is a funnier thing you could have said. I mean, there were stakes. There's a fucking technodrome out there. Someone's not taking it seriously. Therefore, Dan Riker cannot respect it. He wasn't the only one advocating for pizza. I don't know why the pizza, but he seemed distracted by pizza, where the others were like, well, we have to eat to fuel ourselves.
I'm just saying, you're pinning all the pizza shit on Michelangelo, and I think that's a disservice to the rest of the group. He wasn't the only one advocating. Blackguard is your favorite. I embraced the entire group. I guess I really kind of liked Raphael maybe more based on... He was an asshole. You hate Splinter, though, right? Because you're like, he's not a real dad. Well, biologically, that's a callback.
forgot about that but a father figure and an important one and an invaluable one uh of course like i love splinter he's also seems like the one i'd want to most cozy up with and like give a hug to sure um Do you guys remember... The Michael Bay TMNT movies that... No, I've never seen them. Okay, well... Splinter is played by Tony Shalhoub. Really? That's actually amazing and further solidifies my coziness. But Raphael was kind of funny in the movies too because he was sort of like
He sort of had this Brooklyn accent for no reason. And he swore. They're from New York. That's a reason. Yeah. He swore? What did he say? He swore in that movie. He said damn. He said damn. That's not swear. That's a swear. That's a swear. That's the entry-level swear. They didn't say fuck, but...
My kid's been singing that Steve's Lava Chicken song, and he says hell in that, so Addie keeps singing it, and she says hell every time, and she looks at me every time, and every time I laugh, because it's the funniest thing, kids say hell. Um... Alright, Mikey, because his name's like mine.
okay great that's the worst reason okay yeah leonardo just seemed like a cop i guess a little bit um i just like all the boy scout characters it's leonardo it's captain america it's cyclops it's simon from the chipmunks But I do think I don't think any turtle gets more hate than the other ones or deserves more. I think as far as four characters are concerned, they really did a good job at developing that stuff in a pretty surprising way. You know? Guys, if you look at the fucking lore
And Cyclops and Leonardo, they're not fucking cops. All right? That is what propaganda has put in your fucking heads. Pick up a goddamn book. Mike tainted my segue. So grab Tainted Grail, The Fall of Avalon. All right, yeah. Good job, good job. He does wear blue, let's just say. Okay, he does wear blue. Got us back on track. So does Paddington. Is Paddington a cop? He's just a bear obsessed with marcoid!
All right, have any of you heard of Tainted Grail, The Fall of Avalon? No, is it like King Arthur shit? It is King Arthur shit, yeah. Okay, here's how it starts. You select some character qualities while someone talks to you. They happen to be on the other side of a jail cell. You're inside the jail cell. And you have to escape this jail cell dungeon from the bottom of this ca- It's oblivion. It's so oblivion coded. That's not what I was expecting. This looks fancy. It's
So, I think there's this thing where there's a lot of people who are like, man, all I ever want to do is play these Bethesda open-world RPGs. People should make more of those. and this is someone saying we'll do that and we're going to do it like with arthur arthurian legend and we'll have all the magic stuff you like It is an open-world action western RPG with pretty decent...
like production values and storytelling and acting. It's not like trying to be AAA blockbuster on a level for all of those qualities, but it's really good in all of those qualities, at least so far. And I'm surprised at how fun it is to play. I think they kind of rub off some of the rough edges from the genre. The lockpicking works just like Oblivion, but it's a little bit easier.
Actually, you know what? That one's more like Skyrim. They don't use the Oblivion lockpicking there. But either way, they are picking from the genre, doing the stuff that people like, and delivering something that I think is pretty good. I've only just kind of started getting in there and seeing how it operates.
So I'll be curious to see if it can keep my interest. Like, what are the quests like? I don't have answers to that right now because I've not gone deep on any of the quests. But the initial sort of, like, the way it introduces itself to the player I thought worked really well. Is King Arthur real? uh like oh um like the guy yeah the real person i don't know probably but it was like very old so is this based in like does this have magic and stuff in it or is this trying to be like realistic
In the video I'm watching right now, as I talk to you, there's a guy that just rubbed his hand on a sword and the sword caught on fire. And that's not a shoe. So historical context, but with fantasy elements. You know, the historical context is your overstay. It's pulling from the myth. the arthur legend so whether he's real or not doesn't matter like that's a bad they're not they're not worried about you aren't asking if magic's real i know i know magic's not real Alright, just a minute.
I'm just putting it out there. I knew definitely more Arthur. There might have been Arthur, but he would not have resembled anything that you think of when you think about King Arthur. It'd be completely unrelated to everything you've ever heard about him. Okay, so this is not a kingdom come realistic thing.
no no no no no no okay but it's you know still in that open world rpg genre although you know that kingdom comes very much about like being a dude having to like do these things in that world and this is you know you're gonna go learn some magic spells
And you're going to get some cool armor and some cool items and equip those to your character. And so you can go do more quests and get even cooler items. I... I am happy to see a game like this can be pulled off without having to be one of the biggest games in the world for a long period there.
to make a game this robust and with this like you know the size of a world you'd have to justify by being like well we're gonna sell a ton of copies and we can make it make sense that way here it's like no They're just going to do their thing because they like it. And I think there's going to be an audience there for it. So it's why we weren't getting very many of these games for a while. And then like this year, the floodgates have opened quite a bit.
got kingdom come we did get a vow we got oblivion and now this uh just tons of these now avowed was this year right that was yeah earlier this year holy smokes wow yeah Alright, moving on to things that may be questionable if they are real or not Warhammer Boltgun
words of vengeance yes uh look they just any game comes out and it's a typing of the dead like i'm gonna play it uh that's all i need and that's all this is it's it's free to play uh play it on steam i assume it's just on steam unless It'd be weird to plug in a keyboard to a console, but...
Yeah, it's the same type of thing where you're typing it in words as it pops up above characters' heads to kill them and shoot them. And then occasionally there will be a guy flying around throwing fireballs at you and stuff. You've got to, like, individual letters real quick before they hit you. It is straight up typing the dead. It's not trying to be anything else. And that is like my favorite one-off weird experiment was like, oh, let's
Take this established franchise and just make it a typing game. Which, that went further where it's like they got Dreamcast strapped to their backs and everything. Why am I not doing this? Doing what? Like the typing stuff, it seems like it's for me. Oh, yeah. Have you not played Typing the Dead?
I probably thought I meant that. Okay, okay. Well, then try this out. The only thing I don't love about this is that so many of the things are like proper nouns from the Warhammer universe. So it's like, there's a certain amount of muscle memory where it's like, I'm typing in sentence. It's like, that's how Typing the Dead did it. Whereas like, this will be like,
herald of phenoxydilph and it's like i'm not used to typing this or whatever you know so like that's stupid that's a little hard i wish i could toggle off like i just make this real words but it's still very fun what kind of keyboard you're rocking with this are we like let's get into details the one you you recommended to me. This guy. Oh, the Kikron? Yeah, Kikron. Yeah, yeah.
Actually, no, I guess I was playing it with a wireless earlier. Oh, so you just lied. Got it. Okay, cool. That's right. Baccalaure, did you ever check out Crypt Master? That was another typing. Oh, yeah. I know I was supposed to. I installed it, and then, I don't know, I just kept kind of living my life and not...
that game is so interesting and weird i like it a lot i gotta fucking get back to that all right i'll do it i'm a big fan of games that are just in black and white yeah yeah just like uh the television that my grandmother used to watch speaking about grandmas Dan, you've been playing something called Grandma No. Yeah, with an exclamation point. Yeah. It's very Octodad-esque. It's in the Octodad genre in that it's a...
It's just a family at home, and it's very physics-y and wobbly and weird, except for instead of an octopus, you're a grandma. And there's a few areas. There's like the foyer, the backyard, the living room, and there's just... dumb shit you have to do like you've got a quest log that pops up with like okay plant these seeds do this thing uh and you're usually just like fighting with
physics and carrying things around, cleaning things up. Sometimes it'll spawn like a WarioWare-type minigame where it's just like you're controlling her hands as you're like... sorting things and stuff like that there's a fart button and that's fun it does the stink lines and everything and then sometimes it's either a puke or a sneeze button i'm not sure Depending on the, like when you go in the backyard, the fart button was making me like eject green stuff from my face.
which I feel maybe they're trying to do a sneeze thing with that. But yeah, I don't know. We got to figure out the answer to this, Dan. I'm not going to be able to rest until I know if it's puke or if it's snot. I don't. I don't remember. I think it was a lot. When I think vomit, I don't think green vomit. I think a brownish thing. I think this was a sneeze, I believe.
But yeah, it's one of those games where you watch two seconds of it in a video and it's like, oh, I get what this is going to be. It's going to be a silly, fun, I streamed it and I saw credits. It's a short game. But yeah, it definitely was making me laugh throughout. Do you take damage, or is it just causing havoc? What's the risk-reward here? I don't think I died at any point. It's just like, hey, plant. She didn't break a hip or something?
No, you fall down a lot and you have to press buttons to get back up, but there's no lives. I don't remember any kind of game over screen. It would just be like, oh, I need to plant these four seeds or I need to cut this lawn or do this thing. I'm going to put this in front of my...
Like, I want to play it too, but I'm going to put this in front of my kids, and I bet they're going to have fun with it. It looks Goat Simulator-esque. Yes, yeah, totally in that vein. Yes, I bet your kids will like it. Okay, cool. Oh, man, those are some cool raccoons, too. I like that. This grandma looks like my shoot grandma, and I think I may be compelled to play this.
she's also very little and has long stretchy arms um uh speaking about grandmas uh no one i haven't seen a grandma in this video game i don't know who put this on claire obscure expedition 33 Yeah, I've been playing even more of this this long weekend, spent a lot of time streaming and playing that, and I think, you know, everyone knows this game is very, very good, but... Boy, this game is very, very, very, very good.
I don't mean to merely pit it against something, you know, like last year there was Metaphoric Fantasia. I was like, I can't believe we got such a good one of these. Maybe the best one we've gotten since the golden age of JRPGs. and unless this game somehow like really doesn't stick the landing i probably like this even more than metaphor it's so freaking i think i'm with you mike it's just
It's, you know, in a metaphor, there are times where it's like, okay, time to take a break. I almost never want to stop playing this game. It's just a matter of, I guess I better go to bed or something now, or people are expecting me to be at this place, so I guess I... gotta say goodbye to my french family for for a bit that's really great because you know like i'm like 20 hours in now so the amount of character customization is fantastic with the pictos that kind of give you different perks
Weapons aren't just stat sticks, they also have their own kind of passives that really change the way you play with a character. um it's just like combine that stuff i just have these character builds i almost it almost feels like i'm cheating sometimes how overpowered they are like loonay who's kind of the wizard of the group if i shoot people i get these stacks
And then I can spend those on spells. And I'm just like doing that so much in my first turn. Dealing massive amount of damage. And massive amounts of break damage. So characters are getting. done it is feeling so satisfying and the story beats just keep coming um a party member try to proposition me on my last playthrough. It was very exciting. Bye. I had to say no because I may be more interested in a different party mode.
but the game was like very much like you know trying to tell me it's okay like Yeah, see, I'll see. disappointed but she understands and in fact you're better friends i'm like okay game thank you for taking the guilt away i felt terrible
Because you felt guilty for not sleeping with this character. Yes. Okay. All right. I thought you were saying the game was saying it's okay to sleep with this one because you'll still get to sleep with the other one. In fact, I asked my chat. They were very like, don't sleep with her. You won't get to sleep with the other one. Okay.
All right, that's important. I get it. Mike, how do you feel about the pacing of this? Because, you know, part of... I can't look at metaphor as fondly because of how much time I spent in that world.
Yeah, you know, I like the metaphor a lot. I think all these jrpgs being 80 hours or more i think this is i think it's a bit of a mistake that we've gotten a little comfortable with this and it's funny with metaphor because persona did so much of making that a thing right yeah so i kind of get it and with those games there's so much of the social aspect and doing all of that right
but even that sometimes the pacing is a little bit weird where maybe you're doing that social stuff more than just dungeons you kind of wish there's a bit more of that here there is still like a campsite and you can talk to people and slow down a bit But there is a lot more combat and action and important story beats here. The pacing is pretty immaculate. It's about as good as you can get one. It's not quite like Chrono Trigger, I think, is the...
all-star when it comes to pacing in the JRPG, right? It just kind of just goes, goes, goes, and it keeps staying interesting. It keeps showing you new things.
But yeah, I really like that this game has meaty dungeons like when you get to a dungeon you're gonna maybe be there for an hour or so and you are exploring and you're fighting and there might be a little story segments here there but no just you get to play the game for a good while and the combat is so fun that you're happy yeah i think expedition 33 is kind of breaking def it's it's selling really well but my normie friends are like waxing poetically about it and i never would have thought
be on their radar when like it broke through for sure it broke through my um my younger brother i think the last turn-based rpg he beats was uh eternal sonata for some reason about 360 just not really his genre big tropon fan yeah big yeah exactly but no he he's even further than me in this one now yeah All right, last game before we head to break.
i really need to see this game in action grub yeah we'll make it happen this week i need you to deliver because apparently you've been playing a lot more road Yeah, yeah, things finally kind of settled down for me a little bit. I also did get a new CPU for my computer, which helped, because now games load, and they were on there for a second. Did you put it on yourself?
Yeah, I've built some PCs before, Dan, yeah. Jesus, that seems so scary. I had to go to Best Buy and get some thermal paste because I couldn't find mine. Yeah. It's like buying dynamite. That seems like it should be a little. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you need to register. Yeah, you have to call the cops first just to let them know. Yeah, the house could explode, so just be ready.
uh yeah put that cpu in that was nice uh i actually went up a generation because i'm like if i'm gonna stick with this intel i might as well get the newer one maybe it's a little bit better but i upgraded up the bios on my motherboard so hopefully this one doesn't just fry itself over time uh either way played a lot more road craft and i actually ended up playing a lot on the steam deck as well i kind of got the settings dialed in there so
i run at like 45 to 60 frames per second it's nice whatever the i'm starting to like really learn how this game is different from mud runners and snow runners and kind of what it's trying to do i'll say up front i can't stop playing it it's uh the process of
here is a problem at this place you need to get to that place to deal with the problem and along the way you might discover some other problems like hey this road is it's a road but it's kind of falling apart maybe you should just rebuild this one patch
And so I'm like, okay, great. I'm going to go get my light equipment moving truck. I'm going to throw the asphalt lane truck on the back of that. I'll drive it over there because it's so slow. It would take forever to drive it over there. So I'll just put it on the trunk.
you know i'll i'll haul it drop that down go get the the the pavement smoother go get the um the the big thing that like moves rocks out of the way but can also pave sand to make sure the sand is even uh i'll go i'll go get all these tools
And I'll just find myself, be like, this is just one patch on one road to accomplish something else. And I'm just in heaven, like figuring out all the little things I need to do in this process to make sure that now when I go to my home base, and i need to get somewhere else well i can have a little bit of relief because i know that i've built up that road and it's going to work which is especially important because there's also like this automated side of things where you can set up these paths
for resources to go in other trucks that you don't control and if there is a road that is particularly muddy they'll get stuck and so the game is really focused on you just fixing stuff up as opposed to like the very specifics of managing a single truck which is kind of what mud runner and snow runner would do so you would have
a tank of gas and you would lose you know fuel over time and so you had to be like on top of that so if a truck got too far away and it was going to run out of fuel you're like well this sucks i'm gonna have to bring out another truck filled with fuel to put more fuel in this truck so it can get to it there's none of that in this game every truck has unlimited uh gasoline and instead there's like fuel tokens you can use to teleport them to another kind of truck
to make it easier to accomplish what you're trying to do. these changes are are i'm getting used to them and i wasn't sure how i felt about them but i'm at a point where i can't stop playing so i think this is a different flavor that i'm just as much a fan of even if it's not exactly what i would have asked them for
well whatever it looks i like the managing the fuel that that's the kind of thing that is like oh i want to think about that i want to find myself in situations where i made this worse for myself because i didn't plan ahead and i want to deal with those consequences There are other forms of that here. And mostly that has to do with like, oh, I drove that truck to the other side of the map. What can I do to like get it over here to actually do this? Do I?
buy a new truck do i go get it and take forever to get it over here there's things like that i i have not played multiplayer yet i'm very curious to see how that works because like four people working on one project at a time you could just see how like you would divide things up very quickly and everyone's like no you're just in charge of paving this road don't worry about anything else i'll bring you all the materials i'll go get the sand
or whatever and uh yeah i could see that being a lot of fun so really into my shit with this game very happy with how how it how it's landing even if it is a little bit different than i think what people are expecting as someone who still never played any of these which which one do you think i would dive
I think this one has the most easy to understand goals, right? Because it is like you want to just rebuild a road. That's easier to understand than some of the like, oh, go get a terrain scanner and drop it off in this one location. Intrinsically, that's just not as interesting as what you're doing here. Yeah.
And also, this one might be a little bit easier because you aren't dealing with resources like fuel. Your truck just goes forever, which I think is what most people assume to happen when you get into a truck in a video game. It's just going to go, who cares about gasoline? Yeah, that makes a difference with this one. I want to try multiplayer. We'll see how it goes. Hell yeah.
All right, gang, that about does it for game talk. We're going to take a quick break and we will be back with the news right after this. This is Jeff Grob with... Stop crying. hi uh first news item here uh a super chat from john larson who i believe is just another one of our members in a mask there uh this is 2v2 magic the gathering is alive and well the format is called two-headed giant where the players on each team act as one of the heads
I would like to see a two-headed giant match of Mike Minotti and Janicella versus whoever kind of funny wants to produce. Sounds like a threat. Mike, get on my shoulders. Is it? Yeah. Okay. Maybe in a pool. I mean, no, I can do it. uh all right here's the news uh nintendo switch 2 consoles have been spotted at u.s retailers ahead of launch these pictures are everywhere uh
How's no one just taking one? Like, I mean, I'm not saying someone should. Nintendo will shoot you. I guess that's why people aren't doing it. It could be done, I'm sure. I'm surprised they haven't. Yeah. Do you think they'd like be bricked upon launch because it's before the day? Uh, if you had a cartridge, I mean, you're not downloading games, but if you had a cartridge, it would work. I'm scared to turn it on, not gonna lie.
Yeah. Reggie's got a fuse in there now. Or in the middle of the field, there's no Wi-Fi. Yeah, well, I was going to say, or at least connect it to the internet. Just get a Faraday box? Faraday cage. Faraday cage, thank you, yes. So go in there, switch to a branded Faraday cage.
Yeah, look, I guess all that matters here is these things are real. They're in stores, like in the back rooms right now. So seems like they are ready for launch. Like they're actually going to have these things ready to go. Was that a question though? feels real now it just feels real and also like i think there might have been a question of like logistically are they going to be able to get out the million and a half that they want to have on week one
It seems like it's leaning in that direction, like they're actually going to be able to meet this demand early on. How many of us are going to have it with us in L.A. somehow? Me. When is it coming? On the 5th. oh no i fly out that day so now i'm flying out late on the 5th to make sure i get mine first no i had to fly out early because newark airport is a hellscape all right but grub you and i are earlier than that how are you are you getting sent to la
Yeah, it's going to be at Nikki's house, yeah. Incredible. My plan is kind of like look we're doing a lot of stuff we got gb at night we have all this stuff my plan is to kind of badger you guys to like make a bunch of switch to stuff whenever we have free time I'm like, I'm fine with that. play some Mario Kart and do some, like, let's take some time here and, like, record something real fast. I'm playing Soul Calibur 2 against Mike. Yeah.
i cannot wait seriously i'm so excited for that i didn't place a pre-order but i and i know that we have an insane amount of things to do once we get on the ground in la But I kind of want to try and roll up to a store and get one. I think you'll be able to, man. Well, can we do the midnight release thing? I used to do that for every console. I am going to a midnight release.
um any uh best buy anyways my brother's picking his up there and i just like pre-ordered a case there but like they apparently gonna have some to sell and i might like just get one there if i can and then i you know there's somebody who will buy my walmart one that's coming in the mail although i
thinking about it like I remember not midnight releases as much as like I remember PS2 sleeping outside of a Best Buy 360 Best Buy and it's like it's an overnight thing and then it's like 6 7 in the morning or whenever they open that's when they did it like oh right yeah for sure what is the option if you want to do it in person like that now it's midnight now no it's midnight yeah but it's you know there's fewer options than the heyday of midnight releases but um yes they would be like you
some people maybe will sleep over there, but no, you're not going to have to do that because you're going to have a pre-order. And then there's going to be a handful in the store. So yeah, people will line up and it'll open at midnight. They'll have refreshments and stuff like that. And then you go into the games Stop.
or Best Buy. Those are the two places doing it. Maybe Target's doing it as well. I can't remember. I have fond memories of that. I really do. It's just like, it's a long wait. You're uncomfortable. I remember the PS2 one was in the rain for me.
but it was just like everyone's just so excited everyone's talking about what games they're gonna get like people are tossing footballs around and drinking beer and it's great i don't admit everybody will have their switch ones to play stuff so you know uh we should just do a tailgate I'd be game for it, yeah. Big Philly style? Big Philly style. Yeah, as the Philly style.
Switch 2 is going to be fun to play because apparently a lot of the Switch 2 games are just going to work as you hope they would. There have been no issues reported so far according to a lot of testing that Nintendo's done. Nintendo reports Most Switch games have no issues on the upcoming Switch 2. While some games have startup or in-game compatibility problems requiring fixes, the majority of the 15,000 third-party games titles that have been tested show no issues at all. I think, um...
You know, that's the baseline that people are hoping for. But this is going to be mostly emulation. I think they said something about a hybrid solution, but it's emulation, really. And that always introduces the possibility for some things just not to work that you're not expecting.
sounds like that's going to be a minimal problem here uh this time around which you know that it's important i want all my switch games to work but i was at there was a time there where i was definitely hoping switch one games would actually just all run better out of the box and that could still happen but i'm less
hopeful for that now i feel like the only time i've ever really noticed that because like you know like there's the what ps4 game boost there's you know you've seen toggles like that i've never really noticed it except for with um the uh xbox backwards compatibility stuff like playing like max pain mercenaries you know things where it's like the load times were totally removed yeah yeah and just runs great 60 frames a second red dead i think ran really well that way that was like
they would do like extra work on some of those things like you know mirror's edge ran at a better frame rate than it ever did on original Right, right. I did that OEM, or the ODE, the optical disk drive emulator thing on the GameCube. And so it's loading games from an SD card now. Would that load games faster? Because some games that I thought had longer loading times are loading almost instantly, and it's freaking me out.
You would imagine, I guess. I guess so. Yeah, I wonder if that was CPU bottleneck or whatever, but I'm going to do some tests. I'll see what I can find out. Alright, some other Nintendo news. Nintendo appears to have blocked the recording of videos on its Nintendo Today app. This is very strange.
nintendo has seemingly blocked video recording basically it has implemented drm uh so that when you try to record a video natively using you know whatever app it is on the ios or just the built-in functionality on android It just... Gives you back a black screen. I think and nothing gets recorded which some
can do, right? That's a security functionality. Nintendo's news announcements probably don't have those same security concerns. This is Nintendo just being weird. Yeah, it's like, if Netflix does it, sure, I get it, but Nintendo, not somewhere. And they're still using that app. I mean, I think Nintendo believes that they can get more people to use it if they don't let the news escape through other channels. I don't know. Gross. God bless them. Yeah.
It's really bizarre, but do any of you have the Nintendo Today app installed on your devices? No. I haven't ever once. I don't use it. Yeah, I think I've installed it. I've not checked it in a few weeks. Alright, the next Nintendo Direct will reportedly drop around Switch 2's launch. A Nintendo Direct live stream is rumored to be held around the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5th, according to journalists
Pedro Henrique Luti Lippe. Historically, Nintendo has held directs in June, often focusing on upcoming games. Some people are getting their hopes up for it. Anyhow, Um... We've talked about the possibility of a direct a couple times, but now as we are on the precipice of the launch, do you guys think it's likely it would be weird? What do you think about a direct the week of the Switch 2's launch? There's some games that they definitely need to show more of.
Show a bit more Donkey Kong, show more Kirby, Air Ride, Pokemon, Zah. We don't have a release date for Metroid Prime 4. Have you seen the GameCube stuff? what's that maybe new gamecube stuff like one other game yeah or you know you can hope maybe we do actually get just metroid prime 2 and 3 remaster maybe even nso stuff like donkey kong 64 i think we all expect that to happen around the time of bonanza
um you know people are like oh maybe there's like one more game for this year we could see what that looks like and you know there's uh the other hyrule warriors right there's plenty of things to talk about here honestly for me the big thing is We gotta get that Metroid Prime 4. Yep. I don't know if it'll happen like, you know, the week of June 5th, but I expect something to happen in June with the director. I would hope not that same weekend of SGF because there's a lot of things going down.
yep yeah i guess it'd be like the week after sgf but we don't we're all still going to be traveling there's still going to be a ton of stuff it would be in the wake of a lot of other work so that'd be annoying uh But, yeah, I think sometime in June they probably do something. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens. Fire Emblem remake that we've been thinking is real forever. It's basically been done forever. So I'm pointing out.
Yep, exactly. They have lots of things they can still talk about, like always. So, we'll see. I think that... Man, people do keep going back to getting Mario this holiday. I don't know where that's coming from. What does that mean? There's a lot of people out that cover video game news that when they talk about this,
They go to thinking, well, there's also a Mario game coming in addition to this Donkey Kong bonanza, and it could come as soon as this holiday. Well, I trust only, like, you know, four people's opinion, and three of them are you, Grubb. So... I think that'd be crazy. I think that'd be, I think that's next holiday. Yes. If that even. Right. Initially, when we saw Donkey Kong Bonanza, I'm like, that's what they've been working on. That's the Mario team. Nothing else.
And now maybe there's some thinking that some of the support studios could have helped a lot on either this game or on the Mario 3D game because the support studios did help out a lot with Odyssey and then with Bowser's Fury.
uh so yeah maybe next holiday but i don't think this holiday that would be nuts especially like if you have a mario game and you're announcing a system and it's coming out within the six months of that system's release you just say that because mario is that big and they didn't so everybody just i don't know everybody's like there has to be a big holiday game for the switch too
And like, in their minds, Pokemon Legends ZA doesn't count, but it counts. Metroid would count. Well, both of those things are coming. So regardless of what you think counts, you're going to get one of those. I think they have another game. I don't know if it's a big game for this holiday.
Alright, let's shift over to some PlayStation news. This is interesting. While everyone else is raising prices, Sony confirms it's going to actually discount the PS5 this week. Yes, let's see here. This is for accessories and software, and it is starting this week. Sony is offering discounts on PlayStation 5 hardware and software, including $50 off the PS5 Pro in the United States.
from May 28th to June 11th during its Days of Play campaign. A Call of Duty Black Ops 6 bundle will also be available offering savings compared to buying the console and game separately. Discounts will extend to other PS5 models.
VR 2, controllers, earbuds, and first-party games. Man, I didn't even know they still sold the PSVR 2. While prices recently increased in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, the U.S. has avoided similar increases, although the Slim Digital Edition launched at a higher price. Um, what do you think is happening here? I mean, obviously they always discount it from days of play.
So it's part of that. But I'm definitely operating under the assumption that they are still going to raise the price of the PS5 in the United States because they have not done that since they did it everywhere else. And then since then, Microsoft has raised the price. The Switch 2 got announced with a high enough price that you could justify a price increase for the PS5.
Is this like one last party before that happens or what? It's maybe unrelated, but I don't know, Jeff. Maybe I'm crazy. I still just don't think they're going to raise the price. I think they're going to continue the bite. the bullet you know they've been afraid to do it here because they know americans get so upset i mean i know xbox raised the price i bet if we could look at the sales data that is going not great for them right right yes absolutely
And maybe they don't care about selling consoles much anymore, but Sony definitely does. So they don't want to throw any wrench into that works. Yeah, well, I bet they're keeping price increases on the table if they're not immediately planning them. And then so I guess other than that, it's business as usual. And that would mean a discounted PS5 through the days of play.
Who here has a PS5 Pro? Dan, I know you have one. Did anyone else? I don't. And it's weird to me that I don't, because I always just get these things. I mean like you've you've gotten the sentiment anecdotally even that like it's
maybe not the thing you think it is. We're not rushing out to get it. That's the difference there. I get that. It's a lot of money. It's funny because I What difference is $100 at a certain point, but it's like it's actually a big difference especially in my head of just like If they had come out at the price that the PlayStation 5 was at launch I could almost swallow that pill, but the fact that it's more expensive than the PS5 ever was.
it's like no and like how many years i really think this thing has maybe more than i'd like to admit even that just kind of makes me more depressed when i think about it it's just different than the ps4 pro it's just like a totally different uh insertion point in the life cycle and the necessity is completely different like the day one tangibility of like a perceived improvement yeah you bought a 4k tv take advantage of that with the ps4 pro
it was just like a one-to-one like easy sell and the cost wasn't pornographic the way it is now they were releasing more ps4 games they just were right so it's like the future was sort of like you know bright brighter maybe meanwhile we're all like when is Someone can even talk to us at all about its games. We just don't know very much about them
We'll talk about that here in a second. $650 for PS5 Pro. I think had that discount happened quickly after the PS5 Pro got announced or came out, that might have moved me but now at this point of getting used to not having it i'm like nah they should have they should have bundled it with like a year of premium or something like they should have like made it more you know attractive of a purchase and it just looks like this huge number should have made it look cool
It just looks boring. Now wait a second. It's got ridges. that's one thing we'll disagree on i do like i like the aesthetics of the whole playstation 5 family i like it's really wally eve aesthetic i think it's yeah i'm fine with like the base ps5 looking like seto kaiba from yugioh but like The Pro, I don't know, looked cooler. Sure. Get more swagged out or something. It's possible to put in a bag and travel with or something. It's just way too clunky.
That's not enough. I mean, come on. There's one portable console and that was the GameCube. I don't know. Sony's next PlayStation State of Play will reportedly be coming in June. Sony is likely holding a State of Play presentation in June instead of a larger showcase.
uh this comes from hi me yeah let's say who reported that yeah i talked about this on a in a couple places we did on game s mornings i think um And so for people that are always wondering about the distinction there, state of play versus a showcase, PlayStation has done stuff called showcases. in the past, and these are like their big E3 equivalent productions where they have tons of massive first party announcements and things like that, or that's the idea at least.
uh that's the kind of place where they could show off a ps5 when it was getting announced in a playstation showcase state of plays are more like directs um but and then sometimes they could be even less than that or like sometimes they could just be like a partner direct and nintendo partner direct uh so the thinking here is like uh hey they're gonna do a state of play is this not gonna be exciting i still think there's plenty chance
that we see very cool announcements from sony itself inside of a state of play but i don't know what are your all's expectations level expectation level for big announcements from sony at this point if they come out with a state of play in june They've got to just talk to us about some things, right? Obviously, we're going to see more Ghosts of Yotai. Wolverine, we have not heard much about since basically the leaks, right?
What's going on over there? I don't know if we're going to see too much more of Intergalactic for a while. right we have to see more marathon right that i i would assume that unless it gets delayed yeah unless it gets delayed uh yeah marathon and fair games who knows what's going on with those two games right now maybe nothing good But that's the thing, it's like we're kind of, yeah, sentiment is kind of like negative.
uh so maybe show us some stuff that looks cool and interesting maybe you know do talk about some new things that maybe they are a bit off but it's exciting you're bringing back Some franchises that we care about. Don't do that Hell is Us game again, I feel like. That's like their favorite.
They have a pet partner game that they keep to the side all the time. It presents really well. Every time they show that game off, everyone's like, what the fuck is this? Well, maybe it's just me. You can definitely do that. I pop hard for it. I don't like that phrase. But, you know, yeah, you know, like, I think, like, it'll, you know, I mean, that game's, like, September, right? There's stuff this year. When is Soros out?
I don't know, but we haven't seen gameplay of that, have we? That's one I'm very... You're right. I just fucking love Returnal, and I would love to see what the hell Saros is all about. That's a ways out. Initial release date, this looks like a placeholder. It must be 2026 because it says December 31st, 2026. What do you think is the possibility of seeing anything Last of Us related? Remake to again or whatever. Yeah, but I get nothing. I mean, come on intergalactic is the
Has everything The Last of Us been fully remade at this point and re-released through Package Up? I think there's nothing else they could possibly justify remastering again at this point. I think there's a chance that the other project that Druckmann referenced a couple weeks ago, maybe that pops up. And I think that's an Uncharted game, but maybe not. That may not be exciting.
I just checked my embargo information, and I can say that I played Hell Is Us, and we'll be able to talk about it this week. Oh, okay, great. Yes, very soon, and I got an article going up at the old place. All right, cool. Let's see here. Next news story. I'm going back over to my headlines. Um, Star Wars Battlefront 2 devs want to get the band back together is how they phrased it.
They want to get the Wolfpack. That's who made Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2. That's right, Perry Saturn was lead developer. Saturn wasn't in the Wolfpack! I didn't watch WCW. There's the Radicals! Either way, Battlefront 2's popularity is the highest it's ever been on Steam. It has the most concurrent players it's ever had on Steam. Now it launched on Steam long after it came out on the EA store, whatever that's called, Origin.
And so it never had the highest concurrent player numbers on there. It was like 9,000 or something. It's surpassed that now. And people are crediting that to Andor and maybe that Revenge of the Sith in theaters recently. Whatever the reason is, uh people are getting excited about the possibility of ea and dice going back to battlefront with a battlefront 3. ea's never said anything about this but this one developer did say that they
the team that worked on it talks about it and they there's a sense that they want to get the band back together they would like to do this i i don't know how likely that likely that is i they got to get battlefield correct first right this next battlefield game seems super important and then maybe one day they could talk about a battlefront again We're talking about the 2017 joint, right? 2017 Battlefront 2, yes, that's right.
That's weird. That was the one with the really good gameplay but the really bad loot box situation. Yeah, that game actually has kind of a lot going for it yeah it was very heavy so that was a problem and of course it had terrible terrible loot boxes which and as bad as they were it got amplified times 10 on the internet right like the whole thing But man, when that game is going, that game was fun. That game looked...
really, really good. It still looks as good as a game needs to look. It looks as good as a game needs to look. That planet on the Kamino, that water level, is still just kind of amazing with the rain falling and the outside sections. So, like, I would love if they made another one and you kind of just take the good and leave behind the bad and just really have fun with it, but...
You're probably right, Jeff. that they are worrying more about battlefield right now even though frankly i'd be more excited for battlefront 3 i i would too uh i did like
This is for Game S Mornings tomorrow, but I looked at the poll I ran from last week. It's like, hey, do you want another Battlefront game? And half of the people are like, no. So for as much as the excitement is building around this game and Star Wars fans are convincing themselves that there is a popular wave of support for it, and there is,
I don't think it's to the point where, oh, this is penetrating the mainstream so that EA can justify it to itself spending years and years making a new one of these. First of all, by the time they do that, A million things could go wrong with Star Wars again, and it wouldn't be worth it.
And then second, you know, the hardcore Star Wars fans saying they want something does not translate to the mass audience saying they want something anymore i mean unfortunately the time to do it kind of was when they did battlefront 2 when right after that force awakens was the biggest movie ever kind of thing right And, you know, Star Wars hasn't really been in as good shape as that for a long time. So kind of good luck doing it now.
Yep. You know, this is EA. They're doing Skate 4 because of a social media thing. But I don't think that's going to be a trend for them. I don't think they're going to glom on to every single one of these. Alright, a couple more stories here. Ex Machina director Alex Garland is going to helm the Elden Ring movie for A24. It's going to be live action. It's going to have writers.
people are going to write this movie they're going to work with george rr martin yeah railroad martin's getting on this george railroad martin is going to be on the poster i guarantee that his name will be very big on there um how involved he is like look he already wrote a bunch of lore maybe they can email him and ask him some questions i don't know but
I think this is a pretty good fit. I brought up on KMS Mornings when I reported the story originally that the Green Knight is like a very good model for what I think an Eldering movie should look like. And if they could just kind of do that again with this, I'd be happy. But the Grey Knight has, like,
One freak. The Green Knight. Yeah, I don't know. Barry Colgan is in that movie. He's the other freak. He counts as like 50 freaks. What is Green Knight's gimmick? Like a tree person. Okay. What's the Seth Rogen thing? Green Hornet. Yes. Green Hornet. Oh, shoot, the guy was talking about Green Hornet. That's a DC. That's a Green Lantern. That's a Green Lantern.
or just have this conversation in your head and don't bring it to the podcast is a different name than those other things you said that's the cute cute thing here it is different right and you see the confusion No. The green. I only see green. Wow. Anyways, I don't want you to be a funny Denny Jeff, but I don't see this working. You would need time in my mind. Have you played out in a ring? Have you seen what's happening in that game? How everybody looks, how that world looks? I think
You need Avatar money to make that shit work and look cheap. I think that was right 20 years ago. I don't think that's right anymore. Make it look good. I think that's right. I think it would be better served as like a series versus a movie. Sure. Yeah. You know. Problem number two. story it's mostly more it's mostly you know movie based on vibes that's fine
I love Drive. We're going to get a Drive. Your vibe. You didn't like Drive? Drive's good. Drive's good, too. I hate Drive, actually, kind of with a bit of a passion. Oh, come on. Let's unpack this. What don't you like about it?
stupid cynical movie where they play something with like a low bass and everybody's like it's vibes now because there's a neon light and bass and then they like curb storm somebody's head and it's gross everyone's like this movie is brutal in a way that makes me feel alive he's just upset there's not enough dog murder in there and they need to be all over because all the stuff i watch is so uplifting Bullshit.
I mean, it drives fun. I guess I understand a little bit of what you're saying, but you're being a funny daddy. I know. I can't. Speaking of funny daddy, here's my turn. I can't think of a single video game franchise I would care about as a TV show or a movie. Yeah. That's... I just... If they're done with Twisted Metal, I don't care. I would see a Metal Gear movie. I saw the Mario movie. I thought it was well done. You think Bioshock would be a good movie?
I just wouldn't- I wouldn't care. I just wouldn't- I wouldn't care. the next bio shack and that we've been talking about how it's gonna be a movie for 20 years and it doesn't happen i think that's the most likely scenario is this movie never gets made of course yeah but i think it's like a realistic way of doing it I think it's the Green Knight route where it's like, you know, you focus on a few freaks and you go make it happen, but it's probably not.
Um, alright. I mean, yeah, go ahead, please. I was just, I mean, like, they did do a really good job with Last of Us, like, that is... Dude, I thought everyone hates it. No, that's just people online. Well, people seem less enthused about the second season, but I don't think that means it's a terrible show or anything like that. The first season is well, very high-regarded. There's just a lot of actual people in The Last of Us and then, like, fungal people, whatever. It's easy.
I think to make the blanket statement that There isn't any video game worth adapting. I'm not saying that I would be interested in. But that doesn't really mean. I'm trying to think if there's anything that I would like. actually be super excited for where I have to see it. I think I would watch an Alan Wake series. Dan, you don't care about that Kojima heavily involved Death Stranding movie?
I'll see it out of curiosity. Same as if there was a Metal Gear movie they've talked about for 20 fucking years or whatever. I'd see it, but I don't know. Death Stranding is a pretty cinematic game. Metal Gear Solid, extremely cinematic. But the stuff I love is the way it interacts with the game. know medium and i don't necessarily boil down to our version of the story that was delivered quite well in video games i'm with you for sure yeah
Yeah. Like, there's been a wave of, obviously, video game movies and shows announced recently. And I am at a point where it's like, oh, even if that comes out, I'm not watching them. You know, first and foremost, I mean, Zelda is one of my favorite franchises of all time. I could not give less of a shit about what I would have. I think that would I'd have.
i think that one's gonna watch it i'll see it but like i'm not like gonna go in like super excited you know like i'll see it sure about it yeah okay i think that's gonna have a similar problem I think when we see what that looks like, a lot of people are going to be kind of weirded out. I guess that's what it looks like when we have budgets and green screens and special effects instead of just everything's a video game in uniform.
I'd like to be pleasantly surprised I think you get the Jim Henson company to work on the Elden Ring movie, and you are halfway to harass my people. Yeah, the rascal people. I've never heard my dad mention Jim Henson ever, and just today he texted me about Jim Henson. I did a joke. You ready, Mike? I'm going to be my dad. This is probably going to be really insensitive. No. Did you know that Jim Hansen was a micromanager? No. Okay. Yeah, he had a hand in everything.
That's funny because they're puppets. Did your dad like read the back of a Snapple cap? Like what happened? Bazooka Joe, yeah. Alright, last story here uh this one got appended by i believe mike minati dragon quest 1 and 2 hd 2d remake arrives on october 30th just in time for halloween And it's coming to Switch 2, also releasing on Switch 1, Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. Switch 2 version is a game key card version, although Switch 1 version appears to have the whole game on the card. That's weird.
All right. Hey, cool. That's fun. We've been waiting for this. Yeah, I haven't, you know, we got the 3 remake about that time.
last year and we were kind of wondering when this one would drop i liked it a lot i thought it was very pretty perhaps my favorite of the hd2d remakes if not that then the live alive was was very good yeah as well but and i like strident quest 3 a lot but i actually had played that one before i've not played one and two so uh this will be my first time getting to experience those and also like If the order seems weird here, uh, chronologically... The story does go three, one, and two.
So you are playing them in order, actually, if you started with three. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So I think it's neat. The game card stuff has become a bit of a talking point because even though it is that game key card for Switch 2, so the game's not actually on there. It looks like the game is actually just on the Switch 1 game card. So, you know, something funky has been going on there with the way Nintendo has been selling these cards.
Uh, okay. Well, that does it for the... Oh, wait. No, please. Another headline breaking from Jerf. No, it's not a headline. It's just a... I want to put a footnote on the previous movie adaptation. I mean, I thought you had something to say about Dragon Quest. No, I don't.
I think I said this somewhere. I'm sure I did at one point. And I think, Dan, you were really on board. I can't remember. So maybe think about the reverse, right? Where there's not like a franchise that you want to see made into a movie. But is there a movie that you would want to be made into a video? The Rock. well here okay what if you could play every scene of the rock in a video game well they already have the shower room and the gulag and
Warp or two. And basically, the underwater infiltration is just Metal Gear Solid 1. The video game is called The Rock. Oh. And you play as... Connery's dead. Goodspeed. Connery died. Stanley Goodspeed. Find anybody who can do that voice. Yeah, there you go, okay? I do want to play a John Mason, not a Stanley Goods, baby.
You play both. Of course you do. You play us both of them. Oh, you do like a Diffuse the Rocket minigame or something? Exactly. Like, would you not play every second of The Rock the video game? Yeah. Yeah, okay. So, I want Die Hard, I want... Die Hard trilogy's good! no i want to play it in the way that like the indiana jones game was like that's what i want machine games die hard we all said die hard arcade which is very good
I am aware that the IP has been used before in video games. I'm talking. Die Hard Man was in Death Stranding. You understand what I'm putting out there, right? You understand what this could be. Right? Every scene of the movie you play, aside from, like, all the bullshit, right? You don't care. The Rock doesn't have that. No fat on that. There's no fat. There's a little bit of fat.
There's the Beatles super freak and the sex on the roof. Do you want to play Buscemi with the people? That's Connor! What are you talking about? All of a sudden I conflated The Rock and Conair. The Rock is much better than Conair. Conair is fine. It is. Empirically. Conair is great. No arguing here. I don't know why all of a sudden. You know why? Because that was the plane scene.
And for whatever reason, I conflated the plane. You can only have one plane in your head at a time. Yeah, exactly. There's only room. Air Force One would be a... Oh, man. They already got the Harrison Ford model. Air Force One would be an excellent video. Excellent video.
get off my plane would be awesome so why aren't we like we're going only one way why are we not going the other way yeah but i love movies too the real reason this is happening is because movies are desperate for anything that's like succeeded somewhere else of course so they just grab it and video games are like that doesn't work for us okay Because video games can basically do all the things that movies can do. Movies can't do the things video games can do.
Yeah, the movie based on Roadcraft would suck. That'd be bad. Sure. You say that in a video game, but you'd watch it. A video game based on Rehearsal Season 2. Oh, my God. Have you finished it, Jan? No, I took the test. That's in the last day. What did you find? Because I wanted to take the test. I couldn't find it. I just searched for it for the same name as the I. Can I take the test right now?
No, we don't have enough time. It takes a while. There's like 36. I took it, yeah. It's supposed to take you like two to three minutes, right? They said if you're not autistic, it should take three to five minutes. If you're autistic, it takes longer. What?
What is this test? It's like the mind and the eyes test or something like that. I'm not going to spoil the finale because it's fucking nuts what happens. Yeah, well. Holy shit. None of you have seen what happens. Could you spoil it? My understanding is it's so insane. Yes, you can spoil it. easily. I can tell you. I'm just going to type it to you in Discord. Yeah, sure, please.
Don't make me... Oh, my God. Snape killed Dumbledore? Shut the fuck up! That's a good reference. Fuck Harry Potter. Yeah, thanks. All right, gang. Grab, is that it with the news? Yeah, I'm done with the news. I handed the show back over to you. Okay, well, Jeff Beckler hijacked for a second. My bad. And we're going to try to make a point, and I came in and shut it down. Sorry, Beckler.
We're going to go take a break and break and break and we will be back with... Grubb the react before we go. Grubb, don't you read any of that out loud. Oh my god, what? He shot a dog too? I gotta watch this. Oh, my God. All right, fade into black.
bombcastandgiantbomb.com is the email address in your emails too you can write in about any and everything and i will look at it and decide whether or not it's worth it to show on the show and sometimes hey a little too weird other times thank you so much for the support we love you first email of the show comes from jeff from london Yo, this one's for grub, but I fuck with you all.
Road Works Scrub was talking about cool vehicles and how fun they are to work with. I drive boats. I'm a navigational officer and I've worked on container ships and car carriers and platform supply vessels. uh for the last few years i've worked on tugboats tugboats are basic tugboats basically park bigger boats in reality it's us on on the big boat and shoving them around on our small but powerful vessel
It's an incredible feeling using the power and utility of a vessel like that in what I can imagine is the same sentiment for people that do it on land, like in road craft. Congrats on independence. Love you all. Jeff from London. Man, tugboats are weird, right? How does that little thing tug around that big boat? That's nuts. I think boat boats are weird. Sure. Or they stand above the water. Yeah, no one knows. That's true. How do you think they stand above the water, Dan? Errors involved.
Would it help you if I explain that it's the water that keeps the boat from... syncing It's because it's like when you breathe in when you're underwater and you got air in your lungs and it makes you float up. It's like there's pockets of air in the boat. I mean, sure, but like... The water's pushing against the boat and the way the boat is shaped. The bigger it is and the broader it is, there's more pressure pushing the boat up.
and keeping it floating as long as the water doesn't get on the other side of that air and planes and it's like how it's the the wings are cutting through the air it's not lift and drag pressure and sometimes you're on you have like A mile before you're gonna get into the accident and that's what you're looking at This is not
just curious what Dan would say about it. And then Dan, you know, he didn't know. And you're right, that's not surprising. And Baccar's right that I should cut it off now instead of trying to explain it. You're like, I bet if I keep going 60 miles an hour, I'll hit that car a mile ahead of me. might as well floor it yep speaking about cutting it off next email comes from owen in minnesota hey bombcast fuck
Welcome and congrats on independence. Jan mentioned a bit ago that crop tops should be a thing that is added to the store, which can be difficult. I run a merch store as well. But I have an elegant solution for a quick mock-up design even. Behold, the greatest worst idea ever. Official Giant Bomb DIY crop tops. And now I will show the image on screen. I get it.
Owen here has included a dotted line across where the tummy would be where you would gotta cut it yourself. That's clever. That's clever. And then you can take the rest of the shirt and perhaps fashion like a headband or something. Yeah. It's tough to source out crop tops, turns out. Really?
I mean, the partner we work with does not, I don't believe, offer that out of the gate. We'd have to self-source that. I've heard requests. I think this is a great worker. I think it makes it fun, too. Yeah. I like it. We can also see how good people are at cutting things. True. They should come pre-cut, like perforated, right? Where you're just sort of like, you tear off the tag yourself, that'd be neat. Just bend it, and then just...
You wash it once and the bottom falls off. That's how it works. There we go. There we go. All right. Next email comes from Ross from Gig Harbor, soon to be Eau Claire. Oh, no, actually, Alex and Ben to go first. Of all the things that confuse me about America, and there's a lot, even more so recently, it's that grape seems to be one of your standard flavors.
or soda, jelly, candy, whatever. It doesn't seem like something you could explain to me. Why is this the case? So what's something about another country that puzzles you? Wait, what? No, I mean, this is the least of our problems. You don't understand, like, look, candy is, you got grape, you got strawberry, you got green apple, you got, it's just like all the different fruits translate very well to candy tastes, and grape is a fruit.
But to be clear, grape flavor tastes nothing like any grape flavor. I like grape flavor. I guess that's what they're getting at, is that, you know, it's like our blue raspberry flavor, right? They said grape jelly. Okay, that's right. Jelly is like shoot grain. Nope, it's not. But it is made of shoot grape. Yeah, but a grape does not taste like grape jelly. I know, but wine doesn't taste like grape either, so it's like... Yeah, I think you can make more of the argument, but...
But I do think there's a tangible difference also with like banana flavored candy. Banana flavor is different than grape flavor and how it's implemented in it. I agree with that. Isn't the thing though that like banana flavoring in candy is actually close to what bananas used to be like. I think I've heard this. Oh, interesting. Bananas used to taste like current candy banana is my understanding. I like them both.
God, I just imagined... anytime dan says shoot banana i just imagine him pointing like bananas at me like they're guns Fire and Spurs. Green apple, the flavor, yay, nay. Why do you think that? Because green apple doesn't taste like apples. And yet somehow still disgusting. I'm just saying. Maybe there's a loophole. I don't know. Mikey, what if we were all up to a bar and we're all getting appletinis with the bitches? Yeah. Yo, don't you want to be one of the bitches? Girl. Scott.
girl girl i'll take a scotch i love green i love the candy flavor green apple i think of like in terms of color flavors give me purple number one, and then pretty good. Grape flavor is more just purple flavor. Have we done this where I set a color and you guys told me what flavor you associate with it? It should be obvious. Yeah, yellow. Banana. Or lemon. I say banana even though I like lemon way more, but banana comes to my mind first. Okay, red. Cherry cherry.
I go strawberry. Oh, strawberry. I think I'm pink for strawberry because starburst style is pink. That's what I agree with. It's cherry. Red is cherry because apple is green. Yes. And then green. Watermelon. Cherry.
oh yeah green green is lime hopefully and it was when they changed the lime skittles for the apple one no it was way better green green warheads were watermelon right yeah sometimes they're watermelon i like it when candy would do the green and red for watermelon like a hubba baba would do that yeah yeah last one i think it's the hardest blue Blue raspberry, yeah. Or blueberry. Or Powerade.
oh yeah sure what the blue powerade is the standard i guess like mcdonald's had it my dorm had it like disney has it i think they were just trying to have their color the way like gatorade is that like greenish yellow oh yeah the orange you're right oh i think a glacier freeze for gatorade
Sure, but that's not what's in the commercials. No, Gatorade owns the color orange. Oh, so I don't know if I've ever bought an orange Gatorade. I think like gallons and gallons of everything. Yeah, like OG. The mix. Yeah, I think OG, like the Florida Gators Gatorade was that yellowish color, right? Yeah. That's what it was.
All right, gang. This now comes from Ross from Gig Harbor, soon to be an Oakland player. Hey, Bomberinos. I'm moving from Washington State to Wisconsin in a couple weeks for work in the fact that I've been priced out of my hometown. Uh, super nervous about it. No friends or family out there. I'm really glad I'll have you all to listen to as a form of stability. I've been listening since 2014. Wow. 10 years has flown by. Thanks. 11, but who's counting? Okay. All right. Don't correct.
Expressing gratitude. If you had to move to a different state, where would you move and why? Also, my wife sold my PS4 to Wheeze in my 360. Skyrim, Smash Brothers Brawl, Titanfall 1, controllers, and the works at our garage sale while I was at work. Can you guess how much? I can because it's here. Well, I don't know. All those things for one price? All of those things. No, those are particularly expensive. Maybe $2.50 for all of it. Yeah, I was going to say something like that. $70. No!
Sure, that's low, but also none of those are super valuable right now. Yeah, but that's why he's moving also. He's getting divorced. Was this thumb behind his back? Is that the implication? That's weird about the case. You said Wally was at work, right? It's like my mom sold all my Happy Meal toys. Yeah. I love that.
Two Wiis should go for a hundred, right? Two Wiis are cheap. I think Wiis are real cheap. The PS4 would go for more than the Wii. The 360s are pretty cheap. But like Skyrim, Smash Brawl, I mean, as far as Smash Brothers Brawl is the cheapest. Brawl, they sell controllers. Uh, controllers, yeah. I mean, it's more than 70, but it's not like a grand, you know? No, no, it wasn't selling GameCube shit. ps4 alone is like 70 like honestly it might be much more than that
Not much, maybe a pro, but a base PS4, I'm going to guess 100, maybe. Yeah, I think like 150, I think. I think Wisconsin's a great state. I have a friend in Milwaukee. The question is, what was the question? We were going to move to another state. And you know, I hear that. florida siren call sometimes but there's things about florida that aren't great uh no is what yeah yeah heat is one of them even in may it was a bit much how hot it was there among other things in florida
Florida would maybe be my 50th state. And that includes, like, you know, Alaska. There's good fishing in Alaska, boys. You'd have to fly so far to go anywhere if you live in Alaska, though. That's the thing, right? yeah but i'm not in florida like i mean that's
That's it. I understand Mulaney has a really good bit about why Florida is the punchline to everything. Yeah, but Mulaney is also the punchline to a lot of things. His new show is incredible. That Netflix show. I'm shocked. It's like energy of old Conan and Letterman. It's fantastic. I've liked visiting Dan quite a lot in Minnesota. I think I would be completely happy there. for sure i would go to colorado yeah we would move back to denver if we could afford it for sure yeah southern california
That's not a different state. No, it feels like one. Oh, Maine. I would live in Maine. I'd consider Wisconsin. I mean, it's like 10 minutes from here right now. Sure. We've got the Twin Cities. definitely mostly just want to keep staying in ohio till i die i think i like I would think about Hawaii, but that would make the time difference between me and y'all terrible. I saw the Lilo and Stitch live-action remake talking about Hawaii.
I thought it was fine. Yeah, fine is right. A generous amount. Minotti, be honest. If Disney wasn't in Florida, you'd have no place saying that. Would Universal be there still? No, they're both not. Yeah, it's one million percent about being close to the theme parks and going all the time. Okay, cool. That's fine. Because even when you're there... you're not really in florida i know exactly right right i would live like right by there and having just the weather it's just the same for them
Can people still move into Triumph, Florida? Celebration. Celebration. Can people still move? disney's town yeah yeah and they have like an even fancier one like actually in disney world that's very expensive that's crazy that celebration is still a thing my wife's boss has a place in celebration You know what? I did really, really, really like Philadelphia when Dan and I were there. That was a great time, yeah. I liked that a lot.
Big Philly style. We can all agree no New Jersey, though, right? Jersey gets a bad rap. Jersey's fine. It's cool. I'm pro-Jersey. Pennsylvania's another one where you do it to specify West Pennsylvania or East Pennsylvania. It's a very... I think you have to specify for journalism. i was spending most of my days oh fuck i think yeah no one well because philadelphia is essentially like southwest new jersey right in a weird way Alright, next email. Don't you forget about me. I will.
Next email comes from Cooper in San Jose. Hey folks, after hearing last week's episode where y'all talked about memes and brain rot, I figured I would never have a better time than now to send this email. i work as a high school english teacher and for their final projects i had my ap kids create presentations on any subject of their choosing
One of my groups chose Italian brain rot as their topic. Oh my god. That's an actual thing? You weren't just making a joke earlier? No, it's real. I told you. Dib came home and he's like, Dad, sit down. Alright. And another chose Teaching Mr. Cooper About the Internet. I'm hanging with Mr. Cooper. That's awesome. After hearing their presentations and learning about tralalero tralala a three-legged shark with blue shoes
Bombardino Crocodilio, an Air Force bomber with a crocodile head. No, Dan, maybe this is a new antagonist for another Air Force Gator book. I will sue a fucking kid. You got a lawsuit on your hands, dude. I will sue a child. And ballerina cappuccino. A ballerina. Wait, we're not real? That's Italian brain rot? My kids have been saying fucking ballerina cappuccino to me for a hundred times today for the last week. Where did they learn this? It's just the... Mike's right. It's the streets.
literally about to google is ballerina cappuccino italian yes 100 that is like on the encyclopedia entry that's what you get oh okay ballerina cappuccino a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head i realize that it's effectively a new wave of dadaism art dadaism was a counterculture art style around the 1920s that utilized nonsensical noises and sounds vibrant colors
Random objects and was essentially your great-grandparents' brain rot. Yeah. Wait, Toom Toom, is that something? I don't know. That I've not heard of. Okay, because I think he's the other guy that hangs out with Bowery in a cab machine. It's Fred. Sure. essentially when i told the kids about this they were bored out of their minds and visibly upset i wasn't disgusted and repulsed by their nonsense teenagers I hate nothing more than adults accepting even using their culture and memes.
It's actually a Pokemon episode of South Park. That's what my dad does at every holiday thing is he asks me, like, what are kids saying now? And I'm like, just say Skibbity. And I'll say that around my nieces and they will hate it so fucking much. That's good. All right, fantastic. Thank you, Cooper and San Jose, for that informational dump there about Ballerina Cappuccino. I think Dan may have a legal case against him.
yeah dino crocodilo yeah i don't like that tune tune tune sucker is an anthropomorphic wooden object resembling an indian club and bedug drum and holding a baseball bat yep that's him sounds problematic Yes, my kids have also been bringing up Tung Tung Tung to be a bunch. And I'm like, okay. Do they have the internet? I think YouTube just sort of finds it.
for them yeah yeah it's it's that is weird where like You would think there would be such diversity in slang, but somehow there's enough of like a... A sort of overhead of connective tissue where everyone is on the same page about something.
with very little overlap it's very it happened even like in our day right where it's like a lot of these things would have spread from school to school across the country and you're like how did that work without the like you know we had the early internet maybe sure but
But it wasn't through that. It was just through, like, rec sports and other things we're doing. Yeah, it would be like everyone just started going, not, because of, like, Wayne's World. Like, that's basically what we're doing. Oh, yeah. I mean, everybody. from aladdin Yes, that's where it came from. Higher Sword wants to know, is like a bowl of spaghetti or something count as Italian brain?
no it does now no i mean maybe we're too old to contribute to the brain rot yeah we can just be observers like yeah tasteful observers like the man on mars okay Yes, bombcast at giantbomb.com is the email address to send all of your emails to. I love and appreciate all of them, and I do read all of them. If you didn't make it into the show, sorry. Well, we'll maybe catch you next week. And that's not it! Mike Minotti!
Read some goddamn super chats. We're adding this to the email segment. I'm pending it here. Go. Yeah, yeah. At that point, Jerry says, where's our new gamer rap, Mitch? Yeah, look, things got a little busy over here. TGIF. I, Bromalgia says, pronounce my name like, secondly, would you rather play the first Turok or Doom 64? I played both of those Night Dive remasters, and they're both good, but Doom 64.
noticeably a better video, like a base better video game than Turok 1 is. It's TGI Fibromyalgia. Yeah, really? Oh, that's right. My bad. Shit. We do this every time they super chat. Hired source, as my niece and nephew call me Uncle Bobo. It basically means dummy in Portuguese, but my sister started it and it stuck. That's cute. Hell yeah. Same thing in Tagalog. Team Money LG says, I like Mike Minotti. He is cool, and he does not shoot dogs like his grandpa, Peanuts. That's correct.
I have never shot a dog. Successfully. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Terrible aim. Rhea says, well, if I was a co-owner of Giant Bomb and a dog killing family wanted to nickname me Bitch, I'd worry. Jason Manoli says, don't need to read this, just supporting the boys. Well, you can't tell me what to do, Jason, can you? Peabuck says, thoughts on Hangman's body. Oh my gosh. What? What about his body specifically? Why? It probably hurts. Yeah. Wait, what are we talking about?
Are we asking if he's hot or if he's banged up? I would imagine it hurts. He was a kid, so people find him hot, or at least a person. Yeah. Screaming Madden says, when will Dan get the crew to watch Love on a Leash? And in return, can Mike make the crew watch We Wish You a Turtle's Christmas?
in december we wish you a toast christmas is one delightful and like 17 minutes long so i i will love on a leash is worse than noobs and so i am thinking about changing the noobs hole for this year it might play both might play both in there at the same time yes you can't adjust the volumes they're the same like they're both oh yeah dan if you can figure it out you should have them like panned in opposite channels as well
oh okay like noobs you're seeing on your left but hearing on your right and then love on a leash oh my god you might need to fly out for extra life i might as well um thank you everybody for sending super chats was our first week uh with them on i appreciate it uh uh but yeah that's another way for people to support us so thank you a very
we love and appreciate all of you what are we got going on for the rest of the week boys uh game this morning yeah yeah tomorrow thursday friday we're gonna have uh chris plant on the show tomorrow he's got a new podcast he's uh he's launching actually the first episode is out we'll talk about that on the show tomorrow that's awesome i get to do black club tomorrow and i like
unlike last time i'm desperate to get back in there because i realized well after the fact that when i beat a level i didn't save So I need to go back and play that stupid Atlantis level again. And that's been driving me crazy. I didn't hear about that happening. I think it's more complicated than that, isn't it? Because didn't you...
He should be able to just go back and beat that level. Okay, so the timeline he's on, all the stuff he beat after that is still good. He just needs to beat that initial level. Castle 2 is fine. That's still beaten, which was the easier level, to be fair. But I've got to go back. To Squirtpants Atlantis or whatever. Remember SpongeBob Squirtpants Atlantis? They made video games based off that special.
i believe that's a very funny phrase i like that a lot sure uh voicemail dump truck on thursday as well as an unprofessional fridays this friday a bunch of quick looks have gone up in the last week i suggest you go check those out uh we'll also have a despolote one dropping either later today or tomorrow grub that was a big ass file Yeah, I'm gonna fix that up. Yeah, I don't know what happened there. It was way too big. 45 gigabytes or some shit. All good.
is uh we we got anything else we gotta we gotta touch base over no just planning fucking next week and yeah yeah we'll be traveling next week at some point uh so things will get hectic from that point out but You'll have SGF, GB at night to look forward to, and we'll have plenty of other things happening as well. We'll get together and we'll make some things. Some people have been asking about when I'm going to start playing Myst.
It won't be until... No, I'm kidding. People are clamoring like crazy. I know this is your thing. I'm just busting your chops, man. Not until Dr. SCF. there's like like we've come home on a monday or like the mondays the next day so probably not that day so like monday the 16th of june is looking like a possibility for when mitch missed start Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. I'm going to hang out with you. Will you play?
Oh, God, I'm worried, boys, but it'll be fun. We're going to have a great time at Summer Game Fest. Lots of fun shenanigans inbound. Until then, we'll see you next week, right? Yes. Yes. Okay. Maybe. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll see you next week for another episode of the Giant Bombcast. He's been Jeff. He's been Jeff. He's been Dan. I've been Jan and you I've been doing great lately. The new skincare routine, I can see it. skin is glowing. We'll see you next week. Goodbye!