The Grind Games Podcast
The Grind Games Podcast
Monster Hunter Wilds Updates, Square-Enix Sales Are Down, And God of War Studio is Working on A New IP
Welcome back to another episode of The Grind Games Podcast. Today we’re all together once again and it feels so right. We start off with hearing Zero’s takes on possible MegaMan games that could be, get into MH Wilds updates, speculate about the new IP from God of War, and shiver to think would could be for upcoming Final Fantasy games.
Hello and welcome back to the grind games podcast. My name is Rob Garcia. Today I'm sitting down with our good buddies Zero's Heaven and Dino Friends live in person.
Speaker 3:I take a hit with them. Today, we get to hold hands now.
Speaker 2:We can all touch everybody's nipples.
Speaker 4:You know, that's what Rob likes. Only yours, only yours.
Speaker 1:He's got special ones. Gotta, please the host yeah.
Speaker 2:So today we got a lot of nice stuff that we're going to get into, but I thought the perfect thing to start off with would be to get your take on the whole Capcom bringing back Mega man games and planning to have it going on an ongoing basis, because, aside from me and Dino Friends and even my brother, you're the only other person I know that's hard up on Mega man, just like I am.
Speaker 3:No, I will say I was listening to that episode and you guys were talking about it and I'm like I want an opinion, I want my voice. You know, because I was like, oh my God, so I think it would be a good thing. What I do think that they need to do they need to revisit Mega man Legends 3. Yeah, it would be a good thing. What I do think that they need to do they?
Speaker 1:need to revisit.
Speaker 3:Mega man Legends 3. Yeah, yes, I do think that that series should come back because that left a hole in a lot of people's hearts. They also probably need to touch back base with the X series. But the way I would like, as a purist as a self-proclaimed purist of this game, I think they need to go back to sprite work and they need to go to the 2D side-scrolling. Maybe we do a little 3D HD thing in the background, but still keep it as like the 2D side-scroller with the sprite work, because I think sprite work in today's like gaming area would be beautiful.
Speaker 2:We already have games that have like that whole 2D, 3d thing going on and it looks good, and it looks sexy as fuck yes it does. So I think they can do that and you think it will bring him back fully voice, acted like they did, like uh, mechman x4, and I think, I think they should I think they should, I think I think they.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's just the way it is, now it is. I think everything is almost voice acted now yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean you have to be, because people don't want to read.
Speaker 3:Yeah, people now are like the old school JRPG users. There's Super Nintendo sitting there. We got to read that whole. We got to read a whole novel in order to get something.
Speaker 4:And then you hear yeah, oh yeah, or you just want to hear hoo-ha, hoo-ha, hoo-ha-ho.
Speaker 3:You gotta hear that the whole time.
Speaker 2:But you know what, not for nothing. I guess, having the voice acting to it, it does engross you more into it. Ah, that's what, mega.
Speaker 3:Man's supposed to sound like. If it's good, well, look at Mega man X4, the infinite what are we fighting for you? Know for Zero. It's like come on, it's like fucking iconic so like iris yeah you know I mean what was it?
Speaker 2:the 90s?
Speaker 3:come on, it can be forgiven, but still it's those moments that you always remember it, for it's like a meme in itself. So like if you have a really good voice acting situation, it'll be great, but if you have like one little folly, that's just mad. Funny memes like no yeah, memes, we'll take that, it's fine so what about the genre?
Speaker 2:I know you said 2D side scrolling. Last time Francis said he wants straight up same thing like Mega man X.
Speaker 3:So like, yeah, taking the boss masters, the master robots, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm up for having a Metroidvania style, same Genre.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I wouldn't mind it because it already exists. Yeah, that's what you were telling me before. Yeah, it says Mega man, zx, advent and ZX. They're a little Castlevania-y, because you have to go to areas To get to these bump bosses and get certain things and certain missions. So it's kind of there. I kind of find it frustrating Because I'm so used to the whole Pick a guy, beat up guy, take powers guy and then go use that power On some other guy you know like, and if you do it in the right order, you fuck up the next guy yeah, pretty much you spike mandrill the whole thing if you do it right, you know yeah
Speaker 2:so so I mean, with a metro adventure, you can still kind of do something like that. If you are basically going to the boss area, like you go to the biome, I think, and then do it, and then go from there, take that power and go somewhere else, you can, that's the thing about those castlevania games you can just start in any order you want yeah, which is good, um, but that's why I want them to do the whole like revisiting other genres.
Speaker 3:There's like the like we have, what do we have? We have battle network, we have the command mission, the rpg where they tried, you know. We have the adventure with voltnut, mega man with Mega man Legends yeah.
Speaker 3:And then we have, like, the classics with the X series, and then we have the super classics with the Mega man series, because they're up to 11 now. We stopped at nine with X and then you have the Zero series, which is a little bit more dark and more actiony, with more like combo-esque moves and stuff which was kind of cool.
Speaker 2:I like the Zero series, the Mega man Zero series. It was fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it was a good series, it was hard.
Speaker 2:I didn't play as many as you did. I think it's like the Dark Souls of Mega man.
Speaker 3:You think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, try it I mean I did, I haven't done the newer ones.
Speaker 1:I did lot of the other ones too.
Speaker 2:Those are all right, you level up and stuff, if I remember too right. You level something up, right I?
Speaker 3:think the medals that you get. Maybe it's not like the elves that are in Mega man Zero. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I think that there's plenty of different genres of Mega man that we can keep something going and that can satisfy a lot of people. Keep something going and it can satisfy a lot of people. You know, I still think that the first thing they should probably do is maybe get a new x series going and then revisit the legend series so go back, go back.
Speaker 4:Go going back before, just like before, like x series and then legends, right?
Speaker 2:they could continue through.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and then, and then. Legends is gonna be a 3d beautiful, it don't have to be like remaster you want to remaster? Oh my god, imagine if they remade. Well, they would if they.
Speaker 2:If they remake it, I would be happy enough because, I think it has a very good ground base already. They have good voice acting. Even keep the same voice acting just because I'm a little torn.
Speaker 3:I'm a little those. Those games are just like so classic in itself, especially the first one, yeah, yeah you know, I'm like I think you should just leave that one alone, then we should just make a new one, just remaster it, just maybe a remaster remaster because I mean it, if you remaster it, it's still going to have the edges, unless they really sharpen it up like the remastering that one.
Speaker 2:It's not just gonna bring it back to hd, which you know sure it'll look nicer, but you'll see the edges a lot more. I feel like, and if you've played it recently, which I know you have, those towns are kind of empty. Oh yeah, they're very they're very empty.
Speaker 3:There's nothing going on. No, there's nothing, build these little polygonal buildings yep, same thing with before.
Speaker 4:When you're a kid, it looks like oh it was the greatest thing.
Speaker 2:Oh look there's a car parked over there it's great he's in a town I can go to the store. There's like this little one shopping strip that you go through and that's it.
Speaker 3:I did see somebody on TikTok streaming that game and they changed the coloring scheme to make it look cel-shaded.
Speaker 2:That could be nice.
Speaker 3:No, it was nice, that could be nice, it felt like it fit. You know kind of like.
Speaker 2:You know dark cloud 2 I don't know if you ever played that- like yeah, yeah, art style like that good cell shade with the out black outline on it makes it really look more anime because reset it yeah, it looks like it's so anime like everything about it the story, the, the situations you're pulling in it's like the best anime megaman, the writing, the, the, the voice acting, it's all good yeah, very anime, I anime, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now I don't know if I did mention it on the last podcast, but supposedly and I forgot his name too but the creator of Mega man, he went off, did Mighty no 9 and all that. That kind of failed. I guess, even though I told you many times I like it, did I bring up the whole. He was going to remake.
Speaker 3:Red Ash yeah, he was going to do Red Ash. It was supposed to be like a Zero-S character. Yeah, it was like a Legends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm very sad about that, because I was looking forward to that.
Speaker 3:Listen. I feel like he didn't listen to enough of his fan base when he did Mighty no 9, because that was an issue. I mean he was getting a lot of money for it. He was, he was getting a lot of money for it, and people wanted a classic megaman game they wanted megaman. Yeah, it was more closer to megaman, yeah obviously for copyright reasons, he can't give you megaman anymore because he does not own. It had to be something different but that character could have been more megaman it could have been.
Speaker 3:It could have been a classic choose your robot masters, go through the level. Okay, fine, I'll even take the speed running mechanic that they tried to shove down your throat, you know I enjoyed it, though I know you did you love the hell out that game me. I played it once.
Speaker 2:I was like it was if I would say like a seven, or maybe could get up to an eight, but that's where it was at for me, which is great, right.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I mean, my problem is like is you had to dash through your character in order to fully defeat?
Speaker 2:it. I was like oh See, I liked it though, and then you would have the combo multiplayer thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know what that game made you do? Speed running, yeah, it kind of forced you. You want to play this game optimally, you got to go fast. Yeah, I'm not playing.
Speaker 2:Sonic. Yeah, if I want to play Sonic, I'll fucking play Sonic. I guess if you have to be into speed running, then you'll enjoy that game, which I like it. I picked it up not that long ago and every time I pick it up, yeah, I still say it's a good game.
Speaker 3:I will say this I may revisit it because I still have it on the PS4.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go, so let's move on ahead. We already saw them, traditional. Maybe Metroidvania is your input for that, then yes, pretty much.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And then bring in some sort of Legends and some other stuff, I think before anything else, I think they need to First person shooter.
Speaker 3:Oh my God. No, they almost had one, did they? Yeah, there was like a game a long time ago that was like a Mega Man-esque style game, but first-person shooter.
Speaker 2:I mean, they did it for Metroid, and Metroid Prime was awesome, so maybe If they did it like, Metroid Prime it might be cool, yeah, especially with the power-ups you can get and the different weapons. Because she still does the platforming Samus in Metroid Prime.
Speaker 3:You do all that kind of stuff, yeah, and then the same thing with X you can jump and dash double jump or if you have the ultimate armor, run right through it.
Speaker 2:It could work. It could work, but I do say I still want the 2D Were you guys talking about FPS.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no man no, yeah, no, look it up Mega man first-person shooter.
Speaker 3:There was a prototype, but they just scrapped the shit out of it.
Speaker 2:No, this won't sell the people that love Mega man won't want it for that.
Speaker 3:I'm at a point right now where I have all the classic ones on Steam. I have the X Collection, I have the ZX Collection. The only one I don't have is the Battle Network Collection.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the Game Boy one, yeah, the Game Boy Advance ones, those are very good.
Speaker 3:No, those are not bad either. I like them. The first two Loved them. I stopped playing them after that. They did a lot too. They're like oh, this is working.
Speaker 1:Let's keep going.
Speaker 2:So that counts as the like Pokemon-esque RPG type of one and the lore in that one is fucking nuts. And they had the show, which the show was good too. I enjoyed it. That was the most mainstream hit tv hit tv.
Speaker 3:You hate your thing.
Speaker 1:You know like it was, good it was good, it wasn't bad yeah so moving on from there we got some some updates for uh for monster hunter.
Speaker 2:Right, um, we have the new monster hunter uh wild coming out. Uh, not not too long from now. I actually forget what the um the release date is. I had it down here before but I'll find it eventually. Anyways, there's been something going on with the Monster Hunter games as they progress and become more mainstream, and it really started after World Monster Hunter Generations that we played on the 3DS. It was kind of the same thing. From Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate to that one. It got a little bit easier, right. And then Monster Hunter Worlds, which I believe might have come out before monster hunter generations, if I remember correctly, but that one was like the last really hard monster hunter game the most the most quote-unquote traditional monster.
Speaker 2:Yeah it was the most traditional. You didn't have any of the you gotta go here. That one didn't have the sprites that would help you find the monster, didn't it? Yeah, but you had to paintball them. Oh yeah, you had to still paintball them. You had this. So while while we're talking, then, uh, it can, we can take a look at the trailer of some of the new mechanics that they have going on. So these are just like the basic mechanics for the new monster hunter game, right, um, and while that's going so, some of the same things are there. Obviously, you run faster when your weapon is sheathed. You can still drink, you know your potions, you can do all that stuff, and then, when your weapon is unsheathed, you're limited in your movement, but of course, that's the time that you're going to be attacking, and all that. Now, pretty standard yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the standard stuff.
Speaker 3:You get a mount, again the palamute right, it's not called a Palamute in this one. It's called a Sacred the Secret, sacred it's.
Speaker 2:S-E-I-K-R-E-T.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say Sacred.
Speaker 2:Sacred.
Speaker 1:Yeah, la Creta Sacred.
Speaker 2:So with this one you can pretty much do anything. You can do a lot of things while you're riding your sacred right. You can sharpen your weapon.
Speaker 4:You can drink potions.
Speaker 2:It kind of does like a more lizard-like chocobo.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you played Rise, you're very familiar with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they have the pilot mode there that you can still do all these things. Now, there is one other thing that you can do with the sacred. You can switch between a primary weapon and a secondary weapon on that.
Speaker 3:That's a new and cool one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because if you see it, it has the pouches like you would see a horse on the side. And there you go, just pulling out the other secondary weapon switches it over, which is really nice. Slinger yeah, you get the slinger Slinger's back.
Speaker 3:And keeping it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with this one it's kind of the same thing. You get different sorts of ammo, uh, around the world or around the, the area that you can use to to fight the monster like um uh, flashbangs and stuff like that yeah, and you can use it to gather items from afar.
Speaker 2:You can interact with the environment and kind of just uh, use it to to mount uh, you, you can use it while mounted as well. On the Sacred, the one thing that I was kind of like and we were talking, as you mentioned, you had to still paintball the enemies on Monster Hunter World. On this one, if you're doing a hunt, the Sacred can just take you right to the Monster, so you're not even looking for it anymore, and it's coming out 2025. But you're not even looking for it anymore and it's coming out 2025. But you're not even looking for the monster anymore. You don't have to find it. You don't have to do all the big struggles that we went through. It's like all right, take me to where I got to go. I'm all for it, you're all for it. Yeah, I'm all for it. I mean, I guess, in theory, I think it's just kind of I'm a little butthurt about you guys.
Speaker 3:So you're a purist. You come from a land of playing in the DS and you had to manually do everything.
Speaker 2:How many times have I told the story of? We were looking for the monster to go fight for legitimately 30 minutes and we couldn't find it because he keeps switching areas in the map.
Speaker 3:Yeah, as you go to one area, it moves to the other area yeah, so you, you would have to find it.
Speaker 2:So traditionally in the old um monster hunter games, you would take a quest right and then because francis hasn't played them really you take the quest, you go to the area and when you're in that area it's like separated into sections yeah different, maybe 10 to 12 sections.
Speaker 2:Right back then it had loading screens. Now it doesn't have them anymore. Of course, it's just all one big seamless, seamless world. Yeah, um, but it would be separated into uh, sections. You'd go through the loading screen and as you're going through even the loading screen, the monster can just pick up and go from 10 to 1.
Speaker 3:No problem, and if it flies, yeah, if it flies you're not finding it.
Speaker 2:It would take so long sometimes, and once you found it, it didn't mean that you knew where it was at all times. You just see it. Yeah, you see it. So you would have paintballs. It's like encountering a rare monster kind of. I mean, that was the one that you had to find at the hunt. Sometimes it would be very hard. If you were familiar with where they would go to, then you could go check those areas, especially if you had a team of four, all right, split up.
Speaker 3:Whoever finds it, then we all, most of the monster had patterns. They like to go to specific areas at specific times. So if you knew its pattern you can intercept it yeah, but the I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you had to use the paintball to to mark it on the map so then you could see where it would go. But that paintball didn't last forever. No, it did not. So you had to remember, okay. Okay, I gotta throw another paintball. It should be running out now. Otherwise, because this happened to us before paintball run out, it ran away as you're beating it up, because once you really get its life flow it, it runs away to save itself, right, and then you have to run after it and fight it again. So if you didn't paintball it, you could lose it.
Speaker 3:And then you could lose the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could lose the hunt Because most of them what you got like 45 minutes for I think something like that 45 minutes is pretty standard and some of them you have like what?
Speaker 2:15 minutes yeah, yeah, some average. An average hunt, if you're not like op already, would take maybe 20 to 30 minutes, something like that, yeah, and then you know you can get wet and all that kind of stuff. So then you have to restart it, but it's kind of like that. So this one having that sacred that just takes you to it, and especially before starting from world they had the. Oh, these little weird pixie things are showing me the way I have to go yeah, the fireflies, or whatever they call them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it just looks like green dust, which you saw it in the trailer too, and it follows it, and yeah, but if you have enough um endemic life skill or whatever, it is like if you knew it enough, it would just lead you right to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah or I think it would even show it on the map.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it would just show it on the map and be like oh, there it is you have enough pieces of the. You have enough knowledge of this monster to know exactly where it is at all. Which? That's not too bad either so you had to earn that though yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:That's not too bad because you have to earn it and it's real. So, in the same way, our biologists would go okay, you're going to go to this area because that's where we expect that these, these, uh, this animal is gonna be right. You're gonna find it in the same way with monster. I like that if they do it that way, where you have to level up that endemic life skill or endemic life, whatever um about each monster and then you go to it. I like that as opposed to just let me take the first quest ever. All right, take me there now. Thanks, I don't mind that, though I know you don't. But the difficulty of it and I feel like angel, my brother, would be on board with it too but the difficulty of having it's like you become absorbed more in the fantasy of how real it could be by having to actually find it, as opposed to the game telling you where it is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like in world. You had to hunt it. Right, you had to hunt. That's the hunt. Yeah, that's the hunt. You see all these little pieces. You see poo on the floor. You take a little poo scraping you know, yeah that's right yeah, then you get the scrapings, the claw marks and all that, and that helped you level up their knowledge of the monster and that would eventually lead the fireflies, to lead you to the to, to the monster. This one is just easy mode, just Just go there.
Speaker 2:No, no easy mode.
Speaker 4:We don't know yet, but that's what it looks like. You want an easy mode. It's not realistic. I want the game more realistic.
Speaker 3:The reason why I don't mind it is because eventually you're just going to want to go straight to the thing, because you're farming this motherfucker for three hours for that one ruby. That is not dropping.
Speaker 2:You've never played them before. You don't really know the mechanics of the game right.
Speaker 4:No, because there's one time that I tried to play it on, I believe, psp. And it took me like it took me like an hour and I don't know what I'm doing. So I'm like. You know what I don't like this?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So go ahead, tell them then what it's about. The old one, that's just yeah, the the mechanics of it, so the the the style of game, what it is, because everybody knows, yeah, you're hunting monsters, but after that they don't really know what to expect from it if they're brand new, so like all right.
Speaker 3:So right after you, like you get a little experience. Right, like you're gonna need to grind out for parts and armor and weapons, that's like the next level of it, right, that's like pretty much the main level of monster yeah, that's basically what it is. Yeah, the first time is the excitement of the monster. Then it's like shit, I need to kill this thing like five times yeah so you, you, basically in every monster hunter, you pick up a quest.
Speaker 2:It's like you're an adventurer in an anime. You, you pick up a quest. Sometimes they're gathering quests, which nobody likes to do. The hunting quests are where it's at. You take that quest, fight the monster. You can break parts, which I have another video I'm going to show you guys about it. It makes something with that much different, which is good. You can break parts. You have to know which parts are breakable. You can cut off the tail If you keep doing slashing damage to it. You can't do like blunt damage. You'll just kind of break the tail if it has a piece that can be broken, just like demon souls.
Speaker 3:Yeah you have blunt damage and you have slashing damage. Sl souls. Yeah, you have blunt damage and you have slashing damage.
Speaker 2:Slashing damage will cut blunt damage will knock out and break and break. Yeah, so you can do all these different things to the monster like, let's say, the rathalos, which is the dragon one I'm sure you've seen it. You could break the chest, you could break the horns, you could break each claw, you can break the tail and you can cut the tail and you can also break its wings, or cut its wings, we'll break its wings.
Speaker 2:So for that game, for every piece that you break, you get more items for it, and then, if you cut the tail, it lets you what is the word I'm looking for? You get to go and carve the tail. Yeah, for more items.
Speaker 3:So now, every time you break a piece piece, you get a higher percentage of getting a rare piece, which is what you need to get that real good, good shit, you know what?
Speaker 4:I mean it's kind of like uh, what is this? Like grand blue, the one that, the one that uh that one that you played. I don't know, I didn't play that um, you have to play wild hearts yeah, it's kind of like that, yeah.
Speaker 3:Wild Hearts is like that bootleg monster.
Speaker 4:No, that's right yeah you have to cut some pieces so that, if you find a rare one, you can trade it for weapons or, even better, armor. Is that what it is?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like if you need the tail right, You'll have a better chance of getting a tail part. If you cut the tail as opposed to just beating the monster.
Speaker 4:The chance is there, but it's even better if you cut its tail off.
Speaker 2:I like that I wouldn't be down for it. It's just like he said you get all those parts, you get new armor, new weapons or upgrade new things, and then you can take on new monsters. You're using all of that, basically, and that's the loop Fighting harder and harder monsters. Nobody cares about the story. They've rarely ever had an intriguing story too much in Monster Hunter.
Speaker 1:It's a little bit it's there.
Speaker 2:I liked World. World wasn't too bad.
Speaker 3:It's like a B-tier story. You know what I mean. It's second to what the game is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's secondary to the actual loop in gameplay mechanics and that is enough to have kept us on that. Bro, there were, when we played on the 3DS, monsters that would not even fit in the whole screen because we were fighting like big Leviathan type things that you would see just a piece of it.
Speaker 3:Monsters that had its own loading screen. Yes, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:It was wild. There are some big crazy stuff like that. I'm all for it. I think if we can all get on that one, that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:I really hope they give us those kinds of monsters, those Giga Chad monsters. I need to climb you three stories and smack you in the head a few times.
Speaker 4:We haven't had something like that in generations. It sounds like Shadow of the Colossus Even more. I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:But even bigger, Even bigger than that. That's crazy.
Speaker 3:You're sitting there fighting and you're like holy shit, you're sitting there picking at it with your little greatsword, but it's like a little toothpick compared to it.
Speaker 2:It's like that. It's really fun. Um, this one, you know, of course it is. They're adding a lot more quality of life things to it. Um, and here we'll get into the other, the other trailer too. Well, what is this?
Speaker 4:a new monster hunter, yeah, so this is monster hunter wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a new monster hunter that's coming out. It's going to be on consoles it's not dlc, right?
Speaker 3:no, it's not dlc, and this is its new mechanic for the game right here, yeah, so this is what they're calling is focus mode.
Speaker 2:So normally in other uh, monster hunter games it's like you you wouldn't necessarily be able to aim unless you were using the heavy bow gun or the bow or the light bow gun anything projectile right exactly.
Speaker 2:Otherwise you would have to basically make sure you're facing the armor and swing. So what you see there, this monster, he's already damaged it, it's wounded. When you're using this focus mode, it not only lets you aim your attack in the same way you see, you have the aim down sight type of thing, you have the cursor but it also, once you focus in on the monster, if you've wounded it somewhere, it can show you where it's wounded. It'll highlight so that you can actually keep hitting that spot. Because in Monster Hunter, yeah, you have to hit that weak point to keep breaking it more, because there are some parts that will break once and then you have to keep attacking it to break it again, to actually get the full break so you can get the more items from it, right?
Speaker 3:Well, think of it as like you know, if you play your shooters ADS. Yeah, think of it like that. Yeah, like you're aiming down sight with a big-ass sword. I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it helps that you have the focus mode. I really like that. They added that this time for every type of weapon.
Speaker 3:It's like quality of life compared to other. Yeah, and that's how the console ones have been. They've been like a huge, like quality of life for anybody to come into yeah that's why I don't mind the the palamute thing going directly into the masa, because they're going to be sometimes like I just take me yeah, I mean, I just hope they do it like everything, the buff, I just the one thing I don't want. I'm sorry to interrupt. The one thing I don't want, that I didn't like from Rise was getting the little birds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would raise your stats a little bit. Yeah, that would raise your stats.
Speaker 3:I am a super potion. I am like an ancient potion kind of guy. I'll eat one and get all my stuff maxed out and then go into the fight. Please don't do that to me, capcom. I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to find these little birds. Take 20 minutes out to hunt to find these birds so I can power up.
Speaker 2:I mean I never cared, I just went in there and kind of skilled it. You know what I mean. It makes a difference, it does, but I just would go in and skill it.
Speaker 3:I played it recently. I'm sitting there like, alright, let me go regular.
Speaker 2:I get smacked and I'm like I'm not weak of people didn't like it.
Speaker 4:It's like the school, the tree. Well, it takes you out of the hunt.
Speaker 3:It takes you completely out. For me anyway, it took me out because I was like, all right, before I go fight, I'm going to go take five minutes to go find all these birds and just let them absorb into me, and then I'll have my potential raised. You know, like my health potential, my stamina potential.
Speaker 2:I health potential, my, my stamina potential, I don't want that shit. Yeah, no, I would only use it. I would only get them if they were just on the way to get the monster. That's the only thing I would use them for. And and you know what? The other thing with the, the, the palamutes before on on rise, it was good because if you were getting murked you could call your palamute and and they would actually fight with you. Also, if you were playing by yourself, uh, you would jump on it, heal, heal, sharpen your weapon, then jump off and continue fighting. So that was nice in a certain way, that it made it easier, but it didn't break the game.
Speaker 3:I feel like it didn't slow it down to the point where you had to run and hide. You can run around the monster fast enough that you can just sharpen, run away. Avoid, then eat, sharpen, run away, eat some more and then just jump off. Jumping. Attack, mind you, so you get your mount damage. Yes and then keep on going, which was nice yeah.
Speaker 2:And which we didn't even mention. So Monster Hunter games, it's all about preparation. It's like a real hunt. You have to find the monster, you have to prepare. What am I bringing? They're weak against this. I'm going to bring this and that, all that kind of stuff. Right, I'm going to bring traps so I can do a zap trap, whatever they call it, to shock him and he gets stunned. Put it to sleep, put some bombs next to its face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's my favorite there's all these things that they have. It's like an actual hunt. It's really cool To the point where, like you were saying, you have to sharpen your weapon. Once your weapon has sharpness levels, it goes like what is it? Purple, blue, white, then yellow and then red. It's just like completely blunted and messed up.
Speaker 3:You're not doing. It's essentially a broken weapon at that point yeah.
Speaker 2:So certain enemies, certain parts of them too, if you're hitting their hard shell, you need to have a sharpness level 2 to even not bounce off of it. If you have a blunt weapon, of course it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4:Can you have an equipment which can break armor?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's different skills that are allotted to different armor pieces, which is like a piece breaker or whatever it is Part breaker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, part breaker, that's what they call it.
Speaker 3:It gives you a higher chance to break parts of a monster.
Speaker 2:There's ones that give you more fire damage, more this, more that or more um. You can jump farther because if you're evading, you jump to the side. There it was always the nargacuga. One would give you the bigger evade window and a longer uh, evade like jump, so you would just dive far away and the evade window was bigger so you would never get hit. And there's so many things that you can do with that game. That's why it makes it so much fun. It's like you can make whatever you want to make to suit your play style.
Speaker 3:But again, got to grind for it yeah you got to grind for it.
Speaker 2:That's the thing.
Speaker 4:It's so technical that sometimes you get lazy.
Speaker 3:It's like work it's easy to go into but hard to master.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like if you really want to be good, they give you the tools to be good. But if you just want to be, you know, regular casual, you can do that too and still beat the game. But if you want to get that G rank, if you really want to get up there and be a 99, like a 999 monster rank, that's what you got to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there are monsters that you fight a lot of the same monsters. You fight the same monsters in the beginning that you've seen throughout the series. Then they bring out some new monsters and then they bring out some higher variants of certain monsters that are angrier.
Speaker 3:What do they call it? Like the spicy pickle?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have these other monsters that they get, enged or or that are the higher variant, angry type of one that just will wreck you and keep chasing you.
Speaker 3:It's like what do you have like different? Like the negro gigante, negra gante. Yeah, there you go yeah you got him. And what was it?
Speaker 2:the ruiner negro gigante yeah, there's a, there's different ones, and then then there was always the Tigrix, and then the other Tigrix and Rathalos. Then there's the Azure Rathalos, the. Dreadnought Rathalos is the one that gives me nightmares.
Speaker 3:I was grinding that one in Generations was the last thing I was doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think. And then the Hellblade, glaviness.
Speaker 2:I love that one, oh yeah yeah, I love that glass, the Hellblade one. I love that one. I think you'll like it because it's a lot of you like grinding. Based on all your history, with all these games that you've done, you grind on everything. So I think you would like it because, especially when you're playing with people that can teach you, like I was even playing with Sophia, right, I taught her what to do and she was using just a light bowgun because it was easier for her to shoot from far away, which the bowguns, by the way, and bows you bring ammo. Once you run out of ammo that you have, that's it. You can either craft it or go back to camp, go back to camp and get more, or you're just using normal shot, normal shot, normal shot, which is not the best, but it'll still get you by. But, man, it's good and you'll have other people to Sherpa you through the game too, if we get on there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, when is this?
Speaker 2:2025. So we don't know what month, yet what?
Speaker 3:month, I think, maybe probably close to like spring.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say something like that. It's just kind of fair.
Speaker 3:Spring okay, yeah, spring yeah spring, it's hunting weather yeah hunting weather, I think that's when a lot of the games, a lot of the good games that everybody wants to come out yeah, it's going to be coming out.
Speaker 2:It's probably the spring of 2025 and if we're supposed to get that I know we brought it up last time but if we're supposed to get that, switch to in 2025 also because maybe close to summer. Yeah, but if, if this would come for for the streets too, like if it was able to run. Oh, oh yeah, definitely A quick buy for that, or the Steam Deck.
Speaker 3:I think they would probably put that on the Switch. 2.
Speaker 2:They've had such a big partnership with Nintendo before.
Speaker 3:Why wouldn't they Monster Hunter? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Monster Hunter, so they used to be on.
Speaker 3:PlayStation console. If it's enough for that one, they'll bring Worlds 2. Yeah the new one in the world.
Speaker 4:But still so. Would you like a 60 hertz or 120 hertz of Nintendo Switch 2?
Speaker 3:It depends. I don't mind 60 hertz on battery Only because you can sit there and play it longer. Yeah, but I don't know. As long as it doesn't look like a GameCube anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's what we're working on, right now.
Speaker 4:So you want more graphics like 4K, 60?.
Speaker 3:Or 1440p 60 I'm not a fan of 4k. My eyes can only see in 1080p, you know, because I have bad eyes. Yeah, but like, I think to me that's like a waste of resources where you can just bolster up, like the gpu yeah, to make it look really good, run stable at a crispy 60. I'd rather have a crispy 60 over anything. 4k yeah yeah, yeah 1440p okay, that's like.
Speaker 1:That's like the new standard 1440, yeah 1440.
Speaker 3:I feel like it's a new standard now and it's good enough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I have a 1440p monitor, I don't meet whatever I planned.
Speaker 3:I don't feel like, oh, I need to get that 4k I got a 14, 14 for you know the monitor I have it's a decent monitor, all my games.
Speaker 4:I'm running it at 1080 yeah, that's it windowed you know the screen I like is the rg ally well, that one is, it's not.
Speaker 3:Is that the one with the ai on it?
Speaker 4:I don't know I forgot, but it's on like the normal rg ally, not the X. But it's so nice it looks different.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a good OLED screen is the idea.
Speaker 4:I don't know if it's OLED.
Speaker 2:The Switch OLED looks nice.
Speaker 3:And the Vita looks nice too. It's a nice OLED screen. As long as you have a nice crispy screen, it won't be OLED.
Speaker 2:You're saying that I would rather have, you know, be able to run it at high specs and have it look clean and run it at a clean 60 consistently over having 4K trying to get reached to 120 frames. Much better because, yeah, like I said, that's what I have there. My TV over there it's a 4k OLED tv and I play there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it looks nice, but it's not enough for me to be like everything has to be like yeah, it's not enough for you to be like I need to see the detail, I need to see every individual black pic.
Speaker 2:You can't, you don't need to mind you, there are some games that when you do play like 4k OLED and you're like, oh shit, this looks yeah, I mean, I mean you know, but it's Nintendo, they're not gonna.
Speaker 3:Nintendo's never been like all right.
Speaker 2:The only time I thought Nintendo had like graphical power was the GameCube when it came yeah, that when it, when you first saw Metroid Prime, you're like, yeah, when you first, when you first played like a GameCube.
Speaker 3:You're like, oh, they finally did it and then they kind of like you know then the Wii came out and then just like okay, we're back to Nintendo again.
Speaker 2:Everybody had HD and they were like we're still on SD over here. Yeah, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 3:Composite video plugs and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's okay. It's okay, I had that Netflix disc so I could watch Netflix on there back in the day. Yeah but to me I don't need the 4k yeah, me neither.
Speaker 3:I don't need, I'm okay 1440, it's nice 1440 on the tv, fine on the screen, give me a good 1080. Yeah, give me a good yeah give me a good 1080, because anything more than that's a waste of power.
Speaker 2:It's killing it, yeah, yeah, it's a waste of power. Then you gotta two minutes for the battery, then you gotta charge it like no thanks I mean, that usually doesn't um bother me so much, because mostly in my life I I've been able to plug in somewhere and play. Other than that, you get a battery pack, and if I needed to, yeah, I'd have an external battery pack just so I can keep playing it. But, yeah, yeah, no, I've always played the Switch docked.
Speaker 3:Very Like unless I'm going to bed and I want to get like a game session in, then I'll bring it to my bed and I'll play it, but in then I'll bring it to my bed and I'll play it, but even then I'm like I'd rather play it. You know, big screen. Yeah, same here, big screen, look at everything not having to go like this. And my hands are huge, so it's like I still got the original joy cons on that bitch, so it's like they're like skinny and small.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah they're. They're definitely not made for my hands either. It does get a little bit uncomfortable sometimes, but most of the time when I first got care.
Speaker 3:When I first got in, I was playing Breath of the Wild. Oh my God, I didn't care how cramped my hands were.
Speaker 2:I was playing the shit out of them. Your hands are bigger than mine. You got those big ones. No, I got these ham-hawk meat grippers. Yeah, I have long fingers, but your hands are bigger that smack, that'll knock you out. My whole hand you know, but they look like strong hands, don't they?
Speaker 3:Grab my strong hands.
Speaker 2:But yeah, no, I mean, I hope they bring this to the Switch, which is the big tangent. We went on. I would love to see it on the Switch too. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty sure that the biggest sell to the Switch, too, is going to be like you can play your old games upgraded now, yeah, that one. Yeah, especially like what.
Speaker 2:Arceus, arceus, oh my God, arceus could definitely. That would run terribly. Yeah, that would run really shitty. I mean, even Tears of the Kingdom could benefit from it.
Speaker 3:Yes, tears of the Kingdom could definitely benefit.
Speaker 2:Even though that game I still think that game runs amazing the switch from you going from the, the skylands, all the way to the depth, and it's just like loading just a little, not even it's just a little bit he hasn't played it yet. You haven't played it I actually you need to take it I. Oh, you don't have anything to play it on, never mind like.
Speaker 3:Like, if you go from the sky to the ground, it's like a maybe a tiny skip and then like you're back to the ground. If you go to the underground, another tiny little skip and then you're, and then it loads everything. What they did to fit that shit in the switch amazing, yeah. So now imagine if you have something with a little bit more balls behind it, a little bit more power it'll just, it'll be seamless, yeah, and running at 60.
Speaker 3:I will play that game again. Yep, I will delete. Actually I won't delete my. I still have not updated that game. So I got the good, good glitches oh I.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I did actually, but there's so many things that I haven't done and I didn't play it the right way. I did do the dupe glitching, so I could just build whatever.
Speaker 3:Listen, the dupe glitch. I make no apologies for it. The dupe glitch eliminated the needless grinding that you have to do sometimes in that game.
Speaker 2:I like grind yeah.
Speaker 3:But it's like I got to wait five hours before I get the claw piece. No, fuck that, I'm good, I'm just going to dupe it, and then there you go.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's it, and you could dupe and get money easier that way to get whatever you want. So I am unapologetic in that way too, where this was the way to play it.
Speaker 3:No this is good, this was my way of playing it, and then I was sitting there just beating the shit out of Lionels just for sport.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could build whatever. Oh, it didn't work. Oh well, I'll make it again.
Speaker 1:Dooping yeah.
Speaker 2:That's the fun part. You make whatever. Yeah, there's people that made like little stealth fighter jets that are just shooting lasers at things. They made mechs.
Speaker 3:People made mechs. They made like tanks.
Speaker 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 3:That's the one thing I love about that game is the imagination is on you Like, it's on you Like. If you need a certain spot or a certain piece, there are ways of getting these like weird pieces from like the trials. What were they? The shrines, the shrines.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:There's certain pieces in shrines that you can't get out. But if you use, like the um, the hand and save it into your thing, then you can take that part out and use it in the world. And people used to make flying machines like like perpetual flying machines that didn't require energy, yeah, and you just fly around hyrule, just fucking lasering anything see a glioc done, done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you need to play that game somehow.
Speaker 4:Some way you need to find out how to play it. Yeah, Rob said just to wait for a Switch 2. Maybe it's going to be.
Speaker 2:I mean, or Well, because he was saying should I buy another Switch?
Speaker 3:And I said no, or just you know get a or find a way to play it on PC.
Speaker 2:You know, allegedly there are ways to play it on PC. I, there's a lot of mods for that game. Yeah, you can run that at 4K60 on PC. Oh, yes, you can. I mean, there are, of course. You know what is it. Yuzu is gone, but there's other ways. Now still.
Speaker 3:Ryu Jinx, you can find it. Yeah, there's ways, you just gotta find it.
Speaker 2:There are different alleged ways to play that game on there.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And 4K60, allegedly Everything's alleged right now, but before that I got to finish my new character in Diablo 4.
Speaker 2:How do you know? Because? That's the only thing that you ever bring up is Diablo. I tried playing that game for like five seconds. I'm like I don't know if I want to play this anymore. Diablo 4 is good. I beat it. I beat the story and then I got my character leveled up all the way. Yeah, I haven't gone back to do all the stuff that he's doing.
Speaker 4:I am interested in the dlc new character expansion expansion I'm waiting.
Speaker 3:I'm waiting for xbox to give it to me for free. Oh yeah, yeah, that might I mean it's already on xbox for free? It is, it's on game pass.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's on game pass right now, but I don't think they usually don't give you the dlc, not right away, but they do, do they? Oh modern warfare 3 is on there now I know modern warfare 3, but I mean, if you look at like, uh, forza, horizon, the five, you don't have the dlc for free on that. No, that's because it's.
Speaker 3:It's like cosmetic and pay for stuff like no, no, no.
Speaker 2:The, the whole expansion stuff where you can do the um, the hot wheels racing in disguise and all that kind of stuff. Why wouldn't that? I feel like they would try to make money off that. Yeah well, you don't have that, you have to buy that. No, I don't play Forza anyway. Actually it's a good game.
Speaker 1:No, I tried it, it's not bad.
Speaker 2:You have the steering wheel, especially like. I got my Supra and I'm like, oh it's the new Sup 97, 96 Supra Get those old ones that you see people like 896, twin turbo. This is a thousand horsepower beast right here.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, that's the one I grew up with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, none of this stuff right here now. You know what I want to save this next story for last, because I feel like it's going to hit the hardest for all of us.
Speaker 1:But God of War that studio Sony Santa Monica.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they're working on a new game and they're working on a new IP. I mean, it's a simple question, that's all there is. That's the only news about it. We don't know what they're doing. Of course Cory Balrog doing something else and all that stuff, but anyways, they're doing a new IP. What style of game? You played it? Right? I know you did. Yeah, god of War, no not the new one, ragnarok. Yeah, ragnarok or 2018. Okay, no.
Speaker 1:Not nothing, oh man I played the one when Dad of Boy you played.
Speaker 4:When there's a boy. Yeah, yeah, that's 2018. That's the first one Until, like, like, messed me up, that's it. It's like the beginning one, beginning one, really. No, after that, like it did mess me up, uh, I don't know, but it was good it is very good, one of my favorite games.
Speaker 3:I, platinum, did the second one um yeah, and then if you planned them, it doing the new game plus, it's like butter, because you got everything already. Yep, I know, you have to just get the extra shit. I didn't get to plan them. I'm like well, people, but you know.
Speaker 2:And I did the DLC for that one too, which was fun. No, I did the DLC for that one. It was really good. They're roguelite.
Speaker 4:There's a lot of games that I need to play.
Speaker 2:There are a lot of games. I mean, I still need to play the Last of Us, the part two, and I got the ps5 upgrade because they gave it for 10 bucks one time. So I basically got that game for 10 bucks because they gave you, I think, the last of us, part two at some point. I forgot how I got it, but I got it cheap or for free and then I upgraded for 10 bucks so I got the ps5 upgrade.
Speaker 3:I was like, yeah, and I have to buy it for like um, not sekiro, um, um, what's the samurai game? That's like really pretty.
Speaker 2:Sekiro Ghost of Tsushima. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Ghost of Tsushima had a similar thing like oh, if you had the PlayStation 4 version it was like 10 bucks.
Speaker 2:I think they gave you that one for free.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, it's on the PlayStation now, or whatever they're calling it now PlayStation Plus yeah, extra that thing.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that game is pretty. I feel like even for now it's prettier than a lot of games that were made for ps5.
Speaker 3:Yep even prettier than final fantasy rebirth I think, oh maybe yeah, yeah, I would say so, yeah, I was because, like rebirth has a certain graininess to it yeah, see, and I thought it was just me.
Speaker 2:I was like no, it's like a thing no, it's just there's a certain graininess to it. I will say I was always playing it on um the, like the 1080p tv that I had before, and I didn't see it as much. And then, as soon as I started playing it on this tv, the 4k I was like oh yeah, yeah, I see that graininess that everybody's talking about yeah, no, and especially if you do like the 60 frame, like the performance which, of course, oh it's super grainy.
Speaker 3:I'm is a game. Why do I remember this game not being this ugly that?
Speaker 2:shouldn't even be an option anymore, because it's like you can't go back and play these games at 30 frames. It's like you can't do that. You put on the what do they call it priority.
Speaker 1:It's a multiple difference man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the fidelity mode.
Speaker 3:And then you see it's like Like graphics mode. It's like, yeah, the fidelity mode. And then you see it's like, and you know what, to me, I don't think it's enough to run the game the whole time on graphics mode.
Speaker 2:No, it's that much nicer right.
Speaker 3:I'd rather just have Cloud literally just zipping around, zipping doodang around the air at 60 frames, than having it look slightly better than what it does now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because it's a lot cleaner, is there?
Speaker 4:an option to turn off the graininess.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. That's just how they made it, that's just the way it is.
Speaker 3:That's just the not the art style, but that's just the way it runs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's just how it looks on that game. Well, that's just how the game looks. It's only on that console, but yeah. So I guess what I was going to ask is with Sony, santa Monica, what kind of thing would you like to see from them, like they've done the big adventure, action story kind of game? That's kind of been what they've been known for since they've been on PS5, ps4. Are you guys looking for the same kind of thing from them? Should they try a first person shooter with a big story? Should they do a side scroller? But I mean they can't. They can't go down from triple a to a double a game. That would be like a side scroller. This always seems like a as a double a game or an indie game right?
Speaker 3:yeah, you can't see them.
Speaker 2:I honestly can't see them doing anything else in the back of my mind I can't see them. I honestly can't see them doing anything else In the back of my mind. I can't see them doing something other than the action adventure big, huge, like story, rpg type of game.
Speaker 4:Let me see, I don't know MMO maybe Junior MMOs bro.
Speaker 2:Nah, they haven't even done multiplayer. They're not going to jump into MMO all of a sudden. But I mean, if they were going to stay in the same thing, they could just use a different setting. You know they've always done the fantasy, mythological setting. They could do like a futuristic or modern type of setting, right, and still keep like some sort of sci-fi thing, although you know PlayStation has that too with um crap. What is that game where you play as the girl atropos?
Speaker 1:well she's.
Speaker 2:She's talking to the ship. No, ah, man, it was made by housemark. It's funny. I remember everything else about it other than the name of the game it's not like horizon or anything. No, no, not horizon, but it was like that shooter, that hell um, that bullet hell game that came out on ps5 and you could hear the raindrops and, like you, oh, that roguelike one, oh I know what you're talking about now.
Speaker 3:Uh, it's the girl.
Speaker 2:You get the gun yeah, I'll look it up, you keep dying, but then she comes.
Speaker 3:She comes back to life and she's like I don't understand what's happening Starts with an R Remnant?
Speaker 2:No, that's another game. I'll look it up. I'll look it up. I'll find it. Eventually it's hard to think of what else they could do, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because you think of what you think of Santa Monica Studios. Then what do you think of Mostly? God of War.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mostly God of War.
Speaker 3:It's called returnal. By the way, returnal same shit, he had the r.
Speaker 2:It's fine, yeah um but, yeah, no, I, I, I think for them they would have to stay on the same thing, especially since they worked out a very good battle system already for may lee and and the throwing the axe and throwing the spears and all that. They're very good at telling a story.
Speaker 3:They have very good. Imagine they do something with the Aztecs. Yeah, they could just go a different route Because they're good with the history, right? They're good with that history. The battling system would be similar to that of God of War, Especially with the projectiles, with the arrows you were saying with the axes maybe.
Speaker 2:Instead of Kratos, it's Ramos. Yeah, instead of.
Speaker 3:Kratos. It's somebody like you know, a haqueen or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:Maybe, maybe, yeah.
Speaker 3:Something like you know, like a calypso. What was it Not calypso? Calypso, no, not Calista Proko.
Speaker 2:It was the.
Speaker 3:Aztec movie that came out a while back.
Speaker 2:Apocalypto oh, I didn't even watch that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:No, whatever they do, it's hard to think of anything for them to do, but whatever they do, that was a hard question, that's the hardest question I ever got.
Speaker 3:Ever since I started podcasting.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't mind seeing something like with Aztecs. That'd be in the same genre pretty much. Yeah, you know, like historical thing and just brutal because the Aztecs were brutal just basically a new, new characters in a different mythology, yes, but kind of same, same type of.
Speaker 3:I'm sure they could do something yeah, yeah, yeah, but then everybody's gonna be go. It's like God of War, but you know Apocalypto.
Speaker 2:Where's Kratos? Is he coming? When is Kratos going to come in and kill this guy? He's a DLC character.
Speaker 3:He's an Altskin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, which that's the other thing too. They're making that God of War movie, is it? They're making a movie. It's either a movie or a show.
Speaker 4:No you didn't know no, why Zero's reaction?
Speaker 2:is gonna be like this no. Yeah, I already have a thing with like them putting shows as Games as shows Like oh my god, and I forget if it's a movie or a show, but it's coming to Amazon.
Speaker 3:It's all bad, especially Amazon, yeah it's an Amazon series New. World. They're good. New World is an MMO that's super repetitive. My brother played it.
Speaker 2:He told me about it. Francis played it too. He liked it. Oh man, I have like 300 hours, my brother played the shit out of it.
Speaker 3:He's like it's boring now.
Speaker 4:It's boring. Now I did everything.
Speaker 2:That's their Amazon MMO right.
Speaker 4:It was really good when you first started.
Speaker 3:Most MMOs are really good when you first start. You know which MMO I'm still playing FFXIV Nah City Heroes. I don't know, what is that? See that shit. That's an old one. City Heroes, City of Villains I'm still playing that one. It like there's like it's like a freedom server or whatever it is. It's like a private server or whatever for people who play the game and it's like look it up one day.
Speaker 3:It's fun. I love it. You can be a hero or a villain. You can customize it. This game got in trouble because, well, marvel didn't like it. Because you can literally make whatever hero that you want to make yeah and it didn wolverine or cyclops or storm and they kind of got in trouble for that.
Speaker 2:So they had a tone back don't be scared of the mic, get in there. They had it.
Speaker 3:They had a tone back, you know they had a tone back their um, um, what you call it, their customization, because it was just too much.
Speaker 2:It was too much you can actually make.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can definitely do some copyright infringement with this game back then when it first came out, but I mean, it's like we didn't do it.
Speaker 2:The people made it, they figured out how.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that game to me is fun. It's like it's old you can see the age of that game but it was fun, it's fun. It's still fun to me.
Speaker 2:I think I might have heard of that, then if you're saying it's old because that's the only city it's like, like to me, the mm, don't they have a city of villains too? Too, yeah, it's together now. Oh, okay, it's together now.
Speaker 3:City of Heroes was the first one, then City of Villains came out as like the expansion separate one and then you can fight each other. And now they just put it together and now they're just City of Heroes slash City of Villains.
Speaker 2:You can be a villain and all that you can be a villain.
Speaker 3:You can be a hero and then eventually players and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, I mean, it's kind of like um dc universe online, because you can make characters in that or heroes and you can actually well, the only difference with that is well. It's only heroes and it's like they allow you to look like superman yeah, and you actually get quests and stuff from the actual heroes in that, one which I hear is supposed to be very good too, and that's still getting updates yeah, no, that gets the longest running, like it's one of the longest running MMOs out there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but when I played City Heroes, it was like games like Tempura Rasa. I don't know if anybody's heard that one nope, like it was like Tempura Rasa. How about wow, which I'm that I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised that's not for free yet on game pass, which I don't even know if it will be, I don't think it'll ever be on the big no I don't think blizzard and like, oh, hold on, you can have all of them, but wow, slow your roll, bitch and if they do like you know what I want them to put on the game pass of the warcraft games oh yeah, warcraft, three warcraft starcraft I want to put those in there.
Speaker 2:But you know what the funny thing for me is with warcraft and all of that, I used to only do the custom games and I was playing Dota, the Defense of the Ancients. So now I play League of Legends, so I don't need that.
Speaker 3:No, but I miss that old school RTS.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like you build everything and then you have to click it so much so that it becomes faster.
Speaker 3:Yeah, starcraft the whole clicks per second. I was like nah Did they have?
Speaker 2:that I don't remember. I have StarCraft 2.
Speaker 3:I do too. I have it there and I got the Wings of Liberty. That's StarCraft 2. I got the first one, but I haven't installed it.
Speaker 1:It just runs funny.
Speaker 2:It runs funny. Yeah, it runs funny. It don't run right. Yeah, the old games don't run right anymore.
Speaker 3:StarCraft 2, when it came out and people were like eh yeah, no, nobody liked it, it's out Okay. It's like oh, wings of Liberty, it's kind of cool.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, you know, it's there, it's a new one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nobody really liked it too much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so God of War is coming to Amazon Prime as a series, if I didn't mention it already.
Speaker 3:As it has to be the same voice actor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what is his name? I forget his name.
Speaker 3:He was a guy from Stargate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, stargate SG-1. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. But he's great. He's just black, he's not white, so they could paint him up a little bit. It's fine.
Speaker 3:Paint him up a little bit, what is this you got black face and white face. You got white little payback. It's okay, but they can do voice over. No, I think, I think, no, I think they're going to be a little bit more conscious on how they they cast that. But, like now, my next question is what part of kratos's story are they?
Speaker 2:gonna tell thing that we don't know. They could tell angry kratos, which sure has its own thing. It'll be very gruesome and gory.
Speaker 3:Or they could do grown-up older kratos, who is more stoic and, you know, calculating in what he does, I mean if I was a betting man, maybe I would go with, like the story of kratos finishing with the greek pantheon and how he enters the in-between yeah, the in-between how he enters the nordic pantheon. That would be. That would be something that big-ass gap that a lot of people don't Even Kratos kind of like is like.
Speaker 2:I just took a boat and I'm here From when he basically became old. All of a sudden, I don't know where.
Speaker 3:Isn't that?
Speaker 4:PSP, which one that starts? Oh, no PSP, no PSP. He had.
Speaker 3:Chains or something. Chains of Memory. Chains of Memory is Kingdom Hearts. Chains of Olympus.
Speaker 2:It started on PS2 with God of War 1, 2, and 3 I think came out for PS3 or was it PS2 also PS3?
Speaker 3:No, god of War 3 came out for PS3. 1 and 2, ps2.
Speaker 2:And then they had two handheld games Chains of Olympus and. Ghost of Sparta, ghost of Sparta. And then there was the other one that had the multiplayer, which was also fun, and I forgot the name of it Ascension, god of War. Ascension, yes, and then was the new God of War. It was a three.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, did they have God of War 4?
Speaker 4:No right Four is 2018 is essentially four, technically four. I think I finished the one in PSP, the Chains of Olympus.
Speaker 2:So that one is a prequel that shows how he gets everything following up to that Pretty much yeah, it's kind of a prequel right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like between the first one and the second one kind of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he still uses the blades and all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's gotten the blades. So that one, I believe, if I'm not wrong. I think it takes place a little bit after two, I mean a little after one and leads up to two. I just remember you start off, you're on a ship, and then you fight the Hydra.
Speaker 2:That sounds like the first one. The change of Olympus, oh no, the God of War 1? The. You got a war one. You're in a ship and you're like oh man, because in my head I'm seeing oh, it doesn't look that great, so it's of course ps2 though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, remember now when we look back on ps2 it doesn't look good I mean, you know, when it came out, I was like whoa. Like when you get like final fantasy 10, it was like holy shit, this is really good really good looking game.
Speaker 2:And now you look at it now, it's like fuck man. How old was I when I looked at it? It's like fucking Game Boy. Yeah, final Fantasy 10 does not look great. So I have the HD remake on PS4 and even that one it doesn't look that great.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a little bit, but when it first came out it feels like oh man oh yeah, because when Final Fantasy 10 first came out, it.
Speaker 3:You know another thing too we didn't have like TVs like what you do now. No we had these like big pantallas, these like big like you know. Like what do you call those? Not solenoid, the old TVs?
Speaker 2:CRT. Yeah, kind of what. I forget the way the tube TVs you're talking about, yeah, the tube TVs, those things Okay yeah, they weren't like no, we had like 480 fucking yeah, sd. You could have an HD if you had one, but those were still bigger, so it blended things nicely. Yeah, you wouldn't see all the jank.
Speaker 3:You fucking see every single pixel on anything, on these fucking.
Speaker 2:TVs I know. You see everything, so Crispy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, even the bad stuff.
Speaker 1:It actually looks so ugly, but it's crispy, it's crispy.
Speaker 4:Oh, look at the pimples, or blackheads.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's it. You can see all of them, but they're pixelated still.
Speaker 2:I remember when I first really noticed the HD and it was really wow, you can actually see him sweating and everything.
Speaker 2:It's like if you look back now, because even when you see old shows, they've brought it into HD because of course they were recording with cameras that had that capability. So you see those old shows now. They still look good. But if you go back to an SD TV, oh man, you can't, they didn't. That's why they had the. I'm ready for my close up, because that's the only way you were actually able to see who the hell the actor was.
Speaker 3:I was like when DVD first started coming out people didn't really see like the. I guess the visual I don't want the actor was. I was like when DVD first started coming out people didn't really see like the, I guess the visual. I don't want to call it graphical, but like the visual difference between the two.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the fidelity of it. Yeah, there you go. Fidelity is the word. Because of the TVs. Yeah, it was the TVs. Yeah, once now.
Speaker 3:but you know, but it's like, all right, well, right now you can get yourself a 4K Vizio for like 200 bucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you go to Walmart. They have a whole line.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have a whole yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:if you don't care about brands and you just want size and looks, get yourself like a what's that TV?
Speaker 2:A hysterectomy TV.
Speaker 1:What the that's an operation?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:When I look at that H word I think, oh, it's hysterical.
Speaker 1:It's fine.
Speaker 2:But the. Hisense or like the TCL, the Rokus, the Vizio, cheap as hell yeah.
Speaker 4:Roku yeah, I got my Roku. There's built-in Roku inside. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Everything has like a fire TV. Fire this so like the TV that I have for my kid. It was just a simple 1080p, nothing crazy. He doesn't need anything crazy for that.
Speaker 2:He doesn't, he won't appreciate it. Anyway, it was like 180 bucks.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, that's good enough.
Speaker 3:More than good enough and it's probably like a 50 something. All his shows he just picks, you know.
Speaker 2:Hulu those real quick tvs are perfect, yeah. Fire tv, yeah, you know, as long as it has two hdmi ports, good money, that's it. And even if you have the real quick tv built in, yeah, that's it, that's it. And then you know if you could play. Because if one of us will have like a tv dedicated where the gaming consoles are at, where they can really go and say like, wow, why does it look so much better than my tv dad? Well, like my tv when I get my own place again.
Speaker 3:I'll have my own TV and I'll actually plug in my PlayStation. To it the good shit to it, the PlayStation to it and stuff, and then that'll be my gaming area. Because right now I haven't touched my PS5 in a while, but I have it connected to my capture card just in case I want to stream it or something like that, or play Final Fantasy. I think, if I had it hooked up to a TV a decent TV I'd be more inclined to play it, but you know.
Speaker 2:It is nicer to sit. I do enjoy sitting at the couch and playing on the TV and you know of course we're saying those TCL, vizio, whatever those TVs. They're good enough for like little kids, they're good enough. If you want something cheap, it definitely doesn't compare. You can definitely see the difference in picture quality and contrast, and all of that when you get something something better.
Speaker 3:Yeah, something better yeah, like I feel like my my computer screen is the best screen I have right now, so I just watch everything through there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so no, I mean, of course. So the the old tv. I had the 1080p when it crapped out. So we we didn't have a tv in the living room for a while, while I was looking for something else and I said, oh no, I want to get something good if it's going to be there, because it'll be there for years. I got an open box.
Speaker 3:This is basically the top model, the top model by open box. Yeah, let me know, when you find a good-ass open box or something like that, what you got over there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is the roadcaster that we're recording on. It's nice to sit there in person and be able to record like this.
Speaker 3:It's got the LGBTQ lights on it and everything bro I love it. Love it, love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah. So, speaking of watching, speaking of movies, so the Borderlands movie previews have been going out. You know, the Borderlands game right. You know they had the movie. It was Kevin Hart, jamie Lee Curtis, which I was really surprised been going on. You, you know the borderlands game, right, uh, and you, you know they had the movie. It was, uh, was it kevin hart? Uh, jamie lee curtis, which was really surprised. Jack black was in it and jack black is amazing and everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's clapped trap uh.
Speaker 2:So this movie is getting shit on people. People are saying this movie it sucks, like it's terrible. It has a zero on Rotten Tomatoes right now.
Speaker 3:God damn a zero, a zero, not even a 10?.
Speaker 2:It might have updated since then, but the last time I looked at it it's 0%. My God, Almost every review out there said this is a terrible movie. They're trying to just use star power. Cash grab. It's like cringy. It doesn't give any of the feeling of what Borderlands is about. The only saving grace. Most of them will say Jack Black is great, though.
Speaker 3:Listen. To be fair, he's always great. To be fair, jack Black is good in a lot of things he plays, because he himself is like a cartoon character.
Speaker 2:He is, you know. So it's like plays, because he's, he's, he himself is like a cartoon character. He is yeah, yeah, you know. So it's like yeah, I get it he's the only one that embodies what being his character should be.
Speaker 3:Yeah and it's perfect like he played bowser for. For, like, super mario loved it. Yeah, it was awesome. I love it, and I'll even say this on record um, what's his name? Um, not scotie Pippen. Why do I have these weird names in my head?
Speaker 2:oh, the, the one that did Mario, yeah.
Speaker 3:Chris Pratt, chris Pratt not too bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it wasn't bad. I wanted more Charlie. Day though yeah, honestly it was, it was not an offensive no, it wasn't offensive, he wasn't, but he was.
Speaker 3:He really was like regular Chris Pratt, just talking yeah, it was good, it was all I needed.
Speaker 2:It was fine. It didn't take me out of it. You know, I quickly forgot. Oh, that's different than what I hear Mario usually sound like. But Bowser, he put on a performance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bowser was good, especially when he did the singing, the peaches, peaches. I'm like, yeah, it's fucking great have you seen that movie?
Speaker 2:No, not yet. Really, dude. It's the whole movie. You spoiled it, dude. Really Princess Peach dies, but it's crazy, it's only like the number?
Speaker 1:was it the number two top?
Speaker 3:grossing animated film of all time. Yeah, I think. Yeah Was it.
Speaker 2:Frozen 2 was the number one, or something like that, let it go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, let them breathe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that movie it's good. It's good, it's a quick, it's not bad, it's a quick, it respects your time 90 minutes. Yeah, you get right into the story. It's funny.
Speaker 3:It has good for the old heads. It has a lot of like Easter eggs for the old heads, yep. So there's a guy who knew that, yeah, and then the kids, it's Mario, you know.
Speaker 2:So Mateo and he watched it, and I watched it with him because, of course, I like Mario. You should watch it, even watching it by yourself. Put it on in the background while you're playing something, playing something, or cleaning your room or whatever. Yeah, it's a good game.
Speaker 3:You'll find yourself like yo you'll take a minute and just watch it for a second.
Speaker 2:On certain parts, Most of it is cool. They have a lot of not like Easter eggs yeah, there's a whole bunch of Easter eggs but they have a lot of cool callbacks to the games.
Speaker 3:Of course, you got to smash. This is cool, yeah, they do, smash, they do. Mario Kart. They do the old school like Superman, mario.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do the 2D type of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a specific scene, that, unless you actually realize, this is what they're doing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you won't catch it, you might miss it. They have the old school Donkey Kong scene there too, but that's very quick too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have a lot of stuff. It's a very good movie Seth Rogen also played.
Speaker 3:Donkey Kong, but again, that's another person that just plays himself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he basically played himself and it works. And what's her name? Who did Princess Peach, queen's Gambit lady? I forget her name. She did a. Did Princess Peach, queen's Gambit lady? I forget her name.
Speaker 4:She did a good Princess Peach. Oh, she is. Yeah, you know that. Show Queen's Gambit. Yeah, she's the one that plays.
Speaker 2:Princess Peach, she's cute.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she did a good job and she wasn't all dance on the distress either no, no, so they actually made Peach, pretty cool. I think Peach is supposed to like character.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's not so much of a dance on distress, and this is what they have for us. Yeah, so she's. They did a very good job with this. You should watch it tonight. It's 90 minutes. Maybe we can even watch it later we're here we'll order some pizza.
Speaker 4:We'll watch it why not right there it is unless one of you guys gotta leave nobody wants to say yes, nobody wants to see right on four, just to pick up yeah, so so, oh right.
Speaker 2:So anyways, that Borderlands movie, yeah, not good right now there was only if there was anything that was not a bad review. It was like something along the lines of it wasn't offensive to watch but it wasn't great how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3:like, ah, that's weird, yeah, that's weird. It wasn't offensive to watch, but it wasn't great. How do you feel about that? That's weird. Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 2:That's a weird way to review something I know it is because, you know, I saw the trailers at first and I was like I don't know how I feel about this, but Kevin Hart was in it so I thought, OK, it'll be funny.
Speaker 3:Jack Black was in it, but he's a soldier. He's like a two-foot-four soldier.
Speaker 2:I know, I know and it was weird to me always that Jamie Lee Curtis wanted to be a part of this, but she is also kind of quippy and good with her acting in that way when she has to be throwing out those little quips. Now who does she play? I don't know. I don't even know if they're actual characters from the games I'm going to have to bootleg that movie.
Speaker 3:I that movie. I mean I watch it legitimately in the theaters. Watch it legitimately.
Speaker 2:Pay for my ticket. You know, what If you know during the pandemic they were doing a lot of the. You can watch this movie at home, rent it at home. We did that several times. I was so hoping they would have continued that. Pay $20, $30 to watch it at home instead of going to the movies.
Speaker 3:Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a great idea, but they won't keep that.
Speaker 1:Oh no, they won't, they already did it Everything's back in the movies.
Speaker 3:You'd be lucky if you get a theater release with a digital release the next day. No, that's what they did with Five Nights at Freddy's. Yeah, that's right. They released it in the theaters one one day, and then they put it on Peacock the next which is great, which that one made good money too.
Speaker 2:They made a lot of profit. It wasn't a terrible movie.
Speaker 3:You know how you said it wasn't the best, but it wasn't offensive. It was good and it wasn't offensive.
Speaker 2:That one was not bad.
Speaker 1:I watched it. It was good.
Speaker 2:I kind of want to watch Borderlands now, just out of curiosity, later when it's streaming. I kind of want to watch Borderlands now, just out of curiosity later, when it's streaming. I'm not going to pay for it maybe 90 minutes only.
Speaker 4:Maybe is it 90 minutes. That movie is like 120 minutes.
Speaker 3:I don't know how long it is it's definitely got to be longer.
Speaker 2:But I'm curious because you know you got Jack Black, you got Kevin Hart, jamie Lee Curtis, there's Cate Blanchett, who they say that's one of the saving graces is that she acts her ass off.
Speaker 3:But she's supposed to be like Tiny Tina or something like that.
Speaker 2:I think so I forget what roles they played. I didn't really care too much to memorize what role they were playing, but yeah, no, I'll watch it later when it comes to stream or when they put it on Netflix or something like that, because everything goes to Netflix. By the way, have you seen Godzilla Zero, the?
Speaker 3:new one that just came out.
Speaker 4:I wanted to watch that.
Speaker 2:actually I wanted to watch that You're missing out on all these good movies.
Speaker 4:I watched the.
Speaker 2:Godzilla. They're on Netflix.
Speaker 3:I don't have Netflix anymore. I gave that Netflix up.
Speaker 2:You can't even share it anymore, because I tried doing that and they're like you're not supposed to be using it and they cut it off.
Speaker 3:I don't like that. Who cares? I'm paying for it. Shut up.
Speaker 2:No, that's the thing. They want other people to pay for it too.
Speaker 3:That's why I quit my subscription.
Speaker 2:I've had Netflix since I used to, but I had netflix since, like you, had to get the cds from, that's me too. I got netflix. I don't even know what made me dive into it back then. I was like, oh, this is like. I remember the streaming services.
Speaker 3:When it first came out, I had it hooked up to the 360 yeah and you had to choose what you wanted to have in your in your profile to stream. So, like I, I don't. And then there were a lot of good movies on there and then everybody was like, oh, this is a good idea, let me take away the rights of this movie and put it on my platform. And then that stupid shit started to happen yeah, so I was the same way.
Speaker 2:I had it back when you had the dvds and they were so quick about getting you those dvds too, I would have it, and then the next day it would come in yeah, you, if you got the two.
Speaker 3:CDs you watch the one, you throw the one in the mailbox.
Speaker 2:And then by the time.
Speaker 3:And by the time you finish the one, you got time to watch the other one. The other one came.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was kind of like a Gamefly for movies. I feel like Gamefly came out after that because of Netflix and how they were doing.
Speaker 3:But Gamefly sucked. Never used Gamefly.
Speaker 2:I think I probably would have just kept the games. Yeah, no, so. So gamefly was good in the way that you had access to the games, but it sucked in the in two, two main factors. When there was a new game release, there would be a huge waiting list. It was very hard to get one of the new games to be shipped to your house right, and it also sucked because even if you had that game coming it was you know, you asked for it, you get it. It took about five days to get the actual game in hand in your house, so I feel like that was way too long. I had already experienced Netflix and how quick they were with delivering the movies, so I was like, come on, this is unacceptable.
Speaker 4:I'm sitting there waiting for four. Just fall in line in GameStop. Just go to GameStop, right. Yeah, sure, if you wanted to buy the game.
Speaker 2:But GameFly was good because you were renting them like you were doing?
Speaker 3:Ah, you were just renting.
Speaker 1:Yeah so you're paying a monthly subscription, so you're paying like $20 a month, yeah, and then you get whatever game that they had available.
Speaker 3:Some games are available next day.
Speaker 2:Some games are available next week yeah, but no matter what game you would have coming, it would always take four or five days to actually reach. If, once they said, okay, we shipped it out, you would expect to get it in about four or five days and that was the biggest offense. I probably would have kept using it if it was faster, because it was actually a decent service. The pricing wasn't too bad and, yeah, you could just keep sending games back and play whatever you want to play, and it wasn't bad. It was a good way to keep playing everything that you want to play for cheap.
Speaker 3:And now they're selling their games. They're selling their stock.
Speaker 2:I heard, oh yeah, I mean, I know that you could always buy games from Gamefly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you like it, keep it, but you got to pay full fucking retail price for them.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you would get deals and then you won't get the books or anything he was like you want it.
Speaker 3:You want to buy it. Keep the disc. See you later. He was like what about the box? I was like, yeah, so people like us want the box.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, but that's the whole reason we get physical. We don't care about just having the disc.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the box.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, borderlands movie, bad, bad movie. So the last thing, the last thing I wanted to talk to you guys all about, because we're all in the same we love final fantasy, so square unix kind of year over year have been making less money income profits, I guess you can say and square unix of course makes one of my favorite uh series, final fantasy. And these games are great for their visuals, for their stories, for their acting Look at Final Fantasy XVI and for their music. What's the main composer? Oh, my god, right now in my head it's like Joe Hisaishi, but he's basically the Joe Hisaishi for gaming music For Nobuo Matsu.
Speaker 3:He's the one who did the One Winged. Angel, yeah, that's him for Nobuo Matsu. He's the one who did the One Winged.
Speaker 2:Angel. Yeah, that's him, nobuo Matsu. He did basically all of the music with Final Fantasy Guy's huge right. So all this money that's putting into these games and the budget that they have for all of these games. Because Final Fantasy XVI, they weren't happy with how that game performed and how it sold, but it's an awesome game. I mean how it sold, but it's an awesome game. I mean that is probably the highest like made budget game that I've ever seen, with all the crazy shit that's happening when you're fighting as a summons, all the music, the voice acting is great.
Speaker 4:Even the ps5 will give up.
Speaker 2:Yeah I had I had to my ps5 would.
Speaker 3:Just I can't so many times I thankfully never had that issue, yeah same here yeah like I would. What's the problem? You actually use your shit, so that's a good thing. But I.
Speaker 2:I ended up fixing that problem though, yeah, but I that's when remember, I sent you guys the picture of me with all the pieces of the ps5 around me. Yeah, I took that whole thing apart, cleaned out all the dust you also should keep it in a well ventilated area.
Speaker 3:You had this little cubby thing, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like damn, bro, you're putting the easy bake oven in there.
Speaker 2:Bro, it needs to breathe, bro, it needs to breathe yeah, so the the I guess the the fear with uh, with them not making as much money as they should. You know, we still have uh, which I'm convinced it's going to be called final fantasy 7 reunion, with them not making as much money as they should. We still have which I'm convinced it's going to be called Final Fantasy VII Reunion. The third one Most likely. I'm so convinced that that's going to be the name. You've all played it Final Fantasy Rebirth. You've beaten it. Not even that one I haven't beaten it.
Speaker 3:yet you too Listen, I told you, I got this problem.
Speaker 2:Did you guys do the Yuffie DLC? At least I told you I got this problem. Did you guys do?
Speaker 3:the Yuffie DLC at least. Yes, I told you, I beat the shit out of the first one.
Speaker 2:I know you made it.
Speaker 3:I platinumed it, and I haven't platinumed the Yuffie DLC, but I did play it.
Speaker 4:The Yuffie DLC. I'm like one hour in.
Speaker 2:But you beat the first game at least. Yes, I did.
Speaker 3:He's like please you fake.
Speaker 4:JRPG fan. Where am I Like? Beach after the beach.
Speaker 2:I don't even remember Like every game has blended into one for me now. The rebirth after the beach, oh, the Costa del Sol, costa del Sol.
Speaker 3:What was it? Remember the time I was sharing my screen with you? That's where I'm still at Junion, junon.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Junon.
Speaker 4:Oh, you're further away from me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean like, and I haven't fought that water beast yet.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're still there.
Speaker 3:Oh really.
Speaker 4:You haven't moved at all then? No, I haven't touched that shit in a while. Oh yeah, you just got the Junon the old.
Speaker 3:Leviathan fight, yeah, the old Leviathan Just got there game-wise, but I've been there for a fucking long time.
Speaker 2:You got halfway through the game. I don't even know if you're even halfway through the game yet you want to go through the map, the whole map, first.
Speaker 4:That's what I was doing.
Speaker 3:I got everything in the first map. I just finished the second map and now. I'm progressing through Juniors Same same.
Speaker 2:You know how I told you oh, I'm definitely going to platinum this game. I'm definitely going to platinum this game, I'm going to do it. So I did end up going and getting everything, doing all the side quests, all the everything. But it's those fights in the VR system thing that are hard. They're way harder than the first. They're very hard. Yeah, they're very hard.
Speaker 1:So that's the whole.
Speaker 3:Thing.
Speaker 2:It's doable, it's just like one little mistake.
Speaker 3:It's like it's hard, that you have to get far in the game and spec yourself out good enough to even challenge the hard parts of that.
Speaker 2:That's true If you don't have the right equipment if you don't have the right material.
Speaker 3:If you don't have your AC pluses, you don't have your MP pluses, you don't have your defense or your chakras or whatever.
Speaker 4:So grind it right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm not far enough into the story to get all that good shit.
Speaker 4:Yeah that and so I have a lot of it and it's doable.
Speaker 2:It's just a matter of you make one little mistake and then you get caught for it. Yeah, oh, no, so, and you know it's doing different builds and doing different things, so it it does force you to have to do a different build, and I think sometimes with games like that that force you to do builds, it's like I.
Speaker 4:I don't want to do what I want to do, just like Elden.
Speaker 2:Ring. Well, so, elden Ring, you can do whatever you want to do. You can skill the game, you can skill the game, but with this one, I feel like there are times where you can't.
Speaker 3:There are specific techniques and builds that you can do to make the game run a little better that you have to kind of yes.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it forces you to do it. There are. So there's certain strategies. There's this one monster doing this weird charge up attack and you have to be able to survive it, either Stagger it or hit it hard enough to stagger it, or be beefy enough to tank the hit.
Speaker 2:Or you try to do a limit break during that time to start to stagger or or fucking be beefy enough to tank the hit. Yep, or you, you try to do like a limit break during that time to start to stagger or whatever like that. Yeah, there's the stuff like that and that kind of kills it for me, sometimes, not like in, like, uh, sifu, you could definitely skill that. Well, it's all skill, right, sifu's an awesome game.
Speaker 3:That game is only as good as you are yeah, so it's like that.
Speaker 2:But, um, yeah, I am. So with with square enix making less money doing all this stuff, I'm I'm scared that they're not going to put as much budget into their games anymore if they really continue making those final fantasy games, because that's their highest profile games, right? But yeah, they have two.
Speaker 2:That hasn't been seen yet, but it's not out yet yeah the third remake, the third part of the remake, and you have kingdom hearts 4 kingdom hearts, kingdom hearts 4, so now if those games do not do good, then we start to shit ourselves yeah, and, and if we go back to the other thing with the nvidia leaks, final fantasy, final Fantasy IX Remake, oh, Final Fantasy IX Remake.
Speaker 3:They need to bust that shit out soon.
Speaker 2:What if they don't now? Nah what if they don't, if they don't?
Speaker 4:the employees there should have a union Nah.
Speaker 3:I think that game is still coming out.
Speaker 4:I think they need to be unionized, but that's not going to make any difference anyways.
Speaker 2:No, but that's not going to make any difference anyways.
Speaker 3:No, I think what they need to do to give themselves a little bit of a jolt is they need to either announce it, or show something, or fucking release it.
Speaker 1:Because the rumors are so strong for the remake for Final Fantasy IX.
Speaker 3:It's crazy. And the NVIDIA leaks from it's become like word of god. Yeah, like almost every single thing that was on that leak came out and everybody's like oh, no, no, no, like, no, even even like the leaks from the fucking um epic yeah, yeah, that's where the latest one was, that's the latest one. Like that, you can take a grain of salt, but the NVIDIA one for sure.
Speaker 2:But it's just the correlation between the two the NVIDIA to the Epic, them both having the Final Fantasy IX remake, stuff I think they're working on it.
Speaker 3:I hope so. I would put like a dollar down on it.
Speaker 2:They could just decide oh, you know what, we're going to shelve it. These aren't making as much money, as we thought nah that'd be a waste of time, yeah, but it could also be a waste of their time and resources.
Speaker 3:If they continue, they'd have to risk it. They'd have to risk it many companies don't?
Speaker 2:ah dude, look at that Catwoman movie they already have two big ass games that they gotta worry about if they need relevant they, they should do something with that one.
Speaker 3:They should either release it or show a trailer of it or be like your time is awaited. And then they give you a shot of old zadane walking around with his pixelated you know tail, and then screen wipe over and then you see dagger or whatever you named her you know, um, oh shit, and then, like fucking, something fell. And then, like you know, then you see the new fucking graphics, and then the music. The theme music comes in. You see Steiner with his stupid face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they need to change Steiner. He's got a weird face.
Speaker 3:yeah, he looks like too much.
Speaker 4:Botox he looks like he smells shit. I think he's meant to be funny. I think that's his character.
Speaker 3:He's supposed to be like this stoic, silly, weird thing, I don't know yeah but every Final Fantasy game they always have kind of that quirkiness to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They always have the comedic points that, whatever happens, even with a stoic character like Steiner, just don't overdo it with the Moogles.
Speaker 3:I'm tired of Moogles. They're never going to get rid of Moogles Don't redo the Moogles. That's one of I don't hate about Final Fantasy Rebirth.
Speaker 2:It's just like those Moogle things. That wasn't fun.
Speaker 4:That wasn't fun. This is cringe you just had to catch them. Or probably like.
Speaker 3:Chase them by the house.
Speaker 2:I'm like what is this stupid? Same thing every time Until the end of the game.
Speaker 3:You had to do it. That's one of the things on the map to do, yeah and that's so you need that for the platinum.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was not. It was not fun.
Speaker 3:No, that wasn't a highlight of the weird, though to me, the moogles were like item synthesizers and weapon synthesizers. Yeah, bring the items to them and they're like here, it is your fucking ultimate weapon.
Speaker 4:Thank, you weapon?
Speaker 3:yeah, that's it that's all I want.
Speaker 2:Yeah, come hide me and find me like no while they're sitting there spitting little arrows at you, oh my god, they're fucking throwing bombs at you, throwing like dust on you and shit like that. No, it was not fun. It was not fun, I mean, it wasn't, it wasn hard, so I was able to do it every time.
Speaker 3:Fine enough, as soon as I saw that, I was like this, you know what we're not going to do this, but this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. The whole fucking thing. I was like what is this?
Speaker 2:I don't want this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't want this this isn't what I wanted, because remember we got to do this Moogle thing now I was like oh, what is it? Find us Hide and seek. I'm like.
Speaker 4:I heard that you have to pick if you go on a date with Tifa or Aerith.
Speaker 3:You don't pick, you don't pick. No, you got to do the relationship things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know how they have the submissions.
Speaker 3:The smiley faces on top of it.
Speaker 4:So which one should you go with? Barrett the canon one. Barrett the canon canon.
Speaker 2:Barrett, barrett Barrett.
Speaker 3:They high five yeah, nah, slap balls I think the only one you can't take is Red 13.
Speaker 2:No, I think you can now, can you? I don't know.
Speaker 3:You beat the game.
Speaker 2:I did, but I thought it was just Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie and Barret that you could take In the original ones yeah. In this one. I have to look back and see if you can take Red 13.
Speaker 3:I think they added him to it, which is great, because I feel like he's the goofy one of the group now, yeah, he is. You ever seen him ride a chocobo? Funny as shit. Funny as shit.
Speaker 2:And he does the whole Queen's Blood thing, which was a very good game. Yeah, queen's Blood's good, yeah, no, I wanted to do Yuffie because that was supposed to be my girl, but I didn't get Yuffie, I got Aerith.
Speaker 4:That's canon. Aerith is canon right.
Speaker 2:No, Yuffie is the canon one, I mean Tifa is the canon one Tifa right.
Speaker 3:Tifa is the canon one. That's the one that you always usually wind up with.
Speaker 2:The young. What is it?
Speaker 3:The childhood friend and all that yeah childhood friend, but Aerith was supposed to be the one, because she's the one the love interest. But like, is she in love with you or the other guy, like you know?
Speaker 2:what I mean.
Speaker 3:A lot of it points to the whole thing with Zach yeah, it's Zach yeah well cause, you know well now, I guess in the remake she kinda knows yeah, you know, and now that you know spoiler, she's alive. You know spoilers, he's alive, you know, and technically that's still his girlfriend. Yeah, technically, yeah, right, he died allegedly, allegedly, but you know technically but he didn't actually die, did he in the real? Canon story oh I can't the real?
Speaker 3:okay, the we're talking about the before so before I played the psp one which is oh, that was a good one. Crisis Core I played that.
Speaker 2:They have the Crisis Core remake on PlayStation Plus, which is great.
Speaker 3:I'll get another game. I didn't finish. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:It's such a good game.
Speaker 3:It doesn't hold me very well.
Speaker 4:Explain to me that canon, so the canon Of that story? Because Zack and Sephiroth was friends before. Well, they were co-workers.
Speaker 2:Co-workers. Okay, they were both in soldier.
Speaker 3:They were both in soldier. Zack was the one who witnessed Sephiroth's downfall. He was the one who witnessed him burning down Nibelheim and all of that.
Speaker 3:So, the rivalry became Zack and Sephiroth right. So what happened with Cloud and Zack? They were captured by Hojo. They were experimented on for months. So they did a lot of Mako experimenting and what happened? A lot of like Zack's memories got imprinted onto Cloud and Cloud wound up getting Mako poisoning because of it. So towards the end of the game Zack was trying to save Cloud. He was trying to take him back to Midgard.
Speaker 3:Midgard yeah, and being that you know, Zack was public enemy number one at this point because they thought he went rogue. Shinra found him and the canon ending to that is he fought to the death. He fought an army of Shinra and he fell, but Cloud survived when cloud finally got his consciousness. He found zach dying with his sword and you know, there were some words. It's like you know you gotta carry, carry my legacy sword.
Speaker 3:He gave him the buster sword. That angie, is it angio and you? Yeah, angio gave him Buster Sword. So, and that's when like things started becoming like his memories became. Cloud's memories and they kind of you know like I was like oh, I'm first class soldier. And you know, if you remember the first game, tifa, was like what?
Speaker 2:You're not first class soldier. It was like yeah, I was in.
Speaker 3:Ebelheim when that happened and she was like really so there's, you guys didn't finish it. Not the remake. Right, you didn't finish the remake. No, the remake, but not Rebirth. Yeah, not Rebirth.
Speaker 2:So you know it dives heavy into all of that stuff.
Speaker 3:So I can't even tell you, because I know what's going to happen. Don't tell me.
Speaker 1:Because they're changing a little bit of stuff. I think they changed a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff. They changed a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4:Even the ghosts, the ghosts, the phantoms.
Speaker 2:The phantoms yeah, the ones that are trying to keep the canon yeah, yeah, those things are supposed to keep the canon, but it's not working out for them.
Speaker 4:Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You guys got to finish the game so I can actually play the fucking thing.
Speaker 2:There's a lot that I can't tell you right now.
Speaker 4:I have Rebirth, I have Elden Ring DLC, I have Diablo 4.
Speaker 3:Don't even feel bad. I got a review. I have the DLC for Elden Ring. I got to fix the car. There's so much today I got so much shit to do today not enough time.
Speaker 2:Alden ring dlc is just like you know. There's no story. There's some story you're getting, but I mean to me it doesn't berserk. Yeah, it doesn't, it's not, it's not crazy the story right. Final fantasy 7 rebirth I could not stop playing that game.
Speaker 3:I I busted through that game I wish I had that hunger like I did for the first remake. I really do like when I play that game I'll give it an hour and then after that I was like I'd rather masturbate you know you know what it's probably because you're.
Speaker 2:Do you feel like you're forcing yourself to do all the side quest stuff, or are you doing it because you?
Speaker 3:want to. No, I love. So I love the battling in that game same same love it, like I upgraded, like I haven't even done too many times like like together attacks, yeah, because I don't even uh, to be honest, I don't know how the mechanic works, which one which one like when you do like team attacks and there's little tips.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know how the the pips you're talking about for the uh, the limit breaks yeah, well, not the limit breaks, but they have pips every time you do one like every, every time you do a team attack yeah, but I haven't done one yet and I don't know how okay so you have to unlock it in the there's a thing.
Speaker 2:That's what I figured, so yeah, you, you unlock it in the sphere grid and then you, as long as you have enough atb meter for both of those characters to do it, then you can do the team attack. Yeah, every team attack that you do gives each of them the little pip, like you say. It gives them like a bonus or something. No, no, not even the little pip, sorry, I was thinking of specifically there are certain team attacks that will level up your limit break, and that's what that little ticker is, and you can level it up twice so you get the three different levels of limit break and all that. Yeah, see, I gotta again.
Speaker 3:I love the battling in that game the air fighting way better. But you kind of saw that in the Yuffie DLC.
Speaker 2:And that's where it came from.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly that whole team attack and the aerial best thing ever. I still love the battling system. I still love switching to my ATB battery. Fucking Barret, just da-da-da-da-bang da-da-da-da-bang.
Speaker 1:And he's my healer like, honestly, still in the tank he's still my healer, me too, he does he does the was it the chakra?
Speaker 3:and then he does like the the prey or whatever it is, yeah easy, easy, free heals can do it and if you stack them enough and you level up that material enough, yeah, he does some good heals oh yeah it was enough to all the way to the end of the game quickly. He's the fastest one I find I can level and gain my ATB gauge, so that's why I'll give him the items for the third bar. So you spend two ATBs and you get a third one, and then they're just healing, healing, healing healing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a team attack that you can use to split it into three even.
Speaker 3:The only thing I found out in that game is I feel like when you're on a specific person let's say you're with Cloud I feel like the computer just molds the shit out of you as quickly as possible.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they go after the character you're using.
Speaker 3:They go after the character you're playing, your meaning right there. I didn't feel like it was as bad in the original remake as in this one. I feel like it was as bad in the original remake as in this one. I feel like in this one they're like yo, they look at you right away and then they beat the crap out of you, which kind of messes me up a little bit, because you want to set something up, set something up and then switch, and then you're like sometimes you need a little bit more ATB so you got to use the battling, but then the monster's like you and then it just beats the shit out of you.
Speaker 2:There are things that you can do that'll make them chase someone else instead. But yeah, you know it's still for the most part. Yeah, I guess I'll play it a little bit more when I get home. I mean, if only there's so many things I can't tell you. I mean, if you want to know the canon, I can tell you the canon.
Speaker 3:No, don't tell me shit. Don't tell me shit If you want to, on Final Fantasy 7?.
Speaker 2:I'm all for that, but not the remakes, not the rebirth.
Speaker 3:Nothing with the rebirth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, there's so much you guys don't know, like I know what's up. And then there's more that you he's like I can see into the future. I can see that's why I'm fully convinced it's called Reunion. First of all.
Speaker 3:They mention Reunion, yeah yeah, the rebirth Especially towards the end, when it got all Nomura on everybody.
Speaker 2:Kingdom.
Speaker 3:Hearts when you started fighting. Everything they say in the end battle in the first one it's like. It's like.
Speaker 2:Kingdom Hearts.
Speaker 3:Well, not even that, but the characters you're fighting.
Speaker 2:Oh, advent Children, yeah, the Advent Children, sephiroth, yeah.
Speaker 1:That movie's still good have.
Speaker 2:So you fight the knuckle guy, the sword guy, the gun guy, the two sword guy, and you look oh yeah, that's true, they have those guys, which was really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a pretty cool callback. It was a good callback because it was a broken Sephiroth.
Speaker 3:It was like the three parts of him.
Speaker 2:But what if now their budget for all this stuff they're not putting?
Speaker 1:all into.
Speaker 2:Final.
Speaker 4:Fantasy.
Speaker 2:Nah, you're not going to get this shit.
Speaker 3:They can't do that. They're going to have meat. Get that shit out of your head, man.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you they're not going to do that, it's going to be like meaty music that they're using, not even the bull.
Speaker 3:Bro, they're just going to make another Super Nintendo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's just stuff falling on there. It's though it is nice, god damn, but no like if they're going to do that, make a new.
Speaker 3:Super Nintendo game.
Speaker 1:I mean I'd buy that shit right up Sure.
Speaker 3:Final Fantasy 44, like the fucking pixelated Super Nintendo thing.
Speaker 2:Ah, I'm all for it yeah, 2D HD Cheaper to make.
Speaker 3:Imagine them remade. No, I I can't say that because they've already remastered and remade all the old ones. I like 2, american 2, which is like what.
Speaker 1:5, the one with Cecil and Golbez and all of them so I like that one.
Speaker 3:But they already remade that game a whole bunch of times, so I don't know again. I think we should start worrying about Squaresoft, square Enix. I'm sorry, I'm showing my age again. I think we should start worrying about Square Enix. I'm sorry, I'm showing my age again. I think we should worry about them.
Speaker 1:If Reunion allegedly comes out and is not good and Kingdom Hearts 4.
Speaker 3:The next one they should be talking about is Kingdom Hearts 4.
Speaker 2:I'm also scared that they can scrap Final Fantasy IX. I don't think they will they can and do it as a write-off. Listen, this is all the money we're using. Companies have done that several times already. I think they'd be kneecapping themselves, yeah, but they haven't announced it. I know they can quietly shut it down. It's a write-off.
Speaker 3:We put this much money into it. Technically, nobody's announced it, so it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2:Technically, technically. But we know, we know, we fucking, we know, we know god damn it, yeah, no, but you know, and that, and that sad note of maybe them not having the budget or putting the budget into certain things anymore, we can, uh, we can leave it at that and just pray that pray that all these things keep keep continuing in the same scale, same quality, because the music, the visuals, the story that I voice, all of it together is why I've always loved final fantasy.
Speaker 2:So I don't want any of that to go away, none of it. I want it all to be there, especially the music and the like, the sequences. They've always been very good at that. I love it. But those are bits of a heartbreaking dive into what might come of Square Enix.
Speaker 4:They need to be unionized. That doesn't change anything about their Job security.
Speaker 2:I think you need. It's not even with job security. I think you need to go and look at what unions do.
Speaker 3:I don't think you know what the word means.
Speaker 4:The employees need more money. Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 2:They don't have budgets for doing that, so they can't give it.
Speaker 3:They only got budgets for their shareholders, yeah.
Speaker 2:But anyways, we thank you all for coming to listen. We hope that you all come back next time. Until then, gg's, gg's, gg's.