Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026.
Welcome to the Giant Bombcast, everybody.
I'm your host, J.N.O.
Choa.
Happy Pride Month everybody out there and also happy Summer Game Fest week to everyone that celebrates joining me on the show.
Same thing.
It's the same thing.
Just be gay, do crimes, play video games, and then you're good.
Oh, Mikey changes Malo.
That's, wow.
It's Stitch.
I thought it was Shovel Knight.
Yeah, that's right.
SGF actually stands for Summer Gay Fest.
Joining me on the show, as always, co-captain of the ship, Jeff Grubb.
I'm really worried, Jan.
I had a headache and then I drank caffeine and it went away.
That seems bad.
That's right.
Nothing to worry about there.
Master of all things caffeine.
He's our own barista ready to fire off all of your orders.
The master of Spro.
Dan Reichert.
I woke up really lightheaded and I'm trying to fix it with caffeine.
I had a coffee and now I'm having a Baja Cabo citrus.
Oh, yeah, I'm having a crazy thing here, so we'll see if that works.
Speaking about a crazy thing, the facial hair is going crazy.
The temperament going wild.
We've unleashed them from the editing minds.
That's right.
Free Will Crosby.
Will Crosby's on the show today.
Hi, everyone.
I'm here and I'm real and I'm bothered by a beaver.
That's right.
He's not just bothered by beavers.
He's bothered by virtually everything.
And we love him for that.
Still can't find his keys and he never will.
Jeff Bacalar.
Beavers.
I love beavers.
Really?
Yeah, they're cool as hell.
I'm like a big raccoon and beaver enthusiast.
I think they're like cuddly little dorks of the animal kingdom.
Okay, this is a very like maybe 2010s internet question but, Jeff Backler, how do you feel about platypi?
Platypuses.
They're a little rougher on the eye.
We're going on.
Speaking about rougher on the eye.
That is a good transition.
Yeah, but I embrace all the furry little freaks, you know?
And our own furry little freak, the bad boy of games media, Mike Manati.
Oh, we so no like the Naboo.
Mike, what was that?
That sounds so bad.
You gotta do that in private like we always do.
Do the other accents from the movie, Mike.
Don't take that bait.
My dad loves Boss Nass.
It's his favorite Star Wars character.
Oh wait, is he racist?
I guess you're kind of the only one who can claim ignorance, you know?
I feel like you're the only one who can really get away with it.
Greg Miller has fucking dressed up as Watto and does the voice constantly.
That's worse.
Watto is worse, right?
I don't know.
He's been contacted by APAC about that, and everyone's real mad at him for it.
Yeah, they're going to do something eventually.
You don't want to do it to the boss.
That's so hard in front of me.
I can't help myself.
He started it.
No one cancels Jan.
That's right.
Yeah, you can't.
Jan's from Naboo.
Yeah, exactly.
I can say it.
You talk to me about getting canceled.
Do you have something you want to say?
I did some googling over the weekend and i've rethought my heroes.
That's right.
That's right.
Uh folks, it is, as we mentioned, at the tippy top here.
It's summer game fest week.
Uh, this is gonna be an odd week uh, for us over here at gbhq.
Um, We're gonna go down to LA, see each other and put on a bunch of night shows.
Will is printing a tablecloth right now as we speak.
Will, I don't understand this.
It's printed backwards, too?
And Chuck pointed that out, and I was very confused.
But it's a heat transfer, so it gets printed on paper, and then it heat transfers to a tablecloth.
Listen, I was exploiting the fact that my wife does this for work.
And I was like, she's printed.
She did custom napkins for our wedding and all this sort of stuff.
And I was like, hey, if I sent you two logos, could you print something tomorrow?
So she is printing an eight foot tablecloth that we need to use somewhere, or else she'll be very angry.
We will drape it around Mike Minotti.
Oh, yeah, he can wear, like, a cloak.
Perfect.
Yeah.
It'll be, like, Stellan Skarsgård's character in Dune.
Right?
Yep.
He's, like, the goopy boy.
I don't know why I liked that silence.
I was going to let that one simmer.
Oh, sure, yeah.
Folks, how's everybody doing?
I'm still thinking about beavers.
You know that they think that the reason beavers damn rivers is because they don't like the sound of running water.
It gives them anxiety.
I'm just going to go fuck up this river because it's really bothering me.
Oh, man.
That actually is a knock against them for me.
I think you like a babbling brook.
Yeah, like I'm a big sound machine guy and that's just incompatible with my sleep habits.
So I guess beavers minus one today.
Please line up a beaver, badger, otter.
Can you all tell the difference?
Yes.
Beaver for sure.
How would you describe it?
Well, the beaver's got the flat tail.
The beaver's got the flat tail thing, for sure.
Otters are just obvious.
They're so cute.
Okay, otters are svelte.
Yeah.
And they're swimming even more than the other ones.
Sure.
Okay.
Yes.
Meerkats look like Timon.
Yep.
Yes.
I know the difference between all these.
I can only understand animals as they are represented in the Lion King.
How have we not pitched taking Dan to a zoo and then obscuring... I love zoos.
But then obscuring the name plaque and asking Dan to identify the animal.
Remember going to the chocolate museum with him, Jan?
There was so little information to absorb there and it was still a lot.
I know more about animals than I do about chocolate.
I'll tell you that.
Are you saying you could not tell the difference between a badger and a beaver and an otter?
Those specifically, i get mixed up because they're all just kind of like fuzzy guys.
There's a bunch from around here apparently.
Uh, they're just like in rivers and stuff and i can't, i don't know the difference.
Tell me more about this lineup.
Were they all like at the same place of a crime?
There was a jewelry store, heist.
Yes.
They were all in a car together.
You just watched Fantastic.
Cy Cooper was busy that day, so clearly it wasn't him.
Yes.
You were just watching Fantastic Mr. Fox.
I never saw that one.
Is that good?
I like it.
Oh, it's very good.
You're crazy.
Yeah.
You're crazy.
It's good.
I used to be a big Wes Anderson guy, like Tenenbaums and Rushmore.
Then I kind of like didn't see him for a long time.
Yeah, he got woke.
That's right.
Bone Temple.
Bone Temple's very good.
That's a sequel, right, to some other stuff?
I've never seen 28 Days or Weeks Later.
But Ben Hanson has pestered me for months to see the Bone Temple with him and I finally did last night and I'm glad he pestered me because that movie was good as hell.
Did you see the first 28 years later?
I did.
We saw that in the theaters and then we didn't see this one until now.
And it really is kind of like a Kill Bill volume one and two situation where it's like oh, I think you put them together and you got a better overall thing going on.
I really recommend the first one is excellent.
I think the 28 days later is tremendous.
Oh, the first, first one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm in on it.
It's a little intense zombie stuff.
Yeah, I know.
This one was intense to bone temple, but yeah, I liked it a lot.
Yeah.
I watched it.
I was just going to ask, what's this new Spielberg Disclosure Day?
I keep hearing people talk good things about it, but I've not really seen much of it.
I honestly think the trailer is so the opposite of compelling.
I just think, man, I don't care.
I just don't care.
We just had a box office that shows that Spielberg has aged out of...
Relevancy forever and ever.
Who was the last good Spielberg?
Ready Player One.
Obviously Ready Player One.
Everyone liked West Side Story.
No one saw it.
Everyone liked West Side Story though, right?
It's the family one.
The one about the family.
The Fablemans.
The Fablemans was good.
The Fablemans was good.
The last one I liked.
Let me see.
Duel was his last good movie.
I just think, like I don't know, the disclosure day stuff, like I think there's something that is very sort of antiquated about the big like event moment in a movie, right.
Like, yeah, I just think that's a tired genre.
Yeah, I also feel the same way where I'm like, when I see stuff from it, I am not compelled.
Yeah, I'm just like, I don't give a shit what you're doing in this movie, man.
I'm just realizing I haven't liked the Spielberg movie since 2002.
He did Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can in 2002.
And World of Worlds in 05 was fine.
I just love it.
Did you like Bridget Spies?
Bridget Spies was good.
What the fuck is that?
Okay, so you just haven't seen many of these.
Maybe not.
Lincoln was boring.
I've watched that movie like six times.
Lincoln's awesome.
Lincoln's great.
Yes.
I just, you know, I don't know.
Tim Tim was good.
He's been blowing it.
Yeah, he's the worst.
He's the worst.
I do enjoy Tintin, actually.
It's a lost Indiana Jones movie.
It's so good.
I also watched Obsession over the weekend.
And hey gang, let me tell you that's not a movie to try and wind down the weekend on, because I was tense the whole time after I left.
My feet were cramped.
Did you think...
That's what was going to happen?
I didn't think that's what was going to happen.
I just thought like, oh, I watch horror movies.
I can take this.
And let me tell you, your boy loves a good four by three and a bunch of weirdos.
And that movie's full of it. let me ask you this, Jan.
Yeah.
Without, you know, everyone probably understands what that movie is.
Did it earn the four by three?
Because everyone's doing this shit and I don't think everyone earns the four by three.
Like salt burn.
You didn't earn that four by three.
Oh, salt burn.
I like salt burn.
I like salt burn for the most part.
It didn't earn that four by three.
It did not earn the four by three.
You know what?
I'll say Obsession did.
Also, shoestring budget, they couldn't afford the rest of the frame.
I get it.
It's pixels.
That's money on the table.
That is very much a dad aspect ratio joke.
Good job.
No, like when you go into the editing if they do the film, they cut off the rest and then you just refund that right.
It's a rebate.
Well, I could...
Could save you some money if you just turn this into a 4x3.
Just flip it over.
It makes sense to me.
Less pixels, less mess.
There we go.
Double 35.
That's right.
I think it takes more time to render.
Maybe.
Yeah, of course.
Thank you.
See?
See?
It makes sense out there.
Anything else?
Don't agree.
Pop it off, gang, that you'd like to talk about before we move on with the show.
No.
I was going to ask about free will during the mic check, but I got shut down.
Oh, there you go.
We're not doing that.
Good idea, Jan.
Good idea, Martha.
Yeah.
I was worried about saying I wanted to talk about something, because there's one guy who leaves a mean comment about me in every YouTube video comments thing.
But I think Sean banned him, so I guess I'm free.
I'm free again now to talk.
Oh, yeah.
There we go.
A free will to ban people.
That's right.
Yeah.
Well, not me.
I'm afraid.
But Sean just did it.
I was like, don't ban him.
I want to see what he says about me next.
No, he makes our YouTube channel worse.
Good point.
Talk shit, get hit.
Speaking about free will.
We freed will because you and Mr Bacalar have checked out a certain game featuring a bunch of woodland creatures.
Dan, real quick, real test.
What animal is Falco?
Falcon.
Peppy.
A hare or a rabbit.
Slippy.
Frog toad.
Slippy toad.
All right.
Last one.
Fox McCloud.
He's a fox.
Fantastic.
10 out of 10, Dan.
Proud of you.
Wow.
I thought Falco was a Lombardi.
He's Italian.
Oh, my Lord.
How do we transition into this conversation now?
Oh, my gosh.
Yikes.
But you two checked out Star Fox last week.
Yeah.
That's right.
We traveled into New York City and we saw some Star Fox.
Will and I did.
We had a lot of fun playing it.
We played it for about an hour or so.
What was it, Will?
Two different modes?
We played multiplayer, we played some of the single player, and then I think that was it.
Yeah, go ahead.
Well, I was just going to say it was single player, single player co-op and multiplayer.
Right.
I was thinking it was a different mode.
It was not.
There's a good portion of this where Will and I tandem controlled, with will aiming and me flying right, right out the mouse controls which are which is the aiming for the the, you know the weapons.
Yet Yeah, which was an interesting left brain, right brain experience.
I seem to enjoy it.
Everyone else watching us seem to enjoy watching us play.
Is this when you guys were goofing up and embarrassing the Giant Bomb name by making everyone think we're goofballs?
Grub, you got it all wrong.
Grub, come on.
What do you mean?
No.
We told everyone where we were from.
Yeah, we finished first.
Totally.
No, so okay.
So I played a good chunk of the single player in the beginning and I gotta say like I have very, you know, loose memories of what that game that this is sort of a complete remake of Star Trek 64.
Very loose memories of what that experience was like.
This gonna lie, it's great.
I i loved a lot of what we saw and played.
I thought uh, everything really kind of controlled super well, there's like this uh onboarding sort of virtual area that you start in and then we got into, like sort of i i assume it was like one of the first missions, i'm not exactly sure, But it's great.
It controls great.
It looks phenomenal.
It is really one of the first times, I guess, maybe with the exception of the Bonanza, where you're like oh, this is not a Switch game that I'm used to looking at.
This is on a different sort of level.
It performs really, really well.
And yeah, I mean, I think, like especially coming from 64, as like the kind of you know blueprint for what this experience is.
It's just
For all intents and purposes, it's like a brand new thing.
I'm not like, oh, you know, I remember this, I remember that.
Again, I'm sure people who are much more familiar, I think you are, Will, with the game.
But, like, I really dug it.
I think, like...
It's super interesting how they, In the multiplayer, we understood some of what they're doing with the cameras and the face tracking and stuff like that, which I think.
Just goes without saying like, yeah, you're going to be one of these characters.
You could design your character and like what you want to look like, what you want to talk like.
And then when you go into that multiplayer mode, you've got all the tiles of all your Falcos and your slippies and whatever.
What was the pig?
I was the pig, right?
Yeah.
That was fun.
That felt good and normal.
I love that pig.
Does he look as good in the game as he did in the trailers?
Yeah, I mean, he was in some of the cut scenes, right?
Yeah, he was in the cutscenes, and then he was in that multiplayer mode.
We chose him as the face model for those matches.
I'm very excited to see the Andross head.
That's one of my favorite Last Bosses ever.
It's just the Andross head with the hands, then turns into the brain with the eyes.
I want to see that now.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, so I played it with the Pro Controller, which felt really good.
I don't think you're going to get that smooth of an experience using Joy-Con controllers, but...
You know, when we had to do the split controls, that's how we were playing the game.
But Pro Controller feels great with the game, like super tight.
What did you think of your time watching and playing well?
It was a lot of fun.
I almost said Donkey Kong 64.
Star Fox 64 was a friend's house game.
So anytime I went over his house, it was playing it there.
And it...
A lot of times you get these remakes and they still feel like the old game, with just like a coat of paint.
And this just felt good from the get go.
I mean other than changing the way Star Fox is and not having you on a linear path.
In those levels everything feels fantastic and remade and put back together.
Um, there were like the interesting tidbits of the.
You follow Falco one way and you go off on this mission segment, or you follow someone else the other way and you go off and fight all these like monkey guys instead of the lizard guys is really neat and cool.
Uh, the uh sort of flying around with the mouse control and having Jeff fly was really confusing at first and then you kind of get used to it.
But there's still moments where it's like he's like oh, get over there to that thing.
I'm like you're the one flying you, fly over there.
I don't recommend playing that way.
Yeah, that's probably the worst way to play.
It was a little backwards, but it was quite fun.
The multiplayer, that's not linear flying.
You're obviously flying all around doing shooty stuff.
Oh, range mode.
Yeah.
And that was very fun.
You're grabbing the pirates, warp in or whatever it is in star Fox and they have like a package and you fly in.
Defeat them, steal the package, capture the flag, sort of thing.
Uh, and it went really, really well.
The other people playing in the session kept joining the good side.
So it was just us on the other team with the AI in it.
It wasn't going super great.
Yeah.
But, uh, The game chat faces were funny.
They're still in that weird With all those things.
You think it's going to track your face a little bit better, but it was more like to make a reaction.
I was just going like yeah, like just just make the mouth go, and that's mostly it.
Everyone else is because we're all playing this game and just all these faces of starfox, people just like intensely focused and moving like this and like, but all like 360p uh, because it's game chat.
But The thing they did have in that which none, no one used, because I guess we're all hideous is you can have it track your face and put like stuff on you rather than grabbing one of the characters to be.
So the menus like avatar settings, it's like, do you want to be one of the characters?
And then below that are all these settings for like different ears.
You can do the little like targeting computer thing and all that sort of stuff.
And then if you choose the avatar person, it's not until you're in the multiplayer game, when you choose your character, that you get that character's face or whatever for the multiplayer match.
All right man Nintendo, and they're like let's take something that was like in Snapchat from 10 years ago and pretend it's a new feature.
Like tendencies is so incredible.
I love them for that.
They're so stupid and weird and they're totally like unashamed by it.
They're just like yeah, it's just a fully shameless thing.
Like Will's right though, like it's, it works as good as I guess you can sort of hope.
I don't know how much juice you're getting out of that because, like you said, you're so laser focused on the multiplayer thing that it's like oh, this is hilarious, but like i need to do something separately to enjoy this and not play it in multiplayer.
Well remember, you can do that.
Like you could take that those things into a call where someone else is playing some other game.
You could just watch them as as pigma.
That's the way to do it.
That's the way to do it.
Yeah, my new software app, Pigma.
Download a trial right now.
I like my Pigma watches.
Hell yeah.
I'm thinking about more of the gameplay that I did with some of these boss battles where there's that one robot you're taking down in the earlier section.
That was super fun.
You know, like I again, I had to kind of relearn all that stuff with.
You know doing like the somersaults, doing that quick reverse maneuvering The, that brake steering, you know you could like really like bank into a turn really quickly.
All that feels really good.
And then the alternate route we took after we went, you know, sort of like followed Falco.
There was that like monkey king fight, where he was like occupying this, like transforming spaceship that you had to, like fly through an asteroid field to get to it first.
Like fucking cool, man.
Like it's, it's good.
I, I'm surprised.
I kind of, I went into it just sort of being like, oh yeah, like let's see this thing again.
But I, I left it being like, I can't wait to play this for sure.
Extremely well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I kept wanting to say it, but I didn't want to come across as like bad or anything.
But I kept being like this is on a switch.
Like it looks this good on a switch.
It's just, it's incredible.
Do you think you could put this in front of Dib and he'll be into it?
They obviously want to attract new audiences and that means the youth.
Yeah, I was thinking about that.
You know, it's a good question.
You know, I think...
Obviously, even part of the presentation was just like and if you've seen the movie, you certainly know that Star Fox showed up.
And now Homeboy has a new Switch 2 game.
I don't, you know, I think, yeah, I think there is some of that.
I'm starting to think Dibs like aging out of some of this stuff, where he's in the valley between millennial nostalgia, appreciation and, like you know, alpha.
This is lame sort of thing.
I don't know, i'm not speaking for all 10 to 12 year olds on uh in the country, but i i do think, like there there will be a bit of a divided population on the reception of, like that character.
Um, because you know, like starfox is not like badass, you know there's like a certain kind of like saccharine uh presentation to the adventurous at best.
Yeah yeah right, like and you're looking at all these, like you know, chucky cheese characters probably knocks the cool factor down a little bit for 10 years olds.
I'm sorry, i like him.
I like him comes back around.
Eventually you get old enough you start to appreciate slippy again.
Yeah, Pigma inflates, slippy deflates perhaps.
So you're left where you started.
Google search right there.
Yeah, don't do that.
The wolf guy seems cool.
Star Wolf is cool.
He's got a good song.
It's not completely saccharine.
There are some interesting characters there.
I do think that update uh on the whole, having seen it uh in its full final presentation, uh does look good.
I think there was a hole to do about nothing with uh, with people's receptions, like what these characters look like.
Yeah, i think that's gonna die down like yeah, as we get closer to the game.
Yeah, it barely even occurred to us while we were going through it.
But yeah, I'm into it.
I am surprised.
It turned me into someone who just had a super casual Star Fox relationship and now I'm anticipating this in a real positive way.
Yeah, y'all got me excited for this now.
Yeah.
Good.
Good.
And we'll have some other footage that we recorded up later.
I'll post that to social and whatnot.
Yeah, it's good stuff.
Speaking about Nintendo kind of being behind the times with trends that they are picking up.
Jeff Grubb, you have been playing Peak Donico and Nintendo has figured out you can do funny stuff with pictures.
Yeah, and you have that WarioWare game that you kind of maybe did too many releases of on Switch 1 and kind of.
You know, maybe they got a lot of cool off.
So instead, take all those ideas...
Making a mobile game that uses your own photos.
And I've been playing a bit of it.
I definitely, you know, we played some on UPF.
I'd played some before that.
And then I played some with my family.
And that's clearly where this game's going to shine.
Where the people who are in these photos you go, kind of sit there and like hold the phone in front of them.
Like, look, look at what you're doing.
Like you're, you're eating these, like I'm making your mouth really big and you're eating all these vegetables and stuff.
Isn't that silly?
And everyone thinks it is.
Everyone has a really good time now.
It's not going to turn into some long session, but for me, as someone who likes WarioWare I'm picking it up frequently in between that stuff and it's working really well.
I am impressed by how well it uses the photos, like it kind of just immediately like knows like what the faces are.
And obviously we've had that tech for a while.
But it's like yeah no, it's like going in the background of some of these photos and even getting some people's faces in that way.
And I'm glad that it can like, it makes it easy to sort of manage your photos in the app.
You can say hey, I want to make a new folder and you can like pick your photos and just kind of make a coordinate off of set of photos so it only uses the stuff you wanted to use.
The one issue is you can't use screenshots even if you want to give it permission to do so.
So it's not like you're going to be able to screenshot some funny stuff from a YouTube video and then bring it in.
Now, If that I think of that photo was already screenshotted somewhere else and you were to like transfer it to your phone, then it wouldn't know anymore.
It probably wouldn't know or you could like download it from like a Google image search.
Those work fine.
But yeah, I was kind of doing a mix of some stuff I got from the Internet and my own photos.
And it was yeah, it worked really well.
It's just WarioWare, though.
It really is.
It's a little annoying that at least in iOS you can't just pick a folder in your Photos app to be like hey, all of these are fine.
You have to individually select every one of them, which that takes forever.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
On Android, it gives me a little bit more options.
There's no select all on iOS that I've seen.
So a little annoying as far as that goes.
But the WarioWare like influence is obvious.
This is just straight up WarioWare with your pictures.
But the other thing it makes me think of is I love the Game Boy camera.
Yes.
And it would have those little mini games where it's like you take like three pictures of your face and then you have like a juggling mini game, when your face is like reacting to stuff.
And it's like that.
It's American. of WarioWare and like old Game Boy Camera minigames.
Again, like Face Raiders and stuff like that.
They've had they have a history of doing stuff like this.
And it's yeah, I'm I'm into it.
I'm glad they did.
It's you know, it's free to free to start.
It's a shareware game.
And then there's two packs that are like seven and five dollars.
I immediately just bought everything and kind of don't regret it.
It's still not a ton of stuff, but it was enough to justify the price to me.
Probably my favorite thing Nintendo has done on a phone.
It is.
I think it's my favorite thing since Miitomo.
I like Miitomo a lot.
Oh, Miitomo.
That's great.
Man, you guys are just big Dragalia Lost haters.
No, I have a secret torch for Dragalia Lost, of course.
But yeah, this is neat.
I think if this is the sort of tone Nintendo's coming at mobile with going forward, I'm interested again.
I definitely was like after the Fire Emblem stuff.
I just don't care about the way that they're doing these mobile games.
Dragalia, Lost.
But with this it's like okay yeah, if they're just going to take an idea from one of their existing games, add a fun twist.
That kind of only can happen with them right now on mobile.
That's a good fit.
I think I still would prefer if this game was on a Switch that had a camera and stuff like that, but whatever.
It works well on phone.
Well, you can play this game on your phone and perhaps drive.
I don't suggest that, but you can watch a phone and drive a forklift around in crash out crew.
We checked this out during upf.
I think we had a ball of a time here.
This comes from the aggro crab people who I think have got this.
I don't even want to say this specific game is friend slot, but like cooperative chaos on lock at this point.
It's more like in the overcooked fashion, I would say.
Just like really chaotic yelling at your friends, like figuring out on the fly what everyone's job is.
Division of labor, yeah.
Yeah, it's like okay, we need to get these things over here, to these docks over here, and then figuring out like okay,
Mike, you're going to get rid of all these cacti that are popping up.
Grub, you're going to be, you know, setting up a teleporter to send this honey and bees over here.
And me and Jan's like okay Jan, I've got Doc A, you've got Doc B, and a lot of yelling at each other in between.
They did a great job with it.
It's a cooperative forklift game.
So yeah, it's all about kind of unloading and loading these packages.
And yeah, there's four of you.
And then there's these different obstacles like you were talking about.
Kind of between sessions there is a shop can buy things to help, like teleporter pads, where you so you can put the crates on them.
You kind of don't have to go through the difficult obstacle course, sometimes like honey or goose on the floor.
We can buy these robot vacuum cleaners that can deal with that.
Yeah, it maybe isn't like.
Maybe like the silliness factor of like.
Oh, this person's like talking and it's really funny.
Like that aspect isn't there as much.
But as a game, like as a cooperative game, it was working really well.
Yeah, I think we kind of got to a point where we were being pretty cooperative and we were talking a lot.
But I think over time it's like we all kind of figured out like oh, we may be overthinking some of this stuff.
We don't need to be like so precious about like, oh, what's what you guys tell me what's happening over there i'll just bring you all the stuff then one person sits over there and then like can figure that stuff out between the two of them and it's oh yeah we kind of very quickly got into a groove and that that only happens because the game is so well designed and you kind of can quickly figure out what is needed and what is necessary and what is not what's kind of a waste of time and i think we realized oh god damn Oh, real quick, I think a thing that also helps set this apart from a game like Overcooked a little bit is the mobility options, right?
You have a boost, you can drift around corners and you can also upgrade your forklift.
During that shop phase that Mike mentioned, where you can add get new tires, you can get like a spoiler to increase your speed and get little clappy hands for your forks, which is great.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, that's good.
I liked how much we realized it helped when we bought shelves.
Yes.
So we can kind of store some of these things.
Not just store the blocks, but there are some blocks.
Protect them.
There's like wolf blocks that could run around and cause muck.
But if you put them in their little shelves they're happy and they're not going to move around as much.
So storage was important.
Yeah.
And it was like in like placing that stuff in a way where it's out of the way.
And then you know there's the crash out through.
The crash out part is, if you crash too many times, there's a meter that gets filled up.
And then once that's full, you lose control.
You spin around wildly.
And if you're near one of your friends, there is like a high likelihood.
Yeah.
You will ram into them enough times to cause them to crash out.
And then it's like it could go back and forth.
But there was definitely a time where i ran into mike and i caused myself to crash out, and then i ran into him enough times that he crashed out.
Then he made me crash out again and we're kind of like dealing with this quietly while you two are being very responsible with all the stuff we brought over there.
So we were trying to like be quiet and not annoy.
You guys were a problem too.
We're getting a lot.
There's like bowls and vases in the same one, you know Yeah, but it's like there's like a part of upgrading.
Your thing is like OK, you can go faster, but there's also like a fan you can buy to cool yourself off so you don't crash out as fast, and things like that.
And you know, that mechanic was like something I think we engaged with a bit, but I think we were also playing well enough on these early stages that we didn't encounter counter it that frequently.
And then it did start to ramp up.
Yeah, it's like okay, i could see how even us playing pretty well are going to have issues on some of these later levels where we have to be extremely careful and really be thinking about this stuff constantly.
And i love how you learn sorry no no, go ahead.
Yeah, I love how you learn these individual gimmicks, each level, because it's like you know, the first level grub was just coming in like a bat out of hell and like throwing boxes at us.
And it was fine and everything was fine.
But then the second level is like these like barrels filled with like, you know, toxic sludge.
And right away, grubs like peeling.
Here you go and throws it.
And there's just green goo everywhere, like radioactive.
So it's like, OK, can't do that.
And on top of that, the different levels.
On top of having those different gimmicks, the maps are also different from level to level.
Like one, we were going to figure eight, another one, it was kind of like a one way.
So, like Mike and Grubb, you guys had to just like be zooming around dropping stuff off, while Dan and I are like sorting out all the packages.
Really fun time.
Unfortunately, I don't think this would be a fun game if you're playing solo Dolo.
No.
No.
It's like Overcut.
Yeah.
It's like Overcut.
I'd be fine with one other partner.
If you want to try it with one other person, I bet you'd be all right.
I'd be happy to circle back to this one day to check out the later levels and other shenanigans.
I think we should beat it.
I think we should play it.
I think we should beat it together.
Not like that, guys.
Come on.
Mike.
I didn't hear that.
Mike, Mike, just get it out.
I did get it.
I just wanted to look at the camera.
Well, I'm glad that we all dig this.
Speaking about digging, or more like burrowing, Dan Riker, you have continued to play Mina the Hollower.
Yeah, I feel like there's been like four or five times now I've just been like all right, I'm frustrated.
This is like I.
Obviously this is a well-made game, but I find it more frustrating than I find it fun.
And I think I've like broken through to the other side now, where I am admiring this game more than I'm frustrated by it.
Like I am still frustrated by it.
Sure.
It has helped that the game's out now.
So if it's just like, yeah, okay, I've been walking around in circles for an hour here.
I can't figure out where the fuck to go.
There's long plays out there now.
I can just go like, oh, I didn't realize there was a fucking bush on the edge of the screen.
I can cut down and that opens up this whole other area here.
It's like some of the stuff really reminds me of like the first Zelda, where it's like Oh yeah, if you burn this bush in this random part of the map or whatever, there's some stairs.
You know, it's like that type of thing.
And it seems intentional.
Like, the Zelda influence is obvious.
But, yeah, like, the dungeons are great.
Like, all the, like, trinkets and everything I'm finding and upgrading my character are, like...
I can have like six different trinkets equipped at any one time.
So like, OK, tough boss.
I'm going to put in this suite of trinkets.
If I'm just exploring and I'm trying to like get as many bones as possible, I'll put in like kind of this load out here
It's it's gotten more flexible.
It's gotten more fun.
I finished four of the six towers now.
I'm on the fifth now.
And yeah, like I thought I was going to. bail on this one several times.
And now I'm like, no, I'm in.
And it's a beefy game.
I mean, I'm like 20 plus hours in 20 to 25, somewhere around there.
And yeah, I'm, I'm liking it now.
I don't think it's going to be, like you know, top five game of the year for me or anything, but I am on a thumbs up course with this right now.
All right, so that's encouraging.
I intend to give it another shot myself.
I never really gave it much of a shot initially.
I was like, nice handling that review.
I'll play some other stuff.
But yeah, I was like, okay, maybe I'll just put it on the back burner.
But hearing you get over the hump there is the one thing I kind of needed to hear.
It's like, I think that might be the same thing that I go through.
Yep, yep.
It's good even though it is influenced by Link's Awakening, so don't worry about that.
Okay, yeah.
I was deeply concerned.
Before we get to the last two games on the rundown here, Will, is there anything that you've been playing you'd like to talk about? oh um i have been playing uh uh that game 007 first light oh fantastic let's get to it it's quite good i'm uh oh see i i don't have the rundown so i had to guess uh it is um great it is fun i was i was thinking about this when uh use cases for things but I bought it on PC because it was on sale somewhere and I was like I most so I actually over the weekend I brought my entire computer down to my living room and plugged it into my TV and I was like okay I guess I'm just I'm gonna leave I don't have to work over the weekend just gonna leave it here Over the weekend and play on there, and it actually worked out great It's it runs fantastic I ran into a few issues with some frame rate stuff, but I just I had it running at 4k I think it really didn't like that so I just dropped it down at 20 2560 and I had the Whatever fancy graphic stuff those kids have out now look good but yeah I did that chest level that you guys had talked about touched on last week was super fun it felt like it's funny that level you're chasing a guy and it almost felt like I was chasing the guy from Agent 47 from Hitman during the level I think there might be some intentionality there yeah Yeah, for sure.
I was like, because it keeps like panning.
It's like, how does this guy change costumes so fast?
And there's there's justifications for that stuff.
But during it, you're just like, is that Agent 47?
Like, are they going to do like some sort of crossout or something?
But it was really fun.
As open as those levels are, they do such a great job of guiding you through those levels without feeling like you're being guided.
I kept thinking I was making intentional choices.
And then they would be like no, this is where you're supposed to be.
And I'm like, oh, but I could have gone that way.
And it was just really cool how they were kind of figuring all that stuff out.
The beginning was funny because you're assigned on that level.
You're assigned to watch the car at the car park.
And I was like, what if I just sit here for a bit?
Yeah.
Because I was like, no, I want to listen to the rules.
Of course, it's like, oh, I should really go check that out.
And I'm like, okay, I guess I'll go check it out.
But yeah, it's really fun.
I like the guy playing Bond.
I think the personality is great.
The... uh tutorial section during like bond's training was so cool because they're like hey we get it you know how to play video games there's none of that do this three times in the arena and beat the guy it's just like it's cutting through time you're you're now learning how to like tackle you're now learning how to grab you're now learning and like some of those you don't necessarily grab right away but As the game's going, it's showing you those things and letting you like, it's like, oh, hit X and A to tackle the guy and do this sort of stuff.
So it was very fun.
I think it's also fun.
I don't know if you guys did this, but every time you have a new mission and you're in that Q lab like there's all new vignettes all around.
Yeah.
So you just go to the different people and their vignettes.
Some of them are like building upon the previous one.
Like there's a phone booth that every time you come back to the Q Lab they have like another part of it open and they're like trying to figure out and they're like oh, the gas that was used in this is it actually disbanded in the Soviet Union or something?
You're like, why are you talking?
And all the different stuff.
And they have some Bond references in the clothing room.
They have the knife shoes and things like that.
But overall, I was excited for this game as soon as they announced it.
And when it came out, I was like, I don't know.
Because I was like, do I get this?
Do I get Pragmata?
Or do I get Lego Batman?
And I was really trying to figure out between that and then I saw Sale and I was like okay, I'm just going to get Bond and I'm super happy with the choice.
I'm excited to get those two other games, but every time I sit down to play it I'm like yes, let's continue watching this movie and see where it's going next.
I know that on the internet a lot of folks will get really lost in like the immersion with something like Crimson Desert or Red Dead Redemption 2, but I think this is like the type of game type of experience that like I really like to get lost in and it's like Very easy, for me at least, to like lose several hours just getting immersed into a level.
Like I spend way too much time on these levels because like I'm poking and prodding around.
I'm listening to every NPC.
I'm like every time I see a button prop, I'm like, let's see what's up.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I'm really excited to see this game sell very well and also kind of blow up on social media.
Like my algorithm is just filled with people doing like cool action montages of the James Bond game.
Didn't see so much of that with Hitman.
It took a while for Hitman to kind of like heat up for me at least and notice it pop up on social media of people doing like fancy Rube Goldberg style kills and setups.
But with James Bond, because the action has been ramped up in such a way I feel like it lends itself, and There still is that stealth aspect, if you want to engage with it.
The four of you chuckleheads recorded a review cast of 007 First Light.
Any other thoughts that you didn't cover there or you want to like bring up here?
Yeah yeah yeah, uh.
So the way i show my wife uh, my gameplay now is i'm constantly recording through steam and then i'll like clip it out and just be like come on, like i know, you're just not.
We're, the thrill is gone, the honeymoon's over.
You're not going to sit here with me as we play through this game, so I'm just going to show you selected parts.
So I showed her, like, you know, the part for where, like, you chase 009 to the airport, right?
Real quick, how does that... How is, like, the Steam recording function... work.
Has it been working well for y'all?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shadow play.
It's similar to that.
Yeah.
I sent you Jan.
It works great on steam deck, but it works especially good on PC.
Cause it's a.
You know you probably have a more powerful PC, but if you hit this not the steam button and up on the D pad, it'll record the last 30 seconds.
Cool.
All right.
Does it run by default on Steam Deck?
I've always been afraid to turn that on because of using up too much power.
I'd be wary on Steam Deck just because it's like... I've used it constantly on Steam Deck.
If it causes problems, it just doesn't work instead of causing problems with your games.
Oh, that's interesting.
It's like, you know what?
We couldn't even record this, but whatever.
So, yeah, I export them at 1080p.
There's a couple like re-animal ones.
I did at 1440 that I think.
I think there is a pretty decent, you know, obviously fidelity upgrade when you, the higher you capture.
But, you know, I was capturing hours and hours.
I'm like I'm just exporting 1080p.
So I showed her that whole scene where, like you chase 009 to the airport, you jump on the plane, that whole thing, and she's like, oh wow, that's really cool.
And then I'm like, oh wait wait wait, you gotta see Lenny Kravitz, because Lenny Kravitz is coming up now and you know, I don't know, maybe I just sort of like glossed over this the first time I was introduced to him.
Man, it's so bad.
He's not an actor.
No.
It's just like first off, i'm surprised no, has anyone done like the second?
He grabs that like microphone.
Has anyone done?
Like american woman?
Like no one's done any of that?
No one's done that.
Can we?
I don't think so.
We'll get to work like you should be doing that.
Yeah uh he's, he's just bad like.
He seems like a fine person.
He, his performance every other performance is so good exactly yeah, by comparison, his is just like, so underwhelming and so not like.
This is the and don't forget folks, these are the best takes.
These are the tapes that they were like.
This is a tape system.
That was the best.
Tapes they had the time for, because Lenny's busy.
Yeah, I guess.
I mean, you know, presumably, I don't know if he was there for the mo-cap stuff, too.
I don't know.
I doubt it.
I doubt it, right?
So like you're like, oh man, these are just delivered with the same sort of inflection into and the whole thing, and you're just like oh, this is almost like ruining it for me.
This is almost, you know, watching it again.
I guess in the moment i was just sort of taken off of like, oh wow, he's got that sword.
That's scary.
You know whose performance it kind of reminded me of.
Oh, lay it on me.
Ronda Rousey in that one Mortal Kombat game.
It's not that bad.
I'm not saying it's that bad, but occasionally at points it's enough to pull me out a bit because the surrounding actors are so good.
That Ronda one is like an all timer bad performer.
She is terrible.
Yeah.
Oh man.
You know, and it got me thinking, and maybe I was just a little like stone, really started to overanalyze it.
And I'm just like, Do you think they were re-watching this and they were just like, oh no!
Oh no!
It's one of those things where it's like this is all part of a bigger marketing plan and it's like, oh shit, this is the best we're gonna get.
Oh, no.
I bet they're like, this is the thing that makes our game worse more than anything else.
It's probably the thought that they had.
Yeah.
Right.
We're like, oh, we spent like a quarter of a billion dollars on this thing.
And we've just got this.
And oh, no.
Oh, no.
Okay.
It's fine.
We just won't draw any attention to it.
Is he in the game?
Yes.
He's in the game.
That's all we'll say.
It strikes me as if they like doing the, like, you know, elusive target stuff.
Like, oh, we got Gary Busey, like, wacky, like, out of left field celebrity thing.
Can't all be hits.
Can't all be hits, you know what I mean?
And also, they didn't all have dialogue.
Yeah yeah yeah, i never checked out um like the mm elusive target stuff on um hitman did like he he actually do vo for it, or i think he did.
Yes okay interesting interesting, okay.
How do you guys feel about the story overall?
I like it a lot.
I like it too.
And even just the general plot stuff of, oh yeah, AI's the bad guy here.
It's the James Bond fantasy.
It's like what if someone had ultimate secret agent power and used it to protect us from stuff that sucks ass?
Imagine that.
That'd be amazing.
I would love that.
And they told an origin story.
We've seen so many prequels and origin stories, and they're usually so boring.
It's like, all right, get to the part where he gets the cape or whatever.
And they nailed it.
I was really invested in this.
The whole time.
He's not really fully 007 for the large majority of this game and by the end it's just like all right.
Yeah, i fully accept this guy as bond and like i liked watching the process throughout.
You know, and i think it's such a challenge to do an interesting bond character post um, like casino royale with uh, what's his face?
Daniel craig.
Daniel craig, you guys don't know any movie stars Daniel Craig, because that was such a very different take on Bond.
But also we're in a post Austin Powers world that kind of made fun of that whole man of mystery thing and Kingsman as well, where the like kind of adjusting that expectation of what like a spy movie should be.
So yeah, I really enjoy this interpretation of Bond because he also seems like sure, he does the playboy stuff and he's like a little smarmy piece of shit sometimes but like, ultimately it's pretty charming.
I like you.
You're yeah, press circle to charm me as well.
Yeah, I like that.
And overall, like we said a million times, the presentation is just untouchable.
In this game man, every time that start screen pops up and it's just like.
I'm just like yeah, the late title card on every mission is also just a great thing.
When that happens, and like when, like the action like really kicks up and then they do the music stinger, i'm like yeah, let's go all right.
Yay, they do the like.
The hitman ask like okay, here's your target, you know 47, like that type of thing.
They're showing the computer screens and everything.
Yeah, like does that cool kind of fade like a car going across the desert, and the title screen's like oh, this is fucking good.
I, i would listen to money penny explain any and everything.
Yes agree yeah, that's great.
Did anyone think it was going to be aliens at the beginning?
Yes.
Yes, for a second.
I was like, are we doing Kingdom of the Crystal Skull here?
Like supernatural shit.
Right.
Then I was like, oh, it's AI.
And I'm like, oh, don't worry.
I bet AI will be bad.
In a Bond movie, it's like immediately.
OK, yeah, that's that's how it goes.
That's Bond.
It is an anti-AI story.
I do love the way that they use AI, like the way the villains are doing, like why they're doing their bad stuff to kind of cover up for this faulty AI.
I think that's really interesting.
Yep, very smart.
Yes jan, i would be remiss if i didn't mention a game.
I actually i haven't personally been playing, but my friend has been playing.
Okay, i've been watching him play it, please uh.
So it's called vietnam war and i bet you guys can figure out what it's about.
It's about the vietnam war.
Uh, it is an open world single player, first person shooter set in the vietnam war, where you are actively fighting the vietnam war in whatever uh branch of the military you'd like to, either side.
I'm not here to choose sides.
Uh, and you can also the recent dlc.
You can go home uh, back to the us for a while.
Are you talking about what?
Do you mean?
Whether or not to go back?
Does it like, do you play going back home and like, walk into your family's house, going back home and going to your family's house?
I haven't that part.
We didn't get to, but it is very cool.
Uh, we were playing it.
Uh, he was playing it on stream the other day and just like, you have a group of guys for you, you go, get a mission, you can uh go to any of the bases set where the where uh like oh, this is my home base.
Now, when you get injured, it's like Oh, here's a percentage chance you survived.
You wake up in the hospital.
They're like oh, you're in a wheelchair now, like because you lost your legs, or something like that.
You can call in airstrikes, do all sorts of missions.
It's from this developer who worked on mobile games for a while.
So it still has that sort of mobile-ish game art style, 3D art style.
Sure.
He has a previous game that is the Soviets versus Polish in World War II, which is similar vibes.
But yes, I just wanted to shout out Vietnam War because it is wild.
Is the font for Vietnam War on this Steam page Times New Roman?
Probably.
That's all the fonts we had back then.
Man.
Yeah, they couldn't afford other fonts.
It's really cool.
It's definitely early access.
It seems like the developer loves to add things and not fully fix up the things that are already there.
But it was... just i we were playing that new hell let loose vietnam and we were a little iffy on it and i was like i wish there was a vietnam open world game and he was like dude this just came out last year so we were checking it out and i wanted to shout out because it is i love these sorts of wild experiences yeah in video games like this is what video games are about uh and yeah it's definitely go check it out it's only 15 so if you're into that sort of thing you heard you're gonna hear uh will's a big fan of the vietnam war Yeah, it's about time that war got its day.
I have to font fact check you, Grubb.
Sorry.
Oh, please.
Yeah, I don't know my shit.
This is Courier.
This is Courier.
It's Courier?
Okay.
Even better.
I didn't want to say anything.
You embarrassing piece of human garbage.
No, no, no.
That's you saying that, not me.
Hey, we're all font friends.
We're all font pervs here.
No dead fonts.
I have nothing to do with fonts.
That is bold of you to say, Jeff Backler.
Hell yeah.
Oh, gross.
No, that's funny.
You're funny, Jen.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And you're very good at video games, Mike Minotti.
Not at all.
Next time laugh mike, let's just laugh.
Okay, don't tell me it's funny, just laugh.
That's how it works, you know.
Okay, for a second response.
For a second.
Instead of saying oh okay, it sounded like you had said ah bouquet, i'm like oh bouquet, that's what mike does.
When he sees stand up, he goes you're funny, you're funny funny, you're funny, he's a good heckler.
Remind me not to invite mikey to my improv team shows.
Um, all right.
Uh, last game on the docket here, because mike minotti's such a pro gamer.
Mike Minotti, I believe I hear the heat on the streets.
You have finished Goldeneye for the NCAA.
Yes, yes.
I beat Goldeneye.
Dan's rolling his eyes because I didn't beat it on 00 agent mode and finish the secret levels that you also didn't finish.
There's no way to prove that.
No way.
But yes, yeah, I made my way through the campaign on Secret Agent.
My chat could never agree if Secret Agent is medium mode or the first mode.
There's three.
It's literally medium.
But is it, like, normal, I guess?
I don't know.
That's the mode I played on.
The way I would tell anyone to play that game for the first time is on the first difficulty.
Agent.
Agent.
Yeah, I think I would have had a smoother experience if I played through Agent first, then played through Secret Agent, for sure.
Because...
There are just some really obtuse objectives and some really difficult moments.
There are enemies that just will respawn constantly.
There's that bullshit area where Natalia is hacking and you need to protect her.
And enemies are coming in from all these angles.
And of course the frame rate drops to like 10 because they're so many of the enemies and you're looking at one and some guy goes behind some breaking glass and shoots her and she dies.
So you have to do this 20 other minutes of this mission, which mostly involves slowly peeking around corners and shooting the tip of a turret before it can see you.
It was turning into a memory game, kind of like when we're doing a play club, and it's this memory bullshit.
You're just going through the loops.
Now the difference is at the end of all of it, that night in bed, when I'm thinking about it, I'm kind of like That's kind of neat.
1997, yes.
It was very ahead of its time.
Well, no.
I disagree with that.
The way they did objectives tied to the difficulty level, name a game that did it before that.
I think there was systems shot.
I don't know.
Some other games did that kind of stuff.
But the objectives are usually not very in-depth.
It's usually blow up this thing.
I like that.
Mike just needs games where he shoots everything.
He can't stop and think for a second.
I think the game is of its time.
I don't think it's somehow aged terribly.
I thought that game was always that game.
It's why I sort of struggled with it before.
I'm glad that I played through it.
There is a lot of charm there.
I actually think the controls work surprisingly well, given what it is.
It's often a ugly, frustrating video game.
But I don't want it to be my main takeaway of it.
I'm kind of curious to go and play some more multiplayer.
Would you guys like to play some multiplayer?
Yes, I want to play Nintendo Switch Online with you.
When Donkey Kong 64 comes out, let's do Goldeneye and Donkey Kong 64 multiplayer.
All over again.
I think the obvious thing here is that the dividing line between how people feel about Goldeneye is did you have a gaming PC or not in 1997?
And I super did not.
And so it was a revelation.
And I didn't know anyone that had a gaming PC.
So all of us were like, Goldeneye, this is the greatest game that's ever been made.
I didn't own a 64 until Goldeneye.
You know, even like Mario 64 didn't get me to get a 64.
It wasn't until Goldeneye.
It's like, I have to sell everything I have just to fucking get this game.
It's that good.
I'm sure there was stuff on PC that, you know, was running better and more powerful and, you know.
There's Quake 2 that's happening, and again, not objective case gameplay, right?
But, you know, in terms of fidelity, I suppose.
And the fidelity ain't everything.
And there are things that Goldeneye is doing better than a Quake 2, for sure.
Magic doesn't play as well.
My strongest GoldenEye memory is my... I was on the football team.
My friend kind of had his leg planted and got tackled.
He broke his leg.
And so we all went over to his house on the weekend.
We were going to have a big, long GoldenEye sleepover hangout.
And we played it all night.
And...
We were getting wild.
And there was one time where I like pulled off a win and I just slammed my hand down and it hits the guy right on his broken leg.
And I felt so bad.
I was just to be like, let's just do this.
And all of our other friends are just like pounding me in the arm.
Beat me up for hurting our friend.
So, yeah, that's a good game is what I'm trying to say.
Goldeneye rules.
It's fantastic.
The thing that Grubb did not mention is that he's the one that tackled his friend.
Yeah, they'll never know.
They can never prove it was me.
Folks, any other last minute games you want to talk about before we take a quick bricky break and get to the news.
No.
I'm calling it.
No more games ever.
All right, no more games ever.
Sorry, Jeff Keighley.
We'll see you next year, maybe.
What the heck was that?
I tried to mute my cough, and I swore instead.
Okay, no more swearing, Jeff Grubb.
You do it too much.
I'll try not to.
No more fucking cussing, all right?
It's such fun, though.
Folks, we're going to take a quick break and we will be back with the news right after this.
This is Jeff Grubb with the news.
Shout out to Will for joining us for the first segment of the show.
But now it's time for News, with Jeff Grubb.
Yeah, let's get into the news.
It's a little bit lower key, because I'm not going to go into all the rumors and stuff that are going to be happening for over the next few days as we get into Summer Game Fest and all that stuff, because by the time a lot of people hear this, they'll know what's happening and we'll be behind.
So let's just stick to what we can talk about.
We'll talk about when some of those things are going to happen in a bit.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare did get confirmed.
It is going to.
For the first time since the PS4 and Xbox One came out, it's going to be skipping those systems.
It is also coming to the Switch 2 for the first time and warzone is also leaving the ps4 and xbox one.
Those are kind of the big details here.
Uh, this game it's a.
It's an infinity ward game.
They're getting help with some other developers to get the pc and and switch to.
As always um, They are promising a couple things.
For one.
They're going to try to do another rip from the headline story, which is always kind of a crap shoot.
No, it's not crap.
It's always just kind of a step in it with Call of Duty.
And then the other thing is for the multiplayer.
They are doing the thing Call of Duty often does when the last game really sucks.
They're being like, you're right.
That Call of Duty fucking sucked.
What if we got more grounded instead?
And everyone goes, yay, boots on the ground.
No more clowny skins.
Wow.
No SpongeBob.
And they're like, everyone's like, we don't believe you.
You sure you're not gonna do it for the first season?
But like, no, no, no clowny skins this season or later.
So no SpongeBob, no.
Beavis and Butthead.
I don't fucking buy it.
They've lost their identity, man.
Look, I am on the record saying I don't really get the backlash towards clowny skins for me.
They're hilarious and stupid, just like Call of Duty is.
Like it's an arcadey running gun game that is about hanging out with your friends.
And I don't need to be super military.
But whenever I say that, I do get a lot of comments from people telling me I wanted to be totally consistent.
This is war, dude.
Hello.
And I'm not saying anyone's wrong for feeling that way.
I'm just, I don't feel that way at all.
Not that I love the war aesthetic vibe.
I don't know.
I do roll my eyes a little bit when I'm running around and there's Beavis and Butthead in the game.
It's stupid, it's.
And look, i know call duty is already stupid, but more so, even less than that.
Honestly, it's just like Here's somebody who's wearing like I don't know gaudy, like LED lights everywhere, mech suits.
I don't know.
The game is hideous.
The game has been hideous and the cosmetics have been hideous for a long time.
Yes.
Well, they're promising to tone that stuff down.
Yeah.
I say it's bullshit because this game's story mode is supposed to at least for a couple chapters.
Maybe the campaign is supposed to take place in Korea.
They're going to throw those BTS boys in that fucking game.
Oh, you think so?
Yeah.
I feel like there's zero chance that there's not some K-pop person in this game.
They might get around that jam by being like, we'll just actually put them in the game.
And so it's not really their skin.
They're just like a part of the cast and whatever.
Uh, but even then I feel like they'll bring in some more, but, uh, yeah, we'll see.
I guess at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.
This is a God called duties are so, uh, temporary.
Like they could say whatever they want about this one and it could all change with the next one.
Just a year from now at all times.
Um, but yeah, uh, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4, I am not excited.
I can't get excited anymore for these games.
It's weird because it was only a couple years ago, with Black Ops 6, that it was the first time I actually played much of a Call of Duty in a long time.
And I was enjoying it.
And it was all the multiplayer.
I know some people like that campaign.
It didn't do much for me.
I was actually feeling better about Call of Duty than I did for a while, and then it sounds like last year's one was just such a mess I don't think I even bothered touching it.
It was so easy for me to go back to, yeah, I don't care about Call of Duty.
Yeah, right, exactly.
It's easy to put that back in that bin.
There's also going to be a new extraction mode.
So, you know, they do a different thing other than because Treyarch is the zombies people.
And sometimes those I think occasionally zombies has shown up in an Infinity Ward game, but usually not.
They usually try something else.
Sounds like that this time it'll be an extraction mode.
Fable was delayed to February 2027.
It was previously supposed to come out in autumn is how they were phrasing that.
Recently, they were telling people, yeah, no, it's still autumn.
It was really running up against a lot of other big releases, and that is how Matt Booty said it.
He said, hey, we want to give this game a chance to be on its own, away from everything else.
And that seems to mean...
Call of Duty in October, and then obviously Grand Theft Auto 6 in November.
This game seemed like maybe it was going to come out in December, but why not just give it a little bit extra time and really get away from those games and do something in 2027?
That seems to be the plan.
They didn't say anything about it needing extra time for polish or anything like that that we often get.
This is entirely about giving it more time to get away from Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.
But yeah, I'm not seeing anyone out there on social media, on forums, on message boards going.
Oh no, I can't believe this year is going to go by without Fable.
Everyone's like, oh, thank God.
I'll just play that whenever it comes out.
I've got so many other games to play this year that I'm almost grateful.
That seems to be the common response.
Are any of you guys bummed?
We've waited so long for Fable already, right?
It feels like they announced that game a decade ago or something.
Yeah, we can handle a little bit longer here.
Do you think we'll still see any of it at all during Summer Game Fest?
Oh, yeah, yeah, they did say explicitly that it will be at Summer Game Fest.
Their showcase, while the follow-up thing is going to be a big blowout for Gears of War, E-Day in the main show, this game will be there.
They're going to show more of it than ever before, apparently.
So, yeah, there you go.
We talked about 007 First Light in glowing terms.
It's a real hit for IO Interactive.
The game has sold 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours.
This is a game that did take a long time and a lot of money to make, but it seems like it is hitting in the exact way they needed it to.
Excuse me.
People were mentioning in chat earlier when Will was talking about finding it on a Steam key reseller, a legitimate one.
But those places get keys from the developers themselves and sell them.
Apparently, a lot of those places are sold out of those keys.
So that's a pretty good sign for this game that it is just finding its audience in a way that, like you know, i like james bond but i i don't think about him all that often.
You know, as they were announcing this game, get ready to release.
It's like yeah, i'll definitely care.
I wonder if anyone else will.
And it seems like it has hit that mark pretty hard.
Um, it does remind me of Square Enix used to own this studio and couldn't figure out how to make money from them.
And look at them now.
Pretty cool stuff.
Yeah.
Great for IOI.
Exactly, yes.
And they're fully independent now and they're making it work.
They've been opening studios around the world and this is the stuff they're producing.
So, hell yeah.
Banger after banger.
Hitman, Mind's Eye, 007 First Love.
That's right.
Just a hat trick right there.
The Steam Machine Welcome Tour has been added to Steam.
Speculation has been growing that this stuff could happen soonish, although this does not necessarily mean that will happen.
But Brad Lynch not that one, someone who kind of frequently gets rumors on social media spotted that the steam machine welcome to, or has been added to, the steam back end, like they've done with all of their other stuff recently where, like the valve index or the steam deck all have these things where you can go in there and like, explore them through a.
A series of minigames are just very light games.
Valve likes to do this.
So the fact that it's on the back end is still suggesting that they are moving toward some sort of release here.
But again, this is just all that everyone's going on.
And it might be more hopium than anything else.
But yeah, I mean...
You guys still aching for the Steam machine in any way, now that we're kind of still in limbo about the price and it seems like it could be more expensive than ever before.
I'm scared.
Personally, I think more than ever, because I like playing PC games on my TV, but I'm running it through a laptop now and it's like the amount of times, it's like
OK well, I've set this a million times correctly to like hey, when the lid is closed, just show it on the TV, and that doesn't work.
And then it strips the Atmos out of the HDMI handshake.
It's like I've just been having so many issues playing PC games on my TV.
And it seems like this is the thing that's like, OK, just plug it in and then it just works.
Well, that's what I'm looking forward to here.
Yeah, I mean, it's also a laptop.
What do you mean?
What are you doing?
Yeah, I've got the Razer laptop.
It's like a 4090 laptop.
So, like, it runs.
I played all of Bond on it.
Like, it's got the power for it.
I'm using my old desktop with the 5080 in it.
And it's, God, I said old and 5080.
Everyone, please don't.
Wow.
I've got a new one for work.
What is it like on your tower up there, Jeff?
Jesus Christ.
I didn't think about how it would sound.
Let's kill him.
Yeah.
I think we should.
Yeah.
I have that plugged into my TV and I've been using that really frequently.
And Windows is just really bad for this stuff still.
And I'm like, I got the Steam controller and it's like, oh, that solves a lot of problems.
And it's every time I run into something it's like oh Windows just doesn't know how to fucking handle this, even though I've done a little bit of homework to make sure it was going to work.
So yeah, that's the dream is like Linux.
Steam OS can just be the real solution for games going forward.
And if this can work, it could really just open things up.
And like for studios that have their online multiplayer games that don't have their anti-cheat set up to work with Steam OS, because they're like that's a headache.
We don't want to support that.
Hopefully this can force the issue and kind of just make it so any game that is on pc can run on steam os and we don't have to worry about windows anymore because they're off doing something else with nvidia.
Steam deck's my favorite way to play pc games.
I use it.
I mean, i've only played Mina on it.
I'm just like that UI is so great and not having to deal with windows and everything.
And if I just get that on my TV with the same controller, that is the ideal circumstance for me.
Yep.
All right.
Let's see here.
Donkey Kong 64 news.
Yeah.
Something has happened since last week.
Donkey Kong 64 is finally coming to Switch Online plus expansion pack.
That will be happening in two days.
So this is really just requiring Mike to complete the ritual.
101% in the game.
A couple of days later. we're going to have to put him on the side of the SGF set.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's not allowed to do anything.
101% quarantine zone.
Yeah.
Just playing on a switch too.
Right.
Yeah.
And we'll pump in pineapple smells and actual pineapples.
Just like my gun.
Shoot him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're safe this year, Dan.
I'm going after Mike now.
I don't want to hurt.
You know what, Mike?
Me too.
I also don't want to hurt pain.
Don't hurt guys.
I don't know what you're talking about.
It hurts me quite a bit okay Uh, but we, yes.
To me, the exciting part here is uh, I'm not going to like replay this game.
I'll mess around with it, but I do that pretty frequently.
Donkey Kong 64, various simulators and other hardware.
Uh, nso makes it real easy to do these multiplayer uh n64 games online and we should just do that we should absolutely play some of that it's yes it's that's also not great but it's it'll make for a fun time i bet a couple more stories here uh nvidia and microsoft announced the sequel to the computer shut the fuck we're getting it everybody computer 2 computer it's It's the future.
So NVIDIA and Microsoft announced RTX Spark, a new NVIDIA super chip platform for Windows PCs that is meant to push laptops and compact desktops into the Personal AI agent era.
Nvidia is pitching this as a reset for the PC, but it's really just one more way to like make their.
It's one more way to like get at AI investment by saying and now we're doing it with CPUs as well.
So the idea here is they have made an ARM-based Windows like CPU GPU system on a chip and when you run, when you're running it, you could tell the thing hey, start running all these ai agents locally on my machine so i have full control over them, And then they'll do all the work for you.
Now, when Jensen was talking about this stuff the CEO of NVIDIA he said something along the lines of the reason we're doing this is because look, we could sell hardware to people.
But why would we make it for people?
We can make it for AI agents, because there could be infinite AI agents that we, that can use our hardware, as opposed to the finite number of humans.
And then my brain leaked out of my ear and I fell to the ground and convulsed at hearing that.
You're wondering, NVIDIA, they make GPUs for video games.
How much of this was about that?
Guys, maybe a minute.
Maybe not even.
It was... They just don't care to talk about video games anymore.
That's not the business they're in.
This thing... This is a platform that can run games.
They say AAA games at 1440p, at frame rates of up to 100 frames per second, with ray tracing, and have DLSS and all that stuff in there as well.
But yeah, I...
This seems like it could compete with Apple Silicon, which has been very good recently.
But I just don't think that this is going to actually mean good things for people who want to own their hardware and play games on a PC.
This just feels like a non-starter.
It is all about AI.
Uh fun yeah, i mean, if they have anything else to like to say about this, about what it will mean for gaming.
It's not going to happen now.
They're going to come at it later.
But i think the msi claw got announced to be using this or something like that, a new version of the, basically their version of a steam deck.
Um, but yeah, we'll see if that actually turns into anything.
Ah, speaking of, we'll get to that in a second.
PlayStation has a big state of play today.
We're going to be talking over this thing.
You know, they've told us it's going to be more than 60 minutes.
Like there is... notes from Alamo Drafthouse saying that their showing of it is 90 minutes.
I think that will probably include some pre-show stuff.
So it's going to be between 60 and 90 minutes worth of stuff.
I'm expecting around 70-ish minutes.
It's going to open with Wolverine, and it sounds like that God of War Freya?
Faye?
Faye.
Thank you.
Son of Sparta.
Son of Sparta 2.
They're already doing it with such a big hit.
Yeah, that Faye game, which sounds like it could be inspired by the original God of War games or Devil May Cry.
That's how they're separating that.
What is Faye going to be using as pistols then?
What do you guys think right exact, i don't know, like angels wings, that like shoot out like uh, the feathers as dark, just go, okay.
Oh, that'd be cool.
Um i'm, i'm excited, i think.
I think we're gonna have a lot of stuff at this, at this showcase.
Uh, you guys have anything that you're holding?
A torch for jumping flash?
Sure, as always, I want it.
I want this every time we get to this season for PlayStation and they never give it to me.
I just want Sly Cooper.
No, I know you do.
Yeah, that'd be good.
Sounds like Infamous could show up, so probably not Sly Coop.
Who the fuck cares about Infamous?
Uh, Jan!
Hang on.
We're talking new Infamous?
Is that a rumor?
Not new.
No, not new.
If anything happens with Infamous, the rumor is it's like bringing back some of the original games and updating them, or something.
Remastering.
That means I might be on modern consoles.
That's why it's gonna be modern and better.
Yeah jan, i would take a sly cooper over an infamous thing for sure.
Oh, come on guys, the furries can't win that much.
They're already getting the starfox thing.
Oh wait, the furries are mad about that because they look too much like right, so they do need to win.
Oh yeah, it looks too much like animals that they can't bone them.
Why does that matter?
What are we doing?
No.
That's what I'm assuming they're upset about.
I think there were some people that would proudly bone Star Fox still.
I would also like a Jak and Daxter trilogy.
Any of that kind of stuff would make me happy.
I want to see some PS1 stuff, honestly.
I love PS2.
I want to see something where I'm like, wow, a thing from PS1 is back.
That's neat.
All right.
That'll be at 5 p.m.
Eastern, 2 p.m.
Pacific.
We're talking over that, like I said.
So hang out with us.
We're going to have a good time.
I am looking forward to it.
They are making a big deal out of it.
They are positioning this as something very important.
So, yeah, let's see how that goes down.
And then Digital Eclipse reveals Toy Story Retro Collection and Toy Story 3 Remastered.
They've done this with various stuff recently, but this collection is going to be a definitive collection of classic Toy Story games from the 90s and early 2000s.
Toy Story from 1995 Toy Story 2, Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue, Toy Story 2, which is actually a pretty good game, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Toy Story Racer, which no one ever played.
And A Bug's Life, because why the hell not?
Yeah, that Bugs Life game is good.
Yo, it's a lot of these.
Yeah, a lot of these are good.
So I think the one that's just Toy Story 2 is just a Game Boy game.
Buzz Lightyear to the rescue is the 3D platformer.
That's the one on.
Yeah, that was really good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah, Buzz Lightyear's Star Command is Garbo, but in a way that, I don't know, maybe is funny.
That first Toy Story game was kind of a big deal at the time.
It was graphically impressive.
They even have kind of a first-person Doom-esque thing that they pulled off without the help of any kind of 3D effects chips or anything like that.
So yeah, that's super neat that they're doing this.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, so they're doing a lot to these games.
So you could play them in their original visuals or with upgraded resolution and stuff like that.
But that's how Digital Eclipse normally handles these things.
And then the next game is Toy Story 3 Complete Edition, a remaster of the cult favorite 2010 game.
Let's see.
And a favorite of corn front man Jonathan Davis says this story.
Incredible.
The game now boasts 4K resolution and 60 frames per second performance.
It also includes content previously exclusive to the PlayStation 3 version, such as the option to play as Zerg in the game's Toy Box mode.
Toy Story 3's signature open world sandbox.
Yeah, I let my kids go loose on that sandbox mode and they had a good time with it back when they were.
Super into Toy Story.
But yeah, that does it for the headlines.
That's all until everything breaks loose with starting with the state of play today.
We'll be talking over the Summer Game Fest thing with Keeley on Friday.
I think it's at the same time of day, 5 p.m.
Eastern, 2 p.m.
Pacific.
And then we'll talk over the Xbox show on Sunday.
That one's earlier, 10 a.m.
Pacific, 1 p.m.
Eastern.
And then I'm thinking that that Nintendo Direct will be Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
And we'll talk over that if it happens.
Yes, yes.
Fantastic.
Thank you for all of the news, Jeff Grubb.
Folks at home, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be back with some emails.
Grubb, do you got a Grubb guesser this week?
I'll get one real quick.
Yeah, I have one in mind.
I just got to get the file for it.
All right, fantastic.
We'll have some emails, GrubGuessr, and YouTube Super Chats if we have any.
We'll see you on the other side of this brick and brick.
These are the emails for the show.
Emails!
If you need advice on anything you want to avoid an awkward social interaction, send an email to bombcast at giantbombcom.
I say this every week.
I've been saying this for the last couple months, but our inbox is flooded with emails from you, the folks at home.
So do not be discouraged if email does not make it onto the show.
I appreciate and try to read every single email.
If you have anything specific to say to a member of the crew, I try and forward it there.
For instance, today there was an emailer saying that Bacalar made them feel bad.
Yay.
Oh, wow.
That's better than most weeks.
All right.
First email from Andrew from Indiana.
A little bit more of a deeper question to start off the segment.
Andrew writes in.
Good morning, Giant Bomb Crew.
I'm writing this to kill some time at work, but I wore a Giant Bomb shirt to work today and it got me thinking about how long I've been listening to the podcast.
For reference, I've been listening for almost 10 years.
I started listening in the seventh grade, back when the podcast was on Google Music.
Hell yeah.
Do you guys ever think about how long the show slash site has been running and how many people's lives you've impacted, and get freaked out?
I feel like I would.
P.S.
Curse you, Jan, for suggesting deadlock on the podcast.
The video game, not the wrestling podcast.
I'm holding you personally accountable for the 400-plus hours I've sank into the game, since you guys talked about it on the podcast.
Wish you guys the best.
Andrew from Indiana.
In my mind, there wasn't a bomb cast until about 2003.
Why is that, Mike?
I'm joking.
You said 2003.
He meant 2023, I think.
Oh, my joke was ruined.
I was so funny.
Damn it.
You kind of fucked it up.
What a loser.
Jesus.
I suck.
Is the joke that you were unaware?
No, the joke was like, and though I was on it, I didn't care.
He cares about it.
I'm a narcissist who makes everything about himself, apparently.
No, you're not.
Are you the mean commenter all along, Mike?
It was me.
Are you Walter Kruk?
But that's why it doesn't work because you're not a selfish guy, Mike.
I agree.
I agree.
I think it's an absurd thing that these people say.
I try not to think about it too much because then I get into my own head and then I just think about the odd weight and influence that the show may have on people's lives.
It doesn't seem as long to me because it feels like I've had three different entire existences here, between West Coast, East Coast and remote, and coming back.
So to me, it just feels like, oh, a few years here, a few years here, a few years here.
But ultimately, it's like, well, shit, I started here in the summer of 2014.
So I guess that has been a long fucking time.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it's it's one of the more I think about it, the more deeper into a hole I fall into, because like email or here, I started listening to the bomb cast when I was in high school and I'm here now, which is weird.
Oh, yeah, that's weird.
Do you guys ever have an existential crisis about your presence on the Internet and how it affects other people?
Occasionally.
I think it's neat.
Attitude, Mikey.
For sure.
Mike, do you think there are people out there that also share your fear of apples that now feel represented?
I think it's come up at least maybe only one time, which is like, man, only once.
Yeah.
That tracks.
Yeah.
I might still be a little bit of a lonely freak.
Outlier.
Yeah.
I had a crazy realization that, like with moving around so much for GB stuff over the years, I'm coming up on three years of living in this house and that will be the longest I have lived in any one spot since high school, living in my parents house wow, that's since like 2002.
I've never lived in any place.
For three years it has been non-stop moving.
Oh my gosh, i'd hate that.
Yeah, it's like not just like down the road or different places in town, but like different states and cities all over the place.
Yeah, yeah.
So let me stay here for a while.
Yeah, that'd be smart.
Yes, yes, yes.
So I know where to find you.
Yeah, Mikey is slowly putting his Grimace costume back on.
It's like Venom just taking over, coming out of his skin.
It would be a really good bit, Mike, if somehow you made it so it comes out of this door right now.
Grimace comes out of it right now.
Surprise!
All right.
Moving on along.
Travis and Fargo writes in with five questions.
I choose one of them.
If you want to get your emails right on the show, come up with a fun little gimmick.
Travis writes in.
I got my kids a Switch 2 as a start of the summer break gift, and I'm giving them this Friday.
What are your current feelings about the Switch 2 and any advice for a new Switch 2 owner?
Do you have any tips or tricks on gaming with both a Switch 1 and 2 in the household?
Grazie.
Got to get those kids started on Welcome Tour.
They can't touch anything on there until they pass all the tests in Welcome Tour.
You may as well.
It must come for free with that console, right?
Oh, yeah, I'm sure by now, right?
Oh, boy.
That stupid thing?
Hey, I kind of like it.
My thing with the kids and Switch 2 and managing multiple systems is it did get a little bit easier and a little bit more annoying with the uh sharing virtual games if you if you that's the way you're doing i guess a lot of people still do physical games, but if you have any digital games that you're trying to lend to someone, it is so annoying when you go to play your own game and because they have the switch lost somewhere in the house, turned off, not connected to the internet, they're like well, we just can't contact that thing and get your game back from them.
Uh, So just make sure that you have a spot where they know they have to return it to, so that it's well taken care of and you can get to that thing when you need it.
Because it is super annoying not being able to play your own game because of that.
So few, uh, hardware.
So few companies like have that figured out, uh, as far as like sharing within a household.
So it's like, if you don't want to buy two copies of like, like double seven is a great example.
Me and Bonk both just played through it and we're playing like around the same time.
So it's like okay, so she's logged into my steam account upstairs, but she has to after she launches it and make sure that computer never touches the internet.
So if it touches the internet at all, then it's like, oh, a save file thing.
One of us loses our save file.
And so you always have to think about that.
No one's ever made it seamless.
Fantastic.
Any other Switch 2?
Have you all picked up any accessories you like?
No.
Not an accessories guy.
I have to have a little charging station thing or like a charging dock not a dock for capturing it, but just something to put on my nightstand where it's charging.
That official Nintendo one I think I got or whatever is beefy enough.
I bought a really cheap one at first, thinking, why spend money on this?
And then it was, like, so unstable and wouldn't, like, stand still that it was basically worthless.
Okay.
Multiple docks.
Multiple docks is good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, they do make those third-party, like, you know, small footprint docks.
The ginky ones.
I like the ginky covert docks.
They got one for Switch 2 now.
I use that when I travel, certainly, but also when I bring it up to the gym.
Yeah.
Sometimes I have to update those in a weird way, like you update the firmware of a dongle.
Yeah, from switch one to switch two, a lot of those things need to be updated.
But once they were updated, they work pretty well.
I had to do that with the capture card dock that I got, which works well now, but it was a headache to sort of get that in that state in the first place.
That's probably too much for this person who's writing in the capture doc anyhow.
But yeah, look around, shop around.
There's a lot of good advice from people who are trying to get multiple docks in their home if they don't want to spend all the money on the official Nintendo one.
But it is handy.
I agree with Dan that like having that option in your house is really nice.
And then I still do the thing where I pop out the kickstand and rest my fingers on there just to make it a little bit easier to grip when I'm playing it.
Yep.
Fantastic.
Thank you for all the tips, boys.
Travis and Fargo, I hope that helps you out.
You know also, if you're giving it to little gimmicks, maybe grab a screen protector, just just in case.
Yes, that is.
There's Ginky makes a good one of those makes it really easy to apply.
I bet all of them are like that.
That's the first time I've ever really put on a screen protector and it worked well.
The Genki one, it's got like a handles that you put on.
Yeah, it's perfect.
And it was applied perfectly.
I'm like, I hate the idea of like air bubbles and all that stuff.
And none of that happens.
So I was pretty impressed.
I've always liked Genki stuff for Switch.
They make really solid stuff.
Like do they have capture cards now that are like really lightweight?
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The covert dock stuff.
It's yeah, they're great.
I might check the capture card out.
Andrew in Rochester Minnesota, writes in Hey Bomb Crew.
This question might be specifically for Dan.
Recently, you guys talked about California accents.
Send it!
And I started thinking about Minnesota accents.
Since I've lived here my whole life, I'm sure that I have some sort of accent, but I never notice it.
However, when traveling, people have told me they notice an accent.
There are also times where I will hear local accents.
Radio ads and the person talking sounds like they have a very recognizable accent to me.
That said, it made me wonder.
I know Dan has previously lived in Minnesota, but now that he has planted his roots a bit more firmly has he picked up any sort of Minnesotan accent before, or it's someone telling him that he does?
From the places in Minnesota he's been to, does Dan notice a lot more stereotypical Minnesotan accents, like having the long O's?
Thanks for the memories, and happy Malo.
Don't you know.
Shouts out to the Giant Bomb Facebook group.
Best wishes, continued success.
Andrew, Rochester, Minnesota.
Most I noticed it was when I first came up to Game Informer, because it's like a lot of people like came from elsewhere to move here for Game Informer.
But then you had guys like Tim Turi and Ben Hanson who were like dyed in the wool.
Minnesota guys, especially Tim Turi, might be the most Minnesota man ever.
And so it's like the double O thing.
It's brum.
It's room.
It's roof.
It's never like i say broom room roof.
You know like it's that room uh, here.
So yeah, i definitely noticed it.
I i'm more used to it now, but i don't think i've picked up any of it.
I don't know, you don't, you don't have any of that, no way.
I think you still have a a very faint, lingering southern thing, like it's not the south.
Yeah I Okay, fine.
Sure.
They fought for the North in the Civil War.
That's fine.
Cool.
I do think you have a Kansas thing.
Kansas is cool.
Kansas is very cool.
I'm not saying Kansas is cool.
I'm saying it's cool that we fought for the North.
I guess.
I don't know.
Whenever people say South, they don't go exclusively the Civil War.
That's what we're always talking about.
Kansas is...
Something that calls this flyover states would say.
Grub, you're from the Midwest.
I would never consider Kansas the South.
I would never.
Teensiest bit, maybe.
I don't know.
It's fine.
It doesn't matter.
It's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about your accent.
I'm not talking about North and South.
I think you sound Kansas-y.
Ohio's the north, but there are a lot of people with southern accents in Ohio.
Yeah, I think you... It's that sort of thing where, yes.
But maybe I don't really notice in Dan.
Do you have an example Bacalar, of Dan's lingering southern stuff?
Because that would...
No again, if we want to just call it like a Kansas.
I just hear that a little bit obviously, more than I hear anything from Minnesota.
It's the way he calls us darling all the time.
Darling.
And he's always passing me sweet tea when I see it.
I keep getting the vapors.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's that, like diapers.
Did you get over getting the consumption?
You're constantly worried about the peach crop.
I just hear that, but it's not prominent by any stretch.
I don't think it's the hallmark of your dialect, for sure.
Yeah, I never considered myself having any kind of strong accent.
My voice has changed dramatically.
I mean, look up the Twisted Metal replay from 2010.
Yeah, since the surgery.
Since the surgery?
Seriously?
Yes.
I'm dead serious, man.
I said it at the time.
Yeah.
Man.
Yes.
Two years ago?
Yeah, man, they changed your holes.
They did change my holes.
You put another hole in a flute, it's going to sound different.
Guess what?
I'm probably going to have to get another hole in a dandy, it sounds very different.
Wait, did his voice get higher or lower?
I can maybe use some holes.
I think it got a little gruffer.
I think it got a little... Really?
I could see it be a little gruffer.
I might be getting it again this summer.
I mean, this is such an easy experiment to do for yourself at home.
Go listen to a thing from like five years ago and listen to it now.
It's not better.
It's not worse.
It's just different.
So like when I, yeah.
So like a 2023 or here you go.
Early 2024 bomb cast versus late 2024.
Well, I would do five years ago to really have to be pronounced.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The early like Game Informer stuff.
If you see those early replays, I am just a different human being there.
It's insane.
I think for the most part, you do have like a non-regional dialect, I think.
But I do hear, like what I consider, whatever in my theater of my mind as a Kansas accent, I think comes up very, very rarely.
And again, not in like a prominent way.
I think certain words I've seen people talk about how I say like multiplayer.
Like I say multiplayer.
And I think some people say multiplayer, which makes sense.
That's an I. But also like, oh, yeah, when you're playing multiplayer.
I never noticed that.
Yeah.
I've seen people in like comments mentioned that before.
Yeah.
Okay.
Or like for F O?
R, I'll say for like almost like an F E?
R.
It's like Oh yeah, I'll use that for this.
Yeah.
Oh.
I'm learning a lot.
It's just comments I'm seeing, yeah.
It's not like our job is talking to each other for a living, you know?
We use our mouths for the birds.
Uh, oh right uh, two more emails and then we'll uh give the podcast will become another podcast for real quick.
I, i want, i want to hear if dan can do can you do a minnesota?
Can you do like a don't you know kind of thing that's like a fargo, that's more like a north, like i just think like oh, in minnesota, you know oh yeah yeah, there's like oh yeah yeah yeah sure Yeah yeah, the roof.
Oh, yeah, I swept it with the broom, you know, that type of thing.
Yeah, sure.
The critters get in there.
Yeah, sure.
Like oh man, I always thought it was crazy that Tim would always say like oh yeah, I'll borrow that to you.
I'll borrow that to you.
Oh.
You lend it to me.
I'm borrowing it.
Yeah.
Do you guys have a U.S. regional accent you do enjoy hearing?
I like hearing Memphis accents.
Anyone who sounds different to me is awful.
No, yeah.
I like New York accents and Southern accents.
I like them all.
They're fun.
I think I hate them all.
I don't mind them.
They're fine.
Boston pisses me off, but other than that, I think it's fine.
I think there's nothing more exotic than a pretty lady with a really strong Boston accent.
That's so weird.
It just breaks your brain a little bit, right?
Something just not matching there.
I like Chicago accents just because of the super friends on SNL, right?
Like, not bad.
Oh, sure.
Yeah, that's fun.
Mike, you could so be one of those guys in another life.
Oh, yeah.
Just like sitting at some dark bar talking about the local sports teams.
Yeah.
A lot of Miller lights.
A hat.
Oh, somebody photoshopped Minotti into the Super Friends.
You know what accent?
Super Fans.
Super Fans.
Sorry.
The Newfoundland Canadian accent is wild.
How does that go?
It's kind of almost Irish sounding or like Scottish.
It's like, it's really bizarre that that's what it's, I mean, I guess not bizarre.
It's just different.
That's, yeah, that's fun.
Yeah, it's like straight up Irish.
Yeah.
I alluded to this at the beginning of the email segment, but Mr Bacalar made Steve from Saratoga feel bad.
This email is addressed to keyboard daddy Jeff Bacalar.
Last week he snickered when Mike mentioned using a desk with a pullout keyboard tray.
I suppose I am ashamed to admit that I for one still buy them and add them to any new desk I purchase.
I recently bought a 70-inch desk to start playing PC games side-by-side with my wife.
The desk is an ugly behemoth that costs $200.
Two keyboard trays combined for $250.
I don't understand how people can function without these things.
If Jeff was a real gamer who played real video games, he surely would have noticed the sharp corners of the desktop surface digging into his pasty wrists, or the fact that his elbows are suboptimal angle for extended gaming sessions.
Wait, what?
Perhaps if Jeff knew that keyboards could be used as input devices for video games, he would realize how high he has to raise his chair to correct his ergonomics.
Scorched earth?
Holy shit.
Even raising the chair presents the problem of lowering the screens relative to your field of view.
And not all monitors are alien wearers with adjustable heights.
So please.
I really want to know what the solution for this is.
Because, although trays solve the positioning issues, they are a pain in the ass to install and expensive.
Thanks for reading.
Thanks for the content.
And shame on Jeff for treating Mikey that way.
Yeah, how dare you.
This guy's installing trays.
What a loser.
I mean, he's on my side.
No, I was joking.
I was joking.
Steve, you're...
Fuck you, man.
That's my buddy Steve you're talking about there.
First of all, it's about time someone really gave it to me.
You know, it feels good.
It feels good to be alive.
I forgot what that feeling is like.
Oh, I protect you guys from some emails.
It's fucking insane that you think adding a keyboard tray is less convenient than lowering the monitor.
With, like you know, a stand like that's insane to me.
I think I have my shit all set up like the way I would want.
Like when it's time to game, when it's game time.
Yeah, when it's game time.
My arms go to my side, 90 degree angle.
They're right on the keyboard, right on the mouse.
And then my eye is aligned with the very top of the monitor, which is what I want.
And I'm good.
No tray.
No tray.
I mean, also, like... Oh, your eyes are way higher than mine.
My eyes are, like, at the middle of my monitor.
Because of the tray, I'm further back.
It's called preference.
Yeah, and also, the tray, like... Have you considered that my preferences are...
Better than yours.
Better.
Yes, I have considered that.
I have considered it, and it's wrong.
Yeah, generally they do suggest to have the top of the monitor kind of level with your eyes.
Top of monitor with eyes?
Yeah, I mean, it doesn't have to be the very tippy top, but like, yeah, the top three quarters.
Higher than average, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, also this comment about what my desk looks like.
Sure, my wrists are pasty.
You've gotten there, emailer Steve.
But I don't have any sharp corners and I certainly don't have a tray hitting me in the crotch every time I pull it out when I want to type something.
Getting the top of my legs.
I mean, what, like, 1980s basement am I going into where I find one of these trays anyway?
I may be ugly, I may be hateful, but what was that?
I don't, i don't know.
Uh yeah, i just.
I mean from start to finish steve, i gotta disagree with everything you've said.
No points for you whatsoever.
Do you use like a wrist guard at all for, like your keyboard and mouse, like i feel like that helps out with sharp edges, I do need the wrist guard.
I have a little tiny one and it's stuck in place where I like it so I won't list it up to show you guys, but I need that desperately.
Explain the sharp edges to me, because I don't understand.
I don't think I'm going to be following.
Where are they?
There are corners on a desk.
Right, mine are round.
Do you have rounded edges on your desk?
I do, yeah.
It's like a standing desk.
It's almost like a... Yeah, there's nothing... See, mine are extra sharp.
I realize most desks have right angles.
I realize that.
Yeah, mine are extra sharp because of the little latches that click onto the tray, you know?
Maybe that's the issue.
Maybe Steve only has sharp edges because he keeps installing keyboard trays. exactly like nothing bad can happen there with all that hardware machinery and the flaps for things to get caught in i was knocking it but i could have just installed a keyboard tray on that desk that i gave away because that didn't have a keyboard the one that you didn't want to build and so you definitely would have installed a keyboard tray yeah that sounds hard might have to solder something i don't know no i'm joking everyone i know i don't need to solder something god the only the only thing steve has said here with any value aside from the wrist thing which you got me you got me uh is that i'm a bad gamer i'm not a real gamer that you got me good job oh don't don't admit that here that's bad for our brand you're better than anyone kind of funny that's all that matters come on that goes without saying that's true and i'm saying that with the caveat of there's places i excel greatly so You gotta under-promise and over-deliver here, okay?
That's where I'm going for.
We gotta take him up on that Forza Horizon competition thing.
I would love that, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it says yes all done and dusted.
Are they going to SGFC?
I feel like they never go to SGFC.
I think I'm tickled by this heated rivalry between us and Kinda Funny where a game will come out and we'll think like how can we beat them in this?
But I'm only kissing some of them, I'm only going to kiss some of them on the mouth and you at home have to wonder who Mike gets tongue.
Okay, okay.
French-Canadian kissing is what that's called.
Sorry, I just need to reset myself there.
Last email of the show comes from BH.
This hurt my mouth to read earlier.
Clipboard is typically pronounced clipboard unless you're Jan.
But clapboard is pronounced clabbered.
Does Jan pronounce it clapboard?
B-H.
I think this is just further proof that my methodology is correct.
All right.
You know the thing that happens when you like introduce yourself to a new group of people, and then they start to learn the intricacies and like the oddities of how you approach the English language that is fluid enough.
So why bend myself to any rules of it?
I'm going to keep practicing elasticity in my command over the English language.
So I dropped the whole Clibbered thing to them.
And, you know, met with stunned silence.
And then someone legitimately said, you are so brave.
You are.
Jan, this is proof of free will.
I don't know if you want to be talked to like you're a make-a-wish kid.
You're so brave.
I'll take it.
I'll take any type of affirmation.
Honestly, whatever.
Any sort of pity.
Give it to me.
Yeah.
There we go.
Folks, that does it for emails.
Bombcastgiantbomb.com is the email address.
Send your emails to.
Thank you for everyone sending emails.
And people are actively sending emails right now trying to solve Dan's TV laptop issue right now.
Don't worry about it.
I'll get it fixed.
It's a whole deal.
It's HDMI handshakes.
But once the steam machine's out, everything's good.
Chef Grub, I think it's time for the podcast within a podcast.
It's...
It's time for GrubGuessr, everybody.
Let me actually upload these photos to you guys right now.
GrubGuessr is the game where I'm going to share video game or video game related magazine ads with the folks on the podcast.
And then they have got to guess what it is an advertisement for.
We got our first one here for you guys.
Actually, make sure I'm recording you as well.
Turn off chat.
Yeah.
Turn off chat and all that stuff.
Okay.
So your first ad here is an old timey, sort of like throwback looking Archie style drawing illustration here that has a girl talking to a guy in a car.
He's like, come with me.
Let's go for a drive.
I have a blank.
And then she's excited that he's got a blank.
And then there's more to it than that.
But why don't you guys go ahead and start guessing what this is an advertisement for.
Outrun.
This is an advertisement for the Atari Lynx.
Damn it.
What?
Lynx?
Yeah, it's portable.
Like, yeah, okay.
Wait, what?
What video game is this paired up with?
This one's a little bit harder.
It looks like OutRun, I thought.
It's not OutRun.
Flax!
His clacks.
That's right.
Wow.
Mikey just lost in here.
Do you guys not see the Japanese dialogue before it where the words links and clacks?
I don't see that.
This is just observational skills, everybody.
I'm really impressed.
Observational skills.
I didn't know I was among a cheater.
I'm like, I don't know.
She's saying something about clack.
I was like, well, Mike must have really connected that clacks ad for me.
I thought, yeah, wow.
What the hell is that?
All right.
Well, I do have a second one for you.
Hang on.
Let me get that going.
No reading.
Don't read anything.
I hope I did a better job blocking this one out.
Let's see.
Man, you spent so much work blocking all this other stuff out.
So much shit in there.
We're messing.
I'll get you guys the full one here in a second.
All right, here, let's see.
This is the other one.
Uh, I did have to block a lot of blackout a lot on this one as well.
Uh, but go ahead and take a look there.
Uh, all right.
So for audio listeners, uh, there is a big scary alien and he says, grab your blank and blank.
That's all they can see.
What is this advertised before?
I thought this was a snake.
This is an advertisement for the video game Run Like Hell.
Wow.
Does it say it somewhere there?
Did Jan read it?
No.
Yeah, but I think he just used context.
Grab your blank and what?
And run like hell.
What is the other blank?
Balls.
Dick.
It's an advertisement for balls.
The drinks.
Oh, really?
Did I not black out something here as well?
No, that's this one.
I remember thinking this ad was so hilarious as a kid because they wrote balls.
Wait, what balls?
Guarana.
It was a drink in the late 90s, early 2000s and they paired it with the game run like hell for several magazines.
Yep, what balls?
I don't have good institutional, foundational knowledge of games, except for the balls ads.
Wait and run like hell was like an alien game.
It was yeah.
Monsters, aliens, yeah.
I don't remember it.
But, Jan, I got the full ads there if you want to show anyone at home.
I just put them in our chat here.
Yeah, there you go.
There's the Atari Lynx ad, which just says Lynx and Atari and clacks all the fuck over it.
And then I missed the two where it was amongst the Japanese characters.
Mike, you could have played that off and we would have been so impressed.
Yes.
You should have had us going for a little longer.
Let the record show I am a bad liar.
Which is sometimes useful, because if people accuse me of lying, I'm like oh, I don't think so.
Um, balls was, balls like an.
I remember balls was.
It was like an energy drink.
It was like around the time that like everything was like oh, it's got ginkgo biloba, and then like balls, you know right yeah like yeah, the fruitopia era.
My mom didn't let me have it because she thought it was inappropriate, because it said balls, she's right.
She was right, she's right.
Yeah, That's Grub Guesser.
A short episode this week.
Let's get back to another podcast.
And we're back with the Giant Bombcast.
Mike Minata hit me with some YouTube super chats, if we have any.
Yeah, Nemo F says, can I wait for GB at night?
Looking forward to seeing this on couch.
Grub your activation where it's confetti.
Finally, go see Backroom's Very Good Horror.
Oh, okay.
I don't know, something just sparked inside of me.
I don't know what that is.
Antonio Morales says, I legit bought a $50 NSO N64 controller just to play the new Star Fox.
Can't wait to play the way God Miyamoto intended.
He...
Can you just use an N64 Couture for the Star Fox remake?
I think they said exactly that you could, yes.
I would not want to do that.
You're broken.
No, I just like I played it with the pro controller and I'm like there's no way a 64 controller is going to be better than this.
Beautiful.
Who could grab an N64 controller right now?
Oh, it's the.
Oh, dan's looking.
Dan, mike's got one wow, fake fan.
I've been holding it in another room.
I've been holding it at 64 couture more this past month than i think i've had at any point since.
Like, that's gotta be right, that's gotta be true.
Yeah, i'm just you play it with the freaking pro.
I mean, come on, a GameCube controller will give you no points.
It's one generation away.
I didn't talk about it anymore, but I'm still playing Sin and Punishment on NSO.
Oh, that game is good.
I want to play through that again.
I like that game.
I want to play it with an N64.
Cause that's a weird one where you have to.
I think you hold it right hand in the middle and left hand on the deep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I, Ooh, Ooh, it feels kind of like naughty.
I think within 25 feet of here, I could produce, uh, at least a dozen N64 controllers.
At least a dozen.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe 15 plus.
Yeah.
I mean, if we're counting the 8BitDo ones, maybe 20.
Yeah.
I got to get all the fun.
I have all the fantastic ones.
I think I have all the colors.
I have the gold one.
Yeah.
I just got the gold classic controller that came with gold in 9007.
I just bought that at Toy Fair this weekend.
Oh, man.
I had that one, and I got a matching gold rumble pack.
Shit.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
Zombie Porn says, could 2026 Bacalar beat Goldeneye on Secret Agent?
Oh, that was the difficulty I did.
As opposed to, like, 1997, Jeff Bacalar?
Is that the exercise?
Yeah, I mean, have you played much of the GoldenEye campaign?
Multiplayer.
I never played the single player.
I'll tell you what, it's a bitch.
It'll take me a while, yeah.
Like, eventually I could.
I'm not going to do it, you know?
If your life depended on it, you had, you know, like a month to do it, I'm sure you would.
I'm sure I could.
Mike, M's Bot Army says Dan will never beat Space A.
So thank you Mike, for doing Blake Club on your own time.
Colton and I really looked like shit.
Yeah, a lot of my viewers, I think, ended up thinking less of Goldeneye than even I did, right?
By the time, it was like Mike, did you find some of the people watching your streams had they also played Goldeneye in the past or just didn't have any experience with it?
A lot of them had some experience with it.
There weren't there weren't a ton of defenders in my chat.
Dan was the big one.
I watched all of that and I kept thinking like OK, do I really believe this, or am I just saying this to get Mike worked up?
And I was like, no, I do think it's the best FPS of all time.
That part is still wild.
Like, there's clearly a few.
It's caused marital strife.
Yeah.
I mean, how can you actually think it's better than Titanfall 2?
Come on.
It is.
Why?
No.
It was just doing more.
You gotta put yourself in 1997.
Stop putting myself in 1997.
It's 2026 now.
I'm always putting myself in 1997.
Yeah, I can tell.
Next up is Alex Gogo.
Comptutor.
It's worse now.
This is about the new AI computer sequel.
Comptutor 2.
Oh, that's okay.
I like it.
Computer 2.
Viviatonga says off work today thanks to bad constipation.
What a day for Mikey's face to not be on my bum.
365 days is still good odds for merch ideas to work out.
Damn, all right, moving along.
Oh, like i get it.
You want like a merch thing.
You want my face on your butt, man.
I was just looking at some more shorts to buy from roosevelt's.
Uh, because i bought, i i got uh tailspin shorts from them because they did a Disney Afternoon collection and they're pretty comfortable.
So I was thinking about buying some more and they have some Land Before Time shorts and I might buy Land Before Time shorts and wear them.
Should I stop myself?
Do they have tree stars on them?
I think they do have quite a lot of tree stars on them, actually.
Hell yeah, Doug.
There's that.
There's a Sonic.
There's a bunch of Sonic ones, all sorts of Sonic ones.
And then an Admiral Ackbar comic book style one of different things of him saying it's a trap.
I might get that one as well.
Can we just do that with you, your face instead?
And it's just Mike saying it's a trap a bunch, and that'll be our merch.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just a doggy style, though, let's be honest.
Yeah, I guess it should.
It should just be a blank speech bubble, and the folks at home can write in what you want.
It comes with everything.
Yeah, yeah.
I like that.
Uh, migzi says a bully episode a day keeps boredom at bay.
That's why everybody make sure you're watching the bully endurance run.
I know a lot of you are and you've been saying nice things, so appreciate that.
But yeah, it's a very every weekday it's a very, very uh fun.
Fun, episode after episode.
Great job, guys.
Yeah, thanks.
I know, like, you know, a couple days here, content's going to be a little weird with us traveling, but Bully, Bully Interns Run, still happening, so.
And then Migsio says well, SGF 2026 be a continuation of the Danfoo discovery.
That will annoy Mark even more, annoy Mike even more than he usually is.
How did I miss say my name?
I said Mork.
Mike and Mork.
You're Mork now.
You are fucking Mork.
We're going to retire the Mitch jersey.
You're now Mork.
Great.
Great.
I'm an alien.
Um...
Yeah, I don't know what's left.
What was mustard last time?
I'm pretty normal now.
No, there's... How dare you say that in public?
Can we get Bonk on the phone?
What's left?
I mean, food stuff.
Food stuff, honestly.
There's plant-based.
There's a little berry mayo.
There was a...
There's a whole salt thing last week or two weeks ago.
No, no, no.
There's a different thing here.
We're talking there's me tasting and trying foods and me understanding foods.
These are two different conversations.
If we're talking me trying foods, pretty much all of the things ketchup mustard, onion salads, you know all this shit.
Are you still scared of fermentation?
See, that's in the don't understand bucket.
But you wouldn't eat it either though, right?
It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
I probably eat fermented stuff all the time without knowing.
Like sauerkraut and kimchi?
Not really.
You drink fermented stuff.
I don't know about that.
Look at us. a year removed from the mustard scandal and we're like, it'll never happen again.
We're fucking idiots.
Of course it's going to happen again.
Are you kidding me?
If history is any indicator, the odds are in the favor of something happening.
I had mustard on a Costco dog last week.
I'm proud of you, Dan.
Thank you.
I remember that being the talk of the town in this little tent at SGF.
I now associate that place with mustard.
Strangers applauding him.
It was tremendous.
Other people in games media, people in development the day, workers at sgf, keely himself came over and graced you.
It was really he did.
What that grandpa simpson like well, i'm out of here.
Oh, the gb guys are here.
Fuck yeah, never mind, All right.
That boy Jerry says, need a feature of Jan playing Run Like Hell ASAP.
Jan Like Hell?
While consuming nine balls every nine minutes?
Yeah.
Let's get me a walking pad also, so I have to be walking the whole time.
Oh, I like it.
Okay.
What is that game like?
I feel like I don't know much about it.
It reminds me of MDK in my head.
Oh.
Yeah.
My mind goes to Apocalypse with Bruce Willis.
I don't know why it's not.
Yeah.
Run Like Hell was more like PS2 era, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I kind of like MDK.
MDK's all right.
MDK 2 is okay.
Yeah.
Very weird humor.
It's by far that humorous best game.
Yes.
Yeah uh, tomy morales says the world is on fire.
Jerf, let me have this.
What do you mean?
I'm trying to remember.
Wait, this was antonio the keyboard tray guy.
No way could be keyboard tray.
No no, i wrote that person's email down.
That wasn't them.
Um, You're going to find a journal with that guy's email just written over and over and over again.
FBR 392.
You're on a list.
What is it about?
Let's see.
Maybe Antonio can play for us in the YouTube live chat if one of you can keep an eye on that.
But in the meantime, Zombie Porn says, also, I'm not sure if you all know who Lace Claypool is.
Yes.
Is that Les?
It's Les.
Yeah.
Lay the clay.
Lay the clay.
Lay the clay.
Lay the clay.
Lay the clay.
Lay the clay.
Lay the clay.
But is that Will's father?
Did Will play the bass guitar?
I don't think in a million years he could name the band that Les Claypool is from.
I bet he will.
He's definitely heard a song of theirs.
I don't know.
Has he heard of the band?
You think he's heard of the band?
I bet he's heard of the band only in the context of that one song that everyone knows.
Of the Tony Hawk song?
No.
I don't know any French bands.
He knows the theme song they did.
Oh, he knows the theme song.
Okay.
Will is typing in chat, the Beatles?
Yep.
The Beatles.
That's right.
What band is Claypool from?
Jesus.
I don't know either.
Don't worry.
Primus.
I'm bad at this.
Oh, Primus.
The South Park people.
Yeah, I know.
There we go.
I have a friend who likes Primus a lot, so I know a little bit about Primus.
Antonio Morales was talking about the N64 controller and using it for Star Fox.
He needs to feel childlike again, Antonio.
You still have agency.
You're allowed to.
You don't have to do what we say.
He says that, but when I try to use it, Bacalar shows up my house and slaps me on the wrist.
Right out of his head.
Stop that, you dumbass.
It's really adding up too, Gruv.
Yeah, it's costing us a fortune.
Antonio, please, by all means, use the worst controller.
Live your life.
You guys ever read that thing where Rare wanted the reload in GoldenEye to work by actually taking out the rumble card?
I love that so much.
It's neat, but yeah, it probably would have been impractical and probably would have been bad for the controller.
Yeah, yeah.
Next up is from Jim Round Sound says shout out to my friends and colleagues at Dark Horse Comics for unionizing Dark Horse workers.
Oh, nice.
That's really good to hear.
That's awesome.
Always liked Dark Horse.
Hell yeah.
Lay Claypool.
I'm going to be thinking about that for a while.
I'll tell you what.
It's even funnier knowing that he's from Primus, that's.
That's not very french, unless you pardon my french.
Ha ha ha fuck, it's like you jumped onto a rake and then like jumped back on it or something.
How can Gordon and I be the best FPS of all time when Agent Under Fire and Nightfire exist?
I don't think I've played through those two.
I do want to play them.
Especially Nightfire.
Agent Under Fire is almost just kind of proto-Nightfire in some ways.
It's good, but Nightfire is just the better version of that.
And then Missy Mabel says, would Dan be open to doing a salt tasting?
Table, sea, pink, etc.?
?
Yeah, I love salt.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Of course.
I would taste some salt.
I'm very pro-salt.
I love salt.
Yeah.
I like salt, too.
Mikey, can you hit me with a nanu nanu?
Nanu nanu?
Just say it.
Just say it.
It's from Mork and Mindy.
Oh, God.
Mork and Mindy.
Man, Nanu Nanu.
Mork and Mindy wasn't even on Nick at Night very much, I feel like.
Yeah, it was on Nick at Night when I was a kid.
Probably watching Nick at Night.
And then you got by the time you were watching it.
You're right, it wasn't on there very much anymore.
It was because we had I mean, I had Happy Days constantly and it's a Happy Days spinoff, but somehow yeah, I didn't see much Mork and Mindy on there.
Migzy says, Superchat, did Tamor Hussein also quit GameSpot?
I don't think so.
I have no idea.
We don't report on our friend's business.
Yeah.
But he'll be on the couch, you know, so tune in.
Yeah.
All right, then.
We are caught up on Super Chats.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you, Mike Minotti, and thank you.
Do you think I could play Star Fox with the Jaguar controller?
God, I hate that.
I hate that controller.
Yes.
I'd rather use an Intellivision remote.
Look at this fucking thing.
It was supposed to be there.
It was like the old atari controls where you would put, like paper overlay, weird other buttons, but like it's like a phone.
You know yeah, what games even use those.
That's so many extra inputs.
It's great.
Simulators like what the fuck is that?
Did Alien vs Predator use it in some way?
I want to say it did.
That would make some sense.
Hell yes.
Boys, we got an interesting week ahead of us.
Your normal programming is going to be a little bit on hold.
We're traveling tomorrow on Wednesday and Thursday.
We're setting up because this is SGF week.
We got a bunch of talkovers.
Starting today, we are talking over the state of play.
Like Grubb mentioned, we're going to be talking over the Summer Game Fest talkover, the show with Keeley, the Xbox showcase.
We'll figure out a way to talk over the Nintendo one once that is in our line of sight.
But also, gang...
Friday and Saturday, we have the couch.
Jeff Grubb has convinced a bunch of people to talk on it.
That's right.
GB at Night returns 6 p.m. to 12 midnight. pacific time jeff grubb has uh lovingly assembled and crafted a bunch of segments for you folks at home and we promise we won't shoot dan with a confetti gun this year Thank you.
It's more promise.
Oh, man.
OK, that's right.
It's it's fun.
I keep looking at the schedule.
There is one where I literally don't know anyone who's going to be.
Well, I know Mike is going to be on there, but I don't know who the other guests are.
And I won't until later this week.
And that's like, oh, I wonder what that's all about.
Tune in to find out for yourselves, everybody.
A lot of fun stuff happening on that couch.
A lot of fun stuff.
A lot of hard work is going into this Jimmy Jam.
We hope you folks enjoy it.
And since programming this week is going to be a little bit funky, I suggest you go back to last week, where we had the finale.
Two finales. of Portal Pals.
No, that didn't happen.
No, that did not happen.
That is a dream I had.
The Portal Pals finale where Mike and Mary Kish played through the co-op campaign of Portal 2.
If you guys just want to hear a lot of random sentences that have never been uttered by another human being except Chaos Incarnate Mary Kish, go watch that series.
But also we had the series finale of Marry Me Tomodachi with our dear friend Abby Russell.
Out of this world, some would say.
Good to have you back, Jeff.
Good to have you back, Jeff.
Took a while.
I'm four seconds younger now.
Wow.
Relativity.
You interstellared.
Cool.
I'm inside your bookcase.
Maybe that's where his keys are.
Folks, boys, did I miss anything else that we are doing this week?
Stay to play.
That's a big one.
I'm looking forward to that.
New nine lives today.
Oh, yes.
New nine lives for all the premium members out there.
Also, if you're a premium member and a YouTube member, you get all of the Bully Endurance Run episodes a week free.
Those are all locked and loaded while we are away.
We might have a couple more surprises hidden in the chamber.
We do have a 007 review discussion roundtable that should be going up tomorrow.
Gang, can't wait to see y'all in Los Angeles.
Safe travels, everyone.
Safe travels.
Friends of the show, friends of the website, can't wait to see y'all as well.
Gang, we'll see you next week.
For another episode of the Giant Bombcast.
Until then, we'll see you at Summer Game Fest.
He's been Jeff.
He's been Jeff.
He's been Mike.
He's been Dan.
I've been Jan.
Shouts out to Will.
Shouts out to Chuck.
Shouts out to Sean.
Turbo Sean.
Sean McDowell for everything.
We'll see you next week for another episode of the Giant Bombcast.
Until then, goodbye.
Happy Pride.
