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Hey everybody! It's Tuesday, July 8th, 2025!

Welcome to Oprah's favorite video game podcast, that's right, The Giant Bombcast, episode 898.

I am your host, Jan Pachoa.

Joining me, co -captain of the ship, he took the title so seriously he decided to see all the waves by the Great Lakes of Michigan, Jeff Grubb.

you ever get that feeling when you go into like a wavy body of water for like two and a half days later you still feel like you're moving around in the waves that's right because he's juking and he's jiving he's the most danciest member of this website dan reichert hey what's up how's it going look at him like he grub you you missed it last week with uh delight club because kayla and dan i think are some of the most musical dancy people i've ever seen yes uh yeah of the three of the the people on that i would describe the other two as the most musical and mike the least yes yes yeah that makes

sense speaking about mike dancing that's my thing yeah it's it's in the name can't stop dancing okay and we have the boy of games media yesterday was his day it's a day for mikey's mike minotti hello i'm breathing is bad i'm gonna stop that so people will like me more your comments affect him deeply everyone please comment on the video mike we need you to breathe it's we like the breathing we start making up stuff that mike's not actually doing oh don't do that it's like i hate how he has flesh it's really annoying he has too many fingers it seems like the comments that are affecting mike are endless

and it's appropriate that we We have our special guest today for Endless Mode, Garrett Martin.

Welcome to the podcast, sir.

Hey, thanks for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

Garrett, let's get the plugs and the stuff out of the way, tippy top, because that's when people actually retain all of the information.

Endless Mode, tell us about it, sir.

It's a website and we write about the things that we like, like video games and theme parks.

and my associate editor Elijah Gonzalez loves anime so I let him do anime which is totally a foreign thing to me I don't understand anime whatsoever me either I don't know maybe we'll try to get wrestling in there somehow I don't know if that'll happen but I would love to fit it in I've been editing Pace games at the Pace magazine for a long time and they were talking about hey maybe let's expand this into a whole standalone side of its own and so we've done that and it's called Endless Mode it launched Launched last week.

Lots of really good stuff if you like to read stuff.

I'm a fan of stuff personally, so go check it out.

I like stuff. Garrett, can I make a request for an article?

Totally, yeah. Can you put out a guide of how to maintain this magnificent beard?

Because I can't grow more than this, but I want to aspire to grow more than this and maintain what you have. I think you have three experts on this call every day.

I got the struggle beard going now.

No way. Mine's kind of scraggly.

I got to get cleaned up.

If you trimmed it up.

When I don't trim mine, it looks like Dan's, you know?

It gets that sort of like, you know, West Virginia mountaineer, bootlegger type of look to it.

Yeah. Meanwhile, Dan's over here with the Dom Mysterio mustache.

And Dom seems to be doing fine.

Yeah, yeah. Honestly, it's a good look.

Yeah, I have thought about growing a mullet.

But then I realized I would just be Dominic Mysterio.

I mean, again, worst things to be.

That's true. that's true uh how how's everyone doing uh we had a holiday weekend over uh last week grub you're back from vacation do you feel rested at all i mean you know it was it was more vacation than a trip i was talking to jason pinelli on game mess mornings on monday and he was telling me his wife has a distinction between a trip and a vacation like going to disney's a trip because it's not really you don't get a lot of time to relax and stuff like that this was definitely more relaxing and so yeah i felt by the end there i was definitely like oh i'm I'm getting in the vibes of hanging

out and I played through an NES game because it felt like summer and that's what I like to do in the summer and stuff like that.

So, yeah, I'm sorry.

Disney is called the vacation kingdom of the world.

Well, oh, Disney's never lied.

Yeah, I was thinking no example.

He's thinking about nothing.

Yeah, to me, nothing.

But yeah, I felt really good.

I'm happy to be back, though.

You guys did a lot of fun stuff while I was gone.

I was really enjoying watching a lot of it.

But that Baby Steps video, very funny.

Oh, man. I'm looking forward to playing that.

I was there the whole time.

I'm surprised Backlore not heard of QWOP.

Yeah. Has he not heard of QWOP?

That bothers me a little bit.

Because QWOP is important to me.

That was the thing.

Well, I mean, Bennett Foddy, I'm sure you guys talked about it.

My family was talking and laughing watching you guys play.

So I kind of heard a little bit.

You guys talked about Bennett Foddy is the guy in the game.

The guy that talks to you.

I'm pretty sure that's him.

Oh, I didn't realize.

Is he the dude walking or is he the dude that's following you around?

He's the dude that's following you around Oh the Rob Corddry looking dude The Rob Corddry guy I love the idea of a quopetition Because quop is so good Yes it is It was browser based right I think it was a flash game And then I think he turned it into an HTML5 game So you could still play it I was about to ask how you control it It's quop The letters It's literally in the name QWOP Did they do co -op at the, you know, good games done fast or games done quick?

What's going on right now?

Surely they did, right?

They have done that, right?

They did a blueprints race yesterday.

It was like a bingo thing.

That's such a good idea.

So there's, yeah, there's this bingo board and there's two people.

And like, if they did certain things in the game, like, oh, you had 10 gems or you drafted the East hallway and the West hallway, like that would be a slot in the bingo thing.

You had to kind of like fill up the bingo board. it's such a good idea made a path to the antechamber from the start it was cool oh that's really cool wow okay i i had the urge to just do bingo on the website last week and that was just shoot bingo just regular bingo yeah now i want to do some type of game bingo you're like a hyrule hustle like breath of wild with bingo let's just steal the idea death stranding bingo i feel like death stranding 2 bingo would be easier than like a race yeah like you know shove a corpse into a a coffin board um sue the baby yeah yeah uh have have a doll man uh give

life advice yes yes uh doll man anime dance i'll do it i'll make a bingo boy for some video game for you all i'll be the bingo what's a what's a what's a word that starts with b that means baron the bingo baron i'll be your bingo baron baby there you'll be the bingo baron bear yeah the bear the bear's seen bear and bears there it is uh anyone anyone get get up to grilling this weekend i was going to scream i was going to my uh my pellet grill though it's like i got it going first time like this year it's like oh the fan doesn't work and so now nothing can happen i'm like well don't know how to

fix that oh no so it's like oh oh no am i ever going to be able able to use this thing again I need to it's too expensive to just write it off but also seems like a pain to fix a fan that's connected with electrical wires I looked at the wires that didn't help I may as well have never have looked down there that only made me feel worse about the situation so I'd like call somebody I don't know I don't want people coming over here leave me alone uh i went to a fourth of july gathering and my uh i guess we'll call him a nephew uh because he's a friend's kid and he calls me uncle jan he approaches

me and he he sits down he's drinking his like little water bottle and goes like uncle jan i still have that dog in me that was like hell yeah i believe in everything again uh all right well let's talk about video video games since this is oprah's favorite video game podcast don't look it up it is strictly the truth i would never lie to you like disney yeah no no no i think if we just say it enough it'll become true what lies have disney ever told i guess they told me that toy story four would be good and it was great so they did lie speaking of disney lies i bought the dvd copy of love on a leash

and it seems like first of all it seems like bonk noticed the lady on the cover does not seem to actually be the actress from the movie they did it that's even more than what noobs did because noobs is like we're going to put a busty lady that's not in the movie yeah and then on the back of the love on a leash dvd case the top pull quote in quotes is it's like the princess and the frog meets pinocchio and it's unattributed and you can't do that you can't just put something in quotes and no attribution at all I mean maybe they're saying it for the first time right there put it in quotes it's episode

898 so we're so close to episode 900 but three of you boys Garrett maybe you have partaken as well I've been playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 plus 4 how is that is it everything I dreamed of is it like 1 2 it's a lot like 1 2 two uh that's definitely the format they're going for here i got a code early i was i've been playing a lot of it we did record a quick look that's probably going up later today so you'll see that uh tony hawk's pro skater three is my favorite tony hawk so you know as soon as we got one and two i liked that a lot there's always a part of me like oh but i kind of want three

and that's the best one so having this getting those three levels it's like yeah this is the best one these These levels are so freaking good.

Foundry and Airport and Cruise Ship.

It's just so much fun playing through those still.

I love that campaign.

The more contentious thing is the fork campaign because they took what was this more open thing.

You had kind of free skate until you talked to an NPC, and then they're like, go collect the letters of skate.

Then you do that, and then they applaud you, and then you go and do another thing.

They changed all of those maps to the two -minute timer thing.

with their own set of goals a lot of them inspired by those original goals but not everything's here especially some of the weirder ones from ford like go go luge down this hill or play tennis with your skateboard stuff like that it's not here so they definitely took four and made it a different game now the game they turned it into is very good i think that they did a great job adapting it to the uh two -time structure a structure that i've always liked more than the open world stuff i think the levels i was worried that these levels were designed with you know the more open stuff in mind they

wouldn't really work for this that's not the case they work very well but it is different and you know if you're a mega tony rick proscator 4 fan you might you might resent that change it's not me though i'm fine with it and then then they put in some new parks in this one too and they're all kind of part of the four campaign and they're great there's pinball uh which is kind of like water park yeah water park is amazing it's one of my favorite tony oxford skater levels and there's the movie studio which is a new competition level so overall i love it i think it's great i got i thought you made

a good point on the quick look that's going up where you were talking about how like you know we were really reminiscing about the first levels you know warehouse and foundry you know and hangar and then you realized like well actually maybe some of the best levels were the smallest ones you know just like very very tightly constructed, small ones.

But yeah, the bigger ones, like Waterpark is huge and it's really fun.

A bunch of teleporters and stuff like that.

I want to speak specifically real quick to the Switch 2 version because that's what I've been playing on.

Yeah, I was playing on PS5 and obviously it looks good on there.

Yeah, so I played last night in one sitting.

I did all the goals on three and I got about halfway through four.

And it runs well. I would say usually when you like start and load into a level, it kind of like seems a little hitchy or almost like the frame rate's a little weird. and then it just pretty quickly just evens out and then it seems to be running at 60 beyond that building the shaders it sounds like yeah yeah yeah that doesn't make sense for the switch okay yeah weird well yeah but it's a little hitch and then it seems totally smooth i'll say i don't like playing it on handheld because that d -pad on the joy -con sucks um just the the four little buttons for tony hawk doesn't work great for me so mainly

on the tv my one complaint main complaint would be like five or six times last night just crashed the game totally just really interesting stops running and it was like hey there's been an error you're gonna have to close the game and so like i'd be in the middle of a run you know going for a high score or something and it's like well i guess none of that counts so i don't know if that's widespread but i definitely ran into it like a couple times an hour last night i had one crash on playstation 5 just just one though and like i usually that's kind of normal for playing a game technically before

it comes out so i didn't think too much of it on ps5 at least uh i i um have been playing it as well and i i played tony hawk's pro skater 4 in like the last month and a half and i you know i think what i realized is while this is the old version of tony hawk right the two minute structure the open structure actually feels older to me in a lot of ways because it's like they try to do so much more that it has just shown its age but this is like a more pure thing so i just think like when you're you're facing this decision as a studio like iron galaxy.

And you're like, do we want to try to accommodate the weirdness of Tony Hawk's pro skater for it's like you can do that and it would be more accurate, but I think it might actually result in a game that feels a little bit more dated than they want it to.

Now I get it that a lot of people like that stuff.

They like the variety.

So if that's a complaint, I get it.

But, um, for me, I just think they ended up making what feels like a tighter game because of that decision.

And then it's still Tony Hawk.

It feels incredible it's um really cool to like immediately get into the vibe of landing those perfect uh perfect landings after doing your own sort of 70 or 700 or whatever 720 and then uh uh kind of getting the all the special moves going and finding your line and doing that stuff that's how i like to play tony hawk i like to try to get the massive combos and things like that and it's just as good as ever and then the roster of playable characters uh you know i've watched some professional skateboarding in the last couple years so uh like nija and a bunch of others just seeing them in there

and looking awesome was very cool yeah uh gary any experience or any fondness for the tony hawk franchise yeah well i mean the new game that pinball level is amazing like the best part of the game is when you're playing the pinball level and the very first time you realize there's a gigantic tony hawk playing the pinball machine that you're skating in so there's like this galactus size tony hawk looming over you like he's you know a malevolent figure but no the pinball level is really cool i'm a big pinball guy that's one of the sections at endlessmode .com and uh you could tell like when they

designed the pinball machine within the game they were definitely looking at real pinball machines and trying to make it feel like how a real pinball machine would be laid out you know and they do some cool stuff like they have an upper play field that you can like get into and grind around and everything and it's it's pretty cool um yeah and yeah i really like the structure of you know go through both campaigns you get all the goals then it opens up the pro goals seeing you go go back to all the levels this is where you have things like you know there's a new score to get up but beyond the six

score it's more difficult this is where you have to do the combo letters we have to get all the letters like skate you have to do it in one combo and there's other like trickier things you need to do and for four a lot of them are inspired by original goals from that game uh does anybody bothered by the the soundtrack changes that's another talking point is that you know there aren't a ton uh it's not all the songs in the original games there's a lot of the numbers yeah so it's uh like 20 you know what's in the news let me just get it real quick uh it is less than 20 percent of tony ox pro skaters

group us for soundtrack is made up of songs from the original games only 10 songs from the original games alongside 54 new tracks tony ock has said that he's like oh like uh i wanted people to discover new music in this as well and so i'm like this is my decision i'm sure that's part of it but i bet a part of it is it's just probably cheaper to go get new songs rather than people having the leverage of oh you want our song back you're gonna have to pay us a lot more i'm sure that's a huge part of it they just wanted to save money and i'm of the opinion of i would i didn't think we were gonna get

this game so this is what is required for them to put it out i'm like i'm accepting it although you know the music in Tony Hawk is a little sacred so i get if that's gonna hurt some people yeah i mean i think the the new songs are good, so, you know, it is a new soundtrack.

I guess there's a bit more with this one than maybe 1 and 2.

Whereas, like, maybe even then, it's like, oh, these...

Are these replacements for the original?

And with 1 and 2, it's like, I can see myself maybe almost never going back to the originals and just playing these.

With 3 and 4, and especially 4, it's like, oh, there's still plenty of reasons to go back and play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 on the PS2 or even 3.

If it showed up on Nintendo Switch Online, right, like the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, like, that would make total sense.

those two things can stand next to each other right exactly so yeah like these definitely aren't replacements in that sense but just as what it is it's still just so freaking good and i have nothing but a good time when i'm playing it uh you know like i i think some people might just like get really fixated on what isn't here i suppose but it's just i get it but just doesn't bother me that much yeah i'm looking at the soundtrack and the new songs that were that that are have been added to three four and i feel like they kind of match the vibe of the game they got their maiden so that's fine they

added some run the jewels right like that to me that's and some of the new songs are old songs that would have made sense if they were in those games 25 years ago like there's a gang of four song in there uh natural's not in it and that's a pretty awesome awesome one to skate to especially when you're inside a gigantic pinball machine my one and two that i'd be pissed if they didn't make it uh or ace of spades and if you must and both of those made it exactly those are my favorites i 100 agree those are the two that i needed and they're here so i don't know if this is just that digital deluxe

edition or whatever that came with doom guy but like doom songs will just come up on the playlist sometimes and i'm like that's good that's good any soundtrack that features king gizzard and the lizard wizard lizard is uh an a plus for me just because that's such a fun name to say uh mike can you be the lizard wizard for us was what does that mean all right moving on to the next game the wizard lizard i'm gonna cast uh water spells because i am a reptile which isn't really an opinion but still water adjacent control over this jan teenage mutant ninja turtles teenage mutant ninja turtles he's just

gonna keep going yeah i was trying to like work in a segue and what he was saying but the back and forth just wasn't there just like the back there's no back and or fourth no not with mike minotti but there is a back and forth in rygar with that shield that's right yeah so uh i was mentioned like nes in the summer so i would go to the beach a lot of these days or go to the pool and you know nice sandy beaches up there on lake michigan it was a really good day but then like I'm like okay I'm starting to like get tired and hungry and what I would do as a kid and you know this is a nostalgia field

thing is I would go back into the basement with the air conditioning get some pizza or something make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then play some NES and so I was just like my brain's like you should go play some NES and I had to switch to with me got NSO out and I started up Rygar a game that I've only ever like touched a couple of times just to see what it is and I'm like you know I'm gonna really try to play through this thing and I saw all that uh it you know people can beat this game in like 40 minutes perfect so i went in there kind of got some pointers about hey here's where you

need to go to get some things oh here's something you never would have figured out you can use the the the crossbow to shoot across this chasm and there's a you know a thing off the screen you can't even see and you need to do that to get across that chasm like oh okay now that i'm past that i'm sort of figuring out what this game's whole deal is turns out rygar pretty fun that's a good nes game really holds up it's awesome i feel probably with you on that grub where it's like i would see it in my friends collections and stuff but it's a single -player games it's like we never really pulled it

out when i was you know right over or whatever so i've never really played as much affinity i have towards the nes maybe i it's on switch online it's on switch online it works really great uh you uh i mean it's one of those games that has uh kind of a checkpoint system a little bit and there's no lives so you can just brute force it but also you know it has the rewind on nsf so just use that because it's you're effectively getting the same thing there and it was it's got so rygar for people don't know don't know it's an action game there was an arcade game this is different from the arcade game

in that it's kind of a light metroidvania style game where you get weapons that unlock new paths and um your main weapon is sort of a belmont whip but with a shield on the end and you can upgrade that so it has a longer attack area uh things along those lines and you are upgrading your your character so it becomes more powerful and you have more hit points things like that and all that works really well and all that's just like you're going to defeat enough monsters and you're going to upgrade your character so you can do the thing where you sit in a corner and hit an enemy hit enemies that are spawning

over and over and choose it that way it's yeah it's got it's like really solid like it's much more robust than i was expecting it's kind of a better castlevania 2 right i think so yeah i i have enjoyed i enjoyed playing it more than i have of the nes castlevania games at least the two you're right up to sorry to step in but uh simon's quest man there's like a mystery to it like there's so much weird stuff in that game that you don't really yes like that you just sort of stumble across and rygar i would say is maybe slightly less esoteric you know but uh yes i i might be a little bit older than you

guys like i think rygar was one of the earlier nes games and like at least in my town among my like friends in elementary school it was like one of the bigger ones at the time because i it came kind of before like i think it was before castlevania 2 there weren't a lot of metroid style games on there yet it was one of like the big ones at the time and like 87 or whatever but like most kids i knew seemed to be into rygar at the time and uh it infamously has like those really jacked bald gurus with the big bushy beards that look like uh there was like guys in those crappy ai ads about how to like

build muscle mass in your 60s you know um the ones that like i've turned into a lion or whatever yeah right it's pretty awesome uh it's awesome and like they all have like different like uh either quotes to like help you figure out what's going on one of them was just like it's 2 a .m time to party and let the monsters out like what what is what is happening here uh or they give you a weapon uh and it's it all feels pretty neat like it has its own weirdness but it is pretty straightforward once you figure out a couple of the tricks so yeah and now i'm like i never played rygar on ps2 okay so that's

that's what i was going to ask y 'all my only experience with rygar is the ps2 game um and obviously massive departure going from 2d to 3d in several uh console generations later but how was a rygar on the ps2 received received really well it was really well received i remember at the time it was kind of the first ps2 action game that came out after god of war and it was kind of like that so a lot of people like if you liked god of war and you gotta have more here's rygar it's based off an old game you never played i to me this is like what makes that generation the best the ps2 gamecube generation because we

could still get a follow -up to an nes game all right and it would rule they were doing doing weird stuff then like they were trying to do like a vector man they did an altered beast that maybe only came out in europe or something um yeah i feel like sega was trying a bunch of weird stuff final fight uh uh final fight streetwise right and narc narc had a comeback fucking uh maximo is a ghost and goblin successor like yes yeah yeah so it's got me like wanting to like try to i'm doing grubs gimmicks this week i'm letting people vote one of my ideas was going to to be before i kind of had too many

other ideas i was like old versus new and i was going to play some old rygar play some new rygar play some old ghost and goblins play some maximo things like that so we should um we need to do like old shinobi and then that ps2 shinobi before the new one comes out i really like the ps2 shinobi it's cool and then there's nightshade or whatever which is the sequel you play as the girl shinobi and that's good too there's strider they did that uh new strider which is actually pretty solid oh it's awesome that was actually another 2d one ones it was a metroidvania yeah it was great did the vector man ps2

game ever come out never cancelled i was upset at the time i don't know i don't know why i was upset i was such a safe vector man i like vector man for a game i can't get past the second level of uh either way right right girl was awesome i do recommend it uh nso's and there's a ton of nes games on there actually i'm like i should play through a bunch of they have a good nes library they have some sort of like point and click adventure games that were nex exclusives like nightshade that i never played that i might need to do at some point yeah uh mike minati you have been continuing down the splatoon train as

of late and finally you have gone to the octo expansion in splatoon 2 right i'm sorry i just realized i think i called two things nightshade during that last segment any of them are actually called nightshade are you okay today i'm still did you eat some nightshade i mean he told us when we started before we're on the air he goes oh boy it's a day for mikey's and then he couldn't explain if that was positive or negative so something's going on with mike today mike i need you to analyze your chi and the cheese okay okay yeah uh yeah i've been continuing to play through those platoon games and now

i'm on the splatoon 2 expansion the octo expansion which i always heard was good i think for a lot of people is weird because most people don't think about the single -player stuff in Splatoon.

Right? But, like, for Splatoon 2 and 3, they actually just released, like, whole additional campaigns as DLC.

And the Octo Expansion is just part of NSO Expansion Pack, I think, if you have that.

And this rules. This is maybe one of the best ones yet because the structure here and all the other ones are kind of like, oh, you're in, like, these sort of floating islands and you access levels that way and it's neat.

Here, you're on a subway.

And it's like a like it's like a transit line is how you're accessing all these levels no it changes everything jan it changes everything all right so you're finding all these kids pull off like show times in uh the squid kid subway no everyone's very respectful while sitting there it's okay okay uh right but like you know but there's and there's a lot of lore drops so in this one it's the off the hook girls pearl and marina who are kind of like your radio buddies but you're also in a text chain with them and Gramps is like the old mentor guy it was kind of like the person you talked to in the splatoon 1

campaign back then oh my god it's just like everyone's like oh there's a new like message chain you read these things it's sometimes you learn about like their roles in the war things like that and then other times it's like them trying to teach Gramps how to use how to use a question mark in the access emojis starting the chat anything like that so all that like flavor it's just really good and then all the levels here the splatoon 3 campaign is clearly inspired by this one because like the base splatoon 2 campaign all the levels are relatively straightforward like you know go do splatoon stuff

fight the enemies get to the end here every level has some kind of a gimmick so it's like you know break all the targets while you're on the grind rails or get through this level without stepping in any enemy ink or you know shoot this ball to the goal stuff like that and it's all really fun so yeah i'm like not i've been doing nothing but these platoon campaigns for basically almost like a week after the switch to came out it's what i've mostly been doing i still just been having a good time with that it might take me all the way up to bonanza at this point oh wow okay uh garrett we have a limited

amount of time with you sir have you been playing anything you want to chat about yeah sure uh sorry i gotta take off early i got some interviews to go do but uh yeah i've been playing a lot of you guys are you familiar with those m2 shot trigger games m2 it's a japanese developer they do a lot oh yeah yeah they take like these old shoot them ups like kind of like the ones that are considered like maybe the best by like the hardcore shmup fans sure and they make these new versions where they have like these panels on the side of like all this background data you're not supposed to see um and they're

pretty amazing like they'll break down the games like they'll take a map and break it up into like seven sections that you just like you can play that one section just so you can master it over and over you know and so that when you play the whole game like you can uh you know know what you're doing and i've been doing like just sort of bouncing between like seven of those for the last week or two which is really bad because i can't keep any of them apart at this point like it's they're all one massive game in in my head you know does one stand out do you have a favorite among them uh ketsui something

death to me i don't i don't know if it's a death time to me if they combine death with destiny that's great death tiny and i don't know if it's pronounced death tiny or death tiny i hope it's death to me um definitely for definitive edition yeah that one's pretty great and battle grega which i think typically gets called like the best shmup i like the shmup i guess i've heard of that that one people always do bring that up as like a favorite i i've been dipping my toes in the shmup uh world a little bit so i still got like you know i'm still like i gotta play our type like that's how no that's

like where i'm starting at here i'm like learning what a caravan mode is and things like that but it's like this whole it's you know it's so it's a big part of gaming yet there's a separateness to it uh it kind of stands on its own it's like pinball right it's it's kind of like pinball and hey we cover both at endless mode along with uh theme parks too big theme park guy um you looked excited about that there i love theme parks have you been to epic universe yet oh yeah yeah i went there uh back uh in may it's pretty amazing have you been yes yes uh i've been there a couple times now i just just

told him you got to go to the preview i went in march i went in march uh oh yeah but uh yeah yeah i was there in april and may too yeah oh well march is earlier than me uh it's not a competition but he's our guest it's great i was just at the um test track uh the new test track previews a couple of a weekend ago i was not the person who crashed into that door so i'm okay good i'm doing great how is the new test track what do you think i think it's great i think it's a big improvement over test track two i call it chill track it's got surprisingly chill vibes going through it yeah wait what how

it's just soothing like it's like ah like you know it's like palm trees there's like um there's just like nice people talking to you on the radio there are there's not palm trees but as long as there's pines you're like going through like a like a national park or like a redwood forest or something right kind of feels like yeah yeah uh and there's like some good effects and yeah i just like it yeah i just realized how broke my brain was here because i was thinking i was about to ask you like oh was that the new ride that you were on with cody roads Rhodes.

And then I realized that was a fucking Photoshop that someone made of you on the ride.

The one where you were really scared?

Was that Test Track?

No, that's the Guardians of the Galaxy one.

Oh, I thought you were talking about Galaxy.

I never did a ride.

Someone photoshopped you in a ride with Cody Rhodes, Mike, and Dan thought it was real for a second.

That's funny. Do you like that Guardians of the Galaxy cosmic rewind?

I'm a bit of a wimp, and I finally tried it.

It's amazing. No, it is.

I love it, man. Okay, so that ride, if you don't know, it has It has six different songs that are randomly generated, and it doesn't change the way it moves or its speed, but it feels like it's moving.

Recontextualized. Yeah, recontextualizes the experience of the ride to make it feel like you're in rhythm with the songs.

Have you gotten all the six songs yet?

Oh, I only ever did it one time, and that was enough for me.

I'm a coward. He says he'll never do it again.

Really? It's too much for me.

I get a little discombobulated after it, too.

i gotta like hang out for like 10 minutes or so before i do something else well i gotta hang out for like another 10 years and then maybe i'll maybe i'll get some bravery again did you bring some xanax with me you can put me on there did you pre -game some dramamine before you hopped on oh i dramamine the shit out of it absolutely dramamine to the eyeballs yeah i always got that with me because i always i i uh i always brag about how well i do in airplanes but that's because i use performance enhancers dramamine so i just sleep during them right bragging about their performance in airplanes.

I picked him up in the airport once in Minneapolis here and he bragged about how good he was.

I know. I was like, slept the whole time.

I do brag about it.

I was like, 5 -hour flight.

It was like instant transportation for me.

I was fucking Goku on that shit.

Bad Boy Games Media, the good boy of consumer aviation.

I think he said that as a response to me talking about how I have panic attacks on flights and I was really struggling at the time.

He's like, I'm perfect.

I do so good on flights.

He had i was trying to help i was i'm the one who told you maybe if you stopped having 15 beers before the flight it just took the xanax your doctor gave you you'd be better off turns out that's uh you don't have to pee as much and it works just as well yeah yeah yeah it turns out wow wow wow garrett i'm trying to remember there's a shooter game that i played for the first time that's like it's kind of like a it's a really popular series but it's um got like a weird long name that That probably doesn't narrow it down much. Basically, everyone except our type, maybe.

Gradius. Yeah. Don't stop saying it like that.

Yeah. All your base art belong to us.

Yes, it was zero -wing, Mike.

Thank you. Yeah. It was Dota and Pachi.

Thank you, Merlin and Chad.

Yes. Dota and Pachi.

I tried that. I had a Colorado night the other night.

This was a couple months ago, and I tried that for the first time.

It rules. Yeah. What was the gimmick of that one?

one it just seemed like it has like really good bullet hell stuff i mean that is like one of the big bullet hell ones which is sort of like very different from what shooters in the 80s were like they hadn't really gotten to like you know completely covering the screen with bullets that one it's kind of just it's surprisingly kind of slow the way you move through the patterns of bullets it's more just about like seeing the pattern and like very minutely like using the d -pad or whatever you're using to sort of get out of the way it's a lot of it is memory for for those games a lot of most shmups

is memory to be honest but um i yeah i think the thing with that game was um it just feels like the the developer is like here we're gonna throw all our tools at you and we're gonna provide a path for you to get on the wavelength with us and feel like you are a part of the action a part of what we're doing here and kind of getting on that wavelength was super satisfying so it's hard to maintain because you're right like i there was things where it's like oh if i didn't have this memorized i'm just simply not going to be able to to do it there's moments there where you can sort of just play the jazz

along with them and it's like you know the the bullets they don't fire in the bullet heaven uh and that was super cool so i'm gonna play more dotom pot it's a good one and it's all like anime girls but also bees like there's like a like a bumblebee or like hornet or something it's a it's a good it's a cool game it's a good one uh garrett because of time uh i'm going to spare you for me talking about anime horse ladies okay but but one more time for the folks I gotta hard out to guys one more time tell folks about endless mode y 'all launched last week please tell the folks at home where they can find

you where they can find more about endless mode yeah cool endless mode bow .com on the internet and uh you know like i said all kinds of video games pinball anime theme park coverage tabletop board games all kinds of playful things that people like to do for fun um and uh yeah i you can find me on blue sky that's like the only social media i'm really on right now garrett martin two r's two t's so um uh thanks for having me it's been fun uh garrett i i have one more question for you okay uh we we have another pinball aficionado on the website what is like the top three pinball machines currently

for you currently um i mean okay godzilla is the best of the modern sterns that's i don't know maybe three or four years old now uh i was at a show in atlanta a couple weeks ago where they had the new harry potter and that is blowing people's minds i am no way a potter guy like it's a little annoying as someone who doesn't care about potter to see like epic universe and this pinball machine like amazing works of art built around something that i kind of actively dislike but um yeah so people love the new harry potter pin and personally i love a lot of the older ones i've got a cyclone in my uh

my house play cyclone all the time that's like a late 80s like kind of a carnival like uh amusement park themed one it's got have you played the new jaws one because i like that a lot the new jaws is is great too yeah start has been doing some really good stuff the new jaws is great the new godzilla is great they just put out a king kong a couple months ago and that's really good um i haven't played the dungeons and dragons they put dungeons and dragons one out earlier this year and it's i know a lot of pinball guys don't like it but a lot of pinball guys dislike a lot of things um what no way

not like the theme park fandom am i right yeah um but uh so yeah uh jaws godzilla if you see a potter give it a shot okay yeah uh garrett one more one more sure is there any hot pinball lingo we can drop on someone that loves pinball like insider info damn that's a good question i i really have to think about it i feel like i'm being put on the spot a little bit here um but uh jan yeah i'm sorry i'm sorry we'll we'll we'll circle i got it we'll just we'll talk about the reverse flippers and then he'll know i will tell you we almost called endless mode playfield we almost gave it a pinball name

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Boys, I'm a little glad that Garrett had a hard out Because I didn't want to embarrass myself And get worked up In front of a person that I'm just meeting For the first time Don't worry, we'll judge you very harshly as well Yeah Okay, so You know, moving is difficult and everything And, like, I haven't unboxed my PS5 yet So I haven't gone back to Death Stranding much But I've still been playing games And the game that has been dominating my time Unfortunately Is Uma Musume Pretty Derby this folks you may have seen on the internet this is the the horse girl game um it is a gotcha game um so it's

not a dating sim and it's can you describe a horse girl uh it is an anime lady with horse -like ears and what i am assuming is a tail they don't turn more into horses right right?

No. When they go around and they go race, they're not turning into horses and it's a horse race.

It's just girls running around a horse track.

Horse girls running around a track.

Jen, what percent of this is intended to be sexual?

Well, I don't find any.

Dealer's choice, baby.

Sure. You know, I'm looking at the horse girls and I'm like, none of this is appealing to me this is just stuff this is just fun times I'm looking at them too I see gold ship I see vodka ship gold ship is top tier horse for me I wanted to like not go with gold ship because gold ship was very popular amongst everyone playing umamusume right now I'm like you know what let's give gold ship a try and gold ship has been consistently winning me these races uh okay the flow of this game is there's several flows to this game actually but there is a career mode where you can level up your trainee and your

trainee is the horse girl you are training up with you're developing a platonic relationship a professional relationship here where you uh have a set amount of turns before a race and in these turns you're choosing to either rest up to preserve of energy do some recreation to improve your horse girls mood uh uh embarking on smaller mini races to level up and gain more fans and then uh the main thing you're doing is you're choosing different stats to train so speed stamina power guts and wit i don't know what wit has to do with racing but it's there and you uh pick a trainee but you also have a series

of six support cards which are your friends so when you're doing training your friends will pop up occasionally and give you little stat bonuses as well I um I have a question uh is it true that all these horse girls are in fact based off of real life nah famous horses from the Japan racing scene that very well may be true I am not so there was actually a special week who was a shoot horse and this anime girl called special week is a tribute to the real special week this chat is saying this is correct well there we go it's perfect I have developed a fondness for special week as well on top of gold

ship so maybe I will go explore that I'm going to find the actual gold ship now so the funny thing is there is an obscene amount of dialogue in this right and like there are like light choices damn it was sounding really for me until now here's this you have an option to skip all of that and then you can continue on doing training and races this game is actually going to destroy me because the races you could skip right when you finally get down to like to get back to the just staring at horse girls what do we do no no to get get to like the light gameplay where you're choosing like stats to train up

in every game and relationships it's like general manager mode of WWE 2k it is pretty much that but with horse girls yeah gold chip was a real horse a Japanese thoroughbred that right began a racing career in July 2011 all right 2011 fairly recently but I have never like whenever I've gone to Vegas or I've passed by like casinos or whatever I've have never understood bedding on horses right I've never understood the excitement of that I've never understood the excitement like even NASCAR F1 I get right because that's like super fast cars but I will skip all the dialogue I'll skip through all the career

stuff all the back story that's going on with each individual horse girl I don't care that we're on summer vacation and we're I don't care that they're building a new facility here I don't care about the luchador horse girls like cooking journey or whatever yes grub is there breeding there's a lot of reading if you choose no no it's a reading oh is there no this is this is there's nothing scandalous happening here no i'm talking about horse breeding like you gotta like you know or pokemon breeding You're trying to make the best horse girl These are horse girls with their own personalities and their

own feelings Life finds a way Anyway I have never skipped a race I've never even fast forwarded a race because I will wait because this is some of the most thrilling action I have seen in legitimately years I will get so upset set because uh like oh no it's raining today and we're racing on dirt gold ship isn't acclimated to running on dirt but we've we've made enough friends that's the plot of cars one this i i the whole time i'm thinking this is pretty much just cars um yeah but yeah you level level up Gold Ship enough that she's better at running on dirt she has enough power and then she has the rainy

days ability and she's made enough friends that as she's racing along her friendship and her skills proc that she just starts bolting down the track and she goes from 18th place to first place it's great because also at the same time there are Japanese commentators yelling the whole time all the races going oh hell yeah this is so great it's so amazing I love this game too much I have not spent a single dime I know there are folks with their phones ready to do a wellness check scout it's ok dad's fine um but it has been a fantastic time waster and time melter because I'm just so invested in the journey

go in for the kill on Dan now tell him that you stopped playing Destroying 2 so you can play more of the horse racing game I did stop playing Death Stranding 2 because so I could play more of the horse game See I feel like I'm just going into 2025 is just gonna be the the year of the degenerate I'm gonna grow mullet gonna just over this horse game.

It's a day for Mikey's, but it's a year for Jan's do you keep the horse girls in stables or do they get their own homes they get their own homes what are you talking about grubs are they girls like do you own them do you own girls no you it's like a team and they decide to join your team and everything you don't have to put anyone down No, no, you don't have to put anyone down.

Should we do a spin right now?

Let's do a spin right now I'm fielding any more questions Dan you look perplexed I'm glad everyone's got hobbies Okay, I'm buttoning through oh also when you win a big race The horse girls put on like a J -pop kpop style concert Yeah of course Oh I just got my login bonus I got a bunch of carrots today Literal carrots on sticks No it's gold carrots No one's going to turn into glue not on my watch Okay hold on This is the luchador Kind of yeah This is the luchador horse girl You can see that right Yeah kind of We can kind of see that yeah but it's definitely it's definitely 95 girl and five percent

horse is even generous yeah okay we're gonna i'm gonna do this okay hold on oh okay that's not working yeah uh sean don't text me while the show is going on he's so he's so he's okay all right all right uh also with i i'm a big fan of like this gotcha where they just give you an obscene amount of rolls from the tippy top so you don't have to spend money as long as you are like an early investor look at them oh it's all silvers okay we got one gold I mean look people have been Hara Urara wow they have done a lot of research to make these gacha reveals exciting nice nature god I'm just not getting

okay another Bakushin I can't read that one what's Bakushin what's Bakushin with you oh we gotta go oh okay we got vodka oh vodka another nice nature okay alright yes yes okay alright that was a good roll that was a good roll it was we got two two stars oh we got two two stars Dan is so so upset dan do you feel like you're guilty by association or are you gonna call the cops i now think a SWAT team is about to arrive yeah now dan what if these horse girls were like i don't know on like a magic not magic a technical ship to welcome you after each journey that you took and then like i don't know there

was like a doll man there as well i don't i don't trust the the The Peku lady.

The VTuber. I'm wary.

I'm wary of the VTubers and the anime girls and things.

I didn't get her to five stars.

Is Lightning McQueen based off of a horse or a racer?

Lightning McQueen, I'm sure.

Probably Steve McQueen, right?

That's a reference to a bunch of different stuff.

Because there's a McQueen, Majuro McQueen in this, and I just got so jazzed that I used my special voucher to get her.

um also there's both named after steve mcqueen yeah there's a another horse girl i forget her first name or her surname but uh the the main part of her name is top gun and that just is cool as hell i like that if i if i had mr beast money i would create the reichert prison and i put dan and paul reichert in there and i would only let the first one to like reach a certain threshold of gotcha in the horse girl game would get let out and the other one would have to stay in there for like 60 days he would be much more upset than me oh yeah yeah and you would be very upset so it's like yeah through

playing a lot of video games and stuff i've had to be adjacent to anime so much more than him so i do feel like my my defenses are up more than his i think he would freak out at everything i think he would be psychically damaged yes right rikers came up with him i think he said like uh do the japanese put a bunch of weird sex stuff in all their games because they love that animotion stuff right oh yeah not wrong yeah yeah wait wait till you learn how much porn the united states produces oh yeah well you know he's aware of that uh folks it's like when it's like when people had to explain to jim

ross that people found gail kim attractive oh they make porno just like that what what um folks we're i'm gonna subject these three gentlemen to the jantucky derby this thursday right before the voicemail dump truck i'm going to share the excitement uh i i feel like there is a high likelihood after that stream at least one of them will be interested in horse girls and i'm not going to tell you who which one i think it is yeah look i know you think it's me it won't be no no no no it's gonna be damn speaking about very anime a game that is super duper very anime is guitar man yeah this is my great stream

guys i was so much fun this was my uh delight club game got a week off after being a good boy who beat rascal ps2 rhythm game that i never beat turns Turns out, from the people who would eventually make elite beat agents.

One of the horse girls called me a good boy.

Is that anything? Yeah!

Not sexual, for sure.

This is a sex thing.

Sorry, Mickey, go ahead.

Guitar man's not about sex. No, there's a romantic interest, but it's very sweet.

Actually, maybe my favorite song was when you were just playing this romantic, acoustic guitar lullaby at a campfire.

I think that's my favorite song.

She's got a health bar for her love, and she's scooting closer as you're doing guitar stuff.

The game is so It's so fucking great.

It's very Parappa in that it's like each song is kind of a segment.

What's wrong? Parappa?

Don't worry about it.

Parappa the Rapper.

Parappa. Yeah, that's what you said.

Parappa the Rapper.

That isn't right. You're correct.

I did say that wrong.

Yeah, it's like Parappa the...

It sounds weird when I say Parappa the Rapper.

It's like that. It's kind of a...

Parappa the Rapper.

There's like a story, and each song is like a story beat.

Also going on there.

It's also zany and kind of wacky just like that stuff is.

But the actual like rhythm mechanics of it, of pushing these buttons with the directions and kind of wiggling the analog stick so you're always facing the right way.

It just works really well.

It's familiar yet unique.

But it is so much just about that style and that goofiness.

Jan, that's enough with the horse girls.

Okay, okay, okay. Put it down.

Put it down or else I'll put them down.

Oh, I'm going to put this on Steam.

I can just get it on my phone or I'm gonna download oh my god I'm a strong man but uh it was great the stream was fun too because Kayla had costumes ready for each song fucking of course she did that was incredible she looked like the the buffalo people from Flintstones at one point I yes I thought the exact same thing right exactly the order of the water buffalo that's by the way I was watching her play she was streamin Death Stranding 2 last last night and she was trying to curate a playlist on sam's in -game music uh player and it she kept coming across all these like somber wood kids songs

and stuff being like this isn't the vibe i want i like i need more hype i want more hype this is death stranding through this like introspective meditative like she's like this isn't hype enough yeah wood kid's not working for her oh do they have that wood kid song i like from the the assassin's creed revelations trailer Iron I don't think they would have that in another game Mike No one else remembers that song Was in that trailer but me it's okay But yeah Guitar Man was great Liked it a lot I don't know if Hidden Gems is the word I think a lot of people know about it But it's a game that I should have played

earlier It's straight up my alley Another argument for why the PS2 May be one of the best consoles Because it had Guitar Man on it It had a lot of weird stuff It had so many games yes yes and yeah again weird shit and like major triple a awesome like it was just i think it's best console of all time i mean yeah that generation clearly the best generation like at least for 3d games yeah yeah is there any other um rhythm games of that era that may may have been gone under a match hated mad maestro yeah check out yeah what's kind of the other i mean there's obviously like frequency amplitude that wasn't

what is guitar man lives is it just guitar man again that was the psv version right oh yeah because i remember i was i was like oh i got this guitar man's kind of a rare valuable game back then and then the psv one came out and it like plummeted in value damn it yeah it'd be like that that's what's gonna happen to my cube of war once they put that on nso i know it what's good it's gonna happen to my chibi robo which was also pretty expensive and that is coming to nso i am very excited about playing chibi robo uh i've never played it.

It's first party Nintendo.

It's a tiny little robot guy in a big world.

Everything about this screams a game I would be very very into.

I love the idea of having to plug yourself into the wall.

I remember thinking that was always really cool.

Yes, I'm going to love Chibi -Robo.

I'm calling it now.

It was one of those games that I demanded to play at my friend's house that had a GameCube because I didn't have one.

God, Chibi -Robo. Also, what a great name for a game.

Moving along to other games, Mike last night on Mega Man you played Fantasy Life I The Girl Who Stole Time Yeah Is it a sex thing?

No this one's not This is just Does it sound like a sex thing?

His mom Made him think that Final Fantasy was a sex thing Because it had fantasy in the title Now he's doing the same thing to himself Just the word fantasy That's why I got shit for Wonder In Final Fantasy 7 what about the mariah carey what about the mariah carey odb yeah that's great that's great but i had to wait till college to get into that no this is um this is like more animal crossing or um like harvest moon adjacent kind of thing my sims i bet it's like what in here a little bit but the choice is that they do add more rpg stuff to it so like the whole gimmick is that you have to pick

a life you can have multiple lives and this is basically jobs or classes so uh you can you know become a wizard or a paladin like a fighter and there's kind of a you know leveling track for that but you also become a fisherman or a woodcutter or a blacksmith those have their own leveling tracks and then you know there's kind of at least early on it's like uh it's a bit of that tom nook thing like well i need 10 000 gold or whatever it's called in this game i can get that uh any any way it takes, by completing quests with these jobs, by just collecting items and selling it, that sort of thing.

But you know, it's just one of those really kind of cozy, good vibe kind of games.

It has that diorama look to it, sort of like Animal Crossing, but even kind of like the Link's Awakening remake.

Link's Awakening. Yeah.

You know, so it's just all sort of cute and chill.

A lot of people are getting into this, and apparently the game opens up in a pretty insane way.

It just keeps getting bigger, and there's more and more Like right now, I'm still getting my hand held quite a bit, which makes sense.

I only played for a couple of hours.

But even I was beginning to see how it can open up and become something that is just very easy to lose yourself in.

Very good kind of podcast game or something like that.

It's got really good quality of life features where it's just like it's going to tell you where to go get the stuff.

It's going to make it easy to get around.

It's just like very friendly to the player.

And it's like, hey, we know what the good stuff is here.

we're going to get you back to that really quick and then I'm like skipping the cutscenes because they're not doing anything for me really and that works because as soon as the cutscene ends if it told me something important there will be a whole text box about here's what you should have learned from that or here's the thing you actually should take away and so I am kind of just doing that and getting a good idea of how to play the game and I'm playing as an angler right now I think Mike that was the next job you took it's just a fishing one it's fun because there's a fishing mini game and it's

familiar but has some of its own stuff going on and it's very satisfying and there's like you know so there's people all around the town with text boxes if you could take a quest from them and if they're white basically it just means you can you have a job that applies to the quest they're asking for if it's blue i think it doesn't apply to you so you probably shouldn't take those yet and so it's like you can go do these quests and make earn money that way or you could just go fishing and then sell fish to the restaurant and stuff like that so it's kind of got it's right it's like giving giving

you those options too is like sometimes i just want to brute force it and do my own thing and feel like i'm making my own choices the game does that so then when i get sick of that i go like all right i'll go get back on the treadmill of doing the quest that they want me to do and earn money that way and then you get big payouts and so it just has this nice back and forth to it and this is early on still even like early on if you are like a mage and you want to go fishing you don't like go to a menu and become a fisherman you just go up to the fishing spot and push it to go fishing it automatically

changes you into the angler so and then from there if you bring out your weapon to start fighting you immediately change back to your combat class so all that stuff is very snappy okay okay uh speaking about mega man mike just real quick i want to hear about dune awakening that you played on wega man that's true i did play that last week uh and i liked that a lot another game that i think a lot of people are talking about i play a lot of mmos but not it's another survival kind um so you know there's a lot of onboarding and whatnot with that this is is is it closer to like an uh a proper mmo or something

more like a valheim type of deal can i replay i think i think it's closer to a valheim i mean again i haven't played much of these what it reminded me of was when i played my preview of grounded 2 at uh the xbox's summer game fest thing right you know okay like it's you know you're collecting resources and then And it's like, okay, now build your shelter.

Now inside your shelter, build this thing so that you can build that thing.

Go back out in the world so you can collect more resources.

That was very much the driving loop of everything.

But then it has all that good Dune flavor.

I think a lot of people are really into right now.

Even the traversal is fun because you have a grappling hook and you have Breath of the Wild's kind of climbing, right?

So you can climb on any surface until your stamina runs out.

And that's just, I don't know, that's a very good traversal thing.

Turns out those other people knew what they were doing.

But, yeah, Christian actually jumped in and was kind of showing me around a lot.

So, it was kind of fun going where even just, like, the stuff to build my base was simple enough that I could see myself just having fun trying to get elaborate with that.

Like, you know, early on, I'm just like, okay, just give me something that works so I have a space to be in.

Because there is also the element of the sun and you do have to worry about your hydration and not being out in the sun too long.

uh one of the first things you build is like a blood converter so you can take blood from the people you kill and store them in blood sacks and take them back there and put them in this thing and then it turns it into water uh and eventually too i was able to um to equip the thing where uh it's like the pee diaper where i pee into the diaper and then it turns into water and i can drink it the still suit yeah whatever it's called i like the pee diaper personally i think that's a a good name but you know you could drink your pee great uh yeah i was gonna ask like how deep into the dune lore does

it get from which you played oh i'm not so sure it's an alternate universe so it's like not directly tied to the events of movies like what if this didn't happen blah blah blah and you know i'm not super deep in the dune stuff uh i have nothing against it i think it's good i just didn't uh devote the time to it but you know i think if you like dune you are going going to appreciate all the do -ness of it it is mostly the visual style of the movie right that's what they're trying to the current movies i think that's clearly what they're tapping into here yeah yeah okay sorry sorry david lynch fans

uh and is there a giant bomb clan yeah i think christian started it right so christian did start a giant bomb clan uh let me see if i can find because because these things, it's all nonsense words in this game.

It's North America, House of Fiqh, F -I -Q -H, and then Siech al -Rab, S -I -E -T -C -H, space A -L -R -A -A -B.

So that's the clan for Giant Bomb.

Lisan al -Ghaib, for sure.

Yeah, easy. I'm very curious.

I'm not normally pulled into these types of games too, Mike, but I'm not even that big of a fan of Dune but just watching you play this it just kind of had it's hooks in me for some reason did you ride a worm?

I did not ride a worm yet Christian was on some kind of motorbike thing just doing laps around me while I was running around like an idiot the ornithopter or what?

nah I don't know I was on the ground he wasn't flying there was some of that worm stuff too don't walk out in the open for too long I didn't attract any worms myself but I was being careful about it this is a parentheses positive comment and this is a compliment actually but i feel like christian is our dunk in idaho oh yeah yeah he's died many times come back it's crazy yeah yeah uh before we get to the news jeff grubb you have something gaming related you have the steam deck in windows handheld woes my steam deck's broken and i hate windows handhelds so my steam deck died and i didn't realize

the battery was dead i thought it was charged so i tried to turn it on and then it like went into the bios and i'm like oh i'll just reset and i think during that process of like trying to boot in from the bios the battery just went kaput and so i think the bios is corrupted and i've done a ton of stuff to try to fix it and nothing's working um so i might have to i'm gonna have to call valve i guess and and maybe rma it uh or whatever and that's i hate doing that um but whatever i i really want my steam deck uh because i was one of them to play tony hawk on it uh but but I'm like, oh, I have these

Windows devices and I'm like, an even lower point with these Windows devices from this last week where the girls want to play a lot of Minecraft and it just worked out better to have the Windows devices because of all the shit they were doing and like this, you know, because they would try to like spawn a million cats and it was causing problems even on the Switch 2 so it was like, hey, this is running like shit.

Let's use these Windows devices.

They have a little bit more power and Windows just is still so terrible.

If If Minecraft goes into like sleep mode on the Windows device and I bring it back up, it just won't recognize the controller.

So I just have to quit the game and restart it.

And I'm like trying to teach the girls how to do it.

But they're six and eight and it's Windows and they haven't used that a ton.

Are they more Linux?

Yeah, they're much more into Linux.

Yeah, actually, they're running Unix.

I recognize this. It's a Unix system.

They're like the girl from Jurassic Park.

Exactly. And it's like, that's just like the start of it.

But that's really annoying.

You know, the girl will finish playing.

at night in bed uh in the hotel room when we're all we're all sleeping there and she plugs in she takes care of it sets it off on the table and it's just blasting these led lights to let you know it's charging it's blasting right in my wife's face and i'm just like jesus christ i gotta go find these things put it in hibernate which is not an option that is that defaults to you have to go in the power options and enable hibernate versus sleep and then that does some extra stuff that makes it work better uh but you have to go to a different menu to make that an an option like when you're trying

to shut things down um having to update these things everything's in a different place depending on each device but even like within the device it's like okay i gotta update it in my asus bullshit and i gotta find the amd app and i gotta upload update that over here it is still such a pain in the ass to use and then it still does the thing where i will try to enter password or something and about one out of every 15 times which is enough to be very annoying but not so much that you can be like, well, it always does this.

The keyboard just won't pop up.

Yes. And then I have to like, is there like a hot key or something that can make it pop up?

I have to go like to the windows, like X accessibility options and bring up the windows accessibility touch screen keyboard. And it's all very frustrating.

So I'm just like, was ready to throw these things out of the fucking car, uh, by the end of the week, especially cause it's like the girls were getting very into Minecraft when we were having like rainy days or whatever.

yeah and so it was like all day one day of me just fixing problem after problem after problem i i'm just kind of sick of these things i liked my wind i liked my uh raw galli quite a bit but you know kind of as soon as i have a switch to which is basically just as powerful but in isn't doing all the window stuff and has you know needs me to open up four different apps to completely update the system and things like that it's like i'll use this now yep that's definitely where that's a big part of it too mike where i'm just like i've had the switch to now and i just want to to be using that thing

because they just got to figure it out it just works uh yeah so i'm going to try to play most games on there and get this goddamn steam deck fixed up uh god that's frustrating if anyone has any ideas about how to fix a bios let me know i would really appreciate it but yep that's where i'm at other than that just uh uh looking to still play a bunch of switch to over here yeah yeah uh did y 'all i don't know if you know this donkey kong bonanza comes out next week.

But it's in nine days?

You're all looking forward to it.

I have a colonoscopy before that, so I can't...

I have to think about that first. You play it during?

You can have a bonanza of your own.

There was a guy that told me he was playing Switch during his vasectomy.

Can he not do it for the other side?

So colonoscopy is very different from a vasectomy.

I will be put under.

I will be not conscious.

I would like to be put under for both.

Yeah. I agree. Put me under her for anything uh yeah but honestly it's the operation is fine it's the day before where i'm not allowed to eat anything and have to take the evacuation pills all day that's kind of miserable that's the rough day evacuation pills that's a good title of a podcast there uh jeff grubb the news this is a news with jeff grubb wow mike menton he did it last week and it was great You did a good job, Mike.

Thank you. I helped.

You did, actually. Yeah, I liked that.

Yeah, it was fun. That's right.

My dog came. I had to go get my dog.

Mm -hmm. Dan read the news.

Since then, that day where that was, like, foretold in a bunch of reporting that Microsoft was going to cut a bunch of jobs, it happened on last Wednesday.

And it's, like, 9 ,000, 9 ,100 people across Microsoft. A lot in the gaming division, a lot in Xbox.

box um the reporting says that this is them trying to reallocate money so cut jobs in xbox to put more money into you guessed it ai um because that's growing and xbox isn't it's kind of that simple although you know ai is not necessarily growing in terms of how much money it's making but they see a chance for it to grow um this says there's i got a list of things that happen like half the xbox research team laid off what does that mean probably that they're just not that interested in like that this is probably probably what led to them not doing their own xbox handheld is they're like well we're

not investing in that all that much anymore that sort of thing uh the head of xbox family and child safety was laid off uh the devs responsible for warcraft rumble were let go xbox canceled perfect dark and closed the initiative that one one was wild that's crazy um aren't you embarrassed i mean i guess like my gosh like i'm like i'm embarrassed for you after talking that thing up as quadruple a and uh promoting it and showing it off and like making us get all excited for it to just cancel and close the studio it's pathetic it's pathetic i had to wreck my brain for when i when i saw the headlines

pop up about perfect dark getting canceled I didn't know if that was a different perfect dark project or like the perfect dark that we've been seeing for what feels like decades now nope the one from the initiative the studio they started like that was going to be their new big a California studio that you know was going to be able to take people that worked at Naughty Dog and worked at uh Riot and all these things and we're going to make this awesome thing and it's you know I heard a year a year or so ago there was a rough spot and there was a lot of pushback being like no it's not mad at you

and like yeah you were right again uh but geez and it's uh it like okay i i kind of bought into i'm like all right yeah they're gonna show the game off it must be in a better situation now we're like of course turns out that what they did show off was mostly smoke and mirrors i i know there was uh people who pushed back against that so no that was really really it and i'm sure there was real parts to that trailer but a lot of that stuff was just not there's not much there that was real um either way mikey said it's embarrassing uh raven was affected by these layoffs uh you know one of the call

of duty sports studios we're gonna call of duty we're gonna lay them off too my god that's that's it though right it's like you're gonna do the same amount in terms of like call of duty we're gonna do less of stuff like perfect dark and all these other investments you're gonna do the same amount of call of duty but with less now we're gonna save money that way and we're because that's how we're going to see the growth is we're going to use fewer people and then ai ai to make more call of duty and that's the plan going forward and it's just oh i can't think of a more depressing end here for what for what xbox

has turned into oh the uh i don't know like just the the phrase ai call of duty has triggered me in a horrifying way it's i mean that's going to be the one where they really try to figure out how to make it work no they're gonna hammer that home and like call of duty mobile and then carry that out onto consoles oh yeah yes exactly that's a good a good point um longtime rare employee greg miles uh who's been there for around 35 years is leaving the company he you know was the director on banjo he's the director on sea of thieves and he's no longer there uh turn 10 is effectively done yeah yeah

ever wild is canceled uh microsoft canceled a zeni max online destiny like that phil spencer had to be pulled away from because he was he loved it so much that doesn't matter shut up rumors that Phil Spencer is leaving.

Xbox says, no, he's not.

I've heard that he will be in not like imminently, but, you know, kind of like he's looking to get that, get out of there.

He's been grooming Sarah Bond for that job for years.

So I think it's fair to say, to like look at it and be like, that's what it looks like.

Sounds like within the next year or two that that probably will happen.

People are rightly, rightfully laying blame at his feet.

Although, you know, Matt Booty, my understanding is a lot of this goes back to matt booty just not really understanding how to lead a bunch of these studios and kind of letting them fend for themselves and with the idea of go make what you want to make and then when they come back having made what they want to made being like oh this is not what we wanted you to make cool sounds infuriating um yeah uh tons of other announced unannounced projects were canceled or affected in one way or another uh i i just hurts keep people keep telling me contract studios basically ever like so many contract studios

around the world have lost so much of the money that they had coming in because of this because microsoft has just kind of cut all of that work off um so it's it goes deeper than it even you can even tell by the first oh 9100 people lost their jobs it's probably going to be a lot more than that for example at john romero's studio uh romero games i guess john and brenda Romero's studio.

They have had to furlough or lay off almost all of their staff.

There is still some staff left, but they had a game they were making with Microsoft without 100 people were working on those 100 people no longer work there, at least for the moment, while John Romero and Brenda Romero are trying to talk to other publishers to get new funding.

But it's like those people that lost their jobs would not be counted in that 9100.

So it's a much bigger cut than we're even even seen in the headlines um you know question is what the fuck happens with xbox next what do we care happens i mean i don't know yeah it's just it just seems like such a big retreat from games and they're still talking about that next xbox and things like that and it's just it's just so hard to see the future because how does that next xbox do anything like what what is the pitch on that that can possibly make it do better than an xbox series x we know it's not going to have have exclusives right they're clearly going that way at certain points they

just commit to being a third -party publisher now so i can't imagine anybody cares about that console meanwhile they just kind of have nothing to contribute to this industry except for their money i think that's what you said jeff and they're pulling back on that so they can invest in ai instead you know there's a large number of people out there who play games who don't know that this is happening others people are going to be quick to forgive i do think about blizzard and how so many people were like i'm done with blizzard forever after all that stuff came out and it's like ah you give that a year

and they make a good game and people are suddenly very quick to forgive so i don't know maybe xbox is still going to somehow bounce back from this or re -divert but i kind of just i'm i'm sort of over it right now i don't like i don't even like thinking about them uh because they They just spent all these years acquiring studios and spending all this money just to, you know, retreat on a dime, especially when it's for the nightmare that is AI.

Yeah, that that, you know, the AI train there is all just about that is the next big buzzword for investors.

And so they are willing to, like, give you a lot of rope there.

But I think they're at the end of the rope.

that's why this is what's what's happening before it was like we'll just continue to get you know uh fresh money from people who are very excited about this or uh we can invest some of this other cash but it's like now if you start taking cash from uh i don't know what is microsoft live 365 whatever the fuck they call it now microsoft office you take money from there it's like well that's the enterprise stuff we want that growing in its own way and that should be growing because of ai it's like well we don't really want to justify that uh but if you want to to start cutting from stuff that's not growing

we could still say that's okay and that's we're in that phase the next phase is okay ai's got to start making money and i just don't think that is about to click into place um and so things could get a lot worse for a bunch of different aspects of the of all kinds of different industries but the way it affects gaming could get could get a lot worse as these companies realize ai is not going to suddenly be printing money for them the way they thought it was microsoft doesn't need xbox they uh if they have to they will just cut it all they absolutely will yep uh and then you know it's gonna leave

a lot more people just kind of kind of out in the dark there uh it'll be kind of a horrifying terrifying thing there could be a world pretty easily where all their efforts really are just call of duty king maybe blizzard and just about everything else i mean it won't be a real rough shape we're in rough shape right now but like i bet even they're like okay we gotta like not close a rare we have to not close a double fine like one of these beloved studios and then like who knows how hot the heat's gonna get then but i could see those days are coming yep you you have to imagine that the second call

of duty starts like dipping in numbers or plateauing which i think it has to some extent it's had ups and downs yeah right there has to be someone in that exec board thinking like well i guess it's It's time to cut Call of Duty.

Yeah, I just think they'll, like, they will cut everything else before they cut Call of Duty.

But, yeah, I mean, I think they will say time to spin off Xbox into its own thing separate from Microsoft and let it go fend for itself.

What does that look like?

Who the hell knows?

That's going to be weird. But, you know, like, are we going to get, you know, we did get this Tony Hawk's ProScare 3 plus 4 thing and that's Activision under Microsoft. But that seemed like a miracle.

And now I'm expecting even less of those kind of things to somehow happen here um people go ahead jeff yeah i was just gonna say the other aspect of this is uh hey look where how's game pass fit into all this and there's been a lot of talk back and forth people like this is happening because game pass and i would say it is happy because game pass is not growing the way that they expected it to uh so yeah if you want to say it's because of game pass that's completely fair um uh but then it's like okay the whole idea behind game pass was well you could get something at Tony Hawk's pro skater 3 plus

4 and maybe it doesn't do as well as one plus two did but it's another thing and game pass keeps people subscribed and that's great and and you want to every new subscriber that joins because every new game continues to grow the service doesn't seem like they're telling that story to themselves anymore so do we just get fewer of the stuff like fewer things like Tony Hawk's pro skater 3 plus 4 or Hi -Fi Rush something they already sort of abandoned yeah it sounds like we just get fewer fewer and fewer of these things so I you know we're back kind of where we've been for like for a couple years now

with these major publishers which is if they have a big game you like great but if you are looking for anything else like the next big idea the next small idea uh just a cool distraction it's not happening from these big publishers it is happening elsewhere it's so wild because like as a youth I loved the summer of arcade on xbla and it just seemed like there There's so many fresh ideas and like little indie games and just new cool things popping up every week.

And I just haven't seen that level of creativity coming out of Xbox in a while.

All right. You know, the Romero thing, there was a little bit of an update there.

He did go out there and say that several publishers have said they're interested.

one of the things he did point out though going back to microsoft was the day before the layoffs and the day before they were told that their funding was being cut off they had a meeting where with microsoft where none of this was mentioned that's fine um yeah and it's like oh boy that is uh that's rough even if the people that you know had that meeting didn't know it still implies that microsoft was not going to give them a heads up at all and let them just run into this brick wall uh seems very unfair um we talked about the tony hawk's pro skater 3 plus plus four soundtrack um i don't have a list

of what the 10 songs are but like they you know the one song that people are really complaining about is acdc's at tnt there's a few others um but i'm happy with the soundtrack overall i bet tnt is expensive yeah yeah yeah that's that's a tough one because it's like i think that was the like theme song of four and you know they got gorilla radio for two they got uh you know it was was goldfinger for one i forget what the like theme song superman superman okay i wanted to see with it and three is ace of spades so you got like the other big song so yeah that's a little yes uh but yeah oh i mean i

think they're at a point where it's like if they this is the way it has to work with the soundtracks for tony hawk i'm fine uh i guess whatever they do next i kind of hope they just do a tony hawks pro skater five and pretend the old one never happened and just make a new one a new soundtrack and that would be nice ghost Ghost of Yotay State of Play is set for July 10th.

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Sucker Punch Productions will host the previously announced Ghost of Yotay Focus State of Play on July 10th.

The broadcast will feature over 20 minutes of gameplay hosted by Sucker Punch Productions.

Game's out October 2nd.

You boys feeling pretty excited about Ghost of Yotay?

I liked the first Ghost a bit, but I didn't follow up with it the way a lot of people did.

It's weird. I played through that whole game and liked it.

There's not a lot of hype right now for me for the sequel.

I don't know why. I feel like I'm ready for it because I think I just played like that first big island of Sushima and I just kind of fell off it and so it's like well you know I've always kind of wanted to go back to it but now might as well just you know really commit to the new one is there just one island in that game there was like three or like zones or something there's other I thought there was another I like that multiplayer mode we checked out a couple months ago that was fun oh right yeah thought about that that was neat yeah I don't know I feel like I'm experiencing ninja fatigue Teague

sure sure yeah are ninjas the new zombies well oh wow who would win a fight ninjas or zombies pirates what if a crusader was in there too though I can't have cheeseburger I don't know it's like Mike say cheeseburger Mike say cheeseburger uh cheeseburger uh it used to be I don't it used to be kind of exciting when we got one of these sequels like they're going to improve so much and now it seems like they often just kind of get bigger but not necessarily better like you know horizon forbidden west which i don't think is a bad game at all but i do think it's just yeah we're gonna make horizon zero

dawn bigger yeah it's definitely bigger um or um you know the uh the that ninja theory game uh xbox just produced a little bit heavenly sword how about how blade two how blade two is that really what it's called i'm like that's not it it's not called you was so you was yeah send you a sacrifice right it's like Like, when the games get bigger, do they get better?

Even going back to, like, Last of Us Part II, I'm like, that's a bigger game, I guess.

I don't know if I like it any better, but just, like, the sequels used to always get better.

Speaking of Hellblade II, the game that sounds a lot like it, Helldivers II, is gonna be going to Xbox with cross -play.

August 26th, it'll hit the Microsoft device.

That game will do just fine on Xbox.

Not every game would make a lot of sense to port to Xbox, box like if you're playstation but that one is like yeah we might as well yeah first of all it's like from a studio that you don't necessarily own even though it's a playstation game they published it um still though this might be a dumb question but it's one that just popped into my brain why is it that like i feel like when you hear oh indiana jones is going to playstation people like have lost their minds about that but then like something like this i feel like i haven't seen the same oh well because i mean i think if if it was something

other than like one of these marquee like hellblade 2 is a game that or i'm sorry hell died she's i just did it hell davers 2 is a game that like the audience that plays that game they want everyone playing because it's a like massively multiplayer metagame where the more people who are playing the better so when like pc and playstation working together to take on all these different fronts on the war uh they're like hey yeah we're all in this together and we want the developers to let more people in so we can do even better so please bring it to xbox this game's a little bit of an anomaly so like

i see marino in the chat saying like well what if it was spider -man like that would they would they would piss their pants they would why lose i don't know single player like triple a blockbuster games i guess that are like the console uh mascot right who gives a shit yeah so for them it's it it is um i spent 500 on this console to feel special and these games make me feel special because only I can play them because I own the right console that's what it is it's very childish and there's no other way to describe it who cares and thankfully for Helldivers 2 the audience is like no we don't care this is actually

kind of awesome they've already done the thing where it's like okay great we won this one now bring it to Switch 2 so they're starting that campaign we'll see if that happens I would definitely get back into Hellblade or not god damn it I would definitely get into to uh hell divers I would do I would do that yeah fun you know what's good for that is uh instagram reels of hell divers 2 shit it's so hype it's so good like just look at a couple of those things there's like that game's so cinematic like when it's really going and like everything's happening all the all the um you're calling in all

those things from the sky and everything like all the enemy ships are flying in and you're using rocket launchers to take them down yeah we should play some more of that that's you know what game I think we should circle back to a little older but i any of the risk of rain games i think we should yeah i would do that yeah you know we do that old and new one because that's a 2d and a 3d game so it's like we kind of play both uh but i want to play more of that second one because it's a 3d one i didn't play a ton of it uh all right fans think nintendo accidentally revealed switch online's next wave

of n64 games basically back in may there was a uh something showing off n64 nso features the crt shaders And so when you go to the options menu, it puts a like fogged glass filter over your game selection, so you can focus on the options.

But you can still kind of barely see smudges of colors and shapes through that fogged glass effect.

And so people started being like looking at these things and be like, wait, what box art is that?

And they started comparing and contrasting, and they got to a point where like, well, that can literally only be Glover.

No other N64 cover looks like that That's gotta be Glover I watched that video where he was like going into Photoshop And putting like a mask over and being like Turning it on and off So there's four games Kind of for sure that have been Confirmed by, that are in this video Are they confirmed like definitely gonna come to N64 and NSO?

It's a possibility that they were just Testing these games and that none of them Will come but I'm hopeful So those games are Donkey Kong 64 Forsaken 64 for Glover and Super Smash Brothers and someone thinks the fifth one might be Scars, which is a anthropomorphic or anthropomorphic racing game.

It's actually pretty good.

Scars? I don't think I've ever actually played that yet.

It's an acronym. Yeah, it's Super Car Anomaly Racing.

Assault Racing or something.

Here's my one thing with this and why I'm skeptical.

Because for Seiken 64, is an M -rated game, so that would be on the separate N64 M -rated app.

So it would not be in this background.

Maybe they were testing it.

Maybe they were just testing it, for sure.

I mean, it's weird we don't have Donkey Kong 64 already.

I was kind of hoping they would do that in the lead -up to Bonanza so I could play that before Bonanza came out at this point.

What was the last N64 game to join?

Anyone remember? what's some more rare stuff Jeffworth's Gemini was not too long ago right Mike you were saying you were hoping it would happen I have a feeling when you do your 101 % run of DK64 you're gonna be taken back I got shoot hardware for that we got a cartridge for that banana yellow I know we keep teasing that but I really desperately want to see Mike 101 % Donkey Kong 64 okay we're gonna have to have like a little bit of a fundraiser because that was the whole thing, right?

I would have set a big goal for him to do that and, oh man, that's what I want the most on this site right now.

We'll commit to that.

Either way, I hope all these games come.

For sake of it, it would be neat to see Glover's weird and okay.

It's wild that Smash Bros.

isn't yet and also like Melee.

Not Melee. It's not weird because Nintendo is weird. Sure, sure, sure.

They kind of do a similar thing with pokemon although that's a different situation but uh like they want they want you to get the new ones and they want you to focus on that and they are holding back smash brothers because of that so the latest n64 game was killer instinct gold which seems like over a month ago or something like that maybe around then so we could be doing for one any moment yeah glover was like actually just re -released on everything not too long ago i think yeah we played it and it's not great right right now so was you know turrock was also just available in our enhanced edition on switch but they

still added that to nso so that doesn't mean anything apparently for second got re -rated to team oh okay people have said oh yeah they made it woke no sean they made forsaken woke that would be the dumbest controversy an industry full of dumb controversies well well we were getting Super Chat for DK64 is 101%.

ZachyZach says he'll donate a dollar for every percent.

Oh, Mikey, DK64 is our cash cow.

I gotta pay rent, Mike.

You gotta do it. Mike, you gotta put food on our families.

Food on your families.

Like those sushi girls.

There's an EU lobby group that says forcing developers to support online games would make them too expensive.

This is part of a backlash from the industry towards the stop killing games initiative which has reached its it reached its threshold of a million signatures in europe to force the eu to consider this legislation or to consider some sort of regulation basically to think about the issue um and developers are and publishers are kind of freaking out about this and say well no no this would be terrible because then we won't be able to make live service games and then everyone who signed is like yeah like stop trying to i already signed you don't have to convince me anymore um yeah i Of course, they

don't want to spend any more money.

I'm very skeptical that creating a little bit of support so that private servers are enabled or to make your single -player campaign that has to check a server update it so it doesn't have to check a server.

I don't think that's all that prohibitively expensive.

I think they just don't want to be on the hook for anything ever, and that's all that's really happening here.

But it might be too late for these big companies to stop this getting considered, so we'll kind of see what happens next.

They might be moving on to directly lobbying the politicians to complain to them.

Yeah, put pressure on them.

Make them have to figure this out.

And if that makes them second thinking, making as much live service slop as they do, oh no. Exactly.

And it's their money.

I don't care. You can figure it out.

If this becomes the rule, then you've got to live by the rule.

And to me, that's a win.

I want to see these games be able to live on if I paid $40 for it and I have a disc and I want to put it into a system.

them i kind of expect something to work uh all right last couple of stories here mind's eye boss claims internal and external saboteurs are to blame for the studio's woes a thing that you should definitely say if you're leslie benzies the head of build a rocket boy um i'm a truther on this this is definitely what happened guys this is the one you believe it's definitely the one i believe yeah you implement the sub getty code uh i i'll get in there what uh god yeah yeah oh my right what they do make that they make this a guy go spaghetti fucks that's the only thing we like about your game tweets

did that yeah influence to every reviewer because the game has like a 34 open critic so it's the saboteurs don't want to just decide they dislike the game like you can't fool us we see the game it's there yeah I think that Build a Rocket Boy and Minds Eye are just not long for this world kind of feels like one of the situations where they got a lot of money to start the studio probably Leslie Benzies paid himself a hefty bonus and he'll just go take that money and move on to the next thing great good for you bud Prolific Port Studios says any Any 60 frames per second Xbox Series S game will easily

port to Nintendo Switch 2.

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Knotts and bolts. Knotts and bolts.

Man, actually, I would love that.

That would be fantastic, yes.

Yeah, this continues to be good to hear.

i'm you know we're a month in to having the switch to and i kind of think it's everything i was hoping it would be i'm very happy with it how about you all i think come next week with bonanza i'm gonna feel real happy about i mean it was pretty much just like welcome tour and uh mario that i've been playing since it launched so like playing tony hawk on it has been nice yeah but i think bonanza is the the big one where i'm gonna be like all right hell yeah we're here i just i think that's a good sign that we're just like worried about the games the system itself has has been very solid yep totally

yeah um bonanza i'm eagerly waiting for uh final fantasy tactics eagerly waiting for it's been fine like i don't think it's been a major letdown as some people are claiming it it is oh no way it's been fine also just love the magnets on that bad boy yeah i'll just sit there disconnecting reconnecting all day yeah uh and then uh last story here was added it looks like in a panicked scrawl uh where is final fantasy 9 remake yeah sorry i've just been thinking about it a lot and i just wanted to make sure we're talking about where is it yesterday was the was the 25th anniversary is it vv problematic

they probably just don't want to like update that they're like he's the least problematic he is such a good boy they're the only i have no no problems with vv vv has never caused anybody any problems aside from emotional distress because we love him so much you remember when I had Mike thinking that Weird Al got cancelled and broke his heart I was like not Weird Al he was playing up in Traverse City while I was there we couldn't get tickets they were sold out doing alright it's just you know they've been releasing all this new concept art they have this page they're talking about Final Fantasy

9 constantly to a point where like they're building up to something and it was in that NVIDIA leak and every every other Square Enix thing in that NVIDIA leak.

The Fopsy Tactics remake, freaking Kingdom Hearts 4 was in there before it got announced.

It all happened. So how can this not be the one thing?

But now I'm scared because NateTheHate is saying, oh, they were working on that, but it didn't work out and maybe that's not happening anymore.

So now I'm scared, Jeff.

Help me. Yeah, I don't, I mean, like, it's weird because, like, there's, like, designer glasses and stuff like that that are Final Fantasy IX high ends.

and to me it's like that is such a level beyond it's the 25th anniversary yeah clearly something was supposed to happen here is it still happening yeah I don't I don't know but like my thing here is okay the the 25th anniversary did just pass for Japan yesterday now this entire year they could be like this is the 25th anniversary so they could still put it out at any time but if you're making a big deal about the anniversary now with all this stuff wouldn't you want to say say then and here's where you should go if you want to play the game in a modern way even if it's just pointing to the one

of those old ports you did uh which are still still available on every platform in one way or another i mean the website does mention those ports because they're on sale or something but like it's not making a big deal about it those ports were it's it's it's only okay it has some kind of okay it's like the weird upraising of the character models but the backgrounds are still super blurry because they're pre -rendered so it's not really a great way to to play those games so i mean a couple years ago when it was final fantasy 8's 25th anniversary they didn't i don't recall them doing anything near

this level of stuff no way for that so they did not it's like something something is going on or was supposed to go on and part of me is like if you don't actually have the game maybe keep some of the stuff to yourself because i am getting my hopes up here yep it's it's weird i don't know i mean there's people like uh someone one of these leakers it was like this week that's all they said and people like that means a nintendo direct the guy's teasing a nintendo direct i don't know if a nintendo direct has happened anytime soon but i could see something like a final fantasy 9 remake being saved

for a big event like that so maybe something in like september and they announce it for the holiday or something or earlier this year here's my real big word here's my nightmare scenario that they were making a remake and it was using a lot of ai and they realized that it looks like shit and that's That's why it's not happening.

That's my nightmare, Jeff.

Square Enix would do it.

They would fucking do it, and you know they would do it.

They definitely do that.

Yes. I feel like Square is too behind.

That's going to happen in two years.

Right. They're still on NFTs at Square Enix.

They kind of were. They kind of were.

Maybe that's the other thing, too.

It was a big NFT game.

I don't know. I like Final Fantasy IX, and I want to play it again.

I want more people to play it because it's a good game.

i think the one concerning thing here is that uh other than your nightmare scenario there mike is that all those games that were in the nvidia leak happened before that like recent i don't know if it was a reorganization but it was like a recalibration over at square enix or they're like we released too many games and a lot of them didn't do very well we're going to release fewer and maybe that meant and i think they said like you know don't worry about final fantasy but that might mean don't worry about final fantasy going forward maybe final fantasy 9 is one of those games that got kind of got

caught up in that like this is just like you know dayle field chronicles that we did well let's just cut this off it's like crisis score we want to do fewer of those tactics made it through right so it's like yeah maybe one did and the other one didn't yeah mikey here's uh if you want to put your conspiracy conspiracy theory it's a megaman game what if they were trying to make it into an action adventure game and they realized ah Ah, shit.

People like turn -based.

Yeah, I mean, I tell you what, this is the one where you do a pretty faithful remake and you keep the ATB combat system.

Yeah. Optimistically, I'm hoping that they just wanted to space it out a bit more from the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster announcement, and that's all this is, and we're still going to hear about this soon.

But I don't know. I'm worried.

I'm getting worried.

I don't blame you. Last news story here.

Amazon has just emailed me and given me a delivery estimate update for my 8 -bit dough 64 bluetooth controller which is 8 -bit dough's uh n64 controller that they're kind of shipping alongside the analog 3d and it's it's now scheduled to arrive on july 31st it was supposed to be here in q1 yeah i was thinking like march or something i have not got an email about mine yet damn yeah so uh delivery estimate update july 31st that thursday uh one of these things like shipped early i think someone got one i was like so it's It's like leaked and some people are talking about it.

I love this thing because it's got six face buttons.

You know, it's the A and the B and then the C buttons.

But I like I like six face buttons in any configuration.

You're a Saturn truther, yeah.

Saturn, honestly, yes.

I'm like, I want to just get a Saturn controller and use that as a USB pad going forward. Mine does.

Yeah, I just checked my Amazon account.

It is arriving July 31st. OK, so there's a little bit of light there for 8BitDo, who definitely was like having other issues.

And then all the tariff stuff happened on top of that.

So they pushed the analog 3D like way back.

That was supposed to be here in Q1.

So maybe some of that stuff starting to shake loose.

I guess the other side of that is Trump started talking about tariffs on Japan and Taiwan and Korea again.

So, hey, fantastic.

That 90 day pause really did let up and he's going right back at it.

So we're not out of the woods for those things.

I guess the one good thing there is I got my switch to now.

So I'm a little bit less concerned than I was a few months ago.

You got two of them.

That's right. All right, Jan. Dan, that does it for the headlines.

I'm handing the show back off to you.

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Special shout out that I should have done at the top of the show, though.

Shouts out to Marino for compiling the top 100 games of the quarter century.

Very cool list. Mike, what were your top 10?

Did you get to vote in that?

I didn't get to vote in it.

It upset me. Some of you guys know, poor Dan and Jane had to hear it.

I was having some kind of weird panic attack about it for some reason.

He's like, I can't believe I missed that.

How did I miss it? Jeff told me I had to list it.

You have a lot of big problems. Yeah.

Well, you know, it is a day for Mikeys.

That's true. It's always a day for Mikeys.

I love how earnest it is, Mike, when you're like, my nightmare scenario, the worst thing, is it Final Fantasy?

It's like a genuine breakdown.

I didn't get to vote in the top ten.

This is the worst thing that could ever happen to me.

I love voting for stupid things like video games.

I think my opinions on this stuff is good.

I'll tell you what, in my mind, too, it's like, you know what's going to happen?

somehow Half -Life 2 is not going to make it because all these fucking Zoomers don't respect it.

It's not going to make the top 10.

Then I left the list and it made it right at number 10.

I was like, okay. Now, Mario Odyssey was in the top 10 and that's a little off -putting.

Yeah, the primary demo for GiantBomb .com, the Zoomers.

The Zoomers, we're always worried about them.

My number three is Mario Odyssey.

I think it was my number one when I kind of did it myself.

The Sentry, yeah, it's number one.

I realized I didn't have a particular order of mine but people construed it in some sort of way but uh speaking of the top 100 list chris from london writes in hey duders i shared the giant bomb top 100 list with a normie gamer friend who was shocked at the games on there he couldn't believe skyrim and last of us were solo and how many games of the last five years were in the top 10 mostly i suspect because he's not played any of them This led me to think, if it were possible to survey every person that plays games, what do you think would be at the top of this hypothetical list?

Fortnite, Minecraft, GTA5?

Or would it be something even more casual like Wordle or Candy Crush?

Thanks to GB and the community.

Keep going. Keep the good times rolling.

Chris from London. I think a Candy Crush or like a Words with Friends or something like would have a real chance.

I think Words with Friends is past its prime there, buddy.

My dad played My dad's played, like, literally 40 ,000 games and plays it every day for hours.

Would he put it as his number one video game?

He'd put it high up, I think.

Yeah, I think what would happen is, and, like, if you told people, like, no, you have to, like, vote, like, by what you've played the most, maybe, but I don't think anyone feels special putting Fortnite as their number one.

Yeah. I mean, I'm a defender.

Fortnite is a really good game.

That's not what I'm saying.

No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying at all.

Fortnite's a great game.

I don't think anyone, I don't think a lot of people put it as their number one game because they're like it's so popular i don't feel cool make when i make my top 10 list putting it as my number one so i don't know like the list would change a lot if we had a vast number of people voting especially from a wider community of kinds of the kinds of people playing games but i don't think that suddenly means the new york times crossword puzzle uh app becomes number one though because i just i think people are like no i want to like i'll do the last of us as well uh that sort of thing so yeah i don't

think it changes dramatically pokemon go pokemon go right could see that yes it's what i like it's clash of clans huge or do they just advertise everywhere it was huge it's it's not it's not a uh rain shadow legend situation that cash can actually was popular people actually play that though i thought that was just an ad it's not shadow legend that's one that i think is just like brute forcing its way into making kind of a profit um but yeah i don't you're right because yeah a lot of people play fortnight or or Candy Crush but even amongst those people I bet they played like one other game where they're like

well that's my favorite game.

I bet. Right. They would put Tetris or something.

I bet even Last of Us would be like much higher than it was.

I think a lot more people would vote for something like that.

Was NBA Street Volume 2 on there?

Because it should be.

Certainly not. Jeez.

In like the top 10?

I was in my top 10.

It wasn't in my top 10 but it should be on our top 100.

I don't think it made the top 100.

because even like us I think there's a lot of people that's their 25th favorite game of the century I wonder where it is on mine I feel like Halo games would be pretty well represented I mean they are in our list there's like several Halo games what'd you guys there was some recency biased stuff for sure but also like Claire Obscure did very well there but I feel like in another 10 years that game will still be on the list it'll be in that range yeah yeah i think there was some recency bias stuff there with that i mean like it's fucking awesome but like that was high up yeah uh you know it wasn't

it wasn't in the top 10 it was in the top it was like top 20 right it was like 17 or something like that right so that's like i could see it dropping down to like 25 i don't think it's gonna drop that hard i think a game that probably if uh if we surveyed like a different a wider audience maybe you think think like league of legends would be again i think that's like you know i think that's one that people are like yes i've played a lot of it and it's in my it's all in my top 10 but it's low on my top 10 i i think they're like we don't acknowledge it but i don't think anyone's gonna be like i

don't know i shouldn't say anyone i don't think enough people would put it as their number one to affect things too much uh do you think it's a travesty no one put subway surfers yes horse fruit ninja yeah they probably jump damn it what's the game that I said was like subway surfers thousand exorcist yeah thousand exorcist is probably in there so there's plenty of representation any like late and 64 playstation games make it because like I just have a hard time there was a couple yeah I think there was one for each playstation and n64 conquer on there majora's mask and um kinda came over with the ps1 game

was A thousand times resist is not on the list. Oh, did Final Fantasy 9?

Let me see. Final Fantasy 9.

10 is on there. Final Fantasy 9 made it, so that was 17.

It's Majora's Mask and Final Fantasy 9, and those are the only PlayStation and N64 games, respectively.

Ooh, Konamari Damacy made it on.

Hell yeah. That's a good game.

I always thought so.

Metal Gear 3 got screwed because Subsistence and Snake Eater were tallied as separate things.

Oh, really? We have a little bit of that, yeah.

Yeah. For folks that haven't seen the list, we're not gonna go through all 100, but let's just go through the top 10 real quick.

And people are pretty hot about this list, dude.

There was like 500 responses or something like that in the Reddit thread about it.

Go ahead, Jan. Number 10, Half -Life 2.

Nine, Dark Souls. Number eight, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt.

I like that game. I was surprised it did that well.

I feel like amongst the giant bomb crew.

I never hear you all talk about Witcher 3 very much. I think Jeff straight up doesn't like it.

I do not enjoy playing Witcher 3.

I liked it for a while and then it just fell off pretty hard. I've always been Witcher curious.

It's just not a fun game to play.

Yeah. I don't want to apply oil to my sword every time I use it.

Number 7 Bloodborne.

No I'm not going to start spouting Bloodborne hot takes now that I'm playing all these games because I've already tried to once and people got that mad at me and i won't know what is it give us a tease i did i think i like bloodborne i think it's not like in my top three uh from soft games i don't know if it's in my top five from soft games i might need to play it again but like i i think sekiro would be a better top 10 thing here than bloodborne sure sure um number six i don't think any of us really click with it all these gate three wrong i loved it i think uh absolutely none of us none of us

like oh right right right you you You fixed Shadowheart.

I fixed Shadowheart.

I think Balrogate 3 is great.

Is it a little high?

Maybe. I don't think crazy, though.

I think it's an important game, too.

I think this game's success is going to influence the industry, the kind of games we get for a long time.

Number five was Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom.

Both? Yeah, I mean, not for spoilers ahead, but part of me was like, oh, would Tears of the Kingdom kind of pay?

Because, you know, Breath of the Wild is Breath of the Wild.

But, nope, Tears of the Kingdom still did very well.

I think I listed Tears of the Kingdom instead of Breath of the Wild I put Breath as my number one Yeah, Breath was my number one as well I don't know if I had Tears in my top ten Number four, Mass Effect 2 This is a very popular game and I do like it, there's a part where it's like oh, maybe the popularity for this one has fallen off a little bit, but no, number four Oh, no This is like, for the person that likes that kind of game, Mass Effect 2 is the one that always comes up up so yeah i i fucking love mass effect too oh no it's a good game it is for sure i guess there was just a part of me

it's like that's falling off a little bit right nope people uh so which again makes it like crazy that they haven't been able to capitalize on this and who knows what that new mass effect is gonna look like after the new dragon age kind of sort of came and went i don't know people wonder what we're talking about in chat like this is this the giant bomb games the century list we put out a public vote everyone's been voting on jane's going through the list right now uh number three is outer wilds hell yes that's awesome yeah i love that where is that on my list it's probably not high enough i should play

this game huh oh my god so fucking incredible you know what i want to do we should play this on mist with mitch oh yeah i want to do a special megaman where uh we go outside and play it on a tv like in a backyard with like a campfire and like play all night long or something like that like a camp out a camp out stream you know what's What's interesting about this, so like Borderless Gate 3, 96 Metacritic.

Tier's Kingdom, 96 Metacritic.

Mass Effect 2, 96 Metacritic.

Outer Wilds, 85 Metacritic.

People didn't get it.

Yeah, honestly, there's a little bit of people not quite jiving with it.

Interesting. That kind of makes it more interesting, right?

Yes, it's more interesting, for sure.

Number two, Elden Ring.

That's right. Yeah, that's true.

Now, is there a part of you guys that's like, oh, wow, three from SoftGames in the top ten, or is that just kind of indicative of the century that they've had?

I have three Metal Gears in my top ten so I can't really complain.

Number one, Mikey was alluding to it earlier, Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild.

Yeah, it's Breath of the Wild.

It might be the best game of all time.

Number eleven was Mario Odyssey.

I just want that in the top ten.

That one hurts me. I think I would have pushed out a Dark Souls for an an odyssey for sure yeah i pushed out a bloodborne for um but uh yeah i know okay because like you you all are largely anti -red dead redemption too i know uh daniel came around on it a little bit i don't i i don't love it but i also don't have this hatred for it it was 14 on this wow 14 so um you know there's a couple games that i'm really glad that the giant bomb audience shouted out out and like voted like celeste is number 48 yeah i mean it's less this perfect haiti they fucked up and put this golesium at 12.

i'm looking at like that's that's awesome to see haiti's at 13 hell yeah haiti's okay wait a second so we have original resident evil 4 at 16 where's the remake no return on the list at all dan which is probably right what the fuck oh the remake for the fourth return is incredible that is mostly just well i thought it was supposed be Jeff, but it's not on this list, so maybe we're right.

I don't know. I don't know.

Rez isn't on there, either.

Well, Rez, I think...

Rez might have come out, like, 99.

Actually, when did Rez Rez video game...

Goddamn. That would have been, like, yeah, right there.

2001. Eat shit, Rez!

Fuck yourself, Rez.

Go fuck yourself. Wait a minute.

Guys, there's no Socom on this list. What the hell?

What about Mag? mag yeah max no mags are like in five spots it's crazy i don't know what happened there games i think would have done much better if this list was 10 years or like bioshock was 43 i think 10 years ago bioshock might have been in the top 10 yeah yeah yeah like no infinite which is you know correct it's it's cool that rockbin made it onto the top 100 also yeah i didn't realize how i don't know influential and integral to some people's lives rock band is i know we're kind of going through the list and kind of mentioned do we have we talked about like the placements of last of us and god

of war like like how do you guys feel about those i thought they would both be higher i guess god of war is 47 god of war is 40 2018 yeah i think i would put god of war 2 like the oh yeah me too no i i me too i feel the same way yes the original games i enjoy much more yeah i think i mean you know i think those games when they came out there were a lot of people this is one of the best games ever and i think that has cooled off a little bit where everyone still likes those games and respect them clearly uh i i think there's a little last of us fatigue even amongst a lot of people for a lot of people

there isn't a lot of people that still is just the best game ever but for a good amount of people there is a bit of last of us fatigue and i do not blame them for it bellatro at 40 is awesome that's the show yeah shadow of colossus at 44 is also sick as hell yeah i mean shadow cross is just such a unique like nothing nothing else is like it and uh and so to this day it's like you can go look back and there's we're talking about all these games where like they've risen in stature they've lowered in stature shadow clock has just always just been that guy yeah and yeah i always think of so fondly

of that um hell yeah just falp is 14 shadow bringers the expansion at 50 um there's something like tightfall 259 like i thought maybe especially of our audience that might do a smidge better but obviously still good marino says that if they would have combined a rock band one two and three it would have been like around 30th place oh wow okay yeah i guess like some games where they have a lot of similar sequels are going to struggle like that arkham city was 98 i guess i might i might have thought that would do better was arkham where's the asylum 69 nice okay nice again that's higher than city

i think 10 years ago would have been the other way but i think i like some better too but i i'm always operating on the assumption like man people talk about city City's very good, but Asylum was just so much more focused.

It's pure Metroidvania.

It's so goddamn good.

I like the setting a lot more.

Yeah, I think it swapped a little bit recently.

I'd be happy to play.

I think Arkham City turned 10 just recently, which is wild, by the way, because to me, that's still a new game.

That game is 10 years old?

Oh, no. But I tried it too, only at 88.

That's another one where I feel like, oh, people are kind of falling off on that, because to me, that was such an amazing game and so so important it was like only 88 is there something about that where it's like these games that in that moment were like this is it this is where games reached a certain thing that maybe that just doesn't have staying power that you're like the late aughts early 2010s maybe don't have we're not in that nostalgia sweet spot for those yet and maybe that's a big part of it too yeah you're probably yeah yeah i think the uncharted nostalgia is still is still coming um

gosh diablo 2 is a pretty early one here and that's at 80 because i was right at 2000 right above that a newer game returned the opportunity i'm sorry i'm just like i find this list fascinating that's why i wanted to vote persona 5 also got hurt a little bit because it's not at 90 but then persona 5 royale is um yeah it's just royal i keep saying i'm calling it royale uh that one is a good deal higher yeah i'm i'm a bit surprised that persona 4 golden is at 49 i would have assumed this audience would have that would have skewed higher um i think five is more popular these days than even uh golden

but we'll see when that remake happens uh it goes on there one of my surprises though it's it's funny because they come at 92 and 93 and we'll move on with the email segment folks uh 92 being tetris effect 93 being journey hmm journey was cool yeah journey is awesome i like both i love journey i guess i just didn't think journey had that like like we were talking about staying power in people's minds oh no journey sticks it's such a unique experience that really nothing else is like like yeah journey higher on mine influential too where it's like a lot of its online multiplayer ideas have now

just you find them in super mario brothers wonder so yeah yeah yeah death stranding yeah uh oh 55 let's go oh yeah brother uh all right moving on real quick just no no like not a lot of pc representations civilization games aren't really on the list things like that i think that's maybe yeah it's a little bit that's why we've got a warcraft did really well you got stuff that's sort of pc first like return of the obra didn't still doing pretty good sure yeah yeah but yeah i know it feels like there's some other stuff missing yep all right go ahead jan all right max from south bend writes in hi

bombcast i was listening to the bombcast and the next thing to play was an episode of a role -playing podcast that got me thinking about what each of your potential D &D classes would be.

For Grubb he would be a divination wizard with the ability to see into the future.

For Minotti there is one and only choice, a bard. He could sing Disney songs to inspire and heal his allies and use his Disney trivia to distract his foes.

For Bacalar I thought a battle master fighter with his hockey pads, his armor, and his ability to control and get his his allies into advantageous spots.

For Jan, I thought an artificer.

I almost read that, artificer.

With his skills in getting equipment to work.

And finally, for Dan, I believe a warlock would work for him.

His patron could be the otherworldly creature named Kojima.

And he would stun his enemies with his various outrageous stories that have occurred in his life.

It's not perfect, but I thought you'd like it.

Thanks for all the laughs.

Max from South Bend.

Okay, moving on. I like making characters in D &D almost more than I like playing D &D got to be honest Max actually has another email hey Bombcast after finally defeating the optional boss in the abyss in Claire Obscure Expedition 33 I found it to be one of my favorite boss fights in a long time besides Souls games what other games do you guys think have epic boss fights Max from South Bend I mean I go to Zelda sometimes sometimes they're a little easy though but i mean so just the design like i find them very very memorable i can think like everything to the past boss the witch is an ocarina it's

just like the twilight princess big bone skeleton like there's just so many very memorable ones 2d ones like uh the i remember in link's awakening the genie in the bottle and figuring out oh i'm supposed to use the weapon i just got like that's where as a kid this is where i learned this idea yeah oh i'm gonna use the bracelet to pick up the guy and throw him against the wall i'm like i never considered that i'm supposed to just hit him with my weapon and i don't know there's There's something pure about that.

Yeah, for sure. I like that one.

I like the two bosses in League Between Worlds.

You have to hide in the shield for a little bit.

That stuff rules. Oh, yeah, that's great.

I mean, Shadow of the Colossus, that's right.

Of course, but yeah, punch out, you know?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I know it's kind of a part of the Souls games, but Hollow Knight has very good boss fights.

There's those big ones there.

The final one is good one.

uh ori and uh the will of the wisps that's the second one yeah the final boss fight there against shriek was very good had incredible music i listened to that track all the time metroid super metroid yeah creed take like any fucking boss where it takes in most of or more than a screen the dinosaurs and joe and mac crate yeah super metroids great because i mean like the The fight gets Ridley's harder, but then that mother brain fight is kind of like cinematic and just cool.

And then there's like the baby Metroid comes in, but the Metroid dread that final fight against what razor beak or whatever was awesome.

That was fantastic.

All the final fight.

Awesome stuff. You two chat with a good one.

Yoshi's Island. I really love that thing where it's like, oh, we're going to bring in just like a little jabroni enemy and then he gets sprinkled with Kamek dust and I was like, oh fuck mode seven warping.

And then that last one, I thought that looks so cool on super Nintendo where it's like, oh my God, i'm throwing this into the background because big ass baby bowser like well it's just so cool like because all of a sudden like there's a different sprite for yoshi because he's like looking off in the distance like no that god that might be the best crow there's that there's that like mario odyssey type planet with the things you stop down and it rotates around good and then and i know none of you are mmo peeps but boy doing some of those big raid boss fights in an mmo with a bunch of people and found

fantasy 14 and world of warcraft oh gosh that stuff would be so any of the resident evil boss fights for him before remake had or very good boss fights the one with krauser where because you know there's a lot of you're like fighting monsters and it's great but you're fighting krauser and it's kind of a one -on -one like knife fight first and then later he's a bit mutated um and you're doing all these knife parries right before that you're running his kind of American gladiator gauntlet.

Oh, Resident War, I think it's so freaking good.

Village had some good boss fights.

Village did have good boss fights, yeah.

It's another from Soft Games, so it's not really the spirit, but man, Armored Core 6.

Oh, yeah. But Armored Core 6, like, every time I got to a boss, it was just like, this is the coolest I've ever felt.

This is the coolest video games have ever been.

Devil May Cry. Devil May Cry is one of my favorite games.

Going back to Resident Evil, because people usually usually shit on the resident evil 3 remake and i get the problems but the final boss fight there against the giant nemesis where like battle damage jill picks up that rail gun whatever that's like three times her size and you just like have to blast off his festering puss filled sax oh it feels good it looks awesome uh you know going back to that whole thing of like you know you're so used to fighting gigantic monsters in dmc3 when you fight virgil it just yeah That's so fucking cool.

I mean, that is what makes like Front Boss so good often.

It's like, this is a guy that has the same skill set I do and I have to figure it out and they're just really good at it.

Defense and offense and figuring out your windows of opportunity.

And like, I love any boss fight where it's just like, you're on top of like a tower and it's a fucking circle.

We're gonna fight on this fucking fighting game ass stage.

Yeah, well, that's like the final fight in Wind Waker against Ganondorf is still probably a Ganondorf fight because it is.

So usually it used to be well you fight human Ganondorf and then he turns into a monster and there it's like no he starts in the monster then he just becomes the dude and it's just a sword fight what if he was just a samurai yeah and then you stab him in the fucking head it's so good I know they said no from Saw but I've been you know playing Sekiro I'm kind of getting close to the end and oh my god those boss fights are so freaking good yeah oh god boss fights are cool yeah yeah for a while it felt like it was becoming a lost art I think that's One, the reasons FromSoft spoke to a lot of people

because there was this emphasis on making boss fights cool and important again.

Mike, any of the Kingdom Hearts boss fights stick out to you?

I'm trying to rack my brain.

Oh, yeah, sure. I mean, I think, you know, both of the Secret Sephiroth boss fights in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 are really cool.

I remember fighting Chernobog in 1 towards the end was really neat because he was, again, gigantic and you had to kind of fly up there and attack his face.

The Hydra into get up on the Hydra's back or Cerberus and Kingdom Hearts one.

Both of those final ones.

Especially into the final fight against Xemnas.

There's that bit there where you have to become Riku and save you and then at the end there's like a million laser beams and you have to push X and triangle and repeat to deflect all of them until you get the hit back on them.

Actually pretty sweet.

Boss fights are cool, turns out.

Oh, not Xemnas no wait it is Xemnas isn't it?

it's Xemnas yeah someone said Xemnas and Kingdom Hearts 1 and I got scared but actually they're wrong it's Xemnas and Kingdom Hearts 1 and Xemnas and Kingdom Hearts 2 I'm okay yeah Dan will deliver the defined Xemnas and Xemnas for folks after the podcast today thank you Mike from Oklahoma City writes in hi Bombers my girlfriend and I are visiting Minneapolis for the first time in October I was wondering if Dan has any spots what he'd like to recommend for folks new to the city.

I'm thinking things like breweries, restaurants, or parks, but I'm open to any and all suggestions.

I've been a long -time listener, and I'm so excited to support you as a premium member in this new era of Giant Bomb.

Thank you for all you do.

Mike from Oklahoma City.

If you want a fancy dinner, go to Dario in the North Loop.

Great Italian pasta stuff they make in the house that is absolutely delicious.

That's my favorite place in the city.

If you want some good burgers, non -Juicy Lucy style, go to Lion's Tap in Eden Prairie.

You want a juicy Juicy Lucy.

Make sure you go to Matt's Bar.

That's the real deal, Juicy Lucy.

You want to do bars and stuff?

I like the Vegas Lounge Northeast. The Vegas Lounge and Spring Street Tavern is a block away.

You can walk there.

You can get spring wings.

I think I might be taking Jesse Vitale to get some spring wings on Friday, I believe.

Yeah. So spring wings and walk over to Vegas Lounge Northeast. It has a bunch of great little dive bars and stuff like that.

Parks and stuff. Go to the Chain of Lakes, Bademakaska, Lake of the Isles, and Lake Harriet.

it do a walk around there and then go get some ice cream over at sebastian joe's um yeah any any number of things you can do just great food great place to hang out um great place to drink i think you will enjoy it quite a bit hell yeah there you go mike from oklahoma i hope you have a wonderful time in october sean from wiegen wiegen wiegen uk right son wiegen wednesday wiegen wednesdays I'm just finishing up Jason Schreier's book Play Nice and looking for recommendations on what to read next I've read Jason's other books and also Masters of Doom after Grubb mentioned it in the podcast Mike Drucker's

Good Game No Rematch only releases here later this month so I plan on picking that up then what other video game themed books would you all recommend?

Do you have any favorite novels you would like to recommend as well?

Well, congrats on your independence.

Love you all. Sean from Wigan Wednesdays, UK.

I'm kind of looking for more of myself because I liked Masters of Doom a lot, and I've kind of been doing more old computer books.

Like right now, I'm reading one about the history of the chip.

So it's not quite as game -focused, but still adjacent to that because it's how we discovered and invented all this technology.

technology right um you know there are there's one that's specifically about atari that i forget what's called but i might dive into that and learn a little bit more there there's something i'm skeptical it's you know you stumble upon these like the history of nintendo i know some guy haven't heard of i'm like i already know one yeah there's a definitive history of nintendo one that everyone always talks about i can never remember and i haven't read it myself so i intend to do that maybe it would power up i think is what it was yeah that might be it uh wada's book is pretty good i've heard right

ask what i did oh ask the one is great it's kind of just a compilation of those things but yeah it's good but they they do like uh thread them together they're like they like tell a story from one to the other so it does read like a book and it's i thought i thought it was very well done console wars i mean was very good i know i don't maybe there was a lot of hype there and people kind of gotten over it but console wars was great yeah like did a good good uh yeah he did a good job with that that's a well -told story for sure um backlar's not here he would definitely say ready player one yeah you

know these days he's more into earnest's uh poetry oh that is true ready player two who read that's a spielberg movie huh yes like what the fuck is this william spielberg steven spielberg made a movie with tracer in it yeah it was i thought he was gonna like like uh because he's referencing a lot of his old own movies uh and i was like i thought he was gonna like deconstruct the whole idea it's like it's just the it's the imagination land south park episode it's just that was like a pretty lazy hero's journey thing pasted on top of it.

It takes place in Columbus.

I don't think it's some terrible movie or anything, but there's something weird about its existence.

The book I was trying to think of was Game Over by David Sheff.

Thank you, Mudron. I appreciate that.

I will second Drucker's book, Good Game, No Rematches.

I was laughing out loud throughout that book.

I loved it, loved it, loved it.

Also, Dracula. That's a good book.

just one about count dracula count dracula it's based on castlevania yeah yes yeah bram stoker was a big castlevania head yeah i always um if people ask for an audiobook i think my favorite one still it's called rocket men and it was about apollo 8 the people the first people who orbited the moon and then came back i liked that one a lot i think i made jeff read that at some point uh i did and then i read that guy's other book about deep sea divers and that was great too so read that one you could also check out boss fight books yes yeah guys on specific games friend of the website shouts out

to Gabe or you can feel and just did an animal crossing book that got turned into an audiobook for Kelsey do the audiobook or no no someone else she was like this is very cool I did it hi everyone this is Mike Minotti this is animal crossing once upon a time there were video let him go let him go yeah yeah yeah and the video games no no he's gonna be about jumping on people and shooting things and then some brave man mr john nintendo said there must be a better way he's so proud of himself kelsey's writing is different than what i thought it'd be the nintendo 64 it was called animal forest there

okay we're learning yeah it didn't come out in the us and then it's all 64 the dd drive may have been involved i forget i was gonna ask was it a 64 dd series remind me look this up later the greatest video game console ever the nintendo gamecube was released and uh all of humanity was searching for ways to increase its glory and they're like animal forest we forgot to release least that in the west oops and also get cubivore on there while we're at it right and then shigeru miyamoto rose from his platinum desk and said animal force is a stupid fucking name they my homies in the west will not like

that and they're like shit what do we gotta do And he He stood up With the god rays Shooting behind him Blinding His lovely peers As he just screamed the words ANIMAL CROSSING ANIMAL CROSSING And then money fell From the sky And then as the years went by There was more money Because there was a pandemic And lots of people were hurt and died but Nintendo sold a lot of copies of a video game.

It's kind of insensitive for Kelsey to just skip over the pandemic.

I know. But she wasn't taking notes.

The end. Good job Kelsey Lewin.

Good job Kelsey. Please someone clip this and send this to her.

Email men max about her thoughts on the pandemic.

Everyone in chat deeply concerned about Mike and wondering if he's okay.

Yes he's fine. It's a day for Mikeys.

It's a day for Mikey's, everybody!

It doesn't mean anything!

It's provocative! That would be the name of my book, A Day for Mikey.

Subtitle, It's Provocative.

I just imagined a picture of Mike sitting at a dock or something, kicking his feet.

My tutters. Why don't you like tutters?

Can he get his tutters into his hand like Booga?

When grown -ass people talk You say banana or whatever.

Banana. No, because that's not the Donkey Kong thing.

It was banana. So Donkey Kong said booger.

If the cheese booger and the tutters is a bridge too far.

No, I love cheese booger.

No. I started saying that in my day -to -day life.

Like, 4th of July, I had a bunch of cheese boogers.

There you go. Were you a pair of tutters?

I'm the last... I'm the last person you want to not say...

If you want to say words right or sentences correctly.

mr clibbered yeah exactly there was like was jen saying all these words wrong on purpose i was like what are you talking about there we we had a voicemail come in about that and i just didn't put it with a show because i purposely and not keep on their toes yeah yeah i need to keep people guessing as a shoot as a work but liz from the uk writes in during the nintendo switch to live quick look you guys threw hella shade at the wipeout games as a british person in their early 40s i demand pistols at dawn oh god satisfaction they demand satisfaction love liz from the uk p .s the wipeout games are shoot

good you should really revisit them smiley face emoji do hey liz i am a tepid wipeout supporter i i think i was keeping my mouth shut during it but yeah i never got it yeah it's fine it doesn't have a lot of personality other than, like, rave stuff.

Someone did Molly and then made a video game.

Here's my problem. It was Psygnosis who then made Rascal.

So, the hell with them.

They also made Destruction Derby, which that was good.

Yeah, that was pretty good.

Yeah, I just would try to play Wapout and I was just like, this doesn't feel fun or good.

It doesn't have a personality.

I don't think I like anything that reminds me of, like, techno music.

yeah okay well that's not is this why we're anti -res also maybe because it's just that whole scene like when i was a teenager and stuff like you always hear about raves and stuff it's like this just seems stupid and so i think anything that reminds me of that techno stuff is just like this is lame stuff how do you feel about the blood rave in blade one that's cool okay because the blood cool the blood rave is blood rave yeah i'm trying to think because like maybe maybe you're right because even that Germany level hit me a three that everybody loved I'm like this level sucks this rave is stupid

I hate this party atmosphere I just I would have any of us been to a rave yeah it was a mistake you went to a rave you were the last person I thought maybe Grub and Jan no fucking way you here's what I imagine you're dressed as the baby from Messiah you got a diaper and little wings and nothing else it was like exactly as advertised just loud everyone's touching each other like of course my one friend got mad because like their girl was grinding on some of their guys like all the generic shit happened i'm like oh like you can't get a beer because right there's a giant line into the bar hell it's

a big mistake what year was this 2024 definitely like over 10 years ago probably right i'm just picturing this and that's incredible yeah yeah uh i did not enjoy it the The next closest thing is those Twitch parties that they always hold at her.

Oh, yeah. Oh, we went to that one in Boston.

It's like, we are old.

Yeah. This is like physically harming my body being here in this room.

And it was like, there was a different DJ in three different rooms. It was crazy.

Why are they doing that?

It's like the World of War Tanks parties at PAX back in the day.

This is not my scene at all.

No, it is wild. Let me DJ in one of those rooms. Yeah.

Yes, I would much prefer Dream.

Even, like, we had a party after a bit the one time and the DJ was too loud and we couldn't really drink about it.

And the DJ looked like me and everyone kept, like, and we had to yell, like, the DJ looks like you!

And it's like, I don't like this DJ.

I don't want him to look like me.

Okay, so I'm watching gameplay of Wipeout XL right now, which is supposed to be, like, one of the better ones, right?

I think that's supposed to be, like...

That one's good, yeah.

The PSP ones were good, too.

Fusion. I mean, you know, they're going, like, 100, kilometers per hour.

That's like 120 miles per hour.

It was a game that never felt fast to me.

F -Zero is going like 500 miles an hour.

There is a Wipeout for Nintendo 64.

Could you imagine playing that instead of F -Zero?

I might have played as much Extreme G as I did Wipeout.

Extreme G was pretty good.

I like Extreme G. Any Kinetica guys here?

No. Connecticut is one step away from Uma Musume anyway that's what they always say put it on the box alright last two emails of the show here second to last one comes from Weed dear fuckos I was just offered the job that I've been trying to get for three years yay needless to say I'm on cloud nine now the only thing that would make me happier would be if tomorrow you'll finally use the blight club theme song i made for you go re -up my gb premium now that i'm not perpetually broke love y 'all weed thank you i do forget to bring that oh yeah we need to yeah we gotta do that we i mean there's a new season tomorrow

yeah yeah let's take a look at that oh that's right that is exciting do you have any any any guesses dan what your game is okay okay okay well you showed it to bianca i showed it to bonk she laughed and said it was going to be good And didn't, yeah, one of you showed Kayla.

Was it on the DLiveClub?

I told Kayla when I was on a DM.

You told Kayla and she laughed.

So here's the thing.

I didn't get the sense from their reactions that this was a game they had played, but they recognized it.

And I'm thinking of Kayla too, because Kayla loves games and stuff like that, but I don't know if she goes like super obscure knowledge.

So I am thinking it is a licensed game that is notoriously bad.

And I'm thinking there's Simpsons skateboarding?

There is Simpsons Wrestling was on PS1.

You told me this is PS2.

So I guess Simpsons Skateboarding is something I'm thinking of.

I'll tell you, Sean, hang on.

That would be timely.

Tell me as well. I don't know yet.

Yeah, so I'll tell it to Sean and Jan right now.

Okay. And here's the thing too.

I have the package for the outfit and it's just one package.

And it's like from like Bob's Costumes or something.

And so, and it seems like it's the size of like, you know, you go to a party city and it's just like a whole costume and a bag and it's just got all the parts of it.

so I'm thinking it's like a Bart Simpson or something like that and I'm hung up on Simpsons but I think it's going to be a licensed thing for PS2 just told Jan sorry I just saw a funny tweet but no I don't know what I guess that's the only thing I'm thinking of what the fuck else is like notoriously bad on PS2 well Dan you only have one more day you only got one more sleep until Blight Day it's going to be a day for Dan's Yeah It does have the same ring to it Right A day for Danny's A day for Danny's Chat says Shrek Hey you know Dan Overs are like onions there's just many layers Just like Blake

Club And we did have to check to see if it was problematic so it probably is Shrek You did have to check to see if there was like A slur in it Which is very confusing Is it like Bad Day L .A.?

what the fuck could be right could mean lots of things email of the show before we get to super chats mikey if you could pull up the super chats i'm gonna toss it oh right after this do that sean says this is such a good pick what the fuck is this i'm interested to see the costume uh so i just remember donkey kong bonanza's coming out soon chris from dayton ohio right oh no sorry kane highland just a family guy and i forgot there is a family guy ps2 game isn't there they better not be fucking i mean i'd be fine with it being family guy um oh my god are you not feeling bonita is that is that the problem

i just don't like family guy at all um can i reveal something i bet it's i bet it's fucking family guy can i reveal something probably no i don't like family guy there would be a peter griffin in a bag costume janet what sorry my head's spinning right now I actually enjoy Family Guy still I'm like coming back around on it mostly just due to YouTube clips so yeah this is fun and I'm usually like this is pretty bad remember when Peter falls and he just goes it's funny you're saying this because you're kind of dressed like Peter Griffin right now already sorry I opened my costume early oh Mike Minotti

can you give us are your best Peter Peter I can't do Peter they accidentally drew me too sexy and now everybody wants the you know accidentally yeah accidentally uh alright uh last email the show comes from Chris from Dayton, Ohio uh this one goes a little bit down but then goes a little bit back up hey bomb guys I wanted to email you all this story for a while but I kept putting it off I've been listening to the podcast for a long time since roughly 2012 and I I've never missed an episode, including the Beastcast, when it was a thing.

A friend of mine, Andy, is the one who introduced me to the podcast. When we work sitting together next to each other at our IT jobs, we talk about the episodes and try out the games everyone on the podcast talked about.

Well, a week or two before the old company decided to shut us down, my friend Andy passed away, young and suddenly.

The whole saga of the shutdown is intertwined with my feelings of losing my good friend so suddenly, so i was probably more emotionally invested than i should have been all that to say i'm glad you're still around i always associate the podcast with my friend you don't have to read this on air it really doesn't match the tone of the show usually but i just wanted to get this story out into the ether thanks for all you do chris from dayton ohio chris very very sorry for your loss yeah rip to andy for sure that's yeah rest in power to andy uh and yeah i i i uh thank you for sticking sticking along

with us and I'm happy to be intertwined with the happy memories with Andy another Ohio boy there have you ever been to Dayton Jeff yeah I can't remember why college football game there once do you think Dayton is more popular than Youngstown yeah I think so you've heard of Dayton Youngstown's 8th I think if you're like a a small band, you're probably playing Dayton before you play Youngstown.

That's rough. How far is Dayton, Ohio from like Cahog, Rhode Island?

Pretty far. It's more on the west side there.

It's closer to Cincinnati, so you gotta drive through a lot of Ohio.

Or do you mean like metaphysically?

Like how close to Spiritually.

It's basically the same.

I used to go to Dayton for Ring of Honor shows.

That's why we would go there.

Dayton actually had a hot indie wrestling scene.

lots of indie wrestling shows are there is that AIW Absolute Intention or is that the word Gargano that's all Cleveland oh Cleveland yeah Dayton just had Ring of Honor like show up there all the time so we I went there I saw Brian Brian Danielson there when he was really young it was when Freaking what's his face the British guy does commentary but now Nigel was the champion at the time you saw both those guys in Wembley Stadium later that's right we sure did uh mr manati if you could hit me with some youtube super chats absolutely pretty dude here says so who is the gb crew's favorite una musume i

think it's a gold week we decided right yeah yes let me go through gold ship excuse me there's special week there is a golden week in japan i know this because of persona i was there during that and traffic was insane.

We didn't know what Golden Week was.

Apparently it's just 400 holidays at once.

Yeah, right. It's mega Christmas.

Yeah. Yes. That sounds good fun.

You know, there's vodka.

Vodka's pretty cool.

They just get a vodka, yeah.

Rice shower, I've seen blow up.

I don't think you can say that.

Yeah, that sounds like a special.

No, no, no. It's okay.

I can say that. It sounds like it only happens on anniversaries.

Yeah. Riley Jacket says, we had a cookout and my mother has a jar of relish that was years old, she thinks that expiration dates are a suggestion.

No, those are put there for a reason.

There's different ones.

There's expiration dates, and then there's Best Buy, which is a fake thing.

Yes. Best Buy is like, okay, they might be kind of stale or something.

It's like, no, it's to create a sense of urgency so that when you see it, you throw it out, so you have to go buy more.

This is misinformation.

Expiration date is real, though.

Okay, good to know.

Sean J says, you should do a 900 in Tony X Broski in episode episode 900 or we should jeff okay you got you got a good amount of time or what episode number is this uh 90 okay you're two months can you learn how to do a shoot 900 in two months jeff grubb i mean look if i had decent health insurance someone to train me i bet i could do a like 540 not like the you would get hurt before an injury would absolutely it'll be one of those things where it goes off into the styrofoam and not like yeah yeah right if i was in a perfect training facility with all of the advantages i think i could do a 900

without landing it like i could do a 900 into the styrofoam i'll tell you what out of an airplane i could do one yeah you'll see me do a 900 in that tony hawks pro skater three plus four quick look that's probably gonna go up later today do you think grub if you lived at rob deer decks fantasy factory you could train up in two months to do a 900 i i mean i i think if it's like the way i obsess over things and if it was like if I was doing it every day for two months I think I'd get pretty close McTwist seems really hard people are saying that would be yeah 540 McTwist seems very difficult I don't

know I'm gonna get Ninja Turtles manual from the new one uh well go ahead is is Rob Dyrdek still doing things you think we could be friends ridiculousness is on 24 7 on MTV it's all they play yeah we should just do ridiculousness but but here yeah that sounds is great done all right um dave um mackawicks says can we please have mike and grub separately read a news article and layer them on top of each other i love you all i'll read one he said earlier then uh less than 20 of tony hawk's pro skater 3 plus 4 soundtrack is made up of songs from the original games the tony hawk's pro skater 3 plus

4 remake features only 10 songs from the original games alongside 54 new tracks while some fan favorites are included many others like acdc's TNT are missing.

Tony Hawk stated he personally decided to include a mix of new and classic songs, hoping players would enjoy discovering new music as they did with the original games.

There you go. Well done.

I literally am just doing Jeff's cadence because I've heard him read new stories to me for over a decade now.

Dan, give it a shot.

Oh, we're in the news section there.

less than 20 percent of tony hawk's pro skater 3 plus 4 soundtrack is made out of songs from the original games the tony hawk's pro skater 3 plus 4 remake features only 10 songs from the original games alongside 54 new tracks wow while some fan favorites are included many others like acbc's tnt are missing tony hawk stated he personally decided to include a mix of new and classic songs, hoping players would enjoy discovering new music as I did with the original games.

Well, thanks, Tony.

When did you become Daffy Duck?

I can't believe the nerdy scientists from The Simpsons fucked Daffy Duck and they had a baby together.

But I'm also getting Weird Al Yankovic from that.

Interesting. Incredible.

Rose, if you asked me before that what Daffy Duck's voice sounded like, I wouldn't know, and now apparently it's Daffy.

Willie Jacket says, can I play Uma Musume in public and not be be judged i gotta be honest that jan was just playing in front of me you know among friends and we were judging i was judging him so i think the answer is no i think the answer is no hey hey hey hey hey youtube super chatter be brave choose to be brave live your truth bud uh oh greg says turbo sean was right we should have stopped jan from playing the horse girl game now it's too late and jan is approaching grub levels of degenerate oh dan and i are gonna be the only good boys left here we're the normal ones mike here we are okay all

right all right all right i i want someone i i can't do uh run a poll from the chat interface i have here but someone run a poll who are the badder boys grub and jan or mike and dan oh i think i don't think we're gonna do despite my label as the bad boy i don't know i've seen mike mon 통 basically have a panic attack at the idea you have jaywalking so i was at a rave it's not inherently illegal the list of things he did at the rave was just notice things that were annoying or giving him stress stress yeah it was rough uh ep edf box says is the glue making a mini game or a cut scene i bet we are just

10 years removed from the parody version of this where it gets real weird and like you do turn the girls into glue anyone hey you don't want to say anything do you agree do you disagree we all just wanted a clean reading I guess I was very excited to let that sentence linger uh Elgrock says Kojima needs to make an anime gacha game for Dan I think I would not I would not partake I mean, it's not like you try playing Snatcher, which everybody loves and, you know, you can't just force it because it's Kojima.

No, it's gotta be in a realm of something I would enjoy.

Willie Jenkins says, I got a mortgage to pay.

I don't care what console you are playing.

Going back to our talk about the console wars.

It is like the worst time ever to be a console warrior.

It's so so over. These companies do not care about it.

It was dumb as fuck when kids at recess in 1994 94 were yelling about Genesis 4 Super Nintendo it is just more embarrassing alright but like there was maybe a leg to stand on there like oh they're pretty different systems they're very different yeah like different games even the games that were quote the same were often like a Street Fighter 2 is a different experience yeah Mega Man you know but now it's like oh you're playing Twin Axe Pro Skater 3 plus 4 on an Xbox instead of a PlayStation 5 wow congratulations there's no difference yeah Alex W pieces put this towards Donkey Kong 64 101 101%.

What would we call that?

100 and Mitch percent.

100 and Mitch percent?

I don't know. I thought that had a good ring to it.

100 and Mitch percent.

64 DK, 64 DK rep. Donkey.

Yeah. Donkey. Tocongo.

64. 60 Mitch. We keep saying that he's going to do this and he's going to have to do it.

at some point, it's gonna be amazing I almost shouldn't say it because I guess people want to see me suffer, I don't think I'm gonna mind it that much I thought that too before maybe I'm a fool maybe I'll be put in my place Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Dum Dum Banjo says the DK64 fund is alive and well, thank you Matthew Zengale says now that felt that boxing has been announced, can we get a realistic kaiju game with realistic suits so who's in it pudgy pig that'd be good pigmon oh i would love like a godzilla game that is clearly man in a suit inspired that'd be awesome actually oh that would look

so cool oh someone has to do that i'd love that and then last geek here says when i was 18 i had a son and being a dumb 18 year old kid i named him first name jack middle name Daniels.

Oh, are they going to say Jack Daxter?

No. Let's be clear.

I don't know why my mind went to that.

The kid's middle name would be Off.

No. I was Jack Sparrow and I was going to be embarrassed for him.

Oh, yours were way worse.

He is 18 now. And my question is, do you think this dumb bit can benefit him in any way?

Free Jakes would be, oh, yeah.

From 21 to 26 i think people will like that his name is jack daniels and then he's gonna go by jd after that yeah yeah but uh with that uh i was trying to think of how you could turn hennessy to like a name oh henry did did you guys see what i named my island and fantasy island this was very good fancy life i the girl who stole time yeah so i named it it's like one word with a comma No Man Isn't Island.

No Man Isn't Island.

It looks better when you see it.

I was cracking up. No Man Isn't Island.

When I tuned in to Mega Man last night, your character was wearing a turban and then I felt put off.

No, it's because he looks like the Dragon Quest V character.

I'm a mage. I cast spells.

It's a day for Mike.

just like anyone with a turban right we don't need a turban it's fine alright thank you Mike Minotti for like that guy from Harry Potter who's actually the bad guy was a big remember he was hiding Voldemort in the back of his head racially intensive stuff from JK Rowling I know how strange god even then I thought the name Cho Chang was offensive it's strange it is and I'm a different kind of Asian uh thank you Mike Minotti for the YouTube super chats What do we got going on for the rest of this week boys We got a new season of Blight Club Starting tomorrow Dan any last minute guesses I'm stuck

on Family Guy now Simpsons Maybe I'm being too myopic Down that license Specifically Fox animated hole I do think it's license I'm just trying to think of what other possible thing it could be That Kayla would have known about Are you familiar With maybe like The aughts of cartoons tunes um i had a weird hang up about that um about like adult swimming and stuff like that it was for stoners and um yeah i'll just show you what the costume is going to be do you want to see it man i'll put it in the chat with me and sean yeah i'm gonna all right hang on uh we have game s mornings popping off for the rest of the week

uh wednesday thursday friday right grub uh that's right uh we'll be back uh we'll have some cool people on there jane will probably Probably have you on Thursday or something.

It'll be a good time.

Looking forward to it.

Thank God. I'm one of the cool people.

Some light changes coming to GMM fairly, fairly soon.

Yeah, just visual changes.

We're just sprucing things up again.

Some cool stuff. I like what I've seen.

Yes, exactly. Some cool people helping us out to make things look neat, and I'm all for it.

Myst and Mega Man were yesterday.

Mike continued his journey with Grub and I through Myst, and Mike had played through Fantasy Life, i the girl who what is it she stole time i haven't gross i don't know which girl stole time yet i have my suspicions though fantastic fantastic tomorrow we got grubs uh grab bag you're gonna be playing through so we i put it to a vote and i guess the vote's still up i haven't checked but it was kind of was kind of a runaway winner early on and it was uh basically what should i do for this show and it was uh should i do a grub snacks should i do this or that uh one of the options was one of the steam

grab bags the grub bags where i we just do random weird stuff on steam where like i have you all choose a word we search that word and then we just download a bunch of games and try them out uh so we're going to be doing that likely during the grubs gimmick segment after gmm tomorrow before uh before we get to blight club fantastic fantastic voicemail dump truck with a very special guest this week uh but before the dump truck this week we got the jan tucky derby that's right we're going to race some horses it's going to be a great time I feel like y 'all are going to the thing is I feel like I

like to pretend that I give off a cool persona a calm cool persona here amongst y 'all now that I own this company as well that mask is slowly coming down and the degenerate is just showing horse girls horse girls horse girls I texted texted barbara jan during the show of like hey how what do i got to do to get a mullet and then he was just he just texted me a gif um of of bird man like rubbing his hands together and then on friday gang we are going to a cruise that's right uh the four of us are going to have another punishment stream uh for upf this week where we see who can get to the cruise

at the end of tony hawk brew skater three the fastest uh should we uh should be like are we gonna need to beat the uh goals in the cruise or should just be like hop in the water you know i just want to hop in the water okay go overboard first to go overboard overboard yeah yeah uh jan can you uh can you photoshop up is it the adam sandler going overboard adam and i think the cover of it man uh Look at the images.

It's the one where he's going, like, we've got to do that.

So Photoshop was doing that thing.

Okay, I'll just copy and paste them several times of us going, that's exactly.

All right. Anything else we got going on this week, boys?

Or things to plug? Oh, quick look for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 4 going up later today.

You boys are going to go try and record another derby of sorts.

A demo derby. No horse girls allowed in this derby.

It will be a pretty derby.

it's so fucking family guy because that's the possibility of a slur that makes perfect sense it's family guy there's always a possibility of a slur that tracks with every single thing that Kayla would have immediately recognized it and thought it'd be funny it's a bad game it's a game that would have had a slur in it it's it's family guy I hate family guy that about does it for this week's episode of the Giant Bombcast the road Road to Episode 900 continues.

Until then, he's been Dan.

He's been Grubb. He's been Mike.

I've been Jed. And you at home have been quite bonita.

Peeta. Well, see you next week.

Yes, these are all Family Guy references.

That's a very bad game as well.

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[자이언트 밤캐스트 898화: 토니 호크, 라이가, 그리고 '말 소녀' 게임에 빠진 제안]-[898: Deathtiny]

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자이언트 밤캐스트 898화: 게임과 추억의 향연

토니 호크 프로 스케이터 3+4의 귀환

NES 클래식 'Rygar'와 닌텐도 스위치 온라인

'Uma Musume Pretty Derby'와 Jan의 새로운 취미

마이크로소프트의 대규모 해고와 Xbox의 미래

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