The Horniest Episode Ever - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast

Episode: The Horniest Episode Ever
Release Date: February 14, 2025
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez
Description: A deep dive into video game reviews, previews, and analyses covering the latest from PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and more.

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1. Hosting Challenges and Late-Night Gaming Sessions ([00:08] - [02:37])

The episode kicks off with Tim Gettys welcoming listeners on Valentine’s Day, highlighting a blend of holiday cheer with the usual gaming banter. The conversation quickly shifts to Snowbike Mike's recent late-night gaming session with Elden Ring.

Notable Quote:

• Snowbike Mike ([01:10]): "January 18th, send me old voice memo. Mike, sign up. It's time for a code sound society. He didn't answer, of course."

Discussion Points:

• Mike's marathon gaming from 3:00 AM to 6:30 AM and the subsequent frustration over his lack of response regarding game codes.
• The hosts express their disappointment over Mike's unresponsiveness, especially when he prioritized streaming Exoborn over continuing their Elden Ring sessions.

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2. Elden Ring Crossovers and the Integrity of FromSoftware ([02:38] - [15:00])

The conversation delves into the future of Elden Ring, particularly focusing on potential crossovers and the sustainability of its content.

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Gettys ([05:25]): "I'm only being a little bit. I can't say this word. For some reason, my mouth doesn't work that way. Facetious. Facetious."
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([08:00]): "If FromSoftware loves money so much and they're willing to do anything for money, where is Bloodborne?"

Discussion Points:

• Elden Ring's announced DLCs like "Night Rain" and skepticism about integrating characters from other franchises such as Bloodborne or Monster Hunter.
• The hosts debate the likelihood of crossovers, emphasizing FromSoftware's dedication to maintaining the integrity of their own universes.
• An exploration of FromSoftware's reputation for quality and consistency, discussing how their passion projects differ from purely profit-driven initiatives.
• Transition into a broader discussion about game remasters vs. remakes, using titles like Devil May Cry, Onimusha, and Dark Souls as examples.
  • Tim Gettys articulates the distinction: "If the game happens and 3D objects are the same looking and the game just goes up to 4K and the textures look sharper but the 3D models are the exact same, then that's a remaster."

Insights:

• The hosts appreciate how Devil May Cry 3 stands out as a pinnacle in the series, lauding its gameplay and storytelling.
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. reflects on the evolution of Capcom during the PS2 era, noting its significant impact on action games.

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3. Super Chats and In-Depth Game Discussions ([33:29] - [67:48])

After skipping the advertisement segment, the podcast resumes with audience interactions through Super Chats, leading into expansive discussions on various games and personal anecdotes.

Notable Quotes:

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([47:03]): "Huey posts on Instagram. Like, you know how he's like, you know, his current life, his wife and all this stuff..."
• Snowbike Mike ([51:47]): "I just can't show that on Twitch. Wow."

Discussion Points:

• Audience Engagement: The hosts respond to listener comments, debating potential crossovers and game features, such as incorporating characters like Hatsune Miku into Elden Ring.
• Game Analysis:
  • Blessing shares his first-time experience playing Dark Souls, expressing excitement and anticipation for the series.
  • Tim Gettys discusses Devil May Cry 3 in-depth, highlighting memorable scenes and gameplay mechanics.
  • Snowbike Mike and Blessing exchange opinions on Avowed and The Outer Worlds, critiquing narrative elements and character development.
• Personal Stories:
  • Tim reminisces about his early gaming days and friendships that influenced his gaming preferences, particularly his introduction to the Souls series.
  • Blessing reflects on past podcasts and long-lost friends, sharing heartfelt memories that tie back to their gaming experiences.
• Romantic Gaming Narratives: In honor of Valentine’s Day, the hosts discuss their favorite video game romances, sharing personal favorites and debating the depth of in-game relationships.
  • Tim Gettys ([50:37]): "Mine is Pan Am and in Cyberpunk, if you know, you know."
  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([50:57]): "Cloud and Tifa and FS7 Rebirth did something to me. No, like, changed something in my brain."

Insights:

• The hosts emphasize the emotional connections players develop with game characters and narratives, highlighting the importance of storytelling in gaming.
• They express a desire for more engaging and surprising content in games, advocating for deeper character development and unexpected plot twists.

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4. Upcoming Streams and Concluding Thoughts ([67:00] - [67:48])

As the episode nears its end, the hosts preview upcoming content and streams, encouraging listener participation.

Notable Quotes:

• Tim Gettys ([67:20]): "What are your favorite video game romances? Mine is Pan Am and in Cyberpunk, if you know, you know."
• Snowbike Mike ([67:33]): "You just come up with a list of the definitive top 10 worst remastered. Pun."

Discussion Points:

• Upcoming Streams: The hosts announce future streams, including Blessing playing Dark Souls for the first time and Mike's continued adventures in Avowed.
• Listener Interaction: Encouragement for listeners to share their gaming plans for Valentine’s Day and engage with the hosts during live streams.
• Closing Remarks: The hosts wrap up with a mix of humor and heartfelt messages, tying back to the Valentine’s Day theme and their ongoing gaming journeys.

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Key Takeaways:

• Host Dynamics: The chemistry among Tim, Blessing, Mike, and Andy is evident, blending humor with in-depth gaming discussions.
• Elden Ring Focus: A significant portion of the episode centers on Elden Ring, its DLCs, and the potential for game crossovers, reflecting the game's prominence in the gaming community.
• Game Remasters vs. Remakes: The hosts provide clear definitions and thoughtful comparisons, offering listeners a deeper understanding of the industry's practices.
• Emotional Connections: Emphasizing the impact of storytelling and character development in games, the podcast highlights why certain games resonate deeply with players.
• Community Engagement: Active participation through Super Chats and listener interactions underscores the podcast's commitment to building a vibrant gaming community.

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Highlights with Quotes:

• Frustration Over Communication:

  • Snowbike Mike ([01:10]): "He didn't answer... I just can't anymore."

• Debating Game Crossovers:

  • Tim Gettys ([04:31]): "They don't have integrity FromSoftware."
  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([08:00]): "If FromSoftware loves money so much... where is Bloodborne?"

• Defining Remasters vs. Remakes:

  • Tim Gettys ([03:18]): "Aperitif is just a little."

• Favorite Game Romances:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([50:57]): "Cloud and Tifa and FS7 Rebirth did something to me."

• Listener Recommendations:

  • Tim Gettys ([33:29]): "Omega Buster says a near to be Elden Ring crossover. No, I don't think that doesn't work."

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This episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast masterfully balances humor, personal anecdotes, and in-depth game analysis, offering listeners both entertainment and insightful commentary on the evolving landscape of video gaming.

Transcript

[Snowbike Mike]

Foreign.

[Tim Gettys]

Valentine's Day, everybody. Welcome to the kind of Funny games cast for Friday, February 14, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I am joined on this lovely day by blessing Adioia Junior.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Good Valentine's Day, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Good Valentine's Day to you. I don't know why I said it that way. And the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez.

[Snowbike Mike]

I woke up and I just thought about St. Valentine today.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Rest in peace wherever he's at, the guy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I was thinking about Vincent Valentine. I often do you get a haircut, Andy?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I like it. Yeah, A little trim ski. Just getting unwieldy.

[Tim Gettys]

You play some of that Elden ring.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Last night at 3:00am?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, no, I can't.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Can you believe Mike did for some reason? Yes. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Can you believe he played until 6:30am Plus?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, because I thought I turned off at like 6. Was it 3:30 to 6:30?

[Tim Gettys]

I think so. I don't know.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm just so sick of him. Like Mike, I'm just so sick of him. Dude. Yeah, like he didn't get a code.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because he didn't sign up because he.

[Snowbike Mike]

Didn'T respond to my text.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

January 18th, send me old voice memo. Mike, sign up. It's time for a code sound society. He didn't answer, of course. And then it always makes me feel bad when I think of other random changes. Like, yeah, Mike doesn't answer his dms. Like, yeah, he doesn't respond to us either. It's okay. And then yesterday he's like, I'm not gonna be playing this week. I'm going out of town. Text him yesterday or two days ago. When are you going out of town? Because if not, if you want to play with me and bless on Friday night, I have an extra code for you. No response. He just sends me back the code for Exoborn, the game that we ended up streaming. He said, here's the code for Exoborn. Never responded to the Elden Ring thing that I just asked him.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, of course.

[Snowbike Mike]

Forty seconds prior to that. And then chat is telling me last night when I'm streaming, Mike's throwing a fit on Twitter asking for an Elden Ring code. It's like, please act like a normal. I'm so sick of you. You just act like a human being and respond to a text message once. Just once. Just. I just can't anymore. I'm just so like, I.

[Tim Gettys]

It Andy.

[Snowbike Mike]

Frustrating.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel you. I get it. The frustration is real. But I'm. I'm letting you Know right now I'm feeling like an intense. Just whiplash because me and Mike just rocked games daily. Bless. There's a Friday energy.

[Snowbike Mike]

And Andy, I hate to bring you down, but blame Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

I need you to get up on this.

[Snowbike Mike]

He brought my energy.

[Tim Gettys]

I need you to get excited because this man put his life on the line. Snowbike Mike waited till 3am to play a video game till 6:30am and then he had to host games daily. And he only mispronounced a few words. Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Wow. That's really good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's really good.

[Tim Gettys]

Crushed it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Pass out in the middle of our Dark Souls.

[Tim Gettys]

I do. Yeah. Well, that's. There's a lot of exciting things happening today, including. Bless. Playing Dark Souls for the first time. I kind of want to give you guys a little aperitif before we get into the. What?

[Snowbike Mike]

Shut the. You made that Gen Pokemon.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that gen 5 is when they started getting weird. Apertif is just a little.

[Snowbike Mike]

How do you spell that?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Is that like another word for appetizer?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I think. Yeah, it is.

[Snowbike Mike]

Apper.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Apper. Teeth.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

A usually low. Can be bitter, sparkling. It's an alcoholic beverage served before a meal to stimulate the appetite. Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what I'm trying to do right now. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to.

[Andy Cortez]

You're going to question the man who married Gia Gettys.

[Tim Gettys]

She knows all about the mouth.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I didn't know about the aperitifs. I didn't know if it was alcohol related. I just thought.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, me either.

[Tim Gettys]

That's where we're starting, everybody. We had a fun discussion that I. I think I kind of like tapped into something today on Games Daily that I want to bring up to you two in particular. Okay. Elden. Ring Night Reign. It's great. Huge success. And he's played at a ton. Like, he knows it's going to be good. This is kind of delivering what people like him want. Soon we'll find out if it's what people like you want.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, for sure.

[Tim Gettys]

And I think it's going to be great. All that stuff. It's gonna be. It's gonna hit. They announced the dlc. They're about to make a lot of money. They're gonna put microtransactions. It's all gonna happen. We know it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Or dlc. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, there was like a store thing or like a. Yeah, like a store thing. Where those future DLC listed for Night Rain.

[Snowbike Mike]

Nice.

[Tim Gettys]

There's gonna be future bosses and stuff.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

More bosses.

[Snowbike Mike]

Nice.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah. So all that stuff's happening, right? Cool, cool. And like, sure, whatever. We don't know. Yes, we do. I don't think so much money from this stuff. My question to both of you. We like. Let's just assume this game hits. Okay? That's the working hypothesis that we have.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Assumption.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. Game hits. They keep adding bosses. They eventually run out of souls bosses because there's only so many souls bosses you can do. Maybe they add a new one here, an old one there. Maybe they find some way to get the bloodborne, all that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Snowbike Mike]

This game is going to get modded to hell too. It's very exciting.

[Tim Gettys]

But officially, at what point are we getting Monster Hunter monsters in here? At what point are we getting Bahamut from Final Fantasy?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's not going to happen.

[Tim Gettys]

Nikki Minaj, the Ninja Turtles.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, from has too much integrity because.

[Tim Gettys]

I just saw them jumping in with some gliders. I'm just saying.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What about gliders? Does not. What about gliders? Take away integrity from a game.

[Tim Gettys]

Honestly. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's a mechanic. It's a mechanic.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When Nicki Minaj enters from Software's Night Rain, that's not the name of the game. But when she does, then we can have this conversation.

[Tim Gettys]

Here's my thing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Don't be no Nicky.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm only being a little bit. I can't say this word. For some reason, my mouth doesn't work that way. Facetious. Facetious.

[Snowbike Mike]

You nailed it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you go. Nicki Minaj is not going to be in this. But. And I also don't know his name. Is it Raos Rathalos?

[Snowbike Mike]

You did a Mark Ruffalo.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mark Ruffalo? Somebody photoshopped Mark.

[Tim Gettys]

I am now, as of this morning, convinced that you Elden Ring are going to fight Rathalos at some point. Why?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's not even the same company.

[Tim Gettys]

When has that ever stopped anybody from doing anything? Once you glide, you don't come back. Everybody just crossed over with Pokemon Go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Bless.

[Snowbike Mike]

Anything could happen.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, but from software is weird. From software is very specific. They're very particular.

[Tim Gettys]

Until they start making insane amounts of money to fund their passion projects, the Souls games.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Look, here's funded Elden Ring sold like tens of millions.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool.

[Snowbike Mike]

The reason why I don't feel this way and the reason why I was worried initially until I was, you know, my, my, my worries were stuffed in a sack is because I thought this is just a Bandai Namco project. And that's where I was mainly worried about it. If this is just Bandai Namco, if this was hey, from software, keep making all the other things you're going to do, we're going to take your shit and make this thing out of your thing. We have a little side studio here, working on it. But this is still the FromSoftware team making this, you know, passion project because it's the director from the shadow of the Erdtree dlc. And you know, it's not necessarily Miyazaki led, but it is people that have veterans that have been from software for years and years and years. I don't see this. I. I'm willing to bet my life that I will never fight a Rathalist.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I will also bet my life that you will never find it like not.

[Tim Gettys]

Man, I love you guys.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't even think you will see bloodborne characters in this. That's how. How far I'm willing to go. It's like I don't even think I'm.

[Tim Gettys]

Willing to go that. I think that Rothlos is more likely than bloodborne, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know what? I agree.

[Snowbike Mike]

I agree. Actually, I'm with you on bloodborne. Yeah, I don't think that'll happen either.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think just because PlayStation doesn't want to let Xbox players fight. What's the man, the first guy with the hat? Father.

[Snowbike Mike]

Father Gascoigne.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Father G. Papa G. Night is being directed by Junya Ishizaki, who worked on a designer on Dark Souls. Who worked as a designer on Dark Souls, Bloodborne Dark Souls 3 and Elden.

[Tim Gettys]

Ring Nunya Ika Ishizaki. Yep, it's confirmed. He likes money. He likes money. And he's going to continue to like money and he's going to make a lot of money, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, here's what I'll throw back.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm going to bet my life.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If from Software loves money so much and they're willing to do anything for money, where the is bloodborne?

[Tim Gettys]

Why haven't they brought back bloodborne?

[Andy Cortez]

That's not on them, that's on PlayStation.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, but I think PlayStation will be down here.

[Tim Gettys]

They are making competitive live services from software. Suck the money from your fucking wallet.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Andy walked into the offices of PlayStation, went, We want to do something with Bloodborne. Guess what? Bloodborne's happening.

[Tim Gettys]

I want to be clear. I'm not saying anything like this is a bad thing. Make a fucking good game, do cool good things. Give people content. They're going to pay for it and.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me play as Mickey Mouse.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think it is a bad thing.

[Tim Gettys]

All Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Keep wrath wolves out of my fucking Elden Ring game.

[Tim Gettys]

He's coming in, y'all.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, he's gonna. It's not gonna happen.

[Snowbike Mike]

All right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Raffles is such a specific. Out of all the games, Monster Hunter.

[Tim Gettys]

He was a Boston Super Smash Brothers.

[Snowbike Mike]

All right, cool.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what I know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

All right, that's fair.

[Snowbike Mike]

I was more. I was wondering that too, but I was more focused on the discussion.

[Tim Gettys]

But then also in Pokemon Go, like I opened this up and they're like, hey, maybe you want to play Monster Hunter? Rothos is there. And I'm just like, okay, cool. Clearly he's the mascot of this franchise and he's down to clown in any franchise. Capcom's not even asking for money. They're begging. They're just like, put him. Put this dragon in your game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think you'll fight a mech from Armored Core before Raffles.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I. And if they do that, I think that'll be really cool. Can you imagine?

[Snowbike Mike]

Can you imagine, dude?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Can you imagine fighting a mech from already?

[Snowbike Mike]

That would be really neat.

[Tim Gettys]

It's gonna happen, everybody. It's gonna happen. This is kind of funny. Games cast each and every weekday weeks together to talk about video games. Sometimes we have a full ass plan for a gamescast and sometimes we like, you know what, it's a Friday, so we're just going to hang out, kind of talk about what we've been playing. But more importantly, if y'all have things for us to talk about, some fun, juicy. If y'all have some hot takes you want us to put in our mouth, spit back out and just be like, I don't know about that, you weirdo. Super. Chat him in and we'll do just that. Bless wants to do that, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm be honest, I didn't hear a word you said.

[Tim Gettys]

Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. I can always tell when Bless is just not listening. It's the housekeeping. We got some good housekeeping though today. Some of that includes me and Mike just had a banger kind of funny games daily. And then after this, we got a banger game showdown coming up. Continuing the season. Will I dominate?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Probably give a pre apology for the game showdown. I finished the episode. I was like, I looked at Roger. I was like, I'm not feeling great about that one.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But hey, I think it's an entertaining episode. So y'all definitely watch that game showdown.

[Tim Gettys]

One of the rare pre recorded game showdowns. So yeah, definitely. Check it out, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was like, I was thinking about asking Roger of like, what are the chances we could re record a new cute Showdown episode?

[Snowbike Mike]

Just keep your notifications muted.

[Tim Gettys]

God, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If you watch this episode of Game Showdown and you feel some type of way, guess what? I know. All right, I'm with you.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, I get it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I understand.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's all I'll say.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm happy you understand.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's a good tease.

[Tim Gettys]

But like I was saying, after that, we have a very, very special stream. What are you guys doing?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We're playing Dark Souls. I'm playing Dark Souls for the first time. I'm picking it up.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I've been putting it off. I've been wanting to play Dark Souls forever. Of course, I love Elden Ring, I love Psycho, I love Bloodborne, but I still haven't played that Core Soul series. Me, Andy, the one and only Snowbank Mikey, who doesn't fall asleep are gonna play Dark Souls for the first time.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I am.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They've got some costumes.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, Dark Souls.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I mean, no, no, I mean, I don't really know where you get those. Yeah, I just bought some stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm so excited to see whatever this is. Andy, this is your birthday weekend.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You're starting off right. You got a lot of Elden Ring Night rain juice flowing all over you. You got Dark Souls for the first time. How excited are you about the Dark Souls element? Sitting next to blast, experiencing Dark Souls 1.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, it's my favorite thing to do where I, you know, to watch people I care about experience the things that I care about. Because ultimately I know I've got great taste, right? So it's like when I sit somebody down, I'm like, hey, you sit here, watch Goddamn the Prestige with me. Watch, Watch Goddamn, you know, Breaking Bad with me. And to. I want to just watch Bless, sort of like see where it all started. And sure, you might go about it and be like, oh, this is, you know, what a neat little thing they're doing here.

[Tim Gettys]

How.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, how quaint. How cute of them to be making that. And there's going to be awesome level design discoveries. And I'm like, how did they do this? Like, how the fuck were they this on it this early? Ah, excited.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy, speaking of sharing things with people you love, I share that with you Oftentimes we talk about this. I love seeing you share those things with you. I haven't told you this yet, but Han Zimmer, the concert tour that I saw, they're putting it in theaters. They're doing like a movie version of it. I Bought me a new tickets. Oh, I don't. I'll have to tell you details later, but yeah, sometime in March. Daily City. We're going to have a good time.

[Snowbike Mike]

Matt. Can you imagine though if we were also if I was like on the ball and got tickets for the Final Fantasy Rebirth concert?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm so bummed.

[Snowbike Mike]

The double feature.

[Tim Gettys]

They sold the out. Plus San Jose Rebirth with an orchestra. They sold out like a year ago too.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, wait, wasn't there. Isn't there one in sf?

[Tim Gettys]

No, there's not. No, there's not. Damn bad times.

[Snowbike Mike]

That really bums me out because I was like, I would love to hear. I mean, well, just all of it. Yeah, but I'm thinking of freaking. What is it, Mount Olympus or what's it called?

[Tim Gettys]

Mount Coral.

[Snowbike Mike]

That one. Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Anyway, the stream is going to be absolutely amazing. So check that out if you're kind of funny. Member of course you can get today's Greg Way. The last couple great ways have been great. We have Mike and Bless Playing Magic. We all also have Mike getting really upset at Roger for ruining his birthday. I don't know if you guys heard, but every day is Mike's birthday. Have you heard this?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, there was a.

[Andy Cortez]

There was a very big kind of conversation happening while you guys were recording in review yesterday that got so heated that at one point when Nick Scarpino in the middle of the interview slacked, hey, could what have you closed the door to the studio? And then that led into Mike recording at Greg Ways. So just know that energy, that's where it's coming.

[Snowbike Mike]

I recorded my Greg Way on the. On the drive in.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Wow.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't have a phone mount, but I have this little. I have. I have this little kickstand. It's on my case and I shoved it into like my front console, sort of. Yeah, almost like the vent.

[Tim Gettys]

But it's like.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's like where the radio kind of meets where the vent is going to be. And it was really tilted and probably really up, but I had my little microphone set, so that sounds good at least. And I talked to Chad about Valentine's Day. I talked to him about video games and talked to him about an update on the Pokemon Nuzlocke 2.0, which is.

[Tim Gettys]

We're getting closer and closer to very.

[Snowbike Mike]

We're getting close. There's no definitive date yet, but there is in our minds. We just haven't told you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I also stopped at Krispy Kreme pick up donuts.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you so much for that. But Also, I hate you so much.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, no problem. I got you, Doug.

[Tim Gettys]

I just love sucking down these donuts, man. You don't even chew them like Krispy Kreme.

[Snowbike Mike]

They just kind of suck it.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Snowbike Mike]

Although I'm kind of. I'm not. I'm feeling a little suspicious about the raspberry filled one. It looks not right. It looks like it was maybe under done or something.

[Tim Gettys]

It's.

[Snowbike Mike]

It doesn't look normal.

[Tim Gettys]

I didn't look at it, but I did see it. And I want you to know very much. I was like, I hope somebody eats it before this games cast is over. Because if it's still there, it won't be there. Okay. Are you the ones who get them? I love those. Oh.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because I always get one figuring that nobody's gonna eat this one. And when I go back, it's always gone like, damn, somebody's eating it good.

[Tim Gettys]

It's me. I suck down the jelly and I suck down just the original. I don't do any of the other ones.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, well, maybe we should take a look at this one together, because I. I would love a piece of it. But it also just doesn't look right. Yeah, boy, don't look. That boy ain't right. It looks. It just doesn't look plump like they usually are. It's a little bit flatter. It looks wet.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's kind of sad.

[Snowbike Mike]

It looks real wet.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Flat and wet. Yeah. I know what that's like.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, man. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Delaney Twining, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Karen Lindner. Today we're brought to you by Rocket Money, Shady Rays, and Better Help. But we'll tell you all about that later. I'm seeing a whole bunch of super chats coming in that I like. Please continue getting your questions in super chat form and we will get to those. I do want to talk to you boys real quick about some shit that I've been playing. I just have to bless a little bit about this on Games Daily earlier in the week. But thank you so much. I forgot about that. We have two important things happening in my life. Capcom just keeps delivering things for me. The cap gods, Onimusha. We keep just getting information on this. Like how in the last, like, month and a half, I went from not hearing the word oni musha for years to like, Capcom won't let two days go by without something happening.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right. We've been in three showcases.

[Tim Gettys]

I know, man. It's. It's absolutely wild. But then, in addition to that, we are about a month away from the Devil May Cry Addie Shankar anime coming out on Netflix. He's been teasing that a lot. I'm getting incredibly hyped about it, and I'm like, all right. I'm kind of feeling. Feeling nostalgic a little bit. I often do. But I was like, I want to go back. I want to replay through Onimusha 1 because I want to be ready for when 2 comes out later this year and I want to play some Devil May Cry. But I didn't know which one I wanted to go back to. I'd beaten one three years ago or so. So I was like, I'm gonna jump straight to three.

[Snowbike Mike]

The og.

[Tim Gettys]

Like the og, but the, like the remaster version. But it's like, it's remastered in that way of like, you know, the PS2 to PS3 type remaster. It's not like a super crazy fancy anything but. But the Switch version in particular of Devil May Cry 3, surprisingly, is kind of the definitive way to play it without mods. Because they're on PC, you can mod the game. A big part of what three introduced, Devil May Cry, was different styles. So like Trickster or Royal Guard, which is more of like the Perry type situation classes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You just confirmed that I have played devil may cry 3. I always wondered if, like, have I picked that game up. But yeah, I remember that.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that system kind of carried on for the rest of the Devil May Cry. So that existed in four, I'm pretty sure, and then in five as well. But the cool thing about the. The switch version is that you can free that do freestyle mode, which allows you to switch between the different stances on the fly. So not only can you switch between your guns and switch between your swords or melee weapons, you can also switch between the different styles that give you different abilities. So Trickster allows you to kind of have this like, dash move. Royal Guard allows you to have a counter.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay. I was. What I was assuming was your weapons would be treated differently without the. With these different classes. And I. I was. I was wondering, like, what's the tank version of the guns? What? It's the Royal Guard version of the guns, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no, no. So the. The abilities and weapons are still the same.

[Snowbike Mike]

Cool.

[Tim Gettys]

It's the coolest.

[Snowbike Mike]

So cool, man.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, so you. You still. You get your weapons, you can upgrade the weapons, and then you can also level up your different stances the more you play with them. And one of the. The stances is Gunslinger, which I. I want to like gameplay wise more than I actually do. But there is nothing cooler than it. It allows you to be shooting one way and then shoot the other way. So both hands are kind of shooting. And it's just so damn stylish and so damn cool. But it's really interesting because Devil May Cry three is the. The origin story of Dante and Virgil. So it's like a prequel, right? Dante's Awakening is the the subtitle of it. And it is, I'd say by far the best of the original Devil May Cry games. I think that actually it's probably the best overall, period. Like there's maybe a debate between it and five, but I think majority of people would say three is the shit. But it's a very, very old game. Like PS2, late generation PS2, but still like 2005, six maybe. So we're talking pretty old game. Animusha, on the other hand, Super Old Game 2001, it came out one of the early PS2 games, if I remember correctly. It was even one of the blue bottom discs, which meant it was a cd.

[Snowbike Mike]

Man, those are cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Which they moved on from pretty quickly. But Animusha and Devil May Cry, both Capcom, both a lot of lineage to Resident Evil, which is really kind of interesting to see how they are similar to that franchise, but then how they branched out. And I think it's very fascinating to be playing these games in 2025 after we've just had back to back years of these re remakes and seeing like how far that kind of gameplay theory can be in a modern game. But like where it kind of came from advanced.

[Snowbike Mike]

Go for it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Plus my question is because we talk about this all the time. Dove May Cry and On a Musha having roots in Resident Evil. Can you explain more of what that means? Is it that like they started off as Resident Evil games and then turned into their individual franchise?

[Snowbike Mike]

Like a dino crisis situation?

[Tim Gettys]

I might get a little a couple of these things wrong because like I'm back in the day, I wasn't that up on their names of the directors and all that stuff of exactly who does what. But from what I remember, Devil May Cry. So Animusha came first and then Devil May Cry was not that long after Devil May Cry was the original Resident Evil 4. So they were working on it as Resident Evil 4 and then kind of took a turn and pivoted to it like, oh, this is very much its own thing. Way more gothic, way more just like actiony.

[Snowbike Mike]

Then what was it? Always I'm asking questions that you May not know, but, like, was it always meant to be this Dante fella with two guns and a sword and.

[Tim Gettys]

Or don't know about that, but I think.

[Snowbike Mike]

Or once they started feeling the vibe, they're like, actually, let's go way harder into this direction and change it up completely.

[Tim Gettys]

I need to watch YouTube video on this. Like, really? Because back in the day I was obsessed with this, like, reading the information in, like, egm.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I do have a Wikipedia entry here for Devil May Cry where they say the series alludes to Italian poet Dante's divine comedy. Hideki Kamiya created Devil May Cry after a failed attempt to develop a Resident Evil game. With the first game originally being conceived as Resident Evil 4, Kamiya wanted to create a game with more action features, which Capcom felt the series did not need. The games were directed by Hideaki Itsuno and writer Bingo Morihashi. Capcom announced a new game. They go on. But, yeah, essentially, yeah, start off as Resident Evil 4.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So I mean, like, that's kind of the history of it, but it's pretty quickly became its own thing. And obviously we know what happened with Resident Evil 4, which is just kind of wild. But that kind of goes back to what I was saying about bringing in the. The modern remakes of. You can see the lineage of this gameplay design. But to get to Resident Evil 4, even the original one and like, RE2 remake, it's like, God, there's so much DNA that is similar. But it is incredible how ahead of its time Resident Evil 4 was, because I feel like we just kind of spent 20 years after that getting Resident Evil 2 to just play more like four, you know what I mean? Like, and so then going back to the super more actiony Devil May Cry, but again, going back to Animusha, which wasn't, if I remember correctly, didn't start as a Resident Evil, but it's very much a Resident Evil successor. It is. It is the exact same gameplay as RE1, 2 and 3. Tank controls. You're getting different little puzzle rooms that allow you to get an item to put in a wall somewhere to open a door. Like, it is straight the fuck up Resident Evil, but you replace the guns with. With swords and bows, bows and arrows and things like that. But the. There is a bit more of a focus on action and like, sword fighting and things like that. But it is so interesting to me where I'm playing this and I'm like, this does not seem like you can see the end of it. Like, you cannot go to the more modern version of It. And. And the closest thing would be. I'm not saying it's a souls like, but the more methodical, like, every. Your health is going to die if you just hack and slash through some of these bosses. Like, it is all about positioning and like, making sure that you are using the exact right attacks against these bosses. In.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're not button mashing.

[Tim Gettys]

Not button mashing. You're button mashing to left and right against the normal enemies. But once you get to these big guys, I'm like, whoa, this is crazy that they really tried doing something dramatically different from. From Resident Evil in terms of battle. Now here I'm saying all this just to. To get to a. A very interesting point for me where Animus is about five hours long. Devil May Cry is about ten hours long. Three. All right. Not that many years apart. Animusha is rough. Even the remaster gets rid of the tank control so you can kind of like fully 3D walk around. But if you notice here, you cannot move your camera.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

It is fixed camera angles that just cut as you move around the room. And it does not change to where you need it to be.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So you are fighting a freaking boss. And that becomes the gameplay. That becomes the. Like, you gotta position yourself or you about to get.

[Snowbike Mike]

You gotta know, if I step two steps over here, it's gonna change the camera angle to one I don't like. So I need to stay here. It's.

[Andy Cortez]

It's wild how long video games kept this. And I'm only going to shout this out because I thought about putting it in my Naughty Dog script. But this kind of stuff is in Uncharted 1, where, like, they have fixed camera angles depending on, like, how, like where you are in a room and then you can't control the camera anymore. And it's like, how was this a thing until 2007, 2008?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Like, I think I don't want to be out of turn, but definitely, like, some early. Not early, but some, like, late 2000s, early 2010s, like cinematic adventure games. I'm thinking things like Heavy Rain, maybe Telltale. Like any game with fixed angles, I don't think they ever figured it out. For fixed angles where you're walking one direction, camera cuts, and like, you're holding the same direction, but, like, now you're.

[Andy Cortez]

Going a different direction.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Are you going a different direction?

[Snowbike Mike]

Right. Or whatever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, I don't think there was ever a clean solution for that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I've never minded the. The. The old school sort of fixed cameras. It's just Whenever we're seeing a situation like that, I think to them, the game developers, they go more camera angles, more, you know, I guess more. The more the better. And that's not the solution.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, so the thing is specifically when we're talking about Capcom here, it's the pre rendered backgrounds. Like when you think about that PS1 and this is so early PS2, like this is one of the first major PS2 games to come out period, like post launch. And like I think it came out within like six months or something of the PS2's launch. And it have heavily focused on these pre rendered backgrounds that they're trying to show off. So it's like you're trying to get the angles that way. But on top of that tank controls which were standard back then, fit so much better with it because you keep the. Not momentum but you keep the direction that you're going with your character. So the camera shifting doesn't matter. But like I have 2025 muscle memory here. So it's like I'm having a rough time with Animusha or Onimusha. I'm still playing through it. I'm going to beat it. And like it's just so nostalgic. But like Godamn, what a silly game. And I can't wait for the. The next one.

[Snowbike Mike]

What are you playing it on?

[Tim Gettys]

Played on Switch. I'm playing both these. Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're not doing one of them? A little. One of your little retroid pockets or nothing like that?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I haven't had time still to get those all set. But God damn, I love the Pocket 5. One day we'll talk about it. But anyway, super fun game. The ideas here are great but like God damn, this is an old game.

[Snowbike Mike]

Look at that font. Bless and look at that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They never change.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly. And same sound effects too of like the men, the title screen and menu and stuff. Like Capcom, you got something. But then you play devil may cry 3. Holy man, this game just still kicks ass. And like yeah, it is an old game. So you can look at it and some of the jumps feel a little heavy or whatever but for the gameplay of what they got going on of the the action, it's like this game slaps man. And just see how far Capcom and the different teams came in just such a few short years there and to see where we're at now, my good lord, the style of this game, like the world and the characters and the bosses and how dope Dante is. Like everyone play devil may cry 3.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Capcom during the PS2 era might have been. Might have been God tier. Like godlike. When you think about Devil May Cry and what that did for action games, Resident Evil and what that. And you talked about Resident Evil 4 and how ahead of its time it is and what that did for that type of action adventure style title as well. Like, they were magical during this time. And I wish I. I'm. I think I was way late to the party when it came to Capcom. Like, obviously I talked about resident evil 4 and it not clicking with me when I was younger. Right. And like, I think nowadays I have so much more of an appreciation of it because I love Resident Evil 2. And since then played three remake, played four remake, you know, played seven, played eight, and now I'm Resident Evil pilled. But like, between those, between something like Devil May Cry, where I think my first Devil May Cry that I played front to back actually was Devil May Cry 5. And like, actually I never finished Devil May Cry 5.

[Tim Gettys]

Got to do it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I played like 70, 70% of that game. I keep forgetting I want to go back to it, but yeah, they're just on another level.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, this. I mean, devil may cry 3 is the Uncharted 2 type thing where it's like we're talking about the sequel that is just that much better.

[Snowbike Mike]

I would have lost my. As a kid playing that. Yeah. Titty jiggle.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, titties aside for a second. A lot of titties in this game. The opening scene of this game is Dante chilling. He orders pizza. And like, the pizza comes, but then demons come, and he's just trying to eat his goddamn pizza. He's shirtless. He doesn't even have his clothes on and stuff. And they're like, we're going to fight. And he's like, I'm just trying to eat my goddamn pizza. And then he's like, getting. You get into this giant fight. Some of it's a cutscene, some of it's actually playable. It's fun as hell. But there's a scene where there's a pool table and he kicks it down and all the pool balls fly up. And then he shoots the white one so it hits all of them and they bounce and kill all the fucking demons. And I'm like, this is the start of this game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is crazy because I definitely played this then, like, I definitely played. I definitely didn't play all the way through it, but I definitely played at least some hours that devil may cry 3. This must have been an Addison joint.

[Snowbike Mike]

Addison.

[Tim Gettys]

It is hard, too. It is It's a difficult game, but man, it's really good and y'all should play it and get hype. The anime is coming soon. We're gonna take a quick word from our sponsors, but when we're back, we're gonna get to a whole bunch of super chats. Thank you for getting all of those in, and thank you for allowing me to talk about old Capcom games. I love you all. The Cap Gods this episode is brought to you by Rocket Money Missing out on a show that everyone's talking about isn't an option for people like me. So many of us are constantly signing up for this streaming service or that streaming service, and then a few months later realize that we're still paying for the service long after we finish the show. Rocket Money has helped multiple members of Kinda Funny learn that they were still paying for things that they totally didn't even realize. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel all of your unwanted subscriptions. It monitors your spending and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. You can see all of your subscriptions in one place and know exactly where your money is going from ones you don't want anymore. Rocket Money can help you cancel them. Rocket Money has over 5 million users and has saved a total of 500 million in canceled subscriptions, saving members up to $740 a year, which, using all of the app's premium features, cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to rocket money.com kinda funny today that's rocket money.com kindafunny rocket money.com kinda funny this episode is brought to you by Shady Rays. Get ready for the season ahead with quality shades built to last. Our friends at Shady Rays have you covered with premium polarized shades that won't break the bank. Shady Rays is an independent sunglasses company offering a world class product rated five stars by over 300,000 people. Their shades have durable frames and crystal clear optics making them the perfect choice for all outdoor adventures. Plus, if your shades ever go missing or take an unexpected hit, don't sweat it. They have the most insane protection in all of eyewear. Every pair is backed by lost or broken replacements. Y'all know I've been outside in the sun a lot playing Pokemon Go and it is such a great experience wearing Shady Rays when I'm out and about looking all dope. Exclusively for you, Shady Rays is giving out their best deal. Head to shadyrays.com and use code funny for 35 off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself. The shades rated 5 stars by over 300000 people. Again, go to shadyrays.com use code funny to get 35 off polar sunglasses. Shadyrays.com promo code funny this episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. When you are having serious conversations with the people in your life, we often hear them talk about red flags that we should avoid. But what if we focus more on looking for green flags in friends and partners? If you're not sure what they look like, therapy can help you identify green flags. Actively practice them in your relationships and embody the green flag energy yourself. Some of my best friends use BetterHelp and love how helpful it can be for learning positive coping skills and how to set boundaries. It empowers you to be the best version of yourself. And it isn't just for those who've experienced major trauma. If you're thinking of starting therapy, give better help a try. It's entirely online, designed to be convenient, flexible and suited to your schedule. And it serves over 5 million people worldwide. Discover your relationship green flags with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com kinda funny to get 10 off your first month. That's BetterHelp. H E L P.com kindafunny betterhelp.com kinda funny. And we're back with a couple super chats here. Omega Buster says a near to be Elden Ring crossover. No, I don't think that doesn't work.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I think because I'm still in the mind and this tubi could be if.

[Snowbike Mike]

If she could like take off her shoes and it's only just feet. Get a lot of feet in the. Get a lot of feet in the FromSoftware series.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean a lot of hands in Elden, right? So like if you can get digits in there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, yeah, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But no, I. I think the limit. I was even gonna say being. I think the limit is like from software stuff for like crossover style things.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And from software stuff. Not even including bloodborne. I don't. If we get out of that, I'm gonna be. I don't know. I don't think we'll get there.

[Andy Cortez]

You'll buy us all Raiders in case.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Rally 21. I mean earlier you said you'd kill yourself, but.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, did I say that?

[Snowbike Mike]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Andy said he'd bet his life on it.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

It is different. I would let you kill me. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm gonna kill myself.

[Tim Gettys]

Riley says blessing. Andy, hear me out. Bandai owns Tekken. What about Azazel or Devil Devil Jin. See, I'll think about this. Wrong. We need monsters to fight. We need bosses.

[Snowbike Mike]

Sometimes the real monsters are the humans around us.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

A Heihachi boss fight.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because like, they do have like a lot of human characters.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, for sure, yes. Humanoids. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. But I mean, we might be cooking.

[Snowbike Mike]

A little bit, but it's also a. You know, when we're talking bosses, it's a. This game very much wants three players to be whacking at a big old thing, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Maybe you just scale them up.

[Tim Gettys]

Speaking of big things, dear Sixel says. Wait, Tim, it's banned on Namco. What about venomyotusmon For a raid?

[Snowbike Mike]

Who the is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, you just said words.

[Tim Gettys]

You know. Come on. It's like the second big baddie from Digimon. Oh, of course.

[Snowbike Mike]

What about wargreymon?

[Tim Gettys]

War War Greymon, when he. Like the first time we saw WarGreymons was to take down Venom. Myotismon.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, Venom.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think the problem is just that.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me show you Venom.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Me and Andy just leave a big sack from software. It has a big one big old sack, then a Myota spawn.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I'm thinking about the other.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You say, I don't see a sack.

[Tim Gettys]

He evolves later. You got big old sack.

[Snowbike Mike]

Now let's. Under that fur you just have a big old dangle. I don't see anything there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Me and Andy just believe in the integrity of from software too much.

[Tim Gettys]

I know people say I did too, until I saw the gliders. I'm telling you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, what about the gliders? That's like being like, oh, the shooter has a gun, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

It's not though.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is a multiplayer. Multiplayer game. Multiplayer survival action robo.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because you also use the gliders for traversal around the world. It's not just to get you in.

[Tim Gettys]

The old Elden Rings.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mechanics all the time.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because you need to get around because the old elders.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What Elden Ring has a jump also. Bloodborne didn't have a jump. Does that mean Elden Ring is trying to copy Mario?

[Tim Gettys]

It's not gliders, though. It's not Fortnite gliders of you and a squad coming in. There's a circle coming.

[Andy Cortez]

The wild Gliders.

[Snowbike Mike]

Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

It's not though. It's Fortnite gliders.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Gliders are in plenty of you fly in plenty.

[Snowbike Mike]

They are spectral hawks. Okay. When you walk up to the big spectral tree, you see. Summon your spectral hawk and you Spectral hawk to all over that thing and you go. And you go up into the sky because you Also use it in the main game to get around. And you're like, oh, let's. We got to go over there to level up real quick. I think maybe if this was a battle royale, maybe you may not be too far off, Tim, but Since this is PvE3 player experience, I think it's just gonna. Maybe you'll get a blue spectral hawk, but you're not going to get a. You know, here's the eagle from Lord of the Rings. It's a spectral hawk.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. I think it's just the fact that like gliders, as we've learned in the last like 8ish years.

[Snowbike Mike]

What were you looking at the year we're in?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, because I think this is What I'm saying, 2017, landmark year for gliders. Because we got fucking Zelda Breath of the Wild. We got. There's gliders in pubg, right? Oh, yeah, you had like the parachute.

[Snowbike Mike]

Your parachute.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And then like Fortnite was out that year as well.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, I just think we're in a new era.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I'm in a new era. Whatever we want here, we all know at this table and otherwise there's a difference between the Fortnite gliders and the Breath of the Wild gliders. And while functionally there might be some similarities here and there. I know, but there's a difference. But we difference.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What I'm coming down on is that gliders as a gameplay mechanic has been. Have been discovered to be very beneficial to the open to open world exploration.

[Tim Gettys]

I agree.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's all I'm saying.

[Snowbike Mike]

And here's. Here's another thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Sticking to the facts here.

[Snowbike Mike]

Here's another way to fight against Tim's point. This game doesn't even fucking have crossplay. They do things their own way. Miyazaki is not just a director who has to fight against the powers up top. Miyazaki is the dude at FromSoftware. He's the boss and he's not going to be like, actually, let's, you know, I want to see Joel from the last of us fly it now. He's not. He's not letting that shit fly. Tim. I believe in Miyazaki.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Integrity, the word of the day. And from software has it cash money like these other companies think of last was online came out. You wouldn't see fucking Ratchet in that bitch. That's not a dog. They don't have integrity from software.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, exactly, dude.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Happy Valentine's Day.

[Tim Gettys]

Gondor's Condor says I'm finally finishing control. What an s Tier Maze.

[Snowbike Mike]

Cool game. Oh man. Oh yeah. Oh my God.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The S Tier Maze. I like that we're calling it that. The S Tier Maze.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's a good ass game. Kebabs writes in define remaster. No slash remake. Slash reimagining.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know when you see it.

[Tim Gettys]

You do know when you see it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I refuse.

[Tim Gettys]

It is very porn adjacent if you remaster.

[Snowbike Mike]

If the game happens and 3D objects are the same looking and the game just goes up to 4K and the textures look sharper but the 3D models are the exact same, then that's a remaster.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Snowbike Mike]

If they add a bit a new lighting system, that's still a remaster like Mass Effect did. But when you see brand new 3D objects.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Didn't Mass Effect have brand new 3D objects?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, Mass Effect was just like it got a texture upscaling. They mess with the lighting system a bit, but they didn't because they didn't have a lot of the source code. Like they, it's a reason why, gosh, they were mentioning a remake. Why remake would be really, really hard because they are missing a lot of the people that worked on that shit. And it's like some in some real proprietary that they can't really get to anymore. Some like Unreal Engine 3 type stuff. A remake is when you see a lot of brand new 3D models in the game that were re sculpted by artists. And it, that's to me when I see that, I'm like, oh, this got this. This is a remake. This constitutes as a remake.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So what about Final Fantasy 7 Remake?

[Tim Gettys]

It's a reimagining.

[Snowbike Mike]

Reimagining you said.

[Andy Cortez]

And I don't think there are many examples of that, you know, resident.

[Tim Gettys]

It's reimagining.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, but I don't, I, I, to me reimagining means more of like we're going at it a different way in terms of what the story is doing and stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Or like see my thing though is.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, or completely changing the moment to moment gameplay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I'm going Resident Evil 2. I would say like it is different enough that like it's a reimagining. But if someone called a remake, I wouldn't get mad at them because I do think that they're not perfect lines. There is a Venn diagram thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm going more at it from remake.

[Andy Cortez]

I agree with you with Remaster. I do think there's a bit more of a clear line though. Last of Us Remastered versus Last of Us Part 1.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but like Metroid prime remaster is. It's a remake. Like, by definition, by what he just talked about.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. To me, I look at. I know that's what they called it or whatever. I look at Metroid Prime, I'm like, this got a whole new thing. This isn't just the ROM that you could download from back in the day and then upscale to 4K texture pack like that looks a lot better. Models.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I refuse to participate.

[Tim Gettys]

My thing is these companies don't agree with us.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I'm like, just call whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, this. Yeah, exactly, this. This matters way less to me. But I don't agree with the. Call it whatever you want. Stop getting cute. Just stop calling it Reignited and Reboozled and blah, blah. Like, no, just call her. Call it one of these.

[Snowbike Mike]

What was the lollipop chainsaw one called? Re Tittied Out Lollipop Chainsaw.

[Andy Cortez]

What was remastering. What was that?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That was a. It was called Refaction.

[Snowbike Mike]

It was called Repop.

[Tim Gettys]

That's insane. We literally need to come up with a list of the definitive top 10 worst remastered. Pun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, that's definitely worse. Or we can do that right now.

[Tim Gettys]

Try to find it. Yeah, try to find it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Plus, God, the goddamn Dead Rising one was the most annoying one. Doctor Doctor. Like, I just hated that. I hated the way that any time.

[Andy Cortez]

I looked at it, and I know it's not the correct order, but it made me think, oh, there's a new.

[Snowbike Mike]

Dance Dance Revelation Evolution game coming out.

[Tim Gettys]

Kingdoms of Amalore. Re. Re. Reckoning. See, that one's fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Put that in top 10 best.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know, man. Shay Slay says, any pushback for the 40 price for night rain with paid DLCs?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, not really. I saw people wonder, you know, being like, where's the content? Where's the. And it's like, this isn't meant to. If what you were seeing in Night Rain, if we didn't see this trailer for like two more years. And it's like, this is what they've been working on. Like, oh, this is. This is obviously just a smaller side thing that they're gonna make money on. Because I saw a lot of comments like, where's the content? Where's it this and that? It's like, it's a small project. This isn't meant to be the thing that, like all of 300 people are working on. You know, this is a. Hey, let's make some money off the side while we work on whatever. Elden Ring 2, Bloodborne, whatever the.

[Andy Cortez]

But Andy, I'm Sue. Live service pilled. Where is the content?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I was like.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, the.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, they're like, where are the biomes? It's like every game does their roguelite different. This game is attacking it from the angle that they know of. Boss fights are the thing. And there's eight big old ones that you're going to be fighting in addition to the hundreds of enemies you'll be fighting on the ground.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So I couldn't find a top 10, unfortunately. But I did find a reset era thread just of a bunch. And these are hilarious. We got Blood Rain revamped. We got Darksiders.

[Tim Gettys]

I can't hate revamped.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I guess we have revamped it. Oh, this? Yeah. Vampire.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. That is cool.

[Tim Gettys]

I still can, though. I still can. Top 10 best.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know what?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

A really good one.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're winning me over.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Darksiders War Master Edition.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, I hate this 1.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Darksiders 2. Definitive.

[Snowbike Mike]

I hate it.

[Tim Gettys]

Out of here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't know what the fuck.

[Snowbike Mike]

I hate how to pronounce that. Definitive.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, there's asterisk. Asterisks in Obelix, Ro. Mastered. I don't understand what that is.

[Tim Gettys]

There.

[Snowbike Mike]

Romans.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, there's Battle for Bikini Bottom. Rehydrated.

[Andy Cortez]

Fucking goaded.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's not bad. That sounds like dehydrated.

[Tim Gettys]

I just hate it all. Here's the problem. Like, do I like them as dumb puns? Yes. Do I like them as titles of video games? Absolutely not.

[Andy Cortez]

They're not titles. They're subtitles, too.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Advanced wars one plus two. Reboot Camp. Oh, because Boot Camp.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Reboot Camp.

[Andy Cortez]

I wouldn't put that in either best or worse. That's just fine.

[Tim Gettys]

Boo. Boo.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, those are Saints Row reelected.

[Tim Gettys]

That's weird, man.

[Andy Cortez]

That's good. But you're the president.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

25. You know, back then we didn't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. All right, let's see what this is all about from AK Hot take. Demon Souls isn't the prequel to Dark Souls. It's the prequel to Bloodborne. Also, Demon Souls is better than Dark Souls One by a country mile.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. You should stick your head in a toilet.

[Tim Gettys]

Whoa. Give yourself a swirl, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Does he even care about you enough to give you the swirly himself?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That's damn wild stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I've been wanting to play Dark Souls 1 forever because of the level design that you talk about. Whereas Demon Souls, it's. It's like more like segments.

[Snowbike Mike]

You have a hub world, you're traveling to a zone, you're traveling to another.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I booted up Demon Souls a couple weeks ago. I played it, like, probably during PS5 launch for, like, maybe six, seven hours or something. And I was like, you know what, man? Let me. I want to. One of the reasons why I really wanted to play Dark Souls right now, actually, is because we're doing our top 100 games thing, and I feel like there's a good shot that Dark Souls and whatever, the best game in the Dark Souls franchise, will probably end up in my top 100, just given my gaming tastes. Demon Souls I was going to start off with, but then, you know, I wiggled the controller around. You know, move my character around. I was like, I'll just play Dark Souls.

[Snowbike Mike]

Look, Demon Souls is awesome. That's just, you know, obviously I was very aggressive right there, but then there's.

[Andy Cortez]

That spider boss fight. You have to fucking fight it down a hallway. That sucks.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I just want to hop into, like, the shit that I hear people talk about is like, the goated shit, you know? I mean, I hear people talk about Dark Souls. I'm like, I want. I want that. I'll come back to Demon Souls. Like, I'm not. I'm not throwing shade at you.

[Snowbike Mike]

Soul's cool shit. It's just.

[Tim Gettys]

It's.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's just definitely not Dark Souls. And I still really enjoy it. But, like, when I played Lies of P, I was like, I would put Liza P over Demon Souls if I were to like you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, that's how much more I like that video game dude.

[Tim Gettys]

When I was in college, like, I might have been 2007, 8, 9, somewhere in there. I don't remember exactly when this was. I had a friend named Daniel Ortiz, Real good friend of mine, lived at Westlake, not too far from here, and I'd go to his house, and he was the biggest nerd that I had ever met in my life up to that point.

[Snowbike Mike]

This sounds like such a. Just a college friend that, like, we all have those college friends that we only knew then and we thought we'd stay in touch forever. No, you just real talk.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's me and Joey Sasaki.

[Tim Gettys]

I miss Joe like that. Like, that is definitely that guy. I actually ran into him a month ago for the first time in, like 10 years, and it was like a.

[Snowbike Mike]

Crazy, like, wow, that's so weird that.

[Tim Gettys]

We were real close. Yeah. Crazy stuff.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Awesome dude. So many of those.

[Tim Gettys]

Awesome dude. But it's funny because this was pre IGN for me and whatever. So it's like, I had my, like, friend group that, like, oh, we grew up playing video games, but I didn't have anyone to talk to about, like, real nerd. And, like, he kind of, like, got me into a lot of things that I definitely would have. Not like, back then. I read Spider man comics. He got. He introduced me to the Guardians of the Galaxy. How wild is that? Him and Alfredo. Would you play Hero Clicks? Because they're goddamn nerds. I loved it, too.

[Snowbike Mike]

Hero Clicks.

[Tim Gettys]

It's like. It's like a. A board tabletop game, like, with little, like, action little minifigs. But, like, the minifigs would be like. Like, you'd buy them in blind packs, so it'd be like buying card packs. You know what I mean? So you don't know which ones you're getting. All that stuff. Anyway, it was so much freaking fun. You would love it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I probably would love it.

[Tim Gettys]

But anyway, I. I bought the. The Guardians of the Galax, Loved Rocket Raccoon. I just thought it was such a cool idea. Who would have thought years later it would turn into such a big thing? But on the same side of that conversation, he's also the one that was like, oh, dude, what are you playing on PlayStation? Like, what are you playing? Whatever. All Metal Gear, whatever. He's like, you got to play Demon Souls. I'm like, what the is Demon Souls? And this dude rocked for Demon Souls so hard that I remember making fun of him because I'm just like, nobody playing this. You were acting like, this is a thing that I should know. Like, what the this? And then years later, all the soul stuff started. I'll never forget. I was like. But just by myself, humbled. And I texted him. I'm like, dude, you were on to some shit.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Stevie was the souls guy. Oh, yeah. Stevie was like, is the hardest video game ever made, but it's so good.

[Snowbike Mike]

Whatever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm like, I'm not playing the hardest video game ever. He's probably one of the main reasons I didn't play Souls games for years and years. Because I just couldn't stand Stevie's ass. Because you'd always talk about, like, oh, yeah, beat it. It's like, the hardest video game ever. And I'm like, stevie, shut the fuck up, man. You're annoying, dude. I played bloodborne finally in 2020, and.

[Tim Gettys]

I was like, damn, Stevie, you were right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Like, hearing you talk about, like, those. Those high school or those college friends that you had that, like, you were so close, but then, like, you just.

[Snowbike Mike]

Lose touch with them spent 90% of your life with them for like two.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Years, summer 2015, I'll never forget, because that was the summer where I became very good friends with Huey. He was like my best friend for like a good six months. And then I moved to Seattle.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's gonna be my best man, dude.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And like, dude, I think about this often actually because, like, Huey posts on Instagram. Like, you know how he's like, you know, his current life, his wife and all this stuff. And when I kid you not, I introduced Huey to his current wife, not realizing that they were going to like, get married or whatever. But, like, I was like, oh, yeah, you know, this is my friend Kelsey. Like, Kelsey, this Huey or whatever. And like, just at a random house party, matchmaker. And like, I look at their Instagram now and they have a child. And every single time they post that, every single time I see them post that child, I'm like, me for that. I'm like, I'm the reason that child.

[Tim Gettys]

That's my baby. I created a gave you life.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I gave. I did. I did, though. And I'm like. And I haven't talked to Huey in like a good eight years. I think about it. So my first podcast that I ever did in 2015, me and Huey started it.

[Tim Gettys]

That's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We did a 15 episode podcast together called Awkward Individuals. It was the worst podcast of all time. You can't fight it anymore.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God, now he has a child. That's so freaking funny.

[Snowbike Mike]

Dude exists because of me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I brought life to this world.

[Tim Gettys]

Potential wizard said in honor of Valentine's Day, what are your favorite video game romances? Mine is Pan Am and in cyberpunk, if you know, you know. Thanks, guys.

[Snowbike Mike]

Clive and Jill.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I love climbing Jill, but there's something about it that. And then I know that this is just kind of that personal. Like, oh, well, they're not as good as the ones from before type. For me, I love them. But like, Titus and Una for me, for 10 is like so high up there. And Zach and Aerith, how things are supposed to be. Okay, Antifa.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

All right, I will say Cloud and TIFA and FS7 Rebirth did something to me. No, like, changed something in my brain. Had my. Had my fist balled up. Like, I can't believe how much this is hidden for me right now. I'm sure there's. I can't think of many, like, great video game romances, even though I know they're out there.

[Snowbike Mike]

I go with me and Shadowheart, you know? Yeah. Really, really corrupt Family, man. She's just, like. Just had some real wild stuff that I'm sure she wishes she could take back. Just about religion and life and stuff. But, like, you know, I was able to free her from her, you know, terrible parents and her parents raffle and. Come over here, childheart. I got you.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm drawing a blank.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Pan Am is such a good. Such a good answer for cyberpunk.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because, like, did you all ever do the love scene with Pan Am?

[Snowbike Mike]

I was insane.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, man. It was different.

[Snowbike Mike]

I have to turn off the stream. I'm so flustered.

[Tim Gettys]

Mellow fellow says you guys should try the Mind wave demo on PC. It's a mashup of Invader Zim art style with WarioWare gameplay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I've seen the trailer.

[Andy Cortez]

What the is this called?

[Tim Gettys]

Mind Wave.

[Andy Cortez]

Mind Wave. You said it looks cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It looks really cool. Yeah, we gotta. After this podcast, we spoil the Pan Am sex scene for Tim because I feel like Tim would like it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, gotta see it.

[Tim Gettys]

We got the mad effect saying, tim, you should check out TMNT Splintered Fate. It's Hades with 2003 TMT show style. Just added Casey. Also, big love to KF. I watched Mike stream that for a bit and I was like, damn, this looks really cool. Like, it doesn't look as good as Hades, but, like, it looks as fun as Hades.

[Snowbike Mike]

I've heard that's what it is. Like, it's not as good as Hades, but it's good.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Also. Yeah, this game looks also.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I'm very into this.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Coming out anytime soon. Demo out.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Demos.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Timothy Cheston says, are you ready for that? Magic the Gathering Final Fantasy set. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, I'm ready. Is Tim ready? Is the real question.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm ready, man. I honestly, I want it so bad. Every piece of art they've released from it, I'm like, this is amazing stuff. Like, it's all brand new, unique, and, like, they know what they have with Final Fantasy. Like, we can't fuck this up. This means too much to too many people.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And so far, Crushing Magic pops off with art. Like, as I've been collecting new cards, I, like, look, I've been looking at, like, a lot of the unique and rare art stuff, the full art cards, and I'm like, yo, these are actually, like, fantastic. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I want to. I think we got to do a workshop. Me and Mike got to put on a magic workshop because Nick wants to learn. And so we'll sit down, Tim. Nick, I think Roger might already know, but like, we'll give Roger a refresher on how to play and we're going to get everybody in this off. Andy, you're invited to. Everybody in this office is going to learn how to play magic.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Barrett, you're invited to.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I'd prefer not to be. I'm still blanking on a great romance.

[Tim Gettys]

You know that many of them?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, that's the thing I'm thinking of. I'm like, I love all these RPGs that have all these things. I'm still just like, I thought about Nick Valentine.

[Snowbike Mike]

Now I'm just thinking of like Fallout 4 characters I'm in love with. It was Chloe Fraser, always liar from Mass Effect, you know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Chloe Frazier.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, Chloe would ruin me.

[Tim Gettys]

Chloe was. I'm gonna stop.

[Snowbike Mike]

Different.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I was gonna say Max and Chloe from Life is Strange. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I was trying to think of good couples.

[Tim Gettys]

Dear Sixlet says easy fix. Zach Cross, Aerith Cross, Tifa, Cross, Cloud Polycule. No, no, that ain't Zach's ammo. That's a one girl type of guy.

[Andy Cortez]

Nah, see, that's the thing is that like, Zach might be a one girl type of guy, but he's also kind of a one girl, one guy type of guy as well. Zach maybe a throuple.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't see that in Zach. Zach on the price. The prize is Aerith.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He's a stronger man. If I'm Zach, I want the white.

[Snowbike Mike]

Picket fence, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's all that he wants. Yeah, you know, I get it. God. Shout out my guy. Couple of these are a little spoilery in a way I don't want to read. I appreciate you, Raiden, but we're not going to get to that one. Joker man says Hatsune Miku for Night Rain. Y'all are taking it like too far. All right, All I'm saying is. Ros.

[Snowbike Mike]

Dude, I was. Man, hold on, you're. You bringing up Hatsune Miku? Just took my brain down a thread of things that happened recently when I was downloading mods for the outer worlds, trying to get outer worlds to run better, look better, you know, add this little thing that adds better God rays or whatever the. And you know, in, you know that little computer screen you talk to in the outer world, like the ship AI or whatever. Very snarky, this AI. And there was a way to replace all of the picture because it's like essentially just a digitized looking, like not really A human face. It's kind of a drawn but it has different facial expressions to change like how it's feeling or whatever. And they. There's a Hatsune Miku mod of course, because there's Hatsune Miku mod for everything. I was gonna download this mod for stream and I'm glad I read the details further because it was a Gianna Michaels mod for the face. And then I'm glad I clicked it. I'm glad I looked at the mod because it was like very, you know, lots of and. And not safe for work. I was like, ah, damn it. I wish if it was just the faces I would have been so okay with that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I need you to send me something wrong with these.

[Tim Gettys]

Out of all people Michaels.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, like it's so.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, check it out.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because she was a goat in the early 2010. Like that's why it's hilarious to me.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's so random to me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like if you want were talking about Bella Danger, Gianna Michaels.

[Andy Cortez]

Listen, he's just trying to do it for the bit.

[Tim Gettys]

Bless.

[Snowbike Mike]

I. I thought it was so hilarious that like those were the only two faces to. It was like Hatsune Miku. And here's another modder who put in Gianna Michael. And again, I thought it would have been great if it was just her looking happy, her looking angry, her look. What a. Like what a funny, stupid thing. But then I looked deeper and I was like, no, no, no. There's like they get real vulgar. I was like, ah, damn it. I can't show that on Twitch. Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

That woman would activate in a way I didn't know was.

[Snowbike Mike]

Nobody has since. Nobody has since. Nobody ever will again. The goat. Yeah. Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Activated.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, she'd laugh at you. And.

[Andy Cortez]

Anyways, anyways, Bayak and I are the best romance.

[Tim Gettys]

Who?

[Andy Cortez]

Bayak and Aya from Assassin's Creed.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my lord.

[Snowbike Mike]

I want to say this. Last night I streamed more avowed. I was. I was like, hey Chat, do you want me to start a new game just because I want to have a video for YouTube because it looks awesome, or do you want me to show you my character 31 hours in full, like super leveled up. You may get spoilers, but it's also like I think if I really, really, really cared about the game a lot, I definitely would not have done that. That's kind of what shows. That's kind of a way to show you that I don't think this game does anything amazing story wise where if it was like crazy twists and I'd be like, no no, no, I don't want to show you all that you all play that you, you got to experience for yourself. So that's kind of where I'm at with the game. And during my review I kept mentioning that the third little island you kind of go to is just so far and away more enjoyable for me than the first two, like if the whole game is what I'm experiencing now. And last night I did a side quest that was like, awesome. And it had a really cool, random, random side quest with really cool choices that were really kind of up and like, oh man, I don't know if I should do this. This is awesome. And it's like I'm, I wish all the game was this thing. And I saw a lot of comments, you know, rightfully kind of going after me because I'm always way too negative for a game that I even like. And I do that all the time. And I gotta, I gotta praise the game more because I, I, I always go into here are all the things that I wish were better and I, I want to love this game. And that's why I'm so disappointed that all these things are not better. So even though I think the game's like a sevenish so far, I want it to be great, I want it to be awesome. But like, if all of the game was what I was experiencing recently, this would, this game would be amazing. It's just like it was, it fell so flat for me in those first two lands and the reason why. And people go, well, Andy, if you feel that way, why would you give it a 7? Because if the combat sucked and if the traversal and exploration and discovery sucked, then it would be way lower. But that stuff is so damn good that it's still holding it up enough for me to where I'm like, no, this is still a good game. It's still fun to, to fight enemies and have my squad mates do this crazy spell that I can then, you know, capitalize on. It's, it's still a lot of fun, but man, it's just disappointing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

So far for me, that was the.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Thing for me where like, as I was playing through, I knew it wasn't necessarily a quality issue for me with the game. Like, of course there are certain things where I look at, I'm like, okay, I wish this was better. I wish this was more engaging. But I'm with you. Of like, man, combat in this game is pretty fun.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh man. Like, they're kind of in their bag with riding a bit or at least world building and, like, you know, doing a great job of, I think, getting you in on who your character is and what they mean to the world. And there was a quest early on where you meet another character that is like you. And, like, there's kind of a. I don't want to. I don't want to spoil the side quest, but, like, shit pops off in a way where I was like, oh, damn, that's pretty cool. But I think the more I played a vowed for me, the more I was like, man, I cannot wait for Outer Worlds 2. Because that is a world that I think I am already invested in. And I know just in terms of setting, in terms of tone, in terms of comedy, in terms even you talking about the AI in the ship and being reminded of that and, like, how much I like that.

[Snowbike Mike]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Or the character who's basically just Rick from Rick and Morty, or there's a romance option in that game that people love.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I forget their name.

[Tim Gettys]

Parvati.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Parvati, yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Voiced by Ashley Burch.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, like, Parvati. And like, I don't know, there's something about outer worlds in that world that I think I engage with a bit better for Obsidian and how their writing works that, yeah, I'm just way more invested in versus how they. How they do fantasy. Which, again, isn't bad, I think. Again, I liked a lot of what they. How they set up the world. But, yeah, there's something about it where I'm like, I think I just prefer the tone of outer worlds versus what they're doing here in Avowed.

[Snowbike Mike]

And when it. On the flip side of that, when it goes to, you know, what I enjoyed about Dragon Age, it's like, you know, obviously people have their complaints about Dragon age, but the NPCs and their side quests and the emotional sort of story beats in them are what really made me fall in love with them. And I just, like, I did one of them with. With one of the companions in Avowed and just wasn't really blown away by any means. I was just like, okay, this is fine, or whatever, but it's like one of your squad mates is the voice of Garrus from Mass Effect. Like, that should be the easiest dub of all time. And it's just like the writing for the character is not there to make me be like, fuck, yeah, you're my ride or die, bro. Like, when I played Mass Effect 1, immediately I was like, dude, Garrus. All day, Garrus, you're on the homie. Get in the Back seat, dude. We're gonna go on an adventure. You know, I just loved hanging out with the dude, and I just. I just haven't felt that at all with any of the four squad mates in about.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I just also correct myself. I don't think you romance Parvati, actually, because I think she's actually ace. So I think it was one of those things where maybe as I was.

[Snowbike Mike]

Playing, oh, I never beat it, but I just always assume everybody loves Parvati, so I assume that was a romance, I think.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, I think everybody loves Parvati just.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because he's a good writing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, yeah, really well written.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think, like, there was a part where I was like, maybe trying to romance her, and then. And then I was like, oh, actually, no, I can't, because that's not what they're into, dude.

[Snowbike Mike]

I got her so mad the other day. Holy. When I was playing it early on, I ended up, you know, killing that dude in that, like, big first mission in the outer worlds. The mayor of the town or whatever, who's like, take power away from the people who left our city. Give it back to us, you know, because they diverted power, and I ended up taking the power away from him. And he was like, you fucked this whole town. This whole town is ruined because of you. People are going to. People are suffering already, and you are making it worse. But it's really like this dude's, like, the capitalist who's, like, making people work all goddamn day, and he's just like, the horrible mayor of the town. And as he walks away, I'm hanging out with Parvati, and he's walking up the stairs. I just go, boom. And I shoot him, and he fucking falls on the staircase. Parvati gets in my face. She's like, what would you do? Why would you do that? And I was like, he. He was really fucking mean to you. She was like, oh, Suddenly. Oh. Oh, what did she say? She's like, oh, you're so chivalrous. How you're going to murder a guy for being mean to me. And I was like, no, I'm just fucking.

[Tim Gettys]

Dude. It was awesome.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I just like, you can't do that in a vow. You can't just, like, randomly shoot people and stuff like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I do want to shout out to you because I think there was somebody in chat that mentioned, you know, bless is more into the game, like, Fallout than Elder scrolls, which is 1,000% factual. But I think there's also just a thing of, like. I think you mentioned this during the review, and it Always sucks to bring up another game to compare to a game. But like Baldur's Gate 3, playing that game for even the limited time that I played it because I think I put in 20 something hours into, into Baldur's Gate 3. But even in that time I was like, I was very invested in that world.

[Snowbike Mike]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's not just the fantasy aspect of it. I think it is maybe just how much competition there is in fantasy and how even tonally like what I want totally out of a fantasy. I love, I like fantasy. But I think I also want, I like, what's the vampire's name in Baldur's Gate 3? The homie that everybody loves.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, I don't remember name. I never remember names.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But you know, vampire homie. And like what he brought, like, yeah, best actor.

[Snowbike Mike]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, Hysterian is a character so fun, so interesting. Right. So engaging. And I take that in comparison to even the first companions you meet in a vowed where I'm like, oh, you are not Hysteria. Like, you are not like what I necessarily want currently out of a companion, which sounds like I'm breaking up with somebody, but you get what I mean.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Having an awesome side quest. Having an awesome side quest in the outer worlds where it is a random dude at a bar who's like all sad and depressed. He's like, I need help going to this one shipwreck. And you find out, or not a shipwreck, but you find out that this dude, he eventually admits to like, I left my whole crew to die while leaving this planet. And I was like, man, that shit goes so hard. And that's like a really fucked up thing. And I just want more. I want more surprises like that. You do. Again, I talked about the bounty system in about and this is no spoilers. You just go kill bounties, right? It's for money, it's for whatever. But I was like, that's cool. But you know, and at the bounty board, there's a bounty master. There's always a dude standing next to the, standing next to the board or whatever and he's like, hey, go kill this guy. You turn in the money. Oh, you kill that guy. Way to go. And I was like, okay, but like, it. What if we went the extra mile and you go kill all these bounties and then maybe there's one more bounty? Or what if there's just one of these random ass bounties that when you get there, the person you're there to kill is like that dude sent you to come Kill me. No, no, no. Hold the up. I have receipts on this. This dude is corrupt. You need to help me kill him because he's. He went after. But I was like, I want a surprise like that, you know, and it's just like. You just go, turn. All right, thanks for. Here's your money. It's like, ah, surprise me. I want to be, like, wowed and I want to go, whoa. I can't believe we're doing this in this game right now. And it. It all just felt very safe for those first two worlds. And in this third world. So much better. So amazing. I am loving this third world. It just takes 25 hours to get there.

[Tim Gettys]

I loved the chat when you asked, like, who the hot vampire guy was. And it was like a staring a. Staring a. Staring a. Starion, Jeff. A starion. Let us know in the comments below what gaming plans you have for this beautiful Valentine's Day weekend, AKA Andy Cortez's birthday weekend. Because I hope that if you don't have plans, you reconsider and decide that you do. And that's to hang out with. Bless. Playing Dark Souls for the very first time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm so excited because tonight I'm hanging out with Andy for Valentine's Day.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Playing the Elden Ring. Night Rain.

[Tim Gettys]

And that too. Yeah. Yeah. Playing some Eldon Ring. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's just 7pm that's our Valentine's Day threesome.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

If any one of you gets, like, sick, let me know and I can jump in.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You gotta. You gotta code.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, maybe.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, yeah, maybe I hook.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, everybody say something nice in the comments. You know what I mean? Say something just a little inappropriate. Just a little. You know what I mean? Just, you know, nothing crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think we saw that once. We got into a certain vibe with that, then things got a little. Things went a little too far.

[Tim Gettys]

Sometimes they do. Sometimes they do. Yeah. You know, I was thinking for sure, I was like, all right, this week we did have the kind of funny podcast episode called the Horniest Episode ever. And I'm like, are we about to call this gamescast the horniest Episode? I don't know. Anyway, stay tuned to Game Showdown. Then after that, we're going to have the blessing playing Dark Souls for the first time, no matter what. I love you all.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Goodbye, Gianna.