← Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages
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Hello and welcome to Stories Pod Chats. I'm Daniel Hines and today I'm here with my good buddy, you know him as Mick Munter. It is my friend Greg Barney.
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How's it going?
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It's going good, Greg. Going good, Greg. How are you doing? How's life for Mick Munter in general?
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Doing pretty well there, dan. Life for McMunter is good. Trying to come up with a few new stories so hopefully we get those written out pretty soon and released. Should be nice, but other than that, everything's been smooth sailing.
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So today I got Greg here. We want to talk a little bit about video games. You know, we try to be sort of a screen free podcast experience, but for Christmas, I think video games is sort of the hot item in me. I have a lot of experience and I know Greg does too. Playing video games with our kids kind of cooperatively on the couch is like, it's just a great experience. There's lots of different things you can do. There are some that are more education focused and some that are just straight games. But I thought we'd kind of drop this episode to just lay down some games that we had really good bonding experiences with our kids in and, you know, maybe the kids will be excited to play them and maybe you can get in there too, or vice versa if you're a gaming parent, you know.
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Yeah, definitely. I agree. I think, you know, we spend quite a bit of time playing games here and there and when we're able to play on the couch, which those are seemingly few and far between nowadays, Me.
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Brian, it's a little harder to find them.
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Yeah, yeah. So it's great when we can get like a four player, like three player couch co op that me, Brian and mom can play. It's always a great time.
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Yeah, man. So the one that just came out that we've been playing, let's, let's kind of go through our Christmas list. Here is a Mario party. How are you? A Mario party, man. Mario Party Jamboree just dropped.
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I haven't touched that one yet. I'm really excited for that. So I'm thinking, I'm thinking that one might have to go under, under the Christmas tree as a little, little family gift.
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Yeah, we've been playing Jamboree four people with my daughter and my sister. And niece. And it is good. There's like a hundred mini games, a good mix of, like, the motion ones and the regular ones. And you can turn off the motion ones if you want.
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B
I heard that one's got some of the older ones, too, from the previous games. Right.
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It seems like it. It has like 100 something games. And so I can't tell which you're from which game, but it has some of the old maps, for sure. The old, like, game boards.
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Yeah, those are. Those are always great.
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If. I'm sure most of you play Mario Party. If you haven't, try Jamboree. It's the new one. It's all mini games. And I have a friend who plays with his kids, actually, Nate, who's Max. Good name. Him and his kids play, and they have a good way of. You can, like, give people stars. You can, like, handicap the scores at the beginning. So, like, is, you know, if somebody's not as good at mini games, you just give them two stars to start with, knowing that they're going to be hurting for those. And you can kind of balance it that way if you're playing with your kids. But if you're not a gaming parent, your kids will probably just destroy you anyway. And it'll end up being as fair as Mario Party ever is, which is, you know, it's borderline. It has that rubber band effect. Like Mario Kart.
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B
Yeah, for sure. Which is another great one is Mario Kart.
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So let me ask you, when it comes to Mario games, both Mario Party, Mario Kart, who's your guy? Who do you go with? Because I myself, I'm a Wario. I'm gonna win. I'm a warrior. I just love a warrior, you know. What do you roll? What do you roll?
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I'm the best. I like Toad. That's probably a terrible Toad impersonation, but.
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Your voice needs to be much higher. Can you get higher?
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Yeah.
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I'm the best.
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Yeah. I can't do it.
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That's actually. You kind of hit Luigi there.
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Yeah, maybe. Yeah. No, no, I like. I like Toad. He's. He's my guy. He's very fast in Mario Kart. Light.
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He's acceleration. See, I like Wario heavyweight. Takes a little longer to get up to full power. But if he hits Toad.
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Oh, yeah.
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That was a Yoshi getting hit noise.
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That was. That was a very good Yoshi getting hit.
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Thank you. Thank you. My sister played Yoshi always, so I have a lot of experience hitting Yoshi with red shells, you know, so that's so yeah, Mario Party, the new one recommend you check that out. We're loving that. And then the other thing that's great about it is you can kind of be on a team too, which, which is a lot of times great with kids. You know, sometimes competition's tough, sometimes it's great, but sometimes you all want to work together too. So. So the new Mario Party has that going for it. But you said you and. You and your kid were playing something. What were you guys getting after? I didn't recognize the game.
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Yeah. So I think these book. It's based on like a book series which I think it's been around for, for a bit now. But my, my son just got into the. Into it. It's the Last Kids on Earth and the premise is basically that like a, like an interdimensional like kind of portal opens up and a bunch of demons come through. Some are good and some are bad, but there's also this like zombie plague that kind of follows them through. And so there's four main characters, you know, and they're, they're kind of battling through this zombie horde. And they made a game about it. So it's like a top down, almost like, like a Diablo kind of like dungeon crawl type of thing. But you're not really in dungeons, you're outside. And it's a lot of fun. You can get four players on it. We've been playing it on my PS5, but I think it's on like PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. That one's been a lot of fun because we do dig those kinds of games like that. And like Minecraft Dungeons. It's a great couch co op game.
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Yeah. So that's a whole series of great couch co op games. It's is like that kind of top down. I don't know if you call them like a twin stick shooter or like a Diablo clone or whatever you want to call it. But all these games. So Diablo 3, you can play a bunch of people on the same screen, but that's a little mature. You know, it can be a little violent. But the Minecraft one is great because it's Minecraft graphics and you're fighting creepers and skeletons and all the other great Minecraft villains whose names I forget. Endermen. What else are there?
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Yeah, there's Enderman. Oh, the Piglins.
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Oh yeah, the Pig warriors. Yeah. Anyway, so if you want to play a game like that, I think Last Kids on Earth or the Minecraft Legends one is both really good choices of like just sort of action Y games you can run around in and you can scale the difficulty. So, you know, depending on how good you are at these kind of games, you can just kind of buzz through. It's really fun.
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Yeah, yeah, we've been having a blast with it.
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Yeah. Last Kids on Earth is really cool. There's a Netflix series on that and books and the game too.
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So, yeah, he's been watching through the Netflix and read the books and he found out that there was a game on it. We checked it out and we grabbed it and me, him and mom have been playing and it's been great.
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All right, Last Kids on Earth, check that out. And then something I have to bring up because me and my family have been having so much fun with it. And I know you've mentioned it before, so I can only assume you and your son Brian have gotten into it too, but Stardew Valley Co Op.
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Oh, we've sunk many, many, many, many hours into that. And they just had a big update on it too. That just hit the console.
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That's what I'm saying. Yeah. So Stardew Valley, for those of you haven't played it, is like, it's sort of the similar thing would be like Animal Crossing, the big hit pandemic game, but Stardew Valley, it's. It's more on your own time. You decide when to go to bed and when new days start and all that. Kind of like the old Harvest Moon games.
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Yep.
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And. But you can do it split screen co op. You could all be running the same farm together. And it's just a really great game where, like, there's so much stuff to do. You can plant and grow, you can design and decorate your farm. You can go to the mines fishing. There's whole fishing to collect. There's mines where you can, like, battle monsters and collect, like rare resources. And then like, you could all be doing all these different things and like building this farm together. And then like, you decide what you want to do. Like, eventually we had a whole mayonnaise and cheese making operation from our lambs and cows we adopted. And it's like my daughter was loving. She had all these chickens and she would take the eggs and make mayonnaise and sell the mayonnaise at a big profit. It's like, it sounds so simple, but I can't recommend Stardew Valley enough. It's so good for a calm, cool family game. There's stuff to learn in there. There's a little bit of reading. There's really not much violence or anything. But it's so engaging the whole way through.
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The other thing that's great about it is the plot lines that they've put into a lot of the characters. So you mentioned like, you know, kind of like Chilled Relax and you know, reading. There's a lot of like the interpersonal like connections that you make with the characters in the valley and decision making that you can make that kind of dictate like the outcome of, of some of those encounters that you have and which I think is really awesome. But you know, stressing the, the calmness of it all. Like there's, there's so many great games out there, but they're so action packed. It's nice to have something that, you know, you can curl up on the couch with everybody on and just kind of play through at your own pace and everybody's kind of doing their own thing towards the same, you know, end goal. It's very, very relaxing.
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What was your farm name? Do you remember?
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Oh, you know, we change it pretty much every time we, we spin up a new one. We, we've made a lot of farms.
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I have the one main farm and it's called Buttermilk Ranch.
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That's a good name. That's a good name for a ranch pun name.
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Yeah. What do you want?
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I'm a huge fan of that though, because I sunk so many hours when I was younger into harvest moon 64.
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Oh yeah, that was a good.
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And having, having this is, you know, so much more open is a dream come true.
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Yeah. And it's been around forever. You can probably get it pretty cheap. It's on literally every console known to man at this point. And they just pushed out another big update. Yeah, I think Stardew Valley, really cool game. Definitely worth checking out. So another one that I loved and I think I've talked about this last year, but it still holds up. And it's one of the best 2 player, like kid parent co op games ever made, in my opinion. Luigi's Mansion 3, you get into that?
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Oh yeah. I love the Luigi Mansion games. That was one of the big like launch titles when GameCube was coming out. And that's when I first got into it. And then there was another one that was on the DS that me and Brian played through together. That's kind of handing the DS off back and forth. And three has been great because it does have that little co op element there.
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And so Luigi's Mansion 3, the co op element, it falls into the same realm as something like Mario Odyssey, which is, I Also recommend you check out or even Mario Wonder the newer one where it has this two player mode where the second player is sort of stress free. So whether you're the better player or the kids the better player. And kids, I know you're probably the better player most of the time. Whoever's not as good can play as Gooigi, Luigi's sidekick made out of like spectral ooze. And he really can't be like hurt or anything. Same way like in Odyssey, you can play as Mario's hat and you can help and do all this stuff, but you're, you're not going to get, you don't have to worry, worry about the enemy so much and you know, you can do all the puzzle stuff and you can help in the, in like the, you know, it's cartoony, it's Mario, it's Luigi boss battles. But like, yeah, Gooigi and Cappy, just great additions to co op gaming, I think.
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Yeah, the, the Guigi thing was, was a lot of fun because it, when that had, when three had come out, Brian was a little bit younger and so it was neat to have him in the driver's seat as, as Luigi. And then I could just kind of tag along as Gooigi and kind of help and make suggestions. But, but they get to feel like they're in the driver's seat, you know.
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Yeah, Gooigi is pretty good to say. I like the. Gooigi is a good name for him.
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It's a very smart name. Yeah.
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Oh, and another one that kind of falls into this that I think probably everybody's played by now. But if you got kids coming up in there, I don't. I think this is still happening every year where you got kids starting to come into Pokemon, they're coming home with Pokemon cards all of a sudden. Kids, if you, you know, you're getting out there, you see a bulbasaur in the wild and you're like, I need to know more about these little guys. A great way to get into it, I think is Pokemon. Let's go Pikachu or Let's go Eevee. Did you guys play those ones?
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Oh, yeah. I love that one. Just because, you know, I'm getting older now. So, you know, I was on that first wave of Pokemon and the game kind of mirrors that original red and blue experience.
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Yeah. Did you have a game? I had a Game Boy color and that was the first thing all I wanted for Christmas one year was a Game Boy color and Pokemon. Red and blue. Red or blue? Because Everybody was playing it. I felt left out.
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B
Oh, nice. Yeah, I had. I had the original Game Boy and I got. I got blue and my cousin got red. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was awesome. That was like our big. Yeah. Christmas. Christmas gift from the grandparents that. That year. So.
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So who was your starter? First gen Pokemon. You got Bulbasaur. You got Charmander, you got Squirtle. You a Bulbasaur?
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm a bit of a Bulbasaur man myself. Don't.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, yeah. He was the man.
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He's a goat. Yeah.
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Obviously Charmant. I mean, Charizard, I think is probably cooler than Venusaur, and Blastoise is also probably cooler. But Bulbasaur I like the best out of the starting three. I think he's. He's got like, big dog energy and I like that.
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Yeah, I love my Bulbasaur. That game was a heck of a lot of fun because, you know, again, you. You can both play on the same screen and it. When you enter into battles, you're both battling together, so no one really feels entirely left out. And it was cool to see him get into it while it also being new and fresh in ways, but still eliciting a lot of memories from the original Blue and Red or Yellow playthrough.
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Oh, yeah. Fighting Giovanni and Team Rocket, all that stuff. Yeah, it's all in there. And it's another one where the second player. It sort of makes the game a little easier because you get two Pokemon in your fights, but they're learning how to do it. And Pokemon's a great game for early readers too, because there's. You need to kind of learn how to read to play it. And the words are pretty simple and straightforward and thematic and in context. So, yeah, Pokemon, good game. People are just starting to read, get them reading, get in there battling Pokemons, you know, just. I would go Bulbasaur, but I think in Pikachu and Eevee, you gotta pick one of those two. Right. You get the starters later, right?
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Yeah.
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Between Pikachu and Eevee, who do we like?
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I'm a Pikachu guy.
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I'm an Eevee man. But I guess that's where we differing. You know, we both like Bulbasaur, but the Eevee's cooler.
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And I don't know if you can evolve the starter Eevee that you get, but Eevee is cool in general just because there's so many different branches off of it that it can fit anybody's personality really great. Whereas I feel like with A Pikachu. If you get a Pikachu, you're probably not going to involve him into a Raichu because he's just too cute and cuddly. Yeah. So Eevee has more possibilities to, I think, line up with the personality of the. Of the trainer. So Eevee has more possibilities.
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So if you're gonna play this, you know, just get the one that you like more. Pikachu. Eevee. Let's. The let's Go series. Very good. And then I'd be. I'd be remiss. This game is pretty much free everywhere at this point, if you don't already own it, kids. I know it's still kicking around. It's the classic Minecraft with all the. I say classic, but Minecraft with all the updates. If you haven't got into that with your kids yet, that's such a fun, like, building construction. Think of it as like an infinite LEGO set. Like, that's so much fun to play.
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Yeah, that's endless hours.
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You guys ever get in there building, like a city or anything?
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Lots of building, lots of exploring. It's a heck of a lot of fun. And I know a lot of kids are into Fortnite too, and they got their kind of take on it with the Lego, the LEGO Fortnite mashup there, which is similar to Minecraft, which is a lot of fun, too.
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Minecraft. We would. Me and my daughter, we'd build big castles. And then we try to make, like. Usually it was more fun. We try to make like a villain lair. So we'd try to have like this black, you know, this big obsidian castle on a cliff with, like a lava waterfall coming out of one side, like, and like spiked towers, you know, basically like Lord of the Rings, Sauron. And then we'd have, like, secret escape tunnels. You'd, like, jump down a waterfall hatch inside and come out on the beach a mile away. No one ever knew who you were. Change your clothes on the way, you.
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Know, like, ah, that's cool.
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We'd have a secret villain stuff. Yeah, Minecraft is just great. Get back into Minecraft. Get into Minecraft with your kids. Kids. Get your parents into Minecraft. Make them build with you. It's the way to do it. And then. Yeah, I think we should. Last but not least, I think Fortnite is just so big still. Yeah, we've been getting into Fortnite with our kids and it's definitely a skews a little older because, you know, it's. It's the battle game. And there's different weapons and stuff, but it's not. I'd say it's more, you know, it's PG action for what it is. And it's just so popular. I can't recommend enough. Jumping in with your kids. Kids, if you're playing. Get your parents in there.
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Yeah. Your parents will. Will fall in love with it, too. I certainly have. And I. I remember being a little, kind of skeptical the first time we got into it. I was kind of like, this is a game for kids. And since playing it, I haven't looked back. And it's been a lot of great time that I've been able to spend with Brian, too, playing that and watching him play. And the skins are just fun, too, you know, like being able to kind of read.
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You can just spend. You can only spend as much as you want. But the game itself is free. Which is also reminds me as a.
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Kid, you know, you'd have all your different action figures from completely different universes or, you know, worlds, and, you know, you just kind of do whatever mashup you want. It really reminds me of that. It's like a big kid fantasy in that regard. It's just the toy box is open, and you can grab whatever toy you want and have a Ninja Turtle running around with, you know, Iron Man.
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We let. We let Brian pick the theme, usually, and so they'll be all be ninjas. We'll have, like, Ninja Turtles and Shredder and a samurai, or everybody's. He wants to be Luke Skywalker and we're all Stormtroopers. That kind of stuff, you know?
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Yeah, it's just so.
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It's so good. And for the younger kids now, they have a couple things. They have the music mode, which plays like old school Guitar Hero, which is pretty fun.
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B
I haven't played with that yet.
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It plays like Rock Band, where the notes come sliding down and you play that. So that's built in there now and then rocket racing is in there now and then. The big one that I think everybody will like is the LEGO Fortnite we might have mentioned earlier, which is basically just like a LEGO adventure game, where, like, you're building these big things and you're building structures and surviving and exploring. It feels a lot like Minecraft, but it has that LEGO flair to it, which makes it really kind of charming.
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Yeah, it is very charming. It seems very polished, too. And I like that the base that you kind of start off with, they're like NPCs there. And so you're kind of building a base for everybody.
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Oh, and I guess speaking on the Fortnite front, which again, play. We played with our kids a lot. It's really fun. It's just a way to it that Fortnite, the main modes do split screens. You can play together and you're like cooperating and it's a lot of communication and it's just, it's like, you know, it's good. It's a good game to play with older kids, I'd say. And then finally, game of all ages made by that same team that I had a ton of fun with is Rocket League. You play any Rocket League?
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B
You know, we tried to get into Rocket League. I think. I think Brian was a little too young. So I'll have to circle back to that one because that I played it myself a bit and it is. Yeah, it's a heck of a lot of fun.
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So basically Rocket League is just soccer, but you're controlling like rocket powered race cars and you're playing soccer on this huge field. And that's another split screen game. I think it's free mostly. And yeah, you just play soccer with cars. It's like kids dream, you know what I mean? Who doesn't want to play soccer with big rocket powered monster trucks?
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B
It is a lot of fun. It feels very rewarding when you manage to score a goal as well. You just feel like a rock star.
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All right, so, you know, that's our kind of our big ones that we played with the younger kids who I think are listening now. You know, I think you get your parents in those games. And here are some ones I wanted to add that I haven't played a ton, but I did really enjoy and want to highlight too is Cat Quest 3. It's like an RPG where you control cats on like a cartoony open world. That one was really fun.
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B
Oh, really? That sounds awesome.
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Cat Quest. Yeah, it's a cool rpg. And then another great one is Smash Brothers. That's like a great party game. Anybody can play it. You can do all kinds of custom rules and handicapping and stuff. And that's another toy box game where you're like, okay, like your kids want to smash together, you know, Link from Zelda and Mario or Donkey Kong or Cloud from Final Fantasy, whatever random stuff they got in there. That's a good one and good for all ages. I've been playing that since I was a kid. Smash Brothers and it's different incarnations and that always holds up.
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B
Yeah, it's always good. Yeah, it's never not a good time.
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If you want something really challenging, the overcooked games can get. Oh man, you run a kitchen, but the parts are moving and everybody has to do different roles.
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I love overcooked, but I will say it's. Yeah, it's the polar opposite of like we're talking about Stardew. You know, in terms of the couch co op, I think scale. There's two ends of that spectrum and one is Stardew Valley and the other is overcooked. It's a heck of a lot of fun, but man, it gets loud.
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Put the turnips in the wagon.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that one's good. Untitled goose game. You can play co op now. And that's wicked fun. And that's just a game where you control a goose and you go around causing trouble in an English village.
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B
That is a really fun one that Brian had found through one of the streamers that he watches. And yeah, he found that one watching DanTDM. And so we checked it out and yeah, it's a lot of fun. You just. Yeah, mischievous goose and it has a co op mode so that you can have two geese on the same screen and you can just mess stuff up.
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And yeah, you can like honk at a boy so he gets scared and drops his glasses and he can steal his glasses. And then before he can look for his glasses, you can untie his shoes so when he chases you, he trips over.
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He's actually a very mean goose.
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It is a mean goose, but it's a fun game. Mean goose, good game, bad goose, good game. But other than that, pretty much all the Nintendo Mario games are two player at this point. The Kirby games are really fun. And then any of the LEGO games, you can pretty much play split screen co op or.
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Yeah, those are great.
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A
And you got like the Skywalker Saga, you got pretty much any, any big IP that you're into. Your Harry Potter's, your Lord of the Rings, your Marvels, your DC Jurassic Park. They had one good. They have, they have a LEGO game for it and it's good for kids always. And it's something. The Lego games have the best sound effects in the business. Those LEGO sounds are so good.
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B
Yeah, they always get a good, a good chuckle out of me here and there too because they, they take their own kind of take and play on the, the cutscenes or the major scenes from the, from the movies. And yeah, it's always just a good light hearted fun time.
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A
All right, so get all those games, get Lego. Try the Mario parties, try Luigi's Mansion. Three Pokemon. Let's go. Eevee or Pikachu, depending on your preference. Try the Minecrafts. And I think if I have one recommendation overall for a game that I think is good for families to play together, it is Stardew Valley. Stardew Valley is peaceful, engaging. You have to read. It's socializing. You're remembering there's no combat unless you want it. There's just lots of planning and designing and making a beautiful farm cooperatively. And that's just. It's just the best. So I'd say Stardew is the best for chill ones. And then Mario Party is probably the best kind of new one coming out. If you're looking for, you know, holiday presents is Mario Party Jamboree and then Stardew Valley number one game right there.
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B
If you want to get rowdy. Overcooked.
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A
Overcooked one and two.
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B
Too rowdy. But it's a fun time. Yeah, no, it's a fun time, but in small doses. Yeah. Yeah. You got to be able to walk away.
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A
All right, everybody. That's it. Just wanted to run through some the co op games we've been having fun with the kids with this year. Thanks for listening.
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B
Yeah. Thanks for having me on. And thank you, everyone. And I hope everyone has good, relaxing holidays and that everyone gets what was on their wish list.
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A
Yeah. Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, all that good stuff. We love you all out there. Thank you for listening. And we'll be back with a story next episode. See you soon.
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B
See ya.