Top 10 Greatest Games of All Time (Revised), or: The Return of the Low Five Goats

Luke has a running bit where he gives Alex a hard time for declaring any game he enjoys as deserving of a spot in his top ten best games of all time. Well, the two finally sat down and declared their official lists. There are some spicy takes!

In this episode, Alex and Luke revisit their Greatest Games of All Time lists, making some surprising revisions. Tune in for updated picks, spirited debates, and fresh takes on the best games ever made.

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Episode Transcript

Luke (00:22):
all right and welcome, dude to an extra special summer
edition of some Summer SideQuest.
And how you doing, boss?

Alex (00:28):
Pow, pow, pow, pow, Pow, pow, pow pow.
Super Summer SideQuest yeah.

Luke (00:33):
AKA.
We suck at games these days.
So we're like half done withfucking Control and Ace Tite.
But you know scheduling and welike to drink a few brews and
then talk about other coolthings that we would do, so
we're gonna do one of those thistime.
It's gonna be a good time thisis true, man.

Alex (00:49):
We are about halfway through control.
It's been cool, but, just likewith disco elysium, I feel like
it's uh, it makes more sense toroll the credits on that one
instead of giving our our hottakes halfway through yeah, and
I also know that without thatcarrot I won't finish the game.

Luke (01:05):
So I you know I could.
I could give you some prettysolid thoughts on all sorts of
things gameplay, vibe, justeverything going on but uh, it
would be better to finish it anduh understand what's going on
indeed, lo-fi boys, rollingcredits again yeah, we'll catch
a stride eventually here.
You know, when we pick likekiddie games that take two hours
again kiddie games come on, Ijust meant like short.

(01:27):
You know what?

Alex (01:28):
fuck it I take nothing.

Luke (01:29):
This man has no respect for the game boy I didn't even
mean it like that, but as soonas I said it I was like, oh man,
he's gonna be all butthurtabout his niche game boy
aesthetic, which is fine.
Um, but yes.
First off, I've been teasingthis in private chats for like a
year, but I do not feel greatabout my top 10 of all time and

(01:51):
Alex has like seven more gamesthat he wants to enter into his
top 10.
The top 10 low five goats yes,we did this For the avid
listener that would have beenmaybe 2022, end of 2021.

Alex (02:02):
It's been a while since we refreshed the list list.

Luke (02:04):
I want to say it was at the end of 22 and we released it
at the very beginning of 23.
That feels right okay, yeah anduh, spoiler I don't think any
game I've played since hasentered.
Maybe if I was a ballers gate 3boy, or if I was, uh, manly
enough or, you know, justgenerally courageous enough to
play Elden Ring, perhaps thatwould have cracked it.

Alex (02:23):
I've got some shakeups to my list.

Luke (02:25):
Oh, you do.
Okay, well, first off, I'mgoing to go, I'm just going to,
I'm going to list mine.

Alex (02:30):
Right on.

Luke (02:30):
And I want you to list yours.
So number one I had thegreatest game of all time, not
Tetris.
Show me yours and then I'llshow you mine.
Mm Breath of the wild.
Number one all time.
Um, ocarina of time.
Number two mildly controversial, not really, uh.
Number three I have civ six.
Number four scrimmin skyrim.

(02:53):
I have replayed that.
I feel great about that sincelisting this on there.
I didn't feel great at the timebut I feel very, very strongly.
Number five red dead,redemption two, right on.
Number six ncaa football 14coming back this, uh, this month
.
Baby, oh boy, very excited forthat.
Very ignorant.

(03:13):
Number seven skate two.
Very specifically has to beskate two, but the whole
franchise slapped.
Number eight smash brawl,gamecube brawl.
Huh, nostalgia, middle school.
Everything's the coolest inmiddle school and high school.
When you remember it, you knowthe bands were the best then,

(03:33):
the food was the best then.
All those things were alwaysthe best then.

Alex (03:37):
Number nine melee dude brawl on the uh, the wii
elevator music smash brawl.

Luke (03:50):
Release date 2008 um gamecube bitch keep it all right
, so it was melee.

Alex (03:59):
Hmm, which one's mainly on ?

Luke (04:01):
uh, the wii right, we fucking guy.
All right, number nine, uh,knights of the old republic, and
then number 10 at the time feltpretty sheepish to do it, hades
oh word yes, all right.
Do you want to hear myrevisions of my thoughts or I

(04:21):
want you to run through thosereal quick, just like run
through the list.
Just be smarter about it yeah,all right breath of the wild
ocarina of time.
Civ 6 skyrim, red dead,redemption 2, ncaa football 14,
skate 2, smash brawl on theGameCube Knights of the Old

(04:45):
Republic, and then Hades.

Alex (04:47):
Solid list bro.

Luke (04:49):
I agree, perhaps the 10 greatest games of all time, some
would say, in this basementright now.

Alex (04:55):
Low Five Goats.
Right there Luke's Low FiveGoats.

Luke (04:58):
The goat of Low Five's goats.
Get the hell out of here youare the goat of his goats.

Alex (05:04):
Now let's go down over to my list.
You ready instantly sulliedcontinue all right, I'm gonna go
, should we?

Luke (05:12):
I'll just go top to bottom , like you did yeah, I see the
appeal of the reverse rank nowyou mention it, but you know
what?
So here we go coming on uncut,just like us.

Alex (05:23):
Coming out hot, just getting it over with Ocarina of
time.
Ocarina of time for the Ocarinafolks, ocarina of time for me.
Number one, number one game ofall time.
You know what that's, whatnumber one means.
This is how it's going to be.
Yep, number two, I've you wantto applaud.

Luke (05:43):
I just don't want to acknowledge I was just hoping to
move on as quickly as possible.

Alex (05:46):
I have a note about that one.

Luke (05:48):
I don't know what this is.

Alex (05:49):
Number three Link's Awakening Okay.
Number four Witcher.
3.
Number five Red Dead Redemption.
2.
Number six, grand Theft Auto,vice City.
Number seven, super Mario Bros.
3.
Number eight, metroid Fusion,theft auto, vice city.
Number seven, super mario brosthree.
Number eight, metroid fusion.
Number nine dead cells.

(06:10):
And number 10, age of empirestwo.

Luke (06:15):
I wish I knew how to make like the little noise that when
you click on the settlers, whichI know how to make that noise.
Yeah, I think that's the house,but anyway, what's up though?

Alex (06:27):
I think we just gotta michael bumpus this and say that
tetris is the greatest game ofall time and therefore I don't
need to include it on my list.
Shout out to dave of tales fromthe backlog and a top three
podcast that he does top three,they got there.
Basically, I think they callthe michael bumpus and that is
greatest all time.

Luke (06:44):
Everybody acknowledges it, so you don't include it on your
list I mean, I think the part Ican agree with is that you
could leave it off your list,but I think to say that it's the
greatest of all time.
I mean, it's like dude, it'sthe perfect game.
It's inherently a video game,but I also feel like it's like
putting mancala up there orsomething fucking lame dude
mancala's, not even.

Alex (07:02):
It doesn't even touch tetris, tetris bro.
I was playing tetris effectlast night.

Luke (07:06):
Dude bro, tetris tetris slaps anyways, you want to put
solitaire up there, then no,spider solitaire.
Maybe these are not comparable.
Maybe minesweeper, these arenot comparable.
I mean, they're kind of in thesame neighborhood.
You can put pac-man in thereyou know, whatever works for you
.

Alex (07:21):
Pac-man kind of dope, though, bro yeah, do than Tetris
, but I'm just saying like it'snot true.

Luke (07:27):
It's like putting peanut butter and jelly is your
favorite foods.
Like, yeah, I've smashed atrillion peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches, but is it a top 10food of all time?
No, that's not comparable.

Alex (07:37):
You're just around.
It's super comparable dude, no.

Luke (07:39):
It's like.

Alex (07:39):
It's like a nail on the head Dude like nail on the head
dude.
This is a podcast between meand you.
I wish we had some other homieshere right now so they could
all tell you how out of pocketyou are right now I mean it
depends like are they all 40 andabove?

Luke (07:50):
because then, and then you have a bunch of support but
like no, give me dude, thatdetroit champion right now is a
kid everyone 35 and below, andwe're like get out of here,
grandpa dude not to side withthe zoomers, but like damn dude.
I'll tell you what.

Alex (08:04):
I'll tell you what you can text the show.
You can text the show.
It's a thing.

Luke (08:08):
Now you go in the show notes, there's a link shoot us a
text and you let us know iftetris is goat or not and I'll
say the carrier pigeon to alexand he will receive it, because
that's how tetris peoplecommunicate with one another
it'll come through.

Alex (08:21):
Let us know also apparently un-american.

Luke (08:23):
You fucking communist dude .

Alex (08:25):
And if you agree, dude, we didn't you watch that movie on
apple tv?

Luke (08:29):
no, I didn't watch.
We stole that shit from therussians.
Well that's, that's cool.
I dig that, but it's the onlypart I like um, yes, tetris not
gonna leave.

Alex (08:38):
I'm gonna take it off my list, not to appease you, but to
make room for other games formore more content, because
Tetris should just be the GOAT.

Luke (08:47):
Anyways, moving on.

Alex (08:50):
I'm going to do you a favor and remove it from the
list for whatever reason youneed in your mind.

Luke (08:56):
Can you put Breath of the Wild on your list now?

Alex (08:58):
It's possible.
It's possible, but I'm going toremove Tetris.
I'm dropping that from my listas a favor to you.
So it can have its place in itsholy wherever and the Michael.

Luke (09:10):
Butt Kiss, Hall of Fame of bad games.
It's like the chef's kiss but abutt's kiss.

Alex (09:15):
Excellent joke, nailed it.

Luke (09:17):
Keep it in.

Alex (09:20):
I'm getting rid of it, so that's going to give me some
space, that's going to bumpeverything up, that's going to
keep OOT at the top, that'sgoing to bring Link's Awakening
to number two and it's going tobring Witcher 3 to its rightful
place.

Luke (09:33):
That was actually a big issue and I can't quite remember
current recording.
I really, really felt like youmissed an opportunity to have it
at number three.

Alex (09:42):
That's true, but now it is bro.

Luke (09:44):
I mean, mind you, I have Red Dead Redemption 2 at five
and Civ 6 at three, so numberingonly mattered when it wasn't
for me.
But Witcher 3 at number threeMine's not going to make Witcher
3 is not going to make my list,but I actually replayed it
shortly after we made the podand God, that came.
So fucking good dude.

(10:04):
Some things to mention someonecall it a goat.
Um, yeah, and they should dude.
It's sick like the monsterhunting.
The storytelling, uh, I think acritique that, like some of the
story stuff is kind of whack isokay, but the side quest stuff
is so good it's like I don'tthink a game's ever made better
you play the dlc you know?
No, because I replayed thewhole thing and I was in that

(10:25):
area.
That's supposed to be likefrance.
I'm blanking on the name rightnow yeah, um and I'm sure it's
got like a fancy name blood andwine deals the blood and wine
expansion is correct.
Um, and it was really cool, itwas just so much, I haven't
finished.
I probably got like five to tenhours into that maybe what's
the other one?
it's like the iron I, somethingiron well, that was like a big

(10:45):
gwent heavy thing which kind ofblows doesn't it, so I just
wasn't but gwen on this my oneremains breath of the wild, and
I just want a small space that,uh, some people would probably
replace breath of the wild withtears of the kingdom did you
ever?
Beat tears of the kingdom no, Ididn't dude you're not the only

(11:08):
person.
I know a handful of people that,like, acknowledged the game was
top tier and it just didn'tclick with them and I thought
that was a little odd.
I mean, I beat it, I put a tonof time into it, but even though
I understand that it's a betterlike next level version of
breath of the Wild, you justcannot capture what Breath of
the Wild was in that moment oftime.

(11:28):
My level of obsession cannot bematched and Tears of the
Kingdom was sick.
But the obsession, thediscovery and all that stuff in
Breath of the Wild was just sotop tier that even though Tears
of the Kingdom did some of thosecreative shit in gaming ever I
don know like, if I'm any othergame developer, I'm like, god

(11:50):
damn it, dude, like it's yourfavorite gamers favorite game.
I would assume, or your favoritegame developers favorite game.
I bet right, right um, but I'mstill keeping breath of the wild
at top and tears of the kingdom.

Alex (12:00):
Sequels are always make my list.
Sequels are always tricky,though, dude, because like it's
a continuation of the perfectgame, you know.
So they're like it's acontinuation of such a great
game, so like, how do you makeit stand alone?
I do think they elevated thatgame to it, you know with ultra
hand stuff was so crazy.

Luke (12:15):
It was cool.

Alex (12:16):
They changed up they changed it up, you know, and
they really pushed theboundaries of what you could do
on the switch.
And then what you know, zelda,is I respect it breath of wild
still better, and I, you know,actually I didn't beat breath of
the wild for a long time onthat one either, but I got right
up to ganon and I just neverfinished because I didn't want
it to be done yeah whereas withthis one, I think I made it
through three quarters of theway, I didn't even get all the
way up to the final boss I thinkpart of the problem with me too

(12:39):
is that you had the underworldand then the sky islands and the
underworld was.

Luke (12:44):
There was some moments down there, but I didn't want to
discover every inch where theislands I kind of did, and then
you can't match, like.
I think that some of thegreatest magic of the first game
is the fact that discoveringthe map was so wild and having
such built-in knowledge likekind of robbed you of that.
In the second one.

(13:04):
Uh, but I was so hard and howlike horny to talk about that.
I didn't even.
What did you add to your list?
yeah, so and does it slot allthe way at the bottom?

Alex (13:13):
I'm actually gonna cut another game from the list.
Oh wow, controversial.

Luke (13:16):
I'm gonna cut dead cells interesting great game I thought
the introduction of castlevaniato it would only put more wind
in your sails.
I haven't played that.

Alex (13:26):
DLC.

Luke (13:26):
That game is sick.
You're kind of high on it atthe moment.
I thought it was impulsive atthe moment.

Alex (13:30):
It was recency bias, for sure, and I have played it since
we made our goat list and it ishonestly I don't feel bad about
originally putting it on there.
It's a great fucking game.

Luke (13:43):
It's smooth too.

Alex (13:49):
You can pick it up, drop it, just it says that when
you're talking goats, though Idon't know, man, I just don't
know if it's got that same power.
So I'm gonna cut it.
No, interestingly enough though, I'm not gonna.
I'm going to, I'm not gonna putit something in its place, I'm
gonna bump up.
Age of empires 2 so that goeshigher on the list now.
So that's uh, so that's gonnabump age of Empires 2.
So that goes higher on the listnow.
So that's going to bump Age ofEmpires up into 8.
So I've got Ocarina of Time,blink's Awakening, witcher 3,

(14:14):
red Dead Redemption 2, grandTheft Auto, vice City.
I want to make another hotchange on my list.
This is a pure swap, though.
You ready for it?

Luke (14:23):
Yeah.

Alex (14:24):
Super Mario Bros 3 is Super Mario World.

Luke (15:27):
In my head for a second.
I had them so interchangeablethat that didn't even register
for a second.
But I like World better.

Alex (15:35):
See, at the time I can't remember which one we played, I
don't know if we had playedWorld before we made this list,
though.

Luke (15:43):
That I don't remember, but we've never done 3 as part of
the pod, so I don't have thesame relationship with 3.

Alex (15:47):
3 is great and it is worthy of being a go-to game,
but I am removing it for SuperMario World because we did,
whether we played it before orafter I made this initial list.
I've had plenty of time tothink about it and world should
take the place of three.
Three is fucking phenomenal andthe reason that I have it on
there is purely nostalgia.
That's one of the first likeNintendo games ever played as a

(16:07):
child, a very special place, andit's like, honestly like it is.
It is worthy of being on thislist, but I'm going to, I'm
going to exchange it for world.

Luke (16:17):
I support it.

Alex (16:19):
Cool.

Luke (16:19):
God, can you edit out when I go?

Alex (16:21):
I cannot, oh man Gosh.

Luke (16:24):
Hopefully your music isn't up too much on your headphones.
Lord have mercy, I'm not thatheavy of a breather, guys.
He gives me the bummy mic thatmakes me sound gross.

Alex (16:34):
The magic of editing.
I get some of your mouthbreathing out, bro.
Not all of it, though.
It has to be pure, they have toknow.
Super mario bros 3 at 6 nowbecomes super mario world.
Then we got metroid fusion.
Gonna keep it, I cut dead cellsand I'm bumping up age of
empires too.
So that means I have two extraspots.

(16:55):
Right am I am a 9 and 10 okayso what goes there?

Luke (17:03):
that's the question correct, I'm waiting here and
focusing really hard on notbreathing in the mic while I
just wait here, awkwardly.

Alex (17:13):
I'm gonna bump up one of my honorable mentions and into
the number nine spot and that'sthe sims bro it's hard not to
have the sims somewhere.

Luke (17:23):
Which sims is it the original?
Og?

Alex (17:25):
I'm going with the og or sims 2 I figured you'd sims to
it sims 2 actually maybe makesmore sense.
I'm gonna go sims 2 thewoohooing was much better.
Yeah, totally sims one fuckinggreat game.
Sims 2 did elevate that shitenough.
Sims 3, 4, etc.
It just became it's a lot.
It's still super cool, but likethat was a sweet spot for me,

(17:46):
uh, gaming ubiquity dude.

Luke (17:48):
As far as, like my wife, played a mad amount of sims as a
kid, I just feel like the simsreached so many different levels
of people and scratches such aspecific itch.
Sad time.
Um, who's the developer?
Um maxis no, I'm trying tothink, well, yes, of the sims,
yes, but um the people who makeuh city skylines paradox, or

(18:09):
something like that I'm notgoing to make it the council
well for city skylines to know.
Um, I'm talking about.
They had a competitor for thesims that they're working on
life by you or something likethat.
It looked pretty rad and Iguess it bro.
Yeah, completely likecontroversially.
So no, um, paradox, I thinkit's the people doing that.
So I was actually excited forthat because I feel like there's

(18:30):
a certain, there's certain gamefranchises in my public
personal opinion that reallyneed to be like.
They need that capitalismcompetition to like be better.
Madden is a prime example.
They own the exclusive rightsEA does to do the licensing to
the NFL, so no one else canreally truly compete.
So they get kind of lazy.
Right, the Sims?

(18:50):
I wouldn't say they get lazy,but that whole DLC structure,
it's like thousands of dollarsto have everything.
So I'd love for someone to pushthem.
So that was a bummer, a littleanecdote to slip in there.
So, all right, you added theSims, pretty much the Sims 2.

Alex (19:05):
Right, we're going with Sims 2.

Luke (19:06):
And then what's your number?
10?
.

Alex (19:08):
Or do you?

Luke (19:08):
have any fun Sims stories other than making me run around
my fat ass around the block tohelp me get the cheats to?

Alex (19:13):
get money Fucking bitch.
Hey man, I was just trying tomake you healthy.

Luke (19:17):
Ellie cried you, piece of shit.

Alex (19:19):
But then she got the cheats, bro, after you felt
guilty.
Dude, here's Ellie's problem.
She fucking gave it her fulland sprinted around the block
your ass like probably jogged.

Luke (19:30):
I jogged and I was like bitch.
You know, this was enough.

Alex (19:35):
Oh man, Good stuff.
Being the other brother isgreat.
Yeah, I bet.
Gotta have those moments.
Uh, I would like to bump breathof wild onto my list, but I'm
gonna keep it as an honorablemention because otherwise my
list is just too zelda, heavybro that's fair.

Luke (19:51):
That's fair.
I felt.
I felt silly looking back uponthis having breath of the wild
and then oot right next to eachother and I was like don't care,
but it looks a little silly.

Alex (20:00):
The game in my game, my number 10.
And will it stay on there?
Time will tell.

Luke (20:07):
I'm tempted to throw 2K up in this bitch but I'm not going
to.
I'm going to save the people.
You were an NBA Live boy backin the day too, so you're not
even being honest.

Alex (20:15):
That's true, but you true, but uh, you know all right also
fuck 2k.
They need some competition aswell I think someone's working
on it, but that's neither herenor there ea's been trying to
revive nba live for years so Idon't know, maybe someday the
game I'm gonna bump into.
My number 10 spot is celestethat one ain't gonna last either
.

Luke (20:32):
This is the newest that sells, so it could be I'll see
you in about a year or two.
It could be.

Alex (20:36):
It's less is tight, but did you enjoy it or is it cool
both?

Luke (20:40):
because I feel like it was really cool, but I didn't enjoy
it, so both man, it's one ofthose games I'm more positive on
it at that time yeah, yeah, inhindsight, I just wanted nothing
to do with it again that wasshit, but see that's uh.

Alex (20:51):
It like works that gamer piece of me where I really like
the challenge of it.
I loved dude like it was sodifficult at times and like it
drove me nuts.

Luke (21:00):
You know, I got a fuck ton of strawberries and I was like
damn.

Alex (21:05):
Oh, your boy Ace.
Ace dropped in how manystrawberries I had.

Luke (21:08):
I was like Jesus, I fucking suck yeah.
Yeah, Compared to me it was achild's play.
I was like God damn.
I think you and I were likesuper close.

Alex (21:16):
I think I barely he might've had this with Ned John
yeah.

Luke (21:19):
Yeah, but then he crushed his both.
I was like damn.

Alex (21:22):
So dude shouts out and it's tough.
Man, I am going to go Celeste.
I was going between Celeste andDisco.
Disco is also some recency,biased Um.

Luke (21:31):
Disco.
I mean both of them, but you'regoing to think about it a lot
but both games have greatreplayability as well, so that's
not totally true word, I justmeant, like the impact of the
game right, right.

Alex (21:43):
And the thing is is like the celeste story is not like
it's.
You can feed into the story.
I think the story is greatthere.
I would like the impact thatit's had.
Um, you know it's.
It is an indie joint, but it'slike one of those ones that's
like surpassed, like it's.
It's come out.
It's about come out of this likeit's bubbled up and became a
huge thing right yeah, so that'sstill indie, but it has red
general regard, right, right butI just think the the

(22:05):
development of it and like howcool, like how they really have
pushed the boundaries of likehelping the player, even though
it's a super tough game.
I don't know it's got to be onthere.
Man, I'm making it the number10.
I'm dropping dead sales for it.
All right, all right.

Luke (22:18):
I respect it.

Alex (22:19):
The number 10.

Luke (22:19):
I'm dropping dead cells for it, all right.
All right, I respect it.
The goats.

Alex (22:22):
The revised goats, bro, the revised goats.
The goats part two Summersampling side question goats.

Luke (22:28):
The summer shandy goats, all right.
So I gave you a random blip ofmine because I forgot how to
like generally podcast and goback and forth BT BOT Dubs mine,
because I forgot how to likegenerally podcast and go back
and forth.
Bt bot dubs oot one and two.
Number three civ six.
Feeling strong about that,stronger than ever, I'm actually
um pretty excited for civ seven.

(22:50):
I've been playing a lot ofgames just to scratch that
specific itch.
Uh, where it gets controversialis at four and five.
I have Skyrim and Red Dead,redemption 2, and I'm really
tempted to flip those.
All right, because I have afeeling that the more I go back,
like every five years, I have afeeling I'm just going to play
Red Dead Redemption 2.
You know what the fuck I mean?

(23:12):
Like I guess you played it foryour first time when we played
it for the pod, but like how didI get you to do that in a month
, by the way, I had a differentlife, dude like we need two, two
fucking months to do fuckingcontrol, but back in the day,
fucking mashed, fucking red dead.

Alex (23:28):
Redemption two in a month, putting in hours, I didn't have
a baby, you know dude, I thinkI put more time into fishing and
hunting than I have any othergame on this list.

Luke (23:37):
Um, red red, red dead.
Wow, red dead redemption 2 hasso many flaws and yet, when you
play the game again, all of thatwashes away, because they've
just created the most beautifulsimulation of all time, and like
it's just crazy.
The thing, though.
The thing, though, the reason Idon't think I'm gonna switch it
after much consternation, isI've picked up scrim on the

(24:00):
steam deck.
I randomly did it when I hadgame pass.
I've scrimmed at least two moretimes, all right, since my last
scrim on the pod.
So, like, you just pick, youjust grip it and rip it.
Man, you make an orc, you makean elf, you want to be sneaky,
you want.
It's just, the versatility isgoing to keep it.
Uh, six.
Ncaa football nostalgia stillreigns strong.

(24:22):
That'll remain.
Skate two at seven.
I'm fine with that.
What I was thinking, though, isthat, uh, it comes at nine.
So brawl smash bros, stillsmash bros.
Knights of the little republic Iplayed it a ton as a kid.
I loaded it up on the steamdeck and instantly noped because
of the controls, and maybe Ijust got to find out some
community controls.

Alex (24:42):
Yeah, dude for sure but one.

Luke (24:45):
I only played it the once and I was really relying on
nostalgia and how much I enjoyedit as a kid.
And two, um, it's a game that Iomitted.
So here's a weird thing anhonorable mention is gonna leap
my number 10 so logically.
It makes so no sense.
Right that it didn't make itonto my list at all, and it's
going to surpass 10,.
10 is Hades.

(25:06):
I've played Hades since werecorded that pod.

Alex (25:08):
Yeah.

Luke (25:09):
I never felt better.
It's the opposite of dead cells.
Okay, we're like you were likehey, I was caught up in the
moment.
That game was sick.

Alex (25:15):
I loved it, but it's not like one of my great Right.

Luke (25:18):
It's not that it's a bad game, it's just one of your
greatest of all time.
I completely redid all the way,beat Dad a bunch of times.

Alex (25:24):
Oh word Did the whole.
Thing.

Luke (25:26):
And that game, once it gets its hooks in you, is just
so sick.
And the way that they deliver astory and marry it to the the
music's great in that one too.
Yep and like To marry thestorytelling with such a
specific gameplay loop that noone thought you could actually
get a story in the way they did.
That is just unparalleled.
It's sick Currently playingHades 2 in Early Access.

(25:48):
Most of my Early Access life ison weird crungy fucking city
builder shit, settlement shit.
So I don't have a bunch toreport on that other than the
next one's just going to be goodtoo, but I haven't really
gotten too far into it.
So drum roll, my number 10, mynumber nine that somehow

(26:08):
surpasses hades.
Uh, you had a funny line to meafter we did the pod.
Do you remember what it was?

Alex (26:11):
no, the podcast we did like a year and a half ago about
my number nine selection or myomission.

Luke (26:20):
You don't remember that once, but you said you did an
entire master thesis.
Basically it's inspired by onegame and it didn't make your
list and I was like, yeah, thatmakes sense oh yeah, it's pretty
fucking stupid and that iscities skylines.
Unfortunately, I will not putcities skylines 2 because, um,
they seems to, they seem to havelost their footing and it's not

(26:41):
a horrible game, but um, it'sjust.
It's gonna be a while untilpeople really should start pick
it up.
But dude the time travelingI've done in that game yeah is
just unparalleled.
It's just, it's deserving dude,and the creativity and the weird
obsessions I've had with it andthe things I've built and the
way it sparked my mind outsideof like when you sit down and

(27:05):
play games, like the weird shitI've thought about when driving.
You don't get that with anyother game sure, for sure what
are you doing on your phone?
Dude, it's distracting.

Alex (27:14):
You're not in the moment I am trying to make sure my list
got masturbating over hereinstead of making love.

Luke (27:18):
Dude, what is this shit?
I'm making sure my list got 10and not 9.
You're fucking masturbatingover here.

Alex (27:21):
instead of making love, dude, what is this shit?
I'm making sure my list has 9or 10.

Luke (27:23):
I can't remember if I did 9 or 10.
This is the worst podcastingpartner of all time, bro's just
sitting there.

Alex (27:29):
He's like uh-huh.
I asked if we could take notesand you said we'll just rip it.
He's like cool.

Luke (27:34):
We'll just rip it.
I like what you said there,sort of paying attention Playing
Tetris over here.

Alex (27:40):
Yeah, let me load up Tetris again.

Luke (27:45):
Yeah, fucking bitch, alright, I got ten, bro, good,
wow, it's almost like youcounted to ten a minute ago.
Fucking piece of shit, dude.
Anyway, city Skylines it makesme think of the place I live
differently.
It makes me creative, it makesme wish I would have taken
different career paths or likejust makes me want to do a bunch
of stuff, dude, and that gamelike I could make an argument

(28:08):
that maybe when we do this againI'll probably move it up higher
.
It's probably going to be thisweird thing where it slowly
creeps up when the nostalgiabuilds.
I don't think it'll ever make itto one.
Because, like you know, I don'tthink it'll ever make it to one
because, like you know, theZelda games like got me into
gaming and like fantasy and allthese different types of things,
but like I can see it sneakingpast, like in the neighborhood
of Civ, right on.

(28:28):
So like because it scratches asimilar type of social studies
brain type shit.
So there is my revised 10.
It's pretty much the same.

Alex (28:37):
I dig it.
Run through them real quick.
Final answers.

Luke (28:39):
Final answers.
I'll do it in the correct orderfor listing things.
Number 10, hades.
Number 9 is no longer Knightsof the Republic, it is Cities
Skylines.
Number 8 is Super Smash BrosBrawl Shouts out to middle
school.
Number 7, skate 2.
Number 6, ncaa Football 14.

(29:00):
Come on back, baby.
Number five Red Edward andAmtron 2.
Still, number four Scrimmon.
Number three Civilization VI.
Number two Ocarina of Time.
Number one Breath of the Wild.
No Tears of the Kingdom.

Alex (29:18):
Breath of the Wild comma, not Tears of the Kingdom,
Correct Word.

Luke (29:23):
That's a great list, dude.
I feel like the need to defendit over Tears of the Kingdom,
which other people are going totalk about forever and forget
about the magic that was Breathof the Wild.

Alex (29:31):
Man, I'm going to set it before.
I don't think you're too out ofline on that one, though I
think that's acceptable.

Luke (29:44):
I just have to tell this anecdote one more time because
it's my favorite.
I was once upon a time when Ididn't have children in my
summer break just meant I wasscratching my balls all day
doing nothing.
I played fucking breath of thewild all the way until my wife
came home from work, except forthe half an hour before she got
in the door.
So I'd charge the switch andthen, like 10 minutes into her
being home and talking to her,I'd be like oh, oh, I'm going to
play this game a little bit.
I'm going to play a little bitof Zelda.
I haven't touched this all dayand then I would just grind

(30:04):
until I went to bed.
Dude, oh, that's wonderful.
Yeah, I love that forever.

Alex (30:10):
I can dig it, man.
That's a hell of a list Set instone until the next time we
revise.

Luke (30:16):
Did you count 10?
My end, I got 10 in total.

Alex (30:20):
Celeste Number 10.
Sims 2.
Age of Empires 2.
Metroid Fusion.
Super Mario Bros World.
Super Mario World, grand TheftAuto, vice City.
Super Mario Bros World, redDead.
Redemption 2.
At the number three, spot theWitcher 3.

Luke (30:44):
It's rightful place along with Triss.
Alongside Triss.
I mean, you're right.

Alex (30:51):
Triss is number three Oof it's Yennefer Geralt and.

Luke (30:57):
Triss, he's proud of himself.

Alex (31:00):
Yeah, dog, he's hot.
And then Link's Awak awakeningand number two ocarina of time.
This pot has killed me, dude.
I used to say I used to stickto my gun so hard on ocarina I
said ocarina very specificallylast time yeah, this is it.
There's just too many peoplethat I talk to games about now.
What's an?

Luke (31:19):
ocarina anyway.

Alex (31:21):
Never heard of it.
Ocarina of time.
Ocarina of time Number one goto game.

Luke (31:25):
Berenstain Bears.

Alex (31:27):
I can dig it, man, the updated list.
Sweet dude, I can dig it.
We'd love to hear about your goto games.

Luke (31:36):
Yeah, if you shared with us last time, share again.

Alex (31:38):
See if you can stick to your guns.
If you got revisions, I want toknow about them.

Luke (31:42):
If you did not join our Discord at that time, now's the
time to do it and drop yours.
Just make sure that you don'tinclude Tetris, because it's not
a good game.

Alex (31:49):
And if you want to let Luke know he's out of line, you
can go ahead and text us at thelink in the show notes the Butt
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(32:32):
can actually text us whateveryou want to say.
I say that you text the tetrisis fucking awesome.

Luke (32:38):
Luke's out of pocket and we've already already played
portal too, so don't worry aboutit.

Alex (32:41):
That's true.

Luke (32:42):
Don't text us to play.

Alex (32:43):
Portal to dog Portal slaps , though Portal does slap.

Luke (32:46):
Yeah, portal holds up.

Alex (32:49):
Yeah, and with that, let's take a break.

Luke (33:02):
Come back with our unsaved new sponsor.
Hi man, you ready?
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I know I got your ear on thisone.
I know I know we're on the sameside, dude, you know what we're
brought to by quite literallymost of the time fucking android
dog and, uh, not being thoseguys, but being those fucking
guys when it comes to, like,talking shit about apple and
being butthurt about it all thetime dude, and we are Pixel boys

(33:23):
.
We're Pixel boys.
You got a Pixel.
What do you got?

Alex (33:27):
Yeah, it's like a Pixel 6.

Luke (33:28):
Sick dude.
I bought me a new Pixel, got methe Buds dude, not AirPods dude
.
Stop calling them pods dude.

Alex (33:34):
They're Buds, dude Buds, and they fucking buds for the
buds boys, yeah and um I'm justtired of like apple people being
mean to me yeah, dude, what'sthe green bubble?
Bullshit.
I don't give a fuck.

Luke (33:47):
I had a co-worker who was like I don't have your number, I
should get your number.
I was like word and then I lookat the analytics, bro.

Alex (33:52):
We got a lot of apple users and listen you know,
you're fine, you're fine, uh.

Luke (33:58):
But the co-worker gets my number and then like there's a
quick text exchange and thenshe's like dude, your android.
I never.
I was like she's like.
I was shocked, like really, andI was like what part of me
doesn't look like I'd be thefucking android what does it say
about you that you have anandroid phone versus apple or
vice versa?
yeah, I mean nothing, itshouldn't, but people are weird

(34:19):
and I feel like it's like theconsole wars, just like all the
fucking try hard neckbeards,just move to this battle.
Except for unfortunately forthe neckbeards, they're all
android users and all the prettywomen are apple users.
Um but then they get a littletaste of the, the camera on the,
on the pixel, bro, and they'relike I wish I had it they're
just so pilled, just like littleneckbeards were so pilled on

(34:40):
xbox or playstation or whatever,and they're just like hey, man,
uh, they both got their prosand cons.
I just can't handle theinherent superiority.
So, kids, like you know, Iteach middle school and they
like to roast each other.
And the kids like you got afucking android and I'm like dog
, all your mommies bought yourphones, so let's fuck off right
there.
And two, tell me about thespecs.
Dog, tell me why apple's better.

(35:01):
And they never can.

Alex (35:02):
That's because they don't know.
No, simple it?

Luke (35:05):
no, it's just this is cool and that's not cool.
And I'm like you know what'scool?
Not having smartphones?
Let's burn them down.

Alex (35:12):
Dog dude, there's so many cool lights rise up dog there's
some whack android phones outthere for sure I don't know
doubt but you know operating.
There's gonna be some whackones your samsung's pretty dope
yep pixels pretty dope lg.

Luke (35:25):
I fuck with it a little bit, but lesser I got lg tv.
I don't really fuck with theirphones yeah, I had one back in
the day.
I didn't like it so they gotthat oled I didn't hate it
either.

Alex (35:37):
I meant the phone oh, where were you know?

Luke (35:40):
I'm pretty, I'm pretty religious with the samsung on
the tvs but, I noticed that umwhen I had the playstation 4, it
linked.
It would not like link up withmy tv because it's sony right
get out.
But when I like hooked upnintendo like this little blip
showed up like a little shortcutto my nintendo stuff, I was
like that's nice.

(36:00):
Yeah, they'd be doing that kindof stuff they got xbox too, so
the only one they don't have,and like sony low-key is kind of
.

Alex (36:06):
Yeah, I have a samsung tv.

Luke (36:07):
Yeah, uh, sony low-key is kind of like the apple of the
gaming industry.
Yeah, apple's like we're theapple I'm like fuck off apple.
No one cares about your appleshit um, but like the, sony
superiority thing is still kindof like their little bougie boy
shit, like not playing well withothers, like I don't know I
thought, I thought I would uh,thought I'd be a playstation

(36:29):
stand forever and now they gotlike two games.
I'm glad I can't play in this.
What?

Alex (36:32):
is playstation's vr thing?
Is it just psvr?
Yeah?

Luke (36:36):
psvr to buying any vr dude , that is.

Alex (36:39):
They made some announcement not too long ago
psvr2 is gonna be compatiblewith your pc, so if you have one
, you can use it on your pc.
Congrats, it is in theorythat's supposed to be dope, but
then the fine print's like yeah,but none of the cool shit that
it's supposed to do works on pcum, we're also brought to you by
reality, which is not just thereality checks that androids are

(36:59):
fire, but also that, like Ihave no interest in vr, like
zero like negative, negativeinterest in vr.

Luke (37:06):
I would fuck with vr till they get the porno stuff better.
I'm vr, I'm vr curious.
For sure, dude, I have somecool games out there I don't
like to do that tasted it like II jumped in the matrix real
quick like the gran turismo,like the.

Alex (37:23):
You know that kind of like dude.
It's fucking dope.
I got like dude the eyetracking and shit.
Like you don't even used to beold vr.
You had to like move your wholebody to make the fucking screen
move.

Luke (37:31):
You need to like move your eyes and you're like your field
of vision changes I rescind mynegative because I like the
videos where some motherfuckerlike runs into something because
they think they VR.
I like VR that much that it canmake me content of some
motherfucker like running intohis wall.

Alex (37:46):
Dude, the half-life game is supposed to be dope.
That one's supposed to bereally fun.
Uh, I don't really do a bunchof like some of the horror games
.
Like, I think like there's alot of potential there.
I'm not really a horror gameguy but I mean, shit your pants
if you need to.
No thanks, dude, I'm such adude, I'm like dude, I would

(38:06):
like.
Uh, I want to get the vr.
So what is the vr that?
Um, that steam does?
They got a.
They got their own littleproprietary vr set.
That's way too much money theyall are.

Luke (38:15):
That's actually part like the facebook, one's probably the
most.
What's that?
Oculus?

Alex (38:19):
Yeah, that one's the most approachable in terms of price.

Luke (38:22):
No, it's the MetaQuest right, Isn't?

Alex (38:23):
that their shit.
Oculus is someone else.
I can't even keep track.

Luke (38:26):
That's the point, dude.
I don't want it.
I feel like they keep tellingme it's the future, but here we
are and I still don't want it.
So maybe my kids will be intoit, but I'll just be, his ass

(38:52):
smells like I'm, like I canimagine dude, have you read or
seen ready player?
I have an older brother, I havenot.
It's like, don't make it comesit on you.
How do you think I know dog?
Uh, I have not seen readyplayer one.

Alex (38:56):
I'm very vaguely familiar with the premise.
But uh, dude, I would be downlike I'm not trying to do, I'm
not trying to like live my lifein vr, but like I would like to
play vr for sure the tv is goodenough for me, dog.

Luke (39:06):
Maybe a curved tv with some curves, that's right,
that's where I draw the line.
Or like a dual monitor setupbut yeah but uh, the point I'm
making is that I don't care whatoperating force and the system
your phone has.
Let's just stop being fuckingtribal about it, dude.

Alex (39:24):
You can't, you can't come out here and be like hella pro
android, and then I have to.

Luke (39:28):
That's the point I'm making, though, is that I have
to be pro android, because theapple people are so pilled and
they're so mean.
There's bitches out here notdating dudes because they got
green tax bubbles, and I'm likethat's fucked up, man maybe he
would have changed your life,girl, but you're gonna.
You're gonna go to some pieceof shit because you got an
iphone.
Like go for it, girl.
You just missed out on a kingshort kings, android kings, we

(39:50):
got to protect them all.

Alex (39:51):
Dog well, shit, you heard it here.
Folks you on your apple phone?

Luke (39:56):
I know you're on it because I got the analytics yeah
, if you're listening on yourapple phone, dude just those
google pixels.
They're inundating you withcommercials.

Alex (40:03):
They nice you text us about how we're wrong.
You can get on your apple phone.
You can hit that link in theshow notes and tell luke that
he's once again out of line.

Luke (40:10):
Out of pocket and then agree with me that, uh, me and
the mylodites we don't want.
We don't want the fucking vrdog.

Alex (40:17):
Either way, you cut it though, bro we are unofficially
bought to you, in part byandroid yes, sir yeah you've
been side questing on thissummer side questing
extravaganza super side questingsquared.

Luke (40:39):
Yeah, double side quests.
This is a side quest.
Is this just a fetch quest?
Is this a fetch quest and not aside quest?

Alex (40:47):
our original side quest got goaded.

Luke (40:48):
We turned it into goats anyways um, yeah, I'm gonna talk
about two different things.
The first is that I foundmyself in like a rhythm gaming
and hear me out, this is deeplynerdy and sad.
Um, when my boys nap, I playthe game that we're supposed to
be playing control, right, yeah,and it takes attention.
It's not like an easy, justpassive playing game.

(41:11):
It's kind of intense, spooky,those types of things, right, um
.
And then when I want to gobrainless, when the boys go to
bed, right I play a little bitof madden.
I get my little fucking trulymindless listen to a podcast
type fix how's this differentthan any other time in your life
?
Deserved.
Uh recently looked at my hoursof madden shook my head, was sad

(41:34):
for a moment and then playedsome more um whatever dude, I'll
be playing that duke, I know,but I'm more talking about it
again for the rhythms, becausethen I get burnt out quicker
than I used to, right, becauseI've been playing so fucking
much.
So I'm like, alright, I got myarcade-y sports.

Alex (41:48):
See, I thought you were going cadence-high rule or
something with this.

Luke (41:52):
Arcade-y, sports team building, and then the next slot
is that I, I mix it up, I gotsome, uh, some star wars, uh
okay okay, what's the gamecalled dude?
It's the ginger jedi.
I just call it the ginger jedichronicles, that's my thing yeah
, it's jedi survivor and, likethe story's meh, a little bit

(42:12):
overacting, if you ask me.
Uh, generally don't love whenthey get a celebrity to do
motion captures for video gamesand voice acting yeah I thought
this dude did a good job.
He does and he's cool.
Yeah, he's ginger jedi, it'sall good.
Um, he does a good job, it'scool.
I just like I think you shouldkeep voice actors and video game

(42:34):
actors over there and kind oflet them do their own thing I
just generally support that andI feel like a lot of games kind
of go out of their way to getdifferent celebrities and I
think it's kind of dumb uh, butit's got a souls like sword
fighty force kind of vibe to itright so it hits a different
itch.
You got the tough boss battles.
Um, you got a lot ofenvironmental stuff, gorgeous
environments.
So like it's really cool tolike mix that type of game style

(42:55):
in.
I turn the podcast off.
I actually have a volume on thetv, I pay attention to what
going around and then when I'mjust not feeling that either and
maybe I still want to podcast,maybe I want to listen to music,
I got a looter shooter.
I picked up Borderlands threefor like eight bucks yeah, and a
fun story about that.
I was super hyped for therelease.
As a kid I used to play with aace boy and our buddy Colin over

(43:21):
over at colin's house I want tosay the original borderlands.
So I have like some nostalgia.
So when three came out on theps4, it's another hole in my my
gaming history.

Alex (43:28):
I've never played any of the borderlands that's okay.

Luke (43:31):
Um, and I was super pumped for three and I played maybe
five to ten hours of three andhated it.
It's what, like?
It's the only time in my likeadult life I've brought a game
and traded in a gamestop and Igot risk of rain 2.
Yeah, convinced my friends tobuy risk of rain 2 and then
barely ever played on dope,though super dope.
It's a really weird game to havea physical cartridge of,

(43:53):
because so much of it got likepatched and updated, so that's
like a weird separate thing Igot a physical as well, so it's
pretty funny to come all the wayback around and buy it on the
cheap.
I've bought this game twice, soas much as I didn't like it at
first, I bought it twice, yeah,and I've and it's just like all
right.
So I'm looking for, I want toplay games, I want to be
mindless, but I don't want to dosports anymore.
Star wars a little toointentional of a place.

(44:15):
Then I'm just looting andshooting, and you know what they
really nailed?
Those shooting mechanics, dude,right on.

Alex (44:22):
Yeah, that's cool.

Luke (44:22):
It's pretty sick.
So that's the little rotation.
And then sometimes for me and atrue fucking king, I go lay in
bed and I pick the steamy D backup.

Alex (44:32):
Always.

Luke (44:33):
I play a little Hades 2 with my little bed.
Get a little hot in the steamyD, get a little hot with the
steamy D, and then I play alittle bit of that and then I uh
, and then I got my terrascapeand I'm just, I'm just, oh, my
god, I'm a fucking animal.

Alex (44:48):
so you mentioned to me?
Is that the one you said?

Luke (44:51):
do I have that?
One it's the one that Iharassed you about on the last
pod and you're on your phoneagain trying to handle other
things and I was like payattention to this fucking nerd
game.

Alex (45:01):
It's like a tile.
Yeah, it's cool did you, youlike, sent me like four
different terrorscape s games uh, I have a couple of them yeah,
one day.

Luke (45:10):
Uh, our monthly pick is just gonna be I'm gonna call it
lo-fi gaming.
Lo-fi is lo-fi yeah, becauselike lo-fi gaming is a term that
only makes sense to me anddoesn't actually really fit the
aesthetic that these games are,but in my brain it works.
Right, right, right, so we'regoing to do that.
I have one more thing to talkabout, but I've been going on a
little rant here, so I'll pickit up after you talk about

(45:30):
whatever you want to talk about.

Alex (45:31):
Dude, my video game side quests are shameful.
I just played Tetris again.
I did play some Tetris lastnight.
It hentai tetris.
I don't even know what's.
The fact you're not playingtetris effect is a mistake.
Such a fun game.
Music integration, that is sonice.
It's so.
This is nice.
You're gonna flow.
Anyways, don't don't get meexcited, now come on, yeah,
titillated your tetrises.

(45:52):
I will throw out there.
I uh, we recently had anothersteam sale.
You know, all the time yougotta gotta be your seasonal
steam.
So you mean the uh backlog thebacklog garage sale yeah dog,
dude there was an article thatcame out not too long ago.

Luke (46:06):
They came out and called it that I would pay extra money.

Alex (46:09):
You guys, are kings, dude.
They had an article that I cameacross, an article that I came
across the other day posted itin the discord.

Luke (46:16):
Join us.

Alex (46:17):
Yeah, hit that discord you could have seen this article
before I mentioned on the pod.
But the article, dude, if I canuh, they calculated the amount
of unplayed games that peoplethrow on their steam like
backlogs, and it's billions ofdollars, yeah, billions of
dollars, and I like I can't evenlie, dude I've contributed to
that, like massive I just boughtratchet and clank ripped apart

(46:40):
for like 40, 50 or some personon off and I've yet to touch it
since buying it and I was likeSony what are you doing?

Luke (46:46):
Not putting all your games up here?

Alex (46:47):
I'd buy so many of your old games and never play it.
I bought, like I bought, abunch of Sony's games too.
There's only a couple that havecome to to PC that I haven't
bought yet, and I haven'tSpider-Man.

Luke (47:00):
Yeah.

Alex (47:01):
Dope-ass game.
Oh dude, that should probablybe on my fucking goal list.

Luke (47:05):
Yeah, that's a bit of a mistake.

Alex (47:07):
Which one I've only?
Well, I've never completedMiles Morales because I had a
save issue where I was about tobeat the game.

Luke (47:14):
That game almost made me cry.

Alex (47:15):
The first one yeah, yeah, it's dope, I feel you.

Luke (47:18):
I always knew Peter.
I I always knew peter.
I've always been proud of you.
Yeah, uncle ben would have beenproud of you.

Alex (47:26):
I was like shut the fuck up.

Luke (47:27):
Yeah, that was too much.
Dude.
Great game spoiler dude.
Some people like the combat.

Alex (47:30):
I think the comment is dope uh, the combat's good.

Luke (47:32):
It's just like it's not innovative when people get you
know yeah, you can't always beinnovating on everything yeah,
you know it's out there right,right, right.

Alex (47:41):
Uh, I've been playing a lot of 2k bro.
Uh, when I'm not playingcontrol, I'm playing 2k mostly
what mode are you playing on?

Luke (47:48):
still seasons no man I've been getting fucking weird off.
I'm gonna get wild with it.

Alex (47:53):
Uh, so throughout the playoffs I play the game of the
day, or whatever yeah um, butI'll tell you what they.
They fucked up this year.
I think I might have mentionedthis already, but like they
weren't syncing it up with, itwould be like a day behind.
Yeah, like this whack.
The last version of this gamedidn't do that, so I don't know
what the fuck might have beensome licensing shit, I don't
know.
Uh, but I was doing that.
And then, dude, and then Istarted playing the wmba is the

(48:16):
links dude?
Fuck, yeah, we're good thisyear.
No, I know.
So it's been fun doing that.
And then I just, like recently,started fucking around with the
, my team uh, little part of it.

Luke (48:28):
So shame, shame, dude, but you see online stuff, dude,
you're a little card collectingfucking shit, dude that's why
it's tight.

Alex (48:35):
Because that's why it's tight, because you open packs.

Luke (48:38):
You bust open packs dude, I'm like oh shit, you haven't
spent any currency.
Real life, oh hell, no, dude.

Alex (48:43):
And I've only dabbled in.
I played like a little bitrecently, not even much.
It's mostly there's one-offgames uh, my buddy kev.

Luke (48:50):
He rightfully calls me like I've done the mama shit
that's what.
That's what I was looking,please is that like a story mode
type, like?
Uh, it's just like you careermoments, kind of like what they
used to do with jordan yeah, sokobe's the cover of this one.

Alex (49:02):
The last one was jordan, so they had like a whole bunch
of like uh, little pieces of youknow historic games and whatnot
.
You do these scenarios, playthese games.
Uh, same thing with kobe, wherehe wrecks ricky rubio's career
by injuring him and ruining hisperfect career and uh bummer,
otherwise kobe's pretty tight,that shit's staying though he
was my least favorite player.

Luke (49:24):
I loved to hate him.
He was a heel.
You know rass.

Alex (49:26):
I was real good, though Real good.

Luke (49:29):
A lot of propaganda, dude.
Like he was real good, but itwas the image, it was the
pageantry of it all, like a lotof good branding, totally yeah.
So the card thing, uh, alex, aspreviously mentioned in pods,
where I my eyes glazed over likehe was talking about technical

(49:49):
specs, fucking cards, dude.
Um, my buddy kev will defendthese game modes like he'll do
it, and he'll spend money likehe loves it, like the ultimate
teams and everybody doesn't knowright yeah, yeah it's the cards
, the packs.
It's just the way for them tolike fucking milk us for the
money right right.
Um, there's ways that you cando it without paying, but you
know how it goes.
You gotta grind hard, bro, andI I'm upset because I feel like

(50:11):
those games are such cash cows.
That's where all the that'swhere all the emphasis is gone,
right so like they have justcompletely abandoned any type of
innovation and other game modesfor those sure and that's
actually one of the reasons Iquit 2k was I felt like they
were trying to do so much withthe like the when 2k came out,
with the player career like thecareer I made it, I made my guy,

(50:33):
but I don't really fuck withthe career mode used to be sick,
but now it's like this wholeintegrated park thing and like
I'm just a big, old, old dudeyelling at a cloud because, like
I think kids love that shit.
They like play with each otherin those goofy game modes online
and you?

Alex (50:46):
know, that's cool, but uh, straight seasons for me usually
.

Luke (50:49):
Yeah, it's weird that you're not just in dynasty mode,
though, or what do they call it?
Do they call it franchise orfranchise do?
They call franchise or dynastyin the game.

Alex (50:57):
I got a couple different settings.
I think it's it's like my teamor no.
It's not my team, it's it's, Idon't remember that's what you
got to be playing.

Luke (51:03):
I don't know my gm.

Alex (51:05):
You could do the yeah you can do that shit though, but
like I don't know, like I'm notsuch a weirdo dude like I like
trades but that's just it.

Luke (51:11):
Like the trades like okay, I don't want to do the draft.

Alex (51:14):
Shit the draft is.
So you end up like getting fakeplayers.
I'm like I don't care about it.

Luke (51:17):
It's sick dude, I don't know, it's whatever.
That's what I care about.
So much I have thought about,like, what I would do if I was
playing 2K, because I haven'tbought it in a few years.
Sure sure, I basically am likeone sports game sickness at a
time.

Alex (51:30):
Yeah, fair, About to be the NCAA football bro.

Luke (51:33):
I love yes.

Alex (51:47):
no-transcript rid of in real life by cow.

Luke (51:53):
I'm sorry, yeah, yeah true , but I'd like I'm never trading
nas or like anything like that,so they're fun to play with in
this game too.

Alex (52:01):
But that's enough time on 2K, dude, that is like a main
side quest always.
I do want to shout out a gamecalled Wizard with a Gun.
It's one of the games I pickedup on the Steam sale.

Luke (52:11):
Sick name.
Obviously it is.

Alex (52:13):
So it has that top-down isometric view, the kind of
angled thing going on, cool artstyle.
It is a roguelike, uh, but andI'm not that far into it about
45 minutes, but it's, it'sreally.
I like what's going on.
There's, uh, it scratches a lotof itches.

Luke (52:28):
I like dual stick shooting games yeah, is it like into the
gungeon type dual stick?

Alex (52:33):
uh, similar yeah um, but it's got its own flair going on.
So it's like kind of a.
I would say it's like a littlemesh between that and hades
almost, but it's like it's gotits own thing going on too.
It's got like a little meshbetween that and Hades almost,
but it's like it's got its ownthing going on too.
It's got like a base worldwhere you do some like crafting,
you gotta you definitely haveto go collect stuff to like make
different guns and whatnot.
I'm just starting to scratchthe surface on it, but it's,
it's cool and it's been a funpickup.

(52:54):
Playing it on your steamy D Uhon the pc, but it's on the
steamy d as well.
It's a verified.
Verified, that's tight.
Yeah, all right.
Major side quests outside ofthe gaming realm.
Finished the bear season threeyes, chef yes, I started.

Luke (53:15):
Uh, I can't like.
I will watch it it's anxietyporn bro yeah, yeah.
And jeremy allen white.
Like I just want to pace aroundin jeans and a white tee and
smoke cigarettes and play withmy hair and just like look
brooding and hot, and that's all, huh rat boy.

Alex (53:30):
Is that what he is?

Luke (53:31):
that's like a whole movement right now, like rat
boys are big I mean, that's whathe's been doing for like a
decade plus so yeah, I know, butI mean, like girls are into rat
boys now.
I mean, they've always beeninto it, but like he looks like
a big thumb like who's anotherbig one that dude saltburn did
you watch saltburn?
No, I heard it was trash.

Alex (53:49):
What saltburn god, this is good dude where he fucks the
dirt right.

Luke (53:52):
Yeah, that part was wild yeah, I mean I heard it was like
edgy yeah, totally.

Alex (53:57):
It's one of those movies like I don't know if I like
liked it, but I fucking thoughtabout it a lot gets the people
going dude, but uh the.

Luke (54:04):
I can't remember the actor's name, but he's another
one of the rat boys a lot ofgirls like him right now so it's
just like a dirty hot boy thing, not necessarily like a rat
pack short shorts a big part ofit short kings.
It's good.

Alex (54:15):
Good for them kind of like they got little rat faces going
on, you know yeah, he lookslike a big thumb and he's always
running and shameless and likedid he run in the bear at some
point.

Luke (54:24):
I'm like, dude, you're always brooding, smoking a
cigarette or running.
What is your deal?

Alex (54:28):
um did you?

Luke (54:29):
like it.
I heard it's mildlycontroversial as far as it just
can't reach its peaks.

Alex (54:33):
I don't want to spoil it for anybody but I will say that
it is not.
Uh, I didn't enjoy it as muchas other seasons smelling its
own farts, type of shit Ithought that this was the final
season.
For some reason I picked upalong with so for some like I
don't know where, but I thoughtthat this was the final season.
And then when I I finished theseason and found out there's
this isn't like a spoiler,because people know there's a

(54:55):
season four- yeah, true I didn'tknow there's gonna be a season
four, so when I like finished Iwas like you, fuck me in the ass
um, very mild spoiler, but Iknow he struggles to get along
with um his sous chef and that'sjust like a trope.

Luke (55:10):
I feel like I saw coming from a mile away.
That's part of the reason.

Alex (55:13):
I don't want to watch is like I don't want to watch him
do that that's a that's a realthing.

Luke (55:17):
It's frustrating, it's frustrating it's like, uh, you
were probably maybe a little tooold to watch scrubs, but I
remember watching scrubs as a asa pre-teen and being like why
is he self-destruct all the?

Alex (55:30):
time.
Yeah, it's hard to watch thatum tight I will watch it.

Luke (55:33):
Maybe I'll have some input later.
Um, I also have a show and Ifeel like I never talk because
I'm such a fucking people likewhy don't you watch shows?
I'm like I got two hours anight.

Alex (55:41):
I just yeah, I just go into my groove dude um.

Luke (55:47):
I got like a homer simpson ass groove on my couch for when
I play madden.

Alex (55:50):
What's your wifey do when you're, when you're gaming?
Does she read or is she like?
She wishes, she's cultured andshe reads no, she reads more
books than me out of here.
What's she?

Luke (55:58):
doing.
She's tick tocking, youtubingshe.
She just streamed the wholetime um long form youtube okay,
but also lots of talks I forgotshe does more youtube than than
my way.
Yeah, yeah lots of talks thoughsometimes they really get
caught in that algorithm um, soyeah a lot of that like.
She never asks to watch likeshows on the tv, but she'll be
watching like yeah, see, anna b,she's a tv person so we can go

(56:20):
watch the tv.
Yeah, you know I got the steamyd ready in the game the switch
if she needs to.
But she doesn't really wantmuch, and when she does, it's
the kardashians boom yeah um,but anyway.
Uh, delicious in dungeon.
Have you heard?
there's no way you've heard ofthis what you're not, are you
even can you, I think the onlyanime I've ever heard of you
really watching was castlevaniacouple of bebop all right,

(56:43):
that's.
It's one of the greatest ever,so I'm definitely no jokes there
.

Alex (56:47):
Um, I also loved castlevania as well, probably my
personal favorite watch some ofthe witcher stuff too, I guess
so, uh, you generally understandthat like food is like a crazy
big deal in anime, like theykind of go out of their way to
like animate it pretty crazy,like sure, like down to like
individual grains of rice orlike fucking drawn and shit
delicious and dungeon.

Luke (57:05):
It's got like this video gamey slash dnd vibe, where like
people talk about how it waslike their first death and
they're going down in a dungeon.
Oh interesting, they verylightly give you pieces like
this.
They're never like explain theworld, you're just kind of
dropped in it.

Alex (57:18):
Word getting anxious over there no, uncomfortable, but not
like no no, not theconversation, just this chair
where I was like oh is this yourway of telling me fuck off um

Luke (57:30):
so delicious in dungeon.
It starts off this fightagainst this fucking dragon and,
like it eats one of their partymembers.
He gets pulled out of thedungeon.
He's like, no, it's like myfucking sister.
And they're like, oh no, wegotta get her, and so they gotta
go back into the dungeon.
They're like we gotta eat first.
And then he's like here's thedeal.
We like my fucking sister.
And they're like, oh no, we gotto get her, so they got to go
back into the dungeon.
They're like we got to eatfirst.
And then he's like here's thedeal, we don't have any money.
We got fucking wrecked downthere Before we go back into the
dungeon.

(57:50):
We're going to eat monsters aswe go down.
And they're like we can'tfucking eat monsters.
And he's like on there what'sthis thing called again?
delicious in dungeon.
Okay, so like I would say thefirst episode's a little strange
.
It kind of hits its stride.
What are you watching this on?
Netflix, I think it was madefor netflix.

Alex (58:07):
It's japanese true anime we're thinking about dropping
netflix uh, I just picked itback up with ads.

Luke (58:12):
That's a dirty weird thing , you, yeah, but also like
welcome to life, brother, Iguess, um, a lot of the other
ones, and I don't watch a lot ofTV, but I actually had a
babysitter and I was like I needto have some shit for her to
fucking do before.

Alex (58:25):
I get home.

Luke (58:26):
I felt dirty being like.

Alex (58:28):
here's my Hulu with ads I was like it's got to get fucking
Netflix, we can't have Hulu.
I paid the $20 to have no adHulu for the month so I could
watch the Bear.

Luke (58:38):
Yeah, we should drop it.
I don't know why kardashiansand shit like that are on there,
so I think we hold on to it forlonger than we should.
But anyway, delicious anddungeon.

Alex (58:47):
It scratches a specific and I got that peacock.
She'll be watching the eentertainment shit on there I
don't do any of those and Idon't mean?

Luke (58:57):
e I just mean, like the peacock, the apple, all that
like I'm behind on all sorts ofstuff and it's okay, but
delicious and dungeon dude,right, delicious and yeah,
that's probably what it's calledum, I googled it before this,
but you know um, I love itbecause it scratches a really
weird video game itch and it'salmost like a video game.

(59:17):
That's interesting is it, uh,is it the bestiary in the
witcher?
yeah it's almost like a playfulthat where, like they're
describing the monsters and likehe meets this character they
meet a character right away theymeet this character right away,
who's like an expert living inthese dungeons and like cooking
interesting, and he's like oh,you can't just eat it like this,
you gotta like, and it's so funto watch the detail and so it's

(59:40):
like it's like a cooking animeplus biology Interesting it's
like monster.
Um, both Okay, Cause I got thesubtitles on everything I
watched, so I watch English withsubtitles so you're not
listening.

Alex (59:57):
So can you listen to it in Japan?
Yes, yes, certainly Okay.

Luke (01:00:01):
It's funny.
I didn't skip the intro so ithad like your classic anime,
like really over the topJapanese pop anime intro and she
was like what the fuck are youwatching?
I was like I don't know wherethe remote is, my fat ass.
I was like just gotta let theintro ride.
But it's really cool and it'sreally unique and I full
recommend man Right on unique init.

(01:00:24):
I full recommend man right ondelicious dungeon cool.
And I'm not like an anime guyso I feel like if you're anime
curious or anime casual, I thinkis what I would be right on.

Alex (01:00:29):
Yeah, I wish I could say I have more side quests.

Luke (01:00:32):
But, dude, if I'm not fucking playing the game of the
month, playing 2k, watching the,watching the bear or that
dragon show, I'm categorizing mybest hot d the house of dragons
, yeah, um well, you got theolympics coming up I'm stoked on
the olympics coming, dude yeah,I just got, uh, brushed up on
three on three basketball.
You're aware that's a newolympic?

(01:00:52):
Not, it's actually not even anew olympic sport.
Are you aware that it's goingto be new to us americans
because we're going to be goodthis time?

Alex (01:00:59):
uh, I'm aware that it's a thing.
I haven't been watching therosters or anything like that
it's on a jimmer for debt.

Luke (01:01:04):
You remember him, jesus fucking guy.
Um, jimmer for debt was likebyu uh, college standout, used
to hit all these deep threes hegot drafted he's kind of short,
though, so it didn't really workout in the league became like a
legend in china okay, playedoverseas some other places too.
Um tried it again in the leagueand just didn't really.
China okay, played overseassome other places too.
Um tried it again in the leagueand just didn't really work out

(01:01:25):
.
But he's rededicated himself tobe a three-on-three I guess
serbia kicks ass I guess they'reranked number one in the world
yeah they play on like adifferent court.
It's like that spongy cushiony,so like I just I'm so here for
random shit like that like teamusa basketball is just going to
mop up, so I need something alittle bit more spicy.

Alex (01:01:44):
The ladies will be fun too .
Dude, Fuck the Russians.

Luke (01:01:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The ladies will be fun too, butfuck the Russians.

Alex (01:01:49):
I saw the camera was on the three-on-three team, but she
got hurt.

Luke (01:01:52):
Camera brink.
Yeah, she was on thethree-on-three team?
Mm-hmm, oh, because sheprobably didn.
Uh, that could be why I'm notreally sure.
Yeah, I mean she's young.

Alex (01:02:01):
I mean, I think, kaylee.

Luke (01:02:03):
Clark made it as a reserve right Like after someone got
hurt.

Alex (01:02:06):
Nah, I don't think she's on the team, I think someone
pulled themselves out due toinjury.

Luke (01:02:09):
I might've been bringing her out.

Alex (01:02:10):
There's been a lot of, there's been a lot of fake news
out there around the Olympicsand the WNBA.
I don't know why that is.
Actually, I do Sexism big partof it, yeah, and racism another
big part of it.
Yeah, also, it's like Twopeople be hitting on Brittany
Griner.
It's like fuck, she can dunk.
Dude, you need to be quiet yeah.

Luke (01:02:32):
Yeah, I mean it's, I think , welcome to sports media man.
It's actually pretty grimy forthe men's sports too.
So I guess you've arrived whenyou're when you're being talked
about and you're like what arethese people fucking saying?
Cause uh, give you lots ofweird takes being said all
sports, but yes, summer Olympics.

Alex (01:02:51):
Oh bro, you got.
You got like fucking swimming,you got skeet, you got all that
kind of skeet for here right now.

Luke (01:02:58):
Uh, I'm just here for like needless patriotism, like in
the most harmless Dude, I likewatching the track and field
shit too.

Alex (01:03:04):
I do not, oh really.

Luke (01:03:06):
I like clips.

Alex (01:03:08):
I threw the shop on discus .
I like.

Luke (01:03:10):
I mean I'll fuck around, I'll throw something on and I'll
watch a little bit.

Alex (01:03:13):
but like it's, fun to watch those bitches jump off
Like this is just in general,like I'm talking like whole yeah
, no, I'm just coming off of asexist, racist comment and then
like saying that, no, I meanlike bitches is like the whole
of bitches, all them athletebitches jumping over hurdles.
Someone gonna stick a clip ofthis podcast and just put that

(01:03:35):
out there.

Luke (01:03:36):
It's out of context bro, send it to some employers.
Employers, I work for myself.
I know you're gonna fireyourself one of your clients.
Son, you fucking dick Alrightbut anyway, the Olympics, dude.
I'm just here for nonsense.
I'm here for being unreasonablypatriotic in a fun way.

Alex (01:03:53):
Fuck the Russians dude, let's go.
We got some internationallisteners, dude, russian ones,
not a bunch Maybe.

Luke (01:04:00):
Are they allowed?
They Russian ones Not a bunch.

Alex (01:04:04):
Maybe Are they allowed.
They're internet censored, dude.
I don't think we get anybodylistening from Russia really.

Luke (01:04:07):
Oh well, fuck them, dude.
Not the people, but yourgovernment for sure.

Alex (01:04:10):
Yeah, that's a good outstand by that Sure.
Fuck Putin, putin's like lasttime I listened to this pod
fucking do shit, dude, I got a.
This is my favorite video.
There has been a shift.
Man, we used to.
We used to shout out some ofthe locations outside of
minneapolis, st paul.
That would give us the mostlistens.
And there's been a shift whereare we at?

(01:04:31):
Uh, hold up, hold up, all time,all time come on now.

Luke (01:04:38):
Yeah, get that heavy breathing.
You do it too.
That's what I'm talking aboutall right you'd have a doozy
editing this one dude countriesand territories.

Alex (01:04:46):
United states still at the top.
Actually 61 of our totallistens.
So like dude we actually lessthan I would have thought yeah,
um, but anyways, I want to gomore granular minneapolis
hometown.
I guess you're st paul boy, uh,number one you're supposed to
be Fucking hometown Fuckingbitch.
Oh, dude, this has actuallychanged since the last time I

(01:05:07):
looked.
Montreal and Winnipeg are backup into our three and four spot.
Dude, I'll fuck with them.
Dude, holler at Canada, youguys are doing work.
I was looking at this a whileback and they were usurped by a
couple other cities.
But yeah, we got Minneapolis,then followed by St Paul, not as
closely as you'd think, butthen Montreal.

(01:05:28):
We got a strong showing inMontreal, strong showing in
Winnipeg and then our Denverfolk, chicago Closely after that
, good, cities.
Yeah, dog.
Internationally, was that it sothe way it goes, we got united
states, canada, then the uk,mexico, germany, australia,

(01:05:49):
france, netherlands, norway,brazil, those, uh, those are our
tops.
It's pretty cool.
I don't see any russia on here.
I don't think they get, theydon't?
They don't get to taste the lowfive how about north korea?

Luke (01:06:02):
do we have like one?

Alex (01:06:04):
I think it's probably like no, they're not on there either
.
How?

Luke (01:06:07):
would you feel?

Alex (01:06:09):
if, like you, found out that poop huge huge oh man he
like wants to sponsor thepodcast.

Luke (01:06:14):
I'm like I could use some bread, though.
It's like I want dennis rodmanas a guest star dude for me.

Alex (01:06:21):
For me living in spain for whole year, I feel like Spain
should be higher up on this list.

Luke (01:06:26):
They're too busy being angry about stuff.

Alex (01:06:28):
Yeah, maybe.

Luke (01:06:30):
It's too hot.

Alex (01:06:32):
Dude, but in the last few.
So I was just looking at ourall-time numbers, right?
So within our last fiveepisodes I'm going to go.
We still got US and Canada, butFrankfurt, oh man, I'm going to
butcher this Frankfurt, I'mMaine Hesse.

Luke (01:06:56):
Frankfurt, and then the second one was what I would
assume, that's just Frankfurt.

Alex (01:07:01):
Right, but it's probably the territory or something.

Luke (01:07:03):
Yes, yeah, I really thought I was going to dunk on
you and know some shit, but Ididn't.

Alex (01:07:08):
Yeah, we got someone in Germany listening.
That's dope.
Listen to a bunch of our lastfive episodes, Dude.

Luke (01:07:14):
Salaberry, de Valleyfield, quebec, dude, what kind of
accent was that?

Alex (01:07:19):
I don't fucking know.

Luke (01:07:20):
Maybe a little bit of French fanciness, but it was the
coolest, most regal-soundingshit I've ever seen.
Dude Shouts out to you.

Alex (01:07:29):
Right on.

Luke (01:07:29):
That's right Shouts out to you.

Alex (01:07:31):
Thanks for sticking around Big Digital Hugs.
It's time for us to sign thebook off.
Peace, peace.
Hit us up, do that text thing.
That's new, that's fancy.
I want to get those texts inthe inbox.
I want to tell Luke that 300 ofyou said that Tetris is the
goat Dick pics.
Until next time, peace, thankyou.