Resident Evil: Revelations/Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

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2456 listeners, welcome back to State of the Save.
My name is Eric. You're now feeling slightly
better. Host still got a little bit of a
cold, but we're back at it on the podcast and loop.

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The gunk is real. The gunk is this time of year
sucks because it hits you, it knocks you out for 24 hours,
then you wake up the next day feeling fine.
Let me tell you about ragweed. Ragweed is something that comes
out the very end of summer and will just mess you up.
I have like a little bit of a sniffle going on and nothing
else is bothering me, just a sniffle.
And then last Saturday, which isusually a day we record on, I

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just died for 24 hours. I felt great all the way up till
1:00 in the morning and then I woke up at 6:00.
When I went to bed I was like oham I hungover?
Did I? No, I had two beers and I was
like oh this will clear up in anowl.
Nope. I died for 24 hours and I
resurrected on Sunday. I live, I die, I live again.

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Yes, basically. But that doesn't matter because
we're here to talk about video games and ignore the ward.
Yes, yes, put your headphones in, listen to video game talk,
and don't worry about what's going on outside.
Nothing good is happening. Everything's fine.
Everything's fine in the world of video games.
Everything's fine in the state of the same universal.
Or is it? Yeah, who knows?
But Michael, yes, video games are a great distraction in life.

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Yes, we are here. Obviously, we're gonna be
talking about all games that we gave each other.
Michael, you played Resident Evil Revelations and I played
Ace Combat Combat Evolved. A assault horizon.
So Horizon, I'm sorry, I had to do a deep dive in some Ace
Combat looking at some other games when I played this, and
we'll talk about that. You're like, how does this, how
does this happen? How does this happen as a good

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one? But Michael, video games are
happening. Yes, Nintendo Direct happened
today. There was some stuff that you
posted on there that you saw that you were excited for.
Yep. Michael, you would you like to
talk a little bit about the Nintendo Direct today?
I can talk a little bit about the Nintendo Direct today.

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So this was a full hour Direct coming off of the heels of the
launch of the Switch to and we are at a weird time where all of
their holiday stuff was announced.
We were just waiting on dates. And now they seem to be trying
to swan song the switch to whilealso trying to support this

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feels like a very 360 era Nintendo Direct.
As in, like they're like, hey, here's a $20 DLC for Donkey Kong
that just came out and people usually DLC $20 DLC packs come
out a year after the fact and Nintendo's popping one out like
two months later like it's the 360 days again.
I'm just have whiplash. Which one?

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Like what? Horse armor.
I'm not pay for horse armor. Here's a roguelike mode and in a
new area that is like the DK Jungle crew, you get to go to DK
Island and do a roguelike mode. I'm like, OK, someone told
Nintendo what a rogue like is. I don't know how I feel about
that. That is my favorite thing is
Nintendo randomly like Lords what video game trends are like.

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Nintendo doesn't operate in likethe video game space.
Like everyone else goes to the parties and they talk about what
they're working on and what what's the hot new trends.
Nintendo doesn't get invited to those parties.
They're in the basement doing walk.
They got time to figure out about rogue lights.
They discover what Ubisoft towers are 10 years after it
became popular and then made oneof the greatest games of all
time with Breath of the Wild. They're like, we can do that.

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They can do that shit. Look at look at what it takes
for them to have the fraction ofthe power that we have.
So what's some other highlights?You said that I mean, like I
actually was. I mean, the Donkey Kong stuff is
cool because that game looks amazing.
And you said you had a great time with it, such a good game.
So like, I mean, more of that's great.
What other stuff was highlights?Mario's 40th anniversary is

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happening and we got Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 coming to the
Switch in 4K. Very excited about Galaxy 2.
I can buy that one. You can buy those separately.
So if you had got the limited time release when it happened
five years ago like I did, then I could just individually just
pick up Galaxy 2 for $40, which is a lot.

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But then you look up how much Galaxy 2 costs on the used game
market and it's about $40 and you go right.
Yeah, it's in their games. They just never go down.
That's AI have 20. I have a $20 in gift cards with
me so I can justify. Yeah, yeah, I can.
I can drop it. Not going to get it right away,
but the minute I have gift card when I'll be like what's on

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here? OK, final play.
Yeah, yeah, we got Virtual Boy is back.
Yeah, I'm not entirely. You guys played the virtual boy,
right? No, okay, well that's why you're
excited about it. That they gave me fucking
headache you. Wait, I'm talking to one of the
five people. My grandmother and grandfather

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had a Virtual Boy. Why?
And I spent several afternoons, probably more than several, with
my little head buried in the Virtual Boy.
Did not have the stand, mind you.
Don't you be spitting on your computer, God damn it.
This is not visual podcast. We get a curse from microwave
but that's a big plus. Yes I had a virtual boy

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available to me and had my head jammed into that thing and it
would give me a headache after like 45 minutes.
But I was a stupid kid who didn't understand what was
giving me headaches so I just kept going back and be like
it'll be fine. Yes I'm getting sick but it'll
be OK. I believe they had the the
warrior game. OK.

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And then had a Star Wars game I believe.
I don't know if it's a Star Warsthing, but there was a space.
I think there was a space. I think there was a it was a
safe spaceship shooter. No one has the names of these
things. There's like a robot boxing
game. There's.
The big one I remember was the warrior one.
OK. Yeah, that was the big one for
that. I think the big ones for that.
And like Mario Tennis. And there was Mario, Yeah.

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Mario Tennis Which? Was like Mario Brothers on a 3D
plane instead of like it was more horizontal instead of
vertical. I didn't have, I didn't have
access to that one. But I played a lot of Mario
Tennis and I played the Warrior game a lot.
So I have experience with the Virtual Boy, which is why I have
no nostalgia for the Virtual Boy.

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Like listen, I understand we seea, if I you brought out like a
nice fancy Game Boy SP or something, I'd be like.
Yeah, the SP. Look at that.
Look at that clamshell. Great times, great times.
The Virtual Boy is just like motion sickness and sad and
also, like I said, didn't have the stand.
So I remember having to like setit up on her little coffee table

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and having to get down into likea compromised position to try to
get in there to be able, you gotto get in there and see it.
Well, we'll pass the 5 minutes. Did you see that they are
releasing a physical Virtual Boyfor this thing that you put your
Switch to into and then it triggers the scary, the

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stereoscopic 3D, which it's either that or they have a
cardboard version that you hold up to your face.
I think you you might be able tostrap it to your head.
I don't know, but apparently that's required.
Nintendo is requiring the peripheral to play their Virtual
Boy games. They do not understand that
people might actually want to just see what these games are

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for two minutes and just bounce off completely.
You're reminding, you're remembering that Nintendo
doesn't care what you want. Yeah, this is about what
Nintendo wants. And they're like, we're not
releasing the. They had a 3DS system that could
have had Virtual Boy games. Was the wound still fresh for
them? Nintendo doesn't care what you
want, Michael. Like what part?
Like Nintendo don't care. Yeah, we're going to make AT

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shirt just Mario being like I don't care.
But it's going to have to be like a very like slightly knock
off Mario, which which is just warrior.
But like they they I will never pretend to understand why they
do the things they do, but I respect the company that just
doesn't give a damn what you want.
They will tell you what you want.

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And you know what it's fan base.We'll suck it up and do it and
still buy it, you know? I may have, I may have looked at
it, I mean. Yeah, for everyone who just
looks at it, there's somebody being like, I guess I have to
buy that Virtual Boy. I'm stopping myself one that
there's a line and that crossed it, but I can still look at it

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and go they went for something here didn't.
They you violated my boundaries,Nintendo, but I'm still gonna
fucking come back to you on Saturday night.
But Haiti 2 comes out in two weeks.
Yes, that's exciting. That's a problem, yeah.
That's gonna be good. I mean, Haiti is an amazing
game. The warning community very
excited about Haiti. There's a new Fire Emblem that

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seems to be a direct continuation of Three Houses.
I love Three Houses, so very excited for a new Fire Emblem
game coming out next year. To which I breathe a sigh of
relief, because a game I've beenlooking forward to four years
that's been ruined for years, Final Fantasy Tactics
Remastered, comes out in just two short weeks, and count the
days of that. Neither are like, those are my

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games, but I'm but I can see whypeople are excited.
Those are good. Those are good things to put in
a press conference. People are going to be excited
about that, yes. Resident Evil 7 through 9 are
going to run native on the switch too.
They had weird Seven and eight had weird crowd cloud versions.
Yeah, like it was like you streamed it to the system.
Yeah, but now they're native on there.

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I. Mean I listen, I'm playing
Resident Evil 9's going to be a day one for me, but I'm not
going to play that on a switch yeah that needs.
I agree. That's a sit on a couch on your
Xbox or PlayStation kind of game.
There's a new Mario Tennis game that actually looks really good.
I mean, like has a full open story mode now.
The Mario sports games of the previous generation suffered

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from really excellent gameplay mechanics, but not enough
content. So the fact that they're going
like a full elaborate story mode, that's something I'll have
to like, wait and see. But the.
DK gets caught with performance enhancing drugs.
Mario's having to deal with the divorce while he's also trying
to win the Grand Cup. Man, like I want some deep, I
want some Mario. Lord damn it.

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They someone showed Nintendo challengers and they're just
like, what if that, Yeah. They're like, OK, cool, what's
anything else? A note.
Fantasy 7 Remake gets released in January, Xbox gets its
release. Yeah, I'm excited about that
from Xbox. The pricing seems pretty good

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across the board. 40 bucks for the game and all the DLC.
That's a good deal. Anything that comes in under
5060 bucks now is a seal. It's a steal.
Yeah, so especially for that game, I know it's an older game,
but as someone who will talk up that game, it is absolutely
worth every penny. I love that.
I love the Remake trilogy so far, so to have people going to

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experience that thing has me really excited to see the
discourse come back and people discovering that game again for
the first time. We got Virtual Fighter Five this
winter. I need Virtual Fighter Five on
the Switch. That's just something I always
want to have around. And those are those are my
highlights. There's a bunch of Earth stuff
in there. Didn't really hit me strong
because again, like all the stuff we knew about.

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Oh, they showed off more MetroidPrime 4 and Metroid has a
motorcycle to which? Metroid.
Yes. Metroid has a motorcycle?
Yes, does. Samus, Samus.
The Metroid, the. Metroid game has a motorcycle.
Samus is riding a motorcycle through a desert area which led
to some discourse. I never thought I would see that

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people arguing Samus doesn't need a motorcycle.
Why is there a motorcycle in this game to?
Motorcycles are objectively cool.
Why are we arguing about this? Why would you take away the
motorcycle? Metro is about like tight
corridors and feeling isolated and a motorcycle in this open
world zone go completely. But yeah, have you seen someone
in power armor drive a motorcycle that looks.

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Like the power game is too cool.It makes me too freaking
excited. I guess I need to Pooh Pooh on
it. I mean you fucking when did we
stop liking cool shit? Exactly.
And you know what? Know what my political stance is
now? America 2025, Eric Suggs vote
for me. Damn cool shit should be cool is

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what I'm going to run on. Amen.
Power armor ladies on motorcycles are always something
I'm down for. Like I will never, you would
never tell. You will pry that from my cold,
dead hands. In fact, the people like this
goes against Metro. I'm like how dare you?
Yeah, just be glad you're getting this thing after SO.

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Long just grow up bro. Metro 4 is going to be cool.
Has a game been downgraded with the addition of a motorcycle
now? Who may cry has a motorcycle
weapon in the last one. Well he swings the two tires
around and smack shit and then if you hit the combo right he
puts them two together to make the motorcycle and then rides

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around the motorcycle. Yep, exactly.
It's just objectively cool. If you say otherwise, you are
wrong. Like Claire in Resident Evil 2
comes in on a motorcycle. Right in to
stateofthesave@gmail.com if you know of a game that was made
worse by the addition. And I would write you back and
tell you why you're fucking wrong.

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Oh gosh. Exactly.
So what else? Anything else?
I've been playing. That was all for the Nintendo
Direct. I've been playing.
Speaking of Nintendo Chibi Robo,OK, in the two weeks they had
put that or the past month or so, they put that on into the

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Switch Online. As someone who loves the
GameCube, but that is a very expensive GameCube game for
about $200.00, so I appreciate being able to play that in an
official console and official capacity.
It's not what I thought it wouldbe.
I thought it would be. You look at it, you see this
cute little guy, a cute little robot who has his own.
His tail is basically a power cord and he runs around and

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recharge your health. You go out to a power outlet and
plug and it charges you back up.That's how I recharge my health.
Exactly. You think it's like, oh, it's
going to be like a 3D platformertype thing.
Is that like a 3D adventure game?
Oh, OK. You have this house and you
operate on like a day night cycle system where during the
day you deal with the family andtheir personal problems and

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everything. They're going through hard times
because the wife is mad that thedad bought a very very expensive
robot for their child and all ofa sudden they can't afford to
pay their bills because he's been on hot water for buying a
bunch of other expensive toys and everything so that in hot
water. Meanwhile, the five year old is
dressed like a frog and will only communicate in the form of

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rivets. This just seems like a moderate
version of my life. And then on the night side, the
toys come to life like it's Toy Story, so you guys solve the
toys problems. So everything kind of evolves
around this little robot trying to solve people's problems and
fix. The day he's fixing a marriage,

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he's fixing Robo toy #3's personal problems.
Like a toy pirate lost his spaceship and like the sandbox
in the backyard. So you got to like find a shovel
in the form of a spoon and help dig that up and everything.
And all these stories kind of loosely sort of connect with
each other. And it gets very weird at the
end. It's like if you took if you

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took the structure of like Conkers Bad Fur Day, but put
that structure through a Katamari Damacy filter, you
would end up with TV Robo. And I had a great time with it.
There's a surprising amount of like post game content, like I
beat the main story and there's still so much to do It's wild
and I had a great time with it so.
I think it's cool that you actually have like a official

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way of playing that now. And like I said, it sounds like
a very charming little later, you know, little game.
It's kind of, you know, it sounds good.
It's very it's very charming, very cute.
My one complaint is that there is no way to skip the dialogue.
So if the if you have a character that's like going on
and on or God forbid you accidentally hit I want to talk

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to this person again and it justrepeat the same monologue over
and over, there's no way to skipthrough it.
So. This was a Nintendo GameCube,
GameCube. That is kind of of the time,
though. Like I had.
There was a lot of games like that at the time where it's like
you can't keep hitting A to skip.
He's like, motherfucker, you're going to hear this dialogue
basically. Yeah, I've been playing a a re

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release of a game. The second re release, Gears of
War Reloaded, yeah, came out. I'm in a weird like little
moment where like Metal Guild Delta was about to come out and
all this other stuff and I was like, when am I going to play?
Let me, I'll play some more Gears of War.
And Gears of War Reloaded is a fascinating game because they

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did very little to try to like change how that game plays and
is fascinating to see a more modern audience go back to how
unfair that video game is in a, in a ward in which most
multiplayer games are extremely balanced to hell and things are
meant to be fair and free and you're you're supposed to

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understand why you had this happen.
Gears of War gives no shits. Does the shotgun still make
sense? No.
Is those maps designed to have like moments where it's like, I
guess this sniper rifle, if you get to it first, you just kill
everybody? Yes.
Is it still fun? Yes.
Do not treat that game seriously.

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Anytime I get into a lobby I hear anybody trying to treat
Gears of War in the year 2025 seriously.
I will leave that lobby. I am here to do dumb shit and
try to shoot people in the head with a sniper rifle on the
canals. That game has aged so weirdly
because as multiplayer games have become more like crowd

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sourced and tested and almost like almost like not, I don't
want to say sterile because thatmakes it sound bad, but like
sport like like multiplayer games now feel like a sport.
There's like a level of fairnessto everything.
Well, if you hop into Gears of War now and you're playing with

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people who haven't played this in a long time or haven't played
it before, that game is not fair.
Like those maps are not designedto be fair.
That game is designed to be fun.But and also it's been
fascinating to see people who have never played it run into
people who have never stopped playing Gears of War.

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And like you watch the new guy who's trying to use cover and
trying to pop and shoot, and then you watch this jacked up on
Red Bull motherfucker wall bounce his way across the map
and just killing people in theselike sliding wall bounces.
And it's like, what am I supposed to do with that?
And like, here's the thing, you're not supposed to do

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anything but get better at wall bouncing than he is.
I am an advocate it for cross playing games.
I'm glad I believe this game hasit.
Yes it does. If you're on PlayStation, turn
cross play off. You're going up against Xbox
people who've been playing Gearsof War for the past 20 years.
Because like, this guy has neverstopped, you know?
And the funniest thing is like Ieven played the campaign.

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Listen, I I played through the Ultimate edition of Gears of War
last year. Weirdly enough I just randomly
did that last year before they announced this.
And like that, that single player campaign still really
good. Yeah, still fun.
Good campaign. Played that a few years ago and
had a good time with. That yeah, yeah, use one very
good use, 123, even 4:00 and 5:00.

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Not bad. Judgment gets a bad rap.
I would defend judgment. Gears is a fun, cool franchise
and I am happy to they're doing this.
This should have been just a remaster of all the trilogy.
It feels very weird that there was ultimate edition and then
this because Ultimate edition doesn't really have anything

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that this doesn't also have. Like it just feels like it was
we needed an excuse because we're putting it on a
PlayStation console so we need areason why it can be re released
if. Xbox doesn't get the new shiny
edition. They're going to be mad.
Yeah, it's basically we're putting it on PlayStation, so
we'll we'll go ahead and do it on everything.
If you've played, if you have nointerest in playing the

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multiplayer with a bunch of people who are now getting back
into it, then you know the campaign is not really going to
be that much of a difference from the Ultimate edition.
To me it looks a little bit better, but it's very marginal.
I hope that they go ahead and dothis for two and three because
two and three have not had fancyremastered and it would be nice
to see those in a nice remastered. 2 is so good. 2 is

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like genuinely really really good. 3 underrated. 3 is also
very good even like I said, fourand five.
Five is weird. 5 has like an open ward in points. 5 has like
modified ending where you can pick a choices and stuff.

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It was weird stuff and 55 gets abad rap one it had the Oh Boo,
it's a gall thing because Kate is the main character in that
game, right? And but it also, which I I
didn't say Oh Boo. That was just the the Internet.
But also it was like multiplayer.

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Felt weird that they did some weird choices on the multiplayer
stuff. That's when they went full
crossovery. I remember we went to AWWE show
and it was like, you can download Dave Bautisto right now
in Gears 5. Well, like I want to say in
Gears 4, you could have the new day.
So like there was some I I did play as Dave Batista a lot in
gears. It was great.

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But they also had like the Terminator.
It was in there day one, that's right, with Sarah Connell,
because it was like a crossover there.
And like, it was really dumb to have like an army of Terminators
fighting Dave Batista in Gears of War.
But yeah, it, it's, it was a funthrowback for me playing that

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game because I remember playing Gears of War when it came out in
my friend Ricky's room because it was like, it was, you know.
It was like a. Graphical powerhouse when it
came out and it was a big deal. He had a new flat screen TV that
we mounted and then it fell off the wall 2 weeks later because
we mounted it wrong. Because teenagers should not be

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responsible for these things. But like, I remember playing a
lot of gears, you know, early onand it, it's, it was fun to go
back to. I had a really good time.
Gears is a fun time. I my wife was the one who got me
into Gears of War. Law drop here.

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Michael's wife is my sister. Have we ever outright said that?
No, that we, we've. Alluded to it.
I think so, but I feel like I needed to justify because if not
if I if not, if I just said, yeah, I know because I played
through all the Gears of War franchise with your wife.
It sounds really weird if I don't explain that.
Yeah. So I feel like I need to drop
that Lord there but no I played the whole original trilogy with

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because the way it went every time one of those games came out
is I played through the campaignon all the way up to hardcore
and then to play insanity. To beat Insanity on that
campaign, I needed a Co-op partner and there was only one
person consistently there, and that was my sister, who, weirdly
enough, does it play a ton of video games but has beaten all

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three Gears of Wars on Insanity.There's there's two games she
loves it is Gears of four and Kirby Yes, you cannot pry Kirby
for she I feel so bad. She really wants to play Kirby.
Air Riders gets major motion sickness when it comes to racing
games, but she's like, it looks so good.
I'm like there was a top down mode in the original.

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Maybe it's bag. Maybe it's like a top down
arcade racing game mode in here so you can play Kirby.
I just showed her the level in that where there is just
constant motion happening on screen with how fast it's moving
and there's a level where the sea parts.
So like the sea is like raging as you're moving past it.
And she went, Nope, can't do that.

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It is incredibly weird though that that is the levels of games
that she plays. It is Kirby or is it Guilds of
War? And and Animal Crossing, but
that's just implied. That's if you like Kirby, you
like Animal Crossing. That's just implied.
It is also funny though that she's only ever played those
campaigns on the hardest difficulty possible.
She has never played those campaigns with me on those other

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three. I know y'all tried.
Didn't y'all play Judgement? We played Judgement, we played
1-2 and Judgment together. I had got 4 for us to play.
And then she started her own business and didn't have time to
like, at that time, dedicate to like Gears.
And now she's in the Kirby. I would love to see what like of
Gears of War 5 or maybe when E day comes out if we could get

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people to to do some content. We do a bonus show or something
where we play Gears of War E Dayand see if she still has skills.
She carried me through those campaigns because I was used to
like Mass Effect style of cover shooter and I was just getting
out and getting killed. I was like, well, I got Shields.
No, I don't. And she was like, why are you
just jump? You, you, you live by the wall.

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You stay by the wall. What?
Are you doing Also remember she's only played those with me
on insanity. I'm like, which is like a burst
of a burst of gunfire kills you.And so I remember just
screaming, Oh my God, the rage that we had of like when I
because we would do things we got really good at like popping

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up and like I was like really good at the the sniping.
So she would like bait fire thatpop up and shoot him in the head
with the sniper rifle and be like, OK, 123 shoot, 123 shoot.
And she was a dancer. So she was good at time.
And I was a musician. I was decent too.
So we go and 123 fire, 123 fire 1-2.
We beat. I remember beating General Ram

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that way in the, in the Gears ofWar one with them.
So yeah, very funny that that was.
And that's the only game franchise she ever played.
With me, it was Gears of War Funlore drop.
I love that we drop random lore here on stage.
This is a good segue into the games that we played for this
week because both of the games we played this week are of this

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kind of 360 era. Because yours was a 3DS game
originally, but mine was a 360 game.
The 2011 twelve era late era Xbox 360 for us, even though
mine was a 3DS game. Michael, yes.
Would you like to start with TheGood the Bad?
Oh, let's start with the good. OK, that would be your game.

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OK, I will. This was coming.
Let me actually let me go first,OK?
Because I have less to say than I think you.
Do OK tell me about your experience with Ace Combat
Assault horizon. So I wondered A sanity check if
I was the crazy person for loving this game and I'm what
I'm learning is yes, I'm crazy. Michael, you are not crazy.

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I am I OK so when I started thisgame, I wanted to like it and
then I had a couple of things instantly hit me that realized
this game is not for me. So I do want to say that one I
realize I do not enjoy flying anaircraft in any video game.

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Evil. And at first I was like, why
would I do that? This is like a fighter jet
thing. But then I was like, dude, in
Battlefield I will not get in the planes.
I tried to play like Star Wars squadrons.
What I didn't like flying in that.
And I was like, and then the dogfights.
I was just like, this is visually cool, but boy am I not

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enjoying this. And then I was like, well, maybe
I am wrong. Maybe the kids are right.
I am wrong and I tried very hardand I went and looked up other
Ace combat games thinking like maybe this isn't the Ace Combat
for me, but think the other onesare maybe the subreddits right
and Michael is crazy. And then I was like, I don't
know, man. And so like I had I went through

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this weird emotional roller coaster with this.
Well, like at one point I was like, this is the game that they
play on like ACSI episode in thebackground.
Like I was like, I'm not having any fun with this.
And then but like I, I really struggled with it.
So I got about I guess like 4 missions in to try to give it a

(29:37):
try and I just, it just did not connect.
And I feel bad because I wanted to have this like long diatribe
of why I didn't like it, right? Right.
Because that's good content, butit didn't even inspire that in
me because those things in it that are like listen, like the

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opening mission feels really cool.
There's like all the like the radio chatter going on and
they're like, oh man, this guy'son you.
And like, it's, it's it's it's exciting and it still looks
really good, you know, but it just something about it, just
the loop of it didn't connect with me and like, and maybe if

(30:20):
it maybe I felt like maybe I wanted it to be a little bit
more semi because it is kind of arcady, you know, like those
little zoom insurance when you do the dog fights and stuff.
I don't know, Michael. And like, I can't tell you that
you're wrong. I can tell you that maybe I am
the worst possible judge of thisgame because like I was sitting

(30:44):
there going, I was like, hey, why is it this not connecting?
Why are you not? Did you know ahead of time that
you weren't into no fighting games or flying games?
Or was it just this all the games connected?
This told me that moment like, because when I loaded it up, I'm
like, hell yeah, Highway to the Danger Zone, baby, Tom Cruise

(31:04):
motherfucker over here. And then I was like playing, and
I'm like, everything about this feels fine, but I was like, why
am I not vibing with this? And then I was like, OK, well,
what other games like this have you enjoyed?
I started going through the list.
I'm like, I don't really enjoy any fight.
Anything that I fly in. I was like, I played TIE Fighter

(31:26):
back in the day, but I don't even know if TIE Fighter was
that enjoyable to me. And I was like, damn, maybe I
just don't like flying stuff in video games.
And it was this weird moment where I was sitting there on my
bed because my 360 is hooked up in there.
And I just like, man, maybe thisis just not my game.
And like, I like it in premise, yeah, but every execution I just

(31:50):
was like, nothing about it is offensive.
That's the thing too. Like it it was so I had such a
weird moment with it because like I love the Xbox 360 era and
this is an Xbox 360 ass game. The the soundtrack is
incredible. Somebody had a a Papa Roach CD

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and they, you know, they, they're playing that like it's
a. Combined it with a symphonic
orchestra for some reason, and you're like, yeah, let's go.
No, and like, that's not bad. Like you tell me that and that's
good. And the soundtrack is good.
The gameplay is not. Like I I don't actually dislike
that. It's more like an Arcady kind of
thing. Because I watched, I went to
educate myself on the Ace Combatseries and I was like, OK, these

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other ones seem a little bit more like technical.
And I'll say I don't think I would want that either.
And then I just realized, like, I don't think I like flying in
planes and video games. Maybe that's just the grand
secret is I don't like flying planes.
Maybe my fear of heights carriesover to video games and I'm just
like, I didn't. Even make that connection.
Yeah, I was, but it was the weirdest thing because I kept

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looking like, why am I not connecting with this?
And yeah, I just think I'm not aa flying game guy.
And it was such an odd moment because I was like trying to
think of like, you know, we've done games in the past where
I've done like takedowns of them.
Like when you made me play Sonic, I thought I had thoughts,

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you know, I was mad. I was mad.
I was mad at you for making me play that those damn levels with
Knuckles when you're trying to collect shit.
I was so fucking mad with this. I was never mad and I never felt
like I wasted time. I was just like, this is not
connecting. And then I just had this this
moment of clarity. Well, I was like, I don't think

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I've ever enjoyed flying a planein a video game evil.
And I'm like, maybe I just don'tlike flying playing games.
I don't know why. That's really interesting.
It's interesting because it justdon't know me that it was just
not my thing and like I'd never been so good.
I sat there after I was done playing like 3 or 4 missions and

(34:03):
I sat there holding the case, looking at the case being like
this game has like taught me something about myself.
But there it it's not offensive like because I looked up some
discourse on it and you're right, people hate this thing
like Ace Combat fans. Hate this hate.
This thing and I'm like, Hey, it's still a fun game.

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It's fun video game. And I'm just like, I, I feel so
underprepared. I feel like I walked into like
5th, 5th level chemistry class and they're like Mr. Slugs.
How do you feel about the protons?
And I'm going to be like, I don't know about the protons and
just that's the end of it. But I just, I interrogate me on

(34:48):
this, Michael, ask me questions.OK, that's the dogfight mode,
the DFM, yes, where you zoom in real close and use your machine
gunfire. I mean, it's cool.
And then the just nothing. It doesn't go.
Nothing goes beyond that was neat.
Yeah. And also I think the fact that
it's like a recurring mechanic, one thing I will say is there's

(35:12):
no like take into consideration how many people die from falling
airplanes in this game because it there's just falling planes
landing all over Miami. They're like we saved everybody.
Especially in the second missionwith the oil refinery where you
do that DFM for the final run and you just are tearing up the
oil refinery, there's a smokestack that almost falls in

(35:34):
your plane in slow motion. Listen.
All of that is fun. I don't want it to be too take
that. I want stuff to blow up, Yes.
I want to have cool moments. And this game is what I thought
would be a good intro into this series was.
This is the most exploding no shoot em up oil covers your
screen like it's blood. No from.

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Call of Duty. All of this and you can see Call
of Duty influences absolutely. Like everyone talks like they're
in a Call of Duty game, like. Yeah, the story.
And not just from like a military point of view.
I cannot tell you anything really grand about this story.
It is a military war that's being thrown at you 1,000,000
miles a minute. Yes, a CF, you know, EE412

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threat analysis, you know, it's that kind of stuff.
And like which what? Which was the style of the time,
yes, as was the style of the time.
We were all we were all CF in 2011.
But no, like this game on papal is it was is exciting.

(36:40):
It like it's not it never like it's the weirdest thing because
I sat there and I went I didn't feel wasted my time.
I played the mission. I was like, oh, that's a pretty
good game. But it was just like, I just
realized I was like, I've never connected with flying a plane in
a video game, and this is the game about flying a plane and.
This is the the kind of thing that we like about this new

(37:02):
format is that it kind of captures the rental capacity of
games. You'll get a cover and go, maybe
I'd like this and you've got to take it home and go.
I'm stuck with this for five days, what do I do?
To make you feel like, you know,to stick with that, I played a
little bit more Final Fantasy instead.
Like, I mean, you know, like, and that's why I like about this
format as well, because you can take risk, Yeah, but this game.

(37:25):
We don't have to write up and doan entire plot for plot
dissertation on the lore of ace combat.
Exactly, this game was, so I'm glad I played it because now I
kind of learned something about my taste.
But also looking at like the other Ace Combat games, those
would be less my thing. Yeah, like of this.

(37:46):
Games in this franchise, this seems to be the one that I am
going to enjoy the most because the other ones seem a lot more
technical and a little bit less little bit less Monster Energy
drink and a little bit more you know, you know, we're going to
have some understanding of basiclike 90° pivots in the air and
stuff and none of that stuff. Interested.

(38:06):
Me and also it all and also fakepolitics.
Yeah, fake politics. Future war, drone warfare, war
as hell. Yeah.
And I'm like a little bit like. Seven kind of strikes, the
perfect balance and seven is actually my favorite, but I may
not have gotten super into 7 if it wasn't for assault horizon.
So I owe everything I love aboutthe series to assault Horizon

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and the original air combat for the PlayStation one, which was
the original Ace combat. Then Ace Combat 2 spun from air
comp from air combat. So those were the games the the
really old and the Monster Energy drink nature of Assault
Horizon led me to one of a game I absolutely adored with 7.

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Which I mean, sometimes that's what these games unnecessarily,
intentionally do, is they bring people into a franchise.
Who wouldn't have got into it otherwise?
Yeah, like we like, if you're OK, like, let's use Resident
Evil as an example, right? We're so like, we get up a
Segway here. No one says Resident Evil 5 is

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their favorite Resident Evil. But know who you know?
A lot of people got into that franchise with Resident Evil 5.
It was a big release. It was a Co-op game.
It came out at a time where likeonline multiplayer was getting
big. People wanted to play stuff with
their friends and how many? Resident Evil 4 was critically
acclaimed, so people want to hopon the next.
And five out? Didn't 5 out sell for?

(39:35):
Is. It 5 like the best seller of the
thing. 5 Until Monster Hunter World was Capcom's best selling
game. 5 oddly, was the one that like my friends would play with
me because I got into Resident Evil with Resident Evil 4
because I was a big video game magazine kid.
So Resident Evil 4 was the, you know, it was The clear,

(39:58):
critically acclaimed The Darling.
You know that one? Yeah.
And so my. Game of the Year contender.
Yeah, and I was, I was Mr. Better Than You, Video Game Nerd
at the time being like, oh, you're the play Cody for I think
Game of the Year probably would be this.
I was that guy. You were the friend whose house

(40:18):
people would come over and checkout video games and then print
them from Bot and rent the sequel from bot Buster and go.
It's not as good. And yeah, and when I told them
it wasn't cool, they'd be like, yeah, you're you're a nerd.
Long story short, that game kindof is that for this, right,
where people got into a 5, they're like, hey, I'm going to

(40:39):
get into Resident Evil. And if they enjoyed it, they may
be backtracked. And they went and played four
and they played, God help them if they played six.
But then they played seven and eight and the remastered, and
now they're a fan. This is one of those things that
made that for you, right? You got in with the Monster
Energy drink of Ace Combat games, and then you stuck around

(41:00):
for the ones that other people like.
Exactly. There, that is a part of this
whole thing and I, I think there's an understatement that
these games do help grow franchises.
Now, at the time, that was not the intention.
At the time, it was a Japanese studio desperately trying to
capitalize on Western games popularity.

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Especially since Ace Combat 6, which was an Xbox 360 Japanese
made exclusive that was in the strange real underperforms.
So what do we do? What's popular over there?
Call of Duty, yes. So got it.
You know, stick a stick a gun inthe hands.
I'm surprised though, isn't on foot sections is there?

(41:42):
There, so you there the sectionsthat you missed that I was
hoping you get to there's helicopter missions.
Damn, coming up and an ACA 20 minute long AC 130 mission.
Which is a direct RIP of like the Call of Duty 4-AC1.
Thirty thing I was hoping you'd get.
It's pretty far in, but I was hoping you'd stick it out.
There's a stealth bomber missionwhich is a lot of fun.

(42:03):
Yeah, maybe I should have fucking not jumped off this so
fast. There might be an update next
time. I wonder if there's if there's a
level select code find the AC 130 mission and the stealth
bomber mission. I don't know if there is, but.
We shall report and the. Final and the final mission
where you fight the final ace fighter in our middle of a

(42:25):
hurricane. As you do.
As you do, but again, the fight,the visuals and everything were
you're like awesome. If it's just just the fact that
like, I don't like flying. A plane.
I just don't know me. Maybe my fear of heights carries
over the video. OK.
I guess so. I'm glad you tried it, yeah.
Which is the new why I love thisnew format.
Yeah, Michael, Yes. My selection for you was

(42:49):
Resident Evil Revelations. Yes, Michael, you never played
this game. Before.
I've never played this game before.
Tell me how this? I have thoughts on this game, so
I played the original. I was like, if I'm playing this
game, I'm going all the way backto an Xbox 360 D, sorry, the
Nintendo 3DS release of this thing.
Which is madness because I didn't even play the Nintendo

(43:10):
3DS version. This game looks surprisingly
good. No, it's a fucking.
It looks amazing for the time and the limitations of the 3DS
held back some of Capcom's worsttendencies from this time.
But also this game is a paradox.It wants to because of the
nature then the limitations of the 3DS.

(43:31):
They got to go back to the narrow corridors and the
isolation of classic Resident Evil, but then they feel the
need to throw you in to these large bombastic combat multi
wave enemy scenarios. It wants to like, be a focus,
like a return to form with Jill and Chris, but also has a

(43:53):
million side characters whose motivations you don't completely
understand who change allegiances more times than
Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid. Like why I wanted you to play
this because we are fans of thisfranchise.
This thing is like conflicted conflicting design decisions On

(44:17):
on on. Disc in the middle of chapters
yes there's a lot of the chapters start with you cutting
to a different character. There's like planes falling out
of the sky. That's where you have your multi
mission scenarios and then you're cutting back to Jill
you're like figuring out which keys goes to which doors and
everything you're doing the little 3DS puzzles that yeah

(44:37):
they they replaced the puzzles like sort of 3DS mini games.
There's no puzzles in this game,which kind of made me sad, but
that remembered for the time where Resident Evil was, there
was no puzzles that the fact that we had anything at all.
Whenever I had to do with something to unlock a door, I
got really happy. Because I mean this is post four
and five. This is is this post 6.

(44:58):
No, I looked it up. The reason why this game is a
true paradox is it comes out like 6 or seven months before
Resident Evil 6. This is both a return to form
and a harbinger of what's to come.
No, no, because this is still a competent made video game.
I will fucking die if Resident Evil 6 has no haters.

(45:19):
I don't. I'm dead.
Because it's, even though this is a very good game, you see
Capcom's kind of worst tendencies popping up in here
every once in a while. The bombastic story which makes
no sense. The villains.
I wrote it down like 5 times, I forgot the name.
Like Velcro, Valentro, whatever.They're like just rush an

(45:39):
umbrella or something. Well, but also there is no
explanation of what they're overarching like because it's
like, OK, let's. The.
For a second here. Yes, I'll let you go and then
I'll send. Yeah, yes, but like because I
This is why I wanted you to playthis damn thing because I did
not play this till last year as a Resident Evil fan, I was

(46:02):
excited. I played through 8 and I was
like, man, let me just knock outsome of these ones I missed.
This game is the most you're right is like everything that is
was good about this franchise ishere.
Everything that's about to go wrong is here.

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But then there's weird like harbingers of stuff that's way
down the line, like there's a stalker enemy in this game.
That's the best boss fight in this game with the racial stuff
because you are working your wayback through the same corridors
that you've been before with a persistent enemy that is chasing
you through the events, which istense.

(46:45):
It is terrifying. It turns a dead.
It does the Resident Evil one thing where it turns a previous
dead body into an enemy that waslike the remake of Resident Evil
1. They did that with the Crimson
head. So it brought back the
persistent enemy. So the future games a lot sort
of with like the Crimson Heads with Resident Evil 1 and that

(47:06):
combo is like really, really great.
Well, and also like you're rightthere was all the old corridors
on the ship where that's that's an RE-1 location, that's an RE2
police station location. Then you have RE5 level just
like Chris. What?

(47:28):
Even the Chris stuff isn't as bad as like the two random
googles that you have you have to play As for a while who are
just like doing missions in the Arctic.
Who are those guys? Who are those guys?
And you play as them multiple times.
Yes, Chris gets a partner who's never seen again.

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That's the second time this happens to him in this fucking
decade. Who keeps talking about like I'm
going to take everyone out untillobster dinners while wearing
the most over designed wet suit I have ever seen.
My mouth was I was like, what isgoing on?
Michael, when you need a wet suit, you need the right leg
covered. Yes.

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And you need the left leg completely too exposed.
Yes, because how else are you supposed to hit on your Co agent
here while also moving aerodynamically through the
waddle? This is a This is very clear.
I don't see what the problem is but.
Everything that is right and everything that's like both

(48:30):
amazing and stupid about this game can be summed up in one
gameplay sequence. Chris and Jessica get on the
boat, they're going to go get Jill out.
They stormed the boat. You're storming areas you've
been through before is a more action sequence.
It's like in Resident Evil 8 where you're Chris going through
the village and just wiping out the dudes that gave Ethan
trouble for the past 10 hours. One of my favorite moments in

(48:51):
Resident Evil history is because, like, Ethan's been like
struggling with these guys for like 10 hours and then Chris
shows up and kills like 50 of them.
It's like, oh, I guess Chris is just cooler than Ethan.
You get that? Here and then you get the
moments. Wait, some of the enemy places
is different. That's weird.
And then you realize he's on thewrong ship.
It's a it's a Silence of the Lambs moment.

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Yeah. Have you you've seen that movie
where they're like, oh, they'll storm in the house and the FBI
is in the house and then you find out that they're in the
wrong house. It is that exactly thing.
You're on the sister ship. And it's a great moment.
Like this is a like there is so much good stuff in this thing
like. The way it control, I had to

(49:33):
play a little bit with the controls on the 3DS but I was
very happy with how it how it played out.
So I went with option C, which is where you use the control
stick to go forward back and then strafe and then use the
buttons for aiming, for aiming up and down, left and right in
the environment. And then that we use left

(49:55):
triggered aim, right trigger to shoot.
But I left on gyro aiming. So whenever I went to aim down
sights, I could move the 3DS like in it's full to like really
get precise shots because it wasvery hard to do that with
buttons. Yeah, but I had gyro aiming so I
could really like. Yeah, it helps.
Get those like extra like you know, moving from a torso to

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the. End.
It was great for the the corridors, but the minute you
throw in like a boss fight into that thing where you're like
aiming down or like a bunch of venues waving down sites or like
twisting your arm around to get everybody.
I played on the Xbox controller and like those boss fights don't
get. I mean those like group attack
moments don't get easier becausethe game is just not really

(50:38):
designed to fight that many enemies at one time.
Like the dogs will always fuck you up yes.
Like I'm just like no matter what you do your dogs will fuck.
You whenever dogs are like, well, I'm oozing some healthier
yeah. And because of that, like they
knew like some of the limitations and how difficult it
was with like menu navigation onlike a handheld would be.

(50:58):
So healing is one hit. It's just one hit on the right
directional pad. All of a sudden you're back to
full health. Yeah, you don't have, you don't
have to. And there's no like combinations
really of do you come on or herbs.
No, it's just you get an herb and then it's in like your
hookah pipe you. Just hit the pipe real quick.
Well, like, that's a weird thingtoo, because that's when 6 comes

(51:20):
out. They switch it to like these
pill things. So you break down everything.
Yeah, you don't know that. In. 6:00 you got like a pill,
you got a pill case. You go from smoking, smoking the
weed to popping pills in six. It's really freaking weird.
I don't know why they did that. But yeah, 6 is a horrible video
game. God I fucking hate it till the
day I die. I was really happy with like the

(51:40):
amount of backtracking I was doing in this game that like
that, especially that first section on the ship where you're
going through and like slowly unlocking doors and everything
you get to like the main hub area felt very like classic
Resident Evil. But I had a lot of fun with this
game. There is this game is not
withstanding some like problems that was just indicative of like

(52:03):
Capcom and Resident Evil structure at the time.
But I think having them put a three put this on the 3DS made
them think about Resident Evil in ways they haven't before.
Where? What?
How do we realistically put thisthing on a handheld to go on
this? This is the biggest game I've
seen for a three DSA system thatmeasures it's memory in blocks.

(52:29):
Yeah, this game clocks in at like 3 1/2 gigabytes, which
translates to like 100 thousands, hundreds of thousands
of blocks, yo. And you're like, what?
What are we the fact that they fit this in here?
It's also a battery hog. Your battery needs to be on the
life support the entire time running this thing, because in
an hour and a half to two hours,your 3DS is dead.

(52:50):
But it's crazy. It's a legitimately, it's a full
resonable experience. It is like, you know, when they
promised us with the PSP, they're like, hey man, PS2,
PlayStation, two games on the go, let's fucking go.
And that was never true. Like we had close to it in some
games, but Metal Gear Portable OPS was not Metal Gear Solid 3.

(53:13):
This is oddly a full on yeah, this is a damn 360 game on the
go. Like it's a it it, it carries
over. Like I said, I played it on the
Xbox. Like it really is closer to the
360 than it is like the PS2 in alot of ways.
Yeah. And then you look at some of the
other stuff on the system and some 3DS games just look

(53:35):
straight up bad. Yeah, and this looks.
Great. And it looks amazing, like it's
so detailed. Visual says have always been
Resident Evil's strongest suits,and they knock it out of the
park here. I really liked some of the
swimming sections in this. They're really like tense.
I don't quite love the one at the end where you have the

(53:57):
instant kill enemies, but all the other ones like are really
good. Jill can hold her breath for a
very, very long time, so it doesn't feel like I'm constantly
popping up for oxygen. They did a really good job with
a balance there. Yeah, my note here for Episode
8, So it just hit me. I haven't done a single puzzle
in this entire game, just some mini games.

(54:18):
Well, it's like. How does mini games work on the
360? Did they have them in there or
did you have to like rotate the stick?
I think you rotate the stick. Because on the 3DS, like there
is being the touch screen whenever you have to like, pry
open up like a box or something,you have the little screws.
So, yeah, it's weird playing this game where you're using all
your hands and all of a sudden get to a puzzle and like, wait,

(54:39):
I got to pull out the stylus andhold the button down to unscrew
these screws and then flip some levers.
And oh, yeah, the circuit breaker puzzles were fine where
you had like, that just disappear halfway through the
game. Yeah.
Where you have to realign all the you have to match like the
fuse box in a way that the cordsdon't get tangled but put plug

(55:02):
them into the right. It's weirdly like just the
amount of puzzles that like 4 still hung onto.
Like remember 4 had like probably single digit puzzles.
Yeah, but like when five hits, five just does have nothing.
It has. Nothing.
Is there some variation on a slide puzzle or a memory match
puzzle? Or fuck those puzzles, white or

(55:22):
white. The colors, because guess which
ones I really hate is slide puzzles.
It's the only thing that's wrongabout the perfect video game,
which is Resident Evil 4. If you write in and tell me
otherwise, I will write you backand tell you you're an asshole.
Both versions of Resident Evil 4.
Both of them perfect games, perfect video games.
I will not listen to anything else.

(55:43):
So thank you for making me play this finally.
I have Resident Evil Revelations2 now which listed on my switch
so whenever that goes on sale I'm going to play.
That's a that's a Co-op game. That is a Co-op game and it has
a more expanded version of the raid mode.
I don't want to get too in the raid mode on this version
because I've told that the one on Revelations 2 is very good

(56:09):
and you could that is the worth the price of admission alone
just like this wave based. Yeah, the raid mode in one is
not bad. I played some of it, it was fun.
It does like does seem like a lot of fun.
In closing, favorite character in this game?
Jill. Yeah, because it's Jill.
Jill's the best Chris, though. Not bad.
Chris gets a bad rap. Chris punches that bold on five

(56:31):
and no one will ever forgive him.
But Chris? Oddly one of the most consistent
Resident Evil protagonist. Yeah, he murders Ethan's wife in
front of him in eight. But then, was it Ethan's wife?
We don't know. Well, I do, but you know, Chris
is not that bad and Jill though,best protagonist.

(56:52):
I hope that God in nine we see Jill or we see Leon.
I forgot his name, but I really like the guy Jill was paired
with on this mission. Yeah, and I forget what his name
is too. It starts with AJI think, but
very thick accent. I really liked him a lot.
He reminded me of like a Berry analog.
Yeah, that Berry role. Who's in Revelation?

(57:13):
Sue Berry, underrated Resident Evil protagonist.
I'm glad he's back in another game.
It's so weird that like the continuation of a lot of
characters is in the Revelation series, not in the mainline
series. Especially since the mainline
series has kind of like forgotten.
Like we haven't seen Jill, Leon or anybody other than Chris
since 6:00. Boy, do I hope in Nine they show

(57:37):
up. But I do think there's something
interesting. Apparently Leon was going to be
in Nine and then they were like,how can you make a scary game
when Leon Kennedy is the protagonist?
Because Leon's not going to jumpin a box falling.
Over that is a fairpoint he needs to come in like Chris at
the end he. Needs to be the badass at the
end who shows up and saves the day like Chris does in Seven.
Or just get the episodic DLC stuff was cool for Seven, just

(57:59):
do that again. But this is we're going to the
same environments with your favorite Resident Evil
characters, and they're like, this is not a problem.
Close. Claire has not been anything
since Revelations too. You can't make a first person
shooter with Leon. It doesn't work with Leon.
No, because Leon kick shit. Yes.
No, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Resident Evil Revelations is a
top tier Resident Evil game. I will.

(58:20):
Not I am as equally perplexed byit as I did enjoy it.
So it's so fucking good. It's so it was a lot of fun.
I'm glad I played it. I'm glad we actually postponed
this because I was right at the end that I didn't have time to
finish it. And then we postponed this
episode due to you being sick. I'm like, I have time to finish
Revelations, yes. All right, cool, we're coming up
on our our time here, but let's talk about what games we're

(58:41):
going to give each other for next show.
All right. Michael, I'm getting because
this new format allows me to give you random weird assy
video. Games.
This is what I wanted, yes. People might be surprised at
this, but I really do enjoy football.
I enjoy the football coming back.
My Washington Commanders droppedto the Green Bay Packers

(59:03):
yesterday. That sucks.
But Michael, I'm giving you a very simple game, something you
can play on and off for the nextcouple hours too.
But it's a game that I have goneback to recently, including this
afternoon, which is NFL Blitz 2000.
Specifically 2000. Yes, because that game is still

(59:25):
the peak of arcade sports games.I in a ward in which I do not
give a damn about Madden or any of those games.
It's 2000 is the greatest sportsgame to ever exist in the
history of sports game. I like this.
So there's a theme here with, like, unbridled joy.

(59:45):
Yes, this is unbridled joy. It's not, you know, Is it like
going to inspire as deep conversation as all other games?
Maybe, maybe not, but Michael, sometimes it's you just got to
sit down and play. Arcade football game for 2000.
NFL Blitz 2000. NFL Blitz 2000 for the
PlayStation. I have a copy.
I will give it to you if you would like me to.
Yeah, I will hand it to you on the way.

(01:00:06):
I want to play that on OG hardware.
Yes, it's fucking great. It still holds up to this day.
I played a game as the Atlanta Falcons versus, I believe, the
Detroit Lions today. And, you know, just sometimes
you do that. I will take the Carolina
Panthers to the championship because by God, somebody.
The only time they will ever go to the champion.
You're talking to a guy who played Tecmo Super NBA

(01:00:30):
basketball and took the Charlotte Hornets all the way.
You know, the before they got rid of the Charlotte Hornets and
then the Bobcats showed up is a whole thing.
Yeah. North Carolina sports, boys and
girls. And now the Charlotte Hornets
are back. We had a good owner who
immediately left when he realized he couldn't see.
Yeah, it's a tough time, everything.
'S bad. Everything's bad in the world of
North Carolina sports. Only time the Bobcats ever did

(01:00:50):
anything is when they won the One Tree Hill show and Nathan
from One Tree Hill LED them to the NBA Finals.
Apparently they had to. They had to write a show about
how he they could win games. Michael, what's my game?
Your game. So I kind of buried, I buried
the lead at the beginning with this, with talking about a 40th

(01:01:10):
anniversary coming up of a character, one of the most
recognizable faces in video games, the most recognizable
face in video games is his 40th anniversary.
Who am I talking about? We.
Talk about Mario. We're talking about Mario now.
I have a feeling you played a lot of the 2D.
Yes, size, but not so much the 3D.
Not a lot of 3D, but a lot of two DA.

(01:01:30):
Lot of 2D have you played? So I think you had an incentive
64, You played your experience like the original Mario 64,
right? So my 64 experience was at other
people's houses. I was a PlayStation kid, yes.
And then I would sometimes rent a Nintendo 64 from the
Blockbuster because that was thething you could do back then.
A lot of Goldeneye, probably. But the Goldeneye and Rogue.

(01:01:52):
Squadron. Well, I'm not making you play
Mario 6. OK, well that feels like a
barrier of. You are playing my personal
favorite of the 3D games on a console you missed with the
Nintendo Wii. On the Wii I was about to guess
Sunshine so. Which one?
I gave you the choice between the weird black sheep again, but

(01:02:14):
you deserve an unbridled classic.
You deserve one of my favorite games ever.
You're playing Super Mario Galaxy.
Hell yeah. Okay, this is exciting because I
have not played Super Wario Galaxy, so I am excited about
this. OK, this is good.
What also what I'm glad about isbecause mine is my choice for
you. This week is kind of a more
light hearted, you know, but that's kind of what fits with

(01:02:37):
this theme. This is a light hearted show in
the when the ward gets dark and depressing outside Michael.
We play games that are not dark and depressing.
I'm glad you never played this. Ever.
Have you played this one at a kiosk or a friend's house?
I think I've played before like a mission or like not a mission,
but a level or two. I think I played it weirdly
enough. I think I played it at like a

(01:02:59):
comic convention where they weredoing like demo disc.
I don't know. I remember standing among a
bunch of people playing it before it came out or right as
it came out. But yeah, I am excited about
this that I we will get down some Mario Galaxy and you can
play some Blitz and we will haveourselves a happy go lucky show

(01:03:22):
that's not full of depression and sadness.
I wish I could play Mario Galaxyfor the first time again.
Just. AI mean if you hit yourself with
the head hard enough, you can't.You can just talk about a game
that is just brimming with so many, like great ideas.
So much so that they made a sequel because they had too many
ideas for this one. I I remember when that thing

(01:03:43):
came out like there was the one of the few games that made me
one a wee because I was like an edgy teenager with the 360.
I was like, I don't need one of them fucking things.
That's the thing that like yo, my mom wanted No like.
Thing I had. But then that they it was I was

(01:04:03):
an edgy teenager, Michael. But I am excited to finally play
this. This is going to be a good show.
This was a good show. You can write in, you can like,
you can subscribe, you can do all those wonderful things as we
bring this show back from the dead. 1 episode at the time.

(01:04:24):
State of the Save on all your favorite podcasting apps,
Spotify, iTunes, all those fun places you can send in emails to
stateofthesave0stateofsave@gmail.comand State of the Save at Gmail.
We have both. We have both of them.
For some reason, back in 2000, for some reason, State of Save,
State of Save was the one that Igot first.

(01:04:45):
I don't know why I fucking did that.
It's over five years ago. I was making all sorts of bad
decisions, but. We're on Blue Sky, we're on
TikTok, we're on Instagram. Reach out if you want to chat or
if you like the random stuff I post.
Yes, help us bring the show backfrom the.
Dead. I want to get back into like
streaming random stuff on our YouTube page again.
That was a. Time, Michael.

(01:05:06):
Because that was time. We were all like.
Don't have the time for that extra stuff right now, but when
I get some time, man, I like checking out weird stuff on
there. Maybe if I have time for Blitz,
I don't think I'll have time forBlitz, but we'll see.
We'll see. But thank you guys for
listening. We will.
We'll be back in your podcastingfeeds in two weeks.

(01:05:27):
And once again, stay safe out there.
Thank you.

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