Best Nintendo Switch 1 Games # 444

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello,
and welcome to another edition of Video Games to the Max.
I am your host Sean Garmer, with me as usual,
mister Mark Morrison aid, and this is episode four hundred
and forty four of the show. And well we've got
a topic for you this week. With you know, it

(00:38):
being very close to when the Switch To is gonna launch,
we're gonna do these next two weeks are gonna be
kind of Switch one Switch too heavy, So this week
we're kinda kinda do our look back on the switch,
you know, discuss our favorite games, anything about the switch
that you know kind of stood out to us over

(01:00):
the time. And then next week we'll do like a
big you know, preview of the Switch To. I'm gonna
have one at launch so that you know, next Monday
will be like switch To launch week, so we'll get
into that, and then of course we have other things.
Marcus finally finished Clear Obscure Expedition thirty three. I've been

(01:23):
playing a game that the embargo was finished today. It
actually comes out the twenty ninth, Nice day for fishing.
I'll talk about that, and we will have some discussion
on PlayStation Stars being finished, Xbox making a new edition
to Game Past the Retro Classics, more stuff on the

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Switch to the Elder Ring movie is real, you know,
and we'll see if it actually you know, we'll talk
about if it actually releases or not, and more right
after this. All right, So well, let's go ahead and

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(04:03):
always started with the games. You finally finished You finished
it now, ye and you got everybody like level ninety
nine before you.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Go, yeah, before it ended. That's real easy.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Why do you uh so, so, is there a trick
to doing this grinding or did it actually feel like
a grind to you?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Or I mean, once you hit like level nineties, it's
a little grinding just because you know there's only so
many you know, certain enemies are power. You know, you
can only only certain enemies are and that gives you
experience at that point, like you can't go back to
the lower area and grind it out. But no, that
mayel uber build works really well if you can once

(04:44):
out anything or if you can't, like the next time.
The next time she's up, she can for sure because
he knocked everything out, the most of every thing out
the first time. So yeah, what do you want to know?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, I mean I've been playing the game as well,
so it's not I just haven't been able to move
anywhere because I've been having to make sure I could
get through as much a nice day for fishing as
possible since them Barbo dropped the day. So I mean
I'm still in the same spot. I haven't played the
game because I've been playing that. You know, just did

(05:23):
you do any like how much extra stuff do you do?
Did you do any more everything.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
I could find? Yeah, so there's few interesting boss fights.
There's a big tower that I think eleven floors and
there are three boss fights and every floor basically ah,
so if you run through that, you'll get a lot
of experience for it and a lot of good materials
for upgrading. Weapons. Uh, there's one boss fight where it's

(05:53):
basically five rooms and you can only use one character
per room and once they're once they're used, you can't
use again until the you know, you leave or until
the thing's over. So that was interesting because I had
to use characters that like Monaco and cl that I
don't really used to often.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
H oh okay, that was gonna ask you what do
you do with your party? Because I've been playing like
I played h Rebirth, where I switch out the characters
pretty often.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
The only character the only time I had to switch
out really as is a trophy to get all of
Monaco's legs or Monico's legs. Yeah, and you get those
having him in your party when you beat certain enemies.
That was the only trophy that glitched on me also unfortunately.

(06:48):
But yeah, I pretty much I always had all my
party and I always had the guy. Uh yeah, because
I built him out so he can be like nine
different attacks, but he had like no AP problem at
all because he had attack and gained four AP from it,
four to five. So i'd i'd use him as like

(07:11):
you know, a buffer, a Mark Mark character they have
like you know, if you shoot an enemy they would
cave get marked and everything else in between. So yeah,
there there are some like out in the world, there
are some world bosses that you can kind of take on.
They're like level sixty to seventy, and then there are

(07:33):
two like super bosses two to three, I would say,
but in like the Spoak areas that are like actually tough. Yeah,
that are like named and you know.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah danger danger, Well no not, I.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Mean at a certain point you just go past that,
but you know, right, yeah, there's two Simon and then Clea.
Those are like the two like the trophy ones, and
they're not I mean where I was, they weren't that hard,
but they you know, if you're playing trying to play
the game straight, than they are. Yeah. Yeah, the U

(08:12):
I had true trophies I was worried about. One was
the Monaco one. And what happened with that is I
got all the legs and the trophy didn't pop. Oh no,
am I missing something or what the hell just happened? Yeah,
And I like had some saves and I reverted it
back to an earlier save. I had to get like

(08:33):
three of them, got to three again and didn't happen again,
and I tried it a third time and I was like,
all right, what the hell is going on here?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:43):
And I noticed because I'm still playing like the disc
version I didn't update it, and like there are like
these weird colored icons next to next to like the
leg like the skill menu, and I was like, is
there something with this? I asked, like Reddit, and they're
like no, it's just like a visual glitch from version one.
I was like, all right, So I just quickly like
upgraded to the latest version, got got the less like

(09:06):
I needed, and then I popped popped at once and
I was like, all right, cool. Then I deleted the
update and deleted the save and reverted back to my
old one.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
And the other one that I was worried about was
there's a trophy to collect all the all the journals.
I was able to do that, no problem. Uh, they're
actually all where they said they would be, which is good.
And there's one they collect all the records. That one
thankfully didn't glitch, but it was it was different from

(09:38):
like what you're playing, because there's like at least one
merchant that's also a record that when I went to him,
he didn't okay, okay, and there are like there's some
other version differences, like merchants selling things that they're not
supposed to, or they are and they just aren't, or
the merchant isn't fucking there. And I was like, all right,
that's cool. But when I beat the game, that that

(10:01):
record one top because you get one right at like
at the end of the game, and I was like,
Thank Christ, I don't have to do this again.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
You're to keep doing this right?

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah? Really good game. Uh you know, the story really
like racked up in a really good way. Ah. You
go back to the starting town and it's really awesome.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh okay, that's great.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, and you get like all the performances are good.
Uh yeah. I think it's a really solid game overall.
I think what we were talking about last week, I
think he's I think you do you need even if
you just said bumping down too easy? I think having
the dodge and perry mechanic makes that game more unique

(10:49):
than just you know, turn based you know, j RPG
based combat, because like, to my mind, there are only
three or four other games that really do this crap,
and that's like Mario RPG. Uh, Legend of Dragoon, shadow
Heart's Covenant and like Lost Odyssey, that's about it. So

(11:11):
I think having any more like action but still turn
based system works better than this turn based Yeah, yeah,
you should get back to it.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I definitely will. I'm probably gonna write the review either
start writing the review either tonight or when we finished
recording or tomorrow, since I have to work in the
morning and then there's no overtime either, so I'll just
I'll have that time to just write. But yeah, so

(11:48):
that's the only game in plan.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah. I caught back up a little on like Diablo
and all the other craft that I, you know, basically
my network off for, but I'm not that into it,
especially Diabolo, just because they keep like, I think the
game is like partially bugged at this point because you're
supposed to get these like uh basically these like dungeon elixirs,

(12:12):
and one used to drop and now it doesn't at all,
and I was like, what happened? I liked that one? Yeah,
and no one has said anything, so I'm like, what's
going on here? And and Finny and Nikki continues to
be a dumpster fire at the moment, so.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
That's always nice.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, Okay, I gave ut like a big apology of
saying like, oh, we we know the last update didn't
go well, it's like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
They didn't, all right, Well, yeah, so this game called
Nice Stay for Fishing. I had a trailer I think
in the Galaxy showcase that I talked about several weeks ago,
and then when I saw it, I was like, are

(13:00):
you kidding me? They've now made it a whether that's
like eight bit or sixteen bit fishing RPG, right, I
so need to play this. So I actually got the code.
It's funny because I got the code originally like a

(13:21):
couple of weeks ago, and then last weekend, like when
I tried to put it, the code in that Friday,
so not this Friday, but last Friday, the the code
didn't work. It was an error. It kept saying that
I was I had a game that had not been

(13:44):
released yet, so they had to go bug Nintendo to
make the code work right so that you know, I
could actually play it. So the first weekend I couldn't
actually play it at all. It's aways fun So then
I officially got to start playing, I think like on Wednesday,

(14:07):
and then yeah, so I'm really not sure how long
the game is but I'm about like halfway through because
it one of the things in the game is you
get to it basically has a character. They rewards you
for catching all the fish in an area before you
you know, so it's shown me that there's like at
least a couple more areas, and so I think I'm

(14:34):
about halfway, if not a little bit more than that.
The game is essentially a it makes fun of RPG tropes,
but also it's very much almost like an MMO ish
RPG where it's like, here's this quest, go do it.
Here NPC gives you another quest, go do it, and

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it's like just keeps doing that over and over and over.
It like it's almost like it's it's like doing it
almost like a joke, but then you know, it's also
just that's the game. So it's from the a dev
called Viva a Dirt Team. Seventeen's the publisher. I think

(15:16):
it's like twenty bucks, so it's not you know, uber
expensive either. It's on PlayStation PC and Switch, so not
on Xbox at the moment. And yeah, I've been having
a lot of fun with it. Like I'm not a
fishing person. Actually I do live with or you know,

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there's a guy that stays that comes over quite often
that is does love the fish, so I showed him
the game and he's like, okay. They actually try to
make it like you know sometimes you know, fishing when
you're actually getting the fish is a fight or whatever,
and that's how they replicate the battles. It's pretty much

(15:59):
like you're essentially button mashing to the rhythm of like, oh,
you're actually trying to get the fish out of the
water with the hook or whatever, so or the fishing lines,
so you're constantly your you're button mashing, and then it's
the fish is turned to fight against you and you
have to try to block and you can parry also,

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so it has a block and very mechanic as well.
You know, obviously not anywhere near the as it difficult
as Expedition thirty three or whatever, but it has one.
Some of the fish can actually be a little bit
difficult to parry because they're they try to go like

(16:41):
the quick hits instead of like really long. So each
fish has their own mechanic of how they how you
do the block and the ferry. It's the same button
it's still be but you have to like guess, Oh,
are they gonna be the ones that take forever to
pay to show the block or they to be the
ones that like try to do it really fast, So

(17:02):
you got to figure that out. There's also they also
try to make it easy for you. There's an item
that you can get that essentially shows you when they're
going to attack you, so you can block and pair
if you want. You can also remove it if you
don't want to use it to kind of make you
guess more so you know, you can make the challenge
as difficult as you want.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
On that.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't know if it I didn't see any kind
of difficulty option, so I don't know if though I
went in eventually or whatever, this could easily get DLC
if it does decently for them. But yeah, I've been
enjoying it. Like it it some of the gags that

(17:43):
they do, Like there's a gag where the guy your
blacksmith keeps using his hammer and you have to go
like fish it out of a well or whatever, and
they do it over and over and over, and it's like, Okay,
after the third or fourth one, it's like, Okay, this
is really funny anymore. It's just kind of like right,
it literally takes like ten seconds, but it's still like
kind of like, Okay, this is kind of silly, but

(18:07):
you know, some of the humors funny, and you know,
I appreciate that that, you know, they put that in there.
I just enjoy like kind of going and fishing and
getting the different fish and essentially like there's I don't
know if there's another area, but there's like two main areas,

(18:29):
and you just get to keep going deeper and deeper
and deeper and that's how you find the fish. And
then there's another area that like you actually like platform
and do whatever through. My only issue that I've had
with the game, which I think part of it, is
it's supposed to give you the experience of fishing, right,
Like they're not going to have fast travel in a
game where the the point is for you to go

(18:51):
through and experience what it would be as a fisherman
where you're going on the boat and you're getting the
fish and then you're having to go back and take
the boat back and then going back to your land
or whatever. So I kind of get that point, but
sometimes I wish there was like a fast travel of
how do I get to the other area, because it
gets kind of annoying to go on one boat go

(19:13):
all the way to the end of the area, get
on another boat to go to the area where you
want to be in. It's like, yeah, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Should be represented by drinking.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, they could do like a loading screaming drink with
the guy drinking. They could do yeah, but no. I
definitely think if you like rpugs and you you're one
of those people with the likes just you like playing
RPGs uh in different settings, I think this is kind
of a it's a neat little indie game UH that

(19:43):
lets you do fishing RPG right, you're not really okay,
so the mechanics don't really change much, which I think
that kind of is an issue for people that that
play RPGs Like it's a lot of the same over
and over, but there is a strategy to it, and
you can make get harder and easier if you want.

(20:03):
I think the style of it is matches that as well.
Some of the characters are funny. You eventually get to
the point where you get to upgrade the shops or whatever.
So you have a woodsman that if you bring all
these items to them, you can build the shops or whatnot.
And you also don't run out of bait, like the

(20:24):
bait will just essentially just keep refreshing itself. If you
stand there for like twenty thirty seconds, you can go
get the worms or the the garlic or the berries
or whatever, because there's different fish like different things. So
I like that part too. It's not like you're having
to go farm all this stuff every time it does

(20:45):
it for you. You do have to go farm the supplies
for the different upgrades for the buildings and stuff, so
that can kind of get a bit cumbersome if you're
not too into that part and you just want to
get the upgrades. But you know, sometimes you got to
work for stuff you want. But overall, like I said,

(21:07):
I think it's it's I haven't really decided on a
final rating for it yet, but it's definitely in that
seven to eight range. I think I'm gonna see if
I play more, maybe get to the end what I'll think.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Really a story game, Yeah sounds like that.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, they do live up to the fishing gimmick like
they don't. There's a part where you platform, but it's
not like he all of a sudden gets a sword
and starts killing people. He is fishing the entire time.
So I like the fact that they stayed on point.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Use the fishing fishing pull like a hook shot.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah no, but I mean it's not like it's not
like they all of a sudden have you fight on
land with the fishing hook or whatever. It's right, you
everything you do has to do with either getting items
that are replenishing, like the bait, or you have to
go and fish for it, So they stay on it
all the time. It's just how they mix that up.

(22:08):
You know, it can kind of get it can't get
a little bit repetitive, so like that, I mean also
fishing is repetitive, but you know, right, so like that's
part of it too. So your your variance with that
may vary. Some people may not ever get bored and

(22:29):
it's a nine out of ten game for you, and
some people may kind of. Again, this is why sometimes
it's hard as a reviewer when you're having to like
play the game faster than you normally would, because this
is really a game that feels like it's meant to
be played in spurts. It's not meant for you to
play it for ten hours it feels like it's really

(22:51):
meant for you to play to like two to three
hours whatever, stop, come and play again or whatever. It
doesn't lend itself that well, So playing overly long because
again you're going to feel that repetition. But overall, I mean,
I enjoyed my time with it, and I'm again always
a good thing when you're reviewing a game, that it
winds up being an enjoyable experience and not something that

(23:13):
like you're like, oh my god, why you know? So
always good for that and that I've been playing on Switch,
so this might be my last new Switch game before
I get to the Switch to.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Just make it your first Switch two game.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
That's gonna be uh some of a Chronicles X. I
feel like, I think I'm just not going to touch
that until Switch to which I don't know why they're
not giving it that that sixty frames per second patch
that we know is there.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
And I need it.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Maybe maybe not. I I just they have not said
anything about that the system will update your games by itself,
like that it's going to make the games run better
by themselves, so we'll see. I'm wondering if we're going
to get that surprise. So we'll talk about that later
when we probably more so next week when we talk
about like what we think preview about the switch to itself.

(24:13):
But yeah, so that's that's it for playing games this week.
I haven't played anything else except for that. So let's
get into the news. And this is a kind of
a much lighter news week, right, so it helps that
we have the topic. Dude, there's not a lot the
two big news things for once in a lifetime since

(24:37):
we've done the show on Mondays, the two big news
things that everybody's talking about. We essentially already talked about
it because it came out before we did the show
on Monday, which is very rare that that happens. The
Bungeee thing with the stealing art and the Haven Studios

(25:00):
thing with fair Games.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
And whether that's all right.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
So if you want to hear us talk about that,
we did talk about that with Crafty on the previous
episode of the show. So but all right, let's get
into the news here, and there's a little bit of
everything from each of the big three. I guess let's
go ahead and start with Xbox. They did reveal the

(25:27):
game pass stuff for this coming two weeks of May
and they they're getting some some cool things, especially on
the indie side, and then also a big you know,
I don't know whether you can sart triple A or
double A, but a big game. More of that Sega

(25:49):
at List partnership that they have. Metaphor Refantasio is coming
to game Pass so and that's going to be out
on everything, even game Standard. So if you have Xbox
game Pass and you have not played that game, you
are missing out on an amazing experience. So definitely go

(26:10):
and play that. If you didn't buy it on PlayStation
last year or on PC, go check that thing out
on game Pass, man, especially for get double Clareubscurer. This
is the perfect game to go transition to if you
want to play like actual traditional turn base, this is
the game. I feel like that is a great segue

(26:32):
to that of playing clarub Scurre and then going and
playing metaphor Re Fantasio. I think you're going to have
an awesome time if you haven't played that game yet,
and even if you have, that game's worth playing again. Obviously,
you know, I can't do New Game Plus on A
if you didn't don't have it there. But still also

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tells the Conzera zal is now available on Standard along
with Stalker two and hell Bla two those that are also
on Standard now. Division two comes to game Pass on
all versions on May twenty seventh, So basically essentially a
tomorrow the day you're hearing about watching or listening to this.

(27:19):
And then the bigger get aside from Metaphor is also
Monster Trained two. That was a Monster Train was one
of those like hidden indie gems from a few years
ago that I actually liked a lot on game Pass,

(27:39):
And now that you're getting Monster Trained to day one,
I think that that's that's pretty great. Get there. And
then also to a t another one of those Annapurna
joints which actually has a Devero release today, so if
you want to go check that out, you can, but
that's also coming to game Pass.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
So a local store by me and she has that
Anna Purna PS four collection for sale.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Oh really, how much?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Three eighty five Jesus what I mean?

Speaker 1 (28:15):
That is a lot of games, but still.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
No ocause I think it's about like instantly and like
a thousand copies or like two.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
A rarity thing. Oh yeah, and they also have a
lot more games coming to the games you can play
on Cloud that weren't on Cloud before, I guess, or
I don't know. If this is like you can if
you own them, you can buy them on Cloud. I'm

(28:44):
not sure, or I mean you, I'm sorry. If you
own them you can play them on Cloud. I'm not sure.
It doesn't. They don't really make a distinction here, but
it's a lot of uh, double find stuff, brutal legend
cross request.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
To all of the that's that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
And then Steam World dig two is also on there,
Super Lucky's Tale, that kind of thing. And then also
should note that if you haven't played this game yet,
Cassette Beast is an awesome Pokemon like that's actually very
unique from Pokemon like okay, it has a lot of
the Pokemon Red and Blue tropes, but it does them

(29:27):
in their own way and it has its own like
little unique story and everything. And it leaves on May
thirty first, So if you have game Pass and you've
wanted to, like, maybe check this out. Definitely worth giving
it a shot if you like Pokemon. Also, Remnant two
is leaving on the thirty first as well. I know
that's a game mark yep yeah, champion there. Speaking of

(29:52):
old games, we can go way back in the in
the Classics machine all the way to the Atari six
hundred and further days. As everybody's been asking where where's
all the I mean, this is probably not the Activision
Classic stuff you're talking about, but people have asked where's
that Activision Classic library? And here we go. This is

(30:15):
how it's being implemented into game Pass. They have made
a EA play type deal with Antarcade, which if you
remember I actually reviewed on.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
The Yeah like that service or that Yeah it's.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, it's a service that you can and it's on everything.
Now they've added to PlayStation as well that has like
retro classics from old PC Doss games to twenty six
hundred to even Genesis, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, all that stuff.
So it's worth checking out. And actually right now, if

(30:53):
you have game Pass, you can get it for a
whole year, the actual ant Arcade thing for ten bucks.
So and if you like retro games at all, if
you like those old school retro games, ten bucks, that's
nothing to play. And this is a service that they
keep adding things to. They don't just stop at these games,

(31:15):
they keep adding stuff. So I would definitely give a
recommendation to people that love those retro old games. This
is worth getting for ten bucks for a whole year,
and they have an option. I don't know how much
it is and I don't know if it ever goes
on sale, but they also have a lifetime option. The
last time I ever looked at it, I think it
was like eighty bucks for a lifetime option. And we're

(31:36):
talking about a thousand, like five hundred games on there.
That's well worth that if you're like a lover of
classics that wants to be able to have class et
cetera disposal constantly. But either way, there are sixty one
games from the Activision in this and they're available everywhere.

(31:57):
You can play Game Pass so on out on the
smart TV apps, all that stuff on PC on the consoles,
so like Pitfalls on there, Beam Rider Baseball from the
twenty six hundred days. There's stuff from the PC doss
Uh era. You know, there's a lot. You can go

(32:18):
find the even Zork you can go find those at
the Big List.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
So these are all these are all Activision games, right.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, even like even the MechWarrior games, the nets and
PlayStation mechware one and two. Uh yeah, these are all.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Activision where are the most important actions?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
And Blizzard? Sorry, Activision and.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Blazer, where's the most important Activision game ever? Venetian Blinds
for the Atari twenty.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Six It's on here, Actually it is. It is on here,
So there you go. They're apparently going to add more
to wake it to where it's up to one hundred
for now. I don't know if they're going to eventually
make it to where there's non activision things that are

(33:08):
going to come over from that service as well, like
the EA play kind of work does, where they have
stuff that maybe eventually they'll bring it in and it'll
go away. I think they're kind of doing that as
a let's see if this actually gets used, and then
they might do a bigger deal with ant Stream where
maybe they gets the rights to other things that aren't

(33:28):
just activisional Blizzard based. You know that they own whatever,
So it's cool. I mean, obviously, I'm sure this means
that those games are also on Antstream Marque without you
having to have game Pass. So again another reason why
I think that the deal for the ten dollars ends
on June fourth, Like, if you really like these classic

(33:49):
games again, ten bucks, it's worth it.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Do you remember a game room for the Xbox three sixty?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Man, that's a long time ago. I don't I know
what you're talking about, but I don't. I don't think
I ever used it.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Okay, Yeah, it's basically the same thing they did that. Okay,
And I think Venetian Blinds was like one of like
the last games they had too.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Oh so they they had something like this, but it
was like an Xbox version of it instead.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Of yeah it was I'm a three sixty. Uh. I
got a PC version too, but that was like wait,
that was even like a less supported kind of Yeah.
You buy like old atare and collecul Vision and crap
like that, and then you can make your own like
little virtual arcade with that stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
So yeah, I mean again, like this is a it's
it's no joke that they keep like this is actually
I wouldn't to be honest like they are. I think
they added Disney game that, like some of the Disney
games like not too long ago. Uh, they keep adding

(35:00):
stuff to this so like this, you know, I mean.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
I think they realize that like no one's going to
pay for like the Atari fifty Atari games for twenty
five bucks anymore, because you know, people have already paid
that stuff so many other times it's like why you know,
I bother, Oh.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
No, you're right about that. Like, I think this is
probably the best way to introduce this to people because
it also has achievements stuff like that. So if you're
like one of those people that that love to do achievements, right,
this is here for you as a way to get
you know, chief achievements those people that like to do that.

(35:38):
But like this is uh, like I said, they've been
adding stuff constantly to it, so it's, uh, it's worth
looking at if you if you're like one of those
that like, man, I want this service, but like game
Pass and PS plus don't work for me. I like
the older games. This is kind of a you know,
and you don't have a switch, this is a good

(35:59):
way to get So moving on from that, also, PlayStation
gets another one of the Xbox games pretty soon. Maybe
not one that everybody's so super excited about it or whatever,
but send you as Saga Hill play two. It's going
to come to PlayStation five. There are going to be

(36:21):
some updates that are going to premiere with the PlayStation five.
Version that will come in a free patch for PC
and Xbox, so you know, get ready for that. At
some point it is going to be PS five Pro enhanced.
So there's that, which, Man, that game already looks beautiful.
That's one thing you can't complain about this game. It

(36:43):
looks amazing, So I can only imagine how much better
it's going to look on PLACE five Pro.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
And you know, so play better and be more interesting.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Well, I mean it's not right that game, so I'm
sure they will charge the full fifty bucks for it.
Uh So, you know there's also that too, you're gonna
be paying fifty bucks on PlayStation, whereas that six to
eight hour experience that was on Game Pass not that
much of a herd, right, It just it stung a

(37:21):
lot more when it was like the only big game
release that year for Xbox. That's that's what was the
the issue, yep, which isn't a problem so far this
year because well, I'll put both of these together because
they both Bethesda things. Dune the Dark Agents hit three
million players according to Bethesda. You know, we've seen somebody

(37:41):
start using this metric as well. You ust that has
been using the metric. Uh So I mean, Xbox has
kind of been the one that moved to it faster
than anybody about They aren't going to tell you about sales.
They're going to tell you about how many people are
playing the game.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
The steam dB charts are not amazing for it. I
think it hit like thirty one thousand or something like that,
which isn't great. But also Doom is a game that
this doesn't really have. It has a multiplayer mode, but
they're really not talking about it. It's much more focused
on a single player because you know, as Crafty talked

(38:17):
about last week, they they really tried to put a
a story in this thing, even though you know it's not.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I mean, the past too bad also, so yeah, but they.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Really try to push it with this one. And it's like,
I don't know that I'm not coming to Doom for that,
but it is what it is. I kind of saw
a thing of like I saw some people make a

(38:47):
comment about how we've had other games hit that number
in sales and people think that it's disappointing, and then
this is being celebrated because it's three million players and
most of it's on game Pass, you know.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
I mean there's two problems. There's two things. One, I'm
sure it is decent on game Pass because it's like,
what what new things on there?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Well, I mean you have Claar obscurity, you can still
be playing. You have oblivion the I meaning.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
I mean people have you know, I would say that's
much much more like a you know PS five game
or you know, a Sony game then.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
But it's all on game Pass, like you can play it,
so you know that's how I'm playing it, right.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
But also it's a matter of you know different you know,
franchises work different or you know, on different scales.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, I mean this is a game you can technically
finish and then just not come back to it. Right.
It's twenty two missions long. It's not uh short, I
would say by any means there's a good check of
time you're going to spend in this game. But it's
also not uber long, right, Right, So because they focused

(40:04):
so much on the story part of it, you could
essentially finish this game and then just that's it, you
stop playing.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Right.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
So that being said, I mentioned Oblivion just now because
Elder Scrolls for Oblivion, a remaster that was shadow dropped
at towards the end of April is the best selling
game for the month.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Proving again people are idiots.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
No, I mean I think it's also a nostalgia. It's nostalgia.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Okay, okay, Oblivion is the best selling game for for May. Now,
Now imagine this scenario. What if Bethesda remade a good
Elder Scrolls game like Marland. I feel like, how many more?

Speaker 1 (41:00):
I feel like we have a better shot of them
remaking Skyrim again then them doing that, man, Like I don't.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Know, I don't know. I mean, it gives a lot
more credence to the idea that they're going to you know,
remake or not them specifically, but some developers going to
remake call Out three, which yeah, I could see it happening,
especially now, like and especially if you get it out
the door by December.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah for sure. Yeah, definitely Fallout three, that that's happening.
Also interesting that this is where.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I was gonna say, you are right though about nostalgia.
Like my talks my downstairs neighbor and she was like, oh,
she's not really a game er, like she she plays
it to dabbles occasionally, but she's like, oh, yeah, I
want to play Oblivion or Master. But you know my
old boyfriend, my boyfriends'll gaming laptop won't handle it. You know,
it's like okay, like you know, like.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah, I mean if she gets game fast, she could
play with the Cloud. And I'm sure she's.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Not gonna do that crap. She doesn't care that much. Yeah,
but uh yeah, because I'm sure, yeah, she's only kind
of plays those older rolls games. So it's been a while.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I will, I will say, like I think I mentioned it,
I don't know a couple of times. I don't know.
I know I probably said it once. But I did
play Claire Obscure a few times on my girlfriend's Chromebook
using Cloud through the browser. And yes there's some lag,
but I was able to dodge in Perry in the.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Game easy or hard.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
I wasn't playing on an expert like you, but I
was playing on normal. I don't play. I didn't. I
haven't played the game oneasy at all. So but you know,
it does work, like I feel like the cloud's gotten
a lot better. Uh, And she doesn't have like super fast,
and I mean Exfinity I think bumped their base internet

(43:05):
for everybody to like one hundred megs, right, But I
have a gig at my house. She has one hundred megs,
so there is a difference in the quality of the
cloud there. I didn't really have a problem that much
with it, so you know, if she wanted to play

(43:26):
Revlon Remaster, it probably would work just fine. But just
to keep on with us. This is where satin Adela
got the the info for what they got the tout
at their the earnings report about them being the top

(43:47):
publisher on PlayStation fours. The Horizon five was number forty
two and went to number two thanks to just the
PlayStation five and Steam sales, and then Indiana Jones in
the Great Circle was at one hundred and eighteen and
went to sixth based off of those sales. I'm just

(44:11):
happy that any of the Jones was getting bought by people,
and Disney was right to wait it out. They said
that they want to do more with the game or
with the series, but they were waiting on those PlayStation
and Steam numbers, and here we go. It looks like
it's doing well. We'll see if any of that holds
for next month. Oblivion was obviously number one thanks to

(44:33):
being those slim sales. M willb the show twenty five,
which is on all Consoles is number three. Minecraft is
number four because of you know, the movie, and Assassin's
Creed Shadows is holding firm at five, and Black Ops
six is down all the way at number seven. You know,
still some good numbers. Monster hundred Wilds is still hanging

(44:55):
in there at eleven's but Fiction is still there at twelve.
So some of the games that are I'm out this
year still hanging around, which is good to know for
for those games. Even Elden Rings still hanging around at eighteen.
So and I think PlayStation those those numbers are a
little I think there's four of those five games that

(45:17):
are in the top seven or so, which is crazy.
And then looking at the whole year, it's still Monster
hundred Wilds one and two so far through May third,
but then other Scrolls Oblivion Remaster is number three on
that list, and then m will be the show called You,

(45:39):
Black Op six and kenon cun Deliver Ince two, which hey,
that's good for them, So yeah, I mean crazy to
think obviously, it helps that those are kind of the
like big releases so far and they've lived out to
that kind of sucks to see that, Like I guess

(45:59):
they were player obscure sales were not enough to even
put it in here. But also I think Xbox Digital
sales data is not counted, even though I imagine that
not a lot of the people that bought it on
an xbos are playing it on game Pass. But still
they sold two million and for that to be an

(46:20):
indie team, although I'm sure their budget was bigger than
an indie studio because they had all those contractors and
stuff like that. Hey, still good for them, right. I
think Matt Pitzitellas says that they're like around twenty fourth
or something like that if they're looking at it from

(46:43):
all that, but they're not, you know, in the top ten,
top fifteen or whatnot, so yeah, which, hey still cool, right,
Still good for them that they're even in all of that.
But all right, been on to the PlayStation side of

(47:05):
things here. Talked about them getting Helpley two. Also PlayStation
Stars is done. Yeah, PlayStation Stars itself will replaced the
old rewards program that they used to have, but this

(47:25):
was only available to the PlayStation app. You could not
They never integrated it with the console, which.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Is right, which is I never signed up for it.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
I was gonna ask you if you were using it
or not, you can no longer sign up as of
November second, twenty twenty okay, so you can't sign up
at all, like Mark could not sign up now and
as of November second, twenty twenty six. I don't know
why they're taking a whole year and a half to

(47:55):
remove it, right, but as of November second, twenty twenty six,
will fully end. They kind of make mention that this
is not like the end. Something else is going to
replace it. They just don't know what that is right now.
I don't know why you couldn't just keep this going

(48:16):
until that thing comes it's going to replace it.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
But I mean, the obvious thing is no one. I
mean you were using it barely.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yes, And also you can continue earning points up to
July twenty third, twenty twenty five, just to say, uh,
I did get forty bucks out of it, so I
got to play for I got to pay PlayStation Plus
for two months for free.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
But that's the thing. It's like, you know, I mean,
I can't imagine the adoption if this thing was big.
I mean yeah, because it was.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Stuck on the app and they didn't want you to
know it existed. Essentially.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yeah, I guess under ten percent, probably even under five percent.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Probably, But I bet if they would have done it
like Microsoft does, where anything you do on the console,
eventually they do have stuff that works with the console, right,
where like there's certain games you could play or whatever
that worked with it, like or no, it wasn't the
things you played it was. That's a thing too. It

(49:16):
really didn't have much to do with you playing anything.
It had to do with you buying only. So like
if you bought like when I bought Stellar Blade because
I bought it at launch, they gave me a bunch
of points, right, and then I bought some other game
that was also Like if you bought both of these
games at once, you would have got a bunch more

(49:37):
stars or something like that. And it's like okay, Whereas
like Microsoft's program is tiered into getting you points, so
like it's a lot harder than it used to be
used to be able to. There were people that basically
kept re re upping on game Pass every month by
playing game Pass games. Essentially you still get points for

(50:00):
playing game Pass games and all that stuff. I do
it all the time. You get ten points I think
for like pushing a button on the app every day, like,
but PlayStation Stars, it almost felt like they kind of
had it there for you to just okay, if you
know about it, cool, If you don't, we don't really
care because essentially we're just giving you free money. So

(50:25):
they don't want you to do that.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Were like half in and half out, like they don't
fully commit to it, and then it inevitably fails and
then we'll bring back something later. It's like, hey, now
you won't and then be even if you do, it's
gonna be even worse than the thing you just it
just failed.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
So yeah, the over Wars program wasn't that great either,
right involved village that made a comment on on YouTube here,
I was just talking. We're talking about PlayStation and Stars
eventually fully going ending on November second, twenty spenty six.
That's what's going away.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
So bring that yeah home? Huh.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
I saw people talking about that. It's like, you know,
for people that like to chill in spaces, now, I
wonder if like they were just kind of ahead of
their time. They need to h Yeah, that too. That's
still sony Also is what do you know? It's June people,

(51:30):
and there's gonna be a Gaming Showcase. Uh yeah, right,
but no, Honestly, Sony's been doing a State of Play
like for the last couple of years, like around this week. Actually,
they usually don't wait until uh Summer game Fest starts.
They usually try to have it be like the week

(51:51):
before so that they're kind of the the one that
starts the showcases and they kind of get their own time.
So I wonder if they're just gonna they and they
do this a lot where they just it gets rumored
and then they then they just randomly announce it and
then it's like the next day or whatever, like kind
of like Nintendo does. They don't. They don't do the
thing like Xbox where they give you like a whole

(52:13):
month and whatever to tell you that the showcase is happening.
They they kind of just go on, all right, this
is not gonna be a big deal, so hey, it's
happening whatever and h and Jeff Grubb says that it's
most likely a state of play, not a showcase, so
take that what you will. Sometimes they announce big things
like they have announced you know, like they announced Ghost

(52:35):
of Yuta on one very recently, and then they you know,
they did show off sorrows that new Housemart game on
one as well. So they may not have enough for
a showcase right now, because you know, a lot of
the games that they've been having are the live service stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
But I expect that the show off Interstellar's interest or gameplay,
intell what not, whatever the hell that honey Dog thing is,
oh right.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Right, intergalactic Intergalactic. Okay, you think do you think they're
gonna they're that close to showing off gameplay for that.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah, maybe not like a twenty minute show piece or anything,
but they at least show like real somewhat realistic looking
gameplay enough, you know, may not be like the Finished
Hut or anything, but make you know, you hunting down
some robot or some criminal or whatever, like some side.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Yeah that since Death Trany's coming out like next month,
that's Straining two is coming out next month, they're not
going to show too much. Uh oh you know, no.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
That'll be that'll be the summer summer, summer gamest thing. Yeah, yeah,
because Jeth always has to put hide in because.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
He right, right, the best friends, Right, I'm sure we'll
get something would go to Yota since something on October
and this might be the last time they really get
to I mean they do stay to place for individual games.
The way the way they announced sorrows, I feel like
they're not going to show anything all right, but maybe

(54:16):
maybe we finally give Overine I think, or now we've
heard nothing since that leak man, like this would be
the time. So something from Overine.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Was Yeah, shocked that they had to say of play
about borderlines for It's like really.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I mean, I don't know, they made a marketing deal.
Maybe maybe they had to include borderlines for in order
to get like GTA six marketing deals. Thank you for
that segue, by the way, because Randy Pritsford once again
cannot help himself man and not be the center of

(55:03):
saying something stupid, so that PR gets really like I
I can only imagine, like he PR, soon they're going
why do you even answer questions like what? Why do
you even answer people on on social media? You know,

(55:25):
if anybody needs to learn to like put an away
message on their social media, it's Randy Pittsford. Because anytime
this dude speaks, it's like, oh my god, somebody has
to go run a defense campaign off of what he
just said. So if if you don't you know, listen,

(55:49):
you know, pay attention to the use it all. Somebody
asked him, somebody kind of he's he's talking about Borderlindspore
coming to switch to you, right, Andy says yo, Randy,
you better not make this game eighty dollars. Not everybody
is gonna be okay with that, and we're not gonna
pay the price, right right. And he answers which he

(56:12):
could have just answered, not my call. That's it. Don't
say what, don't say anything else. Just shut up right there,
and then he has to keep on and go. If
you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make
it happen. My local game store had Star Flight for
Second Genesis for eighty bucks in nineteen ninety one. And

(56:34):
I was just out of high school, working minimum wage
which I think it was like four dollars at the time,
and ice creamed parlor and Pismo Beach, and I find
a way to make it happen and shut up, like
why why say anything? I don't know, man, It's just
like he can't help himself.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
So what I mean? I I see a sentence it
somewhat yeah. I think if there was a new Zeno
Blade Chronicles game that came out tomorrow. There's a hundred bucks,
you'd start to the store and bite immediately.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yeah, and I kind of way to make it happen.
But obviously nowadays we have way more ways to make
it happen than even then back then. So I think
his point is even more valid. But you don't need
to say the part about being a true fan. I
think when it comes to monetary stuff, we don't need
to be telling anybody how to spend their money at all.
In this class.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
There's two other things. First of all, like Randy didn't
like pull himself up from his bootstrafts, like his dad
worked for an intelligence agency.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
And well, but we don't know, Like you know, my
dad kind of he my dad was a doctor. I
didn't have to worry about stuff when I was a kid,
But when I became an adult, my dad cut the
thing off. I had to. I literally had no income
and I had to figure it out, like it was
not you know whatever. So like maybe his dad did

(57:56):
the same thing for him. We don't know, but you're
right about he didn't start from absolutely nothing either.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
He went to UCLA. Like, yeah, believe me, I'm sure
I'm sure that was paid for. If not, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Sure, Like but yeah, but if he's saying fresh out
of college like Navy again, once college got done, we
don't know what happened there. But I agree with you
in that he didn't have he didn't have to worry
about too much most of the time.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
And thirdly, I would say, uh, what about the true
fans who saw the movie.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Those are the real fans. Those are the real truth
fans right there right like if you if you really
are Borderlines fan of the form where you watch that
terrible movie, got Heaven help you?

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Speaking of which this is somewhat related. But I saw
this was like on Twitter. Look a week ago. Yeah,
someone there's some dextra article about Borderlines to sold nineteen
million copies, like franchise wise, Yeah, and that Borderlines too
has sold thirty million copies. And some guy tweeted he
said it as a joke. He's like, oh, they should
make another one of those, you know, Porterlines four, And

(59:06):
my kind of my comment to him was they should
make another movie instead, and he liked it. Yeah, good
on him. And I didn't know who this guy was,
and I clicked his profile. He was the narrative director
at Gearbox.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Nice. Yeah, well you know, hey, now that they don't
have humor, Yeah, that's good. I free like, yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Know, Randy just needs to They just need Like it's
the same thing that like Tessa Instrude with Elon Musk.
Just put him in like a fake boardroom, like a
fake press room, and have him rant and have the
cameras powered. I'm back to connectin anything, and then let
me say whatever bullshit he wants to. No one and
everyone else gonna get on with their jobs.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Yeah. I just wonder like if somebody eventually got to
Randy and were like, what did you say? Now, dude,
what did you say? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Here's the thing, Like, I mean, I'm sure they could
fire him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
No, They're not gonna fire him for that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
No, I'm saying I said I'm sure they could, yeah,
or but that someone clearly likes him or clearly has
some use for him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
To be fair, Like, you know, if Borderlines four goes
out and sells, well, I mean, dude, dude's keep right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Like, I don't think I think it'll do okay, but
I think the guys that like guys to that franchise
is kind of over and you know, I think it's
just like Worderlines one came out, Quorderlines two kind of
shot up, and then three or four three presequel and

(01:00:50):
Tiny Tina's bullshit. It's just been like a slow decline.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Yeah. Tiny Tina's had a mixed audience for sure. There's
but a lot a lot of people that liked that
game a lot, and there's people that didn't like it.
And then three just had the thing where you know,
they they came out and said, we're not going to
be overdoing it so much on the references and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Suff It's like, that's like the worst one.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
So well, that's the point that they're not going to
overdo it with four for that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Yeah, people didn't like it, but you know it's the
same people in charge of writing or any sensibilities. So yeah,
that's what I'm kind of dreading and so clad trap
in it, so said, Oh God.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Speaking of franchises, lots of uh. I had no idea
that there was this grounds full of people playing Battlefront two,
a Star Wars Battlefront two, I should say, all of
a sudden, And apparently some former deths of the game
have said that they're now they they would really like

(01:01:58):
to make out of Front three and have you know,
a chance of redemption because we know what have a
Battlefront two where that was the height of loot box right,
all that stuff. Yeah, just people absolutely hating loot boxes
and all that stuff and just them monetizing it to

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helen back because it was Star Wars to the point
where where they had to take the game down.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Right yeah, they like rebouncing the economy and then it
kind of worse.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Yeah, and then you know, it kind of really really
lost its luster after that because Disney even got onto
EA about like, yo, how did you screw this up
so bad? Yeah, because they had no idea that I
think that most people didn't even know that this stuff
was in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Well, it was a perfect storm because EA is trying
to make money off cosmetics, but like Disney wouldn't let
him make cosmetics or like me, no, like cannon breaking
cosmetics and crap like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Right, it was the definition of pay to win.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Yeah, or like Darth they are something looks slightly different.
It has like one more line on it, and it's
like oh the ten bucks or whatever, like no, yeah,
I mean the reason is it's popping off it's because
of Fortnite, because they bolted in characters from you know,
Star Wars characters into that. Uh, they shouldn't make another one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
But you think, like, you know, with all this stuff
about like oh we again, you know, we talked about
Sony's live service thing last week and how that's not
popping off for them outside of Hell Divers Too, and
then even Hell Divers team. I wonder, I wonder if
there's something to that or they just decided that they
wanted to move away from Sony, but like interesting that

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Arrowhead just was like, we're not going to work with
Sony on our next game like that the way they
work with Hell Divers too, right, And it's like, you know,
I wonder if EA and all of their you know,
they're still winning so many live service all their sports
games have live service right to them all almost you know,

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they're they're still pumping out mobile games, trying to get
modernization and all that stuff. Uh, do you think that
they could if somebody convinces somebody like you think it
could work, like bring back Star Wars and do this.
Like it's not like people didn't like the game, it's
just the loop boxes and all that crap ruined.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
I mean even like the problem with Battlefront specifically is
like it's reilly a large market of that fan base
like the old ones.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
So yeah Battlefront, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Like the I forget the studio, the saboteury guys forget.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Uh Okay. There is like a leaked version of that
of their Battlefront too, from like you know, twenty years
ago floating around that was like way more impressive than
what came out as actually thattle Front two. Yeah, but
I think there there is kind of a I don't

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want to say a need, but people like that type
of gameplay, but it's very shallow and very uh like,
I don't mean the gameplay itself a shallow, but like
the audience is shallow for it. Like it's a good
like a Real Tournament when they tried to bring that
back and it was a boondoggle and they went away,

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Like I would I would like I would like a
good like arena based shooter like that, you know, like
Unreal Tournament or Quake three or something that's like archaic.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Telling uh, you know it should go and try to
do something with Quake.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Now, I don't. I don't trust them because I think
the markets have changed so much from that, you know that,
like the audience just isn't like I mean, what was
a boss Key when Cliff was still making games like
that was like that one that you tried to make
and it failed and next Week's failed, and most of

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these things fail. So I think there could be a
market for the Battlefront game, but I just don't see
EA doing it, and they don't see I mean, it
has to be like some small team that's just yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
I mean they pretty much have to life sacrifice Battlefield
again right right to to be able to do that,
because it'd be a lot of those same people.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Right, and they don't own you know, they have to
share marketing dollars for Star Wars or just that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
They don't have a problem because they're doing that that
strategy game, and they're still doing Jedi Survivors.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
But that's that's a whole separate thing, you know, Like
you just said, like they don't have to pull away
from their own you know, battlefield itself.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
So yeah, I mean with the way Disney has that
deal with Epic or whatever right now for Fortnite, right,
it wouldn't totally surprise me if somebody's like watching that
and somebody at EA is maybe thinking about it, because like,
this is what EA loves. They love getting a game

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that people were excited about and they're gonna play. And
it's like especially if Battlefield like bombs or something, and
they basically get the definitive like, Okay, people don't care
about this franchise, it's done. What can we do with
that team? Like I could see a Star Wars Battlefront three,
maybe not doing a Marvel Rivals type like, oh my god,

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it is the game now, but I could see it
making a comeback. I could see people really getting excited
about that, you know. So I'm not going to rule
it out. I'm not going to rule out the Star
War Battlefront three could happen at some point, especially at Battlefield.

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Whatever the heck this game is gonna which look, I
don't want that to happen because I mean, seper we're
going to probably lose jobs. But if battle for some
reason doesn't do well, I could see it happen for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
If a battle Run three is made, how much how
many celebrity or you know, how many of the actually
do you think they rope into it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
I mean some of these actors getting kind of really.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Old it's voice acting. Yeah, you know they can get
they can rope in you know, Ah's forget a dynamn
name the ton Reese, Katie sack Off.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
And they could get I can't remember her name or
the girl that plays Ray.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Right, yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Yeah, they could get Daisy really and you know that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Right, I mean that was the thing with the last one.
It's like they like they couldn't really do it because
it couldn't get Han solo. They can't get Harrison Ford, right,
but like hey, just I.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Mean, now you could get Troy Baker to do Harrison
for you know, they can find ways around it maybe,
or they could.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Just not have them talked right well, I mean I
haven't talked a little like grunting or they got to
sell Compact somewhere so.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Right, but uh okay, moving on from that, just to
get to a few more things. We talk about Nintendo
being into our main topic. Embracer group who und you know,
well they are because ken Cums Liver Too is doing

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really well, right, but they once again are I thought
we were done talking about their studios and the makeup
of it. And whatever, and then like out of the blue,
they are once again like doing something with this three
headed monster of groups that they assembled last year, which

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you know they split as to the table Talk people
get a Lord of the Rings group and then Coffee
Stain was doing all like the indie ones.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
So now Coffee Stain and Friends, which hilarious that that's
still the name is. It's going to officially become its own,
uh indie standalone group like away from Embracer, right, I
guess to hopefully, like I guess, get some of that

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Embracer name off of them and kind of be able
to do their own like publishing and all that stuff.
Coffeees thing was supposed to focus on PC, console and
mobile games, including current community driven free to play games
live ops, you know, the indie double a space essentially,
so you know, they're kind of I guess this is

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Embraceous way of like not having to officially like sell them,
but also like you know, I guess divest from them
somewhat some a little bit. Uh. The middle Earth and
Friends is officially now called Fellowship Entertainment and will basically
essentially handle everything that's not indie, So a huge amount

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of Studios. We're talking about a Spire Crystal Dynamics limited
run dark Horse war Horse Studios, the people that made
Keenan Culverts too, that play on. That's also a publisher
trip Wire that does Killing Floor, which they have Killing
for three coming soon, if not out already. And like Metro,

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they just had that VR game not too long ago,
so there's uh, there's quite a bit uh there. I
don't really I can't really talk about what this really does,
aside from okay, I guess cool that they gave it
an official name this time instead of Lord of the

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Rings and Friends or whatever Middle Earth and Friends or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
His buddies.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
Yeah that, But sure, okay, I mean this is cool
for Embracer Again, I don't we I don't think we're
going to really know what this means for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
So but another Gollum game'll be all right?

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
Yeah for sure? Uh And last thing here before we
get tell my Nintendo just because you know, this is
I guess officially the first time we've had a from
software like Souls like like this that is really really
heavily beloved getting difficulty options. I'm not I'm not sure

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if Remnant two also has that but yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Okay,
so I guess they're not the first ones, but like
they're kind of making a big deal of it because
it's a you know, the way that this is built.
It it gets a lot of Eliza p gets a
lot of talk towards like Bloodborne and things like that.

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So in this update that they're doing, there's gonna be
new difficulty options called Butterflies Guidance, an Awaken Puppet. They're
going to be added in a patch alongside the DLC,
the Eliza p overture that's coming, the difficult difficult. The
default difficulty is gonna be called legendary stock are now

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or whatever. As somebody that does play these games, Uh
do you think? What do you think about this? Like
is this them like copping out or you think this
is a good thing to let.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
You know, I think it's good. I mean, like you
just say it's bad. But he's like, you know, I
mean like the die hard purists are always like get
good or you know, just get better, and yeah, I
got I don't got a thousand dollars to devote this
damn game, you know, right, So yeah, I think it's good.
People should people should I mean I don't think it's

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bad that a developer would say here's how we want
to play it, or here's how we want you to
play it, but like having options is always a nice thing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Yeah, I definitely agree with that as well. Like, you know,
Clark could have easily because they are aping the that
that coin of, like the same difficulty structure in the
Dodge and Perry, they could have easily said, hey, uh,

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there's only one difficulty mode, right, and unfortunately you're gonna
have to get good or whatever, right, right, But they
didn't do that, and in fact, like let you change
the difficulty whenever you want, which I always think is positive, right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
And the trophies, it's not like you beat the game
on normal and then hard or anything anything like that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Yeah, I love it. I hate I really hate when
they do that, Like it's all you know, I understand, Okay, cool,
you want to you want to have a trophy for
people that want to play it on hard mode or whatever,
But I don't feel like that needs to be included
into the Platinum or whatnot. Like that's one of the
things that he made a big deal about rebirth, Like
you have to play so many of those things on

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the mini games on hard or whatever to be able
to get the platinum and people couldn't stand it, So
like it's good to me. I think it's a good thing. Look,
I don't if me a Zaki never wants to add
difficulty options to hit to the actual from soft games,
I don't think that's a bad thing either. The developers

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should have a maybe able to make their own decision.
Does it hurt the game, No, because who gives a
shit about gamer credit at the end of the day. Nobody,
Because at the end of the day, nobody's going to
remember any of that crap, you know, Like you can
use it as a hell, Hey, I beat it, and

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if you want to beat it on normal, beat it
on normal. Man. But I don't think it's bad because
as I've we talked about with Crafty last week and
he said that it did happen for him this week
where he kind of used easy as training mode so
that he could play it on normal and beat the

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boss on normal that he couldn't beat because he was
able to get better at the Dodge and Perry, And
I don't I don't think that that's wrong. That's also
kind of getting good. But in a different way. Now. Uh,
there's levels to it, and I'm sure considering how Neo
Wiz has handled Liza p overall, I don't think they're

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gonna make it like gosh darn easy either. But I
think they're gonna be able to make it easier for
you to you know. Uh yeah, yeah, They're not gonna
make it harder for the whole point is to kind
of ease you into the experience, and that's that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
So yeah, So let's uh go ahead and get into
Nintendo here since it kind of leads into our Oh wait,
wain more, since we're talking about that, elder Ring is
officially getting that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Yeah, I will.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
We have somebody asking us in the comments of Nintendo question.
We'll get to that in just a second. Elder Ring
is getting this movie with a twenty four and Alice Garland,
who's he just teamed up again to do the twenty
eight Years Later movie, which is coming out pretty soon.

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And you know, Danny Boyle directed that movie, so he
has history with that that franchise. He's also like wrote
and directed Civil War, which came out last year.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Mean, and you like enslaved Odyssey's the West, which he
co wrote and also did some supervisory stuff with DMC, which.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
You liked as a writer. He's fine, Yeah, this movie
will never come out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
You don't think slaving with well, obviously we have the
King have never come out with George R. Martin attacked, right,
that's one problem. But you know what he does. He's
bad about writing his books, but when it comes to
like whatever he does with other stuff, he's he's great
about that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
I mean, shouldn't it doesn't matter or shouldn't matter to him,
but it makes a bigger celebrity. So that's why he doesn't,
is that?

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
Of course? Of course, you know, because we know that
book's going to come out and the people that read
the books are gonna love it, but that's probably still
not going to get into the zeitguys, yeah or whatever.
You finally, you're wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
That book is never coming out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Okay, okay, faugh But anyway, twenty four is also attached
and Vanda Namco and I'm sure Vanda Namco wants this
Newey to come out because they want to make money.
They want to keep making I don't know how many
people don't Old elden Ring at this point, but uh,
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
It's a few things. First of all, like I said
that the books never coming out. Uh, I don't see
a twenty four putting in a huge budget for this,
you know, personally, I.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Mean they like.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
They should. I think it's like a property that demands
it kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Well, but ben Anaka is also putting some money in
here too, It's not like it's just them.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
Another problem is like what's the story.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
I would assume it's its own story, right, like it's
its own origin story.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
Of No, because like Eldon Ring doesn't have a story.
I mean people say it has a story, it does
not have a story.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
That's the thing too, right, You're not gonna be able
to do this like Lord drop thing like you do
in the game. You're gonna have to actually give people
a story and you're not gonna be able to interact
with it the same way where you get to go
and do whatever you want. That you have to lead
the people through the story.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
keV. It's a fifteen minute scene in the movie where
it's just like the main character breaking power. It's over
and over. He can get the one fucking material he needs.
That's a better weapon.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
Obviously. You know Night Rain's coming out this year too,
so this kind of adds to that. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Let me ask you this, what do you think the
Odds Artist thing actually comes out?

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
I think with Miyazaki tied to it as well with uh,
you know, gr R, I think it will come out.
Maybe it gets delayed or something like that, but I
think it will come out because I don't think Miyazaki
is gonna waste his time away from doing stuff away
from the series for a movie that doesn't come out

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like that doesn't make any sense to me. So I
don't know. Yeah, I know you're stuck on the reality. No,
I know you're stuck on that, but you know, yeah,
So we'll see if it does come out or not.

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But thank you Ken for getting us into talking about
our main topic here, which is Switched Again. We're doing
like a two part looking back at Switch one and
then also getting ready for Switch to with you know,
the show is gonna come out during the launch week.
I do have a pre order, so I'm ready for Thursday.

(01:22:23):
So far, Walmart says they're gonna switch it. They're gonna
ship it to me on this I'm supposed to be
getting it by June fifth, so I and Ashley is right.
This Sonya is making that ze the live action to me.
But just so even though this wasn't on the the doc,
it actually does ask uh, why do people hate Nintendo

(01:22:47):
so much? Most gamers for PS, Xbox or PC, would
you agree? So here's the thing, Like there's I think
it's just the loud people online. A lot of people
online like to talk and say that they hate Nintendo.
But they hate. It's almost like a love hate, right,

(01:23:10):
they hate, but then they go and buy the games
that they hate so much.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Well, Nintendo is missing some key game types or you know,
mature games or games of that elk.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
But yeah, the third party they got what the Witcher three,
they got Doom Maternal last time. They're getting Cyberpunk at
launch count Cyberpunk counts, they're getting that at.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Lot they're talking about I'm talking about like Nintendo made game.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
But Nintendo's not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
That's not part of their exactly. Yeah, yes, you're making
my point.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
But that's why you think they hate people hate them
is they don't do mature games.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Because they I'm taking off like think of like Asthma
Gold or like you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
Know, brings up that she brings up athmen.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Yeah, he's never gonna, like, never gonna like a Nintendo
game because not enough women or you know, the big
booged women. They're too quote unquote easy h appeal to
his warrior sensibilities. I mean, Nintendo games are fun and
colorful and charming everything he's not.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
So Yeah, to be fair, Donkey, that's that's his whole
point is to make fun of things. So it's like
almost at some point, but Dunkey, you like never know
if he's being serious or he's just doing it because
it's gonna get him attention, right, whereas Asthma go, I
don't know either. He's also very you know, I agree

(01:24:42):
with with keV. Why can't we just all love every console?

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
I have some bad consols out there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
I mean yeah, but I own all the consoles.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
You just don't own an Xbox, but you have the others,
And to be fair, you don't really need on one
when you have a PC. So yeah, that's that Sexbox's
problem anyway. But let's let's like kind of go backwards.
I guess in time back when I got my to
be I got my switch one on launch day when

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Walmart was still good when Walmart still had the twenty
four hour thing when they were open okay, at midnight
before the pandemic, where they even though there was a
lot of Walmarts that were already going to start going
and closing at eleven or whatever or closing at twelve. Uh,

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they were starting to kind of ease out of the
whole being open twenty four hours, but there was still
a lot of them, and I had one in my area.
I had two in my area actually, that were open
twenty four hours. I went into one like at eleven
forty five and kind of waited around, and at twelve
oh one they start putting out the I'd pre I
been able to pre order like a couple of before

(01:26:00):
actually because Walmart had done like some crazy like pre
orders at the last minute. But it was cool because
I literally got to stand there watch them put it out,
and then I walked up and been like, oh, can
I buy one? And they said, do you have a
pre order? I said I do, But are you also

(01:26:21):
going to put some out people that didn't pre order?
They said, yeah, but we're going to make sure we
order the out of the pre orders first. So I
had to tell them I was canceling my pre order
in order to buy the one there at the store,
but then let me buy it, so I walked off
with an SD card the two I don't remember. I

(01:26:42):
think it's the two fifty six gig SD card that
I have the Breath of the Wild physical one of
the only few physical games that I have for a
switch and and and the console. So yeah, I've had

(01:27:03):
mine since launch. It still works. The only thing is
I dropped it once and it doesn't have a screen protector,
so I do have like this little blue mark on
the screen that won't go away when I'm playing handheld.
But hey, it still works, although it sucks because you know,
I've never gotten to get some of that awesome battery
life that the new version of Switch one eventually got.

(01:27:25):
But I guess that prepares me for what the Switch
two is going to be, because it's apparently going to
have worse battery life than the first one. But I
love my Switch, Like I said, I just I've been
playing nice Stay for Fishing on Switch to me, Switches
a great console. It's something that I think I never
knew I wanted until it came out, and now it's

(01:27:46):
like I can never think about going back to only
playing handheld. I want the handheld to be able to
go into my TV if I want to, even though
most of the time I do play the game the
thing handheld. Look, it's not as I think us on
as great graphics wise as a Steam Deck. But I
think for all the stuff that's come out with the Switch,
it's it's an awesome thing, and I'm glad to see

(01:28:09):
Nintendo is still going to be continuing to switch on
with the second one. What did you think about like
the Switch when it was first going to come out,
and do you like you own one as well? I
know you don't use it as much, but where are
you with the Switch one as far as your thoughts?

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
I think I don't really remember it coming out. I
think it got like a year later for like a
birthday present from a friend. Ah, but it's still one
of the like lngch ones or that's still really early on. Uh.
I think it's fine. I think it's see. I think
it's only good for like indies and Nintendo games. So
you go and like, oh, you know Doom three or

(01:28:51):
Doom whatever the hell Doom is on, Like the mature
games is like, no, those don't count because those are
better on literal anything else.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
But if you don't own anything but a switch, which
there a lot of people to.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Do, oh well, I mean save it for something better.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Yeah no, but I don't look. Well, you're doing the
Randy Pittsford thing right now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Well, playing a heavily compromised version of something isn't exactly
like a fun or good experience.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
M right. But okay, the teenager it doesn't have a
way to get their own income and they want to
play Doom and the Switch is what they have.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
I means four, fine, but you know, don't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
People don't do that. You're missing out a lot of
games that you can't play on the PS four. But
still the so you're I agree with you. I use
it a lot for Randy's That's what I play most
of it on UH just because you know, Nintendo games
never go down on sales, so I end up not
getting a lot of them, only the ones that I

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really really want, like like Mark mentioned the Zena Blades
and that UH type game. And as just to there's
a I don't really want to bring this up because
it's just some rumor that it is being floated by

(01:30:21):
people that are not. There's a stupid rumor that's been
going around. I saw, like on Facebook and other places
of like Parokis and Tokey apparently says something about uh ps,
gamers are gonna have to get used to they're also
going multi platform or whatever. That's that is absolutely bs
until I see it, Until I actually see them announce it,

(01:30:46):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Believe really small shiping multiplatform like that Lego Horizon game.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
But to me that the one doesn't even count because
it's not a it's not a it's a Sony property,
but it's not a Sony game. It's being made at
somebody else. They probably said, hey, we need this to
be on switch because it's not going to sell, and
it still didn't sell, you know, so you know, until
we have an action like until I see the Last

(01:31:14):
of Us, not even Spider Man, because I can see
Disney saying they need Spider Man on switch seat or
whatever doing Indiana Jones type thing. I'm talking about. If
a Sony game like I talked about Last of Us,
Complete God of War whatever shows up on Nintendo, I
won't believe it. So to me, it's still a bunch

(01:31:36):
of crap because Look, I get it, they have a
lot of games that we're supposed to come out with
live service that are not doing well and they need
to increase that income somewhere. But I see them if
they do anything. I can see them do Day one
PC before they ever put a bunch of their big
games on Nintendo right now, were they would they be

(01:32:00):
more willing to work with Nintendo than Xbox? Yeah? Would
they put their games on switch to before they ever
put them on Xbox? Yes? Because they're both Japanese. I
could see them. Even though Sony has that bad blood
with Nintendo from back in the day, they've apparently mended
fences in all those years from then. Most of those

(01:32:21):
people are not like even really around anymore. Do you
even know that that really happened aside from like the
history books essentially, But that stuff's not like that is
just absolute made up bull crap from people that are
just trying to stir the pot of console warbs, which
I don't really like talking on here because we're here

(01:32:43):
to celebrate games, and I'll mention it sometimes, but it's
just really like not worth getting into until somebody from
Sony officially says we're putting four games on Nintendo's Switch
and we'll see how it goes. Because I wouldn't be
surprised at all. It's similar to Microsoft's opening strategy of

(01:33:03):
we're gonna put some games and see how it goes.
They're not going to all of a sudden go we're
putting all of our games on switch too. Now that's
not happening. But anyway, going back to uh so, like
when you were thinking about your and I don't know

(01:33:23):
if you have honorable mentions or whatever too, but like
when you were thinking about your like top switch games,
when you think about like your time of playing switch games,
like what stands out to you as far as like
games you gotta play or whatever before just going through
your list, because I know there's games that you don't
maybe not necessarily like your favorites, but you feel like, okay,

(01:33:45):
definitely gotta gotta check this out. If you're buying a
switch too, and you haven't, you didn't have a switch
one at all, what's what's something you'd say you have
to play?

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
I don't know. I mean, it's just it's on my list,
you know, like yeah, and then Hendo stuff, and then
like a few indies and then.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
Was it like hard for you to come up with
the the ten you already had.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
The on the bottom? It was because you know, the
Switch does have a lot of crap on it. Ah,
and I didn't want to do a multi platform or
at least most at least like I'm not gonna play from.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
The major ones. Oh like see I did put Haites online,
but that's no. So so I'm going to give a
caveat to the way I did this is you can
do it as all exclusives. You can do it as
just your what you think are the ten best games
on Switch. You can do it as games that you

(01:34:45):
played a lot on Switch that maybe are multi platform.
So like, that's why Hayes is there for me, because
that's how I played that game. I didn't play it
on anything else with Switch, right, Uh, so for me
it is a Switch game, even though yes it's on
other things, right on PC.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
When it came out, like come out on the Switch first,
then I would have it wouldn't have made my list,
but I would have that would have been better. But
it hits PC and Switch at the same time. So no,
like the tourist made my list, and that's because it
hit Switch first, Yeah, initially, right.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
That makes sense, Like, well, it was on what PC
in early access for a while, and then Haiti's and
then it came to Switch first as one of the
as the first console, and then it came to everything else.
So like now it hit Switch first, Okay, hits but
it came it was on PC in early access first, right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
It doesn't say but first even if the case like
it came out like a year and the Switch before
PC or like Windows the official window, so I wouldn't
count that at all, all right, But.

Speaker 1 (01:35:59):
All right, like what are your you have any honorable mentions?

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
All right, you just did ten? Okay, my my honorable
mentions really quick are just because I don't I kind
of want to not like have a bunch of the
same games. Uh zann a Blade Definitive one, uh, the
definitive one, the first one and then two. I haven't

(01:36:29):
really gotten to play X, but I'm pretty sure Chronicles
X would probably be on there as well. I've just
I have it. I played a little bit of it.
It's just other stuff came out around the same time
and I never got back to it. But I will
when Switch two comes out, because there's besides Mark Carr World,
there's nothing I'm buying until maybe Donkey Kong, if not

(01:36:51):
even further. Also there we talked about Tony, Nintendo was
apparently having a switch to direct right after the console
comes out, which is no brainer because they always have
a direct in June. The people that have been saying
that they don't think anything's happening, It's like, guys, they
have a whole year left of things that they have

(01:37:13):
to they have to fill out the year with. So
definitely they are going to have another direct because it
can't just be two. Yes, Metrified four Pokemon Za are
two big games, but those are also coming to switch
one right now. Donkey Kong Bonanza and Marcott World are

(01:37:35):
like the only two big games that we have announced
at all for Nintendo. So they definitely got to get
something going. And having it right after the console launches
is perfect because people buy that system. Whether the people
that haven't bought the system yet, you can show them, oh, yeah,
look at all this stuff that's coming, whether it's in
this year or early next year. Oh, this is why

(01:37:57):
you need to buy it, you know, because they're definitely
gonna get you ready for the holiday season when they
have more stock again and they're gonna want you to
buy that system for the holidays. So yeah, So, like
I said, the Zuno Blade series is the rest of
the Anoploid series except for three, which is actually on
my list. Are my honorable mentions? What's your I guess

(01:38:20):
number ten through eight or whatever out them?

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
However you want my number Tennis Kirby Forgotten Land. Okay,
number nine is live alive umber Yeah, number it was
being outed.

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
Too, all right, any of those that you like really.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
Have a you know, I mean, it's a remake of
the That's NEETs one that ever came out, and it's
on other systems now, but when it first hit was
on on Switch and yeah, really interesting RPG.

Speaker 1 (01:39:03):
Yeah, I love I love the fact that that exists
and that you know, we can play it, you know.
It's it's also that that was revived and you can
you can check that out.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
I mean, I have a SNS translation, you know, one
English translation of the NES version, and yeah, they really
recaptured it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:27):
So yeah, they did a fantastic job of that game.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:39:32):
A lot of big credit to them for that. My
number ten is Hades. Like I said, it's not a
Nintendo game, but played the craft light of it on
the Switch. Love that game. I don't really do roguelikes
that much, so that game obviously one of the best

(01:39:54):
ones ever, right, But for sure Number nine Dragon Quests eleven,
I did play it on PlayStation, but Switch had the
best version for a long time, and I played a
lot of it on Switch, and it's one of the

(01:40:18):
best Dragon Quests games ever. So you know, definitely, if
for some reason you haven't checked it out, I definitely would.
Like I think after those two that's when it became
like difficult for me because I didn't want to do

(01:40:42):
too many of the same like franchise, because I wasn't
a fan like and I know you weren't either. Like
that's something I think we're both going to share that
people are probably going to be very upset when you're
looking about we're talking about obviously, like I said, best
Switch games for us. You know, when you do best lists,
there's always it's subjective, so you know, people or get upset.

(01:41:08):
But both of us are not fans of the three
d's of the as far as like Tiers of the Kingdom,
and that's the while, so I'll be surprised if it's
on there for you at all, but it's not for me, right.
Also number number eight, you know I had to have

(01:41:32):
this in here somewhere because I bought it on Switch.
I played it on Switch. I know it's on PlayStation,
but theaterithm Fall Fantasy. I bought all the DLC that game.
I sunk so many freaking hours into that game. I
love the crap out of it still. Sometimes we'll go

(01:41:52):
back to it to play games I used to. I
still have the the three DS versions over there in
that corner on the show. So yeah, it's for me.
It's a it's a game I really loved on the Switch.
So what is your seven?

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
Five? I remember seven was Mario RPG. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
Yeah, I love that game too.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
My number six was Smash for the Ultimate. Uh And
number five was the only good Zelda game, Caine's High Rule.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
Kin's tyl Is Fun.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
I reviewed that. You know their newest game, Riff of
the Necrod. Answer from that team, Uh, well yeah that
game was and it was difficult too. There was no joke, right,
but yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
I mean it's gonna be hard thing to top Ultimate
or Smash for the Ultimate.

Speaker 1 (01:42:50):
So yeah, that's gonna be an interesting one, like what
do they do with Smash Bros.

Speaker 2 (01:42:54):
Ultimate?

Speaker 1 (01:42:57):
Yeah, I mean, hey they did from Mario A.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
Do they finally do they add like an RPG type
like actual like story mode to the thing?

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
That's the thing. I didn't like Ultimate story Mode at all.
That like four game bullshit. It's like this is way
too big and involved.

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
And oh yeah, I felt like it took forever. I
was just like, uh, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
So I'd be happy. I mean, it'd be funny if
they did like a Mortal Kombat style story mode but
just sounded like a simple five or six fight story mode,
and that'd be a you know, yeah, I think it's people.
I think it's speaking a word of combat re quick.
I think its funny people are outraged that Mortal Kombat's

(01:43:41):
one supportive ending. It's like, yo, that game is old
and didn't do too well, so what do you expect?

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Definitely, uh, not kidding there with that. My number seven
is Astral.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
That game is awesome. I wish more people would have
bought it, because it really should be one of those
like Platinum games that we talk about in the same
vein as you know, some of the stories is kind
of like, you know whatever, but I love the gameplay
in that freaking game, and I just it should be

(01:44:27):
up there in like the platinum like echelon of games,
Like right, I wish there was talk of an astral
Chain two coming out or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
It's weird. The Switch had had some like theoretically good
games on it, but like they just didn't hit like
Asple Chain is won Ah, Tokyo Mara Sessions, I mean,
I think that was.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
A we u game initially, but yeah, the remaster, the
remaster of that, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Kind of came and went and I tried it and
didn't really like it that much.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Yeah, No, I definitely uh gets you on that Super
Mario Brothers Wonder. Yeah, absolutely amazing game that, like Yo Death,
is one of the great two D Mario games of
all time. Like the whole Wonder system where you have

(01:45:21):
it like completely almost changes the level, how you have
to traverse it and everything, and and then just even
playing the levels before that are like really good, and
then some of the challenge levels are insane on that.
So Super Marrows Wonder for me is is uh up there.
And then Mario Karty Deluxe obviously the highest selling freaking

(01:45:44):
Mario kard whatever, highest selling game on the Switch. No,
no doubt the DLC levels awesome that it got all
that DLC content. Also, way, I forgot to talk about it,
But do you think does it diminuce Mario Part nine
that it's it was being developed for Switch one and

(01:46:04):
they essentially just kind of put it for switch to.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
Yeah, because it shows like they're I mean, it's not
just some cash grab or it's not just some cheap
expansion pack like they want to expand the world pardon
the pun. So yeah, need the more powerful console like
would expect.

Speaker 1 (01:46:24):
Yeah. I think Also that's another thing too of like
I know, people were talking about, oh they screwed up
and and or this is why the graphics don't look
that great on it, you know whatever, because it was
now it was actually I'm glad that they finally came
out and said that it was a Switch one game,

(01:46:44):
you know whatever. It's like, Okay, look, switch To graphics
are not out of this world amazing, but.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
Like people really need to call them now in the
graphics like, graphics being nice is good, but yeah, the
gameplay or whatever the hell they're doing is better, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
Yeah, all right, what's your like, I guess, uh, four,
three and four.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
My number four was the Tourist uh and number three
is Mario Odyssey.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
All right, well we share one there, uh.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Too.

Speaker 1 (01:47:30):
Yeah, I like, I completely like, okay, so what is
the Forest of Our People? Because I completely forgot.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
It's like a Vauxel adventure game or platformer where you
watch upon this island or like a tourist literally, and
there are like little islands and each island has a
bunch of activities for you to do, like playing an
arcade game or jump roping and or it just looks
like an interesting game. I think you're trying, like and

(01:48:00):
I beat it. You're gonna like find these like four
not like shards, but like these like four power things
interne THEUS like dungeons basically. But yeah, it's a cool
little game, they reported to other consoles later on. But yeah,
the Switch is what I played in the first and
I think I reviewed it. So yeah, what about your

(01:48:25):
four through three? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
This got difficult for me because I definitely had like.

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
A one in two Yeah, and then I was like, uh,
you know where where am I putting the the like
other two that I really really like.

Speaker 1 (01:48:48):
Enjoyed in here. I would say that my like what
now I can't, like I need to look at the
I had it in my head like it's one of
those are like you're sitting there say it in your head.

(01:49:10):
And Donkey Yong Tropical Freeze is my number three. I
picked it up a few years ago when it was
like on a forty dollar or it's my number four.
I'm sorry, it's like and that game is awesome. It's

(01:49:34):
like everything you wanted, Donkey Kong. Uh. Definitely would buy
this over the new like retro collection one that they
came out, which like the one that just came out
like this year the country HD or whatever. Definitely would
buy that instead. And just because I love the game

(01:49:58):
so much, I want to give it props. Death Store
is an amazing game. You can go play on switch. Yeah,
you can go play on other stuff too, but it's
perfect for handheld. It's not like graphic intensive, and it

(01:50:19):
has a bit of the dark souls like combaty stuff
with like the weirdest story. And I just love that
game so much, Like it was one of those games
I was not expecting to like so much and then
I ended up loving it. It was my Game of
the Year of twenty twenty one. So yeah, that's my
number three. I always said on my number two was,

(01:50:40):
which is honestly, what's your number two? In one there?

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
My number two is met Tray Dread.

Speaker 1 (01:50:48):
Yeah, I was waiting. I knew that had to be
on here somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Since they finally gave me a good metro and I
took them twenty years.

Speaker 1 (01:50:56):
That's a fantastic And it's like crazy because like Mercury
Stream just came out with a game they didn't do
so hot, and then like Dread is fantastic, right, yeah, uh.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
That's number one, firing them three houses.

Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
I was being very surprised that that wasn't even one, right, Yeah,
uh are you are you surprised they've gone this long
without doing another fireing them like like that, like just regular.

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
No, because they seemed to like for the other franchises,
it's still seemed to like make like one game and
that'd be it. I mean I made three helps and
that was cool.

Speaker 1 (01:51:40):
Uh yeah, and that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:42):
Wasn't like fighting them at all, but it was still
actually pretty good for like, you know, a type of game,
and they made that fireing them engage and that was
not good or it was. I mean it was passable, but.

Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
It's a very that has a very mixed reception. Like
there's people that really love that game, and there's people
that just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
It's it's overly complicated and it's missing a lot of
the charm and the characters. Uh that I'll fire. You know,
Three Houses has Yeah, so I mean they do still
kind of replicate like the house, like the like the school,
but it's just like irregular base. Yeah, but it's just

(01:52:19):
not yeah, just missing the charm of the three three Houses. Yeah,
that's a great game. I mean I still want to
I want to sealed copy of that thing a special edision.
So yeah, it's quite I.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
Think everybody can figure out what my number one is.
Chronicle three, the best of the unobeate Chronicles games, without
a doubt, has an absolutely ridiculous story. And you know
that DLC that they added, which is essentially like an
expansion that just explains a lot of the other story

(01:52:56):
things missing and ties all the numbered games together is
also fantastic. But like three is just has maybe not
like I still loves two's characters a little bit more,
but three definitely has like the best cast overall, the
best story overall, some of those moments maybe like shed Tears,

(01:53:20):
the best combat in the series, just like the best
world to explore. And it's ridiculous that that game runs
on Switch. Absolutely ridiculous that game runs on Switch. Like
Okay one is okay was originally on the Wii. It's
remastered or you know whatever you want to term it,

(01:53:40):
like remade, remaster. Dish two are chronicles exes from the WIU.
There's a little bit of you know, magic that did
with that game that obviously that is the most open
world of the open world part of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:53:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:53:54):
And that's ridiculous that that runs on Switch as well.
But like two was a launch game and there was
obviously problems with that game, they had to do a
lot of patching that that was a launch window game
for the Switch. But three, like for it to run
so well and be so big and do all the

(01:54:16):
things that it's like, it's insane how like Model is
Off is just so good at making this work on
an underpowered system. Obviously, you know they help with making
Breath of the Volunteers of the Kingdom work as well,
but it's just like they have this magic that they
run on the sunne Bld series. That is incredible. They're
supposed to work on another game that's not zonal play

(01:54:36):
related that maybe that's gonna be one of the mystery
games shown off with that June direct. They've been working
on it for a while, so we'll see. But I
wonder if what the next ZnO Blight game is going
to be in that series now that officially, like this
arc of the Cnalbliate is done. Also ridiculous that we've

(01:54:57):
had this many We've actually had two Zeno Blade games
in the time that we've had Ah, when Kingdom Hearts
Week come out, was it like, okay, so we've had
one Kingdom Hearts game in the time that we've had
two Zenal Blade games and a remaster.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
Yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (01:55:23):
There's that as well.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
But all right, that that's part one essentially of the
switch We'll we'll look at more of like everything Switched
to next week, like some games we might think get announced.

Speaker 1 (01:55:39):
At that direct, Like what I'm most looking forward to
with switch to, you know what what we know is
going to be the launch line of that kind of stuff,
like what's coming in the Switch to all that. We'll
talk about that next week, let's go ahead and finish
the show out the way we usually do here with

(01:56:02):
the games that are coming out now that we're in officially,
and and also next week we'll officially be in June,
so another month will have been completed here. Uh, for
for us here in the in the podcast, or for
you know, our whole everything where we're getting into. We're
getting into the showcase season with June, with the release

(01:56:25):
of the Switch to then we've got Summer game Fest,
the Xbox thing. I guess you'd be so not doing
anything because you know whatever. I also should have mentioned
that Nintendo is also releasing four game Boy games on
the Switch online Gradius, interstell of Assault, Kirby, Star Tracker, Uh,
Survival Kids, and sort of Hope. So Survival Kids like

(01:56:51):
a new version of servl Kids. I don't know what
that is is coming launch with the switch or launch window, right, Uh,
so that makes sense why this is coming. And then
it's always good to have another Kirby game. Gradius is
always never a bad thing. I don't know what sort
of Hope is.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
I've heard crap.

Speaker 1 (01:57:17):
Yeah, Kirby is like the Kirby game is like another
Tetris okay type game. So there's there's that. As far
as what's coming out this week, we have the AI Limit.

Speaker 2 (01:57:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
That's another one of those like China Project games that
this has got a little bit. This has got a
bit of dark Souls combat in it with more of
like an action e flair. I guess you could say
sort of more like Berserker Kaison the way that that
game went. So there's that, but it's obviously nowhere near
as good as so take that for what you will.

(01:57:54):
There's also a demo out on the PSN store, so
I would say try it out there before you just
go drop money on it. Cattle Country, another one of
those like Farming Sims, also comes out the same day
that I keep seeing like pop up in my feed
to a t comes out on the twenty eighth. That's

(01:58:15):
going to be on game Pass and you know you
can bind anywhere. That's the newest like Enterpruna Joint game.
The newest Fuga Melodies of Steel three, the furry RPG
that is also coming out on the twenty ninth for PC.

(01:58:35):
Nice Day for Fishing, which I just talked about on
the show today, is coming out for PlayStation PC and
Switch on the twenty ninth, as well spray paint simulators
coming out of twenty nine, which that's also coming to
game Pass. Yeah, Xbox with their love of simulator games,
and elden Ring Night Rain is coming out at the

(01:58:58):
end of this month. Here, all right, you're so you're
officially not getting it right, You're not.

Speaker 2 (01:59:07):
I doubt it because Ens is pretty what he'sn't really
interested and it's a co op holeague game, so.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
I'm surprised he's not getting you just to like play
play with you since.

Speaker 2 (01:59:18):
It's because it's a three player co op.

Speaker 1 (01:59:21):
Oh right, yeah, so it's like it's either you play
solo or you play with three players. But don't they
let you play with like randos or you have to.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
Have Yeah, but you know, we don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:59:31):
Okay, like one of.

Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
The guy that could invite, but he's in Germany literally
oh there, yeah, yeah, but he's actually most of the
time we were up anyway. But still like it's not
great yep.

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
And speaking of Twitch, that the Disney Illusion Island Switch game,
which was really good, is actually coming to other platforms
now on on May thirtieth. So cool, you're having that
nostalgia for that Disney making like jumping around, you can
do that. But all right, that's it for the episode today.

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