Favorite Rogue likes

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Viewer's ours, I guess. I guess listen or not, we don't

really do. Then by the minutes.

What? If the viewers are the hours, am

I the minutes? We can never have a normal

intro. Fuck, man.

This guy, he's a fucking natural comedy.

Jesus fucking Christ. OK, all right, shut the fuck up.

Oh, he got fucking told. I got told.

Told I. Got anywhere?

Hey, anyway, what have we been up to?

What have we been playing recently?

Resident Evil. Oh yeah, the new Requiem, Yeah.

Yeah, yes, here. You go, Claire.

Here's a gun with one bullet. That's totally wrong, but OK.

Oh, I thought it just had one bullet.

No, she fucking dropped it on the ground.

Well, it had one bullet. You can get more bolts for it.

Koala ain't got one bullet in there.

It shoots off 1. Yeah.

I've just been seeing the memes on Twitter.

Dude, the memes have been fucking great.

The memes are awesome. Yeah, I've I've honestly just

been floating around. I've been, I actually started

reading a book. It's called the the series is

the Clockwork Chimera. It's a sci-fi book about

basically a, a girl that is in a space station, at least in the

first or no, a space ship in the first book.

And the entire crew is in cryosleep getting drip fed, drip

fed information about their whatever that is until like a

crisis happens. It happens pretty early on in

the book. So whatever.

And they all have to wake up and, you know, go to sleep and

intervals and get drip fed more information about their.

But yeah, no, it's, it was a good book.

I read it about two or three years ago, can't remember, but

I'm just starting the second one.

I got 3 chapters in. That's freaking awesome, man.

Very cool. Yeah, yeah.

What about? What about you, Mark?

I've been getting back into Solaris again.

I've been really playing around with some new builds.

I've been trying to get myself worked back into Satisfactory

because I've been feeling the itch, but I know I'm like, I

need to work myself up for it. But you know, I, I've, I've just

been kind of floating around. I want to get back into Void

Crew and then next week, hopefully we'll be doing the

first of our new raid group for Destiny.

I feel like that's going to be a lot of fun.

Yes, get back into the good old. Raids Oh my God help, I'm here

coping. Well, well, yeah.

Have you tried stopping? Have you tried stopping?

Clearly not. I'm not hard enough.

Not hard enough? Cease.

I'm all better. I'm cured.

You're welcome. I am a natural.

If my sister can get her PhD or doctorates in medicine, then I

could do it with a wave of my little.

Toe of his big toe. My big toe, it goes wiggle,

wiggle, boom, you're healed. I also got to mention that I've

actually played a good amount of core Trooper.

I've been I've been enjoying the the exploration aspect.

Me and Jack still need to get into it, into our two player

run, yeah. And we've been playing Terraria.

Oh yeah, yeah, Terraria. That's been going great.

We are nearly filled with the game.

We last time we played we beat Gollum by the skin of our

fucking teeth. Mark was a God and survived.

I yeah, I clutched up. I could not believe it normally

does not happen, especially being a squishy Ranger.

No, that was glorious, man. Yeah, the bulk of the damage

came from me as a Summoner. I could just tell, 'cause as

soon as I as soon as I died, the damage just ceased.

Oh yeah, I was trying but. You guys were doing great.

No, I'm not. I'm not.

I'm not saying you guys are doing bad because I'm doing all

the damage. I'm just saying because my

summons do so much. Oh yeah.

It just happens to work. That way.

What a good old time. Then again I get I.

I can definitely see. I am excited to try to get back

into more. Marathon.

Oh, have you been playing that? So I've been holding off on

actually buying it because I've got bills coming up, but

hopefully this weekend everything should be all well

said and done and I can actually join Jack and Braden into

playing. Playing more of a We were having

a really good time in the beta. Not in the beta but the the

server slam. That's good, but shall we, shall

we get into the topic? I think we probably should, yes.

Probably should not should should.

Yeah, maybe. Not should, should, but

definitely should. OK, we'll get into the topic.

So our favorite roguelikes. This is specifically roguelikes.

I don't, I mean, OK, there's going to be titled roguelikes,

but it could be roguelite light or like I'm just lumping him

into light because pretty much everything nowadays is light.

So. But yeah, if you guys want to go

first, because I know you guys have less experience, you know,

open the floor. You guys sorry.

About that, how dare you? Now I got to add fucking echo

and shit. Oh, that's our editor job.

Yeah. Would who?

Daddy, It's me, Mark. Sure, buddy, sure.

He's interrupting you, Mark. Just simply stop sneezing.

Have you tried stopping? Have you?

Just tried stopping. I I could turn off my mic if you

guys want. No.

Well, you told me to stop hiccuping, so I'm I'm telling

you, stop sneezing, OK? Yeah.

That's it. I don't care.

I don't. I don't.

The moment he shuts his mic off, he's going to forget and it's

going to be like total silence. And we're gonna have to record

this episode for 1/3 time. Yeah.

And that's, yeah, this is sad. The reason why we're not in the

studio for this episode is that we recorded it and then we don't

feel real great about it and then we just scrapped it.

I mean, I wouldn't say scrapped it, it just it needs it needs

changing. Yeah, it needs.

Recorded again, it definitely is a good because you guys are

having fun with it. Oh, that was a great time.

Oh yeah. 35 first turn my. Ass still fucking mad at you do.

You want to give them a kind of a rundown of what the episode

was before that reference or just when it comes out.

They'll they'll know. They'll understand that

reference later. We need to work on what we're

doing with it before we actually record it again.

Yeah, you guys will understand that when you're older.

Sure, buddy. Sure.

We'll go. We'll go.

We'll go with that. That makes perfect.

What are you saying they'll never get older, Brandon?

Yeah, man, everybody gets older all the time.

Look, you're 30. You ain't no young, young

chicken no more. Bring chicken.

But yes, roguelikes, yeah, I'm not really too versed in them.

Yeah, right. I will say you're more versed

than Mark. What?

Yes, I'm more versed than Mark. Hey, I'm more versed than Mark

like a couple months ago, so that's well, I know.

You know for sure that's true. Yeah.

Yeah. Me being the Resident Evil guy,

I mean resident rogue like guy. My God.

And episode ends. Bleep it.

Shit, I had one in mind and I don't.

Was that something we played? Fucking remember, Yeah.

Roboquest Abyssus. Abyssus.

OK, Abyss. Is good, yeah.

I guess this is a lot of fun. Yeah.

It's like a the art style of it. It's a first person like like

shooter. It's the art style is kind of

like. Bioshock.

Very nautical themed. Oh yes, very, very.

Yes, like heavy nautical themed and for some reason Aztec themed

too. Well, it's also it's also like

skeleton themed, like crypt themed too.

Yeah. Oh God, when we got to the first

boss, boy was that a you're like, you're essentially going

into like this, like diving bell.

No, it isn't diving Bell. And you go down and go through

all the rooms and shit, eventually get to a boss.

Once you get to the boss you move on.

Was there like 4 areas? Yes, there's four areas, but how

it works is there's four stages. So the first stage you run

through, you get used to enemies, second second stage you

run through, you get used to enemies and then at the end

there is a mini boss. Mini boss is always on the

second stage except for you know, the 4th area.

But third stage same as the first and then the last one is

just the boss. Yes, it is a very fun broke like

and if you like, you know, first person shooters and whatever,

honestly great time. And if you get motion sick from

first person shooter, there is, I don't think there's a way to

change it to third person. So be wary of that.

Yeah, I don't think there's might want to look into that.

I I like the singing remote though, that's really fun.

The singing in the fucking. Iron and Stadium and Brian.

God, fucking great. That's great.

More about this game. Yeah, A.

Little more a. Little more, more detail.

Come on, we're too. Far Do you want me?

Do you want me to help out? You you've definitely played it

more than I have. I have a general understanding

of the game. OK.

So, so pretty much as you, it's one of those, it's one of those

arena shooter kind of deals where you go room to room

fighting enemies and you cannot leave the room until you, it's a

linear, you cannot leave the room until you kill all the

enemies. And some of these rooms might

have upgrades like you can get all your health back and all

your needles, which is what you can use to heal yourself up in

a, in a jiffy. Or you can upgrade your weapon

or something. At the end of each stage, you

will get an upgrade in which you can choose a boon.

This can be gold aspect, aspect of gold, aspect of defense,

blood, fire, ice. I think there's 12 different

kinds. But yeah, there's different

aspects. And you can choose an aspect for

your primary for when you deal damage with your primary weapon

for your secondary, which is your secondary fire of your

primary weapon or just your weapon in general.

And then your ability, because you, you also get to choose an

ability as you play through the game.

You start off with an assault rifle and I think simple

grenades. Yet as you play, you can unlock

literally everything just by getting achievements.

Well, they're tied to achievements, but as you play

the game, you can get every single thing.

And that's how the developers actually designed this game is

they want you to be able to get everything just by buying the

game. So that's pretty cool.

You can get a ton of different weapons and if you do challenges

with those weapons, you can unlock secondary mods or

different primary fire types. And so yeah, you just go through

these 4 stages per area, fighting the bosses, the

enemies, the mini bosses, whatever, and do it a couple

times. You get to the end of the game.

It's there's definitely a learning curve to it as many

Rogue lakes, but it's it's a pretty solid one overall.

It's pretty damn fluid too. Yeah.

Besides, yeah, getting stuck on Geo.

Oh God, yeah. You dash into a wall and you get

stuck. For some reason that's happened

less, but it still does occasionally happen.

That pissed me off when I was trying to do Brine 30.

Oh my God, that was that. Was your.

Yeah I would dash into all but get up because one hit will

shatter your health in this game.

Oh my God, get up fucking. A move that image of the the

character that would angry fleet face with the choking hands

just. Yeah, Yeah, I, I, I can

understand that. Very solid, like it's besides

like Robo Quest 'cause I really like Robo Quest.

Oh my God. It's prob a business is probably

one of my favorites. Yeah, it's just it's those fluid

arena shooter kind of games. Yeah, yeah.

That really like me who plays. Doom arena shooter, but

different doom. What about you, Mark?

You got 1. Yes, risk of rain 2/2 had to

specify the two. Well, yeah, 'cause you get a

risk of rain. Risk of Rain 2.

And then rest of rain. Returns.

Yet you have to remember the. There's always a risk, but

anyways, the. Hell's wrong with you?

There's. Always a chance.

A chance of precipitation. Chance of participation?

His ukulele was electric. Whose guitar was electric?

I'm still learning. How dare you not be able to meme

very well. Hey I'm trying I'm I'm new to

all these rogue black games. I'm not old.

I'm not old, I'm just acknowledged.

Wait, what about it? What about it do you like?

I I love just the IT the low Poly atmosphere of the game,

like the art style along with the with the thematic music I.

Wouldn't say it's low Poly, it's definitely not high fidelity,

but there's. Definitely not.

OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not high fidelity, yeah, but just the, the whole atmosphere

of the game is kind of unique and it really plays well with

it. And I really enjoyed, I, I

really enjoyed taking advice from you and Jack on what I

should try to do, especially when it came to like the loader

with, Oh yeah, just go really fast and you'll have a good

time. Trust.

And boy did I have a good time swinging, gaining momentum and

just fisting everything. And So what does the loader do

exactly? For Loader, yeah.

So Loader is a class that is melee focused only, so to the.

Characters. Yeah, so Loader, she throws down

a, she has access to a grappling hook, which is the basis of her

movement tech. And what's unique about her is

the faster that the character is moving, the more melee damage

that she can't perform, especially when tied to

different perks that you can pick up throughout the game.

So what you'll do is you'll grapple on to something or

anything at all, and you'll just start swinging and you keep just

chaining this ability to just keep your momentum sustained and

also to increase it. And then you just launch

yourself into an enemy. You do your heavy and light

attacks and you're just hitting an enemy for massive damage.

Well the thing about the Loader too is that it's one of the most

broken characters. She doesn't take fall damage so

you can just fling yourself off the edge of the map and be fine,

and her basic attack also gives you basically overshield, which

is also just broken by itself. I remember countless times or I

should have died but I didn't. Yes, she's she's one of the two

probably easiest characters in the game to play us.

The next, the next time we get into it real quick is I want to

try to do the engineer. That's what I bring up.

He's my favorite. He's also the other easy

character in the playoffs. I have to learn about this

fungus. The fungus.

Yeah, the bustling fungus. Yeah, the fungus.

Oh, alright. Well, is there anything else you

got to say about it? Nope, that's all I got.

OK, yeah, One I want to talk about, and this is not a very

well known one, but it's also a really hard one, is oh, I

spelled that wrong. It's.

Called a nowhere profit. It's a game I played this on.

I played this on Xbox back when I was on game pass.

I actually had a pretty good amount of fun with it.

Basically it's a rogue lake where you have to balance

rations. Their I don't remember the word,

but basically their belief in you or something.

And then maybe 1/3 option, maybe a third resource.

I can't remember as well as you have to balance the the units

themselves. So when you first play this

game, you have maybe one type of unit or one quote UN quote deck

to use. And I don't remember all the

specifics about this game, but your characters will always have

damage and health. Health is permanent, for the

battle at least. And.

I believe you get a certain amount of resources like I'm

seeing right now and in a unit has 3A unit has five and you

have 0 out of seven energy to use.

So this there there's a resource system within the own battles.

But before I get into the battles, you can you can

traverse across this land and you can pretty much travel to

different points. You can travel backwards too.

So it's not like closing off a path, whatever.

It's just it's more so about your resources or food.

If you're running on food, you might not be able to go and

explore somewhere where you want to.

So you might have to go forward and move forward towards the

actual objective, whatever. And sometimes on these thing on

these nodes that there's fights and so sometimes there's rocks

that will block your line of sight or block the enemy's line

of sight. Some of them can shoot over, I

believe. Or you even have maybe a tower

you can put down that's a defensive tower or it buffs your

other guys. There's, there's a lot to the

game, but it's also again, really hard.

So you have your, your units and once they, if they die in

battle, they die in battle, but it's not game over for them.

They will be wounded. You can still put them into

play. I can't remember if they have

wounded health or maybe wounded damage, but they're definitely

weaker. And this time, if the wounded

unit dies, you lost them, you're out of the game.

And so you pretty much move through these nodes and at some

point you get to kind of a safe haven where you can spend a few

actions to heal your guys or get resources or whatever you need.

And then you move on to, you know, the same same loop

pattern. That is until you get to the

center where there's a rogue AII believe or again, it's been

whole probably 4 plus years since I played this.

I am debating getting it on Steam.

OK, but even even have actions you can do for example, I'm

seeing decoy it's all one damage for health taunt.

So I'm sure that like taunt means you have to target it

first. Yeah, there's A6 cost neural

shift, which says destroy target follower or something can't read

it. And then two cost recall.

If target follower is reduced to zero health, return them to its

again, can't read it because it's cut off the screen.

But there's even actions you can take as well, not just units and

some sometimes the the the battlefield is pretty prepared

with like a rock or something already in place.

So that might screw up how you might set up your board

normally. Yeah, you deck and I think

sometimes you can even praise a follower or whatever so they get

buffed stats when you're in a safe haven.

Yeah, it it's been a long time since I played it.

It was again hard and I, I again, I don't remember much

about it, but what I do remember it, it was I I found it pretty

fun and there's even different starting quote UN quote decks

you can do. There was one that I was trying

to unlock that's all about turrets or drones.

That that because I found drones really fun in that game.

There's also there's beasts, there's humans or nomads,

there's a whole bunch of shit. That's pretty cool.

Yeah, it's just from memory. It's fun, That's all I'm all I

can say really. Is it is it multiplayer or is it

just steam player? OK.

So we'll we'll have to check it out again on our own time.

I mean, it's on Steam if you guys want to check it out more,

you know, on Xbox, I think maybe PlayStation, I don't know, I've

never really played on PlayStation, but I assume it's

there. Most likely.

Most likely, yeah. But yeah, what about what about

you guys? Any other games?

Mr. Brandon, you got something? Oh, so one of the other ones I,

I haven't played it a lot, but. Is it axolotl?

Honestly, I forgot about Axolotl first.

Fuck yeah. Yeah, X Axolotl, man.

You know what we're going to talk about Axolotl.

At least what I can fucking remember.

So yeah, Axolotl again. It's a rogue lake where you play

as a would have guessed an Axolotl.

That the only reason he's fighting in the 1st place is

what is his food gets taken away or some shit.

So he's like super angry. Yeah I, I, I would be mad.

So you correct me if I'm wrong. Ethan you get like as you play

the game you unlock more axolotl characters that have different

stats and whatnot. Yeah, that you unlock different

axolotls with different health stats.

Some have armor, which is temporary health, and then some

have, you know, just regular health.

And they each also have a specific set of rules that they

work with. Like for example Chad, he can

only have one weapon, but that weapon gets I think increased

ammo or the axolotl that I first enjoyed playing as the void one

where he gets 33 less damp, 33% less damage, but he has infinite

ammo yes. So stuff like that.

This game also is multiplayer so it's a two player.

I still laugh that I I know how much of a pain in the ass it was

for you, Ethan, when you're trying to get the mimic chest.

Yeah. And I got it in the fucking

first room. Shit, I'm like what the fuck is

this shit? Jesus Christ, I know.

I finally got it. I'm like, Oh my God, there it

is, 'cause it was in an event room, I thought it was going to

be in a chest room and it was a specific chance to be a mimic.

No, it was an event. Two different types of rooms.

Wow, that was fucking funny. I'm like, yeah, I got it my

first try. Like a 1.2% achievement.

Yeah, shit like that. Yeah.

I'm like, oh wow. Back when I was an achievement

hunter, I, I I've. I've slowed down since.

God, that was funny as shit. And then a couple times we

played Oh. My.

God, fucking my Jesus fucking Christ.

The game can get difficult. It it really can.

And I, I, I just remember fucking just dying over and over

again because there's like so much that fucking goes on in

that game, so much going on on screen.

Sometimes I can't fucking see where enemy fire is AT and it

fucking hits me and then just fuck shit.

I mean in the grand scheme of rogue lights it is definitely an

easier one. It isn't it?

It is difficult when you first start but compared to Bisaic,

Binding of Isaac or Enter the Gungen, it's just the guns and

upgrades you get are impactful. Yes.

But nonetheless, it is hard to start off with trying to learn

all the attack patterns and everything and the room layouts.

Some of those enemies later, man, some of them can get a

little little funky and you also have to watch depending on what

ability you have because you can damage your partner.

So I think it was the bombs. Oh yeah, I'm.

Sure, I'm sure you guys have run into that issue quite a lot.

Oh yeah, that was fun. I was gonna, I was gonna wait

for the issue of crashing the game.

Well, that all right. Oh, I forgot about that.

This guy. He he, he just has a neck of

crashing video games. What can he say?

Care to explain there, buddy boy?

We have explained this in a previous episode so I will not

going to get too far into it, but there was a run where I was

playing as the imp and the imp he takes a long cooldown of

spawning an item, a random item, but you just get an item.

It's depending on how much damage you deal.

Well I got explosive bombs, explosive rounds very early on,

meaning I dealt a lot of damage, enough to pretty much get an

item a room for every couple rooms at the at the start.

Towards the end of the run I got 3 or 4 items a room, but as I

got more items the more goodie bags I got which was just bombs

or health or whatever. Oh no.

So I was getting less items, but I was doing so much damage and

like, just spawning so many explosives and shooting so many

projectiles that I was on. And this was Brandon's thing.

It was just a constant explosion.

Noises were just happening, cutting out, cutting in.

Oh. God.

They were ghost enemies and in which he was taking ghost

damage. Oh no.

And we got to the final boss. I should have murdered this guy

in two seconds flat. But there was a point where

there's a there's a host disconnection that happened.

I'm the host. What do you mean?

Yeah, you. Literally broke it holy shit.

God, holy shit, dude. That was, yeah.

It was pretty funny. God.

What was the original one you're going to talk about, by the way?

Yeah, let's go ahead and talk about that.

So I know I, I think I've talked about it before, but the one

that I kind of really like, I want to say I I played a lot of

like, I could definitely play more of it.

Vampire Survivors. That was one that I really got

into. OK.

It's it's one of those roguelikes.

It's like kind of pixelated art, kind of reminiscent of

Castlevania. I'd be surprised if people out

there didn't know what it was. Oh yeah, I'm sure people do.

And it it, it's one of those games that your character

automatically attacks, so you're really just trying to dodge shit

while you're collecting like these like emerald thing that

enemies drop in order to actually upgrade yourself.

Yeah. And there are, besides the main

game, there are DLCS for the game.

And it's, it's funny, one of those happens to be fucking

among us and and the Among Us character is actually kind of

Opie because I was playing the map that came with that DLC and

I got to the point that my one attack, I believe it's like that

like tongue attack or something like that.

And it I would have multiple of these tongues like shooting out

at once. And it's just I, I, I got so my

character was so overpowered that I couldn't die.

Oh. Really.

Yeah, and I'm like, I'm like, oh man, this is pretty cool, you

know, I'm like, but you know what the fuck, You know, like I,

I'm going so long without, you know, dying.

Like, you know what the hell happens?

Well, I think it's when you hit 30 minutes, I believe the Grim

Reaper comes out and kills you. Oh.

Shit, is that the Grim Reaper? And you've and you've, I, I

think at that point you like won.

Yeah, that's that's when you win.

Yeah, I'm like, like I said, just sitting here.

I'm like, Oh my God. I'm like, I have to keep going

forever and ever. Oh, is that the Grim Reaper?

Like fuck. Oh.

I will say though one of my favorite items once you get it

like pre upgraded is the I think it's the garlic that puts like a

little force field around you. Oh yeah.

If you could upgrade that fucker, damn, ain't nothing

touching you. Really.

Oh yeah, it it, it just destroys.

Yeah, 'cause 'cause garlic is an AOE that deals, it deals tickle

damage, but when you upgrade it, it can deal more than a fair

share amount of damage. Oh, OK.

And it just get the area just gets bigger as well.

So it's a pretty good protector of a lot of low health enemies.

Man, do you get swarmed as you? Yes, there 'cause I believe the

game goes based on minutes of spawning enemies and some

minutes it's just here, 10,000 skeletons, you're not able to

move an inch. Oh yeah, and you start getting

nervous and sweaty, 'cause you're like, what the fuck, you

know, 'cause everybody's getting in your personal.

Everybody's getting into your business.

Yeah. Exactly.

Music. Fucking awesome.

I love the music in the game. It's God, that's fucking good.

Maybe if you have like, you can check, check out Vampire

Survivors on like Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, mobile

phone. Yeah.

Yeah, really. I believe it's free on there.

Yeah. It it it's a fun little time.

Just be like when you first start off.

Just be prepared to die a good bit, like your runs may not go

very long until you actually are able to start getting more gold

and upgrading your, your character.

But it, it is honestly a, a really fun time.

And I, I, I know it's, it's gotten a lot of recognition, but

I, I think it kind of deserves a lot more just, you know, coming

from me, someone who doesn't really play a lot of rogue legs.

I honestly like, I, I, I didn't think I was going to like it.

Like my, my brother told me about it and, you know, he's

like, yeah, I just give it a try.

I'm like, well, I don't know if I'm going to like it or not.

And he's like Stripe. Yeah, it's the same day.

I I stayed up pretty late 'cause.

This is what, like 6 bucks? It's something like that.

Like it it does. It's not expensive, no.

And there's a lot of content. So like you're, you're kidding,

you're getting your bang for your buck.

And that's. Really.

It's great price for a great game.

That's fun, yes, Well. What about you, Mark?

Yeah, you got another one, Mark. Yeah, I want to talk about some

void crew, Yeah. So good.

Yeah, Well, good. So Floyd Crew, essentially you

and a team of other players are charged with managing a ship and

going well. The only mode we've played on is

what was it? Pilgrimage something?

Like that? Yeah.

Yeah. So essentially you're going out

on an expedition and your goal is to get as far as you can.

So we have certain missions to choose from while we're in while

we're in the middle of a jump. And they range from insane

difficulty, hard difficulty and normal difficulty, and the the

rewards you get on higher difficulties.

Honestly, I don't even think you get the different rewards and

different difficulties really. It's just kind of random.

Are you talking like the overall difficulty or the individual

mission difficulty? Individual mission difficulty.

Well, the thing about the the the normal difficulty missions,

that's the easy one. Basically it's it's basic

resources. Yeah.

Maybe a gun or whatever it it's. It's mainly basic resources

though. Yeah, but I'm not sure the

difference between the insane and and.

The and the normal. I'll just say medium, hard,

easy, medium, hard 'cause yeah, easy mediums are marked as

green, medium or marked as orange and the hard ones are

marked as red. But I'm not sure the difference

between medium and hard because we have gotten relics off of

both of them. I wonder, I wonder if it changes

the drop rate of stuff. But anyways, we select a mission

and then we drop out of jump space.

Out of the void is what it's called on the game.

And we have a series of objectives to complete before we

can go escape back into the into the void.

And so that's where our roles begin.

One player is the pilot who's going to move the ship.

Other players could be Gunners, they could be engineers, or they

can be. Now what are what are they

called? Well, like explorers, I I think

explorers are scavengers. Oh, yeah, that's a scavenger.

Yeah, yeah, scavengers. So Gunners, it's part of their

name. They get bonuses to managing

ship, ship weaponry, so they could be on turrets.

They get special abilities that improve the accuracy, the fire

rate, and the overall damage of the weapons themselves.

Engineers are charged with maintaining ship functionality,

so that's like making sure the engine trim is maintained,

otherwise the engine catches on fire and the ship starts moving

slower, maintaining thrusters, patching holes in the ship

itself. And they have special abilities

that allow them to boost certain repairs, certain stuff on the

ship, and their whole spiel is just manage all the problems

going on. Scavengers have perks and

abilities that allow them to perform Eva maneuvers outside of

the ship exceedingly well. So they get a grappling hook

that they can use to easily move while they're out in space, They

get bonuses to oxygen consumption reduction, and they

also get the, I think they get some passive abilities to

improve scrap crack as scrap collected.

I'm not too sure. That's kind of the tree that

we're least familiar with. But my role has always been

engineer, and by God am I running around on this ship.

Oh yeah, you're constantly. I am, I am constantly, whether

it's, oh, I'm trying to get a battery charged or I'm trying to

refill one of your guys's ammo units, or I'm just they, it's,

it's every roll is a constant. I have something that I have to

be doing there. There is almost no rest when you

actually enter combat until you finish the the mission.

Yeah, I would say Gunners probably have the least amount

to do and maybe scavengers even less, but engineer and obviously

ship, you know. Constantly busy yes, like there

there there is little room to view the fighting but it it it

had to actively participate in other.

Roles. Yeah, 'cause our friend Jack,

he's the he's the navigator. And then Mark is our engineer

and me and Bran are the Gunners. And when when it's combat, me

and Brandon are constantly shooting.

And if it's an if it's a physical gun, you need ammo.

If it's an energy gun, you need batteries.

Some. Some energy guns don't need

batteries, but they have a heat build up.

Yes, there is that what it is? Yeah, OK.

Yeah, but that that's kind of a sense of the point there.

There's kinetic and energy weapons that you.

Can have and Marcus constantly running to refill our batteries

and give ammo and whatnot. Fix it.

It also depends on like the range of your weapon, if it's a

sniper or if it's a gatling gun. Or I'm or I'm putting missiles

into the launcher tube for Jack to be able to use.

Oh yeah, because you can launch them from the pilot seat.

Yes. Or I'm going out onto the ship

in mid combat trying to patch holes to keep us going longer.

And then Mark gets blasted off, the ship dies.

Then I get shot because it's like, Oh yeah, they actually,

the enemy will target you, will priority target you.

I was like, that's freaking do. Oh my God, I felt bad for you,

Mark, that one day when you were having like really bad Internet

issues. Oh yeah, I just kept getting.

Yeah, you're getting hurt for no reason.

Yeah. It's like, what the fuck, man?

It's like you are the most one of the most important people on

the ship, you know? And like, Oh no, this sucks.

I I was so traumatized. I was like why?

Please I have a job to do. In a game just told you fuck

your job. Fuck your job.

I was amazed. I was like, wow, I've never,

never had to deal with this. Yeah, that was not fun.

What? Good game, God.

All right, who's got another one?

Mr. Ethan, is it your turn? All right, as the resident

resident rogue I player, I guess I'll take.

It the resident Weevil. Resident Evil.

Yeah, we need to find a resident for you.

Great altismo. Yeah, I, I'll figure that out

soon. I, I, I like to think of that

one scene from OK, I don't even know what game it's called

anymore. It's busy that that that point

and click horror game where you're in the hotel and you have

to free yourself and your friends.

Oh, I don't think. I know what you're talking

about. Actually, I know what.

I I remember what I watched Markiplier played it and I know

Emma wanted to play it too. Yes, yeah.

There's like a kind of a psychopathic guy, he's going

around. He's got like a a split

personality disorder or some shit.

Yeah. Oh shit.

You know what? I'm going to try to look this up

while you're talking. Yeah, but there there's the one

scene where you're walking into the theater and he's like, I am

the great Hugo. That's all I ever think of when

you guys say Oh yeah, Marcus the great on tease both.

I have never watched an episode that's just.

That's that's where my parade always.

Is it's just a coincidence? I'm like I am the great autismo.

But OK. There it is.

The one I wanna talk about, What is it?

At dead of night. Oh.

Yeah, check it out if you're into obscure horror games like

that. That that one stones pretty

good. Yeah.

The one that I want to talk about though is.

Honestly, I'm kind of mixed on which one.

Why don't. Why don't you talk about 1:00

and then talk about the next? Let's go.

Let's do both. I guess I could do that.

Let's just go with. Let's go with Ember Knights.

OK. So this is where your little

Ember guy and there's a, there's a main enemy, I don't remember

his name, but it starts with AZ who's like, yeah, I'm going to

take out the Ember tree and I'm going to take out Elder Ember or

whatever his name is. And so you are an Ember knight,

quite literally. You are a flame guy with a sword

and your goal is to charge into battle.

Praxis. That's his name doesn't start

with AZ Praxis. The goal is to charge into

battle and defeat Praxis. OK.

So you go from area to area, room to room, just like every,

just like a business, for example, wherever you actually

have a choice of which room you want to go in.

Because whenever you complete a room, you get a buff.

This could be a stat buff like crit damage, or it can be

healing. Like there's a there's a pool

for healing at some point. It only heals a certain amount

of HP. It could be like an event room

or you could get you can get a passive and this this game

actually has like specific builds that you can go for, but

then also has cross builds as well.

And I'll I'll describe here. So for example, let's say

whenever you hit an enemy with your weapon, you give the enemy

poison for 15 seconds. It deals 3 damage and it's X

once. Well, then you can get an

upgrade. Then you can get another item

that also deals poison on ability use.

You can get another one that that that deals poison whenever

you trigger electricity. Electricity is also another

thing. Yeah, it's fire, so it's ice.

I think stun is another one. And there's things like, oh,

well, whenever you stun an enemy, you put it on fire.

That kind of it's, it's the more you play, the more you see that

kind of stuff. And yeah, yeah, it's pretty

basic. Well, you go from area.

First you're in a a grassy area. You go whatever.

You get to a minibus and then you go whatever you get to, to

the main bus. A spider, giant spider in a

cave. So you defeat that.

You go through a portal to another world.

This time you're in a snowy area.

You fight a snowman as the elite, and then you fight an ice

column. Go into another area.

Now you're in an Acropolis, so you fight.

I actually don't know what he's called.

I think he's got Mind Flayer or something.

He makes copies of himself and you have to find the real one

anyway, fight him. And then you have to fight a

conglomerate of ghosts, which is actually a pretty cool boss

fight. And then you get to to Praxis

area, I believe. No, no, you have to, you have to

go through the electronic area, but then you get to Praxis after

that. So and it all, all the while

that this is happening, you get different abilities that you can

use. You can get these passives and

you also have a certain amount of passives.

I think the most is 8 or 12. I think it's and also getting

these stat buffs. For example, let's say you're

playing with the sword every 3rd strike because it has a three,

three hit combo. Every 3rd strike it deals

automatic crit. Let's just say for example.

So you really want to focus on that crit chance or damn it, is

there a damage? I think it's just crit chance

anyway. OK.

But yeah, the the more you crit, the more damage you're dealing

basically. And sometimes there's even

passives that deal with it. But you get the practices zone

and you have 4 doors that you can go through.

You only have to do 2 of the doors in order to progress to

the next section. Then you have to do 2 more

doors. You beat those doors.

You can do all four if you want and they'll you'll get bonuses

every time and then you move on to the actual practice bot

fight. It's pretty fucking difficult.

I beat it and then once you do beat it, you go back to the to

the pub world and each time you get ember.

Oh yeah, that's that's another one of the rewards is you can

get embers to use on the ember tree to get upgrades.

Like for example, start the run with 200 gold.

Pretty simple. Or if it's like as long as you

have perfect health, you get plus 30 damage that it can be as

well. Maybe not as complex, but it can

definitely get complex like that.

Yeah. But here's where the real game

starts. Because once, let's let's just

say you do a run now you can possibly buy a new weapon.

This could be AI think you actually start off with a bow

and sword, but then you also have access to a glave to a

hammer, a scythe and something else.

I personally love the hammer. You can do a lot of stunning and

just you can dish out some damage with that.

But once you be Praxis, you go up to the portal and you go to

start another run. Yeah, here's all the modifiers

you can do and you can modify however you want.

You have to hit 15 total modifiers in order to get to the

actual Praxis. Like the the hard praxis fight

and enemies will be harder. There might be a timer depending

on how you set it up. Enemies could attack faster,

more enemies per room, more damage you might have.

You might lose access to some slots depending on how you set

it up. Like you instead of taking 12

items, you have a maximum of eight.

Just that that kind of stuff, they, it can pretty much affect

every aspect of the game. I have yet to actually beat

Praxis on that, but it's it's, it goes up to four players

actually. And it's it's pretty damn fun.

I've fallen off it on my Robocos where I just plowed through that

shit. But I I would like to go back to

it and beat the actual Praxis, the actual fight again that.

'D be pretty cool. I did talk there for a while so

if you guys have any others, if not I can talk about the other

one. No, go ahead and talk about the

other one. I think I'm good.

What about you, Brandon? OK, the other one is Gunfire

Reborn, and I believe I played this with you, Brandon a couple

times. I forgot about this one.

This one's fun. Yeah, so I really like this one.

This I believe is based off, I don't want to say Chinese, but

that sounds right. I I could be wrong but basically

it's a whole bunch of animals and the original 5 is there's a

bird that's all about melee stuff, there's a dog which can

duel wield weapons, there's a cat that is all about elemental.

Dog, cat, bird. What else am I missing?

I think Bunny, which is all about swords, maybe that I think

that's a DLC. No, it's not.

And then a tiger and he's all about electricity and crit

damage. So he's really good with

snipers. But then you also have a a

bunch, you have a bunch of DLC characters.

You got a you got a snapping turtle.

You got a, a Firefox, quite literally you have, I think it's

a squirrel that does stuff with ink.

You have, oh, what? You have some sort of ice

character that can just shatter enemies to glass.

She's pretty broken. A lot of the DLC characters are

actually pretty damn broken. There's an owl that deals with

cards and it's a house mechanic. And every single meme you see of

him online, it's a it's like reading a Yu-gi-oh card.

And it's God damn true. Yeah.

But anyway, you go you, it's, it's just like the other games

we described before you go from room to room fighting enemies.

You have to kill the enemies before you can move on.

However, at some point during these rooms, there's always one

per area. There's a vault in which you can

shoot to open it. You go in the vault, you get an

extra challenge. Sometimes it might be too hard,

so you have to bail, but sometimes you can do it to get

an extra reward. And at the end of each area,

just like abyss, you get a boon, which you can apply to your Oh,

I think it's character ability and something else.

I, I, I can't remember it's been a minute.

And some of these, some of these upgrades are pretty damn 1 sided

with you. You fully upgrade them or get

them and the build can really come together.

But yeah, you the first one has, I think you go through 5 route,

5 areas and then the boss. The second one is 3 areas than

the boss. Third one is a theme, three

areas than the boss. Then you have an optional once

you get to the third one, cause the third one is actually the

final boss. But then you have an optional

final boss if you choose to go through the, through the, the,

the, the frozen Yotin. I think it is.

Yeah, that sounds wrong. Then that boss is a fucking

doozy. But there's different, there's

different, there's different classifications of guns.

And as you play you unlock them. Obviously there's also scrolls

you can get which can help or hurt you just character

dependent. Like for example the bird, for

some reason he's the only one that deals with armor.

And there's a scroll in specific that says hey it takes your

shield longer to recharge but you get a damage buff or

something like that but guaranteed it takes your armor.

Sorry your your shield longer to recharge or to start recharging.

Yes. Bird doesn't have shield, so he

can just take that for free. That's his his armor.

He gets it back when he says he gets it back.

But it's it's actually a really, really well thought out pro

glide, really well thought out. I've had my fair share of fawn.

You get through normal difficulty, then you unlock hard

basically, and then after that you get nightmare.

And then after nightmare you get to reincarnations and that's

when fun really starts happening.

You get spiritual blessings and some of the spiritual blessings

are generic, some of them are character specific, and some of

them just open the game wide fucking open.

For example, the dog, he, he has explosive grenades.

Not all, not all secondary abilities are the same, but he's

explosive. One of his things is he throws

all of his available grenades at once and he doesn't expend any

of them but one or maybe even any of them at that point.

So the maximum you can have is 8.

You get a scroll that double s it the the the 16 and then he

has a he has a thing where you can throw 2 grenades instead of

one at the expense of 1. So you could throw up to 32

grenades and just delete a boss. Oh wow.

It's, it's, it's dumb, but yeah, each, each character unique in

their own right and it can get pretty damn hard on the

reincarnations 'cause I think it goes up to 10.

But check it out. It's on Steam, Xbox,

PlayStation, I'm sure, maybe switch.

Fun all around, plenty of cute characters to go around.

They're still adding more and they're still doing more modes

and challenges and all that. Pretty good.

That sounds like a good time. Yes, yes it is.

It is, yeah. But I think that I think unless

you guys have another, we're passing hours now.

I don't. I don't have any more to talk

about. Do you matter?

No, no, I think I'm good. All right.

All right. I mean, I've been wanting to do

this episode for a while. Yeah.

I just don't know why I thought it was a bad idea.

I don't see it as a bad idea. Nope.

Talk about what you want to talk about, man.

We're here. Hell yeah, that's what I like to

hear. This is our podcast.

Yeah. Well, I guess if we want to

start the the the wrap up for our, if you guys don't have

anything else to say real quick. Yeah, that's it.

That's what I was going for. On teaser Alright Brandon, where

can they? Where can our audience find us?

Yeah, Brandon, where can they find us?

Where I hear you Where? Somewhere you can find us on, oh

God, social media. Yeah.

Blue Sky Twitter YouTube The YouTube channel has all current

podcast episodes. What what?

What's our name so that we can they can find us?

Yeah, you can look up plug in for player four, I think

everything. Is that the number four or is

that the word for? Are there?

Spaces. There are not spaces for Twitter

or blue sky. OK.

All of these links are in the episode's description.

I think that's just dandy. Also, do do we do we have light

year frontier finally up? So there is one episode up, yes,

we're looking at. I'm going to try to get another

one up on Thursday, which I believe at the time of this

recording is Thursday, Yeah, 12th.

Yeah. So hopefully I can get that up.

The upload speed for us has been kind of shitty.

Well, hopefully we've we've decided after the 1st 2 pilot

episodes of Lightyear to cut it down to 30 minute segments.

I thought it was. Hopefully, hopefully the the

file size is reduced enough to a point where it's a bit more

manageable on your network. If not we can talk about having

me uploaded but that that stuff for off camera.

Yeah. Anyway, it's good.

Thank you all for listening to us.

We really do appreciate you each and every single one.

And we just want to squish your faces.

And anyway, wow. Yeah, what?

He what? What?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What?

He said I. Lost my train.

Of thought there. Alright, roll those, roll that

exits. Yeah, well.

Thank you. Thank you guys for giving us

giving our podcast a chance, man.

Maybe our YouTube by chance. Maybe you can tell us in the

comments what your favorite rogue legs are, or if you knew

the new new to the genre, which ones sound great to you?

And until the next episode, we shall see you.

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