Make a Video Game with every genre you played.

Welcome to Plug in for Player 4, where you, the viewer, are the Player 4. I'm your host, Mark and Brandon, and these are my friends, Ethan Little one. I'm Ginger. I think I just fucking had a stroke. Maybe my soul just left the room. Maybe I had a stroke. Stroke was Ethan. And these are my friends Mark and Brandon. Yeah. Uh huh. You get in the mood, motherfucker. Who's running the show here? Me right now, my shit. He's setting the example I need to beat his energy. I gave us a place to record. I know, what do you have?

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I am the great artismo I am. The great artismo. That's his name on Steam for me, by the way.

The great artismo. So dumb, why do you hate? Me, how you guys doing today? Good, I'm. Doing good. Oh, So yeah, yeah. I'm doing good. I think I'm doing good. First week of the new year. Yeah, going hopefully. Well, we just have to see more weeks to see how it's truly going. Yeah. It's going to be a great year. But I think so. I mean, I got my bingo card ready to go. Yeah, I'm going to be, you know, going after that, plus all the fucking new games that I have, too. I. Want to play bingo now? Let's do it right now, B16.

I want to have, I want to have Emma play that trend that was on TikTok with the bingo cards where it was just be in the room with your boyfriend or husband while he's playing a video game and you have a a bingo card with everything that he might possibly shout out with.

Man, that's smart, Yeah. I wanted her to do that with me because I think I think she'd have a place with that. OK, kind of in the same vein, there was something that I wish Shelby would do and that's be like, all right, like just randomly take my phone and play Glory Hammer as my favorite band and just be like like play like 5 seconds. You'd be like, guess the song. However, I will say like half the song start with the name of the song. So it's like that's too. Easy. Yeah, that's a little. Too easy.

Yeah, I know. I'm just like. We'll get you a clip of five random seconds. Yeah, really. Maybe I can. Like maybe I can do the same thing with her with Tame and Paula. Yeah, or Gorilla's one of the two. Yeah, that'd be fun. Yes. Yeah. But the topic of today's episode, I think, I think Mark, you'll like this, but this is actually a question. I'm going to preface this. This is a question that I was asked about 7-8 years ago when I back when I was working at Walmart, I was doing clothes in the back, just, you know, whatever, just hanging out with some, with some one of the other work dudes working there and he's like, it'd be really cool if there was a game that incorporated every other game that you played into it.

Oh God. Oh, I remember. Any and all conversation you want to have about this, from legality to just the pure insane batshit bullshit there is about it, 'cause like, I've played, I played a lot of Flash games, I've played a lot of very indie games and just tried to incorporate playing a mobile game right there. Yeah, just all of that into one fucking game. Fuck. There would just be so much that what cause like some games are puzzles, some games are shooters, some games explorate like explorations like yeah, explorative, yes, explorationalizing explode Co-op games like.

Single player games. Stuff like speedrunners, that's not a puzzle Nora like shooter. It's just like. How do you break a game to make you completely faster? Yeah, really. Like there's also so much legality in that too. Yeah, I've played Marvel Rivals, I've played Gundam games, I've played my fair share of old like plug and play games. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah, I've I've played so many different genres. That's what I'm. Saying that, it's like I could you imagine Fallout. As a as a city builder. But as a Yeah.

Oh. Jesus Christ. As a city. Builder, another settlement needs your help. Preston. I thought you were gone. We're not. Even that part of the country, you motherfucker, Robert. Washington State right now. Where the fuck did you come? From just poops up out of nowhere to fucking sleep paralysis demon. But yeah, like, yeah, like fall as like a yeah city builder or like I or as like a or as like a platformer. Oh, Jesus. Christ, oh God. God, what fuck I would I would have said survival horror, but it's it's it's.

Kind of like that. It's kind of got elements of that are. Yeah, but I mean like, just imagine like a puzzle game, but you have the movement of like Titanfall 2. Fuck. Yeah, you would break the puzzle games instantly. Oh yeah. Honestly, I could see some really interesting things made out of that. Like a lot of like, it would have to be very much built around. Yes it would. I'm just saying a lot of puzzle games would shatter like glass.

Does your traditional puzzle games revolve around you having to take time to think and strategize, whereas Titanfall's movement is you have to build up and maintain speed? Yep. I could see some pretty wonky things you can do with like circuits and stuff where you have to start off a chain and you have to get to another location to keep the chain going and doing the right thing. Yes. Using the movement tech to get there as fast as possible. Like could you imagine Sonic wearing a pit boy? That's where he keeps all his rings.

It's a tail boy. It's. A tail boy, Yeah. It's your tails. Gotta go fast as he sprints into like a radiation zone and like just a ring pops off every second or whatever. Tails give you the thumbs up. And instead of bolts. Oh man. Dude imagine those babies from soccer story. Oh, no, no. That, that was so stuff, stuff

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That'd be a great sound bite to add to the discord or the unedited version. Shut up. I'm not done. I'm not. Done. I'm not done. No, no, okay, okay. Got and not not to golf trap, but just to no. It's fine when. You when you said that, your face was so red that I'm like, oh, Mark, shush, something's going to happen. I was, I don't feel those feelings anymore. I was just like holding them in, bottling up and they was just like kept fucking growing. That episode was there. That was so. Funny it was.

Oh my God, there's. A pent up anger and frustration and I was the Turkey. Yeah, and I'm over here in the corner. Also. Don't, don't get in my Direct Line of sight. OK, OK, good talk. This is the out of my sight and you'll be fine. God, that was fucking. I was going to say a shooter game with portals, but that split gate. That's fucking. Portal no split game. Split Gate is more a first person shooter. Yeah, it's an FPS with portals. Portal is a portal. Yeah, yeah, no, that's, I was just saying like a good FPS game with portals.

I'm like, oh wait, no, that's just, that's just like. The fucking. Split gate. Yeah. Oh. Wait no hold on a horde shooter like split gate. Oh sorry sorry a portal game with that's a shooter with horde like mechanics like Left 4 dead 2.

I I feel like the portals would trivialize a little horde mechanics. Though none of it's made for it, I'm sure. I'm sure there's like a, a balance. You could do it somewhere in there, yeah. I mean, and you can that that honestly would be kind of cool if a horde's coming and you're like on the portal, you shoot it over here, you know, to get them away from you like that. That. Yeah. But I could see where that would Yeah, that would be kind of like there's, there would be a way of like. There would definitely be a way to like balance that.

Yeah, because that would just be too easy, right? That actually also like the sheer size of this game. If it's like every game you ever played, put into one. Could you imagine the size? Yeah, I know. This would be like a fucking what? Petabyte. Right. Yeah. I like to think of. This is a Yanni man Wow. OK, I like to think back to Arrowhead Studio's take on this and a a game made for everyone is a game made for no one. Yes. And if you try to shove so many genres into one thing, you wind up a fucking spore.

I mean to be further was also it takes 2. Yeah, but. Mainly a puzzle game, but there was other. Yeah, I see what you're saying with sport though. Yeah, where? Where sport tried to be everything and nothing at the same time. I never played it but like I watched people play. I'm just like man, like each stage just gets fucking worse. Yeah, yeah. 'Cause the cell game the the cells I I've played through. When you're in the primordial soup, that's like Topeka right there. That's peak spore. Yeah, that's that.

That's about as good as it gets with just pure on. Use your ability, your parts to get you and. Then once you get onto the land you you're playing Spore from the Wii. Yeah, you're you're playing Wii Spore, which is just interact with all the things around you and try to get better. Yeah. Like like the tribal stage was OK. I'm not an RTS person. Yeah, I mean, being somebody who's played RTS games in the past, it it just kind of flowed. But at the same time I was like, yeah, this is it. It really starts going downhill from there.

Personally, I really, I really enjoy the the civilization stage, but that's, that's because it's it. It's literally at that point a true RTS. Yeah. And then space stage is the worst because it's so fucking repetitive. Yeah, no, like it's just everything, but it's, you know, just so much nothing there's. Yeah, it's literally just, oh, you had to go from planet to planet. Yeah, go to this. Planet. Oh, look, now you have another Terra formation tool. Yeah, it's a star. Yeah, cool. It's just a big old nothing burger, yeah.

Could you imagine like? Listen. Like Sonic or or like Resident Evil as an RTS? Especially Sonic. Oh my God, no. How would that be? Sonic RTO. Yeah, how the hell would you do? That Sonic as a duck builder? How about that? That's Magic the Gathering. Now it. Is now it is that would. Be. Weird. I I could see doing Sonic as like a turn based strategy. But not an RTS. Yeah, like you could do Sonic as like an XCOM. Well, actually. See that? Well, actually, technically that does exist. Oh, really? It's not good.

Sonic in the Dark Brotherhood. Oh. That is a turn based game if I remember correctly. I feel like you could probably do it better. You. You definitely could. Yeah, 'cause that, that one, the music for that game was God fucking awful. It was like you're fucking choking a fucking keyboard. Oh. God. Great. Or whatever it was bad. That's wonderful. It's on the DS by the way. Oh, that's why. But there was good like the Sonic the Sonic Rush series those. Those were good. I actually remember Sonic Rush being really fun.

It is but Jesus fucking Christ the but like the second game Sonic rush adventures that that game was fine but you having to do backtracking and a Sonic game is real fucking weird. Oh, I've never played that one. But it's not. Don't let that discourage you. It is. Both Sonic Rush games are great, yeah, and that's where they introduced Blaze for the first time. That is, yeah. Actually I was like, whoa, cat character. What? Yeah, but then she. Was second, you know, time travel or something. Yeah, basically like alternate timeline of yeah, instead of the Chaos Emeralds, it was like the Fire Emeralds and there was a Doctor Eggman, but it was Doctor Nega or something.

I don't know. It's like that kind of shit. It's. Been so long since I played it. Think of like the the Crimson chin and. The negative chin. Like it kind of that type of thing. Imagine the Smash Bros roster now with 7000 plus characters. God. I wouldn't be able to play it. I'd be I'd be like choice. Paralyzes. Yeah, like it's fucking. It's bad enough when I'm trying to choose a character and Smash Ultimate that's like 70 characters. Or Kirby. Or an Animal Crossing village here. Or God forbid. I play a Sora.

Play a sora AI. Sorry AI. Wow. We don't talk about that. God. You can play as a fucking one of the many variants of Dark Knight. Sorry, Mennonite. Yeah, you could. Or Kirby. Yeah, Kirby, I mean that's already kind of, but I'm just saying like there's there's some weird variants of of Mennonite. Yeah, Yeah. You know, we try not to talk about that. It's. A good one. Imagine Left 4 Dead but with RAID mechanics. With portals. Jesus Christ, We're just we're just complicating shit. Yeah, I. Mean, to be fair, if this was one game with every single game you've ever played put together.

Yeah, it's going to be complicated as fuck. It's going to be just a mash. Yeah, but that would be, that would be something. Yeah, that would be something. Well, it's a fucking online MMO. Yeah, MMO love for dead. Oh, I hate that. Oh, I don't. Like. That a Resident Evil MMO? How would that be? Or survival dining table a dining. Room. Wow, look at this mansion. Man, what a mansion. You almost became a Jill. Sandwich. Oh, Barry, thanks for saving my life. God the fucking. Oh, oh, what if what if Resident Evil?

But it was like a what is it? Mystery Dungeon? What if Resident Evil but it was a mining SIM You pulled her punching? Asshole crash.

OK, but like you pretty much put any any weapon from Terraria into any other game and you just win. You just. Win. That would be kind of nice. That would be nice. That's like when you mod a game you just I win button. Yep. Now, if you really want to get into the need of nitty gritty, you could already see a game like this already exists. Go ahead. It's called Gary's Mod. Yeah, in a way, yes, that that does. Make sense? But then again, with the sandbox like that you can really do fucking anything, so it doesn't really count.

Yeah, no, that's true. I mean get wrong. I mean, Gary's Mind isn't isn't just a fucking game. It's literally people have used it for like, film. Yeah, yeah. You know, like. I mean Gary creation, Gary's mod or a source Filmmaker 102. Yeah, it's, I mean, well, that's how I think for a while. I don't know if he changed but SMG 4. That's how he made his videos. Was within Gary's mod which RIP today was the last episode of. What was it of SMG 4 as a recording? Yes. Damn. Yes, he ended it. Well. I mean, honestly, ten years I think, or something like that.

However long it's been a while. You know what? But he got it out of he got a lot out of it. Let me just go through this pile. We have Halo 5 Guardians. We have Gears of War Five. What is this Wipeout Pure? But a strategy. Game do you do you guys know what Wipeout is? I have heard of it. Is that like a snowboarding game? I think it's a lot like F0. Oh, it's one. Oh yeah, one of those. OK, A. Little big planet. Where's the Horizon? A racing game? We haven't even talked about racing games. But it's survival, you know?

Isn't that just like, what's that one? It's literally. Dead Rising like Dead Rising. No, I know what you're talking. About no, there's there's a good, there's a game. I I know Mark. I know, I know Markiplier played it. It was like, no. Was it Markiplier? You're literally in a car. Yes, and like if you go too fast past the entrance like this car will chase. After you, you got a car chasing. Yeah, and it's a big old It's actually a fucking survival puzzle game. Wasn't there like a like an old lady off the side of the road too?

Yeah, yeah. OK. Yeah. So we're thinking about the same. Yeah. I have no idea. Like like you have to turn off your lights, you have to turn off your car's engine and just idle. Yes, you have to like pretty. Much just like 2. Miles an hour if you want to sneak past. Yeah, and. That exists. That's hilarious. Yes, I forget the fucking name of it. I don't even remember Bart played it. I I. Watched a guy played called named Drake ass play it back when I was big into watching to him. I wonder if it was, I can't remember his name.

Oh, any of the Rare Replay. Games. There's a lot of Rare Replay. Banjo Kazooie, But it's, well, that's a plan. Viva Pinata. Spyro reignited. What is this? What is this? Yu-gi-oh tag force? Oh, Tekken fighting games. Viva Pinata, but it's horror. I can see that. That actually would be. Kind of I, I mean with the, with the like the things you can make in that game. Yeah. Viva Pinata, but it's outlast. Oh my God, no. Viva Pinata, but it's Saints Row. Oh, that is such a good game. I know the third one.

I have Prototype 2 right here. Yeah, I also have Bioshock. Oh fuck, you played prototype Bioshock? I have not, actually. Oh, you have not. I've been meaning to, Yeah. Yeah. Same thing with Bioshock and Bioshock two. Yeah. Played Infinite. Yeah, but not. Bioshock 2 I absolutely love. Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. Yeah, a lot of people didn't like Bioshock 2, but at. Call of Duty Ghosts. We have Call of Duty what I wore. We have Call of Duty Black Ops Call of Duty Black Ops 3. Wait oh God I remember that nerf game.

Nerf and strike. Yeah, I remember we played it together. There's also Nerf and Strike Elite, which Nerf and Strike was better Here's. The other one. Yeah, Oh dear Lord. We got Phineas and Ferb. That's a puzzle game, actually, kind of like that one. Think about Phineas and Ferb and that again. That would be fucking horror. They. Missed on aggression? There you go, Super monkey ball, touch and roll. Bampo horror game. You'll imagine a rogue. A rogue. Like a rogue like super monkey ball that would.

What about no? What about Bioshock is a rogue like that would be? That. Actually, that's kind of. Like you can get like the different like now. Are you talking about Bioshock or BioShock Infinite universe? I was going to say like maybe infinite with like the different like espers or whatever you could get like you can upgrade health ammo or. Whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the original Bioshock would be kind of interesting with. That yeah, there's this. Oh, spore hero. That's what it's called. Oh my God, you have a great Sonic game right there.

Sonic Color is. Fucking good. Yes, I do. That is the best way to play it. I need to get my hands on another color copy of Sonic Heroes. He played Sonic Heroes. I played Sonic Heroes I. Played Sonic Heroes. Yeah, Sonic Heroes that. Was like the only Sonic game I owned. Yeah, OK. Yeah, I mean, I have a copy of it for GameCube. Yeah, it's my original copy from. Yeah, it was the only good copy of Sonic that he owned, because the other one that I owned that really turned me off from the series was 06.

Oh yeah, dot that well, God. Yeah, 'cause 'cause after my parents separated, my dad somehow ended up with APS 3 and he got 06 Sonic for us. Oh, you got the worst Sonic game on the worst platform? Oh no. No wonder. Jesus Christ, you and he never liked Sonic ever again. Yeah. You wanna you wanna know I? I even put in the effort. I tried to beat it so many times. I'm just like they. They just can't do it. You. The camera angles, the fucking shitty controls. You want to play Sonico 6 but in the worst way possible.

I I didn't think the game would get worse. Yeah, no, that that, that outside of having heroes for the GameCube, that was my only other Sonic game. Oh no God, heroes. Like it had its slippery controls and all that shit, but it was not a bad game. Yeah, it was. I still had fun with it. What do you mean you can't go left? Man, you just touch the stick just a little bit, like, you know. I just loved how everybody was in a pillar and you can be like. Oh yeah. Just fuck around with that thing. I got and then fucking when you're playing as Team Sonic and you have to use Tails and every time he goes in here.

I never cared for Team Sonic. I always play this team Chaotic or team Dark. I play like a little bit of everything, but that's why I never got far into the game, yeah. And at that point, like if you want the true ending, you have to play all the teams because of the last story, which I think is a combination of all the teams. I think OK, I think I, I, I. Interesting. Or or maybe it's the final boss. That's like AI feel like we're missing a genre, like a really big genre. That'd be interesting to combine.

Sims and Outlast. We keep doing horror. Why do we keep doing horror? It's basically that you did. Sims is already a horror game. What do? We do to them. Yeah, really. No, there there is. Yeah, there's another genre that's missing. I mean, sports games, I don't know. Nah. Arena shooters. That's kind of. What we talked about with Split Gate and Cody. It's it's kind of its own thing.

There's got to be 1 and talk about racing games. Hang on, we're going to look this up. What names? Let's see. I was going to say here a shooter, but that's. That's a shooter. Yeah. Yeah, that falls under that umbrella. Yeah, there, there's definitely one. There's got to be like a gold mine somewhere. Oh my God. I I was going to see a a Puzzle City builder, but that's essentially that tile game that you play. Oh yeah, Dorf romantic. Let's see, I still want to get back into that. A horror deck builder?

How would that work? That would be. Inscription. Is it really horror though? I mean, it's got horror elements to it, but I don't think. It's it's, I don't think it's purely horror though. It's not like focusing and like leaning in on the horror. It just has an eerie nature to it. True, it's going on simile nature, especially in the 1st. I mean like role like role-playing games and action adventure like it's. True. Like.

Then you start actually getting back into Fallout. In a way. Where's my phone? Oh, there it is. All right, Because I I have a wide variety. I know you do with your 600 games over there. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe fighting game? Well, no, we said fighting. Game Where's my? Where's my library? Fighting factory builder. That's just, that's just Rift Breaker. That's no, literally you're in a giant Mac and you're putting like together like a factory. You have to spread out for resources, but then every so often like enemies come up to your base, you just have to shoot them instead of defenses and everything.

I guess that's also factorial. Yeah, I was about to say factorial. Although you could do like a factory PvP game. Idol Games. Idol what? What would you do then it becomes a non idol game. I don't understand the point of idol games. Like the point of playing the game is to play the game. Send out the game, play for yourself. Simulations. Like Simpson, yeah, Tower defense, no, there's not really much you can do it. Like it's just such a specific niche that yeah, once you spread out a tower defense, like it's either like you're not playing tower defense anymore.

Or there, there's one here that somebody put on. I want to know a weird combination game that I played with my brother on the Xbox do it. It was a tower defense racing game. Well, he. Played in teams of two, one person would be the driver, the other person would be the turret. The goal of the driver is to complete the race and try to be as high in the leaderboard as possible. The guide in the turret's job was to protect the driver as well as sabotage other players. So there's stealth games, beat em UPS, hacking slashes, souls like.

Oh yeah, I feel it's also like that. That's that's a, that's a game genre that you can't really mess. Around, I was going to say no, you really can't do anything with. Because if you want to do souls like horror then you start getting back into they did literal souls. Yeah. Dark Souls and Sakirah and and then like Souls action adventure that's done with like Star Wars, that's done with like other games. Here's an off the wall one I just thought of. Fucking go for it. Like Resident Evil, but it's Tetris.

Is Leon's face descending from the sky? Yeah. And then it's just clear. No. And then whenever you stars, whenever you get the Berry piece, once it hits the once it hits the ground. Wow, a dining room. God.

Like I'm just seeing the same genres. I'm not like. I mean. I guess you could look at sub genres. Yeah, probably. I mean. Yeah, that's probably you could play around with. One thing that peaks my is gigantic. You know, You know what gigantic is, Brandon, because we're playing. I'm not sure if you do Mark, but. I think I played it once or twice a day. It's like a hero shooter with I guess kind of point defense maybe. Like if you kill an enemy, you get 10 points. If you take over a point, you get 10 points I think, or 20, something like that.

When you get 100 you can kill the hero or the the whatever the. Giant. Yes, literally maybe like that game specifically with other games.

Board games True Magic the Gathering with the fakery game. God, yeah. Party game. Yeah, Party game, Yeah. And technically, like, well, Sonic's already done that. A zoo tycoon with like specific brands Or wait, what if like a zoo tycoon but like during the day you run the zoo like just like. Over the top, it's like five nights at. Freddy's at night. You have to You have. To defend yourself from the fucking. Lions, but you also have to like, you also have to like close down the, the, the zoo as you play.

Or like, it could also be like maybe like a puzzle game where like, you know, you set up, you set up your thing and then halfway through the game it just flips 180 and you're just like, oh, can I have to survive what you just built? You have to survive your own. Creation. It's a Zoo Tycoon. Horror game yes and like you have to like get all the animals back into their own cages and whatnot they're. Like hyper realistic too, Oh my. Fucking good. That would be cool, actually. And that would be really fucking cool.

Yeah. And like, you have to like, set it up a certain way so you can't just like have everything at the entrance like super easy. Or if you, if you want to take another step further, think of it with like Jurassic Park as well. Yeah, yeah, that'd be terrifying. Literally turned it into non Jurassic World Zoo Tycoon. But like, literally you're playing the old Jurassic Jurassic Park movies. Well shit, now shit's hit the Fed and now I got to survive this. Yeah, I don't really seem too much else. I really hit the big ones, like puzzle, beat them up, all that kind of shit.

Platformer. I mean the legality like you would be paying fucking billions if not trillions of dollars. What about eraser collect a thon oh? Isn't that kind of just like a what? What would do would do cars. Cars made international. Oh, good point. Yeah, no, you're right. That'd be pretty much like cars burnout. Yeah, burnout. Yeah, that's another one.

Oh, some of them so well. But every, fucking just every single game you play. Racing pirate game. Like they would just be. Fucking racing pirate ships. Yeah, fucking CFD style. Yeah, yeah. Shoot. Each other and captain and you can go onto each other's ships. Fucking. Damn it, still a better game than scalding the bones. Oh. I forgot about that. Still a better love story than Twilight. Our first quadruple A game. Down the shitter. Down the shitter. Yeah, I was going to be more interactive. I mean, it's been pretty interactive, but I thought it was going to be more.

Portal Battle Royale. Jesus Christ.

Isn't that a thing already? Probably I. Can I can see Fortnite implementing something like? That oh God, that'd. Be too fuck. That would not be good. I mean, basically with all the movement items they had each season or like all the different movement items they have. Yeah, yeah. Do you imagine a portal crossover? Of what? With Fortnite. Oh, I mean. You. Get to you, get to play as the fucking 2 sparks from 2. Yeah, yeah. Or glados with legs. Potato glados is a gun attachment.

Gosh. Man, this is a difficult topic it. Really is I thought it was going to be easier. Have they rejected but bouncing off each other or whatever? There's a lot you could do, but also not a lot that you can do that's good. It's yeah, yeah. It's a topic that I don't know. It's like this is one of those topics where it feels like, yeah, you go back to the other ones and I was like, less is better, less is more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Less is more. Yeah. It's just like. I like I pointed out, a game that's made for everything is a game made for nothing.

You're not wrong. Yeah. But like, just, and like, if we were to like, talk like everything, there's just be like so much broken with it that there be 0% chance, like a literal 0% chance you could make this game balanced. There's nothing you could do about it. Too many clashing genres, Yeah. And then again, this is also just a what if scenario. It's. This is not something that might happen. Might, might is never going to have there's like, even if it's not every game you ever played, if it's like, like you said, every genre, yeah, it's just like, what are we doing?

And that's the story of all the Earth 2 Point O games. All those like yeah or or or the like one universe like mobile game that you just start to string shit. Yeah. Oh, don't. No, I'm not talking about those. No, I'm talking about the Earth. 2 Point O games are like, Oh yeah, you can own different things and our virtual Earth and you can work in our virtual Earth and it's going to be like virtual Earth but you can make tons of money off of it. OK, I I honestly saw something like that where someone had set up a website.

It was like Earth two or something like that. Yeah, you can just buy land for like a dollar. Yeah. And people were actually doing that. The dude may ranked in millions. We. Why? That is so. Dumb. Like one, you're stupid. Two, he's smart. Yeah, 3 this isn't a fucking game. It's. Just it's just you were buying effectively literally nothing. Yeah. Man, it's like an NFT. Yeah, that that that was around the time that these were. You know, I'm thinking. Even more popular? I'm thinking I want to play Fallout.

Yeah, now. Now he's on the fallout. I just have so many games like I have to play mega bunk buck up and drive Fallout 76 buckshot roulette. I checked. I need I need to update my drivers because it's like oh your drivers are garbage. Oh yeah, some of that, yes, when the newer games bitch about it. Which I never thought that buckshot roulette would be one of those, honestly. Your driver must be old enough to where it's doing that apparently. But then I'm just like fuck you. Nope, that just continue playing.

You've worked before, you're going to continue. To well, no, I can't even boot it up. It's like, Oh yeah, you're drivers, I'll show you guys. Want those? Oh, oh, it's one of those, Yeah. OK. Yeah, yeah, I think I had Doom. The Dark Ages do that. I just have. I just got so many games this fucking Christmas. I'm just I got like 8 games. Yeah, yeah. That that's fair, I still have a little bit of money left on Steam so I can go buy some other shit before the sale ends. Yeah, sadly I didn't get a Steam gift card like I usually do every year, but then again I really didn't ask for it so Nah.

I'm not complaining. I got lots of good stuff from my Christmas. Yeah, no, I got some. I didn't get a lot this Christmas, but there just wasn't really anything I really wanted. Yeah. Like besides the switch I don't. I don't really want anything else. I mean, like I I got a bunch of the cool small things, for example, that heater that's going to come in handy. Oh OK, I think it's nice man. God damn this room was nice and comfortable. Oh. Yeah, Yes, it was. Now it's cold. Very. That's whatever. Very cold, very Gray.

It's a blue room, what are you talking about? I don't know what the sun means anymore. I I have no perception of color. I'm. Not color blind for I do not perceive color. Time has lost all meaning. This is not how sure. I don't know what else to do with this topic dude, I'm I'm going to be honest.

I'm going to be further. Yeah, I, I honestly thought something because like this was, this was like something that I've been stewing on for like, yeah, occasionally I'll think back and I'm like, wait a minute, what the fuck? Yeah, it's OK. It's OK. It's OK. Not I mean just. Generally, what are we excited to play now since we have all these games from Christmas? Well, I mean, I, I, there's, well, you y'all already know I don't have it yet. It's not out yet, but I want that Resident Evil new one. Forte or whatever the fuck it at the original.

Left. I think that I think that sound Hill. Oh, that was sound. Never mind. Yeah. Which I have that, which that's another game I need to get back into. Yeah. That's just fucking no. I want to play resident World Requiem I. Really. Oh yeah. I want it. I want it God damn it. I want it. Me me want shiny new game. You just want this shiny new Leon? Yes, Sir. Yep, he start. He started good looking for 51 years old, that's how old he is in the game. Yeah, I know. What about you, Mark? Are you excited to play any games?

What games am I excited to play? I really want to play that split fiction with him, yeah. I want to play that too. I want to play 'cause I played. Oh, did you finally play It Takes 2 with Shelby? No, not with Shelby, but I played that with somebody else. I want to play that with Shelby soon. With split fiction. Yeah, Yeah. And then it's funny because she's like, oh, we can put, we can play. Once I get my PC I'm like but I have it for Xbox. Yeah. Favorite unit?

Yeah, why not? Somebody excited to play. I'm really, I'm really excited to play out last Trials with you when I'm on Brandon. Yeah. I know I'm excited to play Generations here with you. Yeah, I'm excited for the. That's going to be. I'm going to be running through WAR fields. Yeah. No mainland.

That shores up Normandy. Some areas do feel like, 'cause you're like sneaking around and like there's these gigantic, like I'm talking building size Max around you. Oh God, like some of them are just that big and you're like, oh, oh, OK, OK. It's just scary. And then, you know, once you get once you get alerted and like they know where you're at, you're like, oh, and like just fucking everything just comes right your way.

I'm like I told you, there's rivals too. Yeah. It's like sometimes you get like a little dinky robot that's like a rival, like, whatever, just go shoot him, kill him. But then like you get like A2 legged Mac, which is one of the bigger robots. You're like, why I gotta kill that? That's my rival. Oh my God. But if you leave him alone, he just levels up. He. Gets harder. Oh, great. Nice. That's great. Oh no, Jesus Christ. I'm not sure if you can get any of the like any of the vertibirds or what are the flying guys.

I'm 'cause I didn't play enough during that time to get a flying object as a rival, but. I'm excited for that Crash out Crew game. Oh yeah. Oh. My God, yes, I. Forgot about that. I can't. Wait. I'm excited to lock in. I want to do so many drifts that my brain explodes, yeah. Did they? When is that coming out? Have they said? Last I checked, those to be announced let me check my Steam wish list. Yeah, yeah. Take a look at that. But I, I am so excited for that. Yeah, honestly, I completely forgot about that.

Yeah. I just, I loved health. Oh my gosh. You need to do it again. Man, that was good. That was like that. Yes, we do. That that lock in for us was just awesome. Yeah, I'm going to. I'm not going to look at eggs the same way again. So it just says coming soon. Damn it. OK, OK. Well, we want them to make it the best they can. I'm I'm excited for denture deck the fucking train. Stupid game. What else am I excited for? Oh, what about vulcanoes? I never were talking about that. Yeah, yeah, I I've always been extremely interested in game seeing, seeing the clips of it from early development.

OK. That'd be fun to play through, probably after generation 0. Yeah, yeah. We can work on that after that. After a year or two, guys will be good to go. It's OK, we'll get around and do it. I have a feeling if we like segment like most weekends, we can. Yeah, I'm sure you want to do some stuff with Emma. Oh yeah, here and there some. Weekends, yeah, yeah, actually, because we'll just play with the guys, yeah.

I don't know what else I'm excited for. Well, I'm excited to get you through the rest of Renegades. Well, that too, yeah. I need my lightsaber. Yeah, well, that Pragmata from Capcom I'm actually kind of excited for. That that does look interesting. Yeah, there's a demo for it and I I played it. I feel like the story is going to get real depressing real fast if. Somebody touches a hair on that little Android girl, I'm going to crash the fuck out. I know I see something very fucking sad happening.

She's so adorable, I love her. But the gameplay is great 'cause you you, you really want to hack these these enemies before you attack them. Yeah. Just 'cause you, you, you don't do shit to them if you don't. Yeah. But I, I recommend playing the demo. It's just in general, it's just, it's cute where it starts. Yeah. 'Cause the little girl, she, I think, is it Diana, her name's Diana. She's like drawing shit. And you're, you're playing as, I think his name's Hugh. And she's still drawing shit as these fucking enemies are, are trying to attack you and shit.

And he's like, what are you doing? Jesus. I but no I I think, I think it's cute. Yeah, I think so too it. Really is I'm just I I I'm curious on the the the story of it. Yeah, 'cause. You're like, unlike some abandoned space, place or whatever. I call it it. It honestly feels kind of like Death Stranding, but actually fucking interesting. Yeah. I do have Death Stranding on Epic games. I got that. For the the the problem with Death Stranding is that it it, it's all. It's so convoluted that it takes up so much time trying to explain itself.

And you're just mostly. Not just in the cutscenes, but in all the material you have to read. Yeah, no, I mean that that's fair. Yeah. But one of the things about that stranding, I don't know if it's the first or second game, but like I, I guess they do like a little cutscene for your birthday, Happy birthday when you when you start the game up. Happy birthday. Like I, I want to give Death Stranding a try just to say I've done it, Yeah, at least try it. But I don't know, it's just a weird game. I definitely have the same thought, but I've come to the realization I wouldn't have fun with it.

I'm, I'm feeling kind of the same way. I mean, I got it for free, so I mean. Oh yeah, fair enough. I kind of want to play the forest with you guys. I'm not sure if I'd be really into the forest. It's like it's a game that I've, you know, watched, you know, Mark, whatever, but I've never really cared for it. Like, do you like survival games in general? That'll. That'll. But you've got to like those in order to do. That, yeah. 'Cause I know like I played which I want to get back into it as well, but I want to play with somebody if I play it enshrouded.

Have you ever heard of? That I've never heard of that one. I've heard of it. Because I don't. Patrick and his buddies have been playing it in a gorgeous game. I have to show you guys that it was pretty nice. But at the time when I was playing it, I think I had my old computer and it ran like gawk shit. It was pretty.

That 1080 was at its limit. I'm surprised I fucking did survive as long as it did. Jesus Christ.

Yeah, I mean, there, there are, like, I want to get back into like some of those survival games. I, I I like those. I like them too. I like them. A little bit of the edit challenge. Yeah, that's why I'm like waiting, which I have a feeling it's not going to come out that one. Terminator Survivors. Yeah. Yeah, I know. They I think announced this like a year ago or something I can't remember, but there have there has it. From what I can see, there has been nothing about it since, and I have a feeling it's probably not being developed anymore.

I have AI have a feeling, but we'll see. I hope not like that would honestly that would be pretty good. I mean, come on, Terminator is a survival. Is a survival horror. Game like, it's like having to go scavenge for shit, you know, and build your base. Yeah, that kind of makes sense with the the way the Terminator movies are. Yeah, I think my thing with most survival games is that they just make the game so fucking harsh. Like you have to eat like every 3 minutes. Yeah, I mean like same thing with Yeah, Planet Crafter, for example.

Yeah, you have to drink. No, you have to eat food, show off, drink water. Have you played on the harder settings of that game? No, I don't care. It is brutal. Yeah, he has. I have everybody getting all the achievements. Unless they had more, I'm done. Yeah, yeah, You know what I do? I'm a little bitch. Fucking make everything as easy as possible if the game lets me and I'll plant. Crafter really doesn't let you. Yeah, it's just like it's just annoying that I had to I think it was drink water like every 4 seconds compared to my food, which would like last few years.

I'm like why? Yeah and like that's what it like that's what annoys me. It's like that I have to like, go out scavenge or like even dying. Like dying can piss me off. Yeah, yeah. In any game, from Fortnite to roguelikes even. Just like the inconvenience of I have to go back there to get my shit just to come back to do what I was going to do. Yeah. Yeah, I think for Planet Crafter I made it so I don't drop shit. Now that takes away from the you know. But I don't. I don't give a fuck if I. If I knew about that option I wouldn't care, but I didn't really didn't die too much anyway.

Yeah, and I didn't either. So I just I. Hate that shit. I died at the most inconvenient times on my single player playthrough where I lost upgrade chips and I kneecapped my my development earlier on. And This is why I'm a little bitch. Yeah. It made it easier. I really want to try to play Uh oh God, what's it called? It's like really modded Halo. Cursed Halo. Oh God yeah, with a with a shotgun is just like veering off to the right. You throw the grenade and it's a random effect every single time.

Oh you. How about curse forged? No no no, this is cursed Halo. The rocket shoots backwards so you have to point away from the enemy and hope to pray to God that you shoot the enemy. Oh fuck. Is or the pit The magnum? The Magnum. Shoots you. Yeah, that shoots over your shoulder, but if you game down sites.

See what the? Is this a mod or something? Yeah, yeah. And the shotgun barrel is ever so slightly curved to the right. So you have to like, here's the center of your screen. Here's the Reddit. Oh, you've got to like offset it and shit. What the fuck is this shit? You Thor a grenade. It has a random chance of doing nothing but just spotting trees. Yeah, it's a, it's AD 20 grenade. Basically. There's a chance of just like instantly murders you were. So I don't remember. What happens if you melee? You kill yourself.

I don't know. I don't know, that's why I want to play it. But it's funny because the cutscenes you can see Captain Keys be like, hold on, I'll take care of it. He's got a bag and just kills himself. Oh, that's right, I forgot about. So wait, how do you how do you go about getting this together? I think you need MCC on the the PC. Oh, and you have to do like the modded. Yeah, I think so. But. And then then you, you, there's a scene that you're you're riding in a car with Johnson and he's talking about some random shit.

And he's like, I don't wish I do how to drive. Oh, no. And she sings, Oh, no, you're driving off the edge into the pit. And if you're still in the car, you just instant wipe.

God, well, I remember. Just a normal fucking playthrough. I think of Halo two. Yeah, I, I, I let the NPC drive the warthog. Yeah, apparently that is like a big don't fucking do. That do it. And we went off the Cliff. Have you when you played Halo Reach did you let Cat drive the warthog? I don't think so, no. OK, good. She's an awful driver. Well, it's just the MPCS in general are bad. I love and reach how she drives up to like a fucking Wraith sits there so you can start shooting it and you just see the kid and just aimed.

Oh my God, she's got the, she's got the survivability matrix of a fucking. Lemming even though they're supposed to be like apex soldiers over their. Legs, This looks like I'm going to park it. Right here the MPC's doing anything other than fucking shooting. Which, God that's bad. No, I couldn't. I literally could not believe that the MPC drove us off the fucking edge of a Cliff. I'm sitting there dumbfounded because this is the first time I've really let them do it. Yeah. Yeah, and from that point on I'm like, no, fuck you, you guys are going to be fucking gambling bitch or some shit, man.

No, Oh my God. God, that was bad. I remember Halo being a fun time as a kid. Oh yeah, definitely. I we got I I played so much of all the like user created shit. Yeah, I I played a lot of Reach. Sorry, Halo 4 as a kid. I didn't have the joy of playing Reach. Rage was good. Out. I know I Reach is good. I remember like finally playing Reach for the first time and just being like, wait a minute, this is the Forge. Yeah. Do we have Forge world? Yeah, and we have Forge Islands, Yeah. On four, On four, you just had the Forge Islands, but Forge World was the best thing in the world.

Like use idea. What? Like wow, there's nothing. So you can create anything. No, no, Too simple. Yeah. It's a little too simple. It's just fucking boring and open. Oh yeah. Everything just takes a while to fucking get to. Yeah. But with Forge World, everything had its own landscapes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fucking hanger bee in the side of the Cliff was awesome. Yeah. One of my favorite memories is I, I, I forget what the fuck this is called. I think I've talked about it before, but it's like when you're you're trying to climb this fucking like ramp, but as you're doing that, there's fucking like trash and vehicles and chicken thrown at.

You avalanche. In a way. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're you have a guy shooting stuff down at you and you're just trying to survive the avalanche. Just trash coming down at you. Yeah. Yeah, but but minus the person shooting the stuff, it's all the math. Doing oh. OK. And there's a, there's a specific name for it, but I can't remember. But man, let me tell you some some of the time. Where I think it's like trash compactor or something. Or something like that. The times I've gotten hit by a vehicle and when you get, I mean, this shit's going past you.

Yeah, OK. And when it smacks you, you rag doll like a mother fucker. Oh my God. It is, it is amazing the different things that you could do with Reaches Forge mode. Oh yeah. Like people made racing games out of it. Yeah. Yes, there was so, so many good memories of just doing so many different things. Yeah. Yeah. But besides Reach, I didn't. I also didn't mind Halo 3 ODST. No, I I like that honestly, it has a good charm to have. I played like 2 missions of that. I'm like the first mission I'm like, I miss something.

Hooked. I love this. Yeah, like of the campaign. I'm like, I, I wasn't, I don't think it was exactly the first mission, but I'm just like, this is this is fucking peak. Yeah. Yeah, ODST was great. This this campaign might be better than reach. Like God damn. Like like the the narrative of so I like, I like to put Reach and ODST as two separate parts, yes. So like, ODS, like Reach's whole deal is showing you how fucking desperate things were. Yeah. Like like, like you don't get, you don't get that feeling in any of their Halo games.

Reach was like, you know, you, you've played one 2-3 in ODST and you're like, OK, there's nothing's ever felt hopeless. Never, nothing's ever felt like, oh, we can't do shit about this until you get to that one point, point in Reach where it's like slip space rupture detected, slip space rupture detected, slip space rupture detected, detected, detected. And then everything's just downhill because you're fighting against a force of nature. Now my question is because I didn't like, I really didn't pay that much attention to Halo's war.

Yeah. But like for Reach, where the hell is Master Chief at? So Reach's story is really weird. So first, when we had the original three games, we actually had a novelization of the fall of Reach. And this is this is going over the Spartan 2's back story. So this is going over how Master Chief and his buds were all abducted by Oni and forcefully modified into the Spartan twos and were used against insurrectionists but prior to the war. And then it jumps 30 years in the war towards where Reach is about to collapse.

And so in in the novel, Reach collapses in like a day. So, so Master chiefs are introduced to Cortana. They're going over plans on kidnapping prophets in order to force a ceasefire to end the war because humanity's on the brink of extinction at this point. Most of the outer colonies are have already been glassed. The inner colonies are in turmoil because UNSC does not have enough ships to patrol and try to defend against Covenant fleets. It it it is bad. Humidity is on the brink of actual total destruction.

And so they get Chief united with Cortana for the first time. They're doing test trials with the armor and her compatibility with him and then the evasion starts and it's over in like a day. Like you have, you have Master Chief in the Spartan twos defending generators for the overall Mac array. You have Chief Linda and I think, oh Cal, what was the other guy? I think he was his name is Paul. I'd have to check the Lori again. They go up to wipe some NAV data, all of the Spartan twos, like the majority of the Spartan twos on the planet getting wiped in a single strike.

And the orbital Mac cannons go down and Linda's fatally wounded Chief puts her in cryo sleep and they escape on the autumn. So that's that's the initial lore that we had for that planet. Then Bungie decides what we're going to do. A game adaptation of Reach is our final game for Microsoft. And this is where you have problems with people saying like, oh, Reach isn't Canon because it breaks the already existing law in the novel. But that's not the story that they're trying to tell is so is so they can they kind of write concept things to make Reach fit into the overall narrative.

So in the game with the game's novel adaptation, Master Chief is still doing the stuff he does in the novel, but a lot of this, the information about Reach being under siege by Covenant forces is kept from him until like, the day the planet falls. So instead of instead of it being a single day that it takes for the planet to fall, it is over the course of like a couple months. So in the game, you're, you're not even playing as any of the Spartan twos. The only Spartan 2 on the team is George, which is why he's like 3 feet taller than everybody.

Yeah, you're playing as Spartan threes. OK. But but anyways, Chief is off doing the stuff he's doing in the novel and you're working as part of the Spartan threes because the the the story changes from Reach was just encountered and wiped off the off the map in like the span of a few hours to there is some initial Covenant insurgency trying to find foreigner artifacts and they just so happen to stumble on humanity's second most important world. So the insurgency backfires. They call for help, you wipe off the ship and you're like, all right, we can regroup and refocus and prepare for a response.

Then the main Armada arrives and everything starts to go to hell. Over the next two months, you start watching the rest of the Noble team die and it culminates with you assisting the Autumn taking off and escaping. And in the Xbox 360 version of the game, there was a way for you to do an Easter egg at the very end scene with the Autumn taking off. I think you had to do some of your joysticks where you could change the camera view to view Master Chief and Linda in cryostasis as they're taking off.

Oh, shit. Yeah.

But it's essentially what they've done is they they made two different narratives for the same thing. OK. I mean, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. OK. Sorry for taking up the rest of the time that explanation. Yeah, don't worry. Yeah, don't. Worry. No, no, we good. Yeah. All right, it is time so. All right, Mr. Ethan, do you want to see us off tonight, man? Yeah, we'll see you off. Yeah. Welcome to. Welcome to. Oh my God, thank you. This. This man needs some sleep. I do need sleep. I'm tired. OK. Thank you for listening to plug in for player for us.

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