Video Game Franchises That Need New Games

Welcome to plug in for player 4. What the fuck's wrong with

y'all? He started laughing and I

started laughing 'cause he was like.

I'll, I'll explain later. OK.

Come on. I didn't mean to interrupt, I

promise. We're already in that.

I'm sorry, he's a. Negative influence.

Every goddamn motherfucker. Motherfucking motherfucking many

thicken. Many thicken.

Mother many. All right.

Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Welcome to what I'm confused. Who am I?

Who are you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What am I doing here? Mother, Speed of Destiny, Wicked

Thing and Pets. You know, if we were given

$1,000,000 to to be completely normal for at least a minute, it

would never happen. Yeah, I know.

Just saying it would never happen.

No, as a collective it. Would take about 5 seconds.

Yeah. I have little faith in our

ability to hold it together. Yeah, I feel like we could if we

really needed to. If we applied ourselves.

I, I, I, I think we could. We, we, we could be serious

sometimes. Sometimes.

I feel like your faith in US is misplaced.

Well, fuck me for having faith. Damn shit.

All right. Well, gentlemen, what have you

been up to? Me or yeah.

You. Me.

Yeah, you, you. I don't.

Know you don't. Know do you want me to go then?

Yeah, go, you go ahead. All right, well, I'm I'm over

here smiling like a like a dipshit, having a shit eating

grin on my face, and that's for a good reason.

I love how the skeptic beating today.

Everyone needs to know whatever. What, everybody?

Has to know when you're eating shit apparently.

A shit eating grin. I I played a generational game

of Magic the Gathering today just before I left the shop.

Wait, really? What happened?

OK, so I can give you 3 of the commanders that three of the

people were playing and I can give you 3 of the people that

were playing, but it doesn't exactly line up.

So if you you guys can search yourself, I'm going to make this

just, you know, certain concise, but I was playing the Capitoline

triad. It's a colorless creature, so it

doesn't abide by most commander logic in in a certain sense.

The person diagonally across from me, V, was playing Tifa

martial artist and basically if he connects with an opponent or

multiple opponents, he gets that many extra combats.

OK. The first time it happens and

then the person to the right of me, I don't remember their name,

they were playing the Mind Skinner.

This one is. I'm actually going to describe

this one 'cause this wouldn't cost a lot in the game.

It's a it's a 3 blue 10/1. It cannot be blocked and if a

source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent

that damage and each opponent mills that many cards, so it

can't be blocked and it's a 10/1.

So instead of 10 damage, everyone's milling 10.

And then the person across from me, Elliot, I don't remember

what they were playing, but I do remember that everyone was

Elliot. So by like by on turn 4, a

person hierarchy has mine Skinner and equipped it with

double strike. And actually that was it at the

time they and so they swung out hitting somebody for 20 not

damage, but they just hit him for 20 negated that damage.

Anyway. We all mill 20 in commander.

You have 100 card deck, so that's already turned 4, 60

cards are milled. That's a lie.

Fuck. Jesus.

So so so I mill 20. How my commander works is it

cost 10, but it cost 1 less for each historic in my graveyard.

I mill out of my 20 cards, 6 historics.

So I'm all right, tap 4, cast my commander for four, and then I

get rid of 30 cards in my grave. 30 CMC worth of cards in my

graveyard. So now I only have one historic

in there and now I get an emblem with creatures I control have

base power 99, so there's just 99.

The the Latifah player V fucking Mind is melting.

Like I can't get past that. I can't do it.

Your creatures are simply too big.

Meanwhile, Elliott, the person in front of me, is having yet

another meltdown with the Mind Skinner player 'cause they were

like, I hate milk. You got rid of the only card

that would have solved this problem.

But The thing is that Magic I, This is why I don't, I'm not too

mad at mill. And it's it's, it's mill is a

pretty easy thing to get mad at because you see the cards that

you would have that you could have played, but until you see

them, you're not sure if you're going to draw them.

That's just how it works because they're face down.

You're not going to, you're not going to see them.

So it's it's the same chance theoretically that it could be

on the top as it would be on the bottom of the deck.

But they milled a card that could have brought all their

creatures back and they were just mad about it the rest of

the game. So it gets back to the Mind

Skinners player. They they equip it with plus 1 +

1. So now it hits for 22, so we

mill 22 more. Oh my.

God, as the graveyard player, I'm having the time of my life.

Yeah. Yeah, you would.

And the whole time, Oh yeah, after this, Elliott took control

of the mind. Skinner and they will and they

they tapped it permanently. It's like I'm not going to do

anything about it. I'm I'm not going to check with

I'm not going to do anything. I just don't want you to have

it. And they were having a meltdown.

I was soaking this all up. Meanwhile, the person next to

me, the the mind Skinner player, they were doing nothing.

That was their whole game plan. And they just had their

commander stolen. But they were like, you know,

I'm here for the chaos, like, you know, it's, it's it's to my

turn. And what is a completely sane

person would do instead of sitting here for 45 minutes

doing nothing is is scoop, but I'm not going to do that.

And I pass. So they're they're it's it's a

bicker between all three of them.

I enjoyed out of the bickering. Be like, I have nothing to do

with you, Elliot. And Elliot is like, no, I you're

friends with you. I'm friends with you.

And so I turned to VM like, listen, you don't have to swing

at me. I will block everything.

I will get my commander back. It will my commander will cost

12 at this point and I have 13 in the grave.

I will cast it for free, motherfucker.

I I will get my commander back. Oh by the way, here's a 2 drop

99 now with defender. I'm not fucking around.

The Tifa player can't hit me, the guy with extra combats can't

hit me. Music, Your Christians are too

big. They're too big.

I can't get fast and I don't want to swing an alien 'cause

they have the mindskid. Like though they wanted to swing

at Elliot because they now had the mindskid.

I was like, you are now the problem if you do any form of

damage to any opponent. We are building cars.

Not combat damage, damage it all.

It was a whole fucking thing. In the end, Elliot and the

mindskidner player scooped. It was just me and VV had 104

life. I was sitting there at maybe 19

and I'm. Like.

And formless Genesis, I'm just going to board wipe everything

but colorless and they're like you win.

I'm not coming back on that because I had 9 nines.

I had 45 on the field. You.

Know. Five creatures for for 45.

Holy fuck it. Was it was the bickering though?

I don't exactly remember what fuck had happened, but my side

of the table, we were cool, calm and collected.

We were having fun. The other side of the meltdown,

it was like fucking DEFCON one over there.

It was bad. Holy fuck, it was so goddamn

funny. It was so fucking funny.

This is like and I could hit you fucking Tifa player.

Oh God. Yeah, we got over the course of

two turns, the entire table got milled for 126.

It is hard to do that in two turns.

Yeah. Turn 5.

Yeah, that's, that's kind of lucky on that.

Yes, Honestly, yes. Like holy shit.

Unless you're doing a combo which they were doing quote UN

quote combat damage because it wasn't actually damaged, it just

got negated and then turned to milling.

But like, fucking yeah. Jesus Christ out.

Of out of because in a commander game, people are like, Oh yeah,

it's either you have to get through 120 life or 300 cards,

almost half that in two turns. My God, it's.

Fucking insanity. I know.

Holy shit. Oh.

Dude, Brandon, if you were there, you would probably lost

your fucking. But I was at one point I was

just, I was dying of laughter. It was a general generational

game for me. Yeah.

Yeah, that's understandable. It's it's not going to be what

happened in the game. It's going to like in the game

itself. It's going to be all the

bickering that goes to my long term memory and it's it's.

It's now core memory. Yeah, it's a core fucking memory

in magic. I I love magic, dude.

I love magic together. I.

Would have lost my show with the one guy I can't hit you.

I I was, I wasn't like at one point he was like I'm going to

swing at you. I'm like I will block with my

commander and recast it for 0 next turn.

I do not give a shit. Why would you try to do it?

Make my day it. Was Oh my God.

God. Like it's not often you can just

say I will cast my commander for next turn and I will block all

damage. Are you sure you want to do

that? Yeah, he had, he had a creature

like, oh, yes. When this creature attacks only

one your, your opponents can only block one creature each

combat and your your opponents can only block with one creature

each combat or something like that.

It was stupid. Like the way the wording was,

I'm like, all right, so I'm going to block and kill that.

He's like, all right, next combat I'm going to attack.

I'm like, I'm going to block these two.

I was like, you can't do that. Like each at this combat, not

trying to turn this combat. He's like, fuck.

So I blocked both his creatures with my 29 nines or no, his his

commander, 'cause his commander was like a 32 double strength

trample. It was dumb.

It was a 16 double strike for a total of 32.

But yeah, I was like, yeah, I'm going to.

I'm going to block the first one and then I'm going to block the

second one. Yeah, I'm going to take 14

commander damage. Fuck, that's a lot more like it.

That's. Then it then it, then it

occasionally Mohammed from Final Fantasy 9 and destroyed his

enchantment. They gave him double strike and

life link. That's why he was at 110 life

because he yeah, he had multiple combats and double strike and

light. Oh my God, Commander gets nuts.

That really, Holy shit. Yeah, it can.

It really can get kind of insane.

Holy shit on. Another note, we've been playing

far Far West, at least me, Mark and Jack.

That game is so fun. I've been having a blast with

it. I know you want to play Brandon.

Oh, we know. We know Mark well, me and Emma

know. I could fucking hear your ass

yesterday man, like. What is?

That tickle, tickle. Like what's going on in there?

Like this shit, tickle it. It's a fucking.

Emma said. The hell are you doing?

So the way the animation is, you just see.

So this is both the revive animation and like the interact

animation for like the the skulls and stuff.

The hands start moving like this.

Yeah, Monitor. Yeah, you literally just do this

when you interact. Like just wiggle wiggle.

When you're when you're either fucking picking your friends

back up or you're interacting with like enchanted skulls on

your point of view, you just see oh.

And then one game we we increased the game speed by 20%.

Everything in the game, the whole game was moving 20%

faster. Not personal movement speed,

game speed, Game processing speed increased by 20.

Enemies were moving 20% faster, we were moving 20% faster.

Projectiles were moving 25 percent, 20% faster.

Cooldowns, literally everything, just the whole game itself was

20% faster and this like Mark was like Oh my, like this this

game Mark was carrying my ass. I was.

And then it came to the 20% game speed and then I was carrying

Mark's ass 'cause I play a lot of Rogue Lakes, for example,

Roboquest, and I am used to really fast speeds and games.

I would just, I would flick over to an enemy, bang, flick over to

an enemy, bang, flick over to another bang, just killing,

killing over and over again. Is this something that like gets

activated like this 20% speed? Yeah.

So there's, there's like gambling mechanic, well quote UN

quote gambling, but you get to throw a coin in the well and it

can give you a random effect. And what are the random effects

happens to be? Oh yeah, we're increasing game

processing speed by 20% for the entirety of the match.

Fuck yeah. It was a lot at 1st and, well, a

lot in general. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, the game running it 20% like faster speed, yeah,

that's going to be kind of fucked.

But Oh my God, this game is so fun dude, it's.

God, well, I cannot wait to play more with you with with you and

Jack. I kind of we figured out, we

figured it out last night before we got off, is that the spells

combined. Yes, I thought it was a glitch

because I would use I would always use my lightning ability

1st and like that would leave like a kind of lightning

puddles. They wouldn't do any damage, but

like it was just the area that it went through because it was a

straight line lightning strikes. And then I would use the acid

and I was always nearby my puddles.

So like it would just like I would be aiming at the ground

with the acid like just spewing out of my hands, whatever,

wherever it comes from. And.

It when it touched the lightning strike it would combine with it

and anytime the acid touched the ground it was just acid plus

lightning strike. Oh crap.

Yeah, and it didn't click until later on when we were like, wait

a minute, Are the spells are combining effects?

What the hell? Yeah, it wasn't until I had a

mine down that I like. I through my lightning, I was

trying to get rid of some enemies.

The lightning hit the mine and just exploded in six directions.

I'm like, wait a minute, mark, this is a no glitch.

This is intentional. Interrupted from every mine he

had put down in that area. Not just the one mine.

All of the mines simultaneously. And then this is when my brain

was like, I love this. Yeah.

Everything clicked. I'm like, this is everything I

ever wanted in this game. The ability to fuck around and

find out has. Been printed.

I guess we're having fun with that.

That's yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God it's so fun.

I am so excited to play some more.

Yes. What about you, Mark?

Anything particularly you've been doing besides that?

Besides that, I've been doing a little bit of Stellaris here and

there, and I've fallen back into doing Satisfactory again.

I can never stay away. I yeah, I'm excited for the 1.2

update to come live to a Satisfactory.

I've been playing on the experimental branch for the past

couple of months, just messing around with it, getting into the

new vehicle system. I'm really happy with the

changes that they've made. It's it's making it really

refreshing just to jump back into it.

But I'm also extremely excited for the new stuff coming later

this year for Stellaris. So I guess in the next round of

DLC they're making. It's that way you can play as a

nomadic empire. So like you, you don't claim

territory and you don't colonized planets your main.

Habitation is a ship that can travel between systems, and it

just changes everything to do with the game because so far

you've only ever been able to play as an empire species.

So your empire claims territory, you develop within your

territory, you fight for territory and resources.

Everything revolves around securing territory, holding

territory, and developing it. But now they're introducing

mechanics on oh, your empire does not have territory at all.

You exist as a nomadic species, and you move between empires

pretty much at your whim, unless there's like different mechanics

on how you can prevent species from moving.

And you set up little trading posts in different empires and

that's where you get a lot of your resources and your

influence from. And it, it's going to shake off

a lot of the mechanics of the game so much.

I'm so excited to dive into that.

And then they're also, I guess they're hinting at ADLC

expansion later in the year. And it looks like it's going to

be covering the ethics system, so now you can have an expansion

on your empire's ethics and sort of have more nitty gritty

definitions of what your empire believes.

Yeah. And what your empire's all

about. Really interesting stuff.

I cannot wait to see this come out.

That's cool. Yeah, what about you, Mr. the

Host? Mr. Brandon, the host.

Mr. the host, Brandon. Who may?

Oh, please, Mr. Brandon. Was my Father's Day there.

You can call me. You can call me the host.

You can call me the host I guess.

For me, I've been honestly, ever since I have fucking played

Resin Evil 9, I have been on a Resident Evil kick.

Yeah. You have.

You have. Something has fucking little

fire under my butt where I'm like, I want to play everything.

Yeah, 'cause you were like, I'm going to, I'm going to buy the

original trilogy. I'm going to play 123

Remastered. Yes, I've.

Been rekindling an old love. It's I, I personally haven't at

least like up to this point, I, I haven't really played the

originals 'cause I never really had like, I have access to them

from my, my, my uncle Chris. But I get a have to get a

PlayStation 3 or a PlayStation two or one hooked up and find

memory cards and, and, and play the game.

But with GOG putting them out on their service and then Steam

doing it now, it was kind of a perfect opportunity to try these

because the PC versions I think are the best way to play them.

Don't quote me, but think besides the first game, the

original Resident Evil, the the definitive version is actually

the Nintendo DS version. Oh really?

Jesus. Because it's see that's.

How the director's cut sounds like a.

Fucking director's cut. We don't speak of the, we don't

speak of that basement shit. The the I didn't know this but

the DS version of the game they redid animations, the pre

rendered backgrounds, added some features that were in the like

the games that surpassed it or were succeeded to it like the

180 quick turn that was not introduced to RE-3.

I. Mean this this version you can

actually quick turn so that was nice it's it's honestly really

nice to play the original Resident Evil on 2 screens

'cause you have the gameplay which is the bottom screen and

then the top screen is your map. So you're able to just

constantly like look at the map 'cause you can get lost pretty

easily in the the originals if you don't know what you're doing

or where to go and do puzzles and shit like that.

But it was, it was an interesting experience,

honestly. And they also, besides I think

what they call it, the classic version of Resident Evil on the

DS, but there's also a rebirth, which is like a whole new thing

where it uses the touchscreen for more things like puzzles and

combat and shit. But yeah, I I would definitely

say just play the like it it, the PC versions of the games are

a lot more accessible than the DS version at this point for

finding it and the price you got it for me it was $90.00.

Oh wow. So it's it, it's expensive.

I don't know if it's gone down in price now, maybe it has

'cause it has been a good many years, but I would I recommend

ADS version. It's a lot of fun honestly, like

just new animations. Everything it it's it's worth

it. But for accessibility go for

steam. I know the the DRM bullshit is

ticking people off and yeah it's kind of shitty to put those on

games that are 20 years old, but it's not really hurting anything

from what I gather. So whatever it's I, I want to

play the originals, I'm going to play whether or not there's DRM

involved. I mean, it's just whatever.

I don't really care. It's not the most egregious

thing. No, it isn't yet.

But for today's topic, no way. We got to today's topic.

Interesting. Oh, OK.

Damn. That line on the recording?

Jesus Christ, I wasn't even that loud.

Squeak, squeak. So yeah, the topic for today is

video game franchises that need a new game.

So this being more specifically games or a video game franchises

that haven't had a game in years, even decades, franchises

you don't really see much anymore, which is kind of a

shame because a lot of those franchises have that we'll be

talking about today have have been good and honestly did not

deserve the death that they got. I like some really good ideas

with some of these games that you don't see now.

Yeah. So I will open the floor to one

of you to start if you have anything.

Do you want me to start? Do you want me to start?

Do you want me to start? OK, I'm going.

My first one I want to talk about is Tie the Tasmanian

Tiger. This is a series that I hold

dear to my heart, especially the first two games.

A lot of people talk down on the third game.

It's not bad, but I just don't think it captures what this like

the series started out as, at least that being a tiger going

out and saving the world. Granted that is what the third

game is about by like boiling it all down but like they

introduced aliens and like apocalypse scenarios and it's

like what what what is happening?

Cause the first two games were about Ty versus Doctor Kass, the

Doctor Kass trying to rule the world and the first one Doctor

Kass sealed away all of the Tasmanians except for Ty and I

guess his brother Sly as well. And then in the second game

fucking Doctor Kass takes all the koalas from the town or just

hell all the all the people from the town and uses the.

It's so stupid but that he takes the warm blooded creatures and

takes out the warm and puts them in the cold blooded creatures to

make like big giant muscly brutes.

You know, game logic. What the fuck?

And yeah, the warm blooded, I don't think.

That's how biology. Works.

No it's not. I don't know man.

And now the warm blooded world just left to shiver forever.

They're they're just cold. Yeah.

Yeah, no, that's not works, but that's what he did.

I have several questions. There's some fuck shit here.

Hold up. Wait a minute.

Something ain't right. But yeah, it also, it also

introduced the bun yips, which were a really cool thing to see

in the game. And the third one also used bun

yips, but I don't know, it felt, it felt weird because it wasn't

like missions, missions specific to the bunyips.

There were sometimes you go, you can go in as one bunyip,

sometimes you can go as another or sometimes you can go in as

Thai or God forbid the airspace level, the airship levels.

What the fuck are the airship levels doing anyway?

But I feel like, you know, going back down to the to the roots of

the first and second game, it would be a a nice thing to see

if we ever got a fifth game because the 4th 1 was a

Kickstarter game. It was a 2D platformer

Kickstarter game just to get the first 3 on to Steam, which is

pretty good. It's all present like, but it's

preservation of the game series. And I know that the series

creator has said like, oh, I would love to make a, a fifth

one if you know, a game if the right circumstances happened.

But he has also said that when it like when people say that

like 3 was a bad game, he's like, this makes me not want to

make a fifth, which I can see it.

But also at the same time, it's just like to play devil's

advocate here, 'cause I, I do like 3, but it just, I don't

love it. Not like 1 and 2.

It's different. There's, it's a whole completely

different setting plays not, not doesn't, I wouldn't say it plays

completely well. It actually kind of does play

differently because you have also the, the, the stones that

you have to collect out in the world and then you can use the

stones to slot into the boomerangs.

And so the the most basic boomerang could have an

explosion stone on it, so could the most advanced boomerang.

So it kind of feels like it's all the same.

They have little differences, but it kind of makes it feel

like all the boomerangs are the same when the difference is that

just all the boomerangs had a different use in the first two

games. Well, there was electricity,

fire or whatever, but now you can just slap all that on one

boomerang and be done. But I mean the last When did

they make tie 3? Let's see Tie 3.

How long ago has it been? 2520 years?

Oh my God. It'll be 21 in October 11th

since their last game. Wow.

Jesus. Holy shit, I don't know, it was

that long. Yeah, it's the first game

released in like 22,002. Well, I mean if you want to

think about it, it's it came out during like the height of the

the PS. Two PS One, yeah.

Yeah, like the platformer stuff, Yeah.

Yep. And you never.

You never. You don't see that anymore

anymore. You really don't.

But honestly, I I respect it. If somebody you know made the

right collectathon, I'd play it. And I think I actually have.

Hat in Time would technically be 1.

Yeah, I'm just not sure how. Let's see, when did A Hat in

Time came out? Let's see Hat in Time. 17.

Years, 20 years, 2017. So that's almost a decade.

Yeah, damn. Yeah.

It kind of sucks you don't see those anymore.

They were a lot of fun, honestly.

Yeah, like, well, I mean I guess you have like like the the

SpongeBob, the like newer ones, not the like remake, but.

Like. Cosmic and then the latest one,

Tides of Titan I think, which I believe are collectathons as

well, 'cause Battle for Bikini Bottom was.

So I think those are which those play those those are honestly I

I I was skeptical, especially with them making the cosmic

shake or whatever it's called, but it honestly doing good, man.

They're they really are. I honestly, I'm kind of

surprised. I didn't think there were going

to be a lot of people that were going to want these games.

You know, I, I, I didn't think that you would have seen another

SpongeBob platform or collect a thon.

Yeah, I think the one I'm thinking of is Isopod that I

played recently, but that doesn't really I don't think

it's a true collect a thon. No, I wouldn't say so anyway.

But yeah, I just, I wish that we got like a another tie, the

Tasmanian tiger again in the form like just I'm going to

repeat myself in the form of one and two or one or two.

Yeah, never say never. You should never.

Know I mean I understand the developer's point of view though

when did? Ty 4 come out 'cause or like

whatever release date 'cause that one came out not too long

ago. Yeah, 2023.

Wow, OK. But again, that was made and

Kick started to get the first 3. Yeah.

Maybe someday you can come back. Maybe I mean I I still got the

1st 2:00 if nothing. If anything, it's kind of

upsetting when you look at it that there's just there's no

games made for kids in the way that they used to be.

When we were kids. Yeah, like it's.

Yeah. Now it's Fortnite and battle

passes and cosmetics and taking the children's money from their

parents. Sorry did I get into your real

there? My bad.

And. Putting kids on.

Roadblocks and getting them involved with gambling and weird

people. Yeah.

OK. There it is.

Yeah, there it is. There's the real, there's.

The real. We know what's going on.

OK, all right, here's a here's a little side side thing, but

someone posted a picture in my local game store Discord and

it's like LGS rules and it's a PLAY for play.

Practice respect, lower your voices, ask before touching your

cards. Get 8 if you misgender.

What? Oh wow.

OK. It's it's it's I don't know,

it's funny to be eating cards is kind of like a inside joke

somewhat into in Magic or just maybe card games in general.

That's pretty funny though. Yeah, what?

What about you guys? Can I say the generic one that

everybody says did I have the starter?

Yes, Yeah, Titanfall 3. Oh damn.

Yeah. Yeah, you rate though.

Yeah, I'm. Surprised I didn't write that.

Down You know what really pisses me off?

And actually it pisses a lot of the Titanfall community off.

In Apex Legends, they teased and or released a character.

I remember this. Yeah, that used a grappling hook

or something. It was like very similar to

Titanfall. I was like, OK, OK.

I thought you were going to refer to the one that uses a

mech. No, I didn't think.

I didn't think I said that one or maybe I did.

I don't know. There there was something that

was similar and then also also I think Viper Viper's kid is in it

or is it Viper or it it was one of the main enemies from

Titanfall. It was like a.

She's a playable character for some reason.

Yeah, it's like their daughter or son, their son or someone in

their family. Yeah, it's it's like, why?

Why would you put in the effort to evolve this character when

you're not even? Yeah, give give us Titanfall 3.

It's just so sad. That that game was seriously

doing pretty well and unfortunately that EA happened

to just release it at the same time as Call of Duty and

Battlefront or Battlefield. Like a sacrificial land of the

slaughter. They could have waited, dude.

They could have so fucking waited.

Call of. Duty and battlefield like they

could have fucking waited. I mean it, it was what it was a

Call of Duty. Was it World War 2 or was it

infinite? I don't know.

Well let's see that that was 2012, so Black Ops 2.

Was it Black Ops 2? Yeah, Black Ops 2.

Was 2012 was Black Ops 2? Yeah.

Oh, OK, but again, they could have waited.

They they could have put it in a different quarter if they were

so serious about it and it was doing it, it it it was making

waves in like the the mech fighting genre.

You never. Know it was 2016 so that's what

I thought. My bad.

That would. Have been, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I thought, yeah.

And honestly not my favorite. Yeah, if if they had placed it

in a different time, they would be like, well, people are

disappointed with Infinite. Why would you guys come on, try

out our new game? It's just.

They could have used that to their advantage.

Yeah. They they could have waited on

Titanfall for like another year because how often are they as EA

really releasing games besides all the FIFA's and all that kind

of stuff? Like besides the sports?

Games. Well, not anymore, since they

don't have the rights to was it NFL?

They don't have the rights to Madden anymore, don't they?

No, I think, I think that or FIFA.

It was one of the two I can't remember.

I think it was FIFA actually, I don't.

Think they still do FIFA. A new one came out.

Oh, I don't know. But yeah.

But I'm just saying though, like at the time, besides all the

sports games they're releasing, how often they were they

releasing something? Yeah.

Yeah. Or at least, you know, at least

publishing and. Then they gave the IP the

disrespect of making into a better Royale.

Like I, I, I know there are people that honestly do really

love Apex, but at the same time, looking at all the controversy,

all the drama that has come out of it over the years, especially

when coming along towards like, oh, the debate between high

skill or casual gamers. And I, I feel like the community

would have had a lot better of a time, a lot better of an

enjoyment if they actually had Titanfall 3.

I feel like that would have been a much more appealing route, a

much safer route, and it would have given them a pretty strong

IP to keep moving forward with. I would be afraid to see

Titanfall come back today just because I don't know if it it's

not going to be the same EA no that will make it.

That's no God, no everyone from Respawn is gone.

Yeah, it's it is not like no. Not just, it's not like the same

time, it's not the same talent, it's not the same ideas about

gaming. It's not.

It's all changed. In a perfect world, I would have

loved it. Yes.

It's the IT doesn't break my desire to want to see another

Titanfall, but the way things stand it, it's either going to

be over budget in a fucking microtransaction hell scheme.

Yeah, no. Or it's going to underperform

and it's just gonna it's just gonna die again because none of

these companies can keep their budgets in check anymore.

Yeah, they really can. I mean granted prices like for

games have been rising either and that's due to the gaming

community which I'm not complaining, I'm not complaining

whatsoever. But still though, it's like you

don't need like multi $1,000,000 budgets to make a game.

I mean going back to a going back to far far West that sold

250,000 in two days, that is a not $6020.00 game.

Do the math. Yeah.

Or if you want to look at last year, was Silk song fucking

breaking? Oh.

My God. What was it?

3 or 4 of the major gaming marketplaces.

Oh go back three years with lethal company dude that outsold

Call of Duty. Yeah, one, one man made a game

that I was told AAA studio by this shit.

It was, it was a huge margin. One man that literally set up

this person who is younger than us for the rest of their life.

Yeah. Well, meanwhile, we're here left

to record podcast episodes and try to make a living through any

sponsors that want to come up to this, no.

I'm the host. I say things.

I have words to, I will say it kind of like I'm going to call

these people out 'cause it's always pissed me off of why they

do this, and I guess I just don't understand it.

Why do you keep going back to games you hate?

I'm talking League of Legends, I'm talking Apex Legends, all of

those kind of games. Rainbow 6.

If you're screaming at a game every single time you get on,

why do you go back to it? If you get angry every God damn

time, why, that's not fun to me. No, it's no, it's not the one.

I'm talking the gamers. No, he's not talking about like

the streamers. He's talking about the actual

like player bases. I personally think I, I

personally think it's more of like they're trying to satisfy

an itch that they know is possible with these games, but

it's just they. Whatever they get on if they get

pissed. Yeah.

Find something else. Yeah.

Maybe they like getting mad. That's about all I can think.

I mean, I guess there's a bad reason, but like.

Maybe a lot of these people have forgotten just simply how to not

be mad and just go about your day.

I mean, I get mad at games too. Don't get me wrong.

I'm no, I'm no like virtue or anything, like holy fucking

virtue. But yeah.

But like, if a game pisses me off too much, I'm like, no, I'm

done playing that. Yeah, and you move on to

something else like that. That's that's the healthy way to

do it, not keep screaming until something different is supposed

to happen but won't because that's what we call insanity

and. Just textbook definition of

insanity, yeah. Yeah, Like it.

It's I, I don't understand that if a game I'm playing, it's

going to piss me off that much, my time is going somewhere else.

Yeah, it's it. It literally as you get older,

your time gets very valuable to you and you decide to use your

time. Or why is it lead to something

else? Not a fucking video game.

Yeah, like the reason I, the reason this came to mind is

because you said Apex Legends and I'm just like, dude, I have,

I have so many people that maybe in the past that I've played it

and it's just like they constantly play.

They still play and it's this game is stupid.

It sucks. It's bullshit.

Like you pull paragraph of text. I'm like, why do you play it?

Why? Why do you continue to subject?

Yourself, I'm going to take a break from it gets back on.

Man, that was a quick break. Yeah, really, I.

Know I I don't even understand how it's still around that

that's that's the thing. I don't get it.

I'm actually surprised yeah that Apex is still around.

How many people are fucking playing Apex?

Well, if you, if you want another, if you want another

thing to go by, look at what's happening to Fortnite and it's

it's starting to collapse. Like if Fortnite can't sustain

itself anymore, how is how is Apex supposed to do it?

How are a lot of these other How are all these other battle

royales supposed to try to keep themselves afloat now?

Well, the company. Could very well stay afloat.

It's the investors. Yeah.

Fuck the investors. Sorry.

Fuck them. I'm sure if no company cared

about investors like let's just say, let's just say Friday for a

while, Epic, yeah, they would be fine forever.

Yeah, if if it was, if the model was AI mean look at these as a

big business. They're not a private, they're a

private business. Yeah, yeah.

But again, if the model wasn't, oh, video games is big business,

big money. No.

The conversation would be a lot different.

That number has to go up every quarter.

Yeah, as as soon as you brought, as soon as you brought like high

finance into it, it really started changing the landscape

of gaming because it's not all we had to make sure that we're

meeting our promises to shareholders and not making like

a, a quality product for people to enjoy.

And then you're not allowed to own your product anymore because

that takes away from our bottom line.

So what do? You do.

Anyway, we should probably get back on topic.

Well, I was. Curious back on topic.

I was curious for a hell of it. I looked up Apex Legends player

count just for Steam. All right, so this is just

Steam. What is it?

So as of 38 minutes ago, it's 71,063.

OK. What's your all time high?

The all time peak is 624,000. You still have more than a 10th

but yeah like how the fuck is it still alive?

And a 24 hour peak is 200 and 24866.

What the fuck? Yeah, that's what I don't get.

Advertising of Apex Legends anymore.

Yeah, I don't. I don't fucking get it.

I I don't. Shit's weird.

At least Fortnite advertises every single season.

Well, maybe that's part of the problem.

I mean, lucky at the finances the epics going through and

having to layoff people because they spent too much money.

I mean, if you, I know I say this time and time again, but

why would you hire Dwayne the Rock Johnson, the most expensive

actor in Hollywood, if you're having financial troubles?

It just it celebrity pull power does not have the same draw as a

traditional used. To I have another gripe.

How the fuck is I'm just going to say Dwayne Johnson, how the

fuck are they keeping up with Ice King?

Every single person I've talked to has picked the Ice King side.

How the fuck are they keeping up anyway?

Back on topic, Brandon, we spent, we spent a little over

1/4 of the episode just graping. Yeah, yeah, we're.

Coming here 51 minutes. We're a bunch of angry boys

today. I'm sorry I.

Wouldn't even say we're angry, this is just.

Fast it's my fault I I brought it up with the Roblox and the

the fucking EA bullshit. I honestly forgot about that.

Be honest. Like I, I, I, I don't know.

Let's see. So me, I've got a bunch here,

but let's talk about one of them that we all have had some kind

of play time with Bioshock. Oh yeah.

Now, yeah, they say that there's a new game coming out.

They've been saying that for a long time, so don't get your

hopes up. So where is it?

It's yes, yes. Also, as far as I know, Ken

Levine is no longer involved in Bio Shock.

So because Irrational Games is defunct now, they've been

defunct for a while. Yeah.

So it's not I, I, I don't, I don't think it's going to be the

same. Yeah, I know.

It just. But if you get if you get rid of

the original writer and you can't find someone to back it

up, there's no chance. No, no, there's with Bioshock.

It's kind of a it it, it's unique.

Very. Unique enough to where it's

going to be hard for somebody who didn't really come up with

this idea. To match the same vision in the

same tone. Yeah, but I mean, you never

know. But yeah, I honestly would love

to see another Bioshock that that game series.

Yeah. Loved especially one I played

the fuck out of one and Bioshock 2 I played I've I've finished it

a few times like 2 isn't 2 isn't bad.

I think it gets kind of a bad rap for, I don't want to say no

real reason, but I understand that it's kind of the.

The black sheep of the of the family.

Yeah, a black sheep. Yeah, like it's not.

It's more of the same, which isn't bad, but it also doesn't

have Ken Levine behind it. It was somebody else, so the

story didn't really progress, I guess, the way he probably

wanted it to. But it is not a bad game.

It is. It is a fun one it and yeah,

it's more, it's just more Bioshock that that's literally

all it is. I personally have a a high

fondness of two, but that's also because that's the one that

introduced me to the series. OK, yeah, that makes sense.

Like 1 was the one that introduced me to the game.

Like I played it when there are neighbor next door when he was

still around. He's got like he's somewhere

else now, like move whatever. His friend of my brothers, they

let me borrow a copy of Bioshock for the 360.

And that's when at first I was not the biggest fan of it, but

when I got older, I tried it again.

And that's when I'm like, OK, yeah, this is good.

This, this, this is fun. I've gone through it.

It's all it. It's just a really nice just

kind of horror action package, you know?

Yeah, just messed up scenery and just, you know, all that.

The seaming and everything. It's just an underwater city as

cool as shit. I mean come on.

Like that's not possible at least not right now to have a

complete underwater city. There is nothing that materials

we have currently that can withstand depending on how deep

the city is in the water in the ocean, which looks pretty damn

deep that could handle that type of pressure.

It just there is nothing we have right now that can we can't even

really get like submarines and and like the little whatever you

call them to get down to such a depth that without the sub or

whatever crushing under the pressure.

I mean, yeah, there are some cases of like underwater.

What are they called? They're like drones, aren't

they? No, I'm talking like underwater.

Like there is one that I know of basically hotel or like

apartment. Not not like an actual hotel,

but it's like a space you can rent out and sleep in.

Oh, I know what you're talking about, Yeah.

There is that kind of stuff, but it's not like a whole city like

that's. Yeah, that's not.

Feasible. No, it would not happen, at

least not in our lifetime. It wouldn't.

You're right, Let's just make sky sky boats instead and we can

call it. I actually don't remember the

name. It's.

Called Columbia. Yeah, Columbia.

In the air. Yeah, the the yeah, the one in

the yeah. The the whole theme is like

American colonialism. That makes a lot of sense with

the presidential robots, Yes, yes.

Really. Yeah, You, you never got that.

Nope. Listen, I was like, I was a

teenager. I just wanted to shoot some

shit. OK?

Maybe we're not even. A teenager like hey look, a guy

sink. Yeah.

I was like, damn, this thing's all spot on with like Colonial

into Bell of America. I was like wow.

Listen, when I was a kid, all I saw was, oh, look, I can shoot a

gun, 'cause I was playing, I was playing Call of Duty.

Yeah. I, I really didn't care for

story. Like I would listen to the story

but like it wouldn't permeate my my frontal lobe.

Let me in. Come on, man.

Come on. You gotta let me.

Yeah. No, you think I remember a

single God damn thing about the story except for the end of

being a mind fuck. No, you're wrong.

Yeah, that was a mind fuck. Jesus Christ.

Yeah, really. I'm gonna throw another one.

Do. Off work as we're we're almost

at a an hour. I mean, it's fine.

Oh shit. Everybody wants this game,

specifically a third one Half Life.

You you know as well as I do that that is never going to

happen. No, I won't.

Valve got too big. Valve doesn't care.

It they, I mean, they make enough, they make more than

enough money on just other games and shit in their service.

So it's like, why even bother? Oh yeah, you know.

But I it, it, it was a bit surprising seeing them kind of

tease the idea with Half Life Alex.

But it's been a few years. It looks like nothing's

happening from that. I hate to say it.

Yeah, I mean, it's like, I like to say never say never.

Like that's just like you never really know.

But in the in this kind of circumstance, like really, Valve

doesn't have to do it for really any reason.

They haven't shown any interest in doing it.

No how? They they haven't, they haven't

shown any interest in doing any of their IP franchises.

Yeah, that's unfortunate. Yeah, I mean, you could you

imagine how how insane it would be if they made a third portal

or if they made a new Gary's mod or another Team fortress?

I mean tech, well technically there is a spiritual successor

to G mod is out that is by the same people which actually came

out a couple or a few days ago. It's called Sandbox.

Oh yeah, I've heard about it. All the bullshit aside and mixed

reviews and all of that, if you don't know what that what's

going on with that, just look it up.

They it, it, it's not supposed to be, you know, like I said,

it's a spiritual successor to Garry's Mod.

It is not a sequel. Yeah.

There's a difference there. It's it's supposed to have sort

of a similar feeling. Yes.

And for the most part it does. I mean, yes, you can make the

argument that it's kind of the way it's set up kind of like

Roblox kind of interface and and whatnot.

But and also those avatars, Jesus Christ, guys can get rid

of those. I'm sorry.

They're not good. They are not good.

They look like just a long sausage with legs.

I'm sorry. Wait, where I missed something?

The the human avatars in sandbox.

Yeah, they need to go. They need to go like you can get

there's like human one that you can make instead of that one.

The like sausage guys, but. Yeah, I saw it.

It's like guys. We'll get rid of it.

Yeah, it's not. They're not good.

Like I, I constructive criticism, do something else

like the, the other than that, the game's fine.

I mean, there's a bunch of different games built in it

'cause it's, it's literally just, it's literally just Source

Engine two. Yeah, like it, it is Gary's mod

on Source Engine two. That is literally all it is.

And honestly, there have been some pretty interesting games

that have actually been made within it.

So, and you're able to monetize the games and whatever too.

So I mean, hey, that's pretty cool because I don't know if

you're able to do that with Gary's mod.

I don't think you could monetize stuff in it as.

Far as no, no, that was like a pure.

Kind of just pure. Yeah.

It's it's like, it's like robots without all the monetization.

Or you can just I mean not a. Pedophilia.

No. But it's, it's interesting and

like I said, the mix view views aside, I think it just, it needs

some time 'cause I mean, G mod was not perfect when they came

out God over 20 years ago. So, you know, it'll, it'll start

warming up to people. Oh yeah.

It's just they might need to do some changes, you know?

But the game's functional doesn't run too bad.

I know there's been a lot of performance issues or whatever

with it for some people, but got to also understand it is a new

engine. You know, it's not Gary's mod

that you could run on a fucking toaster and get 400 frames a

second. I'm sorry, it's it's.

It is not. What?

No, No, I'm sure. No, I'm sure you can do that.

No. I'm sure I will find a way.

Good luck with that, it's going to look like shit.

My I don't think you've seen my toasters.

What do? You got a fucking doom running

on it. Yeah, crisis.

Who? Jesus.

Don't do that. No.

No. I do have some other games, but

if you guys got anything else, kind of just maybe wrap it up.

I mean, I'll, I'll just talk about 1 real quick and that's

it's gem craft and there's like I think 5 in the series and they

started off as Flash games way back when I remember playing

chasing shadows. That's one of one of the games

chasing shadows. And that was kind of like, but

the one before Labyrinth was the big one, like the one that

everybody liked. And it was really cool 'cause

like the overworld map, it, it, it's, it was a whole thing.

Like the, the overworld map was the how the map worked in the

level itself. It, it was a whole, it was like,

again, it was a whole thing for Jim Craft Labyrinth.

You can look it up and see it. But the last one they did was

Frostborn Wrath. That was the first non.

What was it? What is a non flash one?

Then they did bring chasing shadows to steam.

OK. But I don't think they've done

anything since and that was, I mean that was 2020, not not that

bad at all. But yeah, it's just like what

they haven't done another one since and maybe they are working

on one. It's just the the last 1 wasn't

too well received. I mean it said like the the

reviews are very positive on steam.

Don't get don't get me wrong, but it's just like it it

initially wasn't reviewed very well.

So yeah, well, I hope it makes a comeback because I because I do

love my tower defense games. Oh yeah.

And that is fair. Anything else for you, Mr. Mark?

Oh no, I I think I've said my piece with Titanfall for now.

OK, never come back to this topic.

I'll have a few other things, but yeah, no, most.

Mostly for me it's just Titanfall.

It really should have gotten another entry instead of just

getting replaced. Yeah, got to see a fucking

shame, man. It probably is.

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