What's up guys, welcome to the first ever episode 231 of the Kinda Funny Games cast as always, I'm going to be joined by one of the coolest videos in video games. Great, man. I like the snowbag mic shirt. Thank you.
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Yeah. Davis from the Warp Zone. Woo! Woo!
How are you feeling? You got that pasta in your belly? I went with salmon and broccoli. Okay.
Yeah, but I feel good. I forgot what you call it already. Rosato? Rosato.
Yeah. Italian rosé. But it's rosato. It's not rosé.
It sounds like it. When you say it, I think it's that rice dish. I can't remember the name of it. Rosato.
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This episode is brought to you by Hims and Zedik. But we'll talk to you about that later. Because right now, Davis, I asked you what games you've been playing. You said a whole bunch of stuff that I don't think we've ever talked about on the show.
Okay. So that's exciting stuff. But I want to start with any of those. PC.
I mean, PC. It's all in the place. Sure it is. I want to start with this.
What is your game of the year so far? Putting you on the spot. Yeah, that's a big question. There's only one correct answer.
You know that, right? What's your correct answer? Resident Evil 2 remake. I love the hell out of that.
Division 2. Excellent. My game of the year. I should have three games of the year.
And neither of them. So, amongst my favorite games of all time, Link's Awakening, Final Fantasy VIII, and Classic World of Warcraft. And they are all coming out in the next couple months. They're all getting re-released.
So, yeah, all accepted. It's a great time to be alive. But the best is yet to come. No, but we said so far.
Yeah. What's your game of the year so far? Pick a fucking game. If it was December right now, and there was going to be no more games released this year, and what has already been released is all you can choose from.
I would say Resident Evil 2. I've played through it a couple times now. That's awesome. Solid answer.
Do you think the year's been great so far? Yes. I kind of think. I play games from all eras all the time.
Sure. So, if there's not anything new exciting, I'm just digging into my back catalog. So, I always think it's a good year. Yeah, yeah.
I love that they're just bringing more and more and more stuff to Switch. Sure. That's where I'm at right now. I'm playing Cuphead for the third time.
Now on the Switch, so. Have you ever beaten it? Yeah. There's no shame in baby-ass baby mode.
It's regular mode. It's easy, guys. There is no easy mode in Cuphead. That's true.
No, there's not. Yes, there is. No, there's not. What do you think?
It's not an easy mode. It's not an easy mode where people who struggle to do certain mechanics can actually make it through. It's not like Celeste, where they have a mode where you can not die throughout the whole game. What?
Where was that at the end of the source? Yeah, they have any accessibility features. You can just fall into all the pits and you just bounce out of them. I broke up with my JoyCon over that game.
Now it's only Pro Controller. Nice. You can't get me where I need to go. I know exactly how you feel, but I completed Celeste start to finish in handheld mode.
Okay, I'm just not going to be on the phone, guys. Yeah, I was dumb. Yeah, no, no, no. Celeste was made for the Pro Controller.
Like, the big shoulder button, like, for the dashes and stuff. Oh, it feels so good. Gotta love it. So, the three games you're most excited for, that was a swagening.
Remastered and Plastic, yeah. Is there any other big games you're most excited for? Like, Pokemon I'm excited for, because I love Pokemon. I know there's a lot of controversy around it now, but I'm still excited for it.
You're going Sword or Shield? Shield, because everybody wanted to do Sword. But I love fighting gyms, and I think it's a Sword exclusive, is the fighting gym later. So, I'm like, but these aren't really problems.
These are first world gaming problems. Sure, fight them up. So, if I can say, can you believe it's being remastered? Yes, because I've wanted it so long.
And, well, when they did a big direct, was this year or last year, where they were like, and 7, and yeah, they skipped a fucking Chocobo Mystery Dungeon or some bullshit out of me, man. And everyone was like, you know, shitting on me because they know I love 8. And I'm like, guess what? It's remastered.
It was like a PS2 game. I never thought we'd see that 8 would. 8 is a wonderful, it's my first, like, console one. So, like, it'll always be that special game.
And kind of like the new Fire Emblem, it takes place in a school-type situation, too, the gardens, and it's, I freaking love you. On Game's Day, he was talking about how much you love school children. Have you been playing Fire Emblem in the house? I haven't picked it up yet, but I'm, I've kind of, like, dabbled a little bit this year, but it's not my thing, but this one looks like it might be one of those.
It's fantastic. Yeah, you love it, right? The review of Vargas finally up today, so I'm all popping 9, 5, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9. I've only maybe doubled my progress from last time, but it's getting there now.
I'm like, all right, this is Fire Emblem, baby, let's go. But, okay, I want to talk about Dauntless. We've talked about that on the show. Yeah, Dauntless, I can hear you're playing.
We're your friends. Yeah, I love Dauntless. Why? Well, so, I have tried to get into Monster Hunter over the years, and World was, like, the most time I put into it, but there's just too much, I got, like, game ADD, I'm always, like, just trying to, like, play some fun and get out and play something new, and World, there was too much prep time, too many recipes, and too much, like, hunting of the monsters.
Dauntless is just, like, distilled down to, like, you go in, you pick up the monster, you spend, like, two seconds looking for it. Yeah, and then everyone converges, and you just, like, have crazy monster fights, it's all about that. So that's why I'm really into it. It's completely cross-play, which is, like, insane.
You can play, I don't know if the Switch version is out yet, but PC, PS4, you can switch, you can play your own account on any of the things. It's cross-progression, too. And it autofills the hunts. So, like, when I played World, I didn't always want to try to mess with the really, at least for me, convoluted online system.
Here, every time I'm fighting a monster, it's four people with me, or three other people with me, and it's epic, and everyone's got different weapons, and it's just, like, it's I don't use a lot of them. You gotta get up in there. Well, normally we do sketches, so we have a person who's just, like, micing me. Thank you.
I'm told on everything I do that I suck at the most stuff. Mic discipline, yeah. A lot? Probably, like, above 50?
Wow. Wow. Yeah. No, that's great.
This is what I've been trying to tell people about, Donald, as well, so I'm so glad that you're enjoying it and having a good time. It takes, like, that essence of Monster Hunter, but it makes it way more approachable. I also, Monster Hunter World was my first real Monster Hunter experience. I played a couple of the 3DS versions and kind of dabbled, but I was, like, it was way over my head.
I was, like, there's too many RPG systems. And I also felt that with Monster Hunter World, it was just so many systems at play that I just ended up ignoring. Like, a lot of the crashable stuff that I was, like, I'm not even going to bother. Does that mean I'm probably playing suboptimal and not really, you know, doing the RPG the way it's supposed to be done?
Maybe, but I still had fun. And I'm still looking forward to going back into Iceborne and maybe doing that research into those systems that I just ignored the first time. But that's what's great about Dauntless is that you can do a hunt and be done in, like, less than 20 minutes. But in Monster Hunter, that's not necessarily the case.
Well, see, to me, you know how over the moon I was with Monster Hunter Hunter, right? 130 hours. And it was that I was in all the systems, and I was chasing different armor, and I was farming this one monster to get the thing to do this stuff. Now, though, having taken so much time off of that, even getting ready for Iceborne or being excited for Iceborne, but even thinking, like, oh, man, it'd be cool to go back to that, right?
Like, Kevin nailed it when he predicted we played for two months and never go back. Just the fact of, now it is, I know that I used to know those systems, and now I can't think of how they all go back together. It's sitting with DC Universe Online. We're like, oh, man, I missed that.
And I remember putting it up last year, year and a half ago, and it's just being, like, they've re-signed all my points, and I need to do it, but I don't even know what my old build was, like, well, what I need to do now, where I should be going, what I should be doing, all that stuff. I think you're selling yourself short. It's a little bit like riding a bike. It's a little wobbly for the first few minutes, and then you're like, oh, yeah, I know it.
I know it. Whoa. I got to play the Iceborne expansion at E3, and for the first 10 minutes, it was me remembering all the different types of ammo that go into the light bill gun, because that was my weapon of choice, and remembering what all the different consumables do, and not really digging into, like, the armor specs, but just being like, oh, yeah, I spent, like, you do 100 hours doing this. I don't remember how to do it.
It just took a little bit. Yeah, when I jumped into E3 and played, it was the same thing of, oh, cool, I'm back, I'm doing it, I'm using my dual blades, and I remember all this, but it was a little bit of dropping us in easy mode, right, because it was, like, cool, it's got the quest for you thing, right, everything's set up. I'm not worried about going back in there. There have been so many updates and so many differences to the hub world and so many new items, and I'm going to be, like, what the fuck does any of this mean?
Is there an inventory limit? What armor was I chasing? Is that garbage now? Well, that's a, oh, that's a good question for you, Davis, as someone who's been playing a lot of Dauntless, because Dauntless is really designed to be a more approachable, pared-down experience, do you feel like you still have enough to chase to keep you interested, or is it really just designed to be, like, a disposable experience?
There's still tons of customization options you can do, and you get, like, orbs, you can soften your things, and there's different ranks of them, so there's always, uh, I haven't unlocked the hardest level of monsters yet. Yeah, the behemoths, there's three levels of them, right? Yeah, at least, I think they just added more in some, they have a whole new content thing, at least when I was out of the country, so I haven't explored all that yet, but I know there's, like, yeah, a whole other layer of things to do, and yeah, I've been playing a bunch, and I don't feel like I'm running out of stuff to do. Yeah, it feels all pointless.
No, and there's, like, even within each weapon type, there's, like, a bunch of different builds that honestly feel, like, kind of different, even though you're doing the same, like, six moves, so, yeah, I don't know, I think that there is enough to stick with for a while. Do you think it's enough to, or easy enough that you could put it down and come back in two months and be able to drop right back in? Uh, I put it down for two weeks and then came back, and the first fight back was rough. Rough, I was just, like, on my ass the whole time, and I directed by the second one, I was, like, S-ranking, I was, like, chucking my axe and doing stuff, and so, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Because that was embarrassing when I went out to the bar last night, I played Ultimate Alliance, and one of the things we were talking about with it, and me just particularly, like, how in love I am with that game, but the fact that it's the third in the series, and it is, you know, for all intents and purposes, the things that about it that are basic, like, you know, you drop in every kind of thing, you can understand, like, this classic person, it feels to me the same way Smash felt to you, I think, Tim, where, cool, I'm definitely gonna put it down, and I want to hit up the new Moonlighter, you'll see, and I want to do this, and I, Division's got, you know, new stuff, I'm gonna put down our Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but I feel like I'm gonna pick it back up in X amount of time, days, weeks, months, and I'll be able to drop right back in and not be like, what was I doing? Because the game is just built around smashing shit and leveling up. Okay, I got that. Yeah.
Did you play that one as well? I haven't yet, no. When it comes to Switch, because this sounds like a Greg Miller ass. I think you would really like it.
For me, when our friend Andy was working on PR for it, and sending stuff out for it, and we got it, I got the code, and I think I installed it on PlayStation 4, but for me, yes, the big hook was Switch, and the cross-progression habit, but wherever we're going, but there's also something about it where I don't know what I need to get into it. I don't know what kind of push I need, because it's the same thing where Monster Hunter World got me so hard, and I was so into it, but Monster Hunter World was the first Monster Hunter I played since I reviewed about IG on PSP, and it was almost like I had a hangover from it, but I kind of got it, so to have another Monster Hunter-like game now, it's that thing of, cool, that's awesome, I'm not craving that right now, right, I'm not ravenous for that, and even Iceborne, when I jumped back in, it was like, this game was fucking awesome, and it was awesome playing this with Jen every night and Kevin, you know, like, I would love to do that again, but I still sit down, I'm like, well, Borderlands is going to be that experience, and Borderlands is right around the corner, and there's some other games that I'm like, chomping the bit for, that I really, really, really want, that, like, an update to Monster Hunter World game in that vein, I was like, meh, I don't know, I know Andy played it when it was when it was first launched, it was super into it. The next game I want to talk about, I don't think I've ever heard of, Hunt? Oh, Hunt, yes.
This game was introduced by SoPinkie, it is a, it's still in early access, or beta, like extended beta, but it's launching in the next couple months, it is a, for PC and I think Xbox now, it's a first-person shooter, it's a, like, PvPVE game, and littered throughout are tons of, like, zombies and hellhounds. Yeah, you look up. I think this was at E3, right, it was at the Microsoft presentation for Xbox? I think so, yeah, now that you're talking about it, I remember seeing this, and I remember being like, oh, cool.
Yeah, sound design is so important, you have to listen for cues for other players, all the other teams are trying to hunt down the person also, so you get into, like, fights, yeah. Okay, so this first-person, Huntland, that's a cool weapon. This is, like, because I'm a big Bloodborne fan, this is, like, my favorite weapon, because it just reminds me of, like, a Bloodborne weapon. He's got a standard pistol there, what is that?
Oh, fine. So it's really strategic and tactical, like, and so when you get to the boss, you have to kill it, and then you have to banish it, which takes time, and it alerts all the other players to you, so you kind of want to, like, set up traps in the building you're in to stop them from stealing your prize. How do you banish them? You just press F, or E, or whatever it is, and then there's a cool, like, swirling animation happens, and you've got to wait, like, a minute, but it alerts all the hunters on the map to where you are, and they're trying to stop you, they're trying to get the thing.
Yeah, the token is how you win, you have to, like, get it, you can steal it from other hunters that have it, but you have to get it and get to an exit point. So then they can kill you and take the token. Yes. So it's kind of like Battle Royale, but with a weird supernatural boss.
Yeah, it's Battle Royale in that you have to, like, only have one life. If you lose, yeah, and then you have to, like, recruit a new hunter the next time you want to play and buy, it's kind of like Counter-Strike, and you buy weapons for that. They have a similar system where you get to choose to load out, there's rifles and shotguns and every kind of fancy thing. Yeah, but it's, like, I'm not even very good at it, but it's so addicting.
Like, I got into Battle Royale for a little bit, and there's the rush of just having one life, but I don't like the randomness to it. This, you get to pick your loadout, and so there's less randomness to it, but there's still, the firefights are so tense because one lucky shot can end your whole setup. Are you playing on PC or Xbox? PC.
And the SP PC dork shit. The next thing you have, I also never heard of, Mornhau. Oh, Mornhau. Mornhau was wonderful.
Did you guys ever hear of Chivalry? Yes, of course. It's a first-person medieval simulator where you're just... It was really huge.
Yeah, I was obsessed with Chivalry. And this is just like that, but with... Multiplayer medieval slasher. Creature mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast-paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.
Yeah, it has an insane first-person... I don't know if they'll actually show you the HUD, but you pick how you swing, where you swing, you can do cool parries and reversals. So is it similar to For Honor? Why would he do that?
Oh, so you can flip it. That's better against armor. You can knock off armor pieces of your armor. Hold on.
You're an audio listener. He was swinging the sword by the blade rather than... There's a whole Reddit post about Mornhau being a better game than For Honor. Yeah, it's really more like...
For Honor's like cool, but so... Oh, he hit with the butt end of the sword. I love it. Yeah.
it's really just like it looks just like it feels just like except for like some new features and you can kind of customize your loadouts and stuff it's another game that I'm so bad at but being like a 60 plus person server and just like running in and screaming and you'll be like fighting I'll have died like 8 times in a row and then I'll just do a lucky thing and I'll clean somebody's head off and I'll feel like I'm fucking Jedi's game and that one kill will sustain me for like an hour and then a much more lighthearted game Cadence of Hyrule I still haven't played what? oh my gosh I played before you? I didn't have internet access for the flight back from I think it was E3 right? yes it was one of the two and then I just got totally screwed out of it you would love it I didn't like Crypt of the Necrodancer that much I think the reason why you might like Cadence of Hyrule instead is because Zelda I like the music in Crypt of the Necrodancer yeah the Zelda pull though in Cadence of Hyrule really harkens back to early Zelda games that exploration that not knowing what's behind the wall having to search for hidden objects it really just feels super nostalgic in that way so even if you've never played Crypt of the Necrodancer you can if you're a deep Zelda fan from like decades ago you'll be able to pick this up because you can turn some of the beat matching elements of it off that really define what Crypt of the Necrodancer was there are things inside the menus that can make it a little bit easier if you just want to have that puzzle exploration side of it and don't want to focus too much on the beat matching is that good though?
it depends on the style of play is it the way it's intended to be played? no, right? it's intended to be played in a way that you're supposed to really strategize watching all of these different monsters move around the map to these different beats and then timing your moves and your combat almost like a dance where you're like flowing across the map to these different rhythms it was cool about that each time you move because I'm a big Zelda fan I played for a couple hours with the beat on and then I just got so tired even if I wanted to skip through levels you have to go on the beat otherwise it stops you so I turned it off it's cool it is like a dance strategy game because you almost have to plan based on any movements and your weapons and abilities like you have to time out how many squares and jumps you want to do which is like cool but it's just not it's not my thing and it looks gorgeous and it looks so much like a Zelda that I just wanted it to be a regular Zelda but I'm glad I bought it and supported the developer and I know the people that love it so you might love it I think the Venn diagram overlap I really tried I can never answer like multiple shots and it's just something about it felt like it wasn't enough of a rhythm game which is a weird thing to say but it did feel almost more like strategy RPG just like so if you're like a strategy RPG you're kind of like choosing the grid system of where you're going but then you take the act of time battle of Final Fantasy where it's still turn based but it's like you gotta keep moving you gotta keep it quick it kind of felt like that I'm like I don't necessarily want either of those things together and add Zelda to it and it's just like all three of those things now I'd rather kind of this or this not together how many songs are there is that just the same there's a bunch and I believe there's like three versions of each depending on like if you're in combat if you're not a lot of times I just don't listen to the music that's rad yeah cool game and then Cuphead you're playing for the third time on Switch I am you're in a Tesla wait what? you're playing a Tesla?
not yet right they're releasing it yeah it's just World 1 or whatever first island yeah oh okay so you should get it two times now was it on Xbox and then on PC? yeah I did it on Xbox then I got it on PC and now I have it on Switch how far are you? I'm on the second chunks of Islands yeah I'm just going through it at a fun pace I tried playing it because it was when I was in England and so I had to kind of use the Joy-Con for a little bit which is also this game is not a good Joy-Con game because you just have to like so precisely dodge projectiles and aim and stuff but it's great with the Pro Controller and I can't believe I'm still like in awe every time I turn it on that it's on the Switch I don't know why I'm just like oh you should have always been here this is like it's great I ran into one of the creators of it at E3 wait that's not right where did I just go? Comic-Con and we were talking about the Netflix show which is just insane that got announced while I was playing on the Switch and I was like alright cool I think that they're in a better in better shape for Cuphead 2 because they've learned from their woeful mistakes of their animation process for the first Cuphead which obviously delivered this beautiful product but their workflow inefficiencies were really substantial which is why it took so long for Cuphead to get made and they've been introduced to a lot of more advanced ways to do the type of animation that they're trying to do so they can optimize their workflow for Cuphead 2 so hopefully we won't have to wait six or seven years to see Cuphead 2 yeah absolutely I mean in the DLC it's like a ton of a lot and it's gonna be great but I still don't think it's gonna be that substantial like they might be like I'll take it like that sounds awesome but it's good that they're not really in charge of making the TV show they're like another studio making that they're kind of just like making some decisions what's up you know I don't follow well no so they've announced another project right the last of the courses that they're probably working on do you think their next thing is Cuphead 2 and they double down or you don't think they do something different why would they I mean especially yeah but here's the thing you're thinking as if they were developers working for EA or whatever they're weird indies right and they're weird indies up in Canada exactly they want to do the exact same thing Cuphead is in Smash they're gonna keep making is that like a direct quote from somebody no it's gonna happen eventually oh yeah eventually and I just feel like it being a Netflix show is gonna be so great for Cuphead as a brand that Cuphead 2 is inevitable like they have to do it it might not be the exact same thing but it's like while Aaron's hot yeah totally and I think it's gonna be hot for a long time and especially if they're gonna keep being partied with Microsoft like Microsoft could use identifiable characters you know what I mean so I'm all about it let's go you need to be Cuphead you got a video you got a video I'm sure I do that falls into the Super Mario Maker things I'm watching Andy Dior I'm just like no I don't want to be punished I don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again to get it past the next thing yeah no thanks I'm good I respect it I totally get why people love it but that goes back to what I was talking about with like you know with all the throwback and retro stuff people get so excited and I like it and there's certain ones obviously that speak this isn't a Greg rule or something but if games hadn't evolved past what they were in terms of game design I wouldn't be a gamer like I just wouldn't like playing stuff like when you play Punishing Ninja Turtles on fucking and he has Battletoads like the things that people are like oh man that's a really hard game I'm like yeah it's not hard and I get excited it's hard and I get frustrated I don't want to play this I want to play games for entertainment I want to play games to see not that I need baby ass baby mode not that there's anything wrong with that or do I need the game just to be a walking simulator or something like baby ass baby mode to comment to YouTube just watching somebody else yeah yeah yeah but I'm not that you know me I'm just not that platformer guy like honestly we talked about it on I mean it kind of is I mean it's not but when I talked about this recently on I guess games daily or whatever I mean Gary were arguing about trophies more because of course you didn't know I'm a 100 platinum what did Ubisoft give you?
Ubisoft set a box inside mainly was a cake on Ubisoft they sent a Suzy cake that had a platinum 100 on it and they kind of got shit around and then they gave oh where the hell? Kevin? no actually it was me what are you playing? could you share it?
because we were all in there and Joey's like it's fragile it's fragile it says fragile really big on it that's a good Kevin laugh but there is still me on the subreddit just to get the words on the screen inside there was a comic book for the division there was a poster there was some keychains there was a battery charging pack there was a code for some of the cash keys for the heatwave apparel that's what I'm on right now just cool stuff like that just cool stuff like that oh no remember I bought this off if you're an audio listener I have a playstation trophy glass that I bought off merch away when I finally got here because I ordered it months ago when I finally got here it was so close so I won't drink out of it I did I did I spent the 20 bucks you know what I mean how was the street how was the street I just think your support I was really good to know your close friend oh it was great it was cool me and Fran got out there we hadn't done that in a long time it was me, Fran Richie, a line cook himself and then the platinum prince Josh Rav who of course gave a lot of shoutouts to there I'll give him a shoutout here Josh is the one who helped me grind out the dark zone pvp ones I needed you gotta go in you have to extract something from every dark zone not tough I already pretty much done that on my own but that's the normal one of kill a rogue or whatever rogue agent in every dark zone oh the finding those is actually very difficult and that's why just like division one where I did it with Cameron this time around with Josh would go in and he would go rogue he leaves the team he shoots me dead I come back in and kill him there you go that's one, two, three and then there was another one of cutting the line and taking some of these drop like is there about to export a rogue oh okay and that's my thing about and I'm not trying to go rant about trophies or whatever I understand the reason behind putting those in because that's a cool thing most people if they're carrying about trophies or hunting those trophies which means you just sit there and do it the wrong way so like why even put that crap in especially when it's tied to something that's matchmaking based and is tied to server populations because didn't we talk about one of the most egregious ones was from Friday the 13th yeah yeah yeah it was like an impossible task to get and it's almost like they put it in as a troll and it's like because you only get Jason as like an RNG pick like you can ask to be Jason but there's no guarantee that you get to play as Jason and so trying to get him X amount of times for the trophy was like yo this is that's the thing those kind of trophies if you wanted to multiplayer trophies are done the best by Naughty Dog in all the Uncharted games where it was literally like try this mode try this other mode cool you've gotten all the Uncharted multiplayer trophies for the base game for the platinum we're gonna do DLC and it will be now get a million kills with this do this thing we get all that but that's not stuff that affects the platinum that's actually going DLC trophies are their own beast you can just go and do it and keep people going so like that's my thing too like Friday the 13th which I love right it was like make that an attainable platinum and a fun platinum and then yeah go ahead and put in a DLC trophy that is get Jason a million times whatever it doesn't matter yeah make it an achievement in the sense that it's not just like a checkbox on your trophies or achievements but that instead of making it a trophy make it like an exclusive cosmetic item like if you get this crazy number of things and you get this like super rare like mask or costume trophies and achievements are done right they get you to play something you wouldn't normally play or play a way you wouldn't normally play and that's the thing right where it's like cool yeah maybe in Uncharted I wouldn't have tried those modes but I did because of this and you know 5% of that group finds out they love Uncharted multiplayer and plays Uncharted multiplayer right whenever it's the try every weapon that's always a really good idea because I'm totally not that guy where I come in and I'm like I'm going to use I use an assault rifle and I use a shotgun and I use the crossbow as my main right if I didn't have to go experiment I would have stuck with that but you experiment go around you find different things different tactics different moves that's cool that's a great way to do it was there any moment during your stream you thought you weren't able to do it no I had done a lot of legwork not too bad I did have a scare in the morning when we were driving when I was coming to work on the bus I was going through looking at the trips one more time I was like wait and I texted Fran I'm like the last two things because all I had to do was do two missions on hard and I was like they're strongholds do we have to do things to unlock those and Fran's like I can't remember either you just changed the difficulty yeah no it was fine but I was concerned all of a sudden are these two missions about to turn into like six total because I have to do two other things and I didn't have to do that so you just asked me why you wasn't in Fran we already talked about it I didn't know but I was just away from the thing turned it on and now we were fine but yeah once we got in and got going it was fine well congrats thank you I'm excited to drive back in because hard isn't hard especially for like level 500 people but Fran's like oh it's going to be so shut down you idiot Fran and I got shot but it was a fun time it was a good time when I was just knocking out other platforms I was doing all the Rattelica games which are usually just not great games with easy trophies like the five minute trophies exactly I had done one Kevin can you bring in my trophies I forget what the name is I want to say what's the website PSNprofiles.com do you care about trophies which do you guys want to do this trophies do not do much for me but when one pops up I feel like hey that's cool yeah I beat that initiative to the campaign alright I am pretty good but I'm not like a person that will hunt it down give me a couple more trolls there you go stop Medigal Medigal I started playing right and it was I was playing it and I was like okay cool it's Mega Man it's a Mega Man game right and I was like I'm not a Mega Man fan but the trophies are easy and I was playing it I was actually having a good time with it to the point that when I platined it in whatever it was like 15 minutes and I shut down we were going somewhere and I went and bought Mega Man Legacy Collection did we? yeah it went that far did you actually start playing it? yeah I played Mega Man 2 beat Mega Man 2 for the first time no way now granted because of course the Legacy Collection is totally not what would have driven me away from Mega Man which is like oh I fucked up Rewind oh I fucked up Rewind I don't have to fucking sit there and get punished over and over and over again if you're an asshole right instead of doing the boss things learning the strategies jumping over shit it's like it's fun that's awesome but because I could rewind and not be like I was being drunk through a bed of glass like I feel like a bed would make me feel yeah I don't know Pokemon Go Pokemon Go as everybody knows I'm falling in love with Pokemon Go the street continues Jen and I are still getting up early in the morning and going for walks getting a cup of coffee walking around playing Pokemon Go how did you got now? pretty much them all I don't know I'm not playing it that way I did send Goldfarb and I had a bunch of nerdy questions I'm texting Angel I don't remember it was so long ago I heard you like Mudkips I haven't seen that meme I heard you like Mudkips yeah I heard you like Mudkips meme I heard you like Mudkips oh it's spelled all funny too E-T-R-D-U-L-I-E-K anyways Mudkips, triple XB for three hours right and what I've always not said but with Jen and I being obsessed with Pokemon Go right now it's so crazy to have it suddenly kind of peeled back how people are still into this game because the conversation about Pokemon Go that got us started playing was just how successful it is and how they've had so much stuff and all those different things and then a couple weeks ago now or whatever last week Jen and I were walking around Golden Gate Park and it was a quiet morning and there was a woman in front of us and her jogger was walking as well and she's like she's playing Pokemon Go I'm like no she's not because I'm there catching everything left in the night and she's like no she's just doing Poké Sops and sure enough every time it came up to a Poké Sop it made the noise in her earbud I guess and she pulled it up got the Poké Sop and since now starting to play it's this fucking bizarre thing whenever people pass me on their phone 80% of the time these fuckers are playing Pokemon Go still and wandering around doing stuff it's like the end of John Wick 2 when they're after him and all of a sudden everyone's an assassin you're just like everyone likes Pokemon Go exactly right and so it's been cool but it's like not everybody so it's just like these interesting things oh that person's walking playing too that's interesting but this community was coming around Jen and I almost forgot about it but we heard about it oh fuck yeah let's go do it or whatever so 4 to 7 we popped out there at 4.15 or whatever went into the park and I was floored I was floored Tim everyone was out there playing Pokemon Go everyone it was such a I felt like time jump moment to when Pokemon Go launched because if you remember when it launched it was everywhere and you couldn't get away from it and like you know Dirty Nellies had a sign outside about not being a Pokemon Go away and like people were in our sleepy neighborhoods like yelling about Charmander and running around and it was like now that I'm playing it it's like I kind of longed to be like oh man I wish I was this into it when that was happening right because it's like Jen and I Definitely another thing of like, we walk up to a gym, can we do it, or a raid, can we do it?
It's like, ah man, it's five of the mad faces, and there's just two of us, there's no way, we're not going to be able to do this. And so like, you know, having those original days where everyone was there, I was like, that would be cool. It turns out that Community Day is that, Community Day is that, just distilled down, because the park was crawling with people. And like, yeah, we went and did a raid, it was the first time I went and did a raid, it was like, in a second, there was 20 people, they were all set to go and play, and just wandering around in general, everyone was out there, people were dressed, they're cosplaying in the park, they're doing all the things.
So what Pokemon are you going to cosplay us? Oh, that's a great question, I think I'm going to be, I'm going to probably cosplay as a trainer, I don't want to be, I don't want to be one of these slaves I have, all right, these monsters I get, that I put in a cop fight, all right, I grab these guys and make a fight to the death, you know, that's, that's their job. Really pass out, dude. No, no, no, not my guys, you know what I mean, I have my own narrative for what's happening to these guys, but I'm not using Revive, it's straight to the Sausage Factory with you, get my piece of candy.
Oh yeah, it was awesome, it was incredible, I was really, really blown away, it gets me excited for PAX, like I want to do a, as organized as a candy as my schedule is still coming together, but like, hey, let's do it. Literally, like, all the stuff's are identical, because it's built by the same company. Oh, is it every PokéDoc? Yeah, they're both financial games, yeah, it's all built on Ingress.
You get, like, these grumpy regulars at these local bars, they're like, we don't like all the fucking Pikachus in here, because there were so many people in cosplay, it was such a real experience, and it went super late into the night, but because it's a victim of, you know, digital deletion, because when Playboy shut their editorial division, they deleted all of the editorial content off the internet. Jerks. Just like all my Clever Games videos are, poof, gone, off the internet. Just like I'm coming as Madness, he's going to delete all the videos, it's kind of funny.
Make back up to you guys, I'm the archivist. No, it's just, it's been really cool, like, you know what I mean, for, just in general, this Pokémon stuff, and playing it, and actually being, like, you know, over the weekend we were playing, and it was just that thing, like, let's just see a movie, all right, cool, do you want to just walk there? We walk from our house to the Alamo, right? That's a walk, that's a hike.
That's a 40-minute walk. I know, yeah, I know, and when you're stopping to get Pokémon, it's more of, like, an hour, and there's a lot of elevation changes in there, and all that, but it's, like, it's just such a goofy, dumb thing that I think is, like, actually getting me out and exercising, which is always a trouble, right? Yeah, right, and, like, that's why we're doing, like, one of the reasons we're doing it every morning, I think, in general, Jen, she already was doing this, I was, like, shooting in the face before I just walk around for no reason. Was that, like, 40 times?
How many times? Oh, man, another tree. Like, I've seen the fucking trees. Oh, the ducks is out here.
Fucking ducks is not, exactly. I'll tell you what, Mr. Reefus. No, I'm not, well, here's the struggle I have, is they got those Mr.
Reefus, right? And let me tell you, they fucking live in Golden Gate Park. That's just their hive, and they're my bros. But I got, I only have so many Pokémon space, I got to leave them once in a while.
Don't you send a power-level other Pokémon, though? Yeah, you're the same type, yeah, so you make them a candy. But then there's one time where, like, literally, I rolled into a thing. I rolled into a battle, and it was like, oh.
You're into a Pokémon Go? No, no, no, I was really into it. You're talking about candy, and you're running out of the way. No, no, I'm laughing because you killed a Pokémon.
Like, you send it away, and you get candy back. And then you feed it to their brother. We all know what's happening. Yeah, it makes sense for killing.
No, I loved, when it first came out, I was obsessed, and my friends, we'd all, we'd go to brunch, and we'd do stuff. Santa Monica Pier. Oh, great. I saw the first weekend, somebody just shouted Squirtle, and it was insane.
But at least the places down there, the restaurants were like, 5% off, you show us if you come to play Pokémon Go, and you show your waiter and stuff. At least where I was, all the establishments there embraced it. It was definitely a mix here. There was the ones that were like, this is going to be great for our business, but then the place Dirty Nellies was talking about was this, like, shitty Irish bar.
And they didn't do, like, no part of it. Yeah, San Francisco, like, has a lot of attitude. And some of the more established places by establishing the old. Yeah, exactly.
And all the new, like, hit places, they're all like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We used to do, like, just walks at night all around our town, and you'd see, like, groups of kids all hang out, like, everybody. Also, like, parents were playing with their kids. It was, like, great.
It was beautiful. Dude, you're making yourself for it. In Community Day was that on such a, again, it's just distilling it down, putting everyone in a spot. But it was the exact same thing of, you know, like, grandparent-level old people walking around playing it, right?
Dads and their daughter. Us, you know, super young kids. Parents who didn't give a shit with super young kids that were playing it. It was just like, it's just so fucking crazy.
And again, how this all started, talking about how they continue to add to the game. Like, they put in Team Rocket this week, right? And, like, they did it for one day and went away, and now it's back today. And it's, like, now adding in PvE battles, which I like.
I like, you know, challenging even Jen just for, like, our friendship levels. I'm like, this sucks. I hate this fight. But what if, like, I'm fighting a computer to get these Pokemon that have been poisoned?
Not poisoned. But, like, they have a shadow on them, and I gotta purify them. I'm like, yeah, fuck yeah. And now I'm down to one more, so I gotta look for a Pokestop out there right now.
It's haunted or whatever. I gotta get these Team Rocket motherfuckers. This is the thing that kind of makes me a little bit sad for Wizards Unite, is that Niantic took, like, all of their learnings from Pokemon Go and went into Wizards Unite with it. But the core gameplay is so much more difficult to do while you're walking than Pokemon Go is, and I think that's the big hindrance for me.
So I was in Santa Monica last week to play a game that I can talk about next week, and we were walking along, kind of near where the pier is still on Ocean Avenue. There's a ton of stops there. And because it was a full moon, there were werewolves out. And that was, like, a really cool...
In real life. It was, like, a cool in-game event, you know, because in the Harry Potter universe, there's werewolves and blah, blah, blah, right? And so I was trying to catch one of these werewolves, but in order for me to get the spell cast the right way, I would have to stop and hold the phone with my hand and then draw it as accurately as I could, because with Pokemon Go, you can just flip the Pokeball with your thumb while you're holding it with one hand, and so you can, like, have a coffee in your other hand or hold your dog leash or do whatever else you want with your other hand, use your imagination. But, like...
It's a full moon. You can't really do that with Wizards Unite, particularly somebody like me who has, you know, tiny lady hands, and I have a giant phone, like, I can't do most of the spells with a single swipe of my thumb. And that little piece is such a big deal with how repetitive the gameplay is in both of those games, but you don't feel the repetitiveness in Pokemon Go the same way because it feels like it's rewarding every time, whereas I feel like I fail the spells in Wizards Unite a lot. Even if I make a great or magnificent spell, like, the items still get away a fair amount of time, and I didn't feel that way with Pokemon Go.
I felt like, yeah, there were some times, right, where they break out of the Pokeball, you need a stronger ball or whatever, where you have to use, like, the special items, but it still felt more rewarding than Wizards Unite does, and that's why I think I'm having such a hard time staying connected and committed. Yeah, where are you right now with Wizards Unite? Because all you talk about is this goddamn Lego Tower. It's all I see Joey talking about it.
Lego Tower is in my bay right now. So I haven't really picked it up because in my neighborhood, unlike in Pokemon Go, I at least could catch Pidgey some other random Pokemon around my house. There's nothing around my house in the Wizards Unite app. I have to go to where the gym is, where the Pokemon gym is, to get anything to appear, and it's super frustrating.
So when I'm home, I never play because I'm not going to, like, go walk out by myself and play. I mean, I could, but I don't because I would also want to play. You've got Lego Tower to play. Exactly.
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Now what's up? So originally when I first got this game, the team from NimbleBit and their PR team sent me $5 worth of in-game currency. So as a disclaimer, they started me off with $5 worth of $5. Which is still like a fraction of the value of the code we get on a regular basis.
But just for clarity, I got $5 from them. And I was talking, and I go into length with this with Stangron, What's Good Tomorrow, if you guys want to hear a real knockdown dragout about Lego Tower. And I just am having a lot of fun with it because I really like how they've incorporated this multiplayer element in a much better way than they have in their previous Tower games. Have you played Tiny Tower or Tiny Death Star or Tiny Vegas?
Are you familiar with Tiny Tower as a mobile game? I'm not big in the mobile games. Okay. That's fine.
It's my lot in the kind of fun of players to play the mobile games. I know. I know. I know.
I know. I know. I know. I encourage you to make friends, and it works beneficially for everybody because when you're building your tower, the idea is that you have these individual levels.
Like, you can see my tower here that I have these levels, and then each level has workers, and then each level has workers that have a specialty. So if I have a Lego store, for example, I'm going to have a minifig that moves into one of my apartments. Their dream job is to work in the Lego store. And so your goal is to, like, stock all of your stores with people whose dream job is to work there.
So you gave us a pitch on this a couple of weeks ago. Right. Yeah. The point I was trying to make, I don't mean to be repetitive.
I apologize. Was that it's really difficult to find the minifigs with the dream jobs for the towers or for the levels you have. Enter the friend system. Join a while.
So Joey and I are friends in Lego Tower. We're a lot of friends. I know. In Lego Tower.
Yeah. And so if you have an abundance, maybe you have five people that all want to work at the ninja training level. Who wouldn't? But, like, there can only be three.
There's only sponsor three. So now you've got two extras that are like, well, I don't want to go work in the mailroom. You know, I don't want to go to the cafe. And so there are people whose dream job is to work in the mailroom.
I've got three of them. But that, and then Joey's like, I don't have anybody who wants to work in this. And then I can go, hey, Joey, let me send you this worker who's dying to work in your mailroom. And then not only does it help me that I get to place my minifig in a great home, but then she gets to have a minifig that pays triple rent.
Oh, wow. Triple. When they're in their dream job, they pay triple rent. You guys are Lego slumlords.
I can't believe it. Oh, trust me. We're evicted minifigs left and right. Oh, if I double as I just evicted them, it's going to be awesome, my friend.
Oh, my God. So how are your mobile game journeys been going? It's really fun. I've been still playing Harry Potter.
I do agree with what Andrea says about it. I feel like I was maybe going to lunch with the two of you and I was, like, way behind you because I kept stopping. No, we watched the 7-11. I've done that, too.
Okay, it was you and Kevin. We were walking to 7-11. For the record, one of the days after Games Daily, I was reading the subs and I was giving them an update on you outside. Because I saw you leave your car and then stop and then walk a bit and then stop.
I'm playing a lot of Lego Tower. I feel like the timers on these are really well done compared, like, there's things that you can actively do while you have timers running in the background to make it more interactive than, say, like, pocket cam boards. Like, I only log in once every three hours to harvest all my stuff and fulfill requests because you can't really do anything else other than that. So I really like that about Lego Tower.
And I started playing the Tower Defense game that Tim was talking about. I beat it, I don't know if you heard that. No, that's awesome. I really like it.
It requires way more attention than I'm used to in mobile gaming requiring. Oh, yeah, you can't. Maybe it's a real game. Totally.
But that's not what I use my phone for. I use it for, like, the bullshit. The time wasters. How much money do you put into Lego Tower?
I think I put, like, between 12 and 15 bucks in there. What about Harry Potter? It's probably somewhere similar. Maybe even more.
It's not, like, four at night levels yet. Well, I was running my own math here. So far, the millers have put $53 into Pokemon. That's me and Jen.
That's not bad. I put $40 into Pokemon Go. I was reading a thread today of somebody that, and I didn't read into it, this was just the headline of the thread, but it was, like, after spending $15,000, I think I finally got everything I can do in Fire Emblem Heroes. It was, like, the horny casino will get you.
That's what Alexa Ray called in Fire Emblem Heroes is the horny casino. Why is it a horny casino? Because you can spend a lot of money. She spent over $100, I think, in Fire Emblem Heroes.
I have to double-check what her current figure is. Like $15,000. And again, you're enjoying it. But man, that's just a, I like to see that, you guys.
Anyway, we're not going. It's a lot of money, man. Because the big thing you spend money there is, like, the random roll to get the characters you want, right? I'm trying to figure this out.
Get to the bottom of it. See, that's the next spend for me in Pokemon, is that a week from Saturday is the next community day, the August community day. And incubators are going three times as fast. I was like, fuck, I'm not.
Why is more incubators? Put them in there, you know what I mean? Yeah. Maximize my time, Davis.
Don't you walk to Hatchim? Yeah, but you have to buy the incubators, right? You have one incubator for free, and you can get them from Quest. Oh, so you can only do one egg at a time.
Right, with the incubator you have is slow as hell, too. Okay, so you put it in there. So basically, you're 100%. The Pax egg has to be in an incubator, and then I have to walk it while it's in an incubator.
The eggs just be in loose, I just have a bunch of eggs. When you buy new incubators, there's like one use. Most of them are three, I believe. Okay, so you have three uses of them.
Kind of like a wine barrel. I quit right after, but I got the, do you guys remember the Pokemon Go Plus? Like a little expand, you press the button. Do people use those anymore?
I've seen shows, like when we go to Pax Arts, you ask people to have them on their bags or their wrists or whatever. So why are you not partaking? I think it's pretty too far from me personally. Really?
Yeah. So I got Barrett in here to bring us back on track just a little bit. I'll start talking about games in the game show. Fuck us, I guess.
If you want to get rants about how mad I am about the microphones, I just need to be better at the game, Andrea. I've been playing for an hour and 19 minutes right now. Still got plenty of lives. Still got plenty of lives.
Also, do you ever check your mail? Because I keep getting 10 lives. No, in the game. I haven't opened it up.
When's the last time you checked your mailbox? I'm having actual fun playing LEGO Tower. I'm having a great time, too. Good.
We're going to race happy. I'm glad we're all so happy. Glad I was able to get you on track. Play you playing, Barrett.
That was a Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. Last week, Greg gave his kind of giant review impression stuff. You and I, addicted to hook. Last night, you guys went out and either dragged or played the game or both.
I'm not really sure where it all fell. At the same time. We'll go home and watch one here. I really love it.
It brings me back to the Ultimate Alliance 2 era of it's exactly what you remember it being. Now there's different characters for them to build off of. The story is kooky and weird and it's just something that exists. It's just a two-rowed Marvel Universe.
Does it deliver on the moments that you wanted? Dead height. Like some random person popping up. You're like, this is going to be really tight.
I haven't felt that yet. You haven't beat it yet? No, I haven't beat it yet. We just did the X-Men level yesterday.
So how far would you say I am? Oh, that's World... You're chapter 4, right? So there's 10 chapters.
Okay. So I'm about halfway through. But yeah, there's been nothing that's blown my mind yet. But I do hear after chapter 7 or whatever.
The other thing is, I don't know how much you've looked at it. You've seen the character reveal, right? Yeah, yeah. And that's the thing.
For me, when I was playing it blind for review, it was way easier to have those moments. I was like, oh, fuck. I had to direct the party mode where y'all played. I saw the characters.
So I was like, ah, it's pretty much all that I can really get spoiled for me for the end. But yeah, it's a good old fun time. Playing the superheroes. And it was one of those games that I was telling Alyssa, I was like, hey, I think you'd be really into this.
She's like, ah, there's going to be too many buttons to remember. I'm like, no, really, there is not. There is not. Does this game do anything for you?
I played it at E3. And I played the other ones back in college when we were out. It was like, oh, okay. It kind of feels like too similar to those.
But then I found out that there's, in single player, you get a different camera angle. And I was like, this might be a little more, I love Ninja Theory. And I was like, maybe. This is on my, I think once if it goes on a sale at any point, I'll snag it.
Well, Nintendo produced it, so. Well, you can maybe use it like a GameStop or something. Save the coins. I'm all of those.
I'm like, this generation. Oh, okay. There's a lot of characters I lose all the time. Yeah, they're great moments.
I watched Deadpool last night, and he immediately, when I started playing it, I was like, oh, this is. Spoilers. Exactly. I mean, he was a big marketing guy.
I'm talking with you, Barrett. I totally lost one. You're talking about Deadpool. He feels like exactly how he did in the second one.
It brought me back. It was in a good way. So, yeah, there's definitely that feel of, like, oh, these are definitely the same exact games from 10 or so years ago. But, yeah, there's a little improvements here and there that make you feel like, oh, like, I will give this a shot.
So, yeah. You want to play anything else? I don't know. While you think of that, I have a question about Ultimate Alliance.
If you're not super into the comic book aspect of the Marvel Universe, maybe you're more of an MCU fan and you don't really know, like, the history of these characters and where they come from, do you think people will still be able to have fun with this game and get most of the references? Obviously, there's, like, lots of nuggets from, like, the hardcore fans, the true believers, as Bill says. But, like, will you feel lost if you're not? No, I don't think so, especially because the setup for this story is very much the Infinity Saga or whatever.
And then, like, there's maybe two or three characters that I've seen so far that aren't in the MCU. And it's like, they give a pretty good description of just who they are generally as a character every time, like, they pop up for the first time. So, I feel like if you're only an MCU person, you're going to understand 90% of the story and characters in this game. Okay, that's a big percentage.
How's your Zelda playthrough going? Because for people who don't know, what are you doing? I'm a broken human being, and I got obsessed with an idea, let's see, two months ago of making myself play through nine different Zelda games in timeline order and playing them one a month. So, so far, I've played Skyward Sword and Ocarina of Time.
And so that was just an emotional journey of going to Skyward Sword, the biggest fuckery in the Zelda history of games. And I still can't believe that people gave that game a fucking 10 at the time. That was one of the, to give a story, that was one of the first games I ever looked up reviews for because I played an hour of it and I was like, this is bad, right? Like, I can see what other people think about this.
And everybody was giving attention to it. I was like, am I the dumb one? No. Yeah, and it was nice to go back and actually play through the entirety of it because I gave up, I think, five hours in when it originally came out.