Elden Ring

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Yo, what up, everybody?
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Welcome to another episode of Low Five Gaming.
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This is Alex, your host, and I am joined by the one, the only Lucas Dukith.
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Lucas Duthic.
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Hello, foul maiden list tarnished.
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How are how are all of you after our much anticipated controversial departure from the podcasting space?
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How are we doing?
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Oh my gosh, indeed.
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I'm doing pretty well.
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We even had extra content available and then we destroyed it just for scarcity's sake, dude.
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We just wanted to be edgy.
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We like made that one Wu-Tang album that they made and sold to the one guy.
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Do you remember that?
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I do remember that.
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We basically got leaked, dude.
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Did you know that?
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Uh I think I heard, but I haven't heard the music.
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But I I mean it makes sense.
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You give somebody the thing that only they can listen to, they're probably gonna leak it eventually.
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But regardless, no one will leak our secret super awesome episode because we destroyed it.
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I know.
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It was too good, dude.
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It was too juicy.
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A couple years deep into the uh podcasting sphere, you'd think we'd have these things figured out, but no, we recorded the dead air, we got sick.
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Things happen in life.
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Alex got vicious diarrhea, like motive times.
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Well, for real though, I I mean, I don't know if that was involved with our recording, like, but I did have the Noro.
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Might have to cut a little bit of this off the intro.
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Nope.
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Because it's the truest Elden Ring experience, dude, because no matter if you have norovirus, you cannot pause.
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You must continue.
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Load.
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Load.
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So we made it one minute into this pod before I bitched about being unable to pause.
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You're welcome.
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Indeed.
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So if you haven't picked it up by now, we are we're talking Elden Ring.
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Yes.
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In the year of our Lord, 2025.
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Because we're edgy.
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Three three years late to the party?
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Roughly.
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Yeah, three years and not even talking about the DLC, which would be most people's expectations.
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I think this dropped in February.
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Like almost to the date, three years.
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That's hilarious.
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And we just get into it.
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Get into it.
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I'm still fighting through it, man, to be honest.
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Yeah.
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But no, it's dope.
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Uh Elden Ring.
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Is it dope?
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I don't know.
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We'll we'll get there.
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Elden Ring, developed by From Software.
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This is my first From Soft experience.
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Same.
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We usually reference it a lot in pods because it's definitely part of the Zame, but we mostly mock and make fun of it.
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So this is us truly getting our Capital G gamer creds with perhaps the most accessible game in the series, but right.
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That's what I'm gonna say.
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I'm tuned in enough to know that this is although this is a From Software game, it is the most approachable, is what folks will say.
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Even though I thought this was uh the pretty difficult, dude.
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Apparently the other ones are um are worse.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I haven't gotten to like the deepest depths of the late game stuff or the DLC, which I heard is bonkers, but um I always remember this game being compared to Breath of the Wild, and I just thought that was the most bonkers thing in the world because I hadn't played it.
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And uh mild spoiler, I get it now.
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We'll get into that later.
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Certainly not as friendly of that game, but you get the hang of it, and it is pick-upable.
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It is it is approachable.
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Uh and as much as there's a learning curve, it is it is cool.
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I liked it a lot.
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Elden Ring?
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Mm-hmm.
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Pick-upable, approachable.
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Once you're 20 hours deep, maybe.
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I'd say like I have very fond memories of the opening like struggle where there's that first encampment and running up to that encampment and trying to figure it out.
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Like I I remember that stuttering phase very fondly.
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Uh, and then from around that area, once I cleared the camp, I was pretty much up and running.
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Now, early shouts out.
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I've had some uh some wise guides, some sage experiences from some pretty funny sources.
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Do you want me to get into that now or should we do that later?
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We can jump into it real shortly, just to get the house housekeeping out of the way.
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This did drop on PlayStation 4, 5, Xbox One, Series X and S and Windows.
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Tight.
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Mm-hmm.
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So that if you if you don't got one of those, you're not playing.
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Right.
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Um Buddy of mine, Aaron, he shared with me a sweet map and also was just kind of like helping me out with like some initial early game stuff because he was a good good chunk ahead of me.
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Shouts out him, it was really dope to have him help me out.
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So that kind of helped me with a lot of like the early early game like stuttering, like, hey, should I be sucking this bad answer?
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Yes, try this, me being like actually super dope helpful.
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Uh Ace, early reference.
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Boing.
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He got it as a gift, so he picked it up around the same time.
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So it was actually really cool to talk through some of the stuff as we were parallel going through a lot of the same challenges.
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And then most hilarious, I got a little homie, one of my students, who today actually told me that he's like put 500 hours total into this game.
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Get out.
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It's Buck Wild, but if you think about it, you know, we always talk about like how much more we would have played of a game if that's the only game we had and we were kids, and that's so that's him, right?
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And like it's like talking to a wiki page.
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I'll be like, Yeah, I'm in this area, and he'll like say the name of like the bosses, and he understands the dialogue going on, which rant incoming later there.
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So I've basically had like ace parallel playing, I've had Aaron as a bit of a guide, and then I've had my little nerdy homie as another sage-like little guide for me, and he's done it all.
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I actually have found the community of it really cool, and then like my initial stumbles were eventually rewarded, and I got super duper into it.
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Nice.
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Yeah, I don't really have an Elden Ring Sherpa.
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You are a little bit.
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Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
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Uh I helped you, I helped you.
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We did some as a whole recent.
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We did some coop.
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We did some coop a little bit.
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It's been a long time since we've coped.
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That was actually honestly, that was probably the turning point for me.
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Um, having you come in and help me through with a couple a couple of little little bad little baddie bosses, and uh that like that sparked that session.
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Our first like co-op session first and last, maybe correct.
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Um, but that's as you can tell from this extremely late pod, our coordination skills are fantastic these days.
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Yeah, 2025.
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Yeah, baby.
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Uh but no, man, that like that actually that did spark like that.
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That's what churned.
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I just wasn't sold on this game, dude.
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And then like when we connected and did that session, like that's kind of what that's what made it click for me.
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I was like, all right, cool, like this is cool.
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You know, you helped me get past a couple like pain point bosses that I was dealing with.
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And yeah, it just like turned on the it just it flipped the switch where it's like okay, where I was kind of like by some douche who wants to wreck noobs who were just trying to figure out a stupid fucking convoluted system.
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That was so wild.
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That was so wild.
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I couldn't believe it.
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We thought it was a computer too.
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We were like, wait, what?
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No, or like are you punished for sticking in here too long?
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And I believe only in bosses can you not be invaded.
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Otherwise, if you're doing that co-op shit, you're vulnerable to invasions, which is it's yeah, we were trying to like find our find our grounding, like just like before we went into the to take on that boss, and also some dude just pops out of nowhere, like just way open throwing bombs and shit.
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I don't remember who died first, me or you, but like you definitely just like mopped the floor with us.
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And I was like, what the fuck was that?
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Is it because we were sitting there for too long?
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The game just booed us, that's how it does it, or it wasn't even like a thing that warned us it was coming.
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And like classic this game, dude.
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Uh, I really admire that they just throw you into things and you figure things out, but it's also the stupidest shit in the world.
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Cause I'm like, you're like, was that supposed to happen?
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What's going on?
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Yeah, what?
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Why?
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But yeah, quite a little rant there, but I think a lot of folks listening are probably they've either dabbled in this, they probably know I mean it won't a bunch of game of the years.
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This this game has been making its rounds, like it's got a little bit of new life because they just dropped like a it's not even DLC, it's like a brand new game, Night Rain.
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It's like uh it's like an Elden Ring takes place in the Elden Ring like realm, but it's like a roguelike multiplayer or some shit.
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I recently heard it compared to Hades, like a roguelike, like 3D Hades, and I was like, oh, that I wasn't interested, but now I kinda am.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Uh so that's there.
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I mean, they I think earlier this year, maybe no, not this year, so like late last year, I think they they dropped, or who knows, time, but they dropped DLC that people love for it.
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Correct.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, man, the bird tree.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And that that was like highly lauded as well.
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Like people are stoked on that shit.
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Well, it was so big awards.
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It's like too big to be its own new game, but it's or it's too small to be its whole brand new game.
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Right.
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But it's also, you know, it's DLC, but it's the chonkiest of DLC.
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It's like in this weird middle ground.
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And I asked for forgiv forgiveness in advance, but Hideyteka Miyazaki is the director of this game.
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My Japanese not great, bro.
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You know what?
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They'll know who you're talking about.
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Indeed.
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But and then uh what's kind of cool though is the the world buildings.
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They they reached out to George R.R.
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Martin to work on the world building of this game, which I think is like a fun collab.
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I feel like they just got him to make silly names that start with G, but I could be wrong.
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Like that dude needed to be pulled away from all of his projects.
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He was so happy for a distraction.
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He's never finishing them books.
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Uh, it is a cool name to put on, and it is like a good I don't know at all what's going on.
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I swear to god, if I ever beat this game, I'll spend some hours on YouTube learning all of it to appreciate it.
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Uh-cause I guess the people who are into it are so into it.
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Little homie, you're just talking about 500 hours, bro.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I asked him, like, like, how much time have you spent on YouTube?
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And he said, like, not a bunch, but I don't believe him.
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I swear he's been reading about it.
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It's dense digging through the wikis or something.
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He's gotta be because I have no idea what the fuck is going on.
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They don't really I actually find it.
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I mean, yes and no.
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Yes and no.
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Like, there's things that I like about it, things that I don't.
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I think that was one thing that it took me longer to kind of latch on to it because I'm just gonna juxtapose it to the Witcher 3.
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Very like I love the Witcher 3, and I think the story in that game is fucking dope.
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I love, you know, Geralt Aribia.
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Uh, this is like very you you get to create your character.
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I think that is fun.
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You get to choose from a bunch of classes, a whole like a whole bunch of classes.
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Curious, who you went to with what the I'm a samurai, right?
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And I went with the warrior.
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How do you not?
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How do you not, samurai?
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I'm shocked you walked past a samurai and you're like, near well, the warrior's pretty dope.
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Like, I often will end up being like in a in a game like this.
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I'll choose like you know, I default to to the you know, what do you what do you call it?
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The well the warrior, but I'm I want to say beast.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So it made sense to me.
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I think if I had to do it again, I would either do the samurai, maybe the vagabond.
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Um, I don't know if I would start with warrior, like it just didn't it didn't quite do it for me.
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Like even now, I'm like, kind of wish that my dude looked different.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'm I mean the samurai starting armor is cool.
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I haven't run into anything to replace the armor yet.
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Okay, yeah.
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I know there's some stuff people suggest to do, so I kind of you have a little bit more flexibility where you're probably running into some of the are you still with the same armor you started with?
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No, I switched it up pretty early on.
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I've run into a couple of sets that are are nice.
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This game's interesting, there's a it's dense, so like there is two different yeah, so like so many systems I still have zero percent grasp over, and I'm like 60 to 70 hours deep.
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Exactly.
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So, like, I mean, I have picked up armor that is like good, uh, and it is like elevated my character, but it's not good, like you know, I can't remember what it's called right now, but there's like two sets of like there's like two sat sets that every piece of like armor has.
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It's uh has to do with like its durability, not its durability, but like I don't know, like it has like basically uh base stats and then scaling.
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Exactly, or something.
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I don't know.
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See that there's like levels about levels that I'm just like I don't know, man.
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Like which which so I haven't put it this way, I have not sold my original armor set because there's certain pieces of it that like are actually better.
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I don't I don't know.
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Yeah, we're in the weeds on that one.
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Uh, which speaks to the game, which is like at one hand, it's unlike The Witcher, where you feel like it's weird that you're in this cataclysmic, like apocalypse, like this crazy apocalyptic event, and yet you're just like fucking around playing Gwent.
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There's always that weird juxtaposition of that.
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What I love in this game is like there's no text anywhere, there's no like missions.
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Uh, we'll get to that later, but like you're just kind of there.
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You're fucking around, poking around, feels like pretty natural, and it is super comparable.
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That sensation of just like looking over on a map and you're like, I bet you there's some cool shit over there.
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It feels the only game that comes close to touching that and being better than that is Breath of the Wild, the original one.
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Yeah, I was gonna say Scrim, dude, Skyrim.
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Like, yeah, that's that's how I get loaded down with loot, and I'm like digging through barrels and dumb shit like that.
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So I would say that like you know what the fuck I mean, though.
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You know what the fuck is that?
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Oh, for sure, dude.
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I was playing Starfield last night, and I was like, you're wearing down of cheese, and you're like, well, I can't get rid of my block of cheese.
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Like, so I'd say this game like streamlines some of that adventure better.
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Uh but yeah, I did feel like I felt the joy of like when I first played some scrimming and I was like digging through a cave and like getting into shenanigans.
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It's a hundred percent like that.
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It's a hundred percent like Breath of the Wild.
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You're not as fluid in getting around like you are in Breath of the Wild, but the environments are just straight up gorgeous, dude.
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The art is so fucking cool, and like it's got a really good video game map.
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It's like, oh, if you want me to nerd on on some good video game map, like it's not too informative, but you can definitely study it and be like, there's some cool shit over there.
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And then you go over there and like oh I'm so spoiled.
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It's totally like I feel like modern day video game graphics has spoiled me.
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I know this game is beautiful, but I think like after playing Red Dead Redemption 2, like I don't know if there's a prettier game.
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No, but like graphic fidelity is I mean, Red Dead 2 is just fucking bonkers, but I mean like the art direction is fucking sick.
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Okay, like to be fair.
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The enemy designs, the character designs, like your environment that you're literally in is it's pretty close to like perfect's the wrong thing because this is more of a subjective deal.
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Pretty master class for like how the game vibes look and feel and like the things you run into, like the environments are crazy cool.
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A little too dark for me.
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Where's the rainbows?
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Yeah, no, I mean, like, to be fair, like you look off in the distance and there's some cool shit going on, the err trees and all that shit.
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Like, yeah, I mean it's dope.
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Like, I see what you're saying 100%.
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I and I agree with you.
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Um, I just don't know if it's my vibe.
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Dude, that's still a fucking castle you're in right now, that first legacy dungeon, that thing's so sick.
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Like, I oh, dude, I that'll be that'll be a video game space that I'll I'll take with me for a long time.
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I think clearly I'm more pilled.
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I'm more I'm like I'm fully in.
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I there's some nitpicking that I have with it, but like if we're talking like things I like about it, I could go on and on.
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Yeah, it's funny though.
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Before we jumped on the mics like earlier today, I was thinking and I was like, because I have come, I have warmed up to this game quite a bit.
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Yeah, and I was like, I have to I have to channel some of my fucking grumpy energy because like to the majority of my playthrough, I was like not really feeling it.
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So I was like, I gotta bring that back.
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I can't just come in, I can't just be glowing for Elden Ring because like this shit fucking pissed me off for like a good solid like 10-15 hours.
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Damn.
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Maybe it's just because of my Sherpas, but uh now it does that classic video game thing where like I remember the early struggles, it's charming now.
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I've also like, I mean, it's so it's such a big part of the gaming zeitgeist.
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People generally know about the game and they've heard a lot of tidbits and a lot of like, oh, this is how you should handle it.
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Like, you should just run away.
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Like the tree sentinel.
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I knew through various podcasts and media that he was there to wreck me and teach me to run away when I can't handle something and go fuck off.
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I still try to run software trope, right?
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Yeah, that's kind of like that.
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I still did it.
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I still try to like fuck him up, and he still just absolutely murdered me.
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I saw a meme today that was like, hey, where should we put this place?
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We have our nice little starter area of the map.
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Which which like place should we make that's like literally hell?
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Where should we locate it?
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Oh, right next to the starter place.
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Like, so you did that.
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Didn't you wander off heading east and then you like ran into like the place that's basically hell, and you're like you just got destroyed and you were like disheartened and confused?
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Yeah, that was what that was before that was like not too far before we had our our little collapse session the session you had before it.
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And there's even a treasure chest that traps you, sends you over there in a cave, so you can't even get out.
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You have to run out of the cave, get to like a safe spot for a second, and then fast travel back.
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So like the game's constantly trying to piss you off.
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Yeah, I think dragon borrow or some shit like that, or Khalid.
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It's Khalid, yeah.
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Uh Khalid.
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I think I went up into I went into both DJ Khalid.
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Uh I went I went into both those there because basically I did the at that point, I was like, you know what?
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I'm just not gonna try and beat any of these bosses, I'm just gonna explore.
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And like that was fun, like because you I figured it's kind of similar to um to Breath of the Wild where you have your towers.
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So, like, same thing.
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There's these uh there's these, I don't know what they are pillars or whatever.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So you go find a pillars, yeah.
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Yeah, you can usually find it like there is it is signaling to you where those are, so you can go find them.
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And then I was kind of just revealing parts of the map.
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And I found myself over in DJ Khalid zone, dude.
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And fucking, I was like, this is not hype.
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This is this is very not DJ Khalid.
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This is like this is like hell, and everybody's really scary, and like I'm getting my ass kicked.
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Well, it's like certain games you play, you just run over and you hack and you roll around.
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And I definitely do that now, but like you have to learn the patience and the cadence and how the enemies come at you.
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And I know that's like the dumb shit the fucking sweats will yell at you on the internet, but it it's true.
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Uh also I did the classic, like I Googled when does Elden Ring become fun?
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Why am I not having a good time?
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Of course, I of course, like there's a whole bunch of hits.
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Like, I am not the only person that has Googled this before.
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And I I ended up on some Reddit thread and I was reading through it.
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It was it was kind of fun to see because there's a couple folks who are like, Look, I'm sorry that I'm gonna say this, but it's it's just the way it is with this game.
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Like, you gotta get good.
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Well, dude, I was talking about it.
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And then it's fun, and then that's what they say.
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Then it's fun, and it's like I get it.
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Um I was talking to my little homie today about the last boss I faced.
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Then I one-shot the boss, and he goes, Oh, yeah, cool.
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No, that's that's awesome.
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It's awesome to hear.
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And I was like, What's up?
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He goes, That boss took me three hours.
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Oh shit.
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And I think he just got to that boss way earlier than I did because I like really I like the you know, at I don't like the storyline stuff of The Witcher, the side quests are sick, but I didn't really care about like the main mission.
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The best part of Breath of the Wild, people complain that it wasn't linear and didn't have a strong enough story.
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I just love to fuck off and explore things in games.
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So like in this game, I get not over-leveled, but I get pretty high leveled.
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So I'm usually not totally overwhelmed for a task, and that helps me have a lot more fun when I'm just wrecking enemies.
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You can go back to an early area and some the enemies will still catch you off guard and fuck you up.
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So you never feel like you're playing unfair, you know, but like when you feel really powerful, it it pays off and feels really fucking cool.
00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:37.519
Yeah, 100%.
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I mean, reaching that point.
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Reaching that point is always great in these types of games.
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Um, I think what's interesting about this game, and like I had to assume that there are other games that like this as well, um, is you have to be in that mindset.
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Like they are punishing games, and it's it's just a type, it's a type of gameplay that some people love.
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I'm little lukewarm on it, but it's I respect it, I guess.
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It's interesting because I am here for like a grueling platformer, like I will do that.
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But but like, but for whatever reason is way less, way less frustrating for me than Celeste was.
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And Celeste is a good ass game, yeah.
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So like for I'm Celeste is like my or like um another good example around that would be like Prince of Persia or like uh Metroid or something, you know, like some of those bosses were really tough, like and I'm here for for running through the paces on one of those games and trying to to learn how to beat those bosses, and for whatever reason, in the 3D action um realm that that Elden Ring lives in, it's I don't know.
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I'm just not sold.
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But at the same time, like Skyrim, like see this game, I see so many parallels to Skyrim, and I was uh so much easier for me to like roleplay Skyrim, you know?
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Yeah, because there's things to roleplay in this game, you're just this fucking thing running around fucking shit up, and like we don't know yet what's going on.
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I haven't uh read the PhD text 400 level class to understand what the fuck George R.
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Martin and crew were getting at.
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But like you're just fucking around and finding out constantly.
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And one thing into the the map are you, like the whole world map?
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Like, are you like I'm not I'm very because I'm pretty careful about like not a hundred percenting things because I'm not into that, but like I the game is dense, the map is dense, so I probably have a third of it unlocked, including the underground stuff, so like which is crazy because I'm like 60, 70 hours in, but like there's so much to go.
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I don't think there's a bigger lie on how long to beat than this game.
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What is how long to be say?
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Oh, I haven't seen it.
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Probably like 40 to 60 hours.
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Let's get uh let's get IT on that.
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Yeah, sixty hours is what they're saying.
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Yeah, that's out of control, dude.
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I've beat two legacy dungeons.
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Two legacy dungeons.
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And for those of you uninitiated, legacy dungeons are like those old school linear dungeons within uh the kind of the more modern uh 3D, like Zelda-like games, I guess.
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You know what I mean?
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So like this is honestly more of a Zelda game than Breath of the Wild, because those stupid fucking divine beasts that were like an okay uh temple, right?
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Like the castle that you're on right now, that first one, I just think it's sick, dude.
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You have to be like you just kind of keep exploring and picking away and doing all these different things, and there's so many different types of enemies and different challenges and moments and weird platforming and like sections that you gotta get to and checkpoints, and I just fucking love that.
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But then when that's overwhelming, I just go fuck off back.
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I'm saying fuck a lot on this bot.
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I guess I'm just so riled up about it.
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Uh but then I just like I go dick around.
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I got to a choke point in that castle, and I could not get any further.
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I saw this big enemy and I was like, nope, can't do this anymore.
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So then I didn't even notice that island to the south where I helped you with that boss, and I cleared that whole island and castle and stuff, like a little mini deal, and then I went back and like that was so gratifying.
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Sorry, what was that rant even about?
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Uh just how much I love the legacy dungeons.
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Yeah, I suppose.
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Yeah, so I don't know.
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Uh no, you bring up metals are fucking epic, they're way too hard sometimes, but you have those assists, like I felt dirty the first time I used the the summoning.
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I've never been able to use a summoning for like computer summoning.
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There's been a couple spots where it's been obvious to me how it works, but I I was under the impression you could do that like easier.
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I think you can, yeah.
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I I don't know, because once again, I'd have to spend 20 minutes on the internet figuring out how the fuck to operate anything.
00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:50.720
So here's the deal like uh like it sounds like I'm fucking like complaining about this, and it I am.
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This is Luke explains Elden Ring to a boomer.
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Continue, dude.
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I I'm ex I like I am complaining to an extent, but you brought up like so the whole like summoning thing that we went through to figure out how to make summoning work.
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Like I had the instructions on the start menu or whatever, I had a YouTube thing playing, like I also had like a uh like a wiki page open trying to figure out how to make it all work.
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It still wasn't super clear, and like that it's just frustrating.
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Like, and that's like that's just this game to a T.
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It is unclear and frustrating, but then when you get it to work, it's fucking dope.
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Yeah, it I've brought it up on this pod, but it's like my favorite meme of like some nerdy sweat just being like Elder Ring are so good, like you need a notebook to play, like it doesn't hold your hand.
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Like you have to decipher the information yourself, and then they're playing on a computer and they have two monitors with all this different text and things telling them how everything works, and it's like it's frustrating.
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I would like a quest log or something.
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Like, I love that I don't have this map littered with fucking icons and just clutter, and I love that I can just derp around as I've mentioned a few times, but there's some times when someone's like, Have you done this quest?
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And I'm like, The fuck do you mean?
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I didn't I talked to the person, but you have to talk to them three times, and I'm like, that was convoluted and strange for them to open up this quest line, and then like was I playing at night, and then the next day I forgot what I was up to, and there's nothing to remind me of what I was on.
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So, like, whenever I accomplish something, I have to like be so focused and like using an online guide.
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So that's kind of fucking silly.
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I have like mixed feelings about that too.
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Like, I think it's pretty cool, but like I I don't know.
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I think like just be nice to the player, man.
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Like, give them like I don't I don't need everything on my map, but a nice little like checklist would be all right.
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What's funny is this is the nicest to the player game they've made.
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I know, right?
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For for real.
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For real.
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I'm such a weirdo too, though, because like I I've I've like dabbled in Elden Ring now, and I'm not like I'm not a stan, but I think it's cool.
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:55.440
But I'm but I still want to go back and play Dark Souls.
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Like that's how this is that's what I'm saying.
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Like, I'm such a weirdo.
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:02.720
I understand my I want to because I'm pretty pretty pilled on the experience.
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So and I feel like I've learned some of the language, so to speak.
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Like we've talked a lot about the semiotic domain that you are, you know, involved with here, and how you just learn the language of a game and you understand and you get become fluid, and like I respect that.
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:19.759
I've totally gotten way better at that myself.
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So like I think that Dark Souls eventually, maybe if I get that itching.
00:27:52.880 --> 00:28:11.920
I have never played a game where I've fought this many different enemy types this late into the game.
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Breath of the Wild is a comparison that you'll heal me hear me keep bringing up because of the adventuring, the exploration.
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But I got so tired of fighting the same five Zelda enemies.
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The bosses were pretty cool, but in this game you have super sick bosses, like that's a whole conversation of its own.
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But the fact that like I go to a new area and I'm not just fighting the same skeletons, the same trolls, the same like Skyrim is an almost perfect game, one of my favorites ever.
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But like you fade a lot, fight a lot of the same dudes, and you're almost tickled when you see something new.
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:48.640
In this game, I get to a new area, I'm like, what the hell is this thing's deal?
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Is it even friendly?
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It's usually not.
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And then I have to figure out what in the fuck I need to do.
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What in the hell is even that?
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And how do I handle it, you know?
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Indeed.
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No, I I agree with that 100%.
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And they're like fucking weird ass things, and they're all over the place and have you got stuff.
00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:14.720
Deep enough in the castle to see the big like spider evil crazy thing that's not even just a boss, it's just this big crazy thing you gotta.
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:20.880
Well, I guess it's kind of a boss because it doesn't regenerate, but like I haven't seen this yet, but um I can't wait.
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I do that's how I saw that and I was like fuck, what am I supposed to do about this?
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:31.519
Dog, that's what's really cool about this game, though, is that you know, even there's just regular baddies.
00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:32.960
Super good example.
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This is the spider you bring up, is a good example.
00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:42.720
Really great example is like very early in the game after that um that like turning point for you or the the camp or whatever.
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Yeah, when you go past, there's that big gate that you know, and then you go in there and there's a troll on top of this bridge looking down at you, and there's a bunch of archers or whatever.
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:51.839
But it's this massive troll.
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It's the first troll that I think it's the first troll that you run into.
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But dude, it's like just imposing, staring down at you.
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I was like, oh, this is the little boss, and like, no.
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It's it's just like baddie.
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It's just like a really big, crazy, cool place to like environmental baddie.
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I think I got him to drop like not on my head.
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I think some people have like run into that area and he literally lands on him and kills him.
00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:23.279
Uh the first time I did it, I actually defeated him, but that's just because like I got some weird thing where I was being a little sneaky penis and he dropped down but didn't immediately attack.
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:24.319
Interesting, yeah.
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:26.640
So I like attacked him and then I survived.
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:28.319
I was able to draw out the archers.
00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:32.000
I like got way more leveled and then came back and like could not do that area.
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.480
I was like, how the hell did I get past this the first time?
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:41.680
The first time that uh like I've been back there since, and it's it's still difficult, but it's manageable now.
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:49.279
That's the nice thing about talking to people is because people just tell you to fuck off from that area and go find a cave somewhere else and like get way stronger.
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:54.480
I feel like no one was telling you to fuck off, and you kept running into the strongest of walls.
00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:58.319
Dude, well, that's the thing, though, is uh I would just bounce off everything though.
00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:01.119
Like, no matter which direction I ran in, I'd be like, that's too hard.
00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:02.000
That's too hard.
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.000
And then you got to Margot way early.
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:05.279
I was like, How'd you even get up there?
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:09.839
You're like, you know, because I just you go past enemies if you just run.
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:12.000
Yeah, totally.
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.200
Which is you know, there's like a little bit of that's fun too, though.
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.200
Like, it's like it's just it's silly, dude.
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:18.079
It's a weird game.
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:19.680
You really gotta be in the mindset.
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.640
I think that's just it.
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:24.240
Like, you had to know that you're like getting ready for some punishment.
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:28.000
You have to be ready to and like it's the same thing with Metroid, dude.
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:38.400
It's like when you're like uh when you're fighting a boss, like you just know it's gonna whoop your ass a bunch of times, and then you're gonna learn and you're gonna get it, and that's super rewarding, and that's it's similar in this sense as well.
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:40.640
Only you really do have to like level up.
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:52.559
Yeah, I'd compare it to Super Metroid in the sense where it has like that old school sensibility of like obscureness, where like you're like, I was able to break that was a glass tube that I was able to bomb and explode.
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:54.480
You remember that point in Super Metroid?
00:31:54.480 --> 00:32:11.680
Yeah, and I was like playing it in the year of our lord, maybe 22, 23, and uh 21, and I was like, how the fuck was I supposed to know that that was a break of like nothing had led me to believe that's how you prior to that happening, and I wasn't talking to anybody about it because it's a schoolyard, yeah.
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.720
Yeah, so like this game's kind of that way too.
00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:20.480
Like you jump on the internet and you're like, you need to use this emote, and then the guy will jump down.
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:29.920
The way you get it is after you've heard him the first time, you talk to the merchant and you bring up the howling at this place, and then he'll teach you the finger snap, and then you go back there and you snap your fingers.
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:33.920
And I'm like, how the fuck does anybody know this ever?
00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.160
Yeah, and I but it's made for the five.
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:40.160
If you found that out organically, it would feel sick, but I don't know how anyone could do that.
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:52.400
Well, that's what's an interesting thing about this game, and to my understanding, some of the other FREM software games is the okay, so we talked about the co-op multiplayer we did where you were summoned into my game and you're able to help me out with stuff.
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:52.880
Yeah.
00:32:53.119 --> 00:33:04.160
There's another earlier layer to the multiplayer and the more like I don't know, constant multiplayer that's always happening is if you're connected to the internet, you get left messages by folks and things like that, right?
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:08.960
Um, that's the most expensive $20 game I've ever bought.
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:13.440
Because I now feel the online is absolutely crucial to playing, so I have to keep it.
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:14.240
Oh, funny.
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:14.400
Yeah.
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:15.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:16.559
You got that gold pass.
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:18.640
I know the cheapy cheapy.
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:20.720
Yeah, if you had it on PC.
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:22.559
I know, isn't that silly?
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:23.200
But continue.
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:24.559
Extremely silly.
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:30.960
But so, anyways, there's these like messages that get left behind and these like cool little like uh what they're almost like ghosts, you know.
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:32.319
It's just dick jokes.
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:36.559
There's lots of them aren't most of them, lots of homoerotic jokes.
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:36.799
Yeah.
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:40.160
Oh my gosh, it's everything's about being done in the butt or like in some head.
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:40.720
It's like wow.
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:42.240
Finger butthole.
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:53.039
Yeah, you have like this limited list of things to say, and people have just figured out every perverted thing to say at every perverted moment, and it's dude, it's clouding when you hit me up and you're like, I haven't quite figured out like all the lingo yet.
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:54.000
I don't really know what they're getting at.
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:57.759
I'm like a and like I I remember you read like texting me that and I've reading it.
00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:59.200
I'm like, I'm pretty sure these are just butt jokes.
00:33:59.200 --> 00:33:59.680
Like, I don't know.
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:02.960
Yeah, I love how I'm like I'm out here being like, Al, you don't get it.
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.599
You just gotta, you just gotta hang, you gotta figure out the language.
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:15.519
And you're like, Luke, it's it's dick jokes, they're just the fingers doesn't mean anything other than then try fingers just means like you know, butt stuff.
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:18.559
I was like, uh-oh, okay.
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:26.000
Oh man, but it's you know, like the it's the internet, so you of course are gonna get that there, which you know, no surprise.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:30.480
Uh but that that layer though, that like multiplayer aspect of it, I think that's really cool.
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:31.360
Like I think it's fun.
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:39.679
It makes you feel like in a in a world where we're all separated and we're playing games by ourselves, like it's cool to like have that connection in a way.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:50.159
It's funny because part of the reason the game's so cool is because it doesn't always feel video gamey because the UI is so stripped down and the you know there's no quest log and all these things.
00:34:50.159 --> 00:35:19.519
But then it feels intensely video gaming because you see other gamers like shadows essentially rolling around, and sometimes I think it's an enemy coming to sneak up on me and it's just some other person doing something similar as me, or sometimes you can see somebody platforming a section you're in, you're like, Oh, that is doable, or like they leave a little message like I did it, and you're like, Okay, and then sometimes someone jumps down to some space that you can stand on for a second, leaves a message, and then you jump down there and die, and you're like, You fucking buckle.
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:21.440
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:25.119
Dude, I think uh the only I yeah, right.
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:37.760
I can I can forgive all of this game's like what I'm saying are shortcomings or pain points or whatever, like because I I do think it's cool, and I think they add it, they like make it different, they make it a different experience, they make it really cool.
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:41.280
The only thing I can't forgive is the fact you can't pause, bro.
00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:42.639
Oh my god.
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:48.079
Any defense, any defense of this is a gameplay mechanic.
00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:53.039
Just I would stare at them and I would like to be like, I like to pee.
00:35:53.039 --> 00:36:00.000
I like to take the amount of times I'll be like taking a drink thinking I'm safe, and then like something attacks me.
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:06.400
I'm like, okay, or like you know, my wife being a reasonable human being asking something to me or conversing with me.
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:08.480
I'm like, not fucking right now, okay?
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.320
Can't you see what's happening?
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:11.679
Clauding.
00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:15.679
I had a we won't go into the full story, like, but like my furnace went out.
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:29.519
I mean the coldest day of the year and like made some smoke smells, so we had to get the fire department to come through, and I was at the round this time just trying to play some Elden Ring, and like some firemen are coming through my house, and the game's just fucking rocking and rolling.
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:32.079
I'm like, this is ridiculous.
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:34.400
I was uh I would just like to pause.
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.840
I mean, I get it where like you can't switch a weapon out in the middle of a fight.
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:41.519
I'm not arguing about that, but just like quite simply, dog.
00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:55.440
Sometimes I just want to like get up and do something or acknowledge the other humans in my existence in life, or like rock a text, or look up one of the many obscure things I have to look up for this stupid fucking game that doesn't tell me.
00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:58.800
Nah, dude, you gotta live in the land between, or whatever they call it.
00:36:58.800 --> 00:36:59.440
Yeah.
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:00.639
Foul tarnished.
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:01.440
I get it.
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:02.400
I get it.
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.360
Um, you have any other grievances with the game, or have you already emptied your clip, old man?
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:10.159
Uh, there's a couple in the chamber, but no, I'm just playing.
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:12.400
I I pretty much I think I've got them out there.
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:20.480
Like, I am, you know, I've I came with some like gonna give this game some negative energy, but at the same time, like uh that's not actually where I'm at with this game.
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.559
Like, I am enjoying this game, I think it's cool.
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:26.079
I understand why it got all the game of the year awards, I understand why people love it.
00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:32.400
It's just for me, it's not a game that I want to plow through, and I don't think that's like a good or a bad thing necessarily.
00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:42.639
Um, you know, I really enjoy not playing this game for like five days, and then being like, I am in the mood to get my ass kicked.
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:50.159
Yeah, and then I'll and then I'll you know get in, get my ass kicked, or maybe like you know, not, and then I'm like, wow, that was great.
00:37:50.159 --> 00:38:03.599
And I and it's so for me, dude, like I'm totally happy to have this game just be a game that I will go and explore and like have some fun and push through, and like who knows if I'll ever beat it, but like I would just like to plug through it.
00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:15.599
And I think that it's not a game, and then I think it's almost a knock, or I look at it as almost a knock that it's that it the story doesn't like capture me to at least not yet, to like want to push through and finish.
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:20.159
Like normally I would cast that as a knock, but like it's almost a boon in some ways.
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:22.320
I find it becomes so liberating, dude.
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:30.400
I find it so refreshing to just not be caught in some fucking cutscene or some stupid dialogue or like just plowing through text.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:33.280
Like I'm just I'm just derping, dude.
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:36.000
I'm just gripping it and ripping it, brother.
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.840
I'm just exploring.
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:45.119
See, you've committed, and that's just I think like whereas I'm still like I'm still not like uh I'm not 100% there, but I'm like I'm I'm tasting it.
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.519
I can I can feel it, and I'm like you understand the the the vibe.
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:55.920
Uh it's crazy, and this isn't practical as 30-year-old men, uh, one of us soon to be 40.
00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:13.840
Um, but like if you had a roommate that was playing it, or like if we lived together back at mom and dad's, like you would either be inspired to play it, or love watching me play it, or like you'd see me do something, you'd be like, Oh shit, okay, that's what I need to do when I get to play next.
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:21.920
Like but we don't have that in our lives, and I've been able to kind of recapture that with some of the conversations I've had with some people.
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:40.960
Whereas like for you, I feel like when we did the co-op, that sparked it a little bit for you, but like, you know, there's like a big chunk that like you're just left to fill in the blank, and if you don't have any assistance on that and you have to completely do it from the internet, I can see where you're just like, I just want to vibe with my one hour of free time today.
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:44.239
I don't want to fucking die to the same boss.
00:39:44.239 --> 00:39:48.000
Uh which I do die to the bosses a lot, and you do learn their things.
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.760
It's like a Metroid is the closest one.
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:53.840
Like Metroid where you learn to dance with the boss, it's like that.
00:39:53.840 --> 00:40:02.559
I find it intensely liberating that I just pick it up and I'm like, I'm gonna head over there and I'm gonna do some stuff over there, and I'm gonna see if I can find anything cool.
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:04.000
Yeah, not fair.
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:11.440
And there usually is something cool and I'm gonna level this up, I'm gonna see something cool, I'm gonna like laugh at how fucked something got.
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.320
But I I will like run into things and I'll just like die.
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.760
And the way I die, I'll know that I have to be done playing.
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:21.360
I'm like, I'm like, that was pretty fucking stupid.
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:23.360
And I'm like, yeah, you should probably just be done.
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:25.519
And then I pick it up the next day and I'm way better.
00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:27.280
It's kind of silly, dude.
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:41.199
And that's uh that's like another like at first it used to really bug me the like the checkpoint type things, the little fire pits or whatever, uh how you get sent back to those or whatever statue, depending if you're closer to one of those, but then you have to go back and get your credits.
00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:44.079
It's like you know, Shovel Knight and shit, like does it as well.
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:50.000
That's like a it's um that's like the type of whereas like I really don't like them not being able to pause.
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:51.519
Like, I don't mind that mechanic.
00:40:51.519 --> 00:41:00.079
Like it's it's an interesting enough thing and like challenging enough where it's like, well man, I just shouldn't have died my sec when I was trying to go retrieve my credits, you know.
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:01.920
Like, how are you gonna die twice?
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:03.280
You fucking my runes.
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:07.360
Yeah, I actually lost a huge bag of runes lately.
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:14.320
Uh a particularly egregious thing where like I just shouldn't have done what I did, and I was like, Oh, like you that's what it always is.
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:20.639
You took so much fall damage because you just were being impatient to get back to it, and you're like, oh, that was that was so much.
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:27.840
But that's see, and that's that's whereas like I'm like the the pause button is unforgivable, but like this stuff, I'm like, you know what?
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:31.840
That like does add an element to this game that I'm like I'm actually here for it, yeah, you know.
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:33.199
Yeah, I'm not mad about that.
00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:39.119
The leveling systems are actually pretty fun and rewarding, and like the replayability, you you might pick it up.
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:40.960
We've talked about it off mic before.
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.280
You're like, I might plow through it, I might get through like a different chunk of it someday.
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:46.000
We'll see.
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:53.920
Whereas, like, my question is like I definitely think I'll beat it or at least get very far to get most of the map.
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:57.760
But it'd be cool if like I did a magic build someday.
00:41:57.760 --> 00:41:58.559
Oh, sure.
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:07.519
The game is you can learn the language, but it's also like it's like just because you can converse casually in Spanish doesn't mean you know Spanish.
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:11.440
And then like there's Mexican Spanish and there's Spain Spanish.
00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:12.079
There's a difference.
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:13.599
It's like, did you do a magic build?
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:16.480
Oh, you did I did this type of build, did you do this?
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:20.480
And there's like there's so much complexities that like I admire.
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:31.199
I find it frustrating when like there's mechanics that I've just like I know like crafting items and like using bombs and other consumables, I know I can do stuff like that, but I'm like, that's just too much for me right now.
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:32.639
I'm just a simple man.
00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:42.559
Uh but I also like respect and like find it intriguing that like if I really needed that itch, that I could just keep going and going and going.
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:47.519
And I'm tired of people on the internet when I'm looking up like different build things telling me to just have fun.
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:49.119
No, I'm trying to get good.
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:50.480
I want to know it's affecting it.
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:54.960
I only have so many resources to put into my weapons.
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:57.519
Like, tell me if this weapon is worth it, you fucking nerd.
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:03.199
I understand that I'm just having fun, and this is how I'm having fun, trying to optimize my build in a way that's fun.
00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:05.599
I want to use the cool weapon.
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:07.360
Hey, tell me if it's worth it.
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:08.079
Let me know.
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:00.320
Are you gonna give this game?
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:05.840
Dude, I want to go up to scale to ten, so I know you don't want that, but here's the reason why.
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:11.199
I'll give you a 4.75, because I wanted to give the game a nine and a half.
00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:12.480
Right on.
00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:13.679
And here's the deal.
00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:16.400
I've never played a game with cooler enemies.
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:29.039
Uh, it rivals the best part of Breath of the Wild, which is maybe my favorite game ever, where of the exploration and the freedom, and I love the pared down quest stuff.
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.440
I love that you're just out there and then you're jamming.
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:35.760
But I cannot give a game a 10 out of 10 that I cannot pause.
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:39.199
That is I have to give it a 0.5.
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:46.480
And there's other small, small grievances like I wish there was something that did like a quest log.
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:52.559
I wish there was something less obscure with figuring out how to do missions and not being online for it.
00:44:52.559 --> 00:45:02.719
So check back in to see if I ended it, but maybe someday after beating it or keep playing it, I'd put it in my top ten games because it's that good.
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:14.559
To certainly be considered, but just the tiniest of little checks, check marks against it have made me hesitant to say how much I loved it.
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:19.119
But as far as like sometimes we say, like, five you can pause it, dog.
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:20.320
Right.
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:23.679
Uh sometimes we say, like, who would you recommend this game for?
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:29.039
That becomes more complicated because of the things like the accessibility.
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:39.360
Like it has to be someone who like knows what the fuck they're getting into and like is a not like a capital G toxic gamer, but just like a bit of a masochist.
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:42.719
Yeah, or even just like someone who knows what they're signing up for.
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:48.639
It's like you don't if someone's into Legos, you don't give them the most complex set possible if it's their first build.
00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:50.639
So this is like a more intricate build.
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:52.800
You gotta be in the Elden Ring mindset, right?
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:54.159
You gotta be ready, you gotta know.
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:55.039
It's dense.
00:45:55.039 --> 00:46:00.559
If you gave somebody a book and you gave them war and peace, they're gonna be like, hey buddy, I was looking for a light read.
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:03.760
Like, you really have to read the room on what someone's asking from you.
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:05.039
So sorry.
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:06.639
Uh what do you rate the game?
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:09.119
Like a two out of five, you fucking boomer dude.
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:11.679
Nah, dog, I'm gonna give it a four out of five.
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:13.519
Dog, I I I respect this game.
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:18.639
Like I was a little sour on it during the talk, but I kind of wanted to come with that energy to kind of juxtapose.
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:20.239
I knew you were really like keen on it.
00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:24.320
Just constantly be a circle jerk for the game we've played, so I respect that.
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:27.760
And uh, and you know, like it did frustrate me.
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:36.639
Like, I don't think there's been a game that we've played for this podcast or a game that I've ever played that I've been like, I don't know, so conflicted with.
00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:38.800
I'm like, do I like this game?
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:40.159
Do I not like this game?
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:50.800
But I'm looking at like this the scenery or I'm exploring the map and I'm like getting my little like dopamine hits when I like, you know, like but at the same time, like I'm also like fuck this.
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:52.159
I'm I'm gonna play 2K.
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:53.199
I can't right now.
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:58.559
Uh you know, it's like and it's and it's it's totally the mindset, dude.
00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:02.079
You and like so I'm gonna get four out of five because it's not the perfect game for me.
00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:03.599
This isn't my game of the year.
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:06.400
I respect it, I can see why it is.
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.159
I just don't think it's player-friendly enough, and I don't think it needs to be.
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:11.440
Like, that's another thing, you know.
00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:15.599
Like, I don't think that all games necessarily have to respect the player, you know.
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:23.280
It makes it we need games like this to, you know, just to like push things forward to like be able to have the the variety out there.
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:31.840
It's like when a grunge or a metal band or like a punk band goes pop, yeah, but they still have their roots of like being grimy and shit, you know.
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:41.360
So like it's not for everybody, but like the music critics are about it and it pulled in a general audience, but they still have they're still fucking grimy, dude.
00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:42.000
Totally.
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:44.400
That's a weird comp I had to throw in, but hell yeah.
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:49.280
And it's and it's interesting, dude, because like when you you know, who would you recommend this game to?
00:47:49.280 --> 00:48:00.000
Like, I gotta if you're looking for like kind of like a uh like a gritty, dark, open world experience, like just go get into it, like check it out.
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:05.360
I think it's definitely part of like people should people should taste Elden Ring.
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:11.920
Especially like if you're if you're from Soft Curious, like like I have been, like I think this is the this is the sampling you want.
00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:14.239
It's the perfect entry point into the yeah.
00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:18.639
If you like this, then you should go back to their early garage band punk shit.
00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:19.760
Indeed.
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.400
Play some Sekiro, play some some bloodborne.
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:25.199
You know?
00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:27.199
I hope you don't like pausing.
00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:31.360
And I hope you don't have a wife and children, because then you should definitely play this game, dude.
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:35.039
Dog, I'm just I'm gonna like your maidenless dude, play this game, dude.
00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:37.440
Maidenless.
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:41.280
With that, let's take a little break, come back with our unsanctioned sponsor.
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We are not we are not sponsored by spanking today.
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We are unofficially brought to you by guys being dudes, dudes being spanning.
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Guys being dudes, just a bunch of guys being dudes.
00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:19.440
And a sub-sponsor of that is so I, as Alex knows, I had I had what we call men's retreat affectionately.
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.880
We're just guys being dudes getting RB, and do we do anything?
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.039
No, we just hang out and it's dope.
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:35.199
So I sent this delightful text to my wife where it was a little homemade meme template where I sent her what we were doing, and I was like, she thinks you're out having like causing trouble, what you're actually doing.
00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:40.480
And it was a very nerdy picture of Settlers of Catan, which somehow my nerdy ass has never played.
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:41.679
That's a fun game, dude.
00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:43.599
It's like Age of Empires board game.
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:44.000
I know.
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:50.960
So, like anytime I would tell people that I had never played it, they're like, How are you, the social studies teacher, gonna tell me that plays video games and shit all the time?
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:54.239
Yeah, you're like all hard over maps and things.
00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:55.119
Like, how have you not played?
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:56.559
I'm like, I just haven't run into it.
00:49:56.559 --> 00:49:57.760
Well, I finally played.
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:01.679
There's this uh wonderful card kind of board group game called Bang.
00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:02.480
Have you heard of Bang?
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:04.079
I feel like you've done enough.
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:10.000
Um made in this once again.
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.280
But uh no, Bang is like this super cool card game.
00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:15.519
I encourage you or the listeners to look it up.
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.400
It's like a fun group game where you kind of have a role.
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:24.239
There's a sheriff, there's a renegade, there's multiple outlaws, and then there's a deputy.
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:28.800
The deputy's job is to protect the sheriff, the sheriff's job is to kill all outlaws in the renegade.
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:40.159
The renegade, highest degree of difficulty, needs to have all of the uh outlaws or needs to kill everybody, I guess, but you have to do it sequentially because if the sheriff loses, then the outlaws win.
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:43.599
Uh and you don't know everybody's role except for the sheriff.
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.320
Um, so that's like a fun thing to do when you're hanging out with dudes.
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:55.039
So just a bunch of guys being dudes, playing board games, uh hanging out, eating too much, living it up, cold weather.
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:56.800
It's pretty tight, dude.
00:50:56.800 --> 00:50:58.000
Guys being dudes.
00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:03.039
This is a guys being dudes podcast, and we're usually a dad pod, but now we're a guys being dudes pod.
00:51:03.039 --> 00:51:06.159
Unofficially brought to you in part by bros.
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:09.599
Just bro love is the only love, you know what I'm saying, dude.
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:11.920
I can dig it, man.
00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:12.719
No, that's that's cool.
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:14.079
I get fed this ad all the time.
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:26.800
Not I don't know what's in the ad, you gotta fed this article all the time that says that uh for men's uh for their mental health to like to maintain solid mental health, the bros should be hanging out at least two times a week.
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:29.519
Whoa, they should not feed that to us, dude.
00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:32.239
They should feed that to others.
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:36.480
It looks like how do I how do I push this to my wife?
00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:37.920
How do I forward this?
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:50.159
Nah, dude, it was it was tight, dude, because I I came home, I was happy to be home, and then it's just every once in a while to just you never know when your last your last sleepover with the boys is, your last hang with the boys is.
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:54.480
You never know when your last one is, but we all have a last your last land party.
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:56.719
You didn't know it was gonna be your last land party, Al.
00:51:56.719 --> 00:51:59.199
The good times, good times they're over.
00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:01.679
So just a bunch of guys getting together being dudes.
00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:04.639
Al doesn't have much to contribute because he's jealous over there, dude.
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:06.000
He's like, why don't I?
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:07.440
Where the fuck's my invite?
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:10.719
Where's my invite to my cabin full of dudes, dude?
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:12.159
What the fuck, dude?
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:13.119
Oh, I feel you.
00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:14.239
That's that's cool.
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.199
Uh, I'm jealous of your your recent bro spirits.
00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:22.239
The bro spa farts and cheese, dude.
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:25.039
Not a vegetable in sight, dude.
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:28.480
That's actually a problem, but for another day.
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:32.159
Banging stuff.
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:32.800
What was it?
00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:35.039
Just banging with dude playing bang, dude.
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:36.719
What do you what's weird about that?
00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:40.000
This episode is brought to you by Luke bangin' bros.
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.559
Dude, Luke bangin' with bros, dude.
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:43.119
It's different.
00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:44.800
Sorry, banging, banging with bros.
00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:46.639
Yeah, not banging with bros, dude.
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:47.920
Banging with bros and beers.
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:49.119
Beers, bros, banging.
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:51.440
It's more of a whiskey, but you get the point.
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:55.280
Beers too filling with all the cheese I was consuming.
00:52:55.280 --> 00:53:05.920
You been side questing, Did?
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:06.480
Dude.
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:07.199
You go first.
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:08.239
I got a nerd rant.
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:11.840
I've been pretty full of those today, so you hit us first.
00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:14.079
You know I've been side questing.
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:19.760
Please tell me about NBA banned from the pot, just like NCAA football.
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:21.920
I haven't I haven't been playing much 2K.
00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:27.920
I mean, I got it in, like I got in a couple, like I had to play, uh, I had to, you know, see what Luca looked like on the Lakers.
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:32.320
That was the most what it is.
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:36.960
Uh The Ringer is doing like an expansion week when it comes to NBA.
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:40.480
So just thought piece to articles on NBA expansion.
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:43.599
And yeah, it did give me huh.
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:45.280
Should there even be one?
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:46.880
I would say so, yeah.
00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:59.679
Um, but I would love to pick up 2K simply for doing a franchise or dynasty or GM mode, whatever they call it now, and uh doing an expansion team with an expansion draft.
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:03.599
So you might you might see me on there one of these days for that deep, deep nerd deal.
00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:05.519
What were you gonna say before I hit you with that?
00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:10.800
Oh man, I have been I'm about 15 hours into Pokemon Emerald.
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:13.679
So that's that's a big, a big side quest for me.
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:15.119
It's been a lot of fun.
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:16.320
Yeah, a little bit, dude.
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:17.039
Yeah, you know me.
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:18.159
I I love my handhelds.
00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:19.440
I recently uh yeah.
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:20.400
What gen is that?
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:21.119
Three five?
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:23.119
Uh that would be three-ish, I think.
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:24.639
So it's Game Boy Advance.
00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:26.880
Um I think it's third gen.
00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:31.280
So I recently picked up uh maybe, maybe.
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:38.239
But I've I picked up uh so it's uh you know Pokemon like um oh man, I can't I think it's Ruby.
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:47.599
And I can't remember what the the other color is, but those two came out, but it's not so there's leaf green and like red, whatever.
00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:49.599
So but those are remakes, yeah.
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:50.159
Fire red.
00:54:50.159 --> 00:54:53.199
So those are remakes of the originals, right?
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:56.639
Yes, but so that's like kind of like Gen 2-ish.
00:54:56.639 --> 00:54:59.039
Well, Gen 2 would be like crystal, who cares, dude?
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:03.840
We're not Pokemon Podcast, but this this uh this game's been fun, dude.
00:55:03.840 --> 00:55:09.679
It's been it's been fun to like because it's like more polished than the ones that I really love, like red and blue, yellow and shit.
00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:12.800
It's been fun to be in uh was the Hanto region or whatever.
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:13.360
I don't know.
00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:16.239
The hentai, but it's yeah, it's it's cool, man.
00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:16.559
It's fun.
00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:18.000
It's like I love that stuff.
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:20.400
It's uh it's been cool to like I'm watching.
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:22.800
I mean, you bring up 2K, but I've been watching the NBA.
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:27.360
I watched uh to a little bit of my chagrin, the all-star weekend stuff.
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:35.039
Dude, it was I I wouldn't watch again unless they change it back to some yeah, we don't need to get into that, but like don't love the format.
00:55:35.039 --> 00:55:39.199
Uh uh, but it's fun, like to you know, get uh get a shot.
00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:45.440
I've been watching um the USA basketball Olympics thing on Netflix, like watching that.
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:48.480
It's like a documentary produced by your boy Obama.
00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:51.119
Um it was good, dude.
00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:55.760
Um yeah, they're about three episodes in on that when I just playing Pokemon while I do that.
00:55:55.760 --> 00:56:01.599
I love like if if if uh Anna's got some trash TV rocking, like I might sit down on the couch next to her, play some Pokemon.
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:02.639
Like, it's it's great.
00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:08.159
It's great for like mindlessly grinding, pushing along, making it happen in the Pokemon world.
00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:09.440
And that's uh primary.
00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:15.760
It's like a grind that you're so built into your childhood that like it's so forgivable.
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:22.400
Like if you picked up one of those games now, you might have a rough time, but like just everything that comes with it is so fluid.
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:28.400
I mean, the random encounters and some of that nonsense, like that might not be forever, but true.
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:31.920
But I think because we I grew up on that, and that's like my Pokemon experience.
00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:34.239
Like for me, I think to your point, like it works.
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:41.199
Yeah, uh, but the reason I I think the reason that I kind of dove into that is because I I got myself a new handheld toy.
00:56:41.199 --> 00:56:44.960
I got the Ambernik RG34XX or some shit.
00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:45.840
I don't remember what the bottom is.
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:51.039
Are you other handheld toys jealous, or is this like a polyamorous relationship with your various handhelds?
00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:53.199
Dude, you want to get in the weeds on it?
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:56.480
Kind of poly, because I also got this Game Boy SP right here, right?
00:56:56.480 --> 00:56:57.679
Yeah, clamshell.
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:07.440
And uh, so I've got this game, I've got the cart, and then I'm able to make a ROM because I've got this, I've got the stuff to do that.
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:08.239
Sure.
00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:17.199
And basically, I so I duplicated the game and was able to use emulators on my computer.
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:28.239
Uh so I was able to rip the save file from the cart, put it on my computer, get an emulator going up in a dual windows, dual emulators, and I was able to trade Pokemon back and forth.
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:30.079
Like I was able to create the trade system going.
00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:36.320
Speaking of dense, he can't figure out how to scale with dexterity, but he's like, I got my double emulators up here.
00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:43.760
The only thing is, like, I didn't like I didn't have the foresight because like I didn't realize that you could get the other starters later in this game by breeding.
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:46.320
I didn't understand that the breeding was in the part of this game.
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:56.320
Uh, so I spent probably a solid like two hours because it doesn't let you trade uh any of the starters like at the first like uh Pokey Center or whatever.
00:57:56.320 --> 00:58:00.400
You have to actually get your first badge before trading actually becomes unlocked.
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:07.039
So like I so I poured and like dude, I picked up one of the games off of uh I picked up the game off eBay.
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:10.639
So someone had a save file with somebody I was able to trade, which is nice.
00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:14.880
And on mine, uh, so I was able to get that starter.
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:20.320
And then on mine, I like I grinded for like two hours to be able to get to the point where I could trade the other starter.
00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:24.719
So I got all three starters, only to find out later on that I could have just bred them later, but who cares?
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:30.880
It was about it was about being able to like play with the tech, like, and then to move the save file back onto the Amber Nick, dude.
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:32.079
I just like you know me.
00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:36.239
I was Alex's farm system for this game.
00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:38.880
Yeah, continue.
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:42.000
Uh but dude, so like it's been fun.
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:43.039
Like it was fun to do that.
00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:50.320
It was fun to play with the tech, get all the fucking all the uh handhelds kind of synced up with the computer, all the save files pushed around, tinkering with that stuff.
00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:51.840
Uh, and I've been playing Pokemon.
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:55.920
And now that I've got those, you know, I probably won't do much more trading because what am I gonna do?
00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.480
Like grind out 30 hours on one so I can get some more.
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:02.480
You got three coolest ones in the game.
00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:03.360
Well, that's it.
00:59:03.519 --> 00:59:06.880
Like I'm also I'm like, I'm not a completionist, but like you gotta catch them all, right?
00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:11.920
So, like a part of me is like wants to get all of them, but I'm like, nah, dude, like you just gotta let go, just push through to the end.
00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:12.880
You don't need to have them all.
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:18.400
But as an adult, I'm like, I gotta catch this beetle.
00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:19.920
I don't have one yet, dude.
00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:20.960
For sure.
00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:22.880
So that's that's a major side quest.
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:24.159
Another major side quest.
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:25.679
I got myself a PS3.
00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:27.840
Uh and that's been a lot of fun, man.
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:29.440
So I picked that up off on eBay.
00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:30.159
I don't know, dude.
00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:32.639
eBay kind of got me the last couple months, I guess.
00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:37.519
But I've been tinking around with the PS3 and playing some like PS3 is like a cool system, man.
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:43.360
It's uh I had one uh back, you know, around the 2008 ish, I guess.
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:49.280
Um is when I got mine, then I sold it, and then I think maybe we went in on one when I came back from Spain or something.
00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:50.400
I'm not really sure.
00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:58.800
But um, so I've had one in my life, but uh I haven't had it hasn't been like a mainstay, so that's like a big like gap in my gaming background.
00:59:58.800 --> 00:59:59.840
Like, there's a lot of cool games.
00:59:59.840 --> 01:00:04.960
Games that came out in that era that I haven't played, so it's been cool to be able to uh dabble with some of those games.
01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:07.119
And I've just kind of been tweaking this thing.
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:09.519
Uh and it's fun, dude.
01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:12.079
And like, you know me, I'm a sucker for for hardware.
01:00:12.079 --> 01:00:16.079
The PS3's got a very interesting controller with the pressure sensitive buttons.
01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:16.639
Yeah.
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:19.599
Um, and you know, so that's uh it's cool.
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:21.280
Two major side quests for me.
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.599
PS3, I'm gonna do three major side quests.
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:28.559
Well, because PS1, PlayStation Dog, I've been like, dude, so I got the PlayStation Classic.
01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:29.280
I've been messing with it.
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.039
I now regret clearing out for this, dude.
01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:32.719
I'm antsy to talk about my game.
01:00:34.719 --> 01:00:39.360
Yeah, but then I've also been setting up the emulators for PlayStation on uh on my PC.
01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:41.920
So I like got my classic going, that's really fun.
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:44.320
But then on the PC, dude, like it's so much dude.
01:00:44.320 --> 01:01:01.840
This is some stuff that like maybe doesn't like mean anything to you, but like the fact that I can upscale a PS1 game and get it to like look beautiful on my on my computer and play it, like it just gets it like and run it 60 frames per second, get that thing looking nice, like, dude, it's just so fun.
01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:05.760
It's so cool to like sounds like you enjoy maintaining your motorcycle.
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Uh yes, this is correct.
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That's hilarious.
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What's a PS1 game and a PS3 game that you've enjoyed playing since getting it booted up?
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Uh Little Big Planet is like one that I've been fun been having fun with on PS3.
01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:24.639
I played a little bit of that, but unfortunately I never beat it.
01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:30.559
I think I got it for free when PlayStation Network was hacked and then it was down for like ever.
01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:31.599
Oh, sure.
01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:34.000
I never beat it, and I kind of regret that.
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:39.840
I sometimes in life I didn't understand what a game was, so I yeah, I don't know how to describe that.
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That's a mission for a different day.
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So how about PS1?
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PS1.
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I played about 40 minutes of Final Fantasy VII, which is a game I've never played, and that's like to taste that one a little bit was fun, and it's like, I don't know, there's so many games, and it's like hard to be like, I want to go spend 30 hours to beat this game, but I kind of do.
01:01:56.880 --> 01:02:00.800
Yeah, like I've I've been tasting the RPG, like the old school RPGs.
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:04.559
Like Pokemon's like Pokemon's that end like that gateway drug for me, dude.
01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:07.119
It's like maybe you are ready to do some Chrono Trigger.
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:10.239
Chrono Trigger's supposed to be pretty, like, pretty approachable, I guess.
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But like maybe you are ready to do like biomedication routines, beating them up and stuff.
01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:15.519
Yeah.
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Um, well tight.
01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:19.199
Love the gear talk.
01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:20.880
Uh jokes aside, PS3.
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:27.599
Um, I loved the Assassin's Creeds, but there's other ways to play those now.
01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:29.280
I feel like Uncharted the same.
01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:33.360
So has anything else caught your eye from my collection back in the day or no?
01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.559
Uh I mean, you do have all the Ask Creeds, which is dope.
01:02:36.559 --> 01:02:38.079
I and I mean you just said it right there.
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The Ass Creeds and the Uncharted.
01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:52.079
I mean, like, I've I've played the Ass Creeds, so like I don't have a and I do have them on Switch now, and I have like a couple other ways to play them, so like I'm probably won't dive back into those, especially because I have I've played them on Switch now.
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.039
Uh I haven't played any of the Uncharted stuff, so like I'm very intrigued to like jump into the Uncharted.
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:02.960
Lord of the Rings Conquest is one of my weirdest purchases, but that game's kind of fucking cool in hindsight.
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:03.840
How about skate?
01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:05.280
Do I have the old skate games in there?
01:03:05.920 --> 01:03:06.639
You have skate two.
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Fucking that's the best one.
01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:09.280
Oh, and you have skate.
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:09.440
Yep.
01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:11.039
So you have skate and skate two.
01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:12.800
You know, those are classics.
01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:13.440
What else?
01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:14.000
The Batman?
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:14.960
Do you have a couple of the Batman?
01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:16.480
Or no, you just had the one Batman game.
01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:18.079
Yeah, that's a good one.
01:03:18.079 --> 01:03:20.239
So Arkham City is the one that you got in there.
01:03:20.239 --> 01:03:27.519
Um for me, for the for these, what I'm oh, you've got uh Arkham Asylum as well.
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:29.199
You should play Asylum.
01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:35.280
So I have both of those games on the PC, but I probably play them on the PS3 because why not?
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.280
So those are those are for me, dude.
01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:41.519
See, I'm I'm excited to check out the Uncharteds because I've never really dabbled in that stuff.
01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:44.719
I think there's Call of Duty Black Ops and stuff like that that I'll play a little bit.
01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:46.000
I've never played the Kill Zone stuff.
01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:48.239
You're telling me the Kill Zone was very much of its time.
01:03:48.559 --> 01:03:50.480
Yeah, it's supposed to be the Halo Killer.
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:53.679
Uh you bought me Black Ops for Christmas.
01:03:53.679 --> 01:03:54.800
Oh, that's for me?
01:03:54.800 --> 01:03:55.440
Yeah, dude.
01:03:55.440 --> 01:04:05.440
It's kind of funny because neither one of us uh is a Call of Duty guy, but you had just moved back, you were living at home for a little bit, and it was one of those deals where you're like, dude, I got you black ops.
01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:09.039
Now let's play a bunch of black ops for me too.
01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:12.159
I don't really remember that.
01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:12.800
That's cloudy.
01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:17.920
It had one of the good original, not the original, but it might have been like the second attempt at zombies.
01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:19.440
It's a really good zombies.
01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:21.119
Um do remember that now.
01:04:21.119 --> 01:04:24.719
And uh we would do the online, and I just sucked balls at the online.
01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:26.639
You you definitely did too.
01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:28.000
Uh so we were never good.
01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:29.440
We but we we hung out together.
01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:30.159
It was tight.
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:31.119
Well, that's cool.
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:32.960
Good trip down memory lane there.
01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:35.760
Also, if you have physical media, hold on to it, guys.
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:39.039
So for me, my side quest, I'll keep mine shorter.
01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:41.599
Uh, we have to do another pod because we're so backlogged.
01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:45.039
I'll save my larger uh big deal for the next one.
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:51.840
So I'll go with a smaller one, which is that I've been playing around on the Steamy D, as always, in my bed.
01:04:51.840 --> 01:04:58.320
Um, and I have recently given the the rogue Prince of Persia a decent few hours.
01:04:58.320 --> 01:04:58.880
Oh yeah.
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:00.239
And it's cool.
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:07.679
Um I have, if you're a fan of the pod, you'll know that I have a nostalgic soft spot for Prince of Persia IP.
01:05:07.679 --> 01:05:09.280
Yeah.
01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:13.599
And also you'll know that we're you especially, but I liked it too.
01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:15.119
Big Dead Cells fan.
01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:18.880
So basically the people who made Dead Cells got the IP from Ubisoft.
01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:23.760
So if you don't like the Ubisoft stank, please ignore that when it comes to these last two.
01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:31.119
This one and um Prince what's the what's the one that came out last January, February?
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:33.360
Um Prince of Persia?
01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:34.320
Yeah, what's that?
01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:36.480
The most recent Prince of Persia.
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:37.840
We did a pod on it and everything.
01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:39.280
Um blanket on the name.
01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:44.639
But that game is fucking cool too, and it didn't get enough glow because I think there's just Ubisoft stank on it.
01:05:44.639 --> 01:05:47.280
But that was a really good game, and this is a really cool fun game.
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:48.400
Uh Lost Crown.
01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:49.760
Thank you.
01:05:49.760 --> 01:06:02.880
Um, but the rogue Prince of Persia is cool um because it is a 2D roguelike platformer action combat, very similar to Dead Cells, but a little bit more platforme focused.
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:09.119
So you do like this wall run thing, and then you combine wall running with some other stuff, and it's just cool.
01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:11.920
And I'm just getting into the just getting into the beginning.
01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:22.159
I wouldn't say it's like super slick like Dead Cells, but it is in early access, so give it some time, and I think it'll be a totally worthwhile game.
01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:25.519
I wouldn't say for you to buy it just yet.
01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:30.320
Uh look for a a nice little sale or maybe that 1.0 release.
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:44.719
But I like early access games a lot more than you, and I kind of like being a part of that little journey, and I'd say it's the build currently, especially, is definitely fluid enough where you don't feel like you're playing some sort of unfinished jank.
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:45.679
You know what I mean?
01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:46.320
I don't know.
01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:47.119
No, for sure.
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:48.639
So I think that's pretty gnar.
01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:52.239
I've been reading a lot of graphic novels that's been tight.
01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:55.360
I just finished Anthony de Bournay's ghost book.
01:06:55.360 --> 01:06:57.280
Don't recommend that, but the art's cool.
01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:58.079
Oh, really?
01:06:58.079 --> 01:06:58.639
Yeah.
01:06:58.639 --> 01:07:00.960
Got it from my public library.
01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:01.519
Sir.
01:07:01.519 --> 01:07:09.119
And I just finished blankets, which is a graphic novel classic, but I don't feel like trauma dumping on anybody what that's about, but it's tight.
01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:19.360
And I've been in the middle of East of West, which I realize now that I'm balls deep into the 10-part series that number nine is impossible to find.
01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:22.079
So I'll have to figure out how to handle that.
01:07:22.079 --> 01:07:27.119
So I know an eBay addict, so maybe he just needs to look out for me.
01:07:27.119 --> 01:07:32.480
Um, but that's been really cool, and I really wish they would turn that IP into either a show.
01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:35.199
It was picked up at one point, but I think it's been canceled.
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:41.119
And they need to turn that IP into like a show or a game or something, because yeah, that would be tight.
01:07:41.119 --> 01:07:45.360
And I eagerly look forward to the last Ronin Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:50.559
Have we talked about that on this pod, or have we been so out of commission that we haven't talked about that journey?
01:07:51.199 --> 01:07:56.320
I can't remember if I mentioned or not, but I I love The Last Ronin, dude, and got that for you for Christmas.
01:07:56.320 --> 01:07:58.400
I'm glad you glad you read it.
01:07:58.400 --> 01:07:59.519
Have you read the second one yet?
01:07:59.760 --> 01:08:02.880
No, I want to get a little bookstop near your house.
01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:06.559
I just was overspent the last time we were there.
01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:10.639
So next time I go there, I'll go there knowing that I'll at least buy that book.
01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:14.159
So I'll have been mentally prepared to just continue to blow money locally.
01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:14.960
Yeah, dude.
01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:15.440
But yeah.
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:18.720
That's a that's a super fun, super fun book or whatever.
01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:22.479
And the I'm I'm about halfway into the prequel, the prequel now.
01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:23.600
That's a lot of fun.
01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:27.680
Um, yeah, yeah.
01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:29.439
Uh digitally from the library, yes.
01:08:29.439 --> 01:08:29.840
Yeah.
01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:34.399
So I just can't wait to either see them turn that into a movie, TV show.
01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:37.920
Fucking, I know there's a game coming out, like I'm just very excited for that.
01:08:37.920 --> 01:08:39.840
Dude, you you brought up books, man.
01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:41.279
I gotta throw this book out there.
01:08:41.439 --> 01:08:44.159
Uh let you yeah, doc.
01:08:44.159 --> 01:08:47.600
It's it's called Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson.
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:48.159
Okay.
01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:52.800
So if folks are hungry for a book that's like pretty, it's like a quick, like written so well, dude.
01:08:52.800 --> 01:08:54.000
Like, it's such a fun read.
01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:54.880
Reads pretty quickly.
01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:57.199
Fiction.
01:08:57.199 --> 01:08:59.840
So it's called Nothing to See here by Kevin Wilson.
01:08:59.840 --> 01:09:07.840
And it's a book about this woman who ends up becoming a nanny for uh her like an old friend of hers from college.
01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:14.640
I'm not gonna like give away too much of the story here, but these kids catch on fire, like they like spontaneous, they like spontaneously combust.
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:18.399
That's like a thing that just happens with these kids, but it doesn't hurt them or anything, right?
01:09:18.399 --> 01:09:30.479
But that's just like a weird quirk about these kids, and it is just like the most wild, ridiculous like story about her, like I don't know, living with these kids, and like it's just like it is so funny, dude.
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:32.239
Like you just gotta check it out.
01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:33.840
Like, it's a big recommend for me.
01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:37.119
Uh, it's like a comedy, a fiction comedy.
01:09:37.359 --> 01:09:37.840
All right.
01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:50.000
Um, I do it's easy for me to find nonfiction books, and it's easy for me to find graphic novels, but I struggle with uh finding fit good fiction, so I I wrote that down as you wrote or as you spoke.
01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:50.800
So that's cool.
01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:52.239
Yeah, yeah, it was good.
01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:57.600
It kind of greased my gears to get me back into to reading like actual book books again.
01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:01.680
So I'd like so I've been reading that one I plugged through real fast.
01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:06.399
Uh, and then I've been kind of chugging through um some Kurt Vonnegut because he's a favorite author of mine.
01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:13.920
But I haven't uh I mean he's great, like don't get me wrong, but like I had like this the I had to like uh see to the finish, uh nothing to see here.
01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:16.640
Whereas like I'm I'm running player piano.
01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:17.359
What's that?
01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:19.680
You some sort of fucking English major, dude.
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:22.880
What are you sounding, chuck.
01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:31.119
But like with player piano, though, it's like in I'm enjoying it, but it's like I'm not like okay, it's not I can't wake to like go to bed at night so I can fucking read, you know what I mean?
01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:33.840
Yeah, I feel that word.
01:10:34.479 --> 01:10:35.600
Go read a book, everybody.
01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:38.399
Alex was an English major if you didn't pick up on that.
01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:42.479
I'm not a dick to English majors, just this one.
01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:44.319
Indeed.
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:45.199
Much love, everybody.
01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:46.239
Thanks for listening.
01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:47.119
Welcome back.
01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:53.359
We're glad to be back after the technical difficulties, the sicknesses, the schedule bananas, whatever stuff.
01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:54.560
Yeah.
01:10:54.560 --> 01:10:56.800
Life, but uh good to hang, dude.
01:10:56.800 --> 01:10:59.119
Fun to talk about this game, fun to play this game.
01:10:59.119 --> 01:10:59.840
Just two guys.
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01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:06.960
Well, check out the game bang.
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I doubt it's like huge mainstream, so they could probably use some people who are into board games.
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If you like, if you got a game night, you know what bang is, and if you don't, you should get it.
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Till next time, y'all.
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Peace.